ME ALIENATED? BOSH! by Pamela Brownstein

At the Winthrop Smith Lecture on March 5, President Strider introduced Wystan Hugh Auden as 'the most distinguished living poet in the English- speaking world. " And indeed, a majority of critics seem to grant Auden a place as the most "accomplished and versatile of living poets, who has been and remains to be exceptionally influential. " The 63 year-old winner of the Pulitzer Prize well aware of the limited at- tention span of an audience, decided to read for ten minutes and pause for a minute. While some of his poems at the beginning were read from books, others toward the end were read from dog-eared sheets of paper. The en- joyment of the audience was evidenced by the warm reception given Auden. . The audience was not limited to the Colby or Waterville community. A few people came up from the Boston area just to hear Auden. Seated next to this reporter was an English teacher from Boston taping the reading. Many though, had difficulty hearing Auden, at times missing key words, punchlines and titles. A few students felt that if they had read more of his works be- forehand they would have had a greater appreciation of the reading. Nonethe- less, it was a stimulating influ ence. Auden commenced with a few poems inspired by memories about his home in Kirchstetten, twenty-five miles from Vienna. In one poem which served as an elegy for his close friend Louis MacNeice , the poet, he elaborated on the odds and ends that had accumulated in his study and how he wished he could have shown them all to MacNeice. Another selection was written on the occa- sion of the retirement of the village doctor from general practice. Auden cap- tured the sentiment felt by those villagers as he referred to the forty-five years of service which the doctor had faithfully given the village. He reminded the doctor not to"wince at our sick world" and that "when you quit the public , it is genuine in age to be happily selfish. " the whole fucking crowd Auden then recited a poem entitled "Talking to Dogs". "A dog is a man's best Auden: "I' m bored with of you, " friend" reflects Auden's feeling when he commends them in writing "your silence can be of more help" than that of our fellow two -loggers. "A New Year Greeting" — which appeared in Scientific American — was the By Tim Gary and Si Nahra title of one of Auden'.s most humorous poems, which delighted the audience. He opens the poem: Go back, friend student, back , back into the deep- On this day tradition allots est recesses of the periodical stacks in Miller Library. To taking stock of our lives There, beyond the bound volumes of National Geographic My greeting to all of you, Yeasts, preserved in a glass case for all to see (who can find

NEON POEMS...."Spun out of the vortex which is Wichita, Charley Plymell reached San Francisco on that road that ran thru the astonished heart of Amer- ica, riding his chopper (or at least in my imagined Mid- night Cowboy movie Tof" him) and these are the poems of his'vision of the Apocalypse Rose of America, Brook- lyn, Yellow Pages, Hollywood blacklight sun, Second hand Rose ..on the juke, Gough Street blues, wild rose of Utah, New York iron city, Kansas Madman's dream, eternity in the groin - Neal Cassady down, Kerouac down, all down the great American drain - and the vision vision goes on " Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1969 "Flymen's Qualities - Plymell and his friends invent- ing the Wichita Vortex contribute to a tradition stretch- ing back from Lamantia thru Sherwood Anderson to Poe 'and earlier American vibration artists of these provinces. The vortex vibration is in these Apocalypse Rose writings - unearthly hum of a tornado of con- sciousness droning in on a brain born to provincial solitude, perverted local politics, sick police....blackou t of Whitman's blissful Adhesiveness Among Citizens.... I interpret his statement as prophetic fragment memory of innocence, visionary great fear, & warm glimmer; a new species? Ap\ocalypseRose is one of the most per- fect presentations of poetry in the form of a first book that has been published in the last decade; a complete introduction to a permanant poet" Allen Ginsberg Charles Plymell is coming to Colby. "Do they kknow about Neal and all that up there?" " off to one side is a guy about 40 with a lot of muscles, as you can see because he has no shirt on just a pair of khakis and some red leather boots and his hell of a build - and he seems to be in a kinetic At the corner of Post and Gough used girly magazine pages trance, flipping a. small sledge hammer up in the air, a chinaman has a store called stuck with dries come. over and over, always managing to catch thehandle on the Golden West Market. Bravo tatto ads the way down with his arms and legs kicking out the The government plans to tear it down And pictures of girls whole time with his shoulders rolling and his head with G-strings up their crotches bobbing, all in a jerky beat as if somewhere Joe Cuba They're crooks he says. is playing 'Bang Bang'...'That's Cassady '. This strikes Where I find another place for store. "Ceasar" scrawled on East Villiage brick me as a marvelous fact. I remember Cassady, Cassady, And next door in a flat Amplified sounds thru broken windows Neal Cassady was the hero, "Dean Moriarty.' of which has stored past lives Nothing fits O Rose of all slogans Kerouac's On The Road, the Denver Kid , a kid who like old suitcases left by those Keeper of evolution was always running back and forth across the U.S. by who saw too far behind Guard of darkness and light car, chasing or outrunning 'lif e', and here is the same that pearly painted door.... "(Plymell) captures best all of the irony of the false guy, now 40, in the garage, flipping a sledgehammer, Charles Plymell, eternity which experience has wrought And the sense rocketing about to his own Joe Cuba and talking.. from In San Francisco of the book written out of the bombed humilation Cassady never stops talking. But that is a bad way to of a youthfully old american in time of war is awfully put it. Cassady is a monologist, only he doesn't seem Charles Plymell is coming to Colby with his old suit powerful." to care weather anyone is listening or not. He just goes cases, like the one in his Games of Solitude Jac Hirshman, Poetry Chicago 1968 off on the monolog, by himself if necessary, although Planets in a choral gown anyone is welcome aboard. He will answer all ques- the scars unreadable in eternity Charles Plymell is coming to Colby with his suitcases, his poems which pass tions, although not exactly in that order, because we tie clasps of Oklahoma salesmen. can't stop here, next rest area forty miles, you under- Two headed babies crying In Kansas the rattlesnakes lie low stand, spinning off memories, metaphors, literary, eat me, dand feed me. in dusty hideouts, moaning days of old In Kansas there is a danger of Oriental, hip allusions, all punctuated by the unlikely A red suitcase in Times Square expression, 'You understand -' " talking to the same person throughout eternity beautiful people telling thalidomide jokes or talking through the same eternity ~, ,. Tom Wolfe - -The Electric KooLMd Acid Test slick magazines with thumb smears ' Con t on pg beautiful things..,to be bad is one level. call it literal. A good story is literal in the same Literal? Grotesque? Arthur wrote a long account of But to be terrible is to be badder dan nat." sense a child's drawing is literal. When a child an incident at a Tuskegee Church for the Tuskegee Baraka draws, he doens't intend to distort but to set down Progressive Times. exactly what he sees and as his gaze is direct he Arthur Pfister is coming to Colby... , " the refusal of these racist pigs to admit this ...i am a blak dude see the lines that create motion. Now the lines of sister to their punk strewn church should motion that interest a writer are usually invisible not be who drinks tomato juice . surprising to any student of Blackology , which who happens to write what we consider poems.... They are lines of spiritual motion." might be defined as blah-blah-blah or BLAH- i lift weights Literal. Yes. Though some things might be hard for BLAH-BLAH. We must remember that the KKK a white reader to understand literally...,, were slaughterers, murderers, rapists, and in & like all warrior/sons, can see in the dark general and don't want to be cool like my uncle "" .'.....if words had the power to kill , impudent FOOLS, in the name of the i'd write a poem about Wallace etc. WHITE Jesus Christ THEIR Lord (yeah man). and ride around in a 4-4-2 In other words it or read poetry to white people how i'd tie him up and make him repeat was surprising that those jive or ride in airplanes 'I'm a nigger' faggot muthafuchas didn't up this suster off. 