What Happened at Kent: An eye-Witness Account By Michele Sim Editor-in-Chief

Two co-eds from Kent State Guardsmen knelt and some University were on the campus stood and all fired of Rosary Hill College last simultaneously; some fired into Wednesday, May 6,1970, to give the crowd and some into the air. the student body an eye-witness Some students became hysterical account of the killing of four of and called the Guardsmen their fellow-students at Kent murderers, but no one could four days before. The two girls believe that the four students were Pat Cromwell, a freshman, were really dead. a n d Kathy Rohlman, a The students Called for a sophomore transfer student strike, and Dr. White, President from R.H.C. Kathy was in her of the University, cancelled all dorm when the shootings classes. The crowd size was also occurred; Pat was in the Reid increased by local high school where the rally was taking place, students who had come to see and she gave this account: what was going on. The students all sat and sang songs and talked; It all started Friday night the National Guard had blocked Dr. Leland Miles is Commencement Speaker (May 1st) in downtown Kent. A them in Commons. Shortly after group of students sitting in a bar ' the shooting, all the students were discussing the extension of went back to their dorms and Dr. Leland Miles, president of the war into Cambodia, and they President White closed the Alfred University, will deliver wanted to show President Nixon University until further notice; th e address at Rosary Hill that they’re against this all students were forced to College’s 19th Annual escalation. Pat was not present evacuate. Commencement at 3 p.m. on herself' but she said that somehow a fight started and all Pat said that to her knowledge Sunday, May 24, in Kleinhans the students were pushed into Music Hall, and will be awarded there were no outside agitators the streets. The Kent police in the anti-^rar demonstration. It the degree of Doctor of Humane pushed the demonstrators Letters by Sister Mary Angela was a well-organized protest of through the city back to the concerned students and faculty Canavan, O.S.F., president of campus; the police formed a Rosary Hill. members who wanted to see an Formerly dean of the College human barricade. Some windows end to the war. Kent, which lies of Arts and Sciences at the were broken and fifteen students south of Cleveland, is a very U niversity of Bridgeport in were arrested. That night, some conservative school, and the Connecticut, Dr. Miles earned 5 0 0 National Guardsmen majority of the students his A.B. degree from the descened on Kent State participated in the University of North Carolina. He University. demonstration. She could find- no justification for the National h a s studied at Harvard On Saturday afternoon all the University as a Fellow of the Guard Rring into the crowd. She students of Kent State were told did not see nor hear a sniper, American Council of Learned what had happened; it was Societies and at King’s College, and said that the National Guard emphasized that the trouble fired first; there were no warning University of London, as a started because of Cambodia. A Senior Fulbright Scholar. shots whatsoever. She noted that curfew was imposed on the the students were about thirty Dr. Miles served for three campus from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 years as moderator of the CBS feet from the Guardsmen when a.m. At 8:00 p.m. there was a the shooting occurred. w^eekljft television program rally and a group of students “Casing the Classics.’’ He has met in a field to hear speeches. Kathy Rohlman, who was in lectured on such diverse topics It was then that a small group of her dorm at the time, reported as “ Women in Literature,’’ radical students set fire to the that one of the other ten Controversies on Campus,” and ROTC building. The campus students who were shot was “Americans Are People,” has police and the fire department watching from a Rfth floor published widely and is founder tried to put the fire out, but dorm itory window. This of the scholarly journal “Studies some students got control of the particular girl was opposed to in Burke and His rimes.” Dr. Leland M iles hose; the firemen got it back and the demonstration and had Following the commencement the students split it. As a result, planned on going home the next exercises, at which 290 Dr. and Mrs. Miles will be dinner in Rosary Hill’s Charles J. the ROTC building was burned day. candidates will receive degrees, honored at a reception and Wick Campus Center. to the ground. Pat emphasized that she did not know who Pat then answered questions Do Your Part on started the fire, but that the for the crowd assembled in the Sis ter Mary McCarrick Fight Against Cancer great majority of students were Snack Bar. She said that Ohio We ask for no money or vast against it. As she pointed out, Governor Rhodes had been on contributions of your time or the newspapers did not report campus on Sunday and said that Is Next Year’s Editor that another fire was started in he was going to “get tough”; he of Penance and Christian