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Vol 49-No. 15 New London, Connecticut, 'Thur-sday, February 27,....!-964 Price 10 e-.. College Faculty Votes to Join IMidani to Discuss Court Releases Mardi Walker Princeton Language ProgramAr IaBh-IsdraeliFights" On Bail; Sets April Hearing . n or erAr eas The faculty of Connecticut Col- ing or of pursuing a second year Th A b I li b d di On Monday morning Mardi lege voted at its last meeting to of intensive work at Princeton, or t e . r~ . srae 1 . o~ ~r IS- Walker returned to Connecticut PU to begin classes for second semes- accept the invitation of President of going abroad for a year. This t estwillbe e .the sbUbJecMoAkalee- · t t nct-Hs i t ddt ure 0 given y f. ram ~ tel'. Her return was made possible Goh een 0 f P rmce on 0 par rei- IS no a egree program, an 5 U-I Mid . Chi f f R h f th pate in the "Cooperative Under- dents will return to their home am, teD0 e~arc ffl .e by the posting of a $15,000 bail by graduate Program for Critical campuses for senior year and the Arab States ele~atio~s? ce In two Atlantan Negroes. The bond Languages." In his letter of invi- A.B. degree. INew York. Mr. ~Idam WIll speak was set on Thursday, Feb. 20 by . . h to the International Relations Judge Durwood Pye after she had tation President Go een wrot.e, It is expected that most inter- CI b Wed M h 4 t 7'15 "Th '11 make avail - u on ., arc a ., been convicted of violating Geor- e program WI - ested students would plan to do· C . Willi S t d t gia's anti-trespass law and fined able to talented students the op- post-graduate work in the Near ILIn rozler'd lliJamt~ . ~ etds - portunity to study intensively Eastern East Asian or Russian I toudnget' an .a 't°ed etr !nttered e ,., $1,000 and sentenced to eighteen hi h t t ht' s U en s are mVI 0 a en . months in jail. Ianguages w IC are no aug areas. Their graduate studies J .. . at an advanced level at the stu- would benefit greatly from the M~. Midani was born In ~am<3;s- The $5,000 collected by the stu- d~nt's ~ome campus, a~~ to co.ro. linguistic competence the Prlnce-] cus In 1927, ~nd has studied In dent committee here is being held bme. thl~ language traul:Ing wlt~ tori program offers. Experience D.amascus, Cairo, and New York. in escrow in an Atlanta bank as studies In the area of Interest. has shown that the national need Smce 1947, he has been a mem- collateral for the property which - Th~ Program include~ Arabic, for persons thoroughly familiar I bel' of the staff of the League of was posted as bond. The value of ~hmese, Japanese, Persian, 'I'urk- with these languages and cul- Arab States. In 1954, he. tour~d the property is $40,000 and the Ish, RUSSIan, and relevant area tures cannot be met by education the Arab Stat~s on a special mrs- donors would have been reluct- s~die~ in the humanities and 50- at the graduate level alone, and s~on to esta~IIsh Ara? Informa- ant to post the bond without the cial SCIences. Princeton has been one of the tion Centers In the U.mted State. s. secur-ity of our $5,000. Under the th b Ch f f Ad Joanna Warner and MaJ'di Walker Students participating in the pioneers in making provision forH . e .en. ccame ie 0 mm- anti· trespass law bail must be in program will spend their junior ins'truction in these subjects at Istrahon In the Office of the Per· ------the form of unencumbered prop- yea!' at Princeton. They must the undergraduate level. manent Observer of the. League erty in Fulton County. have at least an elementary Undergraduates apply for ad- ~f Arab States at the UnIted ~a- Connecticut College Mardi's case is being appealed. knowledge of the language they mission to the program through tlO~S, and later served as Its To Follow Brandeis She need not be present at the wish to study, acquired either at their own colleges. Mr. Lloyd C~lef of Research. He has con- hearing on April 24. If the appeal the home campus or at an ap- Eastman is the Connecticut Col- t~lbuted to a numbe~ of maga- With Freedom Fast is rejected, her lawyer, Donald L. proved summer school. Financial lege representative, and pro spec- ZInes and ryewspapers In the ~ear On March 11 members of the Hollowell, will take it to the Geor· aid .for intensive summer courses tive applicants should contact him ~ast, 3.1?'dISpresently a contnbu- student body may voluntarily gia Supreme Court. Mardi's bond is avallalble through the Pro- before March 13. A preliminary tl1:g ~dltor of A~Ada~, one of the is also being appealed in a few give up their evening meal in gram Irom the Carnegie Corpora- selection will then be made pnnclpal magazmes In the Arab weeks. Had it not meant dropping tion. After junior year at Prince- among the aspirants from this world. order to provide food for unem· out of college, Mardi would have ton, there is the possibility of a College. The deadline for final _ ployed citizens of Mississippi. The stayed in jail during the appeal. second summer of language train- applications at Princeton is April JUNIOR YEAR ABROAD Fast for Freedom is a nationwide U. S. Senator Thomas J. Dodd 1. There are two requirements for fast in which numerous colleges of Connecticut has asked Attor- admission: a distinguished aca· Applications to study abroad ney General Robert Kennedy to and universities are participating. demic record and one year of a next year must be submitted intercede for Mardi. Dodd tenned critical language, or the equiva- to 1\lr. Philip Jordan by The money which is saved by th.e the girl's conviction and sentence ~larch 10. lent at an intensive summer College will be used by the Stu· 1I0utrageous." In his letter to the course. ------~---- dent Non-Violent Coordinating A·ttorney General he said "Mar- ______Committee 'for the purchase of di Walker's only crime was uJr holding the Constitution of the food for Negroes who~e welfare United States. The outrageous Lukacs to Give Opening Talk payrnents have been denied them. sentence imposed upon her by the The fast is headed by a group Geor·gia Court should shock and At World ,Affairs Conference of students at :Brandeis Univer· outrage the American people!' sitY"who originated the plan last Mardi Was the first of twenty- nine demonstrators to be tried The opening speech of the Con- back); U. W. Kitzinger, The Poli- year. The Brandeis students 'are under the anti-trespass law. She necticut College Annual Confer- tics and Economics of European handling the funds for the pur- refused to accept the $1,500 ence on World Affa1.rs will be giv- Integration (Praeger Paperback), which her father, Captain D. P. en by Professor John Lukacs at and Winter 1964 issue of Daeds.