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VOLUME IV: NUMBER 1.
SEPTEMBER 8, 1973
Colleges Open Tomorrow; Enrollments Largest Ever
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J. Martin Carovano, Acting President of Hamilton College
Th� Presidenc� Provost Carovano Named Acting President While Search Continues_
State Department Official and College Dean Con sidered In Search
BY BOB GRIEVES J. Martin Carovano, college Provost and Associate Professor of Economics, will serve as acting President of Hamilton until a successor to former President John Chandler is found. Dean Stephen Kurtz will assist Mr. Carovano while he holds office. The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees appointed Messrs. Carovano and Kurtz at a meeting last June 7.,. Bo th offices became effective July 1. Mr. Carovano's primary duty will be to direct the central administration. During this period De a n Kurtz wil l oversee fu nd-rai sing activities and represent the College to its alumni constituency. Mr. Carovano said his new post includes "all the administrative responsibilities of the President in a short period." He emphasized that he will not be involved with the presidential search committee. Mr. Carovano believed he was app o inted A c t ing President be c a u s e o f the in timate knowledge of the administration continued on page two
A high State Department official and the dean of a p r e s i t i g i o u s n o r t h e a st ern university have been among the candidates in Hamilton College's search for a new president. As the search for John W. Chandler's successor enters its sixth month, there is no indication when a new president will be named. Act i n g f r om information supplied by a well-informed s·ource, the Spectator contacted the government official at his Washington office on August 17. At that time he confirmed that there were discussions with him a b o u t t h e p o s i ti on , b ut emphasized that the talks were at a "very preliminary level," and that it would be "premature to come to any judgement on whether there is or whether there will develop a mutual interest _between me and Hamilton." This candidate visited Clinton earlier in the summer, spending most his stay speaking with Mr. and Mrs. Chandler who had yet to m o v e p e rma n e n t l y t o Williamstown. The college dean visited the continued on page two
The coordination of Hamilton Colleges' cafeterias, saying that class in Cell Ultrastructute based and Kirkland Colleges begins its they need the time to organize upon use of the new facility. sixth year tomorrow, with the t he ir c o o k i n g a n d e ating Dr. Chiquoine said that the convocations at both schools. arrangements. student capacity of the Hamilton Hamilton will embark upon its An electron microscope facility facility is unusually generous. 161st year. Total enrollment will is nearing c-0inpletion in the Similar facilities at other small be approximately 990 students, Science, Building. The $75,000 colleges, Union and St. Lawrence the highest in the College's facility, which includes a $32,000 for example, are limited to use by Zeiss electron microscope and no more than ten students. history. K i rkland, h av i ng already supportive space and equipment, C h i q u o i n e e xp r e ssed t h e graduated two full classes, will will accomodate up 'to sixteen exp ec ta t i o n t h a t t h e Cell begin its first year as a fully students. Dr. Duncan Chiquoine, a Ultrastructure course will be a accredited institution, and its Hamilton Biology Professor who "fishing net" for students who sixth year of general operation. has ten years experience in c·ontinued on page seven The College will support an electron microscopy, will teach a e x p a n d e d e n r o ll m e nt o f '' approximately 720 students, with ) some living off campus. During the past summer, many buildings were renovated and several new facilities were added to the Collleges' plant. South Pormitory • ·. at Hamilton has undergone' plumbing renovation. The installation of new bathroom fixtures was delayed by a mason's strike - and late deliveries of equipment. The job, which cost o v e r $ 7 5,000 s h o u l d b e completed by the end of the week, accord ing to Gerald Leu i ken, S u p e r i ntendent of Buildings and Grounds. A new brown shingle roof has Dean Carl Schneider talking to guest speaker been installed in the Sage Rink at Professor Ronald Champaigne a cost of approximately $30,000 to Hamilton. Dun h a m D o r m i t o r y renovations have begun. One side of one floor has been altered in a plan where three room suites, Stephen C. Brock, co-director of "Innovations in Undergraduate uncomfortably occupied by four the Innovation Project in the students, will now accomodate Education," Mixed Media in the Center for the Improvement of only three stude_nts. Installation C l a ssroom-A Demonstration," Undergraduate Education of of the Co-op's kitchen equipment and "The Manhattanville Story-A Cornell University and Professors in transformed Keehn Dormitory New Approach" were the topics Sydney Resiberg, Tyrell Runum is on schedule for completion on of the first annual Kirkland faculty forum held last week on and Leslie Urbach of SUNY at October 1. Jesse Zellner, Kirkland Albany. The final guest speaker Director of Institutional Affairs, the Kirkland campus. C a r l S c hne ider, Dean of w� Professor Ronald Champaigne reported that no contract bids of Manhattanville. received by the College provided Academic Affairs at Kirkland The speakers came to Kirkland for completion of the renpvation o r g a n i z e d a nd directed the forums. He explained that the to present their own experiences by the beginning of school. with innovative techniques and Members of the Co-op Dorm program was intended to provide lead discussion sessions scheduled will cook for themselves and the faculty with the opportunity after each presentation. maintain their building in a to learn about and discuss new M r . B r o c k b e g a n his cooperative living effort. Some ideas in education before classes presentation, "Innovations in begin. have welcomed the month in Undergraduate Education," with Guest speakers included Mr. which they ·will have to eat in the an explanation of the purpose and methods of the Center which he heads. T h e C e nter has a p ermanent staff of five, in a d d it ion to several research associates and interested faculty. They have been investigating the various educational options being s t atement for major changes i m p l e m e nt at i o n o f Adler tested throughout the country at affecting both Hamilton and proposals. the undergraduate level, with the A s a r e sult, this year's Kirkland's educational goals and final g o a l o f publishing a p o l ic i es, Adler provided an conference participants plan a systematic compilation of these important forum for the exchange second meeting in early December experiments. of ideas, criticisms and suggestions t o b o t h r e-e val uate and Mr. Brock said he expects the among the faculty, students, and regenerate. results of the study will be of Most of Adler's meetings took administrators of both colleges. continued on pag e six The question of Adler's own place in small, casual room worth and viability as an inform&! containing fireplaces, overstuffed INSIDE THIS ISSUE: conference on Hill problems also c h a i r s a n d o m niprescent A Dean's interview, arose. To justify its existence as mooseheads, while free time was Jane Poller.........page 3 something more than a two-day spent boating, swimming and Food, what's to come? tennis. Unfortunately, the boating Adirondack holiday, a number of Earl D'aPrix .......page 3 students and faculty members became pmited after an unitended continued on page two urged follo_w-up action towards
Kii-kland Faculty Discuss Innovation
Adler Participants Vow Continued Effort By MARIA ZAMMIT and DAVID SCHUTT As another September arrives an d another year begins, another group of students, faculty and administrators migrated to the wilds of Eagle Bay, N.Y. for the annual Adler Conference. A nd, a s familiar as the overcrowded bookstore, another seIJ}ester of Service Systems and Monday morning Chapel were most of the scheduled discussion top ics: at hletics, black-white relations, the advising system, a n d c o o r d i n a t i o n
fraternity-independent problems. H o w e v er, o ne important addition to this year's issues and one which generated prolonged discussion, debate and argument also promises to play an equally vital role in the Hamilton issues dominating this academic year. Discussions centering on "A Statement of Goals for Hamilton College" by the Committee on Academic P olicy (See the Spectator, May 23, 1973) formed a major part of the two-day conferenc e. Co nsidering the significant implications of the
2/THE SPECTATOR/September 8, 1973
EDITORIALS
The Secret Search
What is going on behind the closed doors of the Presidential Search Committee? As students return to College Hill this question is raised over and over again. It is possible that it is in the best interests of the search not to release the names of individual candidates. But is it in the best interests of the College for the committee to enforce an almost total information blackout and ignore general student opinion? We think not. The right for the college public to know the criteria being used for the selection of the president must be upheld. A college president's conttituency includes more than the faculty and trustees, yet one candidate who has come to this campus has met with administration officials and a group of faculty, and not with students. One might argue that Hamilton students are represented by the three students on the Search Commottee, but representation of a group consists of more than being a member of that group. Moreover, the faculty also has three members on the Search Committee, yet other faculty members have had the opportunity to intel'Vlew at least one candidate. When did the student members of the committee publicly solicit student opinions on what qualifications students think Hamilton's sixteenth president should have? Have these students suggested to the committee that candidates who come to the Hill meet with groups of students as well as faculty? Students are on that committee not only to help select the president, but to represent the students in this process. The committee will be the cause of undermining the credibility of the new president if it continues to enforce its complete information blackout and chooses to ignore student opinion in reaching their decision. We hope, for the sake of this institution and for the sake of the new president and his credibility, that the committee will seriously examine its procedures to date and realize that their present course can only breed resentment among many members of the college community. ADLER CONFERENCE continued from page one
h!Jacking o f , a p ermanent res-ident's motor boat for an hour of aquaplaning. Although the specific goals and responsibilities of the conference and its members is not yet over (and still very much debatable),
the general consensus believes the conference to have been an impressive personal experience for its participants, which includes the I'.esponsibility to transfer both themselves and their ideas from Higby Lodge to College Hill.
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Americo�Americans Unite BY GERRY PAYNE "The fact of the matter is that it's segregation. You can't dispute it." Witz was handing me his knee-jerk liberalism again, with mustard. He didn't like the idea of the Americo-American House-Center-Meeting Place I was organizing. He gulped a cup of Bristol snack bar coffee between manifestos, scalding his throat as a token of his sincerity. "Why do you get so intense about this sort of stuff?" I asked. "It's only nine o'clock in the morning and you're becrying social issues already." "Because segregation is segregation is segregation!" "Give Gertrude Stein a break," I muttered. "What? What d'ya say?" "Nothing, Witz. So segregation is segregation. We want that sort of separatism." "You think you want it that way. But it isn't that way at all. You 're there because you only feel safe there. Ghettos are always safe. And your all American Center is a ghetto," he told me, squeezing his styrofoam cup. "Your people have formed a center because they're unable to assimilate into the mainstream, and the mainstream can not, and ,does not want to accomodate them." But Witz, we are the mainstream," I explained. "The Center is there so all All-American students can practice their heritage and enforce their traditions. The Trustees said in our charter, "to provide those of the All-American Union a private, welcome place to
s o c i a l i z e , organize, and proseletize among themselves." "But Gerry," Witz lectured, "groups shouldn't be exclusive. You used to stand in groups at your private school dances, didn't you? Picking your nose with your friends. You stood against one wall, the girls stood against another, the Jews against another, and the blacks stood against another. But everyone got on the dance floor and danced together." "Not me," I explained. "I have lead feet. I never danced in my life." "Because you're a lousy segregationist!" "Wait a minute Witz!" ''Really. You're probably happy the blacks are segregated, or at least with the Latins. That the girls aren't just at the other end of the dance floor, but across the street probably suits you just fine. Who the hell needs it, right? Give everyone their ghetto and preserve your own status quo. You probably think I look stupid wearing these plaid cuffed pants and topsiders. You probably think they don't suit me. Well, my mother bought me these pants ...." His cup cracked and coffee spilled over his pants." ''Dammit!'' "They look pretty stupid on you now," I slyly said. "My son will have his Bar Mitzvah in a pair of pants like these, Gerry, or I'll die in mine. The doctrine of the melting pot can have it no other way..."
BLACKWOOD AND FLYNN REFUSE COMMENT ON COMMITTEE'S SEARCH continued from page one
campus more recently, on or about August 21, and according to reliable sources, met with A cting President J. Martin Caro vano, Dean Stephen G. K ur tz, a selected group of Hamilton faculty and Kirkland president, Samuel F. Babbitt. He is the only candidate known to have met with the Kirkland president. He did not meet formally with any students while on the Hill. When contacted by phone, this candidate would confirm only that he had been approached c o n c e r n ing t h e H amilton presidency, but did not comment on his August visit. Regarding faculty interviews with candidates, Dean Kurtz said, "Th e c a n didates are being interviewed by a cross-section of the faculty." "The interviews I have had with candidates have been very pleasant," he said. Professor Russell T. Blackwood III, secretary of the Presidential Search Committee, was asked
about t h e candidates, the qualifications being considered by the committee and the number of candidates still in contention. He did not answer the questions directly, but referred to· a s tatement prepared by W.M. Bristol III, Chairman of the Search Committee. The statement to which Mr. Blackwood referred, however, has not been made public. I n r es p o n s e t o s imilar questions, Chuck Flynn '74, a s t u d e n t m e m ber of t h e committee, refused to comment. "Any comment by me on the search," he said, "would be inappropriate." T h e Presidential Search Committee was formed soon after President Chandler's March 10 announcement of his resignation to assume the Williams College p residency. Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Coleman Burke appointed Mr. Bristol chairman of the committee and Howard M. Bingham, Richard W. Couper, Edward Felsthorpe, and John D. Phil�ips, Jr. as the other members.
F aculty m embers of the committee are Mr. · Blackwood, Grant Jones, and Donald Denney. They were elected by their fellow faculty members. S tudent members on the committee are Mr. Flynn, John Osborne '74 and William Smith '74. These appointments were made by Clyde Leff, last year's H a m i l ton S tu dent Senate pres1aent. T h e stu dent appointments caused some controversy on the campus last spring when some students complained that they w e r e m a d e w ithout the consultation of the Senate and by an outgoing president. Mr. Leff claimed that time did not permit a general student referendum or full S e n a t e a c t i o n o n t he appointments. Committee members have been silent about the search procedures throught the six months of deliberations. They claim that any information given to the general college community would be damaging both to the search and the College.
CAROVANO AND KURTZ SHARE DUTIES OF PRESIDENT'S OFFICE continued from page one
he has gained as Provost and chief financial officer of the College. Mr. Carovano joined the Hamilton f a culty as an E conomics instructor after serving as a research assistant and teaching fellow at Berkeley. · He is a graduate of Pomona College and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the U n i v ersity o f California at Berkeley. Mr. Carovano said that Dean
Kurtz would act as the figurehead of the college, as "that individual who represents the college to the outside world." The Board of Trustees decided to d iv ide Presidential duties among two men in order to give definition to the Office of the P r e sident a n d t o p r o v i d e c o n t i n u ity within the administration during the search for a new president.
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Mr. Carovano sees his new role as that of a catalyst, "to hold things together and fill the need for someone who can make short term decisions," such as the allocation of funds for operating expenses. The Actipg President emphasized that he will try to avoid long-term decisiol)s since those decisions might affect the policies of the new president. Mr. Carovano also stated that he will not follow any educational philosophy or goal not already pursued by the college in his short term. M r . Carovano would not comment on how far the search f o r a n ew presiden t has progressed. A ct ing President Carovano said, "The toughest part of any job is the uncertainty brought on by new responsibilities. Many small problems d em anding immediate attention will have to wait."
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Classics Professor Stranded Red Tape Delays Briton's Visa By DOUG GLUCROFT Valerie M. Warrior, newly appointed Associate Professor of Classics, will be unable to begin her duties on the Hill this Monday because she has not been permitted to enter the United States from Great Britain, her native country. Ms. Warrior was to have taught Greek 11-12, Latin 21-22, Greek 35-36, and Ancient Civilization 45f. She was appointed last March to rep lace Professor John Mattingly who retired in May. Tentatively, Professor James Cunningham will teach three of Ms. Warrior's scheduled sections and Ancient Civilization 45f, will be offererl �s �n Jnclenenden t Study until she arrives. At one point, plans were discussed to hire a professor from a neighboring institution, but these plans were dismissed as impractical. Until recently, British citizens had relatively few problems
coming to the United States to State has unemployed teachers. work, but in Ms. Warrior's case Not until late May did the and in others, . this is no longer College learn of Ms. Warrior's true. dilemma, at which time Dean On March 31, after being hired Stephen G. Kurtz and John by Hamilton, Ms. Warrior applied Ma vrogenis, Assistant to the to the Consulate in London for a President, filed a petition with the visa. At that point, her application Immigration and Naturalization was submitted to the United Service in Albany to give Ms. States Department of Labor. On Warrior " Preference status as an April 26 that department declined alien." to certify Ms. Warrior's entry to . Me anwhile, Mr. Mavrogenis the U.S. The Labor Department w r o t e t o t h e M a np o w e r stated their reasoning as follows: Administration and subsequently "On the basis of information received forms and procedural available to us, we cannot issue in formation to facilitate Ms. the certification required by Wa!rior's entry into the United Sec. 212 (a) (14) of the States. and I m m i g r a t ion A form was filed with the New Naturalization Act as amended. York State Employment Service Re a so n: A v a il able job certifying that the position in market information will not Hamilton's Classics Department .warrant a certification of had been offered to Ms. Warrior. unavailability of workers in the According to Mr. Mavrogenis, the United States." employment service checked their Reportedly, this ruling was records to see if anyone in the promulgated because New York s t a t e w as u nemployed and qualified to teach Classics. No one was found, and the form was sent to the Regional Administrator of Manpower. On July 26, the Department of Labor approved Ms. Warrior's entry because it was shown there poultry, and Grade A dairy would be no job displacement of p r o ducts. Canned fruits and United States citizens. With employment certification, vegetables must be the best available. Ground beef may not Hamilton College immediately exceed 20· percent fat, and must refiled with the Department of be U.S.D.A. inspected, good Emigration and Naturalization. Ms. W a r r i o r was eventually grade. Breakfast, according to the classified with "third preference" contract, must consist of at least a (people of., disting;iished ability selection of three or more fruits and background.) On August 8, and/or juices, including orange her dossier was mailed by special juice every day, a selection of cold diplomatic pouch to the London cereal, one hot cereal during cold Consulate. Congressman Donald J. weather, toast and/or sweet rolls, Mitchell of this congressional at least one protein food, and district assisted in expediting coffee, tea, hot cocoa, and milk. some of these procedures. By the time Ms. Warrior's entry The luncheon menus must include one soup, a selection of at into this country was approved, least two entrees, one sandwich, a however, the U.S. Consulate in selection of three salads, a London was backlogged with a , selection of three desserts, and long waiting list for emigrants. coffee, tea, milk, fruit drink, and Unless there are cancellations, it is unlikely that she will be able to soda. The dinner meal must consist enter t h e c o u ntry b ef o re of at least. one appetizer, two December. Mr. Mavrogenis said that Ms. meat entrees, one potato, a selection of two vegetables, a Warrior will be here to teach the selection of three $alads, a s e c o nd semester courses in selection of three desserts, and elementary Greek, intermediate coffee, tea, milk, fruit drink, and Latin, and Greek philosophy. Ms. Warrior will come to Ifamilton soda. Weekend brunch must include with an M.A. from McMaster at least all those items specified in University and a ,doctorate from continued on page seven the University of London.
