t .he s p E C T A r· 0 R VOLUME THREE
HAMIL TON, AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
McGovern Support Strong on Campus
At the committee's meeting on Tu e s d a y , ·S e p t . 1 2, t h e Hamilton-Kirkland Students for McGovern recommenced its drive to raise sorely-needed funds for the New York campaign of the Democratic presidential nominee. Jeff Grabell '74, co-ordjnator of the c a m p u s group and nationally-appointed director of t�e Utica office of the "McGovern fo r Pr e sident" C o m m itt ee, proposed several possibilities for m oney-raising, including dances, concerts, sale of bumper stickers and butt�ns·, and door-to-door soliciting on campus and in the surrounding area. Estimating that at least 1000 students on both campuses are McGo vern supporters, Grabell ho pes to enli,st many of these people to volunteer aid not only in the campus community, but, more crucially, in Clinton, Utica, and other area towns. The Utica "McGo v e r n f o r P r esident Co mmi t t e e" a n d i t s Hamilton-Kirkland branch will be co-ordinating action with such local pro-Mc Govern groups as Labor for McGovern. Canvassing and petitioning of the local area by Kirkland, and Hamilton McGovern supporters in the spring of 1972 helped secure the placement of six McGovern delegates on the June 20 primary ballot in Oneida County. Five out of those six delegates were elected to represent the county at the Democratic Convention in July. Ho w e v e r m o n e y , n o t sign a t ures , i s w hat G eo r g e Mc G o v ern n e e d s now. The Republican party, recognizing the
i m p o rt ance of garner i ng the crucial New York state popular, and thus electoral votes, plans to spend 1 0 · m illion dollars on campaign activities in this state alone. On the other hand the D em ocratic p arty in Oneida C o u nt y i s m u c h less well-endowed. G ra bell i s co nfident, t hat M cG o v ern will carry Oneida County if all of those residents and students who purport to favor t h e De m o crat i c presiqte nti a l n o m i n e e will a s su m e:· their r e s p o n s ibility t o vofe. All Hamilton and Kirkland students are urged to register to vote in their ho m e districts by t he stat e--determined deadlinqs. The deadline for registration for New Y<?rk residents is September 23. Registered student, if u�able to vote i n Oneida C o u nty , are encouraged to write to the¥" home boards .of elections for absentee b a l l o t a p pl i ca t i o n s . T h e H a m i lton-Kirkland Students for M cG overn will also try to aid coll eg e residents in obtaining· absentee ballots. The possibility of bringing an official register to teh campuses to provide for the registration of students eligible to vote in Oneida County was also mentioned. Graben is interested in joining t h e s e e f f o rt s with ,f a cu lty m embers of both <"olleges whQ s u pport McGo vern • .<\.n yone w i shing furt her info r m ation c o n cerning the c.ampus group's activities or anyone interested in volunteering his or her aid, may contact Jeff Grabell at 8 59-7547 or at Room 201 Kirkland Hall.
Ham ilton and Kirkland colleges u n i t e d i n t heir first joint convocation l ast Sunday, and dedicated the Daniel S. Burke Library. Burke, a lawyer, was a long-time benefactor of Hamilton a n d f o r s e v e n years-- u ntil 194 5--chairman of the Hamilton board of Trustees. H i s s on, Cll!em� . Burke, is the current chairman. Sir John Wolfenden and Keyes D. M etcal f received honorary degrees at the convocation. Sir John is Director and Librarian of the British Museum; Dr. Metcalf is Librarian Em eritus of the Harvard
Stu dent s are r e quest ed to return ballots not collected on Wednesda y evening to Mrs. T r o s s e t , t he Steering Committee Secretary by 1 p.m. on Thursday or Friday, in the Kirner-Johnson Building. These ballots will be tabulated with the results posted in the dorms by Monday, September 25. This same election process will be repeated during the week of the 2!ith for at large candidates. The frist Assembly meeting will be on a Monday at 3:15, or soon thereafter. Students are encouraged to return the recently distributed sign-up sheet for membership o n Asse m bly c o m m ittees; please make sure that one's n a m e i s i ncluded on · t h e returned form. Any students w h o h a v e m i s p l a·c ed o r negl ected to inc lude their names on the questionnaire are r e q uested to co nt.act the Steering Committee. This year's Steering Committee members
are: students: Sara Gordon, Becca Marin, and Connie Miner; F a c u l t y: Wi llia m Hof f a , Cha irman, S a n d r a DeMyer, Steve Liebm an, David Locke, and Gene Putala. The S t eer i ng Committee d e c i d e d tha t d o rm i tory representatives and the Union representative should be elected_ prior to the at large elections, so that students will have the most chanc;es �o be elected. The election schedule is as follows: S e p t e m b e r 1 9 a n d 2 0, self-nominations will be made on sign-up sheets in each dormitory. At 6 p.m. on .the 20t h , nominations will close and student members of · the St�ering Committee will collect these lists. Ballots made from these lists will be distributed to s t u d e n t m a i lbox e s o n September 21. The students on the Steering Committee will collect completed ballots from s t udent s in the dorms that ev ening beginning at 8 p.m.
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by Sara Gordon There will be a program of Asse m b ly orientation on Mo nday, Septe m ber 18, in r o o m 1 Z-8 o f t h e Kir n er-Johnson building; the time will be posted in McEwen and t h e K -J building on Mo nday. Steering Committee me mbers w il l discuss the function of the Assembly at this meeting. It is hoped that a video tape film of an actual Ass embly m eet i ng will be viewed at this introduction to the Assembly. · This year five students will be elected at large, one of whom will be the choice of the Black and Puerto Rican Union. Only the members of a specific dorm will vote for that particular d o rm i t o r y ' s representative. All dormitories will have sign•up sheets for st ude n t s t o n o m i n a t e themselves; the method will be one of self-nomination, without the necessity of a second. A d etailed explanation of this system will be distributed to all st udent s by t he Steen11g Comf_ittee.
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L i b r a r y and w a s t he chief consultant in the planning of the Ha m ilton -Kirkland Library. Sir John delivered the p_!i ncipal convocation address. The new building. can house some 5 00,000 volu m es; the curr ent collection stands at 300,000 volumes, but is growing at 10,000 ti tles yearly. The building was design ed by architect Hugh Stubbins of Boston, and built by Daniel O'Connell's sons, contractors, of Holyoke, Mass. It was finished on time and within the $5,500,000 budget allotted. A m ong the Bur ke Library' feature·s is the third-floor rare book room, which guards special c o l l ect i o n s , s u c h a s t h e well-known Ezra Pound collection and the Beinecke ·Lesser Antilles C o l l e c t i o n . T h e B einecke collection is of special interest to h i s t qrians, s o c i o l o g i s t s and anthro pologist s interested in C a ribbean life i n the early nineteenth century, before the abolition of slavery in the English colonies. There is a collection of i n c u n a b ula , a m o n g them a numb er o f m issals printed on parchment, and Samuel Kirkland's journals make up an important part of a collection of 19th century documents dealing with local history. T w o d e partment s o f the Library will remain outside the n ew building: natural sciences books will remain in the Science Library, and the Kirkland Core collectio n, w hi c h em phasizes Women's Studies, will remain in the Kirner-]ohnson building. There are no immediate plans for utilizing the cavernous Library ba s em ent, except for a Social S i ences "lab" and a smoking roo m for use until· the "no smoking" problem is straightened out. The Library's controversial "no smoking" policy is the result of a
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m ist a ke i n planning. Librarian Walter Pilkington confessed, "I think I goofed." He had planned, he said, to allow a "free and easy" policy o n s moking--he himself smo kes-but problems with the f l a m ma b l e r u g , t h e n ew , co m p l i cated air-condit io ning system, and the smoke-detectors in the ·ire alarm system required t h a t a b a n b e effected temporarily. 1 • The building also contain� the ducts, wires and cables necessary for advanced Library equipment, such a s computer terminals or m i c r o fil m , which could b e installed if the need arose ancl the ·money could be obtained. -·There are other bugs to be w o r k e d o u t . Un t i l t h e a i r - c o n ditioning m a c hinery 'matures,' which will tak,e about a year, the Library will often be ,too hot or too cold, as the parts of 1the unusually complex machine ,are balanced. The gate to the all-ni night reading room broke down on Tuesday morning, jamming about half-way open, and closing the study area to late-night users. The Library administration will soon publ i sh a "guide to the Library" which it will supplement w i t h a pro gram o f student assistants answering questions and giving advice ori the use Qf the Library. ; There will be no new security me<\sures. Although the Libtary is no longer covered by the Honor system, Pilkington said the cost of i n c r e a s e d s e c u r ity , eit her electronic or human, exceeded that of the lost books. He added that very few books are actually stolen from the Library; rather, they are "borrowed" by stqdents who do not sign them out ;when p a p cr s c o m e d u e , b ut /1 who eventqally return them. Pilk�gton commented that the only , really effect ive security systen;i is a "j o i nt venture" of a'1 t he L i b r a r y's us ers. /
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FREE CHURCH OF CLINTON The Free Church of Clinton will hold its first service this week. Every Sunday morning during the school year there will be worship in the Hamilton College Chapel at 11:15 a.m. A volunteer choir under the direction of Mrs. Mary Fankhauser is being formed to sing weekly 4t the services. People of all ages are welcome to sing; the choir will rehearse on Thursday evenings. Anyone interested in taking part in this choir should call Mrs. Fankhauser at 853-6483. The Free Church is under the direction of the Rev. Joel W. Tib betts, Hamilton College Chaplain. Other members of the ,c o l l e g e a nd tqwn communities will also lead services. Rev. Tibbetts will speak this week on "Reflections on a Free Church." E�phasis in the services will be on exploration and discussion �f t h� C hr i stian faith in both its historical and contemporary dimensions. It is hoped that a day-care center will t.>e established in Bristol Ca,mpus Center, so that the parents of young children may leave them un<!er qualified supervision during the services., H-K MIXER FRIDAY The SAC is sponsoring a mixer for the Hamilton-Kirkland community on Friday, September 15, begin�ing at 9:30 p.m. in the Bundy Dining Hall. Music will be provided by "BULLETT.�' Admission will be. free for those with social tax. Guests of those who have paid social tax will be charged 25 cents to attend. General Admission is $2.00. SOCIAL TAX Cancellation of Social Tax will not be possible after Monday, September 18, because the SAC will have already set up a budget. Part of the budget has already been allocated for Friday night's dince. STUDENT ADMISSIONS COMMIT,TEE There will.be an organizational meeting at 8:00 p.m., Monday, S ept ember 18 in the Fisher Room of Bristol for all those interested in the tour guide and student interview programs. TEST DATES FOR NATIONAL TEACHER EXAMS N e w d a t e s f o r the t e s t ing of prospective teachers are: November 11·,1972, and January 27, April 7, andJuly 21, 1973. The tests will be given at nearly 500 locations throughout the U nited S t a t e s , E TS said. Results of the National Teacher E·xaminations are used by many large school districts as one of several factors in the selection of new teachers and by several states for certification or licensing of teachers. GRADUATE RECORD EXAMlNATIONS The first testing date for the GRE is October 28, 1972. Scores from this administration will be reported to the graduate schools around December 4. Students planning to register for the October test date are advised that application_s received by ETS after October 3 will incur a $3.50 late registration fee. APter October 10, th�re is no guarantee that applications for the October test date can be processed. The other five test dates are December 9, 1972, January 20, February 24, (only the Aptitude Test is administered), April 28, and June 16, 1973. Equivalent late fee and registration deadlines apply to these dates. Choice of test dates should be determined by the requirements of graduate schools or fellowship sponsors to which one ,is applying. Scores are usually reported to graduate schools five weeks after a test date. · ·sTUDENT DRIVERS OF'COLLEGE-OWNED VEHICLES. This is a reminder that students desiring to be declared "eligible" to drive college-owned vehicles must follow this simple proc�dure: Complete an "application for clearance to Drive College Vehicles". Forms are with Dean Bouch at Kirkland and Dean Bingh�m at Hamilton. This p ro c e d u re requires only a few minutes but must be completed prior to the release of vehicles to student operators. SPECIAL NOTE: Those students previously cleared must be recertified "eligible".
Political Bent ... In 1968 many Americans felt frustrated about the government, the candidates, and the political system in general. Candidates Nixon and Humphrey presented American voters with plans, proposals, and points that were never fully clarified. This y e a r o u r choices are clear. As President Nixon has said, the choice between Senator McGovern and himself is probably the clearest of the century. We agree, and endorse the candidacy of Senator McGovern. Richard Nixon has deceived the American public for three and one-half years. Under the guise of Vietnamization hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have been killed, w h ile the war has widened into -Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. Under the guise of "fiscal responsibility" he has put millions of Americans out of work and has added fuel to the fires of inflation. Under the guise of "quality local education" and "a strict constructionist Supreme Court" he has attempted to make racism and segregation t ol e r able. Under the guise of "law and order" he has diminished our civil rights and constitutional liberties. President Nixon has v e t o e d b a d ly needed health, education, welfare, and labor appropriation bills. He has degraded the Su prem e C o urt through political appointments of blatant racists, and has let purely political considerations guide the e n forc e m e nt of justice. Nixon has attempted to retard the expansion of voting rights of Blacks, and has watered down the e f forts t o c o m b at j ob discrimination. Me a n w hile, he has proposed $80 billion defense budgets and fiscal programs which benefit the few at the expense of the many. The truth is: Emperor ,Richard wears no clothes.
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On the other hand, Senator McGovern represents a voice of progressive change. As a Senator, he has opposed our involvement in Vietnam since 1963. He has consistently supported necessary health and education p rograms, a id for the c it ie s, st r o ng e n viro n m e nt a l le g islat i o n , and -r a cial equality. He has spoken out on such issues as amnesty, women's rights, and the inequality of our tax structure. At a time for a hard look at America's real needs, President Nixon offers us, in his own w ords, "four more years of the same". Senator McGovern is prepared to offer us a desperately ne�ded change. We urge your active support for his candidacy.
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Students marched, and de·monstrated and protested and picketted. And not �uch happened. So students went on strikes, and went on fasts, and went to sit-ins and got arrested. Still not much happenel So tliey fought, and cried, and cursed, and yelled. And you know what happened. Not much. Then some people came out with the brilliant sugge st10n that students work within the system. Stude nts in tum, r e s p o n d e d with the equ ally a st ute observation that they couldn't. But then, either to diffuse their protests or in response to them, they gave us the right to vote. So what's happened? Not much yet, but a lot could. Something more than four more years of bombing, destruction, lies and deceit. Our silence will only ensure and commit us to' more of the above. Our actions could change it. Not just the appearance as in the past from ground troops to a less noticeable air war, but the essence. Register in New York before September 23, or contact your home registration center. Vote· on November 7th.
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WE�TZ NAMED TO REGIONAL OFFICE BY ASSOCIATION Andrew W. Wertz, director of the Bristol Campus Center at Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, has been named Coordinator on Minority Programs for Region 2 of the Association of College Unions - International. In this capacity Mr. Wertz, who will continue his duties at Hamilton and Kirkland, will serve as a consultant to the member colleges of ACU-I in New York State and the Province of Quebec on questions related to the problems of minority students, faculty and staff. Mr. Wertz came to Hamilton and Kirkland in 1970 on his retirement as a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, having served most recently as Chief of the Plans Branch of the 2856th Air Base Group at Griffiss Air Force Base, Rome, N.Y. He is a graduate of Lincoln University (Pa.) and .the Air Command and Staff College (Ala.). CASINO NIGHT
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Arts and Eatertatam.eat ARTS PRESENTATIONS MO V IES ON C A M'P U S SEPTEMBER 1 5 & 16 Shaft, 8 p.m., Science Auditorium M. 8 p.m.,.Chemistry Auditorium (also on Sunday mght) Root-Jessup presents The Battle of Algiers, 8 and 10 p.m., Science A uditorium ON CAMPUS NEXT WEEKEN D The Producers and Rachel, Rachel IN AND AROU ND U TICA Paris Cinema (733-2730): The Candidate 258 Cinema (732-5 461): 1. Six Women & The Affairs of Aphrod#e 2. What's Up Doc? 3. Airport and The Andromeda Strain Kallet Cinema (736-2313): Fiddler on the Roof Stanley (724-4000):Blacula &B lood from the Mummy's Tomb Uptown (732-0665): Easy Rider MUSICAL EVEN TS SEPTEMBER 15 Bullett in concert 9:30 p.m., Bundy Dining Hall, free beer, dancing SEPTEMBER 17 Bruce Barbour, pianist, 2:30 p.m., Museum of Art Auditorium at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica. EXHIBITIONS CURRENT: Arc hitecture Without Architects, Root Art Center (through October 15) DIS CUSSION SERIES SEPTEMBER 20 Quakerism:HistoricalBackground , 8 p.m.,K-J Rm. 128 IN THE WEEKS AHEAD MOVIES The Masque of Red Death, Millhouse, & Nixon's C heckers Speech, I'm All Right, Jack. LAST LECTU R E S ER_IES This semester we will hear last lectures from Charles L. TQdd, Hamilton Speech D'e parti:nent, Rouben Cholakian, Hamilton Romance Languages Department, and Hadley S. DePuy, fonper Associate Dean at H a m i l t on a n d c u r rently President of Putton-Montgomery Community College. Additional speakers will be announced later..
Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre: A Modern Musical Landmark
BY RICHARD A.KAVESH _Sacre is not melody or harmony, Stravinsky's but rhythm. The harmonies, while Igor When ritualistic ballet Le Sacre du uniquely dissonant, are ·basically Printemps (The Rite of Spring) was s i m p l e , a n d melody, in t he first performed in Paris on May classica l sense of the term, is 29, 1913, it caused a riot violent n o t i c eably absent, but the enough to make the Rolling pusating rhyt h m s and jagged Stones' concert at Altamont look s y n c o p a t i o n s p r o vide t he like a meeting of the Republican backbone for some of the most National Convention. excit i n g , c olor ful music even According to one survivor, the wr itten. No previous composer, reaction to Le Sacre was nearly a not even Beethoven or Berlioz, massacre, for a large part of the had used rhythm in so bold a audience considered the work to fashion, and no one since, not be "a blasphemous attempt to e v en his conscious imitators in dest r o y music as an art." In contemporary music such as the de scribing the conditions under Rolling Stones, has written music which t he perform ance took o f such sustained rhythmic place, he noted: "The orchestra invention. p l a y e d u n hea r d , except T o c o n d u c t L e Sacre occasionally when a slight lull s u c c e s sfully i s the hardest occurred. The young man seated challenge a conductor can face; it behind me in the box stood up requires, above all, an extremely during the course of the ballet to taut and refined sense of rhythm enable himself to see more clearly. necessary t o hold together a The intense excitement under leviathan orchestra of over 110 which he was labouring betrayed m e m b e r s frequently playing at itself presently when he began to cross-rhythm s . Because of its bear rhythmically on the top of demands, Le Sacre has received m y head w i t h h i s f i st s . My little success on records. However, emotion was so great that I did we are fortunate in having two not feel the blows for some time." excellent performances, those of W hat k i n d of m u s ic could Leonard Bernstein and Pierre arouse such passions? Relentlessly Boulez� which stand clearly above rhythmic, barbarically dissonant, all others as dynamic aI1d exciting Le Sa ere burst music into the interpretations. 20th century in much the same T h e c lassic 1960 Bernstein ,way that Beethoven's Third and recording reigned supreme for 10 Ninth symphonies prope l led y e a r s w i t h o u t s e r i o u s music into the 19th. Pierre Boulez competition, and has ably stood notes that Le Sacre "s�rves as a t h e t e s t o f t i m e . I t i s a point of reference to all who seek p erformance of savage intensity to establish the birth certificate of quite appropriate for the score, what is still called 'contemporary' a n d features brilliant virtuoso music." p l a y i n g b y the New Y o r k The motivating force behind Le P hilharm onic, part icularly its
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HAPPY DAVS! Pri., Sat., Sept 22 & 23 there will be a performance of Happy Days by Samuel Beckett in Minor Theatre sponsored by the Student Activities Committee. Rebecca Dobson and Professor Paul Cooper will appear as Winnie and Willie. The community is welcome. The time is 8:00. The Arts page needs writers. If you are interested in dance,, drama, literature, sculpture, photography, films, painting, or music - · or anything else related to the arts - and would like to write original material or criticism, please contact Richard Kavesh through campus mail or at 110 Kirkland Dorm.
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renowned brass section. The rhythms and textures are precise and clear, yet none of the work's mighty power is sacrificed in the search for precision. The 1970 Boulez performance is even more rhythmically precise, a n d the C levela n d Orchestra, finely honed into the nation's finest by the late George Szell, presents a model of orchestral discipline and perfection in every r espect. Boulez is a mite more c ool, detached, and "objective" t h a n B e r n s t e i n in this interpretation, but then, that is the trademark that he has sought t o establish for himself. Like Stravinsky attempted to do in his rather sterile recording, Boulez exposes the bones and ribs of the score, but unlike Stravinsky, Boulez does not ignore the score's l i fe-givi ng fles h, blood and emotion . I t i s a performance which c onscientiously blends clarity, precision, and dramatic power. Both the Bernstein and Boulez recordings are so excellent that it is difficult to make an ultimate decision between the two. If pressed, I would probably choose the Boulez recording, but only tentatively. They both do justice t o The Rite of Spring, which r emains the greatest and most important work of the 20th century. As Charles Burr notes: "It s birth pangs, which some mistook for an attempt to destroy m u s i c , a r e now s een t o be, instead, the point of departure for a whole new way of listening to music."
by Jeff Boone This year Skip Roessel and m y self are c o-d ir e ct ing t he Kinokunst film society. With this opportunity to preview films (at least our own) before the paper goes to press, we thought we'd try o ur han d at film cr iticism. Wor king as p r oje ctionists for s evera l yea r s , we have both experienced at first hand the, ah, discontent of customers who felt we had misrepresented the show. We hope to clarify the situation, perhaps help our audiences get more out of the films they watch, and of course n et some free_ publicity. Undertaking a column l i k e t his one, does, of course, imply a certain responsibility to competing film societies. We'll do our utmost to give their programs fair coverage. "A screen classic, a landmark of cinematic history." Faced with an adv ertisement like this, the a verage audience stays away in droves. They've wised up after being c on ned into s quirming through a sucession of scratchy prints of films which are totally uninteresting to a post-television audience. The action drags, every
movement is painfully spelled out in three shots where one would do f o r a c inematically literat e a udience; the sound, if any, is atrocious. Worst of all, most of t h e sex a n d violence occurs , of/screen! If you've got a hot date, who needs boredom? Nev ertheless, the Kinokunst offering this week is "a classic". Fritz Lang's M (1931), however, a voids m ost of the pitfalls of obscurity and boredom associated with many so-called monuments to the liveliest art. Of course, any film made in the early thirties will seem slow to m odern audiences. M is no except i o n . The editing, which holds each shot a fraction, longer than seems necessary, was tailored to an audience unexposed to the s c r e en shorthand instigated by TV. This is not to say that M is b o r i n g . On t h e contrary, the sus pense can be excruciating. Franz Becker (Peter Lorre) is. a psychopathic sex murderer of little girls. The police conduct an investigation which so disrupts the c i t y ' s u nderworld that the criminals also organize a search for the killer. Lang crosscuts
between the actions of tht. police a n d the underw o r l d , rarely examining the murderet himself. Thi s establishes a peculiarly t imely relationship between the underworld and the police. The two factions know all about each other. "We 're all law experts here," says the head mobster, describing his clan. There are some unpleasant implications to be noted in the fact that police and crooks are working toward a common goal, "business as usual" .. Technically, M typifies Lang's style, heavily indebted to German expressioni s m . Shadows, odd lighting, bizarre camera �gles all contribute to the feeling of menace. Lorre's looming shadow is t y pical Lang. It changes a plum p little nonentity into a figure of menace. A chase in the streets is shot from above; the geometrical pattern of pavement and sidewalk forms a trap for the fleeing Becker. S haft, t his week's Science Auditorium offering is a cinematic land m ar k of a different sort. S haft's t r e m endous box-office success was directly responsible for the c u r rent rash of black Continued on page four
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Biblius Rex, Flight of Fancy- With apologies to Dr. Wolfenden by Peter Zicari The new library stood at the head of the quadrangle, hunched on its forty legs like a giant caterpillar ready to leap into space. Its l i g h t s gleamed into the gloaming through windows like huge, compound eyes hidden beneath the building's beetling brow. Its t awny b u l k dwarfed the b u i l d i n g s a round it and loomed threateningly over the roadway; approaching it, one saw that it could leap without warning to its toes to dash down the field and t a k e a final bound to the top of Benedict before hurling its half-million tons into the ionosphere: the plants that dting to the runway looked ready to flee at the slightest rumble. The Library's depths glowed pink, revealing great long racks and rows of shelves resembling striated muscles awaiting contraction.· A glimmer of daylight eked its way through from the back; here a.J;ld there flealike workers darted about the rows and columns. -The Library's vital parts were set forward, the heart and soul to t h e left , t he appendix to the right, where Grinds and other troglodytes could be locked away in safety for the night. In the center, the great Glottis stretched up orange-carpeted stairs to the very top of the building, where gill-like structures faced North, to evade the sun. The carpet flowed down the outthrust stairs to1 lick at the doorway and taste the feet of those who entered, and washed the· b a c k of the building, where Seminars concentrated, and then dissipated, like arcane chemicals, :throughout the building. The Reference (so named by a sign on its counter) sat like a ductless gland behind the sta.4"way. It faced the Xerox, which guarded the Cellar Steps. Beneath, great machines panted and heaved and throbbed out the frigid respiration of the building, through trembling grates that rumbled out warnings of the black depths that lay behind them. ! . . . The Library ate noise. Through its gapmg Front, 1t swallowed up the lawnmowers' putter, the so$ds of stereos, of conversations, and of frisbee games. Inside the ligh� hummed, the elevator swished, the clocks clattered, and toilets roa�ed in six come� of the building? yet the Library's voluminous silence swallowed 1t all. The Skylights echoed it and the bluesteel machines digested it, to store the essence in the dark caverns of the Cellar against the Take-off. For along time, the Library waited, and slowly fed. Then, on the appointed day when the sky pinkened and the clouds gleamed with anticipated delight, the stacks thrilled and the Xerox shook, the Desk throbbed and the Reference secreted for all it was worth, and as the Cellar machinery screamed out its power the New Library opened its carapace and shook out its feet and with a flick of its tail began its headlong dash, thundering skywards to freedom. And Chauncey S. Truaxspµn in his grave.
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Keyensian economics and explains why your scholarship has been cut in very esoteric terms. He talks about the state of the economy and you interject about the state By Elaine Weiss of y o u r bank account and he Rumor has it that there is a con tinues a bout the state of new, very important person on college finances and you mumble campus. He's very important if a bo u t your depressed state of you're looking for money from mind. But he always wins. Isn't t h e bloodless fists of Hamilton this .. comforting? But I wouldn't and /o r K i r k l a n d . H e ' s v er y know. i mportant i f the state has sent When you are ushered into his your i nc en t i v e scholarship to Courtland and you're at Kirkland . office he points with pride to his Scottish ancestry and you notice (a common ertor). He's especially his m i ddle name is Ebeneezer. important if your parents made That hurts. At the outset of your the mistake of filling the wrong meeting he tells you things aren't income in the wrong little box on as bad on the Hill as .they were y our confidential statement. Or during the panic of 183 7, but you worse- writing in the area that shouldn't get your hopes too high. warns, under severe penalty "do And w h a t c a n you offer to not write in this spa�e- for office use only" an explanation of how Hamilton or Kirkland that they you sister needs orthodontia. He's should pay for? You tell him you the new financial aid director for knit v e ry nice woolen scarves. the two schools and he's a very Could he use one? Oh, the terror goes on. But I busy man. I know. I tried to see was spared it all because I have him. The rumor continues that he's never met the man. All I know is � thin tweedy man with a thin. his name is Ken Kogut and he has reedy voice. _He dresses in grey a light brown moustache and was flannel and wears a soft brimmed wearing a gold short sleeved shirt hat. He holds a large, very tight when I saw him pop out of his money dip in his left hand. And office for a second. Scheduling points out why you can't receive didn't allow me to meet with him financial aid with his right. And this week, but Mrs. Stressel (dear t h r o w s o u t y o u r t i m i d Mrs. Stressel) said he's very nice explanations with both. Oh, isn't and has Mrs. Stressel ever lied to t hi s horrib le? But I wouldn't you? Maybe next week I can know. H e is well v er s ed i n confirm all the rumors.
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Boa_rd T h e H a m ii t o n College C h a p e l B oa r d w i l l b egin a n other year directed b y President David Carlisle '74. The innovat10n m this year's program is the inclusion of a S\&d a y m o r ni n g worship service. The service, known as the Free Church of Clinton, is under the direction of Mr. Joel Tibbetts, Chaplain of Hamilton College. The Free Church will offer. a r e turn to the more t r a d i t i onal Christian worship service. . The service is intended to be informal, but not unstructured. It;· will stress different kinds of wo rship experience, yet will p.�obably ·be more traditional tp.an innovative. ! The Sunday evening services will be continued the same as las t y e a r . H o w e v er , t he direction of these services will ihclude less diversity and more dontinuity. ! The volunteer services which f.e financially connected . with the C h a p el Bo ard will also continue. Tonight, the Chapel Board will kick off its annual fund Drive. Most of the Chapel Board's activities depend upon th e fin.ancial success of the Fund Drive for their continued existence. This year, some of the funds w ii l b e a l lo c a t e d . t o t h e Conscientious Objectors Outfit and also to support a foster c h i ld i n Columbia. Both of these a r e c o nt ributions to ,c ha rities not covered by the •U n i t e d F u nd - t he m a i n recipient o f past Chapel Board : contributions. O t h e r Chapel Board activities include a retreat to be scheduled sometime this fall 1 along with a square dance for the general community.
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The intramural football season will commence on Wednesday Sept. 20. All rosters must be submitted to Doug Jones by M�nday Sept. 18. Freshmen may find blank roster sheets on the walls, m the halls of Dunham. Any student who is very familiar with the rules of football and wishes to pick up some extra cash should contact Geo�e Pende�gast. He will be sign ing up all the Intramural Referees and 1f you wish to join this program, please contact him this weekend (Sept. 15-17). Preferably two people should apply and plan to work as a team. yARSITY FOOTBALL VARSITY �OCCER Sat.; Sept. 23* Haverford 1:30 Thurs.,Sept. 21 SUNY Rochester Univ. 2:00 Sat.,Sept. 30 at Binghamton 4:00 · Sat.,Oct. 7* Oberlin 1 :30 Sat.,Sept. 23* Wesleyan 10:30 Sat.,Oct. 14 Hobart 2:00 Wed.,Sept. 27* Albany State 3:00 1:30 Middlebury Sat.,Oct 21* Rochester Univ. 2:30 Sat.,Sept 30 Sat.,Oct. 28 St. Lawrence 2:00 Sat.,Oct. 7 Hobart 2:00 1:30 Affred Sat.,Nov.11 Wed.,Oct. 11 • Union 2:30 Sat.,Nov.18* Union 1:30 Sat.,Oct. I4t Williams 11:30 FALL TENNIS Thurs.,Oct. 1 9 Clarkson 3:00 Wed.,Sept. 20 Cortland 4:00 Sat.,Oct. 21 • St. Lawrence 3:00 Mon.,Sept. 25 R.P.1. 3:00 Fri.,Oct. 27* LeMoyne 3:00 Thurs., Oct 5 • Utica College 3:00 24 CROSS COUNTRY Tues.,Oct.1 0* SUNY 3:00 at Binghamton Sat.,Sept. t 6t Syracuse Carnival 10:00 SH A FT Continued from page three Sat.,Oct. 7 LeMoyne Invtl. 2:00 David Seyse exploitation f i l m s . D i r e ctor Tues.,Oct.10 R.P.1. 3:30 Phone Clinton 853-2003 2:00 G o r d o n P a r k s contributes the Sat.,Oct.14* Cortland LeMoyne, pi cture sense that made him a Sat.,Oct. 21 $6 from the coll� to. the Rochester U. & successful still photographer. New Utica Bus a Tram Stat10ns Roberts Wesleyan York contributes a number of 2:00 at Syracuse $6 from the colleges to the 3:30 Fri.,Oct. 27* Union excellent locations. Oneida Q>unty Airport Conference Sat., Nov. llt Vi su a l l y , Shaft is a sl i ck 10:0& at No. Chili $22 from the coJleges to the commercial job. It has been said, Syracuse airport . however, that what starts out as tDenotes A.M. an excellent black James Bond 5 ride as ctmply as 1 .. fantasy sinks to merely another *Denotes home games heist picture as Shaft attempts to free the kidnapped daughter of his . FOOTBALL ANNOUNCERS mobster boss. Then, too, there are· All students who wish tq announce football games over those who have compared this WHCL-FM should contact John Covino, Box 1221 Hamilton w h i t e-financed and produced Campus Mail by Wednesday, September 20. picture to an oreo cookie. Be that as it may, Shaft is a KIRKLAND TENNIS SCHEDULE: r ecent and highly entertaining mo vi e . If one w a n t s e scape, As in past seasons, Kirkland field a competent fall tennis seventy-five cents invested in team under the direction of Mrs. Richardson. Anyone who plays Shaft should prove sound. te�nis fairly well and would like fo be on the team s�ould contact H a m i lton is fortunate in its Mrs. Richardson, Coordinator of Athletics, at extension 7 512. proliferation of film societies. (There are now no less than five Mond�y, October 2 rolgate Home groups showing feature films on Wednesday, October 4 Skidmore "' Away campus). This week Hill students *Monday, October 9 Colgate Away a r e doubly fortunate in being *Wednesday, October 11 Cortland Home offered a choice of two different Tuesday, October 17 :syracuse Away kinds of movies. (Three, if you Thursday, October 19 !Utica Home count the excellent cinema verite Monday, October 23 Away Wells Battle of Algiers playing in the *Thursday, October 26 !Cazenovia** Home 'kience Auditorium on Sunday.) All thr�e are good examples of *Tentatively scheduled [ **Freshmen an� Sophomores o.. y their genre•.
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ABC Experiment Locates in Clint·on BY JUDITH SILLARI This week Clinton became the temporary home of eight minority g r ou p h i g h school students participating in A Better Chance.: Clinton is the first community in New York state to sponsor a c h a p t e r o f t h e p r i va t e , nation-wide organization.
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The eight boys will reside at 99 Campus Road in a house owned b y Ha milton College. The residence, until recently the home A l t hough s o m e C o l l e ge of Ham il ton's former dean, facilities will be available for the . Winton Tolles, was rent ed by ABC' ABC students' use, the program .w h e n i n s u perable z oning emphasizes involving the boys in d i f f i c u l t i e s f o r c e d t h e. the life of the entire town. Several organi zation to relinquish a . "host families" will open their :':7:c: :"' ,"''"r: ""'"i'-chosen site in the town of homes to the boys for such BARBER il lin e amenities as Sunday dinners, but � t:�m�!�� �e::r� �:�: Mrs. Robert Mason, local ABC ' solution to the zoning problem is chairman, encourages the whole fo d community to make the students· w elcome . � e, v i.n g a. d ir ec t o r s -in-residence for the A B etter Chanc e considers the electronic outlets for projection youths are Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert fate of the Clinton program A da m s , both e ducators and crucial to the establishment of and film. r _ Other highlights of the building esidents of Clinton. Included in other chapters in New York State . include three specialized science .th e household are two tutors, to If this year proves successful, ABC areas, , complete with automatic be chosen from the Hamilton will play a continuing role in the safety devices; a 2 00-seat College student body, and a cook. increasing d i v e r sification of auditorium with both front and The ABC yo�gsters attend Clinton. r ear projection - larger than the Clinton High School. 160-capacity Science Auditorium soon to be used by one of the film societies for weekend movies; and the mysteriously named Red Pit, a WHERE room seating 60 people and available for classes, lectures, and WERE faculty and Assembly meetings. The Assembly Room is on the first YOU floor, as is the Dean of Students' suite; the President's suite is WHEN upstairs. A special private dining room is also on the second floor. THE Professors' offices are arranged LIGHTS with maximum mixing of divisions and disciplines in mind, although WENT for reasons of convenience the Arts Division remains in List and the OUT? f o u r s c i e n c e o f fices in Kirner-Johnson are gr ouped together. All faculty mailboxes, however, are together in the faculty room. Ki r n e r-Johnson's basement, excepting the areas of heating ducts and pipes termed "pure nightmare" by Babbitt, also contains valuable working space. Large workrooms for projects such as anthropology and archaeology, several darkrooms, a community gathering area, and storage locations are all found there. The Kirkland Public Relations Office will be established here also. This basement, just as the second floor, connects with McEwen,· in this case joining the photogr aphy studio off the mailroom. These outside exits and entrances should prove useful c o m e Decemb er. The final Kirkland structure, a theater complex - Babbitt explains that no projection date yet exists although the late '70's seems a fair estimate will also · join these buildings, providing quite a bit of indoor accessibility. P h y s i c a l w o rk on Kirner-Johnson began about two years ago, in November 1970. The $2,024,800 structure, funds for continued on �ge' ten EHRLICH
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BY JOAN TUCHMAN T he recen tly opened Kirner-Johnson complex moves the Kirkland campus one more step towards completion. Kirner-] ohnson houses faculty and administrative offices, the Fred L. Emerson Library, an auditorium, classro o m s , and study and community meeting areas. "It is actually two buildings divided by an 'invisible dotted line'," notes President Samuel F. Babbitt. Each section will be dedicated October 7, Associates Day. Kirner-Johnson will provide both schools with additional class
and study space. Its second floor Emerson Library, the former Core, a l o n g w i t h study spaces throughout the complex, including two seminar rooms near the Emerson, will provide carrel-type capacity for about 100. Combined with the new Daniel Burke Library at Hamilton, campus library · facilities will be able to serve 800 students. President Babbitt stresses the fact that what now appears as wasted open space will soon be filled with furniture. About 2 5 carrels will be placed in the halls at first; if they prove useful, more-will be added. Some desks feature
BY KRISTIN HOWARD This year the Campus Fund Drive is commencing with Casinc Night on September 22 at Bristol Campus Center. The doors wm open, free admission for all, at 9 p.m. Schlitz for twenty cents and LIVE JAZZ will be provided. Amidst the roulette, black jack, and craps, faculty members wilJ be acting as dealers and croupiers, For fifty cents, coupons will be sold which allow the purchaser ten free chips and a chance in the midnight p rize drawing by Colonel Grout. Prizes offered will be dinners at the Alexander Hamilt o n Inn and Rizzo's Restaurant, hand crafted silver jewelry, a bag of crunchy granola, a free haircut, and much more. The proceeds will go for the · colleges' volunteer services in which more than two hundred people participated last year. The programs included Utica Tutorial; Rome State School; Marcy State, Utica State, Saint Elizabeth's, and Childrens' Hospitals; the Potter School for the Handicapped; and Gillmore Village. Thousands of from these people benefited services in the Clinton-Utica area. Comments, volunteers, or requests information about these for projects can be directed to the Chapel Board. Other programs supported by
th e Campus Fund include the Clinton area Migrant workers, the A m e rican Frien d s Service Committee, the American Civil Liberti.es Union, Utica Bail Bond, the Foster Prents Plan, CCC O, and the World University Service. The fund raising campaign c ontinues until October 6th. Solicitors will be going from door to door during the next , two weeks. A suggested contribution _of $2.50 per student would help the drive substantially. Checks should be made payable to the CAMPUS FUND DRJVE. The following is a breakdown in percen tages of the financial distribution for the campus fund last year. We hope to be able to provide more funds, if needed this year, for each of these programs. Volunteer Services: Marcy State ................13.3% Potter School ..................4.0 Rome State ................15.0% Oneida County Tutoring ...... 4.6% Utica State ................... .4% Total .........................4% Clinton Area Migrant Workers ...1 6.6% Utica Bail Bond ................. 6.6% World University Service ........ 6.6% CCCO: An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling ............ 6.6% Foster Parents Plan ............1 3.3% Miscellaneous Student Projects ..11.6% Miscellaneous ..........••......1.4%
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A � Better Chanc e seeks to provide i t s youths with a cultura lly a n d educationally stimulating environment. In the more-than-twenty specific local chapters of the national program, students are either enrolled in preparatory schools or placed in small communities. Clinton was chosen as a desirable location because of past successes in ·smaller college towns of its type.
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LE CERCLE FRANCAIS Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, September 27, Bristol Campus Center, Student Senate Room: Initial rendez-vous for students interested in playing a campus role in encouraging French cinema, culture, conversation, even cuisine, when things take a turn for· the worse. Cafe and croissant will not be served, but feel free. to drop by and share your. suggestions. If unable to attend, information, available in Silliman Hall, room 25, Mr. Scherry. WINTER STUDY IN MADRID Everyone interested in a Winter Study project in Madrid should come to an important meeting in Silliman Hall (third floor) on , Monday at 8:00 P.M. Freshmen are particularly welcome. Information will be available on organization and financing. If you are unable to attend the meeting please contact Mr. Medina at extension 4213. HAMILTON COLLEGE PHI BETA KAPPA . The Phi Beta Kappa Chapter of Hamilton College elected four seniors as members at its meeting on September 13, 1972. Those recognized for superior scholarship were: Frank Cutolo John DiMartino Alan Friedman Cheung Cho Yue This is the equivalent to electing juniors to Phi Beta Kappa in the· spring in many colleges. WOMEN'S CENTER The Women's Center is sponsoring a number of workshops for women in women's health, human sexuality, feminist literature, bike mechanics and women's theater. There will be consciousness raising groups colllposed solely of women and other groups with men in them. In January when the state legislature convenes the center plans to sponsor pro-abortion lobbying. This year the Women's Center will have a room in the Kirner-Johnson building and the collection of books about - and by women which the Center assembled last year will soon be available in the Core Library. People who are interested in participating in the workshops, joining a consciousness raising group, and/or working on running the Center should contact Pennylynn Kornicker at extension 7281 or Robin Leads at Extension 4933.
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To the Editor: A problem has arisen to which serious attention must be paid. It was through personal experience Now that automo bile traffic is banned from the that I learned of the difficulties confronted by the returning Quad, we have seen a considerable increase of student to Kirkland College, two-wheeled traffic there, and with it, an increase in concerning the registration for classes by mail. accidents. Bicyclists from Hamilton arid Kirkland are Having b e e n away from involved in bang-ups resulting in everything from Kirkland for a year, I received a list minor scrapes to major injuries. Two students went of courses and a pre-registration form. This was one week before the· to the Health Center this week after one such deadline date, and I was therefore accident, one reportedly with his jaw slashed open, rushed into picking courses without the benefit of course the other with a concussion; n�ar-misses occur again descriptions. Being a junior made and again at blind corners on the campus pathways . this difficult, as I am supposedly about to choose a major field of The exhilirating ride down the hill is also a interest. When I returned to school I hazardous one� thanks to the S-curve at the bottom, f o und myself with a blank where bicycles and cars may meet, or where a registration sheet. A veritable student without a course. After - pedestrian may appear too suddenlr behind the three and a half days of chasing . embankment. professors and pleading for a fourth course, I am now a fully It seems unnecessary to repeat the reminders engaged student. distributed to sixth-graders every summer, but we'd Is this what the travelling student can expect from her like to remind anyone who needs reminding that school? Who is concerned with Hamilton and Kirkland's paved paths often have registering students by mail? This is a very frustrating. problem that people on them-soft and usually fragile people. must be looked into carefully. Bicyclists are required. to obey the same laws as Carol Goodman
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:- SECOND FREE CHURCH SERVICE The Free Church of Clinton will hold its second weekly service on Sunday, September 24, at 11:15_. A.M. in the Ham�lton College Ch�pel, under the leadership of Professor Warren E. Wright of the Hamilton Speech Department, wh9 will speak on "The HumanJesus."
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STUDENT CURRICULUM COMMITTEE . Anyone unable to attend .the organizational meeti 11g of the Hamilton Student Curriculum Committee Thursday night,.September 28, who wishes to join the committee, may contact Peter Spellane '73 or Chuck Flynn '74. PROFESSOR TODD GIVES; 'LAST LECTURE' Professor Charles L. Todd of the Hamilton College Speech Department will give a "Last Lecture" on Tuesday, September 26, at 7:30 P.M. in the Hamilton College Chapel. The Last Lecture Series, sponsored by the Chapel Board of Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, asks each of its participants to imagine that they are delivering the last lecture they will ever give, and �o speak accordingly. WRITERS' QPEN HOUSE An exciting event is in the offing every Tuesday night at 8:30 P.M. in the McEwen Coffeehouse. Called SALON, it is an open house for those interested in all aspects of writing, reading, discussing, or listening. Students' works and other's will be the focal point for this informal group session. A bulletin board will also _be· available to students in the coffeehouse for display of their work. All are invited. Sponsored by the faculty and studen ts of the Writing Workshops. BLOOD ORIV,E The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive on Tuesday, September 26, at the Bristol Campus Center of Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges from 10 A.M. to 3:45 P.M. The blood drive, in which all members of the community - both college and non-college - may participate, was arranged by Hamilton and Kirkla,rid students. Those wanting to reserve a time to give blood, to avoid delay, may · call Craig Joallon at 859-7397. _ F�ATERNITV ARCHITECTURAL TOURS The Fraternities on the Hill will be holding architectural tours this Sunday, Sept. 24. Unlike the tours of the past, there will be no speciJic times for freshmen to be at a certain house. All houses will be open for browsing from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. For those freshmen who have trouble finding specific houses, there .,.. will be guides available in front of the Chapel at 2· p.m. This is a good time to see the different houses; it will be beneficial for future consideration it one plans to join a fraternity.
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McGOVERN'S FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE BY VINCENT L. DICARLO Thus far, the controversy surrounding the McGovern candidacy has 'Centered on_ budgets wildly out of balance, a "pretty please" foreign . policy, and economic proposals which promise massive industrial and investment dislocation. Little, however, has been said about the real, fundamental questions of principle at stake. It's time we finished quibbling about a few missing billions here and there and talked about the real issue in this campaign. While the Dem ocratic and Republican parties have differed on matters of substance since their inception, they always had a shared common ground of belief about the nature of free men living in a free society. The right of every man'(and woman) to pursue his own goals in his own way without unnecessary coercion has always been upheld by all. The role of the government was seen as an inherently limited one. As the agent of a free people its job was to provide for the common defense, maintain a stable currency, provide a social framework of order and tranquillity, and perform such other jobs as were necessary an d which could not be done by individuals themselves. George McGovern is the first serious challenge to these principles in America. In the past forty years they have suffered by attrition, but McGovern is the first presidential candidate to propose that we discard these beliefs entirely. McGovern sees people, not as free agents rightly concerned about their just privileges, but as mere tools of State purposes. He wants to inject the government into every part of a person's life-:from getting a job, to raising his children, to providing for his old age. He would provide a guaranteed income, a guaranteed job, a guaranteed retirement, and a life fully insulated against both success and failure. In short, he would ensure all a life of guarnateed mediocrity. In return for these "benefits" of a benevolent government, the citizen will pay a gruesome price. He will surrender up the last shred of his independence. Freedom is not just a word:.-an evocative image to be kept in the deep-freeze until it is trotted out on public occasions for admiration. It is a real, live, everyday thing. It is my right to live, and die, for-my purposes and not for the purposes of _the State or the "people." It is my right to freely associate with other persons as I see fit, without, interference or protection. It is my right to produce, and then to enjoy, the fruits of my prod�ctivity. No government has the right to confiscate the product of my work and my life for its purposes. Neither can it justly demand that I work primarily for it rather than for myself. These are not rights to be given up on the promise of a secure life. I value my freedom above my security. I claim my right to live my life, make my ,own decisions, and suffer for my mistakes. "I will not cede more power to the state. I will not cede more power to anyone:" not to the state, not to the peo ple, not to George McGovern.
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Free School Expands In 4 New Areas BY ED CATLIN The Free School, a complement · a n d /or alternative to t he educational system at Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, will again offer a varied course selection for the local community. Two major directions of study will be pursued by the Free School this year. As was offered last year, courses will be given in the arts. Areas of individual interest in the pra�tical arts will be taught: silk-screening, bread baking, and weaving. In addition, other courses will deal with such areas as B e e t h o v e n a n d s pi r i t u a l approaches to literature. The Free School is instituting a new area of study this year. With the establishment of four areas of study concerned with assisting in community social and political problems, the school will attempt to involve people in educational programs which have a particular end in sight. Such programs- will include courses dealing with recycling in Cl inton , hu m an sexu alit y , problems of unem ployment and how it relates to unions and college students, and administrative and academic structures of Hamilton College. These courses will be taught with the intent of how p o ssibl e c h anges · m ay be implemented. As the School begins to focus t o w a r d s p r a c t i cal s oc i a l implementation o f its studies, its co-ordinators still consider their primary concern to be education. Social change is impo rtant, but the main purpose of the Free �cho�l is CONTINt:JED ON PAGE 10
Root-Jessup Council Plans MoreEilms,Lecture Series
Thursday, October 5. He is the c_o m mun i ty. This program will BY SARA GORD�N . The Root-Jessup Pubbc Affairs Natio nal Director o f the American begin at 8 p.m. in the Chapel. Council intends to offer a more Institute for Marxist Studies and James Domi ni ck, one of the key varied program this term than it will be available to students on N e w_ Y o rk ·l e g i slators involved has in past years. David Shapland, t h e c a m pus as p a rt of t h e with the recent abort ion repeal Vice Preside�t, has devoted much Root-] essup program. One of the _bill, will speak in October as will time during the summer·.vacation most commendable innovation s in h i s oppo nent in the upcoming attempting to schedule speakers the RJPAC's lecture format is the e l ection. Preparations are being and films for the coming semester. e n c o u r a g e m ent o f interaction m ade f or the Council's annual Mr. Bullard, faculty advisor, and between the students and visiting particip ation i n t he National Mr. Wertz, Director of the Bristol ·1ect ur ers. For the most part, Model United Nations Conference Campus Center, were invaluable speakers will no longer arrive a in New York City. A campus news assets to this programming. This few hours before their lecture, eat show will also be sponsored by year's officers are Sara Gordon: dinner with faculty and a few the C ouncil. A ny studen t s who are President; David Shapland: Vice c h o s en s t u d ent s , and leave P r e s i d e n t ; John Donohue: i m m ediately after the lecture. i nterested in being me mbers of Treasurer; and Marsha Weinstein: Contact with as many students as the Root Jessup Public Affairs Secretary. possible will be the new emphasis� Council are requested to contact The Root-Jessup officers met Speakers will not receive the usual Marsha Weinstein, if they did not last April and May with Mr. exhorbitant fees that speakers' sign up at Thursday's Open Hous. Bu l l a r d a n d Mr. W e r t z t o bureaus require, but will appear Suggestions for films, speakers, coordinate a tentative program for for a reasonable honorarium. and programs are eagerly awaited the '72-'73 year. ���Y. films were Hopefully, s t ud ents will take by the Council; please inform the suggested as poss1b1hties for the advantage of this new "lecture" o f f i' c e r s o f a n y s u c h recommendations. bi- monthly showings which the format. Counc� will . sponsor on S�nday R oot-Jessup will once again WEAVERS LIQUORS ev e?1�g s m the C h� m 1st�Y sponsor an open house for foreign Shc;>wmgs,will st ude n t s , faculty, and Council Auditonu m. "On the Square" be at 8 and 10 p. m. with an members on Monday, Septem ber adm ission price of $.50. Other 25 t h , at 7: 15 in the Alumni Specializing in the largest films which are scheduled for the House. O n T u e s d a y evening, semester are: The Selling of the. Se ptember 19th, the RJPAC is Selection of Imported, Domestic Pentagon; bi-weekly installments arranging a m eeting for the and fine California Wines of The Lone Ranger; For Whom student body with various civic the Bell Tolls; All Quiet on the leaders from the Clinton/Utica We stern Front; Stago l e e: A area. These officials will detail to 8 :30 am - 9:30 pw Conversation with Bobby Seale; �t u d e n t s the various channels 853-5421 and Prison, among others. through which they may become Free Delivery The first speak.er, Dr. Herbert i n volve d i n t h e su rrounding
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Kenneth P. Kogut is neither tweedy nor weedy. He's a tall, solid gentle m an, light haired and mqstached who looks like he's been a college football player, which he has. As new financial aid director of Hamilton andKirkland, he can promise no fourth quarter surprises, but brings to his game experience and expertise. His years spent obtaining an undergraduate degree in geography at State University at Buffalo afforded him time for Saturday afternoon glories on the scrimmage line. Next · came a Masters of Education degree, also at Buffalo, followed by teaching in the Niagra Falls High School system--and coaching the football team. Mr. ·Kogut has spent the last five years at Utica College where he was at first assistant, then director of financial aid. Mr. Kogut brought to the Hill the "popular familiarity with H a m i l t o n ' s s o l v en c y an d Kirkland's insolven cy. " He has no magic formula to all�viate this c o n d i t ion i m m e d i a t e l y , he explained, but believes it will correct itself in the near future. The financial aid office is no w
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h of inflation, which takes its special toll in the area of higher education. Families' ability to pay higher tuition has not im proved, while the cost of education increases. This accounts for the increased amount of Hamilton andKirkland students applying for financial aid, and for the hectic pace ofKenKogut's job. Mr. Kogut finds it pleasant on the Hill and says: "I don't like to w�rk, I enjoy financial aid, I really do enjoy it." If his craµiped appointment schedule book and quick lunches are any indication, Ken Kogut works very hard at his enjoyment of financial aid. After years· of playing and c oaching football, with each Saturday a harrowing delight, Ken Kogut has settled.down to a life of TV quarterback of his favorites, the Buffalo Bills. His life also . includes his wife and 5½ year old s o n w h o w a n t s to be a herpitologist, though he can't quite spell it yet. Mr. Kogut doesn't give his young son an allowance, but in f act finds himself borrowing mo ney from the boy. A set schedule of payments, to be stretched out over 10 years, at a fair rate of interest, has not yet been worked out.
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Adler Con£erence Success; Proposes New Plans I) More money should be allocated to in all facets of the community. Suggestions programs sponsored by the Houses, and open to the public {such as the A.D.P. play (a) present Black lectures, exhibits, etc., in included r egular joint meetings of The 1972 Adler Conference, once again representatives o f the respective and a chamber concert held at Theta Delt . an effort to more fully educate the entire community about the Black experience; held at the Higby Club at Big Moose, New governments (the Assembly and Senate), l a st year) help to open lines of communication between the Houses and Yor k , w a s different from previous the possibility of a joint catalog, and- as and (b) enable the Black students to carry the rest of the campus, and should be Conferences in that it was the largest .(65 mentioned above, regular joint meetings of on programs in the Black community in encouraged. In particular, it was thought members) of any Conference held to date, the faculties. Utica. that the Student Activities Committee and it was the first Conference to include 2) More efforts should be made to open · 6) It was felt by some that efforts should either subsidize Houses to allow members of the Kirkland Administration, should be made to allow for more up the Black and Puerto Rican Union, as Faculty, and Student Body. independents entrance to "House Parties," an educational resource, to the community interdisciplinary majors (similar to the or sponsor its own all college parties in an The purpose of this year's Conference existing American and Asian Studies at large. effort to ease friction between the two 'remained essentially the same as in past programs) insofar as the faculty and years; to identify and discuss problem areas resources are available. Students should . groups. on the Hill, and through a free flow of know the options and processeb . presently V. Philosophy of Education 4) It was suggested as well that greater ideas between participants, attempt to available to cross majors. A catalog change _ flexibility in eating arrangements would The group began its discussion by help to improve communication. One rovide some kind of solutions, or at least is necessaty to clarify these. stating a traditional definition of a liberal particular p r op osal s uggested that the beginning of solutions. arts education. However, it soon became 7) Course evaluations should also be f raternities swap board privµeges, if Hopefully, some of the ideas initiated at conducted for Kirkland courses; in order to apparent that the majority did not believe feasible, on a limited basis with Service· this definition to be sufficient. These four Adler are brought back and implemented insure a greater and more worthwhile Systems, to allow a limited number of . characteristics are as follows: during the schoo_l year. As Adler itself has response to such a survey, it was suggested fraternity people to eat at college dining· no legislative power; it depends entirely on that grades and/or evaluations be withheld I) It acts as a stepping stone for the halls and a limited number of independents the motivation of its participants to foll�w from a student until the review is professions {Law, Medicine, Business, etc.). and Kirkland woman to eat at fraternities, through on its recommendations. Much of . completed. 2) It offers the possibility of leadership on a rotating basis, providing another the value of Adler, it should be added, lies 8) It was felt by many that a greater development. board option. in the communication between individuals effort m1J.st be exerted to recruit Blacks 3) It provides the self-realized person which occurs outside of discussion groups. and w�men to the Hamilton faculty. with the tools with which to further Membership this year was again solicited 9) There should be a final mediating himself. from the student bodies and faculties at body to resolve coordination problems IV. Black-White Relations on the Hill 4) It raises one's tolerance level by large. Emphasis was again placed on getting between the two colleges. The report of It was agreed that· Black-White tensions allowing him to discover and come to as high a turnover of participants as the Committee on Academic Coordination continue to exist on the Hill. The problems understand the various beliefs and options possible, to avoid elitist tendencies and to which recommended and outlined such a of the poorly prepared Black student, which are found in society. increase discussion productivity. body, should be examined and if feasible, coming from an urban environment, in Suggestions: This year's Evaluating Committee found adopted. a cclimating to the Hamilton-Kirkland I) Possibilities should be examined itself with a tremendous amount of environment were discussed and it was which p r ovide a l ternatives to the information to condense and disseminate. · agreed that the Colleges, by the very fact traditional four consecutive year college The following report contains a brief • 111. Fraternities that they accept Black students, have a education. summary of the major topics discussed, 2) More opportunities should be granted responsibility to provide an equal The role of fraternities at Hamilton was and, most importantly, the concrete recommendations that emerged from the various discussion groups.
I. Introductions,
11. Coordination
Coordination between the two schools was one of the main areas of discussion at Adler. Although coordination both in and out of the classroom was discussed, the majority o f re commendations were concerned with the academic sides of the problem. 1) The differing philosophies of e :.; -:ation are a necessary and important aspect of coordination, as is the resulting "creative friction." 2) A serious lack of cooperation exists between the faculties of the two schools. More cooperation is needed at both colleges in accepting the curriculum of the coordinate department to allow for more freedom in fulfilling the requirements for a major. A possible first step to such cooperation would be regular joint departmental meetings. 3) It was felt by many students present that a definite bias exists on both campuses on the part of some faculty advisors· who steer their advisees away from courses at the coordinate school. This was felt to be a p:i:,qblem more at Hamilton than at Kirkland, and one which could not easily , be remedied. Closer administrative and Boone Kirkland President Babbitt discusses campus problems at close range., departmental supervision was suggested as . opportunity for their academic and social once again brought up, in two different· at least a partial solution, but the problem f o r o n -campus, c ol l e'ge sponsored, discussions. The d i scussions were success. Administrators were made aware remains a hard one to pinpoint and n on-academic and non-credit learning concerned mainly with the Fraternities' of alleged racism in faculty advising, opportu remedy. The whole subject of the Faculty nities. relations with independents and Kirkland particularly in the premedical field. Advising System seemed co_nti-oversial 3) The entire academic advising system women, and with their responsibilities as a Many white students stated that they enough to warrant its inclusion as one of s hould be re-examined and possibly . p art of the College at large. still feel strange walking into the Black and next year's topics. re-organized to more fully meet students' I) It was felt that a strong and active Puerto Rican Union. It was stressed that needs. 4) A paradox exists between the Interfraternity Council continues to be the Union is intended to enhance the 4) Some believed more consideration conflicting values of small class size and necessary to effectively handle rushing and cultural experiences of all students on the should be given to the granting of academic open course enrollment. Those concerned t o e x p l ore further possibilit_ies of Hill and is open to all students at scheduled credit for "experiential" learning. with academic policy at both schools interfraternity cooperation. times. It was again suggested by some that should re-evaluate their respective positions fraternity attitudes and policies should be VI. Honors Program 2) Some present at the Conference in an attempt to ease the strain that charged that fraternities at Hamilton investigated for the possibility of their over-enrollment causes on both campuses. Some of the conferees thought that continue to nurture racism and sexism on nurturing racism. 5) It was agreed upon by most that a Hamilton does not allow the highly S pecific recommendations were as campus. J, ck of communication and dissemination motivated and independent student the 3) It was felt that social and cultural follows: of information still poses a major problem opportunity to further his education at the
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level which he deserves. A number of kept from Honor Court officials until �fter proposals for Honors Programs, therefore, indictment. were discussed. A major' problem was 5) The role of the Chairman of the posed in the patadox of "width" vs. Court as prosecutor should be re-evaluated. ''breadth" in a liberal arts education. VIII. Graduate Programs to Would the vertical depth encouraged by an A discussion of Hamilton's relation of and ent, Honors Program prevent the horizontal graduate schools past and pres t g ovin impr width or rounded education that seems an of �e poss ible methods m lted resu em Syst essential part o f the liberal arts ising Adv e Post-Graduat : philosophy? All present agreed that an• the following recommendations the Honors Program should be investigated, · 1) A Board of Advisors, similar to be ld shou ds Boar and a few possible guidelines for such a ed Pre-M Pre-Law and program were discussed. established. 1) It was felt that the width and breadth 2) Advising must be more organized and mentioned above might both be achieved informed in specific subject areas and in by starting the Honors Program at the schools in all graduate fields.
many felt that there could be a much greater feeling of community on the Hill, specific recommendations as to how to • achieve this feeling were not forthcoming. It was generally felt that most students THOOGHTS ON ADLER remain apathetic to all that does not affect them directly, and that most are reluctant BY JERRY AVINGTON to involve themselves in activities outside Adler served as the whipping post to the classroom. reJease pent up frustrations concerning
Conference Commentaries-
Xt. Re�mmendations for Future. Conferences The final discussion invoh1ed an evaluation of•the Conference itself, with an eye toward making improvements in future conferences. Several suggestions to next
U ranek, Avington, Bowie, Gordon, Leff, exchange views on grass. junior year. 2) Rigor for an Honors Program would come from candidate selectivity and excellence, rather than froni any imposed structure. 3) The possibility of acceleration within this program should be investigated. 4) It wa s · s ug g e s ted that a comprehensive exam or thesis could be used to culminate the program. 5) Although an Honors Program would be organized in each department by that department, an overseeing body would be necessary to coordinate the program. 6) An Honors Program would depend heavily on the quality of the advising system. 7) Although Kirkland students could not participate in a Hamilton Honors Program, the Kirkland F acuity could be an essential resource just as the Hamilton Faculty could be to a Kirkland Program. 8) An a_d hoc student and faculty committee should be founded to continue the investigation of the possibility of this type of program on the Hill. VII. Honor System The honor system as it stands now for Hamilton Was discussed and it was agreed that they system's success hinges upon personal integrity and the willingness of students to tum in offenders. The mechan ics o f indictment and trial procedures were explained and the following suggestions made. 1) Some believed that the honor system at Kirkland should be formalized. 2) Closed book take home exams should be discontinued. 3) Open book take home exams should be encouraged. 4) Names of accused students should be
3) Information should also be made
available to students concerning Hamilton's graduate placement success according to school and on the general record of the placed students. 4) A weekend of business and graduate opportunities should be tried again. 5 ) In forma tion o n H a m i l t on's philosophy and grading system should be disseminated to graduate schools. IX. Athletics A n emphasis on intramurals and carry-over sports will continue to be the stated philosophy of the Athletic Department. Hamilton's entrance into the newly formed New England Athletic League is not supposed to greatly change the level of interscholastic competition. Although the dicussion largely took the form of a question-answer session, the following proposals were made: 1 ) That the Block . H Club be re-established as a renewed means of student input into athletic policy. 2) That cooperation between ..the Athletic Department ancl the Alumni Council be increased in an effort to recruit academically qualified students who have an interest in college athletics. 3) Greater efforts must be made at providing the proper athletic facilities and programs for Kirkland. · 4)A wider range of Students must be encouraged to participate in interscholastic athletics. "An effort should be made to determine why �ome qualified athletes are· not going out for a sport. X. Search for Community The concept of community at Hamilton and Kirkland was discussed and although
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student life on the Hill. I found myself engaged· in many heated discussions which I had fo und to be trivial and irrelevant. B ut Adler, for the most part, �hanged all this. I found that the issues were very pertinent and that they had a direct relationship on my role as a student. I· took part in four discussion groups and found all four to be interesting, but the one that held my particular interest and produced several surprises was the discussion on Black-White Relations. To be perfectly frank, I didn't think anyone would be particularly interested, and if they were, the discussion would be centered on causality--namely the placing of blame. I was wrong on both counts·. First, the group ·size was fairly large� and second, blame was never mentioned to my knowledge. Instead the discussion centered on what can we do as individuals to ease the tension that is prevalent among blacks and whites. The people that gathered for this discussion were · sincere in their endeavors to find remedies for the situation. People were speaking freely of their fears and apprehensions concerning the "other" group. There was genuine interest in why do both groups alienate and segregate themselves. The answers to these and other questions were surely subjective, but they provided a foundation for understanding. The discussion ended on a concerted note with this thought--that it is my obligation as an individual to do my best to make the college community a community for all and not just. for some--impressed on, if not embbedded in, the minds of the group. Adler was very productive. The ideas and suggestions which emanated from the discussions were valid and hopefully will be incorporated by the colleges. I �ould _ recommend A�ler to any �tudent.
year's Coordinating Committee were made. 1) The absolute maximum number of participants ( 65) who can effectively f�r.m small discussion groups has been reached. "_S_T!,JDENTS MUST ACT Any increase in numbers would be BY STUART KESTENBAUM detrimental to the communication that The food was good, eating with teachers Adler encourages. made me nervous. The sky was deep blue, tne scent of cold 2) Kirkland sp.ould be more fully evergreens and wood fires in the air. incorporated into next year's conference The water was surrounded by ancient with more participants, but with the focus hills, my mattress was soft. of the conference as a Hamilton function The Adler Conference was, in many · retained. ways, typical of Hamilton; it was a small 3) More hard statistical data and informal discussion between administration, inf.ormation on the make-up of the two students and faculty, something that is , College s i s necessary for informed rarely done now. There was also Utica Club discussion. for everyone and other bizarre HamCol 4) This .year's participants should be. customs. I came in with a scream of let us door�, _polled this spring both for suggestions for the Conference's improvement and for listen to us, if our education could only be true, pure I ike the pictu·re of an ahgel possible topics for next year. 5) The practice should be retained of throwing light on the book in the school allowing a person to attend Adler only seal. I was greeted not with "we won't stand once (or in the cas·e of faculty,. not in for that," but rather "good, go ahead, set up consecutive years). Membership should � your structures and do it." Then all of the continue to be solicited on a volunteer sudden when you've given your way, when basis. the faculty says they would like students to 6) Because the situations at ihe -two determine curriculum and administrative schools change so rapidly from year to policies along with them (or at least let us try year, it is felt that the Conference should to watch us fail so we'll never try it again) then comes the real challenge: not ·10 just be continued on an annual basis.
1972 Adler Conference Evaluation Committee Shelley Gertzog '7 5 Sara Gordon '7 4 Beth Kneisel '7 4 Bruce Williams '74 Chuck Flynn '74 Jerry A vington '73 John Osborne '74, Chairman September 20, 19 7 2
speak what has been on your mind for three of four years, but to put it into action, and to work hard at it to insure its success. There were many suggestions at Adler about how to make the school a better place, to take our education, our life, our spirit, our heads that much further. Talk is good, but also easy. Instead of bitching in the BCC, we can do something. At the Adler conference, I was made aware that we, together, have the power to do things that we all know need to be done. It is CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
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THE SPECTATOR
SEPTEMBER 22, 1972.
Flash & the Purple Plague Strike Terror on the Scree n
BY MICHAEL MURPHY Contrary to popular opinion, the Purple Death is not th.e result of eating the scrambled eggs served in Commons every other day or so. As any real Flash Gordon freak knows, this form of .,. extermination can only be the r e s ult o f t h e male v olent commands of Emperor Ming. Amenic is showing the 1933 RKO series of Flash Gordon in conjunction with its weekly film. Buster Crabbe, smile radiant from ear to ear, is cast as Flash. Although Buster's smile is truly cosmic, . his acting abilities are . nowhere proportionate to the s w a s h b uck l i n g s t a n dards established by the late Douglas Fairbanks_ Sr. in any of a dozen nero movies. This film series is truly comical 1 because Hollyw-00!1 must use special effects to keep Flash, Dr. , Zharkov, and Dale flying through space. Flash's spaceship is a treat to behold in action because it saunters across the screen much
like its commander. in tfus episode, the people of Earth are plagued by a mysterious epidemic o f d e a t h s n e v e r b e f ore encountered in all history. The victims all have a purple spot in the middle of their foreheads. Flash and the good Dr. Zharkov believe that the minions of the demoniacal Emperor Ming are spreading a purple death dust in the Earth's atmosphere which could potentially destroy all life on earth. In a stirring battle scene, much like two armadillos fighting over territorial rights to a piece . of desert, Flash dupes the enemy into believing that .he is destroyed, and then follows him to the hope p l a n e t . B y m e ans of conspirational aid from the Prince Baron and Countess Freia of Fregia, the coldest spot on the planet (what else?), Plash enters Ming's castle in the midst of one of M ing 's m ost astounding experiment�. Charles Middleton, as Ming,
BY ROY SCHECTER A Utica movie · is a curious thing. By the time you get to see it, everyone else in the world has either done so already or has, on the basis of Gene Shallit's review, craftily managed to avoid it. Sometimes, if . a film is really outstanding, it never reaches Utica at all, but remains imprisoned somewhere on the East Side of · New York City. There are, however, several films which have made that circuitous journey, and which are playing in this area right now. I would like to present a quick and cursory review of a few of these, and, with the hope that other summer openings will join them soon, to talk about a few that have yet to·arrive here. Anyone who has not seen Stanely Kubrick's already famous A· C lockwork Orange should probably do so, even though the film has recently been de-x'd. K u b r i c k has a l lowed t h e s u b s t i t u t i o n o f some less f'explicit" footage in what were thought to be some of the more outrageously vivid sexual scenes, so that he could obtain an "R" rating for the film and more m oney for himself and the distributor. As for the film itself, A Clockwork Orange impresses me as well-put together, humorous, imaginitively filmed; possessing a strange narrative distance that isolates the audience from the horrible violence occurring on the screen. It was this last quality which, despite its intellectual point, left me feeling somewhat flat and curiously unmoved. The satire is simply not as devastating as in Kubrick's masterpiece, Dr • Strangelove, which was simpler cinemati_cally _a!}d less expensive
to produce. Perhaps after �uu1 A Space Odyssey and A Clockw-ork A film that may someday reach Orange some of us might wish for more restraint on the part of this area is Deliverance, which was Kubrick's genius, which has not adapted by James Dickey (to increased with the size of his bank whom· Hamilton presented an honorary degree last year) from account. Another sort of genius, his b es t -sell ing novel. The g e nerally known a s "th e conception of the film is certainly Hitchcock touch" has reasserted a n i nteresting one and the itself with Frenzy, the master's directorial execution is superb. 51st feature film. In a film of John Boorman has created terror authentic limited geographical scope · (the and suspense by filming -'man canoe sequences of a f our cit y of London), �itchcock returns to some of his oldest and trip down a tempestuous river through the backwoods country most successful themes in a style of Georgia. The picture strives for that can only be called elegant. a stark realism which it usually Perfectly cast, · beautifully p h otogr a phed , a n d w it t ily attains, assisted by a convincing written, Frenzy parodies some of performance by John Voight. Dickey's screenplay, however, the director's old techniques and occasionally threatens to drag the then uses many of them to keep us in grand suspense. I should whole venture into the mud. His warn you that this film is not dialogue is remarkably cliched, another Psycho, nor is it meant to and one could have reasonably be, despite the suggestiveness of expected more from one of the title. Hitchcock simply but America's major modern poets. daringly narrates a story which •N e v e r t h e l e s s , B oo -r ma n's focusses upon an innocent man, commanding presence ensures the wrongly accused of committing fulfillment of the promise of the crimes of the notorious Deliverance. lt delivers, in a most necktie strangler, who rapes his . frightening and disturbing way, victi�s before doing them in. The and I won't be surprised if it suspense consists in our concern causes a decline in the country's for the innocent man, not in our present camping boom. fear of who will be killed next, One o f the most although we see a flight of stairs well-intentioned films I've seen in which bears a curiously sinister a long time is Slaughterhouse resemblance. to those on which Five, based, of course, on another Martin Balsam ·made his fatal popular book by Kurt Vonnegut. ascent in-Psycho. I am told by those who read I have read several women's the book that the movie sticks lib best protests against Frenzy, faithfully to the plot of the story. and admittedly, being a man, I suspect, however, that it may t hought them a l l absurd. have lost a little of the spirit in Hitchcock clearly satirizes the tra nslation. While the movie sexual perversities, vicarious and displays some of the most otherwise, of the people of dazzling editing I've ever seen, as London,- just as he poked fun at Billy Pilgrim jumps from time to European political rivalries in The time and place to place; while it Lady Vanishes. contains one of the most bizarre
A Close Look At Some Flicks
truly conveys the proper amount of debauched power, perverted intellect, and chicken-heartedness necessary to give Ming a fine un-American aspect. Of course, �ything as un-American 3;5 Ming must be despised and Flash's goody two-shoes appeal must be praised to the skies. So it goes. Ming's personal mad scientist, looking like a cross between Quasimodo and Boris Karloff, develops a new death dust which only kills men of intellect and judgement; hence, only cretins remain to do Ming's labor. Flash and crew invade Ming's palace, which resembles a Byzantine version of the main reading room in the Ellen Curtis Ja.mes library, and a toe to toe battle scene ensues between truth, justice, and the American way vs power, decadence, and perversion. Choose sides now before the rush begins. Ming vacates the scene before any bodily harm is done to him and leaves Flash and his number one man to fight it out. In the finest tradition of the series, the ending is totally bizarre as Flash and Ming's henchman fall i n t o a steaming, cylindrical, seemingly never-ending shaft. You might say they took the biggest shaft ever. This week--Fr�zen Torture.
From the exhibit Architecture Without Architects, now at the Root Art Center.
Architecture Exhihit: Beauty in Simplicity
BY TIMOTHY DELANEY interest, then matching photo with "Archite.ctural history as we words, to satisfy your curiosity. know it...amounts to little more The man responsible for than a who's w,ho of architects who Architecture Without Architects, commemorated power and wealth; as well as the opening quote of this an anthology of buildings of, by, article, is designer, writer, critic and for the privileged...with never a Bernard Rudolfsky. Combining a word about the houses of the lesser r e f o r m e r ' s zeal w i th an people.'' · aficionado's delight, he contends A r c h i t e c t u r e W i t h o u t that vitality and serenity are the Architects, the current exhibition important elements of a people's at the Root Art Center, is an architecture. He sees streets as a t t e m p t t o c o l l ect and oases o f intercourse, not communicat e the world of automotive deserts. The charm of non-pedigreed architecture. To "picture postcard" towns actually students of Art History, it is a represents a natural social order. w e 1 come relief from t he Such simple devices as awnings and i n numerable churches a n d arcades are seen by Rudolfsky as monuments which tell us much gentle transitions from home to about the aspirations but little street. concerning the daily lives of those Throughout the exhibit we are who built them. The vernacular con tinually reminded of the living units described vary from beauty of simplicity. The stark. underground cities to cliffside abstract strength of most of the apartment blocks. They illustrate structures is striking. By clinging to h ow p r i m i t i ve m a n , over a hillside, the identical houses of milleniums, has adapted natural Mijas and Villa Hermosa are given a forms, allowing him to exist in third dimension missing in the flat harmony with the most brutal rows of split-levels that are the American vernacular. Whitewashed environments. The exhibit itself is somewhat villas and exotic casbahs multiply imposing at first glance. A series of until our pastoral sentiments· b l a c k a n d white photos e x p l o d e . What b e a u t i f ul, accompanied by text, it is packed uncomplicated lives these natives into every corner of the RAC in a must lead! frequently illogical sequence. It Y et the naked Pakistani was originally designed in 19 64 for children playing on the water the Museum of Modern Art, whose wheel remind us that by our showrooms are much more standards many of these villages are extensive than the Hill's. Hence, it slums. Rudofsky does not is a long, exhausting exhibit which acknowledge this. How do these should be taken in a bit at a time. people exist without sanitation and The best approach is to wander TV? Where do they park their cars? freely through the rooms, allowing the pictures to capture your continued on page seven c a r-wrecking seq uen ces (a _a tmqsp h1:re of a devastated Cadillac, no less) in history; while Dresden or the desperation of a i t sports some wonderfully weary Pi.tgrim. appropriate performances in roles Whatever its flaws, however, that must have been difficult to Slaughterhouse Five definitely cast; while it makes intellectual dserves your attention, because of points that could keep us talking its sincerity and because it about it for days, Slaughterhouse attempts more than most films Five lacks an emotional punch do--and succeeds to a startling that would have made it an though imperfect degree. unforgettable experience. Perhaps it is too slick, too visually impressive to convey t he
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· MOVIES On Campus September 22 & 23 The Producers (and selected shorts), 8 P.M., Science Auditorium, $.50 Rachel, Rachel , 8 P.M., Chemistry Auditorium (also on Sunday night) September 25 & 26 The Masque of Red Death 10 P.M., Chemistry Auditorium On Campus Next Weekend Millhouse and Nixon's Checkers Speech; Pm All Right, Jack In and Around Utica Cannonball (853-5553): The Other Kallet Cinema (736-2313): Fiddler on the Roof Paris Cinema (733-2730): The Last House on the Left (not recommended for those over 30, but you must be over 17) Stanley (724-4000): Bluebeard and Today We Kill, Tomorrow We
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c e n t u ry , sculpture has now g a m e to , he ·played w i th branc4ed into unclearly defined sensationally. BY SARAH LIVELY Your touch, for example, was The art that is being created directions which have taken on today is very difficult -to define totally new emotional meanings. used by moving your fingers over and it will be quite awhile before In order to free the public of its hundreds of small metal balls one will be able objectively to pr econceived ideas of "what a tt a c hed by a wire to a appreciate and judge the works should be" (and 'what is," for ba ckground. You. instinctively that these past few years have that matter) contemporary social created undulating patterns anq. a produced. While spending the last consciousness has led artists to miracle of tinkling noises as they year in Paris, which irrefutably pref er s c u lptural experiences hit each other. This amused remains one of, if not the most which are often disturbing and people for many· minutes .. Visual important of, the worlds artistic s trange . F u r t h e r m o r e , the t e sts ·a n d e x periences were centers, I tried to get an idea of revelations of recent psychology, presented through the existence what has been produced in Paris by theorizing that the human· o f electrifying space mobiles m i n.d h a s a n C'i r r a t ipna l' which involved motion, space, and recently. Die The c l e a rly lit cafes of substructure," have led certain color magnified through the use 258 Cinema (732-5461): Montpamasse still draw the artists to invent a.n entirely new of lights and shadows. 1. Klute and The Summer of '42 T h e r e . w ere mazes which hungry artists, the "ateliers" of style of imagery. 2. What's Up Doc? I saw two exhibits this past confounded the eye with different Montmarte and of Isle St. Louis 3.Midnight Cowboy andHospital -. still exist, and the "Ecole des spring which assembled much of hues of c·olored glass, mirrors, and Beaux Arts" still bubbles with what is commonly judged to be lights, and challenged your feel DRAMA . creativity and disruption. Out of the "best," or most characteristic for eKploration. Your smell was September 22 & 23 of, the "now" art. One was held profoundly disturbed on passing all this--and out of modern Happy Days, by Samuel Beckett. Minor Theatre, 8 P.M. awareness and involvement--has at the Grand Palais and the other th_e construction of a room strewn Tryouts for The Informer, by Berthold Brecht, and Collision at the Museum of Modern Art of with cheeses, fruits, puddings and emerged the art of today. Course, I won't go into the "nouvelle Paris; from both I walked away m eat l e f t t here to decay 1 P.M. meet at McEwen swing con fused and disturbed, but "artistically" until the end of the vague" of cinema which struggles with brilliant ideas and few funds, t e r r i b l y excited at what a exhibit; they oozed a repugnant MUSIC photography which is slowly·· powerful effect these exhibits had blend of smells and decay. September 22& 23 Another room featured parts taking its place in the interests of on me and on my ideas of what Tom Lyon - Ragtime and Classical - 9 P.M. to 1, McEwen art is and what art can be. of human bodies made from the French public, or the painting Coffeehouse Each piece of sculpture was an life-like material, covered with which is undergoing a renaissance of theo�y and technique. Instead, experience in itself, wholly unique blood and lying draped through LAST LECTURE SERIES f r om the next, and mostly the room. This was accentuated I'd like to discuss the sculpture which is becoming more and more September 26 abstract--toying with space and by agonizing moans and a child Charles L. Todd, Hamilton Speech Department, 7:30 P.M., characteristic of the 20th century the spectator, integrating us with crying, while a television blared its Chapel the core of each plece by indifference in the corner. Much in general and the 70's in particular. appealing to our senses of touch, comment was directed towards IN THE WEEKS AHEAD smell, and hearing. This testing of the war and on the destruction of Having evolved through the Movies our senses, of our powers of the natural world; to illustrate defined periods of "Realism," Smiles of a SummP.r Night (Bergman), The Bank Dick (W.C. "I m pr es s i on i s m ," "Cubism,". perception as well as of our this, the artists often made use of Fields), intellect, was challenging and m u c h d e c o m p osed m e t a l, "Dadaism," "Surrealism," and Scarlet Street, The Wizard'of Oz made each sculpture almost a w r e c kage , and s pace age ' 'Ab s t r actionism" during this Exhibit s machinery. · l;'he experience of e�teiiri_g' The current exhibit, Architecture Without Architects, will remain sculpture, feeling it,.smelling it,� at the Root Art Center through October. 15. it cries out at or against something On October 1, a o hotof?I'aJ?hY exhibit by Bt!!,ce King, _ which is so agonizing in society is Hamilton '56, opens m the Bristol Campus Center. a powerfully fulfilling way in Root.Jessup which to c�nvey something of Mo�ies: The Selling of the Pentagon, Wilmington w ha t a r t is and what its Lecture: On October-. 5, 8 p.m., in the Chapel, Dr. Herbert BY DOUGLAS SINGER ·amount of skill, but of all thmgs, relationship is with the spectator. Aptheker, National Director of the American Institute for Marxist Kavesh comes .4tto my room at to play them along with each It shocks you with a seemingly Studies, will discuss "The Relevancy of Marxism in the United 7:30·, ·and t�lls·· me he needs a other most of the time. meaningless. structure, void of any States." review of Rod Stewart's new But in Never A Dull Moment, reality or point. It grasps at the album .(Never A .. ,Dull Moment, Stewart seems to have become core of human emotion and Mercury SRM 1 646) by 8:30. W ca rried away with the new feeling, whether profound and hich is all well and good, except tightness of the group. The album disturbing or simple and_ fun-like .. tha t I ' ve been listening to seems to be almost too tight, too As one conditioned to look at continued from ·page six Beethoven's Sixth since dinner. w e l l p r o d u c e d , almost too art �hrough my understanding of My point is that Architecture Stewart's albums, it seems to commercial; that open ended what art has been in the past, its The answer is that every society Without Architects is a thinking me, have always been designed loo seness and spontaneity is trends, styles, and reflections, I has the architecture it deserves. man's (or woman's) exhibit. It strictly to entertain, and certainly clearly missing from. this album. found this exhibit to be an Perhaps the life style of these opens our eyes to scores of n ever to prove anything of In fact, Stewart, who was a sort of electrifying and truly "pure" people, manifested by their alternatives, all of which deserve si ificance. This quality, if none Bruno Walter or George Szell in experience. It allowed me to gn architecture, is what our own further investigation. Strongly but other, �learly makes Stewart a his genre, seems to have emulated participate without consciously culture desperately needs. Or is this subtley it makes its suggestions and poor follow-up to Beethoven, the mechanical qualities of a examining each peice of sculpture attitude as romantic as the names forces us to wonder. The exhibit especially since Stewart's albums Herbert von Karajan. for an influence, an indication of which we read but cannot place? will last until October 9. have never succeeded in the latter I don't mean to dismiss the meaning, or its style and period anyway. album , that quickly, however. t hrough t he sterile use of A s p ar t o f an h our's sizes 5 to 13 preconceived ideas and critical Many of the melodic lines still ''Fashion is our business entertainment, however, Stewart 6 to 18 have that old, reassuring Stewart .st r u c t u r e v i ewpoints. I am -- S!rvice, our pleasure;' has always been successful. He has simplicity. His arrangement of terrifically impressed with the done so here again, witho'1t "Angel", a Jimi Hendrix song, is search which is going on in art for b i t i n g, grating, or becoming .ii ii cimplicity and directness and the good - well-controlled and well tiresome. But in at least one· creation of a structure which has arranged in terms of orchestration 1 \l 11 :I I respect, this is not just another no pretensions-it pretends only ,I and rhythm, albeit still lacking it:i. -r 'ii _ Rod Stewart album. dynamics control. And of course 1 to be itself. In his· early work with the the big hits of the album, "Y mi' ______________p Faces, Stewart's albums always Wear it Well" and "Mama You had a particular open-ended, Been on My Mind," are ·exactly Every Picture Tells A Story in any rough q u a l i t y , p a r t i c u larly that. aspect of the performance save 2643 Genesee Street Grace Latta Gasoline Alley. Things progressed Yet Stewart has said that he the engineer's. Utica, New York 135011 315 735-2300 along that level for a while, and doesn•t enjoy making albums; he then, Every Picture Tells A Story has a great love, however, of----------------.. appeared. 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SEPTEMBER 22 1972
Nixon, McGovern Views.Analyze·d by Economists BY ROBIN HACK AND CAROL GOODMAN In t he next few issues of the Spectator,' we will 1:t"Y to· present to you a non-partisan view of the campaign issues, in order to help you familiarize yourself with the positions of both presidental candidates. This week, in the first of our series, we will report on the opinions and programs on the economy as stated by Richard Nixon and George McGovern. Included in this article will be economists' critiques of the proposals - Phases I and II, and the Position Papers. The first major proposal on the economy given by George McGovern was in his Position Papers, delivered in January. Economists James Tobin of Yale and Edwin Kuh and Lester Thurow of M.I.T. wrote the papers. McGovern stated his three aims: 1) to give money to the poor, 2) to reduce taxes on middle income earners, and 3) to encourage business investments. He wanted to help the poor without taking extreme risks for the economy and to increase the income of families earning less than $12,000; the cost of the program would have been spread over all taxpayers earning over $12,000. Among the two groups of McGovern supporters, one - the poor and ideological liberals · wants a real income increase, while the other - the working and middle class - feel that taxes are already too high. The September Fortune says that two thirds of these proposals ar-e possible, but the third, business investment, is not. "This would have diverted some dollars from investment, but the braking effect on economic growth would probably not have been severe. Some of the figures in the plan did not match up, but the central problem was political rather than economic." What McGovern did not realize was that 40% of American families have an income over $12,000. Many of the people angry over taxes, therefore, would be more heavily taxed than before. But, according to Fortune, the American Dream still operates for the other 60%, who believe taht someday they will earn much more. T he b lue collar workers opposed McGo vern's idea of conf iscating inheritances of over $500,000. "They must think they're going to win on a lottery ticket," he said. He later toned down his proposal for a 77% tax on inheritances of over one half million dollars. Income distribution alarmed middle cla ss liberals, thosescreaming loudest against taxes. "After Humphrey zeroed in . on the redistribution plan in California, McGovern withdrew it and announced it would be reissued after it had been 'simplified'." During the summer, McGovern tried to find a more amiable marking point for taxation, where 1) those making less than $20,000 would benefit and 2) only those making over $30,000 would be hurt. "But soaking the rich in order to increase incomes for everybody making less than $20,000 would have a catastrophic effect on the economy. Economic incentives for managerial and professional workers would be extinguished, and investment capital would be drastically reduced. Some of McGover n's advisors suggest that investment would be provided by the federal government. But apart from the economic and political effects of such a plµnge into socialism, where would the funds come from to pay for the grants to low and middle income families? ''The truth is that the McGovern plan, as it was shaping up toward the end of the summer, was economically unworkable and many of McGovern's own advisors knew it.. The best argument that some could make in its defense was that it would
never go into effect. Henry Kimelman, McGove rn's chief fund raiser, told Fortune: 'You know as well as I do that for every tax law ever written, businessmen have found a way to get around it. There will be no great redistribution.' This cannot be very reassuring for small businessmen, middle level managers, or professionals whose incomes do not lend themselves to complicated tax avoidance. If McGovern is unwilling to suggest a general tax increase, he can handle the redistribution issue only by lapsing b·ack into vagueness or by promising that business and the very wealthy will be made to pay the entire bill. He has shown some inclination to the latter course. But if M cGovern conducts a s tr idently anti-business campaign he may well throw a scare into the economy.'' On July 14, 1972, George McGovern delivered his acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention. He said, "The highest domestic priority of my administration will be to insure that every American able to work has a job to do. This job guarantee will and must depend· upon a reinvigorated private economy, freed at last from the uncertainties and burdens of war." The main points in his address were: 1) that a reinvigorated economy will guarantee jobs, 2) that the federal government will stimulate, or provide jobs, 3) that millions would go back so that those working will not "support too many others mired in the demeaning, bureaucratic welfare system.", 4) that those unable to work will be provided with a sufficient income to live a comfortable life, 5) that economic controls, which would depress labor while "prices and coiporate profits are the highest in history" would end, 6) that a national health insurance program would begin, and 7) that he would pr-0gram a new -tax system that "the people are going to insure ...so that work is rewarded and those who derive the highest b�nefits will pay their fair share." McGovern says h� is definitely supporting free enteiprise, but that he wants business to pay its fair share. ''The cynical, manipulative forces at the top of the economic pyramid are guiding the destinies of those at the low end of the scale." He also attacked "continued economic exploitation of the South by northern interests," although the South eagerly pursues outside capital and industry. On September 16, 1972, McGnvern proposed a new wage and price plan consisting basically of voluntary guidelines to labor leaders. He suggested the following: • 1) to restrain prices and not just wages, giving Congressional authority to the President to "reverse flagrant violations where necessary"; 2) guidelines on corporate profit to "more accurately reflect actual operating costs";
3) curtailing inflation on "those large firms, markets and wage contracts "that are at the bottom of inflationary pressures"; 4) replacing the Pay Board, Price Commission, and Cost of Living Council with a New Review Board comprised of labor, business, and consumer advocates to "marshal! public opinion against excessive price and wage increases." The latest proposal by McGovern concerning taxes was on September 19, 1972, when he advocated a $200 tax credit for every student of parochial and non-public schools. This decision followed discussions w i t h C atholic leaders; McGovern battled with the idea of providing aid to parochial schools and still .keeping the church and state separate, as provided liy Constitutional law. McGovern feels that these schools provided a good secular education since they use the same books as the public schools. The National Education Association "vigorously protested" McGovern's proposal, saying, "we strongly urge you to focus your energies on the overwhelming fiscal crisis in our public school system, w h ich enrolls 90% of the nation's school-age childr�n." During his Presidency,, Richard Nixon instituted two major economic plans, Phase I and Phase II of a wage and price freeze.
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Phase I began' August 15, 19 71, calling for a freeze on all prices and wages Tor ninety days. Tha Plan called for a ceiling on ·prices, rents, wages a nd salaries. Corporations were asked to withhold vol untarily increases of stockholders' dividends. The freeze · exempted raw •agricultural products, however. Other economic measures went into· effect along with the freeze. Nixon called. for the repeal of the 7% automobile excise tax, with predictions that more cars would be sold, and more workers required to handle the extra load. A 10% tax imposed on imported goods would aid American businesses whose prices had gone up as a result of workers' demands for higher· wages. .The institution of a 10% job development tax credit allowed businesses to save tax money on newly purchased equipment, enabling them to hire more employees. This credit fell to 5% as of August 15, 1972. A plan already existed to raise the per person tax deduction an additional $50 as of January 1, 1972, and $50 as of January 1, 1973. These two combined to offer a $100 deduction by 1972. To offset this decrease in Federal revenue Nixon proposed a cut of $4.7 billion in federal spending. This would include a 5% cut in government personnel, a postponement of pay raises to remaining personnel, and a 10% cut in foreig-n economic aid. The conversion of dollars to gold or other reserve assets on the international market was temporarily suspended, except in the interests on monetary stability and the best interests of the United States. This curtails the inflation of the price of gold. Recently, Dr. Karl Klasen, an internationally known banker, said that this helped strengthen the dollar on the international market, the dollar being the main currency of the btema-tional monetary system. Mixed reactions arose to the .total freeze. Phase H's job was to ease up inequities of the original freeze, while continuing the fight to curb inflationary trends that had developed prior to August 15, 1971. The Price Commission, a group of non-government personnel, was set up· to help keep prices down. The Commission also regulated· the amounts of profits made by businesses. Although higher profits would yield more investments and higher tax revenues, business must pass on a fair share of profits to the consumer through price slashes. A Government Committee on Interests and Dividends was instituted to deal especially with. inflationary trends in these areas. Interest rates needed to be l o w e r i n o r d e r t o s t i m u l a te non -inflationary economic expansion. Congress will also help to control these rates. Along with this, the Pay Board was set up to curtail wage increases, with representatives chosen from the areas of labor, management, and the public. A 5.5% "pay s t a n d a r d" for increases was instituted. Although the approval . of certain increases greater than this amount was necessary in terms of national interest, statistics showed that for the first quarter the Board was in operation, average increases were held to 4.13%. Retroactive increases for the freeze period and the payment of deferred increases were forbidden. Pay increases in line with productivity improvements and cost of living ·trends were permitted. The Nixon · Administration plans to continue wage and price controls until inflationary pressures are brought under control. Controlling the portions of the economy that bad become the major causes of inflation in the past will be the main goal. Some adjustments of prices and wages have been permitted, depending on their fairness and equity.
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SEPTEMBER -,22 1972
American Philo. Association! Locates Office on the Hill BY RANDY DAVIS
The American Philosophical Association named Assistant Professor of Philosophy Norman E. Bowie its Executive Secretary for the next three years, effective last spring. Professor Bowie holds an A.B. from Bates College and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. He was chosen by a special board of the A.P.A. from its 4300 members. As Executive Secretary he assumes the tasks of administration and policy implementation which entails keeping the minutes of national m ecc.i n g s , e d it i ng new sletter s a n d b o ok l e t s , coordinating divisional programs, and manY. other executive duties. He also serves as liason officer between the A.P.A. and a number of o t h e r p r o fessional organizations. In addition to his A.P,A. duties, Mr. Bowie will co ntinue to teach, although at half his previous course load. - The A.P.A. is a professional orgnization intended to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers and to encourage creative and scholarly activity in philosophy. The association is also instrumental in the placement of philosophe rs throughout the country in various academic institutions. Each year, a number of meetings are scheduled throughout the U.S. where new papers are introduced and policy matters formalized. As the central point of the A.P.A . ' s c o n s i d e r a b l e correspondence, Hamilton should
receive a fringe benefit of some additional national publicity. It also appe ars that having the A.P.A. home office here will enable the college to establish closer ties with a number qf graduate institutions and private foundations.
.Professor Bowie invites you to drop by the headquarters in the former Kirkland Admit:iistration Building opposite Dunham. Have a cup of coffee and ask any questions you might have concerning the A.P.A.
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Danforth Conf. Meets� K'land Seeks Solutions
BY SUSAN STERNBERG Four Kirkland representatives a ttended the 19 72 Danforth Summer Workshop on Liberal Arts Education in Colorado Springs, submitting the longest document in the Workshop's history. The two-and-a-half week long c o n f e r e n c e in volved 139 · participants from 25 schools in seminars, special interest sessions, and films. Kirkland's 34 page document was a composite of two w e e k s' "working p ape rs" describing seminar discussions and proposals. Participants came in "teams" of a dean and three professors, or a dean, two professors, and one student. Kirkland was among the four schools choosing the latter option, sending Dean Schneider, e d u c a t i on instr uctor E ve Hendricks, history professor David Miller, and student Wendy.Weiss. Each college was invited to bring a problem to be resolved using Workshop facilities. The Kirkland team planned to explore technological aids to teaching. In Wendy Weiss' words, the problem became "how to make Kirkland the best of all possible worlds." Daily seminars at the Workshop
encompassed such topics as "Illuminative Education," "The Implications of the Carnegie C o m m ission on H i g her E d u c a t i o n ," "S t u d e n t Development in the Classroom," a n d "W o m e n i n H igher Education." The Kirkland team also met with its consultant, Dr. James Redfield, and held special interest sessions on grading, the future of men and women in soc iety, and the educational process. .Kirkland's lengthy document reflects the unanimous concerns of the Kirkland participants but no unanimous answers were reached. Professor Miller is editing the document and hopes it will be d istr_ibuted to the Kirkland communit y to serve as a ''c o n s c i o u s n e s s - r a i s i n g ," discussion-provoking stimulus. A wide variety of women's college s, new· schools, large universities, state schools, and black colleges from across the nation were represented, but student participation was small. According to Wendy Weiss, past student r e p resentatives to 'Danforth workshops were not vocal about their concerns. She noted that the 1968 Workshop was exceptional in that nine students par!i�ipated, reflect�ng student activism across the nation.
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BY NAN NAPP A l s o on Sept em ber 22, The Environmental Ecology members of EECHK will travel to Committee of Hamilton and New Paltz for the Environmental Kirkland (EECHK) will begin the P l a n n i n g L o b b y ( E P L ) first recycling drive of the year on _Convention. THE CLINTON FLORIST Friday, September 22, at 2 p.m. Departure time is 4 pm. 15 £Im Street The project, headed by Wayne EPL is a state-wide coalition of 853-2731 Stabile, promises to be extensive interest groups which lobby for this semester. Dropoff points for environmental issues in the state Flowers for al,[ Occasions paper and glass are located in all government in Albany. Speakers Kirkland dorms and at McEwen during the weekend include: Perry 1,______________..,.and the Kirner-Johnson building. Duryea, speaker of the New York On the Hamilton campus, there are State Assembly, David Siye, sites in North, Dunham, Bundy •President of EPL, State Senator (et and west), South, Carnegie, Smith and Assemblymen Berle, and Kirkland dorms, and Theta Pos ner , and Harris. EECHK Delt. members will attend Friday night's d r y Board of Directots meeting and a n y A l m o s t newsprint, campus will participate in cpnference p a permailings, writing paper, tissue-is workshops. recyclable. Unbroken colored and EECHK plans a retreat of its 13 COLLEGE STREET clear glass in any form may be left own for the. following weekend. at drop-off stations, as well. Metal Members will depart for Professor CLINTON, N. Y. twist-cap rings should be removed and M r s . Warren W r ig ht's (315) 853-8385 roin bottles. Berkshires farm at 4 pm. Plans include hiking, swimming, fishing apple-picking, bread-making, and marshmallow eati�g, as well as group discussions on community
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fuller picture, and then perhaps we might start to work towards the goals. Our opportunities are here, and we sh_ould take advantage of them. IMPORTANT BUT ONLY MINOR CHANGES BY L. FINISON Personally, going to Adler was a very rewarding experience. lt gave me an opportunity as a relatively new faculty member to meet many students and faculty I hadn't met before. Did much come out of Adler? I don't think so. The main accomplishments of the conference seemed to me to be the airing of various complaints about Hamilton and particularly about coordination problems between Hamilton and Kirkland. Presumably these complaints were picked up by the responsible administrators and faculty present and will lead to the introduction of some useful, but relatively minor, reforms. The principle problem with the conference ,seemed to me to be the fact that (at least some) students asked for a greater sense of "community" and "participation" both within the college and between the college and the surrounding society. The conference and college are quite unprepared to deliver on this vague but strongly felt desire. The conference felt itself to be an "elite" institution in relation to the mass of Hamilton students just as the ethos of the college is as an "elite" institution in relation to the mass of students and people in general. 1 don't think the conference or the participants were equipped to deal with the contradiction between "community" and "elite." But, of course, if they were, our conferences and universities would look quite different than they do today. Conference Breaks Down Stereotypes BY DOTTY URANECK The Adler conference was a good way to start off my school year. I was one of five Kirkland students surrounded by 30 or 40 Hamilton students, faculty, administrators and alumni. The weather and country were so beautiful that it was ridiculous to keep the stereotypes I had of Hamilton people. Most of us were able to relate to one another on a human level. Though the Adler conference was supposed to be more constructive than just breaking down stereotypes, t�at is the most important effect the conference had on me. But I am just one student of many who has been affected in this way, so it is easy for me to fall back into stereotyping a few weeks later back on campus. I suggest that if the Adler Conference is to be worth anything, they should be held more often so everyone has a chance to participate. Maybe the schools could purchase a beautiful building on a lake in the Adirondacks and every weekend a portion of the students would go up there to discuss and solve problems and break down stereotypes. There may be more resulting from Adler that I am not aware of. I rarely see anyone who went to the conference. I think of the experience as more of a holiday than a conference which brings forth certain proposals; yet, I valued my holiday very much as far as developing better relations between Hamilton and Kirkland.
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Most Students Enjoy :Freshmall Orien tation
meetings with advisors, discussion BY PAULA KLAUSNER g roups (some with Hamilton Those members of Kirkland's freshmen, also), a picnic at the classes of '73, '74, and '75 who Harding Farm, registration, and of recall the disorganization that has course., the annual all-College m a r ked the college's earliest mixer. Kir k l a n d s ophomores will formative years may smile sadly at some of the changes that four years contrast this with their own of evolution have brought about. f r e s hman orientation last Kirkland College is finding form September. Last year, a poorly out of confusion; that is, at least, planned arrival one week before out of the chaos of freshman classes started and two days before orientation. The orientation of the any Hamilton men arrived made Class of '7 6, under the direction of · for a disappointing introduction to Cathy Belden, '75, was, according life on the Hill. S e v e r a l f reshmen h a v e to the freshmen·, well-planned and expressed appreciation o f one effective. Orientation, which began with addition to the orientation format: the arrival of the class on Thursday, the designation of upperclassmen September 7, was "just the right to act as student advisors. The length of time" reported several of adviser s a r e somewhat like the freshmen. During the four days Hamilton resident advisors in before classes started, the freshmen Dunham Dormitory, but each were occupied with a dinner for the Kirkland advisor is responsible for new students and their parents. onlv three to ten students while superintendents, or teachers employed outside their counties of r esidence; (d) spouses, p a r e n t s , o r children blank. These must be returned to accompanying the above, if the Board of Elections in time to be residents of the same election received not later than noon of the district and otherwise qualified d ay before election d a y. voters. (2) Between the 30th Applications from qualified votei-s and seventh day before date who are confined permanently of election--from other because of illness or physical persons. Ballots will be disability must contain a statement mailed to voters upon receipt of that the applicant is making an application. application at the same time for an 2. Other voters who may be unable absentee voter's ballot. to appear personally at their polling place because of illness or APPLYING FOR ABSENTEE physical disability may apply by BALLOT mail for an absentee ballot for use in a General election by requesting 1. All other qualified absent an "Application for an Absentee persons: Voter's Ballot'" and medical Apply by mail for an "Application for an Absentee KIRNER•JOHNSON Voter's Ballot" to the Board of continued from page one , Elections, county of residence. F i l l o u t a n d r e t u r n. which are either in or on the way, Applications will be accepted as was des igned by Benjamin follows: (1) Between May 1 and Thompson, as was the rest of the- seventh day before date Kir kland. It not unnaturally of . election--frorn other features the waffle design, with its spacio u s l inear ef fect and than military .voters who are: soundproofing functionality. At (a) living in soldiers' and sailors' homes or receiving present, air controls and heating treatment in U.S. Veterans are being balanced and adjusted, Administration hospitals: (b) in but other than that, it only lacks Federal service; (c) students, furniture and room numbers.
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President, Vice President, State Senators, members of State Assembly, Judges of the Court of Appeals, Justices of the Supreme Court, members of State and County committees. NEW YORK VOTING QUALIFICATIONS 1. U.S. citizen. 2. Resident of the State and of the County, City, or Village for three months next preceeding an election. 3. Eighteen (18) years of age. 4. Registered. ABSENTEE REGISTRATION 1. Permanent registration is now in effect throughout New York State. When a voter is once personally registered, he remains registered if he votes once in each 2-year period and does not move. If voter moves, he rnusf reregister in
person. 2. The following persons may register by absentee process: All qualified persons, whose duties, o c cu p a tion, or business require them to be outside the counties of their residence or, in the case of residents of the city of New York, in a county outside such city. Persons confined to home or in a hospital or institution, other than mental, because of i l l n e s s or physical disability. The spouse, parent, or adult child o f a b ove voters accompanying or residing with them, if a qualified voter and a resident of the same election d istrict. Persons listed above register by requesting an application for absentee registration from the Board of Elections, county of residence. For registration dates, check with the local Board of Elections. If application is accepted by the Board of Elections, you will receive an absentee ballot and an enrollment
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each Dunham advisor is responsible for- a half-floor. Freshman Linda Srnuckler expressed a common opinion: "It was very lonely _and disquieting the first few days. We were all corning frqm secure places and it's hard to meet new people. I think it's good to have student advisors. I was very glad to have her to talk to." Some of t' .- uew students did v oice complaints about the p urported c o -o�d i n ation of Hamilton and Kirkland, a union which they did not find evident in their brientation programs. One ' freshman, suggesting that the colleges have co-ed advisory groups in the future, stated a view that is shared by many inhabitants of the college community: "If you have the resources of two colleges, you might as well take advantage of those two colleges to the fullest extent." certificate form from the Board of Elections, county of residence. Executed applications will be accepted by the Board of Elections no earlier than the 30th and no later than the seventh day before date of election. ABSENTEE VOTING DEADLINE All other qualified absent voters and ill or physically disabled persons--voted ballot must reach designated Board of Electipns no later than noon on the day before the election.
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contmued from page three to provide the fol.est and most corn p l et e educati.on for the inqividual. A catalogue of courses to be offered this year will be out in about a week. There is no registration or fees. The Free School is looking for new courses whenever a group of people may express interest. For information regarding new courses, contact S t e v e W e i s m a n a n d Stu Kestenbaurn by campus mail.
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Hill Stifles Cortland 5-4 Frosh Racketmen Poised
BY BRAD CASWELL and STEVE SADOVE In what may have been the breathed, the Continentals cooled closest and most exciting tennis their muskets on the sidelines. Karl match in recent memory, the and Dave felled the last two Hamilton College tennis team dragons 3-6, 6-2, 9-8. defeated the . Red Dragons of Adding insult to injury the Cortland State by the score of 5-4. Hamilton JV's beat the Cortland Leading the "onslaught" in their JV's by 5-4. Mark "Puffer" Rice Hamilton debut, Dave Schutt '76 '7 3, after being sidelined from his and Karl Klontz '76 won their football quarterbacking duties tiebreaker in the third set of the with two knee operations, led the final doubles match. team with a singles victory at the The day began ominously as nu�ber 1 spot 8-6, 6-2. Singles number 1 man Brad Caswell '7 4 wins were also recorded by Hank was blitzed 6-1, 6-1. Captain Steve Watkins '73 and Barry Haimes '75. Sadove '7 3 also had a disastrous Again, the outcome of the match day between the lines, losing his depended on doubles wins. singles 6-3, 6-4 and then teaming Rice teamed with newcomer with Dave Dawson '74 to punt the Roger Berman '7 6 at the first number 2 doubles 6-3, 6-4. doubles and lost 6-4, 7-5. At the After winning points were second position Ken Henley '75 awarded for singles victories to · and rookie Mike Siegler '7 6 pulled number 2 John Hutchins '75, out another team point 3-6, 6-4, number 3 Kluntz, and number 6. 6-3. Following the footsteps of the Dawson, the deciding match points Varsity, Haimes teamed with were needed in the doubles Watkins in the final doubles and competition. af te r splitting s e t s found Caswell teamed with Hutchins themselves in a third set tiebreaker. at number 1 doubles and survived Although not as suspenseful as the ·an erratic second set loss to win Klontz-Schutt match, Hamilton 8-6, 4-6, 6-2. After the Sadove, won the match 1-6, 6-4� 7-6. loss, the team. score was Dawson · Leading the team again as he has CANTOR ' tied at 4-4. · The Red Dragons for the last two years is junior Brad were breathing fire looking for. Caswell. Seated in the number 2 their third straight win. But they spot is last year's MVP John .iid not know the power of those Hutchins, and swinging at three is freshmen to the the celebrated freshman Karl :; �:::7 eg Klontz. Echoing past captaincies, Klontz and Schutt, playing Steve Sadove can be found hanging unaware that the outcome of the from the fourth slot. Rookie Dave match rested on their strings, Schutt plays at five and Dave Hamilton's toughest season ever· battled to an 8-8 tie in the third set. Dawson rounds out the varsity Hamilton ended its rivalry last year Undaunted by the three match squad. w i t h r e l at i vely easy Alfred points that faced them as they fell The addition of Klontz and University to pick up a perennially behind in the tiebreaker 2-4, the to the lineup brings a depth Schutt tough Wesleyan University team. . pair strung together three -straight to the team which has been lacking T h e C o n t inen tals also face · points to win the set and the in recent years. Other first year Williams, another team that was match: As the ·. R�d - . Dragons men Puff Rice, Roger Berman, and amongst the top twenty teams in
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BY WOODY NAVIN The Continental soccer team is out to better last year's 4-5-1 record. Led by co-captains Jim Campbell and Nat _Follansbee, and six other lettermen, the hooters possess much more experience than they did during the previous 'year of rebuilding. There are, however, eleven high caliber freshmen who are also vying for starting positions. Thus, this year's Hamilton squad is a volatile mixture of youthful exuberance and seasoned experience. 'soccer enthusiasts this season can expect to see Coach von Schiller's Netmen establish a style which relies almost exclusively on ball control. Whereas other teams may depend on either speed or power, the Buff and Blue will count on using short passes amongst the well-balanced squad members. The key, however, to a winning soccer season is "tickling the twine". The shoes of last year's leading "t:,;ine tickler," C.T. Fetscher ', {J, must be filled. Although Ray Terepka '75, Nat Follansbee '73, Jim Campbell '73, and many of the'other strikers have indicated the ability to put the ball in the net when a goal is needed, no single superstar has emerged -yet. In preseason scrimmages against Morrisville and Canton Tech., the C o ntinen tals showed marked improvement from the first 3-0 loss to the n, "<t 4-3 loss against a tough Canton s, uad. in the latter match, Hamilton �ontrolled the game with a 3-0 lead up until the final ten minutes of the game. Then, due to fatig ue f r om b a c k -to-back scrimmages, and overconfidence, the Blue collapsed, allowing Canton to score four quick goals. Coach von Schiller has said that his hooters are much improved over last year's squad. But he cautions against overconfidence by pointing out that this will be
the nation. Other teams on the Netmen's schedule include St. Lawrence and Harpur, ranked tenth and eleventh in !the state last i year. Before this Saturday's game here at home against Wesleyan, the "Twine Ticklers" will have faced Harpur College on the road. Due to a sprained ankle,Jim Campbell will m i ss the Harpur game, but hopefully he will be ready for action against Wesleyan. If Hamilton's ''big D" can keep F e yyaz Baskent, H a r p u r 's twenty-four year old Turkish star from getting his foot on the ball, the Continentals could draw their f i r s t b lood of the season� Otherwise, the Buff and Blue will be looking hungrily for their first victory of the season against their .brand new foe, Wesleyan.
Sports Bl urhs . INTRAMURAL FOOTBALL This past week, the intramural football schedule got off t_o a f�ne start. Yesterday, A.D., D. U., and the Indys all posted victones; hspectively beating TKE 34-0, Sig 27-0, and S. Dunha� 1?-0, On Wednesday DKE, PSI-U, and Chi Psi also came out on the wmmng end. Check the schedules posted around campus for next weeks games. NEXTWEEK SPECIAL COLUMN Starting with next week's issue, Ed Watkins '74 will write a column with the intention of informing the Hill of special sports events of the previous we.ek. It should prove to be an informative and interesting column.
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Mike S p iegler enhance the potential of this year's powerful team. Sophomores Henley and Haimes return along with seniors Watkins and Tom Reagan to battle for spots on theJ.V. Preparing to do battle daily, the team faces a tough RPI squad in Troy on Monday and opens the home season with a match against Utica College on Oct. 5. The fall season concludes with opponent,· Harpur, at Hamilton on Oct. 10.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 Turner who might swing back and play in the secondary. The defensive backs include Frank . Assuma '75 at rover, Tom Janosky at the corner, with senior Jim Knodel and frosh Gary Smith p laying the deep, or safety positions. Knodel and Janosky are the only deep backs with any varsity experience. Turner and versatile Dusty Batley still might take over any of these spots in the inexperienced secondary unit. The place-kicking assignments will be handled by freshman Bill Finan, an accurate kicker within the 30-yard line (a forty-yard field goal with the 10-yard deep positioning of collegiate goal posts) and a dependable extra-point man. Coach Jones is in a good position as far as punting goes with four better-than-adequate hooters on the squad including Knodel, Green, Jones and Cordia. Kickoff and punt returns will be handled again by Kevin Snyder and two frosh, Al Silverman (reserve end) and Mike Cannon (reserve back.) Since Coach Jones has another week to tune up for what is now a seven-game season, he hopes to utilize the time wisely working on a couple o f h is weaker and less-experienced spots, particularly in the secondary Jones is hopeful, but not overly optimistic for the 19 72 campaign, realizing that with solid leadership, some good breaks and a healthy club the Continentals can surely improve upon last year's record. The loss of the Haverford game was truly unfortunate, but a strong performance tomorrow against Amherst could prove to be a great spirit-lifter prior to next Saturday's trip ,to Rochester for the opener.
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SPECTATOR SPORTS Haverford Open er Nixed Amherst ScrimmageTom'w
BY ROBERTJ. KEREN The 1972 gridiron season will not begin against Haverford as expected on Saturday, instead the Buff and Blue will be pitted against a tough Amherst squad in a scrimmage game at 2 p.m. tomorrow, with only bittersweet memories of the now-nonexistant Hamilton-Haverford Game. We last played Haverford seven years ago in a 50-0 Blue romp, and the Continentals were looking forward to opening this season in winning form, home at Steuben Field, against a not-so-strong Haverford. The small Quaker institution announced last Friday that they were unable to field a complete team for the 1972 campaign and were forced to cancel all their games, thus leaving the Blue with an open date and no possibility of filling it with any "official" game. Head Coach Don Jones was lucky to get Amherst here for a scrimmage tomorrow, although the New E n g land Small College Confe rence (of which both Hamilton and Amherst are members) will not allow the game to count in the standings, or assign it any "official" status. So, the Blue opener will not be played until next Saturday in Rochester, against t he al ways rugged Yellow-Jackets. Commenting on last season's 1-7 performance Coach Jones t er m ed the year as most frustrating, highlighted only by the final game victory over rival Union, and the naming of linebacker Andy Sopchak to the AU-East Small 'College Squad. Leadership was a problem last season as Hamilton dropped their first seven games, but Coach Jones feels that with the strong offensive · guidance of assistant coaches Tom Murphy and Jem Doremus,. defensive help from John Pitaressi '69 and Bob King, leaders such as co-captains Sopchak and Joe Reagan and a crew of seventeen returning lettermen, the outlook for the '72 campaign must be brighter than in '71, even without the scheduled Haverford qpener. As a lways with Hamilton football teams, depth on the bench could again be troublesome for Jones, as thirteen freshmen will be among the squad of forty-three to• don the Blue uniform tomorrow. Jones has said that "every kid this year is learning the assignments for at least two positions, some even three or four,just in case our bench doesn't hold out." On offense, the line will see only
two changes from last year's squad: impressive freshman season, is the addition of junior Steve Green gifted with sprinter's s.peed and at end, and freshman Don looms as the long-pass threat in. the Armstrong at center. Both Green slot. Rounding out the backfield, and veteran end John Gravely '73 candidates for right halfback have the size and speed to handle include senior Tim Jones and no the receiving assihnments, hoping less than five freshmen. that the interior line will provide On defense both the line and the the time for them to fully utilize lineb�ckers have the experience to their good hands, and establish a perform will against most of p a s s i n g threat. Junior Scott Hamilton's foes, but the secondary Zapolski (6'1 ", 195) and Soph remains as a big question mark. Steve Speno (6', 195) will play at The defensive line includes tackle, with talentedJim Rishel '74' junior ends Charlie Liebling and and Soph Dave Duggin (6', 210) at Doug Riemer, along with tackles guard, comprising an experienced Jeff Hewitt and Joe Reagan. By and solid wall of blockers. Senior normal football standards only Mike Murphy, a gifted and junior Hewitt possesses the size to high-spirited athlete will pose as play defensive line, standing 6'4", utility man on the interior line, 235 p o u n d s . B ut together, filling in at tackle, guard and . co-captain Reagan and Hewitt center. Filling the gap vacated by provide the Blue with a strong Pat Cardinale· '72 in the middle will defense against the run, utilizing be Don Armstrong, a natural center Jeff's size and increased speed and who hopefully can set-off the loss J oe ' s e xp erience and quick of the outstanding Cardinale. reflexes. Liebling was tried in the In the b a c k f i e l d , Soph backfield his freshman year and quarterback Bob Winter will try to moved to defensive end last season. build on the stron performance he What Charlie lacks in size, (6'2", made in last season's Union game. 195 pounds), he makes up in Winter came off the bench after agility, speed and brute strength starting QB Mark Rice was injured and poses to be a fixture at on the first play of the game, to defensive end. Riemer will be in his lead the Blue to a 12�10 victory. He first year in a starting role, but is being challenged for the number Coach Jones is high on him one spot by strong throwing Frosh indicating that Doug is coming Lou Cordia, who has exhibited along very quickly. much poise thus far. Coach J ones rates Andy
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In the backfield, Winter and Sopchak as "the finest linebacker Cordia will have two speedsters to I've e v e r c o ached in my work with in Sandy Macintosh and twenty-three years at Hamilton." Kevin Snyder. Mac will play Big Number 73 deserves alot of left-half again, and now in his praise as he sets himself to open his junior year Coach Jones feels he is f o u r t h and final season at about ready to emerge as a m i d d l e - l i n e b a c k e r. Three complete ball-player: "Sandy has impressive sophs will contend for quick moves, superior blocking the other two linebacking spots: ability, excellent speed and has John Newell, Bill Ferris and improved his hands enormously. Maurice Turner. Newell and Ferris, He always gives 100% - and if he both Madison New Jersey boys, weighed thirty pounds more we'd. had strong freshman seasons, as did sell him to the pros right now." CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 Kevin Snyder, coming off an
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Player's Perspective
Editor's note: Senior Joe Reagan will be making his debut this year as co-captain of the Buff & Blue Football team. At 6'2", 220 "Barn" assumes the responsibilities of defensive tackle; alternating with Jeff Hewitt at the right and left spots. Reagan hails from Nottingham High School in Syracuse, where he amassed nine varsity letters in baseball, basketball, and football. The Southpaw was also elected captain•ofthe football team for his underclassmen efforts. This year Joe will be looking for his fourth consecutive varsity letter. Off the gridiron he holds the position of Head Freshman Advisor. BYJOSEPH 0. REAGAN In the past, many of these articles have been �ppeals either to the fans for support or to the College for more of this or less of that. Instead, I will try to convey my impressions of this year's football team. We are bigger than in past years with a defensive line averaging slightly less than 215 lbs., but depth-wise we are thin as usual in certain spots. Our experienced ballplayers are distributed on both offense and defense, therefor easing any danger of a cluster of inexperienced players on either team. Moreover, we are experiencing a phenomenon unknown. in recent years: an actual battle for the quarterback job between Robbie Winter and Freshman Lou Cordia. Clearly, the entire team benefits from this healthy competition as each man tries to drive the team a little more successfully and assure himself a job. So much for the physical status of'the team. What about a more nebulous quality called attitude that every team must have in looking for success. As I see it, our attitude is a refreshing change from last year when, after a demoralizing Middlebury defeat, the will to win started to leave us. But most important we did not quit and mustered up enough physical strength and mystical spirit to nip Union in what I prefer to look at as not the end of a bad season, but rather the beginning of a successful one. The hitting is more ferocious _with overall play more aggressive. Also, our coaching is better staffed to meet our needs, and their enthusiasm has noticeably improved. All said and done, what does this all mean? No doubt we will make our mistakes. We will fumble, throw interceptions, and be scored upon. Every team commits these mortal sins, but we hope to cut down on our mistakes and simply play a better brand of football. Tomorrow we play Amherst, a perennial Eastern small-college power, in what we hope to be the continuation of a successful season. Check it out at 2:00 p.m. and see if you agree with me.
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·Oster to Represent EECHK A!CH�lr Paltz EPL Meeting John Oster, '73, was ele�ted to the· Board of Directors of the Environmental Planning L obby {EPL) of New York State on September 24; he will represent the E n v ir onmental Ecology Committee of Hamilton and Kirkled (EECHK.) on the lobby. L
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E uropeall Journalists Will Discuss CampaignMonday
Th ree leading European journalists station ed in the United States will be at Hamilton College on Monday, October 2� They will take part in a discussion titled "Campaign '72-a European View." The discussion is open to the pub lic without charge. The correspondents, each a long-time observer of the American scene, are Leo Sauvage of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro, Yuri Gustir{cic of Politika, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and Edwin Tetlow of the London Economist. Mr. Sauvage, who was first assigned to cover the United States 25 year ago, is the author of numerous books including The Affair, on Oswald the assa ssination of President Kennedy, and Le Gas Guevara, a study of ·the career of Che Guevara, the Latin American revolutionary. Mr. Gustincic has been with Politika since 1951 -and is active on Yugoslav television in two la nguages, Serbo-Croatian a,nd Slovenian. He has been stationed in New York for t�e past three years, coming to this country after assignments in London and the Middle East, where he reported on the 1967 Six-Day War. Mr. Tetlow,for many years the U.S. correspondent for the London Telegraph, has covered every American presidential ele'ction since 195�. He has written several books on the United States and Latin America, including Eye on Cubq,, an account of the Castro revolution. In January 1971 he was at Hamilton to conduct a Winter Study Program on world press operations. Both he and ·Mr. Gustincic are former presidents of
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int;��t: :o;s��foX:�; ;: • enVJronmental political lobby m New York State. EECHK sent six �elegates to the EPL convention m New Paltz: John Zaehringer, .. that the advismg system hadn't BY JEFF FEINGOLD John Oster, Kevin McTernan realized its full potential, but it is Faculty and students believe Babbi Bitner, Don Williamson and not as much of a "problem" as A l l a n M a l k i s . O ster al so that Hamilton's present system of represented the Friends of the faculty advisors is not as me n t i o n e d in the A d ler Earth as · a New York field ineff�ctive as the receru Adler Conference report. Many juniors and seniors said Conference report contends. representative. that the system is not as bad as it The report mentioned, "It was As a member of EPL, EECHK felt by many students present that was a. few years ago. They d irected i t 's a ttention to organizational business, including a definite bias exists on both co ntend that many advisors were the formation of p latform issues. campuses on the part of some discouraging students from taking Their aim was to break the New faculty advisors who steer their classes at Kirkland, but that this York City "power bloc". All advisees away from courses at the practice is not as widespread as it once was. power and direction in the EPL coordi�ate school." P r Of e s s o r C h a n n i n g has previously come from the Professor Sidney Wertimer, a Rich. ardson, another Hamilton city. Our delegates scored a major Hamilton advisor said,"You must s u c c es s t h r o u g h .i n t e n s ive remember, most people think advisor said,"If you want to goto negotiations in having the locus of H am i lton h a s drop ped all the Woodrow Wilson School of requirements. That's not true. International Affairs and you power moved to Albany. They've only dropped distribution want ,to work for the State The EECHK. delegation sent a requirements." He went on to Departmen t o r the United representative to discuss each issue in the platform. Some of the • explain that this means a student Nations, you shouldn't be taking who intend s to m ajor in photography and English courses.. iss ues i n c l u de d popul ation shouldn't be taking,- Where will you fit in the Economics control, water, land, and air "literature, pottery and dance." mathematics, economics, and pollution . These Saturday and Mr. Wertimer said that advisors histor)lf" When Richardson was S u n d a y workshops wrote have to direct freshmen to a 'asked why d id the Adler statements that will act as guides concentration by the end of their Conference create such a row, he for lobbyists. sophomore year. ·"Fifty percent replied, "because of Kirkland." Elections were held after these of the freshmen right now have He was then asked why would committee meetings. Oster, an not a single clue to what they• Kirkland do it, do they want Hamilton students in Kirkland want to concentrate in." Wh�n students �f all cl asses courses and Richardson repl ied, were asked to comment on Mr. "Y e s , they want Hamilton nts there." Wertimer's· statement, many said stude continued on page six
Animal Ordinances
Pets on the Hamilton Campus: Rules for Care and Behavior Intent: These rules ai:e intended to assure that all pets kept on the Hamilton campus are humanely treated and not troublesome or offensive to any member of the College community. l. Animals brought to the College at the beginning of the academic year must be registered with the Kirkland-Hamilton Humane Society within three days of the arrival of the animal on campus. 2. Animals brought to the Col lege at any other time during the academic year must bs= registered with the Kirkland-Hamilton Humane Society before the animal arrives on campus. 3. New students may not bring animals to the campus until they have received the written permission of those in their living unit. 4. Before an animal may be registered its own must present to the Humane Society: a. an agreement signed by all members of the owner's living unit giving their permission for the pet to be kept in that living. unit. · For the purposes of these rules,living units shall be defined as follows: (1) in Dunham and South, all those responsible to the same student advisor. (2) for upperclassmen in South, all those on the same floor of a given entry (i.e.,third floor� south entry). (3) in Kirkland,each floor.· (4) in North,each floor. (5) in Carnegie,each floor of a given entry. (6) in Griffin Road Apartments,each suite. (7) in the independent wing ,,of Bundy, each group of eight singles or'three doubles on a floor. (8) each fraternity is considered a living unit. Permission to keep a pe.t in one of these units must be given in writing by the President, Steward and House Manager of the fraternity - all residents need not sign. b. evidence that the animal has had suitable innoculation against continued �n page six
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Blurl,s -- RED CROSS FIRST AID · · A ..Red Cross Standard First Aid Course will be taught in the next six weeks, October 5 to November 9 on Thursday evenings from 7-9 p.m. in the Red Pit of the Kirner-Johnson building. If interested please contact Miss-Gilbert. ext. 7175. Limit is 24. PHOTOGRAPHERS Anyone interested in publishing photographs in Portfolio (the photography issue of Winterset!) should submit them to Vin Pomeranz, 308 Kirkland Dorm, or mail them to Portfolio through the campus mail. MARXIST HERBERT APTHEKER TO SPEAK THURSDAY The Root-Jessup Public Affairs Council will sponsor a lecture by Dr. Herbert Aptheker, Chairman of the American Institute of Marxist Studies in the Chapel on Thursday, October 5th at 8 p.m._ There will be an admission charge of $1.00. KIRKLAND EMERGENCY LOAN FUND An emergency loan fund has been established in memory of Ruth Miller, who served in Kirkland Admissions from 1967 to 1972. Kirkland students needing cash for emergencies are invited to see Mrs. Bouch, Dean of Students Office, Kirner-Johnson. ABC TUTORS The Clinton ABC, which has brought eight minority students to Clinton to attend the local high school, needs volunteer tutors from Hamilton to work with the resident house tutors in helping the ABC students. Volunteers are needed to work one night a week, Sunday through Thursday, 7:00 to 9:30. The ABC house is located on Campus Road, adjacent to the campus. Any interested Hamilton st�dent interested in helping should contact Mr. Tibbetts, Mr. Ring, or Mrs. Ring. DRUG ADVISORy BOARD The Hamilton-Kirkland Health and Drug Advisory Board. will have a meeting October 4 �t 7:30 p.m. in the Brown Room of · Bristol Campus Center. For further information, contact Steve Wassoner, ext. 7264. SENIOR_S A reminder that several professianal and graduate schools and business concerns will be sending representatives here to discuss their programs during October and November. IF you are interested please sign up for an interview in the Career Center. This coming week the following representatives will be on campus: Oct. 2 Mon.: Temple Law School, 9-2 Oct. 5 Thurs.: Columbus Law School of the Catholic Univ. of America In Wash. D�C., 10-1 Oct... 6 Fri.: Accounting Firm of Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery, 9-5. MOUNT HOLYOKE CHAMBER SINGERS The Mount Holyoke Chamber Singers, under the direction of Mr. Donald Chen, will present a concert next .Friday evening, October 6, at 8:30 p.m. in the College Chapel. A highly select chorus of 27 women, the group specializes in contemporary compositions, either secular or sacred, for wo�en's choruses. Admission to the concert will .be free. WHAT ABOUT QUAKERS? The second meeting of an informal discussion series_ on Quakerism, titled ''What About Quakers?" will be,held Wenesday, October 4 at 8 p.m. in Room 128 of the Kirner--J.ohnson Building at . Kirkland College. The meeting will deal with the Re�igious Basis pf Quakerism and will be led by ls_abel Bliss.
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Within the past few weeks, Hill veterans have become increasingly aware of a conspicuous void in the student life. Last year, through student initiation and support, the McEwen Coffee-House became a popular center for student exchange. Now, although still- at the height of its popularity, the . Coffee House has failed to appear. A number of explanations for the still empty room have been offered thus far. Apparently, Service Systems and the colleges have renegotiated a new contract, naming Service Systems as the "exclusive caterers" on the hill. All food sold must come under their direct sanction and jurisdiction. In effect, last year's Coffee Hou se o p er a t ions were i llegal yet overlooked. Also involved in the ·issue is the_ question of insurance. For example, if health problems should occur as the result of Service Systems operations (including the snack bar and pub), Service Systems is insured. The Coffee House as it existed last year lacks such insurance thereby making it liable for accidents ·-:- a responsibility the colleges do not want. Today a meeting will be held among r e p r e s e n t a t i v es o f the colleges' administrations, Service SystetpS and 3 students. Hopefully some agr�ment will be reached enabling the Coffee House to operate in a fashion similar to the past inexpensive food, late hours and the relaxing atmosphere to talk and meet friends. However, if Service Systems takes over, there is a strong possibility that the Coffee House will become just another snack-bar. Run as a busine$, rather than as a student convenience, profits and prices might_
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increase and the food would be limited to Service. Systems specials, thus ending the tradition of student-baked goods. We strongly urge all parties involved to • s�riously take into account those features of the Coffee House which made it a popular student center. Hopefully, the interests and profits of business will not defeat the original intentions and purposes of the Coffee House founders.
Student Evaluations Student response to co,urse evaluation questionnaires has been light on both campuses this year. The questionaires were distributed last spring, and the results published iri the first week of school, revealing about a fifty percent response for Hamilton Students. The Kirkland results were never published. These evaluations are t h e m o s t e f fective m ethod. of c o m m u n ica t i n g to. f a c u l ty .and administration the feelings of students towards a particular course or faculty member. The Evaluations are also useful to students planning their schedules and to teachers who want a plain-language response to their teaching. The booklets should fall under the jurisdiction of the Hamilton Senate and the K i r k 1 and Assembly ;these organizations might find that a subcommittee could be responsible for continuing and updating the booklets. But no evaluation based on a survey of student opinion can be valid without a response from all of the students of a course. Since we must take the courses, and we complain about the courses we do not like, we should be responsible for formally • publishing our criticisms.
of alleged racism in faculty EVIDENCE FOR RACISM? advising, particularly in the To the Editor of the Spectator: premedical field." Having been a premedical In the September 22 issue- of the Spectator a review of the advisor for many years, the McGOVERN activities at the Adler Conference statement surprised and disturbed was presented. Under Item IV, me: I'd appreciate learning of any To the Editor of the Spectator: This is an open letter to all "Black-White RelatioJs on the evidence to support the allegation. those people of a liberal or leftist Hill" your report states that Nicolas J. Gerold inclination who are finding it hard "Administrators -were made aware to support, work, or vote for George McGovern. Four years ago many of these same people worked hard to see Gene . nom inated M cC a r thy for & , President. The failure of that VOLUME THREE NUMBER THREE effort seemed to indicate that the in 1848. Radiator" "The as published First achievement of such left-liberal as equality, radal goals Managing Editor Editor-in-Chief redistr ibution of wealth, Peter Zicari Kneisel Elizabeth protection of the environment, protection of civil li�rties, and a STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION moral and equitable defense 1. Date of filing, September 27, 1972; 2. Title of Publication, The Spectator; 3. Frequency of Issue, Weekly During the Academic Year with posture was not possible through exceptions of Christmas Vacation a_nd Spring.Vacation; 4. Location of Known the usual political channels. Office of Publication, Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, Clinton, New York Now, however, we. have a 13323; 6. Names and addresses of Publisher, Editor and Managing Editor: candidate who Presidential Publisher, The Trustees of H�milton College, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York 13323; Editor, Elizabeth Kneisel, Kirkland College, Clinton, New York represents all of thes.e ideals and 13323; Managing Editor, Peter Zicari, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York goals to at least some extent, but 13323; hundreds of radicals and liberals 10.EXTENT AND NATURE OF CIRCULATION: are standing by, saying· that the Spectator; 3. Frequency of Issue, Weekly During the.Academic Year with man is not good enough, his exceptions of Christmas Vacation and Spring Vacation; 4. Location of Known Office of Publication, Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, Clinton, New York, programs are not radical.enough, 13323; 5. Location of the Headquarters of General Business Office of the or conversely, that _ he has no Publishers, Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, Clinton, 'New York, 13323; 6. chance of winning, and, if elected, Names and Addresses of Publisher, Editor and Managi_ng Editor: Publisher, The Trustees of Hamilton College, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, no chance of effecting these goals. 13323; Editor, Elizabeth KneiseJ.. Kirkland College, Clinton, New York, Yet, several years �g9 these people 13323; Managing Editor, Peter Zicari, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, George proclaiming were 13323. .McGovern to be a paragon of EXTENT AND NATURE OF CIRCULATION: 2250 peace and progressiveness. 304,A.Total Number of Copies Printed .................. 2230 B. Paid Circulation This self-righteous abstention 1.Sales through Dealers and Carriers, from the electoral process has 1600 Street endors and Counter Sales ....................... 1351 certain ideiitifiable roots. There is 290 _ 2.Mail Subscriptions ....................................26 0 1890 the · and c o nf�sion the C. Total Paid Circulation ..................... , .......... ,1801 D.Free Distribution (Including Samples) power-playing· · · in McGovern's 2 IO By Mail or Other Means ..... . ............. ......... 210 staff, but this ,is neither new nor is E.Total Distribution ................................... -2011 2100 it an especially heinous failing. F.Office Use, Left-Over, Unaccounted, There is the Eagleton affair, but I Spoiled after Printing ....................................289 I SO G. Total .............................·..............2300 personally lay · the blame for that 2250 on Eagleton's ambitions, and, in I certify that the statements made by me above are correct and complete. any case, it is an arguable Elizabeth Kneisel
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Vernon Downs: BY LEWIS LEVINSON AND TOM PIRODSKY
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r-r- A Night at the Race T�ack'
Editor's Note: On Frida.y September 22, the Spectator had two roving reporters gallop over to Vernon Downs Race Track in an effort to keep our culturally isolated community informed of the vast and immeasurable sources of amusement in and around the ' greater Utica area. The following is this week's feature.
to Vernon Downs may appear Chief" (Editor, no less) of the miniscule, it is they who make it Spectator. If there were a muse of the place that it is. The crowd is gambling and horse racing, she everything. Gangs of people certainly would have been· · sitting rumble in to the track area and close to us that night. However, fate dealt us and the although everyone wants to have a good time, the enjoyment is S p e c t ator's specu l at i o n a restrained, the fun repressed. A st aggering low blow. Cagney s ober businesslike atmosphere Hanover finished two lengths in pervades the place. It can be read front of the pack, followed For most, an evening at the on the . lips of the parking closely by True Grit in second races can be anything from a attendant as you exchange with Steagy Secret just showjng in frustr�.ting nightmare to ecstatic greetings, it can be seen in the the money. Just looking foe our • jubilation, the latter being the sharp eyes of the men in the h opeful .Dazzlena Chief was case when op.e's pocket fil ls up. , betting windows, but it is most •enough to bring tears; we had For the keen observer, however, evident on the concerned faces of been beating, pardon the hackney, the track may hold a completely the track goers who are busily a dead horse. As one observer di f fere�t significance; . indeed, scurrying to and fro, placing bets, succinctley· remarked, "...the wagered money may be of only poring over programs and c_rossing track is no place for those who secondary value. (In other words, out any last minute scratches can't afford to l9se.'! We hope one must cultivate a taste for (This procedure is used when a that the Spectator can recover losing.) Vernon Downs, the home horse is deleted from the list of f r o m i t s nea r f i nan c ial of the "Miracle Mile", is now in those running.) It's useless to stop catastrophe. its twentieth anniversary season. and talk idly to a track person, Let's back up a bit. Before the bet on by number, not name) devices are useful, they produce Nine races of trotting equestrians he's .too busy. Of course, no pacers ever rocket .out of the a� ovei:whelming amount of with every horse in the next race, are seen nightly starting at 8:00 crowd w.ould be complete without starting gate, ·the viewer's pace is electrical stimulation. Even the that "'is,· h e usecl every~ _possible . . p.m. This fall's season still has its jokers, those happy-go-lucky fast and furious. Park a car. Pay to mnocent ICe-cream stands and co'mbination with the one horse almost a month remaining. racing buffs who have those get in� Buy a program. Buy · refresh ent counters are clot�ed ?1 to.win.(1-2, 1-3,... ,, l-S). · by thIS aura of technological The green grass on the infield "loser" grins on their faces. y o u r s e 1 f a t i c k e.t . to . As . pre dic.ted � N·t 1 e-Club , took of the race course is clearly .H o w e v e r , the run-of-the-mill, win-place�show on a "sweet" wonder. y ou are compe11ed to th-e. f"irst .. race, th ough . a p hoto punctuated by the brown all garden variety horse player is horse. Take a hot tip. Forget a hot the respond to them much m . · finish had to determine. the weather track. Overhead looms usually well dressed, serious and tip. Buy a hot dog. (Keep• the same way c?mmon fhes are winner. (It should be noted that the multi-level well lighted probably very concerned with his program handy in preparation.for • d attracted to hght. The sensory 1 e-Club not won, our fnen h.ad N·t . . grandstand filled with color and possibilities for financial gain. slapping it on•the rail when your wouId have been $14 poorer. ) We bombardment has a hypnot1zmg life; it is totally glass enclosed to Now it was in our hands to try "sweety" fails in .the final .c d Our ftlen · d.. t0 b e r SI"tti·ng- effect - a sort of race track JOUn permit one to sit out of the brisk to amass a small fortune. It was stretch.) The repetition of the complacently by himself, sure to intoxication - which is very fall air and still clearly view the given to us on the "up and up" word b u y, with its logical win the. daily double.. All that conducive to spending money and scene. From the ground track that the seventh horse in the allusions to the green stuff, is not remained was to see which horse betting. However, when the lights level movements of the spectators second race, a mount called coincidental, merely pointing out would win in race number two, dim and the excitement rises, the inside the enclosure make it · Dazzlena Chief, was a sure-fire the fact that it takes money, and thereby determining the winning people are clued in only to the appear as some }Ilammoth ant hill win. Through our minds flashed lots of it from all sides t'o make blurs of their horses, and nobody "daily double" payout. or some new fangled library. the idea that the 2-7 combination the horses go. can tell you then that the twitch Though no amount of tension Before one bets a cent on any Though the people who come is the birthday of the "Dazzling could seem to remove the smile you feel in your gut when that race one should be advised of the from this man's face, when Steady son-of-a-gun starts to run like.hell different betting techniques to Secret (the number four horse) for the wire ain't real, no "blow a bundle". Betting on the was neck to neck with Clever wlectronic fabrication. No sir. daily double (picking the winners Such is the atmosphere at Pam, he rose from his seat and of races one and two) usually pays uttered the usual bit of track Vern on Downs, perhaps the a tidy sum ($237.40) on Friday track in the country. jargon to urge l].is horse on (the classiest has night for the 1-4 combination). ·vern<.tn the higheSt speed text of these exhortations must be Races numbers three, five, seven rating of the small tracks and has deleted at the Censor's behest). and nine are exacta races because The reason for this is simple. The introduced to the public some of you simply have to choose the combination of 1-8 (Steady Secret the biggest name horses in the first and second place horse in in the first race and Clever Pam in standard-bred class: Bret Hanover, each of the previous races in order the seco�d) was destined to pay a Nevelle Pride and others. to win (It should be noted that People at Vernon Downs don't meagre $120.40 whereas, as we the word "simply" also applies to stick their heads in the ground at _ a l r e a d y k n Ow , t h e 1 4 having to simply climb Mt. charges of c o rruption and combination paid $237.60. The Everest to get to the top.) On close finish almost cost our friend race-fixing, but rather point to an even numbered races wagering is integrated system of closed circuit $117.20, a price well worth simpler; one can bet on a horse to TV coverage, four race judges and . worrying about. We decided not to win, place second ( place), or place extensive tests on both horse follow our interviewee to the third (show). urine and saliva as preventive cashier's window in order not to In the course of an interview measures. As publicity director be sickened by the sight of so we came across a gentleman who Don Evans said, "... racing at much money. had managed to beat the system. Vernon Downs is 99 44/100 % S LIQUOR RS An alarming characteristic of WEAVE The method: wheeling. He 24 How Sentice pure; but there are always some Vernon Downs, and no doubt of "On the Square" explained to us, while standing in bad apples in every bunch and we all tracks, is the incredible array front" of the "Sellers" ticket try to weed them out." of technological devices . which · counter that the Nite-Club, a high Vernon Downs is a pretty sp·ot Speciali-zing in the largest serve distinct purposes. The huge stepping 2 year old, was a definite David� electrical scoreboard on the center and congenial to the average Selection of Imported, Domestic win in race number one, the first l>hone Clinton 853-2003 of the track, the fantastic lighting, s pect ator. The r acing asks half of the daily double. When we the closed circuit TV cameras, the demands no one to participate'· looked at the scoreboard with the and fine Califo rnia Wines $6 from the CJ>lleges 1D the elaborate grandstand, the secret (win or lose a few bucks) and kind_,. Stations Utica Bus Ck Train approximate o d d s , i n d eed, o of feel electric, even if only f r a paddoc k, the exquisite clubhouse Nite-Club was the favorite. This $6 from the CX>lleges 1D the and the up-to-the-minute racing moment. The ho�ses are an eyefull Oneida County Airport 8:30 am - 9:30 pm knowledgable race goer went to 853-5421 odds are but some of the and the people quite human. With the $2 daily double window $22 from the CJ>lleges 1D the innumerable inventions of modem trepidation and a fear of being where he ''wheeled" Nite-Club, Free Delivery Syracuse airport technology th.a.� have made their called simple, we nevertheless call the n�.mber one horse (horses are way into racing. Though the many Vernon Downs plain fun. Go. .-, 5 ride as dlaaply as 1.
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·····••¥•��· ···••¥••···········••¥••······ MOVIES On Campus Sept�mber 29 & 30 (Friday and Saturday) Milhouse a�d Nixon 's (!heckers Speech (1952 original), 8 _ p.m., S 1ence Audito rium (also Sunday afternoon). , All � Im Right, Jack, 8 p.m., Chemistry Auditorium (also on Sunday night). October 1 (Sunday) The Selling of the Pentago?, Wilmington, The Legend of the Lone Ranger, 8 p.m., Science Auditorium. October 2 & 3 (Monday and Tuesday) Lost Horizons, 8 p.m., Chemistry Auditorium. On Campus Next Weekend Smiles of A Summer Night (Bergman); The Bank Dick (Fields) In and Around Utica Cannonball (in Clinton; 853-5553): The Other Kallet Cihema (736-2313): Everyth£ng You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask Paris (733-2730): The Garden of the Finzi Continis Stanley (724-4000) Melinda and Cool Breeze 258 Cinema (73-2-5461): 1. The Erotic Adventures of Zorro 2. The Last House on the Left 3. The Salzburg Connection MUSIC September 29 & 30 Joe Lewis, Coffeehouse, 9 p.m.-1. . October 1 Vladmir Horowitz' Birthday October 3 "Music for Awhile," Chapel, 8 p.m. EXHIBITIONS Current: Architecture Without Architects, Root Art Center (through October 15 ). Opening October 1 Photography exhibit by Bruce King, Hamilton '56, Bristol Campus Center At the Kirkland Art Center, Clinton: Two Man Show; Photographs entitled Boxing and Wrestling by Steve Liebman and Alan Metnick. (through October 15 ). LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS October 4 (Wednesaay) Discussion series on Quakerism - "Religious Basis," K-J Rm. 128, 8 p.m. October 5 (Wednesday) "The Relevancy of Marxism in the United.States," Dr. Herbert Aptheker, National Director of the American Institute for Marxist·Studies, 8 p.m., Chapel. IN THE WEEKS AHEAD Movies Scarlet Street; The Wizard of Oz; For Whom· the Bell Tolls Last Lecture Series On October 10; Rouben Cholakian of the Hamilton Romance Languages Department, will present his "last lecture." Debate The Hamilton/Kirkland Debate Team will debate the Oxford University team on October 13,.8 p.m., in the Chapel.
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Master Cellist Pablo Casals Pursues Crea tive Life at 95 BY LINDA SMUKLER My work is my life. I cannot think of one without the other. To _"retire" means to begin to die. The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest i� worthwhile things are the best remedy for· age. Each day I am reborn. Each day I must begin again.
Pablo Casals Joys and Sorrows Albert E. Kahn Pablo Casals is ninety-five years Spain and France. �faking his It was Casal's mother however, old. His love and putsuit of th who recognized and encouraged home in Paris, "he accepted as arts as a cellist and a conductor the young boy's ability to play many concerts and recitals as was have never been separated from and compose at an early age. Her possible. The concerts took him his devotion to the cause of influence, conviction, and all over the world, including the human dignity. Since 1946, Casals United States. For a long period detetmination were the forces has undergone a self-imposed of time, he performed over 250 which steered Casals into his silence in compassion for his concerts a year, exuding huge destiny as a musician. fellow Spaniards. As long as the amounts of energy and fortitude. Casals began his study of the Franco regime exists in Spain, The performances included not cello at the age of eleven. By Casals will not accept a public only solo appearances, but a large twelve, he had exhausted the performance. "I am a believer in quantity of chamber music. Casals opportunities in Vendrell, and l i b e r t y , honesty, j u s t i c e , went to seek further study in' has said that his love for chamber brotherhood, and plain human music outranks any other mode of Barcelona. In 1· 894, he ·traveled to dignity. My decision to act in playing because of the special Madrid to study under the 1946 represe n ted no great communication it creates between tutelage of Count Guillermo do sacrifice on my part, nor have I the individual players._ suffered because of it. It was the Morphy. Casals regards th&-Count natural thing to do...I have no as his most beloved and influential The first World War brough t an regrets, I am at peace with teacher. The man not only taught end to that glorious period in myself:" the seventeen year old boy about Casal's life, as it did to so many Casals was· born in the Catalan the cello, but included everything other musician's lives. After its town of V en d re ll on the he could "about life and the Mediterranean coast of Spain. The world...language and literature; art - end, Casals ceased to be totally a performer, and directed muCh of sea, the folksongs, and the people ·and· geography; philosophy and of Catalonia, have haunted the m a t hematics; the history of - hi s t i m e to. condu cting, composing, and developing music m us1cian consistent l y with music, yes, but also the history of in Barcelona. The Orchestra Pau remembrances of their beauty. His man." Casals, a group comprised of father was a musician; Vendrell's • At twenty-three years, Casals not;1-professional musicians was church organist and piaho teacher. was an established musician in formed at that time. He was also the genius behind the formation of the Workingman's Concert Asso�iation, an organization devoted to the creation of inexpensive concerts geared to workers' salaries. The Spanish Republic was formed in 1931. It was a which dispenses something that BY MICHAEL MURPHY triumphal time for Casals, because will prevent the faces of those not the new government comprised all native to Fregia from being frozen So, by now you imagine of the high ideals that he had ever into ice cubes. yourself to be real Flash Gordon envisioned for Spain. "I am not a politician...But an artist with a The quest for the polarite freaks, eh? Well, I think it is time conscience c annot separate begins. But in a quick flashback to for you to be put to the test. himself from certain political Ming's bizarre palace, we see the 1) What is the name of Ming's issues. Chief among those •issues m e l i f l u o u s l y-toned Ming, home planet? are justice and freedom. And it r esplendent in c er em on i a l 2) What country does Prince was the Republican government const�mery, making him appear that brought justice and freedom B a r i n li-ve i n on t h e · to be like a peacock in heat, give to Spain." The fascist uprising aqd aforementioned planet? the command that the intrepid Civil War ended that justice and 3) What is Flash searching for rescuers of Earth are to be freedom in 1936. Casals has lived in the polar regions? captured. The reward - 100,000 in exile from Spain ever since. 4) What reward does the He settled in the Catalan town Mingols, what else? (answer 4) Emperor offer for the capture We are now presented with of Prades near the French bOrder of Flash and the good Dr. another classic chase scene. Our during World War Two, and Zharkov? devoted most of his time helping heroes are zeroed in on by t�e t h e refugees and interns in 5) What is Flash's favorite minions of Ming and, by means of surrounding concentration camps. dance step? · an invisibility cloak for the. ship Musically, he worked steadily on The answers will be revealed in invented by Zharkov, they escape composition. Casals travelled all this article conc�rning Chapter and land near the polarite deposit. over Europe after the war, giving Two., "Freezing Torture." Flash In a mountain climbing scene, b e nef i t c o n c e r t s . These managed to get himself unshafted Flash and friends are spotted by performances ended however, by luckily grasping a loop in that when it became apparent that one of Ming's ships. endless orifice. Zharkov lowers a FrancQ would remain in power in Here we are presented with an rope to Our Hero and the fight Spain. The disillusioned musician scene continues unabashedly. The · u l t i m ate example of Flash's returned in protest to his refuge in w i s d om. As he calmly but Good Guys escape and with them, Prades. Since he would not leave cosmically surveys just what the the town, a group of dedicated out of the depths of Mingo enemy has in mind, he is forced to musicians and friends came to (answer I), comes the name· and m a k e t h e following tactical him. Thus, the first Prades festival location of the secret antidote to as,,sumption: "They're trying to w a s form_ed i n 1 9 5 0 t o the Purple Death. One of the men bomb usl" How astute he is, c o m m e m o r a te t he 200th of Princess Fria had overheard much like ·that other hero, the anniversary of Bach's death. M i n g tell his mad scientist Since 19 57, Casals has lived in Lone Ranger. The result of all this sidekick that priceless piece of is a phantasmagorical avalanche San· Juan, Puerto Rico. There, information. each year, as they went to Prades, which sweeps away our heroes musicians travel from all over the On the way back to Arboria and stores them ( on ice perhaps?) world to participate in the Casals ( a nswer 2 ) , t he plans are for this week's episode ''Walking Festival. Casals, despite his age, formulated for a polar expedition Bombs." in Zharkov's space ship in search still conducts the orchestra and holds master classes. During the of polarite ( answer 3), the only summer, he travels to Marlboro, known antidote for the Purple Vermont to partake and teach in Death. Where else but in the most Ford's on the Square the Marlboro Festival. And so, barren, arctic wastes of Fregia, Casals l ives. "Of course, I where only those born in Fregia continue to play and practice. I Clinton can survive should this mystic think I would do so if I lived for substance exist. The indubitable, another hundred years. I could Beer Beverages Groceries u nstoppable, and instrumental not betray my old friend, the Zharkov invents a .spray gun .,______________...,. cello."
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Frustrated Will ie& Winnie As Is Audience of "Happy Days' BY DAVID NEMENS very end of the play at least) they were being subjected to so spent a fascinating two solely with his arms, hands, II)uch meaningless. In particular, hours this past Friday night at shoulders, and the back of his I overheard two young women th e S t u d e n t A c t i v i t i e s head - and, of course, with his discussing the possibility of Com mittee-sponsored production voice. But Willie's speeches are seizing the opportunity afforded of Happy Days by Samuel few and far between, and almost by intermission to discretely Beckett. I thoroughly enjoyed invariably are a single line or less leave the theater. "I'm bored th� production - if one can use . in length. It isn't easy to attack stiff" (or words to that effect) the word "enjoy" about a these brief, isolated speeches said one. "So am I," replied the Beckett play. Yet I thought that with the strength and emotion other, "But we've been here so some of the most interesting necessary to counterpoint . long already, we might as well dialogue came· from the audience Winnie's endless babbling. Mr. wait around till the end and see ' and not from the stage. Cooper did an excellent job, what happens." I suspect that ,. I'd better establish here and now that I went to Minor Theater to �ee the play and not the audience. Happy Days is an un usual piece, s t ark a nd seemingly simple and not at all easy to stage. Its two characters, Willie and Winnie, are husband and wife. They share the pleasures-, of married life on a small, scorched mound of earth. Winnie is in fact a part of this landscape: in Act I we find her· buried .up to her waist, in Act II up to her neck in the dirt. Willie, meanwhile, lives around back, inhabiting what we gath�r to be a hole in the rear side of the m ound. We never get to see this hole, not do we get to see much of Willie: he spends most of hi!-' time reading the newspaper or sleeping. When we do see Willie, we usually see only the back of his balding head. Winnie recalls the time when her husband would occasionally come out front; but Beckett graces us with only one such occasion, and that is at the very end of the play.
though I would have .liked his voice to be somewhat gruffer and more aged. I thought that his finest moments came in the first act·, when, with outstretched arm t r e m b l i n g , h e w ordlessly demanded the return of his arty 'picture postcard; and later in the same act, when he antiphonally repeated the words "Fear no more" to Winnie's increasing discomfort.
they stayed; I also suspect that they were finally disappointed. Even after Willie makes his long awaited entrance, one does not feel · that anything has really happened. For in the world of Beckett 's play, nothing can hp.ppen. Events have no meaning beyond themselves, but serve only to pass time. Beckett's c ha ra c ters wait f or t he i r conditions to change, for their Godots to come, for things to be The 'p lay �as technically again in the "old style"; but excellent. The set, designed by. their waiting has to it a hopeless Deborah Benson, expressed the quality. It is this sense of sense if not the precise reality of hopeless wa1tmg that my the "scorched grass" called for · acquaintances in the audience by Beckett. The l igh ting , felt; it is a compliment to designed by Mr. Bell, was Beckett's art that his audiences blazingly harsh and intense - t hus ofte·n feel his message exactly the kind of light one before they understand it. would expect to find directed upon a specimen to be observed under a microscope.
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Kubrick's Cinematic Genius Too Imaginative For Words
For I think that Beckett, in Happy Days is subjecting Winnie and Willie - and along with them, all of us - to such a microscopic exa mination. His aim is to display how man functions, how he passes time in a world Ev e r y g e stu r e , ev e r y stripped of meaning and order. BY GARRETT HAYNER encounter with an alien culture - road sign or a �uperimposed title, m ovement of each character in W i nn i e g r opes in her bag, In his lengthy, published is difficult, if not impossible, to Kubrick lets Alex give us an Happy Days is specified �y searching for something to do, · interview with Francois Truffaut, grasp without outside guidance. occasional fact to avoid initial B e ckett. The s cript t hus for things to "tide one over." A l f r e d H i t c hcock constantly The film contains remarkably confusion in a scene. But he never resembles a musical score: the The same objects emerge day emphasized t_he fact that the ideal little dialogue (less than 45 relies on dialogue or narration to author not only indicates what after day; but this is better than' goal of film is to communicate in minutes), and the first words make a point. or to inform the words are to be spoken, but also having no objects at all. The non-verbal terms. What the actors aren't spoken until almost half an audience of the action, but rather bow they are to by spoken th�gs in the bag are important say is not important per se, but hour into the picture, and· it's easy on what happens during dialogue tempo, mood, volume - and what Winnie even when she can no only in terms of how they say it, to see what Kubrick was after. and action. to actions are to accompany them. longer handle them or see them what it reveals about themselves, But audiences, even the most Some people may disagree e Director Richard Bell wisely chose to closely follow Beckett's (as is the case in Act II): as long what they really mean, and how •perceptive ones, can only grasp so that non-verbal communication is she can believe them there, others react to it. Very often in a much, and with the occasional film's finest goal, but I feel that instructions. The two roles, then, as provide her life with a sense Hitchcock scene the dialogue will a ccidental red herring (for t h e r e ca n be no higher they are quite narrowly defined for S.imilarly, Winnie be secondary to the exchanges example, the coincidental fact achievement than d"vorcing filmic of structure. the actors. M o reo ver, the repeatedly reminisces about the going on beneath the dialogue - that the monolith on the moon expression from the written and characters - especially Winnie style." What does she sometimes quite contradictory or sends its signal to Jupiter while printed word. There will always are severely limited as to the use "old mean?Is the old style the way i r r e l e v a n t to t h e w o r d s being photographed), one almost be a place for verbal exchange, of their bodies. Rebecca Dobson things seemed when she had the themselves. has to guess th( plot. Perhaps with but in the realm of artistic cinema quite successfully overcame these use of her legs?When the illusion Stanley Kubrick's goal has so much unexplained,-the deeper _ � ·r e a ldl Stanley Kubrick obstacles in her portrayal of Winnie; especially in Act II- a of mobility they provided, • in been the same as Hitchco�k's, meanings are more easily felt, but unquestionably inhabits - they potential tour de force for any letting her walk from sunny spot especially in his last two films, I strongly doubt Kubrick intended must ultimately be as subordinate actress in the role - she displayed to shade and back to sun at will, 2001: A Spa.ce Odyssey, and A the film to be quite so confusing. i n comm unicat ing . ideas as I n A Clock w ork Orange program notes at a concert. They excellent vocal control and allowed her to believe in the Clockwork Orange. Both films are skillful use of facial expression. illusion of change? Is the "old n ow quite widely acclaimed however, no one questions the enh_a nc e , 'but they do not Ms.. Dobson brought a sense of style" in fact the way things (though many reviewers originally surfa ce m e a n i ngs, and the dominate. desperate activity to the role, were when life seemed to have panned 2001 and later changed ambiguities of the ending (is Alex whether s he was hurriedly some - m eaning, when time their minds, while still other have cured? Are the treatments he!s mouthing her mo.ming prayers or . seemed to be a causally linked never praised it), and Kubrick is under gone right?) are fully THE MODERN TAILOR SHOP r u m m a g i n g t h r o u g h h e r progression of events rat�er then hailed by many as this country's controlled. True, Alex does OF CLINTON INC. shopping-bag full o f distractions a never changing, never ending finest director. And part of the narrate. the film off-screen, but of distinctive style of Kubrick's films this seems but a simple meaJs of of isolated moments series for the day. has been his insistence upon introducing characters and of I think that in certain ways existence? Quality Dry Cleaning, Tailoring presenting the ideas using as few quickly asserting th� mood via But I promised to say Paul Cooper, as Willie, had a A n t h o ny Burgess' fa ntastic harder time of it in the play than something about the audience as w�rds as possible. and Shirt Laundry Service 2001, though remarkable in teen-talk (much of it based on the did Ms. Dobson. Granted that well as the performance. During Willie's role is nowhere near as the course of the play it became · visual e f fe ct s a n d i m a g es Russian language). The opening DIAL UL 3-8421 strenuous nor wide-ranging as is clear that a certain number of (personally, it's my favorite film), speech, in fact, is almost wholly that of his wife; he may move people sitting aboµt. me did not is the less successful of the two. It i ncomprehensible if one is around, relax, be out of the have the vaguest idea of what r e s o u n d s w i t h countless unfamiliar with the idiom, and Plant & Office spotlight for a while. But the was happening on the stage; r everberations o f m ythical, serves no important informative 43 College St. Clinton N.Y. actor play_ing __W i l l ie _ ��st some, beyond being baffled, religious, and imaginative themes, purpose. Just as Hitchcock' will yet its surface plot man's first sometimes· set the scene with a · establish his character (until �he seemed slightly indignant that
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K 'land Associates' Wkend Includes Mini-Courses
has -been a rather surprising surge nature, his use of medieval and elem e n t a r y b u t increasingly application of computers in of undergraduate interest in the Christian i conography and complex sounds. The Kirklan d contemporary society. Includes a study .of religion. This interest has · imagery, his attitude toward course in electronic music requires d em onstration of the new shown' itself in enrollments even wom e n , a n d h i s conscious the stude nt to gain some Hewlett-Packard programmable in such relatively esoteric areas as archaizing.calculator, which we share with understanding of composition and historical theology. Why are Registrants will receive copies form by taping original pieces. the Hamilton physics department. students on a secular campus of the poems to be rec1-d. We are S e v e r a l o f t h e s e t a ped John Morris, Science interested in studying religion? sorry that , we cannot supply compositions may be played and THE MODERN INDIVIDUAL Associates are invited to discuss copies- of the paintings; we will, discussed. this questi9n with a group of however, have slides of them. If Laura Owens, '7 5 A m e r i c a n s l o n g have s t udents of varying religious · time and library facilities permit, emp has ized t h e· v irtues of STUDIES IN PARACELSUS backgrounds and persuasions. you may wish to look through a CLAY SCULPTURE individualism. We have told David Miller, Humanities volume on Pre-Raphaelit painting, Theophrastus Bombastus von o u r s e l v e s t h a t f r eedo m, Working with clay _:_ this basic for example, Timothy Hilton's Hohenheim, better known as .self-suffi ci e ncy and rugged involves sculpture problem The Pre�Raphaelites (Abrams), Paracelsus, was an egotistical individuali_sm were simultaneously PRE-RAPHAELITES creating in reverso. Clay is worked John Nicoll 's The' Pre-Raphaelites alchemical doctor of the 16th the essnetial conditions and the in bas relief, shaping negative (Dutton), or Robin Ironside and century. He founded a school that characteristics of the true and forms which are then cast in During the Spring semester we John Gere's P r e-Rap haelite may - or may not - have virtuous man. Yet we have also p laster. It is suggested that are planning to give a course in Painters (Phaidon). recogni'.?ed, however vaguely and particip ants bring a smock or an late nineteenth-century painting , Ralph Lieberman,'Humanities contribut,ed to the development belatedly, that freedom cannot be of modern chemistry. His name old shirt. George Bahlke, Humanities and poetry, primarily British. We b e cause sy nonymous "".it h a b solute; that self-sufficiency, Jam�s McD�rmid, Arts will develop the reading list and mystical science and occult lore. particularly in a complex society, MOTHER COURAGE BY' select the drawings an d paintings We will discuss some of his works, encounters the • hard fact of POETRY WORKSHOP BERTHOLD BRECHT to be considered through frequent his place in the history of science, human interdependence. :Participants should bring no consultation, and we will both be I would call this a great work, and his controversial character. What is the proper blend? Is more than four poems each for present in the classroom to talk one that will survive its time and Participants will be sampling a h u m a n f r e e d o m possible reading and response among the about the difficult aesthetic ours to become a classic of the course in Ancient Science, which anywhere except within the limits questions raised in the study of theatre. Brecht, of course, would poets present. is designed to cover scientific of a free society? Does human William Rosenfeld, Arts th.e relationship between painting �ha ve beeh annoyed at this ideas from the earliest days to the freedom in reality always' require and poetry. We chose the period judgemenr:· His distrust of the a fair degree of conformity? Is time of Isaac Newton. SELF-INSTRUCTION o f t h e P r e - R a p h a e l i t e classical and his commi.tment to · Nadine George, Sciences, conformity always bad? IN SCIENCE Brotherhood not only because literature as an instrument in the Final answers to such questions An exercise in auto-tutorial painting ..and poetry we close to socio·-p olitical · struggles of the THE CATEGORY TABOO: tend to remain elusive. The i n s t r u c t i o n . This c o u r s e each other· at that time, but also present were equally intense. But FROM INCEST TO DIRTY WORDS questions, however, for Americans demonstrates a typical laboratory because several of the painters Brecht was often annoyed as .well in particular, continually seem This seminar will attempt to lesson in advanced plant anatomy a s s o c·i a t ed w i t h t h e as annoying. He meant to be �orth raising. interrelate such disparate taboo offered as an exercise employing pre-Raphaelites were also poets. provocative and is, but he is or Registrants will receive a copy phenomena a s i ncest a nd We invite you to a preview of a does much else besides. Mother self-instructio'nal ',techniques. The of an article, "Individualism in an prohibited l�nguistic conventions. lesson used classical laboratory course that has not been given. On , Courage is an indictment of our O r g a n i z ed America", for A general analytical framework materials (prepared microscope -October 7 we will hold a class in society and a call to action. It is prepatory study. drawn from the work of slides and assignment sheets) in which we plan to talk with' you also an exquisitely crafted work David Gray, Social Sciences Levi-Strauss, E. },,each an d others c o n j u n c t i o _n w i t h about the painting and poetry of of literature, poetic as well as CLINTON BOTANY photomicrographs, cinematic film Dante Gabriel Rosetti. The plan r ealistic, deeply funny an d will be employed to demonstrate the cog nitive and structural • loops and audio-instruction to for our meeting is to discuss unutterably sad. Several students and I plan to Registrants are asked to obtain consistencies that may be found i llu st�a te a procedure of briefly the formation of the lead a field trip into the woods instruction emphasizing the · Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and and read the play in the Grove in this category. Reigstrants will just south of the Kirkland auto-tu torial m et h o d. The the nature of painting before the Press E d i t ion, Eric Bentley be provided with a copy of Aberle dormitories - a mini-�ersion of demonstration will .be directed r i s e of Raphael which the translator. This is a paperback: et al. "The Incest Taboo and the Br o t h e r h o od w·a s t r y i ng price, $.95 ( unless inflation has Mating Patterns of Animals", and the botany course "The Natural and described by the instructor; it History of the Clinton Region." will be expected to take an active is designed to appeal to Kirkland consciously to imitate. We will struck). Ursula Colby Hmpanities part in the discussion. Those who We know that we can introduce Associates interested in innovative then go on to talk about the are offended by "bad language" some of the local plants, and we methods of teaching science at the relationship between Rosetti's DEMONSTRATION OF painting of "The B l e s sed are advised that a portion of the hope to meet some of the animal college level. THE ARP SYNTHESIZER Eugene Putala, Science Damozel" an d his relatively seminar will deal rather frankly life. extended poem on the same Appropriate garb? We plan to with some venerable Anglo-Saxon STUDYING THEOLOGY We will begin with a discussion subject. During the last part of go, whatever the weather, and we expletives. Over the past few y.ears there our meeting we will turn to of the purpose and use of the Douglas Raybeck, Social Sciences urge that you wear comfortable several subjects which are crucial synthesizer, and of the why and walking shoes: ADVISING, how of electronically produced to an understanding of Rosetti 's Come 'Vith is an d meet our COMPUTER SCIENCE one continued from page achievement: his treatment of sounds. We.will synthesiz,e se�eral A sample of our introductory neighbors! Another basic criticism found Elizabeth Gilbert, Science survey course in the practical ANIMALS among members of the student continued from page one disease: body was that the advisors were once upon a time I believe, have a °LETTERS (1) cats: distemper and, if the cat is to be allowed outside, rabies. not doing their jobs. One student chance of winning the election. · continued from page two (2) dogs: distemper, hepatitis, leptospirosis, and rabies (rabies tag said, "I just go in and get him (the should be attached to collar). Also, he is running against question; but it is not pertinent to advisor) to sign the sheet. I know (3) other animals: suitable innoculations as determined by the Humane question of whether Richard Nixon, . a renowned the what I'm going to take already Society in individual cases. McGovern should be President. enemy of civil , liberties, the 5. Upon payment of a registration fee of $7.50 per semester for each dog and he really doesn't care." And there are the polls. If you Vietnamese people, and the and/or $2.50 per semester for each cat (f�es for other pets to be established by Another Hamilton student was the Humane Society as needed), the animal shall be registered and issued American poor. Or have all those were to ask me, I'd say McGovern heard saying, "They're not doing an identification band which must be worn by the animal when it is out of will probably lose handily, but I left-liberalists "sitting the election what they're supposed to be doing the owner's room. also think he has a chance of out" forgotten ''benign neglect", 6. Animals kept in the dormitory must be humanely treated, properly fed and - advising.': He mentioned that winning. That chance has the Vietnam War, the Harrisburg watered, and provided with properly maintained sanitary facilities. his advisor doesn't tell him about 7. The owner is responsible for keeping odors caused by the animal's presence probably been destroyed by trial, recession, and all the other cour ses and doesn't know to an inoffensive level at all times and places. hundreds and even thousands of wonderful things Nixon has anything about Kirkland courses. 8. Animals owners will promptly take care of any unsanitary conditions supposed liberals· and radicals brought us, or perpetuated from caused by their animals, and will share the responsibility for cleaning up after whose convictions fail them past administrations. What all unidentified animals. 9. Animals illnesses must be promptly reported to the Humane Society and The Whole Earth whenever . they are within the these so�alled radicals and liberals the sick animal must be strictly confined to the owner's room until released faintest reach of possible success. don't seem to remember is that Natural Food Store from quarantine by the Humane Society. Finally, the hypothesis that George McGovern is an alternative 10. Animals tending to vicious behavior must be strictly controlled and owners 2 College St. of vicious animals may be required to remove such animals from the campus. McGovern as President will find to Nixon's politics, an alternative 1•• Open 10-- 6 Mon - Sat 11. Animals not housebroken may not be brought to the campus. his hands completely tied, will be in line with many, many of their 12-. Animals in heat must be removed from the campus during that period. bulk grains, flour, seeds, nuts, made impotent by the military own beliefs. He is not the best 13. The cost of repairing damage to college property caused by an animal will and by Congress,. is still only a man, nor the best alternative ( and be charged by the College to the owner of the animal. vitamins, cereals, tea & much more 14. Cruel treatment of animals will not be tolerated. Any member of the It would hypothesis. be I respect a person more who votes community observing cruelty to an animal is asked to report this to the interesting if all those liberal for the Socialist Worker candidate Humane Society immediately. CLINTON LIQUOR STORE political and social scientists than one who doesn't vote at all) 1 S. Permission to keep an animal in a living unit .may be revoked at any time saints, and great would work seriously on their but by any resident of the living unit by· notifying the owner and the Humane GRAND UNION SHOPPING Society that the permission is withdrawn. The Humane Society may revoke hypothesis by trying to get administrators, come very rarely. an animal's registration whenever the Society finds that the owner has not All I am asking of those who feel · McGovern elected. CENTER complied with these Rules. Perhaps I may be going too far, themselves attacked by this open 16. When an animal's registration is revoked, the owner must remove the MEADOW ST. CLINTON but I find a peculiar kind of letter is that they search their animal within fourteen days. FREE DELIVERY 853-8878 17. Animals are not permitted in the following buildings: Chapel, Library, self-defeatism in those liberals and consciences once more and ask Commons, Bristol Campus Center, Gymnasium, Science Building, Buttrick, radicals who brush off George themselves whether they want nor in any classroom. McGovern as if he were the Richard Nixon, with his petty 18. Any member of the community observing violations of the above Rules third•string catcher for the _Mets. virtues and major faults, or The staff of The Spectator should report the incident to the Humane Society with, if possible, relevant information from the animal's registration collar. After three complaints, After all, he is running for the George McGovern, an honest man· the offending animal must be leashed; if two additional complaints are wishes Beth Kneisel Presidency of the United States, of activist convictions even with received, the animal must be removed from campus. Complaints may be suppoJedly . a powerful, plenty all his imperfections·. made by w,iting the Humane Society c/o Box 254 at Kirlcland, or by · a w:ry happy birthday · Paul Weischelbawn · powerful, position, and he did, calling 9-4354. A mini-course program entitled ''A Kirkla.nd College Sampler" has been planned for the Associates Weekend on Saturday, October 7. Faculty and students are urged to join the Associates in these 80 minute sessions being offered by members of the Kirkland faculty. The course descriptions are as follows:
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Trivia Qu·estions
1. W?at B�timore Colt scored the winning touchdown against the N.Y. Giants m the 1958 sudden death championship game? 2. What passing combination holds the N.F.L. record for the longest completed forward pass? 3. Who is the most recent N.F.L. player to share the record for most touchdowns in one game? Under what field conditions and against what team was _this feat accomplished? 4. Two N.F.L. p�ace kickers have overco�e physical handicaps _ and established record breaking marks. Who are these two men and what are their respective records? KIRKLAND TENNIS MATCHES The Kirkland Tennis Team has two matches scheduled for next week, the first being on Monday at Skidmore. The tennis courts will see action on Wednesday, Oct. 4th at 4:00 as the freshman and sophomore members of the team meet Casenovia.
Water P_olo Posts 2 Wins T h e H a m i l t o n College water-polo club has- begun its third season of inter-collegiate competition on a fairly successful note. The club, lead by President Brian Cavanaugh '73 and advised by Professor Eric MacDonald, has won three of its four games, losing only to Syracuse University. The season started with a scrimmage versus Colgate, which Hamilton won easily 15-6. On September 23 the team traveled to Syracuse for a three team invitational · against S.U. and St. Lawrence University. The opener was lost to Syracuse 14-7, but Hamilton boomed back and d e feated St. Lawrence 12-4. M onday , H a m i l t o n h osted Hartwick College in the Alumni pool and easily defeated the inexperienced Hartwick Club, . 28-4. Inspired by the U.S. Olympic water-polo team a huge number tumed out for the club this year; the team has expanded to include more than just those on the swimming team. The starting team has at forward, Cavanaugh, Dave Shapland '74, and John Judson was ejected from the game after . In their first game of the '73, and at guard Pete. Schloerb charging Wesleyan's goalie for the season against a very experienced '73, Jim Carr '74, and Brad second t i m e , t y p i f i e s the Harpur Team, the Twine Ticklers Johnson '75, while Jeff Carlberg overexhuber a n c e which the lost 4-2. Harpur jumped out to an '75 tends goal. The team has an Strikers displayed in the first h¥f. early 3-0 lead with two of these unusually strong group of other The second half, however, was goals being contributed by their forwards with Craig MacDonald a new ball game. As the Netmen's Turkish star. His second goal, a '75, John Needham '75, and Mark h u s tling w a ne d , W e s leyan's chip shot over goalie Rose's head Nelson '75, while the defense is passing game began to click. Three while at full gallop, drew a definitely bolstered by the play of beautifully executed goals early in standing ovation from the crowd. Stan Kaye '74, and Gary Karl '75. Rounding out the squad is a the second half put the game out The Continental's only tally in the of Hamilton's reach. Wesleyan first half came on a long, looping talented group of freshmen, John capped their 4-0 victory with a shot by wingman Mark Leckie Navarre, Clark McGuire, and Eric shot late in the second half, which '75, which was too hard for the Krause at guard, and John drilled into the net after a goalie to deflect out of the goal. Vanderveer and Andy Grump at Despite a very poor first half, forward. Lester Lannon is the deflection off the post. Halfback Chipper Dickson '73 was the Buff · the Netmen came back strongly in team's valuable back-up goalie. Wat er polo has definitely and Blue's only consistent player the second half and controlled from the first through the second p l a y f o r 3 5 m i n u t es. served as a constructive factor for half. H i s passes and shots Unfortunately, only Ray Terepka, the swim team in past years. remained on target, and he was on a head-in was able to break the Besides providing an excellent plane of the white arches for the conditioning program, it gives the always hustling. tankme.n a head start on forming a Buff and Blue. With injuries to fullback Bruce tightly knit squad. Junior 1,000 Johnson '74 and lineman Jim meter man Dave Shapland had Campbell '73, the Twine Ticklers this comment. "For · the past two years have had to rely heavily on freshmen. Although the injured especially, the swimmers have made up the nucleus. of the polo proved to be the margin of victory p l ay er s a r e s orely missed, team. This has been great for Regan '76, Drinker '76, Danforth for RPI. conditioning and the early Brad Caswell playing in the '76 and others have shown that cohesiveness we have attained as a upon. relied be can they number one position made a The Continental's win against unit is of unquestionable value as desperate effort at a comeback State shows that they can a confidence builder. I only hope Albany but fell short 6-4, 7-5. Second than just put together we can graduate to compete on more do seeded John Hutchins, playing in half per game as they the intercollegiate level in the near good one what was the only thre( set match Harpur and Wesleyan. future." against did of the day, lost a heartbreaker Next match: October 4; the n t i n u e d f lawless o c • h t i W 4-6, 6-4, 5-7. Blue travels to Morrisville for an Jeff goalie from performances The score after completion of Rose, the Netmen should 'have a afternoon contest. singles play thus rested at 3-3. In the doubles cbmpetition, good shot at bringing their record the team of Steve Sadove and up to the .500 level at Rochester Dave Dawson demolished their U:niversity tomorrow. opponents 6-3, 6-3; both earning double victories for their days work. Freshman Klontz and Shutt failed to put it together, and were soundly beaten 7-5, 6-2. With the sun already set, and the Harvest moon clearly visible to all, the outcome of the match hinged on the first itlouble'S team of Hutchins and Caswell. Their effort were stifled, 8-5, and the final score of 54 served as a bitter disappointment to the Iljll seven. On a brighter note, the varsity resumes action and debuts at home against Utica College this Thursday at 3:00 while tl:-.e J.V. squad takes on a surprisingly agile Herkimer Valley Community College team this afternoon.
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: : : :• ••• , 0 0 N The Twine T i c k l e r s of of preventing the goal. The match Hamilton College recorded their see-sawed back and forth for the first victory of the season with a next thirty minutes. Terepka '75� 3-2 win over Albany State on Wollman '76, and Leckie '75 all Wednesday. Hamilton·•s record had good opportunities to sc�r�, now stands at one win against two but they either shot wide or hit t h e p o st. The Continental's de/eats. Before a good sized group of winning goal was scored by an spectators on an overcast day, the Albany player who accidentally Continentals were a fired up ball kicked the ball in during mass club, hungry for their first confusion in front of the net. Against Wesleyan University victory. Albany State was equally Saturday, the Hamilton last psyched for the game. They had lost their first game of the season Netmen made a valiant, though due to the absense of their fruitless attempt to knock off one starting goalie. Although Albany's of the top twenty teams in the goalie was heavily taped, he not c o u ntry. Combining good only played, but he also showed teamwork with plenty of hustle, and flawless goal-tending by Jeff why he is irreplaceable. Al bany State started the Rose '74, the Continental Strikers scoring early in the first half on a stymied Wesleyan's offense in the direct kick by halfback Kelesian first half. Ray Terepka '75, who from fifteen yards out. Due to a mixup on the play, goalie Jeff Rose '74 did not even attempt .to stop the shot. He thought that the penalty was an indirect kick rather than a direct kick. On an The tennis team journeyed to indirect kick, at least two players must touch the ball before a goal RPI M o nday in quest of can be scored. After this first goal, maintaining its undefeated record both teams settled down to not in fall tennis. Unfortunately, the only battle each other, but also to obstacles proved insurmountable battle the wet turf and the poor as the Racketmen were felled in a referees. Throughout the game, thriller, 5-4. The defeat· spoiled the Hill's Albany State relied upon individual speed and individual opportunity to avenge a 5-4 ball handling to thtead Hamilton's defeat at the hands of the defense. The Buff and Blue, on Engineers last spring. P lay i ng in a l m o s t total the other hand, worked on quick and accurate passing. Despite the darkness the num er one doubles 1-0 score throughout most of the team, Br�d Caswell and John first half, the Twine Ticklers Hutchins, were beaten 8-5, in the controlled th� game. The first finale. A single pro set . had string midfielders, Pickson '73, previously been agreed upon as Halpern '75, and Danforth '75 there was not enough time to kept supplying the forwards with complete an entire match. The day begall ominously as the ball, but the Strikers could not get the ball past Albany's Hamilton arrived moments before goalie. Finally, late in the first matchtime due to mechanical half, co-captain Follansbee tied problems with a college .vehicle. the game up by picking the ball However, as the singles matches out of a crowd in the crease, and neared completion, the Blue then driving it home. Within the temporarily had the upper hand; next minute, the Buff and Blue taking three of the first four gained their 2-1 halftime- lead singles. Vic�ories were. recorded by when Follansbee again scored, this Captain Steve Sadove 6-4, 6-2, time'on a penalty kick. Albany State quickly tied the Dave Dawson 6-1, 6-4, and last game up m the second half on a · weeks doubles winner, fr�shman breakaway by inside Alverez. Karl Klontz, 6-3, 6-4. Two of the Goalie Rose '74 came out to meet remaining three singles were both him, but he really had no chance extrelll�ly close anfl ultimatelv
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ljJ luesBow in Scrimmage28-.7; Opener at· Rochester Tom'w BY ROBERT J. KEREN The Continentals lost their hands near the midfield stripe, "cont r o 11e d scrimmage" last turning the ball over again to Saturday versus Amherst 2 8-7, in Amherst. Our defense proved what appeared to be a t�ne-up particularly tenacious on l:his L ord Jeff drive, forbidding game for both squads. The second time the Lord Jeffs Amherst to enter our end· zone on got their hands on the ball, they four consecutive plays inside the scored on a 62 wu-d drive, with five-yard line. But Amherst did return to our Amherst half-back Bobby Blood going over from the two for the territory just minutes later, score. The extra point was good, r�covering a Rob Winter fumble and Amherst had a 7-0 lead with on the 14 yard line on a 7 man blitz. Four plays later Rick six minutes gone in the game. The Buff and Blue were Murphy put Amherst ahead by awarded the ball on the 25 yard seven points. Sophomore linebacker John line (according to ' N.E.S.C.C. · scrimmage regulations), and with Newell picke� off an errant QB Rob Winter unable to move · Murphy pass with 36 seconds the offense, Lou Cordia came in remaining in the half. Two pass on 4th down to kick his second · completions by Winter wasn't punt. enough as the gun ended the 1st Amherst fielded the ball on the half, Amherst up 14-7. Hamilton 49 yard line, with 4 The second half saw two more minutes left in the first quarter. Amherst TD's, many subs for On 3rd down, Jeff Hewitt '74 both teams, and a rough initiation blasted thru from right tackle, at Quarterback for Lou Cordia. nailing QB ·Murphy for a 16 yard Amherst f ield-general Rick loss. A short Amherst punt placed M urphy organized two more the Continentals into what was to scoring drives of 36 and 68 yards, be their only scoring position of• early in the 3rd period. Murphy sat out the rest of the 2nd half, as the afternoon. With Winter (10 of 18 for 126 did most other Amherst starters yards), in at Quarterback, Sandy opening the game up to almost 20 Macintosh and Brian Smith at minutes of fumbles, interceptions, halfback, Kevin Snyder in the penalties, and no-scoring. Coach Jones rotated men at slot, Steve Green and John Gravely at the ends, Scott most positions, giving long looks Zapolski and Steve Speno the at freshmen· Cannon and Vince tackles, Jim Rishel and Dave Puleo in the backfield, and Al Duggan at guard and Don Silverman and Bill O'Donnell at Armstrong at center, Hamilton the ends. T h e s e c o n d h a l f was marched 56 yards in three plays to p u t t he B l u e on the highlighted only b y the consistent Scoreboard. Brian Smith '76 took play of the de_fense, particularly the ball down to the four on a 52 of veterans Andy Sopchak, Joe y a r d r u n , b e h i n d solid R e ag a n a n d J e f f H ew itt. interference from his interior line Sophomore. outside linebackers ' and a picture-perfect downfield Bill Ferris andjohn Newell appear · block by John Gravely. Mac capable of doing the kind of job carried to the two ·and another consistent with that of their MLB freshman Mike Cannon, in to spell - All East's Andy Sopchack. Smith, carried the ball over. Linebacking this year should pose P h e n o m e n al place-kicker Bill no problem nor should either the Finan got his only chance of the offensive or defensive lines. But afternoon, and split the uprights difficulties in the secondary have tying the score at seven all. yet to be ironed out, and Rob In the second quarter an Winter will have a ) great deal of Amherst fumble recovered by weight on his. shoulders each and safety Dusty Batley gave the Blue every time he steps up to the line possession, and a chance to to call out the signals. The opener against the Yellow establish some momentum in the tie ball game. But Kevin Snyder Jackets in Rochester, should give had the ball stolen out of his the Continentals a severe test
t o m or r o w. Always • a strong opponent; the U of Rochester is typically big and tough but surely not unbeatable. A 3-5 Blue team almost pulled out an upset in 1970, and this 1972 version is not very different than that 1970 team led by a soph quarterback a n d a s t r o n g g r oup of underclass�en. The scrimmage game proved valu.able to the squad for it assured them that. they had a young, fast team that won't overpower anybody, but it is surely capable of playing a competitive brand of football, and nailing down a few Saturday surprises.
BY ED WATKINS Oldie Goldies are back. The .number one in the nation for music of yesteryear 1s enjoying a 1972. Baltimore was an early favorite s p e c t a c u l a r c o m e back to reach the top but has had unprecedented in recent time. The movement has -spread to problems due to the loss of its music forms long·thought beyond leader, Frank Superstar Robinson, hope of revival. The leader of to a rival group. Detroit and its big Motown these forgotten forms is Major League , BasebaJl. M.L.B., long sound has been · slipping. Lead America's favorite sound from singer Mickey Lolich has been out' coast to coast, started to slide of tune since late July. Boston, a group with as much fifteen years ago. This year though, the big sound of the unity as an Eric Clapton band, is swinging bats again has rung loud on the top as of today despite the in twenty-four cities coast to problems caused by the superego of ·superstar YAZ. Boston has a coast. M.L.B. is back because once great advantage in that its home again there is heated competition studio, Fenway, is well suited to for the number one spot on the its style of play. New York has been the hottest c h a r t s . N o w h e r e is the of the summer. Picked to group competition greater than in' the A m e rican East w h e r e the go nowhere by most critics, the a l l -American groups from Yanks picked up a couple of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, and players which have made the New York are vying for the top. difference. The best of the lot is Years ago, no one had a heavier Sp'arky Lyle, who by coming our sound than the N.Y. Yankees. The late in the show, };las made nearly old Yankee talent could not be every Yankee tour a success. Will the sound of M.L.B. replaced and mediocrity became the new Yankee tune. Baltimore, continue its comeback? A good a fairly new group, has had a few question. Competing sounds grow good tours but cquld not always louder and louder every year. get it together. Detroit and M.L. Football and Basketball are Boston got the hit single now and near the top of the charts already. then, but never stayed on the top M .L. Ho cke y , a "prim arily Canadian and Russian sound is for long. This year however each band getting a lot of airtime from U.S. has been unusually successful with DJ's. A prediction. Like rock and the result that as the time for the playoffs approaches, all four roll, M.L.B. is here to stay. Long bands have a shot at being named live Elvis and Babe Ruth!
Player's Perspective BY BRUCE CARTER· Running is not new to any of the freshmen. We have all participated in high school cross-country at one• time or another. However, the idea of running three times a day was a bit startling at first, but we found that it Wp.S possible, although extremely tiring. Prnbably the major adjustment to college running is getting used to the fact that the course distance is about double that of the high school distance. Therefore, it is necessary to spend more time iti practice to prepare oneself. Also, since the coach is not present a majori1l7 of the time, even more pressure is pqt on the individual to be truthful with himself and evaluate his own progress. Although it may not be too pleasant an experience at times, cross-country does have its advantages. We were able to become acquainted with people even though we arrived on campus early, and now that we are here we have a good opportunity at our disposal for meeting more. Also, it is a nice break from school work and helps one to better budget his time. Some people might think cross-country to be drudgery. We don't. It is as satisfying as one wishes·to make it.
