Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 3-6-1963 The aB tes Student - volume 89 number 19 - March 6, 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 19 - March 6, 1963" (1963). The Bates Student. 1426. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1426 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]. 133 Hates Student Vol. LXXXIX, No. 19 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE. MARCH 6, 1963 By Subscription Robert Lanz Chosen As C- A. Invites Director Of Student Business Mgr. Of Student Robert Lanz '65 will succeed Stephen Barron '64 as busi- Civil Rights Action As Speaker ness manager of the STUDENT, the Publishing Association Peter Countryman, executive director of the Northern Student Movement, will speak announced Wednesday. on the student civil rights movement, this Monday at 8 p. m. in the Filene Room, under An economics major from the auspices of the Christian Association. Mr. Countryman will also speak that morning Rockville, Conn., Lanz held the in Chapel. post of STUDENT advertising Countryman heads the national staff of the Northern Student Movement (NSM) office in manager this year, and has been a staff member since his fresh- New Haven. Under ordinary circumstances, he would have been a senior at Yale this man year. year, studying philosophy. With the rest of NSM's staff, however, he has interrupted his In addition to his newspaper education to work for this movement, whose main objective is to get Northern students work he is a member of the to lead the attack against prejudice and discrimination in the North. varsity basketball and baseball ~~« The Northern Student Move- the largest and most successful teams, and was the varsity soc- ment originated at a conference being in Philadelphia, Pa. There, cer team's leading scorer this Passive" Audience to raise funds for the Freedom a group of 22 college students fall. He is also an active mem- Listens To Niehaus Riders sponsored by the New lived in the Negro community, ber of the Economics Club. England Student Christian Move- held jobs and administered an Despite the increased responsi- Dr. Charles R, Niehaus, as last ment (SCM) in June, 1961. educational program for high bilities of his new Student Friday's chapel speaker, ad- A committee was formed to in- school students from the com- position, he hopes to be able to dressed the assembly on the vestigate the possibility of cre- munity. continue all these activities. problem of education: what it ating a Northern student civil Philadelphia Program Lanz first became interested should mean to the student as rights movement. Cooperation for the tutorial in newspaper work at Deerfield well as to those who, by its em- The following October, repre- program was obtained from the Academy where he was a mem- ployment, attempt to reveal the sentatives from 20 colleges gath- Philadelphia school board, in the ber of the student newspaper. student unto himself. ered in New Haven, Conn., at form of publicizing the project There he developed a real in- "Too many students come to the committee's invitation to in the five high schools in the terest in newspaper business just been given on the STUDENT college mainly to receive an ed- adopt a structure and a general Negro community. Support also management, which has made staff. After college, he hopes to ucation rather than to get an program. The movement was was given by several local him aspire to the post he has go into some field of advertising. education," Dr. Niehaus stated. then publicized through the churches and youth groups. In As a result, they spend much of SCM and the National Student addition to the original groups of their time waiting for it to come Association, and a full-time staff tutors, 175 more were enlisted, Final Candidates Vie to them and in so doing com- began operating out of offices at mainly from the summer schools mit the fateful sin of passivity. Yale University. at Temple University and the The accumulation of facts is an Supports Southern Program University of Pennsylvania. For 1963-64 Positions integral part of the educational In its first year NSM worked Each tutor met with two to process, but if the process ends Nominations for Final Secretary to provide support for the South- four students for an hour and a here so does education. The es- Linda Glazer ern student movement and to de- half a day, twice a week. Sub- All-Campus Elections, March II sence of a full education is the Linda Pike velop programs relating to the jects were history, math, lan- Student Council active process of making these Treasurer Northern civil rights problems. guages and English. Since the Senior Representatives, facts meaningful. This addition- John Achenbach Some $9000 was raised for the summer, the project has con- Class of '64 al process must be put into ac- James Fine Student Non-Violent Coordinat- tinued, and now