Food Ser"·ice Cos'ts Rise
D'Aprix Bound by Contmct No reduction in food quality or variety is expected· this year, despit� the recent, unpredicted rise in food costs, according to Earl D' APrix, the Colleges' food service director. Service Systems Corporation, Hamilton-Kirkland's food service, must meet contractual obligations to the Colleges as negotiated last spring. Menus may vary, but Service System�· '. is required to fu lf i l l m i�1/m u m q u ality specifications a'iid outlines df meal v ariety, regardless of food's limited availability or high cost. D'Aprix reported that food costs have risen an average of 25 percent since principal contract bids were submitted in February d March. Some prices have· climbed 50 percent and selected foods, such as bacon, eggs, and. c hicken have doubled in cost. Some meats, such as london broil, are simply unavailable, he said. �he Board of Stewards, a student committee, will determine men u s in co njunction with D'Aprix and Service Systems. Thty normally consider meals that are as inexpensive as possible, but that satisfy contractual obligations and students' taste. D'Aprix said that poultry or other meats might be substituted for roast beef during periods of especially high costs or scarcity. "Special meals," served every other week· last year, might not include steak, or steak comparable in quality to the meat served last year. D'Aprix said, however, that he can prepare steakless special meals of unusual taste using other high quality foods. In an effort to improve economic efficiency _ and food quality, D 'Apri x plans to bake mor e goods on the college premises. The doughnut machines installed last year is part of this plan According to the contract, raw meats must be United States Depart m e n t o f Agr iculture inspected, choice grade; processed meats must be U.S.D.A. inspected only. The C o l l eges require U.S.D.A. inspected Grade A
Jane L. Poller, Kirkland's new Dean of Students
Poller Named,Dean; Openness Stressed By JON CRAMER J ane L. Poller, the new K i r k l a nd Dean of Students, d e sc ribed herself as "people oriented," and stated that her office will be as open and informal as possible. Succeeding Doris Friedensohn, who was a lively, provocative College Hill figure, Ms. Poller expressed the desire to be judged on her own merits, rather than in comparison with the former Dean. Ms. Poller is interested in initiating direct counseling of students. She also said that she might work in this regard in conjunction with Hamilton Dean of Students R. Gordon Bingham and Dr. Donald Muilenberg, H a m il to n-Kirk land Clinical Psychologist. She said the counseling · is important on academic and personal levels. She has considered self-awareness and consciousness raising groups in an effort to p r o m o t e communication and understanding. Ms. P oller has completed Masters work in Counseling in High�r Education; she also has an M.A. in English and Educational Psychology. The new dean has been an active participant in
N at i o nal Training Laboratory groups, as well as numerous workshops in women's awareness. She has participated in research projects dealing with women's self-effacing attitudes as well as consciousness raising situations involving females and males. The Dean of Students was . Assistant Director of Residence Life at the University of North Carolina b ef o re. coming to Kirkland. Her duties included t r a i n ing residence hall staff, p l a n ning small g r o u p and l e a d e r s hi p s e s s io ns, and co-ordinating activities with other Chapel Hill offices. Ms. Poller had been Dean of Students at SUNY at Oneonta, and then at North Carolina before assuming her last post. Ms. Poller said that freshmen orientation is going well. The program has been highlighted by seminars for women and about women. The meetings might play a role in the revival of a Women's Center at Kirkland. Ra t- her than inherit value judge1uents of others, the new Dean said that she would rather formulate her own. She has observed no "iron curtain" on College Hill Road in regard to reports of male and female chauvinism. She has no intention of enfering Hamilton-Kirkland life "with a sword." As a further expression of what she hopes to accomplish, Ms. Poller stated that her job is one that grows with the needs of the students. She said that she will be active within the community to be a part of that growth, rather than merely responding to it. THE MODERN TAILOR SHOP OF CLINTON INC. Quality Dry Cleaning, Tailoring and Shirt Laundry Service
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EVENTS
Munson-Williams-Proctor Adds New Courses tn Sclwol Of Arts
ORIENTATION EVENTS September 8 (Saturday) Dance: Beer and Band, 8:30 p.m., McEwen Stargazing, 10:00 p.m. Meet at McEwen Circle September 9 (Sunday) General Registration: 9:30-11:30 a.m., 3:00-6:00 p.m. Hamilton Convocation, 2:00 p.m. Chapel Kirkland Convocation, 2:00 p.m. McEwen Quadrangle
In addition, the School of Jo h ri M an ning, t h e A n e w te n-week, Art also provides art classes School's new dire ctor, will audio-visual le cture sen es, at Utica Colle ge including teach a class in acrylic p lus _classe s in acrylics, g e n e ral drawing, painting painting on W e dnesday en?-ID_e lmg on metal, and a principle�, history of art, afte rnoons and will also _ pam_.?n_g workshop_ hay _ e ����-survey of tine-arts.-- -- - ----- - - conduct-a- painting-workshop·· ---··· -- -------· --·-·--F·ILMS adaecI tliis year to the L u d w i g S t e i n , a n on Tuesday e ve nings. On Cam pus This Weekend offerings of the School of and Saturday Fields. .C. W starring Man "Th e conc e pt of a i n st ructor at Syracu se You Can't Cheat an Honest A rt a� U t i c a's University, will present the p a i n t i n g w o r k s h o p," Sunday at 9:00 p.m. Also the Roadrunner starring in !leep . MunsonWtlham s-Proctor Prepared and Lickety Splat with Wiley E. Coyote. Science . n e w l e ctur e s e ri es on Manning said, "is one that Instltute. Auditorium . . n e s d a y e v e n i n g s requires that the student use The Lady Vanishes,Saturday and Sunday at 9:00 p.m. Chemistry C a t a logues listing the W e d October 31 in the his own i nit iative and Auditorium complete schedul� of classe s, beginning e d for September 10 (Monday) i m a g i n a tion in his i nstr uctors, tim es, �d School of Art. D e sign · Wuthering _ Jfeights. 10:00 p.m. Ch�mistry Auditorium. Also the beginner, as well as the deve lopment. Basic- skills are t�tmn fees were �ailed ··· --T�esday. more expe rienced artist, the stressed that can be adapted August 31 and are available September 13 {Thursday) . cl as s wil l meet for two hours to e a c h s tu dent. The Casablanca. Bogart, Bergman and Lorre. 8:00 p.m. Science in the School of Art offices. each week from 7:30 to 9:30 function of the instructor is Auditorium. Also Friday and Saturday at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. Re g i s t r a t i o n b e g i n s p.m. o n e o f g u i d a nc e to Sunday at 10:00 only.. September 11 through 14. Two. English Girls'. 8:00 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Also Th e t en-week Lecture realization of the student's Classes- being offered at .Friday and Saturday, Sunday at 10:00. Series on Conte rnporary Art a r t i s t i c g o a l s , a n d the School of Art this year At Nearby Theaters will again be offe red during information about the Cannonball (853-5553): Sound of Music _(G) include: Tuesday morning, the second te rm at the n e c e s s a r y t e c h n iqu e s ·· ·Kallet (736-2313): Jesus Christ Superstar {G) pain ting, g r a phic arts, Jackal the of Schoo l of Art. Day (733-2730): pe rtine nt to achie ving those Paris _ . . _ s c u l p t u r e ; Tu e sd a y Stanley (724-4000): Raw Meat {R) and Cannibal Girls (R) goals. afte rnoon, painting, pottery; Uptown (732-0665 ): One Little Indian (G) and Lady and the Tu esday e v e ning , basic Tramp (G) / , 258 Cinema (732-54 61 ): Last Tango in Paris {X), Godspell (G) and drawing, painting workshop, A Touch of Class (GP) painting, pottery, graphic EXHIBITIONS arts, sculpture, metal 3-Fts; Opening Sunday, September 9 Works W e dne sday m o r n ing , Graphic Other and Beisbol Politics, Becomes Mahler Gr�phics by Ronald Kitaj, at Root Arts Center through October painting, enamel on metal; Graphics by Ronald K.itaj, work is part. of the permanent 14. We dnesday afte rnoon, wate r entitled Mahler Becomes Politics, c ollections of major galleries co lor painting, painting, Beisbol and Other Graphic Work," throughout the world and the m e t a l arts; w·e dn e sday will make up the first exhibit• of sites of his one-man shows have e v ening, classes · in basic the academic year at Hamilton included the Whitney Museum in College's Root Art Center. New York, the Cleveland Museum drawing, graphic arts, metal The exhibit opens Sunday and the Stedelijk Museum in• arts, figure painting, and (Sept. 9) - and continues through Amsterdam. fh e Hil l C omp any, a sculpture for high school October 14. The public is invited The Root Center exhibit was Clinton-based community theatre Registration for the Children's not only to the exhibit but also to organized by Professor Rand stud e nts;·Thursday morning, with members from surrounding Theatre Workshop will be held an opening reception to be held at , Carter, chairman of Hamilton's areas, which last year presented September 17-20 at the Kirkland drawing design and painting; t h e R o o t Art C e nter on Art Department, in cooperation to well-received productions of "Don Art Center from 3:00 p.m. Thursday afternoon, fi gure Wednesday, September 12. with the Marlborough Galleries, Juan in Hell," "Jaques Brei is 5:00 p.m. Registration can also be pain ting, ceramics·, metal K.itaj, one of the stars of the Alive and Well and Living in done by mail: registration forms arts; Thu r s day eve ning, contemporary pop art movement, New York City. , The work displayed includes two of K.itaj's Paris," "My Favorite Poets," and and information can be received is a native of Ohio but took his art portfoloios and a group of single a children's theatre is currently by calling Mrs. Begelman at p a i_n t ing, wat e r co lor painting, ceramics, metal training in England, at Oxford and prints dating from 1964 to 1972. d ev e loping a comprehensive 853-6503. at the Royal College of Art. 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performing arts for children ages 8 to 18. According to Mrs. Arlene Begelman, Director of the Hill Company, the group is trying to develop its role in the community and a wider participation in the arts for local residents. T h e C h i ldr en's T heatre Workshop which will open at the Kirkland Art Center on October 1 will offer professional training in a c t ing, d a n c e, mu sic a n d p uppetry, with the idea of e s t a b l i shing a p erma n ent children's theatre group. M r_s . B e g e l"m a n , dfrector/choTeographer, actress and dancer, formerly with the New York City Ballet, will teach modern dance, ballet and acting. Joseph Sofi of the ·Licorice Philosophers will teach· puppetry. Gretchen Stevenson, a student of Neva Pilgrim who most recently has performed with the .Licorice: Philosophers, will teach theatre . music. The workshop will operate for two twelve-week sessions. The fees have been adjusted, according to Mrs. Begelman, so students can afford to take a comprehensive · · program in all the performing arts. Rehearsals for a production of James Thurber's "Th irteen Clocks" will begin in April, after the end of the second session, so that class time will not be used for
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September 8, 1973/THE SPECTATOR/5
JOEL TIBBETS Chaplain
JANE POLLER Dean of Student Affairs
ANDREW W. WERTZ Director of the Bristol Campus Center
DR. JOHN PARKER Health Center physician
PEOPLE YOU DR. DON MUILENBERG Clinical Psychologist
PALMER FARGNOLI Registrar
SHOULD KNOW R. GORDON BINGHAM Dean of Students
BEATRICE LIEBERMAN Director of the Career
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6/THE .SPECTATOR/September 8, 1973
K'lalld Faculty Conducts Forum; New Ideas in Education Studied
great assistan ce to undergraduate peers. Each of these programs has i n s t i t u t i o ns intereste d i n r ec;eived enthusiastic response introducing alternatives to present f r o m f a c u l t y a nd s t u dent educational practices. Educators participants, Mr. Brock said. will be made aware of the T h e traditional system of methods and experiences of other grading, using letters or points, innovators as they attempt to has been eliminated in m any ·mprove the quality of education institutions. The Cornell group in their own institutions, he said. studied the differences between Mr. Brock admitted that the student performance in courses Center does not have all the with t h e traditional grading answers. However, he did suggest system, and two experimental guidelines useful for institutions m e t h o d s : t h e S / U o r attempting to experiment with s a t i s f a c t o r y /unsat isf actory educational innovations. method and the guaranteed pass The first step recommended by method. For the study, professors Mr. Brock involves a re-evaluation reco rded a numerical grade of the present educational system. regardless of which method the A n y g r o u p e stablis h ed to student chose. Students taking investigate alternatives must ask courses under the S/U option itself what an undergraduate received an average of nine points education should provide, what less than their fellow students Danielj. Lasker, new Kirkland Professor of Jewish Studies "meaningful change" entails, and taking the same course under the finally, what course of action traditional grading method while should be taken to meet these students taking a course under the goals. guaranteed pass system received a Mr. Brock said that it is grade which averaged 34 points essential to consider present less than the others.. No such educational methods which may c ompar ison was made with need o nl y minor c hanges. s t u d e nts enrolled in courses Modern secular study of Traditional educational methods receiving written evaluations. Courses in Jewish Studies will, be offered by the Kirkland Judaica began in the nineteenth should be eliminated only if they Mr. Brock s t ressed the Humanities Division this semester. century with the concep- have proven to be ineffective and i m p o r t a n c e of continual Daniel J. Lasker, B.A. and M.A., tualization of the science of irredeemable. evaluation of new and traditional Brandeis University, 1971, will history. In American colleges and Members of the Innovation -methods of learning, especially by teach Hebrew, Jewish history, and universities, Jewish study has Project at Cornell, Mr. Brock those who may be,nefit or lose by grown regularly since the 1920's. noted, agree that the most Jewish religion. the -system: the students. He F o rmation of the n ew Jewish Studies are taught, for important factor in undergraduate rec ommends frequent student satisfies student e x a m p l e , b y H a r v a r d ' s e d u c a t io n i s a favorable questionnaires sub-division to measure student request; for college offerings in D epartment of Near Eastern student-facult y ratio. Large acceptance of academic programs. Jewish Studies and reflects general Language and Literature, and the universities such as Cornell cannot The second faculty forum, academic interest in Judaica. A Department of Near Eastern and always provide the necessary and conducted by Professors Reisberg, course in Judaism, or Jewish Judaic Studies at Brandeis f r equent c o nt ac t b etween Rynum, and Urbach was entitled, religion, in particular, fills a void University. students and faculty. Concerned "M i x e d M e d i a i n t h e p r eviously standing in the Mr. Lasker noted the American educators must therefore devise Classroom-A Demonstration." Hamilton Religion Department. academic community recognition effective alternatives. This presentation gave the faculty Students must register this of Jewish studies as· a legitimate Mr. Brock discussed several the opportunity to see how a week if they intend to take academic pursuit. He disagreed n e w methods for providing one-hour class could be conducted courses in Jewish Studies. Since with notion that Jewish studies students with individual attention. using new technical methods. plans for th e d ep artment, are a fad, or that they will become He has found the success of recent Th e u s e of audi o-visual including the hiring of Instructor i nternalized by the Colleges' t e c h nol9g ic al developments equip m e nt w a s c o ns id e r ed Lasker, were not finalized until Jewish community. particularly encouraging. These especially useful for introductory the summer, pre-registration last Though his primary duties are t ec h nol ogical d e v elopme nts classes which are often too large academic, Mr. Lasker said he will include the use of audio-tutorial to p ermit mu c h individual spring was impossible. Students may choose between not be precluded from working equipment and computors, used attention. Introductory Hebrew, "History of with Jewish students as a personal in the context of "programmed The concluding forum, "The the Jewish People: Biblical Time or spiritual advisor. He said that learning." A student participating Ma nh attanville Story-A New to the Expulsion from Spain," while close faculty-student in this type of program studies Approach," examined the many and "Introduction to the Jewish relationships are an integral part independently at an individualized educational innovations tried at a Religion." of the small college experience, pace. The Cornell group has p a r t i c u l a r i n s t i t u t i o n , Lasker will continue teaching the role of religious advisor for i nv estigated other -innovations M a n hatta nville C_ollege in "History of the Jewish People" in Jewish students would be more i nc luding Independent Study, Purchase, N .Y. the spring. This course will cover beneficiallv filled by a rabbi. Work/Study, and instruction by One member of the Kirkland Jewish history from 1492 to the !!!!TO BE ARRANGED!!!! p r e sent. "Me d ieval Jewish The first meeting of courses Convocation on September 9. FREE CHURCH AND Philosophy" will also be offered whose hours have yet to be Philosophy 43 will meet at 7:30 CHURCH CHOIR second semester. In 1974-75, Lasker tentatively arranged will meet as follows: p.m. on September 10 in the The first service of the Free Brown Room of the Bristol intends to teach an introduction to Geology 21 will met at 4:30 p.m. Church of Clinton will be held on September 10 Campus Center. Physics 31 shall in Science 103. Rabbinic L iterature, Modern Sunday, September 9, at 11:15 J e w i sh H i s t or y , and an Geology 23 will also meet at 4:30 meet at 2:00 p.m. on September a.m. in the Hamilton Chapel. The on p.m. September in 10 in Science 11. Physics 35 will 10 Science i nt e r m ediate level course in speaker is_ Joel W. Tibbetts, Hebrew. At present,· Kirkland's 103. German 32 will meet in meet after Chapel on September College Chaplain; the topic, "The B n e d e i t c in s c ie c n . t e 9 O i l r f h t a e r 6 _ g plans include alternating each year . . • • • - • -------. G reat God Right." • • - • • • - -• 1111i• • •• - -• • • • • -• • - _ bet ween introdu c t o r y and .The F r e e Church Choir in tennediate level courses in WELCOME TO CLINTON performs weekly as a part of the Hebrew. Beginning courses in Free Church Services, Sunday at Hebrew will not be offered after 11:15 a.m. Persons who are this year until 1975-7 6. interested in joining the Choir Lasker expects that Jews will including Soft Ice Cream should contact Susan Endy, at Complete Menu comprise the majority of students 853-88 72, or attend the first enrolled in the Jewish Studies. He r e h e a r s a l t h is Thursd ay , expects that the greatest interest September 13, at 7:00 p.m. in the from non-Jews will be shown in Chapel. the Judaism courses. He hopes s t u dents will p u rs ue their . f ' curiosity of the Jewish religion as they have of Hinduism, Islam. Buddhism and Christian reli1i6ons. the world CLINTON SHOE.CENTER If interest warrants, a greater SPEciALIZING fN variety of courses in Jewish Open: Sunday -Thursday 11-11 WINTER BOOTS studies may be offered in the Friday-Saturday 11-midnight AND SHOE REPAIR future, allowing for a Come down and visit us853-5242 concentration in the discipline as We're just across the street from the Rock well.
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faculty was doubtful of the reason for the •apparent success of the innovations. She asked whether the students . were enthusiastic about ,these methods only because they were new and different. She also questioned how these innovative methods will fare if the student has been learning in this manner for 10-15 years. Whatever doubts may have been expressed by the faculty for specific i nnovations, it was apparent that the faculty forums provided several new ideas and insights into innovative education. President Babbitt expressed the hope that this program would become an annual affair. The funds for the program were provided by the William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund for Excellence in Teaching. This fund contributes the amount of $11,750 for each of three years, and has already provided for the "Teaching and Learning Conference" held last April. Money remaining from last week's program will be used to fund additional programs this year, although specific plans have not yet been made. Pro fessor Ch ampaigne of Manhattanvill e's Mathematics d e p a r t m e n t , o u t l i n ed Manhattanville's new approach to evaluation of student progress throughout his or her college career. Evaluation is determined by the student's "portfolio," which is examined at the end of the sophomore year and six months before graduation. Included in this portfolio are grades or written evaluations of all courses taken, examples of the student's best work, such as reports or photographs of original art work, a certification of the .completion of a major, evidence of work beyond the introductory level in two or more areas of study, and evidence of relating the major field to other areas. At the end of each academic year, the student meets with an advisor to evaluate progress made during the previous year.. The s t udent then writes a self-evaluation which becomes a p art of the portfolio. Only transcripts remain a permanent part of the record. P r o f e s s o r C h a m p a i g ne commented on the difficulties " encountered by the faculty in improving '1pon the traditional g r ad i n g system. Students at Manhattanville were not willing to jeopardize their chan ces of getting accepted into graduate schools by eliminating grades. Faculty and students finally. agreed upon a compromise system. Students still r e c e i v e l e t t e r g r ades automatically, but may request in addition a written evaluation. Both faculty and students appear satisfied with this new system. Memebers of the Kirkland faculty h ad questions and c r i t i c isms of some of the innovations discussed by the guest lecturers. Many of these were concerned with the applicability of the new technical methods to a college the size of Kirkland. If audio-v isual equ ipment or programmed learning is designed to supplement personal contact between students and faculty, would it tend to duplicate or eliminate an advantage already present at Kirkland?
September 8, 1973 /THE SPECT ATOR/7
��l!pag:[?culty Named; Deans Report on Pre-Grads( Two women and two men have A_nne W. Patenaude, replacing filling a newly created position, will later 20 on to independent study involving the new electron joined Kirkland's Arts faculty. George Nesbitt who retired last William Youngs who replaces Mr. microscope. C a rol Bellini-S h arp, P h.D., year. Gesheider in the Psychology Hamilton Science and Math C a r n e g i e-M ellon, 1971, will Javad K. Shirazi and Robert C. Department, and Robert J. King, will also add a new minicomputer become Associate Professor of Allen j oin t h e Eco nomics Acting Head Football Coach, · fall, a Cogar 4. This, in Theatre, and Katherine Saltonstall D epartment, replacing Sidney replacing Mr. Jones who is on liclition to the time sharing succeed s N a�m i Lazard as Wertimer, who is on leave, and leave first semester. 'lities already available, will be Instructor in Creative Writing. Stewart Butler. V a l e r i e M . W arrior was eful to students interested in Anthony Salatino joi.ns his wife Other faculty additions include appointed Associate Professor of working in an assembly language. on the Dance faculty ·and William Stephen E. Frantzich , Assistant Classics, replacing the retired Mr. John Mavro genis replaced Zalzillo, a M.F .A. candidate at the P r ofessor o f G o vernm ent, M a ttingly, but she has had Gilbert Grout as Assistant to the Rhode Island School of Design, r epl acing David Rosenbloom, �fficulty entering the United President at Hamilton, in a was appointed Assistant Professor Joseph V. Guillotte III, Assistant States from England. pri n c i p a l a d m i n i s t r a t iv e of the Visual Arts. Professor of Anthropology, T h e p r esident i a l s e arch The Social Science Division replacing David Price, Dougl as J. continues to look for a successor appointment. Jane L. Poller was appointed adds three new faculty members, Hermann, Assistant Professor of to President John W. Chandler, Kirkland Dean of Student Affairs, Nancy Blodgett, Visiting Assistant Psy chology, replacing Lorenz who left Hamilton to accept the rtplacing Doris Friedensohn, who ·Professor of Education, Lois Finison, Michael R. Steiner, presidency of Williams College. K r i esb erg, Visiting Associate Instructor in Biology, substituting The search also proceeds at resigned last year. New faculty members have P r o f e ssor of Sociology, and for Edwin Erickson, and Lee S. Kirkland College for a new Dean joined both Colleges, some J e f f r e y R o s s , Instructor in Spear, Assistant · Professor of of Faculty and an Assistant Dean additions indicating changes in Government. Mu sic and choir d ir ector, of Students. A d el e L a sl i e j o ins the· replacing James Fankhauser. curriculum. Ki r k l a nd convocation was Daniel J. Lasker was appointed . H u m a niti�s Division as an Hamilton faculty appointments preceded by a two and one half lnstructor in Judaic a and will Instructor in Philosophy. She is a also include Joseph S. Trovato, day Faculty Forum. The program teach religion, history, and Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins. Visiting Associate Professor of i ncluded discussions of data language in Jewish Studies, a new H am ilton College English Art, substituting for James compiled by the Center for discipl i n e in t h e Kirkland D e p artment added Annette Penney on leave, David R. Wright, · Improvement of Undergraduate Stoler, Assistant Professor, and Assistant Professor of Art History, Education at Cornell, and the Humanities Division.
IWASIN LOVE WI IN A GIRL NAMED CATHY. I KILLED HER.·
"It was last summer, and I was 18. Cathy was 18 too. It was the happiest summer of my Hfe. I had never been that happy before. I-haven't been that happy since. And I know I'll never be that happy again. It was warm and beautiful and so we bought a few bottles of wine and drove to the country to celebrate the night. We drank the wine and looked at the stars and held each other and laughed. It must have been the stars and the wine and the warm wind. Nobody else was on the road. The top was down, and we were singing and I didn't even see the tree until I hit it."_
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r e c e n t l y d e s i g n ed Hn ew , c urriculum , of Manhattanville College. Sessions were held on Kirkland's innovative curriculum, the role of advising in Kirkland's r e lat i v ely f r e e e ducational environment, and the use of the audio- v i s u a l equipment now owned by the College. Hamilton Dean of the College Stephen G. Kurtz will schedule an i nformal meeting on pre-law counselling for the end of this month. Kurtz reported that the p r e - l a w c o m m i t t e e did an excellent job last year. James Traer, the committee's chairman, had visited law schools and helped organize last year's Grad School Conference here. Traer's and Kurtz's efforts have apparently been fruitful. The f o rtune of Hamilton pre-law students exceeds those of other small colleges reporting at a recent conference at Trinity College. Dean Robin Kinne!, chairman of the pre-med committee and Associate Professor of Chemistry, reported that pre-med students did as · well as those from other colleges comparable to Hamilton, but that the overall outlook is not good. Last year 43,000 applicants made 322,000 applications for only 13,000 spaces. While there will be no increase in medical school space, applications are expected · to rise this year. As a result of federal cutbacks in f u n d i n g g r a d u a t e. sci e nc e programs, many students who had planned to enter science graduate schools will tum to medical schools. K i n n el w i l l c o n t i nu e c o u n s elling and will advise pre-medical students of their al tematives, including the option of attending foreign medical . schools. (Best Area Prices Can Be Had) at Weavers Wine and Liquor Store on the Square 8:30 A.M. - 9:00 P.M. Monday - Friday 8:30 A.M. - 9:30 P.M. Saturdays Free Delivery �53-8764
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the b r e a kfast anCl luncheon menus. Service Systems has raised prices at the Bristol Campus C e n t e r Sµ_a ck B a r , a f t e r submission o f the price increase to the administrations of the colleges for their approval. At present, Pub prices have not been changed. Pub price changes must be submitted to representatives of the Hamilton .College Student Club, Inc. for a p p r o v a� Board fees are dci�rmined anually by the separate Colleges after contract negotiations with Service Systems. They remain s t a b l e throughout the year. Hamilton students pay $730 per year, $30 above the 1972-72 rate. Kirkland students whose eating schedule is shorter, and whose tuition w as raised this year, pay $650 in board charges. D'Aprix noted signs of food price relief. He had little hope, however, that they will return to the levels that prevailed during the time of this year's contract negotiations.
8/THE SPECTATOR/September 8, 1973
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THE VOLUME IV, NUMBER
·sPECTATtl&y SEPTEMBER 14, 1973
HAMILTO� AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
Child Center Opens Plans Six Sessions
Senate Allocates
The Clint on Child Care Center
Club Funds
o pened o n M onday September 10,
1973, to care for children in b oth t h e c o lle g e an d t o w n communities.A pilot proj ect, the Center will be h oused temporarily in the faculty apartment of Major Donnit ory at Kirkland. The Center has sche duled six sessi ons p er week, each session to accomodate 12 children. Five morning sessi ons, in operation M onday-Friday from 8:30-12:00, will care f or children aged 1-4, while the Tuesday afterno on session, from 1-5, will handle childre n aged .3-6. The Center will remain o pen u n t il J u n e 1.3 e xcept for Thanksgiving vacation, N ovem ber 2 1 t hru 23, and Christmas v a c ation, De cember 21 tliru January 1.
The Hamilton Student S enate app ropriated $645 for the Student Admissions Committee in an hour-long mee ting dominated by fi scal requests Tuesday. J o hn E Hi ng e r , Assistant Direc tor of Admissions at Hamilton, presented the S tu d ent Admissions Comm ittee 's request, explaining that his experience the past two years made him most able to discuss the application with the Student Senate. Ef f i n g e r d esc ribed t h e Co mmittee's activities, which included plans for high school visitations by Hamilton students, Clinton Child Care Center and plans to host special visits by . . music students· and athletes, in addition to sponsoring visits by regular pre-freshmen. T h e S e nat e r e luct antly appropriated the $645 re quested e e aining after considerable discussion. The s c �:� he � �� ; :: esc Senate consensus was that the A registration b o oklet sent out College ad m inistration held to interested parents explains the princ ipal r e spo n sibility for competiti ors in the annual folk goals of the Center: BY VIJAY MURGAI fund ing admissions activities. ,Fall houseparties have been festival w ould have to be reduced. "We believe that in additi on Effinger apologized for the size of mo ved t o N ovember 3 and the The festival w ould then consist of to providing all the caretaking the request, but said that some Student Activities Co mmittee is only a few gr oups along with services of a good baby-sitter it contributions by the Senate c o n sid e ri ng subsidizing some worksh ops. · is the responsibility of a day should be made to the Committee fraternity parties t o open them t o c a r e · center to offer an T h e S A C i s p l anning yearly, since the committee is a indepe ndents, it was announ ce d entertainment for Homecoming educationally sound program. student organization chartered by this wee k. ''T h e a p p r o p r i a t e Weekend, alth o ugh Houseparties the Senate. educational objectives for any J\s p a r t o f a g e n e r a l have been rescheduled. Tentative The Senate voted unanimously r e e v aluati on o f entertainment plans include a beer and band, a p reschool program are to to charter the Hamilton-Kirkland offered by the SAC, a referendum concert, o r a dance . expose diildren to the widest Bowling League as a Senate will sh ortly be sent t o students possible variety of experien� drawn is SAC's en tire budget organization but tabled the listing names and prices of in order to stimulate their fr om so cial tax. This year the Leagues's applications for a $600 p o ssibl e b i g n a m e groups. curiosity, to challenge their budget is approximately $32,000, appropriation in other acti ons Programs such as the coffee house p h ysi c a l a n d i n t ellectual an incre ase of $1,200 over last taken Tuesday. abilities, and to e ncourage and the F olk Festival will be . year. Jack Seelin, representing the evaluated at this time. Bowling Le ague before the Fall housepartie s were changed Senat e, explained that the requested money would fully fro m Septembe r 29 to November defray the costs of twenty-four 3 by the Inter-fraternity Couricil people bowling in Bristol Campus d u e t o c o n f l i c t s w i t h Center once a week for twenty homecoming, medical boards, and BY DAVID SCHUTI writte1� a bes tselling book. Crime a Jewish holiday. November 3, it weeks. Chish olm, Ramsey in America. In th e last tw o years ey hirl S Senators were hesitant to was decided, was the only suitable Clark, and Les Whitten will be the he h as been a con tro versial critic allocate the sum, questioning th e date for houseparties. f e atured spe akers for this ye ar's o f U n i ted States p olicy in propriety of the Senate to pay all The SAC proposal of a subsidy Ind o-China. the b owlers' costs. Senators for houseparties to open them to Root-J essup Lecture Series. Representative Chisholm, tbe I n b r i n g i n g t h r e e such hinted that the joint college club independents will depend on woman ever elected t o pro minen t and prov ocative fi ures be funded in part by th e Kirkland fraternities interested, the type of first black g th e Congress and an outspoken to th e Hill, the Root-J e ssup Assembly. Seel in, at the time, had party, and the size of the proponent of social refor m, open s C o u ncil hopes to reestablish made no request for money to th e fraternity. th e season on October 1 in tbe widespread campus interest in the Assembly. Alu mni Gym. Mrs. Chisholm lecture series. Attendance at the Ge o r g e B ake r , S e n a t e In c a s e o f s c h edu ling recently completed he r secoDd lectures dropped considerably l�t President, suggested the money difficulties in coordinating the bi g Good Fight which r eq u e s t b e tabled upon concert will houseparty weekends, book, The waging her comparison with a request to be t h e co ncert might be held deals with the trials of e s id e ntial r P nd ed u f y l r o o p made by the Waterpolo Club later whatever time the group is mpaign in 1972. ca in the mee ting, and upon available . However, so me form of L e s W h i t ten, senio r resolution of the questions raised musical e nt e rt ainment shall estigative aide t o co lumni st inv by the Senate. d ef initely b e arrnaged for ers on, will lecture on Re p r e s e ntativ e s of th e houseparties, the SAC said. The Jack And er I. Mr. Whitten is well Novemb Waterpolo Club, however, did not referendum to be sent to students known on Capitol Hill for delving will include the cost of groups into the corruption am ong public Continued on page 7 that might be brought to the Hill. o f f i c i als. H e i s a l s o an The SAC ballot will be · sent to acc o m p lish e d w o rld affairs INSIDE THIS ISSUE: stud en ts to give them an ide a of journalist. Wallace Fire Update, the effect of various options. For F o r m e r A tt om ey General "Extremely Suspicious" exa mple, a "big name " group Ramse y Clark will be the final "From The Sanctuary" would limit the McEwen Coffee speaker of series on February 26. House , which features folk music Mr. Clark spe arheaded many o f Leroy Porter with a and Bluegrass, to one concert th e civil rights. gains made under new column Representative Shirley Chisolm eve ry oth er week. The number of President Johnson and h as also
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Root-Jessup Re"i"es Chisholm Speaks In-
self-expression." The Program Director · of th e Cent er, Phyllis Larrabee , is th e p e r s o n r e sp o nsible for the children while the Center i� in s e ssio n. She is provis1omJly certifie d to te ach Nurse ry and Elementary Education and has a d ditional q u alifications in H o m e m a k ing and Sp e cial Educ ation. Her most recent experie nce with children has been with the Association for Retarded Children in Eaton, N.Y. The Clinton Child Care Center has recently recruite d volunteers to assist :he Program Director. State law ::quires that Child Care, C e n t e rs b e starte d with a rmrumum of one adult for every 10 children. Since there will be 12 children attending most of the se ssions,· at le ast one volunteer will be needed for each session. Ms. Larrabee hopes to have two volunteers assisting h er with the younge r childre n in the morning sessions, although she expects to u s e o nly one volunteer on Tuesday afternoons. V oluntee rs have been drawn fr om b o th the town and college c o m munitie s. Sandra D e M y e r-Gap i n a n d Ging e r Tib b etts will coordinate the volunteer pr o gram. Workshops to train volunte ers are being establishe d by the C.Cnte r's Bo ard_ o f Dirctors. The Pr ogram Dire�t or, and o the r members of th� com mu nity who have experience in are as of child care will direct these w ork sh ops. In co mbination with these w orksho ps the. Ce nter will provide. _ Continued on page· 7
Lectures Weeks
due, apparently, to the scope of the speake rs' appe al and their lack of notoriety. Each student will be charge d $2.00 admission for e ach lecture (non-students $3.00). However, studen ts are encouraged to buy a subscription for all three lecture s w h i c h c o s t s o n ly $ 3.50 {non-students $5.00). C o uncil p residtnt John Donahu e said that if the lecture :eries is a financial success the :::ouncil plans to sponsor other :1.ctivities such as the Model U.N. Program. This is a national program which allows selected ,tudents to act as delegates im a mock United Nations meeting in New York. Additional speakers or films will also be considered. D o nahue said that this will be a crucial ye ar for Root-J essup. The success or failure of this ye ar's program will strongly influence the quality of future S eries. He also asked the aid of any students who might be interested in working with the Council this year. ye ar
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2/THE SPECTATOR/September 14, 1973
EDITORIALS Consideration
Only a few people are necessary to make things unpleasant for many others. Lack of consideration for people and property has, unfortunately become an accepted situation on this campus. Litter is strewn about the grounds and in college buildings. Stereos blare out of windows during the day when many students are studying, and often remain blaring late at night. Theft of college property . is increasing: the Independent lounge in Bundy was stripped of its furniture, while Kirkland dormitories still suffer mysterious disappearances of couch pillows, lights and other removable items. Many staff employees have complained of lack of consideration on the part of impatient students, wh� sometimes forget that 'these workers are doing them a service. It does not take much effort to make this small community a better place in which to live. Maybe the stereo should be turned down a little after midnight. Maybe the piece of trash should be held until one of the many garbage receptacles on campus becomes accessible. Maybe college furniture should be left in public rooms for everyone to enjoy. Consideration cannot be legislated, but it must be practiced to a greater extent than it is now on this campus.