'I'm a nigger' Sensationalism? Remember the case of Momma because upon landing, i might discover that Joe Easydick there's nothing left except a box of matches 'I'm a nigger' Wilson? " attached to the hand of the Honorable Dr. Hubert Rap and then make him marry Aunt Jemima Arthur Pfister is coming to Colby.,. He will be reading Brown....grinning....' (if she'd dig it)" his own work on March 9th and reading with Charles frorri Poem 4 days before 21 Pfister from Fast Poem Plymell and Mark Mendel on March 12th. Here's the first stanza of his poem about his home town; ".....what we consider poems...' Of course many Can Arthur be literal, talking about whites as "beast women"? I wonder about beasts. Webster says yt waters While Departments of English don't oconsider that in new Orleans benevolently acknowledg- "any animal excep t man". Perhaps in primitive times Black writing exists, or have uptown is down town downtown ed Langston Hughes' genius, in the last few years, in the beasts that ranged the forests were an actual threat up town to man, Now we know that those animals are for our & niggers in ward "NINE" the Jim Crow sections of anthologies. But Arthur and drown when the levee break d his friends couldn't care less. They are not writing for entertainment, and that we are the threat to them. the White academy. Never have. Listsri ,to the Last But what of those who bombed the church in Birming- 6 ham and have never been captured? Beasts? I saw Easy w Poets record alburn. Listen to it. The Last Poets. " ' Arthur Pfister is coming to Colby. Rider in Knoxville Tennessee and heard the audience n cheering as Peter Fonda got blasted in the end, In fact a city of dagoes In talking abou t this writing, tho I know Arthur , dayolds, gumbo growing up in rural Georgia ithis wasn't so foreign to & drunkened neon streets and his work , my understanding is specifically ground- me. Lemuel Penn was killed in the next county from (tryin ed. m specifically a White man. But then I'm also a to James brown it down I' my own, And speaking from rural Georgia herself , with horded of stumbling wr iter , a southern writer, and from »*that point of Flannery O'Conner said referance 1 begin, Every writer I've ever met, when caterpillarish feet asked about meanings, significance, etc. has said, "Of course I've found that anything that bor bon a street a drink a stuptifier "Well first^of all, take it literally ." I would say the comes from the south is going to be called where beast women jerk & squiggle & squag same thing about my own work. And Flannery O'Con- grotesque by the northern reader, unless it (lookin like somethin' from frankonstein 's doo-rag) nor writingabout her stories said , is grotesque, in which case it is going to be D0OOO-OO-0O-O0-00-0O-O0-O0-O0-001Hi i |! "(this).,..has been called grotesque, but I prefer to called realistic." "Wards" instead of sectors Con t on pg. iculum are the most successful. The optimal arrange- ment is one in which the program or center offers a degree to its participants." Accordingly, the Colby -next level of structural complex- program fits into the^ ¦ ¦ ity * ' ' ' 4. A multidisciplinary major leading to a B.A. degree degree in environmental studies. The^proposal for en- vironmental studies at Colby houses this major within the Division of Natural Sciences so that a graduate's area of emphasis is evident. Many courses in the social sciences and humanities are directly related to the en- vironment and should be included in the curriculum , but a major stretched equally over two or three div- isions would produce a rather generalized graduate in an age of specialization. ¦ ¦ r 5. The final level of complexity for a program in environmental studies at a college or university would be to set up a separate department on the "environ- ment". One proponent of this view would call the discipline"ecography", and the department would have its own budget, chairman, and multidisciplinary staff. This approach might be necessary at a large uni- versity, but the Division of Natural Sciences at Colby is small enough to function as a department in this re- gard. Traditionally , majors in the natural sciences at Colby have been students with an early commitment to graduate work. The division already offers a com- bined major in geology-biology to train students for graduate work in environmental sciences. The multi- disciplinary major in environmental studies is intended for students who have a number of other goals in mind, such as: a. A career or avocation with organizations concer- ned with environmental quality , such as the several conservationist and populationist groups (private and public) operating locally, nationally, or internationally . b. A career as an interpretive ecologist (vs a research ecologist) at an arboretum or nature center, in the National Park Service, etc. (The older label of inter-, Steering Committee consisting of the Dean of Faculty pretive "naturalist" connotes more of an interest in tax- William Gilbert the departmental chairmen in the Division of Natural onomy than in the interdependence within biotic com- munities.) Last-fall, the MAINE TIMES (9/16/70) carried an Sciences, and a Chairman of the Environmental Studies Program who would be responsible for advising. c. A career in environmental education. It would be article entitled "can an idea born in Massachusetts possible for a student to become certified for second- take root in MaineTJ'. The idea referred to is the Center The proposed curriculum requires seventeen courses (approximately 50 credit-hours) including a core of six ary school teaching in the area of natural science & for Environmental Studies at Williams College, which, required courses and a choiceoof eight other courses environmental education with the proposedn. major in since its founding in 1967, has brought students and environmental studies plus the professional education faculty into contact with various environmental pro- from the natural sciences and three courses from the social sciences, as approved. Six of-the seventeen courses available at Colby. Another route to certifica- blems in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The article courses are at the 100 ' tion might involve a master's degree program in en- went on to say that comparable programs at Maine level, reflecting the' fact that an. approach to environmental studies through the natural vironmental education (which may become available institutions of higher learning were still on the drawing sciences must move horizontally in the very near future at such schools as the Univer- boards. across the roots of several disciplines as well as vertically along the ecol - sity of Maine) Since then, a program in environmental studies has ogical branches of biology and geology d. Students interested in going on to medicine, been conceived by the Division of Natural Sciences at . There are several approaches to environmental law, theology, or business school could maj or in en- Colby (ever wondered what went on ait those science vironmental studies .provided they also took the pro- division lunches onTuesdays?) and it has • gone studies. A survey taken two years ago found 121 college and universities, out of 1 300 polled per pre-professional courses. through a gestation period before the Educational , , that had a multi- disciplinary unit either in operation or planned, for The above list is not intended to be exhaustive, Policy Committee. That program is now before the but simply an indication that a number of opportunit- faculty for their consideration; if the faculty votes to dealing with environmental education. No single stru- ctural pattern predominated among those programs, ies are opening up for graduates with a background in accept it at their next meeting (March 1 7), environ- environmental studies. I ^personally believe that en- mental studies will be born at Colby College, but five types may be distinguished: 1. The least structured approach involved listing all vironmental education is an idea whose time ahas come The purpose of this article is to describe the pro- in fact, it is education that cannot wait any longer. posed program in broad outline and compare it to the courses at the institution that deal with the environ ment in a separate section of the catalogue, allowing President Nixon signed into law the Environmental similar aefforts at other campuses. Hopefully, this Education Act last fall, setting up a new Office of En- will result in a perspective on environmental studies easy reference for students with an interest in that area The University of Maine (Orono) uses this approach vironmental Education within the federal Department that will better enable the Colby communtiy to eval- at present. of HEW, and Congress recently appropriated $2 mil- uate'the proposal before it. lion for this office to use in promoting curriculum de- The objective of the proposal is to establish a mul- 2. The next step in complexity involves an inter- disciplinary course on the environment which is often velopment, undergraduate field projects, etc. Despite tidisciplinary major in environmental studies at Colby this relatively inexpensive start, Congress may possibly College within the framework of a liberal arts educa- team-taught. Bowdoin will try out this approach next year with a course on "The Marine Environment". become as generous toward environmental education tion. The major is intended to provide students (and s as it was toward basic scientific research (1) 3. A "co-ordinated major" is the next step, with in the 1970' faculty!) with an understanding of the complex students majoring in in the 1960's. Other sources of funding are available inter-relationships within ecosystems, (2) an apprecia- traditional departments and select ing environmental studies as a field of special emphasis. for programs in environmental education, but the tion for the contributions which different disciplines Last fall granting agencies all look for strong evidence *of an make to a study of the environment , (3) an awareness , Williams snd Dartmouth