effort — all we ask is your By Michele Sim signature. the HP shed and that a group of was tired of all this student Editor-in-Chief Charity. She came to Rosary Hill students put it out. unrest because of the riots at in September 1968 as a In the main foyer of the Wick there are letters written to Ohio State. She also noted that Sister Mary McCarrick ’71 has sophomore, majoring in English By Sunday morning the the S.D.S. faction on thé Kent education. She has been on the President Nixon requesting the been appointed as initiation of an intensive National Guard had roped off State campus was really small; Editor-in-Chief of the ASCENT Dean’s List every semester, and the ROTC building. Not much she stated again that most of was recently inducted. into the program and increased for the 1970-71 academic year. governmental support for cancer happened in the afternoon Kent’s 19,000 students are The appointment was made by Lambda Nu Chapter of Kappa because the campus was under “really straight kids.” She did Delta Pi, the education honor research. Please take one for the present editor and the yourself and at least seven copies martial law. No assemblies were not know if the University ASCENT advisor, Mrs. Gayle society. She has been on the allowed, and any group of more would take action against the ASCENT staff for one year. for your-relatives and friends. Thomas. Address them to the President than four students was National Guard. She felt that Mary was born in Brooklyn In a school where the student immediately broken up. most of the citizens of Kent government has just abolished and deposit them with or and raised in Niagara Falls,'N.Y. without postage in the supported the students against She attended Sacred Heart itself, Mary sees the ASCENT as There was a rally scheduled the war and that they, like the “a vital organ of intra-school designated box in the Wick for 8:00 p.m. on Sunday night. School and was graduated in foyer. Postage will be paid by majority of the students, were 1966 from Madonna High communication and an editorial There was no violence; it was against the burning of the voice of student concern.” She the organization sponsoring the merely a peaceful demonstration School, where she was the drive. Please recognize that we building. This incident, she said, Editor-in-Chief of the h as attended journalism against the war. Nevertheless, should serve as a lesson : that workshops sponsored by St. do not even ask you for the after thirty minutes the National MARYENNE, the high school price of a postage stamp ! students must accomplish their newspaper. Under Mary’s Bonaventure University, Niagara Guard split them up and shot aims by peaceful means, but University, and the University of If you wish, you may mail tear gas into the group. More editorship, the MARYENNE was these letters at your own strong peaceful means. the recipient of a trophy from Detroit, and she hopes to use the students were injured. knowledge gained from these convenience. You may also the Buffalo Evening News. compose your own letter to the On Monday, May 4th, another Heights Awards In September 1966, Mary workshops to help make the ASCENT a more effective tool. President and make copies of it rally was scheduled for 12 Noon Announced entered the Sisters of St. Francis for your relatives and friends to on the field called Commons. sign; and deposit them in the The students thought that the On Tuesday, May 12, 1970 Wick or mail them yourself. Guardsmen would let them awards for the literary magazine, Please make this our last (but assemble peacefully because The Heights, were announced. not least) united effort of the they had allowed them to do so The first prize in poetry went to school year. The amount of mail for a short time on Sunday. Carolyn Foster and the second received by the President urging Quite a large crowd of students prize went to Donna Collins. immediate action for research assembled, and they were Maureen Collins received the support will weigh heavily upon immediately told to break up. first prize in prose, while Ralph his decision to act accordingly. The Guardsmen threw tear gas L. Klicker got the second prize. NCAAC (National and the students threw it back at First and second prizes in Collegiate Association for them. There was some talk photography went to Lin Morley Conquest of Cancer in affiliation about a student strike and a and Celia Sportelli, respectively. with Beta Beta Beta Biological boycott of the University book As part of their prizes, the Society of Rosary Hill College) store. More tear gas was thrown students will receive monetary and the students decided to awards. it 's no se c re t disband. They were walking The Heights, a semi-annual away Slowly so as to avoid a production of the students at that the "Pap” test can dis­ stampede or panic, but the Rosary Hill College, offers cover uterine cancer in its National Guard split and spread opportunity for the publication early, curable stage. Ask your into the practice football Reid, of student literary endeavors. where some of them knelt and This issue of The Heights had doctor to include the "Pap” pointed their rifles at the crowd. Mary Boule as editor and Angela test in your health checkup. The students threw back the tear Raymond as co-editor. Sister gas and yelled such tings as “Pigs Georgia is moderator of the AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY Sister Mary McCarrick off campus.” Suddenly, some publication. Page 2 THE ASCENT May 15,1970 The Events at * » R.H.C.a Recap UELL.UU.WE'RE&WMA TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1970: Rev. Robert Smyth said at the Resident Senior Farewell Dinner 15 0,000OF OUR BOVS HOME, that Rosary Hill should issue fO U H T iH i some sort of statement of our position on the events of the cveijtuauv,^^0 UjE know that past week. