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March 7, I960 The Bates Student Page 3 Special Report What Really Happened in Roger Williams Hall? Testing the Bates System of Justice
by Jon Marcus that triple late in the summer he hara&sed in other ways. In one in- the door of the remaining senior's she hadn't been in the Bill that she Assistant Kdhor "just didn't have any other choice. I stance he was struck repeatedly in room, the victim sleeping in the would have started out with a "Right now, now that that room is tried to place a student there who the face with the metal cap of a full Health Center and several of those whole different attitude and gone, it's fairly indifferent We're could adjust to the situation more beer bottle by one roommate. In who had been asked to testify stay- wouldn't have gotten into the trou- not a dorm, we're a building with easily than some others." Asked another incident both seniors with ing with friends. "The reason that ble she got into." separate apartments." whether the reputations of the two whom he shared the room chased security officer was posted outside While this person and many "It's a real closed dorm, it's not seniors should have had a bearing him into another room; though the the door," Carignan comments, others in the dorm agree with the friendly at all. If I could have on that decision, Carignan did freshman locked the door of that "was that other students had indi- sentence handed down by the moved out a month ago, I would comment, "I think that these room, his pursuers had obtained cated to me their fear." Another Committee, however, the freshman have." people had these sort of vague, un- the passkey from an R.C. They recalls that "when we first heard woman does not. "I think it These are among the sentiments ' wouldn't be (too harsh) if I had of various residents of Roger Wil- been causing problems a lot or if liams Hall in the wake of Student there was a lot of evidence that I Conduct Committee hearings would do it a lot But I think the way which culminated in the with- it was was too severe." She also be- drawal of one and the expulsion of lieves that the statements of the "We're not a dorm, "The people got we're a building exactly what they with separate apartments . . . ' deserved . . . ' — A Roger — Victim of Williams resident harassment
another senior man and the su- other defendant "tried to make it pension of a freshman woman. as though it was all my fault" and is Various incidents of dorm dam- upset that the sentences of both de- age and physical and sexual fendants were handed down harassment within the dorm jointly and not individually. characterized the fall semester Many of the people talked to on there. An alleged rape on October all sides of the case questioned the 28, yet to be documented by the Of- effectiveness of justice at Bates. fice of the Dean, was never re- "Does the system of justice at Bates ported by students. "The kinds of really work?" one asked. "I don't evidence that I had gotten wind of," think it works too well at all," a Dean of the College James W. Roger Williams resident notes. "I Carignan reports, "was not really don't think it works. He (one of the evidence that we could be sure of." seniors) could have free reign of Asked whether an attempt was the place until his football eligibil- made by his office to pay special Photo by Hall ity was over." Other dorm residents attention to the situation in Roger ■ mentioned their belief that the fact Williams, Carignan continued, specified reputations, and one gained entry and tackled him. about (the senior) getting kicked that the senior was a football "we're not all that sort of snoopy in doesn't take action on reputations, shaving the student's face. Finally, out I heard one guy, a pretty big player had a bearing on prior ad- thisoffice.. What became clear was one takes action on facts." on the night of December 4, the guy, say 'I don't want to go back ther ministration attitudes toward him. that the troubles, in terms of dam- Still, he added that "this office second incident this time involv- tonight' We were afraid of what One added, "I think it's political. At age for example, were pretty much probably made a mistake in put- ing the freshman woman, took might have happened." Bates it has a lot to do with who you focused on one room: that is room ting (the freshman) there." One of place. The senior, as has been noted, are, whether the deans like you, 105," the room in which the two the resident coordinators in Roger "Everybody was disgusted," one was expelled; the freshman what you've done in the past. It senior males lived. Bill was more firm. Putting a Roger Williams resident com- woman was suspended for one shouldn't be a double standard and Fear and Indignation freshman in that room, she said, mented, noting, however, his feel- semester. Both appealed their de- it is here." "Those guys thought they ran the "was a tragic mistake." The ing that a sense of apathy and fear cisions last week and both appeals Dean Carignan voiced somewhat floor. In my opinion they thought freshman woman involved in the hung over the incident "No one were turned down. The senior left different feelings. "We have heard they ran the school," one Roger case, who now considers herself to was exactly surprised," another the campus Saturday and the each year," he says, "that some stu- Williams resident remarked be on friendly terms with the vic- said. "Alot of people in the dorm freshman woman had planned to dents feel intimidated by other "They had no respect for anybody's tim, also shares that sentiment. treated it as a joke, maybe that's leave by today at the latest students. I think we've tried to sig- rights. They were violating "They never, ever, ever should the easiest way to treat it, maybe Fairness of Sentence Ques- nify to students from the very be- everyone's rights on the first floor. have put a freshman in with those it's a cop out" tioned ginning that this office is prepared There's an honor system here, guys." After amonth, students began to That freshman woman spoke to to move as quickly as is necessary right, if you break something you to eradicate intimidation from this have to pay for it They were violat- "They were imposing their way of life on everybody else campus ... The record is clear, I ing the honor system. They were think, that when students have imposing their way of life on and everybody else had to pay for it ... " come forward that investigation everybody else snd everybody else has ensued and those who come had to pay for it". forward have not been harmed at First floor dorm damage in — A Roger Williams resident all." Roger Williams for fall semester Chairman of the Student Con- totaled $1635 per person. Carignan added to his remarks report the incident to the deans. The Student Monday about her im- duct Committee James G. Boyles Many residents of the dorm ex- the thought that "If there had been The victim himself did not ap- pressions of this complicated case adds that "Speaking as a member pressed their feelings of fear and any indication whatsoever that this proach the administration be- and her own involvement in it of the faculty, I think any kind of intimidation. One, on the first floor, was going on we would have found cause, as he puts it, "It's not the "For a while," she states, "we did n't harassment any time it occurs, any commented "I'd rather pay an a place to move this person." Yet kind of thing you like to go around have an R.C., which was a real place it occurs is only successful as extra $20 or $40 (in dorm damage the victim claims that on two sepa- talking about" After he was called problem. The situation was bad, long as the people harassed dont charges) than get my face beat in." rate occasions the rooming prob- in to Carignan's office, the but I didn't notice it that much. I come forward with it." The feet that Another noted, "You hardly ever lem was brought to the attention of freshman agreed to testify before was too caught up in it I thought it some students will not testify," he saw them associating with anyone the deans; at one point early in the the Student Conduct Committee. was fine. When I look back on it—it feels, "is this community's coun- else in the dorm. You just tried not semester, the student's mother The case was heard on February was not fine ... I think if there'd terpart to a general societal prob- to go near them." spoke with Carignan about it She 14 in Lane Hall in a session that been someone to say to me, 'Look lem; they say 'I don't want to get On December 4, a Tuesday, at was told that the housing shortage lasted until 1 a.m. Prior to that what these people are, look what involved, I don't want to make my- approximately 1 a.m., the incident due to this year's overenrolled time, one of the two senior men they're trying to do,' then I may not self the subject of additional which ultimately resulted in the freshman class would prevent any withdrew from the college, and have gone ahead on all this." harassment' case heard by the Student Conduct move. Asked about this discre- then refused to leave the campus. That statement is accepted by "It seems inconceivable to me Committee took place. The that intelligent students would see freshman woman involved in the " If there had been someone to say to me 'Look at what these it (harassment) and not im- case shaved the body of the mediately report it. At some point freshman who shared room 105 people are, look what they''re trying to do,' then I may not have in life one has got to mature in with the two seniors while his terms of one's ability to deal with roommates held him down; she gone ahead on all this." the peer pressure. Why this isnt also allegedly sexually assaulted happening, I don't know. I think the freshman. most of the fault," Boyles con- Many of those involved in this — Student Conduct Committee defendant cludes, "lies with the students." case principally question the fact The freshman woman who was that a freshman was placed in a pancy, Carignan replied that he After several visits from security many residents of the dorm, but re- brought before the Committee room with these two particular did not recall any such conversa- and under the threat of arrest that jected by others. "I feel that (she)'s questioned the methods of the ad- seniors. Carignan refers that ques- tion. student did leave the school five been a pawn in a real cruel game," ministration in the case. "I dont tion to Assistant Dean James Other Harassment • days after he had originally been one says. "The fact that she was think they're worried about the Reese who is responsible for hous- During the course of the semes- asked to go. placed in Roger Williams as a student's well-being as much as ing Reese, subsequently, explains ter and prior to the December 4 The night of the hearing saw a freshman was detrimental to her 'this person's causing problems, that when a vacancy opened up in incident the freshman had been security officer positioned outside transition period at Bates. I think if (Continued on Page 4) Page 4 The Bates Student March 7, I960 Testing the Bates System of Justice (Continued from Page 3) everyone the benefit of the doubt should be handled first by the solidly on the ... clear commit- school I don't think it (Bates) has get rid of them.' He (Carignan) did a ... It seems to me that the college, school and then by the law." Asked ment of the vast majority of the changed in my opinion. But my very thorough housecleaning. I through its various agencies, has to why he thought that was not the student body and the faculty to up- idea of the competency of the ad- think he got very carried away." be clear to students that when they situation in this case, the student hold that tradition." ministration to handle such mat- The victim adds "The way he do violate acceptable norms they replied simply "bad publicity." The victim of the December ters is considerably lower than I (Carignan) presented it, I've got a cannot be here." Another adds, "I don't think any harassment incident also appears had determined before." school is equipped to handle sex- "/ tried to place a student there who could ual harassment" Boyles, though, ''You can Uve there without anybody ever feels that "if any individual in this adjust more easily than some others . . . community feels that his rights as a knowing or caring about you ..." human being have been abridged, then that (civil action) is an indi- — Assistant Dean James Reese vidual decision which may require — A Roger Williams resident individual action." Carignan in- pretty good idea he didn't mind too A Civil Case sists that there is no attempt on the satisfied with the course of events. Roger Williams R.C.s Julia much if (one of the senior defen- Another question brought for- part of the school to prevent civil "It seemed like it was a pretty fair Groom and Henry Howie have ex- dants) got kicked out of the school. ward by a Roger Williams resident action. "In most cases I tell stu- set up. I think that the sentences perienced no major complaints Carignan counters, "I try not to was whether or not civil au- dents what their rights are. I had a lot to do with what I said in within the dorm this semester and make judgments about people in thorities should have been called suggest that if they would like to the Conduct Committee. The feel that "everybody gets along." the sense that I really do try to give in on the case. "Something like this pursue the matter under law that people got exactly what they de- Some residents disagree. "Nothing they be in touch with legal counsel. served .. The only negative thing could get the people in the Bill to- "Bates is able to withstand, I was that it seemed a little bit too gether," one says, adding, "we as- National Spotlight Focuses think," he continues, "incidents of late after the incident" sociate, we talk, but it's really sup- individual members of this com- erficial." "I sleep there, that's it," on DartmouthHarrassment munity breaking the law and hav- One resident of Roger Williams another adds, "you can live there ing that become public knowledge. has mixed feelings about the out- without anybody ever knowing or by Melanle Spencer Dartmouth, as it is at many other The reputation of this college rests come of this chain of events. "As a caring about you." Staff Reporter well established colleges. This As liberal arts colleges around image of a virile dominating male "The College Shouldn't Be the country initiate programs to is in part due to societal pressures, match their catalog boasts of a "di- but by looking briefly at a Law Enforcement Agency" verse student body," they become Dartmouth's history we see other host to a number of new, and often influences. difficult issues. One of these is sex- Eleazar Wheelock, its founder, City/School Security ual harassment Although the issue established the college primarily is not a new one, awareness of it as "for the education of Indians," a real and pressing problem is. Oc- which led to the Indian as the Cooperation "Excellent" casionally administrations, in school symbol. (The symbol is now by Ethan Whi taker This process has been successful white paint on the bumper. They •exploring the problem", strive to an explosive issue due to the staff Reporter in the past as many stolen bikes contacted Security, found out who protect an image, rather than ques- heightened sensitivity in portrayal and property have been returned. the student owner was and was let tion one. nf minorities.) Ironically, "Our job is to protect people and Yet their have been problems into his dormitory. The student was A prime example of this Dartmouth's male population, property." This was how security with this process in the past. In one awakened at 3:30 a.m. and invited tradition-aided oppression is composed mainly of upper class chief Chet Emmons characterizes incident a female student living in the two patrolmen into his room found at Dartmouth, one of the top whites and few native Americans, the role of Bates College Security. one of the small houses on campus before they identified themselves. schools in the nation. Incidents of has d reputation similar to the But the BSC can only play a very reported that she had had some $35 When asked, the student admitted harassment have been as numer- stereotypical Indian—strong, limited role in campus due to this stolen out of a bureau. The next day to have been driving home from a ous as they have been senseless. coarse, skillful in the woods, wild. very mandate. The BSC is not re- a patrolman came to talk to her dinner party in the area of the ac- For example, Esquire magazine Another historical correspon- sponsible for and is not capable of about the incident and asked the cident at the time the incident al- last summer recounted an incident dence is Dartmouth's traditional investigating many of the crimes appropriate questions. The follow- legedly occurred. The student was of a woman, who when passing rallying cry "wah-Hoo-Wah" (now that occur on Campus such as van- ing day two plain clothes detec- asked to dress and was driven through Hanover where only alive in alumni minds). It was dalism and theft. When these oc- tives arrived on campus without in- around town and asked numerous Dartmouth is located, was picked later discovered to translate into a cur, Security must turn to the forming security orthe administra- questions until 5:00 a.m. Charges up by several fraternity men, raped phrase for the act of sodomy. Lewiston Police Department for tion. Upon entering the students were never 'pressed, but the stu- and abused repeatedly and "pas- Today, administrators claim to help. room, the two men closed the door dent was never informed that he sed" on to each (Vat house where be aware of the problems and Emmons states that the relation- despite the woman's protest. They had been cleared until 8:30 when the treatment worsened. When changes are occurring on a small ship between the BSC and the LPD began a grilling process of the stu- he went to talk to Dean of the Col- campus police found her she was scale. The fraternities have been is excellent. "They provide lots of dent including such questions as: lege James W. Carignan. wandering aimlessly along the under probation since November assistance and cooperate are you on financial aid? do you get Emmons cautions that such inci- notorious Krai' 'lity Row. 1978, as a compromise by the Board whenever we need them." The along with your roomate? are you dents are a rarity and that the pat- The tali of 1972 was a of Trustees when a proposal to Lewiston Police provide two im- in debt? have you been under rolman were