started programs of _ this sort, which represent acompromisebetween taking institution's clear commitment . to their program be- about the roles of individuals and institutions that im- an environmental fore helping them expand it. I hope that Colby will pinge on the environment , and (4) a working exper- curriculum and getting a degree in some traditional major with a history of acceptance by initiate such a commitment shortly, for I feel that it ience with some aspect of the local or regional enviro- graduate schools and employers. will enrich all the college offerings. Environmental nment, To accomplish these aims, the proposed major However, a detailed report of six programs in environmental education education can stimulate new ways of thinking which should serve not only as an academic bridge between color languages, economics, history & government, disiplines within the college' community but also as a which was submitted to the President's Environmental Quality Council cautioned against this sort of com- and religion, as well as the natural sciences; it pro- link between the college and the outside world. promise : mises to give an ecological perspective for every as- Supervision of the major would be in the hands of a "There is strong evidence in our findings that the programs which have control over their curr- pect of learning. Con ' t from pg. 3 drill operator. He learned the printing trade and' settl- ed in San Francisco COCA: SATURN: AND SUN: :::::::: to the person in danger... . in an old Victorian flat with Allen Hallucination Dissertation Manifesto from IN Kansas Gensberg and the late Neal Cassady. while there he shared the birth', growth , and death Cameraman of the lost rainbow oracle riding His poems: In Hollywood of the hippie move , In N.'Y.C,, In Utah, In ment of the Haight Asbury. He married Pamala Beach out of the sun of the Souix now writes this London with William Burroughs, In Paris during the the granddaughter of Sylvia Beach of Paris (Shakespere outlaw diary of red suitcase in Times Square: : : : : student-worker revolution of 1968 & Co. - publishers of Joyce) and after travel in Europe Charles Plymell reading his own work with Arthur A newspaper reads he 'Bye Bye Boddy ' returned to San Francisco to work on the docks to Pfister and Mark Mandel sometime during the week of and all about gun crazed America work as a Teamster. He received an M.A, in writing March 15-21. Colby College. late that night the cafe was cleared from Johns Hopkins in 1970 and is currently living in with police and tenrgas on the outside Cherry Valley N.Y , Mark Mendel , stranded with the boring journalist, Fairfield , Maine Charles Plymell is coming to Colby March 8th. Like I took a nankin to wrap around my face poets do And camped , , he writes of Roses - of THE ROSE, of ' 'Can you imagine Apoclaypse Rose, his long poem Con t from pg. 3 an American'in a situation like this of flesh revelation/ moonskin cap. And like poets do, writes of stars , "parishes" instead of counties¦¦ without a gun....' In the current (Feb, "earl" instead of oil , 71) Evergreenhhis burning STAR ' Charles Plymell is coming to Colby. Charles Plymell TATTOO Dying on the DayGlo Ganges for Barry F "berl" instead of boil was born in Holcomb Kansas in 1935 , the decendant beginning "strimp" instead of shrimp of an English Sea pirate and a Cherokee medicine man; Star Tatto "wiiiUiiilliiiiiiiiiiriiiliiiiiiiiiiiine" instead of cryin* He lived his early years on a farm on the Kansas plains, shining shining yeah. and after school in Wichita , he traveled extensively on a billion cars tonight you can see them even while asleep..,,. throughout the west and midwest, working as a truck- DOO-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 1Mini Charles Plymell, Poet, coming to Colby .beginning ....to much pig in the driver, rodeo rider , ranch hand , catskinner and steam- something, Charles beginning: gumbo...." Mark Mendel/Fairfield , Ma ine tigation by the local chapter is made. If a deadlock oc- curs between the administration and the chapter , the' t national organization is called in. The national or- ' g ariization publishes* the'results of its findings in the AAU P Bulletin and makes recommendations (sometimes as severe as blacklisting the college) . Annually, the AAUP publishes a survey of faculty salaries. In the words of an AAU P pamphlet, "(This survey) was the first to bring into the open the actual compensations paid by colleges and universities and to provide the incentive both of informed competition and achievement. The Association also gives assistance to colleges in such matters as sabbatical leave, stan- dards of promotion, faculty evaluation, and improve- ment of teaching. Local chapters make suggestions for the general improvement of curricula. For exam- ple, the Colby Jan Plan grew out of a suggestion made by the local chapter (now headed by Professor Sweney). Interested in the faculty and student role in govern- AAUP Chairman John Sweney ment, the AAUP is exploring student participation as freedom, faculty salaries, teaching and research, uni- well as making plans to develop a model faculty- versity government, and rights and fre edoms of students senate. Its committee on college and university go- Over 90, 000 faculty.members (30 from Colby) represent- vernment can investigate and publicize conditions ing 1800 colleges and universities in the U. S.. and abroad at universities that blatantly restrict the faculty's comprise its membership. In addition, there are more role. The Association is also responsible for than 1, 100 local chapters on campuses in fifty states. forming the Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms The AAU P is responsible for developing the concept of Students. It states standards for such areas as by Susan Francis of tenure which means that after remaining at a uni- maintenance of student records, freedom of student versity for a probationary period of seven years, a publications, and recognition of student organizations. The American Association of University Professors, professor cannot be fired. If there has been some vio- The AAUP's policies are decided by an elected founded in 1915, is a national organization designed to lation of the proper standards of appointment, notice, Council and by an Annual Meeting of membership with promote faculty welfare and academic standards . It or dismissal (as explained in the 1940 statement of Prin- the aid of special and standing committees. Head- sets standards in such areas as academic tenure and ciples on Academic Freedom and Tenure) then an inves- quarters of the organization is in Washington, D. C.

he favors Con-Con, but faults have arisen in the est. (That sounds like an interesting article, "Th system due to structural hang-ups and personality Ones Who Never Ran".) differences. Many people did not anticipate the work His chief objectives as Student Government pre involved in getting Con-Con moving and have become sident are three: discouraged. This can be overcome, he feels, by immomQ First of all, he wishes to see a basic streamlin certain structural changes such as giving the FPC a ing of routine procedures by Si Nahra in Student Governement. real budget breakdown, making the decisions of Allocations and committee nominations should be Rights and Rules virtually binding, Charles Hogan is an optimistic man. For a new and by clarify- handled in separate Stu-G committees whose re- ing the role of Ombudsman. All this president of Student Government that certainly is not could be done commendations would carry considerable weight at the reconvening of Con-Con next year. Also unusual. In a recent interview with president-elect with the Stu-G Con- body. Con should consider the problem of Student Judiciary. Hogan he expressed many ideas other than this op- Secondly , he proposes an expanding of Stu- Stu-G's role in this issue is not defined , but Stu-G timism. s scope especially G' into academic affairs . Mr. does not have the power it should have and the Deans He seemed quite pleased with the election results Hogan is well acquainted with the academic re- have power they shouldn have according to Mr. and expressed confidence in the new executive board gulations 't Hogan and committee manipulations of this In summing up the interview the president-elect and the Student Government body. When asked about school and he feels Stu-G should be an initiator the poor mentioned two general objectives. One of getting turn-out at the polls on election day (601 of policy before it reaches the faculty. His ex- people to ' people voted be willing to get involved in the system as , the lowest in four years), he felt it panded scope for Stu-G places campus issues in set up by Con-Con was due to and the other of Stu-G becoming the lack of competition in the campaign. priority to national issues. He feels Stu-G should more involved in areas in which it has previously minute with- Hogan thought the formation and last be involved in national trends and.movements but been quite lax (e. g. — academic considerations). drawal of the Colby Brick ticket prevented many not to the detrement of campus affairs. Yes, Charles Hogan is certainly an optimistic thus people from running who otherwise would have, Finally, he sees certain changes in Con-Con as man. That's just what student government needs, limiting the field and hence decreasing voter inter- necessary for the college community. Basically, optimism. ther than calling into question the inspirational value available to the I-must-take-five-courses freshman) of the four courses taken , the EPC decided instead to however, creates yet another problem. Those pre- add one more. cious few courses which many students consider valua- One of the more unfortunate aspects of the EPC deci- ble (Baby Art, for example) are already jammed. The sion was the lack of candor on the part of student mem- EPC proposal will increase the crush on such popular making life a little more unbearable for the bers in presenting They courses, student point of view. might ratio at Colby 120? 