Career Fair Today

Have your parents, friends, best teacher I know for trans­ and professors been asking you lating my theories. He is in­ m pa t h what you intend to declare as formed, insightful and a dy­ Ih E E namic speaker for all ages.” your major; how you plan to spend your summer; or, worst This part of the program should of all, what you plan to do have everyone’s attention . . . 1:30 p.m.! Volume 3 - Number 6 March 24, 1983 after graduation? Have you been wrestling with questions about Once you begin to identify the value of the liberal arts and articulate the skills you degree in today’s job market? have, you will want to know Chances are that you have been where you can use your skills. or will be faced with all of these Are you suited to be an ac­ Presidential issues. YOU ARE NOT countant or a lobbyist? work ALONE. The problem is not in a bank? or spend a couple that you face what appears of years in the Peace Corps? to be powerful, mysterious Will you need an advanced Search Effort Continues degree for what you wish to career issues. The problem is by Trish Meissner how do you answer career do? To learn about the many SMC Newsteam Dr. Lewis, have visited St. Russell and Lewis, as opposed questions and implement your career opportunities available After a meeting of the Pre­ Mary’s for three day periods, to Poteet. “I think both Russell career decisions. to liberal arts graduates, come sidential Search Committee stretching from February 16 - and Lewis are excellent pro­ Come to the Career Fair. and meet with representatives Saturday, March 19, Chairman 29. Search Committee member spects for president,” stated a Learn about your exciting op­ from more than twenty indus­ T. Hammond Welsh announced Dr. James Nickel and Interim student after interviews with all tions and how to take control tries with known track records that, “Several additional candi­ President Weigle visited the three candidates. of your own career decisions. for hiring liberal arts students. dates would be considered with­ three candidate’s current job This entire day is designed The representatives will be able in the next month for possible sites last week in order to Most also seem to be satisfied to be both informative and to personally tell you the inclusion as finalists for the further investigate their qualifi­ with the role of the Presidential entertaining. It begins with a realities of pursuing a career in President of St. Mary’s College cations. Search consultant company used workshop followed by a keynote their field and how to get that of Maryland.” If other candidates are and the work of the Presidential speech exploring job hunting first job. Apparently since some of brought into the pool a similar Search Committee. “I think strategies for the liberal arts Events are open to all mem­ the candidates have withdrawn interviewing process will occur. they’ve gotten their money’s graduate by our special guest, bers of the College community. from consideration this action All of the three candidates worth,” stated History Professor Mr. Russell Bruch, a nationally Come to all the events and was intended “to broaden the expressed a desire to re-evaluate Herb Winnik in reference to the known career development have a. fun day as you learn pool of finalists for the posi­ and strengthen St. Mary’s cur­ job of the consultant firm. specialist. Mr. Bruch will help to identify your skills, learn job tion.” riculum. They also stressed the Winnik also added that the you identify the many skills hunting strategies and develop “We currently have two pro­ importance of a liberal arts Search Committee had “carried inherent in your liberal arts contacts with people in the mising finalists,” stated Welsh, education for success in the job on a professional job.” education and he will interpret job market. “and it is our hope to add one market, as opposed to im­ The names of the other candi­ the very successful job hunting or more names prior to making mediate specialization. strategies outlined by his as­ any recommendations to the According to a random sur­ dates being considered are not yet available. If indeed there sociate, Richard Bolles, in What Board.” vey of informed faculty, ad­ Color Is My Parachute? As Thus far three candidates, ministrators, and students, a are additions to the pool, they will be publicly released soon. Bolles himself says, “Russ is the continued on page 6 Dr. Poteet, Dr. Russell, and healthy majority seem to favor Woodrow Wilson Fellows Media Specialists Arrive at SMC Saturday A Report Card” at 8 p.m. by Britta Muehlberger Richard Dudman’s numerous the Mediterranean Coast. During their week at SMC Wednesday, March 30 in Mont­ He was Chief Washington international experiences include Helen Dudman was formerly the Dudmans will visit a num­ Correspondent for the St. Louis seven trips to China, one with the Public Information Director ber of classes, but they would gomery 25. The public is in­ Post Dispatch. While on assign­ Nixon in 1972, and a visit to of PBS and earlier was the Vice also like to meet students on vited. ment in Southeast Asia he was Hanoi during the height of the President for Public Informa­ an informal basis. On Tuesday, The Woodrow Wilson Visit­ held captive by the Communists U.S. bombing there. In 1970 tion at WET A Radio and Tele­ March 29 they will have lunch ing Fellows program was estab­ in Cambodia during the Vietnam Richard Dudman was captured vision, the PBS affiliate in with the campus radio station lished to encourage the flow of War. and held prisoner for several Washington, D.C. She began at noon. On Thursday, March ideas between academic and She was the Executive Wo­ weeks by Communist guerrillas her broadcasting career with 31 they will have lunch with non-academic worlds and to men’s Editor for the Washington in Cambodia. He was captured the Post-Newsweek Stations as journalism students at 12:30 help students see the relation Post and the Public Information with two other reporters. To Public Relations Director. She and dinner with the Empath between a liberal arts education Director for the Public Broad­ cheer up his companions he joined the broadcasting group, staff at 6 p.m. That evening and their lives after graduation. casting Service (PBS). reportedly told them, “If we a division of the Washington they will discuss careers in The Dudmans will be the Together they own and get out of this alive, we’ll have Post Company, after serving journalism, broadcasting, and seventh Woodrow Wilson Fel­ operate Dudman Communica­ one hell of a story.” After as Executive Women’s Editor public relations with any in­ lows to visit St. Mary’s since tions Corporation, licensee of their eventual release Richard for the Washington Post. Helen terested students in the Mont­ it became part of this prestigious WDEA and WDEA-FM in Ells­ Dudman wrote a series of arti­ Dudman is currently the Presi­ gomery Hall Faculty Lounge. program in 1980. St. Mary’s worth, Maine. cles that were published in dent and General Manager of Finally, Richard Dudman will in a unique participant in They are Richard and Helen the Post Dispatch and in many the Dudman Communications give a major address entitled this program because of its Dudman, world-travelled and other newspapers around the Corporation. Her husband, “The Reagan Administration — small size and public status. experienced media people. They world. He later wrote a book Richard, is Chairman of the will be Woodrow Wilson Visiting on the experience, 40 Days with Board of the same corpora­ Fellows at St. Mary’s College the Enemy. tion. of Maryland this spring. Richard Dudman’s foreign The variety of their experi­ The Dudmans’ visit to St. reporting began with an assign­ ence enables the Dudmans to Mary’s will begin Saturday and ment to cover the Jewish dis­ discuss a range of topics in­ continue through April 1 and placed persons camp in Europe cluding U.S. - China Relations, will include a major lecture in 1947, as a reporter for the Southeast Asia Developments, to the general public on March Denver Post. He accompanied the Reagan Administration, 30, an interview with Jack the group on the first phase of Careers in Journalism (print Kershaw at WPTX / WMDM-FM, a journey to Palestine, assuming media and radio), the Middle and various seminars and classes the identity of a displaced Polish East, Iran, How to Use the where they will share their Jew to avoid detection by Freedom of Information Act, experiences with students, facul­ French and British security of­ How to Run a Family Radio ty, staff and interested members ficials at checkpoints on the Station, and an Appraisal of of the community. route from West Germany to the Washington Press Corps. Page 2 THE EMPATH March 24, 1983 Fine Arts Continues Spring Series “The public events calendar at the college, a special event worked at PBS. They now own at Mt. Holyoke College in or individually to Southern Maryland residents. Prices will at St. Mary’s College this spring designed to help students think and manage a radio station in Massachusetts this spring. vary according to the events is packed — loaded with in­ about possibilities for their fu­ Ellsworth, Maine. During their All these events are made scheduled, but all will be set at teresting, informative, unusual, tures. The keynote speaker will week-long visit, they will con­ possible by a special “Lecture minimum levels in order to offer and entertaining events,” says be Russell Bruch, workshop co­ centrate most of their time with and Fine Arts Fee” paid by some of the best speakers and Christine Cihlar, assistant to the ordinator for the National students and faculty of the each student and administered performers to Southern Mary­ president at St. Mary’s who is Career Development Project. college, but there will be two by a 10-member committee with also chairperson of the Lecture Bruch is a top associate of occasions which are open to representation from each area landers at a reasonable cost. and Fine Arts Committee and Richard Bolles, director of the the public. The schedule is yet of the college. In addition to In addition to this annual whose office keeps the college project and author of What to be determined. the events scheduled this spring, series planned a year or more calendar. Color Is Your Parachute, one of Korean Zen Master Seung this special fund sponsored the in advance, the college also “The college is fulfilling, the best selling and most helpful Sahn will appear at St. Mary’s appearances of Dr. John Smith offers through its various clubs possibly better than ever,” she books available on the subject Tuesday, April 5, as the fifth as the Fr. Andrew White Lec­ and organizations many other says, “its role as a major cultural of career planning. Bruch will special guest in the series. His turer in October, duo pianists activities, performances, lec­ center in the community. Cer­ speak on “Descending Upon the appearance is jointly sponsored Richard and Francis Hadden tures, and films which are open tainly the college and its neigh­ Job Market, The Liberal Arts by the college series and the in November, and cancer center to the public. This spring, for bor, the St. Mary’s City Com­ Parachute.” Because his subject Student Government Associa­ director Dr. Jack Cole as the example, there is the Midweek mission, together make St. is of interest to many people, tion’s Lecture Committee and Woodrow Wilson Fellow in De­ Film Series, a Saturday Matinee Mary’s City the focus of cultural the speech, scheduled for 1:30 the Philosophy Club. Master cember. film series, musical theater pro­ activities south of Washington.” p.m. on Thursday, March 24, Sahn is the most prominent According to Cihlar, who duction of Marat Sade, concerts The spring ’83 calendar in­ in Montgomery Hall, Room 25, Zen Master from Korea teaching chairs the committee, plans for by the Wind Ensemble, the Jazz cludes a variety of guest lectures will be open to the public. in the West. He is especially the 1983-84 year are underway; Ensemble, Choir, and Chamber and performers and also many Sunday, March 27 is Mary­ noted for his understanding of the series will offer the con­ Singers, and performances by events produced by college land Day at St. Mary’s City. Zen and its application to tinuing Fr. Andrew White, guests of the various divisions. groups. The newly constituted Among the many visitors will Western culture. His presenta­ Woodrow Wilson, and Margaret A complete calendar of Lecture and Fine Arts Com­ be two who will stay on for tion will be 8 p.m. in St. Mary’s Brent lecturers, and, in addi­ events for the upcoming month mittee has arranged six major the entire week — Richard and Hall on Tuesday, April 5. tion, will present performances is produced regularly by the cornerstone events for the spring Helen Dudman. The Dudmans The final event in the all­ by major music, theater, and college. It is available by writing of special interest to the public, are visiting the college as Wood­ college series is Shirley other lively groups. or calling the Calendar Office, featuring a composer, a violinist, row Wilson Fellows, a pre­ Chisholm’s appearance on Sun­ The 1983-84 series will be St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City, MD 20686, phone 863- a Zen Master, a career counselor, stigious program which brings day, April 10 at 2 p.m. in announced in mid-summer, and 7100, ext. 280. a journalist, and the first woman successful persons in many fields Montgomery Hall. Chisholm is will be offered as a package to run for president of the to college campuses for one or the second Margaret Brent United States. In addition, more weeks. Richard Dudman lecturer at SMC. The series, special events are being planned is a retired journalist, formerly designed to honor women of Violinist Offers by various divisions, clubs, and Washington correspondent for distinction and achievement, was the Student Government Com­ the St. Louis Post Dispatch. inaugurated in 1982 by sociolo­ mittees. Helen Dudman is also an ac­ gist Jessie Bernard. Rep. Dramatic Concert Today, Thursday, March 24, complished journalist and public Chisholm, recently retired from is “Career Information Day” relations specialist, having Congress, is a visiting professor by Mackay Rippey The ensemble treated each piece with care and understand­ Violinist, author and teacher ing. The resulting music was Joel Lester of City College of emotional and dramatic. It was Lifeline . . . City University of New York indeed a pleasure to hear the (CUNY), presented a concert talents of these outstanding You have to rest to recover. or relax with friends, watch TV, in Montgomery Hall last Sun­ musicians showcased at the The brain will give you signals do some exercises, etc. Because day. The concert also featured college. when it is overtired — inability brain fatigue is not a visual St. Mary’s music faculty mem­ Lester, during his stay on to concentrate, inability to put thing, no one believes it exists, bers David Heinick on piano campus, also visited the Music thoughts together, a sense of not even the people who de­ and John Laughton on clarinet. Theory and Appreciation classes irritability, you feel jumpy, scribe the symptoms. They keep Monday. Dr. Lester is the author nervous. You have trouble fall­ on trying to study or work, The concert was a beautiful of the Theory textbook used ing asleep, or staying asleep, and to do that, they take stimu­ example of professional mu­ at St. Mary’s. by Nancy Darnell, R.N. you go from lows to highs. lants, such as amphetamines, sicianship. Dr. Lester arrived on The next scheduled concerts For most of us brain fatigue The brain cannot control itself coffee, cocktails, etc., with campus one day before the are two senior recitals, one by is part of our normal daily cycle. any longer. To rest the brain, many on tranquilizers and sleep­ concert and together with Trumpeteer Joe Begenwald Mon­ The brain tires like a muscle. you switch from doing one ing pills. Without these stimu­ Heinick and Laughton, formed day, March 28 at 8 p.m. in When a muscle is fatigued, it thing to another that is un­ lants they could not function. an exceptional trio. The recital Trinity Church, and one Tues­ gives you a signal, pain or related, to get ready for the So be kind to yourself — rest included pieces by Arnold day, March 29, by Trombonist cramps, which is due to the next day’s work load, such as your brain. Schoenberg, Charles Ives and Rich Meinhardt in Montgomery lack of oxygen in the muscle. eat a good dinner, read a book, Ludwig von Beethoven. 