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OBSERVER Vol. 5 No. 7 March 4, 1963

Front Page Library Reopens in Confusion With New Floor Nearly Finished Dick Cross New Married Couples Find Off-Campus Housing Clair Leonard Dies at 62 Accreditors Here Middle States Evaluation Team Arrives on Campus To Study Bard’s Academic Quality, Fiscal Ability Mrs. Wolff’s Recital Set for Next Monday Golding Speaks Tonight in Gym Science Club to Show “Nature’s Half Acre” Page 2 Editorial Married Students’ Housing For Mr. Leonard David R. Moulton No Jobs in Washington David Jacobowitz Community Council Lane Sarasohn, Chairman of Council WXBC to Continue Last Semesters’ Work Lilian MacKendrick To Talk on Art, Life Page 3 Misfits in Belgian Education M. F. Christiaens Deinhard Plans Trip to Europe Page 4 School Fires Mrs. Bollard Druckman’s Work Issued on Records EPC Minutes for Dec. 11 A Ghanaian in Bulgaria Parking Lot Now In Use Page 5 Motor Club Orders Films, Plans Gargantuan Rallies Mark Kennedy First Negro Applicant To Mississippi Schools Seriously Ill in Jail Hyde to Speak on Oscar Wilde Zen and Mental Illness Dean’s Latest Book Appears Coach Prepares Spring Dean of New School To Speak on Politics Blind Man’s Bluff David Fauver Bird Expert to Discuss Biological Cycles Page 6 Mr. Eliot Discusses Sir Hereford Greene Psych. Journal To be Abstracted Mid-Hudson Colleges Plan of Action B&G Plans Room Changes Bard OBSERVER The Official Publication of the Bard CoUege Community

VOL. 5, No.7 ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. MARCH 4, 1963 Librory Reopens in Confusion With New Floor Nellfly Finished IAccreditors Here !a.t.'?'F···?' . .. sv oick cross 1MiddleStates Evaluation Team Arrives on Camp~us Despite ~er stalw~rr yet-SNnts-,.Miss-Vosbul=ihreplieci Ir 0 Study Bard' 5 Academic Q~uality Fiscal Stability renely classical extenor, Bard's that it would not since addi- 1 beloved "Parthenon" is in a tiona! stafi" members will be The Evaluation Team for of the Team; Forrest L. Ab-: As an unofficial, but inter- state of extreme inner tur· needed in the enlarged build- the once-every-ten-years Middle bott, Treasurer and Controller I ested party, the State of New moiL Temporary stacks have ing with the extended library States Association of Colleges of Barnard College; Charles S. York is represented on the and Secondary Schools arrived Cole, Jr.. Dean of the College Team by George Kreye of tht.' been provided to house vo- hours. The extension of library at Bard last night. They will at the Academy of the New State Department of Educa­ lumes eV!icted from other hours until 11:30 five nights stay until Wednesday to pre· Church; Lillian Ellis, Profes- tion at Albany. Mr. Kreye told quarters. Paint and print are a week is an experiment in pare a report for the Associa- sor of Chemistry at Douglass the Observer of the State Re­ in close proximity as construe- response to student requests tion and for Bard. This re.port College; Jereml.ah S. Finch, gents College Teaching Fel­ tiOJ;t work isproceeding at a f h l'b t . will suggest improvements for Professor of English at Prince- lGwsh~ps which is - or t e 1 rary 0 remam open our school and will be the ton University; Sarah Dowlin promoting. They are available rapid pace. later. Unless student and basis from which the Middle .T·ones, Librarian of Gouche1 for any graduate school in Manon Vosburgh, Head Li· faculty use of the facilities in States Association determines College; George Kreye, Asso- New York State and will make branan, was op~imisti<: about the late evening is relatively our accreditation for the next ciate in High Educatian of the available $2,500 per year for the progress bemg made but heavy, these extended hours ten years. New York State Education De- two years for any qualified refuseo to give an estimate re- . Now on our campus are Cal- partment; · and Richard D. graduate in any field. garomg the completion date may be curta!lled. vert N. Ellis President of Weigle, President of St. John's The State hopes to meet the for tne project. Sne praised In an interview with the Ob- Juniata Colleg~ and Chairman College. demands for teachers created the construcuon crew for tneir server, Dean Hodgkinson