"Up until now," Ms. Spitz noted, "students attending Maine colleges have routinely been denied their constitutional right to register and to vote in their campus communities. In the 1972 Presidential election, many students across Maine were unable to vote because local officials refused to register them. And, as recently as February of this year, students attending Colby, UMO and Ricker College were Stand still being denied these rights." "In the past there has been a presumption that College students were not residents of their Up college communities. Jn order to overcome this presumption students have had to prove their intent to remain permanently in their college and community after graduation , prove they paid property taxes and show other things which Be Coun ted non-students were never asked to prove. Recent Maine college students will no longer be federal court decisions have stated that this denied the right to vote in their college comm unities, places an unconstitutional burden on students due to action taken by the Public Interest and denies them equal protection of the law." Research Group (PIRG). Ms. Spitz noted that, "in response to PIRG's PIRG's Executive Director, Suzanne Spitz, memorandum and request, the Secretary of State announced that, in response to a PIRG legal has, this week, issued specific guidelines document- mem orandum and request, Secretary of State ing the right of students to vote in their campus Joseph Edgar and Attorney General Jon Lund communities if they are have issued specific guidelines outlining the 1) at least 18 years of age right of Maine college students to register to 2) a U. S. citizen vote in their campus communities. 3) claim their college community as their sole residence. The guidelines also state that a student: 1) does NOT have to have claimed that residence for any specific period of time before registering 2) does NOT have to intend to remain l l colb y echo permanently in the community LXI 3) can NOT be denied the right to vote COLBY COLLEGE WATERVI LLE . MAINE %,% ,„ ?• " even if he or she intends to leave the community ^ at a fixed time in the future 4) can NOT be denied the right to vote Lotsa even if he or she lives on campus rather than off campus. The guidelines note that there are severe penalties Luck for dual registration which assure the continued The new editors of the Colby Echo for the fall integrity of Maine voting processes." semester have been chosen. Heading the editorial "Copies of these guidelines are being distributed staff , in alphabetical order, of course, will be Doug by the Secretary of State's office to every Registrar Endreson , also known as "Chief," a junior American and Board of Voting Registration in Maine," "In Studies major from Wisconsin; Roger Hatch , a addition," Ms. Spitz stated, "PIRG is distributing junior majoring in psychology from E. Greenwich , copies to the President of the Student Body, Rhode Island and Cornelia McMonegal, a first-sem- the Campus Newspaper and the Dean of Students ester senior from Nyack, New York, majoring in at every college and university in Maine. We English. Their collective interests run from music are, in turn , asking these people to distribute (Roger) sports (Chief) and "Miscellaneous" (Nealy). copies of these guidelines to all students." All admit to being quite befuddled when accepting ************************* * the posts but, after much sleep and a nice, long sum- Copy of guidelines issued by Secretary of State . mer vacation , they should be able to slug it out For more information , contact: Suzanne Spitz, with all the college big-wigs and represent the "best" Executive Director PIRG , 2 Stone Street, Augusta, interests of the students. Without any further a-do, Maine 04330 or phone 622-9411. bring on the dancing girls. Saturday Nit e Makin g Math Palatable at the Mov ies An expert in the fields of m athematics, computer science and operations research will present a mathe- Among the festivities at this Saturday 's Camp matics seminar at Colby College on Tuesday (May 7) Colby Carnival will be two fabulous flicks from the Shen Lin , researcher on the technical staff of Bell forties. Coming to you at four o'clock that afternoon Laboratories in Murray Hill , N. J., will speak at will be Joan Crawford in the 1945 thriller "Mildred 7 p.m. in Lovejoy Auditorium on "Training in Mathe- Pierce." On the screen that evening at seven o'clock matics for the Nonmathematician. " will be Gregory Peck in the 1949 war drama "Twelve He is the last of fou r visiting lecturers to visit O'clock High." A cartoon, Elmer Fudd in "Hardship Cblby this semester under a General Electric Founda- of M iles Standish" will be shown with both flicks tion grant. "News Parade 1949" will be shown in the evening A native of Amoy, China, Lin taught at the Ohio only. Admission is free in the afternoon and fifty State University campuses in Columbus and Athens cents that night. Both showings will be in Lovejoy from 1956 to 1963 when he joined Bell Laboratories. 