Dates Set for SBA Elections Victor E

Support Attend Freshman-Senior Student Dance and Elections ' Grand Junction, Colorado, Friday, April 5, 1963 Number 12 Gold Diggers REQUIEM 'FOR A BELL March 15, 1963 Nome Public Schools Dates Set for SBA Elections Victor E. Charles, Superintendent Nome, Alaska Dates have been set for the i963 1 will be checked out April 8 and will Campaigns for the primary elec Dear Editor and Students: Student Body elections to be held be due April 12. At that time, all tions have been slated for the week I am sorry to hear that the Victory Bell has disappeared, but I shall try of April 15 and Wiill run through· Ap to recollect some information that may lead to its full history. later this quarter. candidates will receive a Ust of reg- ril 18. A speci~ campaign assembly It was the Student Council that sponsored the acquisition of the bell. Gor Petitions for the four .top offices ulations regarding campaigning. will be held April 17, and the pri don O'.Brien was president .that year (about 1946-47). I wrote to ;the Navy de mary elections themselves are sched partment and other agencies, and I believe it was by a special act of Congress uled for April 19; that the b~ll was donated from a navy ship to Mesa College. Everything calms down during mid The Victory Arch for hanging ·the bell was built behind the building prop term· exam time, and campaigns for er, out of native stone. The labor was donated by a Mr. Weaver (veteran the general election get iin full swing Bill Weaver's father) ~d a nice arc~ was constructed through his labor, and April 25. Two full weeks of campaign others. Almost everythi~ was contnbuted. The day of ,the dedication, KFXJ ing follow, with posters, speeches, (.now KR.EX -ed.) radio broadcast the ceremonies from the Victory Bell Bicycle Party Posts and newspaper coverage. Campaigns site, and several notables were on hand. I remember tha,t Gordon O'Brien close May 10, and elections will take spoke, I gave a talk, and I presume Mr. Wubben did also. The occasion was place May 13. solenm and formal, and the bell was dedicated in honor of all those who died in World War II, who were former or active students of Mesa College at the The CRITERION will open its pag ,time. · · Campaign Platform es to all candidates for campaign Freshm~n were appointed to ring the bell after every football victory, the purposes. Biographical sketches and number of times to be the Mesa score. However, the bell attracted students Responding to the CRITERION'S Bicycle Party hopes to sponsor a pictures when possible will be used at late hours, and the clapper was taken out and stored for use after games invitation to all politically minded candidate who wiU instill a more ad to augment individual efforts. Crite equate system of communications, a deadlines may be obtained at the of only. Then we found a few exuberants who liked to heat on it with tire people to submit summaries of their · irons or hammers. I was called from my home on Mantey Heights to tear in closer relationship between -the Con fice in the College Center. and stop the awful noise. Once I found one of our own SBA officers banging election promises, one group has and gress and the student body so that Several new campaign elec on it at 1:30 a.m., with an irate citizen who lived close by wishing to have presented a party platform. · 1he problems which arise from ,the tion procedures have been considered him arr~~ed! It :~ it :-vas ~ally taken to th~ bell tower of ;the building The Bicycle Party he11e presents inadequat,e alliance between the prin for this year, but ~ not be released (wh~re 1t 1s possible it still nught repose). Freshmen were instructed to go its platform and ·urges anyone ciple uni,ts on campus may be re for at least a week. up after a game and ring out .the Mesa score. interested in seeking office to solved. Cordially, campaign. under its banner. "Last quarter the Victory Bell was Victor Charles "Mesa's students have been accus stolen. Few people were even aware ed of being apathetic. We cannot con of its absemce and most of ithose who . Dr. Charle~ was Dean of Men at Mesa College when the bell was ac ceive of how the term apathy can be did notice the little hints in the Cafeteria qw.red and dedicated. He knows full well ;the sentiment attached as over 40 applied to a situation in which stu CRITERION didn't really know any of. his "former or active students" were killed in the war. Since that time, the dents have little or no knowledge of .thing about its tradition and conse Victory Bell has become one of the few tangible symbol'S of Mesa College one problems at hand. The