Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 5-3-1961 The aB tes Student - volume 87 number 24 - May 3, 1961 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 87 number 24 - May 3, 1961" (1961). The Bates Student. 1374. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1374 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]. 1 ■ Hates Student I Vol. LXXXVII. No. 24 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON. MAINE, MAY 3, 1961 By Subscription Students Offer he] Schedule ID Photographs Rob Players Present *cl Law Day Rally, an Uphold CD Alert For Wednesday Morning Shakespearean Play Md To: The Men's Assembly On Monday, May 1st, at 4:30 ■sc and !he campus witnessed a "Peace •N To: Women's Student Government Association ioi through Preparedness" rally in I elebration of Law Day. The On May 10, 1961. a professional photographer will be on (ommittee that planned this campus to take pictures for the Student Identification Cards. ou demonstration consisted of Neil All freshmen, sophomores and juniors are requested to re- Newman '61, Parker Marden '61, port to the Alumni Gymnasium lobby at the time assigned William Wheeler '61, Richard El- to them. Lists were made out by the Student Government ne lis '61, Alan Schwartz '61, and thd Charles Robbins '61. and the Student Council, according to each individual's class tc) Newman read a statement schedule on Wednesday. As the lists are intended to be the On which has been released to the most convenient for the student and for the photographer, press. This statement explained there shall be no switching of times. the purpose of the Law Day Lists Appointments demonstration and stated that times. As there is a rather tight those demonstrating against Civil Photographing shall begin at schedule for pictures, each stu- Defense were a "small minority" 9:00 a. m. sharp in the Purinton dent must be present at the of Bates students. Room at the gym. Bring ball- time listed. point pens to sign your cards. d Sing Songs The men are requested to wear To insure the success of this rh Richard G. Parker '62 lead the coats and ties, and the women program each student must give tut his full cooperation, as it is a assembled students in the singing shovld wear something that will A scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream is posed by d of several songs, including the photograph well, also. Each in- project for the benefit of the stu- 41 Peace Through Preparedness" dents. six lovely members of the cast. i I dividual student will receive an song to the tune of America the appointment card in his mail-box Thank you for your coopera- On May 4, 5, and 6, the Robinson Players will present one I'. Beautiful with words written by with the half-hour interval in tion. of Shakespeare's earlier plays — A Midsummer Night's Diane Lynch '61. which he should report. Lists will Kathy Marshall, James Carignan, President of be posted at various points on President of Stu-G Dream. The play, a light, semi-fantasy turns on three spokes, the Senior Class, read a state- the campus; please check list- Robin Scofield, the hub of which is mis-directed love. The cast of the play (Continued on page three) ings to confirm appointment President of Stu-C is as follows: Lysander, F.« Channing Wagg, 3rd, '61; Deme- that. From the sprightly fun of trius, Dick Workman '64; The- Puck to the frantic escapes of Bates Stu-G Hosts seus, Richard Jeter '63; Egeus, Demitrius from Helena every- John Strassburger '64; Peter one acts as people naturally act. Quince, Lorn Harvey '63; Snug, As the plot twists around, Area Conference; Richmond Talbot '62; Nick Bot- making Lysander, under the in- tom. Carl Nordhal '61 and John fluence of the potion, forsake his Plans Activities K. Worden '62; Francis Flute, true love, Hermia, for Helena, Richard Rottenberg '64; Tom and Demitrius, also bewitched At the weekly meeting of Snout. Don Morton '62; Robin by the potion, forget Hermia for Stu-G, on Wednesday, April 26, Starveling, Richard Walker '64; Helena the action becomes in- final plans were made for the Hippolyta. Rosalind McCullough; tense. It culminates in a fight annual conference of the New Hermia, Ann Stecker '61 and scene that doubles into open England Women's Student Gov- Carol Sisson '61; Helena, Gretch- hostility between Helena and ernment Association. This year, rn Rauch '61 and Marianne Hermia as well as Demitrius and the conference is being held at Bickford '62; Oberon. Douglas Lysander. This instability of