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Observer, The, 1959-1972 Student Newspapers
Winter 2-2-1968
The Observer Vol. 10, Issue No. 9, 02/12/1968
Gorham State College
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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at USM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Observer, The, 1959-1972 by an authorized administrator of USM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Visiting Hours Liberalized By Karin Thurber th e dorm less susceptible to fire Friday 6-7:30 p.m. hazards and the question of smok Saturday 12:30-2 p.m. The sophomore women of An ing was left up to the women. 6-11:45 p.m. drews Hall have voted on the the freshmen women of Robie Sunday 12-1 p.m. question of smoking and the ex H all voted negatively on the 2-10:15 p.m. tension of men's visiting hours smoking issue. in their dormitory. An extension of permission hours AFTER Smoking in Andrews became for men in Andrews was also Mon.-Thurs. 12 noon-10:15 p.m. legal in the latter part of Novem established by an affirmative vote Friday 12 noon-il:45 p.m. of the women. It might be in ber. This was made possible by Saturday 10 a.m.-11:45 p.m. teresting to compare the previous the lifting of a state ruling where Sunday 10 a.m.-10:15 p.m. by it was not safe to smoke in visiting hours for men with the the two resident halls of Robie new hours. The new visiting hours went and Andrews. However, improve BEFORE into effect at the beginning of ments were made which made Mon.-Thurs. 6-7 :30 p.m. the 1968 spring semester. GSC Gallery Features MSU (D The Gorham State @ Art Show By Eva Bennett
The Gorham State College Art Gallery is offering an exhibit of 60 works of a variety of media by 13 artists of Michigan State University. This exhibit will run Vol. X Gorham, Maine - February 12, 1968 No. 9 through March 29. The artists of these works are all practicing professionals and are on the faculty at the East Lansing institution. Some of these artists include, James Adley, James Fagan, Roger Funk, Jens Plum and many others outstanding in their field. Some of the titles of the works . are, "The Sky Above, The Mud Governor Curtis Visits Below," "Post No Bill," "Mush room and Ant," and "Hammer head Blues." Gorham Campus Feb. 13th According to Professor Sheldon Schoneberg, gallery director, the Governor Kenneth M. Curtis will make his first visit to the Gorham drawing exhibit will include ink State campus on the morning of February 13 since becoming Maine's drawings, coll ages, woodcuts, Chief Executive. The Governor is expected to arrive on campus serigraphs, photographs, and around 11 a.m. that day, accompanied by Commissioner of Finance pencil drawings. and Administration Maurice Williams. The Gorham Gallery is open Plans call for the Governor· to confer with President Kenneth daily and everone is invited to Brooks, to make a brief tour of campus facilities, and to have a see these works. "working luncheon" with college administra tors in the President's Office before departing the campus around 1:30 p.m. The Governor expects to meet college personnel in the Corthell Foyer Fitness Program around noon and students in the Corthell Lounge just prior to that time. Curtis' visit to Gorham State is part of his continuing tour Needs Student of state institutions and facilities. · These nine young ladies comprise the 1967-68 Gorham State Cheer Volunteers. leading Squad. They are, left to right: Sharon Nickerson, Patricia Daley, Stephanie Kneeland, Carole Pomeroy, Jane Estes, Sandra GSC Library Adds A physiGa]_ fitne,s.s_prugram fen - Perron, Diana Kilby; -I:.inda Field, Linda Ashe. (Photo by- Barflett) the mentally retarded was held - in Portland on Februmy 1. This Services For Growtn- program will also be held for The number of volumes added er proportion. There are two ten weeks on Thursdays at the by the Libra1y during the first recent additions in microform Jewish Community Center, Fri semester was in excess of 2,500. which ought to be of great value days and Saturdays at the Lee Popendity At Gorham Nearly all of these were books for research in American history. Recreation Center in Portland. requested by faculty to strengthen The library of Thomas Jefferson It is being co-sponsored by the the collection in areas in which is available on microfiche. These Greater Portland Association for they are teaching. Among the are 3 x 5 cards each one con Retarded Children and the City areas which grew most rapidly taining about 40 pages of print. of Portland Park Recreation De were music scores and French Some 700 reels of the New York partment. Both educable and Ii tera ture. , Times covering the years 1851 trainable retarded children from New music scores include sev through 1917, along with indexes, six years of age and up will be eral more installments · in the have also been added. Although