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, THOSE FINE VIETNAMESE 1970: A small group of students organized a strike, which proved to be rather ineffective. A town k)| kU E VENFuAkkV BE ABUE- meeting was held all day in the Snack Bar. Father Smyth urged #■ V students to wait until Monday, TO.aH, HA HDF& THEIR OUfN WAR the President’s Holiday, to take any action; that Way we would be protesting on our day off and UH, Bur LET HAM BE could not be considered dissident. But students and faculty members argued that we WARNED THAT THIS IS BV must act now. Students were urged to write letters to their Congressmen or to the President NO MEANS AW INOITAQ expressing their discontent over th e A dm inistration’s foreign policy. At noon, two girls from r a u p Kent State University addressed the student body. THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1970: The boycott continued. A group of R.H.C. students marched on the Goodbody Brokerage Firm urging that they support the * * National Student Association strike; a letter was delivered r 1 Which stated in part; “ This nation: I *Escape from Sanity * has once again been witness to ■ Letters to the Editor the disparities in human freedom 1 1 By Sharon L. Peck and justice that exist in principle Dear Editor: We have contacted students but are disregarded in practice Last night a group of students a n d faculty members at The Psychology Club of supportive one-to-one by the U.S. Government. The and faculty members were campuses in Ohio and elsewhere. Rosary Hill College showed the relationship, the idea that invasion of Cambodia, United discussing measures we, as We have their support. Please film, “Escape From Sanity,” someone cares especially about States intervention in Vietnam, individuals and as an institution, help us spread the word. him. The problem of unhappy and the unconscionable murder illustrating the problems of could take now to make our The Western College patients within a mental hospital and confused individuals which of our fellow students in Ohio voices heard at the governmental Oxford, Ohio we term mentally ill is growing should give pause to every setting diagnosed as having level. We DO support the strikes schizophrenia. Since the film rapidly. The more personal person with any sense of and demonstrations taking place Dear Editor: comm unication breaks down, morality.” The group of was developed new theories on campuses throughout the Are you concerned about the concerning the disease of t h e more business the students also marched to the nation. However, we are expansion of the Vietnam War psychiatrists receive. Marine Midland Bank in Snyder, into Cambodia? Only the schizophrenia and modes of appalled by the injury and treatment have arisen. I feel that better preventive and the bank closed its doors. deaths that have resulted from Congress has the power to facilities such as encounter FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1970; An declare war. The Congress has Schizophrenia is a very elastic m % these measures. Last night our term covering a variety of groups, out-patient facilities, and information booth was set up in group concluded that the most,, the power to stop this expansion the- Wick Foyer. Rosary Hill of the war. The Congress has the personality and organic behavior real concern for other people is effective way to move our disorders. It is a label used for the answer, but it is not that stationery and the addresses of government to action would be power to stop this needless, Congressmen were available at continued sacrifice of American lack of a better description. No easy to effect. If more people through economic pressure. doctor likes to be proven wrong could be treated outside the this booth. Groups of students Let’s face it —money talks! lives. Are you concerned by the fact that the President has on a diagnosis so schizophrenia institutional setting, it would cut were sent out to convass in We have initiated a down on the state hospital Williamsville, Snyder, and committed American troops to is a safe term to use because it nation-wide boycott of certain an illegal war? covers such a wide varietv of populations and the personal Amherst: girls were to be products for which students in symptoms. It may be said that stigma of having been in one. well-dressed, to pass out leaflets, Are you concerned enough to particular are the market. These those persons suffering from