issues pre quently didn't care. If ,the bell is of ,the very few things Mavericks can call their own. La.st fall after the' last sented in Student Congress are plac found, something must be done to get football game ·the bell was put away behind the bleachers in the gym and ed wholly at the mercy of the Con it out from under the drama stu Dress Norm apparently forgotten. gress rather than the student body. dents' feet and display iit so peqpie Early ,this year a number ot students attempted to find ,the bell so that it The students have little of merit upon will know it is ·there. We will try could be taken and rung proudly at Mesa basketball games. They found no which they can make an individual to have a bell tower erected on bell. It had been stolen or mislaid, and no trace of it was found. The CRITER decision or form an opinion. The campus 1to display ;the bell, blend Surveyed ION attempted to point out the loss to the student body, but to no avail. The with the archltectural style, and pre once-revered symbol of Maverick unity had disapJ)eared. And no one cared. vent the problems that arose in ear A recent survey taken of dining lier years when such a tower ex room attire in some Colorado col It's Here! isted. leges has been released to ,the CRI "The idlea of political parties has TERION for students who plan to at been questioned at Mesa. College for tend these schools. Dr. Ham~er Tells Group years. The fear ,that a powerful _Most colleges ~ro in agreement group will! run the school whether that students should follow the few Scuf pture Set they win or lose is harbored by many simple rules set by the administra: of the stuidents and most of the op tion concerning dress :in their col posing candidates. Recognizing this lege. There are many reasons why Of. Iachistoscope. Method fallacy, the Bicycle Party wishes to ,the different educational institutions In Union Patio make clear its intent. We have pre feel dress Is an important part of a Dr. Harry Hammer, chairman of to instruction. The system can',t pared a platform relating -the issues liberal education. Many of their the fine arts division of Mesa Col t€ach a person to sing any more by Mike Shiell which we feel are of most import present students will be ,the leaders lege has been named to a four-year than learning a set of let,ters can Lyn Wolf, Professor of Sculpture ance. This platform and all of our of communities in the future. People term on ,the audio-visual aids com teach him to re.ad, but it does teach at Colorado University has created efforts are not projected solely as a taking a quick glance at the college mittee of the Music Teachers Nation · recognition of the symbols used in and delivered ,the fountain sculpture quest for votes. We intend to see to would only have a short time to al Associatio.n. singing. which will _highlight the courtyard in it that our candidates possess the draw conclusions about it. O.f course The appointment was made during There has been an exdted profes the College Center. qualities which are prerequisi,t.es for one of the main factors of drawing the national convention Dr. Hammer sional 11eaction to Dr. Hammer's ap carrying out our purposes. We will a conclusion about a campus would plication of ,the tachistoscopic meth Professor Wolf's design was ap attended recently in Chicago. sponsor all -the proposals made by· be its external appearance and how While in Chicago, Dr. Hammer od. He is in J ·constant demand for proved and recommended by Mrs. the student body and those presented lectures and demonstrations,' and Biggs, the Art Department of Mesa the students themselves look. There signed a contract with Allen and by the other units on campus. are many other reasons that can be· Bacon, testbook publishers, ,to col has been asked to prepare a detailed College, the Architect of the College assumed by ,the .student, and perhaps presentation for the United States Center, and the College · Center "If our candidates lose the elec laborate with Dr. Wayne Scott of .the tion, · we will support wholeheartedly this is the most important. Some of , University of Colorado in the writing education office. Because of ,the new Board. The sculpture, which was cho ness of the technique, cost of ma sen from many designs submitted, those who are chosen to preside next ,the schools included dn the survey of a college text in the field of sight· year." on what to wear in the dining room singing, chinery, ;the need for teachers to was made possible through the do learn to run the machi,ne, and for nations of ;the classes of '58 to '63.

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