From the Sanctuary
The Elitist-Defeatist Mentality BY LEROY PORTER There is a newly named but ancient disease inflicting Simpleton and Irkland Colleges. The latest prognosis of this debility indicates an emotional basis for this ailment, tied in with Ieng term paranoid fantasies which are usually ' about people wanting to be with people who look like one another; however the most severe malady associated with this disease is abrupt and contrived delusions of grandeur.This newly named disorder appears in diagnosis as the "elitist-defeatist mentality". To give one a flavor for the symptoms of such an ill here are · some related diseases: racism, discrimination, genocide, and acculturation...which all fall under the cancer of social ills... oppression. The elitist-defeatist mentality is described as a set of. attitudes which allows individuals' to believe they are better than other individuals due to their economic status, social position, and acquired language .. . hence we have the elitist portion. The defeatist aspect of those inflicted can be described as those set of actions that go in exact contradiction to the set of attitudes held. It is this conflict which becomes· problematic to the afflicted personage. When the person can no longer justify these attitudes, he acts out contradictions. This all becomes defeatist to the individual because now he is sick. It is defeatist to those who come in contact with such people because besides being a h i g h l y c on t a g i o u s pestilence, it is unfortunately incurable. The world is ready to acknowledge that there have always been demented folk and societies have always prescribed roles for these
Comment
individuals.In the case of such a community as the Hill, it is evident that ongoing prescription of roles (used as outlets for the deranged) have not been evaluafed meaningfully enough.There are far too many retarded liberals, and literally gross amounts of catatonic conservatives whose basic neurosis lie in their elitist-defeatist ·mentality. Simple case studies reveal professors who do not give A's to students who deserve them. They tend to explain their behavior with statements like "I've never given a student an A", which turns out to be at least a lie.It is an outrage that any student be allowed to be exposed to such "idiocracy." ., Some of the more irking situations arise when one has to confront the metaphorically crazed individual in academic arenas to justify one's academic integrity in matters such as independent study involving subject matter that is debatable whether or not this topic has a place in liberal arts education. The Hamilton-Kirkland College community does not have time for feelings of hopelessness and despair for the plague is upon- us. Those who suffer from thi_s disease will forever try to figure out how their mental state got to be a disease and will forever misunderstand. People in the community who still feel a need to be concerned about their sick should do so at a distance. T h e more e f f e c t iv e procedures for combating this malady are yearly innoculations of separatism, refraining from eating service system's food, listening to jazz whenever you can, and faithful visits to the Root Glen..
Gerry Payne is on vacation.
The Adler Papers
BY ROGER SCHNEIDER Library. The Conference a l I o w a n c e f o r r e c omme nds t h at: the and STEVE TEPPER entertainment of faculty College Bookstore should be Having learned from an members. moved to the Old Library; u nimpeachable source that a 2. Students who have been the Pub to the Bookstore; fraudulent report of the 1973 c losed out of a t h e K irn e r -J o h n s o n Adi er Conference was being · l i m i t e d e n r o l l m ent Auditorium to the Pub; the circulated, the authors felt a c o u r s e s h o u ld be E d u c a ti o n D e p a r t m e nt strong responsibility to bring out encouraged not to take O f f i c e s t o t h e K J. the truth. The following is the no for an answer. A ud i t orium; the Burke o nly true and unexpurgated B. F r a t e r nity -Indep e ndent Library to the Education accout of the preceedings of this Relations Department Offices. The year's Adler Conference: I n t h e b e l i e f t h at Burke Library, which would I. ATHLETICS a m al g amat ing Hamilton now be a vacant eye-sore, A.The Conference voted in men into large fraternities should be tom . down and favor of physical fitness. stifles individuality, each site used for a badly-needed B. The Conference found that Hall of Philosophy. incoming freshman shall be a true carry-over sport must B. To uphold our im age as an a s s i g n e d a u n i qu e trmscend middle-age. The innovative, foward-looking combination of three Greek P h y sic al Education institution, it was decided let t e r s, a nd shall be Department should offer responsible for sponsoring · that the President's Chevy shuf fle -b oard, checkers, his own House parties, should be replaced by a bocci, oragami, horticulture, "Frankly, this is getting a bit ridiculous." which must remain closed Mazda. One conferee stated s el f -c at h e t er iz i ng , a nd to m e m b e r s of d i f fering that his·brother-fo-law could speed-racking. fraternities. get a good deal which would C.A g a i n s t v o c i f e r o u s include deluxe wheel covers. C. C o l l e g e Community and objections from the Athletic C. Security guards should have Clinton Department, the Conference NUMBER TWO VOLUME FOUR a mandatory retirement age u: ·- was pointed out that v o t e d a g a i n st the of 85, though the minimum 'many of Clinton's barber construction of a fieldhouse age may remain at 65. Managing Editor shops are in dire financial Editor-in-Chief i n favor of a more D. Turning to the 'Statement s t r a i t s. S t u d e n t s are Henry Glick multi-purpose facility. This Frederic Bloch o f Goals for Hamilton e nc ou r a ged to support, facility would include such News Editor Arts Editor, News Editor C o l l e g e ,' the Conferees financially and spiritually, v e r s a t l e f e a t u r e s as: Jon Cramer Pamela Thompson Mitchel Ostrer became mired in the first s u c h e n t r e p r e ne u r ial manhole covers which line. It was unanimously Photography Editor i ma gi na t i o n a s,,-Fra nk Sports £ditor Associate Editor would double as second decided that the committee Martello's (of the College C.James Carr David Cantor Robert Keren base and Safety; a flight of members' salaries should be Barber Shop) participation stairs for stoopball and The Publications Board publishes "The Spectator," a newspaper edited by withheld until such time as in a long-hair cutting course, diminoes; and a hydrant·. In students, 26 times during the academic year. Subscriptions: $7 .00 per year. t h e y c a n p r o v i d e an despite the objections of his Address: Box 83, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 13323. Letters to the addition, the phys. ed. adequ a t e d e f inition of editor must be signed, but names will be withheld upon request. brother Rocco. department must provide 'moral sympathy.' Pennsey Pinkies, although Ill. COORDINATION E. The Conference applauds A.Dunham Dormitory should they may demand 25 cent For Convenience and Safety optimism. be made coed by bunks. chips on the ball. Keep your checking account V. THE CONFERENCE ITSELF B. N e w c o n c e n t r a t io ns, D.Since Kirkland's facilities at The conferees noted that the i nv olving offerings from have · been found to be l e n g t h o f t im e o f the botff· schools, should be inadequate,· the Colleges conference and the limited introduced. For example, must begin construction of facilities of the l-Iigby Club S o c i o l o g i c a l S p e ec h, facilities for hopscotch and w er e inadequate for the B i o -Ceramics,• Eco-Dance, potsy, with accompanying demands and responsibilities of and Studio History. lockerrooms a nd gang the Conference. A committee Banking Hours: 9:00 a.m.to 3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. IV. GOALS OF THE COLLEGE showers. was appointed to approach plus 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Thursday and Friday A. T h e inadequate use of II.SENSE OF COMMUNITY Jenp.ie Grossinger about the existing facilities was noted, A.Student-J:aculty Relations a charter New York Bank feasibility of leasing the entire Member F.D.I.C. with particular reference to 1. St udent s should be Catskill resort for 8 weeks. t h e now- vaca nt James provided with a 50 dollar
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WATSON FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS
Seniors are reminded that the Thos. J. Watson Fellowship Program for 1973-74 is now open. Deadline for applications is October 13. Watson Liason According to Prof. Richardson Officer, the Program is designed to enable college graduates 6f unusual promise to engage in an initial postgraduate year of independent study and travel abroad. The grants are for $7,000. A focused, disciplined year to explore a particular interest, test aspirations and abilities, see American society in perspective - all develop a more informed sense of international concern. Qualities such as integrity, creativity, capacity for leadership and potential for effective participation in the world community are used as selection criteria. Interested Seniors must see Professor Richardson as soon �s possible.
CAMPUS FUND DRIVE
The Campus Fund Drive will begin soliciting donations this Monday, September 17. Anyone interested in learning more about the Drive and the programs it supports should contact either Julie Bloss (ext. 7573) or Bob Porter (ext. 7327).
TRIVIA QUEST
People are needed to run the trivia contest. Anyone interested should contact Mike Kaplan (formerly of the Plagues) at 304 North.
AUDITIONS FOR MEASURE F-OR MEASURE
Auditions
for the
production of Shakespeare's
Measure for Measure will be held on Monday, September
17, at 8:00 p.m. in the Fisher Room. on the third floor of the Bristol Campus Center. This is to be a staged reading-in costume and with movement, but performed book in hand. It is scheduled for October 12, 13, and 14, coinciding wlth the study of the play in English 11 and with Parents' Weekend. Freshmen are especially urged to try out. The women's roles· were cast in the spring-. The technical crew required include stage manager, persons for minimal work in lighting, set assembly, and sound, and persons for more extensive help in dyeing, sewing, and fitting costumes under experienced supervisor.
WORK/STUDY - FIELD/STUDY
A forum on Work/Study opportunities in Utica will be held Wednesday, _September 18th in the Red Pit at 8 p.m. The meeting will feature the director of the United People of Comhill, a representative of Utica Community Action, Kirkland students in residence at Cornhill last spring and other field study references_.
GROUP METAL CONSTRUCTION
Welders, painters, costumers, and technicians are needed for the upcoming theatre production of Genet's "The Maids." For information contact Wm. Whitman, 232 Bundy East. WOMEN'S CENTER The Women's Center is sponsoring an Open House this Sunday, September 16, from �:UO to 5:30 at the center lounge of Milbank Dormitory. We welcome students, administration, staff, faculty, faculty spouses, and friends to visit the Center, look around and express ideas concerning the paths the Women's Center should take this year. Refreshments are planned.
FULBRIGHT PROGRAMS
The 1974-75 competition for grants for graduate study abroad will close shortly. Full grants provide for round-trip transportation, tuition and maintainence to 33 countries. Candidates must be U.S. citizens, have · necess ary language abilities. Seniors in the top quarter of the class should see Prof. Richardson, if interested, very soon. Deadline for filing applications is Ocotber 13.
FREE CHURCH SERVICE
The topic for this week's Free Church Service is "Different Kinds of Men." The speaker is Joel Tibbetts ' College Chaplain. _Chapel, 11: 15 a.m. Sunday.
Foreign. Med. Schools Revealed Flemish school you need not take the fo the community: entrance exam, but rather you are I hope that this letter, in addition to definitively accepted). I arrived in Belgium being a long due account of my adventures too late to apply to the Flemish schools in Europe, will serve to help in your m entioned above. There is another advising this year's Premedical class. Quite F l e m i s h Faculty in Antwerp. Few frankly, after this past year, I cannot help foreigners know of it and it is possible to but be rather pessimistic for them. They begin in the second year if your science not only face the nearly insurmountable grades are B's or higher. (I await a decision problems in the States, but Eurpe is no on my application here - the application joke either. No longer can students deadline was June 30). Part of the confidently believe that if worse comes to difficulty in gaining a seat in Belgium is worse I can always study in Europe. Jim that there is a Government law (passed and I being two excellent cases at hand (in one year ago) \hat only 5% of all students addition to the 100 or so other Americans in medicine can be from "Develope� here in Perugia), will gladly testify to the nations", i.e. Western Europe, U.S., equa lly insurmountable problems of Australia, ,etc. Of this 5%, about 1/2 are finding a seat in a European University. Americans .. The language is usually no And sadly enough, much as in the States problem · for if accepted to a Flemish things will not get better, but rather, each school, a special course is given for year it becomes increasingly difficult for foreigners. But the French schools all Americans to find places to study in require an entrance exam which is given in Europe. French and which can even have oral One rule which is applicable to all sections. (Yet a high school knowledge of situations is that one's credentials must be French is usually sufficient to begin with.) submitted early. Any students applying to Studies in Switzerland, England and study in Belgium, Italy, Philippines, even Ireland are presently virtually impossible. Mexico should try to submit the necessary There is no reciprocity by the U.S. and papers during January, February, or t h e s e c ou n t r i e s h av e laws either March. When I arrived in Belgium I found prohibiting Americans or so severely out that the application deadline for most limiting them that literally 4 or 5 students of the schools was June 1. In Brussels and only are accepted. Liege my credentials were flatly refused. If the system in Belgium seems In Louvain, my presence in Belgium and complicated, hold onto your seat for the knowing "who to see" paid off. Even situation in Italy is more disorganized and though the deadline had passed, with Jan presently plagued by various rumors. I Levinson's help, I was able to work my have elected to study in Italy because it w ay thr o u gh the administrative seems the most certain of all of my bureaucracy. A visit with the Secretary alternatives. I am presently studying (Dean) of the Medical Faculty finally Italian at the university for strangers in resulted in the acceptance of my papers Perugia. All applications to Italian medical for consideration. The facts that I was in schools should he directed to the N.Y. Louvain, that I spoke some French, and consulate: Consulate General of Italy 690 that I had been obnoxiously persistent Park Avenue New York, New York 10021 were responsible for my being accepted to This year a new avf!nue into Italian take the entrance exam in September. The . medical schools was establishea: the evaluation of candidates is largely based I t a l o-AJI1e r i c a n M e d i c al Education on MCAT's and it is very competitive. This . Foundation. This organization was set up year over 1000 people applied to take the with the backing of the Italian consulate entrance exam at Louvain and only 100 or and the AMA: it is a racket!! For $3500 so are going to take it. Of these 100, no . you are accepted to medical school, taken more than 20-25 will eventually be to Italy to study the language and accepted. (Last year 70 Americans took suppos�dly assisted in transferring back the exam, 14 were accepted to the first and taking the ECFMB's. .About. 100 year class and 6 others who weren't students used this method this year. accepted refused to leave, and a month Another 100 are in Perugia and another later were let in. Thus 20 of 70 eventually 100 in the States studying Italian. To were enrolled). The medical education in r e s t r i c t admissions , the consulate Belgium lasts seven years and is conducted instituted" a new requirement: one has to in French or Flemish. In Louvain, Liege, show proof of having studied Italian. and Brussels the universities are divided There are three ways to do it: 1) take 8 into two separate faculties: French and credits of intermediate Italian in a U.S. Flemish. The Flemish schools get fewer u ni v e r si t y ; 2) p a r t i c ipate in the applicants and, therefore, are easier to get Halo-American Program;· or 3) come to into, but, in many respects, the education Perguia and obtain a diploma from the you get in a Flemish school is better. medio (intermediate) course in Italian. There is more teaching in English and Very few pre-meds study Italian while in often the professors are more sympathetic c ol lege so method 1) is generally to Americans. (Once accepted to a impossible. Method 2) is the · easiest and,
therefore, the most expensive. The only benefits 'in the program, no matter what the public relations brochure says) are that for $3500 you are led by the hand to Italy and medical school. The third method sounds simple but those of us in Perugia have tasted our share of trouble. The university here is excellent and prides itself on successfully and excellently teaching Italian. A preparatory course here is literally equivalent to 4 semesters of college Italian (yet takes only 3 months). Classes are intense and conducted in Italian from the first day. After one month here, I speak as much Italian as French (more Italian actually) which I studied for 4 years in high school and one semester at Hamilton. The first problem here was that without a sound basis in Italian (at least a year in the States, preferably two years) the medio course was far too advanced to take. After a lorig series of phone calls and many conflicting reports, we learned that the consulate demanded the medio diploma - even though the Minister of Education in Rome would have been satisfied with a preparatory diploma. The 100 Americans here were in a precarious situation: We could not successfully persue the media course, yet it was definitely required for admissions. With persistence and an infinite amount of help from the University in Perugia, a special medio course was set up for the American medical students. It is difficult and we have had 32 hours of classes a week (at times 8 hours a day). Now our hours have been cut to 26 a week, and the stay in Perguia is anything but a vacation. In addition, we must pass a series of exams after the course in order to get the diploma. Judging by the slow progress many Americans have made, I would predict that 25-50% of them may fail the exams the first time around (they can repeat them one month later). The language has been coming rapidly to Jim and me. I ta l y is plagued with foreigners c l a m o r i n g t o study in its universities.Perugia, for example, has 3000 Arabs alone studying in various faculties. The Greeks, Persians, Americans and Israelis account for most of the other forei gners. To counter the swarms oi foreign ers, the Italian government is limiting the numbers with language requirements or actual requirements as to averages from the last place of study. For Americans, the situation has mot been o f ficail y r e s tricted by the Italian government. Instead the consulate and AMA have been making it harder to enter the Italian system. Both groups · are pushing the Halo-American thing, making the situation very unfair. The officials in Bologna have told several Americans here
that the government has passed "newer" restrictions on foreigners and that unless an American has a 3.00 science cum., he will be denied admissions to any university. A representative group of Americans went to Rome this weekend to see the Minister of Education about this rule for about 50% of the people here (including Jim) would be affected by this. I suspect that even if this ruling is true, the Americans here will be abll:! to enroll if they pass the language exam for we all have official letters of acceptance from the consulate. Next year, this new 3.00 rule will certainly be applied. Yet to make matters worse, my parents have written that next year Italy's universities may close down to foreigners. Such a move is not untypical, for it is happening in many European nations (Switzerland this year). I hope I have made myself clear in this drawn out letter. The problems I have enc'ountered have been many and I feel I have been lucky in many ways. I do have several realistic suggestions to make about what to advise students who m�y elect to study in Europe. First and second semester senior grades are used in deciding u p o n a d m i s s ions. Though ear l y applications are essential, they will not be ruled on until the summer after degrees are issued. So final transcripts must be sent to all schools (or consulates) applied to. The next suggestion, though it seems unrealistic and unconservative, is more an essential than a suggestion. If a student thinks Italy a· possibility, I advise studying Italian at Kirkland for the year. This way, after two more summer courses, the consulate language requirement is fulfilled. The special course I am receiving in Perugia may not be offered next year and the university and �onsulate may demand only the regular medio course - an impossible feat if Italian is not already known. Also, if the students can afford it, Mexico does offer a "decent" medic.al program - at $6000 a year. The Philippines o f f e r s English i n s t r uction, yet I understand it is also expensive. In addition, excellent schools with English instruction can be found in India. There classes begin in June and it might be wise to get some information on this early in the year. Several Other Notes on Study in Italy 1) It is six years with a 7th year internship (the 7th year should be unnecessary for Americans). 2) Rome's university gives convalidation - placement for 3 or 4 of the first year courses. Thus stucij.es should be 5 years if the last year of internship is avoided. (It is for this reason I have chosen Rome) 3) Tuition is minimal ($150 a year) and_ living expenses are much lower than the� U.S. Steve Weisman '73
4/THE SPECTATOR/September 14, 1973
'74 Yearbook Turns Toward Expression of Individuality Pomeranz stressed his hopes BY KATHY LIVINGSTON "The students of Hamilton that the '74 yearbook will give College and possibly Kirkland people who are involved with its College have been given a grant in production a chance for practical ,,.o r der to create a book, a experience. "A yearbook is a yearbook, an expression and means through which students can representation of life at this try out what they've learned time". stated Vin Pomeranz, through writing, photography, or editor of the Hamilton yearbook, d r a w ing. Work ing o n t h e '7 3-'74. yearbook will b e a practical In the past many schools have application of our education. published yearbooks which have Instead of handing in a· paper been more often than not, dull or which will be forgotten, a writer c om m onplace. The yearbook will work for an end product plans for the coming year will which will have future substance. move in a different · direction, We will use what we've learned, toward the expression of the real and learn more from the practical l i f e a s p e c t s o f t h e experience." At this point it has not yet H amilton-Kirkland Community. According to Pomeranz, the been dec ided whether the yearbook for '74 will be of yearbook will be a Jomt-campus "documentary journal", or a one. However, Pomeranz feels stream of consciousness effect. It that it would be unfortunate to will include photos, sketches, and s ep a r a t e t h e Hamilton and writings concerning life at school. Kirkland y e a r b ook, as the � does not include posed group . c ampu ses compose one life photos of a -static nature. Instead experience and are integral parts the Hamilton-Kirkland choir has it will po�ay groups in action, of each other. Kirkland women finally begun to emerge as a single representative of motion and live on the Hamilton campus and unit. Mr. Spear said th.at he hopes reality.
vice versa. Students attend meals and classes at either campus, and attend social functions together. Pomeranz stated that it would be impractical and difficult to separate the two campuses in a yearbook and would detract from the plan to make the yearbook a true picture of life on the hill.
