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CONNCENSUS CONNECTICUT COLLEGE Vol. 49--No. 10 New London, Connecticut, Thursday, Deeember 5, 1963 Priee 10 e- Rustin to Keynote Conference; Zoology Dept. to Countryman to Deliver Speech Buy Equipmel).t Bayard Rustin, organizer and deputy marshal of the August 28 March on Washington will deliver the keynote address at the Con- With AEC Award necticut College Intercollegiate Civil Rights Conference this evening at 8 in Palmer Auditorium. A second Educational Equip- Mr. Rustin, an active worker in peace and civil rights for the past ment Assistance Grant within a twenty-five years, was formerly an advisor to Martin Luther King, year from the Atomic Energy Jr. He was the first field director of CORE and directed the Youth Commission will make possible Marches for integrated schools in Washington, D. C. in 1958 and the acquisition of ten new pieces 1959. of equipment for the radiation A conscientious objector, Mr. Rustin was a member of the Sahara laboratory in the department 01 Protest Team, a group which acted to protest the first French firing zoology at Connecticut College. of nuclear weapons. He is an Executive Committee Member of the With this recent award of World Peace Brigade and is presently Executive Secretary of the $5,040. the college will purchase War Resistors League. an industrial x-ray unit, a lead- Preceding the keynote address, Peter Countryman, a junior at lined inspection cabinet, ratemet- Yale University and founder and former executive secretary of the ers, recorders, and also an IS-vol- Northern Student Movement will deliver an address to the assem- ume set of Radiation Research. bly. Mr. Countryman founded NSM several years ago as a group The new equipment extends stu- "Marne" cast practices nightly. that was primarily devoted to raising money for the Student Non- dent res~arch opportunities and Violent Coordinating Committee and to conducting tutorial proj- facilities laboratory work con- ects for Negro students. The organization has grown in the last few nected with a course in radiation 'Auntie Marne' to Portray Life years and is now directed toward direct action projects in Negro biology established earlier this ghettos in many cities throughout the country. NSM is devoted not year through 'a prior AEC grant only to tutorial projects but to voter registration, housing, employ- Of Unconventional Sophisticate of $8,000. Connecticut College des- ment and other areas which present problems to the Negro in north- ignated additional money from its For its winter production Wig ern cities. l own funds to remodel and fur- Tonight's addresses are open to the students, faculty, and admin- Williams Glee Club and Candle will present Auntie ush the special rooms, storage istration of Connecticut College as well as to the public. xrame. This comedy in two acts, areas, and a dark-room for radio- To Sing With Choir written by Patrick Dennis and autography. adapted for the stage by Jerome Friday, December 6 In Advent Vespers Lawrence and Robert Lee, will be 6:00-8:00 p.m. Registration Crozier-Williams Aims of the radiation biology given in Palmer Auditorium on 8 :15 p.m, • Addresses by Peter Country- course, which is taught by Pro- Two first. performances of December 13, 14 at 8:00 p.m. Suo man and Bayard Rustin Palmer Auditorium fessor John F. Kent, chairman of works by contemporary Ameri- san Lates will play the title role Saturday, December 7 the zoology department, are to can composers and Bach's cele- of the off-beat New York sophis-. 8:00·9:00 a.m. Registration Crozier-Williams familiarize students with the safe brated Advent cantata "Wachet ticate who fights convention to 9 :15 a.m. •Addresses by William Higgs and intelligent use of radioactive auf" will be featured at the Ad- raise her young nephew on the and Wyatt Walker Palmer Auditorium isotopes, to study the effects of vent-Christmas vespers in Hark- principle that "life is a banquet 11:30-12:30 p.m. Workshops-first session Crozier-Williams radiations and radioactive mater- ness Chapel Sunday, Dec. 8, at ... LIVE!" In the supporting Fanning Hall ials on living organisms, and to 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. The Connecti- cast are found Ellen Corroon as 12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch Harris Refectory furnish a beginning knowledge of cut College Choir will be joined Agnes Gooch, Alice Cotsworth as 2 :00-3:30 p.m. Workshop-s-second session Crozier-Williams the uses of radioactive materials by the Williams College Glee Mother Burnside, Ginny Cham- I and Fanning Hall in medicines and biological re- Clulb in a concert of sacred mu- bers as Mrs. Upson, Missy Meig- 4:OQ p.m. Workshop Reports Palmer Auditorium search. sic appropriate to the season. han as Gloria Upson, Jerome An- 6:00 p.m. Banquet Harris Refectory Martha Alter, chairman of the Radiation Effects Studl"" dres as Babcock, Bob Rogers as Welcoming Address by department of music at Connect- After a basic training in the O'Bannicn, E...:--Wima.