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WMHB BERRIGAN COM ING —Margaret Saunders 70 COLBY WMHB, 91.5 FM, will be revising its format in the next couole of weeks. The station is also planning on a The Student Association Cultural Life Committee, particularly for radio complete transfer to new quarters designed the Newman Club operation , to be completed by Septem ber. , and the New World Coalition are pleased Andy Dcininger, Manager of WMHB, explains "We're to announce the visit of Father Daniel Berrigan on Monday, really more of a business than a student organization, with March 8. A Jesuit priest, poet, and long-time illustration of nity as well as responsibilities to the Waterville commu the art of civil disobedience the Colby community. So the station is run as close to a com- , Father Berrigan was recently mercial level as possible right now." But he adds, "We released from a Washington_D.C. jail for the crime of cele- are given $7,200 by the STU-A each year to pay our ex- brating the advent of the bicentennial year by helping to penses. In a sense, the students are our sponsors, and our dig a grave in front of the White House. He will speak primary responsibility is to them." on WMHB released a survey about three weeks ago in "The Violent Bicentennial and the Non-Violent Citizen" order to determine what kind of music students like to at 8:30 in Lorimer Chapel . listen to at which times. The results of the survey will be Father Berrigan became notorious for a variety of tabulated and discussed at the next meeting of the May- flower Hill Broadcasting Association, the non-profit corporation Vietnain War protest, which included marches on the capi- that runs WMHB., Andy believes this survey "will show us tal, fasts, sit-ins, and culminated in the burning of over the campus; we will what kind of variety in interests we have on 600 draft files in Catonsville, Maryland in 1967. As one alter our tormat accordingly." of "Unfortunately , our efforts to improve the station the "Catonsville Nine," which included his brother, Philip, have put our facilities under a severe strain," Andy notes. Berrigan served a prison term from 1970—72. The record library is hopelessly overcrowded, storage space He has published twenty-five volumes of for equipment is totally lacking, and one of the studios is prose and not soundproofed. Usually, the radio station records im- . poetry in his process of attack on "every major presumption portant speeches, i.e. the Gabrielson series, but this year underlying American life today." it has been forced to drop the practice since there is no In addition to his lecture Monday evening, Father room to store the tapes. >7The station definitely needs to move out of its cramped Berrigan will be in Sturtevant Lounge at 1:30 for an infor- offices into an area niddeled precisely for recording mal discussion and will give a poetry reading at 4:30 in the studios. "In &11 probability, we should have those facilities cQvwmNG Coffeehouse. Don't miss this chance to encounter a truly by next SentemDer," Andy comments. The station, has cMsm discussed their ideas, with the consulting architect hired to extraordinary individual. look over Roberts for its planned renovation. Proposals for studios constructed with better soundproofing, improved mAMMED lighting and ventilation systems, and increased storage —John Devine space, nave been tentatively accepted. Several students from the Colby station will be For many Colby Seniors, second semester not only attending the Inter—Collegiate Broadcasting Convention in Philadelphia this weekend. Phil Redo, Program Director, brings with it the increased anticipation of graduation, but Debate at Committee views this as an opportunity "to meet people and see what's also the inevitable anxiety, excitement, confusion , pessimism, going on in college broadcasting across the country." The panic, and pressure that afflicts most of our scholarly campers convention will feature a series of seminars, conducted by as they try to decide wlhat they will be doing when they Caucus professional broadcasters dealing with a wide range of leave Colby's protective womb and enter into the world. topics concerning the radio world. Phil comments "1 —Heidi Neunun think this will help us to improve ourselves, so that we can Most of these sweaty-palmed Seniors have only recently learned that Lovejoy 110 houses Sid Farr's Office of In his opening address to the Committee CAucus continued on p. 5 In his opening address to the Committee Caucus on co«tJWuei oM p.ll Sunday afternoon, Scott McDermott pointed to a major problem in the current com mittee structure of the Student Association. The