The yearbook will deal with two aspects of life at Hamilton and Kirkland. First, everyday life including classes, dorms, parties, and dining. The other aspect will consist of special events such as lectures, concerts, festivals, plays, anq. art exhibits. Both parts make up life at school and each are equally important. The book will have a consistant format which will deal with these topics. It will represent students and hopefully will create a feeling of- a time, a place, and people. The only way to accomplish this aim is to give an honest sampling. For example, the yearbook may cover such The Hamilton-Kirkland choir things as people's rooms. Some will resume its musical activities rooms, Pomeranz commented, are under the direction of a new filled with ·objects, posters, art c o n du c t o r . Mr. Lee Spear, work, etc. Others contain a bed formerly the director at Edgecliffe and a desk. People are expressed College, has been appointed to t h r ough their rooms and a replace Mr. James Fankhauser, yearbook shoud symbolize these who is now at the University of expressions. A quote from a wall, Vancouver. a day's writing in a journal, or a picture of a situation will describe Mr. Spear, a graduate of not only the facts, but the Oberlin College, is now in the feelings, the personality of the f inal stages o'f his doctoral event or person. The goal will be dissertation . He will receive his to produce a yearbook that gives ctegree from the University of one a sense of familiarity, a sense CincinatL In addition to his work of being there, and at the same with the Edgecliffe College Choir, time one that will open new ways Mr. Spear has conducted the of perceiving a situation. The :Cincinati. Symphony Chorus and yearbook will not stage a year and May Festival the -Cincinafi photograph it, it will capture the Chorus. year and express it. In his first year with the · The editor also stressed the H a m i lton-Kirkland choir, Mr. to furthur the unification of the fact that the yearbook will offer a Spear plans to continue the choir and he believes that, 'the chance for people to do what they concert schedule of the past. The portent for a mixed choir is very want. A photographer will take a Hamilton-Kirkland choir will also good.' A mixed choir is more picture which he feels represents perform a number of concerts flexible than either a men's or and explains a particular event or throughout the Utica area as well · women's choir because the huJk situation. The writer who is asked as the usual fall and winter of the available music is written to give an accompanying paragraph renowned Civilisation,' the ' undergraduates. Approximately concerts on the Hill. Of these off for a full range of voices (soprano, will not b'e asked to describe the color film series on the cultural 400 institutions can participate in campus concerts, one will be alto, tenor, and bass). expression of the photographer. Mr. Spear is quite pleased with life of Western Man, written and the program each year, with an Instead he will be asked to state performed at the Munson Williams 3,0 00,0 00 annual the circumstances as he views Proctor Institute. This concert the quality of the voices he has narrated by art historian Kenneth estimated will be done in conjunction with h e a r d . A f t er a u d it io n i ng Clark, will be shown in the audience. · them as a writer. His observations Each college will receive the · the K i rkland College Dance prospective freshmen candidates Science Auditorium beginning may be ve·ry different from those department. Finally, Mr. Spear and returning old members, Mr. September 19 at 8:3 0 p.m. A films in sequence, one a week. of the photographer. The artist has scheduled a nine day spring· Spear commented that he was second showing for the Clinton There will be two showings of will submit a sketch that may be will held each, both without charge - one tour beginning on March 15 and 'particularly pleased at the ability community capture an even different aspect September 20 at the Kirkland Art for the college and one for the that has been shown by some of lasting until March 24. The tour of the event. In each case local community. will include concerts in Rochester, the freshmen.' AlthougJi there are Center. individual interpretations will be This distribution program has "The distribution program has p r e sent, o ffer ing d i f f e rent i n herent d ifficulties in this L o n d o n, O n t a r io, D e t r o i t, made by n matching possible been designed," said J. Carter country with extremes in men's bee Pittsburgh, an Cooperstown. d es c r ip t io n s o f t h e same v oices, the H amilton-Kirkland / grants totaling $181,056 from the Brown Director of the National experiences. In addition to th� eighty-five c ho i r i s diverse enough to National Endowment for the �allery, "to make it possible for Needless to say, all are invited member Hamilton-Kirkland choir, overcome this problem, Mr. Spear Humani�es and from Xerox audiences all over the country to and encouraged to participate in Mr. Spear has begun a second said. Mr. Spear expressed his Corpo�at101;1. Normal rental fee see the "Civilisation" films on the the yearbook production because smaller choir. The 'College Hill pleasure in being able to work for this senes would be $2,000 to large screen and with the fidelity it is ours and our responsibility. $3,000, and purchase price would of their original film form. In People who are interested in Singers' �l consist of a select w i t h t h e 'm o r e i ntelligent be 7,000 a set. $ addition, it will offer institutions .contributing should contact d Wh studenC. He said, en ealing ' .· group of singers from the larger Vin Unde� the program, .w�ch a means of strengthening relations Pomeranz, Jim Waters or Robby choir. Hopefully, this second with the more intelligent student began this fall, the films are bemg with their local communities by Keren. choir will add to the variety of body, it is easier to find more dis colleges and sponsoring the second showing for �"'h�t�d .to capable singers.' Because music as Pomeranz explained that the music performed at the college. a performing art involves a great umvers1tles with fewer than 2,000 the general public. College aim of the yearbook will be to The Hill Singers' first performance presidents .. rather than art, history deal o f t h o ught, intelligent "Take the philosophy of what a has been scheduled for the fall continued on page five usually prove. to be more students yearbook should be, 'a book that concert on November 18. CASABLANCA represents the year', and enlist the After three years of struggle, capable. In his famous- role, Humphrey Bogart portrays Rick, owner of the talents of students in order to Casablanca cafe during World War II. One night, the girl he loved in express this philosophy in a STUDENT LOAN COLLECTION Paris, Ilsa(Ingrid Bergman), arrives with her husband (Paul Henried), creative work." The final decision The Student Loan Collection of paintings and prints - now on a fugitive Czech. patriot who is being followed by the Nazis. The c o n c e r n i n g y e a r b o ok exhibit in the B_riston Campus Center - will be available for Vichy officials offer only brief refuge, and Rick holds the only two contributions will be made by the distribution to students on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 18 passports which will guarantee escape. However, he still loves Ilsa; yearbook committee, but the and 19 from 3 to 5 p:m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. The hours scheduled . whenever Sam, the pianist (Dooley Wilson), sits in the dark and decision will be made on terms of for. Wednesday, September 19 are for the convenience of interested performs "As Time Goes By," Rick is overcome by the old feeling. "not the rriost highly polished faculty and students. This is a collection of art works and Casablanca won the Oscar as Best Picture; the director, Michael contributions, but those that are repi:oductions which have been accumulated over the past years and Curtiz (Captain Blood, Yankee Doodle Dandy) and the screenwriters your own, what you really feel, is offered for loan at a modest rental. also received Oscars. and that is polish enough."
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FILMS On Campus This Weekend Two English Girls, Truffaut's latest. Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. Sunday at 10:00 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Friday and Saturday at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. Sunday at 10:00 p.m. only. Science Auditorium. September 17 and 18 (Monday and Tuesday) Women's Center Film Series, Program Number 1, The Women,by Clair e Bo o th Luce, and Personality Plus 8:00 p.m.:· Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Passport to Pimlico 10:00 p-.m. Chemistry Auditorium. September 19 (Wednesday) The Frozen World. 8:30 p.m. The Civilization Series presents Chemistry Auditorium. September 20 (Thursday) The Confor mist. 8:00 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Ruggles of Red Gap and Camille 8:00 p.m. Chemistry Auditorium. t Nearby Theaters Cannonball (853-5553) The Harrad Experiment (R) Kallett (736-2313) Jesus Christ Superstar (G) Paris (733-2730) Day of the Jackal Stanley (724-4000) Slaughter's Big Rip-Off(R) and Tower of Evil (R) Uptown (732-0665) / Escaped From Devil's Island (R) 258 Cinema (732-5461) Last Tango in Paris(X), Forty Carats (GP), and A Touch of Class (GP) MUSIC September 14 (Friday) Larry Johnson Blues. Coffeehouse. 9 p.m. Free with social tax. 50 cents without. September 15 (Saturday) Campus Wide Dance, with Steak Nite. Fund Raising Event. 8:30 p.m. Sage Rink. $1.00 Admission and free beer. SPORTS September 19 (Wednesday) Tennis: Against Cortland 3:00 p.m. ptember 21 (Friday) Tennis: Against RPI 3:00 p.m. Currently on Campus
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BY JACK CUR�N A not so widely publicized concert was held. at the · Alan Heard Estate last May. Composed by Pauline Oliveros, the entire concert took over 8 hours to conduct with the enthusiastic p e r f o r m a n c e s of nearly 20 · H a m i l t o n - K i r k l and mu sic students. T h e s c o r e demands the tightening of all the strings in the piano to near snapping point. After a t h orough kerosene soaking, the instrument must be ignited at the lower left hand front comer to all9w fire to gradually consume it. The heat from the flames causes the piano , f r a m e to e x p a n d t h e r eby .snapping: the strings. The introduction to the piece was performed by ten students carrying the piano out of the Heard house to an adjoining field. Dave Zimmet, closely watched by musical purist Tom Leff, executed a brilliant kerosene solo after removing the top of the piano and punching holes in its sounding board. The introduction and kerosene solo were both expertly conducted by Mssrs. Heard and Heartwell. Since Alan Heard was the only fire virtuoso at the concert, it was agreed he would ignite the piano. The vague cracklings caused by the first flames soon grew into a delicately complex pattern. The
development and recapitulation were melodically highlighted and reinforced by the atonality of the searing snapping· strings. The concert ended as modestly as it began with a hissing, though tonally complex coda derived from the Phrygian mode. Heard commented the next day that he could still hear the last dying embers of the unusually long coda. An encore performance was immediately called for, but Heard _was reluctant to part with the
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Graphics by Ronald Kitaj, at Root Art Center through October 14. LECTURE AND DISCUSSION September 15 (Saturday) Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. pttmber 16 (Sunday) Free Church of Clinton. Speaker, Joel Tibbetts. Different Kinds of Men. 11: 15 a.m. Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 p.m. Chapel. Community Worship. 7:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
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or humanities departments, have been asked to sponsor the program, in order the emphasize its availability to the whole student body.
Since its American premiere at the National Gallery in November, 1969, the entire "Civilisation" series has been shown nearly a hundred times and drawn more than 275,000 viewers at the Gallery. It is- currently being seen throughout the United Staes on atonal Educational Television, 111pported by a grant from Xerox Corporation• In the series, Kenneth Clark traces, from an avowedly personal point of view, the story of 'Western civilization through the· visual arts, music, literature, and political history·, from the fall of the Roman Empire through the 20th century. The films were originally produced for the British Broadcasting Corporation, which 1mt Lord Clark, two producers, and a three-man camera crew on a two-year mission through eleven countries to film the series. In Lord Clark's words, the aim was "to define civilisation in terms of the and power c reative enlargement of human faculties." The film's many subjects
include the Gothic cathedrals, the �e of chivalry, St. Francis of Assisi, the Renaissance and the Reformation, the baroque and rococo, bourgeois democracy in Holland and the Dutch painters, the Enlightenment in Europe and and romanticism America, revolution in the 19th century, and modern . technology and materialism. In honor of Lord Clark's many contributions to art education as Director of the National Gallery, London (I 9 34-45), Slade Professor of Fine Arts, Oxford U n i v e r s i t y (1946-50 and 1961-62), author of several books and creator of the "Civilisation' series, the National Gallery has presented him with its Medal for D i stinguished S e rvice to Education in Art. Extension Gallery's T he Services serve the nation through a varied program of activities and films from r a nging to special r ep ro d u c t ion s the Although p u blications. emphasi� of the Services is on the National Gallery's collections, attention also goes to ways in which these collections relate to subjects of current topical interest and concern in the world.
grand piano in his living room, which some over-zealous students had already begun to cart away to the concert grounds. Both Heard and Heartwell insure that every effort will be made for a repeat performance this year. I n s tead of ·the traditional reception at the Root Art Center, Mr. and Mrs. Heard tapped a keg of beer in their living room. It was meticulously drunk to the strains o,- the opera "W ozzeck," while final embers of the coda hissed on i n t o t h e e v e ni ng. A f t e r "Wozzeck" the professors and students visited the graveyard near the Heard Estate, where the tallest man killed in the Civil War is buried. · Ii has been rumored that the remains of the concert are still visible on the Heard Estate. The piano frame undoubtedly remains. Some have said that Heard and Heartwell intend to restring the frame and mount it on top of Heard's ham as an Aeolian Harp. (Best Area Prices Can Be Had) at Weavers Wine and Liquor Store on the Square
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Hill Fire Termed Susp_icious , Exact Cause Still Unknown
The fire which erupted in the home of Albert Wallace on May 2 2 w a s t ermed 'extremely suspicious' by the New York State Police. Sgt. Joseph Oczkowski of the New Hartford barracks of the S t a t e P o l i ce said that the investigation of the fire had not ·, uncovered enough evidence to label the cause as arson. He did say, however, that several facts have led investigators to suspect that the fire was of suspicious origins. The fire damaged much of the . two-story Tudor style structure located on College Hill Road and o w n e d b y t h e f ormer Vice-President of Hamilton. Mr. Wa llace h a d announced his resignation several weeks before Mn. Oorotby �vans the blaze. According to Sgt. Oczkowski, there were two fires blazing in the house. One fire was in the library and other, which erupted after the first had been brought under ✓ control, was in the music room. ·Do rothy Evans, formerly m a n y p e o p l e w h o h a v e The two fires were apparently e x ecutive a ssistant to the c o ntributed to Kirkl a n d's unrelated, causing police and President has been promoted to development." insurance investigators to term the Assistarit to t he President, The new Assistant to the fire 'suspicious.' accordin'g to Kirkland College President joined Kirkland College A single burning couch in an President Samuel F. Babbitt. in 1966 as Exe�utive Secretary to In her new position Mrs. Evans the President. In 1972 she was otherwise undamaged room raised further suspicion as to the origin will continue to manage the named Executive Assistant. She Office of the President as well as attended local schools and of the blaze according to Sgt. Oczkowski. The couch, which was take on new responsibilities in business schools. situated several feet in front and working with trustees, alumnae, A former resident of New to the side of a fireplace, burned associates and friends of the Hartford, Mrs. Evans is a Past college on special projects such as President of the Junior Chamber from underneath its cushions up the expansion of the Kirkland of Commerce Auxiliary and was into its frame. No curtains or Associates, and the development President of the St. Elizabeth papers in the room were singed, of the President's Council and the Guild for 4 years. She is also a and resting nearby the sofa was an o rganization of an Alumnae past member of the Utica Women open, unburned book of matches. Sgt. Oczkowski said that the a ssoci ation. Mrs. Evans is of Rotary and has served on particularly pleased to have been various civic boards in the Utica State Police have been hampered promoted; she cited two reasons: area. Mrs. William Evans and her b y t h e r efusal o f several "I came up through.the ranks, and family presently reside at Hill individuals to cooperate with their efforts to discover the precise I am a woman." Acres Farm, Vernon. cause of the fire. He would not . . These new programs are still in
reveal the names of these people as he did not want to jeopardize the fairness of any eventual criminal prosecution. He would not permit any reproduction of photographs of evidence for the
HONORARY DEGREES Who will get honorary degrees at next year's graduation? The Board of Trustees is open to suggestion. Presidential assistant Jolin Mavrogenis has asked ·the college community for names of potential degree recipients and Baccalaureate of Commencement speakers. ., They might include worthy educators, busi!1essmen, . government officials, noted professional people, ai:tis�s, and others.· Mavrogenis said suggestions should be limited to individuals probably willing to come to �amilton � May. Proposals should go to the assistant s office via campus mall; they wili be forwarded to the honorary degrees committee of the Hamilton Board of Trustees, which will make final decisions. Mavrogenis asked that all proposals be in writin:g, and in�lude a , supporting paragraph outlining the potential candidate s qualifications.
Mrs. Evans Promoted Nailed Asst. to. Pres.
the development stage according t o Mrs. Evans. The college graduated its second class this year, bringing the number of alumnae to 280, a minimal basis for the formation of an alumnae association. However, Kirkland also has 350 "foster alumnae" known as the Associates, who offer valuable support to the college, by informing friends, as well as prospective applicants, about Kirkland College, and by he lping students with career and work-study counseling placement. A third concern of Mrs. Evans is the President's Council, a new group of college donors who will meet regularly with President Babbitt and the Trustees to discuss college matters. In naming Mrs. Ev ans, President Babbitt stated, "This present move is a logical result of Mrs. Evans' valuable and valued work for Kirkland. She has been at Kirkland since its inception, working closely with the faculty, students, the trustees,
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Winton Tolles H�pi talized
FOOD COMMITT�-� Any Ham ilton or Kirkland students who would like to serve on the Food Committee are invited to attend the weekly meeting of the Committee on Mondays at 3:30 p.m. in the McEwen Dining Hall. Anyone interested in trying to make Service Systems more responsive to student opinion is urged to attend.
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in-service training for volunteers. Winton Tolles, former Dean of periods are longer than those of After each session the trainees and the College at H am ilton, is normal patients. The former dean ... t h e Director w i l l discuss seriously ill. Said to be suffering · is 66 years old. techniques of child c are. from several related ailments, he Tolles retired in May, 1972, The · Center consists of two has been hospitalized since July after serving continuously as Dean large rooms, a bathroom, and a 16, when he was taken sick while of the College for twenty-four. the request but a vote was halted, fenced-in outdoor playground. visiting in Clinton. years. He is also a H am ilton STUDENT SENATE n a p�i nt o f o r der by Most of the Center's equipment o Tolles was transferred Tuesday alumnus, class of 1928. continued from page one ar P liam entarian, Fred Bloch. The has already been purchased or Patricia Tolles, the Dean's wife. from Faxton Hospital to the n d w a s f ound to b e donated, although a few minor a B their make to scheduled as appear Allen-Calder Extended Care Unit said that her husband has shown items remain on the "wanted" unch artered, and Bloch advised of St. Lukes Hospital in Utica. "some improvement" since he was fiscal application. list. the Senate that they could not, first hospitalized. The Dean is not . Upon release from Faxton, the Ch i Psi fraternity, sponsoring The eqwpment now at the e o t t a n e S ce ding a e r h o t . . hospital listed his condition as accepting visitors. Mrs. Tolles community beer Friday, · was center mcl�des a sandbox, sw1?gs, explained that he knows many allocated $35 to defray fifty Constitution, appropriate funds to "no change; satisfactory." wagons, tncycles, art �aten�ls, The Allen-Calder unit supplies people in the area and it would be p er c e nt o f t h e beer cost. a n u nc hartered organization. dolls, puz�les, and marup�ative 1 C and ked o as Sinche an tell were as convalescent, but not custodial too d ifficu lt for her to select Discussing the request, Baker to return with a club constitution toys. A uruque toy already m use, care. A St. Lukes spokeswoman visitors. r e c o g n i z e d t h e S enat e's an d request charter by the Senate,' known_ as the "Veriplay'�, can be The Dean is permitted to responsibility to act on the matter said that the wing is a "step the Band was promised the ma�e mto a see-saw, a slide, or a but between acute hospital and a accept letters and flowers, and his in place of the S.A.C., whose , O m n e y u p On B a k e r s rolling car t. wife said that he has received strictly d et ermined b udget nursing home, or acute hospital . An added feature of the d t e enruna O ti n f the sense of the and home." The unit serves many well wishes from his frien� restricts unan ticipated expenses. Clinton Child Care Center is the S enate. an d former students. elderly people whose recuperative The Senate carried the motion Baker, in a non-fiscal matter, St�dent Observer program. Under 10-1, with Martin Hillsgrove III, t hi s program, students from an nounced that a campus census . · Senate Treasurer, dissenting. . . H am11 ton and Kirklan d w1·11 be would be taken sometrme dunn g b.. . -Cosmo Castellano and Bob · the next two weeks, in order to allowed to o serve th e children !n S i n c h e , r e p r e senting t h e the Center on a re gular h as1s.· H s amp1e am ilton op1mon on . Half-Time Band, approached the . . th•e 1 of which WI-11 Par•ents • are as• ked dunng • Senate for S25 to be used for the vanous issues, some . registration penod to give their b d e un er c o nsi era on y d ti b the _ Purchase of sheet music. The permission to the Center for · Senate appe ared to be in favor of Senate later m· the year. student observation of the1r · .:;;;.;;;.�;;;;.;;;_;.;;..;�;.;.;..;;...___________., children. Parents of the children enrolled in the Program will form an integral part of the Center. It is expected that they will volunteer l West Park Row to assist in the classroom, donate Clinton, New York the snacks offered during each Less than session, repair or build equipment, Nick Bums, Broker Hamilton '46 or help with publicity. A Board of Directors, elected COLD Auto, Tenants, Motorcycle and Homeowner's Insurance b y p a r e n t s , i s t h e l e g al administrator of the Center. The UL3-5051-2 directors for this year were elected last May by a group of interested parents. They are: Betsy Gescheider, Chairperson; Jacqueline Anderson, Secretary; Ann Smallen, Treasurer; Sandra D eMyer-Ga p i n and Gi nger T i b b ett s, C o o r d i n a t o r s o f Volunteers; Arielou Marcy and El aine M u irhead, Purchasing, Cleaning, an d Maintenance; Joy Simon a n d Barbara P ratt, Recruiting and Enrollment; and Lynn Effinger, Fund Raising. Fees charged to parents for a c hild's part icipation in the program provide the necessary capital for the upkeep of the center. Rates are $2.25 per child per session, so the parents of a child enrolled for the entire 38 week period would pay $8. 78 monthly or $87.75 annually. Ages 12 thru 23 Much of the Center's activities and future are still in the planning stage. Although Kirkland donated $1,000 and the faculty apartment Round-trip jet, New York to for use by the progr am , it is Luxembourg in the heart of understood by the College and the Europe, Sept. thru May for stays of up to a year. Show Directors that the Center will proof of age. Book within 30 move to Clinton by the end of the days of your flight. y ear and become financially self-sufficient. YOU CAN BE IN The success of this year's pilot EUROPE TOMORROW! project- will determine whether or Icelandic Airlines also offers one -week car, rail and ski not the Clinton Child Care Center tours to Europe, Nov. thru will be established on a permanent March. Get details on our bas is. 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collapsed m the fall of l�"/Z, JUSL junior linebackers John Newell BY ROBERT J. KEREN prior to their opener in Clinton, and Bill Ferris, who played two The Continentals embark upon New York. years outside MLB Sopchak, and the 1973 season with the desire The Continentals then face a co-captain Tom Janosky and the for a successful campaign to revive rebuilt Rochester Eleven in the versatile Dusty Batley '75 in the · the rapidly d ying football confines of Steuben Field. Next secondary. tradition at Hamilton. Don Jones opp onen ts are Oberlin, Hobart has seemingly packed up his 23 Quarterback Triangle (h ere), Middlebury, St. Lawrence year career, his 86-81-7 lifetime On offense only two members and Alfred at home, and the record, and has given way to of last year's all-underclass line , season's finale at Union. "Acting" Head Coach Bob King. will be returning to action. King was Jones' defensive Sop homo r e D o n A r m strong assistant last season and he stood ·coach King has some seasoned continues at center, while junior on the sidelines to witness the performers to build around, but Dave Duggan, a guard in '72, has kind of leadership restilting in a been getting a good look at tackle. after only one scrimmage and less 1-6 product. The Blue were 1-7 in Coach King must successfully 1971 and 3-5 in 1970. They have than two full weeks of. practice, revamp the front attack with the starting lineups are indefinite. not had a winning record in 5 Freshman RB David Baker in the RPI Scrimmage. veterans from other positions years. playing both ways or talented Graveley's absence will be punting chores again. College football coaches get frosh for Hamilton to move the s o rely felt, .but leading the Rebuilding from the Top fired all the time for losing, or f o o t b a l l . The C o n t i n entals rece1vmg corps are speedy Kevin The Continentals scored only they quit in search of the big averaged only 31.8 yards per game Snyder (16 receptions for 296 nine' touchdowns last campaign (8 money, t h e big r ec rwtmg on the ground last season. Our yards and I TD) and soph Al in '71), with the defense and program, or the big prestige opponents averaged just under Silverman who made four grabs in specialty teams accounting for provided at another campus. At • 30. 0per game. mostly blocking assignments in three touchdowns. The defense Hamilton College football coaches The passing of Rob Winter in '72. Snyder scored twice more, l eaked 28 t ouchdowns and only fade away. Don Jones is on '72 k ep t H amilton in the t u r ning two 95-yard kickoff allowed our opponents to pick up sabbatical. His office is empty. Rochester, Oberlin, St. Lawrence returns shocking both Alfred and 5.4 yards per play on the ground. Masking tape now covers his name a n d U n i o n g a m e s . T h e Rochester. And both contests It's senseless to comment that the on the door. And 33-year old Bob Continentals emerged victorious were away. Freshman George Continentals must rebuild their King, a former Utica high school only once though, over the Obies Grammaglia out of Hicksville, talent. In recent history they have f o o t b a l l c oa c h, h a s t he 21-12. New York has the inside track on always had to rebuild. But 1973 opportunity to replace Jones. No Head Coach Bob King Winter completed 70 passes in the tight end spot. brings a rebuilt coaching staff to one is saying for sure, but for that to even happen collegiate football He has appointed four co-captains 145 attempts for 895 yards and In t h e backfield talented the Hill and it appears that there for 1973, the Blue always had two touchdowns. Thirty-eight of co-captain Sandy Macintosh (196. are still people here who wish to at Steuben Field must survive. t w o , and has five assistant t h o s e passes went to John Bob King wants a job here. · coaches, two more than last Graveley '73, Hamilton's lifetime yards in 95 carries and 12 c hange that losing tendency. receptions) will be , lining up H o p e f u II y t h e A t h I e tic Athletic Director Gene Long season. reception record holder. alongside either Bill Collier '75., an Department has taken a first step knows that, and.so do the 42 guys C o-captain Jeff Hewitt is This fall Rob Winter, a junior, experienced ball handler and in improving our fledging athletic wearing blue jerseys this fall. The fighting off a severe knee problem new Athletic Administration took to once again fortify the defensive h a s h a d to c o nt end with blocker, or sophs Alec Singer and policies with the appointment of a big step forward in hiring a line. At 6'4'' and 235 pounds the strong-armed soph Lou Cordia (13 -Brian Smith. Freshman running Bob King. · The Blue have a scrimmage, young man, especially one that big senior tackle began to assert completions in 39 attempts for back David Baker has the raw doesn't have Jones' security. his physical dominance late last 127 yards in '72) and senior talent and will be seeing some tomorrow at Williams College and one more week of practice to King's only regret is that he might fall w i th added speed and southpaw Craig Fallon for the action. field-general chores. At this Bill Finan returns to assume tune-up · and organize for the get but only one shot before he lower-body quickness. printing the quarterback picture the placekicking duties and Lou opening battle at Washington and has to leave, or worse yet, before C h ar l i e L i eb l i ng, another is, at best, hazy. Cordia will probably handle the Lee. football departs ahead of him. co-captain, brings his experience Blue Prospectus Hamilton will open the season ?Dd durability to the front four. Little All-American and All-ECAC on Sep t ember 2 2 ·a g a i n s t Washington an d Lee in Lexington, linebacker Andy Sopchak has Virginia. They are not weaklings graduated, but those who admired likeH averfordwith whom we had the play of Big Number 73 will never forget his aggressiveness or a four year scheduling agreement, team attitude. An Andy Sopchak but W&L was 3-6 last year playing a moderate schedule. The is a rarity at Hamilton College. BY C.JAMES CARR,JR. as such they will be even more on conditioning, including several Ha verford f o o t b all program Also returning ,on defense are Fall is upon us again and with responsible for helpmg mold some day of two-a-day workouts prior it arrives the season for America's of the younger players into a to the opening of the · academic fastest growing sport: Soccer. Th-e cohesive unit. year. man directing the Continental Backing up Rose in the goal Von Schiller noted that the team, Manfred Von Schiller, feels will be two talented sophomores, attitude of the team will be a very that it' is entirely unlikely that Dan Daly and Gary Neville. John decisive factor in determining the Hamilton College will be the Hutchins '75, Kerry Reagan '76, success or failure in the coming NCAA champions, but they Tom McCloone '76, and freshman season. certainly will not be the league's Dave Nichols are battling it out One thing working in the for the other two fullback slots Blue's favor before the season doormat either. even starts is the schedule. While It will be very difficult to alongside Johnson. The Continental attack unit, the_ quality of opponents is still replace graduated seniors Nat Follansbee, Jim Campbell, Bob while not overly large makes up very tough, the hooters will not Hutton, and Roger Brown; for its lack of size with great have to contend with the likes ·of however, the appearance of quickness in the feet of Phil Williams College, ranked number several very promising freshmen Halpern '75, Dave Wollman '76, one by the ECAC last year, or the bodes ill for the Continental winger Rob Hoar '74, senior number one ranked team in New utility-man Eric Ruckert, and .York State, Harpur College. opponents. Noting that there is plenty of According to Von Schiller, last freshmen Chip Williams and Bruce room for improvement Coach season's letterman returned from Peckham. Last year's leading scorer Ray Von Schiller did step out on a the summer recess in better shape than had been the case in past Terepka '75, is nursing an injury; limb a bit in admitting that he years. Heading the list of at this point though he hopes to thought the team looked very returnees are captains Jeff Rose, be ready by the September 22 good for this time of year. Weather permitting, it looks who will be very capably taking opener at Wesleyan University in like it will be an exciting season care of goal-tending chores, and Middletown, Connecticut. In discussing the prospects for for the players and the fans. The Bruce Johnson, a very aggressive, home opener will be against durable fullback. These two have the year, Coach Von Schiller Rochester on Saturday September the added burden of being among appears guardedly optimistic. The 29. Defensive End Charlie Liebling (no.65) mauling an Engineer ball-carrier. the four seniors on the team, and team has been working very hard
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THE. SPECTATOR-g. VOLUME IV, NUMBER 3
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
SEPTEMBER 21, 1973
Maintenance Talks Continue; Union Shop Remains An Issue BY BOB WEISSER Hamilton janitors, electricians, plumbers and carpenters have been working without a contract since June 15, when their last agreement expired. N e g ot i a t i o n s f or a new contract have gone on since last Spring between Local 200 of the Service Employees International Union representing the union and non-union workers, and Hamilton College. A mediator has been called in for the last five sessions to hasten the stalled negotiations. N o t p a rt i c i p a t i n g i n t h e discussions i s Kirkland Col lege, since the service workers, who work at both campuses, are officially employed by Hamilton. At issue in the prolonged talks Service at the McEwen Dining Hall. are demands for the formation of a union shop here and increased wages and fringe benefits. Approximately seventy percent of the College's service empl oyees belong to Local 200. The dues _ p a ying union members, who at any convenient time. "I urge receive the same benefits as the BY ROBERT ROCK Most of the problems that arise any student to see any of us about non-union workers, are questing during a meal can b_e easily solved any probler,'.l, no matter how the formation of a union shop , by immediate and constructive petty it may be. We have nothing which would compel all workers to join the Local. New workers student criticism, according to to hide," Mr. D' Aprix said. In his constant effort to would be required to join within a Hamilton-Kirkland food manager Earl D'Apiix. Amidst complaints appease the traditional student designated period of time after of untimely closings, dessert mockery of dining facilities, Mr. inception of their employment or the D'Aprix has been promulgating be fired. eggs, cold restrictions, T h e union members have promote to methods admittedly incensed manager new stands firm on his present dining efficiency as wel l as practical charged on-the-job discrimination; economy. Predominant among Charles Duffy, a representative for hall regulations. of these methods is the opening of the Local, said that union painters Board At Monday's Steward's meeting, Mr. D'Aprix another line at Commons dining had been assi�ed extetior work, and his managers called for all hall for dinner, so that students while non-union workers have customers to "speak up" as soon who desire second helpings may received interior assignments, and as they have any compl aints with get them without bothering the union cleaning women have been the campus dining hall service. Mr. flow of first course traffic. Also, forced to move heavy furniture, D'Aprix was opposed to what he the meal schedules have been while non-union workers ·have tcnned "unfair" gripes that are adjusted to make for more been supplied with helpers. Uni o n m e m bers are also suppressed until it is too late for practical meal times and easier corrective action. manning of the three college_ d is g r u n t le d t h a t n op-union welcomes cafeterias. Service Systems has workers, who pay no dues to the only He not spontaneous complaints, but also also posted comment sheets, on Local, are receiving the same dissatisfied which students can make their benefits which have been won by his encourages customers to inspect his facilities continued on page six the Union.