25 at 8 p.m. Maintenance Dept. They Can Do It All Captain Toms by Phyllis Bean dances, etc., and take down or bugs” to iron out in the fall Oar House semester of 82-83, has “been ( This is the second in a remove the tables and chairs. TONIGHT ! series o f articles on our Main­ Inventory and automobile care a big help.” When asked what he felt tenance Department.) are also a part of his job. THURS., MAR. 24 Raley had just gotten out some of Maintenance’s major “Whenever anything goes of the service when he came to accomplishments were, Joe JAZZBOREUNION wrong, everyone says, ‘Joe’s work at SMC in 1969. He listed the new bookstore in responsible.’ ” That was Main­ stated that one of the reasons Anne Arundel, the patio on * * * tenance Chief Joe Raley’s joking he came was that working for the Student Union building response to the question of the state was more fulfilling and the renovation of the what he was responsible for than working for a private dorms and offices in Calvert SUN., MAR., 27 in the Maintenance Department. contractor. He maintained that Hall. He then seriously added that SMC is a nice place and the A St. Mary’s County native, MARYLAND DAY he orders repair parts, main­ people (students and faculty) Joe presently resides in Ridge, tains supplies, and does “a are very cooperative. He also and is a member of the volun­ DRINK SPECIALS lot of paper work.” He is also expressed the feeling that Main­ teer fire department. His other in charge of dispatching crews tenance’s Student Employment interests include camping and to set up tables and chairs for Program, although having “some model trains. March 24, 1983 THE EMPATH Page 3 Dear Editor Dear Editor Dear Edi Percussion Student P w /fo y L "How d0 * ey 8et out there?” Responds

Dear Reader: is. If Mr. Moncrieff-Yeates wants ‘Who is Buford?’ In the Feb. 24 issue of this to join, let him audition. If he paper, Colin Moncrieff-Yeates succeeds in making it into the took it upon himself to share ensemble then he, too, would an experience and let us be the have the privilege of using the observers. Upon reading Mr. practice rooms and equipment. Moncrieff-Yeate’s article I ob­ By instruction from the per­ “Where do the signs come served the following: He pre­ cussion director, only percus­ from?” sents himself as a child of sionists may have access to innocent curiosity, yet calls percussion property. The theft himself an “ignorant savage.” record is too long to get into If he is truly a savage, then here. That is why registered perhaps this reply is in vain. percussionists are granted ‘I’m glad it wasn’t my bike. I do not know Mr. Moncrieff- authority over what may well Yeates and although I wish the be the tools of their trade. (I man possesses a better under­ may add that some of the standing of why his experience equipment is privately owned.) went the way it did, he is not my main concern. I am available I can’t even approach the ‘Do the ducks really care?’ if he desires a non-savage discus­ attitude of the latter part of sion with me. You see, dear You Be The Observer. Yes, reader, I know neither party in college is for learning but it this incident. I simply want to is not set up like a nursery situation. A college is an insti­ clarify a few things. I am a school. If someone were caught tution of higher learning which percussion student here at St. stealing and “screwing it up for makes its resources available to Mary’s and find Mr. Moncrieff- the rest of us,” Mr. Moncrieff- Sound Familiar? students through classes. Re­ Yeates to have falsely, ignorant­ Yeates claims he’d “tie a rope member, we are students, and ly, and inconsiderately attacked around their ankle and drag the primary goal of students the department’s image. them all over campus so every­ Dear Editor: rain. Who cares? Sounds like should be study (interesting one can see who screwed up.” Yesterday I was wandering man pissing on himself to me. etymological origins, no ?). If There are so many attitude It is good for him he didn’t around Kent Hall on break. Don’t they have classes on you desire to learn to play and principle flaws to cover damage the “beautiful shiny While I am not a science major, such subjects? There are more “the pretty instrument” take I’ve always had some scientific that it’s hard to begin. Lack of instrument” or perhaps the important issues to discuss in a class. It seems that you are ideas and since college is an facts is another problem. We fellow he dealt with would this paper. Like what is going mistaking classes for frustrating experimental, trial and error are not told what the percus­ have taken such action against to happen to the Student obstacles to personal develop­ get down learning place, I sionist was doing. Was he about him. I hope not. Such per­ Union Building. ment and experimentation, decided to start discovering to practice or on a break from spectives are foolish, come from Let’s get it together and when in reality they are struc­ some new theories. The biology practicing? The Wind Ensemble darkness, and are opposed to have a paper that is a true tured ways of developing talent just got back from a high-pres­ the love and understanding that lab was open, so I walked in student paper for this get down and intelligence. You may object sure concert in Boston — the gifts and talents are meant to to begin. There were some college. We pay for it. Right to structure, but is structure music was very demanding. represent. animals in some smelly water now we should dedicate our­ not necessary to deal successful­ Please don’t be under the on a shelf sleeping. After I selves to the task at hand: we ly with a large and diverse impression that talent must be To you personally Mr. Mon­ released them, they refused to need a Student Union full of group of people such as the “exploited” as Mr. Moncrieff- crieff-Yeates, you are in my wake up. Just then Chris Tanner student offices and activities SMC community? If a complete Yeates says he hasn’t been yet. prayers. If you really want to walked in and I said, “Chris, BEFORE the St. Mary’s River open door, free and easy policy Talent is a gift from God and learn something about percus­ I was just about to figure out dies from the effects of man regarding all the resources of I strongly encourage anyone not sion or music in general, come what is wrong with these lab pissing on himself. But maybe this college was in effect, how to exploit it. Furthermore, per­ by my room, 221 Caroline. animals.” He chased me out, we could pave over the river long do you honestly think all cussion ensemble is not a clearly more interested in some­ and build a really BIG Student those resources would be avail­ “club,” it is a course whose thing other than the new disease Union over there full of instru­ able and in working order? members put in many hours of Sincerely I had discovered. ments we can all play. There will always be some hard work to make it what it — Peter P. Romano Not easily discouraged, I Sincerely people who damage and steal wandered to the more secluded — Paul E. Poritzky things, and neither you, Mr. electron microscopy lab to fig­ P.S. — I want this printed! Moncrieff-Yeates, nor anyone ure out the machine that only This is my opinion as a student else, can be a sort of Lone a few people at this school and I want to voice it, and Ranger, ready at all times to even realize is here. It was more besides, I am not the only one “tie a rope around their ankles E m p a t h complicated than I had antici­ that feels this way. and drag them all over campus.” pated, but after a while I got it turned on. Before I discovered THE EMPATH is published by the students o f St. Mary’s I am sure that any student anything really neat, Security College o f Maryland. This publication is funded by the Student Structure with a genuine interest in any walked in and asked if I had Activities Fee, which is required o f all full-time students. We subject can obtain access to a pass to use the scope. Then welcome all letters from students, faculty, administration and Necessary any available equipment if they they kicked me out and locked the community. We reserve the right to edit or abridge letters simply ask the right person the door. Dear Editor: and articles. and display a responsible and I thought to myself, what In response to a letter printed caring attitude. Or, as I stated kind of school is this? I pay in the last issue, concerning the earlier, take a class, work hard, Editor-In-Chief...... Britta Muehlberger tuition, why can’t I check out practice of locking up musical study, and you’ll find that Managing Editor...... Mackay Rippey the tools I pay for? Getting instruments: A college might be you may just learn something News I Features E d ito r...... Paige Hughes disgusted, I left to study be­ able to function as a “trial and after all. Business Manager / Secretary...... Michelle Lavery cause my teachers are all great error . . . get down learning Photography Coordinator...... Dan Benson and my classes are hard and I place” with wide open doors Distribution Manager...... Bill Hauver must keep up. if there was an unlimited supply Sincerely Contributing W riters...... Beth Appier, Phyllis Bean, Bobbi Kienast of money and energy to undo — Andrea Tasi Joe Bailey , Mary Stakem, Ward Shortridge Distracted again! On the the damage done by the few P.G. Room 320 Contributing Photographer...... Peter Fang front page of the student news­ paper was a story about acid people who would abuse this 994-1483 Page 4 THE EMPATH March 24, 1983 Dear Editor Dear Editor Dear Edi have been other sources of what acid rain is. The impor­ to worship the instrument and clean energy but people have tance of the problem could protect and safeguard it or is it Carpeting chosen not to use them be­ have been better conveyed with indeed merely an object to be Student cause they were not educated a title like “Tens of Thousands used, repaired as long as pos­ in them or concerned enough of Animals Die Each Year,” sible and then replaced by a Deemed to seek them out. In order or anything to get people’s more durable one? Explains for this trend to change people attention. Then continue on In regards to the vandals, must first feel they can change another page with ways that catch them and make them “ Foolish” things, and second have the each one of us can help, when, replace it. Then try to help Dear Editor: Dear Editor: needed skills to do so. where the lectures, seminars, them. They are not the problem. I haven’t much time to write Maybe I was over-reacting These skills are learned and information is, etc. It is the people that go around this as I am studying, so please to the past few papers and the developed right here by tackling This responsibility or shall I locking them up, that is the have patience with my abrupt­ title of the acid rain article. I smaller problems, of gaining say what I feel is the purpose problem. It is the “shortsighted” ness. I am a resident of P.G. was upset at what appeared to knowledge and experience of the school newspaper is to people who take the easy way Dorm which I understand was be a lack of student concern and through application. Most address these avenues of learn­ out by locking them up. Life to be carpeted over spring reactions. Therefore I took it people are brainwashed to be­ ing, a way to inspire the active does not stop because some­ break. I know it has been said upon myself to write something lieve that they cannot change involvement of students in mat­ thing is broken. If one spent thousands of times, all over strong in the hopes of sparking their environment and therefore ters close at hand. Then hope­ the time and money used to campus, this has to be one of other reactions. In that I am never try. College is a golden fully the skills learned from safeguard on ways to encourage the most foolish things I have pleased. This last issue of the opportunity for those who are this involvement can be used learning and individual responsi­ ever heard of in my life, but I Empath was much more interest­ more knowledgeable and caring in bigger, more important issues bility perhaps more would be felt the need to express it one ing to look at and read. How­ to change this attitude. That facing us today. accomplished. more time. ever, I do not feel that my was half the reason I spent so The reason I wrote the other For years the YWCA, YMCA points were invoked. So I will much effort on designing the article was to address a rather and Boy/Girl Scouts have been I don’t know what maniac attempt, in a less bastardized new bookstore; showing that important factor of this: doing this with great success. thought this one up, but it has form, to explain. yes, people can change things! namely, encouragement!!! I will Things were never maliciously to be one of the worst misuses First, the title “Acid From One can get results. Had I not not explain again how I feel destroyed because everyone used of college funds I have ever Heaven” upset me because that had previous experience in other that it is the responsibility