simply trying to solve particularly abusive time, for the abolish them was defeated. A sec- portant services to the college. stress lately? (it was finals week) the crime. He also implied that Dartmouth campus saw its first ond proposal, issued about three First are their regular rounds of and may we see your bankbook? many students feel that they women students. Walking along weeks ago, suggested the frats be- the campus, driving through, look- Having answered affirmatively to should have the best of both Frat Row, women were continually come coed, but this has yet to be ing for potential trouble and gen- all of these questions the student worlds, for the police to ignore ridiculed and intimidated by its reviewed by the board. Sossedal erally making their presence was then accused by one of the of- their violations (fights, drug use, male inhabitants. Yet this type of vaguely mentioned efforts of the known. "You can find cruisers ficers of stealing the money her- excessive noise and the use of al- Animal House behvior (the popu- live-in frats, comprising 400 stu- going through the pit and the new self. By this time the student had cohol by minors) but should get all lar movie was written in part by a dents to better their image, athletic facility parking lot anytime broken into tears and the detec- the protection that police provide Dartmouth alumni) is not limited "They're cleaning up the houses, of day or night," states Emmons. tives asked her to take a polygraph for the rest of the community. to women. Incidents have been re- doing repair work... new paint." Second, the LPD is always availa- test. When asked whether he saw police ported where freshmen, for frater- Yet, Klages claimed that the ad- ble on call whenever they are entering comparatively open dor- nity initiation rites were required ministration hasn't helped, "They needed. It is not uncommon for the After the police detectives had mitories as different from them en- to perform various homosexual talk about it, but there isn't any ac- BSC to call police to have left, the student went to then As- tering private apartment building, tasks. In fact, one Dartmouth stu- tion. .. they try to deny it although townspeople tresspassing on cam- sociate Dean Mary Stewart Spence Emmons replied that he did not. dent, for a cinema class, did a piece it exists." She added that college pus removed. Emmons discussed feeling that she had been unnec- When asked why the police were including "Hell Night" scenes officials dont interfere in the frats an incident of last Saturday night cessarily harrassed. Spence went no asked in to deal with the recent showing the naked freshmen, their at all and that in some cases of at the new gym where the Lewiston to Emmons who complained to the harassment incidents in Roger heads shaved, being inducted. harassment the dean's office Police responded to a call from LPD and informed the student that Williams Hall (see related article) According to Mary Lkages, an ac- "hushes it up." security within six minutes. she did not have to take the polyg- the Bates Security chief replied tive member of the Dartmouth But some steps are being taken Security will also call in the LPD raph test Neither the woman in- that this had been handled entirely Women's Alliance, formed in 1975 not only to stop harassment, but to when there is an incident of break- volved nor the college has heard by the administration. Despite his to combat harassment, incidents of educate people on what Klages ing and entering or robbery on anything about the incident since claim that the BSC and the LPD sexual abuse and its counterpart, calls "emotional violence." The campus that it is unable to solve. that time. work closely together, Emmons destructive behavior are still oc- alliance, although "small Usually the police will send a pat- The Lewiston Police have the could not recall a time that the col- curing. Just last fall a Dartmouth and outspoken," has held panel rolman to the college to find the right to come onto campus anytime lege had ever reported an incident women was raped. Also, two discussions and distributed infor- facts out on the incident Then a they so choose but generally report that involved a student to the weekends ago freshmen partici- mation by way of Open Forum, city detective will be brought in their presence to security for the police. "If a student does some- pated in a frat open house activity their newspaper. and iiopefully solve the "crime." sake of courtesy. Yet according to thing wrong, the college likes to called "the circuit". Going to each Emmons, the college is in no way take care of itself. Besides many of of the 23 frats, they drank several immune to police supervision. The the fights would probably be ig- beers at each; those that finished Intro. Computer Course LPD must obey all of the rules of nored by the LPD even if they were were commended and recognized procedure when operating on brought in. They really aren't that by the Greek societies as potential Offered campus, however, he says. They serious." members. This year the traditional must be invited in or have a search When Carignan was asked the night was climactic; forty particip- An introductory computer in recent years because, according warrant before they can enter a same question, he replied that the ants urinated collectively on a course will be offered at Bates in to Haines, "The department dormitory room. When asked, the college had gone to the police downtown Hanover building. 1980-81, according to Professor doesn't have enough faculty to BSC will let the police into a dor- when it saw "a situation arising Awareness of this behavior is David Haines, chairman of the teach it.... 45% of (Bates) students mitory but they can not legally that it deemed as dangerous to the fiddicult, due to the conflicting re- Mathematics department. The are taking math now (as opposed to enter a room uinvited or without a college community." But he stated ports. In citing the same rape inci- course, principles of computing, a normal 25-30",). We can't really warrant. that the administration would not dent, Greg Sossedal. editor of the has been in the college catalog for even afford to offer it at all since we In early February, there was a hit go to the LPD after the fact, al- college newspaper called the •—?•■ three years but has never been really need calculus sections, but it and run accident about a mile from though Carignan claims that he an "attempt" and similarly, he taught "It will definitely be taught has to be offered." the campus off of College Street does tell students that may have commented vaguely on "some next year, both fall and winter An olive green station wagon had been wronged by another that they trouble" during circuit night. semesters," Haines said. "Another position should be backed into a garage door about have the right to take private ac- Yet the Greek system is not the The course in computing, Math hired to teach this course. There's 11:00 at night and had driven away. tion, when asked by the college has sole perpetual or of this behavior; 115, will be taught by Professor no question about it," Haines in- Late that night a LPD cruiser while adopted this take care of itself pol- part stems from the need to up- Robin Brooks and will be limited sisted. "But other departments touring the pit noticed a station icy, Carignan replied, "we dont be- hold a "macho man" image. Unfor- to twenty students per semester. need the new staff more than math wagon matching this description lieve that the college should be a tunately this image is traditional at Computing has not been offered does." and with what appeared to be law enforcement agency." 2
March 7, 1980 The Bates Student Page 5 Professor Thumm Student Relates Speaks of World Crisis Semester in Russia by Mary Couillard an effort to become more profi- by Ethan Whitaker America's changing attitudes Student Contributor cient in the language. Staff Reporter through the Cold War period and Valerie Lasseure, a junior here Lasseure described the living The chairman of the Political on through Detente. According to at Bates, spent last semester in conditions of American students as Science Department, Garold W. Thumm, America realized it was Russia studying at the Pushkin In- being better than average. They Thumm. spoke in Skeleton involved in a struggle with the stitute in Moscow. The program received privileges such as flush Lounge last Wednesday on the Soviet Union when in 1946, the was sponsored by a group from toilets, while the other foreigners changing attitudes on the role of Soviets refused to allow joint oc- Ohio State University at Purdue. simply used crude forms of lat- the United States in world aff- cupational government in the The university selected 24 under- rines. There were seven girls living iars. Using his own experiences Russian occupied sector of Rus- graduate and graduate students in one room. Two weeks into their as a young man in the 1940s, sia. from the United States and sent stay they were moved to another Thumm compared the ideas of On of the problems Thumm has them to Russia to study abroad. dormitory which had been under that time to the current affairs of in believing in the viability of Lasseure lived in a dormitory construction at the time of their ar- the late 1970s and 1980s. Detente is the different way the with other foreign students in the rival. The living conditions there Recounting his own conversion Soviets and the Americans view Professor Thum suburbs of Moscow. The students improved somewhat, the students from a conscientious objector to it. The Americans see it as a Photo by Hall took subjects such as linguistics, then living in quads. his present moderate to conser- means for creating a permanent phonetics and Russian culture, in The students attended classes vative outlook, Thumm discussed lasting process leading to a com- Monday through Saturday from 9 the isolationist attitudes of the plete, lasting and lasting end of a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays they went late 1930s. He compared the fai- hostilities. The Soviets, on the Tax Tips on excursions, usually to Moscow lure of World War I to "make the other hand see an everlasting which was an hour and fifteen mi- world safe for Democracy," to the struggle going on between the nutes away by metro. negative feeling that exist about capitalist and socialist countries. Provided for Students Lasseure always sensed a this nation's involvement in Viet- Detente is just a temporary change evident in the Russians she met when they learned she was nam. Two events of the means of carrying out these goals The following Questions and day care center for watching isolationist period sound shock- in a peaceful means. Answers for students were pre- our child(ren) during the day. American. There is a resentment there, "because they are fed cer- ingly similar to events of the last The Political SchiencedchSci- pared by the Internal Revenue Can we claim any credit for few month. First Thumm discus- ence chairman then discussed Service. tain stereotypes by their govern- the money we pay for child ment." Americans are seen as sed a movement to boycott the the Iran and Afghan situations. care? 1936 Berlin Olympics and stated He believes Bani Sadir tricked 1. Q. How much money can a stu- A. Assuming that certain con- wanting war; that is the image ex- pressed by the censored Russian that such an action probably Carter into forming the UN. in- dent make before he or she ditions are met, yes. If one would not have don much to dis- vestigating commission. Carter has to pay taxes? spouse works and the other is press. courage the Nazis.but it might was gullible enough to believe A. Under the tax law, a student There is, however, one American a full-time student for at least radio station, located in Moscow, have shown this nation's disap- that the Commission would lead is treated the same as any five calendar months during proval of the regime. Secondly to the release of the hostages and other single person, and can the tax year, child care ex- called "The Voice of America," when discussing the Nazi Thumm stated that such a con- earn up to $3300 (for 1979) be- penses that allow the working which is broadcast in both English and Russian. The station is run by blitzkrieg into Poland, Thumm cession whether had been viable fore he or she has to pay taxes. spouse to be employed will quoted the British Prime Minis- or not was a paying of ransom to Social Security (or FICA) iw qualify as child care expenses. the American government, but ter Neville Chamberlain as say- the terrorists, something Carter withheld on any amount of in- For more information on the they do not really have ftill reign over what goes on the air. They are ing, "Hitler lied to me. I've should never have done. come and is not refundable. Child Care and Disabled De- learned more about the Germans The discussion and answer ses- aware of the fact that they must re- pendent Care". port the news in a straightforward in the last couple weeks then I sion that followed the talk de- 2. Q. My parents are claiming me Q. What can I do to be sure my have in the last several years." teriorated into a heated argu- on their tax return. Can I still objective fashion, or they will be refund gets to me as soon as forced off the air. The Russian Here he was referring to a ment between Political Science claim myself? possible? people are aware of this, and know similar statement made by Presi- Professor Farokhi and Professor A. Yes. This is one area in A. Filing your tax return as dent Carte after the Afghanistan Thumm. Farokhi insisted that the which students and their that "there's some twisting of in- early as possible during the fil- formation." Thus, they reject most invasion. U.S. caused and will continue to families receive a "break". Pa- ing season may mean a wait of Thumm said that his views on cause Iran type situations when it rents who are supporting a of it as American propaganda. only four to five weeks for your Lasseure sees the view of the war changed when America ignores the plight of oppressed student can claim the student refund. Filing later in the sea- realized that a certain set of people by supporting leaders like on their tax return and the Russians towards their govern- son may mean a longer wait. ment to be "stuck with their lot. principles would not be obeyed the Shah. Thumm countered that student can also claim Using the peel off label and The Russians are sheep, they just by all. "Some people would have the interests of the American himself/herself. the bar coded envelope helps to be forced to obey principles." people must be this nation's first 3. Q. I had several jobs during the the IRS work faster sending live with it. The attitude of the Then Thumm recounted priority. year and I haven't received all out refunds. Before mailing the older generation is that there's no- thing you can do. They don't want to my W-2's. What should I do? return, be sure to check the A. Employers have uniil calculations one more time. leave, their family's there and the January 31 to send you a W-2. Russian culture. They tell them- Errors cause delays. selves 'I am Russian, whether I like If it is after that date and you r Q. I'm taking a course to help it or not.' With the younger genera- still haven't received your W-2, me in my job. Are my tuition tion, this is not always true. It is contact your employer. Many costs deductible? times students have moved and obviously a lot easier to break ties A. Generally, you may deduct when you're twenty and can see the employer doesn't have a expenses for education that is current address. If you still required by your employer or your life before you being don't receive the W-2 within a necessary to mainttain or im- threatened with oppression,." _, reasonable period of time, con- prove your present job or sal- From the point of view of the tact the IRS. ary. You may not deduct ex- conflict between American and 4. Q. I receive a scholarship (or penses incurred for education Russia recently brought to a hilt fellowship) grant. Is it taxable? which is required of you to in Afghanistan, Lasseure had de- A. If you receive a scholarship meet the minimum educa- parted from Russia before it re- of fellowship, you may exclude tional requirements in your ally began. She did, however, see the amount from your income, trade or business, or for edu- extensive Olympic advertisement subject to certain limitations. cation which is part of a prog- in the country. "Misha teh Bear" The money you receive must ram that will qualify you in a was a figure frequently displayed be primarily for furthering new trade or business. in the city of Moscow. The Rus- your education and cannot be 8 Q. I'm taking a course to help sians are very excited about the compensation for past, pre- me improve the skills I need Summer Olympics. THE WOODSHED RESTAURANT sent, or future services. Gen- in my present job. I'm also re- Lasseure expressed her feel- erally, money received under a ceiving educational benefits ings on the trip by saying .'.'I'm Featuring: Full course dinner work-study program is taxable, from the VeteransAdministra- very glad I went. My Russian, im- unless all students of the col- tion to pay for this course. proved and I enjoyed learning and sandwiches lege are required to partici- What about one? about the culture and customs pate in a Work-Study Program. A. The deductible educational firsthand. The Russian system is also For more specific information, expenses of a veteran are not awful, but the country and.the ask the IRS for free publica- reduced by the tax exempt Russian culture are great" She pizza, beer and wine tion "Taxable Income and educational benefits received was however, very relieved ,to Promenade Mall Non-Taxable Income". from the Veterans Administra- leave. She felt pressured and 5. Q I'm a full-time student and tion. In other words, you can constrained during her stay..She Lewiston my spouse works. We pay a still deduct the expenses even found she appreciated the West- though you receive money ern culture even more after, her from the Veterans Administra- visit. , „ '., tion for your education. Her political view of Russia ,is The Q. I work during th^> day and that "the country has great aspi- go to school at night. I know rations to power with no popular Needleworks the educational expenses are support. The Russians do not Need A Keg? Need It Delivered? "Quality Yams & deductible. What about my possess a lot of nationalism, they transportation costs? are very apathetic. The Russian The closest place to get them is Needlework Supplies" A. You may deduct transporta- government can force the .people Located in the tion expenses for qualified to support the, but this will not Engine House Mall educational activities that you come voluntarily. Contrary to Quality Market 158 Court St., Auburn Me. incur in going between your popular belief, the Russians do place of employment and a not view themselves as warmon- Telephone 783-1194 school within the same general gers, they consider themselves a For better selection Corner of College Mon.Thurs. 10:00-5:00, area. This deduction is com- peaceloving people." We are in call in advance and Holland Sts. Friday 'til 9 Saturday 'til 5:30 puted at 18.5 cents a mile and fact both ignorant of each other, can be claimed an adjustment we as Americans know about Tel. 783-8425 to income even if you don't them as much as they know about itemize your deductions. us. Page 6 The Bates Student March 7, 1980 Tenure Decision Planned for Next Week
