Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 10-2-1963 The aB tes Student - volume 90 number 02 - October 2, 1963 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 90 number 02 - October 2, 1963" (1963). The Bates Student. 1436. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1436 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Hates Student Vol. £C, No. 2 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, OCTOBER 2, 1963 By Subscription Ciardi Speaks Friday On Phillips Talks To Activity Heads; 'HowDoesA Poem Mean ?' A recent recipient of the John Holmes chair at Tufts Uni- Explains Formulation Of Policy versity, John Ciardi, one of the foremost American poets, will appear here this Friday at 8:00 p. m. in the Little And Function Of Administration Theatre. Ciardi has taught at Harvard, Approximately sixty student leaders of campus organizations met with President Phil- Rutgers, and now at Tufts. Be- lips last Thursday night, to discuss the administration and formulation of school policy. Deans Healy, Boyce and Randall also spoke to the group which included faculty advisors sides his teaching, he has lec- for the organizations represented. tured all over the country, is — Speaking first, Phillips ex-* Poetry Editor of the Saturday plained that the primary purpose Student organizations arise Review, and has a television Methven Retires From of the meeting "is to enable stu- from the faculty's delegation of discussion show, "Accent." dent leaders to understand the certain responsibilities to the Coram Library Post framework of the college in or- students. The faculty advisor His recent / Met a Man was serves as a representative of the #4 on the New York Times Mildred L. Methven, Assistant der to know to whom they should turn" whenever they faculty to aid an organization to Children's Book List, and Ciardi Librarian at Bates College since need some assistance. be the best possible, within the has been widely published as a 1959, retired in June after more framework of faculty policy. critic, poet, and scholar. Division Of Policy than 40 years of service in li- "Policy making," the president "The faculty advisor is not," A short article about Ciardi's Dean Healy said, "a dictator or brarianship. Miss Methven has said, "is divided between the life and outstanding works ap- censor or there to run your returned to Minnesota, now Board of Trustees and the Fac- pears on page 4 of this week's ulty." The latter has domain business. He is not there to put STUDENT. making her home in St. Paul at over all academic affairs and an official Bates College stamp, Admission to the lecture, 1479 Raymond Avenue. She ex- student life. All else, salaries, whatever that might be, on an organization. which is sponsored by the pects to devote her leisure time faculty members, etc., is decided Bates Concert-Lecture Commit- to further exploration of her by the Trustees. Faculty Advisors "The faculty advisor is exact- tee, is by I.D. card only. John Ciardi widely divergent cultural inter- The president, representing the Board of Trustees, discharges ly what the term implies," Healy ests, some travel, and possibly a certain of his duties to various explained. He is a counselor Office Will Honor Requests For course or two at the University. individuals, who are collectively with a fund of experience to A graduate of the University known as the administration. help the organization when it is Specific Hours In Schedule of Minnesota and of the New Commenting on this group, Phil- in doubt about what to do. In lips emphasized that the char- this position, a faculty advisor The delights of no eight smith — and he flunks every- York State Library School at acteristic feature of Bates is appreciates very much being in- o'clock classes, and no professors body!" Abany, Miss Methven devoted that the administration is decen- formed of the group's plans and of ill repute waned with a new Under the new system, course the early part of her career to tralized. activity. scheduling system introduced lists indicate both the time and One individual has domain last spring. Previously, the days the libraries of Minnesota, serv- Deans Boyce and Randall, the instructor of a class, but over all decisions made in his preceding registration have been ing for many years as Super- respectively Secretary and students have been informed area. Anything which has to do marked by groups of nervous Chairman of the Extra-Curricu- that they may no longer submit visor of Institution Libraries of with alumni work is in the lar Activities Committee, in- students