esti- 1 It is the Board's poUcy to by t·he vast influx of students speed and co-operation · and mated that the construction IM Wolff' Recital pla~ce a member who has served to its schools by making avail- said that "the maJOr part of job is 3 weeks ahead of sched- rs. 5 before on a college's Review able $1.25 million for 250 fel· the structural work has been ule and that the basic work on 5 t f N t M d Team as its chairman for the lowships per year. Juniors in· completed and fmishing work the top floor should be com- e Or ex on ay next review. Thus Calvert N. terested should apply early, is proceeding as qUickly as pleted by the middle of .March. Mrs. Kate Wolff, Associate Ellis, President of Juniata stressed Mr. Kreye, since the poss1ble." fhe new floor wm contain Professor of Music, will give College, who served ten year5 competition will be stiff. It is estimated that the new both stacks and an additional a piano recital in Bard Hall ago, is Chaif!lllan of the team, In an interview with Jete· fac1lities w1ll prov1de space study area. Mr. Hodgkinson next Monday at 8:30. 1 this year. Bard is also for· miah S. Finch, Professor of for 9U,000 volumes, approxi- expressed hopes that at some On the program are a sonata tunate in having Mr. Weigh. English at Princeton, the Ob­ mately 10,000 more than the· future date a ba~cony like the by Haydn, Mozar.t's Variations serving on its Team since St. server learned of the Team's pre5ent library collection. All one on the mam floor may on "A'h, vous dirai-je maman," John's College, of which hL interest in the Moderati:)J), books from the Science Li- be added. Beethoven's 32 Variations on is President, is similar tc Senior Projects and student brary are to be moved to the .Meanwhile, several ideas are an Original Theme an Inter- Bard in being a small liberal opinion about attrition, acade­ Mam Ltbrary, with the vacated on the drawing board for the mezzo and a Rhapsody by arts college of high quality. mic excellence, and the 6-point space in Hegeman designated new study space. Among the Brahms two Preludes by Car- Chairman Ellis stressed that program. Professor Finch is for use as classrooms or of- Dean's pr?po_s~ls are: (1) car-,los Ch~vez, a Polka by Shos- the team was a group of a permanent member of the fl·ces. The Art Library will rels for mdiVIdual study; (2) takovich, and a Toccata by ". . . collegues who c:mferrec >Middle States Association of probably remain in its present sound proofed booths for tYP· Khachaturian. with the administration, fac- Institutes of Higher Learning, location. ing; and (3)comfortable study A reception will be held in ulty, and college communit; the voluntary organization Among the new additionsto chairs. Albee Social after the recital . . . with the purtpose of as which reviews and accredits the Library is the large foyer ------~ -.. -. ------;::: sisting , which schools in its district. There which will serve as a control has a good history, to be a are similar organizations for center for checking out and Cl . L d n· t 62 better institution." The most the North Central and South- returning books. In the base- air eonar Ies a critical point of inquiry, said ern as well as other regions oi' ment several new offices have Dr. Ellis, was the "educationai our country. been added and lavatories are Professor Clair Leonard, eul'ogy- for Mr. Leonard. Luis e ff ect' lVeness m· t erms 0 f 0 b Weigle To Speak under construction. chairman of the Art, Music, Garcia Renart .played the Sa jectives." Docs the school de Drama and Dance Division, rabande from the Bach Suite what it advertises? fa;~tit" Wenigdle 'ct\'il~ ~dtdrt~ss the The near1 y-comp 1ete d mez- No. 5 for Unaccompaniec ----- J a a mm1s ra wn at zanine above the entrance will died of a heart attack at Vas- Ce}i1o, and Presid-ent Kline Dr. Kline's home at 4 p.m. to· provide space for current pe- sar Hospital on February 7. read a selection from the Colding Speaks morrow. He will speak on the riodicals which are temporar- He was 62. Bible. Then the congregation academic program at St. ily unavailable. Projecting Funeral services \vere held walked up the long hill to Tonight in Cym John's. into the more dstant future, in the Chapel on