tion in the individual evaluations records to that point" pends upon an honest appraisal of college and from the dean of the Scott Damon faculty. Additionally there are Staff Reporter of candidates for tenure. However, factors such as the te- the candidates. Such honest ap- First among these are "Needs of nured faculty quota contradict this praisal may depend on such confi- other evaluations and "any other The faculty Personnel Commit- relevant information." tee will make its annual tenure re- the College." The handbook exp- statement as does Straub's com- dentiality. Furthermore, evalua- lains The College must have an- ment 'Tenure decisions are deci- tions of personnel that have to do When a decision has been commendations to President reached by the Board of Trustees, THedley Reynolds within the next ticipated future need for the ser- sions regarding a faculty member's with a person's career are not vices of the individual." Straub re- future in the future of the college something everyone should know who act upon the president's re- week.. According to Physics commendation, the candidate, his Professor George Ruff, a member lated the needs of the college to the rather than being awards for past about." future needs of the candidate's de- development or performance." Among the information submit- department chairman and his divi- of the committee, six members of sion chairman are notified in wri- the faculty are eligible for tenure partment and to whether or not the The final tenure criterion is one ted to the Personnel Committee particular abilities candidate are of non-discrimination. When are a recommendation from the tin by June 15 of the calendar year this year. prior to the one in which the tenure Among those up for tenure are ones the college as a whole wishes asked, Straub responded that the candidate's department chairman to continue to make use of. school has yet to have the oppor- or acting chairman, depending on decision becomes effective. If a Assistant Professor of Theater candidate does not receive tenure Martin Andrucki, Assistant Profes- Other criteria include "Basic tunity to tenure a non-white faculty the committee's wishes, personal Professional Qualification," or hav- Tiember. letter from all tenured members of he may be granted a one year ter- sor of Anthropology Steven minal reappointment to search for Kemper, Assistant Professor of Art ing an appropriate degree or the Tenures are initiated during the that department, and a current re- equivalent for one's particular fall semester when the dean of the commendatio from the candidate's a new job. Judith Lyezko, Assistant Professor Members of the physical educa- of Biology Louis Pitelka and Assis- field, "Excellence in Teaching," faculty provides a list of eligible division chairman. evaluated by students, former stu- faculty members to the Personnel Also considered are letters of tion department are no longer elig- tant Professor of Sociology John ible for tenure although they were Reed. Also ellegedly eligible is As- dents, the candidate's division and Committee. The dean can recom- evaluation from three students or department charimen and others mend a professor for consideration former students of the candidate's at one time. Individuals with the sistant Professor of Political Sci- rank of instructor can not receive ence John W. Simon. and "Continued Professional De- before that faculty member com- choice and two of his department velopment," such as research and pletes six years at the school or the chairman's choice as well as tenure unless their position is ad- The Faculty Personnel Commit- vanced. tee is composed of eight individu- publication or other professional equivalent, but this has not hap- evaluations from the dean of the als. In addition to chairman writing, being a consultant or of- pened in several years. Reynolds and Dean of the Faculty ficer of a professional organiza- In evaluating the tenure candi- A Weekend Adventure Carl Straub the committee this tion, designing or re-designing date on the basis of the seven above year includes faculty members course or the like. criteria, "the dean of the faculty Is a Visit To Roak r Ruff, Ralph Chances, James Also among the criteria are shall make available to the mem- Greenhouse Leamon, Donald Lent, John Tag- '•Service to the College," extracur- bers of the Committee relevant in- liabue and Richard Wagner. ricular contributions to the college formation from the candidate's Wagner is new to the group this which are judged on a basis of in- Personnel File" prior to the meet- year. dividual merit and "Level of Per- ing to consider that candidate. FLORIST All members of the committee formance," which the handbook This information is confidential must be tenured and hold the rank explains thusly: "In tenure deci- as are all proceedings of the com- •i(k4r of either associate professor or full sions the college estimates candi- mittee. When queried about this professor. However, an associate dates'potential value to the college total confidentiality, Straub re- Plants & Gifts professor can not be nominated for over the remaining years of their sponded "It seems to me that any election by the faculty to the com- academic career based upon their process of evaluation of faculty de- mittee if his election would place VISA more than two associate professors on the board concurrently. Three and of the members are senior mem- Master Charge bers of the advisory committee. Accepted When asked why non-tenured fa- 245 Center Street, Auburn culty members were not allowed OPEN SUNDAY on the committee Straub answered 784-4061 "In part to avoid a possible conflict of interest" but declined further comment. For probably similar reasons a department member does not participate in the consid- eration of candidates from his own department. Faculty are considered for te- ICIIAVDAIH ID EUROPE ON A nure after six years of service at Bates unless they have taught elsewhere, in which case they may receive credit for that work. Criteria for tenure choices, ac- cording to the current faculty BIG BIRDAND A handbook include "any percentage limitations or guidelines as an- nounced by the president or Board of Trustees to the faculty." In the Gilbert Gallery QUALITY AT past Bates has unofficialy had a & Framing A FAIR PRICE LOW4p FARE conservative goal of having no more tha 550, of its faculty on te- 267 Lisbon St., Lewiston. Me. nure, and this has caused some ART SUPPLIES 783-3100 controversy. TOO! The faculty handbook also iden- tifies seven criteria for considera- For Complete Floral s
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The moons of sed the coincidence that the Dr. Thomas Mutch, speaking in sed at NASA, during a slide pre- plate tectonics as it was unique to Jupiter were also talked about and, Pioneer X took its photos when the Chase Lounge last Wednesday sentation. the Earth and possibly Venus, the as the audience gasped at the slide volcano was exploding. "It was no- night, took Bates students on a tour Beginning first with the terres- alleged evolution of each of the which portrayed Callistro, Mutch thing that we could have planned planets and the similarities and understated the slide saying, "It's in a million years,"stated Mutch differences between them. an OK body, just another cratered during a color closeup of the Stressing that much of what is surface." exploding volcano, "we wre just known about the planets is a result Mutch went on to address Saturn scientifically lucky." of photo-geology, Mutch described and its rings, comparing the rings with a small discussion and then Mars as "telescopically seductive," to those which exist around Jupi- was available for informal ques- Earth's moonas a "primitive body," ter. Noting the active volcano on tioning afterward. Mecury as "depressingly like the Moon," and Venus as a "sister we don't really know," winning laugh- Students Participate ter from the audience. While discussing each of the in Mystic Program planets, Mutch spoke about the dif- Mary H. Elder, '81, David D. Ginn, work, the students learn practical ferent spaceships which had '82, and Samuel S. Rodman ID, '81, maritime skills such as celestial explored the planets, their landing are Bates College students par- sites, and the data which each had navigation, boat-building and ticipating in the Williams small boat handling, taught by sent back to Earth. One slide College/Mystic Seaport Program in showed a contour map of Venus Seaport staff members. Some also American Studies this semester. assist in museum administration which the Venus Orbiter had Twenty-one college students are departments. created. in residence at Mystic Seaport Students live, study and cook Concluding his discussion of the Museum this semester, under the their own meals in four Seaport- terrestrial planets, Mutch stated a Williams College/Mystic Seaport owned houses near the museum hypothesis currently under evalu- Program in American Maritime grounds. Evening programs in- ation. "It seems that the larger the Studies. clude visiting lecturers, films and body, the more internal heating The students, from nine colleges informal discussions with Seaport and thus more active in terms of in the northeast, are taking four staff members. tectonic activity for a longer period Williams College accredited clas- Program director Benjamin W. of time." ses — American maritime history, While discussing Jupiter, Mutch Labaree, adjunct professor of his- maritime literature, oceanography tory at Williams College, is the in- showed slides which were sent or marine ecology, and a seminar back from the Voyager I and II. " structor for Maritime History and about man's use and abuse of the the Marine Policy Seminar. James "These are remarkable pictures sea. because they indicate that we have L. Carew, former assistant profes- They will spend a week aboard sor at Rensselaer Polytechnic In- moved into an era of space explo- the Sea Education Association's ration." stitute, teaches Oceanography and sailing research schooner West- Marine Biology. Stuart M. Frank, Mutch continued with Jupiter's ward off the Florida Keys. red spot, showing a slide which PhD candidate at Brown Univer- Dr. Thomas Mutch In addition to formal course sity and former Research As- sociate at Mystic Seaport Museum, instructs American Maritime Lit- Bowdoin President Proposes Energy Cooperative erature. Classes are held in the BRUNSWICK, Me.—The Presi- individually. My guess is, also, vidually we had the resources President Enteman said that G.W. Blunt White Library on the dent of Bowdoin College an- that by joining together we could which would enable us to gain after an estimate of the cost is museum grounds. nounced today that 19 other lib- gain access to a level of access to some of the major obtained, "we might approach The program is open to under- eral arts institutions in the technological knowledge which technological sources of informa- corporations, foundations and the graduates from 18 participating Northeast are joining Bowdoin in we would never be able to afford tion in this country. Department of Energy to request colleges in New England and New a common effort to lower dramat- or attract individually." "I am thinking, in this context, funding for conducting such a York. Most students are sopho- ically escalating fuel costs Dr. Enteman noted that all 20 of the major research and de- study. My own guess is that the mores and juniors, and represent a through "bold and adventure- colleges have approximately the velopment organizations, either kind of study which I am describ- variety of liberal arts majors. some thinking." same size and academi orienta- independent ones or those at- ing would be considered too ex- The program offers under- tion, campuses spread out over tached to corporations. Almost pensive for us to support alone, graduates "a chance to learn by Dr. Williard F. Enteman, who doing and to develop for them- advanced the plan in letters to fairly large areas, buildings of all of those organizations I know but that it might be considered of various ages, different degrees of about are willing to do projects such great importance in the con- selves maritime skills and a cer- his fellow Presidents at the 19 tain confidence about their own re- other colleges, said he has re- sophistication in terms of energy on a contract basis. What I am text of the total national energy use and conservation, generally proposing is that we consider ap- picture that we might find some lationship with the sea," according ceived positive replies from all of to Director Labaree. In its second them. centralized heating plants and proaching some of these organi- funding sources." the northeastern climate. zations to ask them if if they There is good reason to be- year, the cooperative program has The other institutions are "What I expect we also have in would be interested in doing a lieve, Dr. Enteman said, that such been made possible through the Amherst, Bates. Clarkson, Colby, common," he added, "is a dramat- study project which would be de- a study "would have significant gifts of the PR. Mallory Family Connecticut College, Hamilton, ically excalating energy bill and signed to help us gain some itransportability' beyond our own Foundation, Inc. and the late Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, a desire to acquire energy at the perspective on the particular campuses." He said there are Philip R. Mallory, Chairman Norwich, St. Lawrence, Smith, least expensive cost. I expect that problems which campus-like or- numberous other "campus-like" Emeritus of Mystic Seaport. Trinity, Union, Vassar, Wellesley, we all have done individual ganizations have in the North- structures in the United States Wesleyan, Wheaton, Williams and studies of uneven depth and ex- east." and if this problem can be solved Place an Ad Worcester Polytechnic Institute. tensiveness in desperate attempts Dr. Entemen said "I would for colleges in the Northeast, "My guess is," Bowdoin's Presi- to find some resolution for the think we should also encourage presumably similar methods dent said, "that a group of our problems caused by the rapidly them to engage in some bold and might be worked out for cam- in the colleges could put together a escalating costs." adventuresome thinking which puses in other areas of the coun- program which would have a Asserting that he is suggesting might require challenging many try. much greater chance of funding essentially a study program, the of the assumptions currently in Student and adoption than if we were to Bowdoin President said "Proba- operation." continue to deal with these issues bly none of us has felt that indi- Such a study, he added, might Sali's Restaurant 783-7108 establish general principles 784-0682 within which each of the 20 col- Prof Discusses Abuse leges could conduct their won Money Tight! building-by-building energy au- of Lab Animals dits Looking for a student to J Dostie right those animals posess. Some M ■«■'•' < Psychology Department. The forum will con sist of a ■■m When asked by he chose the number of qualified speakers. : • ' ' . ' ' topic of animal use of "abuse" in Tom Regan, a leading author on FACTS. MJM6U' *)»«RJtA.N .".tW'SfW"'! research Shapiro replied "I've the subject from North Carolina Instant printing isn't been interestedjjn the subject for State University, will speak on *., what you might public awareness to the issue of .Animal Rights, Human Wrongs. There will also be speakers from think You may be ethics concerning animals as his surprised to main reason to coordinate the the disciplines of Veterinary Re- know we can Specializingjin forum. cources, Philosophy, Psychology, handle about 90% The forum will be an effort to and Zoology. of your printing needs lie latest explore the ideal of using ani- There are numerous contexts So drop by and get all the men's and mals as a tool for the betterment which concern the issue of ani- facts today1 women's of human kind. We are presently mal research. Such things as en- hairstyles using 60-100 million animals an- vironmental and ecological «V % COURT ST. awareness, ethics of animal use 784-4209 nually in research. Many content CURRY| for food, the similarities between TEL. 782 0638 ♦ AUBURN. ME. Adam and Iti that much of this research is re- COPY I humans and animals, and even a lluir ficiiliquc dundant and trivial. Clothing from the CENTER OF LEWSTON The participants within the possible parallel between Tel. 784 3-1-14 "speciesism" and racism and 1890's 195H's 80 College St. forum will explore the qualities wliton and features as animals and what sexism...... 221 LISBON STREET tEWtSTflNJ Page 8 The Bates Student March 7. I960 BatesDates Rooming Lottery Begins Sunday March 7 — Biology Council Hillel. 9 pm, Skelton and Hirasawa Luncheon, 11:30 am; Biology Coun- by Peter Cummings Lounge; Senior numbers posted Staff Reporter cil Lecture: Population Biology for lottery. The rooming lottery will begin Studies of Aster Acumtnatus, a Forest March 10 — Newman Council, The Bates Student Guide Herb, 4:10 pm, Hirasawa Lounge; this Sunday, March 9. On Sunday 6:45 pm, Parker lower lounge; at noon, senior lottery numbers to the Rooming Lottery Current Events Forum, 4:15 pm, Forum on Human Awareness, 8 will be posted in Chase Hall. The Chase Lounge; Bates Christian pm, Hirasawa Lounge; Senior SINGLES DOUBLES TRIPLES Fellowship, 7 pm, Skelton; Sym- next night (Monday), next year's room selection. seniors will select their rooms for Male Female Male Female Male Female posium on Death and Dying, a March 11 — University of New 1980-81. Junior numbers will be (Male Houses! panel discussion on grief and Hampshire MAT representative, posted on Tuesday, March 11, and Chase House 4 ■ 8 - - - mourning, 7 pm, Chase Lounge; luncheon, 11:30-12:30, Garcelon next year's juniors will select Pierce House 4 - 10 - - - Andrews Memorial Lecture: 77K Room; German Table, 5:30 pm, rooms on Wednesday night, Milliken House 2 - 13 - - - Infinite Dimensions of God's Promise, Rowe Room Commons; Bates Arts Herrick House . S - 4 - - - 8 pm; Notification of off-campus March 12. Next year's sopho- - - - - Society, 5:30 pm, Dining Room 10, mores will receive numbers next Stillman HOuse 1 4 permission and Turner House as- (Female Honscs) Commons; Junior lottery numbers Sunday, March 16, and will select signments. posted. Cheney House - 3 - 16 • 2 rooms on Monday, March 17. March 9 — Quaker Meeting, 1C March 13 — Biology Lecture, Dr. Davis House . 