Prof iles Part II Garvin Discusses Curriculum Plans, Student Decision Making by Mark Linder fering in the near future is an "The criterion for a Macalester inter-disciplinary urban studies professor is that he should be an course. Participating departments educator and a scholar. He should would be sociology, psychology, be committed to the service of economics, and political science. man. He should be committed to In the area of international the college. He should fit with the studies, Dr. Garvin would like college mold, although we attempt more study abroad. at some diversity," said Dr. Lucius Garvin, Vice President for academ- "We have a back log of unused ic affairs and provost of Macalester monies for study abroad. Already college. language people are in Europe "The majority of the professors working out courses and we have should be Protestant Christian, al- an international study abroad pro- though we have Jewish and a- theist professors," he continued in gram that is not being used. This Judy Rhodes, Stu McDowell, Sonny Massey, and Pam Haus- a recent discussion concerning program allows 30 students to child read during a rehearsal of Virginia Woolf, directed by academic life at Malcalester. study abroad for a semester and Lynn Niederfeld. In the future Dr. Garvin would 15 for a year with up to 750 dol- like to see more and better profes- lars available for aid beyond the Albee Play Presened: At Home sors who have less teaching time. regular financial aid." "We are able to attract good When questioned as to curricu- professors because we can offer lum control, Dr. Garvin felt that With George and Martha them a good package due to avail- in order to keep in the liberal arts able monies." tradition there should be some con- On Feb. 22, the doors to the trays Honey, and Nick is played by Commenting on the present and trol on curriculum offerings. It DR. LUCIUS GARVIN home of George and Martha are senior Sonny Massey. future curriculum at Macalester, would be impossible with our staff Miss Niederfeld is assisted by and facilities to offer everything officially opened in the Macalester Dr. Garvin sees a variety of chang- approves of greater student involv- studio theatre. Ann Millen. Mr. Layden's technical es. To begin with, he wants more people wanted. crew consists of Beverly James, ment. He could see a value in hav- independent study during the reg- Concerning the much discussed ing students on the personnel com- George and Martha are the stage manager; Lee Entwistle and ular semester. He feels that inter- pass-fail question, Dr. Garvin felt names of the principle characters Kirstin Tyson, costumes; Diane De- mittee, the admissions committee, im has been a great success in this that it would be good to have it on the honorary degrees committee, in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Boer and Ann Millin, props; and area and wants a greater emphasis a limited basis. He feels it should Hal Pierson, sound. the Humphrey chair selection Virginia Woolf? George, a history put on it. He also wants Macalester come during the semester, al- committee, and at faculty meet- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to work with the University of though not a total pass-fail. ings. He feels that such objections professor in a small New England will be presented next Thursday, Minnesota so that Mac students can college, married the president's as that of students not being cap- Friday, and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. take courses at the U at Macalester Going beyond curriculum and able or hard working are not valid. daughter, Martha, who grew into a in the studio theatre. Tickets are expense. professors. Dr. Garvin talked about However, he also stated that the shrewish and voluptuous woman. $1.10 for students and $1.75 for increased student involvment in adults, available only at the door. Another promising curricular of- decision making. He, personally, faculty is divided on this issue and Their marriage is now anything but probably the majority are opposed a happy one. For twenty-three years to greater student participation. it has been under the dominance Commenting on the age old prob- of Martha. Unable to show their lem of communication, Dr. Garvin affection for each other, George said that he felt he had good com- munication with students. He holds and Martha invent an imaginary bi-weekly meetings with a variety child qs an outlet for their love. of student representatives. Also commenting on inter-administra- The story of Who's Afraid of Mac Weekly 13 tive and inter-faculty communica- Virginia Woolf? deals with a shift tion, weekly meetings are held and in their relationship. One evening, he always consults as many people another couple, Nick and Honey, Volume ^Mfc Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 — Friday, Feb. 16, 1968 Number as possible before reaching a de- come to George and Martha's home cision. for cocktails. During the course of the evening, with the help of a few drinks and the catalystic effect BLAC Week of Nick and Honey, the story of the imaginary child eventually spills out. The relationship is then turned upside-down, and George overpow- ers Martha's dominance. McKissick To Speak in Cochran Tuesday Director Lynn Niederfeld, a seni- by Robert DeBaugh About , McKissick there McKissick affirmed that he or, and designer Rod Layden, a Floyd B. McKissick, the strong, says that "The interpretation of believes that given a chance Amer- junior, have decided that, in order black power negates white leader- ica "can and will . . . systematically to retain the closeness so necessary outspoken Negro leader who speaks ship, but it does not negate white destroy 22 million blacks." for this type of drama to be effec- loud and carries a soft stick, will folks playing a part." Although no The chairman of East River tive, the audience will actually sit be speaking in Cochran lounge this whites remain on CORE'S National CORE, Omar Pasha Abu Ahmed, in George and Martha's living room. Tuesday at 8 p.m. The leader of the Action Council, 20 members of the calls McKissick a "folksy leader. 