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The Observer Vol. 10, Issue No. 5, 11/10/1967
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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]. Huskies' Huzzah To Enliven Campus From the top of the hill comes a Kick-off Rally by the freshmen Monday night. The campaign materials. The number of deafening roar and the tramping of To get everyone into the spirit sophomores will exhibit their talents outdoor posters is limited to ten. many feet - the Huskies Hazzah of things there will be a Kick-off on Tuesday and the juniors will step Posters cannot be displayed until is coming Friday night, November Rally Friday, November 10, in Rus into the limelight on Wednesday. 6 a.rn. Nov. 13, and they must be 10, through Saturday night, Novem sell Hall gymnasium with class Award Planned removed before 5 p.m. on Saturday, ber 18 is a week of excitement, com speeches, participation games, and a 'Five members of the faculty and Nov. 18. petition and lots of fun, according hootenanny. three members of the student body After a torchlight parade of classes, to Senate representatives sponsoring On Saturday and Sunday, there will be judging the classes on the or Thursday, Nov. 16, eve1yone will the event. will be workshops during which the ganization of their variety produc move on to Russell Hall for a free Due to the fact that a Mayor Cam classes will organize their campaigns tions, their ability to keep with the movie, "Opcratio,1 Petticoat," with paign is too expensive for fraternities and practice for their variety shows. theme of the week, and their over Caiy Grant and Tony Curtis. to sponsor and that the duties of the A dance, sponsored by Amicitia will all spidt. The class which shows It is reported that preceding the mayor are not clearly defined, the be held Satu·tday night for a change the most spirit during the week will junim' class dance that same night, Huskies Hazzah hopes to capture of pace in the line of events. Work be awarded a "Class of the Year" the faculty will present a talent show the enthusiasm and spirit that be shops Sunday will provide the indi distinction and a plaque engraved in full regalia. longed to those past campaigns. vidual classes with an opportunity in their honor will be displayed in Climaxing the week-long events, Said Linda Ashe, spokesman for for on-stage rehearsals in Russell Bailey Hall. a special Thanksgiving dinner will the Senate, "We hope this semester's Hall. In keeping with the rules of the be served followed by the Harvest campaign will induce spirit and The talent shows, or "Spirit-u-alls" campaign, each class may not spend Ball (semi-formal) sponsored by the create pride in Gorham State College." as they will be called, will be led off over $25 on their variety show and sophomore class.
Renaissance (D The Gorham State (i} Music Groups Perform Nov. 19 ObserverI The · Concert-Lecture Series pro gram at GSC is presenting a concert Vol. X Gorham, Maine - November IO, 1967 No. 5 of the "Flemish Masters of the Ren------aissance" in Russell Hall on Nov. 19. The concert is a combined program featuring the Brunswick Chamber Singers of Brunswick, Maine, and the Students Enroll In Pass-Fail Camerata of the Boston Museum of The three-year experimental pass A student may elect up to six credits Fine Arts. fail option program voted by the per semester to a maximum of eighteen, The program for the concert is as faculty last spring is in operation plus student teaching and the related follows: "Nous sommes de L I' ordre this semester. According to William seminars, on the pass-fail basis. • de saint Rabouin" for recorders and B. Wise, assistant to the Dean of The Spring semester · courses that viols by Loyset Compere; "Pleni sunt Academic Affairs, 33 students are will be open to pass-fail will be in coeli" for viols by Pierre de LaRue; currently utilizing the pass-fail method. dicated at the time of pre-registration. "Benedictus" for viols by Antoine In the 48 courses open to pass-fail Pass-fail is open to all students ex Brumet; ''Tsat een meskin" for re this semester, 24 of the 33 students cept first semester Freshmen arrd corder, crumhorn and viols by Jacob who elected the option are in stude!1t students on academic probation. Stu Obrecht. teaching and the related seminars. dents will elect the pass-fail option Solo songs with keyboard include This program will be continuously during the add-drop periocl by filing the following pieces by Heinrich evaluated for three years by the the appropriate pass-fail card with Isaac: "Susser Vater", "Al mein mut", Academic Standards Committee who, Allston Smith, registrar. Instructors "Fammi una pratia amore", "Ne piu Wise feels, hopes the pass-fail option do not receive official notification bella di queste", all for tenor soloist of the student election of the pass and spinet. "will encourage a broadening of ed ucational backgrounds." fail option. Choral works by Josquin des Prez As required core courses and courses ------include "Tu solus qui facis mirabila" and "Domine, ne in furore". Solo counting toward the academic major Vaghy Concerts Set Songs with instruments for soprano, are not open to the pass-fail option, vielle, and recorders include "Quel this method encourages students to The Vaghy String Quartet of the fronte signorille in Paradiso", "Helas, "do some sampling" outside their Portland Symphony Orchestra will mon dueil", "Vergine bella", and discipline. The pass-fail program present a series of four concerts at "Bonjour bon mois" by Guilliaume eliminates any emphasis on grades Gorham this season, according to Dufay. and therefore it is hoped will en Gerard Chamberland, chairman of Instrumental dances for spinet, courage students to pursue courses the music department. AH, HOME AGAIN FOR THE recorders and viols will include "Gag which interest them outside their The concerts will be held Nov. 15, WEEKEND! - Notice the warm liarda veneziana", anonymous, and major, but which they might have Jan. 8, Feb. 26, and April 25 at 8 p.m. smile of satisfaction on this new co-eel's "Ronde - Saltarello", Tilman Susato ordinarily hesitated to take because in Russell Hall. The Quartet will face as she follows the long line of (Ed. ). Climaxing the concert