4 - S - - am, Alumni House; Anti-draft Lottery numbers will be posted Leadbetter House - 1 - 4 - - Lisa Schroeder, 4:10 pm, Hirasawa; in Chase Hall at noon on the date march, 1 pm, Augusta; College Poetry Reading, 8 pm, Chase Whitter House . 12 - 3 - - Worship Service, 6:30 pm, Chapel; indicated. Wilson House - 3 11 - 1 Lounge. The Lottery will be held in Folk Mass, 7:30 pm, Gannett Room; March 14 — Coffee House for Women's Union - 1 - 4 - 1 Frank Glazer Concert, 8 pm, Rand Hall. On the night of room (Coed Houses) Muscular Dystrophy by the New- selection, students should go to - - Chapel; Dance sponsored by man Council, 7 pm, Chase Lounge. Webb House 3 3 5 4 Rand lower lounge with a long Moulton House ■ 1 6 5 . - list of room choices. Frye House 1 1 6 5 - - When a student's lottery Hacker House 1 4 5 1 - Search Committee 6 (Continued from Page 1) number is called, he/she will Small House 1 1 3 1 1 proceed to Fiske lounge on the Parsons House 3 4 3 3 - - think we are more likely to reach I think it is likely that a woman will second floor and, after presenting Mitchell House 3 3 4 3 - - minority applicants. It's an effort to be appointed." his/she will pick an available Clason House 1 1 7 7 - - bring into the pool of applicants The search committee plans to room. Howard House 1 1 4 3 - - those we might not reach other- 2 - - screen the candidates and narrow Turner house has already been Wood Street House 1 1 3 143 Wood Street ■ 3 3 - - wise," stated Carignan. the choice to three or four candi- assigned in a group rooming lot- 1 (Single-Sex Dorms Dean Spence's reasons for res- dates for further evaluation by stu- tery. The John Bertram Hall igning were a lack of minority rep- dent and faculty. All applications Parker Hall 34 - 40 - 1 quad suites are part of the regu- Wentworth Adams resentation in the student body, fa- for the position are due March 31, lar lottery, but a group of four culty and administration. "Most I960. Hall 70 - 43 - - roommates is required in order (Coed Dorms) critically, there are few models "We'ew going to have the three of to get one. from which students may evaluate four candidates interviewed by Rand Hall 5 1 16 12 - Students should note that three Hedge Hall 4 2 12 10 8 - accepted stereotypes of women representatives of the student houses are becoming coed next and minorities in responsible posi- body—say a committee of six to Roger Williams 7 7 8 13 4 2 year: Howard House, Wood Page Hall 3 6 17 8 12 6 tions," she stated in her letter upon eight students. The students will John Bertram 2 2 2 quads resignation. probably be designated by the R.A. Street House, and 143 Wood 'The concerns about the college From a committee of the same size, Street. 's commitment to minorities I we'll have the faculty give a written shared with her (Spence), voiced evaluation." stated Carignan. Fire Protection System with her. I think there is solid evi- The candidates screenedout will dence that the college is hearing visit the campus for two days to talk this," stated Carignan. with as many possible. Carignan Back to Normal Carignan stressed that the Com- plans to have them meet with the Ever since the tragedy at Provi- past some soda type extinguishers cardboard box in the chimney. The mittee would not engage in "re- heads of some of the extra- dence College several years ago, last year their had been an resulting smoke tripped the smoke verse discrimination: "I'd like to curricular activities on campus. much has been made of the fire epidemic of campus horseplay alarm and the Lewiston Fire De- see a woman in the position, but "After all, we want to make sure warning systems in college dor- iwth the fire extinguishers as many partment was responding to the not at the expense of discriminat- that not only do we want them, but mitories. In an effort to see just were discharged for no apparent alarm within minutes. ing on the basis of sex or religion. .. they want us." how safe the Bates fire alarm sys- reason. During the week of December 2, tem is, The Student spoke to Trea- A major problem on college three false alarms in Chase Hall surer and Vice-President of Busi- campuses across the nation is the were found to be related to equip- Vandalism Continues ness Affairs Bernard Carpenter. pulling of false alarms. But accord- ment malfunction; two of those All of the major dormitories on ing to Carpenter, this is one prob- alarms occured while students in Campus Parking Lots campus with the exception of Rand lem that Bates has never had as were in the building, and security Hall and Roger Bill have fire alarm ninety-five percent of the false reports that most students did not by John Bevilacqua ally nonexistent around campus. systems that are hooked by radio alarms that occur on campus (and leave when the alarms sounded; Staff Reporter Watchmen and security guards connection directly with the these occur infrequently) have the Lewiston Fire Department did, The parking lot at the corner of regularly patrol the parking Lewiston Fire Department. The been caused by equipment mal- however, respond to the call. On Campus Avenue and Nichols facilities, and the Lewiston police campus houses as well as Rand function. December 9, another malfunction Street is an area that has been often drive by in their cruisers and and Roger Williams have a fire There was a demonstration of occured at 7 a.m. in John Bertram plagued by automobile vandalism watch for trouble. alarm buzzer system, yet the Fire the effectiveness of the system sev- Hall. Again, the fire department in recent weeks. The week before Bates has 230 student parking Department must be notified by eral weeks ago when an Adams in- did resond. Alarms have repor- February break, a visitor's car had spaces not including the ones in phone should a need for their ser- sinerator got clogged with a tedly been reset in both buildings. its tires slashed, and during vaca- the new parking facility on the east vices arise. When the eventual re- tion the back windows of two cars side of the new gymnasium. Em- nevations of the two old dor- were smashed. Central Maine's Regional Cultural Center mons does not think that there will mitories takes place a direct radio 35 Park Street, P.O. Box 156 According to Chet Emmons, be much of a security problem with system will be instituted in them as Lewiston. Maine 04240 head of Bates College Security, this the somewhat isolated new lot, be- well. (207) 783-9711 kind of vandalism is "spasmodic cause the area will be very well Also existing in all of the campus and happens only every now and lighted and well patrolled. Lighted residences are smoke alarms. Yet then." Emmons said that minor walkways will connect the area to again, only in the relatively new CLASS SCHEDULES FOR THE WINTER TERM: JANUARY 21-MARCH 29 vandalism such as bending of car the rest of the campus, and stu- large dormitories are the systems Visual Arts Classes for Adults antennas is what is usually re- dents who not wish to walk back tied into the regular dormitory These dasses are designed lor adutis and high school students and meet once a week for ten ported, but serious destruction is alone can call Security for an es- alarm systems and thus to the Fire weeks Photography III, which meets every other week, has a tuition tee ol $25 all other courses quite rare, and auto theft if virtu- cort. Department. have a tuition lee ot $40 There 6 an annual registration lee lor all adults of $5 00. good tor any number ol classes taken during this and the next three terms The studio tee is paid once, when All campus buildings are also registering. equipped with sprinkler systems. Photography II: Thursdays. 6 30-9:00 p m. Pottery I: Mondays or Thursdays. 6:30-9:00 Again Rand and Roger Williams Studio tee $5 00 p.m. Studio lee $6 00. seem to possess outdated equip- Photography IN: Mondays. 630-900 pm Pottery II: Wednesdays. 6 30-9:00 p m Studio tee $5 00 ment. All of the newer dormitories Studio lee $6.00 THE MIRROR — have ,iir pressure sprinkler sys- Film Production I: Tuesdays. 6:30-9 00 Drawing I: Tuesdays. 6 30-9 00 Studo Fee p.m. Studio tee: $5.00. tems. In this kind of system, once $6 00 Weaving I: Thursdays, 6309 00 p.m. Studio Watercolor I: Mondays, 6 30-9:00 p.m.. or the sprinklers are activated hun- lee: $2.50. dreds and hundreds of gallons of Thursdays. 9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon. Studio lee: $2 so Stained Glass I: Tuesdays. 6 30-9 00p.m., or Saturdays. 10:00 am-1230 pm Studio is trying to raise extra money wa'ei are blown up from the base- Painting I: Thursdays, 630-9:00pm Studio lee $3.50 m« ni through the pipes by a com- lee $400 for a LARGER yearbook! Stained Glass H: Thursdays. 6 30-9:00 p m pressor and no water actually sits Japanese Wood Block Printing: Wednes- Studio lee: $3 50. days. 630-9:00p.m. Studio lea: $2 50 in a dormant pipe when the system Creative Writing: Tuesdays. 6 30-9:00 p.m. Photography I: Tuesdays. 630-9:00 pm We're offering a chance for dorms, houses, and cliques Is not in use. In the two old dorms Studio lee: $2.50 tn.: water in the system actually sit- Studio lee: $5 00. Quilting:Wednesdays.6:30-9:00pm Studio to put a V* page, '•'?. page, or full page pic in the book. i n pipes all of the time and there i lee: $2 50 ;i greater chance of the i >ipes free; ing and .ius setting off the system Performing Arts Classes for Adults accidentally. This system also has These classes are designed tor adults and high school students They meet once weekly tor 10 the disadvantage of requiring an weeks, and have a tuition tee of $35. Modem Dance, Wednesdays. 6:00-7 30 oily type antifreeze to be mixed Sunrise Shape-Up: Mondays or Thursdays. a: pm. See Don Hill with the water and thus should the 7 30-8 30 a m Ballet I: Tuesdays. 7 45-9 15 p.m. Fundamentals of Dance Technique I: Mon- (Box 311) sprinklers ever go off, the resulting Jau Dance I: Mondays. 930-11 00 am , or damage would be greater. This days. 745-9:15 pm. or Thursdays, 930- for details. 11:00 a.m. Wednesdays. 7:45-9:15 pm happened in Rand last winter as a Modem Dance I: Thursdays. 7:45-9:15 p.m. Jan Dance H: Tuesdays 6.00-7:30 p.m. pipe froze and the anti-freeze that Dance Improvisation: Mondays. 6:00-7:30 sprayed from the cracked pipe p.m. On behail of The Bates Student, al Bates staff, students and faculty receive a 107, discount on stained a carpeL iu«Ons Contact the center for more ^formation or a brochure According to Carpenter, campus residences are all equipped with water fire extinguishers. In the March 7, I960 The Bates Student Page 9 Sports
Volume 108, Number 16 Established 1873 March 7, I960 Basketball Season Ends; It's Time to Look to Next Year by Tim MacNamara son. Lack of dominant rebound- Concerning next year, what will Their season is over, and their ing strength hurt Bates on the be the keys? The biggest factor record was 10-13. But there were boards by almost flve per game. (no pun intended) will be Rob both positive and negative as- This was a very young team, as Dodson. If Dodson can gain some pects of this season. well as a short one, and this year weight and perhaps some sum- On the positive side, we saw served in the juniors and sopho- mer experience, he could be a the emergence of Fred Criniti as mores gaining a great deal of very dominant force in this the leading scorer (12.4ppg) and game experience. league. A second factor will be the leader in assists (4.3pg), a the continued improvement of very strange combination. Mike What were the highlights of the the man who had to be the most Ginsberg pulled down 208 re- season? Certainly, Mike underrated player on the team bounds, at a 9.0pg clip (25.9% of Ginsberg's 34 point, 16 rebound this year, Scott Hyde. Scott must the whole team), while scoring performance in the team's final not only continue his fine work 12.3 points per game and placing home game against S.M.U. has to on the boards, but also find the second behind John Kirby (.814) be among the tops. There was capacity to move outside a little in free throw percentage (.767). that two-week period where, in more and be willing to put up the The sophomores on the team five games, Fred Criniti led the jumper, especially with Dodson showed a great deal of promise, team in scoring in each game and underneath. The third necessity especially Criniti and Kirby at led them in assists in four of will be the emergence of a true the guards, and Scott Hyde and those five games. And the way leader on the court Bud Schultz Rob Dodson at the forwards. that Rob Dodson came on in the will be the only returning senior, The problems this season were last few games of the season but with the corps of juniors that the same ones that everyone helped people have a little more are returning, a true leader will Mike Ginsberg picked out at the start of the sea- hope for next year. hopefully be found. Buddy Schultz Women's Track Ends Best Record Season by Ethan Whitaker team meet. Additionally, eight and 50 yard dash) also set re- only Captain Deanna Henderson The loss of Cosby, who finished The Bates Women's Track individuals qualified to take part cords. and Cosby. This years key events, second in the New England Team finished the season last in the EAIAW Championship. Team coach Carolyn Court says the Long Jump and High Jump, Championship 400 meter will Saturday with a clean sweep of that the team is still very young event which the Bobcats have hurt the Team severely, but victories over University of New The team also broke twelve and should improve in the com- always excelled, should continue hopefully incoming Freshmen Hampshire and University of new school records and estab- ing years. The women are losing to be the team's strong points. will Jill the void. Maine. This propelled the team lished four new ones in the to its best record in its three year course of the season-. Leading the history, a commendable 11-2 re- way were Senior Renata Cosby Ski Teams Jump at Olympic Site cord, the best of any Bates winter and Junior Kathy Leonard. Cosby sport team. The women added now holds four individual re- by Tim McNamara the Women sixth. The various would seem that it would be the CBB Conference Champion- cords: 220 yard dash, 440 yard Sports editor events were held at different lo- quite a thrill to be able to jump ship and the Maine State Champ- dash, 400 meters, 880 yard dash Last weekend, the Men's and cations in the Northeast: the from the same place that only a ionship to its accomplishments. and five relays. In addition, Women's Ski Teams participated Cross Country team traveled to few weeks before had held so In addition the Bobcats finished Karen Holler (the High Jump and in the Division 1 Eastern Champ- Middlebury, the Alpine team many millions of people in sus- second in the Holy Cross invita- Long Jump), Jennifer Kettle (60 ionships. Eleven teams competed went to Stowe, Vt, and the Jum- pense and anticipation. The tional losing only to the Univer- yard hurdles and Pentathalon) in the championships, the Bates pers were lucky enough to travel Bates jumpers must have felt sity of Connecticut in the ten and Tricia Perham (60 yard dash men finishing eighth overall, and to and compete at the site of that very good about their finishes, beautiful, seven ty meter, 6.5 the top three being Zane Rod- million dollar Olympic skli jump riguez (8th). Brian Hughes (15th). in Lake Placid, N. Y. and Dave Robinson (17th). Mac on Sports The University of Vermont won The team was able to tour the overall championship (with- around Lake Placid and check out the help of former Bates star out the various sights that they Spring Training Begins Lisa Terwilliger, who was out had seen on television so re- with a knee injury), but consider- cently. When the effervescent by Tim McNamara you always raced sticks or tooth- ball, hockey, soccer, football, and ing the masssivreduction in prac- Brian Hughes was asked how it SPRING HAS SPRUNG. THE picks in and which rushed down kill - the - guy - with - the - ball. tice time this year due, for the felt to be able to jump at an GRASS IZ RIZ. I WONDER the street underneath that ice at With such veterans coming back most part, to the lack of snow the Olympic site, he responded, "It WHERE THE FLOWERS IZ. I don't the side of the road that you like Peter Helm. Rand Hopkinson. Bates teams did very well. was fun!" What could follow that know about you, but last Tuesday jumped on and broke off'cause you and Dave Scheetz up front, and co- Getting back to the jumping, it quote? afternoon convinced me that thought that you were helping captains Sem Aykenian and Russ spring has arrived, whether it's spring out... Swapp to back them up, this should March 21st or not. Look around, Sorry. Didn't mean to ramble. be the most experienced team to Bates Foils U. Maine and think back to when you were This was supposed to lead to the date. And with the coaching and twelve years old: there exist im- spring sports. conditioning which will surely by by Scott Damon Tom O'Donnell, Matt Garwick. ages of spring that one can never As one gets a little older, spring employed by head coach Web Har- Staff Reporter Marty Silva. Bob Pleaunan, Larry forget... and jumping in puddles means spring training. I saw a little rison and assistant coach Jeff Get- Bates' Fencing Club held a meet Lackey and Doug Couper. and having a big streak of dirt up of the spring training for the Bates tler, this team will probably sur- with competitors from the Univer- Garwick was the most successful your back because there's no fen- baseball team the other day, and it prise a great many morepeople sity of Maine (Farmington branch) of the Bates competitors, with two der on the back of your bike and looks like a different team out than they did last year. on Sunday in Rand gym. Bates' victories in epee and two in sabre. you go through every puddle any- there than in past years. Gone is Next week I will feature an arti- competitors