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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 11 "Bates Student Vol. XCIII, No. 10 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, NOVEMBER 16, 1966 By Subscription DEBATERS WIN AT COLBT; Colby Prof On VIETNAM DISCUSSED BY VERMONT TO HONOR QUiMBY German Unity FORMER ARMY COLONEL By Stan McKnight Vermont to Honor Quimby The reunification of Ger- Bates debaters walked This Friday the varsity many will be the topic of a By Mary Williams away with all the honors will be debating at the an- speech by Dr. Robert E. Reu- "We cannot win the war eases and leeches are often last Friday in the first nual tournament of fifty man, Associate Professor of within the borders of South rampant. iJenjamin Butler Tourna- Eastern schools which will Philosophy at Colby College. Vietnam," Robert Cobb, re- Historically, "the Chinese ment at Colby College. be held in Vermont. Bates The lecture, "Third Party to a tired U. S. Army Colonel, are the natural enemies of the Competing tor the Bates teams have entered this Dialogue", will be given this stated last Sunday in chapel. Vietnamese, Mr. Cobb noted. .'arsity on the affirmative tournament since 1928. evening at eight o'clock in the Cobb, now director of student Because of the Vietnamese team were Howard Melnick, This year, in recognition of Skelton Lounge. Sponsored by services at U. Maine, served in people's fierce autonomy they 08, and William Norris, '68, his nearly twenty years of the Student Religious Liberals high level training and advis- have never been dominated by who have won all their de- participation, the debate has and the Department of the ory capacities in Vietnam from another nation. Cobb also bates against the University been dedicated in honor of Unitarian Universalist Asso- July 1964 to June 1965. wondered whether "all coun- of Maine, Bowdoin, Colby and Brooks Quimby. Last year he ciation, this lecture is open to Emphasizing the geograph- tries have reached the point of the University of New Hamp- coached the team to sixteen all. ic, climatic, historical, and sophistication where they can shire. On the negative team, wins out of twenty contests. Dr. Reuman is well ac- military factors peculiar to govern themselves," and point- Charlotte Singer, '67, and Alan Professor Quimby is hopeful quainted with the problems of Vietnam, Cobb said "the South ed out the valuable work of Lewis, '67, who have lost only that Bates debaters will be German reunification. He has Vietnamese army is a mo- some previous dictators; not- one debate to the University equally successful in his last had considerable opportunity dern one, but Vietnam is not ably Mo Dinh Sim. of New Hampshire. Both year as debating coach. to investigate these German the kind of place where a mo- learns were declared overall problems through his role as dern war can be fought. The "We are in the war and we winners and each received a the Quaker International Af- country's location and terrain are going to win it," Mr. Cobb silver spoon as a token of the Junior - Senior fairs Representative in Ger- make a guerilla war easy to emphasized, "but the United first Benjamin Butler Tourna- many from 1964 to 1966. Dr. carry on. States must make full use of ment. William Norris was Reuman has discussed them According to Mr. Cobb, "we its naval and air capabili- judged the top individual de- Speaking Prize with both prominent national have never faced more adverse ties." Search-and-destroy oper- hater in the contest. and local leaders who have ations waste and dissipate circumstances under which to manpower. Kempton Coady, '70, and This year the annual Jun- experienced the tragic conse- wage war." The heat is op- Thomas Buennam, '70, of the ior-Senior Prize Speaking Con- Con't. Pg. 4/Col. 5 pressive, while tropical dis- Finally, to seek negotiations novice team, won all but one test will be held Monday, De- before we are winning indi- debate against Bowdoin for cember 5, at three o'clock. cates weakness on our part, i he affirmative side. The neg- Contestants are to deliver KITCHEN EXPANSION BEGINS while pulling out would be a ative team, James Rurak, '70, original speeches of eight crushing military defeat, ac- and Margaret Buker, '70, won minutes in length in competi- A $300,000 expansion and addition to an expanded cording to Cobb. against the University of tion for first and second modernization of the Com- Maine but lost to the Univer- kitchen and serving areas, the prizes of 25 dollars and 15 mons kitchen