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Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 2-6-1975 The aB tes Student - volume 102 number 04 - February 6, 1975 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 102 number 04 - February 6, 1975" (1975). The Bates Student. 1707. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1707 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]. *"} NOTES AND COMMENTARY NESCAC: Sculptures To the editor: On Ant Granted, that snow sculptures are fun ways to make this supposed "oasis" To my dearest authors and poets bright. POST SEASON BLOCK more pleasant. However, trying to make Who grace the Garnet with your vision's If you have ever had visions of Bales playing in post season basketball a recognizable shape out of a most light; I sing your praises and extend your tournament, the baseball team getting an NCAA bid, or even the cross uncooperative snow-pile on the fame; That all who love, and write, in President's lawn is no activity for an Virtue's name May your worth recall in country team taking a national Division III title, you can forget it. The ostrich. dark future days. When tired Art reason has nothing to do with the caliber of the teams. Despite the fact On the Saturday morning of succumbs to evil ways. Then shall your that Bates sports has been much maligned in the past, we have had some Winlerval, Ihe people of Lewislon were works inspire poetry, Redeeming Art fine teams (Notably last spring's baseball team, this fall's undefeated cross not zooming down College Street, from deepest lethargy! swearing at the unfriendly students But, lest I laud you more than you country team, last year's ski team, and several of the last few years field behind the Bates College fortress. deserve, And be accused of lacking hockey teams). It doesn't have to do with money either, although this is a Instead, they were slowing down, taking proper nerve. To tear away your faults factor, especially for smaller teams. What it is, is a piece of paper known as pictures, and even getting out of their and lay Ihcm bare. So that your follies the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) cars to observe the fairy tale characters can be judged wilh care; I have more closely. composed some sketches short and true. agreement. NESCAC is an agreement among eleven of the "high quality" Even though some of the kids That I (poor silly bard) now offer you. small New England (and New York) colleges to keep intercollegiate thought that the mice pulling With visage grim and sneer of cold athletics "in harmony with the essential educational purposes of the Cinderella's coach were lions, we still got command,* Stern Ernie Hadley lakes institution." The essence is an attempt to keep recruiting in line and some kind of message across. Batesies Despair in hand; And wilh sad death, read fairy tales and enjoy playing in the False Art's complacency. He asaults our preserve the athletic balance among the schools so that the academic snow. minds with despondency. Jeff Burton's authority in each college is in control of its athletic policy. The sculptures will melt, but, while next: the voice of many woes. In youth One of the provisions states thai teams may enter only those post they were being built and as they siand he's old, older, the worse he grows. season competitions which are judged in advance to be consistent with the guard around our walls. Bilbo, Rapunzel Around his neck his load of griefs is and Ihe rest serve as small bridges to hung For old men drowned and spirit of the NESCAC agreement and that each competition must be transcend that townie-Balesie interaction graveyard dirges sung. Now comes Paul approved by three-forths of the Presidents of the member institutions. dilemma. What could be a more unlikely Haskell, weakest of the three; To him all Thus, the Presidents of Tufts and Bowdoin, for example, get to vote on attraction for an oasis than wide-eyed things deserve his sympathy. Toy whether a Bates team goes to a post season playoff. Not only is this a road kids directing their parent's attention to tractors too, by children dispossessed, Smaug's long tail? Perhaps Ihese fellow Are objects of impassioned interest. block, but the provision states that "team participation is expected to be snow-farers will think more kindly of us Ensuing Paul those greater wits advance. the exception rather than the norm." This year's cross country team, for even when we have only castles in the air Whose faults, though less, still greater ills to offer. „. , example, was told that it might be alright for two or three of the runners Sincerely, enhance (lor when there's skill, more to go to the NCAA's and compete as individuals for individual honors (i.e. Abigail Sanborn good or evil's done. Than when there's not, extremes there being none). Boldest make Ail-American), but that if any more than that went it wouldlooklike of Ihese, John Griffiths, is sublime As he Bates was sending a team, and that was forbidden. So to sum it up. rants and he raves in mangled rime; And NESCAC does not allow Bates' teams to go to post season competition. New Exams with his prophet's voice, "Fools, Fools!" Dear Editor: proclaims. Condemning himself with Why? What is it about this competition that is so harmful? What is the In response to Mr. Patterson's matter with letting a team that has proven itself go to a tournament? I those he defames. Sincerely, tenderly, concern about the cost of GREs, the Carleen LePage Sings sad and maudlin cannot see what in the concept or spirit of post season competition is Psychology Department is using the songs about old age. To feel and to harmful to the principle that athletics should be kept in line with the Advanced Test as a comprehensive lament what she knows not Is this good educational purposes of an institution. In fact it is one of the principles of examination this year because we have poet's one and only blot. Full many not been satisfied with the results and others, equally sincere. Fail to make a both education and athletics that competition is mentally, spiritually and effects of deparlmentally devised, good impression here. They cannot write physically rewarding. We are taught that striving for a goal (such as an examinations in previous years. By when they do not possess Enough invitation to a playoff) is good. What NESCAC seems to be saying is that it conservative estimate, 100 man hours creative force and artfulness, To blend is alright to strive, but that succeeding may be harmful. were spent constructing, giving, the music of the written word With correcting, deciding, informing, Widsom's thoughts from other worlds EDB consoling, re-giving, re-correcting, deferred. soul-searching . time therefore Gary W. Fogg unavailable for happier day-to-day •My apologies to the memory of Percy Schaefer Reproved contact .vilh students. Bysshe Shelley Dear Editor. Richard V. Wagner This letter refers to Charles Schaefer's electronic accoutrements as the only column in the last edition of the Bales thing "worthy" indeed constitutes a More on Early Arrival Student. In the article, Mr. Schaefer contemplation of the "good life," then essentially voices his dissatisfaction with my conceptions are mistaken. Mr. Dear Sir: the fact that his well-formed but usually Schaefer writes; "For the performers, In response to the recent comments concerning the availability of rooming tangential sophistry is not appreciated. making music implied a microphone. For facilities for early arrivals ("Cold Reception to Bates ' and "Sorry, No Room") . In the past, I have read his articles the audience, music was inconceivable We would like to express our opinions, and make a few points. First, Dean Isaacson's with the impression that they are written without a loudspeaker." May I suggest letter, supposedly a response to the argument (hat some students find it necessary to without feeling, indeed with a certain that Mr. Schaefer's premises are false; arrive early due lo incompatible transit schedules (or miss classes), offered no indifference. His last article only that neither the audience nor the intelligent reply. Her remark that MANY sludents return to Bates after pleasure trips, confirms my opinions. Mr. Schaefer performers were at all concerned with expecting free accommodations, is inconsistent with the fact thai 3S% of Bales implies that he is concerned with the equipment. Rather, they were sludents are recipients of financial aid, not lo mention a sweeping generalization, for thinking "critically about what concerned with the music, something which we're sure our Dean has no concrete evidence. Furthermore, it is insulting to constitutes the good life." yet his article which obviously does not interest Mr. those students who find it necessary to spend large amounts of money to meet seems to negate this intention. If, to Schaefer in his attempt "to think travelling expenses. attend a musical performance, ignoring critically about the good life." Granted, the expression of her concern for the dangers inherent in a few students' the art and beauty of the music and to Please think again Charley. occupation of a dormitory applies to situations where previous arrangements have center attention on an evaluation of the Offendedly, not been made.

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