won or scored quite Silva also ahd two victories in way to clean the mud off of your the power and size of the Ryans, cle on all girls' spring sports and a well in several close and exciting sabre as well as one in foil. Kline tires and make them shiny and the Zabels. the Pages, and the feature on the Rugby team, which bouts. won two ep-e matches and Lackey black and you had baseball cards Wentworths; gong also is the possi- looks stronger (and bigger) than Competing for Bates were club won two foil matches. O'Donnell in your spokes, either the ones that bility of the eight or nine run out- ever before. Later. president Ruth Noble, Eric Kline, won one epee bout. Pleatman, you already had one of or ones of bursts of last year. Couper and Noble also turned in some scrub like Don Mossi or Jim But back is a strong pitching commendable performances. Paglieroni, and you always chewed staff, centering around Stu Ames, For the Farmington club Lor- that raunchy piece of gum that Tom Denegre, and Chuck Emerick; raine Wright was highly successful, came with the cards and birds sing- this year's team will also feature a with nine victories in twelve ing and the smell of the first cook- solid defense, featuring such matches. Mike Kane also did well out in the neighborhood and bees people as Jim Bazzano, Chris Bond, for Farmington, having eight vic- and butterflies and flowers and Dan Scully, and Jeff Dupree be- tories in his twelve matches. mosquitoes and hopscotch and hind the plate. Although a home- This was the third intercol- jumpropeand kick-the-canand red run hitting club is an exciting one, I legiate fencing meet ever held in rover (ally - ally - in - come - free!) think that this year's team, which Maine. The first was at Bates two and clothes on the clothesline and will have to bunt and steal bases years ago with the Farmington the grass which has been covered and chip away at other teams, will team, and the second was held for so many months and walking be even more exciting to watch. February 9th at Bates with Colby through it. soaking your sneakers There will be a demand for a know- and the Orono branch of the Uni- and your socks and having your ledge of the basics, and capitaliz- versity of Maine participating in mother yell at you for that and for ing on the other team's mistakes the three-way competition in the mud—the mud that helped you will be the rule. There will surely which the Bates team did laudably make mudballs to throw and mud- be a need for more teamwork than well. pies to eat (did anyone ever really in past years, and this could defi- try one - YES!) and mud, dried and nitely lead to an improvement of caked on your shoes and knees and their 11-9 record of the '79 season. A meet is planned for this hands and mud which, when com- Let's move on to lacrosse. Have weekend to be held in Farmington. On March 23rd the Bates Fencing bined with a little remaining snow any of you ever seen a lacrosse and some rocks and some treebark game? It is a game typically refer- Club will host another meet They hope both meets will be as well at- and a few sticks, made the best dam red to as "the fastest game on foot," Bates fencer for that steady flow of water that and it involves aspects of basket- tended as the last two at Bates. '«
• Page 10 The Bates Student March 7,198 Races Close in Intramural Basketball League by Dave Trail by a 44-39 score. It also beat Adams Here are the standings as of March Adams 2 Rand At the halfway point of the sea- 1 26-21. Chase remains on top but 3rd: Roger Bill Milliken son in the Men's Intramural Bas- has to share it with Herribk-Off A League Page Off Campus ketball Program, all three leagues Campus, which crushed Stillman W L Smith No. Hacker have really close pennant races. In 52-34 and throttled Smith South Chase-Webb Smith So. JB A League five teams have winning 82-29. Adams 3 split a pair of games, Milliken Adams 5 Page records and are in a battle for the beating Adams 2 and losing to Wood-Rand Adams 1 2 6 four playoff spots. Chase-Webb still Stillman. Roger Bill won its third JB Page-Turner 2 6 holds the top position despite its and fourth in a row, 32-28 over RB-Hedge Adams 4 1 7 54-44 loss to Roger Bill-Hedge. Adams 1 and 46-38 over Page- M-C-0 SportsDates B Lower Wood-Rand and Milliken are tied Turner. Faculty Sports Dates W L for second place. Wood-Rangd In B Lower, Adams 1 handed Adams March 7 — Men's Track mee dumped JB 47-39, while Milliken Smith Middle its first loss, 22-21, JB-Herric 0 10 0 Adams 2 7 1 6 1 IC4A, 3 pm, Princeton. slipped by JB also, 5045. Roger enabling Adams 2 to move into first Adams 1 March 7-8— Women's Basketba Bill-Hedge moved ahead of JB into place. Smith Middle had earlier B Upper Smith Mid. 6 1 0 Tournament, Colby; Men's skiing fourth place thanks to its win over pummeled JB 52-14. Adams 2 Rand-Off 5 1 1 NCAA at University of Vermont Chase-Webb. stayed in place by beating both Off Chase In B League Upper, virtually Campus and Hacker. Rand-Off won Herrick-Off every team still has a crack at one the battle for fourth place, 31-29 Adams 3 of the six playoff spots The fron- over Rand. Rand came back Pierce trunners include Chase, which though to edge Page 25-21. Stillman Sohnge's went ot 60 thanks to a 71-28 annihi- lation of Page. Adams 3 and T.I. 782-1911 JEWEIEU Herrick-Off are tied for second. <&«»,&, *M* Hair Techniques Adams 3 edged Page-Turner 31-26 413 Main St., Lewiston and Herrick-Off whipped Adams 2 Men's - Women's - Children's Haircuts 37-26. Stillman moved into a tie for Toupees - Hair Styling fourth by beating Adams 5 28-23, 782-1965 while Pierce was splitting its game. 133 LISBON ST IEWISTON. MAINE Wholesale & Retail Pierce crushed Smith South 43-26, but was upended by Adams 2 27-24. In B League Lower, five teams continue to dominate the league. Undefeated Smith Middle won again, 34-16 over Milliken. Adams 1 won an offensive battle, 42-29 over Hacker. Adams 2 won a pair, 23-19 over Rand and by forfeit over Page. Rand-Off whipped Page 20-13 and was held to a 34-34 tie with Milli- ken. Rand stayed in the race by flooring JB 37-ia The Intramural All-Stars were elected just before the February vacation. The team includes lead- ing votegetter Dick Kwiatkowski, Brian Pohli, Dana Eldridge, Ted Kranick and Billy Ventola, with re- serves Alan Carter, Tim McNam- ara, Phil Goldthwait, Jim Merrill and Chris Fox. The All-Stars then lost to the J.V.s 88-78. The team will play a CBB Intramural All Star game in March, to be held at Bow- doin. Apparently the February vaca- tion was good for some of the lower teams in the standings but not for the top ones. The last two unde- feated teams went down to defeat this past week, causing the stand- i ngs to become even more bunched up. Chase-Webb shook off its first half finale loss to Roger Bill-Hedge by whipping the faculty 63-40 and by nipping JB-Herrick 55-53. Milli- ken moved into sole possession of second place by dumping JB- Herrick 61-46 and more impor- tantly by beating Wood-Rand 56-51. JB moved back into the top four with a pair of victories, 4341 over M-C-O and 84-63 over Adams. In B Upper, Pierce knocked Chase from the undefeated ranks
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March 7, I960 The Bates Student Page 11 Arts and Entertainment Volume 108, Number 16 Established 1873 Maw*7, i960 Robinson Players Re-form The Bales independent theater the budget to be presented to the that department and hope to have tion of a theatrical nature. them, as a private, profit-making group, the Robinson Players, is re- RA. department chairman Martin An The Robinson Players are the group, from the free use of the forming after an absence of two D.W. Mortimer, technical direc- drucki as their advisor. All mem- oldest student-run organization on school's facilities. The group now years. The group held its first gen- tor in the Theater department, bers of the Bates community are campus. Formerly they had pro- plans to ask the Representative eral organizational meeting commented that the early Feb- members of the Robinson Players. vided their own funds, which fi- Assembly for funds, in part to avoid Thursday, February 28th. ruary time slot, this year reserved The group is open to any produc- nally caused the school to exclude this difficulty. At the well-attended meeting for La Ronde, will probably be set group chairman Nancy McSharry aside for Robinson Players pro- spoke on the general aims, prop- ductions in the nature. Elections of Indian Land Claims Lawyer Feels osed constitution and budget of the the board of directors were tenta- organization. Some members of the tively scheduled to be held annu- Settlement Is Near audience questioned the size of the ally after this production. by Scott Elliott Time was running out and accord- budget and the board of directors, The Robinson Players strongly Staff Reporter ing to Tureen, "they were getting which also includes Richard Wood, emphasize that they are in no way On February 4 in Chase Lounge. the run-around in Washington." He treasurer Neil Holmes and secret- connected with the theater de- Indian land claims lawyer Tom Tu- went back to Washington and ary Scott Damon, agreed to re- partment, although they plan to reen discussed the current land found out that the issue was being evaluate and increase the size of work closely with the members of claims settlement now going on in "stonewalled" in an attempt to Maine. have the issue go past the statute of ArtsDates Tureen stressed iniUally that the limitations where the whole issue problem with the land claims set- would have become an academic LPL Plus APL is sponsoring a LPL Plus APL is showing the film tlement was being taken from only concert by the Concord String Autumn Sonata on Sunday. March issue. He then brought a lawsuit to the legal standpoint. This set the the Secretary of the Interior and Quartet on Thursday, March 20, at 8 30, at the Twin Cinema, Promenade tone for the remainder of the p.m. at the United Baptist Church, Mall in Lewiston. The film is di- the Attorney General so that they speech in which he gave a history would have to sue Maine for the 250 Main Street, Lewiston. The rected by Ingmar Bergman and of the case to date. quartet will play all Beethoven stars Liv Ullman and Ingrid Indians. This failed though, as a The problem stems from a law exists whereby the government music. Admission is free. Bergman. The film will begin at period when we were fighting the On Friday, March 28. LPL Plus '1:15 p.m. Rating is PG. Admission is does not have to sue anyone be- English in Maine and the Tom Tureen cause of "discretion of prosecu- APL is sponsoring a violin recital S1.50. Penobscot and Passamaquoddy by Sung-Ju-Lee, a finalist in the tion." At this point he got a Maine Indian tribes helped us in the and Transaction Act — which judge to order the suit under the 1978 International Violin Competi- March 9 — Arts Society Bus to struggle. According to Tureen, if it states that it is illegal to have any tion, at 8 p.m. The performance will Boston. 8 am. pretense that it was for the good of were not for themtwo-thirds of land transactions without the per- his jurisdiction. This was the first be at the United Baptist Church, March 13-16 — Othello. Schaeffer Maine would be Canada now. It mission of the U.S. government 250 Main Street, in Lewiston. Ad- Theatre. Thursday-Friday, 8 pm, time in U.S. legal history that this turned out that the U.S. won and There was no statute of limita- happened. mission is free. Sunday, 2 pm. George Washington promised that tions regarding this matter and in the tribes would be taken care of. 1966 Congress imposed a six-year The issue was pretty quiet in Othello Begins Thursday This is the root of the problem and limit in which all claims must be Maine at this point and not too Othello, the Moor of Venice will be roles are Roger Koamni, Peter the basis for the current legal bat- filed. This gave Tureen and the In- many people knew what was hap- presented at Bates March 13th- Johnson. Meg Emley and Nancie tle. dians until 1972 to bring a case to pening in the case. Governor 16th. Students are advised to get Sando. Othello will be directed by Most of the land that was taken court for the Maine unbes. Longley made it a public issue in tickets early, as they are expected Paul Kuritz and this presentation was taken illegally because of the Until this time the Penobscots order to "create a need for his to sell extremely well. In the major was designed by Bill Conner. Federal Indian Nonlntercourse and Passamaquoddys were not leadership." The press started tak- even recognized by the Bureau of ing notice and it became an issue in Indian Affairs. Tureen went about Maine. From that point, a settle- Young Group Shows Great Potential trying to get the U.S. government to ment is now near with all of the sue the state of Maine for the land. large landowners. Sometimes you just need an album like this: simple and fun. No gimmicks and nothing so The Music Beat dense and mind-perplexing that it takes hours of repeated listen- The Specials Release ings to understand. Just one lis- tening of Freewheelin' and the message will come through: plain Album enthusiastic rock and roll from a Earlier this year The Specials Specials have renewed interest bunch of guys who love to make released their first album (more in such artists as Roland Alfonso it on that in the future). The release and Prince Buster. So The Spe- of this record has brought them cials are actually aiding these out of the cult circles and into early artists. It has been a long wait for this the view of the public. For those album. The group has become of you that are not familiar with If we are not looking at a rip- very popular around the country The Specials. I shall examine off, then are we looking at a revi- due to its numerous appearances who they are and try to deter- val? In a way. yes. The Specials at high schools and colleges and mine whether they are a rip-off. a have indeed taken a music form fans were constantly besieging revival, or a revolution. that many had believed to be their agency with requests for an The Specials are made up of dead and revitalized it. In thai album. Originally scheduled for a seven men (five white and two aspect they are a revival, but Halloween release, it was finally Freewheelin' black) from Coventry. England. there is more to The Specials' turned out about three weeks Their music is a sort of ska (early music than normal ska. The Spe- ago. It will not disappoint. keyboard-guitar mix that softens Kabish. The side ends with I he reggae) revival. It is modernized cials have blended ska with the Freewheelin is an album loaded the "edge" a little. •v jnchy Dixie Lady. complete with a rock-steady beat current "rock" scene, not only re- with high-spirited rock and roll. and is known for its dancability. garding the musical aspects of The question has been raised their works but also the lyrics, The second side was recorder This debut album by the as to whether they are a rip-off. a which deal with subjects of im- The first side contains six live at Chicagofest. a Windy City hardworking group from Chicago revival, or a revolution. Those portance today. It is in this way studio tracks. Highlights include music festival. The five tunes is a pleasant success. Although it that claim The Specials are a that they are a revolution. By Telephone, a catchy rocker written here are energetic and enjoyable, does contain some of the usual rip-off argue that these young molding their music with the by producer Thorn Bishop, and footstomping rockers. Freewheelin' flaws of a first effort, it shows punks have just picked up on times they are making their own Take Me Higher, a sweet ballad really hits stride on this side. It plenty of potential. This band has something that ska's originators contribution to pop's current ex- written by keyboardist Ed Ram- begins with Fool For A Pretty played to over 500,000 people in have worked very hard to de- periments. mer. My favorite tune is also Face, written by guitarist Dave the last four years and this work velop, and deprived the early In summation, I feel that The here, an inspired version of the Kury and features some neat will surely please their following. pioneers of their due success. I Specials are not a rip-off but a old Turtles hit You Baby. The guitar riffs by Mr. Kury. Also fea- If you need a dose of fun rock can see a certain amount of val- combination of a revival and a production on this studio side of tured is the semi-autobiographic and roll, Freewheelin' is the idity in this thought but is is also revolution. This is a music who's the album is generally good and Wheelin' and Dealiri written by Ed album for you. true that by modernizing ska and time has come. the only flaw is an uneven Kammer and reed player Kevin — Richard R. Regan bringing it to the public. The — Dave Cooke Music Pink Floyd Back Strong The Wall, released by Pink Floyd Floyd progression evident since work of rock poetry, is a master- vision programs, among them crying guitar and closing with the last December, re-establishes the their first albums came out in the piece of aural sensaUon. Backing Gomer Pyle, USMC. Also, there is vocil resumed, now with a strong group's position at the forefront of late 1960s, it is strong enough to be vocals by Bruce Johnston, some- what could be characterized as a i.is'rumental backing. Another the progressive rock movement. evaluated as an individual work. times of The Beach Boys, and Toni (forgive me purists, but it does li'-o k in the Wall, part 2 also has a Stunning aural sensations com- Instrumentally, Pink Floyd Tennille, among others, comple- seem obvious) disco influence in strong guitar solo as does Comfort- bine with easily accessible lyrical shows why they are so highly re- ment the group's vocals. And who Run Like Hell on the last side. ably Numb. ideas to make this one of the finest garded among the progressive roc- besides Pink Floyd would use a Mother, the closing sound on the Lyrically the album presents a concept albums ever recorded. kers. The album is tight. Not a note cockney children's chorus? first side, gives perhaps the finest central persona who withdraws The record shows Roger Waters is wasted and the instrumemals Other notable auditory effects example of the familiar Pink Floyd into himself, inside his wall, at his lyrical best, albeit not at his could carry the record although include telephones, sounds technique of beginning a song as a through the course of the record most abstruse. While The Wall can they do not need to. suggestive both of the building and vocal with little instrumental back- until, in The Trial, the indue, a surely be judged as part of the Pink The Wall, as well as being a fine the tearing down oft wall and tele- ing yielding to David Gilmour's — «-4 ( anti n IMWl —i BWgfe i. Page 12 The Bates Student March 7, 1980 Lfittca Tn The Editor Pink Floyd Peace Corps mother. Even at this late point he (Continued from Page 11) To the Editor: Let it be known that Truk has work in a foreign culture and can has tried to crawl back into the Don't I feel sorry for all you been an unusually difficult PC as- prove it with what they've been in- worm, cries out "Tear down the womb, singing "I wanna go home. people up there in Vacationland signment. The early termination volved in in the past. wall."' The persona has been emo- Take off this uniform and leave the U.S.A. You're probably covered (ET.) rate has always been over Too many of my fellow trainees tionally battered while still young show." Gilmour may also be iden- with two feet of snow and with the 50% in any given year since PC didn't take training seriously and by an overprotective mother and tifying with the persona to an ex- temperature falling to 0 it must be arrived here in 1967. Worldwide thought that they were going to repressive schoolmasters. Later he tent here, perhaps discussing de- cold outside. As for me, I'm having PC ET. rate averages about 15%. have a vacation here in paradise. 