John Ciardi Will Lecture: ' How Does a Poem Mean?' Having recently completed 3 English, and then as popular teaching text in the U.S. years as John Holmes Visiting Briggs-Copeland Assistant His “Purgatorio” was published Professor of Poetry at Tufts Professor. In 1953 he went to in 1964. University, John Ciardi, one of Rutgers where he became As the father of 3 children he the foremost American poets, professor of English, resigning in has a built-in audience for his will appear here on Thursday, 1961 to become a free lance children’s books of poetry. His September 26 at 8:00 p.m. in writer and lecturer. “I was first book, “The Reason for the the Wick Social Room. beginning to feel too safe,” he Pelican” was first in the N.Y. As former Poetry Editor of says, “ ...and too repetitious.” Times list of the best children’s the Saturday Review and as- its His first fling at freelancing books of 1959, and his “I Met a most acclaimed columnist, was as host of the CBS-TV Man” was number 4 on the N.Y. Professor Ciardi is working this Network Show “ ACCENT” Times Best Seller List of year to complete his translation from 1961-62. “It wasn’t the Children’s books. Written for his of Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” best possible start,’’ he own daughter, “I Met a Man” Professor Ciardi has served for confesses. “The show was taken introduces new readers to the 11 years as Poetry Editor of the off the air and replaced by ‘Mr. delights of poetry and is fast Review. These have been years Ed, The Talking Horse,’...an becoming a classic among of liveliness, controversy and embarrassing kind of beginning reader books. The insight. No other American poet technological unemployment.” most recent of his 10 books for has so invigorated the discussion But, though Prof. Ciardi has children is “The Monster Den,” of poets and poetry today. left regular college teaching, his a parent’s eye view of family Boston bred, Prof. Ciardi books have not. His “How does life. received his B.A., magna cum a Poem Mean?’’, and “Dialogue With An Audience” laude, from Tufts University in introduction to poetry text, is is a collection of articles that 1938, and his M.A. in 1939 at used in over 200 colleges and Saturday Review readers have the University of Michigan, universities. He is also acclaimed answered with emphatic distaste where he also was granted the as the definitive translator of or . appreciation. Also included in Hopwood Award in Poetry. Dante into English. The it are 3 articles on Robert Frost. After serving in W.W.II as an paperback edition of his About his lectures, he is aerial gunner in the B-20 “ Inferno’’ has sold over 1 adamant in saying, “I don’t give offensive against Japan, he went million copies to date, and speeches. I talk to the eyes I Saigon, to Harvard as an instructor in . continues in use as the most see.” Supreme Court Denies Prague... Review to Annette Conard Chicago ? WASHINGTON (CPS) - The Conard was subpoenaed by argued that the Constitutional Supreme Court has refused to Eugene, Ore. District Judge provisions for a free press (Editors: This column is the review the contempt citation of William Frye, but she refused to include the right of a reporter to first in a weekly series Tran Van a former student editor who reveal the names of the students withhold the identity of Dinh will write for CPS again would not reveal the names of she had interviewed to a grand confidential news sources. The this academic year. He is a seven student marijuana users jury, despite a court order state maintained that her refusal Vietnamese author, journalist she interviewed. demanding that she do so. She to reveal the names constituted and lecturer whose articles on The student, Mrs. Annette was cited for contempt of court withholding information Vietnam and international Buchanan Conard, interviewed and fined $300. necessary for the arrest and politics have appeared in many the marijuana users for a story In refusing to review the case, prosecution of drug users. U.S. magazines, including The which appeared in the May 24, the Supreme Court upheld Mrs. Presently, only 13 states have N ew Republic and The 1966 edition of the University Conard’s conviction, which had a law which permits newsmen to Washingtonian). of Oregon Daily Emerald, of been upheld in January by the refuse to reveal confidential By TRAN VAN DINH which she was managing editor. Oregon Supreme Court. sources, as doctors, lawyers and College Press Service After the story appeared, Mrs. In her defense, Mrs. Conard ministers can. WASHINGTON (CPS) — When the Soviet tanks rolled into the streets of Prague, Secretary of State Dean