are Jos of the concern for grades in an un also hold open rehearsals at 4 p.m. "home-bodies." quin des Prez's "De promundis clam familiar area. on each of these dates. avi ad te" for chorus and instruments, and "Benedicte omnia opera" for Look At Where chorus, solo soprano and instruments. The Brunswick Chamber Singers, The Students Went conducted by Ruth Ring Harvie, are a by Karin Thurber group of "educated non-professionals" organized in 1964 to provide an exer Around the hour of two o'clock cise in artistic participation through Friday afternoon, the Gorham State the preparation and performance of College scene changes from that of a large repertory for chamber chorus. toting books to that of toting suitcases. Membership consists of sincerely in If you want proof, just take a look terested residents of south-western into the front lobbies of Andrews, Maine, and although some previous Robie, or even Woodward Hall on singing experience is desirable, begin Fri • Russell · IO b serva t IO D S • • • I Where Are We Going, Socially? Over the p'ast few years Gorham has grown from a state teachers college to a state college, it has· almost doubled in enrollment and it has grown in great leaps and bounds physically. With all of these developments occurring, why doesn't its social aspect progress with ~he same speed and to the same level? Perhaps the reason lies in the fact that a large majority of the students enrolled in the college are from rural areas where certain social and cultural opportunities are not available. This would certainly account for the small attendance at such functions as convocations, concerts, etc. This lack of op portunity is of course not their fault; however, it does add to the lack of at tendance. The reason that the Oberserver mentions lack of attendance is that there is no organization on this campus that is willing to pay out money for cultural events if they are to lose the money because of poor attendance. This now leads .into a cycle through which the students have nothing_ to do on weekends so they go home, and with no one on campus the organizations do not get big-name entertainers for a concert. . Another reason is the lack of communication at Gorham. This is due mainly to lack of foresight on the part of the Student Senate regarding the social calendar. At other colleges, the social calendars are made ue in the summer and g_iven out the first day of attendance. The major problem this presents is that students I!?? { ( I 1 quite often plan to go home on a given weekend, sometimes a month in advance. Cf ass If they had a social calendar they could plan their trips home around their college life rather than the other way around. This now leaps to another problem - going home for the weekend. We our greedy fraternities who are anxious needn't describe the problem; you have seen it; you are involved. It is generally to possess power. accepted that when a person reaches college age, especially one who has enough Letters .... By the way, what happened to the intellegence to be admitted into college, it is about time that he or she get I "Homecoming Weekend" that was out on his own and away from "mama's apron strings." Some go home because I planned? Couldn't the Varsity "G" CUT POLICY COMMENTS of a boyfriend or girlfriend back home. Club get it off the ground? Everyone - Question: Why not invite him or her to Gorham for the weekend? Students thinks that Gorham offers a poor at other colleges do. At Homecoming at the University of Maine, half of Dear Editor, Student Body, and Administration: social life which has affected the Gorham is present; at Homecomin~ at Gorham, half the Gorham students low population on weekends. Then are still at the University of Maine. A Senate committee has been set why doesn't someone do something Still another reason for this lack of social progression involves the organi about it? zations themselves. They all seem to be afraid of trying anything unique. Aside up to investigate the present policy on attendance and make recom Our fraternities on campus have from being few and far between, every weekend at which something occurs merely withdrawn their support in is exactly like the last one: a dance in Russell Hall on Saturday night with mendations for possible changes. What this means is that all the griping enhancing student activities by hold "The Exception." This certainly isn't a very enticing affair when the average ing closed parties for members only. student can go to an exciting high school dance in his own home town. about the "cut policy" that I have heard since my arrival on campus What is going to happen to the rest Having looked at all the previous reasons we now come to the administra of the student body? tion. Gorham is no longer a normal school or a state teacher's college. It is can now be converted to constructive criticsm, And here's a warning to the student! a small New England liberal arts college with a primary interest in education. Once the Inte1fratemity Council gets Why then, does the "administration treat the students like early 1900 theology - Your Senator would like to know how you feel about the matter and I on it's feet it will slowly drain power students. This is 1967! Cars are speeding along at 140 m.p.h., Negroes are from _the Senate and the campus will breaking their chains of bondage, the Pill is here, God is dead, and Gorham am certain the editor of the Observer would also. Do you think that some be run by 2 or 3 fraternities for their remains stagnant. own benefit. Of course, that is only The administration must realize that the type of student now entering of the instructors at Gorham would be likely to have more stimulating my opinion, Gorham has known about sex, drugs, crime, etc. For a _number of years they But, where does that leave the have been well versed in today's norms. They must be left to express them lectures jf they knew that · no one had to attend the lectures? majority of the students on Campus? selves. If they are not given more freedom in choosing their activities, Gorham One other question I was wonder will remain in this air of stagnancy. , Is it true that some people would be less ·apathetic if they were not ing about, and that is, what ever At this point it