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OCTOBER 6, 1972
NUMBER FOUR
Babbitt Outlines Plans For K'land Assembly
BY PAULJ\ KLAUSNER !'resident Babbitt addressed the first meeting of the Kirkland Assembly n October 2, stating that this semester's Assembly must work to "make concrete some of the philosophical ideas that we have taken as a college." I n the opening speech, Mr. Babbitt continued to discuss the esta b l i sh m e n t o f a "clear l egislative directive" and to outline some of the Assembly business that should take priority this semester. A c c or d i n g t o P r esident Babbitt, a review and evaluation �· Mrs. Fayvill e, R. N., Mrs. Lorraine, R. N., Mrs. Caulkins, R. N. of course offerings is of primary ' importance because it would benefit not only students, but would also aid faculty in hiring and in planning curriculum. The process of adequately evaluating the four-year progress of an individual student would also be BY HENRY GLICK need that might be expected volunteers sleep at the clinic on examined. weekends. F urth�r b u sin e ss s h o uld Dr. Leon R o e , M e d ical from a small college. include a look into the nature of Director of the college, and Dr. A second full-time physician, Please continue to p ages academic advising, an examination Don Muilenberg, the clinical Dr. Pienkowski, from Miami, has four and five for the of the means for off-campus psychologist, presented their joined the medical · staff. The continuation of this article h o u sing, consideration o f annual reports at the Medical health center can now effectively and the full medical report. President Babbitt's proposal that Advisory Committee's annual serve 2000 people which is well meeting on September 30. Each above the number of people in felt that the medical program the college community. was supplying the students with STUDENT CLINIC VISITS more than adequate medical care. Student c linic calls have Dr. Roe expressed special pleasure with the new addition increased in the last four years, BY ANN HNELLI Universfty of Miami's GP.A's of to the Health Center. He · said but this increase is proportionate S i nce Hamilton professors accepted applicants rose .2 each that all of the medical staff were to the growth of Kirkland, not grade lower than those at other year for the past three years. If pleased with the addition, and to a general increase in clemancy. col leges, many students are one school expresses a certain that it gave the health center all Hamilton clinic c alls have c o nce r n e d a b o u t t h e policy of admissions, it may be of the necessary facilities. Dr. remained generally stable at 7000 interpretation of Hamilton grades inferred that there are other Hengerer, chairman of the yearly. In 1968-69 Kirkland by graduate schools. It is thought schools practicing similar policies. Medical Advisory committee and students made 1000 ccalls at the that students are at a competitive "Although data appears to show a trustee of Hamilton, noted that health center, in 1969-70, 2000, disadvantage when applying to that Hamilton has nothing to fear the schoo l s s a v e d s e ve r al in 70-71, 3000, and in 71-72, graduate schools because of the in graduate acceptances, nothing hundreds of thousands of dollars 4000. Hamilton grading system. can be concluded because the by making an addition to the Night-time clinic calls have In a recent study of medical sample is so small," says Keller. present facility rather than been on the increase also. To school admissions, Marc Keller The e s timated ratio of building a whole new one. He help the nurses, a paid student is sent out letters to 24 graduate applicants to acceptances as of also noted that the new health now at the clinic until ten schools asking 1) the grade-point _1972-3 is 3:1 where as 5 years ago center will supply any health o'clock on weeknights; two averages of all accepted applicants it was 2:1. Because of the rise of of the past three years, 2) their applicants, colleges have raiseq Medical College Admission Test their enrollment to accomodate scores, 3) their class ra�ks and 4) them. Those who are qualified are their undergraduate institutions. frequently separated into classes Of the 13 responding schools, 8 ofcandidates, such as those whose of rebuttals. BY VINCENT L. DICARLO gave some usefu� information. GPA is less than 3.5. This system, Two students from the Oxford During the course · of the Because the survey is so though it does not always reveal a Debating Union will debate two debate, the Government heckles limited, one can not make any student's potential, is often used Hamilton men in Parliamentary the opposition, the opposition statistical implications, but can out of necessity. style in the Chapel on f, riday, heckles the Government, and only arrive at impressions. In no Hamilton is will known to a October 13. Oxford has been members of the audience heckle way did the letters show that the limited number of Med. Schools, coming here every other year for both Government and opposition. s y stem was det rimental to in spite of its stringent marking as long as anyone can remember In order to express approval of Hamilton students. Different system. In the past few years, and those who saw last year's one side or the other, members of schools p lace emphasis on me dical students have· been de b a t e w i 11 k n ow why. the audience stand up and move d i fferent q u a l i f i cations, i.e. accepted at Harvard, Rochester, Parli amentary debate is lively, to their side of the Chapel. grades, quo tas, test scores. Colombia, Cornell, Case Western humorous, and unlike any· other At the end of debate one final Looking at the chart, we see that Keserve, Yale, U. Penn, Magill, form of entertainment; and the such division of the house is called Class Average MCAT's Average GPA's Oxford Union does it as well or for by the chairman and a winner '7 ' 70 72 Approx. Rank 1 better than anyone else in the i s announ ced. Parliamentary· 600 debate is totally uninhibited. Columbia world. The Parliamentary style of Debates are most often won by Kentucky 43A 25A 23A debate is modeled in the image of ridicule of the other side and by 550 60B 61B 55B the House of Commons. There is a w i t , h u m or, and absurd 3C 5C 2C chairman sho presides over the arguments. N.Y.U. does not think our system hurts us; looks at grades, not averages. The topic of the evening's Stanford 3.51 . 643 debate and ''Parliamentary procedure" is followed. The first frolics will be Resolved: That speaker in favor of the resolution A m e r ica is a Sick Society. Downstate 3.34 600 is the Prime Minister. J< ollowing Hamilton's representatives, Bob Creighton 3.2 3.2 555 3.2 him is the first speaker for the Rooney and Marvin Kwartler, Jr. loyal opposition. One more will take the affirmative on the lndiana 60%* 3.33 3.3 spea k e r f r o m b o th t h e p r o p o sition and the Oxford St. Louis 3.3 75%* Government and loyal opposition debators, Jahn Priestly and Peter Miami Top 20% 590 3.36 3.16 2.99 is heard and then there is a round Hayward, will attack it. *Percentile rank
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Kirkland's enrollment be raised to 650, and the ramifications of that increase in student population on cl ass size, faculty size, and increase in course offerings. Another crucial matter to be discussed is the possible uses of the $150,000 Mellon Grant for faculty. The funds will probably be used for the support of K i r k l a n d f a c u l t y in t h e development o f new curricular patterns and in faculty members• own research. Babbitt enumerated a series of dates important to Kirkland. The weekend of October 7 and 8 is Associates Weekends; that of October 13 and 14 is Trustees' Weekend. The visit to Kirkland by the Middle States Association team for the evaluation of K i r k l a n d ' s eligibility f or accredidation is October 15. Mr. Marcy is taking charge of the activities of the annual Parents� Weekend on October 28-29. In February, Kirkland will be the site of a conference on teaching and learning. CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE
Med. School Survey Relie�es Fears of Hamilton Disadvantage
Oxford DehateatHalllilton Scheduled in Chapel Friday
B u f f a l o , Syracuse, A lbany, T e m p l e , D o w nstate, a n d Hanneman. Professor Kinnel, Head of Pre-Med advising, says that the grade system is not statistically significant and that where students are going now is no different than it was 10 years ago. The school's record, in fact, is very good. At least 80% of the Pre-Med students get into Med School. This compares favorably to any instit�tion in the country. The national average is 30%. Any school with 50% of their.students getting in is doing well. To help students get into M e d ical School, the Administration has reformed a committee with Mr. Kinnel as chairman. He is encouraged to visit the Med Schools and become personally acquainted with the D eans and the A dmissions committees. Dean Kurtz is aware of the problem and is keenly interested. He says that the• Hamilton faculty is teaching will and a dvising carefully in a prescribed program that fulfills all the requirements of the graduate schools. Remarks
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BURKE LIBRARY TOURS Conducted tours of the new Daniel Burke Library are scheduled from Monday through Thursday, October 9-12, at 7 p.m. The tours will be brief but informative, and all Hamilton and Kirkland students are cordially invited to take part. Sign-up lists are located at the Library Reference Desk. GRADE RELEASE fORMS Hamilton grades are automatically sent to a student's parents and secondary school. If you do not want your grades sent, please fill out a grade release form at the registrar's office before the deadline, Friday, October 13. A letter will be sent to your parents or secondary school explaining that you have requested that your grades not be sent to them. ROY BOOKBINDER IS HERE Roy Bookbinder, winner 1971 Folk Festival, Country Blues, Ragtime Guitar, tells stories! Coffee House, Oct. 6-7, Friday and Saturday nights, 9-1. Free with Social tax, 50 cents general - admission. FRIDAY AFTERNOON PUB CRAWLS Pub opens Oct. 6 on f�idays from 4-6 p.m. 0
LE C E R C L E F R A N�AIS You are welcome to partake of the good grape and cheese following the Last Lecture Series to be presented by Prof. Rouben Cholakian, Tuesday 7 :30 p.m. The reception will be held in the Backus Room at Bristol. Une conference sans vin est un confe'rence
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BOMB SHELTER · There will be an organizational meeting next Wednesday, October 11, for all those interested in working on the bomb shelter. Two sites under consideration are the field behind Kirkland and the area between Bristol and Minor Theater. If you have any other suggestions or are just interested, please come to the meeting. Other topics to be discussed are raising of funds, design of the bomb shelter, what materials to make it out of, etc. The meeting will be at 3: 30 on Wednesday in the Student Senate room in Bristol. All are welcome to attend. We hope to use the bomb shelter as an animal hospital (between nuclear attacks, that is). So all those interested in · animal welfare are also invited to attend. For further information contact Steve Krensky or Carol King. CO-OP DORM MEETING Monday, October 9th at 9 P.M. in McE wen .L OBBY is the first general meeting of the Kirkland-Hamilton co-op dorm to be born Fall of 1973. We need people who want to work hard on staffs to research building possibilities, etc. Please come. Bring your energy. CO-OP BOOKSTORE The Co-op Bookstore now has: books, hardcover and paperback; the cheapest cigarettes on campus; records; posters; candy. Any posters, cigarettes, candy, hardback or paperback books not available now can be ordered at discount prices. All of the above items are available in limited quantity but we hope to expand when we have more money and more ideas from YOU! We hope to provide a sociable atmosphere in the lounge - feel free to enjoy a comic book and/or a Playboy magazine while you're there. We have some ideas about possible additions and we welcome your contributions. Some of our idea; are: selling shares next semester, a soda machine, a clothing exchange, pottery, sewing, leather, jewelry, photography, paintings, etc. If you're interested at all in working with us, please contact Liz Samenfeld, ext. 4494, or Carol King, ext. 4480.
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PUZZLED To the Editor: We find ourselves puzzl�d and dismayed by The Kirkland editors of the Spectator several· aspects of Mr. 1' eingold's report on the Adler Conference. We had not realized that the would like to raise the issue of recording Conference did, in fact, create . "such a row." "No Credit" on a student's official There was certainly no evidence of it at the Conference itself, so that we cannot understand transcript in the case of failure. We ask either what Professor Richardson seems to have the Assembly to consider the role of attributed to Kirkland or why he might have done so. The illiteracy of the sentence beginning "He Kirkland as a punitive force in the was then asked why would Kirkland do it...." student's education. If the college offers nearly silenced ,us altogether, but we found Professor Richardson's apparent reply: "Yes, they the student the right to experiment, want Hamilton students there." an intriguing shouldn't it provide for the possibility of puzzle. It is certainly true that Kirkland would like Hamilton students in its courses, just as we hope f a ilur e? To s trengthen Kirkland's Hamilton wants Kirkland girls involved in its philosophy of experie�tial learning, th� academic work. But what is the relationship between this rather obvious truth and the college should not record a "No Credit" purported "row?" If the reference is to questions due to failure on the student's official on advising, we remember these to have been of two kinds: (1) questions raised by Hamilton transcript. The individual is then able to students about their advisors' attitudes towards Kirkland courses. (2) insistence by Kirkland experiment without the fear of later faculty members on the critical importance of an repercussions. excellent advising system in any educational context focused on a sound academic program for However, if a student is failing several each individual student. This insistence was part of c o urses then it is the college's an attempt to argue that a less structured approach then that of a number of very good responsibility to question the reason for colleges need not imply chaos of dilettantism. failures and act accordingly. The rest of our bewilderment is more purely personal. We must assume that Professors YEARBOOK Wertimer and Richardson were quoted out of context when they seem to be insisting that To the Editor: students majoring in economics and government I am writing this letter in criticism of the 1972 respectively should be confining all their attention yearbook which just came out. My criticism to these fields and those most immediately concerns the unrealistic picture of the racial cognate. We cannot believe that we and our makeup of Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges. Hamilton colleagues would not be in agreement Reading through the yearbook, one gets the about the broader implications of a liberal arts impression that the two schools have about four education. Surely there is not really an assumption black students on campus, and totatly inactive that future economists whould not be exposed to ones at that. Now we all know that such is not the literature, pottery, or dance or that it would be case. So why is this not reflected in the yearbook? inappropriate for the young men who are to Why do we not see more blacks in the yearbook represent the United States in the world to have engaging in diverse activities? Why does- the taken some work in English or photography! If yearbook attempt to ignore the black populations there is any feeling that Kirkland abused of the two schools? Personally, I find this situation Hamilton's hospitality at the Adler Conference, we intolerable, and smacking of racism; whether it is are extremely sorry. We are very grateful for the covert or overt is irrelevant. I trust that this year's chance to be part of this undertaking and had yearbook and those of subsequent years will be thought that the Conference's recommendation to more realistic and less racist in its portrayal of the include more Kirkland people in the future meant black students on our campuses. that this particular attempt at cooperation and Respectively submitted, coordination was successful. Donald S. Stidwell '74 Sincerely, (Muhammad 'Abd-Ar-Rahman) Ursuia S. Colby William }ioff:a.....------------------
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VOLUME THREE
NUMBER FOUR
First published as "The Radiator" in 1848.
Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Kneisel
Managing Editor Pete r Zicari
Associate Editors Henry Glick, Robert Keren, Kenny Marten, Maria Zammit Assistant Editors Carol Goodman, Paula Klausner, Kathy Livingston Sports Editor Craig Fallon Arts Editor Richard Kavesh Managing Staff Linda Anzalone, Ken Gross, Robin Hack, Liz Horwitt, Patty Jaffe, Taki Lamson-Scribner, Tony Mazzarella, Connie Miner, Betsy Murray, Susan Sternberg Business Staff Jim Noonan,Jeff Pearse, Bruce Thaler Photography John Ehrlich (Captain), Dave Rienzo, Nat Barber Wendy Goodn.ian, Woody Navin, Dave Cantor, Bruce Wrigley Staff Steven Applegate, Lorraine Blank,· Ed Catlin, Jon Cramer, Vincent DiCarlo. Anne Finelli, Je.nnifer Freeman, Jan Gehorsam, Jim Giarra, Ken Given, Doug Glucroft, Garrett Hayner, Gordon Kaye, Louis Levenson, Jim Ludwig, Jim March, Beth Martin, Michael Murphy, David Nemens, Lisa Newell, Dennis Oakes, Lynn Pannel, Thom<t,s Pirodsky, Steven Polakoff, Judy Prager, Chip Presutti, Skip Roessel, Roy Schecter, Judy Sillari, Douglas Singer, Linda Smuckler, Scott Toop, Joan Tuchman, John Vigren, Isagel Weinger, Elaine Weiss, Bob Weisser. The Publications Board publishes "The Spectator," a newspaper edited by students, 29 times during the academic year. Subscription: $7.00 per year. Address: Box 83, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 13323. Letters to the editor must be signed, but names will b'e withheld upon request.
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BY LYNN K. PANNEL As a freshman I see Kirkland and Hami!ton Colleges as bemg a facade/ as one of the many fantasies in the real world. Hamilton with its rich deep brown trees and its brick buildings ringing with tradition. Giving you some sense of being, a sense of roots...but whose roots??? Kirkland with its modem, stylish, spaceage looking buildings with their wide windows. Allowing you to look out and see but preventing you to touch. Kirkland's baby trees, symbolic of the school's youth and its semi-free, unconformed attitudes towards education. A facade, because outside of these invisable boundaries, there is hu nger, pain, and ignorance that walks the streets. When i leave these very comfortable surroundings and go home. I see my people existing in a death-like vacuum, which they call 'life.' I often question my being, like: Why do i go to college??? Why am i one of the c hosen ones and not the brother who lives upstairs over me,who may even be smarter than me??? But before anyone can answer my questions, it's time to come back to this place. This place of superficial going ons. Where i get lost among the many Archie and Veronica type characters. Who play games with your spirits and minds. BY JOHN EAGER It is not often, in these later days of our democratic enlightenment, that positive merit lands a man in any elective office in the United States; more often it is a negative merit that gets him there. Of the two candidates, the winner is he who least arouses the suspicions and distrusts of the great masses of simple men. What are more likely to arouse suspicions and distrusts than ideas, convictions, principles? The plain people are not hostile to shysterism, unless it be gross and unsuccessful. They admire Nixon for his bold stratagems and duplicities, his sacrifice of faith and principle. to the main chance, his magnificent disdain of sense and honor. But they shy instantly and inevitably from the man who comes before them with notions they cannot immediately translate into the terms of their everyday delusions; they fear the novel, and particularly the revolutionary idea, as they fear the devil. It seems to me that this fear of ideas is a peculiarly democratic phenomenon, and that nowhere is it more obvious than in This Republic, which is perhaps the nearest approach to an actual democrary the world has seen. It was Americans who invented the shibboleth that there is a body, of doctrine in every area of th ought that every good citizen is in duty bound to accept and cherish. It was Americans who invented the "right-thinker". The. basic concept is not original; the theologians embraced it centuries ago and so continue. It is only in the United States that it has been extended to all departments of thought. Only here is any novel idea, in any field of human relations, burdened with an unique obnoxiousness, and immediately challenged as in some way immoral by that mass of "right-thinking" men. It is only here, as far a s I've been able to make it, that there is a right away and a wrong way to think about the beverages one drinks with one's dinner, and the way children ought to be taught in the schools, and the manner in which foreign alliances should be negotiated, and what ought to be done about the Communists. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to that man who most adeptly dispels the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. As democracy is perfected, the office more and more represents the soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the folks of the land will at last attain their heart's desire, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
Iarif ication o n Advising
Editor's Note:
We would like to clarify the article on Hamilton advising that was published September 29, 1972. After subsequent interviews with Professor Channing Richardson and Professor Sidney Wertimer we realize that the issue should be restated. Hamilton has replaced the majority of its course requirements with a stronger advising system. Professors Richardson and Wertimer were both speaking to the point of advising a student who knows that he would like to enter a specific professional, vocational or, gr ad u ate study field after graduating fr�m Hamilton. Professor Richardson explained that if a student felt strongly about wanting to enter a government program, for example the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, then he wo.uld advise the student to take more government, history, writing · courses, as well as philosophy, art and other areas before taking courses with no direct relationship to the post-graduate field the student has in mind. Professor Richardson was not at the Adler Conference and therefore did not feel he should address himself to the question in the Conference Evaluation Report on faculty advisors steering their advisees away from courses at the coordinate school. Professor Richardson is strongly in favor of the efforts of coordination on the part of both schools. Professor Wertimer discussed the conflicts involved in advising a student who wishes to enter a profession. He would encourage the student to take courses preparing him for the post-graduate work the student has in mind. Then Professor W ertimer questioned where does a liberal arts education apply? The student then should take his opportunity to experience a wide spectrum of courses which he ould not of ten be exposed to later in life. Clearly there is a larger question being asked of the role of vising in a liberal arts college, which is also being discussed at · kland. This issue should not be confused with the question of acuity bias in advising at either college. 1 "
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President Babbitt announced the appointment of a long-range task force to look into Kirkland "ten years after." "We have been operating on paper since 1962," said Babbitt, as he outlined the plans for study of Kirkland's growth in the first ten years. E l e ctions of dorm representatives to the Assembly were invalidated when it was discovered that the nominatjon lists from some residence halls had never been turned in and entered on the ballot. Elections will be conducted again next week. For any students interested, the next Assembly meeting, on October 9, will be an open meeting at 3:30 in K irner -Johnson's Red P i t . D i s c u s s i o n w i l l c e nt er on Kirkland's self-evaluation report to the Middle States Association.
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Rochel le. Her responsibilities consisted of "research, writing and press contacts for national public relations and publicity compaigns for several accounts including local radio and television stations."
As Director, Ms. Daley's job will c o n s i st o f p ublicizing Kirk l an d through "national W h i l e g e t t i n g "n e w s , mag a z i n e s , c a t a l o g u e s , newspapers" and the like with the information, technical and finacial dual goal of creating a "national publicity for stations in New identity f or Kirkland" and · England, the Midwest, the South p r e s e n t i n g a "c o m plete and West coast," Cheryl Daley understanding of Kirkland's f r e q u e n t l y t r avelled a n d p u r p o s e s , l i f e s tyles and developed "client contact." Her publicity, writing and placement ·":' educational objectives." included such diversified accounts E nt hus ia sm for the new as home furnishings, cosmetics, an director was expressed by Burt electronics firm, and a Savings and Wallace, coordinate vice-president Loan Association. of Hamilton/Kirkland colleges. In the midst of her many "After bringing gangs of people in," there was, he stated, an business activities, Ms. Daley also "overwhelming consensus Cheryl found time to take courses at the New School for Social Research in Daley was our kind of person." Holding a B.A. in journalism New York. Presently, she is from Douglass College of Rutgers enrolled in a Media Workshop and University, Ms. Daley last worked a Campaign '72 course which with Phil Dean Associates in New consists of a series of lectures by Mr. David Shoenbrun.
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Ors. Report to Comm. on State of Health Center
The following are the annual reports submitted uy Dr. Leon Roe and Dr. Donald MuUenberg to the Medical Advisory Committee. ANNUAL REPORT 1971-1972 The Health Center opened for the 1971-1972 academic year on September 4, 1971. The staff consisted of the medical director, the clinical psychologist, four full-time nurses, five part-time nurses, a licensed x-ray technician who also serves as our laboratory technician, a secretary for the clinical psychologist, and a housekeeper. In addition, we have one - .tudent aid from 6:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. five days a week and 10:00 a.m. to 11 :00 p.m. on weekends. T he statistical reports are quite self-explanatory and only selected ones will be commented on. Injuries: Compared to 1970-71 there was a decrease of 104 injuries, 102 of the decreases were at Hamilton and 2 at Kirkland College.
Infectious Diseases: There were 76 cases in 1970-71 and 71 in 1971-72. In this category, there were 3 cases of infectious mononucleosis in 1970-71 compared with 15 cases in 19 7 1 -72 nearly equally divided between the two colleges. Respiratory Systems: There was an increase of 453 cases in this category with the increase mainly in Kirkland students due to their increased enrollment. Genito- Urinary: In 1970-71, there were 66 cases of cystitis. In 1971-72, there were 150 cases of cystitis of which 120 were Kirkland students. The cases of gonorrhea are included in the classification of cystitis and urethritis. This academic year, 1971-72, we treated 91 cases of gonorrhea, 50 cases in 'women and 41 cases in · males. This is a very marked . increase compared to 1970-71. Treatment and Tests: This category showed an increase of 520 over the previous academic year. This increase is due to · increases of allergy infections (1970-71, 451) � (1971-72, 637); mono agglutination tests (1970-71, 40) - (1971-72, 117); pregnancy tests (1970-71, 21) - (1971-72, 51); and cultures (1970-71, not done) - (1971-72, 185). It is appropriate at this point to comment on the cultures. Smith, Kline, and French developed the dinic cuit, a
simple culture method for gonorrhea, streptococcal sore throat, and monilasis. We have found this very reliable and most inexpensive compared to laboratory costs at the hospital. We are most impressed with the reliable results we are getting in the gonorrheal cultures. Several new innovations-have occurred ii\ the Health Center this academic year. You are aware of the very functional new office addition making space for a second physician. Our staff is well pleased with this added facility. Planned Parenthood ·has held either a weekly or bi-monthly clinic at the Health Center and this has been well supported. They had a total of 354 visits from Kirkland women. A few Hamilton men took part in the general discussion period. In addition, Dr. Hinkson, a gynecologist, has seen students by appointment twice a week. He had 109 visits. The Health Center staff saw 387 gynecological problems, most of these being for problems other than birth control, with dysmenorrhea and vaginal infections comprising the majority. A n o t her in n o v at ion was t h e organization o f The Student Health Committee comprised of both student and faculty representation. They have taken a keen and constructive interest in the Health Center. We welcome this comm i tt e e , not o n 1 y for their constructive role, but also for their acting as a communication point between the Health Center and the student body. This year for the first time the Health Center had a rather marked deficit in its b ud ge t in regard to medications. Therefore, with the approval of The S t u d en t H ealth C o m mittee, next academic year we will charge for some tests and the more expensive medications. This charge will be made through the business office and applied to the students' semester bill. We anticipate this may save as much as $3,000.00 per academic year. A _second physician, Dr. John F. Pienkowski ,. has been appointed to share equally with the medical director the increased work load of the two colleges. He will take up these duties September 1, 1972.
Kirkland College is now at its full four-year enrollment. Our added office space and two additional beds should allow our present facility to care for up to 2,000 students. In conclusion, our appreciation is expressed to the administrations of both Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges for their high degree of cooperation. We wish to· thank The Medical Advisory Committee and particularly Dr. Arthur Hengerer for their helpful suggestions and cooperation in our minor but sometimes worrisome problems. ANNUAL REPORT Office of Psychologist 1971-1972 The following report is somewhat of a. d i gr ession from the annual report prepared for the preceding three years. It includes some statistical information, but also some impressions that I have formed in my four years here as Resident Clinical Psychologist. It is my hope that the impressions I shall attempt to convey are valid ones, and that they might be used to . facilitate group discu�sion and future
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Hepatitis Influenza Measles Mononucleosis Mumps
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RESP. SYSTEM
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During the 19 7 I -72 academic year, I 04 Hamilton students were seen in my office. Based on a total Hamilton enrollment of 932 students, this figure represents 11 % of the total student body. These 104 men were seen for a total of 331 appointment hours. In terms of a breakdown by classes, 27 men were seen from the class of 1972, 25 from the class of 1973, 29 from the class of 1974, and 23 from the class of 1975. The 11% figure is consistent with the figures from preceding years: 9% of the student body was seen in 1970-71, 10% in 1969-70, and 13% in 1968-69, the first year that psychological services of this kind were available at Hamilton College. During the 1971-72 academic year, 81 Kirkland students were seen in my offlee. Based on a total enrollment of 590 students, this figure represents 14% of the total student body. These 81 students were seen for a total of 229 appointment hours. In terms of a breakdown by classes, 19 women were seen from the class of 1972, 12 from the class of 1973, 25 from the class of 1974, and 25 from the class of 1975. J, igures from the preceding three years allow the following comparison with· the total 14% figure: 15% of the student body was seen in my 9ffice during the 1970-71 year, 21% during 1969-70, and 36% during 1968-69. The figures of the last two academic years suggest, therefore, a desired leveling off trend at Kirkland College. The problem most frequently stated, and discussed in my office continues to have to do with a lack of satisfaction the individual feels regarding his- or her general character or personality, and the interpersonal problems related to this difficulty. The problem differs somewhat from what has recently been referred to as the "identity crisis" problem, in that students are much ·more concerned about a n d i n v o lved in a process of self-evaluation than self-identification. It appears that what has been considered by many to be a rather poorly defined, unstructured personality pattern or life style has taken on a certain identity of its owm. The question now is, does such a style produce much satisfaction or hold much personal or social value. This, in my opinion, is a very healthy development. Closely related to this self-evaluation problem is the_ continuing and probably increasing problem of a pervasive lack of motivation. This problem is, of course, not unique to the college population, but �ecause of the nature of the college - , ·1 1 • i continued lo page-'six
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State Of Health Cenier Continued from page 1 In-pat ient frequency has remained constant even with the new classes being added to l(.irkland. Dr. Roe explained that this was a result of Hamilton men and Kirkland women deciding to recover in their rooms with their friends bringing them meals. Some students who are not on the meal plan and must pay for meals have even tried to have their friends bring them food in the clinic, but Dr. Roe said that this practice was being stopped because it disrupted the organization at the center. Last year, the center's fourteen beds were never totally filled. Fifty per cent or more of the beds were filled on 46 of the 210 days. Eleven beds were the most ever filled at one time and this occupancy occurred only two tjmes last year; ten beds were filled only three times. Dr. Roe estimated that the health center's bed capacity could accomodate a student population of 2000 and that probably only an epidemic would force the college to use other rooms for beds. But if there was an epidemic, Dr. Roe said that no health center of any feasible size would have enough beds. TESTING AND TREATMENT Dr. Roe cited an increase in the incidence of body lice at the two colleges as well as an increase in Venereal Disease. There has been an increase in the number of cases of cystitis, and in the number of students admitted to the center as in-patients wit h emo t i o n al problems. Drug overdoses were at a three-year low. This fact, and the fact that only one student was admitted as an in-patient while tripping, led Dr. Roe to the conclusion that drug use on the two campuses has peaked and is on the decrease. Dean Bingham cited the increase in Pub sales as support for Roe's contention. In past years sales have amounted to between 11 and 13 · thousand dollars yearly, while last ·year's sales came to $24,000. But Dean Bigham agreed with President Babbitt and Dr. Muilenberg when they said that students may merely be mixing drugs and alcohol; all three men agreed that drugs are probably not decreasing on the two campuses. The committee questioned Dr. Roe about his diagnoses of treatments of diseases such as cystitis and venereal disease, and seemed satisfied by his report. Dr. Roe said that the Health center's venereal disease tests were very successful; he claimed a higher rate of corre ct positive tests than nearby hospitals. He felt that very few cases at the colleges go untreated, because, as he explained it, people here are very conscious of venereal disease because of the fairly e f f i c i e n t program of information f r o m several campus sources. Fifty-one pregnancy tests were given last year, a marked increase from last year. The committee questioned Dr. Roe about the availability of information for those women whose tests were positive. Dr. Roe and Dean Hoffa assured the committee· that information was readily avilable to the students through both of the offices and through the . Crisis Center. HEALTH CARE AND COSTS Last year, the Health Center operated with a deficit of $15,000. Certain medications given free to . students accounted for $3000 of this sum, and the Colleges have decided to charge students wholesale prices for special drugs and tests. Dr. Roe assured the committee th.at st ude nts s till would save money, compared to what they would have to pay for similar items obtained in hospitals and drug stores. He said that th� savings could amount to as much as
40 to 70%. For example, the clinic char g e $1 f o r a spot test for Mononucleosis, while a local hospital charges $7. V.D. tests cost $3 at the Center as compared to $9 at the hospital. Routine health care is still free for all students. There is no limit on visits, nor on band-aids, aspmn, antihistamines, cold tablets, or nosedrops. The only cases referred to hospitals, incurring an extra expense for the student, are those which require intravenous feeding, majur surgery, or involve some diagnostic problem. PSYCHOLOGIST'S REPORT D r . D onald Muilenberg, college psychologist, found that the general mental health of both campuses is better now that it was four years ago, and yet college mental-health services are at an "in-between" stage. Muilenberg said that the colleges do not need a second full time psychologist, but that in the months of November and February he b ec omes g r ea t l y o verloaded. He expressed the opinion that two doctors would probably be better, as students would then have a choice of doctors; but there really is not enough work for two full-time psychologists. He also noted that most of the students that need help are seeking it. Dr. believes that the latest 2 classes o f K i r kland w o m en a r e m o r e self-motivated and more self-structured that the first classes, whereas in the .charter class, thirty-nine percent of the women came to see Dr. Muilenberg. The percentage is lower in the latest classes and it is more stable. He also stated that n inety-five p er cent of Kirkland women's problems develop at home before they enter college. A significant problem for many Hamilton men in the last two years has been a growing feeling of sexual inadequacy. A number of men think they are impotent. Dr. Muilenberg attributes this to a desire for and a f a i lure in a chieving sexual over-performance. Men and women feel that they must experiment more and this causes many problems. Last year twelve to fifteen men complained about traumatic "I can't perform" experiences. In answer to this and other such ;'lroblems, the Kirkland administration, Dr. Muilenberg, and Dr. Roe are working on a non-credit course in human sexuality. New library materials have already been purchased, as were a set of tapes made by Dr. and Mrs. Sarrel of the Yale Health Clinic. The course will have a lecture format and discussion groups, led by two students, one male and one female.
Dr. Muilenberg • also said that many students are looking to the faculty for strong authority figures, but they are failing to find them. Most students feel that if they go to faculty they can get support and encouragement,· but they often want a strong mentor who will tell them frankly what he feels. MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE The Medical Advisory boa.rd was established by the Board of Trustees years ago. when Dr. Roe was appointed as the first full-time physician at the then- newly-constructed Rudd Health Center. The committee is appointed by the trustees of the colleges to help Dr. Roe with any problems he might run i nt o a nd to try to answer any administration questions or map out any new health programs the administration needs. The members of the committee are: Dr. Arthur Hengerer (chairman), Dr. Walter Pritchard, Dr. Frode Jensen, Dr. Maurice Clifford, Jr., Mr. David Fraser, Dr. Alfred Rothman, Dr. David Wilson, J r ., Dr. Richard J. Stock.
1 representatives are by Kirkland a n d ar e s elected by Hamilton. The committee meets once a year to go over the health center's annual statistics. They also try to help Dr. Roe s�t up policies "concerning preventive medicine, immunizations, examinations, therapy or other medical problems." The committee acts as a liason between D r . R o e and t h e t r.u s t ees and administration. This is facilitated by the fact that two of the members are on the Board of Trustees and six members of the administrations attended the meeting. Fourteen people attended this year's meeting: Dr. Hangerer, Dr. Clifford, Mr. F r a ser, Dr. Rothman, Dr. Wilson, President Chandler, President Babbit, Dean Hof fa, Dean Kurtz, Dean B1gham, Mr. Caravano, Dr. Muilenberg, Dr. Roe, a n d D r . P ienkowski. No students attended; the committee will seek a greater response next year. The student chairman and/or faculty advisor of the Student Health and Drug Act�vities Board will be invited to the meeting.
Insurance Policy Debated; 3 Alternatives Suggested
The current insurance policy of Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges shows that students are covered solely for injuries resulting from accidents. This insurance is mandatory and the cost of it is covered in the over-all fee. As it now stands this insurance will cover the actual cost, up to $500, of any medical or s u r g i c a l t r e a t m e n t i n c l u d i ng hospitalization and any other medical services that may be required as a result of the accident. A $50 deductible clause applies to each non-athletic injury. In case of a medic:!1 disaster, the insurance will assume 80% of costs ranging from $500 to $7500. A suggestion has recently been made c oncerning the acquisition of an insurance policy for illness and health problems not caused by an accident. The colleges could obtain three types of policies. A mandatory policy would require the coverage of all students and the cost would be added to the over-all fee. A mandatory with a waiver could be initiated giving the students who are covered by family policies the option of accepting or rejecting the college policy. The last type, a voluntary policy, would give all students the choice of acceptance. President Babbitt believes that in theory the mandatory policy with waiver "} is best. This leaves those who are covered at home free to stay under their family i WRIGLEY policy. The increase in cost would have to
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be considered before the establishment of this policy was finalized. As more students choose to remain covered by family policies, the college group would decrease, therefore causing the insurance rates to be quite high. He agrees strongly that there is a lapse in the area of illness insurance and would like to see the promotion of a policy as soon as possible. Mr. Caravano said that the issue of illness insurance was brought to the at tention of the Medical Advisory Committee last weekend. Philosophically he is not in favor of a mandatory policy-,"" and he could present arguments for the promotion of a voluntary policy. No final decisions can be made without the r e comm end a tions of the Advisory Committee, but it is likely that the over-all fee would be increased to cover the cost of an additional policy. President Chandler has also indicated that the issue if now under consideration. Personally, though, he also leans toward the mandatory policy with waiver, so that students with family health insurance policies would not have to duplicate costs. There is one strong argument that can be brought up against a mandatory policy. In the past most injuries have been accident-oriented, therefore, why should all students be required to pay for the remote exception? However, before · any final decisions can be made, the Medic al Advisory Committee must present its recommendations.
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Pienkowski Joins Health Center Staff BY DENNIS WALSH Dr. John Jt • Pienkow ski has joined the staff, of the Thomas Brown Rudd Health Center as a second full-time physician. He was formerly engaged as a general practicioner in the cities of Philadelphia and Miami. His specialization as a doctor is general practice, although he has had formal training in psychiatry during medical school. D r . P ienkowski feels that this psychiatric background has helped to broaden his ability as a doctor. It is his opinion that many people come to a doctor with emotional as well as physical anxieties. Thus, he does provide a certain amount of "non-medical" advice to
students, drawing upon his experience and his common sense. Dr . Pienkowski h a s also had experience treating cases of drug addiction, both on an in-patient and an out-patient basis. He has worked in a detoxification program. This consists of c arefully supervismg the withdrawal' period of hard drug addicts and gradually switching them to "softer" drugs. An example of this is' the methadone maintenance program. Dr. Pienkowski feels that if a heroin addict is to be maintained on methadone, it is very important that he be gradually withdrawn from heroin first, so that the shock of withdrawal is not too great.
Dr. Pienkowski moved to Clinton because he has always wanted to live and work in a small community, and so far he has found his experience on the Hill very enjoyable.
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Dr. John F. Piankowski PSYCHOLOGIST'S REPORT continued from page 4 environment it seems more difficult to cope with. I suggest that this motivation problem will be at least somewhat alleviated as more of these pool'ly motivated people (and perhaps more of us who should be helping to guide them) come to realize that group experiences loving, sharing, rapping, etc. - represent no panace� for individual dissatisfaction and u nhappiness. Perhaps we can encourage more self-reliance, personal discipline, and pride in individual accomplishment. A look at the more s p i r i t e d , p sychologically s o u n d individuals in our society certainly attest the val�� and usefulness of such attributes. I would also like to comment on the nature of some sexual problems that are becoming more common on our campuses. Jt irst, the relatively recent changes in sexual attitudes have apparently created as many, if not more problems than they have resolved. I have, for example, talked to a number of students, both men and women, who feel they are expected to participate in more sexual activity than they want, or feel ready for. This, of course, has been a rather common problem for women, but it is now becoming a real problem for many men also. The result is that an increasing number of young men and women are participating more and enjoying it less. A male problem that emerges is o�e that · is frequently self-diagnosed as impotence, although I find that in most of these cases inability to perform is evident only in situations which most adult males would find difficult anyway. Other sexual problems that appear to be increasing have to do with homosexual concerns. Part of this can of course be accounted for by the more relaxed attitude on the part of our society in general and by an increasing willingness on the part of many individuals to discuss •nt..,be t opic. Nevertheless, it is my impression that many of the concerns being expressed are the direct result of growing confusion regarding sex roles and of a more honest recognition of sexual interests. There is obviously a need for education in this area. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to any formal sex education program, there is also a need for more of us who feel that we have a rather meaningful understanding of human relationships and sexuality to be willing to state our views, and perhaps even argue a little. Jt inally, in regard to the drug situation on our campuses, I would say this is a topic that might well be discussed among the members of The Medical Advisory Board, but I think it is inappropriat to 'include any definitive statements in this kind of written report. I welcome your opinions and suggestions.
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• orm er Stu dents Wo:rking Ill � Kirkland Admissions Office BY ELAINE WE�SS The new sign on the Kirkland Admissions office door proclaims that the office is open· from Monday through Friday, morning till late afternoon, and Saturday morning. Inside, past the sign , the drone of electric typewriters, the shuffling of folders and perking of the perpetual coffee pot affirms that this is a relaxed, but busy place nestled in the recesses of the McEwen basement. On a Wednesday afternoon the admissions office is relatively quiet. It is still too early in the week for the scrubbed and, brushed high school seniors, accompanied by their mothers cl u t c h i n g c a t a l ogues a nd brochures, to fill the couches of the office. The concrete walls are at p r e s e n t b a r e , b ut a photography exhibit by Steve Liebman and his students will soon be mounted. If admissions run a course similar to last year, 800 applicants will look hopefully towards Kirkland, which accepted 350 for the 182 places in the class of '76.
Interviewing for the class of '77 began in July and will continue through the winter. Right now the office, headed by director Bridget Cosper and assistant directors Susan Hurd and Ilene Berkowitz (both :&.irkland '72) is tapping its resources to find qualified Kirkland applicants. The staff is travelling over most of the country to speak to high school guidance counselors ·about opportunities at Kirkland for their graduates, and some new areas of strength in the Northeast and cities of the Midwest especially, are being cultivated. A report, soon to· be publisheri, will · detail the findings of a questionnaire sent in August by the admissions office to 170 women who were accepted for admission to Kirkland, but chose to go elsewhere. These findings reveal that the greatest competitor schools of Kirkland are Brown and Oberlin, with many students deciding against Kirkland for f inan cia l reas o n s . De ferred admission, holding a place for a
student until she feels ready to undertake college studies, is becoming more popular with K i r k land a p p l i c an t s . T h i s deferred-admissions policy is considered a very good idea by many faculty, administration and student members. Ilene and Susan, as graduates of Kirkland, feel that they can promote the · college to others with a better understanding of what makes the school what it is. The· questions they hear most from applicants concern the size of Kirkland, and what that smallness means to the college c o m m u nity; what does the co-or d i n ation with Hamilton entail; and what does living in Clinton mean to a student. Ilene and Susan, both well satisfied w i th their own Kirkland experiences, serve to convey an enthusiasm and optimism about K irkl and to the prospective students. Each student admitted i� given the challenge of helping build the college, they feel, and that is a construction that neve1. ends.
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BY KEN G IVENS Robert Kazanjian '73 will serve as an intern in the Admissions 0 f f i ce. T h i s development represents a major innovation in the structure of this year's Student Admissions Committee. Fu nctioning as a regular Adm issions officer, Kazanjian i n t e r v iews candidates for admission. The results of such conferences become an official part of the candidates' credentials. In the past, student-conducted interviews were used only for advisory purposes. As an intern, Kazanjian works fifteen hours per week and receives payment for his services. O.J. Burns '73, who co-chairs t h e S t u d e n t Ad m issions Committee with Ron Kochman '73, reports that other import�nt changes in the committee's role in the admissions procedure· might include the send�ng of selected students off of the campus to recruit in secondary schools. B u r n s expressed personal in the sat isfaction
presentorganization o f the committee. He said that "not only do we have Kazanjian working in an official position, but student involvement is greater than ever. The support of the student body, faculty, and Admissions staff is very encouraging." With more than seventy active members, Burns believes that the student committee can help the Ad missions Office to attract strong candidates to matriculation at Hamilton. A member of the committee will be available at all times to conduct tours or advisory interviews. Burns commented that "too often in the past, attractive candidates have rejected Hamilton because they were not able to obtain an adequate tour of the campus." During the second semester, t h e S t u d e n t A d m is s ions_ Committee will organize the traditional pre-freshman weekend and, p erhaps, weekends for prospective athletes and choir members.
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REFLECTIONS BY BEN EARLE It is an election year, I suppose, and we are once again subject to a good deal of prating about social and political issues which we are usually, concerned with during normal years. There are those who would have us think otherwise, but it is quite an illusion that this particular time is ·.nore special or poignant than any other. Indeed, I think we've come to a point of evolution in this country where we a�e victims· of a n e l a b o rate political smokescreen, much of which is of our own creation.
A nt.o n io proves t o b e proficient indeed in making a propaganda film, through the smooth use of such techniques as massive editing, as he selects the most ludicrous statements from Nixon's Checkers speech, mostly out of context, and gives them a sense of continuity; cross-cutting, as when we see clips from various R epublican conventions while hearing Nixon's acceptanqe speech in 1968; effective sound-tracking and contrasting visual imagery, as we see and hear Nixon speak about the day he sees ahead when we make massive breakthroughs in slums and poverty, while Martin Luther King's voice is overtracked While attending Friday night's with "I have a dream!" followed showing of Emile de Antonio's by a cut to a Nixon band and the film Milhouse ,I was immediately camera panning in on a Negro struck by the total experiential playing a tuba. These techniques nature o f t he fil m . This are not very sophisticated and perspective can illuminate some Milhouse is no work of art, but basics about the nature of film, they are effective enough for the American political structure, Antonio's purposes. and ourselves.
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intense journalistic masterpiece, Self-Portrait: USA, w h i c h cl_1ronicles his imp�essions o f the 1968 Conventions. His section on Nixon is the only media statement I know of that begins to reveal h i m a s m o r e t h an the caricature/effigy/voodoo doll we so relish, to wit: a human being. · And through the sensitivity of Dunca n 's . photo graphy you cannot help but re--experience tlie anguish and involvement of the demonstrators in Chicago. The end impression is the strength of Duncan's moral convictions and his personal ambivalence.
It is in this direction of the New Journalism, embarked upon by such as Duncan, Mailer, Tom Wolfe and a few others, that documentaria n ism finds its d e e p e s t strength of per sonalization and objective There is a certain emotional honesty, and hence true social Unfortunately, it is a legitimacy to some of the feelings relevance. that, as yet, is mostly Milhouse is almost a purely the film evokes or attempts to direction political film. Antonio had a evoke,.about the chicanery of our untapped. personal statement to make and political system, the material he proceeded from there to craft a i n d u l g e n c e and fre quent No o�e asks us to like ixon. c o n vincing and seemingly ·p o m posity of the N i x o n From our perspective he is authentic film about that political administration, and the plights certainly not a likeable man, nor creature, Richard Milhouse Nixon. and concerns of our variegated is he a desirable President. Ideall population. f\s the film ended I But I find little value in character had long ceased to be amused by By careful juxtaposition ot what is a very unfunny state of d es t r u c t i on a n d indulgent documentary film footage and affairs, though admittedly there is mockery. Yet it is the beauty of im pr essionistic interviews and often little recourse but to laugh. film that when all is said and images he has given the film a I even wondered if Antonio might done, we are left with the ps y c h o l o g i c a l a u r a o f not be genuinely leading us on captured image. If '\! e choose to a ut henticity, and hence its and laughing. at us at the same use our intelligence and not fall derivative, reality. It is the nature time, not unlike Frank Zappa did into the propaganda tr.q>, not only do ixon's wotds and of the photography-film medium two years ago. political act ions speak for to deal with the real world, and themselves, but ix.on the man our reactions are naturally bound stands out for us to reach, perhaps to that reality in proportion to But if this is the case, then understand, even in Milhouse And our individual perceptions of whatever degree of reality a whatever sincere motivations when film is used to its potential, particular work expresses. The Antonio had are buried beneath such as in Self-Portrait: USA, its uit i m a te dependence of the the satirical affirming bulk of his honesty and impact can pierce photographic image on reality is propagandizing. Here is the social deeper than we may realize. both the artistic strength and the weakness of film laid bare. For by social weakness of film. Milhouse identifying with the authenticity is a clever combination of those of the documentary technique And what of those thousands strengths and weaknesses to create wh at is essentially political of persons to whom Nixon propaganda, de Antonio and speaks? Do we remain elitist and -- a total effect. Milhouse are ultimately socially mock them as well, or do we find By allying a political statement irresponsible. Though it is often a our own guiltless humanity and with the documentary concept, very fine line, I think· there is an look for an inter-understanding Antonio succeeds in creating an important distinction between the with the American core? Perhaps anti-Nixon propaganda film. In i n f o r m a tiv e n a t u r e o f Milh o use is u l t i m at e l y. actuality, the film as experienced documentary and the persuasive informative, perhaps not. ff it is� it certainly remains a flawed film, is more than that. The audience's nature of propaganda film. but if w_e wish it, the experience it involvement is of equal, if not p rovokes c an be genuindy greater importance. The film was educational. P .S. Most amusing made from a minority viewpoint CBS's The Selling of the for a minority �udience, which we Pentagon, which was shown to an to see McGovern TV "special" Sunday after the Checkers speech. certainly are. It is most revealing that the audience so readily unfortunately :meagre audience We are treated to a stirring half enjoys hissing and laughing at Sunday nig�t, is a far more useful hour of George's m o d est �ld.-on, that we smugly disdain a nd objective approach to beginnings and· service record, and mock the brand of politics non-fictional film-making than through present struggle to remain honest and sincere, and also and associates he represents. Milhouse. To be sure, there is an become President. And all along, editorial viewpoint expressed and who but Eleanor is by his side. ·rhere are a number of reasons CBS was obviously trying to Too bad he doesn't have a dog. for this response through· which in form the public in that we are so carefully guided. Undoubtedly, social pressure and direction . What distinguishes the. left-liberalist tradition of our Pentagon is its educational/in THE CLINTON FLORIST g e n eration influences o u r formative approach rather than a 1 S -Elm Street subconscious awareness o f our persuasive /summarative approach. 853-2731 r elative roles and expected In addition, CBS made an attempt responses. Certainly Nixon is quite the hypocritical buffoon to give some insight into both Flowm/or all Cl;aaions and shrewd politician, and since sides of the issue, while Antonio most of us already know this the was only interested in making film serves to entertain our Nixon look bad. p o l i t i c al and intellectual In doing documentary it is self-indulgences. What I find most Pine Crest Motel fascinating is the cathartic release possible and more effective to give we sustain in reacting to the hated both an honest view of the issue Family-Dates iGng Richard, which is strangely and to make a valid personal yet intimately similar to the socio-political statement about cathartic fantasies of those who follow professJ?n�l,,wre.stling, o that iss�e. A. prime �-X�J>le of this is David Douglas P,�can·'s , other"Such sports: ·
MOVIES On Campus October 6 & 7 (Friday and Satunlay) The Bank Dick 8 p.m., Chemistry Auditorium (also on Sunday night). Highly recommended. Made in 1934 and written by W .C. Fidds himself, this is probably Fidds' funniest film. Smiles of A Summer Night (Bergman), 8 p.m., Science Auditorium October 9 & 10 (Monday and Tuesday) If I Had A Million (Fields), 8 p.m., Chemistry Auditorium. On Campus Next Weekend Fury (Fritz Lang) and Husbands (Cassavetes). In and Around Utica Cannonball (in Clinton: 853-5553): Fuzz Kallet Cinema (736-2313): EDerything You Always Wanted to Know About Se" But Were Afraid to Ask
Paris (733-2730): Cancel My Reservation Stanley (724--4000) : Wh.ere Does It Hurt'! and Charlie 258 Cinema (732-5461): 1. The Erotic Adventures of Zorro and Space Thing 2. The Last House on the Left 3. The Sa/.zburg Connection
MUSIC. October& Beer :and Band for McGovern. 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Bundy Dining Hall; 50 cents admission and 15 cents for beer Mount Holyoke Chamber Singers, 8 p.m. Chapel ,, Ro Bookbinder, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Coffeehouse {also on Saturday night). Free with social tax. October7 Choir Concert, 12:00 noon, Chemistry Lawn. October O (Tuesday) Guiseppe Verdi's Birthday (1813). EXHIBITIONS Current Photography exhibit by Bnace King, Hamilton '56, Bristol Campus Center ( through October 28). t the Kirkland Art Center, Clinton: Two Man Show; Photographs entitled Boxing and Wrestling by Steve Liebman and Alan Metnick (through October 15). Opening October 8 (Sunday) Recent silk screen prints by Steve Poleskie: Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst. in Utica (through December 10) .. LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS October& Free Church of Clinton, services at 11:15 led by Jay G. Williams of the Hamilton Religion Department. October 10 On Tuesday evening.· Rouben Cholakian of the Hamilton Romance Languages Department will deliver his ''last lecture," 7 :30 p.m., Chapel IN THE WEEKS AHEAD
Movies
The Sterile Cuckoo; For Whom the BeU· Tolls: Beau Geste; The.Seoen Year Itch.
Debates Hamilton/Kirkland vs. Oxford. October 13, 8 p.m., Chapel. Poetry Reading By Colin Miller, reading Robert Burns' poems, October 16, 8:30 p.m., Chapel
PHOO"OGllAPHERS Anyone interested in publishing photographs in Portfolio (the photognphy issue of Wintased) should submit them to Vm Pomeranz, 308 Kirkland Donn. or mail them to Portfolio through tbe campus mail.Deadline is October 27th.
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Jud it h D a v i d o f f (vielle, kemence, p sa l t e ry , harp), Scheila Schonbrun (soprano, portative organ, psaltery), and Chris Williams (lute, recorders, bells) combined to produce performances of �e highest order. Perhap s the m o st stimu lating performer w a s the soprano, Ms. S cho n b ru n , a ver itable Siren in streetclothes. Her voice was elegant and beautifully controlled. However, all of the performers were both versatile and confident, and the ensemble's ability to play as a whole was perhaps its greatest achievement.
All of Music for Awhile's members are truly accomplished musicians; all bui one member of the group have been members of the New York Pro Music a, a pioneering group in Medieval and Renaissance music. T h e p r o g r a m r a n g ed s h o r t instrumental pieces to more complex vocal works. It was nicely organized into three sections; Fourteenth Century Italy, Fourteenth Century Dance, and selected works of Guillame Dufay, perhaps the most important composer of the late Medieval period. The vocal compositions ranged from deeply sacred music to light secular ones.
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Of the latter, one of the most delightful was "Par maines foy ," one of the many Medieval songs which relies on vocal imitation of birds. However, the evening's m ost effective piece was ':J e me complains piteqsment," a plaintive song of lost love... "I complain most piteously to myself alone, who now have no one...." Ms. Schonbrun was at her most expressive in this composition. The only aspect which marred the evening was the mediocre attendance, which was probably due to poor publicity and perhaps to the unusual nature of the music. The crowd on hand, however, was enthusiastic. Possibly the only additional thing whicli could have been asked of the p erformers would have been some edification as to the nature of the highly i n d ividualistic music and the old instruments (sackbutt, psaltery, vielle, etc.). Although all of the audience responded to the beauty of the music, few fully understood it. C ontinuing its series, the Music De par tment will next present the Composer's String Quartet on November 9th in the Chapel.
Mount Holyoke Chamber S£ngers
The Mount Holyoke Chamber Singen will perform works of Verdi, Bartok, Poulenc, Schumann and other composers in a concert tonight (Friday) at 8:30 in the Chapel. Admission is free. The group is a highly select chorus of 27 women specializing in contemporary compositions, either secular or sacred, for women's or mixed choruses. Since its formation in 1967, the group has gained a wide audience in this country and abroad. They have made two European tours. In the summer of 1969 the group placed first in the Women's Division of the International Koorfest held annually in the Hague, Netherlands. Tt1e Chamber Singers ·have also appeared in England, France, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Italy, Greece, Crete, and Rhodes. They have made two records and have sung for television and radio both here and abroad. Plans are in progress for the performance of Bach's St. John Passion and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The public is cordially invited to attend tonight's concert, which promises to be a highly exciting performance by consummately skilled musicians.
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Chi Psi; that is, reeling, rocking, BY MICHAEL MURPHY As America was (and still is) and numb to everything. Flash, .looked upon by many <l$ the deep in that chasm, manages to nation chosen by Providence to get a radio message to Zarkov and succeed and to rule, Flash Gordon the great rescue scene begins. exemplifies to the utmost the Veritable legions of workers great American hero. How else can we explain the from Fregia materialize out of the survival of Flash and his comrades clear, cold air from a huge search in an earth-rending avalanche party resplendent with rope, which totally demolishes all in its torches, and all shouting the path? In ''Walking Bombs," the magic words, "Flash, Flash!" group is swept into a deep chasm W orid e r fully enough, as the in the frigid wastes of Fregia (of course). The. good Dr. Zarkov sees b a c k g r o u nd m u s i c surges the spaceship responsible for this ,heroically, Zarkov finds Flash's action and goes into a real tizzy. party and lowers a sling down to Once again a spaceship ha ttle ensues where the contestants look them so that the frostbitten like flies in Bristol just before Captain Ronald of Barin's force they are about to die from the may be rescued. Nice work, cold weather and the flies just Doctor! buzz about in circles on table The next scene shows us Flash tops. and Co. mining the invaluable As Justice and the American polarite at a phenomenally quick way, demand, Zarkov is victorious and Ming's spaceship is sent home rate. Meanwhile, back at Ming's like a victim of houseparties at ranch-style Byzantine house of a
thousand delights, Dr. Borgia has come up with this week's wonderful toy of destruction . What else could the toy be but mechanical men which blow up by remote control. These spastic, Tinker-Toy renditions of the robot in "Lost in Space" are perhaps the most comical items yet seen in the series. These wonders are transported to Flash's mining operation, and as can be expected; all Hell breaks loose. The little, armor-coated wunderkinder totally freak out Flash's corps of engineers, but cool cat Flash discerns everything at a glance. About the only thing he doesn't know about the robots is what their patent numbers are. Once again, the end draws near in this episode. So how better could it be ended than by Flash leaping to the rescue of th·e fallen Dale and being vaporized when Ming's agents set off the walking bomb. This week, The Destroying Ray.
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BY DAVID CROSS The new facilities at the Thomas Brown Rudd Health Center have increased the c�pacity of the medical staff to handle emergencies.· There are 14 beds spread amont the 5 rooms for in-bed patients. The new wing of the Center, completed last January at a cost of close to $80,000, contains an impressive array of equipment. The micro-wave apparatus, which provides deep-heat therapy for strained muscles, is used frequently, as are the X-ray machine and the e l e c trocardiograph. Other equipment available but not utilized to as great an extent includes a portable oxygen inhalator and resuscitator, a stomach pump, and a whirlpool. This latter device is not as well-used because the Gym has a whirlpool of its own. Head Nurse Mrs. Culkin told me the emergency tracheotomy tray has not been used yet, and she hoped that it never would. The Health Center has a modest lab that p e r f o r m s blood counts and diffe rentials, h e m o g l o bins, simple urinalys i s , and mononucleosis and pregnancy tests. The lab als_o tests cultures for streppe throat, gonorrhea, and trichomona. The cost to the student is surprisingly small. Students pay only for the more expensive medications, vaccines, and tests or cultures. Patients not on the Service Systems meal plan must pay for their food. There is no charge for X-rays or checkups. In addition, the Center will give de-sensitizing allergy shots free if the student provides his own serum. The Hea lth Center lacks some facilities. General anesthetic cannot be administered, and special X-rays are referred to a radiologist. in Utica. Dr. Roe is in charge of the facility, and is assisted by Dr. Pienkowski. The clinic hours are from 9-12 and 2-4:45 during the week, and at least one of the doctors is in the Center during this time� Doctors make rounds on weekends and see urgent cases. A doctor is alson on call 24 hours a day, and both doctors live about two minutes away by car. Dr. Hinckson, a gynecologist, comes to the clinic twice a week, and can be seen by appointment only. Planned Parenthood is at the Center on Wedne�days, 'and Dr. Muilenberg, the clinical psychologist, can be seen by appointment., He is also available in emergencies. A physician is in attendance at all home football and hockey games and at some other intercollegiate games. As a general policy, the doctors do not make house calls. It is pointless in most cases for a doctor to go to a dormitory room where facilities are
"Campaign '72" Two professional observers of the American scene will appear at Hamilton College on Monday, October 9, in a discus sion on the 1972 presidential campaign. The discussion, "Campaign '72 - Two Views," will take place at 8 P.M. in the Hamilton Chapel and is open to the public without charge. The visiting discussion participants are Bruce Felknor, author of Dirty Politics, and Alan Lupo, writer and television news man. Professor Warren Wright of the Ham ilton Speech Department will moderate the discussion, which will include an op portunity for the audience to ask ques tions. Mr. Felknor's best-selling book was written while he was director of the New York State Fair Campaign Practices Com mittee. At present he is director of the Chi cago Office of the Encyclopedia Britannica and assistant to former Senator William Benton. Mr. Lupo for the last two years has been news editor, anchorman and co-pro ducer of "The Reporters," a nightly pro gram on WGBH, Boston's public television station. He is the co-author if Rites of Way, a study of the politics of highway construc tion, and is currently lecturing at Harvard University, giving an evening course in eth nic politics.
not available. A station wagon equipped with a stretcher, 2-way radio, and first - aid kit can be dispatched to bring emergency cases to the Health Center. Students play a large role at the Center. The student-run Crisis Center is upstairs, and paid students serve as· nurses' aides during evenings and weekends. Several students give volunteer service. _They sleep in at the Center on weekends, and stay with patients who need constant attention. This volunteer service, which any student may donate, provides an invaluable help for patients who would otherwise have to pay for full-time nurses.
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HLet me make one thing clear. Those who have had a chance for 4 yea.rs and could not produce peace should not be given another chance."
MILLION VI
Richard Nixon, Oct. 9, 1968
SUMMARY: THE NIXON YEARS 4.5 MILLION INDOCHINESE CIVILIANS KILLED, WOUNDED OR MADE HOMELESS 1.5· MILLION SOLDIERS ON ALL SIDES KILLED OR WOUNDED 40,000 SOUTH VIETNAMESE CIVILIANS EXECUTED WITHOUT TRI.AL UNDER THE PHOENIX PROGRAM 3. 7 MILLION TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED,2 TONS EVERY60 SECONDS 13 MILLION BOMB CRATERS, 1.7 BIL LION CUBIC YARDS OF EARTH DISPLACED 750,000 ACRES OF CROP AND FOREST LAND BULLDOZED 20,000 AMERICANS KILLED, 110,000 WOUNDED, OVER 500 CAPTURED OR MISSING IN ACTION $�9 BILLION EXPENDED This is a reminder from Hamilton-Kirkland Students for McGovern that Richard Nixon continues to order the most barbaric bombing in history killing thousands of people.
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THE SPECTATOR
Pres. Candidates Differ On Methods of Integration
act, if passed, would then direct $2.5 billion in Federal aid towards This is the second in a series of improving the education of articles thr(!ugh which we hope to minority children in · the central present a non-partisan view of cities. Nixon believed that these certain campaign issues and the two proposals ''would focus our respective positions taken by the effo r t s w h e r e t h ey really two presidential candidates. belong-mi better education for The issue this week is that of all of our children rather than on busing school-children in order to more busing for some of our achieve racial balance in our children." In regard specifically to educ ation s y s t em. Before the Equal Education Opportunity contrasting the views of Nixon Act, Nixon commented, ''This act and McGovern, it might serve well would require that every state or to first briefly follow the course locality grant equal educational of school busing in · the past opportunities to every person · several years. r egardless of race, color or Much of the turbulent history national origin_,' of busing begins with Supreme S everal adv ocates of Court decisions. In 19 54 the anti-busing had proposed the less Warren Court ruled in Brown v. controversial e x pedient of Board of Education that the constitutional amendment. In this "separate but equal" doctrine had way there would be no conflict no place in the field of public with the Judiciary in regard to the education. Segregated �ducational c o n s t i t u t i o n a l it y of the facilities · were found to be mcaatorium. Nixon, however, unconstitutional. This decision believed this procedure would st a r t e d the c o ntroversial take a year to eighteen months m o veme nt towards s chool and deemed the busing problem as desegregation, and eventually the too urgent to wait so long. busing of school children. A l t h o u g h a n t i-bus i n g As busing grew in importance, amendments were later attached it grew in unpopularity to a to a bill passed by Congress, number of Amer i c a ns. Its Nixon is still pressing for terms constitutionality was tested in the that more closely mirror those in r e cent case of Swann v. his March speech. Charlott-Mecklenburg Board of George McGovern's views on Education, and the Burger Court busing can be clearly seen through upheld it. Earlier this year, there his reactions to the Nixon address. was a rash of Federal Court orders The day after, in a speech at the handed down to school systems University of Illinois, McGovern demanding what many termed stated, "What we have witnessed "harsh" busing procedures. This is a collapse of moral and political prompted P r e s ident Nixon's leadership by the President of the televised anti-busing address. United States. We.. have witnessed Richard Nixon has, in recent a total surrender to Wallaceism years, been increasingly displeased a n d t h e d emagoguing it with school busing as a method to represents." McGovern then, quite achieve integration. His feelings obviously, is in favor of busing as came to a head in the March 16th a means of achieving school address in which he asked for the de�egregation. legislature to pass a "moratorium" In an interview with U.S. News ba rring Federal Courts from and World Report McGovern said, handing down busing orders. ''The issue really is not busing; the Nixon said of busing, " ...the result issue is quality education and how has been a classic case of the to achieve that. And busing is one remedy for one evil creating instrument... that can be used to another evil.'' i mpose quality education by He emphasized that his stand further breaking down some of was not anti-black, and said that the segregation that interferes the majority of all Americans with quality education." were sick of busing. In fact, he During the same interview, commented on the belief that McGovern became a bit more opposing busing is anti-black by specific in what he would do saying , "Th is is dangerous regarding b u s ing if elected nonsense." president: "I would stand with Along with the moratorium, the Supreme Court but I would Nixon said that he would also ask try to work with the Department Congress to pass a companion of H.E.W. and the Department of measure, the Equal Education Justice to see that the busing Opportunity Act of 1972. This order was implemented with a BY GLEN GILBERT
minimum of dislocation." D u r i ng th e D em o cr a t i c Convention i n Miami, i t became well apparent that McGovern's view did not coincide with that of a large portion of his party. Not o n l y d i d Wall ace and his supporte r s t r y to get an a n t i-b u s i ng plan k in t h e Democratic platform, but several moderate Democrats were in favor o f a c o m p r o m i s e p l a n k. McGovern's opinion on busing, however, was the one written into the platform. As can be seen by the paucity of space given the busing issue in the platform, not too much emphasis is being placed upon it. McGovern, in fact, during his campai gn has not dwelled too much on busing, but instead has looked at the broader issue of quality education for the nation's youth. Both candidates say they are in favor of quality education for y o u n g America, and racial desegregation. The contrast is found in the methods they would use to achieve these ends.
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Blues Bested hr UofR 20-7; Oberlin Invades Steuben Toniw BY ROBERTJ. KEREN That was all the scoring in the The Hamilton Continentals half as both defenses dominated, faced the rugged Yellow Jackets of Rochester at Fauver Stadium forcing the ball to exchange hands last Saturday, and dropped their nine times before the halftime gun opener 20-7 on two TD passes sounded. Rochester had one good thrown by U of R substitute scoring opportunity in the second quarterback Rick Renzi in the quarter, as quarterback Renzi and closing minutes of the thitd running backs Steve Hoffman and Mike Garritano marched the ball quarter. Aftet: exchanging the ball twice down to the Blue 5 yard line. But early in the first quarter, the defense gave up no more Rochester got their first break on ground, turning the ball over to a fourth down-fumbled snap from Rob Winter again. Winter, 15 for 28 and 157 center by punter Lou Cordia. Rochester had possession on the yards in the game, promptly Blue 36 and quickly got two first tossed a 45 yarder to speedster downs with the ball resting now, Kevin Snyder, and an 8-yarder to end John Graveley but could on the nine yard line. U of R qu�terback John move no further than the Adducci ran the ball down to the Rochester 28 yard line. Opening the second half Kevin three, but that proved to be as close as the Yellow Jackets were Snyder took the U of R kickoff to come to pay-dirt on this on the five, following the wedge offensive series. On second down up the middle he sprung loose at tackle Joe Reagon '7 3 stopped a the 35, cut to the left side line run up the middle, on third breaking one tackle, and sprinted 65 yards remaining linebacker Andy Sopchak nailed a the sweep to the right, and safety-man outrunning two stunned Yellow Jim Knodel shut the door on Jacket defenders to the goal line. fourth and goal on a sweep Bill Finan's extra-point attempt was good and Hamilton now led attempt to the other side. QB-punter Lou Cordia and the 7-6. But Rochester marched back Hamilton offense came in to take over, and on third down the Blue minutes later, going ahead 13-6 on shifted into a shotgun-formation a 66 yard drive capped by a Renzi with Cordia blasting a 58-yard to Jim Hipolit 14-yarder for the surpnsmg qui c k- kick the score. After a Snyder runback to the Rochester defense. After picking up a first down 35, Winter threw his only bad pass to their own 45 yard line, of the afternoon, a. wobbly toss Rochester halfback Tom Jarret that was picked off by Yellow ended up with the ball on a Jacket defender Larry Stucki on p lay --fake counter sweep the Rochester 40. Stucki ran it right--and sprinted down the left back to the Blue 35-yard line side line 55 yards to put the U of setting the stage for Renzi's R out in front 6-0 midway heroics. Three plays later, and only one through the first quarter. Kicker Thierry Deegan missed the minute and twenty seconds after his last TD pass, Renzi floated extra-point attempt.
Fourth and 22 BY ED WATKINS
International sports today are w onderful. under certain conditions. So is nationalism. Combine the two, however, the inevitable, the worst of both come out. T he recent Olympics m Munich bears this out. The athletes t here were under tremendous pressure to win medals for their respective countries. Not nearly enough a t te n t i on was paid to the a d va ncement of each sport placed in competition. What occurred was a nightmare. In boxing, the United States was both the recipient and victim of two of the most controversial decisions in Olympic boxing history. The East German judge was determined to have the East German divers win medals no matter whether or not his countrymen missed the pool altogether. T h e f i nal game of the basketball competition was truly a horrendous event. The United States, with its victory streak and the gold medal on the line had apparently rallied to win the game from the Russians only to find out officially, ten hours later, that they had lost the game. T h e �am e did not represent a classic exhibition of the game but rather "a victory of, M arxist-Leninist ideology over ,Western Democracy." Th,- TP.re.nt hoc.kev exhibition
between Team Canada and the Russians must lead some to wonder e xactly how much hockey benefited from that exhibition. The Canadian people are mighty happy that Team Canada ra llied to win the contest. Now the entire Canadian nation will not have to dress in mourning. The Russians are never going to play another NHL team again. They had not seen such brawling inside Russia since the Battle of Leningrad. They were not used to seeing a hockey player raising a hockey stick and asking the referee if he would care to have his head detached from his shoulders. A country which has learned how to use sports as an effective p olitical tool is China.\ The'" Chinese ping-pong teams which have been touring the West have done much to bring back China into polite society. The Chinese put on a tremendous exhibition of ping-pong playing but do not go out looking to destroy the U.S. national team. The Chinese have found that it is indeed much more profitable to be polite while playing than to be obnoxious. The Chinese may well be the most fantastic ping-pong players in the world, but they do not advertise. They continue to smile while playing, thus winning much more than a game. Other nations, please note and copy.
another, this time to Bill Hammond for 13 yards making the score 20-7.
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JEFF BOONE, Brian Smith (Number 20) crossing the midfield stripe In the final quarter, freshman Lou Cordia came in to lead the Blue offense with eight minutes remaining on the clock. With 1st and 10 on the 30-yard line, Lou completed a bullet pass to Graveley in heavy traffic over the middle, for 15 yards. An eight-yarder to Steve Green '74 on the next play, followed by a five-yard run by reserve back Vince Puleo '76 and a 15-yard personal foul penalty on U of R brought the ball deep into Yellow Jacket territory on the 28. - Cordia completed another pass again to Graveley, who made the grab on the 18 and rambled another 11 yards following a cross block by fellow end Steve Green. the Rochester defense But tightened on the next set, and the Continentals were denied the TD with but six minutes remaining. Rochester came in and ran out almost five and ½ minutes of the clock, before being forced to turn over the ball again to the Blue. only seconds seven With remaining, Cordia lofted a 60-yarder just beyond the outstretched hands of Snyder, as the gun sounded. The Hamilton offense. totaled 218 yards in the game, and all but 13 were thru the air. Winter and 24
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Cordia together completed 19 of 3 7 attempts in a solid aerial attack. Graveley made 9 grabs, Sandy MacIntosh had 4 and Snyder pulled in 3 in a good passing game, but the Blue had trouble on the ground against a big and experienced U of R defensive line. Except for the sparse running attack, the Blue looked sharp in the air and Cordia's seven punts for a 40.7 yard average certainly deserves commendation considering the broncbusting Rochester rush. The defense showed much promise throughout the game "'especially inside their own 30, Renzi's third quarter f e s t i vities notwithstanding. Tomorrow the Continentals will oppose a 1-2 Oberlin squad at Steuben Field at 2 p.m. Hamilton has never faced the Obies, but is hoping to establish a consistent offense with a balanced running and passing attack against the new foes from Ohio. STEREO CENTER FREE FOR ALL First hundred people who enter the Stereo Center on Saturday morning, at 10;00 a.m. will receive one free record album of their choice. All day Saturday all albums are half price. Stereo Center is between Nichols and Shakeys.
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On Thu rsday , September 28th, the Kirkland Tennis Team met its first opponent of the season, Colgate, who managed to tip the final score to 3-2. Court play was marked by numerous nine p o i n t t i e -b reakers, at Colgate's request. A Hamilton alumnus, James McClintock, '56 coached the Colgate girls to their victory. In a hard fought match, first singles Mary Ann Anderson was defeated 6-7, 5-7. Jane Barrett aced her Colgate opponent in a triumphant 6-0, 6-0. Despite a second set rally, Sara Gordon lost her match, 2-6, 6-7. The doubles team of Lucia Ballentine and Sarah Lively were downed by a score of 5-7, 0-6, while the other Kirkland duo composed of E 1 i e C ammack a n d Beth Gerstenberger pressed to a 7-6, 7-5 win. The Kirkland team travelled t o S k i d m oTe on Monday, O c t o b e r 2 n d t o -face a well-practiced squad of players. Recently recovered from an ankle injury, number _one player Susie Valentine was defeated 2-6, 1-6. Elie Cammack lost each of her sets with a score of 2-6. Transfer student Carol Waggener staunchly battled her opponent, yet her fmal score �as 2-6, 3-6. The newly formed pair of Mary Ann Anderson and Sara Gordon battled to naught, as their match score was 4-6, 5-7. A strong Kirkland tennis team a venged a recent defeat by defeating C a s e n ovia College Wednesday, by a score of 4-1. Roz Root of Kirkland played an outstanding match, and beat Nancy Booth of Casenovia 6-0, 6-2. Beth Gerstenberger came back from behind to defe�t Cindy Saunders. After losing the first, 6-2, she rallied to win he� match with scores of 6-3, 6-1. In an upset, Patti Cohan was beaten by Ellie Wisdom of Casenovia, in the final two sets, losing 6-2, and 6-0, after winning the first 6-2. Kirkland's doubles teams were sq.cce·ssful in their efforts, and both teams won by identical scores of 6-3, 6-3. E m i l y S i m o n a nd Patti Pomerantz' beat Martha Ryon and Marina Guidetti in the first• doubles match. Heather Bacon and Ann Fulton defeated Jody Campbell and Kit Behrle. Hopefully, with the experience of these initial matches, the team will fare better on Monday a gainst Colgate
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Soccsters Zip Jackets 1-1; Collar with Hobart Tom'w
BY --WOODY NAVIN Corning from a 1-0 deficit late- in the second half, the Hamilton Soccer Squad finally tied the Rochester Yellow Jackets for a 1-1 final score. Due to inclement weather, both teams had to contend with a cold drizzle , a slippery field, strategically located puddles, and soggy feet. The Yellow Jackets quickly adapted to the playing conditions right at the start of the game. Relying on long areial passes which weren't affected by the slow playing surface, Rochester established an effective passing game. The Twine 'Ticklers, however, who usually depend on short accurate ground passes, were stymied at the start of the game. Rochester scored first on an indirect kick which deflected off Ned Drinker '7 6 into our goal. This was the second goal in two games which resulted from sloppy play on penalty kicks. After Rochester's first score early in the first half, neither team was able to drive the ball home until the very end of the second half. The Continentals, after the first goal was scored, learned that the name of the game was spl�sh-kick-splash __run-splash . Although the Strikers were in control of the action throughout most of the game·, they failed to find the right mixture of skill, extra effort, and luck that was necessary to pull the game away from the tough Rochester squad. Many "almost goals" had the Buff and Blue reserves standing on the benches. Phil Halpern '75 drove the ball into the upper right corner, but it hit the goal post and rebounded back. Eric Ruckert '74 lobbed the ball past Rochester's goalie, but it landed in a puddle on the goal line and failed to float in. Nat Follansbee '73 also had a good shot at the goal, but the ball caught the inside of the goal post and bounced straight ' down, allowing Rochester's trembling goalie to easily pick it up.
for a big win. One of the reasons for the team's added optimism and added desire to win is a new assistant coach who gained his soccer expertise while playing on championship teams at Williams. Coach Pritchard, a Math Professor by trade, has 'been volunteering his experience and encouragement at every practice. So, under the demanding leadership of Coach von �chiller and Coach Pritchard, the Twine Ticklers can be expected to reach their full potential this season - in addition to beating Hobart tomorrow.
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CROSS COUNTRY The Harriers open their season tomorrow and will travel to Syracuse to participate in the Le Moyne Invitational. This year's seniorless team will attempt to better last year's second-place finish behind Colgate University.
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We hope you'll listen to more m�sic whenever you can. Saturday, Grand Opening Day in our new quar..: ters, we'-11 make it easier than ever. For instance, Saturday only, �II tapes and records in the store are half price. Listen to more music. The first hundred customers in the store that day will each pick out a free album. Listen to more music. Everyone who stops in wins a chance on a $330 stereo system. Listen to more music. We can't give things away, or even sell them for half price, alI the time. We can offer you reasonable prices on the widest selection of quality stereo equipment in Upstate New York. And for our Grand Opening, we have some outstand -ing specials. All week, fpr example, Koss and Pioneer headphones for 30% off. Memorex and Scotch blank tapes for 50% off. You'll find other bargains in today's paper ... like a $24.95 stereo tape player, and a Fisher speaker for one dollar. The idea is to get you out to Stereo Center, on Seneca Turnpike next to Shakey's Pizza. Look at what we have: recordings, components, the most completely equipped service area in Upstate New York (And for Grand Opening, pretty girls, live music, and refreshments.) But don't just look. Listen. Find out how good music can sound, and you'll know why we want you to hear more of it. We're open everyday this week from 10a.m. to ?Op.m.
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Associates Explore· Kirkland Experience
The late Dr. Walter Kierner
Messrs. I(irner and Johnson Dedic_ate Ki�klam!, Buildings BY MARY DOLAN first Kirkland College assooat«:s. _ Bo th m e n made substantial T he dedicat ion of the contributions to the financing of Kirner-Johnson Building took the building. Also present were • Place at 12:15 on Saturday, M.r . F r a ncis H. MusseImen, . . October seventh. chairman of the Krrkland Co11ege The Kirner-Johnson Building is B oard of Trustees Kirkland a single structure divided into two alumni an d the visitin� associates. buildings by an imaginary line. It The dedication of the structure houses Kirkl and's classrooms, s ta rted .m the K.rrner buildin_g. In • . faculty and administrative offices, h 1s openmg speech pres1dent . . . the Core Library, an auditonum B a bb.tt i ex pressed K.irkland's , . and labs. The building, which was grat-t i ude for Dr. Krrner s 1ong complet ed and r eady f o r support of t he col lege. Babb.itt oc cu pation on schedule this added that the building would September, cost $2,0 24,800. to long remain "one of the most buil�. Its completion w� made c On crete symbo l s of t h e possible by generous donatlons. wide-ranging support Kirkland Present at the ceremo_�Y were had received," but change d Mr. Edgar Johnson, president of "concrete" to "finite" becaus e M o h a w k D a t a S c i e n c e s , the obvious concretene�s of the Herkim Corporation of er, New building prompted laughter in his York and long-time friend of the audience. college communit� and the _late· Dr. Kirner spoke next of his Dr. Walter_ R. Kr, rner of Silver m e m o r i e s o f K i r k 1 a n d s ' Springs_, Maryland. Dr. Kirner �as development, both in the minds the retired head of the Chemical of tho.se rrrst associated with the Progress Division of the Natural college and in its actual building. S c i en c e F o u n d a t i o n i n He stressed .the importance of the Washington, D.C. and one of the college in his closing remar.k.S: IN MEMORIAM Hours after the dedication of the $2.3-million Kirner-Johnson buildings on the Kirkland· College campus, Dr. Walter Kirner, Associate of the College and the principal donor of the building named after his deceased wife, died quietly in a motel room outside Clinton, N.Y. at the age of 77. Dr. Kirner. had a history of heart difficulty. Dr. Kirner, of Kensington, Maryland, was the retired head of the Division of chemistry of the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. A noted organic chemist, he had served on the faculty at Middlebury College, Rice Institute, and Carnegie Technical Institute. Dr. Kirner began his illustrious career in 1942 with the United States Army at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland and he received the President's Medal for Merit in 1946 and the King's M edal for Service in 1946. Kirkland President Samuel F. Babbitt said, "Kirkland is shocked and grieved at the loss of this good friend. We are proud, though, that one of Dr. Kirner's last activities was to establish this memorial on our campus. In a very real way the building had now become a memorial to him and his life of service." Dr. Kirner first became interested in Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges when his son attended Hamilton. When the son, Stephen Harper Kirner, was killed in Formosa , in a jeep accident, in 195 8, Dr. and Mrs. Kirner decided to establish a memorial in his honor at Hamilton. '.fhe memorial is to take the place of "an activity in the area of the sciences which would have been pleasing to my son." In 1964, Mrs. Kirner died, and Dr. Kirner decided to establish the Juvanta Harper Kirne_r Building, on the Kirkland campus in her honor. The building was dedicated at 12:30 on Saturday, and Dr. Kirner died onlv a few hours later.
"Mrs. Kirner and I always felt that co11eges P1_ay an �mall'.liberal arts . Jmportant role m the education of . our youth and WIS · h that thIS building will make a contn·bution · ,, at t o th end. Aft&wards, bagpip�rs Elyn Jane �rm led a Cheney . . p r o cesuon mto the Johnson B uilding, where the dedication was re-c o n v ene d . p r e si•dent Babb.1tt had a rJew words to say about Mr. Edgar Johnson, and hlS • contiued on page ten
BY DOUG GLUCROFT L a s t week-en d was the Kirkland Associates Weekend _here on the Hill. Formed with the College, the Associates are a group of interested alumni, friends of the college, and parents of alumni an d students. There are 302 Associates, of which 4 7 are graduates of Kirkland. Over 60 of these attended the planned weekend. As p e o p le inter ested in the improvement of Kirkland, the Associates spread the ideals of the college and the educational· opportunities offered here. The program on Friday night began with cocktails and dinner in McEwen Hall followed by remarks by President Babbitt entitled, ''The First Kirkland Decade and the Next.' Inf orriial "rap sessions" took place in several of the dorms. As Mrs. Pat Marshall, Chairman of the Associates said, "It was the best part of the whole thing." Hosting the associates were Melissa Drier, Melissa Martin, and Carol King. 'Qean Doris F r iedensohn characterized the discussions in "B" dorm as, "Extremely comfortable, talkative - lots of kicks." F o r S a turday morning, Associate Professor of Philosophy Richard Roelofs org an ized a series of mini-courses. The purpose, Mr. Roelofs said, was an attempt to give the associates some picture of the structural life of the college." He added, "I think the faculty should be commended for a remarkable job. They responded
on short notice with a great willingness." As Dean Friedensohn said,· "For a lot of associates it was what they wanted · _ to be stimulated. Besides being social and charming they had a chance for discussion. This was a great improvement over last year's program...' T hese mim-courses ranged from a field trip in the Kirkland woods to a seminar on "Mother Courage" by Brecht. All the divisions were represented and e a c h A s s o c i at e had the opportuni t y to attend two different courses. Following the dedications of the Kirner and Johnson Buildings, the Associates discussed their f u tu re r e s po nsiblities. They esta b l i shed f ou r goals for themselves: increasing the number an d geographical distribution of their group, assisting the office of the Deans with field work, Winter Study and career placement, and field work with the Office of Admissions. The A s s o c i a t e s , t h r ough connections in the outside world, hope to be able to help Kirkland students in finding successful projects during their four years here. Reports were given to the associates by Dean 'Friedensohn, l M rs . B unny Lieberman ( ob "pl a cement) , and Miss Ilene B e r k n o w i tz , ( a d m i s s io n s) . Following the meeting i n the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium, the associates headed home.
Humane Society Rescue� Cats; Keeps Owners out of Trouble
BY KEN GROSS' directors of the organization, and .pay for everything that the _ Last Sunday, a_dog_ was hit by one other person who handles all society's public relations section a car at_ the crossmg m front o� ,fund raisin and collection uses to prepare ads for adoption, g . .E.L.S .Nooneknewwhotocall, and The fees for animal registration new releases and flyers: paper, it t�ok half an hour to ge� help ($7.50 for dogs, $2.50 for cats), pens, posters, mimeographs. An (no local vets were a�ailable) which some students may think emergency fund exists for use by through the state police and high, are the sole source of all students' and animals who have finally the Utica Humane Society. income for the society and no masters. The fund can pay for Certain peopl� on �ampus could provide the funds for all of its t ra n s portation, medication or have helped rmmediately. These These fees -pay for the medical treatment of an an imal, programs. are �eople o� the staff of the collars all animals or it can simply buy cans of dog identifying Hamil to n -K i r k l a n d Humane . receive, which are specially made food for a hungry stray; anything Society. if caught on a branch or that is needed. The pet's owner The society can get help for a to break � e mo!l�Y when (with cats, this can can pa_y b_ ack th projection sick dog or cat, help find the continued on page ten often lead to strangulation). They owner of a stray or get him a new one. It is a place for any one to report any cruelty to an imals, accidents, give ideas, and register pets. Laurie Hanin, head of the society for three years, can be reached at Centrex 4354, or Kirkland box number 250. One try should be enough, since red tape is clipped due to the relatively small size of an efficient college operation. Laurie, who probably knows most about the dogs on campus, has about ten other people working with her: a . secretary; one person who handles all cases of stray dogs, cats,' lost and found; another pair handles all information sheets, releases, a n d public relations around school; and roughly four students who are responsible for registering a ll of the animals on campus. Two CANTOR others are trainees: the future
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MVGSMSS? The Mohawk Valley Geol�gical Society, an aggregate of amateur geologists, mineral collectors, and fossil fanciers, will conduct its annual sale of mineral specimens in the Geology lab (sci 112) on October 14th, between 7:30 and 9pm. The sale is open to the public, and will offer interested collectors the opportunity to purchase valuable and beautiful specimens at reasonable prices.
- WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON LITERARY JOURNAL The Washington and Jefferson Literary Joumal is alive and well. Once again, we are soliciting students for riew materials for this annual literary magazine. Interested persons may s�d prose, poe�, drama, music, graphics, and photography to: The Journal, Washing-, ton & Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania 1 3 1. All 1 72. All manuscripts must be received no later than Dec. 15, 1 material to be returned should include a self-addresse stamped envelope.
INTERLIBRARY LOANS FROM COLGATE By arrangement with the Library of Colgate University, Hamilton and Kirkland students will, in the future, not be able to borrow books directly from that library - and vice versa. Instead, undergraduates will be able to borrow library materials from Colgate only through the Interlibrary Loan Office.
FALL FANOUITOS Fall Fanquitos will be held this Saturday, October 14 at 1:00 P.M. A $2 contribution would be appreciated. Contact Tun Downey at Sigma Phi, or at the Pub after 10:00 P .M.
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Anyone interested in publishing ph1>tognphs _in Portfolio (�e photography issue of Wintened) should 111h1D1t them to Vm Pomer;mz, !08 Kirkland l>orm, or mail than·to Portfolio through the campus mail. Deadline is October 27th. REV. COLIN MILLER TO READ BURNS POEMS The Rev. Colin Miller, retired Dean of the Chapel at Hamilton College, will read from the poetry of Robert Bums on Monday, October 16, at 8:30 P .M. in the Hamilton Chapel. The reading will continue a tradition the Rev. Miller began many years ago during his 14-year tenure as Dean of the Chapel. He read the poetry each year close to the time of Burns' birthday, January 25, when Scotsmen all over the world celebrate their country's most famous poet. Since his retirement in 1966, the Rev. Mr. Miller has returned to Hamilton each year to continue the tradition. His reading will include selections from the tales, the love poems and the satiric poems. . . The Rev. Mr. Miller was educated at Glasgow Umversity and now lives in Scotland.
What About Quakers? The third informal meeting in the series on Quakerism is entitled "Social Concerns (prisons, race, women, refugees)". The discussion will be lead by Ellen Deacon an� is scheduled for 8 P.M. Wednesday,_ October 18 in the Meeting Room 128, of the Kirner-Johnson Building.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES The following rep sentives will be on campus this week. If you are interested in scheduling an interview with any of thes.e, sign up in the Career Center, Dunham Basement. Peace Corps/Vista Oct. 16 Monday 9- 5 Babson College School of Business 9-12 Oct. 17 Tuesday Cornell Law School Oct. 17 Tuesday 2:00 Univ. of Pittsburgh Oct 18 Wednesday 2- 5 Grad. School of Bus. Admin. Univ. of N. Carolina 9- 1 Oct 18 Wednesday Grad. School of Bus. Admin. Oct. 18 Wednesday 3- 5 Albany Law School Colgate University Oct. 19 Thursday 9- 5 Masters of Teaching 9- 5 Carnegie-Mellon Univ. Oct. 19 Thursday Grad. School of Mgmt. Woodrow, Wilson School Of Public & Int'l Affairs Oct. 20 Friday 9- 5 Princeton Univ. CURRENT PRINTS U.S.A. An unique collection of prints, organized by Richard Upton, Art Department, Skidmore College, will open at Bristol Campus Center, from November 1st through 21st. It is being circulated by the New York Foundation for the Arts, with funding from �e New York State Council on the Arts. The exhibition contains 25 prints by both painters and printmakers, including: Will Barnet, Willem De Kooning, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Larry Rivers, and Louise N evelson. From this unusual grouping of artists a wide variety of techniques are presented, such as: lithography, silk screen, intagllo and relief printing. The exhibition, while by no means definitive, attempts to demonstrate the �aried technical and aesthetic directions of the time. KAZOOS INCORPORATED To the consternation of few and the confusion of many, the First National Kazoo Marching band is organizing this weekend under the .auspices of Bob Binner, 4559, and Jim· Kennedy, 7065. All interested should call these fine and upstanding individuals as soon as possible.
THE SPECTATOR
Edi1toriaI
OCTOBER 13, 1972
GETTING OUT: THOUGHTS DURING A BLACKOUT
While we do not anticipate that any of Although some three hundred people eat in Hamilton's or Kirkland's buildings are going the latter building, it has no emergency lights to crumble in the near future, or that they and only two exits - one of them through the will catch fire or be tear-gassed, we would kitchen. The remaining three doors have been like to point out that few of the major padlocked to keep out people seeking a free structures in our community are very well meal. We invite you to consider what would equipped for emergencies. happen if even a small crowd of people tried For example, almost all of the fire extin- to escape the. building quickly, over the guishers scattered about Hamilton are simple blockade set up in the main entrance. tanks containing several gallons of water and Battery-powered emergency lights are re a propellant - air pressure or soda and acid. quired by law in most busines.ses d fac These are good mainly for putting out wood tories; we are not sure about how an the law or paper fires, and for water fights, but they applies to schools. While the lights and are specifically not to be used on electrical extinguishers could be expensive for the fires or grease fires. They are therefore useless colleges, and would invite tamperin g, the in case of burning refrigerator motors, over- outlay could result in insurance savings, and heated televisions, or flaming bacon-grease - the new equipment could one day save lives. accidents which are becoming more and more As for the security problem caused by un• pos.sible as the number of appliances on guarded doors and fire extinguishers - per campus increases, and more and more people haps they could be wired to the fire alanm, cook things in their rooms. Kirkland suites as they are in some libraries and museums. have a different kind of extinguisher, filled Any door marked "EXIT" ought to be an with powder, that is useful in a wider range exit. In Commons, there are no standard exit of fires; perhaps these should be distributed signs; in the gym, the door at the foot of the everywhere. Furthermore, we doubt that locker-room stairs, the only exit besides the many people know how to use the extin- main one, is sometimes locked during SAC guishers. concerts and subscription lectures. The CofThe growing number of electrical amen- fe-house door boasts an exit sign because the ities in older Hamilton dorms may become a room leads to a passageway that leads to a fire hazard in itself, as the old wiring is forced door that leads to a stairwell that goes to the to channel a rising flood of electricity to basement, where another pas.sage leads out more and more hair-driers and televisions. side the building; but it might be simpler and It would be at least as hazardous, however, safer to take the sign down. to .. turn off the power. On the Hamilton And finally, we'd like to put in one more Campus, only the Burke Library has any kind plea for a traffic light at the comer of of auxili� lighting. Stairwells and hallways Kirkland and College Hill Road. Another dog in many buildings, for exampl� in Bris�l �nd · has been hit there, and the danger to pedes on the upper floo�. of the Sci��� B�ldmg, trians at the crossing, which is busier than depend almost _entirely on artifi�ial light _to any in Clinton, is as great as ever. If public m�e them passable; e�en stairways with schools and factories are allowed a signal over wmdows should have a hght somewhere, for their road-cro�ings there should be no rea• .. ' use at_nig�t. . . . . , son why we should not have at least a yellow This . S1tuat10� 1s prop<>rt1onate_ly worse m warning light, and soon, before someon e is public places like Bnstol and . _am•o•ns·•·• ._1-.in_.�u. .red _ _ ___________
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LETTER the-· SPECTATOR To the Editor: In your article on medical schools in the October 6 edition of The Spectator, you stated that, "At least 80% of the pre-med students get into medical school." Actually you should have said that 80% of the senior pre-meds are admitted to American medical schools. For the number of pre-meds that exists in a typical freshman class is perhaps 3 or 4 times the amount of students who remain pre-meds by senior year. Entering freshmen should not receive the impression that 80% of their present colleagues will be in American medical schools in four years. Marc S. Keller '73 To Whom Were Concerned: T h e C h a i r m an of t h e Department o f Physical Education wishes to express his sincere appreciation to all those who contribu ted to making last Saturday's football game fun: (1) Thank . you Jim Kennedy for winning the game in the stands. (2) T hanks to Coach Tom Murphy, Jack Hamilton, and the members of the Hamilton College V a rsit y Basketball team for contributing an outstanding football program.
(3) The jazz band was grand.
(4) The cheerleaders are to be cont inued on page eleven
VOLUME THREE
NUMBER FIVE
First published as ..The Radiator"· in 1848:
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Cholakian Decends inio Hell; Tell s of Trip to Damnation
with such come-ons as a visit to a common Commons" serving three BY BOB GRIEVES unique an imal farm featuring·the specialties: yesterday's, today's, . Amidst a healthy turnout of onl y t hr ee-headed d o g in and tomorrow's hamburgers. A t h e R o m a n_c e L a nguages. captivity. Joined by Mrs. Moon few more levels brought Mr. department, various other faculty and her pimply-faced son, and led Cholakian to the walls of members and students, Professor by the poet Browning ( "the Sata nopolis, the underworld's Reuben Cholakian delivered his devil's in Hell, all's right with the largest discount center for vice. "Last Lecture" Tuesday night at world") our Dante passed through Here our intrepid voyager saw ., 7:30 in the Chapel. After an several levels of damnation aided signs advertising Was Los and introduction by Reverend Joel only by an anti-perspirant spray _ Pentagon. Tibbetts outlining Mr. Cholakian's minus the hexochlorophene. Mr. Cholakian combined his journey from Bates and Columbia P a ssing Limbo, the most wit with incisive social comment to his teaching duties at the populated sector of Hell, where a in his description· of the lower Univer s i t y of Virginia, the protest group demonstrated levels. Military leaders, burdened · featured speaker described his ("God is Dead - Popeye for with heavy armor, sought to descent into Hell. Secretary of War"), the travelers quench their thirst in bloody Mr . C holakian's excursion followed Browning to a level waters. Professional advocates of began in an air-conditioned travel containing adulterers, gigolos, and violence - \Black September, the office lined with garish posters a coed dorm for free lovers. Near . Irish Republican Army, and offering excursions to Purgatory by loomed the "uncommonly f rustrated pre-med students Sigma Pt)i (1831) dominated one level. After the tax collectors and alumni fundraisers, Mr. Cholakian discerned the great Gengh i s Khan, d i ct a t o r s The Student Senate passed the him from joining another Napoleon, Hitler, and Cecil B. following rushing regulations for house before the start of the DeM ille. Actors and ad-men following academic year. 1972-1973 on October 3, 1972: damned b y their duplicity 5. After February 19th at 4:00 1. Bids may be given to any frustrated ·with things as they BY ELAINE WEISS suffered everlasting diets of Milk p.m. a house may, at its freshmen at any time and Peace Corps and Vista recruiter now stand. Ms. Lindeman clarified of Magnesia or floated in large own discretion, revoke any are binding on the houses Marti Lindeman will be on the differences in attitude towards vats of Dentu-Creme. Here and bid still outstanding (any until Monday, February campus Monday, Oct. 16 to America between Peace Corps and there skulked former members of bid not yet signed and 19th at 4: 00 p.m. answer questions and conduct Vista volunteers: "It's easier to ITT; half-fro zen bodies of turned into Dean Bingham's 2. All bids signed by freshmen interviews concerning careers in remain an idealist in the Peace journalists lay strewn about the office). and turned into Dean these service agencies. The young Corps," she said, ''Peace Corps landscape of another level. "Oh, 6. No student may become a will office Bingham's Ms. Ljndeman, herself a recent people are generally less frustrated to be in England now that paying member of an)! binding on become Vista volunteer, will be seeking with the system." In Vista the winter's here!" chanted Browning. house before Monday, freshmen on Monday, applicants for the one year Vista problems of poverty are different; The poet informed his travelers February 19th at 4:00 p.m. February 19th at 4:00 p.m. commitment or two year Peace the generation of wealth in this that they could come closer to the Bid cards will be distributed to 3. Any bids given out after country is not necessary, but it cold depths of Lucifer's throne.· Corps stint. the houses as soon as they are F - ebruary 19th at 4:00 p.m. Ms. Lindeman emphasized, must be channelled differently to Browning, departing, exhorted will become binding on ready. I will naturally be happy to "You don't make much money, meet different problems. In either Mr. Cholakian to exercise his freshmen immediately after an swer any questions concerning but there's plenty to live on, s e r v i c e , M s . Lindeman was freedom of choice in life. Once being signed and turned into interpretation or implementation emphatic: "You don't bring your including travel and vacations" out of the elevator and back in of these regulations. Dean Bingham's officf. when you are volunteering "in skills and leave them, you implant the travel office, Mrs. Moon Jeff Paton 4. A student's revocation of a them. You are the Peace Corps service to America" here. or informed Mr. Cholakian, "If you (for the IFC) binding bid will prohibit abroad. The Peace Corps and and Vista, and create your own don't like it here, go to Hell!" Vista are. looking for people with reality." Speaking of stark realities, the a Liberal Arts background, p ossibly with experience in Peace Corps and Vista recruitment community work such as day is part of a program planned by care, hospital service or teaching. t h e Career Center to bring Teachers of English as a foreign or· d i f f e r e n t g r a d u a t e a n d second language are especially p rofessional schools corporate _ needed. The Peace Corps affords films and service agencies to the students except to those whom There are ten new full time enthusiastic attitude toward the opportunity to teach on all· a_t tention of Hamilton and t e achers t his fall: Philip winter in Clinton. Noting our they teach. However, besides levels, from nursery school -to the 'Kirkland students. By arranging a Bo u r d i llon, Visiting Assistant indoor hockey rink he said, '�I h a v ing the knowledge and u i v e r s i t y . V i st a i s now series of interview dates for Professor of Philosophy, Steven J.. can't wait to see ice hockey experience to teach their courses, concentrating on language courses students t o meet with the Heckler, Instructor in Physical played here. It will be a new many of these faculty have for-Spanish speaking migrant farm d i f f erent representatives, Mrs. E d u c at i on, Derek • C. Jones, experience for me." brought s pecific and often Bunny Lieberman, director of the Instructor in Economics, Bruce F. workers. Athletics are fairly popular intriguing interests. Most of all, Peace Corps and ·career Center, hopes to "provide Kaufmann, Assistant Professor of among Hamilton's new faculty. They include Mr. O'Neill's Vista are looking for people who a wide range of information to English, Albert �- Parker, Visiting Mr. Prichett, besides teaching thesis t o p i c of Restoration are curious, creative, willing to try better equip students to make Assistant Professor of Geology, mathematics, is also assuming (1660-1685) Pornography and Mr. · and experiment , and a r e the i r career plans." Kaufmann's interest in Medieval Gordon D. Prichett, Assistant duties as i assistant coach of the English poetry. Mr. Smallen has Professor of Mathematics, :David Blue soccer team. Mr. Prichett, already gained fame among E. Rigsbee, Instructor in English, coming from a teaching assistant For Convenience and Safety Calculus students as the creator of Howard J. Scherry, Visiting at San Diego State, is also an avid Keep your checking account "epsilon person." Assistant Professor of French, and scuba diver. Mr. Parker, when not at David L . Smallen, Assistant involved with geology, is looking Some new faculty members forward to cross country skiing. Professor of Mathematics. have already involved themselves In addition to these teachers, Coach Heckler, advisor to the outside the classroom in their Mrs. Hermine Williams will be outing c lub, anticipates the fields of study. Mr. Scherry will part-time lecturer in Religion and beginnings of inter-c_ollegiate be leading the French Club and Dean Stephen Kurtz will be competition in this sport. Mr. Rigsbee is assisting in the ·The Hamilton student received : Banking Hours: 9:00 a.m. to_ 3:00 p.m. Monday through Thubday t�aching a history course next "Salon" writing workshop at semester. G. Bradley Huff, some praise from many of the Kirkland College. 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. ThlJ!Sday and Friday Assist ant Professor of Physics will new arrivals. Mr. Jones, who was In the spring Coach Heckler also begin teaching at Hamilton a t Cornell pr ior to th is will have his first season with the , Member F .D.I.C. appointment cites, "Much more next term. base ball t e a m . C i ting past There is unanimity in the new class response from the student performance he remarked, "We faculty's reaction to their first here." have no place to go but up." When speaking of the students, weeks on the Hill. "A very Although teaching and its friendly place...very beautiful," K i r kl a nd . c o m e s i nto t h e inherent duties take up a lot of conversation. Mr. Bourdillon '67, said Mr. 0 'Neill. time, there is always room for a Mr. Scherry who comes to comparing Hamilton now to what little diversion. It could be Hamilton from Mercy College it was like when he attended said, 1 Wes't'Park Row Philately an d French 11 for Mr. "Kirkland is a fantastic addition appraised life at Hamilton as Clinton, New York Prichett, playing the french horn and a stabilizing influence." �'Everything the city isn't." as Mr. Parker does, being out on a Mr. P ar ker, who taught here in Some expressed concern over Nick Burns, Broker soccer field for Mr. Jones, or Hamilton '46 the coming winter as did Mr. t h e d ay s before K i r k l and painting one's apartment as Mr. Rigsbee who said, "I've never r e m a r k e d , "T h e o v erall Auto, Tenants, Motorcycle and Homet>wners InsuranceKauffmann is doing. lived in a climate like this one is atmosphere is better. The students The sentiments of the group as are enjoying themselves more." reputed to be.". UL_3 - 5051 - 2 a whole was hit upon Mr. Prichett In their very short time on the Mr. Heckler, a graduate of when he said, 'The people up here Westchester State College, our Hill most new faculty have are really nice." r em ained .unkn�':':11..,J to the· new baseball coach, took a more
Peace Corp Sends Representative
Rushing Regulations
Ten Profs Join Hamilton Staff; Seven Departm ents Repr esented
.The Hayes Nai-ional Ba-ilk
The Burns Agency
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Arts and Entertat.nment Recent Records Reviewed; The Best Of An . Obscure Lot
T H E F A BUL OUS RHINESTONES - The Fabulous Rhinestones - Just Sunshine. A long long time ago, there was a man named Harvey Brooks, who played bass - well . So Steve and Al and Mike put him on their album, and then Al and Mike put him on theirs. Mike liked him so much he asked him to join his {Mike's) group. Only his {Mike's) group decided they weren't any more, and then they broke up. But Harvey was a smart rock and roll star, and had saved up his m on e y · f o r j us t s u c h a n eventuality, and retired to his house in the country, with §Orne friends and a basement full of equipment, where they lived happily ever after. Except that ·after about three years of playing all the time for the hell of it they got to be awfully good, and a trouper's a trouper retired or not. EAGLES - Eagles - Asylum.. So they came out to show the Yes, Eagles has had two top-40 world what they'd been doing. hits. No, they're not a top-40 · Only the world isn't looking. It band. Eagles is composed of a should see - and hear - what it's former Poco - sort of - a former missing. Burrito, and two that I'm told PHOTOGRAPH BY DA VE CANTOR were Linda Ronstadt backers. Reasonable enough credentials, and the results more than justify them. I don't like Take It Ea�yy, ACE - Bob Wier - Warner but the rest of this album is really Bros. Okay, this is hardly an nice smooth country rock. As obscure album. Still its sales have Scott Bennett put it, this band oeen pitiful for an album second lives in three parts; at least they· BY GARRETT HAYNER )nly to Eat A· Peach this· year. · test their mikes that way - I've Fiddler on the Roof? Of course between Nixon and McGovern What's wrong with the Oscars. not - for each of these films, in and so vote for a member of the For the first time Bob Wier gets to seen 'em do it. H A LF A M O NTH OF is that the Academy of Motion intent and execution, is a movie - Nazi party. (An extreme example, �ake the lead and Jerry fades 'lack.· For the first time Keith MAYDAYS - Curt Newbury - Picture Arts and Sciences often pure entertainment. Most of them but you get the idea.) This is }odscheaux, the new man in the Verve Records. I think, but that displays a curious ignorance of the · were well-made and successful, not to say that I think there's µ-oup, is on record. Come on seems odd. This is an impossibl e distinction between movies and true, but an entertainment film is anything wrong with movies, or \merica, where's that old .hero album to get, but well worth i�. cinema. a compro�ise by its very nature. with John Wayne (professionally, -vo r s h i p ? R em ember Niel He's a guy from Texas, and he This distinction is a bit It is aimed at pleasing audiences not politically). I thought Fr_ench ::assady? {if you don't, take two writes songs that have something arbitrary, I admit, especially in rather than speaking to its own Connection was an excellent film, lem erits and reread Electric of early Tim Buckley and regard to the terminology,'but let · values and content. Therefore and I en j o y m usicals and ·r(ool-Ade Etc.) Well Bob Wier, something of- Ario Guthrie and me explain what I mean. entertainment is not film's highest c o m e d i e s , a n d o t h e r Nho knew him, wrote a song l ots of originality to them. To me, "movies" are the good goal {since cinema is the highest entertainment films. And Wayne tbout him, and it's on this album. They're folk rock, bouncy but not old entertainment films. ·Musicals, form of film), and entertainment was perfect in True Grit. But he .Vhat more can y_ou ask for than compulsive, and fit the general comedies, thrillers and so on. films should not be considered as wasn't the best actor that year, n album that starts "Moses came Ham Col head well: "Cinema," on the other hand,· The Best Pictures of any year. and entertainment films are not idin' down from the quasar"? I refers to works of true filmic art, We, as judges, should choose the industry's highest goal or nean, he's in The Greatful Dead, something like the films of Fellini . i n stead films l i k e Ca rnal achievement, and neither should Sittin' in a porno movie theater, 'er Chrissake... and Bergman (whose movies I Knowledge (never nominated), be treated as such. Girl makin' love to an alligator admire greatly even if I often The Last Picture Show, A I'm glad the Academy wants to BARE TREES-Fl eetwood Mac When he was finished, he ate her. neither enjoy nor understand Clock work Orange, and Sunday: preserve the_ American film Christ how easy it could be Bloody Sunday. These pictures them). industry (which seems the obvious Reprise. When I start talking of And all at once I could be free do not compromise, do not aim reason for the award), but they It's true that one area becomes Fleetwood Mac, I inevitably get I f I decided to b e difficult at times to separate from toward a certajn audience. Along should not do so under pretext of one of two reaction: "Fleetwood nobody. the other, but the distinction with being excellent pictures, they awarding the Best Film of the What?" or "Yeah, but didn't usually works. are art (and art and excellence do Green l eave them?" Yes Peter Year. When they separate the area not always coincide). That {I might point o. u t that my Green left them - three albums of entertainment and the area of WELCOME TO FAT CITY S u nday, Picture Show, and main criterion of "art," at least ago in fatt. Good thing too. So, art in their judgements, maybe the - Fat City - Paramount. for the sake of this discussion, is Clockwork were all ignored for Oscar will become a · more dammit, listen to them, willya? They've gotten better on every Fat City's names are Bill " Danoff that along with the obvious purity French C onne ction (w hich consistent index of American film album, and this one deserves to be and Taffy Nivert, and the closest I of intent, all parts must join sho u l d n 't even have been excellence. them is as together integrally to create a nominated ) when Best Picture: a major album. This is a c1ean, can come to describing fully synthesized whole. Nothing was awarded, and that their logical successors to Ian and the _ l ike wel l thought out album added for effect or to exploit a directors were also ignored l y simple folk music, . THE CLiNTON FLORIST Fair Sylvia everything since "Green left certain facet of the film.) the t on nd (Wil liam Friedkin, director of ly i en depe heav 15 £Im Street ' them." The material ranges from Fine. So we have at least a rather than guitar, and received Best Connection 853-2731 interesting to astonishing and is harmonies wo rking distinction. And by Director), demonstrates the d r aw n f r o m three _ different beautiful. Different people like· employing this distinction with Academy's lack of comprehension members of the group, with the. different songs off it but it always Flowers/or all Occasions. the films of a recent weekend, we of what the Oscar should stand rhy�m sectio� sticki�g to holding finds them with one. A modest Sha t c� easily see that f is for. little album with strength of the group together. Admittedly character. clearly a movie, while M is just as · The same criticism applies to the group is built from the bass. BEG INNINGS FR OM AN. clearly a work of cinema. the Best Actor award to John and drums up - but so are the END - Fair. Weather - Neon. I Suppose, then, that we are Wayne in 1969, by the way, Who, and there's nothing wrong can tell you nothing about this m e m b e r s of t he Award s rather than to either John Voight Ford's on the Square with them. group except that they have been · committee of the Academy and or Dustin Hoffman. It was a ANGE L JJELIGHT/JOHN listening t o everything decent put are screening films to decide popularity award, not an acting Clinton "QABBA C OMBE" LEE out _in the_last coupl e of years, nominations for Best Picture of award. Some people said that it Fairport Convention - A&M. and have avoided copying any of 1971. The best film. So we, if we happened because voters couldn't Beer Beverages Groceries Pirst, off, if you haven't heard it. An original and very smooth, truly wish to promote the highest decide between the two and so Paa-port's first album, do. It's the, spunky, rock and roll album in film quality-, consider films such voted for Wayne. That's like most often ripped off and worn three parts. as Bedknobs and Broomsticks, or saying that you can't choose
BY JOHN R. SWINNEY · The· other day Rich stopped me at work and asked me if I wanted to write a record review for this sheet. As anyone· who recognised this byline knows, r-m perenniall y on crusade for one tlbum or another, so I took little �onvincing, and you're reading the ·esult. If you 're one of those who ·ecognised the byline go on to the ·ootball news, 'cause you've heard he rest of this live. But the rest of 1 ou are my reason for writing, so isten up, and I'll suggest to you .ome albums which aren't getting he attention they deserve. ASYLU M CHOIR II - Leon �us s e l l , M a r k Benno, Rita :::oolidge - Shelter. Leon Russell 1ttracts me more for his whimsy ,:han his sentiment - which is to ,ay that I prefer Crystal Closet 2,ueen to Hummingbird. On that -lasis I claim that this is Russell's Jest album. Recorded in early l 970, but not released until last ;pring, its material tends to be .omewhat dated in topic, but it is :lawless Russell - wait 'til ya hear he bass come in on Tryin To Stay 4.live (And Keep My Sideburns Too). or the vocal break on Straight Brother, or ....
out album of my experience. Aside from being a classic, it'll give you an idea of where this group started. It was a rock group with h eavy folk roots. As personnel changes brought it closer to the current band, it became more and more a sort of electric folk group. A n g e l D elight & "Babbacombe" Lee are their two most recent albums, which landed close· on each other. The former is the stuff they've been doing in concert for the last year or so, electric folkie {English folkie remember), with the great Dave Swarbrick's violin, and three part harmony. Yum. The l atter is the world's t4ird Rock Opera: sort of folk-rock. It's a gentle, tasteful, sometimes elegant story about a man who was hanged three times and l ived to tell the tale - no shit.
What's Wrong With The Oscars?
Movies, Not Cinema, Get The Awards
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MOVIES ON CAMPUS October 13 & 14 (Friday & Saturday) Fury, 8 p.m., Science Auditorium. Directed by Fritz Lang, this film is every inch the classic which M is. Brilliant direction. Fifty cents. Husbands, 8 p.m., Chemistry Auditorium. Fifty cents. See review in this week's Arts Page. October 15 (Sunday) Husbands 8 p.m., Chemistry Auditorium. Root-Jessup Presents: Legend of the Lon e Range r; Wilmington; For Whom The B ell Tolls. 7 p.m. , Science Auditorium. Fifty cents. October 16 & 17 (Monday & Tuesday) Beau Geste (directed by Bill Wellman), 8 p.m., Chemistry Auditorium. Fifty cents. On Campus Next Weekend Can Heironymous Merkin Ever Forget M ercy Humpe and Find True Happin ess?; The Seven Ye ar Itch and Ze ro Fo1" Contempt. In and Around Utica Cannonball (in Clinton; 853-5553): What's Up Doc? Kallet Cinema (136-2313):Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But W e r e Afraid To Ask. Paris (733-2730): A Cl f! ckwork Orange Stanley (724A000�: The Killing of Sist e r G eorge POETRY READING October 16 (Monday) By Colin Miller, reading Robert Burns' poems, 8:30 p.m., Chapel. MUSIC October 16 (Monday) Free School course,' Th e Music of Beethoven: Selected works of Mozart, Beethoven, and the Romantics will be played and discussed. 8 p.m., Root Art Center. MILESTONES October 15 (Sunday) Vergil's Birthday ( 70 B.C.) Friedrich Nietzsche's Birthday (1844) October 16 (Monday) John Brown, Harper's Ferry (1859) October 19 (Thursday) Sir Thomas Browne's Birthday ( 1605 ). Cornwallis Surrender ( 1781). EXHIBITIONS Current: Photography exhibit by Bruce King, Hamilton '56, Bristol Campus Center (through October 28). Recent silk screen prints by Steve Poleskie: Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica. OCTOBER 15 (SUNDAY) Forty prominent regional artists will mix paint and pottery with politics in the Treadway Inn Sunday to raise money for the Presidential campaign of George McGovern. On display from 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. Half of the money goes to George. The 35th Annual Exhibition, Artists of Central New York featuring some of the finest work by outstanding regional artist� wi ll open o n Sunday in the Museum of Art at Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica. (797-0000). Opening October 18 (Wednesday) � Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Armand Vaillancourt. The opening will be at the Root Art Center on Wednesday � evening, from 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. Mr. Vaillancourt will be present, � and will give an illustrated lecture on his recently opened "million � dollar fount�" in San Francisco's C�baradero Plaza.-
POETRY READING Stanley Plumly, poet, will be • giving a reading on Wednesday, October 18, at 9 P.M. in the Coffeehouse. Plumly teaches a poetry workshop in the graduate w r it ing program at O h i o University and is also the poetry editor of the Ohio Revie w. Last year he read from his first book and also poems from his f o r thcoming s econd b o o k inclu d i ng the title poem, "Giraffe."
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Cassavetes' "Husban ds": Exp eriment in Improvisation
But they have to get out. Meeting a day later Gazzara announces he's going to London. L o n d o n , England. Falk and BY JEFF B O O N E Cassavetes decide to go along for the ride. & SKIP ROESSEL Upon arrival in London (just in Once in a while we've got to time for the monsoon season) and get away. Major crises, problems and profound doubts strike at the check-in at a hotel, the obligatory very meaning and ritual of our decision to "do the town" is lives. Death and claustrophobia made. They need several things. Booze, first, and then women. become a kind·of panic. Then there is boredom. After a They try their luck in a casino. while, the most dedicated creature "You're inscrutable," says Falk to an oriental girl he has met. of habit stops pushing the bar for A f t er some uncomfortable his pellet of food. Maybe the ' incidents, Cassavetes and Falk go motive isn't important. Maybe it's just the action that counts. We've home. -But Gazzara's life in America is finished, �d he stays got to get out. So we leave. Three mi ddle-agedHusbands behind. ''What will he do without have had it. Their bar-room usl' says Falk incredulously, comradery, that particular male drinking his highball on the plan�. friendship that is part familiarity, Loaded down with gifts for the part despair, has been shaken by kids, the two remaining husbands the premature death of a fourth w a l k up t h e i r respective driveways, unwilling or unable to member of the clique. A f t e r the funeral and draw any lasting meaning from subsequent two-day binge, one the events of the last few days. Essentially, it's an actor's (Ben Gazzara) goes home to try to return to normality. Another picture. Cassavetes (last seen in member of the trio (Hamilton RRosemary 's Baby we are asked d r o p o u t P e t_e r F al k ) is to watch the interplay of these contemptuous of this apparently three actor /friends in various meek r e s u m p t i o n o f loosely defined situations. This is both the strength of the business-as-usual. "He always goes picture and its major weakness. home," he says to the third friend (played by director /writer John Cassavetes takes all the time he Cassavetes.) "He doesn't know needs to bring each scene to some sort of gruition, and it's a slow why, he just does it." process. There is no pandering to But Gazzara can not go home. His wife (and her mother) are the impatient. If we care enough leaving. The binge was the last about the characters to remain in straw. He becomes rather over the theatre at all, we'll watch. In return, the patient viewer is assertive. His wife defends herself rewarded by some of the most �ith a butcher knife. This c harming menage is vividly real and finely drawn broken up by the arrival of Falk performances on film anywhere. a nd Cassavet es. E v en tually The sense of deJ"a vu of the everyone quiets down and goes to drunken binge and the pickup scenes is positively astonishing work. (for many Hamilton students,
HUSBANDS. Directed by John Cassavet es. 128 minutes, color.
especially.) Occasionally Cassavetes' tight, intensive vignettes lose their dramatic focus and degenerate into exercises in self-indulgence. But the exquisite gems of black comedy scattered throughout the f i l m and t he unconsciously generate d i nsights into the c ha r acters make his u n c o nv entional approach to filmmaking a risk well taken.
VAILLANCOURT EXHIBITION , An exhibition of sculpture and drawings by Armand Vaillancourt will open at the Root Art Center on Wednesday evening, October 18 with a reception for teh artist fr o m 8 t o 10 p.m. Mr. Vaillancourt is an internationally known sculptor who resides in Montreal, Canada. He is best known for his large scale welded ot cast metal forms. Many of his commiss i ons have been for m on u m e ntal works cited ·in relation to architecture. This show will include some of his smaller works, photographs of his larger works, and drawings which have never been shown before.
The Deep , Mysterious Symbols Hidde n Within ''Flash Gordon" BY MICHAEL MURPHY CLASSICAL GAS? NOT FLASH GORDON! Who says that there are no great c l assical or symbolic �eanings inherent in such a fantastical masterpiece as the "Flash Gordon" series?! intend to try to eluci date some implications of a deeper level which may have escaped from some of the viewers who only regard "Flash Gordon" as a laughable cartoon. In the first scene of chapter four, "The Destroying Ray", we are presented with the classic r esurrection image as Flash, seeming blown into smithereens, rises again from a death-like state and slowly regains his composure. Upon learning of the capture of Dr. Zharkov , our Hero is presented with the most difficult of choices: whether to save his friends to to save the entire planet Earth. Flash, with unconquerable altruism and in the finest tradition of the social utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill, resolves his great m orai dilemma by quickly returning to Earth and depositing the polarite on Mt. McKinley where all the death dust will be attracted and eliminated. Once again the scene shifts to
Ming's palace where we are position. Ming has sentenced him p r e s e n t e d w i t h rampant to die at the eleventh hour, an debauchery and perversion. The h o u r traditionally used by next important symbolic gesture evangelists like Dwight Moody is the temptation of Zharkov by and Billy Sunday to signify the Ming. This could not follow much last time a sinner could convert closer the image of the temptation before he loses any chance of of Christ by Satan in the desert or God's redemption. Ming, as the perhaps Mephistopheles'- showing incarnation of evil has reversed Dr. Faustus the powers he holds �e positive and hopeful meaning by means of his pact with Satan. of "the eleventh hour" to a term Ming intimates to Zharkov,"Join of complete death ·and despair.' me and you will be a part of the . , In the final tormentuous scene, conquering of the universe. Much , tbie audience, much like that of power will be yours." Ming also B�jamin West's painting, "The demands that Dale become his De'ath of General Wolfe", shows wife showing the perversity of his us how the Emperor, Dale, and passion for her much like that of henchman look on as Flash and Quasimodo · foT Esmeralda in The Zharkov meet their doom. The Desn:oying Ray, a heat r_ay, Hunchback of 1'!=tre Dame. Salvation .. is on the way for advances on them as Flash tries these beleaguered souls ·as Flash the free Zharkov from his bonds captures two of Ming's henchmen he does not succeed and both and invades the palace in one of seem to be withering from the Ming's ships. His path is not an e�fects of the weapon. At the easy one as he and his comrade closing scene, Plash's face takes make their way through the on that final suffering pose much palace trying to discern where like the painting by El Greco, their friends are. In a dramatic "The Disrobing of Christ," or moment, Flash overhears two of even more like "The Martyrdom M i n g ' s m ind less maniacs of St. Sebastian," by Antonio discussing where everyone is and Pollaiuolo. what is going on. This w eek:. PALACE OF Immediately, Flasti.,sprints to TORTURE. the Torture chambers and sees PLEASE RECYCLE Zharkov bonded in a cross-like
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McGovern and Nixon Go Over the World This article is the third in a series presented by the Spectator on the campaign issues of this year� election. This week we present to you the candidate� opinions on foreign policy. BY CAROL GOODMAN George McGovern presents amore idealistic approach to the foreign policy issue. When asked his ideas on the balance of power, he said, "But I begin today-by asking whether that is all we want. And I ask, too, whether it is relevant and realistic in today's world - or does it simply resurrect an. old world, of kings and princes and empires, that we will never see again." "That five power, balance of power thesis attempts to force onto the contemporary world a naive pre-nuclear view dating back to the 19th century and before. ''Today, in the military sense, we have but two superpowers - capable of d e stroying ourselves and most of humanity many times over." The United States is obviously one of the most powerful nations in the world. What should " the role of such a technologically advanced nation be? "I know of no responsible person who would knowingly call for a· return to isolationism. "Modern communications, and the existence of intercontinental weapons systems, have made that a practical impossibility. "I suggest that we must reject this unconscious isolationism in favor of a New Internationalism based not only upon our vital interests, but also upon the kind of nation we can and should be. "Where are our vital interests? "By one measure, they certainly lie in the world's North Temperate Zone. "North America, Europe, the Soviet Union and Japan do produce some 80% of the world's goods. This is where the power - in the sense of wealth, technology, developed human skills, and the capacity to wage modem war - most largely resides. "And this is where both we and the Soviet Union, as the two superpowers, will for the foreseeable future continue to have the highest interest in averting any attempt by the other to threaten or s u b v e r t our respective systems of security. "The North Temperate Zone, is in short, where a final World_ War III would
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be fought - and where its potential causes must most carefully be guarded against. "But out vital interests go further. ''The Arab-Israeli confrontation in the Middle East,- with its potential for even more dangerous United States-Soviet cqnfrontation, is an immediate threat to general peace. And we have a firm and deep . obligation to the security and integrity of the State of Israel. ·'Communist China has little power in terms of conventional measurement (by 1975 Japanese per capita G.N.P. will be 12 times that of China) but she poss�es nuclear weapons and a desire to reassert . her ancient prestige. "Th e I n d ia n S ubcontinent and Indonesia especially compel our attention in Asia, as do several states in Africa and in our own hemisphere. "What of the hwidreds . of other sovereign _ nations existing in the 1970's including those to the south lying within the purview of the Monroe Doctrine? "All, in one way or another, have some importance to us. "But must we be committed to their armed defense? "U n d e r .!Wh a t c o n c e i v a b l e circumstances should we ever become involved in supporting their present governments in the face of domestic turmoil? ''These are questions we had better ask ourselves today, rather than later. "I believe that America's New Internationalism in the 1970's must follow several clear guidelines. "First, it must · be supported by a strong national defense, but one free of waste, as I have previously outlined: forces fully adequate to defend our own land and to fill v i t a l d e f ense commitments. "Second, it must look toward prudent relaxation of tension with potential adversary powers, such as the Soviet Union and China. "T h i r d , i t m u s t -l o o k t o reestablishment of healthy economic and political relationships with our principal allies and trading partners in Europe, Japan, Canada, and Latin America. "Fourth, it must avoid the kind of r eflexive int erventioniam that has foolishly involved us in the internal political affairs of other cowitries. "Fifth, it must envision a world community with the capacity to resolve disputes among nations, and to end the war between man and his own environment. "Sixth, it must reasserst America's role as a beacon - and friend - to those millions in the human family desperately striving to achieve the elemental human dignity which all men seek. "The kind· of interventionism I would · favor as President would b� agricultural and technical assistance...the building of roads and schools... the training of skilled personnel, in concert with other nations and through multilateral institutions.'' McGovern went on in his speech to discuss the policy of his Administration in diplomacy with the other wuper powers. · ''We must work to bring the arms race under control; ''We must seek areas of agreement with the Soviet Union consistent with the needs and interests of our friends and Allies. We should press for justice for Soviet Jews rather than abandon them for a trade agreement. Surely we have learned the lesson at great cost that a free people cannot sit by and merely. witness the oppression of a religious minority by a totalitarian society. ''We should, of course, encourage trade between our two countries. "And we must spare no effort to build the structure of a lasting peace. "In limiting the arms race we do not begin with excessive trust in the Russians, for we retain more than enough for
deterrence. "In reducing our excess we do not rely on Moscow's good intentions, we will reamin strong enough to meet any test. "We need only act in our sure defense by seeking areas of genuine mutual interest and by tailoring our armed forces to the reality of the world around us. "As President, I will begin by recognizing the government in Peking. .''The future of Asia will depend in part upon China. But it will depend also upon Japan, the third most powerful economic nation in the world, a nation of vigor and purpose, and a long-standing friend of the United States. "In recent years our relations with Japan have been in steady, but needless decline. 'We must treat Japan as an- equal, consult with her in trust. As President, I would begin the painstaking renewal of our cooperative Telationship with this key nation in Asia." ''There will be tough negotiations and v i g or ous competition on important matters of trade and economics, where both our nations have interests to protect. We will expect fair treatment by J a p a n on m a t t ers of trade and investment, and greater understanding of our domestic economic problems. But Japan a1so expects fair treatment from us, not the patronizing attitude that the President has shown, or the sisgun diplomacy of John Connally. "At the same time we must recognize that Japan has a chance to become the first great · power without a massive military arsenal. We must not crush that hopeful experiment. I will ensure that remaining U.S. forces in Japan serve the original purpose designed for them - to help provide for the defense of Japan, and not to become involved in military ventures in Southeast Asia. "I will place the suppost of the United States behind membership for Japan in the United Nations Security Council. 'CWe must remain committed to Israel's future, to her right to live at peace with her neighbors behind secure and recognized borders. 'We must continue to supply those arms that will permit Israel to guarantee its own security. In my Administration, we will do this because of our deep and abiding concern for Israel, not adopt one policy for election year, and another for the years that follow. 'We must continue to retain sufficient American power in the area to ensure t ha t t he re is no doubt of our committment to Israel's security. 'CWe must intensify our efforts to end the international terrorism that most recently appalled the world at Munich, and that is a threat to us all. "And we must show a deep regard for the economic and human needs of the Palestine refugees." President Richard M. Nixon did not cover as extensively the issues of foreign policy , but he answered the following
questions on Vietnam and the Russian wheat deal at a press conference last week: Q: ''Mr. President, do you see any possibility of a negotiated settlement in Vietnam before the election?" A: ''The settlement will come just as soon as we can possibly get a settlement which is right, right for the South Vietnamese, the North Vietnamese, and for us, one that will have in mind our goals of preventing the imposition by force of a Communist government in South Vietnam, and , of course, a goal that is particularly close to our hearts, in a humanitarian sense, the return of our prisoners of war. "I should emphasize, however, that under no circumstances will the timing of a settlement, Jor example, the possible negotiation of a cease-fire, the possible negotiation of, or unilateral action with regard to a bombinh halt, under no circumstances will such action be affected by the fact that there is going to be an election November 7. "If we can make the right kind of settlement before the election, we will make it. If we cannot, we are not going to make the wrong kind of a settlement before the election. We were around that track in 1968 when well-intentioned men made a very, very great mistake in stopping the bombing without adequate agreements from the other side. "I do not criticize them for that of course, as far as their motives are concerned. I simply said, having seen what happened then, we are not going to make that mistake now. "The election, I repeat, will not in any way influence what we do at the bargaining table. "Secondly, because I know this subject has l;,een discussed by a number of you, as it should be, in your commentaries and in your reports, the negotiations at this time, as you know, haye been in the private channel very extensive. We have agreed that neither side will discuss the coritent of those negotiations. I will not discuss them one way of the other. "I will only say that the negotiations are in a sensitive stage. I cannot predict and will not predict that they will or will not succeed. "But I will say that any comment on my part with regard to how the negotiations are going could only have a detrimental effect on the goal that we are seeking, and that is as early as possible a negotiated settlement of this long and difficult war." Q: "Mr. President, it has been said that Hanoi may be waiting until after the election to make a settlement on the theory that if they got a Democrat elected they would get better terms for them. How do you answer that?" A: ''They could be motivated by that. There are those who believe that they were motivated to an extent in 1968 by political considerati6ns in agreeing to a bombing halt before the election with the
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thought that defeating me was more in ' thei r i nt e r est than electing my_ opponent." "I do not claim that that was the case. I .must say that both Senator Humphrey and 1, I think, were quite responsible in that election campaign in refusing to comment on what were then only preliminary negotiations, recognizing that any comment by one who might be President might jeopardize the success of the negotiations. "Now, as far as Hanoi's putting their eggs in that basket, that only indicates that the American political scene is_ one that no one can predict. Despite what the polls say, and despite some indications on our side that we believe we have a good chance to win, there are many in this �ountry and many abroad who think that there is a chance the other side might win.
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''Under those circumstances, they mining was essential to turn around what was potentially disasterous situation in obviously �ould conclude, with some South Vietnam. The back of the enemy justification, that my· in$istence that we offensive has been broken. They hold no will never agree to a settlement which provincial capitals now at all. could impose a Communist government ''This c o u l d n o t h a v e b e e n directly or indirectly on the people of accomplished without the mining and . South Vietnam, a s compared with the . bombing , and the mining and the statements of our opponents to the contrary on this particular point, might bombing will continue, of course, until we get . s ome agreements on the be influencing them. "On the other hand, we are talking. If negotiating front." • we have the opportunity, we will ''Mr. President, what is your reply to continue to talk before this election and the critics who charge that scandal was we will try to convince them that waiting i nv o l v e d in y o u r Ru,sian wheat until after the election ' is not good agreements?" strategy." "My reply is to have such allegations Q: "Mr. President, there are those of i n v e stigated; incidentally, with the your critics who say that the bombing is thorough and complete agreement of really serving no useful purpose and it is Secretary Butz. Secretary Butz and the needless. What purpose is the· bombing House Committee on Agriculture both now serving in view of the fact that the looked into these charges that some of negotiations have not resulted in a the big grain dealers, the so-called Big Six, settlement and in view of the fact that got advance information and made a lot there still seems to be a good deal of of money; and that particularly some of military a�tivity in the south?" the wheat growers in the Southwestern A: "Well. I think, Mr. Lisagor, you part of the country who sell their wheat could really go further. There are those early, usually, in order to get a premium, who say that the bombing and mining were left holding the bag when, if they serve no useful purpose and are serving no had the advance information that there useful purpose. Those same critics, as I was ·going to be a deal, they could have pointed out in San Clemente, and have made some money. since had an opportunity to review, on "Now, if there was any-impropriety, if May 1st, that weekend, all had reached there was any illegality, we want to know the conclusion that South Vietnam was it. The way t<> find out is to put the best down the tube. Time, Newsweek, The · investigative agency in the world to work New York Times, The Washington Post, at finding out. As soon as their t h e t h r e e t e 1 e v i sion n e t w o r k investigation i s completed, and we want it commentators - I am not referring to you, just as quickly as we can, it will be made ladies and gentlemen, who are reporters available to the Secretary and he will take all in varying degrees wrote and spoke of whatever action is needed if there is an the specter of defeat and the hopelessness illegality or impropriety. of the South Vietnamese cause. "But in any event, le:t me take very "On May 8th, I acted to prevent that briefly a moment of your time to point Communist takeover' which all of these out what was in it for us and what was in it for them. First, the wheat deal cost us critics then. predicted. After I took that $120-million, as you know, payments, action of mining and bombing, the same farm payments. But this is what we got critics predicted that the summit was from it·, the farmers got ii'e1 billion m· torpedoed • Some even went so far as to more farm income. There were thousands say that We Were risking World War III· of jobs created, including joos in the ''Those predictions proved to be American merchant marine as well as on wrong. Now those same critics say the ' it the farm and in the processing areas as a · was not nec e� sary bornbing and mm· mg . result of the wheat deal. has accomplished no purpose and 1t 1s not necessary for the future. Well, I would ' ' T h e t a x payers were saved · track recor d I wouId $200-million in farm payments that say, based on t heir ' · · would have otherwise have had to be much eredence to what the not give made if we kept the wheat in storage and critics have said.in any respect. had not sold it. "I will only say that the bombing and
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"Now, in addition, the wheat deal, this one, the one we have made with the Chinese, the one we have made with the Japanese for grain, and so fqrth, and so on. have had a very significant effect in moving our balance of trade and balance . of payments position. "As far as the terms were concerned when we went in I negotiated this directly after a lot of preliminary work had b een d o ne, and very good preliminary work, by Secretary Peterson and of course Secretary Butz. They wanted IO years at 2% credit and they finally took 3 years at over 6%. "Now they got s<;>mething they needed. They have a short w�eat crop and _they needed this wheat in order to feed their people, but it was also good for us." •
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BY JUDITH SILLARI Kirkland Dean Rosiland Hoffa student-designed and led group As · Kirkland enters its fifth projects; field work; research encourages students to look upon , Winter Study period, a basic trend assistantships; "total saturation , Winter Study as a valuable chance toward independent study and a projects for development of a to shape their own education. No ge n e r a l aura o f cr ea t i v e one should be distressed by the expec t a t i o n s are t he only small number of supervised group predictable factors of the January s p e c ific skill, and faculty-or projects available, since student -specialist-sponsored supervised s u r v e ys h a v e p oi n t ed t o session. This year's guidelines for the groups. Student-initiated group independent study as perhaps the winter s es s i o n h ave b een projects are still being planned. A most fruitful and satisfying type formulated earlier than in �he past list of several such activities of Winter Study pursuit. in order to give freshmen and should be available by October ..---------------.. transfers more time to design a 16, according to Winter Study· THE MODE.RN TAILOR SHOP valid project. These guidelines Committee Chairman; Anne Fry. OF CLINTON INC. The status of Kirkland students st r e s s e d u cational v a l u e , independence, and a n intensive · a pplying f or a d m ission to attitude as prerequisites for a Hamilton Winter Study courses Quality Dry Cleaning, Tailori ng remains - questionable. Since this worthwhile project. As in the past, Kirkland year Kirkland will be opening and Shirt Laun<J,ry Service presents considerable options to group p rojects to Hamiltop. its students for the Winter Study students, Kirkland women will be period. Categories of projects on a more equal footing with DIAL UL 3 -8421 i n c l u d e i n d e p e n d e n t , exchange students from other s e 1 f - e v a 1_ u a t e d s t u d i e.s ; colleges 'to gain admission into Plant _& Office Hamilton sJanuary courses. Available space in Hamilton · 43 J::_qQege_St. Clinton N.Y._ ----------------. GORTON'S courses will not be announced .,.._____________-;a"tl u ntil after Kirkland's Winter CLINTON LIQUOR STORE of CLINTON , Study registration date. Kirkland GRAND UNION SHOPPING students are advised to file a proposal with the registrar by The friendly General Store CENTER October 25, reflecting a back-up MEAD ST. CLINTON OW Come in to see us any time project in case Hamilton courses FREE DELIVERY 853-8878 are over-subscribed. .._______________.
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Kirkland Self -E valuates for Ace re ditation continue to the Ph.D. and other professional degrees. It should also be noted that a high percentage of Kirkland students come from families of above average income. ADVISING Student response to the advising system has been summarized as follows by Elizabeth Conzen:
A committee from the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools will arrive Sunday to begin its investigation into Kirkland's fitness for Accreditation. Among the members of the committee are representatives of the Association, a non-voting representative from the New York Department of Education, and for the first time in the Association's history, a student. The committee members will attend classes and talk to students in the course of their study. They will be on campus until Tuesday, and will formulate an evaluation of Kirkland's academic condition, which the committee will present to President Babbitt and members of the Kirkland Faculty and Administration on Tuesday. B a b b i t t a n d t h e K i rkl and representatives will be allowed to answer the criticisms made by the committee; a full report will be sent on to the Middle States Association, which will continue the evaluation process. The investigating committee's visit is the first step of the Accreditation Process. No action could be made until a charter class, the class of 1972, had graduated. Once begun, however, the evaluation can be made quickly; Kirkland will know of the Association's decision by June of 1973. Kirkland began her own evaluation in 1971 . P rofessor W i l liam Jamison · coordinated the self-study effort of the Steering Committee, which produced a 240-page booklet outlining the policies, aims, and general state of affairs at Kirkland. The following are excerpts from sections of the book, including such information as we hope is not already common knowledge on the Hill: STUDENT AND FACULTY RESPONSE In the words of Candace Harris ( Class of '73) summarizing student response: The majority of Kirkland students feel that the situation of women should be emphasized in courses only where it is relevant. A very small percentage (7%) said that it should be emphasized e verywhere. (It is important to note that this percentage was largely made up of freshmen and sophomores.) Close to half (42%) said it should be emphasized nowhere. Of the majority that said the situation of women should be emphasized where relevant, some students commented that "only where relevant" meant, in effect, everywhere. Others commented that it meant emphasizing it nowhere. On the question regarding special attention to women in the curriculum,
the faculty responded almost exactly as the students. Only 8% of the faculty respondents said that all Kirkland courses should be taught with special attention to the situation of women. More than half the faculty (56%) chose the second option, which stated that "the situation of women should be emphasized only when it is particularly relevant to the materials studied.'' And a relatively large proportion (36%) said that the college should not emphasize the situation of women in the curriculum. DATA ON APPLICANTS Applications rose markedly for the class of 1973 as the new college became better known but fell off slightly the next year, perhaps because some of the novelty had disappeared but perhaps also because of the onset of national economic difficulties. Applications for the class of 1975 dropped sharply. Part of the cause here might well have been continuing economic problems, but there was a reason for discontent within the college at that time that might well have been the major cause. During the fall s em es ter of 197 0 - 71 d or m i t ory construction was drastically delayed by strikes in the building industry, and many students were forced to live in cramped quarters, some in rooms temporarily converted for use only that semester. Many students were very unhappy with this situation, especially the freshmen, and since freshmen have closer contact with their schools than upperclassmen, their unhappiness could well have been communicated to t h e i r. sch ools. Moreover, since more students left school that year than before,· there was need to admit a larger incoming class than usual. In any event, the phenomenon appears to have been short-lived. Applications for the class of 1976 rose to 767, a highe� figure than has been reached before. ...Matriculation figures show a steady increase in the number of students from public schools and a corresponding decrease in students from private schools. Of the class of 1972, 57% were from public schools and 43% from private schools. For the class of 1975 the corresponding figu res are · 69% and 31%. ...Comparatively speaking, Kirkland students come from highly educated families. On the average, 70% of the fathers and 55% of the mothers have completed at least a bachelor's degree, and at least 40% of the fathers and 20% of the mothers have graduate degrees. This background may at least in part account for the fact that at least 40% of the students who enter Kirkland indicate that they plan to earn at least a Master's degree, and 20% indicate a desire to
The Kirkland women are split three ways concerning their feelings about the advising system. 33% of the students were satisfied with the program, 32% thought it worked well though it had faults, and 36% were not satisfied. The responses according to class were close to each other except for the freshmen. Only 25% of the freshmen were satisfied with the program and 43% were not satisfied. The difference in responses between the freshmen women and other three classes may be attributed to the fact that upperclassmen who have been dissatisfied with their advisors, have since switched. By the end of the sophomore year, a student will have usually found an advisor who fills the student's needs. Also, senior and junior science concentrators were not as satisfied with the advising system as other students. Students who did have problems with the advising system attributed them to the following causes: (1) The advisor did not know enough about the _contents.of courses at Kirkland and Hamilton. (2) The advisor did not know enough about c o n c e n t r a ti o n or g r a d u at i o n requirements. (3)" The advisor was not sufficiently aware of my future plans and my total program. (4) The advisor is too often not available when I need advice. ...In responding to much the same set of questions regarding the advising syst em , the f aculty revealed less satisfaction than did the students. Only 3% expressed general satisfation with the system, 49%, however, said that despite its faults it works well enough, but 44% said that in general they were not satisfied with the system. ...When asked about specific problems, they agreed with the students that a major problem was a lack of information. 39% of the faculty said that they did not know enough about the content of courses at both coileges to be able to give sound advice, and 34% of the students agreed with them. Student and faculty - responses coincided at another point.
24% of the students reported that the advisor was too ofteri not available, and 21% of the faculry said that they did not have sufficient time to do a good job of a dvising. A larger faculty concern, however, (26%) was that the advisor gives students too much responsibility in planning their programs. Considering all problems with the system, however, 33% of the faculty reported that "generally speaking, I have enough information and time to do a good job of advising." EVALUATIONS The idea of innovation at least appeals to many students. When they were asked for their three major reasons for choosing Kirkland over other colleges, 77% answered that they chose Kirkland because it was a small college that offered .... small classes and an opportunity to become known to faculty members, but their next most numerous responses pointed clearly toward innovation. 50% said they came because Kirkland offers evaluations instead of grades; 51% said "because Kirkland is innovative"; and 38% said they came because Kirkalnd was different from most traditional colleges. ...On the same questionnaire the students gave strong support to the evaluation system. Although only 7% found .the evaluation system "completely satisfactory", 66% said they preferred it to any other systme of conveying invormation about academic work, and 71% believe that evaluations tell them more about their academic work than grades or pass-fail would. Moreover, 68% reported that they read their evaluations to learn of their strengths and weaknesses, not merely to rate their performance in their courses. When asked how many of their evaluations were helpful t.o them in understanding· their academic work, 46% reported.most", and 3 2% reported "some". ...When asked what they regarded as Kirkland's greates weakness and greatest strength, the students, not surprisingly, produced a great variety of answers. However, when these answers are reduced to essentials, a large majority of them point to the newness and innovative efforts of Kirkland. That is, the most commonly mentioned weaknesses have to do with constant change and flexibility and their disorganizing effects. And, c oncurrently, tlie most commonly mentioned strength is open-mindedness, and willingness to try new ways. It is not surprising to f"md some students who think that Kirkland is not as innovative as i t p rofesses · to be (therefore not
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innovative enough and others who regard it as too innovative. 'The faculty also responded to questions regarding innovation in general, the evaluation system, and student in itiative and responsibility in the academic program. When asked to choose three major ·features that had attrac�ed them to Kirkland as a place to teach� their answers to some extent paralleled those of the students. Although the largest number (49%) were attracted to Kirkland because it was "a small college that offered the opportunity to work closely with students," the next highest response was to innovative features. 41% were attracted to Kirkland because Kirkland was "innovative or different from most traditional colleges," and 41% ' were attracted by the flexibility of the curriculum ''by the considerable freedom in what courses I could teach and in how I could teach them." Initial faculty response to evaluations, however, differed from that of the students. Whereas 50% of the students were at tracted to Kirkland because of evaluations, only 10% of the faeulty listed evaluations as a major attraction. .. .When asked how their experience at Kirkland matched their expectations, 59% of the faculty indicated that they found teaching opportunities at Kirkland that they would not find at other colleges, while only 15% believed they would find the same kinds of satisfaction at many other colleges. When asked, in ligh t of their experience, what makes Kirkland an attractive place to teach, 72% cited "the opportunity and freedom to teach new and difficult courses," and 26% found attractive "the opportunity to create interdisciplinary studie·s." These responses do not indicate that Kirkland has succeeded as an innovative college, bu t they do indicate a potential for innovation in its academic structure. On the other hand, when asked what difficulties they have met in teaching at Kirkland, 49% assert that the educational goals of the college are not sufficiently clear, which does not suggest wide-spread agreement on educational philosophy. An d a whopping 80% say that they are a sked to spend too much time on non-academic matters, perhaps a reaction to the time required for the Assembly an d ot her functions o f college governance. STUDENT QUESTIONNAIRE If the College were forced to make a choice between maintaining or increasing high academic standards or maintaining or increasing diversity in its student body, which would you choosero2%-Kirkland should require high academic standards regardless of diversity. 11%-Kirkland should strive for diversity regardless of academic qualifications. 24%-1 don't know which I would choose. Kirkland attempts to offer a sound, academic, liberal arts program within the limits of its size and resources. On a scale of one to five (with one representing no satisfaction and five representing total satisfaction) how would you rate the academic program offered at Kirkland? t
- .8% 2 - 3.3% 3 - 32% 4 - 56% 5 -6% Kirkland officially encourages its students to engage in independent work for academic credit, yet some students feel they have been discouraged from in dependent studies. Generally speaking, what response have you received from your adviser or other faculty members re g a r d i n g i n d e p e n d e n t w o rk? 16 % S t r o n g l y e n c our a g e d 31% E n c o u r a g e d 4 4 % Neither en c o u r a g e d n o r d i s c o u r a g e d 5% S o m e w h a t d i s c o u r a g e d 1.3% Strongly discouraged. Kirkland is coordinate with Hamilton in the sense that both colleges share academic programs and supporting facilities. Part of coordination involves cross-registration in courses on both
Mr. Edger Johnson during dedication ceremonies last Saturday campuses. How many courses have you 80% I am asked to spend too much time supervision. taken at Hamilton!O - 9%; 1 - 13%; 2 on non-acad�mic matters. 10% All work during Winter Study 17%; 3 - 16%; 4 - 14%; 5 - 6%; 6 or 3% I am asked to spend too much time should be independent studies designed more - 22% . with students outside the classroom. and evaluated by the student. 13% The students at Kirkland are not 8% There should be no restrictions at Have you found any discrimination sufficiently oriented toward academic all; students should use the time as they against Kirkland students in Hamiton goals. please courses? 8% I have never taken a · 49% The educational goals of the · Hamilton course. 46% No discrimination College are not sufficiently clear. 32% Very little discrimination 8% A 33% (?ther. considerable amount of discrimination FACULTY QUESTIONNAIRE Now that you have been at Kirkland for awhile, how does your experience relate to your expectations? 5% Kirkland has li�ed up to all my expectations. 59% Although Kirkland has not lived up to all my expectations, it offers many v o c a t i o n a l a n d /or p ro fessio nal opportunities that I would not find at other colleges. 15% I enjoy working at Kirkland, but I believe I would find the same kind of satisfaction at many other colleges. 18% Kirkland has lived up to some of my expectations, but it is not as desirable a place to work.as it appeared to be. 3% Kirkland has not lived up to any of my expectations. In .light of your experience at Kirkland, which, if any, of the following make Kirkland an attractive place in which to work:Choose three. 26% The value that is placed on teaching. 72% The opportunity and freedom to teach new and different courses. 26% T h e oppor tunit y to create interdisciplinary studies. 28% The opportunity to help shape the curriculum of a new college. 54% · The · opportunity to work closely with students. 3 I% T he intellectual stimulation I receive from • �y relationships with students and/or colleagues. 15% The general educational goals of the College. 3% The opportunity to advance one's professional career. · 8% Other In light of your experience at Kirkland, which, if any, of the following make Kirkland a difficult place in which to work:Choose three. 8% I am asked to teach too many new courses. f>o/o l am asked to instruct too many students. 5% There is too much stress on new an<1 different ways of teaching. 28%· There is too much emphasis on teaching and not enough emphasis on research and. other related. professional activities. 28% Criteria for faculty reappointment, p ro m ot io n , and t en u r e are not sufficiently clear.
WINTER STUDY Student Response Do you think the month of January should be reserved fro some sort of winter study program different from the usual semester work? 44% Yes, January should be reserved for winter study, as it now is. 51% Yes, but the present program ought to be changed. 3% No, the month of January should be incorporated into the two semesters, making each semester longer. '4% No, January should simply be a month of vacation. If Winter Study is maintained as a seperate part of the schedule, what kind of activity should be pursued during that time? 0 The program should consist of courses run by the faculty. 78% .Faculty-run courses should be ayailable, but students should have the option of taking courses or doing independent work. 4% All work during Winter Study should be independent studies under faculty supervision. 6% All work during Winter Study should he independent studies designed and evaluated by the student. 12% There should be no restrictions at all; students should use the time as they please. Faculty Response Do you think the month of January should be reserved for some sort of winter study program different from the usual semester work? 5% Yes, January should be reserved for Winter Study, with no change in the present program. 64% Yes, but the program ought to be changed. 21% No, the month of January should be incorporated into the two semesters, making each semester longer. 5% No, January should simply be· a month of vacation. If Winter Study is maintained as a separate part of the schedule, what king of activity should be pursued during that time? 0 T he program should consist ·exclusively of courses run by the faculty. 67% but students should have the option of taking s u c h courses or doing independent work. 3% All work during Winter Study should be independent studies under faculty
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ROOT-JESSUP Root-] essup will co-sponsor a film and discussion with the Indochina Peace Campaign on Sunday, Oct. 15th in the Science Auditorium at 9:00. Featured will be "The Pentagon · Papers", an award-winning movie and a discussion chaired by John Froines, on the Chicago 7. There is no admission charge. DRAFT COUNSELING Susan Sacks is a qualified draft counselor. Anyone wishing to contact her can do so at Extension 4957. OXFORD-HAMILTON The Hamilton Debate Club will debate with the Oxford Debater's Union in the Chapel. The Parliamentary style exchange will take place on October p, 1972, at 8:30 PM. on the topic "America is a Sick Society.'' 1776 Tickets for the student production of 1776 will go on advance sale today, opposite from the main desk in Bristol. Prices are $.50 for students, $1.50 for non-students. Students who want good seats should get their tickets as soon as possible. McGOVERN COORDINATOR TO SPEAK Dr. Richard Wade, who was the coordinator for George McGovern in the New York State primary elections, will speak in the Physics auditorium, The urban histarian 's address will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday evening. THE WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS PRINCETON UNIVERSITY will interview men and women interested in ,careers in: - GOVERNMENT SERVICE URBAN PLANNING JOURNALISM ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ELECTORAL POLITICS POLICY RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS .ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT at Hamilton/Kirkland Colleges on Friday, October 20, 1972
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H-·K Health and Drug Comm. UJnnects Students with Center BY STEPHEN PERCY T h e H a m i l t o n -K i r k l a n d Student Health and D rug Advisory Committee has begun its second year as a liason between the college community and the campus health center. The primary function of the health advisory committee is to serve as an intermediary between college students and the health center. Any complaints students have about the health center staff or services should be made .known t o memb ers of the health c o m m i t t e e . Questions o r suggestions concerning the health center should also be made to the committee. At the committee's b i-m o n t h l y m e e tings a l l compla int s , q uestions and suggestions will be discussed and reports and suggestions will be made to the health ·center staff. This year, the. committee will publish a booklet concerning health problems and medical services offered on campus. The health advisory committee has sele cted a subcommittee to r e s e a r c h a n d p u blish a H a m i l t o n -K irkland h ealt h
FREE CHURCH Reverend Joel Tibbetts will be speaking on the topic, "The Luxury of Trust" at 11:15 A.M., Sunday in the Chapel.
booklet. The booklet will also and questions. Members of the inclo.de biographi�s of the health . Committ ee include Professor Sidney W ertimer, Chaplain Joel center staff. This subcommittee is also Tibbetts, Mrs. Jeanne Culkin, coordinating free distribution of R.N., Ms. Elizabeth Gilbert, Steve The Student Guide to Sex on Wagoner. '74, Jeffin Comins '75, Campus written by the Student Ellie Conklin '75, Jim Connally Committee on Human Sexuality '74, Roman Dobransky '74, Alan at Yale University. Dr. and Mrs. Friedman '73, Lisa Farnan '75, Phillip Sarrel, who received the Sue Levine '74, Jim Linakis '74, K i rkland C o l l ege President's Steve Percy '75, Bill Pum '74, Med als last year, served as David Stimson '74, Douglas Tom consultants to the students who '73, Bob Webster '74, and Jeff Wa ll a c e '7 5. P roblems and wrote the book. T h e H e a l t h A d v i s o r y questions concerning the health Committee, chaired by Steve center should be referred to Wagoner '74, meets bimonthly to members of the Health · Advisory Committee. discuss campus health problems
KIRKLAND YEARBOOK '72-'73? If any Kirkland student is interested in assuming the responsibility as editor of a '72-'73 Kirkland yearbook, please contact Chuck Flynn, box no. 1150. SEX DIGEST Coming soon for free distribution: The Student Guide To Sex on Campus, by the Student Committee On Human Sexuality at Yale University.
STUDENT SENATE FUND RULES
To all student groups funded by the Student Senate: Pleue take note of the following policy decisions established this year concerning aBocation of moneys: 1. Before any group may obtain money from its budget, an accurate membership figure must be presented to either Clyde Leff, Marty Hillsgrove,. Robby Brewer or John Osborne. This data must include both a total figure and the number of Hamilton and Kirkland members listed separately. 2. All requisition forms for allocations must be presented at least one week in advance of the date that the money is to be spent. Exceptions will be made only in extraordinary circumstances. To facilitate this process, requests will be taken on a regular buis each Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Spectator Office. Each group must have one authorized and one alternate member whose signature (and only whose signature) will be honored. It is recommended that these two people be the Treasurer and President of the group, respectiwly.
Thre·e Hainilton Students Nominated ·for Danforth 3. Under no circumstances will the past policy of establishing credit with
Three Hamilton students have received nominations for the Danforth Poundation Graduate Scholarship. They are Clyde Leff '7 3; Mark Richard '73; and Jack Thomas '72. A national program, Danforth Pellowships have been awarded by the Danforth Poundation since Kirner - Johnson Building 1952. The purpose of the program continued from page one is to give personal encouragement ass oci ation with the college and financial support to selected community since its early days. college s e n i o rs a nd recent Babbitt went on to speak of Mr. graduates who seek to become Johnson's contributions to the college teachers, and who are college "as a trustee, as an vitally interested in relating their associate and_ as a friend." Mr. educational plans to their basic Babbitt ended the ceremony by values. reading the plaque that will be In selecting Danforth Pellows, installed in the building. special attention is given to three T h e J oh ns on Building's areas: 1. Evidence of intellectual dedication was adjourned to the ability which is flexible and of second floor where tours of the wide range; academic achievement two buildings and a sherry which is a thorough foundation reception followed. Humane Society continued from page one 24 tku Serva he/she has it, but the Humane Society assumes responsibility if no owner can be found. In order to find a home for a puppy, it will David�. search off-campus since only Phone Clinton 853-2003 house-trained dogs are · allowed here. When dogs ruined th� $6 from the a>lleges 1D the fire-proof curtains at McEwen, the Utim Bus « Train Stations society replaced them. In these $6 from the colleges to the ways, the society is working to Oneida Colny Airport keep the animals at the colleges. $22 from the. mlleges 1D the Problems caused by animals at Syracuse airport Hamilton are more likely to jeopardize the position of all the 5 ride as cheaply as 1. animals on campus. Kirkland and H a m i l t o n h a v e d i fferent a pp roaches to pets. Whereas WEAVERS LIQUORS Hamilton is just beginning to tolerate the animals, Kirkland has "On the Square" al ways wel�omed them. The Humane Society is trying to effect Specializing in the largest a reconciliation, or at least a c o-d i r ectorship, because, says Selection of Imported, Domestic Hanin, "if Hamilton decides to get rid of pets, Kirkland would have and fine California Wines to �o; it's too much trouble if only one has them. And in a way, 8:30 am - 9:30 pw that would be hard, because Sam 853-5421 (Babbitt) loves animals." Students of c om parative Free Delivery animal regulations may notice that the ones here are adapted primarily from those of the MOSES FOOTE _ Humane Society in Missouri; this GENERAL STORE is Laurie Hanin's home state. But she also gleans ideas from national World Wide Arts and Imports organizations, and veterinarianf recommendati ons. In fa ct, Now featuring our new Hartwick College, in Oneonta, has GARDEN ROOM picked up the Hamilton-Kirkland method for regulating its animal Open 10-5:30 S�. 1-4 population. (For listing of rules see the Spectator, Sept. 29) As a subcommittee of the
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for graduate study. 2. Evidence of certain local businesses be accepted as just grounds for reimbursement. Mr. personal characteristics which are McDonald has been notified of this policy and will no longer accept "phone likely to contribute to effective call" requisitions, nor will we, the Senate. Furthermore, we wil immediately t eaching and to constructive request of those businesses extending credit that they discontinue this policy. It is to be cautioned to all groups that transgreaion of this policy will result in relationships with students. 3. responsible individuals absorbing their own expenditures. EVJdence of a concern for the relation of ethical or religious 4. No group funded by the student senate is to have an independent checking in Clinton or anywhere else. Violation of this policy will lead to the values t o disciplines , the account automatic assuption that any such group is independently endowed with educat ional process, and to consequence suspension of student senate allocations. academic and social responsibility. The applicants must be under 5. All profit made from investment of Senate moneys or me�bership fees of recognized and financed by the Senate shall be returned to the group's 30 years of age, and hold no more groups budget for its later use. (I.E., the money still properly belongs to the group than a baccalaureate, but planning but must stay with the business office). to enter graduate-school in the fall of 1973. They are also required to 6. It is expected that any requisition for moneys for purchue, travel, dining, etc. will be followed up with receipts whenever practical. take the Graduate record lodging, Furthermore, it is expected that each group will keep an inventory of all stock Examination Aptitude tests, that is available for public inspection. v e r bal and quantitative. The The above rules' are necessarily strict and noticeably harsher than in th·e a ward is $2025 dollars per past due to persistent abuse and/or mismanagement of budgetary matte� on a c ademic yea r , $ 2700 per · the part of many groups in previous years. If they appear to be unduly calendar year, and can be held bureaucratic, it is because laissez-faire has been the source of indiscriminate c o n c u r r e n t l y with other spending and personal aggrandizement (including personal capital gain) only too often. Hopefully, paper work notwithstanding, this system will in fact lead scholarships. to greater efficiency in the future. Student Senate, the Humane Society can usually deal directly w i t h a n y i n fractions or complaints. If it confirms a complaint, it can enforce certain corrective measures. The society can order an animal enclosed, leashed, or constantly accompanied by its owner. A student must get his pet off camp111 in fourteen days if
more than three complaints are confirmed and not rectified. The legal maneuver involved is simple: The society revokes an animal's registration, and the rules state that no animal may remain on campus without registration. Said Hanin, "A lot of people think of us as trouble-shooters. We're not out to get owners." The society's ''major concern is with
the animals," and most of its work is not judiciary. It is an °fuformation service, a medical service, an adoption service, a cat-out-of-tree service. Next year it is planning to bring a vet up to give vaccinations. The members also want to build an exercise n.ui in the Kirkland woods, where students could leave pets, in the care of volunteers, if they wanted to take a weekend t r i p. The society is getting spray-cans of repellent to protect furniture and curtains. Students can put any suggestions or grievances into the marked "Complaint Box" in the mail room at McEwen, or attend open meetings of the society held every Tuesday night, a:t 7:30 P .M·., in McEwenB. The Whole Earth Natural Food Store 2 College St. Open 10-- 6 Mon - Sat bulk grains, flour, seeds, nuts, vitamins, cereals, tea & much more
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. Editor's Note: Richard Kavesh is the former Montclair (New Jersey) skateboarding champion in both the downhill and slalom events. He placed 29th in the 1966 National Championship of Skateboarding held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the slalom events. Off the skateboard, he is a Government major, and an expert on Beethoven and hall hockey.
THE FINE ART OF SKATEBOARDING BY RICHARD A. KAVESH While looking through Hamilton's 1965 yearbook in the Health Center last week, I counted nearly ten photographs of fuzzy-haired Hamilton students skateboarding - doing slaloms and other tricks on driveways and sidewalks while bemused spectators looked on. Skateboarding was on the rise back then, and hit its peak in about 1966. Everybody took skateboarding quite seriously; klds worshipped skateboard heroes who could perform tricks which would send most who tried flying, doctors wrote in medical journals about "the skateboard knee" (usually the result of one too many attempted wheelies or moving 360's), and town after town irrationally banned skateboarding as a hazard to public safety and sanity. When skateboarding began to die, the thousands of knee injuries, countless permanent scars, and mass paranoia bore testament to the effect which skateboards had on the physical and spritual well-being of the populace. Will skateboarding come back ?Will today's nostalgia movement, which has made heroes out of Chubby Checkers, Elvis, and the Beach Boys once again, lead us back to the days of hanging ten, turning 360's and wipeouts? What major obstacles must be overcome before skateboarding becomes accepted again?The most important change must .be a change in attitudes, for most people still regard skateboarding as dangerous, skateboards as lethal weapons of destruction rivalling the ABM, and skateboarders as suicidal maniacs. In between a few fast runs down to Bristol a few weeks ago, I was talking to the leading scorer of Hamilton's hockey team about the relative dangers of skateboarding and ice hockey. ''Which is more dangerous," I asked, "skating around at amazing speeds with pucks flying at you at 100 miles per hour, or skateboarding? His reply was succinct: "Skateboarding." Now if a rugge� person like him was (and is) fearful of skateboarding (even though he is quite good on the board), it is quite logical that most people would be even more afraid. Subsequent interviews confirmed this. While skateboarding around· campus, I posed the following question to many people whose judgement I trusted: "Would you like to try a little skateboarding? Here are a few typical replies: "You're crazy." "I busted my knee on one in eighth gi-ade and haven't been on one since." "You know what you can do with your ball bearings." The people I talked to value their lives quite highly and believed that a ride on the skateboard would result in some sort of cataclysmic accident witlt potential loss of life and limb. Despite overwhelming popular opinion, skateboarding is not all that difficult, and the hazards to a good skateboarder are minimal, provided that he does not attempt to do anything too rash (such as attempting to hop a curb, climb stairs, or stand on the board with one's hands). Simply getting on the board and attempting to push yourself off to gain speed may be difficult at first, but after the initial tentative steps, confidence and skill start to build. Soon you can set up a slalom course in your hall - just throw a few books on the hall floor at strategic points, and skate in and around them - and then you can really start to gain speed, agility, and balance. Don't get discouraged by a few falls. They are, of course, natural at first; but even Bobby Orr, the best hockey player there is, had major difficulties skating at first. Like any sport such as hockey which places a premium on agility and balance, skateboarding requires a bit of time to gain the fundamental skills. Once you have learned how to skateboard, though, and feel the exhilaration of the fast, smooth downhill leading from behind Milbank to the Kirkland circle, the reckless thrill of playing frisbee football on skateboards on the main quad's roads, or the excitement of the slalom course in the Spectator office, your enthusiasm and enjoyment of skateboarding �ill grow immensely. A warning however: your first ride down College Hill Road is likely to be your last.
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The Hamilton Continentals evened their 19 7 2 gi-idiron record at 1-1 last Saturday, manhandling the Yeomen of Oberlin, 21-12. The Blues scored on a 66-yard drive on their first offensive effort, by a 42-yard TD pass-a lofted beauty down the right side lane from· QB Rob Winter to Kevin Snyder. With only 3 minutes and 35 seconds gone by in the 1st quarter, Hamilton had established the confidence and momentum that they were never to lose throughout the contest. The B l u e r u n ning game dominated the offensive drives, w hile. t he. g r e at ly-improving defense, led by LB.Andy Sopchak and the return of Maurice Turner at defensive end, stopped the Obies' running attack. The second Buff and Blue TD came on brillian running of halfbacks Sandy Macintosh and Vince Puleo, who put together a 61-yard march in 18 plays. Puleo plunged for the final yardage from the two just before the halftime gun sounded. Hamilton got their third score on a sparkling run by slotback K e v i n S n y d e r , the m a n responsible for the Blue's lone score in the opener against Rochester, returning a 45-yard kick off run. Early in the fourth quarter, with the Continentals up 14-12, inter faked a dive to halfback Gary Smith and handed the ball to flanker S nJder on the rarely-used end around. Kevin scampered 19 yards for the score. Bill Finan's third and final extra point attempt was perfect, putting the game out of reach, 21-12. The Continentals will square off at Hobart tomorrow afternoon against one of the East's small c o l l e g e p o w e r s , led by A l l -American halfback Don Aleksiewicz. The game will be broadcast over WHCL-FM by veteran announcers Kenny Marten and Thom Pirodsky, the pre-game show starting at 1: 15.
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Rooters Boost Slate to 3-2-1 Hobart, Union Latest Victims Williams Next Foe
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BY WOODY NA VIN The Twine Ticklers polished off both Hobart and Union, this past week, by scores of 3-0 and 4 -1 , r e s p e c t ive l y . T h i s accomplishment extends the Continental non-losing streak to four games. Di splaying a d e ter mined defense and an outstanding offense, the Hamilton hooters were able to humble the Hobart Statesmen on their own turf. On a day fit for a Gothic novel, the two teams grovelled gallantly, despite soggy sod and a miserable mist. Ray Terepka, '75, drew first blood for the Buff and Blue on a cross from Funky Follansbee '73 which the Hobart goalie dove over. Terepka tallied the second score on a similar play late in the first half. In the second half, Murray Danforth '76 picked up his first goal of his college career when he dished out a dastardly shot from 31 feet out, which drilled the lower left corner of the cag�.
Goalie Jeff Rose '73, along with defensemen Bob Hutton '73, Howie Johnson '74, and George Edwards '73, picked up their first shutout of the season. This week's "Muddler Award" goes to Bob Hutton who delivered the ball from the clutches of the goal on more than one occasion. An Honora ble Mention goes to George Edwards who will be on the injured list for at least one more game because of a proken phalanx which he sustained in the skirmish. T h e s q u a s hing of t h e Statesmen, a team that had previously tied RPI and beaten Harpur, was a real shot in the arm for the Continentals. Against the Garnets of Union College this past Wednesday, the Hamilto'n Netmen were able to display their winning ways in hi ghfalutin style. The highly touted Union squad was unable to contain the Twine Ticklers fire power. Although the Garnets have shown, by beating Rochester this
Polos· Post 2 Wins Can. Tourney Oct. 21
The Hamilton College Water Polo Club will compete in its first Hamilton had easily handled international invitational when it Colgate two weeks prior to the t r avels to Montreal for the Homecoming game in the Alumni weekend of October 21. Hamilton pool, but the squad Hamilton will be the only American team to f aced Saturday was much compete in a field of 12 other improved. Colgate actually led the t e a m s , i n c 1 u d i ng M cG il l sluggish Hamilton team during the University, Sir George Williams first half and the score was tied University and the University of 7-7 at the start of the third Montreal. · period. Then Hamilton displayed The event will. take place some fine passing and· team play Friday night and all day Saturday and outscored Col te 7-1, to lead ga an d will be the most stringent test 14-8 going into the fourth the once defeated club has faced quarter. The only score made in this season. the final period was a Colgate The club now boasts a record penalty shot. The game-control of 5 -1 which includes two squad for Hamilton did a good job victories of last week, a 31-4 win of keeping the ball out of their over Morrisville and a 14-9 defeat · end of the pool. of Colgate. High sco rers w ere Dave H a m i l t o n t r a v e l e d to Shapl and ' 74 and Bri an Morrisville expecting an easy win, Cavanaugh '73, both with six but the team was surprised to find goals, while a single go.al was itself ahead by just 5-3 after the credited to Judson '73 and John f i r s t q u a r t e r . Following Needham '75. inspir ational talk given by Hamilton finds itself with a Faculty-Advisor Eric McDonald, busy weekend, for the team must the Blue and Buff Squad held the travel to Hamilton, N .Y. to face opponents scoreless until the final colagte before their Homecoming quarter. Everyone managed to crowd and t h en travel to score, excepting goalies Jeff Binghampton on Sunday where Carlberg '75 and Lester Lannon there will ,he a triangular meet '7 5; the h igh scorer- was between Hartwick, Harpur, and defenseman Brad Johnson '75 Hamilton. with 9 l!Oals. Clinton
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Jim Campbell '73 scoring against Union NAVIN season, that they are a tough team, they proved to be no match for the Buff and Blue. Jim Campbell '73 struck first BY ED WATKINS for the Soccsters, when he fired There are some sports that are forth an all important garbage better left to the professionals. the south door of the Pub through goal in amongst a squammish of Not everyman c an go crashing w h ich a sudden flanking players. Lineman Nat Follansbee over the goal or break downcourt movement may be executed; the '73 tacked on a second Buff and for the fast break. For the winging doors located there Blue tally on a long, looping cross common man though, a number serving as a means to clear a path from the right side which just of interesting games exist which into the heart of the bar area. floated over the head of the prove just as challenging as the Once each group has gotten a Union goalie. beer, the real struggle begins; one-s the big boys play. Union picked up its one point One such ''minor" sport exists possession. of the all important of the afternoon after Jeff Rose right on the Hamilton campus. tables. With:out a table, no group '74 d eflected the spherical Breaking upon the scene last year can last for long in the Pub. checkerboard out of bounds. This it has already attracted some of The fight for tables is governed set up a corner kick which was the more notable minds and by only two rules: physical handsomely headed into the bodies on campus. Yes, sports v iolence i s forbidden and Continentals' goal. The first half f ans, the game is none other than excessive throwing of be er is scoring was finally capped off by the '' Pub Game", also known as f r o w n e d u p o n a s b eing another 31 ft. shot by Murray "Dying in Line for a Beer.'• detrimental to the best interest of Danforth '76 which the Garnet The origins of the game came the game. goalie missed. about last September when a Mental intimidation is used by Hamilton's halfbacks, both the severe overcrowding of the Pub both sides with the H.C.'s favoring first and second groups, did- a · first occured. The clientel soon the playing of a few key selections great job of bringing the ball into divided into two factions: the on the jukebox such as D9 in scoring r ange for the Netmen. H a r d - c o r e r s a n d th e order to drive the P .D .'s back to Inside, Danforth received an assist Pseudo-drinkers. The H.C.'s were their home bunkers across the on the Shooters' fourth goal the heavy five beer and popcorn street where over a peace pipe which was driven in by Jim group while the P .D.'s never had they can attempt to understand Campbell '73. That goal was more th an two on even the . why such irrelevant, reactionary Cam pbel l 's s ec o n d of the wildest of nights. spirit as the H.C.'s possess still afternoon. C'onflict between �e two exists. W e d n e s d a y ' s '' O o o - a h groups arose over access to the bar The P.D.'s, when on the Award"-an award issued to a and tables of the Pub. By the end offesive, light a joint to firce the player whose playing elicits the of the first semester, the aim and H . C . 's to find sanctuary most Ooo's and Ah's from the rules of the game had been well somewhere else where they can crowd- is shared this week by defined. dream of better days when the Howie Johnson '74 and Nat The aims of the game are to Pub was half empty and women, Follansbee '73. The partial judges obtain a key position on the bar real women, were only seen on noted that both players showed line and to keep control of one of rolles. fearlessness when diving head-first the strategically important tables. Who wins the Pub Game? at the air bound ball. Bar position is won either by Neither the H.C.'s nor the P.D.'s • Williams College is the site for sending a small raiding party retain the title for any length of this Saturday's tilt. The top through the main, west door of time. The now traditional rivalry seeded Williams squad will be the Pub, p�t the professional stands at 103-76-3 in favor of the facing a determined Continental obnoxiers who inhabit the pin-ball H.C.'s. Next match? Friday team that not only has proven its and jukebox region and from October 13. Stop down; amateur ability to play excellent soccer, ther�e�ch the bar. H C.'s prefer competition is 'at its best. ..: but also has built up momentum over the last four games.
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Accreditation Team Supports. Kirkland BY PAULA KLAUSNER Ernest Lynton, chairman of lhe Middle States Association t-Ommission on Higher Education learn for the evaluation of Kirkland for accreditation, stated n a brief address to the Assembly meeting on Monday, October 16, 1 primary goal of the evaluation �rocedure: •� whole business of accreditation is a process by which, most importantly, an nstitution can take stock of itself, clarify its goals, a nd by iclf-evaluation, see how far it has come in the realization of these ioals." Mr. L yn to n , Dean a n d �of essor of Physics a t Livingston College, Rutgers University and lhe eight other members of the Middle States Association team were visitors on the Kirkland f.ampus from Sunday, October 15 !hrough Wednesday, October 18, ooserving classes and speaking with· faculty, administration, and rodents. The compilation of their aitical evaluations of Kirkland's 1:ademic conditions coupled with (irkland's own self-evaluation mat Mr. Lynton referred to, ronstitutes the final report and �commendation to the Middle !tates Association that will lete r m ine Ki r k an<l ' s 1:creditation. Thro ughout the t ea m ' s ria!uation, much stress i s placed on the contents of Kirkland's HO-page s e l f-s tudy r e port roorclinated by Kirkland Professor filliam Jamison, and begun in j m. The team studied the tlf-evaluation, which outlines �Is, policies, and student and bailty opinions of Kirkland's aate of affairs, and the team's '1ll'J)Ose, according to Lynton ns, "to try to get to know the rollege in terms of the self-study, � try to achieve some educated, jisc r i m i n a t i n g o ut si de r's �dgement, and to clearly mirror" lirkland's achievement of its own
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"Yo u c a n n o t measure tducation" asserted Mr. Lynton as ne emphasized the Middle States hsoc i ation 's reliance on
qualitative criteria as basis for judgement. Excellence in fulfilling set directives is the most basic requirement for accreditation. In the words of team member Ms. Anne Carey Edmonds, Librarian at Mount Holyoke College, ."We were given no quantitative rules for judgement. H a school's purpose is to make wheelbarrows, then it shall be judged on the quality of its wheelbarrows." The team will draft a report that is then to be sent to the College. Response elicited by that document will be returned to the team and incorporated into the summary . report that then is examined by the Middle States Association for the final decision. The Association has three possible actions it can take: accreditation (accorded by virtue of excellence only), provisional accreditation ( deferred until the college has more satisfactorily achieved its goals), or denial of accreditation. Since the team is to examine a variety of aspects of the college, the nine members are chosen to demonstrate a balance of people representing these various aspects. Thus, the team includes such diverse members as Earl H. Kurtz, t r easurer of Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania; Lawrence L. Pellitier, President of Allegheny College; and, for the first time in the A ssociation's history, a student, Ruth Ann Parrish, a pre-med anthropology major from Bryn Mawr. All team members must have in common some experience with the type of institution under consideration. Concensus of the visiting group is generally -quite favorable to Kirkland. Among criticisms voiced was that by Ms. Mary McPherson, Dea n o f the Undergraduate College and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr, who questioned Kirkland's seeming failure to draw or produce more sc ience majors and pre-med students. One member discussed the lack of female physicians or psychologists in the Health Center. The team's main criticism was that Kirklan.� do�s not entirely continued on page three
Accreditation team dines with members of the Kirkland Community
/('land Funding Committee AllotsM oney foActivities BY RANDY DAVIS The Kirkland Student Funding Committee has been appointed for this year by the Steering C o m mit tee. The funding Comm ittee consists of four students and two faculty members with the Dean serving ex offido. The Committee's purpose is stated in the Student Assembly booklets as follows: "The Committee shall be empowered to recommend the allocation of student activity funds among various Kirkland and j o i n t K i r k l a n d-H a m i lton organizations of individuals who. shall make requests for these funds...The recommendations of t h i s c o m mittee s h all b e transmitted to the administrations upon approval by the Assembly." The Committee for 72-73 consists of the following students and faculty: Debbie Aidun '75, Claire B rown '76, Assistant Professor of History Bill heund, Patricia Moulton '73, Associate Professor of Pain ting Peter Ost uni, and Suzie Radus '76.
flam. Ad •Hoc Comm. Promotes lnter·est in Student At hfetics
BY KEN GIVENS Director o f I nt ercollegia!e Athletics Eugene M. Long, at the 111ggestion of Hamilton President john W. Chandler, bas formed an 1d hoc committee to promote interest i n H a m il t o n C ollege am o n g p r o s p e c t i v e rtudent-athletes. Th e m e m b e r s o f t h i s impromptu g r o u p a r e: Joh n Effinger, A ssistant Director of Admi s s i o n s; Tony W o o d in , Director o f Alumni A f f a i rs; Orville Goplen, Assistant Director of Pu blic Relations; Eugene Long, Director of Athletics; and Dennis Oakes '73, captain of the 1raek team. Si nce i t s i n ception in early 1cptember , the committee has
met weekly with the firm belief that H�ilton's athletic program s h a l l n o t c o l l a p s e a s h as H a v e r f or d 's operation . T h e m e e t i ng s have produced substant i ve p roposals _whereby m or e studen t -athletes may be introduced to t h e Admissions Committee for consideration. Most prominently, the ad hoc c o m m ittee believes that t he activities of the revitalized Block H C l ub will serve the increased a d m i s s i o ns of qualified student-athletes. Dennis O akes, a member of the B l oc k H , commented that the e n t husiasm of the club is encouraging and that Block H will pr ovide the A d m is s i ons Office with student interviewers
and campus tour guides. The ad hoc committee hopes a l s o t o i n s t i t u te·a formal organization with the Alumni Council. Oakes pointed out that many young Alumni want to he Ip the College but cannot do so financially. Such Alumni can con t r i b ute signi fica n tly by introducing student-athletes to t he campus. As a result of this p roposal , Di rector of Alumni Affairs Tony Woodin has invited Alumni to attend the Union football game with students who have potential as scholar-athletes. Another project prop<;>sed by the ad hoc committee is the inviting of selected high school athletic directors and coaches to Continued on 1)age six.
The Committee is responsible for a budget of approximately $4,000 allotted by the Kirkland Administration. According to the charge of the Committee, the allotment of these monies is s u b j ect to t he f ollowing limitations: 1. Group rather than individual activities are to be funded. 2 . Continuing· activities rather than singular events are to be funded. 3. Exceptional cases are to be dealt with according to their own merit. 4. Recommendations for the disbursal of unallocated monies are to be provided by the
Kirkland Assembly at their last meeting of the year. Since the first meeting of the Committee is still unscheduled; there are as yet no indications as to• how the money will be. allotted. However, the allocations of 71-72 are available and appear below. Attention has recently been focused on the point that the fun d ing Committee has no specific provisions to assure equal and just distribution of funds concerning joint Hamilton and Kirkland projects. The Steering Committee introduced a motion at the Assembly Meeting of April Continued on page six
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She is a woman. Her childhood was spent under the dominat;on of her father, who inhibited her from doing many things she wanted to do ("girls from this town don't get uppity ideas about going to college''). Her family was'of rather modest circumstances. She married a young man of equally modest' circumstances who-to the surprise of everyone including her-made $9,000,000 on a fortunate patent. Despite a felicitous union of 40 years, they never had �y children, to their great regret. Her husband, who had attended Princeton on a scholarship, recently became totally disaffected with that institution when it pegan admitting women students. He dropped Princeto� from his will. Her husband passed to his reward last year, leaving his entire estate to her. She is convinced that the ''women's rights" crusade of her young womanhood is the unfinished business of today's young women. Barnes & Roche, Inc. Fund-raising Consultant Philadelphia
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.DEADLINE NEAR FOR ABSENTEE VOTING The application deadline is rapidly approaching for students who are planning to vote by absentee hallo\. Applications for absentee ballots must be sent to county boards of elections and postmarked no later than October 31. · To request an application for an absentee ballot� a student must write to his county board of elections and state that his duties as a student will keep �im out of his home county on election day. He • must also include his home address, his- current mailing address and his signature. JUNIOR YEAR ABROAD Junior Year Abroad meeting for interested Kirkland students and faculty will be held on Wednesday, October 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Coffee House. FREE CHURCH Colin Miller , former Dean of the Hamilton Chapel, �ill preach in the Free Church service this Sunday at 11:15 a.m. in the Chapel. His topi_c is "Don't Blame Your Parents." The Hamilton College Choir will take part in the service. Nursery care for young- children is available in the second floor· television lounge in Bristol. FRESHMAN COUNCIL 1972-73 , Members Michael E. Cannon, John F. Coffin IV, V. Douglas Errico,Jeff A. Feingold, Paul K. Johnson III, Robert E. Kaplan, Bruce A. Lieberman, Robert S. Morris, Alan H. Silverman, Craig E. Sonnenberg, Richard M. Thomas, Joseph D. Wachspress, Horace W. Whiteley III, Dana Wiseman. Alternates Horace A. Gioia, Jr,., Robert L. Howe, David E. Church, Stephen T. Ayres, Gary J. Pandolfi, George G. Petrie, Doug M. Spirduso, Charles H. Tint, James E. Giarra, Mark C. McMurray, Walter M. Lipman. Student Advisors Michael J. Murphy, Walter B. Taylor, Peter J. Spellane, Philip D. O'Neill, Jr., Ralph P. Stocker, Daniel W. Diggs, Eugene C. Malarsky, pavid B. Smith, Craig M. Fallop, Corwin J. Carr, Ciyde M. Leff�. Willie E. Williams, Joseph 0. Reagan, Charles Liebling . GRADUATE SCHOOUNTERVIEWS The following representatives will be on campus during the next several days. If you are interested in scheduling an interview with any of these sign up in the Career Center, Dunham basement. NYU Law School: Mon., Oct. 23, 9:30-11:30. Discussion of the actuarial ·. profession: Tues., Oct. 24., 1 p.m. U. of Penn., Wharton Graduate Division: Wed., Oct.,25, 2-.5. Rutgers U. Graduate School of Business: Wed., Oct. 25, 9-5. Syracuse U."School of Management: Thurs., Oct. ·26, 9-5. U. of Rochester Graduate School of Management: Thurs., Oct. 26, 1:30-5. Washington and Lee Law School: Fri., Oct. 27, 2:30-4:30., Yale Law School: Mon., Oct. 30, 2:30-4:30. STUDENT CONCERT IN CHAPEL A concert by students of Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, featuring woodwinds, brass, voice and piano, will be presented next Tuesday, October 24, in the Hamilton Chapel at 8:.30 p.m. It will be open to the public at no charge. Performing groups will include the Hamilton-Kirkland Woodwind Ensemble, Clarinet Choir, and Clarinet Quartet, all direct"ed by·John Flaver of the Hamilton music faculty, and th_e Hamilton Brass Ch_oir under the direction of Professor Stephen Bonta. Soprano Barbara · Armbruster will sing, accompanied by David Herzog on the oboe and' Henry Berman at the piano. A solo by Berman is also on the program. MERCY HUMPPE/HIERONYMOUS MEAKIN The movie you've --allbeen waiting for is here - "Can Heironymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?", written, starring, and directed by Anthony-Newley. Worth seeing if only for the locale - the_ beautiful, sunny isle of Malta.(Home of Zammit) Fri.;Sat _., and·Sun.-..:... 8:00 Chem.Aud.
HON_Oa:1-COURT F'ROSH NOMINATIONS'-' Petition forms for Freshman. Honor, Court, ·Freshman Student Senate and Senior .Class ·President.. can. h�; pick�" up. in Root 7:,. ·Petitions- must be signed by-fifteen students �d sent to:Robert Hoar. .. Box.989 Campus Mai-l'by Tue$. Oot.· 2A. Election�will be,held at the · end-of this m�nth. . · 0
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HAMILTON�KIRKLAND DRU.G·BOARD
There will be a very. important meeting of the Hamiton-Kirkland Health and Drug Advis_o ry Board. It will. take pJac_e on Wednesday, October 25, 1972 at 7�30 p.m. in the Brown Room of the Bristol Campus Center. If there are _any. _questions,_ please contact ·steve_ · __,._ Wagoner at Ext. 7264. ,
ROOT-JESSUP LECTURES
James H. Donovan, incumbent New York St�te Senator, 44th District, will be speaking in the Chapel on Wednesday, ·october 2.5 at 4:00 p.m. His opponenti n the election, Bernard Plahaty, wiil speak Thursday, October 26 in the Chapel at :4:00 p.m.
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Student Representation This summer the Hamilton Student Curriculum Committee finally took the initiative to ask for student representation on the Committee on Academic Policy (which includes nine Hamilton faculty, the Dean of the College, and the President ex officio). The CAP has responded by allowing students to attend meetings of certain subcommittees. The Student Curriculum Committee has been asked to i n d i c a t e i n w hich of the e ig ht subcommittees they would like to take part: l)' Winter St\ldy; 2) Academic Coordination; 3) .Registration·; 4) Board of Advisors; 5) Honors Program; 6) Goals of the College; 7) Independent Study; and 8) Kirkland courses towards a Hamilton degree. The Student Curriculum Committee has, in return,� asked to have two student rep resentativ e s , ( one a Curriculum Committee representative approved by the Student .Senate, and one a Student Senate rep r e s e n t a t i v e) to a ttend each s u b c o m m itt e e m e e t ing t hat is n o n-co n fidential. The C u r riculum
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Committee agrees that students should not be v�ting members of the Committee on A c a d emic Policy. The C urriculum Committee agrees with the CAP that at Hamilton, students should not be able to commit faculty members to a certain course of action through voting rights in the CAP. In the past,. the Curriculum Committee has failed to seek out and accept responsibility in the academic decision making process of the college. We feel that the faculty should acknowledge this new sense of responsibility on the part of Hamilton students by allowing them to ·a t t e n d m eet in g s not c o n sidered confidential in each of the eight categories. We expect the student representatives to realize the importance of their attendance at all subcommittee meetings they are asked to attend. Perhaps after the students have d emonstrated. the ability .to participate responsibly, the faculty will display its trust in students by asking for greater input.
and there is no excuse for a system of health care which m akes n o provisions for a situation such as I have described. I request that some action he taken by the Health and Drug Advisory Committee and/or the H a m i l t o n - Kirkl and administrations to correct the situation. Sincerely, Ruth Schachter ,,73
Spectator on behalf of the student body, wishes to thank those students who aciously opened the Pub for business Saturday night when the regular staff did not appear to turn on the taps, start the music and rake in the money. We thank all those who ·contributed to the College by paying for free.beer.
To the Editor: On October 14, at about 1:30 A.M., I was hitching up the hill alone from Clinton. The man who picked me up was drunk and refu�ed to stop the car and let me out at the Kirkland road. A little To Our Subscribers: farther up College Hill Road, I If you did �ot receive the first copies of the Spectator please let jumped out of the moving car. . us know which ones and we will send them to you. The maili" Then I crossed the street and ng _ _ agency did not inform us when they had not received enough copies banged on the door of the nearest to supply ��I our subscribers. house, which happens to belong to Mr. and Mrs. Mattingly. Mr. Mattingly let me in and called the Health Center with the report that he had an incoherent, hysterical Kirkland student at his home NUMBER SIX whom he thought had been VOLUME THREE First published as ..The R ad iator" in 1848. attacked and needed medical attention. · The response from the Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor H e a l t h C e nt er w a s "No". Apparently neither of our doctors Elizabeth Kneis�I Peter Zicari could travel up College Hill Road Associate Editors for a .''house call".- I contend that Henry Glick, Robert Keren, Kenny Marten, Maria Zammit , such a response is inexcusable. In · , · · Assistant Editon fact, later when the two state Carol Goodman, Paula Klausner, Kathy Livingston ,... troopers who had been summoned Sports Editors did.:,take ,me to thc..Hea-lth-.Center, , · .-Graig Fallon, David. -S�apland I received rrrst: aid from die nurse Arts Editor and ·.a. lectµre on · the dangers of Richard Kavesh hitching · from . Dr. Pienk.owski Managing Staff (who seemed extremely annoyed Linda Anzalone, Ken Gross, Robin Ha_ck, Liz Horwitt, Patty that he had been asked to come. to Jaffe, Taki Lamson-Scril;mer, Tony -Mazzarella, Connie Miner, the infirmary at s�ch an unseemly Betsy Murray, Susan Sternberg hour o f the :morning.) Dr. Pienkowski is reported to have Business Staff psychiatric training • yet I found J1m Noonan,'Jeff Pearse.; Bruce Thaler· the student volunteer in the Photography Heald) C�nter much more able to John Ehrlich (Captain), Dave_. Nat Barber Wendy . calm me down. Goodman, Woody Navin, Dave Cantor, Bruce Wrigley · I do not think it is at all Staff · . unreasonable to expect the Health Vijay Murgai Steven Applegate, Lorraine Blank, Ed Catlin, Center to respond immediately to Jon Cramer, Vincent DiCarlo, Anne Finelli, Jennifer Freeman, a call for help such as the one Jan Gehorsam, Jim Giarra, Ken· Given, Doug Glucroft, Garrett they received Friday night from a Hayner, Gordon Kaye, Louis Levenson, Jim Ludwig, Jim March, member of the Hamilton College Beth Martin, Michael Murphy, David Nemens, Lisa Newell, faculty. Although I was lucky Dennis Oakes, Lynn Pannel, Thomas Pirodsky, Steven Polakoff, enough not to be seriously injured Judy Prager, Chip Presutti, Skip Roessel, Roy Schecter, Judy (nor was there . any attempted Sillari, Douglas Singer, Linda Smuckler, Scott Toop, Joan rape) I was frightened, hysterical, Tuchman, John Vigren, Isagel Weinger, Elaine Weiss, Bob Weisser. and bleeding from various scrapes The Publications Board publishes "Th� Spectator," a newspaper and cuts. No one knew that I was edited by students, 29 times during the academic year. not seriously injured, least of all Subscription: $7.00 per year. Address: Box 83, Hamilton Colle�e, Clinton, New York, 13323. Letters to the editor must the staff of the Health Center. • • .. / � ' be signed, but names'wm be wi'thhefd'upon request. •••••••••• This is a small college community
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Hamllton Horizons Set on College Hill BY JEFF FEINGOLD In 196 8, President Chandler d eve loped a pr ogram called "Hamilton Horizons" aimed at giving alumni and their wives an opportunity to take a firsthand look a t t h e college t od ay ; including curricular changes, the iuality of the institution and student attitudes. Director of Al u m ni Tony Woodin '65 described the process of choosing alumni as one that picks those who would. · take a specia l interest in visiting the scho o 1 again and wou ld be interested in having a "firsthand look a t w h a t 's going o n ." Woodin said that pro fessors, administrators, and other alumni are asked to r ecommend men who would be interested in the program and from that they comp ile a list of interested �umni. Horizons is different from the ordi n a r y r e u n i o n s a n d hom e c o m i n g , accord i ng to Woodin. He said that the alumni arc particularly interested to find thanges in Hamilton and how tnese changes affect the college ll the alumni remember it. Hor izons par ticipants are a
m i x e d g r o u p - t e a c h e rs , cl ergy men, b us inessmen, older and younge r - who visit the school in the fall (there are two visits, one was October 12-14 and the next is November 2-4). Us ual l y the a lumni participate once i n t he Horizons program. They visit classes, meals, and meet with adm inistrators and faculty to discuss the changes in the school through the years. T h e w eekend of October 1 2-1 4 was thi s y ear's first Hamil t o n Horizons progr am. A b o u t 3 5 a l u m ni at tended d ifferent meetings and classes such as a t a l k w i t h President Cha n d ler and a discussion with D e a n K u r tz a b o u t t h e curric u l u m . The Al umni take interest in speaking with students about changes and h ow they affect them . Mr. Woodin said t h a t t h e al umni were "appreciative of the opportunity ACCREDITATION to speak with the students." continued from page one Most- a l u m ni e xpressed the live up t o its own definition of a feeling that t he school hasn't· women's college. The committee really ch anged pmch, but the will elaborate on this point in its changes that were made were final report. "for the better." Mr. Woodin Though critical questions were s a i d t h a t H o rizons was a n raised by. all of the team members, a t tempt to "bridge the gap one impression common in the
GOODMAN group .was expressed by Mrs. to seem to have found here the Martha Nichols, Dean of Students education that they had hoped at Goucher College; "I am very · for. They have found that things m u c h i m p r e ssed b y the academically are much as they intellectual adeptness, and the were represented to them-before awareness of the majority of the their arrivals. I sense that this students that I've met of the college has a great, not yet fully philosophy and goals of Kirkland. realized, but rapidly realizing Most women that I have spoken potential.
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Crisis Cen ter Offers Referrals: ortion, Draf t, Drug s, Legal Aid
BY EMILY REID O f t h e Hamilton-Kirkland community ue now able to get help for almost any problem through the campus Crisis Center, extension im. The center, located in the sicond floor of the Rudd Health linter, offers a 24-hour service. Students can come to or call �e Crisis Center for referral on iuch p r o b l e m s a s d r u g s , aoortion s , the draft, legal aid, ind psychological problems. The tmter offers information on the 11pr opriate agenci es i n the iurround ing area, and possible _alte r n a t i v e s . A s a
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OCTOBER 20, 1972
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BY AARON BURR AND ALEXANDER HAMILTON The popular musical 1776 will be performed on the Hill over Parent's Weekend and November - ijouse Parties. The performances will be on Oct. 19, 20 and 28 at 8:00 p.m., and Oct. 21 and November 4· at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are priced at 50 cents for students and $1.50 for non-students. Performances will _be held in Hamilton Colle&_e's Chapel.. The · m u s i cal covers the emotions and events that led to the . drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Via words and music, 1776 describes in detail the characters of the statesmen who were directly involv_ ed with the Declaration. The main character is John Adams, a n influential lawyer from Boston who is obsessed with the idea of forming a new nation from Great Britain's American colonies. Adams spends the better part of the play arguing, pleading, arid plot ti ng w a y s to get th� Continental Congress to declare independence. _ Othq important characters include Dr. Benjamin Fr an klin, J o h n D i c keris o n , E·dward Rutledge, ThomasJefferson,John Hancock, and Abigail Adams. F r a n kl in , a highly effective member of Congress, is a major influence in the forming of America as a sovereign nation.
represents the portion of Congress wishing to form a peaceful re conciliation with Engl and. Rutledge presents the Southern colonies' position to the Congress. He suppqrts the sovereignty of each colony, and the maintenance of slavery as indispensible to the Southern economy. Jefferson, a Virginian farmer, statesman and architect, is the sensitive and b r i 11 i a n t a u t h or .of t h e Declaration. John Hancock is a delegate from Massachusetts who, though favoring independence, must remain impartial in his capacity as President of the Congress. Abigail Adams is a strong-willed woman who helps to keep her husband's spirit- alive in the face of opposition. Supporting characters include such Congressmen as aged but l i v e l y S t e p h e n H op k i n s , buffoonish Richard Henry Lee, and Caesar Rodney, the delegate from Delaware who leaves his deathbed to fight for American independence. The coveted part of John A d a m s w i l l p e played by Hamilton senior Kevin Groppe. A talented singer and able actor, Mr. Groppe has been in many other Hamilton productions, for which he has received high praise. John Dickenson will be portrayed by L a w r e n c e W ing e r t . T his demanding role is handled with a d m i r a b l e aplomb b y Mr. Wingert's powerful yet sensitive interpretation of the -part. Thomas Jefferson will be acted by Ralph Stocker, another Hamilton senior.
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You dance, and see yourself as dancer: A flux of limbs in time. Your reason rests upon an answer That calls the clay sublime. You meditate, and make your mind And body harmonize: A synthesis of graces twined, As ocean greens your eyes. You yearn, and passion makes your face A songbird's honest ahswer. Perhaps, _ in a dif ferent time and place you've been a temple dancer.
Mr. Stocker was last· seen in the leading role of �hakespeare's "Taming,of the Shrew," for which he won universal praise. The part of John Hancock will be played Qy Fred Goehner, an extremely talented and competent actor. Mr. Goehner's last stage appearance was as the "01' Time President" in H a m ilton's p r o d u c ti o n o f "Indians". 1776- is under the codirection of Peter Brandon Bayer and Peter. W. Sluys, both of whom are sophomores at Hamilton. Mr. Sluys will also be playing the part of Benjamin Fran klin in the production. 1776 promises t<:> be one or the finest theatrical endeavors at Hamilton in man y years; and, it represents the first attempt at staging a full-scale musical in . nearly a decade.