able to participate in the physical coll ected works of J. S. Bach there was trouble with the micro fitness exercises, g~1mes and and a large number of art songs film readers during part of the other recreation. by French and Gem1an com semester, this situation has vastly Thomas Kiley of the p epart posers. The French collection is improved, and there are now three rnent of Parks and Recreation w ill made up of attractive editions microfilm readers and one micro direct the program. Mr. Kiley will of old and modern classics with fiche reader in working order. need volunteers and is asking Villon, Rabelais, Moliere, Voltaire, Students new to the college any interested college students from Hugo, Stendhal, Camus and Sartre this semester will want to obtain the greater Portland area to assist among the authors represented. a copy of the Libra1y Handbook. him in this program. This is an The amount of non-book ma These are available at the cir excellent opportunity to learn terial is increasing in even great- culation desk. more about the program and sign up as a volunteer. For further information, contact Mr. Kiley Dance Master To Present Class at the Department of Parks and Jeff Duncan, choreographer, In the concert field, he has Recreation in Portland. director, and dancer, will teach performed with th e Jose Limon a Master class in technique and Dance Company, the Julliard choreography on Monday, F ebrt1 - D ance Theater and for 12 years a1y 26, at 3:00 p.m. in the Hill was principal dancer in the Anna !campus calendar I Gymnasium at Gorham State Sokolow Company. College, according to Jeanette Several of his summers have been spent as dancer and chore Tues. Governor Curtis ·on Goodwin, Associate Professor 13 - ographer in summer stock tents, Campus. of Women's Physical Education. theaters, and night clubs. In and State Liquor Commission on This appearance of Mr. Duncan around all this have been TV Campus to conduct l.D. pictures. is co-sponsored by West brook appearances, staging for opera W ed. 14 - Gorham hosts Salem Junior College and Gorham State groups, choreographing off-Broad - Basketball College, and will be attended way reviews, and teaching. Thurs. Senate Meeting - 7 :00 by the dance pupils of these 15 - Mr. Duncan, a native Texan, Fri. 16 - Activity Fee Poll. Gor colleges. is currently Executive Director ham a t Quinn - Basketbal l. Duncan's varied background of the D ance Theater W orkshop Movie - "The Cousins." includes dancing in the Broadway musicals "Destry Rides Agains," in New York City, which he Sat. 17 - Gorham at Worcester "Copper and Brass," "Red Roses founded four years ago. - Basketball for Me," and "Plain and Fancy." Sun. 18 - Movie - "The Cousins." Mon. 19 - Music in Maine Con vocation 10:00 PA Club Book Sale Is Success Tues. 20 - Gorham at Boston Serendipity Singers To An excellent example of what Never before attempted at Gor State - Basketball 1 members of an organization, work ham, this venture proved that Thurs. 22- Gorham host to U.M.P. ing together, can do to help them a need existed for a central re - Final Basketball Game of the selves earn money, for club ex ceiving and selling place for used Year. - Senate at 7:00. Highlight Carnival penses was demonstrated Jan. 30 books and that such an operation The Serendipity Singers will comedy and dramatic sketches and 31 by the Public Affairs could be profitable. Over 160 appear in concert February 27, and a visual presentation called Club. Advised by Mr. Schleh, books were received on consign Malnutrition kills 100 children during Gorham's Winter Carnival "Popendity," consisting of film club members Dianne Philpot, ment, and 139 were actually in Colombia every day. At Colom Week. Sponsored by Gamma Rho clips with a live _soundtrack pro Fran Disy, Bill Sims, Ken Whitten, sold for a total value of $460.75 bian centers for undernourished Fraternity, the Singers will per vided by the group. Pete Richards, Jim Carpenter, worth of used books. The Public preschool children, CARE meals form at 8:00 p.m. in Hill Gym Public ticket sale for the con Pat Ayotte and Gloria Porrell Affairs Club, hamstrung until nasiuin. cert will be conducted in greater operated the sale of used text recently from the lack of operating give each child 50% of the daily The Singers' program is called Portland area schools, colleges, books in Russell Hall during funds, was able to realize a com minimum calories and 78% of the "The Serendipity Experience." and business establishments. final registration week. mission of $36. 