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LEWISTON, MAINE, MAY 25, 1960 By Subscription College Announces New Cut System {President Gives^xperiment Gives Students Students Picket Campus; I Speech At Nat'l Increased Responsibility Conduct Drive For Funds Credit Meeting By CHANNING WAGG A new cut system with three categories, based on q.p.r., "The impact of foreign com- petition on the growth of our will go into effect next fall the Dean of the Faculty, Dr. economy shows itself in two Rayborn L. Zerby, announced on May 19. Operating as an ways." said Dr. Charles F. Phil- experiment, the new system has been designed to place more lips. President of the College, at responsibility on each student while at the same time it al- the 64th Annual National Credit lows more cuts to more people. Congress in St. Louis, Missouri. The three groups, encompass- Points To Facts body the opportunity of unlim- ing the entire student body with Dr. Phillips pointed out that ited cuts in contrast to approxi- the exception of first semester foreign-made goods come into mately the one-eighth of the freshmen, will be divided by the United States whenever our student body who had this use q.p.r. The first group consists of costs and prices are higher than under the old system. any students whose previous those abroad. This situation al- semester's q.p.r. falls beneath Weighs Results ready exists as regards many 2.0. These students will be al- The results of this plan will be machine tools, some steel prod- lowed no unexcused cuts except checked carefully by the faculty, ucts, German cameras and type- in cases of extreme necessity. and any evidence of mis-use will writers, and Japanese transistor Explains Middle Group result in a more stringent sys- radios and sewing machines. Students with a q.p.r. between tem by revision. If the student "Second, foreign competition 2.0 and less than 2.8 for the pre- body makes competent use of also shows up in our export bus- ceding semester will have cuts this new plan it will probably iness. To expand our markets By DIANA BLOMQUIST by a campus group of students in each course equal to the num- justify, to the faculty, the lower- abroad we must meet the prices Last Wednesday, Bates stu- calling themselves the Commit- ber of hours in that course. ing of q.p.r. requirements for quoted in these markets by for- dents held a demonstration on tee for Racial Equality, the pur- These cuts are to be used at the unlimited cuts. Warnings in any eign competitors. Otherwise, our campus to point out the problem pose of the drive is to obtain discretion of the student for subject will signify the loss of manufacturers lose sales with the of segregation in the South and funds to help southern students. emergencies, and with an eye for cus in that subject. Apart from result that they must cut back to try to better inform people as In seven different states there future need. It is to be under- this, the general rules on cuts their production and lay off to what the problem is and what are many students who have stood that no other cuts will be will still apply. workers, thus checking the they as individuals can do to been expelled from college and excused unless there is a situa- All cuts that an individual growth of our economy." help the Negro's cause. who are now facing fines and tion of extreme need. may take while ill or any cuts At various periods throughout jail sentences. These students, Any student entering a semes- taken due to participation in a the day students held a mock fighting for equality in a peace- ter with a q.p.r. of 2.8 or above College function, or something of picketing on the campus. Inform- ful manner have been subjected Men Assemble; from the preceding semester will a similar nature, will not be con- ation leaflets were handed out at to all types of threats and vio- have unlimited cuts in all sidered as cuts per se under the this time. lence. They are freedom-loving Have Discussion courses. These students are ex- new system. There has been, Americans seeking the right of however, no lowering of grades Drive Begins pected to use this privilege with equal opportunity, regardless of On Stu-C Policy good judgment. The lowering of in relation to academic levels, The National Association for race, creed or color, as provided The first subject to come up the q.p.r. requirement for un- and the introduction of the new the Advancement of Colored for in the Constitution. These for discussion at the Men's As- limited cuts will ostensibly al- cut plan does not imply any in- People Fund Drive began last students, enduring a difficult sembly held last Thursday in the low one-third of the student tention of this. week and is continuing this struggle in their young lives, can Filene Room, was the flag-pole week. Conducted throughout the be aided by supporting the incident. Viles stated that the men's and women's dormitories N.A.A.C.P. Stu-C has made itself responsi- Fred Austin Knapp Dies; ble for all pranks which have taken place on campus. He stated Former Latin Professor Dean H. Clark Retires that the cost of having the flag- pole repainted would have to be Fred Austin Knapp, professor Dean Hazel M. Clark, who has Scholarship, Student Activities, divided and added to the bills emeritus of Bates College and been Dean of Women at Bates Scholastic Standing, and Educa- of all the men, since the persons an educator well-remembered by College since 1928, will retire tion, Guidance and Curriculum. responsible for this act were un- hundreds of college graduates from this position in June. A na- known. died at his home on Mountain tive of Covington, New York, Discuss Other Items Ave., Lewiston, on Friday, May Dean Clark graduated from the P. Wood Places Viles was asked if the Coun- 20, after a lengthy illness. University of Rochester, and at- cil had stated its position on the Long ill of tuberculosis until tended Columbia University from In Contest Held recent pranks in the STUDENT. death came at the age of eighty- which she received a Master of He said that it had not, but he seven. Prof. Knapp himself grad- Arts degree. By The Atlantic also reported that the editor of uated from Bates in 1896. Cites Positions the STUDENT had agreed to Teaches English And Latin Mr. Peter R. Wood, a senior cover the meetings of the coun- From 1915 to 1925 she was a at Bates College has won nation- When he began his career as cil more fully than in the past. an instructor of English and La- secondary teacher in New York al recognition in the intercolle- Other items of interest discussed tin in 1897, his affiliation with state, and in 1926 she became giate contest in composition at the meeting were: the ques- the college other than as a stu- Dean of Women at Fostburg sponsored annually by the At- tion of successfully reviving ma- dent began. Prof. Knapp headed State Teachers College in Mary- lantic, a monthly magazine. Mr. yoralty next year; the new rules the Latin Department at Bates land. In 1928 she came to Bates Wood is also an honors stu- on cuts which go into effect next for many years. College as Dean of Women. dent in English and the recipient semester; the possibility of hav- A native of Haverhill, Mass., A member of Phi Beta Kappa, of a Woodrow Wilson Foundation ing recreation rooms in the Prof. Knapp was named a pro- she has been, since 1958, presi- Fellowship. Mr. Wood submitted dent of Gamma Chapter of Phi men's dormitories; and the use fessor in 1903 and held that title an essay on Japanese poetry. of Skelton Lounge for social Fred Austin Knapp Beta Kappa here at Bates. Dean Writes Essay until the spring of 1943, when he Clark is also a member of the purposes rather than for study- retired. His essay, "A Million Poets," an extremely difficult one to fill National Association of Deans of ing. which won honorable mention Given Citation . students who have taken Women and the Lewiston-Au- among twenty top papers out of He was given a citation at the Latin from Prof. Knapp agree burn College Club. NOTICE 189 entries, discusses the brief time of his retirement which that no finer gentlemen ever While at Bates she has served poetic form called haiku by the The campus radio station, read as folows: "Fred A. Knapp stepped on this earth. All of us as advisor to the Student Gov- Japanese. "A Million Poets" was WRJR, will conclude its .