- chase of the food and the Te.am- Walker, would have given to pro- 8 p.m" March 13. The subject of Ius on HA New Europe?" ~ters Union is providing transpor· vide a professional bondsman be· the Conference is "The United tation for the food to Mississippi. Books Available at Bookstore, cause this privilege was denied to States and Europe." Library Representatives from each dorm the other prisoners. Professor Lukacs was born in Those planning to attend the will post sign-up sheets for those Mardi was convicted by an all- Hungary. He was educated in Conference are invited to study who wish to participate in the white jury after fifty minutes of Hungary and in England. During these books. For convenience, fast. Participation is voluntary. deliberation. Prosecuting attor- -w the SeCond World War, he was in they will be placed on reserve at Cereal will be provided in lieu of ney William Spense told the jury his native country, and came to the main desk in the library. Sug- dinner for those who feel they that Mardi's acquittal would lead the United States only il'l 1946, be· gestions ~or further reading can cannot partictpate in a complete to more violence in Atlanta. Shov- Robert Lowell fore the Sovietization of Hun- be found in a library display and fast. ing and fisticuffs were reported gary. Since 1947, Mr. Lukacs has a display at the Bookstore that Miss Voorhees of the Residence during demonstrations in Atlan· been a professor of history at will be offered for a week pre- Qepartment will determine the ta's segregated restaurants last Poet Robt. Lowell, Chestnut Hill College, Philadel· ceding the Conference. In addi· unit value of each meal and a week. Mardi touched off an inveg. phia. He has also been a visiting tion, the Bookstore win be sell- check for the amount saved will tigation of Georgia jail conditions· Recipient of Prize, Professor at La Salle College, Co- ing books related to the subject be sent by Connecticut College to when she complained that the lumbia University and is current· of the Conference in Crozier-Wil- the Fast for Freedom Fund at prisoners had dumped water on ly a visiting professor at the Uni- To Present Works liams on Saturday, March 14 of Brandeis University. her. versity of Pennsylvania. In 1964· the Conference weekend. Those The Club is presenting Robert 65, he will be senklr visiting interested in buying these books Lowell in an evening of poetry at Fulbright Professor at the Uni- should bring their funds to the 8:30 on March 6 in Palmer Audi- versity of Toulouse, France. In speech tllat will be given on Sat- College Awards Advancement torium. 1963 and 1964 he was Honor's Ex- urday at 10 a.m. by Mr. Auchin- The young American poet, who aminer at Swarthmore College. closs and the panel discussion was elected to fill Robert Frost's Noted Author that will be held that afternoon. In Rank to Twelve Professors chair in the American Academy The speakers of this Confer- Twelve members of the CQn- ed a survey on "Work in Irish of Arts and Letters and 'has won Professor Lukacs is the noted ence are ot such a distinguished necticut College faculty have History Since 1940" for the Con- three coveted literary awards, author of several books, including nature that it is hoped Connecti- been awarded advancement in ference on British Studies of will talk and read from his own The Great Powers of Eastern Eu- cut College students would wish rank. All twelve faculty members which she is a member. At Con- works. rope (1953), Tocqueville: The Eu- ropean Revolution and Corre- to prepare themselves on the ba· will assume their new status with necticut College she teaches Lowell received Pulitzer Prize sic issues beforehand. A Confer· sp:mdence with Gobineau (Dou- the beginning of the 1964-65 aca- I classes in English and French in 1947 for his Lord Weary's Cae- ence of this nature can only be bleday Anchor, 1959) and A Hi.. demk year next September. I history an~ conducts an advanced tIe. Life Studies received the na· more meaningfUl to the student tion-al Book Award for poetry in tory of the Cold War (Doubleday Dr. Helen F. Mulvey, now as- i study seminar for history majors Anchor, 1962). The latter- I>ook and more successful as a whole if sociate professor of history, will ?n 19th century BritislJ- imperial· 1959, and his most recent book, the speakers are met with knowl- has appeared in French, German 1s Imitations, was co·winner of the edgeable and challenging partici- become a full professor. She is a 1 m. .. . . Bollingen Prize in Translation. and Italian editions. Professor specialist in Great Britain and ~r. William A. Nlermg, now as- Lukacs is also the author of arti- pation on behall of the college the Commonwealth during the soclate professor of botany, has Lowell is a member of the dis- community. tinguished Boston family that has cles, essays and reviews in vari· 19th and 20th centuries. She has! combined teaching and research produced poets James Russell ous scholarly and literary jour- written numerous articles in this II with bis duties as ~sistant di- Lowell and Amy La;well, a pr-esi- nals. area for Canadian Historical Be· rector of .the Connecticut Arbore- Registration Deadline for view Victorian Studies 'and The tum fo;r the past 11 years. In ad- dent of Harvard University, and The following books are recom- CONN QUEST mended as background material Ame~ican Historical ~view and dition to his ecological research other accomplished figures. TUESDAY, MARCH S for the Conference: her chapter on HIreland's Com- Wlithin th*: Arboretum, he con- Because the United States fre- Registration After l\larch Srd John Lukacs, A History of the monwealth Years" MTi.ll be incluti- ducted SClentific studies on the quently sends him as its official will exclnde meals with dele- Cold War (Anchor Paperback; ed in a collective volume on The Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Car· representative at literary and cul- gates. All Students Most Pay tural events in England, ~urope, MIchael Shanks and John Lam- British Commonwe&1th: Recent oline Islands in 1954 and, while 51.00 to Attend. Historiography to be published on leave. of absence from the and South America, he is un· bert, The Common Market-To- ADlIfISSION BY TICKET doubtedly more widely read and day and. Tomorrow (Praeger Pa- later this year by Duke Univer. College 10 1962-63, he began an ONLY sity Press. investigation of the vegetation of knawn abroad ,than any orher liv- perback); George Llchtheim. The ing American poet. New Europe (Praeger Paper-I ------Miss Mulvey has just complet· See 