University of Puget Sound

This weekend: TacomaFaire P,42,(‘ 2. Puget Sound TRAIT M :IV 12, 1 a - rt Hamilton, Landon, Myles, Race Initiates honored at ceremon Seventy-five initiates were honored colleges under the sponsorship of the the top ten per cenT of the senior Retiring to a new life at the fourth annual initiation of the Rhodes fellowship. class, the top five percent of the University's chapter of Phi Kappa Rhodes, Ruskin, and Jowett (like junior class, and four faculty-staff by Elizabeth Branscomb Phi, prestigious national honorary Phi Kappa Phi itself) stressed public initiates. Franklyn Hruza, Associate ability, leadership, Dessel Hamilton, assistant Dean of great deal more mature now. I used society, on Saturday, May 6. service, literary Professor of Urban Affairs, Walter character, and moral purpose as Lowrie, Professor of History, and Students, Esther Landon, university to be in the mother role. Now studen- Anneke Masori, President of the marks of the educated person. Brenda Rau, Director, Alumni nurse, Margaret Myles, professor of ts are here because they want to be chapter, announced that Professor The seventy-five initiates represen- Relations, were the faculty-staff music, and Marian Race library and they have already made a lot of Emeritus of Biology James Slater had ted scholars selected from the top initiates in addition to Slater. technical services clerk, will be other choices about how to live their recently established.a Phi Kappa Phi ten per ;:ent of the gLrac Jate students, retiring from UPS this year. A recep- lives." Merit Scholarship. Beginning in 1979, tion in their honor will be held Wed- Margaret Myles has taught for 33 the award will be presented annually nesday, May 17 from 3:30 -5:30 p.m. years, the longest of any faculty to an outstanding junior member of Governance Committee member. She started teaching part- the organization. Professor Slater's in the president's home. Students, fa ∎ - iilty and staff are invited to attend. time in 1945 when "all we had was a history at the Univerity runs back to Dessel Hamilton said, "After 18 sawdust burner so it was terribly cold the beginning of his tenure in 1919; in 1951 he retired, then returned for Silence is not golden years of involvement in the total in the winter and blistering hot in the The Governance Committee has post facto reaction oy involving university life, nobody can miss it summer." She was hired full-time in part-time teaching from 1955 to 1968. disbanded and would like to announ- students in every stage of the more than I will. It will continue to be 1947. Currently he is active in the Puget ce it officially. There were several decision making process. Despite the a part of me the rest of my life, but I Myles says she doesn't really know Sound Natural History Museum. reasons for the dissolution. fact that unhappy students exist, think older people need to learn how what she is going to do after retiring, The Phi Kappa Phi Sophomore to live and become effective at a but she says she is confident that Book Award for 1978 was presented The Governance Committee has dissatisfied by one change or been in operation since mid-fall of another, the Governance Committee slower pace. If you ride with the "the lord works in mysterious ways to Martha Lundin, mathematics 1976. That year they came up with a did not get feed back or vocal sup- wind, everything is all right. It's going and he has my life in his hands." She Major. In the judgement of the Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship selection proposal to restructure the system of port for their proposal by the studen- to be a slower wind after retirement." says, "The students are my friends government in order to allow students at large, nor did students discuss She says her favorite aspect of and my family. They mean more to committee, Martha is the outstan- ts and faculty a greater voice in the their concerns to the Student Senate, university life has been "knowing the me than I to them. During all these ding sophomore academician in the decision making process. After which would demonstrate their in- students as they discover their years they have become my teacher University. presenting the proposal to the terest in such changes. academic potential, their relation- and I've been grateful for that." Aldon Bell, Professor of History, student senate it was sent back to the The Governance Committee must ships with faculty and other students, She hopes to continue singing in University of Washington, provided committee stage, endangering the assume the students' silence is a and the larger world. I have had the her church choir and in the Tacoma the Phi Kappa Phi address for 1978. His talk, "Oxford