becomes quite apparent that the problem lies with the happened to our Commuter'!l Club? entire college, with the Puritanical ideas of the administration, the static efforts lulled to sleep in the lecture hall. Would, and could some people at I believe they were once a ve1y en of the organizations, and the environments from which the students come to thusiastic minority group. Are they Gorham. The solution to this problem should now be quite obvious: what is tend more cultural activities (such as field trips to Boston museums) if defunct? Have they lost their spirit? needed is a genuine effort of everyone involved to "get the lead out!" The "God," what's happening to us? students must gain some pride in their institution and the institution must they were not threatened with a realize changes in the student body. - "double cut" if they cut that class As a parting thought, the Observer asks you to look around campus. When to make the trip? Leonard E. Vanasse you see a sweatshirt from another school, ask yourself, "How many persons Or, is a policy necessary? Would a't that school are wearing G.S.C. sweatshirts?" some students with good potential flunk out because they could not resist peer group i..."lfluence to stay -H.M. out of class? Would it be too easy @The Gorham State@ to find excuses to hold classes at the Mainway or Matties' as a more "cul tural" experience? Observer Sincerely, Published semi-monthly during the Two Thrillers Top Movie Card P. B, Richards college year by the students of Gor ham State College, Gorham, Maine. by Eva Bennett What was life like in a jail in the DON'T GET INVOLVED Vol. X - Nov. 10, 1967 - No. 5 Two hardened criminals and their 1930's? The eighty-four MGM motion Editor ...... ,...... , Gloria Porell bewildered young inmate break from picture "Big House" gives us an an Dear Editor: News Editors ...... Harold Mitchell, their prison cells and the word gets swer to the question. I have never been confronted with Gilbert Twitchell. out that three escaped convicts are Director George Hill's "Big House" such an · apathetic group of students Copy Editors, ...... Linda Lachance, at large, to be seen on November 19 is one as there are here at Gorham. The Anita Bussiere. They Live By Night is a ninety of the earliest pictures showing the reason for this, I believe, is that no Editorial Assistants .. Barbara Thorpe, five minute movie based on the novel, demand of humane treatment for body wants to get involved. Sherry Spearin, Martha Tibbetts, Thieves Like Us which will be seen prisoners. It shows the contempory Nobody wants to buck the Ad Joline Landry. November 12 in Russell Hall. The conditions and attitudes in jails of ministration, nobody is interested Reporters ...... Eva Bennett, 1958 picutre stars Farley Granger, that era. _ in the Student Senate. The clubs on Mark Goodridge, Judjth Libby, Cathy O'Donnell, Howard DeSilva, "Big House" stars Chester Morris, campus are just about defunct as far Fred Pearson, Peter Richards, Karin Jay C, Flippen, Helen Craig, Will Wallace Berry, Lewis Stone, Robert as activities go. What I'd like to see Thurber, Mardy Kidwell, Patrick Ayotte. Wright, Marie Bryant and Ian Wolfe. Montgomery, Leila Hyams, George happen is a few more demonstrations Business Manager ...... Allan Walker The young fugitive (Farley Granger) like the "Sleep In" we had last spring Marion, J. C. Nugent and Karl Circulation Manager ...... meets a girl (Cathy O'Donnell) and Dane. It has fine characterizations and more more activities from the Pamela Kumiszcza in their brief moments together 'try and 'a realistic use of natural sound. clubs like an overnight trip to Mt. Business Staff ...... Nancy Reynolds, to find happiness while trying to It won the 1930's Academy Awards Washington. Karen Johnson, · Brent Olson. escape from the police and the other for best writing (Frances Marion) As for the Student Senate, why Sports .. .. ,.... , .. ,...... Danny Hardy two criminals. Searching for their and the best sound recordings (Doug not have a campaign to elect the Photographer ...... Eric Bartlett place i'n society and escaping from las Shearer), and should indeed give president and officers. This type of Cartoonists ...... Linda Shell, the two terrors, the two young people its viewers an insight of a prisoner's campaign would have the entire Lee Northup. make this picture come alive. · life in the past. student body involved, particularly Adviser .. , ...... Reginald Bowden OBSERVER Nov. 10, 1967 Page 3 NOTICE Letters • • • • The Observer welcomes from its WITH-IT . I I readers any letters of criticism, wheth Dear Editor: er favorable or unfavorable. All letters I I It has been observf d, lately, that will be printed. We ask only that. the Genus of Apathetic Vegetable by J>atrick Ayotte the letters refrain from profanity and is now growing in the academic libel, and are signed. garden "on the hill." Although this Marshall McLuhan, the 56 year-old Canadian professor of English literature may be alarming and perhaps a bit and ecologist, is well known for proffering theories about most anything NOTICE frightening, it is not a new develop affecting contemporary society. His communications theory of history, to give The next issue of the Observer will ment. Identification of the vegetable, one example, has generated tremendous excitement among his readers and be published on November 27. The then, is now necessary in order to created a cult of idolizers and an equally fierce group of critics. But it is be final deadline for news is November cause his perceptions penetrate beneath the surface of mere observations that guard against · further spreading, 17. which its presence seems to propagate. he increases the size of his camp of followers and slowly brings detractors. Really, identification of the Apa to bear. thetic Vegetable, from a visual stand Do-Nothing, Apathetic Vegetable, Of particular interest to us here at Gorham are his views on the future of point at least, is not difficult. In fact, which has neither the capacity nor education in America. A preliminary word here though - McLuhan has stated if one looks closely at the garden the desire to contribute any degree that tJle media of communications for our present civilization is the television