Acting President,- J. Martin Carovano denied the d i scrimination charges, stating that an investigation was made which proved the allegations unfounded. He also said that it is against College policy to force any employees to join an organizatio�.
Esp ecially at an educational institution which fosters the spirit of free choice,, he said, people should be offered several options. Higher w a g es a r e being demanded by all workers, who contend that their pay scale is continued on page six
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Adler Conference Evaluated;
Focus on Hill Relations, Sports
BY VIKRAM DEWAN The 1973 Adler Conference, held from September 4-6, was structurally different from past Ad lers. the Based on recommendations of the 19 7 2 Evaluation Committee, smaller groups discussed prepared topics and suggested a superior system of follow-up on the proposals. This year's Adler focused on Athletic areas. four major intramural and requirements activities were examined and proposals for improvement were solicited. Community problems centered on student-faculty and student-advisor relationships as , well as black-white relations on of degree The the Hill.
coordination between Hamilton and Kirkland was analyzed and a systematic study of the "Statement of Goals for Hamilton College" was made. The small groups were asked to reach a concensus on their suggestions in order to provide
ADLER SUPPLEMENT ON PAGE SEVEN proposals on a unified basis. With respect to Athletics, there was a the that agreement general Physical Education department should improve· its courses by of breadth the inucasing carry-over sports. They also suggested that the Department
administer tests as indicators of physical fitness, but not as a part of a mandatory program. The question of community relations was examined on four l evels. D i s c ussions of student-faculty relation:.. ,·entered on the validity- of mformal contacts as well as a better student understanding of the academic faculty's interests. Concerning Black-White relations, it was suggested that a concerted effort be made to bring qualified black faculty members to the college community. A suggestion was made to the I nter-Fraternity Council to undertake meal options whereby
Education Options Center 0-f-fers ft Releva nt' Servic,e Finally, the Center will publ ish BY JONATHAN L. YARMIS Students often complain of a a newsletter, Op. Ed., to inform lack of relevance in education but Kirkland community as to what the new Options in Education some of its students have been Center, opened this fall, has been doing and are planning to do. The program was original ly and "publicize to created education started by Ruth Rinard and Lisa various f acilitate options available to Kirkland Newell Kirkland '7-5 to help in student_s on campus, off campus, achieving a constructive, though innovative, program. The goal of individually, and collectively." The Center, operating in the Options in Education Center, conjunction with Ruth Rinard, as stated in the first issue of Op. Assistant Dean of Academic Ed. is, "We, ourselves. constitute Affairs at Kirkland, will provide Kirkland's greatest resource, but five basic services. The Options our individual isolation limits our In Education Center is located in contributions to the Kirkland lack For of the Kirner-] ohnson Building, one community. flight down from the Core communication, many innovative projects have been unnoticed or Library. The Center plans to hold a forgotten. Hopefully, the Center series of forums in which the can act as an advocate and students can inform all intersted facilitator of such projects in the people about the results of their future.'' One Kirkland student worked studies. A re�ource library of people, places, and programs will for the United People of Cornhill, be maintained in order to aid an organization of people in t he those students who desire help in · Comhill section of Utica. Her selecting an alternate equcational continued on page fourteen program. Counseling will be available to those students interested in INSIDE THIS ISSUE c re a t i n g educational n ew Gerry Payne, experiences. The Center will Back from vacation maintain a clearinghouse for these Computers, projects including freshwomen Is it their year? s tu den t - i n i t iated se m i n a r s, courses, and off-campus work.
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EDITORIALS.·
The Battle of the Bands
Goals of the College In light of today's publication of the 1973 Adler Report (pages 9 and 10), it is appropriate, once again, to comment on the Statement of Goals for Hamilton College submitted last Spring to the Faculty by the Committee on Academic Policy. Two of the most controversial proposals in the Goals document are the proposal for Faculty consideration of 'the reinstitution of distribution requirements and the proposal for limiting the amount of co�.rse work done outside the "cognitive disciplines" that will be accepted for credit toward graduatioJ.1.. The Adler Report states, "There should be no limit on the number of cognitive or expressive courses taken by a Hamilton student for a Hamilton degree." It also states that the Conference "was opposed to the reinstitution of distribution requirements." In addition, the report from the team members of the Danforth Summer Workshop (page 10) states that ,distribution requirements "are not desireable." Further, the team members write, "the team . . ·. does not wish to endorse limits to the number of expressive courses a given studtnt can take." The message is clear. These two proposals are not in the best interests of Hamilton College and would serve only to detract from its academic appeal. More importantly, they would, if adopted, seriously hamper the ever-improving relations between Hamilton and Kirkland. The CAP is to be commended for seeing the need to seriously evaluate the goals of Hamilton. The idea is a good one, the document, however, is unacceptable. We urge the CAP to combine with selected students and administrators to produce· another set of goals, which will not have the negative ·consequences of the last document, and will serve to benefit the entire community.
Give to the Fund Drive As college students, we are not often solicited for � �ney which will go to the less fortunate. But annually, the Campus Fund Drive comes to Hamilton-Kirkland. This year the organizers are hoping for a better response than they received last year. Aside from offering mental stimulation and academic rigor life at Hamilton and Kirkland is relatively comfortable. As this school year begins, it is appropriate for· all members of the community to make a contribution to organizations which attempt to improve the quality of life for the handicapped, infirmed, and impoverished in the greater Utica area. The Hill that elevates us should not blind us to the horrors of the real world which lies below.
BY GERRY PAYNE Witz and I were hanging in Commons after lunch, like always. I was drinking my tea and Witz was eating his second bowl. of cottage cheese and jelly. He pulled out the. old SAC band poll and read it like a cereal box as he gobbled down the creamy purple stuff. . . "I can't believe it," he uttered with his mouth full. "What now?" He sw allowed. '·'They're going to waste $10,000 or something on a big band. They're going to let them waste it all." "If that's what the majority wants, the SAC s ho uld do nothing other than accomodate them," I offered in the democratic tradition. "Besides, why are you still holding that poll? You should have filled it out last week." "They �dn't have one group I want. So I . rejected the whole poll as a means to express my opinion. "But that's all beside the point. If they want to heai.: good music, they should get some jazz up here, or some blu�s," Wit� �ersisted. "All the big bands have their roots m Jazz and blues anyway. "And besides, I doubt Williams and Wesleyan bother with the big bands. And I know Amherst is having a whoie jazz series this year,
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with Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Mingus." "What the hell do those schools have to do with anything?" I asked, trying to get a word in. "I don't know. It just came to me," Witz brushed aside. "Anyway, the big band thing is like the big school thing. 'The little three, why not me? Funk at S.U., why not us too?' "The impulse is all the same. It's indicative of gluttony and greed in general." Witz started off. "I don't want that piece, I want the big piece. Nah, that's no good, it isn't fat enough. Nah, she's no good, she isn't stacked enough. We don't want a crummy bande like MJQ, give me a BIG Band. " 'Yeah, I want the Big Band. I want the Big Band,' " Witz repeated, mimJcing a d<: ep voiced retard. "Give me TULL! GIVE ME THE DEAD! GIVE ME FUNK. "I mean if they want a big band they ought to hire the Marine Corp Marching Band and have them parade around Utica War Memorial. But if they want a good band they ought to come to me. I'll tell them who to get." "You always have the answers," I said. ''When I'm right, I'm right," Witz said. And he didn't spill his cottage cheese, or coffee, or wake from a dream, or anything.
Black Jazz Experienced
BY LEROY PORTER For those who can look beyond horizons to quiet curiosities and understanding the future there is a new revelation from the hinterland called jazz. G ary Bartz has a recent album release entitl�d Harlem Bush Music-Uhuru, produced by Orrin Keepnews of Milestone Records and distributed by Audiofidelity Enterprise. Gary Bartz Ntu Troop propels all their spiritualism, all their disgust, and all their co-operation through a medium so sensitive sometimes you hear a drum that's dubbed or an alto sax that's actually less than soft. Harlem Bush Music-Uhuru is the other half of an earlier recording session in which Gary Bartz recorded his Taifa album. Uhuru is the companion piece, but not a follow up or a volume II. It is another experience. The Ntu Troop have adopted in to their music many modes of African philosophies taken from the Bantu. Ntu is a Bantu noun suffix. Maxine Bartz explains, "Ntu is the common denominator that unifies all things; time and space, living and dead, seen and unseen forces." Recording along with Bartz on the Uhuru album are artists like Ron Carter, Andy Bey, and Harold White. Those familiar with contempurary jazz can appreciate these artists as transmitters of aesthetic values, but beyond the aesthetics these artists dri�e home some very -pragmatic instruction. Using music as the vehicle, Bartz fullfills a need to express for people the utilitarian impressions they should have about what's happening to them; like Vietnam, family deterioration and restoration.
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Maybe it's sad that one's spiritualism has to be used to direct and spur on political concerns of a people. Probably it's sad that this tends to take away from the tranquility sought from the spiritual, but more than likely it's necessary; for spiritualism is the last frontier for Black men that white men have not exploited, altered, and destroyed. Bartz might be saying in this album that wtiiteman will not be allowed their destructive privileges this life time. Once one notices how much of politics gets submerged into Black Art forms, one can begin to get a· sense of the importance of a Black artist. There are those who understand that Black art tends more to have its bases in the spiritual (soul if yawl will) rather than in materialism. From this one can appreciate how limiting and frustrating it must be to circumscribe one's art form with a pol_itical periphery, however one has to realize that's the way it must be if one understands the In one cut, Uhuru SaSa, the cry is "Hell no! I won't fight your filthy battles no more." The song moves assertively along saying that Black people will not be nannies no more either. Uhuru calls for the unity of Black spirits. The message is communicated. Celestrial Blues, another cut, tells the people how to get closer to the essence of life and , pray tell, we all need to hear this one. You can listen to Harlem Bush Music and pretend you're in Harlem or Watts, but it really doesn't matter because you can still have celestrial blues right h� on campus. There are levels to this music, and an ear can really cheat itself or ...it can learn.
NUMBER THREE
VOLUME FOUR
Editor in Chief - Frederic Bloch Managing Editor - Henry Glick Business Manager - Peter Sluys News Editors
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KIRKLAND-HAMILTON DEBATE Two teams of Hamilton-Kirkland debaters will confront each other in the Chapel one week from Friday evening in order to decide whether "sex is to women as colonialism is to the third world." Since this will be a Pub D ebate in the Parliamentary style, members of the audience will be expected to contribute generously from their fund of bawdy eloquence and urbane wit concerning matters relevant to the resolution as well as on the skill, merits, ancestry, and personal habits of the participants. The entire hill is invited to attend. particularly those of the male and female persuasions. NEWS DEPARTMENT WHCL-FM announces the opening of a brand new News Dept. which will be primarily devoted to researching and reporting campus activities. We are seeking to compose a staff of imaginative, indus,trious reporters. If you are interested in joining us, contact either Margaret Doris (B dorm, suite 20-A) or Hugh Mackay (203 Carnegie).
PIRG There will be an organizational meeting of the· Public Interest Reserch Group, (P .I.R.G.), Tuesday afternoon at 5 :00 PM. in the McEwen Coffee House. All those interested please attend. SPORTS DIRECTOR NEEDED Any student interested in organizing a campus recreational tournament in such minor sports as table tennis, billiards, etc., should contact Mr. Wertz at the BCC office as soon as possible. This is a part time employment opportunity. PORTFOLIO EDITOR NEEDED The Publications Board is seeking an editor for Portfolio,Hamilton-Kirkland's photography magazine. Anyone interested in being considered for this position, contact Harold Bogle through campus mail. LAST LECTURE The first talk in the Last Lecture series this fall will be . delivered by Prof. Austin Briggs of the Hamilton English Dept., Thursday evening,. Sept. 27, at 8:30 P.M. in the Chapel. Other speakers in the series will be Don Muilenberg, Clinical Psychologist, and Marcel Moraud, Professor of French
FANGUITOS Due to lack of expressed interest, the Fanguitos ad hoc committee has been dissolved, in favor of any other organization. Failing any other organization there will be aB.Y.O.B., in the meadow, October 6th.
Letters to the Editor
Coach Jones To the Editor: I write in response to an article on the f o otball team t hat appeared in the September 4� 1973 issue of the Spectator. There appeared to be some confusion in the mind of Robert J. Keren, the writer of the article, regarding the status of Don Jones, head football coach. Coach Jones is on leave during the-fall semester, 1973-74. He, like the o t he r faculty members who are on leave during all or part of 1973-74, is expected to res ume his duties at the conclusion of his leave. I hope this clarifies the situation for Mr. Keren as well as for others who may have been confused by his article. J. Martin Carovano Acting President
More Football To the Editor: The recent article written by Robert J. Keren concerning Coach
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Jones and his future at Hamilton . the years has been. to field a team, year). Fortunately for Hamilton, College is the epitome of the lack hopefully a winning team. And these contracts are about to run . Hamilton - out, so Hamilton will be able to of information and the lack of because the schools that good t a s t e t hat is so often · p l a y e d s h a r e d t h e s a m e schedule teams of its c;aliber. And philosophy, Hamilton did have to prevent this same situation exhibited on campus. many fine seas_ons. However, as I from happe_ning again, the teams I played under Don Jones for three years, last year when Bob stated before, the philosophy of that Hamilton will play will likely King was also there. I disagreed football has changed at many of a l s o be in the same league with both Coach Jones and Coach these schools. These schools now (NESCAC) and will also have to King m a n y times for many recruit whereas Hamilton does obey NESCAC rules. So I think reasons, but' I have the utmost not. These schools have ·athletic that unfortunately Hamilton was respe�t for both men. They both scholarships that Hamilton does forced into losing seasons, and have a great knowledge of the not. So of course, they are going that losing seasons were not the game and both share the desire to to get better talent and they do. fault of one man. I am sure that Rob Keren did W e l l t h e obvious question win. However, because people are different, they do not have the seems to be, 'Why not play not think about what he was same style of play. That is the schools our size, our caliber, and saying. Perhaps I read too much into his story, but many other only difference that I see. Age has that share our philosophy? Well, nothing to do with Hamilton's we are just starting to do this people got the same impression losing record. Coach Jones is not now. Hamilton is in a league that that I got. I hope that I have an old man by anyone's standards. follows rules that Hamilton has relieved at least some of the The fact that Hamilton has not followed for · a long time. But LIBRARY had a winning football team in the Hamilton has been locked into a last five years can be explained l os i ng season b y long-term Continued from page five e a s ily. Football has grewn in c on t racts with such teams as the "p o s s ib il it y is under i m p o r t a n c e a t many schools Alfred (number one in NYS for consideration." He commented across the country. At Hamilton it two years), Hobart (number two further that ''The library trade is hasn't. To me it seems that the in NYS last year), Middlebury (a in a state o f revolution, important thing at Hamilton over top ranking team in the East last particularly in the cataloguing of books. At some point, (things are moving fast) it is possible and will be more economical in the long run to have the Library of Congress system. There are all kinds · of experiments on the college level right now and we will have to wait and see." The budget for additional experience is in itself an elitist but it is a slap in the face of the mode of existence but do we wish new Asians, Blacks, Indians and acquisitions at Hamilton-Kirkland to intensify that kind of elitism Puerto Ricans who live on this including a large increase over last by making it an exclusive white campus. In our attempts to make year, is $85,000, or 4.6% of the full use of this educational College Budget. The Committee middle and upper class elitism? we face the ·recommended a budget of 5% for Cultural, racial and regional opportunity, homogeneity is not only crippling abhorrent fate of assimilation. It the futu_re. Due to the c·onstant demand to those making up the is not good enough that Kirkland homogeneous ._mass, but it is and Hamilton import a few token for new materials, alternatives to repugnant to those it excludes. We Asians, Blacks, and Puerto Ricans book acquisition have been sought campus. Kirkland and by Librarian Walter Pilkington. are essentially ignoring our Asian, on Through the work of Mr. Black, Indian and Puerto Rican Hamilton must begin responding Pilkington, the New York State sisters and brothers who make up to their needs. What we are demanding is that Department of Education, Albany this society. Cultural, racial and regional homogeneity leads us not Kirkland and Hamilton take not Library Service has set up eleven only to live sheltered, limited and only a more aggressive and district councils throughout the blase lives, but it leads us to affirmative action in its hiring and State. The Central New York practices, but in District Council provides state intellectual recruiting and cultural stagnation. Isn't one of the main addition, begin questioning and if f u n d s t o f oster cooperative assets of a community living necessary reordering its priorities lending programs. among academic situation the opportunity it to fit the educational needs of the libraries. For over ten years Hamilton affords for its members the students. This will' without a personal exchange, interaction doubt necessitate a drastic change has operated a sharing program and generation of new ideas, not only in the allocation of with Colgate University, and is resources and funds, in an effort now the headquarters of a new values and experiences ?How can provide more financial Bibliographic and Inter-Library Kirkland and Hamilton make full to use of this opportunity if all its assistance, but a change in . Loan Center, serving College Hill philosophy and and many o t h e r ac ademic students and faculty are of one educational curricula. It is a change we must institutions in Central New York. racial and cultural background?' It is not only frustrating for seriously consider if we wish to The Burke Library has a computer our_ white sisters and brothers who make both Kirkland and Hamilton tie line to the Syracuse University would like to live, share and learn a more heterogeneous and healthy Library and to other libraries in from people of culturaliy and environment in which to live and the area. A student or faculty me)Jlper racially different backgi:ounds, learn.
Changing Colors on the. Hill
BY LOURDES WAN and As both· Kirkland Hamilton prepare themselves for another year of academia and as students and administrators debate the issue of cognitive vs. education creative or expressive education, there are other students on campus who are very much concerned with the quality of education here on the Hill in respects other than the diversity of curricula. The forms and modes of education are quite essential to the development and search of an educational philosophy that is at the same time both stimulating and self-sustaining. Equally as important as the striving for curricula diversity is the striving for a diversity of people. At a time when many educational, social, political and financial institutions are working to make their individual institution truly representative of the ethnic makeup of society, Kirkland and Hamilton Colleges remain silent and unresponsive to this task. The time has come when both colleges must seriously consider the viability of their white The college institutions. (f
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HUMANE SOCIETY REGISTRATION Students can register their animals with the Humane Society next week as follows: Mon: Sept. 24 7-9 p.m. McEwen (swi�g area) Tues. Sept. 25 2-5 p.m. Bristol Wed. Sept. 26 8-9 p.m. MMcEwen Thurs. Sept. 27 8-9 p.m. McEwen Fri. Sept. 28 2-5 p.m. Bristol Bring Proof of living unit, proof of shots, and ·registration fee. (See Handbook). Questions, call Robin Hall, x-745 1.FREE CHURCH SERV�E This week the Free Church service will be led by Donald Stidwell, '74. His topic is, "On Being Open to Life: Three Basic Relationships." Services are held in the Hamilton Chapel at 11: 15 A.M. on Sundays. Nursery care is available for small children in the Briston Center during the Free Church Service. WOMEN AND THEOLOGY The first program in a new series called Theology Workshop is scheduled for Sunday evening in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit at 7:30 PM., The topic is '''Women and Theology: Some Inequalities," and the speaker will be The Rev. Susan Ellis, a recent graduate of Union Theological Seminary in New York, and an ordained Presbyterian minister.
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b u r d e n from C o a c h Jo nes• shoulders by writing this note. At any rate, I would like to wish the 1973 · Continental football team the best of luck. Jim Rishel '74 Thanks To the Editor: I would like to extend great thanks to the Student Senate for t heir financ ial assistance in. helping us sponsor a community. beer last Friday afternoon. Even though the weather was slightly incooperative the afternoon was a tremendous success. Again we would like to thank ·the Senate for their help and we hope that events like this will occur more commonly in the future. Robert Evans Chi Psi '75 requiring a book that is not now in our collection can obtain it from a nother library within several days to a week. If the book is not available at any library in Central New York,' a request can be sent by tele-type to the State Library Pool in Albany. This system, in operation for a year, p ro v ides t h e college community with access to over 2,000,000 different volumes. The program has fostered cooperation between libraries on a formal and organized basis. C o ncer ning t h e E merson Library, Mr. Pilkington said, "There is a need at Kirkland Colleg e for a library, not necessarily a large library. It is still in the process of taking its form. I've always felt there should be a library at Kirkland, and they are actively buifding up material on women and are moving into the field of education." Last year the Library initiated an o r ient ation program for s t u d e n t s w h o w i shed t o familiarize themselves with the facilities and resources of the library. The orientation program this year will be run more intensively than previously. It is to start in the beginning of October. Edwin K. Tolan, a member of the Committee, and a librarian at the James Library in the 1950's, commented on the decrease in student use of the reference 1 ibrarians. He said that the r e f e r e n c e lib rar ian can be particularly helpful for students doing r esearch p r ojects in advanced courses. It was the opinion of the Committee that many students may not be aware _ , , of this avuable �ce.
