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Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 9-27-1961 The aB tes Student - volume 88 number 01 - September 27, 1961 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 88 number 01 - September 27, 1961" (1961). The Bates Student. 1379. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1379 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]. JT Hates Stucfenf Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 1 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, SEPTEMBER 27, 1961 By Subscription Bates Series To Open Phillips Cites Losses WithConcertByKlein The Bates College Concert and Friday, November 3 Lecture Series for 1961-62 will An Evening with the distin- To Communist Threat present five programs for Bates guished actor, Basil Rath- A more aggressive foreign pol- students and interested residents bone icy on the part of the United of the College area, Dr. Charles Friday, February 23, 1961 States is necessary if we are to F. Phillips, Bates president, has "Social Revolution in the check the spread of Commun- announced. South and Racial Progress," ism, said Dr. Charles F. Phillips The first in the series will be Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, Pres- last Friday morning. Speaking to concert on the new Bates ident, Morehouse College, Bates students and faculty at the carillon which was installed in Atlanta, Georgia ninety - ninth Convocation of the College Chapel last year. The Bates College, he advocated the Friday, April 20 program will feature John Klein, development of our guerilla war- "Space Travel of the Future," director of music for the Schul- fare. merich Carillon Co. All five pro- Dr. I. M. Levitt, Director, "It is time for us to face the grams will be held in the Chapel Fels Planetarium, Franklin unpleasant fact that during the and are scheduled for 8 p. m. Institute past two decades, the United The complete schedule in- Tuesday, May 1 States and our allies definitely cludes: "Albert Schweitzer's Unity of have been losing the cold war," Thursday, October 5 Life and Thought," Dr. J. stated Dr. Phillips. "Today more Carillon Dedication Concert, S e e 1 y e Bixler, President, than one-third of the people on John Klein, Carillonneaur Colby College the globe live under Communist governments." Students look on as Professor August Buschmann leads Bates Notes Trouble Spots faculty members in the academic procession which opened Rob Players Present New Noting recent world trouble spots in Cuba, Laos, and Africa, last Friday's Convocation Service. Program Of Plays, Films Dr. Phillips remarked that neu- tral countries pose a special letting the Communists select the hence, it would help to check The Robinson Players extend to everyone an invitation to problem to the free world be- next crisis spot, let us choose it. their future expansion. But if attend their first meeting on Tuesday, October 3, at 7 p. m. cause so few people really appre- To do so we would engage in successful, this policy will do in the Little Theatre. Entertainment and the general outline ciate the damage Communism is subversive activities, infiltra- far more than this: it will pro- of the program for the year will be presented. Membership doing in these areas." We have tion, and other forms of unde- vide the way for anti-Commun- in Robinson Players is open to anyone, and freshmen are failed to stop the advance of clared warfare." ist revolutions in areas already especially welcome to come. • Communism by not believing behind the Iron and Bamboo winner directed by Fellini; April Suggests Infiltration that the Communists are com- Curtains. Three major plays and various 7, ALEXANDER NEVSKY, an Specifically, Dr. Phillips sug- pletely dedicated to their goal of student-directed programs are Eisenstein film with the original gested that among anti-Commun- "It is my hope that Bates world domination." planned for the year. In addi- music by Prokofiev. ist refugees from various areas students will play a part in tion, Robinson Players will again The college president listed we should develop a guerrilla the serious discussion necessary sponsor a series of campus films. Films for the dates March 16, several of our attitudes toward warfare capability. These agents to evolve a new policy toward All films will be shown in the March 31, May 5, May 19, and Communism which he felt pre- would then infiltrate their home the threat of Communism." Dr. Little Theatre at 7 and 9 p.m., May 26 have not been selected. vent us from winning the cold countries, stirring up trouble for Phillips concluded, "Tomorrow's with the exception of THE RED Suggestions