he finds that most of its area is in of fertility to its environment. and electronic brain machine. habited by this type of vegetation, Although it has neither the capacity The book as we know it, McLuhan says, is doomed to the world of quaint momentarily contained along the nor the initiative for contribution, antique shops and museums. In his book Understanding Media, McLuhan periphe1y, only by a few stalks of it does have the ability to spread, echoes Paul Goodman when he argues that today's conventional form of Thought Growth-tables, which have since it takes veiy little effort to education hardly engages the interest of our young people, largely because of managed to survive. Apparently, this vegetate as a parasite. So the Do its inability to equip them for the realities of the world outside the classroom. propagation is stimulated by two Nothing continues to spread not to "Our classrooms and our curricula," he writes in Charles R. Dechert' s The conditions which could easily be grow. It spreads because it needs Social Impact of Cybernetics, "are still modeled on the old industrial environ controlled by the gardeners: 1) the veiy little, if any, quality or fertility ment. ~at is indicated for the new learning procedures is not the absorption type ot vegetation chosen for the of environment to vegetate. This of classified and fragmented data, but pattern recognition with all that that garden effecting 2) the lack of fertile condition appears to be contagious implies of grasping interrelationships." environment necessary for the suste and spreads quickly to the new vege Critics have interpreted this remark to mean that education in American nance of the Thought Growth-table, tation of its kind, which is usually classrooms of the past was closely related to events happening outside the room which vegetation this type of garden selected for the garden. It does not in a perfect blend of theory and application. should properly cultivate. grow because it has neither the The situation at present, is far from this harmonious balance; "We still go This brings us to the more difficult capacity nor initiative to add beauty, on 19th century style with classified subjects, instructions by stencilling on task of identifying the Apathetic fertility, or stimulation to its environ brain pans; and regurgitating in exam forms" writes Guy Fraumeni in the April Vegetable from a physical stand ment. 15, 1967 issue of the Library Journal. point, in relation to the qualities of Well, turning to the other sub ''The electronic environment," Fraumeni continues, "makes an information its component parts. The Species division, Think-Nothing, we find that level outside the schoolroom that is far higher than the information level inside of the Genus, Apathetic Vegetable, like its partner, the Do-Nothing, it the schoolroom." is the Grow-me-Not. The Grow-me too is of course a Grow-me-Not. He states that the student going to school today is, in effect, interrupting Not has two subdivisions, the Do Actually we find that it is difficult to his education. ' nothing and the Think-Nothing. In distinguish the one from the other. McLuhan believes in thinking that is "exploratory and speculative," rather essence the qualities of these com This is because their existence is than "substantive and definitive," and feels that our educational system must ponent parts are exactly as their symbiotic. That is, they vegetate change to one of probing and discovery if it is to remain useful. names imply. But let us take a closer together and influence the quality The role that the computer is playing in the development of our society is look to fully understand what this of existence for the other. Uusally, phenomenal - as the automation of work processes continues, a greater and all means. if the vegetable cannot or will not ~reater number of men are released from their jobs - theoretically to be in The subdivision, Do-Nothing, is do, it cannot think: if the vegatable corporated into other means of gainful employment. The future according to of course a Grow-me-Not. What does cannot or will not think, it cannot do. Marshall McLuhan will hold greater time for enjoyment of leisure and self this mean? WeJl, it means, simply, But we can identify the Think Nothing cultivation. He envisions that continous education will become the prime that because it does nothing it just is relation to the Thought Growth business of a future society, presumably because the information&! overload vegetates and does not grow, nor table. will necessitate same. could it under those conditions for In doing so, we again have to ask existence. But I have just stated above the question 'why is it spreading not Next issue - "On Not Getting Married" that the Apathetic Vegetable is spread growing'? We have already deter ing. This is true. But the terms spread mined in our previous visit to the ing and growing are not synonymous. garden why the Thought Growth Selectiv e Service Guidelines Listed Let us turn to the few surviving table is growing. As for the Think The Commission of Federal Rela the maintenance of the national Thought Growth-tables for evidence. Nothing, you see, it cannot grow tions, a division of the American health, safety, or interest. There is As its name implies, the Thought because it cannot absorb and assimi Council on Education, has made the no indication yet, though, whether Growth-table is truly growing, al late the fertility which the Thought following report regarding the Selec Selective Service will exercise this though it is not spreading. Again, Growth-table propagates. More im tive Service. authority. if one looks closely at the garden portant than this, because it cannot The report includes basic facts There may be another alternative. he sees why. This plant is ,much larger assimilate, it cannot recreate those that undergraduates should know Congress has indicated that it will and fuller. Its flowers are bright and hold prompt hearings if the President add greatly to the beauty of the qualities of fertility to add new dimen about the Selective Service. garden. Perhaps more important than sions to and then retransmit them Undergraduate students are, with proposes legislation to institute a this is another quality that