Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 1-12-1966 The aB tes Student - volume 92 number 12 - January 12, 1966 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 92 number 12 - January 12, 1966" (1966). The Bates Student. 1496. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1496 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]. is- "Bates Student Vol. XCII, No. 12 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, JANUARY 12, 1966 By Subscription SENATE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT PHILLIPS QUESTIONS PREXY TO RETIRE IN '67 President Phillips was approached recently by a Senate Committee formed "to fathom out the truth and Dr. Charles F. Phillips, President of Bates College since 1944, has informed the Trustees the consequences of the 4/3 plan." In a series of con- that he wishes to retire on January 1, 1967. Upon his retirement, Di: Phillips will become ferences, the committee discussed with the President president emeritus. the origin of the finances and the future of the third "By 1967,"' said Dr. Phillips, "Mrs. Phillips and I will be in our twenty-third year on the term at Bates College. Bates campus. They have been extremely hap py years because of the cooperation of Bates By David Riese '68 the other two semesters." The students, faculty, alumni, trustees, and friends of the College. In fact, in retiring from the Two questions were the tuition for these students will Presidency of Bates, we leave what both of us feel is one of the 'best assignments in the basis of the meetings. 1) Why be paid from the college fund world.' has there been a tuition raise which is the sum of the inter- "However, for the years just ahead we wish to free ourselves from administrative work of $150 for all students? 2) est from the endowment fund to carry out other plans. By publicly announcing our intention now, the Trustees will have Where do the finances for the and the gifts to the college. ample time to appoint a successor before we leave the campus." third term, especially the sal- This fund is used at the dis- Trustees Informed aries of the professors, come cretion of the President and Several Months Ago from? the Trustees for the facilities Although today's announce- In reply to the first ques- and programs that they deem CARNIVAL PRESENTS ment is the first public state- tion, the President said that in "an improvement in the eco- ment of President Phillips' 1958 the Board of Trustees "in- nomic and educational struc- forthcoming retirement, the stituted a plan whereby the ture of Bates." They believe in FOUR-DAY FESTIVAL Trustee Executive Committee tuition at Bates would in- the 4/3 Option, and by using was informed of his decision crease $150 every other year the college fund to support several months ago. due to the inflationary poli- this third term, they are en- "In fact," continued Dr. cies of the country and in an couraging its ultimate success. Phillips, "our original goal effort to improve the college." "The using of this fund for the I! was to retire at the end of The tuition will not be raised third term is not one which twenty years at Bates, that is, if "the increase it not needed takes money from the four in 1964. However, at that time, to maintain Bates at the de- year student's pocket." The the College was deeply in- sired level." One will find four year students are paying volved in establishing a pro- similar policies at comparable for four years of education; gram to extend the college institutions in the United they are paying for the tuition year. Now that this new pro- \ States. This tuition policy has of no one else. gram is in effect, we can pro- no connection with the intro- Besides these questions of ceed with our earlier personal duction of the 4/3 option. finance, the committee, com- plans." College Fund Being Used posed of Laurence Brown '66 Future Plans To the question of who pays and Alan Lewis, '67, is con- Dr. Phillips said that he for the third term, Dr. Phil- cerned with more fundament- wishes to devote more of his lips gave the committee the al issues of the future of the time to business directorships following answer. "The col- college. A letter from the Members of the Carnival Court are Penny Brown, Nancy and in serving as economic lege is charging the students committee will be sent to the Muzio, Carol Sue Stuzman, Sally Utz, Betty Bogdanski, Karen consultant to various firms who stay on for the third term President and the Administra- Hastie, and Mary Ellen Keenan. and organizations. He will a Room and Board charge on tion stating "that the student continue to lecture and speak the some scale as is used for Con't. Pg. 5/Col. 1 "The College Inn" will pro- the day. The price of $7.50 in- throughout the country. His vide the theme for Winter Car- cludes transportation, a box textbooks on the economics of nival, 1966 beginning Thurs- lunch, use of the lifts all day, marketing and retailing, now day evening, January 20th. the run of the ski lodge facili- used in more than 650 col- GAFFNEY TO GIVE In past years Winter Carni- ties, and dinner in the eve- leges and universities, call for val has been accompanied ning at the lodge. Ticket sales more of his time as frequent notably by final exams and end tonight revisions are necessary. Al- SCIENCE LECTURE Snow sculptures are due to the January Thaw. Planning Con't. Pg. 2/Col. 3 General missile and space cuss job opportunies in the the weather may prove to be appear in the next week. The systems will be the subject of missile and space systems beyond the reach of the Out- pairing of men's and women's a lecture to be presented by field. ing Club, but the new school dorms has resulted in seven COMING EVENTS Mr. John Gaffney of the Ray- Mr. Gaffney received his calendar predictably leaver a teams, each of which can be theon Company on Tuesday, B.S. degree in physics from large number of people on expected to produce an artis- Jan. 13: January 18, at 7:30 P.M. in 214 Bates in 1948 and his M.S. in campus for Carnival this year. tic masterpiece from snow and Senate meeting 6:15 p.m. Carnegie. The lecture, which physics from the University of The Carnival-goer will find slush. A $25.00 prize awaits Freshman Prize Speaking in is being sponsored by the Notre Dame in 1950. He has before him a continuous flow the winners at the Saturday The Filene Room, 7:00 p.m. Bates student section of the done research in low tempera- of events from which he may morning judging. Folk Sing in The Co-ed American Institute of Physics, ture solid state physics at the choose. On Saturday afternoon there Lounge, 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. is open to the public. Naval Research Laboratory, Carnival gets underway will be a hockey game at the Jan. 14: Mr. Gaffney's lecture will Washington, D. C. and has Thursday evening, January Youth Center featuring the Basketball with Assumption, be supplemented by slides conducted studies pertaining 20th at 6:30 with the crowning unique talents of the Bates 6:15 and 8:15 p.m. and a film. He will also dis- to semi-conductor device fa- of the Queen on Lake An- Hockey Club. A banquet in Jan. 15: brication at the IBM Product drews, followed closely by a the evening will set the mood Basketball with Maine, 6:15 Development Laboratory. gargantuan bonfire on the ice. for the Gala Carnival Ball at and 8:15 p.m. BOSTON SYMPHONY From 1959 to the present, Mr. A series of sleigh-hayrides 8:00. This year's ball will be Track at K. of C. in Boston. Gaffney has been employed will continue through to 11:00. a semi-formal dance replete Graduate Record Exams in The tickets for the Boston by the Raytheon Company as In the meantime, a rock-and- with orchestra and elaborate The Filene Room, 8 a.m. to 5 Symphony Orchestra will con- Senior Engineer and Manager roll dance will begin in Chase decoration. After the Ball cou- p.m. tinue to be sold for $3.00 in of the Reliability Analysis Hall at 8:00. "Cat on a Hot ples may relax at the mid- Jan. 16: the supper lines this week. Laboratory. He is a member Tin Roof" will be shown in night soiree in Chase Hall. Chapel at 7 p.m. Dr. Brown The orchestra will perform on of the Instiute of Electronic the Little Theater at 7:00 and Sunday begins with a Chap- will speak on "Fake Unmask- January 24. It will not be and Electrical Engineers and 9:00. el service at 10:00 a.m., fol- ed." worth hiring a bus for trans- the American Physical So- Friday will be spent at the lowed in the afternoon by the Jan. 19: portation to Portland If more ciety. Sunday River Ski area, and performance of Ian and Syl- Vespers, 9:00 pjn.