'Taco.Ity"-Page 6 Thursday, Fehruary 27, 1964 Pap Two CoooCeolul Beyond the Wall Conservative Anti·nMes Letters It's the middle of winter as e A recent headline in The Dart, :v ConnCensus always say in the middle of WIn- mouth read: "Senator Margaret ter, and everyone looks like she to the Editor: Established 1916 C. Smith Speaks here Tomor- row." Underneath was a box con- should be .back In the ~~~ei~~~Judging from the (two min- Publuhed by the students of conneeueut College every Thursday thrOugh- ... It's being rum~ed tomor ute ?") speeches of Tuesday's out the couege year from september to June, except during mJd·years and taining the quotation: ''It is thy r vaeaUona. place, woman, to hold thy peace. will ~ served at t::::: we sto~ Amalgo, there seems to be an ap- Second clan entry authorized at New London, Connecticut. and keep within doorsv-c-Aeschy- row night ... It's Ial rob 1 preciable demand for the lrn- Ius. With this, a shudder passes being asham~ o~~ur:~~re ~ear~ provement of student/faculty re- through those who refuse to be- Iem and realize a ti in SOlv.!latiOns. The one recurrent propos- •••Ulllni '0 •• -...... 1 .....lUUI•• I' Member lieve that it is entirely a man's ~he~d of any other na ~~rdto be al for thi~ improvement was a mg It ... Europe can at' t streng-thening of communicamon NatI_1 Advertillng ServIce, Inc. world. er as recen no s Aoooeiated Collegiate Preoo smug noI on,g b f between the two groups in the Colleee Publlahen BeprefNlDtattye As the num er 0 . 18 £alt 50 St. New York. N. Y. • •• demonst rate . . d ! form oif Integrated forums and ...... "'T" • LI•• 'UUI • u.- r.... Jlel ••• lnteftOllegiate Preoo IM~'oes on the Continent an In It ., , As part of a transition stage l.l~""b~. roblems rnul- studentyfacu y committees. Thts from fraternities.. to residence. England . Increases,PrejudiceP exists would Inindi ~at e a genuine ' Iy Com- halls Williams College has initio tiply too . . '. lt group be- mendable Interest In the faculty Edlior-lJI-ChJel ManactDI' EdJtor GerrY OUva loomanne Rehor ateda "block system" identical to wherever a rmnorr X influential on the part of the students and an Connecticut's donn selection pro- com e s large i economlc threat equally commendable desire to cedure Students at Wilhams. ' can enough to . pose han had to face this'ft so enth e t e a c'h er / SUet d n t EdlioriaJ StaJf -: . .Amenca as b hO d h ' now hst members of thel!' block., .. , fl t Europe'S trou-, reac. ne won ers, owever, ill New. P.clItor Janet Matthews '66 and the houses this "block" problem r.s .. b' ainning . . .!spite of the commendability of Feature Edlter-:======Virginia Chambers '65 bles are Just eo· th' I if 't' 't f' wishes to join. One student from We'd hate to say that-LBJ reo IS proposa, I IS q~'le air AMbt&nt: Feature EdItors Karen Stothert '67, CynthIa Miller '66 each group draws a number FDR or that the ADA to pressure the faculty mto an Copy EdUer Martha Williams '65 which detennines preference in sembles , 't' ted by HUAC I after·class encore by popular de- A.. b;taDt Copy Editor Janet Sandberg '66 . . shouldbe mves 19a' , J G ted" llakeup EdItors Wendy Caaman '67 filling avalTable places In the dor- th NAACP is worse for mand a one. ran , It IS a fine KKK Unrtlalnc Manacer Judy Ballen '65 mitories. or that S eth the is or thing to enjoy our if'aculty to the BnaIIleea Manacfll" Barbara BlatnIk '65 theU, NIR' B en ally favors' the exten ttht a we would WIS 'ht' 0 m- ... . that the usu t ' h Circulation Carol Davis '65 AFI.rCIO but that's what we dis- crease our con act With ! em, Es:ehanl'B Edlton Nancy Herrick '66, Carolyn Shimkus '65 Conn census is now on ex· covere d w'hile mm 'd,'ng our P's whether., the pUl"pOse be SOCIalor Photo&TaPher Laurie Maxon '63 change with The Brown &> White, ' P haps the New instructIve. CartoonlBt Sue Frleberg '66 andQ s... er n" . Lehigh University's cam pus York Times should start ~rinting YVecan ~y eaSily enough that Sen1oJ' Bo&l"d newspaper. The paper recently its paper on pink nev.rspnnt ... the faculty IS here because we are Marie Birnbaum '64, Susan Epstein, '64, Karen Kunstler '65. Joan Ross '64, gave an excellent coverage of EI,1en Corroon '64. It's frightening to know that the here and that we should consti- Mardi Walker's case and has Times' staff members often brief tute the focus of their attention. s..... shown an interest in our Conn- our diplomats lbefore they're sent But we d()---Jjnthe classroom, dur- Barbara Brush, Kate Curtis. Rae Downes, Tessa MllIer .....Llzzle Dean, Marcia Quest program. abroad ... no wonder we get spat ing office ho~rs and in the time Geyer, BMdget Donahue, Ellen Kagan!,.~Carolyn Lewis, !!;mUy Littman, Mary MUler, Merry Usher, Ruth Zaleske, Nancy Brown, Margaret Alton, Anne on ... We submit that it is t~e spent preparmg classes and cor· Keer, Mariana Kaufman. Alice Daghllan, Kathy Moon. liberals who are reactionary. ThiS See 44Letters to Editor"-Page 3 country was formed !by men try- Mardi Speaks oing to escape from too much gov- ernment interference. Progress I was in jail when I first ~hroughout history has been Editorial received word that the sf:lv made by a weakening - of the dents at Conn. were rais- monarchy or the central govern- ing money for my bO'lUl.I ment and by a concurrent move- can never really rmt in- ment' toward greater individual Beyond the Bond to words how m'wh this freedom. Must we now renounce news meant to me when I the gains. of centuries? The lib- We were alarmed at the wealth of misinformation circu- was feeling so alienated eral philosophy can only be lating around this campus concerning the Mardi Walker case. termed ,archaic ... J'Udging from from the pe01Jleand places accusations hurled at Goldwater, This information has resulted in the formation of hasty judg- familia,' to me. What aU of it's becoming a crime to be a pa-, ments which cannot be eliminated by a simple statement of yo" have done for me gave triot ... We think Time magazine the facts as presented in our news article. We would hope me stnngth to face what I should go the way of the New had to go through. Few peo- York Times. Ann Partlow that all concerned would talk as we have done with Mardi ple k:new who Mardi Wal- and be as impressed as we have been with the sincerity and ker was, I realized this, and •••"..".,II.' ....,I'...,...'.....,..~..." ...... ,." ....,I.""'."'" willingness to cooperate which she demonstrated. so I believed that what was Topic of Candor being done was being done "" .."", ..." ...."." ..,,..." ...... I1"."" ....n""" ..