Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 3-23-1979 The aB tes Student - volume 106 number 09 - March 23, 1979 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 106 number 09 - March 23, 1979" (1979). The Bates Student. 1796. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1796 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]. ) \\k% •« * THE BAT TUDENT X VOLUME 106, NUMBER9 %JJTN MARCH 23,1979 ESTABLISHED 1873 r« Use Of College Property For Personal Profit Not Acceptable by Thomas Vannah against our policy (referring to by persons within the college. On Senior Reporter parties for individual profit) the bulletin board outside the Dean James Carignan because it is illegal." Carignan Bates College Bookstore hung suggested on March 21. 1979 that further stated that there exists a advertisements for cars, stereos, the college does not condone the "regulation against selling goods records, and clothing. Also selling of goods from college from within the dormitory unless hanging on the bulletin was a doritories. Carignan also they are cleared through the sign advertising new stereo asserted that it is against the Vice President for Business components, televisions, fuzz- college's regulations to hold Affairs." busters, and assorted electrical parties on school property for On March 22, on the bulletin equipment, with a note in- students' individual profit. Said boards in the dinner line, four forming those interested to Carignan: "As far as I know, this 'for sale' signs hung advertising contact a student living in '■ is not going on. It would be products, used an new, for sale Adams. The student explained, when contacted, that he takes orders from students and sends Sex Attitude Survey them to a mail order house, adding his commission to the bill. The goods are sent to the post Reveals Interesting Attitudes And Opinions office on campus. The Office of by Mark Baer nature. Attention was centered restrictions such as isolation of greater administrative initiative Career Counseling, said the Senior Reporter not only on questions of sex and Smith and the large number of in this area might be beneficial to student, "helped me get one of What kinds of attitudes sexual matters, but more single-sex housing arrangements the overall picture, students my jobs." When asked if the job toward male-female relation- specifically as these subject as major stumbling blocks in the almost invariably answered in in question was related to his a ships exist on the Bates campus? matters related to the Bates path of better male-female the negative. There were, selling of stereo equipment on How do your fellow students feel community. relations. Homogeneity of the however, a few divergent from campus, the student suggested about the subject of relations When questioned, "Do you student body was another major the norm, one student saying. that it was the case. between the sexes in and around find male-female relationships at idea which many saw as ob- "Maybe some other guidance Mr. Bernard Carpenter, Vice their lives as Bates students? Bates favorable?" about half structive to better cir- personnel would be helpful" in President for Business Affairs, <«• Recently the Student ran a "Sex responded in varying degrees of cumstances. assisting students. claimed, "The college would be o Attitude Survey" and from those the affirmative. However, there Alternately, most of those One nighters were commonly overstepping its authority to tell students responding, some were many strongly negative responding did not place the mentioned as an ominous students that they could not sell general patterns as well as some responses. Limited selection was blame solely on Bates. Most problem in the Bates community. their stereos within the college." unexpected responses emerged. a major criterion for complaint. agreed that these conditions are One typical response cited these Carpenter suggested, however, The questions were of a general A number of students cited dorm at least in part due to the one nighters for causing "un- that in cases where students use structural set-up of a small necessary animosity" between their rooms and the college liberal arts college and are not the two sexes, adding that, "a lot bulletin boards for personal gain, New Student Newspaper solely characteristics unique to of people are just in it for the "That is sort of a gray area. the Bates community. sex." Students can not have ware Editors Appointed Nearly all of those who Closed mindedness toward parties in dorms for personal responded agreed that there are differing attitudes concerning gain. Students cannot solicit on no administrative regulations sex and sexual behavior was also campus." The Student learned of By Executive Board that restrict male-female cited as a large campus-wide two instances in which students o relationships. When asked if (Continued on Page 12) (Continued on Page 12) Student, he served as: editor of The editor and assistant editor the Webster Street Journal, an of The Bates Student for the alternative newspaper which he $4.2 Million Gymnasium Complex 1979-80 school year were elected and others created during his this week. Thomas Vannah, who high school years; an intern at plans to double major in English the Daily Transcript in Dedham, (Seale) Taking Shape and History or Political Science, Mass., and later became a (9 will be serving as editor-in-chief weekly columnist for that paper; along with Jon Marcus, who director of the New England intends also to fulfill a double Student Press Co-Operative; and major in English and Political newswriter for the Needham Science, as assistant editor. Reporter. Both Vannah and Marcus have Both Vannah and Marcus will worked diligently for the be sophomores next year; «0 Student this past year as Senior however, they do not foresee Reporters. their class status as a detriment. Vannah's past journalistic Said Vannah, "I think that Jon experience includes: his work for and I will have to be judged by The Bates Student; editor-in- our own merits and not by our chief of his high school age." newspaper (1977-78); features Vannah, as editor-in-chief- editor of that paper (1976-77); elect, commented that he hopes contributing editor (1976); and the student body, "although they reporter (1974-1976). He also sometimes disagree with what worked sporadically as a we may choose to print, will headline writer and assisted with support the newspaper in a layout of The Milford Citizen variety of capacities from writing (1977). Vannah's high school to simply providing feedback. As paper, under his direction, was my grandmother says, 'It takes awarded a First Place Medal by all kinds.' As many different the Columbia Scholastic Press views, ideas, and stories as we Association and was nominated have to work with can only serve for "All-Columbian" honors in to make a good paper." the areas of layout and editorials. Vannah and Marcus will of- Marcus also has extensive ficially begin serving in their experience in journalism. respective capacities when they No longer battling the winter elements, construction crews on the new gymnasium complex are now Besides working for The Bates return for Short Term. moving into more advanced stages of construction. The construction is ahead of its original schedule. 2 THE BATES STUDENT, Mar. 23,1979 Letters to the Editor THANK-YOU FROM ADMISSIONS BRING BACK DUDES To The Listening Audience of mere understatement. One must To the Editor: the campus. The reaction of comments on the friendliness and WRJR, realize that "The Dudes" The Deans of Admissions visiting students to your simple human interest in others To say that the absence of broadcast for a select audience would like to offer a public hospitality has been over- that Bates students show, and "The Dudes" in their regular that tune in for their particular "thank you" to the dozens of whelmingly enthusiastic. We we will continue to attract very program slot of Monday at brand of radio. Admittedly they students who have this year have received hundreds of (Continued on Page 12) midnight was horribly unjust, are somewhat ahead of their helped the Admissions Office, uncalled for, and unfair to their time, and they do have a rather and to suggest some ways in PARKING PROBLEMS listening audience is more than a (Continued on Page 12) which students might be of To the Editor, need a parking permit, costing continued help in enrolling a new In continuing fulfillment of $25 to park on Bardwell Street, a freshman class of thoughtful and your "role" as an investigative PUBLIC street. (The Lewiston The Randy Reports talented people. publication, we the undersigned police will ticket you for parking Over the course of the year, hereby emplore you to in- in the wrong direction.) about fifteen hundred high school vestigate alleged misconduct on WILL WE STAND FOR "All I Want Is A Room and transfer students have had the part of the Bates College THIS??? interviews, and. of these, over administration of stealing money NO, WE SAY!!! Somewhere . .' two hundred have taken us up on directly out of the pockets of Thank you. an offer of an overnight stay on Bates students. "Why does one (Continued on Page 12) by Tad Baker the highest bidder. All the anxiety and confusion All of the preceding examples over last week's lottery gives one are of course foolish and BATES BRIEFS the impression that perhaps ridiculous.