of them and everyone cared about heard of. A walk through the in itself is misleading. The issues I would have given up the liberal arts college to make them, as well as each other. No dorms, at any given time, will source is not God or heaven before I got started as so many available any and all avenues auditions were necessary, only a prove to anyone that the carpets but man. have. Yes, I do feel it is im­ of experience possible, but I will brief instruction session from won’t last long at all. It doesn’t My “Who Cares” article was portant to make people aware respond to the lack of under­ anyone capable, on the use and take much thought on anyone’s not saying that I don’t care . . . of problems facing us today standing I have received thus far. care of the item. We used to call part to realize there are many I do! Rather to me it is obvious but I feel it is of greater im­ It has been my experience that it “getting checked out.” things very needed all over that too many people care too portance to make them aware if you trust people, most people So far as the personal insults campus. Please, can’t this car­ little about campus issues. It is of the solutions and how to will be trustworthy. If one go — well — ah — God bless peting wait until this school also rather obvious to me that actively pursue them. encourages people to be con­ you anyway and thanks for has all its academic necessities. until people become concerned I did not object to the be­ cerned and interested by ex­ using the Empath as a medium If I wasn’t graduating, I’d and actively involved in chang­ ginning of the article being on ample, they will be concerned for voicing your personal leave. ing problems close to them the front page; rather that and interested. Also, is it not the opinions. they will not do so on larger more than half was filled with experience that is important and Keep It Up Sincerely scales. For several years there an unsatisfactory explanation of not the material things? Are we — Colin Moncrieff-Yeates — Laura Getting a Job Life After St. Mary’s (This is the second in a series In other words, employers experience through the intern­ of articles on the liberal arts hesitate to hire liberal arts ship program. There are also education and the job market graduates not because of their a number of other opportuni­ by Gavin Kerr.) lack of technical training, but ties to gain experience through Isn’t It True That Liberal because of a lack of self and volunteer work, cocurricular par­ Arts Graduates Have career awareness. ticipation, part time employ­ A Hard Time Getting Jobs? ment and summer jobs. Yes, often liberal arts gradu­ ates have a more difficult time Some Advice for Preparing finding entry level jobs than for Careers at St. Mary’s Finally, set goals for yourself their peers graduating with tech­ First and foremost, pursue for the next five years. These nical or business degrees. In­ a liberal education which is truly goals should be educational, terestingly, however, the reason liberal. Gain broad literacy, in personal, and career associated. they are not hired is often all the liberal arts as well as Then actively pursue your edu­ not a lack of technical skills. the modem technologies. cation in a way which will A recent College Placement Literacy entails a basic under­ help you reach those goals. Today’s Crossword Council, Incorporated study standing and ability to utilize In the career area, begin career ACROSS 32. swimmers do them found that, except in the few computers, quantitative method­ planning and exploration during 1. this county 33. opposite of “go” fields where technical training ologies, basic business termin­ your freshmen and sophomore 7. an d /— is mandatory, employers are ology and principles, as well years and continually seek to 9. to state DOWN willing to hire liberal arts gradu­ as the liberal skills discussed understand the interrelationship 10. a French sculptor 1. a popular major at SMC ates. However, they often do previously. between your educational exper­ 11. opposite of out 2. St. Mary’s Church not because they believe that Secondly, work to gain ex­ ience and the skills you are 12. same as No. 11 3. highest point o f a triangle the liberal arts graduates: pertise in your major or speciali­ developing. Also, take advantage 13. help 4. a kind of sailboat (pi.) 1. Lacked clearly defined career zation. Learn what it means to of the many faculty and staff 14. for leisure at St. Mary’s 5. academic format goals and objectives; delve into a specific area in all resources which are available 15. without difficulty 6. everpresent in the dorms 2. Have little or no business its depth and fullness. Learn to you. 16. light (abbr.) 8. New German — 12. exists knowledge; not only the facts, but the 19. something that stands for 17. instead o f a motor in 3. Rarely understand how their method — learn how to learn. One such opportunity will something else be the Career Fair today, March 20. student’s daily activity a boat skills and training relate to This will enable you to do the 18. affirmative 24, 1983. Those who attend 22. a clandestine campus society the job and field for which same in future jobs. 21. to give forth will be able to learn more about 23. a weekend event they are applying; Third, gain some experience 27. opposite of “yes” 23. SGA organizations the career areas of interest to 4. Are poorly prepared for the in the career fields that interest 28. Hawaiian flower necklace 24. exam at the semester’s end interview; and you. The college offers a fan­ them, how to prepare for these 29. a vase 25. tests 5. Fail to convey a solid sense tastic opportunity for intensi­ careers, and meet people cur­ 30. boogie 26. small papers of self awareness. fying your education and career rently working in these areas. 31. “under” in French March 24, 1983 THE EMPATH Page 5 Summer Job Opportunities at SMC SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS: SKILLS REQUIRED: Student applicants will be Some knowledge of painting Counselor Admissions Waterfront required to furnish two facul­ helpful but not necessary. SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS: POSITION/TITLE: POSITION/TITLE: POSITION/TITLE: ty staff letters of reference. Must be dependable and get Summer Assistant/Counselor Mail Clerk and Tour Guide Sailing Instructor / Boat to work on time. Not paid DEPARTMENT: DEPARTMENT: House Attendant for time off. Office of Summer Programs Admissions DEPARTMENT: Maintenance SUPERVISOR: SUPERVISOR: Waterfront POSITION/TITLE: Robert Lea Susan Silanskis SUPERVISOR: Maintenance Worker (total of SALARY: SALARY: Mike Ironmonger Housekeeping four positions) $160.00 per week plus room $3.80 per hour SALARY: POSITION/TITLE: DEPARTMENT: HOURS: HOURS: $160.00 per week plus room Housekeeping (total of five Maintenance 8 hours per day (flexible 40 hours per week except during sailing camp positions) SUPERVISOR: hours) LENGTH OF EMPLOYMENT: when salary will be $250.00 Robert Abell DEPARTMENT: LENGTH OF EMPLOYMENT: May 16 - August 25 per week plus room and SALARY: Maintenance May 16 - August 21, 1983 WHEN AVAILABLE: board SUPERVISOR: $4.00 per hour WHEN AVAILABLE: May 16 LENGTH OF EMPLOYMENT: Bernard Barnes HOURS: May 16 SKILLS REQUIRED: Mid May - August 1983 SALARY: 40 hours per week (8:00 a.m. SKILLS REQUIRED: Courteous, pleasant personali­ SKILLS REQUIRED: $4.00 per hour - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Previous experience in youth ty. Thorough knowledge of Qualifications should include HOURS: Friday and/or recreational counsel­ St. Mary’s College. Attention a thorough understanding of 40 hours per week (8:00 a.m. LENGTH OF EMPLOYMENT: ing. Additional clerical ex­ to detail. Filing, mailing, small boat sailing at the - 4:30 p.m. Monday through May 16, 1983 - August 10, perience helpful. communication, well-dresser recreational level, previous Friday) 1983 (11 weeks) SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS: and pleasant appearance. experience as a sailing instruc­ LENGTH OF EMPLOYMENT: WHEN AVAILABLE: Fill out application and re­ tor and camp counselor, and May 16, 1983 - August 10, May 16, 1983 turn it to the Student Em­ SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS: some background in water­ 1983 (11 weeks) SKILLS REQUIRED: ployment Office in Somerset Operate admissions mailroom craft repair. Duties include WHEN AVAILABLE: Some knowledge of carpen­ Hall by March 25. and provide campus tours for teaching sailing, serving as a May 16, 1983 try, plumbing or other skills visitors. Maintain adequate camp counselor, staffing the SKILLS REQUIRED: SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS: supply of admissions publica­ waterfront during recreation­ Experience not necessary. We Must be dependable and get tions. Assist in administrative al hours and repairing boats. will train. to work on time. Not paid Lifeguard tasks in the Admissions Of­ SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS: SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS: for time off. fice. Student applicants will be Must be dependable and get POSITION/TITLE: required to furnish two facul­ Lifeguard/ Summer Assistant: to work on time. Not paid ty/staff letters of reference. 1 full time, 1 part-time for time off. Apply through the Student Painter DEPARTMENT: Gardener Employment Office. POSITION/TITLE: Office of Summer Programs POSITION/TITLE: Painter Helper (total of two Grounds SUPERVISOR: Flower Gardener positions) Robert Lea DEPARTMENT: Waterfront DEPARTMENT: Keeper SALARY: Operations POSITION/TITLE: Maintenance $160.00 per week plus room POSITION/TITLE: SUPERVISOR: Sailing Camp Instructor SUPERVISOR: HOURS: Grounds Keeper (total of five John Turner DEPARTMENT: Earl Dean 8 hours per day (flexible positions) SALARY: Waterfront SALARY: hours) DEPARTMENT: $3.50 per hour SUPERVISOR: $4.00 per hour LENGTH OF EMPLOYMENT: Maintenance HOURS: Mike Ironmonger HOURS: May 16 - August 21, 1983 SUPERVISOR: 20 per week in the spring SALARY: 40 hours per week (8:00 a.m. Hammett Stone WHEN AVAILABLE: and full time during the $250.00 per week plus room - 4:30 p.m. Monday through SALARY: May 16 summer and board Friday) $4.00 per hour SKILLS REQUIRED: LENGTH OF EMPLOYMENT: LENGTH OF EMPLOYMENT: LENGTH OF EMPLOYMENT: HOURS: Previous experience as a life­ Now through September June 19 - July 16, 1983 May 16, 1983 - August 10, 40 hours per week (8:00 a.m. guard and/or swim instructor. WHEN AVAILABLE: SKILLS REQUIRED: 1983 (11 weeks) - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Additional camp counseling Immediately Duties include the teaching WHEN AVAILABLE: Friday and clerical experience help­ SKILLS REQUIRED: of sailing to youngsters aged May 16, 1983 continued on page 6 ful. *Both positions require Gardener is responsible for 11 - 17 serving as evening Red Cross certification. (Full maintaining flowers and green counselor to these campers. time position also requires plants both inside and outside Qualifications should include Aquarium Seeks WSI certification.) of Charles Hall. Experience a thorough understanding of SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS: is necessary. the principles of sailing at the Volunteers Fill out application and re­ recreational level plus pre­ College students interested in hours a week throughout the turn to the Student Employ­ SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS: vious experience as a sailing gaining on-the-job training have year. Volunteer positions in­ ment Office in Somerset Hall Apply through the Student instructor and camp counse­ two options at the National clude exhibit guide, information by March 25. Employment Office. lor. Aquarium in Baltimore. They desk receptionist, office assistant can work as interns or volun­ and gift shop clerk. teers in one of the Aquarium’s Student volunteers must at­ 13 operating departments. tend five Saturday training ses­ Hall of Records Offers Internships Through the Aquarium’s in­ sions on marine biology and ternship program, students can teaching techniques. Class dates The Maryland Hall of terns work with professional college or university. Partici­ earn college credit by working are April 9, 16, 23, 30 and Records Commission has an­ staff answering historical in­ pants in previous summer in­ at least one day a week during May 7,1983. nounced openings for seven quiries, assisting in the public ternship programs at the Hall the fall, spring, or summer In addition to on-the-job positions for its Summer Archi­ search room, inventorying his­ of Records are not eligible to semesters, or full-time during training, volunteers receive dis­ val Internship Program at the torical records, and performing reapply. Finalists will be inter­ January. The Aquarium offers counts on purchases from the State Archives in Annapolis. a variety of other tasks associ­ viewed in mid-April by the marketing, mechanical engineer­ Aquarium’s gift shop and cafe, The ten-week internships carry ated with the daily operations State Archivist and a panel of ing, horticulture, aviculture, and the opportunity to attend a stipend of $1,375. of a modern state archives. distinguished scholars and com­ aquarist, entomology, marine other aquarium classes. Candidates for the internship munity leaders. education, leisure studies, securi­ The application deadline for The purpose of the intern­ program must be currently en­ Information concerning ap­ ty, audio-visual and graphic arts summer volunteer and intern­ ship program is to introduce rolled graduate students or ad­ plication procedures are avail­ internships. ship positions is April 1. For persons interested in archival vanced undergraduates who have able by writing directly to the Students can earn a free, internship information, call work to the basic problems and received all or part of their Hall of Records, P.O. Box 828, year-long aquarium membership Valerie Chase between 2 and procedures of establishing archi­ education at Maryland institu­ Annapolis, Maryland 21404, or by doing volunteer work for 5 p.m. at 576-3887. For volun­ val control over permanently tions or who are Maryland resi­ by calling 269-3915. Applica­ seven hours a week during the teer information, call Audrey valuable historical records. In- dents attending an out-of-state tion deadline is April 8, 1983. summer or three and a half Suhr at 576-3886. Page 6 THE EMPATH March 24, 1983 Saints Efforts Checked by Mackay Rippey The St. Mary’s Lacrosse Team for the rest of the game, except lost its third game in a row, for a goal by St. Mary’s Brad this time to Ohio-Wesleyan Col­ Anderson assisted by Blaine lege 7-2 Tuesday afternoon. Greig. The Saints were doomed from The only notable event of the start as Wesleyan jumped the game was the play by the to a 2-0 quarter lead and a 6-0 Saint’s