M·onday, the cemeterv for the burial. The group is staying at thP plans have been mentoned re- February 11. Many of Mr. I Mr. Leon~rd taught at Vas- Novelist William Goldinr Beekman Arms in Rhinebeck gardling the possibility of al- Leonard's present and former sar for 13 years 'before he k · h 7 30 · where thev met last night . · 1 will spea tomg t at : n: WI.t'h Pres1:deJ1t Klt'ne, 1oca t mg a smg e area express- students came up to the cam· came to Bard in 1947. He waE the gym. The community ii Dean ly for periodicals. However, pus for the funeral. President organist and choirmaster here invited; invitations have a1sr Hodgkinson, Mr. Asip, Miss much rearrangement is neces- Sara Blanding of Vassar, Dean and led the musical services been sent out to many neigh· Vosburgh, and several faculty sary and permanent reassign- Em e r i t u s Dorothy Dulles each Sunday in the Chapel. boring g.cbools. met administration members. ment of books must await com- Bourne, former President He composed many works ~Ir. Golding's first book Today they will have had a pletion of the entire job. James Case, and Mrs. Richard Ifor chorus ·and several instru· Poems, was published in 1935 chance to speak with students When asked whetJher or not Gummere also attended. The, mental pieces. His Christmas Since then he has written and work w_ith !he Business elimination oo the separate Chapel was filled to carpacity. I cantata, "Peace on Eart!h," Lord of the Flies The lnheri· lV!anager,. L1branan, Admis­ Science Ubrary would reduce Mr. Shafer led the ser-j was sung by the Bard choir to The Two De~ths of Chris· swns Director and thr Presi· the amount of student assist- vices and delivered a short in the Chapel on December 16. to~~er Martin, and ·Free FaiL I dent. His novels often develop dis ~ ectations; to ·disappoint Steve Chalmers, Dixon Powell qualities of Bard and rooting out the rotten He ous. In the words of Emili Clair wa a painful thing. Staff: Pat Johnson, Anne Schneider, Jim ones. one man that deserved Hauser, "He was a human I was Banker, Ed Fischer, Mark Kennedy, LANE SARASOHN angel, without sin." in his goodness to be lived up Council Ellen Kenned~r. Chairman of As a student. I feel a tre- 1 to. Kathy Stein, MARCH 4, 1963 BARD OBSERVER PAGE THREE Ace red itation • (Continued from Page 1) lege's overall policy. ·The Eval­ Misfits zn Belgian Education Their inquiry will ascertain uation Team will be very in- whether or not Bard has the terested in the inter-relation- By M. F. Chri.stiaens The · answer is obvious. But f'or several characteristics of excellence ship between tJhe faculty, stu (Inspector General to the Belgian Mini.-

Motor Club Orders Films~ ·zen and Mental Illness Bird Expert to Discuss Zen can help to cure men- state of "full intuitiveness." Biological Cycles Rallies tal illness, according to Mrs. Through Satori, she said, the Plans Gargantuan Vera Kohn, who spoke on "The patient begins to restore and To observe the coming of spring, and to alleviate the By Mark Kennedy Practical Uses of Zen" on Sat- develop "the inherent creativ€ urday night in Albee Social. light; each movement becomes neurotic problems confronting The Bard College Motor blood has been developing be­ Mrs. Kohn, the mother of Bard a creative act." both birds and people, the Club is a group charged with tween Jacobowitz and Bird, so student Katya Kohn, teaches When q u est i o n e d a:bou1 Psychology Club will present ideas and geared for swift ac- the second half championship Zen ,to schizophrenics in men- Western man's rejection o' "bird man" Dr. Daniel S. tion. As a result, t!he club is race will bear close watching. tal institutions in Quito, Ecua- Oriental , Mrs. KO'hr Lehrman as their guest lec­ moving with vigor. The club David Moulton, Morgan owner dor. ·replied that Westerners founr turer. Dr. Lehrman will begin will ·present two additions to fresh from a whirl wind trip "Zen realizes in those long- Zen hard to comprehend te his discussion of ''Psychoso­ its renowned collection of in- through Mexico, is considered ing for something a sense of cause it was a negation of th, matic Phenomena in the Cycles ternational racing film shows. the chief threat to the cham­ the oneness of everything," will, which