Nobel Prize Winner ��snow Country" Creates A Heeting & Sensutn · W()rld v i sion." The s e t t ing of Snow BY BILL SONG Di f f e r e n t a e s t h e t i c Country is a Japanese hot-springs p h i l o s o p h e rs have tri e d to mountain resort in winter, where a m an a t t e m p t s '-to disconnect e s t a b l i s h t ie s o f a c om m o n himself f ro m his ordinary life se n s i b i lity b etwee n the arts. a nd c apture the seeming purity N e o - c l a s s/i c s .f a v o r e d t h e of t h.e mountain and -t.he snow comparison of poetry with the and their women. mimesis of their painting, while The novel is one of sensual t h-e 19th century Romantics m o ods; where the flush of skin fa·v ored relating the sp iritual at the touch of a finger or the d i s embodiment of music to .the✓ sound of snow freezing fills your spontaneous effusions of poetic entire consciousness, so that it is f ee l ing . Y a su nari Kawabata , a l l y o u s e e o r h e a r . Your winner of the Nobel Prize for re action to this is that you are Literature in 1968, has created a per ceiving a world of unreality, work of literature which shares a emphasized by Kawabata's use of common s e n s i b i l ity of feeling mirror and reflection imagery, as w i t h the arts of poetr y a nd if the entire world was suspended painting. · and p r e s erved with one of the In writing Snow Country, .he tiny icicles clinging to the caves w a s probably unaware of either o f t h e h o u s e s in t h at small I m p r e s s i o n i s t i c p ai n t i n g or m ou ntain village. This created Samuel Johnson's theories about world and its characters leave the poetry, but it is to his credit as sensual impact of a painting like an artist that this' work can cross T h e River b y M onet, with its t h e c o n v e n t i o n a I d i v ision interplay o f sunlit atmosphere ·b e t w e e n t h e _ a rt s to f in d a and w ater. There is a sense of uni f y i n g u nd er standing among immed iacy, yet fleetingness, in them. b o t h wo r k s , as though t h eir W . C. Seitz remarked that, to wor l d s will o n l y w i thst and a t h e Imp re s s io n i s t i c p a i n t e r , qu i c k g l ance before they melt "r eflections became a means of and disappear. shaki!)-g__ �ff _the world assembled_ The novel, Snow Country, is a .by memory in favour of a world very short one, and this adds to per,c.ei v�d mom entarily by the the feeling t ha t it i s almost se nses. In reflections the artices poetry. The work is composed of so imp o r t a nt ·to workaday life conver sation and imagery so a r e t r a n s f ormed i n to abstract d e l i c a t e l y i n terwoven t hat a eleme nts in a w or l d o f pure m oment a r y , hesitant pause in
d i alogue will freeze and expand i n y o u r m ind , yet a lmost be considered essential to preserve t he rhythm and balance of the entire country, much as a caesura does in a poetic line. O ne of Sa muei Johnso n's char acters, Imlac, st<!ted that a poet is to represent only t�ose "vi sual qualities of mass, form, c olor , and light" to create and preserve the mood of the object perceived by him. A poet is "to exhibit in his portraits of nature s u c h p r om i n e nt and s t r i k ing features, as recall the original to every mind." It is Monet who will deliberately distort a figure, c I arify ing some obj e c t;; a nd i n d i c at i ng o ther s only in a cursory way. The effect is one of fleeting impressionism. K a w a b a t a s i m i l a r ly has w o r k e d w i t h forms and i m p r e s sions - snow, the m ount ai n , the night sky - and internalized t h e i r e f f e c t s on m e n ' s minds in order to create his moods of "pure vision." "He looked up,. and again the Milky Way, like a great aurora, flowed through his body to stand at the edges of the earth." Snow Country deals with s e ar ching h u m an passions, yet ui:id er lying the delicate imagery a r e p u l·s a t i n g f o r c e s o f n a t u r e w hjc h e v e n t u a l ly overwhelm the tr ansparent effort of a man to liye_ and understand.
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JEOPARDY QUIZ BY ARTHUR FLEMING ANSWERS l ." In a Pulitzer Prize winning book, he wrote: "Courag� of life is often less dramatic than courage of a final moment." 2. This Dickens' book was filmed nine times between 1909 and 1968. 3. His opposition to the Abolitionists led him to say: "I would rather be right than President." 4. He became America's most famous Black two days after Buchanan's inauguration in 185 7. 5. Due to a famous resident of 1815-1821, "Longwood" is the best known building on this island. (for
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Harry's"Son of Schmilsson" Pokes Fun at Rock, Society
BY DOUGLAS SINGER Harry Nilsson has a new album. co nsummat-e understanding of It's called Son of Schmilsson their effect. Only satire can do tha�. (RCA LSP 4 - 717). When Nilsson o t hat is what Nilsson does a new album, it is sufficient provides. And in the process, to merely say that, and let it everyone and everything, from convince you of its worth on its Lennon and McCartney toJohnny own merits. Cash and Kris Kristofferson to I've a lways liked Nilsson Elton John and T-Rex to Sha Na because he has managed 'to fill a Na ana the rock revivals to the major void in rock, that of gospel revivals to Nilsson himself e m o t i o nal or sentimental fall in the path of the Berlioz-like blade of NilssQn's satire. expression. It's a· delicate area guillotine As a res_ult, those grey areas of between cliches and boredom, but - taste, socially-conditioned norms Nilsson had the talent, voice, and of deference, and values of status ' general musical sens� to steer and artistic merit created by the between the Sirens and the rocks. t ec h nocracy and given close In Son of Schmilsson Nilsson ' scrutinization. For example, who has attempted to fill another void, could have a group of senior another need that has been citizens (accompanied by the blatantly apparent for a long time r.erennial accorruonist) singing 'I'd rather be dead than wet my now. It, too, has been avoided bed to make a point effectively? " because of its inherent dangers of In terms of esthetics, is it bad humorlessness, poor t as te, and t a s t e , or merely molten-like triteness. That area is satire. Not efficiency? sociacriticism, for that was well · The point is that Nilsson's over killed b y bureaucratic satire works effectively by any commercialism in the late 60's but • standards because its very purpose is achieved whether we like 1t or real satire. not Nilsson's modest proposal is in addition, the medium for based on the assumption that rock the satire is creatively _used and reflects the basic incongruities, structurally sound. Nilsson's vocal a b s u r d it i e s , fooltshness, and ability 1s out standing; his arrangements somewhat unique, extremism of modern society_ The to say the least. superstars are the very living The album's functioning is embodiment of the ludicrous further enhanced by such talented bal ance of human existence in a personnel as George Harrison, reified society· Ringo Stein, Bobby Keys, Klaus But we have heard that before Voorman, and Nicky Hopkins. In in the cheap shot criticisms of short, then, the album is a highly e ver yone from Lennon, to creative thematic and musical effort with a difficult structural Crosby, Stills, Nash, an d Young to form. Its p u r pose is Dylan. Yet we have not hear� consummated, its effect achieved. them with the frame of reference I only wonder whether its success-0 ur perceptions need for a is beneficial to us or not.
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ON CAMPUS October 20, 21, & 22 (Friday .. Saturday, & Sunday) Can Heironymous Merkin Ever Forget Merc y Humppe and Find True Happiness 8 p.m., Chemistry Auditorium (also at 10 p.m. on hiday) The Seven Ye ar It c h (M arilyn Monroe) and Zero for Cor,,duc t, 8 p.m., Science Auditorium. October 23 & 24 (Monday & Tuesday) Sullivan's Travels, IO p.m., Chemistry Auditorium. Directed by P reston S tu rg e s . W i t h Joel MaCrea, Veronica Lake ( 1942). Depression comedy-commentary. A movie director tours the country, on the bum. On Campus Next Weekend· The Sterile Cuc koo; Touch of Evil (Orson Welles) and Devil. Doll (Ted Browning). IN AND AROUND UTICA Cannonball (in Clinton; 853-5553): Bluebeard Kallet Cinema (736-2313): Butterflies Are Free Paris (733-2730)): Cabaret DRAMA October 20 (Friday) One A c t p la y s , The Informer and Collision Course. Minor Theatre. (Also on Saturday at 8 p.m.). MUSIC October 20 (Friday) Coffeehouse C o n c ert: ''Papa" John Kolstad Coffeehouse, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. (Also on Saturday night). A blues artist playing his amazing twelve.. string guitar. October 21 (Saturday) C o n ce rt by student groups - The Choir, The Buffers, Brass Choir, and Woodwind Ensemble - in works by Hassler, Nanino, Rameau, Marcello, Lappi, and Gabrielli. 9 p.m., Chapel. Free admission. October 24 (Tuesday) Student Concert. The Woodwind Ensemble & Brass Choir plus soloists Henry Berman '73 (performing Mozart's Fantasiaa in D Minor, K. 397) and Barbara Armbruster (singing three arias by Handel) , accompanied by Henry Ber"ui�n and oboist David Herzog October 25 (Wednesday) Free School Course, The Music of ]Jeetnoven: Performance and discussion of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major. 8 p.m., Root Art Center. MILESTONES October 21 (Saturday) Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Birthday (1772). October 22 (Sunday) Franz Lizst's Birthday (1811). October 23 (Monday) Veteran's Day. The Earth's Birthday (9:00 a.m., 4004 B.C.) Swallows Leave Capistrano. October 24 (Tuesday) U.N. Day. October 25 (Wednesday) Georges Bizet's Birthday (1838). October 26 (Thursday) Domenico Scarlatti's Birthday (1685). Mahalia Jackson's Birthday (1911). EXHIBITIONS Current: Photography exhibit by Bruce King '56, Bristol Campus Center (closes October 27). Exhibition of sculpture and drawings by Armand Vaillancourt. This show includes his smaller sculptures (his larger ones weigh hundreds of tons), photographs of his larger ones, including the celebrated fountain in San Francisco's Embarcadero Plaza, and s o m e d ra wi n g s w h i c h have n ever been shown before. An incredible exhibit; don't miss it. At the Root Art Center. At the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica 3 5 t h Annual E x h ibition o f Artists of Central New York, M u seum of Art (through November 12). Recent silk screen prints by Steve Poleskie. Museum of Art (through November 5). LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS October 22 (Sunday) Fr e e Church of Clinton, services led by Colin Miller, former Dean of the Hamilton Chapel, 11:15 a.m., Chapel. October 25 (Wednesday) R o o t� Jessup L ec t u re: Senator Jam�s R. Donovan of New York's 4 4th Senatorial District, 4:00 p.m., Chapel. C
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CANTOR "My dream as a young boy was to become a poet; at twelve, I thought of ""I the things that one could say as a writer, but l'ife has taken me in another direction." Sculptor Armand Vaillancourt. Born in the mining country of Eastern O�ebec, the massive industrial technology inspired Vaillancourt's sculptural imagination. Above all, Vaillancourt is an artist of.fire; the hours spent at his foundry are his moments of "ideal exaltation". To him, abstract art is the only acceptable path of the twentieth century. Vaillancourt frequently uses modern pneumatic dril'ls and electric tools, in contrast to the traditional hammer and chisel, in building his sculptures, but. to place Vaillancourt among today's turbulent and tumultuous artists would be to neglect-those qualities of gentleness, tenderness, and profound meditation in his works. An exhibit of M. Vaillancourt's drawings and sculptures is now at the Root Art Center.
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Oxford Holds Fortress A�idst Bedlam in Chapel
beleaguered fortress. BY VINCENT DICARLO helped a great deal. One student I There· were good points. When suggested that sickness could have It was Monday morning all over again. Even J .K. Hage was a tear in the backdrop of bedlam meant athlete's foot or modem the there. Colgate s.ent a contingent of a pp eared occasionally music. advantage took generally debators its loudest and most obnoxious ·Probably m u c h o f the their representatives to assist our own of it to demonstrate unfulfilled promise of the debate words. with skill considerable ample native talent, which hardly could be attributed to a general needed such help. It was the Parts of the first of Oxford's m i s u n d e r s tan d i n g o f good. particularly were speeches Oxford debate and it was nearly a It was almost too much to expect Parliamentary style debate itself, disaster. The purpose of the debate last · The Hamilton College "chapel under the conditions prevailing. Friday was not to try to convince some The debate also had mentality" seems to have a _Rooney the audience of the sickness or Bob problems. other language all its own. Audience in time health of America. The topic means mob. Humor is a str�am of didn't get his manuscript and should only be a vehicle for presentation his for it use to loud raucous remarks designed to demonstrating the verbal and however Nixon, disrupt or embarrass. A speech is his remarks about mental alacrity of the contestants. bias, audience's the to reassuring something you do while standing After the debate came the acid. than sour at a podium listening to the clod were more that "division of the house" to decide (Resolved: topic the Granted, in the back of the room scream the result. The second "vote" was his crude wit. Hospitality 1 • • • America is a sick society) was not on the better debating. That one d e s i g ned for light, sparkling that's funny, tb,ere's no humor. But a more whimsical went · to Oxford by a sizable translation. margin. The first vote was on the Of course, there were �any definition of terms could have i s s u e it s e l f . It is perh.1;ps people who tried in vain to hear a Ad Hoc continued from page three interesting to note that on this the word or two of Marvin Kwartler's between the news issued in the house was about evenly divided. opening speech over the din. Alumni Review and the everyday There were others who did not life of the college," and that the Horizons leap to the throat of an Oxford alumni want a firsthand look at Continued from page one debator over an innocent but w h a t i s g o i n g o n . He also Hamilton for a weekend. This is misconceived remark for which he mentioned that m ost al umni the practice of other colleges of felt obliged to apologize. In spite c a m e a w a y w i t h a greater Hamilton's stan d i n g , and the of the many who tried to be an u n d e r st anding of the life and purpose of such an undertaking audience, however, the debators d irection o f both colleges and is to familiarize secondary school often appeared to have much in that he hoped for continual and off i c i a l s w i t h a thl et i c s at Hamilton. common with the defenders of a -even larger turnouts.
Wade Cites Issues for New Voters BY LINDA ANZALONE Richard Wade, prominent American historian and professor, now at City College of New York, spoke last Wednesday evening at Hamilton. The former McGovern campaign coordinator for the New York State primary, now visiting college campuses, discussed the status of young people in the upcoming election. Wade began his speech by explaining why the 1972 election to date has no historical analogue and why anything like it will never occur again. This is the first election in the history of the U.S. i n w h i ch 2 5 m i l l i o n u n experienced v ot e rs w ill participate. In New York alone 10-15% of the voting population is between 18-21.
Wade used figures and statistics throughout his speech to illustrate the important role the young voter can play in the upcoming election. He cited five key issues of the campaign which young voters should be aware of and consider when making a final decision in November. According to Wade, the public is not getting a "fair chance to make a choice" from Mr. Nixon, who will not meet with the press or his opponent in debate, and speaks only to large crowds where there is no opportunity for questions to be asked. The prestige of new voters is also at stake. If McGovern loses, Mr. Wade claims that there will be a search for a scapegoat which
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Ephmen Stifle Strikers, 7-1; Three Tough Foes Remain
BY WOODY NAVIN Th i s p a s t Saturd a y at Follansbee stayed on the bench The remaining three games on Williamsto w n , M a ssachusetts, the remain�er of the game, even the Booters' schedule are all Hamilton's escutcheon was not though he appeared to have against good teams-Clarkson, St. only tarnished, but it was also recovered fully.. La w r e n c e, a n d L eM o y ne . pie r c e d r e p e a t ed l y . T he Continentals' record now stands at 3-3-1. On a fall day fit for frolicking in the multi-colored leaves, the Ephmen of Williams College eclipsed the Continentals of Hamilton by a score of seven to one. For the first twenty minutes of the match, both teams were unable to score. The Ephmen had more shots on goal, but the Conti nental defenders played good position ball and they didn't make any mistakes. Halfbacks Phil Halpern '75, Kerry Regan '76, and Walt Stugis '76 also came back and helped clear the ball out of the defensive zone. Williams first goal came in the twenty-first minute of play while Hamilton's first line of halfbacks were taking a breather on the bench. Unlike Hamilton, Williams possessed at least two lines of back-up halfbacks who were equal Gary Neville '76 about to stop scoring attempt by Willaims in both speed and ability to their booter. Bob Hutton 73 lends a helping hand. first line. Therefore, the Ephmen T h e Ephmen scored their did not lack depth of experienced seventh and final goal off backup Clarkson and St. Lawrence are players. Williams made full use of goalie Gary Neville '76. Both ranked e l e venth and ninth, its bench to not only out hustle, Hamilton and Williams substituted respectively, out of sixty-three but also to out-maneuver the heavily in the second half, saving teams in the state. After a tough Hamilton Strikers. their best players from possible eighty minutes of play, St. P e r n i cious s h ooting b y injury. Lawrence was finally able to gain Williams brought the score at Three main explanations have a 1-0 lead over Clarkson, which halftime up to 5-0. Two of these been offered as to why Hamilton they held for the remaining few goals were recorded in the w as so s oundly beaten by minutes of play. following manner: A Williams Williams. Fh-st, Williams is a very At 3 p.m., Saturday, on home defenseman lobbed a lead pass to good team. Comprised of players ground, the Hamilton N etmen will his left wingman who not only who were both bigger and faster be trying to maintain an above beat the Continental defenseman than Hamilton's, the Ephmen .500 average for the season. With to the ball, but also was able to made full use of their very large good hustling, and much support get off a fine centering pass. This field. Although Williams was a from loyal fans, the Twine centering pass was then driven classy team, they were no better Ticklers should put on quite a into the net by Williams' right than Wesleyan or Union, against show and emerge victorious. wingman who was streaking in whom Hamilton lcoked much toward the unattended corner of better. the goal. The other three goals of The second reas,m Hamilton the first half were scored on fell is attributed to key ir.juries to rebounds and deflections in front starting seniors. Both fullback of the Striker's net. George Edwar<1� '73 and halfback Williams opened the second Chip Dickson '7 3 did not see BY ROBERTJ. KEREN half with yet another goal. This action against Williams and may goal came off a hard ground shot still be unable to play this week. The Hobart Statesmen amassed from in front of the net which T h i r d , H a m i l t o n w a s a total offense of 528 yards, with flashed under the outstretched outhustled and the forward line all but 30 yards on the ground, in arms of goalie Jeff Rose '74. The did not come back enough to help a 26-14 victory over t he Twine Ticklers' sole tally of the get the ball from the fullbacks and Continentals last Saturday. day came on a penalty kick which the goalie. The Twine Ticklers Hobart's offense, led by Little Nat Follansbee '73 cannoned into have relied upon hustling and ball A l l-A m erican h a l fback Don the net. Within the next few control in their victories against A l e k s i e wicz out of Er ie m i nute s of play, co-captain Albany State, Hobart, and Union, P e n n s y l v a n ia, ran almost a F ollansbee was K.O .ed upon but they just didn't have it against third-of-a-mile and 23 first downs against the usually stalwart Blue coll id i ng w i th an Ephman. Williams. d efense. With Statesman QB Robert Raleigh handing off to halfbacks Rich Kowalski, Jerome Handley, and "Mr A thru Z" out of the ''Wishbone-T", Hobart scored four TD's on the ground and put 26 points on the board thru the third period. In the final quarter Hobart QB Raleigh dropped back on a rare passing play, and was intercepted by Blue defensive back FranK Assuma '75 on the Hamilton 20-yard line. Assuma got in front of his man and converted the errant aerial into an 80-yard t o uchdown run. Bill Finan's extra-point was good, making it 26-7.
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OCTOBER 20,1972
F_ourth and 22
BY ED WATKINS Professional hockey has really · there is a tragically high number grown up from the days when the of inferior hockey players hanging National Hockey League consisted around the big leagues. of just six teams ... in fact four teams since New York and Boston F ourteen new professional. were too busy battling for last teams opened their seasons last place to care what the others were week. The - only outstanding doing. players on these teams were the Few players ever made it to the few N.H.L. players who jumped top during those quiet years. You to the W .H.A. in search of the were certainly among Canada's almighty buck. Too many teams best if you played in the N .H.L. are composed of hopefuls and Many good players came no closer has-beens. to the limelight than starting for Who is to blame for this teams like the Clinton Comets. "w atered down" brand of Hockey had not yet been hockey? In part, the owners are. "discovered" by the American · They began to get greedy and public. Macy's was not selling looked around for a way to make "Rocket Richard" hockey outfits. a quick killing. They found it Hockey was the game "dem t hr ough e xpansion. What a Can ucks play." gimmick! Sell your second-string . "De m Ca nucks" did not players for a hundred thousand receive much money for their dollars a piece. Atlanta is a efforts, either. No multi-million, wonderful hockey town: sell them multi-year contracts back then. a franchise. They played for ten-twelve The fans are not much better thousand a season, hoped the than the owners. As long as they team would make the play-offs, are willing to spend eight bucks to and once the season was over, see an inferior game, then they headed back to Sault Ste. Marie will be sold an inferior game. and waited for next year. Meanwhi le , the core of Today, however, ,the intimacy established players, the all-stars, and high quality of play have are doing quite well. Whether they disappeared from pro hockey. The stay or jump leagues, it is to the N .H.L. has sixteen teams while tune of big money. Walt Tkaczak the newly formed W.H.A. has is ge'tting $125,000 this year. He twelve. is only the fifth highest paid It would be pleasant to report Ranger. that all this expansion was due to It is going to be an interesting a surplus of talented players who season. Watch as the Houston were finally getting the chance Aeros score ten goals... but lose to t h e y deserved: Unfortunately, t h e Ottawa Nationals 13-10. that is not true. The truth is that Nothing like a good hockey game.
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·Le.Porte, brought the ball down to ·!he four, setting up Sandy's third-down plunge. Cordia, in for starting QB Rob Winter '75, and LePorte, replacing slotback Kevin ·snyder '75 who left the game with a broken nose, are both promising freshmen on the Blue squad.
Bill Finan, another d�termined member of the class of '76, split the uprights again making the final score 26-14. His accuracy (6 for 6 extra points this season) under the goal posts and on field goals, will undoubtedly prove valuable to Coach Don Jones in some upcoming, and closer, contests. MIDDLEBURY NEXT FOE' The 1-2 Blue Continentals host the p owerful Panthers of Middlebury tomorrow afternoon at 1:30. Coach Jones commented that Middlebury "is one of the finest teams in the Northeast. They can do everything Hobart can, and better · - they can and will try screens, run, throw, and are completely unpredictable." Middlebury, ranked second in the ECAC Section II behind D e l a w a r e U n i v e r s i ty , is nndefeated, 4-0, coming off a
23-13 victory over Williams last weekend. H a m ilton's fin e middle linebacker Andy Sopchak was named to the All-ECAC Division III team two weeks ago, with defensive end Joe Reagan and s l otback Sny der r ece1vmg Honorable mention praise. The Continentals have a small, but highly competitive squad capable of an upset on any Saturday afternoon.
Quarterbacks Winter or Cordia, along with the swift backfield of sprinters MacIntosh and Snyder, a nd outstanding end John Graveley can turn the tide in almost any ball game. The tight defensive unit, coached by Jones' new assistant Bob King, has allowed but 53 points in their first three contests ( as opposed to 86 last season), and are gaining increased confidence with every game. Tomorrow's game against Middlebury will be the toughest for the Continentals thus far in the season, · but Don Jones' spirited squad will take the field hoping for an upset victory. The Buff and Blue have no choice but to fight and pose an obstacle in M i d dlebury's path tomorrow afternoon at Steuben Field.
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Nader Con gressional Study Publishes nWlw Runs Cong res�" BY J.K.HAGE Political activism on the Hill reached a peak in ·the spring of 19 70 when H a milton and Ki rkland students conceived, organized and effected a massive effort to influence this country's position on several issues, notably the C3.!11bodia incursion. We acted as part of a national student movement dedicated to change national policy. We failed. With an acute awareness of our failure we did not come out for the next year's demonstration. Students either became disaffected with politics in general, or said they had tried once within the system and the next time they came out they would be toting a gun. Others just took the LSAT's and realized they were adults and had to think about earning a living. A couple of years have passed b ut t h e g o v e r n mental unresponsiveness we lamented still ·persists. President _Nixon is still the president and perhaps will be for another term. Can we afford to remain inefficacious because of o u r d i s i l l us ionment, a nd disillusioned because of the futility of our past actions? If we believe we see through the darkness visible of government in a way that many Americans do not, then our mandate is clear; but mandate to do what, how? Ralph Nader offers a plan. Nader has long believed that the (potentially) most responsive branch of the government is the
legislative branch. The Congress was set up to be responsive, to be government of the people. For many reasons, the House fulfills these ideals more readily than the Senate. For example, elections to the House are held every two y e a r s , which ancors House members to constituent" demands. M o reover, si nce H ou s e constituencies are relatively intimate (500,000 is a large congressional district), � a great o p p o rtunity e x is t s for c o n s t i t u e n t --rep r e s e n t ive communication. Senate elections take place every six years, therefore Senators do not feel as much pressure· as do repr e s en t a t i ves to mirror constituent trends on issues. The Senate, conversely, is more insulated from the vicissitudes of public opinion and more disposed to consider matters from a synoptic point of view. Well then, one asks� is there anything wrong with the way Congress runs? The answer is yes and the reasons are complex and many. The fact that House elections are held every other year insures that representatives will not ignore their constituencies but the converse result is that many House · members pander their constituents. l'hey spend too much of their time answering letters from the district and acting a s o m b u s men betw een and agencies government the populace. A representative's
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time would be better spent acting ·prophylactically to make the· agencies t h em selves more responsive. In addition, both the House and the Senate operate under the constant eye of interest groups, lobbies. Well organized, well fmanced business and.labor interest groups exert an enormous amount of influence on Congress. These . examples of de facto problems of Congress are illustrativf but by no means exhaustive. Some of Congress's problems are procedural as well. For example the parliamentary rules governing the House and Senate are so complex that the few members who have a thorough knowledge of them are held in high esteem. However, attempts to simplify the rules are always bitterly resisted. make To things worse, Congress has in recent years been following a steady policy of abdication of its responsibilities in continued on page five
THE LITTLEST ANGEL - Faculty children were treated to a Halloween party hosted by DKE,Here, sophomores Dave Duggin and Jon Berry entertain the litdest angel.
Kirklan d Student Discusses Incident with Clinton Police •
Editor's Note: The following is a up his car and stopped it in the d e s crip ti o n of the incident middle of the street. At this time between a Kirkland Student, he confronted her and demanded Cassandra Harris, and a Clinton to see some identification. She Policeman, Officer Schmidt as said, ''I don't have any on me." rep orted by Cassandra to Deborah Officer Schmidt then grabbed the woman by her shirt, ripping it Spears. open and as Cassandra described On Wednesday, October 4, at it, he "exposed her breasts." Thus about 6:20 p.m. Cassandra Harris ensued the struggle, Officer stopped her car outside Kinne Schmidt flailing her and pushing Haberdasher's at Fountain and her around the street while Kellogg Streets in Clinton, left the Cassandra attempted to break his _motor running, and headed in to grasp. She screamed for help, deliver a phone message to owner calling Mr. Kinne to come out of Robin Kinne. Shortly thereafter his store. The officer then· threw she heard a loud honking. At the her against the car and said, comer she met Officer Walter "You're under arrest." She asked, Schmidt of the Clinton Police, "F or w h a t?" He replied, w h o o r d e r e d her to leave . "disorderly conduct." At the time immediately and threatened to three other men, volunteers from tow away her car. the crowd of nearly thirty people O f f i c e r S c h m i d t then that had gathered around the _ proceeded down Kellogg Street < seen, joined Officer Schmidt in and turned his car around so that the fracas. They were attempting as Cassandra turned the corner · to handcuff her when she put her th ey passed · each other and foot thru the open patrol car exchanged looks· that were not window and began to blow the exactly friendly. Harris reparked her car in K.inne's driveway and started to walk back towards the store. Officer Schmidt had backed FACULTY FOR
horn in an attempt to summon Mr. Kinne. The men pulled her away from the patrol car and there w as more struggling. A ccording to one witness, Cassandra was thrown down so hard that her head bounced:I off the pavement. She was held down and cuffed with her hands behind her back. While she was in this p o s ition witness saw Officer Schmidt draw his night stick. She was then shoved into fhe back of the patrol car, face down. At this time she managed to slip her cuffed hands in .front of her which enabled her to open the patrol car door and jump out. One of the four returned Cassandra to the back seat of the car where she was forcibly held. In this manner Harris was driven to the rear of the post office where the officer awaited assistance and a matron. They took her then to the· Onei d a County Ja il. Here Cas sandra was charged with continued 01: page nine
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To the College Community: We are writing because we s t r o n g ly sup p or t S e na t or McGovern for the Presidency of t h e Uni t ed States. We are presenting a plea for your active involvement in the McGovern camp.ugn in the few days between now and the election. We find it hard to believe that students, faculty and staff have forgotten the record of the Nixon Admini s t r ation - the most murderous bombing of civilians in the history of warfare, cynical continued � page two
Twelve pages of Spectator layout were taken -from Bristol Campus Center last Friday morning between 8:00 and 9:30 a.m. We realize that in this age of the rip-off artist someone is probably pleased with the t�eft-: At least forty or fifty people put time and effort into the issue, and those of us who were up all night see it as a senseless act of vandalism. The Spectator is for the benefit· of the community and is also the only weekly public record of happenin� on the Hill. In an attempt to reconstruct the issue, we have run all the major articles that were set for last we.ek.
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THANKSGIVING NYC BUS The Utica Rome Bus Company will run a bus to New York Wednespay November 22nd at 12:00 pm from the front of Dunham Dorm and will return Sunday November 26th at 2:00 pm. The bus will load and unload at three locations: Grand Central Station, Penn. Station, and The Port Authority Bus Terminal. The bus is a fully equipped coach with bathroom and baggage compartments and seats thirty eight. Seats will be filled on a first come first serve basis. The fare is $9.00 one way either direction, $16.00 round trip. Reservations must be made as so.on as possible. For further information see: :Daniel Cotlowitz X7306 or Michael Hassett X4549. FREE CHURCH The speaker at the Free Church Service this Sunday will be Joel Tibbetts, and the topic is ''Taking a Loss.'' The service is at 11:15 a.m. in the Chapel. FRUSTRATION CREACTION A program called "Frustration Creation" will be presented at Community Worship, Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the K-J Red Pit. This will involve making things out of clay. "ENTROPY" LECTURE AT HAMILTON Professor Harvey Leff of Chicago State University will lecture on "Entropy: A Biophysical View" on Wednesday, November 8 at 8 p.m. at the Hamilton College Science Auditorium. Entropy is a mathematical concept relating to· the tendency of matter and energy to break down. Professor Leff describes his talk as a "non-mathematical discussion of a principle of increasing entropy and its relevance to both physical and biological processes, with particular attention to birth, death, ecology and technology." The lecture, sponsored by the_ Hamilton Physics Department, is · open to the public without charge. Professor Leff is chairman of the Department of Physical Sciences at Chicago State and formerly taught at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. He holds the Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and is the author of numerous papers published in scholarly journals. FACULTV MEMBER If you know of a speaker coming to the Hill whose lecture is particularly worthy of being reported on, please send a note to the Spectator Box 83. MORMON BISHOP TO LEAD DISCUSSION Bishop Ira Hodges of th� Whitesboro Ward of the Church ofJesus Christ of Laday Saints will lead a discussion program, "What is .. Mormonism?" in Room 128 of the Kirner Johnson Building on the Kirkland College campus at 8:30 pm Wednesday, November 8. The program, in which Mr.· Hodges will speak and answer questions about the Mormon religion, is open to the public without charge and is sponso:red by the Office of the Chaplain at Hamilton College. CAREER OPPORTUNITIES The following opportunities will be on campus during the next several days. If you are interested in scheduling an interview with any of these, sign up in the Career Center, Dunham Baaement.. Case Western Reserve Law School Wed. Nov. 8, 9-12 Procter & Gamble interest meeting Thurs. Nov. 9, 9-5 Northwestern U. Thurs., Nov. 9 9-5 Grad. Schopl of Professional Accounting Columbia U. Fri., Nov. 10, f!-s Grad. School of Business Admin. Boston University School of Law Fri., Nov. 10, 9:30-11:30 .. Brown University Thurs., Nov. 15, 2-5 Masters of Teaching program Thunderbird School of International Fri., Nov. 17, 9-4:30 Management Villanova School of Law Fri., Dec. 1, 9-5 Panels Panel on careers in Business, Medicine and Law: Minority Outlook, Thursday evening Nov. 9, 7:30, Red Pit. Law Panel, Monday Evening, November 13, 8:30, Kirner-Johnson Audi'torium. Lawyers· and law students will be discussing law as a career. KIRKLAND ADMISSIONS The Kirkland Admission Office needs students to share rooms , with prospective applicants who are staying overnight. _In_ addition any Kirkland Student who would l_ike to help t�e AdmisS1on Office the by chatting ,with applicants and their parents, kindly see CB at Admission�s reception desk. FREE SCHOOL COURSE BULLETINS· Basic Sensuality 8:00 Wednesday 2nd floor Bristol. First lecture (of a two part series) being offered again. ...... Arts As Spiritual Liberation. Still another attempt to be free. 204 South 8:00 Tuesday. Any other questions, suggestions etc. Free School Campus Mail or Stu,Judy, Steve, Spbt,Corky and No.va (859-7413). CLINTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Clinton Historical Society holds its meetings on the second Tuesday of each month of the school year, in its rooms upstairs over the Kirkland Town Library� Time, 8 pm. These meetings are open to the public. There is usually a talk .on some topic of local historic interest, and coffee is served afterwards. The Society also publishes a Newsletter, written ·by Mr. Philip Munson, which appears monthly during the school year, and is full of lively readable material about Old Clinton and its environs. This letter goes out to Members only. The Society would be glad to see Hamilton and Kirkland students at any- of its meetings, and would welcome them as members. The next meeting will be on Tuesday evening November 14. Mr. Elliott Hughes will give the talk on ''Women in Early America." The remaing meetings will be on the Tuesdays January 9, February 13, April 10, and May 8, when Phil Munson will talk on ''The Waterville ... and Utica Plank Road." Membership in the Society is $2.00 per year and is open to all. Please make check out to: Clinton Historical Society, and mail it to Box 42, Clinton.
NOVEMBER 3, 1972
THE SPECTATOR
LEI'fERS
McGOVERN CON'T. indifference to the killing of students at Kent State and Jackson State, perpetuation of a tax system which enriches the rich at the expense of everyone else, support of a genocidal war by P a kistan against the Bengali people, an increase of the welfare r o 11 s b y o n e - t h ir d , t h e consignment of more than two million additional people to the misery of unemployment, _an increase in the national debt by one-fifth of the total amassed since the d a y s, of George• Washington, the degrading of the Supreme Court, the veto of measure after measure of social and educational legislation while Spe nding any amount for armaments, and, above all, the contempt for civil liberties and honesty in government. - indeed the democratic process itself which every member of the college community should hold dear. George McGov�rn opposes this record. He has been a courageous senator, an early and consistent opponent of the war, a champion of humane priorities for our country. There is no need to say more because George McGovern, unlike his opponent, has come out and told us what he stands for. Even .the polls predict ·a close ·race in New York State. YOUR EFFORT CAN COUNT! Vote and help bring in the vote. Phone Mc G o v ern h ea d q u ar ters at 733-8743 or 733-8721 to find out what you can do to make George McGovern president. Nixon runs on dollars(whose?) - McGovern runs on people! Sincerely, David Locke John Bachellor Philip Pearle Austin Briggs James Ring Michael Haltzel Robert Simon WilliamJamison RIGHT TO VOTE To the Editor: For those who have always disliked Richard Nixon and have recently come to despise _George M c G o v er n there are -several courses of action possible on Election Day. With a certain cynicism they can vote for the ''lesser of two evils", or as a silent protest (as irresponsible as it is ineffective) they can stay home and not vote at all. A more attractive alternative, however, is open: to vote for a candidate who unequivocably represents your own political convictions. Certain candidates, such as the very attractive Shirley Chisholm, while n o t the . n om inee of any established party, can be voted for as write-in candidates. On the other hand, an examination of the field might reveal a candidate on some ticket or another whose native intelligence, political philosop h y , and c a m p a ign platform have a strong appeal. Such a candidate isJohn Hospers, _ the presidentail nominee of the Libertarian Party. If intelligence and intellectual achievement are desirable qualities in a presidential candidate, John Hospers is probably the strongest contender for the office since Woodrow Wilson first ran sixty years ago. A Columbia University Ph.D., Hospers is director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. A frequent contributor to several philosophical journals, including the Journal of Aesthetics and Art
Nixon's Gam.e? Peace is at hand in Vietnam - finally. Richard Nixon, who once said that "those who have failed to produce peace in four years should not be given another chance,'' has at last brought a touch of sanity to a. Vietnam policy previously characterized by token troop withdrawals senseless bombing, and an unprecedented amount of needless killing. When President Nixon took office four years ago, he pledged to end the war as soon as possible. At that time American casualties were running as high as severai thousand per week. Since then, American casualties have been substantially reduced, yet hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese ·citizens have been killed by the President's destructive policy of "Vietnamization". Up until last week, nothing had really changed - only the nationality of the dead bodies. The Spectator is hopeful that a peace settlement results in what the President has called "a just and lasting peace." However, we see nothing in the present settlement that could not have been gained months ago - even years ago had American foreign policy been less intransigent and less based on partisan political gain. It would indeed be the supreme tragedy and most bitter irony of our involvement in the Vietnam War if over 50,000 young Americans had died for the sake of one man's ambition.
Criticism, the author of the f o r t h c o m i n g Enc yc l opa e dia Br itannica article on t h e "Philosophy o f Art", an d the author of Meaning and Truth in the Arts, Hospers could hardly be a more respected aesthetician. It is n ot his qualifications as an aesthetician, however, which make him so irresistable as a candidate, but rather his political philosophy and that of the Libertarian Party which can be examined in his recent book, Libe r ta r iani sm: A P o l itical Philosophy for Tomorrow. · At last we have a political party which has as its guiding principle ''the rights of the individual." Its 1972 platform
contains the following statement: "we hold that each individual h t h e r ig h t t o exercise sol dominion over his own life, an has the right to live his life in whatever manner he chooses, so long as he does not forcibl� interfere ·with the equal right ofi others to live their lives in whatever manner they choose". . Governm ents t h r ough out history have regularly operat�d on the opposite principle, 1:Jiat the state has the ri_ght to dis_p ose of th lives of individuals and the fruits of their labor. Even within the United States, all political parties other than our own grant to p-overnment the right to regulate continued on page nine
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VOLUME THREE
NUMBER EIGHT
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BY MITCHEL OSTRER The Environmental Quality Bond Act of 1972 is Proposition One on the New York State Ballot. The Act proposes 1.15 billion dollars to be set aside for the financing of sewage treatment plants, the preservation of end angered forests and wetlands, control of air emissions, and aid to municipal recycling projects. Since m any students already have their absentee ballots, the choiceshould be made clear: Proposition One should be passed. The clean water section of the Act, provides $650 million in state aid, to be spent to raise New York State water quality standards now set by law. Three hundred an d forty-seven municipal sewage plants are needed within the next five years; one hundred and fifty-four are already prepared for, or under construction, but are waiting for funds to continue. The 1965 Pure Waters has expired and Federal aid to protect the environment has been unsatisfactory. For the drinking water of Long Island to remain pure, for the reserve of Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Finger Lakes, money must be allocated now. Historic, scenic, and ecologically valuable lands will be preserved under Proposition One. $175 million dollars will help to consolidate our forest preserves, to protect tidal and fresh water wetlands threatened by private landfill. Monies will be spent to make these l and accessible to the public. Preservation and restoration of lands is becoming more and more costly and difficult; efforts for preservation should be increased. Recycling of solid waste is the most ecologically sound response to the . problem of dimin�hing resources and phenomenally increasing amount of waste. The Environmental Quality Bond Act recognizes this, and provides $175 million, whic h will account for up to 50% of the expense to municipalities for the institution of recycling operations. Incineration and landfill are becoming inviable means of solid waste treatment, as landfill areas become less available and incinerators continue to dirty the air. Grants 'must be made now, to move communities to recycling. Emissions in the air must be reduced by 58% upstate and 52% in New York City areas, ·in order to comply with air quality standards set by the State for 1975. One hundred million dollars will be expended to upgrade and rebuild municipal incineration facilities, where some institutions still operate on coal. The Proposition One will aid in the fight for clean air. Ironically, voters may misconstrue the Bond Act as just another major expenditure during economically difficult times. A livable environment· though, is. under constant · threat by continual pollution of the air, water, an d land. The Environmental Quality Bond Act, though not a pan acea, would lend a proper response to the exigencies of our ailing environment. The responsible citizen mustnow act, and vote YES TO PROPOSITION ONE. THE PURIST FALLACY In discussion with students over the past few weeks, an attitude toward the Presidential campaign has surfaced which seems to me to 1tpesent an abandonment of political rationality. The attitude is roughly this: because a candidate is imperfect, he therefore is indistinguishable from any other candidate, regardless of the other candidate's overall record. Since all leaders have made mistakes, it makes just as much sense-namely none-to argue that no one political leader has ever been better than any other. To say that the better, because it is not perfect, is no different from the worse is political irresponsibility, pure and simple. Robert Simon Assistant Professor of Philosophy ALL KIRKLAND ST_UDENTS .Mrs. Edward W. Root wants to aid Kirkland students as much as possible in involving you in the community and particularly in opening up to you as many cultural opportunities as are available in the neighborhood. To this end she would like to extend an invitation to you to become student members of the Munson Williams Proctor Institute at her expense. To apply for membership, please fill out one of the application forms in LOBBY and hand it in to the Dean of Students Office. We will make subsequent arrangements.
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Student, Faculty Poll Revea s McGovern Presidential Choice Democratic Presidential hope ful George McGovern claimed the votes of 73% of the students who last weekend responded to the Spectator's informal poll. Another
18% of the vote went to Richard Nixon; the remaining votes were cast for American Independent Schmitz (2%), other minority party ca�didates, or not al all. In all 416 stude nts and faculty members voted: they made the of Q 5% approximately community. Of these, 93% reported that they were registered in their home communities. There were 231 democrats - 56%, 78 Republicans (19%), and 79 others, as mostly registered who Li b e r a l s , I n d e p e n d e n t s ,. Conservatives, or no gave preference at all. These made up another 19% of the sample. The remaining respondents said that they were not registered.
for the· President. These 21 votes, amounted to 27% of Nixon's entire support in, the poll. Kirkland's class of '76 voted most nearly f or unanimously McGovern, (95%) but contributed only 9% or McGovern's total
ballots. The largest contributions Most of those reistered said to McGovern's total were both they planned to vote, or had school's class of '76, with 12% already cast absentee ballots in from Hamilton, and 14% from the election. A few other students -i Kirkland. The Faculty, which complained that they would vote voted for heavily (78%) "if I ever get my absentee ballot." McGovern, added. 13% of the 85% of the respondents said they total.
plan ned to vote in the election. 21 others -5%- said that although they were registered, they would not. Spectator staffers placed a questionnaire in all of the College mailboxes in both colleges on Friday. It asked: "Are you a registered voter? ,Over 18?", and asked for a party preference. The key question of the ballot was: "For whom would you vote if the election were held tomorrow?" Six alternatives were Nixon, Republic an offered: Democrat McGovern, American Schmitz (whose Independent name was misspelled), communist worker Socialist and Hall, candidate Reed. Kirkland voters were asked if they. planned to vote, before they Were asked for whom they would vote: Hamilton questionnaires asked the same question afterwards. Finally, we
pre-primary poll if students fdt that they had less voice in this election; and a number of biasing factors could apply. Many of the percents do no add up to 100 because of questions left blank. or because students who tmned in ballots marked �ot registered' were counted in "totar votes. very similar portion of Hamilton
asked respondents to identify themselves by class and school, or if they were students or Facuity members. McGovern claimed 68% of Hamilton's votes, 127 of a total 187, while Nixon had the support of 50 Hamilton respondents, 28%. At Kirkland, the voting was much more one-sided: 81% or the vote went to McGovern, and only 10% to Nixon; the remainder in both cases did not vote, or chose one of well-known the less three candidates. The Freshman class now at Hamilton, the class of '76, chose Nixon most strongly: 36% voted
7 were Finally, there Democrats for Nixon, and, surprisingly, 12 Republicans for the of 61% McGo vern. independents chose McGovern 48 voters. 15 voted Republican, and one chose Schmitz. Most of the votes were probably serious ones: major party candidates predominated the straw vote, which would not be the case if there had been many practical jokers in the poll. There is no indication.' of who chose, and who chose not to vote in the poll; perhaps c�ncemed supporters of the Democratic ticket felt that they should vote, more than an uninterested conservative - by the same token, the non-returns might be a protest vote against two unpopular candidates. Interest might have lagged since last year's KiRKLAND '76 · '75 74% 92%
and Kirkland tu.dents responded to a -Spectatar poll in pril 1972; then, 639 student on both campuses divided cir vote between eGo em - 73o/o- , allace -3%_ -24%, and time. 91% of the said responding ey reistered to ote. The higher percentage of may registered oters this f it reflect a rise in registration. ose may also be biased, if persons had got themselves o o b ther registered respond to the questionnaire. re eases ew cGo em reported that in three other parts of the country,. cGo em claimed up to 84% of straw-vo e ashington t s amplings. University ,. in Saint Louis,. ,195 of 1,422 students preferred the Deinocrat; 227, 16% preferred
ixon. Also m Missouri, the Missouri Stu.dent Lobb reported an overall vote from the University of Missouri of 60% for McGovern., with I% undecided. In ho ever, M a s s a c h us e tt s ,. McGovern claimc4 only 56 of a sample of 954 culled. from thirty campuses across the state. 14% of n that group chose the Presidet; the remainder were undecided or returned damaged computer cards to the compiler. All of the current statistics must be viewed in the ligh of th�: r ece ntly-announced 1ctnam cease-fire: it is lik.el that the announcement may change minds ON campus, but the figures as reco:rded here, might not be considerable affected, if only those students ho had ma, c up their minds firmly voted.
Registered
HAMILTON' '76 '75 '74 100% 97% 92%
'73 100%
Not Registered
8%
3%
0%
0%
26%
8%
0% 0
Republican
22%
29%
10% 10 47%
30%
8%
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11% 4 55%
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47%
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8%
5
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16% 7
45% 29 17% 9
Plan to Vote
85%
95%
85%
84%
68%
84%
Will Not Vote
10%
5%
3%
5%
8% 4
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10%
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50 6
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21
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25
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15
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President's Advisory Comm. To Be ''ReverseOmhundsman" H· BY BOB WEISSER The President's Advisory Committe, an informal forum where students, faculty, and a d m i nistration the discuss problems of Hamilton College, will meet Wednesday, November 15. The first meeting of the committee will be held at President Chandler's house. The group is composed of fourteen students, four faculty members, and three administrators. Both President Chandler and Mr. Gilbert Grout, the Assistant to the President, are involved with the committee. Mr. Grout said that the purpose of the committee is to "point out problems in the student body and college community before they become problems." other has council The responsibilities besides discussing problems. It is supposed to keep the President and his staff informed about the students' situation. It also serves to tell the faculty about student opinion, and to show the students the ways in which the administration works.
problem has arisen, the council is there to discuss the problems before they become full-blown. There was some disagreement as to the effectiveness of the council over the past three years that it has been in existence. Mr. Wertimer said that he had heard that it had been very helpful. On the other hand, Clyde Leff, the president of the Student Senate, said he felt that the council had slipped into limbo, because the President did not have that much need to be advised.
Leff believes that the council should be used more often in the next few years because of the large turnover in the upper echelons of the school. He said that Hamilton will
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closed, except for one or two open meetings held throughout the year. These open meetings are held when an especially sticky issue is raised. Otherwise, it is necessary to contact the members of the committee if you want to have your opinion heard. The members of the council 2re as follows: Faculty: Messrs. Rand Carter, William Traer, Sidney Wertimer, Jay Williams; Staff: Dean Bingham, Mr. Carovano, Dean Kurtz; Students: Beth Kneisel '74 and Clyde Leff '73, O.J. Burns '73, Mark Richard '73, Jeff Paton '73, William Smith '74, Louis Levenson '74, Rocco Orlando '74, Steve Tepper '75, David Oakes '75, Roger Schneider '75 Marshall . Han dly '76, Chip Pre;utti '76 Roger Berman '76.
NOVEMBER 311972
Dean of Faculty Stephen Kurtz and President John Chandler
:i e��� �;��;:Iot;Be-,:,,jami n Thompson,Archit ec !�e;:����:;;:·:.:::�;Awarded TZ'land Pres Medal
_I� • decisions that concern the school. Joel Swetow, '73, who was on On Friday, October 28, sshelters, places and yet does not architectural venture of this sort. the council last year and helped to Benjamin S. Thompson, architect program or restrict us. It is an In 1966, Mr. Thompson formed choose this year's members, feels and designer of the entire campus architecture of paradox - heavy his own firm Benjamin Thompson that the committee has been fairly of Kirkland College, received the in materials light in effect. Best of and Associates. He is also the successful. He cited various President's Medal of Kirkland all, it is an honest surrounding, founder of Desi gn Research, Inc. problems that the council has College. The medal, awarded by rough where it should be, smooth and architect of their new dealt with. These issues range . Samuel 'Fisher Babbitt, President where it can be, and without guile building in Cambridge. Grout also described the form excessive 'rowdiness at of the college, is a public in either case. As one of the Mr. Thompson has designed operation of the council. The hockey games to the direction in recognition which takes the place planners longest associated with the two building complex for students glean any problems or which Hamilton is traveling. of an honarary degree for people Kirkland, as the one whose mark administratio•n, classrooms, and gripes that they can form the He said that "mostly, the ''whom the college wishes to will be longe�t with the college, faculty at the Harvard School of student body. These problems are purpose of the council is to recognize as having directly or we thank and salute you." Law and the Gutm an Library for brought up at the meetings and attempt to make sure that the indirectly fostered the aims and The medal presentation the Harvard Graduate School of discussed. He stressed the idea President what knows the objectives of Kirkland." followed a lecture by Mr. Education. He has submitted a that the council was there to students think." The citation reads, ''On behalf Thompson . in which he design for the Upper Division identify problems. If one of the Swetow also mentioned that of Kirkland . College this communicated his philosophy of College for the State University of students merely says that drugs the composition of previous President's Medal is awarded to environmental desi with special New York in Herkimer, New gn are a problem, he said, it doesn't councils was different than that of . Benjamin S. Thompson, designer, reference to the Kirkland campus. York. The John T. Holland help at all. this year's. This year, the council philosopher, and architect, you Mr. Thompson was born in St. elementary school in Dorchester, The c�>Uncil has no actual has three freshmen on it, along have given us a world which Paul, Minnesota, attended St. Paul Massachusetts is also of his desi . gn authority or power to solve the with the upperclassmen (three Acad�my, and then attended Yale The Berkshire Community College difficulties on its own. However, from each class), the Student University where he received his in Pittsfield, Mass. is another it can use its influences to make Senate president, and the editor architecture degree. During World campus entirely designed by Mr. other committees take action. of the Spectator. War II, he served as a Lieutenant Thompson. the Administration is in the Navy. When the war ended, capable of correct, responsible ' The scope of the problem This innovatiop. should help The science fiction fans on the dictates what kind of action is the council in finding new hill came out of hiding recently to he entered into a partnership with action. There are new faces in the taken on it. Sometimes, if the problems and solving them, start a science fiction seminar. It Walter Gropius in the Architects' Administration this year. Perhaps Collaborative in Cambridge, Mass., there is new hope as well. question is not too involved, like Swetow believes. meets weekly on Wednesdays in first collaborative the quality of the food served at When asked why all of this the Brown Room of Bristol at t h e Commons, an answer can be year's st,udent members were new 9:00 to hold unstructured found in a matter of days or to the council, Swetow cited discussions about SF or any weeks. But not all of the issues are several reasons. Five of the old other subject that catches the so easy to resolve. members graduated, one dropped member's fancy. The members of the seminar Grout posed an hypothetical out of school, and a few others Lemans Sport problem. To alleviate the parking felt that they should not serve on have pooled their experience and SEE THE ALL the council two years in a row. assembled a list of books that problem during Parents' Weekend, NEW 73'S TODAY One of the reasons Swetow represent some of to best reading Grand Am an underground parking lot should be built. He said that such himself gave for not being on the in the field. The authors to be a solution would not be acted committee this year was that he read include both the well iemans Ventura such as Delaney, upon until the summer, at the believed new blood and ideas knowns, should be infused into the group. Bradbury , Bester, and Simak, as earliest. Some of the new members did well as a few excellent Bonneville Grout mentioned that the not really know exactly what they newcomers. Arrangements have -:1udents alone make up the actual were going to be doing. A few of been made to make the books council. This is not to say that the them did give their opinions on to those available chosen Grandville Grand Prix faculty members and the what the council should consider. interested. administrators do not participate, .Steve Tepper, '75, feels that Each week the group will though. They are used as sounding one of the issues that should be assemble to discuss the work it boards for the students' ideas. In brought up at the meetings is the GOOD WILL USED CARS ( has recently read an<,l compare it other words, they listen to the Winter Study Program. He to others by the same and other NYS Inspection Station Service on all Makes students, criticize the proposed believes that some things about authors. The real strength of the solutions, and offer their own the progr·am could be ironed out organization is expected to lie in .suggestions. during the committee meetings. the high quality of the reading Roger Schneider, '75, thought material. Members will have the Other people that are involved Grand Opening of our Ski Doo Div. that the council should be used to opportunity to borrow or buy the with the council generally agreed squelch any bad rumors that books chosen ( or any others they with Mr. Grout's ideas. Sidney might be making the rounds of would like). See the Machine Wertimer, professor of economics, the campus. It would also be a In addition, an as yet unnamed that changed winter stated that the committee was good place to get solid formed "to encourage people to information for the rest of the . fan magazine is in the w9rks. It T'NT 1973. Ride the Silver Bu let will contain critical reviews and talk to him (the President)", and student body. reader comments as well as nto prevent problems." DON WATSON PONTIAC INC. Schneider· also believes that the original short stories written on He likened the council to a school is a very smooth-running the Hill. The seminar is part of the Franklin Ave. Clinton NY 853-5521 "reverse ombundsman." Whereas institution, and that the council Free and School anyone people bring their complaints to should work to keep it that way. interested is invited to the weekly after the ombundsman an The council's meetings are meetings in Bristol.
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DON WATSON PONTIAC'
NOVEMBER 3, 1972
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BY JOHN A. OSTER, JR. The Hill is the sett ing for the greatest absurdity I know. Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges have an Environmental Ecology Commi ttee which, through its remarkably hard and persitent work for . environmental reform, has earnea community recognition, statewide applause and even national notice. Yet, from an environmentalist's point of view, the Hill's A�minis tra tion is sitting obstinately in the Dark Ages. Common sense dictates that any organization which significantly affects its environment should be held responsible by its community for its policies. Clearly, Hamil ton and Kirkland Colleges are organizations which sign ificantly affect their environment. Clearly, the time has come when their guiding Administration should be held accountable. Given the nature of the issue, i.e. social, and the nature of the · organization, i.e. educational, it is very apparent tha t the Administration is negligent. Consider the evidence: "sometime" policies _9f open burning at the Campus Road dump, granting permission to contractors (at Kirkland) to dump and burn trash openly, failure to stem the burdensome tide of junk and non-essential notices passing through campus mail (this despite a student referendum demanding otherwise), failure to place off-road vehicles using college property under strict controls, failure to use recycled paper products on a significant scale, and refusal to adopt a comprehensive recycling policy. The list goes on. Every item s tems from one basic flaw in the Administration's attitude: an unwillingness to admit that environmental variables, and the economic externalit ies which accompany them, are of legitima te concern tQ institutions. The past has not been entirely devoid of creative environmen tal activity. Thanks in part to the Administration's cooperation, several courses in Environmental Studies are now offered. Thanks again to the same cooperation, an award to the most outs tanding H¥ID-lton senior in environmental activism now exists. Because of the Administration's benevolence the Hill now has a highly successful contraception clinic. Root Glen is a natural wonder. All the good points in no way offset the bad, however. They only serve to strengthen my case, since their existence proves that the Administration is capable of correct, responsible action. There re new faces in the Administration this year. Perhaps there is new hope as well. John A. Oster, Jr. '73 N.B. My writing here is my personal opinion and is not to be taken as that of any organization.
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BY GORDON KAYE history would have prevented this,. n e g a t i v e i n s t i n c t s of t he Allard K. Lowenstein returned .argued Mr. Lowenstein. He also electora te. The administration has to College H i l l , Tuesday f a c e d t h e p r o b l e m o f forced frightened people to "fight November 2nd, for the third time i n c o m p e t ence in McGovern's over the scraps," he argued. since his crusade against U.S. c a mpa i g n , c a l l i n g i t Lowenstein concluded wit h an military involvement in Vietnam "u n f o r t u n a t e". W i thou t urgen plea to help '�ecapture our l a u nched him into ,national attempting to directly defend country" the way the electorate prominence. Lowenstein, now a McGovern, he simply stated that was on the verge of doing before candida t e for C o n g ress in the President's credibility is, or Robert K was assassinated Brooklyn's 14th Congressional should be, much more in question in 1968. Distric t, was hosted by the than his opponen t's credibility. During the trip from Syracuse Roo t -Je s s u p Public A ffairs This argument led directly to t o Clin ton, Lowenstein spoke Committee. Speaking in the what Lowenstein called ''the informally of a variety of matters. chapel, Lowens tein lashed out at cen t ral ques t i o n" of t his His own campaign for election to what he called the "perverted" campaign. That is, the priorities of Congress is going badly. He lost p r i o r i t i e s of t he Nixon the Nixon administration. Nixon, the Democratic nomination for Administration. He urged support he• claimed, had been deceptive, t he seat by a hairbreadth to for the candidacy of Senator deceitful and arrogant in his veteran Congressman Joseph McGovern. treatment of Congress and the Rooney. Rooney's tactics were at Mr. Lowenstein began his American people. He discussed best questionable- at worst illegal speech by castigation defeatists in the need for a reformed tax and immoral. The State Supreme t h e M cGovern camp. H e s t ruc t u r e , for a nti-pollution C o u r t h a d , in fa c t , found questioned the accuracy o f the measures, for cutbacks in the irregularities in the primary and national survey polls which show military and defense budgets. The had demanded a re-vote. Rooney the Democratic contender to be Presid ent , h e claimed, was won the second round also and losing by a significant margin. He inflexible and unresponsive to the although cries of fraud again rose, poin ted to the polls back in 1968 needs of the poor, ef minorities, it was too late to do any thing which showed Eugene McCarthy of the working people. about this November's election. trailing then-President Johnson Lowenstein then turned to his So Lowenstein must run on the badly in the New Hampshire forte, the war in Indochina. He L i b eral Party ticket only. He primary. McCarthy went on t o bitterly attacked Nixon's policies predicts an upse t victory and said defeat the incumbent and fulfill a as sel f-serving and smug. He wryly, ''if I beat Roo�ey for a Lowenstein dream - to "dump attacked the bombing of Vietnam third time, I should get the seat Johnson." and Laos and made an emot ional once." Lowenstein touched briefly on appeal to his lesteners to continue Asked about his plans if he the issue of dropping Senator anti-war activity. The deaths and should be defeated, Lowenstein Eagle ton from the McGovern mai mings s t i l l c on t i nue, lie said t h a t he would have to national. ticket. He defended the reminded us. reevaluate his position in politics South Dakotan's decision by Fi nally, t h e ex-New York and decide what he wants to do emphasizing the need to discuss Congressman discussed the Nixon with the remainder of his life. He issue and not personalities in the campaign. He indi gnantly poin ted said tha t it may be time for him campai gn . Eaeton's medical to move on to another field t o corrup t i o n in the Nixon a d m i n i s t ration. The Wat ergate t ea c h i n g perhaps. If he left NADER affective at doing that. Nader has expense. The first two parts of the Affair, the Russian wheat sale, poli t ics, would it be out of continued from page one undertaken a massive study of project are explicitly intended for and the Dairyman's scandal were d i s i l l u s i o n m e n t ? "To be favor of the Executive-notably Congress to give citizens a base for the general public. Who Runs r e v i e w e d . "N i x o n", M r . disillusioned, one must have the recent incasure which would their activism. Congress is a 300 page Bantam Lowenstein said, "makes Warren illusions in the first place," allow the Executive to unilaterally The object of the study is to paperback, on sale for $1.95. The Harding look like a mere piker, ahswe red the ex-Congressman. cut funds from the budget. provide the American pueblo with profiles, which come in magazine a nd Lyndon Johnson lood The experiences, he indica ted, had Ralph Nader was called for a a means for understanding the form, provide consti tuents with credible." He attacked the Nixon been more than worth the trials. special session of congress in a way Congress should work and detailed information on their campai gn as an appeal to the year's time for the purpose of the machinations involved in its senators and representatives. The re f o r m i n g <;:o ngre s s , · i t s de facto performance. The study profiles provide personal and committees and procedure. Many consists of three main thrusts. The political biographies, positions House and Senate members from primer .book, called Who Runs ke iss v t both sides of the aisle are for such Congress has been much maligned ��8, � ::;�s �f ;::n;_�;: a session but the decisive factor in by the press for not telling c o n t r1b u t1o n s , financial calling the special session (which seasoned Congressional observers background, details on the BY BOB GRIEVES the Population/Family Planning requires a 2 /3 majority) will be anything new. Quite so. The book legislation each member has Five new talents will round out division of the United State citizen support. Members of is mean t to be an exposition of wri tten or co-sponsored, and Agency will offer a course on· Congress complain that they never who runs the U.S. Congress in a information about each member's the Winter Study Program on "Population and Foreign Policy", campus t his January, according t o hear from constituents on issues, popular. format that citizens can committee and assignments which will examine the forei gn only on petty matters of personal readily grasp. The hear t of the committee voting record. Profiles Dr. Erickson, in terim chairman of p o l i c y c o n s i d erations o f t he Winter S t udy Commit t ee. importance or on issues which Congress Projec t is its second were wri tten on 488 members of population problems. Films and directly affec t consti tuent in terest phase-in-depth profiles of the Congress, all those holding office Candidates are suggested by seminars will supplement data members of t he faculty, s t uden t groups (i.e. farmer or sports man's n a t i o n ' s s e n a t ors a n d in 1972 and not planning to retire from primary ·sources and guest clubs). Constituents complain that represen tatives 7 The third phase of at the year's end. Profiles can be body, and administration. James Lincoln Collier, class of speakers. Miss L a n gley, a Congress is too complicated for the project will result in several obtained for $1.00 each, first class sister-in-law of Mr. Barrett, conies them to approach. While Nader volumes of studies on postage paid, by means of the '59, will offer a course entitled to Hamilton highly recommended. "Bias in American Non-Fiction", realizes that not all of America's congressional committees and on order form below. Ralph Coury, class of '66, will population would or could selected topical issues. Hopefully, by means of the dealing with the detection of bias conduc t a course on the in the news media and the ability become Congress watchers, he The committee and topics information gathered in one place asserts that a million should do so. studies are directed primarily at by the Congress Project, citizens to read intelligently. Mr. Collier, a A r ab-Israeli conflict and the Middle East since World War II. Only citizens can keep Congress libraries, scholarly institutions and can begin to act for a better free lance writer from New York Mr. Coury, who lives in Troy, lt responsive. And only informed the like both because of their country through a better City has produced a number of N.Y., has done graduate work at and interested citizens can be novels and books for children, and composition and because of their Congress. has contributed numerous articles Columbia, Princeton, N.Y.U., ORDER FORM to such diverse niagazines as University of Pennsylvania, and Your Name: For profiles Playboy, and Reader's Digest. Mr. spent two years in Cairo, Egypt Address: MAIL THIS FORM WITH PAYMENT TO Collier is presen tl y 'Yorking on an 1969-1971. The course has no ZIP City, State: Grossman Publishers a r t i c l e a b ouL the Adler prerequisite, but is not open to studen t s w h o have t a k e n Congress Project Conference, held earlier this year Government 216. ·Box 19281, Washington, D.C. 20036 at Hamilton. *Print names of Senators For the first .. time, Dr. Leon No. of copies State or Rep resentatives desired Cost John von Bergen, Hamilton Roe will conduct a Winter Study class of .'63, will instruct a course course on "Physiological Aspects in metal casting for sculpture. Mr. of Clinical Medicine". Along with v on Bergen, who resides in laboratory work and observation @Sl.00 Clinton, operates the White Creek of patients, students. will be Art Foundry in Franklin Springs, required to write a case his tory of @$1.00 . where all casting for the course each type of disease observed. will· be executed. From the same Maximum enrollment will be @$1.00 Hamilton class, Kenneth Kahn limited to six. I have enclosed S BULK RATES: 5.0 or more of same profile mailed to same will lead a course in painting and Mr. Erickson notes that Winter profiles. for address: 50 cents each; 30 to 49: 75 cents each. Complete Set: $450.00 drawing in the Root Hall studio. Study catalogues are available for Mr. Kahn is now director of the every two students of the Hill; •Note: Individual profiles are not in 1972 or who have been Kirk.land Art Center, a post which they can be obtained at the for Senators or defeated in primaries. available Mr. von Bergen formerly held. Registrar's office. Representatives who are retiring Miss Grace Langley, chief fo
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BY EMILY SIMON Goehner who as John Hancock Chapel, which had superl> The first time I saw 1776, I felt remains in character throughout Colonial atmosphere, was the so patriotic I was moved to tears, the entire show, and Kevin inability to see about three scenes the second time I realized what an Groppe as John Adams are of the show; it's quite a excellent musical it is, and the exceptional. Lawrence Wingert, shortcoming. The show, however, third time, Saturday afternoon in who plays John Dickenson, is the should be seen. It's a fine musical, the Hamilton Chapel, reinforced most professional actor in the the book, lyrics and score are these feelings. production. strong, forgetable but good, as are most He is · I was told before seeing the . convincing and can sing. His musical scores, and the actmg and show that Peter W. Sluys believes "Cool, Cool, Conservative Men" is singing are spirited. Those he's the reincarnation of Benjamin the strongest and the best staged patriotic feelings should well up in Franklin. This is fortunate, number in the production. your throat, fulf'tlling the entire considering that Sluys plays The singing often falls short, purpose of the show. Fran klin, understudies Adams, but the arrangements, the �- ' The pro ductlon · · a successfLU 1s produced and co-directed the orchestra, and the enthusiasm · attempt and adapt1on of a show, and designed the costumes. saves the music, which is, after all, full-scale musical. It's too bad.the Peter Sluys is an excellent the most importa.nt element'in a reincarnation, and his show has musical comedy. The ·notable Hill hasn't seen a musical in ten many Franklin characteristics. It exception here is David Behnke, years. My only question for the is directed with wit, produced and who also did the vocal direction. Alexander Hamilton players is staged with inventiveness, and "Molasses to Rum" ' his only song • what is lacking in the acting and was so effective that I enjoyed the where was Alex during all this? the inability to carry off portions song which I had hated the first Was he robbing lands from the Indians and embezzling Federal of the dialogue is· saved by the two t·imes. funds in order to found a small spirit and exuberance of the The staging of the show was independent men's college in predominantly male cast. l exceptional. a so The only upper New York State? _ The acting is fine; Fred proble� with the use of the -
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n·enzo entirely filled with consciousness of himself, the hazards of his existence, his suffering, his WHAT BEETHOVEN MEANS TO ME nobility, and his greatness. This BY EUGENE JOCHUM man Beethoven, who was he? I Editor ,s N_ote: Eugene Jochum is Certainly no hero in the sense _ _ _ _ _ _ the music director and chief of the martial liJI' _ _ victor. no Achilles, I, 1,.J-_ _ __ I. conductor of the Concertgebouw radiant even in downfall, but a Orchestra 0{ Amsterdam, one of �an pursue�by the dem�ns of his the world s most renowned mmost bemg, searching for · orchestras. Born in 1902, Mr.· freedom, greatness, and above all, _ entertainment choices, which Jochum began piano lessons at age love. And all wrung under the constitutes a security risk. BY DOUGLAS SINGER Two years ago, the SEC would be published following its four, his conducting career in his most adverse circumstances, from As one of the writers for the Arts Page of the Spectator, I have threatened to overthrow the tabulation. teens, and today is universally humiliation and misery, and in the ·u the criticisms are not · revered as one of the greatest unimaginable loneliness to which become the recepient recently of safety of campus government effectively met, however, some conductors a large number of questions, by sending out a poll concerned of the older, deafness condemned him, without criticisms, and complaints about the body politic's choices students may look to alternative ..Romantic", generation. His ever the sound of a loving voice to concerning the SEC. In light of of ente rtainment resource organizations for representation, performances of the works of break through this barrier. That the value of man y of these allocation. The poll had two with a consequent withdrawal of Bru ckner, B a c h, Mozart, he enjoyed a social position the Beethoven, Brahms, and Wagner among the Viennese nobility I feel c o m m en t s , the problems, however: first, many s u p p o r t , threatening responsibility for raising these students, perhaps mistakenly, legitimacy of the SEC. rightfully enjoy particular esteem, which was exceptional for a issues for- discussion and debate. believed it to be binding; second, One such alternative used at and he has won many musician of the day alters colleges is a international, awards for his nothing. To him this position was It seems that the SEC is the the poll was never published. · some small victim of an unfortunate paradox a mere veneer, more or less All the criticism seems to subscription series, whereby one conducting art: and conflict: a bureaucracy bound amount to one idea: that the SEC contributes to programs of which What the New Testament is for arrogated, an d at the same time by organizational values in an should be made more responsive, he has some prior knowledge of Christians, Beethoven could be - despised. Nor was there solace in environment dominated by or accountable, if you will, to the their content. One wonders what and even is to a large extent - for his many erotic episodes, none of democratic myth. students who fund its existence. the effect of such a process for those who strive after the which led to the marriage he so This p aradox has raised serious Perhaps the criticism could be selecting entertainment might_ humanitarian ethos. ls it perhaps earnestly desired. They only issues abo_ut the structure and quickly met by the use of a have on the Hamilton-Kirkland that the human being is the deepen the shadows in the picture process of the SEC. Apparently, a binding poll, based on potential campus. subject of all he has to say? of this Goyaesque life. sizeable number of students (if As "God gave him the power those who have contacted me can to say what he suffered,'! he could LIST ART CENTER SCULPTURE EXHIBITIQN be taken as representative of at only put all that white hot A joint sculpture exhibition is the current feature at the List Art least a fair sized minority) believe emotion, m ute suffering, the SEC's allocation of its Center Gallery at Kirkland College in Clinton, New York. The three humiliation, and intimations of an monetary resources is both 'artists; Jason Seley, Victor Colby and Jack Squier, all professors at ineffable sublimity into musical Cornell University, each employ a unique medium of expression. inadequate inef ficient and form. And so he transmuted in according to apparently generally Jason Seley's sculpture is metal, consisting primarily of the forge of suffering the human accepted criteria of taste, automobile bumper parts. His five works exhibited include "Ithaca � means of expression into musical II" and "Baroque Portrait no. 2". Mr. Seley is currently Professor of entertainment, and the like. form, the strictest; most The criticism seems to have a Art and Chairman of the Art Department of Cornell University, crystalline form, relentlessly rightful place: since the Senate where he received his BA in 1940. He has studied with Ossip wrought intro the most exact seems to have abdicated its Zadkine at the Art Students League (1943-45) and with Atelier design. oversight duties over the the Gaumond of the Ewle Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He has And then the miracle h�ppens, committee, students appear to done one-man exhibitions at the Barone Gallery an d the Komblee that in this most pure, virile music have claimed it as their own in the Gallery in New ·York, Dartmouth College; Wesleyan University, all that stirs the heart of a human Dunkelman Gallery in Toronto and Amerika Haus in Berlin (1971). Senate's absence. being is turned to speech: His sculpture is included in collections at the Museum of Modem The criticism is rooted in two suffering, grief, loneliness, but aspects of the SEC's organization Art, the Whitney_Museum of American Art and the National Gallery also, and above all, the as it is presently defined. First, in in Ottowa. i nd e scribable sweetness of Jack Squier works with fiberglass sculpture. The List exhibit light of the resources at its consolation, happiness, dance, contains five of his sculptures including '"Large Relief" and "Small command, the SEC does not The human being who in Bach ecstasy carried to the bounds of Torso." Mr. Squier is currently Professor of Sculpture at Cornell. He adequately represent student lived, believed, suffered, and mystical transport: from the opinion. Its semi-elective method received his BS degree from Indiana University in 1950 and his MFA sheltered but who also was Virgiliam secul ar piety of the from Cornell in 1952. His one-man exhibitions include the Istututo of membership, shared by the confined within the strictly Pastoral Symphony and the de Arte Contemporaneo, Lima, Peru an d the Alan Gallery in New Senate and the committee's defined bounds of Protestant "Convalescent's hymn of than ks York. His work is included in collections at the Museum of Modem chairman, seems to be the humble, to the Godhead" of the String existence-; Christian problem, since the chairman's Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, New York City an d the Everson bound to God in an objective Quartet, Opus 132, to the Museum of Stanford University. recommendations tend to be more order. The human being who in visionary perception of a Father Victor Colby's sculpture is a "folk primitive approach to binding th an advisory. Although a Mozart already enjoyed full beyond the stars and the devotion contemporary ideas" and employs natural barnwood as a medium. similar claim may be made of the freedom in the seraphic beauty of of the Missa Solemnis. The entire Five of Mr. Colby's sculptures are exhibited and include "Centaur'' Defense Department, for example, a perfect harmony; almost span of the human heaft and spirit and ''Popular National Figure". Mr. Colby is Professor .of Art at such a process is not thereby innocent, and in spite of !!Very is in that work, perceptible, Cornell. He received his AB at Indiana University in 1948 and his justified, or perhaps, right. refinement, touched only in Don communicable. There· is appeal MFA at Cornell. One-man exhibitions include Contemporaries, New The second problem is a Giovanni the dark substratum of an d reassurance, the. courage to York City, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica and the the world, hubris and destruction, shoulder one's own destiny in the .,, procedural one; the SEC's method Hewitt Gallery New y ork City· His sculpture is illclUded in in the indestructible, but in the confrontation of forces, faith of allocating its resources. This ' collections at Ithaca College, the New York S_tate College at invincible dignity which makes returned to law. process is largely unknown to a Cortlan,d and Muhson-Williams-Proctor Institute. But what is the human being in human beings what they are. fair proportion of the student That is Beethoven for me. Beethoven? He is the entity body, no doubt because it
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FILMS ON CAMPUS THIS WEEKEND One Eyed Jacks- Directed by and starring Marlon Brando, this is , Brando s best attempt at self direction. f riday night at 8 p.m., _ Sunday mght at 10 p.m. Science Auditorium. Triumph of the Will- Directed by Leni Riefenstahl in 1937 f�aturing Adolf Schickelgruber. 8 p.m. on hiday and Sunda; mghts, 10 p.m. on Saturday night. Chemistry Auditorium. The Caine Mutiny- 10 p.m. on J, riday and Sunday nights, 8 p.m. on Saturday night. Chemistry Auditorium. November 6 & 7 (Monday and Tuesday) The Point-Animated Feature. 10 p.m., Chemistry Auditorium November 9 (Thursday) Citizen Kane- At the East Utica Branch Library, 900 Lansmg Street, Utica. Worth driving for. At Nearby Theatres Cannonball (in Clirtgon; 853-5553): Fiddler on the Roof Kallet Cinema (736-2313 ): Butterflies are Free Paris (733-2730): A Separate Peace Stanley (724-4000): Godzilla & the Smog Monster MUSIC November 3 (Friday) The Coffeehouse presents: David Bate, McEwen Coffeehouse, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. November 5 (Sunday) The coffeehouse presents: Owen McBride, 8 p.m.-12 a.m. . Free wi th social tax, 50 cents without. November 6 (Monday) The coffeehouse presents: Home Cooking, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.Free with social tax,_25 cents without. The Composer's Quartet-This could well be one of the best musical events ever on the Hill. 8:30 p.m., Chapel. November 8 (Wednesday) Free School Coursee, The Music of Beethoven and Mozart: Mozart's Symphony No. 41 and selections from Mendelssohn's Incidenta,l Music· from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" will be performed and discussed. 8 p.m., Root Art Center. THEATRE November 4 (Saturday) 1776 - A_n excellent production, the first musical on the Hill in , ten years. 2 p.m., the Chapel. See review in this week s Arts Page. November 9 (Thursday) Smoking is Bad for You 9:30 & 10:30 p.m., Chapel. EXHIBITIONS Currently on Campus Exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Armand Vaillancourt. At the Root Art Center through November 19. Joint sculpture exhibition by John Seley, Victor Colby, and Jack Squier. At the List Art Center through November 20. Exhibition of Current Prints U.S.A., from the New York State Council of Arts. At the Bristol Campus Center through November 21. At the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute 35th Annual Exhibition of Artists of Lentral New York. At the Museum of Art through November 12. An exhibition of th� photographs of Margaret Bourke-White, one of the world's preeminent photographers, will be displayed at the Museum of Art from November 19 through December 31. LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS November 7 (Tuesday) The Last Lecture you've been waiting for, J, ormer Associate Dean Hadley S. DePuy, 7:30 p.m., Chapel. November 8 (Wednesday) The Root-Jessup International Students Club presents: A discussion on Turkey, 8 p.m., Chemistry Auditorium. MILESTONES November 3 (Friday) Congress of Vienna 1814 . November 5 (Sunday) Hans Sach's Birthday ( 1494). November 6 (Monday) John Phillip Sousa's Birthday (1854). Adolphe (inventor of the saxophone) Sax's Birthday (1814) November 7 (Tuesday) Election Day (1972)
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"A Ser,arate Peace" A Sensitive · Study Of Adolescence
BY ROY SCHECTER To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relationship with the criticized thing and to make it one� own. Henry James
Throughout most of the last decade, many people, most of whom could be cfassified in the "adult" category, expressed much incredulity over the fuss that I and, I suspect, a lot of other high schoolers were making over John Knowles's A Separate Peace . I think they assumed that this novel, a study of adolescents in a prep school environment, was, by definition, of limited significance., either because it really was about kids like us, whom they never took seriously, or because it dealt with a subject so serious that it obviously had nothing to do with us. Perhaps as I grow older I will begin to agree with them, but I hope not. For even in the post-adolescent senility which I have just recently achieved, A Separate Peace remains, on a personal if not an aesthetic level, as one of the most important books I have ever read. And even if its impact diminishes in later years, even when its truths lose their immediate reality for me, A Separate Peace will always be there to remind me of what I was once like and what I once tliought. Now the book has become a movie, as all f;amous books must. I am not sure whether a personal involvement with a novel makes you more or less capable of assessing the merits of its screen adaptation. In one sense, the thrill of seeing that story translated into the visual media is so overwhelming that one may become undiscriminatingly fond. In another sense, however, a l l t he i d e a s , 1 v i s i o n s , interpretations, and conceptions of how the thing o'ught to look, of how certain lines ought to be spoken, and what the people saying them should look like, are to a greater or lesser degree destroyed by the fact of the finished product which has been fashioned by still another artist's hand and heart. When one does as James suggests, when he makes the work of art his own, he begins to love it as prejudicially as his own child; yet he also cringes at every flaw in his offspring as though each were the product of a defective inheritance. "A Separate Peace," the movie, is perhaps most remarkable for the faithfulness with which it follows the word and spirit of the novel. Both concern themselves with friendship, betrayal, love, hatred, a nd the senseless destruction that the pervasive atmosphere of World War II forces upon Devon, a peacefully isolated New England prep school. The earnestness and sincerity which director Larry Peerce has brought to the task of retaining the integrity of the original story shows through, and is at once the fil m's strongest and weakest quality. The movie's subtlety is occasionally marred by dialogue which worked very well in the book, but which stands out as being overly . philosophical on the s c r e e n , e s p e c i a l l y when it emanates from the mouths of sixteen year-old schoolboys.
The boys themselves, however, are perhaps the film's major s t r e n g t h . Al though these n o n -actors, recruited in and a r ound t h e Phillips Exeter Academy campus, start out a little unsurely (the scenes were shot basically in chronological order), as the film progresses, as the psychological action intensifies, in fact, as the characters in the film mature, the boys who play them mature as actors. And Director Peerce has wisely kept his i n e x p e r i e n c e d c a s t from overplaying a highly emotional story. John Heyl looks and acts like the Phineas of the novel, an am u s i n g , outrageous athlete whose a l m o s t su perh u ma n physical talents give him the quality of a romantic hero. Heyl plays Finny with just the right kind of inexhaustibie energy in the beginning of the film, and reveals an underlying capacity for
portrayi n g t he i ns c r u t a b le sensitivity and compassion which Finny displays near the end. Parker Stevenson plays Finny's best friend, Gene J, orrester, and does extremely well with an almost impossible role. Stevenson, in whose consciousness the story rests, says a great deal with facial expression, and his eyes convey a level of psychological meaning which the novel contained, but which is perhaps. missing in the screenplay. For the most past, the other boys are skillfully cast, and Peerce has used them in limited doses for maximum effect. Peerce's strict adherence to the novel, however, does cause some difficulties. Some of the scenes which followed each other loosely in the book have been jammed t o g et her , a n d o c c a s i o n a lly continuity has been sacrificed to the purposes of economy. And some of the dramatic scenes seem too studied, too impressed with t heir own self-importance or s i g ni fi c a nce, especially when contrasted with a few scenes in which Peerce achieves an� almost documentary style. In these latter
scenes, Peerce, as he did in "Go o d b y e C o l u m b u s ," demonstrates his ability to work well with large groups of people, and to achieve, as he does here with a faculty tea party, a broad and very visual satiric effect. Other drawbacks to the film i nclude some sloppy editing, which, though often admirable in idea, is sometimes unsound in execution. The overall technical quality is simply not as sharp as it sh o u 1 d b e ; y e t P e er c e, intentionally or no, does manage to avoid the Hollywood slickness that could have ruined the film. These pro blems, however, which disturbed me during much of the first half of the movie, seemed to dissolve, or ceased to matter as the film neared its climax. Charles Fox's alternately bouncy a n d pensive score contributes to the psychological and, at times, the surrealistic atmosphere which Frank Stanley's camera creates. I must confess that neither the music nor the cinematography reminded me of t h a t s i c ke ni n gly sentimental ·q u a l i t y w h i c h , w i t h out mentioning names, has been achieved so r.ecently and so f r e q u e n t ly m financially successful films; and the fact that some reviewers have jumped at making the comparison only premier, serves as another example of the perversity of the overly-critical mind. "A Separate Peace" has, like the book, a prologue and an epilogue, a technique the mechanics of which faich Segal was able to grasp and imitate, but the significance of which I rather think he missed entirely. "A Separate Peace" is a flawed but absorbing, very moving film , which stands on its own, apart fro� the novel which it so closely r e s e m b l e s. It is worthwhile because it says a great deal about a time- when adolescents were trying to grow up under the shadow of their own hidden enmity, and their country's open war; a time that for most of us, seems not so very distant.
IN MEMORIAM EZRA POUND 'OS . (1885-1972)
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THE SPECTATOR
NOVEMBER 3. 1972
New IFC Rules Provide Freedom in Rushing
BY DOUGLAS GLUCROFT The eleven houses on College Hill are alr eady rushing freshmen members. Fraternities are making a strong early move to interest freshmen in their houses since they are now permitted to offer bids at any time under the new Inter-Fraternity Council rules. Brad Caswell, rushing ch.airman of Alpha Delta Phi (AD) described his fraternity's policy for this year. ''We are rushing right through - no last minute effort this year as we have had in the pas t. We are getting to know the guys in the freshman class dinner, cocktails, buying them drinks and so forth." Terre Gregg of Sigma Phi related that house's activities by saying, ''We want to get as many freshmen over to the house as possible. We get to know them th rough other c�pus functions such as the various athletic teams and social organizations. We meet them down here for dinner and for the football games on TV. Last year, our policy was to wait - this year we are striking early. We had ten new members last year. We will probably get more than ten but we are not sure how many we will accept." The major reason for the change in rushing policies at many of the houses are the new Inter-Fraternity Council rules and regulations for rushing. 'fhe IFC, now representing eleven houses, has stipulated that bids may be given to freshmen at any time until Monday, February 19, 1973. There are other rules but this has ended i n tensive last minute rushing. This type of system has proven workable - at least for Chi Psi. Last year, Chi Psi dropped out of the IFC because they felt bids should be given out at any time. This year the house is once again part of the IFC because the niles now coincide with their policies. Chi Psi is also hopeful that the College will subsidize its "Gin and Juice" party since it is open to the entire c ollege c ommunity. Hamilton and the IFC have considered subsidizing several of the houseparties. Dave Pullen, Vice-president of Chi Psi, said that their recent rushing policies are similar to those they have followed in the past: dinners for small groups of freshmen, and members going to Dunham to speak to the students. He added, "We are in a solid
that they are not rushing you but who wants to join a house will_be they really are." He felt that the turned away. The reas on for these rushing fellows are nice and he will probably join a fraternity house rules can be attributed to a because, "I think it is a tighter changing philosophy of what community. More of a home, you fraternities should be. The action know. I'd like to live in the house. taken by Chi Psi last year was I t l o o k s l i ke a wa r me r . another factor. Paton explained, atmosphere. The food is better, "I wouldn't say that Chi Psi Another freshman who changed our philosophies but the too." has been to AD on several fr aternity situation has been changing and Chi Psi's move occasions remarked that he was "treated excellently" and believes precipitated a ne�essary change. It indicated that conditions were he will join '1ust for fun." The average consensus of the right for that sort of cJiange." Paton e�pressed optimism in freshmen interviewed was that the members are extremely friendly . regard to the future of fraternities and that they do not try to boast at Hamilton. ''We can count on about their frat while degrading raising the percentage of pledges any others. Most of the freshmen in the years to come." Paton, who have visited the various however, could not extimate a houses feel very free and don't percentage of future fraternity feel committed just because they men among the Class of '76. In the course of the semester, have been given dinner and freshmen will meet the fraternity cocktails a couple of times. Many men in classes or other activities. f i r s t-termers don't even feel As Paton s a i d , "Freshmen "r ushed'' inthe conventional sense. It has become a very casual Nothing definitive can be --ai!Uor social rapport. at this point with determined position - we are looking for $1000. Terre Gregg at Sig stated, The new rules for rushing set regard to how many freshmen will people we want." At Chi Psi, the ''We have the chance to spend a down . by the Inter-Fraternity join houses, whether these new full house votes on every bid. fair amount of money this year if Council have accounted for the rules will last, or whether if any Most rushing chairmen · seem we feel that it is necessary but we time in the future fraternities will quite pleased with the new IFC have to find out what the change in a t t i tude among fraternity members and freshmen. enjoy the unanimous popularity rules. Esty Foster of Thelta Delta freshmen themselves want before Jeff P a t o n of the IFC t hey o nce had. This year, Chi remarked, "I guess they are we go to any great expense." on the new rules. ''We commented however, is the year of the "soft p�etty good - almost non-existent. Of course Houseparty Weekend sell." The relationship between It's the way it should be. The represents a big expenditure. Chi met this fall to decide on the the fraternities and the freshman pressure, for the most part, is Psi is running a punch party on rushing procedures. I think these rules because there is best the are is informal. There is no class gone - along with hell week." Friday night, and dinner and Craig Tompkins of Psr U cocktails for Saturday, and the now freedom and responsibility ' coercion or pressure from the houses and no strong feelings commenting on the rules said, other houses will have variations Qn both sides. It allows the houses "You mean the absence of them. on the same theme. They are pretty good but we will The response of the Cl ass of miss that one month of hard '76 to fraternities is still unclear. rushing - it's now the whole Howeve r , most houses feel s em ester." Jim Connolly, of intuitivel y , based on their Emerson Literary Society pointed experiences so far, that this will out that the rules are beneficial be a better year for them. since the pressure is gone, but the Brad Caswell of AD said, "Yes, long period of rushing can be I think this year's freshman class economically hard on a house. is more responsive than last year's. There were two voices of . There are a lot of brother disaffection with the IFC rules. combinations, so they see that John Eager of Gryphon "social fraternities aren't such a bad thing dorm" said, "I'm disappointed in after c_1.ll." Esty Foster at Theta them. I thought the IFC might Delt agreed. ''The freshman class have taken a more liberalized and this year seems to be a good one realistic approach." He added, fo r f r a ternities. The general "Th e r u l e s a re really not consensus is that the interest is applicable to us in any case. We there." Jim Connolly of ELS are against formal rushing. ff you a t t r ibutes this inte r est in want to become a member there is frate r n ities to the sweeping cantor nothing to stop you." changes that have been made in to start bidding and end when from the freshmen one way or the other. The decision to join or not _ G r y phon's system i s a rushing procedures in the past they want to." The rule stipulating that after to join at this point is not fatal • d e p a r ture f r o m frate r nity years. So far the various fraternities February 19th a house may both sides realize that. tradition. At this "social dorm" shouldn' t worry about just there is only a $10 fee per hav e contacted a substantial revoke a bid si according to Paton, coming to a house. Nobody is but freshmen" ew r sc to "not · semester for nominal expenses. number of freshmen. ELS has had They charge at the door for their over 100 freshmen at their house, s i m p ly to i nsure against going to be thrown out but there parties so that those who don't go about 70 of whom they know "cliffhangers". Although some will be discomfort for both the don't pay. Gryphon, now in its well. Psi U has contacted about 50 houses may be giving out more freshmen and the fraternity. They second year as a "social dorm", freshmen. DKE has had 40 bids than they need members, will have to meet the guy also has two Kirkland members, freshmen down for dinner and Paton asserted that no freshman elsewhere." and one from the Hamilton informal gatherings. Not too 24 hr Towing faculty. Eager points out the many bids have been given out essential adv antages of Gr yp hon most houses have not given any GULF BILL'S life when he says, ''This is a set-up out. According· to Steve Cotton, · N.Y.S. AAA with more cooperation." But if President at Teak House, 60 nspection I Gryphon doesn't rush, how does freshmen have gotten to know the 66 Utica St it acquire new members? "It just members. ALL REPAIR & BODY WORK GUARANTEED happens and the fraternities are About one-half of the members FOREIGN CARS A SPECIALTY bewildered," Eager said. of the freshman class have been 10% DISCOUNT to college students with I.D. · Rushing can be a big expense approached by at least one of the for a fraternity but tJiis year many ten fraternities. Many are not On ALL parts, Accessories, and Service Work houses have incorporated rushing interested "in joining at all at this EXCEPT GAS ( expenses in their general social point but most have not really 6am-12am 7 days. Hours 24 -853-2525 budgets since (reshmen attend made up their minds yet. most of their parties. Sandy Brian Gelber '76, who has been MacIntosh of DU said, ''Yes, t o s ocial gatherings at two 1 when the time comes we will fraternities said about joining, GORTON S The Whole Earth spend a lot. We've had notions of "No. In a small school like this Natural Food Store of CLINTON having truck rolls but nothing you don't need to." He has gotten ,, 2 College St. definite 50 far• to know the "guys" and he Most frats see little change in doesn't feel pressured to coerced Open I 0-6 Mon. - Sat. The friendly General Store the amount of money they will into joining either house he has bulk grains, flour, seeds, nuts, spend for rushing except Psi U, visited. Come in to see us any time vitamins, cereals · tea 8c �uch more which is upping its allocation Rick Swenson 7 6 said, 'They from about i300 to almost want to give you the impression �:-:❖•
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Milbank Hall Gains Official Status
Milbank Hall, the lavish complex that enjoyed top billing at Kirkland as A dorm, was dedic ated Staurday, October 21, and treated to a sherry reception. The afternoon christening formally included this largest and most expensive of Kirkland's living facilities into its family of dormitories. B dorm now remains the single, nameless orphan seeking monied benefactors. Milbank Hall is named in memory of Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, a tum-of-the century philanthropist who crusaded for the interests of women, children, The education. and higher M emorial Mil bank Fund--"dedicated to improved the physical, mental and moral condition of humanity"--now includes the Kirkland dormitory, a medical research facility and a convalescent home for poor children, in its portfolio of good works. Samuel R. Milbank, Mrs. Anderson's great-nephew and a New York City investment banker, represented the Fund and the Milbank family at the President Samuel dedic ation. Babbitt made the welcoming speech and Francis H. Musselman spoke twice in his two capacities: as the Chairman of th·e Kirkland Board of Trustees and Milbank the of Chairman Memorial Fund. Mi l b a n k H a l l p r o vi d e s fully-furnished, brightly decorated RIGHT TO VOTE continued from page two the life of the individual and seize the fruits of his labor without his consent. I do not expect everyone-or even the majority-to agree with these views. I respect the political right of everyone to make his own decisions. What I ain suggesting is that the right to vote gives every citizen the 'p os s i b i l i t y of expressing publicly (where it sho ws) his political convictions. According to what these might be, one might choose to vote for Shirley Chisholm or John Hospers not because they have a strong chance of winning but because one honestly sha,es and respects
living quarters for 154 girls and two faculty members. The 25 student suites include 104 single rooms and 25 double rooms, arranged so that 6-8 students share suite facilities, which include an a l l -electric kitchen, modem carpeted lounges, fully equipped laundries and bathrooms. Special meal accomodations have been made for students who prefer to prepare their meals in the suites, rather than use the student dining hall. To insure privacy·, there are separate stairways and entrances to each suite. The modem, concrete structure was designed Samuel R. Milbank and President Babbitt duri119dediation and executed by Ben Thompson another black Kirk.land student,. HARRIS . witnesses, but to no avail. & Associates, Cambridge, Mass., continued from page one School officials are aware no one else has come forth. Yet who has been the architect for the harrassment and resisting arrest. of the case but can lend no direct the accused says she will not give entire 12 million dollar Kirkland She faces a potential sentence of because the basic problem, a up hope� she also refu�es to aid College Campus, which is situated one year's imprisonment. Her lack of evidence, remains. The concede m any manner m the on 60 acres. hearing continues this Friday, D i s t r i c t Atto rney. will not case. She will most likely appeal Two seminar rooms, one which October 27 at 7:00 p.m. in the prosecute the policeman because the matter if need he, although a is being used as Kirland's new town barn on 12B. no witnesses will come forward great deal of energy and expense Women's Center, are located on Since October 4 Cassandra has against him. As it stands, she feels will probably he involved. It . the ground floor of the two story spent vast amounts of time victimized just as much by the should be no�ed that now, ha�g building. searching for witnesses to aid in bystanders as by Schmidt himself. recovered from the psychological _ The new dormitory is the her defense. She knows the crowd Several witnesses, specifically the trauma, Cassandra has amazmgly seventh housing facility built on contained children--she still recalls three men that aided in the arrest, managed to keep some sense of the Kirkland College campus, at a the look of disbelief on one boy's have c omposed d e positions humor, which she calls a necessity cost totaling about 9 million face--and yet she could find no against her, depositions which she for preserving her sanity. dollars. It is the largest dormitory, one in the Clinton schools to c o n s i d e r s At present, Joel Tibbetts is inaccurate and yet stresses individual living, and support her. At one point she was contrived. Their unreliability can collec ti ng information about offers the Kirkalnd student a told of a few young people who be seen in one simple example: Officer Schmidt, since supposedly choice in the style of living, not had evidence against Schmidt, but Cassandra is several times referred other incidents involving him have previously available. With the then learned that their parents to as a ''male". ' taken place. If anyone has had addition of Milbank Hall, the had warned them to keep quiet. Cassandra Harris is a black trouble or knows of someone who Kirkland housing facilities allow No adults have come to her aid, woman a fact which must be has, he is asked to please write up about 50% of its 618 students to either. For one week she ran an ad stated for what it's worth. Her the incident, sign it, and see that live in private rooms. in the Courier asking_ for sole witness is Linda Butler, Tibbetts gets the statement. their goals. If their constituents had the courage to stand up and be counted (rather than succumb t o the m i sguided fear of "throwing away one's vote") it would be clearer to everyone including the two major parties where America is. Sincerely, Rand Carter
barricaded in closed minds. · A writer's ideas and phrases are his own property, and on that rationale copyright suits have established his right to have full privileges of exploitation. Once this sanctity of the "creator's right" is accepted (and since it is the moral basis of plagiarism it must be accepted for there to .be any such thing as SELF-PLAGIARISM P.lagiarism in the first place), the very notion of such a thing as To the Editor: "self" plagiarism stands as an Re: t he recent flyerS On the absurdity. If se to relates it as code honor Plagiarism is an offense against plagiarism the author. To accust a writer of of concept recurring This selfplagiarism is about as valid as self-,plagiarism is one of the most charging an underage masturbator · I' ve notions morally bankrupt tory rape. ever had the misfortune to find with statu
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eyebrows were raised, hut he was accommodated. He found himself To the Editor: It's Monday morning, 8:30 disgusted by some aspects of life A.�., a typical, cold and rainy fall in the fraternities. He needn't day - the 23rd of October. Having have crossed Campus Road to find tried unsuccessfully for the fourth squalor - he should have taken a day in the last week to take a tour of Hamilton College Dorms. Everyone knows the wonders warm water shower in North of our dormitorieS' heating Dorm, I sit here at my desk, pen in hand, knowing no other way to sy5tems. Who of us has not. soothe my anger and frustration sweated and stuck to his seat on th� to scribble out a letter to those first hot days of April or that final arbiter of all our woes - May, listening to the happy you, my dear editor, and sounds of the radiators hissing and steaming away? And who of us hopefully publisher-to-be. It is reported that Dean has not searched vainly through Bingham on a recent occasion, the halls of his dormitory, asking having been invited to partake of each of his fellows if he would by the humble fare of one of our chance have brought a wrench, fraternities, requested to be tak.enp __continu_ed _0_n_page te_ n __ ___--. __ _ on a tour of the bathrooms. A few JOAN MARIE'S CLINTON LIQUOR STORE GRAND UNION SHOPPING CENTER CLINTON MEADOWST. FREE DELIVERY 853-8878
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Reagf!,n Out linesRole of Frosh StudentAdvisors BY DOUG GLUCROFT For Hamilton freshmen, the student advisor plays an integral part of early life at college. Each of thirteen advisors is responsible for about twenty freshmen on his hall. In return for free room and a fifty percent reduction in board fee,. the advisor attempts to ease the transition between home and coBege for the freshmen. Joe Reagan,. '73. head advisor, said that c'the freshman advisor is a stablizing influence. He serves as the impetus to enable the student to get his feet on the ground and begin the academic tasks set before hnn." The placement of advisors and t h e a s s i g nment o f their responsibilities i s a joint effort of t h e Dean of Students, the A d m i s sions Offiice, and the advisors themselves. According to Dean Bingham, the advisor is to informally deal with students on academic, social, and emotional matters. The Dean added that the faculty advisor, not the freshman advisor, is primarily responsible for the academic direction of the student. The student advisor � though, should be accesible, · and '' attempt to maintain some sort of check on the academic progress of his advisees throughout the year. .. Ad viso r s a r e expected, for : instance, to talk with the students ., receiving miMemester warnings, and find out where their problems ' lie. The advisors are also expected to help keep Dunham dormitory as quiet as possible. ·
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The Admissions office assigns each incoming freshman to his advisor. According to E. John Effinger, Assistant Director of Admissions, there is an attempt to place those freshmen who the office deems will have some trouble adjusting to the emotional and academic rigors of the college with the most capable advisors. Though all the advisors should be capable enough to deal with any fres h m an p r oblem, due to limitation imposed upon them by their participation in various other activities, some of them are unable to spend as much time with their advisees is as desired. The Admissions Office and the Dean of Students add that it is Since the advisors themselves also valuable for the advisor to c h o o s e their successors, the encourage academic cooperation freshmen's opinion of his advisor's among his freshmen. If John performance is given little or no excels in Math, he should help c o n s i d e r a t i o n . A n i nformal Ralph who is having difficulty, sampling of students felt that the wh�reas Ralph might be able to advisors generally fulfill the'ir tutor John in French. responsibilities. They have offered The advisors themselves seem insight into the problems of t o a g r e e on what t heir selecting a particular course or responsibilities are. Joe Reagan professor. Though some students spoke for the consensus noting felt that the advisor's area of that student advising · acts as a study was too remote to offer aid, check and balance on the faculty about half had given the names of advisor. The attempt, then, is not other people to talk to. The to undermine or replace the advisors have dropped by to talk faculty advisor, but to offer a once or twice, and specifically different perspective which a met with those who received freshman might not otherwise wai:nings. On the whole, the receive. Most students agreed that advisors have , been helpful when the advisor js not there, as some the student is troubled with a critics claim, to badger or harass minor problem. However, several the student into doing his work, students complained that their but to act as both a counsellor advisor was absent from the dorm, a n d disappeared for lengthy and keeper. Friday afternoon? And finally, who among us has not -experienced the joy (as I have this dreary October day) of stumbling into the bathroom for the morning wake-up ritual of a shower and a shave to delight in that medium of cold water? Need I say more, comrades? Perhaps we are meant to be more soulfully united in this bond of suffering. At any rate, however, we painfully begin to discover that the ''pioneering spirit'' is more needed at Hamilton that at Kirk.land. John S. Stroebel Mike Rowan Bill Platow Tim Hogeboom George Edwards HEAL TH CENTER To the Editor: In recent weeks rumors about a lleged m i shandling o f emergencies by the Health C_enter staff have been circulating on b oth c ampuses. The H amilton-Kirk.land Health and Drug Advisory Board is very concerned about these complaints and has investigated them in the hope of pinpointing any Health Center deficiencies. Ideally, these investigations will result ' in improved health care for the college communities. One of the conclusions we have drawn is that students show a lack of awareness of Health Center policies. Pertinent procedures are the following: (1) The college physicians will see patients, emergency or otherwise, only at the Health center. Of primary importance is the equiptment necessary for emergency work is located at _the infirmary (e.g.' respirator; tr acheotomy kit, stomach
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intervals throughout the week. It appears that each of the advisors has developed his own method of maintaining tranquility in D u n h a m . Most have a laissez-faire policy, and a number of students complained of the incessant noise. A number of advisors have instituted study hour s f rom 7:00 p.m. on, enforcing them strictly. However, some freshman complained that the advisors have done this for their own self-interest. According to another group of students, the advisors had informally suggested the maintenance of quiet for a few hours during the evening and the plan appeared. to be working well _. The opinions of students vary, as do the advisors' performances. Nevertheless, the consensus is that the advisors are living up to most of their expectations.
BY PETER KAMINSKY_ Last Friday and Saturday night, Papa John Kolstad and "his i incredble twelve-string guitar" p l ay ed t h e b l u e s at the Coffeehouse. Both nights he drew a sizable, enthusiastic crowd. He also seemed to enjoy himself, beating out time with both feet and barking encouragements to himself like ''Play the blues," or �'LeCs hear that bass line." His material was mostly of two types, Robert Johnson-style delta b l u e s , u s u a lly slow and characterized by certain standard -d e s c e n d i n g r i f f s , and Leadbelly-style fast rolling blues with that typical heavy base line. He handled both styles well, though a certain sameness of delivery and guitar• work made some of his faster ·songs tend to run together. A few songs that p a r t i c ularly struck me were Robert Johnson's ''Me and the , Devil Blues,; Leadbelly's "On a Mon d a y ," and "Southbound T rain." He also did several s i ng-alongs which were very well-received and at least one original song, ''Mill City Blues," about his hometown Minneapolis. This is the title track to an album he put out with a harp man named Soupy Milton on Logos Records. In spite of their squabbles with Service Systems about serving food , t he C o f feehouse has continued to function and on the weekends h a v e b o o k ed interesting and sometimes exciting performers.
students submit any complaints, On the question of sermonizing written and SIGNED, to Steve pump, etc.). It should be quite W agoner, chairman of the Health evident that the capacity of the by the physician, it appears that Committee, at Box 176, Campus physician's "black bag" is what they physician considers medical advice, some students Mail. All complaints will be relatively limited. confidentially investigated, and a Also of major importance is may consider sermoni�g or the time factor. No point on moralizing. It is difficult to· personal response will be made. Sincerely, either campus is more than five distinguish between the two views Stephen A. Wae-oner '74. Chm. minu tes from the Health at times. for the Hamilton-Kirkland Health In order to stem the flow of Center. It is far more expedient and Drug Advisory Board. for the physician to meet the unresolved rumors, we ask that patient at the Infirmary, rather than attempt to locate the patient in any of a number of campus buildings. It is rare that transporting a patient results in further injury. (2) The duty nurse does not leave the Health Center under Hamilton College any ci rcumstances. In an emergency, she calls the guarc Bristol Center, 2nd floor to transport a patient. (3) The nurse must assess the Thursday, November 9 extent of an injury before calling a doctor. She also cleans 1 la.m.-8 p.m. the wound. In addition to CHAGALL, BASKIN, ROUAULT, saving time, she might find that DAUMIER, MATISSE, PICASSO the wound needs no further . . AND MANY OTHERS. : ' l• treatment. (4) Antibiotics will no longer be dispensed by Health Center � f.�!����ND ROTEN GALLERIES nurses. A student must obtain a prescription to receive them. A case which illustrates several For Convenience and Safety of these points is described by Keep your checking account Ruth Schachter '7 3 in her letter at to the Spectator (October 20, 1972). In her letter Ms. Schacter contends that the refusal of the physician to make a "house call" was inexcusable. As stated above, this refusal is completely in Banking Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.. Monday through accord with Health Center policy. Thursday, However, the unfortunate error in 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.. Thursday and Friday the case was that, in the confusion of the moment, the nurse on duty Member· F D.I.C. failed to summon the campus guards to the Mattingly �esidence.
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THE SPECTA-TOR
Polo 2nd in Can. Tourney; Upset in Final Hom·e Game
An eleven man contingent from the Hamilton Water Polo Club ventured into international competition this weekend of October 21 as they participated in the Sir George Williams University In vit a t i o n a l W a t er Polo Tournament in Montreal, Quebec. Hamilton, the only American team present, captured second place in a field of seven teams, which featured several former memb ers o f the C a n adian Olymipic team. An opening 4-2 loss to the Ro yal Military College appeared to portent a disappointing day for the Continentals, as a lethargic Hamilton offense mustered a pathetic attack. However, the Hamilton squad, in spired by the rhetorical renditions of Faculty-Advisor Eric MacDonald, r e bo u n d ed by john adaml wrecking MacDonald College 10-4, as team captain Brian soundly defeated them in a visit our physical acumen but out Cavanagh '73 cannoned home to Hamilton last year. A win m o r a l e t h r o u g h o u t t h e would secure second place; a loss tournament, even when the chips seven goals. In the key third game against a would sink the Continentals into a were against us/' The Water Polo Club, whose menacing team from Laval mediocre fourth. Undaunted, Hamilton fought season record is now 16-4, University•, Dave Shapland '74, whamming three goals, propelled to a 6-6 regulation time tie, concluded its season last Sunday, Hamilton to. a tight 6-5 victory. f o r c i n g t h e g a m e i n t o 0 ct. 29 when it hosted a Hamilton proceeded to register its sudden-death. And there was joy tournament in the Alumni Pool third consecutive win by mangling in Sudsville as the flashy Shapland starting -at 10:00 a.m. Colgate, the College Militaire Royale 10-1. niftily slashed in an arching pass Union, Harpur, Morrisville, and Cavanagh and dirty defenseman from John Needham '75 to win Hartwick accepted invitations to Brad Johnson '75 paved the the game and assure second place the tournament. Hamilton easily splashy way with four goals and in the tournament. It was defeated Union College in the three g o a l s respectively. Shaplcl;Ild's fourth score of the opening game and as was expected Hamilt o n and Colgate both Hamilton's outstanding goalies, game. Cavanagh led.the team with a reached the finals. Hamilton had Jeff Carlberg '75 and Lester Lannon '75, combined to just total of seventeen goals, followed 'defeated Colgate in three previous miss a ·shutout. C.M.R.'s lone goal by S ha pland with ten and matches, but this · time Colgate Johnson with five. Needham, Jim came up on top by a score of 9-8. resulted from a penalty shot. Hamilton's hopes of achieving Carr '74, Craig MacDohald '75, The team had trouble preparing a tournament coup were soon and Clark McGuire also tallied. themselves with the right mental extinguished howexe�, as the But it was a tenacious defense, a t t i t u d e f o r p l a y i n g a un d e f e a t ed M cG i l l tea m , sparked by the ever he�-up Carr highly;�pirited Colgate squad. w ell-rested and imposing an and the intrepid Johnson, and by Colgate jumped to a two goal lead i n s urm o u n t a b l e d e f en s e , ' the impeccable Carlberg in the early in the first quarter, and co nqu e r e d t h e f a t i gu e d g oa l , that c oordinated an there was no time Hamilton led Continentals, 6-1, despite some e xtraordinary Hamilton effort dur_ing the contest. The majority of the water polo equivalently superb defensive play in to a highly r e spectable club now has a long swimming by Stan Kaye '7 4 and John performance. Captain Cavanagh had this season to prepare for, while the Navarre '76. A half-pool rifle by Cavanagh accounted for the only comment: "Playing six turbulent whole team is looking forward to games i n o ne day against the 1973 season. The team will Hamilton score. The exhausted Hamilton team top-notch ·c ompetition, with sorely miss graduating seniors now possessed a 3-2 record as limited substitution, is increchl>ly Brian Cavanagh,Johnjudson and they approached their final game exhausting. It is to the team's and Peter Schloerb, but the remainder against a tough Sir George to Coach MacDonald's credit that of the team will prove to be a William s squad, which had we were able to sustain not only sound foundation for another .successful season.
Homecom'g Crowd Delighted As Soccsters Stun Larries 6-1 BY WOODY NAVIN It has been said, by this reporter, that the Hamilton Continental Soccer Squad, in the eyes of this reporter, could not put the spherical checkerboard in the net. This reporter has been pro ven wrong . Aga inst S t . Lawrence two weeks ago, the Twine Ticklers emerged victorious by an amazing score of six to one. Ranked ninth in the state, St. Lawrence has been a tenacious club for quite soine time. Known as a strong defensive team with an impermeable goalie, St. Lawrence has only allowed 4 goals to be scored upon them so far this season and only 8 goals all of last season. In face of this opposition, however, the Continentals not only remained undaunted, but they also rose to the occasion. While bolts of ligh�ning were
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AN IN-DEPTH DISCUSSION WITH VITO STELLATO '74 As Told to Timothy Cosell ''We're speaking to Vito Stellato, co-captain -of Hamilton College's Cross Country team. Vito, they said the team was no good, they said it was washed up. You lost Judson, you lost Peuron. Everyone said it would be· a growth year and, if you got lucky, you might win a few meets. September - weeks of inten,sive training - the season opened and the team took thoid at the LeMoyne Invitational behind Colgate and Rochester. You bounced back three days latuh with a sweep over RPI. You beat Courtland and even more surprising, last week you beat Rochester. A win over Union today could give the team its thoid consecutive undefeated season. What accounts for this "Cinderella team"? The public would like to know, I would like to know, what have you been doing right?" "Well_ Howard, we like to think of ourselves as a tight team, a close strong pack. Perhaps the biggest surprise has been our freshmen. Bruce Carter is right on Delaney's tail, Joe Terranova, Charlie Hathaway and junior Jim Logan have progressed amazingly. Sophmore Lucius Pacilio has consistently improved in · his key number five slot and is perhaps this year's biggest inspiration. As for the old men - Delaney, Ford and myself - we have to keep running just to · maintain our self-respect. Injuries and sickness have taken tlieir toll but I think we can get it together for Union and then the State Meet a week fro�.Saturday." (With the thought of "the big one", Vito stared pensively, shifted in his chair, sipped from a c an of Schlitz.) "I really have nothing more to say/' · They have done it before, this reporter thinks they can do it again. I will be at the starting line at 3:30 on Friday in Clinton. Perhaps you will too.
Player's' Perspective
BY DAVID SHAPLAND Much to the surprise of many from the college community the Hamilton water-polo completed its season last Sunday with a tournament held in the Alumni pool. The fact that the season ended was not surprising, but the fact that Hamilton even had a water-polo club was, and still is, news to quite a few students and faculty. As a matter of fact, this is the third· year that Hamilton has. participated in inter-collegiate water--polo. In 1970, the premier team won the New York State Water-Polo Association Championship, but that title was lost to Syracuse in the finals in 1971. This year the club, led by faculty advisor Eric MacDonald, placed second in a tournament peld in Montreal, and finished the .season with a record of lfHi. It is true that the water-polo club is comprised mostly of members of the Hamilton swimming team and that playing polo is helpful in getting into condition. But the club is not being used as a· ploy so the swimmers may outwit NESCAC regulations and begin practice before November 1. The one thing the water-polo club does not want is to be thought of as a mere extension of the swimming team. One might wonder why water-polo is referred to as a.club, rather than as a team. There are some arbitrary college rules stipulating a sport must run a trial period as a club until it has proven to be worthly of becoming a fully-supported inter-collegiate team. As of yet, the club has not completed enough seasons, but it also lacks the important College and Alumni support needed to fin ance a college team, although water-polo could function well enough on a budget substantially lower than most of the College's athletic teams. Hopefully, the future will bring the club more recognition and team status, so that Hamilton water-polo may operate with a viable budget and a full-time coach. MOSES FOOTE GENERAL STORE
World Wide Arts and Imports striking Steuben Field, rays of set up a penalty kick. The piercing sunshine illuminated Theta Delt's shot by a St. Lawrence player Now featuring our new backyard. bounced off goalie Rose, and th; GARDEN ROOM The Twine Ticklers opened the Larry drove the rebound home for match against St. Lawrence with St. Lawrence's sole score of the 13. COLLEGE STREET Open 10-5:30, Sun. 1-4 offensive fire power that would day. CLINTON, N� Y. have impressed even B a r ry Ray Terepka '75 picked up his 1 West Park Row (3 f5) 853-8385 Goldwater. second goal of the day after _ --""1- · .....;_-..;;-�--..; · -.:..•-......,.,..........,;,........,___.. R a y Terepka '7 5 opened m a k i ng a pass from haltback.li;:============:r�. 1 -""'-;;-·�· Hamilton's scoring barrage on• a Kerry Regan '76. Terepka again WEAVERS LIQUORS pass from Nat Follansbee '73, scored in the first half, capping THE MODERN TAILOR SHOP "On the Squ.qre" which he cannoned info the goal. off a hat-trick on a feed from OF CLINTON INC. Murray Danforth '76, dribbling Foll ansbee. the ball through St. Lawrence's The second half opened with Specializing in the largest goalie, tallied Hamilton's second M urray Danforth '76 picking up Quality Dry Cleaning, Tailoring goal within the first 10 minutes of his. second tally of the day on an I Selection of Imported, Domestic: I I and Shirt Laundry Service play. air-bound blast from 31 feet out and fine California Wines A great defensive play by The Twine Tickler's sixth goal fullbacks Howie Johnson '7 4 and came late in the game when Jim Dial U L3-8421 Tom McLoone '7 6 stopped a near Campbell '73 stole the ball from a t 8:3() am - 9:30 pm I 853-5421 Larry goal as the unattended ball crowd in front of the crease, and I touched the goal line. A 'hand then pummelled the ball into the Plant & OfficeI Free Delivery . ball' was called on the play which net. 1' 43 College St. Clinton N.Y.
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Rooters Top Dolphins 4-1; Finish Season At 5-4-1 BY WOODY NAVIN
NOVEMBER 3, 1972
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Under autumn's canopy of peacoc k colored leaves, the Ham ilton Continental Soccer Squad capped off a 5-4-1 season BY ED WATKINS with a strong 4-1 victory over the Football is _more than a game. commonly called desire. LeMoyne College Dolphins. It involves the mastery of new Desire can be seen only by Before the five minute mark in the observing a player or team in skills and p hysic al the first half, LeMoyne tallied understanding of strategies of action. Does the player run rather their sole goal of the game. In the play. than walk? does he put his hearl process of trying to clear the ball Football is in short, a contest down when he runs with the ball out of Hamilton's defensive zone, requiring the closest cooperation and go through people instead of fullback Bob Hutton kicked the among the body, soul, and mind. around them? If he is knocked ball into one of the other Without the proper mixture of down on a play, does he set up Continental fullbacks. A Dolphin those three parts; victory remains and try to hit or tackle until the · alertly picked up the deflected · a distant figure. whistle blows? ball and popped it into the goal. The body part of football is If the answer to the above is The Continental's came right the easiest to understand. The yes, then that player is said to back with two quick scores in the , ,,, ends and backs must be swift, the have desire. The advantages of next five minutes of play. After linemen strong. It goes beyonf being a "desire player" are that receiving- a pass from wingman that though. A tenth of a second the coaches like them and that on Jim Campbell, Ray Terepka in speed is readily traded for a occasion the mediocre player who collected the first goal on a pair of sure hands; a small, fast really wants to win will beat the piercing shot onto the lower left offensive guard in prized by a hell out of the star who does not corner of the goal. The Twine navin running team which does not need take the game too seriously. Nat Follansbee (10) in action against LeMoyne Ticklers took a 2-1 lead whenJim A sound body, an intelligent the 280 pound "monster." A new Hamilton College record with 5. On Defense, Danforth Campbell rifled the ball, again The mind is of the utmost mind, and possession of the will McLoone Nat hen w and ed h s i bl Johnson, ta s e Hutton, was into the lower left corner. Nat importance in football. Every to win make a complete football Follansbee was credited with the Fo llansbee tallied the Twine were excellent as they assisted situation, every down, entails a player. Twenty-two such players fourth and final goal of goalie Jeff Rose in protecting Ticklers' assist. Neither team was able to selection of one of several options make a championship team. kick. H am il t on's honor. Halfbacks the game on a penalty score throughout the remainder of Football today is full of teams by both the defensive and Stugis, 1.:h, Regan, Follansbee's goal was the 26th rn, Chur Halpe the first half.- The banana-peel · season for the Rooter's who just can not come up with offensive teams. goal of the should McDougal and Drinker, surface of mud on the field Coaches are the men who train the right balance of the three the Before offense, breaking prolific commended. b e also hampered finesse, while creating the· minds of the players. The elements for more than one s ome crowd-pleasing acrobatic previous record of 25 goals in one Edwards a nd Dickson were head coach develops the offensive season at a time. Here today, gone season. also they injuries, with· sidelined spills. tomorrow strategy. The backfield -coach teams are the rule. No Coach von Schiller's Soccsters, team. the of elements key were During the first 35 minutes of plans the tactics. The defensive one stays on top for long; there Rose and help from Coach Prichett, with by Jeff Captained the second half, both teams could coaches must devise way in which are no fooball dynasties. not assemble a scoring offense. As should be congratulated on an HowieJohnson, next year's soccer to blunt the enemy's attack. · If That is the beauty of the The admirable s�ason. Against New tough. be again should team the pressure mounted during the these men are able instructors, "game." The variables are not class of '76 t e a m s , t h e Y o r k S t a t e men from the seven waning minutes of the game, the their teams will . reflect it by easily measured; prediction is action became frenzied. With only Continentals had a 5-2-1 record. who secured starting roles this playing near-perfect games. difficult. Dissect it and you have core should provide a Overall, Hamilton lost only to past season, ten minutes remaining in the tilt, The soul in football in found in nothing. Far better to sit back, The season. teams ranked in the top twenty in next for strength of D a v e Wollman fed Murray season's team each man's will to win; most watch it, and learn. Danforth f o r an exciting, New York State and to Wesleyan remainder of next freshmen and new and Williams, ranked 4th and 7th from come will tension-breaking goal. Upon Coach McDonald's reservoir of b scoring, Danforth S1:1ffimed up the respectively, in New England. Scoring leaders this past season varsity talent, the JV's. The JV's team's e m o t i on s when he the Twine Ticklers were exhibited varsity potential as they for exclaimed,"Yay! Yay! I can't Terepka with 8 goals, Follansbee handed Colgate a 2-1 defeat last b elieve the immense with 7, Campbell with 5, and week.s proportions .. "
Rain& Larries Subdue Blue Gridmen Idle This Weekend
Senior end John Graveley (7 BY ROBERTJ. KEREN The Hamilton Continentals . p�ses for 104 yards) pulled m a dropped their fourth game of the Rob Winter aerial for Hamilton's 1972 season last Saturday, 26-14 second score midway through the second quarcter. The Continentals at St. Lawrence University. As the rain fell soaking Weeks got a big break on a second-down Field in Canton, QB Rob Winter i n terference c all on Larry and the Blue offence exhibited comerback Kevin Dooley, giving their finest half of football, going us possessi(?n on the enemy's into the locker room with a 14-12 32-yard line> After Bill Collier carried for two yards, Winter lead. The Blue scored twice in the dropped back to pass as Graveley first half, with Winter engineering cut over the middle. Rob stepped scoring drives of 80 and 63 yards up into the pocket firing a bullet against t h e evenl y-matched to his favorite end, who broke one Larries. Halfback Vinnie Puleo tackle at the 10, and paused for capped the first march on a an Al Silverman block, making it 20-yard run, as John Graveley 13-6, Another perfect Bill Finan pulled in a Winter pass in the conversion followed, and the second quarter for Hamilton's Continentals led 14-6 Winter . ended the afternoon only other score. T h e s e c o n d t im e t h e with· 13 completions in 20 Continentals got the bali, Winter attempts for 186 yards, but after brought the Blues down to St. the two scoring drives in the first Lawrence's 20-yard line, following half, it was all St. Lawrence. Larry QB Jeff Kantor, out. of good gains by running backs Puleo and Collier and �ompletions to Mepham High School in North Graveley and frosh Al Silverman. Bellmore, brought his team back Puleo followed the fine blocking twice in the first half, passing to of Bill Collier on first and ten Steve Sutton for one and handing from the Larry 20, and broke two off to Scott Menzies for the other. tackles at the line and one at the But two missed conversions gave 15 for the score. The five-foot Hamilton that 2-point halftime nine 170-pounder kept his balance lead. With less than two minutes and followed the blocking for his remaining in the third quarter, second T.D. of the season.
Larrie Speedster Donald Watkins returned Lou Cordia's punt to the Hamilton 40-yard line. Kantor passed to Rick Klingman to the 6, and after two running attempts Kantor rolled left, lofting a shorty to end Mike Davidson. Blue defensive back Jim Knodel got a hand on it before Davidson, but it tipped back into the end's hands, a s did the game, with St. Lawrence going out in front 1 9-14. After thwarting three offensive drives the Blue defense forced the Larries to tum the ball over again, with but 2:50 remaining in the contest. David Jennings booted a low kick to Hamilton's Kevin Snyder. The ball took a few bounces on the soggy turf as Snyder tried to pick it up, but he never gained control as the ball rolled off · his leg and was recovered by two St. Lawrence defenders on the 14-yard line. Kantor ran out the· clock, and w i t h 2 3 -se conds left, Scott Menzes got his second T.D. of the afternoon, on a one yard drive. 'Two bad breaks in- the second half gave the Larries their third victory against four defeats in the year, while it brought the Blue record to 1-4. Winter has his best afternoo�,
Brian Smith (20) tiptoes through the linemen ehrlich as did Vinnie Puleo (67 yards on with 27 first downs, while the the ground) and reserve-back Bill Hamilton offense never really got C oilier, replacing the injured started, gaining but 28 yards total Sandy MacIntosh Veteran end in 60 minutes and only 5 first John Graveley kept adding to his downs, while losing the ball on six Hamilton receiving record, pulling tumovers. Where the middies ran in seven passes, making his total away with the game in the first 98 lifetime receptions. half scoring four touchdowns and Two weeks ago in front of a c o m pletely immobilizing Rob P a r en t 's· Weekend crowd at Winter and the Blue 0, they came Steuben Field, the undefeated on in the secondhalf ready for Middlebury Pathers ripped the more plundering, scoring two Continentals 60-0, in quest of the more T.D.'s in the third quarter, supreme small college honor, the and three in the final frame. Lambert Trophy. John Anderson's white and Panther Coach John Anderson silver powerhouse controlled the kept up the pressure throughout flow of the enitre game, running the entire game, keeping his out of the Wishbone-T with Phil regular backfield in through the Pope (176 yards and 3 TD's), third quarter, grinding out an Tom O'Conner (96 yards and 2 unbelieveable NINE touchdowns.. TD's), Doug Cramphin, Duane With hopes of passing the perenial Brown and Jim Williams carrying Sect i o n -I I I L a m b e r t -Winning the. ball for a phenomenal 6.3 University of Delaware in last yards per carry. w e e k s ' b alloting, A nderson The Continentals have this poured it on for the Hamilton Saturday off, but face off against crowd until the final gun. the No. 1 ranked small college The Panthers gained 453 yards team in New York, the Saxons of on the ground and 92 in the air Alfred next Saturday.
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Career Center Plans Law Panel for Monday
Economic Opportunity, will speak BY ELAIN� WEISS Government practice. In an effort to present a about multi-faceted view of law school Joseph Cardamone, a local and the legal profession, the attorney, will descnl>e a lawyer's Career Center is sponsoring an day in Utica. Mary Ellen Caldwell, informative Law on a teacher and member of the Panel Monday, November 13th at 8:45 Affirmative Action Task Force of p.m. All students, including Ohio State University will speak lowerclassmen, are invited to on the goals, requirements and structure of a legal education. The participate. The objectives of the Law law students, three of them Panel, as explained by Hamilton Hamilton alumni, will respond to profe�or James Traer, a p-re-law a number of questions concerning advisor and a coordinator of the their experience in law school. Panel, are three-fold: fathoming Skip Conover (SUNY Buffalo), law school admissions procedures Paul Crumrine (Catholic U.) and and problems-the ordeal of Henry Melchor (Harvard), -not "getting in", explaining the nature long gone from the Hill, will join of a legal education from the two -representatives from the viewpoint of both the student and Syracuse Women's Law Caucus in what pressures, the professor, and career options d i�cussin.g opportunities and possibly open to persons trained in law. BY PETER ZICARI The Law Panel will be disappointments they are finding Gil Grout, Assistant to the comp osed of five professors of in law :school President at Hamilton since 1969, law and five law students drawn · The first portion of the Law expects to leave College Hill at the from a variety of schools. Each Panel will take place in the end of this ,academic year. In past will present a brief t.alk on an Kirner/Johnson auditorium and years Grout won a considerable aspect of law studies or law as a will be a discussion between the measure of popularity among the The career. are audience and the panel. The student body, fielding complaints teachers "professionals who have done Hamilton or Kirkland student and distributing spaces in different things with their law with an eye towards law school, Hamilton dormitories. ,, degrees according to Professor or even a mild curiosity about the The housing director's job has field will have a unique Traer. been passed on to Dean Bing-, opportunity to attend the Law Robert Gordon, a teacher at ham's office, however, and the SUNY in Buffalo, is a legal Panel He or she can ask those Assistant's job will, in effect, plaguing questions and voice those historian and will direct his come to an end next spring. As comments toward admission gnawing doubts. Is law a practical assistant t9 the President, Grout, vehicle of ocial change? Is it true , policy. Jason Newman, now in addition to the housing duties, at G eo rg e town that students in law school believe teaching has responsibility for the they can chan the world only to University and formerly legal ge mundane details that must be counsel for the Office of Continued to page six
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DEBITS The Actwities Student Committee treasurer submitted the following report on their lnulget. To attempt to alleviate.some of the criticism directed at the SAC (Student Activities Q>mmittee), we would like to publish the budget for this year. This is not a security risk. As anyone who has bought social tax should realize, his tax affords him more free cn�tainement than just the three houseparty concerts each year. We have set aside $2800.00 for Coffee House; Cathy Collins, in charge of the entertainment there, is doing a spectacular job, having contracted Roy Bookbinder, John Kolstad, Martha Trachtenbeig, and Hamilton's own Joe Louis, to mention a few. In addition we have set aside $2000.00 for the handling of this year's Folk Festival, and $2000.00 for po�ible use by other campus organizations. One point about this year's activities committee is worth mentioning, in conjunction with the budget. Last year, amid rising complaings that the committee was not diversified was only appropriating funds for Coffee House, Folk Festival, and the houseparty concerts-the name of the committee was changed to the activities committee, emphasizing that we are open tQ budgetary requests from other student organizations for entertainment the entire college community would enjoy_
Set aside for: Folk Festival Other orgs. Coffee Home: · Martha.Trachtenberg Tom Lyon Joe Louis Roy Bookbinder Andy Cohen John Kolstad David Bernstein Jim Holbert Discharge previous debt
CREDITS
30,775.00 28,775.00 26,775.00
2000.00 2000.00
724.77
BALANCE
22.93
2707.07
23,366.09
Bullet concert Agent's fees Labor - security guards beer tender lights setup crew
750.00 75_00 15_00 11.60 20.00 15.00 61.60
22,616.09 22,541.09
Steaknight Labor - secur;ity guards lights setup crew
150.00 15.00 30.00 23.00 68.00
Brewer & Shipley Agent's fees ayne Cochran gent's fees Labor - security guards lights setup crew
3500.00 350.00' 2500.00 250.00 45.00 180.00 53.66 278.66
Other
32.03
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Gil Grout toLeaveHill 4 Years Ass't to Pr es.
SAC Reports '72-'73 Budget
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handled by someone in authority. With other administrators, he said, he works to see ''that teachers are free to teach". He attends committee meetings and currently keeps the minutes of most of them. His job,. Mr. Grout and President Chandler both noted, is one usually held by a young man just beginning a career in college administration. Of itself, it leads nowhere, but assistants often graduate to more important jobs in the field. Grout's predecessor left Hamilton to take a position at Dartmouth Cqllege. -By remaining in the post, Grout could be blocking an important first step for other men. Upon his retirement from the Air Force, where he had reached the rank of Colonel, and had served, among other things, as the in attachc: military U.S. Camaroon, he applied to Hamilton to teach French and German- he is fluent in both languages. Preside�t Chandler, then a new arrival on the campus, invited him to take the Assistant's post. Grout accepted. Grout said that at the time he came to Hamilton, there was a possibility that the job of Secretary to the College would be re-created; it had last been held by Mr. Walter Johnson in the '50's and gave its holder responsibility for most of administrative and committee paperwork carried on in the college. For economic and administrative reasons, it did not materialize. When the Associate Deap,'s position opened in the spring of 1972, Grout, at the "insistence" Continued to page five
faculty Ha m il ton The announced four decisions last Tuesday, including a change in the Role of the Academic Council, a plan to increase the flexibility of final exam schedules, a unified daily class schedule for Hamilton and Kirkland arranged by both schools' deans, and a common date for pre-registration at the two colleges for the Spring semester. The announcement, signed at Hamilton by Dean Kurtz and at Kirkland by Dean Schneider, reads as follows: "The Board of Review rather than the Academic Council will from now on receive and act upon all student petitions and independent study project requests other than those for Winter Study. The Academic executive Council, as the committee of the faculty, will continue to act as ar{ appeal board in Honor Court cases. ''With the hope of creating a more flexible final examination schedule, the faculty I upon recommendation of the Academic Council, approved the following resolution applicable. to the· present semester: after week one "Within publication of the final examination schedule, students who have two examinations on the same day or a conflict may request an alternative date from their instructors for one of the two scheduled examinations. "In the event that a mutually acceptable time cannot be arranged, the student may take one of the examinations during one of the regularly scheduled free periods in the examination schedule. The Registrar. will make every effort to work out the details of a schedule with as few .conflicts as possible. In an effort to better coordinate classes at Hamilton and Kirkland and to reduce the number of courses closed to students because of overlapping class periods, a uniform class schedule will be in effect beginning next semester at both colleges. Every effort will be made to see that. classes begin in accordance with these hours. The Continued to page three
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"COLERIDGE'S ANXIETY" Thomas McFarland, professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will lecture on Thursday, November 16, at 8:30 p.m. in the Bristol Campus Center Lounge. His topic is "Coleridge's Anxiety." Professor McFarland, an eminent Coleridge Scholar, is author of Coleridge and the Pantheist Tradition, which in exploring the origins of much of Coleridge's thought takes up the very vexing question of his so-called plagiarism. Professor McFarland's latest book is on Shakespeare's romantic comedies. Professor McFarland holds an A.B. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Yale. CRISIS CENTER UPSTAIRS, the crisis center, is open 24 hrs. Located on 2nd floor of the infirmary, UPSTAIRS is a hot line service with referral information. Call or come. Ext. 7531 or back entrance of the infirmary.
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To the'Editor: Last Saturday night, November 4t h , during the House Part Weekend, I had my car parked behind the Bristol Campus Center. When I went to the car at I:00 p .m. on Sunday afternoon, I found that it had been severely vandalized. The muddy footprints on the kicked-in roof attest to the f act that someone deliberately per petrated this d estruction; Other parts of the car were also damaged, · to the extent of several hundred dollars.. I am appalled that someone on this campus, drunk or not, could have done this. I am also disturbed with the security system on campus. If . anyone knows anything about this incident, I would be most grateful i f the y w ould share thei r information with me. My box number is 555, Kirkland College. I can also be reached at ext. 4972 or 4449. Thank you for your assistance.
patients and can be reached by r a d i o . 2) The guard '-s station wagon should be equipped with a stretcher, resuscitator, first aid k i t , and b lankets. 3) Nurses should be instructed to call the doctor prior to the arrival of the patient as the Health Center if there is the slightest possibility that the injury is severe. The college community• now n u mbers 1500 students i n addition to faculty and other members. It is also sufficiently s p r e ad out t o w arrant such changes. Hopefully something will be done before the luck of the p a s t r u n s out and t he r e p e r c u s s i o n s of a major c a t a s t r o p h e o f f e r u s no alternative Respectfully submitted, James McCrea '73
NOVEMBER 10, 1972
tried to lure Monti Rock out of retirement. I'm sure his cover of ''My W ay" could have �asily outclassed Wayne Cochran's cover of ''Try a Little Tenderness." Why have such atrocities as last Satur day's "concert" and last Spring's bill of Al Kooper and Lighthouse been thrown at us? Are t hese the best acts our e x t r em ely limited budget can buy? Clearly not. Are these the best acts our extremely limited S . A . C . c a n .book within the c o n f i n e s o f b u d g e t and a va i l a b i l it y ? D oes this say something negative about the taste of our committee? It's unfortunate that what is to be offered as entertainment to over 1500 students is decided by a coterie of 7. The 4 Hamilton people were chosen by the whim of the Student Senate.
WINTER STUDY PROJECT REGISTRATION Registration for on campus Winter Study Projects will take place from Thursday, November 16 -Thursday 30. Forms are available in the Office of the Registrar. Please list three (3) clioices on the Form, obtain your advisor's signature and return the completed form toe t�e Registrar's office. WHCL-FM SPORTS ANNOUNCING SAC All students wishing to announce Hockey or Basketball games To the Editor: Whim it was. There was no over WHCL-FM should contact John Covino, Box 1221 Campus I was one of the interested application procedure - the (then) Mail, by Wednesday, Nov. 15. There are openings available for both "concert"-goers Saturday night. S . A . C . c h airman gave his sports and members of all classes are invited to audition. No previous· It's sad thflt I'm probably being recommendations and the Senate radio experie•nce is necessary.. too generous when I call the dealt with them as they wished. QUAKER ISM: A RADICAL RESPONSE Judy Steinlauf music at that "event" lousy. It's N O one worried with such Robert Eaton, a Quaker activist and resister, who sailed the e v e n sadder that the Student t r i v i a l ities as background and Phoenix into Vietnamese waters both North and South, will speak Activities Committee deserves full taste. Experienced members of on "Quakerism: A Radical Response", Wednesday, November 15 at blame. Emergencies last year's larger committee were 8 p.m. in the Red Pit (K-J Building). T h e c oupling of Wa y ne booted. Why has the S.A.C. been Cochran and the C.C. Riders and established at 7? The argument is To the Editor: OPPOSITION GROUPS IN THE U.S.S.R. B r ewer and Shi pley was as that a smaller committee can do a Current Health Center policy "Are There Opposition Groups In The Soviet Union?" will be the boggling as one might fantasize. better job clearly is absurd. topic of a talk by Dr. Peter Scheibert of the University of Marburg, . as expressed in Stephen Wagoner's One of the toughest problems tl)e letter of November 3, shows a West Germany, Monday, Nov. 13, at 8:45 p.m., in the secondJloor S.A. C. must have had, had to be , I've talked (at/with/to) some decided lack of concern for the lounge of the Bristol Campus Center at Hamilton College. The talk is of our apathetic Student Senate deciding which act more deserved safety of the members of the being sponsored by the Hamilton College Faculty Lecture Representatives. Their claim that bottom billing. They did do that college community. Committee. "nobody else wants to do the correctly though. What did Wayne If a doctor can be called i.r;i on Born in East Prussia, Dr. Scheibert was educated in Germany and Cochran and the C.C. Riders ever job" simply isn't true. The an emergency only after a patient Finland. He has his Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki. During Student Activities Committee do to deserve the supposed $2500 World War II, he· worked in the German Foreign Office, and is has been tr ansported to the b o o k i ng our philan thro pic shoul_d be immediately enlarged. considered one of Europe's leading authorities on the Soviet Union. Health Center and examined by a committee gifted to them? If the We deserve a voice - a voice that He is the author of several books and articles on Russia, and is a nurse, a major emergency can S.A.C. wanted the soul Wayne i s n ' t b eing heard through visiting professor at the Russian Institute of Columbia University. develop. Cochran so poorly attempted they after-the-fact placebo polls. We The time element is not the FREE CHURCH should have tried to book any one need re presentati ves t o a n five m inutes stated in Mr. The Free Church Service this week will be led by Melvin B. Endy ent e r t a i nment committee, not o f th,e many inexpensive soul acts Wagoner's letter but rather 15 to of the Hamilton Religion Department. 11:15 a.m., Sunday in the available. The Spinners or the entertainment dictators. 20 minutes-ten minutes' to Chapel. As pretentious and ridiculous 0 'J a y s come immediately to prepare a severely injured patient GOD? as it is, I challenge the Student mind. If the S.A.C. wanted the for transportation and to get him Community Worship program: "God?" will be held in the Red Senate to rectify its absurd action. satire C o c r a n delivered they to the Health Center and another Pit, 7:30 p.m., Sunday. Bill Lambdin should have gone all the way and five to ten minutes for the nurse HUMOR IN ADVERTISEMENTS to examine him and the doctor to Commercials For Laughs is the topic of a program featuring films arrive. The Red Cross First Aid and tapes of television and radio commercials from around the Textbook states, "Most persons world, which will be presented in the Hamilton College Science will die within six minutes or less Auditorium on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m. if breathing stops completely Charles Kwartler, Director of ·creative Activities for the Radio NUMB.ER NINE VOLUME THREE unless they are given artificial Advertising Bureau of New York, will provide the commentary. �s 'The Radiator" in 1848 published First respiration." It also states, "If a Kwartler said his program will feature "the best and most effective Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor large blood vessel is cut, blood commercials in the humor category." The commercials were selected Elizabeth Kneisel loss· may be sufficient within less Peter Zicari by the American Radio and TV Commercial_ Festival, which annually than a minute to cause death." presents "Clio" awards to advertisers here and abroad. As�ciate Editors Mr. Wagoner's letter states WORK DURING HOCKEY TOURNAMENT Henry Glick, Robert Keren, Kenny Marten, Maria Zammit that, "It is rare that transporting a The Block H Club is holding an open meeting Tuesday, November Assistant Editors patient results in further injury." 14 _at 7:15 in the Chapel for all those interested in working during Carol Goodman, Paula Klausner, Kathy Livingston Perhaps this is so if the patient is the intercollegiate hockey tournament. Sports Editors transported properly but how KIRKLAND FUNDING COMMITTEE Craig Fallon, David Shapland many members of the college The student funding committee will be holding a meeting on community know the correct Arts Editor Wednesday, Nov. 15, 12:00 in McEwen D to receive petitions for t echni ques of transportation? Richard Kavesh funds for the 1972-73 academic year. Any organization wishing to A g ain I quote the First Aid Managing Staff ·petition for funds should fill out a petition and s_ubmit it by mail to Textbook, ''Perhaps more harm is Linda Anzalone, Ken Gross, Robin H�ck, Liz Horwitt, Patty Debi Aidun prior to the meeting. Petitions may be picked up in the d o n e t h r o u g h i m p r o p e r Jaffe, Taki Lamson-Scribner, Tony Mazzarella, Connie Miner, LOBBY of McEwen or in Bristol Campus Center. Anyone wishing to transportation than through any Betsy Murray, Dave Rienzo, Susan Sternberg petition in person is welcome to come to this meeting. other. method associated with Business Staff WAGNER AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MUSIC em ergency a ssi stance." Few Jim Noonan,Jeff Pearse, Bruce '!'h:;tler people on the Hill are qualified to On Wednesday night the 15th at 8:00 p.m. in the Root. Art Photography transport a victim with a broken Center, Richard Kavesh '73 will be discussing the German composer John Ehrlich (Captain), Nat Barber, Wendy Goodman, Woody · Richard Wagner and the psychological, extra-musical aspects of his leg let alone a victim with a back Navin, Dave Cantor, Bruce Wrigley work. Everyone is invited to attend. or neck injury. STUDENT BOOK AUCTION Current Health Cent�r policies Staff assume that a patient has minor A student book auction will be held in the new Library, Monday Steven Applegate, Lorraine Blank, Ed Catlin, Joq Cramer, injuries until proven otherwise. through Friday, November 13-1 7. The books for sale will be Randy Davis, Vincent DiCarlo, Anne Pinelli, Jennifer T r u e , t h i s m i ni mizes the displayed throughout the week on tables located across from the Freeman, Jan Gehorsam, Jim Giarra, Ken Given, Doug possibility � ;of false alarms but it Circulation Desk, and students are invited to enter their bids for any Glucroft, Garret Hayner, Gordon Kaye, Louis Levenson, Jim m a x i m izes the possibility of items desired. Ludwig, Beth Martin, Vijay Murgai, Michael CORRECTION furt her injury or death. This Murphy, Da'1d Nemens, Lisa Newell, Dennis Oakes, Lynn The Spectator phone number in the Student Handbook should be policy is impossible to justify. Pannel; Thomas Pirodsky, Steven Polakoff, Judy Prager, Chip changed to 7101 or 4911. I would like to propose several Presutti, Skip Roessel, Roy Schecter, Judy Sillari, Douglas changes that would serve to lessen JEWISH STUDENTS MEET Singer, Linda Smuckler, Scott Toop, Joan Tuchman, John Jewish Students at !1a,milton and Kirkland Colleges will meet t he possib ility of aggravating Vigren, Isabel Weinger, Elaine Weiss, Bob Weisser. mJunes. !)The guards, who are every Monday night at 9-10 in the Fisher room in Bristol. Anyone The Publications Board publishes ''Th� Spectator," a newspaper not currently trained in first aid who has Jewish or Israeli records or music is asked to drop a note to edited by students, 29 times during the academic year. are they as should be trained Subscription: $7.00 per year. Address:· Box 83, Hamilton box 244 (H) in campus mail. There will be services this Friday night College, Clinton, New York, 13323. 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To the Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the o f t h e m e m b e r s Hami lto n-Kirkland Community wh o helped giv e "1 7 76'' a successful run. The cast and crew were well ple a sed with the reception. No small part of our favorable run was due to the Spectator , review .by Emily Simon. Her g r a c i o u s· r e m a r k s w·e r e appreci a ted . However, I was surprised to µotice that Peter Brandon Bayer,. the production's co-director, was not mentioned. Bayer w.orked long and hard; he, along with the spirit of the cast, made all the difference between success and failure: I hope you have the fairness to give his contribution the public notice it so richly deserves. Peter Sluys Producer, "1 7 76"
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To the Editor: My head aches and !llY eyes can barely focus as, pen in hand, I beseech you to make an effort to stop the invasion of Kirkland and Hamil t o n . I refer to t he overabundance of those 4-legged creatures known as man's best friend. Once again, last night, I awoke at 4 a.m. to the yelping of a big black dog under my window. It lasted at least twenty minutes. This is a college, not a humane society. Whoever owns those dogs has a responsibility to not only care proJ?erly for them, but also to the rest of the student body wh o has ce rt a in rights. For examp le, to sleep w it h o ut constant barking; to eat without dogs always begging at the table; to be able to walk through McEwen without having a p ack of dogs following. And the other day I noticed that some dog couldn't hold it in any longer and relieved himself in McEwen dining room. Is this necessary? If students can't take proper care of their animals-, then they shouldn't have the privilege of having them here at· the expense of others. I request that the Humane So c i e t y o f K i r kl a nd a nd Hamilton, lllld all pet owners, get the situation under hand. If no t, then all anim als should be banned from campus. I'd hate t o see that though, because I am an
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BY PAULA KLAUSNER t heir opinions. The understanding a loan rather than a grant or a In early August, the Kirkland of these "certain fact ors" is a vital comp us job. To the Editor: Office of Admissions mailed a consideration for the College. · In an effort to assess the effect The Student Tea ch-in: for questionnaire t o the 1 70 students A few major patterns have of Kirkland's present admissions. Ezra Pound who had declined the College's emerged from the students' Concerning the Ham Col offer of admission to t he Class of responses to direct questions and procedure, the Admissions Office asked for comments or criticisms football team, who has not seen '76. A report of the 128 responses from supplementary of the procedure. Response was t heir such despicable losses over the received been has recently comments that were encouraged generally favor able. Though two hash marks on a sunny October compiled. by the questionnaire. The factors students objected to "Particulars" day, out of key with their t ime, The predomin ately multiple th at seem most significant fall and the accompanying poster, striving, striving, and yet still this choice for m -sought information into two general categories: the finding them "fad conscious", the whispering through the trees, is abou " t the women's alternate plans inevitable and the alterable. repor t concluded t hat "most this the victory dreamed at yellow a nd their reasons for declining Inevitable factors, such as size of applicants said they thought desks in the high s·chools of the admission to Kirkland. Director of t he college, distance �rom major Kirklan d's admission procedure Kerouacian morning? Admissions Brigie Cosper wrote in cities, an d distance from home are was a very humane and personal The trees loose their bridal the form's introduction, ''we are aspects over which the college has appro ach to the business of Wesleyan was qui te a game wasn't trying to build a college; and we no control. The alterable fact ors admission." it? Anchovies, il signor ipecalum. continually find that our best ------that determined many students' Then (ey on the tomato), that critics an d sounding boards are rejection of Kirkland must be Faculty Decisions isn't a western egg, that's the our students and applicants." Continued from page one seriously examined however. eastern sun, on November 8, Only 8 of the responding Some of the more important schedule will be a s follows: though not a panacea, is . their women had pla ns outside of 8�8:50, 9-9:50, a l t er a ble f a c t ors were Mon· only t he snow-coming night for attendance at other institutions; 1 0 : 3 0 1 1 : 2 0, d issa t i s f a c t i o n wi t h the when dressed up for a shower, all of those eight decided to work 11:30-12:20, 1-1:50, " atmosphere" of'the college, the sockss de licately soaking, . we are in some capacity. Among the 2-2:50, 3-3:50 colle ge's general a cademic left only with the linoleum floor rema inder, who were planning to 8:30-9:45, 10-11:15, reputation, the unst ructured Tues to caress our toes, ironically, sad matriculate. at various colleges, 11 11:30-12:45, 1-2:15, curriculum, and non-availability harmonies toking as if on the chose to attend Brown University 2:30-3:45 of preferred specific academic banks of the Ohio, and has Edgar rather than Kirkland, an d 8 8 - 8 : 5 0, 9 -9: 5 0, programs. The two most common Wed Lee Mas ters come back again? decided to enroll at Oberlin 10-10:50, 11-11:50, responses cited ''problems" of Dean College. Ot her popula r competitor thou art Wherefore 1-1 :50, 2-2:50, 3-3:50 coordination with Hamilton, and Bingham, Fred was in the corner, schools were: Cornell University limit same as Tuesday Thurs ations in our financial aid she has a rash, with Ulysses near, (which 5 women chose over same as Wednesday Fri budget. we lowered sail, but raised _the Kirkland)� Trinity College (5), Sixty-:-five women, over half of Efforts will continue to find student entertainment prices. Wellesley College (4), Bryn Mawr those an swering the form question the best possible hours schedule, Sirloin tip roses along the white (4), University of Rochester (3), "Did our coordinate relationship bu t until a better one c an be paths of red clay where the P.A. Smit h College (3), Mt. Holyoke with Hamilt on College have any worked out we hope that this one system rose its defiant upper lip. I College (3), Wesleyan University bearing on your decision to apply will prove a step in the right am with you in Clinton, ground (3), and Vassar College (3). Kirkland?" answered yes. direction and be recognized as an to between two stones, I a m here as a pparently Of the 113 women· who The s e women indication of cooperation on the on a darkening plain, pulling the question about discovered that the coordin ate part of the two colleges. answered down my vanity, before your very Kirkland's rank as a preferred relationship was not what they tears, tears of joy, for his choice among the colleges they had hoped for. .A common date · for disembodied spirit, that lies like to, 49 claimed that A majority of students polled, pre-registration for the Spring a pplied smoke in Venice, while Chandler's Kirkland was one of their final who had applied for financial aid, semester has been agreed upon for in London, and his car is illegaly choices, bu t was ultimately stated that they ha� been offered both colleges: November 15 parked in front of the reserve sign, decided against; 26 said that more satisfactory aid packages through 22. while Phi Betes are dying inside Kirkland was not a first choice, elsewhere. Frequent complaints and calypso singers bold flowers, and 36 wro te that at one point, about the Kirkland financial aid at the community hot chocolate. INTERESTED Kirkland was their preferred package were that Kirkland could 0 Body swayed to music, choice, but certain f actors altered offer none at all, and th at a large IN AN 0 brightening glance, SPRING COURSES, 1973 Didn't you know, INTERNATIONAL Each student must meet with his or her Faculty Advisor during The Chi Sighs ran the dance? the period beginning Wednesd a y, November 15 and ending Sincerely, CAREER? Wednesday, November 22. If you do not re turn your card to the The Editorial Staff of Winterset! Registrar's Office, you HAVE NOT officia lly pre-registered for the Clarification Spring Semester, 1973. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SELECT COURSES UNTIL JANUARY 29, 1973. 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''The Lost Weekend'': ·Arts and Entertainment (Hi�) Transit Gloria
angles constantly dwell on bottles. BY JEFFERSON BOONE Milland's furtive stealing and AND SKIP ROESSEL The Lost Weekend is a pawning, and his addiction to sensitive, subtle film. About as whiskey are sometimes hard to sensitive as a wino's palate, and swallow. Cumulatively, however, about as subtle as a shot of rye. A the effect is compelling. The "little animals" on the last drug-conscious youth culture is night. This is a sho�t sequence, probably not well acquainted with true alcoholism, houseparties strictly stu.dio effects with trained notwithstanding. Alcohol is mice. Out of context it would be poisonous. Continued large_ doses laughable. Here, it's not.' Part of The Lost Weekend's can lead to hallucinations, · success lies in its convincing insanity, and death. The Lost Weekend's New York documentation of New York. City is the New York of 1945, the Director and cameramen have New York of the Third Avenue made good use of the city: the El, of ·sleazy bars, of pawn shops gritty texture of its anonymous left over from the- Depression. streets effectively mirror Milland's His drunken stagge_r Ray . Milland is a failure as a personal hell. . Avenue was the d own d Thrr · writer. He lives by sponging off his brother, who buys him what prototype of the hidden-camera he needs, and gives him fifty cents technique used so effectively in a week for cigarettes. Fifty cents The French Connection. This won't buy much alcohol, even in sequence was the rrrst commercial Ray Milland at Chi Psi gin and juice tast Saturday. See him in ..The Lost Weekend." 1945, so Milland has to pawn, use of on location shots from the beg, and pilfer enough money for back of a panel truck, with real the occasional binge. The passersby reacting to the drunk in girlfriend, played by Jane Wyman, their midst. along with his brother fight a Perhaps Wilder's story losing battle to save him from construction and direction are too much for modern audiences. We himself. Milland's brother is preparing are given enough, more than to take him away for a quiet enough, and then still more. Can To the usual plastic qualities of L0pg an established name in of the result J for, in the hands of weekend of recuperation. It Demon Rum be this bad? The the artistic and political life of Vaillancourt, the acetyJene torch, s c u l pture the S a n Francisco should be pretty safe to leave problem with film directors and Canada, .t\r mand Vaillancourt has the pneumatic hammer, and the fountain (19 67-71) adds the Milland alone for a few hours t 1 y a c hi e v e d m o r e · chain saw become the poet's pen, effects of movement, sound, and alcoholics is that they never know r e c en before the train leaves; the w i d e s p r e a d i n t e r n a t i on a l and wood, metal, and concrete his bum.an participation. It is:, indeed, when to say when. apartment has been thoroughly r e c o g n it i o n t h r o u g h h i s paper. _This poet-sculptor does not t h e concern for the relation Surfeit notwithstanding, The searched for bottles, and he's· sensational water fountain in San hesitate to make use of anything between art and life which is Lost Weekend is sobering stuff. It m exhausted his credit at the local Embarcadero Plaza, the modem technological world always so ipre�ive in the career Francisco's is, self-admittedly, a study of bars. Well- meaning Brother has known provides present-at-hand in order of Vaillancourt. Not only is much extremes. In spite of occasional dedicated last year. Best underestimated Milland's cunning. to transmute baser matter into of his time and apparently mes someti and for strong his heavy-handedness, one can be b oundle s s energy devoted to higher form. Ten dollars discovered in a. violent cast and welded metal easily convinced. The notion that sugar bowl ( the cleaning lady's Although we have had to limit people and the celebration of life, m s , Vaillancourt can also for this experience could be pay can wait till Monday) provide ourselves in this exhibition to but the emotional range of his someone's reality is gruesome to pr oduce f or m s of extre m e a half-gallon of rye, with enough contemplate. Taken as a whole, subtlety in wood , either through small-scale works and bozzetti, sculpture from the feeling of pain left over for a couple of fast ones the movie works fast and well. carving or burning with a blow the monumental quality of much and frustration at human injustice at the corner. before brother gets Milland won an Oscar, and 'torch. o f h i s w o rk wil l b e f_e lt to the overwhelming sense of the joy of being alive in the world is im m ediately. A n um b e r of home. Recently his work has shown a deserved it. the expression of a complete In the world of the alcoholic, photographs of larger works have preference for cubic forms, often And you thought people only just one means ten. Brother leaves got hooked on heroin. in poured concrete in which the been included to give the visitor a human being. Editor's Note: Rand Carter is for the country, Milland resolves texture is produced by attaching better idea of the scope of his IIII to restart his oft-abandoned novel, IIIIIIIII styrofoam shapes to the inner oeuvre. Of especial interest is: the the Chairman of the Hamilton Knock On Any Door, with face s of the form work and selection of d r awings, never D e p a r t m e n t o f A r t; M. and Miss Wyman .spends the night co mbing his favorite bars. Of Humphrey Bogart, and John burning them with acid before the before exhibited� which brings Va,1lancourt's exhibition will .be course, no one can write without Derek is one of director Nicholas c o n c r e t e i s p o u r ed . The before t h e public an almost at the Root Art Center through a cigarette, and cigarettes make Ray's lesser films. The story physicality of the methods should unknown side of Vaillancourt's November 19. concerns the attempt by lawyer one thirsty. It must be a terrible thing to Humphrey Bogart to defend JOAN ARIE�S The Whole Earth SUMMER IN VERMONT? awaken at dawn, and not know if · delinquent Nick Romano O ohn 1 Natural Food Store Derek). Bogart (himself playing BROWSE , SHOP' the faint light at the window is Think . Middlebury College. e l m o r of oy-fro b he t 2 College St. the m orning, or whether a that of . Advanced study in French, Norton Ave. Take a left at foot day has somewhere been fost, and slum s-who-made-good) fails in his Ger m an, Ita l ia n , R u ssian, Open I 0-6 Mon. - Sat. of Campus Rd. or 3 houses past the sun is actually setting. It is attempt to win clemency for Spanish. Beginning and advanced bulk �. flour, seeds, nuts, worse for the alcoholic. He prays Romano on grounds of an study in Chinese, Japanese. · Skinandoa Golf Club. 'Vitamins, cereals tea & much mo that he's lost a day. No liquor left, unfortunate childhood. Begin work toward the M.A. as 853-6525 this film an undergraduate. Write Room Andrew Sarris calls and the bars don't open until "bad social commentary on the 124 , S underland Language nine. weekend The progresses. (Stanley) Kramer-Gayette level". Center, Middlebury, Vt. 05753. Milland tries to hock his Be that as it may, Knock on Any CONSIDER THE BOOK. typewriter. It's Yom Kippur and Door served as the prototype for Ray's later Rebel without a Cause. the pawnshops are closed. Kirkland Art Center There are still a couple of Apparently Jimmy Dean's flair for on the Park drinks to be begged from friends, hoodlumism was able to ground Art Shop though. The alcoholic ward at Ray's penchant for moralizing in a Bellevue. Escape. A liquor store satisfactory amount of reality, CHRISTMAS SALE with no m oney. "Give me a bottle whereas John Derek was not. Knock on Any Door will be of rye, Mister. One way or opens Sunday, November 19 another, I'm going to take it, so shown as the "B" feature in the Chemistry Auditorium this week, 1-5 p.m. give it to me." We learn from a Bellevue . and as such is recommended for a) open through December 22 orderly that the D.T.'s always all Bogey fans, b) anybody who start with little animals: mice, wants an insight into Rebel handmade gifts, '-'a use, c) those who beetles, snakes. Milland thinks his W.ith out a ,-, Christmas d ecorations do. have to nothing will It better own private mouse is pretty cute. and much, much more So it is, until the horror really probably not stand up well to so starts. Miss Wyman hears his powerful a film as The Lost •------------• en d screams and breaks down the ..w-e.ek ■■ ■■ door. Her comfort and love are not CLINTON SHOE CENTER The staff of The Spect ator enough. Willpower is a private SPECIALIZING IN thing, and Milland must save wishes C o n nie and Taki -WINTER BOOTS himself. Perhaps he never will. AND SHOE REPAIR J-i COUEGE STIEET-<llNToN- NEW YORK 13323 a very happy birthday Billy Wilder's direction is 853-6966 relentless, to say the least: camera
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FILMS ON CAMPUS THIS WEEKEND, Paths of Glory- Directed by Stanley 'Kubrick, 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday night, Science Auditorium. Knock On Any Door- with Humphrey Bogart, 10 p.m. on Friday and . Sunday nights, 8 p.m. on Saturday night. Chemistry Auditorium. The Lost Weekend- with Ray Milland, 8 p.m. on Friday and Sund ay nights, 10 p.m. on Saturday night. Chemistry Auditorium. At Nearby Theatres C annonball (in Clinton: 853-5553): Fiddler On The Roof Kallet Cinema (736-2313):Funny Girl Paris (733-2730): A Separate Peace .. Stanley (724-4000): Gone With The Wind MUSIC November 10 (Fr iday) The Coffeehouse presents Mike Allen. 9 p.m.-1 a.m., McEwen CC)ffeehouse. Also on Saturday night. November 15 (Wednesday) Richard Kavesh will discuss Wagner and Psychological Music, 8 p.m., Root Art Center. THEATRE November 10 (Friday) Smoking is Bad For You, a monologue by the Russian playwright Anton Chekov. 9:30 and 10:30 p.m.• Chapel. EXHIBITIONS Currentlyon Campus Exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Armand Vaillancourt, at the Root Art Center through November 19. Joint sculpture exhibition by John Seley, Victor Colby, anclJack Squier. At the List Art Center through November 20. Exhibition of Current Prints U.S.A. , from the New York State Couµcil of Arts. At the Bristol Campus Center through November 21. At the Munson-Williams-Proctor. Ins titute (797-0000) 35th Annual Exhibition 9f Artists of Central New York. At the Museum of Art through November 12. An exhibition of photographs by M�garet Bourke-White, one of the world's preeminent photographers, will be displayed at the Museum of Art from November 19 through December 31. LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS November 16 (Thursday) Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespeare, Thomas McFarland, Professor of English, Graduate City University of New York, 8:30 p.m., Bristol Campus Center Lounge. IN THE WEEKS AHEAD Films Contempt; Women in Love; A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; Blow Up. Exhibitions: Photographs byJonathan Vick. Opening November 28. One Man Show byJames Loveless. Opens November 29.
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BY EDWIN FROWNFELTER harmonies are smooth and sweet, · gifted musicologist and performer Often, the test of fine art is the rhythms firm, precise, and whose interests range from how (ong it lasts. Great works of effectively coordinated with the medieval music to the piano rags art retain their power to move and harmonic progression, and -the of Scott Joplin and arrangements impress, even after the context in voices eddy and flow ·around each for Judy Collins. albums) here which they are created has ceased o t he r in totally satis fying lea d s a consort of s i ng.!rs, to exist. Some of the finest music counterpoint. recorders, krumhorns, and viols in is centuries old; yet since to most T he m u s i c has enormous lively performances of music that people music begins with Bach (if expressive power, varying in style entertained the contempor aries of that early), much of this music is f r om the calm reassurance of Columbus in the courts of Italy practically unknown. When it is Mittit ad Virgin em, to the stirring and Franee. The disc contains heard , it can be an exciting majesty of Salve Regina, to the seven short instrumental pieces discovery indeed. deep anguish of Absalon Fili Mi that sound as fresh and alive now Two recent releases on the (it is interesting to compare this as the day they were written. e n t e r prising, budg et-pri ced last setting with that of the Since these pieces are still close N onesuch record label provide similarly talented but unknown to the simple dances from which just such a discovery. These seventeen t h- century composer they grew, they sound deceptively recordings present musicy by the H e i n rich Schutz, as given on simple ; actually, they involve f i f t e e n t h-c e ntury F l e m is h Nonesuch H-71196). This release complicated canons and are very composer Josquin Desprez, who can be warmly recommended to carefully worked out. Seven vocal was perhaps t he greatest of anyone interested in Renaissance pieces are also presented; they R e n a i ssa nce compose r s . He music, or in beautiful choral range in topic from declarations excelled not only as a composer music of any time. ·of love and faith to one slightly of serious church music, but also No such qualifications are in risque' (for the time) ballad. In Te of light secular pieces such as order for the second recording, Domini Speravi, sung in a clear might be called popular music entitled "Chansons, Frottole, and and expressive countertenor by today. Instrumental Pieces of Josquin William Zukof, is as serene and The first disc offers Josquin's Desprez" (H-71261). Only the beautiful a melody as I have heard mass Missa Ave Maris Stella and most jaded of souls and leaden of -anywhere; it is convincing proof four short choral motets in fine ears could resist these utterly that music need not knock you performances by the University of captivating songs, dances, and over to win you over. Illinois Chamber Choir <;onducted diversions,. so pure are they in Performances and recorded b y G eorge Hunter. (Nonesuch t h e i r m e l od ic beauty a n d sound throughout do justice to H-71216). This is clear, strong, r hy t hmic impetuosity. This is these remarkable pieces. Take a soothing music; Josquin's writing music that had not yet learned to trip through Josquin's beautiful displays the· bal anced, even, world, with music that will never be pretentious. f l o w i ng quality sought by Joshua Rifkin (an amazingly grow old. musicians o f his time. The
Poetess Carolyn Kizer Carolyn Kizer, currently director of the Graduate Program of creative writing at Columbia University , will give a poetry reading on Thursday nigh t at 8:30 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. Ms. Kizer is the former director or the National Endowment for the Arts , and has served as a iuror for the National Book Awards. "I am a premature Women,s Liberationis t," she wrote, "I was writing poems on th� subject ten years before it became fashionable, and a great many people, then, didn't understand what the hell the fuss was all about. Now, in many college courses on the subject of women, my poems are used, particularly Pro Femina�' C arolyn Kize r
Several students expressed students. He did not expect that along with Professor Traer and concern that Grout's rejection for the essential structure of relations Continued from page one Ms. Lieberman, hope the Panel Gil Grout the dean's job might be "unfair", between students and staff would General Electric? Are there going will be able to explode some Continued from page one and not in the best interests of the change. to be too many lawyers? Is law a myths of the bar popularly held viable alternative? by students. There will be a of some stud�nt friends, applied college. Grout himself, however, Grout said that he has no plans After the discussion in the valiant effort to refute what many for it and was turned down. does not support these opinions. as yet for next year. Although he auditorium, the Panel and · consider to be_ truisms about the "Apparently," he said, "I was not However, he did express concern had he ard of "possibilities" at ... they did not tell me that some of the intimacy of other schools, he's interested audience will adjourn to the legal profession-assumptions that acceptable ,, studen t -f acuity-administration mainly in staying at Hamilton. An President Chandler said adjacent lobby for informal cloud the mind of the prospective why. refreshments and conversation. law student: ·That the only career that Grout did not have the relations may be disappearing. .alumnus to begin with, he said he ,, President Chandler said that he This phase of the meeting open is that of th� practicing support of the majority of the "enjoys the student body and had heard of no such problem. He people charged with selecting the promises to be · of exceptional atto rney; that· b a rristers the a p pr eciates "ope n" value to anyone interested in a u t o m a t i c a l l y· b e c o m e new dean. Chandler took pains to suggested that simple population atmosphere of the college. He ·said p u r s. u i n g · · -in d iv i d u a 1 conservative by the age of 30; and say that there was no personal growth upon the hill may have he _felt that mutual trust between to a sense of communication with the visiting that· becoming a lawyer is the dishar,nony between himself and a d d e d most members of the community · depersonalization, aml added that Mr. Grout. ''We are good friends," lawyers and students. In the shortest road between being a and the college's emphasis on the modern theme of "doing one's words� of Bunny Lieberman, student and being rich. These he said. teaching in preference to research Flagging student interest in own thing" may have diminished were among its strongest ·selling Director of the Career Center and assumptions might well be the another co-ordinator of the Panel, backbone of the entire legal language renders unlikely the the sqnse of community in some points. With some emphasis, he it will allow Kirkland and ,profession, but they, like other possibip.ty of Grout's returning to way. Many members of the said he would be very sorry to Hamilton people "to associate and aspects of law, will be scrutinized · the Language Department. Grout faculty and administration are le�ve. ,has ·found no job inthe Hamilton new and therefore strange · to speak with professionals other at the Law, Panel. Administtation. than their parents, to· give them a different view, a n othe r perspective." Ms. Lieberman Discover the World on Your hopes that lowerclassmen will be especially interested in the Panel, to give them exposure to new Sails each S eptember & February fields, to start them thinking and Combine accredited study_ with planning. This chance for educational stops in Africa, Aus unexperienced learners to meet tralasia and the Orient. Over 5000 with experienced ones in the field students from 450 campuses have of Law should prove valuable. already experienced this interna Finally, the student Planning tional program. A wide range of Committee of the Law Panel, financial aid is -available. Write comprised of Bob Martin, Sara now for free catalog: IE. PARK ROW Gordon and Connie Belfiore, CLINTOl'II, N.Y. WCA, Chapman College, Box CC40, Oran ge, Cal. 92666
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Former Assoc. Dean DePuy Delivers h is ''Last Lecture"
College students themselves may, once said, 'The test of a teacher, a Hamilton Former Associate Dean Hadley S. DePuy, again, provoke many of them.. .. school or college is not the now President of Fulton-Mont ''Moreover, too many private promise students possess before College, colleges seem to be carrying on as they arrive, but how their Community gomeri r eturned Tuesday to give a "Last if one could believe in a number performance has been affected by Lectur4" entitled "'. The Privat e of myths; th�t the campus is the the time they leave •.... Liberall Arts College: May it Rust exclusive place of education; "I speak in favor of, then, in Peqce ". The following are youth is the exclusive age of departures in the curriculum and learning; that knowledge flows in the manner and style of excerpts from his speech. Some time ago Joel exclusively from the teacher, that· learning which may, as Champion Tibbetts tempted me with the education is properly measured by Ward has said, 'Combine in many theory, and action prospect of giving my "Last the accumulation of courses and ways analysis, and Lecture." He wound up his credits; that there is a 'rhyme or p roduction gracious· invitation by saying that pattern of intellectual curiosity or performance and appreciation, my being here would serve the social maturity to all:' that feeling and thought, work and same purpose as the presence of education must be experienced in study,' with the work experience the body at an Irish wake. It is unbroken sequences of several involving many types of relevant absolutely essential for having the years; that it is dangerous or social service and public affairs, party, but you don't expect it to counter productive to mix young using community agencies as do very much .... the to resources and old people in the same adjunct ~ Pr•ident-Hadley S. DePuy of Fulton-Montgomery Community College "For most of the past two classrooms; that there is little institution.... decades I have been a college dean overlap between educational levels "I am somewhat pessimistic would be unduly concerned about pitcher of beer in the Pub with at such distinguished private secondary school, college, about the future of many private the realization that I had not done the table strewn like the eating institutions as Franklin and graduate school; that all college liberal arts colleges as we now the things I had planned to do.I scene from 'Tom Jones;' from a cross-court backhand Marshall, Col gate University, and programs have to be two or four know them or have known them. assumed there is always a sense of certain moments, lapsed smash past John Chandler so Cornell University. For seven of. years in length; that prolonged Why?.Several considerations come missed the past 7½ years I was Associate adolescence is a good thing and t.o mind, not all financial. First, opportunities, of the curtain satisfying that the lifetime agonies Dean at Hamilton. I have always that the more education you can institutions are becoming more coming down before the play of a weekend hacker 's tennis seemed at last worthwhile, to the been - andd I shall continue to be get before working the better; and more alike. One can raise a should have ended.... ''To sense the moment missed, vague but positive pleasures of - proud to be a loyal supporter of that diplomas are the only ques t i on higher whether the private liberal arts college. But indicators. of talent and education is any longer a house of moreover, and the opportunity long hours in Root Hall that as a critical friend, I am concerned competence and are the only many mansions. The development lost, is equally to recall scattered cannot be accounted for at all.... ''Tonight as I go down the hill, that such institutions must come instruments by which upward of state aid from the Bundy delights, those points of receding out of their dreamlike state and economic and social mobility ma-y program in New York State · time that linger and glow like the College will soon be lost in the face the 1970's with a concern for be acquired; that not everybody helped precipitate the dropping of sunset over the Mohawk Valley. night; even ....the lights on the s e l f can learn, and that- admission· to sectarian ties in such institutions How varied they are, from the Chapel will disappear, as finally, it and eva lua t i on Uni v e r s i t y,, panicky joy of the first time up in seems, as if they had never been. F o r d ha m college can be best determined by a s improvement.... . "There are educators who quantitative criteria, i.e., grades Manhattanville College, and St. a Monday· morning assembly, But for me the meaning of John Fisher College, among from the roar of a crowd in the Hamilton, on the hilltop or in vigorously assert that money; that and college board scores. Well, all of this is changing: others. This has meant that the hockey arena, to the remains of a time, is that it is there e'ven when universal lubricant and sovereign it is not there. remedy, is not all the colleges Academe - the time is right for diveristy which we have so · long need, but it is well ahead of compr�hensive reform. I myself, prized is being shrunk by an whatever else is in second place. believe that sacred cows make increased homogenization of our higher institutions .••• The general thesis of my remarks good hamburger.... is "Whether what I have - talked clear formulating that ''What kind · of changes, large educational purpose and goals, the and small, must prevent liberal about will come to pass and result establishment of priorities, and arts colleges from collapsing - or in comprehensive reform I am not planning for reform are not in in the· case of those who are certain, but if it doesn't a goodly distant second place. Reform is somewhat and number of private liberal arts self-satisfied notthe only thing colleges need in financially strong, from rusting in colleges will rust in peace. I am THE REIGN OF QUANTITY. Rene Guenon. This new the 1970's, but it is well ahead of peace? Well, one thing is that the reminded of a story. You don't addition to The Penguin Metaphysical Library is a whatever else is in third place. job of Admissions Director ought, need the story but I need to tell it condemnation of the modern world from the point of And reform in colleges is not to change. He will increasingly to you. Former Ohio Senator· view of an "ancient wisdom," once common to both easy, Colleges, particularly liberal become a guidance-counselin g John W. Bricker, during a meeting East and West, but now almost entirely lost. Guenon arts colleges, by nature, are officer and a diagnostician instead in Washington, told about an old attacks the very basis of contemporary civilization conservative. They are reactive of an administrative officer medical professor who was with its industrial societies and its notions of progress and contemp'lative rather than devoted to sorting and selecting addressing his final class before and evolution. $2.65 innovative and action-oriented. and screening and keeping out. retirement, 'Gentlemen,' he said, CHECK YOUR OWN I.Q. H.J. Eysenck. A sequel to But the liberal arts college and The traditional low risk function 'I have two confessions to make Eysenck's Know Your Own I.Q., this valuable book en many of its cherished academic of picking sure winners, who will before I go. The f':trst is that you ables you to estimate and .confirm your I.Q. $1.00 beliefs have undergone a process make the institution look good no will soon find out that half of WALL STREET: SECURITY RISK. Hurd Baruch. An of public desanctification in matter how bad the teaching is, what I've taught you was not true, eye-opening report on the unsafe and unsoun-d prac recent years. And one of the most will change to one of admitting and my second confession is that I tices of the securities industry. $1.50 innovative agents around is the and helping those with whom the have no idea which half that will FILM AS FILM. Victor Perkins. A unique new set of of institution can make a difference. be.'.... out going of threat criteria for judging movies. $2.25 business.... ''When I first began considering As John Fisher, . President. of HOUSING CRISIS U.S.A. Joseph P. Fried. Foreword "And much of rhetoric of Col�mbia Teachers College, once,,,,leaving Hamilton, I thought I by MayorJohn V. Lindsay. 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Facu,lty Spouses Pursue Diverse Interests'
in the founding of a ·magazine manufacturing, .night club wo�k, At one po�t called Comparative Drama. The T.V ., and teachmg. _ . magazine has outlived most in its she .wo,rked m preducer David f ield and was pu blished by Merrick s office_. . After marrym.g,_ the Begelmans In an effort to bring the college Western Michigan University. Mr. c o m munity cl oser toget her , Johnson is also on the editorial moved to Vrrgima where Mrs. Spec ta to r d i s tdb u t e d a boar d of a magazine called Begelman taught 6th gra�e for questionnaire to the spouses of Scripts, which is composed of one year: There s�e did an faculty members. The purpose of contemporMy plays and is backed operetta wi th 400 children, She then returned to N�w Englan�, the questionnaire was to as sist in by producer loe Papp. the selection of faculty spouses · M r . J ohnson founded a where she bec:1me mterested m · w h o are engaged in activities national writing contest while _he ·Flamenco d��mg. Mrs. Begelman which might be of interest to the was teaching at Skidmore College. ev_entually JOmed and trav�led college community, and of whom The writing contest took place in w i t h a F l a m anco . dancu�g the community might not be 1968 and enabled bis students to company. She �as also mvolve� m aware. The questionnaire revealed become familiar with the work of one of Joe Paps _first _produ�tions that there are a number of faculty 241 contestants, while at the same on the East Side m the late sp ouses w i t h excit ing an d time continuing work on their 1950's. interesting backgrounds in various own writing. T he Begel mans mov�d to fields, from whom students could M r . J ohnson i s i nvolving Brookfield, Connecticut and Mrs. benefit, We have chosen five of himself in the business profession B egelman became involved in these people for this article, by opening two stores in Rome com munity theater there. She though there are many more with this year. One store, "The Blue opened up a ballet school and· also experiences which would be of Madrigal" will feature records, worked in a childrens' theater. value to students. The spouses books, folk guitars and crafts. The Mrs. Begelman found that there which we have selected are other w i l l be an art gallery was m u c h more community pursuing careers in writing, dance, ("G�llery Rome"). At the present invol vement in t he arts at art, theater and business. time Mr. Johnson is writing and Brookfield than there is in the Mr. Wallace Johnson, husband teaching at M ohawk Valley Utica'area. There were a nwnber of Ann Johnson who teaches Community College. of playhouses .which ''provided an Literature at Kirkl�d, is a person M r . J ohnson find that his opportunity for people from 4 to who seriously pursues many of his strongest emotional attachment is 88 to become involved in many interests. Mr. Johnson attended to his career as a playwright. aspects of theater!' She found college at Duke University and did However, his philosophy on life t h a t t he older people had a graduate work at Chapel Hill and includes the belief that "in order tremendous amount to offer and NYU. His main interest is writing, to keep out of the blank spots in she stresses that the theater is not in which he became seriously life, one must pursue a variety of s i m p l y y ou th-orie nted. Mrs. involved in 1959. He has written a interests." He seems to be living Begelman believes that the theater is an effective way to bring a number of plays on various topics. this philosophy. One play, entitled "Flight of the Mrs. Arlene Begelman, wife of community closer. Mrs. Begelman, reflecting on Sea Warriors", was published in D a v id B egelman, Professor of BY KATJJY LIVINGSTON AND SUSAN pARSONS
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Dramtt Review in the fall of 1970. · The play, which Mr. Johnson describes as an· environmental piece, is about Japanese aviators in WW II. Another play, "Bon't Leave Me Alone", is a historical piece which · w a s per formed off-off-Broadway and deals with the character of Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the English throne. When asked which_ of his plays he considered to be the most successful, Mr. Johnson stated that he always felt best about the play he was working on at the. moment. He feels that in order to succeed, one must "be high on what you're doing, and overlook the possibility that it may be bad, in order t<:> .k_e�_g_�i!}g," In 1966 Mr. Johnson as sisted
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from the fact that she was a techni ques of portraying a middle child. She thinks that middle children often suffer many character will be explored. Mrs. Palusky, wife of Robert injustices. Her goal as a child was Palusky who teaches ceramics, is to become a Supreme Court inte res ted and involved in a Justice. M r s . Cunningham has d ifferent aspect of the arts enameling. Mrs. Palusky graduated interviewed inmates in prisons in from Kirkland las t year, and the United States, at the Oneida received $500 from the Senior County Jail, and Oxford City c l a_s s to complete her Winter State Prison, a�1d in England at Study Project, a copper enameling G r endon Prison, which is the of dancers. In such an enameling, l argest Federal prison in the col ore d glass is poured. The United Kingdom. From her experiences with enameling will placed on the List Art Building when -it is completed. inmates Mrs. Cunningham has She will probably need at least c on c l u d e d that people are $300 more to complete the programmed with honesty, and that criminals possibly have a project. M r s . P a l u s k y has been basic motivation for power or interested in art since she was very money. She feels that one must young. She took one course in expend much more energy to be enameling which she describes as dishonest that to be honest, and "a fluke which led me to become that in some sense, everyone is a involved in a whole new direction criminal. Mrs. Cunningham feels that our in art." She indicated that she has many interests, and she finds that present penal system has little since it is impossible to do effect. Thinking that the most everything, she simply wishes to obvious answer to the problem in be exposed to many different improving the penal system would be to ask the prisoners themselves, as pects and experiences of life. Mrs. Palusky hopes that her s he went to the pr eviously e nameling will be finished by m e n t i o n e d p r i s o n s a n d spring, after which she wishes to interviewed i nmates. It was continue independently in art, on difficult to obtain clearance to i nterview inmates, in b oth a commission basis. Mrs. Bahlke, whose husband countries, especially in the U.S. teaches Literature, is presently T h i s is not only because of pursuing a career in writing, as security but to ensure the rights well as being mother to three of prisoners. She stresses the fact Mn. Robert Palusky children. She became interested in that prisoners should and do have P s y c ho logy, is also a faculty her days as a ballet student, stated w r i t ing in high school, and some rights. Mrs. Cunningham spouse with a variety of interests 'that she was scared most of the received her BA at Swarthmore. f ound t h at the majority of and experiences. Mrs. Begelman, t i m e . Because . of t h e great H er l a t e r interests include prisoners were young, less than 30 ye ars o f age , and generally w h o received her BA from amounts of competition in ballet, astronomy and botany. Brooklyn College where she began she found that she had no time Mrs. Bahlke has had two books courteous. They r eacted to as a Bio-Chem major and finished for relaxation or social activities. p u b l ished , o n e of children's i n t e rviews as a relief from · as a history major, is presently a, She feels however, that dance poetry which is illusttated by Mrs. boredom. She also found that the dancer and d i r e c to r . M r s . · students today are somewhat Babbitt, entitled Small Poems. smallest per cent of all crimes are Begelman began dancing at the d if ferent; that they are more The other book, The Crone� those with the highest penalties, age of four. At the age of nine she highly diversified, better educated Book of Words, is written in the . i.e. rape, murder, but that these w a s sent to the 'School for and are not totally immersed in form of witch's spells. It imitates are the ones we hear the most American Ballet. She was later the unreal world that dancers and elaborates on ancient spells. A about. She stated that studies on selected for the formation of a were expected to be in when she · third bpok will be published next the effect of capital punishment ballet company with which she was a student. y ea r . The b ook, which Mrs. have shown that individuals who danced for 2½ years. She then Mrs. Begelman is interested in Bahlke describes as "poetic prose, commit the severest crimes are d e c i d e d to go to B rooklyn continuing her involvement in consisting of poetic ritual, along not influence d b y fear of · College. During her college ye�s both dance and theater. She is t h e l ines of wi tch craft", is punishment. she continued to work in dance offering two Winter Study courses entitled, The Crone� Book of Mrs. Cunningham feels that. and theater. She also found time· - one in choregraphy and the Wirdom. c a p i t a l p u n ishment is an M r s. Cunningham,· wife of "unnecessary drama, detrimental to secure part time jobs in many other in movement - a course for different fields, i.e. men's clothing actor s in which the physical . James Cunningham who teaches t o o t her s , as we l l as the Ancient Civilization at Hamilton, murderer." She feels that since has a background in the field of society does not give one life, it CLINTON LIQUOR STORE criminology. Mrs. · Cunningham's should have no right to take it Ford's on the Square work in criminology has been an away. Mrs. Cunningham is deeply GRAND UNION SHOPPING e f f o r t o f h e r o w n w il l , conc erned with the rights of CENTER Clinton i n d e p e n d e n t o f o u t s i d e pr isoners and hopes that her studies will be able to contribute supervision. CLINTON MEADOW ST. h Beverages Groceries Beer Mrs. Cunningham believes that ·t o t he improvement of teir FREE DELIVERY 853-8878 her interest in criminology stems present condition.
NOVEMBER ·10, 1972
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Blues to Battle Once-Bested Saxon Machin e in Alf red
BY ROBERTJ. KEREN Tomorrow afternoon 100 Receptions The 3-4 Union team takes on the 1-4 Continentals will oppose Rob Winter has had good Anderson's Panthers tomorrow, the powerful Alfred Saxons on success going in the air with 47 coming off last week's loss to enemy turf, hoping to avenge last completions in 95 attempts for Williams 6-0. Two weeks ago the year's 32-0 whitewashing. The 605 yards and 3 T .D. 's. His 49.4 Hobart Statesmen swept over the Blue have had two weeks to completion percentage indicates Dutchmen, while demolishing prepare for Coach Y1,111evich 's the poise and strength he has Colby 49-0 last week, bringing purple and • gold warriors after exhibited, while winning only one their record up to 7-1, losing only their last contest, a 26-14 defeat game. Winter's favorite end senior to Alfred in a, 31-28 bloodbath. at St. Lawrence on October 28. John Gravely has pulled in 27 Among other Blue · enemies In one of the major college aerials for 326 yards and 1 T.D. (a Rochester is 1-6 losing to St. upsets in the East last weekend, a 12.0 yard average per reception) Lawrence last Saturday, while the mediocre Kings Point Eleven eked raising his HamCol receiving total Larries are 4-4 and play the R.P.I. out a 21-20 victory over the to 98, a Continental receiving E ngineers Also, tomorrow. Saxons, halting their 16 game record that won't be broken for Franklin and Marshall defeated winning streak, and their quest for some time in the future. John's Moravian College 24-22 bringing a second undefeated season in a second grab tomorrow afternoon their unbeaten string up to 8 row. Needless to say, Alfred will will be as memorable for the games in '72. not be able to retain the Lambert seasoned end as it will for all Marten and Pirodsky Cup they won in 1971, and will Continental Football Buffs. Tune in to WHCL-FM have to forfeit it to the likes of Flanker Kevin Snyder has 11 tomorrow afterno�n for all the Middlebury, D e l a w a r e , receptions for 203 yards ( an 18.4 action from Alfred with veteran Bridgeport, or Amherst, all yard average), and has scored announcers Kenny Marten and undefeated small college Eastern three touchdowns: on a 95-yard · Tom Pirodsky, the pre-game show powers thus far in 1972. kickoff return vs. Rochester, a starting at 1:15. Hopefully the A . U . squad will 19-yard end-around run and on a be somewhat off stride for 42-yard W inter pass tomorrow's · game following their The Continentals have been disappointing and unanticipated hurt on the ground, as the enemy set-back last week, but the 6-1 defenses have held the Blue Saxons, who have · already ball-carries to only 390 yards all conquered R.P.I., St. Lawrence, season. Freshman Vinnie Puleo Union and Hobart, still have all has seen Winter's most dependable the makings of a rugged backfield performer, gaining 166 BY TIMOTHY DELANEY championship team. yards on 66 carries and two Continuing one of the most Alfred assistant coaches have T.D.'s. scouted all five of our games this When given the chance to play successful trends in Hamilton season, and will be prepared for freshman back Brian Smith and history, the cross country team most of the surprises sophomore sophomore Bill Collier have put in closed its third undefeated season quarterback Rob Winter can equally good performances, Smith by finishing third in the New State C o llegiate provide, along with the tenacity with his ability to break tackles, Y o r k Championships held in N. Chili of captains JoeRe age n , A n d y and Collier with his strong Sopchack and their Blue defensive blocking. Another frosh, Al N.Y. The Blue-amassed 105 points unit. Silverman, has seen considerable behind Colgate's 49 and the action at end and appears to have University of Rochester's 79 in a of, 16 colleges and excellent blocking ability, speed field Outstanding BJues Improve and hands - lacking only the u n i v e r sities. For the careful observer, the experience of playing college ball. individual performances included 1972 season may not be as s t an dout a seventh place by Tim Delaney defense, On disappointing as it's record would performances All-ECAC (21:40), eleventh by Vito Stellato by show. In 1971, the Continentals linebacker Andy Sopchack and (21:57) and fifteenth by Paul . produced a 1-7 record beating defensive tackle Joe R eagen must Ford (22:00). All of the8> runners only rival Union on the last day of be noted, but elsewhere the play are juniors. Bruce Carter . '76 the season, while losing six out of has been spotty. Sophomore grabbed 29th place, Lou Pacilio the seven remaining games by 32 outside linebackers Bill Ferris and '75 managed 43rd, Jim Logan '74 points or more. The Blue scored John Newell have been· doing a procured 82nd and Charlie only eight T.D.'s in eight contests good job on the opposing backs Hathaway· '76 snatched 91st. The during last season's campaign, and coming out for passes, but the course, located outside Rochester have eight to their credit thus far defensive line is outsized week near the Campus of Roberts in 1972, in only five games. On after week and the secondary play Wesleyan College, was a flat, mostly payed 4.3 miles. defense they allowed 36.5 points has been inconsistent at times.· Throughout the season, the per game in 1971, and have given Freshman Don Armstrong has small, young team concentrated up 28.9 in 1972. gone all the way at center on group running to overcome the Although both the offensive replacing Pat Cardinale '72, lack of any superperformers. By and defensive stats show slight exhibiting solid blocking ability placing packs of four or five improvement, there are additional and strength in the middle of the runners behind the no. 1 men of factors to be taken into account. Blue offensive line. Place kicker P'#.I.I.I .I .I.I.,,,,,.,.I IA the denied was Hamilton Bill Finan '76 has yet to miss a BLURBscheduled o p ener against conversion, and it is expected that BASKETBALL Haverford College as the Qµaker Coach Jones can depend on those School forfeited its football The B lu e ba sketball f ive two men in future campaigns. program in September. The w ill entertain Pot sd am Along with punter and reserve QB addition of Oberlin and Haverford State for their first Lou Cordia, Puleo, Smith, to the schedule (taking the place scrim m age o f t he season Silverman and . sophs Winter, of R.P.I. and Wesleyan) was Snyder, Newell and Ferris, Jones tom orrow in A lum n i intended to bring Hamilton into will have some definite ability to Gym. The tipoff competition with schools of work with next year, but only the is slated for 1 p m . similar size and athletic policy, 1973 season will serve to measure r, 1,,.,,,,,.,,,,1111:t. but as Haverford forfeited, so the loss of senior standouts went the Blue hopes of an Sopchak, Reagon, and Gravely.. opening day victory at home. Union Rivalry onDeck In addition, the Continentals in "On the Square" Tomorrow afternoon, the 1972 soundly defeated Oberlin 21-12, lost a heartbreaker in the Saxons led by Quarterback Tom Specializing in the largest final quarter to St. Lawrence, and Vredenburgh, a converted safety, put up a strong fight in both will be making their final outing Selection of Imported, Domestic defeats to Rochester and Hobart, in 1972, while the Blue will have 20-7 and 26-14, respectively. Only their season finale yet to play. In and fine California Wi�es A n d erson's the oldest college football rivalry J o hn against frightening Middlebury Panthers in New York State, Hamilton will were the Continentals out-classed face Union for the 77th meeting 8:30 am - 9:30 pm 60-0, ballooning the 28.9 points of the Continentals and the per game average, which is still 8 Dutchmen; next Saturday here at Free Delivery Steuben Fi�ld. points better than in 19 71.
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Harrlers Grab 3rd in St. Meet Undefeated String Spans 3 Yrs. other teams, the harriers could consistently outscore seemingly awesome opponents. In this way they overcame both Cortland and the U of R. Yet against RPI, Union, Roberts Wesleyan and Lemoyne, the team seemed itself a powerhouse, grabbing at least the first four places. The manner in which the eight gat hered momentum thru September and October bodes well for next year. To be in contention with Colgate was more than we expected. Next autumn they will be the underdogs. Co-captains Ford and Stellato, after two years of apprenticeship, became adept at the art of team leadership (''What do you think, Paul?"... "I dunno"). Physically and · spiritually, underclassmen Pacilio, Carter, Hathaway andJoe
Terranova '76, made incredible strides. The traumatic transition from 2½ to 5 miles brought only minimal feedback from the neophytes. The novelty of having a Hawaiian and a Utican on the same team provided endless fascination. But perhaps most insp iring was to see a genuine .Pai U tackling Pasture Hill. I am speaking of course of Jim Logan. With apologies to Kurt Vonnegut, I, the author of this article, came within 30 seconds of JU<lson'1 impregnable course record. And that was only because I delivered mail in Plainview last summer where as my fellow junion worked in a box factory and a warehouse. If they too can find non-sedentary jobs next summer, there's no telling what records may fall.
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Report Commends Kirkland; Suggests Areas of Change BY JON CRAMER Kirkland recently hosted a team of educators, who evaluated the school's suitability for accreditation. The resulting report was quite favorable. The team members opened the report by congratulating Kirkland on the rapid progress it has made within the past four years, concerning the creation and establishment of the institution. In their opinion, Kirk land has developed "a definite identity and characteristic style." An "aura of happiness" pervades the campus, and student morale is reasonably high. The report said that by virtue of its definition, it dwells upon areas w h ic h a r e i n n e e d o f improvement, rather than the many facets of the institution
which are commendable. A l t h o ug h Ki r kl a n d h a s developed its own educational style, the college's impression of i t s e l f i n t h e t e rm s o f "innovation", and ''woman's college", are defined by the role pl ayed by Hamilton in the coordinate program. There are important distinctions between the educational styles of the two colleges, one of which is the curricular flexibility at Kirkland, c om pa r e d w i t h t he m o r e structured education at Hamilton. Mo s t o f t h e s t ud e n t sinterviewed by the team were in favor of the distinction between the two s chools and were appreciative of the opportunities made available by the different ecudational philosophies.