1 is devastated by the 1 oss of his love, fensive trappings of a "show" for a to contend with 80 weather every This brings up another point Hence they were unprepared for Vera, by his encounter with a shy artist. day and mosquitoes every night. about the Peace Corps. The PC the reality of the situation. Al- "dirty woman," and perhaps by Which is the most desirable place has been around for so long now though it has turned out to be brain damage. Yet the character is unable to to be at this time? I'll let you decide that it is an institution in many les- somewhat of a paradise for me. for The worm's role in this drama is withdraw again. "The bleeding for yourself. Frankly, I miss the ser developed countries. Wherever 13 of my original group of 24 it was too large to be ignored. When Gil- hearts and artists" bring him into snow sometimes but not the cold. you might end up in the PC there an unpleasant experience. mour sings "and the worms ate into light although "some stagger and Where am I and what am I doing has probably been a volunteer My experience at Bate^ was an his brain" in Hey You, the charac- fall" in the effort. It is these same here? I'm on the Truk Islands in the there in the vicinity before you. excellent preparation for what I ter has just tried in vain to "come "bleeding hearts and artists" who middle of the Pacific Ocean in a Depending on how well he did his am into now (believe it or not!!). home," to return to the womb. The defended him earlier, "Let him get rather large geographical area cal- job you'll have some good or bad Many of my college texts I have interpretive question here is away with murder," in the words of led Micronesia. You won't find expectations to live up to. That's with me and consult daily (i.e., whether the worms are symbolic of the schoolmaster. them on our world map outside alright though. When they give me Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful; creeping insanity or of a slow be- Commons so don't bother to look the line, "That's just the way you Levy, Modernization: Latecomers ginning of the persona's return to The hero of The Wall, with the too hard. I'm a Peace Corps volun- Americans are," I simply reply, and Survivors; Fogg and Richter, reality. The former argument may helpof the worms, finally triumphs teer. There still are a couple of us "Well, I'm not just any American." Philosophy Looks to the Future; be supported by the character's as- over his withdrawal and the wall around and I'd like to tell you a If you want to join you should Selected Poems of Robert Frost to sertion later in The Trial that he is falls. The judge, though, places the little about us and our work so that allow at least six months between name a few). Many that I didn't "crazy toys in the attic I am crazy... blame on him, in The Trial, for caus- you might decide to spend two the time you apply and the time you bring I wish I had. But the basic crazy over the rainbow I am crazy." ing the suffering of "your exquisite years of your life helping the less will start your service. The applica- knowledge that I packed away dur- The latter interpretation assumes wife and mother." They are, he fi- fortunate in the world improve tion and medical history forms are ing college is really with me and is that the brain which the worms are nally recognizes, along with the their condition. long and difficult but I don't think helping me to learn more every eating away is in fact the wall itself worms and the bleeding hearts and First, what is it really like? There anyone from Bates should have any day. Isn't that what it is all about? which climaxed its building in the artists, "the ones who really love are difficulties in all areas of your problems getting in if they have a You are studying now not so that previous cut. Goodbye Cruel Worid. you." life and living conditions. The true desire to help people. There is you can say "I've got a college edu- This argument is supported by the With this album Pink Floyd has physical problems are the easiest also a short interview which you'll cation," but rather so that you can fact that it is indeed the worms who returned to the height of Dark Side to prepare for and deal with. How- have to go to Boston to take. After use that knowledge to build upon finally tear down the wall. of the Moon, perhaps the album of ever, over time they can wear on that they'll send you job descrip- and expand the collective know- the 1970s. The Wall will probably It is in The Trial that the three you and sap your strength and tions in various countries until you ledge of the world as a whole. great causes of trauma in the still be on the charts seven years spirit. For me, things like the star- get one that sounds like what you I would really like to hear from character's life reappear — his after release too. chy diet, unsure water supply, in- want. Then you enter a compete- any one of you who have any schoolmaster, his wife and his — Scott Dan. >n tense sun, and humidity all add up tive bid for that particular job. further questions that I could help to make it a pretty unbearable Chances of any one individual ap- you with. Hope this letter has New York Music place sometimes. But when it gets plying to the P.C and getting helped you to dissolve your Ray's that bad I just string up my ham- placed are about one in seven. Manwich Sandwich (what I mock under a shady coconut tree Chances of getting any one particu- wouldn't give for a Roast Beef on a Company Specializes and think to myself, "How bad is it lar job sent to you is about 50-50 Spukie Roll or a 24-Hour Salad really?" depending on your qualifications. Swill Plate). in 'Parts Left Out" It is difficult to prepare for the Previous travel/work experience Sincerely, mental or spiritual problems you overseas and any foreign language Steven Dosh by Peter Cununings fife" record complete with fife. will be confronted with. Even if capability count high in your favor. c/o Peace Corps Staff Reporter MMO also sells "complete" re- you've got a total knowledge of the I think the P.C. wants people who Box 39 As record companies go, Music cords, with no parts left out, so that culture you will be entering into it have an explicit desire to live and Moen, Truk, T.T. 96942 Minus One is a unique phenome- the listener can hear what he's is almost impossible to foresee non. Music Minus One's main em- supposed to be playing. Some of how the different aspects of cul- Thanks phasis is on records with "parts left these "complete" records are in- ture will affect interpersonal di- To the Editor: It was a thrill for the team to get a out." Records are recorded with teresting even from a non- mensions relevant to cross- At this time I would like to take a chance to play in a "real" game one one instrument or voice left out, musician's point of view: for in- cultural cooperation. minute to thank all the people who more time. In the ungloriful world and sheet music is enclosed with stance, MMO has a series of con- At the present time over half of made Sunday night's game bet- of intramurals, a little glory here the record. YOU then play along temporary "big-band"-type jazz en- the P.C.V.s in service are working ween the J.V.s and the Intramural and there is a bonus. Thanks once with or sing with the record. sembles, which are very hard to in urban situations. The trend has All-Stars a reality. First, coach Jeff again. MMO offers a large variety of re- find on any label. been back to more "generalist" Gettler for giving the invitation to cordings with parts left out. Rock type jobs rather than the play, especially before a varsity Sincerely, bands, classical music (instrumen- A limited selection of Music "specialist" technical jobs as were game. To Bob Hatch and George Dave Trull tal and voice) of all sorts, and jazz Minus One records is sold in some prevalent under the Nixon ad- Wigton for their cooperation and Director of Men's Intramurals bands are all available with vari- record stores. A complete catalog ministration. I am a government for getting the team Bates un- for the All-Stars. Dick Kwiat- ous missing parts. MMO offers is available from: Music Minus advisor involved with community iforms. To Frank Levesque, Bud kowski, Brian Pohli, Dana El- many fascinating special records, One, 423 West 55 Street, New York, development. My main respon- Keenan and Scott Hoyt for their dridge, Bill Ventola, Ted Kranick, such as "how to play the har- N.Y. 10019. MMO also maintains a sibilities are concerned with the help in the equipment room. And Chris Fox, Jim Merrill, Alan Car- monica" record complete with record store at that address, if you local magistrate, his municipal ter, Tim McNamara, Phil 1 to James Reese for his assistance ''-harmonica, and a "how to play the want to go look for yourself. council, and the police force. I walk at the scorers' table. Goldthwait • —— a fine line in trying to keep in line : i •>■. rtorti ' working with a charity organiza- Solar Heaters Connected .,i|... .,., by Scott EUW and other paraphernalia. tion, helping the medical assistant, by Bob Muldoon semester 2,767 gallons were The next two weeks of this col- and. in general, just making the : There are a few things to listen —The long-awaited and much saved, compared to the three- ' umri Will he devoted to speakers. for specifically. Choose a record community more aware of what is anticipated energy contest has year average. The price of No. 2 Next week I will deal with specific happening in their country and the finally begun. The contest is oil was 72 cents, so savings brands and price ranges, but until that is fairly detailed, (not Van Halen or Ted Nugent Live, even if world surrounding them. I do all of based on electricity savings for equalled $1,984. then I hope to pass along some ad- it is your favorite.) Once this is this on a island with an area of less the months of February and Vice on shopping for speakers. done, piay the record and listen for than one square mile and a total March. The dorm or house hav- — Finally, the college used ' i' It has been said a million times, things separately and then all to- adult population of 189! ing the greatest savings based 36,750 gallons over Christmas but the most important thing when gether. If you can really pick out on its average electricity usage vacation (December 16-31). The ,.listening.for speakers is to trust the symbols, or acoustic guitar Fun during this period in years past average for this period was , vour ears. Never mind if it is or is picks, without having them be To the Editor: will be the winner. about 42.000. The school saved not a name brand that you have overbearing, or "colored,' that is We are presently preparing a The prize will be a check in $3294. "'heard'of.■ There are hundreds of usually a sign of good high fre- book which concerns a humorous the amount of 40% of the savings small speaker companies that quency sound. The vocals are im- aspect of college life. While it to be given to the dorm for any — The solar water heater in .: make some amazing sounding portant in determining mid range, would be inadvisable for us to dis- purposes it desires. Chase Hall was connected on speakers'. also electric guitars should be close the exact nature of the book Second place is a check for Tuesday, January 29. Its func- When you are in the store, it is carefully listened to if that is what at this time, it is unique in that it 25% of savings, while the bronze tion will be to raise the water eofxl to first listen to the pair that you listen to. The first Boston will consist, in part, of direct input medalist receives 10%. temperature as much as possi- j(pu are thinking: of buying, and album is excellent for all of the from students all over the country. ble before it is oilheated up to then,,testing them against a pair Remember that shutting off above. Its success, therefore, will depend lights can be enlightening and 120 degrees for building use. ' that are more expensive, or reput- Bass response is often the most on our ability to reach large num- turning off electricity if even Hopefully, on good days the oil able for great sound. More on misunderstood item when testing bers of students. (Also, it is our in- heater can be bypassed. Sav- specifics next week. more electrifying. speakers. A lot of people think that tention to credit each contributor ings should be substantial be- In a comparison, test, the store if you can't pick out the bass easily, in the published edition.) — During the first semester cause Chase Hall consumes a the speakers are bad. It may be- will usually have a switching board We would like to know if you 184.450 gallons of No. 6 heating lot of hot water. Ask Brent that compensates for differences there, but not overbearings. Low oil (used to run the power plant) Smith or any other menial response should be felt, not heard. would be willing to print a brief in efficiency, usually the louder .irticle in your paper outlining our were used. The three-year av- Commons laborer. .the speaker sounds, the better it project and thus informing the stu- erage for this period was about — The new gym, if it ever seems. If. the store does not have To submit material to ArtsDaU , dent body of their opportunity to 220.000 gallons. Thus, a savings opens, will have 94 solar panels this type of system a good alterna- (please send information at least one week in advance to the Student ut become an important part of this of approximately 35,142 gallons to heat water. Hopefully, solar tive is to hook up the speakers to a energy won't be considered an Box 309 or call 783-7108. Calendar undertaking. We await your reply was realized. At an average of - • receiver or amplifier of roughly the and remain, _. . 52 cents per gallon, pecuniary anachronism by then. same wattage that you have or plan information for ArtsDates may also Sincerely yours, be left at the Student office at 224 savings equalled $18274. — Did you know that a 100- on getting. This way. what you tw David T. Tobias watt bulb gives 85% more light is close to what you will hear, since Chase Hall. Newspaper office hours P.O. Box 3198 — Campus houses U3e No. 2 are Sunday through Thursday, 1 p.m. than four 25-watt bulbs for the the signal does not go through Vassar College heating oil. During the first same amount of energy? elaborate preamps. equalizers. to 5 p.m. Poughkeepsie, NY 1201 March 7, I960 The Bates Student Page 13 Dangers of Disco Editorials To the Editors: blues, jazz, and most other types of I am writing this letter in re- music — music which involves ta- sponse to the article "Disco lent and thought. The point is that Infringing on Press Freedom Sucks?" written by David Cooke in when we feel like listening to jazz, the February 8 issue of the Bates we listen to a jazz station, and when Recent action and discussion within the would alienate Student reporters also, Student. The only way in which he we feel like listening to rock, we Bates community has centered around set- some of those involved hinted that excep- can denounce us individuals who listen to a rock station. But disco ting limits on press participation in cam- tions to the rule could be arranged for the dislike disco is by referring to us as and New Wave have invaded these pus activities. While much of the bad feel- •in campus press, a double standard. 