Bates on May 5, 6, and 7. The Rowe '61 and Nils Holt '64; young love draws forth Puck's association consists of ten New Titania. Judith Mosman '63; comment, "Lord, what fools England colleges. Each of the fol- Puck. Holly Milius '63; four these mortals be." "Naught Shall Go 111" lowing are sending three repre- fairies, Joanne Star '64, Carol sentatives: University of Con- Johnson '64, Lee Nelson '63, and All ends well, however; Ober- necticut. University of Massachu- Susan Jones '63; Stage Manager on directs the removal of the po- Students in foreground march in protest to group in rear setts, University of Maine, Uni- tion's effects, and the lovers which opposes U. S. Civil Defense measures. and Builder, Robert Engstrom versity of New Hampshire, Uni- '61; Prompter, Sally Carroll '62. again unite. Lysander once again versity of Rhode Island, Colby, Miss Lavinia Schaeffer is direct- loves Hermia, and Demitrius and Middlebury. ing the play with the assistance loves Helena under Puck's now Bates Group Objects To Attend Banquet And Play of Judith Kestila '63 and Judith benign, "Jack shall have Jill, and The program on Friday, May Outten '63. nought shall go ill." The audi- 5, will consist of registration and ence is left with a strange feel- Civil Defense Exercise In the play the young lovers, a banquet at the Women's Union, ing. It is as though something By NORMAN GILLESPIE '64 Demitrius, Helena, Lysander and at which Mrs. Chase G Wood- strange had passed, had ended Hermia; the King and Queen of On last Friday, at 4:00 p. m., while the rest of the nation house, Director of the Service happily, but left a trace of sad- the Fairies — Oberon and Ti- was involved in a Civil Defense alert, two groups of Bates Bureau of Women's Organiza- ness, and a lingering memory of tania, and finally a group of tions, will speak. Following this, something gentle in the heart. students marched with placards and distributed literature. Athenian workmen, all strive they will attend the play in the This action was carried on, on the one hand, by a campus earnestly toward a goal, and in Little Theater. A Bates trustee and for- group on non-violence and on the other, by four students who the end they achieve it. Saturday morning, group dis- mer Governor of Maine died All the equipage for such a di- were defending the present system of Civil Defense. cussions will be held, and in the on Monday. May Id in lemma as mis-directed love is The following is taken from. fense are creating the impression afternoon the deans from the Springfield. Mass. Governor present. Hermia's harsh, stub- t h e mimeographed statement | that survival in a nuclear war is visiting colleges will be present Carl E. Milliken had been a born father who wants her to which was distributed by for other discussions. Speaking trustee of the college since the thinkable and possible after all, marry Demitrius, the man she non-violence group in an effort and that we can still absorb at this meeting will be Miss 1915. He graduated from doesn't love; Oberon's love po- to explain their opposition to the blow and counterblow, if worst Terry Gavlin, from San Jose, Bates in 1897 and received tion for Titania, which Puck puts Civil Defense setup. "Persons California, who is a representa- his masters degree from Har- comes to worst." on the wrong person; all of this advocating civil defense mea- The other four students who tive of the Regional Women's vard in 1899. Milliken had is inter-woven with the plot, sures are deluding themselves were picketing in front of the li- Student Government Association. taught chemistry at Bates, now* aiding it, now directing it. and giving rise to false hopes on brary, were doing so in opposi- After the meeting there will be and been active in state poli- the part of the American citi- tion to the non-violence move- a tour of the campus. Mrs. Lobe, Naturalness Pervades tics. He was governor of zens. They are diverting valuable ment and in defense of the pres- from Waterville, will be the But there is more than delight- Maine from 1917 to 1921. He attention and effort from the real ent Civil Defense setup. Their speaker at the Saturday night ful fantasy in A Midsummer was concerned with the cen- problem, which is not how to feeling seemed to be that in view banquet. Night's Dream. There are peo- sorship of motion pictures, survive a nuclear attack but of the present world situation, Announce Advisors ple who act naturally as people as secretary of the Motion how to prevent it.