T h e m o st important shortcoming o f Kir k l a n d 's attempt to perpetuate its image as a women's college is the lack of w orn e n i n f a c u l t y a n d administrative position. More women are needed to set examples and to be ''role models" for the Kirkland students. Along these same lines, the team felt that Kirkland should consider thoroughly its students after graduation. Women with professional backgrounds should b e considered for faculty positions, and -career counseling services should be improved. The school should also consider adding to the curriculum courses which would equip women hoping to enter high level professions which continued on page two
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VOLUME THREE
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON NEW YORK
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NUMBER TEN
Thieves Hit, Three Groups · No Clues. Produced as Yet
BY JEFF FEINGOLD Robbers struck three campus o rganizations in a series of break-ins earlier this semester, in which the culprits took over $200. The Coffee H o u se, L.O.B.B.Y., and the Co-op Art Store report that ther� are no . clues yet as to who was involved. The Coffee House In McEwen Hall was robbed three Saturdays a g o , by 'people who were apparently in a hurry, according to Fred Hirsh, the Coffee House manager. Thirty dollars in bills and quarters were taken but the small change and a new radio that sat near· the c ash box were ignored. A locked cabinet had be� ''tampered with" and the security guards were notified; no clues have turned up as yet.
H' party Entertainment Panned SAC Polls Reflect Discontent
After Before Ham ilton-Kir kland student How would you rate Saturdo.y Have you ever ht:ard of Brewer reaction to the Brewer and night� entertainment as a & Shipley'! 391 (73%) Shipley/Wayne Cochran concert whole'! Yes 1 162 (40%) on Houseparty weekend was very very poor 145 (27%) No poor unfavorable, according to a poll 133 (33%) Do you think they will put on average released by the Student Activities 81 (20%) a good show'! good committee last Tuesday. Two 15 (4%) Yes hundred ninety-five students, 73% 165 (37%) v.g. 12(2½%) No of the sample rated the concert on How would you rate the 279 ( 63°/4) Have you ever heard of Wayne p e r fo r ma nce of W ay ne Saturday night ''poor'' or "very Cockran & C.C. Rider'! Cockran? poor", while only 7% of the Yes ballots returned considered the very poor 244(61%) 270 (50%) concert to be "good" or ''very No poor 66(16%) 267(50%) good." 47(12%) avg. -Do you think they will put on The poll rating the concert good 25(6%) a good show'! after the fact was the second of 21(5%) very good 109 26%) Yes . two polls. An earlier sampling had How would you rate the 303(74%) No asked if -atudents had heard of the p erformance of Brewer & Do you think a majority of entertainers, and asked them to Shipley'! students will enjoy this predict whether they would enjoy 112(28%) very poor houseparty entertainment'! the concert. Although a majority poor 91(23%) Yes 138 (29%) of the re�onses said they had avg. 111 (28%) No 343(71%) heard of one or the other of the 62( 16°M good groups, 343 voters-71 %-were B a l l o t s f o r t h e s econ<! 17 (5%) very good pessimistic about the success of questio�e were distributed Officers of the SAC pointed the concert. during the week after the concert: out that it is also possible that The breakdown is as follows: _ oentinued on page ten
Hirsh found the money missmg when he went to count up that Saturday night's takings. The robbery occurred at about 1 :00 a.m. Saturday night-after the Coffee House was closed. Hirsh thinks that whoever stole the money must have known where it
was kept. Earlier in the semester, on two weekend nights, L.O.B.B.Y., also in McEwen, was broken into. According to Liz Samenfeld; someone took the hinges off of the cabinet t hat contained continued on page nine
College and Students Consider New Funding_
R e p r e s e n t atives from the BY MARY DOLAN T he business office of Radio Station had ·two basic Hamil ton College presently arguments against the proposal. handles the allocation of student Fir st, they object to being funds for the Student Senate, the i n c o r p o r a t e d u n d e r the College Radio Station and the Publications Board as they are not Publication Board. Mr. Caravano, only much smaller than the provost of Hamilton and Kirkland Board, but they are also not a Colleges, and C l y d e Leff, publication. The proposal of President of the Hamilton Student changi ng the B o a rd to a Senate, would like to see this "communications board" did not business practice altered. L ast help much as they felt the Board year's plans for the initiation of could not serve in the interests of funds, under the new proposed the radio as effectively as their system, would have given the separate organization could. Their power of distributing the money second objection was that WHCL to the Student Senate instead of FM is licensed to the trustees of Hamilton College and is therefore the business office. As it stands now WHCL p rimarily responsible to th . receives two dollars per student trustees. At the time the Publications per semester, the Publications Board receives seven dollars and Board agreed to the new system f i f ty cents per student per of allocating the funds proposed semester and the Student Senate by the Student Senate. They feel receives five dollars and fifty cents that the resolution still has per student per semester. Mr. potential but that it should be Caravano felt that if the Student more fully discussed among the Senate distributed the fifteen t h ree groups, and that any dollars per student per semester it reservations should be ironed out could do a more comprehensive before the plan can be initiated. - • jot? thaJ!-· e The �oard fee�· �e � be and. ,:equitijbl buskress offit;e- h ,1s don�""· 'Mi-. : so� liort of stti- t#�vi*) the i .� Caravafio tds-o feJt that this w«iuid �at;.ori..oU • �, The decisioll aS to wh .er the give the students a bigger voice in students should allocate tbe;funds where their money was going. � Tl}e Student Senate passed tlii$ through �h;_e Student Senat� or the - n. ;is no\_\1.�--� a p rop,osal last. year f. with.:"1P 1.�-_A�m�tio agreehlent of the Publicatiorts .·,standsUU. Au fhtte-·o/ the·group� Board. The proposal was repealed, involved are working for � suitable however, when WHCL objected to and agreeable arrangement for next year's budget. it.
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FREE CHURCH The Free Chruch service this week will be led oy Edwin B. Barrett of the Hamilton English Dept. 11:15 am Sunday in the Chapel.
THE SPECTATOR
Edi1torial
NOVEMBER 17, 1972
Enough is Enough: aµ Expostulation to the SAC
reasons why the SAC could not do better - the poll He is either a madman or a fool who thinks that with its · 30,000 dollar budget the SAC can may not by 100% valid; good entertainers are hard command performances by the best or most popular. to find and elusive once found; the committee ii entertainers in the country. In order not to ·blow its inexperienced and has not had time to pull itself money oh a one-shot concert by a big name, the together a nd learn to make its way in its GO.SPEL SING complicated business. Student A ctivities Committee must pick the There will be a Gospel Sing sponsored by Community Worship in less-well-known and liked groups - at the risk of But the situation demands some action. One the Chapel Sunday evening at 7 :30 pm. proposal would ''pack" the current committee by leaving some fans dissatisfied. Quite a few fans wer e dihati s fi e d at doubling its members with persons elected from the THANKSGIVING SERVICE Houseparties, according to the poll the SAC took; in student body - the total membership would then A community Thanksgiving service will be held Wednesday rise to sixteen. what amounts to a vote of "no confidence", only evening, November 22, at 7:30 pm at Stone Presbyterian Church in Even if we could be assured that the new 27% of the voters that weekend said they liked what Clinton. The speaker will be Father John Finnegan, Newman they heard. erepresentatives knew what they were doing - �nd Chaplain at Hamilton and Kirkland. The people who choose entertainment · for the proposal made by the Senate Executive Weekends on the Hill must have skill - a thorough Committee makes no such provision - we think FORTUNE SOCIETY knowledge of the performers available and how t h a t increasing the size of the committee ii The Fortune Society did not appear last night as they had to good they are; a knowledge of how to deal with. inefficient in view of the fact that the SAC had no present evidence at a hearing in New York City. Their le�ture has performers themselves and their·agents, and, simply l e s s than 27 members a year ago, and was _been rescheduled to Monday, November 27 at 8:00p.m. in the of the details that have to be taken care of before streamlined as too unwieldy . Then, responsibility Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. The topic of this free lecture is prison any concert. was too diffuse, ..and .the chairman (then Josh reform. Simpson) did most of the_work . It is possible that the Committee had trouble We hope that anyone qualified (and unlike moat finding performers in the "middle period" between the begimµng of this semester and Houseparty student or:g a n iz a t i on s , the SAC must have HARVARD GRAD SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVES weekend, but we share the general feeling that sp�cialists) to work on the committee would have a The J ohp Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government of Harvard $6000 could have been better spent. Neither of the broad- enough musical taste to try to cater to a wide · University aanounces a new graduate program in Public Policy. groups were on the list of entertaiµers returned to range of campus tastes. But we outside of the Ph.D., Master's or joint Master's-professional school degrees offered. the SAC last year. Even if they were the only ones Student Senate need a more direct voice- in the Applicants should be interested in policy analysis and be at ease in. available, were they worth it? couice ·of committeemen. both the world of words and the world of numbers. Write Members of the SAC report that they were short We propose that the Senate invite and screen a Dean Harry Weiner, Littauer Center, lhrvard University, Cambridge, . on time to make arrangements. . No plans apparently list of about 16 or 20 candidates to be presented to Massachusetts 02138 for catalog and application. were made last spring, and the committee chairman the colleges, which would choose 8 of them to make could not act over the summer, and the group GOVERNMENT LECTURE ON ECONOMY a sort of executive committee. Other nominations waited to get ready after the semester bagan could come from the whole college, by· petition as There will be a Government Department Lecture on Monday at 4:15 Admittedly, the argument that the SAC is not at present. The committee would need surveys to in the Bristol Center Lounges. Mr. Byron Doenges, of the U.S. Arms representative of the student body,whether or not it sample opinion of whom to choose, it probably Control and Disarmament Agency will speak on "Figuring the Costs needs to give its chairman full executive powen to actually is, is an old one; .and there is no guarantee of Converting from An Arms Economy to a Peace Economy." make l as t-minute arrangements within certain that a representative body of new persons could do Coffee and donuts will be served! well-defined limits, as well.· The Spe_ctator would any better than the pre.sent groups.. But at least the COOP BOOKSTORE publish the platforms or resumes of any candidates. representatives could not be.as easily.accused of bias To anyone desiring the continued operation of the Coop In any event, the public·might be better informed of if they had been agreed upon by the student body. Bookstore: Monday, Nov. 20, 8:00 pm in McEwen LOBBY. Pleaae the negotiations. of the committee: meeting times The present SAC was chosen last year by the come, or call Carol King or Liz Samenfeld · should be publidzed, and the meetings ope_ned to Student Senate, acting on the recommendations of the public; the committee's chairman. The college at large had The 'Senate having acted,- perhaps it is useless to E.E.C.H.K. BENEFIT DANCE no hand in the process, and the members of the cry for changes now. There·. is no call to ''punish" For campus activities and Adirondack Park fight. Donation $.75 committee were unfortunately left open to the the current· SAC by dissolving it - that's childish, and FREE BEER! December 1, Friday night 9:30 to 1:00 in charge that they were not chosen fairly. But change is imperative; this can't go on. If the Commons! Certainly, the committee had no clear mandate group is now ''under new management" and ·to start with but it appears that what legitimacy the therefore ptt$umably , now in a more fluid _state iJ committee had, it has lost. · MSA EVALUATIONS the two campuses might be more the time to alter it. So we�s.uggest that it actually be However, the silent majority of the Senate · continued from page one e ffective than the present nevertheless reappointed the committee en masse; dissolved, and its members and a slate of others, we have heretofore been dominated situation, · in which Kirkland has although with a new chairman. Steve Sroczynski, hope including the dissidents who have led the no . position corresponding to who has borne the brunt of the negotiations and of by men. opposition· up to now , p l a c ed with their In the estimation of the people Hamilton's Provost. qualifications on the block, and chosen, this time by the criticism, fair and unfair, will help teach his The team sees the Kirkalnd successor the intricacies of hiring entertainers. interviewed by the evaluating the whol,. stu!,lent body. d . team, there are two import;mt faculty as a good one, and the We realize that there could have-beenahundre components of "innovation" at curriculum • as "consistently of Kirkland. The school's practice of high quality." The faculty is assessing work through evaluation young, which is compatible with rather than grades is a significant the educational philosophy of the departure from tradition, as is institution. Each teacher is To the Editor: As a r ecent alumnus of VOLUME THREE NUMBER TEN Kirkland's academic flexibility in burdented with a heavy work load First published as 1'The Radiator.. in_ 1�8 both independent ·work and as each is also an advisor, and Hamilton, 1970, _ I was sorry to see many do not have the time to your abuse of the alumni mailing course selection. Managing Editor Editor-in-Chief The evaluating team stated that restructure and develop their list for political purposes in the Elizabeth �eter Zicari Kneisel both Hamilton and Kirkland are cour ses. The faculty should recent campaign of Hugh Jones for the Court of Appeals. This was Associate Editoa perf01:ming admirably in the therefore be given some spare 1 "tightrope act" of 'the coordinate time. The team suggest that the a very serious misuse of the list, Henry Glick, Robert Keren, Kenny Marten, Maria Zammit system. While other directions are initiative in this case lies with the from the point of view of �e Assistant Editors perhaps less emotionally trying Dean of Faculty, whose position many alumni, myself included, 9arol Goodman, Paula Klaumer, Kathy Livingston Arts Editor they have chosen the "vastly more · will increase in importance as who would judge the judicial Richard Kavesh rewarding path of coordination." Kirkland approaches its full size. candidates on their judicial Arts Photography Editor The difference in scheduling The report said that the qualifications, not on the basis of patterns, and Kirkland's.rigid class students to whom the team where they went to school. David Cantor When I was a government limit of 20 students are major members talked were generally Sports Editon � obst acles to more effective satisfied with the academic major at Hamilton, I was led to Craig Fallon, Dave Shapland coordination. The team view these. advantages o f evalu ations, believe that this type of "old Managing Staff problems as more symbolic than i n d e p e n d e n t w o r k , a nd school tie" politics had faded with Linda Anzalone, Ken Gross, Li� Horwitt, Patty Jaffe, Taki opportunity to move back and an earlier generation. Apparently, real. Lamson-Scribner, Tony Mazzarella, Connie Gonde Miner, The team propc,,sed long-range forth between the structured you and Mr. Jones are still locked Betsy Murray, Susan Sternberg, Mitchel Ostrer planning as a way of anticipating program at Hamilton, and the in the glad-handing politics of the Business Staff'" past. It is regrettable that the Jim Noonan,Jeff- Pearse, Bruce Thaler and avoiding problems. Hamilton flexible one at Kirkland. · Photography The team thinks that Kirkland. school is dragged down in my and Kirkland should define their JohnEhrlich(Captain), Nat Barber, Wendy Goodman, present needs jointly in order to in an effort to avoid a summe; estimation by these discredited Woody Navin camp atmosphere in its residential tactics. How much was Hamilton develop compatible strategies. St�ff. Lines of authority in the policy · resorted to an opposite paid for use of the list? If this is the way the alumni Pam Boyntan, Ed Catlin, Jon Cramer, Randy Davis, Vincent colleges' adm inistrations are e x t r e m e : t o t a l l a ck o f DiCarlo, Anne F�elli, Jennifer Freeman, Jim Giarra, Ken ill-defined. Perhaps, the report o r g anizatio n . The faculty mailing list is used, kindly remove Given, Doug Glucroft, Robert Grieves, Garret Hayner;Gordoii· said, a more formal structure is residents should perhaps do mor� .my name from it. If this is the Kaye, Louis Levenson, Jim Ludwig, Vijay Murgai, Michael t h a n simply intervene i n way the college's · resources are needed. Murphy, David Nemens, Lisa Newell, Dannis Oakes, Thomas The two academic deans, the emergencies ,the team said. They being used, don't count on a contribution from me to further Pirodsky, Steven Polakoff, Judy Prager, Skip Roessel, Manny report continued,_ should try to felt Sargent, Ray Schecter, Judy Sillari, Douglas Singer, Scott They felt there should be a your "educational" program. fur t her coordination through Very Sincerely, Toop, Joan Tuchman, John Vigren, Isabel Weinger, Elaine more adequate planning and continued �n page eleveq , Gordon M. Boyd '68 and '70 Weiss, Bob Weisser. programming, in areas where coordinate t i e s should be The Spe ctator will not be printed· Edi tor 's Note: The abuse in Mr. The Publications Board publishes ''The :Spectator." a newspaper _ strengthened. The position of the next week on account of the Boyd's le tter refers to the Alumni ed1ted by students. 29 times during the academic year. Subs cription: $7.00 per year. Add ress: Box 83, Hamilton Provost is unclear, and the team Thanksgiving Holiday. We wish Offic es' list rather than to the College. Clinton, New York, 13323. Letters to the editor must suggest that a songle Provost for you all a pleasant vacation! Spectator's.
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C.I.C.U. Reports Selectivity n Ham., Kirkland Admissions BY DAVE CROSS The report of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities shows that Hamilton and Kirkland are among the most ldcctive schools in New York State. Hamilton is the most 1elective liberal arts school in the state, accepting 31% of its applicants, while Kirkland accepts 49% of those who apply. John Effinger, A s s i stant Director of Hamilton Admission, attributes this low figure to an increase in the number and quality of Hamilton applicants in recent years. He pointed to a number of factors, indu.ding the financial · stability of the school. Hamilton enjoys good alumni support, with t h e h ighest percentage of donating alumni in the country. This helps a financial aid program in which every candidate admitted is guaranteed adequate financial aid. Mr. Effinger also pointed to the friendly reception that high school students receive here. A 2%
that resulted in 60% of this year's freshman class hailing from New York. An additional selling point is t h a t t ht; f a c u l t y' a n d administration here are highly visible. This, and the absence of federal defense grants tend to create a fairly peaceful campus. Mr. Effinger also pointed to the fact that the trend that began eight years ago toward schools in the city 'is now being reversed. Hamilton stands to benefit from the move toward schools in the country. Summing up, Mr. Effinger said t h a t H a m i l t on i s "very competitive in the state of N.Y." .Among students accepted here who went elsewhere, most went to top-ranked Eastern schools. Four teen went to Harvard, thirteen to Yale, eleven to Cornell, five to Princeton, and ten to Haverford. Among students accepted to other schools who came to Hamilton, eighteen were
of the application form has something to do with this. A high percentage of students who apply are from N.Y. State. The geographical distribution of a class is of low priority now, but might become more important in the future. M s . Cosper a d d e d t hat Kirkland tries to present an accurate picture of itself. Few schools emphasize the arts to as large an extent as Kirkland. While some applicants want a school that is more established, time and accreditation will help to enhance Kirkland's reputation. Finances remain a problem. Kirkland is unwilling to take extra students just to provide additional f un ds. As Ms. Cosper said, ''Taking students simply to fill beds is unethical." However, the college is limited in the amount of financial aid it can award, and while the situation is improving, it still remains a problem -and a deterrent to applic_ants.
Hamilton % Acc. 1461 31 452 Hobart & Wm. Smith 1974 64 1262 *Acc. to App. ' *App. Sarah Lawrence 664 41 433 65 1845 4400 Skidmore 1701 38 73 1242 3995 10574 Union 2092 59 72 1237 3728 5171 Vassar 66 1424 2153 89 7296 8240 Wells 480 390 81 85 3302 3904 Kirkland 769 378 49 85 1452 1700 Utica Coll. 723 595 82 71 893 1266 Cazenovia 472 466 99 43 1641 3804 attrition rate and the fact that from Colgate, fourteen from the Ms. Cosper concIU:ded her many students are on campus Univ. of Rochester, eleven from remarks by pointing to the during the week-ends indicate that Hobart, and five from Cornell. Mr. relaxed attitude in the admissions Hamilton students are happy with E f f i n ger comme nted that office and to the fact that their choice. As Mr. Effinger said, Hamilton is ''pleased with the Kirkland goes out of its way to 1 'fhis is not a suitcase college." competitiveness and hopes to put prospective students up for The · coordinate arrangement continue it." liliPACC=Accepted the -night .. with Kirkland was cited as a APP=Applied Bridgette Cosper, Director of factor in drawing applications. Kirkland �dmissions, cited several Also, the size and location of o f t h e a bo v e r easons for Hamilton seemed -to provoke Kirkland's competitiveness (49% mixed reactions from applicants, of a p p l icants accepted) as as the college bot,h gains and loses opposed to that of Vassar (66%) students from these factors. and Wells (81%). She �so said A general financial depression that Kirkland is new enough so BY BOB GRIEVES in the U.S. provides mixed that it is still growing, and cited blessings for Hamilton. The N.Y. the completion of dorms and Four Hamilton students have State Regents awards are good other facilities as a turning point been nominated out of a field of only in the state, and few students in attracting applications. A good twenty-four applicants to receive arc willing to throw away these feeling toward the school and a Watson Fellowships, which are grants. The geographic diversity of sense o{ identity 'also ·seem to a w a rde d a n n u a l l y t o a class is a low priority item, and attract prosp ective· students. approximately seventy students this, coupled with rising costs of Ms. Cosper said that most of throughout this nation. Since 1968 The Thomas J. transportation and a general trend the people who apply to Kirkland toward living closer to home, want to come here. Few Watson Fellowship Program has p r ovid ed t he increase in applicants use Kirkland as a aw arded 236 scholarships to applications from New York State "safety school"; perhaps the size students from among thirty-five Schools Columbia U. Cornell U. New York U. Syracuse U. U. of Rochester Alfred U. Barnard Colgate U.
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EPL El ects Zaehringer To .Board of Directors BY MITCHEL OSTRER John Zaehringer '7 3, has been elected to· the board of directors of the Environment;al Planning Lobby in New York State. John Oster,a Hamilton student who was elected earlier this year, and he are the only undergraduate members of the board of E.P.L., the most influential lobby for modem environmental interests in the state. Zaehringer's election testifies to the increasingly significant role in state politics of t h e En vironme ntal Ecology Committee of Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, of which he is chairman. E.E.C.H.K., a charter constituent o r g an ization of E.P.L., and the Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, the New York State Park Council, Trout
Unlimited, the Hudson Preservation Society, and other organizations work together in an u m b r el la-type arrangement through E.P.L., in support of e n v ir o n m entally c o n c e rn e d l e g i s l a t ive action. E.E.C.H.K. members were involved last year in arrangements for setting up the Albany Lobby office, which is to open in January; a winter study project of students working there will be held this yearJanuary; a winter study project of students working there will be held this year. "Four years after Earth Day , "Zaehringer said of the Colleges' position, "E.E.C.H.K. is the only active and effective student voice in New York State Environmental politics. continued on page eight
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PROPOSED REORGANIZATION Oi= STUDENT ACT_IVITIES COMMITTEE of 1973. New full student body elections.for all The following proposal for reorganization of of the Hamilton members are to be held then. the SAC (Student Activities Committee), The date of the election is to be determined introduced by the Senate executive committee, jointly by the SAC and the Senate elections was defeated at the Senate meeting on November committee. 14, 1972: F. The method of selecting the four new I. Membership \... Kirkland SAC members, and the method of A. The present SAC membership of four selecting all of the Kirkland members in the Hamilton and four Kirkland students shall be Spring, shall be determined by the Kirkland increased to a total of eight Hamilton and eight Assembly.· .Kirkland Jtudents. Executive Committee B. The four new members from Hamilton shall Student Senate be elected in a full student body election on Opposition to the plan centered upon the December 5. Petitions for candidates will be proposed increase in the size of the SAC, and the available in Root 7 on November 27 and are proposed method of selection of the SAC due in Root 7 by December 1. members (elective rather than appointed). The C. The SAC chairperson is to be elected from executive committee hopes to introduce a within the SAC by the sixteen (new members m odified · reorganization p r op o sal after included) SAC members. Thanksgivhig. D. The term of the new SAC chairperson is to Please note that de spite the defeat of the commence January 1, 1973, and is to terminate proposal, a new SAC chairperson will be elected December 31, 1973. from within the SAC by January 1. E. The terms of all -SAC members, excluding Robby Brewer the SAC chairperson, shall expire in the Spring Senate Secrretary
of the best small colleges in the count r y . P rofessor Channing Richardson of the Hamilton Government department is Liason Officer for the Fellowships at Hamilton. The Watson Fellowship provides a grant of $6,000 for students displaying both creativity and academic ability to fulfill practically any project of his choice during a year abroad. Two of the four applicants normally receive �cceptances, although last year the Foundation accepted all four applicants from Hamilton. This year's nominees are Roy Schecter, Walter Taylor, William Delaney and Joseph Reagan. Mr. Richardson is also the Fulbright Advisor at Hamilton for the F u l b r i g ht-Hays Program, which gives annual scholarships to qua lified un dergraduates for study, research, and professional training abroad. Fullbright-Hays Full Grants provide round-trip
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tr av e l , t uit i o n, books, and maintainance costs for one year of academic study. The following lists both the six Hamilton seniors who have been recommended for 1973-74 Fulbright Scholarships and the countries in which they wish to study: Michael C. Clinger (Israe l ), Stuart J. Hamilton (Switzerland), Marvin R. Kwartler ( Au s t ra l ia ), M a r k Richard (France), Roy H. Schecter (United Kingdom), and Joel A Swetow (Germany). Dean Kurtz coordinated the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarship Program at Hamilton. Rhodes Scholarships allow an American student posessed of excellent scholastic ability to spend two years of s t udy at Oxford University under the aegis of the R ho d e s T r u st , which was established in the last century by the British empire-builder Cecil continued on page ten
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BY RAYMOND DOOLEY has excellent sense of the tattered Chekhov's Smoking is Bad for dign ity which braces Ivan You is, ostensibly, a lecture on Nyukhin. Fred is, however, "the harmful effects of smoking working under several handicaps. on the human race," presented by It is very difficult for a young the aged Ivan Nyukhin. Ivan was, actor, especially one of Fred's in his early years, alive with good looks and carriage, to dreams and ambitions (it seems he convincingly portray an old man. went to college), but he now is Because of this, the play loses intellectually some of the pathos that the figure and spiritually torpid, due to an oppressive of a subjugated but undaunted old domestic life. He has no man should evoke. It is also self-respect; his wife bullies him, difficult f 9r a single actor to hold and his daughters laugh in his the stage for twenty minutes. face. His discourse rapidly turns Fred is, for the most part, equal from lecture to catharsis as 33 to the task, but his asides of humiliation and sometimes years lack spontaneity, suffocation burst (as well as which tends to flatten an anything can "burst" in Chekhov) otherwise animated performance. from his soul. Smoking is Bad for You He would like to escape and presents few directorial and desi gn forget, to "stand . . . like a tree challenges. Director David or a post or a scarecrow ...under Nemens has the sensitivity and the broad sky ..." It is a touching good sense to let Chekhov speak scene, almost to the point of for himself. He has correctly being sentimental. This is the chosen understate Ivan to difficulty of this piece? Ivan must Nyukhin rather than rendering be pathetic without being him in a farcical or sentimental sentimental. Although he wishes light. to forget his existence, he has a Ivan, near the close of his which, speech, implores his listeners to self-acceptance stoic Chekhov seems to say, is the last tell his wife ''that the imbecile, and most precious link that men meaning me, behaved with like Ivan Nyukhin have with dign ity_,, It is to Nemens' and human dign ity. Goehner's credit that we see Ivan Under the direction of David through different eyes than we Nemens, Fr�derick Goehner,' as did before, recognizing him not as Ivan, gives a controlled and solid a clown or an imbecile, but rather performanc_e. He is appropriately as a man who can confront his comic during the opening minutes failures and humiliations, and without being cute. He stays true accept them, and the man they to th� script throughout, imposing represent, with di ity. gn little which seems artificial, and
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BY RICHARD KAVESH Final Jeopardy, she had $770, as Category: Useless Information. opposed to $200 for Paul and An swe r: Susan Smith, Paul $250 for Lunchy Lorraine. The Wilson, Lo"aineG orman, Donna final answer: His career was Angl e , An ne Marie Sutton, influenced by reading Thoreau Lou-Ann Keller, Sheila November, when a law student in London in Jay Delahanty, Robin Phillips. 1889. The final question: Who You have thirty seconds to think was Gandhi? The winner: Susan of the correct question. All set? Smith, by a landslide. On Tuesday, An ne-Marie Time's up, the pens are down. The corrett question: Who are the Sutton from suburban Baltimore pla yers on Jeopardy� Ninth was up against Michigan 's Donna A n n u a l· To u r n a m e n t o f Angle and the gorgeous Lou-Ann Monte Walsh is a cowboy aren't. An old civil war hero can Champions? Keller, a stewardess. Anne-Marie, All across America this week, who told millions of Americans picture. Not a western, but a get no other job than mending cowboy picture. In a western, fences. Still, he says "I've lived a millions of eyes were glued to that "I live around the corner there is a rigid plot, usually good life." Later, he goes crazy their TV sets to watch Art from a Baltimore stripper and hackneyed. Revenge, or a new and commits suicide by riding his Fleming serve as ringmaster· for catch her act occasionally", won Marshal in town, or a love horse at breakneck speed down an the quiz show event of the year _ by the thickness of a G-string triangle. A cowboy movie is just a impossible trail. As the· cowboys J eopardy's Tournament of $690 to $680. We were all gather and look at the body,· we Champions. Here on the Hill disappointed when Lou-Ann shot movie about cowboys. feel sad. But we realize crowds gathered in McEwen: the wad . and lost it al) in Final should Monte Walsh has no plot. Sure, the old man had had a good Bristol, the fraternity houses, Jeopardy. that an and middle it has a beginning, Sheila November, reputedly end, but what happens isn't nearly life, and had chosen this time and K i r kl a nd D o r m , Carnegie, as important as how it happens. monner to bring it to an end, and Commons, to see who would win Jimmy the Greek's odds-on a luxurious cruise in the South favorite to . win, faced Jay Like a modern novel, it deals with we are somehow happy. Seas on an American President Delahanty and Robin Phillips on t the Lee in Marvin s urn The character · an d theme. Wednesday. Jay won over Art character is portrayed by Lee performance of ·his career. He is a Lines banana boat. T hr ee different undefeated Fleming by stating with the faith Marvin. The theme is the decline gentle yet tough old cowboy. of the old west: romantic, open Jeanne Moreau (of Jules and Jim champions competed against each a and free, and the rise of the new f me) is likewise good. Jack other each day from Monday thru west: commercial, hard·and cold. Palance plays a good guy for once, · Wednesday. The winner of each day then competed head on This may sound depressing, but and does it well. In spite of these excellent against the other winners on · it isn't, because the camera mainly glorifies Marvin and his kind, performances, the real star is the Thursday and Friday in a two-day u s in g the u g l y futu re as West. To quote the Saturday marathon of visual Final Jeopardy counterpoint. Director William Review, "Far more than just a quetions, excrutiatingly difficult F r a k e r w a s f o r m e r 1 y Wes t e rn; it is, instead, an regular cat egories, and an cinematographer on such movies affectionate salute to a way of life atmosphere as tense as a Super as Rosemary's Baby and Bullitt. and a breed of men on the point Bowl. Indeed, it was a S�per Bowl of He uses his photographic skill to of e xt i nction as impersonal such advantage that the West corporations close down the sorts. The Tournament began on cannot be anything but beautiful. ranges...what the whole life was M o n d.ay when M.C. Don Pardo, I n de e d , t h e pho tography like is really the theme...an sounding as ominous as the prophet Tiresias of Oedipus Rex, deserves special mention. Every extraordinary movie. It is dangerous to endorse a announced that "one of you, and shot is like a still, sort of a cross between Ansel Adams and movie, since· different things only one of you, will be our F r e d erick R e m i n gton. Most appeal to different people. In champion of champions." On amazing of all is the fact that spite of this, Monte Walsh is Monday, it was Susan Smith vs. Lorraine Gorman vs. Paul Wilson. many of the moving camera shots entirely recommended. Susan, from Cooperstown was the retain their striking compositional elements throughout, instead of _______________..,. favorite of the local crowd here, but it was Lorraine Gorman, who merely at beginning or end. A declared that she was taking a The Whole Earth herd of wild stallions is driven co_urse in Bowling at Western through the dust. Fraker's cam�ra Natural Food Store Illinois State for her teacher's is set to catch the back�light off 2 College St. "f"1cate in Phys. Ed. who won cert1 dust, alternately concealing and the hearts of America. Going into Open 10-6 Mon. - Sat. revealing the churning horses and Double Jeopardy, it was nearly a bulk grains, flour, seeds, nuts, shouting cowboys. dead heat, but Susan soon moved It is strange how the most vitamins, cereals tea & much more into the lead. In fact, going into depressing elements in this film
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of Luther: "Jeopardy is the only worthwhile show on TV." By showing his confidence, he built up a slight ps ychol o gical _advantage and won in a closely contested battle. Everybody blew Final Jeopardy. The Category: W o r d s . The ·An s wer: A conscientious reluctance, or an apothecarie's weight equal to one twenty-fourth of a gram. The correct Question: What is a scruple?, No one in Bristol or Commons got this one right.Ja�k Brillman, however, redeemed the McEwen J eopardy Club by recalling "scruple" from a chart in an old math book. Into the two-day battle of Thursday and Friday came Jay Delahanty, Susan Smith, and Anne-Marie Sutton. It was truly a Championship of Champions. On Thursday, Ane-Marie made a brilliant comeback and the day's final totals stood: Anne-Marie, $710; Jay $710; Susan, $800. Who won the whole thing? Find out in next week's issue.
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FILMS ON CAMPUS THIS WEEKEND Contempt- directed by Jean-Luc Goddard, with Bridgette Bardot. 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, 10 p.m. on Sunday night, Science Auditorium. Tobacco ,Road- directed by John Ford (1940), with Gene Tierney and William Tracy, based on the novel by Erskin Caldwell. 8 p.m., Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. Chemistry Auditorium. Monte Walsh- directed by William Fraker, with Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, and Jack Palance. 10 p.m., Friday Saturday, and Sunday nights. See review in this week's Arts Page. In the Weeks Ahead Blow Up; A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; Women in Love; Ship of Fools ; Bridge on the River Kwai. At Nearby Theatres Cannonball (in Clinton: 853-5553): Butterflies Are Free Kallet Cinema (736-2313): Funny Girl Paris (733-2730): Lqdy Sings The Rfo.e.t Stanley (724-4000): The Valachi Papers MUSIC At the Coffeehouse Michael Dinner, McEwen Coffeehouse, 9 p.m.-la.m., Friday and Saturday nights. EXHIBITIONS Currently on Campus Exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Armand Vaillancourt, at the Root Art Center through November 19 (Sunday). Joint sculpture exhibition by John Seley, Victor Colby, and Jack Squier. At the List Arts Center through November 20 (Monday). Exhibition of Current Prints U.S.A., from the New York State Council of Arts. At the Bristol Campus Center Lounge through November 21 (Tuesday). Opening ·soon Paintings by James Loveless. Opening at the Root Art ·center, November 29th at 8:00 p.m. See article in this week's Arts Page. Photographs by Jonathan Vick '64, opening at the Bristol Campus Center Lounge, November 28. Munson-Willi ams-Proctor Institute (797 -0000) At the Exhibition of photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, at the Munstitute Museum of Art from November 19 (Sunday) through December 31. LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS November 19 (Sunday) The Free Cl)urch: Edwin B. Barrett, Hamilton English Department, 11:15 a.m., Chapel. Community Worship,.Kirner-Johnson Red Pit, 7:30 p.m. November 20 (Monday) Root-Jessup Lecture: Japanese Foreign Policy, Goro Nakasone, Consul and Director, Japan Information Service, 8 p.m., Chapel. Ms. Natalie Babbitt will discuss the reading, writi�g, and illustrating of children's books, 8 p.m., McEwen Coffeehouse. November 21 (Tuesday) Writers Salon, 8:30 p.m., McEwen Coffeehouse. MILESTONES November 18 (Saturday) Eugene Ormandy's Birthday (1899). Ignaz Paderewski's Birthday (1860). Carl Maria von Weber's Birthday (178.6). November 19 (Sunday) Gettysburg Address (1863). November 22 (Wednesday) Benjamin Britten's Birthday (1913). St. Cecilia's Day November 23 (Thursday) Thanksgiving Day Franklin Pierce's Birthday
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BEETHOVEN'S SIXTH SYMPHONY BY IRVING KOLODIN Pundits have pondered for years over - the inscription with which Beethoven prefaced his "Pastoral Symphony: Sixth Symphony, or a recollection of country life. More an expression of feeling than a painting." Most times, emphasis has been applied to the phrase about "feeling" rather than �ainting", as if to exonerate Beethoven from the blame for writing ''program music." However, the reference to "recollection" is worth · a degree of attention it rarely· receives. Why, of all words, "recollection"? And what is its significance relative to the Vienna suburb of Heiligenstadt, where it was written the summer of 1808? Now just more built-up area on the perimeter of Vienna - almost range within street-car Heiligenstadt in Beethoven's day was a blessed haven of retreat for summer thought and relaxation. One year it might be another area such as neighboring Gneixendorf, in another, Dobling or Hetzendorf. But Heiligenstadt, to the Beethoven-indoctrinated, has a special significance. It was here, of course, that Beethoven first made mention in written form of his deafness, in
the so-called ''Heiligenstadt Testament" of 1802. Though it did not become known to the world until after the composer's death, it speaks in still poignant words of his despair, indeed his "humiliation when someone stood by me and heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing or someone heard the sheperd boy singing and again I heard nothing." And in a final "O heart-ren ding outcry: Providence, let for once a pure day of joy be mine; so long is true joy's inward resonance a stranger to me. 0 when, 0 when O God, can I feel it once again in this Temple of Nature and Humanity. Never? No-- 0 that were too cruel." Six years Wl!re to pass before, in another summer's visit to Heiligenstadt, Beethoven found the answer to his prayer_ and was granted the "pure day of joy" for which he implored Providence. Not, of course, by remittance of the ailment that plagued him, or through medical intervention. 'If anything, his hearing was worse and shortly he would have to give up public performance altogether. What had happened to Beethoven in those six years was (in my view) simply this: As of 1802, he conceived joy and the fulfillment of it in the ''Temple_ of Nature" as an outward, direct,
New Loggins and Messina Disc Fails to Reach Expectation s BY DOUGLAS SINGER Suffice it to say Loggins and Messina have released their second (Loggins and Messina, album Col. KC 31748). Take that for what it's worth. Unfortunately, I'd just as soon leave it. It is a difficult album, both to evaluate and to discover and enjoy its merits, as it 'seems to be filled with an undefinable yet discernible tension. The first album, Sitting In, maintained its viability through a tenuous balance comprised of a l t e rnating vocals and interweaving harmonies on the one hand, and easy ( almost spontaneous it seemed) melodic m a t er i al , often ac oustically presented. In the new album, that balance
see m s to have been upset, although I can't quite confidently say where. Those harmonies are still here, although not quite as. unique; the magnetic vocals of Kenny Loggins can still be found, although not as clear and precise, and perhaps not as confident ( or possibly more sloppy). Rather, I think the balance is upset at the other end. The new material just does not have the immediate likeability that the first transmitted. The songs are still very melodic, and at times even c at c hy ( "Good Friends" or ''Whiskey" among others), but the cheerfulnes s a n d the easy tunefulness of "House at Pooh Corners" are not here. Further, the album is clearly mo�e electrically, or if you will,
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physical experience - the pleasure that comes from a sunny day in the country, feeling its warmth, hearing the bird sounds, the music of a village band, even at day's end, the threat of thunder in the distance. This is normal and natural for anyone. But in the spiritual upheaval of these six years, Beethoven ceased to be "anyone", and became an "only one." One, that is, who realized he could still recollect, those sensations inwardly, hear them with his mind's ear and recreate their effect' musically·. Then, in a way he could never have anticipated six years before, he was' granted that ''pure day of joy" - in the music of his ow� creation. Thus the phraseology of the verbal preface to the "Pastoral" "a recollection of country life. More an expression of feeling than a painting" is almost a postscript to the wording of the Heiligenstadt Testament. To the devil with a literal rendering! Let those who could only hear reproduce. It was the more exalted privilege of one who could no longer hear to speak of how a day in the country feels, to fix forever the senses it stimulates, the sights it conveys - in short, not to reproduce but recreate. Editors Note: Irving Kolo din is the Music Editor of the Saturday Review.
An exhibition of paintings by control of every move and tilt." Mr. Loveless will be present at Lo veless, Associate Jame s Professor of Art at Colgate the opening and will give a slide will open University, on presentation entitled ''My Own Wednesday evening November Art History" at 8:30 pm. Students are urged to attend and 29th, at the Root Art Center. Mr. Loveless was born in 1935, to meet the artist at the reception attended DePauw University, which will follow. The show will Indiana University, and Michigan close December 16th. State. He has won the Heffner Award in Oil Painting and has MOSES FOOTE given one man shows in places GENERAL STORE ranging from Michigan to New World Wide Arts and Imports Y�rk City. According to Professor James Now featuring our new Pe nny of the Hamilton Department of Art, "Loveless has GARDEN ROOM arrived at a statement in his painting that is impressive and Open 10-5:30 Sun. 1-4 arrestingly personal . . .with a feeling for juxtaposition of every shape and color and with sensitive ---------------
more rock, defined. This seems to be a clear source for tension, pulling the music down like a diminishing return, rather than giving. it the boost of energy the first maintained. Although the first opens with high energy, it seems to have disappeared by the album's end. T h e 1 y r i c s provide n o c o u n t e r b a l a n ce t o t hese cen trip i t al t e n d e n c i e s ; the uniqueness of the first album's lyrics have developed into painful cliches or boring absurdities for the most part. It has been suggested to me that I try to understand Loggins and Messina from the perspective of some sort of progression originatiing back with . Buffalo Springfield. I cannot see any support for such a perspective, at least in the context of this album, and above all, I can't see what "" value such a perspective might have, save as an excuse. It should be noted that the album consists of new studio material performed by the same personnel as the first album with the addition of Rusty Young (Poco) on dobro. i should caution that this album takes a great deal of listening to merely enjoy; perhaps. if one listens long enough one might grow to appreciate it, or vice versa. I doubt if the latter is possible because the value of the album seems to me to be relatively superficial in light of the first. But then, if one waits long enough, it will ust1ally rain. TAKE A.HAMIL TON MAN TO THE PUB THIS WEEKEND
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Survey Finds Hamilton, Kirkland Frosh Similar
in high school. Almost _one-�d average. BY DENNIS OAKES generally come from pnvate high The research office of the A majority of fathers of schools and most are 18 years v1d Hamilton and Kirkland students American Council on Education (ACE) takes an annual survey of. when they enter college. Mc::t are professionals (businessmen, students were very active in - doctors and lawyers). An average entering freshmen at four-year extra-curricular activities in high of over 40% of fathers of coll eges across the country. school and large numbers took Hamilton students and over 35% Freshmen at both Hamilton and i protest against of fathers of Kirkland stude nts are part in poltical Kirkland fill out the ACE questionnaires and the result is vast various l o c a l and national businessmen. This situation seems institutions. A strong majority at to explain the relatively high level amou nts o f i nteresting both H am ilton and Kirk.land place of family income-over 25% of information a�out the students at both colleges. themselves on the hberal side of 1:he families of entering heshmen By analyzing the data for the the political spectrum. earn in excess of $30,000 a year. classes entering Hamilton and About 95% of the students are This high income level a1so Kirkland in the years 1969, 1970 c a u c a s i a n . Th e rel igious explains the fact that almost all and 1971 (the current senior, background of students is pretty students expressed little or no junior and sophomore classes) I much in line with national concern about financing their have come to some conclusions averages, except that Jews are at college education, and-almost 80% - about the statistically ''typical" both colleges in numbers at least pointed to their f amilies as the student at both institutions. One's four or five times the national major source of their financial first impression is that, despite average. In 1971, 46.5% of support. speculation to the contrary, the Kirk.land's freshman class was Most Hamilton and Kirkland students at both institutions are Jewish. students have high aspirations as quite similar-at least in the areas About half the freshmeµ come entering freshmen. A majority of probed by ACE. from big cities or their suburbs students look to a masters or Let us look at the "stereotype" which are between 100 and 500 p r o f e s sional d egree upon of a Hamilton and Kirkland miles from The Hill. graduation. Though close to half Student that emerges ,from a The parents of Hamilton and of Hamilton's students indicate study of the facts. Using national. K irkland students are highly that they anticipate careers as averages as a norm we can make educated. Large numbers of both professionals there seems to be a the following observations. mothers a n d father s hold significant rebellion against the Students at both Hamilton and post-graduate degrees-in numbers line of work of their fathers. Kirkland had outstanding records about four times the national While generally about 42% of
Item HIGH SCHOOL INFORMATION 1. Type of Secondary School -Public· -Private 2. Average Gra4e in H.S. -A or A+ -A-B+
-B
3. Rank in H.S. Class -Top 1% -Top 10% -Top 25% 4. High School Achievements -Elected Pres. of Student Org. -Major Part in Play -Varsity Letter Sports -School Paper Editor -Original Writing Pub'lished -Scholastic Honor Society -National Merit Recognition 5. Students reported during last yr. they: -Protested U.S. military policy· -Protested against H.S. Admin. -Demonstrated for Racial Change -Participated in H.S. Polit. Cam p. -Participated in other Polit. Cam p. -Drank beer -Stayed up all night PERSONAL INFORMATION' 1. Racial Background -Caucasian/White -Negro /Black/Afro�Am. lll9eligious Background -Protestaht -Roman Catholic -Jewish -None 3. Present Religious Preference -Protestant -Roman Catholic -Jewish -None 4. While Growing Up I Lived -In a Small Town -In a City of Moderate Size -In a Suburb of Large City -In a Large City PARENTAL INFORMATION 1. Mother•s Education -Some College -College Degree -Post Graduate Degree 2. Father's Education -Some College -College Degree -Post Graduate De gree 3. Father•s Occupation -Businessmen -College Teacher -Doctor (M.D. or D.D.S.) -Educator (Secondary) -Engineer -Lawyer
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70 66.2 33.8
25.1 21.0 27.6 18.1
4.0 8.5 16.9 24.4
18.4 27.6 29.0 18.0
4.7 8.7 17.1 24.2
22.3 22.3 33.2 14.7
4.8 8.4 16.7 24.2
10.9 27.9 33.3 18.4
6.7 13.0 24.3 29.3
14.0 52.5 22.0
3.9 21.4 29.5
87.0
43.0
85.0
42.6
8.4 40.6 17.5
37.3 26.2 62.5 31.6 42.2 61.5 38.9
24.1 17.9 49.6 9.6 15.7 25.3 8.6
40.2 27.4 62.6 25.6 35.6 62.1 37.9
22.1 16.8 49.7 8.9 15.0 23.9 8.2
34.6 20.1 63.0 27.0 32.8 58.7 34.4
22.5 16.6 52.7 9.0 14.8 23.4 8.9.
22.8 42.1 27.6 61.4 29.3 75.2 66.1
7.9 26.4 13.8 49.4 16.9 63.3 63.6
49.8 30.7 75.0 62.5
41.0 13.6 65.8 60.5
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90.8 7.2
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48.7 25.6 14.7 8.0
59.3 31.2 4.0
35.0 18.5 10.3 28.9
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34.1 20.1 9.8 28.5
50.5 31.4 4.4 9.8
20.7 27.7 36.8 13.2
20.4 32.7 23.4 13.8
19.8 31.8 35.9 11.1
20.8 30.4 25.1 14.5
21. 6 32.0 12.9
18.7 14.4 3.2
23.5 3.5.0 12.0
li.6 14.2 3.0
21.3 36.2 13.8
19.5 28.6 34.0
17.9 17.1 9.8
14.8 33.3 35.2
17.2 17.6 10.0
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42.9 3.9 11.2 6.4 7.3 3.4
30.3 0.8 2.1 2.4 6.9 1.2
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7.3 12.8 23.7 28.9
9.8 34.3 30.4 21.6
7.4 12.9 2 4.0 28.4
7.3 29.0 22.1
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75.5
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34.5 25.0 20.9 39.2 46.6 47.3 17.6
22.1 18.0 13.8 17.1 21.8 39.0 9.1
25.5 24.8 12.7 32.1 40.6 49.7 29.7
21.0 17.3 13.1 16.4 19.9 35.6 8.3
24.3 22.3 15.5 35.0 41.7 35.0 22.3
20. 4 17.2 16.7 16.8 20.1 35.6 8.8
14.3 35.5 19.0 39.6 14.0 68.9 60.7
44.2 53.1 45.9 45.9 39.5 55.4 72.3
5.6 23.8 11.5 51.5 19.2 39.9 62.5
43.9 52.6 44.0 69.2
43.6 15.6 42.4 62.4
62.4 67.7 47.0 40.4 37.6 42.6 74.3
10.4 32.9 15.6 41.0 15.5 46.1 60.2
97.3 1.1
89.5 8.8
91.9 4.7
88.6 9.5
92.6 4.9
89.0 9.0
96.1 1.9
88.5 10.1
48.4 28.2 18.1 1.6
50.5 34.5 3.3 2.3
38.8 18.6 31.7 9.0
60.2 31.0 3.9 2.1
32.3 7.1 46.5 12.1
5 4.6 31.2 3.0 1.7
27.2 20.1 13.0 28.8
42.0 28.6 2.4 15-.3
20.2 8.3 14.5 45.5
53.7 28.7 3.0 10.3
19.6 11.0 23.9 36.2
55-.6 29.2 3.4 7.9
14.0 4.0 24.0 47.0 ·
47.4 26.7 2.2 11.9
14.6. 25.7 38.9 18.1
21.2 33.7 ·21.1 13.7
14.7 22.1 4i.1 20.2
21.0 32.8 23.3 13.6
17.3 16.2 3.7
26.0 35.6 21.9
20.9 10.1 3.7
19.4 36.4 23.0
20.3 16.7 3.7
18.6 44.1 23.5
20.3 17.6 4.2
31.4 42.0
16.6 19.1 10.8
10.9 45.6
18.7 18.1
11.2
10.4 29.3 40.2
18.1 18.9 11.5
14.7 32.4 46.1
17.4 20.0 11.7
42.0 3.4 8.5 8.0 6.2 7.4
30.9 0.8 2.2 2.7 6.9 1.4
34.7 4.9 5.6 5.6 6.9 8.3
29.6 1.0 2.3
33.1 4.5 9.6 4.5 10.8 4.5
30.5 1.1 2.2 2.6 7.1 1.5
43.3 8.2 13.4 2.1 4.1
30.5 0.9 2.2 2.9 7.1 1.4
27.2
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NOVEMBER 17, 1972
Hamilton students• fathers are businessmen only about 4% of freshmen usually indicate an interest in business. the interest has recently been significantly higher in medicine and law (both about 20%). Despite (or possibly because of) the general financial well-being of most Hamilton and Kirkland students only about one-third of Hamilton students and 13% of Kirkland students consider it "ess ential" to be well off financially. On the other hand more than 70% find it "essential" to help others in difficulty. There seems to be a significant amount of creative talent and desir e a m o ng the Kirkland students. More than 40% of entering freshmen have had some of their original writings published (Hamilton students are somewhat lower, but both are significantly above the national average) and an equal percentage maintain the feeling that it is "essential" to "write original works" and to "create works of art." Significant majorities of both Hamilton and Kirkland students anticipated that they would be "satisfied" with their college experience. Data only available fqr the first time in 1971 seems to
THE SPECTATOR
PAGE SEVEN
indicate that a majority of s t u d e nt s m at ri c u l a t ing a t Hamilton had been attracted by its •�eputation", while a majority of Kirkland students sought a ' ' s pecial education program" offered at the college. The issues that were most in line 'With a majority of students' viewpoints ("agree strongly or somewhat") reflected a liberal attitude and are in most cases significantly above the national average. Some of the issues which students were most strongly in favor were: student design of curriculum; l eg a l i za t ion of m ar ij u ana; m ovement to a volunte.er army; liberalization of divorce laws; legalization of abortion; and abolition of capital punishment. Two sets of questions that were asked for the first time in 1971 do not allow conclusions to be d r a w n , but offer some interesting information, none the less. Students were asked whether or not they rated themselves ''better than average" in a series of categories. Almost 90% of students at both Hamilton and K i r kland felt their academic abilit y w a s a b o ve average. continued on page eight
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35.4 18.8 14.6 24.3 6.9
10.3 6.9 6.3 43.9 32.6
31.6 17.4 14.6 27.9 8.4
17.6 19.1 19.1 46.6 16.6
44.5 27.7 27.7 22.4 5.5
17.7 5.3 6.6 47.4 23.0
36.4 17.1 13.4 25.6 7.4
7.7 6.6 11.0 36.3 38.5
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8.8 24.3 28.9 22.6 13.4
31.5 39.4 17.2 6.3 2.4
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5.8. 9.4 5.0 21.6 4.3 22.3
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9.2 4.8 Businessman ::College teacher 3.5 20.5 -Doctor 4.8 -Educator (Secondary) 1.3 -Engineer 18.8 -Undecided 4. Objectives considered to be essential or very important -Achieve in Performing Art 18.2 -Influence Political Structure 34.9 -Influence Social Values 46.9 -Raise a Family 66.1 -Have Friends Diff. from Me 64.9 -Be Very Well Off Financially 38.. 8 -Help Others in Difficulty 70.7 -Become Community Leader 25.7 -Write Original Works 26.1 -Keep Up With Pol. Affairs 66.8 -Develop a Philosophy of Life 87.1 -Participate Comm. Action Pro. 4 5. Students Expect They Will: -Dropout Temporarily 0.4 2.1 -Transfer to Another College -Be Satisfied with College 39.6 -Join Frat. or Sorority FINANCING COLLEGE ED 1. Concern about Financing 37.2 -No Concern 55.4 -Some Concern 7.4 -Maior Concern 2. Major Sources of Support -Part-time/Summer Work 15.6 -Parental or Family Aid 75.8 -Scholarships and Grants 33.2 -Loans 10.2 POLITI CAL INFORMATIOW 1. Current Pol. Preference -Far Left 14.7 --Liberal 41.1 -Middle-of-the -Road 21.0 -Conservative 19.2 -Far Right 4.0
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5.7 2.9 2.4 20.6 5.3 1.0 21.1
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22.8 86.3
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Item 4. Estimated Parental I ncome -Less than $10,000 -$10,000 to $12,499 -$12,500 to $J4,999 -$15,000 to $29,999 -$30,000 or more f UTURE PLANS 1. Highest Degree Planned -Bachelor's (B.A.,B.S.) -Master's (M.A., M.S.) -P.H.D. or ED.D. -M.D., D.D.S., D.V .M. -L.L.b.,J .D. 2. Probable Major -Education -English -History, Political Science -Fine Arts -Pre Professional .-Social Sciences 3. Probable Career -Artist (includes performing)
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9.7 82.4 12.1 21.8
25.6 64.4 25.2 24.7
12�7 85.4 16.5 12.6
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9.4 52.0 27.7 10.9 .0
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3.6 38 0 41.4 16.1 .9
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Survey con 't. Majorities at both schools felt a strong "desire to achieve'\ but 61% of Hamilton students thought their leadership ability was above average and only 38% of Kirkland students felt the same. About one-third of entering freshmen 'at both colleges felt they had an above average· attraction with the opposite sex. A b o ut three-quarters of the freshmen thought their ability to "u n d erst a nd others" w a s somewhat exceptional. Another interesting category probes students' reasons for going to college. About one-fifth of s t u d e n t s a tt ri b u t ed t heir attendance to parental pressure; Item 2. Expected Pref. in 4 Years -Far Left -Liberal -Middle-of-the-Road -Conservative -Far Left OTHER PERSONAL OPINIONS 1. Agree Strongly or Somewhat -Student Design of Curriculum -Indiv. Canno,t Change Society -Stdt. Should Evaiuate F acuity -Marijuana Should Be Legalized -Army Should Be Voluntary -Coll. Too Lax on Stu. Protest -Liberalize Divorce Laws -Legalize Abortion -Courts Protect Criminals Too Much -Abolish Capital Punishment 2. Fed. Gov't. Should Be More Involved In: -Control of Pollution -Consumer Protection -Control of Firearms -Elimination of Poverty -Crime Prevention -School Desegregation -Control of Stu. Activists 3. Se}f-Ratings or Better . Than Average on Personal / Traits / -Academic Ability; -Athletic Ability -Artistic Ability -Cheerfulness -Drive to Achieve -Leadership Ability -Popularity w. Opposite Sex -Intellectual Self-Confidence -Understanding of Others ZAEHRINGER continued from page three E.P.L. led the drive for the conception of the Environmental Quality Bond Act of 1972, which passed . 3:$ Proposition One on November 7. The Lobby is primarily concerned with state legislation. It influences state senators and - assemblymen, and the Department of Environmental Conservation of New York State o n Be half of environmental interests. Presently, the E.P.L.'s and E.E.C.H.K. 's prime concern is the fate of the Adirondacks Forest Preserve, which is to be decided in the near future. T w o years ago, Governor R o c k e f eller a p p o i n t ed t he Adirondacks Park Preservation Commission, to investigate the state of the park and to make recommendations concerning the manner in which it is to be preserved in the future. Last July, i t submitted i t s f i n d i ng s concerning publicly held lands, which amount to approximately 3 0% of the Preserve. Many envi ronmenta lists think the Commission has thus far acted responsibly. The report divided the l a nd& into four · areas, according to present usage and
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a b o u t t hr ee-quarters seek a general education; and some had "nothing better to do" (Hami_1:ton 5% and Kirkland 8%). Only one-third of Hamilton freshmen thought about college as an avenue to making mroe money' and the number was even lower at Kirkland (13%). There are endless other comparisons which can be made from this pool of statistical data. I have only attempted to present a survey of the more obvious conclusions that the data conveys.. I might also add that I have presented only my own personal evaluation and analysis of the ACE data. I think I have been accurate and "fair" in m· ex�lanations and conclusions ..
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Charlatans' Budget Thaws. Colleges Will Assume Def1c1t
Charlatan's production, Spring 1972
BY ANNE FINELLI The Charlatans, Hamilton's and Kirkland's student .drama group, is now relatively free to provide as much money as they want for student productions. They have just recently been released from ·a f r e e z e o n t heir b u d g e t , c o nsequences o f f i n a n c i a l difficulties harking back t o the 1970-71 school year. During this period, the Charlatans overspent their budget by $2100. To pay off this debt, the Student Senate intended to carry it forward over the next
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four or five years . by siJJ1ply Carav an o, Provost for Hamilton, reducing the budget each year. At said that he would accept �e the end of the fiscal year, June Senate's surplus as a partial 30 1971 the Charlatans had repayment for the $2100, and sp�nt an o;her $700, which raised that the rest would be paid by the college out of its general funds. the total debt to $2800. The Charlatans are funded Kathy Smith of the Charlatans through the �tudent Senate and said that the debt was cause� by the Kirkland Funding Committee. the many full-length productions Each show must be presented to o f ,Pr am a Majors '. and the the Senate Board to obtain a director's overexpenditure on the purchase order, and the amount commencement show. The budget _ of money is then decided upon by had been tightened so as to be the Charlatans' an d the Senate's able to obtain future purchase orders from the Senate during this treasurers. The Student Senate discovered year. Since the blame for the original that through some mix-up in the business office it had $540 more overexpenditure rests with alt than it thought it had for that · sides, the Charlatans will have a year. Even though surpluses and clean slate this year with no freeze deficits are not supposed to be on the budget. The freeze had c arr i e d o v e r i n student surprised them when it was organization budgets from year to originally an nounced, and though year, a further business office it is now technically "off", they mix-up credited money to this still have. no formalized budget this year. Hence, one-act plays are year's budget; Since t he procedure for being encouraged because of their payment of the Charlatans' debt smaller production cost, shorter seemed unfair, the Senate agreed production time and incentive for to use part of the surplus to pay t h e c o n s truct ive use of off the $700 segment. Mr. equipment.
students. Although none of the promote universal participation in teams made it to the semi-finals, debates, prestigious or not. This is the experience will most likely a euphemistic way of saying that prove invaluable in future debates. w i n n i ng is o f seconda r y The Hamilton Debate Club, importance-and it is. The veteran under the leadership of Louis . debaters help the less experienced Levenso n '74, is committed to the speakers get into the technique of goal of giving any interested Parliamentary debate: a style of student the opportunity to debate i m p r Om p t u , f a s t - t alking, o f f-c a m pus in r ecogn1zed quick-thinking and witty speakers, competition. The objective of the who at the same time, speak present debate society is to reievantly to the issue at h an d. At Wesleyan U., there were five rounds of debate: three rounds in the Co-op · room, but the cash which the teams were required to To facilitate snow removal and road. Particular reference is THEFTS register was broken into, which make two ten-minute constructive provide space .for those who made to the road behind continued from page one might disprove that theory. speeches and two five minute Root and Carnegie - no cigarettes and candy-\here is no The Kirklan d Administration rebuttals, and two rounds in commute to the campus, the cars or trucks except service accurate account of what is stated that the managers of the which there were eight minute following parking regulations will vehicles may park on this missing. Miss Samenfeld said that three robbed organizations had c o n s t r u c t i v e s p e e c h e s , take effect on the Hamilton road. ther e was one report that not given it full information and three-minute cross-examinations, c a�pus beginning Monday, 3. Parking currently permitted someone had seen a group of t herefore the Administration and four minute rebuttals. The November 2 7. 1. There will be no overnight on the inside of the road at people in L.O.B.B.Y. the night of could not do much to help clear teams alternated between the parking (that is, no parking Bundy, ·where the road has the robberies, but he did not up the mystery. a f f i r m a t i v e' and n eg a t iv e from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 been widened, will now be know any of them. However, Mrs. Hoffa said that · viewpoints with each round. The a.m.), rain, snow, or shine: permitted only on the The Co-op Art Store suffered newer and tighter security subject for each debate was a) to the east of the old outside of the road at the three robberies in early October in precautions were taken after the chosen only moments before the Kirkland Administration widened spots. This is to which a total of $180 was stolen. robbery and she said she hopes debate was to begin, forcing Buildings; permit the plowing of snow These robberies also occurred on they will work. speakers to construct entire cases b) to the south of Dunham; onto the lawns rather than w eek-ends-on Saturday night Fred Hirsh also mentioned that around p i t i f u.lly few facts. c) between the Chemistry against the bank where it -when there was no one nearby. ·the Coffee House's money is no Shoveling is best kept to a Building an d the Gym; falls back into the road. Robin Hack, co-manager of the longer kept in the room overnight, minimum. d) in front of the Gym; There is, as before, to be no Co-op, said that the College as it was the night of the robbery. T he "topics" at Wesleyan e) in front of Sage Rink; parking at any time on .the Administration was notified of Security guards will maintain a included such as, "Resolved: That f) between Alumni House curved portion of the the theft, but again, there are no closer watch over the three man's a c t i o n s are t o t a l ly and Commons; Bundy road. clues. She also said that it might enterprises to prevent any more determined by his environment," g) at Root Art Center. All other parking regulations have been someone with a key to attempted thefts. and "Resolved: That the artist is h) To the rear of Dunham not covered by the above remain the only individual who can truly in effect. Violators of both new (the western half) express the spirit of his people." During the day the above areas and old rules will be towed away Hamilton students were arguing (a-g) are reserved for those faculty without much ceremony since an these topics and others with and staff who commute to the effective snow removal program debators from Williams College, campus. Area H is reserved for cannot be carried out with Lemans Sport Princeton U., Yale U., McGill, U. • study commuters. vehicles in the way. SEE THE ALL of Ottawa, and Colgate U. One 2. There will be no parking at I earnestly solicit the help and ingenious Hamilton team, on the NEW 73'S TODAY Grand Am Y time on any campus cooperation of a}:1 concerned. <l!1 second topic, defined the word "spirit" as alcoholic beverage. It 24 hr Towing Lemans Ventura was a lively contest. GULF BILL'S This year, the Debate Club has 1, been an d will continue to take an � N.Y.S. AAA u� Bonneville a ctive part in inter-collegiate tion ns pec I 66 Utica St. debates. 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Kurtz Defines Dean's Role; Focuses on Four Areas
Hamilton Dean of Faculty, Stephen Kurtz addressed the members of the Student Senate on the nature of his job and the p hilosoph-y of Hamilton last Tuesday evening. Kurtz, who had asked the Senate to! invite him to its meeting, outlined four major functions for his office. These should not include, he said, such minutae as add/drop slips and ind epe ndtnt study petitions, which will become the task of an associate dean's office, which the colfege will soon create. Someone from t he college staff will eventuallybe nominated to fill the postion. Kurtz felt that his first task is to lead Hamilton's curriculum development. To do this, he must analyze and isolate the tren_ds in current education and then steer Hamilton into the· best of these. For the sake of its own survival, the school cannot be allowed to become i s ol a ted from the academic world at large; it must stay ab reast of changes in academic thinking . A Dean of Facutly is also
SCHOLARSHIPS continued from page three R h o d e s . T h e M a r s h a ll Scholarships, established by the British Government in memory of George C. Marshall, American General and Secretary of State, allow outst anding American college graduates to attend any English university except Oxford f o r two years. · Every year t w e n t y - s i x M a rshall and thirty-two Rhodes Scholarships are awarded in the United States. A s c r e ening c o m m i t t e e consisting o f -Messrs. Haltzel, Wagner, and Kurtz nominated the following Hamilton students for scholarships. Rhodes Sc holarships: Ted Leinwand (English), Clyde Leff ( P hi loso phy), Mark Richard ·(Philosophy), and John Stroebel (German). M a r shall Scholarships: Tim Brooks (English), Stuart Hamilton (Mathematics-Economics), Marvin Kwartler (English?), Clyde Leff, Ted Leinwand, Roy Schecter (English), D o n W i l l iam son (History). Dean Kurtz intends to cultivate new interest in Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships since both programs have failed to attract attention among the Hamilton student body for several ears. CLINTON SHOE CENTER SPECIALIZING IN WINTER BOOTS AND SHOE REPAIR 853-6966
r esponsible, Kurtz said, for keeping the faculty happy and helping to provide for their professional development. Faculty members must have sufficient time to study and be scholars as well as teach, and the new Dean feels himself responsible for maintaihing a balance between the two alternatives by balancing course loads . and helping to provide faculty with money for their research work. The Dean's third role is to guarantee and work to better the coordination between Hamilton and Kirkland. Dean Kurtz works closely with Carl J. Schneider, Dean of the Kirkland Faculty; the two men consult, at least for advice, on many policy decisions. Their latest joint accomplishment is the establishment of uniform class hours at both Hamilton and Kirkland. Lastly, Kurtz feels that it is imperative to remain a scholar and a teacher so as to retain touch with the real purpose of a college. Next semester he will teach a course in American history, the Seminar in . American Early National History. Ku r t z ' s p h ilos ophy o f
education is one of his main reasons for coming to Hamilton. He said that the educator's main role is that of teacher, and that small schools tend to keep to this ideal more than large universities. "A college of this kind, unlike the large university... has kept its eye 9ri teaching as its foremost duty." He said that small schools usually have ''built in integrity and honesty in the things they do." Of Hamilton, Kurtz added, "the people of this college have my attitudes."
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Player's Perspective Editor's Note: Al Silverman is one of the novice members of this year's Continental football squad. Looking for his 1st letter at Hamilton, At has worked his way into a starting position as split end for the Blue Offense. 11Hollywood" boasts six varsity letters from Cheltenham of Philly, Pa. where he attended high school. This y_ear Al is also active in the Utica Tutorial Program, and is a member of the Freshman Council. byA L SI L V E RM A N It is easy to appreciate the opportunity afforded any willing student to participate in the varsity athletic program at Hamilton. Just as important is the emphasis that is placed on athletics. Academics are of primary importance, as they should be, and one participates for pure enjoyment. It is heartening to be asked by a coach, ''How are you doing in Class?", knowing that he has a genuine concern. Hamilton is proud of its highly motivated, success-oriented student body. However, I have been disturbed to find that this attitude does not prevail in all aspects of undergraduate life. Due, in part, to the size of the student body, the emphasis on the athletic program and the nature of our competition, losing has become commonplace. This is not upsetting. It is not imperative that one always win. Certainly we can glean lessons from losing and it is important that one learn to lose as well as win gracefully. The prevailing attitude is that a Hamilton team should expect to lose and should aim to keep the score respectable. No great effort is expended to win, despite the presence of ''winning" talent, since a loss is anticipated and excuses are already prepared (i.e. the size of the school, etc.). I do not wish it to be misinterpreted that I advocate transforming Hamitlon into an "at\lletic factory" or putting a greater emphasis on sports. I have previously stated my approval of the status of athletics on the Hill. Rather, I question how highly motivated, success-oriented men can so readily accept mediocrity; no matter what the odds are.
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Buff 'n Blue Hockey Faces Busy & Formidable Schedule BY MANNY SARGENT With the opening contest of the '72-73 season only two weeks away, the Hamilton hockey team attempt to form some solid line and defensive combinations for their December 2 lifter with Norwich University. The early practices saw plenty of contact: much of it doled out between returnees anci freshmen urging for starting spots. Co-captain Doug Janes '73 has been centering for Steve Malcom '74 on the left and Frosh Peter Ascher! on the right wing, and should this line click it will be a quick skating one. Benny Madonia '74, returns at center and is flanked by Rick Anderson '7 6 and Mike Rockwood '76 on the second line. What could prove to be an effective checking line is one with John Hutchins in the middle between wingers Rick Santa '73 and Scott Douglass '74. Two losses that will hurt the Continent als a r e those of Co-Captain Bob O'Conner and Loren Hunter. O.C.'s shoulder injury will probably keep him out until later in the season. Loren Hunter's defensive play had improved consistently ov_er the last two years and his leaving school has left question marks in the Hamilton defense.
·Only Jim Rishel '74 and Sophomore Rick Aubry return from that defensive corps. These two will see a lot of ice time over the course of the season. Dave Gilmore '74 has been playing back from his normal center spot and could be joined by either senior v et Thommy Thompson or whichever freshman nails down the fourth spot. Tending the nets will be seniors Greg Root and Pat Zaiden, along with junior Reed Beckjord. A lot of rubber will be coming their way and though Rootie will start, the. other two may get into more games than expected. Of the 22 games on the schedule, 17 are against fellow
Division II opponents. l'wo of the remaining five are Division I encounters with Colgate and Yale, plus the three games scheduled at the Hamilton College Christmas Tournament a g a i n s t Colby, Oswego, and the Royal Military Academy of Canada. Easy games are scarce on Hamilton's calendar. With the Colgate and Yale games arriving early in the campaign, followed immediately with Division 11's perenially tough teams, Williams, Colby, Bowdoin and U .Mass., the Continentals could be fighting an uphill battle from the start. If they can manage to pull out of the first half of the season with a decent recon:l, a batter than .500 is within reach.
MSA EVALUATIONS MORE GOOD MUSIC AT Continued from page two THE COFFEEHOUSE more effective organization of BY PETER KAMINSKY Last Friday and Saturday, student services, such as advising, and M i k e A l l e n p l a y e d t h e "independently of the nature ,, Coffeehouse, doing country blues, goals of.the institution. Divisions delta bottleneck blues, easy jazz of academic and career advising, and a smattering of folk nearly to psychological counseling, and the perfection. Technically he had it office of the Dean of Students all all - an easy, fluent style that left exist, but there is little or no room for plenty of improvisation, interaction among them. In order with some good harmonica work to avoid a heavily programmed to boot. He had some interesting structure, Kirkland may have gone stories to tell too, coming out of too far in leaving students on their his rambling background, one in own. Although Kirkland purports to particular concerning a menage a trois with his ex-wife and popular have a great commitment to diversity, the report stated that folkie Jonathan Edwards. Some people I talked to Kirkland is homogeneous in some thought that he was too much like respects. One way in which previous Coffeehouse performers. Kirkland could become more I saw him both nights and came to diversified would be to admit a different conclusion. Most of older women who wish to become the country blues he did was in full-time students. There should the predominatant funny-sexist also be education programs for vein, although there were some w omen within commuting in t ei:esting departures. The distance, the report said. The report states that on the Church Bell BLues was a beautiful guitar piece, betraying some of administrative level, the Deans of the strangest, most anarchic lyrics Faculty and of Students should I've ever heard; the same can be define their functions more said of a song I nicknamed the clearly. On the faculty level, the Willie McTell Alphabet Song, not responsibility of the Appointment Committ e e should also be remembering the proper title. He's the first performer here to clarified, as should the definitions d o a n y R o bert J o hnson of the requirements for tenure bottleneck songs, and he was a and reappointment. As in other t r emendous bottlenecker. He areas, the evaluating team feels flatpicked a few songs, rendering that the administration should a n e xt r a ordinarily powerful examine the long-range goals for version of The Tennessee Stud, the time when· the school will one of the best Americana songs have achieved its full size. The'team stated that these around. He had a nice way with slow jazz songs and did Georgia criticisms- are merely suggestions On My Mind to close Friday's set. for im provement. The team My point is that, next to Tom concluded that t h ey were ' Lyon earlier in the year, he had extremely happy with Kirklnad mastery over the largest variety of and expressed the thought that, material of any of the performers. "Kirkland College is doing a good will All in all, another good weekend thing, and perhaps the report ,, help to make it even better. for blues buffs like myself.
FOOTBALL continued from page 12 Look for Union to try and run a g a.i n s t the C o n t i n e n t al s , predominantly with Westbrook, the big sophomore, carrying the ball. - Coach Jones will stay with Winter at Quarterback and try to establish an aerial attack with ends John Graveley and Al Silverman, and flanker Kevin Snyder. The traditional Rue Award (given by Charles Root in memory of his .Union buddy Ralph Rue) will be awarded to the MVP after the game. Andy S ep chack won it last year, Mike Scarpitto in 1970 and John Beck in 1969. Around the league last week Rochester dropped their seventh game 38-14 to �ehigh, the Larries beat R.P.I. 17-14 to finish 5-4, and Hobart lost to I t haca 1 7 - 7 . Franklin and Marshall won the 1972 Lambert Cup with a 9-0 record beating out Alfred and Hobart in the Section III balloting. Delaware, Middlebury and Amherst, all undefeated, will battle it out for the Section II · (College Division) Lambert Cup, with Delaware ( cup winners the last 4 years) walking on Maine 62-0 and Amherst t r ou n cing Trinity 34-7 last weekendMarten and Pirodsky Bring your radio to Steuben Field tomorrow for the Hamilton football finale, and tune in to W H C L-FM f o r a l l t h e play-by-play and some special halftime guests with announcers K en ny M a r ten a n d Thom Piradsky, the pregame show starting at 1:10.
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by ROBERT J. KEREN The Alfred Saxons crushed the Continentals 45-6 last Saturday, putting the game out of reach early in the second quarter, scoring twice in one minute and thirty-five seconds. The Blue arrived in Alfred prepared to tangle with the defending Lambert B9wl Winners in 1971, a team that just had their 16 game winning streak broken the week before by Kings Point 21-20. Alfred's record stood at 6-1, Hamilton's at 1-4:
Cordia stood 8 yards deep in the end zone as he received the snap from center Don Armstropg, and moved forward to punt the ball. Big (5 ft. 7, 215 lbs.) Jim Bassage got, a hand on Cordia boot; the ball squirmed up into the air and freshman Van Cura grapped it for 6 pts. Hockenbury's kick was good, score 14-6_. On the ensuing kick-off, the Continentals could not move the ball, and again in came Cordia to punt from our own 32. Alfred put on another terrific rush, and this
While on defense, the Saxon o f fe nse established a strong ground game averaging 6.6 yards per carry. Alfred's premier runner Henry Bzdak gained 174 yards on 26 carries as he surpassed the 1,000 yard rushing mark for the se ason. Fullback Doug Earle p i c ked u p 7 9 yards, and Vredenburgh had 59 and two touchdowns. The Saxon offensive line ripped gaping holes in the Blue defense for big gains and 21 first downs on the ground. Alfred amassed another 7 first downs in
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SPECTATOR SPORTS Fourth and 22 BY ED WATKINS
Dateline "The Fargo" Aurora, New York;Oct. 27. Some years ago, before . the advent of Kirkland College, a most noble game was practiced by Hamilton men. It was called rolling. Rolling was the art of heading to a town where girls, women!, Broads! were located. In the old days, a Hamilton undergraduate might not see a female except on the big party weekends. This often led to great tension and high feelings on the campus. To relieve this tension,. the Hamilton men took off in wild pursuit of the fair sex.
The worst part came when it was time to leave. Hopefully everyone could be found Although it was too often true that the one guy had made it and was too busy to remember he had the car-keys. While he was scorin�, his riders were "dancing". Occasionally some poor fool would be abandoned and left to hitch back the next day. Once in the car the ride home was anything but enjoyable. Usually no one had anything to be excited about; it had been a ''hurt roll." Furthermore it would be 2 am and the Hill would not be reached until 4, if the driver was reasonably sober. Otherwise the Rolling was always a risky trip might be ·interrupted by a prospect at best. Often the rollers brief detour through a cornfield. would drive two hours only to Why then did they roll? Well learn that it was "Happy Pappy" there were always enough guys Weekend at Skidmore ·and no who · had a reasonably good time . young ladies were to be found. and were willing to return. There Still worse were those occasions was always a strong sense of the when young ladies were present unknown in rolling; you never but just did not want to be picked knew what you were going to up. find. Also once rolling got in your blood it was difficult to get out. It Drinking of course was a big became a perverse sort of fun to factor in rolling. Many masters of roll, be shot down and not return the air, as Vredenberg hit on 6 of the art would sooner roll without until dawn. It was definitely 10 attempts, three going to their pants than leave for Wells or better to roll than to stay on the Skidmore without a six-pack or a Hill every weekend anyway. t a l ented end Charlie Young. bottle of peppermint schnapps. Today;, who rolls? Kirkland is Reserve QB Scott Herring was 3 The arrival at the chosen across the street; who could ask for 5 and 27 yards. destination was often made much for anything more? Rolling is a sweeter by the realization that mere waste of time, money and Union 77th Meeting with thanks to a little preparation, , gas. Tomorrow Hamilton faces relief from a bad situation could Yet listen closely as you stroll Union in the season finale at be found by the downing of two around the campus on an early fall night. You may hear the Stueben Field, in the 77th beers. The drinking did tend to. get sounds of engines running, car meeting of the Continentals and out of hand · every once and doors slamming, and some maniac the Dutchman, dating back to awhile, though. Many men peaked 1890. The Blue lead in the series too early and lost all chance yelling, "Come on, we're rolling to Wells." 34-30-12, and will be looking to whatsoever of finding a girl. God bless them everyone. e�tend Hamilton's current three
Nearly 6,000 fans poured into t i m e Lawrence busted Merrill Field to witness the final through and blocked Al fred's Saxon game of the 1972 season. second punt. The ball rolled down After a brief exchange of the ball, to the four, recovered by Saxon Alfred Q.B. Tom Vredenburgh Gary Eggler. Two plays later and engineered a 50 yard drive, o ne m i nute and thirty-five capped by an 11 yard touchdown seconds after their last score, run by flanker Rick Hansinger. Vredenburgh took it in himself Don Hockenbury's extra-point making it 21-6. was good, and A.U. led 7-0 with only 5 minutes gone in the first The Sa�ons scored twice more quarter. in the second quarter making the But the Continentals bounced half 35-6, and added another right back, with Kevin Snyder T.D. and field goal in the third for taking Hockenbury 's kickoff at the final 45-6. the 5. The sophomore sprinter year winning streak against the followed the wedge to the 25, cut The Continentals are in the Union squad. charply to the right sideline t h i r d year of a four-year HOCKEY picking up blockers, and flew scheduling agreement with Alfred, Later this evening the hockey team will entertain Canton Tech. in The Dutchman are 3-5 this down the sideline for the score, and will host the Saxons again in season coming off last week's loss a pre-season game-situation scrimmage. This will be the first early test for the Frosh-laden squad. The ice match is slated for 8:00 pm. rece1vmg a key block from 1973. Once Hamilton finishes out\ to John Anderson's undefeated Also, tomorrow morning the Blue squad will take on the invading co-captain Andy Sopchak at the such agreements, and begins to Middlebury. Panthers. Union alumni at 10:00 am. midfield stripe. Snyder glided into play only the colleges in the coach Jerry Everling has Dave BASKETBALL the endione - with the nearest infant New England Small College R e a r i c at Q B , and R on The Editor apoligizes for the mistake of printing last week's Saxon 20 yards back. Bill Finan's C o nference (including Colby, Westbrook, Bruce Mathias, Rich contest with Potsdam as an open scrimmage. Due to a new N.C.A.A. extra-point attempt was wide to Bates, Bowdoin, Williams, Tufts, Haszczak and Al Albano in the rule, a college or university may not have an open scrimmage until the right, and Alfred led 7-6. Amherst, Union and Middlebury), backfield. Nov. 24. Why? Who knows! At any rate, the squad takes on the Two TD's in 1 1/2 Minutes . Alumni tomorrow at 10:00. Squash court hallway seats are selling at Coach Jones is hopeful that the The C ontinental defense · current losing trend will change. a premium! continued on page 11 stopped the powerful Saxons on Now Hamilton plays only two thei'r next two drives, and with NESC teams: Middlebury and one minute remaining in the first Union, and have won 5 games in 3 frame QB Rob Winter took over, years. after a 42-yard Alfr�d punt put Alfred Dominates the ball on our own 16. With The Saxon defense stopped the Sandy MacIntosh Brian Smith Co ntinentals on the ground and Vinnie Puleo in the ''Triple - (minus 76 yards rushing) and in I'' formation, Winter rolled right the air (Winter went 5 for 19 and on first down and was dumped by 51 y�ds, Cord� 2 for 3 and 18 substitute defensive end Joe. Van Ya.I'.�).· The· Alfred 'defensive line Cura back on the 5. With second was quick and massive stopping down and 21, MacIntosh tried the Blue -ballcarriers for an average of line for a two yard loss, the ball minus 2.1 yards per carry. Winter now on the 3. In came Lou Cordia was dumped nine times as the to punt on third down, but the SaxQns surged over or around our fake attempt and the pass to interior line, shutting off the Snyder was unsuccessful, setting passing game. Hamilton's net total up an obvious fourth down offensive output for the afternoon QB Winter (14) fakes a handoff to Mackintosh (30) and lofts a swing pass to Snyder (40) breaking punting situation. was minus 7 yards. out of the backfield. Tackle Speno (77) and Guard Murphy pull cm the play·.
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Dorm First Priority On HamH tonRenovationList-
The Hamilton and Kirkland Choirs will present a concert Sunday, December 3, at 3:00 in the Alumni Gymnasium. ,For more details see page 4.
In September of 1957, in the days before deferred rushing, a dormitory was begun on the 5ite of the old soccer fielq that would house the entire freshmen class of Hamilton College. If n othing else, · it kept them together until the fraternities got to them. Dunham dormitory has been criticized for this, and for cramped quarters provided for the student, and for its oppressive atmosphere; so much so that it is now number one priority on the list of impr ovements on campus. Whether Dunham will be kept as a · freshman dormit ory, or opened up to the rest of the campus as a general residence, work is needed to make it habitable. At the present time the Building and Grounds Committee are considering three proposals for renovation. The first alterna.tive has the advantage of being the least costly. It includes making the dormitory all single rooms, out of what are now four -person, three-room suites w ith two double bedrooms opening onto a common central study area. This
alteration would be accomplished by knocking a new doorway 'into• the center room, and refitting it with adequte lighting fixtures and closet space. All this will be coupled with a maj or refurnishing (new room and hall carpeting, new furniture) and the rel ocation of present basement offices to make way for more student rooms. All bathrooms and all stairways would remain intact. In combinati0n with such a major renovation, the second plan would include the additional insertion of �oor l ounge_s to help break up the space in the long middle halls of the center section, and open up a now closed-in area to some natural lighting. It would also improve the artificial lighting, and undertake a repainting job. The ultimate program divides Dunham vertically into four or five auton omous houses, making each floor a larg.e suite, perhaps with kitchenette and lounge, similar to some at Kirkland College. This plan is obviously the most costly beaause it includes not only major refurnishing, but the moving of several stairwells
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HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON NEW YORK
/('land '72 Graduate Acce[}ts Five Year Trustee Position would be intere�ted in becoming a BY DOUG GLUCROFT "I see my responsibility as trustee. This list of about thirty or forty was proposed names Graduate Trustee as three-fold: 1. To work on an effective circulated among Charter Class members, who were asked to Alumnae program 2. To represent the Alumnae select ten names, and the ten viewpoint in planning and the names that were most frequently chosen were then put on a slate as general affairs of the College. e o T with help 3. Alumna off�cial candidates. The Class agam . was asked to vote, now for fund-raising... " These are the words of Elspeth , three out of te?, and the ?3;ffies of Kirkland the three can didates rece1vmg the Campbell, Savage Kirkl and most votes were recommended to the first ,72, College graduate to serve on the Board of. the B oard of Tr�stees. The Board Trustees. Married shortly after subsequently reviewed the files of Commencement last May, Elspeth those . three alumnae and finally Elspeth Savage and. her husb and David are a p p ornt ed currently living in Norfolk, Camp?e�l as the Graduate Trustee. �his 1s the pr�en� sys!em, but Virginia. A Sociol�gy major at is President Babbitt 1mphed that Ms. Campbell Kirkland present!; a bank management direct electioi:1 by the Alumnae trainee in a program which has each year might be the future only recently opened up to procedure. The Board eventually would like three or four Alumnae women. On the Hill, Elspeth was very members as the number of active in extra-academic affairs. alumnae increases. All Alumnae w ill given be She served as Kirkl and News trustees c ommensurate power and the full Edito·r for the Spectator, a member of the Student Life five-year term. P�esident Babbitt describes a Committ e e , student representative to the Development Elspeth as "about as devoted to Committee of the Board of Kirkland as any Charter Class Trustees, and a student member member could be... Tremendously of the Publications Board. As energetic, straightforward, and President Samuel F. Babbitt highly intelligent. And, more "This l at e st importantly, she understands the r e marked: really be . College and its needs. She als o appointment will fervently believes that graduates nothing new for her/' , Ms. Campbell was elected to .should be represented., Ms. Campbell was instrumental her position through a relatively complex procedure: All Kirkland in the first solicitation of funds graduates were asked to submit from Alumnae. Over $7,000 was their own names or the names of pledged and the Charter Class has other . alumnae · they thought specified that much of that
and replumbing of all bathrooms as well; the most c ostly short of ripping out the entire interi or, since Dunham (in terms of its facilities, plumbing, heating and electricity) is in far superior shape compared to many older dormitories on the Hamil ton campus. All of the programs in consideration include the use of the basement area (with present offices vacated), and entail a cost ranging from a couple of hundred thousand · dollars to 3/4 or 1 million dollars, and more significantly, will result in a reduction of the number of occupants that Dunham is able to hold. At present, all students at both colleges c an be housed on the Hill, whereas when ren ovation is complete, 50 to 75 students will be displaced (even as it is, there are more freshmen �an Dunham will hold, an d thirty-six are now housed in South Dorm). So, as Dean Bingham says, if Hamilton is truly serious about maintaining itself as a residential college it continued on page three
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money be applied to Kirkland's Scholarship Fund. Elspeth helped to organize the Kirkland Alumnae Association. As a Board member, Elspeth will be given three committee assignments. She has requested ,the Committees of Development, Finance, and Planning. With her experience in organization an d her current work in banking, Ms. Campbell's requests will be honored. Elspeth Campbell will return to the Hill on December 7th to meet with President Babbitt, and begin her work as the first Alumna to sit on the Board o f Trustees.
Elspeth Savage Campbell, Kirkland graduate and Trustee
l{irkland FundingCommitte e Gives Cash to O rganizations BY BOB WEISSER The Kirkland Student Funding Committee drew its budget for the year M onday, Nov. 2 0. The committee helps to fin ance certain o rganizations . in the college community. Debbie · Aidun '75, the chairwoman of the committee, explained why the all ocations were so late in coming. She noted that the committee did not really get organized until the end of October, alo ng with the other procedures of the committee. This caused the procedural c•elays and because of it ·the decisio ns were postponed. The committee had $4000 to
contribute to the different organizations. They decided· to withhold four hundred dollars of this amo unt for use in the spring, in case any other organization needs finan£ial help. Miss Aidun also reviewed the procedure · for allocating the funds. The committee gave to petitions whatever organizatio ns wanted to r·equest funds, and these gr oups filled them out, giving the committee a detailed account of the structure and needs of the clubs. Tfie committee then had the job of evaluating the petitions. The total amount requested by the groups came to approximately �7000, so the first thing the
committee had t o do, Miss Aidun said, was to cut every request in half. This brought the requests dow n to the amount of funds that the committee had. The next step was to decide which group should receive more funds. This was based on which organizati on has more expenses, larger student participation, and a more varied program, among other factors. This resulted in some wide disparities. Four of the seventeen clubs received half of the funds. The organizati ons that were funded are noi restricted to the Kirkland community. Miss Aidun said that there were several groups .contmea on �ge six
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DR. BARBER TO SPEAK ON YOGA Dr. Theodore X. Barber, director of psychological research of the Medfield Foundation of Harding, Massachusetts, will present an afternoon-long session on hypnosis, yoga and psychosomatic phenomena on Friday, December -1 at the Kirkland College Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson buildmg. The conference is sponsored by the Kirkland College Psychology Colloquium. Beginning 1:30 PM he will present a lecture on "Hypnosis and Auto-Suggestion" followed by a •� orkshop i:i Hypnosis and Auto-Suggestion" at 2:30 PM. At 3:30 PM the topic of Barber's lecture will be "Yoga, Bio-Feedback and Self-Control." The final session at 4:30 PM is entitled "Research as a Human Enterprise: Fudging, Experimenter Bias and Other Ways of Messing Up." NEW INFORMATION NUMBER Effective next Monday, there will be a new number for Campus Information. 859-4444. Those dialing the emergency number· of 7105 will receive no information. SPANISH 35 There will be a meeting of all those planning to take Spanish 35 next semester, Tuesday, December 5, at 7: 30 p.m. in Silliman 2. CO-OP IN DANGER . The Co-Op Bookstore is in danger of folding from lack of interest. In order for any of its several functions to continue, a board of directors and other interested persons is a necessity. The job(s) is(are) not.difficult, but someone must do it(them). If it matters at an; send a note in campus mail (now!) or call Carol King or Liz Samenfeld. MAIL CENTER RECYCLING E.E.C.HX. has begun to recycle campus mailings. A speciklly marked barrel has been placed outside the mail center in Bristol where all CLEAN paper may be deposited for recycling. Please avoid throwing garbage, cans, or wax cups into this barrel. Student cooperation is essential if this effort is to be successful. NAVY OFFICER INFO TEAM The Navy Officer Information Team will be on the Hamilton and Kirkland campuses on December 1, 1972, in the Bristol Campus Center. This team is interested in talking to male and female students about the many programs which may lead to their being commissioned officers in the United States Navy. JEOPARDY TOURNAMENT CHAMP The Spectator would like to congratulate Ann-Marie Sutton, the winner of Jeopardy's recent Tournament of Champions. We join the President in saluting Ann-Marie for her "competitive zeal and capitalistic spirit." NUN TO SPEAK Sister Adele Marie of the St. Margarets (Episcopal) Order will speak at Community Worship on the vocation and life-style of the religious order. Kirner-] ohnson Red Pit, Sunday, 7: 30 p.m. WORD-0-MOUTH YARN SHOP The Word-O-Mouth Yarn Shop is now open. Beginning Monday, Dec. 4, it will be moved from 242 Bundy West to McEwen Hall, where L.O.B.B.Y. is located. Prices that can't be topped!! Twisted acrylic yarn-$1.14/4 oz. skein; stranded acrylic yarn- 99cents/4 oz. skein. Hours: M,W,F 10-12; T,Th 2-4; or anytime by appointment. Gall 859-7174(Neil Scheier) or 853-8051(Ron Kochman). E.E.C.H.K. BENEFIT DANCE For campus activities, recycling, and the Adirondack Park fight. Donation: $.75. Bring your own mug, for all the free beer you can drink. Steak Night will play. Hall of Commons, Friday night, December 1. 9:30-1:00. SUMMER JOBS WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT There are a variety of jobs available for students in Federal Agencies during the summer of 1973. Those studen�. who are interested should drop by the Career Center to browse through the pamphlet with job descriptions (we have not yet received a supply of them -so that you can take one, but. we should receive them soon.) Early application is very important. CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY Root-Jessup will present the film Cry the Beloved Country at 7:30 on Sunday night in the Science Auditorium. Admission is $.50. FREE CHURCH The Free Church service this week will include dances performed by the Modern Dance Workshop of Utica. De Gustibus, the woodwind instrumental group under the direction of Thomas Colby, will also take part in the servjce. A dialogue sermon, ''The Celebration Called Christmas," will be given by Joel and Ginger Tibbetts. Chapel, 11:15 a.m., Sunday. HUMANE SOCIETY
Animals up for Adoption Dog: White Male, med-large saize, 1 ½ years old, very affectionate, well trained. Dog: Reddish-brown & white beagle, male, small size, med. age. Cat: Black & white short fur, male, 6 months old. Temporary Home Needed Dog: Female, young, small, border collie, gentle, housebroken. Home for Xmas and Winter Study needed. Lost: Black labrador with red collar. Please don't feed or shelter campus animals. If you find an animal without the Humane Society collar, please inform the Humane Society immediately so signs can be put up and ads placed in the .local newspapers. Contact any member or Robin Hall, Ext. 7131, 49'37. Olive (Schnookums) should especially not be fed or pampered. Her owner would like her home. The only way this can be accomplished is to discourage her presence.on campus.
Chappy Chanukah
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LETTERS Course Conflicts To the Editor: Course conflicts have always presented a problem to students in getting their program together. Steps, however, can be taken to ameliorate this situation. Case in point: In choosing my program for the spring semester, 1 realized that my preferred course selections possessed numerous conflicts. Of my first five choices,' only two courses didn't conflict with each other. The problem, however, wasn't because each course began and ended at the same hour, The problem was due to instructors offering courses at "non-conforming" times (i.e. 8:30-9:20 TR/lW, 1-2:15 MW). By offering courses at these odd times, a course runs into more than one time period. This can cause overlapping between courses and create more than the usual amount of problems. A bit disturbed ( to put it mildly) about this state of affairs, I went to speak to Dean Kurtz. Dean Kurtz proved quite interested in my problem, oµce he had recognized and worked on during October and, with the assistance of Mr. Fargnoli, the registrar, proceeeded to call the two instructors offering courses at "non-conforming" times. After waiting for about a week, one of the two "non-conforming" times was changed so as to conform to the standard , time schedule. This change enabled me to select three (instead of two) of my four preferred courses. if problems are Moral: experiences in putting together a program to due courses conflicting with -each other, it might prove worthwhile to talk to either Dean Kurtz or Mr. Fargnoli. Both, I feel, are sincerely interested in correcting this proble_m, but can only do so if they are made aware of students' complaints. Kenneth :flenley '75 Professionalism? To the Editor: Over the past several weeks we' have been disturbed about the controversy surrounding the departure of Mr. Grout. We should preface our remarks by saying that our contact. with Mr. Grout has always been cordial and that we like him. However, we were disturbed by the tone of the article in issue nine of the Spectator because wt believe Mr. Grout's comments lacked the professionalism necessary for an administrator or faculty member an academic institution. at Because Mr. Grout has not issued a further statement, we assume the article accurately reflects his statements. Because the student body c a n n ot know _a l l the considerations in the President's decision, we cannot fathom how students can justify their petition. Certainly the President has the to r esponsibility ultimate determine who should be his subordinates. a d m i n i strative Professionalism precludes the President from itemizing all the reasons for his decision. Certainly no one should expect the administration to itemize all the reasons for not granting tenure to certain faculty members. Because professionalism is necessary to any academic institution, the petition is superfluous. We hope the students who supported it will
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Edi1torial ASSOCIATE DEAN OF FACULTY
Hamilton will have · a new Associate Dean of Faculty next semester. Dean Kurtz said that he accepted his post with the understanding that the duties· of his office would be divided on the recommendation of a faculty committee. This same committee also recommended that the office should be filled by a member of the faculty to be chosen by Dean Kurtz. The man has been chosen, we understand, from among the faculty, and will take over the administration of student course and scheduling difficulties. He will apparently make decisions on student petitions in courses, and be responsible for the application of college policy in student's academic affairs. The choice of individuals to take the job has already been made, the man has accepted, and the decision, while still unannounced, is final. And no one seems to have asked for any sort of student opinion on the subject� We are told that student participation is not necessary in this case, because the assistant is strictly an internal appointment. The new man is an administrator's administrator, and is thought to need no mandate from the students. Apparently, the administration does not feel the post has enough bearing on student life to make our participation worthwhile. We disagree. If the new associate dean is to make judgements on student proposals, if he is to be a liason between the Dean's office and us, he will be very important indeed to those who have to deal with him. If the new officer is as important as he seems to be, some students at feast ought to have been invited to comment. Possibly the College wished to protect the privacy of possible· candidates. Campus-wide debates of one man's merits over another's could be demeaning to all of the candidates and interfere with their teaching, but there are discreet students on campus: not everyone has to be involved. Students participated in the selection of the two new deans last year, which was carried out in private. While it is important that Dean Kurtz have a free hand to choose someone he can work well with, we think it is important that the assistant dean be someone students can work with as well. Perhaps, in fact, the new man will be acceptable to almost everyone. But we have no assurance of that; it does not appear that the admini�tration eve· £9understands we might have an interest in their decision. Recycling reconsider the propriety and wisdom of •their action, and that Mr. Grout leaves with his dignity intact. Chuck Flynn '74 David Morse '74
To the Editor: Since the amount of wasteful notices in our mailboxes does not seem to be receding, I suggest that a recycling box be placed near the mailbox in addition to the garbage. David Boonanno '76
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First Published as "The Radiator" in 1848
Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Kneisel
Managing Editor Peter Zicari
Associate Editors Henry Glick, Robert Keren, Kenny Marten, Maria Zammit Assista11t Editors Carol Goodman, Paula Klausner, Kathy Livingston Arts Editor Richard Kavesh Sports Editors Craig Fallon, Dave Shapland Managing Staff Linda Anzalone, Ken Gross, Liz Horwitt, Patty Jaffe, Taki Lamson-Scribner, Tony Mazzarella, Connie Miner, Betsy Murray, Susan Sternberg, Mitchel Ostrer, Dale Walter Business Staff Jim Noonan,Jeff Pearse, Bruce Thaler Photography Editor Dave Cantor Photography Staff Nat Barber, Wendy Goodman, Woody Navin, Bruce Wrigley Staff Pam Boynton, Ed Catlin, Jon Cramer, Randy Davis, Vincent DiCarlo, John Ehrlich, Anne Finelli, Ken Given, Doug Glucroft, Robert Grieves, Garret Hayner, Gordon Kaye, Louis Levenson, Jim Ludwig, Vijay Murgai, Michael Murphy, David Nemens, Lisa Newell, Thomas Pirodsky, Steven Polakoff, Judy Prager, Skip Roe�el, Manny Sargent, Roy Schecter, Judy Sillari, Douglas Singer, Scott Toop, Joan Tuchman, John Vigren, Isabel Weinger, Elaine Weiss, Bob Weisser. The Publications Board publishes "The Spectator," a newspaper edited by students, 29 ·times during the academic year. Subscription: $7 .00 per year. Address: Box 83, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 13323. Letters to the editor must be signed, but names will be withheld upon request.
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Co-ordinate Cours e Ele�tions. Increase Sharply
BY· DALE WALTER . Students m record numbers are flocking across College Hill Road to take courses at their coordinate college, a recent study released by the registrar's office reports. In some departments this trend is growing exceedingly large. The study which compares ' course enrollments at both colleges in the fall of 1971 to the fall of 1972, reveals a marked ·increase in the number of course Hamilto n credits taken by The Kirkland. at students Kirkland divis io ns that attracted most Hamilton s tudents were those of Psychology' Sociolo gy' Anlhropology, andHisto ry. Kirkland students are also taking more course. credits at Hamilton, but the exchange figures appear to be reaching most popular Toe parity. departments for Ha mil ton Kirkland students are French, Art, Religion and English. STARTLING CHANGES The two disciplines that experienced startling shifts in registration were the Psychology and Philosophy programs at both schools.
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enrollments this fall compared to last fall. The Kirkland Psychology divisions picked up the slack with an increase of 137 course credits. This extraordinary shift occurred largely because the Introductory Psych courses were transferred from Hamilton to Kirkland. . K rrkland The PhilosophY division, which dropped several . courses from its schedule th'IS fall ' lost 65 c ourse enrollments from • ked up Kirkland students and pie tw o Hamilton students . The se dr amatic shifts and the general increase in the exchange rates have little affected the cer t a i n of d o m i n a t io n departments in both c olleges. UNDISPUTED POPULARITY The English department at Hamilt o n still enjoys undisputed popularity, with Economics, Go vernment, Math and History clustered clo sly together behind. ·Hamilton students, however, are showing recent increased interest in Art, Art History, Government and Math courses. The study also indicates that they are losing interest, at least over the past year, in Psych ology, History,
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French �d English. fall T.otal Chnge* f '71 to F'72 At Krrkland the most popular Fall Same · Cross '71 Literature, are division s Col** Enrolt Col Total '72 Psychology Art, History and Courses No. of No. of Enrolt Enrolt Fall Same Cross Each ' interest Anthro Courses Courses Fall 72 Fall '72 '72 Col Col** Col with Anthropology, Kirkl and K'land in the declining 61 7 120 8 181 +29 +16 +45 Philos�phy and .French offerings. Ham 3 39 6 27 66 -30 +2 -28 Haniilton Tottt more Although +17 students are taking Kirkland Art courses, Kirkland has managed to K'land 14 174 15 21 195 +24 -14 +24 keep its aver�ae � class size down to Ham 61 6 139 6 200 +70 +47 +117 12.1 students. The average size o f Total . +152 a Hamilton class, not including Art Ht physical education courses, is 18.5 K'land 15 58 5 3 73 +11 +10 +11 students. Total +11 ·Educ NEW REGISTRAR 45 4 5 2 47 21 +1 +21 Asked to comment on the K'land 82 20 5 6 -1 -3 102 -2 study, Palmer Fargnoli, Hamilton' s Ham +18 .. recently appointed registrar, said Total that he was too swamped with the Eng 13 1 31 2 44 +29 +11 +40 mechanics of his job to get a K'land 572 58 28 27 630 -29 +l -28 proper o verview of its Ham +13 T otal significance. Writ Mr. Fargnoli is Hamilton's 18 5 50 6 68 +17 +8 +25 second registrar, replacing Robert K'land +25 Regala, who resigned last year to Total a ssume duties at Alfred Lit 19 K'land 47 16 232 -5 -24 University. 279 -19 Mr. Fargnoli is a 1964 political Total -24 science graduate of the Maxwell French 1 6 3 22 -1 -37 of School Government at K'land 23 -36 13 71 13 88 Syracuse University; he recei;ed Ham 159 -20 +21 .+l -36 his Masters in Americ an Studies at Total the g r aduate school in Gov't K'land 30 4 4 34 Government at Union College. 64 +13 +30 +43 13 35 11 253 After leaving Union, J\,'lr. Ham 288 +49 +2 +51 +94 Fargnoli worked as the Assistant Total Registrar at Mohawk Valley Hist 130 59 11 13 Community College for two year, K'land -1 -16 -17 189 11 12 45 220 when he became Acting Registrar. Ham 265 -14 +15 +1 ·-16 At that time he sent letters of Total introduction to Hamilton and Math 10 1 1 20 30 +2 +11 +13 other area co lleges, which he K'land 14 37 13 231 -4 +16 268 +20 notified of his interest in college Ham Total +29 administration. His first reply came from Music 10 7 76 25 101 +3-8 +6 +44 Schenectady County Co mmunity K'land 10 33 93 7 126 +7 +18 +25 College, where Mr. Fargnoli Ham +69 worked as Registrar from the fall Total Phil of 1971 to August, 1972. 41 28 9 11 69 -65 +2 -63 His second reply came fr om K'land 178 40 7 9 218 -1 +15 +14 Hamilton and he wasapi:>0inted.to Ham -49 the Registrar's office here two Total Phil Sc months ago. 9 9 +11 1 2 11 2 Mr. Fargnoli said that he has K'land +11 always had close ties with Total Hamilton; not only has he gone to _Psych 157 16 95 7 Hamilton-Union the football K'land 252 +74 +63 +137 103 7 .42 12 games for the past ten years, but Ham 145 -142 -58 -200 three members of his wife's family Total *Change in Enrollment have attended Hamilton. t Enrollment ttTotal Change For the Courses As a product of one private, **Coordinate School Enr!)llment at both Colleges in listed School liberal arts college, Mr. Fargn oli said he was glad to be working at For Convenience and Safety Hamilton his after initial community \.\!_ith experience Keep your checking account colleges. at ''The caliber of the students is superior here," he said, "and I am cQntinued on page six
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Bell's Stage Troupe Produces ''Yerma''
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pretty play; Lorca deals with the nethermost forces governing human lif-5, . the magnitudes of the Theater which dwarf the powers of love year This Department's fall production has and religion. With a structural been turned into a class called, simplicity reminiscent of the curiously. enough, Production in Greeks, Yerma can be appreciated Theater. "Production" affords an as folktale or as fable, presenting opportunity for .students to get in the guise of a Spanish peasant c r e d it f o r drama an allegory deeply rooted a c a d e m ic extra-curricular work in Theater. in the psychology and mythology This semester's class, which has its of all men. precedent in last year's Winter The cast is strong, with Zivia Study gr oup which produced , Flomenhaft in the title role, Saved, has chosen Garcia Lorca's supported by Raymond Dooley, tragedy Yerma as Its production Peter Wilson, Marylin Boenau, problem. Every physical aspect of Kathleeh Smith, and many others, the production, the lighting, under the direction of Professor design, construction, costuming, Bell. Yerma will be presented etc. is being done by the class Friday, Saturday, December I, 2, under the direction of Professor and Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Richard Bell .. Yerma is a powerful, almost brutal retelling of the timeless battle between the forces of _. fecundity and life, ·and those of Bris�ol, beginning Monday, ._____________________________________________ sterility and death. It is not a November 26" . . GARCIA LORCA'S PLAY A POWERFUL TRAGEDY
�ItYfi?��§�i:�:f;�:/Arts and Entertat.nmentl Choirs Battle To Draw With Stroog Middlebury V oCal Squad
where t h e again upheld their schools on a FANKHAUSER'S SQUADS PRIMED G ym nasiu m , flamers, host campus. H a m il t o n/ K i r kland FOR DIFFICULT MEET WITH backed by a live band and buoyed Unfortunately, Middlebury will COLGATE HERE ON SUNDAY by 3 .2% beer, put on quite a show not be available for a return BY LAWRENCE WINGERT One of the least heralded of . before an amazed Middlebury engagement, so the Hamilton and Kirkland choirs will present an the Hill's squads braved the steady crowd. Sunday, concert In Sunday's action, the choirs exhibition drizzle of the morning of November 11, and boarded two of of Hamilton and Kirkland scored December 3, at 3: 00 in the U t i ca-Rome's finest motor first with a one-two combination Alumni Gymnasium. There will be "coaches" plus a blue misfit from of motets for female and male no admission charge, and it is Birnie's Bus Line for the trek voices respectively, and then hoped that a large number of fans northwards into the Vermont edged out even further by will tum out' to support the groups in their first major w i lderness and Middlebury , combining a Vulpius motet. Middlebury responded quickly combined concert since the College. t h e with a Schumann motet, which establishment of the Kirkland w a s T h i s Hamilton/Kirkland Choirs' first the Hamilton/Kirkland group Choir in 1971. Also featured on intercollegiate engagement of the answered with Brahms. The the program will be the Colgate '72-'73 season, and spirits were Brahms, a difficult and moving University Chamber Singers and high (partly as a result of a 6:00 piece with a strong sense of line, the Hamilton College Brass Choir. The Choirs of Hamilton and a.m. gin & juice session) despite climaxed the efforts of the vi�itors. The home team ended its Kirkland, under the direction of consecutive stops at two of drive with a piece by Luigi Professor James Fankhauser, will The bulk MacDonald's. Saturday afternoon was spent in . Dallapiccola; more modern and �f perform the Coronation Anthem preparation for Sunday's contest, a different flavor than the No. 4 by Handel and a Brahms but the .first performance was Brahms, but equally demanding. motet, Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein £1v1a t-lomenhatt and Hay Dooley in a scene from "Verma" Saturday night in the McCullough The audience responded to each rein Herz, as well as the Gloria · with seemingly equal from the mass Ave Maria Stella by group ' enthusiasm, and the outcome had Josquin des Pres, the Nonesuch recording of which was reviewed to be termed a draw. In a show of sportsmanship recently"by the Specta tot. The Colgate U. Chamger mutual respect a nd and admiration, the two groups joined Singers, directed by Professor forces for a stirring rendition of Timothy Adams, is a highly select Handel's Coronation Anthem No. group of sixteen voices, and feeling of early Poco is back. drumming demands respect as BY MICHAEL SHERER 4. The audience roared its should provide an interesting "And Settlin' Down," "Keeper of some of the finest drumming to Poco has a new album out. I approval, and the singers of contrast to the power of the the Fire," and even the Tim be heard anywhere today. Their should not have to say more. But Hamilton/Kirkland left to make 120-voice Hamilton and Kirkland Schmit song "Restrain" are very harmonies, that have . amazed 1 perhaps after their last album, their way southward having once Choirs. The Chamber Singers are much influenced by Cotton's rock some of those who have seen Poco scheduled to perform Bach's From the Inside, people need to background with ·Illinois Speed live, are just as good, especially on --------------111 Motet I (Singet dem Herrn ein be sold on this album. Out of the PFess. Most of the album is of a the beautiful "Sweet Lovin'." Ford's on the Square neues Lied), "Lumi Miei Cari" by Buffalo Springfield legend came a As different - as this album is, decidedly harder rock than even Monteverdi, and "Coun�erpoint of that r e vit alized group ,, the opening cuts of ''Deliverin'." (upon fir-st hearing ''Keeper of the Clinton the Animals" by Adriano "good..time milsic. Wi,th the loss Fire" it was almost unrecognisable of new combination The Banchieri. of Jim Messina and the acquisition influences and early. Poco has as Po.co), it takes no -getting used Beverages Groceries Beer This year's Brass Choir, of _ Paul Cotton, it was felt by resulted in a clearly recognizable to, unlike From the Inside. The directed by Professor Stephen most that Poco had lost its maturation in musical content and album is decidedly Poco, despite Bonta, is the largest in Hamilton's good-time feeling and that the the difference. As much as Paul style. history. Its fourteen members give feeling had gone with Messina to The Poco bounce is definitely Cotton has influenced the group, the Brass Choir a fullness of sound Loggins and Messina. Poco's first Poco has regained its "good-time" back. The group's version of the which is particularly noticeable in album with Pauls Cotton, From re "On the SqU(!. " Buffalo Springfield tune "Go and feeling, and, appropriately, it's "A the polychoral music in which it the Inside, was disappointing to Good F eelin • to Know." Say Goodbye," "A Good Feelin' specializes. Among the Brass mpst Poco listeners. It was to Know" and "Ride the Editor's Note: In the weeks ' Specializing in the largest Choir's offerings will be the different and I'll admit I had to Country" are reminiscent of early ahead, the Spectator will be Fanfare to Precede La ·Perie by listen to it four or five times Selection of Imported, Domestic Poco, songs such as uA Man Like reviewing new albums by Neil Paul Dukas and· Gabriell's through before I was sold. Young, Peter Townsend, The Me" or "Hurry. Up." Canzona for Three Choirs. Poco's new album, A Good and fine California Wines Their talent as musicians has Grateful Dead and others. The Choirs have put in long Feelin' to Know (Epic 'KE not abated- at all. Their style has hours of practice in preparation 31601), is unlike any of its changed to an extent, but Young's for this concert-as anyone living It p r e decessors. is a 8:30 am - 9:30 pm 853-5421 pedal steel on "Ride the Country" _in Kirkland Dorm will readily conglomeration of previous Poco, is exemplary of his continued attest-and Sunday afternoon yet it is completely different. Free Delivery excellence on that instrument. should bring with it the fruits of Much of the album is reminiscent And Grantham's clean, precise ·that labor. of From the. Inside, but the good
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FILMS ON CAMPUS THIS WEEKEND ·A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-Starring Tom Courtney and Alfred Burke in th e adaptation of th e novel by Solzhenitsyn. A truly beautiful and breathtaking film. 8 p.m. on Friday, Saturday nights, Science Auditorium. Also on Sunday at 10 pm. Blow Up-With David Hemmings, Va nessa Re dgrave, and Verushka; directed by Antonioni. Friday and Saturday at 8, Sunday at 10. Kirner -Johns on Auditorium. The Big Parade-A classic. Music and effects only. No dialogue. 10 pm on Friday and Sa turday, 8 pm on Sunday. K-J Auditorium. December 4 & 5 (Monday & Tuesday) Meet John Doe-Directe d by Frank Ca pra in 1940. A flawed masterpiece arid an ancient print, but still worth it. 10 p.m., Chemistry Auditorium. In the Weeks Ahead The Bicycle Thief; Women in Love; Ship of Fools; Bridge on the River Kwai. At Nearby Theatres Cannonball (853-5553 ): The New Centurions Kallet Cinema (736-2313):Brother of the Wind Paris (733-2730): Lady Sings the Blues Stanley (724-4000) : The Valachi Papers DRAMA ON CAMPUS THIS WEEKEND Yerma-By Garcj.a Lorca, directed by Richard Bell. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, 8 p.m., Minor Theatre. Free . See article in this week's Arts Page. The Cage-By Rick. Cluc hey, performe d by former inmate s of San Quentin prison. According to Clive Ba rnes, The Cage is "strange and wild .. .! would go to prison for its right to say what it is saying." Friday night at 7:30 p.m., Chapel. Free with social tax. MUSIC At the Coffeehouse Penny McHutchinson, McEwe n Coffeehouse, � p.m. - 1 a.m., Friday and Saturday nights . Hamilton/Kirkland Choirs The Hamilton/Kirkland Choirs, under the direction of Professor James Fankhauser, will pe rform works of Handel, Brahms, and Josquin; the Colgate Unive rsityChambers Singers will perform works of Bach and Monteverdi; th e Brass Choir will perform works of Dukas and Gabrielli. Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. in the Gym. See article in this week's Arts Page . EXHIBITIONS Currently on Campus Paintings and drawings by James Loveless. At th e Root Art Center through December 16. Paintings, drawi�gs, and prints by Robert Muirh ead. At th e List Arts Center through Dece mber 20. Photographs by Jonathan and Peggy Vick, at the Bristol Campus Center through Decembe r 16. At the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (797-0000) Exhibition of photographs by Ma rgaret Bourke-White , at the Museum of Art , 310 Genesee Street, through December 31. MUIRHEAD EXHIBIT IN LIST ARTS CENTER An exhibit of paintings, drawings, and prints by Robert Bruce Muirhead, Associate Professor of Visual Arts at Kirkland College will open with a reception in List Arts Center on the Kirkl and camp us Thursday, November 30 at 8:00 PM. The exhibit will be in th e List Center through D ecember 20. Muirhead's work fuses classi cal control, keen technical skills with composition th at result in some adventurous facets of perspective and color, both in graphics and painting. Mr. Muirhead came to Kirkland in S eptember from the position of Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor, at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. THREE BLACK ONE ACT PLAYS The Kirkland and Hamilton Black and Puerto-Rican ·Union presents an evening of Three Black One Act Plays: "Sister Sonji" by Sonia Sanchez; "Contributions" by Ted Shane; and "Andrew" by Clay Goss. The plays will be presented on December 8th at 8:30 PM in the Red Pit in the Kirn er-Johnson Bu ilding. Admission is 7 5 cents. For additional information contact Lynn Pa nnell, ext.4938 or cxt.4958.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's D Minor Piano Concerto _BY LOUIS BIANCOLLI Stories of ..-Mo�art's feats of memory and techniq ue at the piano ar� so plenteou s that we are sc arcely surprised to learn that th e little man performed the premie re of the D Minor Concerto not only without a rehea rsal but without having played the rondo finale through once . This was in Vie nna on F ebru ary 11, 1785. We have Leopold Mozart's word for it that his son was busy at the copyist's before rushing off to the con cert hall. "Wolfgang play ed an exce lle nt new concerto," wrote Leopold to his daughter Marianne in Salzburg. Mozart repeated th e performance on F ebruary 15. "Magnifique ! " e xclaims Leopold in a second late r to Marianne. Generations of music love rs have ec hoe d the proud fath er's outburst. The premiere of the D minor occurred in the Mehlgrube at one of Mozart's subscription concerts held during Lent, a lucrative se ason for su ch events in the Vienna of his time. Later to become the Hotel Muc h, th e M ehlgrube was a popular hall for concerts and ba lls. It seems flour · was stored in the cellar, which ac counts for its na me, M ehlgrube, literally a "flour pit!' We ow e what information we have on th e proceeds of Mozares subscription se ries to his father's famous taste for finance. The se ri e s lured 150 subscribers. Wolfgang nett ed 559 florins, roughly $275. This was a sta gge ring figu re to th e whole family, especially since Leopold's famous son "ha d often played at oth er people's concerts for nothing." Only when we compare th e figure with the meager sums
paid Mozart for the use and publication of some of his scores can we u ndersta nd the family's jubilation. Reverting to Mozart's not h aving rehearsed the D minor Concerto, it was Edward Holmes who advan ced an intriguing theory about th e premiere at th e Mehlgrube. In the impromptu c a d e n za s, sugg e s t s , he "extemporary invention _of the fingers of Mozart may have sc attered even greater beauties th an he -has le ft in that great work." Holmes a lso mak es the pertinent re mark: "If th e idea of a concerto pla yed without r ehearsal or trial be s urprising, how much more must it appear when we remember the q uantity the player wrote , and the little time th at his fingers, cramped and contracted - by holding the p en, ha d to recover and freedom wonted their agility." At the time of th e subscription concerts, Leopold Mozart was spending s ome months in Vienna with his son and daughter-in-law Constnze in their dwelling on the Schulerstrasse . Letters to his frequent da ugh te r contain re ferences to Wolfgang's triumphs . When the Piano Concerto in C Major (K. 467) was played at th e following concert, Leopold report ed than many liste ners w ere move d by its beauty and that the applause was deafe ning. The re w as a nother great thrill in stor e for Papa Leopold du ring his Viennese sojourn. On� day, Joseph Haydn cam e to the house on the Schulerstrasse to play first violin in three n ew quartets by Mozart dedicat ed to himself. Aft er the p erformance Haydn d ecla red to the elder Moza rt: "I t ell you before God,
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honest man, that you r son is th e greates t composer I know, either per.sonally or by name. He has taste and .apart from that th e greate st science in composition." Haydn was then dir ecting m usical evenings in the town resid ence of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy. On his invitation Mozart often particip ated in th e music al entertainment. A great admirer of Haydn's string q uart ets, Mozart had earlier planned d edicating six of his own to th e s enior composer. The last three of the set were completed on January 14, 1785, le ss than a rush b efore the m onth subscription seas on at th e Mehlgrube got unde r wa y. Haydn had become a fre quent guest of the Mozarts '. In the quartet sessions, Moza rt himself played the viola . The D minor is on e of fifteen piano concertos composed by Moza rt between 1782 and 17 86. Mozart had now found fresh w ays of enlarging th e sc ope of the concerto and enric hing its th e solo contents. Int egrating instrument and orchestra in more vital form wa s one of them. Through this medium he was ac hieving a new poetry and individuality. The D minor stands out in impas sioned speech. The fervid note of tragic unrest, ac centuate d by the minor key, is stronger than in the oth ers. The next concerto (C major), with its showy se quences and gay flouris hes of trumpets and dr ums, is a far cry from the gloom and romantic despair that brood fitfully through the pages of th e D minor. Better start now in preparinQ for celebration of Beethoven's birth day on December 16th.
"Blow-up" and "Ivan Denisovitch" Are you bore d with life? B een bottom of this. The works of director th ere and back? David H emmings A nt o n i on i has . This fine British actor, who M i c h a e l a ng e l o (L 'Aventura, Zabriski Point) are h as long made a specialty o f ma le nothing if not controver�al. His b it c h roles, is in fine form in vie ws, Blow-up, where he pioneer ed the s o c i a l-political the morality and the stereotype of th e bored, se xy bankrupt fashion photogr apher. One day, shallowness of the modern elite taking pictu res _ in th e park, he bourgoise, tend to figure heavily his films. Critics and unwittingly rec ords a mu rder. At in least it looks like a murder. The film-vie wers watching from the vantage point of a few years tend enlargem ents are pr etty grainy. Hemmings' life suddenly to watch his films in spite of, rather than because of, his social acq uires some sort of concrete meaning. H e interrupts his 'time "message." Antonioni bears watching and motion studio s tudies with . because of his film craftsmanship. London teeny-boppers and becomes obsessed with this His innov ations, especially in the use of color, are painst akingly accidenta l intrusion of priv acy. A in corporated to accentuate his mysterious girl appears (Van essa sense of detail. For Red grave) who is willing to do fine Antonioni, film m u st mirror life, anything for th e negatives. But Hemmings has already done and life is_ made up of details. In Blow-up dissatisfied with the everything. He wants to get to the PRISON DRAMA ''The Cage," a drama written and performe d by forme r inmates of San Quentin Prison, will be presented at the Hamilton Colle ge Cha pel Friday (De c. 1) at 7:30 p.m. The performance, sponsore d by the Root-Jes�up Public Affairs Council; is open to the public and admis sion is $1.00, (free for Ha milton-Kirkland students who ha ve paid social tax.) The members of "The Cage'? cast will spend much of the day Friday talking with students of Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, in classes and informal ·m eetings. The play_ in the e vening will be followe d by a que stion-and-answer ses�ion between audience and p erformers. LOVELESS EXHIBIT An exhibition of paintings by James Loveless of the Colgate University Art fa culty will remain on display at Hamilton College's Root Art Cente r from Wednesday, Novemb er 29, witil December 16.
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he was getting, he "bought off" an entire street of houses and h ad th em repaint ed to his specifications just to enhance t·h e Wh e n b a c kg round . photographing the park sce ne, he had acres of live gras s sprayed with just the right shade of green. Blow-up is a fine detective s tory. It is als o a manife st of the se xual revolution of the sixties. It is a visual re presentati�n of a pe rsonal philosophy. Take it on whate ver leve l you choose. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is an Englis h version of Ale xander Solzhenitsyn's famous nove l. The film details the events in a typic al day of a prison er in Stalin's Siberian forced-labor camps of th e fiftie s. Solzhenitsyn, who wrote the book from personal expe rience, offers inte resting insights on the condition of men in the most d e s p e r a te c i r c u m s tanc e s . Denisovi ch (Tom Courtney) and his fellows deviously exploit the psychology of their captors, following the unwritten rules of their sm all society to stay alive : Shot just below th e Arctic circle in Norway, the film's vivid and faithful depiction of th e small, tr agic daily e vents makes watching it an incredibly emotional e xperience. Th e superb color photography is som ething to see ; never have I seen a cameraman do so much with so little.
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-R��ot And Carn�gie Experim�!.!�,a!!�h�e To Stay? Coed hous�g has � ow been a stu dent h� usm? op!ion for 3 month s : It IS bemg tned out as an to. regular, alternative .the segr ega ted dorrmtones. In the fall of 1970, � study by a Trustee s� b-committee . was made t o look mt o student h!e at the coll eges. The sub-committee w as ��mposed of tru stees, faculty, a dmmistrators, and students. The com�ittee decided t�at one wa� to rmprove �t�dent life was to mcrease the optlo�s th at the st u�ent s had for housmg. At , that tune ,.. G or don K ay� ? 4 suggested that �oed dormit� nes . should be mvestlgated. The idea was taken well, and a survey was put ou� in the spring 1 9? 1 to . det�rmm e the students opm1on . on the subj ect. The p oll sh owed �at the . students' react10 n t o th e idea was
good. G ilbert Gr out, A ssistant to th e President, said, "The r e�lly avid advoca tes of coed hou�m g w ere on the or der of ,�1fty studen ts out of 9 00 or so. As for the rest, nearly all of th em w ere open to holding the exper iment. In the Spring of 1972, the tr ustees author ized the trial. The expe riment would run over a p eriod of one y ear, and w ould be evaluat ed in the spring of 1973. The d ormitories t o be used were Carnegie D orm and Root Hall. The n umber of males and fema les in each dorm wa s to b e approxi ma tely equal. G rout explained why Carn egie had b een cho sen. "You can have elephants acros s th e hall and zebra s next door, and not know about it. But y ou can be a s soci able as y ou please." When he wa s asked how the proj ect was
operati n g, he re pli ed, "N o sweat -
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, year. , D ean D oris Friedensohn, D ean of Students a t Kirkla n d, said th at th e administr atio n was sti ll for coed housing, b ut that she was surprised how little fe edback she had gotten from the stu dents. How ever, she added that "Q uiet i s a posit ive sign t o us." The two coed dorms are d ivided in differ ent w ay s.I n Roo t Hall, the floor s are divided into half-floors. All of the me n are in one half, and the women ar e in th e other half. In C arnegi e, on the oth er han d, the floon are much more mixed. There are n o divided halls in Carnegie.Rooms there are entered from a com mon stairway, men's· rooms and women' s rooms are adjacent. The reactions of stude nts involved in the projec t is somewhat mixed. Some -peop le interview ed esp ecially liked the idea. A Kirkla nd senior living in R oot Hall stated that " the peo ple BY MITC H EL OSTR ER dorm it ory. D ean Bingham as ks f or who l ive o n our floor have really F ifty-five women wi ll be th e cooper ation of al l students in wanted to make it work." She attending Hamilton College during al lowing exchange people to said that there had been qu.ite a Winter · Study as part of the r eside in their r ooms. H e has few floor parti es thr oughout the exchange progr ams with vari ous chose those areas which will entail buil ding, and th at they had all schools. D ean Bingham , in charg e the least r elative inconve nience to been success es. of fin ding living areas for these Hamilton r esidents. One sophomore, als o living in people , needs the cooperation of Kirkland Col lege- has agreed to Root, said tha t t� e co ed . syStem Hamil ton residents to facilita te accept the overflow of exchange "reduces the feel mg of diStance, th e complex accomodations in students. N evertheless, unlike past that there 's a big canyon do""'.n Hamilton dormitories. y ears� most exchang e students wi[ C ollege Hill Road." She also said The women, un fortun at ely, th at sh e had experie nced a feeling be on Hamilton' s campus. Si nce may n ot simply be di sper sed they are enrolled in Hami lton of coldness betw een the people of thr o u g h o u t the c a mpus, courses, the incoming students the two colleges, and that coed occupying those rooms vacated by housing was helping to break that want to live at Hamilt on. Hamil ton particip ants in the Hamil ton C ollege has no down. exchange. S ince bathro oms ar e Several people felt that the altern ative b ut t o prudently not coeducational here, whole exper iment shou ld be expanded. exercise t heir privilege to use su ites, half-floors, or halls wil l be vacated r ooms during Winter One Kirkland student stated that set aside. The D ean knows which St udy. By its participation in " more coed dorms ar e needed Hamilton men will be off-cam pus r eciprocal exchange pr ogr ams, the bec ause only a minute number of during January; those hal ls will be Hamilton c o mm u n i t y is p eop le who liv e in the coed dorms chosen with the most rooms r esponsible for hou�ing the benefit from it." vacated, by students in the The half-floor sy stem of Root incoming &tudents. Though there exchange an d those otherwise Hall was felt to be slightly will be regr ettable indisposit ion to off-c am pus for in dependent study some Hamilton residents, this restric tive. Many of the students and college supervised proj ects . responsibility should be respect ed. belie ved that if the whole floor Students remaining on campus D ean Bingham w ill personally was integrated, the system would who nor mally live in these areas re quest the use of certain work better. How ever, they also will be re quested to relocate .to f elt that the presence of a central students' rooms early n ext week. some other floor in the same lounge was good; the lo unge Budget continued from page one that had student represent ation at both colleg es. H owever, one factor in the amount giv en to Lemans Sport these organizations was that they SEE THE ALL could probably get funds from - Hantilt on also . Con sequently, NEW 73'S TODAY Grand Am tho se clubs did not receive as much fr om the committ ee as they Lemans Ventur a could have. The last step in the process is to ta ke th e proposed a llocations Bonneville t o the Kirkland Assembly and hav e them approved. Asian Student Union ......$150 Grandville Bl ack Arts Ensemble ......$500 G rand Prix Charla ta ns ..............$4 00 Co-op Bookstore .........$150 D ebate Team ............$150 GOODWILL USE D CARS E.E.C.H.K...............$250 NYS Inspection St ati on - Service on all Makes French Cl ub ...: ..........$25 Hamilton & Kirkland Chamber Orches tr a .......$250 Hamilt on & Kirkland H ealth Advisory Bo ard ......$78 Grand Opening of our Ski Doo Div. Kirkland J udiciary Board .... $24 LOBBY ................$150 See the Machine Jewish Students of that changed winter Hamilton & Kirkland ......$ 1 50 Outing Club .............$575 T'NT 1973. Ride the Silver Baj let Populatio n Center .........$75 Root-J essup Public INC. PONTIAC DONWATSON Affairs Council ...........$450 Spanish Club .............$25 Franklin Ave. Clinton NV 853-5521 Women's C enter ..........$200 TOTAL ALLOCATIONS .$3,602
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A noth er Kirkland student ci ted her reason for coming to Root. She said that she desir ed an opportu nity to develop real friendships wi th men on the same basis as wi th gir ls. Another student said that th e half-floo r was not so good because p eople don' t really get to meet t he other p eople on the fl oor as much as they wanted to. Most of the H amilton students liv ing in Root said tha t they w ere happy living at Kirkland. S everal of th em termed the atmo sphe re "good ". One of them said that he "liked the Kirkland camp us and the availability of gir ls to talk to. " Reac tions to Carnegie as a coed dorm were less enthus iastic. S everal of th e Hamilton living in Carnegie f elt th at they w ou ld h ave picked that dorm even if i t was not coed. Some of t hem sai d that they had not noticed any real change in the atmosphere of dormit ory l iving. One of the Hamilton students " the fact that it s aid that (Carn egi e D orm) was coed had pr etty little to do with my choic e." H e sta te d tha t the reason he chose C arneg ie wa s because it was the nicest dorm, that it was close to all the faci liti es that _ he needed and that his r oommate g ot a low number i n the l otte ry . A Kirkla nd stud ent livi ng at C arnegi e also said that she chose that dorm not beca us e · it was coed, b ut that i t w as a good place to live . She said that if she had a·choice she wou ld live in a Ki'rklan J suite, b ecau se the facili ti es are better. Few of the students ac tually found anything wr ong wi th the project. One student 's obj ecti on was th at the volume of noise had incr eased over la st y ear. He noted th at "i t's noisi er than las t y ea r. There 's more parti es in the dorm.
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But ther e w er e a lot of par ties last year anyway." A f ew of the st�dents complained of a lack �f pnvacy, but most of them believed that th e social a tmosphere had improved. The prevailing attitude among the people in volved in the experiment is t hat the i dea is not bad, but t hat it should be impr oved. A f ew students expre ssed the hope tha t more dormi tori es wou ld be converted to coed dorms in the f uture.Man y of the students said that they w ere not making a big deal of l iving in a coed dorm, and that th at attitude was helping to overcome some problems . Gord on Kaye, now the head of the H am ilton H ousing Committee, said that coed housing is not su ppo sed to be the answer to all of th e socia l problems on the Hill, and that it sh ould n ot be looked upon a s an i nsta nt r eme dy.But, as one student a t Kirk land s aid, "It's remedying something that's wr ong. Living in a coed dorm is n atur al. It's j ust eve ry day life." Courses continued from page �hree their by ple ased aca demic inter ests and enthusiasms." H e added tha t after on ly two months here, " the one thing that has impr essed me most is the cooper ati on I have received from th e Hamil ton as well as Kirkland faculties and administrations.This is essential for any long-range plann ing." In spite of the new trend s an d complicat ions m · regi· str a tion · th at involve his office wi th both schools, Mr. Fa rgn oli b elieves that the m echanics will soon fall in to place and he can sp end much of his time talking w ith students and, faculty.
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Swimmers Set Sights on Seventh Sensational Season
College Hamilton The swimming team, traditionally a small college power in New York State swimming, is looking forward with great excitement to the start of the 1972-73 season. Over the past two seasons the Continental natators, under the inspired , direction of Coach Frederick W. McDonald, have compiled a very enviable 19-1 record. The team of the 1971-72 season graduated only two seniors: Co-captains Dave Dickey and Charles Mills, so the prospects appear very bright indeed. Besides a regular itinerary of ten dual meets the Hamilton tankmen will be traveling to the Upper New York State Championships, March 2 and 3, to be held at Canisius College. Hamilton is a charter-member of that swimming association, but the College has not been represented there in several years. Coach MacDonald will not predict the. Championship title for Hamilton, but certainly the Buff 'n Blue will be one of the favored teams to win. The tankmen will be led by senior captain Pete Schloerb, a legitimate All-American candidate in the breaststroke events. Senior Bruce Rinker, back after a year in France, will be back to help in the sprint freestyle events. Junior distance star Dave Shapland is a certainty to crack Larry Bentley's( class of '71) record in the 1000 yard freestyle but will
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be pushed by the two freshman of the team with a very limited Coach Under Clark b ackg round. sensations, dist ance McGuire and John Navarre. McDonald's tutelage he also has Backstrokei and butterflyer John become a legitimate All-American Baird will provide invaluable candidate. For points in his specialties. Junior those interested in Diver Fred Holender will continue statistics, every swimmer but one his quest for the diving records set who had a part in the seven pool by Paul Crumrine(class of '71). or school records set in 1971-72, Don Kendall continues to improve is returning for this year. An · The Hamilton College Squash and will hopefully score well in optimistic outlook for the season Club opened its '72-'73 season the diving events. Jim Carr and would include at least seven new an today at home against the Colgate r ec ords and Stan Kaye round out the junior s c h oo l contingent of the squad and will indeterminate number of pool Squash Club. Other formidable opponents in the next week will records, to be shattered. fill in where needed. be the S yr acuse YMCA, Hobrat, Hamilton's first "home" Perhaps the most outstanding and Rochester University. Even be will meet s w i mming group of fr.eshmen ever to swim though the team had a .5 00 for Hamilton will be sophomores Wednesday, December 6 at 4: 00 this year adn the experience they p.m., but will not take place in ·season last year, the five returning gained from their t'irst year bodes the Alumni Pool. Instead, the veterans anticipate a better record ill for Hamilton opponents. Doug team will be swimpiing Cortland this year. Playing number one again this McDevitt is perhaps one of the State in the new pool at Utica fastest freestylers to attend College. This will be the first dual year is team Captain Brad Caswell. Hamilton and can be expected to· meet to be held in that new With his variety of shots and his . two years experience at the top contribute greatly in whatever eight-land pool. · s pot, Caswell should provide a event he swims. John Needham The New York State swimming continues to surprise everyone meet this year has provided new nµmber of valuable wins for the including himself. With a very incentive for the team. Coach team. Louis Levenson '74 will be number two, with limited swimming background he McDonald is very optimistic about playing fleet-footed Jim Campbell '7 3 at has proved to be a very gutsy the team's chances and is sure that performer in both freestyle and the Blue and Buff will acquit number three. Tom Pirodsky '74 will be playing number four again butterfly events. The addition of themsleves admirably. this year. All three of these meh backstroker Craig McDonald Swimming has been a great wili be playing very competitive greatly relieved the pressure on educational as well as athletic Squash among themselves and Baird and allowed him to experience for all those who have their positions could change daily. concentrate more on the butterfly had the good fortune to swim for Each has a solid game and all have events. Gary Karl is one of the Coach McDonald. Aside from the the potential to beat most of their best all-round swimmers on the success achieved in the pool, opponents. Tw0 rookies, Rick team. He will score points in Coach McDonald has the rare Swenson '76 and Gary Pandolfi whatever event he swims. Jeff ability to help his swimmers '76, will be playing at No. 5 and Carlberg, having broken all of succeed out of the pool. Hamilton No. 6 respectively. Swenson has Captain Schloerb's records in the Swimming has been an invaluable the potential to play as high as breaststroke, is another member experience for all those involved. No. 3 but at times a lack of SPORTING EVENTS concentration hurts his 'game. His knowledge of the game and shots Basketball J.V. Basketball - against Hobart on Saturday night at 6:15 in the will undoubtedly add to the Gym. team's victories. Pandolfi has Varsity Basketball - against Hobart on Saturday night at 8:00 in played Squash in England for the the Gym. past year so that his game is full of hard drives (that's the way the Hockey The Continentals will take on the powerful Norwich squad on English play!) bound to force Saturday afternoon at 3:00 in the Hockey Rink. errors from many opponents. At No. 7 will be senior Bruce Smith. Swimming Smith's hard work throughout th:e Varsity against Cortland State at the Utica College pool qn Wednesday at 4 p.m.
Outlook Bright For Upco m'g Squash Seas'n· fall will earn the team added points as well. Caswell is optimistic about the team and its chances for a good season. With the five returning starters and a number of improving Freshmen, Squash may become a winning sport on the Hill. If you missed the match today, stop by the courts on Monday night at 7'30 and watch the "old men" from Syracuse take on a determined Hamilton Squash team.
J.V. Hockey
JV'S SEEK FOURTH STRAIGHT UNDEFEATED SEASON 21-0-1! This is the record of the Hamilton College Junior Varsity· Hockey Team over the past four years. The last time the J "'V. lost was in 1968 against Utica College. Tomorrow, at 11 q'clock, the J.V.'s will again be facing Utica College as ·they open their 1972-73 hockey season. Of the 25 players on the team, only 7 are seniors. The other 17 players are mostly sophomores and freshmen. Wild checking and frequent scoring should characterize tomorrow morning's game. This game is highly recommended for those who would like to prepare their vocal cords for the varsity game in the afternoon. For hard-core J .V. fans and for those people who desire a study break, there will be another J.V. hockey game this coming Monday at 8:00 p.m. ·against Herkimer Community College in the Sage Rink.
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Basketball continued from page 8 All and all, the outlook this year is optimistic for Murphy's Hoopsters. The ballpla.�ers are in high spirits, and have· hopes of a winning season. Coach Murphy, optimistic but cautious, eyes this season with hungry anticipation, ''We've taken our lumps in the ·past two years. This year looks like a different story. With the experience of the returning ballplayers, and the talent of the Freshmen, we should produce ·a tough�r team than those of previous seasons. I know we ·have ballplayers who can put points on the board. The secret to a winning seaso:n this year will be found
first, in our potential to play tough defense and second, in our ability to outrun other teams." Murphy's Mauraders have their first chance tomorrow to tum the tide on a not-so-bright recent-past for Hamilton basketball. The Continentals will be entertaining the Statesmen of Hobart in the home opener. Tip off is slated for 8:00 with the J.V. game getting under way at 6:15. Last year's loyal fans can attest to the fact that the Blue do play exciting ball, and with a good turnout, the home court advantage could bring "victory lane" to the Hill locker room once again.
1. Swimming Pool Tuesdav and Thursday 7-9:30 p.m. 7-9:30 p.m. Co-ed .Wednesday S Sunday 2-4 p.m. 2. Squash Courts Weekdays 12 noon-1 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 7-9:30 p.m. (Never on weekday afternoons!) 3. Skating Rink Weekdays 9 am.-1 p.m. Monday and Friday 7:30-9:30 p.m. Sunday 2-4 p.m. 4. Basketball Court 12 noon-1 p.m. Weekdays 5. Volleyball and Badminton in Fencing and Golf Room 7-9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday Weekdays when not in use by Hamilton classes 9 a.m.-1 p.m. · 6. Locker Room "C" weekd�ys Faculty Locker RoomTuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 7-9:30 p.m.
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BY RUBERT J. KEREN situation with still 24 second's runner Curtis Rowe, a 210 pound A 46-yard field goal by Union remaining. senior who quit the team. When kicking specialist _Bob Mitchell In disbelief Coach Don Jones asked about Rowe, ,the Union with a questionable seven seconds an d the Hamilton bench shouted statistician said "He's back in· remaining in the first half up to the timekeeper in the preis Schenectady listening to jazz produced the only scoring in the box, but all in vain as the official records." Bruce Mathias ran for 77th meeting of the state's responded "You call your game, 36 yards as the Dutchmen gained BY ED WATKINS longest-running rivalry, as the an d leave the clock to me!" a total 130 yards on the ground. It is hockey time on the Hill the d o wned Dutchmen. On the third down Urshall · Continentals 3-0. once again. The ice has been down completed a shorty to Westbrook Snow-bound Steuben Fi�ld was and as a 15-yard roughing penalty for several weeks and has already plowed of ten inches of snow the was tacked on, Bob Mitchell and been much used. Even the hockey Thursday prior to the November his kicking team trotted onto the fans themselves have had a 18th contest, but the sloshy turf field. With the .ball spotted on the practice session held during the soon turned to vast ripples of mud 30 and held on the 36 Mitchell Canton scrimmage. as neither team was able to split the uprights as seven seconds Hamilton College hockey fans effectively move the football. In showed on the clock, the elusive are as much a part of the College the first half, Blue QB Rob Winter s e c o n d as the Chapel. They are beit play down met with very limited success in notwithstanding. described as being insane. Ask any his short passing· game to halfback of the teams that has ever played Blues Finish at 1-6 Sandy Macintosh and senior end at Hamilton. A fired-up Continental squad John Graveley, while Union held the Dutchmen to only 64 The Hamilton fans have a field-general Gary Lavver had - yards in the second half, while mightly ally working with them in Senior record holder John similar difficulties moving the ball Winter worked effectively to the form of Sage Rink. The Rink Gravely displays dejection after while attempting flat passes and Macintosh (6 receptions for 42 has peculiarly shaped corners disappointing 3-0 loss. relying on the running of yards in the game) and Gravely (6 making it difficult for an oppoiing The loss brought Hamilton's team to clear the puck and 'a Ron for 95) in the third an d fourth sophomore workhorse Westbrook. quarters, three times bringing the final record to 1-6, while Union's balcony type of seating. That stands at 4-5. The Rue Award gives the fans the opportunity to The initial first down of the ball into field goal range. contest came el�ven minutes after Bill Finan 's first attempt which traditionally is awarded to shout down encouragement an d Bill Finan's opening kickoff, as midway through the third quarter the two outstanding players in the. scorn to their heroei and foes. Gravely reached back to snare an was spotted on the 35 (a Hamilton-Union Game went to Throw in the fine acousticlii of the underthrown Winter pass at 45-yarder) but fell two or three John Gravely and Ron Westbrook. rink an d it becomes quite a zoo midfield. But as the ball yards short of the posts. Finan's Graveley finished the season with when inhabited by a thousand exchanged hands 15 times in the other two tries, from 34 and 38, 39 receptions bringing his four screaming fan s. This reporter knows a former ha1f it became apparent that the were both quite short as the year total up to 113 catches. The marshy field conditions were sure freshman specialist had difficulty 6'1" 192 pounder does not posess Colgate player who was overly to produce a low-scoring defensive planting his left foot on the great speed, but hi� tricky moves fond of playing in the Hamilton battle. M i tchell's and seemingly glue-fingered grabs "Pit", as he called it. Yes, that lad m arshy turf. Like a Statue some ranks him as Hamilton's most of bone and muscle was reduced with three-point er, With forty-five seconds left in assistance from timekeeper G. productive receiver in history, to a mass of quivering jelly every the half Winter was sacked for a Robert McAllister, provided the John now holds two college time he had to face the Hamilton 14-yard loss while attempting to distance as Union won its first marks: lifetime receptions (113) fans. Several years ago, exuberant throw, setting up a fourth down battle with Hamilton in 4 years. and season receptions (40 in and 22 situation on the Dutchman Hamilton still leads in the 83 1971). Hamilton fans caused the first Andy· Sopchack, the little retreat in the continental United 4 7-yard line. Lo_u Cordia' s punt year-old rivalry 34-31-12. was fielded by Mike Deshler on They amassed a total offense of All-American middle linebacker, States by the U.S. Army since the the 19, who broke two tackles 235 yards as Winter went 18 for and Joe Reagan, the Blue fixture Civil War. Army won the hockey near the twenty and trudged all 31 and 239 yards. The running at defensive tackle, both graduate game but the Hamilton fan s and the way back to the Continental game netted minus 4 yards with Gravely in May. All three their dead.fish won the war. 48. Today, the Blue fans are just a including the eight times Winter were consistently named to the , Now with twenty-eight seconds was dumped for minus 70. The all-ECAC weekly teams in 1972, wee bit more sophisticated. The left, Union Coach Jerry Everling Blues had 13 first downs to an d Sopchack and Graveley both spitting and the dead fish have sent sophomore quarterback Joe Union's ·8, while the Dutchmen have good shots at being named to v an ished. Instead simple vocal all-ECAC team Urshall in to finish the half. On totaled only 190 yards in the the (little pre&sure tactics are used in an first down h_e threw incomplete to game. Union QB s totaled 6 for 15 All-American) for th:e �eason. attempt to intimidate the stop the clock with twenty-four and 60 yards as the Hamilton seconds to go. On second down he secondary did a fine job, while dropped back again and, as WHCL Ron Westbrook was the game's announcer Kenny Marten stated, leading rusher picking up 51 Urshall "stood like a statue in the muddy yards. The sophomore pocket for almost 10 seconds" ; halfback H ol y o ke from i and as his receivers were wel Massachusetts gained 619 yards Bouncing off a rather dismal enough shape to ru� with almo&t covered, he threw the ball away. on t:4e year filling the spot 4-16 season last year, the any team we'll face." But the clock did not move, now vacated J?y Union's powerful H�milton basketball squad is setting up a third and ten anticipating brighter days for the Utilizing the fast break 72-73 campaign. With seven philosophy, Murphy plans to returning lettermen an d a h an dful shuffle seven or eight players, of Frosh Coach Murphy'i name of with all members of the team the game will be run and run and ieeing at least some action during run ... the upcoming contests. With the absence of a definite starting Murphy 'has been pleased lineup, all twelve ballplayers have overall with his Maurader's been working hard in pre-season showing so for this season. practices an d scrimmages. Starting off strongly against Returning from last year's Pots5fam State in the first are seven lettermen. scrimmage of the pre-season, the squad Continental Coach smiled, "It was Co-captains Ernie Found '74 an d one of the few times I've been Craig Fallon '74 have been happy leaving the gym." With less rebounding' ·with authority thus and should help out profitable warmups against MVCC far and highly . touted Siena, last immensely in triggering the fast Tuesdays trip to Oneonta was the break. Six-ten center, John Adami '75, has also improved and will last test for the B.Iue before this prove to be an ever increasing weekend's opener. Oneonta has. been noted as one scoring threat an d strong off the of the toµgher teams in the State boards. Flashy Mark Badger '75 School League this year. hai been hampered by a m·uscle Following the scrimmage, Coach pull, but the iharpshooter hopes Murphy remarked, "Although at a to be in top shape for tomorrow's disadvantage, we did a good job opener. _Flagued with sickness la&t on the boards, and· we were year, se�ond year man Pedro ..- RobWinter relays his signals and prepares to lead the Hamilton II • beating them up and down the Gorda is anxio·us to see alot of mudden from the huddle. The muddy field was a key factor floor.. I think we're in .. good action thls year. His· rebounding in the fow scoring rivalry.
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opposition. Seven hundred people yelling YOU! YOU! YOU! has made many a visitor wonder whether or not he should sit the rest of the game out. Occasionally a referee makes a mistake and calls a penalty on a Hamilton player. The Hamilton crowd recognizes the failings of the ref and is only too happy to offer several specific suggestions on how he may "improve" himself. Collections have been taken up in between periods for the purpose of purchasing glasses and seeing-eye dogs for the poor wretches. Hamilton fans have been known to accompany their heroes to away games. Two of the finer contests have been played in the Co!gate rink. The fint was played against Middlebury. It walii the last game of the season and tempers were high. The Middlebury capt�in _broke under the strain-and in the third period, he decked the referee. The Hamilton fan i, recogn izing a true champion, gave the Middlebury player a standing ovation. The second game was against the Red Raiders of Colgate. Hamilton was a big underdog and few Hamilton fans made the trip. Those that did easily out-shouted the Colgate fans and were rewarded with a 4-3 Blue win in overtime. A stunning performance by both. team and fans. The opening game of the 72-73 season is on Saturday December 2 at 3 p.m. in Sage Rink. The opponent: an old Hamilton favorite, Norwich. Show up an d join the ranks of the loud, occasionally obnoxious, and totally glorious Hamilton Coll�ge Hockey Fam!
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and running ability should abo serve as a Il!ajo:i: aHet to Murphy's run-and-shoot game plan. out the R o u n ding upperclassmen ran ks are Doug Wright '75, Rob Winter '75, and Dave Sohn '75. Sohn has been sidelined thus far because of sickness and won't return to the squad until January. Wright should see plenty of action in the forward spot. In addition to -"the old men" Murphy's recruiting program has brought an influx of capable fyeshmen ballplayers to the hill. Four have been dubbed with varsity duties this year. Marty Guy, a product of Chenango Valley High of Binghamton, has been very impressive in pre-season play. He's a good percentage shooter and has a shot at a starting spot. Dave Marshall, from East Hampton High of Long Island will be, shuffling in and out with Badger in the backcourt. Dan Daly from nearby Chadwicks and Mark Kasdorf of Chitennango should be helpful in, the rebounding corps. . contin�ed on page 7
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Who Should Pay Ed. Costs? CICU Proposes Solutions
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Associate Professor of Chemistry Robin B. Kinnel, new Associate Dean of the Faculty at Hamilton.
BY DOUGLAS GLUCROFT T h e C omm i s s i o n o n Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU), representing all such 'institutions in New York State, has submitted their Master Plan to the New York State Board of Regents - the overseers of all educational policy in the State. The report, compiled from 100 separate institutional reports, was introduced by the Chairman of the CICU, P re sident John Chandler. The r e p or t attacks the following questions in detail: Who should pay for higher education? How much of the total costs should the student and parent pay? How much of the cost should the taxpayer bear? In attacking these questions, the
Kinn el Made Assoc. Dean; Will Deal with Academics
"Having brought in Dean Kurtz President John W. Chandler of Hamilton College announced to fill the senior position, we Tuesday that Robin B. Kinnel, an thought it wise to look to our Associate Professor of Chemistry own faculty ranks in filling the at Ham ilt on , will b ecome a s sociate deanship. Professor Associate Dean of the College on Kinnel has proven himself an February 1, 1973. outstanding teacher and scholar The Associate Dean position is since his appointment to the a new one. President Chandler faculty six years ago, and we are said Professor Kinnel will work extremely pleased that - he has closely with Stephen G. Kurtz, accepted this key position." Dean of the College, in curricular I n the reorganized · Dean's planning, internal administration, Office Professor Kinnel will work and student academic advising. closely with the offices of the "When the faculty completed Registrar and Admissions, and its study of our Dean's Office last with the Winter Study Program. year, a strong recommendation He will also play a major role was made that duties formerly in overseeing academic regulations carried by tq.e academic dean and in academic advising of , alone be shared by two persons, ,. sophomores and juniors. Dean of Dean Chandler said. Students R. Gordon Bingham, in
Fund Drive Fails � Initiative' Lack Cited BY LIZ HORWITI The Campus Fund Drive, sponsored by the Chapel Board, failed this year. The sunt raised was far below what had been hoped for. The Hill population of 1900 gave a total of $11 43.33. Worked out in round figµres, that comes to sixty cents per person; without taking into account that $275 of it was raised during Casino Night, and that an anonymous faculty member donated $100. ·Organizers Joel Tibbetts· and students Kristen Howard, Harry Parker and Larry Eichler have been seeking for causes, and ways to remedy the situation. As Mr. Ti bbetts pointed out, ''The m oney is here; we're not a poor student body." A basic problem was lack of enthusiasm-not only on the part of the student body, but the forty-odd solicitors as well. "Lack of enthusiasm" is perhaps a poor term for the latter,. since at least five solicitors excused themselve,s
at the last minute. Of tho�e who did g o out, many worked extremely hard; others did not. Figures are unavailable as to what percentage of t h e campus population was reached; Mr. Tibbetts estimates about half, perhaps less. (This puts the amount of the donation per person up to $1.20.) According to the organizers, some solicitors reached only five or ten of the twenty people they were specifically assigned to cover. Kristen Howard's comment was, "They just weren't prepared to do it. They didn't know how important it was." Mr. Tibbetts remarked, "I wish a little more initiative had been taken. I don't see blame-I see inefficiency or naivete-but I d o n ' t believe p e ople a r e penny-pinchers." He added that the problem is a recent one, extending not much fur�er back than his own arrival on the Hill three years ago.
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a d d i t i o n t o h is g e ner a l responsibility for non-curricular undergradu ate life, will be conc�rned with the advising of freshmen. Dean Kurtz will work closely with seniors, particularly in regard to their post-graduate plans. Professor Kinnel is a 1959 graduate of Harvard College and a t t a i ned t he P h .D . from M a s s achusetts I'n stitute of Technology in 1965. He was a National Institutes of Health Research Fellow from 1962 to 1963. He has also studied at S ta n ford University and the. University of Buffalo. On a sabbatical leave from Hamilton last spring, he did research in his field , organic chemistry, at Oregon State University. He has been a .member of the Hamilton faculty since 1966 and was p r o moted to Associate Professor last July. Like the other members of the Dean's Office, he will continue to teach part-time.
report stresses the numerous contributions private colleges and unive.rsities have made to New York. They are an integral part of e d u c a t i o n in the S t a t e , con tributing "to the overall p l a n n i ng process a unified conception of the enormous potential for continuing public s er v i ce which private higher education so clearly represents." Private institutions of learning find themselves in financial straits today, · more than ever before. Inflation has driven up the cost of education , a n d along with innovations and increased salaries for faculty, tuition at a school like Ham i l ton or· Kirkland i s exorbitant, forcing many students into the City University (CUNY) or State University (SUNY). Lower enrollments with increased costs is an unpleasant route that many independent colleges are forced to follow. Predictions for the future indicate a continuance of these trends unless the State acts to alleviate these problems. Lack of money constitutes a crisis for many members of the CICU. In the fall of 1971 there were 50,000 vacant places in private colleges and universities in New York; at the same time SUNY w a s s'w amped with applications, and CUNY was engaging hi an open admissions policy. Cumulative deficits of private four-year colleges was $6
million for 1967-1971. The results are grim: research programs have been curtailed, hiring of faculty ·has been limired, construction projects have been cancelled and slowed, library acquisitions have been reduced, and there has been a reduction of basic student services. Everyone in power in Albany r e a l i z e s t he n e c e s s i t y t o perpetuate private education at an optimum level in the State. The CICU's report attempts to strike a balance that would, if effected, benefit pub.lie education as well. Alrea d y , p r i v ate institutions !"eceive funds through. the Bundy Commission's proposals cif 1968. Hamilton for instance receives $80,000. These funds, however, have not been able to stem the tide of slipping enrollments and crippling deficits. The CICU proposes nine objectives for higher education in the State of New York: 1. New ¥ork's system of public p r i v a te education should continue to be developed along comprehensive and varied lines. 2. O p por t u nities for higher education should be extended to students of all income levels. 3. Private a.r.d public institutions should continue to share the responsibility of serving the e c o n o m i- c a l l y a n d educationally disadvantaged. continued on page seven
Housing Plans Altered For January Visitors BY MITCHEL OSTRER Female exchange students will not be living in male Hamilton dormitories this January, as had been expected. Dean of Students R. Gordon Bingham withdrew his upon for rooms, request numerous c o n f r on t i n g the in c omplications arrangements. The exchange
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students will live in Bristol Campus Center dormitories� with some of the women living in co-ed Carnegie suites and at Kirkland College. The students, from Skidmore and Wells Colleges, were to occupy whole floors of Hamilton dormitories, so as to have a bathroom for women only. Dean Bingham planned to exercise the College's right to use those rooms vacated by Hamilton students d·uring Winter Study. In order to / completely clear a hall, though, other students, who would be at Hamilton during January, were asked to transfer to another room in the same dormitory. Desiring a hall which would have the most vacancies, Bingham chose the second floor of Gryphon in the Bundy Complex. Members of Gryphon, a organization fr ater n i t y-t ype defended their right of autonomy in housing. They no longer have a separate house, as is the case with TEAK and Delta Phi; they nevertheless reserved the right to designate the use of rooms in thcir section of Bundy. Students unable to move their valuable belongings from their room, had the alternative of putting their things in a storage room or taking an inventory, to be signed bf the incoming students. The Oollege refused any continued on page six
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JOINT YEARBOOK Michael Serino has been elected by the Publication Board as Editor-in-Chief of the joint Hamilton-Kirkland yearbook. The Kirkland Associate Editor will be Enid Evans and the Hamilton Associate Editor, Ben Earle. CANDELIGHT SERVICE IN CHAPEL The annual Christmas candelight service at the Chapel will be held Sunday (Dec. 10) at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome. Earlier in the day, at 11:15 a.m., the Free Church of Clinton will meet in the Chapel for a carol sing, also open to everyone. Participants in the candelight service will include the Choirs of Hamilton and Kirkland, which will sing both separately and together, the Free Church Choir, and _the Hamilton Brass Choir. SUMMER PROJECTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT The Audubon Center of Greenwich is sponsoring ·an 'Audubon Ecology Workshop; week-long programs will be held throughout the summer at an Audubon Wildlife Refuge in Connecticut. One semester hour of graduate or undergraduate credit can be earned in these programs. Student assistant positions for the 1973 season are also open; applications are now being accepted. The National Science Foundation is offering a limited number of grants to support student-run environmental research projects. over the summer. Additional information on both of these opportunities is available at the Career Center. RECYCLED PAPER PRODUCTS FOR SALE E.E.C.H.K., in coordination with the Citizens Ecology Committee of Utica, will sell 100% recycled paper products. Stationery pads, available in two colors with a design by Natalie Babbitt or by a Clinton High School student, are $1.50 per box and will make an ideal gift. High quality blank 8½ x 11 sheets are $1.50 per ream and are suitable for typing and official letterheads. The products are available in Lobby and the Hamilton College Bookstore. E.E.C.H.K. reminds people that the use of recycled paper preserves resources and induces paper manufacturers to buy and sell recycled paper. FREE CHURCH NEXT WEEK There will be a Free Church service Sunday morning, December 17, at 11: 15 in the Chapel. The service is being planned for, and to a considerable extent by, children. All members of the community are welcome. 11-1 A.M. EXAM REFRESHMENTS Refreshments will be provided in Commons from 11-1 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 10 to Friday, Dec. 15, compliments of the Board of Stewards. RED CROSS FIRST AID Anyone interested in taking a Red Cross First Aid Course (multimedia) to be given on a Saturday in January and/or February, please contact Betty Gilbert (7175) or Jan Carbine (7462).
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LETTERS PROFESSIONALISM??
To the editor: I was interested in a letter which appeared in the December 1 Spectator · which discussed of various aspects "professionalism" .at Hamilton College. I must admit, however, that I was quite frankly baffled by that ominous sounding word, so I consulted Mr. Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary. He said that professionalism is ''the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or professional person." To be quite honest I had an idea that that was the real meaning, but when I it used in the context of the letter I was confused. But now I understand what they meant, I think. Didn't they mean that Mr. Groµt shouldn't say that he'd like to _stay, even if he really did? And didn't thay mean that under the guise of professionalism the President of this college should and by rights· ought to do whatever he sees fit?' And didn't they mean that the student body really should keep its nose out of the politics ( and that is really what it is, isn't it?) of the college bureacracy even if their opinions differ from those · of the President? And didn't they mean that the job of the student is to study, or to worry about the Service Systems food? For what ·right do they have to question the direction in which this school shall move? Well, to those gentlemen who would call a student voice superfl�ous, I can only say this: think back on those now haµnting words of former Associate Dean Hadley DePuy, and to that day when he addressed chapel for the last time. Dean DePuy warned us to be wary of the breaking up of the college community. Any type of community which has been built here on the Hill was founded on understanding - understanding between students, faculty, and administration. When nearly one-half of the student body signs a petition requesting the President of the College to perform in a certain way, and when that request falls on deaf ears, there is a b reakdown major in understanding. And then all the professionalism which can be found throughout the history of academic instituitions will not be able to repair the damage wrought degeneration by the of understanding. Hugh R. Mackay '75
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Fifty-Five Women, or the Dean Bingham Blues. In order to house fifty-five female exchange students on the Hamilton Campus during winter study, Ha milton had planned until this week to place the girls in Hamilton rooms and shuffle the nearby· men so that the women would have their own bathroom. Gryphon's second floor, in Bundy East, was the hall the school chose, but its occupants destroyed that plan by refusing to move. They protested that the college had given them no �u rance that their posse�ions would be protected, and had not given them time to make plans to move out, either. They had a point, and the College. backed down. But the alternative was to cram the women into the third-floor dormitories in Bristol where they will have veey little room to live or study comfortably. It is perhaps understandable, but nevertheless unfortunate that we could not respond to the occasion a little more gallantly. We think perhaps Hamilton gave up too quickly. One- _other alternative is available: to make the accomoda tions on a simple 'fair trade' basis, filling the vacated Hamil· ton rooms regardle� of where they happen to be. The problem of bathrooms would probably work itself out, as it always has during houseparties, or, since the college may be presumed to have territorial rights of a sort over the dormitory bathrooms it maintains, perhaps a bathroom could be restricted on one floor in each building. We expect that this inconvenience would be tolerable for three weeks; girls who so desired could still be housed in Bristol. The problem of protection for students' property is still negociable, we hope: Hamilton should be able to affor d some sort of bond, which we trust ( a�uming a little common sense and fair play by all parties concerned) will not be needed anyway. The current arrangement is simply unfair to the women, and to the schools who participated in the exchange in good faith; they deserve better treatment here. discussion, for those with no former experience in the theater to learn the basics of theater production and for those with previous experience to expand t h e i r k n o w l e d g e . A f t er completion of assignments in all of the above-mentioned areas, people concentrated their efforts in one or two specific areas. Through this concentration we were able to practically apply the knowledge we gained. The time expended, the quality_ of work p r o d u ce d , and the learning involved made this far more than an "extracurricular activity." The implications of the article as written were insulting to both the Producti9n class as a whole
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To the Editor: We as a class would like to reply to the article concerning the Production class and its staging of Yerma. We were· deeply insulted by the remark, " 'Production' a f fords· a n opportunity for students to get academic credit for extra-curricular work in Theatre." The unnamed reporter was obviously either misinformed as to the nature of the class, or -�mnecessarily. mailicious in his intent. As the course title indicates, this is a · course in Theatre Production. The first two months of the class were spent studying all aspects of a production: conceptualization, set design and c o n str u c t i o n , techniques of lighting, costume design, etc. The course provided an opportunity, through required assignments in, 1 through_ -class, �11
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and to Mr. Bell as a teacher. We feel that an apology is in order from the unnamed reporter, and from the editors of the Spectator who permitted such an erroneous statement to be printed. Sincerely, The Class Members of Drama 105: Production in Theater 1he editors of the Spectator and Ray Dooley, author of the Y erma article (December 1), apoligize for the unintentional criticism of the Production Course taught by Richard Bell, Assistant Professor of Theatre. Mr. Dooley will explain his.remarks from the article in the next issue of the
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NIXON SLASHES CLEAN WATER MONEY: PROTEST URGED BY EDWIN FROWNFELTER '73 In a news conference on Tuesday, November 28, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus a nnounced that President Nixon had ordered him not to spend $6 billion of the $11 billion allotted him by Congress for water pollution control facilities in the next two years. These funds were allotted by the Congress in the 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act (the Muskie Bill), whic;:h was considered a landmark piece of environmental legislation. The bill was passed overwhelmingly in both houses, vetoed by Nixon, and passed over his veto, again by lopsided margins in both houses. Now, decisively defeated in Congress, President Nixon is attempting to subvert this unequivocal statement of Congressional policy through adminis_trative procedure. The legality of this act is hightly questionable, as Administrator Ruckelshaus himself admitted. The state of Florida is now launching a suit to force Nixon to spend this money, which may end the matter once and for all. But it seems to me that citizens concerned about the environment and opposed to the further concentration of power in the Presidency cannot sit back and wait for this case to be decided. We must make our voices heard now, to let Nixon know that he was not elected dictator in November. The President's own Council on Environmental Quality released a study last year finding that the quality of our water, unlike that of the air and other measures of the environment, is deteriorating rapidly and at an accelerating rate/This problem, moreover, is one that will respond very well to the simple application of money for capital construction, so the Muskie bill was a major step in the direction of cleaner water. The sewage system of Clinton, which Hamilton and Kirkland share, was designed before Kirkland's founding when Hamilton had only 600 students. A new plan that would serve this community much better is ready for implementation, and is waiting only for Federal funds such as the Muskie bill might have provided. The same is true of communities by the thousands all over the country. Yet this money is the target Nixon chose for his spending cuts, although the amount involved represents approximately one tenth of what his administration has spent in Vietnam. But the act is perhaps even more ominous, for this Nixon's first attempt to push his power further following his landslide victow his first test of his "mandate." He stated in his letter to Ruckelshaus, "... Even if the Congress were to default its obligation to the taxpayers..., I would not default mine." (New York Times, Nov. 29). Clearly, he is putting his judgement above that of the Congress and therefore, of the rest of the political system. This affair may well turn into the first battle to keep Nixon under control - and it is necessary that we who oppose him win it! I am asking each and every member of this community who cares about his physical and political environment to use what influence he has to stop Nixon now. You can do this best simply by writing, essentially five letters. Write to your two Senators and your Representative, making your feeling clear and asking that they support or initiate measures to rebuff Nixon. Write to your state goyernor, asking him to join in Florida's suit against Nixon. Finally, and most important, write to Nixon himself, protesting in rational, respectful, but unequivocal terms that you oppose his abuse of executive power and support the spending of money to protect the environment, as mandated by Congress. Write these five letters, and use your Christmas vacation to talk to friends, relatives, neighvors, or anyone else who might be sympathetic to the environment, persuading them to write too. Maximum citizen response, from Nixon's supporters and opponents alike, is necessary to let him know that this is still a democracy and that this country cares about pollution. The passing of the environmental bond ·issue in this state and Florida, the endorsement of enviropmental legislation in Florida and other states, and big victories by environmental candidates in Delaware, Colorado, and elsewhere all testify to that. It is neceisary to act now .and make our voices heard, for if Nixon feels powerful enough to do this one month after the election, who knows what he will do in a year or three? Please, write these letters and try to spread the word to anyone who will listen for all of our sakes. Further information available from Edwin Frownfelter (7182), John Zaehringer (4140), Nan Napp (4329), or any member of E.E.C.H.K. To help organize protest contact Frownfelter.
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Draft Eligible Sophs To Stay 2nd Semester BY BOB GRIEVES Steve Tepper '75, a member of the Hamilton President's Advisory Committee, has been investigating how many sophomores will be vulnerable to the draft after January 1st and what policy the college would adopt toward the induction of its students. He specifically wanted to compare the birth dates of those eligible
Senate Reorganizes SAC SAC REORGANIZATION PROPOSAL
Passed by Senate 12/5 /72 I. Membership A. The present SAC membership of four Hamilton and four Kirkland students shall be increased to five Hamilton and five Kirkland students. B. Of the fiv� SAC members from each campus, three shall be elected from each campus in a full student-body election. C. The remaining two members from each campus shall be appointed by the Hamilton Senate and the Kirkland Assembly. The Senate and the Assembly, in appointing the remaining members, shall attempt to maintain a balance in the SAC. Two important factors in this balance shall be minority group representation and continuity. II. Leadership A. The form of the SAC leadership, and the actual chairperson (s) shall be chosen from within the SAC by the full membership of the SAC. The chairperson(s) shall be subject to the approval of two-thirds of the Student Senate according to the Senate Constitution. III. Dates of Selection and Terms of Membership A. The terms of all SAC members, including the chairperson(s), shall commence in February, 1973, and terminate in February, 1974. B. Petitions for the election positions shall be available during the first week of dasses; second semester. Candidate's qualifications are due in the Spectator office by the second Wednesday of February. The election shall be held on Monday of the third week in February, and the appointed members are to be selected as soon thereafter as possible. IV. Meetings and Publicity A. The new SAC shall hold regular, bi-weekly, open meetings, a schedule of which is to be published in the Spectator. B. Announcements and minutes of every meeting shall be posted on the bulletin boards in Root Hall and the Kirner-Johnson building. V. Charge of the SAC A. The new SAC shall be charged to \'rovide, through prudent use of voluntary social tax monies, a varied program of social events for the campus community. It shall be the direct responsibility of this committee to: to permit programming throughout 1. Budget its financial resources ' the academic year. 2. Determine student program preferences through polls or other means. 3. Assist the Business Office and the Registrar in administering the social tax program. 4. Provide full publicity for all SAC programs and event so that voluntary social tax participants are aware of their benefits. 5. Maintain close liason with the Director of the BCC, who is to act as administratin advisor to SAC, and who is to be co-signatory on all contractual arrangements exceeding $300. 6. Make monthly reports to th.e Senate and the Assembly. 7. Provide an adequate amount of all SAC monies for entertainment other than exclusively musical entertainment. 8. Provide coordination with neighboring colleges to promote possible combined events and pbulicity for off-campus events. B. Miscellaneous 1. There must be 7 SAC members present at each meeting to conduct business. 2.. There shall be agreement of six SAC members before any contract over $300 shall be signed.
This proposal will next be sent by the Senate to the Kirkla.nd As�embly, which must also consent to the reorganizatzon.
Purgatory for PffiG
The Hamilton-Kirkland ¥ublic In terest R e s ea rch ,G roup is inactive this year because students did not have the time to devote to its work, according to its former director, Edwin Frownfelter '73. The original purpose of the group was twofold. First, it had p I anned to research topics of interest to the people of this area. For example, they had planned t o r e s ea rch t h e records of candidates for local of fices and to make their findings available to the public. Also, they had hoped to keep track of the major activities of the continued on page six THE CLINTON FLOR�ST 15 Elm Street 853-2731
for the draft with the lottery dates to see how many students could be drafted during the second semester. At this time Dean Bingham estimates that approximately five to ten students at Hamilton will be affected by the draft. The Dean notes also that only ten thousand men will be called for the period beginning January 1 to June 30, so that the chances of "getting nabbed" are not as great as they used to be. After checking with several Selective Service boards, Hamilton President John W. Chandler found that most i,1duction centers would allow Hamilton to define Winter Study as a part of the second semester. Thus, for any student who receives a notice of induction, the Registrar will write to the student's draft board that the student is engaged in a second-semester course, and the student will not be inducted until after the exams in May. According to Dean Bingham, U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird had stated that those hold ing to numbers up twenty-five or thirty face the greatest possibility of being drafted. The number of students being drafted will determine both the size of next year's freshman class and how many transfer students Hamilton accepts. All vacancies wili"be filled, but places will be held for absent students. Dean Bingham notes that because juniors and seniors are still eligible for student deferrments, no one at Hamilton has yet been drafted. During last Friday's Military Day, military In formation representatives from all branches of the armed services manned a recruiting table in th . .Bristol Campus Center, and saw "fairly brisk business," according to Dean Bingham. The Whole Earth Natural Food Store 2 College St. Open 10-6 Mon. - Sat. bulk grains, flour, seeds, nuts, vitamins, cereals tea & much more
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IArts and Entertatnmentl Ken Russell's 'Wome�t.t?! arf.'2d'£Fv: A painting by �ames Loveless
Loveless Works Vibrant: Dynamic Show at Ruot comple tion. BY JAMES PENNEY His work has become, he feels, With a steady and consistent pur pose, Jame s • Loveless has more and more deliberate and arrive d at a statement in his inevitable. With the precision of a pain ting that is impressive and pancake turn er, he can pour from his Dixie cup a straight line or a rrestingly pe rsonal amidst the welte r of th e art wor ld. While perfect dot that has a sensation starting at the heigh� of t�e a kin t o b u t impossible to reproduce in drawing. H e al so abstract expre ssionist movement in the late 50's, awarene ss of the · claims a kinship with Corot in the OP and color field movements of re-establishment of the hierarchy the 60's have served to broa den of shapes-"the · boy in the little a nd mature his direction. red h at"; an e mpathy ·with Matisse In the mid 60's, however, he and Seurat, an a ffinity with bega n the use of poure d paint as a Hoffman, Brooks, and Cliffor d m e d i u m (now a cry lic auto Still, and a continuing dialogue enamel) through which he ha s with1 Jack Tworkov. found the means to realize with His approa ch is finite, as confidence, the intensity of his c o n t r a s t e d t o t h a t o f expre ssion. Thus, technically, he Fra nkenthaler, Olitski or Paul is an heir to Ja ckson Pollock-in Jenkins. Often in these, his newer his medium, its applic ation, and as works, we sense an emerging he says, "the fabrication of the imagery-figurative or objective painting from the same distance." forms a p p earing-inexplic ably, But Loveless (who works on inevitably, m agic ally from the c a r e f u l l y prepare d, smoothly painting. He makes dr awings; his primed masonite panels) has a works are · preconceived; but he pr e -c'o nceiv e d plan and an starts anew the panel itself. am azing precision of flow, wit h a Anticipat ions, e xpectations feeling for juxtaposition of every follow, and decisions are m ade in shape and color and with sensitive progress. Howe ver , he does not contr ol of eve ry move and tilt, as change or erase. Several paintings c o m p a r e d t o P o l l o c k ' s are in progress at once, and he . wa its for them to dry be fore au toma tism. He rela tes his concepts to the pouring the next color . His e diting Greek K ouros figures ("t he is in the selection of what works perfecta bility of a specie, the he will exhibit. The color of his paintings is e x h i l a r a t i on of a finit e shape")-or to a boxing match richer and more vibrant, his forms where one is ta ken over by the more moving and cryptic, his event. And he relates again his ·abstraction stronger over the years. It is our pleasure to have approach to D a vid Smith, who, wor king horizontally, expe rienced these new paintings on our walls, a "jettison of gra vity" when the and ponder their de pth and feel work wa s turned upright upon their impact upon us.
BY BEN EARLE ' love, these tensions ·are visually Playing this weekend in the accentuated by a couple passing Sci e nc e Audito rium is the with a b aby carriage while Gudrun critically controversia l Women in says, ''Well it (marriage) usually Love, directed by the even more means one thing." cont r ov e r s i a l K e n R u s s e ll. While on the wa y to the Nominated for eight Academy wedding of Gera ld's little sister, a wards, t he film is ma rked by the sisters t'alk in a graveyard superb performances of all the , about the fatality of ma_ mage. c e nt r a l cha racters, especially Here a connection between death Glenda Jackson as Gudr un, Oliver a n d love has been verbally Reed as G er ald, and Alan Bates as indicated and visually stated, and Rupert Birkin. the contrasts and paraQe ls of Basically, the film is about love darkness and light will remain in its various primal forms - con�istent throughout the film. attraction and repulsion, life and The relationships bet ween Birkin death, sexual and intelle ctual, and Ursula, and Ger ald and betwee n woman and woman, man Gudrun are anticipated through and woman, and man and man - some precise cutting and a parallel with the relationship be tween between the two relationships is Ur sula and Birkin representing established. l ight , a n d t h e r e lationship Once the framework is set, the b e t ween Gudrun and Gerald linear superstructure of the film r e p r e sent i ng darkness. These follows, as Russell focuses in on relationships are delineate d by the Ursula and Birkin, followed by mysterious, emotional restlessness story movement, then on Gudrun that Bir kin feels in wanting a and Gerald, followe d once more perfect loving relationship with by st ory movement whereupon Gerald, which Gerald does not_ the cycle begins again, becoming a understand, and that Gudrun feels cumulative _process as the film in the stifling domesticity that develops. Gerald repre sents and in he r In the school-room scene, attraction to Loerke , the cold, Russell creates the romantic aura i n t e l l e c t u a l , r o d e n t -l i k e a n d s e n s e of l ig h t t h a t homose xual German artist. . characterizes Ursula and the ideal The problem with trymg . to towards which the Ursula-Birkin gain a proper criti<: al per spectl�e relationship strives throughout the on Russell's Women in Love is f i l m . A s econda r thematic y that there is also the novel Wo_men element is also introduced in in Love by D.H. Lawr ence. For H e r m i on e , r e p r e s e nting the those who know Lawrence , it is i n t e l l e c t u a lly s e ntim e n t a l , easy to read an understa nding of pseudo-sensualist part of Birkin's the literary work into the film. past. In an effective transition, the This is not doing the film critical school-room scene leaves off at justice. The prima ry consideration Hermione and the ne xt scenes of is to determine how well Russell stor movement are centered y has pre sented certa in concept s around her. Hence, the film visually and aurally, and what sort establishes both a visual and of e motional response, if any, the t h e m at i c con t inui t y , as a film elicits from us: secondary element of one scene I find the emotional drive becomes the ceqtral el ement of b e hind the film's movement the ne xt. compelling. There are serious At He rmione's, Russell set s us flaws, but -Russell succeeds. in up for future de velopments of the enough places to draw us into the r e lations hips an d them atic film at a gut le vel. The opening eleme nts. Through the fig scene, scenes state the film's thematic we begin to sense the quality of frame work, both visually and· Birkin's sensuality, and its e ffext verbally. We are immediately on Ur sula. The fate of theintroduced to the two siste rs, relationship between Gerald and Ursula and Gudrun, and as they Gudrun is foreshadowed by their talk of marriage, Gudrun's fear of exchange about Gudrun's name Ursula's curiou3ity about being that of an ancient Norse and . sinne r w h o m u r d e r e d her husband. Finally, the ba sics for a
Bus Co. Creative, hut not Original BY EMILY SIMON Behind tie -died jeans, skimpy tops a nd flowing blue pants 21 voices sang ''we are anything we wish to be ." And they were; in some scenes musicians, in others, actors, a nd in st ill more, singers. The blend was successful and the "Godspell love-child" quality of the first number soon wore off. The Bus Company of the N a t i o nal ·Th ea t e r I n s t i t ute per for metl Olympian Games, stories from Metamorpho ses by Ovid. Reminiscent, and a mixture, of Story Theater, Hair, Two G e n t l emen of Verona · and Godspell, Olympian Games was still less than a success. A series of eight tales by Ovid were adapted, and then set to music, by Kenneth Ca vander and Barbara Damshe k. The most succe ssful myth was t h at of the stor y of H ercul es. Ric Peterson doe s an excellent job in portraying Her cules as a singing, Johnny Cash-t[P.!!-jock. The skit. e_p,n.s.'", up • mth.. an • .excellent 1
impersonation of Johnny Cash. Pete rson sings "I'm a man, that's all I am, that's all I want to be." He proceeds to we d Diana, and p e r form miraculous feats of strength, until Diana is tired of being married to his trophies and kills him th rough a magic shirt. This skit worked the best because the music wa s re levant to the a ct ion, the story had substance, the satire was biting, and the acting, singing and movement were excellent. Diana wants to know what's going on with Hercules, what he's doing out th ere whil e on his labor s. She goes to see King Rumor who "subje cts can fill him in but never up." Sa ying she wants the trut h, King Rumor replies, ''The truth, yeah" Lichas, the ser vant, sings the be st number of the show in this sketch, a bluesy, se xy professional number, ''he sends it all back to his woman." The sucess is largely due to Sarah F elder's ability to underplay th� number, perhaps
the only place in the entire production. There is a tendency for too much movement, and too much noise in the show. The end of the sketh finds Her cules still in perfect Johnny Cash character ascending Mount Olympus while singing, "I'm a God, that's all I a m, that's all I w ant to be ." Unfortunately, all the sketches weren't as well modulated, acted, and conc eive d as Hercules. The shows main vice, that tendency for excess, gre w out of its main virtue, the enthusiasm of its actors. Although the show is imaginative and cre ative, upon inspection, it is not that _original. Ovid's tales are very much like the tales reworked by Paul Sills in Story Theater, and the wa y the ta le s are pre sente d are _ ver y similar, with simple sets and humans portr a ying animals. Ab'out three quarters of the w ay th r ough, the youth.ful. ve rve become s a bit trying, _and the continued .on page five
t h e r e l a tionship d e veloping between Birkin and Gerald. Here also we first sense Birkin's desire for a perfect relationship with another man and Gerald's wariness of this, which will leave Birkin dissatisfied in the end. In addition, this same wariness is in some w ay tied to Gerald's fatal belie f that "only a woman will make my life worthwhile." Th e r e follow s a l ogical t r a n s ition , a fter some development of Gerald's family and professional identit. v, and of with o b s e ssion Gud r un's th e p r i m a l , t o the horse s c e n e w h i c h focus e s in on Gudrun's attra ction t o a primal sense of power and control unique to the human animal that Gerald repre sents in a primitive form by• _ his handling of the horse, and ma z civili ed form by his position of authority in the coal mines. The primality• of this scene paralle ls t he sensuali ty of the school-room s c e n e , a s t h e s e p a r a !e developments of the two mam r elationships, Gerald-Gudrun and Ur sula- Birkin, and of the two s e c o n d a r y r e 1 a t i o n s hips, Gudrun-Loerke and Birkin-Gerald, w i l l p a r a llel e ach other t h r oughout the film's linear structural movement. Through this simple juxtaposit ion Russell makes some importan t statements on the na ture of human sexual and emotional relationships, and the constructive and destructive roles tha t inte llectuality plays in relationships. It is significant that in each of the initial focusing-in scenes the perspective is on Ursula's and Gudrun's attraction to Birkin and Gerald, for the perspect ive is of women in love. This is indicative of how carefully Russell has structured the film, an d by looking closely at th e tran sition from the hor se scene to the Crich party scene we can see how he melds the continuity of thematic ele me nts through visual imagery. G er ald represents an animal wildness (the hor se), that initially attracts Gudrun, the rearing of which he controls in relation to the harnessing of mechanical power through industry (the tr ain). Coupled with the strange paradox of th e power-oriented . continued on page five
DECEMBER 8 1972
FILMS
ON CAMPUS THIS WEEKEND Women in Love - Ken Russel's 1970 adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel, starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson. Already legendary. 8 pm on Jtriday and Saturday nights, 10 pm on Sunday, Kirner-] ohnson Auditorium. Also on Saturday night at 10: 15 See review in this week's Arts Page. The Bicycle Jhief - Vittorio De Sica's 1949 neo- realist statement. 8 pm on 1' riday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, Chemistry Auditorium. December 11 & 12 (Monday & Tuesday) Ship of Fools -·Directed by Stanley Kramer, starring everybody including Lee Marvin and Oscar Werner. Beautiful acting. 10 pm, Chemistry Auditorium. December 14 t hru 17 (Thursday t hru Sunday) Bridge on the River Kwai - David Lean's epic. Consult posters for place and times. · At Nearby Theaters Always Wanted to Cannonball (853-5553): Everything You
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Kallet Cinema (736-2313): Tora! Tora! Tora! Paris (733-2730): Lady Sings the Blues Stanley (724-4000): The Valachi Papers DRAM A O N CAMPUS THIS WEEKEND . Yerma - By Garcia Lorca, directed by Richard Bell. Friday and S aturday nights at 8 pm, Sunday at 9 pm, Minor Theater. Free. Sister Sonji; Contributions; Andrew - Three one act plays, presented by the Uhuru Players. Friday night at 8:30 pm, Kirner-] ohnson Red Pit. MUSIC At the Coffeehouse Marc Black- Friday and Saturday nights from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., McEwen Coffeehouse. With a poetry reading between sets. EXHIBITIONS Currently on Campus Paintings and drawings by James Loveless. At the Root Art Center thru December 16. See review in this week's Arts Page. Paintings, drawings, and prints by Rob�rt Muirhead. At the List ARts Center thru December 20. At the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (797-0000) Exhibi t i o n o f p h o tographs by M argaret Bourke -White, photo-journalist, at the Museum of Art, 310 Genesee Street, through December 31. VICK PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT Photographic works by Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Vick (Peggy and Jon athan Vick) will be on exhibit in. the Hamilton College Bristol Campus Center from November 28 through DecemJ.:>er 16. Jonathan Vick was a biology major at Hamilton and graduated in 1964. He served as an Air Force Officer and did graduate study at the University of Oklahoma. Peggy Vick graduated from Wells College Aurora in 1964 with a major in English. The Vicks now live in Rochester, ;here Mr. Vick is advertising and sales promotion coordinator for the Sofl ens Division of Bausch and Lomb. MILESTONES December 8 (Friday) Jean Sibelius' Birthday (1865) December 9(Saturday) John Milton's Birthday (1608) December 11 (Monday) Hector Berlioz' Birthday (1803) December 15 (Friday) Bill of Rights Day December 16 (Saturday) Ludwig van Beethoven's Birthday ( 1770) THE M ODERN T Al LOR SHOP OF CLINTON INC.
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More important is the symbolic masc uline male, an essential demasculinization resulting from a visual image of the drowned lovers confatal love-starvation ( Gerald's cut against Ursula and Birkin mother), this relationship proves making love. It is sign ificant that inadequate to the man who wishes we are told "She killed him," to love, and in G erald's case it meaning that the drowning girl proves fatal when , faced with dragged her lover down with her, .Gudrun's strength which will not for all of the elements behind the · tolerate this aesthetic impurity. transition and this visual image Gudrun opts for the sterile come into place when the physical aesthetic purity signified by position of the drowned lovers is recalled by the final position of Loerke's sculpture of a horse. The transition to the Crich's Gerald and Gudrun in bed the party is important because of the ·first time they have sex. · d eath theme development in The last few scenes between relation to Gerald's authority role Gudrun, Loerke and Gerald are a n d t o t h e t w o m aj o r magnificently handled in bringing relationships. The transition isn't about the inevitable end to entirely successful because it isn't Gu d r u n ' and Gerald's clear that the party is for the relationship, and leaving us with workers that make Gerald's Birkin's question. industry go. Nevertheless, it is The musical soundtrack is for held t o g ether by Gerald's the most part a total disaster, with assertion that he is responsible for the possible exception of the the water, and when the lovers beautifully lyric wrestling scene drown, Gerald's weakness is between Birkin and Gerald. It is reflected. much too heavy-handed for an
Bus Comp any songs l o s e m u c h of their originality. At least one of the songs is a reworking. of an old children's folk song. ( The opening number of Tereus). Y e t the s h o w r e m ains delightful. It is humorous, and is saved by such d e vices as imaginative sound effects, clever lyrics, �ithout being cutesy, and excellent, on the whole, acting and singing. So delightful, that it is a shame that it was presented on the top floor of Kirkland, the Tuesday before finals. The production dese rved be t t e r, and more Hamilton and Kirkland students deserved the pleasure of fine musical entertainment.
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already highly symbolic film, which also suffers from a number of visually ineffective scenes, such as Gudrun and the bulls. Despite these annoying flaws·, the power of the imagery and the film's structure act magn etically on our emotional involvement with the characters' lives. Russell has paid a great deal of attention to detail and structure in trying to convey the concepts of life and death, light and darkness, and love between and among men and women, and we should make an effort to find as much as we can in the film, and then make our judgements. If for nothing else, the film is well worth seeing for t h e s o l i d p er fo r m ances of Jackson, Bates, and Reed, and the rich visual imagery that marks Russell's erratic but exciting style.
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Dr. Lee Bristol: A Trustee's Profile
D,u�am Snowball F�ght Causes Extensive Damage What apparently began as an all Freshman snowball fight got out o f hand last Friday night, December 1st, and vandals caused some· 650 dollars damage to fur nishings· and fixtures in Dunham Dormitory. Hamilton Dean of Students R. Gordon (Bingham reported that Exit signs, ceiling tiles, ceiling light fixtures, and windows were broken, in addition to damage to buildings near Dunham. At the Registrar's office, two pillars were br oken; i n Commons, light
fixtures were damaged, and a window was broken in Bristol. A campus street light was also broken, and students were seen throwing pieces of broken ceiling tile through Dunham windows. Through the freshman advisors, Dean Bingham threatened the entire class with a fine of ten dollars apiece if the culprits did not come to him before Friday, December 8th. He said that about twelve people were involved; most of these have either been reported or turned themselves in.
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or with the generosity .(or lack of it) of t�e college community. Most important, the Drive was ''We've pulled in about the same - not well ublicized. Only one -p amount of money all three years;· poster went up, and it was almost each year we're a little better immediately defaced and its organized." pictures stolen. The mailboxes all About ten years ago, however, received flyers, but many people t h e d r i v e s w er e far more don't bother to read the "junk" successful, bringing in, estimates they find in their boxes. As a run, between seven and ten result, when solicitors came thousand dollars. And Kirkland around, many did not know what did not exist then. they were talking about. C a s ino Night proved that Mr. Tibbetts proposed another people can be generous when likely reason: "People are more properly approached. The ci:owd hostile toward blanket fund drives was big, and bought a large than t�ey are to particular groups quantity" of beer and chips-yet and charities." Donors like to the Casino grossed only $500 and know where their money is going; netted less than $300, because they want to feel that they are prices were so reasonable. Beer helping a worthy cause. A case in cost twenty cents, and chips five point, the Bangladesh drive this cents apiece. The evening was a year placed solicitors at McEwen, huge success as a social event-less Bristol, and possibly Commons, so as a money raising proposition. and netted $300 in a single day. Mr. Tibbetts hazarded some N o. d o u bt it h e l p ed that guesses as to why the Drive as a Bangl adesh is an immediate wh ole failed: reasons having problem and in the papers. It is nothing to do with the solicitors, harder to rouse enthusiasm for a
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local, unknown cause like the Clinton Migrant Workers. The organizers of the Drive plan to take measures to prevent the problems of this year from occurring next fall. They may reduce the number of dtarities supported (This year, due to lack of funds, distribution was sparse: some groups received $10). Next year's Drive will get better publicity, with information about different g::-oups, many posters with pictures, and so on. T h e s o l i c i t o rs wi l l b e t h i c ker-skinned a n d f u l l y c o mmitt ed-alt h ough i f the publicity is successful they should only need to mention the Drive and ask. According to Kristen Howard the committee will select solicitors in the spring and train them beforehand. Mr. Tibbetts felt that "most involved in the Drive were naive about the way to get money." He added, "I get mad at this, but I guess I get as mad at myself. The money was there-we just have to learn more."
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C o m m i t t e e o f t he A m erican Hymn Society. The organ is his specialty, and he occasionally give s concerts. In addition, he is the author of two books, Hymns for Children and Grown-Ups and Seed for a Song. He has also contributed articles to various p r o f e s s ional music journals. A composer of anthems, sacred music, and collections of songs, Dr. Bristol takes music seriously. He is on the Board of Directors of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. A c c or d ing to Pr e sident Chandler, Dr. Bristol was the "clown of his class." Chandler said · that Dr. · Bristol likes to entertain reunions of the Class of '45 with amusing stories about his college life at Hamilton. PUBLIC RESEARCH Dr. Bristol and his wife life in continued f.rom page three Princeton, New Jersey. They have New York State Legislature, so four children. One of their sons that the people of this area might was accepted at Hamilton this be more aware of what their year, but he chose to attend representatives in Albany were Bowdoin because he wanted to doing. wrestle, and Hamilton has no Second l y , the group had wrestling team. planned to work in conjunction Dr. Bristol · has held various with the fledgeling New York' positions with the Bristol-Meyers St ate Public Interest Research Com pany, which contributed G roup, and with the national toward the building of the Bristol group which is headed by Ralph Campus Center. He was Assistant Nader. to the President from 1948 to According to Frownfelter, the 1949. p u r p o s e s o f t h e Dr. Bristol's many contacts in H a m i l t on-Kirkland group were the entertainment world have too gener.al, and thus none of the helped in obtaining speakers and projects ever got under way. entertainers for Hamilton. He is He said that, because of their also on the Board of Directors of schedules, the students did not the Root Art Center. have the time to develop the Dr. Bristol will visit the campus expertise in the subjects which f o r a trustee meeting this were to be researched. weekend.
