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Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 10-22-1976 The aB tes Student - volume 103 number 16 - October 22, 1976 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 103 number 16 - October 22, 1976" (1976). The Bates Student. 1738. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1738 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]. The Bates Student Established 1873 Volume 103, No. 16 Bates College, Lewiston, Maine Friday, October 22, 1976 dent Sponsors Debate By JOHN HOWE However, Mike Mears, and transport the tape. Program Manager at Channel 10, The S pm time was later In a cooperative effort with said that the only way this could abandonned for obvious reasons WCBB-TV Channel 10. The Stu- be done would be to tape the in favor of a live broadcasting of a dent will sponsor a "Forum on event and then broadcast on a one 7 pm debate. the Issues" Nov. 1 with Con- hour delay, this would have to be The Nov. 1 debate can be gressman Bill Cohen and for his done since WCBB's portable unit seen on Channel 10, the Lewiston opponents for the second Con- is not equipped for live broadcast- based public Television station. A gressional seat Leighton Cooney ing. small television audience may be and Jacqueline Kaye. allowed into the studio, but less The debate will be held in the than 20 individuals can be seated. This would have forced the studios of WCBB TV in Lewiston, Those interested in reserving a changing of the event's time from seat should address their written with Bates Asst. Professor John 7 pm to 5 pm, since at least one Simon and Colby Chairman of request to The Editor, Box 309, hour would be required to rewind Economics Jan Hogendorn as Bates College. questioners. A one hour live program is Alternative candidates, scheduled to begin at 7 pm, with Bales Democratic Caucus. L lo R-Roy Perhum, Vice television monitors set up for area topic of meeting President; Peter Brann, President; Debbie Burnell, newsmen to cover the event. presidential candidate on the Sec-Treasurer. (Photo by Michael Braff.) Augusta lawyer and host of "Alternatives to the Demo- ratic and Republican Presidential Eugene McCarthy ticket in WCBB's "Maine Week" will Candidacies" will be the title of a Maine: Graham Lowry. the Mass- moderate the event. Bottle bill endorsed colloquium to be held tonight. achusettes senatorial candidate The announcement of this The leaders of the Bates They are: Thursday. October 21 at 8:00 from the U.S. Labor Party; Otis program comes after two weeks of Democratic Caucus have P.M. in Chase Lounge. Sponsor- Noyes, chairman of the Maine work culminated in an Oct. 21 announced the group's un- 1) The bottle bill means ed by the New World Coalition, Conservative Union which is debate to be held on the Bates animous endorsement of Maine's LOWER net prices on beverages the colloquium includes re- backing the American Indepen- campus. However, a compromise returnable bottle bill. (assuming the container is re- presentatives of five major in- dent Party; Sam Webb of the was reached between Channel 10 The vote also endorsed a turned). Lower prices have dependent parties. Each re- Communist Party of the U.S.A.; and The Student after it was statement, written by caucus resulted in both states with presentative will present the and John Rees of the Socialist learned that both had made member Steven Stycos. calling returnable bottle laws. thrust of his party's presidential workers Party. the efforts of the anti-bottle bill 2)The bottle bill will clean up similar plans for a debate. campaign. "With nothing spectucular The cooperative effort was forces, "a deceptive $300,000 Maine's environment as people Speaking in the program will about either Carter or Ford, undertaken, in the words of its propaganda campaign". will return their beverage con- be ■ Donald Lucas, the vice- Continued on page 12 tainers, rather than litter. sponsor "to present the best The statement also urged 3) The bottle bill will save possible forum, using the accept- Maine voters to "use their energy as it costs less to clean a ed rules of debate and the common sense...and vote for returnable bottle than to com- practiced methods of television lower prices and a cleaner pletely make a new one. Energy productions to make the program environment." conservation is of special import- both ideologically challenging Democratic Caucus Presi- ance to Maine as it will eliminate and visually acceptable." dent Peter Brann listed four the need for projects such as the This forum on the issues principal reasons for the group's Dickey-Lincoln dams and coastal comes in the wake of a recent support of the returnable bottle nucear power plants. failure by The Student to organize referendum. Continued on page 12 a debate between Sen. Edmund Muskie and his opponment Bob Monks. Bates flag stolen, The debate between Muskie and Monks failed after negotiations between Muskie and police very concerned Monks staffers concluded in a three way compromise which did By DICK ROTHMAN returned anonymously no action not include The Student's John Lofton Frank Mankiewicz will be taken to catch the thief. proposal. Early Sunday morning of Bates Security Chief Chet A debate between Cohen and Kennedy aide comes Parent's Weekend, sometime Emmons reflected the college Cooney was then proposed. This after 7:00 A.M., a custommade administration's feeling about the proposal was later accepted by flag valued at S37S bearing the robbery when he commented: Congressman Cohen's staff and to campus, will debate "Bates" seal was stolen from the "It's every student's res- candidate Cooney's staff. By BOB LARSON Robert Kennedy and his service flagpole in front of Chase Hall. ponsibility to come forward if he The Student decided to as National Director for George Immediately, Lewiston Police knows because he has to pay for compromise its program when it Frank Mankiewicz, "Spokes- McGovern's 1972 Presidential detectives were informed of this it-and if the college has to keep was learned that WCBB also man For The Seventies", and campaign against Nixon. crime by Chet Emmons, for this is buying a new flag each year it has planned a debate for Nov. 1. A John Lofton, "Captain Conserva- John Lofton expresses his the second time this has happen- to cut down somewhere else. So phone conversation with cam- tive", will appear on campus views in a caustically witty man- ed in two years. (The flagpole has instead of buying dead cats for paign staffers for Cohen proved October 27 to debate the current ner. Coupled with a natural only been there for two years, biology they will have to buy dead that the Congressman would be problems that face America. aversion to anything Democratic, too.) mice." unable to do both. The Campus Association has Lofton has taken it upon himself To the thief, Emmons would The Nov. 1 date was decided been working for quite some time to lambaste any and every aspect Detective Captain Robert like to communicate that "if he upon after it was also learned that on this interesting program. This of the political arena that out- Soucy, head of the Lewiston just took it back and set it it would also be the day Jacque- being an election year should add rages his moral compass or tickles Police Detective Bureau, is very somewhere we wouldn't try to line Kaye would sivulge her increased importance to the mat- his fancy. Lofton is now a United concerned about this theft and find out who it was." so-called revelations regarding erial debated. Features Syndicated columnist, considers the flags' recovery a It is a sickening situation when the involvement of the Mafia in Frank Mankeiwicz has been radio commentator and editor of problem of the first priority. He flags must be guarded (as the Maine. in the forefront of American "Battle Line". comments that the person who ones over the football field are) or It had also been proposed by politics for years. His distinct No matter what one's pol- stole the flag probably thought it else be sure targets of thieves. It The Student's staff that a debate awareness and ability to critically itical persuasion might be, this worth about twenty-five dollars. seems that the college scene has be televised from the Bates comment on the scene from the event will excite and enlighten. He said: "We'd like to see it switched from flag burning to flag College campus, using the outside makes him a man to listen The debate will take place on returned-it's an expensive flag," stealing. In future years there will Schaeffer Theatre or the Chapel to. Mankiewicz is best known for October 27 at 9:00 p.m., in the and notes that if the flag is apparently be no flag at all. as the area for the debate. his years as Press Secretary to Chapel. NOTES AND COMMENTARY But it is by folly alone that the world moves...Joseph Conrad. YOUR VOTE bad off as other Colleges and Universities. Letters to the Editor No matter, the statistics can still be COUNTS improved! Every vote counts-vote on Nov.