Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 10-4-1967 The aB tes Student - volume 94 number 04 - October 4, 1967 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 94 number 04 - October 4, 1967" (1967). The Bates Student. 1530. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1530 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]. ,lfi£&i Al mtts tubent *TO? Vol. XCIV, No. 4 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, OCTOBER 4, 1967 By Subscription BATES HOSTS SYMPOSIUM REYNOLDS TO BE INAUGURATED, TOP EDUCATORSTOATTEND mQm F|m, „„« pRK|MMT "■Jew high school curricula dent's college years. Such ad- nd the need for college con vancement is especially no- .ioration of advanced sec- ticeable in the sciences and 10:30 a.m. tary school courses will be the "new math." ie theme of this Friday's In- College responses to the new Present at the Inaugural ugural Conference, "The New curricula will be considered will be dignitaries from the Secondaiy School Curriculum Friday afternoon in the Little state and educational institu- d the College Response." Theatre at 1:30. Under discus- The conference will consist of sion will be the adequacy of tions, and delegates from col- i > panel discussions held by the advanced courses in pre- leges, secondary schools, and li iding educators in the col- paring a student for college learned societies. e and secondary school and what consideration the | I Ids and an address by form- college should give these Inviting secondary school ei United States Commission- studies in exempting students representatives is an innova- er of Education Francis Kep- from the usual core courses. tion in collegiate inaugurals. pel. For example, an entering Its relevance lies in conjunc- The opening session at 9:30 Bates student who feels he has a.m. in the Little Theatre will undertaken studies equiva-, tion with the conferences to be consider the advancement of lent to Bates core courses held on Friday in which the the secondary school curricu- might exempt the courses by response of colleges to sec- iini For the past decade pub- taking an advanced place- ondary school advances will Dr. James I. Armstrong lc and private schools have ment test. Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, '?.0 be discussed. improved their course offer- The closing session of the alumni; and Robert E. Strider, ings and have started to in- Inaugural Conference will Dr. Thomas Hedley Reynolds An academic procession con- Inde studies that tradition- president of Colby College and hear Francis Keppel in the will be inaugurated as the sisting of the Bates faculty lly have waited until a stu- Chapel at 8 p.m. senior college president of fifth President of Bates Col- and administration and visit- Since 1966 Francis Keppel Maine. has been Chairman of the lege, Saturday, October 7, in ing delegates will begin the Con't Page 3/Col. 1 the Alumni Gymnasium at proceedings. Dean Emiritus of Honorary degrees will be the Faculty Harry W. Rowe conferred upon James I. Arm- will give the invocation. strong, president, Middlebury College, and Dr. Francis Kep- Student Interest Vital Greetings will then be heard pel, inauguration conference from Maine Governor Kenneth speaker. Each will receive a Curtis; Lewiston, Maine Mayor Doctor of Humane Letters De- William Rocheleau; CA Pres- To Successful Ad Board gree. ident David Burtt; Professor By Larry Billings The symposium will be pat- of English, Robert Berkelman; Saturday classes will end at terned after Harvard's Nation- Three of the projects under- al Day of Inquiry into Viet- Benjamin E. Mays '20 Presi- 9:55 a.m. to permit students taken this year by the Bates nam, at which numerous dent Emeritus of Moorehouse and faculty to attend the in- Advisory Board have been the members of university and College, representing the auguration. dinner hours, the establish- college faculties articulated ment of a permanent curri- their opinions on our present Dr. Lawrence N. Jones culum review committee, and national commitment in the a proposal for initiating a war. Three or four professors symposium on Vietnam at from the Bates faculty might Women's Council Attempts Bates. Inion Seminarian be prevailed upon to debate The results of the poll tak- the issues before concerned en on Monday, September 25, students who would, in turn, o Speak In Chapel concerning reception hours, have an opportunity to ques- Constitution Change indicated strong student sup- tion the participants. The Lure of the Far Coun- port. Out of the 902 ballots This enterprise would be an y" will be the topic of this cast, 881 were affirmative. expanded version of the fac- On September 