Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 10-24-1962 The aB tes Student - volume 89 number 05 - October 24, 1962 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 89 number 05 - October 24, 1962" (1962). The Bates Student. 1412. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1412 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]. Hates Student Vol. LXXXIX, No. 5 BATES COLLEGE. LEW1STON, MAINE, OCTOBER 24, 1962 By Subscription Oxford Debaters Will Uphold Castro Government In Debate This Evening Tonight, the Castro Government will be the topic of an International Debate with Oxford University. Robert Ahem '64 and Howard Blum '63 will represent Bates and oppose Wil- liam Madel and John McDonnell of Oxford. President Phillips will moderate the debate which begins in the Chapel at eight o'clock. Bates will affirm, "Resolved: that the United States should not Customarily, judges award no de- than the audience. In contrast, tolerate the continued existence cision in international debates. British debaters direct their ar- of the Castro regime in Cuba." Madel and McDonnell have guments to the audience and use Following the debate the audi- been debating in colleges on the wit and digressions. Many Amer- ence will have opportunity to eastern seaboard. The Commit- ican debate tournaments are cross-examine the contestants. tee on International Debating conducted in empty rooms, "a of the Speech Association of 'vicious procedure' which some America and the Institute of In- British schools are beginning to Artists Plan Exhibit ternational Education are spon- adopt." according to Professor soring their trip. Quimby, the Bates debate coach. To Display Original Debating was introduced to The two English debaters at- Bates in 1896. In 1921 the Bates Student - faculty Art tend colleges at Oxford Univer- debate team travelled to Eng- sity. William Madel was born in land and participated with Ox- Room 108 in Hathorn Hall is 1938 and was "educated at Up- ford in the world's first interna- the only room on campus where pingham School prior to his en- tional debate. The following year paint brushes replace ball point rollment in Keble College. He Oxford paid a return visit. Since pens and canvases replace blue- intends to go into the publishing then, Bates has taken part in lined paper, for this is the home business. John McDonnell was over a hundred international de- of the campus Art Association. born in 1940 and attended the bates. Dr. George Goldat will serve as City of London School before en- Since 1950, individual college faculty advisor this year and Jim tering Balliol College. He plans teams have been replaced by na- Linnell is the chairman. to become a barrister. tional teams in international de- The Art Association was cre- American debating is charac- bating. Charles Radcliffe of Bates ated out of a need for art on terized by an adherence to facts was part of the first national de- campus with the hope of interest- bate team in 1950. Professoi and figures. The debate is orient- ing other students in this kind of Quimby has coached several of activity. The main interest of the ed toward the judges, rather these national debate teams. members is not to study art in the normal classroom sense of the word, but to practice it. Their philosophy is that one learns to Baltimore Symphony paint by painting, and this idea is no less true for sculpting, weaving, ceramics, or any other Will Perform Sunday of the group's activities. In harmony with the campus . The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Peter Adler conduct- trend toward change and growth ing, will present a matinee performance on Sunday, October this year is the Association's pro- 28, 1962. The program, which is part of the Lewiston-Auburn posed expansion of facilities. In Community Concert Association, will begin at two o'clock Robert Ahem '64 Howard Blum '63 the past the activities of the p. m. in the Lewiston High School Auditorium. r whole group have been ham- The Orchestra, which was* _ or of the rc pered by a definite shortage of formed in 191*, is the first in the ° hestra, conducted in necessary equipment. United States to be municipally Czechoslavakia, where he was Carnegie Contains Finest To remedy this problem, the subsidized. In its relatively short born, and Central Europe and members are trying to raise the history it has become one of the Russia until 1938. In 1939 he Telescope In Northern NE sum of two hundred and fifty top major orchestras in the coun- made his American debut with dollars for the purchase of new try. One