the back into the environment. certain limitations as to age and nor random selective system. If such a Thought Growth-table furnishes. You Well, what does this all mean? mal progress, assured II-S deferments. system were adopted , the prime age see, the nature of the plant stimulates It means that the conditions under At the end of the current academic group would probably be age 19. and creates fertility of its environ which the Apathetic Vegetable year, all II-S deferments will end Those who have passed 19 without ment and adds to the sustenance and exists inhibits the healthy propagation for those receiving their baccalaureate militaiy service, and were no longer growth of the other life around it, of the Thought Growth-table. One degrees, those completing their first entitled to defennent would be placed including the Apathetic Vegetable. minght infer from this that unless year of graduate study, and those in a pool with the actual 19-year-olds. Unfortunately however, the Thought more care is taken in the cultivation receiving their advanced degrees. At While all those passed over would Growth-table, although some of it has of the garden, the quality of its present the moment the only exception to still be subject to call in subsequent managed to survive and to grow, is condition, as little quality as may this general rule is for those engaged years, the likelihood of their induction almost extinct here since to truly grow remain, might completely disappear. in the study of medicine. would decline each year. and to survive it must be provided in Thus it must be assumed that all return a stimulating and fertile environ men described in the above para ment from its neighbors. H ere, the Sincerely yours, graph will be inducted unless they Diners In Costume surrounding neighbor is the parasitic, Alice in Vegetable Land are over-age or physically disquali fi ed, or have previously served in the For Halloween armed forces. The H alloween party held in th e There will be an impact felt on dining hall on October 31 was a smash the graduate and professional schools ing success, according to observers GORHAM PHARMACY as a· result. Enrollment in the first of and participants in the festivities. two years of graduate and profe ssional Students and faculty alike came schools next fall will be limited to dressed in costume ranging from the women, veterans, ,men physically Hunchback of Notre Dame, to an Check Our Prices Before You Buy disqualified, and men over age 25. Indian in loincloth, to a funy gorilla. The men described above, who Decorations for the affair were are not inducted by the beginning made and donated by students, with Come to Shop * Come to Brow se of the next college year might enroll the McLellan House and girls from for further study, but will be subject Andrews Hall helping to decorate to call at any time without any real paper bags. Members of the Art Club prospect of deferment to finish the decorated the room. GORHAM PHARMACY, INC. year. Winners for the scariest costumes l 04 Main Street However, on the advice of the were Marilyn Rideout and Marine National Security Council, fields of Vielleux; the McLellan House won 839-3738 839-3160 study in addition to medicine may a prize for the most original, and be eligible for deferment on the the house directors and dorm staff grounds that they are necessary to won first place in the funniest division. Page 4 OBSERVER ~ov. 10, 1967 [Senate Notes[ GSC Students The allocations have been settled Meet Romney at last and the Senate has turned to other matters. On October 31, the Gorham State A committee was established to in College Young Republicans Club vestigate the possibility of periodic sponsored a trip to Portland to greet paychecks for the students working Michigan Governor George Romney on campus. It was learned that Presi on his arrival in Maine. From the dent Brooks had already attended airport the group joined a motorcade to the matter. to UMP, where Romney addressed College work-study checks will be an audience composed largely of passed out prior to the Thanksgiving college students. recess and again before the Christmas At UMP Romney emphasized the recess. After January 1, 1968, pay 1 need to insure greater civil rights ment will be once a month at the end for all the American people: "If we of the month. don't correct the problems of our In response to a discussion of the cities and build a new America for present attendance policy, a letter every citizen, then the old America was sent to the Administration ask will be destroyed," he said. ing how the present situation came "There's no aspect of American life into being. Robert York, Dean of that can't be improved, but it's still Academic Affairs, stated in response better than any country in the history of the world." that the present policy came into THEY'RE USUALLY PILED HIGHER..,_ This is a popular and common being about ten years ago as a result Romney also praised the initiative and idealism of American youth. scene in the dorms every Friday afternoon. Everyone seems to be going of a faculty decision and was, in his home ...? opinion, the best he had ever been "Yours is a generation that is insisting associated with as a student or faculty that we practice what we preach. This is good." member. More About Suitcase Problem On November 19, the Gorham YR (Continued from page ,1) He also suggested in his letter that Club will host the Maine College if the students felt the present policy ties. Therefore, I go home where it of the men students go home because Young Republican Convention. The was not satisfact01y, the Senate could isn't too difficult to make up my they have a job waiting for them there. Club has three voting delegates to request an ad hoc committee from mind what to do." Another pressing problem is the the convention, although all club the College Council. A Senate com One of the house mothers in the· lack of transportation into Portland. members are welcome to attend. men's dormito1y said "There is ab Many students, men and women, mittee is looking into the matter at The Executive Committee consists the present time. solutely nothing going on for the find it far easier to get into Portland of the following: chairman, Neal Cor young men on