19, the Wom- conduct policy on drinking. As "nday's Chapel speaker, Dr. Only 17 students registered ulty's own round table discus- en's Council voted on a refer- it was before, drinking was vrence Neale Jones, Dean of opposition, and there were 4 sion group. The Ad Board endum which included the fol- not allowed in the Senior '"dents and Associate Pro- abstentions. hopes it will tap a hitherto un- lowing proposed change: dorms, although the majority OT of the Union Theologi- The Ad Board has estab- explored and potentially pro- "Drinking of intoxicants in of the residents were twenty- Seminary of New York lished a permanent curricu- vocative avenue of Intellectual underclass dormitories is pro- one years of age. As Kitty said, ity. lum review committee which exchange between faculty and hibited and is subject to ac- "Rules should be as realistic Dr. Lawrence James gradu- will make recommendations students. tion by the Women's Council. and functional as possible. t*'d from West Virginia State on curriculum improvement The Women's Council refers With an honor system such as Asked to comment for the &iege and received his docto- to Dean Healy and the Educa- each woman to the college pol- ours, it is imperative to have a'p from Yale Univ. He is a Student on the outlook for the icy concerning conduct and rules which are in accord with r tional Policy Committee. Stan ' mber of the National Coun- McKnight, will head the group Ad Board this year, Bob the Maine State Law." The the general college policy." 'i of Churches Committee on changes from the original Ar- with Co-chairman Dave Ger- Gough, expressed optimism In this attempt to change higher Education, on the rish. ticle VIII under the By-Laws the Constitution, the Women's fcard of Directors, World Min- but cautioned, "Since we are were the addition of the word Council is exercising power in Ry Commission, United The Ad Board Speakers Com- a representative organization underclass" and the omission a manner which they have sel- tourch of Christ, and Is active mittee proposes to establish a responsible to the student of "possession." dom used. The students are 1 civil rights. Dr. Lawrence symposium on the present body, constructive student In talking with Kitty Wyn- again being allowed to deter- "s contributed material to Vietnam crisis. Dave Burtt, opinion is paramount to Insur- koop, president of the Wo- mine, in part, rules which are everal national publications, has been delegated to fin- men's Council, It was learned the most practical in their "eluding Quartermaster Re- alize plans for the program, ing successful fulfillment of that this proposal was pre- dormitory situations. lew, United Church Herald. which the Ad Board hopes our function. Student Interest sented In an attempt to bring The proposal is being _nd United Church Youth may eventually be instituted and support are vitally Im- the Women's Constitution and brought before the Extra-Cur- 'agaxlne. on a monthly basis. portant to our organization." By-Laws Into focus with the j ricular Committee. TWO BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, OCTOBER 4, 1967 drink in their rooms, provided THE VESTAL VIRGIN RITES they could show an "ID". Bui in every other way their so- cial life is exactly the same: THE LOST WOMEN OF RAND Saturday night hen parties with the girls, not down by The following history is the social hub of campus life; and the aquaduct, but down by product of much research and the especially poignant mem- the puddle. deliberation. This author has ories of the Saturday night Original Betty Bates tried to put aside her natural Chase Hall dances — bopping bias and present the facts as and weaving, twisting and After the sacking of Rome they really happened, un- shouting to the accompani- and the Vestal Virgins, the shaded by the desire to pro- ment of a crescendo of shat- physical plant and aspects of tect those involved. The fol- tering windows, splintering this way of life disappeared lowing, the first part of a two- doors, and smashing beer bot- nto the rollicking darkness of part article, is the unadulter- tles. .hose great Dark Ages, only to reappear with even more force ated, uncensored version of the Convent on the Hill Rand Rec: A Scene From the Past What happens to these once and stringence in the form of history of that noble domicile by Ledley on the hill, Rand Hall, home socially active queens who medieval nunneries. I just of senior women and social mounted those psuedo-marble that before the actual build- high school yearbooks or want to mention here that the drop-outs. steps and passed through that ing that is Rand existed, in newspapers and being