'stagnant," "insecure mindless rock stations to the point where we geeks," and "assholes." This type of question if we will have any rock ing on the part of one particular group may Both of these incidents are blatant viola- criticism is no better than that stations to listen to, or at least have be justified emotionally, any rational ap- tions of First Amendment rights and in- which he is attempting to criticize a selection. For example, almost proach to the problem supports the rights sults to common sense. Lectures, seminars, in the first place. The evidence he half of WBLM's format now con- of the press. forums, workshops, symposia — all such presents is for the most part false, sists of New Wave "music." and his reasoning is narrow- Finally, I would like to comment The first incident in question occurred events on campus are, by their very nature, minded. on Cooke's premise that if we after a Chapel Board Luncheon Seminar open to the public. To offer a campus the First of all, disco is a very real examined our music we would be provided the site for the unveiling of the chance to hear, for example, some of the threat to "rock n' roll." Unlike forced to swallow our pride "since inside scoop on the Indian Land Claims country music or classical music, most groups today in some way group then called Gay at Bates. Several disco has been the only form of show a disco influence." This is not members of the group, including a/acuity suits and then to turn around and deny music (including that talentless a reason to reconsider our ideals, it member, a Bates employee and three stu- press freedom within such a "public" trash called New Wave) that has is the tragedy of the situation. The dents spoke and answered questions from event is ludicrous. Any person who reads infiltrated the previously un- disco influence in rock bands The Student and any person who peruses touched haven of rock 'n' roll — FM today merely shows the extent to the large audience packed into the Rowe radio. When the minimal amount which this disease has penetrated Room. Seated in that audience, appa- The Sun is eligible to have attended a Bates of good FM rock stations start play- our music. Disco has gone far rently, was a reporter from the Lewiston luncheon seminar or lecture by virtue of ing disco, I for one am not going to enough! Daily Sun. Many of the participants voi- the definition groups which sponsor such stand by and watch its demise. Breaking records is only a way of events impose upon themselves. They Many previously good FM rock sta- conveying a message. It may not be ced anger and surprise the next day when tions have degenerated to the point the best way. but it is a way that will the article appeared in the city paper. exist, they say, to disseminate knowledge of playing mostly disco on an AM attract a significant amount of at- The second instance took place at a Feb- and allow public access to speakers and type format. Does anyone re- tention and show our seriousness ruary 4 lecture by Tom Tureen, a lawyer in information on any topic. Newspapers member WVBF? to the cause. It worked for disco This type of concern generated lovers like David Cooke. In fact, if I the Indian Land Claims suit. Tureen pre- make every attempt to cover what they feel for the future of rock 'n' roll gives ever see him, I'm going to say faced his remarks by asking any reporters is of interest to their readers: such selec many people, including David "disco sucks" to his face. I'd in the large group to identify themselves. tive coverage has little intentional bias. Cooke, the impression that we are thoroughly enjoy watching him get The constituency of a newspaper is the stagnant and apathetic towards all sick. Two—one staff member of The Student other types of music. This could not and one reporter from The Sun — did, and public, and must not be denied access to an be farther from the truth. A vast Sincerely, Tureen publicly asked them to refrain event which they are eligible to attend in majority of us enjoy listening to Michael A. Kicker from taking notes during parts of his lec- the first place. Infringing upon the ture. He also requested that both rep- rights of the press is a step towards deny- Mac Slanted. Inaccurate resentatives of the press find him after the ing access and, consequently, towards To the Editor: overtraining and especially exces- program for what was presumed to be a selective admission to Bates College I wish to express my views on two sive running in the Cage. Serious rationale for the action but was ultimately events. Only if certain segments of the recent "Mac on Sports" columns. I runners don't run when hurt, thus campus or of the community are officially did not write earlier because I turning minor injuries into major a chance for Tureen to make selective thought Joe Bibbo's letter was an ones. It is ridiculous to think run- statements for publication. excluded can press access come even close adequate response to Mac's first ners are afraid to rest when hurt. In the case of the luncheon seminar, to being limited — and that's an ultimate column on January 25th. I feel as Talk of a Slovenski blacklist orfear members immediately attempted to de- that I believeno organization on campus is qualified as anyone to analyze the of crossing Coach Slovenski's path ready to adopt. Faith in the intelligence of situation. I have run for four years has been enormously exaggerated. termine "who told" the Lewiston paper and been seriously injure6twice. I I had pneumonia this fall and I re- what the subject of that week's seminar a campus or of a community must supplant also know how Coach Slovenski — cently injured my hip. The pres- was to be (luncheon seminars had never constant suspicion of press participation who is usually called Coach, as Tim sure to keep running or not take before been covered by off-campus jour- in events; infringing on First Amendment McNamara is often referred to as enough time off is due to a runner's Mac — treats runners of different pride and competitive nature — nalists). Serious discussion shortly there- rights is an action which should never be- abilities. In an effort to illuminate not pressure from Coach after actually sought alternatives which come commonplace in any institution truly the real situation, I hope Mac and Slovenski. If Mac wants details of included barring the press from such dedicated to the free dissemination of in- anyone interested will consider my this or other "true and with no events or asking them to identify them- formation to the public. views. sugarcoating" stories, he is wel- Let's examine the shoe policy at come to contact me. selves before a seminar began. When con- Bates. All competitors receive I have found Mac's columns en- fronted with the fact that such action — Jon Marcus meet shoes, Cross Country letter- tertaining, but the writing is very men receive one pair of free train- slanted and the text either false or ing shoes annually, and almost all very misleading. I think the editor A Call From Arms track men may buy training shoes of sports should better research his As the fighting continues in Afghanis- Let me now address the draft dodgers. As at half price. It is unbelievable that columns. Fortunately, Mac's sar- tan and announces its coming in Yugos- I have said before, being a draft dodger a serious runner would train in castic writing style and his inaccu- shoes that he knows are causing rate stories have had no effect on lavia, so the struggle over registration con- does not make one a pacifist Obviously a serious knee injury (as reported in the excellent morale and success tinues in the United States, becoming a draft dodger (and that term is not used in- the third paragraph of Mac's of the Bates College track team. political football. sultingly) can be a pacifist However, one is January 25th column). To the hawks let me first address myself. I will now discuss injuries. In- Respectfully. not a pacifist if he decides to hide in Sas- juries can usually be attributed to Kenneth J. Hammond '80 It is not un-American, anti-United States katchewan or some non-violent branch of or non-patriotic to oppose the draft. True the service, content to let everyone else die pacifists recognize the value of the United' instead of him. Saying "I won't register" to Accept Criticism States as a great bastion of freedom and of any national media reporter who happens To the Editor: parties have responded nega- peace. They believe in the ideals of the by is similarly not pacifism. Pacifism is I would like to take this time and tively? In all fairness, "Mac on space to make a "critique" con- Sports" should have accepted re- Constitution but recognize that this does service, it is love of one's fellow man, it is a cerning something that has been sponses and defenses against his not mean blindly following the Pentagon, willingness to be killed by him instead of irking me about this newspaper all words just as he gives his harsh industrial barons or selfish politicians. killing him. year. I am referring to one student opinions ... easily. Someone has and his weekly column on sports. given you a chance, Mr. McNamara, Pacifists find it possible to combine the To make pacifism work unity is the key. Starting in September as an irritat- to criticize and discuss sports on pride of the American past with the hope While it seems too simplistic to think that ingly opinionated and sarcastic our campus, with as much bias as of a future of peace. getting everyone to refuse to fight is an column on local sports, this column you wish to express. I wish you Those who thirst for an opportunity to easy solution it is also the only solution. has become a test of wills in recent would give everyone else a chance shoot down a few of those scum Russians issues. Obviously the author, un- to respond to your ideas, rather Does anyone really want to fight? I think able to accept responses (which than letting it develop into a game would do well to remember two points. not Even the despots who push for war when signed by certain individuals of last words between you the au- First, those scum Russians are human be- know that it is wrong. Perhaps their aver- should be accepted as their word), thor, and your audience. Yourview ings. They eat, drink, breathe, love, hate sion to war is dulled by the fact that they felt it necessary to devote another was expressed. The track team re- column to this tedious argument. sponded as they wished. Your de- and die just the same as Americans do. have only to count deaths, not to actually In my opinion, this column is pur- fense was unnecessary and un- And, for the most part, they are not serving pull triggers. Itisuptousto push for peaceful posefully irritating, so as to evoke a sportsmanlike. Accept criticism as voluntarily for the corrupt Moscow gov- solutions to world conflicts. response or at least a reaction from you criticize, Mr. McNamara, and ernment. Second, when someone dies he its readers. Why, therfore, does the we will all be better off. Answers will come hard when one pits a author feel it necessary to defend will seem much less an easy statistic when dream of a peaceful Utopia against a vision his stand after other interested — Jennifer Howe. '80 one sees his fractured skull slowly pour of nuclear apocalypse. But answers can, Photographers To submit material to BatesDutcs, blood onto the sand and hears his mother's will and must be found. It is up to us. We Needed please send information at least one convulsive cries of horror and of loss. hold the key to the future and it is our duty The Bates Student has posi- week in advance to the Student at Surely there are better ways to resolve the to put it into the correct lock. The door was tions open for photographers Box 309 or call 783-7108. Calendar information for BatesDates may also problems created by a handful of dip- marked for us a long time ago. It reads with darkroom skills. Flash pre- be left at the Student office at 224 lomats, technocrats, bureaucrats, politi- simply "Thou shall not kill." ferred but not necessary. Chase Hall. Newspaper office hours Contac the Student office at are Sunday through Thursday, I p.m. cians and others who somehow always 3-7108 or Jon Hall at 2-9085 to 5 p.m. seem to avoid the bullets. — Scott Damon Page 14 The Bates Student March 7, 1980 Letters To Tlie Editor Ex-Prof Expresses Views on Draft by Ethan Whitaker who served as a rifleman in Viet- commonly. Military service should that the volunteers chose that nam, and who returned bitterly not be farmed out to well-paid life, so they should be ready to Those of you who live in the "When the sun came up on the opposed to the use of military force mercenaries. If the Indochina war meet the responsibilities for Hartford, Connecticut area may first day of the 1960s, it shone on the under any circumstances, I look taught us anything, it should have which were trained and paid. It have noticed an editorial in your dull green of Soviet tanks grinding upon the new spirit in America been that responsibility for service also would be comparatively easy Hartford Courant on Thursday dur- through the snow and mud of Af- with deep fear. But I support the must be borne by all, without the to use an all-volunteer force ing vacation the name of whose au- ghanistan. And before the end of resumption of the draft, and for elaborate deferments, escapes and when its members are so far re- thor sounds vaguely familiar The the first month of the new decade, very complex reasons. delays that marked the hideously moved from the experience, class author, Eric Bromberger, who res- the president of the United States The first of these is that the vol- unequal provision of manpower and race of Middle America. igned from the English Depart- announced his intention to resume unteer army has been a clear fai- during that war. It was not until Middle ment last year, wrote an editorial registration for a potential draft lure. It has attracted neither the I have a deeper reason for sup- America realized that the war for the Los Angeles Times which was and drew thunderous applause numbers nor the quality that the porting the return to the draft and would be fought not by faceless syndicated across the country. from Congress. Both of those military of the 1980s apparently it is much more complex. I look at volunteers but by its own sons Bromberger was drafted in 1968 events would have been unthinka- will require. It's not just a matter «,!' the prospect of the 1980s and the that opposition to the war began when a graduate student at the ble only a few years ago. drug or discipline problems that nation's new eagerness to carry n to stiffen and take on real sub- University of California. He served have plagued the volunteer ser- big stick, and in this context I see stance. with the 1st Cavalry Division in It was not just the announcement vices, though those are serious an all-volunteer force as a moial The real virtue of the drafted Vietnam. He now teaches at San about the draft that signaled the enough. Rather, in an era in which danger. I think that the nation's army is that it reminds us con- Diego State about "two-thirds change of eras. In the applause that military jobs are more complex, greatest need over the next few tinually that military action time" and is working on a book greeted President Carter's decla- and require greater skill and intel- years will be for the restraint of brings fearful responsibilities about Boston. ration, we heard the death rattle of ligence, the Army simply needs our new willingness to show that and fearful costs. It can be ar- The popular onetime Bates pro- the 1970s and of American reluc- brighter and more capable per- America is no longer afraid to gued that I am suggesting holding fessor was prompted to write the tance to use military force in the sonnel. The draft would provide fight. And I fear that we would the sons (and daughters) of editorial because of his deepset troubled and guilty aftermath of the Army with much more talent be quicker to send a volunteer America as involuntary hostages opinion that in the long run the the Indochina war. Suddently, the than it has been given by recruiters army off to fight than an army of to American foreign policy. draft would be beneficial in keep- talk in the land is of greater de- during the last few years. draftees. Perhaps I am. Let the cost of ing America out of war. fense spending, more flexible The second reason for support- The trouble with an all- military action be very high and Here is his opinion, reprinted weapons systems, new foreign ing a draft is one that we should volunteer force is that it is too very personal. For it is. Now, from the Hurtforxi Courant with the bases. never have forgotten: The "com- easy to use. At the back of our more than ever, we need to re- author's permission. As one who was drafted in 1968. mon defense" should be borne minds always lies the thought member that." An Outsider's View iHftfeoNly ONEOKJEClfoN THEYRUM To the Editor: All in all. it was a big, exciting day. 800 is surprisingly large- The burgeoning anti-draft But that's Columbia, where reflecting the widespread concern ToPRAFTiN6 FUNNyr movement here at Bates— major student upheavals arc sup- students feel over this issue—but WOMEN f characterized by the growth in size posed to take place. Where hel- there is a tradition being upheld and increased activity of meted security guards casually every time a rally takes place on WINTA—is shattering some of the stroll the campus at all hours of the College Walk. apathy that has characterized not night and day. Where students Bates has the opposite tradition. only Bates over the lasl decade, but don't content themselves with There are no known Marxists on college campuses throughout the merely chanting and marching, but the faculty here. Over fifty percent country. The leaders and particip- take over buildings to dramatize of the students poll ants of the movement and their points. Where a secret system Republican. The biggest annual counter-movement—if it can be of tunnels winds underneath all controversy occurs in the fall, called that—are at the same time the major buildings so that police when students form pro- and anti- serving to change some of the can storn any point on campus with Sadie Hawkins contingents. Edito- trends and stereotypes that have almost guaranteed success. rials are run in the Student suggest- plagued the so-called "radical" While Bates is obviously a strik- ing that "Bates students seem to be student activity throughout the ingly different place, for a number more out of touch with the world seventies. of reasons, the anti-draft move- than is necessary in an academic Perhaps only an outsider, espe- ment is no less important, and may environment," that "there is no cially one from a school like Col- in fact be more important, more re- need for the ignorance about cur- umbia which is so different from levant, and even more effective in rent events which seems to be Bates yet is also politically active, the long run. For a variety of widespread here." can fully comprehend the impor- reasons, WINTA, smaller by about While a demonstration at tance of the anti-draft movement at % than the corresponding move- Columbia—despite widespread a small school like Bates. ment at Columbia, is probably student apathy throughout the The morning after President going to bring about correspond- country—represents an adherence 95 Carter's State of the Union mes- ingly much greater changes. to tradition, a Bates demonstration sage, in which he urged Congress to A quick check of The Bates Stu- like the one at the Kennedy rally "Censorship pass legislation to resume draft re- dent photo file reveals a solitary and the expected one at the cau- To the Editor. stereotyping of a house, such as gistration and revitalize the Selec- demonstration picture, a washed- cuses Sunday, represents a break On the Monday before vacation, Pierce, should determine whether tive Service system, flyers adorned out snapshot, circa 1970 of a small with tradition. A sharp break. the Representative Assembly a group receives funds or not. the Columbia campus urging stu- group of Bates anti-Vietnam war It is practically impossible to say voted on and passed a proposal Furthermore, I wonder if the pres- dents to attend organizational protestors marching through whether this issue is an exception, made by WINTA. (War Is Not The ident of SUMR had resided in meetings to oppose the draft. The Lewiston, carrying the mandatory and that once the controversy is re- Answer). The group requested $71 some other house would this ques- school's daily newspaper,The