Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 4-17-1963 The aB tes Student - volume 89 number 23 - April 17, 1963 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 89 number 23 - April 17, 1963" (1963). The Bates Student. 1430. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1430 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]. Hates Stuknt Vol. LXXXIX, No. 23 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE. APRIL 17, 1963 By Subscription Loomer Outlines Relation Committee Reviews Healymester Of Religion To Colleges Dr. Bernard M. Loomer will Plan For Accelerated Education speak on "Religion and Higher The original plan for a trimester system at Bates, which would have involved year- Education" in the Filene Room, April 24, at 8:00 p.m. round operation, has been temporarily tabled, according to Dr. Garold W. Thumm, head of the Social Sciences Department and member of the special committee to consider acceler- Dr. Loomer, a Bates graduate (class of '34), is a member ed education. While this plan has not been totally rejected, no action is being taken on of the American Theological it at the present time. Society, an Honorary Fellow • Now being considered by the in the National Council of committee is a new Religion in Higher Educa- Donovan Cites Age Of Paradox plan that would involve a tion, a member of the lengthening of the school year, Civil Liberties Union, and a That Divides American Economy but would not necessitate oper- member of the National Associ- Dr. John C. Donovan. Special the poverty-stricken. This mass ation of the school during the ation for the Advancement of Assistant to the U.S. Secretary poverty is invisible to most of entire summer. Essentially this Colored People. In 1954. he was of Labor and a Bates graduate, us, since we have had little is the new plan: elected an honorary member of spoke in chapel last Friday. contact with the urban slums Incoming freshmen would re- Phi Beta Kappa in the Bates Dr. Donovan expressed the where this population lives. port to Bates approximately at College Chapter. hope that each Bates student is This "other" America con- the beginning of August for Silver Ail-American "sharpening a critical intelli- cerns us directly. Thirteen per freshman orientation. The re- As an undergraduate at Bates, gence" to deal with what he cent of those within the fourteen turn of upperclassmen around Dr. Loomer played football for termed an "Age of Paradox". to nineteen-year-old age group Labor Day would mark the be- four years and received his let- According to Dr. Donovan, are its citizens. These people ginning of the first term. The term would end in the middle ter in the fall of 1933. He was the paradox of the U.S. economy are unemployed. The unemploy- also on the wrestling team, is a hidden contradiction. One of ment rate among colored people of December and would be fol- lution. In 1945, he became Dean lowed by a vacation ending ap- hockey team, the Athletic Coun- of the University of Chicago Di- the few indications of its of the same age is even higher proximately the second week in cil, the YMCA board, and was presence can be found in mili- — twenty-one per cent. Each vinity School and later became January when the second term an active debator. In 1958, Dr. Dean of the Federated Theologi- tary service statistics. Thirty- year several hundred thousand would begin. Loomer was selected for the cal Faculty, composed of three eight per cent of those who ap- youths join the ranks of the Sports Illustrated Silver Anni- seminaries and the University of ply for participation in military permently unemployed — to "Healymester" versary All-American football Chicago. In 1954, he resigned his service are rejected because face life-long unemployment. The second term would end in team. the middle of April, to be fol- administrative positions to de- they arc illiterate. Thirteen per Indignation Necessary lowed by spring vacation. A Following his graduation from vote full time to teaching. He cent of these men are high Yet, last month this country Bates, Dr. Loomer worked for has also taught part-time at school graduates. These men will expressed optimism when the third term, or "Healymester," would run from the beginning one year as an insurance ad- Knox College in Galesburg, Illi- experience great difficulty in unemployment rate dropped of May to June 25. As this plan juster and loan investigator for nois. He enjoys his work very finding employment of any from 6.1% to 5.6% of the popu- the Household Finance Corpora- much and comments, "I love to kind; and they are not alone in lation, while Englishmen is only in the discussion stage, the dates cited are approximate tion in New York City. In 1935, teach and I owe a great debt to their plight. Fully one sixth of marched against the House of he began graduate study at the students." the population is impoverished. Commons, indignant with their and cannot be stated as being University of Chicago and was r the calendar to be followed in Books Cited Two Americas unemployment rate of 3 j! To the event the plan were to go later ordained into the Christian Dr. Loomer's books are en- There are two Americas. One «olve the unemployment prob- ministry. He received a Ph.D. into effect. titled Integrity, Community and America is composed of the lem, U.S. citizens must become degree in 1942. Education and The Structure of comfortable families from which indignant. Among the points of the plan being discussed is whether or He served as a member of the the Christian Faith. He is pres- most Bates students come. The This newest challenge to faculty of the Chicago Divinity ently doing a great deal of lec- "other" America is a country of Americans is within our own not attendance during the third School and was named the first term would be optional or re- turing in colleges and universi- country, the challenge of finding Dean of Students at that insti- ties throughout the country. more jobs, of resolving, as Dr. quired. If it were to be option- al, students could take a regu- NSF Awards Bechtel Donovan stated it, "the problem Summer Study Grant of individual survival in a very lar course load of five courses Orators Share Contest Awards; complacent era." for two terms or a reduced Leland P. Bechtel. Instructor After his talk, Dr. Donovan course load for three terms. in Psychology at Bates College, Conceivably a student could Frosh Debators Sweep At Colby answered some questions con- has been awarded a grant by the attend all three terms with a The Bates Oratorical Contest, practice tourney held at Colby cerning the Youth Employment National Science Foundation to full schedule of courses and held in the Little Theatre on the on April twelfth. The topic of Act. (See last weeks STU- attend a summer institute in DENT.) graduate early. This would be a evening of April eleventh, was debate was: "Resolved, that the Contemporary Scientific Psy- third option under this plan. Racial Discrimination won by Robert Ahem '64, who non-Communist nations should chology for collegiate under- Question: The bill as it stands Faculty Position graduate teachers of psychology spoke on Capital Punishment. form an economic community." contains no amendments con- Also being discussed is at Beloit College, Beloit, Wis- Howard Blum '63, took second The affirmative team was com- cerning racial discrimination. whether this third term would consin. place for his speech on Ameri- posed of Roy Horwitz and Max Why is this? be optional or compulsory for The six week institute is in- both students and professors. canism. Judith Mosman '63, Steinheimer. The negative team Dr. Donovan: "This amend- tended to acquaint the partici- This is a major point of the spoke on Babbitry and placed was composed of George Strait ment is not included in the lan- pants with the latest develop- guage of the bill, because the plan and one of many which has third. The judges were Dean and Richard Rosenblatt. As this ments in their fields of special bill would not pass if it were. the committee divided. There is Emeritus Rowe, Professor Whit- was a practice tourney, critical interest and will feature speak- We mu,st rely on the good will some question as to whether any beck, and Professor Quimby. evaluations were substitued for ers, reports on researeh projects, of the pepple who administer changes to be made should be and discussions of mutual prob- Prizes awarded were $40, $25, total scores. Both of these teams (Continued on page four) minimal or substantial. lems relating to the teaching of and $15 for first, second, and will compete in a debate tour- An example of what the com- psychology on the college level. "COLLEGIATE SOUND" mittee is faced with can be seen third places respectively. ney at Dartmouth on April Mr. Bechetel will be one of twenty-seventh. This Saturday night. April in the question of the teaching Two freshman teams competed thirty participants selected from 20, the Merimanders, Deans- load of the faculty under such a with Colby, Bowdoin, and the Henry W. Oakes Contest colleges and universities in the men and the Student Coun- new_ plan.