120? possibly have expressed the feeling of some, that student. With the instructor-student returning to 15:1, such a situation will be no picnic m'any of the freshman-sophomore courses are shal- for the faculty either. low; thus, many students reason, why take five " Considering the problems of the 3 1/2 year gra- John Brassil when four will do?" Naturally, the professors oh the J O PINION j fail- duate and the flunking freshman, alternative solutions EPC , when faced with the number of freshman are surely possible. The faculty could recommend: The proposed re-hike in credit hours required ures, were compelled to act on the problem. Sadly, ques- for graduation is a particularly sad development the action taken avoids the concrete academic (A) Strengthening the present advisor system to pro- for, if passed, it only further establishes Colby tions involved, the quality of the courses. vide the student with the best possible assistance in as a tight little place in a big hurry to distinguish The EPC faculty members might also have looked planning his academic career. system. That itself as one of the top schools of the mid '50's. at their non-wonderful freshman advisor The EPC has given its reasons for returning to system may be held accountable for part of the fresh- (B) Allowing those who have proven themselves in- a 120 credit hour degree program. Superficially, man breakdown. After all, someone had to approve all capable of self determination (in spite of this assist at least, the decision appears sound. First, the of those four course loads. It is difficult to blame stu- anco), to flunk out. EPC expressed dents who, in many cases, were poorly advised. fear that Colby has become a Ono corollary to the EPC recommendation is the "three (C) Reinforcing the residency requirement already and a half year college. " Second , they cited by each department of thoir last semester s academically deficient freshmen, proposed re-evaluation on tho books; in short, somehow make it more dif- ' , making some of them four credit virtually, all of whom carried a four course load. 300 and 400 courses ficult to graduate early . Naturally, this would call for a "beef- As one EPC member stated, make em tako five hour affairs. " ' of the course on the part of the professor, The courses again, then they'll know they have to work. ing up" (D) Allowing fewer four course semesters (3 or 4 when handled correctly , mokes it pos- After all , the first three or four semesters are cru present system , instead of 5) and possibly restricting tho number al- up . Once cial in tho breadth-giving liberal arts program. " sible for tho student to do the "beefing " lowed in the first four semesters to one or two. This Well , I for one suffered through two substantially again, however, the EPC seems only to have consi- would give the student (inconsultation wlth.his advisor, the worthless years at Colby, years one and two. I dered the cases of tho slackors-off. In any case, of course, reasonable flexibility in planning his acade- took five courses each of my first four semesters, proposed change further restricts the student during mic career. . plus two summer courses which would have enabled his last two years by throwing more (not necessarily me to finish up with four four course semesters. Des- better) work at him in all_ advanced areas — work Tho faculty is quite possibly afraid that Colby is be- Also, what Jun- pite this opportunity to "go soft" I did my Colby duty that he has no choice but to complete. coming academically soft, Naturally, they worry about and took two iive course loads in my final four semes- ior or senior will ever take five courses again? The tho reputation of their firm. If they cared about the ters — not because I hod to, but because I wanted to. present system gives tho student an opportunity to de- students of 1975 and beyond they might consider some A return to the old system would once again "freeze cide for himself when and how he will do his "beefing more flexible alternatives to the "get back".plan EPC the " s schedule freshman-sophomore student into a glutted two up". Under the "get back" plan, the student' has approved. It seems that an easy way out of Hie si- year program, jammed with courses which are quite is more or less set for his entire college career — tuation has been taken although tho problem demands a often of questionable caliber. Nevertheless, the EPC flexibility Is gone. more careful , comprehensive, re-evaluation of Colby's chose to read the current statistics on freshman floun- Certainly the area requirements are less strict than academic currlcular structure. The proposed.solution dering as evidence that a four course load is not ennu ch they were four years ago. The relatively poor quality is an abrupt and hasty regression which takes little to inspire solid academic achievement', i, e., 1,8. Ra- of the 100 and 200 courses, (which are tho only ones into account beyond numbers. ~n A / A ~B

Last Friday a new Student Government Executive Board was elected, bringing to an end a campaign conspicuous for its lack of excitement, interest or apparent importance. The dullness of the campaign was somewhat mitigated by the presidential candidacies of a bird and a student running on the Big Deal Party platform ; many students ocould not decide which of the two candidates was funnier and withheld their votes until one emerged in their minds as the greater clown. These two candidates received two fifths of the total vote for president ; this left about 300 people, or one fifth of the students here, who awere seriously concerned about who the next Stu-G president would be. It would-be too easy to write off this year's elections as just another example of "student apathy".-Students at Colby have de- monstrated time and time again their willingness to become in- volved and active in affairs which - they consider to be of some "YOU'D HAVE THOUGHT THEY'D HAVE LET ME DO consequence. The fact that so few people considered the recent * Student Government elections to be of any importance should i MORE THAN JUST SHARPEN PENCILS' come as no surprise. To The Editor: Before the Constitutional Convention, the position of Stu-G Your article on Mr.. Norford 's dismissal President was a desirable and effective platform for the presen- letters to the edito r brought to mind two questions, of utmost im- tation of student views. The president had a tremendous opportun- portance, whose answers shake the foundation ity to exercise leadership and initiative. Today his job is little more of the present concept of higher education and than cutting up a sixty thousand dollar pie. With the advent of the To the Editor: are every applicable to the case. Almighty Committee, student influence has been decentralized, s dismissal is the result , accord- One night last December we carelessly placed Mr. Norford' divided and rendered ineffectu al. Accordingly, the president of a lit candle on an orange crate and succeeded in ing to your article, of the necessity to keep the. Stu-G can do no more with an idea than submit it to whatever burning down half our room , and ruining a large number of tenured faculty limited because of committees might be appropriate. It is any wonder, then that amount of personal property . This as the after- the burden it places on the school financially competition and concern for this office has all but vanished? math of a Dean's ruling that candles were not to It was readily agreed that Mr. Norford. was a Con-Con not withstanding, most things at Colby have remain- be burned in the dorms. Thus we've had to pay good teacher, which should be the sole basis almost $ 100 dollars to B&G seems to me that ed the same. Control of the college still rests in the hands of a room damage fee of for a decision of this kind. It make a seemingly pointless appearance in front good professors are a rare commodity and there- five officers: the Board of Trustees, the President, Vice-President, of Student Judiciary, and were requested by the fore something to be valued , not thrown away Dean of Faculty and Deans of Students; the students have only deans to write this letter to show what can hap- because we cannot afford to promote them - the power to advise, and that amounts to no power at all. The pen when you burn candles. We may not con- question. Is a col- candles - but it would which brings me to the first fact that the only "important" student position s are now on com- vince anyone not to burn profit making organization easier to have left the lights on lege supposed to be a mittees which are dedicated to the retention of this basic structure have been a lot provide an education the that night. Since its purpose is to can only mean certain frustration to anyone wishing to bring about Ann Rubinstein college