100. Whom Do You Trus t? Crawford won an Oscar for her portrayal of M il- Colby College trustee Arthur T. Thompson has dred Pierce, a self-made woman who spoils her only Welcome Home . been named by Boston University to head its over- daughter with all the luxuries she was deprived of as Professors Jon Hall and William Miller will lead a seas graduate programs. In view of his transfer to a child. Mildred is faced with somewhat of a dilem - symposium on loca l history. Instead of , our usual headquarters in Heidelberg, Thompson has resigned ma when "M ommy's little girl" disposes of a wealthy format, this will be a field trip. First, we will visit from the Colby board, playboy by murdering him. Peck plays the part of a the Waterville Historical Society where Dean Marri- Professor , of engineering and dean of the College hardnosed general who restores morale among an ner , the college historian , will discuss local history of Engineering at Boston University, Thompson American bomber group stationed in England during along with Drs. Hall and Miller. Following this, we graduated from Colby in 1940 and was awarded an World War II. The boys may not like him , but they will move on to some histori cal sites of interest. honorary doctor of science degree in 1969. He was do respect him. The group will assemble at 4:00, on Monday , named a trustee in 1970. All of this is brought to you by English 337d2, May 6, at the parking lot between Bixler and Phi In his new position at Boston University/Hie has Section A. Delt. the title of associate vice president. Secondly, the registrar's office seems to be in the midst of an elementary school syndrom e. Some of the students at Colby have had bad times at some point in their four years here and to circle the "F"s received is another indica- tion of the snobbery and carelessness of the administrative set-up. Are we really so infantile as to necessitate gold stars and red "F"s on our report cards? This might not seem so terribly momentous, but it is rather, a more specific example of the workings of the administration. Callousness has becom e the hall- mark of the Colby College policy makers. The antics of (it is time to name names) Dr. Strider, Dean Jenson, and Vice-President Pullen are saddening in their thoughtlessness and carelessness. It is absolutely unbelievable that the afore-m entioned (plus many more of their ilk) know anything at all about the Many of us will never see an official transcript of our four year's worth of student body. They are, quite simply, out of touch.and for those administra- work until three or four weeks before graduation. The registrar's office, for some tors who feel a terrible desire to coax and wheedle inform ation from students unknown reasons, sends out form letters translating the Latin inscription on the for their personal edification, theirs is a sorry state of affairs, indeed. If these B.A. degree and encloses an unofficial transcript for good measure. Do not be same men did not listen to student-backed opposition to nation-wide political fooled: that piece of paper is not only worthless but inaccurate for its form and issues (Vietnam) or community-based issues (120 credit hours, co-ed dorms), content differ remarkably from that other copy, signed, sealed and delivered to how in the world do they expect student cooperation in the form of spying and graduate and professional schools. The absurd truth is shocking and that the coercion? Perhaps the best indication of the total innanity of the administra- registrar would, in so doing, perpetuate such nonsense is beyond our keen. tive forces at this school is best exemplified by Ronny Williams, former execu- Firstly, if you have not gone on a junior year abroad program that is closely tive vice-president. He was once paraphrased thusly: "I wish the students would associated with Colby or the Colby-Caen progra m , your transcript will bear the leave so I could get on with the job of administering this school." notation: "Voluntary Withdrawal." This, alone, might not seem terribly harmful The insensitivity of the non-student population is, perhaps, reflected in the but, if an adm issions officer at a rather large university would glance at that no- apathy (what a loathsome word ) of the student body. Yet, how can one suc- tation, h is entire view of your academic experience is already colored.