defense anchored by lead at the half. Wim Cassard, Keith Parr and The Saints showed a little Pat O’Brien. The defensemen spark after a halftime pep talk and their teammates held a from Coach Gavin Kerr and determined Wesleyan offense scored on an unassisted goal when the Saint’s offense was by Jimmy Stuart. Wesleyan, unable to control the ball. however, came right back scor­ The fact that the Saints were ing while the Saints were a man unable to control the tempo down due to a cross checking of the game allowed the Wes­ penalty. leyan offense to settle into a The two teams battered in­ grove that St. Mary’s could not effectively against each other shake. Photo by Bart Mier Summer Jobs continued from page 5 LENGTH OF EMPLOYMENT: May 16, 1983 - August 10, 1983 (11 weeks) WHEN AVAILABLE: May 16, 1983 SKILLS REQUIRED: Knowledge of mowers and Photo by Mackay Rippey power tools helpful but not St. Mary’s Baseball Team got off to a rocky start losing both games required of a double-header March 17 (14-1 and 18-1) to Southern Con­ SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS: necticut College, a Division II powerhouse. Pete Wiley (above) Must be dependable and get was one of the outstanding players of the first game, pitching a to work on time. Not paid strong relief stint for starting pitcher Quentin Forrest. In a makeup game Tuesday the Saints dropped a 10-4 decision to Penn State. for time off. Beach bumming in Chas. Hall Career Fair On Friday, March 29, St. sharks, so grab your favorite continued from page 1 Mary’s Wind Ensemble and the swim suit with the lifeguard LORD GRADE rams A JIM HENSON FILM "THE GREAT MIIPPET CAPER" Dorchester Dorm Council will still in it, and catch some time EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARTIN STARGER produced by DAVID LAZER a n d FRANK OZ AGENDA be moving the beach to Charles on the beach. w ritten BY TOM PATCHETT & JAY TARSES a n d JERRY JUHL & JACK ROSE Thursday, March 24 Hall. Regardless of the weather, DIRECTED BY JIM HENSON 10:00 a.m. — 11:30 a.m. you’ll be able to sink your The Edge is a new bana MUSIC AND IYRICS BY JOE RAPOSO DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY OSWALD MORRIS D S C. Skill Identification: The feet into cool sand and dance playing out of the Annapolis STARRING THE MUPPET PERFORMERS JIM HENSON * ERANK OZ Abundant Skills of Liberal Arts to the sounds of The Edge, area. The group is currently DAVE GOELZ • JERRY NELSON • RICHARD HUNT • SIEVE WHITMIRE Students. A Practical Workshop. featuring songs by the Police, playing in nightclubs and schools ALSO STARRING CHARLES GRODIN • DIANA RIGG Presenter: Russ Bruch. Mont­ Stray Cats, The Beatles, Men around Annapolis. When up near WITH GUEST STARS JOHN CLEESE • ROBERT MORLEY • PETER USTINOV • JACK WARDEN gomery Hall 151. at Work, and others. The dance our State Capitol keep an ear G GENERAL AUDIENCES 1ORIGIRAL SOOIDTRACI AVAILABLE 01 ATLANTIC RECORDS 1 1:30 p.m. — 3:30 p.m. will last from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. open for this hot new band. 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Former United States Re­ St. Mary's College named this presentative Shiriey Chisholm lecture series which brings 20th Volume 3, Number 7 March 31, 1983 will visit St. Mary’s College of century women of distinction Maryland Sunday, April 10 as to Southern Maryland. The the 1983 Margaret Brent Lec­ inaugural lecture last year was turer. Ms. Chisholm’s speech, by Dr. Jessie Bernard of Wash­ entitled “Sexism in America; ington, D.C., renouned author An Historical Perspective,” be­ and sociologist. of male chauvinism. One of support of or in opposition peared to be a withdrawn gins at 2 p.m. on the back patio Ms. Chisholm entered the Farmer’s campaign platforms to many measures during her woman, melancholy, hurt, and and surrounding grounds of public service field in 1964 insisted that the Black com­ first few months in Congress. tired. Her record indicated that Montgomery Hall. Ms. Chisholm when she successfully ran for munity needed a “strong male Among these was an attempt she has worked hard for her was elected to the House in the New York State Assembly. image” and a “male’s voice in to introduce legislation that constituents, but she was not 1968 as Representative of the Prior to that election, she Washington.” Ms. Chisholm, as a revamped the antipoverty pro­ convinced that she has been 12th Congressional district of had worked as an elementary straightforward champion of gram, making it a massive job- appreciated. In an article in New York, the first Black education specialist and direc­ rights of disadvantaged blacks training undertaking that would Essence Magazine in August of woman ever elected to Con­ tor of a child care center in and Puerto Ricans, and of provide for coordination of 1981, Ms. Chisholm observed, gress. She concluded this por­ Lower Manhattan, then moved women claimed she derived her available jobs with specific train­ “One o f the things that is very tion of her political career at on to a position of educational power “from the people” rather ing. interesting to me about many Jie adjournment of this past consultant in the New York than from the regular party In 1971, upon the convening of these criticisms from politi­ Congress, and is currently teach­ City Bureau of Child Welfare. organization. Her fluency in of the 92nd Congress, Ms. cians is that they never discuss ing at Mount Holyoke College She was actively involved with writing and speaking Spanish Chisholm won a position on what I’ve done on a positive in South Hadley, Massachusetts such community and civic acti­ was a tremendous asset, enabling the House Education and Labor level . . . If people didn’t know as a visiting professor. vities as the Brooklyn Home her to develop a close rapport Committee, one of her major (the positive) things about me, The iecture is open to the for Aged Colored People, where with her Spanish constiuents. fields of interest. After serving they’d say I was just a spiteful, public, with admission by ticket she was on the Board o f Direc­ She was confident of her vic­ there for six years, she moved domineering little Black woman only. A donation of $2 is sug­ tors, and the NAACP. Her tory, she said, because she on to her powerful position on who won’t take orders from gested, but the college has political interests included the knew the people of Brooklyn the House Rules Committee, anybody. This is what I mean made it clear that no one should Democratic Woman’s Workshop and understood their problems. the only woman and only when I say I’ve been misunder­ stay away from this important and the League of Women After her victory over Farmer, Black American on that com­ stood and maligned, and it is event for the lack of $2. Tickets Voters, among others. By this she simply stated, “Men al­ mittee. a great pain, the greatest cf are available in advance from time she had — almost un­ ways under-estimate women.” In 1972, Ms. Chisholm made pains. I feel almost like Nixon the Bookstore or the Calendar knowingly — groomed herself Her position in the House another unprecedented move. when he said, ‘Now you won’t Office at the College (Calvert for a political career by instil­ of Representatives began with She ran for the president of have me to kick around any­ 106) or by phone 863-7100, ling a solid reputation for an unprecedented move; Ms. the United States, the first more.’ ” ext. 280. Tickets will also be trustworthiness within the Black Chisholm piaced an amendment Black woman to run for that Ms. Chisholm received her available at the door. In the community. Her victory at the before the House to change high office. Scorned by her BA degree cum laude, from event of rain, the lecture will polls in 1964 made her the first her committee assignment from colleagues, Ms. Chisholm ig­ Brooklyn College and her MA be held in Somerset Gym­ Black woman from Brooklyn to the Forestry and Rural Vil­ nored them, entered all state in Education and diploma in nasium. serve in the New York State lages Subcommittee, to a com­ primaries and traveled to the Administration from Columbia Ms. Chisholm is the second Assembly. mittee more relevant to her Democratic National Convention University. She holds honorary lecturer in the series named constituency. She prevailed, and in Miami Beach. During the degrees from more than 14 after Mistress Margaret Brent was placed on the Veterans Convention, she withdrew, and colleges and universities. one of the early settlers of St. From the New York State Affairs Committee. This battle supported George McGovern in For more information regard­ Mary’s City, who became one Assembly, she moved on to was the first of many Shirley his bid for the presidency. ing Ms. Chisholm’s visit, contact of the most influential and the U.S. House easily defeating Chisholm was to fight for her At the end of her term in the Public Information Office at respected landowners in the her opponent James Farmer district. She worked hard in the House, Ms. Chisholm ap- the College, 863-7100, ext. 292. colony. She was recognized as by a IVi to 1 margin in 1968. a woman of talent, intelli­ In her race against Farmer, gence, and energy. In her honor, she encountered a baltant case Operating Budget Stabilizes

by Mary Stakem The only cut in the operating The building renovations and SMC Newsteam budget involves the faculty. improvements happening around As the 1983 State Legisla­ Their merit pay increase, accord­ campus are funded under the tive Assembly draws to a close ing to Lee, will be delayed six Capital Budget and not the April 1, a sigh of relief can be months. This delay in pay Operating Budget as detailed heard throughout the Office of increase is not limited to St. above. the President. ‘The budget has Mary’s but will occur in all gone through without change,” schools across the state. The Operating Budget as de­ said Fred Lee, Assistant to St. Mary’s will not be losing tailed above covers campus le- the President. any faculty positions next year furnishings such as carpeting The operating budget for under the budget, according to the dorms and furnishing Charles fiscal year 1984, which will Andrews. Although some legisla­ Hall. The Capital Budget, also go into effect July 1, will tors wanted to reduce the state monies but requested reflect “no major difference in faculty by two, legislative liasons separately, will cover die cost the money situation for next from St. Mary's were able to of future expansion of the year,” said Jack Andrews. Vice convince the assembly that a library and restoration of Anne President for Administration. student teacher ratio of 15 to Arundel Hall. According to The sabbatical pays awarded one is in the best interest of Andrews this budget varies each former President Renwick Jack­ the college community, Andrews year according to the amount son and former Vice-President, continued. of money requested. A Capital Alison Baker, have been paid The exact figures regarding Budget has been approved for and will not affect the 1984 tuition and room and board 1984 to allow an architect to budget. This will create a “minor are not yet available and will draw up plans for the restora­ surplus of funds” in the next not be concretely known until tion of Anne Arundel and it is year as Interim President Weigle a close approximation of the hoped that work can begin in steps down and a new president number of students returning 1985 on this building and the takes office. to St. Mary’s is available. library. THE EMPATH March 31,1983 Page 2 ______— ------— ------SMC’s New Newsteam by Nathan Wilkes various forms of media on cam­ SMC Newsteam pus and recruit students to Richard Dudman, journalist write for these organizations and Woodrow Wilson Visiting without becoming an active Fellow, described the responsi­ bility of journalists to “seek member. This means that indi­ the truth” and “inform the viduals who “don’t have the public” as he addressed journa­ time to join the radio station lism students last Tuesday. or the paper” have the op­ St. Mary’s College is for­ portunity to learn about investi­ tunate to have two media gative reporting in a less formal forums by which students can situation. develop writing skills or pre­ “We are going to try and pare for a career as a journalist. promote writing and communi­ This includes print media. The cations skills that are necessary Empath, and broadcasting for the liberal arts graduate media, WSMC, both of which and their life after college by are open for full student in­ not limiting Newsteam mem­ volvement. bers to one form of media,” .Anyone who looks at the said ex-Empath editor and News­ recent issues of The Empath team member Trish Meissner. The Marquis de Sade (Joe Donick) is whipped by Charlotte Corday (Christi Engel) and egged on by the singers Kokol or listens to WSMC will notice With the News Department (Jack Lynch), Polpoch (Joyce Huff), and Rossignol (Sondra Linkous) in this scene from the St. Mary’s College produc­ tion of Marat/Sade, Peter Weiss’s controversial musical about the French Revolution which will play in the college’s the shortage of actual investi­ of WSMC growing in leaps Montgomery Hall Theatre, April 7 - 9 and 14 - 16. gative reporting. Reasons for this and bounds, The Empath pub­ lack of information lie primarily lishing weekly and expanding, in the lack of student involve­ and the growing possibility of The Art of ment in these perspective or­ an audio-visual media on cam­ ganizations. Most students indi­ pus, the Newsteam has high cate they don’t have enough hopes for becoming an active Going Crazy in Marat/Sade time to become part of these group in the near future. activities because of the heavy This is just another way stu­ to life. The lights slowly return by Carla Lynch . . . regular. Relax!” The group workload and other interests. dents can show the college Spring break has passed and starts to relax and limber up. as Cooke speaks quietly. “O.K., It is for this reason that a community their interest and many college students are franti­ They are ready to work. The now slowly revert to your small group of students, who concern over their own future cally trying to pull themselves director begins the difficult task original selves.” Minutes pass have had previous experience and the future of the college. together for the remainder of of helping the actors transform as the insane once again return with the media here at St. If you question a policy, event, the semester. The mere thought into the crazy inmates of the to sanity. Mary’s, are attempting to reme­ or situation, or wish to shed of papers, quizzes, and on­ asylum. dy the situation. This group some light on the many wonder­ This is the end of one of coming final exams is enough “ ‘Crazy,’ as we normally calls themselves the SMC News- ful things that go unnoticed many intense rehearsals. “I’ve to drive any student crazy. use the word is a meaningless Team as you might have al­ here at St. Mary’s, come to a In the midst of all this greatly admired every actor’s phrase. If it means anything, ready seen in previous issues of Newsteam meeting on any craziness another gToup is being dedication to this process; it means ‘silly.’ This play is a The Empath this semester. Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in the driven to insanity. All 36 mem­ they’ve put themselves through lot of things, including funny, The purpose of the group is lower Charles Hall. They not bers of the cast for the ap­ a lot to find that authentic but it is never silly. For this to to coordinate news between the only need reporters, but input. center to their character and to proaching production of The work, the insanity must appear sustain that edge, that suffering, Persecution and Assassination o f authentic. We worked from the Jean-Paul Marat as Performed inside out, talking about physi­ for three or four hours of Media Positions Available rehearsal a night,” comments by the Inmates of the Asylum cal as well as emotional mani­ at Charenton under the Direc­ festations of insanity,” ex­ the director. It’s that time again — time of WSMC, editor of the Dove tion o f the Marquis de Sade plained Cooke. For eight weeks, the 36 to consider if you are the person and editor of the Avatar. Ap­ are rehearsing late into the The cast does, indeed, start members of the Marat/Sade cast to fill one of the vacancies in plications will be available the night almost daily. to work from the inside out, have worked in rehearsal five the leadership positions of SMC second week of April. Look The play, which is a contro­ trying to get in touch with to seven nights each week in media. The following positions for more information in up­ versial musical about the French their centers of energy. Noises the hope that the illusive pre­ need to be filled: editor-in-chief Revolution, is set in an asylum. start to erupt and movements of Vie Empath, general manager coming issues of V ie Empath. Yet the play goes beyond start flowing. Everything is un­ sence of insanity will be seen the issue of insanity. Says direc­ planned, uncensored, and gradu­ in Montgomery Hall’s Theatre tor John Cooke, “Given the ally works at a faster pace. April 7-9, and 14-16 at 8:00 Campus Life Positions Available graphic and historically accurate The once relaxed and limber p.m. each evening. JOB OPPORTUNITIES Dean of Student’s office in descriptions of life outside the group suddenly becomes grotes­ Somerset Hall. Applications asylum, Weiss leads us to wonder que, crude, and most important, For the students trying to must be completed and re­ who is the more insane.” The insane. The theatre is filled hold on to that sometimes Campus Life Assistants turned to the office by Tuesday, cast is under the approaching with moans, cries, screams. They even more illusive presence of in the areas of April 5 by 4:30 p.m. Students deadline of opening night, April are all over. They run, crawl, sanity, perhaps Marat/Sade will Student Programs must be full-time and in good 17, to perfect their insanity. bump, and roll. Their distorted offer a refreshing diversion. Campus Life / Housing academic standing (2.5 GPA or On a recent Saturday after­ faces seem to transmit chills. Tickets can be reserved by Operations above). noon the cast, fortified with One almost fears for his life calling 863-7100, ext. 388. Pick up applications in the orange juice and cigarettes, be­ while watching them work. “We $1.00 per ticket • S5.00 for six tickets gan preparation for the task of do get away with a lot while DRAWING: MAY 1, 1983 entering the world of the in­ doing this,” responds actress for the weekend of May 20 - 22,1983 sane. Marat/Sade’s director Louise Gatti. ‘This couldn’t Contact Drew 211 P.G. for more information. rushed into the theatre to begin be done anywhere. But, I don’t rehearsal announcing: “This consider this acting. It is simply exercise will run approximately an extension of myself. It is one hour. Five minute warm­ the part of me that is normally ups because you guys look a repressed.” little sleepy.” Suddenly, as if burned of The cast gathers at the their stamina, the actors wind center stage and begins stretch­ down. They lie on the floor. ing and loosening up. As Cooke There is complete silence . . . moves throughout the cast, the lights dim until there is stretching them further and nothing but darkness. Dorm Council (P.G.) and the French Quarter Motel massaging their shoulders, he Noises creep through the sponsors Rent-Free Weekend in continually repeats: “Check blackness. The sounds are slow, OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND your breathing now . . . nice much like a morgue coming «■ V %

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A dealer, left rakes in the money for charity during IRHC’s Monte Carlo The Countdown Begins Night last Saturday. Of the $1600 by Jean-Marc Porson earned in revenues, 50% will be do­ SMC Newsteam “stews and regional special­ nated to the St Mary’s Hospital Fund, The 349th Maryland Day ties” according to Karen 25% to the Ridge Fire Department, held last Sunday, March 27, Stanford, a member for the and 25% to the SMC Health Center. was a cold and rainy one, yet St. Mary’s City Commission. Photo by Jim Laurel the celebration went on as The complex is scheduled to planned. open next Maryland Day on An estimated 500 people the 350th anniversary of the braved the weather to sample settlement of that land. the variety of local foods, 4. The fourth of the series is listen to the gospel and blue- already under construction at grass groups and hear our the college waterfront. A new RUSSELL BURCH legislators speak in St. Mary’s pier is being constructed for Hall. the Maryland Dove, the re­ Russell Bruch, author Maryland Day is the cele­ creation of the original ship of What Color is Your bration honoring Lord Calvert which landed here in 1634. Parachute, conducts and his followers who landed 5. The fifth and final project his Career Day seminar on the Maryland shores in is the use of the early 20th on Saturday afternoon search o f a new land and reli­ century barns adapted to in Montgomery Hall. gious freedom from England. 17th century style to com­ Visitors to the festivities plete the visitor center. The Sunday noticed the construction center, according to Rep. going on at the site. This con­ Briscoe, should help develop struction is part of a plan St. Mary’s City into “ a adopted by the State Heritage major national historical Photo by Rob German Committee entitled “Project site.” 84.” After outlining the plans for The project has been planned the project, Rep. Briscoe gave out over the past five years and a short summary of the special construction of all of the 350th birthday celebration to separate historical sites has be­ BEACH PARTY be held here next year. gun. Former representative John St. Mary’s City and St. Friday night, despite Briscoe spoke to a large crowd Clements Island will both par­ freezing temperatures, in St. Mary’s Hall Sunday and ticipate in a daylong re-enact­ students samk their gave this account of the project: ment of Lord Baltimore’s land­ feet into the sank of 1. The first of the five indivi­ ing here. The entire celebration Charles Hall during dual projects was the con­ is to be a three or four day the Beach Party fea­ struction of a nature center turing music by the event. The state legislature will Edge. The event was at Point Lookout. The center come from Annapolis to con­ sponsored by the Wind was opened in 1981 and has vene their 90-day term here Ensemble and Dor­ been open all year since. at the reconstructed State chester Dorm Council Rep. Briscoe said that the House. Residents of the county center would certainly see who were present at the 300th “continued improvement.” birthday celebration in 1934 2. The second in the series is will be awarded “special honors” Photo by Karin Corea the construction of a 17th said Rep. Briscoe. century tobacco farm under Emphasizing his support and construction near St. Inigoes. enthusiasm was Governor Harry The farm is scheduled to Hughes, the last speaker at St. open in June and will be Mary’s Hall. farmed by a. tobacco farmer “Our 350th anniversary has selected by the state. to be more than just a birth­ 3. The third project in the JAZZBOS day,” Gov. Hughes told the plan is that of a 17th cen­ crowd. “It will be a time for us Last Thursday (March tury ordinary or tavern under to recommit ourselves to an 24) the SMC Jazz bos construction here on campus. important statement, that Mary­ reunited at Captain The tavern will be part of a land will not tolerate acts of Tom ’s Oarhouse bring­ larger complex, a visitor cen­ ing with them the bigotry or racial prejudice.” ter, next to the State House. sounds of smoothly Hughes went on to add that The complex will include mellow jazz. “ Maryland is moving ahead” stables, restrooms and all in reference to these issues. constructed in a 17th cen­ Hughes told the audience that tury style. The tavern will he has asked for 1.2 million offer no lodging but will dollars to fund the 350th serve “fast food” style food celebration and is confident outdoors. An evening meal is that the amount will be ap­ Photo by Karin Corea planned later to consist of propriated. V % THE EMPATH March 31,1983 Page 4 Dear Editor Dear EditorDear Editor Cafe. Plan out the broadcasting day it with bare brick walls and an your world, your art, your and daughters of a revolution. doesn’t matter what the decibal empty commons ... life, because you are the author But if we’re all revolutionaries Questioned range is because they have It is certainly possible that of your thoughts.” Our play — Marat, Sade, Coulmier, Dear Editor: effectively lost any constituency one day all that work will be may leave you uncomfortable, Roux, me, you, Weiss, and If Laura (in the last issue) WSMC may hope to acquire. packed up and sent away be­ perhaps enraged, but before let’s not forget that every in­ thinks carpeting in the dorms Is it not enough that the cause of a few careless indivi­ dismissing it, examine Weiss’ mate wants his freedom too — is foolish, there are plans to majority of professors lecture in duals. My point is that all the calculated provocation. What then what does “revolution” carpet the cafeteria. With people an unintelligible language, let work on public display is free lies at the source of your dis­ mean? Whose revolution do dropping and throwing food, alone the disgusting and dis­ and accessible to any and all comfort? Your vision of his­ we follow and why? won’t it look so nice? Bull! tasteful food ARA provides at students, and look what has tory? Your sense of what This is not a pretty play. constitutes a “proper” subject Its vision embraces much of These little additives for ap­ an unegotiable cost to SMC happened. It’s not so much the for art? Your attitude toward life we wish didn’t exist: war, pearance sake are quite a waste­ residents? WSMC fits right into missing cushions, it’s that can­ thought itself? death, oppression, insanity, per­ ful effort because, unfortunate­ the pre-existing institution. The vasses have been destroyed, This is a History/Play. The version, religious hypocrisy, and ly, of the behavior of some of noise here at SMC is so condu­ glass broken, sculptures graf- most graphic passages in Marat/ so on. There are two ways art the students. Aren’t extra chairs cive to barfing that the choice fitied and property stolen - Sade are the most historically can address these matters: either also a luxury? Of course, that’s lies in whether to barf while that angers me. And the ques­ accurate. Should a play about through polemics, telling one why some were tom apart and listening to WSMC or Donna tion has been raised, “ . . . is history be “nicer,” more plata- what to think, or by provoca­ thrown on top of Montgomery Richardson’s interpretations of it not the experience that is ble, than history itself? Weiss tion, examining the issue and Hall! Isn’t it cute, sweet, to have British Literature or Nancy more important than the ma­ a duck house in the middle of Smith’s infatuation with goats. confronts this issue by making forcing the viewer to make a terial thing?” the pond? Yes, especially with To give credit where credit the Marquis de Sade the choice. Modem artists distrust Well, I’m afraid that the “author” of Weiss’ play-within- the former because the auditor the vandalism done to it. I’ve is due, WSMC does produce experience cannot be had if quality air time from the hours a-play. Sade’s “history” in many remains passive. The truth is also seen uprooted plants, pum- there’s no material. Paintings of 1:30 ajn. to 7:30 a.m. So ways sticks to the facts: Jean- handed down in a neat (authori­ meled young trees, writing on and sculptures are unique ex­ Paul Marat was a central figure tarian, unambiguous) package. the walls, and there has been good job all you boys and girls pressions; evidence of the artist’s of the ultra-progressive, new in the French Revolution (1789 Essentially, the auditor doesn’t in the past, vandalized video experience and they are not wave, alternative sounds of the and after); he was “the people’s have to think or even under­ games. My point is this — no replaceable, like sofa cushions, campus. choice,” a devoted socialist stand, just believe. Marat/Sade matter what you think college even if the money were avail­ Signed opposed by the moneyed but employs the second tactic: it money should be spent on, it able. These works of art are equally “revolutionary” Repub­ reveals the world in all its will always have to be spent — Lovers of Simonjust that, and like in any mu­ lican Girondists. He was con­ contradictions, its illusions and unnecessarily because there are and Garfunkel’s seum, you treat them with sumed by a skin disease, en­ disillusions, its beauty and ugli­ people here who have not gone “The Sounds of Silence” respect, even if you don’t like meshed in the disastrous parti­ ness, its laughter and horror, past immature stages of develop­ them. Some people don’t get cularities of the Revolution, ment. Immature, narrow-minded the chances to visit the Hir- and then says, start thinking. Vandalism and in 1793 murdered in his Listen carefully to Sade’s final slobs are people too, so life shom Museum or the Modem bathtub by the idealistic but speech. The theatre is illusion; progresses — even at college. Museum of Art to see con­ Rebuffed naive Charlotte Corday. the only truth of the play is Maybe carpeting is another Dear Britta: temporary paintings and sculp­ story . . . but perhaps the ad­ On one level, what we