~<t.Scott as President Charles E. Shain icut College, is the composer of a use of radioactive isotopes and Ito, Pat G1fxon as ~: "'A!t Mul- Remarks by visitors from setting of Thomas Hardy's poem radiation counting equipmenf, doon, Anne Yellott xgegeen NAACP,SNCC,CORE,SCLC "The Oxen," which will be sung ,! students do experimental studies Ryan, Elaine DeSantis as Vera, 8;00 p.m. Film: "Danville, Va., June by the Connecticu t College Choir on the genetic and pathological Chuck Griffiths as Ralph Devine, 10, 1963" - Narrated by with James S. Dendy conducting effects of radiation. Kathleen Hudson as Sally Cato, William M. Kunstler Bill Hall 106 and' Chama Tenebaum '65 sing- Peter Desnoes as Patrick, Roger 9:30 p.m. Social and Folksinging ing the soprano solo. Special precautions are taken Christiansen as Young Patrick, Michael Meeropol Ross Lee Finney, a member of to keep track of the radiation dos- David' Bergamo as Cousin Jeff, Sunday, December 8 the music faculty at the Univer- ages received by persons using Susan Pettibone as Cousin Fanrr, 10:00 a.m. Student Panel Crozier-Williams sity of Michigan, was commis- the laboratory and to control the Jim Chase, as Mr. Upson, Carl Julian Houston-Northern sioned by the Williams College radioactive isotopes which are Denny as Beau, Bruce Einfeld as Studen t Movement Glee Club to set to music Albert 'used. The course is given in New Osbert, Joe Migliorato as the Lee Dunham Webb---Students for a Camus'''A Stranger to Mrself," London Hall, where fourth floor Paperhanger, Dave Bossert as the Democratic Society which will be conducted by Ken- Carl Wittman-Head of SNCC project rdoms have been outfitted to en- Floorwalker, Jamie Demetrops as neth Roberts, acting director of in Cambridge, Maryland sure maximum safety. the Groom, Charles Markharian 'the Williams group. Albert Smith-Worker with the as the Vet, Jack Curtis as Lind- Safety Measures Enforced Margaret Skarsgard, soprano, Mississippi Free Press sey, Hugh Birdsall as Michael, Admission to the laboratory is lJoyd Skarsgaard, baritone, and 11:00 a.m, Coffee and Doughnuts Crozier-Williams and Genie Dunn, Barbara Brod- restricted to students in the Margaret Wiles, violinist, will be • Open to the publid I sky. Buncie Morgan, Francie Win- course, instructors, and visitors the featured soloists in the Bach with special permission. Radio- cantata. Mr. Roberts will conduct field, Ada Morey. Louis DeNoUo, and Harvey Maisel. Widge Coch- active wastes are removed by a this work and Mr. Dendy will be commercial disposal service. at the organ. The cantata is ran is stage manager, Nancy Ste- Civil Rightists to Discuss phans is in charge of lights, Alice based on the Biblical theme of the Professor Kent emphasized Towill is head of the hand prop Non-Violence, Voting expectation and joy in looking that the installation is considered committee; Kathy Van Doorn, Workshops at the Civil Rights forward to the coming of Christ. a "lOW" Ievel ' laboratory," with costumes; Kathy Diehr, make-up: conference will be led by leaders It will be sung in Gennan. only small amounts of radioac- Ginger Haggerty, set props, Rob- at all the major civil rights or- The Connecticut College Or- tive materials in use at anyone in Richman, set coordination. ganizations in the country. Bay- chestra, ,Margaret Wiles conduct- time. He also said that experience In producing Auntie l\lame, ard Rustin, director of the March or, will be heard at the beginning has shown that students receive Wig and Candle hopes to gener- on Washington, will discuss non- of the program playing composi- but a fraction of one per cent of ate more enthusiasm for the dra- violence as a technique in the tions by Vaughan Williams and civil rights movement with the the dose permtsslble under feder- Schiassi. Jeanette Gross '64 will matic organizations on campus, al and state regulations. This play is one that is familiar members of his workshop groups. play an organ solo, Dupre's Varia- Wyatt Tee Walker will lead a Pfizer Uses I.ab tions on a Noel.