from which such des- a prepared schedule. The sec- the State Division of Public In- charge of Hank Stred. Anything perate comments as "The only formed the group of the role of tioning committee is now in which involves business or finan- way I can avoid an eight o'clock stilutions, as Assistant Librarian this committee. According to complete charge of assigning cial aspects must be approved by Boyce, it has two responsibilities. class is to take 309, but then I of the St. Paul Library, as Li- students to particular classes. the school treasurer. Mr. Ross. It is a policy committee on co- can't block Professor Higgle- However, informed sources state "Each of the school's adminis- ordinating the calendar of that requests for certain pro- trators," Phillips emphasized, events," and a "co-ordinating Debating News fessors will be honored when "has the final say in his areas." board of general policy." All freshmen who are interest- possible. Another loophole for ed in debating should report to those accustomed to daytime Room 300, Pettigrew, this Fri- sleeping and those who fiercely Library Notes 'Our Man In Havana' guard their academic positions is day afternoon at 4:00. At this Periodicals Room shelving ar- "Our Man in Havana" will be time, Prof. Quimby will explain the opportunity to exchange sec- rangements differ. Current per- the Rob Players' first film pres- what debating entails, and what tions with a willing (and seem- iodicals are now placed in one entation of the year, and will be the prospects are for freshman ingly masochistic) classmate. alphabetical sequence on the debators. No previous debating "The exacting work of the shelves and racks, except for shown on Saturday night at 7:00 experience is necessary; and all sectioning committee has been magazines issued by the U. S. and again at 9:00. The price of who are at all interested are greatly facilitated by the new government which appear to- admission is 50 cents, and sea- urged to attend this meeting. method," explains Miss Libbey gether following Z. The general son tickets for all eleven films of the Registrar's Office. Stu- periodical indexes such as the can be bought for $3.00. dents employed by the college Reader's Digest have been re- Calendar and those who have selected sin- "Our Man in Havana" assem- Wednesday, October 2nd shelved alphabetically. gle section courses are scheduled bles an excellent cast headed by Vespers, Chapel, 9:30-10:00 The upstairs reading area of first. The next step is the as- the library will be available as Alec Guinness, Ernie Kovacs, p. m. signment of those who have ex- and Burl Ives in a tale of in- WAA Meeting, Women's Union, last year from 8:00 a.m. until pressed a section preference. 11:00 p. m. on Mondays through trigue on pre-Castro Cuba. 6:30-9:00 p.m. Size of classes and a balanced Mildred Methven Saturdays and from 2:00 p.m. Sells Vacuum Cleaners Thursday, October 3rd schedule for the individual stu- until 11:00 p.m. on Sundays. Guinness plays an Englishman Maine Teachers Convention dent are taken into consideration (through Friday) brarian of the Braille and Sight- The attention of the student who sells vacuum cleaners in in processing the remaining ma- body is directed to fine sched- Havana and is asked to be one Discussion of car registration, jority of students. At a college seeing School at Faribault. Filene Room, 4-5 ules on overdue reserve books, empire's top agent in Cuba. Un- where many conflicting sched- Miss Methven taught at the as printed below and displayed successful in recruiting fellow Friday, October 4th ules must be processed by hand, University of Minnesota, and John Ciardi, "How Does a on the library desk. spies, Guinness decides to in- rather than by computers, the later received a Fubright grant- vent agents and fill out their fic- Poem Mean?", Little Thea- new system saves both time and Overdue Overnight Reserves lectureship in library science at titious reports himself. The tre, 8-10 p. m. tedium. Reserve books returned after the University of Dacca in East 9:10 a. m. — 25 cents per book. imaginary spy ring finally in- Saturday, October 5th Pakistan. She has actively par- Football at Northeastern Beginning at 1:00 p.m. an ad- vents a huge and awesome mili- O.C. Mountain Climb ticipated In the activities of ditional fine thereof will be tary installation in the moun- Cross-Country with Colby here Mediterranean Slides the American Library Associa- charged for each overdue re- tains. Rob Players movie — "Our Colored slides of Jordan, tion and the Minnesota Library serve book.