Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 11-14-1968 The aB tes Student - volume 95 number 10 - November 14, 1968 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 95 number 10 - November 14, 1968" (1968). The Bates Student. 1558. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1558 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 71 mtts tubent ■«* Vol. XCV, No. 10 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, NOVEMBER 14, 1968 By Subscripts Goodman Lectures, j|ew Calendar Approved By Faculty For Fall '69; Answers Question, ««..■»# A( - /- «, . opposes war/Draft 4-4-2 Eliminates Defects Of 4/3 Option by Ted Cody At its last meeting, the year. Any student may enroll program leading to gradua- noter for continuing to sched- This past Thursday night' Bates College Faculty voted to in more short term programs tion in three years was re- ule the short term in the at the Co-ed lounge at least! accept the recommendations than the required two, if he tained, by providing that stu- spring, perhaps the most per- 200 Bates students heard a of the combined Educational wishes. The one exception to dents electing such a program suasive being that since not stirring and enlightening lee- ] Policy and Honors Committees these rules is that the mem- could fulfill all require all re- all students would be required ture by Mitchell Goodman of to revise the academic cal- bers of the class of 1970 will quirements by taking five to be in attendance, placement Temple, Maine. Goodman was endar, and to make important not be required to attend the courses instead of four during of the short term between the one of four defendants at the changes in the academic credit short terms. the semesters, and two courses semesters—as is done in sev- draft conspiracy trial held in system, the basic graduation The present credit-hour sys- in three short terms. eral other collegiate calendars Boston this Spring; he along requirements, and the normal tem will be converted to an More Innovation to Come would be extremely awk- with Dr. Benjamin Spock and course load expected of stu- equal-course system, with the The Committee report was ward. Yale chaplain William Coffin, dents. With one exception, the graduation requirement stated the result of more than a It is expected that many of Jr., was convicted of conspir- new calendar and academic as a minimum of 36 courses year's study of alternate cal- the new programs in the short ing to council young men to requirements will go into ef- rather than the current mini- endar possibilities. In recom- term will be directed to ad- avoid the draft and was sen- fect in the 1969-70 school year. mum requirement of 120 cred- mending the retention of a vanced work within the major tenced to two years in prison The major change in the it-hours. Thus, beginning in short term, the Committee field, and it is essentially for and a five thousand dollar calendar is the reduction of the fall of 1969, all full aca- stressed the opportunities for this reason that the stipula- fine. The case is now on ap- the short term from its pres- demic courses, regardless of educational innovation which tion is made that the senior peal. ent eight weeks duration to field, will have equal value this period promised, for pro- short term be spent in regis- In his talk, Goodman hit six. The first semester will be- toward the graduation re- grams both on and off cam- tration, beginning with the hard at the war. "To restore gin, as it now does, early in quirements. Conversion ratios pus. Several arguments were class of 1971. this country to a democracy September and end before between credit hours and we can respect," said Good- Christmas; the second will courses will be worked out by man, "we've got to establish start early in January and the Academic Standing Com- a tradition of calculated end late in Aprii. A single mittee, so that each student CAMPUS NEWS . diobedience to unlawful commencement exercise, in presently registered may be ZERBY TO SPEAK centered on Involvement, and authority." that the United place of the present two, will informed before the next gen- will feature a Sound and States has become a nation be scheduled in the second eral registration period of the On Nov. 24th in the Filene arrogant with power and that Light production that will week of June, beginning in number of courses expected of Room, Dr. R. Zerby will speak both enhance and help to its soldiers daily kill hundreds 1970. on the past European Tours him to fulfill the new grad- create the special mood for of innocent women and chil- uation requirements. he has made. Photos, slides, Short Term for all this production. The service dren merely because they are Less Course Restriction etc., will be presented to make "Communists," All students would be ex- will be directed by students, The Committee report em- an extremely interesting and with the emphasis placed en- They Aren't Men pected to be in registration phasized that one of its major j educational evening. Perhaps He went on to suggest that for the regular semesters and tirely on contemporary feel- concerns was to reduce some- coming tours will be discus- ings and response. Americans don't think a Com- for two of the short terms, one what the intellectual frag- | sed. Each year students from Con't. on Page 2, Col. 1 of which must be in the senior mentation imposed by the all over the country make the present expectation of five Zerby tours with Dr. Zerby. NO PARKING semester courses for each stu- TICKET SALE Parking restrictions be- College Community Mourns dent. To implement this ob- gin on city streets starting jective, the Faculty also ac- Tickets will be on sale for November IS and continu- cepted the Committee's recom- the Robinson Players produc- ing until April 15. There Dean's Death at Memorial Service mendation that the permis- tion Barefoot In The Park at may be no parking over- Monday morning a mem- sible registration be three to the box office starting Nov. 11- night on the city streets— position of Dean of Men on five courses per semester, with orial service was held in the | a full-time basis. He noted 23, from 7-8:30 p.m. and also this includes College Street. four courses the understood Chapel for Walter Howe Boyce, that there had been an exten- at the box office the nights of Bardwell Street, Campus normal registration for a four- the late Bates Dean of Men. sive search for a man of high the production, Nov. 21, 22, 23. Avenue, etc. year student. In the new and The ceremony was a simple calibre to discharge the duties somewhat abbreviated short CHAPEL and moving expression of the of the office, and Dean Boyee, Guidance and Placement term one or two courses would grief the Bates community | with his impressive experience This Sunday, November 17, Interviews on Campus feels at the loss of one of its be the permissible registra- at 7:00, in the chapel, there in the Admissions Office of tion range. Monday November 18 North- Columbia and in Afghanistan will be a new approach to The option of an accelerated worship. The theme will be eastern University (Graduate and Pakistan, seemed perfect School of Professional Ac- for the job. counting) In addition, said Dean Men Graduate training and Rowe: "When he came to DEBATE TEAM TRIUMPHS Careers in accounting. For lib- campus, he clearly under- eral arts and non-accounting stood he was to concern him- graduates. Liberal subsidies self with the problems, the Last Friday the Brooks Tulis and Terry Grover com- available. careers, and the future of the Quimby Debate Council trav- prised the novice negative Representative: Mr. Joseph men at Bates. .With them he elled to Colby where they took team. Golemme. was to be an explorer, a guide, part in the Ben Butler Debates. Successful Tournament 0. S. Air Force a revealer. He knew the men, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, and The eight debaters compiled Men Officer training pro- their backgrounds and suc- the University of Maine (UNH a record of nine wins and grams. cesses, their failures, their could not make it) all fielded three losses. Both varsity and Representative: Sgt. J. R. needs. He dealt with them both varsity and novice teams novice negative teams were Wigley (In Chase Hall fairly and, if need be, justly." to debate this year's topic. undefeated, while the novice Lounge Foyer) The Proposition is resolved In regard to administrative affirmative team suffered only Tuesday November 19 U.S. most familiar figures and of that executive control over one loss. Their efforts enabled Army problems, he observed, "He foreign policy should be sig- the sympathy it extends to realized that considerations them to win three spoons for Men Officer Candidate his family. nificantly curtailed. The var- the best varsity affirmative School program. of the moment must be view- sity teams consisted of Tom Dean Emeritus of the Fac- ed in the light of solutions and novice affirmative and Representative: Lt. Hugh ulty, Harry Rowe, began the Burnham and Dennis Foss as negative team awards.