witness the play itself. The authority Keep a stiff upper lip — it’s ture first hand. Montgomery ministration feels that when the here is Sade’s version of all here lies within the audience. another rebuttal... Hall is their museum. students tear the rug to shreds that. The Marquis de Sade Marat says, ‘T he important Where was Mr. Moncrieff- It is a very admirable quali­ at least the floor will still be (1740 - 1814) was confined thing is to pull yourself up by Yeates when the paintings and ty, this trust and desire to some good! by Charenton in 1808, where your own hair — to turn your­ sculptures were vandalized in help one’s fellow man, but it he performed his plays using self inside out and see the whole Montgomery Hall? is not the job of this college his fellow inmates. Sade’s liber­ world with fresh eyes.” Such is to be anyone’s parent or guar­ I hoped that no one would tinism is well known, but he the objective of Weiss’ play: Sounds of Silence dian. It is expected that we have to explain the value of was also a keen thinker, the to make us see carefully, and to come here mature, or at least Dear Editor: the artwork in Montgomery author of five plays accepted see independently, without de­ Well, WSMC has finally ac­ mature enough to know we Hall (I don’t mean monetary by the Comedle Francais, five lusion or prejudice. Too often do not disturb what does not commodated itself into the value; I mean educational value novels, and numerous volumes in seeing we go blind. Too often intellectual sphere of influence belong to us. Certainly, “life in this particular case), but of astute social criticism. He I hear intelligent people pride- the college has to offer. The some have obviously missed the does not stop because some­ too played a minor role in fully assert that after the day’s radio jocks have flourished in point. The more than 300 thing is broken,” but education overthrowing the repressive toil they want escapism. But the an of turning off; not the paintings, prints and sculptures does. And locking things up is monarchy of Louis XVI. (Ironi­ are our minds daily so burdened noise but the people. on display in Montgomery Hall not an easy way out, it is the cally, he gave the oration at with great thoughts that we It is such a pleasurable ex­ are there, not only for pleasure, only way if certain individuals Marat’s funeral.) Like Marat, must escape to Gary Cole­ perience to sit in lower Charles but as tools for learning. And I continue to be irresponsible. Sade was a man of impassioned man and Nancy Reagan? Never Hall to listen to one person’s notice not only students of art, — Kerry Grindle-Mellion beliefs, and these passions give mind what we are escaping from ; view of what is good music but everyone who frequents shape and focus to the play the horror lies in what we and how the speakers can best Montgomery Hall, appreciates Marat/Sade before you. But the ultimate insist upon escaping to. Marat / accompany 100 decibals of the atmosphere that has been shaper is not Sade, of course, Sade challenges this smug pride noise. At certain times through­ created. Imagine Montgomery Analyzed but Weiss. What you are ac­ in mindlessness. It says art The following are the direc­ tually seeing is a play written should not hide us from life tor's notes for The Persecution in 1965 about a play about but heighten our awareness of and Assasinarion o f Jean-Paul the French Revolution, the it. Theatre should stimulate us Marat as performed by the interior play performed some so thoroughly with life’s com­ Empath inmates of the asylum at fifteen years after the Revolu­ plexities that we cannot but Charenton under the direction of tion and acted by lunatics. And see the world more clearly, the Marquis de Sade. The of course the lenses of irony and thereby define its truths THE EMPATH is published by the students of St. Mary's performance dates for this St. don’t end there, for we’re College o f Maryland. This publication is funded by the Student independently, free of any auth­ Mary's College production are seeing 1983 actors through 1983 Activities Fee, which is required o f all full-time students. We ority other than ourselves. April 7, 8 and 9 and April eyes. welcome all letters from students, faculty, administration and Our clear vision may not 14, 15 and 16 at 8:00 p.m. in Weiss’ brilliant use of these the community. We reserve the right to edit or abridge letters make us happier, but is our the Montgomery Hall Theatre. multiple levels of perception and articles. art responsible for our happi­ Marat/Sade offers us singing, allow a line such as Coulmier’s, ness? In the fact of what we dancing, oompah music, pretty “We’re all Revolutionaries, now­ Editor-In-Chief...... Britta Muehlberger know, of Vietnam, The Great girls, patriotic songs and the adays,” to strike in several Managing Editor...... Mackay Rippey War, The Holocaust, and right meanest spirit of any play in directions at once: Napaleon’s News/ Features E d ito r...... Paige Hughes now the slaughters in Iran, the twentieth century. In its Second Empire did consider Business Manager / Secretary...... Michelle Lavery the Middle East, and El Salva­ contrariness, contradiction, and themselves revolutionaries, the Photography C o o rd in ato r...... Dan Benson dor, can we shut our eyes to its refusal of the simplistic proper descendants of the strug­ Distribution M anager...... Bill Hauver what this play says? Who are lies its terrible beauty. While gles of 1789; Weiss, writing in Contributing W riters...... Beth Appier, Phyllis Bean, Bobbi Kienast we to demand that art lie to no play treats us less nicely, the mid-sixties, echoes the early • Joe Bailey, Mary Stakem, Ward Shortridge us? none pays us more respect. thunder of that Age of Revolu­ Contributing P h o to g rap h er...... Peter Fang “Think,” Weiss tells us, “about tion; finally, we too are sons John Cooke

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March 31, 1983 THE EMPATH Page 5 program in 1984. It also in­ cludes a rescission of $900 ScM/viebL'i by DOE Budget million for 1983 funding. The 1--- r $2.04 billion represents a de­ crease from the 1982 GSL Outlined appropriation of almost one Dear Students: SSIG was established in 1972 billion dollars. By now each of you has in order to provide states an The proposed reduction does probably heard on the evening incentive to establish their own not represent a reduced commit­ news and read in your local or grant and scholarship programs. ment to the GSL program. On university newspaper about Currently all states have met the contrary, because President President Reagan’s proposed this challenge and offer very Reagan’s Economic Recovery changes to the Federal student attractive scholarship and grant Program has successfully re­ financial assistance programs programs. Known under a duced interest rates, the actual sponsored by the Department variety of different names, these cost of the program is steadily of Education. I would like to state programs awarded over decreasing. Although the pro­ take this opportunity to explain one billion dollars last year. gram will cost one billion the budget we have requested. Thus, after 11 years, the incen­ dollars less than in 1982, one The chart below compares tive provided by the SSIG billion dollars more will be the 1983 student aid budget program has successfully available to student borrowers. with our proposed budget for generated more dollars than the About 2.64 million students 1984. Because over one billion Federal government could pos­ and parents received GSL and "NOVA; T ttlS IS /Y\OTWfrTlON RftDlO - dollars has been saved as a result sibly have hoped. PLUS loans in 1982. The average of declining interest rates, the SEOG was designed to sup­ loan was $2,222. Under Presi­ NiY Re'QVESTS?" total funding proposed for 1984 plement the Pell Grant. Ad­ dent Reagan’s 1984 budget the Grant Program. Driving the Self-help Grant. is level with 1983. The dif­ ministered by the financial aid average loan is expected to be changes are our interest in as­ The equity issue is one that ference in the two budgets is office on the campus, the pro­ $2,454. The number of recipi­ suring equity and ensuring access has long been wrestled with where we have put the dollars. gram was to provide students ents will increase almost and choice. The proposal also in the delivery of Federal grant We axe proposing to consolidate with the financial means neces­ 300,000. Improved economic restores to the student some programs. Many students are the current six programs into sary to have some choice in conditions will make let all of responsibility for securing col­ awarded more money than they one loan, one work-study, and which institution to attend. this happen with one billion lege costs. actually need while many more one grant. The problem with SEOG is dollars less of the taxpayer’s Under the proposed Self-help do not receive enough to meet money. Federal 1983 1984 that it is not targeted to help (Pell) Grant Program, students their college costs. This situa­ Apprp.* ICont. Res.) (Request) those students who really need In 1984 we are proposing must meet a minimum expected tion has resulted in large part federal assistance. If our pro­ some changes to the current student contribution before because of the complexity of Work-Studv 540 850 posed budget is accepted by law governing the GSL pro­ being eligible for a grant. The the Pell Grant Program eligi­ GSL and gram. We estimate that these contribution would be a mini­ bility criteria. To address this PLUS 3,101 2,047 the Congress, the new Self-help changes alone will save $126.9 mum of 40 percent of the cost NDSL 193 4 Grant program will provide problem, the new Self-help Pell (Self- needy students with the choice million in 1984 and $204.7 of attendance — with an ab­ Grant program proposes, for help) 2,419 2,714 previously reserved for the million in 1985. Currently stu­ solute dollar minimum of $800. example, reducing from 22 to - SEOG 355 privileged. dents who wish to borrow under A student may meet his ex­ five the number of factors used SSIG 60 - Begun in 1958, NDSL is the the GSL program do not have pected contribution from a to determine a family’s ability TOTAL 6,668 5.615 oldest of the Federal student to demonstrate financial need if variety of sources, including the to contribute. Changes such 'Dollars are in millions. assistance programs. Over the their family income is under Federal loan and work-study as this will go far toward re­ $30,000. (The requirement that programs described above, state establishing the original intent The key principle behind this past 25 years the Federal govern­ need be demonstrated for stu­ grant and scholarship funds of the grant program — that of proposal is that a simplified ment has given schools par­ dents whose family income is and private sources. providing access to higher educa­ and consolidated student aid ticipating in the program over over $30,000 was, in fact, It is important that you, tion for those who would not program will benefit both the 12 billion dollars to establish implemented only last year.) as students, understand the be able to attend college without student and the American tax­ revolving loan funds on the Our 1984 budget proposes ex­ self-help concept. Your student assistance. The new Self-help payer financing the student aid campus. The loan fund is for tending the “needs test” to all contribution can be met by an Grant is designed to build on programs. Simplification will the use of current and future income levels. Factors such as almost infinite combination of that original purpose by giving also dramatically reduce the students. Though no new money cost of tuition, expected family sources, including all of the administrative burden which is requested for the NDSL needy students choice in addi­ contribution, number of child­ Federal aid programs except your institutions now face in program, the revolving funds tion to access. ren in school, etc. will continue the Self-help grant itself. administering the six Federal mean that over $550 million This Administration’s strong to figure into the needs formu­ President Reagan’s proposal aid programs. Reducing this will continue to be available commitment to education de­ la. This proposed change is suggests that cost of atten­ burden will improve your insti­ to students in 1984. The amount mands that we take steps to consistent with our belief that dance should figure prominently tution’s ability to deliver stu­ of money available in future improve student aid delivery. Federal aid should be reserved in the calculation of a student’s dent aid. years depends on students meet­ By consolidating the programs for those students who need Self-help grant. A student at­ We have asked Congress not ing their repayment obligations to simplify management and the assistance in order to attend tending a community college to provide new funding for the and thereby keeping the re­ by requiring a student contri­ college. and living at home obviously State Student Incentive Grant volving funds healthy. If former bution to higher education costs President Reagan’s budget re­ has less cost than a student Program (SSIG), the Supple­ students, now in default, repay before grant aid is provided, quests an additional 5310 mil­ attending a $7,500 institution mental Educational Opportunity their loans, over 5640 million we believe that we can maintain lion in funds for the College in a different town or state. Grant Program (SEOG), and the could be added to the revolving the integrity of Federal student Work-Study Program (CWS). In­ The “cost-sensitivity” of the National Direct Student Loan funds. assistance programs. Simplifying creases in CWS support our view Self-help Grant Program should Program (NDSL). We’ve asked The three remaining pro­ the system and maintaining that a student and his or her ensure that needy students have integrity are the only ways to Congress to increase funding grams: College Work-Study, Pell family share the primary respon­ a greater choice in selection of for College Work-Study (CWS) (Grant) and the Guaranteed ensure that the programs will sibility for financing a college an institution to attend. While and Pell Grants. Under the new Student Loan Program (GSL) be available to future genera­ education. If adopted by the the maximum Pell Grant is budget we expect a higher loan will ensure the type of student tions of students. Congress, President Reagan’s in­ 51,800, a student who attends Edward M. Elmendorf volume and a higher loan average financial assistance hoped for, crease will create jobs for an a high cost institution and has Assistant Secretary for the Guaranteed Student but never realized, under the additional 345.000 students. a small expected family con­ for Postsecondary Loan Program (GSL). six program arrangement. The average student’s earnings tribution could receive a 53.000 Education The chart below compares The Guaranteed Student would be $800.00. the total amount o f aid available Loan (GSL) and Auxiliary Loan The College Work-Study pro­ to students through the De­ (PLUS) programs make low gram is administered and partment of Education under interest loans available to eligi­ ble graduate and undergraduate managed on the college campus. the 1983 and proposed 1984 be generated. Waiting for an students (GSL) as well as parents The Federal government contri­ budgets. interest to strike you, before (PLUS) by paying lenders in­ bution to the work-study payroll Aid Avlb.* 1983 1984 you take steps to become terest while the student is in is 80%. By increasing the CWS involved may well keep you Work-Study 587 924 school and by subsidizing in­ program by 60% we hope to GSL and in a state of boredom for a terest while the borrower is reduce the burden many young by N ancy Darnell, R.N. PLUS 6,593 7,198 graduates now face when they Do you experience boredom lifetime. Learning is the greatest NDSL 684 550 paying off the loan. The com­ in your life style? If so, it is of antidote to boredom. Boredom Pell (Self- bined program is the largest have relied too heavily on cannot exist when you are help) 2,419 2,714 of the Federal financial aid loans to finance their college great value to remember that SEOG 355 — involvement precedes interest. actively engaged in the process programs. costs. SSIG 120 - You must risk at least a mini­ of continuing growth through The budget which we sent to The most sweeping changes mum degree of involvement in recognition and development of TOTAL 10,758 11,386 Congress requests $2.04 billion President Reagan has proposed any activity, before interest can real resources in yourselves. *Dollars a * inmillions. to cover the costs of the GSL are those affecting the Pell THE EMPATH Page 6 v • * March 31,1983 ‘ ‘ Zen and American Life ’ ’ at SMC