10, which will be proteins. required for good health. They augment their singing with used for campus functions. Page 2 OBSERVER February 12, 1968 IEditorials I WITH-IT I I By Patrick Ayotte Foreign aid has recently come under Congressional review and has been found wanting. Very little positive results can be shown A Question of Ethics? to justify the colossal expenses that has been borne by American Governor Kenneth M. Curtis, who will be on the Gorham campus taxpayers. Since World War II this country has paid out 128 billion February 13, has withdrawn the monination of Dr. Lincoln T. Fish dollars to help other nations and their people; of this amount 90.3 to the State Board of Education. "Since Dr. Fish is on the Faculty billion dollars has been in outright gifts and 38.1 billion in loans, of Gorham State College, the Executive Council raised the question most at subsidized interest rates. of conflict of interest. The Attornev General's office declared that Congressional concern is about the wisdom of aiding countries when a conflict would exist since as a m'ember of the State Board of Ed enormous problems exist to be solved at home. Urban riots of the ucation, Dr. Fish would have jurisdiction over his own job . . . past year, a developing crisis in transportation, and unemployment Lest Dr. Fish be involved in an embarrassing hassle over a ques "' AND HOW WERE totalling some 3 million persons are some of the extremely vital tion of ethics, the Governor withdrew the nomination." f iNA LS ?" problems requiring prompt and positive action. These problems and A question of ethics!?! Dr. Fish is an eminently capable professional others will need heavy financing by the federal government; Senator in the Education · field. The State Board of Education would be Wayne Morse (Dem, Ore.), in ·a question posed to his colleagues more than fortunate in having the gentleman of Fish's capabilities asks: "Why should the U. S. undertake now to do for foreign coun on the Board. A question of ethics!?! The individuals that .comprise tries needing development what we are not willing or able to do the State Board of Education could not help but benefit from the for American States and cities needing development. Namely, to insight and advice offered by Fish, an individual who, involved Letters increase their federal financing?" with a state college, actively is concerned with many of the problems I I Another contention among congressmen is that arms assistance to the Board confronts, and through experience with these problems, Dear Editor: underdeveloped nations helps to set them at each other's throat. could offer valuable advice. A question of ethics!?! I doubt if any This is just to let eve1yone The Israeli-Arab war of June '67 is the most recent conflict in individual involved in the education field, as Fish is, and appointed know that it's now safe to drop which financial aid from the U. S. was used by both sides to pur to a non-paying job, would try to legislate policies of sole benefit out of those clubs and organiza chase armaments. India and Pakistan represent yet another situation to himself or his respective college in question. tions you joined last semester. in which U. S. arms or U. S. finance was used to purchase militaiy Concerning a conflict of interest, I believe the invaluability of hardware for the Kashmir skirmish of some years back. Senator I That's right! The yearbook pic Fish's services to the Board itself, by far outweighs an occasional tures have already been taken ... Fulbright (Dem. Ark., Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations conflict of interest, and I believe the risk is worth taking. Further But you don't ever remember Committee) states his opinion about a foreign aid bill that has more, will there not be conflicts of viewpoint concerning any of the having your picture taken you arms purchasing as part of the total package in this manner: "I present members of the Board? say. Well that's really too bad have come to the conclusion that the public interest would better A man of Dr. Fish's character deserves a chance to prove that because it seems the schedule was be served by no foreign-aid bill than by the bill which passed the policy making, enacted by members of an institution which the posted and all registered organi House (1967) and which would allow - indeed encourage - con policy affects, will not be prejuidiced simply' because it might directly zations' secretaries were notified tinuation of the policy of arming poor and underdeveloped countries." involve him or the institution. • as to when and where the flicks There is concern over the inefficiency in the governments of recipient After all, who knows any more about the nature of problems in would be taken. Don't feel too countries. Members of Congress more and more wonder whether education than those directly involved, as Dr. Fish is. bad though, because you weren't beneficiaries of aid really know how to use it effectively or "under A.C. the only one. As a matter of stand the principles it is intended to implement." Several Haws in our fact, not too many groups even 1 foreign program as listed in a Time Essay on the subject illustrate showed up