Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 10-17-1956 The aB tes Student - volume 83 number 04 - October 17, 1956 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 83 number 04 - October 17, 1956" (1956). The Bates Student. 1237. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1237 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]. 2? Hates Student Vol. LXXXIII, No. 4 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, OCTOBER 17, 1956 By Subscription WVBCLaunchesAnnualFundDrive Station Requests Student Support Girls Of Rand, Campaign Kickoff To Finance 1956-57 Broadcasts Whit Schedule Today is the first day of the WVBC fund-raising campaign. Parents' Event The Bates radio station, financed completely by student contributions, is asking each student to contribute $1, re- A new event has been added to the calendar this fall. The minding them that only so long as they support the station senior girls are entertaining can it continue to operate. their parents with a weekend at The first dorm to achieve 100 Plans are being made for the Bates, which will begin at noon per cent in donations by 12:15 installation of a telephone in the this Saturday with lunch in the p. m. tomorrow will receive a broadcasting station so that stu- Rand dining hall. long playing record, a bongo dents may phone in record re- Following lunch the girls and board, or a football. The boys' quests during the music pro- their parents will attend the and girls' dorms will compete grams. Bates-Middlebury football game, separately because of the differ- Broadcasts Campus News where seats will be reserved for ences in size. Besides broadcasting music, them. The mothers will be given Acquires Campus Facilities news, notices for student organi- flowers as favors to be worn at The Bates radio station origin- zations, and sports coverage, the game. ally had no facilities on campus. WVBC sponsors record hops in Partntt Meet Time was allowed for a fifteen conjunction with the Chase Hall A get-acquainted coffee is minute weekly show over WCOU Dance Committee. scheduled for after the game in in Lewiston. Then in 1951 WVBC Arrangements have been made the Women's Union. Giving the Bursar Norman Ross initiates WVBC fund drive by per- moved into its own headquar- this year for the relay of scores parents an opportunity to meet sonally contributing a $1 bill to station manager Alan Kaplan. ters in Chase Hall. from away games over the each other is one of the chief The completion of the second WVBC facilities. Periodic calls purposes of the weekend; at seniors will be guests at this Mirror section of Pettigrew Hall last from the site of the game keep Commencement they will enjoy concluding event. fall provided WVBC with new the station and the campus in- renewing acquaintances. Personal invitations have been There will be a short studios and control rooms. The formed on the progress of the In the evening slides taken in sent to every senior girl's par- meeting of students inter- improved facilities are at least event. Europe this summer will be ents. The committee making ar- ested in becoming members equal to those of the profession- (Continued on page two) shown in Rand gym by those rangements for Parents' Week- of the business staff of the al stations in surrounding com- girls who travelled with Dr. end are: Suzanne Manwell, Sal- yearbook at 8:30 p. m. to- I munities. Rayborn L. Zerby's group. ly Smith, Janet Allen, Arlene day in the Chase Hall Purchases New Equipment OC Elects New Members of the faculty who are Gardner, Marion Glennie and lounge. Those who are in- Recently the station spent associated most closely with Nancy Henson. terested but unable to at- over $100 on a transmitter which Members; Sta tes Also, Alice Hilterhaus, Barba- tend the meeting should was installed during the sum- Lending Policy 175 Frosh Support ra Prince, Judith Svirsky, Mar- contact David Rushefsky, mer. Two new turntables and garet TenBroeck, Margot Turitz, business manager, at 8 Gar- new records were also pur- Six students were chosen to Class Work Project and Norma Wells. celon; telephone 2-0043. chased. serve as members of the Out- In Lewiston-Auburn ing Club Council last Wednes- day. These new members, elect- As part of their orientation ed to fill vacated positions, were program the freshman class par- Dr. Skinner Outlines Scientific seniors, James Muth and Mar- ticipated in a "Work Day" last jorie Harbeck; juniors, Peter Saturday. With upperclass super- Reyersbach and William Taylor; vision the freshmen made this Techniques Regulating Behavior and sophomores, Lee