Author Caldwell Arrives ASB Reps Erskine Caldwell, Noted Author Months in the Same Place
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'Game of Love' The Game of LOW" VI ili today's Chtiisie Film. The French film hi based on a Today's Weather "novel of adolescent love" by the famed French writer CIF San JIM': Fair today and tette, Dr. Rollin E. Buckman, Thursday except for patches (.111,0111. Film coordinator, an- of fog this will be riling. It niitinced. All Classic Films cooler Wednesday. The pre- PA RTAN DA I LY are shown at 3:30 and 7 p.m. dicted highs Wednesday will in TH55 and are free tii the be 70-75. SAN JOSE STATE COLLEGE college community. Vol. 53 4113P SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1965 No. 26 Voting Today !VS Visiting Scholar Freshmen To Pick Author Caldwell Arrives ASB Reps Erskine Caldwell, noted author months in the same place. His working in a variety store in working as a bodyguard and as of "God's Little Acre" and "Tobac- family was required to visit and Pennsylvania, playing professional a cub reporter on the Atlanta Today and tomorrow students co Road," arrives on campus this reside several months at each football, managing a lecture tour Journal. will elect two freshman Student morning for the first of his two- church under his father's juris- for a British soldier of fortune, His career in creative writing Council representatives and a day visit as SJS' Visiting Scholar. diction, which was the entire selling building lots in Alabama, began in 1933 when he won $1,000 Homecoming Queen, Ellis Rother, "Out of the Caldwell Workshop," South. Award for Fiction given by the ASB Election Board chairman, his only lecture open to the public, At age 18, Caldwell enrolled in Yale Review for his "Country Full said yesterday. will be presented tonight at 8:15 Erskine College in South Carolina of Swedes." The polls will be open from ill Concert Hall. Admission is free. but soon dropped out. He then Previously he had spent fottr 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. both days. Caldwell and his wife, Virginia, went to sea on a boat that was Scholar's years in Maine after vowing he Students may cast their votes at will visit classes and attend lunch- running guns for a revolt in a would not come out until he had the San Carlos Street end of Sev- eons according to the schedule Central American republic. He succeeded in writing a good short enth Street, on Seventh Street in printed on Page one. ended up in Mexico. Schedule story. During those years he had front of the Spartan Cafeteria The author's schedule for One of the most prolific writers SCHOLARSHIP wtitten SiX novels including his and across from the Spartan today is as follows: two most famous works, "God's Bookstore. in America today, Caldwell takes Later he won a scholarship from i o:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Presi- about 10 months to write a novel. the United Daughters of the Con- Little Acre" and Tobacco Road.'' Balloting on the freshman can- dent's Reception given by CORRESPONDENT Although a world traveler, Cald- federacy and entered University Dr. Robert D. Clark. didates will break a three-way At one time Caldwell was a ERSKINE CALDWELL, celebrated novelist, arrives on campus well's novels are set mostly in of Virginia. He worked nights in I I :30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. class- tie among Barry Brown (SPUR), newspaper correspondent in Mex- John Graham and this morning as SJS' visiting scholar. Accompanied by his wife, southern United States. a poolroom to earn room and room visit in ED445 "The Barry Turkus ico, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Russia (SPUR). Virginia, Caldwell will visit classes and attend luncheons during As the son of a Presbyterian board. 1A'riting of Fiction" his two-day visit. and China. In the running for Homecoming His only lecture open to the public will be to- minister in the South, Caldwell He left school after a year and 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.English In 1941, he became a radio cor- Queen are finalists Linda Eck- night at 8:15 in Concert Hall. has rarely lived longer than six began writing short stories while Department luncheon giv- respondent in Russia for CBS. berg, Betty Lou Mathes, Lynn en by the English Faculty During that time he was married Nibbe, Kris Oxsen and Judy Sal- 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m. class- Margaret Bourke-White, dis- berg. room visit in CH161. "So- to tinguished photographer for Life In campaign statements the cial Legislation" U.N. Festival Booth magazine. They collaborated on freshman candidates said: :.30 p.m. Press Conference 'JUNIOR PARTNER' 8:15 p.m. Public lecture in four books. Barry Brown "Student gov- Concert Hall "out of the Also at this time Caldwell wrote ernment can be a junior partner