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Colby Alumnus Vol. 61, No. 3: Spring 1972 Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1972 Colby Alumnus Vol. 61, No. 3: Spring 1972 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 61, No. 3: Spring 1972" (1972). Colby Alumnus. 73. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/73 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. Focus CAMPUS NEWS 1 Change and potential change were the dominant features of spring at Colby. There was ap­ proval of limited coeducational housing by the board of trustees and a faculty vote on new grad­ uation requirements ensuring academic vigor and maintaining curricular flexibility. The sec­ ond Constitutional Convention April 7-9 recommended changes to the board which, if adopted, could lead to a more highly-de­ veloped sharing of responsibil­ ity among students, faculty, ad­ ministrators and trustees. HAVEY SENIOR SCHOLARS 6 The intensive personal research uf the Senior Scholars Program is becoming an enriching way SPORTS THE COLBY ALUMNUS station between the January Pro­ 5 Volume 61, Number 3 gram of Independent Study and CLASS NEWS 16 the careers of a select group of Spring i972 BIRTHS, MARRIAGES students. 34 Published quarterly DEATHS 35 ZEN: A DA y IN THE LIFE 12 (fall, winter, spring, summer) by Col by College Chaplain Roland W. Thorwald­ Photographers: sen wanted more than a tour­ Michael Amster '72, Michael De­ Editor: ist's impressions when he spent Sisto, Irving Faunce '69, Robert David C. Langzettel January in Japan visiting mon­ Grant '73, Susan Griffin '72, Rus­ asteries and shrines. He ac­ sell Harris '72, Michael Havey Design and production: tually entered the rigorous '72, and Peter Pennypacker '69 Milton Christianson and monastic life for two weeks to (front cover). David Langzettel gain insight for his courses. Letters and inquiries PORTRAIT OF A PHILOSOPHER 14 should be sent to the editor; President-emeritus]. Seelye Bix­ change of address notification ler first encountered John Clark to the alumni office as a boy in India "wrestling en­ thusiastically on the floor with Entered as second-class mail his brother." Professor Clark, at Waterville, Maine chairman of the philosophy de­ partment, will retire in June. Postmaster His long-time friend, colleague send form 3579 to and fellow philosopher assesses The Colby Alumnus the impact on the college of this Col by College gentle scholar and teacher. John Clark Waterville, Maine 04901 Coed Housing conducted a study and in an at­ Ca01pus tempt to provide a structure which The board of trustees has author­ would permit additional flexibility ized an experiment with limited and innovation, reduced the re­ coeducational living: women and Nevvs quirement to 105 credit hours. men on separate corridors or floors The hope was that the 105 hours i one or more dormitories begin­ The office of the dean of students � would be treated as a minimum ning next fall. will implement the experiment goal and that most students would The board acted on the unani­ within physical and budget limi­ choose to exceed the requirement. mous recommendation of its com­ tations. The Hexibility was intended to mittee on student affairs. The pro­ permit a student who wanted to do posal was presented to the board's Graduation Requirements so to concentrate on tewer courses. winter meeting by President Strider At the same time, the grade point and Trustee Robert A. Marden '50. The faculty has adopted new grad­ a\'erage required for graduation The recommendation was based on uation requirements affecting stu­ was raised. Although students a study requested by students after dents who enter the college next were required to take fewer hours, the committee recommended last fall and subsequent classes. the college c.lcmanded higher year against coed housing. A minimum of 120 credit hours quality. will be required, at least 105 of The committee's new recom­ After a trial period the Educa­ which must be earned in conven­ mendation is based in part on an tional Policy Committee decided tionally graded courses. The re­ open hearing, a poll of the student that the goals had not been maining 15 credits may be earned body and coed housing experience achieved and recommended to the in (a) con\'entionally graded at 28 colleges about the same size faculty a return to 120 hours. The courses, (b) in courses graded on a as Colby. Among them are Bates, faculty agreed. In doing so, how­ pass/tail basis, or (c) independent Bowdoin, Brown, Clark, Middle­ ever, the faculty sought both to (not regularly scheduled) pro- bury, Wesleyan, Williams, and the maintain flexibility and to ensure grams. universities of New Hampshire and academic rigor. The faculty decision brought to Vermont. a close wide-ranging