is incompatible of Animals" art 8:30 Wednes­ The two movies are produced pions. Robert Bard also could Mrs. Kohn said. She empha- with the competitive character day in Albee Social. by the British Petroleum Com- pull an upset in the vital sta­ sized the importance of this of our way of life. Also, th·­ Dr. Lehrman is currently pany, and the good gentlemen tistics. sense of oneness in our mod- Western mind is not sympa Professor of Psychology at the at the helm are kind enough Last, but most important, ern age of anxiety. when the the tic with aspects of the mys Institute of· Animal Behavior to e~clude ·all advertising from the club welcomes all new- strain of attempting to live up tical experience which are suci at Rutgers. He received his their films. It's all raC'ing, corners to meetings. New rna- to an unrealistic self-image a great pa.rt of the Zen phil­ Bachelo.r of Science degree at Dad. chinery • has been spotted often produces conflicts which. osophy. City College and his Ph.D. at The first film, Formula I, around the campus, one of lead to mental illness. Mrs. Kohn's lecture wa< New York University, traces the entire Grand Prix which, due to factory error, Mrs. Kohn attempts to make sponsored by Forum and wa His best-known works in­ season of 1950 through the se- has the steering wheel on the her patients "aware of the in- accompanied by the frequen clude "The Physiological Basis ven exciting races of the year. wrong side of the car, and the dividual and the absolute mani- pounding of the Albee plumb of Parental Feeding in the Since it is 46 minutes long, club is eager to have new festations of life" in themselves iug, a phenomenon perhap Ring Dove," "Parental Behav­ thi film provides very ade· owners activP in its events. and then to resolve their con· not entirely unconnected with ior in Birds and the Problem quate coverage of ea.oh race. If you wish any information flicts. In order to "build a the subject. of Instinct Behavior," and "A atbout the Rallies, have any 1 tbridge between the mind and Refreshments of punch anc Critique of Conrad Lorenz's 'I1he other film is a story suggestions, or care to parti­ !body," she teaches them to re- doughnuts were served after of the Nurburgring race course cipate in the election of offi­ Theory of lnstinotive Behav­ lax and to empty the mind the lecture. The g.reat contain ior." in Gennany. On this fatbled cers, come to the BOMC meet­ completely. Only in this state er of punch was left to drip course, considered the most ing in Albee So-cial Wednesday can they achieve Satori, the its contents onto the floor, anc' One of Dr. Lehrman's more challenging of all with its 176 night at 7:00. is at last reports the stream of interesting accomplishments is are treated mystical experience which turns per lap, you sticky fluid had extended it his perfection of an imitation of tJhe pre- the foundation of Zen. Mrs. to t'he spectacle Kohn described Satori as a self to a length of nine feet of pigeons' mating behavior. war driving aces dueling in Dr. Lehrman is married and their 600 h.p. Auto Union and Hyde to Speak , has one child. Mercedes Benz machines. This was an era in that will On Oscar Wilde Deans Latest Book Appears never be recaptured. "The Friendly Drug The Rally Committee is Rerny Hall, chairman o£ the Harold L. Hodgkinson, Hard's The cases are presenter' bias, affording th< probing opinion on the idea of LHerature Clulb, a no d Dean, has written a new book, without Store" a snow rally. A snow rally n · unce . Educational Decisions. It has reader chance to see all thr is just an ordinary rally held today that H. Montgomery just been published and is on influencing factors involved on snowy roads. An event like Hyde, author, critic, hi•torian, option at several institutions and make a final decision RED HOOK this would really separate the parliamentarian, and authority of higher education. The There can be several solutiom men from the boys and would on Oscar Wilde, will speak book contains thirty case stu­ to each case; hence the timic' DRUG STORE set off fiery arguments be- here Tuesday, March 26. dies of educational decisions reader need not worry about tween contestants that 9hould Mr. Hyde got