facilities is project will also enlarge food sity of New Hampshire, Colby, dollars respectively. As there scheduled to begin immedi- and Bowdoin. Both varsity and storage and refrigeration units will be no formal tryouts this ately. The construction, in- in the lower level. No altera- H-BOMB IN LITTLE THEATER novice teams debated on the year, interested students need cluding the installation of a subject, Resolved: 'That the tions will be made in the only submit their names to double serving line, should be main dining room itself. Color films of the first H- United States should substan- Professor Quimby before De- completed by next fall. It will tially reduce its foreign pol- Bomb Tests and Bikini Atoll cember 3. enable the Commons to feed a The expansion project will icy commitments." capacity of nine-hundred stu- tests will be shown Friday at Debate coach Brooks Quim- This year's contest will de- conclude the modernization of part from the usual procedure. dents in preparation for next the Commons which began by, was pleased with the out- fall's completely co-educa- 7:30 in the Little Theater. come of the contest, but noted In the past the contest, de- this summer with the com- I hat due to lack of interest signed to produce speeches of tional meals. plete remodeling of the dish- Sponsored by the C. A. special interest to Bates stu- Plans call for a two-story room. The Fiske dining area there will be no more novice structure which will extend debates this semester. How- dents, was held in two college in Rand will be closed in the towards the Women's Gym- ever, next semester there will assemblies. Since there are no fall of 1967 upon completion assemblies this year, the con- nasium, in what is now the of the new construction, and lie a Freshman Prize Debate employees' parking lot, and Rob Players Film open to all students from test will be held during per- eventually will be utilized for south towards Chase Hall. In more dormitory space. which he hopes to bring to- iods reserved for the Speech The Robinson Players Film gether a novice team. 100 lectures. Committee will present the foreign film classic, "Sundays and Cybele," Saturday, De- cember 3, at 7:00 and 9:00. New Glub Aids Foreign Students In 1962, "Sundays and Cy- bele", Serge Bourguignon's An International Club is be- ums to promote a cultural and first feature film, won the ing formed on campus to per- political exchange of ideas. At Academy Award as the Best form introductory and settle- the beginning of the year, the Foreign Film of the Year. ment services for foreign stu- group will hold smokers for "Sunday and Cybele" is a dents and to present enter- JYA returnees, foreign stu- lyric tragedy, the delicate tainment programs of inter- dents, and other interested story of a magical relation- national background. The Bates students. Slide shows of ship between a lonely girl of group will correspond with foreign countries are also twelve and a war veteran suf- foreign students before their planned. fering from amnesia. arrival in this country, and The Club will sponsor an continue helping them while Hardy Kruger plays the vet- "International Weekend" with eran and gifted Patricia Gozzi at Bates by finding holiday the American Field Service, homes, welcoming them upon is the tender Cybele. The mu- inviting other Maine interna- sic score is composed and con- arrival, and finding summer tional clubs. jobs. Dr. Eger, Yale neurologist, explains the complexi- ducted by Maurice Jarre, who Committees and chairmen has won two Academy Awards An international forum com- are needed for this new club. ties of the human brain to Bates student as part of last for his "Lawrence of Arabia" mittee will be responsible for An introductory meeting will Thursday's science exchange program in Carnegie. The and "Dr. Zhivago" scores. bringing guest speakers to program considered the neurological and physiological be held tomorrow at four In bases of learning. campus and conducting for- the C. A. office. The admission price will be Photo by Hartwell 50c TWOT> BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, NOVEMBER 16, 1966 GUIDANCE COMING EVENTS Wednesday, November 16 Wednesday, November 30 An announcement of the Student Religious Liberals— Vespers 9-9:30 P.M. Smith-Northampton Summer weeks course for college grad- Speaker, Dr. Robert Reuman, Thursday, December 1 Intern Teaching Program, uates to introduce them to the "Third Party to a Dialogue" Ski Film opportunities and require- which offers six graduate Skelton Lounge 8 P.M.