ALLEGHENY COLLEGE LIBRARY Bearing Stresses COM PUS Liberal Arts' Value Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 2$ ALLEGHENY COLLEGE, MEADVILLE, PA. April 30, 1965 AUC Defeats Amendment The proposed amendment to than at-large representation. their constituents as often as change the reapportionment of Kathe Tunnell agreed that the the Greek representatives, they representatives to AUC was re- method of election was an im- still deserve equal repre- considered by AUC Sunday night. portant factor in apportionment sentation. Ann Lyadall said the The amendment failed to re- and felt that all representatives real Issue is whether represen- ceive the necessary two-thirds should be fresponsible to speci- tation should be proportional vote and was defeated by a vote fic groups. It was suggested to numbers, not whether the of 16 yeas and 10 nays. that the Independents might be Independents contributed e- divided Into geographic consti- nough to the College to de- The reapportionment amend- tuencies and that each area serve more representation nor Allegheny Alumni receive honorary degrees at Founder's ment, which had passed last could elect a representative. Day Convocation Ceremony on Saturday, April 24 in David week, would have changed the whether the additional Indepen- To counter this argument, Sue dent representatives would be Mead Field House. basis of Independent and fresh- Kerr stated that 'the Indepen- qualified. A roll call vote was man representation. Under the dents are Independents because taken and the amendment failed present ASG Constitution, there they do not want to be organ- to receive the required two- With the traditional pomp of the academic procession, the confer- is one representative for each ized.* Though the Independent thirds majority. ring of honorary degrees and a keynote address, the Allegheny com- whole group of 70 Independents representatives do not reach munity commemorated the first century • and a half of the College's and of 70 freshmen. The amend- existence. ment provided that there be one Held at the David Mead Field House, Saturday, April 24, the Found- representative for each whole ers' Day Convocation brought faculty, students and guests together group of Independents and of Alleghenians Deplore War; to honor Allegheny's history. The Convocation's highlight came as freshmen equal in number to Dr. Bruce Dearing, '39, Presldeat of Harpur College, delivered his the average active fraternity- views on the dynamic qualities of the liberal arts. sorotity membership. This a- Urge Policy Reevaluation Following opening ceremonies, verage was calculated as ap- during which Dr. Richard Devor, Transition" concluded the convo- proximately 58 members per A public statement protesting One faculty member empha- chaplain, gave a short prayer cation. Dr. Dearing throughout social group. United States action is Vietnam sizes that one significant reason first used by President Crawford his speech emphasized the fine is being circulated this week In for the statement Is the general in 1915, President Lawrence Pel- balance which liberal arts .col- During the discussion, Roy an effort to obtain signatures apathy on the part of undergrad- letier made his opening remarks. lege's must strike between tra- Hoffman stated that under the of the Allegheny community - uates in regard to the situation, While noting the solemnity of the dition and modernity, tearing present system there are two faculty and students - to be sent rather than any specific incident occasion, Dr. Pelletier quipped noted that the founders of Alle- methods of election. The' Greek to President Johnson at the White in the war. about the unusual inhabitant of gheny were influenced both by the representatives are elected by House. Students interested in signing Bentley's roof top early Saturday classical traditions of the liberal specific constituents to whom The statement, drafted by about the statement may contact Miss morning. arts, and the practical necessl they are directly responsible 20 members of the faculty and Mildred Ludwlg in her office at Having been awakened by a ties demanded by the frontier while the Independents are elec- one student leader, is the result 105 Murray. telephone caller telling him of life. ted at- large and have no de- of growing concern about the ac- The final draft of the statement the cow atop Bentley Hall, the Quoting Jefferson's progres- fined groups to whom they are celerating war and the seeming reads as follows: President related that the story sive ideas on liberal arts, Dear- responsible. Constituent rep- lack of definite direction on the We the undersigned, "sufficiently awakened me to be ing said "in his recognition that resentation is more democratic part of US administrators. As members of the Allegheny able to communicate verbally a college curriculum