for the organization this legitimate concern: the 2.6 billion sent to Yugoslavia (a Soviet pictures and of those that did satellite) seems to · have sunk without a trace. "In Jordon a dike that Go North, Young Man, Go North make an appearance in front of cost the U. S. close to $1,000,000 meanders across · the flinty desert the camera, half the members _for dozens of miles, waiting to trap rain that never falls .. "And in Many young American men are condemed, jailed, or forced into were often missing. . Indonesia ... the net effect of much teaching aid is to assure that exile because of their beliefs. What are their beliefs? Freedom of The Hillcrest has a deadline the anti-American signs in Djakarta are written in good English." conscience, a desire for peace, love of fellow men, and the question to meet and can't wait around As an intention of the above statement concerning inefficiency is as to whether or not the Vietnam war is morally justified. until you and your group decide the problem that has resulted from the very nature of our foreign According to private groups in Canada there are · 10,000 Aniericans you're ready. So if we missed aid. Senator Aiken of Vermont describes what economic assistance who have gone to Canada to avoid the draft. Even here in the States you this year we can only recom was meant to do; "American aid;' he has said, "as based on an we find many of our men going to jail rather than face the draft. mend that your hire a photog assumption that there would be subsantial amounts of self-help - Are they running away from something they cannot change or are that the rich of a poor nation would invest in their own economies, rapher and pass out a couple 1of they hoping to show our government that there are many people in snapshots of yourself to your that they would pay their taxes, that they would support land reform America who question our right to be in Vietnam? friends and have them paste them and show some interest in the poor of their own societies. This As stated by Senator Wayne Morse ... "The connection between in the inside cover of the next has proved largely a false assumption." American security and what we are doing in Vietnam is so tenuous, yearbook. Some countries to the South of us can be used to illustrate the so indirect that, although it is explained over and over again, A references in Senator Aiken's statement. A recent newsweekly mag mericans are still hard put to say why we are there." - Claire Nadeau azine report on the economic plight which Brazil has long found There has been some question as to these young people's morals. itself in remarked that "if all Brazilians paid their taxes and business But did not the Americans try and convict Germans at Nuremberg men brought home the $400 million they had stashed in foreign on the grounds that if they fe lt their government's orders were wrong banks, Brazil could even do without foreign aid." In Guatemala it they had a moral obligation to humanity not to follow those orders? Foreign Films is considered below one's dignity among the male elite to be schooled And were these Germans not at total war while in Vietnam no war in any other profession but law, consequently an overabundance of has been declared? · On Series Menu lawyers in a land that needs doctors, teache1's, 'and9!iocial servents. In the Geneva Agreement of July, 1954 we find that the demar Due to a dismal record for the past 20 years, American foreign aid cation line is provisional and does not in any way constitute a ter will, in the future, be difficult to receive and most' likely to be By Eva Bennett ritorial boundry. (Article 1) given with stipulations of the kind categorized by Newsweek This is, therefore, a civil war in which we should not be involved. columnist Henry Hazlitt: "If our economic aid were limited, the From France the movie, "The We also find that "no militaiy base under the control of a foreign poor countries would have to try to attract private investment both Cousins," will be held Februaiy state may be established in the regrouping zone by either party," of a domestic and foreign kind, and they would have to give guaran 16 at 7:00 and Februa1y 18 at and that "the two parties shall ensure that the zones assigned to them tees that capital and profits could be repatriated, and guarantees 7:30. This 1958 film is written do not. adhere to any military alliance and are not used for the against currency exchange restrictions, against discriminatory taxa and directed by Claude Chabrol resumption of hostilities or to further an aggressive policy" (Article 19) tion, price and profit controls, government owned competition and and will star Gerard Blair, Jean It was only two months later that the U. S. broke this treaty by above all against expropriation." He closes by observing that a
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