People who are insecure tend to and to talk to people about the products- are manufactured by let your elected representatives accept the verdict of others and war. At 9:30 a contingent from know of your concern? Make disorientation from the giant corporations that have a environment in such a way as if they are said to be sick, soon Rosary Hill joined with students major voice in political affairs. If your concern known; make your they will act it. * from Niagara University, opinion worth something. The not to be able to discriminate these economic institutions between what is accepted as Many times, as soon as a University of Buffalo, Buffalo begin to have a decline in sales, American tradition of patient progresses and comes out representative government reality and what is their own State, and Cahisius to march on and are made aware of the compensatory world resulting in of himself, the conflicts brought the induction center at Main and reasons for our boycott, they makes the acts of the about in any form of disruption government the responsibility of a split in the personality and Goodrich. will begin to pressure the conflict have schizophrenia. are looked upon as negative and MONDAY, MAY 11, 1970: government to give ear to our every citizen. It is your duty, as the person is doped up to a citizen, to guide your elected To a certain degree, everyone The President’s Holiday, no requests. These requests are sees reality in a different conform with mental hospital c I&ssg s. those being made by students representatives. standards. I question sometimes Write today to express your perspective and with a different TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1970: everywhere: Stop the killing in feeling about life but when this if the mental hospitals are more Convassing continued. Students South-East Asia and at home. views. A one sentence note is goes to the extreme of rejecting for the staff than the patients. were again urged to dress well so Bring back the troops. Stop better than silence. that which is established as While I am not discounting the that they would not be labeled sending the National Guard onto Boalt Hall Students reality by the general many dedicated workers, there as “bums” by the community. campuses and into the ghetto Berkeley , California population, it is termed as are many who seek work in a TODAY AND TOMORROW: with loaded guns. illness. There are questions mental hospital to affirm their The continued attempt to The action we plan to take Science raised a s t o what causes own sanity within themselves at change Presidential and needs everyone’s support. Lack schizophrenia. Some believe it is the expense of the patients. governmental opinion and action of faith in its effectiveness can Conference a vitamin deficiency, others a There is much to be done in on the wars in Vietnam and be its only downfall. We need chemical disfunction, and others mental health fields and it can « a Cambodia is the responsibility of your support. If you want to strictly an environmental begin, I believe, with the those who organized and help put an end to dying, stop Scheduled disorder. It may be a individual taking a good look at supported the strike endeavor. If buying: BEER, COSMETICS, On the tentative dates of combination of all these factors himself, evaluating his goals and pressure will be brought to bear, LIQUOR, and RECORDS. And, April 22, 23, and 24, 1971, the but there is no established cause ideas of himself, and, if he feels i t will only be through do not buy anything else that is Twenty Fifth Annual Eastern nor is there any certain cure. he has problems he cannot perseverance. not absolutely necessary . Colleges Science Conference will Hospitalization is helpful to handle, seeking professional be held at Rosary Hill College. some individuals because of the help. There are many mental A t this conference highly structured environment hearth facilities in Buffalo and undergraduate research papers which gives them a feeling of any city of a population large are presented in the fields of security and thus taking the enough to warrant this. Mental Chemistry, Biology, Physics, reality pressure enough off them health facilities are not for the Mathematics, and the Social so , that they can face it; mentally ill. They are for those Sciences. Colleges and especially if the source of interested in promoting mental universities in the Eastern anxiety is in the home. With a health. I look to the day when United States and in Canada will team of social workers, the mental hospitals will be be invited to attend. Past host psychiatrists, and attendants abolished and a real beginning is working with large numbers of made to help these individuals colleges have been Yale « * « ^University, Fordham University, extremely disoriented patients, rather than take care of them. and Boston University. there is a question as to whether The committee heads of this the patients are 'just being event are: Barbara Morris, dumped there for custodial care, Chairman; Patricia E. Noker and because there is hardly time for Barbara Pearles, Co-chairmen; individualized therapy