need only have a budget which meets its . changes without the enthusiastic support of the Big Five. Most Leslie Phillips costs. In fact-it may even be possible to operate with a deficit which would enable it to afford studen ts involved in the machinations of the various committees those professors who, like Mr. Norford , are fired are intensely aware of the effects of administrative roadblocks for this inane reason. and runarounds , yet they cannot abandon their committees for Gentlemen: The second question deals with the means by more direct political action for fear of being damned for their Professor MacKay's letter (Echo, March 5) which tenure is granted. What is a college? Is it "bad afaith". For all intents and purposes, the Con-Con only commenting on Mr. Goodman's letter (Echo, the buildings and the administration or is it the made more explicit those "proper channels" which students were Feb. 19th) prompts me to make two additional faculty and the students? Obviously it is the so often exhorted to use. There can now be no question as to observations about the awarding of an honorary latter because a college does not and cannot which of the myriad of committees should discuss whatever pro- degree to Miss Levertov. exist without them. How, you may ask, does posal one cares to construct, but in the end the "decision-making 1) I was in the robing room before the Com- this relate to Mr. Norford? Those of us who give mencement ceremonies began and President process" is still exactly the same as before. Still students who re- , this institution its identity had no say in this Strider did not attempt to intimidate or even cognize our new proper channels as the same matter. The decision was reached by a group of old maze are branded persuade Miss Levertov to wear a doctoral gown. as malcontents who refuse to work within the system for peacefu people who meet in Boston every few months l 2) If you will check either and constructive change. a written record and who have probably never set foot in a class- or a tape of the Commencement you will find room taught by a professor on whom they pass By-his election, any president of Stu-G unavoidably becomes a that when the degree and hood were presented judgement. This is both arbitrary and absurd. part of this bureaucratic talk-a-thon. Whether the presidency will to Miss Levertov the wording of the presentation This power of judgment is a very important one recover any of its lost glamor will depend to a great extent upon was altered appropriately in keeping with Miss for all concerned and therefore should be in the whether future presidents can steer their programs through the Vevertov's wish not to be vested in academic hands of those most influenced by it , the faculty present governmental structure without regalia. • and the students. undue delay , or can find Sincerely yours, George Weltman '73 some other way of getting things done , This task will not be an Roland Thorwaldsen easy one. We hope Mr. Hogan will be able to make 1 an effective start on it. COLBY ECHO Office : Roberts Union , Call B73- 1 131 , Ext. 240 Box 1014 , Colby College , Water v ille , Main e Founded H77,. Publiihed weekly excep t during vacation! and examination period! by stud ent! of Colby college ; pri nted by the J, S. 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Over the past year, numerous abortion referral services have co-Ed ltors , , tit , Robert Knight (872-2210) contacted us and requested free or paid space to advertise their • Robert Parry (872-5652) agencies. Some of these referral services charge reasonable rates William Shumaker " Business Manager ; j| m Bubar (e>< t 561) and provide expert , personal counselling for women seeking abort- Associate Editor , .,, D ick Kaynor ions; many others, however , levy exorbitant prices and exploit Assistant Editors , Randall Chllds Susan Francis their clients, who arc often confused and frightened . Referral Charles Hogan services sometimes charge over $100 merely for providing the David Kraft name of an abortion clinic, * Gary Lawless Sports Edito r Mitch Fox (ext 343) We, of course, do not want to assist such firms in their grossly Newsbrlef Editor ..,.,..., Martha Bernard (ext S25) unethical practices, but how do we distinguish between them and Lecture Editor ,.....,,,,, .,.,.,.,, . Pam Brownsteln Photography Editors .. . , Robert Grant the reputable groups which provide low-cost competant assistance? Michael Havey Liz Ross and Debbie Christensen , (ext 311) members of Colby 's Local Ad Managers , . Jay Reltor(872 .8570) recently formed STOP chapter , have offered to check into the Donna Powe' - . - .. National Ad Manager , .,, quality of the services which have asked the ficiIO for space. John Crab* , .a Financial Manager .,, Luke K '- Ml Until their report is completed , we will suspend publication of Circulation Manager , ,...... ,,,... Susan Has*l referral service advertisements. Subscription Manager ,. , ( , Jeanne Emerson Typ ist... i ...... « ,.,...,, , . , , ,1 v . ! ' ,.., Marianne Perry Referral information can be obtained free of charge through Design Editor . ' , ...... ,. , .,,,....,..,.. Paul Hecht Colby's STOP chapter or through any Planned Parenthood office. Paste-up and Design . , , ,..,,., Elizabeth Perse For further information call Debbie or Liz. Nancy Costollo Sheila Marks ¦ 7 • • . - . - . ' -r O A n d J^ \m Ip QZQP pqstfcOFE C I g ^fi E Te

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volume set of books on Sufi thought written by Haziat by Gary Lawless zines, antique Turkish coats,- and some jewelry. It Inayat Khan, the great Sufi teacher who brough Sufism is hoped that in the future they will have bread days, s ego to the West. Sufi thought has influenced other modern Wanting to write an introduction to this week' one or two a week , instead of having bread sit around spiritual leaders, especially Gurdijieff and Meher Baba trip , but the words don't come together. Better to all week. Look for an ad in this Echo listing some of say (two of Baba's books were recently acquired also — — this week I'm. writing about some good things their merchandise. interesting reading.). to be found around this community, plus throwing in Eventually there will be a great market for Natural It's obscene to expose yourself physically in this some other stuff that might please someone, anyone, Foods in this area, but right now people are just be- maybe no one. So what. paper — really brings it down on you, but what about ginning to have second thoughts about the super-market. those who expose their real thoughts and feeling, inner I'll start with Mandala Community Workshop I have Other markets are on big rip-off trips and advertise nothing really to say (because rather than outer structure. Gee — there's such a of bad vibes created by natural foods and will take you for them. Big health big difference, but which is the* more dangerous ? myself — not their fault) . I.will point out some infor- and natural food companies have rules, restrictions . mation, Colby Domes, a group which I am organizing, wants all of which can be found on their posters. (steep minimum orders) whieh make it hard for the to bring lectures of unique interest to the Colby Campus April 16 with courses in Basic Arts, , Photography, small'shops to operate. The«N"atural Foods store has We don't want to charge money, but somehow we haven't Weaving, Silk Screening, Batik. Fabric Design, Or- sup- ganic contacted and hopes to contact more growers for got enough money to build a small portable dome in which Gardening and Pottery. There will be an open may also be done for barter; They house and art plies, some growing to house events such as I outlined last week — all for show March 12 and 13 from 9:0a a. m. to companies with lower charges so that 8:00 p.m. with a pl also want to find free. The dome will cost less then a hundred dollars ay put on both nights and an open they can lower their own prices. community meeting on Friday, and can be constructed in less then two hours. It the day this Echo comes interested to go ideas for the out. It's a good thing, really. I would encourage anyone who is will be completely portablei We need Rap with the guy who runs that ways of raising funds that we need for this project. The first "lecture" in Colby Dome's non-lecture down and look around. series will .be on Monday, March 15 in Smith place. You may learn something. I did. Anyone with any ideas or questions see either myself Lounge, (Orono) student ego trip thing Runnals Union at 7j00. Mr. Kenneth Horn, an organic An outgrowth of University of Maine or Ann Traver. It seems like a real — farmer, will speak briefly on organic farming and energy and community assistance is the new Abenabi but if we want these things someone has to get started then will welcome questions and discussion on organic Experimental College. The "College" is bringing to- soon, before Spring hits us. So much is possible if farming and gardening. Please try to make it if you gether students, faculty, and community members to we rise from our stupor, Instead of waiting for someone are at all interested, so that it will be obvious that participate in non-college courses. No money is charged , to do it for us. this sort of thing is good (and, of course, relevant) and classes are held in churches, schools, and homes. Using this column for personal advertisements and and should continue, Anyone with