his B.A. at made on the elementary, see­ being wrong. The purpose o~ RED HOOK, N. Y. at ondary, and college elvels. the book iS to present the last until spring. Cambridge and his Ph.D. PLateau 8-5591 The first ·half-year rally Oxford. He held the position reader witJh the complexitieE of educational policy decisions champronship ended in a tie I of Chairman of the History Free Delivery in Department of the University Prepares in an effort to pinpoint the between David Jacobowitz Coach different his "Milano Missile" Alfa Ro- of Punjab. For 15 years he areas of pressure on Prescription Specialists 1evels of education. meo and Harry Bird in his re- served as Uni-onist M.P. for . S t 1 gal Jaguar Sedan. Ellen Ken- IBelfast. At present he is in S pr1ng ·pOr S 1 The Dean's first i>Ook, Edu Complete t. d' cation in Social and Cultural nedy stands triumphant as the the United States to launch a Wh 1 k t b B0 I navigating champion. B a d new book. a .oo s e ar . s Perspectives is now beting Cosmetic Line bes~ te~ms team to date Will used in co~rses in fiftv col- begm 1ts season on May 3, le es · with a home game a-gainst On· g · Fanny Farmer Candy eonta State Teachers College. · -· ,. First Negro Applicant Other competitions will be: · ~;;;;;;;;;;;;~~;;;~;;;~~~ Marist college May 8, Blind Man's Buff i'!!! Home. To Mississippi Schools Union College May 10, Notice the pattern See Away. of things, how it the revolves until one Dutchess Community Col- feels that I THE Seriously Ill in /ail lege - May 17, Home. it never will j NEW 1963 New Paltz -May 23, A·way. stop: the ennui 1 The tlrst Negr·o to apply to sary knowledge .of the ware­ Drew University, Albany collecting like metal 1 a s-tate university in Missis­ -house ·and of the watchman'~ CHEVROLET schedule to have planned the Business College - Dates not filings to sippi is now seriously ill in se.t . casual pools I robbery. Roberts did work IN OUR SHOWROOM. jail. Sentenced to seven years for the company. He was sen­ League games for the soft- I of lethargic INOW in ,prison ,for stealing five tenced to five years on pro­ ball t·earn in-"lude: Alban" Bus- thougtht, the meals ' not go to '" J 1 in glittering talk · bags of chicken feed, Clyde bation and thus did iness C<>llege, Marist College, disdained as prison. • Kenna1'<1 -is in a hos·pital in and Albany Junior College. \Ve knowingly meet Jackson, with several more Clyde Kennard was found Bard will play each o£ these among beards years to serve. · guilty and sentenced to seven Bovee CHEVROLET, INc. In 1958, Clyde Kennard ap­ years in the state peniten­ teams twice; no dates have yet more pointed than wit, plied for admission to Missis­ tiary in Parchman, Mississippi. been determined f.or these . waiting for weighty minds 118 South Broadway to j.ail sometime in to unfold sippi Southern University. Af­ He went games. Three or four non- the fashion, which is 1960 and stayed in the Forrest Red Hook, N. Y. ter a meeting with Governor league games will als" be on 1 to go about mad. J. P. Coleman and Dr. W. D. County jail until November McCain, President of MSU, 1961, when he was transferred the schedule. i -~==D~A~V~ID~F~A~U~rv~E~R~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kennard agreed to withhold to Parchman. He became se­ his application until the fol­ riously ill from a stomach Dean of New School lowing year, after the elec­ ailment which ·he contracted tions. In 1959 ·he again ap­ while in the Army, and wa~ To Speak on Politics , plied and this time was re­ transferred to a hospital in jected because of undisclosed Jackson where he received 14 The Speakers Committee has I ·Review "deficiencies and irregulari­ pints of blood. The St~te has acquired its first speaker. How­ ties" in his application. announced that tJhe time spent ard White, Acting Dean of the In 1960, K e n n a r d was in the hospital will not count Graduate Faculty at the New A Collection of Literary and Critical charged and found guilty of towards the seven years which School for Social Research, receiving and being an acces­ he has to serve in prison. will speak in Sottery Hall at Works by Students S'Ory to the theft of five bags Although it was likely that 8 p. rn. on Tuesday, March 