~....."" What we realized in our discussion was that our actions on acco"nt of a strong feel- concerning this affair have had wide coverage not only in the ing of the student body that If the Connecticut College com· Connecticut newspapers, but in newspapers and on campuses inj'UStice was taking pIMe munity 'is as responsive apd re- covering much of the East. The Atlanta papers gave much in that southern co",·t, and sponsible as the great hopes and publicity to the campaign. They exhibited open amazement even further, that inj'US- promises of Tuesday's speeches tice was taking p lac e would seem to indicate, there at the fact that Mardi was not just one Northern zealot throughout the South. I should be no need. for this column whose plight would be ignored or disclaimed by the majority looked on what you did as to urge and beg students to at- of other students. She had the backing of a college composed a sign that ConnectiC"UtCpl- tend campus even ts. We will as- mainly of other white NoJ;1;hern students willing .to defend lege does not care abov.t the sume then that everyone is es- the courage and ideals of a fellow student. The people of At- struggle that is going on sentially in favor of conferences lanta have given this case a lot more careful consideration in our cov.ntry today-:the and "good" speakers, but is mere- fight being waged by other ly holding out for other invita- than they would have had we not snccessfully completed such students, Negro students, tions, ,figuring that final commit- a campaign. ments to a weekend devoted to a for their rights as citizens Connecticut College activity may and M human beings. I WM always be made two minutes be- Joanna Warner received a special delivery letter from in jail not so much because Wells College in Aurora, New York stating that they had fore starl'lng time. It woutd, in I WM a victim of cirC"Um- fact, he-idealistic of us to think held emergency meetings and had agreed to aid us in any stance, thov.gh 110M, but that we have thf appeal of the I way that they could. They were willing to start a fund drive beca'USeI !wAf made a per- U. S. Senate, !Madison Square Gar- for a student at another school with which they had no per- sonal commitment to 10hat den, or a Big Three Conference. But waiting around until these sonal connection. The Brown and White at Lehigh University I believe in, and WM UJiU- ing to accept the conse- Ilreally good" speakers drop by used Mardi's plight as a front page spread introducing a quences in order that some- will not hasten their arrival. Our Food For Freedom Drive which they are beginning. college conferences cannot have day yov., aruJI, aruJthe Ne- any appeal until we at least give What we are attempting to do in presenting all this factual gro stu.dents in our cov.n- I the activities we are fortunate try, 1Oil! be truly "free." data is to awaken those who do not see the far reaching ef- enough to have a reason for their This is 10hat I believed you, own existence. fects that our actions have had. We were aiding one of own, tlwugh indirectly, to be sup- We have unfortunately been yes, but the implications of this act go far beyond that of porting. No1Othat I have miserably spoiled. By our prox- aiding any student in distress. We have given a vote of con- returned to the cam'[>WII imity to New York, Ne\V Haven fidence to all the other potential Mardis here and at other see your generous action in and Boston many of us have a different light. I am glad come to think that "good speak· Northern schools. They know now that there is much sup- in a 10ay that at the time ers" are those of whom virtuany port behind them and their ideals. Not all students may be every voting citizen has at least 1 gave the meaning toot I heard of. But we are sorely mis- willing to act as she has, but they are willing to go to great did to yov.r support. N010I taken. In eight days three out- lengths to support such efforts. To those who gave to a fel- understand that the money standing speakers are com1ng to low Conn student this may come as unwelcome news, but the 10Mmeant for me M an in- attend CONN QUEST, the first fact remains that this has had far broader implications and divid'Ual, aruJ not M C.C.'s Connecticut College colloqUium. commitment to the.struggle We all ,were very pleased last repercussions than our student government had expected in for equality aruJ dignity Spring when we heard Vhat finally proposing such a move. that is taking place. I ap- Connecticut was gaining the pres- tige of having a ''Challenge'' or We wish to express our great satisfaction with the result- vreciate your action very, very much, but I 'Wish that "Response" styled. conference. It Well the colloqUium idea has not ing situation. has shown us that first of all our activities it !wAf !wAf more of the here can be importsnt and even crucial and secondly that we changed in the past year, nor, meaning I first gave to it. apparently (I refer again to Tues- are not alone in our problems. Other campuses face much the Right now there are sf:lv day night) have our aspirations same apathy and their leaders look with approval at the con- dents throv.plwut the Sov.th for our college. Yet eight days be- cern and enthusiasm demonstrated here. We hope that the in jail, like 110M. receiving fore the weekend only a handrful no justice, aruJ desperatel1l of registraMon blatiks have been interest which has been aroused will not jade with the pass- in need of ov.r support. filed. This is hopefUlly because ing weeks and that Mardi will be able to reach most of the PleMe, we must not let people have just lnot sent them caIJ!.puswith the message that our action has been one of the in yet.' The deadline for com- them do1On. plete registration is Tuesday most valuable contributions to an ideal to which she was Mardon R. Walker March 3, Registration -after thl~ willing to give all. G. O. See ''Topic of Candor"-Page 3 Thursday, Fehruary 27,1%4 ConnCenlul People Live in Other America "Wil" Caruthers Represents In Kentucky, Harlem Ghettos South, Discourages Prejudice Michael Harrington wrote of dren are rarely adequately pre- For two years Connecticut col-1 several unsuccessful attempts to The Other America. It is the pared for further education and lege has carried on an exchange pronounce Willenor with a south- America of almost 50,000,000 who work "when available is ~hort- program with Spelman College. Iern accent) was a Negro and a are made invisible by a society term and wages below the na- Last semester Willenor Caruth- new student. Because of this she which tends to shield itself from tional poverty level. In