Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 1-28-1972 The aB tes Student - volume 98 number 15 - January 28, 1972 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 98 number 15 - January 28, 1972" (1972). The Bates Student. 1637. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1637 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]. m KATESBATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, STUDENTMAINE, JANUARY 28, 1972 No. 15 CD to G CD CD ' . -P•P ^ P S ' '*-■ 3 ro S ^ m s. ( ® 9. P # -P !>> cc ■ © >» £ bO £ bO- G <H bO CD rH CD 0 O ^, « >•- . 0 fl. , I «/> s TWO BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, JANUARY 28, 1972 BATES REALITY College Values, Real Superficial or Wrong Continued from Page 1 vacuum. Though this lofty observation may It serves no constructive purpose be far too poetic or idyllic to enter- to criticize or malign the college. tain practical thoughts, hold Bates This certainly is not the purpose of up against these words and one the article. Rather, it is to raise the wonders, perhaps, if Bates is noth- fundamental issue of Bates, itself. Is ing more than a vacuum. One and it all it can be or, more importantly, a half years ago the Bates commu- is it all that we believe it to be? nity reacted purposefully and sin- 1) Are most students willing to use cerely to the issues enflamed by Termpaper's Unlimited? the episode at Kent State. One re- 2) How many students and faculty action to this common movement develop genuine relationships? followed. "It was a positive and con- 3) How many students extend structive response — thoroughly in themselves beyond the prescrib- Apartment Building At The End Of Frye Street Where Some Bates Students keeping with Bates' heritage, a ed work of a course? Live. heritage that has always been very 4) How many faculty members much in step with issues, the goals, honestly pursue and analyze LIVING STYLES and the ideals of contemporary so- work submitted by students? ciety" (Bates College Capital Cam- 5) Where is the value of thesis in a paign brochure). For that brief liberal arts education? Campus Is As Campus Does week, this campus was truly a col- 61 What can the college community, There are about 100 Bates students living off-campus at present. Of lege. In that time academic pur- jointly and individually, do to in- these there are 32 women and approximately 30 men living thusly with suits and social concern were fused. volve themselves in society? "dean's permission." The rest of the people are couples of the married or un- It seems more like writing an epi- 7) Can a student commit himself or herself to extra-curricular activi- married variety or seniors who wish to live off-campus. taph than a tribute to pronounce People requesting off-campus permission have a variety of reasons that the activism or concern of one ties without conflicting with for wanting to live off-campus. Some have been to private school and solitary week has evolved into a academic demands? wish to escape the many splendid rigors of dormitory life. In other words passive state of drinking, smoking, 8) Is Bates a Booze school? they're scared of pillow fights. Others are seeking the quality of life and/or getting the degree. The pur- In future weeks it will be to these sometimes referred to as "independence". must have something to do pose of an education is twofold. questions and related ones that this with an identity crisis. Others have the gall to think that they are fed Firstly, there is the basic pursuit of newspaper will sufficiently devote up with the Bates dorm life in particular. Perhaps Bates dorm life suffers knowledge and that which goes with itself. It is done so with the hope in comparison with some schools, but JB on a Saturday night is action it, grades, thesis, etc. But, secondly that each individual at Bates will enough for anybody. Maybe they don't like action. Poor Devils. and equally important, there is or be able to answer definitely, is All seriousness aside though, Bates is after all a residential college. should be a willingness and ability Bates a vaccuum? According to Dean Carignan, "We (Bates) will remain a residential col- to question, analyze, and experience lege." The thinking is that the nature of the education received at Bates the "education" in practical matters is very much related to the residential nature of the college. The college whether it be a concern for the en- Paper Premature on the.-efore tries to maintain a consistent level of on-campus residency. An- vironment or for a fatherless child. other thought along this line is that there is a difference between a residen- There are overlapping paths to a Credit/No Credit degree,—the theoretical area of the tial and a commuter college. (Editorializing for a moment, it seems that by Jonathan Smith there is more of a community feeling at Bates than at U Maine at Au- classroom and the practical area of Last Monday, the student mem- gusta, a commuter college). With these ideas in mind, it seems that Bates experience with society—and a stu- bers of the Educational Policy does try to provide some flexibility in housing arrangements without dent should pursue both. Is this happening at Bates? Committee responded to the reac- compromising the residential nature of the school. tions by many around campus dur- For those ungrateful enough to want to live off-campus, permission INo doubt, this article will be con- demned, criticized, and mocked. If ing the past two weeks. Jocelyn seems easy enough to get. Dean Carignan evidently doesn't have any speci- Penn, Kenny Gibbs, and Bev Heaton fic grounds for granting or rejecting requests. So far everyone has been it is done so out of a conviction that what is insinuated about the col- unanimously contended the newspa- granted permission on a year basis that has asked for it. per analysis of the credit/no credit . course someone would have to be pretty twisted not to enjoy the lege is wrong, then good. But, if it proposal was premature and missed beer can fights, assorted homicides, snowball fights, and Gothic rapes that is judged because of "spacey char- acter, intellectual incoherence, or several of the important issues in- glorify college on-campus life. volved. The most important element Other off-campus dwellers (Come to think of it) are those hapless theoretical garbage," then it is only reinforcing the fear that Bates is a not mentioned to the student body beings who have the misfortune to live at home. has been the degree of mutual co- operation and consensus-building Profs Hooson, McCauley, Page and Price Interviewed occurring between Faculty and Stu- dent members of the Committee. that the students do not adequately by Valerie Smith more accustomed. Mr. Hooson point- The student members said that employ the advantages of a small ed to the lack of intellectual dis- in their talks with students, most New members of the Bates com- college. Because he believes that cussion among the students, and students seem to react favorably to munity, be they faculty or students, many of the students are under the separation of that which is learned the proposal. The only major point change their views of the college to influence of the "power of the in the classroom from the students' of the proposal that has been con- a certain degree and develop defin- grade", Mr. Hooson is for the most outside environment, as a major dif- troversial has been Point Seven ite opinions of it with each passing part in favor of the credit/no semester. With hopes that some of ference between the attitudes of the which deals with a pool of grades students here and those with whom credit system, even in the case of the new professors on campus could to be used by an evaluation com- he came in cantact with during his first semester freshmen. In his mittee under the general EPC. Sev- provide a means of giving the stu- opinion, it would allow the student dents an opportunity to gain in- undergraduate training at Cam- eral students and faculty members to take courses from which he sight into their impressions of bridge University. Attending Cam- have contended that such a pool of might ordinarily tend to shy. Bates, I proceeded to interview four bridge resembled being "put in the "phantom grades" would only be middle of an intellectual communi- Lewiston, Mr. Hooson says, is not used to destroy the grade-free at- of the more recent additions to the a college town, but a "manufactur- faculty: Mr. Christopher Hooson, ty"; the individual had no formal mosphere that is necessary to evalu- courses, but attended lectures at his ing town that contains a college." ate the credit/no credit proposal Miss Elizabeth McCauley, Mr. David In Bloomington, the seat of Indiana Page, and Mr. James Price. In keep- desire in the major field he chose. fairly. University, the community and its ing with the diversified personali- One learned about other disciplines The student members were pleas- businesses were more college-orient- ties of the professors here at Bates, by talk'ng to people versed in those ed with the support given to the fields in informal and unscheduled ed and the college was the main proposal by the Representative As- those whom to I have spoken have employer of the townspeople.