Dr. Lee H. Bristol, an alumnus, o l d f r i end , and trustee of Hamilton, spends a day a. week raising money for the College. Dr. Bristol graduated in 194 7. He was a member of the Class of '45,' but he graduated two years late because he served in the Armed Forces. He received an L.L.D. from Hamilton in 1968. An accomplished musician, Dr. Bristol attended graduate school at the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland and the T r i n i t y C o 11 e g e o f M u si c in London. He devotes much of his time to his position as Vice Chairman and Executive 'Secretary of the Joint Committee on Church Music of the Episcopal Church. Dr. Bristol i s als o o n t h e E x e c u t i v e
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Swimm ing Team Takes Two Over· Cortland and Larries
Th e H a m i l t o n C o ll e g e MacD onald swam a fine 2:1 5.4 to in the 200 fly with a 2:12.0; swimming team swam its way to win the 200-yard backstroke. McDevitt in the 100 free in a two victories over the past week Ca r l b e r g went the 200-yard : 50.5; MacDonald, with 2:17:4, in by de(e at i n g St. Lawrence breastroke and s et a poo l record the 200 backstr oke; McGuire in University 62- 5 0 and Cortland of 2:23.6, but it was the final the 500 yard freestyle wit h a State 82-31. The wins represen t relay team of Baird, McDevitt, 5:28.1; Carlberg, with a 2:23.6, in the sixth and seventh in a row, Needham and Br uce Rinker ('73) the 200 b reast; and a free relay CHRISTMAS HOCKEY TOURNAMENT and bring Coach Eric MacDonald's that had to win to br ing the team of Shapland, Rinker, Baird The Hamilton Hockey: team will host a Christmas Tourname nt at cumulative rec or d to 56- 5-1. swimming team victory.The relay and Needham wo n with a 3:30.5. the Sage Rink. The dates are Dec. 27, 28, 29 and the teams La st Satu r d a y t h e H ill team also established a new p ool Fre d H olendar ('74) won both the participating will be Colby, Oswego , and the Royal Military Tankmen traveled t o Canton, New mark with a time of 3:26.0, just o ptional and required diving Academy fro m Canada. Attendance by students would be greatly Yo rk, to take on a surprisingly 2.2 seconds from the four year events. appreciated by the spo nsoring Block H Club. strong, young Larrie team. In old school record. Hamilto n will no t have another 1971 Hamilton destroyed St. The C ortland State squad that HOCKEY AT VALE Lawrence 81-30, but their new Hamilton faced Wednesday was a dual meet until January 13 when The Hockey team will also be at Yale, Jan. 1. The face -off is at strength lay in their freshmen much different from from the th e squad goes t o challenge a 7:30 p.m.If you're in the area, how about stopping by?! class; on ly two uppe rclassmen Buff · 'n Blue touched out by to ugh R.P.I. team in Troy. The EXTRA scored for their team. The one-tenth of a second in the free next . home meet will be January No other spo rts events are scheduled over·vacation . Hamilton natator s grabbed se ven relay to win in 1970. The meet, 2 0 v er s u s Williams Co llege. first places, and at t he same time w h ic h t ook place at Utica Williams has been the only team established five new p oo l re cords. College's new p ool; saw every to defeat the Hill tankmen in the · 24 hr Towing A medley relay team consisting of event taken by a swimmer from past· two seasons, and this year's · GULF BILL'S Craig MacDon ald ('7 5), J eff Hamilto n; each win set a pool meet should p ro ve to be the most � u N.Y.S. , AAA Carlberg ('7 5) J ohn Baird ('74) rec ord. Winners for Hamilton ev enly matched as o f yet. and Doug McDe vitt ('7 5) set a were: MacDonald, Carlberg, Baird, on nspecti I 66 u tica· St. record with a time of 3: 56.6. an d John Navarre ('76) with a ALL REP-AIR & BODY WORK GUARANTEED Team captain Pete Schlo erb swam 4:03.5 in the medley r elay; Dave CLINTON LIQUOR STORE FOREIGN CARS A SPECIAL TY the individual medley in 2:1 5.4 Shapland ('74) in the 1,000-yard and John Needham ('7 5) came freestyle with a time of 11:21.9, GRAND UNION SHOPPING l 0% DISCOUNT to college �tudents with I.D. within 2 seconds of a school Clark McGuire ('76) with a CENTER On ALL par-ts, Accessories, and Service Work record by swimming a 2:12.5 in 2:01.1, in the 200-yard freestyle ; CLINTON MEADOW ST. EXCEPT GAS the 200-yard butterfly. Mc Devitt Rink'er in the sprint 50-yard free FREE DELIVERY 8 53-8878 6am-12am 7 day5. 853-2525 24 Hours made a· recor d in the 100 yard with a :23.2; Gary Karl ('7 5) in a freestyle with a : 50.5, while 2:16.6 in the 200 I.M.; Needham independent co lleges collabor ate str ategy in New Yo rk for effecting maximum aid only \ 0% of a alternative of replace- ment or CICU REPORT ab s o r ption by the public . to seek financial assistance from change: "failing " co ll ege's budget wo uld continued from page one foundations and cor por ations. system. ''Y ou have to come before the be comin g from th e State. 4. A New York student's financial "Institutio nal Eco nomy " is a legislature, b�cause they have the When asked w hat the primary means should not limit his Max.Scholar goal so ught by all private colleges. final w ord. We found it necessary reason for the pre sent financial choice of college or university. Net Taxable Incentive Basic Therefore the poo ling of vario us t o gain the suppor t of the Bo ard crisis is, Mr . Chandler replied 5. Expansion of public and Income Award resou rces is a popular way of of Regents, City University and succinctly, "Inflation has been the private institution s sho uld e c o no mizing which is soun d State Unive rsity. Long and often killer." He agreed that campu_s $2, 000 ....... ..... O - $3 00 pr oceed o n a p l a nn e d , financially, whil e being beneficial difficult ne gotiati o·ns were unrest of the late sixfies was "a 3, 001 - 5,0 00 ........... 1,9 00 co o r dinated basis 5,001 -.7,0 00 ...........1,6 00 t o t h e student body. This necessary with these groups. We contributo r to a great extent," encouraging diversity, avoiding 7,001 - 9,0 00 ...........1,4 00 inter -institutional ·cooperatio n has now will go before a special Task but that the effects of that are unnecessary duplication and 9,001 - 11,000 ..........1,200 taken on the official title of For ce designed to examine the decreasing. overbuilding. future of higher education in New President Chandler's po sition 11,001 - 13,000 .........1,000 "regionalism." 6. Al l R e g e n t - a c c r e d i t ed 13,001 - 1 5,000 ...........800 As a result of an Executive as Chairman accrued to him by institutio ns of higher education election to the Board of the CICU 1 5,001 - 17,000 ...........6 00 or der by Governor Rockefeller, should be c onstitutionally an d then t o the chairmanship. stat e ag e nci e s h ave s e t up r egi on al 17,001 - 19,000 ...........4 00 eligible for State aid'. Commenting o n that' position , h.e 19,001 - 21,000 ...........200 councils. Similarly, the Board of 7. Programs of public suppo rt 21,001 - ...................0 Regents has established Regents said, "Having a President of a should be developed and State c o llege that is fai rly stable Advis ory Councils througho ut the budgets should be timed to financially and isn't abo ut to go stat e as a pil o t p r o gram To fulfill these goals, the attempting to int permit each institution to under, lends credibility to our egrate private m a k e l o n g-ran g e plan s, Commissio n rec ommends that the and public higher education. cause. I was in the position where. Scholarship Incentive Pr ogram be financial and programmatic. I could speak for oth ers mo re G raduate study is also a big that is part of higher education in· New than myself." 8: Private instituti ons of higher g r e atly increased Much of the Master Plan's education sh ould be held d o ubled i mm e diately w i th Yor k. The CICU notes that since significance po litically is evident accountable to the public for additional indreases in the future. Wor ld War II there has been an in President Chandler's remarks. the general character of their The SIP should also be altered, upsurge in the number of graduate He said, "Private coll eges and p r og r ams. H o w ever , they the r e p o rt asserts, so t hat studen ts, but this will leve l off by earning unive r s it ies are ec ono mically should not b e subject t o direct middle -income families 197 5. The State has a stake in the bette r off with deficits decreasin g. a n d d e t a i l e d p u b l i c $8,000-17,000 /year will receive fine private graduate cent ers in I ho pe the future will provide i n t e r v e n t i o n i n t h e i r assistance, as well. New Y ork, and their preservation Hamilton President and Chairman P r e sid e nt C h andler noted m o r e s c h o lars h ip assistance. operations. is essential t o keep New Y ork in several important ramifications of of the CICU, John Chandler. Stude nts are a very goo d buffer 9. Support to assure the survival these proposals. With increased t he forefront of professional York. This is all necessary so that against state interven tion. I (as is and strength of a private aid to students through SIP, the services in the nation.The CICU . President of a college) wouldn't urging the state to support the this repor t will carry weight in the i n 'st ituti o n s h o uld h a v e choice of private or public college like to accept money from Albany p r e f e r e n c e o v e r t h e is left up t o th em. This freedom private research and graduate legislature. The G overnor has lent or Washin gton. The obligatio n t o en o r m o usly m o r e c o stly of cho ice that would be built into centers instead of constructing us his support to the Plan, but all c onf o r m t o v a ried e xisting state facilities that at this time, in depends o n revenue this year and the system is vital to the survival s t a n d a r d s w o uld h a v e a terms of projected growth of . what action the legislature will MOSES FOOTE of private higher educatio n.Direct homog enizing effect o n private graduate student enrollments, are take." i nstitutional aid through the not warranted. G.ENERAL STORE Presiden t Chandler points out education." Bundy Plan does not insure that The Master Plan is no final _T h e c O m m i s s i o n O n that the number of high school World Wide Arts and Imports s tud e n t s will atten d private I n de p e nd en t C o lleges a n d graduates will be decreas ing for so lution but it proposes steps and schoo ls. As Mr· Chandler said, Universities, to summarize th reforms to ac hieve an educati onal Now featuring o ur new e about a 20-year period beginning "In s t i t ut i o nal a i d is aho report, is declaring the need to in 19 78 in accordance with system in New Y ork's co lleges and GARDEN ROOM vulnerable politically· Aid· t o the support private institutions of populatio n trends. Therefor e, it is univ e r sities bene ficial to all students already has parents and l e a r n ing by e x panding the ridiculous to consider e xpandiqg interested groups. Open 10 - 5:30 Sun. 1- 4 co llege applicants as its advocates. Scholarship Incentive Program, by the public system at a time w hen Let th e schools compete for the voluntar y State action to curtail th e private sector is coun ting student, who wo uld have the expansion of their own facilities, 5 0 , 0 0 0 empt y s pa c e s and mo ney." p roj ecting five -year deficits in the a nd w ith continued support The C ommission , in lobbying th rough the Bundy Plan of direct hundreds of millions of do llars.If JOAN MARIE'S f o r a sympathetic approach institutional aid. m oney is to be spent on higher t o w a r d s e d u c a t i o n , ha s 'BROWSE 'N SHOP' Making the pro grams outlin ed educati on by Albany, the CICU emphasized the baluable programs in the Master Plan a reality in New urges it be dive rted t o the private Norton Ave. Take a left at foot and intitiatives they, as a gr oup York Stat e , was the task of sector. Mr . Chandler insisted that 13 COLLEGE STREET Of Campus Rd. Or 3 h ouses Past and in dividually, have begun.' Harm-1ton •s Pres1·den t J o hn w . Private co ll�ges are always seeki�g Skinandoa Go lf Club. Chandler, who until recently has public t ak e - over of private CLINTON, N. Y. ( : ,) ' ' �f,f\S , tp "���n the scope ? f Jheir servea as· Chainmtn of fhe 'CiCt). instituti on s would be unworkable I ' r_ ! (3l5) 853-8385 8 53-65� p r o g r a ms· I n a d diti,.o n -Mr':'. -ch ndle ·,"des � ..,.____________ r cribed \fte and unreaso nable �ince even under a '
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Hoopstei-s Boast. I-0 Record Max Ziel Classic This W'end
DECEMBER 81 1972
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exceed his salary), Hamilton's BB the responsibility that this· year's BY KENNY MARTEN In 1970 the Hamilton College budget has remained prohibitive, Co-captain had, twas a small Basketball Team lost their first to say the least. This policy is not wonder that he avoided a heart fourteen games. In 1971, they being questioned here. This is just attack). And in many ways he showed improvement as they only to give one an indication of the remained the heart of this year's dropped their first eleven outings. effort that is required by Murphy team. He is the only 3 year It is now 1972. The Hamilton and his ballplayers to produce veteran on the squad and his College• Bas ketball Team is even a single victory over their steadying influence was a major BY ED WATKINS factor in Saturday's victory. well endowed opponents. un defeated . That's right Ernie's scoring will be hurt this It has been a long time since coach does demand a great deal Produce a victory they did as undefeated. But before you rush to the box office to purchase your . the Blue outhustled the Statesmen year as the new rule concerning anyone has given some positive from his players. He does not have NCAA Small College Division 73-67 and they haven't stopped foul shots will lessen the total criticism of college football. tenure, he must produce a winner Playoff Final's tickets, let it be running since. Run, run and run number of times that Ernie goes Instead, the game has been called or else he is fired. A consequence known that the Continentals have some more. What the Continentals to the line. Ernie's inside moves brutal, dehumanizing, and in the of this is that a few coaches do worst interest of the college abuse their players. But they are lack in talent they make up for draw many fouls. Hobart' ig yet to play their second game. community. man tried to contain him but with desire. And desire manifests the exception, not the rule. Most But if you were in Alumni The college football that is are concerned with how their Gymnasium last Saturday night itself in the form of "defense". instead found himself sitting on for Coach Tom Murphy's home When a team shoots 32 .9% from the bench with 4 fouls, and 12 being criticized is not the brand players perform on and off the opener against the Statesmen of the floor and wins, they must be minutes temaining in the game. that Hamilton plays but rather the field. Football does involve a lot of Hobart, the past and present doing something right at the other This set the stage for 6'10" John Big 10, Big 8 brand. Football at · records of the teams involved end ·of the court. While keeping Adams. Guy and Badger bagan those schools takes on a new hard contact between two men and often more who are were quite meaningless. The Blue their fouls and turnovers to a working the ball into the big men meaning. The critics charge that the· determined to drive the opponent could have been playing Clinton mmrmum, the Blue managed and John responded with 13 Jr. High and the .fans would not twelve steals. Only one player had points. Adams' rebounding (led players at these schools oftt:n are off the field. It is a rough game, have objected. They had tasted more than 2 steals. That of course the team with 12) engineered the allowed and even encouraged not but rarely a brutal one. College football provide� many victory in the afternoon (the was C o-captain Craig Fallon Blue fast break and it was this fast to pay attention to their studies. humbling of Norwich on ice) yet whose relentless hustle and break which gradually wore down Unforfutunately that is s:tin true schools with enough revenue to at all too many schools. Coaches f i nance their entire athletic their appetite had · just been l e a d e r s h ip t y p i f i e d t h e the Statesmen. C oach Murp hy should be such as Joe Paterno of Penn State p r o g r a m , c o v e r i n g all shetted. 'Hamilton was primed for <;;ontinental's efforts. Fallon is victory. But Hobart College is far one of the select players in the proud. So should e_ach member of a r e however, requiring their intercollegiate and intramural from Clinton J .H.S., almost as far State who can . get away with the team. But one victory does players to have acquired a certain sports. The game itself offers as many, as this year's Hamilton team is providing negligible offensive not make ·a season and the Blue number of credits before they are from that nightmare ballclub of f i r epower and still play an must look ,ahead to tonite's allowed to start- practice each if not more thrills than a pro game. What is missing in talent is 1970. That team had a list of excellent ballgame, although irr opening game of the Max Ziel year. What the c r it i c s forget, made up for by the enthusiasm negative stat1st1cs that would this particular contest Fallon led Classic (a ,classic indeed) at make the Philadelphia 76's blush. all players with seven offensive Oswego Stat�. The Continentals however, is that many of the and pagentry which surround the But let's return to Alumni rebounds. His defensive effort was · take on the powerful husts in the players attend college for the game. Few pro fans have ever gym. The sight of Found's matched by that of Marty Guy, second gam� on the twin bill. New express purpose of developing reacted the way the Ohio State Hampshire opposes Wooster of themselves to play pro ball. The fans did after their team beat jumpers, Fallon's steals, Badgers Mark Badger, and Pedro Garcia. B a d g er, playing despite a Ohio in the opener. colleges are the minor leagues of Michigan two weeks ago. passes, Garcia's leaps, and Adam's ·optimism is not rampant but pro foo�ball regardless of the There is no question that the "presence." But wait. Aren't these pulled groin muscle,- constantly the same ingredients which excited the crowd with his with continued hustle and a nod propriety of the situation. The game can use some improvement. resulted in last year's half-baked dazzling passes which resluted in from lady luck, the Blue may players are aware that if they It is not yet a perfect institution. season. Oh yes. Someone has been six assists. Garcia's one-handed actuall y b r i ng home some perform exceptionally well in The critics must realize, however, forgotten. The name is Guy. · grabs (9 defensive rebounds) and hardware. Regardless, a salute college a pro contract- awaits that they have to .offer specific Marty Guy. More about him later; perpetual motion brought the fans must be given· to Murphy's them. Many players, though they improvements instead of just some about Coach Murphy now. to their feet on more . than one unde feat e d , yes undefeated, have no chance of turning pro, are aimlessly criticizing the game if occasion. Guy, Murphy's premier hoopsters ·who, fighting the odds able to receive a college education they expect anyone to take them There are few men as affable freshman prospect, showed the against high quality competition, thanks to the football scholarships seriously. College football, after all, has been around a lot longer and personable as Tom Murphy. poise of a four-year man (Murphy will always provide exciting, if not ·they receive. The major college football than they have. There are even fewer men who is working without the luxury of winning, basketball. know more about the sport of ·any seniors on his roster). His basketball or are dedicated so presence has helped to take much entirely to the game. No one is . of the offensive burden off the more deserving of a winning often ha rassed shoulders of season than this man. Yet he Badger. He will not hesitate to would gratefully accept a .500 take the ball inside and contest season. The schedule is brutal. the big men while his excellent BY MANNY SARGENT Hamilton's administrative policy outside shooting was responsible H a m i l t o n's first week of Doug Janes beat Cantwell clean Wednesday marked the first with respect to athletics is nothing for most of his 19 points (high hockey was as erratic and exciting with a 25-footer over his shoulder. road date for the Continentals this to write home· about. Just ask man for the game). He was as usual with games Saturday Three goals down, :Norwich season as they .packed their bags Football Coach Don Jones. equally active on defense as he against Norwich and Wednesday pressured much of the second for Oswego State to face the 3-0 Combine these two factors and and Badger refused to permit. their versus Oswego State. Entering frame and Greg Root's. fine work Lakers. It was not the same you can bagin to see why Murphy opposing numbers much, if any,. Sage Rink last Saturday, the between the pipes prevented the Hamilton team that had taken penetration. has his work cut out for him. Nor w i c h U n i v e r s it y Cadets Cadets from ever taking the lead. Norwich four days earlier. OswegQ Now we come to 13 feet and 3 bolstered a squad of twelve While o,ther school's number of Holding on to a slim one-goal hopped out in front with three scholarships given. to basketball inches worth of big men. Ernie returning lettermen that had advantage with time expiring in goals in the first and had a 4-1 players has soared (it is not Found had been the heart of the looked particularly strong in a 9-2 the second, Hamilton got a edge early in the second, a lead unusual for a coach's budget to '70 ball club (and considering all d r u b b i n g o f A m e r i c a n needed break in the form of which was insurmountable. International and a sutprising loss freshman Pete Ascher!. His goal to Division I power, Clarkson. M i s s e d opport unities and late in the second period allowed The Cadets wasted little time the Continentals a two-goal lead p o s t - r i ngers hin dered the in pressuring Hamilton's senior as the teams prepared for the final Continentals' comeback effort. Both teams traded power play netminder Greg Root as they twenty minutes. goals later in the second and when peppered him with 18 shots in the Norwich rallied again with Doug Janes got Hamilton's third first period. The Continentals managed only two shots on tallies at the three-minute mark goal at 2:26 in the final frame, the Norwich goalie, Bill Cantwell, but and then potted the equalizer at Blue were only two goals down the game was even at one apiece. 9:42. The play tightened with with plenty of time left. One of Hamilton's two efforts both teams b'ack-checking and An unfortunate five-minute that period was a 10 footer by playing ·cautiously. The game Benny Madonia '74 that opened winner came with about ·five maj or penalty fo rced the minutes remaining off the stick of Continentals to play defensive the season's scoring. Early in the second period, it H a m i l tt>n 's Pet e A s c her l. hockey because they were only seemed, the game was all but over Defenseman Rick Aubry blocked · two goals down. As disappointing for Norwich. In potting three two clearing attempts and the as the 6-3 loss to Oswego was, goals in the span of less than two puck ended up on the side boards what could prove to be even more minutes early in the frame, from where Doug Janes fed disappointing in the future is the Hamilton burst into a 4-1 lead. Ascher!. Pete cut in on the left fact that over 100 shots were Freshman Rick Anderson tallied side and beat Cantwell for the taken on Greg Root in the first his first goal of the young season second time. Greg Root and the two contests. A sharp decrease in at t h e 2: 15- mark. George defe nsive corps managed to that area will be necessary for a Penderga s t followed up 30 survive a last-minute sno t, hande�, . .., vic.tory against Division I ri:val i seconds later with a breakaway situation to preserve a 6�5 opening Colgate who invades S age Rint • J i tonight. goal ·and to complete the parade game victory. Rooty det1ect1hg a Norwich shot from the point.
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VOLUME THREE
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
Is W inter Study Wo rking? Deans Review Responses
Second Class Poltage Paid Clinton, New York 13323
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Kinnel, will report their findings and more independent study?" to the Committee on Academic The second question is "Should Assistant Dean Robin Kinnel Policy and to the Hamilton Winter Study be dropped?" of Hamilton said that the faculty. Dr. Kinnel said, ''The feedback responses to the Winter Study Dean Kinnel feels evaluation of we are rece1vmg from both questionnaire, which Kirkland the program is something that professors and students is · good. students received last Friday and should done. Hamilton But there is a feeling among the be which Hamilton students will initiated Winter Study on a trial faculty that the Winter Study soon receive, prepared with the basis with no time limit set on the program should be tightened up." help of Neil Scheir '7 5 and Chuck program. Dean Kinnel feels two Administrators at Kirkland are Flynn '73, would be analyzed by important questions must be asking similar questions. Assistant computer and reviewed by the answered: "Should Winler Study Dean Ros Hoffa said Kirkland's Study Winter Committee. be more rigorously defined and Winter Study guidelines set a Assistant Professors William Snead tightened up or should Hamilton three year trial period for the and Ivan Marki, along with Dean allow for experimental projects - project. This was the third year of mandatory Winter Study; The program is under complete evaluation and appraisal. Ros Hoffa explained, "If you are going to review the system you have to ask: Is it working? If it is not, the program should be thrown out. The Kirkland Winter Study Committee will look at the attitudes of the students and faculty. There is a feeling among · some students and faculty to abolish Winter Study. We had to find out why that feeling exists." Asked about the possibility of more courses being offered at Kirkland , Ros Hoffa said, "Would the students stay on campus? We hardly filled up the courses we offered this year. Students say they want more courses but they don't say what those courses are. If we had a fuH course program, we would need the commitment of students to stay on campus." Dean Kinnel said, "If Winter Study is to continue, the campus must become a more lively place. This January the campus was dead. More lectures, concerts and dances would improve the atmosphere." Deans· Hoffa and Kinnel said they would consult John Prine will be in concert Saturday night, 8: 00 o ne when another their committees made their reports. Both Deans agree there is a difference in • emphasis in the Winter Study Programs of the two Alpha Delta Phi colleges. Hamilton offers more Beer and Band - Friday 9:00 Open and c ourses "ac adem i c" Cocktail Party - Saturd�y' 6:30 Closed on-campus studies while Kirkland Chi Psi offers very few classroom courses Punch Party - Friday; 7:00 Closed and encourages work-study and Gin and Juice - Saturday, 10:30 a.m. Open' Inde�ndents .t'� independent projects. $5.00
J e s se Z e l l ne r , f or m erly returned to Vanderbilt, where he Assistant to the President at became a m e m ber of the Kirkland College, has been named development staff. He desi ed a gn the college's first Director of direct mail solicitation and fund Institutional Affairs, it was r aising p·r ogram for 25.000 announced by Samuel F. Babbitt, alumni. Kirkland College President. Mr. Zellner joined Kirkland In this new office, Mr. Zellner Col lege as Assistant to the will be responsible for the President in 1967, more than a superv1s1on of administrative year before the college officially services, the operation of the opene d. Durin g Ki rkland's p h y s i c a l p l a n t and the building program, he served as c o o r d i n a t i o n o f JOin t ,liason between the college and the administrative offices and services <l!chitect. Responsible for the with Hamilton College. d evelopment of a distinctive In announcing Mr. Zellner's graphic s t yle in Kirkland's appointment, President Babbitt publications, Mr. Zellner desi ed gn said: "This move comes ... to • Kirkland's unique tabloid-style consolidate and clarify certain admission brochure, Particulars i m p o r t a n t n o n - a c�d e m ic which was a winner in the 1972 responsibilities at Kirkland, and... Pr inting Industry Association i t r e c o g n i z e s t h e f i n e Graphic Arts Competition. In his administrative talents of Jesse capacity as director of summer Zellner, who has been working at programs, he organized two Model many of these tasks for years." Cities confer ences held at A gr aduate of Vanderbilt Kirkland in the summers of 1971 University, Mr. Zellner served and 1972. with the Peace Corps in Sabah Mr. Jesse Zellner will assume (North Borneo) Malaysia, where his p os1t1on as Director of he was part of a pilot program in Institutional Affairs immediately. that area for teaching English. He is reported anxious to serve A f ter t he Peace Corps, he Kirkland well, in this new regard.
BY PAULA KLAUSNER The Kirkland faculty rejected a SCACA subcommittee course evaluation questionnaire at their meeting last Tuesday. Students concerned about this rejection are see�ing to devise a method of evaluation that would provide valuable information for both faculty and students. At a meeting Wednesday night, the students discussed alternative questionaires that woyld better suit the faculty's requirements. Kathy Grover '75 will head the committee that will direct the search for an acceptable survey. Such a survey has never been employed at Kirkland, although, as the SCACA sub-committee report on the subject states, "the Kirkland faculty has as a matter
of record recommended that pr ov i d e t he instructor with student evaluations of courses and information useful for improving instruction be included among the his or her courses and teaching information used to evaluate m e t h ods; 2) to help the instructor's division chair-person faculty personnel." The SCACA report further · to evaluate t he d i v i s i on's proposed that the Office of the curricu lum; 3) t o ,provide D ean of Stu de nts assume information to the Faculty responsibility for initiating the A p p o i ntm e n t s C o m m i ttee survey on a regular basis and for r e l e v a n t t o i ns t i t u t i o nal insuring that tlte questionnaire be expectations of faculty members, reviewed and revised as necessary i n i n d i vidual d e c i s i ons of promotion, reappointment and every three years. K a t hy Grover and Walter tenure; 4) to make available Broughton of Kirkland's Sccial information about courses to Science division together headed interested students. The questionnaire constructed the .subcommittee which drew up the questionnaire currently under by the subcommittee combined d i spute. T hey offered four both open-ended questions, s p e c i f i c p urposes f o r t he "included in an effort to elicit the 5 compilation and publication of a highly individualistic response student evaluation report: 1) to Continued on page six
BY NAN NAPP
Houseparty Schedule
Champagne Party - Saturday, 5:45 Closed Delta Kappa Epsilon On tap all weekend Gin and Juice - Sunday, 1:30 p.m. Fraternity members only Delta Phi On tap all weekend Punch Party - Friday, 9:00 Open Cocktail Party - Saturday night Closed Delta Upsilon Cocktail Party - Saturday, 5:30 Closed' Beer and Band - Saturday, 10:00 till 2:00 Cou p l e s onl y, Independent couples $1.00 -· Emerson Literary Society Beer and.Band - Friday, 10:00 till 2:00 Couples only Cocktail Party - Saturday, 5:00 Closed Psi Upsilon Beer and Band - Friq.ay, 9:30. till 2:00 Fraternity members on� Cocktail Party - Saturday, 5:30 Closed Sigma Phi Beer and Band - Sunday, 12:00 a.m. (Saturday night) Open Teak Beer and Band - Friday, 9:30 till 1:30 Fraternity members and Freshmen only Theta Delta Chi Beer and Band - Saturday (afternoon) 2:00 till 5:30 Fraternity members and Freshmen free, Independents and Kirkland Women $1.00
Jesse Zellner is Named Director of Inst. A flai rs
Kirkland Faculty Rejecis Co urse Evaluation Questions
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WOMEN'S CENTER INFORMATION SERVICE AND MEETING The Women's Center receives a sign ificant number of national and local newsletters, pamphlets, and other forms of information about the Women's Movement. Anyone who wants a sense of what is happening in the movement throughout the country should come to our office off the Milbank Lounge and read. We will be holding short weekly meetings on different days in the Milbank Lounge. The next· meeting is Wednesday, February 21 at 7 p.m. Everyone is urged to attend. ROOT-JESSUP Any student who would like t.o suggest a possible lecturer to the Root-Jessup Public Affairs Council is requested to contact Marsha Weinstein through Kirkland Campus Mail. A meeting of the Council will be held this Thursday evening in the Pres. Brown Room of the Bristol Campus Center at 7:00 p.m. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SMILE Seniors are requested to sign up for portraits at Bristol or McEwen as soon as possible. The plan of hiring a studio photographer was adopted because of Staff limitations and the necessity of including all Hamilton and Kirkland seniors in the year book. Casual dress is encouraged. Your cooperation is essential. PRESENTATION BY ENID EVANS Ms. Enid Evans will present a one-woman production of her dramatic and poetical works Thursday February 22 in the Kirner Johnson Red Pit at 8:00 p.m. There will be a reception afterwards tendered by Ms. Evans for all those who have chosen to remain. WEEKEND OFF CAMPUS There will be a weekend of work at Vanderkamp Conference Center, March 2-4. Cost will be $4.00 per· person. If interested, contact Jim Vick through Campus Mail. FREE CHURCH SERVICE · The topic for Free Chruch this week is "After the War." The speaker will be Joel Tibbetts, College Chaplain. Chapel, 11: 15 a.m., Sunday. FACULTY LECTURE The first in a series of faculty lectures on the subject, ''What We Don't Know," �ill be given by Ralph Lieberman of the Kirkland Humanities Division. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit, Tuesday, February 22, 8:30 p.m. ADVISOR APPLICATIONS Applications for prospective freshman advisors for 1973-74 can be obtained in Root 8-c. They must be returned by Monday, February 19th in Root 8-C by 4'30. AN EVENING FOR ISRAEL An evening of celebration in honor of the 25th anniversary of the State of Israel·will take place on Wednesday, February 21st, at 8'00 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center on Oneida Street in Utica. A. Rappaport of the Jewish Agency will speak, and Balfouria Gilad will entertain. There will also be a discussion on "Americans' Views on Emigrating to Israel." For further information, call 733-2343. DEAN SEARCH COMMITTEE ELECTION The new Dean of Students at Kirkland must be a superwoman. (I have high ideals.) At any rate, her endurance must be super. The Dean of Students has a difficult tight rope to walk. She must be sympathetic to Kirkland 's ideals, and act her role in accordance with those ideals. On the other hand, she must be flexible and pragmatic in her actions. For example, flexibility is a prime requisite in working for better coordination with Hamilton; a goal which I feel is very desirable. As a junior, I have seen Kirkland come a long way. (No more bunk beds, thank goodness!) Having had an ample dosage of student life, extracurricular activities, and academics of both schools, I believe I am qualified to serve on the Student Dean Search Committee. Judy Crown I wish to serve on the Dean of Faculty Committee. I have an interest in the ,..academic progress of Kirkland and feel that' serving on this committee would enable me to participate in this area of interest. I have served on the Assembly and was Chairman of the Winter Study Committee. Kathy Wolfe Before saying what I consider my "qualifications" to be, I would like to raise some questions on the role of the Dean of Students at a woman's college. Why do we need a Dean of Students? A dean is needed to organize the academic curriculum, and perform efficiently the busy work which exists. She must also perform admini<.trative duties, acting in a sense as chief clerk. To do this, a person must be extremely cool-headed and organized. Which brings us to the question what qualities are necessary in a Dean on Students? She must be flexible, open to ideas from both faculty and students. She should be the person one can rush in and talk to in an emergency (academic that is). At this point, a woman dean af a woman's college is necessary, because women are going thro' a strong redefinition of their role in society. And lastly, but important, she must have all the qualifications and be ready to participate actively in the academic soul-searching that should be going on every minute of the day at any college. So much for the Dean's qualifications. I now come to my own reasons for wanting to participate in the search. I have been a student here with my own miniature crises, long enough to get the feeling for the ''tone" of Kirkland. I have spoken to many students, trying to mind-probe as to feelings about what they like academically and what they want changed. I am fascinated by the exercising of power and finding who are the best people to exercise it. Finally, I am motivated by self-interest as a member of the community and would do my best to be d�ligent and alert. Elizabeth Eisenstadt
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are so overwhe l m e d wi th effect on his G.P.A. Furthermore, To the Editors: I was upset by . your applications that many cannot the N. Y. Times reported last year thoughtless editorial Qanuary 21) afford the time to examine the that grades were rising on a concerning C ollege' s individual candidates carefully. national level. the "subsidizing" of fraternities by They resort mainly to a survey of The Dean states that the using some of the Independent grade point averages and results of administration has funded the and Freshmen's Board money for entrance examinations. Thus, the pre-medical advisors so that he items other than . food and not i ndividual differences between may be able to "advertise" using the fraternity members' undergraduate institutions is in Hamilton to the medical schools. board money for other items. In large part ignored. The schools are It seems to us that a Hamilton your haste to expose the College able to do this as the large number student should be in a competitive you fail to consider the following. of applicants for each seat assures position for admission to any Does the College even have the them of a fine class no matter medical school solely on his right to siphon off part of a what their oversights. academic record, and that he Dean Kurtz' article, entitled should not have to depend upon student's board payment to his fraternity? This transaction is "Grades and Grad Schools" in the the previous visit of the advisor to essentially_ between the student Feb. 2 issue of the Spectator the school in question. We should and his fraternity, an organiztion showed w h a t we · have all not have to apologize for grades and l e g a l ly financially suspected, that grades at Hamilton that were hard won and well are substantially lower than those recogn ized at Hamilton. independent of the College. Immediate inflation of our The fraternities, at the at comparable institutions. We College's request, frequently applaud the Dean's efforts to grades seems the obvious answer. entertain prospective students and study and air this most pressing This can be accomplished by other guests of the College for issue; however it seems to us that s i m p l y a d d i n g po ints to lunch or for dinner. One weekend his actions are too little .JDd too everyone's grades. In this way last Spring, for example, each 1 ate. Given the situation as one's class rank will remain the fraternity housed and fed at least described above, it is courting same, yet his average will rise. two or three "scholar-athletes" at disaster for Hamilton students to This is the only solution that can the request of the Athletic and present deflated grades to the help those students who have Admissions Departments in their graduate schools. Unfortunately, received· grades before the final attempt to encourage these this seems to be exactly what is level is reached that the college's prospective students to attend o c c u r r i n g . A m o n g s t the g r ade s are f l oating upward Hamilton. The fraternities always pre-medical seniors this year, towards. We see· this as the only accomodate the College in such there seem to be fewer interviews way that the college can meet its efforts as well as in many oth�rs being granted, and certainly many responsibilities, as acknowledged at no expense to the College, of fewer acceptances. This is just the by the Dean, to its •students, and climax of a trend that was do . not see it as a threat to the course. The college must continually recognized by some students, and integrity of the institution. maintain the Soper Hall of presented to the administration The college must react with the Commons-mainly to provide four years ago. In retrospect, it r e a l it i e s of the admissions appears that the administration Independents and Freshmen with procedures demanded by the a place to eat in. Fraternity has acted irrespomibly in not graduate schools. If Hamilton having investigated this problem me.mbers must help _pay for such continues to take the stance that upkeep through tuition and other until the late date of Dean Kurtz' the grad schools will have to fees assessed by the College, yet work. recognize it for what it now is the Of course the next question to students will continue to suffer never benefit they from Commons. Fraternity members be asked is what has been, and can a large price to pay for egotism. must pay the cost of their houses• be, done to alleviate the situation. Hamilton's reaction to reality will upkeep without the aid of the It has often been stated that our be evaluated by its future alumni grades are slowly edging up. This and prospective students. We hope College. The point of the above is this: seems to result in an increase in that commencement this year will the College, by not taking a small the number of high "B's" given, be exactly that; for our classmates portion of a fraternity member's not "A's". As all pluses and - and not a time for reflection on board bill, is hardly "subsidizing" minuses are dropped from grades one's ill fortune in coming to ·fraternities and giving them w h e n the g r a d uate schools Hilton. "economic advantage". T�ere consider a student's transcript, the David B. Rauscher '73 exists no real reason why the number of "A's" must increase if Arthur Poch '73 College should siphon off a there is to be any noticeable portion of a student's payment to MORE LETTERS ON PAGE -SIX his fraternity. Moreover, the fraternities serve the College by helping to entertain its guests. Certainly they do not deserve to be "taxed" by it. VOLUME THREE NUMBER SIXTEEN Sincerely, First Published as ''The Radiator" in 1848 Dudley S. Humphrey,Jr. H. '68 P .S. Do you really think that fraternity food is better than Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Service Systems' is because the Elizabeth Kneisel Peter Zicari fraternities retain all of the $350? Please remember that Service Associate Editors Systems is a profit making Henry Glick, Robert Keren, Kenny Marten, Carol Goodman organization. The fraternities are Assistant Editors not.' Service Systems is naturally Paula Klausner, Kathy Livingston going to take a percentage of the Arts Editor money it receives from the Richard Kavesh College for which it will give Sports Editon nothing in return. For that reason Craig Fallon, Dave Shapland alone fraternity food will Managing Staff naturally be a little better. Fred Bloch, Ken Gross, Liz Horwitt, Taki Lamson-Scribner, GRAD SCHOOLS Tony Mazzarella, Connie Miner, Betsy Murray, Mitchel Ostrer To the Editor: Business Staff In recent years it has become Jim Noonan, Jeff Pearse, Bruce Thaler i n c r e a s ingly diff icult for Photography graduating Hamilton students to David Cantor (Captain), Wendy Goodman, David Reinzo, · secure ·places in either graduate or Woody Navin professional schools. There seem Staff to be numerous complex reasons Peter Ackerman, Jack Brillman, Paula �eon , Jon Cramer, for this, not the least of which is Randy Davis, Vincent DiCarlo, Doug Clucroft, Robert Grieves, Hamilton's grading policy. We Bob Hylas, John Held, Gordon Kaye, Louis Levenson, Jim h ave faced the problem of Ludwig, Vijay Murgai, Michael Murphy, Nanelle Napp, David attaining admission to a medical Nemens, Dennis Oakes, Thomas Pirodsky, Manny Sargent, school and have been successful in Michael Sherer, Judy Sillari, Douglas Singer, Joan Tuchman, this quest. We mention this so Dale Walters, Elaine Weiss, Bob Weisser. that the reader will not think of The Publications Board publishes "The Spectator, .. a newspaper the following as the product of edited by students, 29 times during the academic year. overwrought minds. Our group SubSGliption:... $7.00 per . ear. Address: Box 83, Hamilton exper ience h as shown that Coltege, Clinton, New York, 13323. Letters to the editor must graduate admissions committees be signed, but names will be withheld upon request.
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Interviews Indicate Varied Musical Taste Jeff Grabell has organized student activities in the past and he feels he can apply this experience to the task of improving the quality ot SAC social events. Last year, he organized several fund raising dances at Bundy dining hall to help support t he c am pa i gn of George McGovern. The SAC began to provide dances of its own at Bundy and Grabell feels these should be continued. Grabell admits that his musical tastes lean towards blues and soul but he points out that many good blues and soul groups will perform at fairly low prices. He feels that the "Blues Weekend". which was discontinued after 1971, should be revived. During these weekends six performers such as Gary Davis were presented during Friday and Saturday night concerts and the cost of these concerts was surprisingly low. During houseparties he feels higher quality groups could entertain at lower costs if less stress were put on ''big name groups" an� that bands representing more diverse musical styles should also be presented. Grabell feels that the general yearly format for social events should be continued more or less the way it is and that non-houseparty events should continue to be emphazied. The recent changes in the structure of the SAC were necessary he feels and students should be given an even greater voice in SAC activities by means of polls and referendums. Also, if it is at all possible, he feels the social tax should be made mandatory in order to increase the money available for entertainment. If Grabell is elected, he will strive to bring m o r e d iverse a n d high quality entertainment to the hill.
houseparty entertainment on the Hill and because he wants to do what he can to improve the situation. He feels that a great number of students were dissappointed because of the Brewer and Shipley- Wayne Cochran concerts as well as last Spring's Lighthouse concert. Describing himself as primarily a "hard rock" fan, McLean is familiar with a wide variety of different types of music and entertainment is substantial. In the high school he was a member of the band, the choir and the orch�stra �d he was also part of a rock group called the Attic Door. He is familiar with the technical problems involved in contracting a band and in dealing with agents and also in setting up concerts. He feels his previous experience will be invaluable in this area. He is also presently busness manager of Psi Upsilon. McLean feel that the main objective of the SAC should be to improve the three exi�ting housepar y concerts even if this entails slightly decreasing the money available for coffee house concerts,. chapel concerts and ot her non-houseparty entertainment. He admits that he is not familiar with the exact details of the SAC budget but he feels that if more money is allotted for houseparties and if more intelligent selections of concert groups were made, the entertainment situation in general would improve greatly. As to the financial problems of SAC, McLean feels that more revenue will be available to finance entertainment costs and more p�ople will be willing to pay the social tax once t he quality of house p a rty entertainment in improved.
Gary Matthews whose musical interests vary from Jazz to Rock to Soul, feels the musical entertainment on the hill h� Gardner Mclean is running for the SAC represented the preferences of a limited pr imarily because of his personal segment of the student population. Being d issatisfaction with the quality of an avid music fan, he has been repeatedly
disappointed in the past by the -SAC's "musical taste". According to Matthews, polls should be taken well in advance of concert dates in order to determine exactly what music students prefer. This is the best way, he feels, to increase the popularity and the quality of houseparty concerts. He also supports the recent tendency of the SAC to have more entertainment during weekends which fall between houseparties and he thinks this should be continued and e x p a n d e d . H ou s e p a rties have been over-emphasized, according to Matthews, and to some students houseparties are the only significant social event of the year. He · feels ·students should be- provided with a wider variety of inexpensive entertainment so that all musical tastes can be catered to at one time or another. In the past, Matthews has organized social events such as concerts and dances and he feels this experience could be applied to his work on the SAC. If he is elected, Matthews would w w or k t o increase the committees awareness of the musical preferences of the majority of th·e student body and he would stress the importance of expanding the v a r i et y and amount o f c ollege entertainment.
Glenn Perelson ., wants to be on the SAC because he is also unhappy with the entertainment on the hill and he feels the need to get involved in order to change things. The problem, Perelson feels,"that the SAC has only represented, sa small faction of the students and he feels that if students are given. a greater voice in decisions of the SAC, the college entertainment will then improve. He feels t h e r e s hould be "no tax without ·representation" and that students should be allowed to attend SAC meetings, to advise SAC officials and to express their preferences through polls. Hard Rock groups are Perelson 's choice
SAC Candidates' Sel /-Portraits Glenn Perelson '75 ''Will you please come to House Parties?" wrote SAC to DKE, To Psi U and to DU, to AD and to Teak. To Theta Delt and Gryphon, Sig and to D Phi, Chipsi and the Indys, and many more besides.
Bill Ferris '75 Enjoy music. Possess a musical taste representative of the students of both campuses.
as the best entertainment for houseparties, but he feels that too much stress is being put on house parties and more attention should be given to other weekly activities such as the coffee house. Social tax should be altered, he feels, so that students can subscribe to particular SAC activities _rather all the yearly entertainment activities. Students who only want to attend houseparty concerts, for instance, should be ablt to do so without having to pay for other social activities. Perelson feels his experience as a top-40 disc jockey on WHCL a as the secretary for the production of 1776will aid him in performing his duties on the SAC. He is hoping that he will be elected so that he can help vice the students a greater voice in determining what their own money will be used for and so that he can help bring better entertainment to the hill.
Roger Weeden feels that more "quality" entertainment can be brought to the Hill on the admittedly limited SAC budget. He feels money has been wasted on "name entertainment" when less known groups of better quality could be obtained for lower prices. Weeden is familiar with the expense involved in contracting more popular groups such as The Grateful Dead of Jefferson Airplane and he feels that the SAC budget should not be stretched in order to obtain these type groups. Weeden approves of the upcoming James Cotton concert, which will only cost $4000, and he feels that it is an appropriate house party band and an improvement over previous houseparty entertainment. Also, warm-up groups such as John Prine could be replaced by more inexpensive local groups as a further economy measure. Despite his concern aboutt SAC finances, Weeden is not in favor of mandatory social tax because· he feels it would amount to nothing more than a raise in tuition for all students. He thinks • the SAC should continue to but tickets to larger .off campus concerts and sell them to students at discount prices. If elected, Roger Weeden will work to improve the quality and diveristy of Hamilton-Kirkland entertainment.
G. Page West, 111 Served on the committee already for one year, as Treasurer. - Have experience Page West has been a member of the in working with groups and agencies. SAC for the past year and in light of the Roger Weeden '74 Arranged ticket deals with Utica Memorial fact that all of the other candidates for the Auditorium for Santana and other groups Give a Vet a Job. Obscurist Party SAC have had no previous experience.' in " Candidate for S.A.C. One of the least this spring. this organization, he feels his experience known people on the hill. A moderately Liz Green '75 will be invaluable to the future opertation "And as we'll all be drunk on beer and good bridge player. Has the support of Member of SAC for 1½ years. - Interim of the SAC. West acknowledges that the gin & juice and port, The Clinton American Legion and Andy We won't have need of ice hockey or Pozniak (owner of "Restaurant" Franklin co-chairperson during January. - Winner SAC concerts have not always been of 1964 American Bandstand Dance overwhelmingly popular but he points out other violent sports. Springs, N.Y.) and ''Jake" the Baker and Who cares for films or· concerts, for Bruce Weaver, Frank and Betty Pierce, Marathon in Ocono�owoc, Wisconsin. For the SAC officers have had many linitations further information call 7415. on the type entertainment they can obtain� lectures, talks or plays? Patsy and Dave, and all those other Clinton P.S. Ride needed to Boston anytime. Musical groups 1 must be chosen that are in We'll hand out AM radios, and bop the V.I.P.s the area and that are of reasonable cost. In day away. Mardi Con�idine '76 Dancer locating bands, the SAC must deal with I've been ·involved with several SAC ''Winner of the Academy's coveted good "So tell your dates from Holyoke, from functions this year, particularly_ dances, but professional agents and compete with other sport award ih ·1956 for excellence in Skids and from U.C. would like to work on the committee in a local colleges for the more popular groups. Hollywood... " . West feels that improvements in the SAC To leave their fancy clothes at home wider field of activi_tes. Endorsed by Simon-Bar-Sinister, Peter social events are possible but he points out and bring a book to read. Paul Mounds. that in recent nionths things have been Cathy Collins '75 We're sure you'll have a fine time, show Holder of the Monty Hall/Sir Sidney up when you please. Member of SAC for 1½ years. - Interim improving. David Bromberg, during his Fudd Medal for dubious service in the call co-chairperson during January. - Best recent concert on the hill, gave an Until the Spring Houseparties, your of science. loving SAC." Camper Award, Camp Kewanee, Summer outstanding p e r f o r m ance, and the "Same old rat in a train pitch ..." .1964. For further information call 4245. upcoming Ja mes Cotton-John Prine Has never written a record review. concert should also be a rewarding social 9 More Months? NEVER AGAIN!!! event. Spring houseparties promise to be SA C ELECTION even better and West points out that as take will The election of three Hamilton Members of the SAC much as $6000 to $7000 will be available place Tuesday, February 20, 1973. _______________ for entertainment during that weekend,
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An African Dance Troupe, composed of African ·and American students trained by Kofi Ladzekpo, will present a program featuring dancing and drumming from Ghana and Dahomey on February 2 3 in the Cahpel at 8:00 p.m. Dr. Hewlitt Panteleoni of the Music Department of SUNY at Oneonta, a leading American authority of African music, will also demonstrate African drumming techniques. Mr. Ladzekpo, a native Ghanian, is considered by many· experts ·to be one of the finest living African drummers. The e vent, sponsored by the Hamilton Religion Department, is open to the public and there is no admission charge. The dancers include Carla Scheele, Cathy Fox, Sue Bresee, Kwaku Ladzekpo, Alice Panteleoni, Donna Hotaling, and Maud Panteleoni. Kofi Ladzekpo, Kwaku Ladzekpo, Hewitt Panteleoni, Brian Fox, and Terence Fox, and Marc Stecker will provide musical accompaniment.
whereas only $4000 is being spent on winter houseparties. West feels that the recent trend to expand the number of SAC social activities should be continued to buy tickets to Utica concerts and to sell these tickets to Hamilton and Kirkland students at discount prices. He is also looking into the possibility of making social tax mandatory because this innovation would mean a $10,000 increase in revenue available to the SAC. His .overriding concern for the SAC in the future is that the activities it plans should provide c ont inuous and varied entertainment throughout the school year and that the quality of entertainment should continue to increase.
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Paintings Of Claude Monet Shimmer With Color, Light
The French painter Claude lights. Pursuing the same studie� Monet will be the subject of part of light, he painted a series of three of Sir Kenneth Clark's film pictm:es. of haystacks at differents , series Pioneers of Modern Art times of day, the · the Thames in The film on Monet will be shown London, and very much later, the at 8:30 p .m. , W e d nesday, water lilies in his pond at Giverny, F e b r u a r y 2 1 s t , i n th e i n w h i c h he a p p r oaches K i r n er-J ohnson Audit orium. abstraction. Admission is free. The artist who has come to be After the Salon des Refuses of c o n s i d e r e d t h e 1863 all the young impressionists "arch-impressionist" isi Monet. It .admire� Edouard Manet and ·was one of his paintings that gave inspired by his Le Dejeuner sur the movement its name, and it is L'Herbe, Monet painted a large his work that best exemplifies its 1 figure composition in the open air ideas. to which perhaps as a tribute, he Monet was born in Paris in .· gave the same title. 1840. At five he moved with his family to Le Havre, where he later It shows a much g:reaterl.lllity studied drawing and showed a between figures and backgrounci great talent for caricature. His than the earlier picture and has a career as a caricaturist was broken definite "outdoor" feeling · in off when Boudin advised him to compa r i t i s o n w i t h M a net's take up a more serious kind of art. painting. Painting outdoors at Honfleur and But the use of Le H a v re with Boudin, he color and the elimination of half' d i s c o v ered that color is tones derive from Manet. Only everywhere, even in the deepest two fragments of this painting shadows. H e learned. that remain, as the large canvas, left complimentary colors enhance with a fellow artist as security for each other: a blue-violet shadow unpaid rent, was rolled up and sets off a spot of orange-hellow allowed to molder in the course of sunlight. He sa\, that two objects a few years. In 1870 , at the placed side by side give color to outbreak of the Franco-Prussian each other. War, Monet fled to England. He On one of their excursions was a socialist and saw no reason Jongkind painted two pictures of why he should give his life for the the same subject, a cathedral, Emperor. Upon his return to from the same position but at France, he settled at Argenteiul, different times of day, one in the on the Seine not far from Paris. cold light of morning and the There he painted, often in the other in the warm evening light. company of Renoir and Manet, in This was the seed from which, a boat fitted out as a studio. thirty years later, grew Monet's series of paintings of the facade of He painted his first truly great the Rouen Cathedral in different Impressionist canvasses. there. His
colors were brighter than before and he discovered that then= brilliance could be increased if they are mixed by the eye rather than by the brush or palette knife. A stroke of blue applied next to a stroke of yellow, he found, can result in much more intense green than if the pigments are mixed before . being applied to -the canvas. Although this period was a high point in Monet 's achievement, it was also a time for desperate poverty. It is said that Renoir stole bread from his mother's table to keep Monet's {amily from starving. At ol)e time, in an agony of despair over his wife's illness an� his complete lack of funds, Monet attempted s u i c i de . B u t the despair engendered by his physical want :never made itself apparent in his paintings. His triumphantly gay and spirited Rue Montargueil with Flags was done at this time, "I paint as a bird sings," he said. After a life of hardship, illness, poverty, loss of lovedpoverty loss of loved ones, scorn of critics and public, he finally achieved success and recognition and spent his last years painting at Giverny, where he died on December 5, 1926.
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�Don Juan in Hell' on. Stage; Sam Babbitt in Title Role
The Hill Company, a new company of players from Clinton, Utica, and Kirkland College, will present their first production, Don Juan in Hell, on February 17 ,18 and 19 in Minor Theatre on the Hamilton College Campus. The production is directed by Arlene Begelman, a nationally known dancer and choreographer, and stars Samuel Babbit, Kirkland College :President, Nonie Scott, a resident who Clinton has performed with the. Players of Utica; David Begelman, Associate of Psychology at Professor Kirkland College and Doug Peterson, a 20 year veteran of community theatre, including the Players of Utica. Don Juan in Hell, which is currently playing on Broadway., is based on George Bernard Shaw's l\fonet beside his lilv pond, summer. l 920.
NEVA PILGRIM IN CONCERT Soprano N�va Pilgrim, adjunct intructor in voice at Kirkland College, will perform 1n concert at 8:30 p.m. February 19 at the Hamilton College Chapel. The concert, which is sponsored by the Hamilton-Kirkland Music Departments, will feature selections from Handel, Schumann, Faure, Liszt, and Ives. It is open to the public. Miss Pilgrim has sung in concerts across the country and is widely recognized by music critics for her finesse with both contemporary music and her standard concert repertoire. In addition to operas by Donizetti, Grounod, Haydn, Mozart, Puccini, Rossini, Strauss, Telemann and Verdi, her repertoire includes selections from the works of over 60 other composers, ranging through various epochs and styles. ASAHI PENTAX LOST An Asahi Pentax Spotmatic camera belonging to Alice Kohn has been lost or stolen. If you have any information, please contact Box 342 at Kirkland or 102 Carnegie. No questions asked.
Man and Superman.
The Hill Company, which presently has 15 members, is open to residents of the Central New York State area, interested in presenting theatrical productions. Presently they are using Minor Theatre, but plan to produce plays for other local theatres. Samuel F. Babbitt, who will play Don Juan, appearecflast year in R"unning Men a film directed by Fred Keller, a Hamilton College student. He also wrote and starred in the faculty musical Founders' Capers at Vanderbilt University in 1961. Nonie Scott has participated in theatre in community Pennsylvania as well as Utica. She
has performed in Invitation to the March, Autumn Garden, and Blithe Spirit. A graduate of Penn
State, where she received a degree in Speech, Radio and Television, she has also worked in all phases of educational television and for two years produced, directed, and occasionally performed on a weekly radio program of dramatic reading. In this production David Begelman recreates the role of the Devil which he performed in 1964 at the Brookfield P,ayhouse, in licensed A C o n n e cticu t . psychologist, Mr. Begelman has appeared in several productions at Brooklyn College, the Brookfield Playhouse and the Sherman Playhouse. In 1965 he made his off-Broadway debut as Menelaus in The Trojan Woman. He has studied theatre at Paul Mann Actor's Workshop in New York City. He is married to Arlene Begelman, the director of the Hill Company production. Doug Peterson plays ·the Commander in Don Juan in Hell. He appeared most recently in Miracle Worker at the Town and Country. He has also appeared in productions of The Prime of Miss
Jean Brodie, Measure for Measure, In Waltz. Anniversary and
addition, he has worked backstage and as stage manager for musicals, in which his wife, Ann Peterson, has performed. The director, Arlene Begelman, has done choreography for the the Playhouse, Brookfield
Creative Arts Center and Redding Playhouse in Connecticut. Her director credits include Annie Get
Your Gun, Pajama Game, Cabaret, Pinter fiarold and Oliver, Sketches. For two years she was a
soloist and corps de ballet of the Ballet Society of the New York City Ballet. She has performed on television, in night clubs and on the stage, including Joseph Papp's Shakespeare's of production Trolius and Cressida. She also appears in the film Family, which was directed by Mel Howard, to be released soon.
The Devil a� his disciple
The Hill Company production of Don Juan in Hell will open with a champagne reception at 8:00. Curtain time is 8:30. Tickets, at $1.00 each are available at Kirkland College McEwen Hall, in "Lobby" Keenan's Bookstore and World Wide Imports in Clinton.
FEBRUARY 16, 1973
EVENTS
FILMS On Campus This Weekend The Music Lovers-Friday night at 8 p.rn, Sunday night at 10 p.m., Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. A Streetcar Named Desire - 8 p.m. on Friday night, 1 0 p.m. on Sunday night, Chemistry Auditorium Appalachian Quilt - produced and directed by Curt Read Hamilton '71, 10 p.m. on Friday night, Kirner-Johnso� A uditorium .. On Campus Next Weekend Through a Glass Darkly and In Cold Blood At Ne arby Theaters Cannonball (853-5553)- The Emigrants Kallet (736-2313) -Pete and Tillie Paris (733-2730) - Young Winston Stanley (724-4000) - Shamus Uptown (732-0665) -Across 110th Streett February 21 (Wednesday) ''Pioneers of Modern Painting,"Claude Monet, 8:30 p.m., Kirner-] ohnson Auditorium. See article in this week's Arts Page. The Overcoat - by Gogol, 8:30 p.m., Science Auditorium. DRAMA February 17-19 (Saturday thru Monday) Don Juan in Hell - 8:30 p.m., Minor Theater. See article in this week's Ai:ts Page. LECTURES February 21 (Wednesday) Martin Duberman, historian, Historical Objectivity Revisited, 8:30 p.m., McEwen Coffeehouse. MUSIC At the Coffeehouse Kirk Edwards, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Friday night, McEwen Coffeehouse. February 17 (Saturday) SAC Concert - John Prine and The James Cotton Blues Band, 8 p.m., Gymnasium. February 18 (Sunday) Piano and vocal recital - James Caraher, •pianist, and David Behnke, baritone, in works of Bach, Bartok, Mozart, and Mahler, 4 p.m., Kirkland Arts Center in Clinton. A nice way to recover. February 19 (Monday) Vocal recital - Neva Pilgrim, soprano, in works of Handel, Schumann, Faure, Liszt, Ives, 8:30 p.m.• Chapel. EXHIBITIONS Currently on Campus The Education of an Architect: A Point of View from the Smithsonian Institution, thru February 24th in the Bristol Lounge. Five Man Clay Invitational - works by Art Sennett, Vincent Clemente, John Smolenski, Carl Shanahan, and Robert Palusky, through March 7th at the List Arts Center. Opening Sunday Paintings by John and Mary Loy 3-5 p.m. at the Root Art Center. SPORTS Swimming Against Ithaca, Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m., Gymnasium.
Hockey
Clinton Comets vs. Long Island Ducks, Saturday night at 8 p.m., at the Clinton Arena. A fun-filled alternative. See article in this week's Arts Page. MILESTONES February 17 (Saturday) Andres Segovia's Birthday (1896) February 22 (Thursday) Frederic Chopin's birthday (1810) PAINTING EXHIBITION BY JOHN AND MARV LOY
An exhibit of paintings and drawings by John Loy and Mary Gaylord of Utica, a married couple with separate and successful careers in art, will open Sunday (Feb.12) at-the Root Art Center.
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A Night At The Clinton Arena; Kelly's Comets Destroy Ducks BY RICHARD KAVESH
Indeed the game appeared to be a grudge match between two AND THOM PIRODSKY bitter enemies. The Comets were Well, the Ducks flew up from checking furiously throughout the Long Island last Saturday, and e ntire contest, much to the were given a rather unfriendly approval of. the ecstatic Clinton welcome both by the Clinton crowd! Apparently those Comet Comets and the .large hometown · fans enjoy watching a good game crowd. The outcome of their of ·•chippy' hockey. contest was decided early in the
Imm ed iately following the goal, Nico) was dealt a 'quick stick to the ribs' by Comet defenseman - the notorious Dale McBain-as the two players skated by each other! Shouts were then heard throughout the arena: "CHEAP SHOT!" a ''YOU'RE BUSHMCBAIN!" Clinton scored four times in the second period as the score climbed to ·7-2. It is interesting to note that for such an intense period, there was surprisingly few penalties for 'tripping' called. In between periods, as soon as the skaters returned to the ice, the autograph seekers were out in full force. When asked if he would sign, defenseman Dale McBain (the most penalized Comet) refused, saying that his thumb was broken and heavily taped ('a la Ernie Ladd'). A zealous fan in the Comets end shouted "Dale, who's gonna win?'' McBain beamed, "It'd better be us!", as he skated off to his personalized, cushioned seat in the sin bin (i.e., penalty box). The final period started out with a bang as Clinton's John Donnelly hit a quick slap-shot past a surprised Long Island goalie. Duck defenseman Pierre Viau, another former Comet, was game as the Comets scored three The first period saw Bordy booed as the action of the game quick goals in the first period and ,, Smith cleverly set up teammate came down to the Duck's end. A then coast�d to an impressive 9-3 John Thompson in front of the fan shouted, "You should be net; Thompson fired a slap shot wearing a Comet's jersey, Pierre!" trouncing at the Clinton Arena. The victory was particularly past rookie goalie Keith Le Lievre The modish styled (Gary Unger sweet for Clinton's coach and of the Ducks, and the Comets look-alike) ·viau beamed back, general manager Pat Kelley, who were on their way. Two more "Go home... it's a waste of time playing in Clinton!" Once again the L.I.Ducks 'hot line' (Wayne Maxner, Dwight Winters, and J.M. Nicol - each with two_ points on the night) came to the fore with a final period tally as the game ended, but not before Clinton's John Thompson scored his second goal. The weary Ducks gave a sigh of relief as indeed, the final buzzer Dale McBain seemed to be the only thing that Jim Pritchard could stop,.the red-hot Comets! Coach Pat Kelly Nevertheless, it should be said in an interview that although quick goals sent the Comets to the pointed out that Long Island has Long Island had a better record locker room with a 3-0 margin, as come a long way this season; a than the Comets, Clinton was the Les McAnich and Ron Riley team spokesman was quick to better team. "I've said all along scored tallies:- Then came the remind us that the third-place that the Ducks are fun-filled second period! In a Ducks were once sixteen points E.H.L. (Eastern Hockey League) f l u r r y , the s ec o nd p e riod out of first place - now they're division; if we were in that witnessed six goals scored, as the just a few off the pace. The team division.we'd clean up!," Kelley Comets stepped up their relentless is starting to jell; finally there are piped, as he puffed a victory cigar. pace, much to the surprise of the enough defensemen and every The night began omniously weary L.I. Ducks. It got to the position is taken care of. And now, back to the Jim enough for these two Spectator p o i nt w here r oo kie-goal_i e reporters, as pucks came flying · LeLievre was being pelted with so Pritchard-Pat Kelly feud. After from all directions when an many hard shots that he became the game, in a locker room a ttempted sneak into the exhausted in the nets. after the interview, coach - GM. Kelly player's entrance was discovered Comets had pumped in five goals, hinted at the reason he let go of and foiled. Not wanting to give up coach Ed Stankiewicz of the the speedy Jim Pritchard. "I've a chance for some autographs and Ducks replaced · Keith with the said all along that the guy is not player interviews, these reporters m o r e e x p e r i e n c e d Guy an agressive hockey player. He sw iped r ink-side seats and DeNoncourt. may be the best def enseman on managed to get star wing Borden This move, however, had no Long Islancr,but even that is only Smith (400 career goals) and Jerry . effect on the goal-hungry Comets. mediocre," Kelly beamed with a Andreatta (a goal and an assist on To Clinton, the 'icy' DeNoncourt subtle smile. When asked if the night) of the Comets to sign was just another shooting target Pritchard would ever return to autographs, as well as L.I. Duck (considering the paper-thin Duck play for the Comets, Kelly star defenseman Jim Pritchard, a defense) and needless .to say, the snorted, "NEVER! Not as long as former Comet. veteran EHL goalie saw a lot of I'm in Clinton!" Indeed the Pritchard hinted that·there was rubber! victory was very sweet for the no love between himself and his The checking soon became controversial coach. former coach Pat Kelley. When very furious in a typically physical The Comets host the very same asked if he would ever return to E.H.L. game, and the bad-blood Long Island D u c ks again, play for the Clinton Comets, between both sides was clearly tomorrow night, at 8:-00 p.m. in Pritchards reply was an emphatic seen.. During the second period, the Clinton Arena. For an exciting "..not unless they get rid of Pat the Duck's star wing Jean-Marie game of hockey, this match Kelley!" But more about that Nicol (the 10th leading scorer in (between two bitter rivals) should feud later........ t h e EHL) conncected on a be a ,thrilling contest for Clinton power-play goal, for thefirst score fans l as the crashing Eastern off Clinton's fine goalie Jim Hockey League season draws to a GET WELL, BETH! thunderous close. Douglass.
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Kirkland Honored as Member of ·union of Expe rimenting Colleges
James Cotton will be in concert Saturday night, 8:00. Impatient with the delays in EVALUATIONS the approval of the orginal survey, . continued from page one. which often .convey the unique Kathy Grover is now attempting tone of a course," and questions to. organize students to distribute using rating �ales, ''which were · and compjle the results of that present to insure breadth and form for a published evaluation of objectiv ity of coverage/' the last semester's courses. The _ completed document would be of committee report said. Several faculty m embers benefit for those interested· in argued that just as they do not · student reactions to courses and grade students., they prefer that instructors. But, because it has students do not grade them. While not been approved by the faculty, supporters· of the questionnaire the report will not be considered claim that quantitative results are valid either by the Divisions of the the only viable way to present an . F a c u 1 t y A p p o i n t m e n t s accurately synthesized evalu�tion, Committee. opponents disagree, asserting, as did, one member of the Social Sciences Division, that the numerical scale had a ''spurious sense of precision and validity." The opponents also asserted that the quantitative evaluation is contrary to Kirkland's ideological perspectives which denies the validity of number or letter grades.· The SCACA subcommittee is working now on two other questionnaires to be presented at the next faculty meeting early in March - one employing more open�nded questions and fewer of the scaled type, and one c om p r i s e d t ot ally of t h e op-e n-e n d e d v ar ie t y .
LIBRARY To ..ne Editor: I would just like to make a few suggestions concerning the new library. 1. A ramp should be built up the front steps of the library for the convenience of people confined · to wheelchairs. As Jlamilton and IGrkland continue to expand1 more provisions should be made so that visitors, and perhaps even students, can take advantage of the·new facilities. 2. Once or twice month the Periodical Office could issue a list of missing issues. Students and faculty might · be able to replace some of them from their own subscriptions, especially some of the more popular journals. 3. Students, parents, and be should alumni encouraged to donate past of professional issues journals. Many of these could be very valuable sources of information, and those that re too technical. or specific in nature could be sold, according to Mr. Pilkington. 4. The main section of tpe library should be open until at least 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. on Saturday nights. The 5:00 p.m. present closing time inevitably brings
FEBRUARY 16, 1973
BY KATHY LIVINGSTON design their own study programs. The Union is also Kjrkland College has recently been accepted for involved in a program called the Union Graduate membership to the Union for �xperimenting School which enables students to pursue a Ph.D. Colleges and Universities, "a national consortium under a less structured program than is offered in fostering research and experimentation in higher most Graduate schools. , education. , Other members of the Union ar�: Antioch, Bard, The consortium began nine years ago with ten Chicago State University, Franconia, Friends World, members. There are now twenty-eight colleges G od d a r d , H ofstra University, University of which are members, three others of which were Redlands O ohnston College), Loretto Heights, admitted recently in �ddition to Kirkl�d; College University of M assachusetts, University of of Racine, Florida International University, and Minnesota, Morgan State, University of Alabama Webster College. (New College), Northeastern Illinois University, The four new members were chosen from among. University of the Pacific, Pitzer, Roger Williams, over twenty applicants. In order to apply for · Shaw University, Skidmore, University of South admission to the! union, a college must submit ·a· Carolina, Staten Island Community College, listing of t;lie inpovative aspects of the institution. 'Stephens, Westminster and the University of A lo ng with oilier considerations, Kirkland's Wisconsin at Green Bay. Headquarters for the Union admission was influenced by the opportunity for is at Antioch,College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. ..... work-study projects anidegrees grant�d to �----------------------students in absentia. The goal of the union is to include a cross-section of American colleges committed to experimentation in higher education. · The · U n i on for· Experimenting Colleges and Universities orginated the national University Without Walls Program, which offers to students "the more flexible programs of education which are located beyond the confines of the college campus." Students are encouraged, under this system, to
groans trom a number of students, and the All-Night Reading Room is almost always jammed on Saturday night.s. Perhaps the appropriate branch of the Student Senate could look into the feasibility of. these suggestions. Name Withheld Upon Request
NO WOMEN? To the Editor: I read with some interest the article about Hamilton College changing its · policy regarding hiring of women faculty members. I a m not aware that the willingness tq hire women faculty at Hamilton represents any change over the past ten to fifteen years. In 1964, I believe it was, the Depar tment .of Biology was looking for a microbiologist, and their unanimous first choice as the most able of the candidates. was a young .woman from a west coast university graduate school. She was offered the job, which i ncluded the p ossibility of permanence. Unfortunately she chose to go to Reed College, and a man (who is no longer on the faculty) was hired in her stead.
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To the Editor: It has been brought to my attention that · some people feel that I was the author of the anonymous letter that has created such controversy concerning the
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choir. I should like to deny that charge. Although I sometimes. disagree with the choir, I have never had anything but respect for Professor Fankhauser. The College Choir should always be an integrcil part of the Hill community. Sincerely Peter W. Sluys '75
PLEASE HELP
The Emerson Literary Society has a tradition of being very open to the college community. We have welcomed both Hamilton and Kirkland students who were not members of E.L.S. to our house and to most of our social activities. Our policy of providing a snack along with coffee or tea at 11:00 p.m; seems ,to have been well received by both House members and guests alike. Anyone is welcome at our "eleven o'Clocks", and all that we ask is that the House be treated with a certain amount of respect. In past months, our dining room and pantry have taken an inord inate and u n necessary amount of wear and tear; at times, so much so thatit has been di fficult to sit down at a reasonably clean table or to find a clean .coffee cup at breakfast. We do not want to change our 11 o'clock policy- since it is so mudt a part of E·.L.S. and the campus, but we do ask that the college community n ot abuse ow hospitality. Thank you very much. Sincerely� The Members of E.L.S.
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Hill Tankmen Down U of R; Final Blue-Ithaca Meet Tom'w Needham set a pool standard in BY PETER ACKERMAN On Saturday 'February 10, the the 500 yard freestyle with ,a fine Hamilton swimmers s o u ndly time of 5� 19 .5. Carlberg, waiting defeated a weak University of for no one, breaststroked through Rochester squad 73-38_ The meet, 200 yards in a personal best of which took place at Rochester, 2:20.3, a new Hamilton school featured two record performances record as well as the Rochester plus some individual bests by the pool_mark. The regular 200 yard butterfly Blue tankmen. Also, for the was replaced in this meet by event second time this season, and the first time ever against Rochester, 400 yard individual medley, and the Hillmen captured first in every senior captain Peter Schloerb posted a fine time of 4:51.9 to event. first in the grueling race. grab Coach Eric MacDonald shifted his lineup once again and came up Gary Karl '75 was second in w i t h a n o t h e r w i n n i n g 4: 5 7.7. The other individual combination in the 400 yard medley rate (over. 200 yards) was medley relay. Craig MacDonald captured by versatile sophomore '75, Jeff Carlberg '75, John Doug McDevitt in 2:13.3. Eric Needham '75, and Joe Schrum '76 Kraus '76 took third · behind finished in an excellent time of McDevitt. Others who tallied were senior 3:54.9. Each of these men went on to capture first place in his Bruce Rinker, who nosed his . own specialty. MacDonald took opponent to take first in the 50 the 200 yard backstroke in yard freestyle (23.6), and juniors 2:15.9, while Schrum registered a John Baird . and Dave Shapland personal best of 52.9 in winning who won the 200 and 1000 yard the 100 yard freestyle. Carlberg. freestyle events, respectively. and Needham were Hamilton's John's winning time was 2:01.2, and Dave touched out Rochester's two record setters for the day. best in 11:20.8.
The Blue usually come up with at least one -double winner and junior Fred Bolender had little trouble in the required and optional dives, winning both with scores of 131.65 (requi.!ed) and 159.65 (optional). Hamilton had two teams in the final 400 yard freestyle relay, and despite the di sq ualification of our "first" relay combination, a "second" squad of Schrum, Karl, Schloerb, a n d J oh n Va n d e rveer '76 i l l u s t ra t e d t h e d e p t h of Hamilton's swim team when it went off to defeat Rochester's "first" team in a time of 3:39.9. The Hillmen, with a six and one record, will host a houseparty weekend meet against Ithaca at 2:00 p.m. OJl Saturday the 17th in Alumni Pool. This will be the final match-up between Ithaca and Hamilton, as Ithaca is dropping the Blue from their schedule for 1973-1974. In t h e i r p l ac e , H a m i lton will c o m p e t e a g a in s t Colgate University next season. Come this Saturday and watch the Hill Tankmen sink their next victims!
BASKETBALL Continued from -pg 8 The feeling shared by · all, the team, coaches, and fans alike is · s e emingly unapproachable by words alone. A fcw phases however, might bett�r present th; inside story as good news to all those who weren't present... A pre-game feeling of impossibility... to u g h defense ...B a dg e r ' s bombs . . .s h a r p p assing...tough rebounding... a surprise... can we stay with them?... ". Drive to the hoop "...run- fast break... an ela t e d , o va t i n g , c h ee r ing crowd...halftime 43-41, Hamilton on top...good hustle...is this really true? ... confidence...the crowd go es wild..." Defense, Defense Defense"... tough defense ...Pedr; is . skying.· .. good o f fe n sive pla y . .. "B eat 'e m u p t h e court! "...time out... the lead changes hands ...FOUL...2 shots g o o d . . . a m aze m e n t . . . t h e buzzer...bedlam...a surprise, an a i n 2 up s e t . . . row...embracing ...cheering, more than cheering - it was ecstatic... a victo ry cigar... we did the impossible, we beat Union - the fans, the coaches, the team! And it was a dramatic event. It was the kind of a victory the Hoopsters and their fans hadn't tasted for many a campaign. The Navin Pedro Garcia rebounds against Union's Mike Doyle. Hillmen have now equaled their "they team, the from fans the Houseparty weekend sees the winning count (4 games) of last the Take difference." the were Utica arch-rival to travel Blues year and still have five �ames College. This coming Tuesday time between cocktails and Beer remaining. University of Rochester invades . and Band to stop over at U the Hill for an 8 o'clock contest. Tip-off is slated for 8:00 p.m. A special thanks is extended to CLINTON LIQUOR STORE
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BY ED WATKINS It is a cold winter's nigh.t up on the Hill. In Dunham, the natives are restless. Winter House parties are far away; spring vacatiqn is only a dream. Suddenly, two figures creep out of one of the suites. One of the figures is carrying_ a hockey stick, the other has a tennis ball clutched in one hand, the other hand is covered by a · baseball glove. The figure . with the glove crouches in front of a doorway at the end of • the hall. His partner paces off five yards from the doorway. The ball is rolled towards him. Stopping it with his stick, he pauses for a moment and then winds up and shoots. His companion lunges out and stops the ball a split second before it would have hit the door. The ritual descn"bed above is connected with no religion. It is in fact, a game of "gut" hockey, one of those sports rarely seen in the big time. The sport took root at Hamilton in 1925 when a jungle hockey player decided he had two practice his shooting� The rink being closed, he resorted to banging � _puck q_ff hi� ne�!ibprs' door in South. "Gut" hockey did not really catch on at Hamilton though, until the construction of Dunham. It was soon discovered that the Dunham hallways were well suited for the game. Various adaptation were made in the game. A third player was added to have some one shoot rebounds past the goalie. If tennis balls were not available, adhesive tape cans or
d e o do ran t t o ps were used. Sometimes when the goalie was not watching, a real puck was used. Referees were added in the form of freshmen advisors. They tried to limit the hours during which the game could be played and insisted that all stickrs used be taped with white tape in order to preserve the natural colors of the Dunham rugs. The goalies soon became the romantic figures of the game. O ft e n p la y ing witheut any e qu i p m e n t w hatsoever, they stopped as many shots as possible. U nf o r t u neately, the constant barrage of shots, sticks, and bodies, took its toll. Many a Dunham goalie has a piece of stick imbedded in his hand from a time when he was a little slow in covering up. "Gut" hockey is not a unique Hamilton product. It is played all over the Northeast and Midwest. The game does typify the sort of insane spirit which has been a s s o dat e d w i t h H a m i l t on .students. There is for example the thrill of taking a slap shot and watching it narrowly miss your roomm ate's mother... Playing "gut" in Union Station while waiting· for a train.. .Arriving at Wells for Winter Study and receiving a call from the Dean of Students your first hour there. "Please stop shooting that hockey puck.". "Gut" hockey, like Gin and Juice, is a Hamilton tradition that will never die.
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THE SPECTATOR
FEBRUARY 16, 1913
Hoopsters Grab 2 More Wins Awesome in 5pt U.nion U ps et The home court advantage can make the needed difference. On w·e d n esday, F ebru ary 1 4 , Syr acuse U . beat ninth ranked St. Johns; the 76ers beat the Bucks; a nd in Clinton, New York, Hamilton College beat Union. Before a nearly overflowing crowd in Alumni Gym, the Hoopsters nailed down their fourth victory of the season - handling the Garnet of Schenectady 75-70. Although an outstanding voctory for the Buff and Blue (more later), there was more news - some good, some bad - thece past two weeks from the corners of Alumni . Gym.
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On the offensive end of the and hustle and hustle. count, the Hoopsters produced However, throughout the first their best effort of the campaign. half Ithaca dominated play at Working against a very permeable both ends of the court. Hamilton 3-2 zone, · the Blue patiently seemed lethargic in all aspects of worked the ball and received an the game and defensive lapses .encredible amount of open shots produced a 20 point deficit at the for their efforts. In fact, Marty half-way mark. In the second 20 minute Guy '76 was the only Continental fouled in the act of shooting stanza, the Blue, somewhat during the entire contest, and his rejuvenated from the interim trip to the free throw line proved half-time perio� came out unique, as the Hill could muster hustling and ready to play. However, their efforts again but two charity tosses all night. From the field Mark Badger proved futile as their classy '75 and Guy provided the canon opponents neatly tucked away a power. Sparkling from _outside, 107-81 victory. Badger bucketed 26 points, while However, good news brought word to the HiJ.l of two victories this past week. Last Saturday, before an SRO crowd, the Twine Ticklers turned back the Lakers of Oswego 76-72. The victory came sweetly, as the Blue avenged a short-sided 30 point spread earlier this season. During the first half of play, it was evident a good finale was in store. Battling on the boards �nd shooting well from outside, the Blue was able to stay close to Oswego ror a large chunk of the 20 minute span. The Hillmen fell behind by more than 10 only once, but could only grab the lead an equal number of times. O swego looked weak defensively and their perm1ss1ve man-to-man allowed the good inside shot. With the conversion of a good percentage from the inside, and with the help of Badger's iron-drawing bombers the Blue managed only a three point deficit at halftime, 44-41. The second half produced the same type of game. The lead changed hands a number of times.
In I crowd, Marty Guy finds the Hoop from close range. Bad news brought word of two defeats for the week beginning February 3. Returning for their first tilt after intercession and with a week of practice under their belts, the Blue travelled to the Southern tier to take on the strong Colonials of Binghampton. In light of a lopsided Swim Team victory earlier in the day and a well deserved JV victory, the Hoopsters were optimistic about initiating the final month of play with a victory. In the opening minutes, it was evident that Hamilton had come to play. While displaying a tough man-to-man defense, the Hillmen forced SUNY turnovers and were able to keep the Colonials · away from the bucket; both factors turned Binghampton's strategy from a "work it inside" game to outside shooting. With this change, the Hillmen were able to concentrate more on cleaning the boards, and worry less about stopping the lower percentage outside shoot. Co-captains Craig Fallon and Ernie Found led the rebe corps, combining for 18 rebounds.
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Guy, making his initial hometown appearance, pocketed 17 points before the partisan crowd. By far it was the best effort by the Hoopsters all year. The defense was much improved, forcing 22 turnovers, and the shooting percentage climbed close to the 50% mark.However, at the final buzzer the Colonials who "played their best game of the year" left the · floor with the victory as the frustrated, hustling Hillmen returned to the locker room with their· 9th short-ended dicision this year. Returning to Alumni Gym on Wed February 7, the Hoopsters prepared ,to take on Ithaca College and their Senior all-American Bill Hollowen. The varsity tipoff was delayed some forty minutes as the JV preliminary went into double overtime, with the Continentals conspicuosly losing in the final seconds of play. As· both clubs did belatedly take the floor, it was obvious from the start that the Hoopsters had their work cut out for them. Giving away 2-3 inches and 20-30 pounds per man, it was apparent that Hamilton would have to play extre tough defense and hustle
Hamilton buckled down on defense and switched back and forth between a 1-2-2 zone and a 3-2. The different defenses stifled Oswego's inside offense, and forced the Lakers to take ·the o u t s i d e s h o t . W i t h this accomplished , the Hoopsters went to work on the boards and proceeded to outrebound their opponents 40-34. Co-captains Ernie Found '74 and Craig Fallon '74, along with freshman Marty Guy ledtheway in this department w i t h 8, 7 a nd 7 bounds respectively. Offensively, it was team play that proved the difference in the 76-72 victory. Patiently looking for the open man, the team placed five Continentals in the double figures column. Mark Badger '75 and Guy's efforts proved most fruitful while combining for 33 points. The vidtory was sweet, the crowd tremendous - but the best news of the week was still but a coach's prophecy. Union was coming to town on Wednesday. Wednesday came, Union was in town, and a Coach's . prophecy came true. Victory once more lingered in Alumni Gym as the Continentals upset the Garnet, 75-70. This reporter has found it difficult to describe with verbose comment, the aura that was present that evening. Continued on pg, 7
SPORTS
Player's Perspective Editor's Note: Senior Bruce Rinker never swam on his Sidney, New York High School swimming team, but for three years on the Hamilton squad he has been the leading sprinter in the 50 yard freestyle event. After spending his Junior year in France {Coach MacDonald's first attempt· at "red-shirting"), Bruce has continued his steady performances for the Buff 'n Blue swimmers.
BY BRUCE RINKER Many people are aware that competitive swimming is probably the most successful sport at Hamilton, yet very few really seem to know why that, in the past seven years, the team has compiled a 60-5-1 record. The reason that Hamilton had remained undefeated at home for 6½ years was not really because Mr. Hunt and Mr.Hamlin were timing first and second place. First of all, most of the credit must go to coach Eric MacDonald. Ever since he danced, pranced, cavorted, sang, joked, and saluted his way into the Alumni Pool, shocking everyone - especially swimmers who hadn't been used to things much more stimulating that a Bio. Lab at 4:00 in the aftc:;rnoon - Coach MacDonald has changed the name of the game at Hamilton. Horrified freshmen, thinking that they made a wrong turn somewhere in Western Massachusetts, are assailed wi�h a barrage of foreign expressions such as: propriocetion, adduction and medial rotation, swim within yourself, let it swing, be cere}?ral ...Bio.Lab is never again quite the same. The new swimmer soon learns to avoid such phrases as, "I dunno coach, I just feel tired -" "Tyhad!? Whaddyoo mehun tyhad!? After a race like that, youuwah going to tell me that youuwah tyhad!?" Despite the initial onslaught, one discovers that the amazing amount •of energy that emanates from this one person creates a special kind of atmosphere in the pool,, where swimming becomes more than a sport, more than a team, more than a good coach. The swimmer feels as though he is an individual working and playing with other individuals - but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.Not many coaches can achieve that kind of cohesion. But, a coach needs swimmers to coach, and MacDonald has swimmers. Many sports boast stars with sparkling, if not awe-inspiring epithets like Earl ''The Pearl'', "Pistol Pete", or the "Doomsday Defense" that make one feel the nearly Hollywoodesque aura of such super heroes. Enter, the anti-heroes: The Joker, Suds Big Mac, The Deviate, The Beaver, Hans, Rrrragg Man!, and Scum Bag. The Bowery boys revisited - not a group of guys which Mom would especially wish her kids to share a pool with. Officially, between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m., the Alumni Pool is the turf for these low-types, and anyone who chances to peer in - usually to rip off some tasty vitamin C pills - quickly decides that there are true animals swimming in the water. Those masochistic marvels, otherwise known as the Hamilton swim team, pound their breast stroke muscles to death, figh� rigor ' mortis with its iron hammer in the butterfly, gulp water m the backstroke, and churn away the laps in the freestyle, often doggedly compiling 8-10,000 (that's thousands) yards in sprint and distance workouts in a single day. As one swimmer said some years back, "All swimmers are crazy." Right now, the team is preparing for the post-season State Meet Hamilton's first time in the competition - where over a dozen northern New york State colleges will be competing at Canesius College, March 2 and 3. For those who've yet to see a meet this year, Hamilton swims at home this Saturday against Ithaca. Your presence is always appreciated.
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Interview
Gordon Binglia� on FraJ;s, Ho using, Grades, and Drugs
1:he kinds of people who do things here like run the Editor's Note: R. Gordon Bingham has been Dean of Students at Hamilton since July 1, 1972. Bristol Campus Center, would be considered staff of The following is the transcript of an interview gi'l_)en - the D�an of Students. It doesn't really make any · by Dean Bingham to Spectator reporter Fred BJoch. difference administratively. . Q: Where do you put your emphasis? Q: How would you describe your first months at A: Well, the whole housing program takes up a Hamilton ? A: Well, with· any job like this one which is good bit of just busy work. There is a student housing pretty all-encompassing, it is a period of trying to _ committee that I work with and it -advises me on find your way through the maze and trying to find things like running the .lottery, people who want to those organizations and groups which need the kind . live off campus, that sort of thing. The whole of help that somebody in this office can provide. business of assigning rooms, dealing with damage Because, again I work without assistance or a full problems either accidental or on purpose, getting set staff. I really can't do justice to everything that is to run the lottery and assessing the co-ed business attached to the office, that is all the student has taken a good bit of time. activities and all the fraternities and the whole Secondly, I'd say that I've put a good deal of housing program and the r_eshrrian advisors and on emphasis on working with various kinds of student and on and on. It is a matter of trying to define activity sorts of groups. Now this is one of the those areas that need some looking into and those things that Andy Wertz (Director, Bristol Campus which don't. As I·say, I don't have a staff and that's Center) doe·s a lot of and does it very well and I _strictly speaking true, although ina lot of colleges Continued on page 6
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FEBRUARY 23. 1973
The aca demic and set up for the screening of applicants to the Deans' posts; non-academic responsibilities that Advertisements have been placed Mrs. Bouch is presently keeping in professional journals, and track of will be transferred to the applicati ons are now being Dean of Students' office. ''This is accepted. Over 200 applications an increasingly difficult job," have .already been received for the Babbitt said,"as only 50% of the position of Dean of Faculty. Only same students remain on campus 22 of these applications have been from one September to the next. from women; while the College The President emphasized that the would prefer to have a woman in "open" approach to educ�tion at the post, the committee will have Kirkland, allowing work-study, leave of · absence, and other final say. President Babbitt surprised the innovative means of continuing audience with the news that' Dean education o ff-campus, were of Residence Elizabeth Bouch e s se n t ial. However, he said, woµld be leaving at the end of _the someone must be on campus to year. "She has been a veteran run the college. "We'll be here to from the beginning" and has done respond to your initiatives," and a "superb job in one of the most 'w ill ''keep them warm and thankless p�sitions on campi.is," active," while Kirkland students are o ff-campus. he said. BY VIKRAM DEWAN The President went on to O n e-hundred t wenty -two outline the new position taken by .- have accepted Jesse Zellner as Director of freshmen bids from the fraternities of their Institutional Affairs. Zellner's new responsibilit ie s w ill include choice as of Monday, February "non-academic support services", 19, the last day of formal the coordination of joint offices Rushing. Two frater nities claimed The Standing Committee on option to allow the student to with Hamilton. He is "very Academic and Curricular Affairs withdraw from a course; in this important administrationally" and somewhat less than half of the decided to continue the policy of case, a ''WD" is recorded on the has gained expertise in the many pledging freshmen. These were recording "No Credit" on students transcript. The ''WD" has fields in which he -has worked; DKE with . thirty bids and the Kirkland transcripts in its meeting no grade equivalent and cannot Babbitt added that the new Emerson Literary Society with Tuesday, February 20. This affect a person's average in any responsibilities are given in twenty-eight. Alpha Delta Phi received fifteen bid cards back decision came after a debate way. recognition of that work. which tried to see if recording The five to two majority held The Kirkland student body will from freshmen, Chi Psi got eleven, "No Credit" would go against that th; "No Credit" must be be enlarged to 650 next fall, the while Sigma Phi received ten. Psi of recorded on the transcript so that ·President went on, with 610 Upsilon obtained eight, Teak goal Kirkland's experimentation in education. it wou1d honestly reflect the students living on-campus; 40 received six while Delta Phi and A minority of the committee's s tude nts a ccomplishments at more will be able to live in Delta Upsilon each got five. Theta members argued that recording Kirkland, especially since the off-campus housing, as compared Delta Chi received only four. Fraternity expectations were "No Credit" punishes a student options to avoid a "No Credit" do to the 600 students presently . for not being able to complete a exist. living uphill, with 30 others living ·higher . Delta Ups ilon had project, and this would inhibit Suggestions were also made elsewhere. The Faculty will be a nt icipated fifteen bids and O t h e r s that SCACA should look at increased as well to maintain the al loted $5 00 for r u s h ing. experimentation. responded to this by saying that alternate systems to record a 13: 1 ratio Kirkland now has. New E x p ecting twelve, Delta Phi two methods to avoid such student's achievements. Some felt professors will be added to the alloted about $1000 for rushing. punishment already exist. that because education is an de part m e n t s of P hilosophy, Both these fraternities claimed At present Kirkland students ongoing process, a student should Dance, Judaica, Poetry, Political their dearth of freshmen was due to a snowballing effect, in that can drop a c�urse up-to the eighth be allowed to · start a course one Science and Education. week of the semester, and if a year and be able to finish it the The Committee on Science at freshmen go where their friends student sees her project cannot be next, thus the student could Kirkland will meet here on March go, regardless of the fraternity. completed she can drop it. eliminate a ' ' N o Credit". At 9-10 in order to assess the Science Teak, on the other hand, was Similarly, until the last day of present, however, no change in program at Kirkland. Their report, satisfied. With a rushing budget of classes, any professor has the policy will occur. Continued on page 3 · twelve dollars, they conducted
BY CAROL GOODMAN · P e r s o n n e 1 c h a n g e s in administration and staff were the principle subject of Kirkland President Samuel F. Babbitt's State of the College address, which he gave last Monday in the Hamilton Chapel. In addition to Dean of S tudents Doris Friedensohn's resignation, and Dean of Faculty Carl S chneider's promotion to Vice P r e s i d e n t , which had previously been announced, Mr. Babbitt made it known that .Assistant De-an of Students Rosalind Hoffa will leave her full-time job in the Dean's office for ''personal reasons". It is as yet uncertain whether she will be at Kirkland part-time next year. Search committees have been
��No-Credit" Policy Stays Alternate System Sought
NUMBER SEVENTEEN
Formal Rushing Ends; Pledging Down This Year tours in the fall and later took the freshmen on rolls to Wells and · Skidmore. Alpha Delta Phi spent a mod erate amount and were content with fifteen bids. There are approximately 260 men in the freshman class. Freshmen who have not yet accepted offers of membership in a House may still do so, under the rushing regu1ations published by the IFC last fall. However, the bids are no longer binding on the houses, which may revoke, · t their discretion, any bids sti.l outstanding, and freshmen wh J have accepted bids are now boun to honor their decisions. The a r chitectural tou supplemented by free beer at th pub capture the interest of th freshmen who are later invited 1 House parties and dinners. Gettin the freshmen interested in th fraternities was no problem, th fraternities thought. But the freshmen had differer ideas. Some believed that rushin was not necessary and that freshman should be able to sele, · a fraternity without having fab friendship and obligation exerte on him. All that is needed, the Continued on page,
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SAC ELECTION RESULTS Hamilton students chose three members of the 1973 SAC in yesterday's election, conducted by the Student Senate. The winners are Don Hughes '74,Jeff Grabell '74, Gary Matthews '75. 446 students voted. There will be a special meeting of the Student Senate solely to appoint the_ two remaining Hamilton members of the committee. The results of the Kirkland election will be announced in next week's Spectator. BLACK MOVEMENTS Williams College Black Student Union will perform Black Movements, an expression in dance and music, February 24, 1973 at 8:30 p.m. in the Minor Theatre. The presentation is sponsored by The Black and Puerto Rican Union. AFRICAN DANCE TROUPE An AFrican Dance Troupe, composed of African and American students trained by Kofi Ladzekpo, will present a program featuring dancing and drumming from Ghana and Dahomey on February 23 in _ the chapel at 8:00 p.m. Dr. Hewlett Panteleoni of the Music Department of SUNY at Oneonta, a leading American authority on African music, will also demonstrate African music, will also demonstrate African drumming techniques. The event, sponsored by the Hamilton Religion Department, is open to the pubiic and there is no admission charge. SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID FILM The G o v e r nme nt Department will present a Film: ''PHELA-NDABA-End of a Dialogue", an underground South African film about the impact of Apartheid on the blacks of South Africa, on Wednesday Feb. 28 at 8:30 in the Science Auditotjum. LITERATURE READING On Thursday, February 29, 1973, Stephen Krensky '75 will present a program of "Selected Readings from The Oxford Companion to English Literature, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. THEFT: VICK PHOTOGRAPH A large photograph disappeared during the exhibit in Bristol of photographs by Jonathan and Peggy Vick. The print is virtually irreplacable due to the size of the equipment and developing process used to produce it. The Vicks are offering a substantial cash reward for the recovery of the picture. It may be returned to Jim Vick, 205 Kirkland Dorm or Box 187, by the present holder or a friend (to ensure anonymity), no questions asked. WHAT WE DON'T KNOW President John W. Chandler of Hamilton College will deliver a lecture in the ''What We Don't Know" series Tuesday (Feb. 23) at 8:30 p.m. in Room 128 of the Kirner-Johnson Building on the Kirkland College campus. SENATE PRESIDENT PLATFORMS The Senate Presidential Platforms are due March 2. FREE CHURCH SERVICE Stephen G. Kurtz, Dean of Hamilton College, will speak at the Free Church service this week. His topic: "Choice of Vocation: A Religious Perspective." De Gustibus..., a recorder ensemble directed by Thomas Colby, will take part in the se'rvjce. 11:15 a.m. Sunday, Chapel. SENIOR PORTRAITS The yearbook staff wishes . to clarify the aims of using studio portraits. These portraits are being taken to guarantee all seniors of having their photos in the yearbook. Seniors are asked to submit other photos of themselves in addition to the formal portraits. We request that all photos are printed with good c·ontrast, preferably 8xl O size. This will insure a high quality reproduction and add to the aesthetic aims of the book Sign up- sheets are at Bristol. Please sign up immediately. THEFT: STEREO SPEAKERS Two stereo speakers were stolen from Minor Theater between Sunday night and Monday afternoon last week. The speakers were on loan to the Hill Company from the Stereo Center in New Hartford for the production of Don Juan in Hell. The Hill Company is now $360 in debt because of this theft. The speakers are oblong, have walnut cabinets with blue foam surrounding, and the serial numbers 2917 and 2913. ff anyone has information on these speakers, please contact Dean Hoffa. KIRKLAND DIPLOMA The Kirkland class of '7 3 invites all those interested to submit designs for a Kirkland diploma to Mary Anderson, box 13. TUTORING An'yone interested in tutoring high school or elementary school studehts please call Cheryl at 732-2955. ANIMAL REGISTRATION Monday Feb. 26, 1-5 .in .B Dorm suite 26. If you have already registered a dag last semester, you will be billed automatically for this semester. If you have moved, changed the animal' er, if your floor members have changed, or if you no longer have an animal, please notify the Humane Society. The following dogs have been restricted because they were seen three times last week in McEwen and/or Commons: 1) Morgan, 2) Olive, 3) Chochie, 4) Fritz, 5) Tracy, 6) Maggie, 7) Hector, 8) Chob. If you see any of these dogs in a dining hall, please send a slip noting the dog, the date and time and building (McEwen, Bristol, Commons) to the Humane Society. Also, does anyone own Pennylane? She is a small, scruffy, mostly black dog that looks like Morgan and seems to be a stray.
THE SPECTATOR
EDITORIAL
Kirkland students have demonstrated a high degree of apathy. Only 340 out of 610 people took the time and effort to vote in the last elections. By not voting, students are impeding the operation of the Assembly. There were three amendments that were designed to provide a more efficient and responsive government, but because they were not passed by two-thirds of the student body, they were invalidated. Do we realize To the Editor: I gathered from a letter printed in the last issue of the Spectator that it is again that time of year when certain pre-meds reise their voices in protest against the grading system here at Hamilton. These students have come to the conclusion that it is harder to get A's at Hamilton than at most other colleges, and that the remedy is to immediately raise everybody's grade point average. Obviously the students who made such a suggestion never really thought very carefully about the whole situation. If immediate inflation were the answer to our problems, there still remain the questions of by how much should the grades be raised, and to which part of one's record should these bonus points be added. Should the choice of where these bonus pQin ts go be left up to the shims and fancies of the studen ts? On the other hand, if these points were to be averaged out and added equally to the grades of all the courses, I seriously doubt if that would make any difference to any stude n t 's GPA as
MEASLES
Theree has been a serious outbreak of German Measles on the Hamilton-Kirkland campuses. Twenty-five cases have so far been reported to the Health Center, and more are expected. Symptoms of the disease are a sore throat, a headache, and a rash. The incubation period of the disease is ten to fourteen days. At present, the Health. Center is giving sudents aspirin and sending them back to their rooms. If necessary, antihistamines are prescribed for the itch.
FEBRUARY 231 1973
the importance of our participation in the proceedings of the community? The catalogue states that: "Kirkland is an institution of higher learning uniquely dependent upon the active involvement and commitment of the people who are a part of it." The sense of community is reflected in the actions of its members. When someone pulls you over and says vote, then vote. It's the least we can do.
Let.ters
calculated on the standard 4-point scale. I do not only question the suggestion these students made, I also question their claims that good grades are much harder to get at Hamilton. Personally I just cannot see how a professor can refuse to give a student a good grade that he deserves. Is.it proper for a student to demand that he be given a grade that he does not deserve? It seems to me that the conclusion a student should make when he did. Iiot get a good grade is that he has not worked hard enough. (Note that this is only strictly true for science courses where the grading is far less subjective that in the non-science courses. But then a pre-med is supposed to be interested in science and probably sh9uld take more science courses anyway.) Rather than taking the easy way out in asking the faculty to arbitrarily lower the standards at Hamilton, I think each student should put a bit more effort in his work and try to meet the challenges of the faculty. T he grading system a t Hamilton i s a nice compromise between the rather clumsy system of a numerical scale that runs from 60 to 100, and the convenient, yet fairly inaccurate, system of plain A's and B's (i.e. the normal 4 point scale). It is very unfortunate that medical s c h o o ls s h o u l d c h o o s e convenience over accuracy in demanding applicants to report their academic records on the inferior 4 point scale. Perhaps
what the administration can do is to organize colleges that have si m i l a r g r a d i n g systems as H a m i l t o n and demand that m e d i c a l schools accept the following conversion system: 4 .0 for A+ and A, 3.7 for A-, 3.3 for B+, 3.0 for B, and so on. (Such a system is being used by Harvard medical school.) I believe that such a conversion system would w i p e o u t m o s t o f the shortcomings of the 4 point scale, and it might even improve the competitiveness of Hamilton pre-meds in their quests for admissions to medical schools. I am rather amused by the f-.act that some pre-meds are still so concerned about grades. Quite a few people I know of have graduated from Hamilton with less than a mediocre record and yet were accepted by medical schools. In fact, I know of one student who flunked a freshman chemistry c our se, but was accepted by a medical school. The secret of-these people's successes? Connections. If one should be so u n f or tunate as to have no connections, one can always get a summer job, or join a work-study program a t s ome hospital affiliated with a medical school. The experience is doubtlessly worthwhile and can often produce miraculous results. So if you are a pre-med at Hamilton who just can't meet the challenge of the high academic standards here, may I suggest that you try the approaches I have mentioned. Believe me, they work! Yours truly, Cheung Cho Yue '73
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NUMBER SEV�NTEEN
First Published as "The Radiator" in 1848 RUSHING ENDS CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE open to the campus, so that a freshman can visit at any time. Rolls were thought to be a big l etdown. Besides ruining the w e e k e n d , t h e y b u i l t up expectations which were seldom fulfilled. But the main problem is that one feels like one is an investment of the fraternity and to justify the f r aternity's expenditure, one feels obligated to join. As an independent freshman said, "rushing is the only w�y to know a fraternity. But the fraternities have to learn to be good losers. It is rough on the freshman to find out that those whom he thought were his friends were actually only trying to get him to join their fraternity." CLINTON SHOE CENTER SPECIALIZING IN WINTER BOOTS AND SHOE-REPAIR 853-6966
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Ham. Players ,Go on Tour Set Precedent with �� 1776"
point tinancially and for the cast·s petitioning the Kirkland Assembly morale. "I know people there, and for a $200 loan, and an outright T h e A l e x a nder H amilton I can insure a good crowd before grant for $150, now that they are Players will take 1776 on tour N e w Y o r k ." Pet er SI u y s a registered organization with beginning March 21. The players vehemently denies· that the Pearl. SAC. The remainder of the money are setting a formidable precedent River stop is for his own glory as a ($650) will be lent to the group n ot only for Hamilton and ''hometown boy." by its chairman, Peter Sluys, as he I n New York, the Cami d i d f o r t h e o n-c a mpus Kirkland, but for the entire Northeast by touring a musical Theatre will handle publicity, and perfo�nces. If the. Assembly Mr. Konrad Matthaei, a Kirkland can't contnoute, Bill Underwood theatrical production. · L a s t fall, the Hamilton- Trustee and. owner of the Alvin will provide the needed $350. Kirkland community was treated Theatre, has helped tremendously. S l uys admits that if the to several performances of the hit March 29, 30, and 31 are the production fails, "it will be like musical. The idea to produce a performance dates in Manhattan. Austerlitz for the Russians - if we T h e A l e x a n d e r Hamilton succeed it will be like Austerlitz musical on the hill was conceived about a year ago by Peter Sluys Players will finance themselves for, for N apoleon." S uccess is '75 and several others. According the coming tour. They just broke dependent _on the activities of the to many who saw it, the group even from the performances at Alumni organizations and on the school. The mailings That the college is sending put on a "damned good show." T he A l e x a n d e r H amilton Spring Tour will cost a minimum out. There will be· no advertising Player's Spring Tour of 1776 will of $3300 and will gross a possible because there is not enough begin at the Kirkland Art Center $6 200. P rom the expected money. If 1776 is the success that on March 21 and 22. "Having the profits,' the group will be able to its members hope it will be, the first two performances in Clinton pay back the $335 lent to them college. community can look will allow us to check our by the Charlatans, initiate a forward to another musical from technical equipment and make S c ho larship fund named for the Alexander Hamilton Players. sure the show is ready to go. If we Joseph Dickenson and Joseph If not, Peter Sluys and Bill need anything we are right near Gallaway, two prominent men in Underwood will be out $650 and the Hill to get it," explained the 2nd Continental Congress and $3 5 0 r e s p e c t i v e l y , because, Sluys. keep $1000 for future use. according to Clyde Leff, President Since this is the first time a of the Student Senate, Sluys has Lenox, Massachusetts is the next stop, March 2�, the show theatre company has gone _on agreed to take personal financial then moves to N. Adams State tour, .the Co llege has not responsibility for the tour, College on the 24th. David Parker, supported the effort with money relieving the College of any a member ·of the production, is a although President Chandler, indemnities. The College is only native of the area and he will be Dean Kurtz, and Gil Grout have taking over insurance as they do able to guarantee good publicity written letters to Alumni and for any· group chartered by the and a good turnout for those others, George Newman, public SAC. Not that it will occur but, performances. The Players expect relations director is "doing a Class "If the show fails, and Sluys a job", and Mr. Barrett and Mr. decides to renege there will be a to net $450 for those nights. Mr. Richard Bennet of the Wright are serving as faculty crisis," remarked Leff. However if Concord Antiquity Society advisors·. the group's determination and Before the group can embark enthusiasm augurs anything, itwill contacted the-Players for-a benefit performance in Concord, Mass. on the tour they need $1000 for be a successful tour. From here the show hits big cities, initia,l expenses. The Players are Boston and Hartford, for March 26 and 27 respectively. The A l u m n i offices h a v e been BY THE MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF VASSAR COLLEGE contacted and the Players are depending upon their "contacts '1 Physicians may not be aware of doses result in abdonimal pain and to come up with big crowds for a new drug abuse pandemic. It is headache. those performances. Alumni who becoming common practice . for The drug is highly allergenic are interested in the play . and studen�s to ingest methaqualone causing hives and rashs. It slows George Newman will take care of for i t s h y p notic depressant gastric and intestinal mobility and the necessary publicity. effects. Unfortunately, students lavage as late as four days after Before rolling into the Cami believe that this is a "safe" drug, ingestion has resulted in return of Theatre, 57th St., New York City, and it is readily available on the the drug. In moderate dosC?s 1776 will be shown at the Pearl black market. cyanosis and apnea have been River H.S. Auditorium, Pearl M et h a q ua lone is variously observed. Methaqualone increases River, N.Y. This Rockland county marketed as Quaalude, Sopor, the irritability of striated muscle community was selected primarily Parest, Optimil, Somnafac and resulting in fasciculation, cramps because it is P e t er Sluys' Tuazole. In Great Britain it is and hyperreflexia. In large doses hometown, and he can guarantee combined with diohenhydramine abnormal b r a i n waves and 700 filled seats at $2 for a healthy as Mandrax. Most of the reports convulsions have been observed. take of $1400. Sluys adds that the of t oxicity and dependence, Skeletal abnormalities have been ,facilities at the school are perfect dating back to 1966, are in the observed in rat fetuses. for his production. He contends l i t e r a t ure of the B r it i's h The Minimum Lethal Dose in that "this is the make or break Commonwealth, Germany and an adult is approxim�tely 8 gms. Japan. Although the drug was less w i t h alcohol or other introduced by Rorer Company in depressant drugs. Recently a local s t u dent ingested 9 gms. of 1965, it is only recently that its Quaalude in a suicide _ attempt. sum, and Mr. Babbitt said that he· dangers .are becoming apparent in She was in deep coma for three hoped that a feasible proposal American literature. da y s . There was increased Students refer to these drugs as could be presented to the Board sa livation, lacrimation, muscle of Trustees. The report on co-ed "Sopors". The usual student cramping a n d h yperreflexia. living will be presented to the dosage is two Quaaludes (600 Board, as well as the beginnings of mgm) with wine or beer. There is B l o o d p r e s sure · and p u lse a major document on long-range a transcient euphoria, increased remained stable. She was treated p l an ning, f o r t h e d ecade pain thr eshold, paraesthesias, with massive diuresis of I.V. 1975-1985. Ms. Colby is in charge impaired proprioception, and a f l u i d s . D i a l y s i s i s t h e of th.e Central Academic Group, sense of indestructability which, r e c o m m e n d ed m ethod of which will consider areas other with mild ataxia, may lead to treatment because of a tendency than financial or p hysical falls , a n d a c c i d e n t s while to deyelop g eneralized and pu lmonary edema and acute operating machinery. planning. There is increasing evidence cardiac failure. The final point that President The drug does not presently Babbitt made· in his address was t h a t t h e d rug leads t o that Kirkland has been accepted psychological and physical come under control of the Bureau to membership in the Union of d e p ende nce . The d r u g is of Nar cotics and Dangerous E x p e r i m e n tal C o l l e g e s and metabolised in the liver and Drugs. Increased FD.A. awareness Universities. The College now has exc;reted in the urine and feces. It of the dangers of this drug will the option to be included in the has been found in the urine seven u n d o u b t e dly c ha n g e t h i s meantimeit would U n i ve r s i t y wit hout W a l l s . days after a single ingested dose. situation. In the seem advisable for physicians to Research is being conducted on In large doses damage to liver and the possible adaptations necessary k_i dneys have been reported. prescribe this drug with caution, preferably on a "Non Ref" basis. for participation in the University. Withdrawal symptoms from large B Y DOUG GLUCROFT
Crisis Center Clo.ses Chang ing Needs Cited
After a year of operation, ''Up s t a i r s ' ' , t h e Hamilton-Kirkland crisis center has been closed. Fonned in February; 1972, the crisis center operated as a 24-hour-a-day counselling and referral service. According to its founder and ·co-ordinator, Debbie Spears '73, "Upstairs" closed because its staff felt that it was no longer an effective vehicle for dealing with student problems. The crisis center was a product of a Winter Study project undertaken by Ms. Spears in January 1972. She perceived the need for an organization which could give advice to students concerning drugs, sex, the draft, le g a l a i d , i n t e r p e r so na l relationships, and other areas of student interest. After receiving permission from both colleges and an allotment of $2000, the center began with offices on the second floor of the Rudd Health Center. Students were encouraged to call the crisis center to discuss any and all types of problems. According to the center staff, most of the calls dealt with b o yfrien d -girlfriend problei:µs, unwanted pregnancies, abortion d i l e m m as, a nd b a d d rug experiences. Students were also encouraged to visit ''Upstairs" to discuss problems face-to-face with a staff member or to seek help during ''bad trips." Over half of the clientele of the crisis center were students experiencing ill-effects of _
hallucinogenic drugs. While no figures were available, the business of the crisis center was reportedly good last Spring. It dropped off considerably during the Pall Semester, however, and therefore, the center was closed. Asked why operations ceased, Ms. S pears said, "People weren't calling and people weren't coming in for help. There is no point in having a service only for the benefit of those who run it." According ·to Hill observers, there has been a marked change in the type of drug usage in the c o m m u n i t y . A p p a r e nt ly , hallucinogens are not as readily available to students as in the past, and many are turning to other types of drugs, expecially muscle relaxers popularly known as "sopors". "Bad trips" do not normally result from the excessive use of sopors, and therefore the crisis center found itself without many clients. Without the non-professional services· of the crisis center, a staff m e m b e r s a i d , students will probably turn to the professional services provided by the Health Center. Whether this will put an unacceptable load on the medical staff remains to be seen; on the surface the death of a crisis center would se.em to indicate fewer c r i s e s , a n. e n c o u r a g i n g development, the student said. Only time will tell whether the closing of "Upstairs" will create a l a r g e g a p i n t h e Hamilton-Kirkland community.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE to come out in mid-April, will discuss the potentials , of the department and will help to plan for the future, especially in the areas of computer science and ecology. "If for no other reason than we are a women's college" we need a science program, Mr. Babbitt stated. The main question is: "How will Kirkland have science?" ''We will break even again this year" was the outlook projected by President Babbitt concerning f i n a n c e s . Th e M i l b a n k Foundati o n , w h ich donated $500,000 for t h e Milbank Dormitory last year, has donated another half million dollars recently. However, Kirkland will suffer a projected deficit of $750,000 for next year, and the Board of Trustees will only approve one. of
$500,000. Theyare hoping to raise a half million dollars, and to cut the remainder from the budget as it now stands. ''We will continue to work in a lean and hungry ' way," Mr. Babbitt concluded. A faculty study grant has been d o u b l e d from one to two thousand dollars, and will. be appropriated to those professors wishing to travel and to perform r e s e a r c h . P r e s i d e n t Babbitt conjectured that the College may also add to this sum. Babbitt� reported that the Trustees will meet on March 2nd and 3rd. The main item on their a g e nda will be the budget. President Babbitt announced that f a c u l ty salar ies have been approved. Also to be discussed is t h e pr oposal for a co-op dormitory. The original cost of $50,000 has been cut to half that
Babbitt's State of the CoUege Address
SOPORS
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Ge_org1:s. Seurat's Pf!, in!illgs; Scientific . Impressionism
The French painter and founder of Pointillism, Georges Seurat, will be the subject of part four of Sir Kenneth Clark's film series Pi oneers of Modern Art. The film on Seurat will be shown at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 28th, in the Kirner Johnson Auditorium. Admission is free. Unlike the other painters in Lord Clark's series, little is known about the character and private life of the Pointillist Georges Seurat (186§-1891). His life was short and he lift little to reveal his private nature except for his paintings. In the film Lord Clark concentr ates prin.cipally on Seurat.'s method of work, subject matter, scientific approach to painting, and his relationship to his cultural background and era. A "Scientific" Impressionism As opposed to the more intuitive· Impressionism of his p r ede ces sors, Georges Seurat developed a kind of rational, "scientific" Impressionism. He believed that Impressionist ideas could be condensed into a completely scientigic system · and that he could construct, his paintings according to precise ru1es. He had rules for everything. "The little green chemist," Gaugin called him. In Seurat's opinion color could be handled with all the exactitude and significance of mathemat ics o r music. He analysed its emotional value, too, systematizing it as color, tone, and line.
outlined by _contrasts of dark and light that place them ffrmly in space. There is a solidity to them, almost a timelessness, that is very different from the swift, fleeting quality of Impressionism. His first large scale canvas, Bathing at Asnieres, was exhibited in t�e first Show of Independent Artists in 1884. This show was organized by the artists whose work was regularly rejected by the conservative annual Salon .. These artists · represented the latest movements in the Paris art world, such as Seurat's Divisionism. Not only did they organize an a n nual s h ow t o g i v e an opportunity to innovative artists who might otherwise have found it impossible to exhibit their works, but later in 1884, they f o r m e d t h e S o c i e t y of Independent Artists to further their aims. Whereas the Salon's jury sifted out any artist who did not conform to its criteria of traditional. themes and academic s t yle, and the Impressionists restricted their shows to works by members of- the group' and invited f r iends , t h e Ind epen dents welcomed all artists, whatever their theories. Two years later occurred the second Show of the Independents and the eight h and final Impressionist Show (which by this time had dropped the work "Impressionist" from its name, as no longer applicable, and was called simply an "Exhibition of Painting.") At both of these shows S eu rat exhibited his
The figures are at once doll-like and human. They are reduced to basic, idealized forms an.d yet they have individual personality. ,··· They are drawn with solimnity, but also with gentle humor. They have a classic timelessness and yet are as expressive of contemporary French life as any of the figures of Renoir. Humor in serious painting is a comparative rarity. Seurat's is ·subtle, quiet, genial, completely free of mockery or cynicism. There is no caricature about the figures of La Grande Jatte. They are drawn with affectionate good h u m o r . We feel Seurat's tenderness for the little girl in the center of the picture, walking so sedately beside her mother, prim and grown up in her best white dress: we are aware of the live little · body under the artist's simplification. We s e n s e his tolerant amusement at the self-importance of the couple in . the right foreground who have obviously come for the pleasure of being seen in their Sunday finery. Their self-consciousness contrasts with the complete unself-consciousness o f the dapper g e n t leman practicing on his trumpet in the background and the relaxed pipe smoker in the left foreground.
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Would Y oil ·Believe? A Good SAC Concert
A Sunday Afternoon on the /5/and of La Gra:nde-Jatte (1884-1886), by Georges Seurat Joy, for instance, glory, gaiety, and love were warm colors yellow, orange, and red- in brilliant tones and upward-surging lines. Conversely, sadness, death, and failure would be conveyed by cold colors, dark tones, and downward slanting lines. Tiny Do ts of Pure Color Seuiat applied his paint ·in tiny dots of pure color in an optical mixture, rather like the . d�ts in color lithography. His friend Paul Signac defined it as a "method of securing the utmo�t luminosity, color, and harmony by the use of all the colors of the spectrum and all degrees ofthose colors without any mixing." · His method came to be c·alled' Neo-Impressionisin, Pointillism, or Divisi onism. ' Whei:eas Impressionist painters had tendt;d to dissolve contours, Seur at's f i gures are clearly
masterpiece, A Sundq.y Afternoon
on the Island of La Grande-Jatte
(reproduced above). Today critics consider that, if Seurat had painted only this one pictur·e , he would still be considered one of the finest artists of modern times. But in 1886 when it· was first exhibited one critic wrote: "Strip his figures of the colored fleas that cover them, and underneatji you will find nothing, no thought, no soul." The picture is a large one, seven by ten feet, and Seurat . spen\ two years completing it. In spite of the almost excessive care with which it is composed, in s pite of the complete motionlessness of the figures, · which have all the animation· of dressmaker's dummies, still the scene h� tr_emendous sparkle �d vitality.
PHOTOGRAPH BY DA VE CANTOR
His Art: Solid and Enduring
A number of artists, among them Paul Signac, � imitated Seurat's method. But they were artists of lesser stature.� Seurat's method without his genius produced results that were not notable, a fact which would have come as a surprise to him, for he had always considered the science of his system to be exclusively responsible for his achievement. "They see poetry in what I have done. No, I apply my method, and that is all there is to it." S eu ra t's de�ire to restore solidity and architectural order to Impressionist painting was shared by Cezanne. ''My aim," Seurat said, ''was to make Impressionism into something solid and enduring like the art of the museums." But the way he set out to achieve his aim was e�tirely new.
Prime, or whatever ...he still had BY JIM KENNEDY The word was out. The SAC to perform. So 'we settled back had blown it once again. For the and waited. God-knows-what time in a row, The lights went out and some the Hamilton College houseparty guy came onstage, and he had a crowd would be groovin' to the guitar and a lot of beer. Then, sounds of two nebulous acts - a much to everybody's surprise, he little known Chicago blues band stepped up to the mike and and a country, bumpkin who no· "She was a level-headed dancer on one knew from Adam. But there the road to alcohol . .." It was was little else to do Saturday the guy! So we sat back to mellow night, so we headed over to the and watch him get drunker and Alumni Gymnasium and settled in sing his songs. for what we knew would be ·another evening of musical When it was over we smiled our mediocrity. illegal smiles and said "Yeah!" We Little did we know. wanted to jump up and applaud Even before James Cotton set so hard that he'd stand up there foot on the stage, his Blues Band and sing and drink all night. But had left little doubt that this was we were spent.James Cotton had to be a concert like no other in taken his toll. So we were content recent houseparty memory, and to hear an encore and be on our when James got his mojo workin' way. and put that harmonica to his As we walked away, it came to mouth, there was no doubt at all. us. We realized that all those When the set was finisHed, we people who said, "Big name brought them back, and the good concert; _no-name - no multitude boogied, and it . was con<; ert" were crazy. Yet it took a good. simple country boy from Paradise, "Fine," we said. Yet the show Kentucky to show us. And we'll was only half over.John Stein, or never forget his i:iame again.
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EVENTS
FEBRUARY 23 1973
On Campus This Weekend
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FILMS
Through a Glass Darkly - directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Harriet Anderson and Max von Sydow; Academy Award for Bes.t_ Foreign Film. 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, Science Auditorium. Also on Sunday night at 10 p.m. In Cold Blood - based. on Truman Capote's stark .best-seller. 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, Sunday night at 10 p.m., Kirner-] ohnson Auditorium. February 26 & 27 (Monday & Tuesday) Darling - directed by Jop.n Schlesinger, fe�turing Julie Christie, winner of several Academy Awards. 9 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. February 28 (Wednesday) 'Pioneers of Modern Painting," Georges Seurat, 8:30 p.m., Kirner-] ohnson Auditorium. See article on this week's Arts Page. Phela Ndaba - African film, 8:30 p.m., Science Auditorium. On Campus Next Weekend Beauty and the Beast and Lickerish Quartet MUSIC March 1 (Thursday) The Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra of Paris, 8:30 p.m., Gym. See article on this week's Arts Pge. EXHIBITIONS Currently On Campus At the List Arts Center - Craftsmen in Pottery. Opening Thursday At the Bristol Campus Center -'- Annual Student Art Exhibition. At the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Artists-Craftsmen of Central New York _:_ at the Museum of Art, 310 Genesee Street, through March 18. BLACK EXPERIENCE February 23 (Friday)· A program of African Drumming and Dancing, 8 p.m., Chapel. Coffeehouse Concert: The Uhuru Ensemble - Music and Poetry, 9:30 p.m., McEwen Coffeehouse. February 24 (Saturday) A program of Interpretive Dance to Choral Accompaniment, Brothers and Sisters of Williams College, 8:30 p.m., Minor Theater. SPORTS Hockey Clinton Comets vs. Syracuse Blazers,8 p.m., Saturday night at the Clinton Arena (853-5541). An important battle between the two fiercest rivals in the Eastern Hockey League. Hamilton vs. A.LC. - Wednesday, February 28th at 4 p.m. Basketball J.V. and Varsity Basketball against R.P.I., Tuesday, February 27th, 6:15 and 8:00 p.m. MILESTONES February 23 (Friday) George· Friedrich Handel's Birthday (1685) February 25 (Sunday) Caruso's Birthday (1873) February 27 (Tuesday) John Steinbeck's Birthday (1902) � Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Birthday (1807)
Jean-Francois Dion (trumpet) and Monique Frasca-Colombier (violin) with the Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra last spring ln the Chapel. The orchestra returns this week for its annual series of concerts. scores. Thus, the ensemble and flexibility a maintains virtuosity . that enables it to perform works of all styles and periods. In addition to its extensive tours of North America, the Kuentz Orchestra has travelled wi<:lely in Europe and in North and South Africa, and has recorded for Club National du Disque, Decca, Archive, Vox, Deutsche Grammophon, and Pa th Marconi. The tape of the Orchestra's 1970 concert_ with the choirs of Hamilton and Chatham Colleges has been released by the French firm Edici. Featured as soloisJ;s with the Kuentz Orchestra this year will be Monique Frasca-Colombier (Mrs. Kuentz) on violin and viola d'amore, Jean-Francois Dion on trumpet, and Jose Luis Lopategui on guitar. Mrs Kuentz has always been the violin soloist and concert mistress with the group. She recently completed a recording of works on the viola d'amore for Deutsche Grammophon. Mr. Dion received the First Prize in trumpet from the National Conservatory of Music in Paris in 1970. He then became irrst trumpet player of the and Orchestra Conservatoire
appeared as soloist of the Frend. Polyphonic Ensemble. His technical and musical qualities and his remarkable tone have placed him in the first rank of French trumpet players. Mr. Lopategui was born in �he Basque country of Spain, and has studied with the famed virtuoso Narciso Yepes and is his assisting artist in performances and recordings. He teaches guitar at the conservatory in Barcelona and this will be his first U.S . tour. On Monday, March 5, 1973, at 8:30 p.m., the Hamilton-Kirkland Choir and the Pual Kuentz Paris Chamber Orchestra will appear in Town Hall in New York City �or a benefit concert. The concert will be given in honor of Alexander Woollcott, (Class of 1909), perhaps the Ch o i r ' s m o s t d i st ingu i shed benefactor and champion; and the proceeds of the performance will be used to establish a scholarship fund in his name. The concert will feature M o zart's Coron ation M ass,· performed by the Choir together with the Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra of Paris.
BY RAY DOOLEY , purpose. Don Juan must therefore G.B. Shaw's "Don Juan in be a thoughtful and contemplative Hell" presents difficult acting and man, yes; but moreover, he must staging problems. I admire The be a man in whom we recognize a H i l l C o m p an y 's courage in superhuman energy and purpose. � en ea th h i s philosopher's attt:mpting so difficult a piece to open what they hope will be a exterior we must see a man ·continuing season, but I question posessed, a man who is frustrated the wisdom of the choice, as I beyond all patience with the believe they have come somewhat epicurean Hell to which he has short of doing Shaw justice. The been c o n f i n e d . It _is this present production suffers from a frustration and the accompanying lugubrious interpretation which sense of urgency of philosophic adds weight to an already expression which is missing in Samuel F. Babbitt's portrayal of ponderous script. Don Juan is a · self-avowed Don Juan. Babbitt's Don Juan is philosopher who is "1n the grip of contemplative and dignified, but the Life Force." The Life Force is he is a Don Juan grown dusty on Shaw's term for the process by -the shelf. Babbitt is sensitive to which Nature seeks to understand the language and has a delightfully itself and transmit its will to the wry comic sense, but he is a static futute.. It is Nature's attempt to and careful Don Juan, instead of g u i d e itself through the t h e i ns p i r ed · and e c sta tic . amorphous substance we call philosopher whose_ words erupt ·infinity, rather than merely to like steam from a pressure cooker. The Devil, who espouses a yield "in the direction of least resistance." pessimistic belief in a blind and Don Juan, like all Life Force mechanistic universe, is a worthy worshippers, judges the value of intellectual opponent for Don his existence as a direct function Juan. David Begelman, as The _of hi� �bilitY. . to further Nature's De v il, g i v e s· an energetic
performance, filling the stage with a presence befitting the Prince of Darkness.
"Our best chamber orchestra," according to the Paris Journal Musical Francais, is the Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra of Paris, an ensemble of Jifteen talented and attractive French artists, which will appear on Thursday, Mar.ch 1, at 8:30 p.m. in the Alumni · Gymnasium. Tickets will be $1.50 for students · and $2.50 for the general public. This will be the eleventh consecutive year that the Kuentz Orchestra has performed on the HHI. Paul Kuentz, founder and director of the orchestra, was a student at L 'Ecole Superieure de Musique of .-Paris and a winner of its first prize. He organized his ensemble in 1950 from among other prize winners at the , conservatory. Several of its members have won prizes in top European instrumental competitions. The ins�entation of the group normally consists of 'seven violins, two violas, two cellos, one double bass, and either piano, clavichord, or organ. To this basic unit may be added wind instruments (flute, oboe, bassoon, trumpet, horn) to achieve the combinations desired in the presentation of more complex
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Play Review: ''Don Juan ID Hell''
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Arlene Begelman 's direc,torial choice of having the men wear formal evening wear aids, I think, in formalizing and constrairting the performances, expecially that of Mr. Babbitt. This traditional, if not tired, convention, gives the piece an undeserved drawing room st e r i l ity which obscures the universality of Shaw's text. Although I did not find Don Juan in Hell as stimulating as I might have liked, I find the idea of a "p ermanent resident theatrical group for the area" e x citing. I hope that Mrs. liegelman ·will direct again for the Hill Company, perhaps choosing a play which will offer her_ greater oppo rtunity t o utilize her considerable training in movement and choreography. I encourage anyone who is interested in $Upporting The Hill Company jn any way to contact either Mrs. Begelman or Mrs. Natalie Babbitt for further information.
FEBRUARY 23. 1973
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Bingham Finds New Job ('A Worthwhile Experience'
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE stay out of it urtlesd-'m asked to facilitate something that some organization wants to do, like find a room, or get some money. There have been a number of those kinds of things developed. Thirdly, we're going to begin working a bit more actively with fraternities. We had very fruitful meetings with a group of fraternity graduate officers and underg ra d u a t e offic ers last weekend under the sponsorship of the Alumni Council. What we wanted to ·say· to them and wha t we did say to them was that we support the fra t ernity system as an option in housing and dining. There are a lo t of other good reasons to suppor t it, but tha t is one, certainly, and a major one. One of the resul ts of that meeting with the alumni was to say some thing that I think perhaps they had not said to them befor_e there continues to be this notion that the college would like to sack fra terni ties if it could, and nothing is farther from our minds. HOUSING ON THE HILL Q: In the past few years, there have been some innovations in the h o u s i n g m echa nism a t Hamilton-Kirkklnd, namely co-ed dorms. What does the future look like for co-ed dorms, cooperatives, _and other different types of housing arrangements'!' A: I would
like to see us do as much as we can do in the area of housing op t i ons, dif ferent kinds - of patterns a student can elect. In some ways we already have different kinds of patterns, we have Griffin. Road apartments, we've got a few people living o f f -campus, we've got single rooms, we've got suites, we've got doubles, and fraternities, of course. In some ways those represent an awful lot of options already. The c oed housing possi bilities are something I support as much more natural, open way to live - it's the way most s tudents would be living if they weren' t at Hamilton and Kirkland, if they had jobs and were living in apar t ment buildings. One of the problems over here is simply the physical setup of our dormitories, which were obviously never set up to house women. The bathroom facilities in many cases don't have the kind of privacy, individual showers and ha thtubs for example, that women, at least in my experience, seem to prefer. ,b-lso, it is required by state law that there b e separate bath facilities on each floor for men and women if men and women are housed on the s�e floor. I think that mixing male and female studeµts by room on a single floor is probably the most n'atural way to do it. The problem is that in every single one of our dorms there is only one ba throom on each floor. I don't think we can ·get around it by saying we'll mix men and women on two floors and have the bath on one floor be for men and the bath on the next floor be for women, becaus e the law says very specifically, ''On each floor separate baths must be provided for each sex if men and women. are housed on the sam e floor." So we're pretty much stuck wit h either suites in Carnegie, which is what we did last year and created some flak, and/or whole floors in other Hamilton dorms. Q: How • ? co-operative.
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damn good idea if it will fly. I was night a t the meeting that classes here is not _ sk�wed so m�c!1 known among the' good graduate associated with a number of co-op might be held at fraternity houses. toward the very high grades as 1t 1s schools and I think we can make experiments at Union, and not I don' t think we ought to _be in a couple of other places that we it better known. On balance I many of them did fly, so I am a assigning classes to fraternities, know abo�t . N�w there has be�n would prefer t o be associated with little dubious. They are beginning bu t if the students and the a general mflat10n of grades m a place that has not given in to to get some interest by way of professor want to hold a class in a ?1ost _collegges. There has b�en an this real wild inflation of grades, if numbers now. If the Kirkland fraternity, I t hink it is a good inflation of grades here ·if you it isn't detrimental to students. look ba�k five ye:n-s. It hasn't We've had a pretty good record of trustees can see their way clear to idea. been as 1 t has been m some other put up the money somehow or DRUGS ON THE HILL getting s tudents into graduate other, which would be necessary Q: There are a lot of drugs on places. Curiously enough, the schools. · to ·do this in one of the dorms this campus, and they are being st uden ts at some other colleges Q: D o you en1oy . · your JO· b?• I there has been a very rapid d over there, then I think the thing used much more openly now than where o very much. w e enJoy Clinton a . . • is certainly worth a shot. before. What is your reaction to 1 n fla t· 1 o n o "f g r ad es a re 1ot, we enJoy · b emg • here. Agam, • about the same th"mg comp1ammg We are prepared, on both this'! it's something that I have said ever • campuses, to expand the number A: The problem of using drugs that our students are exc. ept from since the m1"ddle of my co11ege . 80 degrees away· That IS, tha t it of students living in co�d housing openly in public, in places like the e xperience at Middlebury that it is next year by a bit, not b y much. · Pub, Bristol, or a t concer ts, there IS so easy to get an A or a B there something I wanted to do - to There are about 36 who- have is always the possibility, for �a t _th e �ua te schools tend. to work with students at a small · · switched campuses this year. We'll instance in the Pub, that a guy disrmss the1r records as ·bemg college. Here I am domg 1t, and I • fl�ted · p r o b a b l y go nex t year on from Alcoholic Beverage Control arti"fic iallY m am finding I am enjoying it as The sugg e stion that we should something on the order of 50. This will come_ around (as they often muc h as 1 kn ew I would. some • · depends on the number of people do to make sure we aren' t selling . Slillp1Y add po,mts to eve rybody ,s regre ts about the kind of time it h ts a t . the th.at are interested. The problem is _ beer to people who aren't 18) and average 1 don t think · takes away from my family. car t o f 1• t. Whether h t the no or i t ha t the dormitories on both Th if the re were drugs used openly a t's the only thing anyone · cai_npuses are full. They need to there, he could very easily close campaign of selling oursc1vcs ot could ob ject to. be full so · we can pay the damn the place· down. Any tim e drugs I have two li ttle kids, a three things off. Tha t means t hat if we are used in public, in a confined year-old and one year-old, and I have co-ed housing a roughly area like that, everybody. there is think it is pret ty important that equal number have to go to the subject to arrest if there were any they know who their father is, other campus to keep rooms full. kind of big bust . Now there has and tha t they know · he cares about them. When I don't get THE ROLE OF FRATERNITIES never been one on this campus. I home until 5:30 or 6. and have a Q: Perhaps you can expand on don't necessarily anticipa te one, meeting at 7:00, I don't see very fraternities a bit. How do you see particularly when the level of drug much of them. That's a pretty the role of fraternities here? A: I use here is pretty much confined important stage for kids in terms support fraternities, r1rst and to the softer s tuff at the moment. of developing certain kinds of Q: What do you mean by the foremost as a housing and dining relationships and their own ways kind of opt ion. That by itself softer stuff? .A : Marijuana, hash, some of looking at things. But it hasn't would be a good reason for been tha t serious. I haven't been fraterni ties to e xist �on this mescaline I guess. It is my pulled away that much. campus, but I t hink there are a lot impression, at least, that there is This is som ething I am going to of other reasons besides. It is not an awful lot of the other s tuff have to watch. I am not prepared quite clear that a goodly number b eing used· as/there may have been t o give my heart and soul and all of students, something on the in the past', from what I've heard. my life to Hamilton College. I've order of half the freshman class So the danger of that open use is got a family that in some ways the last few years, has· felt it t he danger of compromising overlaps and in some ways is important for them personally to others and yourself in a legal sense distinct, and I wan t to keep it that have some identification with a if anything were to ever to occur, way. larger group. That also means that I think that's the main worry. · Q: Are you concerned about I love the job, I really do. I half didn't, tha t's fine. That is the think that's the word I'd use. The kind of b alance I think is useful. the drug situation, generally students have been great - they're Just in terms of providing the about the fact that people are the graduate schools hits the heart good to work with. I'm teaching association wi th the larger group, smoking dope or taking sopors? A: I am personally not tem"bly of it or not I don' t know. I this semester, and that's given me I think fraternities have a role to p l a y . I would like to see concerned about marijuana, used personally would much rather another kind of viewpoint about fraternities a little more active in moaeration, any more than I take that approach than the the quality of students we have on outside the social sphere. That is am about people who drink beer ar tificial adding of four points to the Hill and just enhances my own me rely a matter of trying to in moderation. I am pre tty well everybody's average. I think that's feeling from the students I've convinced that someb ody who phony and I think that's in some dealt wit h in this office that they e ncourage the fraternities to do things to bring the academic gets stoned every night , four or ways untruthful about what's the ar e, in general, bright and program a little more into the five or six times a week is going to actual record of one. It's true that insightful, and have good ideas. f r a t e r n i t y - s omething I'm suffer some motivation problems, that would just infla te everyone's They aren't willing to take "no" certainly no t prepared to force, some apathy, he is no t going to be average, and class rank would stay for an answer unless there is a able to get into his work. But I the same, but that bo thers me as a . good reason. That makes the nor would I want to if I could. whole thing, for m e anyway, ·a Fraternities here, a t leas t by would say t he very same thing kind of moral problem. I think Hamilt on is pretty well really worthwhile experience. t heir o w n a d mission, seem about a guy who got smashed in g e n e r a l l y t o b e s o c i a l the Pub four or five or six times a organizations, and even if that is week. You mentioned sopors. We all they did, that would b e fine. I'd like to see them do a little don't know very much about more. 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FEBRUARY 23, 1973
Mermen Ready foi- Final Duel; Up- state Oiam pionships Next Week BY PETER ACKERMAN The Alumni Pool was the scene last Satuday of yet another Hamilton College Swim Team victory. The tankmen downed Ithaca College, 7141. It was a particularly gratifying victory for the Blue since Ithaca has been dropped from the schedule to be
Carlberg and John Needham '7 5 were the two Blue record setters for the day. Jeff set a new pool standard in the 200-y�d breaststroke with a quick time of 2:20.7. Needham, swimming the second 1000-yard free-style race of his career, went a full 10
M c D evitt, whose· di stance swimming has only recently been exploited by Coach McDonald, came up with a first place in the 500-yard free-5tyle. His time of 5 :15 .0 was a me:re tenth of a second slower than the school mark. In the sprints, Shrum has c o n t i n u e d h i s· s t e a d y 'improvement. His winning time of 51.9 for the 100 free was his best effort to date. Needham finished second behind Shrum in 53.1.
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More points were added by Craig MacDonald '75 in the backstroke and Gary Karl in the 200-yard butterfly. Mac took the 200 back i n 2:14.2 (with Shapland finishing third behind him), and Gary grabbed second in the fly with a 2:20.5 timing. Captain Peter Schloerb tallied twice, gaining second place in both the 200-yard individual medley (2:13. I)' and 200-yard breaststroke events.
John Adams John Needham shown just before he set a school record in the 1000-yd free-style. replaced next year by Colgate. seconds faster than his previous This meet produced two records best performance, lowering the as well as several commendable school record in that event from individual efforts. Starting it 11:04.5 to 10:54.3. off, Coa ch Eric MacDonald O t h e r p er sonal best combined John Baird '74 with performances were turned in by sophomores Jeff Carlberg, Gary Dave Shapland '74, McDevitt, and Karl, and Doug McDevitt in the Joe Shrum '76. Shapland, not 400-yard medley relay. The regularly a 200-yard freestyler, foursome took a first place with a won that race in 1:57.1 (his solid 3:54.2 clocking. fastest time for that distance).
Bruce Rinker '73 and Fred Holender '74 each took a first, the former in the. 50-yard free-style (23.4) and the latter in the required dives. Freshman John Vanderveer finished third behind Rinker (25.3). Holender, not displaying his best form, had to settle for second in the optionals. Don Kendall '74 also added points wjth two third places in the diving events.
Jeff Carlberg on route to setting a record in the 200 -yd breaststroke.
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The final 400-yard free-style relay of Rinker, Baird, Needham, and Shrum combined to win in 3 :3 0 .0 . The natators, now boasting a 7-1 record, have their eyes on the state meet next week at Buffalo. The next dual contest is in Alumni Pool, this Friday, Feb. 23rd at 4:00 PM against Brockport.
SQUASH DISCUSSION Anyone intereste4. in discussing the pros and cons of Squash becoming a Varsity sport on the. Hill is invited to a meeting on Monday, Feb. 26 in the Gym Library at 3:30 p.m. All members, past and present of the Squash Club, faculty, and any interested stud�nts should plan to attend. COMMUNITY WORSHIP The theme for community worship this week is "Fear: How to be Rejected by '(our· Professor, Your Lover, your Peer Group, and God." Kirner-Johnson Red Pit, 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
Professors in u n i versities usually have six hours of class per week; they are expressly paid to use the rest· of their time for research and publication. The a verage small-college professor carries a nine-hour class load, and usually serves as advisor to s tu den ts , and ha s var ious administrative duties. He also does not have the research facilities or clerical resources the university professor. Generally handicapped, the small-college author publishes less frequently and depends a great deal upon fellowhips for the preparation of significant works. Dav i d L . R o s e n b l o o m , A s s i st a nt P r o f e s s o r o f Government, has written The Political Marketplace, 1972, and The Election Men, January 1973, both published by Quadrangle Books. He did a great deal of his research for these books at graduate school and during a j u nior faculty fellowsh ip. Rosenbloom agreed that writing here is not easy; he saw no changes in this situation. State and large universities gain wide reputation through the writings of their faculty: In the 1%O's, some small colleges hired writers in hopes of the same result. Hamilton is not nationally k n own i n p a r t b e cause
comparatively little writing was done here in the past. The College could hire a well-known writer to bring attention to Hamilton; more practically, however, publication will increase as research and development areencouraged as lively men are hired. Continued research and activity in one's field, not interfering with teaching duties, will result in publication and eventual improvement of reputation.
Hamilton Encourages Research, Not 'Publish or Perish'·
BY MITCHEL OSTRER Ha mil ton College has a te a ch i n g faculty. The administration of the College has repeatedly refused the doctrine of publish or perish; nevertheless, many professors here do write articles and books, and many are involved in research in their respective fields. The College has always welcomed and encouraged such scholar ship. Recently though, Hamilton has subtly increased emphasis on faculty research and development. "Believing that . . . (effective) . teac hing re quires a n atmosphere o f scholarship and creativity," states the Faculty Handbook, "the College expects each Faculty member to maintain a focus of professional interest and encourages him to achieve professional recognition." Stephen G. Kurtz, Dean of Facu lty, strongly encourages faculty scholarship. Though he will not intimidate those who are not prolific writers, Mr. Kurtz is pa rticularly proud of the acc omplishments of faculty authors. Each year, the President, with the advice of the Appointments Committee, may award six fellowships to tenured members and two Margaret Bundy Scott Fellowships to untenured junior
members of the faculty. Dean Kurtz invited the faculty, this fall, to apply for these Hamilton fellowships and promised to help those professors interested in f i n d i n g outside grants and f e 11 o w h i p s . T h e Dean i s authorized, also, t o award modest grants for short-term research, related travel, equipment and services. Although grants are given fpr the sake of mastering recent l i te rat ure a n d techni ques, generally, the Dean expects larger f e l l o w s h i ps t o result i n publication o f some sort. According to the Committee on Appointments, Tenure and P r o m o t i o n , research a n d publication is the third o f four criteria for promotion. Teaching and continued scholarly interest in one's field rate more highly. The Hamilton author does not write principally for professional s e c u rity, for rewar ds and sanctions are relatively indirect and delayed. T he small-college professor writes out of professional pride. The desire to be known nationally is also a motive for writing, publication being the sole means of gaining a reputation in one's field o f teaching. Monetary r e wards are indefinite; most education journals, in fact, do not pay their contributors.
Mr. Dwight Lindley, Professor of English, recently co-edited a monumental collection of John Stuart Mill's letters. Mr. Lindley agrees that there has been a greater empl].asis on faculty scholarship since Stephen Kurtz replaced Winton Tolles as Dean this year, and since .T ohn Chandler "ONE OF THE 10 BEST PIT-STOPS IN THE U.S."
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became President of Hamilton in 1968. Mr. Lindley believes that this encouragement and emphasis is g ood f or the C o l l e ge. Nevertheless, he does not expect those professors who do not usually write to suddenly begin writing. Dean Kurtz has emphasized the value of an . atmosphere of scholarship. The dolcttums of the fifties, when the College ignored research and writing are long gone. Nor is there a crash program, like those of the 1960's, to publish and throw Hamilton on the map, or perish. Dean Kurtz, rather, has expressed his strong convicti.Qn that scholarship and research are essential to the College. Publication is only its natural result.
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Blue Hoopsters Edge 'Utica; Swamped_ by U. of Rochester T h e H a m i l t o n College basketball team continued its busy schedule last week, with contests against Utica College and the University of Rochester. Last Saturday the Hill travelled to nearby Utica and edged the Pioneers 79-77. At home on Tuesday, the Continentals were soundly beaten by Rochester by a lopsided score of 114-86.
Continentals began patiently looking for the open man against U t i c a ' s man -to-man defense. Junior Co-Captain Craig Fallon was the man to ,find as he converted for 14 first-half points. With Co-Captain Ernie Found '74 and Pedro Garcia '75 playing well under the boards, the Blue managed to close a late first-half deficit of 13 points to five at intermission.
With a three-game winning streak on the line, the Hill hosted powerful University of Rochester l a s t T u e s d ay . D i splaying incredible speed for their size, the Y ellowjackets handled Hamilton's press and used the fast break to their advantage. While dominating the boards, the Jackets built up a commanding 2 0-p o i nt lead midway in the first half. The remainder of the first 20 minutes saw Hamilton patiently and gallantly fight back to cut Rochester's advantage to nine points at the first-half buzzer. Rochester's size and bench strength were the deciding factors for the rest of the contest. While d i splaying good hust l e throughout, Hamilton could not stay with the Yellowjackets on the boards. At the 15-minute mark, U. of R. had mounted a 28-point lead that the tiring H illmen found impossible to overcome. The final score stood U. of R. 114, Hamilton 86.
Pedro Garcia fights for the rebound.
F o r the Hoopsters, the match-up with Utica was not just another game. An intense rivalry has d ev e l o ped between \he P ioneers and Continentals in recent years, and Hamilton was out to avenge a 30-point setback earlier this season. The Buff 'n' Blue jumped out to an early 6-point lead. That lead, however, turned out to be short-lived. Behind the shooting of Senior Dave Owens and Junior t r a n s f e r R i ck Williams, the pioneers bounced 'back to grab an 8 - po i nt advantage with ten minutes left in . the fast half. Hamilton's outside shooting was not up to par; consequently, the
I n the s econd half, the difference proved to be physical conditioning. It was evident that the Hill squad wa:s in better shape than their opponents, and they t o o k a dvantage of this by outrunning the Utes for many uncontested layups. Owens and Williams, however, kept Utica on top until late in the second half. With three minutes to play, Garcia put Hamilton in the lead- once again, a lead which changed hands severa,l times in the final minutes. Garcia tallied for his 18th point with 20 seconds left. This bucket proved to be the deciding margin as Hamilton grabbed its fifth victory, 79-77.
O n e br ight spot in the R o c h e s t e r l o s s was the performance of the Continental bench. Although working hard all year, the second team hasn't seen much playing time: If present performance is any indication of future play, however, this year's bench should figure into Coach Murphy's plans. Dan Daly '76 displayed some sharp sh·ooting, ending with six points on the night. Guards Dave Marshall '76 and Dave Sohn '75 showed they can run the show if needed,· and Rob Winter '75 was hustling on both ends of the floor.
FEBRUARY 23 1973
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BY ED WATKINS The image of the amateur athlete took another beating last week. Boston University had to forfeit eleven games because it had used an ineligible player. He was ineligible_ because as a Junior A hockey player, he had his high school tax of $189 paid for by his team. Controversy over .wh<;> was an amateur started with the revival of the Olympic games in 1896. The arguments were as fierce then as they are now. In 1912, Jim Thorpe had his medals taken away when it was discovered tha.t he once had been paid for playing baseball. If an amateur athlete is one who is not supposed to be paid for playing, then few players, once they turn 18 are amateurs. For years, all tennis players were considered amateurs. It was a well-known fact that many of them were being paid "under the table". Nevertheless, they were still considered amateurs. Athletes who receive athletic scholarships are considered to be amateurs despite the obvious fact that in payment for their services, they a re rec e1v1ng gr ants worth between ten and twenty thousand dollars. Athletes who are serving i n a country's military are consdiered to be amateurs though they spend little time performing military duties. Much of the confusion could be avoided if the International
Olympic Committee would either define what an · amateur is �, more realistically, abolish the amateur standings along with competition among nations and let the athletes regain control of the g-ames. As it stands now, the games are marred by charges that every country is using players who are not amateurs. Well, the idea of amateurs playing sports goes back to the days of the British Empire, when the upper class, who had leisure tim� began playing sports to keep th�mselves amused. As the lower classes gained more leisure time, they, too, began to take an interest in sports. The better players decoded to make a living out of playing games and so the first professional leagues were created. The decline of the amateur soon followed. Today, the idea of amate urs playing the · game seems quite quaint. How is a long distani::e runner supposed to feed a family and train at the same time if someone is not paying him for his trouble? He is no longer expected to sacrifice all for King and Country. Today, it is recognized that a man cannot continue to devote his life to a sport just for the sake of patriotism or the old school spirit. Recognition of the athlete's needs could go far in preventing the problems caused by those-who dream about the days when only "good young men played sports."
The remaining freshman, Mark Kasdorf, deserves a lot of credit for his efforts not only in the U. of R. game, but all year long. He could help_ Coach Murphy's rebounding corps in his next three years. The final week of play ·has three games in store for the Continentals. They travel north this week end to meet St. Lawrence and Clarkson and return home for the season finale Tuesday agairist pote,_ntially t ouna ment-bound RPI. Game time Tuesday is 8:00; J.V. at 6:15.
Skaters Lose to Middlebury, U.V.M. Meet U.Conn and WilliaIDs This W'kend
BY MANNY SARGENT If there is light at the end of a long, tunnel, the Hamilton hockey team will be looking for it this w e e k e n d. T o n i g h t. t h e Continentals are in· ·Storrs, Connecticut to face a squad of lame ducks from the University of Connecticut. Saturday's action in the Bay State pits Hamilton against a' solid Williams College team. But first, a quick look at the Blue's most recent tilts, those during last weekend's trip to Vermont. Last Friday, February 16, Bill Burke and his Middlebury College teammates blanked the
Blue, 4-0. As it turned out, the the premier pucksters in Dvision Cont inentals, unpopular with II. Hamilton will move up one slot Panthers fans in the past, lost not i n 1 974-'75 when Vermont only the night's contest but also advances to Division I. As far as the weekend goes, U. the further services of defenseinan Tom Thompson. Fans may see Conn. should fall by -five goals. frequent visitors to Greg Root's Williams, tougher this year on doorstep as the season winds up. de f e n se , will probably turn· T h e n e x t n i g h t , t h e · around and do the same to Cataumounts from the University Hamilton the following night. of Vermont tightened their grip Clinton fans' last chance to catch over the rest of Division II with a the Continentels will be next 9-1 breeze over the Continentals. Wednesday v e r sus American Lead as usual by the line of Patty International College. A.,1,C , also Wright between Fred Hunt and w rapping up a disappoipting Teddy Castle, U.V.M. is well on season, won't be adverse to dukes her way to replacing Bowdoin as if the sit tation calls for it.
Co-captain Craig Fallon prepares to pass to a fellow teammate.
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HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
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The Sen'iite e ndorses the spirit of the letter from the Editor's Note: The.·following is a letter received February 20, 1973, by the Student Senate Curriculum Committee and agrees with the C urriculum Committee that the matter of self-scheduled exams deserves Curriculum Committee in regard to its request for f ur t her consideration from the faculty and the self-scheduled exams. administration of the College. PASSED 2/27/73 Dear Sirs: To the Academic Council: The Academic Council has at last reached a We feel there has been some misunderstanding as dec ision on the i s sue of self-scheduled to the status of our proposal concerning examinations, which your committee brought to self-scheduled examinations', first presented to you the Council's . attention last fall. You had, as you Se ptember 25, 1972. This letter seek_s to remember, little trouble persuading the Council communicate both what was our understandmg of that the widespread dissatisfaction among students the matter and to raise several objections to the (and faculty) with the system then in force was reasons cited in your letter of February 20, 1972 justified and that something had to be done to which seemed to compel abandonning our proposal. remedy the situation. 1. The most extensive documentation given for In immediate response to the proposal of the the rejection of the proposal deals with your Student Curricmlum Committee, the Council · consultation with the �dministrations of other recommended to the faculty the changes in the colleges having self-scheduled exams. You state "the �xamination system that were introduced at the conclusions... were less than encouraging. Even at Director James Fankhauser and Conductor Paul Kuentz end of the first semester. The. practical result of Haverford, the administrative difficulties s�em quite these new mea.sures is that no student is forced serious." We quote in reply an article which you now to take more than one examination on a passed on to the student curriculum committee, given day. received from Bryn Mawr /Haverford and written by To g iv e the . question of self-scheduled the Dean of Haverford: "The self-scheduling system examinations the full attention it deserves the has now been used seven terms. Cheating has been <'<' Council consulted the administrations of a number no problem... Far from weakening the honor system BY LAWRENCE WINGERT Jon Humphrey has been a long of colleges (Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Williams) The Hamilton-Kirkland Choir standing member of the Robert where some form of self-scheduled examinations by putting new strains on it, self-scheduling has will present a concert with the Shaw Chorale, and has done much has been in practice for the past few years. The seemed to strengthen it.. Self-scheduling is possible Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra solo work with that group on conclusions one had to draw from this survey were in a college where there is a strong honor system, of Paris this Sunday, March 4, at tours and in recordings. Recently less than encouraging. Even at Haverford, where a provided the students... are willing to work hard at 3: 00 p.m. in the Alumni he has been engaged by most of very strong arid old Honor Code makes the system it...The system is regarded by Haverford students as Gymnasium. This will be the the major symphony orchestras of easier to administer, the administrative difficulties one of their proudest accomplishments." Indeed, eleventh Hill appearance of the the East, including the Boston seem quite serious. At Wiliiams, a college _ perhaps the material which the Academic Council sent the Kuentz Orchestra with the Choir. ' Symphony, the New York easiest to compare with Hamilton, the options (no· Curriculum Committee indicated not that Tickets for the concert are on sale Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, e x a m i n a tions , take-home e xa minations, self-scheduling exams were an impossiblity, but that a( some other schools they had more than proved at the main desk of the Bristol and the Philadelphia Orchestra. self-scheduled examinations, etc.) are available to · Campus Center and will be John d'Armand is an Assistant the fa�ulty, not the students: the instructor their worth. Your citation of Williams as having the same examination procedure as Hamilton seems to available at the door. Prices are Professor at U Mass. in Amherst decides which form of examination s1:1,its his course us in no way a compelling argument for this col�ege $1.00 for students, $2.00 for and Executive Director of the best. As yo_u know, this system has been operating to preserve its current operational procedure.· faculty and staff, and $3.00 for P a u l Memorial U lanowsky in some form at Hamilton, too. 2. The "immediate response" which your letter the general public. F o un dation for Chamber After all the:.e discussions and deliberations, tq.e mentions, communicated to us on November 9, The Choir, under the direction Musicians. He is very active as a Council has now concluded that the flexibility 1972, was of course passed too late in the semester of Professor James Fankhauser, soloist in New England and has introduced into the examination schedule last for us to hope that an appeal could be made for an will perform Cantate Domino by been a touring and recording December proved sufficient to eliminate the institution of a self-scheduling policy for the first Vulpius, the Gloria and Credo member of the Shaw Chorale. grievances that called for some reform of the �Id semester. We were, however, given oral and written from the Missa Ave Maris Stella Also present at Sunday's schedule. Also, the optimism of those who clarm assurance that the "student request has not met by Josquin des Pres, and a motet, concert will be approximately that self-scheduled examinations ·will not place an with a direction." (letter of Dean Kurtz, Nov. 9th Schaffe in m.ir, Gott, ein rein Herz thirty sub-freshmen who will be all but unbearable burden on the Honor System is But the subcommittee of the Academic Council by Brahms. The Kuentz Orchestra spending the weekend at difficult to share. Thus, the problems that a which was to further consider the' proposal after is scheduled to perform works by Hamilton under the auspices of completely self-scheduled system would create Nov. 9th never met with this committee, oral Mozart, Purcell, and Vivaldi, and the and Admissions seem to exceed its benefits. Music assurance being given us that we would again will feature as soloists Monique Departments. These young men The Council has, therefore, . decided not to consider the matter at the beginning of the second Frasca-Colombire on violin and have applied to Hamilton and are propose. any further changes in th existing system semester. Without warning, the whole matter has � viola d'amore� Jean-Francois Dion musically talented, though not of examinations. We would also hke to thank you been dropped from consideratfon. It is dismaying to on trumpet, and Jose Luis necessarily interested in music as a for bringing this matter to our attention and for Lopategui on guitar� major. They will spend the helping to improve the earlier situation. If you be confronted with the lack of trust the Academic The two groups wi11 combine weekend examining Hamilton and have any questions, feel free to contact any one of Council has demonstrated towards the student body in so dismissing a prop�sal that in April, 1972, well for the concert's featured piece Kirkland and meeting with us for discussion and clarification. over 90% of the student body endorsed. Mozart's Coronation Mass (K. students and Faculty. Sincerely yours, 3. Of course, it is the status of the Honor Code. at 317). The solo vocalists for this On Monday, March 5, the Stephen G. Kurtz Hamilton which is the most serious issue here. It number will be: Neva Pilgrim, Choir and the Kuentz Orchestra for the Academic Council seems the opinion of the student body that, in the soprano; �wa Michalak, alto; Jon will travel to New York where Ivan Marki final analysis, the justification of a rejection of a Reuben Cholakian Humphrey, tenor; and, john they will present a concert James Traer system of self-scheduling exams must rest _upor:1 a Grant Jones d'Armand, bass. Ms. Pilgrim, identical to Sunday's at Town belief that they would inevitabely result m wide currently an Instructor in Voice at Hall. scale violations of the Honor Code. Thus, the Hamilton and Kirkand, has been decision to us seems to imply that the faculty an "artist-in-residence" at Oberlin attitude' is that 'a significant number of students, if College, Hollins College, and the given the opportunity, will not only neglect to Cleveland Institute of. Music. enforce the Honor Code, but will actively seek to Appearances with the Vienna break it. V olksoper, the Chic ago The proposal has been turned down in spite of Symphony Orchestra, the the contrary opinion of the president of the Honor Marlb oro Clario:q Festival, Court that self-scheduling would not place an Society, Brooklyn Philharmonic, insufferable burden on the Honor System. If the numerous contemporary groups, belief is ,generally held by the faculty that the and on CBS television, have Honor System is in such sorry condition, it seems established her ,reputation as an incumbent upon them to so announce their decision impressive young singer. and to act upon it. We are not altogehter assured Ewa Michalak is a native of that things are in as dire straits as to remove the Poland where she made many possiblity that further investigation into the matters concert appearances and sang of b-oth the Honor Code and self-scheduling exams several operatic roles. Since might prove both enlightening and fruitful. coming to the United States in In any ·case, this decision of the Academic 1965, she has sung mainly in the Council must leave us somewhat puzzled as to the Philadelphia area, including the status of the Honor Code, both in the minds of the Academy of Music. She has faculty and with respect to its fu ur at Hamilton performed often in joint recitals Sincerely, with her husband, Thomas Mark Richard, co-chairman curi1culum committee Michalak, conductor of the Utica Clyde Leff, Presider t, Student Sr!nat'.e Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Kuentz leads � ·practice session
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SENATE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Eiection of next year's Student Senate's president will take place on Tuesday, March i3. Petitions are available in Root 7 and require one (not ten) signature. Platforms _are due by Wednesday, March 7, by 3 P·n:1· SENATE. MEETING There will be a Student Senate meeting Tuesday, March 6 at 9:15 to discuss with De an Kurtz and members of the Academic Policy Committee their decision on se�f-scheduled exams. WOME'N AND WAR Excerpts from Brecht, Euripedes, Shakespeare, and Shaw will be presented in the Minor Theatre on Saturday, March 10 at 8:30 p.m. Admission is free and all are welcome. JESUS RELIGION Thomas Troeger, minister of the New Hartford Presbyteri an Church, will speak and lead a discussion this evening on ':Jesus-Religion vs. the Religion of Jesus." Kirner-Johnson Red Pit, 8:30 p.m. THEFTS ON CAMPUS State police have been investigating numerous thefts in "B" Dorm this past week. Members of the Hamilton-Kirkl and community are urged ta LOCK THEIR DOORS!! POTTER SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS NEEDED More people are needed to work with the h andicapped children at the Potter School in Utica. These children are cerebral palsied and brain damaged; many are in wheelchairs or on crutches. The school has no recreation pro!fl'am for them. All you give up is an hour and a _ half of your time to play with these kids in either the gym or their classroom. You need only go once a week; groups leave Bristol at noon on Tues., Wed., Thurs., and Fri. and .usually return before 2:00. Ther.e is also a special swimming program on Mondays from 1 :00 to 3:00. If you are at all interested, please call Ed Rosten 853-8016. Thank you. ISRAEL-MIDDLE EAST On Monday March 5, 1973 at 8 p.m. in the Fisher Room an Israeli graduate student will speak about the· Middle East. .POSTER PAPER AVAILABLE EECHK now has a limited supply of high quality poster paper. Free of charge, this paper can be well used by groups such as Amenic, Kinokunst, SAC, etc. Please contact Wayne Stabile through campus mail, if you are interested. KIRKLAND ELECTION RESULTS Student Activities- Committee (SAC): Cathy Collins, Elizabeth Greene, Mardi Considine. Student Dean Search Committee: Maya Memling and Debbi .Curry (at-large), Anne Cary and Sus an Cohen (seniors).· Faculty Dean Search Committee: Sara Gordon and Const ance , �iner. FREE CHURCH SERVICE The speaker at this week's Free Church service will be Melvin B. Endy of the Hamilton Religion Dept. His topic: "What Really Grabs You (and Where)?" Chapel, 11:15 a.m. Sunday. WINTERSETL EDITOR Anyone interested in being considered f r the editorship of Winterset[ please contact Bill Delaney, Box 1205 before Wednesday, March 7. STUDENT DEFENSE COMMITTEE The Student Defense Committee, ·Debbie Spears representative, is sponsoring a fund-raising dance on March 10 in Bundy Dining Hall, 9 p.m. Their initial effort will be in support of Cassandra Harris. Please contact Debbie for more information. E.E.C.H. K. E .E.C.H.K has supplied the Hamilton College Bookstore and LOBBY with stationery pads. Printed on recycled paper, the pads -offer two different designs, one by Natalie Babbit, and the other by a Clinton art student. ADLER CONFERENCE Kenny Marten has•been named as the Chairman of the 1973 Adler Conference. The members of the conference's coordinating committee have also been selected. They are: Chuck Flynn '74, Bob Gyenge '75, Beth Kneisel '74, John Osborne '74, Al Silverm an '76, i and Bll Smitfr .'74 The faculty advisor will be Mr. Frederick Wagner. HONO� COURT I. A member of the Class of 1974 had been found guilty of plagiarism in an English course at the end of the first semester and was sentenced to a failure in the course. II. A member of the class of 1976 has been found guilty of cheating on a test in his Winter Study and has been sentenced to a WS grade of Unsatisfactory. ASH WEDNESDAV SERVICE Ash Wednesday will be observed by an ecumenical service this week, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. The celebrants at the service will be Father John Finnegan, Ne�man Chaplain, and Joel Tibbetts,. . . . .· College Chaplain.
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MARCH 2, 1973
SELF-SCHEDULED EXAMS would allow any combinations, with- (and · The Hamilton facul ty took six months to turn d o wn . t he Student Curriculum t h i s is important) only the student Com,mittee.'s proposal for self-scheduled responsible for the success of his schedule. exams, but never gave the propqsal an actual Finally, we are told, the project did not trial. The faculty letter (page one) to the work out at some other schools. At Williams, Senate objects that the. Honor Code will be the program was d r o p p e d; at strai n e d , although the Honor Court Haverford/Bryn Mawr, however, the idea has reportedly felt (when its chairman addressed been fairly successful for at least'six years; it the faculty in September) that the Code was very much a success according to a 1966 would survive such strains if the program article in School and Society by the dean of had strong student support. The difficulty of H a v e r f o r d. Gr a n t e d , t hi s is not organizing the program became another objection; there are serious problems to be Haverford/Bryn Mawr, but neither is this worked out in the proposal; for example, Williams. The sample is inconclusive, and we concerning the amount of time professors will never know if the program would work - will have to grade exams if they are not all for us, unless we try. · turned in until the end of Exam Week. We any case, the program must have the feel that these problems of logistics could wholehearted support of the student body. have been solved -if the faculty was really The responsibility in a self-scheduled system willing to try the new system .. rests entirely on us, and a show of unanimity _ Regarding _ the proposal as a mere above and beyond the survey distributed last "grievance", the faculty did change the spring· would prove that we are serious. The exam program last December, and so dodged Hamilton Student Senate will meet next the self- scheduling issue: we think the Tuesday at 9:15 in the Bristol Campus question concerns more than just the Center to hear the administration's views on .problem of having to take two exams on one the matter,; we ask everyone interested to day; the fully-flexible self-scheduled system attend.
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BLOCK 'H' WEEKEND UNINFORMED To Th.e Editor: On Pebruary sixth To the Editor: appreciated - however, concern and seventh the Block H Club in I think . M r . - Bingham's alone is not going to put Ham Col conjunction with the SAC and the judgment concerning drugs is . grads in to any Med School, Admissions Office sponsored a · uninformed. I think that the nevertheless a good one. pre-freshman student-athlete visit. consequences of heavy drinking or Dean Kurtz noted -or rather The endeavor could not have been smoking might be more serious admitted -that· our GPA's were possible without the help of many t h a n moti vati o nal or legal indeed lower than comparable c o n t r i b ut o r s , but a f e w problems. competitive schools of our size. In d et r ac t i on s m u st afs o be PeterJ. Spellane '73 a n e f f o r t t o improve this mentioned. s i t u a t i o n , -D e a n T o l l e s PRE-MED MARKS While the fraternities roomed r e c om mended that a letter and fed 50 of the 60 visitors free To the Editor: accompany all transcripts sent to of charge. the Block H Club had This afternoon I acted as a tour Med Schools, giving a statistical to pay for 10 of the guests to eat g u i d e t o .a n e nthusiastic profile of our grades and grading at Commons. It is our feeling that s u b f r e s h m an with s t r on g system. This was done, and, while the College, rather than the Club, i n t e nt i ons o f becoming a a step in the right direction, this should have picked up the tab for Hamilton pre-Med. With all good was a useless measure. · -Med t h e meals. This incident conscience, I was unable to Schools receiving /our to ten exemplifies the College's lack of endorse our pre-med program thousand applications for their interest in recruiting top notch with the confidence I myself felt one to two h'undred places have scholar-athletes. An honest look as a freshman. We all know (re: not the staff not the time to at these policies is necessary ,in letter of Dean Kurtz to the consider, or for that matter read, order to rescue our inter-collegiate Spectator) that the Hamilton this accompanying letter. My athletic program .. grad uate sch ool placement point: it is most likely that a The reception on the sixth situation is deteriorating. The Continued on page 6 was plagued by poor service from concern of our new Dean is S e r v i c e S y s t e m s w hos e thoughtless employee made hot chocolate in an improperly cleaned coffee pot. The incident VOLUME THREE NUMBER EIGHTEEN may seem trivial, but we were First Published as ''The Radiator" in 1848 entertaining guests and little things like the latter episode hurt Managing Editor Editor-in-Chief our efforts and the College's Peter Zicar i Elizabeth Kneisel image. Enough complaining, it is time Associate Editors to mention the contributors. We Henry Glick, Robert Keren, Kenny Marten, Carol Goodman thank: The faculty for coming to Assistant Editors the reception and opening their Fred Bloch, Paula Klausner, Kathy Livingston c l ass e·s to our guests,the Arts Editor Admissions office and Athlectic Richard Kavesh Dept. for their cooperation, Sports Editors A s s i s t a n t D i r e c t or o f Craig Fallon, Dave Shapland AdmissionsJ ohn Effinger . for his Photography Editor constant and tireless ·efforts. The David Cantor 60 men who acted graciously as Managing Sta;f hosts, and the rest . of the Katie· Davis, Liz Horwitt, Taki Lamson-Scribner, Paula Leon, Committee: Rick Aubry, Charlie Gary Lukas, Bob Lyford, Tony Mazzarella, Connie Miner, Betsy Darigiand, Dave Gillmore, Jeff Murray, Mitchel Ostrer Rose, Mark Badger, Dennis Oakes Business Staff and Bof Kasanjian. Marty Kane,Jim Noonan,Jeff Pearse, Bruce Thaler Sincerely, Photography DougJones'73 Wendy Goodman, David Rienzo, Woody Navin Ben Madonia '74 Staff Peter Ackerman, Lou Cordia, Jon Cramer, Randy Davis, Vikram Men-Women Dewan, Vincent DiCarlo, Doug Glucroft, Robert Grieves, Bob Hylas, John Held, Gordon Kaye, Louis Levenson, Vijay Murgai, Nanelle Napp, Thomas Pirodsky, Manny Sargent, WORK ON A SHIP NEXT SUMMER. No experience re David Schutt, Michael Sherer, Judy Sillari, Douglas Singer, Joan quired. Excellent pay. World Tuch man, Bob Weisser. wide travel. Perfect summer job The Publications Board publishes "The Spectator," a newspaper or career. Send $2.00 for infor edited by students, 29 times during the academic y�ar. mation. Seafax Box · 2049-GD, Subscription: $7 .00 per year. ·Addr�: · Box 83, Hamilton · Port ·Angeles, Wash. 98362 College, Clinton, New York, 13323. Letters to the editor must be signel1, hut names will he withheld upon request.
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BY WAYNE STABILE E.E.C.H.K. is in trouble. This may not bother too many people, but it should. For the past three years, E.E.C.H.K. has been probably the most influential and active environmental student group in the state, in terms of both local and state-wide affairs. But the interest of the student 'body in E.E.C.H.K. appears to be dying out, to the point that E.E.C.H.K. 's continued existence is in serious doubt. At present, the group is composed of a nucleus of 15 to 20 active members, with perhaps another ten marginal members who can occasionally be called upon for help. Unfortunately, most of the active members are seniors - hangers-on from the first Earth Day with only a few juniors and sophomores, and perhaps two freshmen. In addition, two of the group's most dedicated and effective members, Don Williamson and John Oster, graduated in December and will no longer be in Clinton. With the graduation of the rest of the seniors, the group will face a serious manpower shortage, not to mention the loss of many of E.E.C.H.K. 's most knowledgeable and experienced environmental activists. Yet these are not the only problems E.E.C.H.K. faces. E.E.C.H.K. is becoming stagnant. Most of the present members have been with the group for two or three years, and our imagination is running out. E.E.C.H.K. is in desparate need of new ideas for new projects and new approaches, and these will only come froin new members. E.E.C.H.K.., if anything, is flexible. You can do whatever you wish to do, and there are no formal rules or procedures to be followed. If you think there is something that needs to be done in the field of environmental affairs, whether on campus or elsewhere, please bring your ideas to one of our meetings. We may be able to help you get it done, and we know that you'll be able to help us. If you don't have any particular objective in mind, but just feel that you have a commitment to your environment, then perhaps we can help you find something to do that you will consider valuable -and enjoyable. E.E.C.H.K. 's existence, and to an extent, the preservation of your environment, is now dependent upon an infusion of new interest and participation. Please come to one of our meetings, which are held every Monday night, 7:00 p.m. in Bristol. E.E.C.H.K. (If you have any comments, criticisms, or questions concerning E.E.C.H.K. but are not able to attend the meetings, please contact John Zaehringer or Wayne Stabile at Hamilton, or Bobbi Bitner or Betsy Hume at Kirkland, through campus mail or in person.)
Comm. on Academic Policy U rges Increased Student �articipation
u n dertakes c o m p l e x student participation in the CAP BY ROBERT GRIEVES administrative problems that h a s a ppa rently p o s e d n o Student-faculty relations in the through problems, and encourages student p a s s ing Committee on Academic Policy students have developed smoothly, and Hamilton · in four years might participation in all phases of T h r· o u gh college life. He would like, he further student participation in not appreciate. " participation in the CAP " a d d e d , to see the Student academic affairs is desired by both sides, according to Chuck Flynn, students can appreciate those Curriculum Committee put on a student representative on both the complexities, and not feel that the more formal basis, and become a is merely a recognized, duly constituted body Winter Study Committee and the administration with elected members instead of a m o n o l i t h i c p o w e r ." Academic . Committee on Coordination. The Curriculum Student-faculty communication, group of students interested in Committee of the Student Senate, according to Flynn, improves curriculum policy. Students, Dean he said, desired greater frankness ' relations on campus, provides an Kurtz observed, are involved in of speech and opportunities for opportunity for rational dialogue, the selection of candidates for discussion between students and and prevents a three-way split facult y p o s itions and their 1 members of. the Committee on between faculty, administration, opinions are carefully weighed by the administration. No formal Academic Policy. The CAP was and students. student committees have been set M a r k R i c h a r d , student willing to invite one member of renresentative to the Board of up for this purpose, however, the senate and one member of the Advisors, feeb that there has not b·ecause students evaluate only Curriculum Committee approved been enough representation to those candidates who teach within by" the senate to consult with the determine if the program is their respective majors. Dean members of that subcommittee. successful. "If this is the extent of K urtz expressed nothing but The subcomittees, which representation," Mark said, "Then praise for the efficiency and include those for Winter Study, it's more like visiting privileges in discretion which students on the Registration, a Board of Academic a hospital." Mark would like to Honor Court displayed, as well as Advisors, and · for Academic see students attend both the CAP f o r t h e w o r k o f t h e coordination between the two meetings of the subcommittees on faculty-student Budget review colleges, educational goals of the a regular basis, . as well as the committee, which includes two College, Honor Program d e v e l o p m e n t o f e q u a l seniors. Dean Kurtz emphasized development and a committee s t u d e n t_-_fac u lt y p o w�r in the d e s i r a b i l i t y of greater investigating · the problems in decision-making. involvement of underclassmen in obtaining a Hamilton degree Dean Kurtz asserted that he the changes which will affect through Kirkland courses, have has not had a great deal of them, and echoed Richard in not all yet held meetings. e x p e r i e n c e w it h s t u d e n t Flynn feels that the whole continued on page six committees, but said that the system is "useful for students and faculty if they are going to work in an atmosphere of cooperative understanding. The faculty
SIMS Plans Kirkland Course In Transcendental Meditation
BY DOUGLAS GLUCROFT Mr. Rick Archer will speak to the College Community on Transcendental Meditation (TM) in the Kirner-Johnson Building at 8 pm., on March 6. Mr. Archer represents the Student Internation Meditation Sodety (SIMS) in the· Utica Area.The purpose of SIMS is to spread the teaching of TM to college campuses throughout the world. The lecture next Tuesday will be an introductory overview of TM, particularly of the course that will be subsequently offered in the teachings of Marharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of TM. Mr. Tim Gray, a trained teacher of TM, explained the purpose of the course. The first four days are the most important. On the first day we teach you to meditate individually, which is so natural that it just is something you· 1et happen. On the second, third, and fourth days we meet as · a group to make the knowledge complete. In addition we (SIMS in Utica) offer a follow-up series of classes to verify the experience. These sessions are for those who are interested. We have Maharishi on videotape to maintain the purity of his teaching .. An Indian, he began teaching meditation by traveling from town to town in India, until around 1960,when he came to the West. Maharishi in Sanskrit means one who makes knowledge available. There are now an estimated 500,000 practitioners of TM in the world, 200,000 in the U.S. and about 20 or 25 at Hamilton and Kirkland. Formerly a campus affair, TM is now gaining popularity among young adults, and professionals in general.
According to Mr. Gray, the conducted by psychologists and new popularity of TM can be psysiologists which have given attributed to the scientific credence to this Eastern practice. experiments that have been The Wall Street Journal has conducted on the effects of it. By reported TM 's popularity among practicing TM twice a day for a businessmen because of the few minutes one can gain a state effects of reduced anxiety and of relaxatiqn, a lowering of blood tension. This fourth state and innocent pressure, faster reaction time, increased perceptual ability, more spontaneous experience as·TM has effective interaction with one's been referred to, expands develops creative environment, superior motor awareness, p e r f o rm an c e , i m p r oved intellige_nce.- improves clarity ot psychology and development of perception, provides deep rest as a personality, and reduced need for basis for dynamic action, insures a nd full development of the individual stimulants, drugs, tranquilizers,. One state, Illinois, in a natural way, and it can be has already passed a resolution in learned easily ... its - House of Representatives ne xt Follo w in g weeks e x p r e ss i n g a p pr o v a l o f introduction, representatives of TM. What advocates of TM SIMS will return in several weeks stress, is that it is a natural thing to the Colleges to discuss the and is as ancient as mank_ind . mechanics of the course. The Many experiments have been price for the course is $45. CLINTON LIQUOR STORE
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Choirs Trek to N.Y.C. Monday ·To Perf Orm Mass at Town Hall
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Trumpeter Jean-Francois Dion, captivating at last night's concert.
BY KAREN GRIFFEY On Monday, March 5, 1973, at 8:30 p.m., the Hamilton-Kirkland Choir and the Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra will appear in _Town Hall in New York City for a benefit concert. The concert will be given in honor of Alexander Wolcott, (class of 1909), perhaps the Choir's most distinguished benefactor and champion, and the proceeds of the performance will be used to establish a scholarship fund in his name. The Hamilton Choir has sung in many notable and renowned locations t hrou ghout its ninety-seven year history, but only once before has it sung in However, the Town Hall. Choir's Hamilton· College performance there on March 5, 1928 proved to be a highlight of its history.
Mozart, Vival-di, and· Purcell Featu red in Sunday Conc ert BY RICHARD A. KAVESH Among the works which will be performed on Sunday by the Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra and the Hamilton-Kirkland Choir are Henry Purcell's Sonata for Trumpet and Strings, Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto in D minor for
q u antity of these works is impressive, but also their beauty: I n t h e m o n e s e e s t he three-movement form that was to be characterized in all subsequent concerti.
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At · that concert in 1928, the remaining members of Alexander Wolcott arrived with Wolcott's circle will once again several theatrical and literary attend this concert performed by greats of the time. At his the choil"from the Hili. Dr. Frode invitation Helen Hayes, Ben Jensen, _ - Wolcott's heir, is H echt, Charles MacArthur, attempting to re-unite the Theodore Dreiser, Franklin P. remaining ·Round Table group for Adams, Russell Crouse, Alfred this benefit appearance in New Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, .Paul York City. Robeson, Peggy Wood, Jerome Sentimentality and nostalgia Kern, and Dorothy Pa.,rker will not be the only reason for attended. attendance, however, since the These figures were all members choir from the Hill is known for . of Wolcott's circle; and, in the its high quality of musical 1920's they used to meet at the excellence, and the Paul Kuentz Hotel, gathering Chamber Orchestra of Paris has Algonquin around a vast round I table to received international acclaim. discuss literary and theatrical Therefore, the evening's program ideas and issues over�drinks. From should prove to be a delightful this, they became known as the nigJit of listening. members of 'The Round Table." ·The program presented in Thus, the return to Town Hall Town Hall will be the same as that after forty-five years to the. day performed in concert in the will be a significant and exciting Hamilton Gymnasium on Sunday, the March 4, 1973 at 3:00 p.ni. The for musical event Hamilton-Kirkland Choir. There is featured work will be Mozart's also the possibility that some of Coronation Mass.
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The featured work on Sunday's Vivaldi's own instrument was. the violin, but he did not neglect program will be the Coronation Vio la d ' amore , Guit;ar and other instruments popular in his M a s s of · Wolfgang Amadeus Orchestr a, and the featured work, time, such as the spectacular viola Mozart (1 756-1791). Mozart Wol fgang A m adeus Mozart's d'atnore - a viol-like instrument completed his Mass in C Major, K. Coronation Mass. but without frets, held and bowed 31 7, in Salzburg in March of The instrumental music of like a violin but with six or seven 1779. It has come to be known as Henry Purcell (1659-1695) is far strings, and , in addition, an equal the Coronation Mass because it too often overlooked, for it is in number of sympathetic strings of w a s alleg e dly composed to the instrumental symphonies and fine steel or brass under the celebrate the anniversary of the ritornelli of his odes and stage fingerboard. crowning of a miraculous image in Mar y Loy and on e of her paintings now on exhibit at the Root Art Center t h e pilgrimage church• o f works that we find some of his Mary-on-the-Plain near�Salzburg. most characteristic and expressive Generally considered the most music. Some authorities consider splendid and integrated mass that the Sonata for Trumpet and . Mozart had yet written, · it has Strings is, in fact, part of the lost become a favorite, surpassed .in ode The Light of the World An exhibit of paintings and (1694), the libretto of which popularity only by the great Mass drawings by John Loy and Mary St. Louis, the St. Louis Artists t h e suggests that it contained a in C minor and the Requiem Gaylord of Utica, a married G u i l d , Trumpet Solo. (Mozart's very last work). couple with separate and M u n s o n -W i l l i a m s-P r o c t o r Pur�ell's extensive use of the Written during the same period successful careers in art, is now at Institute, and the Cooperstown Art Association. trumpet during the 1690's was as the mature symphonies 32,33, the Root Art Center. She· is currently an art inspired largely by the brilliant work, their D iscussing 34, the Posthorn Serenade and the playing of the King's Sergeant o pera Id omoneo , it shows Professor James - Penney of instructor at the New School of - Trumpeter, Mathias Store. The M ozart's s killful thematic Hamilton writes in the program Utica and has also taught at the Sonata for Trumpet and Strings u n i f i c a t i o n, b oth within for the upcoming exhibit: "Mary's Clarksburg (W. Va.) Art Center, follows the Italian pattern of a movements and in the cyclical paintings and drawings have a the People's Art Center, St. Louis, quick first movement followed by make-up of the work as a whole. graphic quality, involved as she and the Junior Museum, Utica. Mr. Loy also has won painting an expressive Adagio for strings The constant shifting between often is in a message and in awards at the St. Louis City Art alone and a. fugal Finale, but contemporary issues. There is an '-e ither graceful, luminous writing The name viola d'amore may whereas in the Italian works the refer to the instrument's scroll, a n d• d r i v in g , e ffervesc ent emotional content beneath the Museum in 1959 and the role of the trumpet is confined which usually was fashioned like a f igurations with moments of complexly ordered surf aces of her Cooperstown Annual Exhibition in 1971. His work is included in largely to stereotyped ·figurations blindfold face resembling that of profundity and seriousness adds a canvases . . . Loy, by contrast, is the permanent collection of the involved non-figuratively, usually special sense of urgancy to the of reiterated notes and fanfare the god Amor. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute motives, in Purcell's work the The literature for the viola d, pie ce. The mystery of the with nature, with an eye for and has been shown at many Incarnation receives the most abstracting visual relationships. trumpet participates fully .iii the amore is quite ex.tensive. In galleries, including the Dana Art thematic material even of the addition to Vivaldi's works, it poignant treatment, a special His is an almost classic concern Center, Colgate University, the_ effect unlike anything else in the with shape, with pattern, with fugal last movement. includes compositions by Johann Everson Museum in Syracuse, and Trumpeter Jean-Francois Dion, S e b a s t i a n Bach (1685-1750), work: muted violins blanket the color, with proportions, simplified the Albany Institute of History solo quartet's Et incarnatus est with thoughtful sensitivity and an whom Hill audiences will Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), intellectual passion to almost pure and Art. remember for his spectacular and the neo-Baroque composer with trails of sonic incense. Since 1960 he has been a. I n a d d i t i o n t o t h e abstraction." performances last year, will be the Paul Hindemith (1895-1963). member of the teaching staff of Hamilton-Kirkland Choir and the Ms. Gaylord has had her work featured soloist in the Purcell Among R o mantics, Giacomo Munson -Williams-Proctor Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra, shown in many group exhibitions the work. Meyerbeer (1791-1854) in Les Institute 's School of Art and also the Coronation Mass will feature and has won several prizes in local Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Huguenots and Richard Strauss soloists Neva Pilgrim,, Ewa shows. Places where her paintings teaches in the Utica College Fine left to posterity will over four ( 18 6 4-1949) in his Sinfonia and drawings have been displayed Arts Program. The exhibition will Michalak, Jon Humphrey, and hundred instrumental concerti. domestica, used the viola d'amore John include the City Art Museum of continue through March 18th. D'Armand. However, not only the incredible for coloristic effects.
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On Campus This Weekend Beauty and the Beast - directed by Jean Cocteau (Orpheus), 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, 10 p.m. on Sunday night. Science Auditorium. Lickerish Quartet - 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, 10 p.m. on Sunday night, Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. March 7 (Wednesday) Henri Rousseau, part four of Sir Kenneth Clark's film series Pioneers of Modern Painting, 8:30 p.m., Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Mumu - based on the work by Turgenev, 8:30 p.m., Science Auditorium. On Campus Next Weekend King of Hearts; Loves of a Blond; Fireman's Ball At Nearby Theaters Cannonball (853-5553): The Emigrants Kallet (736-2313): Jeremiah Johnson Paris (733-2730): Cabaret MUSI C March 2 (Friday) Beer and Band, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. McEwen Lobby. March 3 (Saturday) At the Coffeehouse - Bruce Wrigley and Joe Wachspress, 10 p.m. - 1 a.m. McEwen Coffeehouse. March 4 (Sunday) The Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra and the Hamilton-Kirkland Choir, 3 p.m., Gymnasium. At the Coffeehouse - Andy Cohen, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. McEwen Coffeehouse. EXHIBITIONS Currently on Campus Photography Exhibition of photographs by Michael Serino and Ben Earle, at the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit thru March 16th. Pottery Craftsmen in Pottery - works by Art Sennett, Vincent Clemente, John Smolenski, Carl �hanahan, and Robert Paluski, at the List .Arts Center thru March 2nd. Painting Paintings of John and Mary Loy, at the Root Art Center thru March 16th. - at the Bristol Campus Annual Student Art Exhibition Center. At the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (797-0000) Artists-Craftsmen of Central New York - at the. Museum of Art, 310 Genessee ·st., thru March 18. LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS March 4 (Sunday) 9:30 a.m.:... Newman Mass with Father Finnegan, Chapel. 11:15 a.m. - Free Church. Melvin B. Endy, Hamilton Religion • Department, Chapel. . 7:30 p.m. - Community Worship. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. MILESTONES March 6 (Tuesday) Mkhelangelo's Birthday (1475). March 7 (Wednesday) Maurice Ravel's Birthday (1875) March 8 (Thursday) C.P.E. Bach's Birthday (1714) SPORTS Hockey Clinton Comets vs. New Jersey Devils, 8 p.m. on Saturday night at the Clinton Arena (853-5541).
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BY GARRETT HAYNER A glance at the Movies section of the March Playboy After Hours yields a fascinating list of sequels we can expect by December: "The G od father, Part II," "French Connection II," "Shaft in Africa," "Super Fly II," and "L ive and Let Die." They neglected "Battle for the Planet of the Apes," but that may not be coming out quite as soon (watch your local listings).
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And Here We Go Again ... A Look at Some Sequels put stock i n such things, "Connection" got last year'� Best Picture; if "Godfather" doesn't win this year's it'll at least be a close battle); can we expect quali�y sequels?
Believe it or not, there's a chance. Perhaps the most hopeful sign is a 1935 Universal film called "Bride of Frankenstein," which in m a n y people's e st i m a t i o n (including mine) surpassed the 1 9 3 1 o r i g i n a l . A l l right, Okay. What does a movie-goer Frankenstein is Frankenstein, but make of all this? At first, the remember that "Conn'ection"· and flurry of follow-ups may tend to "Godfather are also basically numb the senses and send one's entertainment films - and in 1935 . gullet. But can we look at them "Bride of Frankenstein" was quite with any positive feelings at all? a good product (in fact, treated Well, perhaps. First, it might be with the consideration of age and best to eliminate for the moment · genre, it still is). "Son of "Live. and Let Die," "Shaft in Frankenstein," which followed, Africa " and "Battle for for the was less adept but still quite fine. "Plan;t of the Apes'; from the Even the fourth, "Ghost of list, since those are actually Frankenstein," was only a partial entries in a series of films (the· disaster. first being the newest James Bond effort, and one guess each for the Yes, there have been many other- two), even · though the "Apes" films were not originally ho rrendous sequels. "Son of Kong" retained the magnificent conceived as a series. special effects of the original but w a sted them on a d u l l , That leaves us with sequels to oversentimental script. Switching "The Godfather," "The French genres, ''The Miniver Story" was a Connection," and "Super Fly." soapy follow-up to the effective The last film was a black "Mrs. Miniver" (even if you don't exploitation film which some like that sort of film). And some critics blasted and others praised; films, like "Valley of the Dolls," we can probably expect more ·didn't rate sequels (if you can call b l a c k - t h r i l l e r material from Russ Meyer's film a "sequel") in "Super Fly II." But "Godfather" the first place. Series films have had an and "Connection" were both excellent movies (for _those who equally sorry plight. Tarzan films
Elton John's Latest Album Reviewed BY MICHAEL W. SHERER E l t o n John's new album, "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player," (MCA 2100) is a good album. It is John's eighth album released in just over three years and ,-strangely enough, all but one that I can think of have sold exceedingly well and at least one if not two or more, single off each has hit top-40 charts across the country. His equation for s u c c es s i s unique and has inevitably worked. In an era where Americans are
searching for an identity� when nostalgia reigns and old fashions are continually being revived, John has found the secret to selling to American audiences. It may seem strange that an English artist, recording in France (his last two albums), remixing in England, could sell to primarily American audiences. John has very cleverly 1nanaged to capture the tone of various p e r i o d s o f typical Americana through his music and Bernie Taupin's lyrics, along with a package that is geared toward
MODERN ARCHITECTURE FILMS On Wednesday evening 7 March at 8:30 two films on modern architecture will be shown in the ball room of the Root Art Center: "Charles Rennie Mac;kintosh: a Visual Biography" and "Buckminster Fuller: Primer of the Universe". The public is invited to atten4. ,Refreshments and discussion will follow the films. This event is being sponsore_d by the Hamilton Art Department and the Root Art Center. PETER PAN ON TV TONIGHT Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin and Cyril Richard, will be shown on Channel 2 tonight at 8 p.m. FOLK FESTIVAL COMING! Hamilton and Kirkland will be sponsoring the Seventh (23rd?) Annual Northeastern Intercollegiate Folk Festival on May 3, 4, and 5. This year;s festival, a benefit for Sing Out! will incl�de · workshops. We must limit i_t to the first 100 colleg� amat�ur (1.e., _ non-union) applicants. For application and mformatlon wnte: Box 144, Hamilton campus mail. Hurry!
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seem to have gotten progressively worse since the original three or four (which themselves have some wretched moments). Dean Martin as Matt Helm had one decent film, "The Silencers, " and the other three or four were awful. Even the sequel to "Our Man Flint," one of the top Bond take-offs, was weak despite James Coburn. But all is not lost here either. The last decade has seen two quite decent series emerge. "Planet of the Apes" was followed by '' B eneath the...," which was meiocre, but "Escape from..." and "Revolt of... " were not bad at all. (The original is still one of my favorites.) And of course the Bond films themselves, easily the most profitable and well-known film series of all time, have managed an extremely high quality of production since "Dr. No" in 1962, have weatherd George Lazenby as a terribly one-shot replacement for Sean C onne ry, and will probably manage with Roger Moore as James Bond (who may even be good, who can tell?). But after all, a series that can carry on· despite "Casino Royale" must be durable. So take heart. Sequels seem to be a part of the movie industry, but they're not always cheap cash-ins. Most of the same crews that produced the originals are returning for "The Godfather, Part II" and "French Connection II," and we may actually see some decent products from them. I f n o t , t here's alw ays "Columbo'.' and "All in the Family."
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the AM-teeny-bop scene. The two albums before "Don't Shoot Me" most representative of this are "Tumbleweed Connection" and ''Honky Chateau." Also surprising is that Elton John has been able to crank out that many albums in such a short time, and even though all are recognizably Elton John, they are all different. His songs are similar, but he has continued to produce new material without falling into a rut, as did Chicago for example, to f"md something new and d i f f er e n t . H i s m u s i c h a s progressed from his basically quiet second album, which had a couple hard-rock tunes, "Take Me to the Pilot" and ''The Cage" to the driving country-rock of "Honky Chateau" and "Don't Shoot Me." M usically, I think "Don't Shoot Me" is probably John's best effort. His newest innovation is the use of horn arrangements on ''Honky Chateau" and this album, which add a different and better feeling than Paul Buckmaster's orchestral arrangements did on earlier albums. In a very original way John's music along with Taupin's lyrics pick out moods in American life-style. "Elderberry Wine," "I'm Going to be a Teenage Idol," ''Texan Love Song," and "Crocodile Rock" are excel lent parodies of these "moods." Elton John can only be termed incredib1e, not only for the q ua ntity o f work he has produced, but also for the quality of his music and his continued success. "Don't Shoot Me" is a very good example of his talents.