if a ★ ★ ■ Mary Welch, Secretary; Donna doctor has 600 patients. Luhr and Clare McCann, The prevalent method over Abstract Editors; Celia Sportelli, the last decade has been, Accommodations; Sheila Wiedl, chem otherapy, which is Tours,; Barbara Smith, administering drugs that produce Registration. The offices of a tranquil cooperating Business Manager and Research individual. While there has been One of the main events of the past week was an all-day town meeting Paper Editor are-still open. an accent on group therapy for bridging the gap between no in the Snack Bar on Wednesday. Here, two co-eds from Kent State Univ­ Anyone willing to head these D isc o v e r A m erica, # m ersity give an eye-witness account of the shooting of (heir fellow students positions or work on any therapy*-at all and individual on Monday, May 4. committee, please contact any therapy, it is highly ineffective it’s 3,000 sm iles wide. of the above people. when the patient needs a May 15,1970 THE ASCENT Page 3 * * Review: Alpen stock Meet the Board of Trustees Concerning Witchcraft and the Occult A ward Presented Elected to the Board of renewal of religious ' Each year, the Student Senate Trustees in 1969, Sister M. communities. Under Sister By Caroly n Straub presents the Alpenstock Award Corinne Halsema, O.S.F., is Corinne’s guidance an evaluation Feature Editor to the most deserving program distinguished by her experience has been made of the apostolic on campus. The Alpenstock is Since freedom of worship given to the club or organization as an educator and her works of the community in Holy came, parts of the American involvement in the leadership of Name Province. As a result of on campus which has done church-goer have resorted to outstanding programming during the Sisters of Saint Francis of the evaluation certain schools certain forms of “black art,” a Penance and Christian Charity. a re being closed, others the year. The criteria for thing that horrified Puritans but selection of the recipient are as consolidated, and the Stella fascinated men. Huebner “the A native of Minster, Ohio, Niagara Education Park has been follows: Sister Corinne received her B.S. official witch of Los Angeles,” 1. The program must be the organized and will open for the Daily Horoscope and Dixon and M.A. degrees in education Fall semester. result of the students, faculty, from Ohio State University. forecasts seem contemporary and administration working Sister has pursued post graduate ways of accepting a spiritual cooperatively. studies in administration and underworld. “ Concerning 2. The program must call to Theology at Canisius College and Witchcraft and the .Occult” the attention of the Rosary Hill Saint Bonaventure University. presented by the Buffalo State community and the general players of Casting Hall on April public the high standards of A secondary social studies f 30 and May 1, 2, and 3, was A teacher, Sister Corinne has been Readers’ Theatre directed by programming at the college: principal of Sacred Heart Warren Enters. Using a bare, At the last meeting of the Academy and Bishop McMahon eerie stage set of opposite Student Senate, it was voted to High School, both of which are church pews anddecterns and an present the Alpenstock Award located in Buffalo. to the Vietnam Moratorium MEMORIAL assemblage of black-suited and Committee. Honorable Mentions Since her election as novice skirted male and female actor-readers, a whole aura of to this award are also to be directress in 1966, most of PROGRAM presented to the Earth-Day Sister’s work has been done witchery was amplified and Committee, the Modern Foreign directly for her xeligious sustained for over an hour and a Language Club for “Hie Battle congregation. As novice half. Voiced by each reader, the of Algiers,” and to the Beta Beta directress, Sister was responsible Your Memorial Gift is a explanations of craft held its Beta Honor Society - for the for fostering the development of spirit forth by controlling tense fitting tribute to a loved Cancer Variety Show. young women in the second and passion and by articulating The excellence of these third years of religious life. one. This remembrance meaningfully. Imagine the programs made final selection of Elected Provincial Coordinator penetration of actors’ hard * » helps support the re­ the Alpenstock Award difficult. in 1969, Sister now focuses her glances, involvement in a still, Congratulations are extended to attention on the administration search, education and gloomy, expectant atmosphere all of the committees that of Holy Name Province. As service programs of the and hear the following program: worked on these programs. Provincial, Sister is responsible “ Stolen Child” from W.B. for coordinating the activities of American Cancer Society. Yeats, . . . “Come away, O 475 Sisters working in New human child, to the waters and Jersey, New York, Ohio, West Memorial gift funds may the wild . . .”; “A Midsummers Virginia, and South Carolina. be sent to your local Unit N ight’s Dream from These Sisters are involved in Shakespeare, the “tragedy of such apostolates as education, of the Society. evils” that