ideas for lectures, Anyone who has a special topic can offer It, and find a pleas for help. I hope someone else is getting some- discussions, or anything see either me or Ann Traver. group of interested people and shelter of some kind. thing out of this. The Natural Foods Store — 105 Water Street (past Courses includes bicycle repair, photography, Libera- Onco again I want to use my "power of the press" to the Chez on your way from town) is a store which de- tion Torch League, organic gardening, Existentialism, urge people to go and see Rahsaon Roland Kirk Rali- ' serves your attention if you're beginning to get into Zen and Sufi Thought, witchcraft, Hesse, Mountaineer- saan. Great music. ; , " • a natural foods trip (and who couldn ing, and the Evolution of Love, Affection, and Foolish- - Discussing the stringing of wire at heck level across 't with Sellers func- providing motivation?). Being new, their selection ness, There are over seventy bourses to be found the woods trails around here to really stop tlie snow- is not huge, but is growing and very interesting as it tioning and all are free ~ with noCredits or real re- mobilers, who don't seem frightened by a pink mimeo- is now. If they don't have something you want, mention quirements. Here lies food for thought for some of the graphed memorandum. (No peaceful snowshoeing it to them and then come back in a couple of weeks. other optimists of this oampus, .1 have boon in obntaot when chased by a roaring grease machine piloted by It grows every week. with Abenabi, and hope to get some'of the Course lead- , maniacal adults and infants with sadistic gleams and Besides having a fair selection and reasonable pri- ers to come herb and discuss their special topics. para-milltary snow suits.) ces, tho store also has a good selection of Whole Having mentioned Sufi above* I would like to point Enough.said. Stop trying to fill up space. It isn't Earth catalogs and other relevant books and maga- out that Miller Library recently acquired a twelve- worth it. -» '" STOP, stands for Stop Today's Overpopulation, an abortion andibirth control information cen- ter now being-organized at Colby: The-purp'ose of this center will be to provide information a- bout local doctors who wuTprescribe various methods of contraception and offer counseling to Colby students. The second function of this Gabrielson Lecture: On Tuesday, March 16, at 6:30 p.m. in Lpri- organization will be to make available/ free of Harold Margulies, M.D., acting director, re- mer Chapel there will be an assembly; for all charge, information on various abortion services gional medical programs service, Department of Freshman. At this time the process of selecting in states where abortions are legal. While the HEW will speak on Thursday, March 18 at 7:30 a major will be discussed. Each Freshman must STOP chapter here is not fully organized as yet, in Given. His topic will be "The Provisions of choose a major before courses are elected in the information is available right now. Students are Adequate Health Service". Dr. Margulies is pre- spring, and it is-hoped that: this assembly will be invited to make use of this service. Anyone with sently Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pro-1 of help in rnaking this decision. Although this is questions or problems should contact: Planning and Evaluation, Health Services a very important meeting, the students will not gram be excused fro m any class in order to attend. Kathy Lowe ext. 416 116 Dana and Mental Health Administration. He is a mem Debbie Christensen 311 306 Taylor ber of many outstanding medical associations Laurie Rhoades 2-9823 201 Small and has held high positions in them. His most re Roz Wasserman ext. 541 322 Butler cent maj or publication is Foreign Medical Grad- Tony Burkart, Colby Draft Counsellor has had to uates in the United States, 1969 , (Harvard Univ- change his hours and is available on Tuesday and ersity Press). Thursday evenings from 7 to 9 P.M. in room 307 Lovejoy. A performance will be given by the Concert Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. on Sunday, March Anyone interested in volunteer work with pre- 14 in Runnals Gym. Admission charged. school children please call Mrs. Pat Tuthill at the The chairman of the philosophy department Day Care Center, 873-0388. at Purdue University (Lafayette, Ind.), Francis E. Parker, will be joining the Colby College faculty here next fall. Parker has been appointed Charles The International Relations Club Party will A. Dana Professor of Philosophy. be held in Smith and Dunn lounges on Saturday, that openings are A prolific writer and lecturer, Parker has earn- March 13 at 8 p.m. Admission charged. The Glee Club announces ed an international available for all interested students for the sec- reputation in his field. His teaching background includes serving as depart-! ond semester. Work is currently going ahead for ' May . Interested stu- ment chairman at Haverford (Pa) College where the spring concert in early he taught from dents should contact Mr. Re at Ext. 252. 1954 to 1966 and where he was faculty representative on the board of managers Julian Bond , 1968 nominee from Georgia for (trustees). ' , the U.S. Vice Presidency and presently Congress- While on sabbatical leave in 1962-63 he was ional Representative for the state of Georgia, a Fellow of the American Council of Learned will speak at Colby in Wadsworth Gym at 8 p.m. Scoieties and a Fulbright Research Professor at on Saturday, March 13. Mr. Bond's lecture will Colby Domes Lecture the University of Athens. He also .has been a be sponsored by Stu-G. His topic is "What's Mr. Kenneth Horn, an organic gardener from part-time visiting professor at Bryn Mawr College Ahead?". Admission $1.00 Dixmont, Maine, will discuss organic farming and a visiting associate professor at Indiana with interested students on Monday, March 30, University. Runnals Union. No ad- in the Smith Lounge, His appointment at Purdue came in 1966. Student Music Association Concert, Music mission charged. Under his departmental chairmanship at the La- from Marlboro (group #3) will be presented in fayette campus of the university, the philosophy Given Aud. at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 19. Ad- faculty has grown from 12 to 17; the number of mission charged. graduate students from 4 to 31; and the number of undergraduate majors has tripled. On Friday, March 12, the Outing Club will He has lectured and delivered philosophical hold a Square Dance in Runnals Gym at 8 p.m papers at numerous colleges and universities in On Tuesday, March 16 the Council on Food Admission 75c. the U.S. and abroad and has been chosen to give and Nutritions of the American Medical Assoc- the 1971 Aquinas Lecture at Marquette University iation will sponsor a Biology seminar featuring (Milwaukee, Wise). He will speak March 7 at the Dr. Charles Davidson, associate director, Harvard University on Medical Unit , Harvard Medical School. He pro- FINANCIAL AID APPLICANTS "Reason and Faith Revisited." Parker taught ethics for four years at the In- jects an active interest in medical research. Dr. Applications for 1971-72 are now ready in stitute of Humanistic Studies for Executives at Davidson received his M.D. at McGill University the Financial Aid Office, 402 Eustis. Parents the University of Pennsylvania and twice in the Faculty of Medicine and is presently Professor of Confidential Statements should be completed Program of Liberal Arts for Executives at Swarth- VIedicine at Harvard. Since 1969, he has been a and returned to this Office no later than April more College. He has also given adult education ;onsultant, Nutrition Program , Division of Cronic 20. All students will be notified of their aid on courses in a number of Philadelphia area night Disease Programs, Health Services and Medical July 15. schools. health Administrations, National Institute of He is author of more than 25 articles for health in Bethesda , Maryland. He is also a con- scholarly journal s and of two books, "Logic as sultant, Cholera Advisory Committee, Depart- a Human Instrument" (with Henry B. Veatch), nent of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Among the more amusing write-ins which Harper , 1959 and "The Story of Western Philo- health Service in Bethesda, Maryland, Dr. David- appeared on student ballots: for President - Al sophy," Indiana University Press, 1967. He has ion is a.i member of a number of professional Mavrinac, Palladin ; for VP - Mannix; for Treas- contributed to several others and is currently jrganizations. He is also the author of approx- urer - John Joseph; for Secretary - David Eisen- working on a book on' the logic and metaphsics mately 230 articles pertaining to his research hower; for Soc. Life - REL Strider, Julie Nixon of knowledge. nterests.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS March'5, 1971 PRESIDENT: 153 Robert S. Brown (B.D. Party) »308 Charles Hogan T 55 Feep 69 abstained VICE-PRESIDENT: Mk262 Dashiell W. Crigler T 102 William S. Johnson (B.D. Party) 166 Susan Yovic 63 Abstained SECRETARY: J&367 Lix Ross T 123 Steven S. Tumosa (B.D, Party) 94 Abstained TREASURER: . 264 Richard Gawthrop ~&271 Bill Mayaka 58 Abstained ACADEMIC LIFE CHAIRMAN 189 Ellen Kinney ¦310 Anne O'Hanian T 89 Abstained