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USSR Winter Study: Unique Culturta Exchange
BY K ATHY LIVINGSTON The students participated in a group of 21 students from variety --of activities in addition to Hamilton and Kirkland traveled to the usual sight seeing. A highlight the U.S.$.R. thisJanuary-to study of the trip was a cocktail party in .various aspects of Soviet life� Moscow at the home of a U.S. The,. group, under t h e Foreign Service officer where directiort of Professors .David students had the opportunity to Young and Michael Haltzel, spent meet with both Soviet · and six d<1.ys in Len,ngrad, six day's in A merican d iplomats. Seyeral Moscow·, and divided the rest of students were subsequently its time among the Central invited to lunch at the U.S. I c it i e s of Samarkand, embassy. The students also met A s i an Bukhara, and Tashk�nt and the with members of the Institute for capital of Armenia, Erevan. The the Study of the U.S.A .; where students devoted their efforts to Gromyko's son and Kosygin's individual· projects which ranged . daughter are employed. The gr oup also attended several from a study of the status of Soviet Jews to a comparative ballets. While· running to make a study of consumer goods. per formance of the Bobhoi,
he pleadtd with Hirsh . to help him get out of the Soviet Union. One group o f· students attended a wedding reception in the Uzbek city of Bukhara. In the relaxed atmosphere, th·e Uzbeks a n d Russians asked many questions and were not hesitant to talk about their own lives. When the bride and groom arrived, a table was brought out covered with cheese, meat, and bread. The Soviet hosts encouraged the A mericans to join them in numerous shots of straight vodka, after which most of the Hamilton students got sick. According to one student, ''The Russians got drunk too, but they held it much better than we did." T h e gen e r a l i m p r essi o n, however, was that Soviet life is quite drab. People -there are · greatly limited in what they can do. A government permit must be obtained if a Soviet citizen wishes to travel, and it is impossible-for him to go abroad without special perm 1ss10n. A n individual is required to wait an average of five years to get a ·car. Moreover, a · poorly made Soviet compact costs a s m u c h a s an A merican limousine, and Soviet wages are much lower than American. The selection of consumer goods is very low, and most of the peopl·e h a v e- relatively few material possessions. Gary Vensel ' 7 3 described entering a department store where there was a sale on T-shirts. He said he was afraid to get near the counter for fear being beaten up - "little old ladies would block you out of the way, and the Russian men are v e r y i n tent o n a c q uiring something once they have it in their minds." Soviet student life seemed very different from American. Most of the universities are vocational PHOTO BY WILLY WILLIAMS schools, and the concept of a liberal arts college is neither T�e participants discovered Cindy Grant '73 tripped and cut present nor understood. Students that Soviet citizens on the whole her leg. She was assisted in the decide on their vocational were friendly and eager to talk to ladies room by a young woman A�ericans. In most places they who could not speak English. The found that they were regarded woman washed· and bandaged the with a great amount of curiosity; wound without saying a-word. Ms. their dress and hairstyles made it Grant said, "Perhaps this sounds obvious that they were not silly but it was a very moving Russian youths. It was clear, experience." Another incident occurred at a however, that Western styles have ,. a great attraction for Russians. synagogue in Moscow, where Fred Scott Reichard '74 reported that Hirsh '74 spent three hours many people who approached him talking to a Russian Jew. The man were black marketeers interested was extremely nervous about in buying blue jeans. being seen with an American, and A
MARKS LETTER, Continued from page 2 , computer is responsible for the initial cut-off -i.e. your MCA T's and GPA become your ticket to further evaluation. Then such a letter may do something - but for most of us at Hamilton with cum's of no higher than 3.5, we lose. Over intersession, I attended a reunion of my high school senipr class. Comparing notes with other pre-meds, I found that friends of mine with GPA �s of 3.8 and 3.9 at Syracuse (who had mediocre boards as did I), have received interviews as well as acceptances from top notch schools such as Penn and Cornell; schools to which my puny 3.2 -would· gain me entrance to their dissecting rooms-as a cadaver-and nothing more. Seriously, it is a crime that our . top pre-meds cannot gain entrance to the top schools they deserve, while friends at Syracuse, whose computer profiles are far
more attractive, are receiving acceptances. I feel the core of this problem lies in the attitude of many faculty members on this campus. The general yet subtle hostility towards pre-meds is one thing. ("I can't wait" was the comment a professor made when I told him I was giving a tour to a potential pre-med). However, the ludicrous, archaic and egocentric attitude that a good course is a course with only a few high grades MUST be challenged. I am not in favor of blanket elevation of our grade point averages, but something must be done - or fewer enthusiastic sub-freshmen pre-meds will show up at Root Hall for an interview, nevertheless an application. (to t h e d elight of s o many professors) . . , Respectfully, and admittedly bitter even · though I've- received one acceptance and 12 rejections, Jim Braude '73
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democratic neighbor, the group concluded its trip with a three-day stay in Finland. Aside from "structured rapping" about their projects in the U.S.S.R., the students were treated to a day of lectures on -Finnish history and politics at Helsinki University and an evening mixer with Finnish students. On the last day in Helsinki many students and both professors decided to p;µ-take in the old Finnish custom of taking a sauna bath and then jumping through a hole in the ice into the One of the Kirkland students Gulf of Finland. Peter Fasolino who spent New Year's Eve with a '74 expressed amazement at the Soviet family was told by her way old Finnish men sauntered hosts that they were distressed leisurely into the water and lifted with the government's control of themselves slowly out, while the literature. When slle gave them a American students made dashing book by T.S. Eliot , they wer._ so leaps in and frantically climbed grateful that they gave her an :con out.. Mr. Haltzel commented: ''Most in r eturn. Since the Soviet government forbids the export of people would agree that a student pre-Revolutionary art, she had to benefits greatly from personal smuggle the object back to the exposure to a culture which he has been studying. The Junior States. In order to compare the Soviet Year Abroad Programs to Western system with that of a Western E u rope a r e b ased on th� principle. In countries such as the Soviet Union _where no such programs e x i st and where o r d i n a r y private tra vel is expensive and usually superficial, Winter Stu�y can · provide a unique learning experience. I'm very pleased with the results of our trip."
specialty by the age of 18. Taking courses which are not related to a p a rticul�r vocation is almost unheard of. The group was struck by the lack of news in the Soviet Union. T h e p r e s s i s strictly government-controlled, and the amount of information released to the public is minimal. It was ob vious that there is a large gap between what goes on in the world and what is reported to the Soviet people.
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Swimmers Take Final Two Prospects Bright for States
BY PETER ACKERMAN finished third behind Peter in the A first and second place each The Continental Swim team I.M., and Brian Cavanaugh '73 were turned in by Karl and closed out its '71-'72 dual meet took second in the breaststroke. S hr um. Gary won the 200 season this past Friday and Other scorers for the tankmen butterfly in 2:26.5 and took a Saturday. Friday's was a home were Gary Karl '75 in the 1000 second behind Dave Shaoland in contest against Brockport and yard free-style (11:27.4) and the the 200 yard free-style. Shrum, Saturday's was away vs. ·union. extra 400 yard individual medley not a distance swimmer, finished The mermen were victorious on SWIMMING (4:58.4), John Baird in the second in the 1000 yard free-style both days, thus coming away with The mermen's next and final stop this year will be the State backstroke (with a fine 2:13.8 and later. won the 100 free in a nine and one dual meet tally for Championships at Canisius College in Buffalo on March 2 and 3. At a clocking), and Bruce Rinker '73 53.8. Freshman John Vanderveer the year. luncheon given Wednesday by the sportswriters and sportscasters of with a first in the 50 free (23.4) was third behind Shrum in both Led by versatile sophomore the Mohawk Valley area, Coach McDonald said, "I think we're going and a second in the 100 free. Fred of those events. Doug M c De vitt, coach Eric to surprise a lot of people with our performance this weekend. We're Holender '74 won the optional M a c D o n a l d 's m e n h a n d l e d ready to swim and we're going for the top." MacDonald predicted and required dives, while . Don More first place finishes were B r o c k p ort with n o trouble. that Colgate and St. Bonaventure would be the toughest two teams Kendall '74 grabbed third in the gained by ·Baird in the 500 yard McDevitt's oustanding winning in the meet. -This will be the first time in several years that a time of 1:51.8 for the 200 yard requireds and second in the free-style (5:49.7) and Cavanaugh, Hamilton swimming team has entered statewide competition. optionals. recently returned to the team, in free-style set another school and BASKETBALL ppol mar k . O t her n otable t he 200 yard b rea ststroke The opening medley relay of (2:37.6). Senior sprinter Rinker The basketball team ended -its '72-'73 campaign last week. The performances were registered by final record stands at 5-14. Full story in next week's Spectator. J o h n N eedham '7 5 , Dave Schloerb, Baird, Joe Shrum '76, capped his dual meet career by a n d Craig - M a c D o nald '75 winning the 50 yard free-style, Shapland '74, and captain Peter RUGBY combined for a fine 3:55.2 first and Needham took the grueling Schfoerb '73. Needham' first Anyone interested in playing rugby this spring should contact place · time, and the closing 400 yard inHividual medley in a butterfly 200 the for time place Dave Duggan (DKE) or Bob O'Connor (AD). The program will be freestyle relay of Rinker, Shrum, respectable time of 4:58.6. In the was 2: 11.0, a mere second off the run as a club. Non-students are eligible to participate. Baird, and· McDevitt also won 200 yard backstroke, Schloerb school standard. Shapland's time easily in 3:27 .5. Final score: coasted through to finish second, of 5:19.2 won the 500 yard Hamilton 75, Brockport 38. free-style, and it was a significant a n d j un i or Stanley K a ye Travelling to meet a weak (Brooklyn N.Y.) grabbed third. improvement over his more recent Union squad the following day, efforts at that distance. Diving off an ale:ae - ridden Schloerb, who has had some the tankmen switched around board, Holender finished second Colliseum against the Blazers, and BY RICHARD KAVESH As the Clinton Comet Hockey then the long 700 plus mile trip to disappointments in the pool this their usual lineup, but they still in the required dives while won by 25 points. The medley Kendall took third in that event Club enters the final week of the Johnstown and back for a Friday year, showed fine form in taking both the 200 yard individual relay of MacDonald, Cavanaugh, and second in the optionals. The 1970-73 Eastern Hockey League evening contest with the Jets. Comet Captain Bordy Smith medl ey, and the 200 yard Schloerb and Rinker, swimming in 400 yard free-style relay of season, it has only four games remammg, b e g i n n i n g with continues to lead the club in breaststroke with excellent times what could onlv be described as Vanderveer, Needham, McDevitt, tonight's contest against the Cape scoring as he has since the opening o f 2 : 1 2 . 6 a n d 2 : 2 3 . 3 , murky depths,· coasted home in and Schloerb won that event easily in 3:36.5. Cod Cubs at the Utica Memorial game. Smith has 25 goals and 49 r e s pe ctively. Eric Kraus '76 4:07.7. assists for 74 points. Following Auditorium. The Comets have just two behind Smith in the scoring race is home games left this season, and rookie Brian "Moose" Macklh:i ATHLETIC LEAGUE only one after tonight's contest. with 27 goals and 28 assists for 55 continued from page 8 The Committee has outlawed The last time the Central Division points. Winger Jerry Andreatta least a fifty percent won-lost competition) "and All-Star games "te minal" (formerly known as --· v 3)" leading Cubs (featuring 50 goal leads the team · in goals scored record. He said that "dedication or other extra events"; to ser e postr eason) competition for all -s f s a an that and proficiency," to lead will l ppea A or Board " scorer Luc Simard) came to the with 32. en t ries other than possible temporary waiver of established In addition to Smith and Hamilton need only recruit ''bona Auditorium on February 11th, in dividual performers. If an regulations"; and 4) to a attain to athletes" student fide serve "as a the Comets skated to an 8-3 Macklin, three other Comets have athlete (a h igh-jumper, for the half-century mark in points higher level of proficiency. Some - R e v i e w B o a r d for alleged instance) has the talent to go to victory. violations of the Agreement." As to try asserted, Long Mr. schools, The final Comet home game of scored. Andreatta has 53' points, the nationals, he will be allowed the season will be this Saturday and the winger Kas Lysionek and attain such a high level of · stated in the agreement, ''The to go, but even the smallest group up made is Committee Conference talent," ''buy they that profiency evening at the Clinton Arena Center Brian Thorne have an even of t h e Presidents (or their involving cooperative effort (such allotting scholarship aid which is against the Jersey Devils. Saturday 50. as a relay team) will not be D e f e n s e man Dale "You're based "on ability, rather than on d e l e g a t e s ) o f m emb e r allowed to participate, because of will be awards night, and trophies the will only Not institutions." will be awarded to various players Bush" McBain leads the club in need." These tactics, although the pressure which may be placed for their contributions to the penalty minutes with 187, common, defeat the purpose of necessary controls be instituted, on a team member who cannot, or but they will be instituted by the followed by Warren "Butch'' intercollegiate sports and athletics team this season. Administrations of the member would rather not attend. The Comets have two ro"ad Williams and Andreatta, each of altogether. P articipati on in r e gional schools, rather than the Athletic games left this season with a whom has 87. Come down to the which do "not tournaments, Departments. Thursday night game slated for Arena on Saturday night for an N E S C A C , in addition to extend< the season more than· the New York State Fairgrounds exciting evening, as the Comets a l l ev i ating t h e omnipresent The Conference Committee has seven calendar days beyond the close their 1972-73 home season. scheduling diff icul ties (the defined many regulations in their Saturday of the final week of football schedule is complete Athletic Conference Agreement. scheduled competition", and do now, with the exception of a few The committee feels that the use not interfere with exam schedules, dates, through the 1983 season), of freshmen on varsity teams is are permitted. A highlight of , aims to impose some sort of '' q u e s ti o n a b l e e d ucational NESCAC plan is the fact that the control on collegiate athletics in policy", and that only freshmen conference has no League an effort to make the competitors at schools with an enrollment of Championship, or any league m o r e e q u a l , t o enhance less than one thousand should be rankings at all. The competition is Route Sa Commercial Drive · competition, and, as Mr. Long allowed to compete at the varsity on an individual team basis, rather 736-7106 New Hartford stated, to put the "fun back into level. Hamilton must now weigh than on a group conference basis, sports." carefully the decision as to s t r e s s i n g n o t o n l y the Mon-Fri 10-9 Sat 10-5 The first principle of NESCAC, whether or not freshmen should individuality, but the autonomy as expressed in the _ Athletic be allowed to appear on varsity of the teams. The Henley Regatta, THE PROFESSIONAL BACK PACKER Conference Agreement, is that however, is authorized by the rosters.in contact sports. AND SKI TOURER SHOP "the program in intercollegiate Committee. athletics is to be kept in harmony Mr. Long stated that although Packing Equipment by 24 Hour Service with the essential educational he considers most of the other NORTH FACE NESCAC members to be "half a purposes of the institution." The ALPINE D_ESIGN league above us" at this point, he second is that "competing players has hopes for the future. In time, Jdo�n parkas, camping jackets) are to be representative of the if the NESCAC ideas work out as student body," and finally, "the GERRY $5 from the colleges to the planned, Hamilton teams will be academic authority in each college Utica Gus or Train Stations CHOUINARD contesting foes on an equal basis.. i s to c o_n t rol intercollegiate Hiking Boots Largest Selection The emphasis in NESCAC in not athletic_ policy." Thes� three basic $5 from the colleges to the of X..COuntry Skis on winning but on playing the rules are to be interpreted by the Oneida County Airport game. DUNHAM TRAK Conference Committee, which is t h e d e c i s i o n -making and RAICHLE· TOPPEN $22 from the colleges to the enforcement body of NESCAC. Syracuse airport NORDIA BONNA THC CLINTON FLORIST The C ommittee has four 15 Elm Street specific responsibilities: 1) to 5 ride as cheaply as one BICYCLES853-275-1 i n t e r pret the Agreement; 2) Seyse David a p p r o v a l o f p o s t -s e a s o n RALEIGH Flowers for aU Occassions Phone Clinton 855-2005 competition (which NESCAC PEUGEOT prefers to call terminal season
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Icemen Drop Finale to AIC Close Season ITTth 7-14 Slate
home inside the right post. Faced r o ote r s w ere tre a t e d t o BY MANNY SARGENT Winning only two of eight, with a monumental comeback t hird-period dukes. With but Hamilton's hockey team closed task, Hamilton began to chip seconds remaining in the season, defenseman Jim Rishel and AIC's t he month of February on away at the three goal lead. Frpsh. M i k e R o c k wood Kirn Scoggins squared off along W edn e sda y against American International College. A rough 5-3 converted a pretty behind-the-net the far boards. Not far away, loss in that one followed weekend pass from Rick Anderson to light Hamilton's Don Armstrong and action that saw the Continentals the lamp. Dave Gillmore then Ste v e S h e a sgreen exchanged split with U. Connecticut and brought it to within one with a s�ason-ending pleasantries. This Williams. A week ago, Hamilton found themselves playing under what looked to be an upside-down ship hull that partly covers the U. C o n n . r ink. D e s p i t e · t he subsequent wind factor and a "death march" bus ride, the visitors wheeled out of Storrs 8-5 victors. The Continentals trailed 2-1 after twenty minutes but stormed back to net six of the next seven goals. The Huski�s did manage to bring it to 7-5, but Dave Gillmore potted his third goal of the night to seal the victory. W i l l iams wel c omed t he Continentals to Williamstown the following afternoon. The Ephmen ended up third in Division II but were forced to come up with three third-period goals to pull this one out. Hamilton led after twenty minutes, 3-2, and in the process, knocked one of the division's better goalies, Bill Jacobs, out of action. All the rest 1 of the scoring, however, came off Ephmen sticks. The equalizer came in the seco11d, followed by Nav,in three additional tallies in the final Junior Heea aeCKJora spous break-away attempt by AIC's of part lower off deflecting seen be can (puck Sheasgreen frame. One bright note was the p I a y of twine tender Reed goalie stick). Reed deserves alot of credit for his talented B eckj or d who turned away play in the Continent�ls, final two games. forty-two shots in this, his first blue-liner that mesmerized the donnybrook was to be expected start. AIC goalie. Dave's tally aroused consider ing the fr ustrating Wednesday's tilt was an the Blue towards testing the campaign the Continentals have enjoyable one for Sage Rink fans q u e.stionable ability bf the suffered through. The hockey w�o cam� out to catch finale opposing goalie. team's future looks brighter as fisti�fs. For those who came to Hamilton could never grab the onl y t h ree seniors will be wa tch., it wa s H a m il t o n 's lead. The· Yellowjackets once departing. A good freshman crop, fourteenth loss in twenty-one again established a two-goal bulge especially on defense, might just contests. This one was a with , Clem Morrison scoring to aid in bringing a .5 00 hockey predictable 5-3 triumph for the complete the hat trick at 1:07 of team back on the Hill. Yellewjackets: the second. Gillmore made it 4-3 With less than a minute gone, from the point but this was the Blue found themselves down neutralized minutes later when by two and Reed Beckjord AIC's Paul Pacific slammed home . replaced senior Greg Root in the his own rebound. nets. AIC took its third shot fifty Although· that was it for the seconds later and this one arrived e vening's scoring, some Blue BY JON CRAMER
MARCH 2, 1973
SPECTATOR -SPORTS Fourth and 22
BY ED WA-TKINS In an America where the cult of the anti-hero reigns, it is only natural that losing has become r e c ognized as an art form. Nowhere has this trend been more noticeable than in the sports 'world. Years ago, the teams that won were idolized: the Yankees, Giants, Celtics, and Canadiens. Today however, the successful m u s t c o m p e t e w i t h the incompet�nt for the fan's dollars. The New York-Mets were the first of the successful losers. They were the most terrible baseball team ever assembled. The original team, in 1962, consisted of has-beens, might-have-beens, and a few hopefuls. Even their stadium, the Polo Grounds, was a disaster. Yet those 1962 Mets, who lost 120 games, managed to draw over nine hundred ,thousand fans. The fans might have gone to see the Yankees who won the World Series that year but instead they chose to suffer with the Mets. The Mets were not the only poor excuse for a team to play in the Polo Grounds. The New York Titans were playing there in the early 60's. The Titans were the predecessors of the New York Jets. Joe Namath was still playing football for Alabama so the Titans had to make do with what they had. It was not much. Yet a loyal core of rooters developed, enough so that when the Titans became the Jets and moved into Shea Stadium, all the seats were filled. H o ck e y w h i c h p r i or to expansion had two poor teams,
the Rangers and the Bruins, found in the post expansion era that the fans were willing to pay to see bad hockey being played. The creation of a team like the New York Islanders was only a matter of time. The Islanders have won a grand total of eight games out of the sixty-three they have played. Each victory rated as headline news. When they defeated the Bruins, people hoped that they were not getting too good. After all, fans who watch a team play a style of hockey so atrocious as to l o s e f i f t y games bef ore three-quarters of the season is over, do not expect very much. The Islander fans who are very numerous, are not getting very much in return for their support. Americans have always gone to t he a i d of the underdog. Regarding sports, they seem to rally towards the most pathetic; the worse a team is, the more devoted its supporters are. For every fan the Miami Dolphins had, there were a dozen rooting for such quality teams as the Bills, Eagles, Oilers, and Patriots. The Philadelphia 76er's have their problems, like remembering how to play basketball but their fans have not left them. Another team as bad may not turn up for a century! America - Horne of the brave, land of the free, and lover of i n c ompetence. Somewhere in there a moral exists.
Hamilton Joins New Athletic League; L ong Outlines Reasons Be hind Change
Hard-working Ben Madonia brings the puck up ice against a backchecking AIC lineman.
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Hamilton College. has joined the recently formed New England S mall C ollege Athletic Conference. This new league is an offshoot of the agreement reached in 1955 by the "Little Four" l.. Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, and Bowdoin. NESCAC, as the new conference is called, has eleven members. They are, in additi_on to the "Little Four", Hamil ton, Middl e b ur y , T uf t s , Trinity, Union, Bates, and Colby. Eugene Long, the Director of Athletics at Hamilton, explained several reasons why Hamilton joined the conference. A basic consideration, as he understands the situation, is that NESCAC is "an attempt by athletic directors to make football (and now basketball) sc hednling more convenient."These two sports are now being used by the conference directors (who are the Presidents o f the member schools) as examples because they are two of the most popular intercollegiate sports. If all of the scheduling plans work out well for football and basketball, then other sports will be included in the NESCAC plan.
U n d e r N E S C A C r u l e s , Admissions Department to be conference members will still have absorbed b y the Athletics the freedom to schedule athletic Staff." Mr. Long defined the contests both inside and outside situation as -a gap between a the conference, for the purpose colle ge's emphasizing student of, said Mr. Long, "protecting the participation or student athletic a utonomy of the members." profi cie ncy. A t this time, Another advantage of joining H a m i l t o n f a v o r s t h e NESCAC is that in the minds of "participation" point of view. the members the concept of According to Mr. Long, no regional compet1t1on is much student is cut from an athletic more realistic than the concept of roster unless he breaks training national competition. rules or if the facilities are not The Athletic Director also , extensive enough to accommodate stated that an important reason h i m . A n e m p h a s i s on for Hamilton's joining the new ''p a r t i c i p a t i o n ' ' s t ress es a t h 1 e t i c gr o u p wa s that sportsmanship, discipline, and the intercol.Iegiate athletics, at least other attributes of athletics, the on the level of smaller' schools, sight of which is too frequently such as Hamilton, should have lost when an Athletic Department some sort of "guidelines or or administration of a scho ol puts controls, without inhibitions." ·au of the emphasis on winning, Mr. Long feels that the extent of and none at all on how the game intercollegiate athletics should be is played. kept within reasonalbe bounds; Mr. Long stressed the fact, many colleges, some of whom are however, that Hamilton has not opponents of Hamilton on the given up on "proficiency" athlefa: fields, have gone far out altogether, although sometimes of their way to stock their various that may seem to be the case. The rosters with talent. A college is Athlefic Director stated that he said to recruit athletes, according would like . to see the various to Mr. Long, when it · "allows teams finish each year with at duties which are reserved for the Continued on page 7
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Second Class Postage Paid Cl£nton, New York 13323 MARCH 9, 1973
DeMott, Jerome Join Yearly ''Teachi ng & Learning Conf."
T w o more educators will DeMott's most recent one is express their ideals of education, participate in t h e a n n u al entitled Surviving the Seventies. 1 in addition to their personal hopes •n'v est igative conference on He is the recipient of numerous and aspirations. "What actually education to be held the weekend awards including the Harbison concerns the faculty most as of April 6-8. Judson Jerome from A w a r d f o r D ist i ng u i s h ed teachers and the students as Antioch and Benjamin DeMott Teaching, a w arded by the learners?" from Amherst have agreed to be Danforth Foundation in 1969. A more theoretical ·session will participants in this ''Teaching and . DeMott has served widely in the be scheduled for that day, also. Learning" conference; Joseph field of education; he was a "What do students bring to the Katz, Director of Research for member of the Educational H u m a n D ev el opment a n d Advisory Committee of the 1 earning process?" "What do E d ucation Policy and Stony Guggenheim Foundation, among faculty bring. to their interaction with students?" ''What are the Brook, had already accepted an other. p s y chological and sociological invitation to participate in the Judson Jerome served as a dimensions o f our present conference. guiding member of the Antioch u n d erstanding of learning Benjamin DeMott is an author staff for several yeaTs at their theory?" and educator who received his branch campus in Columbia, The basic focus of the first · doctoral degree from Harvard Maryland. This campus was one of day' essions will be "Teacher University. He has taught at A n tioch's first significant and Learner: The People" The Harvard, Amherst, MIT, and Yale. attempts to aid students by second day of the conference will The author of many novels, utilizing community resources. be directed towards "Learning One of his recent books is Culture and Teaching: The Processes". All 0 u t o f A n a r c h y; t h i s three of the guest lecturers will c r i t i c a l l y -a c claimed n o v e l participate in an informational describes educational alternatives session of the ways which lear�ing at existing institutions. 'The book can occur. Some of the questions attempts to explain the ways which might be asked are: ''What through which education can does a teacher/learner do?" ''What become more humane, responsive, Self-scheduled exams " can to cramming, since many students third, that unproctored exams are and student-centered. At the difference does it make if one work or be made to work" will cram for their tests regardless now possible. Faculty members present time, Jerome is living and does have innovation?" ''What are _ remarked Stephen Kurtz, Dean of of how the schedule is set up. expressed concern that the system writing in a P e n ns y l v ania t h e c ompetencies o f o u r teachers?" ''What difficulties are Hamilton Faculty, to the Student The Honor System and the did not prevent cheating; students commune. involved when men teach women Senate meeting last Tuesday, effects of self-scheduled exams on asked whether the faculty was Katz has agreed to participate 1 arch 6. Th ec members of t e the system were also discussed. demonstratiJ:tg a lack of trust in in a seminar during the first day or vice versa?" Academic Council and the Dean Does Hamilton want an Honor students. of the conference. The proposed An exanunation of the models met with the Senate to discuss the Code, and is the present honor One of the trio of professors focus of this session will be and patterns of education on this facult y de cision to reject system working? Several points re presenting t h e Academic "Exp ectations v s. Reality". campus will be featured on the self-scheduled examinations. were made in favor of the system, Council noted that if a consistent Among the questions which will second day. "How do our models Last week a letter from the first, that the honor system was D student produced a B exam, he be aired are: "What are the and processes facilitate or hinder A cademi c Council informed the same or as good here as at had probably been cheating, but, characteristics of the ideal teacher e du ca tional g oals?" Specific m e m b e r s o f t he S e na t e other schools; second, that faculty he said, it is tiresome and and the ideal learner?" ''What q u e stions might include the Curriculum Committee that the can now report cases of fraud humiliating to faculty and student could I do to be a better _ following subjects: lectures and Council had concluded that the directly to the honor court; and continued on page nine teacher?" ''What would I ask of s eminars; grading/testing and "flexibility introduced into the my students to make them e v a l ua t i o n s; flexipility v s. e xamin ation schedule last structure; studio arts, liberal better?" December proved sufficient to Another topeic of discussion e d u c a t i o n , sciences, a n d eliminate the grievances that f or the initial day o f the. laboratories; student-led courses. called for some reform of the�old conference will be a personal P a rticular patterns might be schedule. T he Council also statement session. People from discussed with regard to their expressed doubt t h a t the Social Sciences since 1970. Adams the campus will be invited to effect on students and teachers. Three noted archaeologists Hamilton Honor Code could has published four books and withstand the burden the new Profe ssor Robert McCormick some seventy journal articles, Adams of the University of system would force it to bear. a mo n g t h e m Lan d Behind According to Dean Kurtz, the Chicag9, Professor Michael D. Coe Baghdad: a history of settlement of Yale University, and Professor f a c u l t y f e l t t h at while on the Diyala plains, and The self-scheduled exams would allow · Kwang-chih ,Chang, also of Yale Evolution of Urban Society: Early will deliver a series of Winslow greater flexibility in student and M e s opotamia and Prehispanic faculty planning, the emphasis on Lectures on ''The Roots of Urban Mexico. Society" in the Hamil ton Science self-scheduling leads to cramming, Professor Coe earned his B.A. the faculty member is delayed in Auditorium on Friday and and Ph.D. at Harvard and is Saturday, April 6 and 7. Professor marking the exams (since most presently associate Curator of instructors want to have all of Adams will speak at 7 :30 p.m. on Anthropology at the Peabody Friday, and Professors Coe and their exam papers together before Museum of Natural Sciences. He is C h a n g w i l l m a k e t h eir reading them), and that the the author of America's First presentations _at 10 a.m. and 2 emphasis on self-scheduled exams Civiliz ati o n: Discovering the promotes a trend towards having p.m. on Saturday, the three men Aztec, and The Jaguar' Children. will then meet for a . panel no exams at all. One faculty Professor Coe has conducted field member who had previously been d i s-cu ssion at 7 :30 Saturday work in Guatemala, Mexico and evening. Admission is free. connected with Haverford College Costa Rica. noted that poorer students were Born in P ekin g , .China: The Lectures and discussion hurt by postponing exams and Professor Chang received his B .A will consider the rise of cities in cramming for them during finals the three great culture-areas of the f rom the N a tional Taiwar week. w o r l d : the Middle E a s t , University in Taipei and his PhD In the informal discussion that Mesoamerica, and China where from Harvard University. Aftei followed, students generally c omplex societie s evolved teaching for a year at Harvard, expressed the f ee ling that independantly from scattered Professor Chang went to Yale in scheduling should not affect the tribal communities. 1961 receiving a professorship in way a student performs on an 1969. In addition to writing a exam. They questioped the Professor adams received his number of journal and book faculty members' claim that Ph.B., M.A., and Ph.D. from the articles, Professor Chang has self-scherh,J,,.tl t>xams wonld lead University of Chicago. He has written the following books: The PLATFORMS OF STUDENT been a member of its faculty since Archaeology of Ancient China, Ret hinking Archaeology and SENATE P RES IDENTIAL 1955, and ,was director of the Pre-History of Taiwan. He is Oriental Institute at Chicago from CAND IDATES ON PAGE 1962 to 1968; he has been dean presently the chairman of the If you want to keep.the dogs out of the buildings, you'v EI GHT. lower the signs. of the University's Division of Department of Anthropology.
Senate, Faculty Review Self- Scheduling Que�tion
Archaeolog ists Lecture on "Roots of Urban Society"
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CLINTON A.B.C. PROGRAM There will be an informational meeting Wednesday evening, March 14th, at 7:30 in the Brown Room, for any students who might be interested in working as tutors for next year's Clinton A.B.C. Program. Several representatives of the program will be on hand to discuss different features - national and local - of this new educational experiment. 1973-1974 YEARBOOK EDITOR Anyone interested in being considered for the position as the editor-in-chief fo the Hamilton, Kirkland or Hamilton-Kirkland ·yearbook for 1973-74 please contact Michael Serino. ATTENTION HAMILTON STUDENTS All Hamilton dormities will be closed for the Spring Recess at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 18, and reopened at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 31. The only way to maintain any semblance of security in these buildings during vacation is to have them locked at all times - there will be no exceptions. STUDENT BOOK AUCTION A student book auction is being held in the Main. Library Friday through Wednesday, March 9-14. Th� books for sale are on display throughout that period on tables located across from the Circulation Desk, and students are invited to enter their bids for any items desired. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION The election of the new Student Senate President will take place Tuesday, March 13. DANCE SATURDAY The Student Defense Fund Committee wil sponsor a dance for Sandy Harris at Bundy on March 10 from 9:30 p.m. - 1 a.m. Beer is 15 cents, and the band is Proofrock. Admission 75 cents. FOLK FESTIVAL COMING Hamilton and Kirkland will be sponsoring the Seventh (23rd?) Annual Intercollegiate Folk Festival on May 3, 4, and 5. This year's Festival, a benefit for Sing Outt! will include workshops. We must limit it to the first 100 college amateur (i.e. non-union) applicants. For application and information write: Box 144, Hamilton Campus Mail. Hurry! BUS TO NYC There will again be a: chartered bus to NYC. It will make two stops, one at Grand Central Station and one at Penn Station. It will leave Friday, March 16 at 12:00 in front of Dunham, and be in Manhattan by 5:00. The fare will be $9. For reservations, contact: Mike Hassett, phone no. 4549, 102 Bundy East, Box 1003 Hamilton Campus Mail. Reservations on first come, first serve basis. (35 seats available) BANKING -WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT? What does a commercial bank do for a living? You are invited (all classes, not just seniors) to an informal talk on banking by Denn_ey Schmidt, a Hamilton "Alumnus and Second Vice President of the Chase Manhattan Bank on Tuesday, March 13th at 7:30 p.m., in the Fisher Room, Bristol Campus Center. The following day Mr. Schmidt will be interviewing seniors who have indicated an interest in working for the Chase Manhattan Bank. FREE CHURCH SERVICE , The speaker at this week's Free Church Service is Joel Tibbetts, ·College Chaplain. The topic: "Speaking Well of the Living." During the service, De Gustibus..., a recorder ensemble directed by Thomas Colby, will play; and the Free Church Choir will perform a portion of an original folk mass by Arnold Ahlert, '74. Chap el, Sunday, 11:15 a.m. ECOLOGY STUDY Summer studies in environmental courses at two field stations in upper New York - at Watkins Glen and in the Catskill foothills - will be open this summer to undergraduates at Hamilton College. Courses will be scheduled in two summer "tracks" so that an undergraduate may take one or a sequence of courses, in either track. Inland water studies ill be available at the CCFL-operated Finger Lakes Institute on 600-ft. deep Seneca Lake. Courses at Watkins Glen will be Limology and Freshwater Vertebrates. Terrestrial studies will be held at the 1,100 acre Pine Lake ecological preserve.of Hartwick College. Offerings at Pine Lake will be Bird Study in the Field,June 11-30, and Field Biology, scheduled in two sections,July 2-27, andJuly 30-August 24. Inquiries about tuition and housing should be adtlressed to Summer Director, CCFL, Houghton House, Corning, N.Y. 14830. TEACHING AND LEARNING Students, faculty, and staff of Hamilton and Kirkland who want to participate in the Teaching and Leaming Conference, April 6, 7, and 8 are asked to contact Eve Hendricks, ext. 7514. Speakers are needed to make personal statements in educational ideas, to assume advocacy positions for models of education (work study, student initiated courses, independent study, etc.), and to make statements of institutional criticism which will be read anonymously. POETRY READING Poetry reading 34 College St. at Keenan's Bookstore, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. Open to as many as fit. LENTEN SERVICE On Wednesday evening, a Lenten service on the theme "Christ and Modem Man" will be persented by the Hamilton-Kirkland Christian ·Fellowship. The service is to be held at the Clinton United Methodist Church on Utica Street, and a bus will leave campus at .. 7:10 p.m. Wednesday evening to take people without can to the service. The bus will return to campus after the service. M ORE BLURBS ON -PAGE ELEVEN
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EDITORIAT. The Anniversary:
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An Anatomy of the Senate
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have to make a positive request for With another cycle of Student Sen� grades to be sent to schools or families. Presidential Platforms in this mue, we think However, students are still not given full it is time to reflect on the work of the access to their personal files. Student Senate for this last year, and t.o look Another suggestion:t for a one-week back at the coals set by Senate presidential reading period before exams, has not seen candidat.es last year. How mudl was any action this year. Neither has the accomplished by the Senate? Last year, time-honored issue of academic credit for several candidat.es stressed the importance of Spectator editors. involving more students in Hamilton's The role and stru_cture of the Student one a cademic decision-making pro�: Activities Committee was questioned; a new individual proposed that students have SAC constitution has been effected in the voting power on faculty and administrative hope of making that organization ·JDQl'e committees . . . Well, students have not directly responsible to the College at large. been given voting power, but they have been The senate voted last week against the SAC's allowed to sit in on certain sulHx>mmittees proposal for co-chairpersons. The SAC must of the Committee on Academic Policy. now decide on one chairperson and submit Some sub-committees have made student the name to the Senate. The question _has members an int.egral part of· the committee; been raised - can the SAC, which is others have not asked the students to constitutionally under the jurisdiction of the participate at all. Meanwhile, the admissions Senate, force a decision for co-chairpersons department has given more responsibility to · on the Senate by refusing to comply, or will students in their interviewing procedure. it accede to the Senate's request for one Several of the other issues raised by last year's candidates have been t.a.ken up by · nominee? Otherwise, the Senate spent a lot of time faculty committees. SeH�cheduled exams this year-docating money and listening .t.o have been reject.ed; Winter Study is currently committee reports. When you come right under heavy fire; and while calendar changes down to it, the bulk of the effective work on are still in committee, who knows when we'll be asked t.o return to school in two the part of students rested with a few concerned individuals. These worked, by and years? latge, on the curriculum Committee, on the One candida� wanted to investigate student rights. The Senate Student Right.s Winter Study Committee, and with the Self Committee · have modified· the Hamilton Scheduled Exams problem . rhis year it was policy of sending grades automatically to Sen<Ate Committees that generated most of p.....rents and high schools, and obtained for the noise and smoke: the deliberations of students the right to request that grades not the Senate -were atten�ed mostly by blessed be sent out. Next year, students -reportedly peace.
RUSSIA To the Editor: There has been considerable debate recently on the merits and weaknesses of Winter Study, a debate which seems to have stimulated an unusually intense response from the faculty and student body alike. We are writing in hopes of sharing our strong feelings on this issue with the college community. Our Winter Study excursion into the Soviet Union succeeded · as both an experience in learning and in living. Frequent tours plus interes ting presentations and digressions by well-versed and intelligent Soviet guides added a new dimension to the study of history and the Russian language at H amilton C o l le g e . The 1 extraordinary degree of patience and sense of humor demanded by 17,000 miles of travel and an ass ortme n t o f UDU$ual •and aggravating situations (the Hotel Bukhara was in itself a valuable experience) constituted both . a valid educational and a maturing process. finally, one simply cannot profess to be very knowledgeable about the Soviet Union if one has not met the people, seen their cities, their - homes, observed their life style and their mentality. To deprive Hamilton and Kirkland students of this unique opportunity by dropping Winter Study would demonstrate a lamentable lack of judgement. William Platow John Stroebel
RUSHING
To the Editor: In response to the Spectator article dealing with rushing, that appeared on Peb. 23td, we, the
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b rothers of DKE, feel that have joined DKE, others haven't. fraternities have been blatantly Those who have not joined ramin our friends. misrepresented. The allusion to a "snowball The author, "Vikram Dewan", s pe a k s in t he language of effect" in the article smacks of mathematics (i.e. X numbtt of sour grapes. Certainly a person dollars allotted for rushing yidds will_ join the same fraternity as his X number of pledges), rather than friends. No one playing with a full in the language of human affairs. deck would join a fraternity with We have made many friends in the his enemies (witness Newsweek's freshman class in the course of account of "Fat Freddy" and CHI co�nued on page ele.,,n this year's rushing period. Some
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VOLUME THREE
NUMBER NINETEEN
Fint Published as •'The Radiator" in 1848
Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Kneisel
Managing Editor Peter Zicari
Associate Editors Henry Glick, Robert Keren, Kenny Marten, Carol Goodman Assistant Editon Fred Bloch, Paula Klausner, Kathy Livingston Arts Editor Richanl Kavcsb. Sports Edi:tan Craig Fallon, Dave Shapland Photography Editor David Cantor Managing Staff Katie Davis, Liz Horwitt, Taki Lamson-Scribner, Paula Leon, Gary Lukas, Bob Lyford, Tony Mazzarella, Connie Miner, Betsy Mmray, Mitchel Ostrer Business Staff Marty Kane,Jim Noonan,Jeff Pearse, Bruce Thaler Photography Wendy Goodman, David Rienzo, Woody Navin Staff. Peter Ackerman, Lou Co-rdia, Jcm Cramer, Randy Davis, Vikram Dewan, Vincent DiCarlo, Doug Glucroft, Robert Grieves, Bob Hylas, John Hdd, Gonion Kaye, Louis Levenson, Vijay Murgai, Nan�e Napp, Thomas Pirodsky, Manny Sargent, David Schutt, Michael Sherer, Judy Sillari, Douglas Singer, Joan Tuchman, Bob Weisser. The Publications Board publishes "The Spectator," a newspaper edit'4 by students, 29 times during the academic ye•. �ion: $7.00 per year. Address: Box 83, Hamilton CoDege, Clinton, New York, 13323. Letters to the editor mmt be siped, but namcs wil be withheld upon request.
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1973
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Trustees Favor Co-op Life; Can Not Spo nsor Finances·
c o - o p d o r m f or co-op. After much talk, it was BY KATIE DAVIS Hamilton-Kirkland, they said that decided the Co-op· group would The Co-op Dormitory Planning t h e y could not sponsor it proceed in a positive direction Committee presented its proposals financially. The Kirkland budget with the assumption that there f o r a H a m i l t o n-Kirkla nd cooperative dormitory tc the also cannot provide support to will be a Co-op dorm next year. facilitate costs of a new kitchen. As an indication o f this Kirkland Board of Trustees alst Consequently, it appears that a assumption, they drew lottery weekend. The Board made no co-op dorm project must be numbers to determine the final decision, but expressed some interest in the co-op phihsophy. ' financially i ndependent of. members of the Co-op. The co-op dormitory is a living Hamilton-Kirkland. Apparently, the main obstacles to Pres·ently the Co-op organizers, situation in which everyone shares an i mmediate decision are Alice Stern '74 and Liz Samenfeld "interpersonal reactions" through financial ones. '7 4 ar e inve stigating the ''realistic responsibilities," such as The proposed plan involves possibility of acquiring a loan cooking and maintenance of the c h a n g i n g K ee h n Hall t o from one of the local banks to building. This type of involvement accomodate a cooperative-type style of living. The dormitory finance the cost of a new kitchen. in a project of living is to insure a would house 46 students, 23 from The Co-op Committee is making c o ordin ated and c ommunal each school. It is to provide efforts to minimize the cost of environment. Thus with a more cooking and dining facilities for such a kitchen apd · to adjust their united group acting as one body, a the residents. Presently there is no initial budget in the running of more normal and realistic way of kitchen in Keehn that could the Co-op. The organizers had life will exist. On a questionaire p r o v i d e s u c h facilities and once planned on staffing. a cook, concerning housing, one student utilities; a few structural changes but have eliminated that idea to said, "...co-ed dorms are definitely are needed. The amount of money provide for more money; they are a .viable solution to the e stimated for the necessary also investigating the possibility of H a m i l t o n -K i r k l and s o c i a l problems a s well as being a much changes is about $45,000. This is obtaining a: grant from Co-op foundations,· who sponsor such more natural and complete living the problem. situation." This indicates that A l t h o u g h t h e B o a rd of enterprises. It was suggested that each co-op member pay extra there is true spirit for community Trustees favored the idea of a Keehn Dorm, the expected site of th·e co-op dorm. board to cover cost, but the living and the desire to advance on organizers feel that co-op it is indicated by the progress of members· should not be punished the Co-op Dorm. The Co-op Committee hopes to resolve this or taxed to live in the co-op. Last Monday, following the uncertainty of their dream by Trustees' meeting, there was a early next week. They are still meeting of all interested in the w a i t i n g to h e a r f r o m Co-op dorm, but the numbers correspondences concer ning Students will be free to decorate have subsequently increased. Alice kitchens and to secure the loan bill. Other major cost items are BY BOB WEISSER their diploma as they wish. Stern indicated that the Trustees from a bank. Until then, the The Kirkland Commencement champagne, beer and flowers. K ir k la n d will -a lso provide w e r e· i m p r e s s e d by the enthusiastic spirit generates all S t e e r i n g C o mmittee met Th� commencement procedur� conventional diplomas. A few C o mmittee 's pr ogress and action towards a new Co-op dorm yesterday to discuss the details of will be similar to that of last year. committee members reported that determination to establish a in Keehn Hall for .next year. the Class of 1973 graduation The seniors will enter to the several students expressed the ceremony. The y c onsidered. sound of bagpipes, listen to desire' for such a diploma. various matters, including floral several speeches, some musical None of these matters have arrangements and the choice of arrangements, and receive their been finalized. Arrangements with the principal speaker. Most of diplomas. The concept of allowing these arrangements had already any senior to make a speech when the printer must be affirmed, been reviewed by the members of she receives her diploma remains. along with other miscellaneous details. the committee, but there was still One point of conflict resolved Dr.. Margaret Meade had been D � v i d L · Rosen bloom , - the massive Political Marketplace, debate on several items. during the meeting was the design The commencement - will be of the diplomas. Diplomas of c on si d er e d as the principle A s s i s t a n t P r O e s" 0 r Of and his most recent work is The Gover�ent at Ha�ilton College, Election Men. The latter two held primarily in the courtyard three different designs will be speaker at the commencement. were bounded by the McEwen, List, provided. One diploma style will Dr. Meade, however, will be in has resign�d effective at th� end both published by Quadrangle Guinea at the time of of the_ spnng se_mester. Comm g to Books. He has also worked and Kirner-Johnson building. The be chosen from submission from New c1h seating plan provides for a total of the student body. Unfortunately, graduation. The Committee is H a m 11 t On in l? 7_0, M� · numerous political campai gns. Rosen blo o m s pecia iz 1 ed m Work has already begun on 800 people. the committee has received no a tt em pt i n g to �ontract Ms. · . The cost of the ceremony, designs yet. However, they expect E l eanor Holmes Norton, the A men�an government, poIit_ica 1 finding a replacement for the excluding the printing of the to receive a few models soon. An Commissioner of Human Rights p a r t i e s , a n d c a m�a ig n depa r t ing profes sor. T hree · management. He was also director candidates have been invi diplomas, will be approximately individual may design her own of New York City, to speak. ·ted to . , The graduation festivities will of �amil ton s S emester in the Hill to speak with the $2,700. The luncheon that will be diploma; it will be validated with held bef or e commencement the seal of the College and the be held on Thursday, May 24. Washmgton Program for two department, administration, and students. Candidates will be asked amounts to more than half the signature of t he President. L u n c h e o n will b e served years. beforehand, and a reception will Citing personal reasons for his to make presentations before be held after the ceremony. decision to leave the college, certain groups of students and Each senior may invite a Rosenbloom said, "I didn't think faculty as part of the selection design ated number of friends to that I would spend the reSt of my procedure. The announ cement of the reception; guests must be life here, so I decided to leave Mr. Rosenbloom 's replacement escorted by seniors. Since the now rather than in a couple of should come before the close of number of tickets is limited, more years ." He gave no the academ year. ic students will have to apply for indications ...s to his future. plans, them in advance. Extra tickets, it but he did say that he would like .--------------- Campbell served as a student The Board of - Trustees of JOAN MARIE'S Kirkland College has named two representative to the Development is expected, will be given out on a to continue teaching at some point. new trustees, including the first Committee of the Board of first come, first serve basis. Further arrangements will be ' •BROWSE 'N SHOP' In the past three years, Mr. alumnae trustee of this new Trustees. As a trustee she will considered and finalized at the Rosenbloom has published three again serve on the Development _ college which graduated its first c ommitte e's n ext meet ing, books and several articles in Norton Ave. Take a left at foot class last spring. The two new Committee as well as on the Wednesday March 15. various journals. 1n 1970 he wrote o f Campus Rd. or 3 houses p�t Fi n a n c e a n d P l a n n i n g trustees are Elspeth Savage Electing Cong.·ess: The Financial Skinandoa Golf Ch,1.b. Campbell of Chespeake, Virginia Committees. Dil emm a for the Twentieth Mr. Hanes is an executive with and James G. Hanes of New York 853-6525 Century fund; last year he edited --------------� the Bali Company in New York City. need Mrs. Campbell was a member City. A long-time resident of of the charter class of Kirkland Winston !.S a l e m, he holds a 24 hr Towing College and is the first alumnae business degree f r o m t he BILL'S .GULF named to the Board. She was University of North Carolina. AAA N.Y.S. nomina ted by the alumnae In June of 1971 Mr. Hanes was association and elected by the invited by the college to join the n Inspectio St. 6.6 Utica Board of Trustees (or a five-year Kirkland Associates, a group of ALL REPAIR & BODY WORK GUARANTEF.D term. foster alumni who offer vital FOREIGN CARS A SPECIAL TY Mrs. Campbell is presently a assistance to the college. He has 10% DISCOUNT to college students with 1.D. bank management trainee at the been elected to :the Board of Virginia Na t i onal Bank of Trustees for a five-year term and On ALL par-ts, Accessories, and Service Work Call Esther 853-3211 . Norfolk. Recently she was nam�d will serve on the Development, EXCEPT GAS s evenings �nd weekend acting assistant manager of one of Nominations and Curriculum 853-2525 -24 Hours its branches. Committ�es 6am-12am 7 day;. . As a student at Kirkland, Mrs.·
K'land Steering Co�mittee Discusses Commencement
Ro�enhloom Resigns Hamilton Coll. Post !
Hanes and Cllmpbell, New K'land Trustees
A.VON PRODUCTS?
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Cornhill Project Fosters Community Responsibility
save Cornhill is represented in government students work for BY LIZ HORWITT Last spring Maria Zammit '74 Council; Cornhill is working to congressmen and collect four of Kirkland became the founder rectify this and to become a fifth academic credits. Kirkland has n_b , other similar project available. of a work-study community district. The Advisory Committee is the Maria feels that the semester project in Utica. She felt that the college is far too isolated from its only committee which is not program lacks a framework, that immediate area and from the composed of Cornhill residents. it doesn't have enough direction. "Real World" in general. She Its members are organizations She hopes to bring in an expert wanted to create a sense of such as an archectural firm, a with a background in the field of responsibility and commitment bank, the County Planning Board, urban studies; she believes that it within the college community. and Utica Development; there is is necessary in order for the She began to talk to people, an attorney on the Committee as project to be worthwhile, should seeking the necessary contacts to well. Its function is to advise it continue. This first semester set up an experiencial project Cornhill on how to deal with its was, in a sense, just a setting-up period. Now Maria wants to move through which motivated students problems. The most general aim of CPUI toward definite, coherent goals. could spend at least one semester in Utica, participating in its is to rehabilitate Cornhill, a Jow "There's lots of work to be de�elopment, getting to know its housing district. "Right now, the done," she stated. "People go place looks like it's dying," Maria down just to help; they don't people. Maria's first important contact explained. ''We want to resurrect know exactly what they're doing, a n d t he y end u p d o i n g was Father Richard Lambert, who it." "It's a bad section with a bad busy-work." b e longs to the Sol Alinsky Dotty disagreed: "I don't Institute for Training Organizers. name," Dotty added. ''We are know if I could handle more When she talked to him he had trying to change that." At present, the organization is work-I do eight hours a day, five already i.tarted Cornhill People United, Inc.: a "grass roots" without a leader. Father Lambert, days a week right now." Both women felt that it is organization irt which community former executive director, has residents work on housing, taxes, resigned. Dotty does some of the difficult at Kirkland to set up a recreation-anything which they n e c e s s a r y o r g a n i z a t i o,nal cohesive, relevant independent or BY DOUG GLUCROFT feel needs attention. He presented busy-work such as telephone work�s t u d y p r oject. Dotty Hamilton College's campus has to the organization's Board the answering and paper jobs. She is commented: "The problem with provided a home for eight high i d e a of a relationship · with satisfied with the project general, Kirkland is that there's hardly any school age boys from urban areas Kirkland; the Board favored the but Maria, its founder, feels that it time to set up independents and in conjunction with a national idea, and meetings with President should not continue as it stands. work studies, get the books to organization called "A BEITER ''Why should people waste read,-and s,o on. It's all so-rushed. CH AN C E" (A B C ) s i n c e Babbitt and Dean Friedensohn time and money? It definitely It's very discouraging." began. S eptember 1972. The ABC ''Maybe it's due to lack of program involves taking high The Project, as it exists this needs improvement," she said. Maria had hoped to make the guidance," Maria sugge�ted. She school students with potential out semester, is an experimental effort which will extend at least through project an urban study, something recommended the hiring of a of the inner city school, and the summer, and longer if judged c om p arable t o Hamil t o n ' s person just to advise students on t r a n s f e rring t hem to an successful. It is a residential Washington Program, in which continued on page nine atmosphere more conducive to community center composed, in essence, of four students and a house. The house · is Calvary Church House; the students are Maria Zammit, Dotty Uraneck, P at r ice Moulton and Cheryl Harris. They are receiving three credits for the semester. T h e four women have undertaken a variety of_ jobs c nected with the committees of Cornhill Project United, Inc. The committees include: In our time, in our world, the old get hidden away and forgotten The Newspaper Committee, on much too often. which Dotty Uraneck is occupied In a Connecticut city, The American Red Cross-America's i n p e r s u a d i n g d i�f e r e n t community residents ( a fireman, Good Neighbor-did something about it. for example) to write articles for There, Red Cross Youth each "adopted a grandparent." Strictly the neighborhood paper. one to one. The purpose: regular visits-to make life just a little The Hous ing Committee, which has as one of its goals a more worth living for older folks. property tax reassessment for A small matter, you may think-especially if there just don't Cornhill; not having been assessed happen to be any older p�ople in your neighborhood, or your life. for 25 years, the taxes are practically equal to what the place But it represents-just what Red Cross is all about. is worth. Maria is participating in Because The American Red Cross is a home town affair. That's a drive toward a home for the why you find us doing different elderly, with an estimated cost of things in different home towns. about $23,000. The Housing Committee is also examining the We're what you need us to rehl estate practices in Cornhill, be. Whoever you are. a n d has already demolished Wherever you are. thirty-one condemned buildings And isn't that what a Good that had previously been allowed to stand. Neighbor is all about? The P arks & Recreation Be a good neighbor� Committee for which Patrice Help The Good Neighbor. Moulton has set up a dance program for about ten children, ages 10-14. Classes are held three times a week. Dotty is helping to organize people toward getting a park built on South Street. The City Services ·committee is n ow defu nct, and will be revitalized. It had dealt in , neighborhood improvements, such as cleaner streets, leashed dogs, etc. T h e P o l i t i c a l A ct i o n Committee was recently formed, The American Red Cross in anticipation of the upcoming School Board and Councilman elections. Each district in Utica
Students Offered ''A Better Chance"
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productivity. The students live together in a designated residence under the supervision of a residept director who is assisted by two tutors who also live at the ABC residence. On Sundays they are hosted by families in the community to provide a recess and diversion for both the students and the resident director and his family. ln most cases, the resident is a faculty member at the lo�al high school which the urban students attend. The average residence is ten s tudents, and it costs approximately $3,000 per student per school year. Originally initiated by Philips A c a d e m y i n A n d o v er Massachusetts and other private academies, ABC has spread to public schools. The public school facet of the program was begun b y Da rtmout h where the youngsters attended Hanover H.S. There are now I 00 prep schools participating in ABC, and about 30 public schools, but it is expanding rapidly. The majority of students in the program show great improvement, and end up at f i ne colleges and univers1t1es throughout the country. The p u b l i c s c hool ABC program was begun in 1966 by Mr. Thomas M. Mikula who now is National Director of the ABC program. The director of ABC in Clinton is Mr. Gil Adams. Adams and his students are currently housed in Dean Tolles' former residence at 99 Campus Road. Mikula has visited several times to see the new program here on the Hill. The residence was decided on only after Mr. Adams had run into difficulties in getting a residence in the Village, which he had pref erred. For the Adams family and the eight visiting students to live in Clinton, the house would have had to be rezoned as a domitory. Adams was turned down by the Clinton Town Board in two attempts to have the zoning classification changed. Mr. Adams realised that the Tolles House would be available, a nd took advantage• of the opportunity. Living with Mr. Adams and his family are eight boys: six from New York City, one from Philadelphia, and one from Cleveland; five are Black, two are Puerto Rican, and one is continued on page five
MARCH 9, 1973
Speech Contests , Ham.· fnll. Tradition
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Community. Evening s at the ABC will so next year. The remaining ABC house are used for studying with $4-5,000 has been raised by continued from page four the help of the resident tutors and Adams. The Clinton program of Cuban origin; Adams himself a ddi t i o n a l s o me p a r t - t i m e incurs fewer costs than others hails from New Jersey. He seved s�dents. Five of the eight boys because the Colleg e has l ent them as Alumni Director for three year s r�ed th� · grade averages . at the To lles House. After two ye ars unt il he took a posit ion as a Math Clinto n High between the rrrst t h e ABC program must be teacher at Clinton H.S. The t wo nor from·the hearts of the Russian a nd second marking periods. s e l f-s ufficient, and that will resident tutors are Kevin Drew -r Publ ic speaking at Hamil to n race. Oblivion is not for such as and Bob · Wheeler , both of the /Although one ·student had to be r e q u i r e extensive fund aising e." To To lles, an undergraduate h asked to leave bec ause of his ac t ivity. The Clint on High School a ed Col lege has :always occupi class of 1975. of the Twenti es, Lenin was a unc ooperat ive attitude, and one is on an austerity budget and can particular position of importance. Adams selected his eigh t boys er lead ourageous and c nobl e t regr�ssed in his wor k, Mr. offer litt le hel p. studcn verend e R Ever since the legendary m 17 candidates recommended creating"chaos,to bring order int� fro To raise money, the Bo ard o f Adams is very optimistic about · ..., l a n o i t Na e h t Henry M andeville received the y b m hi to tion t ," building i rs will have to approach na sorry his Directo e th o gram's pr t t a success is h and y h p o s o chair of moral phil O r ganiz a t i o n . M a ny c ollege sympat hetic members of the strong er with his own breed of . t in o p rhetoric in 1841, and began to officials arc invol ved with ABC. m m u n ity and linton o c ommunism. c C e t h a a T N n l C o i B A e th in nts e ud t s persistant ly drill M r . C o v e r t , S e c re ta r y o f ns Calvin W. Torrance, in 1955, a f r o m o u tsid e o d n u tio F r o f ke o ch es, r ing e fo the p correct mannner of elocutio n Admissions, serves as finance t ook a less symp athetic view of residence in order . They have Clinton. The C olleges will no t be fo; tion ta u e r a ad h Hamilton has the fac ulty p Russia in ''Let th e Pree World chairman, and among adapted "reasonab ly well" to th e- asked to c ontribute. its speech program. Speech prizes involved are Professor Roth, Ring, Bewar e !" his title typed in red in � espite difficulties in rmding a n e w s i t u atio:µ, acc ording to in s tee Trus the by were awarded Carvano, and Wertimer. Chaplain his m anuscript. Torrance warned es r dence, and having to go i s. e e in Th Adam stud nts, additio n, 1813, the year of the College's Joel Tibbetts, who lives next door of the great C ommunist threat. out residen t tutors six weeks · with f e e tak e tag f ll o an o e C adv acilities t firs the g 1829, fo unding. In in 1958 to the ABC house, also assists the er in . of ill o be r t L M R Fall, the ABC program is h c u s y e s r a h a t r and Lib contest was held. The Clar k Prize ated society for apa thy in various ways. n�w thoroughly underway, and castig mn y l as G and to ium, the Bris e b Priz to es, and the McKinney The six high school 'The Soft Ideal. " "We tag many Center when accompanied by a eight young men are studying in awarded again this spring, are . ' sophomores and two juniors in objects with the term "ideal" an atm osphere that will enab le f o and cat ;m e m b e r o f t h e C o l l e g e reminders of the prominence them to impr ove themselves. What oe to do.i the program sleep, study, yn from Monr Maril pub lic speaking at Hamil ton house. They each have Organization h as given SlG 000 to makes it all go is the dedication food. But the ideals I am talking in the the Clinton program this y:ar, and_ Col lege. resp o nsibility, through a rotatio n and devotion of Mr. Gil Adams. out ... are life, liberty and the The Clark Prize Contest for ab er s." t f p es Mill o sui pin hap ur speech is open to all seniors. In n f o r c e d t h e v al u e a n d 1854 Aar on Clar k supplied an � importance of p atriotism. endowment o f $500 for this The Clark Prize Contest will be award. Though the money w as held this year on Friday of used by the Col leg e for current C o m m e n c e m e n t W e e k e n d .. expenses, as Walter Pilkingto n Preliminary tryouts for seniors recounts in his history of will be held sometime in April; Hamilton Co llege, the prize has Mr. Wri The Hamilto n Student Housing ght, Asso ciate Professor of been awarded almost co ntinually Committee will recommend that Speech will soon announce the for nearly 120 ye ars. 100 students fr om the t wo specific date. Six finalists will The McKinney Speech Prize colleges live in co-ed housing next to h f r twenty o en p p t es speec are � was originally awarded to seniors . year . The recommendation which tes long on any topic the y for skill in debate. Char les mmu will be presented to the B�ard of oose. The Clark C ontest offers a ch M cKinney funded the prize in Trustees this weekend, has been prize of approximat ely $150 . The 1878, until then it was called th e approved by Presiden t Chandler. y, osen u om j , facult fr � �� Kingsley Prize, aft er a member of 1:he Kirkland Truste es approved a admIDJStration, alumni and people the class of 1852 who founded a sunil ar proposal last weeken1:l. outside the c ollege, will base their contest in extemporaneo us debate _ Acc�rding to this proposal, d e cisi o n o n th e c o n t e n t in 1866. The Prize iss no w thirty-six w omen will be housed effecti veness and organization of awarded for outstanding speeches o n the second and fourth fl oors of the speeches. given by freshmen, sophomores North Dormitory and ten w omen ' Th M-v=-c u.,.J..Ullcy Prize C o n te st andJ·uniors. on the first floor of one entry to �he speaking con t�sts brought tryout will also be held in April. South D?rmitory. If there are ·an y t u o o t y r t e t be a e d h s, excitement to the College in th e l' o ther Kirkland students involve d 19th cent ury. Students delivered announced, will t est contestants' in the _co-cd dorm arrangement, r o y us o mp e e t bilit an a x e in their speeches at the Vill age they will _he housed in Carnegie . C h urch in C l i n t o n d u ring speaking. Mr. Todd and Mr. Gordon Bmgham, Hamilton Dean s, nin t Wrigh e s finalist oo e will ch Co mm�n c e ment. To wnspeople of Students, indicated t hat there and C9'iege peop le came to hear. three from each class. Delivering would be no more than two or Studepts considered the Clark s�eches _ of approximately nine three rooms at Carnegie occupied Prize the highest ho nor they c ould mmutes m length, students will by women. co'!1pcte for. first and runner up receive· fr om the College . Men wishing to live on the p r iz e s fo r each class. The As Mr. Ch arles Todd, Professor Kirkland side of the street will be McKinn ey Contest · will be held on of Speech explained, prec eding housed in Root Dormitory with World War II, the speech con tests Class and Charter Day. any extras li�g in one or two T h e t r a d i t io n of public emphasized orato ry for its o wn suites· in Milbank or B dorms. The ng at Hamilton is strong� sake . Students them pract iced speaki new co-ed housing arrangement ough speech comses arc no Th their skill in voice c ontrol was designed to increase the gestu r e s , a nd pronunciation: I o n g e r r e quired, the speech humber of opt ions for tho se c on t i n ue , allowing on t est s � Acting was more important than stud ents who prefer co-ed living. the content of one's speech or mterested Hamilton students to The proposal is based on the _ ir e e s, ic o th sentiments vi v their ew the sincerity of the speaker assumption that a co-op dorm will Speeches were memoriz ed; to pics and opinions of the world � exist next year. If a co-op is not . Mr. As Todd gen the noted, . eral w ere assigned, and in the 19th established, the proposal may century, they were delivered in sp ee ches have become more have to be amended. in ture ore and a sonal m m per Latin and somet imes Greek. N e verthel ess, st udents h a ve r ece�t _ years. The contest tlµs year frequently expressed in their p r o mIS e s an interesting and Men-Women speeches the tenor of the time in entertaining variety of student n. o rati o w h ich they lived. In 1927 Ebe?ezer Cobb Brink gave THE CLINTON FLORIST WORK ON A SHIP NEXT oration on "Hindenburg , Soldier 15 Elm Street SUMMER. No experience reand Statesman." Brink concluded 855-2751 41?-ired. Excellent pay. World his 1,304 word speech with an wide travel. Perfect summer job M r . A l e x a nd er S t o i a, a each week. or career. Send $2.00 for infor el egy to the German of WWI. graduate student at the Harvard Flamen for till ·OGaunou Mr. Stoi a feels that Kirkland mation. Seafax Box 2049-GD• '' And so today, conspicuous School of Education is presently provides "a great opportunity to Port Angeles, Wash. 98362 among the great men of the conducting a study of Kirkland look at an emerging insti tution-a world, stands Hindenburg. th e College, under the supervision of new college trying to do new soldier and statesman. As ;�ldier, Dr. David Reisman, Professor of things in a rather traditional supreme. As state sm an, majestic Sociology at Harvard. se�ing-" He will be comparing and true. When his biography shall Mr. St oia intends to interview Kirkland to older institutions as h ave been finally written, the students and faculty members, well as studying the problems .Banquets - Seminars - Parties wor ld will admire the soldier and and to observe classes in an effort which K i r kland faces as a Lu'nch - Dinner - Cod<�-,s. honor the statesman, the genius of to find out exactly what makes women's co llege. �ancing Fri..& .Sat•.· war, and the apostle of peace - Kirkland unique in relatio n to Kirkland was selected for the Pau l von Hindenburg." o t h e r_ i n s titutions of higher study as a result of a conversation Winto n Tolles, former Dean of l e a rnmg . H e is particularly between President Babbitt and the College, read a speech on in�erested in the aspects of . Mr. KReisman concenmig higher Lenin in the 1928 Clark Cont est. Kirkland which are considered to educat ion. Mr. Reisman is the "Fanatic, her etic, icono clast, be innov ative. Mr. Stoia will be author of several books including Paul Reve�- Lodge d�magogue - call him what you studying Kirkland during the "The Lonely C rowd ,. and ''T he Rt. 26, Tmm Rd. will - the grave can never 'er.ise remainder of the semester, and Academic Revolution." ROME, �.Y. 13440 him from the minds of the world will be on campus several days
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THE SPECTATOR
Concerned Hill Students Volunteer Services
BY KATHY LIVINGSTON Though Hamilton and Kirkland academics 'often require much of the average student's time, there are yet some students who have found it possible to devote a small but extremely important amount of time to several volunteer service organizations. A g r o u p o f twenty-five Hamilton and Kirkland students are involved in a service program at the Potter Elementary School in Utica. The program, initiated in 1968, enables stude_nts to assist in the teaching of children in fourth to seventh grade who are inflicted with Cerebral Palsey. Because of the school's inability to secure a full-time physical fitness director, the volunteer' service of college students is greatly needed in super v i s in g t he children in physical fitness activities. Some of the children have private physical
therapists. For - others, the time spent with Hamilton and Kirkland students provides the only form of supervised exercise that they receive. The Utica Tutorial Program provides aid for fifth and sixth g r a d er s f r om the Kernen Elementary School in Utica. College students work with the children on a one to one basis for two hours, three nights a week. In the first hour emphasis is placed on h e l p i n g c h ild r e n with h o m ewo r k a n d a c a demic problems. The second hour is often spent playing games, in an effort to provide the children with a friendly relationship with an older person. The children are brought to the college for tutoring hours. The Rome State Program deals with mentally retarded people of all ages from low to high degrees of mental retardation. Educable
children are tutored by college students in an effort to gain greater proficiency in reading and writing. Arts and crafts classes are offered for those patients who are able to participate. Students also assis in games for older patients and converse with them. The purpose of this program is to off er the patients an opportunity for more personal relationships which can not always be provided by hospital attendants. In a similar effort, the Marcy State Hospital Program operates each Monday a n d Tues day night. College students spend time talking to -geriatrics and offering friendship to patients there. Students interested in initiating volunteer service organizations or in participating in any of the present programs are asked to contact Debbie Aidun or Mr. Wertz, Director of Bristol Campus Center.
EVENTS
MARCH 9, 1973
FIL MS On Campus This Weekend Loves of a Blonde and Fireman's Ball-8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, 10 p.m. on Sunday night, Science Auditorium. King of Hearts-8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, 10 p.m. on Sunday night, Kirner-] ohnson Auditorium. March 12 & 13 (Monday & Tuesday) Beauty Knows No Pain and_ Gertrude-Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, 2nd place in1965 New York Film Festival, Best Film at the Festival according to the New York Review of Books, 9 p.m., Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. March 14 (Wednesday) Edvard Munch, the final segment of Sir Kenneth Clark's film series Pioneers of Modern Art, 8:30 p.m., Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. At Neaby Theaters Cannonball (853-5553): The Emigrants Kallet (736-2313): Sleuth Paris (733-2730): Save the Tiger March 13 (Tuesday) 8:00 p.m., Chemistry Auditorium. Behind The Great Wall of China
March 14 w,/ednesday)
LEC TURES
What We Don't Know Doug Raybeck, Kirkland Anthro Department, 8:30 p.m., Kirner-Johnson Red _Pit EXHIBITION S Currently on Campus Painting Seniors' Art Show-at the Bristol Campus Center through next Friday. Paintings of John and Mary Loy- t the Root Art Center through next Fliday. Winter Study Projects in Art-at the Litst Arts Genter. Photography Photographs by Ben Earle and Michael Serino, at the Kirner-] ohnson Red Pit through next Friday. Opening Monday Half and Half: Then and Now-Photography exhibit from Rochester' George Eastman House, at the List Arts Center through April 13th. At the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (797-0000) Artists Craftsmen of Central New York-at the Museum of Art, 310 Genesee Street. MILES T ONES March 9 (Friday) Samuel Barber's Birthday (1910). March 10 (Saturday) Lorenzo Da Ponte's Eirthday (1749). March 12 (Monday) Edward Albee's Birthday (1928). March 14 (Wednesday) Telemann's Birthday (1681). March 15 (Thursday) Andrew Jackson' Birthday (1767) Julius Caesar Assasinated (44 B.C.) March 16 (Friday)
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Alexander Hamilton Players Tour the Everlasting "1776"
BY BOB GRIEVES 1776 deals with the founding The new Alexander Hamilton fathers and their struggle to Players will take their production promulgate the Declaration of of Stone and Edwards' musical Independence. Featured among 1776 on the �oad beginning March the main characters are. Kevin 21-22 with two performances at Groppe '73 as John Adarns 1 Jim the Kirkland Art Center in Kennedy '74 as Thomas Jefferson, Clinton. The tour, the first of its and Larry Wingert '74 as John kind for a small-college ensemble, Dickenson. Jim Gibson '74 is has not been tried previously by designing sets which will be taken a n y H a m i l t o n Drapia t i c s with the group. Costumes will be organizat ion. The Alexander more authentic than those for the Hamilton Players was formed last Chapel performances; material January by sophomores Peter similar to that worn in Colonial Sluys and David Parker, and times will be utilized. To junior Larry W i ngert after complete the air of authenticity, successful performances of 1776 those students with major· roles last October and November. The have been assigned readings in American history to add depth to . new group will produce musicals their p arts. and light drama to supplement the The cast of 1776 include serious drama and experimental of the Chatlatans, the members theater of the Charlatans, founded and in 1907 by the late Alexander H amilton-Kirkland Choir, ave h o h w ovices -n in" t c a . 6 Wo11cott and other Hamilton u ncover ed previously hidden students. talents. Type-casting plays an
James M_adison's Birthday (1751). Mid-semester warnings due. Vacation! SOUAR E DANCE March 9 (Friday) Square Dance-8:30 p.m., Gym.
Amici Quartet Amici Quartet Amici Quartet Am ici Quartet Amici Quartet Amici Quartet Amici T h e A mi c i Quartet, artists-in-residence of Kirkland, Hamilton and Utica Colleges, will present a concert on March 11, 1973 at 3:00 p.m. in the Ha milton College Chapel. The ar t i s t s , each individually ac claimed musicians, are fast establishing their reputation as an excellent quartet. The program they offer will include Moazrt's Quartet irt D Major: K. 499, Beethoven -:S- Quartet in F Major: Opus 135, and the S(ring Quartet: Opus 2S by the Anton Webern.
The musicians, graduates of the nation's leading music schools, are all veterans of concerts and competitions throughout the U.S. and Europe, and are first-desk players in the Utica Symphony Or c hestra. They direct the Kirkland-Hamilton Ensemble, as well as giving string lessons to mu sic students at the two colleges. They also participate in the Young Artists in Chamber
Music Program at the State M e m o r i at A w a r d , t h e U niversity of New York at Atwater-Kent Award, and full Binghamton. The four have built scholarships to the AF of M up a v aried repertoir� of music for Congress of Strings, Tanglewood p u b l i c c o n c e r t s, lecture and Aspen. Jennie Hansen, violinist, has a demonstrations, workshops and degree from the University of concerts for children. Eveline Chao, violinist, has a Southern California, where she B.M. degree from the Juilliard studied under Eudice Shapiro and School. She has also attended Milton Thomas. Her experience Oberlin College and studied under has included performances with Jascha Brodsky at the New School the Jascha Heifetz Master Classes, of Music in Philadelphia. She has and the Marlboro Music Festival appear�d as a soloist with the with Pablo Casals. The Quartees cellist, Fred Washington National Symphony, as well as several other orchestras, R a i mi, graduated from the and has participated in the Aspen Juilliard School. He has appeared Festival and the Lenox String on the E uropean Television Network, and has given recitals in Quartet Seminar. Ca rol Zeavin, violinist, a the United States, England, Spain, graduate cum laude of UCLA, has Italy, and Portugal. He was the studied with Sybil Maxwell, Henri · winner of the International Cello Temianka and donald Weilerstein. Competition in Estoril. The A mici Quartet will She has served as a concertmaster of the UCLA Symphony and the perform four concerts on the Idyllwild Festival Orchestra, and Kirkland-Hamilton campus during is a winner of the O'Grody the 1972-3 academic year.
The Spectator welcomes Benjamin DeForest Locke To the world.
important role in the production: Charles Stewart, 1972-3 foreign student from Scotland, displays a bonny brogue in his portrayal of Colonel McKean, one of two Scots in the Continental Congress. In deed it is author Stone's contention that type-casting is essential to the full flavor of the play. Alumni, relatives and friends of t h e C ollege w i l l p r o v ide accomodations for the company at each stop in the tour. Touring may in itself become a part of the A l e x a n d er Hamilton Players' repertoire; if this tour proves successful, plans for a visit to western cities in 1974 will be undertaken. Publicity articles and listings for this production will appear in such publications as the Boston Globe, Berkshire Eagle, New Yorker Magazine and the New York Times.
With "Fank" In New York BY DENISE ANDORVEITE Mo n d a y mor n ing. I was exhausted already from a full weekend of rehearsals and a concert, which made me myopic enough to see only the five hour bus ride ahead of me. I was cranky, my throat hurt, and visions of work left undone haunted me. Definitely the last thing I needed was a demanding concert in New York City. But then at warm-ups in Town Hall, a perceptive man said to us, "L et's make music." James Fankhauser walked on stage that night and I realized I wasn't looking at the "Fank" I had gazed ar for the last six months of r ehearsals; but Vulpius, then Josquin, Brahms, and finally the tender prodigy himself, Mozart. Subtly I was no longer just an alto in the Hamilton-Kirkland Choir but an integral part of a flowing interplay of harmony emoted and disciplined by the composer. D i r e ctor and c h o ir w er e i n t er meshed and bound- i n creation. What the audience at Town Hall experienced was not the Hamilton-Kirkland choir directed by James Fankhauser but the ferment of the composer's mind at its conception. And I caught a glimpse of the ethereal notion of the hegemony of music. Only a f t e r the concert d i d I comprehend the significance of what "Fank" said and I think we as a choir can glow in the pleasant satisfaction that we made music.
zm� Sunday's performance of the 'Coronation Mass.'
THE SPECTATOR
GEORGE D. BAKER
To My Fellows of Hamilton College, To say that the students of Hamilton p ar t i c i p a t e in t heir own student government would indeed be stretching the truth. If you believe that scratching an" 't on a paper ballot placed anonymously into your campus mailbox is participating in student government., then read no further. There is nothing that follows that will ma.lie any sense to you. It is apparent that what has been perpetuated at Hamilton is not student participation, but a student "trustee,, system. The "trustees" are elected each year and assume the title of student senators. The senate, the body comprising all these trustees, goes about doing what it in good faith ".thinks,, the student body wants, and eventually it presents a proposal to the students for a final vote. Indeed the students do vote, usually with no participation in the formulation of the issue presented to them for the decision a n d in r e l a t i v e ignorance of the facterinvolved and the ramifications of voting yea or nay on the question foisted upon them. Thus the votes are cast, either in the box marked "Put ballots here" or in the recycling bin nearer to the student than t h e b a l l ot b o x . After voting (or non-voting), the students grumble about their ignorance of the issue concerning the vote they just made and with they could do something about it. But any pangs of conscience are dissolved by remembering that there are trustees who have done the spadework and our thinking for us. With this security found in our elected trustees our obligation to participate in our own government is satisfied and we draw a close to our participation in that governmental process. The participation does indeed stop here? so too the student involvement. However, the grumbling and griping does not stop. No, no. The grumbling continues, mostly in the form of complaints you can overhear in the meaningful forums of decision-making such as the· pub, locker
"WHAT HAS BEEN PERPETU.. ATED AT HAMILTON IS, NOT STUDENT PARTICIPATION,BUT A STUDENT TRUSTEE SYSTEM" r oom, or in Commons. Rarely are complaints directed where they will do some good, where they will serve some constructive purpose other than filling the boring moments while standing in line at dinner. Why has this trustee system developed. at Hamilton? The fault lies with both parties?; the governors as well as the governed. The basic reason we have a trustee system is that we have suffered a failure to communicate between the two groups._ How is the senate at fault in this failure to communicate? Although the senate must be a body of leadership, it is not at all clear that it must be the primary source of ideas for student government. The primary • source must be the students themselves. Despite some of the imaginative leadership we have been fortuante to have been given by the senate in some areas (I direct you to
the area of academic affairs- Winter Study, Honor Code) the senate has relied upon itself rather than the student body for direction and substantive ideas. This is not the way things ought to be. ulf you want to pick cherries then go where the cherries are." So too, if you want to· represent student interest then go to where the students are. I believe that it is the incumbant responsiblity of the senate to go. out and find out what the student body wants. The senate, under the direction of its President, must take affirmative action in securing the interests of the student body. Some efforts have been made to do this, mostly taking the form of questionaires. But is it not obvious by now that questionaires fail and t h e t r ustee system continues? The President of the senate is in a position to increase student participation by improving comm\lllication between the senate and the student body. I believe that face to face communication ought to be tried. The President could from time to time, (say once a semester or when a· particularly important subject had arisen such as the elimination of the Winter Study Program), send the senators canvassing door to door on campus. The senators could simply ask the students what- they think needs to be done. This could have a combination of three possible effect: 1) there would be increased knowledge of what ideas were brewing in the student body. It is easy for Continued on page 10
socially and academically , what is the role of the Senate? First, the Senate should both encourage this diversity and actively involve itself in planning and execution. Second, the Senate must be aware that although the str uctures ha v e b e e n created for participation in past Senates, this is only the beginning. Student opinion must be more actively sought out. Publicity of
"TO UNDERESTIMATE THE SENATE'S POTENTIAL IS A MISTAKE.,. Senate work should improve. The Senate's v a r i e d c ommittees should be more accountable to the student body - as should the elected representatives. Too many good opportunities are still being missed. Third, ·I think that if the Senate -:hooses its issues well and thinks them out, it can make itself heard and respected. finally, the Senate' resident is in a position of opportunity to initiate activity. He must prod, he must liste, he must choose a well-conceived program, he must be creative. There is a certain lack of vitality on the part of several organizations on the Hill. The Senate's President - and its money - can get things moving. What I am trying to say is not to expect miracles; the Senate's power is limited. Still, it is fair to expect a serious, hard-working , and active Sedate to make tangible advancements in student life.
Student Senate Presidential Platforms .
GORDON KAYE
The Senate is in a peculiar position. In certain areas of Hamilton life, it has the opportunity to be influential and can make itself heard and heeded. To underestimate the Senate's potential is a mistake. On the other hand in many areas it simply has no jurisdiction; no amount of campaign rhetoric will change that. I have tried to stay away from rhetoric and instead to get some perspective on Hamilton and the role of the Senate and its president. I write wiili the bias of someone who believes that Hamilton is a good place to go to school and that an energetic Senate can make it better. A review of the past fie years shows a steady growth of student input into decision-making. Changes have ranged from r e form of the Judiciary Board to restructuring of the Senate. Student groups have put us on the verge of real and val uable increases in living options. Students evaluate courses and are to an extent asked for opinions on academic policy. As Hamilton gradually diversifies
MARCH 9, 1973 brought 1n the past. Again we should look at the possibility of subsidizing Houses for c o m munity beers and open parties. T r a n s p ortat ion should be · improved between the Hill and Utica (which does have something to offer believe it or not). The jitneys can be used for trips into the city, particularly on weekend nights when there is no public transportation. Senate Structure - As I suggested before, the structure of the Senate constitution facilitates representation and participation. The main problem is to increase the S e n a t e' 1 visibility and accountability through increased use of the Spectator and wider and more direct distribution of meeting summaries and minutes. I would like to see the role of the Vice-Presidency enlarged and a return to direct election of that office. \We can do mucld>ettcr.
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Below are some general views and some sense of the direction the Senate should take. Social - Housing and Food - Student life improves on the Hill as alternatives grow in housing and eating. The Senate can be particularly effective in this area. Coed d o r m s , t h e co-op experiment, and o pportunities for off-campus housing should be · encouraged. The future of Dunham must be decided. The Senate should push for more alternatives in food styles and more variety in food plans. Keeping Bundy open on weekends should again be seriously considered. The Board of Stewards should be more visil>le and accountable. Service Systems sometimes forgets they are operating on a campus which prides itself ..on smallness and informality; the Senate should remind them. Academic - I do not believe in academic However, students consumerism.· have much to offer in terms of creative thinking in this area and the Senate can be effective if it chooses its issues wisely. Winter Study poli cy is within our realm (I think it is valuable and shouldn't be s c r a pped after such a short trial). Self-scheduling exams and greater exam week flexibility are legitimate concerns. The idea of comprehensive departmental honors programs which grew out of the Adler Conference would add depth to the curriculum. Hamilton's relations with gra d u a t e s c h o o l s has to improve, particularly in . the areas of law and medicine. Community - Reforms in the SAC will hopefully make it more responsive; the Senate should work closely with the· committee to mak-e certain it plans for concerts e a r l y . In a n o t h e r area, Root-Jessup should be given a shot in the arm both financially and spiritually. I think the community misses the quality and diversity of lectures that Root-Jessup has
ROCCO ORLANDO
In order to act as an effective force for constructive change on the Hill, next year's SQ.1dent Senate must be more active and innovative than it has been in the past year. Hamilton students have grown accustomed to a Senate which merely distributes funds and establishes committees. If this pattern is to change the Senate must alter both its attitudes and its method of operation in three important ways. First, the Senate must assert itself by taking a stand ii) the
..THE SENATE MUST ALTER BOTH ITS ATTITUDES AND ITS METHODS OF OPERATION!" form of a detailed and cogent resolution on all major issues which face the college. Second, the Senate must control its committees more closely. Committees of the Senate .. should not be allowed to function without its supervision. The Hamilton ·members of the SAC, for example, must be supervised to ensure that the types of errors which have been made in. the past year are not repeated. Third, the Senate must increase its efficiency. Several procedural changes which could be made would eliminate much of the time-wasting which occurs presently. For example, if each Senate member received a detailed agenda and committee reports before the meetings many trivial argum�ts would be avoided. If the Senat is to act in a more vital manner, a new constitution must be written a n d a dopted. The present constitution is inflexible and archaic on a number of points. Adopted in I 964, it does not reflect the coordinate structure of the two colleges. There are several pro v1s1o n s i n the constitution for committees which are now obsolete. A new constitution must be sufficiently flexi'ble to allow for changing demands.
. CURRICUI..UM
Because the heart of any college is its academic program, the Senate must press firmly for more student involvement in c u rr icular policy-making. The Senate should work for academic improvements in all of they ways at its disposal, through the Curriculum Committee, Senate 1. Self-Scheduling Final Exams: The Senate must continue to fight for self scheduling exams in spite of the recent faculty rejection of this proposal. Continued on page
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THE SPECTATOR
New Loan ProceduresCited; $10,000 The Six Year Limit
BY KEN KOGUT The Higher Education Act of 1965 provided for a low-cost, long-term delayed-repayment loan to qualified students to help meet their educational expenses. Sine!! its · inception, the Federally Insured Loan Program (State· loan) has undergone numerous changes, the most recent of which were effective March 1, 197 3. You may well remember the confusion students had in obtaining such loans last summer. The chaos was a result of the difficulty in implementing the USOE regulations for processing applications in accordance with T h e H i g her Education Amendments of 1972. Since many students experienced unusual delays in obtaining their needed funds, implementation was postponed until March- 1. We were recently informed of the new procedure for processing applications for loan guarantee and thus are malting you aware of them. The maximum l oan has increased to $2,500 per year and t h e t o t a l a m o u nt a n u ndergraduate can borrow is $7 ,500. Maximum loans overall, including graduate study, cannot exceed $10,000. State agencies (NYHEAC, PHEAA, MHEAC, etc.) can set maximums less than those above provided a minimum loan of $1,000 per year for six years is available. It is doubtful that many students will be permitted to borrow more than $1,500 per year at this time. Prior to March 1, any student whose family's adjusted gross income was less than $1 5,000 was eligible to receive Federal interest benefits on his higher educational loan. Now, the amount of Federal subsidy, if any, will be determined on an individual basis regardless of income. It -is quite possible for a student from a family, whose income is less than $6,000, to be denied a subsidized loan while another student, whose family's income is $25,000+, may qualify for a Federal subsidy. All students now seeking subsidized loans are requ.i,red to submit financial information about their families in greater detail than was required in the past. After an analysis of the family's financial situation, the f inancial a i d officer will recommend that either all, part, or none of the loan requested be subsidized, and then forward the application materials to the student's lender (bank). It is important to note that the financial aid officer recommends b.u t does not determine eligibility for interest. subsidy; the lender does. In cases where the lender disagrees with the college's r e c o m m e_ n d a t i o n , h e i s en cour aged to increase the amount of loan eligible for subsidy if he is knowledgeable of any special family circumstances which might warrant such action. It is permissable to borrow a portion, but not in excess, of the expected parental and/or student contribution toward educational expenses. However, in no case can total financial aid exceed total educational cost. I n o r d e r t o ma intain consistency in our review and recommendations for Federal interest subsidy, all students now
seeking such loans must submit a Parents' Confidential Statement (PCS) and/or Student's Financial Statement (SFS) in addition to t h e a pplication forms. Until a g e n c y ( NYH E A C , e t c . ) ap plicati ons are revised, a supplemental form must be completed and attached to the a pplica tion. This form will contain a statement to be completed b y the student affirming that the loan he is s eeking will b e used for educational purposes, a section for the college to recommend the amount of the loan to be eligible for interest subsidy, and the lender's section in which he will make subsidy determination. The affirmation must be signed by the student in the presence of a
notary. This service will be provided by this office free of charge. Should the applicant wish to borrow on a non-subsidized basis, he need not submit the applicable Confidential Statement but rather indicate on his forms that he does not wish to be considered for Federal interest benefits. The borrower will then pay interest on a monthly basis at the rate oj 7% per year. It will be the practice of this office to notify the student of the amount of the loan it has recommended for interest subsidy immediately after his application is processed. Should that amount be less than the applicant feels will be adequate, he will be urged to contact his lender. rontinue� on page eleven
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a li k e f o r p rofessors to be constantly hunting out evidences of fraud. The general consensus of the meeting was that the state of the Honor System should be investigated further. The self-scheduling programs at other colleges were describ�d and expla ined: at Haverford/Bryn Mawr and Williams colleges, the instructor alone decided • if a self-scheduled exam would be administered in his course; these exams must be taken in the first few days of the final examination period at all of these schools. Dean Kurtz implied that further study of other colleges offering self-scheduled exams would be necessary.
work-study and independent projects. Calvary Church House, the p r o j e ct residential center, is located in Cornhill at 1103 Howard Avenue. Originally, six girls. were to live there; . three dropped out, and Cheryl Harris came in as a fourth. Cheryl is responsible for a tutorial program through which Hamilton and Kirkland students help Cornhill high school students in English and Algebra, three days a week. The house has room for at least six, and the project is looking for two additional people to join it this summer. Applicants may call 7 32 -2 95 5 or c ontact Dean Friedensohn. Everyone is welcome, Maria added, to a chicken dinner at Calvary Church on Much 31 from 5 t o S p .m.-tak.e-outs are available.
RECYCLE '
lfyou·re traveling to Europe. fhe Middle Ea;t The truth is their drug law, arc tough. or south of our own border. here are ;ome And they enforce them . To thc,leuer. facts. Because a lot of peoplt: have funny ideas Mexico, for cxamplt:. demand, a two·to about foreign drug laws and justice. nine year sentence for po,ses,1on of anything. Maybe you've heard possession i; okay in Carrying stuff in or out of the country will some countries. That"s wrong. Or maybe put you in jail lor ;1x to hfleen year,. you've heard the laws aren't enforced like There's a 24 year old girl fro m the United they are here. Tha t's wrong. too. Really wrong. States sitting in a jail outside of Ro me right
no\\. She'll he there for ,i, lo ten month, waning for a 1r1al. And after that ,he can get up 10 eight year,. In Spain.after )OU'\\: been ,en1enced.)OU can't take �our ca,c to a higher court. Y,1u're all through. And nohod 1 ·can get �ou ou1 Tho,e are fach. 1\nd there\ no wa, around them . That's wby over 9QO A mericans
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MARCH 9, 1973
Student Senate Candidates Outline Platforms Baker
Continued from page 8 a student to trhow away a senate questionaire unanswered, but difficult to ignore a senator who shows a personal interest in what you, as a student and a person, have to say. 2) ff the student has nothing to say when asked then he will realize in a very real way that fact---that he is lacking in his duty to know what the senate is doing and what he wants the senate to do. This enlightening experience may preclude much of the inane and incessant griping that we hear so much of at Hamilton. 3) It will increse interest and goodwill between the se nate and the student body. Awareness that a problem exists is the first step toward solving the problem. Face to face communication is possible here at Hamilton. We are not a huge, impersonal and inarticulate university. We are a community of a little over 900 students---intelligent people, not nitwitted bobolinks. If it embarrasses a senator to
"AWARENESS THAT A PROBLEM EXISTS IS THE FIRST STEP T O W A R D SOL VI N G T H E PROBLEM." ask a student what he thinks ought to be done then that senator has no business being in the senate. If a senator thinks it too much work to go to his small constituency then he does not belong in the senate. These senators have no business being in thestudent senate if they are too shy or overworked to break down the trustee system we have today. The student body is at fault too for the failure to communicate. We do not articulate our interests to the senate. How many times have you spoken to a senator, or written to the senate, or attended (God forbid)-a meeting of the senate? Compare your answer with the number of times you have heard gripes after a final decision has been made, i.e. the recent case of self-scheduled exams. The students must participate in the decision-making process, not merely be its victims. We must participate not merely at the end, but at the beginning and middle of the process. We must volunteer our efforts and not rely upon our trustees to "cook something up". The Board of Stewards may be starving for ideas but few students cooperate with them. Students complain to t eir own distraction about a too expensive social tax and poor quality of our concert schedules. But again, few students give a solution serious. thought. After all, we have our trustees-- the SAC- to worry about th�. In sum the present trustee system is just so much patent nonsense! The students do not like it, and the energetic individuals who contribute their time and energy as senators and agents of the senate do not deserve the undue heat generated in their direction as incompetent or insensitive to their fellow students. In most cases the senate does its best with a blatantly lousy situation. My candidacy for senate President is based on the simple idea of increasing communication between the students and their senate. Face to face communication, more chapel announcements, better use of the potential offered by the Spectator, all are methods to begin to speak to one another. The solution to our problem lies ii) a renewed commitment to activism, to participation, to breaking down the walls presneted by the asinine Hamilton "cool".' If any of what I have just said makes any sense to you, I ask for your vote on Tuesday. If ·not, we deserve to sleep in the bed we make for ourselves and have no right to complain. Some Specifics: I. More Individualized Food Plan: I am sick of paying for food I don't eat, i.e. weekday breakfasts. 2. Senate should increase i� role in
attracting qualified .student-atheletes to Hamilton. The Bloc k B club demonstrated that n:aI action can be taken in this area. If the club desires to contine its spearheading of fhc effort, that is fine. But since the entire ,student body would enjoy better athletic teams and better facilities the :senate :should go out of its way 1D assist the �ffort, perliaps in the way of financial help for the club's pre-freshman weekend plans. 3. With all the griping .about the poor status Hamilton students cajoy in the eyes of graduate schools it has come time for a major scnak dJort in this area. 4. Increased effort to 1wcn up the weekends around this place! Man can t h e y b e d u ll! P erh a p.s :if the Hamilton.Kirkland student population is too small to support big name bands . for concerts we ought to stop banging our head against the all and take a more realistic view of what we can ,do without money_ Pcrh:ap:s a more realistic, less expensive, and mandatory social tax be put toward ecuring more numerous and more vaired less expensive types of entertainment.. Support of seIVeral projects such as the student production of ""1776" certainly realizes a greater return for our money _in terms of appealing to varied tastes and promoting greater aesthetic experiences than the present lousy sy.stem of hiring three poor-to-middling roe groups a year. For my money I would rather .have one concert of outsanding quality, -.e. the Dead, the Band� and spend the remainder of the money on mm'e troupes of dancers7 speak� etc.., than wemwtoday.Also mmeCommunify Beer and Bands are ddinitdy in order. They mvc been successful, and besides they rdieve the fraternities from the burden of having to play hostess to the entire campus at honsep.arty time�
6. The Senate and the Curriculum Commi,ttee should investigate the graduate school and career advising system, making Tecommendations about the ways in which they can be improved. 7. The Senate should continue to apply pressure to the administration and faculty :in an attempt to alleviate th� competitive . disadvantage which Hamilton applicants face because of low grades. COORDINATION S�ce the founding of Kirkland, coordinate relations between the two colleges have improved greatly. However, fhere :are still a few important areas in which the schools do not coordinate their efforts., much to the detriment of students at both :-Schools. The Senate should serve to f o c u:s student pressure to eliminate coordinate difficulties. Students on both campuses must demand an end to the unresolved inter-faculty squabbles which :imparr the acaqemic. potential of both schools. L Committee on Academic Coordination: H coordinate difficulties are to be alleviated, the CAC must be reorganized. .Presently, as a powerless advisory group, its usefulness is severely limited. It must become a mediation panel which is empowered to recommend solutions to coordinate problems which are brought before it and to report regularly to the trustees about its successes and failures in its efforts to solve coordinate problems. 2. It is essential that the two colleges plan faculty growth more effectively that they have in the past. There is currently a certain amount of duplication of courses at the two colleges which could be eliminated to present more varied course offerings. When hiring new "faculty, the two colleges :should decid,e jointly which departments hould be increased or decreased in size. .3. The S enate should continue to .coordinate its :activities with the Assembly by encouraging joint committees. The Budget and Finance Committee of the Senate mould work in conjunction with the Funding Committee of the Assembly Continued from page 8 for two reasons.: to increase efficiency and 2. Faculty Advising System:: At the to promote a more realistic determination present time the academic ....:lvising :system ·of ending priorities. .sp at Hamilton is weak.. For die mast JP.31'½ STUDENT LIFE e t facldty ad¥isors provide ncitber b L The Pub .: The Senate should attempt to information nor the direction wbich find a way to ease the overcrowding in the s tu��ts require . to make int:e �-ent :&il)_ The Pub could be enlarged slightly in de�ons about thar courses- A so!u�on to its present location or it could be moved to _ l e this problem would inc ud establishing an th.e main reading room of the James h evaluation procedure to determin� we!her Library. Some of the Pub's considerable t.he on •, TCmam whould professor a not or l Boanl of Ad.vi.son. Also, a .student-facuty ·· committee should prepare JIil adVISors manual which would familiarize advisors w i t h i n f o rmation a b o u t c o u rse requirements for various careers and graduate programs. The advisor should emphasize that a student should keep ,his options open for as long as possible. ould serve on the Faculty 3. Students Appointments Committee ., at least :in an advisory capacity. There should also be a formalized procedure for students to become involved in questions regarding knure. 4. Students should work more closely with the Committee on Academic Policy. a. Working with the CAP the Senate should take active steps to develop new course offerings and progr_ams which would not strain the resources of the college. For example, reqmrements for i nterde partment a l c o n c e n t rations should be. formalized, :a literature concentration should be established for those students who wish to read literature in translation ., more science courses for non�ence majors should . . be developed, etc. b. The Senate, Cmriculmn Committee and the CAP should look for ways to ease crowding in certain intermediate level courses in history, English, and economics. 5. The Senate. through 1he Cmriculum C om mittee ., should i nvestigate the utilization of faculty resources in each department.
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profits could be used to pay for the change. 2. Maintenance: There has been a recent d e cline in the quality of campus maint enan ce. Dorms, especially the bathrooms, are no longer as clean as they once were. Tree planting should also be increased in an effort to maintain the physical beauty of the campus. The Student Buildings and Grounds Committee should be revitalized to deal with these problems. 3. Monday Morning Chapel: Chapel has suffered a decline in attendance this past year. Some attempt to increase its content and usefulness must be made it it is to remain a working institution. Chapel is an old and valuable tradition which should not be allowed to die of neglect; it is one
"IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE TWO COLLEGES PLAN FACULTY GROWTH MORE THAN THEY HAVE IN THE PAST." of the reasons fo r the chohesiveness of the Hamilton community. 4. Coffee House: Measures should be taken to make the Coffee House a better place for students to gather informally. Service Systems should be confronted in order that more types of food be served at reasonable prices (in contrast to the Pub.). The Coffee House should also offer wine. 5. Bristol Lounge: The north end of the Bristol Snack Bar should be converted into a lounge. By moving the television and purchasing furniture and a rug, the space could serve as another much needed gathering place f9r students. Even with this reduction in table space, the Snack Bar would remain more than adequate for the needs of the colleges.. 6. Co-ed Corm: This year's experience with co-ed dorms has demonstrated that Carnegie is not suitable. Lounges are necessary if dorms are to function as social units. For this Bundy would work well as a co-ed dorm. Kirkland Hall is another possibility which should be considered if the present Public Relations office was converted into a lounge. This will become possible when additional office space becomes available in the James Building. 7. The college should have a designated ombudsman who will refer any complaints to the proper person or body. The college chaplain would be best-suited to serve in this capacity.
NEW EDITOR As the current editors of The Spectator (Beth Kneisel, Editor-in-Chief [lower left] and Peter Zicari, Managing Editor [lower left] ) step down this week, Frederic Bloch '74 (t op left) takes on the position of Editor-in-Chief. Bloch will assume responsibility for the paper after spring recess. There will be no issue next week, as Recess begins Friday Afternoon.
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MARCH 9, 1973
hav i n g false friendship and obligation exerted on him/' (Freshmen do not, contrary to popular belief, view the world t hrough rose-colored glasses). Again: "Rolls were thought to be a big letdown. Besides ruining the w e e k e n d , th e y b u il t u p e xpe ctations which were seldom fulfilled." Is this general opinion? If so, then state your sources! Is it your own opinion, "Vikram"? ff so, claim it as such and put the article where all such argicles belong - on the "letters" or "comment" page! WOMEN AND WAR Finally, and not of le ast Excerpts from Bre cht, Euriped es, Shakespeare, and Shaw will be importance (if not -of the utmost presented in the Minor Theatre on Saturday, March IO at 8.:30 p.m. importance) - The Editors of the Admission is free and all are welcome. Spectator should recognize and d ifferentiate between editorial FACULTY LECTURE ma terial and an informative, The next lecture in the series ''What We Don't Know,," will be unbiased news article. given this Wednesday, March 14, by Douglas Raybeck of the Bros. of DKE Kirkland Division of the Social Sciences. _Kirner-Johnson, Red Pit, AID 8:30 p.m. continued from page nine CO-OP DORM Since this new procedure will There will be a meeting on Monday, March 12 at 8:30 in the lengthen the amount of time .Alumni House for all students interested in the co-op dorm. needed to process ,,_pplications (at least five times as much time in WHCL-FM SENIOR/TIS this office alone), students are Senioritis is a n ew program on WHCL-FM for Hamilton-Kirkland u r g e d t o b e g i n m aking seniors who would like the opportunity to talk about their collegiate a p p l i c a tions for the 1973-4 experience or t o point out good and/or bad aspects o f the College academic year by May 1. We community. And senior interested should send his/her name and would hope to have an adequate phone number to Senioritis c/o WHCL-FM. supply of application materials on. -------------- ·•••••••----•-hand at that time. Howeve r, the Ford's on.the Square : confidential Statement should be CLINTON SHOE �NTER filed as qwckly as possible. SPECIALIZING IN Clinton We would be happy to discuss . WiNTER. BOOTS. how these changes affect you on A..�D SHOE R.EPADl / Beve rages Groceries an individual and/or group basis at Beer 853•966 your request. RUSHING LETTER continued from page two CHI CHI fraternity). The object of fraterniti es is to cr eate a community spirit. This object is reached through friendship. If the term "snowball" must be used, let's b e realistic enough to say that snowballs do not roll in arbitrary directions. We are very. proud of our
pledges. We know that they joined Delta Kappa Epsilon b ecaus e of the genuine friendship we showed them. "False friendship" applied to our rushing procedure is a misnomer. Certainly, it is obvious that th e rushing article in question reeks of personal opm1on. Recall the following evide nce of bias: " . . .that a fr eshman should be able to select a fraternity without
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BY ED WATKINS Spring training is in progress once again. Under the warm sun, in Florida and Arizona, America's big leaguers are pr�paring for the coming season. The training CaJ.Pps are far happier places than they wer e last year. The players have received a generous pact from the owners, $15,000/year minimum salary and increased allowances for meals, e nough to k eep even Boog Powell wdl fe d. The average major league salary has climbed to $33,500; D i c k A l l e n i s r e c e 1vmg $225,000 /y ear for three years. W it h t h e money matters settled, the season ahead looks to be one in which the players can concentrate on playing instead of money, and the fans will have a chance to see some exciting ball being played. The American League will b e the source of much of the excitement. The e xperiment with the designated pinch hitter will draw a great deal of attention as will the best Yankee team in the last ten yean. The old Yankee haters will have to rise up once more for the 1973 Yankees are going to beat out Boston and Detroit for the American East title. Bobbby Murcer, Matty Alou, and Sparky Lyle will · 1ead th e Yankees to the top. The Chicago White Sox will also rise to the top this season. Dick Allen, happy at last, a healthy Bill Melton, and a fine pitching staff will enable the Sox to �vercome the Athletics.
Any team owned by Charley Finl ey can be expected to do almost anything. Unfortunately, the A's will not repeat their perfonnance of last year. Vida Blue is being stubborn again, R eggie Jackson is comiil.g off a serious injury and the rest of the cast can not be exp ected to pull off another miracle like last season. The Pirates would have b een my fav�rite to win the National East. The tragic loss of Rob ert Clemente, though, will affect the Pirates much more than· most people realiz e. He was their l ead er and it will take Pittsburgh an e ntire season to learn how to play without him. The Cubs and Mets will battle each oth er for first place just as they did in 1969. The Cubs would dearly love to win one for Billy Williams, the superstar no on e knows. Unfortunately for Billy, the M ets ar e going to recover their 1969 form. Tom Seaver, Rusty Staub, and Cleon Jones will hav e great years enabling the M ets to finish ahead of the Cubs. I n t h e N a tional W e st Cincinatti has the hitting enough pitching to finish ahead of t h e i m p r o ving Dodgers and Astros. It will be close until the All-Star br eak but then the R eds will streak and put the title out of reach. In October, I see a subway series with the M ets be sting th e Yanks in a seven game match-up. Play Ball!
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Mermen Set 8 Marks; Take Third at State Meet
place. However, Shrum's personal improvement of 1.2 seconds was The Hamilton Swimming team significant because it was the first closed its 1972-1973 season on a in a series of outstanding times h i g h l y successful note last which were to be turned in by the weekend by bringing home the. Hamilton mermen before the third place trophy from the New weekend was over. York State Swim-Post Season John Needham set a new meet in many years, and the college record in the trials of the squad, coached by its young 200 yard butterfly (2:09.9), and mentor Eric MacDonald, was then broke his own record by b e s t_e d o n l y b y t w o another 1.2 seconds when he U n i v er sity -di vision s c h o o ls: finished fourth in the finals. In Colgate and St. Bonaventure. the 100 yard backstroke, the Blue The two day event was held at placed two men in the consolation Canisius C ollege auditorium, finals, with John Baird '74 and where fifteen upper N.Y. State Craig MacDonald '75 finishing 9th teams competed in eighteen and 11th, respectively. Baird and swimming and diving events. The MacDonald were in the closest Bluemen placed at least one race of the night, as everyone in swimmer in the finals of every the heat qualified within .4 event except the three meter seconds of each other. diving (the Alumni Pool lacks a Jeff Carlberg '75 set the first of three meter board). They swam his two school records when he their way to eight varsity records, smashed the previous mark in the and qualified two Hill tankmen to 200 yard breast-stroke by over compete in the NCAA college three seconds. His time of 2:17.0 d i v ision championships March enabl�d Jeff to finish second, and 15-17. The Continentals finished their dual meet season with a 9 and 1 record, but it was truly the state meet for which MacDonald had his mermen peak. Utilizing the "Springfield Taper", the team cut its workouts from 10,000 yards per day to a mere 1500 by the M o n d a y p r i o r t o s t at e competition. Coach MacDonald emphasized that "The team will all be well rested for the States, and nothing that they do in here (the Alumni Pool) this week will tire them for the weekend." There w e r e d o u b t s a b ou t t h e e f f e c t i v eness o f MacDonald's McD evitt finish es for workouts; but, once the meet was underway, t hese proved to 80 0 fre e rela y vacuous worries. qualified him for the only not The first day of trials began with Dave Shapland '74 qualifying nationals, but also gave him an for, and later finishing 11th in the excellent shot at an All American 500 yard free-style. The 50 yard berth. In the same event, Captain free was the next event, and Peter Schloerb swam his career Hamilton had no official entry as fi nal 2 00 breast-stroke, and senior sprinter Bruce Rinker was finished a fine fourth in 2:21.4. In. left behind in the infirmary. By the 100 yard free-style, Doug some stroke of genius, Coach McDevitt '75 qualified second. M acDonald decided to enter But in the finals, the murky walls freshman Joe Shrum in the 50; caused some hesitation in his Joe swam 22.9 finishing in sixth turns, and Hamilton's fastest free-styler had to settle for fourth in a nonetheless excellent time of 50.3. Joe Shrum swam the 100 free also� and placed 8th in 51.6. Gary Karl '75 was a late entry in the 200 yard individual medley, but he swam a lifetime best of 2:10.8 which enabled him to finish in 8th place. _ Friday night's competition ended with the 800 yard free-style r e lay of Shapland, B a ird, Needham, and McDevitt. This f o u rsome broke the existing school record with a noteworthy 7:34.9 c l o cki ng; McDevitt's anchor leg of 1:49.0 put the Blue within a second of the first place team. At the end of on� day's swimming Colgate was well in the lead, but Hamilton was holding tenaciously to third place, a mere h a l f point ahead of Niagra University. The 400 yard medley relay team of MacDonald, Carlberg, K a r l , and S h r u m star ted Saturday's events off well by setting a school mark of 3: 51.0, and finishing in third place. The next event was 66 laps of the pool, or the 1650 yard free-style. ,. WHY NOT?" BY PETER ACKERMAN
Shapland and Needham had the b reast-stroke, and capped an to the State Meet after only a honor of representing Hamilton, outstanding career by taking the month of practice, and finished and they managed to finish in1 fourth place medal. 13th in both breast-stroke events, 1 1 t h place and 4th place, Diver Fred liolender '74 would registering two of his best times as respectively. Needham swam the not be shut out of the one meter well. race in 17:58.4 to set a new springboard event, and he dove his The class of '77 should provide c o llege mark, and amazingly way to a ninth place finish. Of enough to make up for the enough, he came back in the very course Fred' competition was graduating seniors, and some next event, the 200 yard quite stiff, including a female experts are speculating that next free-style, and finished third.John Olympic diver from R:I.T. The year's freshmen could be stronger was led home in the 200 by Doug meet ended with the 400 yard than the "super-sophs" of 1973. f ree-styl y r elay of Shrum, Yet, the team will have to be Shapland, Baird and McDevitt better in order to deep up with setting a new Hamilton record in next season's even tougher 3:22.5. The old record was schedule. Colgate and St. established five years earlier and Bonaventure are being added to t h a t t e a m had included the Blue's slate, and considering a l l - A m e r i c an R i ck Vol p. the present strength of Williams, Saturday's events of the State R.P.I., and St. Lawrence, Coach Meet proved to be better suited MacDonald probably will be more for Hamilton as the team pulled than happy with a 9 and 1 record fifty points ahead of Niagra, next year. But there is no doubt assuring a firm third place finish. th at H amilton will produce This sea�on was a great one for another formidable squad for the the Hill tankmen, and the future 1974 State Meet, to be held at looks just as bright, · if not R.I.T. D oug,· Dave, Joe, and John Of cou rse, some of the brighter. The team loses Captain Peter Schloerb who this year for swimming team's pernnial success after 400 free relay d. \ McDevitt, who broke his own sc_hool record by winning this event in a very quick time of 1 : 4 9 .8. This performance qualified Doug for the· nationals along with Carlberg. Gary Karl swam . the 100 yard · butterfly event and ended up in 11th place with a 58.7 clocking. Cary had to swim the fly event four times on Saturday; twice in individual races, and twice in the medley relay, but he decreased the boredom factor by entering in the 400 yard individual medley as well. Karl finished 12th in the 400 Suds flying to record IM with a time of 4:53.0, while S chloerb placed 8th in the the first time failed to qualify fbr grueling event with a fine clocking the Nationals. Needless to say, m u st be attributed to the of 4:47.8. S c h l o er b has contributed e nthusiastic fans who have Hamilton managed to pick up immensely to a team that has su�ported the team each year. some extra· points in the 200 yard compiled a 36 and 4 record while This season was no exception, and backstroke when Baird finished he swam for the Buff and Blue. Coach MacDonald was pleased fourth in an excellent time of Pete was the recipient of the when the Hamilton rooters far 2: 10.7. Craig MacDonald also "Friends of Hamilton" award in outdid any other school at the swam the back, and ended up . 1970, this award being given to Buffalo Meet. The team would with an 11th place, finish in the outstanding swimmer of the like to thank everyone who gave . 2:14.2. But, one of Saturday's year. Also, the team will be losing their support to Hamilton's finest races had to have been the · sprinter Bruce Rinker, a reliable winning ways, but most of the 1 00 yard breast-stroke when p erf or mer, and breast-stroker credit should go to Coach Eric Carlberg swam even for three laps Brian Cavanaugh. Brian traveled MacDonald. with the defending state champ from St. Bonaventure. Although Jeff finished in 1: 02.2 to establish a school mark and qualify him for the nationals, Bahan of St. Bonnie touched Carlberg out to take first. Pete Schloerb, clocked in 1:04.1, ;..-.--•.'s w am h i s last 100 y ar d
Jeff and Beaver take 2nd and 4th
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NUMBER TWENTY
MARCH 10, 1973
JOHN W. CHANDLER RESIGNS; ACCEPTS WILLIAMS PRESIDENCY Hamilton Loses Chief Executive BY FREDERIC BLOCH President John W. Chandler submitted his resignation to the Board of Trustees this morning to assume the presidency of Williams College. The resignation is effective July 1, 1973. He will announce his resignation to the Faculty in a special meeting at 2:30 this afternoon. Mr. Chandler will become the 13th president of Williams, succedding John E. Sawyer who announced his retirement last November. Chandler's departure represents
the third major administrative change in the past two years. P r e si dent Chandler was appointed 15th president of Hamilton in April, 1967 and assumed his duties in February, 1968. A graduate of Wake Forest College in 1945, he was the first Hamilton president to hold an undergraduate degree from a Southern institution. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1945 and has also been awarded honorary degrees at Colgate, Wake Forest, and Hamilton.
Personal Re-/ lections Coleman Burke '34 Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Hamilton College When John and Florence Chandler and their family leave College Hill July 1st to return to Williamstown it will be an unhappy day for all of us. It would be hypocritical if I did not admit that we are deeply disappointed that John Chandler's Presidency will end in June. And yet our disappointment is more than matched by the deep satisfactions we have experienced during these recent years when he has been our President. I have never known a man whom I respected any more or with whom I have had a happier relationship. I'm sure many others in the Hamilton family feel the same way. He has given of himself unsparingly and provided leadership of rare quality on and off the campus for every segment of our college community and with education generally in New York State and across the country. We shall be ever thankful for the outstanding contribution he and his lovely wife Florence have made to our great College these last six years. I know these have been happy years for the Chandlers and their children as they have been for us all, and this summer it will be "Hail and Godspeed" from both the Chandler family and the Hamilton family with mutual gratitude and affection.
John E. Sawyer, President of Williams College Williams College is extremely fortunate to have as its new president a person of the character, human qualities, and lifelong dedication to the best in liberal arts education that John Chandler will bring to the office. His values and capacities both as a teacher and Dean of the Facuity at Williams and in his recent five years as President of Hamilton have shown the kind of perception, priorities and record of quiet effectiveness in educational leadership that auger well for the future. He also will come with the advantages of close association with Williams over almost twenty years. I know already the pleasure with which friends here will welcome the Chandlers back to Williamstown.
Coleman Burke confers with John Chandler before today's Trustee meeting.
Prior to coming to Hamilton, Chandler had a long history at Williams. He first joined the. Williams faculty as an Assistant Professor of Religion in 1955, becoming Department Chairman in 1960, Acting Provost in 1965 and Dean of Faculty in 1966. He is also a member of the Williams Board of Trustees. Mr. Chandler Hamilton second the was president• to come to Hamilton directly from Williams. Frederick Carlos Ferry, tenth president of the college, was its Dean of Faculty from 1903 to 1917 before coming to the Hill. Moving from one institution to another is not common among college presidents. At Hamilton, this is the first time in this century that a president has resigned to accept the presidency of institution. Mr. another Chandler commented that his departure is "a little like getting a but added divorce," that presidential switches are becoming more common. Williams Several students visited the campus three weeks ago to speak with certain Hamilton and Kirkland students about the President. Mr. Chandler was interviewed three times for the position and was offered the job last Saturday. He accepted the offer on Sunday, but refrained from making the move official until the Trustee meeting this weekend. Wi lliams Attachments
Mr. Chandler called the decision to leave Hamilton "a painful one", and cited personal and professional attachments to Williams as the main factors in his decision. In a statement to all Hamilton members of the community, he said, "I cannot imagine any other opportunity that could have attracted me away from Hamilton at this time." Many observers were surprised at the President's decision in light of the fact that for the first time in his tenure at Hamilton, he was working with men whom he had appointed himself (Dean Stephen Kurtz, Dean of Students Gordon Bingham, and Provost J. Martin Caravano). One college official noted that with the departure of "old timers" Winston Tolles and Hadley DePuy, Chandler was exhibiting an air of confidence sometimes missing in earlier years. Chandler himself commented, "The administration is now of my making and I am very proud of it." Mr. Chandler commented on the differences between his role at Hamilton and' his future role at Williams. He emphasized that the one-college structure at Williams is simpler on the administrative level than the co-ordinate structure on the Hill. He said that the continued on page tw o
President John Chandler
To the Community: On Saturday, March 10, I submitted to the Trustees my resignation as President of Hamilton in order to accept appointment· as President of Williams College, effective July 1, 1973 '. Florence and I and our four children have deep affection for Hamilton and strong attachment to this geographical region. The decision to leave is apainful one. For five and a half years I have enjoyed ideal support from every segment of the Hamilton community and constituency, and the prospects of continuing usefulness and happiness appeared to be good. As most of you know, I spent most of my professional career at Williams before coming to Hamilton, and three of our children were born in Williamstown. Thus the appointment which has been offered me has unique appeal. Indeed, I cannot imagine any other opportunity that could have attracted me away from Hamilton at this time. As I anticipate the termination of my years at Hamilton I am pleased to be able to point to a number of fundamental conditions that will insure success for the Trustees as they seek to appoint a strong new president. Alumni support and loyalty are virtually unmatched in the country. The Trustees , are hard-working, generous, and intelligently committed to the kind of education in which Hamilton excels. The budget is in balance. Admissions applications are plentiful enough and of such good quality as to make Hamilton one of the most highly favored colleges. The faculty is stronger than ever and unusually stable. The central administrative offices are staffed by experienced and capable persons. The curriculum is attractive to students and adaptable to new educational developments. and the kind of leadership best suited to achieving those goals. My remaining months at Hamilton will be devoted to making certain that the momentum of the College is sustained while the search for my successor occurs. I appeal· to all of you to join me in doing all we can to maintain and enhance the strengths and attractiveness of Hamilton. In this way all of us can assist in insuring the appointment of the person judged to be best qualified to lead the College. A Presidential Search Committee consisting of trustees, faculty, s tudents , and Alumni Council representatives will make recommendations to the Board of Trustees. Your-nominations and suggestions will be welcomed. If you will send them to my office. they will be directed to the secretary of the Search Committee, who has not yet been appointed. Several months ago Florence and I made plans to be in Europe during the College's spring vacation period. We will bP back in· Clinton on April 1. .Tohn W. Chandler
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MARCH 10, 1973
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President's Educ. Philosophy Revealed in 'Spectator' Pages BY ROBERT KEREN AND PAULA LEON From the news and editorial pages of six years of the Spectator, the Brief presidential career of John Chandler at Hamilton can be chronologically represented. The following are such excerpts, beginning in April, Mr. Chandler's 1967 with appointment to office. ...John Chandler was appointed 15th president of the College last weekend after an intensive nine month search. He addressed the Hamilton student body in a special Chapel Assembly rounding out a long week of extensive confrontation with trustees and faculty. The Assembly was held at Chandler's an request as introductory meeting. He will assume the presidency February 1, 1968. (April 21, 1967) ... Hamilton's President Elect John W. Chandler last Saturday warned against those who would limit student freedom and make American colleges and universities into something other than centers of learning, at the Annual Parenes Weekend Address held here. He expressed particular alarm over the tendancy within traditional intellectual circles to subordinate analysis and reasoning in in favor of action. The President elect assured the parents that "in an unusually high degree, this is a colleges, for and of and by the students." (November 17, 1967) The Long Haul
Spectator, this week called for a careful exploration of virtually all aspects of Hamilton's curriculum. Chandler stated that the present five course load is too burd�nsome for the student. "The question is not whether or not the student can handle all the work, but if the quality of the e ducational experience is affected." He felt that perhaps the Hamilton curriculum is too structured, resulting in a "disciplined exploration of the curiosity." Chandler said in favoring a study of some pass-fail system for Hamilton, "I this this is an inducement to heathy risk taking." The possiblity of ending the first semester before Christmas should also be studied. ...The Spectator, encourages, President Chandler and the faculty to proceed with all r e a s onable toward s p e ed curriculum reform. Middlebury's Dean of Faculty, commenting on his college's new "4-1-4" curriculum,. voted that he had "been hoping for this 10 years." Many people here, we feel, share his sentiments completely. (Editorial Comment, February 16, 1968) "Many students feel that they came to Hamilton at a time when the college was resting on its laurels. They have felt that Hamilton was not in reality as good as its reputation. The Spectator agrees with these students. ''John Chandler represents the hope for a rapidly improved Hamilton. We believe John Chandler can 'get Hamilton m o v ing (Editorial agail_l."' Comment, April 20, 1968)
explained how the College will miss Dean Winton Tolles, retiring from office on June 30. "The Dean carried a fabulous load superbly well; it is almost inconceivable to find any single person who could fill all his jobs. He is like the repository of Common Law at the College." More on the Dean: "You get to read his face. If he looks puzzled, then you can be sure that there is a real problem. If he looks benign then it's only a problem he's been through before." (September 24, 1971) Stephen G. Kurtz will replace Winton Tolles as Dean of Hamilton College upon the Dean's retirement in July. President John announced Mr. W. Chandler Kurtz's selection at the conclusion of a search that began last September. commi ttee A student interviewed candidates and sent their mixed reactions to the President; the final decision was reached by President Chandler. (February 4, 1972) ... Gil Grout, Assistant to the President since 1969, expects to leave College Hill at the end of this academic year. President Chandler, upon his arrival on the campus, invited him to take the assistant's post. Grout accepted. When the Associate Dean's position opened in the spring of 1972, Grout, at the "insistance of some student friends," applied for it and was turned down. "Apparently," he said, "I was not acceptable ... they did not tell me why." President Chandler said that Grout did not have the support of the majority of the people charged with selecting the new dean. Chandler took pains to say that there was no personal disharmony between himself and Mr. Grout. ''We are good friends," he said. (November 10, 1972)
...Empty for so long, the President's office in Buttrick was crowded with chairs. now Wednesday afternoon Hamilton's 15th president, John W. Chandler was having his first press conference. Chandler expressed great faith in the quality of education "Good Friends" offered at a small liberal arts ... Hamilton President Chandler college where the faculty is "d e d i c a t e d to the Commenting on the .President's u •.dergraduates." The student CHANDLER resignation, Stephen G. Kurtz, develops certain habits of inquiry continued from page one Dean of the College, remarked, and an ability to synthesize presidents of Hamilton and "His quiet assurance and good knowledge, preparing him "for Kirkland must often act "as have humor created an the long haul." (February 2, r siamese twins" and that this w; 1968) atmosphere of confidence and not be the case at Williams. ...President John W. Chandler optimism on this campus ....As spoke out Monday against Curriculum Scintilla academic leader and colleague in "faculty informants" speaking too brief administration he has - guided President Chandler's freely to students about the Hamilton career been many of us wisely through has goings-on at faculty meetings. highlighted by the creation of difficult adjustments. He came to When asked if this problem had Kirkland College, the change in the Hill at the beginning of arisen from the recent 48-13 the curriculum to a 4-1-4 system; F e b r u a r y , 1968, f r om faculty vote favoring the banning and the construction of the Daniel Williamstown, and he returns at of military recruiters, Chandler S. Burke Library. When asked the end of June 1973, with the replied, "yes." major confidence that he has done his w hat his was ''I would hope that faculty d i sappointm e n t , C h andler work well and that he carries our meetings would be forums for expressed the regret that he did respect and affection with him. discussion of substantive issues," not know a greater number of We on the faculty and staff wish Chandler said. Certain topics, such Hamilton students. He said he had him success in hi.s new venture as curricular reforms in their wished that the time constraints while at the same time confessing beginning stages, should be of his job did not prevent him that we shall greatly miss him. To discussed confidentially, Chandler from coming into closer contact all of the Chandlers we express our thanks, our sense of loss, and went on. with students. Coleman Burke '34, Chairman our continuing good wishes." "It's ridiculous," commented The College will now begin the one faculty member. "At a small of the Board, said of Mr. college like this everything gets Chandler, "I have never know a search and selection process for around eventually. You can't tell man whom I respected any more the 16th president. A Presidential 80 faculty members to keep or with whom I have had a Search Committee will be formed happier relationship. I'm sure consisting of five trustees, three mum." "I think Mr. Chandler's right", many others in the Hamilton students, three faculty members Alumni Council was the reaction of one member family feel the same way. He has a n d to of the administration, explaining given of himself unsparingly and representatives make that perhaps things should be kept provided leadership of rare quality recommendations to the Board of on and off the cam pus for every Trustees. It appears unlikely that quiet. (February 9, 1968) college a candidate can be chosen before segment of our Pol icy Change community and with education July 1, in which case an acting ...President John W. Chandler, generally in New York State and president will be appointed by the in an interview with the across the country." Board of Trustees.
President's house at Williams
William's Thompson Memorial Chapel
About Williams
Opinion Center. The Williams Williams College is a privately Library houses 17,000 volumes, endowed non-sectarian liberal-arts including special coliections on college located in the extreme Walt Whitman and T.S. Eliot. The northwestern corner of Massachu campus also features the Williams ssetts, about thirty miles north College Museum of Art, and the and east of Albany. A men's Hopkins Observatory, the oldest for school one hundred in the United States. seventy-eight years, the college The Williams faculty includes admitted its first women in 1969; some 200 fulltime teachers. two exchange and transfer Course offerings are very like freshmen classes including about those here at Hamilton; Williams, one hundred twenty-five freshmen however, offers a series of area women have matriculated since studies and interdisciplinary then. majors, and a complete Honors Ephraim Williams, the school's program for qualified juniors and founder, endowed a tuition-free seniors. school for West Township, on A Center For Development condition that that tract of land, Economics, established with a which was then claimed by both succession of Ford Grants, offers Massachussetts and New York, be an M.A. degree in studies of the assigned to the former state, and e conomics developing of that the township be renamed countries. Other programs include after him. The request was carried junior · years in India and Hong out, but Williams died in · the Kong. revolutionary war Battle of Lake A general distribution George. A year after the school requirement obliges students to first opened, it was reorganized as take two semesters in each of an institution of higher learning, t hree academic divisions: and was chartered by the State of Language/Arts, Social Studies, Massachussets in 1793. and Science/Mathematics; the The college struggled through College calendar is organized, like various financial vicissitudes in the Hamilton's 4 - 1 - 4 mode. Some nineteenth century with a little·. departments require comprehen help from its friends, including sive exams of their majors. the State of Massachussetts, which The majority of Williams in 1888 exempted the school's are undergraduates, cows from taxation. Nevertheless, students the college offers Williams built a solid reputation although for student-centered education Master's degrees in Biology and The student body and for religious soundness, the Physics. latter owing to an informal tie numbers approximately thirteen with the Congregational church, hundred, most of whom live no are there which prevented a too-doctrinaire on-campus; residential greek fraternities. emphasis. The Williams Campus occupies Thanks to the college's location in about four hundred fifty acres in the center of town, school and the middle of Williamstown; it village enjoy a praticularly genial architectural furniture comprises relationship, which reportedly some fifty buildings, incluuing adds to the warm atmosphere of Jessup Hall and the Roper Public an historic college-town.
Edi1toriaI
The resignation of President Chandler is understandable when one realizes the close ties the Chandlers have had with Williams in the past as teacher, Dean of Faculty and Trustee. His move is a logic::al one and we wish to express our support for his decision. Hamilton is losing a president who has commanded respect from all parts of the community. We regret that the Williams presidency comes just at the time when l\,L-. Chandler has developed an administration of his own, but President Chandler has followed his heart; we can appreciate his feelings.
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NUMBER TWENTY VOLUME THREE First Published as "The Radiator" in 1848 Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Kneisel
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Education Forum Begins
BY C,t\ROL GOODMAN "Expectations and Realities'' is the title of the first of three days of sessions in Kirkland College's annual "Teaching and Learning Conference". Judson Jerome former literature professor at Antioch College, and Joseph Katz of SUNY at Stony Brook, will speak at 7: 00 p.m. Friday evening in the Kirner-] ohnson auditorium. Mr. Katz will challenge the idea of the student as the passive receptacle of knowledge poured forth by the teacher, and will propose methods that tho·se teachers can utilize to promote the student's position to that of active learner. Katz will focus on means of communication among students and teachers for the purpose of relating in-class
external to information experiences. Mr. Katz will also discuss the redefinition of subjects as they are In currently approached. conjunction with this, he will attempt ttoredefine the · role of the teacher to become that of complement to the student, as well as that of being a perpetual student himself. Once effective communication is established, solutions to problems and be can means alternative discovered. The "alternative" is the one theme of this weekend's conference. Judson Jerome will emphasize the ''hidden curriculum" involved in the student's life both within and without the institution. This, he believes ,. is actually more
influential upon the student that the formal is academic curriculum. Jerome will discuss the effects of "social events", outside reading, administrative structures and living arrangements as the figurative teacher in the lives of students. "The gamut of and intellectual ex perience preoccupations which sweep the country and campuses" will be explored in order to discuss the essence of the learning experience. Seminars dealing with the expectations of education will be held following the presentations. On Saturday, April 7, William Hoffa of the Kirkland Literature Department, will lead a personal statement session on the ideals of On Educat ion. videotape, cont. on page six column two.
Video-taping for tomorrow's Personal Statements session of the Teaching & Learning Conference.
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VOLUME THREE
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
NUMBER TWENTY ONE
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Search Committees Here Consider Nominees for President and Deans
BY JUDY CROWN such standards equally among BY JON CRAMER Two Dean Search Committees them because the candidates are Mr. Coleman Burke, the are reviewing and screening a so diverse. Chairman of the Board of qualif ications multitude of applications received Desirable for the positions of Dean of include: a high degree in the Trustees, has appointed five Faculty and Dean of Students at applicant's field or equivalent members of the Board to serve on Search Presidential Kirkland College. professional experience or success, t he Committee, whose responsibility History of teaching in Professor Associate evidence of experience administrative activities, it is to scrutinize prospective Peter T. Marcy is chairman of the · and candidates for the post . of Committee, curricular Dean Search in Faculty proof of interest procedure, President of Hamilton College. which consists of four faculty development and members and two students. Five • evidence of active scholarly The five are, Howard M. Bingham, hundred resumes have been interest and production, interest Richard W. Couper, William M. received, and they are still coming and experience in supporting Bristol Ill, Edward Gelsthorpe, in. faculty rights and interests, and John D. Phillips, Jr. Mr. Bristol is the Chairman of the In the selection process, the affability, wit, etc. Committee. of P r ofessor committee applies a number of A s s i s tant In addition to these Board to each Psychology Sandra DeMyer is preferred criteria but does not weigh chairwoman of the Student Dean members, three faculty members applicant, Professor Grant Jones, Chairman of the AnthroPQlogy Department, is Search Committee, which has and three· students serve on the the co-ordinator of the Winslow Lectures taking place tonight and to team. The faculty received 250 applications to date. search morrow. The topic of the lectures is "The Roots of Urban Society." The committee is looking for representatives are Grant Jones Department), exper ience c ol l eg e (An t h r o p ology in administration. The new dean, Russell Blackwood (Philosophy along with an assistant dean, will Department), and Donald Denney inherit the duties of the Dean of (Chemistry Department). They Residence. (Some of the current were elected to serve on the duties of the Dean of Students committee by their fellow faculty _ to the Hill. "I think he did a good extremes. There was a general will go to the Dean of Faculty.) members. BY GORDY KAYE • job. He certainly knew what he expression of disinterest and The three students are John "If I had been �ccepted at was doing," commented one routine acceptance of Chandler's Therefore, the applicant should Williams, I would be going there Hamilton junior over coffee at decision. Many felt that they did have experience in residence Osborne '74, Bill Smith '74, and counseling and programs. The Chuck Flynn '74. Clyde Leff, the too. " -- Hamilton pre-med on Bristol. not know the President at all, and committee is also seeking President of the Student Senate, John Chandler's departure. A handful of students that he had little contact with Ii ve liness, was asked by the Board to select humor, stamina, The - resignation of J �hn W. expressed some bitterness and students. Students were unsure the three student representatives. Chandler as 15th president of indignation over the resignation. how to evaluate his administration flexibility, the ability to organize, ·The Board stressed the fact that. and an open commitment to the Hamilton College touched off They felt that somehow, President because of his low profile. In speed was of the utmost lively discussion over both his Chandler was reneging on his Commons, a sophomore stated, education of women. importance. Leff said he would Both committees are operating decision and its ramifications for commitment to the College. He "You really didn't know him. He have preferred to go through the the Hill community. Anxious ·to had, they felt, rebuilt an was always away." Then he in similar ways. Committee Senate and set up a screening m em b e r s r e ad r e s u m e s , understand and interpret how administration in his own image added, "I guess that was his job." committee. He did not have students and faculty are reacting and then left abruptly. One junior Most students put forth the (distributed randomly) and write enough time, and so he chose comments. Votes are taken on to his departure the Spectator whispered in the library: "To put opinion that a college president each candidate. If an applicant is students who, work well in this staff has been soliciting opinions it bluntly, he was an makes little significant difference type of setting and whose in the day_ to day life of an voted a possibility, the committee opinions he thought the Trustees Mr. opportunist." about comments and It student. was follows up references. Interviews respected. presidency and Ch andler's Further, several students were individual Hamilton's future. Below is a angry about being informed of the generally felt that his office had will be offered later in the spring. The Search P residential summary of what people are decision by a tape-recorded no influence over academic policy The committee process is a Committee is serving in an narrowing process, in .an attempt saying. message from the President rather in particular. A dean, several advisory capacity to the Board of Student responses covered the than a live appearance. As one noted, would have more personal to ultimately arrive at three or Trustees, since the Board alone is four choices to submit to spectrum of opinions. A few who articulate and outspoken junior contact with a student and vested with the authority to elect said they knew Mr. Chandler well, put it: "I find it disconcerting therefore the departure of a dean President Babbitt for the final the new President of the College. decision. expressed disappointment at his that President Chandler would would move them more. Both committees are facing a The committee will scrutinize the It was generally implied that departure. They cited the energy think a tape recording was more d ilemna s i m ilar the candidates, narrow down the in and sincerity the President suitable than a personal address .. although it would be nice for consideration of women for the •number of applications, and then brought to his position as well as He reacted with an urgency that President Chandler to remain a positions. There is considerable advise the Board of its selection. few more years at Hamilton, he the concrete achievement of was inappropriate." sentiment in favor of hiring The Board will then reach a final Several stability. financial The great majority of students, had a perfect right to leave-and women, but the committees must decision. students mentioned -success in however, expressed opm1ons further, a competent successor channeling much needed ·resources -somewhere in between these cont. on page seven column four cont. on page seven cola,.mn three cont. on page six column one.
Hill React;s to Chandler's Depart:ure: Disappointtr,,ent;, Bitterness, Apathy
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Edi1toria1 Search and Senate At his firial Student Senate meeting, out-going president Clyde Leff announced the appointments of John Osborne, Charles Flynn, and William Smith to the President's Search Committee. While we are pleased with the high quality of the appointees, we see the necessity of examining the selection process used in this case. Leff was reportedly asked by the Board of Trustees to make his decision as quickly as possible after the Chandler announcement, and therefore he chose to make the appointments without the approval of the Senate or a campus-wide election. Fortunately, the three men chosen are dedicated and responsible, and we have no doubt that they will perform effectively. In their past activities they have shown the talent and the energy necessary in this type of endeavor. Nevertheless, there is the danger of relying on this method of selection for other key positions which we believe would be harmful to the student body. Steps might have been taken in this case, even with the time constraints, to involve the entire campus. It would have been possible to solicit nominations from any interested students, to screen the prospective candidates, and to hold an election in conjunction with the Student Senate Presidential election. This method would have allowed the Senate some discretion in the types of candidates, but would have left the final decision tip to the· student body. The new Senate, under the leadership of George Baker, must thoroughly· examine the mechanism for selection of students on Senate Committees, joint Hamilton-Kirkland committees, and trustee Committe�s. Presiqent Baker campaigned on 'a platform of more participation; he can begin fulfilling his campaign promise by making a conscious effort. to broaden the base of student partkipation in campus politics. Committees at Hamilton have too often tended to perpetuate themselves. While continuity is essential in any organization, student leaders must be aware that all groups on the Hill should represent the entire student body and that the danger always exists that groups will represent only themselves. Too much power or influence in the hands of too few is irresponsible, undemocratic, and does not serve the needs of the community. We sincerely hope that President Baker will seriously investigate the power structure of student groups and formulate his selection procedures in the best interests of the Hamilton student community.
Spectator's Spectator
With tWitz Baby' in Commons
BY GERRY PAYNE We had been sitting for an hour and a half in the rear of Commons, so I guess you could say we were stretching out lunch. My friend Horowitz saw the Dean walk in with a student. "That b u g s me," Horowitz said, chucking his s p o o n i n t o his untouched b o wl of M e x i c a li pizza-burger soup. "You know that guy? who just walked in?" "Sure," I said. "That's the Dean." "No. No. I'm talking about the student." "Oh. Oh. No, I don't know him. But, I see him around." "Na m el e s s f a c es ," H o rowitz s t a rted, "the unknown power mongers, unaccountable members of the ruling oligarchy, comprising a de facto governing elite." ''What the hell are you talking about?" I said, throwing my spoon into the bowl of soup. ''That guy. You may not know it, but that guy's a member of every important committee on campus. And he was never elected to anything. Appointed to everything." "So he w a s a ppointed," I answered. "He has friends in the Senate. That's life 'Witz' baby - politics and nepotism. They go hand 'n foot. Pay your dues and it'll come to you too." "See, but that's not what bugs me." T he Dean and his friend sat down three tables away in our section. "It's that he's eating with the Dean. He's always walking with the Dean, or talking to the President. You should hear him someday: 'I ran into, uh,J oseph Schmo today in the, uh, Alumni House; it appears things are going very well in G1ocamora. "I t el l you, the guy's been absorbed by the administration." I p u shed m y t r a y out o f the way. Having complained all through lunch about how horny he was, old Witz was suddenly getting interesting.
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To the Editor: Force of the moment and a sense of gross and intolerable harm to Hamilton College compel me to write about the selection procedure for the Freshman Advisorships. This letter, in a somewhat more lengthy form was delivered into the hands of Dean Bingham at 10 a.m. on Monday, the bef ore March 12, announcement of who had been selected as Freshman Advisors, so that no one could accuse this raging letter writer of bitterness over being rejected. At the time the letter r was written, I did not know for a fact if I had gained VOLUME THREE NUMBER TWENTY ONE that post or not. Many of the paragraphs deleted First Published as "The Radiator" in 1848 . for the printin� of this letter dealt with the inane and usually sex Frederic Bloch oriented questions under the guise Editor-in-Chief of being practically hypothetical. One small example will suffice: Henry Glick Robert Keren Kenny Marten "How would you deal with a 250 Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor pound freshman football player desirous of making love to you Assistant Editors into your doorway some looming Peter Ackerman, Carol Goodman, Mitchel Ostrer, Paula Klausne1· evening at 2 a.m. ?" My answer: "As artfully as possible." I left Craig Fallon Richard Kavesh that insightful question to be David Cantor Kathy Livingston Dave Shapland resolved by those candidates who Photography Editor Arts Editors Sports Editors were more adept at such quandries. These hyp ocritical, Production Staff questions v a l ue shock Katie Davis, Robert GiQn, Liz Horwitt, Taki Lamson-Scribner, Paula disconcerted me so that I was Leon, Gary Lukas, Bob Lyford, Tony Mazzarella, Connie Miner, Betsey unable to keep a straight face and Murray. deliver the necessary responses. Business Staff l-Iowever, the questions that Marty Kane,Jim Noonan,Jeff Pearse, Bruce Thaler were not asked frightened me the Photography most. The fact that advisors Wendy Goodman, David Rienzo, Woody Navin presuppose they are going to be Staff burdened every September by a Jon Cramer, Randy Davis, Vikram Dewan, Vincent DiCarlo, Doug bunch of neurotic, homosexual, Glucroft, Robert Grieves, Bob Hylas, Gordon Kaye, Louis Levenson, maladjusted, possibly suicidal Vijay Murgai, Nanelle Napp, Lisa Newell, Thomas _Pirodsky, Manny class of sex fiends seems oddly Sargent, David Schutt, Michael Sherer, Judy Sillari, Douglas Singer, incongruous to the reputation Marsha Weinstein, Bob Weisser. that Hamilton has developed in edited by part from its strict admissions The Publications Board publishes "The Spectator.,, a newspaper per year. students, 29 times during the academic year. Subscription: $7.00 to the requirements which intend to Address: Box 83, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 13323. Letters bring to the Hill a combination of request. upon withheld be wil! names but signed, editor must be
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"The guy's been assimilated. He loves to hob nob with the administration. Look at him sitting over there. He holds his cup of tea - tea, mind you, not coffee - he holds his cup of tea like a fag. Look at the way he wrings out the teabag by wrapping the string around the spoon." I laughed, but then quickly lowered my tea to the table. Too late. "-But s e e , you're different." Pause. ''This guy probably practices! "No really. Could you see him? Sitting up late in his underwear? Raising and lowering a dry tea cup? Raise and lower. Raise and lower." We both laughed and Horowitz went on counting. "1,2,3,4,; 2,2,3,4,; 3,2,3,4, ..." Things started turning in my head. "I bet he even goes over to the Dean's house." "Yep, I bet he does,"Witz agreed. "I could see him there, too, that sycophant." "Right. You're catching on." I leaned over the table and screamed under my breath. "THAT FAGGOT OVER THERE, THAT FAGGOT OVER THERE PROBABLY SITS. IN A BIG EASY C HAIR IN THE DEAN'S LIVING ROOM, SIPPING TEA!!!" Horowitz nodded, amused. "I BET T H A T SELFISH, SE LF-SERVING WRETCH WATCHES CABLE T.V. ON THEDEAN'S BIG COior television set...." It dawned on me. Possessed, no, hypnotized, I walked over to their table. "How ya <loin', Dean?" I said, pulling up a chair. "Ijust wanted to come over and tell you that I've been particularly pleased with the way you've been running this place. Prudent, well thought out direction, if you know what I mean ... "Oh, by the way, you gon11a be watching the Stanley Cups this Sunday?" Horowitz was holding his head in his hands, crying. "Gerry Payne" is the protagonist of The Sterile Cuckoo and the chosen pen-name of Mitchel Ostrer.
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happy, thoughtful and considerate students. Ah, the students! That is a term that wasn't used at all. Is it something _that was forgotten in all the rush? To me, the essence of that purposive activity that is the advisors' is to make each "student's" adjustment easier and less painful. If an advisor, myself for instance, were to · really love Hamilton and its learning and its atmosphere, and that advisor, a student himself, has done well and has well earned the praise of his peers and his professors, doesn't it seem that he would be most to impart a really suited substantive part of the llve here at school to any incoming student, even from the first minute? The first responsibility of any new freshman, even before he has a chance to find out where Kirkland is or how to hold a marijuana cigarette (and to discover the various and sundry problems that the present advisors think these two vices can produce), is to go to class on that first sunny Monday morning. If I could help students to make the most out of their Monday mornings and to plan to do more than just live out all the succeeding Monday mornings , then come each "sinful" Monday evening, any "problems" that befall the adjusted, thoughtful, intelligent, happy and responsible 'student will just abo·ut take care of themselves. If Advisor's forethought is designed only to ward off. pregnancies, gang wars and gay-homosexual intrigues, then the purpose of Hamilton as an institution of limitless knowledge and opportunity to learn is being ruefully strumpetted through the image some have of Dunham as a brothel or home for wayward boys. Those prospective advisors that came to the final interviews
to show that they were hard and working, intel ligent, interested in the hopes and aspirations of Hamilton College by working with the freshmen were given a thorough drubbing by the acid mouthed advisors who found that there were internal inconsistencies in their arguments, that they were blind to the "realities" of freshman life and that they didn't have answers and more answers where thP.re should have been better and more helpful, informative questions. I am most ashamed of the viewpoints espoused by my interrogators and peers here at H;amilton and I fear that Hamilton' itself is not being served in the present selection process. I myself feel personally slighted because no one seemed to care that my interests were in taking my classes, my learning and the truth of my existence here seriously. My impression was that no students _ interested in really making Hamilton a better place through its new students would be hired as advisors, but rather there would be hired a self-perpetuating group of mercenaries who were very well trained in hall warfare, dealing in drug overdose cases and in keeping the libidos of the rampant freshmen in check. I am embarrassed for my friends among the advisors who had to be party to such a prostitution of what should have been a well thought out and far more kindly interview. Louis Levenson '74
Frisbee Dear Community: It's that time of year when the weather turns lovely and the nicest place to be is outside; and since this is such a pleasant place to be in the springtime, I'd like to continued on page three
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APRIL6. 1973 ELECTIONS Elections for the Student Senate will be held Tuesday, April 17. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors are elegible> More de.tailed information will be forthcoming next week. If there are any immediate questions, contact George Baker, President of the Senate. ARTS CLINIC The Midland Pottery and Crockery Arts and Crafts Center will conduct a clinic on crocking and other related endeavors in the Kirkland College Auditorium, Tuesday, April 10, at 7:00 P.M.
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SPANISH STUDENTS T here will be a lecture by Professor Ciriaco Moron Arroyo of Cornell University on Wednesday, April 11, at 8:30 p.m. in the Science Auditorium. Professor Moron will speak on "Concepts of Realism in the Spanish Novel Before the Nineteenth Century." The lecture is in Spanish.
PIRG PETITIONING Any student interested in the Public Interest Research Group at Hamilton-Kirkland, please contact Emily Reid, x4512, or Kathy Bardsley, x4130.
WATSON TRAVEL GRANTS Members of the Classes of '7 4 and '75 are eligible for the Watson Travel Grant - funds for a six week tour of the British Isles next summer. You pay transportation over and back; the grant and lodging with participating families takes care of t h e rest. Leave your name with Dean Bingham's secretary if interested. The Deadline is April 11. HAMILTON-KIRKLAND YEARBOOK Kirkland students wishing to subscribe to the 1973 ye arbook may do so beginning next Tuesday during dinner hour in McEwen. Price is $3.00. (A bargain, in this day and age!) Yearbooks may be ordered every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at din�er time till the end of term, or from Enid Evans, Milbank 31-C (7335). ENVIRONMENT VIDEOTAPE E.E.C.H.K. will be presenting a series of five videotape programs on the environment beginning this Wednesday. The programs, will be shown twice a week, on Wednesday and Sunday afternoons at 3:30 p.m. in Silliman Hall. Check posters on campus for title information. STUDENT INTERNSHIP Any member of the Class of '74 or '75 interested in working as a student intern in the Hamilton College Office of Admission is asked to leave his name with someone in that office, no later than Friday,April 13. Announcement of the appointment will be made by May 4.
CHAPEL BOARD ELECTIONS Chapel Board will meet to elect new officers on Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in the Alumni House.
RECYCLING CENTER CHANGE The -drop-off point for glass and paper in Dunham has been moved to the north e�d of the basement because of the construction taking place in the center basement area.
FACULTY LECTURE The faculty lecture series, ''What We Don't Know," will conclude this week. The speaker is Robin Kinnel, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Chemistry at Hamilton. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit, Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. FRESHMAN ORIENTATION Any Hamilton student interested in working on next year's Freshman Orientation program please contact Dean Bingham immediately. EPISCOPAL SERVICE The final service in the college and community sponsored series of Lenten observances will be held in the Chapel Wednesday evening, at 7:30 p.m. The program will be presented by members of St. James Episcopal Church. FREE CHURCH SERVICE At this week's Free Church Service the speaker will be Jeff Paton, '73. The topic: "Understanding vs. Commitment." Sunday, 11:15 a.m., Chapel.
continued from page two direct a seasonal plea to those in the community w · hom it may concern: to wit, those with powerful stereos who are fond of directing them out the windows to provide background music for studying, Frisbeeing, etc. While your Delta blues, acid rock, Beethoven Ninth or whatever may make your afternoons more pleasant, please remember that people who don't share your taste may enjoy the outdoors too. Let's remember that the spring belongs to all of us; let each enjoy it his own way, including, if he will, in silence. Sincerely, Edwin Frownfelter ABC Correction T'o the Editor: I appreciate the very favorable article in the March 9 Spectator concer n i ng the ABC program. However, I would like to correct two inaccuracies in the story. I) The College has not loaned the ABC h o u se to u s . T he ABC program rents the residence from the College. 2) I have not been the spearhead for the Clinton ABC as implied in the article. M r . D o nald Potter, Hamilton Geo logy P rofessor, chaired the initial effort l a s t s pr i n g. The curr ent chairman is Mrs. Robert Mason of Clinton. She and many, many others have g iven much dedication and devotion. My wife and I . are, in effect, House parents for the program. We are enjoying the experience and appreciate very much the help bf other interested people. Thank you for your good support. Gilbert F. Adams
Computers To the Editor: In the past year, Hamilton and Ki rkland have been subjected to t h e e a r l y p h a s es of the romputerization_ of academic and
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come out. Chances are I would ha v e f o u n d o u t a b o u t my deficiency a little too late to do social life: we are all familiar with anything about it. t h e forms with which college Too late, that i s , un less a officials are assaulting students and st udent takes it upon himself to faculty. I hesitate, however, to review his transcript and discover make a general value judgement of the " efficiency" of the new system a n y p r oblems o n i t . On the since I have been told that the recommendation of a student in a confusion surrounding the current similar difficulty, I did just that, use of t h e co mputer will, with and, in light of my experience, and experience, resolve itself. I find the the e x perience of almost every a c c o m p a n y i n g a r g u m e n t s o ther student who has done the regarding the resultant increase of same, I r e co mmend that every s t u d e n t , e spe cially se niors, personal contact among students, carefully review their transcript. faculty, and administrators to be Numerous "small" errors have s om ew hat fallacious, but I shall already been found. But they are wait to see. . small only in the sense that they . . I cannot, however, wait to see 1f .mv olve, p e r h a p s, only a smgle , • . able tot t h e R egistrar s O ff"ice is initial. They are not so small when correct the_ errors that are rampant such an error' when uncorrected or . o n transcripts. The damage f rom u n c o m m u n 1 c a t e d , p r e ve n t· . . . sue h errors man1fests 1tseIf 1n two graduat·10n. f o rms: i ncorrect transcripts and Gary S. Vensel '73 n o n-commu n i cation of obvious academic difficulties. Meditation Money I have just s p e n t o n e hour proving to the Registrar that I will To the Editor: I n last week's Spectator, have 32 credits in May, not 31 as my transcript indicated. The Douglas Glucroft ended his article source of the difficulty is irrelevant on the Student's International here, b ut the case is made, and Meditation Society by stating that r e inforced by the experiences of "the price for the course is $45." other students, that a large number Mr. Glucroft, however, gave no of transcripts are incorrect. My explanation of why the money is error occurred in the pre-computer asked for, or what it is used for age, s o I w ould be w i l l ing to after it is received. I fe(!l that this hypothesize that,. for at least the omission is highly irresponsible in n e x t few y ea rs, the number of that the article was meant to be si_milar errors will increase and will an introduction to SIMS, and the be increasingly difficult to correct. absences of any elaboration upon This assumes, of course, that the the request for and use of the fee error is found. The error in my l e av es t h e r eader with an transcript was three years old, and I unnecessarily bad impression of still had not been informed of it, SIMS. As a year-long meditator with seven weeks left in my senior and member of SIMS, I feel that it year.· It is now six weeks into the is my responsibility to clear up second semester, and the Registrar any confusion that may have has n o t yet recorded se co n d r esulted from Mr. Glucroft's semester courses on the transcripts. handling of the facts. SIMS h as been declared a Had they been recorded, it would have been obvious that I had an non-profit organiztion by the apparent deficiency. Of course, it Internal Revenue Service. The fee took six weeks for first semester requested for the course is the grades to come out, so imagine how minimum amount possible to aid long it will take for the final second t h e movement's growth. All semester regi stration figures to continued on page six
SLIDE PRESENTATION ''Main Street, New York State," a slide presentation by Milo V. Stewart will be presented by the American Studies Committee of Hamilton-Kirkland on Monday, April 9 at 8:30 p.m. in the Science Auditorium. Admission is free. RECYCLED STATIONERY Stationery pads made of 100% recycled paper are still available in the bookstore and LOBBY. Designs by Natalie Babbitt and Clinton High School student. No envelopes necessary, stickers are provided. Excellent for gifts. POSTER PAPER!!! EECHK still has high-quality poster paper available at no charge. One side is printed _on, but the other side is completely blank and is perfectly usable. 18" X 24". C on tact Wayne Stabile through campus mail or at 859-7151. GOVERNMENT LECTURE Dr. Kishor R. Sangani, from Marcy State Hospital, will speak on "Uganda Today"on Friday April 13 at 4:15 p.m. in the Bristol Campus Center Lounge. Refreshments will be served. LENTEN LUNCHES Persons interested in meeting for lunch and discussion during the Lenten Season should meet in the Pub at noon on Wednesday. Students on the meal plan may bring their trays downstairs. FOLK FESTIVAL HOUSING Participants in this year's Folk Festival, May 3-5, need places to stay while at Hamilton and Kirkland. If you have any sp are room to accomodate some of them, please sign one of the posters in either Bristol, Commons, or McEwen. There will be over 100 musicians coming - rooms are needed desperately!! SAVE CHAPEL MEETINGS Dean Kurtz will address the Chapel on Monday morning � concerning the Kirkland Assembly's resolution to move the Chapel meeting to 12 noon. All those interested in supporting, improving, and especially in continuing the institution are urged to attend.
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Exhibit of Contemporary Art Features Abstract Paintings
Co ntemporary Artists - Early and Late Paintings is the title of a
A work by Jimmy Ernst, now on exhibit at the Root Art Center.
major exhibition which is being shown at the Root Art Center April 4 through May 2. The paintings a re from the c o l l e c t i o n s o f t h e Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute i n U t ica a n d the Kra ushaa r , B o r g e n i c h t , M i d t o w n and Marlborough Galleries in New Y ork C i t y . The paintings were selected b y Professors Ja mes P e nney of Hamilton College and James McDermid o f K irkland College. Artists represented in the show a r e I l y a B olotow sk y , A llan D 'Arcangelo, Jimmy Ernst, John Heliker, Alex Katz, John Koch, N o r ma n Lewis, William Palmer, Lar r y R ivers, Mark Rothko and Theodore Stamos.
Jacques Brel is Alive, Well , And Coming to Hamilton
Western Connecticut S�ate C�llege. Joe Scalzo and Anne Spagnolo. - S u s a n n W a l e n s has been She has been the musical director k performing professionally in many Of -m a_ n Y s u m m e r s t Oc ons producti d i f ferent fields since the age of T he credits of :eter K�owles, fourteen. S h e h a s sung _ p r o fessionally with many of the Pianist, include actmg, smgmg, and Alive and Well and Living in Paris better bands and orchestras in the playing the piano. He stud ied p r o duced by t he Brookfield D o n Mousted stu d ied voice music and drama at Ithaca . Nancy Jatolo, Percussionist, T h e a t r e o f .B r o o k f i e l d , p rivate l y and also at I nd iana Connecticut. It will be held in the University which he attended on a has been the drummer for several Hamilton College Chapel on April · v o i c e scholarship. H e w_a s a _s ummer pr o d u c tions, m emb e r o f t he New Jer se y Tickets are $2 and are available 13-14 at 8:30 p.m. According to Arlene Begelman, All-State Chorus for two years and at the LOBBY at McEwen and at President of the Hill Company, the has sung in all types of vocal music K e e n a n ' s B o o k s t o r e a n d W ?r l d w ide Arts and Imports in members decided to present the f r o m opera to _r ock. Joe Scalzo is a graduate of Clmton. Connecticut production in order to raise funds for the production of a •· Hartwick College in Oneonta, New dramatic p oetry reading and a York. A political science major, c h i l d r e n 's story h o u r to be Joe planned a career as a lawyer, produced by the Hill Company in b u t has been side-tracked by his d ive-r s«: -�amatic talents. May and J une. Jacques Brei is, at 43, the most A nne Spagnolo has studied popular singer composer.in France. acting and dance at_ Banff College B o r n i n B e l g i u m , h e i s an in the Western part of Canada. Sh�: S o me of the recent works of entertainer who happens to be a h a s appeared in many v a r ied E l ia s Fr iedensohn w il l be on poet, and whose works have been productions. exhibit at the List Arts Center from Music w i l l be p rovided by Tuesday, April 3 through Friday, a p p l a u d e d in the United States H i s extraordinary music L y n n e C h uvala -Jones, Peter April 20. The paintings are mostly portrays the human condition and Knowles, and,Nancy Janutolo. done in oifs although some of the the human comedy. smaller works are rendered in Lynne Chuvala Jones, Musical a crylics. The public is invited to The Brookfield Theatre Players are Susann Walens, Don Mousted, D irector, h a s studied music at view this exhibition from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 P·IV· each weekday.· A c c o r d i n g t o M r . James McDermid, Associate Professor of Sculpture, who arranged for the e x h i b i t , a ''c o n t e mpora r y celebration o f life" may be seen within Friedensohn's works. His art illustrates ma squerade and ambiguities. Friedensohn formerly he,ld the position of .Chairman of the Arts D i v i s io n at Kirkland bef ore ret urning to Queens College this year as a professor of art. He is a gr ad u ate of Queens College and also attended the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. Mr. Fr i e d e nsohn was a warded a F u l b r i g h t grant in 1957, was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1960, and r e ceived the Queens Co llege D istinguished Alumnus Award in 1969. Mr . F � i eden so h n 's w or k is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the W a l k e r A r t C e n t e r o f t he University of I llinois, among Felicity Goodwill (left) and Marily Boenau rehearsing yesterday for one of the plays to be performed in the Wallace B. Johnson Playwriting others. Competition this weekend. T h e Hill Company, a new company o f p layers f rom the Kirkland and Hamilton Colleges and surrounding communities will sp onsor a presentation of a new kind o f m usical Jacques Brei is
I n c o m menting on the exhibition, Pro fessor James B. Penney said, "In this exhibition, we have two Rothkos, painted only a few years apart, but they clue for us his transition from the formative e x p e r i e n c e o f a b s t ract impressionism. The first only hints a t the vastness o f scale, the sen sitive expansion of space and vibrant glow of color attained in the maturity of the later work. "The Bolotowskys show a most consistent abstract approach, but there - are differences between the works of the 40's and 50's and of the 70's, in spite of the continuing clear and precise geometry. "In Stamos, his development is clea rly evident from the earliest primitive, like Blue Fish, through t h e e xpressionism that won him first acclaim, The Reward, to the strictly formal statements of color sensa t i o n of such canvases as Infinity Field and Lefkada Series. ''In D 'Accangelo we find the pop-associated theme of road signs Un t it led a n d D anger ( 1967) surviving, but, through a shift of emphasis, the motif is all but lost in the accentuated impact of pigment in Constellation (1972). "Katz, over a decade, gathers strength, purpose and economy of statement - as well as scale - moving from Ada (1958) to Ada With Sun G la s s es a n d W i ld S w eet P eas
s u p e r s e d e d by l a ndsca pes, emphasizing harmonic planes of I i g h t a n d a t m o s p here , but maintaining in a different way the early concc�_rn with ordered form and space. "On the other hand, Koch, in the 18 years from Gossip (1950) to Dora Readin_f[ and The Accident (both of 1968\ had _m��!��� � steady refinement of his initial r ealist approach. He has become more subtly and abstractly color a nd value conscious, and has created an amazing trompe l'oeil with the surest economy of brush work. ''R iver s pur sues t h e cool, taciturn essays that predated the pop-movement Oval Webster and H o r s e s wi t h i n t e r v a 1 s o f near-abstraction such as Portrait of Vickey Hockberg.
"L e w i s has maintained a con sis tent abstract direction for over 20 years, but has simplified his earlier patterns to statements of darkly vibrant power. "In Heliker, we trace definite c h a nges from early-abstraction Deposition (1947) and San Marino (1951), rich in feeling and color, to sensitively studied and balanced f i gure and landscape statements, con cerned with painterly light and form considerations harking back t o C ezanne, R o ma n Interior (1969) and Two Bathers (1970). "Ernst, of all the artists, shows perhaps the most consistency of style, but there is no mistaking the earlier more lyrical and spacial works Improvisation (1949) and Co l la g e ( 1 9 5 0 ) with the later
(1969). "In Palmer, we have examples that span much more completely his career - from early Sleeping on The Hill (1932), through Otsego Facade (1961) and Grecian Morn ( 1 9 7 0 ) . His earlier rounded Dayscape II or Oracle. f i g ur a·t ive c ompositions are
RANGERS & KNICKS--NO. 1 !
Strange Friedensohn Paintings Now on Exhibit at Kirkland
Among the annual national art G ·a 11 e r y , W a sh in gt on , D . C .; exhibits and special exhibitions in Smithsonian.Museum, Washington, which Elias Friedensohn has been D .C.; Dallas M u se um of Art; represented are the Cor coran Museum of M o dern Art, New York; and the Denver Art Museum.
Prize Plays On Stage
A painting by Elias Friedensohn from the exhibition curren tly at the _ list Arts Center.
!Arts and Features I
APRIL 6, 1973
EVENTS
On Campus This Weekend
FILMS
The Wizard of Oz-The 1939 Victor Fleming classic with Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr; Friday night at 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday nights at 10 p.m., Kirner Johnson Auditorium. Tokyo. Story-One of 1972 Ten Best on everybody's list; Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m., Sunday night at 10 p.m, Chemistry Auditorium.
On Campus Next Weekend
David Holtzman 's Diary and La Salamandre.
In the Weeks Ahead
Top Hat; Hell in the Pacific; The Sorrow and the Pity; Ministry of Fear; Reefer Madness; Belle de ]our.
At Nearby Theaters
Cannonball (853-5553 ): The Emigrants Kallet (736-2313): Two People Paris (733-2730): Sounder Stanley (724-4000): The Godfather Uptown (732-0665 ): Disney's Cinderella and Charley
Angel
and the
DRAMA April 7 & 8 (Saturday and Sunday)
Student written and directed plays-Wallace B. Johnson Playwriting Competition, 8:30 p.m., Kirkland Dormitory 4th floor.
MUSIC
April 6 (Friday)
SAC Concert-Wilkinson , Strong, and Roden, 9 p.m., McEwen Coffeehouse. Free with social tax.
April 7 (Saturday)
SAC Concert-Bill Stains, 9 p.m., McEwen Coffeehouse. Free with social tax.
At the Root Art Center
EXHIBITIONS
Contemporary Artists-Early and Late Paintings, through May 2.
See article on this week's Arts Page.
At the List Arts Center
Photography Exhibition-Half and Half-Then and Now, through next Friday. Recent Works of Elias Friedensohn, through April 20. Reception on April 10 at 7:30 p.m.
At the Munson-Williams-Pr-0ctor Institute (797-0000) Paintings of George Luks-
Street.
Museum of Art, 315 Genesee
The Sistine Ceiling-7 4 color reproductions ·from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Opening Sunday at the Museum of Art.
April 6 (Friday)
LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS
Winslow Lectures-Roots of Urban Soci ety: Mesopotamia. Robert McC. Adams of the University of Chicago, 7:30 p.m., Science Auditorium.
April 7 (Saturday) Winslow
Lectures 10:30 a.m.-Roots of Urban Society: Mesoamerica, Michael D. Coe of Yale University, Science
Auditorium. 2:00 p.m.-Roots of Urban Society: China, Kwang-Chih-Chang of Yale University, Science Auditorium. Lecture followed by a panel discussion with Messrs. Chang, Coe, and Adams. April 8 (Sunday) Free Church
G. Jeffrey Paton, Hamilton '73, speaker, 11:15 a.m., Chapel.
April 7 (Saturday)
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MILESTONES
William Wordsworth's Birthday (1770). Robert Casadesus' Birthday (1899). Ravi Shankar's Birthday (1920 ).
April 9 (Monday)
Paul Robeson's Birtl?,day (1893). Efram Zimbalist's Birthday (1889). Baudelaire's Birthday (182Jl.
Briefs on the Arts PLAYWRITING COMPETITION
This year's Wallace Bradley Johnson Playwriting Competition will be held this S<1:turday and Sunday nights at 8:30 p.m. on the 4th floor of Kirkland Dormitory. Three student-written one-act plays will be performed. There is no admission charge.
Beethoven Bends Basic Forms; 5 Piano Concerti ·Reviewed BY RICHARD KAVESH A s we 11 as being the greatest composer of his time, Ludwig van Bee thoven was also its greatest pian ist . Story has it that when B e e t h o v e n a s a young man performed at a piano recital one evening, a noted music critic wrote that Beethoven had played as well a s M o zart. This was q u it e a compliment for a twenty five year o l d newcomer to receive, but B e e thoven, arrogant and i n d ividualistic even then, was insulted; he thought (knew) that he was better than Mozart. A l m o s t a l l o f t h e g r eat orchestral writers have contributed to the repertoire of the keyboard con certo. A lthough Bach and Mozart befor� him had given birth to the form, it took the powerful and creative mind of Beethoven to take the decisive step in the piano concerto-- a step he took in. almost every form (string quartet, s ymphony, trio, for exa mple)--and develop a truly modern piano concerto. Listed below are his five piano concerti, followed by the pianist, conductor, and orchestra who have most successfully grappled with these complex works on records.
five. Its interest is purely historical �nd had Beethoven not written it, it s dai m to posterity would be dubious in d e e d. L ike the first pia no concerto, Beethoven stays w i t h i n t h e c o nfines of the Mozartean form, but unlike the C major, the second concerto seems to be more of a sterile intellectual exercis e t h an a n expression of e i t h e r p rofound o r original thoughts. Again Leon Fleisher and George Szell combine to get the most (what little there is) out of the piece. This record may also be difficult to find, so the Claudio A r r a u/B e r n a r d H a i t i n k c ollaboration on Phillips 839751 would be a fine buy most widely available.
C o n c e r to N o. 3 in C Minor--Arthur Rubenstein/Erich Le i n s d o r f a n d t h e B oston Symphony (RCA LSC-2947).
T h i s i s t he first truly Beethovenian concerto. The piano is not used for mere display as it was in the first two concerti; the orchestra remains on equal terms with it rather than providing mere accompaniment.
Concerto No. 1 in C major-Leon Fleisher/George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra (Epic
BC 1136 or Columbia M4X-30052). A l t h o u g h t he C major i s unmi st akably i n the Mozartean vein, it is j u st as unmistakably Beethovenian in its exuberance, grand scale, richness, and in the virtuosity it t a kes to perform. P ianist Leon Fleisher ably brings out all of these qualities and is supported b y the best in the business--George Szell and the Clevela nd Orchestra. Fleisher's virtuosity is well demonstrated in the first movement, his handling of the reflective second movement is gorgeous, and h is graceful and charming playing in the sparkling t h ird move ment is ideal. Those who may find this record difficult to obtain should turn to the fine performance of Rudolf Serkin with E u g e n e O r ma n d y a n d the Philadelphia Orchestra (Columbia MS-6838). C o n c e r t o No. 2 in B-fl a t m ajor - -Le o n Fl e i sher/George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra
(E pie BC 1137, also available in Columbia M4_X-30052).
The second piano concerto is perhap� the least successful of the
The King R u b e n s t e i n's---p i a n i sm i s absolutely perfect. He realizes the g randeur and strength of thefirst movement, a n d the expressive power of the magical, romantic second movement. Rubenstein and L einsdorf capture the essence of this seconcl movement as no other combination has been able to do and the last movement is marked by extremely adept conducting by Leinsdorf and sparkling, youthful p l a y i n g b y the 83 y e a r-old Rubenstein.
C o n c e rto N o. 4 i n G major--Arthur Rubenstein/Erich L e i n sdo r f a n d t h e B os ton Symphony. (RCA LSC-2848).
O n ce again, Rubenstein leads the field in the recordings of this c o n cer to, Beeth oven's most diffic ult and rewarding to play. The G major is truly one of the m o st int imate and beaut iful concerti in the entire repertoire. Rubenstein is ideally suited to the tender and lyrical first movement in which reflection and reticence remain the basic mood. Franz Liszt, among Romantic c r i t ics, felt that the second moveme n t describes O rpheus' pleas to regain Eurydice from the u n d e rworld. I ndeed, the conversation between the piano (Orpheus) and the orchestra (the spirits) is as near to human speech -as has been written in in non-vocal music and one can actually sense Orpheus taming the spirits of the u n derworld. R u b enstein and Lei nsdorf are excellent here and e qu ally effective in the lively, dan ce-like rondo last movement. Concerto No. 5 in E-flat m ajor-Rudolf Serkin /Leonard Bernstein and the New York P h i l h a r m o n ic (Columbi a
MS-6366). In c ontrast to the fourth c o n c e r to , Beethoven's fifth c o n c e r t o ( The E m p eror) is extroverted, bold, and explosive. Many musi� critics feel that it is the great est piano concerto ever written ( I di sagree; I put it at n u m b e r t w o , r i g h t behind B eethoven�s fourth), but there is l i tt l e d isagreement as to which per formance is the most bracing a n d envigorating--the recording with Rudolf S erkin, the finest p i anist alive, and con d u c tor Leonard Bernstein. T h e i r f i r s t m o v ement is viscerally exciting and propulsive all the way through; S erkin's play i ng of Beethoven's cadenzas h e r e i s simply fabulous and Bernstein's conducting is inspired. N ever before has the second movement been as romantically a n d expressively played as it is here; a n d Serkin and Bernstein bring to the third movement "that p a r t i c u lar l i l t expressive of marvelous control yet complete abandon." As one critic noted, Serkin has "made this work so much his own t h a t i t w i l l b e d if f i cult t•o disassociate him from the essence of its greatness.''
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You .are cordially invited to attend an illustrated lecture on ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
to be given by REINHOLD IiOHL of the University of Basel, Switzerland at the Science Auditorium, Hamilton College on Thursday, April 12, 1973 at 8:30 p.m. Reception will follow at the Root Art Center
Viewing." --Aitt'r l),uk in this one." -W1ll1dm Wolf, Cue
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Afro-Latin Guttural Weekend Offered to· Hill Community
Afro-Latin Powell, currently an advertising week-long A Cultural Celebration will begin on art director in Syracuse, has won a Sunday at Hamilton and Kirkland number of awards for his work, under the sponsorship of the particularly his poster design . Colleges' Black and Puerto Rican The Uhuru Singers will be joined in their gospel concert at 8 Union. tonight in the Hamilton Chapel by The week's events include: -An exhibit of art by Ivan the Choir of St. Paul's Church, Utica. Powell. -A concert of gospel music by Monday through Wednesday will see the series of documentary the Uhuru Singers. t hree of films, each at 8:30 p.m. in the r ie s -A auditorium of the Chemistry documentary films. -A performance by the Uhuru Building on the Hamilton campus. Monday'.s film is a pr-ofile of Players. Eddie Aretha Franklin, the Soul singer; concert by -A Tue sday 's, Black Hi"story; Kendricks. -Workshops on the Black W_ednesday's, Mal colm Speaks, . a experience in social studies and documentary of the life of Malcolm X. art. The Uhuru Players, a drama -An evening of Black musical group made up of members of the theater by Voices, Inc. All the week's events are open Hamilton-Kirkland Black and to the public and all are free Puerto Rican Union, will present except for the Eddie Kendricks A Voodoo Love Story, a Haitian concert, which has a $2.50 drama, at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Hamilton Gymnasium. admission charge. At 8 p.m. Friday in the The Ivan Powell exhibit goes on display in the second floor Gymnasium, Eddie Kendricks will lounge of the Bristol Campus appear in concert along with the Zebra. Center at 3 p.m. today. Mr. instr umental grnup
Kendricks, the former lead singer for the Temptations, has made appearances with Sammy Davis Jr. and Melba Moore at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The Black Experien ce £n the Sodal Studies will be the topic of
a workshop from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the Bristol Campus Center. Leaders will be John Davis and Bessie Ruth Scott. Mr. Davis, who was a bodyguard of Malcolm X, has taught in the New York City public schools and at Youngstown University. At 9:30 p.m. Saturday in the McEwen Dining Hall at Kirkland College, the Uhuru Singers and Poets will present music and poetry in a program entitled', Sounds and Spi"ri"ts of Blackness.
Fin�y, at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in the Hamilton Gymnasium, Voices Inc., a black musical theater group, will present Journey foto Blackness, a review of black history and heritage. SERVICE SYSTEMS COMPLIES: The Lettuce Boycott is over.
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Now on Exhibit Now on Exhibit in Munstitute The Si"sti"ne Ceiling Seen For the Ffrst T i"me, an exhibition of 74
Chapel Master of Ceremonies, Mike Murphy, muses on the Faculty's re cent decision to move Monday Chapel to 12 noon.
color reproductions of the ceiling r e producti on. T h e color and of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican luminosity of the original frescoes will open Sunday (April 8) and are closely simulated in these matte continue through Sunday, May 6 in finished photographs. t h e M u s e um of Art at Since the actual Sistine Ceiling M u n s o n -W i l l i a m s -P r o c t o r i s more than 60 feet above eye Institute. level, the figures in the ct>iling, even Or gan ized by The New York though sometimes as much as five Cultural Center in association with times life size, appear very small to Fairleigh Dickinson University and v isitors. To make matters worse, C a p i t a l C i ties Broad casting the ceiling is not well lit and dust Corpo rat io·n, the e xhibition is particles obscure the visitor's view being circulated under the auspices of the magnificent work. of The A merican Federation of No one had seen it so closely Arts. f r o m t h e time of Michelangelo The l a rge photographs in the u n t i l 1 967 , w h e n M i l t o n exhibition were made from color F r u chtman a nd his crew of 25 t r an sparencies taken during the b e g an photographing the ceiling. filming of the Peabody Award Three years of research preceded winning television program, The . the filming.· A three-dimensional S e cre t o f Mfrh e langelo: Eve m o de l o f the Chapel w as ry Man's Dream, produ ced and constructed. in urder to determine directed by Milton Fruchtmen for precise points of photography. C a p i t a l C it i e s �r oadca sting L y i n g on his back atop a C o r p o r a t i op. Altho ugh the scaffolding rising 64 feet in the air, m a j o r i t y o f the photo s a re Michelangelo, in 1509, began the mounted on masonite panels and four y ear project winch was to r a n g e f r o m o n e -h alf to beco m e his, and one of world's three-quarter scale of the origil)al, a great masterworks of art - the huge
CHANDLER continued from page one
TEACHING & LEARNING continued from page one
GIVE A HOITT. DON'T POLWTE
Hamilton and. Kirkland faculty and students will discuss their concerns as teachers and learners. The film will be shown in the Kirner-Johnson auditorium at 1:30 pm. Workshops will take place at 3:30 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson buildings. They will deal with 1) discuss student-initiated courses, the "interpersonal aspects of independent research, internship, flexibility versus teaching and learning explored work-study, through videotape" and 2) "the structure, and grading and testing. of Student and faculty advocates will dimensions non-cognitive learning". Also, a seminar will be be present. The ''Teaching and Learning" held on models of alternative Conference is becoming a schooling methods. On Saturday evening at 7:00 tradition at Kirkland College - a p.m. in the Kirner-]ohnson tr adition of examining with an auditorium, Benjamin DeMott, open mind the strengths and professor of English at Amherst weknesses of an experimenting for women. The. College, Jerome, and ·Katz will college join together for a seminar participants in these weekend concerning the processes involved · sessions will determine the future in education. The Teacher and of Kirkland.• whether it will rest Learner and their positions, on its laurels or find solutions 'and contributions, and obligations will alternatives in order to continue as an innovative instititoon. be the topic of this seminar. Finally, on Sunday, April 8, at Wanted: Desperately! Group 10:00 o.m. in the Kirner-Johnson to play Gay Dance for free, or very small fee (lack of funds) auditorium, Kiland President Samuel F. Babbitt will bring the lJtica College, Utica, April. Call ''Teaching and Learning" problem R a y 7 9 7 - 5 3 5 4 to bear on Kirkland itself. He will weekendsjwe"""" -e= �=-= - •,&,i�"-h-=- t.... s ;__.___
could be found. As one senior put it, "It's his right to move on. Hamilton will do okay." As an interesting sidenote, several students argued that the 'search committee for the new President should have equal numbers of st u d e n t s, facult y , and administration. The opinion fo the faculty was fairly uniform and reflected their greater familiarity with the comings and goings of administrators. It was felt that Chandler had done a good job, he had a perfect right to leave for the reasons he did, and there would be few serious negative consequences to a change in administration. A few faculty members suggested that it w�mld be valuable for Hamilton to have an infusion of new blood. One professor stated: "It' ood to have a turn over every five or six years. Otherwise the cement sets." It took one pub-bound senior to sum up College Hill sentiment. "Chandler was a good man," he said. "I'm sure we can find another."
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fresco decorating the entire ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican covers nearly 6,000 square feet of space. The actual filming took place on top of a spe c i a l ly constructed scaffolding, rising as high as 64 feet above the floor of the Chapel and just four feet beneath the ceiling thus eliminating distortions in p h otogra phy. Becau se of the proximity of the camera and the e x t r e m e c a r e i n producing u nd i s t o rted photographs, many aspects of Michelangelo's frescoes can be seen - some which have escaped art scholars for over 450 years. Michelangelo's composition and brushstrokes are clearly visible. Colors which before appeared soft and muted are shown in these photographs to be much brighter, brilliant oranges, purples, and greens have emerged. Also included in this exhibition i s a plan of the ceiling and five panels showing views of the filming in progress as well as a text panel. THE CUNTON FLORIST 15 Elm Street IIS-!75·1
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APRIL 6, 1973
PIRG Formed on College Hill
used to finance publications, court r i s ks in taking the controversial BY MARSHA WEINSTEIN "This country has more a ct i o n s , use of consultants, and · "M orning Af ter Pill". Students from CNY - PIRG are pres·ently problems than it should tolerate other operating costs as well. PI R G's operations are funded doing a study of New York State and more solutions than it uses." So begins the book, Action for a through a student fee of $2.00 per s enators and assembly men in Change, co-authored by Ralph s t udent per semester. This fee is p r e p a r a t i o n f or p u blishing Nader and Donald Ross. Mr. Ross instituted at those schools where a individual resumees and a report spoke at Hamilton-Kirkland on m a j o r i t y o f s t u d e nts h a v e s im il ar to Nader's Who Runs Wednesday, February 28, to a petitioned to e s t a blish a local Co n gr e ss?. I n a n o t her area group of students and faculty. He board. Any student who does not CNY-PIRG released a report on discussed America's problems, but wish to support PIRG may obtain a March 22nd to the Atomic Energy spent most of his time full refund at the beginning of each C o m m i s s ion concerning t h e proposed Niagara Mohawk nuclear energetically discussing solutions semester. Fo urteen states already have power plant in Oswego. to those problems. Mr. Ross said that students working alongside PIRGs and many others are in the The New York PIRG organizing professionsls and interested process of organizing groups. c o mm i tt ee hopes to enroll over citizens can be an active full-time M i n n e s ot a P I R G w i t h 90,000 100,000 members by September, student student members is the oldest and 1973. Efforts to form groups are representing force concerns and public interest, and largest of these. They have worked starting on campuses across the effecting necessary change. This is on many issues, including air, water state. At a l e ct ur e at C ornell the philosophy behind the and noise pollution, occupational University on March 8th, 1973, student-supported Public Interest health and s a fety and housing. Ralph Nader said "Involvement in Change h a s b e e n f ostered by P I R G s i s a v iab l e m eans o f Research Group (PIRG). PIRG is modeled after Ralph t h or o u g h r esearch, followed by interweaving education and citizen N a d e r's W a s h i n g t o n , D .C. public education, lobbying and/or organization. Organized by states, litigation. A New York State PIRG i n v o l v e m e n t . " A t t h e non-p r o f i t, n o n-partisan is forming and the regional office Hamilton-Kirkland, a small group independent groups are working o f C e n t r a l N e w Y o r k of students will begin petitioning for c o nstr ucti ve so cial change (CNY-PIRG} has been established this month. be ne fit ting the citizens of each in Syracuse. Syracuse and Cornell state. P I RGs are designed to , University students voted to fund transcend the lack of continuity CNY-PIRG. Headed by a lawyer and lack of expertise which beset and small staff hired through these many student movements. PIRGs f un d s , CNY -PIRG has already KIRKLAND emp l o y a f u ll time staff of undertaken several important p r o f e s s i o n a l s from various projects. equally consider qualified men. T h r o u g h the e ff orts of a The dis c i p l i n e s w h o w o r k o n �aculty Dean Search and consumer Syracuse University student, a toy Committee in particular has noted environment protection, heal th and safety, safety survey in the Syracuse area an insufficiency of qualified racial and sexual employment has been conducted. C Y -PIRG is women applicants. now joining with several national practices and similar issues. Kirkland has made a vast effort Part of the ste PIRG's funds are groups in seeking to strengthen a to make the positions known to allocated to support research done bill recently passed by the New women. The public relations by students during the summer or York State Senate establishing toy department has contacted a during the s c h o o l year. This safety standards in New York for number of women's caucus' such r e s e a r c h c a n u s u a l l y b e the first t ime. CNY-PIRG has as professional women's groups, inc orporated into the regular joined with the Consumers Affairs academic women's caucus', and aca demic curriculum. Funds are Unit in Syracuse in an investigation the placement agencies concerned of the safety and potential health with women. K i r k l an d placed has advertisements in major national 24 hr Towing publications, including The New GULF BILL'S York Times, Ms. M a gaz£ne and N.Y.S. AAA major professional magazines such Inspec tion as The Chronicle of Hi gher tica St. 66 Educa tion. Finally, the college has ALL REPAIR & BODY WORK GUARANTEED sought out referals from its FOREIGN CARS A SPECIAL TY personal fri nds.
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money received by SIMS goes members d i r e c t l y b a c k in t o t h e Committee The prefer t o remain silent concerning organization, and is used to make the procedures they will follow TM teachers, such as Tim Gray, for reducing the number of increasingly available to anyone candidates, judging interested. College students also potential them, and finally deciding on the pay $30 less than working adults. one applicant whose name they The entire purpose of SIMS is to will submit to the Board of make it possible for an increasing Trust�es. In the words of number of people to become Committee- Secretary Blackwood, - aware of the benefits of TM: it is ''Everything the committee does not SIMS purpose, in any way, to is of the highest confidentiality," make a profit. If a student simply and, for the most part, " we does not have enough money, and cannot say anything about s incerely wants to m1tiate, anything." arrangements can and often have The committee has not yet been made so that he or she can reached any concrete decisions pay a smaller initiation fee. I hope concerning procedure, but there this dispels any wrong impressions are other reasons for the silence. that may have been fonned. Any possible misrepresentation of Sincerely, the facts, by the readers, the · Marcia Hecht campus media, or the members of Choir the committee themsel�es must be avoided at all costs. Nothing, To the Editor: implied some members, must leak I have been close!' following out which could in any way the present controver y stemming influence the final decision. The f r o m t h e unification of the committeemen declined also to Ha milton and Kirk.land College give personal opinions, stating Choir s into more or l e ss one that any preconceptions they autonomous body. might , have are merely personal I was one of the more fortunate views which are not at all relevant who was able to attend the Choir's to the function of the committee. performance at Town Hall in New Some members of the student York City on March 5, 1973. It is body will undoubtedly be hard to believe that a Choir which suspicious about the secretive c o n tains "an apathy which is so attitude of the search committee, per vasive", as one anonymous and will worry about the manner writer said in this column, could in which the interests of the produce what the New York Times students are being represented. In called, "expressive performances answer, John Osborne,asserted that had a great deal of strength."' that he ''feels like a full member I t is hard to believe also that a of the committee," and that he Cho ir whose old members "are· spoke for the other student sinking; being borne under by the weig ht of the many others they members as well. Mr. Blackwood stressed that find it necessary to support", could the committee will welcome produce, "a light, clear tone and anyone (students included) who smoothly flowing textures." And it has an idea or suggestion as to is hard to believe that a Choir so who should be the new President. full o f dissension and disunity c o u ld bring such pure joy and excitement to the spirit of those AVON'S who were in attendance . It appears to me that it is only a Sweet Honesty tiny handful of men who refuse to put aside past emotions and have is here·on ''The Hill" t h u s made it impossible for themselves to revel in the glory that was last M onda y n i ght. James Call Esther 853-3211 Fankhauser and the Choir are beautiful people. evenings and weekends Hank Opalka
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SPORTS SPECTATOR Carlberg, McDevitt:
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BY 0 Two members of the successful Hamilton College swimming team become 1973 to qualifie d AU-Americans at the N.C.A.A. Coll ege Division Swimming and Diving Championships held at Wayne State University, Detroit, March 15-17. Sophomores Doug McDevitt and Jeff Carlberg each placed in the top twelve o f t heir 100-yard events, Doug in the and Jeff in the freestyle breaststroke. The National Championships signified the end of a long season for Coach Eric McDonald, who deserves most of the credit for guiding those two swimmers from high school obscurity to national and McDevitt pr o minence. Carlberg are the third and fourth All-Americans MacDonald has produced while mentor of the Hill tankmen. M acDonald can also bo ast one national champion in Bnice Mo hl, who captured the
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1��::::: :n: :;be:: ��: hold or share at least six H amilton records, each qualified for two events. Do ug swam the 200-yard freestyle in a 1 :50.4, which placed him 26th amo ng the nation's be st. McDevitt then swam the 100 free in a flying :49.2, good enough for 11th and a me re .2 tenths of a se cond off of Rick Volp's five-year-0ld record . Carlberg would have notched a second All-American standing to his cred it if sickness had not hampered his perf ormance in the 200-yard breaststroke. Jeff swam the 200 a whole 3 seconds off his own school mark, but he did ex ceptionally well in the 100-yard event. The flashy blond from Scottsville swam a 1:02.3 to place him fourth, and the time established a new Continental swimming mark in that event.
Long Outlines Spring Track;Predictions are r,Pragmatic' BY PETER ACKERMAN . . . "G uarded pess1m1sm,, 1s Coach . , Euge�e Long fra klY pragm�tic ; : app aisa1 0 t e upco m � � � out oor_ track season. Lo ng cite two maJor factors for the lack of . . ba1ance m th"is year,s sprmg �ack te : th absenc � o f �y true sm� co �ege sprmters and a a . ' defimte weakness in �he short hurdles e�ents. He pomted out ha� sp mters and hurdler�, . . � �_ etermm mg the team s esid es strength m the lOO, 200, both ,relayS, and !he_t�o hurd !es e�ents, O ften add �igm_ficant pomts m the long �d tnple Jumps as well. This would be the nucleus of a . str0?g squad. � ut , _wi t� spee�ste r K evm Snyder 75 s1d elmed with a . . foot mJury . and Paul Reuss, ' d e:parture 0m schoo l, this is a nucleus which the Continentals do
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�Mudders' Prepare for Opener Freshmen Fill Vacated Spots BY WOODY NAVIN Lacrosse - the fastest game on two feet - is about to begin mud:filled season at a nother Hamilton Co llege. The Hamilton College Sticksters will be out to better last season's 4-6 record. The only changes over last seaso n' schedule are the addition of one more game and the replacement of Ithaca Co llege by Union College_. Nat by co-captains Led Follansbee and Wo�d y Navin, twelve returning lettermen will core of sound a provid e experience for the Buff and Blue. The intact attack from last year of John Berry '75, Nat Follansbee '73, and Mark Bernard '75 are also last year's three highest scorers for the team with 24, 22, and 17 points respectively. Also intact from last season is the midfie ld of Jon Nelson '73, Steve Small '73, and Woody Navin
'73; Ned Collum '75, Steve �peno B ob P elz '76, P ete Follansbee '76, '75, and Gibby Hed strom '75 have and David Jo hn '76. Jim Lo tz '76 also had experience "playing" and Doug Errico '76 will als o be together. Defensive chief for the backing up the present attack. Continentals is Marty Percy '75. Just in case s ome of the varsity Although Coa ch Von Schiller's players do not pan out, J .V. Sticksters will miss the assistance · lacrossemen, under the whip and of six starting players from last spurs of Coach MacDonald, are year, freshmen will more than fill preparing to fill in. They are also the emptied po sitions. Vying for preparing for a season of their the position of goalie are Billy own - a season which .p ortends a Hardy '73 - starting goalie for the style of play which may be Buff and Blue his freshman year different from that of the before taking a "tthree-year varsity's, but it is equally as sabbatical·" from the game - Harry exciting. Just ask Dusty or Familetti '76, and Hank Bed ford Whe els! '76. The two o pen defensive Altho ugh the ino pportune positions are being sought _by sno w storm cancelled yesterday's .Frank Assuma '75, Mark Williams scrimmage against Colgate, the '76 .Greg Thomas '76, and Alex Laxmen will meet Hartwic k Keith '76. College on S aturday for their first an scrimmage. The season opens on '75, Rodgers · Sam all-purpose utility player last the road against Albany. The .season, will again be aiding the h o m e against is opener team as a mid-fielder. Other Eisenhower, on Wednesday the middies are -Bill O'Donnell' '76, 18th.
not, at present, possess. · · g for the Blue thIS · tm Sprm spring will be Jack Syage '76 and P eter Wang '75 in the 100 yard and 220 yard dashes. Seniors Ken ' . G 1vens and Denms · oaks should ad d depth in the 220 and 440 events, and both will probably run in the mile relay. · Dave "Sandy" Mac kintosh '74, always a strong competitor on the 440 yard intermediate hurd les, will also compete in th e milerelay. Helping "Mac" in the long hurdles event will be Tim Greenwoo d '73. Jeff Williams '74 should add some de pth in the 120 yard high . · h1le co ach Long hopes hurdles, w that Pedro Garc ia '75 a we lcome · · year as a 1o ng and addit10n th1s triple jumper, will compete in the 120 yard hurdle s also. · Commg off an outstan - ding undefeated cross-country record for the past three seasons, Long was much more optimistic about the scoring potential in middle and longer distance events. Junior Tim Delaney set a new school record in the two mile run indoors this year (9:28.9), and he will add measurably to the point totals in the 880 and mile runs and Pa ul Ford '74, o utdoors. both of whom are presently r e co ve r i n g from illnesses. Freshmen· Lou Pacilio, Charles Hathaway, and Joe Terranova
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should also add some points in the longer rac es. In the weight events, transfer student Paul Br own '74 a potential first-place finishe; in mo st dual meets, and veteran junior John Allen will put the shot.
In the discus throw, Jeff ·Hewitt '74 should be a solid contributor, and he will get some help from Craig Mengel '75. Frank O'Leary '75 should be over the 180 ft. piark in the javelin throw early this season, and that will make him a strong addition this year. In the high jump, Larry Dunn '74 and Dale Garrett '76 will both be close to six feet. Also, pole vaulters Don Kendall '74 and Doug Kinney '76 will provide some depth in that event. Coach Long will be assisted for the first time this year by Thomas Murphy who will be responsible for field events. Lo ng stressed that this addition means "twice as much _attention" can be paid to each man, and he als o welcomed the chance to distribute some of his responsibilities. Coach Long general, In predicted the spring's battles would be "uphill". And the Continentals' first clash will be against a "seasone d " RPI squad, at Troy, on Sat. April 14.
It's either 'EsPo-Orr'fence or ole Canadian team play BY ED WATKINS The Boston Bruins prefer the In the National Hockey League, second o ffensive strategy. Boston th e r e a r e tw o b a sic o f f e nsive l i k e s t o give the puck to either s t r a t e gi e s . One c a lls for exact Bobby Orr o r Phil Esposito and speed, and superior stick-hand ling. le t him r ush up ice to lead the The object is to get the puck to a t ta c k . A typical B oston attack the player in the best position to has Bobby Orr bringing the p uck t a k e a sh o t. The other strategy fr o m b e h ing his goal across the demands a team have two or three o pp o n e n t s ' blu e line and then m e n wh o c o n s i stently get the feeding i t to Espo in the slot. The p u c k b e c a u s e o f t heir superior r e s t o f t he Bruins move up ice s c o ring ablility. The team as a l o o k i n g t o c lear ou t opposing whol e plays a s t r ong checking players and sett ing up strategy to game, forcing the other team to handle any wide or blocked shots. The reasoning behind the Bruin make mistakes. T h e Mon t r e a l Canadiens are strategy is quite simple. Esposito and Orr are superb at putting the t h e fin e st te am to use the first s t rat egy. They have the greatest puck in the nets. Therefore feed amount o f skill ed players of any them when they are on the ice. Wh e n t h e y a re not , attempt to te am in the league. They have the ability t o change any of thier lines i n t i midate t he other team into a t any . t im e without sacrifi c ing making mist akes that the Bruins any p a r t o f t hier atta ck. Their c a n capitaliz e o n. The Bruins wi thout Orr and Espostio would offense is so carefully coordinated still be a good team, but it is the to a parti cular style of play that in play of t hos e two men that makes o n e g a m e agains t t h e Br u ins, S c o tt y Bowman, the Canadiens' t h e m a a g r e a t t e am. The coach felt free to send out sixt een pl a y o ffs b e gin t his week and differen t lines in the first pe riod M o ntr e a l is favored to win the alone. No matter who is out on Stanl e y Cup. They are the best t e am in th e l e a gue and with a t h e i c e f o r Montreal, the atta c k wi llr e main consistent. The puc k healthy K en Dryden in the nets, wi ll b e br o u g h t u p across the they may be impossible to defeat. B o s t o n w i l l h a v e m o re o pp o n e n t s ' bl u e line and t hen pass e d ar o un d u n t il a suit able d i f f i c u l t y t han M ontre al in advan cing in the playoffs. If the o pp o rtunity f or a shot occurs. The strategy has worked well; the o t h e r t e a m s can c h oke off Canadi ens set a rec ord this year tsposit� and Orr then B oston will by losing only ten gam es during e nd t h e ir s ea son a little earlier than they would have liked to. the regul ar season.