Spec- signs and exhibiting the mandat- solved activity will die down, and to reimburse them for expendi- tion of credibility have arisen? tator, ran a strong anti-registration, ory moral outrage. That was ten Bates will return to its strong tradi- tures on items such as magic mar- Suppose the Cheney House anti-draft editorial. By week's end, years ago. tion of political inactivity. Perhaps kers, poster boards, photostating females had asked for $35 for're- several student meetings had Jeff Ashmun and his merry band WINTA will only be effective until and arm bands. I was opposed to freshments. I don't think this would taken place, with demonstrations of protestors don't look mad, and Sunday, when Maine has its day in this money being given to a politi- have warranted snide comments being scheduled, and petitions and don't seem to be morally outraged. the sun on the national political cally partisan group on the about the similarity between the leaflets sent into circulation. They do, however, seem to be sin- scene. grounds that it would set a prece- amount requested and the price of The beginning of the week fol- cerely concerned with this issue However, it seems likely to me. dent. If I had voted in favor of this Bean boots or alligator shirts. lowing Carter's dramatic proposals and with finding ways of making an outsider with a bit of an urban group receiving money. I would be I urge students to become more saw a protest demonstration the their concern known and exposing elitist viewpoint, that the move- unable to rationalize the denial of aware of and involved in how the likes of which is rarely seen these as many people as possible— ment will in fact grow, and perhaps money to other well-organized, R.A. dispenses their money. Talk days, even at an active city campus especially the students of Bates— mark the start of a new tradition at politically biased groups. By this, I with your representative soon and like Columbia. to the current controversy that Bates, a worthwhile trend to meet refer to any group with at least a often to express feelings pertinent A crowd estimated by campus could affect the direction of this the coming of the new decade. minimum of support, no matter to this and other current issues. security and city police at over 800, country in the coming months. Karl son was a visitor to the how radical their views. Sexists, Ask your R.A. member how many both anti- and pro-registration, When Ashmun organized his Bates cu. pus while anti-draft protes- racists, and Nazis fall into this meetings he or she has attended gathered around the Sundial in the first meeting, about 20 people ters plamted their offensive last week. category. The only alternative to a lately. It is impossible for your center of Columbia's campus, the showed up. His second meeting blanket policy of giving any group voice to be heard if your represen- traditional starting point of any drew about 200—phenomenally The very latest in Arts what they want, is for the R.A. to tative is not present at a meeting. large for Bates-but sharp differ- demonstration there. Leaders of coverage. Arts and Enter- choose which groups are deserving The Representative Assembly both sides exhorted the crowd with ences of opinion, attitude, and con- of funds and, by doing so, censor should be just that — representative bullhorns. Chanting and shouting ception turned it into a rather inef- tainment, Every Week in which groups get heard the of the student body. But this is im- matches ensued. Local politicians fective get-together. By the third the Student. loudest. The R.A.. in my opinion, possible without input from ,those and faculty members made meeting, following a successful What's Really Going on took a giant step toward such cen- represented. speeches. Brief fist fights broke demonstration at a campaign ap- out on the Field? Read Mac sorship last Monday when they Sincerely. out. and guards and police patrol- pearance by Ted Kennedy in Au- failed to give the Students Unop- Charles D. Ferguson led the area. burn over the weekend, Ashmun on Sports, Every Week in posed to Military Registration R.A. Rep. Pierce House Even after the main demonstra- found himself, surprisingly the Student. (SUMR) monies they had re- tion ended, a group of about 250— enough, with a hard-core group of The Latest in Sports. quested for the sponsorship of a Signed by: considered small and easily man- 75 concerned, articulate anti-draft rallv to enlighten college and Christopher W. Cluff aged at that point—commenced a people who also happened to be Every Week in the Bates < ominunity residents of the advan- Richard K. Sullivan march down Amsterdam Avenue Bates students. The meeting was Student. tages of registration. Peter Helm to 125th Street in Harlem and up quiet and orderly, with important In-depth Special Reports One major complaint raised Robert I) Ferguson the sidewalks of Broadway, com- points being made, and practical about the SUMR proposal was over Stephen Roberts plete with a police escort. strategy being mapped out. on What You Want to Know. Every Week in the Student. the $35 requested for refresh- Gregory Leeming Stuart J. Frank The demonstration made not The importance of the WINTA ments. Although it was never Steve Somes Kraig M. Haynes only the front page of The Spectator, group should not be underesti- The Issues that Affect brought out into the open, there Terry Contas Jeffrey P. Kuduk but the A.P. and U.P.I, wire ser- mated. Organizing a protest at Col- You. Bates Forum, Every were many whispers among those Timothy D. Hillman vices, and radio and television umbia University in New York City Week in the Student. present about the price of a keg of Brent D. Harwood news broadcasts across the area. is not that hard. Perhaps a group of beer. I find it ludicrous that the Craig S. Lombard March 7,1060 The Bates-Student Page ISuS
Volume 108, Number 16 Established 1873 March 7, 1980 The Randy Reports Definite Definitions by Tad Baker myth. Traditionally, every Winter Around the tum of the twentieth Carnival. Bates students gather to- century, Ambrose Bierce made gether around the bonfire and quite a career by writing his "De- ghost stories and myths. The vil's Dictionary," a satirical and stories range from the unbelieva- somewhat corrosive look at the ble (which usually begin "just last American nation. For example, week I saw the college President Bierce called diplomacy "the pat- on campus... ) to the acceptable. riotic art of lying for one's country" Everyone's favorite is usually the and a dentist as a "a prestidigitator "Legend of the New Athletic Com- who, putting metal in your mouth, plex." Linguists can trace no origin pulls coins out of your pocket." Un- for the story, and they tend to laugh fortunately, Bierce did not live to at the theoretical validity of such a see the 1970s. In 1913, the seventy myth. year old acrid personality d isap- I.R.S. - This stands for the Inter- peared into the Mexican wilder- nal Revenue Service, the taxing ness, vowing he would fight all of agency of the U.S. Government. It is Poncho Villa's army singlehan- the job of this agency to rob from dedly. He was never seen again. If the rich and enslave the poor. Bierce were able to come back to- INFORMAL - Is a description day, I bet he would find all sorts of used for some parties at college. It phrases which were badly in need basically means that this is your 11 of re-defining sort of bash. THAT MAKES 198 GOLD, 199 SILVER ANP 215 E.R.A. - The proposed Equal SEMI-FORMAL - Usually they Rights Emendmentto the constitu- want you to wear attire, not clothes. PR0NZE MBNS FDRTttE SOVIET UNION.' ■ tion. It says that all people should It means that somebody probably be treated equal, and that women got you confused with someone should be treated more than equal. else. Check your invitation. FINAL EXAM - Something you SHORT TERM - Generally con- spend one night memorizing things sidered to be the highlight of sum- Editorials for and the rest of your life trying to mer vacation. forget. These exams are called "fi- nal" because they are usually the W.I.NT.A. - A group of concerned The Olympics? final blow to your grade point av- people at Bates who are against re- erage. gistering for the draft. Sometimes Over vacation I watched much of the XIII to "break up" the schedule of the Olympic HOMEWORK - Something that the initials are mistakenly read as gets done when there is nothing meaning "War Is Not That Awful." Winter Olympic Games. In bars, the televi- Games to be held in Moscow. Carter, our left to do. It is the last recourse of a To disassociate themselves from sions brought the ABC coverage to those President, is calling for a boycott of the bored student. the army as much aspossible, they gathered, radio stations kept listeners con- summer games. NEW ATHLETIC COMPLEX - A prefer to "march" when protesting. stantly informed of Olympic happenings, Political ideologies and economic bat- and people talked about little else. For two tles must be kept from the Olympics. When weeks, the Olympics replaced the presi- Arab terrorists took hostages at the 1972 Peanut Butter Supported dential race, the economy and the weather Olympic Games in Munich, Americans To the Editors: chip ice cream be served less often, as topics of conversation. I think thatwe all were first to claim that politics had no In response to Tad Baker's vici- or that it is in any sense a "weird ous and unwarranted attack on and undesirable flavor." Rather, need the grandeur, ritual, and excitement place in international sports. A boycott of peanut butter ice cream in the we feel that peanut butter ice of the long waited-for Olympic Games to these Summer Games would change a February 1 issue of The Student, we cream (which Mr. Baker failed to break up the monotony of "world and na- healthy and inspiring event into an openly would like to express our chagrin. note in his editorial, was not served tional crisis." The "games" make us feel used political arena, to be manipulated by It is this type of muckraking yellow at Commons, nor available in the journalism that has given the press Den during the first few weeks of good. countries for their own gains. Something the bad image it has today. In this this term) should continue to be But now, as we look towards the summer must be held sacred. editorial, Mr. Baker claims to know served, in addition to chocolate of 1980, and the Games for which we have only one person "who actually chip ice cream, the staple vanilla, waited since 1976, "world crisis" threatens — Tom Vannah likes peanut butter ice cream." We chocolate, strawberry, and other find this proposition dubious, to flavors. We salute the Bates Col- say the least. In an informal survey lege Food Service for their percep- Letters To The Editor conducted in Smith North, 100% of tiveness in this matter, and we those interviewed conveyed their hope that the chocolate chip enthusiastic appreciation for the purists will realize that donations unrivalled quality of peanut butter of peanut butter ice cream will be History and The Draft ice cream. Moreover, the majority gladly accepted at our headquar- To the Editor: military action on Arab soil. As of these same respondents re- (and let the Russians be the in- ters, second floor, Smith North. I'd like to make several com- our State Department so actively ported an intense distaste for ternational bad boys for now), chocolate chip ice cream. How- Sincerely, ments about the article in the solicits invitations from countries and increase discussion of these ever, we are not suggesting, as Mr. Janet H. Morford February 8 paper titled "Bates of the region to provide in- new issues! Baker has with respect to peanut and Concerned Faculty: Where Were They in the creased military aid, we find our- butter ice cream, that chocolate Smith Northerners 60s?" because I think that it's selves once again dealing with As for the new draft, I would very important to examine the unstable and totalitarian regimes feel better about it had it been current attempt to reinstitute a such as those in Pakistan and proposed right after an election military draft in the light of this Saudi Arabia. Having helped than right before one. For now, it recent national history. The create one Shah already, we seems to be more politically The Bates Student reasons cited for considering the should think twice about repeat- motivated than anything else, as war in Vietnam wrong — that it ing such a blunder. Mr. Carter tries to cut off his Established 1873 was militarily unwinnable. that it right-wing challengers at the was doing great damage to our It is quite'true that the Soviet pass. Unless the situation cha economy and society, that In- invasion of Afghanistan was nasty ges, I would advise students to Tom Vannah Jon Marcus dochina was of little strategic and surprising, but the action is resist registration as one way of ftfitor-m-CW Assistant Editor importance geographically — hardly "the most dangerous Sports Editor Tim McNamara trying to force a re-examination were merely the pragmatic threat to world peace since of our foreign policy. We should Arts Editor Richard Regan World War II." One would have Photography Editor Jon Hall reasons for opposing it. Of trans- be encouraging discussion at cendent importance, of course, were thought that our years of intense both the national and interna- Contributing Editor Tad Baker meddling in Vietnam and Cam- Business the moral reasons for defying tional levels, to keep what is es- Business Manager John Elsesser military and conscription policies bodia might at least vie for that sentially a concern of the inter- Circulation Manager Kevin Gillis at the time I think that very simi- honor. And the sudden war fever national community from becom- Advertising Manager Jeffery Goodsich lar moral and pragmatic reasons that is infecting the country and ing another face-off between the can be found to oppose any new the present crop of presidential Yanks and the Russkies. Staff draft or any military action in the candidates is a similar overreac- Staff Reporters: Chris Cannon, Peter Cummings, Scott Damon, Scott Persian Gulf region. tion. In one fell swoop are we Two minor points about the ar- Elliott, Tim McNamara, Bob Muldoon, Mitch Overbye, Richard Regan. asked to dump the SALT treaty, ticle: the vulgar expression attri- Diana Silver, Jon Skillings, Melanie Spencer, Mary Terry, Bill Tyler, Proponents of a new draft re-establish a draft, unleash the buted to me (and used a section Ethan Whitaker. John Bevilacqua, David Cooke. speak of "defending our in- CIA, and "support our President" heading) is not something I said Layout Assistant: Anne Phillips terests" in the Persian Gulf, yet by stilling debate and re-electing to your reporter when he inter- Photoaraphers: Jon Hall, Jennifer Hyde, Ken Oh, Kurt Roegner there is nothing of ours there to him. A more appropriate re- viewed me, and my name is spel- Art Coordinator: Mary Dean defend. We have no sovereign sponse would be to ratify SALT led correctly here. right to the oil that lies beneath (before we shoot ourselves in the Yours for peace. The views and Opinions expressed in the articles printed in this the Arab nations, and certainly foot with nuclear weapons), keep William Matthews paper are not necessarily concurrent with those of the editors. no unilateral right to take any the CIAhome for awhile longer Music Dept. Page 16 The Bates Student March 7, I960 Faculty, Students Select R.C.'s by Mary Terry Reynolds is the committee chair- beginning of the year." Carignan culty and administratros) were requires people who are willing Staff Reporter person, although Dean Carignan replied in reference to the deci- disappointed inthat some com- to work and give a great amount The various faculty and student frequently serves as acting chair- sions made. mittees had very few candidates." of time to see that things are committees which deal with is- person. In addition the Represen- "This year we (the college fa- stated Carignan. The committees done. sues on campus have "virtually tative Assembly president is in- all say" according to the Dean of cluded as* a member. the College, James W. Carignan. People who are interest in J.Y.A.Tuition Increasing The college frequently favors serving as committee members committee decisions. Committee are selected in two ways. Faculty by John Bevilacqua Israel and Mexico. expected to have taken at least two which a student needn't know the recommendations carry a great members are directly appointed Staff Reporter To participate in J.Y.A. one must language of the country, but he or deal of weight and are consi- to serve on committees Students have at least a 3.0 cum. in one's dered to be part of college pro- are nominated to be a member of The Bates Junior Year Abroad major and at least a 2.75 overall. she is expected to learn it there. cedure. a committee by the use of their program, intended to allow stu- Application, recommendations There are more than thirty-five applications. They are then in- dents the chance to study for a year and biographical information are The cost of study at most foreign committees which have input to a terviewed before the decision is at foreign universities of their reviewed by the Off Campus Study universities has traditionally been great many official college deci- made. choice, is one which many students Committee, which consists of Dean lower than study at Bates, but tui- sions. These committees are The Committee on Committees opt for after two years at Bates. of the College James W. Carignan, tion is skyrocketing abroad (as well composed of students and faculty works to set up committees with five faculty members and two stu- as at home), and tuition costs in alike. members who are truely in- Great Britain is the country in dents. Should the applicant be ac- Great Britain will be roughly equal The committee on committees terested in the particular issues which the majority of Bates stu- cepted, programs of study in a par- to those at Bates. oversees all other committees. the committee is dealing with. "It dents study, at universities such as ticular university are set up, and College President. Thomas H. is a demanding process at the Oxford, Nottingham and York. academic credit is given in Fifty-one Bates Juniors are cur- Other "popular" countries are advance. rently enrolled at foreign univer- Spain, France, Germany, Denmark sities, and next year 35 to 40 stu- The Center Street and Sweden. Smaller numbers of Students who wish to study in a dents will participate in the prog- non-English speaking country are ram. 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