43-member board are white, as are The studio theatre has been con- Congress of Racial Equality, who That means that he can talk to two of CORE'S five field secretaries. Bundy and President Johnson, and verted into an 80-seat room so that has been described as blending also talk to my grandmother, and the audience will "live and breathe" "manliness, without undue vio- McKissick's goal for CORE is to make it into an "effective revolu- she didn't go to sixth grade. He the same air as the actors. Seats lence, with firmness," will speak on tionary movement . . . the com- can pull out of the top of his head surround the acting area and are "The Negro Vote and the Two- mon front for all black people." all the old American folkways that He believes that blacks who desire my mother and father understand. on various levels. Party System." Everyone is invited They can talk to him, and they to hear free of charge one of the it should be able to live anywhere Leading the cast are two juniors: outside the ghetto they wish ir- can understand him, and that's very Judy Rhodes as Martha, and Stuart most influential leaders in the respective of the wishes of white important." MacDowell as her husband George. Negro community. separatists. On the other hand, the A white man once asked Mc- Pam Hauschild, a sophomore, por- McKissick was born in North ghettos should be entirely black Kissick what the black man wanted places where black men live, learn now, the CORE director turned and Carolina on 9, 1922 and did in black universities, and work. He summed up all the meaning and undergraduate work at Morehouse insists that the ownership of places aspirations of the black power Contest Develops college and col- of business within the ghetto movement, as well as his own de- lege. In 1947 he took part in the should be transferred to blacks and sires for his people and said, "The For Editorship governmental facilities within the answer is everything you got right "Journey of Reconciliation" which ghetto should be staffed by blacks. now, and everything you hope to was a model for the freedom rides get." Of Mac Weekly 14 years later. FLOYD MCKISSICK When he succeeded James Farm- er as national director in 1966 he A weekly contest for the editor- He desegregated the law school announced "Phase Two" a broad ship of The Mac Weekly developed of the University of North Carolina adhere to the militancy of some of attack on social inequalities on be- this past week, with Laurie Fors- and graduated from the school. Mc- the Negro leaders. , half of all minorities. In July of BLAC Week Events berg and Charlie Bruner compet- Kissick put his law degree to work , and Martin Luther 1966 he said that "As long as the by Kathie Cooper ing for the position. and defended many demonstrators King are more rightist than McKis- white man has all the power and arrested during the freedom ride sick; while and money, nothing will happen be- What is it? BLAC WEEK. The issue was presented to the H. Rap Brown and others are more Publications and Communications campaign of the early 1960's. He cause we have nothing. The only When is it? Tuesday, Feb. 20-Fri- gave up his lucrative law practice to the left. McKissick is militant, way to achieve meaningful change day, Feb. 23. Board at a Monday noon meeting. but his militancy does not go so is to take power." Later he said Reaching no decision, a second to become CORE'S national direc- far as to include hate. The Macalester BLAC group is meeting was held Monday evening. tor. As he accepted the CORE gavel that, "We are not anti-white. This sponsoring a BLAC WEEK for all Bruner received the Board's en- he said, "The Negro people have Within CORE itself, McKissick is not a racist organization. The students on Macalester's campus, rule of black and white together and the general public. dorsement on a six-five vote, with dictated the course of this revolu- has taken a strong stand against is still our guide." the deciding vote being cast by the tion. We shall proceed by carrying anti-Semitism, an issue which oc- Tuesday will start the week off chairman. out this revolution." casionally comes up within CORE. So far as a definition of black big with a speech by Floyd Mc- He dissociated CORE from the Chi- Kissick, Executive Director of The PC Board's decision was Most observers agree that Mc- power is concerned, McKissick CORE. The subject of his speech: passed on to the Community Coun- cago New Politics' resolution breaks it down into six main ele- Kissick has proceeded a long way against the Israeli war. Another ments: increased political power; "Black Power and the Two Party cil at its Tuesday meeting. Amidst in his revolution. McKissick no major problem has been poverty. System". This is being held in the claims of "irregularities in pro- longer thinks of himself as a increased economic power; an im- 1 He is striving to pay off long-term proved self-image for the black gym at 8 p.m. Wednesday two cedural matters," the CC voted 14- Negro: " 'Negro is the name ap- debts and has taken steps to save movies will be shown in Cochran. 11 to send the question back to the plied by the white man to us. I am man; the development of young, At 4:30 there will be a movie on PC Board for reconsideration. on expenses including moving na- militant leadership; the enforce- a black man." Also, CORE is no tional headquarters from plush of- ment of federal statutes against Negro History. "Nothing But A As the matter stands now, the longer a civil-rights organization, fices near New York's city hall to police brutality; and the develop- Board is in the process of review- McKissick says "Forget about civil the third floor of the walk-up build- ment of a black consumer bloc. ing its previous decision. It is pre- rights. I'm talking about black pow- ing at 135th st. and Seventh ave. sumed that the issue will be solved er." in Harlem. McKissick has also been In an impassioned harangue to McKissick at the CC meeting next Tuesday Although he is "talking about saving CORE $16,500 a year by not the black power delegates who met evening. black power," McKissick does not taking the salary due him. in Newark just after the riots Cont. on page 2