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BY BOB GRIEVES Hamilton and Kirkland For ,a:s;::==-;.-;-;.-;ri 1 Colleges to continue as viable 1 :·c i i · i ns·t itu t i o n s e d u c a t i o n al · 1 · comparable to other small colleges h i / [ I I _1. in the country, they must install a ✓ � -�---:-- _ t:3::-_-_ computer sy stem_adequateto meet administrative and new the academic needs which have grown in the last decade. So states both the Williams College Computer Laboratory report of March 9, 1973, and a Hamilton committee _ of concerned faculty headed by T. Anderson of the Select freshmen are sampling The rooms have been supplied John living conditions in a redesigned with carpet, new furniture, bed Mathematics Department. Early thi., year Mr. Anderson hall of Dunham Dormitory this frames, and mattresses. The freshmen living in the hall and his colleagues asked Lawrence year, where the . typical four s tu d en t s u i t e s h a v e b een t hi s s emester h ave reacted E. Wright,, Director of Computer t r a n s f o r m e d i n t o s ingle favorably to the transformed Services at Williams, toevaluatethe accommodation. Some of them computer situation at Hamilton. accommodations for three. . The College is . considering the requested singles, others were Williams had recently found its computer program deficient and hall's design as a possible model unexpectedly chosen. The hall has been found quiet, had gathered information on the for complete renovation of th� 1958 Dormitory. In an attempt to and conducive for studying and computer requirements of small reach a popular and economically the private entertaining, of guests. colleges. Mr. Wright was impressed viable design, the pilot project has One student, in a closed-off single, by the job which Mr. Lou experimented with various room said that the hall's residents are Ouimette, Director of the Data l a y o u t s and new b u ilding somewhat isolated from each Processing Center, and his staff are doing, but warned that within other. materials. The plan provides for separate Two freshmen, whose rooms a very short time they will be entrances to each room of the adjoined, said that they have unable to process effectively the amount of pre-existing suites. One of the found each other compatible, and ever-increasing interior doorways has been sealed, have experienced little social admissions data and institutional leaving one single separate from isolation. Across the hall, a research data which the college two adjoining singles. freshman said he hardly speaks to administration now requires. Mr. Wright also noted in his The cinder block walls have his· neighbor whose room is been covered with Glid-Tex, a similarly connected by an interior report the weakness of the present Hewlett-Packard calculator in the m a t e r i a l n o rmally used to door. sim u l a te stucco on'. building T h e· s t u dents unanimously Science Building. He said with exteriors, in order to create a favor the carpets and stucco-like only thirty students and four using the members mor e attractive interior wall walls to linoleum and cinder faculty sur fac e. J:.. similar material, block, despite some complaints time-share system (terminals are Thoroseal, has been tested on the about the coarsness of Glid-Tex. linked up to the Rome Air hall walls. The Freshmen appreciate the oak, Development Center at Griffiss The rooms include a walk-in and the general color schemes. Air Force Base), and with no closet area, like those in Bundy, One student though, disapproved facilities for computer uses in the separated from the living space by of his exceptionally bright yellow social sciences, the quality of education is seriously impaired. · a framed divider. The separating walls. Dunham capacity will be The calil>er of students and wall in Dunham is made of oak R!anks, w h i c h a r e e a sily reduced by forty-six if the whole faculty attracted is also affected, rep l a c ea b l e if d a maged or d o r mitory is renovated. The Mr� Wright noted. Mr. Wright offered several destroyed. Thermostats, though, · College is investigating posssible which computers means of housing these students, alternative are not-provided in each room. Ranging from 117 to 130 and some plans will be presented would best suit the colleges' square feet, the singles are slightly at the Trustees meetings next needs. He strongly recommended the hiring of a computer director . larger than those in North and weekend. Work is almost completed in (who might also teach computer Kirkland Dorms, whose sizes continued on page fourteen courses) and the hiring of a range from 95 to 131 square feet.
computer programmer primarily t h r o u g h o u t t h e Freshman-Sophomore Calculus for the Administration. Do .Hamilton I and Kirkland sequence. As many as 180 students could be involved in such really need computer systems? Last year Mr. Anderson, in a programs each semester. Higher cours es would involve �port entitled The Restoration of level Academic Excellence at Hamilton students in the same way. Mr. Anderson stated last week explained the importance of computers to modem education. that computers are now · "an Through · its capabilities "for integral part of an undergraduate's solving lengthy calculations or education," and that in the last e xe cuting logical' processes ten to fifteen years increasingly beyond the scope of any one · more graduate and undergraduate person or group," the computer schools have offered training in can coge with larger amounts of computer science. A doctorate in information in greater detail than computer science is now offered ever before possible, according to at most universities. · the report. Hamilton should have had an
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Cogar Mini-Computer The report also specifically a dequate computer system a outlined how the computer would decade ago, Mr. Anderson noted. fit into the Hamilton-Kirkland Last year, for example, three curriculum. Each student enrolled faculty candidates turned down in Freshman Calculus would a p p o intment s t o H a m ilton receive instruction in either because of the lack of computers. BASIC or FORTRAN langu age Mr. Anderson said that he foresees and discover the potentialities of the day when a college student here-will actively participate in his the computer. Students could resort to the computer in figuring courses through the increased use continued on page fourteen out complex theoretical points
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The Thomas J . Watson health and accident insurance, and Fellowship Program, established maintenance for one year in a in 1968 by the Thomas J. Watson foreign country. Foundation, will provide $7,000 G r a n t e e s u s u a l ly affiliate for a year of study abroad to each themselves with an institution of winning candidate. high e r learning, and though Most programs which provide preferences may be stated, they s c hq�a r s h i p f u n d s f o r must accept the institutional post-graduates put �strictions on placements arranged for them. the grantee, so that the money is Applicants must outline their allocated to prize winners for study plans or projects in their porgrams he may or may not have major fields, and must complete their programs in one year. The desired. Not so with the Watson grants. feasibility of the project should Accor ding to C hanning B. a l s o b e considered. T h e Richardson, Chairman of the F ulbright-Hayes booklet notes Government Department, "You that delving into recent political can do most anything you want; or military developments might you can spend a year reading prove "sensitive" in some host poetry or you can run a slave countries. To be eligible for this grant, a labor camp." Candidates must design their student must: 1) be a U.S. citizen own projects. According to the at the time of application, 2) have Student checks book out of the library. Watson Fou ndation booklet, a B.A. degree, (though some. pro posed study s hould be exceptions are made), 3) have realistic, imagina t i v e a nd received the majority of his or her p ersonally signific a nt. The education in the U.S., 4) be Foundation never intended that proficient in the language of the the year's experience involve country in which he or she wishes extended formal study at a to study, and 5) be in good foreign university, therefore, a health. A new security system is not English, Thomas J o h n s t on candidate's project should be The D a n f o r th Fellowship persued with great independence Program, established in 1951, needed for the Daniel Burke (chairman); Dr. Edwin Tolan, and adaptability. assists men, through financial aid Library in the near future, Librarian of Union College, a The only two requirements of and the Danforth Foundation's according to a report submitted f ormer reference librarian at this grant are: 1) Candidate� must encouragement, to become the last spring by an investigative H a m i l t o n; a n d Eric v o n be graduating seniors, and 2) best trained, most comeptant, Committee of the Library. Brockdorff, Director o f the L ibrarian Walter Pilkington Libraries of Hartwick College, a Candidates must have the qualities m a t u r e and humane college of integrity, creativity, leadership teachers that they have the said that despite the fact that the graduate of Hamilton. books missing "are always the and a potential for humane and capacity to become. The Committee focused on effective participation in the If a student has a general desire ones you want," the percentage of three m ajor areas: 1) The world community. and potential to become an books missing every year is only capabilities of the staff relative to Hamilton can submit four effective college teacher, and if .5% of the total collection. At the needs of the two colleges and nominations each year. Last year, that is coupled with outstanding other institutions the percentages the adequacy of the staffing, both intellectual promise, personality, run as high as 10% or 15%. two of the four were accepted. in terms of numbers and the 1he Committee, appointed last coverage of various tasks. 2) The Another post-graduate prize is integrity, and awareness of the the Fulbright-Hayes Grant. This necessity of moral and religious soring by former President John adequacy of the services provided grant provides for round trip values in a classroom, then he may Chandler , is composed of three by the Library relative to the continued on page fourteen members: Professor Emeritus of educational goals and purposes of transportation, tuition, books, the colleges. 3) The strengths and · weaknesses of the collections, in relation to the , programs of the. <: two colleges and the needs of faculty and students. The Committee . examined the feasibility of both a guard and a turnstile at the main entrance to MERCEDES-BENZ stem the number of missing books. The former proposal was rejected because of the $16,000 a n nual e xpense; the second because the members felt such a device would encourage more non-registered books to be taken from the library. Mr. Pilkington discussed the possibility of an electronic surveillance system, but said that for the time being the open policies will continue. Books considered missing are very often not stolen, but simply mislaid by students or left in 797-6730 carrels. For this reason, books left in carrels or anywhere else in the .1969 1970 library building will be reshelved Austin Healey Sprite VW Karmin Ghia unless they have been checked out $1095 $1555 at the circulation desk. : The library plans to hire a shelver to handle t h e s e responsibilities,, because as Mr.- Pilkington stated, "It is to·o much to ask of a 1970 1970 student who is employed only ten XKEJag1,1ar Toyota Celica hours a week to J<.eep trac� of this Roadster Beautiful sort' of fhing." . . WfNTE-RIZE YOUR SPORTS CAR $3575 $2495 Books can no� b,e kept for a FREE WITH THIS AD full semester, b,it are suqjec,t to ELECTRONIC ENGINE DIAGNOSIS recall aftq two weeks. _If a limit wei_e p'ut on lencl_ing pe!ioc;Is:1 it BY OUR SUN 947 would not be less than. a month. CALL JOE FOR AN APPOINTMENT Students, wo�ld ·then,ha·v� �ait lo11ger · f�r b_ o ��s they ne�d �i;1ce_ go under route 8 and take LOCATION: th �r� ��.Q!;lld b�, �o ,.re��l�s., Mr. your first left. 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system to be the most adequate 1 a l t h o u g h h e said, "The communications here is not good in retrieving books." The Committee recommended additional appointments to the staff because of the large growth of the student body. These recommendations were in line with those made by Evaluation Report of the Middle States Association in 1958 and 1970.
The 1958 report urged, "the Library... to meet the increasing d e m a nds made upon it by appointing more professional staff." The 1970 report stated, "the situation has not changed in 12 .years." T h e Committee Re suggested that, "the adequacy and quality of the services rendered" be kept in mind, as well as p r o f e s s ional and educational credentials. The Burke Library currently has non-professional personnel serving in professional capacities. The Committee reported that the library's in-house training saves the College money, but is a drain . on the time of the Librarian and his professional assistants. The three members of the committee differed slightly in t h e ir r ecomm e nd a t io ns for additional library staff, although I they agreed on the need for an'. additional reference librarian and' � l part-time shelver. L ibrarian Walter Pilkington a n n ou n c ed t h a t Mr. Keith 1 Washburn, a graduate of Bucknell; University� has been appointed as a reference librarian to assist and work with Mr. Lorenz and Mr. Dow, much of whose time is spent on the Bibliographic Center. According 'to Mr_ Pilkington, the 1 hiring of a shelver is "still up in the air." · .The Committee also examined the feasibility o'f conver'ting OUT I c a t al ogues 'frqm the present, Dewey-Decimal System· lo the i Library' of' Congress system of' cfassific·ation_ , ... ·_ . The 'estimated cosf of"such an op·'eratiori. wouTd , be·. ab�;.,t $1,0'0o;ooo 'over a ten year period. Mr. Pilkirigfun said tha}'.; ....., ... continued on·pa�e th·ree "
6/THE SPECTATOR/September 21. 1973
MaintenanceTalks Continue; Union Shop Remains An Issue
Ms. Cunningham Se·eks CourtPosition Mary Francis Cunningham, the Democratic nominee for local Criminal Court Justice, has a .., difficult job ahead of her if she wants to win the upcoming November 6th election in the p r e d o minantly R e p u b l ic a n Kirkland township where only one of the office holders is a Democrat. She hopes to conduct a person to person campaign, going from d o o r t o d o o r , h o l d i ng neighborhood coffee hours, and attending as many Church and civic functions as possible t9 meet the 4,000 registered voters in the area. In addition to running for Local Criminal Court J ustic�, Ms. Cunningham is a junior at Kirkland College, coordinator of � the Kirkland Park Committee, and the wife of Hamilton classics profes.sor James Cunningham. Her youngest child, Alison, goes to a nursery school in Utica during the mor ning, a n d o n Tu esday afternoons is at the day care center. Mr. Cunningham is home most other afternoons enabling Ms. Cunningham to campai gn. She is also a member of the D.A.R., holding the position. of Chairman of the Committee on American Indians, belongs to the St. James Church, the Kirkland Women's Civic Group and the P.T.A. Both Ms. Cunningham and her campaign manager, John Williams, a Hamilton student, hope to involve students in the campaign. t·• Volunteers are needed for a large variety of jobs ranging from' e n v elope stuffing, distributing · handbills, baby sitting on election day for women who would otherwise be unable to vote, to ph ot ographers, initiators, and organizers. The two consider the volunteer experience an extremely valid one in that the students working on the campai gn could see how the electoral process really works outside textbook theory, and improve town-student relationships. Some cases, such as polling, could be used as projects in government courses. Ms. Cunningham's nomination came as a surprise when she was "" drafted by the local Democrats. She considers her availability a qualification her competition does not have, and cites an example of • T·� ignrnent in which if the local
justice cannot be found the police are obliged to search for an a va ilabl e o ne elsewhere. In addition, because of her extensive work on the Kirkland Park Festival, she is close to many people in the town. Her travels around various places in the world, and in this country are also thought of as positive qualities. M s· C u n n i n g h a m h a� interviewed prisoners in county jails here and in England, giving her very personal insight into our judicial system's ends. The idea of finding more effective way� to continued on page fourteen
continued from page one . . below that of other institutions. Duffy said principal wage gains h a v e b e e n m a d e at large universities, and workers at small colleges are requesting similar raises. Ronald McDonald, College Controller, said "the college wants to give the workers all it can afford," and Carovano claimed that the College has negotiated in good faith. The College has responded favorably to almost every area of contract dispute, Carovano said. Wages at Hamilton, he said, are comparable to those at Skidmore, Colgate and Amherst and other · colleges similar to Hamilton. The workers contend that the offered increases in wages were insufficient to cover rises in the cost of living. They are also pressing for a · more liberal sick Construction at Kirkland. l e a v e b e n e f it p r oc e d u r e; months. charge the Union with stalling, employees are now required to those Duffy has stated that the and alter the offer. The College is supply doctor's proof of sickness, which, according to the workers, Col lege offered to pay the a l s o a n x io u s t o finalize costs more to ovtain than the employees retroactively to June negotiatio ns, resume normal 15, but if negotiations are delayed operating activities, and maintain money receiv�d in benefits. The union shop issue though much further, the College might good employee relations. appears to be the major sticking point in the negotiations. The workers suspect the College is trying to break the Union. The College is afraid of the leverage the Local might have with one hundred percent membership. The 1971 contract was not Commercial Drive Route Sa concluded until November of that New Hartford 736-7106 year, nearly five months after it 10-5' t Sa' 10-9, Mon-Fri ran out. Then, as now, the THE PROFESSIONAL BACK PACKER employees worked under the AND SKI TOURER SHOP terms of the old contract for Largest Selection of X-Country Skis Packing Equipment by
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a generous measure of independence; developed through concentration in the freedom we hope for in the liberal on of those areas or disciplines which arts ca nnot be achieved unless a great ma n has constructed as a convenient deal of the discipline the student means of categorizing knowledge. works within is his own. G ood cours es C o ncentr a t i o n should include w e l I t a u g h t sh o u l d p r o v i d e courses whose lev el and approach take o p p o r t u nity f o r i ntell e ctu a l �n t o acc o unt both . the student_'s independence, and th ere is nothing i n t e ll e ctu a l m a tu r i ty a n d h i s incompatible between independence This statement, printed in the last number o f truly introductory ·courses, �_on:ie_etence in the_ � et�10 dolog� and an d careful supervision and guidan ce. issue of last year's Spectator, is t h e n the Faculty might wish to content of the d1sc1plme; typically An unusually well quaIT _ 1 I ed reprinted here as part of this special c o nside r t h e r eintr o du ction of these should include one course at the stud e nt h o w e ver m a y h tO WIS , ' · unde m A dler Confierence Supplement. . t r o d' u ct o ry l e v e l a_n d c e r�am distributioJ?- ��q_ui_rements. rtake in his juni or or senior year . If we wish · to en�ourage the prescnbed .cou rses at the mt ermed1ate ind epende nt research in h' f Id f PREAMBLE The primary goal of Ham ilton creation of such truly mtro_ductory an d advanced levels. A discernible concentration or in a clos�� �:lat;d Y C olle ge is intellectual-to develop courses, then w e must consi der the pa_tt ern _ of �evelopment s�ould be a r e a . In coll aborati on with the . disciplined imagination and moral reallo cation of present resources and evid ent m this f_ ramework; It �hould instructor under whose guidance he sym pathy in its students through .-the commitment of future_ . o_ n_es. be more than simply a collect1_on of wishes to work, such a stu den t shOUId · 1·me. I� ome ? evelop a proposal descr . out d'is�1p rigorous training in the liberal arts. There are at least three poss1b1�1t1 es, cours es wi· th ibing th e � a as a semor se�m ar , proJ�ct, or mdepe e ed r mb o c : be t o n m m o _ a m which �y � � Our responsibility is to pr ovide an nd ent proj ect in detail and environment within which the serious (1) the ehmmat1on of Wmter Study proJr� may b� desuable to um fy the subm it it to his department of stud e nt may find a measure of with the purpose of using_ the time stu ent S expenence. Such a p rogram conc ent ration. Th e department as a liberation from b onds o n his int ellect released in support of either new should not only lead a student to wh o l e should th en examine th e from confines of place, contemporar; intro ductory courses or of sect�oning � alyti_cal competence within his o�n proposal, accept it, suggest changes in mom ent, culture, class and narrowly existing ones; (2) th e realloc at10n of disc1plme but should also make him it, or rej ect it. (In th e event the co nceiv ed se lf-interest. We believe appointments within departments and. awar e of t he simil a r ities and Facult y m e mb e r under whos e that much must be expected from within the Faculty as_ a wh�le as d i f f e r enc e �. i n . � et?odol ogies of sponsorship the project is to be undertak en is not a member of the those to whom much has be en given. vacancies occur; (3) an mcrease m the relate d cogmt ive disciplm es. Al�hough p reprofessional trai�ing is s t u d e n t ' s d e p a r t m e n t o f In our efforts to provide such an size of the Faculty. e n v i r o n m e n t , w e e n c o u r a g e: Related to th e topic of brea dth is a a n i m p o r tant part o f h i g h e r concentration, he should, of course, be invited to m eet with the m embers undergraduates to und ertake a broad course of study combined with work of th e d epartment when they discuss in d e p t h w h ich shall includ e a the proposal.) If th e proposal -IS g e nerou s m e asu re of intellectual app roved, the department, rather than independ ence. t h e student, should pass on the description of th e project to the I.BREADTH Any generally accept ed definition Board of Review for final decision. of the "lib eral arts college" suggests Each department must, of course, that if Hamilton is to b e such a exercise care to insu re that its staff is college it must strive to foster breadth n o t o v e r-b u r d e n e d w i t h of study in its s tu d e n ts. The responsibiliti es for independent study. curriculum itself must offer a b rea dth Final evaluation of th e independent of choice, an d students must be p r oj e ct should be made by th e encouraged to study in a v ariety of d e partment as a whole in close disciplines. To encoura ge breadth, the c o nsul tation with th e F ac uity College has est ablished a Board o f sponsor. Advisers whose assignment is to help Th e ind epend ent proj ects under the student plan his program through discussion are in fact ind ependent in his first tw o years. Although there are character, with the Faculty sponsor n o f o r m a l "d i s t r i b u t i o n serving principa lly as an advisor and requirements," the student and his eva lu ato r. Instruction in subj ects not adviser are expected to work out includ ed in th e College 's cu rriculum programs of study which are broad question ar1smg from th� distinction education, the purpose of study in (for example, certain languages) is not enough to deserve the term "liberal." that can be drawn between courses in depth at a liberal arts institution muSt truly "independent," and should be Fu r t h e r m o r e , c o n c e n tr a t i o n the traditional formal disciplines and tra nscend orientati on for a career. assign ed a new rubric: "Tutorial." requirements are modest enough so c o u r s e s w h ich might be termed Dep�h. as _viewed here goes ?ey�nd S tudents and te achers wishing to that even after a student declares his ''e x p r essive." F o r s o m e time �pec1al1zat10n because 0�� of its rums engage in such an enterprise, · after ma j o r h e c a n continue to seek Hamilton has offered a number of 1 s � o. broaden �e viswn of_ the c onsultation with the department, breadth. Finally, the student who is courses such as studi o art and creative s�ec1��st. the ab1bty t? contnbute should petition the Committee on wary about experimenting may take w r iting, but Kirkland has greatly s 1 gmf1c a ntly to solutions of the Academic Policy for permission to do som e of his work on a pass-fail basis. increased the number of expressive pro blems of society requires both so. There a re exceptions (foreign courses available on the Hill. The compet�n�e in a given area . an� an Fin a l ly, a t a time when the languages come to mind), but m ost Committee does not believe that one a p p r e c 1at10n of the contnbutions Committee on Academic P olicy is departments should offer at least one sort of course is necessarily more f rom other areas. about to review the standards for To implement �es� goals, each d e p a rtment a l h o n o rs, individual introductory course which is truly valuable than the other, but we do introductory in that it exposes the believe that within the traditional role de�artment should mstltute a careful departments might well consider the s t u d e n t t o t h e p r o b l e m s , of the liberal arts Hamilton should revie w o_f the scope . and structur� of possibility of requiring candidates for methodology, and significance of the f o cu s o n structured ac a demic the reqmrements of its concentration. honors to demonstrate excellence in discipline treated. If the student is to d isciplines of a cognitive nature. Then a t u r e and role _ of a senior i n d e p e n d e n t p r o j e c ts . S u c h accept a primary responsibility to Because o f the coordinate relationship p rogram should be given careful independent work could occur within study in a variety of disciplines, then with Kirkland, this issue is delicate, c o n s i d e r a ti on. Some departments the fram ework of a 50-level course dep artments must accept a corollary but the Faculty should c_onfront it e i t h e r have not offered or have and not as an independent project at re s p o n s i b ility t o o f f e r truly n onetheless. We therefore propose dropped senior programs because of all. introductory courses. B asic cou rses o n e a p p r o a c h t o t he problem: hea vy staff loads of because of doubts CONCLUSION will very pr o b a bly continue to establishing limits on the amount of a b o ut t heir effectiveness. Those If these goals are to have meaning f u n c t ion a s prer e q u i s it es f o r course work (done at H amilton as resp o nsible f o r interdisciplinary for the growth and development o f higher-level work within dep artments, well as Kirkland) outside the cognitive programs must bear in mind that such the academic life of Hamilton College, but if distribution is to be of value at disciplines that will be accepted for p r ograms can achieve depth only m u c h m o r e n e e ds to be done. w h e n c a r e fully structu r ed and F a culty, stud ents an d all those Hamilton, we must insist on a wid e credit to wards a Hamilton degree. supervised. which s e s r cou ry o range of introduct involv ed in th e life of thisCollege A d i s c i P 1 i n e d i n t e l l e ct · I s the o t value sting a l offer full an d III. INDEPENDENCE must come to grips with the questio11s student who takes th em as his only c? a r a ct e r iz e d by_ � e. ability to Clearly neith er breadth nor depth raised by this document. This College wo rk in the disciplines repres ented. discern, analyze, disc nmm ated, and can have th e value we wish to claim · must constantly question its premises When there is suffici e nt vari ety and synth esiz e. We believe th at it is best fo r th em unless th e student is granted and its vision of the future.
Statement of Goals of Ha milton College
'The primary goal of Hamilton College
is intellectual-to develop disciplined
imagination and moral sympathy in
its students through rigorous
training in the liberal arts.'
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The I . INTRODUCTION The 1973 Adler Conference was held at the Higby Club at Big Moose, New York. The sixty-five members of t h e C o n f e r e n c e included A d m i n i s t r a t io n, Faculty , and Students from Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges. T h e pu r po ses of this year's Conference remained essentially the same as in past years: to identify and discuss problem areas on the Hill and t h r ough t h e discussion and free exchange of ideas to suggest some solutions or at least approach some type of resolution of the problems. Adler is not a legislative body. It depends on the motivation of its participants to initiate action to have its proposals implemented. Much of the v a lue of A dler lies in the communication and the disucssion that the Conference spawns. Membership was again solicited from the student bodies and faculties at large. Emphasis was again placed on getting a high turnover to avoid elitist tendencies and to increase discussion productivity. The Evalucation Committee had a tremendous amount of material to c o n d en se and d i ssem inate. The f o 11owing report contains a brief sum mary of t h e m ajor topics discussed and the concrete proposals that emerged from the various groups. II. ATHLETICS There should continue to be an e m p h a s i s placed on p hysical e d uc atio n, p hysical fitness, and i nt ramurals. It was felt that the Physical Education Department should be re-evaluated. Much of the discussion centered around Hamilton's freshman gym requirements. The following proposals were made concerning athletics: 1) A l though members of the C o n f e r e n c e r e c o g n ize d t h e importance of training the mind and body and felt that physical education h a s i t s p l ac e in a liberal arts education, the majority opinion was that physic al edu cation courses should b e made optional. It is inconsistent with school policy to have course requirements. 2) It was felt that the physical education courses would be improved by the following proposals: a) Physical ed u cation courses should be handled on a voluntary basis. b) The choice of course offerings should be broadened to include other ''carr y-over" sports and i nt erests such as scuba diving, karate, judo, bicycling and skiing, and health, hygience, and diet. c ) I n tercollegiate sport team members should be excused from g y m participation during · their season of competition.
3) It w a s suggested that an i'm p roved physical fitness test be administered to all freshmen on a mandatory basis during Freshman Orientation so that freshmen could measure themselves against national health and physical fitness standards. The results of these tests would be sent to the F acuity Advisors who could recommend gym courses if the need· was indicated. 4) It was pointed out that better athletic facilities are needed on both campuses and that this could be accomplished by: a) Building a new, multi-purpose field house (the Conference did recognize, however, that such a s t r uctur e i s not of ultimate priority). b) Providing Kirkland with its own _a thletic facilities and presenting Kirkla nd students with greater
opportu n ities to use Hamilton facilities. 5) There was general satisfaction with the intramural program although faculty members are encouraged to become more involved.
III. SENSE OF COMMUNITY The concept of community on the Hill was discussed. Although many f e l t that a g r ea t er feel i ng of community was possible, there was general satisfaction with relations on the Hill. It was felt that the small size o f t h e c a m p u s e n c o u r a g es communication and that, in most c ases, individual problems work t h em selves out. The community's failure to support the Crisis Center seems indicative of this fact. 1) Student-Faculty Relations Although more infaormal contact w a s d eemed desirable, there was g e n e r a l s a t i s f a c t i o n w i th s t u d ent-f ac u l t y r el ations. The following suggestions were made concerning student-faculty relations: a) There should be more publicity about the academic pursuits of f acuity members. For example, faculty members returning from sabbaticals could report on their work in class, in forums, or m articles in the Spectator. act ivities a nd enterprises IS w e l c o m e d a n d s h o u l d be encouraged. b) Faculty participation in student activities and e nterprises IS w e l c o med a n d s hould be encouraged. c) The Conference did recognize that informal relations with the faculty require student initiative a nd that t h e faculty and administration should remain in a reactive, rather than proactive role. d) There should be a training and orientation seminar for new faculty members to attune them to life on the Hill.