Caldwell Workshop" six novels himself, including in education by offering educa- Tomorrow Caldwell's activ- "Kneel to the Ftising Sun." tional programs and by Arab i t les include: Presently residing in San Fran- represent- Students Protest Ruling ing student views before appro- !I.:M-10:45 a.m. classroom cisco, Caldwell and his wife spend A conflict concerning the SJS anti-Zionist, but it is not anti- book but would Adwan priate members of the administra- to remove the for the Arab government,," visit CH227 "Personality most of their time traveling. Arab-American Student C1lub's Jewish," Adwan said. tion. This can best be done by give no reasons for their request. said. and the American Social His most recent work "Around booth at the United Nation's Fes- Daniei.N. Hoffman, co-chairman attempting to reach an ideal He removed the book after con- He emphasized that the Arab- Structure" About America" describes life tival at the Santa Clara County equilibrium in its cultural, enter- of the San Jose Council of the sulting with Mrs. William Reeves, American Club is an independent 1 12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m. Student found on his latest tour of the U.S. Fairgrounds Sunday is "far from tainment and service programs so Anti-Defamation League of B'nai U.N. festival corrunittee chairman. student organization, and both Council Luncheon Approximately 20,000,000 of settled," according to Mohammad a ma.ximum number of students B'rith, charged, "The very title of "Later several B'nal B'rith mem- Jews and Arabs are Semitic 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Informal Caldwell's books have been cir- Adwan, club president. can be benefitted. Proper student the book was a calculated affront bers began protesting in front of peoples. Discussion open to the culated in the U.S. and abroacL views can be brought before the The center of controversy is a to many festival visitors, both our booth saying that we were "Anti-Jewish sentiments voiced public held in the Home His books have been subjected to administration by selecting stu- book, "The Decadence of Judaism Jewish and Christian." anti-Semitic racists who worked by representatives of the Arab Economics Quad more censorship than those of dents knowledgable in the areas in Our Times," by Moshe Menuhin, "We believe that Arabs have student organization at the U.N. any other American author. where they represent student father of violinist Yehudi Menuhin. every right to voice their points festival are symptomatic of the views. Several groups requested that the of view with reference to Israel, KSJS Tabled propaganda of hundreds of Mid- CAMPAIGNS INDEPENDENT book be removed from the club's disagree though we may with their Eastern students in northern Cali- John Graham--"I have' chosen display on the grounds that is was arguments, but the injection of Financial Advisory Board fornia colleges," Hoffman asserted to campaign independent of po- "inappropriate" for the festival anti-Jewish actions and statements (FAB) decided yesterday to yesterday. litical parties so I can be free from theme. at a U.N. Festival devoted to inter- postpone action on the $1,373 To counteract the decisions on U.S. Air Cavalry political pressures and unneces- "I consider the book pro-Jewish. national cooperation and under- KSLIS budget request untU next the book, Adwan posted a sign sary influences when elected. I It could be called controversial or standing is an abuse of the fes- meeting. The action was taken over the fair booth which read, seek the office of frestunan rep- tival's purpose and hospitality ex- to allow FAB to determine the "Amb students protest racial dis- resentative in order to initiate, tended by Americans to foreign extent to which the Department crimination, anti-Semitism and the students of all faiths," he said. discrimination against our booth." Battles Viet Cong support and effectuate programs of Speech and Drama finances designed at increasing and en- Co-Rec Sets Adwan e xplained that B'nai the station. Members of the festival com- hancing the cultural, social and B'rith representatives ordered him mittee boarded up the booth so SAIGON (UPI) U.S. Air gon went into its second weelc, educational opportunity of all stu- the sign would not be seen and Cavalry troops Tuesday joined the Communist troops attacked a sec- dents. This is the true purpose Competition the club members withdrew In furious battle against Viet Cong ond Special Forces camp 50 miles of student government." protest. Mrs. Reeves acted at the and North Vietnamese forces be- northwest of Saigon. MANY PROGRAMS Tricksters will be receiving request of Bahai, Congress of sieging the U.S. Special Forces In the Mekong Delta south of Barry Turkus-- "There are sev- treats tonight as Co-Rec presents Applications Available Racial F.quality (CORE), and B'nai camp at Plei Me.