and comments should war. "There is no relationship the Communists, building local world is your problem, too. You SHOES, which will be shown at be directed to the student mem- between a country's economic anti-Communist forces. owe it to yourselves to do some 6:30 and 9:10 p.m. Admission to bers of the faculty-student movie standard of living and its ac- "Such a policy, we might hope, serious thinking on this prob- the Little Theatre for each film selection committee, who are ceptance of Communism," he would force the Communists to lem of how the free world can is 50c. Judy Outten, Box 481; John said. "Those who feel that with devote more of their efforts to turn the tide which is currently Alec Guiness Stars Saturday Strassburger, Box 485; Jim a rise in her economic develop- the areas they already control; rising against it." For the first program on Sat- Evans, Box 251. ment, Russia will turn away urday, September 30, the feature from her present ideology, are film is FATHER BROWN, THE engaged in wishful thinking. Campus Saddened By Death Of DETECTIVE, a British comedy Testing Begins Fri. Tactics Continue starring Alec Guiness. Father "In view of our recent experi- Prof. Emeritus Edwin M. Wright Brown is a little detective priest For '61 Bowl Team ence with the Communists' tac- Dr. Edwin M. Wright, 74, pro- the University of Rochester and who is always one step ahead of tics," continued Dr. Phillips, "we "Initial short answer written fessor emeritus of English at at Harvard. In 1926 he came to Scotland Yard in his program to can expect them to continue us- tests for Bates students who wish Bates College, died September 20 Bates as head of the English de- reform criminals before the law ing the United Nations as a to participate in the General at the Pocasset Hospital in partment and professor of Eng- can claim them. A special short forum to add to world tensions. Electric College Bowl will be Massachusetts following a long lish. co-feature will be THE MOOR'S They will encourage and support conducted this Friday, Septem- illness. For many years he was chair- PAVANE in color with Jose all measures which hurt capital- ber 29, and next Monday, October man of the faculty committee on Limon and his troupe. The story istic nations. They will string Bom April 18, 1887 at Weeds- 2," said Dr. George Goldat re- port, New York, Dr. Wright was educational guidance and curric- of Othello takes on a new dimen- cently. "I hope to select the final out negotiations to wear down sion within the dance form, while a graduate of Colgate University ulum. Dr. Wright was a member team within the next six weeks." their opponents. retaining the inherent passion of where, he received his A.B. de- of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Tests To Be In Chapel "Furthermore, the Communists the story. gree in 1901. Following study at Upsilon fraternities and the will continue to abuse the Unit- The remainder of the program These preliminary tests will be Oxford, England, he earned his Modern Language Association. ed States in every possible oc- is: October 7, THE RED SHOES, held in the Chapel at 9:00. Coach master's and Ph.d degrees at Dr. Wright, a frequently seen casion to win over to her side in color, with Moira Shearer, An- Goldat would like as many of the Harvard in 1921 and 1926 respec- figure on campus, was active in the neutral nations. Any and all ton Walbrook, and Marius Gor- candidates as possible to take tively. campus extra-curricular activi- forms of deception will be in or- ing; October 21, DAY OF both tests, for they are different ties. He did art work for the der. They may even resort to an He had been an instructor at WRATH, a drama of conscience from each other and from the Robinson Players and also served all-out nuclear war to reach their from Denmark; November 4, ones given last spring, and they as coach of the soccer team. goal. BATES STUDENT THE SHEEP HAS FIVE LEGS, will facilitate the elimination process. Goldat feels that Bates Sees Need For Offensive Freshmen (and upperclass- with Fernandel playing five GARNET roles; December 8, THE GRAND has the potential for another "What we must look toward," men) interested in working CONCERT, in color, with Russ- championship team. remarked Dr. Phillips, "is the on the student newspaper in All those interested in ap- ian opera and ballet stars. "Bates has been promised a adoption of new policies by the any capacity — news report- plying for the staff of the Five Features Planned place on the College Bowl some- free world which will gradually er, feature writer, sports GARNET must contact Har- January 5, THE PRISONER, time this year," Goldat stated.