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2) Black-White Relations The Conference was aware that Black-White relations are in need of impr ov ement, but recognized the impossibility of legislating attitudes. Some specific proposals were: a) The use of the Balck Puerto Rican Union as a cultural center a nd e d u c a t i o n al ce nter i s encouraged. The open hours o f the Union should be published in the weekly calendar of events. b) There ap pear to be some stru ctural difficulties regarding interaction between minority group stude nts· and faculty (i.e., the HEOP office) which, although it might have been created to ease tension, has actually caused tension. This structure should be exai:nined closely. c) There should be continued efforts to hire qualified Black faculty. d) A qu e s t i o n w a s raised concerning rent paid for use of the Bl a c k-P uerto Rican Un tion building. It was noted that the i n h abitants may have been overcharged in an extra, bill this summer. This matter should be investigated. 3) Frat ern i t y-In dependent Relat£ons It was observed that there are no major conflicts between fraternities and independents, although some tension does exist, particularly during Ho us Party weekends. Suggestions to alleviate this situation were: a) Fraternities should open their fa cilities t o the cam p u s by sponsoring community events. b) T h e In terfraternity Council sh ould c o nsider op tions for allowing non-fraternity members and women to eat in the houses. c) I t w a s sug gested that the fraternity members should pay the same cost for college overhead as independents do. Presently, a certain sum is taken out of an independent's board for overhead while the entire sum paid the college by a fraternity member goes to the h ouse. I t was noted, however, that fraternities do have their own overhead to contend with.
4) Co l lege Community-Town of C linton Relations Th ere was general contentment with the relationship between the college community and the town of Clinton; specific recommendations as to how to improve the relationship were not forthcoming. IV. COORDINATION The Conference recognized the need to maintain the balance between coordination and separation. It was also noted that despite the presence o f some slight philosophical and personality conflicts, coordination has pr ogressed well. Some suggestions were made regarding improvements in coordination: 1) The Conference felt that both schools would profit by an increased atmosphere of mutual respect. This includes respect of the educational philosophies and approaches. 2) Options for a Hamilton major s hould b e expanded to include Kirkl and f ie l d s not o ffered at Hamilton. A Hamilton student should be allowed to major in any Kirkland d e p artment i f a corresponding d epartment d o e s n o t e x i st at Hamilton. 3) Professors should be encouraged to give serious attention to admitting qualified students who have been p r e viou sly closed out to limited courses. It should also be publicized that students closed out of a course still have the option to speaking with the professor to discuss the decision.
V. "A STATEMENT OF GOALS FOR HAMILTON COLLEGE" T h e C o n ference f o u nd the Commi t tee on Academic Policy's "Statement on Goals for Hamilton C o l l e g e" v a g u e l y w o r d e d , controversial, and inadequate. It was felt that by strengthening the advising s ystem, many of the Statement's suggestions would be unnecessary. Some propo sals c o ncerning the Statement were: 1) There should be no limit on the number of cognitive or expressive courses taken by a Hamilton student for a Hamilton degree. a) The Conference found the terms "expressive" and "cognitive" to be
vague and discouraged their use. b) The possibility of offering a "Bac helor of Fine Arts" was suggested. 2) Introductory courses should be expanded and improved to provide sound, fundamental knowledge. 3) Independent Study should not be limited to a student's area of concent:r:,atio�� Certainly, a student must have the background for such work. It is the responsibility of the faculty sponsor, advisor, department chairman, and Board of Review to grant approval of the project after an e x a mination of t h e student's background. 4) The Conference was opposed to the r e i n s t i t u t ion of distribution requirements. The Conference was in f avor o f d i st r ibu t ion, but not requirements. It was felt that by strengthening the advising system, the foundation of the maintenance of a liberal a r t s e d u c a t io n, and by improving the introductory courses, distribution could be achieved. 5) Winter Study is a worthwhile expenditure. However, the program does need to be improved. The abuses of the program do not outweigh the potentialities and benefits. Additional suggestions concerning Winter Study were that the program should: a ) B e b et t er s u p ervised and rigorously evaluated. b) That the program be .extended to four weeks. 6) A liberal arts education must transcent the classroom and deal with life outside the classroom and career concerns. VI.RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF ADLER In ord er to best evaluate the Conference as a whole, it was decided that there should be a follow-up c o n f erence that will be held on Saturda y , Dec ember 1. A final recommendation will be released at that time. Some proposals were: 1) There should be an emphasis on concrete proposals. 2) A comprehensive report on the status quo of areas to be discussed s hould be included in the Adler booklet. 3) Some suggested future topics were: a)Goals of the College. b) A definition of a liberal arts education. c) A final evaluation of Winter Study. 1973 Adler Evaluation Committee
10/TH E SPECTATOR/September 21, 1973
The Danforth Summer Workshop Report t he se days of restricted budgets, Ha m i lt o n's re latio ns hip wit h relation to the pnmary task of Preface The team from Hamilton at the c entral bureaucracies inflict, often Kirkland. And, obviously, Kirkland teaching students. It is a truism that Danforth Summer Workship in the irrationally, policies and procedures contributes to the possibilities for a the teaching is only as good as the Liberal Arts was originally composed for all the institutions within systems, flexible program. teacher. To the end of encouraging Flexibility is a rather late arrival as the welfare of individual instructors of Messrs. Kurtz, Kinnel, Lindley, and whether appropriate for particular Simon. Mr. Traer was substituted for i n s t i t u t i o n s o r n o t . Third, part of the Hamilton style, which and of increasing the quality of the Mr. Kurtz as a result of Mr. Kurtz's academicians, sometimes even ones until five years ago concerned itself whole faculty, the team makes the being asked to take on extra duties from prestigious institutions, distrust with rather more traditional ways of following suggestions. When a faculty during the acting presidency of Mr. what they call elitism: that is, the insuring the quality of a student's memeber reatums from a leave or Caravano. Mr. Kinnel was designated teaching of carefully selected students education. For some of these, ways, fellowship, he should be encouraged the team leader. The original team within an atmosphere that at least the team wishes to suggest changes to share with his colleagues the results which, although not exactly parallel of his research or of his experience. composed the statement for the tends toward the intellectual. Both the fear of homogenization, to· the recommendations made in the The form might well be that of a Danforth Summer Workshop, a copy of which is attached to this report. which the Hamilton team shares, and Goals Statement, share many of the p u b l i c l e c t u re. A s a pu blic During the spring, the Committee on the distrust of elitism, which the team Statement's concerns and reinforce its celebration and acknowledgement of Academic Policy issued a Statement does not share, leads to the questions points. First, the team believes the his promotion, certainly to professor of Goals, a copy of which is attached implied by the team's statement: how re-examination and the reconstitution and perhaps to associate professor, a to this report. Upon arrival at the does Hamilton survive and flourish in of the introductory courses are of instructor should also be expected to conference, the Hamilton team began the coming years? Is the Hamilton v e r y great importance. The team give a public lecture. These two kinds its deliberati ons, very often in style worth keeping, no matter what thinks that both the substance and of lectures will call attention to what form of such courses are especially in the individual instructors have been consultation with Prpfessor Joseph changes in particulars are made?' II need o f re-examination during a thinking about and enhance the sense G u s f i e l d, w ho p r o v e d to b e s t he team considered this period when liberal arts colleges can t hat t h e H i l l is an intellectual immensely helpful in bringing focus to t hose problems w h ich the question, it came to the conclusion expect that not nearly as many of community, not simply a collection Hamil ton team found necessary to that in this sty le lie the strengths of their graduates as in the recent past of students taking courses. Further, talk about, even when no solutions t h e C o l le g e . That i s, for one will proceed to advanced degrees. The leaves may well be encouraged more ingredient, the flexibility in program team h op e s t hat, granted the than they have been in the past not came to mind. The team is aware that the report p o s s i b I e for each student makes reconstitution of the courses, many only for research and its resultant t h a t follows takes the form of Hamilton attractive as an alternative can be taught in small groups-say of publication, but also for teaching suggestions-suggestions which follow to institutions which for one reason ten sudents each. Hamilton freshmen e lse where, in order to gain new upon conclusions. It is also aware that or another force all students into a are often disappointed to find that perspectives, or for acquiring new for many of the suggestions to be pattern. At the same time the team their introductory work frequently skills which werer not necessary or implemented, the Committee on recognized that such flexibility is only occurs in rather large classes. No available at the time the instructor in Academic Policy must consider them, possible at an institution of fairly doubt not all introductory courses question earned h i s doc torate. and if so moved, shape them first into manageable size. And, further, that a lend themselves to small classes, but Intellectual vitality is also encouraged policy and then into procedure. Other student must depend very heavily some do. A student, generaily a b y a special kind of outside suggestions, such as those on the u p o n t h e advice he receives, freshman but often a sophomore, lecturer-that is, one who has a special Faculty, require action by the Ofiice particularly in the first two years. ought t o have t h e reason able competence in his field but who has of the President and by the Dean of Therefore, in addressing itself to the expectation of one small class in four. not yet succumbed to notoriety and Such expectation raises questions large fees. The one on the way up will the College, in consultation with the d e s i r a b l i l i t y o f distrib u t io n concerning enrollment limitations and worry about his audience. Public requrements, as raised by the goals appropriate committees. the reallocation of present resourses, lectures for large audiences delivered statement, the team concludes that the later being succintly summarized by the famous or perhaps notorious In reaching \he conclusions such requirements are not desirable. on page 2 of the Goals Statement. should, unlike the ones outlined outlined below, the team members The flexibility in selecting a program These questions are also raised by the above, be supported by those who were profoundly influenced by what is a strength, both in attracting able t h e y learned from t he other students and in offering them an team's belief that the senior year wish to attend them. academicians, both those acting as education free from forcing them into would also become far more exciting F rom time to time the whole faculty for the workshop and those the same molds. In reaching this intellectu ally were there courses program would benefit by an outside here as participants. The institutions conclusion, the team is not so foolish especially demanding and synthesizing consultant being invited to the Hill. represented ranged from small to as to believe that the present advisory for the concentrator. These might The team, for example, believes that a gigantic, from sectarian to secular, system is perfect; it needs constant take the form of small seminars or visitation by Professor Gusfield would from as far away as Oxford, England, review for its own improvement. As a tutorials. Then again, it is possible yield a good many usggestions for and as nearby as Denver, Colorado, final note on this particular point, the that instead of allocating resources in improving social science on the Hill. and from those struggling for financial team points out a practical problem: t h is w a y, seminar s for seniors (Professor Gusfield has the very great and educational existence to well t h e reinstituion o f d istribution organized around to pics and taught a dvantage of having advised the supported state institutions and r e q u i r e m e nt s, w ha t e v e r t he ir by instructors from two departments Kirkland team last year as well as the highly prestigious private ones, of particu la rs, would affect staffing might be more stimulating; they Hamilton one this year.) As a final suggestions for keeping which Harvard is the most obvious needs. This influence, in turn, might certainly would appear to be less ex a m p le. Educational philosophies wel l cause o bstacles in adding pre-pr o fessio n a l. Instead of the Hamilton vital, the team suggests ranged from the very traditional to instructors where they are needed, o ptio ns listed abo ve, though pro bably s t r ongly that an early retirement the most innovative, the latter being especially because of gaps in the n o t i n a d d i t i o n t o t h em , p r o g ram be developed for senior r e p r esented by the Empire State present offerings, or in carrying out self-disciplined seniors and juniors in memebers of the faculty who wish to College of the SUNY. From both the reallocation of resources which p ar ticular subj ects s ho u ld b e retire before the normal age-that is, i n f ormal conversations with other some of the suggestions below would encouraged to d o independent work, for mo st men before 65. Early especially in the newly revised form r et irement w o u ld i n c r ease the particip a n t s and from workshop entail. For the reasons given above, the described o n page 5 of the Goals possibiiity for attracting to the Hill meetings on education, the Hamilton men and women with new doctorates, t eam came to three conclusions team also concludes that it does not Statement. And, finally, the team believes that new skills, and the vitality of youth. concerning t h e general state of wish to endorse limits to the number Conclusion American education. First, the growth of expressive courses a given student for upperclassmen there should be a The t eam believes Hamilton's i n student numbers for four-year can take. Besides, the team could not procedure for permitting the student colleges is leveling off; the decision by conclude, either as individuals or as a to gain knowledge off campus, apply c u r r e n t s t y I e o f in t e11 e c t u al Hamilton not to become larger is team, that there is a useful distinction academic analysis to it, and receive c o mmunity is appropriate of its thereby reinforced. Second, there is a between learning in a cognitive course academic credit for it. Obviously, the mission to being a liberal arts college. w i d e s p r e a d f e ar o f what is and learning in an expressive course, team does not wish credity to be It does not believe that the style can a p p r o p r i a t e l y c a l l e d t h e though there is a different subject granted for simply being alive and mantain its vigor without constant examination and changes made as homogenization of education. This being learned in a different way. Also, more or less well. III their necessity becomes clear. process occurs most frequently in from another perspective the team o far this report has dealt with large state systems, in which, in order believes that limiting the number of presumably to save money during expressive courses would exacerbate strengthening the College's program in
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Off-Campus Winter Projects Registration Deadline Octoher·l
· Minimum Enrollment: 7 of development urban the on At its met:ting on September Natural Areas of Florida. A the during London metropolitan 12, the Faculty approved the camping tour of natural areas in off.:Campus, faculty-led Winter Victorian Period. During the first south Florida. The emphasis will two weeks morning lectures and Study programs described below. f>e on the flora and fauna, and on afternoon walking tours will be Students who wish to enroll in man's impact on the area. c o n cerned with the physical these programs should sign up P articipants will make a shell development of London from with the instructors involved (mollusk) collecti on, arthropod Roman times to the present. After (students for Mr. Cholakian's (particularly insect) collection, that the student will be assigned a program should register with Mr. and maintain a daily journal. particular area of London which Moraud and students interested in Marine organisms will be studied Mr. Wertimer's project should see was especially affected by or a in the field but will not be Mr. Snead). Those interested direct result of the population collected. should register before October I growth of the nineteenth century ECONOMICS and, also by that time, make a -- such as Camberwell, Camden Cost: $500 WSP-4 deposit of $200 in the business Town, or St. John's Wood -- and Instructor-Wertimer office. Those students who are propare a notebook exploring the Prerequistie: Economics 24, 35, interested in financial aid for the architectural character of the or consent Minimum Enrollment: projects should obtain application neighborhood and its particular 4 forms from the instructor or from successes and failuresin terms of Com p a r a t i v e F i n ancial Mr. K o g u t and return the human well-being in the context Institutions. The purpose of the project is to compare the financial completed form to the financial of a great city. ASIAN STUDIES institutions of London with those aid office. Students will be Cost: $975 in New York. The functions are · notified during the first week of WSP-1 Instructor: Blackwood the same, but the forms differ. October about their financial aid. One week spent in New York, in Students should recognize that for P r e r equ isite: None Minimum many of these projects, deposits Enrollment: 17 observation and study two weeks Mo d e r n iz a t i o n v s. in London. Both general functions will not be refunded because of and specific institution would be commitments to ticket agencies Westernization: Indi a. The general .and airlines. Should any of the question which the WSP will compared. DELTA PHI, TEAK, PSI U, DKE, p r o j e c t s be o v e r s u b scribed, address is: To what degree and in ENGLISH Cost: $600 AD, DU, THETA DELT, SIG, upperclassmen will get prof erence what respects, if any, does it WSP-1 Instructor: Wagner ELS, CHI PSI. appear that a society must over lowerclassmen. Minimum None 4. Freshmen in second . floor Westernize if it is to modernize. · Prerequisite: WINTER STUDY ABROAD Enrollment: 15 South and South-West Dunham. ART This question will be addressed The London Theatre. Three SIG, THETA DELT, DU, AD, WSP-1 Cost; $500 during a t�enty-two day tour of in London attending weeks DKE, PSi U, DELTA PHI, TEAK, n o r t h I n d i a (B o m b a y , Instructor: Carter CHI PSI, ELS. Prerequisite: One course in Art Aurangabad, Jaipur, Delhi, Agra,· theatrical performances - drama, ballet. opera, and musical, 5. Freshmen in second floor History or permission. Minimum Khajuraho, Banaras). Discussions of the performances, North and North-West Dunham: Enrollment 6 BIOLOGY several lectures by professionals in Cost: $400 TEAK, CHI PSI, ELS, SIG, The Architectural and Urban WSP-1 the London theatre, study of the THETA DELT, DU, AD, DKE, Development of London. London Instructor: McManus PSI U, DELTA PHI. architecture wit� specia} emphasis Prerequisite: consent of instructor continued on page fou_"'teen 6. Freshmen in third floor South and South-West Dunham. PSI U, DKE, AD, DU, THETA DELT, SIG, ELS, CHI PSI, DELTA PHI, TEAK. 7. Freshmen in third floor North and North-west Dunham. DKE, AD, DU, THETA DELT, SIG, ELS, CHI PSI, DELTA PHI, TEAK, PSI U. Freshmen should meet at the Chapel at 2 p.m. for a short talk. Tours begin at 2:15.
Houses Open For Freshmen T Ours On Sunday September 23, the lFC is sponsoring architectural tours of the Hamilton fraternities. The IFC asks your cooperation in informing the freshmen of the tours. A schedule is included b elow. Please a d v ise your freshmen as to which tour route they are on. Guides will escort them from the Chapel to the various houses. The stay at each house will be limited to 15 minutes and refreshments, beer, soft drinks and snacks will be available. SCHEDULE: 1. Freshmen in South Dorm. ELS, CHI PSI, DELTA PHI, TEAK, PSI U, DKE, AD, DU, THETA DELT, SIG. 2. Freshmen in first floor South and South-West Dunham. CHI PSI, DELTA PHI, TEAK, PSI U, DKE, AD, DU, THETA DELT, SIG, ELS. · 3. Freshmen in first floor North and North-West Dunham.
Adler Pinpoints Problems
continued from page one independents and women could lake their meals at fraternity houses. Relations with the town of Clinton were generally regarded as satisfactory. Discussions on coordination colleges two the between emphasized the need for increased mutual respect between the two c om m u n i t i e s . Participants a p proval exp r e s s e d of cross-majoring and solicited the necessary action. An assessment of the "Goals of Hamilton College" expressed the need to strengthen the inadequte presented They Statement. proposals to improve introductory courses and to open independent study to non-majors. There was a general concensus that Winter Study is educationally valid although recommendations were made to further its value. R. Gordon Bingham, Dean of Students, said of 1973 Adler, "What has never come out of Adler before and not designed to come out of it, was groups of people to go out to accomplish certain things as a corporate l:.0dy."
There is a planned reunion of Adler participants on December I, 1973 to re-evaluate the fate of their proposals. Although Adler possesses no legislative power Kenny Marten, the of Adler Chairman Coordinations Committee, hoped that any concensus reached by the wide variety of special interests represented at Adler would be an impetus for motivating students, faculty and administration to carry out some of the Adler proposals. Commenting on last year's Adler, Alan Silverman, Chairman of the Evaluation Committee, said, "Although some of the same pro bis tum up year after year, we hope that by emphasizing a large turnover we can hope to solve some of Hamilton's recurrent problems."
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Bluesman Larry Johnson, left, at the Coffeehouse last weekend. Andy Cohen, opposite, will appear Saturday night. BY JIM KENNEDY The Hamilton-Kirkland Coffee they are a blues team that won't House began its year in style be matched at the Coffee House . Friday night, presenting New this year. Unless, perhaps, we York City blues guitarist Larry invite them back. And why not? Johnson. The Hamilton-Kirkland audience Last year, playing solo, Larry liked Larry and the Professor had filled the Coffee House to enough to spill into the Lobby for capacity (many others listened to the sec ond year in a row. the show from the McEwen And be it known that Larry Friday night Larry Johnson loves Hamilton College. lobby). surprised everyone by showing up with a drummer. In Larry's own words, "This guy was no slouch!" "The Professor," as the drummer called himself, more than lived up to his title when he sat down and brushed that snare. Still in all, the evening belonged to Larry Johnson. Anyone who heard him play alone knew that the Professor and his snare drum were merely icing on an already overly-rich cake. Each note Larry picked out on his guitar was a personal tribute to his mentor and idol, Rev. Gary Davis. So he intends it, and so it is. Larry Johnson is a starving artist. The Professor is "just beatin' his way through life .'' They haven't been together too long, yet it seemed as if each knew exactly where the other was going at all times. Call it art, call it soul, it was a feeling they generated that. made it �own
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\Xrelcomed at list Recent work of Alan Paulson, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York will be exhibited at the List Arts Center, Kirkland College in Clinton, N·ew York through December 2. The artist was present for the opening of the exhibition on Thursday, September 20 at a 7 :30 reception for the public. The exhibit contains current bronze sculpture and is the result of a m�jor humanities grant from Colgate University. The sculptor's interest in art's relation to science l? I.. & • iDJ � through the automobile is expressed in this exhibit of new works entitled "One Way". � OXF(}RD P aul son takes wax impressions of toy WEST l.fBRAHY automobiles after he has altered and assembled them into various automobile THE CONFORMIST The Conformist, the award-winning feature film directed by "experiences." Bronze castings are Bernardo Bertolucci, will be shown Friday and Saturday night at then made to produce such 8:00 P.M., and Sunday night at 10:00 P.M., in the Kirner-Johnson humorous pieces as "Pile Up", Auditorium. Starring Jean Louis Trintignant, the investigator in Z, "Trucking", "It's Not Nice to Fool Mother N ature", and The Conformist is sponsored by Amenic Film Society. This film is one of the most widely acclaimed pictures shown at "Wrong Way Go Back". Previous one-man exhibitions the most recent New York Film Festival. Bernardo Bertolucci was given the Best Director Award of 1971 by the National Society of include The Touchstone and Allan Film Critics. Pauling Kael, of The New Yorker, has called "The Stone Galleries in New York City ( 19·7 3), The Picker Gallery, Conformist" - "A superior film . .. rich, poetic, cinematic." Colgate University (1972), St. WANTED (BY THE YEARBOOK) George and the Dragon Gallery, Photographs (of the school, students, WSP trips, vacations, etc.). Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1971) � and Journals (written while at school or during WSP periods or vacations, Port O'Call Gallery, Louisville, preferably by seniors). Letters (excerpts about the school written by o yourself or by friends.)A11ecdotes (about you and school life). Also, Kentucky (1970). Recent gr u_p exhibitions include The Wright any other material you might have which would be in any way repr�sentative or descriptive of school life. Send these items to· Vin Art Center, Beloit, Wisconsin Pomeranz through campus mail or bring them to room 309 Kirkland (1971) and Milwaukee Art Center (1970). norm. Before joining the Colgate faculty in 1971, Paulson taughl at PHOTOGRAPHERS t h e Layton School of Art, M i l w a u k e e; A r t Center , Those photographers wishing to rent storage lockers in the Bristol Association School, Louisville; darkrooms should ·sign up for them Monday, September 24 from and lJnivers;ty of Pennsylvania. 3:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m, in the Bristol Darkroom area. The cost is He now lives .in Hamilton, New $I.GO pl'.!r locker for the year. L0ckers are available with ur without York, with his . wife and two l0rks. children.
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EVENTS
Romantic Intrigue Destroyed; '' A Tale of '''two English Girls
FILMS
On Campus This Weekend
Ruggles of Red Gap, comedy starring Charle� Laughton, and Camille with Greta Garbo. Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. Sunday at 10:00 p.m. Chemistry Auditorium. Admission 75 cents. The Conformist Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. Sunday at 10:00 p.m. Kirner Johnson Auditorium. Admission 75, cents..
September 24th and 25th (Monday and Tuesday)
Diol M for Murder. 10:00 p.m. in the Chemistry Auditorium. Admission 50 cents.
September 26 (Wednesday)
Civilisation Series presents "The Great Thaw". 8:30 p.m. in Chemistry Auditorium.
September 27 (Thursday)
Requiem for a Heavyweight at 8:00 p.m. in the Science Auditorium. Admission 75 cents. Citizen Kone, the Orson Welles classic, and The Immigrant starring Charlie Chaplin. 8 :00 p.m. in the Chemistry Auditorium. Admission 75 cents.
At Nearby Theaters
Cannonball (853-5553) Doy of the jackal (PG) Kallett (736-2313) Blume in Love (R) Stanley (724-4000) Terror in the Wax Museum (R) and Now the Screaming Storts (R) Uptown (732-0665) Jesus Christ Superstar· (G) 258 Cinema (732-5461 )Lost Tango in Paris (X), Doy of the jackal and A Touch of Closs (PG)
MUSIC September 21 (Friday)
McEwen Coffeehouse: Andy Cohen plays guitar, banjo, piano. Free with Social Tax, 50 cents without. EXHIBITIONS
Currently on Campus
Mahler Becomes Politics, Beisbol and Other Graphic' Works.
Graphics by Ronald Kitaj, at Root Art Center through October 14th. Sculpture by Alan Paulson, at List Art Center through October 20th. Opens September 26th (Wednesday) Selected Lithographs by Bruce Manwaring. Opening at 8:00 p.m. at the Bristol Campus Center. Through October 19th.
LECTURE AND DISCUSSION September 22 (Saturday)
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:30 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
September 23 (Sunday)
Free Church of Clinton. Speaker: Mohammed ab'dar-Rahman '74. 11:15 a.m. Chapel.
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 p.m. Chapel. Theolo gical Workshop. Speaker: The Rev.. Susan Ellis. "Women
·and Theology; Some Inequalities." 7:30 p.m. in the Kirner Johnson Red Pit.
September 27th (Thursday)
Last Lecture Series. Speaker, Austin Briggs, Hamilton English De·partment. 8: 30 p.m. Chapel.