Titania, queen of the health services and parish and Fairies, threatens “The Hag” social work. from Robert Herrick, with a AMERICAN “ ghost affrighted” “A Short In 1966 and again in 1969 CANCER Lecture On Witchcraft” in which Sister Corinne was delegate to the “major act of witches”.was the General Chapter of her SOCIETY ignorantly and brutally thought Congregation. The General to be human sterilizing; “East Chapter is the final decision Coker” (excerpt) from T.S. Eliot making and policy setting organ, m . . . “of men and beasts . . .”; and, as such, has worked Macbeth” (The Heath) from towards the implementation of Shakespeare, three witches, Vatican I I ’s directives for signed by a cauldron, prophesy “ . . . fair is foul and foul is fair . “ Balthasar” (excerpt) by Lawrence Durrell, carnival time ‘‘Superstitions’’ from produces mysterious, dangerous, Dr. Watts Lectures on American folklorists, bad omens masked figures; “The Devils” and good luck actions; “Doctor from John Whiting, devils cause Faustus” from Christopher a victim’s burning and infest a Mysticism and Ecology Marlowe, Faustus surrenders his sisterhood. soul to Mephistofeles; “A Litany “ Documentation on the By Nancy Pliszka o f reality. This new To Satan” by Baudelaire, Ghost of William Terriss,” a * News Editor understanding will of its nature chanted supplications refrained murdered ghost haunts a train solve the ecological crisis with “Satan, have pity on my station; “A True account From It is difficult to capture Alan because the environment will be long misery . . .”; “Faust” from ‘Vampires of England,’ ” a bony Watts, D.D., as a speaker for he is seen as an extension of the self Goethe, Faust challenges the vampire bites a mistress and is part of the “multi-dimensional and pollution will be nothing Devil but succumbs to that burned for it; “Poem” from Ben world” which denies expression less than suicide. beckoner; “The Man Upstairs” Jonson, in hopes that “. . . the in “linear terms of language.” At After a short intermission the from Ray Bradbury,. . . a tall, luckier loft betide you ...” the April 23, 1970 Human floor was open for questioning. strange man” is discovered a Carolyn Straub SENIORS Dimensions Institute Dr. Watts’ Dr. Watts spoke wittily and werewolf; Another “Story”; Feature Editor lecture was “Mysticism and openly on a variety of subjects. MATH: Ecological Awareness.” Dr. A partial re-cap runs like this: Watts saw the only total On LSD — “Drugs are a Liberia, Ghana, permanent answer to the medicine, not a diet.” Dr. Watts The Gambia, Uganda, ecological problems faced by the felt that there is value in world in a new consciousness of psychedelic drugs for many. It Malaysia, Micronesia, mysticism. This returns to the brings some close to the question of reality for the meditative experience and leads Philippines, mystic asks, “What is reality?” to states of altered consciousness Sierra Leone « » If the answer lies in viewing without drugs, such as yoga. the real as objects defined by However, as medicine they are language, the ecological problem not to be abused; as Dr. Watts will never be resolved. However expressed it, “When you get the CHEMISTRY: when reality is seen as an message hang up the phone.” He Ghana, Malaysia, extension of the personal self also cautioned against the use of and multi-dimensional, pollution street acid which is rarely pure Sierra Leone, will be no problem for it will LSD. lead to self-destruction. ON LAW — “Societydepends Eastern Caribbean, At present this personal link is upon mutual trust which is a Honduras missing from the American risk.” However, the fear of conception of reality. Americans taking this risk leads to a police are not even truly materialists state based on paranoia. Dr. for the materialist is “a lover of Watts saw the police as necessary BIOLOGY: material.” Western technology to protect citizens against hardly appears to show a love murder and robbery and to Thailand, Tonga, for its environment with what regulate traffic. They also come Guatemala, Kc~ Dr. Watt expressed as “a desire in handy to “help little old # * « for the planet as a- clean rock ladies cross the street.” He felt Chile, Peru, Guyai devoid of life.” You must be a that matters of personal choice true materialist in order to get a such as the use of drugs or Honduras, Malaysia, mystic feel for life, a view of life marital affairs are beyond the Korea, Uganda, which is subjective, not jurisdiction of law officials. objective. 0,N MEDITATION - Ghana, The Gambia Reality, itself, however, can Meditation does not, as many be neither material nor spiritual think, aim for a result. It centers for these are theories concerning on the here and now and is an CONTACT: the NATURE of reality. Dr. act in itself like breathing. Two CUDDY FOR CONGRESS Watts felt that reality as a elements are necessary for Peace Corps concept can only be achieved proper meditation: the proper Organizational Meeting Federal Building % through true silence, or “the * mental attitude and knowledge temporary cessation of of breathing techniques. (Dr. Friday, May 15, at 4:00 p.m. - W113, 1.14 Church and Fitzhugh thinking” experienced in Watts recommended a book Rochester, N. Y. 14614 « m meditation. In some meditation MEDITATION by TRUNGPA “ Kids are good for adults“ leads to a mystical sense of the which will be available from the (7161-5464900, ext 1370 world and a new understanding Human Dimensions Institute.) Page 4 THE ASCENT May 15,1970