SOCIAL LIFE CHAIRMAN : ¦?424 Ty Davis gpjPsanHaVBhHHHHaVHIPUMBHHHBHHN''%^ T 98 Abstained Newly elected Stu-G President Charles Hogan S. Committee and a large Advisory Council comprised of New York and Boston collectors,, dealers, and museum people. It is through these people that works are given to Colby; they are either donors themselves or PeoPle with interested friends A volunteer committee from the Friends art group more re- cently has been set up to give tours to the school children in the Augusta - Skowhegan area. After the building was completed in 1959, an Inaugral Ex- hibition opened in the Jette Gallery on October 17 of that year. The goals of the gallery were presented as being firstly, to acquire representative works of high quality from every phase of art history and secondly, to form a rounded collect- ion of American art from earliest times to the present. The Jette Gallery was small, in an isolated location, and in need of financial support because it basically had no money to spend. The Colby Collection is being formed through genero- sity, with the goal of becoming the central museum of Maine. Since the opening of the Jette Gallery however, great pro- gress has been made towards fulfilling this dream. The Colby collection has been expanded to include British and European paintings: Dutch landscapes and still-lifes; English and Scottish portraits; nineteenth century French works; classical sculpture and ceramics; per-Columbian figures; and the Bernat Collection of Oriental ceramics, prints and drawings. Since its beginning the gallery has played host to over 100 exhibitions comprised of outside collections. In observance of the Sequicentennial of Colby College in 1963, the major art show "Maine and Its Artists, 1710-1963" was organized. It opened in May of 1963 at Colby and drew over 10,000 visitors to the school before it moved on to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston the next December. In Feb- Jette Art Curator ruary of 1964' the exhibition opened at the Whitney Museum Hugh Gourley Three valuable art collections were presented to the college of American Art in New York City where the show broke all before 1959. Given by the , the American Heritage Col- Jettes attendance records to date a*, the Whitney. TIME magazine call- y American lection paintings represent a careful study of earl ed the exhibition one of the ten best of the year. art on the part of the donors. As said by former President 3e(TOB Pa© As a result of the Sequicentenial exhibition, "Maine and "Taken together they present a revealing study of a Bixler, 100 Artists of the 20th Century" was organized at Colby in most important element in our national heritage and form one by Cheryl Booker 1964. After opening at the school, the American Federation of the broadest collections extant of indigenous American art" The Jette Art Galleries were named in honor of Edith Kem of Arts circulated the collection in a reduced form around the per Jette, Chairman of the Friends of Art at Colby Advisory A second collection Includes the nineteenth century Amer- country. ican portraits landscapes and folk sculpture1 of the Helen Council, and Ellerton Marcel Jette, Former Chairman of the , , Part of the money from the present fund raising drive will Warren and Willard Howe Cummings Collection. Board of Trustees at Colby. The two galleries are included in be used for an addition to the Bixler building. Space is needed The Harold T. Pulsifer Memorial Collection rounds out the museum wing of the Bixler Art and Music Center which , as at the present time the 500 paintings, 150 drawings and the galleries works as it has continued to le on loan to the was opened in 1959 and named for former Colby President J. sketchings, and other sculpture and ceramics must be kept in y will one day be donat- Seelye Bixler who established the department of art in 1942. school. This collection which hopefull store rooms while a show is visiting the museum. An addition ed to Colby, includes Winslow Homer water colors and paint- Before 1959, the art department of Colby was located on will thus provide the necessary space to display permanently ings. The combination of these three collections has afforded the top floor of Roberts Union. Works were shown in the var- the Colby Collection and allow additional room for exhibitions Colby a fine collection of American art. ious buildings on campus, with Roberts Union housing the on loan. The architectural firm of Johnson-Hotvedt is current- In March of 1959 The Friends of Art at Colby was formed Colby art collection. The lobby in the Miller library served as ly drawing the plans for this expansion. a gallery for traveling loan collections such as the Flemish and by Mrs. Jette, with thenpurpose of trying to get a museum Dutch paintings of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat, and an exhib- started and to help build' the Colby art collection. A small ition of drawings from the Fogg Museum of Havard University executive committee was formed along with an Acquisitions

Nice artwork adorns the jacket. Two black and white by Pete Runnells photos plus a lyric booklet are also included. Leslie West: guitar/vocals Mountain has sometimes been accused of trying to Feliex Pappalardi: bass/vocals imitate the Cream. However, they are a more tightly Corky Laing: drums knit hand concertrating more on playing together than Steve Knight: keyboards. on solo work. Side one begins with "Don't Look Around", the Unlike most other high-volumed bands (Grand Funk, , ^play good most likely to be taken off for a single "Taunta " the MC5, etc.) Mountain has an ability to rock'n sounding slightly like roll and beautiful music on the same album . They've second cut, is an instrumental Procol Harum. Following that , "Nantucket Sleighride", proven this on their first album and now with their on "You latest. (Some people confuse Leslie West/Mountain a the title cut. Leslie West takes over lead vocal , and "Tired Angel", a quiet tune, solo job , as their first. Although Pappalardi produced Can't Get Away " , ends up the first side. it, the group hadn't officially formed.) and the As on "Climbing", their first album , the songs are Opening side two is "The Animal Trainer almost evenly split between loud and funky and soft Toad" with West belting out the vocal. Pappalardi does and melodic. On the rockers, Leslie West, their 300 lb. "My Lady " and also "Travelin' In the Dark". The album lead guitarist does the vocals. Felix Pappalardi has a album ends on a heavy note with the "Great Train voice better suited to the quieter numbers. He also Robbery ". produced the album. (He's done many oth ers, including The album is on Windfall , the company which Pap- some of the Cream.) palardi partially owns. ^ ^. (Reprinted from Mess)

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While Colby Boston State fell easily.arid, two. this winter, and was voted un- did not put together a spectacul- days later, the Mules devastated animously to his all-star position. ar season this year, there were UMass 8-2, the leaders of Divis- . Bo allowed only 11 goals this sea- many memorable moments and ion II. Again, it was the-Lemoyne- son in 9 games, for a 1.2 goals numerous evidences that the Self duo, plus the steady efforts against average per game. He al- Mules may return to their former of John Bowey and Dave Williams so tacked on three shutouts to stature as a premier hockey pow- that provided the punch in the his credit. KDR will be hard press whitewash. ed to fill the gap Bo Rea leaves er in Division II of the ECAC. upon graduation. As practices began last Oct. During the Jan Plan break, Coach Green faced the stagger- Colby dropped games to AIC, and This is the first team of the ing loss of seven seniors from and Norwich but rebounded to 197 1 AU-IFL team. Also deserv- last year, among them including down Williams. In the first home ing great credit is the second Ted Smith and Dan Timmons. gamer 0f semester 2, Colby squan- feaim. This consists of KDR's Most of teams defense was gone dered a sizeable lead to Norwich John Koons and ATO's Nipper and a whole line had to be re- only to have Steve Self score the I PL Superstars Harding at the defensive positions built. Moreover, there were some eventual winning goal (his fifth As the IFL Hockey season The second team's line is made up thirteen freshmen, all elligible of the day) with a scant 13 sec- comes to a close, it is once again of Pi Lamb's Wally Weiners and to play varsity, who had to be onds remaining. Flushed with en- time «for the announcement of .h DU's Bruce Frisbie at the wings, incorporated into the Colby line- thusiasm, the Mules tackled Bow- the All-IFL squad, . the all-star centered by Zete's Nat Smith. up. Clearly, there was a great doin at home, only to lose 6-1 to team. The balloting has finally All are junior varsity members (a- task to be done and in a suffic- their arch interstate rivals. Ano- totals for the two of them was been completed during this last long with Harding). No second iently short time. The first test ther win vs. Northeastern pre- in the area of 100. Dennis Pru- week of action, with the results string goalie was named. would be the Codfish Bowl. ceded the second Bowdoin game. nneau came off the second line which follow. As expected, the Honorable mentions named With the advent of Christmas At Brunswick, Colby dueled the to take charge of the hitherto junior varsity hockey squad is to the team were cited for hockey vacation, the team had its first Bears for two periods at 1-1, all rookie defense, giving the