Larson, "a spectacular work day," ac- David Harper, and Sylvia By Jim Bissland generally unpopular," Dr. Skin- ly, despite the vast quantity of cording to the Lewiston Even- Soehle. ner admitted. An example of controls they have already set ing Journal. Opening the George Colby Eleanor Peck and Anthony Chase lecture series in the this is the frightening picture of up for themselves. These various projects were Parinello, O C equipment direc- a controlled society, as painted designed to show appreciation Chapel last Thursday evening, Sees Value Of Science tors, emphasized the policy to be by Aldous Huxley in Brave New for a chicken barbecue given to Dr. Burrhus F. Skinner, pro- followed on the lending of Out- World. The Harvard professor "Science can do great things the freshmen by the local resi- fessor of psychology at Harvard ing Club equipment. Now, as in explained that faith in self- for mankind," Dr. Skinner stat- dents during Freshman Week. University, discussed "Science the past, those who borrow bicy- assertation is based upon our ed, "and we can fully achieve, Around 175 members of the and the Freedom of Man." cles, skis, and other sports gear, concept of a democratic society by controls, every aspect of ideal class left the college early in the "It is an inescapable fact," must deposit $1, to be refunded — democracy originally having democracy. If we reject what afternoon to help repair or im- stated Dr. Skinner, "that meth- when the equipment is returned. been a revolt against the con- science has to offer, and allow prove conditions at places in ods of science are being applied trols of autocracies. Yet at the it to fall into the hands of the Enforces Policy Lewiston and the surrounding more and more to human af- same time we allow ourselves to wrong political groups," he con- In case the item is not brought area. fairs." Eventually all human be- be highly controlled by clever cluded, "that will be the most back on time, there will be a Repair Roof havior will be brought under ignoble defeat of all." advertisers and propagandists. 25 cent fine for every day it is One group traveled to a home technological control, he said, overdue. This policy has not in Sabattus where they applied a and it is essential that we face Describes Techniques been enforced in the past; how- new shingle roof. The house be- the issue now. Dr. Skinner described three ever, since much of the equip- longed to a crippled man who areas of control generally un- ment has been lost or damaged, was physically unable to repair Explains Control Methods recognized as such by the pub- it is necessary to use this deposit the house himself and financial- Dr. Skinner went on to explain lic. "We pour on the praise," he and fine system to help defray ly unable to hire other workers the various methods of control said, telling how the group con- the expenses of replacing or re- to do the job. of human behavior with which trols us. Education also uses the pairing these items. At a farm in Poland several we are now familiar. Among technique of praise and blame, If the equipment is returned freshmen helped chop wood for these are the conditioned reflex, to the neglect of learning for damaged, the dollar deposit will (Continued on page three) emotional appeal, positive rein- forcement by reward or punish- its own sake. In government, too, be kept to help meet the cost of ment, and drugs. Continual re* controls are often disguised as repairs. By strictly enforcing this Notice search and testing are steadily reward systems. policy. OC hopes to have the equipment in better condition William Kelly, State De- widening our knowledge of such The speaker emphasized that than in the past and available to partment representative, is controls, he declared, adding the basic common criticism of a more people. on campus today to interview that the infamous reputation ac- Utopia, as described in his novel, Lends Sports Gear students interested in career quired by "brainwashing" is Walden Two. is that "someone The equipment room will be opportunities in the United somewhat undeserved, for such planned it that way." Men have States Foreign Service. Ap- a technique employs few meth- open every Monday, Wednesday, established a dislike for obvious and Friday from 4-5 p. m. Ev- pointments should be made ods that have not been known planning and control, and con- through the Guidance and for centuries. eryone is invited to use the bi- tinue to hinder scientific re- cycles, sleeping bags and other Placement Office. "All techniques of control are search on the problem, ironical- Dr.