Sahn answered the last and other cities. Recently, he has Korean Zen Master Seung David Gerber, an American However, this same American most difficult, he was again helped establish Zen Centers Sahn will visit St. Mary’s College Zen teacher, will assist him in mind has another quality which declared to be enlightened, this in Ontario, Canada, Cracow, of Maryland in historic St. this presentation. Zen practice tries to undo. time by Master Ko Bong. This Poland, and Germany. Mary’s City on Tuesday, April 5. According to Master Seung transmission was the only one Currently, Master Seung Sahn Master Seung Sahn will speak Master Seung Sahn believes Sahn, “The American mind is Master Ko Bong ever gave. travels to all these centers to to the college community at that Americans have certain tough and self-reliant, but Master Ko Bong declared to teach and lead retreats. He 8 p.m. in St. Mary’s Hail. A advantages over Asians in terms stuffed full of opinions.” These Seung Sahn, “Someday Korean carries' on an extensive cor­ reception will follow in the of understanding Zen philoso­ opinions must be tossed out to achieve a Zen attitude toward Buddhism will spread through respondence with his students, Reconstructed State House. The phy. “Zen means believing in life. (From Rick Field’s How the world through you. We will personally answering every letter public is invited to attend. yourself, one-hundred percent The Swans Came to the Lake, meet in five hundred yean.” written to him. He has pub­ Master Seung Sahn’s lecture is and for believing in yourself 1981.) (Fields, How the Swans Came lished two books which contain entitled “You Already Under­ the American way is better Master Seung Sahn is the to the Lake). a rich choice of his correspon­ stand: Zen Philosophy and than the Oriental system. The first Korean Master to teach Master Ko Bong’s prophecy dence with his students covering American Life.” During his pre­ child is soon independent of in the West and according to has come true. After five years a broad range of Zen topics, sentation he will discuss Zen the parents whereas in the in the South Korean Army, students’ questions, and the Buddhism as a philosophy and Orient you remain dependent on a recent study he is the most Master Seung Sahn went to Master’s responses. They are: its relevance to American life society — always dependent on active and influential Korean Japan and Hong Kong where Dropping Ashes on the Buddha and the American temperament. something.” Buddhist teacher in the United States. he spent nine years teaching (1976) and Only Don’t Know: After the defeat o f Japan in and founding temples. In 1972 The Teaching Letters of Zen World War II, Korea was di­ he came to the United States. Master Seung Sahn (1982). vided. Seung Sahn, a young Since he spoke little English In addition to his evening man disillusioned with politics, and had no money, his first presentation, Master Seung Sahn went to the mountains to read job was repairing washing ma­ will meet with creative writing Socrates, Spencer and Rousseau. chines because he met a Korean students and Michael Glaser, He also began to study Budd­ on the plane who owned a Associate Professor of English hism. He met first with Master laundry in Providence. at 10 a.m. on April 5 in the Ko Bong and then went to Even during this period, he Conference Center. the Su Dok Sa Monastery in was attracting American stu­ A luncheon for Master Seung Korea. There, Master Chun Song dents — several from Brown Sahn and David Gerber spon­ declared him to be “en­ University. Within a few years, sored by the Philosophy Club lightened” at the age of 22. the Providence Zen Center was and members of the faculty, He went to Seoul where he met established. Alan Paskow, Associate Profes­ his former teacher Master Ko In recent years, under the sor of Philosophy and Ivor Bong. He was given many guidance of Master Seung Sahn, Pritchard, Assistant Professor ' ? M ' Koans or difficult Zen questions Zen Centers have been estab­ of Philosophy, will be held .> ■ - to answer. All he answered lished in Los Angeles, Berkeley, at 12:30 in the Conference Photo by Stephen Silk, New Haven Journal Courier without hesitation. When Seung New York and New Haven and Center. Chinese Professors Compare Cultures by Paige Hughes larger than St. Mary’s. acquire a broad knowledge of E: Would a Chinese student you describe this and describe The following interview was H: We have about 5,000 stu­ the world and about things ever both work and go to school the average Chinese school day? conducted with Zhuang Heling dents. they should know. But now at the same time? M: Usually they get up around and Zhu Minqi, the two Chinese M: In our university we also universities in China are trying H: No they just study. But 6 :3 0 ... Professors here through St. have many more courses of­ to change this. during vacation some of the H: in winter. The loudspeaker Mary's new exchange program fered, and more academic divi­ students work at the university. comes on then. But some of with Fudan University in sions, or departments as we E: Is this the way it has always They get a little pay for their the students get up earlier Shanghai, China. call them. We have 14 or 15 been? Have students in the past work. because they want to practice Empath: What courses do you departments, whereas here there always been channelled into M: You see in China, the stu­ English (they laugh). But at teach at St. Mary’s College? are only four or five divisions. specific areas? dents don’t pay tuition - they 6:30 is morning exercise for Minqi: I teach one course in H: Also, here all students have H: No, only some of the high just pay for their food. If a half an hour. Chinese civilization and I coach basic requirements that they schools have this system. student’s family cannot afford M: Then there is breakfast one of the faculty in Chinese must fulfill, for instance com­ M: But we want to change this, sometimes the university and classes begin at 8 a.m. language. position and history. But the this. will give them money, a grant In the mornings we have four Heling: I teach one course in students at our university have E: What differences have you in aid, or the university will hours of classes. elementary Chinese. different requirements in dif­ observed between Chinese and arrange for them to work E: In one subject? Empath: What did you do in ferent departments. Some stu­ American students? during the summer and winter M: No, no all kinds of subjects. China before coming to St. dents of science don’t have to M: Both are good. In China vacations. Each class lasts 50 minutes Mary’s? study Chinese in their depart­ only a small number of stu­ Also, the universities organize with a 10 minute break. After Heling: We were teaching En­ ment. We don’t have set basic dents, 20% or less, have a something to get the students that they have lunch. And the glish when we were in China. requirements for every student. chance to go to college. But in touch with the ordinary Chinese people have a custom Minqi: English is what we M: But we see the problems with in the United States I think workers, peasants or even mili­ of napping after lunch. Then majored in at the University. this. The students in science that nearly every student has a tary men. During the four years classes begin again . . . We studied English, American often have difficulty writing chance to go to college. of study they are supposed to H: at 1:30 and they finish history, British history, literary papers. So some of the uni­ H: Students in China have to go to factories to work for a classes at half past four. topics and things like that. versities, not our university, take entrance examinations and period of time, also go to the M: Then there’s a long period Empath: So your area was are starting to ask them to take they are selected this way from countryside and work. Some­ where students do various things Western studies at the Uni­ Chinese language, just as stu­ all high school students. times we ask the military to like sports and club activities, versity, and you were teaching dents here must take composi­ E: Is this lack of opportunity come to the university to train for instance the poetry associa­ at Fudan University in tion. something that people are trying the students for two weeks, tion where students get together Shanghai? H: There are some improve­ to change in China? not very long, so that the and write poetry. There’s also Minqi: Yes, Heling taught stu­ ments in some universities. M: I think it will be a long students can become familiar photography, dance, singing. dents that majored in English, E: So universities are tending time. We don’t have enough with the people and know H: They have special sports and I taught students of science, towards liberal arts in a way? colleges. what things happen in fac­ too. so the difference is that we M: In middle school, especially E: Can you tell me something tories, in the countryside, and M: Fudan University is famous taught English in different de­ in senior high school, students about Chinese student life? in the military. Sometimes the for volleyball in the nation. partments. are separated into different H: Students in China are re­ students are routed to do this E: Then after that? E: What fundamental differences groups, the major two groups quired to live on campus, but kind of thing. M: Dinner is at 5:30, which is have you observed between St. are natural science and social not all students here are re­ E: From speaking with your early for here. After dinner Mary’s and Fudan University in science. I don’t think this is quired to live in the dorms. students I’ve learned that you students go to the library; terms of academics? good, but some schools do it. Teachers can go to the dorms try to reconstruct the Chinese M: Fudan University is much In this way students cannot to talk with students. classroom experience. Would cont. on page 8 * %

March 31, 1983______THE EMPATH______« ______Page 7 A Parent’s Point of View - China by Dolores Harvell of goodies from toothpaste and home created by each student’s I didn’t have an opportunity Kim as well as the others I Most of you are aware of deodorants to cream cheese and individual touch in hanging to visit the cafeteria, but I talked to are very possessive the St. Mary’s College students bagles. The latter really was family pictures, cards and understand that most of the about their new-found China. currently studying at Fudan a joke. In fact, I carried over scrolls. students avoid that area any­ It’s important to them that University in Shanghai, People’s 200 pounds of personal items The dress for the day is just way. School cafeterias universal­ we see China as they do, over­ Republic of China. They have not only for Kim, but for three your basics. Several pairs of ly are not known for their looking the hardships. China is been there since September 1, others of our SMC group: Beth socks, hiking boots, leg warmers, cuisine, but the one thing that progressive, her people are well 1982 and plan to return about Ward, Brian O’Day and Joan heavy pants, layered T-shirts was repeatedly mentioned to fed, well clothed and appear July this year. As the mother of Ruth. covered with another heavier me was how deplorable the food to be satisfied. Those people one of these stout-hearted in­ It was a high time in Kim’s sweater or shirt topped off is at Fudan. It’s all cooked in that greeted us on the streets dividuals, I recently visited my room when the word quickly with a jacket. And certainly grease except the rice. One of and in the stores were friendly daughter Kim and her col­ spread around the dorm that no respectable Fudan student our group was currently suf­ and eager to practice their leagues. there really was cream cheese, would be caught without a fering from gastro-intestinal English. I was allowed to visit China bagles and wine. The next two scarf. I mean really! The govern­ problems and was not able to There is an adequate educa­ under a fairly new tourist hours consisted mostly of “ohs, ment says that now that it’s eat in the cafeteria at all. The tional system offered for most program called Free Indepen­ ahs and lookie.” Ross, a student the first of March in Shanghai, only real problem I observed and high technology for those dent Travel (FIT). To a large from New York City, said he you are warm, therefore, the during my visit was the poor who can pass placement exams. degree, my travel was free would even forgive me for not heat is turned off. Ah well, diet habits of all the students. Transportation is plentiful. and independent. However, for bringing lox. soon it will be time to put the It was certainly not my place Buses run constantly, crowded those of you who were