well represented among these heroics throughout the year. The test. The story of the Codfish only to have their hopes for vic- Mules some of the muscle that IFL all-stars. honorable mentions include Bob Bowl was not overly pleasant. tory dashed in the last frame. was sorely needed. Scott Ryerse On the first team, the DKE Wiemont (Tau Delt, wing), Nor- Colby dropped both of its games Another loss to Merrimack pre- never ceased to amaze the home defense had little problem in man "King" Parselles (Zeta Psi, in the bowl and another to Salem ceded the last home game and crowd fans, whether he was mak- capturing the all-star spots. Bob center), Ed Mahoney (DKE, wing) State before the first home ice the Mules made the most of it. ing a spectacular split save or Ewell was named unanimously John Crabtree (Lambda Chi, appearance with Hamilton. It Against AIC, Colby scored from stuffing the opposition on a break the first string all-star right de- wing), and Jim Brennan (Lamb- was against Hamilton that the everywhere to rout their hapless away. A special mention must fenseman, while his defensive da Chi, defense). team showed its punch. Mike opponents 10-4. Lemoyne had go to Corky Yates, a letterman companion on the DKE squad , The coach of the year selec- Lemoyne and Steve Self had a 4 goals and 4 assists, Self a pair from last year whose year was Bob Ugocionni was named the tion went to KDR's own Chip spree on scoring and the rookie of goals and rookies Rick Eng- cut short by an early season in- left defense. Both are products ".Earthquake" Edgarton, former goalie, Scott Ryerse, frustrated lund and Ivan Dupuy both sock- jury , who sustained the Mule of the junior varisty. Ewell is a varsity and presently junior var- Hamilton's scoring bids time and ed in one. The last game with defense in the early part of the senior, with a lot of hockey ex- sity star, who pulled KDR out of time again. Merrimack was dismal, only year. perience and skill. Ugocionni, a the dregs of the league to a 5-2-2 highlighted by goals from John Looking forward, Colby can only sophomore transfer student, will season this year with one game After a holocost at UNH and be hoping to see varsity action to go, which brought the squad another here vs. Salem State, the Bowey and Dennis Prunneau in only see brighter fortunes ahead. their final collegiate games. Despite graduation, the names next season. a third place finish and a playoff Mules mauled TJConn but were The front line consists of Don spot for the first time in years. soundly trounced by both Mid- In retrospect, Colby's season of Self , Lemoyne, Dupuy, Perron, cannot really be rated a success, Callahan , Beaubiem, Fitts, etc., Levis and Mike Ready at the The Quake was unanimously el- dlebury and the University of wings ected to this honored position. Vermont. Coming home from but the performances of individ- etc. will all be on Mule jerseys , centered by Bob Sparkes. uals cannot be overlooked. Dave nest year. Combined with some Levis, a freshman Tau Delt, play The IFL playoffs occurred Vermont, the Mules were again ed first line on the junior varsity hard pressed to redeem them-s Williams and John Bowey, the of the talent from the JV's plus this past Wednesday and Thurs- two Co-captains, did not have any additional freshmen, the this past season. • Sparkes, a day evenings. Playoff write-ups selves. Against Boston State here freshman KDR , also played on will appear in next week's issue. at Alfond Arena, Colby fans saw big years goalwise, but the con- core of returnees shouldsstand fidence and inspiration they Colby in good stead next year. the junior varsity's first line, (All star selections courtesy of a Coach Green brainstorm, the while Ready, a transfer student placing of senior wing Dennis gave to the team was of major Strong praise must be leveled at United Press International.) Prunneau at defense. This change importance. 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No sales Too cold, too rancid for you experience needed. Ability to BOSTON!ANS - BASS talk with people a must. Paid Appetizing to predators VIVA AMERICANA - RF.l ) CROSS daily. Name your own hours. Of a fiercer sort, and I Quality Fool wear lor I OH Years - No investment. Write giving data Am stripped of excuse and nimbus on background to: A Past, subject of Judgment. Jackson &Jackson 604 Pitney Road Auden also recited, "Now the Leaves are Absecon, New Jersey Falling", "Fall of Rome", "A Walk After 08201 Dark", "Song of the Devil " and "An Epistle Brick continued from page 1 l to a Godson" - possibly in reference to one of Stephen Spender 's children. When The most recent item in the cabinet is Auden was at Oxford he founded one A the red ribbon cut by President Stridor in f--ff \ f , ENJOY THE BEST IN LOBSTER the "Au den 1962 at the dedication of Colby s first coed- y fM buR cozy dininOUT g room Auden was at Oxford he founded ' ^PB *MK|B||j . TAKE Circle" of Oxford poets, consisting of Spen- ucational student lounge in Roberts Union. JgEhfty C^ ^ OR TO .... der , Christopher Isherwood, Louis MacNeice Prior to that time the only way of casually and Cecil Day-Lewis. meeting a member of the opposite sex was What drew the most laughter were his literally to bump into her (or him) in the Maine 's Best Lobster Pound rhyming witticisms, light little two-liners ever -romantic corridors of Lovejoy or Since 19SO which must include the name of a famous Keyes. phop.. Don Rancourt person. He spoke of William Blake , Henry The memorabilia exhibits are, however, James, Milton, Nietzche and Louis Pasteur, only a small part of the entire Colbiana who "was on extremely good terms with all collection. The main body of Colbiana, colle ge ave waterville, maine ttl. 072-67is of his germs. " Auden hinos elf had once writ consisting of around eight thousand pieces, ten that poetry doesn't allow us to escape is housed in an obscure converted classroom from life but does grant us a "brief respite " in the north wing of the library. The coll- from our immediate problems, and is a ection includes back issues of the ECHO, refreshment for tired spirits and tense Oracle, and Alumnus, senior scholar papers, nerves. On the other hand, though, some of books and articles written by alumni, and What you should know about diamonds Auden's more provocative poems lead us to assorted records dating back to the founding' when you know it's for keeps examine our lives and our existence. of the college in 1813. The stack is open to Auden has always been aware of the pre- all students, although, since the articles sent as history. He has been a poet of the are often irreplacable, they cannot be check- ideas and events of our times. The last ed out of the library. few poems he recited seem to indicate this Due to the isolation of the collection, a historical perspective. Auden presented two student would never suspect the existence of poems concerning public events. The first Colbiana unless he were forced to go looking one, entitled "August 1968" seems to be pur- for it, e.g. in the course of researching an pously ambiguous in that it could be applied ECHO article. According to Elizabeth Libby, to Chicago, Czechoslavakia or both. The the librarian for Colbiana, the collection has second poem, was "Moonlariding", in which grown in a more or less haphazard way since he wrote: its beginning, until the task of maintaining and adding to the collection has become a full- time it A grand gesture. But wh^„ does period ? job. Over the years Miss Libbey has done an We were always adroiter admirable job of organizing the collection, with objects than lives and more facile instituting a cross-referenced card catalogue at courage than kindness. system which vastly simplifies the task of searching out subjects in the various pub- He continues — lications. Miss Libbey sees no hope for improving Unsmudged, thank God my moon still the present inadequate location of Colbiana queens the heavens. until tlie "Plan for Colby " work is begun and the English Department moved out of the He ends the poem with: library. Hopefully, a separate, accessible Our apparatniks will continue making room will eventually be set aside for Colb- The usual squalid mess called History: iana comparable to the present Robinson all we can pray for is that artists and Healey rooms, so that students and vis- chefs and saints may still appear itors might more easily become aware of blithe to it. Colby's heritage. Living in red brick, neo- Georgian buil- Auden presented was "Dogg The last poem dings no more than thirty years old, It is , which seemed to erel by a Senior Citizen" all' too easy for students to slip through accompanies old reflect a detachment that four years at Colby in a kind of cultural and age. He began - historical vacuum. A better knowledge of where Colby has been in its long and complex Our earth in 1969 history could well enable students to gain a Is not the planet I call mine ... better idea of which paths Colby should take The automobile, the aeroplane in the future. A tour through the Colbiana Are useful gadgets but profane ... coleection might just pri But love at least, is not a state collection might just provide the starting- Either in vogue or out of date. liancc and value. Your Keepsake Jeweler has point for such ideas. CLARITY: Determined by the ab- a m.Plet scI"}i°n new sty'es- /?es ,? e YelI W % gCS Un der sencc of small impurities. 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