week-ends." from their homes than they can from son, Bowdoin College; co-chainnan, The majority of week-ends are Gorham. Garry Libby, UMP; secretary, Chester filled with a Friday night movie Of course, one of the major reasons Sigma Freeman, Bowdoin College; treasurer, starting at 7:30 p.m. ending around women students go home is because Richard Poole, Bates College; Jean 9:00 p.m. with no other campus their boyfriends are at home. This Anne Smart, Gorham State College; activity scheduled for that night. also could apply to many of the men Chi Omega Peter Burr, Nasson College. Saturday night there is usually a students. Guest speaker for the Gorham YR dance on the agenda but the at • "Home-cooked meals" was the Plans Projects Club on November 29 will be attorney tendance leaves much to be desired, reason of several suitcase supporters. Sigma Chi Omega, Gorham's young Fred Hanscom. Mr. Hanscom, a mem socially and economically. During Of the loyal who do stay, most of est sorority, has been active this fall. ber of the Governor's Council, will the day there is no activity except them have suggestions which would On October 30, Sigma Chi held an speak on the function , and purpose for special week-ends which are make them happier. They feel that open house for Freshman Women of the Council. Hanscom has been few and far-between. the lounge should be open on Sat students in Woodward Extension an active member in Oxford County The curfew situation, it seems, urdays. They would like ~ be able Lounge to afford an opportunity for Republican politics and is now serv also tends to drive many women to go down to Corthell to relais, have the freshmen to get to know the up ing as Chairman of the county's students home. Comment: "I don't a cigarette and chat with their perclass girls. The sorority advisors, Republican Committee. go for this Cinderella-hour. Maybe friends over a cup of coffee. They Mrs. Pegge McHugh and Mrs. Lela that's why there are so many pump also expressed their desire for whole Dawson, were present at the open Among the up-coming events, Sig kin-heads around here." Most girls, week-ends of activity, day and night, house. , ma Chi Omega has plans for a pre however, are in before the "witching sponsored by organizations on cam As a service project, Sigma Chi Thanksgiving dance, featuring the hour" because of the lack of activity. pus. Omega plans to sell Zip Code books "Untamed Sounds" on Tuesday, No Also, many eligible men go home These are some of the reasons why starting November 6. The books will vember 21. The sorority also h:;is leaving an even more unfavorable one sees suitcases piled high in the be sold daily in Bailey Hall and also made tentative plans for a Christmas ratio between the sexes. It was ascer dorm lobbies on Friday morning. in Upton Lounge. service project. tained, however, that a great deal Will something ever be done? countered in history texts and see vincing portrayal of the robust, witty Theater Scores Hit portrayed on film by Charles Laughton and highly egotistical Henry was or glimpsed at in the more recent needfully and carefully counteracted "A Man For All Seasons." The dif by Mary Walinchus's sensitive rendi- . With 'Gambit' Run, ference is that Henry and his six tion of Katarina, Remy's first wife. non, JoAnn Spaulding and Carole pack of disposable wives (two by Mary's hand movements and facial Dyer. the executioner's axe), are depicted gestures beautifully complemented by Patrick Ayotte The make-up artistry of Linda as being fully aware of the precedence her speech and role. Cindy Croteau's Sprague and Sharon Quinn enhanced of their actions established upon Jane Seymour evoked sympathy for A dramatic production can be the production and serves to illustrate future history. the "lady-in-waiting" turned queen. likened to the configuration of an the importance of many seemingly The fifth and final act has what Anna of Cleaves, a role requiring iceberg - only one inch of the entire inconsequential aspects of the theatre appeared to be an anachronistic a heavy Teutonic accent and an composition is o b s e r v a b 1 e - that that are necessary for the success of series of dialogue between Henry outspoken, at times most dangerous, being, of course, the performance a play. VIII (Wayne . Manson) and Kate frankness, was perfected by Candy before an audience. Scott Marden's stage crew, com Parr (Sherry Stanfill), and Henry Jones. Cherri Campbell as Anne Upon reviewing the Drama Club's prised of Dan Hanscom, Larry Spra and Katarina · of Aragon (Ma1yAnn Boleyn, Thankful Butler as Kathryn recent effort, the production of Her gue, Jim Carpenter, Don Gray, Ken Walinclws). This act, the last pro Howard and Sheny Stanfill as Kate man Gressieker's morality play, "Royal Whitten, Tom Maurais, and Philip gression from Tudor days into the Parr each gave adequate character present has some disturbing allusions izations and performances. Gambit," one would be remiss if Merrell1 concentrated their efforts attention were not directed towards to create a starkly simple stage back to a war occurring on a tip of land in Minor Rootes, responsible for the a group of people often ignominously drop and extended the stage apron Asia and an embarrassing, all-too-real overall staging, well deserves the referred to as the "behind-the-scenes" into the audience. reference to the domination of con greatest individual praise for making crew. Publicity, another essential part temporary society by the electronic, "Royal Gambit" the best theater To the work of these people goes of any successful theatre production computerized, "think" machines. production since last November's credit for the top-flight staging, was charged to Donald Stanley Wayne Manson's thoroughly con- "U.S.A." considerable originality and readily and Jean Davis. That they succeeded detectable teamwork displayed over with their notices and color posters the three-night period, November is attested to by the capacity-filled 2,3, 4. audiences that attended each per Lighting under the direction of formance. House Manager Mikell REDIN'S Suzanne Brooks and Jean Hardy Chandler and stage and assistant was especially effective in emphasizing stage managers Kay Gagnon and On The Square the theme, and reflected what