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'Ad Hoc' Chapel Group Meets; Petitions Published Soon
Attrition Analyzed HAMILTON COLLEGE ATTRITION RATE 20-25%; STAYS THE S A M E OVE R 10 YEARS.
FRIEDENSOHN NOT DISPL E ASED WITH 2 5 % Kl RKL A ND ATTRITION; HELPS ASSESS PROGRESS.
BY PETER KIRSCHENBAUM BY MITCHEL OSTRER The number of people One out of every four members leaving Hamilton College has not of the Kirkland Charter Class of changed drastically over the past 1972 did not graduate, a study decade, but the reasons for them from the Dean on Students shows. leaving have changed in their The freshman class of 1968-69 relative importance. These are the numbered one hundred and sixty major conclusions to be drawn eight students; of these, excluding from an attrition study compiled any additional transfers into the b y P a l m e r F a r g n o l i , c l a s s , forty- th ree withdrew, Hamilton-Kirkland registrar, at transferred, or dropped out. the request of the Spectator and Over half of the Charter Class Dean Kurtz. The study, including enrolled in September, 1968, took information up ro March 19, leaves of absence. Thirty returned 1976, covers the Hamilton College and graduated; t wenty-nine classes of 1963 through 1976. It graduated in absentia. Of the shows the enrollment of each class forty-three students who attrited, at the beginning of its four years nineteen took leaves and did not at Hamilton and the number return to Kirkland. A number of leaving during each academic year. students of the Class of 1972 Attrition for each year of each remain on extended leave; one class and the four year total of Charter Class member who took each class is broken down in to leave graduated one year early, in three c a te g o r i e s ; t r ansfers, 1971, along with nine students volu ntary withdrawals and who did not go on leave. At dismissa ls for academic or C o m m e n c e m e n t , 1 9 7 2 , disciplinary reasons. ninety-nine of the 118 graduating Although the study is not a students were members of the complete analysis, some general Charter Class. observations can be made from The twen ty-five p e r cent the available figures. The total attrition rate is exact; it refers attrition rate over past decade has only to those students enrolled in generally remained in the 20-25 September, 1968, and disregards percent range. The classes of 1971 transfers, or students graduating a and 1972 both had rates of 28 year early or late. percent, the only two consecutive Doris Friedensohn, Kirkland classe s to fall a b o ve the College Dean of Students was not one-quarter mark. This does not displeased with the attrition rate. re flect a long-r ange trend, The Dean said that Kirkland however; only 24 percent of this · s tudents are encouraged to y e ar's class has a ttri ted. constantly assess the progress of Predictably, the largest number of their own education, and to be voluntary withdrawals come in honest with themselves. She the somphmore year for all the supports people who have classes axamined. The second carefully decided that they are continued on page four
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BY ROBERT KEREN The five-day old ad hoc Joint Chapel Assembly Committee will circulate petitions this weekend u rging the Hamilton student body's support in maintaining the ten a.m. meetings. In a March 5th Kirkland Faculty Meeting, the faculty went on record proposing that Kirkland Dean of Faculty Carl Schneider discuss the "disruption of the Monday class schedule" with Hamilton Dean Kurtz. The Hamilton Faculty voted unanimously last week to move the Chapel hour to Monday at noon. There was no debate. But following a brief talk delivered by Dean Kurtz at this Monday's Chapel, the enthusiastic crowd urged the formation of an ad hoc committee to further investigate the faculty proposal. D e a n K u r t z appointed Associate Dean Kinnel, Mr. Wertz, Mr . T ibbetts, Mr. Wertimer, M ichael Murphy '73, George Baker '74, Geoffrey Leonard '74, and Alan Sivennan '76 to sit on the ad hoc committee which has convened twoce thus far. At yesterday's meeting a petition was established in order to test a showing of student support. George Baker noted that the petition will be "asking the Hamilton faculty to reconsider their vote and consider the Chapel's possibilities within the new parameters we have set out." The a d h o c committee's · petition points out that the
C h a p e l s h o u l d serve t h e community to: 1) spread information of the events of Hamilton and Kirkland a nd t o p r o v i de b e t t e r coordination and communication between both campuses. Chapel at 10 a.m. Monday is the best and only established vehicle to serve this purpose. 2) give the opportunity for occasional serious issues dicussid by anyone-students, faculty, and administration. This is the only totally open forum on campus.
3) discourage frustration by offering the opportunity for comic r e l ie f t hrough skits, s p e e c h e s a n d o cc a sional heckling. 4) involve more faculty from. Hamilton 'and kirkland in order· to establish a greater sense of community. Committeeman Baker, also President of the Hamilton Student Senate, said ''We want to awaken the Kirkland Faculty to the fact that Chapel has as much potential for them as it does for us. We openly solicit their participation, and their presense is desireable." W h ile the infant ad hoc committee tests student support of the traditional morning m e e tings , D e a n S ch ne ider maintains that "the question has arisen, as it has ever since Kirkland started. We would like to · eliminate the interruption that Chapel poses in our Monday schedule." S c h ne ider doesn't doubt Chapel's usefulness or question current lags in attendance: ''We have no business telling Hamil ton what to do, we can only discuss proposals on the topic. Chapel is right sprang in the middle of the morning and we have always conformed to your schedule, _but we have nothing to fit in its place." "It's not a big burning issue as far as we are concerned, but it just introduces another variable int he planning of the day and week. continued on page five
Kurtz· Initiates Conference: Law Medical Schools Attend
' BY GORDON KA YE College Hill will be the scene of a conference on law and medical school admissions Thursday and F rid a y, A p r i l 12 - 13 • T he Hamilton-initiated conference will bring together senior academic officers of ten of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges with representatives from law and medical schools. Discussion will ce nter on t he competitive disadvantages faced by rigorous liberal arts institutions in the face of depersonaliz e d gr aduate
aimed at discussing this problem a dm issions procedures. The as well as a variety of others. conference proposal acknowledges The issue of graduate school the "strong pressure" schools like admissions is not new to the Hill. Hamilton feel to place its seniors Debate has raged over Hamilton's in top professional schools. It grading policy for at least three further calls on the conference to · years. Although the College has frankly "discuss... the problems taken steps to help seniors, we face." particularly by revitalizing the The conference was initiated Career Center, the central by Dean Kurtz and the College in problem remains. A recent study response to the frequent charges by the Dean's office indicates that that Hamilton's- grading standards our gradin·g curve is low relative were so high as to discourage even to other small, demanding graduate programs from accepting i n s t i t u t i on s. De an Ku_" z our students. The conference is acknowledged the situation in a, Spectator article of February 2, 1973. At that time, Kurtz noted that student complaints do indeed have some empirical foundation although he pointed to the still-respectable record of our seniors. The Dean stated: '' T h e Co l l ege's obligation to do everything possible for senior applicants is clear... " The conference is a beginning. The agenda includes discussions concerning advising programs, grading systems and trends along with an investigation of graduate admi ssions procedures and standardized tests such as LSAT's and MCAT's. Emphasis will be p l a c e d upon constructive alternatives for judging criteria for a d m i ssions. Un dergraduate
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EDITORIALS A Non-Issue
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·had more practice. They go of in armies, you· go BY GERRY PAYNE quietly ; you go discreetly to the pleasures you can'( She arrived in her Nomad camper-trailer and was seem to find here. It's all so very poignant . To -summarily escorted by her anxious welcoming meet your lover's arms at dusk at a far-off college, committee into a quiet meeting in the basement of Moving Chapel is a non-issue. If there is any issue at all, it he welcoming you for a day or two's visit." Kirn er -Johnson. The Samsinite Foundation is a symbolic one, not of Kirkland flexing its muscles, but of Lecturer, Ms. Melissa Wright, (B.A. Sarah Lawrenc;:e, ''We're doing it all wrong!" a student interrupted. how the distortion of information on this campus can 1955; M.A. Weekend College at C.W. Post, 1956), "Yes," Wright noted, taken aback · by the inflame already hostile feelings between the two colleges. was to speak to Kirkland students on "The Suitcase outburst. College: Rolls, Drunks, ·and Hedonists, and/or The Moving the Monday meeting should not have created the Another student rose from her seat shouting, furor it did against Kirkland. Kirkland was justified in its Fate of the Sexually Deprive Undergraduate." ''We've been mistaken ·for four, no five years "Good morning women, and a fine group you position. now!!" are!"she said. Over thirty Kirkland students nodded , . "Times can be good, just where you are. You Kirkland's faculty requested that its Hamilton counterpart reverentially, and one Hamilton student with a should not succumb to ..." Wright implored feebly. "seek a rescheduling" of Chapel so that "the disruption of baseball mitt sat quietly, alone, in the corner. ''We've been too weak! Too cowardly!" Another Ms. Wright pulled no punches as she began her the Monday class schedule" could be avoided. No ultimatum student shouted. Ms. Wright mumbled something talk. "Word has it that Kirkland is becoming was presented, nor was one implied. Moreover, it was not the about perspective, but it was too late, She was something of a suitcase college. The disease has first time the issue had been presented. drowned by the rising mob. reportedly hit, and many of you are packing your ''We need organization, that's all!" Kirkland's request was forwarded to the Hamilton faculty, bags, and by hitch, car, train, or plane, taking off "Right on!" which acted upon it swiftly and with little debate. for the college or city of your predilection. "Cooperation! Self-assurance! Together!!!" "Why? Is it the Clinton climate that displeases Consequently, Chapel was moved to 12:00 on Mondays. Wright sood dumbfounded. you. Is it the distracting excitement of the City of Directing anger at Kirkland is misguided. This misguided ''We have the same rights. We're equal. There Utica? Is it an insatiable desire to travel and see the anger should not cause a bteakdown in communication world?• should be no sexism here." "Yes! Yes!" between the campuses. Chapel was moved to 12 because the "No. Surely no. It's not that. You know it's not ''We can go on rolls too. Rolls, Rolls. Rolls," Hamilton Faculty felt that coordination could easily be that and I know it's not that. We all know it's not became the chant. served by making tJ}e switch in' schedule. It is unfortunate that. And we do know, though, what it is, um, "To Colgate, to Williams, to Amherst, to don't we?" "I mean, for sure, they do it, and that everyone did not adopt this viewpoint. NOTRE DAME!!! Yes, Kirkland can roll like you do it too. Why? Because, to be quite frank, the More upsetting is that in the uproar highlighted by slogans social life for many of you here bites the dust!" She Hamilton. We can get drumk too. Yes, we can. And we will!" such as "coordination, not subjugation," a major issue was pounded the lecturn and it shook. The thirty women, raving, hurried out of the Applause thundered. The students were ready to lost. At the outset, the question, "Is Chapel a viable room, to board VW buses to points unknnown. here "the word." 1 i n stitution? • was neglected. ·Fortunately the ad-hoc Ms. Wright stood stunned. The room was "It all seems to appropriate that Kirkland should committee has directed its attention to answering this ravaged. "They just didn't listen. They didn't listen be turning into a suitcase college, a bunch of question and now has proposed steps to revitalize Chapel. weekend travellers and weekday scholars. Hamilton, to me." She gathered her papers and started to leave. Near the door sat that lone Hamilton student. Hopefully, Chapel can be revitalized, but co-ordination must Kirkland's step-brother, has been the king of With the wrinkled grin of a child lost in a weekend souriees. The king. There was, for time not be sacrificed in the process. If Chapel is truly effective, department store, who seems to be found, he even, a Ryder Truck Rental outlet right on this its scheduling is inconsequential. But Chapel is not now a looked at her. campus for the fraternities' convenience. They'd viable instrument for the distributi�n of campus information. "You seem to be lost," Wright asked rent the truck, stock it with cases of Utica Club, a Thus, we should not endanger co-ordination at the expense couple of flash-lights, and fifty horny Hamilton compassionately. "Yes, I am," he stuttered, hiding his baseball of making this non-issue a real issue. men , and off they'd go, a hunting, to Wells, mitt behind his back. Cazenovia, Skidmore, and even, sometim!!s, to "What's your name?" exotic places as far off as Sarah Lawrence..." "Gerry. Gerry Payne." Ms. Wright smiled a winsome smil� at the sound "Well, Gerry, you know the point, my point, is of her alma mater's name, and fond memories of you. That we are you and you are we, or us. We've. her undergraduate days quickly fled through her got to get together. There's no reason why not." There has been no major lecture on this campus this year, mind. She put her arm around as he hid his mitt in his "Yes, now, where were we? Hamilton. Yes, and the college community -is poorer because of it. In past raincoat and smiled hopefully. They walked, and Hamilton, And what is the difference between what years the Colleges have hosted such speakers as William talked; soon, their conversation covered the fare of Kirkland may come to, and what Hamilton has Kuntsler, Julian Bond, Ralph Nader, and Abba Eban. The traditionally done for years? So you will drive off in introductions and hometowns. They approached lectures were well-attended by students , faculty, and Saabs and they off in G.M.C. trucks. The only the trailer and entered, and there spent the rest of the weekend in profound bliss. community residents and the reactions to these programs difference between you and them is that they have M.0. were invariably good. Unfortunately, the sponsoring Tea Bags organization, the Root-Jessup Public Affairs Council assumed My experiences in the service a substantial financial loss for each of the programs. Their To the Editor: have taught me that encounters Hamilton, throughout the scarce resources limit thepossibilities for interesting lecturers. In the fall of '71, a group oj with ax-murderers, though rare, A lecture series benefits the entire community; yet, with years, has been famed for its high Blatk and Puerto Rican studenb ,are worth, learning: about in order , Hamilton and 'Kirklano that they do I not take, on� the high cost of speakers, no �t�dent organization can assume a·c a d e m i c e x c e l l e n c e . The '. -of administration and faculty have : Golleges got together and called unawares. I hav�· my doubts that, the entire financial burden. : We urge bot� administrations always strived to maintain our themselves the B and Puerto t h e q u e s t i o n s, p u t t o take. steps to1 partially fund a1 major lecture series. Lectures fine standards, and to prevent any Rican Choir. Their objectives were advisor-candidates are based benefit the colleges in general as well as both student bodies. tarnishing of out Hamilton family · first, to engage themselves in primarily upon experience, but We hope the Hamilton and Kirkland administrations will t.ake name.- But there is a price to pay something they enjoyed doing and rather fears of what could happen. the necessary financial steps to revitalize this impertant for our heritage and reputation. second, to commit themseleves to This still exhibits a healthy While our high scho�l buddies spreading their culture to the respect for reality. institution. who graduated below us in class surrounding community in the· A word o f advice, Mr. rank are acing their courses in the · best way they knew how. At that .. Levenson: 2 a.m. is hardly the state universities, we here at time, there were approximately time to be artful - raging Hamilton are often pulling seven •singers and a piano player: indignation at being disturbed for all-nighters just to maintain a B the number of thsoose involved anything at that time of the average. In a school as demanding tended to fluctuate. morning w ould seem more VOLUME THREE NUMBER TWENTY TWO as this one, there are few Name withheld upon request apporpriate. Reality lives in the Frederic Bloch diversions which can totally extremes of bell-shaped curves. Advisors Reply Editor�in-Chief r e m ove a student from his "Here there bee Tygers." a cademic p roblems, thereby To the Editor: Bruce E. Hogman Kenny Marten Robert Keren Henry Glick enabling him to luxuriate in his '73 (former '68) I would like to point out to Associate Editor A-,ciate Editor Associate Editor few brief moments of respite, and Mr. Levenson '74 that it is quite SSgt USAF giving him the ability to face the possible, despite the admirable Assistant Editors oncoming day. Jeopardy Conflict screening job attempted by the Peter Ackerman, Carol Goodman, Mitchel Ostrer, Paula Klausner However, one of these Admissions people, to have at sanity-saving escapes has been least one or two neurotic, Craig Fallon Richard Kavesh suddenly a n d unexplainably h omosexual, maladjusted, and To the Editor: Although Dean Kurtz and Fred Dave Shapland David Cantor Kathy Livingston removed. No, I'm not talking possibly suicidal freshmen in a . Sports Editors Photography Editor Arts Editon about Chapel. I'm concerned with group of this size. Any math Goehner '74 spoke for saving something much more important student with an understanding· chapel, they both neglected to Production Staff than that. I'm talking about the greater than zero of statistics will mention one of the most Katie Davis, Robert Gion, Liz Horwitt, Taki Lamson-Scribner, Paula removal of Salada tea bags from tell you that, though the great important reasons for keeping Leon, Gary Lukas, Bob Lyford, Tony Mazzarella, Connie Miner, Betsey Commons! Don't get me wrong. I majority of freshmen admitted to chapel at 10:00 AM; it would �urray. have nothing personally against Ha m i l t on· a re well-adjusted, conflict 'Yith "J eoP,ardy" which is Lipton's. But how can you non-suicidal, heterosexual, shy televised at 12 noon.· Must we The Publications Board publishes ''The Spectator", a newspaper edited by compare the picture of a funny virgins, there is a probability not sacrifice Monday ''Jeopardy"? students. 29 times during the academic year. Subscription: $7.00 per year. little man sipping tea with such to be ignored that an ax-murderer Keep chapel at 10: 00. Address: Box 83, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, J 3323. Letters to the Missy Fast editor must be signed, but names will be withheld upon request. beautiful Salada Tag Lines as has gotten in.
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JUDICIARY BOARD ELECTIONS The following are candidates for co-chairman of the Judiciary board: Jim Connolly, Gordon Kaye, Charles Darrigrand, Bill Gadbow, Michael Meyer, and Thomas Pirodsky. The election will be held on Tuesday, April 17. Every student will �ave two votes. Any candidate reciving more than one-third of the total vote is elected. If two candidates do not receive at least one-third of the vote each, there will be a run-off election.
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CORRECTION It was incorrectly stated in last weeks "Blurbs" section that the Kirkland Assembly passsed a resolution to move the Chapel meeting to 12 noon. Such a resolution never came to the assembly, nor has such a change been discussed here. The Spectator regrets the error.
CELLO-PIANO CONCERT IN LIST Fred Raimi, cellist, andJane Hawkins, pianist, will give a concert in the List Recital Hall on Wednesday, April 18, at 3:30 P.M.. The public is invited to attend this program, which will include: "Fantasy Pieces, Opus 73". by Robert Schumann; "Sonata in C, Opus 102, No. 1" by Beethoven; "Sonata NO. 1 in d minor", by Debussy; and Chopin's "Polonaise Brilliante, opus 3". SUMMER INSTITUTE' OF JEWISH STUDIES The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and the University of Judaism in Los Angeles will offer courses in Bible, Jewish history, contemporary Je life, and Hebrew in six-week sessions this summer. Limited amounts of financial aid are available. Inquiries should be addressed to the Summer Institute at either the Seminary, 3080 Broadway, New York 1002 7, or to the Los Aneles branch, 6525 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, Cal. 90028. HUMANE SOCIETY On campus · beige, collie-like puppy. Approximately 15 inches high; white paws and white-tipped tail. Does anyone own it?Please call Robin Hall . Ext. 4937 or . ) 7131. For adoption · orange and brown tiger cat, male. If interested, please call Robin Hall at above number or cat must go to animal shelter.
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE The American Friends Service Cor.1mittee is now accepting applications for summer volunteer jobs. Please write to: Nancy Duryee, Youth Action and Involvement ' 160 North Fifteenth St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19102.
To end all the misconceptions and give birth to some new ones, we endeavour to bring you the concluding chapter of book one entitled; Is the co-op defld? In the spring of 1972, a group of naive, optimistic students thought a co-op dorm would overcome the isolation and division within the colleges. With the end of the term in sight, we whittled down the grandiose idea of turning Kirkland College in to an e ntirely co-operatively run instit ution. Instead, we turned our attention to the more conservative, but feasible, idea of convertingone dorm into a co-op. We know that a co-operative's long �ge success is largely dependent on the quality of its organization, so plans for the dorm's · opening . were pushed to fall of 1973. We questioned as many students as possible concerning their feelings toward a co-op dorm. We accomplished this by holding an open campus meeting and canvasing door to door. The favorable responses coupled with our strong com m i tment to the concept o f co-operative living, encouraged u s to begin the real mechanics of setting up a cooperative. During all pha�s of planning, we utilized the following people as advisors and resource references: President Babbitt, Dean Bingham, Ms. Bouch, Ms. Bridgie Cos pe r , M r . Earl I;>' A pr ix, Dean Friedensohn, Mr. Lueiken, Ms. C�rol Locke, Mr. Noel Tibbetts, and Mr. JesseZellner. Without the ·encouragement and recommendations of this group, we would never have been able to overcome the obstacles intrinsic to such an undertaking. The first task we encountered was finding a building to live in. As it turned out, the only buildings available to us were on Kirkland's campus-Keehn, Minor, and McIntosh. Once we knew which buldings were at our disposal, we were able to begin more specific planning. Two sub-cofI}mittees were formed to study essential aspects of planning, the
SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH U. of Rochester, Department of Electrical Engineering. Join with teams working in areas such as biomedical ultrasound, blood flow, digital instrumentation, acoustic cavitation. ($80/week) For information contact E. L. Carstensen, Dept. of El. Eng., U. of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., 14627 (716) 275-4062.
FREE CHURCH The Free Church service this week, Palm Sunday, will be led by Warren E. Wright of the Hamilton Speech Department. The topic of his speech will be: ''The Fraudulent Palms". The service begins at 11:15 a.m. in the Chapel. GRAPHIC ART DISPLAV An exhibit and sale of original graphic art will be held Tuesday, April 17, at the snack bar of the Bristol Campus Center. The exhibit comes from the Ferdinand Roten Galleries, and includes works by Chagall, Miro, Dali, Goya, Renoir, Kollwitz, and others. The public is invited to the event. The works on display will be for sale at · prices starting at $5.00, with the majority priced at less than $1.00.
BAZAAR There will be a bazaar held on Saturday, April 14th from 2-5 p.m.. It is sponsored by LOBBY and will take place· .on the first floor of McEwen. Photographs, drawings, jewelry, crafts, clothes, and baked goods will be on sale, as well as many other things. Please come!
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS A Hamilton student was detained by Utica police for several hours because he was carrying prescription drugs obtained at the Health Center in an unmarked.container. H this happens to you, call the Health Center, 315-859-4111, collect if necessary, to verify that your medication was prescribed by a Health Center physician.
FREE CHURCH The Free Church service this week, Palm Sunday, will be led by Warren E. Wright of the Hamilton Speech Department. The topic of his speech will PUBLICATIONS BOARD Hamilton students interested in being members of the Publications Board next year, please contact Chuck Flynn. LITERARY CONTEST The fourth annual George A. Watrous Literary Contest for Kirkland College students has begun. There are three categories of writing in which students may participate: poetry, prose fiction, and essays in criticism. Last year, Susan Hartman won the prize for excellence in poetry . and Ellen O'Brien won for her essay in criticism. A prize of seventy-five dollars is awarded to the first-prize winner in each category, with an extra twenty-five dollars for the "most promising" of the writer� in all three categories. The entries will be judged by a panel of Hamilton and Kirkland faculty members. They are: George Bahlke, William Hoffa, Stephen Lipmann, Phyllis Morris, and Henry Stabenau of the Kirkland Humanities Division, Naomi Lazard of the Kirland Arts Division, David Rigsbee and Fred Wagner of the Hamilton English Department. The contest director is William Rosenfeld of the Kirkland Arts Department. All manuscripts must be handed to Mr. Rosenfeld by 5:00 p.m., MOnday, April 23rd. They must be double-spaced; no author's name may appear anywhere on the manuscript, but the author may submit a separate piece of paper with either her nem or the first line of her work. Critical essays and prose fictions pieces must observe one-inch margins and pages should be numbered. Poems should be submitted one per page. Entries in each category are limited to five per writer, although one person may enter all three categories.
our avenues ot' financial aid. Throughout the year our committee had done its best to keep the school community in touch with the co-op project through Spectator articles, open meetings about c o -o pera t i v e s , and personal interaction. Perhaps the publicity could BY ALICE STERN and LIZ SAMMENFELD have been improved, but the task of-,. Building and Food Committe.es. The Mr. Babbitt checked it for flaws and organizing a proposal absorbed a great deal Building Committee concentrated on loopholes which would be detrimental to of our time and energy. Facets of the project included outlining the ideology architectural changes and the economic our Trustee presentation. It would be easier and more satisfying behind a co-op dorm and the managerial feasiblity of each of the three dorms available. The committee discovered that to be able to say at this point that our structure, gathering members, and locating Keehn was the only dorm within financail meeting with the Trustees was a complete food suppliers. After the trustee weekend, reason. The Food Committee compiled success, but things did not happen so some college members felt that if we had m e n u s , lis t s of n e cessary kitchen somply. The Trustees heartily supported gone through different channels, the co-op equipment, and estimatedcosts of food our proposal and work philosophically. might have had a different conclusion. buying. And through o_ur various contacts However, they could not , in clJar� Considering .the time factor, it is unlikely with functioning. co-ops and cooperative conscience, give us the financial support that any toher direction would havei been organizations, we disc there is no one way required for renovation and installation of more successful. We chose what appeared to build a co-op. We saw it would be kitchen· facilities needed to feed forty- six to be the most efficient and effective possible to create a specifically designed, people in Keeh. We were led to believe that approach, seeking advice from the top fleXIble co-op to meet Hamilton and the Trustees agreed to put up the collateral administrators. People have forgotten that a co-op fits Kirkland's unique needs as coordinate on a bank loan if the co-0:p could find a colleges. way to meet the principle and interest in a Kirkland's philosophy and that the project We felt it important to see for ourselves loan. The budget he had presented to the was undertaken for the improvement of the mechanics of a working cooperative, so Trustees showed that the coop in Keehn student and consequently, community life. a number of us visited existing co-ops and could make expenses and income meet. We Many have said that the co-op attempt foi' q ues.tioned members concerning 'their were under the impression that this tupe of next year failed, but we cannot agree. honest feelings about co-operative living. b_udget was adequate since it proved that True, we did not get a building as we had The o verwhelming response to our w e c o u l d m e e t o u r f i nan cial planned, but the involvement and support inquiries was that such a style of living is responsiblitites. It was assumed that the· of people wanting to live there as well as refreshing, enhances · college life and money for the initial renovation costs people who believed it was something worth time, energy, and money, more than facilitates social interaction. would be raised by the Trustees. The final phase, or so we thought, of We would never have been able to makes up for that failure. Instead of our preparation for co-op 1973 was writing accomplish any results at this stage without nothing b e i n g a c complish,- d , the t h e Trustee Proposal. · The proposal the concerted efforts of Jesse Zellner and beginningof personal interactopm wsa consisted of:_ an introdudion, resume of Sam Babbitt. By the Wednesday following achieved merely through work on the why we felt then was a need for a the Trustee meeting, Mr. Zellner had project whether manifested in enthusiastic co-o pe rative dorm at Kirkland and worked out two budgets. One was based on c o n s ciousness ra1s1ng about t h e Hamilton Colleges, a progress page, a having to take out a loan for the whole co-operative experience, or i n sharing tentative organiz ational structure, some ($45,000), whereas t4e second disappointments. Our work has made us aware of the maintena nce proposal, budget page, budget included a $25,000 allotment from appendix, the incomplete list of seriously the Building Authorities. That afternoon complexities of imitating a change on the interested students which illustrated that two major setbacks occurred; the trustees campuses even if there's verbal support of a there were more than enough students to decided they did not wish to back a loan, projec t-..' s philosphy. We stilt think that a fill the dorm, and finally, a floor plan of due to the college's tight financial co-op ci orm would be an answer to some of Keehn. (A copy of the proposal is on situation, and secondly, the Building Kirkland and Hamilton's problems. We reserve in the Emerson Library.) Several A u t horities withdrew their offer of hope that our ground work will enable a times before the proposal was completed, $25,000. At this point, we had exhausted group to reactivate the plans in the future.
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In the final session of the Kirkland College Conference on Teaching and Learning, President ' Sam uel F. Babbitt concluded that 7 innovation was the difference �t:: I :· 1 :. � -· between institutional life and I •1 '1 death for Kirkland College. He sugggested that ''rational an d •significant" change might have saved Berkeley and Columbia f rom the crises they found _J. themselves in at the end of the sixties. Although he.· admitted that change incurred the risk of failure he warned that if colleges did not question whether the way they · were teaching could be done better, faculties would become be i nstalled. · The plan also "inain tenance p e o pl e" not i n c l u d es pr ov1S1ons for· the 'educators. relighting of the corridors. P r e s i d e nt Babbitt's speech B uilt in ·1 95 8 , Dunham summarized the tone of the three Dormitory has about 5 0 suites to day conferente which focused on accomodate 200 people� But for issues of importance to Kirkland years people have been dissatisfied College. There were sessions on with its set-up. Many proposals general educational topics with for change have been considered, advocates of educational reform one of which was formulated by as well as sessions on specific t he Ad Hoc Committee on KirklanQ programs and problems Student Life - the most recent with Kirkland College faculty and an d formal recommendation made· students. The more "question ing on Dunham renovation. The attitude toward the educational Board of Trustees met on March process" that President Babbitt 9, 1973 an d deliberated on this advocated surfaced particul arly in pilot project which will cost a v ide ota p ed session where $20,000 an d will be completed by students and faculty stated what the end of this summer. · The success of this program they had expected from college and what they were encountering will largely determine how the at Kirkland. rest of Dunham will be renovated, A w o rkshop on Saturday according to Mr. Caravano. If it is featured teachers and learners decided to go ahead with this plan a n a l y zing the non-intellectual for the entire dormitory, about -areas of creativity. A video-tape fifty students will he displaced. s e s s i o n e x a mi n e d t h e Mr. Caravano said that he did not . contributions of the teacher and know at this time how those learner to the success of classroom people will be re-accomodated. activity. In a third workshop, Ted
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:Dunham Renovation; Expansion of Suites BY VIKRAM DEWAN "Dunham Dormitory has been studied and talked about for years, " said Mr. J. Martin Caravano, Provost, as he explained t h e proposed plans for the r e n o v a t ion of · the freshman residence hall. This e x p e rimental project involves four suites in the north wing of Dunham Dormitory. At present four students share a three-room suite. The original plan was to use the two outer rooms for the bunkheds and closets and the middle room to he used as a study lounge for the four occupants. The proposed changes include transforming the suite into three single bedrooms. In addition, the walls will be repainted with heavy texture paint to cover up fissures an d the c arpeting will be replaced. Each single room will have alcoves installed similar to those in Bundy. Also, the middle room may have a separate entrance, in which case, doors would have to
H a l l e n b e c k , Roger Williams that the real purpose of any body College, explained the University of knowledge is to help students W i t h o ut W a l l s ,. a s p e c i a l learn awareness of other human educational program that allows beings and of human condition students to· study at ·various through sympathy and analysis. places, as well as incorporate his Professor Jerome debated whether work exp e r i e nce into h is an institution could ever adapt to e d u ca t i o n . T h e U n i v e r s i t y those goals, while Katz agreed Without Walls is sponsored by the that with significant change a Union of Experimenting Colleges college could come to issue with what he called the "mis-education and Universit ies, to which of American college students." Kirkland has been elected. More than 200 educators and The highlight of the weeken«;l st udents from IO different was the Saturday evening session le d .b y .· Benj a m i n D�Mott, <;_:olleges attended the conf_erence over the weekend. Many of them Professor of English at Aµiherst College, Judson Jerome, a form�r- were Kirklan d faculty and Antioch professor who is now students who 'generally seemed to agree to the tentative plans of doing a study on communal living and Joseph Katz, Director of instituting a weekly forum for the Hu m a n D ev e l o p m e n t a n d · discussion of educational policy and philosophy at Kirkland. Says Educational Philosophy at SUNY. All speakers were critical of the · · George Bahlke, moderator of the conference, ''When· we plann·ed p r e se n t structure of higher the conference it was our hope education, while DeMott accused that a continuing dialogue would educators of addressing a false set of issues in the argument of result; this weekend we heard a great variety of stimulating ideas i n n o v ative v e rsus traditional education. DeMott argued that on education, and continually f o r m a nd s tr u ct u r e w e r e reevaluating our thoughts and feelings on education would be a se c ondary too· feeling and great impetus to innovation at analysis, and warned . educators Kirkland."
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l a r g e s t c o n c entration of withdrawals are to be found in the freshman year. These two years, especially the sophmore year, are traditionally the most popular for in terrupting college education temporarily or leaving school altogether. While the total attrition rate has remained constant, voluntary withd rawals have risen steadily throughout the decade, obth inabsolute numbers and as a percentage of total attrition. The p er c e n ta ge of transfers and dismissals as part of total attrition varies widely, but there are no -- Bill Rosenfeld described an consistent trends evident in these course environmental being two figures. Withdrawals have �esigned by the Arts Division and accounted for more than one-half David Locke outlined an the total attrition for each class interdisciplinary course involving since 1968; this figure broke the the social sciences and humanities. 5 0 percent mark only once in the comprehensive program, A 1963-1967 period. The class of tentatively entitled "Contextual 1973 has the highest figures.in the Education" was proposed by. Ben· tstudy for both total withdrawals Earle of the ACtio� Studies class. l 1( 43) a n d withdrawals as a Contextual· Education would be. . percentage of total attrition an umbrella program to (72%). interand coordinate all After reviewing. the study, p roject s , Dean K urtz was optimistic about e x t r a-d i v i s i onal fieldwork, group independents, the results. He felt Ham ilton has etc. had a relatively low attrition rate Next week's Forum will focus and sees this as an indication that on Student-Initiated courses. The "more people are finding more Forums meet Tuesday nights at 7:3 0 in the Red Pit.
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BY LISA NEWELL Work Study should not be appeared awarded academic credit. Dean people Fifty Tuesday, April 3, for the first Freidensoh argued, in support of Open Forum on Alternatives in Work Study, that the evaluation Education at Kirkland, despite required at the completion of short notice provided by posters every project requires the kind of and mass mailings. The Forums, critical thinking · characteristic of scheduled for Tuesday nights in academic analysis. April, are being sponsored by the A smaller group met in Action Studies class in or.der to L.O.B.B.Y. this week to discµss publicize · the opportunitie� .. Options. for Freshmen. Several available at Kirland .i.�41 �9 stu�ents spoke about their stimulate some . brainstorming on experiences last semester with new possibilities. Discovery, a freshmen elective The first Forum focused on devoted to the study of Kirkland Work Study and Field Study, as an educational institution. students Discovery students felt that many whereby programs receive credit for approved freshmen need such courses off-cam pus projects. Several designated for newcomers to veterans were on hand with acdemia. This need has been �· sonal case histories: Elaine sensed by many people on campus Weiss was an aide to Congressman Ben Rosenthal; Peggy Farber taught American History in a Philadelphia elementary school; and Sue Cohen worked for an c o u nselling educational organization. Special guest Dotti Uranek reported on the projects of the four Kirkland students working in Utica with the United People of Cornhill. Hamilton College ness r estless Acad emic Bristol Center, Snack Bar motivated most of the students Tuesday April 17 who had done Work Studies and 11 am -8 pm all agreed that they returned to Kirkland with greater academic CHAGALL, BASKIN, ROUAULT, direction and commitment. It was DAUMIER, MATISSE, PICASSO on the question of academic -� . , MDMA�O™m� integrity, though, that several the challenged ' pa rticipants concept of Work Study. While off-cam pus experience may be valuable, these students felt that
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satisfaction" here than at other institutions. He cited decreasing pressure from the draft and less social pressure to stay in school for four straight years as. two reasons for the rise in voluntary withdrawals. He regards the trend toward tempor ary interruptions in college education for work or travel as healthy. He would like to see more former students who have dropped out returning after spending even several years outside shcool. He feels a student .body with a wider range of ages a n d backg r o u nd experiences would be a good development. "As a teacher, a counselor and a father,"says the Dean, "I do not h a te the idea of (students) dropping out and returning as long as they come back. If a student leaves an d does not return then I think he is failing himself."1 Dean Kurtz had no predictions I on futre tre�ds in attrition 1 ·-1il patterns, saymg _t.hat the patterns follow nations! m'dod, something he would rather not rry to second-guess. He feels the greater acceptance of students leaving school temp·orarily will lessen the pressures on those dissatisfied with college and help create a more self-fulfilled student body.
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Archaeologists Lecture on ''Roots of Urban Society" farniland drought, famine, and beginning of the Christian Era. BY PETER ZICARI Archaeologists are beginning to politics were all forces that This city, unlike all the other climb out of their trenches and influenced the movement of "ce remon ial c e n t e r s", was apparently carefully laid out, and study such diverse matters as population into the cities. gives evidence of social classes, a may city have a Although ancient myths a n d social structures, according to the three tradition of its own, Professor and of separate residence-areas for · tance of different kinds of craftsmen. speakers of the Winslow Lecutres Adams s 1a· d, the rmpor environmental factors makes a Professor Coe added that last weekend. The three a r c ha eologists, "regional", ecological approach Teotuihacan probably dominated Professor · Michael D. Coe, and necessary in archaeological study. all of Central Mexico, and was a Professor Coe said on Saturday . holy city as well. He said that in Professor Kwang-Chih Chang of. Yale, and Professor Robert M. morning that population and. some ways the design of the city Adams of the University of trade centers may have grown out · itself reflected the cosmology of Chicago, described the beginnings of a "symbiosis" between the its builders, and stressed that of cities in Central Mexico, d iff eren t environments of ideology was an inportant root of Northern China, and the Middle highland Mesoamerica; the first this, as well as teh mesoamerican East, in terms of the forces and small villages formed at the cities. Dr. Chang, who was the last of processes that shaped and formed southern end of Mexico around the trio, spole on Saturday 1200 remains these of The B.C. them. In the opening lecture of the villages also give evidence for the afternoon about the development · · gs of religious · rrt·uals, and of .Chinese cities, which, he said, series, Professor Adams spoke of begmmn the cities which first flourished Coe argued that the early lacked the "permanent" character around 3500 B.C. in the Tig ris- Mesoamerican cities never lost of the pre-Sumerian cities or of re1ig1ous · · character, and the Olmec cities: in China there Eup hrates valley as religious t herr · rue t ura II y-srmp t d s · Ie were no great monuments in the rema me centers that became increasingly secular as social classes formed religious ceremonial centers, mere ancient capitals. The Capitals were and a nobility took over the agglomerations of people around a ·f o u n d e d on geomagica lly auspicious sites, and were moved power of the temples. Always a shrine. in case of bad luch or unfavorable · one was The exception center for trade and wealth and power, the cities were particula;ly Teotuihacan;which Coe said was omens. Like the middle eastern cities, dependent on uncertain supplies a "planned" city, built, perhaps in 0 f w a t e r a n d f e r til e a couple of generations, near the the early Chinese urban centers developed from a "network" of towns under the hegemony of a ATTRITION from page one si ngle ruler. Professor Chang not prepared for college, or that drama. Some leave and find jobs. noted, however, that _the city was Kirkland does not suit their needs. Kirkland also loses students who u n impor tant in its physical Friedensohn b e l ieves the are interested in the sciences but character; the ruler and his lineage attrition rate also reflects a lack of d i s1 i k e t h e s chizophrenic were all-important- where they ad min istrative constraints on experience of being a Kirkland were, there was the Capital. students who contemplate leaving science major at Hamilton. The King and his family were school. The college generously Kirkland criticism of Hamilton nearly all-powerful. Dr. Chang refunds paid. fees to students in the . past years has dropped, detailed a large number of human wishing to withdraw, transfer, or Friedensohn felt. Nevertheless, it sacrifices that had been made at go on leave.· could have been a factor in the the deaths of royalty with a -The Dean noted that Kirkland attrition of the Charter Class. gruesome series of color slides, as enjoys a vitality supported by Construction was also in progress evidence of the nobles' influence. students returning from leaves, or during the late 1960's and early It was the rise of such great those who transfer in to the 1970's; the pioneer atmosphere lineages, a "qualitative change" in College. With people coming and might have discouraged some the nature of ancient Chinese going, the school is freewheeling, students from remaining. society, that, using the more and students share a richer mix of F r i e d en s o h n e x p e cts the a bundant re sources available experience. She pointed to this as attrition rate to go down slightly t h r o u g h t e c h n o l o g i c a l one of the advantages of work in the next few years, though still developments, impelled the first study. Kirkland tries, the Dean at a level indicative of the cities there. said, to compensate for the exp erimentation honesty, and A panel featuring all three reasonably homogeneous, isolated vitality K i rklan d promotes. speakers followed Dr. Chang's ,experience here. Reports of the attrition rate of speech on Saturday afternoon; T h e De a n,, of Students present classes, including specific here, the three archaeologists indica�t;d tha� · 1many Kirkland a tteption t o flunk-out · and summariz ed their points of students Wlth�,:aw in order to t ransfa rates, are reportedly agreement and major differences attend speciapz¢ or professional forthcoming from the Dean of in· what turned out to be a spirited schools, such as schools of art or Students. discussion �involving both lecturers and audience. All· of the Hamilton-Kirkland "ONE OF THE 10 anthropologists expressed pleasure CHAPEL from page one BEST PIT-STOPS that the Lectures, which had been IN THE U.S." rescheduled from February, were Intelligent people can make the - Ski Magazine, w e11-a tten ded_:the Science necessary adjustment. But if we Jan. 1972 Auditorium was well-filled for can reach unifonnity if would be more pleasant." Chapel announcer Murphy sees participation on all fronts as the key to the situation. He would especially like to see Hamilton freshmen and Kirkland students and faculty present at Chapel "as ROME, N.Y. an audience, as responders, as hecklers, as announcers or even as silent opinion-formers. CLINTON SHOE CENTER "Give them an issue and they'll SPECIALIZING IN come. It's atrocious that freshmen WINTER BOOTS do not participate in Chapel and lose the opportunity to take part A.��D SHOE REPAIR in the school's unlimited 853-6966 activites."
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Baker Discusses·· PlanS; Cites 4 Major Concerns George Baker, new President of Baker intends to open the Senate the Hamilton Student Senate and encourage interested students reaffirmed his promise to widen to work for the Senate. Initiative, r epresentat ion a n d increase therefore, seems to rest with the accountability in the Senate. In an students and upon this Baker's interview t h is week, Baker pleas depend. Bake:r will not tolerate "dead stressed four areas of concern : representation, accountability, wood" in the Senate. Senators and committeemen must attend productivity, and attendance. Appointments generally are a all meetings and work if they are p o o r m e a n s of forming a to retain their posts. Baker will representative body, Baker said. n ot accept people who are He prefers to elect students, either representatives in name only. He in the Senate or in schoolwide has posited several options for ele ction s. Baker would like insuring productivity, ranging committee members to represent from personal reproofs to Senate the spectrum of campus opinion. sponsored impeachment. Baker also commented on two He tempered his remarks by saying that under extenuating current issues. He regards Chapel circumstances - shortage of time as a aymbolic issqe: it is symbolic or a lack of volunteers - he may be . of the lack of cooperation forced t o dire ctly appoint between Hamilton and Kirkland. But he does not think that students to positions. Baker suggested that one of the K irkland has been especially Senate's gravest problems is a lack uncooperative in changing th.eir of communication between the classes' time-schedules. The Chapel issue should not be Hamilton Senate and the student ·body. He plans to speak before the cause of major obstacles in Chapel, and use the Spectator to coordination, he stated. However, inform students of important he feel that neither school hsould issues under Senate consideration. ever be forced to accept unwanted Baker intends to publicize the policy initiated by the other. agendas and dates of general and Commenting on the uproar, Baker committee meetings - which he stated, "It's odd how issues like this become issues. Yet when we feels was not done in the past. Baker will demand periodic had the strike 3 years ago, it fell progress r.eports f r o m all apart." He referred also to the c ommittees; the reports will weak participation in the bombing i n clude bot h minority and protest last spring. Baker withheld majority · opinions. Hoping·· thar substantive comment pertaining this will increase- accountability; directly to resolution of the Baker i s confident Senate Chapel controversy because he is a member of the ad hoc committee productivity will increase. The Sen ate needs "more looking into the problem. Of p a rticular interest to people, ·more work," in order to become the viable instrument that President Baker is the Curriculum Baker foresees. People must "step Committee a n d committee forward" and give of themselves. · representation in general. Baker foresees that candidates for the Curriculum Committee wit!. be nominated by the student body, and selected by the Student Senate. In order that continuity be retained, students will serve two • y e a r t e r m s . P roposed representation is four Seniors, three Juniors, three Sophomores; three members of the Freshman class to be elected after the first semester. Tentatively, the committeemen will choose those representatives who will be members of the joint 5:tudent-faculty committees, and their own chairmen, subject to S,�nate approval. This plan will avoid the shortcomings of past co mmittees whose members officially spoke for no one, and w e r e n o t n e c e s s a rily representative. Procedures for forming committees will become more definite in the near future.
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Exhibit of Contemporary Art Exceptioi:ially Eclectic
BY JOHN GRAVELY The current show at Root Art Center (Contemporary Artists Early and Late Paintings) is an exceptional one. The divehe artists represented are Alex Katz, Larry Rivers, Mark Rothko, Jimmy Ernst, William Palmer, Allan D 'Arcangelo, Ilya Bolotowsky, John Heliker, John Koch, Theodore Stamos, and Norman Lewis. Theodore Stamos adorns the walls of the back room; his six paintings represent a span of twenty-eight years in which he has retained his rough, energetic edges and see-through colors. His Blue Fish oof '44 is powerful without the bold, black strokes of W£nter Harbor ('52). MonoUth of '47, with its boiled and weathered copper colors, interacting edges and excellent composition, leads to the Inf£nity field oof '70 where an active cable of fluourescent blue burns across the front. Untitled of '72, with its see-through, soothing hues, emphasizes the ghost-painted area around the outside, while the inside edge on the bottom is like slowly burning paper. John Heliker's fiv_e paintings span the years between 1947 and 1970. His San Martino of '51, very small, tightly structured,, carefully layered, is several steps from Deposition of '47, a vigorous, ·twisting, Cubistic pastel. White Cloud ('66) is small, fragmented, heavy, rich with cool colors absorbing warmth. Two Bathers of '70 is a large, beautiful landscape, fragmented with flickering lights and, sadly, inhabited by two fragm ented nude boys. The treatment of the figures is consistent wifh the rest, bllt they don't pull together except at a great distance. Roman Interior ('69), vibrant, fragmented, loosely painted, with light dancing on the creamy, sensuous colors, contains
two figures who do not comfortably occupy the space. It seems that Heliker loves his interiors and landscapes more than the people who inhabit them. Mark Rothko has two early paintings; Untitled (Abstraction) of '46 balances spots of paint and bare canvas with dominant areas of gray, orange, and blue. Rough strokes emerge from the background lively a in ambivalence; the somber grays are mixed with quick flashes of orange temper. No. 1� oof'51 is huge with loose, dripped non-edges. The extreme areas which frame the work are more interesting than the ·center of the great white rectangle. The carefully wrought · edge justifies the great size; the work is not tight and its looseness saves it from being a cold overintellectualized statement:The abstractions of Ilya Bolotowsky and Norman Lewis share a room in which the bright geometrical energy patterns of· Bolotow,sky show a trend away. from visible brushwork, and a greter tendency to)'Vard tightness. Vertfrle Ell£pse ('72) is like an African warrior's shield - a great oval of angular blues and reds, separated by a white truce strip. Some of the colors co-exist at the edges; the blue and red are at war. The tendency to overwork the recent paintings straitjackets the excitement. The 1951 drawings of Norman Lewis are diffusions of ink in the midst of sharp pirouetting shapes. The monochromatic Blending a little ('51) is perhaps sdf--conscious although it pulsates tautly in its strange smog-like environment. Heroic Evening ('63), with its exciting trio of high dancing clouds, si most successful when seen from a dista.."'!ce. Jimmy Ernst's Ancestral ('60), mosaic-like, resembles a collision
of two great birds in a primitive sky - one can "see things" in it like on delicately tiled walls. It is almost too tight, too overworked. Dayscape II ('67) h�_s a freer design and is more painterly. One is impressed by Ernst's obvious diligence; ther are hundreds of carefully painted, colored slivers. Ora.cle ( ' 72) takes up whereDayscape left off, with the same slivers, only thousands more. It resembles a great blue wall that Van Gogh might have constructed had he been a mason; there are very interesting movements. The twin oracular symbols are brightly colored as if one is looking through a blue 3-D · eyeglass. Bands of ghostly, translucent white branch out everywhere. The show should be seen more than once.
Mattie Daniels in a UHURU Production
Black and Puerto Rican Union Present Message of Freedom In the fall of '7J, a group of Black and Puerto Rican students Kirkland of Hamilton and Colleges got together and called themselves the Black and Puerto Rican Choir. Their objectives were first, to engage themselves in something they enjoyed doing and second, to commit themseleves to spreading their culture to the surrounding community in the best -way they knew how. At that time, there were approximately seven singers and a piano player: the number of thsoose involved tended to fluctuate. Their objectives were first, to engage themselves in something they enjoyed doing and secondly, to commit themselves to spreading their culture to the surrounding community in the best way they knew how. At that time, there
Jame s Fankhauser Quits; Called 'too Good for the Hill'
BY PETER ACKERMAN intense person, and the Hill complete surprise by all. James L. Fankhauser, Assistant However, the Choir's reaction offered limited opportunities for Professor of Music and Choir in general was described as one of him to show his musical self." Director on the Hill since 1967, stunned silence. Malarsky pointed M a l a r s ky described the has resigned to accept a position out that despite the strong Universtity of British Columbia as with the faculty of the University attachment most Choir members a school with a ''budding musical of British Columbia in Vancouver. have toward Mr. Fankhauser, they program", and one possessing the Mr. Fankhauser informed the are definitely sympathetic to his kind of totally musical Choir of his decision during this decision, and they wish to environment which Mr. in past Monday evening's rehearsal continue the work which he Fankhauser will be able to hour. His successor has not yet began. Malarsky also indicated concentrate. on the development been chosen. Seve1al candidates that the Choir's first year in total of his musical talents. · are already being considered for combination with Kirkland had He further noted that the the job. stronger, more University has a thirty-member a produced Eugene musically-able group than evc:n department of music, and since Man ager C h oir Malarsky '73 said that Mr. Mr. Fankhauser had expected, and one of those members is Fankhauser is "one,. of the finest that, as outgoing Director, he had specifically designated as the conductors I have ever seen." confidence in the present Choir's liason between the music Malarsky further noted that ability to continue the strong department and the rest of the singers on the Hill often discussed history of singing on the Hill. school, Mr. Fankhauser hopes to . Mr. Fankhauser's being "too Mr. Fankhauser was said to be rid of the administrative chores good" for Hamilton, and that this have many reasons for leaving, but which plagued him on the Hill. move was not received· as a Malarsky emphasized a lack of Malarsky concluded that, in the light of these condition�, Mr .. from coope ration and · faculty Fankhauser will probably avoid at adm inistration HOUSE FOR RENT regarding such problems as Vancouver the "uphill battle" he Apartment open for the summer scheduling rehearsal times. In faced at Hamilton. July and Auguest. Two bedrooms general, Malarsky asserted · that Located on 12b across from Mr. Fankhauser felt a definite WorldWide. $100 per month. "lack of sympathy toward the arts Please c o n t act Deid re on this campus." He added that Towers--4522 or Melinda Hess Mr. Fankhauser "is a musically 4534.
were approximately seven singers and a piano player: the number of to tended involved those fluctuate. It is the spring of '7 3 and those eight people have grown to more than twenty. When the need for a new, more 1elevant name arose, Uhuru was decided upon. Uhuru is the Swahili word for freedom, which is part of the message which the Ensemble conveys. The Uhuru Ensemble The Uhuru Ensemble consists of singers, players, and poets. Most of the original singers, Robyn Bailey, Evelyn Bowens, Alex Burch, Fonda Johnson, Yvonne Lucas, Wendy Parker, Ann Sierra, and their director and piano player Jacy Mclnsh are still in the group. The class of '76 had some very talented singers (Rhonda Bugg and Dale Garrett) and added depth by providing background music: Louis Brown on piano, Joe Lewis on guitar, Bobby Lowe on bass, and Vroman Wright on the drums. A young brother named Eddie Cruz from the ABC programs has ·recently joined the- group to display his ability on the conga. The poets, Sharleen Dickinson, Arves Johnson, Lynn Pannell, Donald Taylor, Brenda Mayers, Anthony Scoon, and Joe Lewis have conveyed their personal message in an exciting, probing manner.
Thus far, the Ensemble has traveled to St. Paul's Baptist Church, the YWCA in Utica, and Annsville Youth Camp. The group has also appeared at the List Arts Center and in the Chapel on camp-µs. Uhuru has been received e n t h u s i a s tically at its performances. Their program from gospel to ranges contemporary music. So far the Black and Puerto Rican Week Cultural has proceeded with amazing success. It started Sunday night with a gospel service, "Sojourn to the Roots of Gospel" in the Chapel with St. Paul's Baptist Church. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights, a film series was shown which included "Aretha Franklin: Profile of a Soul Singer", "Malcolm X". Thursday night the Uhuru Ensemble presented "Voodoo Love Story", a Haitian dram. Friday night there will be a concert in the Alumni Gym with Zebra and Eddie Kendricks, who was the lead singer of the Temptations. Saturday afternoon, Voices will present two curriculum workshops on the Black Experience in Social Studies and Art. That night the Uhuru Singers and Poets will present "Sounds and Spirits of Blacknuss", caberet-style in McEwen Dining Hall.
And here's the star of JEOPARDY Art Flemi'f'K w�th the vc;>ice '' of JEOPARDY, Don lhrdo. '
EVENTS
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Tanner's <-La Salamandre;' Dangerously Appealing Film
. FILMS OnCampusThisWeekend David Holtzman'� Diary-1968. Directed by Jim McBride. A young _
r e c e n t brilliant past. La BY ROGERGREENSPUN Slender, blond, smiling, her Salamandre particularly has its face tired but composed, her eyes sources in the French New Wave, alive with a wholly inward light, and many critics have pointed out she walks, sways, almost dances some stylistic ticks out of Godard, among the crowds of shoppers. It and a mood and a plot premise is five days before Christmas, a out of Truffaut. Given two writers as central season when everything goes to April 16&17 (Monday and Tuesday) pot. "It is a time of year," we are characters, Pierre and Paul, one a Anything you Wa�t to BBe and B_ell� de ]our-with Catherine ·assured, "when there is most journalist and the other a novelist, Deneuve. 9 p.m., Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. both making love to the same girl noticeable a marked tendency On Cam;:>us Next Weekend who finally leaves them both-and toward schizophrenia... " Top Hat and The Sorrow and the Pity. Minutes ago the girl had gotten g iven such obviously literary In the Weeks Ahead herself fired from a job selling graces as a voice-over narration Hell in the Pacific; Intimate Lighting; A Thousand Clowns; Ministry shoes. Now she is happy, free, that goes, for example (as Paul of Fear; Reefer Madness; Bananas. alone, and quite possibly a little and his little daughter stand on·an mad. Her nam-e is Rosemonde. autumnal river bank), "Unlike At Nearby Theatres She is in her early twenties, an Rosemeonde's uncle, Paul greatly Cannonball (853-5553): Travels With My Aunt unwed mother, an unsuccessful loved the wind. Paul waited two Kallet (736-2313): Scorpio assassin, and heroine of "La days, but the wind did not Paris (733-2730): Sounder Salamandre," a remarkable second come"-and we seem to be faced Stanley (724-4000): Asylum and Vault of Horror Uptown (732-0665): Cinderella and Charley and the Angel film by Alain Tanner, a Swiss film not with a debt, but with a wholesale theft from the spirit of MUSIC director 42 years old. I first saw La Salamandre last J u le s a n d J im. April 13(Friday) SAC and Black and Puerto Rican Union Concert: Eddie Kendricks, March, when it was the best work Most of the films in the with Zebra, 8 P�m., Gymnasium. Free with Social Tax. i n a f i n e - a n d g r e a t 1 y Museum 's · series expressed the At the Coffeehouse-Michael Catalano, 10p.m.-1 a.m., McEwen under-patronized-series at the n_e cessary advanced political Coffeehouse. Free with Social Tax. Museum of Modern Art called opinions. La Salamandre also New Direc·tors/New Films. The expresses certain advance political April 15 (Sunday) Cultural Celebration Black Musical THeater-]ourney into Blackness, s e r i e s a l so included the opinions; and Rosemonde, who with Voices, Inc., 8:30 p.m., Gymnasium. sophisticated M e m o r i e s of mentions a general pleasure in EXHIBITIONS Underdevelopment by the Cuban hearing windows being broken, Thomas Guterrez Alea, and the must be taught that there are Currently on Caa:npus Works of Ivan Powell-at the Bristol Campus Center Lounge thru young British filmmaker Barney some windows to b_reak and some Platts-Mill's Private Road-another to be left alone. April 28. very moving evocation of the But the connections, though Works of Elias Friedensohn-at the List Arts Center thru April 20. every bit as real as they are Contemporary Artists-Early and Late Paintings:ctt the Root Art happiness of growing apart. Center thru May 2. Indeed, something shared by a p p a rent, are not a slavish t the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (797-0000) all these movies, even a somewhat dependency. 'truffaut's film deals The Sistine Ceiling Seen for the First Time-at the Museum or Art, a c a demic H u nga r i an film, w i t h f o r m s o f 310 Genesee Street, thru May 6. Horizon, was a dedication to the relationships-personal, special, Works of George Luks-at the Museum of Art thru concept of individuality_. Not in even cosmological relationships. the popular sense of "doing your Tanner's film deals with forms of In Clinton At the Kirkland Art Center-Seventh Annual Photography Exhibit, own thing, " but something more isolation. In a sense, Tanner opens Sunday thru May 6. At World Wide Imports, 6 ordinary, like ''living your own parodies more than he imitates Franklin Avenue-Clinton: Drawings and Paintings, by Keneth Kahn. life"-which carries its own kinds · the heady romanticism of Jules o f " t i e s , b a f f 1 e m e n t , and Jim. And though he pays a April 17 (Tuesday) Exhibition and Sale of Prints and Paintings from the Ferdinand irresponsiblities, and penalties for price for his irony · with lesser irresponsiblity. insights (and an undeniably lesser Roten Galleries, at the Bristol Campus Center. - LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS But there was none of the rigid film), he remains, like each of his collectivism that had been in the characters-, very much his own pril 15 (Sunday) air a few years ago and that man. 9:30 a.m.-Newman Mass with Father Finnegan. Chapel. La Salamandre is built not so 11:15 a.m.-Free Church with Warren Wright, Department of seemed so likely to infect young cinema. Actually, it infected much on a story as on a device. Speech. Chapel. almost nobody, except Jean-Luc The girl, Rosemonde (Bulle 7:30 p.m.--Community Worship in the Red Pit. Godard, and the new directors' Ogier), is believed to have shot her �pril 16(Monday) film, which I hope we shall be uncle with his own rifle some 8:30 p.m.-France 1940 Again: Still' the Strange Defeat, John seeing more of the last decade or years before-though she claims so of serious moviemaking. she didn't, and since the uncle Cairns, Bristol Lounge, They constitute a technically suffered no more than a shoulder prll 17 (Tuesday) 7:30 p.m.-Open Forum on Alternatives in EducatiotJ, at Kirkland: modest, normal-seeming cinema, wound to brag about, the case Student-Initiated Course.s, Red Pit 8:00 p.m.-The American Image with a good many debts to the against her was dropped. Pierre in Europe, Ivan Boldizar, Chapel. pril 19 (Thursday)
man and his movie camera: truth at twenty-four frames per second. Also The Cop. Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m., Sunday night at 10 p.m., Chemistry Auditorium. La Salamandre-directed by Alain Tanner; one of 1972's Ten B�st-Canby, Greenspun, Zim�erman, etc. Friday �nd Saturday nights at 8 p.m., Sunday night at 10 p.m., Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. See review in this week's Arts Page.
7:00 p.m.--Community Service, Chapel. 8:00p.m.-Lecture by Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor Psychiatry, Upstate Medical Center, Chapel SPORTS
Baseball
Against R.P.1., 3 p.m. on Wednesday.
Lacrosse
A�ainst Eisenhower, 4 p.m. on Thursday
DRAMA April 14 (Saturday) ·8:30 p.m.-Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Chapel. 9:30 p.m.-Sounds and Spirits of Blackness presented by the Uhuru
Singers and Poets, Mc�wen Dining Hall.
MILESTONES
April 13 (Friday)
Edict of Nantes (1598) Thomas Jefferson's Birthrlay (1743) April 15 ((Sunday)
LeonardoDa Vinci's Birthday ( 1452).
prU 16 (Monday)
Income Tax Day.
pril 17 ( Tuesday)
Arthur Schnabel's Birthday ( 1882)
pril 18 (Wednesday)
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Leopold Stokowski's Birthday (1882). Paul Revere's Ride (1775)).
OPEN SAC MEETINGS
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Open meetings of the SAC wiil be held on Monoay nights at 7:30 p.m. in Bristol.' Inquire at the main desk for room assignment. All are welcome.
and Paul are engaged to do a TV script about the case and the girl, and what with Pierres research and Paul's meditations�they work themselves through theh' advance payment, though not through their scenario, Rosemonde, meanwhile, quits her job in a Geneva sausage factory (she had been fitting cloth casings over the ejaculations of a sausage-meat machine with a bored incompetence that may be the most emasculating image in recent cinema), briefly moves in with Pierre, takes Paul to the country to meet her mother, takes the shoe-store job, and, by openly caressing the feet and legs of her customers (both sexes), manages to leave that too. Paul has guessed Rosemonde's guilt in the affair of her uncle, but it is of small importance. He has already given up trying to write her story. He returns to his e r s t w h ii e p r o f e s s i on o f housepainting. Pierre, partly to avoid some debts, leaves for France, where, he points out, the franc dev a luates faster. R o s emonde walks out alone among the Christmas shoppers. It isn't a very cohesive plot; and much of its charm, and some of its meaning, depends upon its proceeding by way of a series of gentle non sequiturs. One reason for the slight critical oversell that has accompanied the New York premiere of "La Salamandre" may be that it is a dangerously appealing movie from which to extract the beauties. Appealing expecially because they are interestingly unusual, rather than obviously beautiful, beauties-like the fascination of Bulle Ogier's h a unted face, t h e casual i mperturbability of Jean-Luc Bideau ahd Jacques Denis as Pierre and Paul, or the generally unscenic scenery of the gray wet countryside. I think that Tanner rm:ans hl:. discontinuities rather seriously, however, and that he is by no means unambivalent toward any of h i s c h a ra c t e r s-especially toward his heroine. The salmander of the film's title is a mythical being that survives fire. But a salamander, as any kid can tell you, is also a lizard that it is hard to spot or put your finger on. And a perpetual elusiveness seems more a part of Rosemonde's character than any excess of passionate intensity. I had better add that La Salamandre is not a gloomy movie,. and that it offers a good deal of low-keyed, witty, highly civilized fun. The poeticizing narrator is continually undercut by the actors, and Pierre and Paul between them manage to turn conversation into ironic intellectual play. Rosemonde's specialty, on the other hand, is silence, and she uses it to promote another kind of dialogue in which she holds all the advantages. Her seduction of Pierre, a triumph she accomplishes mostly by sitting herself on his bed and staring into space, is perhaps a new milestone in the history of sexual combat on film. This is moviemaking in lovely s t y l e . N o t y e t great moviemaking-but, in its own t e r m s sufficien t , surpnsmg, . unsettling, refreshing for once to the active mind rather than the compacent senses.
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P4GE EIGHT
APRIL 13, 1973
Candidates' Platforms for Student Senate Class of '76
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BRIAN CHANATRY '76 This will be short and to the point. Th(fre are two reasons for my candidacy for the Student Senate. 1). I like power. Therefore, you can be sure that I will pursue the duties of student government enthusiastically. 2). I have a genuine interest in the politics of the college community and I desire a greater voice in the decision making process pertaining to both social and academic matters. A position on the Student Senate affords a greater voice, hence, I desire such a position. I know that I will not be able to represent the views of all the students. However, I can guarantee the devotion of my energies to the best interests of student government on the Hill.
BLAIR K. HAAS T h e S t udent Senate 1s an organ i za t i o n whose activities are basically ignored on campus. Few, if any, of the students know or care what the Senate has done. This "information gap" can be closed. To give those who are interested a chance to see them, the minutes of the Senate meetings should be posted on bulletin boards across the campus, instead of just in Root Hall. To get the students interested, I think George Baker's idea of canvassing the dorms and talking to the students is excellent. This forces the students to become involved, at least slightly, which is important. Another major problem is the lack of life on campus over the week-ends. There are several activities that can be created. For example, a spot, like the Coffee House, could be formed where wine and cheese are served: This would pro vide a quiet alternative to the Pub. In short, the Student Senate should be more than a hidden organization that spends all of its time doling out money. I should get involved to improve the student's lives, and get the students involved in the Senate. To implement these ideas, I ask for your vote for Student Senator. ROBERT L. HOWE The qualification that I have over most of the freshmen candidates running for election tQ the Student Senate is experience.� I was a member of the previous Senate, and I am now knowledgeable enough of its workings to be effective as a Sophomore Senator. As with every job, a period of time is necessary to become acclimated. If a candidate who does not have the experience is elected, he will be spending most of his time learning the workings of the Senate. I _ have the necessary experience and am confident that I can do a good job. The only promise that I can make is the promise of fair representation at every Senate meeting. ROBERT KAPLAN Indifference among the student body is the major problem facing student government today. Having always been a political nobody, I know how easy it is to become uncaring about a student government that does wh�t it thinks the student body wants because it doesn't know what the student body wants, and has given up trying to find out. The o·nly way to combat this is t. o inform the student body about what the student government does; after all, it's much harder to stay apathetic about something that concerns you when you know the facts. True, the minutes of each Student Senate meeting are posted in Root Hall, but how many students
read them? Not that many. After all there are more exciting things to do. But, if they were posted in the library, where they could be read during a break, or in Commons, where one could take a look while gathering courage to enter, or sent to everyone through campus mail, many more students would know what goes on gehind the scenes at Hamilton. And knowing leads to caring. And caring leads to action. And action leads to a healthier atmosphere and a happier place for all.
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JONATHAN MARDER I will not make any promises, for promises are easy to make yet very difficult to keep. I shall not guarantee anything either, for most guarantees are empty. I can only say that I, as a Student Senator, will carefully weith all the alternatives surrounding a particular issue and try to reach a decision that will be most beneficial for the entire college community. I shall listen and I shall act accordingly. As M. Sarantos Tremalis once said, ''Don't do what you can't do, instead do what ought to be done." That is what I intend to do. CHIP PRESUTTI In seeking reelection as sophomore senator, I feel that you, as the voter, have already given me the advantage of representing you this past year. My term has given me the opportunity to become involved in Hamilton's student government and to learn of its good points, and more important, its failings. I'm confident that my past experience in Senate and the President's Advisory Council will aid me in my role. During the past year, I have attended every Senate meeting and have s u p p o r t ed wholehe artedly the reorganization plan of the SAC, which brings the entertainment to the Hill for all of us, to better its quality and make the group more workable. I was also involved in the discussions over the exam scheduling system here and the
possibility of using our Honor Code with self-scheduling exams. For next year - since we'll no longer have the Freshman Council, I see the necessity of much more Senate-student communication with forwns, meetings and newsletters. Most important will be seeking out your needs - be they Winter Study, exams, the Chapel problem, grading, - and performing for you. It's what you want. BARRY SELTZER Despite what others may feel, I still believe that the Student Senate has the potential to evoke student interest and participation. The fact that immense e n t hu.siasm has not usually been a r oused, d o e s n o t exclude the possibility of it occurring in the future. Since I was elected to the Senate late last fall, I have tried to get Freshmen interested in student government. I promptly distributed letters to the • freshman class, introducing myself and suggesting tha t they bring any complaints to me that they had, and that the Student Senate could handle. Various views were expressed, dealing with everything from abolition of the f reshman g y m requirement t o recognition of the Alexander Hamilton Players. In every case, I returned with a reply on what had happened, as soon afterwards as possible. In addition, I did not miss a single meeting and, in that way, was able to keep up with all that was transpiring. If re-elected, for next year, I intend to gain assignment to some of the more important student-faculty committees. This year, the new members were not given opportunities for extensive participation; we were unfamiliar with the entire operation. Moreover, I want to see committee assignments opened up to the entire college community. It is unfair that one small circle of students, manv unelected, s_erves on most com�ittees, ,-vhile the 'c1St majority of students are unaware of what occurs and unable to get involved.
JOHN D. SHULANSKY A general consensus of opinion on the Senate has been one of a committee-laden, procrastinating, often do little or nothing group this year. Many senators · have poor attendance records, and the Senate as a body has truly failed to inform the community of its proceedings. As a senator, I would attend every Senate meeting, and strive to open channels of communication between the Hill community and the student administration. This increased communication must also be continued to the faculty and trustee levels, where d e c i s i o n s a r e o f t e n t i m es u nrepr esentative of the student majority. This problem was made evident when Housing Committee proposals for the renovation of Dunham Dorm were misrepresented to a Trustee committee. On the whole, I .pledge to deep abreast of all the issues and alternatives and to vote with the school community in mind. My experience on the Housing Committee has allowed me to work with both students and administrators in the process of resolving some of the problems on the Hill. The Senate must strive to be more representative and accessible, and thereby reintegrate itself into the mainstream of campus life.
CRAIG SONNENBERG I believe that the 1973-74 school year will be a crucial one. With the departure of John Chandler from the college community, we will enter a new era on the Hill. The coming of a new President to Hamilton will produce policy changes, as he transforms college institutions to reflect his attitudes and p e r sonality. This situation present unique opportunities to the 1973-74 Student Senate. Using a bit of initiative the Senate might approach Ch�dler's successor early in his career here and develop close ties with the new adadministration. If this could be accomplished, the Senate would be influential in the formation and revision of administration policy. Thus, the . Senate would become a powerful and motivating force on the Hill-s that hs been sought for years. Now is the time to elect a solid and dynamic Student Senate. I would very much like to be a part of it. something
Class of '75 ROBERT W. APPLEGATE This year· the Senate has' spent a great deal of time exploring the functions of • certain inter-college organizations with the purpose o f eliminating the possibility of t w o organizations performing the same function. I feel that this problem has to be resolved in the near future in order that the student body be saved a good deal of money. Students this year have been allowed to join certain faculty committees. I feel these positions have to be made more important and that more faculty c ommittees should be opened to student membership in the near future. The Senate (i.e. the Curriculum Committee) has spent a good deal of time on the possibility of self-scheduling exams. Our proposal was rejected by faculty. I am in favor of self-scheduling exams and would work to gain acceptance of this proposal. These problems are not what l consider to be the primary problems of this campus for next year, however. I see the perennial problem of social acti ·itics as one major obstacle an<l the future of winter study as the other. Rriefly m; position on these issues is: Social life on the hill is improving · restructuring th' S, .C may cause drastic
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from page eight improvements. More social events are needed for independents (in fact for the college community as a whole). The concerts have not been good. There has been an increase in closed house parties. I would work to gain as much social life for as many people as possible. The future of winter study to me could mean the difference between the kind of education I want and some less desirable alternative. I have greatly enjoyed my two winter study periods and would favor loosening the reigns on the program rather than tightening or diminating the program completely. I would very much like to be in a position to use these views for the members of my class. Naturally I would very much like to discuss my views or those of others on any issue involving the Senate for next year. I would appreciat�-your -,upport. Thank you. DANIEL COTLOWITZ One reason why Hamilton remains ,mall is to stress its "concern with the individual student'� (1972-73 Catalogue, p. 6). When was the last time you had a voice (or at least voted for the student members of committees) in major college policies such as appointments of administrators a n d faculty, and decisions on course offerings (for the regular semester and Winter Study). Hamilton "has great confidence in the personal integrity of its students, who govern themselves under a long-established honor system" (p. 7). The faculty has vetoed self-scheduling exams, feeling it would put too much strain on the Honor Code (and I presume, our personal integrity). H a m i l t o n h a s a "flexible curriculum... to give the individual student greater responsibility for his own intellectual development ... (and] independence as an educated man" (pp. 31,33). But in Winter Study, what is one's development of _intellect and independence is another's "gut". I feel that a committee of faculty members and students should dedde upon the courses offered. To sum up, "It is the student as an individual whom the College has existed to serve" (p.33). As I see it, the role of the student senator is either to make the "real college" agree with the "paper college", or to rewrite the catalogue. TIMOTHY "FINAN May I reiterate what others have already said - the Hamilton Senate can b; an influential bod . •Ar, a member of tfie past Senate, i know this to be a fact. The Senate demonstrated its potential in leading the fight for self-scheduled exams, through its work in the field of students' rights, · by placing Senate members of CAP subcommittees, and by its work in the revitalization of the SAC constitution. Too many times though, the Senate was content to function as a rubber stamp organization. By occupying much of its time with the allocation of Senate funds and the granting of club charters, the Senate neglected to take needed and necessary initiative in important areas of student life, coordination, and the curriculum. Problems such as co-ed and co-0p living, the working relationship between the Hamilton Senate and the Kirkland Assembly, the . future of Monday morning chapel, the fate of s e lf-s c h eduling exams, a n d a reassessment and possible reorganization of the C ommittee on Academic Coordination, should occupy the top of the new Senate's priority list. The Senate must take steps to improve its efficiency as a working organization. At present there are twenty one committees that fall under the Senate's sole or joint jurisdiction. It was obvious and evident to me last year as a Senate member, that some of these committees exist in name only, and as a
THE SPECTATOR result, neglect to exercise the duties they were established to perform. An examination of these committees is in order. Steps must be taken to make them responsive and responsible. It is important that the Senate enlist the support of the Student body. Perhaps efforts can be taken to draw from the student body a list of priorities on which to act. Because the Senate has not exercised its full potential in the past, one must not lose sight of the fact that the Senate can be an effective serious, and influential body. The student body should expect no less. BAR'RY HAIMES If the Student Senate is to survive as a meaningful institution, it must undergo dynamic change and must also effect dramatic change in the Hamilton · campus. I believe the Senate should alter its priorities and concentrate on coordinating the various segments of the s t ud e n t population. The current emphasis· seems to be too heavily placed on attaining student representation on various faculty committees. While this is certainly an important goal, the trend has gone too far at the expense of other programs which the Senate has largely ignored. One void which needs to be filled is the lack of unity in the H amilton-Kirkland community. The three sectors of the student body fraternities, independents, and Kirkland - must be made to work together, not at odds as frequently occurs now, to further the ends of the College as a whole. One possible means of achieving t h e unity m ight be joint Senat e-fraternity sponsored social events that.are open to all, and another solution could consist of a series of workshops and discussion groups where problems can be identified and resolved. In short, while I believe in a strong fraternity system (though not at the expense of either of the other sectors), I a l s o believe that the lines of communication must be kept open and coordinate activities should be planned. If I'm elected to the Senate, you can be certain that these programs will indeed take effect.
PHILLIP HALPERN My primary interest in running for the Student Senate stems from the obvious lack of good representation of the student body's true concerns. Seemingly, Hamilton College students are completely apathetic. I do not believe this to be the case, but think it is rather the lack of proper perspective and direct reaction with important campus issues, that produce the lack of interest that is prevalent among many of the Hamilton students. It is my belief that change, which can contribute to the life of the college, can be accomplished by an active Student Senate. A Senate which confronts the students with the issues, instead of keeping them locked up in small committees always run by the same people. The whole campus should have a say about who they want for a new president - not just a select committee. The whole campus should have a say ..about self-scheduled exams - not just the faculty and a few individuals. Because I am genuinely interested in participating on the Senate, and am willing to devote time and effort, I believe I could help get the student body's true interests represented. JOHN MC FARLAN When I read the Student Senate Presidential Platform presented in the March 9 Spectator, I was left with the impression that the Senate was exclusive, unenergetic, and ineffective. Well, personally, I don't think things are all that bad. The people now in the Senate don't strike me as being on an ego trip in which they push policies only when. it is convenient. Rather, I find them hard working and sincerely interested in making life better for the students they represent. Sure, incidents can be pointed out where the Senate has failed, but isn't that to be expected! Next year, a responsibility should be taken on by both the Senators elected and the students represented, and that r e s p o n s i b i l i t y s hould be to communicate. The Senate responds to the desires of the students, yet their time and effort is never known because of the lack in communication. And due
PAGE NINE to this lack in communication, ,the . ,. ad Senate suffers from animosity mste of thriving with support. It is time -that the Senate reaches out to the students and let their existence be known, it is time that the students ask as to the whereabouts of the Senate. George Baker, the new Senate president, is willing to live up to his end of the bargain, are you? I,John McFarlan, am anxious to reach out as a Senator from the junior class. Give me your support next Tuesday. NEtl R. SCHEIER Why, you have asked, am I running? Basically it is because I would rather expend my energies and time representing more than just one individual's viewpo�t, that being my own. It is because I don't want to see Winter Study die, a viewpoint that I have represented on the Winter. Study Committee for the past six months. It is because I feel that those · opposing self-scheduled exams are drowning in their own ambiguity a.nd that it is time we had such exams. It is because Hamilton could use . a new computer (new? Simply a computer would do!) just as much as it needs updated athletic equipment for both the classes and for varsity athletics. It is because Hamilton studen� will hopefully, someday, have a say in the course offerings, something that we should start worki.'lg on now. Lastly, I want to sit in the Senate to insure that our money isn't wasted, that Kirkland starts footing part of the bill on some of thosee "joint" committees, and that our money stays here, on campus, where the majority can benefit from it. To paraphrase Lincoln, these are my sentiments and political principles. If elected, I shall be thankful; if not, it will simply be a personal viewpoint that I will represent in committee and not our viewpoint.
Class of '74 GLEN GILBERT As a member of the Hamilton Student Senate, my greatest efforts would be directed towards our neighbor across the road and the goal of a much needed "ra pprochement" between Hamilton and Kirkland. In years past, there has been a good deal of animosity between the two colleges, though I believe these feelings have recently, to a great extent, dissipated. I have been much dismayed, therefore, be the recent decisions concerning the Choir, the Yearbook, and now the weekly Chapel Assembly. They were lrtade without the· concern for, and, subsequentJy, at the expense of the student who partakes in these aspects of campus life. The decision ma k er s involved attempted to coordinate certain activities of the schools, but actually seemed to add wood to what was a smoldering fire. If elected, my major "push" would be towards a greater regard for the sentiments and priorities of both student b0dies in making any further deci sions that would affect the relationship between the two schools. Be assured that I would work hard to bring about a necessary harmony between all who share this Hill. MARTIN F. HILLSGROVE My experience with the Senate this past year has been encouraging. Among its accomplishments are a number with which I was personally connected as t r e a s u r e r. We were fortunate in obtaining an agreement under which the college assumed a major portion of the Charlatan debt incurred by one individual three years ago, for which succeeding Senates have suffered. We have worked hard making the present continued on page ten
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Career Center's Program: 'More Than Books Tell You' BY ELAINE. WEISS take advantage of the series so A series · of three Monday they may become aware of w ith post-graduation meetings evening possiblities. professionals, "More than Books Juors and seniors will surely be Can Tell You", will be sponsored interested in the programs, in April by the Career· Center. Described as an informal dialogue with friends of the colleges, the will bring together series professionals in various fields of BY GEORGE M. WALSH endeavor to discuss their careers The Root-Jessup Public Affairs and themselves. The discussion series, to be Council elected John Donohue held in the Kirner-] ohnson Red '74 its president for the coming Pit at 8:30 on MOndays, April 16, year. None of the ten members 23, and 30, aspires to be the present last night opposed his election. and beginning of a continuing program n omina tion to bring active, exciting, and Although Root-Jessup carries 65 enthusiastic people with different names on its roll, there has backgrounds and expertise to reportedly been a ·recent decrease speak about career options. The in overall participation and the Career Center has reached beyond ten who attended this meeting arc the Hill to supplement the the only full-time members of the somewhat limited resources of the organization. As stated in the Hamilton College communities in offering advice and information on sundry Catalogue, Root-Jessup is an organization that tires to manage career choices. "small lecture series " Ms. Bunny Lieberman, director a · of the Career Center, is eager to "stimulate and plan stude�t c u r rent on have freshmen and sophomores d i s c u s s ions
according to Ms. Liebennan, but the idea is not to have underclassmen wait until the waning weeks of the senior year for exposure to new and idfferent possiblities.
April 16, Government Related Services will be featured. The program will include a consumer advocate, an urban planner, a government consultant, and a director of government planning. The April 23 program is ' 'C o m m u n i c a t i o n s a nd Journalism", with professionals in the media, newspaper publishing, book publishing and public relations on hand. On April 30,
Lectures Missing on the Hill international issues," and "publish a magazine, Comment, a joirnal of opinion, twice each year." Root-Jcssup's biggest activity used to be its lecture series. This year, however, there were no major lectures. In the past three years, Timothy Leary, Bill Russell, Dick Gregory, Julian Bond, Ralph Nader, William Kuntsler, Abba Eban, Charles Evers, and Ross Terrill have spoken on the Hill under Root-Jessup's auspices. Last fall, Council the Al featured Lowenstein. The Assemblyman's visit was poorly advertized and this may have caused the disappointing turnout. The lecture
program has been managed primarily by funds drawn from gate receipts and supplimented by other sources, such as the Student Senate. Obtaining funs from gate receipts has been difficult on this campus. Not only must· the speaker be interesting, but a good p u b l ie- re la t ions -information organization must be able to generate interest him. in Root-Jessup has had - trouble finding good people to talke, and, more importantly, has had difficulty getting people whose appeal is br�ad enough to attract the vast majority of the campus. The current affairs biannual Comment, disappeared due to � continued on page eleven
emphasize will discussion Marketing and Finance. Speakers will include a private entrepeneur, an advertising executive and a marketing specialist. Each participant will speak to. the satisfactions, the frustrations, and possibly the h orrors of his/her chosen field. Further questiom will illuminate the preparation needed for such a profession: background, education and training, skills and any advanced degree necessary. Participants will be asked to recount their personal expectations after graduating college with a BA, and if their career was determined by that first job or was more of a trial and error process. If utilized well and acted upon p�dently, these models for approaching careers could prove to be · beneficial to the student. According to Ms. Lieberman, they will provide exposure, contact, and guidance. "After 16 or 18 years, many students will be finally leaving the academic community," explains Ms. informal ''These Lieberman dialogues could s�ve to inform those emigrants of the world waiting for them out there."
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continued from page nine accounting system more efficient. However, to avoid similar difficulties in the future and still allow responsible spending freedom for individual student activities groups a new fund managing procedure is necessary. I have begun to explore the possibilities of co-signed checking accounts or a student activities accountant · a s a l t er natives. The important issue of Senate carryover of surpluses and deficits is near positive conclusion. For the first time this year Kirkland cooperated, helping us fund all joint activities. The continuity I could supply by virtue of my practical experience would, I think, be especially valuable to our new president. I would appreciate your. support.
PETER KIRSCHENBAUM One of the Senate's most important responsibilities is its power to appoint s t udents to s e v e r a l i m portant committees, such as the Curriculum Committee and the trustee committees. As a senator, I wo�d be particularly i�erested in making su��; all students were aware of the committee position that were open There are many opportunities for students to' take part in making important decisions about the academic and social life at Hamilton. The existence of these opportunities should be made known to everyone, so that the Senate can draw on as large a group of interested students as possible. This college is more than a collection of monolithic groups of students, faculty and administrators. There is a wide range of opinioh to be found in all three groups on nearly every issue affecting the College. Hamilton College is a community and each student should feel he is able to voice ai:i opinion on community issues and to have his opinion represented and considered by the Senate. It is th·e Senate's responsibility to make sure it is accessible to each student, just as it is the student's responsibility to approach the Senate if he has an opinion to express. JACK LYNCH As a candidate for the 1973-74 Student Senate, I favor self-scheduled exams, 10:00 a.m. Chapel, reading periods and a host of other specifics, but I would like to briefly present what I consider to be important underlying
issues. With the resignation of President Chandler, . Hamilton is left with a co m pe tent, but a relatively new a dministration. As a result, the representative student opinions which the new President and the Deans hear will be particularly important next year. Furthennore, the manner in which the se If -scheduled exam question was decided illustrates two important points concerning student government at Hamilton. The first is that the Senate is not generally considered by the students .md the faculty to be representative; accordh,gly, the College's decision makers are leery of it and unresponsive to it. Second, the .Senate's work is actually done in various committees. I suggest the unworkable and often neglected Senate Constitution be revis.ed to include the provision that all Sen ators actively participate in committee work; some more workable means of constituent representation than that which is included in the present Constitution is also required. Thank you.
TONY MAZZARELLA The crux of Hamilton's old and tired issues - commitment to the Honor Code, self-scheduled exams, Winter Study, bureaucratic red tape, and now Chapel - lies in the question of the p o w e r r e l a t i o n s h i p s o f the administration and faculty to the . student body. The Student Senate is, despite the skepticism of the apathetic, capable of functioning in this realm by engaging in the playground of politics. Real and obvious needs must be c o u c hed in terms· w h i c h t he administration and faculty will respect to enable us to achieve ;my success. -It is pointless to present the administration with an offer they cannot refuse, for recent Hamilton history has proven that they will, in fact, refuse it. Demands are ineffectual; pleas are degrading. What is needed is a calculating approach to be effective in college politics. This is not a thoroughly skeptical, but rather affirmative, conviction that I maintain. I would welcome opportunity to exercise my positive attitude towards the possible solution of the ills haunting the College student body today.
ROCCO ORLANDO The m ajor problem which now faces �he Student Senate is the feeling held by many students that the Senate is an unresponsive and distant institution. The situation can be remedied by providing mechanisms which will allow greater student involvement in the Senate's decisions. There are a number of other problems which should be confronted by the Senate during the next year. Working with the Curriculum Committee, the Senate should: 1) Atte mpt to improve the weaknesses of the faculty advising system. 2 ) C o n t i n u e t o a d v o cate self-scheduling final exams. 3) Advocate student membership on the Faculty Appointments Committee and the Committee on Academic Policy. 4) Investigate the graduate school and career advising systems. 5) Investigate the utilization of faculty resources. The Senate should also attempt to diminish some of the pr9blems of coordination. Some goals f9r next year's Senate: 1) A reorganized and powerful Committee on Academic Coordination. 2) A formalized procedure for planning faculty growth. 3) Unilateral action by a single college, such as the resolution of the Kirkland Assembly to move Monday morning Chapel must be discouraged strongly. In the area of student life: ·1 ) T he quality of ca mpus maintainence must be improved through the Buildings and Grounds Committee. 2') More loun�es should be provided, at the north e1 d of the Bristol Snack Bar and in Kirkland and North Dormitories. 3) The college should have a · designated ombudsman. KENNETH F. SEREMET What has distressed me most during my three years at Hamilton is the growing disillusionment a great number of the members of my class have had with this institution. Subjects such as the ability of the Hamilton student to enter law and medical schools, the · coordination with Kirkland College, the effect of the loss of two deans and a
college president in two years, computerization, the nature of the Student Activities Council, and the present status of the Monday morning Chapel Assembly have been part of the cause of this disillusionment. Specific promises by past candidates for the Senate have, unfortunately, proven to be of little meaning. All we can ask of our student senators is that: 1) they take their responsibility seriously; 2). they attempt to be responsive to the will of the student body; and 3) they seek to make Hamilton a true source of pride through their actions. I am pledged to these three tasks. No matter what the issue or circumstance, it· is with these three thoughts in mind that I shall act. It is with these three thoughts that I ask for your support. DOUGLAS SINGER If elected to the Senate, I plan to address, among others, the following problems: 1) The recurring criticism of SAC activities can be met by developing satisfactory procedures by which the Committee can be made more responsive to student consensus. I propose that a) a survey be conducted by the SAC such that 1) its results arc published, 2) the choices elicited arc binding on the SAC, and 3) if the Committee fails to follow the expressed choices, it must publish justification for the action; b) a statement explaining why the alternative choices have been limited accompany the survey; and c) a binding survey be conducted each year to determine, by program area, how entertainm ent money should be all oca ted. 2) The que stion of self-scheduled exams has by no means been satisfactorily answered; discussions must be re-instituted to re-evaluate the present situation, and ultimately to work toward the adoption of self-scheduled exams. 3) The problems of coordination between the colleges have resurfaced recently. Although I support the maintainence of the 10 o'clock chapel, we must not overlook the greater problem it represents. 4) The Root-Jessup Series, or a comparable program to bring prominent speakers to the campus, should be reorganized and re-instituted.
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GRAD CONFERENCE -JESSUP Sain t-Exupery ROOT continued from page one continued from page ten i n st i tu tions w h o accepted lack of motivation complicated by invitations include Amherst, Program a lack of funds. Root-Jessup Bowdo in , Colgate, Kirkland, simply could not afford to support this activity. At one point last year, an issue was all set to go to print; it had been written, the A two-day program on the life type was set and layed out, but and works of Antoine de the funds were not sufficient to Saint-Exupery, the French author run it through the presses. and aviator, will be held at There are differirig Qpinions as Hamilton College on April 18th to the usefulness, of the club and 19th. among members. The its A two-day program on the life realization that not everyone can and works of Antoine de be satisfied and the apparent Saint-Exupery, the French author difficulties in stimulating the Hill and aviator, will be held at c o m m u n i t y h ave. h u rt Hamilton College on April 18th Root-Jessup. For now, the and 19th. continued existe�ce of the The program, sponsored by organization seems assured. Ralph of Nader is scheduled to appear on Department Hamilton's Romance Languages, is entitled campus again within the month. The Feeling of - Man's and Root-Jessup is doing the Children's World in the Writings organizing, but, in a recent policy of the Author of The Little Prince switch, it will not charge - Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It admission. They_ have now features appearances on capus by obtained a good speaker, and the two _ pe ople who knew future of Root-Jessup may well Saint-Exupery before and during depend on the amount of interest World War II. generated by this lecture. The visitors are Adele Breaux, author of Saint-Exupery in America - A Memoir 1942-43, and Men-Women Robert Boname, a close friend of the during Sa int- Exupery founding of Air France. Adele WORK ON A SHIP NEXT Breaux became acquainted with SUMMER. No experience re Saint-Exupery by chance, and was quired. Excellent pay. World wide travel. Perfect summer job emplyed to teach him the English or career. Send $2.00 for infor language. She later was asked by mation. Seafax Box 2049-GD, Was hington officials to write the Port Angeles, Wash. 98362 first translation of The Little
M iddlebur y , Tuft-s , Un ion, W e s l e y a n a n d W i l l i ams. Participating professional schools i nclude Cornell Law, Boston Un iversity Law, .Georgetown Medical, Hahneman Medical; and Cornell Medical. A s s o c i ate D ean K i n n e! characterized response to the goals of the conference as very p o s itiv e . P r ofessional school r e sponse was said to be "go9d-not excellent, but good." He pointed out, however, that several medical schools turned down invitations on the grounds that they already have a line of communications to indergraduate institutions in the Premedical Advisory Board. Kinnel also noted t h a t t he p roble m facing p a r ti cipant i nstitutions is d o u b l e-edged. S o m e , l ik e .Hamilton, h e explained, graded rigorously; others suffered from inflated and therefore cheapened grades. Kurtz and Kinnel will be joined by Assistant Professor Traer of the pre-law advisory committee as Hamilton's representatives. Dean Schneider and Professor Gilbert, a pre-med advisor, will represent Kirkland.
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available spots. Brian Gelber hoJds_ a slim lead in his glove and ,fast feet over fellow frosh Nordo Nissi and Bill Foley. Sophomore Neil Schneier and Al Silverman '76 are hot on Gelber's heels and can expect a lot of playing time. Hitting will be more exciting this y ea r . Slugging veterans Sopchak, K n o d e l , Thomas, Cavanagh, and McLean will be j o i ned by Freshmen Regan, Badalament and Gelber to provide the most potent plate threat in recent years for the Hill. Prospects for the team are definitely improved over last year. A new coach with a new style of play, improved defense, improved hitting, and improved running should combine to find an enthusiastic ball club on the right side of a .500 season. The team has a goal to shoot for, too.. Post-season ECAC tournament play was approved by NESAC, the small college converence, for the first time ever this year. A berth in the eastern tourney would be a real coup for Coach Heckler., Improved coaching, improved play, now all that is needed is some improved weather.
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Prof. G. Prichett and Steve Sadove· '73 receiving their troph ies. From left, Brad Caswell '74 (co-ordinator), Sadove, Prichett, and Lou Levenson (co-ordinator).
Squash Tourn. a Success Prichett Grabs 1st Place Three faculty, six Kirkland students, and the remaining and LOU LEVENSON played students H am ilton Since the Spring has turned to hotly-con t e s t e d elimination Winter again, it is quite natural matches for two. weeks until four that the cold and snow whould semi-finalists remained: Steve drive the racquet-sport lovers Sadove '73, "Moo" Bailey '73, away from the netted courts and Professor G. Prichett, and Mike back to the Squash wall. If the Heller '74. The final round, which unseasonal chill serves nothing lasted five long tmng games else, it should make those who are (played to a surprisingly large torn between tennis and Squash crowd) yeilded Gordon Pritchett consider the underprivileged and of the Hamilton Mathematics much-abused potion of those four Department the victor and Steve lonely squash courts and those Sadove as the runner-up'. Both who are devoted to them though received handsome trophies for even the are eventually wooed their efforts. away to the outdoors by the The hopes of the directors, sunny weather. based on the success and growing The first Hamilton-Kirkland popularity of Squash, is that next Squash tournament of February year Squash will be a sanctionec;l 1973 was a step in the right intramural activity open again to direction, in the minds of some, the whole community. Squash to make Squash a sport of will then count towards the substance here on the Hill. After intramural championship on a par much planning, backed by little with football, softball, and the popular enthusiasm, the directors other sports. ol- the tourney, with the The hopes of an enlarged administrative help of Athletic program of Squash, possibly Director Gene Long and Hamilton - branching off into more Squash coach Professor F. Hunt, developed beginners' instruction managed to entice 38 entries into and possible team play at the competition. In this first Hamilton, is to make squash not attempt to must support for the last resort on a cold wintry Squash, all the Hamilton-Kirland day, but the healthy and community, including professors rewarding year-round sport that it et al, were eligible to participate. has the potential to become. BY BRAD CASWELL
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BY TOM THOMPSON The old ball game is new ball game at Hamilton this spring. Baseball, traditionally a stepchild among Hamilton's many varsity sports, has finally attained equal status in the coaching ranks with other spring sports on the Hill. For the fint time in over twenty years, baseball has its own special coach. Steven J . H e c kler, appointed to the faculty to fill Gene Long's shoes as trainer of Hamilton's athletic teams, is the new coach of the Hill's hurlers. For years the team was coached b y m e n w h o s e p r imary responsibi lity lay in other activ 1 t 1 e s s u c h as hockey, basketball and college admissions. Coach Heckler's main job in the coaching field is baseball, only baseball. His enthusiasm for the game is evident, and the style he teaches will find the fans watching some exciting action on the diamond this spring. Speed on the basepaths is the key to a running and hitting attack backed up by a deep strong defense that promises to be much improved over last year's. The leading speed merchants on the team this year so far are Andy Sopchak '73, a team tri-captain and veteran star both at the plate and h is favorite third base position; Jim Knodel, another senior tri-captain and the leading candidate for the second base slot;
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sophomore John Thomas, whose sharp batting eye will put him on base quite often; and freshman Brian Gelber, the newest and fastest member of the group. Between them, they should more than make up for the loss of last year's only se nior, Dudley Humphrey, whose specialty of base stealing was a distinct help to the team. In contrast to previous years, this edition of the ball field band has a lot of usable depth at all the pos1t1ons except the traditional weakness of manpower in the p itching staff. Veteran Steve Green will rest his arm this year in favor of the golf links, while Junior Jim Rishel brings his fine sense of control back to the mound after a similar lay-off. D a v e M c L e a n ' 75, w ho successfully switched to pitcher last year after a high-school career at short-stop, is back with his hot fastball and iron arm. Helping them out in the rotation is transfer John Psiaki, who sports a big sidearm curve and good control. Completing the battery for this spring are three candidates -for
catcher. Doug Jones, a four year veteran behind the plate, is the leading man in the early race for the starting job. His ability to catch nearly anything thrown near him and his quick, strong throws to second more than make up for a poor hitting performance the last two seasons. Sophomore Jed C o nboy and freshman Bob Badalament are running a dead heat for second, with Conboy's stronger a r m set off by B a dala ment 's better hitting performance so far. It's certain that all three will see action due to the tight schedule and the number of doubleheaders set for the season. Depth is the word in the rest of the infield, too, with frosh pushing the veterans very hard for the top jobs at first and short. Brian Cavanagh '73 is running hard to stay ahead of Dave Bylund in the race for first base. "F rank", another four year veteran, should come out ahead on his hitting unless Bylund gets hot soon. Jim Knodel has shifted across to second base from shortstop to make room for Kerry continued on page eleven
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Way-out Pros. ge t the print Is Wal ton next in line?
BY ED WATKINS People who participate in professional sports are always considered worthy subjects for interviews and studies. When the p e o p le are or eccentric The hopes of this year's Tennis controversial, they tend to attract Team are high-,· as Coach Batt's the media and incredible amounts racquetment are looking forward of attention. to facing the Spring portion of Ali, former Muhammad· schedule their with several heavyweight boxing champoin of lettermen and a few now-seasoned the world, has been such a figure freshmen. ever since he began fighting The fall team sported a 2-1 professionally. Ali loved to talk record, and expects to continue and was fond of reciting poetry the winning ways this spring a nd m a k i ng outrageous behind its solid squad. Diverse predictions as to when he would weather, as usual, has altered knock out his opponents. Ali practice so far, forcing the players received his greatest amount of to seek refuge in the Sage Rink, attention when he announced, and at times at the local racquet during the middle of the U.S. club. With favorable weather this involvement in Indochina, that he weekend, the team hopefully will was applying for a conscientious be ::i.ble to resume regular practice · objector draft deferment. From in anticipation of its first match that point on, fight fans went to next Wednesday against Ithaca see Ali lose, not win. Today Ali College. has a broken jaw, a present from Although tennis rankins are Ken Norton, an ex-Marine who about as flexible as the Hill's few thought would give· Ali any weather, the ladder appears trouble. Chances are that Ali's temporarily set with junior Brad boxing days are numbered. He is Caswell holding down the number an old man with old, tired legs. one position. Sophomore John Though he may be finished as a Hutchins, however, will provide fighter, he will never be forgotten. Caswell with a constant challenge The next upcoming pro figure for the top spot. t'o gain immortality in the minds Freshman Karl Klontz will fill of fans may be Bill Walton, star the third position after several center for the U.C.L.A. basketball fine performances this fall. Dave team. Walton just turned down a Dawson '74, Dave Schutt '76, and chance to apply for hardship Captain Steve Sadove '73 will fill financial status with the National out the remainder of the top six. Basketball Association. Had he Captain Sadove commented on done so, he wsould have been the upcoming schedule saying, drafted by the Philadelphia 76'ers, continued on page eleven who were willing to offer him a
long-term contract worth at least two million dollars. Bill Walton has two bad knees which he must pack in ice after every game. He could suffer an injury next season and never play pro ball. He could have been rich overnight yet he turned it down. Why?Bill Walton does not believe in. living for basketaball. He wants to be known as Bill Walton. That is not easy when you play basketball as well as Bill Walton. Anyone who saw his performance against Memphis State can attest to that. Because he is such a great player his every action and word is recorded. He was arrested last year for taking part in an anti-war d e monstration. That incident made front page news across the country. His comments on other political and social problems have found their way into the papers. Walton wants none of this though. He does not want to be treated as some sort of freak who must constantly exhibit himself to the public. When he does enter the pros, he will become one of those rare professional athletes who conducts his personal life as if he were a factory worker. He will have opinions on contemporary events and he will express them. But he will not want them on the front page. After the game is over he is just another man. The fans will not understand him but as they recognized Ali's talent, they will recognize his. If that is all they do, Bill Walton may even appear to enjoy a professional career.
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VOLUME THREE
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES. CLINTON, NEW YORK
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Jordan, Masters, Huxtable 0ffered Horwrary Degrees
and Ada Louise Huxtable, an architectural critic, a Doctorate of Humane Letters. Danny Kaye, the actor- comedian who is also the official ambassador-at-large for UNICEF has been invited to ·receive a Doctorate of Humane Letters. The College has not yet received official • confirmation from Mr. Kaye. Al though plans f or the graduation activities are not yet definite, it is hoped that several informal gatherings will be held with the honorary guests so that students will have an opportunity to meet with them personally. Vernon Jordan has headed the N.U.L. since the death of Whitney Young Sr. in 1971. Although he has long been active in the civil righfs movement, Jordan first came into the national spotlight in 1961 when he escorted the first black co-ed student in the University of Georgia, through an angry mob of students. He worked for the NAACP until 1 9 6 5 wh,e n he joined the Southern Regional Council and headed a Voter Education Project. During the years that Jordan headed this d_rive � to organize black voters, the number of black elected officials in the South increased from 72 to 564. In 1970 Jordan became director of the United Negro Fund• and proved - himself to be a capable fund-raiser by collecting 9 million dollars for the league - an increase of over 2 After a Kirkland student's study of fat content in Service Systems' meat, the campus food company suspended its contract with Schissa million. Brothers Corp.. J o rdon has increased the N .Q.L .'s role in influencing administration and Congressional policies by increasing the League's Washington research staff and lobbying efforts, and through his o w n personal influence with BY DAVID SCHUTT Service Systems Director Earle government officials. In recent The fat content of meat D'Aprix responded immediately months, more militant blacks have purchased by Service Systems Inc. to the problem by cutting off criticized Jordon for his close ties from area distributors exceeded Service Systems _ contract with with the Administration and big contract standards and, in one Schissa Brothers completely and businesses. Jordon feels that the case, exceeded Federal standards, sending a letter along with the key to advancing the cause of civil according to a recent test findings of the test to _Diamond rights in America_ is through conducted by Judy Steinlauf '73. Meat Company. continued on page seven Mr. D'Aprix noted that he had Ms. Steinlauf conducted her study during the first two weeks been unhappy with the meat of March with the consent of distributed by Schissa Brothers Service Systems. She was allowed for some time before the test and to test random samples from each that e nding Service Systems' of the two distributors. Using fat connection with the company was testing device known as a Hobart · the best answer. He also fat indicator which is approved by commented that the Diamond BY BOB GRIEVES the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and Co., the source of over 90% of As a result of the persitent guaranteed- to be accurate within Service Systems' meat, had proved 1 %, Ms. Steinlauf found that meat reliable in the past. The company efforts of Dean Kurtz over the purchased from Schissa Brothers assured him there had been a slip past few months, a conference of colleges, law in Syracuse had a fat content of up and that it would not happen undergraduate schools, and medical schools was 31.5%. rhe United States Food again. One week after the initial test held at Hamilton April 12-13. and Drug Administration sets a standard • of · 30% fat content_ another study was done and the Participating schools included maximum. Meat purchased from meat · from Diamond was within Amherst, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Williams, Tufts, Cornell Law and the Diamond Meat Co. of Utica the 20% limit. Colgate, Medical S chools, M s . S t e in l a u f , w h o i s (with whom Service Systems buys almost all its meat) contained considering consumer law as a Georgetown Law School, Trinity, possible career, began the project Boston University Law School, 26.5% fat. Though meat from the latter as a part of the Action Studies and Hahnemann Medical School. Dean Kurtz pointed out that company did conform to U.S. course directed by Dean of regulations, its fat content was Students Doris Friedensohn. Ms. the graduate school picture was beyond standards agreed upon in S teinlauf had participated in not good for pre-meds; he was its contract with Service Systems. s i m i hr t ests i n markets told that the over-supply of The maximum _fat content throughout the county before she doctors will not level off until allowed by Service Systems is conducted this particular one. She 1978 at least. The same situation -continued on page seven applies for law schools, although 20%.
BY BOB HYLAS Vernon Jordan, head of the National Urban League, will be the Baccalaureate speaker at the 1973 Hamilton graduation ceremonies, the Spectator learned Wednesday. Mr. Jordan will also receive an honorary doctorate of laws at the May 2 7 commencement. There wi l l b e no o utside Co m m e n c e m e n t s p e a ker. President John · Chandler will de liver the address to the graduating class.
Other recipients of honorary degrees will include Cornell President Dale Raymond Corson, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York Elizabeth Luce Moore, and Hamilton graduate Frederick 0'Reilly Hayes '47, all of whom will receive doctor of laws degrees. In addition Willi� Masters, a Hamilton graduate and the co-author of Human Sexual Response, will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Science,
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The Hamilton Campus was the scene of a drug arrest-last Friday.
N.Y. State Police Bust Hamiltoniap on Campus The New York State Police arrested a Hamilton College student for the alleged possession and sale of illegal drugs. The authorities apprehended the student . on campus in the early morning, Friday, April 13. The Police contacted Dean of Students, Gordon Bingham and advised him of their plans to enter the campus. Bingham examined the warrant for arrest and search warrant, then accompanied the police to the student's room, and witnessed the arrest. The susp�ct _ reportedly sold marijuana and hashish to an undercover narcotics agent. Quantities of both drugs were found in the student's room at the time of the arrest. Forty to fifty other related drug arrests were also made on Friday in the Utica area, reportedly as a result of the agent's investigations. The College discourages the use and sale of illegal drugs; they are considered detrimental to one's
health and are prohibited by law. Hamilton neither offers immunity nor protection from the law. The College nevertheless does not gather information of campus drug traffic for use by legal authorities. When the College deems drug activity of students especially serious, the administration may suspend or expel those people involved. This may be the case when a student is involved with hard drugs, when one is engaged in the active sale of drugs, when drug use impairs the student's scholastic activity, or when a student, under the influence of drugs, damages property or disrupts public order. By tacit agreement, the New York State Police do not usually come on the College campus. When they do, they advise the Dean of Students of their plans. The Dean acts to preserve the peace, privacy, and rights of all continued �n page seven
Hamilton has found the placing of its pre-law students a slightly easier task. According to the researches of both Dean Kurtz and Dean Kinne!, grades at most small liberal arts colleges have steadily gotten higher-Bowdoin and Amherst are prime examples of this phenomenon. At Hamilton this tendency less seems pronounced. Dean Kurtz emphasized the intense competition in the four m o s t p o p u l a r prof e s s i o n s - m e d i c ine, law, business, and teaching-and suggested that Hamilton develop _ majors for other fields such as engineering and forestry outside these traditional professions. In this regard, the Career Center will
become a very important operation at this college. The conference also underlined the significance of the recommendations of deans and professors in the application process, but Dean Kurtz stressed the necessity of their privacy in o.rder to maintain truly effective communications between colleges and grad schools. Dean Kurtz concluded by saying that although Hamilton is in "no better or worse condition than other colleges" even a comparably good record will not help the numbers of students attempting to enter graduate school. Mr. Traer offered interesting insights into law schools. Until continued on page six
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EDITORIAL Pot L·uckJ The recent arrest of a Hamilton student for the sale and distribution of marijuana once again dramatically points out the harsh consequences which face those who use marijuana and illustrates the irrationality of .the present marijuana laws. While the Spectator cannot condone the violation of law, we nevertheless believe that the laws governing the use of marijuana are ill-founded and anachronistic. We therefore urge the legalization of marijuana. Our present laws are based more on fantasy than on fact. When marijuana was first prohibited by federal law in 1937, the popular arguments for prohibition were that the. drug spawned many social and individual ills including crime and insanity. Today, the arguments against pot - that it threatens public health and safety, serves as a "symbol" for the rejection of cherished American values, and leads to the use of more dangerous 'tirugs - are more subtle but nonetheless fallacious. Just how dangerous to Society is the drug? Perhaps a cqmparison with the social effects of alcohol will put mkijuana in a proper perspective. first, alcohol is a factor in · one-half of the 60.,000 highway deaths occurring each year. In addition, one-half of all homicides and one-fourth of all suicides are alcohol-related. By even the most a preposterous estimates, marijuana cuses far less social damage than alcohol. Yet it remains illegal. It has also been claimed that marijuana usage is damaging to one's health. According to the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, marijuana does not cause _cancer or lung disease, does not lead to the use of more dangerous drugs, nor does it cause physical or psychological dependence. Yet it remains illegal. Obviously the laws on the books are not· working. According to the Commission, 24 million Americans have smoked pot, 8.3 million are current users,and at least half of all college students smoke marijuana. There is neither social nor medical justification for prohibiting its use. Considering the evidence, we find current marijuana laws unjustifiable and urge their repeal.
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'BY GERRY PAYNE We ,were all sitting in a leather bound hearing room in the second floor of Buttrick. The secretary cautiously entered. "Excuse me; should I allow the first gentleman to come in?" It was as if we were about to welcome someone into the inner sanctum. Yes, we all nodded · pompously, let the first fool candidate for president enter. Let him say his piece, and be gone. Yes, yes, woman, get on with it! The man was young, hirsute, and had a twinkle in his eye. Natti_dy attired in blazer and white pants, he reminded a few grey- pinstriped trustees of their days of baggy pants, cardigan sweaters, and racoon coats. The applicant sat at a table placed before us. "Your name?" a distinguished trustee bellowed. "Your name, young man!'' "I.L. Butterworth. Ira Lawrence Butterworth.. The Third." ''He couldn't say it all in one breath?" I asked myself. "Shortwinded fella; no stamina. One point against." A faculty member leaned to the microphone. ''Well Mr. Butterworth, what are your credentials?" "After going to the Trinity School in New York, I enrolled at Williams College, bteaking a three-generation family tradition of attemding Hamilton. Earning my Masters at Harvard, my doctorate at Yale, I went to Union to teach. I was stolen, I mean enticed by Hamilton to be an assistant administrator. I then went to Williams, occupying the position of left-handed dean, whJch I have held for three years." "I think his heart is in Williamstown," a student whispered to me. "Yes, yes, that's all well and good, "bellowed an elderly trustee, flanked by a nurse. "But do use Ipana toothpaste?" slamming his fist on the table. "You know who makes Ipana don't you?" Butterworth was confused. "Tell the old'. man we don't care about the toothpaste anymore," a man instructed the nurse.
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"Now, now, Mr. Butterworth, "trustee began. "You are well aware that this position demands tact and diplomacy. The coordinate situation here requires deliberate, well-planned direction." "I'm well aware of that, sir." "Traditions run deep here at Hamilton." "Yes sir." "But we like our fraternities here, Butterworth." The trustee continued. "And our football games. And our grading system, graduate schools be damned!" Butterworth wavered, "Sir? I misunder..." "Keep quiet, you. Furthermore, young Butterworth, and most importantly, we dislike people who are traitors to their family· and alma mater." The other trustees were murmuring. Butterworth stood up. "Sir, ifl, uh, may interrupt. I'm glad to hear it." ''What? What did you say?" "I said, sir, that I'm glad to hear it. You see sir," he said taking off his jacket and shirt, revealing a Hamilton College tee-shirt, "I go to Hamilton. I'm a member of the ad hoc committee investigating Search Committee procedures. We're trying to get some hint of _what really ..." "WITZ!!" I shouted. I couldn't mistake those hairy arms anywhere. ''Witz, it's you!" "Yeah Gerry," he said, taking off the fake beard, "I sorta-stopped by to see how ya were doin�."
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Letters to the Editor LE'ITUCE PROTEST To the Editor: Three weeks ago, on April 2 to b e e x a c t , t w o s t u d e nt r epr e sentatives fjnalized an agreement w i t h the- Food Committee which stipulated the f o l l o w i n g : w h e n available, Farmwor ker's Union Iceberg Lettuce would be served in all cafeterias and when not available other kinds of lettuce would be provided. Confident that this news would be of interest to the campus, especially considering that there were over 800 supporters of the lettuc boycott, I approached you, Mr. Editor, with a request to submit an article to this paper. You then assured me that an article was already being written and so we wated. The ensuing papet. _carried a photo of a salad bowl which was entitled, "Service Systems complies." This was insulting to both stude_nts and Service Systems as we had worked in close cooperation throughout the struggle. After this mishap, I again spoke with you and was again assured of a forthcoming story. Yet despite promises and interviews, there was absolutely no mention of the boycott in this week's paper. This alone is cause for 1 complaint, but there remain two larger issues which distress me much more. First, I am sorry to see a negative impression of Service Systems perpetuated by the' publication of criticism which i s never counter-balanced by well-deserved praise. Second, I am aware that the Editor tries to keep the Spectator as apolitical as possible and refuses to pass 0
j u d g e ment on world affairs. Nevertheless, when such an issue creeps onto this campus, an all too infrequent occurrence, it is pitiful to see how skillfully it is bypassed. Would you have me believe that in a full twelve pages of print, which managed to include such distasteful articles as that by Gerry Payne, there was no space for even a short summary of the boycott? Megan Charlop The article to which Ms. Charlop refers appears on page six. The Spectator apologi�es for the delay.
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instead on the field, it would be beneficial to the entire college community. Everyone likes a winning season. It should be understood that this is not intended to ridicule specific groups or persons on campus, but to serve as a warning to all who cherish peace, sanity, and sleep. The administration would be less than happy should they awake one morning to find that the silent majority has finally seized power, and in their own uncivilized way, disposed of the undesirables. name withheld upon request LEVENSON REPLIES
DUNHAM NOISE To the Editor: Certain recent events taking place in and around Dunham Dormitory have enabled us to draw a number of conclusions. First, the d·e s truction and barbarism has, for the most part, stemmed from the activities of a small number of psychotic freshmen. Second, it seems that as certain athletes get farther away from their fall season and from controlled physical activity, they fall into a decayed and altered, s t at e of morality and consciousness. The sight of a two hundred pound freshman crawling through one's window at 2:30 a.m. with no control of his mental faculties, is quite disconcerting. One has the difficult job of deciding whether to calm the irate anthropoid with quiet, rational conversation or whether to seize the nearest bottle or broom handle and crush his skull. If the skill r e quired for cert ain destpictive activities was used
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CLARK PRIZE FINALISTS Finalists for the Clark Speaking Prize are Marvin Kwartler, Frank Cutolo,John Arms, Paul Zaphiriou, and Bob Rooney.
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PERSCRIPTION DRUGS ON CAMPUS A Hamilton student was detained by Utica police for several hours because he was carrying prescription drugs· obtained at the Health Center in an unmarked container.
HONOR COURT Elections for next year's Honor Court representativ�s will be held Tuesday May 1. There will be 4 positions available: 1 Senior, 2 Juniors, and 1 Sophomore. Petitions will lie available in Root 7 on Monday, April 23 and must be turned in by Friday, April 27 at 4:00 p.m. ALEXANDER HAMILTON PLAYERS The new offi�ers for the Alexander Hamilton Players are: Chairman, Joe Konen '75; Treasurer, Peter Sluys '75; Secretary, Glenn Perelson '75; Publicity Officer, Dave Parker '75; Music Director, Bob Smith '74; and Technical Director, Bill Underwood '75. ATTENTION SENIORS There will be a survey in you mailboxes early next week regarding your experience at Hamilton. It is short and it is important. Please take the time- to fill it out.
TM For those interested in learning about Transcendental Meditation there will ·be the first of two introductory lectures on' Thursday, April 26 at 7:30 in Room 220 in Kirner-Johnson. The second lecture may be the following Thursday. Watch for more imformation. SPACE LECTURE On Wednesday evening, April 25, at 8:30 p.m., Dr. Patrick Thaddeus, Research Physicist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, will give a talk aimed at the general college audience entitled ''Chemistry in Interstellar Space." This, the first Link Foundation Lecture of 1973, will take place in the Science Auditorium. Dr. Thaddeus has worked in astrophysics of the solar system and in optical and radio astronomy. His present studies are concerned with the gas between the stars of our galaxy where many molecules have recently b�en discovered. O b s ervations of molecules provide information on the physical conditions of regions where stars appear to be forming and in the outer atmospheres of cool stars. KIRKLAND SOFTBALL The Kirkland softball team is to meet for practice at 6:15 at the McKewen circle tonight. Sunday 6:00 P.M., all players meet at Hamilton soccer field for their first game.
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To the Editor: It is about time Hamilton College rid itself of the antiques in our athletic department. Some of the coaches at Hamilton are not only old but virtually useless. These same coaches probably have tenure , w h i c h m ea n s that Hamilton students will continue to suffer from their inadequac�es unless we can demand a transfer to a less important position. The failures of these coaches are evident - they rarely produce winning teams, they ruin good high school athletes, they have poor communication with the students, they do not know what hard work means, and to top it all off they blame the students for their failures. They exhibit a great amount of immaturity by playing "favorites. n "Kiss the coaches and start on the first team." The students can not keep being blamed for these failures. How come we always have good track and swimming teams. Most likely because of a higher quality of coaching. Hamilton needs some vitality and vigor as exhibited in our new baseball coach. Mos) of all Hamilton needs some "Brains" - someone that not only knows the sport itself but knows how to work with people. We all know who these poor coaches are, and it's about time _ they were punted. I think that p r e s s ure on the ath letic department by the students will be one solution because there are
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HAMILTON-KIRKLAND 1973 YEARBOOK· The Yearbook is on sale now thru finals week in McEwen, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday during dinner OR thru campus mail. Send checks (payable to the Trustees of Hamilton College) to Enid Evans . Only $3.00!!!s, ( ($5.00 for 'Faculty). Deluxe Hard cover edit ion. Fully illustrated. FRESHMAN PERSPECTIVE The Hamilton Freshman Council is preparing a comprehensive questionnaire to be entitled "Freshman Perspective" that will be distributed �o all first-�ear students at Hamilton and Kirkland. It will be compnsed of questions that deal with all aspects of life on the hill as viewed by students who have encoun°:red these fo� _ the first time. It is hoped the results of the 'Perspective will provide another vehicle for critical self-evaluation. and growth. All faculty members, administrators and students are urged to support this endeavor by -submitting po�en�al questions to Alan Silverman - Box 322 Campus Mail. HOUSING LOTTERY The Housing Lottery for 1973-74 will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 24-25, from approximately 4:00-9:00 P .M. each day in the Trustees Room at Buttrick. Students will appear to draw rooms at 10 minute intervals accorcllng to a schedule to be posted over the weekend · in Bristol, the Library, Commons, Root Hall, Dunham, and Bundy Dining Hall. No multiple-occupancy rooms can be drawn unless all prospective roommates accompany the first selector. Each individual must select his own room. Agents will not be permitted. EASTER EVENTS An Agape (Love) Feast will be celebrated this evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Bundy Dining Hall. The service depicts the passion and crucifixion of Christ. Food served includes bread, fruit and wine. Cost will be one dollar. Reservations should be made in advan�e. Call Ext. 7317 or 7193. ELECTION RESULTS The results of the Senate election· are: Juniors Kirshenbaum, Lynch, Orlando, Hillsgrove; Sophmores Scheier, Applegate, McFarlan, Finan; Freshmen Presutti, Sonnenberg, Seltzer, Chanatry.
some decent people in our athletic department. You can talk about this problem all night, but as for me, give me new coaches or keep on losing!! Stephen Worley '75
GERRY PAYNE To the Editor: His · first was obnoxious, his second sick; we don't need any more of Mitchel Ostrer's stupid stories.· Thank you. Gwynn O'Gara Alice Hildebrand To The Editor: It is unfortunate that you chose to publish "G erry .Payne's" piece of writing in last week's Spectator. By publishing such unnecessary sophmoric literary tra s h e f f e c t ively you accomplished three things. You perpetuate the public presence of immat'ure humor that insults the women and men of both campuses; you insult the integrity of our interests and senses of humor; and you lower your journalistic standards to a juvenile levei. One would like to think that even if they are overly cautious in presenting seriously controversial perspectives to stimulate our thoughts, the new Spectator staff would be more discriminating in publi$hing things of at· least minimum quality. Or don't bother to publish at all. Ben Earle
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INTERCOM A group known as INTERCOM meets Wednesdays and Saturdays at 9:00 p.m. in the Alumni House. Its purpose is simply for people to get together. Its primary function is conversation; activities inclua.e games and occasional singing. It will continue through the end of the year; all are welcome. MARRIED HAMILTON STUDENTS Any married student interest in the possibility of renting .a Griffin Road apartment next year, please see Dean Bingham at once. RELIGIOUS SERVICES April 21 (Saturday) 5:30 p.m. Newman Mass with Father Finnegan. Chapel. 9:00 p.m. All Night Easter Vigil. Chapel. April 22 (Sunday) 5:00 a.m. Easter Sunrise Service. Bristol Campus Center Terrace {Indoors in event of rain). 9:00 a.m. Free Church Pot-Luck Breakfast. Alumni House. 9:30 a.m. Newman Mass with Father Finnegan. Chapel. 11:15 a.m. Free Church Easter service: Joel Tibbetts. Chaplain of the Colleges. Chapel. 7:30 p.m. Community Worship. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. April 26 (Thursday) 5:30 p.m. Newman Mass with Father Finnegan. Chapel. 7:00 p.m. Newman Chaplain's Hour with Father Finnegan. Bristol Center Honor Court. JUDICIARY BOARD ELCTION RUN-OFF In the Judiciary Board election last Wednesday, Gordon Kaye '74 was elected to one of the co-chairman positions. The remaining position will be decided in a run-oof. between the other 5 candidates to be held on next Tuesday, April 24. The candidates will he: Jim Connolly, Charles Darrigrand, Bill Gadbow, Michael Meyer, Thomas Pirodsky.
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APRIL 20, 1973
Exhibit of Conten1inrary Art A Mixture of Genres, Styles
BY JOHN GRAVELEY. The current show at Root Art Center (Contemporary Artists Early and Late Paintings) is an exceptional one. The diverse artists represented are Alex Katz, L a r ry Rivers, Mark Rothko, Jimmy Ernst, William Palmer, A l l a n D ' A r c a n g el o , I lya Bolotowsky, John Heliker, John Koch, Theodore Stamos, and Norman Lewis. ,... Allan D'Arcangelo's stylized Danger highway sign has sharp, i m pa c t e d e dges around the -�saulting color. His_ Untjtled_, ��o
('67) contains a bleak divided seem to draw its magic. highway and a divided, wordless · A.lex Katz painted two Ada's. U.S. Highway sign on the black The first, from 1958, is a very shoulder. The sky is barren, the loose statement, where the spirit horizon bland; the uncomfortable of Ada is hidden beneath the sensation of crooked dissection monochrome layer of skin and c auses a dizzine s s if the clothing. It is impressive for its dr1ver-viewer stares too long. unassuming simplicity. Ada With Yellow Constellation ('72) is a Sung las ses ('69) is a large ·fr agmentation of stenciled shapes impassive face, carefully modeled which fiercely intersect, scattering with reflected light. Its loose about dry black pigment. edges save the painting from a Larry River' Oval Webster tightness which would destroy the ('50)' is an amusing, floating, s en sitivity behind the green u pdate d , reinterpreted tiny glasses. Wild Sweet Peas ('69) is a crayon portrait of the man whose pFet ty composition seemingly Root Art c.enter 1he Accident, by John Koch, now on exhimt at name is loosely stenciled above on wrought with simple ease; the dirty masking tape. 17 (Portrait of composition is very well planned Vichey Hochberg) of 1960 is an it is a very happy painting. absolutely fair-minded treatment The . abstr act ion of Ilya of the subject and the space Bolotowsky and Norman Lewis around her. The space merges on share a room in which the bright her fac� and her body becomes geometrical energy patterns of t h e area around her. The Bolotowsky show a trend away treatment is loose, vigorous and a from visible brushwork, and a personality emerges, but it is more greater tendency toward tightness. Rivers than Hochberg. Verticle Eclipse ('72) is like an Horses (1960-70) could easily African warrior's shield - a great have been l a b e l e d George oval of angular blues and reds, Washington, but that would be separated by a white truce strip. another painting. Monochromatic Some of the colors coexist at the except for a startling band of blue edges; the blue and red are at war. T h e K i r k la n d D a n c e and red outlining the nearly The tendency to overwork ·the Department will present "Dance i dentical twin horsemen,· the recent paintings straitjackets the Theatre," a spring concert of.jazz t r e a t m e n t i s e x t r e m e ly excitement. and ballet, at the Clinton Junior professional, loose and spirited.. High School Auditorium on April The 1951 drawings of Norman River's three pieces somehow Lewis are diffusions of ink in the 27-29. The six pieces to be reflect himself; his love for his midst of sharp pirouetting shapes. presented are based on workshop work is apparent. classes conducted at f�1e Co!kg<!. The m onochromatic Blending Compared to his Dora Reading ( ' 5 1 ) is perhaps a little Two pieces, Summer of '42 ('68), .John Koch's early Gossip self-conscious although it pulsates and Jazz Suite for Six are ('50) has an almost finicky tautly in its strange smog-like choreographed by Rhett Dennis, treatment; the garden background e nvironment. Heroic Evening Instructor of Dance at Kirkland, with its heavy, dotted strokes ('63), with its exciting trio of high who has studied jazz with Luigi is inconsistent with the less-sure, dancing clouds, is most successful and ballet with Eugene Lori.rig and unrelated gossips and dog. The when seen from a distance. Anatole Vilzak. Mr. Dennis, who composition in his later works is Jimmy Ernst's Ancestral T60), has appeared on the Ed Sullivan much better; there is a subtle top mosaic-like, resembles a collision to bottom grid pattern in the of two great birds in a primitive and Skitch Henderson Shows, has supremely realistic Dora Reading. sky - one can "see things" in it also taught dance at Radio City Painted on a larger scale, The like on delicately tiled walls. It is Music Hall, Luigi's Jazz Center, Accident ('6&) would be most almost too tight, too overworked. Harkness School of Ballet and the impressive. It is very carefully Dayscape II ('67) has a freer Ballet Academy of Stockholm.· painted, no detail is left out. Jazz dancers bring a neo-Baroque touch to Clinton. design and is more painterly. One Jazz Suite for Six is a jaz:.. The swirly, rich action of is impressed by Ernst's obvious piece based based on the Luigi balletic moderne, using· the Dance, has performed with the William Palmer's Sleeping on the diligence; there are hundreds of technique and performed by, six Brandenburg Concerto by Bach, Finnish National. Ballet, Lincoln Hill ('32) is contrasted with Route carefully painted, colored slivers. Kirkland students, while Summer and Equipoise, a Czech ballet 5 ('49) with its fragmented Oracle ('72) takes up where about love, hate and indifference, Center and the Radio City Music rectangles or earthy hues of green Dayscape left off, with the same of '42 is a solo dance by Felicia which w ill feature a guest Hall; her husband Tony Salatino, and yellow. It is very slivers only thousands more. It Norton, a Kirkland senior. who is a native Utan, has studied performer, Steve Lee, Halton pleasing-like looking through resembles a great blue wall that Sirpa and Tony Salatino hive College Assistant Professor of modern dance and ballet at sunlight and fresh warm air. Van Gogh might have constructed choreographed two ballet piece� Chemis t r y . S ir pa S a l at i no, · Julliard for four years and has OtsegQ Facades ('61), with its had he been a mason; there are for the concert, Dance Piece, a Kirkland Assistant Professor of p e r f ormed with the Lincoln d r amatic, controlled vigor, Center State Tour at the White represents an imaginative way of very interesting movements. The House with the New York City· seeing. The oil paint is like twin oracular symbols are brightly Light Opera Company and in emerald dust. Grecian Morn ('68) colored as if one is lqoking through a blue 3-D eyeglass. numerous summer theatres. He has an atmospheric, lyric beauty. Bands of ghostly, translucent has recently been appointed to _ At the center of a cubical group white branch out everywhere. of candy-colored buildings is a the Kirkland dance faculty. The show should be seen more temple from which everything than once. T w o s t u d e n t s h a·ve of choreographed pieces for the r e n d i tion This year's final student s p e ctacular from Shakespeare. During the semester concer t . D i e d re Towers, a production t heatrical College Hill, Shakespeare's "A each student has workedfor·many Kirkland senior, has done Sans the production, Blanc, a contemporary dance, and on Midsummer Night's Dream" will hours be performed at Minor Theatre on including travelling to New York Arthur Rosenfeld, a Hamilt.o n the Hamilton College campus at City to select materials for an s t u d e n t h a s d o n e t h e 8:00 p.m. from April 27-May 1. A elaborate set of props, as well as choreography for the closing culmination of a semester's course costuming for the fairies, and an piece, Arietta 's Garden, which will be performed by five students. work, the production is totally enormous donkey's head. The interior of Minor Theatre, the creation of a college course, F rida y and Sat urda y Production in Theatre, with the has been totally reconstructed to score, fit the needs of "A Midsummer performahces begin at 8:00 p.m., choreography, musical S u n d a y ' s p er f o rm a nce i s costuming, lighting, set design, Night's Dream." Students have scheduled for 2:00 p.m. with a and construction and advertising built a proscenium stage which is the reception to follow. Tickets, for e f f e ctive and promotion done by the m o re production, which will be available in Clinton, fifteen students in the class, under S h akespea rean at the college and in Utica, as well the direction of Paul Cooper, acco�ding to Ms. Albright. Tickets are $1.50 for adults as at the door, are $1.00 for Associate Professor of Drama. adults and $.50 for children. Acc�rding to Anne Albright, and $1.00 for students. I student producer and assistant director, the comeraderie of the class and the cast in putting together the show has proven to ' PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD KA VESH .. , be an imoortant factor in this
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Afro-Latin Center Sponsors Graphic Art of Ivan Powell
FILMS A provacative show of On Campus This Weekend Top Hat·- 1936. A musical made in Hollywood with Fred Astair g r a p h i c s - c o m m e r c i a l l y and Ginger Rogers. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights at 10 c o m miss ioned p osters- an d s t r i k i n g t h r e e -d imensional p.m., Chemistry Auditorium. The Sorrow and The Pity - 1971 � Directed by Marcel Ophuls, the assemblages on two-dimensional classic documentary on WWII resistance in France, "One of 1972's planesopened at Bristol this past ten best"-New York Times. Nominated for the Academy Awards. Sunday in conjuntion of the Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30, Saturday afternoon at 1 :00, Kir week-long Black Arts and Culture Celebration sponsored by the ner-Johnson Auditorium. Ha milto n - Kirkland Afro-Latin April 23 & 24 (Monday and Tuesday) A nous la Liberte- Kirl<land Film Society presents the Classics. Cultural Center. The artist, Ivan P o w el l , i s a well -k n o w n , Renoir. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium at 8 p.m. commercially successful figure in April 25 (Wednesday) Orpheus - presented by the French Club. At 9 p.m. in the Physics upstate New York. There is no doubt that Powell Auditorium. is a meticulous and accomplished April 26 (Thursday) Ministry of Fear - with Ray Millard. 8 p.m. in the Kirner:Johnson graphic artist, that he has a fine Auditorium. His Girl Friday - plus a Buster Keaton short. 8 p.m. in the Chemistry Auditorium. On Campus Next Weekend
chee.secake rhino in a bikini m "Rhinoceros", and the hearty, only slightly mocking laugh of James Earl Jones in the "Great White Hope", as a small white boxer lies prostrate below the brilliancy of his white teeth against the deep bronze ?f the poster. In each of these posters Powell expresses very _complex and emotional concepts through simple, concise and dynamic im ages. Only in the visually simple-minded ''Picasso" poster and the excessively caricatured "Beauty and the Beast" does
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this to evoke through its medium alone the concept behind and t h r o u g h o u t i t , than to pre-prejudice the viewer with so direct and intellectually-oriented a notion. as what 'the title implies; More importantly, it tends to detract from the viewer's possible variety of responses, limiting them to a verbalized framework. Even more annoying is the KKK button placed on the "Vampire" a s semblage. The strength of this image has only been diluted by such an obvious overstatement of what is already contained in the work itself. Such an interaction of words and images is legitimate, and for Powell highly successful, in poster creation, but not so in the less-assumptive medium of his personal work. This is not to say t h a t t h e a d d i t i o n a l or complementary information that the verbal form introduces is not intriguing and often stimulating, for it clearly is in "Emerging Female", "warrior", or "Africa" for example, yet there something dilutive about it, distorting the essent ial v i s ualness of the medium.
At Nearby Theatres Cannonball (853-5553}; Chloe in the Afternoon Kallet (736-2313); The Heartbreak Kid Paris (733-2730}; Brother Sun Sister Moon Stanley (724-4000} Soylent Green Uptown (732-0665); Charley and the Angel, and Cinderella MUSIC April 20 & 21 (Friday and Saturday) Beer and Band - Steak Night- at Commons, 9 to 1. $1.00. At the Coffeehouse- Mike Allen and Jack McGann - 9 to 1, Friday and Saturday nights. Free.with Social Tax. April 22 (Sunday) But what is perhaps the most Student Recital- James H. Caraher; Clarinet, Charles Stewart and disturbing is the coldness of his Mary Fankhauser; Voice, Henry Burman, Robert Caraher; Piano. In faceless, archtypal representations the Chapel at 3:30. of the human characters in his April 24 (Tuesday) assemblages and drawings. In All-American Piano Music; William Albri"ght - In the Chapel at 8:30 p l a c e of heads, eyes, p.m. free. Ragtime, Harlem Stride, Boogie Woogie. expressions-to wit, identities-the April 26 (Thursday) f igures have smooth bright Spring Houseparties mirrors, or undefined blocks of SAC Beer and Band; The Stomping Suede Greasers 9 p.m. in the wood, blank, shal!ow looks, or Sage Rink. Free with Social Tax. nothing at all. This concentrated EXHIBITIONS attention to symbolic archtypes is Currently on Campus perhaps instructive, evenshocking Works of Ivan Powell.: at the Bristol Campus Center Lounge thru or intriguing, but not emotionally April 28. moving. Powell seems to have Contemporary Artists - Early and Late Pa - at the Root Art captured a rich and powerful Center thru May 2. surface, but in doing so has Opening April 23, somewhat neglected an inner The Paintfogs of Peter Ostun£ - at the List Arts Center thru May 24. individual humanity. At the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (797-0000) From the exhibit of works of Iron Powell, mw at Bristol The Sisti"ne Ceiling Seen for the First Time - at the Museum of Art, ·sense of how to evoke general Powell fail to carry out his visual 310 Genesee Street, thru May 6.s, concepts and particular ideas conceptions. The same graphic Despite this reservation, the Works of George Luks - at the Museum of Art through the visual medium. This is s e n s i b i l i t y m a r k s h i s richness and directness of his LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS e vi d e n ced b y h is symbolic three-dimensional assemblages. It images can be immediately .and April 23 (Monday) assemblages as well as his posters is an exciting notion to combine deeply felt. The blackness and More than Books Can Tell You Exploration of careers, Work Study publicising plays. But strangely, t h e. ta·n g i b i l i tyand . form of browness of his works about black and Field Service. 8:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. the commercially commissioned sculpture with the fixity and people and about Africa, the Hamilton-Kirkland Psychology Symposium: Viotaction for posters elicit a more basic plane-aura of a canvass surface asy mmetry o f his f igures' Suprathreshold Stimuli .. Dr. Ronald T. Verillo. 4 p.m. Physics emotional response than his and context. Yet these works are anatomy expressing the inner Auditorium. personal works. . Y et, his• the most artistically disturbing. feelings and psyches, the lyrical Career Conference in Journalism. 8:30 Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. remarkable sense of design and What.must have begun as formally yet perceptive contrasts of the April 24 (Tuesday) color�aphics, meshed with an organi c seem s to encl up Lecture and Demonstration on Ragtime Music. William Albright, acute insight into primal human ��e r - i n t e l l e c t u a lized a n d f ormal similarity with the particular differentiation of the Composer. 4 p.m. Chapel. issues pervade all his work. depersonalized. They ar e over _f i g u r e s in "Male-Female"-all Open Forum on Alternatives in Education at Kirkland: Work The poster "Inherit the Wind" intellectualized by their explicit signify this man's genuine artistic Study and Field Study. 7:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. is a good example of his precise conne ction w i t h v e rbalized a n d e m otiona l sensitivity. April 25 (Wednesday) talent.. The play- deals with the concepts. The mere fact that they International Film and Lecture: Hong Kong a�d Micronesia. Ernest famous Scopes "monkey trial'' are . titled is almost enough to Regardless of one's response to t h e c oldness of the partial Fung '76and Jesus Raglmar '76. 8:30 p.m. Chemistry Auditorium. that pited the Darwinian doctrine make this connection irreversible, c omme rcial influence in his First !,.ink Foundation Lecture of 1973: Chemistry and Interstellar of evolution against Southern and hence to detract from the per sonal works, or to his Space . Dr. Patrick Thaddeus of the Goddard Institute for Space Biblical fundamentalism, and the pure visual impact of the works. disconcerting habit of adding too Studies. 8:30 p.m. Science Auditorium.,. f<;>r i nstance ''White haunting eyes of a photo-realistic Take blatant words to a visual medium, April 26 (Thursday) chimpanzee, a white cross on the Queen". It is far preferrable for a this unique show is well worth the Christian Science Meeting. 7:30 p.m. McEwen Cofeehouse Sigma bible he holds "popping" out sophisticated visual image such as viewing. -Ben Earle Xi Lecture: Observe the Laws - Natural and Unnatural Harvey A. from the rich, muddy brown of Nee, President of the Society of Sigma Xi. 8:30 p.m. Science the poster combine to make for "ONE OF THE 10 an amazingly strong image. Auditorium. D.C. Apartments to Rent BEST PIT-STOPS Likewise in the flame bursting MILESTONES IN THE U.S." l. Capitol Hillbedroom; from a clerical collar in place of a April 20 (Friday) - Ski Magazine, furn; a/c; 3 blocks to office priest's head combined with an Carol York's Birthday (1953) Jan. 1972 bldg's. June through Aug.; overall red hue in ''The Trial of April 22 (Sunday) $230. the Catonsville ,Nine", the direct Yehudi Menuhin's Birthday (1916) 2. Georgetown - bedroom humanness of a young black April 23 (Monday) town hse; furn; June through woman 's face b e h i n d the Serge Prokofiev's Birthday (1891) ). Aug.; $270 + util. featureless, uniform mask she William Shakespeare's Birthday (1564}. Contact Matthew McKenna, held i n ' 'The Me Nobody POETRY READING 501 Constitution Ave NE. There will be a poetry reading �y David E. Rigsbee �t 8:30 p.m., Wednesday April 25 in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
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THE SPECTATOR
Kirkland Appoints Professors In Philo, Dance and Writing has College K irk l a n d announced promotions, tenure. decisions, and the appointment of · · three new faculty members made thus far for the 1973-74 school year. New appointments are in the disciplines of philosophy, dance and writing. A philosophy, a theatre and a Judaic Studies appointment have to be made. In the Social Science Division an appointment in education will be made. Adele E. Laslie has been named jnstructor in philosophy. Ms. Leslie is currently a member of the Department of Philosophy at University, Hopkins J o h ns Baltimore, Md., and received her Associate Professor of Psychology, David Begelman, who was named bachelor of arts in philosophy
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resentment of the law schools (for continued t,om page one recently law schools have had whom the jncrease in applicants is little information about small a relatively recent phenomenon) colleges, but the Educational as arbitrary and high-handed. liberal arts prestige The Testing �ervice, which provides a comparative study of college colleges are no long er confident of grading systems, and a statistical their ability to place their of their averages, has helped graduates in top professional table • 1,1, remedy the situation. The number schools. They· feel that the very BY JUDY CROWN of law school applications this fact that they draw , the most able students has become a Service Systems agreed two year, according to Mr. Traer, has weeks ago to serve only fa rm remained steady or have gone drawback, because the flood of worker's union lettuce in McEwen down, making the outlook applications to law and medical those caused has and Commons dining halls. "somewhat brighter" for pre-law schools Earl D'Aprix, manager of students. In addition to visiting institutions to refuse admissions Service Systems, explained that he law schools in the Washington to applicants who do not have top was happy to make the change as D .c.-v·rrg1ma · · area, Mr. Traer, undergraduate records. Students long as a majority of students along with Paula Robbins of in the middle of their class as the supported it. There is no price Trinity, presently ch3.!I's an ad hoc prestige colleges, the college difference involved, and union committee of pre-law _ advisors repr esentatives feel, are often lettuce is often less expensive. which has proposed a nationa l more able than those at the top in D'Aprix simply did not want to meeting of pre-law advisors and less competitive institutions. arbitrarily admiss decision a make Grades at all the undergraduate ions offic ers sponsored by without going to the students. the Law School Adinissions institutions represented have gone A committee of eight students, . Council. Such a meetin would up sharply in the past few years. g organized - by Megan Charlop and discuss and While students at some schools policies grading Peggy Farber, were able to. gather a d m i s s i o n s d i f f i c ulties. complain that their college's 800 signatures on a pet1tion to ''Hamilton" in Mr. Tr aer's words, relatively low grades put.them at a present to Service Systems. The ''has not been treated unfairly." disadvantage, students at coll eges particularly The law schools simply need more which have seen the greatest grade was committee service's ·m fiormation the with pleased about small coIIeges. inflation say that the value of • the in attitude cooperative A formal report of the their grades h as been undercut. endeavor · P r o f e s s ional school , conferen_!=e is not yet available. Kirkland is sympathetic to the The opinions of the participants representatives say that the cause and may include a union aTe Several quality of the undergraduate confidentia l . lettuce clause in next year's food conclusions about the present school is taken into consideration, contract. situation, however, surfaced from but they admit. that they do Megan Charlop noted that the the conference. establish cutoff points. . They fraternities were unsympathetic. Law and medical schools would like better information with the effort, with the possible report that they have in excess of about colleges' grading po�icies. Students at institutions which exception of �LS. The Bundy 30 applications for each place. not give grades are generally at do were similarly f r a t e r nities But they also estimate that about apolitical. 60 per cent of those who apply , a disadvantage in the professional admissions process. s ch o ol Another problem encoll_!_ltered are qualified for their programs of professional many Likewise, has been the Utica · teamsters, study. Even allowing for multiple school admissions committees who, being unsympathetic with applications, it is likely that not frown on students' taking courses California farm worker.s, are more than half of the qualified "pass-fail" as an option. uncooperative about unloading applicants to professional school Both medical and law schools union lettuce from incoming will ever be able to practice the trains. profession to which they aspire. give heavy weight to the medical and law aptitude tests-graduate To this date, Service Systems In order to try to beat these versions of the college boards has agreed to buy only farm odds, medical applicants wor kers union lettuce. If this is applicants in particular- are even though these tests were unavailable, they will substitute applying to as many schools as designed only to establish a floor other leafy vegetables such as they can �fford. The nor m for fo r applicants, not a precise grade. There is correlation between escarole, endive, Boston lettuce, medical school applications is now success on the tests and success in curly lettuce, romaine, mustard 20 to 25, with application fees for the first two years of professional greens, and turnip greens. The each of $20 or more. Including student committee is appreciative travel to interviews, costs of school, but no evidence of correlation beyond that. of Service Systems fo r its - taking books buying tests, A number of students rejected cooperation. andother expenses, the act of at medical schools are enrolling in applying to medical school may graduate programs in science at Men-Women cost as much as $1,000. Most universities which offer the MD. applicants borrow money for the This can be a road into medical applications. school; but usually the med WORK ON A SHIP NEXT general in schools Medical SUMMER. No experience re school requires that the. student interview applicants who pass quired. Excellent pay. 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from Sweet Briar College:· She has Professor of Psychology, was done graduate work at Tulane recently named Chairman of the University and the Unviersity of Social Science Division, replacing Edinburgh in Scotland. . of David Gray, Professor Ms. Laslie will teach Informal So�iology, as whose term t o chairman has expired. He received Int r o du c t i o n L o g ic , Epistemology and a senior-level his PhD. from Yeshiva in at psycology in 1966. He is a course Logic Inductive fall. Her licensed psychologist in the states in the Kirkland dissertation explores the relation of New York .and Conneticut. between subjective probability Prior to coming to Kirkland in and an idealized model of decision 1972, Mr. Begelman was an Assistant Clinical Professor of making. Anthony Salatino who has Psychiatry at Yale University. was R osenfeld William been named Assistant Professor of Dance, h as a BFA in that �eld and promoted to the status of .full has studied at the Julliard School, professor of the arts. Mr. the Igor Youskevitch School of Rosenfeld h as been at Kirkland Ballet, the School of American since 1969, coming here from Ballet Theatre, Ballet Arts, and Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio. the Merna-Ruggiero School of In 1972 he was named Chairman Dance, where he also taught. He of the Arts Division at Kirkland. has had numerous repertorri and He has also taught at the professional engagements, among University of Minnesota, the which are with the New York City University of Maine, Wilmington Opera Ballet, the Koln Tanz College, and Central Michigan West University. He received his B.A. Cologne, in Forum Germany, and with the New York from Utica College and his M.A. City Light Opera Company in a -and PhD. from the University of performance for the late President Minnesota. Johnson ,at the White House in Donald K. Grayson was 1966. His wife, Sirpa, is currently promoted from the position of an Assistant Professor in Dance at instructor of anthropology to an Kirkland. He was assistant professor ship. Katharine Saltonstall, currently awarded his PhD. from the an instructor at the Montessori University of Oregon this year. School in Vermont, has been Grayson received his bachelor of named an Assistant Professor in arts degree from SUNY at Buffalo Creative Writing. She received her and his M.A. from Oregon in MFA from Cornell University and 1969. has published poetry in ·several Two members of the Kirkland literary magazines. Her speciality faculty were given tenure effective at Kirkland according to William July 1, 1974: William Hoffa, Assistant Professor of Literature, Rosenfeld, head of the Arts Division, will be wor king with the and Nathan Boxer, Associate Professor of film. Mr. Hoffa advanced poetry workshop. Ruth Rinard, ssistant Professor received his PhD. from the of the history of sciei'ice and on University fo Wisconsin and came leave during the 1972-73 school here in 1969 from Vanderbiilt year, will return to Kirkland in University, where he was an the fall as the Assistant Dean of assistant professor of literature. the Faculty and will teach one Mr. Boxer is a graduate of the course. Mrs. Rinard received her New School fo r Social Research and Queens College. He has M.A. and her PhD. from Cornell University in the history of previously worked for television science and was a Woodrow and film as soundman and done Wilson Fellow. still and motion freelance David B egelman, Associate photography.
LITERARY CONTEST
The fo�th annual George A. Watrous Literary Contest for Kirkland College students has begun. There· are three categories of writing in which students may participate: poetry, prose fiction, and essays in criticism. Last year, Susan Hartman won the prize for excellence in poetry and Ellen O'Brien won for h er essay in criticism. A prize of seventy-five dollars is awarded to the first-prize winner in each category, with an extra twenty-five dollars for the "most promising" of the writers in all three categories. The entries will be judged by a panel of Hamilton and Kirk.land faculty members. They are: George Bahlke: William Hoffa, Stephen Lipmann, Phyllis Morris, and Henry Stabenau of the Kirk.land Humanities Division, Naomi Lazard of the Kirkland Arts Division, David Rigsbee and Fred Wagner of the Hamilton English Department. The contest director is William Rosenfeld of the Kirkland Arts D epartment. All manuscripts must be handed to Mr. Rosenfeld by 5:00 p.m. Monday Apr il 23rd. They must be double spaced: no author's name may appear anywh ere on the manuscript, but the author MUST submit a separate envelope with her name AND the title of her work or the first line, if the piece has no title. Critical essays and prose fiction pieces must observe one-inch margins and pages should be numb ered. Poems should be submitted one p er page. Entries in each category are limited to five per writer, although one person may enter all three categories.
THE SPECTATOR
APRIL 20, 1973
Batmen's Hopes Dimmed Thrice;·· Weak Pitching,Defense·Hurt Team BY TOM THOMPSON Hamilton's hopes for a highly successful baseball season dimmed a bit this week as the first play of the season saw only one win in four starts for the Continentals. A lack of depth and consistency ·in the pitching staff and early season defensive errors have made the difi:erence in two of the losses. Last Friday's season opener afJa inst Union C ollege was c·hanged from a home to an away ,.:ontest after last week's disastrous weather. Schenectady's balmy weather proved more help to an experienced Union team which had already played several games. Despite Dave Mc Lean �s three-hit pitching the Continental's went down to a 6-2 loss as John Psiaki was unable to salvage things when Mc Lean's arm tired. Continental
Ragtimer Albright to Entertain l·n Chapel William Albright, one of the know as the "King of Ragtime" at ragtime has been distorted over nation's leading authorities on the end of the 19th century, when the years by the. Tin Pan Alley in succeeded who ragtime music, the precursor of ragtime was created. Ragtime hacks a ·as ragtime jazz, will give a piano concert in continued in fashion until 1915, stereotyping the Hamilton College Chapel on when it turned into and speeded-up cartoon sound-track, boozy a as Tuesday, April 24, at 8:30 p.m. influenced early jazz. worse, or, The concert is free and open to Mr. Albright descn"bes ragtime accompaniment to straw hats and the public. as "the first truly American pitchers of beer." Mr. Albright is known equally m u s i c , Mr. Albright has given concerts just now being as a pianist, a composer, and an rediscovered by the musical world of new works on the organ as well as the piano and many of his interpreter of ragtime. His as the serious music it really is. "Joplin' c, along with the concert, the fifth in a series compostions involve electronic, sponsored by the Hamilton Music music or other rag composers, is visual, and theatrical elements. Department, will be in two parts: characterized by gently swinging His "Organbook I" won the the first, several new American syncopations set against a steady Queen Marie-Jose Prize and he has works for piano, including his left hand,'' Mr. Albright says. also been the recipient of two Composition own "Pianoagogo"; the second, a "The best rags have all the musical Koussev itzky selection of ragtime, together with charm and craft of the shorter Awards, a Fulbright Fellowship, examples of stride and boogie, the piano works of the nineteenth and an award from the American century; the continual .offbeat Academy of Arts and Letters.- He early jazz styles. The second half of the concert accents suggest the complex is presently Assistant Professor of will include works by Scott plyrhythms of African music. Compostio,i at the University of Joplin, a Missouri black who wa� Unfortunately, the image of Michigan and associate director of the university's Electronic Music LACROSSE ---------Studio. continued from page 8 In addition to the concert performances third contest of the season. The Note wor thy next Tuesday night, he will give a home return were turned in by co-captain laxmen Woody Navin '73, Steve Small Wednesday, April 25 to meet a lecture-demonstration on ragtime '73, Pete Follansbee '76 (Nat's powerful Geneseo squad. To in the Chapel at 4 p.m. Tuesday. younger brother), and Doug appreciate the veracity of the This also will be free and open to Errico '76, although these fine statement that "Lacrosse is the the public. fastest game on foot", come see lacrossemen did not score. Tomorrow the team travels to Von Schiller's sticksters meet Clarkson Coll�ge to do battle with · Geneseo on Wednesday, in the ARREST a good group of players who beat next action--packed episode of continued from page one students. Arrests on campus, such the Continentals last year, in the this great spectator sport_! as the one which occurred on Friday, have been extremely rare. Bingham does not expect that a precedent will be set, nor that past agreements will be altered. Police presence on the campus, he feels, will not increase. The Dean Commercial Drive of Students was told that no Route Sa New Hartford students, faculty, or staff here are 736-7106 posing. as narcotics agents. The Mon-Fri 10-9 Sat 10-5 arrested student was allegedly dealing with an un�ercover agent, outside the campus. Because of JUST ARRIVED! this, Bingham felt, the unusual arrest was made. Complete Shipments of Though the Dean does not RALEIGH and PEUGEOT expect mass paranoia to result Bicycles from the incident, he cautions students to be generally more circumspect, especially concerning OPENING SOON Our New and Enlarged the use and sale of drugs outside Shop cker Backpa te Comple the College campus. FEATURING:
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pitchers held the Garnet to Just seven hits total, however, while Hamilton errors enabled four of Union's base runners to score. Two errors were charged to first baseman Brian Cavanagh, who switched to first from playing the outfield most of last year, and t w o more were charged to freshman shortstop Kerry Regan. Andy Sopchak and Bill Foley each pulled one error. The next day the Hillmen had their own field in shape and took on the Pioneers of Utica College in a double header. Dave McLean, operating on very little rest, managed to keep the ball low and allowed only one extra base hit to get by a fired-up defense whlch atoned for the previous day's sins by playing errorless ball in the first 7-inning game. Utica pitcher Gary Pfendler allowed only three hits but numerous errors by his teammates allowed freshman outfielder Nordo Nissi to single home the winning run of a ,3-2 ball game in the bottom frame of the last inning. Dave McLean, helping his pitching with a single . and a run in the 5th inning, helped Brian Cavanaugh and Brian Gelber to score in the win. The Pioneers got revenge � the second game. Jim Rishel, plagued by a sore arm which hindered his control, was hit for a grand slam and a two run homer before being replaced by John Psiaki in the second inning. Psiaki pitched another three-hitter but Hamilton batters managed only that many hits off Jim Andreoli of Utica in seven innings. Psiaki helped the Continental effort with a single and a run while Andy Sopchak TRACK contim.1ed from page 8 triple jumped an excellent 43'½", good enough for first place, and Kendall won the pole vault at 11'5", a fine height considering the difficulty of practicing in the snow. Mack ran a solid early season time of 61.9 for the grueling 440 �ard hurdles, taking first in that event. Teammate Tim Greenwood '73 finished third behind Dave in the 440 hurdles, and Ed Giminez ' grabbed third in the 120 yard high hurdles. In the high jump, Charlie Liebling '74 and Larry Dunn '74 fin ished second and third, respectively. Junior nansfer student Paul Brown put the shot 43', good enough for st:cond. ·MEAT FAT continued from page one admitted her dislike of the institutional food on campus had partly influenced her decision to make the investigation. She also was pleased by the cooperation of Mr. D'Aprix and his quick response to the problem. Mr. D'Aprix commented that Service Systems is constantly in the process of buying meat from different distributors in an effort to compare prices and quality. Though the price of a fat testing device is very high, he can usually check on fat content by weighing meat both before and after cooking to evaluate shrinkage.
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blasted a double. John Thomas drove Sopchak in for µamilton ts only other score in the 8-2 defeat. Wednesday proved to be a good day and a bad day for the ball field boys. It was a good day because they went for 14 hits and 8 runs against a powerful R.P.I. club. It was a bad day because R.P .I. ca pit alized on seven Hamilton errors and scored 18 times on 17 hits. Lack of rest for the pitching staff accounted for the greater portion of R.P .I. 's scoring, with Iron Man Dave McLean tiring early in the 7th inning apd John Psiaki having control problems thereafter.
Each club had a big inning; but R.P .I. had a better big inning than Hamilton. The Continentals went around the order in the 4th inning, grabbing seven hits and six runs on the trip. The score went to 7-2, Hamilton before R.P.I.'s Susetka led a 7th and 8th inning blitz with his 2 run homer. Nine hits, two walks, and an error later R.P.l. was out in front 17-7 on the strength of that two inning streak. The sides traded runs to end the game at 18-8, R.P.I. on top. The bright sopts for the Hill were 2 hits apiece for Andy Sopchak, John Thomas, Brian Cavanaugh, and Dave McLean, including a double by Sopchak and a 2 RBI single by Jim Knodel. It was a bad day on defense again, with seven errors charged to various people. The Continentals play Le Moyne in Syracuse this Saturday. Improved fielding and a good rest for the pitching staff are musts if a 1-3 record is to be improved. Both Blue d iscus throwers, hampered by injuries, did not place in their event; but Frank O'Leary, off to a slow start due to the weather, managed third in the javelin throw with a 157'3" toss. Both Continental rel ays finished second to RPI's teams, and their times reflected the lack of decent practice weather which has been hindering the thinclads. Hopefully, this week's sunshine will aid a b etter ove rall performance (as well as continued individual improvement) when the team faces a tough University of Rochester squad at Rochester, this Saturday April 21. DEGREES continued from page one increased political and economic power for blacks and that close associations with government and business are necessary to obtain this power. Among the other recipients of honorary d egrees is William Masters, who graduated from Hamilton in 1938 and attended t he Un iversity of Rochester Medical School. Along with his wife, Virginia E. Johnson, he has done pioneering research in the area of human s�xuality and has written Human Sexual Response ( 19 66) and H u man Sexual Inadequacy (1970). Danny Kaye is most widely known as an actor and a comedian who has played leading roles in movies as the Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Hans Christian Anderson. For the last several y ears he has be e n "a m ba s sador -at-l arge" for UNICEF
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THE SPECTATOR
Lacrossemen Smother EUenhower Travel To to Clarkson Tomorrow BY THOM PIRODSKY Wednesday was a red-letter day · halt the awesome power of the this year. What's more, Assuma's for the Hamilton College Varsity goal-hungry Continentals. damaging defensive performance Lacrosse Tearn. Before a The half-time conversation at was even bettered by that of surprisingly large, "home-opener" the Hamilton bench was lively as mighty Martin Percy '75 (another crowd, the Buff and Blue the team huddled around its all-state lacrosseman) who starred thoroughly trounced the Generals m e n t o r . Coach M a n fred in high school with Speno at from Eisenhower College by the VonSchiller confidently, yet Watertown. Percy, the defensive devastating store of 18-6 ! cautiously, reminded his sky-high wizard of the team, is quick, agile, The victory, which evened the lax.men that, "... you haven't won and very aggressive, and he has sticksters' season record at 1-1 the game yet, fellas!" And he was good size for a def enseman. Also, came just four days after thei; right.For, although the mudders Mark Williams '7 6, Greg Thomas opening game loss at Albany had run up an impressive '76, and Alex Keith '76 are a trio College in a closely-contested 7-4 seven-goal lead, a very physical of fine freshman defensemen, and struggle. second half loomed ahead, which all stand to see a good deal of playing time this season. As soon as the second half got under way, attackman Nat Follansbee '7 3 initiated the Hamilton scoring (as he did in the first half) with a sizzling shot that speared the coveted crease. The classy co-captain from Andover, Mass. tallied three goals, not to mention four assists, while being used only sparingly in the third and fourth periods. Follansbee worked well with sophomore Jon Berry, who picked up five assists as well as three goals for a second Hamilton "hat-trirk". Berry's eight points made him high man for the game, much to the delight of Coach Von Schiller. Jon (like Follansbee) saw limited action in the second half, as substitutes were used freely when the game was out of reach for Eisenhower's tired, bruised, and beten crew. Unfortunately for the "Ikes", however, things didn't change one bit; the barrage of Hamilton goals c·ontinued. With freshman goalie Hank Bedford in the nets for most of the second half, the momentum Led by co-captains Nat would see several injured players of the game stayed with the Von Schiller's Follansbee '73 and Woody Navin (all Generals) carried off the field. Continentals. '73, the Continental lacrosse Indeed, most of the lop-sided laxmen scored seven times in the squad seemed to score at will in contest had the ear-marks of a third period as Scarsdale's own the first half of play, as nine, brawl; penalties and technical Bobby Pelz '75, Ned Collum '75, nicely-netted goals were pumped fouls were dished out like and John Lotze '76 eaC-'h got their past a bewildered Eisenhower hotcakes. Rugged midfielder second tallies. Rounding out the scoring with goalie. To make matters better, Steven Speno '75 (6', 210 lbs.) led Hamilton's senior goalie, William the furious assaul� on Eisenhower single goals were sophomores Sam Hardy, was in excellent form, and as he displayed his dazzling Rodgers '75 and Mark Bernard only two General shots eluded his all-N.Y.-state skills, checking or '75, as well as freshman Bill lightning-fast reflexes. intimidating every ''red-shirt" in O'Donnell '76 and Bob St. George The ever-0angerous Dave John sight. - At one point, Steve '76, who hails from Towson, Md. '76 (6'4", 175 lbs.) walloped in miraculo_ysly managed to elude Gibby Hedstrom '75 contributed the ninth Hamilton goal as he four converging "Ikes" by an assist. A record eighty (80)- shots rushed in from his midfield weaving in and out of (and position. Only the buzzer could e ventually outrunning) the were taken by the Continentals, and score-keeper Kevin Lenihan's quartet of frustrated Generals. Starring on the formidable pencil had difficulty keeping up defense was Frank Assuma '75, with the sticksters' pulsati:pg pace. who has impressed everyone so far continued on page 7
Linksmen Gain Tie
BY DOUG WRIGHT The Hamilton College golf team opened its season on a rather blah note as they tied Hobart 405-405. The totals were attained by adding together the five best scores for each team; the other two scores of the seven man squad · were disallowed. Leading the Hamilton linksmen were Captain Tim Jones '73 with a 7 8 and Wally Porter '7 4 who carded a 79. Rounding out the continental top five were Vaid Hoyt '75 with 81, Steve Green '74 with 83 and Doug Wright who added 84. Medalist honors went to Hobart's Austin Roberts who produced a fine 7 7 for his efforts. Hamilton's freshman duo of Dave Wollman and Tom Moore completed the Hamilt-on scoring with 86 and 91 respectively. The linksmen's next match will be Monday at home against an always tough RPI Squad.
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Against Clarkson - Saturday afternoon at 11-:00 A.M. Against St. Lawrence - Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m.
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SPECTATOR SPORTS
RP.l Downs Trackmen; Rival Union Here Wed. BY PETE ACKERMAN T h e Hamilton track team opened its spring season Saturday April 14 against RPI at Troy, N.Y. Despite the 87-58 loss, Coach Gene Long's runners produced several p r om i s i ng individual performances on a rather slow track, and in adverse weather conditions. High point man for the day was versatile sophomre Pedro Garcia. Pedro grabbed second in the 100 (10.5), the long jump (21'93�, and the triple jump (42' 4"), and he also ran a leg of the 440 yard relay. Another strong performer was Vito Stellato '74 who finished first in the 880 yard run with a fine time of 2:03. 7, and second in the mile (4:30.3).
Go-captain TimDelaney '74 edged Stellato in the mile (4:30.1) and also finished right behind freshman Bruce Carter in the three mile event. Carter's winning time of 15:23.7 was noteworthy as he had spent most of the winter s e a s o n r e c o v e r i n g from mononucleosis. Sophomore Lou Pacilio finished third in the half behind Stellato, and co-captain Dennis Oakes added points with two third place finishes in the 220 and 440 yard dashes. A l o n g w i t h Ga r c ia's outstanding start in the field events, Owen Kratz '76, Dave Mackintosh '74, and Don Kendall '7 4 each provided something to look forward to this spring. Kratz contin-ued on page 7
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Hamilton Athletic Policy; Long Reveals Student Views BY ED WATKINS
A majority of students also Athletics at the college level are quite different than those found favor with the current found at the university level. The amount of emphasis on intramural university is involved in seeking sports. Only nine thought there national recognition for its teams was too much emphasis. On and often tries to field the best intercollegiate sports, 122 thought team money can buy. Other parts there was too little emphasis while of the athletic program are 127 thought there was a correc t neglected. The college is more amount. On the _ requirement concerned with finding a proper question, 137 were in favor of the balance between its physical requirements, 102 against, and 44 education program,- its intrmural undecided. The class of '7 6 was program, and its intercollegiate the only class to vote against the requirements. Co-ed phyHd was program. Hamilton's program fits under approved by a 2-1 vote. Comments and criticism w ere the college level. Its athletic policy is to conduct a program for many and varied. Some involving sports, recreation, and educational the intramural program are under values · rather than for public consideration for next year. Coach Long was pleased with entertainment or financial. return. Much criticism ,, has been the response to the poll.- He directed toward the Hamilton believed it was the first step in communications athletic program. In order to i m p roving discover some of the specifics of between his department and the this criticism, Hamilton Athletic rest of the college community. Coach Long is a firm believer Director Gene Long conducted a poll in which the Hamilton in the importance of physical students were asked to answer a education as part of a liberal arts series of questions regarding the education. In addition to the program and to write down any present program, he favon participation in criticisms or commments. Two student hundred eighty-four students unstructured sports activities. He responded to the poll. The finds the present program to be findings were ranked according to improving slowly, but improving. class with an anonymous category The athletic program must for those who did not sign the compete for funds along with the various parts of the academic survey. The respondents were asked if program. Improvement is possible; too little emphasis, too much it takes time. On the future lies a new emphasis, or a correct emphasis was being placed on physical Hamilton fieldhouse. Not only and would this fieldhouse aid the e d u c ation, intramurals , inter-collegiate sports. They were athletic department, it would also also asked their opinion of the be available for other activities phys-ed requirements and of co-ed such as concerts and lectures. The administration must be· convinced phys-ed. A majority of the students felt of its need though. It is up to the a correct amount of emphasis was individual Hamilton and Kirkland being placed on phys-ed. The student to show the interest fer greatest number of students who expanded sports facilities exists. thought there was too much The first step is to aid the Athletic emphasis on phys-ed were from department in improving and the freshman class who are expanding their program. The bat required to attend phys-ed until way · to do this is to participate. Get involved! Vote with your they pass all the requirements.
Longer Winter Stu�y; No -Exchange Proposed
Kirldand as a Women's Coll. Considered BY PAMELA THOMPSON In its "Report to the Faculty, Administration and Trustees of Kirkland College", the Evaluation T e a m r e p r e s e n tin g t h e Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Asation made the following points: ". . .it is out impression that at this time all the distinctiveness o f K i r k l an d c o u l d b e maintained without significant change if its student body became co-educational." "That is not to say that we recommend such a change. Rather it is to underscore our impression that if Kirkland College is indeed committed to being a woman's college as firmly as it is committed, to being an innovative educational institution, then a number of i m portant steps must be taken." A first step has already been taken. At their March 2nd meeting, the Board of Trustees of Kirkland College approved the proposal o f Trustees Iola Haverstick and Annette Baxter for a "T rustee Committee on Kirkland as a College for women." To date, there has been no effective focal point at Kirkland for students concerned with the status of women in society in general, and at Kirkland in paticular. Previous attempts by interested students to carry out appropriate programs have often met with many obstacles: an apathetic student body, the feeling that nothing could be accomplished at an administrative level, a lack of funds, etc. The Trustee Committee on KirJ.dand as a College for women hopes to overcome these obstacles. The newly created Committee is , intended to be the much needed focal point for women's concerns at Kirkland. In addition to T r u st e e s I ola Haverstick, Patricia Marshall, and A n n e t t e B a x t e r , B u nn y Lieberman, Director o f the Career C e n t er, f i v e s t u d e n t representat ives h a v e been appointed to the Committee: Co-chairperson Kate McGraw '74, Cl aire Brown '76, , M artha Frey m ann '75, P ennylynn K ornicker '74, and Pamela Tho m pson '74. Faculty and Associate appointments will be made in the near future. Informal sub-committees to be headed by committee members and staffed by addtional students and faculty are being formed to investigate and work on the followirig areas: The Women's Fil m Societ y , A Women's Advisory Committee on Careers, the McIntosh Collection of Women's Books, a Feminist Radio Show, a Day Care Center, and a Newsletter.
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Calleges Confront Computer Problem BY JON CRAMER We live in an age which is more t e chnologically advanced than ever, and this thechnology is based largely on computers. It is almost impossible to run an organization efficiently without the:n;i, yet Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges have to this date defied the dictates of progress by not s upplementing the seriously deficient present system with new or improved equipment. "Hamilton College does not now own or lease any computer facilities,'' according to Mr. Eugene Lewis of the Hamilton Government Department. Several teletype machines are now housed in the Science Building, which are a gift from and are hooked into a central machine at Griffis Air Force Base in Rome. Mr. Lewis stated that for ''batch processors, the teletype is very inconvenient," that is to say the mechanism is n o t capable of storing vast amounts of information, nor does it have the ability to draw information from other computer sources. He asserted that the m o d er n -d a y c omputer is a "central part of instruction in the s oc i a l sciences" a n d that additional equipment to improve the present system would be "very desirable." I,n recent years s e v e ral committees have been formed to investigate the need for impr�ved c o m puter facilities, but no c�nqete action has yet been taken. Mr. J. Martin Caravano, Provost and Vice-President of Hamilton, stated that he has formed an ad hoc committee which has some definitive plans. The members are Mr. Lewis, Mr.
John Andersqn of the Hamilton Mathematics Departrrient, Mr. Jonathan Vaughn of the Hamilton P s ycholo gy Department, and Caravano. The group is now investigating the v a r i o u s possibilities for supplementing the current system. They have been advised by· the head of the computer center of Williams College, and by r e p r esentatives of Xer o x Burroughs, Honeywell, IBM, and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The committee will approach the Board of Trustees at its May 12 meeting in an effort to obtain continued on page nine
BY DOUGLAS GLUCROFT Proposed modifications for the 1974 Winter Study include a lengthier Winter Study period, the termination of the formal exchange program with other colleges, the -planning of additional cultural activities and easier enrollment for Kirkland students in !-familton supervised projects. At Kirkland, the changes for next year entail a new "group advising" program, development of an over-all theme for the month, up to ten formal group projects with Kirkland faculty, and new efforts to coordinate th ir program with Hamilton's. Hamilton Associate Dean R.B. Kinne! has compiled the results of the Hamilton faculty and student questionnaires, and has examined R eg istrar's enrollment the statistics for January 1973. As Chairman of the Winter Study Committee, he has drawn up an evaluation of Winter Study at Hamilton, and has circ'ulated his results to the faculty. Formal copies will soon be available to students as well. The results of the faculty questionnaire concerning the consensus of opinion on Winter Study are ambiguous. After examining the questionnaire and comments, the Winter Study Committee (WSC) surmised that, many 'faculty members feel that Winter Study is a meritorious educational idea but that the cost in time and money is too high." According to an informal poll conducted by, Dean Kurtz, some faculty members who were not conducting projects were not in program. the of f av o r Nevertheless, some despite negativism, the faculty, as a whole, is in favor of Winter Study, though not as enthusiastically as the students are. There were sixty responses to t he f a c u lty questionnaire. Twenty-seven faculty members favor a more rigorously defined Winter Study Program; sixteen favor the status quo. The majority
Teletype link to Griffiss Air Force Base computer
answering also advocated the continuation of Winter Study as opposed to a trimester or expanded semester-type calendar. The results reveal that increasing numbers of faculty offered group projects or sponsored indi_vidual ones in 1973 than in 1972. The performance of the student body was judged to be the same during January as during the regular semesters, and most professors admitted to doing "somewhat more" or "about the same" amount of work for their Winter Study Projects compared with regular semester workloads. Individual comments ran the gamut from strong disapproval to strong endorsement. Students, according to the questionnaire distributed to them by Chuck Flynn and Neil Scheier, were more strongly in favor of Winter Study. The off-campus internship programs were most e n d o r sed. enthus i a sti cally Forty-nine per cent of the 280 respondees replied that they did the same amount or more work during January. Thirty-eight percent said they worked somewhat less, and eleven per cent said they worked "much less". Those who responded seriously favored the worth, ideal and implementation of Winter Study on and off the Hill. Student comments led.- the WSC to conclude, "There seems to be two aspects of desirability in Winter Study; first, is the opportunity to pursue a subject in depth; second is the easing of the intensity present in the current shortened calendar, while retaining an academic environment.'' The Winter Study Committee, an offshoot of the Committee on Academic Policy has made several are recommendations which pending the approval of the faculty. Dean Kinnel, however, is confident that t h e se be will recom m e n dations approved by the appropriate faculty bodies. has C o m m i ttee The recommended that the exchange program between Hamilton and other colleges be terminated for January 1974. As Dean Kinnel said, "The consensus of the WSC is that the program was more trouble than it's worth." He pointed to the disparity in calendars and other administrative But problems. the Dean emphasized that exchange is still possible on an individual basis with faculty approval. In January 1973, 53 Hamilton students took part in projects at Colgate U., Skidmore College, St. Lawrence U. and Wells College, while 48 students from those schools were on the Hill. The most popular exchange school was Skidmore College. The new calendar includes two changes: first, tentative list of 1 Winter Study Projects including overseas programs will be announced by !\lay 11th this year; second, the Winter Study period will be lengthened by four or five continued on page ten
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APRIL 27, 1973
THE SPECTATOR
Spectator's Spectator
EDITORIALS
Charlie and All the Bain. Coll. Tunas
Co-op at Ltut
O�er a y�ar has passed since the idea of a co-op dorm at Ham1lton-KU"kland was first presented. Just two weeks ago however, the co-op was apprently dead for 1973-1974. A� unexpected New York State Dormitory Authority decision has altered the picture. Today, the co-op dorm is very much alive. The Dormitory Authority has agreed to loan funds to Kirkland for necessary renovations of Keehn Dorm. The Authority considers the renovations legitimate changes in an existing Dorm Authority structure. The Co-op Committee met early this week and set the wheels once again in motion. The fate of the co-operative now rests in the hands of the Kirkland Trustees. The Trustees last month approved the co-op dorm concept, but decided against providing the needed money. This decision was understandable in light of Kirkland's financial problems. This new proposal, however, places a far lighter burden on Kirkland's budget than did the original proposal and should, therefore, be approved. The new housing plan would offer yet another option to the living and eating possiblities now available to students from both colleges. In addition, a co-op will increase co-operation on the individual level between the students of Hamilton and Kirkland. As the co-op organizers stated, the project will lead to "the improvement of student and consequently, community life." A co-operative dormitory represents the type of innovation which is the cornerstone of the Kirkland philosophy, and it would equally benefit both the Hamilton and Kirkland communities. The Colleges cannot let such opportunity pass them by. We urge the speedy approval by the Kirkland Board of Trustees of the new proposal.
BY GERRY PAYNE Charlie the Tuna never made it to the top. Good taste, or taste good- he didn't have either one, so it really made little difference. The fish just didn't have class; he couldn't move in the groove. He had the hat and cane, but the cigar and Brooklynese blew it for him. That's �hat they meant when they said, "Sorry Charlie;" it wasn't that he didn't have taste-taste good, or good taste- but that his cool was only skin a Charlie wasn't deep. thoroughbred. Of course it was tough for the fish, probably coming from a school outside good Starkist stock. Still, if he had been groomed, he could have made it. If he had started t<? learn early, so that good taste could soak in, it would· have been different.· Then, every natural impulse toward the sick, the obnoxious, the sophomoric, would have been Charlie's obl i terated from character. At three, when he found his fin in his nose, searching for a · sensitive point to scratch, his mother should have ripped her son's filthy fin from his face, and
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Computers Needed The Colleges need vastly expanded computer facilities now, if they are to remain responsibly committed to modem education. Hamilton-Kirkland students and faculty. are presently afforded time on the computer at Griffiss Air Force Base at no cost. The present arrangement of having terminals into Griffiss, though, seriously limits the breadth of computer work here. Presently, students are forced to resort to facilities at Colgate or Syracuse. Moreover, insufficient computer facilities have deterred young social scientists from accepting teaching posts on the Hill. For the Colleges to offer a satisfactory up-to-0ate education in the social sciences, computer resources must pe expanded. In addition, ample computer resources will serve in the study of math and the natUl'al sciences. .. , Compute� are expensive, but to delay will only serve to limit education here, and merely postpone what is a necessary expense. Trustees, administration, and faculty should carefully consider the specific demands .to be made on the computer by the various departments and then make a definite proposal. Work in the social sciences in the. s e v e nt ies demands an ever-increasing storebank of . knowledge. The Colleges are urged to act responsibly in securing facilities.
the SPECTATOR VOLUME THREE Editor-in-Chief Frederic Bloch Associate Editor Robert Keren
NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR Managing Editor Henry Glick Associate Editor Kenny Marten
Associate Editor Mitchel Ostrer
Assistant Editors Peter Ackerman,Jon Cramer, Carol Goodman Arts Editors Richard Kavesh Kathy Livingston
Sports Editor Craig Fallon
Photography Editor David Cantor
Business Manager Peter Sluys
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told him, "No, no, Charlie, don't do that." And darnit, he would have learne�, that picking his nose was bad. And mother never would have caught him doing it again.
When Charlie heard his first dirty joke and innocently offered it . to Ma and Pa at dinner,his father should have told him that his joke was juvenile and distasteful. And Charlie never
would have told the joke again, at home. At his birthday party, a girl excused herself by saying, "If you don't mind, I must powder my nose." When Charlie started to guffaw, and say "What? Powder what? We know what you're going ,, to do! his parents should have shut him up, right then and there. . When Charlie struck out for the fifth time at a Little League game, and started to cry, his parents should have instructed him. He needed to know that he was a male, and that it was improper for him to reveal his feelings; he should have been told how self-effacing it was, and how he should be- proud, self-assured, and self-reliant. His parents should have told him that when he was kicked off the team, it really only meant that he was resigning. But that is neither here nor there. Charlie is destined to the other world, the non-Starkist world. But when one thinks about it,Charlie is a .hell of a lot better off than the other tunas. For all the rest are only big fish, canned, labelled� and anonymous. ·
Letters to the Editor Social
Damage
To the Editor: I imagine the reason I am writing this letter is because I am tired of reading one and only one o p i n ion concerning marijuana laws - that they be repealed. I refer· specifically to the editorial entitled. ''Pot Luck?" in last week's Spectator. I must admit I found your s t a t i s t i c s a bout a lcoho l , alcohol-caused highway deaths, and suicide most impressive; but l fail to see the realtionship between alcohol and marijuana, or between alcohol and any drug, for that matter.. Simply because the consequences that the intake of alcohol cause over an extended period of time are far worse ( or possibly more easily recognized) than the consequences of smoking over that same period should not be a basis for stating that smoking causes no social damage, which is t h e i d e a y o u c om pa r i s o n obviously intended t o put forth. "...marijuana causes far less social dama ge than alcohol," your editorial stated. This is a tacit admission, nevertheless, that m a r i j u a na does cause social damage. At the same time that out generation is the bulwark behind what may be called a r e v olutionary m ovement to make living in the world better, I fail to see how we can condone something which does, through its use, have adverse effects. If we do then are we not ourselvei rejectin� those cherished values that we are trying to implant? As I turn to speak about the med ical ef fects of smoking marijuana, I will speak from personal experience. I am willing to accept the stated fact that marijuana does not cause cancer or lung disease, but I hesitate when it comes to categorically denying psychological dependence and ill effects. I have a friend at another co1lege who s artc� into drugs our senior year in high
school - only with marijuana. Now - three years later - he has tried everything, but he still sticks with grass. ( A d m ittedly, he was speeding 18 hours a day at one point for a few weeks, but he returned to grass). He smokes now four to six times a day, alone or with friends - it doesn't matter and is ahnost perpetually stoned. (I often used to wonder where he could get enough money to afford his expensive tastes, but learned soon enough that he had become a dealer.) I now quote from a letter dated two weeks ago from another of my friends at this college who knows him: "I seem . to have lost all contact with him, but I'm not the only one. He has no interest in life but his stereo and drugs. School bas gone from a joke to a complete far ce." My second point i,s that, though use of marijuana in and of itself may not lead anyone on to harder drugs, it cannot be debated that using marijuana puts one in a more opportune position, by c o nnecting one with the appropriate channels, to· obtain harder drugs than is anyone who d o e s n ot pur chase or use mariju_ana. It also cannot be debated that the majority of thsoe w h o now use harder drugs "started off" with marijuana. Cer tainly, this is not mere accident. G .Page West III More on Gerry To the Editor, Just as I have the choice of storing peri�dical publication of Miss Hildebrand's attempts at poetry in the circular file, and just as I have the perogative to neglect to read Mr. Earle's soporific reviews, so may they, refuse to read Mitchel Ostrer's weekly column. Although Gerf), Payne will probably ot receive this Pulitizer Prize, his year's light -hearted stories serve to
expose some truths about our campuses. . Perhaps some of you sharp-tongues critics resent the way in which you and /or your friends are portrayed, or maybe you are too blind to see the reality in it all, Mark Keller '73
Vick 0,:1 Payne To the Editor: The recent letters of vehement protest concerning Gerry Payne's column have moved me to respond in his favor. It may be true that Payne's pieces have been obnoxious, sick, sophomoric, or unnecessary, o:r even all of the above . However, they have insulted neither me nor the integrity of my interests and sense of humor (assuming I would know it if they had). While this may be m er e ly a reflection on my interests and/or sense of humor, 1 believe that M.O.'s column at least attempts to accomplish a useful �urpose, that of putting campus issues and people into perspective after they have been blown out of proportion. Furthermore, it seems to me that the new Spectator staff has been quite discriminating, as Mr. Earle urges 1 in "publishing things of at least minimum quality:'' Mr. Earle must agree, since to claim Payne's columns were of lower than minimum quality would be s e lf-contradictory.· I would personally be inclin61 to give Payne and his Spectator a little · more credit than this. Beneath his failure or success in entertaining, Payne manages . deliberately or accidentally - to make two good points: 1) the Hill is not the center of the Cosmos or the Source of All Wisdom (remember Religion 11 ?), and 2) some of the things people on the Hill get pretty upset about ( even bad humor) really don't matter outside the distorted looking !{lass we enter each September and continued on page three'
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DST Daylight Savings Time begins at 2 A.M. Sunday. Remember to set your clocks ahead one hour! KIRKLAND STEERJNG COMMITTEE Election of student members for next year's Steering Committee will take place May 8. Self-nominations may, be returned to Mary Trosset (Assembly Office, in Dean of Student's Office) or Constance Miner via Campus Mail, no later than Tuesday, May 1st. Candidates are urged, but not required, to submit to the Spectator a blurb of not more than 200 words regarding their candidacy, qualifications, etc; to be delivered to Spectator office (3rd floor Bristol) no later than Wed. May 2. WORK-STUDY, INTERN PROGRAM AVAILABLE A one year Work-Study Intern Program is availbale to 12 to 18 students who would like to become involved in working with the handicapped. The Cerebral Palsy Association of Montgomery "Gounty, Silver Spring, Maryland (in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area) accepts a certain number of students each year from colleges in the Eastern United States to become part of their Intern Program. Anyone who has successfully completed at least one semester or two quarters of college may apply and will be considered for the program. Ari. initial interview weekend is scheduled for early summer. Before final acceptance a thorough physical examination, including an extensive medical history, will be required. The 1973-74 program wll begin the week of August 20, 1973. For more information and application form, contact your Dean of Students or Education Department. They have a booklet which fully explains the program.
INTERCOM A group known as INTERCOM meets Wednesdays .. and Saturdays at �:00 p.m. in the Alumni House. Its purpose-is simply for people to get together. Its primary function is conversation; activities include games and occasional singing. It will continue through the end of the year; all are welcome.
'74 JOINT BUDGET HEARINGS Student organizations seeking funds from the Hamilton Student Senate and the Kirkland Student Assembly for '73-'74 must submit detailed budge requests to Marty Hillsgrove through campus mail by· Friday, May 4. Hearings, will be arranged when representatives for interested organizations will be interviewed by scheduled appointment.
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ENVIRONMENT FILMS E.E.C.H.K. is presenting a series of videotape programs on the environment: "Car and the City" April 29, Sunday, at 3:00; P o w.e r +o the People" May 2, Wednesday, 3:30 P.M.; and Thursday, at 8:00 P.M. All videotape programs will be shown in Silliman 3. May 3
FRESHMAN PERSPECTIVE All faculty members, administrators, and students are reminded and encouraged to submit potential questions that will assist the Hamilton Freshman Council in that the formulation of the "Freshman Perspective", will soon be -distributed to all first-year students on the Hill, to Alan Silverman-Box 322. MARKETING AND FINANCE Part III in a series of career dialogues, entitled "Marketing and Finance", will be held Monday, April 30 at 8:30 P.M. in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
COMMITTEE POSTS Any students interested in working on one or more or the sub-committees of the Trustee Committee on Kirkland as a College for Women", or who would like to suggest areas of concern, are urged io contact a student member of the Committee.
STUDENT CONCERT Music students of Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges will present a concert Tuesday (May 1) in the Hamilton College Chapel at 8:30 P.M. The concert is sponsored by the music departments at the two colleges and is open to the public without charge. The - colleges' Woodwing Ensemble, Clarine_t Choir, Brass Choir, and String Ensemble will perform works by Mozart, Bach, Robert Sanders, and other composers. Richard Lloyd, a Hamilton, a Hamilton senior, and Thomas Leff, a freshman, will perform solos on the piano and trombone. Lesley Bell, a Kirkland freshman, will play a flute solo.
FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS President John W. Chandler of Hamilton College has announced the establishment of two Gertrude Flesh Bristol Faculty Fellowships to support research by members of the College's teaching staff. The fellowships are fund�d by a bequest from the late Mrs. Bristol, who was the widow of Henry P. Bristol, former Chairman of the Board of Bristol-Myers Co. The Bristol Fellowships will be awarded to tenured faculty members and will allow each recipient to have one year at half-pay or one-half year at full pay for research. URBAN DEVELOPMENT " The Reverends Norman and Margaret Eddy will be in the Honour Court Room, Bristol Campus Center, on Monday, April 30, from 2-3:00 p.m. They will talk with interested students about their experience in urban development in the East Harlem area of New York City. FREE CHURCH The Free Church Service this week will be led by the Rev. Margaret Eddy, pastor of the Chruch of the Resurrection in New York City. Mrs. Eddy, like her husband, has been active in the East Harlem Protestant Parish for many years, especially in the area of education. She will deliver a _sermon titled, i'.Can the Churc� be Christian?" in the Chapel, Sunday at 11:15a.m. EAST HARLEM PROTESTANT PARISH Norman Eddy, Coordintor of East Harlem Interfaith, an association which deals with common problems faced by residents of this New York City area, will b� speaking this Sunday evening, April 29, on the ''Movement of the Spirit in the City." Mr. Eddy is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, -and has served churches in the East Harlem District for over twenty years. The meeting will be held in the Kirner-] ohnson Red Pit at 7:30 p.m.
OBJECTIVITY AND THE LAW Hohn Mahon, a partner in a Rochester law firm and a gr aduate of _ Jlamilton College, will lecture· on "Objec_tivity and the Law" Thursd�y (May 3) at 4 P·�· HAMIL TON-KIRKLAND YEARBOOKS in the Fisher -Room of Hamilton's Bristol Campus K ir kl a n d stu den,t s wishing to or der the Center. Hamilton-Kirkland_ 1973 Yearbook may do so now Mr. Mahon attended Syracuse University Law School after graduating from Hamilton in 1953. He is a partner - through finals week, Tues., Wed., and Thurs., druing dinner in McEwen, or by cheque (payable to the in Wiser, Shaw, Freeman, Vangraafeiland, Harter & Trustees of Hamilton College) thru qmpus mail to Enid Secrest of Rochester. His lecture at Hamilton, sponsored Evan�. Only$3.00!!($5.00 for faculty) Luxurious by the College's Philos0phy Club, will be open to the cloth cover edition, graphically illustrated. public without charge.
Letters Continued.
continued from page_ two leave each May. For instance, I would guess what we need is an all-purpose the most easy thing one can do is that some people may not like facility on our campus. Such a_ to second-guess the coach'. · T�is this letter - but only a fool would facility , could be •used . for does not seem to be a wor,ld-w1de worry about it for more time than basketball, other indoor sports. tradition which coaches tend to it takes to turn the page. convocation and public addresses philosophically accept as one of Jim Vick '73 by �peakers, as well as for the haza�ds of their professio�. H amilton has been m a Hamilton lacks a concerts. the past few years in "slump" and facility all-purpose sizeable Concrete Problem dearly needs one; for convenience, ne�ly . all of the sports exce�t for the success of various social swnnmmg. If my memory 1s To the Editor: functions and for the safety of correct, Hamilton won only one Having been involved in the those 'at tend ing activities track meet last year. This year, to recent formulation of emergency presently held in our gym. date, we have lo.st track meets te> prohibitive regulations concerning Mr. Gene Long, as new R.P.I. and Rochester. This in no sm9king and drinking for this chairman Athletic way reflects on the coach.. Since the of Saturday's concert in the Department, has demonstrated a t r a c k i s · a n i n d i v i��a l gymnasium I am urged to write new vigor and a brand of highly per formance,. the. competition you oii the topic of alleviating the enthusiastic leadership. Let's go, determines the outcome. This is problem altogether. The fire Mr. Long. What can you do about true in all sports. hazard exists because of the the situation? I'm with you 100%. If one reviews the athletic wooden floor and seats in the And the Administration, are you history of the colleges Hamilton gym. The ecological problem listening? We need an all-purpose competes with, the majority of exists because cigarettes can burn facility on this campus in the near them have had their losing seasons and scar the floor, bottles gouge future. in the not-too-distant past. The the floor, and spilled wine mars Sincerely, mhjority of them did not correct the varnish finish on the floor. George D. Baker their situation by replacing their BUT THESE PROBLEMS DO coaches. NOT EXIST FOR CONCERTS Hamilton will again have some HELD IN THE SKATING RINK. good athletic seasons, but not by Antiques· Why? replacing or belittling their The answer is that the concrete coaching staff which indeed is a floor in the rink is nearly To the Editor: capable one. T he r e are hundreds o f indestructible from cigarette Although I do not know of a thousands o f "spectator" coaches, burns and spilled wine. The Hamilton coach that old, the term and on many occasions I have answer to our problem is not to antique may be taken as a become a member of this group. hold our concerts in the frozen compliment. Today, many young wastes of the rink, but rather, My experience has taught me that people, as well as older, regard an
antique with high respect. An ruitique is considered a solid investment, being o.f ,q.igh quality, ha v i ng, \Teal character, being well-se�soned, and standing the test of time. Yes, I would describe Hamilton's coaching staff in these terms. Leon M. Roe, M.D. Medical Director Rudd Health Center
Gay Gripe To the Editor: There is one major objection that I have had in my several years here at Hamilton, and that is that there is no social organization for the benefit of gay people. This seems rather ludicrous, because Ham ilton i s , an d t o my knowledge, for years has been, a major breeding ground and testing ground for homosexuality. For the situation to be completely ignored on this campus is to create f rustration for many in<Jividuals, or cause them to search "on the sly" for individuals who share their sexual preference. I d o not propose a gay organization for the purpose of encouraging Hamilton students to become gay, but rather to afford
.::nose who �e the chance to enjoy the social companionship of their f �llows. It becomes rather tedious listening to straights, or supposed straights, boasting their precious masculine images by boasting about conquests that, for the most part, they have never had. It seems ironic to note that last f a l l , K i r k l an d C ollege, the presence of which one would think would help stem the rise of homosexuali ty at Hamilton, founded its own gay organization. However, due to lack -of publicity and . general acceptance by the- college community, only God and the members of that group know what became of it. You may be asking why I have not made an effort to organize such a group myself. One reason is that I have been lucky enough to meet many gay people on my own, both on the campus and in the nearby areas. Nonetheless, I have often wished that I knew more of the gay people here at Hamilton, but, since I will soon be graduating, it is too late for me to start now. I hope that some individual will take the initiative in the near future. I ask that my name be-, withheld, because there are still many unenlightened employers in my chosen field and I do not wish to jeopardize my chances for a job. name withheld upon request.