hundred forty concerts the New York Philharmonic; he By GRANVILLE BOWIE '66 equipment and supplies, the larg- are performed during a season became the music director of the Bates College owns the best telescope north of Boston, ac- est item on the list being a kiln by the 86 members. Baltimore Symphony in 1959. cording to many experts. Perched atop the new Carnegie for ceramics and sculpting. More Since 1949 he has been the music The Baltimore Symphony em- Science Hall in a revolving dome, it commands an excellent brushes and other smaller items director of the NBC Television phasizes educational programs, Opera Theatre, and he is also a view of the heavens. Dr. Karl Woodcock, Professor of As- will also be bought. Though the reaching 100,000 children in a initial cost of such facilities seems guest conductor with the Cleve- tronomy, stresses the fact that the present location is ideal, season. During the concert sea- land and Detroit Symphony Or- and that there are no obstructions, as was the case when the high, it should be pointed out that son the orchestra presents fifteen good equipment if treated well chestras. telescope was mounted in a small building where Page Hall pairs of mid week concerts with With the orchestra will be pi- will last for years and should distinguished guest soloists and now stands. serve many a student. anist Susan Starr, 19, who has The telescope was hand made ly a gift of Stephens. It is valued conductors playing the more ser- been termed by the critics a "re- at several thousand dollars. During the academic year, the ious traditional and contempor- by Mr. Roscoe Stephens, of Ken- markable young arist;" she has The range of the telescope var- Art Association will present a ary music. nebunk, Maine. Stephens start- number of exhibits, some indoors been awarded the bronze medal ed work on it at the age of sev- ies with the size eyepiece used. Peter Herman Adler, conduct- and some outdoors. The first of in the Dimitri Mitropoulos Inter- enty. The final result of his work With a one-inch eyepiece, an ob- these events is set for the week- national Piano Competition in is a twelve-inch reflecting tele- ject is magnified one hundred college. It is hoped that the show end of November 9th, the "Col- New York. She made her debut scope with a one hundred-inch times, and with a one-half-inch will stimulate new interest in art by Weekend." This exhibit will at the age of six, has been a guest focal length. It took Stephens two eyepiece, it is magnified two and perhaps encourage a few be staged in 108 Hathorn Hall artist with the Philadelphia Or- years to grind the mirror, which hundred times. new members to join the group. and will run from 4:00 Friday chestra, with the New York is the heart of the telescope. Dr. The observatory is primarily Everyone on campus is invited to afternoon through Sunday even- Philharmonic, with the Rochester Woodcock said experts claim it for the use of the astronomy attend this first exhibit ing. and Pittsburgh Symphonies and is "an unusually fine mirror," classes; however, Dr. Woodcock On display will be samples of At present the Art Association has appeared in New Orleans. considering that there is a cer- states that there are plans to use the various types of art pursued has thirty members. General in- Miami, and Baltimore. Miss Starr tain amount of luck involved in it in physics classes in connection by the Association's members, vitations have not yet been ex- is a graduate of the Curtis In- grinding a mirror of this type. with the study of optics. including paintings done in both tended this year, but, in the stitute of Music of Philadelphia. The mirror alone is worth more There can be no heat in the oil and watercolor. Everything on words of Dr. Goldat, "Anyone Bates students are reminded than the observatory housing. Al- observatory because the density display will be the original work who is interested in art is more that admission is via their I.D. though the college paid a small of the warmer air would distort of students and faculty of the than welcome to join us.'' cards. fee for the telescope, it was most- (Continued on page two) »f TWO BATES STUDENT, OCTOBER 24, 1962 Dr. Abraham Speaks To Guidance Rob Players Name Final HENRY FELLOWSHIPS FOR Chapel, Citizenship Lab STUDY IN ENGLAND. Four Cast For French Comedy Rinjr Round The Moon is an Last week's Friday chapel speaker and visiting Lecturer Fellowships "for study at either There are circles in the cycle Oxford or Cambridge University of action of Jean Anouilh's adaptation by Christopher Frye in Government was Dr.