and American proposal to stagnation in the com- product of apathy. At this point our opportunity to know students in- Choral Society. "My voice is a gift of Higher Education," traced the in- mittee phase. This fall the group proposals, ideas and hopes for con- dividually and hear their story." the Lord and as long as there is a fluence of the tutorial, personalized spent tedious hours revising the structive change must be filed in the Dessel plans to renew old frien- breath in my body, I will continue to emphasis of Oxford on American senate's internal structure. The bottom drawer and fade from con- dships after retiring and she wants to sing." senate's response was not favorable. sciousness. We were a group of take classes at UPS. "My favorite aspect of the UPS systems of teaching. In particular he The UPS campus seems to react to students trying to create a wave on a After 15 years at UPS, Esther library in the past 13 years has been suggested how Oxford had transfor- crisis after crisis. An example is the pacified sea-a wave that never came Landon plans to enjoy her two new watching it change from the Dewey med itself in the nineteenth century from a mediocre university to the outcry to changes in the Athletic to crest. We would like to see out grandchildren. She says, "I'm going Decimal System to Library of program. Whether one agrees with concepts kept alive, but we will no to start making adjustments in my Congress," stated Marian Race. She world's greatest through the influen- the decision or not, the way it was longer be instrumental to that end. home life and get that part of my life says, "you run into such fabulous ce of committed administrators, par- made is a haunting reminder of how As we see it, the students will taken care of. And I expect I'll find books too. The amazing thing is if ticularly Benjamin Jowett, classics scholar, and John Ruskin, renowned decisions are made on this campus. remain reactionary, silent and things in the community I'll want to you want information, it's right here. architect. Students remain uninformed of ignored until they opt for a long term do." The library is beautifully run." The link between Oxford and change until it occurs. Many recent altering of the decision making struc- Her relationship with the students Race wishes she could continue to American education was made cases follow a strikingly similar pat- ture. Until that time, your voices will has been the most rewarding part of work in the UPS library, "I have a largely as a result of the bequest of tern. The Governance Committee continue to be sparse, distant and her job. "Seeing the change in youth feeling of belonging here." Cecil Rhodes, diamond magnate. had proposed to curb the need for ex unheard. over 15 years is exciting. You're a About one thousand American educators have studied in the Oxford \ Safety/Security IIRIIMIIMINIMINIIIIIImimmElommow Campus invaded by non-s tudents BOOK 1 On May 3, between 10:46 ano A male in his early 20's assaulted a 11:08 p.m., a suspicious-acting male female student as she was walking by was reported on campus. herself near the end of Jones Hall, MIRE Safety/Security personnel contacted April 29, at 4 a.m. The subject was the subject, a non-student, and escor- contacted by Safety/Security Person- ted him to Safety/Security Offices for nel and was subsequently arrested by questioning. Special access privileges Tacoma Police Officers. to the campus were negotiated with On May 1, at 9 p.m., two students, the subject. residing in separate rooms in Seward A Todd Hall resident reported the Hall, reported the theft of their theft of her wallet which contained wallets and contents (approximately identification, a checkbook and $15 $115 in cash) from their unlocked in cash, May 4 at 9:36 a.m. The BUY-BACK rooms. The wallets were subsequen- property was taken from her tly recovered but the cash was unlocked room. No suspects. missing. No suspects. On May 6, there were numerous Beta Theta Pi residents reported violations of the alcohol policy on the presence of an unwanted guest, campus. Those who were caught May 2 at 6:50 p.m. Safety violating were advised concerning Security personnel responded on the policy, but the extent of alcohol request and escorted the non-student MAY 24-26 use in public areas created policy en- to Safety/Security Offices for ad- forcement difficulties . visory purposes. 9 a.m.-4 P.M. On May 7, about 2:15 a.m., a On May 3, at 1:58 a.m., custodial student residing in a house adjacent personnel reported to Safety/Security to the Union Avenue Complex repor-• that there was a suspicious acting ted that his residence had been male in the SUB.

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