has over 250 tu- Robert Ahem tion by the student himself and Outing Club ing Committee's voter-registra- tors and 750 students. A similar Douglas Dobson cannot be drawn out against his President and Vice-President tion program in the South. Bus- though smaller program was John Meyn will. The professor finds his Clifford Baker loads of New England college run by NSM in Harlem, the large David Piasecki greatest limitation in this fail- Robert Peek students participated in week- Negro section of New York Paul Planchon ure of the student's will to learn Secretary end sit-ins on the eastern shore City. Paul Sadlier actively. of Maryland. A. large conference Today there are over 30 tu- Robert Sherman Penny Morse External Substitutes dealing with discrimination and torial programs in college towns Daniel Stockwell Valerie Wilson Publishing Association Many times the student will deficiencies in the areas of em- throughout New England, in- Junior Representatives, President find himself limited by time, and ployment, education, housing, volving 1200 tutors and about Class of '65 Linda Browning by a strenuous amount of busy and politics was held in April at 2100 students, with 15 other James Aikman Sandra Prohl work. Yet, by self dedication Sarah Lawrence College. In the groups planning to begin simi- Philip Brookes Margery Zimmerman rather than procrastination, the spring term, NSM sent 10,000 lar programs during the spring Edward Brooks Junior Representatives cause of oself-realization can be books donated by students from term. The Bates C.A. tutorial Clifford Goodall Priscilla Bonney approached. External causes can- eight colleges to Miles College in program which now involves Steven Ritter Peter d'Errico not become substitutes for the Birmingham, Ala. over 40 tutors and 120 high Jeffrey Rouault Susan Huiskamp central cause; mere activism This past summer, NSM im- schoolers, is an example of this Sophomore Representatives, Diane Johnson cannot be a substitution for in- plemented four student projects, program. Class of '66 Herbert Mosher tellectual activity. Thomas Carr Linda Pike It is the duty of the institu- Alan Cruickshank Women's Athletic Association tion to prevent the encourage- Cor am Library Initiates Display Max Steinheimer President ment of the superficial education John Zander Nora Jensen so prevalent today. However, Of Faculty Suggested Reading Student Government Joan Spruill this is basically a personal prob- Coram Library institutes the; Presently in the catalog alcove President Vice-President lem. Too many students are emo- first of a, series of exhibits fea- area are several works dealing Alice Winter Lyn Avery tionally dead and this is the first turing faculty readings sugges- with The Contemporary French Margaret Ziegler Carol Chase step to intellectual inactivity. Theater selected by Dr. Alexis tions this week. In response to Vice President Secretary Note taking is not enough; the Caron of the Language Division. Andrea Buck Ellen Hansen student must participate in the requests for suggested reading, Plays by such representative Janet Soltis Jane Potter process itself. either in their fields, or books dramatists as Jean Anouilh, Al- Secretary Treasurer The intellectual is motivated they have found particularly bert Camus and Eugene Ionesco Nancy Day by an emotional involvement. Linda Jarrett rewarding, various faculty mem- are featured; many in the orig- Joyce Killay Eleanor Parker One must basically care about inal text and in translation. bers have prepared selective, Treasurer Alumni Officers, Class of '63 certain things in order to un- Stimulating criticisms of the but inclusive bibliographies. Marion Day President derstand them. modern French theater are also Carol Kinney (runner-up becomes Vice- Education must be interpreted These exhibits arc primarily a included. Sophomore Representatives President) as a means with an end in view. result of a poll taken last year Carol Brown William Holt If the end is acquiring a job the to determine student reading in- These titles have been chosen Ruth Christensen David Hosford individual will remain passive. terests. Miss Foster reports that from the library collections as Priscilla Clark William LaVallee Knowledge for knowledge's sake many students seemed to indi- particularly worthy of notice for Barbara Remick Alan Marden is passivity;; intellectualism for cate a strong preference for fac- students seeking to broaden their Christian Association Secretary-Treasurer intellectualism's sake is insidi- ulty suggested reading. Hope- reading horizons. For some ten President Virginia Erskine ous. If one is emotionally alive fully, this series of displays will days these books, initiating the David Campbell June Gustafson he will come away from Dante familiarize students with facul- program, will be available for Robert Halliday (Continued on page five) caring for it.