Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 11-16-1972 The aB tes Student - volume 99 number 11 - November 16, 1972 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 99 number 11 - November 16, 1972" (1972). The Bates Student. 1656. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1656 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Brook haven Offers Possible STU; Work-Study Program Short Term students may be able to spend time pursuing research projects at Brookhaven National Laboratories if a new program proposed by Dr. Glenn Price, the Laboratories' Director of Scientific Personnel, is approved by Bates College officials. Dr. Price visited Bates last Thursday and presented a slide show of the facilities at Brookhaven, which is located on Long Island. At present. Bates students may apply to Brookhaven for work-study programs during a Budget Dissension regular semester or during the summer. Credit courses are offered in such areas as modern physics, mechanics, linear algebra, and probability, and students spending time at Brookhaven usually Besets Assembly work on individual projects. Summer students by Sheila Quinn receive a stipend of $100 a week along with a The Budget Recommendations for the E.A.C., dorm room. One of the main purposes of the By this time most members of the Assembly were proposed short term program would be to allow ^Extracurricular Activities Committee), were the students to conduct an experiment using the major items of business at the November 13, tiring, of the hassle, some were leaving the meeting meeting of the R.A. (See text of the and some were ignoring what was going on on the advanced facilities at Brookhaven. As Dr. Price floor. The motion was ignored since it was ruled says," ... a semester (program) involves missing Recommendations in this paper). Karen out on your regular courses. I think it would be Wawrzonek, chairman of the Budget Committee of out of order, and the WOCO request was passed by the Assembly. better for students to spend 100% of their time on the Assembly, presented the proposal to the research rather than worrying about courses. members of the R.A. She reminded the Assembly Maybe Bates could work up a preparatory that it was important that some action be taken on The Women's Awareness and Bridge Club arrangement so a student could do all his the proposal tonight since the recommendations requests were passed by the Assembly. However, preliminary reading before he arrives at were due to the E.A.C. on November 15. requests by the Canaveral North Association and Brookhaven and start right in on his experiment. The floor was open to discussion and after a the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship for a flat At present, Brookhaven employs some 450 few questions, it was moved by Herb Canaway sum of $100 and $200, respectively, were voted staff scientists and about 800 visiting scientists, that the Assembly consider each request down by the Assembly after much discussion. It one of which will act as an advisor during a individually and vote on it, the motion was passed. was felt that the CNA had too limited a student's stay at the Lab. Among the many At first, there were few objections; Herb membership to allow this money; a motion was facilities which Brookhaven has to offer are: one Canaway moved during the discussion of the C.A. later made that the CNA be granted $75. this also of the most powerful particle accelerators in the Special Fund, that point 4 be struck from the was voted down by the Assembly. Herb Canaway world, a hydrogen bubble chamber, a three story recommendation since any impetus for change in objected to a budget be given to the IVCF in order Van de Graaf generator, an advanced research an organization's constitution must come from for them to bring up a speaker; he felt that this hospital, and a neutrino observatory. that organization. His motion was passed. would be supporting a denominational cause, "I think research is vital and each student Objections were then heard concerning the Christianity, and therefore, was not valid. should have one big research project before increase for the Garnet, some of the members felt Other organizations did ask for an increase and graduation," comments Dr. Price. "This is an it was unnecessary and since the Gamer had not their requests were passed by the Assembly. experience valuable in all areas, not only science." been published last year, it was felt that they had Since it was getting late, the rest of the new Students interested in the possibility of not yet proven themselves. However, most of the business of the Assembly was tabled; there was working at Brookhaven during short term should Assembly was in a st'!! generous mood, and the one more attempt, by Kantaya Kantharupan, to see one of the science department chairmen. increase was granted. get money for men's side of campus. He moved Some objections and discussion was held on the that $812 be allocated to men's dorms, respective budget increases of the R.A. and WRJR, but both of population, to be used at the discretion of the were passed by the Assembly. dorm. This motion was defeated by a 17-15 vote. One of the major objections to the R.A. The Assembly then adjourned until after recommendations was the failure to budget any Thanksgiving vacation. .More on page 4 money to Men's Magazines. Karen informed the Budget Assembly that no budget had been received for this until past the deadline and also there was the feeling that in the large dorms especially, many of the men do not even see the magazines because they are ripped off. However, it was felt by Wayne Lester that this was not the case and that should be given some money in order to buy subscriptions. Also it was thought there was no reason why the small dorms, where this does seem to be a problem, should be punished. A motion was made that the funds be reinstated in order to buy magazines for the men's dorms it was voted down by the Assembly and the Budget Committee's recommendation was accepted. It was felt that if a men's dorm wished to buy magazines, they could petition one of the organizations, such as the R.A. for the funds. Due to this hassle over funds for men's dorms, when Women's Council's request came up. there were objections made to it. although WOCO had budgeted a decrease, (the only organization to do so). The situation became a little ridiculous when it was moved that $812 which was the amount denied to the purchase of Men's Magazines, be subtracted from WOCO and given to men's dorms. lo« EDITORIALS dating game letter This past weekend the Bates social event took place. Period. Think about it, because it's true. There are those who spend hours extolling the virtues and vices of Sadie; they have in the past and they do now, but every single person who does misses (he point. Whether to the editor you feel Sadie is worthwhile or not begs the issue. The fact is that it exists and that its existence is a symptomatic manifestation of a more important problem that is largely ignored by Sunday afternoon or, if not forgotten, elicits reflections like "Gee, I can't wait till Sadie next year." That problem being that unless the vast majority of students on this campus have an excuse to go out and have a good time meeting new people, weekend events go largely unattended. This is unfortunate since it was quite obvious from the stage To the Editor: Saturday night that aside from a few lifeless forms prone on the floor, that a good time was had by all. But In last week's Student, Val Smith quoted Dr. under what conditions? Is the only way to pack the gym with Batesies to participate in an annually planned Turlish as saying "I would have more faith in the and regimented institution which brings paranoid deans and the whole (count him) campus security force evaluation of a colleage than of a student. The to commons and where everyone forgets what happened the day after? student is more responsive to qualities peripheral It is here that the perversity of Sadie lies, not in the event itself but in its relation, in terms of to a professor's real worth, for example, participation, to the rest of Bates social life, i.e., it stands alone. The immediate retort to the above is that enthusiasm or camaraderie." Furthermore. Dr. there is no social life at Bates. This is true only in part. The other half of the story is that it seems that Turlish was credited with saying the student would Bates students feel one cannot go out (or be seen out) without a date. Why is it that any dance held after be more apt to make an evaluation a reward for a Sadie is unsuccessful? Because too many students are averse to going out singly not realizing the possibility good mark or a vendetta for a bad one. of meeting people at the event. Even the Page keg parties are successful only because the Batesie couples In my mind these comments are nearly come out in force.