depressed ers, a senior biology major was probably received more attention almost one third of itself. The areas such as eastern Kentucky Spelman's representative to Ccn- than she really wanted. Perhaps present admimstratkm has vowed race is no asset. The problem necticut College. Willenor lived we were trying to prove some- to shed some light on the prob- there is not a racial problem (as on the third floor of Hamilton thing. \Ve wanted \ViI to know lem and to begin its eradication. it is partially in Harlem and oth- and unless you were in one of her I that we as whites were not all as Such action is greatly needed and er ghettos) but it is one of auto- classes or lived in Hamilton you hateful as it must appear to the a solution will have great signi- mation which has caused extreme probably never met her. Like all Negro. And it would have been ficance in the struggle for racial unemployment and, as a result, of us, after the first few weeks logical i1 the reverse had been equality; for unless the Negro poverty, hunger, poor education of school, she settled down into; true---il \ViI had gone out of her and white problem of poverty is and classification as a "depressed the normal, sometimes moncton- way to prove a wor-thy represen- removed, compatability of the area." ous, sometimes over stimulating tative of her race. But as it turn- life of Connecticut College. Ied out no one tried to prove any- races will not exist either. The It is obvious that both Harlem problem is one of great complex- The 'first week Willenor was thing to anyone. Wil very quickly and eastern Kentucky suffer from here students went out of their became one of the group. -She did ity. No one solution will suffice. similar problems. That One hi No solution, however, will be way trying to make her feel at not represent the Negro race nor black and the other white is really ease (and trying to understand we the white race. We were all achieved unless the scope and Donald Campbell, Jr. of little significance. The prob- her incomprehensible southern individuals representing our- complexities of the nation's prob- lems still remain. What is needed lems are realized and beeome an accent). For that first week Wil selves, liJcing and disliking people is an attack on poverty and poor Camp be IIto P resent (a name quickly derived after for their individual charecterts- important concern in the develop- education in both cases. Neither ment of their solutions. JI"- I tics. In a subtle but simple way community can expect much im- Drama mono ogues Dr, Fay Presents we all learned that perhaps !!his provement without such a 'war The Negro ghetto in the Ameri· TI'7'II' , is the only way integration will can cities is one of the main areas on poverty' which would involve onC ampus, """ ms Realistic Portrayal ever fully come about, as we learn Of poverty in the United States. participation of the federal and • to accept people as individuals In New York's Harlem, for in- state governments in boosting the Something new, exciting and In Medlcal Lecture and not as members 00' a larger stance, almost half of the Negro economy and educational levels of different is coming to this cam- froup. If we were to judge the inhabitants can be classified as the depressed areas and urban pus Tuesday, March 3: in the Last Thursday night in a lee- Negro race by Wil, segregation members of the other America slums. Main Lounge of Crozier-Williams, ture sponsored by the Science would no longer be a problem, (those earning less than four \ Education Needed to Aid 7 p.m., a series of dramatic mono- Club, students were urged to but it would be just as easy for thousand dollars for a family of Employment logues----"Between Me and Thee" consider medicine and allied sci- some one else to judge that same four). They have been forced into -"an exploratory thrust into the ences in choosing careers. Dr. Such a program must involve race by a very undesirable per- the ghetto and into poverty by a barriers we all erect to shut out Marion Fay, retired president and son. system that does not allow them increased .job opportunities for God and man." dean of the Women's Medical Col- those who are, for technological And so without trying, Wil to emerge, that forces the Negro Donald Campbell, Jr., is a stu- lege in Pennsylvania, spoke on and educational reasons, unable was what she was sent up here further into the -lnvisible world dent at Union Theological Semi- the admission requirements for to be, a wonderful representative that Harrington speaks of. Con- to find employment. Simultane- medical sohools, the career op- ously, education must be im- nary, New York City. The pro- portunities in medicine, and the of Spelman College, but to those stantly in fear and servitude of of us who were fortunate enough proved in order for the poor to ceeds from his program finance a "the man" (the white man) who contributions made by women. to know her she was more than be able to compete and survive in portion of his education. Connect- is the police man, truant officer, icut College's Religious Fellow- Dr. Fay urged students apply- that: she was a wonderful per- judge, merchant, landlord, bill col- a society so strongly based on educational background. Such aid ship is covering the costs so no ing for medical- school to file son. lector; the Negro lives in a world admission charges are required. their applications in the summer net his own. He is, as the sociolo- must be given to aU economically between their junior and senior gist Nathan Glazer has pointed deprived citizens of this country. While at Williams College (he years and to take the Medical Students Mobbed, out, in but not of American so- In the shadow of automation and graduated from there in 1960), Boards in the spring of their [un- clety. They remain as non-parti- technology, race. though a slgni- Don Campbell was exceedingly ior year. She emphasized the -im- Attacked Gaining cipants because poverty will not ficant problem is not the only one, active in dramatics. This interest portance of college mathematics, allow the majority of Negro and no race problems will be persisted and last summer he was advanced courses in chemistry, Fac';"'ltyShow Info Americans to be part of the func- solved unless human dignity is a resident actor at the Barn Play- and courses in embryology and According to all reliable rumors tioning system that is American available to all citizens. house in Stony Point, N. Y., genetics. However, she also rec- Faculty Show has been in reo society. The problem of the Harlem where he played the lead in sev- ommended that a broad back- hearsal for four years. Only reo Whites Face Poverty Also slum is a big one. The problem of eral productions. - This present ground in the social sciences be cently (mid-October), however, the depressed area of Kentucky is project is a part of his field work a part of the premedical currtcu- But the problem of. poverty is has the Faculty begun to reo a big one. They have become so for a Bachelor of Divinity degree. lum. .