Human Dimensions Lecture NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS ‘Lemon S k y’ to Open Is ‘Can I Know God?* FROM AUDIOVISUAL CENTER In New York May 17 minds I have ever encountered — T he Human Dimensions Your present ID card will be used again next fall. The Studio Arena Theatre’s Institute at Rosary Hill College but, more than that, here is a beautiful soul who is using that All students are requested to return their ID cards production of LEMON SKY by will present Raynor Johnson, Lanford Wilson which was given physicist, author, and master of mind very effectively. Don’t either to the resident office or to the Audio Visual miss him.” So writes Hugh Lynn its world premiere at the Buffalo Q ueen’s College at the Center by the last day of school, May 19. This ID will theatre this past April is set for a University of Melbourne, Cayce who traveled to Australia be reprocessed and ready for you next fall. This is a to hear Dr. Johnson. Another New York run and will open on Australia. His lecture, which is M U ST for resident students. May 17. The production will go open to the public, is entitled remarked, “I would fly ten thousand miles to hear this to New York practically in toto. “Can I Know God?” It will be Warren Enters, Associate presented on Friday, May 29, man!” Fortunately5 for us, Dr. Director at Studio Arena, will 1970, at 8:15 in the Wick again direct the same excellent Campus Center. Johnson is flying to America — his first visit to this country. New Season Scheduled cast, featuring Christopher Raynor Johnson is one of Walken, Charles Durning, Bonnie those rare pioneer thinkers able Born in Leeds, England, Dr. Johnson received his B.A. and Bartlett, Lee McCain and to merge science, religion, For Studio A rena Kathryn Baumann. The set philosophy, and parapsychology M.A. degrees from Oxford University, his D.Sc. from the contemporary version. designed by Stephen J. into one challenging “world With the message “Follow Us Hendrickson for the Buffalo view .” His books, “ The University of London and an Into The Spectacular Seventies . THE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF Honorary D.Sc. from the HIMSELF — March 4 — March production will be used in New Imprisoned Splendor,” Nurslings . . and Our 6th Smashing York and the same lighting of Immortality,” and “Watcher University of Melbourne. Prior Season,” the Studio Arena 28. One of Moliere’s wittiest and to his Australian appointment, lustiest satires. designer, David Zierk, will light on th e Hills,” have become Theatre announces, with an it. The production will be classics of synthesis. Dr. Johnson he was from 1923 to 1925 a attractive brochure, its 1970-71 Another WORLD PREMIERE lecturer in physics at Queens — April 1 — April 25. housed in New York in a 499 also has written a book on season and 6th Annual Series seat theatre named the parapsychology, “Physical University of Belfast, and from Ticket Sale. Neal Du Brock, INDIANS - May 6 - May 30. Research,” and two on physics, 1926 to 1933 at King’s College, Executive Producer of the A Wild West Extravaganza, a Playhouse at 357 West 48th St. ‘‘Atomic S p ectra” and University of London. theatre, in announcing the vaudeville show, a three-ring The play will be presented in “Molecular Spectra.” Students with ID Cards will season, feels that the theatre is circus, a political play. New York as “The Buffalo “In my opinion, this is one of be adm itted for $1.50. offering its strongest season to The Series Ticket Sale for the Studio Arena Theatre Admission for adults is $2.50. new season is now in progress Production of LEMON SKY” the most beautifully organized date with the most unusual and and will be produced there by entertaining series of plays ever and these 8 smashing plays are being offered to the public at la Haila Stoddard, Mark Wright, Lecture Explains Hare Krishna to be given in the theatre’s Duane Wilder and Neal Du 6-year history. Exclusive rights 15% discount, and the offer is A lecture on the' supreme the cult wish to re-affirm the good through June 15. Order Brock. Mr. Du Brock, Executive belief in the supreme personality have been obtained to three of Producer of Studio Arena, was yoga and science of the most sought after plays of early and get your choice of seat God-realization was presented of God. One can do this through locations and performance. Call responsible, for the selection of the practice of yoga, in which the past two years, plus releases LEMON SKY for production at b y th e people from the of two musical hits which are 856-5650, or write to 681 Main International Hare Kirshna one can attain a complete St., Buffalo 14203 for a the theatre this season. spiritual relationship with God still playing to SRO in New movement, Monday, April 27th York. Studio Arena’s 