19. feed (valued at if Kennard had reapplied af­ Mr. White's topic will be of ·clhicken IS NOW ACCEPTING MANUSCRIPTS FOR EVALUATION $5.00 each). An iUiterate 19- ter 1959, the University and "Political Philosophy and Pol­ year-old named Johnnie Rob­ the State would have had dif­ itical Theory." He has lectured FOR THE 1963 ISSUE. erts, charged with the actual ficulty keeping thirn out of previously at Bard on "Politics theft, claimed as a witness of school without closing the Un­ and Shakespeare." Writings may be submitted to the the State that Kennard had in­ iversity, that is not the case Mr. White is on the Graduate itiated and planned the burg­ now. The State law prohibits School faculty of Political The­ Bard Review c/o Campus Mail lry. The witness's testimony, the admission into a state ory at the New School. He has however, shOwed that Ken­ school of anyone who has had an article pu l;}lished in the nard did not have the neces- been convicted of a felony. Social Research Journal. PAGE, SIX BARD OBSERVER MARCH 4, 1963 Mr. Eliot Discusses Psych Journal 1 B&G Plans Room Changes Dean Hodgkinson, Dick Grif­ The reason for such action, To Be Abstracted fiths and a representative from said Mr. . Griffiths, was the Sir Hereford Greene The Bard Psydhology Jour­ the Fire Insurance Underwrit­ student's failure to report the nal will reach a muoh lai'!ger ers made a tour of campus presence of broken items. A (Remy Hall paid a visit to T. S. Eliot over Field audience in the future. Be­ rooms over Field Period. They leaky radiator can cost the Period. When they sat down ,to tea, Remy noticed a ginning with last year's issue, :found that many of the parti­ school as much as $500 in to floors below. The marked the Journal will be included tions that students had buil-t damages curious sheaf of papers in the wastebasket, in the Psychological Abstract, were unsafe and inflammable. physical upkeep now costs the "Rejectimentia 1937." He waited until ;}!?·. Eliot went a publicatdon of the American These have been removed. school far beyond what it out fo·r the lemons, then pocketed the papers. In order Psychological Association. In a letter from the Office should. These funds, said of t'he Dean it was mentioned Dean Hodkginson, should be to ensure the safety of his priceless find,-for Mr. Eliot Every two months the Ab­ stract publishes summaries of that the wall materials were put to better uses. hardly every publishes anything-Remy mailed the aU the leading ps}'ttery Hall during Thus was saved a previously unknown morsel of Mr. in Washington, where an ab­ its construction, so students Eliot's critical writing, doubly impressive because ·it stracter will prepare one-para­ may find them difficult to re­ deem. deals with the little-known seventeenth-century poet, graph summariers of t•he art­ icles in the Journal. The administration feels Sir Hereford Greene.-The editor8.) work of Bard psychol­ that the partitions are no long­ The no more of seventeenth­ ogy students will thus . be ex­ er necessary since It is strange, considering the revival will be oc­ romantic mysteries that hibited to readers of the than three students century poetry, and considering the cupying the suites in Stone surround his death, that there 'has been no reworking of the Abstract aU over the country. editor of the Row this semester. As much eighteenlth~century conception of Sir Hereford Greene's reputa­ Dan Perlman, constructions gentleman­ Psychology Journal, ts not as the students' tion since Coleridge called him "the quintessential may add to the worth of the poet." But perha in a position of having to over- :s 1 reach before its faculty and ~ ready. ~., 24-HOUR TOWING LUBRICATION staff are througholy 4. that there should be no ~CD Phone: TIRES compulsion to participate in Z3 PL 8-5673 Dayf any project; that all co1leges =? :;: PL 9-3681 Nights BATTERIES need not participate in all ~ z projects; th.at any college t~ within the assodated group • _?­ Smith's Service Station should feel free to cooperate Routes 9G & 199, Barrytown, N. Y. Norbert Quenzer~ Prop. on certain projects with any z others within or outside the :< 'I'IIHhiiiHTHIIIHIIII'IIHflll'llflfiiiHIHIIIIIHI'I'IIIIHI~ associated group.