discussion Chaired by Mr. Marden, the which had spread over more than committee is composed 0£ eight Memorial Endowment two years as faculty and students other trustees, an alumna, the dean An endowment fund has been debated and studied proposals. of students, two faculty members A bit of history is in order. For established in the name 0£ Kath­ and three students. many years, degree requirements erine R. Murphy '75, who died Among the conditions attached included earning credit for 40 tragically last Nov. 2. The income to the recommendation as approved courses. Each student took five will provide financial aid annually are that: courses per semester for eight to a Colby son or daughter. Kathy • The option of separate dorms semesters, plus (after 1962) the was the daughter of Marjorie for each sex be available to all who .January Program. In 1965 the Gould Murphy '37 and grand­ desire it. faculty voted to replace the 40 daughter of Florence King Gould • Individual privacy be pro­ tected for all students. courses and adopted a require­ '08. ment of 120 credit hours. During Contributions to the college in • Coed housing be enhanced where possible by academic, social the firstyear the system was in Kathy's memory may be sent to the or artisl�C interests. effect, 1968-69, the faculty again director of annual giving. 1 Students in the News analyze colonialism and racial at­ and do not apply. The grant pro­ titudes, and the feasibility of mul­ vides up to $s,ooo for expenses of William Mayaka '73 of Kisii, ti-racial societies. Rouhana, a pre­ President and Mrs. Strider during Kenya, is the new president oi stu­ law student, will study the legal the leave. dent government. An administra­ systems and politics of England, The St. Louis foundation, cre­ tive science major, he was treas­ France and Egypt. They are among ated in 1927 by the late Mr.and urer of student government last 70 seniors chosen from 140 candi­ Mrs. William H. Danforth, de­ year. He hopes to go on to grad­ dates nominated by 35 institutions. scribes itself as "a philanthropy uate studies in this country. His This is the second successive year concerned primarily with people cousin is Charles Angwenyi '64. that two Co lby students have re­ and values ." Its major areas of ' ceived awards from the Providence, activity currently are education 0 William Earnshaw 72 of Glen­ R.I., foundation. and problems of the cities. dale, Mass., has been awarded $3,600 a year for three years by the 0 The president was one of 60 National Science Foundation to President Receives Danforth Grant pursue a Ph.D. degree in microbi­ college presidents and senior ad­ ology at M.I.T. The dean's list President Strider has been selected ministrators who participated in biology major plans a career in re­ to receive a Danforth Foundation the second Management and Plan­ search. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa grant which wi ll allow him to take ning Institute for Higher Educa­ last year, Earnshaw is an accom­ a leave of absence for part of the tion in March at the Columbia plished photographer. His one­ second semester next year. University Graduate School of man show will be on view in He is the sole New England re­ Business. Roberts Union through commence­ cipient among 20 college-and uni­ He has accepted an invitation to ment. versity presidents and chancellors senie on the Advisory Council of "who hold promise for continued Presidents of the Association of significant leadership for higher 0 Senior government majors Governing Boards (Washington, education." Purpose of the grant Michael Strotz of Evanston, Ill., D.C.). The association is the only is to allow these educators "to en­ and William Rouhana 0£ Brook­ organization in higher education large their perspectives of current lyn, N.Y., have received Thomas J. concerned primarily with the prob­ Watson Foundation grants for a and future educational issues and lems and responsibilities of trust­ year of independent post-graduate to reinforce the administrator's eeship, and with the relationships study abroad. Strotz will visit leadership capabilities in higher of trustees and regents to the presi­ Portuguese Angola and Brazil to education." Recipients are selected dent, the faculty and students. Architect E. Verner Johnson points to final design of the Bixler Art and Music Center wing, for which ground was brohen this spring. With him, from left, are Professor James Armstrong (music), Museum Curator Hugh Gourley and Professor James Carpenter (art). Visiting lecturer Michael Yeats, son of William Butler Yeats, perused The James Augustine Healy Collection of Modern Irish Litera­ ture in March with Professor Richard Cary, right, curator of rare boohs and manuscripts.
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