- hearse in earnest Conn census not one solely of the Negro. There big that they can no longer be are twenty million Negroes in The program c~nsists of SiX! Dr. Fay :n;t~ntion~ the v:ariety has on several occasions attempt- solved locally. The solution must dramatic monologues, c h o sen of opportunities available in the ed to break the bonds of secrecy this country and almost fifty mil- be one of all America for all lion poor. The problem-is one that from a variety of authors (for ex. medIca~ sClen~e~ and noted that a engulfing the nightly seven-hour America. Negroes in Harlem are rehearsals of the production, ,but white people must also face. The ample, Camus, Steinbeck, Tennes- ~areer.m medl~ne can be compat- restless and miners in Kentucky to no avail. Noticing a fe'N spies miners in eastern Kentucky live see Williams) and recent works ible WIth marrrage. The f~rmu~a are restless. Internal peace will in the audience on several re- in one of the most depressed (A Raisin in the gun, Five Finger for 6ucce~sl. Dr. Fay d~~cr.lbe~, IS not be achieved until both are sat- hearsal nights the performers re- areas of this country, an' area in Exercise, to name just two of the the bombirring of the 3 H's- isfied and all .americans will be possibilities). For the first forty good healt~, a good husband, and fused to rehearse !before the in· which poverty is the norm. Their able to possess the human dignity children are dressed in rags, their minutes "the authors and actor good help m the home. .. truders were removed from t!le which is preached but has not yet premises. The reporters, adamant tables bear only the commodities will probe at depth various unique .Dr. Fay 'present~ a ~ealishc become a reality. il). their belief in freedom of the distributed to the Ken t u c k y yet hauntingly familiar relation- fH~ture of a woman s ro~e In rned- K.K. press, but also strict adherents to needy, their homes are often un- ships," hoping to provoke the au- lcme an~ encouraged mtere~ted the practice eyf non-violence, only heated and most always inade- dience to talk back. The twenty and qual!fied studen~s to conSIder sel!-disenfranchisement - not be· spread themselves on the stage in quate, tJ:leir schools are often in minutes remaining of the 'hour is the medIcal professIOn. cause they are terrorized and Connecticufs first 'lie-in' finding one·room buildings where chil- devoted to discussion of the prob- tricked into not voting, ..but be· lems revealed_ Topic of Candor that the faculty know throngh cause they are not interested. (Continued trom PaRe Twd') their years of rehearsal experi- To me this di,sinterest, this com- Judging by the many favorable date will exclude meals with the ence that the "show must go on, Education Fosters plete apathy among the lower reviews, Don Campbell has a vi- delegates. If fuose who are plan- even if it meant that the swim- socio-econdmic groups is as dan- tal, stimulating and worthwhile ning to drop by CONN QUEST ming pool had to be drained for Political Awareness gerous as any external threat. idea, one it is hoped students wilJ do not commit themselves with that evening's rehearsal. And so, Last Saturday, I joined a group Thus while it seems that the vot- support by attending his perform- their one dollar, it will only in· despite our peaceful approach to of girls working on voter regis- er education program is an excel- ance. dicate that everything we are the problem of adminiJateral tration in New London. I was lent idea, it should be extended ----- complaining about \vill be com- alarmment an additional force of struck not so much by the job from a program specifically de- Nickel Corporation plained about next year and the fifteen Pinkerton men have bfen they were doing as by the need signed to increase Negro voter year after. posted around the faculty's re- for a more widespread program enrollment to a program directed GivesCollege$1000 You are not signing your life hearsing grounds and we must re- of voter education. On my rounds, at educating and interesting the away. You are signing up to shOW"sort to informing our public I came across only two Negro less economically privileged in For Zoology Work that you really do want to see through knowledge that we truly, families who were informed, in- voting. As Bayard Rustin stated, some life brea~hed into your col- forsooth, do not have on the fin- terested and registered. However, the Civil Rights movement should The International Nickel Com- lege. H you do not then donlt est authority. among most of the two dozen or be a movement to help all the panYI Inc., has granted Connect- bother to talk about it. If you Before ibeing noticed in her van- so white families I interviewed, poor, because problems which icut College $1000 for use in pur- are possibly in doubt about the tage point --under Auntie Marne's either one or both members of fa~e the Negro are not so much chasing important new scientific exact plans for the -weekend look blond wig one of our reporters the families were not registered problems of race as problems of equipment to be used in the in- around you and you W'ill undOUbt- informed us that she had seen to vote. Even more surprising was economics and lack of education. struction of zoology. edly see either a poster or a reg- several members of the gYm de- their attitude-they had not voted For any portion qf the lower class Dr. John F. Kent, department istration blank describing the partment, Miss Eastburn and in the past, were not voting now, to be aidedl the conditions of the chairman, expects ,to apply the speakers and speeches. Do it now. Miss Royer apparently emulating nor did they have any. plans to do entire class must be improved. gift toward the purC'hase of a By supporting CONN QUEST_ the Winged Victory as they prac- so"in the future. Emily Littman Thelco incubator for various you are supporting il present and ticed a dance sequence choreo- At one point having climbed a . _ types of living specimens used possible answer to our questions graphed by Miss Gulick. The mu- crumbling staircase in an old by laboratory students in em- about what is missing at Connect· sic, our reporter noted was that tenement and knocked at a rick- FACULTY SHOW bryology and radiation biology, icut College. v.J.e. which inspired "Lawrence." -The ety door, I found myself face to Thursday, March 5 as well as for the instruction of motif was borne out as several face with a disgruntled middle- Proceeds ro Community Fund beginning courses in general biol- 'Letters to Editor residents of Freeman House were aged white man, behind him an and Student Development ogy. (Continued -trom Page Two) awakened at 3 a.m. by the caval- extremely sybaritit: playboy pin- Committee mco's grant also will help the recting papers. It is more than cade of thirty camels across the up. He stared uncomprehendingly Tickets on sale: zoology department to add two likely that after spen~ng a day Palmer parking lot. as I explained the purpose of my Feb. 26·March 4 additional microscopes of the t~nd1TIg t House of Cards coupon. ~"~ ...'