avid The dormitory that houses mosquito nets up again. So it to play “Mother” when these but inexpensive. Shanghai is a readers of the comic strip our SMC contingent is a three- goes. young adults are coping very city of 2Vi million bikes. I Doonesbury, you know the year-old cold, damp cinderblock Laundry hangs everywhere in nicely in their own way with believe that all converge at one Chinese tourguide Honey. I had building. The kitchen, toilet and various stages of dripping. Now some very mature situations. time on The Bund during rush my own little Honey in bath facilities are stark and that it’s the rainy season, it’s But, by their own observations, hours. Rickshaws and sampans Shanghai and male counterparts harsh. The Chinese roomates conceivable the laundry could they have severe mood swings no longer exist. in Xian and Beijing. I’m afraid are friendly, but for the most hang where it is until Spring, which are probably brought on The history and sights to be that we gave our tour guides part are reticent about becoming which may come soon by by poor diet. found in ’China could take a a few moments of consterna­ too closely associated with any government decree. If St. Mary’s College con­ lifetime to study. Do Go! tion when Kim and I decided of the foreign students. It is I’m afraid many of my ob­ tinues this worthwhile program, if you have the opportunity. to make changes in our itinera­ the obligation of the roomie servations are emotional. It does and I certainly hope they do, The Great Wall and the excava­ ry. “China! Rigidity is thy to “report” on the comings make you wonder why these I strongly urge someone to tions at Xian will defy imagina­ name.” and goings. It appears that most young adults would impose look into the reported poor tion. My two-week trip was of the students have adopted a these conditions on themselves. cafeteria conditions. /cont. on page 8 planned primarily to visit with friendly, but standoffish atti­ Especially so when you see Kim and for her and me to do tude. them wearing mittens with the some travelling within the coun­ The cement dorm rooms are fingers cut out in order to try. In preparation for this also stark and cold. Wind blows hold a book or write but trying journey, many letters had been through the windows. The only to keep hands warm at the sent home requesting all kinds real warmth is the illusion of same time. jp Religion in China It is 11:30 p.m. as our mini­ save that they are 99.9% into play. At first the hubbub bus passes through the quiet Chinese. I see folk old, young — of a thousand conversations streets of southwestern in equal numbers — male, deminatos, but eventually a Shanghai, near the edge of the female; some wear the distinc­ background is heard, Chinese former international settlements. tive clothes of the country­ children singing, with an admix­ We turn a corner, and twin side, others the latest city ture of Buddhist sutra-chanting. spires appear darkly yet clearly fashions; a few stand alone, A few Latin words become Photo by Dolores Harvell against the even darker sky. most are clustered together in distinct, evidence that I am getting out of the way rapidly tional position. The noise level My companions are neighbors, either peer or familial groupings wrong on both counts; it is the enough. Not even momentary increases substantially, and does German engineering and lan­ of from three to a dozen. litany, increasingly agreeable to embarrassment about their con­ not begin to subside until the guage faculty teaching for a I begin to climb the stairs, the ear as its strangeness wears spicuously privileged status - in processional ends, and the effici- time in China like myself. It but a German colleague calls off. a church at that — can be de­ ant ascends the altar. is Christmas Eve; we are going me down to join the others The pews reserved for tected; God must indeed have He is elderly — but much to Midnight Mass. who are being led away toward foreigners contain many more blessed America. younger than the Bishop of The driver slows down, the south transept. Two door­ than Caucasian faces. Seven Two Chinese ushers now Shanghai, who is in his 90’s - honks, a gate is opened, and keepers give us admittance, or, Africans are seated togehter, and come to me, and a small tight slight, and frail, yet his bright we enter the acre-large com­ more accurately, open the doors overseas Chinese, obvious by circle forms as they urge me and full white and yellow pound of the church. Progress for us, bringing into view a fire their dress, occupy more than repeatedly to be seated with robes, and his bearing, clearly is now snail’s pace because of marshal’s ultimate nightmare: half of the seats. A sharp pain the others. I decline, and should signal solemnity. The choir can the large numbers of people whatever the safe occupancy in my right side tells me the like to say that I felt a sense of be heard again, now singing everywhere, but we eventually figure for this building might foreigners are still arriving, as comaraderie among those other hymns. pull up to the front steps and be, it is currendy being ex­ another line-backer for the standees and myself, but I did It is a silent High Mass, alight. ceeded threefold. :hurch team moves his elbow not. Most of them ignored each being celebrated just as the Facing the facade, the twin Forward movement seems from my ribs to those of the other, and when they attended first one must have been when spires now stand out and up impossible, but a church atten­ young woman alongside, in to me, a few looked curious, the cathedral was completed even more sharply. They had dant begins moving the standing order that the leather-coated a few somewhat bewildered, and 70 years ago ( when the Church been tom down during the crowd to the sides, slowly Chinese gendeman and their a few seemed to show some in China broke with Rome in Cultural Revolution, most of the clearing a squeezeable path furred spouses can get through resentment in their faces, prob­ 1957 over the selection of roof destroyed at the same toward pews reserved for to their seats. ably for my not taking what bishops, the old liturgy was time, and, I have been told, the foreigners. As we approach these These well-favored people they should like to have had retained). interior gutted, with repairs and side-altar pews I drop back; avert their eyes from those offered to them. But these Most of the Chinese standing restoration being done in 1980. not being a celebrant I wish to they are compelling to the side people are here for the Mass, near me are under 30, and It is impressively and un­ stand, am fairly close to the and backwards, as many Ameri­ not me, and my egocentric appear to be observers, although mistakably a French Cathedral, chancol, and being several inches cans and Europeans will also reflections cease: the candles a few bow their heads im­ and for a moment I am in taller than the average Chinese, do as they come by. But not are coming. mediately when the bells an­ more-or-less Christian France command a fairly good view so the seven Americans fol­ As word spreads rapidly that nouncing the descent* of the rather than more-or-less com­ of the altar. lowing next: the four men look the ritual has begun there is Holy Spirit are rung. An elderly munist China. The spell is Slowly becoming acclimated closely at all whom they are a great surge forward in the gentleman at my side wipes broken when I turn from the visually and tactilely to the passing through, seeming to be nave, and behind me, as almost away a tear with one gloved cathedral to the people gathered surroundings surrounging me, taking particularly baleful cog­ everyone, per impossibile, at­ about. No grand generalizations, my aural sense starts coming nizance of those who aren’t tempts to improve their observa- cont. on page 8 * ~i Page 8 THE EMPATH March 31,1983 attendance — seated at the they begin running their presses “ ‘ABSENCE’ side altar. According to one, around the clock. COULD WELL Roman Catholic, over 90% of Communion, and thus the BE THE BEST those in attendance were com­ Mass, is over. An elderly parka- PICTURE OF coated man mounts a make­ THE YEAR.” * municants. How this figure Saga Film shift small platform near the could be known is unclear, -I Kl l> > \<.»-K. chancel to announce the later ASSOCIATED PRESS at least a quarter of the people originally in the cathedral having Masses. The choir descends, . . ■ left before having an opportuni­ foreigners file out, the aisles ty to take Communion. clear. Hearing no benediction, I, April 1 & 3 too, leave, passing outside those At the other extreme, I was told with assurance that about who are waiting patiently to *>-: ■, 1/6 may have been Catholics succeed me in the cathedral. — even though twice that num­ It is Christmas morning, St. Mary’s Hall ber took Communion — another 1982, in Shanghai. 1/6 were camival-goers, with — Henry Rosemont, Jr. the remaining 2/3 spying on MIL MFW1UH SALLY F1EL9 both groups for the Political Point of View Bureau. cont. from page 7 MSFHff If MAIWF 7 & 9:15 Even with the harsh living Assessing the religious signifi­ conditions for the SMC crowd cance of this and similar events and the other foreign students I have witnessed in China is as well, it’s important to under­ “Compelling stuff, confidently directed and $ 1 . 0 0 complicated by the difficulty performed.” stand that they are all sin­ of drawing the boundary be­ - David Ansen, NEWSWEEK cerely dedicated to a task they tween the secular and the fully intend to complete. Not sacred here. In Hangzhou for Chinese Profs. from page 6 E: Are classes in China more Religion cont from page 7 only will they have learned a the October 1 holiday I counted and, this is something I’m oriented towards lectures or hand, a rosary clutches in the new language, they will have almost as many offerings of wondering about: in our library student participation? other. “Gloria in excelsis Deo” developed a maturity beyond incense sticks at the temple it’s very crowded all day, es­ H: It depends. If it is a language is chorused repeatedly, and their young years and an ability and tomb of Yeo Fei — an pecially in the evening. But class then we ask the students people begin to move forward to cope with difficulties. They altogether mortal Song Dynasty here it’s not that way. I go to to speak more. But the students, again, this time to receive have learned to care deeply general — as were offered to the library and there are very I think, are not as eager to ask Communion. for each other and are depen­ the Buddha Maritreya at another few people there. questions as the students here. The commemoration con­ dent on each other for moral large temple nearby; many offer­ H: The students at our uni­ E: About how many universi­ tinues, and, as time goes on, support. Mail, packages and ings were made at both temples, versity like to go to the library. ties are there in China, and how the crowd slowly begins to news from home is shared with in atmospheres identical to the After dinner they always go to big are the largest and the thin, allowing me to make my all. Have they become indoctri­ one in this cathedral. the library and stay until about smallest, approximately? wave to the nave. Walking down nated? I think not. When our A political assessment is no 9:30. H: (She laughs) - I have never the right aisle counting pews pioneers return, it will be like less difficult. Against the back­ M: Then the students go to bed counted, but I would say there and people in them, I guess childbirth. What pain? Just look ground of the strident atheism at 10:30. are about 600 or 700 universi­ that there are seats for roughly at this beautiful experience H: They are required to (they ties in China and the largest 2,000, and that about 2Vi of the Cultural Revolution re­ we’ve given birth to. laugh)! have about 5,000 or 6,000 times as many people have been vived interest in formal reli­ Back here in the comfort M: The authorities at the school students. It is hard to say how standing wherever they could. gious oppression of any kind of our homes, we can’t give have a lights off policy. They small the smallest is. Reversing direction near the cannot be ignored. At the them anything except a lot of care very much about the E: In general, what fields are entrance I now look to my same time, the equally strident support and applause. As Anne health of the students. But Chinese students most interested right and see small groups of anti-materialism of that period Harrington said in one of her many American students stay up in? young people opening and clos­ should indicate that the phrase letters to her Mom, “Write to very late (they laugh). H: Computer science- is very ing the doors of the confes­ ching shen which occurs in me.” That is the sentiment H: They stay up late, they get popular. sionals, and staring upward at recent Party documents has a expressed by all, over and up late, but we go to bed earlier the Stations of the Cross. broader range of meanings than M: You see, China was isolated over. and get up earlier (she laughs). No matter where I am, the its English translation “spiritu­ for more than 20 years from the M: I have heard that some of atmosphere in the cathedral al.” This is merely to say that CLASSIFIEDS the students from St. Mary’s rest of the world. Now the seems about the same: one part while “not by bread alone” government is opening it’s doors who are in China have had a circus, two parts curiosity, three has, is, and will remain as ap­ Summer Housing Available — to the rest of the world, and problem with this (he laughs). parts reverence, and four parts plicable to the Chinese or to Rooms for Rent. Call Mike at students are discovering new E: Someone told me that in a combination of all of the any other peoples, nevertheless, 872-5777. your classes you begin each areas of science. above. A highly subjective ac­ the large interest in and at­ Refrigerator for Sale - S95.00 session by reading some quota­ E: So there has been a whole count, I will nevertheless stand tendance at this and other or best offer. Monique — 309 tions from Mao and other new world of knowledge opened by it later after hearing the Christian services should not Caroline. thinkers. Do teachers do this up for students? reports of other foreigners in suggest to the Gideons that in China? M: Yes, so foreign languages M: No, not now, but during are also very important. the Cultural Revolution we did E: This has been very interesting Captain Tonis this for one or two years. But and informative. I want to thank eventually Mao himself didn’t you both very much for spend­ Oar House like this. ing this time with me. CHARLIES Featuring: Pizza • Subs • Beer • Kegs — The Zee Band. 75

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