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.. Law and Bus. Acceptances Up; Med., Schools · Discouraging
The applications to business in accptances for Hamilton BY BOB WEISSER Hamilton College seniors who schools in general has been students was not enough to apply to graduate school are d r o p p i n g due t o several predict a definite trend. The u su al l y a ccepted , but the circumstances. Wertimer cited a number of applications to �edical post-graduate situation has been few of these. The employment schools runs in cycles, dpending changing in the last few years, and situation turns people away from on many differing factors. T h e p r e - l a w s t udents, it has had some effect on seniors' going on to graduate school. Others will want to go -directly conversely, are having a banner plans. There is no final report on into the work force to try to get year. Professor James Traer, the w h at this year's seniors' jobs. There is less money for c h a r m a n o f t h e pre-law post-graduate plans are, but there scholarships from the schools, and committee, said that students are individual areas where the some students do not have the were doing considerably better m on ey to continu� their than last year in terms of f .,. acceptances are fairly well set. � acceptances and the quality of There h a v e been twenty education. Mr. Wertimer said that the schools. Of thirty students who �eehn Dormitory: Site of the c�"�p applicants to business schools this year, eighteen of whom have number of places open in business applied to various law schools, received acceptances to date. schools fluctuates so that no real twenty have been accepted, and six or eight more are expected to According to MProfessor Sidney trend can be spotted. The number of applications to be accepted. Wertimer, the business advisor, Traer stated that the past two Hamilton usually places a very medical schools are "subject to high percentage of applicants in numerical vicissitudes that are years were bad for Hamilton unpredictable," said Dean Robin pre-law students. Applications schools York State Co-0p were told to sign up as if New The Seven of the students will be Kinnel. This, however, seems to were up for law schools, and the has they were to live in the co-ed going to the Rutgers School of be one of the few similarities to schools did not know about the Dorm itory Authority unexpectedly �eleased funds for dorm. The men will then switch Accounting. Other s c hools the business situation this year. more stringent grading standards t h e from coed to co-op when a floor accepting Hamilton students have Only nine ·out of twenty-three at Hamilton. This year, although of c r e a t i on the Kirkland-Hamilton Go-op Dorm. plan of Keehn becomes available. been the Wharton School of seniors have been accepted so far. the number of Hamilton students The move came at an awkward Once specific rooming Finance and C�mrnerce, Harvard For at least the last two years, applying to law schoolds is down, time, since Kirkland students had arrangements are finalized, the Business School, and London over eighty percent of applicatns the percentage of acceptances is chosen rooms in their recent Co-op Committee, co.:Chaired by School of Business. Mr. Wertimer f r om H a mil ton h a v e been up. lottery on the understanding that Lise Rosenthal '74, Liz Samenfeld noted that the London school is accepted at medical schools. Some law schools Hamiltonians the Co-op would probably not '74 i and Alice Stern '74; wiir probably the best in the world. However, these figures represent have attended in the past are exist. Hamilton students choosing compose a formal proposal upon T h e s tu dents, in general, the number of students that were Cornell, Syracuse, and Albany. rooms this past week were also which the Trustees will act. applied to three to five schools. accepted as of September after Mr. Traer said that he and other somewhat confused as to what Though the Dormitory Authority This year's crop was a particularly they graduated. This indicates rn e rn b ers o f the Pre-Law options were available to them. move caused a certain amount of large, one, Wertimer reported. He that a few more sudents will be Committee have visited orf are The Co-op was considered dead confusion at first, those said that there are usually twelve accepted during the summer. going to visit several law schools by many until the Dormitory interested in the Co-op :welcomed. to fifteen applicants, but that the Kinnel stated that Hamilton in an effort to advertise Hamilton. Authority decision. The cost of the decision, and now await He also mentioned that law number from Hamilton has been students have gone to thirty-five modifying a Kirkland dormitory Trustee action. different med school, including schools are having less trouble rising for a few.years. for co-op use was estimated at foreign schools. Some of the responding to the demand for $45,000. The Kirkland Trustees s chools are Harvard, Upstate spaces than medical schools had previously approved the M edical Center, Georgetown, because it is easier to expand a Co-op Dorm concept but refused Columbia, and Cornell. t.:.w school. "All you need is a few to allocate the necessary funds. He also noted that the methods more chairs and desks, not any Presented with financing, the that the medical schools use. for bulky equipment." Co-op Dorm proposal will come s e l e ct ion are changing. The Professor Traer made the point again before the Kirkland College number of applicants has risen that he counsels prospective law The Calendar Committee has Trustees. At an executive meeting 3). A mid-semester recess in much faster than the number of s tu d ents with his "reality in New York City next we'1k, or proposed significant changes for · October, adopted from Bryn places available; consequently, the therapy." Although places in law at the regular Board meeting here, the 1973-74 Calendar and the Mawr where it has proved very schools have raised their cutoff s ch o o l s m ay be somewhat May 11, the Trustees will approve Tentative Calendar for 1974-75 beneficial. numbers to higher levels than plentiful, the jobs on the other or reject a definite proposal for The revised calendar . was 4). A short recess f9llowing before. They are also accepting end are not. Many of the schools submitted on April 17th to the Winter Study or a longer Winter more students from minority the dorm. are starting a clinical system, The proposed Co-op will be in Hamilton Faculty for approval at Study. Possibly having Winter g r o u p s , which increases the where a student can gain some Twenty-eight their May 1 meeting. Alterations Study classes and conferences applicant pool even more. dorm. K eehn experience while going to school. women and eighteen men will in the school year are a part of an meet on Saturday mornings to The Dean believes that if there The curriculum also has changed occupy single and double rooms effort to make the schedule less combine both ideas. were thirty-five candidates from to fit the times. Traer mantioned living tedious by adding intermittent a c ooperative in The major difficulty in revising H am i lton, and twenty stron that more emphasis was being put arrangement. The students will breaks without adding any extra the 1974-75 Tentative Calendar is candidates, those twenty would on social concerns, such as race cook for themselves and be days to the calendar. the Winter Study commitment. be accepted somewhere. He also relations, housing, and criminal responsible for cleaning the The Calendar Committee is a Many have requested that Winter said that this year's apparent dip continued on page !line dormitory. c o rn po site of a CAP Study be lengthened an extra Kirkland students interested in s u bcommittee (Council on week. This would add an extra living in the Co-op Dorm are being Academic Policy), a. student week to the Spring semester with accomodated on a first come first committee, and CAC C o m m e ncement a in June; serve basis, and not by lottery. s u bcommittee on H o wever, (Council ten extra the Many of the people who already Academic Coordination). The operational days would be too have committed themselves to members of the CAP much of a financial burden on the living in the Co-op had previously subcommittee are Messrs. Denny, school. It would eliminate funds Route Sa Commercial Drive arranged to live in regular co-ed Lee, Wagner, and Dean Kurtz. for housing and feeding tbe New Hartford 736-7106 facilities. students Representing the student body are athletes when college is not in Kirkland Mon-Fri 10-9 Sat 10-5 wishing to live in the Co-op must Charles Flynn '74, John Osborne session. see Ms. Bette Bouch, Kirkland '74, Neil Scheir '75, and Roger Even with the added 'free' Dean of Housing. Schneider '75. Members of the days, the number of actual school JUST ARRIVED! By previous agreement CAC subcommittee include Dean days will be about the same. regarding regular coed living fifty Schneider, Peter Marcy, Dean There are 144 days in the 1972-73 Complete Shipments of women are permitted to live at George, Hugh Hartwell, and Linda calendar and 143 days in the RALEIGH and PEUGEOT Hamilton and fifty m�n at Martin. Provost, Mr. Carovana, 1973-7" calendar. With the Bicycles Kirkland. Hamilton participation and Mr. Eugene Long also acted as breaks it is intended, remarked in the proposed regular coed spokesmen . on the Calendar Dean Kurtz, to provide for a little setups in Minor, Root · and Committee. The Committee "catching up and relaxation." OPENING SOON Our New and Enlarged elsewhere will thus be reduced by reviewed this year's calendar, Corn plete Backpacker Shop the number of men who choose to assessed the problems with it, and FEATURING: live in Keehn. PLEASE RECYCLE. attempted to alleviate them next When they made their rooming year. Packs, Frames, Tents Hiking Boots Food & Supplies choices this week, Hamilton Some of the proposed changes students wishing to live in the apd Sleeping Bags are: Ford's on the Square 1). Hamilton and Kirkland VASQUE NORTH FACE MOUNTAIN 11IE CLINTON FLORIST courses ending at the same time, Clinton thus eliminating Kirkland course 15Elmltftct RAICHLE GERRY HOUSE conflict with Hamilton exams. IIS-!71-1 2). A four-day reading period Beer Beverages Groceries ALPINE DESIGN (including Saturday and Sunday ) .! before exams.
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S.A.C. Presents Buddy Guy; .. Only E.L.S., D .K.E.-Sig Open .u. ousepa rty ,
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Buddy Guy and Junior Wells are the performers for the Student Activities Committee's Spring · Concert. The concert will be held in the Alumni Gym on Saturday. Ale ha Delta Ph i \ Beer and Ba nd - Friday, 11:00, Fratemity members and night at 8:30. Admission is free for social tax hoiders and $1.25 dates only· for their dates. General Admission C hi Psi Gtn. and Juice Sa turday, lO:SO A.M., Open, will be $5.00. Buddy Guy was born in .Baton Independents $5 .00 Rouge, Louisiana. After coming Delt a Kappa Epsilon ( in conjunction with Sigma Phi) to Chicago as a young man, he Gin and J mce - Sunday, noon. Open Outside Sig House, picked up the guitar and is now · but in case of rain - DKE House. one of the slickest guitarists in the · Delta Phi and Gryphon . business. Buddy Guy was chose Hotdogs and Beer - Saturday, 2:30, Open In case of rain, by the Rolling Stones to be their Sunday, 1:00. warm-up act during their 1970 Delta Upsilon European tour. His album s, on the Beer and Band - Saturday, 10:00, Fraternity members Va nguard· and Chess labels, and dates. exhibit his skill as one of .the · Emerson Literary Society finest artists in the electric Beer and Band - Friday, I 0:00, Couples only. Chicago Blues style. Mudi of the Psi Upsilon material he uses for his concerts Beer and Ba nd. - Saturday, 10:00, Fratemity members is also in the Chicago Blues and dates only. tradition, but he also dips heavily : Sig!Jla Phi into rock and soul, doing such See Delta Kappa Epsilon. numbers as ''Knock on Wood", Teak "Money", and "Sunshine of Your Beer and Band - Friday, 9:00, Fratemity members, Love". His band is usually invit.ed guests, and dates only composed of bass, drums, piano, two saxaphones, along with the . . . .. . electrifying guitar of Mr. Guy. Junior Wells was born in Memphis on December 9, 1934. He plays in the tradition of the finest Chicago Blues harpmen and lists as his teachers Sonny Boy Williamson and Walter Jacobs. Junior Wells also appears. on both B on n i e R a it t albums a nd sometimes tours with her. He is reported to have said, "All I want to do is play the blues, and I hope the people like it." Buddy Guy and Junior Wells are at the highest technical level of the contemporary Chicago Blues style Their concerts in the past have been very exciting and Saturday night's concert should be not exception.
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PLEASE: NO SMOKING AND IMBIBE BEF9RE AND AFTER There are two serious problems encountered at every co�cert held in our Hamilton gymnasium. The first problem is that of a fire hazard. Despite the "no smoking" signs and stage announceme?ts asking the audience for cooperation in refraining from smokmg within the gym proper, the smoking continues. . The fire hazard exists because the gym floor 1s wooden, the bleacher seats are wooden, and the few exits that exist cannot accomodate the number of people attending the concert should a rapid and calm evacuation be necessary. The possibility o� n:agedy inherent in this situation must be minimized if not totally ehmmated by cooperation and enforcement of the Fire Marshall's "No Smoking" regulation in our gym. The second problem can be termed an ecological one. The filth and litter that remain after a concert is costly in the destructive toll it takes on the gym floor and also in the amount of paid man-�ours necessary to clean the mess up. Let's make it clear that the Hamilton student pays this cost. Empty can and bottles, broken bottles, spilled wine and the innumerable cigarette butts which burn and scar the gym floor are not only ecologically repulsive but endanger the well-being of those attending the concert. To remedy the situation the SAC, Student Senate, and the Athletic Department have recommend!!d the following course of action: Concert goers are asked to cooperate by not bringing bottles and cans to the concert. Please feel free to imbibe before and after, but not during the concert. Ushers will be on hand at the concert to check your liquor at the door and return it to you after the concert. Also, you are asked not to smoke on the gym floor. Let it be· clear that smoking is permissible in both the upper and lower lobby. Only smoking within the concert hall-gym itself is prohibited. Again, ushers will ask smokers in the gym proper to leave to extinguish their cigarettes. Please cooperate. We can ill afford a fire in such a crowded area. Neither can we afford the far less tragic, but still serious destruction of our gym facility.
W e d n e s d a y , M ay 2n d , Benjamin DeMott, Professor of English presently on leave from Amherst College, will conduct a Teaching and Learning Seminar at Kirkl and. Wednesday morning, DeMott will teach drama students in the Red Pit. The class will be video taped, the film played at 2 p .M. i n t h e Kirner-Johnson A u d i t o r iu m . D e M o t t a n d interested students and faculty will analyze the film in reference to teaching and learning.
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Friedensohn Will Continue Inno"ations A.t New Post Ms. Doris Friedensohn, Dean in a college that has "very little of Students at Kirkland, will r h e t o r i c ." M s . Friedensohn b e c o m e t h e D e.a n o f described Jersey State as a college Interdisciplinary Studies at Jersey t hat d oe s not call itself City State College this fall. progressive, but is simply Ms. Friedensohn described her - interested in changing and new post as "a continuation and a improving its educational process. development" of her present At Jersey State Ms. Friedensohn work. She will be responsible for will be directly involved with the initiating programs in urban, planning of curriculum, which was blaGk, Latin, ethnic, and women's not required of her at Kirkland. studies, .. as well as in performing M s. Friedensohn expressed a rt s , media, computers, and satisfaction with her job at ecology. Ms. Friedensohn also Kirkland but also a need for plans to organize an American change. When asked if she had any Studies Program at Jersey State. s u g g e s t i o n s f o r f u t u r e She will continue teaching but improvements at Kirkland Ms. will be working primarily with Fr iedensohn advised, "Keep faculty to develop e�perimental fighting to make that rhetoric programs. real." Jersey City State ,College has Ms. Friedensohn does not an enrollment of approximately know what will happen to 5,000 students. The college, until Kirkl a n d 's American Studies 1968, was primarily a teacher's Program after her departure. She college. In order M reach the goal sincerely hopes that it will be o f be.coming a well-rounded co n tinued. She is presently , liberal arts college, Jersey State involved in developing a new plans to develop a variety of program which is similar to innovative study opportunities for Action Studies called "Program in students there. Context ual Education." The When asked why she wanted to success of the new program leave Kirkland, Ms. Friedensohn depends on faculty support and said, 'I've been in the country too will probably require further long." She is looking forward to planning by interested faculty and being near New York City, and to students after Ms. Friedensohn's departure.
K'land Third Commenncement Ceremony: Babbitt aQd Coffin Will Address Grads BY NANELLE NAPP Kirkland College plans a festive graduation for the class of ' 73 Thursday, May 24th. A Beer and Lunch Party for graduates and a limited number of guests will bc;gin at 11:30 A.M. in McEwen Dining Hall. third Ki rkland's commencement ceremony, open to Ki rkland-Hamilton the community, starts at 2:30 p.m. The day's celebrations will close with a Champagne Party at 5 p.m. for graduates, their guests, and faculty. The graduation exercises will be conducted in · a tent, accomodating 1000 people, and f r om s t r e t c h i ng t he
Building Kirner-Johnson to McEwen Hall to the List Arts Center. Professor Thomas Colby's Music Ch a m ber Ensemble, DeGustibus, will play as Kirkland graduates and faculty march into the tent. The Class of '7 3 may dress as they please while faculty members are urged to wear their scholastic garb. Coffin, S loane William Chaplain of Yale University and an anti-war activist, will be the guest speaker. Kirkland President Samuel F. Babbitt will also address the graduates. Upon receiving their diplomas, members of the class may also address commencement the
assembly. The women of the class voted to model their diplomas after the Hamilton graduation certificate. President John J. Chandler, who leaves Hamilton in July to assume the Presidency of Williams College, will receive the Kirkland President's Medal. During the week before graduation, the student Mary including comm ittee Anderson, Elyn Cheney, Ann Clark, Enid Evans, Laurie Hanin, and Elaine Weiss will sponsor art exhibits, plays and skits as part of the celebration. The committee also plans a Pot Luck Supper for graduates and their parents on Monday May 21.
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Arts and features
Midsum1'11er Night's Dream' A Delightful and Comic Fantasy
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BY CRAIG SONNENBERG This weekend, members of the c ollege c o m munity will be presented.with a rare treat, as the H a m i l t o n -Kirkland D r a m a Department unveils its Spring Production, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Shakespearean classic will open its five-day run tonight a t M i n o r T h e a t e r. A l l performances will begin at 8: 00 P.M. A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of S h a k e s peare's most delightful works. The play opens with Theseus, Duke of Athens and h is soon-to-be-bride Hippolyta discussingplans for their upcoming wedding. They are interrupted,· however, as Egeus, a member of the court, bursts onto- the stage dragging with him his daughter Hermia, and her two young suitors, Demetrius and Lysander. There appears to be a predicament at hand. Both of the young men are in love with Hermia. Of the two, only Demetrius has the approval of Egeus to wed his daughter. Hermia, however, is in l o v e with Lysander. After confronting Theseus with the problem at hand, Egeus convinces the Duke to rule that Hermfa must marry Demetrius or remain single, or face death. A nd t he n c o m e Helena, Hermia's closest friend. We soon
see that Helena is in love with Demetrius (who is in love with Hermia). Thus, the love triangle becomes a square and mass confusion results. But the party has just begun. Enter Puck, a p1a y ful fairy brimming with mischief, and a host of woodland nymphs. Oberon, King of the Fairies, sees the situation of the mortals, and directs Puck to s prinkle a special herb on Demetrius's head while he sleeps so that when he awakens he will fall in love with the first thing h� sees {hopefully Helena). Puck,
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Spring has come, and joyfully The birds greet it with happy song, And the brooks, while zephyrs gently blow, With sweet murmuring flow along: There come, shrouding the air with a black_ cloak, Lightning and thunder chosen to herald it; Then, when these are silent, the little birds
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however, finds the wrong man, and before the situation may be made right, we find Lysander chasing a. distressed Helena all through the woods praising her beauty and declaring his love for h e r . Obero n , seeing t his outlandish error, rebukes Puck and orders him to go back and correct his' mistake. This time Puck gets the right man, and before long, Helena comes upon D emetrius who awakens and begins to rival Lysander for Helena's love. And then to top it all off, in walks Hermia,.ignorant
Return to their melodious incantations: And now, in the gaily flowered meadow, To the soft murmuring of boughs and grasses The goatherd sleeps with his faithful dog at his side. To the festive sound of a pastoral pipe, Nymphs and shepherds dance under their beloved sky At the glittering appearance of spring. -Antonio Vimldi
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of the events that have passed, 1nd the fact that Lysander is no longer her lover. The result? Mass c haos - hi ghli ghted by a tremendous fight between the two women - Hermia, who thinks that her lover has been charmed away from her, and Helena who believes that the entire situation is the result of a scheme to ridicule her. But fear not. Everything turns out fine in the. end as Oberon and Puck try their fairy magic one more time,· putting the lovers to sleep with the magic herb so that when they awaken, they will believe the events of the evening past to be just part of a dream. And so, Lysander loves Hermia, D emetrius loves Helena, and everyone lives happily ever after. Don't miss the chance to see this Shakespearean masterpiece. The production features colorful and elaborate costuming, a free-form set constructed entrely of natural wood, and some excellent acting by John Heyl as Puck, Zivia Flomenhaf t as Helena, Maris Newbold as Hermia, Peter Wi l s o n as D emetrius, Matt Sc haefer as Lysander, Ralph Stocker as Oberort, and Margeret Kle n ck as Titania. First-rate performandes are also provided by Ray Dooley as Bottom, Martin Paul as Flute, Stephen Flores as Snout, Trevor Drake as Starveling, Joe Wachspress as Snub, David David Cross as Quince, Jon Hutchi nson as Thes<tus, Jill Maynard as Hippolyta, and Peter Moeller as Egeus. The show will be playing at Minor Theater until Tuesday, May 1st. Admission is $1 .00 f or students. General Admission is $1.50. Tickets can be purchased at the Bristol Campus Center. They will also be available al the door.
APRJL 27, 1973
EVENTS
FILMS On Campus This Weekend His Girl Friday, Friday and Sunday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday at 10:00. AlsoBusterKeaton's Steamboat Bill, Jr. Friday and Sunday at 10:00, Saturday at 12:00 p.m., Chemistry Auditorium. Ministry of Fear- directed by Fritz (M, Fury, Metropo lis) Lang. • Friday night at 8:00, Sunday night at 10:Cf0, Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. May 2 (Wednesday) The Duel - by Chekov, 8:30 p.m., Science Auditorium May 3 (Thursday) . . Hell in the Pacific - 8:00 p.m., Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Reefer Madness - 8:00 p.m., Science Auditorium. In the Weeks Ahead Intimate Lighting; A Thousand Clowns; Bananas.
At Nearby Theatres Cannonball (853-5553); The World's Greatest Athlete Kallet (736-2313); The Heartbreak Kid Paris (733-2730); Class of '44 Stanley (724-4000); Black Caesar Uptown (732-0665 ); Charley and the Angel and Cinderella 258 (732-5461 ); The Life and Times of judge Roy Bean; Steelyard Blues; Brother Sun, Sister Moon
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The Four Note Opera - 8 :00 p.m., Chapel. Dance Concert - with Hamilton and Kirkland students, 8:00 p.m.,
Clinton High School. Also on Saturday night at 8, Sunday at 2:00 p.m. April 28 (Saturday) Buddy Guy and junior Wells - 8:00 p.m., Gymnasium. DRAMA April 27-May 1 (F.riday-Tuesday) A Midsummer Ni_{!ht's Dreams, - Starring Matthew "Ozzie"' Schaefer, 8:00 p.m. Minor Theatre. See article on this weeks Arts Page EXHIBITIONS Currently on Campus Works of Ivan Powell: Assemblages, Posters and Paintings in Bristol (closes today). Contemporary Artists - Early and Late Paintings at the Root Art Center thru May 2. Opening Thursday Annual Student Art Exhibition At the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (797-0000) The Sistine Ceiling Seen for the First Time- at the Museum of Art, 310 Genesee Street, thru May 6. Works of George Luks - at the Museum of Art thru May 2. May 3 (Thursday) Objectivity and the Law - John Mahon, 4:00, Bristol. MILES'rONES April 27 (Friday) Ulysses S. Grant's Birthday (1882) April 28 (Saturday) James Monroe's Birthday-(1758) April 29 (Sunday) Sir Thomas Beecham's Birthday ( 1879 ) Zubin Mehta's Birthday Walpurgisnacht April 30 ,Monday) Robert Shaw's Birthday (1916) WRITERS PLU M LY AND TEVIS-AT KIRKLAND M AY1
S tanley Plumly, recent recipient o f the Simon Guggenhiem Foundatio n Fello wship, a nd the Walter T evis, author of the nov el The Hustler: will present reading at 8: 30 PM May- 1 (Tuesda y) at the McEwen coffeehouse on the Kirkland College campus . The readings are s ponsored by P oets and Writers, Inc., w hich is funded by the Ne w York Sta te Council on th e Arts. Tevis' n ovel The H ustler wa s made into a film in 1961 and was a warded the Screen Writers ' Annual Award for the Best Written American Drama o f tha t year. His second novel , The Man Who Fell to E a rth has been turn ed into a screenplay and may become a film �ithin � year. Currently Director o f the Creative Wntmg Progr.am �t O hio University, Tevis h as publish ed sho rt stones m
Esqu ire, C osm opo litan, The Saturday E v ening Post, Playboy, a nd Redhook. He has wri tten telvision and
mot ion pic ture scripts and is pr es en tly wo rking on .a novel and a collection of poem s . T h e K ing is D ea d, his most recent short stroy, will a ppear in Playbo y this summe r. The readings will be free o f charge and o pen to t h e public. There will be a discussi on foll owing the p resenta tions.
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Folk Festival Next Weekend; Best From East Will Be Here BY BOB O'CONNOR On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, May 3 through May 5, the S tu dent E n terta inment Committee. will once again s p o n sor the Northe.a stern Collegiate Folk Festival. Hamilton initiated the festival six years ago, and in just a few years, it has grown into one of the largest fe st ivals in the East, with participants in the past from Ma i n e , C a l i f o-r n i a , Ore gon, Tennessee, and Minnesota. Peter Wenigman '7 3 is chairman o f the Planning Committee, with David Bate, Bob O'Connor, Cathy Collins, and Liz Gr e e n� P e ter Kaminsky has shouldered the burden of housing, and in all the festival is shaping u p , with a f e w e xciting innovations. It should make the long hours of preparation well worth the shile. This year, a_ crucial decision was made concerning the future ..
direction of the Folk Festival, for the Committee had the option to expand the caliber of the performers, possibly attracting a few of the bigger names in the profession. However,· it was felt rather strongly that there was a need for maintaining the amateur status of the festival, attracting college performers, thus insuring the free-spirited atmosphere and rapport established between the audience and the performers. There had be.en some complaints. last year about the professional caliber of some of the finalists. T h u s , t h e m o re t ha n seventy-five· applicants for the festival are all amateurs from colleges in the Northeastern area. There are always a few people, however, who drop in while p a s s i n g t hr ou g h . In the preliminaries, which will be held in the Chapel from Thursday noon until Saturday ,noon, they . will be playing three s·ongs apiece,
one tr�ditional and two free songs. The finalists, selected by o u tside judges, will perform Saturday on the steps of the library (weather permhting) or in the gym. And they will share $1,000 in prize money. The Festival is a benefit for Sing Out! magazine, which has helped a ·great deal with getting the festival off the ground. Also are planned are music workshops from blues guitar method to banjo on Saturday afternoon. David Bate _and Peter Wenigman have six players who will lead the workshops, and Josh Simpson is trying to co-ordinate a possible crafts sale and arts celebration. And of course, there will be Fanguitos (?! !) A great deal of time and effort has gone into the festival, and it seems to offer a great many ideas and innovations for the future. But, it seems like it is out of our hands right now. Pray for good weather, just pray, Pray, PRAY!
four Note Group Performs Toni9ht1 A Fascinating Operatic Parody
The Four Note Opera, Sadlak Jaworski, who has appear ed as a soloist in Town which employs on ly the directed o pera with th e S an JI all and has served as tones A, B, D, and E to make Francisco Community Opera m u s i c a l d i r e ctor for a grand fun of grand opera , and has desi gned four o peras n u m b e r o f s u m m e r w i l l g i v e a p u b l i c for the Wa shington Civic _ productions including Man of performa nce at the Hamilton Opera . He has p roduced five La Mancha, F£ddler on the C o ll e g e C h a p el tonight entertainments at th e White Roof, and 1776., (Friday) at 8 P.M The work House and holds degrees A d m i s s i o n t o th e like a standard bel c anto f r o m Ge o rget o w n a n d Ha milton performa nce of the opera, with the usual set Catholic Universities. Four Note Opera is $3.00, pieces and r ecitatives for Er ic Ste i n m a n , with a special $2.00 student soprano, contralto, tenor , p i a n i s t-c on d u c t or , h a s rate. and ba ritone; but instead of a story line, the words desc ribe the feelings of the singers: t h e t enor, for example, lame nts that he has only o ne area and thus no chance to WO M�C ENTER F IL M S show o ff. "It's a sh am e ," he On Tuesday, May 1, the Kirkland College Women's sings , "I happen to b e in Cente r will present Woo Who? May W£lson an d Gert�ud.e good voice tonight." Ste£n: When Th£s You See, Remember Me. The pubhc 1s The re are c hor uses ab out invited to attend these final films in th e series which will choruses and phrase s ab o ut be screened at 9 p.m. in th e Audito rium of the phrases, with ev ery o peratic Kirne r-J ohnson Building. . . . clich e good-nature dly d usted T he film short Woo Who? May Wilson , ts a li vely off and mime d. At the end d o cumentary port ra it of a s ix ty year oici w�man;s coming there is th e obligatory ma ss to te rms with a new life style . whe n May Wilson' s hus b an a s u icide while · the musi c dese rts her she mo ves to Ne w Y ork Cit y and develo ps a grinds to a h alt. ne w self-i�age as an artist . This grandmot her , ther me ets The Four Note gro up, the wit h success and is soon called the ·'Grandma Moses of the creation o f Tom Jo hnson, Undergr ound" by the young artists. who are her fri�nds . had its premiere le ss than a The New York T£mes called May Wilson, the Chelsea Junk year ago in N ew York. City, sculptor, an " earthy so ul de fin itely worth kn owing." w he re it received warm Gertrude Ste£n: When Th£s You See, Remember Me reviews in the T£mes, th e was originally produced for Nat ional Ed�cati onal Villag� Vo£ce, and TIME Televisi on . This col or film studied Gertrude Stem's years maga zme . in P aris fr om 1905 to the mid -thir ties . Ms . Stein's own Mr. Johnson has wri tten work, i�cluding excerpts fr om h�r o pera .Four Sa£nts. £n mariy non -operatic work s Three Acts is discussed by her fn ends. This film cont ams which have been played in clips of Ms : Stein from silent home mo vies and an exc�rpt the New Yo rk City area and from a rare 1934 radi o broadcast. The came ra also v1s 1�s by the Eastman-Rochester he r Paris home wh ere co untless artists wo uld visit their Symp hony. He has both a pa tro n. bachelo r's and master 's ( in !! !! !! !! !! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!� ti!!!!!!!!!! music) from Yale . Th e cast consists of Roger C h i l d s , t e no r ; Anthony F a lc o , b a rit o n e ; Juli e K e n n e d y , s o pr ano ; and Mar tha Novick, c ontr alto . The direc tor is Anton IN MEMORIAM 3 .. COLLEGE STREET• CLINTON· NEW YORI< 1 3323 _ N.Y. RANGERS
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Academic Year In Spain Expected For. '74-'.75
DOUG GLUCROFT Starting with the academic year 1974-75' Hamilton and Kirkland students along with representatives of other colleges will have the opportunity to say "adios" to their home campuses and spend one full year under the sun of Madrid, if current plans for an Academic Year in Spain are ratifi�d. On March 19th the Committee on Academic Policy of Hamilton College approved the Romance Language Department's plans for initiating· an Academic Year in Spain beginning with the. yearJ 1974-5. At this time, the project is contingent upon the approval of the Board of Trustees. Professor Jeremy T. Medina and other members of the Department have been planning the . establishment of such a program for almost a year. Unlike the Hamilton Junior Year in
student an opportunity to become familiar with Spanish life and customs, while at the same time preparing for his normal semester work. All students will take c o u r s e s i n c i v i Ii z a t i on, com posi t i o n , g r a m m a r and conversation. Courses making up the regular semesters are organized especially for t h e H a m i lton C ollege Academic Year in Spain. They are taug ht by members of the Facultad de Filosofia y Letras of the Universidad de Madrid Qr by other authorities in the fields of letters, history and the arts. The selection of offerings is limited, in order to insure close supervision and a careful maintenance of the highest academic standards. A student may arrange to take a course independent of the H am ilton C ollege p r o g ram through special permission of the Director. Students are encouraged
.France, the Spanish Year will be to t ake courses which will open to Sophomores, Juniors an(l complement and expand the Seniors. Enrollment fo r the first current offerings at their home year of operation will be 25-30 institutions. Each course will meet three students. Mr. Medina will serve as hours a week for lecture or over-all director of the program discussion. All courses are taught and will take the first group in Spanish. There are three abroad However, professors from examination periods, one at the Williams and Mt. Holyoke Colleges end of the preliminary session, will participate in a five or six one at the end of the first year rotation of resident directors. semester, and one in June at ·the The program will be held in end of the academic year. In Madrid, the capital of Spain. addition, shorter examinations, M a d r i d o f f e r s o p t i mu m papers, and reports are scheduled e d u c a t i o n al a n d cultural during the year. During the opporturut1es. The city is a second semester, students are marvelous comb inat.ion o f encouraged to work on special Medieval and Historic Spain along projects in lieu of one of their with all the assets of a bustling, regular courses. Definite proposals modern European city. Classes for such independent study must will be held at two Institutes in be submitted to the Director Madrid which will provide a b e fo re the Christmas recess. library, a lecture series, and social Independent study will consist of activities. steady work under the regular A f o ur week langu age supervision of an assistant. The orientation period precedes the granting of permission for such re gular academic year. · This work will depend upon the preliminary session offers the i n tellectual and l i n g u i s t i c "ONE OF THE 10 BEST PIT-STOPS IN THE U.S." Ski Magazine, Ja1L /972
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§@%%\ b ac kg round, t h e e m otional maturity and the proven sense of responsibility of the study. In addition to those courses, which will be taught by carefully selected faculty members from the Spanish teaching community, students will be permitted to take certain courses in History, Music, P hilosophy, Economics, Literature, and Spanish American L i t e r a t u re in other w el l-e s ta b l i shed programs in Madrid. What makes the Hamilton program different from others alr e a dy in existence is the e mpha s i s u p o n a r i g orous curriculum independent from the Spanish educational system which t e n d s to be lax and very politically biased. In addition, the selection of living facilities for the s�udents will be more carefully attended to in the Hamilton program, and students will be s tr ongly encouraged to· have contact · with Spanish students. The language of the country will few insist on a truly rigorous be the one used habitually by all curriculum and set of academic participants in the program. standards, and none offer the In order to give members of unique combination of factors the group the best opportunity to described below; (3) we continue come into close contact with to recognize that only through an Spanish life, each student will live extended stay abroad canstudents with a Spanish family. This come to appreciate the culture arrangement is considered one of · and assimilate the language of a t h e prime elements of the• foreign country to the point of Hamilton College Academic Year real understanding." in Spain. All homes are carefully Applicants for the program visited and inspected before being should have a good academic chosen. Students are expected to average (a B a;erage), and they c on f o r m to t h e sche dule s h ould h ave a reasona ble established by the head of the knowledge of Spanish. (two years household. Luncheon (usually of High School Spanish. and two served between 2:00 and 2:30) years on the College level, or the and dinner (served between 10:00 equivalent.) Students majoring in and 10:30) are taken with the subjects such as · Art, Philosophy• S pa n i s h f amily. To aid in History, and of course in Spanish placement, st.udents are asked to are eligible for the year abroad. fill out a confidential housing P a r t - t i m e s t u d e n t s , o r -questionaire. one-semester stud�nts will not be As far as the benefits and admitted, and applicants should rationale behind the establishment have the recommendation of his of the program for Hamilton and or her Department Chairman. Kirkland, Mr. Medina explained Hamilton and Kirkland students some of the advantages: who are interested should see "The reasons for our proposal Professor Medina. Applicatrions are at least three: (1) it would be are due by March 15, 1974, but a further way to attract students interested students are encouraged to Mamilton; (2) despite the- many to submit the application and programs already located in Spain, necessary transcript as early as
possible, as considerable thought must be given to integrating the courses one will take abroad, and the subjects one pursues at the home campus. .A large advantage to the Academic Year in Spain is that it will pay for itself; nevertheless, every effort has been made to keep the cost as low as possible and to avoid hidden expense. The price charged a student for the Hamilton College Academic Year in Spain is set for the 19 7 4-7 5 year at $3,600 for the period from the date of the departure in mid-September to the end of the academic year in mid-June. This sum covers the foll o w ing expenses: group travel, room and board except for Christmas and Easter vacations, instruction and tuition, organized excursions and visits. There will be no scholarships or grants. but New York State residents will probably be able to a p p l y f o r t heir Re gents Scholarship, such as the case may be. B e sides t h e c hallenging academic curriculum, thestudents will be afforded the opportunity to take excursions in groups to points of interest in Spain. And, the p articipa nts have their Christmas and Easter recesses in which to travel at their leisure. T he participants are likewise encouraged to join with the Spanish life-style, their customs, and mores. However, prospective applicants should be aware of the stringent laws, particularly with regard to foreigners, in Spain. The A merican student must have perseverance, a sense of humor and adaptability.
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continued from page one auth o rization f or further i nvestigation and possible purchase of new machinery. According to Kirkland College President Samuel Babbitt, the current investigation is funded by a joint grant from the Exxon Foundation. President Babbitt stated that the computer problem at Ham ilton and K i r k l and is twof old: the d i f fi cu lty is administrative as well as academic. The administrative "computer" is an IBM 40 7, is merely a ''print-out machine which is c a p a b l e o f s o me mino r manipulation," according to Mr. Caravano. The administrations of the two colleges will need data storage space along with the academic depar tme n t s and President Babbitt suggested that a single machine may not be able to satisfy the needs of both parties. A decision concerning what type of computer facilities will be purchased is expected after the Board of Trustees has decided
whether or not to authorize the proposed purchases. Mr. John Bacheller of the Kirkland Government Department was able to elaborate further on the problem. One cause of the trouble, he said, is that the teletypes hooked into Griffis are only a vailable for weekday afternoon use. If Hamilton and Kirkland were to purchase their own facilities, more people would be able to take advantage of the longer time available. The reason for the inability of the present system to store vast amounts of information is that data is imputed by means of a punch tape, which is operated by means of a keyboard similar to that of a typewriter. A computer into which information could be imputed through magnetic tape, disc, or IBM cards could be capable of storing much more data �han the present teletype. Mr� Bacheller stated that data storage capabilities are important for groups· involved in statistical analysis. The science, social s c i e nce, and m athematics
Gastronomic Travels: Oriskany FaUs' Fitiest BY LOUIS LEVENSON If you venture out to Oriskany Falls, you ought to go in style or you shouldn't go at all. Right from the start, that means you chug to the College Hill Road to latch onto the high an,d mighty Skyline Drive. No left turn to go down the Hill (Right turn for Kirkland) to dusky Route 12B. No sir. The out-on-the-towner, clad in tuxedo or just plain casual, has to start off right. It's no coincidence that a spot on Skyline Drive is the highest point in Oneida county and from there on, the road, a winding, country, glorified tractor trail, descends into the depths of Oriskany Falls. The first thing to notice on coming down the last hill into the town (trucks should use a lower grear) are the ominous orange lights that make the nighi., which envelops the town like a mattress might sit on a bottle of wine, actually become· gloomier. Ah, but let the optimistic student out for fun forget the time and the lights and the vicious night to look for the gaeity in store: dining, dancing, and daring frivolousness (Oriskany Falls' GRAD SCHOOLS continued from page four law. There is no real trend in the percentage of Hamiltonians that are going on to any graduate work. Although over the past six yearsthe percentage of those going to graduate schools has never dipped below forty-four percnet ( of those reporting to the Career Center questionnaire), it has fluctuated upwards as high as sixty-two. percent. Over the same period, there have been three major categories of graduate work that have all had almost the same number of students in them. The Humanities, La w and Business, and the P hy s i c a l S c i e n c e s a n d Mathematics have all usually pulled approximately one-third of the class each.
departments empfpy thi,s type of analysis. Since the teletype now used by the colleges is incapable of vast date storage, all data imputed into the computer must. be newly compiled. Another drastic d i sadvantage of the teletype is its inability to draw information from other computer sources. Any student involved in statistical analysis must travel to Colgate or Syracuse to avail himself of the facilities there. Mr. Bacheller would prefer a m a c h i n e , s h ould one b e purchased, into which data is imp8uted by magnetic tape, disc, or IBM cards. Such a machine would not only . be capable of storing large amounts of data, but also could gather da:ta. Mr. B acheller noted that several candidates for teaching' posts in science a n d s ocial science departments refused offers by the c o l l e g e s · b ecause of the insufficient computer facilities. A new facili,ty would alleviate this p a r ticular problem, Bacheller stated. Mr. Jonathan Vaughn pointed to some other problems of the present system. Without a computer background, he said, a person will not survive in business or medicine, or any of the other physical o r s ocial sciences. Vaughn shares the hopes of other instructors that a new computer system, should one be installed, would be able to draw on other sources. He would also prefer a high-speed printer, to save time on studies using a great deal of information. "People will be surprised," he stated, "at how rapidly a new s y s t em w ould become inadequ ate.,, This apparently raises the problem of installing a computer which will not become obsolete in too short a time. All the problems are e�ected to be considered as part of the current inquiries into computers on the Hill. The general feeling, however, is that the colleges cannot afford to stall for time.
Kirkland Gel$ Grant; Use ls Umpecified· Kirkland College has heel) awarded a $500,000 development grant from the .Milbank Memorial Fund for general support of the college programs. The grant brings to a total of $1 million received by Kirkland from the Fund. In announcing the new grant, Kirkland College President Samuel F. Babbitt stated, 'The Fund's r ecognition of the value of Kirkland's special approach to education for women and to liberal arts education in general is gratifying to myself and_the entire Ki r k l a n d community. I am particularly grateful for the Fund's gracious words of support and encouragement which parallel their very generous act on the behalf of Kirkland." The $500,000 grant will be used by Kirkland for general operating expenses in 1973. Like the other Milbank srift, its use is
night life has been likened to a 13 year old 's first rush from a provocative kiss or from the German measles). Go ahead-Live a bit. But do stop at the blinking red light at the bottom of the hill right in the heart of that bustling metropolis. Run through that light and you could have a small run-in with one of the local gendarmes, all 626 of whom are said to speak only Serbo-Croatian (the world's most boring language), and, believe it or · not, eat Volkswagens whole. Eating. Yes, that's the name of O riskanyFalls' game. Continue about 100 yards straight ahead from the light and on the left you should notice the Antique Mirror Bar. The. place does live up to its name, as it has a mirror (but so does a men's room), and it is antique. The best food there is the pizza, which is diametrically -:ut BY CONNIE MINER a nd Auxil i a r y S e r vices to attest to the little known fact The Kirkland Assembly at a Committee, the Health Services that all roads lead to Rome. Before getting on to the meeting last Monday approved a Committee, the Humane Society, subject of eating, it's worth reorganization of the Student Life Orientation and Handbook mentioning that Oriskany Falls 'Committee, in the hopes of C o m m i tt e e , t h e R oo m i n g has much more to offer. There's a ma king the committee more C ommittee, and the Student howlin� allev on the outskirts of responsive t o n o n-academic Entertainment Committee. town though it was closed. when student needs. The effect of the An additional change resulting pictures and interviews were motion was to give the committee from the motion was in the sought. (Local gossip reports that the former duties of the Student membership of the Student Life the alleys are open, however, on Funding Committee and to Committee (SLC). Membership of all Anabaptist holidays). For subsume under the Student Life the new SLC will consist of the those automotively inclined, there Committee's jurisdiction activities chairwomen of all the standing is a 25 cent do-it-yourself carwash of sub-committees related to all sub-committees of Student Life, on the same road as the bowling areas of non-academic student two Faculty members ( one of alley. If you had time on some life. whom is a faculty resident), the Saturday night it might be Standing sub-committees of Dean of Students, ex officio, and possible to fit both in, and neck Student L i f e· include: the a chairperson, who is selected by with your beau or belle at the Athletics Committee, the Food the committee itself. same time! The rock quarry, though not a tourist attraction, is 24 hr Towing certainly a tantalizer for geology GULF BILL'S buffs. Joe's Hotel (near the blinking red light), offers quite a N.Y.S. AAA bit in local hospitality, not to n I spection 66 Utica St. mention their neon Pabst beer ALL REPAIR & BODY WORK GUARANTEED sign in the window, though you have to be in the right mood for FOREIGN CARS A SPECIAL TY that. 10% OISCOUNT to c.ollege students with I.D. It's about time to get back to 0 n ALL par.ts, Accessories, and Service Work the food, the central issue in any EXCEPT GAS critique of a gourmet's newly found dining haven. Ah yes, the 6am-12arn 7 days. glories ?
unrestricted, an unu�ual condition fpr large grants. In � letter to President Babbitt, L.E. Burney, President of the M i l b a n k M e morial F u nd , explained, "'Ibis award i s a clear indication of the Board's continued admiration of the liberal arts education offered to women attending the College and an expression of confidence in its excellent goals for the future." Traditionally the Milbank Memorial Fund has supported agencies undertaking activities in p ublic health, education arid welfare, particularly institutions concerned with ·women. Samuel R. Milbank, present Chairman of the Fund, is an active supporter of women's education. In addition to his interest and support for Kirkland, he served as Chairman of the Board of Barnard College from 1963-1967.
Assembly Alters Life Committee; Non-Academic Needs Stressed
Many of these standing s u b - c o m m i t t e e s comprise K i r k l a n d r e p resentation on various joint Hamilton-Kirkland c o m mittees; for example, members of the Health Services sub-committee represent Kirkland on the Student Health and Drug Advisory Board. Members of these sub-committees are conseled to be particularly attentive to Kirkland nee d s in r egard t o j oint committees. In addition to these standing sub-committees, the new Student Life Committee is empowered to crea te and disband ad hoc su b-committees to deal with unforseen problems.
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Kirldand Amends · Winter Siudy Procedure
explore their po st-collegiate goals <'program of coherence that will be. The resources that went to and to consider alternatives to attempt to relate the experimental conferences. such as the Teaching days. t h e i r e d ucat i on during the nature of the program to the rest and Leaming Co nference this year . Effo rts will be m ade to get semesters. curricular will be diverted to the WSC to school's of the speakers to , the Hill during The role of the faculty will be offerings.,, Lectures, films, and help finance extra cultural and January. When feasible, outside changed in some areas if the theater presentations are pro po sed educational during activities educators . will be invited to give pr o p o sal of SCACA is to relate the theme to the January. .. o n-campus Winter studies. Other implemented. Next year there will students and faculty. Suggested Every effort will be made to priorities are to make Kirkland be six t o ten gr oup supervised to pics no w include Peace and have the Kirkland's Winter Study College a "full participating" projects at Kirkland in on to the Earning a Living and Living Too. coincide with Hamilton's. The member in Winter Study, and to self-designed ones. The pro cedure The group projects to be offered Kirkland faculty has tentatively continue to seek ways to solve the for supervised individual pro jects will mo st likely relate to the endorsed the Hamilto n revised problem of the exorbitant costs of will be much the same, but for theme, whatever it turns o ut to calendar. the very popular overseas. unsupervised projects - when a programs. student designs a project without Similarly, January 1974 sho uld the guidance of a professional, be a different kind of month at Kirkland faculty or other - the Kirkland College than was advising syst em will be different. January 1973. Notices will soon In the past, Kirkland students be distributed to the student body met with their faculty advis ors to so liciting interested people for a decide upon a project, and if it President John W. Chandler has Cornell University. Winter Study Committee f was unsupervised, the Winter Pr o fess o r Anderson holds an ounced the promotion o f eight ann Kirkland Assembly composed of had been · drawn up Study Committee evaluated that students and faculty members. that gro up, and they were student's self-evaluation which members of the Hamilton faculty A . B . f r o m H a m i l t o n and the The Steering Committee o f the subsequently considered by the was n ormally submitted after to the rank of profes�or or doctorate form Duke University. The On the faculty since 1967, he is pr o fess or. Assem bly will select the members Assembly. The new committee January. With this system, the ass o ciate the t h e c o-author, with Pr ofessor C. by oved appr omotions, pr of the Winter Study Committee will be ;maller, and will have one WSC received close to 400 College Trustees at their winter S t a n l e y O g ilvy of Hamilton, of which will function as a faculty me mber from each projects to evaluate , and they . Excursions in Number Theory. m eeting, are effective July 1. sub-committee of the Standil}g Division. w e re f o rced to f o rm Professor Jones, a graduate of m ed full professo rs were A. Na Committee o n Academic and As in the past, the purpose of sub-c ommittees to evaluate D u n c a n Chiq u o i n e , A s s o ciate Fl o r ida State University, has his Curricular Affa irs. The new WSC next. year's Winter Study will be student's work. The bookkeeping will have abo ut ten or twelve t o enable students to "avail and discrepancies in academic ·Pr o fess or of Biology, Leland E. d o c t o ra t e f r o m B r a n d e i s C�att y , A s s o c i a te Pr ofessor of University and also has attended members. The reaso n for forming themselves of options that are not s t a n d ards a m o n g st the Che m i s tr y , a n d Lawr ence R . the Universities of Michigan and this new c ommittee is based upon feasible or not available in the sub-committees were a serio us McManus, Asso ciate Professor of W a s h i ngt o n. He has been at the difficulties the former n o r m al ac ade m ic semester." . proble m. Hamilton since 1968. Bi ology. comm ittee had. A number of Students will be encouraged to Next fall, students will meet as Pr o fessor Lewis holds degrees owing were gr ornoted foll The a gro up with their advisors; at fr o m T e m ple University (B.A.), o ass o ciate pro fessor: John T. t these meetings the students' Anderson, Assistant Professor of Ind i a n a University (M.A.), and vari o us pro posals will be judged, Mathem ati cs; Gr ant D. Jones, S y ra c use University (Ph.D.). He not only by the faculty member A s s i s t a n t P r o f e�s o r o f was app o inted to the Hamilton but also by · one's peers. The A n t hr o p o l o g y; Eugene Lews,is, f a culty in 1967. His book, The accountability is to the advising A s s i s t a n t P r o f e s s o r o f Urban Politi cal System, was gr oup - that is, at the end of Go vern m e n t; Robert L. Si mon, published this year. BY PETER KIRSCHENBAUM consider the matter of promo ti on Winter Study, the student's work Professor Si mon, who came to Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Twenty-seven candidates were within the department to be of will be evaluated by her advising a n d Fr e d e r i c k R . W a g ne r , Ha m ilt o n in 1 968, h o lds the c onsidered this year for vai ous great student interest and thus 'the gro up-, no t the WSC. As the doctorate fro� the University fo Assistant Professor of English. faculty position to be filled for question of student participation SCACA report states, "The most P r o f e s s o r Chi°qu o ine is a P e n n s y l v a n i a a n d is also a next year. In addition, several in promo tion decisions he does essential part of this .gro up grd uate of Swarthmore College, graduate of Lafayette College. He promo tions and re-appointments n ot think is crucial. Dean pro cess... is the ability of the were m ade within departments Kinnel, in discussing student student to justify to her advisor w i t h a P h . D . f r o m Corn e ll is currently on a research leave assisted by a grant fr o � the t y . B ef o re corning to Universi that take effect next year. These participati on pers onnel and her peers the importance of in Ha m i l t o n in 1 966' he taught a A m erican C o uncil o f Learned decisions were no t made witho ut decisions at the College as a · this project in terms of her own C o r n e l l , W a s h ingt on University Societies. some participation. whole, felt student opinion was educational needs." student P r o fess o r Wagner has A.B., School of Medicine, and Princeton Student opinio n was c onsidered in was serio usly so ught . and · Credit for the project will be ., and P h . D . d e grees from A.M research special a As ersity. Univ m aking these decisio ns through a considered in all departments. He granted by the advising gro up on fello� of the U.S. Public Health Duke Universi t y and came to variety o f ways, most of them noted such opinion is n ot the final the basis of discussions after S e r v i e h e w a s w i t h t h e Ham ilton in 1969. informal. word. "It is conceivable a January in which, the studen ts will Department of Physi ology at the Each department has the professor may be popular and not exchange the� results in relation Universtiy of L ondon. His field is pr im a r y resp o nsibility at good, o r good and no t po pular," to their go als which were histology and embryology and he Hamilton for selecting and said Kinnel, "altho ugh if he is approved by that gro up · before. _24 Hour Senice has written a number of articles reccomending candidates for popular it makes it easier for him January. But, as Pro fessor Hoffa for scholarly publications on his appointment to the faculty. They t o do what he wants to do_-�ith stated, "Credit is no t the primary interview candidates first and the students." Nonethelessr he question.· We·.. are ·counting on the ' research. P r o f e ss o r C ra tty has been a m a k e p r e l i m i n a r y sees the solicitation of student collective wisdom of a gr oup to 15 from the collega to the member of the Hamilto n faculty reco mmendatio ns to the faculty opinion as an important part of encourage· the students to design Gus ar Train StatieDI Utica rate o ct o d his has He 1958. since · Committee on Appointments, the selection pro cess. m eaningful projects, and to follow from Br own University and a B. S. which advises the President on The situation is similar at t he rn He conscientio usly." $5 &om the collega to tbe fro m Beloit Co llge in Wisconsin. A f a c ulty a p p o i n t m e n t s , Kirkland, both in the form al .· indicated that this might begin a Oneida County Airport Beta �hi and Xi Sigma f o ember m ns o decisi nnel o s r pe f o es r prqcedu r e appointments, promotions, advising all wherein trend in K a p p a , h e is a specialist tenure and dismissal. The and in the rnan�er of cultivation at Kirkland will be done in group $22 from the collega to die absorption and catalysis and has Carl " style. op1mon. stud,ent President makes the final decision o f Syracue airport publishe d s e v e r a l p a pers and Faculty Dean on all such matters. Thus Schneider, The other major change in pics. o t se o th n o icles t ar as ns o cm e d such d e scrib e d officially students need not be . 5 ride u cheaply u mac P rofe s s or M cManus, w hose f a c ul t y Kirkland Winter Study will be the consulted at all on faculty "' e s s e n t i a l l y a introduction of a "theme". All ai;id gy o l o ec _are s t s tere in principal ? e and , � t in. o �pp nsibility•" o sp e r appoinme nt and promotion � DawdSeyae . projects and experiments are not f i e l d b i o l o g y , h a s been at decisio ns. Nonetheless, they are. promotion dec1S1o ns are initiated Phone Ointon 155-MS required to adhere to the theme ; Hamilton since 1960. He holds a The proce dure followed by the at the divisional le�el and then go instead the goal is to have a B . S ., M. E d., and P h . D. from Economic Department this year in to Dean Schneider and the selecting new members is a good advisory faculty appointment for review. The example. The Department needed committee the of both a new full-time member and r e comme n d a t i on someone who co uld re place Mr. committee and the De an , which Summer 1973 Wertime r, department chair.man, are usually identical, are then Studies in Quantity and Quality of Life SESSIONS II AND Ill for one y ear while he is on leave. given to the President for final advis o r y acti on. Each division seeks a s se m bled He The Journalism Institute sEsstoN 11 four · student o pinion in it s own way, of b oard iµterviewing The Publishing Institute sEss,oN 111 i n c l u d i n g just as Hamilton departments d o. s t u d e nts, I. June 11-July 27 (7 weeks) THREE no n-Economics majors, to meet Dean Schneider mentioned a SESSIONS: II. June 25-July 27 (5 weeks) with the five candidates for the student course evaluation form Ill. July 30-August 31 (5 weeks) permanent positio ns and submit just approved by the fa culty Offers: Manhattanville to ready be will pe o h he written o pinions, as well as which • Day and Evening Courses in Art, Music, Sciences, Humanities informal recommendations, on use by the end of the semester. • For Undergraduates, Graduates, Qualified High School Students co urse Hamilton the each of the candidates. When Like • Interdisciplinary Programs, Teacher's Certification Courses r ea p pointments evaluati on form this will provide a c o nsid eri ng • Coeducation, Air-condition<>d Classrooms n o n o pini o t studen f o range within the department, Mr. wide • Residential, Recreational and Cultural Facilities Wertimer relies on student co urse the present faculty and will be • Summer Studies in Italy and Spiin m aking n i d e r e d i s n o c evaluatio ns as a guage of student brochure write: For and pr omotion reappo intment o pinio n o f the pro fessor being Director of Admissions, Manhattanville College, Purchase, N. Y. 10577 914/946-9600 ns. o decisi considered. Wertimer doesn't continued from page one
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THE SPECTATOR
APRIL 27f 1973
ILacrosseTeam Now 2-2; ace Rugged R.I.T. on Mon.
BY THOM PIRODSKY Having played four games already this season, the Hamilton College Varsity Lacrosse team has assed a total of two victories hile dr�pping an eq_ual number f contests. Losing to Albany College 7-4 n the season's opener, the ticksters came back to score an pressive 18-6 trouncing over the apl ess E i se n h o w e r College enerals before a large home owd. Last Saturday, with formidable larkson College as the opponent, the Continentals surprised a lot of eople as they coasted to a ell-deserved 12-7 win, primarily n the sh ooting pow�r of o-captain Nat Follansbee '73, ho netted four fine goals. Follansbee, the team's leading scorer so far this season, added two more goasl to his total this Wednesday against Geneseo State. However, these were the only goals registered by Hamilton as the squad lost its second game, this time by the score of 7-2. The Clarkson victory was a particularly satisfying for coach Manfred Von Schiller and his Continentals. The lax.men had been heated rather badly by Clarkson last year (10-4), and Clarkson's coach Ron Cerbaszio had hopes of repeating his team's domination over Hamilton. Von Schiller, however, had a few surprises for Cerbaszio and his confident Clarkson crowd. One of these. surprises was Follansbee's star-studded perfortnance as the slender but wirey co-captain scored three of his four goals in the final minutes of the fourth peri od. Jon Berry '75, • the sophomore attackman who had an out s t an d i n g game ag ainst Eisenhower, put in another f"me afternoon of lacrosse as he netted two goals and two assists. B u t · perhaps t he biggest surprise of the game was the ferocious play of young William 1 'Mark" Bernard Jr. '75. The so phomore a t t a ckman from Towson, Md. led the Continentals' scoring with a hat-trick (3 goals) as well as two big assists. Coach V o n S chiller, the mentor of this young team, praised Bernard for his ability to
go "one-on-one" against every man Clarkson put up against him; Mark clearly indicated that he is able to use his head, as well as his stick, on the lacrosse field. The performance was veryencouraging, and Von Schiller's front line attack of Bernard, Jon Berry, and N a t F o l l a n s be e p o s e s a triple-scoring threat that all future Hamilton opponents must reckon with. A l s o s c o r i n g f or the Continentals were Ned Collum '7 5, Steve Speno '75, and freshman Bill O'Donnell Jr. '76, who seems to be improving with every game. Speno's goals, which came when Hamilton was a ''man-up", was an important score. Co-captain Woody Navin '73 contributed an assist, as did the up-and-coming Bob St. George '76, who saw only limited playing time in the fourth period. The fleet-footed Bobby Pelz Jr. '75 delighted the crowd with his exciting play as he picked up two assists. Von Schiller summed it up when he said that, "...it was a tough, well-fought game," and more importantly, "...it was an entire-team effort!" The Geneseo game, played at ·home on Wednesday, was not nearly so successful, and yet there were a few bright spots.· Goalie BASEBALL continued from page 12 H a m i lt on 's ba ts, active throughout the game but robbed of runs by outs in the wrong places, took charge in a galloping nine-run rally that stretched from the seventh to the ninth innings. Hill hitters totalled 14 hits altogether, with Andy Sopchak going three for five, Nordo Nissi getting three hits, Jim Knodel picking up two RBl's on a single and another hit, and Kerry Regan gathering two hits during his ups. The Continentals have found their predicted potent plate threat, but erratic pitching and costl y fielding · errors have prevented a better showing than the current 1-7 record. Dave McLean and John Psiaki have ac:cidentally begun an erratic
Humanist Awards Gi"en Two members of the Hamilton College faculty have received Younger Humanist grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. A Younger H umanist Fellowship has been granted to Philip Bour d i l l o n , Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and a Younger Humanist Summer Stipend to John H. O'Neill, Assistant Professor of English. Both plan to use their awards to un d ertake research in Great Britain. Professor Bourdillon will spend the 1973-74 academic year at the University of Edinburgh to pursue research on Thomas Reid, the 18th-century Scottish philosopher and founder of "common-sense realism." At Edinburgh - the center of Scottish philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries - Mr. Bourdillon will be continuing work begun in his doctoral
dissertation on George Berkeley, another 18th century philospher. Mr. O'Neill intends to spend two months in England this summe r , visiting the British M u s e u m , t h e C a mbridge University Library and the Bodlian and All Souls College L i bra ries at Oxford. He is studying pornographic poetry of the Restoration (1660-1700) with the aim of com p i l ing an anthology. Because of strictures on publication, many of the pornographic poems of the time exist· only in manuscript at these., libraries. Mr. Bourdillon received his B.A. from Hamilton in 1967. His graduate studies at the Univeristy of Rochester were interrupted by two years in the U.S. Army, and he was awarded the Ph.D. in 1972. He is currently on a one-year appointment to the Hamilton faculty.
William Hardy '73 (formerly of the Choate School) has to be co mmended for stopping 17 Geneseo shots, while letting in only seven. The defense played relatively well; the line of fearful Frank Assum, mighty Marty Percy '75., and muscular Mark Williams It was '76 seems to be jelling! u nfortunate that the offense .. c o u ld not g e t u n tracked throughout the contest because at the end of the first half, the Continentals were still very much in the game, trailing 2-1. However, the big Geneseo squad controlled the ball much too often and much too long for Hamilton to witi. In the second half, they broke the game open, .zi,,J scoring five more times, while the Continentals could manage only · Senior co-captain Nat Follinsbee avoids a Geneseo two goals (both by Follansbee) defenseman. 11Funky" leads the laxmen in scoring so far this season. before time had elapsed. Jon Berry '75, another Chaote School graduate, added one assist to the disappointing Hamilton cause. Next on the fun-filled schedule is tomorrow's game at Rochester University. Coach Von Schiller hopes the team will rebound from W e d n e s d ay's setbac k and recapture its winning form. Then, on next Monday, the laxmen return home to the Hill for a match against RJ.T. at 3:00 P.M. on the lacrosse field.
rotation of good and bad actions. When McLean is healthy, Psiaki's control is shaky. When Psiaki is working well, McLean sprains something. Behind them arc a groups of relievers who can throw "junk" all day, but whose outs are spaced well between lots of hits. Hopefully, the pitching staff can get t o g e t h e r f or the doubleheader this weekend with Rochester, a weak-hitting team whose pitching staff is also in deep trouble. The remainder of the schedule is not of the same caliber as RPI and Le Moyne and Union, so improved fielding and consistent pitching cfforts from Psiaki and McLean should see a great improvement in the won-loss columns by next week.
Golfers Relllain Undefeated Face 4 Matches Next Week
BY DOUG WRIGHT saved Wednesday from being a The powerful Hamilton College total loss for Hamilton teams as golf team is off to another fine they lambasted St. Lawrence start and appears to be en route to 394-411. Once again Porter and a record comparable to last JOnes led the way as long-hitting spring's, when it finished at 7-2. Wally carded a nifty 75, and Tim The Blue blasters, 2-0-1 at this continued his fine play with a 7 7. writing, have already "avenged" Hoyt moved into the third spot at one of last year's losses with a 80, barely edging out teammates victory over RPI on Monday, Green and Dave Wolhman '76, while the o ther conqueror, who scored 81's. Hobart, escaped with a tie in the Today, the Hill team leaves initial Continental match. Thanks town for its first road match with to some quite favorable Clinton Union at Schenectady, in which weather, the squad has been able the five low scorers from the St. to score well in its contests. Lawrence contest will compete. Leading the parade have been The first test away from the Captain Tim Jones 7 3 with a friendly nine here should go far to 76-stroke average and Junior indicate just how strong a team David (Wally) Porter who has Coach Don Jones has this spring. averaged 77 strokes per match. If Jones, Porter, and Company In this week's action, Hamilton continue their hot play of this edged RPI at home 395-401, with week, then an undefeated (though Jones fashioning a sharp 39-34-73. once-tied) season is.. within reach. Porter f ollowed with a nifty 76. Next week the Blues face a Steve Green '74 played par golf grueling task of four matches in on the fron side but fattened on five days, with the most difficult the back nine as he shot 36-42-78. appearing to be at LeMoyne on Rounding out the top five. Ham Monday and at home Tuesday Coll linksmen were Soph ace Vlad with the always-tough Albany H oy t and newcomer John State squad. Utica at home on Pert icone, with 83 and 85 Wednesday and a trip to Harpur respectively. on Friday will complete this The Continental linksmen frantic week of links action.
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announced yestei:day. Mr. Cannamela will assure the position on Monday, succeeding Mrs. Ethel who Ca meron has been acting-manager since January. Cannamela, 30, comes to Clinton from the University of Massachusetts where he has worked sil}ce 1969 as Assistant Manager and Manager of their bookstore. He attended Hofstra University and the University of Massachussetts. On January 24, l\lr. Joe Jmzak resigned as manager of the store. l\1rs. Cameron, who held that post from 1958-1971, assumed the position until a replacement could be found. The search and :elcdion process for a new manager began immcdi.1tcl)' after the J urz,lk resignation.
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APRIL 27 1973
Bright Spots in Trackster Losses; Cortland, BrockJ)Ort Here Tom'w BY PETER ACKERMAN This past week was not a bright one for the Hamilton track team as it dropped two meets in a row, and neither one was particularly a cliffhanger. The first loss was on Sat. _ April 21 to U of R at Rochester (94-51), and the second was to a strong Union squad here at Steuben Field, 99-46. Nonetheless, Coach Gene Long's h a rr iers showed ste ady improvement in both contests. At Rochester, although skies were sunny, the Continental's prospects were not as- the Blue failed to place any men in the
-Vite- Stellato '74 runnig the 880.
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pole vault, 120 yard high hurdels, 220 yard dash, and the high jump.· But co-captain Dennis Oakes '73 won the 440 yard dash in a fine time of 51.8, and stalwart Vito Stellato '74, always a strong competitor, took both the 880 and one-mile n1ms. Stellato's time for the half was a respectable 1.59.3, but he really moved in the mile, registering an excellent 4: 21.4 in beating one of Rochester's best runners. Contributing points in two events each were Owen Kratz '76, Pedro Garcia '75, and Paul Brown '74. Kratz, compe1;ing for the first time in the javelin throw, tossed the stick 166'8½ in., good enough for second place behind teammate Frank O'Leary '75, who won with a fine throw of 179'3 in. Kratz also grabbed second in the triple jump with a noteworthy leap of 44ft. even. "Sugar Bear" Brown, a versatile weightman, won the shot put with a heave of 42 ft. 10½ 1n., and later finished third in the discus throw behind Jeff Hewitt '74, who took that event with a toss of 122 ft. 5 in. Garcia added points by placing third in the 100 yard dash, and second in the long jump. Other Blue trackmen to place in their events were Peter Wang '75 who finished second in the· 100, and Dale Ga1Tett '76 with a third in the triple jump. Bruce Carter '76 posted a promising 15:14.0 time for three miles, good enough for second in that event,
Spring comes to Hamilton It's a muddy day in Mudville Spring brings many things to the Hamilton campus, Frisbees, shorts, skirts, and of course, the monsoon rains. The first torrential downpour in April announces the coming of spring. The rain causes a few problems. The Hamilton sports teams rarely ever get to practice on dry land. When they are able to play, it is on a submerged field or track.. Even more unfortunate is the case of the intramural softball teams. Due to a lack of time and fields, those teams must play under all conditions, exempting thunder and lightening. Softball is a game designed to be played on dry land; unfortunately a scarce commodity at Hamil ton during the spring. Nevertheless, the teams carry on to the best of their ability. Soggy fields drastically change the nature of the game. A team shows up for a game a little early to get in some fielding practice. The first step on the diamond indicates that trouble lies ahead; the unfortunate player is up to his ankles in mud. Several more steps prove the first was not an isolated incident. The field is flooded. Glancing at the bases, the player notices there are not any. Instead four deep puddles have replaced them. The outfield would remind an Irishman of the Old Country. It has the consistency of a bog.
The game begins. The pitcher on the mound gets set. Even before he releases the ball, it. begins to rain. Not a heavy rain, just enough to make everyone feel miserable. The poor pitcher is in a tight spot. Unable to control the mudball, he must lob it over the· plate and hope for the best. The first two batters hit towering flies that just reach third base. Then a tough hitter steps into the box. He takes a hefty cut at the first pitch and falls flat on his face. He gets up, determined to kill the next pitch. He connects and the ball goes 18 feet before it dies. He is safe at first though as both the pitcher and catcher have fallen trying to reach the ball. The next batter comes up and hits a pop fly out to the left fielder. He backs up to take it and winds up on his back. He recovers in time to throw out the batter who ha� overslid third base by twenty feet. The other player has scored though and given his team a 1-0 lead. The one run lead is good enough for the victory. Neither team is able to mount any kind of offense. A foul tip becomes an accomplishment, The game finally ends. Twenty tired, wet, and muddied men trudge off the field. The winning team is glad they have won; the losers are glad they have survived another Hamilton spring day.
while Sandy Mackintosh '74, continually improving in the 440 yard hurdles, finished second with a 60.4 clocking. Unfortunately, neither Blue relay could match Rochester's efforts. The story was generally t�e same here at Steuben Field against the Union speedsters. But, the Continentals did manage some noteworthy performances in this losing effort. Led by co<aptiain Oakes who won the 440 yard sprint again in a slightly slower time of 52.2, Wang, Stellato, .and Mackintosh each placed in two running events. Wang's sprinting has constantly improved, and this was evident as he finished second and third in the roo and 220 yard dashes, respectively. Vito, who never ceases to excite Hamilton track fans, won a tight mile contest in 4: 21.1, and then finished a close second to Union's all-league half-miler in 1 :59.8. "Sandy" ran in two separate quarter-mile races, one with hurdles and one without; he took the 440 hurdles in 60.4, and finished second to Oakes in the quarter sprint with a fine 53.1 clocking. Adding points for the Blue in running events were Ed Gimenez '76 with a third in the 120 yard high hurdles, and Paul Ford '74 who took third in the three mile run. Ford has only recently begun to contribute as he has been hampered by illness for the past several weeks. Co-captain Tim Delaney finished third in the mile, while Bruce Carter led Ford
Co-captain Dennis Oakes 73 on route to victory in 440. Sandy MacKintosh 74 grabbed second in the event. home· in the three mile event in this week in the triple jump and 15:06.8, shaving 8 seconds off his placed third (43 ft. 3 in.). Garcia previous effort. continued to score in the long Led by a sweep in the high jump with a second place finish jump, Union competitors (21 ft. 8 in.), and Don Kendall '74 dominted the field events. - added a third place point in the However, O'Leary continued his pole vault ( 11 ft. 6 in.). winning ways in the javelin throw with a first place toss of 175 ft. 6 -Again, neither Continental in. Brown grabbed second in the relay their match could shot put (42 ft. 11½ in.), and then opponent's squads. The harriers, threw the javelin 137 ft., good whoe record now stands at O to- 3, enough for third. next host a houseparty trackfest Hewitt took second in the here· against · Cortland and discus throw (123 ft. 1 in.), while Brockport on Sat. April 28 at 2 Garrett soared two feet furhter P.M.
Umps, 'E's & Sore Arms Hurl Continenfms Thru 0-3 Week
BY TOM THOMPSON day: 12 calls for Le Moyne, 1 for first and so far only, victnn, The saying goes that to win a Hamilton. dropping half of a doubleheader team has to have the breaks go The second game of the two weeks ago. This time, the their way, and also that a good doubleheader sharply pointed up 10-9 score in favor of Utica team makes its own breaks. the lack of pitching depth which r e f l e cted two hot mid-game Hamilton's baseball team so far is the Continen tals' major i nn i ngs for Utica and a hasn't had any breaks come their handicap this year. Sophomore hard-hitting late-inning rally for way, but they haven't made any, hurler Dave McLean started the. the Coninentals which was nipped either. This week's action 'saw the game, but a sore ankle left over in the 9th by a disputed call at Continentals drop all three of from last weeks RPI game severly first base. their games, two of them by one hampered his throwing. Le Moyne Dave McLean started for the run in which fielding errors played batters hit him five times for as good guys, and did an excellent a vital part. many runs before he was lifted in job through the first four frames, _ Last Saturday saw the Hill favor of Bob Morris '76, the Hill's allowing only two hits. His arm hurlers travel to Syracuse to meet last remaining pitcher. tired in the firth as he let three LeMoyne, possibly the classiest Morris last two innings before hits and two runs get by, two of opponent on the schedule. Two Coach Heckler turned to his th_ose scoring a fielding error in seven- inning games formed the "eme rgency relief", infielders the infield. John Psiaki took over day's doubleheader. In the first Rick Swenson and Jim Knodel. the mound tasks then, but game, junior transfer John Psiaki They managed to hold the score allowed six runs before he found pitched an excellent game against down to a final of 12-4. his control late in the seventh the , strongest· hitting team the Wednesday found the ball team inning. Continentals have yet faced. His visiting Utica College for a single continued on pagtt l1 pitching was �responsible for a . game slate. Utica was Hamilton's tight game which went into extra .....__,, innings before Le Moyne singled home a run to squeak away with a 2-1 victory . April 29 (Sunday) Psiaki was also responsible for the single Hamilton run as he 2:00 - Karate Tournament doubled and scored on a single. April 30 (Monday) The first game also probed that 3:00 - Lacrosse vs. RIT you can't beat the home impires May 1 (Tuesday) as the biased calls flew thick and - 4:00 - JV Lacrosse vs. Oneonta fast. Close calls are an accepted 4:00 - Kirkland Tennis vs. Williams. part of baseball, but Satuday's May 2 (Wednesday) umps defined close as two feet for 3:00 - Track vs. LeMoyne Le Moyne and two inches for 3:00- Golf vs Utica Hamil ton. Bad call score for the
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Class '77 Selected; No Major Changes BY VIKRAM DEW AN AND VIJAY MURGAI Applications for admission to Hamilton have increased for the fourth straight year while Kirkland applications were down according to the directors of admissions for the two colleges. Mr. Christopher Covert, Director of Ad missions for Hamilton remarked, "Th i s kind of ad mission year has been gratifying in light of the problems that other colleges are having." Ms. Brigid Cosper, Kirkland's admissions director said that while applications had decreased from last year, the number of students from ex�erimental schools has increased. Of the 1452 applications, Hamilton accepted 460 students. To date, 250 applicants have made their deposits. Fifteen more are expected to do so in the next two months. As many as 188 students applied for early decision of whom 103 were admitted. Kirkland h a s accepted 349 · applicants from a total of 685. One hundred and ninety-five deposits have been received to date with a target of 200. Out of th'e eighty-two students who applied for early decision, fifty have been admitted to Kirkland. The geographic spread of the Class of '7 7 i s generally
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n or t h -eastern. Hamilton is admitting twelve foreign students next year from ten countries including Tunisia, Iceland, Haiti and Spain. K::kland has not received confirmation from its foreign applicants, but Ms. Cosper is expecting about four students from Turkey and Africa. There will be twenty-three transfers among° the students j oining K i r k'i �n d this fall. Hamilton is in the process of reviewing transfer applicants of whom twelve are to be accepted. There were thirty-six applications from sons of alumni of whom six teen were a c c e pted. · Applications from minority students to Hamilton were down this year while Kirkland had about the same number as last year. , Hamilton has lost applicants to I v y-League and north-eastern. colleges while Kirkland has given up some of her applicants mainly to Brown, Hampshire, Vassar , Smith, Oberlin, and Tufts. The experimental programs at. B r o w n and Hampshire have attracted many p r ospective Kirkland women to those schools, Ms. Cosper said. The class of '7 7 will be athletically superior to those in previous years. A number of good continued on page six
gone up almost two points in _•• <1.t Hamilton students BY PAMELA THOMPSON receive an average 2-3 points more A recent study concerning the the past two ye9,Ts. As to the results of the in Kirkland courses than · in distribution of grades for H a m i l ton students has been comparison of grade distributions Hamilton courses, the study does presented to the faculty by Dean by cl�ss, it appears that the upper not reveal which Kirkland courses Robin K i n nel. I nformation classes maintain better averages are elected. The study compares received from the Registrar's than the lower classes. this may be the grades by institution, not department by department, which office was tabulated and arranged See Cha!'t may have revealed more. Even a by the Associate Dean to provide On Page Six comparison of grade distributions three areas of comparison: trends in grade distributions since the due to several reasons: attrition of between Hamilton departments 1 9 7 0 a ca demic year, the the poorer students, elimination might reveal differences in grade distribution of grades by class, of some of the problems faced by averages. However, interpreting and a comparison between grades new students, improved study the study as it now stands, the received by Hamilton students habits, etc. i ndication is that Hamilton enrolled in Hamilton courses with I n t e r p r e t a t i o n of the s tudents are g r a d e d more those r eceived by Hamilton differences between Hamilton and stringently in their Hamilton students enrolled in Kirkland Kirkland grade distributions may courses than in their Kirkland courses. not act ally be that clear. While it courses. Although Dean Kinne! declined to comment 011 the results of the study, expressmg the belief that the figures would ·speak for themselves, he did offer additional information on the subject of Hamilton students enrolled in Kirkland courses for the '7 2 Fall Semester. Of the total number of course enrollments, assuming an average of four courses per student (roughly 960 students X 4 c o u r s e s =3 8 40 c o u r s e enrollments), 605 courses, or approximately 16% were taken at Kirkland. The number of Kirkland courses elected was further broken down by class: '73-141 courses, '74-156 courses, '7 5-195 courses, '76-113 courses. Grades of incomplete, pass, and withdraw were not included in the study, and a grade of FF Assoeiate Dean Kinnel comments on his grade-survey was considered the same as an F in calculating the distributions, although not in the averaging. It is not likely that either of these omissions would have a n appreciable effect o f the results. · At a time when Hamilton students are concerned over what they believe to be the overly requirements of the graduate Results of. the Conference on stringent gra!,ling practices of Law and Medical School · course. One, however, said that its Hamilton faculty, the results of admissions committee looks down that suggest Adm i s si ons the study on distribution trends Hamilton's law admissions equal. on the practice. since 1970 seem to leave room for If the representatives at the the other small schools which optimism. Grade averages have attended the conference, yet the conference were any indication of national medical school opinion, medical school results are much the schools look at summer worse. science courses with suspicion. As of April 12-13, when the The opionion was expressed that Conference was held, 10 of 24 it looked as though the student Hamilton-Kirkland students had was insecure and that he could . been accepted into medical not handl<:_ the load during the schools. Williams' acceptances academic year. were down this year: 18 of 35 Reports of law school self-scheduled exams and hoped have gotten into med school. admissions weren't available, but Trinity's acceptances are 18 of 29 that it ''would allow him to . Bowdoin said that their experiment with differ�nt kinds premeds; Middlebury's are 5 of admissions figures were identical 10; and Tufts are 70 of 123. The of exams." to Hamilton's. It was apparent, S t u d e n t s s u p p o r t e d Bowdoin reRresentative stated however, that the situation with that about half of their 30 self-scheduling on the grounds law school acceptances wasn't as that quirks in prescribed schedules premeds have been accepted, and bad as with medical schools. often forced students to take all Union reported that 60% of their The question of evaluations their exams in a crowded period applicants have been accepted. and pass-fail was raised by the law One of the representatives said of time. Students argued that schopls. Two of the law schools · self-scheduling will allow relaxed that the national acceptance that suggested admissions figure has gone from 60% to 27%. and true tests. In connection with admission, committees looked down on T h e H a m i l t o n College pass-fail, grades on a student's Academic Council considered and the medical admissions people transcript. Similarly, one stated rejected a student proposal for discussed the idea of applying to that Kirkland's transcripts have to self-scheduling in February. In a graduate science programs at be translated into grades when a universities with medical schools letter to the Student Senate·1 student applies to law school. so a student can make himself Curriculu m Committee, the Grade problems were also known to the medical faculty. Council noted the administrative of Most the •d isc u s sed. Two of the schools suggested that difficulties and the possible undergraduate institutions noted it was a good idea, but the student burdens on the Honor Code which continued on page seven continued on page six must be prepared to· fulfill the
Wesleyan Accept s Self-Scheduling Exams Options Remain Open To Professors T he faculty of Wesleyan University approved a plan for self-scheduled exams this week. By a vote of 24-17, they ratified a proposal a pp roved by the Wesleyan Student Senate on April 17. The plan goes into effect this semester. According to the decision, professors may choose to give take-home e xams, scheduled exams, or they may. allow self-scheduled exams. Professors must advise the Registrar by mid-semester of their decisions. The Dean's Office will implement
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and administer the self-scheduled exams. Self-scheduled ex�s will be taken during a five day exam week. • Each day provides two exam periods, 9:00 A.M.-Noon, and 2:00-5:00 P.M. Students are to schedule their tests in advance so that the Dean's Office may supply the appropriate exams to a n e x a m r oom. Student emp loyees will collect all completed papers and deliver them to the Dean's Office. According to The Wesleyan Argus, one professor predicted that ''rather than put up with endless bureaucracy, most professors would either schedule exams, or give take-homes." Another professor, however, e x p r e s sed h i s approval of
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Self-Sclwduled Exams Although Williams has dropped self-scheduled exams, Wesleyan University adopted them this past week. Now that another member of the "Little Three", a group �f colleges "perhaps easiest to compare with Hamilton," has instituted self-scheduling, . the Hamilton faculty should reconsider its unwarranted rejection of the proposal. 'l'he Wesleyan plan affords its faculty members the choice of giving take-home, scheduled, or self-scheduled exams. Professors may thereby experiment with various types of exams, and students are able to withstand finals under more humane and relaxed conditions. · Hamilton professors presumably are free to decide what type . of exams they will give. Without a Wesleyan-like apparatus to administer self-scheduling, however, Hamilton professors are not likely to offer self-scheduled exams. In their February 20 letter of rejection, the Hamilton· faculty presented two overriding obstacles to the adoption of the Hamilto_n Student Senate self-scheduling proposal. They cited what would be "an all but unbearable burden on the Honor Code" and "administrative difficulties." The plan at Wesleyan avoids these difficulties. Wesleyan students must take their exams during specified time offerings and in �igned areas. Within this structure, administrative difficulties of distribution, administration, collection and correction of exams is diminished. This system can work at Hamilton, if the College trusts the Honor Code.- If the Honor Code cannot be trusted, why have an Honor Code at all? · Students continue to disapprove of crowded and hectic exam · schedules which de'feat the aim of t�y testing students' knowledge. We again urge the faculty to reconsider a proposal for self-scheduled exams. Though the Wesleyan plan · does not afford as mu_ch freedom as the Hamilton· Student Senate proposal, adoption would certainly be an improvement over the present exam situation.
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Witz Raises Mom's Self-Consciousness "But they say that you children are also spending BY GERRY PAYNE a lot more time drinking beer. It's popular again. We were all at Witz's house, Witz, me, and Pookie. Sitting in the kitchen,having cake and milk, Beer, and the pot too." Witz reached his breaking point and exploded. Mrs. Horowitz came in and had us all cornered.She ''Do you expect him to answer that? About the stood in the doorway, blocking quick escape, and 'pot'? I mean Mother, what are you collecting all began typically, "So children, how do you all like this evidence for?" school?" Mrs. H. held her ground. "I read alot about the Witz's face contorted in anguish. Throwing his fork down, he pushed away from the table and youth, and I wanted to find out what you and your friends ... " nearly knock�d everything over. ''Dammit, Mom. "But do I ask you what you're thinking?I mean Not again." do I barge in at one of your bridge parties,pull up a ''Things are fine, Mrs.Horowitz," Pookie offered chair, and ask all the womeJJ. what it's Jike to go delicately. through menopause? Do I ask the men what it feels ''Don't get so excited," she told Witz aside. "See? See?" Mrs. Horowitz needle4 her son. like when they can't get it ... " ''Watch it,just watch it young man!! " his mother "Some people can be polite! Some people. But not my son." She pulled up a chair and poured more warned. Witz l9wered his voice, he was screaming inside. milk · into all the glasses, then turned her back to ''Now look. You sit in this house, and in between Witz. "You two are still getting along, I see," she sort soap operas, you read "Psychology Today " and the ''New York Times " and you find out about the of asked Pookie and me. I nodded and brushed Pookie's hand off my youth. Well,yeah Mom. I'll tell you. I'm discovering homosexuality, Pookie here is a feminist, Gerry knee. smokes dope, and Pookie makes it with I don't "So loyal.Unusual in this day and age." know how many guys, I'm insecure, Gerry doesn't Witz glowered., know if he can get into law school, and we're all, ''We're happy, . Pookie explained. "I see," the woman answered. "You're happy." -every single one of us, are apathetic!! Because, There was a pause in which we finished our cake Mom,apathy is in! Even Esquire says so." Mrs. Horowitz reacted by standing up and and then looked at each other. "Not too much campus activism nowadays, I clearing the table. She began washing the plates and hear. Though, Gerry,you never were really involved glasses in the sink. "I only asked. I only asked." Her voice cracked. "That's all I did was ask." in. that anyway,were you?" "Mom, ya gotta understand we all don't turn "Mrs. Horowitz," I tried to explain, "I really don't know about campus activism. I suppose ourselves inside out." ,, "I only asked. 'there's less. But I really don't keep track.The war is. "And all I did was tell you,Mom/' Horowitz said over,and so is the draft. That explains lot." _ softly.
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To the Editor: A statement attribued to me in a recent article on the drug arrest has been so widely misinterpreted that I take this opportunity to make as clear as possible my position on drugs, the law, and the College. Both New York State and P e d er a l l a w · p rohibit the The Spectator will not be published the weeks of May possesssion, use or sale of illegal · 12th and May 19th. The last issue of the year will be drugs. College regulations remind published May 23 for commencement. students. that these laws exist and t h a t t he campus offers no immunity nor sanctuary from them. In short, the College does not condone the possession, use, and sale of drugs either on or off campus. The Handbook further VOLUME THREE NUMBER TWENTY FIVE states that the Faculty Committee Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor on Student Activities will hear cases involving violation of these Frederic Bloch Henry Glick r egulations when it believes Associate Editors disciplinary action is required. Richard Kavesh, Robert Keren , Kenny Marten, Mitchel Ostrer _ I fully support the Handbook Assi$tant Editors statement on illegal drugs. I view Peter Ackerman,Jon Cramer,Carol Goodman the abuse of all sorts of drugs as an extremely serious problem in Sports Editor Arts Editor , our society and have endeavored Craig Fallon Kathy Livingston to make that point to students over and over. Although no drug Photography Editor Business Manager cases have been brought tins year, David Cantor Peter Sluys I have endeavored to implement both the letter and spirit of the Production Staff Tony Mazzarella (Manager), Katie Davis, Liz Horwitt, Taki College policy and will continue Lamson-Scribner, Paula Leon, Gary Lukas. Bob Lyford, Connie Miner, to do so. R. Gordon Bingham Betsy Murray , Paula Klausner,Dave Shapland Dean of Students Business Staff Marty Kane,Jeff 'Pearse, Bruce Thaler
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To the Editor: When that ridiculous senior 1 Staff survey appeared in my mailbox Lou Cordia, Judy Crown, Randy Davis, Vikram Dewan, Vincent last week, I could only find time DiCarlo, Doug Glucroft, Robert Grieves, Bob Hylas, Gordon Kaye, to send it in for recycling.Now,in Peter Kirschenbaum, Louis Levenson,Vijay Murgai, Nanelle Napp, Lisa a moment of quiet, I think I Newell, Thomas Pirodsky, Manny Sargent, David Schutt, Michael might be able to answer the Scherer, Judy Sillari, Douglas Singer, George Walsh, Marsha Weinstein, question asked with all necessary Boh Weisser. consideration done. But, rather TIie �i:afW....16 ,,...._. Wflle SpedatCII'•• a aiewspaper edited bJ than look at the past - to my years atucleflb. · 29 -aadcaic ,_.. S111,saiption: S7.00 � ,ear. Mdma:- Boa 13• .._._ Colep. Clilltoa. New York. 13323, Lef&�� �"., on the Hill, their sweet ecstasies .cdilur m•t be silaed. bid -• will be witbllcld 11po11,eqDCSt. and their acrid defeats - I'd like to
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look ahead. I'd like to make a constructive proposal that our trustees can look into. It · is a time when money for small liberal arts schools is scarce. Hamilton's been doing pretty well so far, but we, like the rest, are heading for hard times. Let's face w e're America's nc;>t it, best-known school. We don't even seem to be able to get our men into med schools these1 days.Well, I've been thinking about how we might change things and I'd like to outline a proposal. What I have in mind is the following: I) We call in the bulldozers and raze every -single building on the campus . . . Kirkland too. 2) We call in a demographer,or some goose like that, and get him to find the exact centerpoint of the two colleges' land. 3) We contract a firm to build a large, round tower at that center-point. I'm thinking of something around 40 or 50 stories high. 4) We get our money people out to round up enuf bread to cover the whole exterior (windows won't be necessary) with ivory. 5) We call the press and reopen the college - call it what you like - I think Hamilton would still be fine. Why bother? I) For one thing we'll be more famous than Harvard. 2) When word gets round about our tower-top brains the world will from all over start running to Clinton. We'll have the best from Moscow, Peking, Delhi, London, Sydney, and Addis Ababa. 3) Money from Ford, Mellon, Carnegie, etc. will start rolling in. 4) We'll be known as the only
honest to goodness academic institution in America. Now don't get me wrong, my years here have been peachy, but then I'm thinking of the future. Be realistic, be a man, get going! Ted Leinwand '73
Arborial Fears To the Editor: This is in response to a letter that appeared in a recent issue of the Spectator ; The unidentified writer expressed concern about the number of- trees that have been removed from t�e Hamilton campus in recent years. I write to assure all of your readers that those of us who are responsible for such things share the writer's concern. In each of the last few years, about a dozen trees have had to be removed. The overwhelming majority of these trees were diseased elms. The few exceptions w e r e , t y p i c a l ly, over-mature specimens which were a hazard. During this same period a large number of small trees, v arioµs species but primarily deciduous, have been planted. Obviously, the smaller trees do not make the impression the larger ones do, but if one examines the campus with care, he will discover many young trees planted in the last few years. T h i s s p r i n g t h e t ree replacement program has been accelerated. Within the last month approximately 50 four- to six-foot evergreens, primarily spruce and pine, have been planted on and about the campus.Approximately thirty larger trees, about half deciduou·s (mainly maple and honey locust) and about half evergreen (mainly pine and hemlock) have been on order for some months. When received, they will be planted within the continued on page three
MAY 3, 1973 F.OLK FESTIVAL WEEKEND Schedule for Folk Festival preliminaries: Thursday - 7:30-midnight in the Chapel Friday - noon-midnight in the Chapel Saturday - 9 A.M.-noon Judges will choose the 6-8 best acts to give a final concert on the steps of the Library (or in the gym in case of rain), Saturday, beginning at 8 P.M. Admission is free to all events. NEW SCIENCE LIBRARY HOURS The Science Library will be open on an expanded schedule for the remainder of the semester. The new hours will coincide with those of the Main Library. Attendance will determine whether the policy will be continued next year. SHAKESPEARE MEASURE. FOR MEASURE A staged reading - acted that is book in hand - will be produced early in the fall of 1973. The play is scheduled to be studied in English 11 as well as in the Hamilton and Kirkland Shakespeare courses. Actors and crew are invited to audition, no experience necessary. Principal roles to\ be cast now; minor roles to be auditioned for in September so as to include freshmen. The text to be studied, a style for production, and a convention for reading/acting to be invented, and an expressive but minimal set and costumes to be designed and made. Actors should prepare to read for Duke Dicentio, Angelo, Isabella, Claudio, Lucio, Po�pey, Elbow, �d Mistress Overdone. Designers are mv1ted to bnng examples of their previous work, if po�sible. Actors' audition, Thursday, May 10 at 7_:30 P.M., Fischer Room BCC. Designers and other technical staff, by appointment with Mr. Barrett. NO QUESTIONNAIRE In case anyone cares the Student Committee for the Evaluation of Kirkland Courses and Instruction has decided not to publish the results of the questionnaire circulated in February. Only 120 out of the 618 Kirkland students .enrolled in Kirkland courses las fall returned the forms. That's 22%. We did not consider this a representative sample. Thank you .for your time and concern. contiuned from page two area of the three main campus quadrangles. I hope these remarks help to allay the fears of those who are conc e r n e d a bout tree replacements on the Hamilton campus. J. Martin Carovano a/k/a in The Spectator as: J. Martin Caravano J. Martin Carovana J. Martin Caravino, etc. Provost
More Social Damage Editor's note: The following letter appeared in last week� Spectator, but one section was inadvertently omitted. It appears below in its entirety. To the Editor: I imagine the reason I am writing this letter is because I am tired of reading one and only one opm1on concerning marijuana laws- that they be repealed. I refer specifically to the Editorial entitled "Pot Luck?" in last's week's Spectator. alchohol-caused highway deaths, and suicide most impressive; but I fail to see the relationship between alchohol and any drug, for that matter. Simply because the consequences that the intake of alchohol cuase over an extended period of time are far worse (orpossibly �ore easily t h an the r e cog n i z e d ) consequences of smoking over that same period should not be a basis for stating that smoking causes no social damage, which is the idea your c o m parison obviously intended to put forth. " ...marijuana causes far less social damage than alchohol,"-� your Editorial stated. This is a tacit ad mission, nevertheless, that mari juana does cause social damage. At the same time that
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KIRKLAND STUDENT LIFE COMMITTEE Nominations for Kirkland Student Life Committee should be returned to Mary Trosset by noon Tuesday May 1st. {see articl�) BAKE SALE There will be a bake sale held in the lobbies of Bristol and McEwen on Tuesday', May 8th between 11:00 and 2:30. It will be sponsored by a group'of Hamilton-Kirkland faculty, faculty wives, and students· for the purposes of starting a day-care center on the Hill. FRESHMAN PERSPECTIVE The "Freshman Perspective" will be distributed very shortly. If a first-year student at Hamilton or Kirkland does not receive a questionnaire, please contact Alan Silverman, Box 322. All first-year students are encouraged to reply to the questionnaires. It 'is hoped that there will be a significant response. To insure this, students who are unable to complete the questionnaires this spring are encouraged to maile the questionnaires this summer to Alan Silverman c/o Dean Bingham, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 13323.
MCKINNEY PRIZE FJNALISTS CHOSEN Finalists for the annual Mc;l(inney Prize Speaking Contests have been chosen, and will compete in the Physics Auditorium in the Science Building at 2 P.M. on Class and Charter Day, Wednesday, May 9th. Speakers from the Junior class will include Louis Levenson, Richard Wissler, and George D. Baker. The Sophomores will be represented by Geoffrey· Lawrence, Peter Sluys, and Willi� Purcell. Freshman speaks will be Barry Seltzer ,,Bruce Lieberman, and Lou Cordia. Two prizes will be awarded to speakers from each class. The judges will be Professor Emeritus Thomas McNaughton Johnston, Mrs. Sidney Wertirner Jr., and Mr. William Snead of the Economics Department. HAMILTON-KIRKLAND YEARBOOK Kirkland students wishing to order the 1973 Hamilton-Kirkland Yearbook may do so now thru f'mals week in McEwen - Tues., Wed., and Thurs., during dinner. Also to Enid Evans thru campus mail {checks payable to the Tntstees of Hamilton College). Price a mere $3.00 ($5 .00 for faculty) for handsome hard-bound edition, ta�tefully illustrated. ACADEMIC POLICY Petitions for nomination to the new Student Committee On Academic Policy {replacing the Curriculu� Committee) are available in Root 7. Fifteen signatures are required from members of your class. The Student Senate will select three committeemen from each class. Petitions are to be returned on May 5th to Root 7 by 4:00 P.M. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION For those interested in hearing about Transcendental Meditation as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, there will be a free introductory lecture on Tuesday, May 8 at 7:30 in Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. The lecture will be given by Rick Archer, Regional Lecturer for Students International Meditation Society.
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our generation is the bulwark intelligence he once had is rapidly behind what may be called a being suppressed and hidden revolutionary movement to amke within him. I just .hope that he living in the world better, I fail to lets it out again if he ever comes see how, we can condone back to the world... I'm really sick something which does, through its about the whole mess." This is, by use, have adverse effects. If we do, the way, someone speaking about then are not ourselves rejecting his best friend. I found out just those cherished values that we are his morning that this- guy is not going to return to school after trying to implant? As I tum to speak about the Easter. This is an illustration of two m e dical effects of smoking marijuana, I will speak from points which I wish to emphasize. personal experience. I am willing First, that continued use of to accept the stated fact that m arijuana leads to decreased marijuana does not cause cancer interest in many things and or lung disease, but I hesitate inability to concentrate on any when it comes to categorically one thing for a long period of denying psychological dependence time. (I wish I could recall the . and ill effects. I have a friend at name and credentials of a doctor another college who started into who wrote an article for the drugs our senior year in high Baltimore Sun during vacation, school-only with marijuana. supporting these theories on the Now-three years later-he has basis of extensive research he has tried everything,. but he still stick carried out in the past few years.) with grass. (Admittedly, he was My second point is that, speeding 18 hours a day at one t�ough use of marijuana in and of point for a few weeks, but he itself may not lead anyone on to returned to grass.) He smoke5 now harder drugs, it cannot be debated four to six times a day, alone or that using marijuana puts one in a wit h f i r e n d s - i t d oe sn 't more opportune position, by matter-and is almost perpetually c o nnecting o n e with the stoned. (I often used to wonder appropriate channels, to obtain where he could get enough money harder drugs than is anyone who to afford his expensive tastes, but d o e s n o t purchase or use learned soon enough that he had marijuana. It also cannot be become a dealer.) I now quote debated that the majority of those from a. letter dated two weeks ago who now use harder drugs from another of my firends at this "started off" with marijuana. college who knows him: "I seem Cert ainly, this is not mere to have lost all contact; with him, accident. but I'm not the only one. He has For these basic reasons I feel no interest in life but his stereo s trongly that marijuana . laws and drugs. School has g,me from a should not be repealed. Perhaps joke to a complete farce. Over the the severity of ·the punishments last vacation he decided to drop for some of the outlawed acts is out after this semester, but· he too great; in this case the penalties hasn't opened any books, so he'll should be made less severe. But I· possibly flunk [out] ... Now he wish to go on record for thinks he might not even come s u p p o rting the c o ntinued b a c k .af t e r Ea s t e r! H i s illegalization of marijuana. p r o g r es si v i sm downhill i s G. Page West III a m a z ingly senseless. Whatever
KIRKLAND POETRY Tuesday May 8, Alice Hildebrand will read her poetry in the Coffee House- at 8:00 P.M. Wednesday May 9, Gwynn O'Gara will read her poetry in the Red Pit at 8:00 P.M. There will be a reception after each Senior Project presentation. FRIEDENSOHN'S LAST LECTURE Doris Friedensohn, Dean of Students at Kirkland College, will speak in the "Last Lecture" series, Thursday, May 10, at 8:30 P.M. in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. HUMANE SOCIETY Lost - Dog, name is Tonka, female, med-small size, black with curly tail. Found - Cat, female, med. size, tawny color, white chest and front legs, ring tail. Up for Adoption - Kittens (3) before the end of the semester. Contact Robin Hall X4937, 7131. PLEASE keep dogs OUT of classroom buildings (including Bristol and Library). Do anyone own the large yellow-white cat (male) that has been ravaging McEwen Dining Hall?
Con Levenson To the Editor: Does Oriskany Falls deserve Mr. Levenson's psuedo-intellectual Pizza Hut placemat humor {"All roads lead to Rome")? The article, "Gastronomic Travels: Oriskany Falls' Finest" seems less concerned with good journalism than indulging Louis Levenson's fantasies of being another Art Buchwald. Really, "it has a mirror { b u t s o does a mens r o om ) "-·trulr· a scintillating metaphor. We look forward to more Serbo-Croatian from Mr. Levenson. Liz Dailey '75 Kris Barthelson '75
Con Levenson To the Editor: With regard to Mr. Levenson's article of last week I feel it my r e s p onsibility . to defend the 2 0 , 1 86 , 0 0 0 citizens of . the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslvia (not to mention the 626 Serbo -Croatian· speaking Oriskany Fall dwellers). Having taken the time to learn Serbo-Croatian, I can assure you that it is one of the world's most exciting languages. S Bogum, Patty Lowy
DKE Dukes Dear Editor: I returned to Hamilton this past weekend and came away dismayed by the treatment that a group of my friends received at a party in DKE. Two women were abused, one having even been punched in the mouth. This is not even the first time that something of this sort has happened. Two other - of my
friends, women, were treated similarly this year.. Equally appalling, in both instances, is. that other men were playing spectator sport, cheering. Something is pretty weird in Mudville, especiallr. when you realize that dogs are seldo,m treated so pettily. You find yo_urself without words. When will these men treat women as people? Sincerely, Fletcher E. Barton '72
Thanks Dear Editor: On behalf of the entire Admission Staff I would like to extend our thanks to the many members of the student body who assisted us this year. Particularly distinguished efforts were made by the Student Admission Committee under the leadership of O. J. Burns and the Block H Club. In addition, a number of fraternities helped a great deal by providing beds and food to campus visitors on numerous occasions. For all the many acts of kindness rendered to our visitors, I send along our grateful thanks. Christopher W. Covert Director of Admission
Benches To the Editor: If Hamil ton College refuses to ta ke any positive productive measures towards increasing the number of graduates that attend post- graduate institutions, then the least 'this college can do is prepare graduates in a more pract i cal way. The ex1stmg environment should be altered to indude park benches. These f i x tu res wo uld provide the continued on page seven
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Adirondack Playhouse on Hill, Summer of Theatre Experience
The Adirondack P.fayhouse has announcement under Arts Blurbs had two highly successful seasons p. 5. The season, which will open on since it opened in Old Forge in 3 and run for eight weelis, July 71 9 1 . r f e o the summ Arrangements are now being made will consist of the following to move it to the Minor Theatre offerings: The Owl and the Pussy on the Hamilton campus for the Cat; Private Lives, Butterflies are summer of 1973, where it can be Free, Bus Stop, Harvey, One expected to draw on a larger Thousand Clowns, Who� Afraid regional audience. In its new of Virginia Woolf, and The Last of setting it will be retitled and is the Red Hot Lovers. In a d dition, four Youth provisionally being called The Theatre shows will be produced, Playhouse on the Hill. The Playhouse �s a professional principally by ·the apprentices. A Equity company sponsored by the relationship with Kirkland Art New York State Council on the Center is being explored for the Arts, by the Central New York You th Theatre performances Arts Council, and by the downtown and for· classes for M u n s o n - W i 11 i a m s - P r o c t o r l9cal children at two age levels, to Institute. It will have a production be conducted by company and business staff of eleven, professionals. The college is entering into this including the producers, Mr. and M r s . Ma i tland T. Ijams of relationship with a professional Barneveld and New York. A total s u m m e r stock company in of fourteen Equity actors will anticipation of advantages of appear during the season. Four . several kinds. F irst, of course, it can expand student technical assistants are expected ·to be hired, and twelve g reatly the opportunities for to fo urteen technical and acting technical, and acting students to apprentices will be taken on to gain training �nd experience in the t r ai n with the company. practical theatre, supplelJlenting Auditions for professionals are their work in the theatre program being held in New York and for on the two campuses. Second - as has been observed apprentices both there and on the campus. Some adult and character as an effect of the two seasons of roles will be cast from community summer stock at Sturbridge for example and the Winter Study volunteers. H am ilton and Kirkla nd projects in the London Theatre students are invited to apply as such experience benefits not only assistants and apprentices. See th-e immediate participants but the student community at large in
Folk Fest Opens The more than eighty BOB O'CONNOR If one enters- the Chapel P.,erformers will be evaluated anytime today or until noon on according to stage presence, Saturday, one will be entertained creativity, and technical ability. folk They will perform one traditional fine truly some by performers from all over the song and two other songs of their northeast. Hamilton is once again choice. The performers will be sponsoring and hosting the limited to fifteen to twenty seventh or twenty-third annual minutes each. Folk Collegiate There will be five workshops Northeastern Festival, and with some exciting Saturday morning ranging from new innovations, it is shaping up "Dustbowl Ballads and Union to Banjo to a to be one of the most important Songs" cultural events of the area,. The Singer/Songwriter workshop. The festival is a benefit for Sing McKewen Coffeehouse will be Out f , the oldest folk music open-all weekend for jamming :tnd magazine still published in the i n f o r m a l concertizing. All United States. The only one of its information concerning the times kind, the cooperatively run and places for the festival by be. magazine is one of the only good found · in the programs at the sources for folk music from Chapel. And of course, there is English ballads to contemporary Fanguitos. poutical protest songs. Judging All in all, th�. weekend will be a the contestants will be folk smgers time of Dionysiac celebration, of Bob Norman and Paul Combs,_and community participation and Al enjoyment. It will all culminate m a nager" "f r e e -l a nce KcKenny, all of whom are t omorrow n i ght, weather connected with Sing Out ! and permitting, on the steps of the widely renowned in the music library in what promises to be a really fine erformance. business.
raismg the level of theatrical knowledge and criticism. It can notably increase the sense of the reality of studies in theatre and drama for everyone involved. Third, it can be expected to draw the upstat�- community within a large radius into the artistic activities on College Hill, a n i n t er e s t w hich ought reasonably to continue through the whole year. The Playhouse will be the only professional summer stock company in this region. A n d , four t h , i t should encourage a wider use of the campuses during the summer months and so help to support the physical plant - an advantage, however, which would not be sought if m o r e im mediate educational advantages wer-e not to be served, too. The actor apprentices will be trained in · daily workshops in voice , d ictio n , movement , scene-study, etc., by the director and other members of the professional staff. They will have the• opportunity to act with the professional company as well as in the Youth Theatre shows with credit toward Equity membership. And they will get·experience in all the aspects of the company's work, including box office and public relations. The technical apprentices will have classes taught by the professional designer and the technical dire__ctor and will build and paint scenery� be trained to oper ate s ound and lighting e quipmen t , and work o n properties and costumes. They w i l l· f u l ly design, construct, mount, and run the productions of the Youth Theatre program. Mr. Barrett is acting in a general liaison capacity between the Playhouse and the colleges, in connection with his grant from the Die trich Foundation to e nco urage and develop the theatrical p r ogram on the campuses.
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Spoon River Anthology Here's part of the cast of Edga r Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology taking a break from · a rehearsal of the play, which will be staged this Sunday night at 8:00 in the McEwen Coffeehouse. Pictured above are (in front) Thomas Pirodsky and (in back-from left to right) Fred Goehner, Margaret Klenck, and Kenny Marten. According to Clive Barnes, Spoon River Anthology "is a mixture of Walt Whitman, Thornton Wilder, and The Reader's Digest, and as such _it can hardly miss. It is as American as green apple pie and old cemetaries. Ma·sters, a contemporary of Carl Sandburg, wrote Spoon River Anthology in 1915. It is a series of poetic fragments, epitaphs, if you like, anecdotes, stories, character studies-all adding up to a mosaic picture of an Illinois township at about the turn of the century... it recalls a mythic America that perhaps never existed and yet is now irrevocably lost." For a fun-filled evening� come see Thomas Pirodsky as Doctor Meyers and Kenny Marten as an alcoholic in Spoon River Anthology; admission is free.
Boddy Goy Plays and Sings the Bloes� Wells Rons Dry at Weekend Concert BY JON CRAMER AND JACK CURRAN
of his songs were portrayals of bore no comparison to liuy's, nor old-time blues standards, such as were his harp solos as imaginative B.B. King's ''The Thrill is Gone". as Guy's guitar riffs. His dress was The songs were done in the 1-4-5 more entertaining than his The Blues was once again an tradition, and arranged in Guy's playing, and even his clothes were the of part i n t egral own original style. He did break boring after a while. Hamilton-Kirkland campus on from this tradition, however, with Although Wells did not play well, Houseparty Weekend, but this such popular songs as "Stormy his performance should not be time, musically. Buddy Guy, in Monday" and "Sunshine of Your overly criticized, for Guy the tradition of the unrelated Love". informed the audience at the end blues brothers Albert and B .B. own presented his King, The rock influence was evident of_ the show that Junior was not inimitable: blues style. Playing in his style, .subtly characterized feeling too well. At one point in the beginning backup with Guy were his own by bright rhythms, driving of the show, Guy himself was brother, :Billy Guy, on guitar, percussion lines, and intricate bass and an unknown bassist and runs. Guy's brother deserves entertained by two dancing girls, who were soon joined by an drummer. Junior Wells also fu rther mention .for his headlined the act. penetrating guitar leads and unknown Hamilton dancer in a singing, perhaps more influenced fast-paced rhythmic exhibition. two has style Guy's By the end of the show a large by rock than by blues. outstanding characteristics; his number of people were up and J u�ior Wells' harmonica dancing. Guy said, "We're glad to lightning - fast, though lyrical and imaginative breaks, and his deeply . provided a somewhat less than see you folks are · enjoying emotional and sensual voice. Most welcomed diversion. His singing yourselves, 'cause it makes us up here feel so good." After a four minute standing AMENIC FALL Fl LM SELECTIONS ovation, Guy played an encore to AMENIC is now in the proce_ss of choosing films for the Fall Semester. Any interested persons are encouraged to submit a list of end the show. He expressed his wish that he would be returning less than 12 films for consideration. Please send all lists to Howard Port, Box 432, Hamilton Campus Mail. soon, for "All you have to do is say the word."
MAY 3, 1973
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Play Review
'A Midsummer Night's Dreaffi'
BY DAVID NEMENS The Theater Department's long ON CAMPUS THIS WEEKEND awaited production of William Reefer Madness, Friday at 8 and 10 pm, Saturday and Sunday at S h a k e s p e a r e ' s A 10 pm. in the Science Auditorium. Midsummer-Night's Dream played Also Martian Space Party, How Green is My Spinach and The Trials this past weekend at the Minor of Betty Boop. Theater. It was an ambitious Hell in the Pacific with Lee Marvin. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm. undertaking for director Paul Sunday at 10 pm.Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Also Poor Cow. Cooper and, I feel, not an entirely May 7th (Monday) successful one. The production A Nous la Liberte, Kirkland College Film Classic; Renoir at 9 pm. was entertaining and it displayed in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium, also Tuesday. many competent and several fine May 10th (Thursday) performances. Yet taken as a Bananas directed by Woody Allen. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium, whole, the evening lacked that Friday and Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 10 pm. Intimate Lighting, Chemistry Auditorium, Friday and Saturday at 8 necessary sense 9f unity, that sense of purpose and direction and Sunday at 10 pm. which animates the best theater. AT NEARBY THEATRES I hope it is not necessary to Cannonball {853-5553} Nelson Affair recapitulate the plot of Dream. It Kallett Cinema {736-2313} Heartbreak Kid is a wonderfully intricate plot, full Paris (7 33-2730} Class of '44 of fairies, royal personages, and Stanley (724-4000} Massage Parlor '73 r u d e m e c h anicals. Taken MUSIC individually, the most successful May 4th and 5th (Friday and Saturday) parts of the produc.tion. were Annual Northeastern I ntercollegiate Folk Festival Preliminaries; Friday noon to midnight, Saturday 9 am to noon. · those scenes involving the young lovers. These scenes were lively, Chapel. f u n n y , u ncluttered by Finals; Saturday, outside Burke Library at 8 pm. (Hamilton Gym unnecessary stage business, and in case of rain} quite believable. Worthy of special May 6th (Sunday) mention is Zivia Flomenhaft who, Amici Quartet, Haydn, Ravel, Schubert. At 3 pm in the Chapel. as Helena, turned in the best May 7th (Monday) performance of the evening. The Recital, David Behnke, baritone. James Caraher' David Zimit ' ease, grace, and vitality with piano. At 8:30 pm. in the Chapel. which she read Shakespeare's May 8th (Tuesday) poetry - much of Dream is Hamilton and Kirkland Voice Ensemble in the Chapel at 8:30 written in rhymed couplets, a fact LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS with which all actors and directors May 4th (Friday) attempting·the play must come to My Favorite Poets 8:30 p.m. Red Pit. Readings by Samuel Babbitt grips - was impressive. (The role and others of Helena represented a departure May 7th (Monday) - a welcome one, to this viewer at Forgeries, Allen Rosenbaum, Art Historian, Lecturer, Metropolitan least - for Ms. Flomenhaft from Museum of Art. 8:30 p.m. Red Pit. her usually more serious roles.) May 8th (Tuesday) Maris Newbold and Peter Wilson, America's Present and Future Role in Vietnam. as Hermia and Demetrius, also Don Luce, journalist and agriculturalist ( Ralph Nader of the turned in solid performances. Vietnam War) 8:00 p.m. Red Pit Matthew Schaefer, as Lysander, EXHIBITIONS seemed to have a bit of difficulty CURRENTLVON CAMPUS with the language - he swallowed many of his lines and never really Selected Students' Exhibition,List Arts Center, thru May 24th. used the words to their best Annual Hamilton-Kirkland Art Show, Bristol Campus Center, thru advantage - but he too had a May 27th. good snese of his role; his AT THE MUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR INSTITUTE shortcomings did not detract too 'The Sistine Ceiling Seen for the First Time also George Luks much from the scenes in which he Exhibition, Museum of Art thru May 20th. appeared. Works by Pablo Picasso, Museum of Art. Less successful were the scenes May 9th (Wednesday) in v o l v i n g t h e mechanicals: Hamilton and Kirkland Faculty Works, Root Art Center. Opening Bottom the weaver, Snug the 8:00 p.m. Closes May 27th. joiner, Quince the carpenter, DRAMA Flute the bellows-mender, Snout May 12th (Saturday) the tinker, and Starvling the
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Coming To, Minor Theater. 8:30 p.m. also Sunday. May 13th (Sunday) Spoon River Anthology 8 pm. in McEwen Coffeehouse
MILESTONES May 7 (Monday) Johannes Brahms' Birthday ( 1833) Peter lllytch Tchaikovsky's Birthday ('1840) Robert Browning's Birthday (1812) May 8 (Tuesday) Harry Truman's Birthday (1884) May 11 (Friday) Irving Berlin's Birthqay (1888) ACTORS NEEDED FOR SUMMER STOCK HERE
Auditions �ill be held at 4:00 on Sunday, May 13, for acting apprentices to work with the professional company scheduled to perform in the Minor Theatre this summer. Actors are asked to sign up on a sheet in the lobby of the Theatre. The auditions will be held in the rehearsal room in the top floor of Kirkland Dormitory. Actors are to present three minutes of prepared modern material and to submit resumes of their training and experience and also photographs if possible. MissJoan Maniscalco will hear the auditions along with Mrs. Maitland Ijams, the co-producer. Both will be available afterwards to answer questions. Technical apprentices are asked to submit resumes o; their training and experience to Mr. Barrett as soon as possible. These will be reviewed by Miss Barbra Rosoff, General Manager-Director of the company, and by Mr.James Crossley, Technical Director. Copies of the outlines of both apprentice programs are posted in the Minor Theatre, in the Arts bivision office, and on the door of Mr. Barrett's office on the third floor of Root Hall. Copies of the Youth Theatre Program in which the apprentices will appear are also poste�.
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t a i l o r . D espite an excellent performance by Ray Dooley as Bottom (a performance whicn, like Ms. Flomenhaft's represented a considerable stretch for the actor involved) the mechanicals were just that: mechanical. Their scenes were funny enough, to be sure, but I never really sensed that I was watching a tailor, a carpenter, a weaver - lower-class characters rehearsing a play in the woods. Rather, they came across as stereotypes: the old man, the moron, the effeminate weakling, e t c . Ev e n M r . Dooley's performance suffered as a result of this: he lacked real characters
sadistic Oberon), and Margaret Klenck (as a sensuous Titania - I really believed that she enjoyed stroking Bottom's ass head.) A large part of the problem here was simply over-ambitiousness on Mr. Cooper's part: he tried things which his actors could not expertly accomplish. The dance scenes especially bothered me in this regard. f am personally receptive to the argument that college theater should be a learning experience, that things must be attempted for their educative '\lalue even when they will inevitably fall short of p e r f ect su ccess. Nonetheless,
The court as�mbles to watch Pyramus and Thisbe opposite whom he might fully proponents of this view must be develop his own role. As it was, ready to accept the criticism Bottom was most convincing which will necessarily ensue when when he was away from the -rest such attempts - however much of his troop (The way Mr. Dooley may be gained in the process was able to manipulate that ass fail as finished'theatrical products. head - doing double takes with it, The central criticism I have of for instance - was extraordinary.) this production, however, does Admittedly, Shakespeare didn't not concern whether this scene or write much into these parts (with that "worked" rather it involves the exception of Bottom, and to a the failure of all the scenes, of the lesser extent, Peter Quince), but various sub-plots that make up there had to be a better way of Dream, to work together, to presenting these characters. c o m p 1 im e nt e a c h o t her stylistically. For example, the Similarly, the scenes involving the fairies somehow failed to jell dance scenes were distracting not for this viewer. This was despite so much because of their poor fine performances by John Heyl exectuion, as they were because ( a s a m is c h ie v o u s a n d they seemed out of place. They g y m n a s t i c ally inclined Puck) broke the rhythm of the play. The Ralph Stocker (as a sufficiently music which accompanied them imaginatively written and well performed by Robert Halligan, Lee Scolnick, and Scott Bennett - was similarly out of place: like the dance, there was not enough of it in the production to justify the amount that was included. The interludes of music and dance, infrequent as they were, broke the mood of the play by calling too much attention to themselves. They were out of tune, so to speak, with the rest of t h e p r oduction. Many past versions of Dream have presented the fairies in the vaguely pastoral fashion marked by flowing pastel robes, sweet music, and graceful dancing. I've no objection to this interpretation of the play; but if it is to succeed, the interpretation must be carried consistantly th rough the production. Mr. Cooper did not do this. His fairies came straight from Arcadia, but his lovers seemed more recently arrived from the land of Peter Brook. I found the discordance constantly annoying. Before closing this review, I should mention the set used for Dream. It was visually simple yet quite functional - and technically Puck plotting mischief with Oberon continued on _page seven
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Comment
Vietnan1 Is Not Over BY LOURDES WAN
.Asian, I# cannot but help As an feel morally outraged and incredibly disillusioned with the segment of American society that . came out m vehement protest against the Vietnam War and which has now turned its back against the I ndochinese people. Si�ce. the. signing· of the ceasefire agreement 150,000 tons of bombs have been · showered over the nations of Indochina. Most Americans are foolishly being deluded in thinking that we have washed our hands free of Asian blood. The U.S. continues to be the aggressor, the bomber and the destroyer. It is quite evident that the war continues to rage on and the U.S. government is still heavily involved in the private affairsof the Hamburg bound John Stroebel Indochinese nations. Yet, the prevailing sentiment among the American people is that the war is over and the U.S. is out. This apathy arises out of a feeling that American lives are ·no longer being jeopardized, so why worry and bother ourselves about the war? Vietnam is a dead issue. We're tired of hearing about Vietnam. To me these feeling can only be interpreted as a strong indication that U.S. Two Hamilton College seniors, Michael Clinger and Jolm S. commitment ot peace and ending the war was never grounded on a genuine concern for the Ind<_?c�ese people but merely on a concern Stroebel have been selected as delegates to an American-German for the American boy s. The widerlying assuption here is that Asian ,, youth con ference in Hamburg, lives are cheap and' worthless. As long as no "white blook is shed Germany in June. They are among Americans feel n o outrage. I feel that such a devastating and 15 students from throughout the bolocaustic war could only have been tolerated and prolonged because United States invited to attend the Vietnamese were members of the non-white Third World majority. the conference together with 15 With the return of the American P .O.W.'s, he American public is students from West Germany. busily being outraged at the "bloodcurdling" brutality inflicted on the The conference,· which will American soldiers by the North Vietnamese political prisoners by take place June 27-30, is under Thieu's facist dictatorship go unnoticed and evoke no comparable the sponsorship of the American sense of outrage. "The U.S. government has organized, financed, Council on Germany, Inc., and its equipped, and trained the personnel to run Thieu's program for G er man counterpart, Atlantik getting rid of political opposition. The U.S. government also funds Bruecke (Atlantic Bridge) of and supervises Thieu' s prisons and U.S. corporations have constructed H am bu r g. Both organizations many of his prisons," including the tiger cages. Although few were fowided after World War II American hands are directly involve� in these activities , the U. S. government, nevertheless, sanctions, supports and encourages such with the . aim of furthering· activitie s which make us equally guilty and responsible as those u n d e r s t a n d i n g b e t w ern the German and American people s. directly involved. I can not emphasize more strongly that this mentality can only John J. McCloy, former U ;S., High exist under a moral philosphy which feels that Asians are not fully Commissioner in Germany is human. Asians are not real people. Asians have no respect for human chairman of the Council. life. When we bomb the Indochinese people we are bombing only The que stions which the inferior, unhum� animals. "The regard for these people is so low that conference i s expected to consider in cl ude: the differences and in Lai Khe Base Camp you may hear a driver say to a new driver that similarities in political activity it is better to run over a 'Gook• than a chicken, because when you kill a chicken, you have to also pay for the number of eggs that chicken among German and American youth, the future of NATO a nd would have layed last year." This racist attitude on the part of U.S. American troop levels in Europe, government and people is so blatant and has always existed: The a n d t he t r a d e r e l ationship anti-war slogan has always been "Bring Our Boys Home", always between the United States and the emphasizing the prevention of only American, and not Vietname se Common Market. casualities, where the case should include both. Both Mr. Clinger and Mr. Nixon has merely arrange it now so that this time around, no Stroebel were members of a group Americans are killed, only Indochhiese. Nixon no longer needs to of H am il t on a n d Kirkland coricern himself with endagering American lives. Especially now with students who visited the Soviet the attention of the American public, press and media turned toward the Watergate scandel Nixon's bombing raids go unnoticed. The body Union last January under the leadership of Michael Haltzel, and soul of one Asian nation has been raped, its spirit debauched. Assistand Professor of History, ARE we going to stand by now and watch the body and soul of a n d David Young, Assistand Cambodia and the re st of the Indochina be raped and mutilated? I Professor of Russian. want desparately to be proven wrong.
Two Students To Hamburg
Steering Committee Plat/orms
excites me. More thau this, it experiences have been exciting offers me a chance to get out of a and fulfilling and I'd like to very inner directed experience and pursue new ideas through the get into working toward good, existing channels at Kirkland. NO even innovative change. When it FLIES ON ME'. appeared that the birth of the JENNIFER FREEMAN Co-op would be delayed because Committee Steering T he LISA ROSENTHAL of lack of money, I rerouted my provides a focus for the Assembly I Would like to be considered a conviction that Kirkland needs by preparing _ the agenda and ca n did ate for . the Steering alternative living arrangeme nts, revising government structure. Committee, 1973-74. My name is more conducive o male/female Having A ssembly been - an Lise and I really, seriously want to social interaction, more conducive representative this year, I feel be a part of it. On the academic to a sense of ; community, I qualified to serve on this vital side, I'll be a seni�r, concentrating proposed co�d, 13 member mini committee. Presently, there is in American Stµdies. On the co-op to keep the idea alive. Since little exchange between the a c t i v e-c o m m u nit y-involvement the great news about the New Assembly and the student body. side I have been trying to initiate York Dorm Authority's decision A greater exchange between these some good change for Kirkland· to fund the Co-op project, last two groups is necessary. Also, I recently, including the creation of week, I've been busy doing would further for work the Co-op, and a Day Care Center · organizational work for the fall. coordination between Kirkland pilot project. With Alice Stem and Besides my work on the Co-op, in and Hamilton committees in order Liz Samenfeld I worked hard to connection with Action Studies, I to eliminate overlap. Finally, I prepare a proposal for the Co-op joined a commited group of hope to help revise -the structure dorm. This experience in troduced w omen-faculty, faculty. wives of SC AA, the academic policy me to a new 'YaY of looking at my and students-to create a Day committee, its increase to role as a student, a perception Care Center. Hopefully, the Day responsiveness to academic life .extending beyo nd pursuing purely Care center will open its door s to and efficiency and yet maintain academic interests to include a f aculty, staff and community its flexibility: m ore d y n a m i c s e n se o f childr.en in the Fall. Before this HOUSE AVAIL ABLE commitment to Kirkland as a year, I never really had much to community. The idea of a co-op, a do with student government or Faculty house available for p l a c e t o s h a r e e v er yd a y w i th a nythi n g outside my sublet, June IO-July 10. Call experiences with a dose group, a c a d e m i c wo rk; my recent 853-6687. ._ _.
Editor's Note: The following two Steering Committee Kirkland platforms were recieved by the Spectator. .Other candidates are: Linda Anzalone, Debi Curry, Jill Maynard, Maggie Stern.
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Viet. Withdrawal to· be Discussed May 8th.
Mr. Don Luce will come to the 1970 when he, along with two Hill for two event s scheduled on co n g r e s s m e n , discovered the Tuesday May 8. The first event, a notorious tiger cages in one of slide show entitled, "Vietnam, We South Vietnam' s largest prisons. . the People" will take place at · Because of this, his visa was 4: 00 in the Red Pit. An additional withdrawn by the South Vietnam speaker, Nyugn-Thi Thanh, a government in May, 1971, for Vietnamese woman will share in apparently Mr. Luce knew too and host the slideshow. She is much. from a group known as the Union On his return to the U.S., Mr. of Vietnamese Students in the Luce testified before Senate and U.S. Her topic for the lecture will House Committees of the U.S. be the "Role of Thieu in the government on prison conditions Present Situation in Vietnam." in South Vietnam. Since 1971, he The second event will take place has been director of the Indochina the same evening in which Don Mobile Education Project." The Luce will give a lecture, entitled I n d o c h in a M obile Education "Am e r i c a n I n v ol v e m e nt in P r o j ect provides communities Indochina: Present and Future." s chool s , a nd churches with This will be held in the Li st speakers, films, slide s, photos and Recital Hall at 8:00; l iterature of the Indochinese The theme of th·e one day people in effort to educate the forum on Indochina is ''The American people on the history, Illusion of Withdrawal." -·culture and struggles of the Mr. Luce is a th�ty�ight year Indochinese people. old agriculturalist who spent most Mr. Luce returned to Vietnam of the last fourteen years of his - in the fall of 1972 as a special life in Vietnam. Luce first went to correspondent for ABC new s. Mr. Vietnam in 1958 as a volunteer in Luce is co-editor of two books, agriculture with the International Vietnam The Unheard Voices and Voluntary Services and went on We Promise One Another, Poems to become its director in 1961, from an Asian War and a un til his resignation in 1967. Mr. magazine, "Hostages of War: Luce made world headlines in Saigon's Political Prisoners." HAMILTON GRADE SURVEY COMPILED BY ASSOCIATE DEAN ROBIN KINNEL Hamilton Studen ts' Grade Distribution 0th %F Study %B %C %D %A Avg 48.9 4.8 1.7 23.2 83.4 21.6 Fall 1972 47.0 26.0 6.0 2.4 82.2 Fall 1971 * 17.0 1.6 1970-1971 * 14.0 32.0 81.5 3.4 42.0 6.0 1.3 Distribution of Grades by Class A vg Clas s %A %C %D 0th %B %F 1973 31.4 85.6 50.2 15.6 0.5 2.3 . 1974 84.0 24.0 51.3 17.9 2.5 1.9 1975 82.9 20.1 5.4 48.1 1.0 25.4 1976 12.8 8.1 80.5 46.3 3.1 29.7 1'amiltc;m S�ud�ts' Grades by Institution %A Instit %B %C %D 0th %F Ham 48.4 20.2 24.5 1.8 5.4 Kirk 28.5 51.5 1.1 17.2 1.6 * Taken from Report of Ad Hoc Committee on Grading Practices Report The median grade during the fall semester 1972 was a B. FRUHMEN 77 continued from page one
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hockey players and at least three · self- scheduli ng would entail. The H a milton Senate, in hockey goalie s will be joining next year. Based on the Athletic response to the Council's decision Department's rating system, there exp r e ssed confidence in are fifteen "A" footballers and H o n or · C o de at H ami lton, p o s s ible four " A" basketballers in the d e p r e c i a t e d incomin� class. Of the Kirkland a dministrative difficulties, and students, "a good number or most pointed _to the apparent success of h a v e h a d s o m e m u s ica l s e l f-s chedul ing at Haverford backgrou n d" r e m arked Ms. College. The Wesleyan plan will be Cosper. Commenting on the incoming effective for two years. Upon freshmen, Mr. Covert said, "The expiration, the College Body q uality seems to be consistent Committee in Middletown will -with the past several years." The ev aluate the success of the grades and Board scores are program and will decide whether co n s istent too. Outlook and to continue self-scheduled exams. background also conform to a l a r g e d e g r e e w i th previous freshmen. THE CLINTON FLORIIT A sked whether J(.ir kland 11m. Street freshmen came because or despite IIS-ffll Hamilton, M:s. Cosper responded that the majority would not have applied to Kirkland if it were a single- sex college. She added that applica n t s who were more r------------- interested in the course selections Ford's on the Square at H a m ilton than those at K i r k l a n d , t e nded to refuse Kirkland acceptances in favor of Clinton co-ed in stitutions. ..
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Thinclads Destroy LeMoyne After Tough . Triang,Jar Loss_
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, Links1nen Record 5-1-1; Final Match in Cortland-
e run; they :finished frist BY.PETER ACKERMAN Vito ho me in the three-mile three-mil d and tlurd re sp�ctively, and secon il; d , con th t e king ere s wh a The Continenta l track team G a rt e r ' s winn ing time was split this week's sl ate, l osing a "S andy" Ma ckintosh '74 added 15 :17.2. p o ints with a third in the 440 tri angul ar affa ir here against Other point getters in the field Bro ckport and , Cortla nd l ast yard hurdles. events were Pedro Garcia �75 · The story was quit e differ en t BY DOUG WRIGHT Sa turd ay, and then demolishing a J o hn Allen '74, � Mengel '75: An undefeated season went by LeM oyne to win by several shots. rather we a k LeM oyne squad here a t Wednesday's contest with and junior Hewitt: " Huey" won on Wednesda y. But several of LeM oyne. The weather was 20 the discus throw with a toss of tbe boards for the Hamilton The rejuvenation occurred in co ach G e n e Long's _harriers degrees wanner, and s o, certainly, 128 ft. 2 in., and second place College g olf team as they suffered D oug Wright '75, who esc aped �o n t i n u e d t h e i r s t e a d y were the Continental's spirits after w e n t t o "Mengus". Garrett, th eir iniiial defeat of the fr o m the doldrums of the nnpr ovement as they p osted s ome the 120-24 tr ouncing they g ave winning the long-jump with a ime campaign Wednesday at the hands "sophomo re jinx'' to post an 80, is l o w for the team. He was closely fine times and distances in LeM o yne. fo lowed of Utica College 393-396. Th P erhaps the greatest "shot in 21 ft. 3½ in. leap, was l foll owed by Steve Green's 81 that et an otherwise offs setba k bitter Wednesday's r omp. c by Garcia who finished third in The meet against Brockport the arm" for the Blue harriers was that event. Dale and Pedro also fine week of play by the weary _ included a tragic Hdouble par" on the return of sprinter Kevin linksmen ho w have played four_ - the final h ole. Jones and Porter and Cortl a nd was run in rainy, t o o k s e c o n d and third forty-0egr ee weather, and the Snyder '75. Kevin, having been respectively, in the triple jump: matches in the past five days, follo wed with 82's, while Hoyt sidelined thr ough the e arly se ason today's and W ollman tallied 84 t o perform ances refle cte d this. Blue Allen finished third in the shot includin g in that span runners ·did not fig ure very much due to a heel injury, returned in put behind Brown, who won it conte st at Binghamton. Their c omplete the Blue scoring. Tuesday at home the squad in this meet as Br o ckport and ime form by leading a Hamilton _ with a 43 h. 5¾ in. e ffort. Back re cord stands at 5-1-1 with two the 100 in sweep ed the always tough Alban yd. dash (10.7), fac s e ch y's g t nc u Cortl an� combined to shut out oda ) · mat on the track, the Blue speedsters (i l din the by led team, Stat e g. re the Contin entals in the 220 yard and ancho ring the victorious 440 mainin grabbed first and second in four m K r Ti olln. e Werne am ssibl i te yard relay with Wang rrepre ve-man a st Friday fi dash, half-mile run, 120 yd. high La even ts. In the mile, Carter ·and t o Jones returned to form as he fired hurdles; high jump, l ong jump, (sec ond in the 100), Mackintosh-, Stellato rmished one-two, Carter's- c on t i n g e n t - travelle d a f"me 75 in the rain. Surprisingly, and Ken Givens '73 running the and both relays. time was an easy 4:31.2., while Sche nectady to d o battle with the But, there were some bright othe r three legs. J ohn Wallace Stellato and D elaney ended up in Dutchme n of Union College. The th ough, J o nsey had, to share sp ots in the generally bleak grabbed third in the lOO be hind one-two in the 880 yd. - run with Blue blasters had more trouble medalist h on ors with the vici ous Snyder, and later finished second Vito running 1:59.6 on the m ushy - with the we ather· than with the� Viking, Vlad Hoyt. H o yt emerged picture. Fr ank O'Leary '75 .. th e opponents, how e ver, as they �om th e mid-80's as he shot a 75, _ winner in the 200 yd. dash. Syage .also only Continental Steuben track. Ed G iminez ?6 . whipped the Gamet five 428-447. m sneakers no l ess. Wright took the javelin thr ow with t�ss placed third in the 220_ won the 120 yd. high hurdle s lush Mohawk Club became a matched Monda y's effort with of, 176 ft. 8 in. Finishing third in The There was j oy in Clint on as the (18.0), and Jeff Williams 74 ea th eir events were Jeff Hewitt '74, traksters swept four events· alo,ng herous monster for the an other 80, as did Green with 81. c tr grabbed second in that event. In _ linksmen thanks to impossible W ollmari's 85 was fifth best f or ( dieus throw) Don K endall '74 with the 100. In the pole· vault, . the 440 yd. dash, Oakes and Lou conditions - the · match was the Continentals. The score: (pole v ault), a nd Da l e Garrett '76 Kendall and Kinney· finished first Pacilio finished -first and second p (triple jump). Doug Kinney '76, and second respectively; Don's layed in thirty-mi le-per-hour Hamilt on 396, Albany 399. respectively, with D e nnis covering winds,_ The Utica match Wednesday de gree thirty-five an d P aul Br own '74 also tallied winning vault w'as 11 ft. 6 in. The the distance in 52-6 sec. te?1pera�e , and a bar�, driving featured the ba ttle of the Jones Kinn ey with a fourth in the pol; javelin toss was won again by Mackintosh won the 440 yd. e, vault, a n�Brown with a fourth in O'Leary (166 ft. 5 in.), wj_th . Sem or Captain Tim Jones boys, Tim a nd brother Mik a hu les with a ime 59.1 clocking, ram ' rd Coach Kra Hamilton UC. an at w z ga freshm " e his e 5t g e f th hands in lo th e shot put. r d u Bear" t '76 an S O en and he was followed by Tim m way thro lin the rpwid and Don J ones felt mixed emoti ons as -On the track, Peter Wang -'75 Br own finsihing second and third ugh Greenwood '73, who finished s id le d to a 98. V ad Hoyt '75 he hoped b oth his s ons w ould d o l grabbed fourth in the 100 ytf. iii that order. Garrett, who had a th tJ:ugg d il m r J'ilCC ay r e in The . that ird . well. Mike played the Hamilton B. ed his way to an ash s and pl dash, while Vito · Stell at o also fine d ay by winning the 1 , _ squad, of G!�ns, Pac�o, Oakes T ompkins course like h e grew up of a a ely, ort trio finished fourth in both the and taking _second in t un · . and 'Mack - --capped 1t off by--Continentals some how forgot the on it (he did) and finished with a one-mile and three-mile events. jump, als o w on the hi h • (5 �nning in 3:36.6. A. happy day, weatber -�d ?Jayed decent golf. 76, a stroke behind teamm ate Co -c aptains Dennis Oa kes '73 and ft. 6 in.), while Char:e mdeed. The trackmen , whose Porter Wa lly Dubiel. Frosh bnght light Dave (the Rave) Mike Tim Delaney '74 als o tallied· grabbed second, and Larry Dunn reco now stands at one and five rd · th e take to 73 d nifty a hi one f as s reen , . ve G t� ' Wollman andJ · umors Oakes to ok fourth in the 440 yard '74, to o k third. The o ther sweep will go agamst a tough Alfred da sh,. a nd Delaney finish ed sec o nd Carter' team, at Alfred N.Y., this Sat. and D. Wally Porter ca.---ved out day's honors for the Blue, but the w a s c omplete d b . 81 's to share medalist h onors. match went to the Utes, whose in th e mil e. Bruce Carter '76 led D elaney' and Paul FordY,74'm the May 5. · . . Thus the Blue completed a three 393 wa s a seas on low for the Hill --LAW AND MED CONF g Wright cr a cked the LETTERS .. Jrom page three honest and critical. These le tters win no-loss week and returned to c ourse. Dou continued from pag� one Tim Jones students with a relatively dry trends to ward · grade inflation. can be as important as any other the Hill ready for a Houseparty 80 barrier with a 78. an off day and finished with had and e abstinenc of d Weeke� pl ac e to sit on thos e bright sunny Colgate's grade-point. average has consideration. The representatives p ctice for this week's grinding 81, as did Wollma n. Gr eenie shot ra da ys the gr ound is praticularly risen from 2.24 in 1963 to 2.82 in suggested that interviews can help schedule. 83. Vla d could do no better than muddy. The seniors, who could 1973. _ Another sch ool consciously the student, especially those _ Unfortunately, the rains came 86, despit e playing completely rea d the Want Ads· in the fresh air decided to infla te its grades· and sudents who aren't close to their and washed away such ambitious shoeless this time. Th e 396 total inst ead of their closets would added a high hon ors, honors, pass teachers. "plans", s o the squad drowned its usually good enough to win easily: definitely appr ecia tethe a dditi o n and fail system. The class of 1970 Monday wa s just not enough this day. instead. sorrows of _ park benches. ·For those who h ad 90% A's, and 19% high LACROSSE the little a looking afternoon, do find jobs sw eeping the str eets ho1:1ors. The school now has ha f � continued from page 8 l i linksm en th e wear, for worse So the Continentals, their of N .Y .C., they wll rem ember o f its students on dean's list. Coach Von Schiller has an air toured to Syracuse · to face undefeated season u what dear old Ham Coll did to Tufts' average _grade now is a B of pride about his team that the LeMoyne. There they eked out a tr avelled_ to Bingh a mt o: �.;'t; . them, as they sit on the bench mst e � of a low C- as it used t o Alfred JOSS did n ot tanush. He with br oom in hand during their be. Nmety v� percent o f Jackson points out the fact that no one -stroke victory, 409-410,A hungry for a win, which they required union coffee break. We w o me n an :e1gh ty- fi ive percent of H amilton lacrosse team has won LeMoyne player pounded his ball should get easily. - Tuesday' journey they to have the pig eons; why not- the Tufts men were ·ab_?ve the GPA four games in-a season since 1961! into a green in frustration, dug it however, bench e s_ a nd the p r a ctica l n�eded to be granted honors. He even says that this year's team out, and stomped away. He was Cortland for the se ason finale' disqualified for 'not finishing the which could again be a cl o se experienc e of feeding the pigeons F if t y percent received is potentially the best team he has hole, and, had he done s o, his m a tch. Hopefully, a 7-1-1 s eason on a c ool wet spring da y. h onors.standards by other ever coached! enabled will be rep orted next week.' score would _ have The Grinning Greek '75 colleges. As of 1970, all but o�e But at the same tim e Von sch o?l graded . higher than Schiller is cautious about continued from page five . �1 . predictmg the outcomes of the ex t r e m e l y s ophisticated. The Ha milton· . A suggestion_ was made that remaining game -- and rightfully ca�ual - th�t is non-technically BY PAMELA THOMPSON · small_ scho ols like those at the so. Three of the four matches left one nted - viewer of Dream might On the weekend marking the cinema. Slid es shot by Mr.Boxer as conference should !1"Y to adopt a ar� against teamsthat are, H • • • . not appre ciate the amount of c ommo n evaluation system. good as- Alfred or be tter." These e n d o f c lasses, t h e H i·11 · are used to form bridges betw een , work - a nd lumb er - th at went Community will be given a free the s c e n es and to provid e However.' if this can t be fearsome opponenets are the into its construction. The fact . ( n o_ a�m i s�i o n c h a r g e!) addition al inform a tion on the also Union College Dutchmen the St accomplished, - it was tha t it withstood five nights plus s uggested. that undergraduate Lawrenc e University Lai-:ies and opportumty to laugh and enjoy charact ers and th ei r se ttings. Tape rehe�sals of walking, running, scho�� educat ' be�o re the onsl aught of fina ls. recordings of chara ct ers' thoughts e �aduate sch ool Middlebury Co llege. da ncmg a nd jumping, is a tribute This opportunity ta kes its form in . a nd memori es, along with other admISsmns co�m1ttees o n the Well, this Saturday the laxmen to th e design a nd construction nature of grading and not inflate will imd out just how good a uniqu� thea tre experience based , sound effects, give th e production exper tise of th e , entire crew of on the PIay, written by Enid grea ter freedom of movement, or defl a te grades. One undergrad Middlebury IS. •• the prodi<n·ous · ade Clint oo· b?th through time a nd through Dream, and in particular to Mssrs. sc hoo1 went so far as to suggest Pa nthers will mv: n · at E�s, t_o be performed M · a y 12, 13 m Minor Theatr e. dist a nc e. Th e combin a tion of Flo res, Petrie, and Cooper. th�t it . expects to drop its grade 2:00 P.M. on the l a crosse field. · · 'T theatr e a nd film p r e s ents Ha d all of this pr oduction of A pomt aver age and only use the r---:-;:-:-:::=�-::-:::�-----Co�ung _. o saw its be APAR�ENT .f OR RENT early m the Fall Semester when a dv a ntag e s lacking in th ei r Midsum_mer-Night's Dream been decile ranking system. Tra er _ � vi.II· a�e-_ Two bedroom, In th Jim Peskin, who directs the play, separate forms. as well conceived and constructed sta ted tha t the reinstatement of ll g ar . e livmg, dinmg ro?ms, and and Professor N a than B oxer, in With Lisa J a blow and Fred as was the se t, I would have no Hamilton Cl ass R ank h as hel ped 11_1tch en: Garage and e ntire yard at 1� Goe�ner in the lea ding roles, complaints a t a ll. As it wa s,. I student adm�tt a nce to l aw your dis osal. Suitable for two charge of th e special effects p offered Miss Evans full product1·on' Coming To promises to provide a came away with ,the feeling - . schools. P e o p I e · A l l J u n e - A u g u st. � particularly after a sec ond viewing AImost all th e sch ools stated Rent-$150 er month. Conta ct :,1pport if she wr ote a pl ay on revealing but comical . look into B. p the college experience". Her the college experience It is an . - th at it was Sh a kespeare 's script that le tters of recommenda tion K a u f m a n n , h o m e ph o n e senior project in creative writing entertainment opportunity not to that provided whatever continuity ar e of grea t valu e.But it wa salso 853-6982 , office 859-7519. i Coming To, stradles theatre a�d be missed. there wa s in this production. c au tioned th at l etters should be
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VonSchiller's Laxinen 4-3; Play Pesty Panthers Tom'w BY THOMAS PillODSKY The past week was a rather successful one for the heroic Hamilton College Varsity Lacrosse as "sticksters" the team, continued their spring domination of the intercollegiate sports scene in Clinton. Starting last Saturday, the laxmen defeated two strong squads (Rochester University and R.I.T.) in three days; Nat ("Funky") Follansbee led the Hamilton attack, scoring at his usual prolific pace. This clever and classy co-captain, from Andover, Mass., showcased his crafty cunning for lacrosse as he creased five goals and one assist in the pair of Hamilton victories. The lone setback of the week came on Wednesday when the Continentals were victimized by rugged Alfred University on the Saxons home field. This loss left the Buff and Blue with a 4-win, 3-loss record --- a record that, excites Coach Manfred Von Schiller in light of the fact that four fun-filled games remain on the eleven-game schedule. Saturday's away game against Rochester provided some chills and thrills for the Fauver Stadium crowd.With Hamilton leading 6-4 as the second half began, goalie William Hardy '7 3 took a hard Y ellowjacket shot square in the face! The swift ball squeezed through Billy's mask, leaving the s tunned goalie with a broken nose. The injury forced the less-experienced Hank Bedford '7 6 in to the nets, and Hardy's absence was felt. The energetic Yellowjackets started to pump away shots as they scored four final-half goals in out-shooting the Continentals by a small margin. Nevertheless, on the.strength, of leading scorer Nat Follansbee, Hamilton scored thrice in the half -- enough to ice the 9-8 thriller for the Blue.
- High men in the gaem for Ferris '75, Jaime Hage '75, as well Hamilton were : Jon Berry '75 (2 as the team's le.a.ding scorer assists), Ned Collum '75 (2 goals), freshman Peter Marks. Young Steve Speno '75 (2 goals), and of Marks, from Princeton, N.J., set a course, Funky Follansbee who led J .V. scoring record with ten big the scoring with three points (2 goals in the four-game season. goals and 1 assist). Von Schiller expressed deep Saturday's home game against regret at the loss of Bernard. No R.I.T. was a close contest with doubt he would. have used the many ups and downs for the sophomore attackman , who is Continentals as well as one big especially toughon ground balls, in surprise. Coach Von Schiller had the team's -next game against planned to use Hank Bedford '76 Alfred. in the goal in light of the injury to Although the score was tied 5-5 Hardy; this, however, was not to at the half, the Saxons were , outplaying the Continentals, and be the case. Bill, whose clutch net-minding it was just a matter of time before has been an inspiration to the the score would bear this out. The powerful Alfred crew laxmen all year, said that he was read to play, " ...broken nose or out-shot Hamilton 54-20. In the no broken nose!", and Von words of Coach Von Schiller,"... Schiller decided to use him.Hardy they {Alfred) must have played the entire game. controlled the ball 75%-80% of The match saw Nat Follansbee the game, and there is no way we initiate the Hamilton scoring in can score when the other team has the first period.Sam� Rodgers '75 the ball!" However, the shots that hammered home a breakaway shot in the second period to tie Hamilton did take were going in. · the game at 2-2. Mark Bernard Jon Berry '75 collected two goals '75, who was credited with an and two assists as the leading assist on both of the goals,· Continental scorer.Single goals by severely sprained his ankle during Jim Lotze '76, Bob Pelz '75, Sam the game, and it is expected that Rodgers '75, Ned Collum '75, he will not see any more action David John '76, and Gibby this year a tough break for the Hedstrom '75 contributed to the Continentals. eight-goal total for Hamilton.The Hardy continued to excel in the formidable Alfred-defense was on goal, and his fifteen "saves" drew the alert for _co-captain Nat praise from his coach as well as his Follansbee and Nat was held teammates. Gibby Hedstrom '75 to only one assist. The Saxons, had an outstanding game, scoring three goals! Follansbee likewise had a "hat-trick". One additional goal, scored by Bob Pelz '75, gave: the laxmen a two-goal advantage (8-6) at the buzzer.Jon Berry '75 had four assists in the game. Meanwhile, the Junior Varisty , lacrosse team, under the able Coach of Eric direction MacDonald, closed out its brief BY ED WATKINS season with a record of 2 wins and As the 2 losses . Standouts for the J .V. seniors prepare to depart from the include John Newell '75, Bill · Hill, they look back to September
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INTRAMURAL TRACK MEET The second annual Intramural meet will be conducted this afternoon, May 4, beginning at 4 P.M. A list of all events is posted in the gym. Junior Varsity and Varisty Spring athletes are not eligible. INTRAMURAL TENNIS TOURNAMENT Singles and doubles events will be played this Sunday; preliminaries commence at 10 A.M'. Please contact Sara Gordon, extension 4942, with all inquiries. INTRAMURAL SOFTBALL The Intramural softball playoffs semi-final round will begin Sunday, May 1 3. The finals are scheduled for May 15 at 6 P.M. If a playoff for first or second place in a league is needed, the game should be scheduled prior to Sunday's semi-final round. Please contact Jeff Floyd, extension 7452, with all inquiries.
HOME GAMES TENNIS
May 5th (Saturday)
against SUNY, Binghamton. 11:00 a.m.
May 8th (Tuesday)
against Union 3:00 p.m. BASEBALL
May 5th (Saturday)
against SUNY, Binghamton, 2:00 p.m.
May 8th (Tuesday)
against Union 3:00 p.m.
May 1 ith (Saturday)
against Hobart at 2 '00 p.m. LACROSSE
May 5th (Saturday)
against Middlebury, 2:00 p.m.
May 12th (Saturday)
against St. Lawrence, 3:00 p .m.
MAY 3 1973
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Defenseman Frank Assuma '75 (32) checks R.I.T. man in
foreground as goalie William Hardy '73 (9) looks on intently. meanwhile, were breaking the game open, scoring seven times in the final half to win the contest 12-8.Tom Vredenburgh paced the attack for Alfred. CONTINUED on page 7
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Jocks dreaID about old tiIDes A salute to the class of 1973 crashing off the boards or sliding across the crease, they were having fun. Graceful hockey it 1969 and reminisce about all the wasn't. It was a great way to beat good times at Hamilton.Some of the winter blues though. Besides playing sports, the the fondest memories will be reserved for the athlectic activities s e n i ors s pe nt m a n y hours watching them. In all sorts of they participated in. Members of the intercollegiate weather and state of mind they t eams can reflect on many swarmed to Steuban Field and frustrating seasons in which the Sage Rink to watch Blue go Blue never won enough to satisfy against the foe. Often there was the competitive spirit found at the competition among rival fans; the Colgate crowd with the obnoxious college. The intramural players can cowbell and Utica College with look back to playing football in their bongo drums. The seniors the snow and softball in the rain; watched Hamilton's swimming both sports played on fields that and cross country teams develop w e r e never d ry nor level. into some of the best found at the Intramurals were fun nevertheless; college level in the East. T h ere w ere many lighter for many the score never was too moments in the "athletic" important. · Who will ever forget the fun activitiesof the seniors. There days of gym class? Tennis? Golf? were the Road Rallies that always Badminton? What about the wound up at the Shoe; excursions H a milton swim test that is out to Vernon Downs to learn the designed "to prove you can know trotting game; playing pool in the Rock and bowling in the Frago; how to swim and still drown ? T h e n t h e r e w e re the "tossing" darts in the Pub. Then u n st r uctured sports. Frisbee there was the thrill of sledding played on the Dunham lawn and down College Hill and praying to in Dunham halls where many a avoid the Half-Way House. In four years many memories light fixture was smashed out of existence. Other games played in accumulate. Hopefully most are the hall and remembered include pleasant. If the Class of '7 3 can retain the legends of their athletic hall football, hall hockey, etc.The Jungle Hockey playes will prowess: many a good tale will n e v e r f o rg et their g o l den be spead throughout the U.S. A few of those tales provided moments. Many an experienced senior began as a talentless the . i d eas f or columns. In freshman who had guts but not a ppreciation, this column is much ,else. Whether they were dedicated to the ''jocks" of 7 3.
Sockster Week Rained Out BY TOM THOMPSON O.K., class, our new word for the week is rain. R-A-I-N. That's what happened to Hill hurlers this week as all three of their scheduled contests were rained out. Last Saturday's doubleheader with Rochester ran into the ann ual Spring Houseparties rainstorm and had to be rescheduled for a single · contest today. On Wednesday the team traveled to Hobart and managed to play three innings in a desultory drizzle before the sky opened up further and forced a called game. An attempt was made to play the game on Thursday if weather permitted. Failing that, the home game scheduled for May 12th will be played as a doubleaheader. If ti!� sun shi nes tommorrow, the Continentals will face Binghamton at 2: 00 on the home diamond. Extra experience on the pitching staff is all that is keeping the baseball team form a much better year than the current 1-6 record indicates. Two of the six losses are by only one run each, and the season's opener against a much more experienced Union team produced a· respectable showing. Lack of well-rested pitchers has made a joke of the second frame of both double headers the team has played, t h o u g h . S t r o n g h i t t ing p erf o r m ances from Andy Sopchak, now hitting .393, Dave McLean at .364, and Jim Knodel at .267 have been nullified by the number of runs given up by inexperienced releivers, most of whom aren't even pitchers. Next year's freshman crop includes two highly-touted moundmen, so things should get better.
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THE SPECTATOR.�:� VOLUME III, NUMBER 26
MAY 23, 1973
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
1973 C TO THE
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EDITORIAL Goals
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The Committee on Academic Policy has submitted to the Faculty "A Statement of Academic Goals for Hamilton College." This document is not a policy statement of the college nor is it binding on any party, but as a proposal from the chief academic committee of the Faculty, it might very well become the main tool in any re-evaluation of Hamilton academics. It is therefore necessary that all members of the community study the proposal so that intelligent comment may be made when school reopens in September. Two of the proposals in the document are of particular interest as they represent potential major policy changes for the institution. These proposals, if adopted, would detract from, rather than enhance the academic quality of Hamilton. They are the proposal for Faculty consideration of the reintroduction of distribution requirements, and the proposal for limiting the amount of course work done outside the "cognitive disciplines" that will be accepted for credit toward graduation. According to the committee report, the distribution requirements proposal is contingent upon the college provinding "a sufficient variety and number of truly introductory courses." Even with this proviso, the proposal, if adopted, would be a step backward for the college. The catalouge now states, "The freshman year program reflects the College's confidence in the responsible judgment of its students and its faith in their inner desire for a broad, varied educational experience." Without distribution requirements, and with the counsel of faculty advisors, a student is enco uraged to elect courses in a wide variety of disciplines, _ but 1s not forced to sit through a semester of a course which is of little interest or value to him as an individual. the catalogue further states, "The aim of a more flexible curriculum is the development of the student's independence as an educated man." Hamilton would be suppressing this essential independence by reinstating distribution requirements and would, therefore, detract from both the appeal and the value of a Hamilton -- ·- · · · education. Establishing credit limits on 'iion:cognftive course work would have serious effects on the coordinate relationship with Kirkland, and would represent a significant change in Hamilton's liberal arts philosophy. Credit limits for certain disciplines would not only serve to place values on various departments and their course offerings, but more importantly, would prevent Hamilton students concentrating in one of the "cognitive disciplines" from pursuing their interests in studio art, photography, theater, dance or other "non-cognitive " areas. Perhaps the greatest value of the coordinate structure at Hamilton-Kirkland is the greater breadth of courses made avaailable to all students. Any effort by Hamilton to severely limit the curricular coordination on the Hill can only be considered irresponsible.
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Letters to the Editor GRADE DISTRIBUTION that Hamilton students' grades in To the Editor: I wish to respond briefly to Kirkland courses were better than Pamela Thompson's recent article Hamilton students' grades in in the Spectator on Hamilton Hamilton courses) are amenable students' grade distributions. The to several other equally plausible results were quite interesting even interpretations. a) Hamilton upperclassmen though the analyses done so far have been somewhat limited. may be more likely to take There is one assertion which Kirkland courses than Hamilton seems questionable to me: ". . . freshmen.This combined with the interpreting the study as it now general rise by class in Hamilton stands, the indication is that students' grades would yield Kirkland-than-Hamilton Hamilton students are graded higher more stringently in their Hamilton grades. b) It may be that - contrary to courses than in their Kirkla11d popular mythology - the most courses." The data themselves (indicating capable Hamilton students are
those with a sufficient sense of adventure to take a Kirkland course. This would also explain the observed difference. c) Some combination of a and b. In any case, the data exist to give an answer to the above speculations, given a somewhat more sophisticated analysis than done so far. In the absence of such analysis assertions like the one quoted above merely build chauvinism, which infects the college body badly enough as is. Larry Finision Assistant Professor of Psychology
WINTER STUDY EXCHANGE To the Editor: individually or collectively; in The recommendation of the interfering with the liberty of Winter Study Committee to action of any of their number, is terminate the exchange program self-protection. The only purpose between Hamilton an<l other for which power can be rightfully colleges is both arbitrary and not exercised over any member of a in the best interests of Hamilton civilized community, against his s t u d e n t s . B y c1t1n g will is to prevent harm to others. "administrative problems" as the His own good, either physical or r e a son for eliminating the moral, is not sufficient warrant." program, the Committee has Therefore, unless it can be placed administrative efficiency shown that Mr. West's friend above the best interests of the causes direct harm to other students. • The exchange program members of society, then the s i gnifi cantly increases the mere fact that he harms himself academ i c options open to through the use of marijuana does Ha milton- students. Taking a not provide legitimate grounds for course on a different campus can government prohibition of such provide new and v a l uable behavior. experiences twenty-four hours a John Donohue '74 day, a Winter Study at Hamilton may be just another course. The fact that 53 students participated WINTER STUDY in the exchange program last PROTEST January indicates a high level of student support for the program. To the Editor: I would like to comment . on I find most disturbing the Committee's failure to contact the article concerning Winter students who have participated in Study which appeared in last the exchange in an attempt to week's Spectator. Specifically, I evaluate its merits. It is possible · w ould l i k e to protest the that the Committee is using pr oposed terminat.:.on of the administrative problems as a formal Winter Study Exchange smoke screen for its real reason with the other colleges which have f o r r e c o m m e n d i n g t h e cooperated in the program in the termination of the exchange. past. I find that the given reason Perhaps the members of the for the ternimation, that the Committee feel that the quality or "consensus of the WSC was that difficulty of courses at exchange the program was more trouble schools is not commensurate with than it was worth" isn't a very Hamilton courses. Having sperit good r�ason. In fact, it's lousy. this past January at Wells College, What was the nature of the I am confident that the quality of unworthy trouble? Did the course offerings at Wells, at least, E xc hange c ause i n c r e d ible is equal to that at Hamilton. I administrative problems? Was the urge the Committee to reconsider administration having too much its decision, vague administrative trouble keeping track of 53 d i f ficulties are certainly not students? Certainly the numbers sufficient cause to terminate the of students who participated in program. The Committee has an the Exchange point to the fact o bligation to reevaluate its that it isn't considered too much decision and present a more trouble by the student body. sub stantive justification if it Around two hundred students decides to recommend an end to have taken part in the Exchange since it started four years ago. the program. Rocco Orlando, III Maµy more have applied and been turned down for lack of space. This seems to suggest that the ON MARIJUANA program is highly popular on campus. To the Editor: I feel that a more likely reason In a thoughtful Letter to the for proposing the termination of Editor,. Page West told of the the program is that Hamilton deleterious effect which marijuana faculty are afraid that the rush to had upon one of his friends and leave the Hill in January means then went on to conclude that the that the faculties of other colleges repeal of the present marijuana are offering "Mickey Mouse" laws was inadvisable. However, courses of little academic value the major question concerning compared to the projects offered this issue is whether such laws are on the Hill. I doubt, however, if within the scope of legitimate the attractions of Skidmore and government in the first · place. As Wells could be offset even if John Stuart Mill writes in his Hamilton winter studies included essay On Liberty , "the sole end courses like Beginning Hockey or of , 'fhicb mankinlitarc wan-anted, Creativ�JBasket.-itflking. _ , ,
If the program is more trouble than it's worth then perhaps the faculty could take a look at some o f t h e small , u npopular, unpopulated courses it offers and trim back the faculty that teach them. Certainly Latin and Greek don't attract enough students to make them ''worth the trouble". How many students are there in Physics 36? It's silly to suggest cutting out t h e s e p a r t s of Hamilton curriculum. It's equally silly to set out to cut down on the number of academic opportunities available to Hill students who won't want t o s p e n d e v ery Janu ary snowbound in Clinton. Tom Thompson '73
DIS-MAY ON THE HILL To the Editor: It being May, that time of year when surviving members of the graduating class are tallied, many were surprised to find a new name on the roster. Having achieved every other imaginable degree, Mother Nature decided that it was high time she achieve one from college, weather or not it would chalk her highs any higher or her lows any lower, by the men at the Bureau. And so, it also being that m i nute last when time requirements are retallied, it was found, much to the dis-May of the entire Hill, that Mother Nature was lacking one Winter Study credit. And it being customary to forewarn those in such a situation, the Dean called Mother Nature into her office, where upon learning the bleak news, Mom stormed out to see what she could do. And she did. Which is why it snowed last Thursday and Friday . .. which is why the moral of this story is offered; Give credit WHEN credit is due! Julie Barsel '73
TEA BAGS To the Editor: Having belatedly read in the April 13 Spectators, the fragment of a letter lamenting the passing of the Salada tea-bags with their sayings, I hurry to perform a service which I'm pleased to find in my power, Enclosed please find the Kaufman-Beinecke Tea-tag C ollection of original Salada tag-lines, collected during our undergraduat years at Kirkland College. The collection is not as co nt� nµ� o� Pf:199, •ve,n
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MAY 23, 1973
Babbitt Speaks on Women in Higher Education The following is a transcript of a speech delivered by President Samuel F. Babbitt at the Smithsonian Institute before the National Council of Women. The speech was tmtitiled Women and Change in Higher Education. distinguished President, Madam guests. I am tremendously honored to share this splendid 85th anniversary with you. The surroundings are magnificent, the cuisine delightful, the company charming and the balance of the sexes - superb. With your indulgence, I would like to speak to you about women and education. In recent years the tenure of college presidents has not been particularly long - indeed, many seem to bound in and out of office even more quickly than an undergraduate in pursuit of a three-year degree. Though I think the thing can be overdone on the campus, I try to emulate that brevity in regard to my remarks. Perhaps I should present some of my shortcomings and biases to ·you at the beginning, so that we will have no false expectations of each other. First, I am at the head of a college for women because they could not find a woman for the job. I will do all I can to see that my successor is a woman, because until the day comes when there are women presidents of major coeducational colleges and universities, I believe the scale must be weighted to make it balance. Second, my experience is limited to the still-called private segment of the educational world. Essentially that means that I do not wrestle with the toughest educational problem there is, which is massive numbers, and also that my fund-raising activities are more oriented to living-rooms and foundation of fices than to the cloak-rooms of legislatures. That last, however, is subject to change without notice. When I was considered for the job of President of a women's college, my life-partner, who is both intelligent and honest, laughed aloud for several moments. I took it somewhat ill at the time, but I have come to believ'e that what I thought was excess was, indeed, restraint. I had not been known for my sensitivity to the role of woman in our society. In fact, I had been a airly good example, albeit an unconscious one, of a not classic chauvinist. I really . did see anything particularly wrong with the way things were. For the past seven years I have spent my professional life in classrooms, meetings and activities with intelligent young women, and in our house we have been working through the sometimes painful process which follows the recognition that men's relationships, as well as women's, are ch,anging, must be changing. I have come, finally, to believe that a question which I thought was not concern of mine is a question in which everyone's ox is being gored -yours and mine. These last seven years have been historic ones for higher education. This 85th anniversary seems a fitting time to explorations share with you some about the education of women which have occupied me in that time. First a word about Kirkland College, since that is where I have done �ost of my exploring. We are small; 600 students, 4 7 faculty; we are a private, liberal arts college for women, but we are also a coordinate college, voluntarily dovetailing our courses and programs with Hamilton College for men, our distinguished, 170-year old, next door neighbor. Kirkland is all of five years old. Our educational program is an interesting paradox, for it has taken liberal means to achieve conservative ends, but that is a piece of the tale which must wait its turn, for later. When my wife laughed at the
thought of my heading a women's college, I remember that I countered what I saw as her unseemly response by setting out a position which went like this "Women, like men, are people, and I . have been in the people-educating business all my adult life. Good education is good education, regardless of the gender involved." Unbeknownst to me at the time, I was taking a line long held by early advocates of the rights of women. And here I'd like you to follow the strange
the United States in regard to higher education, and it was a position quite congenial to me when I entered as a neophyte into my present work. The second wave of this movement broke, historically, in the second decade of the 1900's. We can see it most clearly writ in the founding dates of a second group of women's colleges: Sarah Lawrence - 1927; Scripps - 1926; Bennington - 1932 (what a terrible year to found a college - almost as bad as when Kirkland was starting in 1967). In this second group of institutions,
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parallel between three of the major the women's of manifestations movement, and the development of my own views concerning women and higher education. In an address entitled "The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States," Isabella Beecher Hooker spoke out in this city 85 years and 11 days ago to make the point that the word "people" in the Preamble of the Constitution included the concept of "women" and therefore established their equal right to govern and vote. It was strong medicine for 1888. I have come to believe that the dosage needs to be strengthened in 1973, but in 1965 the idea of treating everyone the same looked fine. The problem is that Ms. Hooker and I both had a fine argument, but it wasn't much attached to reality. Perhaps you recall the limerick about a parallel situation: "Here lies the body of Edward Grey, Who died defending his right-of-way. He was right, dead right, as he sped along But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong." "Rightness" doesn't always make good sense. Nevertheless, the view that all "persons" should be treated - and educated - equally, was the impetus for the founding of the first great wave of women's colleges in America. Look at the dates: Vassar - 1861: Wellesley 1870; Smith - 1871; Radcliffe - 1878. All of these distinguished institutions set out to prove that women could be just as good as men at the intellectual game, and they provided the means - the courses, the faculty, the facilities - to prove it. Of course, we know it to be true: women can play men's games. But, for too long, they have remained men's games. That is to say, the curricular patterns, their goals, their measurements and standards, are those which have developed in a male-oriented system of socially elite institutions patterned on the German university model as interpreted by the I vy League. That was, in simply terms, the first posture of th.e women's movement in
the founding message was changed. Women, they were saying, are different. Their needs are different, their talents are different, and they need new institutions which will respond to those differences, capitalize on them, develop them so that women will not become but rather ever-more almost-men women. Sometimes curriculum shifted as in the new emphasis on the arts, o; sometimes, as at Sarah Lawrence, it was the way in which it was presented and evaluated which changed as well. Switching for a moment again from the historical to the personal, my own shift into this second mode came very shortly after I began to work. In 1966, a group of us who would become faculty and administrators read a remarkable document which had emerged from two days of discussions led by Millicent McIntosh, President Emeritus of Barnard (founded in 1889), with an advisory group of men and women. This blue-ribbon group met for two days in New York in April, 1961, to try their hands at the answer to a fascinating question: ''What would you do if you could start from scratch and build the ideal college for women?" At rrrst, of course, they couldn't agree at all, because each had a favorite
program or cause. But after a while, they began to find the common assumptions they held, and what emerged was a view of women in our society. In summary, the McIntosh Report suggested a pattern for the education of women based on the difference in the lives and the perceptions of themselves which men and women have. Ask a man who he is, the reasoning went, and the chances are that he will answer you in terms of his job: "I am a lawyer, an auto mechanic, a grocer, etc." Ask a woman the same question and she will be less likely to give you a single answer, even though she may be one of the 50% (figure quoted from U.S. Dept. of Labor - Women's Bureau "Women between ages of 18-64.") of women who are employed. At different times she plays many different roles, and often several together - wife, mother, part-time worker, volunteer, professional. If the pattern of education for men had tended to be linear - a ladder with reasonably predictable rungs headed towards a single goal, what might the best pattern for women be? We reasoned that the many roles she might play would put a premium on her ability to face new situations and facts, to order them and to train herself to use them effectively. It followed from that that our system should be designed to nurture self-reliance and the inner discipline which must accompany it. Consequently, we removed all of the traditional external spurs to education the required attendance, the grades and class-ranking, the emphasis on tests, and we tried to make a college at Kirkland in which students were allowed to see for themselves that the trouble with not working is not a low grade but the fact that you are wasting time and energy and money, and that there are better things to do than that any day. That is what I meant by looking liberal - and being conservative, for the end in mind is the kind of individual self-reliance and discipline which is the goal of most conservatives. The paradox is worth looking at more closely, and I will in a moment, but let me simply add here that much of education is done a great disservice by the kind of quick look which automatically equates a numerical grading system, for example., with high standards. There is absolutely no correlation between the two. Then, too, we felt that the division of subject matter into separate packages called disciplines, and the separation of Faculties and courses by departmental tags was too much influenced by graduate schools, and too little ordered to the needs of undergraduates. We did away with departments. We stressed interdisciplinary work, and we gave students a greater hand in the development of their curricular patterns
MAY 23, 1973
THE SPECTATOR
Babbitt Speech
men's lives is changing, too. It becomes increasingly important to them to be able to restrain, to shift, to take on new roles. Young husbands and wives are helping each other through graduate school, are sharing more of the child-rearing and housekeeping chores. In its coordinate relationship to Hamilton College, Kirkland has never been isolated by gender for social purposes. But more than that, because students cross-register freely back and fo!'1h, we have always taught a sizable proportion of men as well as women,
based on their own current and future needs. We asked them to choose and to defend their choice. The educational patterns we designed at Kirkland, and · the accompanying system of governance which involved students closely in the development of educational policy, were all being worked out against the background of . the late 60's - that season of revolt of riot and of discontent which focused on our campuses, but was by no means confined to them. When the social history of those just-past times comes to be written, it will show, of course, that it was, among other things, the third wave of the movement for the equality of women. And it has been no less productive than the first two in regard to higher education. The male enclaves have been broken up in New Haven, in Princeton, Hanover and Williamstown forever; the equal rights amendment to the Constitution which Isabella Beecher Hooker would have called unnecessary in 1888 is slugging it out in the state legislatures, and though the last mile . will be tough, surely now its time has come. But back on the campuses, how does this third wave spell itself out? Darkly, at best. To many, it is a repeat of wave number one - a chance, at last, to have women educated not only in the same manner as good Yale men, but in the same classroom. But for many of us, that doesn't· quite do it. Though I am a loyal son of Alma Mater, I have not always been convinced that the new daughters of Yale are going to profit for some time from an institution run, for centuries, by men and for men. But what makes education an interesting such profession is its variety and, in recent years, its remarkable flexibility. The things we thought would be good education for women in 1968 and '69, appear to us now to be good education for people in 1973. The pattern of
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and we know that men are responding increasingly to a kind of education which is open, non-authoritarian, yet tough in the expectations it sets for all who want to try it. I perceive a rather massive shift in higher education towards a learning which is more active than before, no longer afraid to speak of subjective values and their effect on scholarship and research and public policy, �d willing to allow both the abstract and the concrete, willing to allow education _once again and finally to address itself directly to the quality of the lives we lead. There is nothing which excludes one or the other sex from that. So perhaps one can hope, at least, that we are approaching the ideal of a ''people education," not, this time, by bringing the women in to imitate men, nor not, again, by setting up a separate
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style of education for women, but, finally, by moving towards a better definition of why we educate people and how. Let me spin my favorite metaphor to describe what I think we are attempting. In the older, male-oriented systems, the educational institutions provided a hard and rigid shell within which the student moved. The tougher the shell, which the institution fashioned in the regulations and prescriptions handed C:1own by faculty and administration, the better, was his reward in terms of grades and
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success (one could get a pretty good shell by majoring in extra-curricular , affairs as well). For example, if one was a good note-taker, one could answer the. questions on the test almost in the professor's own words - with just the correct dash of undergraduate humility to please him. When the student. graduated however, he had to leave the shell, that is to say, the system, behind, and like a turtle bereft of a home, he would search for the nearest shell he could find - such as graduate or professional school, or a job inindustry, where that skill at the accurate, expected and humble response could still get him plac·es. It was, one might. say, crustacean education. One might also say it was prehistoric. _ What we are about, at Kirkland and elsewhere, is the · development of invertebrate, or backbone education.
Here, the skeleton must grow internally, it must be used and tried repeatedly in individual endeavors on and off campus. One is allowed to touch the bounds of failure - not as punishment - but as one of the elements involved in risk, the other• element b�ing unusual success. One is given responsibility is direct, functional form, so that there can be n·o dodging of the fact that it must be exercised and that it can, well-used, be the key to freedom. Graduation, in such a system, happens when you can stand on your own and choose your path. You take your skeleton with you when you go. I submit that such a development w o ul d not have happ/e ned spontaneously. It happened because young people were in revolt - and it is happening most where young people are most interested in developing themselves as individuals, and that means right now, though their brothers are not far behind, that it is happening most where there are women thinking seriously of their options in a society dominated by men. The choices now facing young people are desperately hard. For women, they are perhps hardest, for these young people are on the very edge of social change, pulled forward by new dreams and new possibilities, but still lulled by old roles, old compromises - and old comforts. I know of no greater challenge than to work with such students on the definition of a future we cannot see, for I am convinced that they are testing out that future for all of us, and I am impressed with their will, their intelligence and their heart. We have been blessed to live and work in this time of change - this third wave of the women's movement, this 85th year of the National Council. Good learning has always involved upset and pain, but l pray that those who gather, in 1988, to celebrate your centennial year will look back 1;1pon the times just ahead of us with as much sense of pride and forward motion as we can sense in the recent past.
Grout Re/lects on Hamilton • in Chapel Farewell Now here this! We mark today the one hundred and fortieth anneversary of the birth of , Johanas Brahms, best known as a composer he is one of my favorites because of his humanity. I think of a quote that's attributed to him on leaving an occasion far different than this. When asked whether he had enjoyed himself, he said, "Yes, I'm afraid that's all I did enjoy here." And as he headed for the door, he turned and said, "If there is anyone present whom I forgot to insult, I apologize." Now the hostility that separates the nobks of the robe from the nobles of the sword is historic and well-known to you. And I think possibly we add fuel to the fire, we old soldiers, by our tendency to fade away as noisilyas possible. When I was asked
whether I would. preach the sermon this morning in Chapel. naturally I responded with alacrity. Here I am. And then I thought about the years that I have spent here among you, looking for my place - I must say I was put in it! grateful I 'm the to administration for having made these years possible, so I'll spare them my views on organization and leadership around here. I'm grateful to the faculty for having made these years most interesting so I'll spare them my views on higher education. My colleagues in the operations, maintenance, security and clerical staffs, to them I say thank you, for your never-failing smile and hard work. It's been a pleasure. To the senior class, you veterans who have put up with me for four years, I'm
going to spare you the words of council, the viewing with pleasure, the bright prospects of the future. You're gonna get this in a solid barragein the next few weeks. So what's left? What does an old grad say as he gets the moths out of his raccoon coat and looks at you? He smiles, he smiles, because he know something that you know. We got a secret. There are in this country, colleges with complexes. I think of one that suffered for years because it isn't Dartmouth. Now, Hamilton needs none of this. For such places, let them have the motto of striving for excellence,that's great. But for you the secret word is the maintenance of superiority. Out on that stone there's some words Greek. in World travellers recognize these from the Olympic stadium in Greece. And I can't
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MAY 23, 1973
THE SPECTATOR
COMMENT
A Tribute to Fankhauser
A college choir js a group of• students dedicated to trying to make good music and trying to have a good time in so doing. The student element is composed for the most part of rank amateurs-few having outstanding voices and even fewer actually majoring in music. This element remains fairly constant over the years both in quality and attitude, and it is, therefore, the variable element, the director, that makes the difference. It is the director that can exploit the natural tendency toward mediocrity, or whip the semi-willing collegiates into a choir of quality and occasionally national prominence. Accordingly, in the many years since its formation, the Hamilton College Choir had seen periods of excellence and periods when they were ''O.K." One high-point was in the 1930's with a Professor Fancher on the podium. Another pinacle has been reached in the 1970's with Professor James Fankhauser conducting.
Professor Fankhauser not only Curtis at the Berkeley Collegium. maintained and expanded the high He has also worked with the reputation of the Hamilton Berkshire Center in Music College Choir, bequeathed by his Tanglewood, Massachusetts and predecessors, but he also presided the Summer Music Festival in over a difficult transitional period , Aspen, Colorado. in which the Hamilton College Professor Fankhauser has been Choir merged with the .Kirkland the director of .Kirkland College's College Choir to form the choral groups since the college's Hamilton-Kirkland Choir. founding in 1968. The .Kirkland Professor Fankhauser began his Choir began as a small mixed professional career as a conductor chamber choir using selected of the Glee Club at the University voices from the Hamilton Choir. of California at Berkeley. He came In the fall of 1971, Kirkland to Hamilton in 1967 from Smith reached its full enrollment, and College. As a student of Robert the · increased amount of talent Fountain at Oberlin College, Mr. available made it apparent that Fankhauser received a Fulbright Kirkland needed its own full-sized Grant to England, �tudying at women's choir. Thus the Kirkland both the Royal Academy of Music Choir came into its own, and at its and at Oxford University. While at debut performance won acclaim . Oxford, he was appointed for a refined and polished style Oxford that would have been a credit to conductor the of University Madrigal Society. Upon many more experienced groups. his return to the United States, he The vastly greater repertoire recieved the Eisner Prize for available for a mixed group Creative Achievement in the Arts precipitated the merger of the two from Berkeley. choirs into the Hamilton-Kirk.land As a tenor soloist, Mr. Choir. Together the two groups Fankhauser worked with Robert have demonstrated the ability to Shaw in Cleveland and with !'lan continue the Hamilton Choir's of tradition l o·ng-s t a nding excellence. Professor Fankhauser is leaving Hamilton at the end of the current academic year to accept a position at the University of British Colombia at Vancouver. In his five years at Hamilton, he has accomplished what would have taken others years longer. Hamilton and Kirkland owe a debt of gratitude to this man of limitless energy and unsurpassed talent. Lawrence A. Wingert '74 Hamilton College· Choir
Charlatans to Prment Shaw's Comic "Candida''
0ne o f t h e m a j o r c Commencement weekend with a e n tert ainmen t f eatures of play that is both of outstanding Commencem e n t weekend at literary merit and at the same Hamilton College will be the time a h ighly e n t ertaining presentaiton by the Charlatans of comedy. His purpose also was to Bernard Shaw's comedy, Candida. provide the Hill with a production The play is directed by Marion that would display the talent of V i g l i e tta o f C l i n t o n . The outstanding members of the local production was conceived as Alex community theatre as well as the Wagner's senior project. The play skills of Hamilton students. w ill be presented Thursday, Featured in the cast are Friday, Saturday evenings on May Winifred Haslam who plays the 24, 25, and 26 at 8:00 p.m. in · role of Candida, Alex Wagner who Minor Theatre. plays the role of Marchbanks, and John Caponera as the Reverend Alex Wagner decided to do this James Morell. Other members of play in order to provide parents the cast include Pat Cannon, Jerry and alumni and students at Goodman, and Michael Sherer.
Concentus Musi,cus' Achieves Authenticity of 18th Century
fam es F a n k h ause r directing the Hamilton-Kirkland C hoir.
EVENTS
FILMS AT NEARBY THEATRES Kallett (736-2313) Pat Garrott and Billy the Kid Stanley (724-4000) Fist of Fury LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS May 25th (Friday) Clark Prize Speaking Contest, Chapel, at 4:00 pm. Facts and Fallacies of Sexual Functioning, Masters and Johnson. Chapel at 8 pm. May 26th (Saturday) The Recorder and its Music, Thomas Colby. Root Art Center at 10:00 am. The Role of the Black Church; An Historian •s Questions, Carol George. Bristol Campus Lounge at 2:30 pm. Newman Mass. father Finnegan. Chapel at 5:30 pm. May 27th (Sunday) Newman Mass. I- ather I- innegan. Bristol Campus Center J, isher Room at 9:30 am. DRAMA May 24th, 25th, and 26th Candida, presented by the Charlatans. Minor Theatre at 8 pm. MILESTONES May 25th (Friday) Ralph Waldo Emerson's Birthday (1803)
It is time that some attention be brought to a group of musical historians and performers who are int eresting some making discoveries about the music of Bach. These people are researching and delving into the ways of performing 18th century music with authenticity. Bach's music, after his death, was not performed by musicians for many years. During this period, many of the instruments which Bach composed for went out of use or were modified (Viola da Gamba, Oboe D'amour Harpsicord.) style_ of playing music also changed with the When Bach t im e s . was rediscovered by Mendelsohn his music was performed with different instruments and with a style different from that which he had planned. The beauty of his music, however, was still present. A tradition introduced by Mendelsohn of playing Bach is still with us today: that of playing 18th century music in a 19th century style. With the recent trend of bringing back ancient instruments such as harpsicord and recorder,
much study· has been done on instruments of Bach's time. Many of these instruments have been reproduced, and many of the originals have been restored. A group of musicians, Concentus Musicus, led by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, have specialized in Bach and have
performed Bach on original instruments and in the style that is now thought to be far more authentic and true to Bach's own time. The difference between the traditional style and this authentic style is a delightful revelation of the true nature of Bach's genius.
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STUDENT ART EXHIBIT OPENS The Kirkland College Arts Division is sponsoring an exhibition of student works in the List Art Center Gallery on the campus through Kirkland's graduation on May 24. Among the types of work which are on display are painting, drawing,sculpture,ceramics,etchings,design p�oble�s�<I: pJt�!�Jiy: _1'.,h� public is invited to visit the List Gallery on weekday$ from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
MAY 23, 1973
PAGE SEVEN
THE SPECTATOR
Professors Cameron, Nesbitt, Mattingly Retire
BY DAVID SCHUTT Professors George L. Nesbitt, John R. Mattingly, and George H. Cameron �ill be retiring at the close of this academic year. As a result Hamilton College will lose three capable and well-liked faculty members. Professor Nesbitt, a graduate of the Hamilton class of 1924, had originally intended to pursue a career in l a w d u r i n g his undergraduate days but grew somewha t undecided as his graduation neared. The school offered him a job as an instructor in English composition in 1924, and he "enjoyed it so much" he decided to forego his study of law for graduate work in English at Columbia University. He received his doctorate there in 1934. Prof. Nesbitt, a member of the Emerson Literary Society and a Phi Beta Kappa, returned to the college in 1930 as an associate professor. In 1941 he became a full professor and in 1952 he was named C h a irman of t he E nglis h Department, a post he kept until 1968. He said that he has enjoyed teaching b e c ause he took satisfaction in "seeing a student's academic growth" from his start at the college. He has also enjoyed "talking to students about literature." Though he has taught many different courses and levels, he especially likes teaching the works of Chaucer, Faulkner, and Wordsworth. He has authored a book entitled Wordsworth: the Biographic al Background of his Poet;ry which was published in 1970. He has also written a book titled Benthamite Reviewing, which was published in 1934. Mr. Nesbitt said that at times he has t h ought about the possibilities of teaching elsewhere. He never intended to have such a
prolonged stay when he arrived here in 1920 , but Ham ilton provided "a good place to raise children and congenial, interested students." Having been involved on the campus as either a student or faculty member for over fifty years, he has seen a marked change in the curriculum. He explains that before WWII ''for a B.A. a student took an ancient language (Latin or Greek), a m odem language (French· or G e rm a n), Mathematics, and English Composition." One could also choose from a less expansive number of electives: history, biology, or chemistry. Aithough he admits he "would have gladly taken Greek instead of math," this rigid course of studies made one ''ready for graduate school." Students entering college, though not necessarily more intelligent, tended to have taken " a tougher beating" beforehand. Prof. Nesbitt will continue to live in Clin ton a f ter his retirement. He said he is not concerned about finding activities, since there is always "fun in living." He has always enjoyed writing "It seems to be in my blood," and hopes to spend more time at it, although he has no specific plans at the moment. He a d d ed t hat s tu dents w il l undoubtedly ·"see me around the library." Professor Mattingly received his A.B. and did his graduate work at the University of Chicago before coming to Hamilton in 1931. He chose Hamilton for practical reasons: it was the only job available in the height of the Depression. He explains his reason for remaining here fo r over forty years as "a matter of inertia." During the 30's and 4 0 's he divided his time between teaching Latin and Greek. He and Professor Durham, then chairman ·of the D e p a r t m e n t o f C l a s s i cal Languages, decided as a practical matter to change the system so that each gave his attention to only one of the languages. Mr. Mattingly, though he greatly -advertisement-
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feels that an education is meant to be used. Though "the individual m u s t be cen tral" in any educational process, there is a "need for more technical training and skills that are marketable after college." To his students who l�ck such skill� and want to enter the -business world, he suggests '' business school or learn ing shorthand as possible entrees." Retirement will hardly present a lag in Mr.Mattingly's activities. He plans to finish a book he has been working on concerning G e Or g i a n i c On Og r a p h y. Iconography is the study of e nj oyed Greek prose, begaIJ, images, their intrinsic meaning, teac hing o nly Latin, which t and their relation to their native appealed to him because of the cultures and civilizations. Prof. poetry. He chiefly prefers the Mattingly, an authority in this f i e Id , e x p l ai n s t h at t h e poetry of Horace, Juvenal, and Lucretius. "in terpreta ti on o f c ontent Mattingly maintains a number presents many problems." The of thoughts on the role of a field itself, lacking an organization of interpretaiton, should assuredly student. He began. by saying, "Students are just as intellectually benefit from Prof. Mattingly's deficient and morally corrupt as knowledge of art and his interest always." A trace of a smile in systems analysis. P r ofessor C ameron f i r st appeared on his face. He added that he feels it is essential for a became interested in physics in student "to interest his professor high school when he enjoyed, "pl aying around w ith the as well as the professor interesting the student." When asked about apparatus and building things." the relatively small number of He went on from there to the students now taking classical University of Saskachawan and languages, he said, "I have taught then later to the California large classes and I don't want to." Institute of Technology, where he He much prefers to teach a small presented his doctoral thesis on cosmic rays. number of interested students. After finishing school, he Although he does not like to generalize on the benefits of became a research physicist at the learning L atin or Greek since Dupont Co., where he worked on every student is different, he does the refraction of x-rays. However, f ee l that "t he study of the company hours, 8:-5, did not communication and expression allow him to do the work he whether in ancient or modem wanted, and the company itself language, is extremely important. di scouraged researchers from Philosophies of language should using the lab after hours. In 1932 he was offered a job not be of such great consequence. The problem of communication is at Hamilton and he decided he world-wide and people might do was i n terested. Teaching is well t o l e a r n more about enjoyable to him for a variety of communicating." As his students MAVROG NIS E will attest, Mr. Mattingly does continued from page three emphasize the fundamentals of a language strongly before more made during the past two years. comple x interpretations ar e This year, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Grout, and Mr. Burt Wallace, brought in. He also stressed that a "liberal Vice-President in charge of Resources and Development have arts e ducat ion needs more practicality. It was originally resigned. Last year, Dean of the intended for people who didn't College Winton Tolles retired, and have to work for a living which is Hadley S. DePuy, Assistant Dean, not enough to justify it. Instead, resigned; the present Deans are liberal arts needs reexamination in Stephen Kurtz, Dean of the light of advances in systems College, Robin Kinnel, Associate analy s i s . N ot until systems Dean of the Faculty, and R. Bingham, Dean of analysis did a viable means exist. Gordon It (systems analysis) arose out of Students.Mr.Mavrogenis has been recognition that life is involved hired for thirteen months, the appointment for with decision making more than customary knowledge for its own sake." He administrative staff.
reasons. First, as contrasted with his job at Dupont, he said, "I have the freedom to plan my own work and arrange my own timetable," He also enjoys "the tremendo_us variety of students and the variety of research." Hamilton is also still small enough so that he can know all of his students. Prof. Cameron has also helped in building the Speech and Hearing Center in Utica, for which he received an award. He has continued to act as a "consultant and troubleshooter for the center." As to research he comments, "there has not been too much oppor tunity for research until about ten years ago. Only then did money and facilities become available; also government grants and summer
pronounce t h em . J i m on my third trip back here when �unningham an d John Mattingly walking between the bowels of would never forgive me,, but they Buttrick up onto the surface and can be interpreted, and you down toward Bundy with a remember last year I gave you the gentleman of importance, to note work on "know thyself." Now that he spoke to no one, and I those of you who know romance asked him why. And he said he languages know that that is also feared the reply, and I almost fell capab l e of interpretation, over. Because I know better. And flexibility, and in the plural. And sure enough, shortly thereafter it can come out, "Know, there appeared on the scene and recognize, yourself, yourselves, evaluation gang that came in to one another." And this is our look us over. And they went away secret at Hamilton for we are a marveling at the civility that state of mind, a state of mind that prevailed on this campus, and says the individual is important, once again I was shocked, because that his unique talents, hateful· its bludgeoning the obvious. What characteristics, and intelligence you have here are yourselves. and intellect are a combination Your worth is recognized, if you unique to him and of value and to chose to blow it, that' s your be recognized. affair. In the meantime, I go away I have not forgotten my shock knowing that when the snow is
nineteen feet deep, and you are charging, making your own tunnel through the drifts, and you perceive a warm human body going in the opposite direction, you will spare him the famous Hamilton greeting grunt, which is the recognition of a kindred soul, a person of worth even him whom you come to despise can be given that famous greeting grunt. Don't forget it, gentlemen. That's what latches us together. That's what made the old 1972 and 1872 not so far apart. The third verse of Carissima, if you ever learn it, does have meaning and value. Corn when distilled is till of value, gentlemen. With reluctance I say goodbye, and of Hamilton , farewell.
courses have grown a great deal lately." Despite this, he has done research at Marcy State Hospital and has also written several lab manuals. Retirement will be a more gradual process for Prof; Cameron than for the other two retirees. He will continue to teach one section next year, and as a;esult he has not thought too much about retirement as yet. Next year he plans to build a large, sensitive spectrometer to analyze the spectra of elements. He will also be able to devote more time to music. He is very interested in the acoustics of music (he taught a winter study course in the physics of music), and is an accomplished cellist. He has performed in orchestras in California and as a member of the Utica Symphony. He prefers, however, chamber music and string quartets. Aside from these activities, he enjoys fishing tremendously. He owns a house in Ontario where the fishing is excellent and notes that Oriskany Falls has very good trout fishing.
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MAY 23, 1973
THE SPECTATOR
Fire Ravages Wallace Home on College Hill; Vice-President Injured, Cause Under Investigation
A fire erupted'last night at of the first floor library. 11:00 p.m. in the house of Smoke filled the house and Albert Vice billowed from the roof and Wal lace, President of Resources and most of the windows in the Development. Clinton Fire house's It wing. west Chief, Ronald O'Neil, stated blackened large areas of the that the causes of the fire white exterior stucco walls of unknown, were b ut the Tudor style house. Some firemen entered the suspicious, and State _Police investigators were called in. house with hoses,. while sprayed t he Mr. Wallace was alone in o t h er s the house at 98 College Hill flames .from ladders from aifferent locations Road when the fire broke three out. He jumped twelve feet outside the house. They the structural his second story hosed. from bedroom window, but was skeleton of the house to the fall. in injured prevent its collapse. Portions -- He made his way to the of the main floor's ceiling did Psi U House, and there asked cave in however. By 11:30, Mark Nelson '75 to report the fire was undercontrol, the fire. Both Nelson and and soon after, the firemen members of the DKE House were using fans to pump out reported the blaze at 10: 55. stmoke out of the house. with college At 12:15 At this time Mr. Wallace officials and reporters inside complained of back pains. Nelson then called Dr. the house, fire broke out Leon Roe, Director of the again, this time on the Hamilton-Kirkland · Health second floor. The Firemen Wall a ct was discovered sparks in a closet, Center. transferred to the Health but by 12:35, the situation Center. There he recieved was under control again. Damage to the house was first aid and was sent to St. be extensive. Howie Masters '74, to Hospital Lukes examined for a possible a member of the volunteer fire department, remarked spinal column fracture. At 11:00, five pieces of that over fifty per cent of the significantly F i r efighting house · was Clinton fire gutted The destroyed. d n a equ i p t m e n t the fire is where library the approximately forty_ to fifty started. have to supposed firemen the arrived at Wallace home which is below Most of the rest of the Center. ' destruction was caused by Campus Bristol Strapping on Oxygen tanks heat, smoke, and water. Basement and second and gas masks, the firemen c ar pe t s w ere immediately entered the f l o o r house and searched for waterlogged, and the first anyone who might have been floors were drenched and caught inside ·by the fire. ash-covered. Walls painted Having made sure that the off-white were blackened by was empty, the the smoke, and in many house firemen began putting out places the paint had been burned off the walls. Even on the flames. By the time the firemen the second floor where the were ready to put out the fire hardly even reached, the blaze. fire. was bursting out walls were blackened.
The kitchen, which is on the first floor and is only about twenty feet from the library had no fire damage at all, of crowd large A including o n l o o k e r s, President Chandler, Assistant to the President Gilbert Grout, Dean of Students' Gordon Bingham, Hamilton Public Relations I)irector, George Newman and Dr. Leon Roe, were on hand. Three Hamilton . . faculty and members, a d m i n istration Eric Wertimer, S idney Tony and MacDonald, Woodin, who are volunteer firemen took part in pt,ttting out the blaze. Mr. Wertirrter was one of the firemen who went inside the burning house to search
for stragglers and to attempt to limit the fire. He stated that his first impression once he was inside was that the house was, "Hot." Once the fire was under control and the firemen could investigate the causes of the blaze, they became Chief O'Neil susp1c10us. called in the New York State of Crim inal B u reau Investigation, and the State troopers were on their way at 1 a.m. The full body of investigators had not arrived by 1:15 because the New Hartford State Police were looking into a murder. One of the reasons that the police were called was that in a room where there were no other signs of fire, a couch was burning. The couch, which was situated several feet in front and to the side of a fireplace, burned from underneath its cushions up into its frame. Mysterious, however, was the fact that no curtain or papers in the room were singed, and resting nearby the sofa was an open, unburned book of matches. It was termed doubtful that the heat from the firecaused the fire because all of the windows were closed and none were cracked. Once the police. began investigatii:ig, they discovered that the gas to the gas heater had been turned off and bundles of paper were stacked next tthe furnace. After this, they roped off the boiler room, to reprevent en try by reporters and onlookers. is investigation The continuing and no definite cause for the fire will be known until later today.