problem is communication. This set the theme for the well attended Caucus and for most partici- pants, it was a very informative and worthwhile afternoon. Fo r the first time, representatives from the various Stu-A college committees gathered to exchange reports and to en- gage m illuminating discussion on mutual problems, issues, and priorities. Following a summary of Caucus procedu res by Chair- person Daiser Khan and M cDermott's opening address, there were factual reports from each comm ittee spokes- man. Aside from disclosing committee progress (.or lack thereof) most of the student representatives expressed their • dissatisfaction and uneasiness with college committee opera- tions. At the close of his report , Cultural Life Chairperson Ed Harvey summarized a sentiment that was prevalent in many other reports : "If changes made this year seem unim- portant to anyone, it is because that person doesn't under- stand the process of change through the administrative channels' at Colby ... Even the best catalyst would take years and years to affect a really revolutionary change, if that catalyst insists on being a part of the 'proper channels.' Fast chance will not occur here if you attempt to do it the way *theyY tel l vou. If 'they * really want to get something done, 'they' will. do it 'himself*. If 'they * don 't think it's such a great idea', 'he' wilt send it through a maze of commit- tees and it will come out (if it ever does) looking quite dif- ferent than wlien it went in ... Change 'outside the chan- nels' may be different." Therc 'was a m ultitude of issues discussed and stu- ' died in committees this year. However, m ost committees seemed to be disenchanted with their efforts to initiate policy or recom mend change at Colby. Some Caucus parti- cipants attributed this frustration to the fact that work often dealt with topics within the bounds of undefined policy, e.g., "what is a flexible fifteen credit? ". They believed that such unclarificd policy,resulted in endless committee dis- cu ssion with no direction or goal in sight. "This," said Phil Lee, "is why some faculty members may regard the EPC as a joke... we have a hard time centralizing problems. In his report concerning the Planning Board, Awetu Simesso considered that a lack of cooperation and coordin- continuedon P> '6 LETTE R TO THE EDITOR DEAR EDITOR , All Students Urged to Vote NO! i • On Friday, March 5 , 1976 there will be an other Con- Regarding your editorial oh the problem of icy stairs at • stitutional Reform ballot which will ultimately decide the Colby .As most second-han d stories are at Colby, your story Bookstore Should eligibility of the Chief Justice of the J udiciary and the Pres- about a broken leg due to a wipe-out on the ice, was only idents of IFC and PHC to aspire to the office of Student partly correct. First of all , the accident occurred on the Representatives to the Board of Trus tees. If this question short , unbearded steps between Keyes and Life Science. is approved these three people would be denied the oppor- Also, I didn 't break a leg, it was m ore like an ankle. Actu- Serve Students tunity to seek this office and serve you , their fellow stude nts ally, it was an ankle , along with some frag ile ligaments. Be- on a very important level. " When tlie constitution was wnt- ing considered a rather sure-footed fellow, it comes with some ten these three people were denied the rights and privileges surprise even to me that a few stairs could be so dangerous. The letter from Mr. Torres referring to his own par - (if there be any) to run and serve on the Executive Board The problem reall y isn't the stairs , but the patches of ice ticular problems with the bookstore is one which doesn 't of the Student Associati on . The Representatives to the (and in some cases broken boards ) which we all have to ven- Board of Trustees was not included then , and there has not ture out on during the winter months. I realize tha t the B&G belong to him alone this semester , nor is it merely a pheno- been any reason set forth to explai n why this must be crew can 't spend every day chipping away the ice which menon unseen before. It appears that book order cutba cks changed now. I serve as President of the IFC and as a Stu- forms from the daily melts , but it seems reas onable enough have beco me the standard operating procedure at the book- dent Representative to the Board of Trustees and there is to ask them to at least maintain the outdo or steps on cam- neither a conflict of interest nor a serious handicap in time could prevent many of the numerous sprains , bruises , and store . Suebeth Fair seems to believe she knows how many commitment.