\~ gation will sit in the House with FAR EAST HOUSE ~"···tl.~~ 285 others. There in the House, ,.,..... with the large number of partici- 50 State Street - ORIENTAL GlFI'S- pants, Iegislatiqn has the greatest Card. for EfJery Occaaion 22 Green Street ~~~ .. chance of becoming bogged down. Complete newspaper, radio and New London, Conn. television coverage will follow the ~.;~~~~~~~¥> ,,'. proceedings of the three days. Re- token. ~ porters and cameramen will be 5?. ,.,.. .''.,iJ/jIP'-..... present at all sessions throughout troll dolli Connecticut Yankee Motor Inn & Restaurant ...... the duration of the convention. 50 Booms studentGirls .who legislatures have an and interest would in WitA Biddle in I~======~ "yOW'pune you need Resta1lrll1t IUId Lounge _hindoubtI like to attend the convention as 0 N CAM PUS Dancing NIghtly except Sondays alternate delegates or just learn r------.;.. Illeetlng IUld Banquet Booms I Dopl CO more about CISL for next year P.O. Box 23110, e.p.o., New York 1 " should contact Marge Hansen, I 11IIC1o.. 25c to covet poslql andt1l1ldllng. Box 419 01'- Ro Write for ''::: :;;;;;; brochure JY-4 I• Charge and Send - The Easy Way ~ ,I House of Imports ".- Ill( UNIVEllS\l'l' 'unior Yeaf• Program !'lEW ~o Year Washington Square ] uOlor 247 State Street JAMES DRUG CO. College ;n ~ Hew York UniYersity New· YOrk. I - INCORPORATED New Vork 3, N. V. IJ;Ifi -. 442-8575 Delicious Meals .~ ")\' Bank Street at Pearl "\~>~ ~; r.iel· A.potheauie, 10 Ihs Metlkal Pro/_ion and Friendly Service \ ~ ..: ~':';"I 10 the Home Sinee 19U ~ •••••••••••• _ ••••• _ ••• J Thursday, February 27, 1964 P"IIe Six ConnCenlul •• <..... eOV" '~G .•< '~l '.'v..., ~ .. Freshmen Give Modern Farce; Collegeto Continue Workshop ...~" .... ,'...... ,., , "", '.1 co<- co "" . · al PI Exchange Program (Contlnued from Paee Five) SOp h omores,All egonc ay Connecticut College will partie- _ YEA Last Frida)' evening at Compet 111eSlave With Two Faces was ipate again this year in a one- ater is the intellectual stimulus Play the freshman and sopho- a dramatic, allegorical play. The week exchange program with and vaulable "behind the scene" - more classes began the competi- actresses interpreted their r~les Howard University in washing- 'tion with modern ~>ne-act plays. more th~ adequately, making ton D. C. The purpose of the ex- techniques of producing, direct- 'TEAM The freshmen's choice. Let There the poetic language of the play • _ -ing, acting and staging. The value Be Farce was a rather unforfun- more acceptable than it might change IS to allow students to oe- of such an experiment lies in both ate choice as it is difficult for have been in a straight reading. come acquainted with the various educating the audience and pro- even a well-trained actress 01 the The scene with Lite beating his aspects of campus life at aneth- fight . reJatively high level socio-econom- servants could have been an ef- er college. viding informal results from the tc background of the average col- ~ective point of tension; instead, The exchange operates on a informal criticism of the audience lege girl to portray a woman of It tended to become .awkward. reciprocal basis: students from and participants of the play Iol- the slums. This awkwardness possibly could Connecticut College who visit Ilowing the production. AU of the characters were have been due to the uncontrolled Howard will serve as hostesses for th t h r d th fight . somewhat unconvincing. Tama fervor seemingly 'stuck in' to a the three students who visit New ow a we ave re~ rze ~ Mokotoff injected a good quality play otherwise consistently dlgnl- London. The entire program is purpose an.d vaJue of thts expert- of humor and liveliness when she tied and powerful.. . marked by its extreme flexibility mental acting, the groups.sho~d played the harridan; it was un- The sets were quite e.ffective, with no planned activities Invclv- h~v~ an abundant cast whlc,h will fortunate that she often lost this being not merely derogative. The ed at any time. I el:U:~llnate Jud.y H?berman s ex- fight . spontaneity intertwining branches and the con- Th nl t· I eel' th per-renee of directing "the play -, . 'f I ed d b h e 0 y cos mvo v 10 e that never was .. Marcia Soast gave 'Louella a trast 0 co or an gray ranc - exchange is transportation- room . believable accent and managed to es gave a visuaJ experience of the d bo d lied b 'H . D.rama holds value for both the • . I h f an ar are supp I y ow audience and those participating convey the aura of a woman WIth theme of the pay, t e two aces ard University Since spring vaca-t • th . hed d ~ bit f lif .'. In e !play. A first-rate perform- give tarnl's reams. ~lie gay, I - 0 I e. , tions overlap Connecticut College _. .. . ing slapstick inherent in the dia- The sloppy curtain at the end students will'spend the week be. ence IS a.s ~atlsfyIng to an audi- logue did not come through sue- of the perforrn~nce was the only ginning March 26 until April 4 in ence ~s It IS 10 the performers. cessfully. There were a few mo- apparent technical flaw of the Washington and Howard students Expenmental Theater and Com· ments Iwhen the actresses enjoyed evening. It was a rather disap- will be at Connecticut from April pet Plays have show.n t~at the~ em.