Rusk 20th Anniversary Saturday ; was at a meeting of the Democratic Party’s platform committee defending U.S. policy Tricia Nixon to Present Award in Vietnam. His and the Soviets’ arguments are strikingly parallel: “Twenty years ago this September 28, 1968 from 3 ting the founding of the 1. The USSR told the world college was a dream in a to 5 P.M. Rosary Hill college in 1948. that Soviet troops were sent to field of grain.” (Response, College is inviting residents Tricia and Julie Nixon Czechoslovakia “at the request” Fall ’66) of Western New York to and David Eisenhower have of elements loyal to “socialism” The dream is now a attend a 20th Anniversary accepted invitations to who are being threatened by Open House, commemora- attend and will meet and counter-revolutionaries reality and on Saturday, (read:liberal communists). The greet the guests in the Wick U.S. has committed over half a Center Social Room at 3:30 million soldiers in South o’clock. Tricia Nixon will Vietnam “at the request” of elements loyal to “democracy” present the c o lle g e ’s t h r e a t e n e d by the Community Service award “communists.” to a Rosary Hill student 2. T h e USSR invaded who has made a significant Czechoslovakia to fulfill a contribution in an area of “ treaty obligation” — the community need during the Warsaw pact. The U.S. summer months. intervened in Vietnam to meet the “obligations of the SEATO pact.” The Host Committee for 3. The USSR claims that if the Nixons will include the Czechoslovakia fell to the President of Rosary Hill, liberals, the rest of Eastern Sister M. Angela Canavan, Europe would suffer the same O.S.F.; Mrs. Thomas J. fate. The U.S. says if Vietnam fell the rest of Southeast Asia Hogenkamp, President, would fall. Both nations cite the Rosary Hill Alumnae “domino theory” to rationalize Association Board of their actions. Governors; Mr. Thomas J. VOL. XX NO. 1 Langley, President of 4. The USSR promised that Soviet tanks will roll back to F acuity Senate and Miss Moscow to keep watch on the allied armies” for their timely Katherine Britton, President Kremlin as soon as the threat to arrival. Similarly, the U.S. of the Student Association. “the security of Czechoslovakia” administration has told the Classrooms, laboratories, is removed. The U.S. says once public that millions of the threat of “communism” is art studios, libraries and Vietnamese appreciated the U.S. lecture halls will be open, eliminated from South Vietnam destruction of Hue and other she will immediately withdraw cities in South Vietnam. The with faculty members and back to the U.S. — to keep law famed slogan, “A city has to be students present to and order in Chicago. destroyed in order to save it,” welcome the guests. There will long be remembered by will be guided tours of the 5. The USSR’s Tass agency Vietnamese (and Prague) reported that “ many citizens. campus and a reception and Czechoslovak citizens expressed refreshments in the Charles their gratitude to soldiers of the Cont’d on Page Four J. Wick Campus Center. Page 2 THE ASCENT Wednesday, September 25, 1968 having a voice in the determ ination of their own Freedom of Press destinies.” National Student Association DOES YOUR FUTURE WORRY President Ed Schwartz, on the Myth vs. Reality other hand, told the subcommittee that the The Supreme Court’s decision not to review the case of 18- year-old vote “will open new YOU AFTER YOUR Annette Buchanan Conard (see CPS article) forcefully avenues for student pressure and demonstrated that “freedom of the press” is, at times, student power.” He said the merely a myth in America. The law provides professional Senate would have to choose “ EXCELLENT” DECISION TO what kind of response it will “outs” for doctors, lawyers and ministers. Information make to campus activism — a given in confidence is inviolate. But newsmen are not held constructive response such as so highly. lowering the voting age or a ATTEND A WOMAN'S COLLEGE? The events of Chicago, especially the harsh treatment destructive response such as the accorded the press, is further proof of this reality. House bill denying scholarships to demonstrators. “It is already TRI-COLLEGE MIXER Convention business is the public’s business. The day of a source of disappointment to closed-door meetings has ended. The educated populace many of us that the House bill CANISIUS COLLEGE demanded to know the facts of the nominating process. can be introduced and passed THE MELLOW BRICK RODE Yet, newsmen were beaten, shoved and in other ways overnight, when the proposal to lower the voting age must linger September 27 vilified, when they followed a story through to the end.