for educa- College community, deplore saying 'Are you kidding?' '• tion in the liberal arts is a liv- the present war in Viet Nam ing, dynamic thing, related to . and the involvement of the United Success Found in Graduates region, time and circumstance, States In that war. The bombing and not fixed on record for all of (North Viet Nam has served Moving into a more solemn times and places, Thomas Jeffer- only to harden resistance and realm, Dr. Pelletler gave a short son was prophetic...I would like has aroused world opinion against history of the Founders' Day ce- to think Allegheny...was aligned the action of the United States. lebrations, noting that this year's with the ideas of Jefferson." In light of the present situation, celebration had "a unique and Dearing then discussed the we strongly believe that the unusual significance for us." Re- pregress and innovation made by United States should undertake a lating the story of the College's Allegheny in its liberal arts cur- major reevaluation of its Viet founding, he concluded by prais- riculum. He praised Allegheny Nam policy. Specifically, we urge ing the role Allegheny has ful- tor Its loyalty to the liberal the following: filled for 150 years, and observed arts and the concept of "whole- 1. That the United States cease that "Allegheny's success is ness of knowledge." its attack on north Viet Nam, thus found no more clearly than in While praising this curri- giving tangible evidence of its the lives of our graduates." culum, however, Dearing warned willingness to negotiate. Noting that success, the Col- against those who would too 2. That the United States seek lege then honored eleven of its quickly destroy it, replacing It every possible means to resolve outstanding graduates by confer- with a specialized and fragmen- the Viet Nam crisis, including the ring honorary degrees. Aided by tized education. For this reason, offices of the United Nations. Dean Julian L. Ross, President he cautioned against outright a- 3. We ask tor a frank and Pelletier bestowed the honorary (Contlnued on page 2) Culprits remove McKinley's legacy from Bentley Tower. honest statement of policy with degree of doctor of laws on eight respect to United States alms men: Robert Sackett Bates, »31 In a negotiated settlement of Harold King Brooks, '15; Theo- Parratt To Hold the war. dore Thoburn, '14; William Fre- In ordv- that rational dis- derick Dalzell, '12; Robert James Cow In Tower Re- enacts Past cussion of the crisis may take Corbett, '27; Seymour Alfred Forums, Lecture At 6:45 last Saturday morning, President William McKinlej, place and a solution achieved Smith, '38; Ralph Henry Dem- Founder's Day, President Law- wnile an undergraduate in 1860 without further sacrifice of mler, '25; and George Bruce Dr. Spenser Parratt, Profes- rence L. Pelletler was roused at Allegheny, was involved In a human life, we urge earnestly Dearing, '39. sor of Political Science in the from his sleep by the ring of successful plot to place a full- that the government give more Maxwell Graduate School of Cit- grown cow In Bentley Tower. complete information to the Am- More Degrees izenship and Public Affairs at the telephone. A "sweet co-ed Syracuse University will speak voice" wished him a good morn- The cow useel for the re-en- erican people on the war in The College axso conferred the Viet Nam. in Henderson Auditorium at 8:15 ing and a happy Founder's Day, actment of this colorful story, degrees of doctor of letters on p.m. on May 6 on the subject then told him the astounding news: however, was a 100-pound heifer John Hillman Lavely, '38; of 'Due Process of Law». "...there is a cow in Bentley which could be carried up and doctor of Science on George Tower!" down the five flights of stairs Reed Will Speak Booth, *22; and of doctor Of Preceedlng Dr. Parratt's leading to the bell tower. lecture, which is part of a con- Sure enough, when the Presi- Social Science on Howard Glenn tinuing series of political dent, the Dean, and the Editor Borrowed from a nearby far- Gibbs, '41. forums sponsored by the Poli- of the Meadville Tribune arrived mer, who was told it would be On Linguistics The President praised all of at Bentley Hall at about 7:30, used as a part of an open-air tical Science Department, is a On Monday, May 3, at 8:15 the degree candidates for their coffee hour beginning at 3:30 a crowd was already forming. exhibition for the College's Ses- outstanding work in their respec- p.m. in the faculty lounge of Incredulous, sleepy-eyed stu- quicentennlal observance, the in Ford Chapel, Dr. David M. tive fields of endeavor, their dents were hurrying from Brooks heifer was brought to campus in Reed, Professor of Linguistics Quigley Hall. The topic for dls- at the University of California, high personal standards and in- jusslon will be 'The Voting to see the phenomenon.