must Jane Erskine respectively, insured surely have been many long hours a smooth and coherent production. to achieve that "just so" result. Playwright Gressieker has created THE COLLEGE SUPPLY The lavish and authentically styled a different character treatment of Tudor costumes designed by Mrs. Remy VIII than one usually en STORE Nelle Rootes were fashioned by K'.aren counters. To be sure, he is the same Johnson, Karen Williams, Judy Gag- lecherous, intelligent Henry we en- OBSERVER Nov. 10, 1967 Page 5 Student Protest Moven1ents Mal{_e A W arn1 October WASHINGTON (CPS) - Students office where Dow was recruiting; from fire hoses. Doug Seaton, a leader in the SDS on seven campuses made it a rough • the administration cancelled the com Following is a resume of what oc chapter at Princeton, said protests week in October for recruiters from pany's recruiting program there. Ac curred at four of the campuses: in other forms would continue. the armed services and from other cording to a university spokesman, At Harvard, about 300 Harvard At the University of Colorado, 30 organizations connected with the the action was taken "to avoid possible and Radcliffe students sat-in in the students blocked the entrance to the milita1y. bodi,ly injury and destruction of prop chemistry building outside the Dow placement center where the CIA agent Their sit-ins and other protests erty." recruiters' office. According to one was recruiting. Their protest came are all over now, but the promise In the Detroit protest, tl;iere was observer, the recruiter "was effectively close to breaking into a fist-fight with of disciplinary action against pro a brief outbreak of violence on imprisoned there." about 50 students who said they testors on most of the campuses may Wednesday, Oct. 25. The students, The protest was organized by SDS, wanted to get in to see the recruiter, provide the next source of controversy. returning for a second day to protest and it had originally been planned but campus police and a faculty mem ber calmed the two groups. Dow Chemical Company recruiters, against the Fourth Annual Defense as a picketing demonstration outside The protestors, most of them mem catalysts for the massive protest at and Government Procurement Con the building. When demonstrators bers of SDS, had earlier tried to get the University of Wisconsin, figured ference (in which businessmen heard arrived Wednesday morning, however, the CIA recruiter to leave voluntarily. in three of the week's sit-ins; that at Army and Air Force officers tell the protest became a sit-in. One of the protestors explained Harvard, and those at the Universities them "how to keep your share of About 450 students, including the why his group had chosen to use civil of Illinois and Minnesota. defense business") tried to enter the heads of the two major undergraduate political bodies have turned in their disobedience tactics; "Because we Other targets for demonstrations building where the conference was being held from the rear. bursar's cards to express complicity feel dishonesty, secrecy, and totali were the Navy recruiter at Oberlin tarian tactics have nothing to con They scuffied with the police there, with the protest. A meeting of all College, in Ohio; the CIA recruiter tribute to the educational enter and with some of the businessmen members of the faculty has been at the University of Colorado; a center prise, we are protesting their use of attending the conference. One demon tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, to for classified research at Princeton our campus facilities." strator was arrested, bringing the decide on disciplina1y action for the University; and a conference of protestors. defense contractors in Detroit, Mich. total number of arrests for the two Symphony To Perform days to 14. At the University of Minnesota, Students for a Democratic Society about 40 students jammed into the (SDS) members figured to some ex Certainly the best organized pro entrance of the placement office Bowder's Composition tent in all the protests, but not all test was the one at Oberlin, where to protest the presence of a Dow On November 14 the Portland were organized by SDS. students knew well beforehand what recruiter there Tuesday. Symphony Orchestra, Paul Vennel On three campuses - Princeton, day the Navy recruiter was to arrive. Some of the students slept in a room conducting, will perform Dr. Jeriy Oberlin, and Wayne State in Detroit Some of them drove out to the edge near the president's office through Bowder's cG>ncert symphony, Sym - police were brought in from out of town Thursday to meet him and the night. Others held a hunger phony number 2. side to deal with the students. Al escort him to the campus. There more strike that lasted until the Dow re Dr. Bowder, a professor of music though it was the appearance of city than 100 students surrounded his cruiter left Thursday. at GSC, composed this symphony police on the University of Wisconsin car and kept him trapped inside for No disclipinaiy action is planned in 1958-59 while he was completing campus that brought thousands of about four hours. against the protestors. work for a Ph.D. in composition at otherwise uncommitted students into When the recruiter finally ( tried At Princeton 50 students blocked the Eastman School of Music. the protest there, the police did not to drive his way out of the predica the entrance to a building where the His symphony has been performed have the same effect this time. ment, he succeeded only in ramming Institute for Defense Analysis branch previously in Rochester, N.Y. by the On one campus - Illinois - the a newsman's car behind his. He was there is housed. When •the students Eastern Rochester Philharmonic, protestors achieved their immediate finally freed when local police and · refused to move away from the door Howard Hanson conducting, and in goal. After 200 of them sat-in in the firemen drove the demonstrators and let employees in, many of them N.Y. City by the Manhatten Orchestra, doorway and corridor outside the away with teargas and water sprayed were arrested. Nicholas Plagello conducting. GSC Cross Country Team Enjoys A Meal At Mario's "How Would You Decorate This Room?" MARIO'S OF GORHAM For Delicious Pizza, Spaghetti