•. themselves, their lives and their pointing element at the end of an 7 t 12 . can attract enthUSIastic aUd~. actions; these were delightful otheJ"TWisesatisfying performance. a . . . ences. But. unless these audI- times for the audience. The stage Nevertheless, credit should go to The three Connect!ic~t College ences realIze the. need for per- manager should be complimented Pat Dale for excellent co·ordina· students who. attend WIll ~e chos· formers, there WIll not be any th . Ie et effecnve tion of the workings of a play. en. on. the basl~ of a sUbmI~ted ap- more plays. L White the ax upon e simp YAK. plIcatIOn, which should mclude scenery and props. . class maJor extra-curricular ac- tiviti~s 'and ~ short statement ex- phy of history, and it was at her cal Society and in the American plaining why the student would suggestion that a senior sympos- the ax like to participate. AppliC'ations ium devoted to the discussion of Faculty Journal of IUathematics, and his (COntinued trom Pa2e One) should be submitted to Nancy current periodical literature in reviews of mathematical text· Sinkdn by March 1. philosophy was organized this books have appeared in two schol· year. mountain ranges in the South· arly journals. He is- at present the ax west, -supported by a grant from engaged in research on the inte- March 1962~sue of The Atlantic ;::::======~ the National Science Foundation. gration and measure theory in Monthly. The botanist's articles in nurn- 'abstract spaces and is studying Dr. Barbara June MaC'klin Barbie erous publications reflect the wide boundary behavior of conformal came to Connecticut College in range of his scientific interests: maps. 1956 as a member of the sociology ...hold ecoJogy, herbicide research, con· Another six members of the department. Slhe has introduced servation, breeding~bird census, College faculty will advAnce next considerable anthropological ma- Buys Her and weed. control. year from the rank of instructor terial into the departmental Four members of the Connecti· to assistant professor. They are: courses and is especially con- cut College faculty will become Robert C. Bredeson, Lloyd East- cerned with the sociological prob· associate professors next 5eptem· man, John C. Perry, Barbara lems of minority groups in ArneI" -ber as a result of a vote by the June Macklin, Nelly K. Murstein, ica. She has just completed writ· Pappagallo Board of Trustees. They are: and Susan M. Woody. . ing a study on the culture change 'ltl~:: James S. Dendy, Alice E. John- Dr. Robert C. Bredeson is a among Mexican-Arne:ni.cans in son, Glen L. KoJb, and Ernest C. specialist in American literature Toledo, Ohio and will Shortly be· Schlesinger. within the department of English gin investigating the process of James S. Den'dy has been a which he joined in 1961. He is urbanization among Puerto Ri- Shoes member O'fthe music department currently conducting furfuer cans in the New London area. fight . at Connecticut College since 1957 studies in the field of his d'octoral Dr. Nelly K. Murstein has been and last September was named dissertation concerning the ef· an instructor in French since at College organist. In addition to fect of ,travel literature on the 1962, coming to Connect'.icut Col- his classes in music theory and prose style of Mark '!Wain and lege with teaching e}QJ)erienceat history, he teaches organ and con- other late 19th century American Reed College, the University of fight . ducts the Connecticut Cdllege writers. Por-Uand, and Rice University CARWINS Choir. A year ago he organized Dr. Lloyd E. EaS'tman is an his- where S'he received her doctorate. the Bel Canto Chorus for fresh- torian whose interest is concerned. Dr. Susan M. Woody has taught man students and now serves as primarily with the history and philosophy at the College for the Fa,hions in Footwear tfhat group's choral director. culture of Ohina, a subject he past two years. She has done post- fight~•• Dr. Alice E. Johnson joined the studied jn detail while on Tai- graduate work at Edinburgh and Connecticut College faculty in wan from 196Q..62.He has collab- HeideJberg Universities and was 1958 as assistant professor of orated with John C. Perry in es- for four years at Yale Univers- 115 State Street English and Dean of Freshmen. It tablishing an Asian concentration rity's graduate school where she ...YEA was largely through her efforts for the history majors and the held three university fellowships. that the successful Introductory two instructors jointly teach a She teaches courses in ethics, so· 442-8870 Week program for new students one-year course on the history of cial philosophy, and the philoso· wasties are initiated. concerned Although. primarily her with duo Eastman Asianalso conducts civilization. aMr. classEast- on-::====~~====~==~~======~. -. TEAM the advising and guiding of first- mod ern Chi n a from the year students, Miss JohnsCf1 also period of initial Western impact Fife & Mondo's teaches a course '.in expository to the post-revolutionary Com. writing and has recently been in- munist regime. whew vited to review books for Choice, a publication of the American Dr. John C. Perry is also a Far - HOLLY HOnSE Library Association. Eastern specialist Whose particu- Dr. Glen L. Kolb is a specialist lar historical interest centers on 92 Huntington Street· pause in the language and literature of Japanese civilization. He was a Spain and has been a member of Fulbright Fellow at the Univer- the Spanish department at Con- sity of Tokyo from 1960·62 be- Place Where the College Girl. necticut College for the past 14 fore coming to Connecticut Col- years. He also serves the history lege and his "Report on Japan" Meet and Eat! thingsgo· department for which he con- appe:red anonymously in the Delivery to the Do~m, ducts a course on the history of ~::;:;~;:::;:::=v:v::v::;:;~;:::;;:::;:::=v; Latin America. A number of modern language periodicals mE ELEANOR SHOP b~~th have published his articles and in 1959 his Juan del Valle y Cavied- os: A Study of Ule Life. Times, Yam. aud Rental Library The University of the South and Poetry 01 a Spanish Colonlal Satirist appeared as a Connecticut Telephoue 442.3723 COKeTRADE."ARKe -- College monograph. 9 Union Street Sewanee, Tennessee Dr. Ernest C. SchJesinger came io Connecticut College in 1962 Imported & Domutk Yo,.... from Wesleyan University where Free Knitting lrutructioru he had taught mathematics for j four years. His research papers Fridays 1 . 4 ~ A 1964 Summer Session lor Men and Women have been publiShed in Proceed- Saturday. 9:30 • 12:30 < - 8 Weeks: June 22 • August 15 Ings 01 Ule AmerIcan _ematl- I - Liberal Arts Curriculum - Forest Euvironment r80ftled-- under the authority 0' 443-7395 20% Off Reguler Rates lor \ The Coca-Cola Company b~1; OTTO AIMETII College Girle - Sewanee Summer Music Center Lallie&' and Gentlemen', ROCCO'S For the Summer School Bulletin Coca-Cola Bottling Co. 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