1970-71 brochure or further details in Lourdes Lounge. through his name (Hare Krishna). This is their goal, the theatre year will be a bold The men were attired in white season of “firsts” for Buffalo. and orange lengths of cloth heart of their movement; to ‘Stop the World* Is draped over their shoulders acknowledge the Father arid all The schedule of plays is: while the women wore several that He has given them. DAME S AT SEA - After the lecture, one of the September 29 — October 25. A at Studio A rena colors draped in the same style. foot-tappingly funny re-creation This is known as their spiritual women passed around their With music by Leslie Bricusse “special yogic foodstuffs.” It o f the Ruby Keeler-Dick Anthony Newley’s fashion. An altar was set up Powell-Busby Berkeley musical refreshingly different musical, and book and lyrics by Anthony which included three pictures of was a small, white round cookie movies of the thirties. STOP THE WORLD — I WANT Newley, Littlechap’s life and his Hare Kirshna, several vigil lights that tasted quite sweet: the SCUBA DUBA — November 5 TO GET OFF, which opened pursuit of happiness is and incense. Before the lecture ingredients seemed to include — November 29; A crazy April 30th at the Studio Arena delightfully unfolded through started, the members began much butter and coconut. After comedy smash by Bruce Jay Theatre, celebrates the theatre’s effective song and dance. Some chanting and singing with the these had been distributed, the' o f th e well-known and accompaniment of a drum and a group began to chant and sing in Friedman. fifth anniversary in its present THE PRICE — December 3 — location. The play was first memorable songs from the show small organ. thanksgiving. As the audience January 3. Arthur Miller’s are “What Kind of Fool am I?”, The lecture dealt with an left, they were able to purchase presented and directed by Neal explanation of the Hare Krishna any of the items that were on newest play. DuBrock, who since conceived “Gonna Build a Mountain,” and JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE the idea of Studio Ai^ena and has “Once in a Lifetime.” movement. It is one which display: several books and AND WELL AND LIVING IN strives to bring the concept of magazines about the Hare successfully guided it through its PARIS — January 5 — January first -five seasons. Mr. DuBrock God consciousness into the Krishna movement, records and 31. A musical review with 26 world today. The members of incense. will again direct this version of songs by Brel. STOP THE WORLD, which will OTHELLO — February 4 — run through May 31. UNUSUAL Russian Offered at February 28. Studio Arena’s Stuart Howard heads a WEDDING first Shakespearean production, brilliant cast of performers in BANDS staged in a dynamic the leading role of Littlechap, and Donna Monrow plays Evie, S.U.C. at New Paltz the various loves of his life. Also A special program of intensive participants to earn 13 CLASSIFIED study of Elementary Russian undergraduate college credits dancing and singing their way will be offered this summer by also applicable towards the Large furnished apartment for through the ups and downs of the Foreign Language Division foreign language requirements 3 or 4 girls for summer — June 1 Littlechap’s life are Susan of the State University College for the B.A. degree. to Sept. 1; 2 blocks from U.B. Stevens, Judith Gordon, Noreen at New Paltz, N.Y. The program For further information and campus; 8 35-4351, daytime; Bartolomeo, Rita Dowling, will be conducted at the New application forms write before 837-7385, evenings. Karen Dwyer, Lorraine Feather, May 31 to: Prof. Henry Leone Gaylyn, Diane Lewis, and Paltz campus and in the Soviet Beatrice Mackin. Stuart Union. Urbanski, Division of Foreign j e w e L e R S Languages, State University PATRONIZE ASCENT Hamilton is Musical Director, The first phase of the program ADVERTISERS offers eight weeks of intensive College, New Paltz, N.Y. 12561. with Lois Grandi creating the choreography. Sets and 81 ALLEN STREET study of Elementary Russian at costumes are the design of BUFFALO, N.Y. New Paltz for ten college credits Duane, Andersen and Peter J. (June 29-August 21). The cost &)W Gill will design the lighting 886-6900 including tuition, fee, room, and effects. board is $415.50. The second phase offers a uuay two-week Russian language seminar in Sochi, USSR, to Under New Management followed by a one week tour of 836-9276 832-0819 the USSR, for three credits Q 0Special prices on beverages for girls between 7— 11 p.m. (August 21-September 10). The all-inclusive cost of the Soviet Union phase of the program is wood/tock $683.00. Students may choose to ...the movie £«S*ata’« participate in only the New Paltz SOI Mlllersport Hwy. Grover Cleveland Plaza Amherst PLAYING Vi phase of the total program, in * PIZZAS * SUBMARINES * RAVIOLI * SPAGHETTI only the Sochi phase of the * STUFFED SHELLS & RIGATONE program, or in both. . The total program will enable CENTER THEATRE FISH FRY EVERY FRI. *n o TAKE OUT ORDERS V vntiR HOSTS PATI AND FRANK MARTELI------

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