and A Variety of Sandwiches Now Offering Delivery Service From 9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. ONLY Call 839-4526 {Or Contact Ray Malone, Woodward Hall Extension) LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF STA'TE AND SOUTH STREETS GORHAM Page6 OBSERVER Nov. 10, 1967 At far left, Jim Robertson and Brian Luce on the attack against Nasson College, the last home game of th~ seaso?, October 26. On the right, Craig Reynolds, also on the attack, is pursuing the ball. Nasson beat the Huskies 4-1 m Giancola Wins this particular game. The Huskies' fipal results for the season were 3-9-2. Senior Offers Teaching Reactions Tennis Round Women To Compete Peter Giancola won the tennis by Karin Thurber believes it is a necessa1y and bene championship last week when he In I ntercoUegiate ficial part of a student entering the overtook Don Atkinson, three out Although a student teacher spends teaching profession. As he said, "It of five sets. The scores were 3-6, by Elaine Stewart many hours preparing lesson plans, gives you a chance to experiment 6-4, 8-6, and 6-1. visual aids, and standing in front and try out new ideas of classroom In preceding matches, Giancola Intercollegiate women's athletics of a classroom discussing, evaluating, instruction methods before actually defeated Darrell Johnson with scores have come to Gorham. This fall, guiding, and counseling, sooner or getting a class of your own." of 6-0 and 6-0. Don Atkinson beat through the W AA, the women of later he will discover that "the end Advocates Pass-Fail Scot Peny with scores of 7-5 and 6-4 . G.S.C. now have a chance to compete justifies the means" in many ways. Bud advocates that a student do Also participating in tennis intra with teams from other colleges in During their senior year at Gorha111 his student teaching on a pass-fail murals were Bud Wellington, Robert many different sports such as tennis, State College, seniors undertake the basis and his reason was, "it takes Frazier, and Dave Lavallee. volleyball, field hockey, basketball, task of student teaching for one away the pressure of tiying to achieve Three veteran intramural teams and fencing. This fall field hockey semester, either spring or fall. They a high grade, allows more freedom," from flag football returned last week has dominated the scene. are placed in a school conducive and he firmly believes that taking for competition in the soccer intra Some of the spectators may have to their individual needs and conduct this course on a· pass-fail basis is in murals. noticed girls running down behind a class or classes under the necessary fluential to a better quality of student They are the Kappa Kolts, Phi Mu the I.A. building brandishing a long supervision. teaching." Delta, and the Teke Trojans. curved stick and wearing shin-guards. Many Responsibilities Bud feels that a semester of student New to intramurals are the Inde This is the girl's field hockey team. A student teacher is responsible teaching reaps for the prospective pendents, the Marauders, and the Forced, because of lack of space, for attending teachers' meetings and, teacher many valuable and rewarding Flower Power, making seven teams to practice on a sloped field, these simply, taking an active role in the experiences and should be looked competing for the soccer champion girls have practiced at least twice teaching profession as if he were upon as an asset to his future teaching ship. a week since September. This is the already a permanent figure in the profession. All games are played at 4 p.m. first contact with the game of field school system which, in part, he is. weekdays, using regulation soccer hockey for some of the girls, although To get a more personal insight 200 Attend Party rules with the exception of two twenty there are others who have had previous into student teaching, Bud Wellington, Gamma Rho Fraternity sponsored minute periods rather than twenty experience. a senior math major student-teaching a Halloween party for the village two minutes per period. The team is coached by Paula at Mahoney Junior High School in children, on October 30. It was the Drake of Women's Athletics and South Portland. this semester,. was first project for the newly-formed "Where Old Friends Meet" captaine't! by Elaine Stewart. It has interviewed. organization. scrimmaged several local high schools When asked whether · or not the Over 200 town children played for practice: Cape Elizabeth, Bonny supervisor interfered in any way with games, listened to stories, and toured MASON'S Eagle, Deering,. Scarborough, and Bud's personal conduction of the class the Gamma Rho "House of Horrors." In Gorham, Maine Falmouth. In regular play the team room, he replied, "It affects the stu Included in the "House of Horrors" has competed with Bates College, dent's behavior more so than it does were a funeral scene, with a live Westbrook Jr. College and has had my teaching of the class." This is corpse, a witch, a pirate, (whose Luncheonette • Groceries two games with Nasson College. not, however, to downgrade the foundation was a ve1y shapely female In addition, there are several inter role of the supervisor in the class manikin from the Men's Shop in West Italian Sandwiches collegiate tournaments planned for room. On the contrary, Bud believes brook), a witch doctor, a working this year. These are sponsored by it is necessary and proper to have a guillotine, and a mummy. Open 8:00 a.m. - l O p.m. the Maine Association of Physical supervisor present. Education for College Women. The individual sports are tennis, Offers Suggestions skiing, fencing, badminton, and bowl Says Bud, "He is there to guide ~~ ~ewek/M/ ing. Such sports as volleyball and you, point out possible improvements badminton will be on an intercollegiate in classroom conducting procedures, basis, and if interest is shown, then and offer suggestions whenever he rJ'>~ta- more may develop. deems it necessary." As backbone for these teams, there Also, once a week the student &tla,{~le; C?Tf/Mi and ({)n{y ((;/)ianw,ub ~oont" will be intramurals in volleyball, teachers hold a seminar to discuss basketball, gymnastics, and tennis. any problem encountered in the classroom. 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