BY RICHARD ROTH a.;d PETER SHUMAKER
Protestant upbringing, begins to teach Sunday school to forget about her past. Sometime later, Anne returns to Paris, this time accompanied by her sister. After a brief encounter with Muriel, C laude is torn between the two sisters. When Muriel learns of her sister's affair with Claude, she vomits in disgust an_d faints. The two sisters then return to Wales. D iurka, w i s hing to marry Anne; .goes· to visit her in Wales, but unfortwiately finds her dying o f t uberculosis. Claude learns from him that Muriel will be landing in Calais on her way to a
Two English Girls, directed by F r a n c o i s T r u f fa u t ope ne d Kinokunst's 1973-74 film season o n t he h il l l a st weeke nd. Truffaut's international reputation as an outstanding film-maker was upheld in this racy tale of romantic intrigue, based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Roche. The plot centers on a love triangle involving two English sisters and a young Frenchman. The s isters, Anne and Muriel Brown, are credibly played by K ik a Markham a nd Stacey Tendeter. The handsome young Frenchman is played with great f i n e s s e by Truffaut alumnus Jean-Pierre Leaud. The plot is relatively simple for a Romantic epic. While visiting in Wales, Claude falls in love with Muriel and proposes to marry her. Uncertain of his devotion, Muriel declines. A compromise, worthy o f King Solomon, is reached, whereby the two woeful lovers are to be separated for one year. Due to natural biological urges, C l a u d e i s r e st i v e and looks elsewhere f or l 'Amour. The engagement is off. Muriel is seized by convulsions and is threatened by loss of eyesight. Meanwhile, Anne, the other sister opens a sculptor's studio in Paris. Quelle chance pour Claude! A n n e is g o r g eous and when Claude goes to a housewarming at her new studio, sparks begin to fly as they are both transported to heavenly heights. A voya g e to Switzerland follows, more heavenly heights, and then they separate (a scene cunningly executed by Truffaut, BY ANNE THOMPSON showing the two lovers departing Ruggles of Red Gap is not a in separate rowboats). film about a boy and his dog. Claude, now a S\lccessf,i. art · Ruggles is a perfect English valet, dealer, is seeing other women. and Red Gap is a town in the state One day he receives in the mail of Washington around 1908. Made Muriel's diary- a tale of sexual in 1935, this Anglo-American f r u stration. Muriel, w h o is• comedy is a battle of the cultures. �It-ridden because of her strict
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school-teaching job in Brussels. He rushes to meet her in Calais and finally consummates a seven year p a s s i o n. U n f ortunately, their passion is exhausted after one n ight, so the next day they separate forever. In t h is f ilm, Truffaut has d e s i g ned a · beautiful romantic tragedy which he tears down; he mocks t h e w h o l e Ro mantic tradition. His editing is brisk, thus destroying the tragic implications of each scene. The narration, by Truffaut himself, is as dry and unemotional as a newscast. This, in addition to the .�uperb timing o f the f i l m , d e st r o y s t h e seriousness o f the intrigue.
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The film spoofs English class traditions and American social climbers, and through all the comedy only Ruggles and American patriotism emerge untainted. Charles Laughton, known for such heavy dramatic roles as Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame and Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty, first turned his talents to comedy in this film. He is· stately, deferent and very funny as Ruggles, an English manservant lost by his master in a poker game to a rich American couple. They are delicious American stereotypes. Mary Bolan plays Effie, an overdressed would-be socialite who henpecks her husband in an attempt to make him a gentleman. Charlie Ruggles is Egbert, a rich cowboy who resists his wife's pressures with the help of his mother, a sharp-tongued Zazu Pitts. Ruggles is taken from one culture to another, and in the transition, is mistaken for an English nobleman. He begins to learn about .the American way, and Laughton's best moment is when he delivers the Gettysberg address,. a true orator. Leo McCary directed this fine, witty film. In spite of the social c o rny commentary a nd patriotism, it is· almost believable and always very funny� The film is being .shown this weekend with the classic Camille, starring Greta Garbo. The double feature: -�m. start tonight and Saturday night at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday at 10:00 p.m.• in the Chemi�try Auditorium. Admission . is' seventy-five cents: . . . . . . .
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Foreign.Winter Study Projects continued from page eleven technical aspects of production, history of the theatre, historical costume, etc. An overnight trip to one of the provincial theatres may · · ·., be arranged.
FRENCH
Enrollment: 1 Intensive French in Paris. Students will be placed at the proper level of language course at Alliance Francaise. There will be both oral and written practice.
GEOLOGY
WSP-2 Cost: $500 WSP�1 Cost: $400 Instructor: Cholakion Instructor: Hawley Prerequisite: Consent of . the Prerequisite: Geology 11 and Minimum preferably Geology 12 Minimum Department Enrollment 5 OPTIONS IN EDUCATION ,Geologic Field Trip to West Texas and Southern New Mexico. continued from page one tasks consisted of telephone work A field study of the regional and poster making several hours geology, structure, stratigraphy, per week. She also . circulated economic grology, and geologic around p a rt i c u l a r h i s t o r y o f t h e W e s t one neighborhood, getting t o know T e x a s-So uthern New Mexico the people-their needs and region. The group will examine s o m e a sp e c t s of petroleum desires. Finally, she did research on the e x p l oration, d r i l ling, a nd problems voiced by these people. production, a large open pit Among the areas studied were the copper mine and mill, and several Utica Transit CommISsion and the 'ghost' mining localities. There Power will be an introduction and some Niagara-Mohawk the practice in geologic mapping. Commission. The benefits of the program There will be' emphasis on the were many but the student said examination of field evidence for, perhaps the most valuable reward and �terpretation of the geoloj?;ic was when she came back to history of this region. Kirkland and took an American Studies course in which "the PRE-MED OUTLOOK textbook descriptions now had continued from page four life." It is no longer someone classes because the Hamilton trying to explain their experience grade point average is usually to you but instead it is you lower. D ean Kinnel stressed that comparing your experiences to despite these facts, a pre-med in those or someone else. By participating in a full the top third at Hamilton still has semester, work/study project with a solid chance of getting into a the approval of a professor, a medical school in the United Kirkland student can receive three States. He was hesitant to specify· course credits for her unique exactly what one should expect given certain statistics because learning experience. Parents Plan. , Often students combine this t h e r e a r e t o o m a n y Other o rganizations which with study of one <;:ourse at a e x t ra numerical f a c t o r s t o receive Fund Drive aid are the different · college so that they consider. He said that Hamilton American Civil Liberties Union, make up the lost credit or, if they has had "moderate success" at the American Friends Service have an additional credit towards placing pre-meds who were in the Commit tee, a iding Vietnam graduation already, they can top 10% of their classes into r e f u gees, a nd the Wor k d · pursue -work/study without fear "good" medical schools. In response to the problem of University Service, aiding refugees of delaying their graduation. Kirkland students may also grade inflation at competing i n m a n y u n d�r devel oped choose to elect a field wOTk schools, as well as the difficulties countries. H a milton-Kirkland volunteer program whereby they work inherent in a school of Hamilton's service groups also rely upon the part-time for which they receive size, the Associate Dean has begun Fund Drive for support. These one course credit while electing an intens� program of informing and communicating with medical groups include programs at Marcy three courses at Kirkland. " 'Innovative is not a program, schools. State H o spital, Rome State _School, Utica State' Hospital, but a way of life.' But while c a nnot be Saint Elisabeth's Hospital, the i n n o v a t i o n P o t t e r S c h o o l f o r t h e programmed, it must be positively a ssisted and Handicapped, the Children's encou raged Hospital, Saint Luke's Hospital, respected...'' According to the and Gillmore Village. The Comhill Center's newsletter that is why Tutorial program also benefits the Options in Education Center exists. from Fund Drive support.
Fund Drive Solicits Support In Aiding Utica Charities The annual Campus Fund Drive began in t h e Hamil t on-Kirkland community this Monday, September 17. The Drive is to aid many area volunteer services in the Utica, Clinton, and Hill communities. Fund Drive solicitors will visit everyone on campus during the next two weeks asking for a minimum donation of $2.00 per person. Volunteers involved with the Fund Drive said that the results of the _past few years have been disappointing. In spite of several generous contributions last year, a total of only $1300 was raised. The average donation was only 68 cents per person. They stated that schools which compare in size to Hamilton and Kirkland usually collect ·approximately $5000 in similar drives. This year Co-chairmen Bob Porter '75 and Julie Bloss '75 plan to ask $2.00 per person. They hope that more people will donate than in recent years. The money raised in this drive is used to support many programs in the community. Within the Hill c-omm unity the Fund Drive supports Utica Bail Bond, which helps to provide bail money for any Hamilton or Kirkland student who may be arrested. The Fund Drive provides the main support for the Clinton Area Migrant Wo rkers, pro viding medical s u p p l i es and rec r eational equipment. It also aids the Cli nton A B C, a residential program, which provides ten high s c h o o l s t u d e nt s from under-priviledged areas a better chance (ABC) to earn a high school diploma. Jose Gonzalo Tamayo, a 13 year old Columbian . Child, is supported through the Foster
THE YEAR OF THE COMPUTER? continued from page four of c o mp u t e r s , r ather than passively absorbing theories. The doubling of information, within the last ten years has made the computer more vital now than ever before, he concluded. Both Bowdoin College and Colgate University have spent $1.5 million on t h eir computer s ystems. Some trustees and faculty at Hamilton-Kirkland have said that the colleges might be rushing too fast into the purchase of computers. Mr. George Cogar, Hamilton trustee and President of the C ogar Corporation,· has donate4 a Cogar Mini-Computer for running in assembly language while the colleges decide on a computer system. The Cogar Mini-Computer, which will be used in a seminar for six students, has no capabilities for use in
decimal arithmetic. Mr. Anderson noted that Hamilton-Kirkland has neither p2aced an order for a computer nor has it asked for a consultant. A computer system will not arrive until at least two or three years from now, according to Mr. Anderson, because the Trustees still await additional moneys such as the pending $75,000 Exxon grant. MS. CUNNINGHAM continued from page six deter criminal behavior is one she wants to _pursue After graduating from Kirkland she hopes to continue at Albany Law School because of their special program in criminology, and from there she would like to obtain a P.H.D. at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology in England.
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GERMAN
Cost: $1000 Instructor: Colby Prerequisite: Reading Knowledge of Gennan Minimum Enrollment: 7 German in Study Theater.Students . will see 2-4 plays per week (in Vienna, Frankfurt, Berlin or Munich). The plays will be read in advance and reports of the plays and the productions will be presented at the weekly meetings. Students will keep a theater log in German. Evaluations will be based on the reports, the theater logs and participati.on in weekly meetings. WSP-3
GERMAN
Cost: $1000 Instructor: Colby Prerequisite: One semester of college German or the equivalent Minimum Enrollment: 7 German Where It Is Spoken. An intensive study of German in a German speaking city (Vienna, Frankfurt, Berlin or Munich). With the agreement of the group, the study will begin two days after Christmas and last until a day or so before the beginning of the second semester. Students will spend approximately 4 hours per day in class, 5 days a week; they will visit movies and theaters and be encourage to watch television as their facility with the language increases. Evaluations will be based on participation in class and on examinations. DANFORTH continued from page five qualify to become a Danforth Fellow. Austin Briggs, Professor of English, is the laison between the col l e g e and t h e D a nf orth Foundation. DUNHAM continued from page four the hall where some freshmen found barren rooms in September. Once finishing touches are made, t h e College will r e ach a c o st-p er-room f igure. Next semester, Dean Bingham will compile an official report of student reaction to the project.
The Village Tavern of Clinton Welcomes Hamilton& Kirkland Students FEATURES
MON. NITE FOOTBALL 18 CENT DRAFTS WED NITE SILENT MOVIES FRI NITE FISH FRIES SUN SOUR HOURS 50 CENTS PER SOUR 12-2, 8:30-9:30 THE NEW MANAGEMENT INVITES THE STUDENTS TO COME ON DOWN.
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KingTriumphs Over Lobber; Liblier Favored by Hill Fans
WATERPOLO CLUB VICTORJOUS AGAINST MORRISVILLE COLLEGE
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dep t �. d e fens e, L i ebling, Armstrong and seniors Jeff Hewitt, Peter Fasolino and Harold Warren will compose the front four.- Juniors John Newell and Bill . Fems bring · experience to the 1 ine b acker including corps Cunrung · ham and freshmen Nick Lore and Mark O'Brian. Manning the secondary, King is relying upon co-captain Tom Janosky, Dusty Batley '75, Fallon, and Gary Smith '76. For depth there is Richard Murphy ,76_ Tomorrow's contest will not be broadcast;
said, "I don't know." Some should both lose. Actually, they BY DOUG GLUCROFT however, as I both won, at least fimanc1·al1y. As · It's too ear1Y for the WorId attacked the ISsues, Seri es and the Watergate hearings heard one viewer declare, "She's a one Riggs fan said in Bristol as the have n't resumed, but Bristol was female chauvinist pig, what's the crowd,, filed out, "Well, he's a rich And so are all the standing room only for a more difference?" I assumed that if he loser. mo me ntous spectacle-the Battle didn't know the difference, I promoters of the match who drew of the Sexes, as fought by B.J. wouldn't attempt to explain. about 200 Hamilton and Kirkland ,, as the students to see the;.u.. commerci·al "Vive la difference, King and B. Riggs. announcements. At the same time The crowd favored Mrs. King French say. by about three to one, but the The fiirst set ended as Bobby the crowd was cheering the Riggs followers made up for that Riggs double- faulted. The score, victory of a woman, they also with their cheers. The roar swelled 64. The score in the Bristol cheered the triump h over a person when Riggs broke Billie Jean's Lounge weighted heavily, as the they thought o f as a cr ass, King fans showed strength in o b n o x i o u s h u m a n being. scrvice in-thefirst set. Th e snack bar onlY had numbers with heretofore unheard Nonetheless, after. Mrs. King sheds . customers during breaks between cheers, and thunderous applause. her fimal tear of JOY, BobbY R 1ggs gam es, for the crowd watched in From the Riggs camps, shrugs, will be laughing all the way to the silence the match that had mild obscenity, and fervent hope bank hundre ds of thousands of dollars that the defender of the sex would resurrect the cause. hinging on it. Every girl I asked was for Billie Across College Hill Road, a Jean; many seemed incredulous predominantly Kirkland crowd that I would even think otherwise, was sprawled across the floors, BY C. JAMES CARR Number f our man, Tom than his share ot matclies and is but th e guys were divided. The walls, and sofas of the McEwen The Hamilton College tennis Griffith, has all the shots in the also a very consistent doubles ones who were rooting for Mrs. Lounge. Some were half reading, team dropped a 6-3 decision to book, along with a booming se rve performer. Dawson_ unfortunately King did so because they regard hal f watching, others knitting, but Cortland State Wednesday in the to make him perhaps the toughest wa s unable to play m Wednesday s Riggs as either "an ass" or "an when Billie Jean King broke Mr. season opener for both teams. The number four man ever to play for match· due to a late class and idiot." Nonetheless, one student Riggs' service in the third set, the C o n t i n e n t a l n e t m e n , Hamilton. His 6-3, 6-2 victory Senior Jim Carr took his place, clad in a football jersey remarked, v i e w e r s m a de their feelings unaccustomed to playing under over Mike Ke ane Wedne sday losing in straight sets. Hamilton won two out of the "I am a male chauvinist pig, what known. The die-hard fans were the sun, undoubtedly had trouble indicated that he might not be else can I say?" close to the 1V as was the case in adjusting after having dodged satisfied with that number four three doubles matches. The team The tension built on the hard Bristol, and the lackadaisical r a i n d rops for most of the slot. of Spellane and Griffith, playing fought points, King fans replying masses lined the walls. Some pre-season practices. in the number two position won s five i number an the Kapl Rick with applause when their heroine students didn't even understand There were several bright spots man and while perhaps not their match as did number three was victorious, the Riggs fans the scoring, but were watching noted despite the netmen's defeat, possessing the big serve and volley · team of Dawson and Kaplan. whi stle d and cheered when Bobby b e c a u se this match, by all not the least of which was the game, is a tireless, consistent Caswell and Achutt, playing at weather. Head Coach Greg Batt performer. Kaplan will be a great number one lost to the Cortland pass ed the ball by his opponent. measures, was "extraordin ary." On Mrs. King's second set appeared opt- imistic about the asset to the team. Rick lost his number one duo. "I think he's a real hustler," one stu dent said. Confused, I victory two intruding Hamilton team's potential despite the loss • initial outing on Wedne sday, but While the final score was . a bit asked what kind of hustler, a students yelled, "How do you like of number two singles man,John is getting better every t�e he d i s h e art ening, t h i s y e a r ' s 'mover' or a hustler as in 'pool that, 6_3,.. and u 64 .. and u6_3,,_ Hutchins, to the soccer field. Hamilton College tennis team has plays. hustler.' ''Like a pool hustler," he These remarks were followed by Back for his fourth year of Rounding out the top six is a lot o f talent and depth. Don't retorted. "You know, like Lee thunderous cheers, as· the break varsity action is Capt ain Brad Senior Dave Dawson, who lends expect to see them on the losing Trevino. I respect a guy like that.", C a s well. During those three his experience in his final season end of the score too often. between sets began. The attentiveness of the group The next match is home, previous years C aswell has been of varsity competition. Although, When Mr. Riggs broke King's could only be doubted until the service early in the third set, some no lower than number two on the perhaps, a bit unorthodox, against RPI, Friday at 3:00 P.M. action was broken for a shot of guys disp1aying an inord inate ladder. Caswell has nailed down Dawson manages to win more Andy Williams or Claudine amount of courage applauded. the number one spot with a much on e bo f gu They were immediately hissed to improved backhand, and just � ! \1�:r :�t; :: :!� �;: silence by the majority o f the barely lost a three-set decision to return e d to center court action. Cortland's Denny Moore after crowd. At th e snack bar, two pieces o f being up three match points. said, spectator defiant Another toast popped up as Bobby scored Number two man is sophomore "He's got to show her who the BY ED WATKINS regards to the of fensive and a point, and the man behind the king is." Yet another asserted, David Schutt. Schutt's big weapon Hamilton footb�l is about to defensive lines. The offensive line cou nter left his work momentarily "I'm a male chauvinist pig, mostly is his topspin forehand which can begin 'its 1973 season. A new c ould n ot open the holes, to watc h the screen as well. When the latter." One Hamilton student force many a would-be-net rusher coach, Bob King, has replaced Hamilton averaged only a little asked who his favorite was, he· sought revenge against the " jerky back to the baseline. Schutt lost a Don Jones, Hamilton's coach for over 30 yards per game on the replied, "I'm for the old man." female chauvinist commentator," very tough two-set match by a the past 23 seasons. Many on the ground. Opposing runners gained However, the woman at the cash who was admittedly in Mrs. King's score of 7-6, 7-5. Hamilton campus appla,.ud this an average o f 5 .4 yards per carry register split the Service Systems Numbers three, four, and five shakeup because in their minds against the Blue. If a team can not corner. Howard -Cosell displayed con ce nsus by saying, "I guess I on the varsity are filled by three Don Jones was responsible for the run effectively, it can not pass his usual objectivity. want th e girl to win.'' Mrs. King gained the advantage very impressive freshmen. Number decline of Hamilton football. effectively. If a team can not On e s t u d e n t i n t h e three man is tall, rangy Phil aggressive young, a is King Bob over Mr. the run, it is wide open to prevent Riggs in the third set an d predominantly male audience said Spellane, younger brother o f he was for Mrs. King but thought she won the match in three former Continental netmen Peter coach who dearly wants to see the pass. Hamilton currently competes the whole match was disgusting consecutive sets, 64, 6-3, and 6-3. a n d T o m. D e s p i t e l o s ing Hamilton football regain at least part o f its former greatness. against teams which allow their because of the commercialism and B o t h p sy c hologically a n d Wednesday's match, Spellane has Unfortunately for this season at coaches to recruit and at some the money involved. "Why are physically, Mrs. King showed her e xcellent court presence and least, improvement will come schools, offer athletic scholarships you here then?" I asked, and he prowess over the aging Mr. Riggs. shows an enormous amount of slowly. One spectator remarked that th�y to promising athletes. Hamilton potential. Coack King's two greatest coaches may do neither. That is problems are the team's schedule why a team such as Middlebury and small size. Hamilton must c an come to Hamilton and Representative needed! · Earn play A l fr ed, H ob a rt , a nd humiliate our football team. I do $200.00+ each semester with Middlebury-the top three small not propose that Hamilton begin only a few hours work at the college football teams in the East handing o ut athletic scholarships. beginning o f the semester. l a s t y e a r . R ochester, St. That wo uld be contrary to the Lawrence, and Union all have spirit and purpose of Hamilton s t r ong f ootball p rograms. athletics. I do believe it is time for Washington and Lee plays in a a r eview of the regulations INTERNATIONAL division at least as strong as preventing Hamilton coaches from MARKETING Hamilton's; they beat Rochester recruiting.· S urely some change year. Only poor Oberlin has a could be made that would not last SERVICE football program that co uld be u pset any hallowed tradition. r a n k e d a s eq u ivil a nt t o Hamilton has coaches and Hamilton's. players who want to win. The rest A football team can not win on of the college comm unity m ust Pringles Potatoe Chips 69 cents each 519 Glenrock Ave. desire alone. Size and ab iiity are s upport this effort. I hope to see S u ite 203 of key importance. The Blue have my part of the community in the Los Angeles, California 90024 the ability to be a winning stands this year. It is j u st a little football team but their small size too easy lo quarter-back and works agai nst them. "This was coach from the P ub.· -------------,•. -.tall ,• p ainfully , evident I_ast, s,eason in .. . l .' .-,.-,.• ,,i �ct t Cifl, r .1 J t;_I. 1.. i.· '!-,' ,.�. \·,:111 1 -, ,l 1 ., l•••"-' , _1 ,
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Soccster s Primed For Wesleyan Game
Robbie Hoar battles for the ball
SPECTATOR SPORTS Scrimmage in Williamstown Encourg ing Contintafs Travef to Washington & Lee BY ROBERT J. KEREN The Hamilton Continentals open the 1973 Football Campaign at afternoon t omor row Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Under the command of Acting Head Coach Bob King, the Blue will square off against the Generals, 3-6 in 1972, at 1:30 p.m. In last Saturday's scri�mage game at Williams, Hamilton played the Ephmen even as both squads were able to reach paydirt The on o ccasions. twp Continentals had one touchdown called back, but looked solid against a Williams Eleven that was 7-1 last season. The qrst Blue touchdown came on a 60-yard passing play from QB Lou Cordia to Frosh end Dave Pisanelli. With Senior quartback Craig Fallon at the helm, Hamilton , also scored on a two-yard run, Fallon carrying the ball over on a bootleg. Hopes and Glimmers Coach King. commented prior to the scrimmage in Williamstown that the Continentals needed the contact after many hours of practice, much of it in triple session. Following the game, the squad looked ready for the long season to come. King and his six-man staff studied Washington and Lee films and worked this week on the fine points in tomorrow's for preparation opener. The Continentals departed Thursday at noon for the bus ride that ended eleven hours later in the ro1ling hills of Central Virginia. Eight Saturdays later, the Blue will complete the 1973 season ·with the 78th meeting versus rival Union in Schenect,;1dy. Kizielewicz and Cunningham at In between, the Continentals
have one off date, November 3, the guards, and junior Dave during houseparty weekend. Duggan and, tentatively, Liebling Hamilton will face powerhouses in at the tackles. George Grammaglia t h r e e u p c o m i n g will be at tight end, with fellow contests-Middlebury, Hobart and frosh Pisanelli at split end and Alfred. But the home opener next Kevin Snyder '75 in the flanker Saturday against Rochester, and slot. Behind Winter, senior Sandy the remammg games against mediocre Oberlin (defeated in MacIntosh and Cordia will be in '72), St. Lawrence and Union the backfield with Bill Collier '75, present the Hamilton eleven with David Baker '77. Alec Singer '76, faint hopes and a glimmer of optimism. The live action tomorrow will reveal a great deal of what can be expected during the season. A strong showing against the BY ERIC KRAUS Generals, particularly one in A f t e r a s l o w start, the which the Blue emerge injury-free, will the brighten picture Hamilton College Water Polo Club, with advisor coach Eric considerably. Competing against Middlebury MacDonald; pulled together and (8-0), Alfred (7-1) and Hobart easily defeated Morrisville College, (7-2), the Blues' schedule is tough, 13-4. M o r r i s v i l le provided some but W & L (3-6), Rochester (1-8), Oberlin (2-7), St. Lawrence (5-4) anxious moments in the first and Union (4-5) are not going to q uarter when they led 2-1. However, behind the spectacular be unstoppable. g o a l t e n d ing of juniors Jeff Both Ways Coach King has cleared up the Carlberg and Mike Lannon, quarterback situation by moving Hamilton was able to come from Soph Lou Cordia to halfback and b e h i n d a n d m a in t a i n its Craig Fallon to safety, leaving the superiority throughout the next field general chores, for the time three quarter.7. The outcome of the game was being, in the experienced hands of Rob Winter. The junior QB will never really in doubt, even before open the W & L contest, and the opening whistle. Arriving at rather than have talent like that of Morris ville a l i ttle behind Cordia and Fallon on the bench, schedule, the Hamilton club w� King will employ the back-ups in met by the opposing coach who asked for "a goal for every minut<:: other positions. Cordia and Fallon are not the that you guys are late." In view of only ones prepared to assume two the lopsided score of last year, positions: linebacker-guard Jake this was not an unreasonable Cunningham, center-defensive end request. Minus the irreplaceable talenti, Don Armstrong, and co-captain defensive end-offensive tackle of graduated s eniors Brian Charlie Liebling will see a lot of Cavanaugh and Peter Schloerb, and with a roster containing morf two-way action. Setting the offense, Armstrong f r eshmen than upperclassmen, '76 will center with freshman Walt 197'l must be seen as a rebuilding
BY PHIL HALPERN C.hurch, Wally ::,tugis and Ned On Saturday afternoon the Drinker ec- w a s e s p e c i a 11 y Hamilton Continental soccer team noteworthy. A very encouraging will be facing perhaps their sign was exhibited in this contest tough est o p p o n ent of the as the hooters showed superior season-the perennial powerhouse ball control and passing ability Wesleyan. However, the netmen against a first rank team like a r e w el l p r e p a r e d , h aving Morrisville. coordinated their attack through The team's skills continued to extensi v e p ractice and five improve in their match later that arduous pre-season encounters. week against Oswego. The netmen The s q u a d showed good virtually ran Oswego off the field p o t e ntial in matches against with repeated scoring drives. Ray Canton Tech., Potsdam, and Terep k a scored twice. Pete Oswego State. The first contest Follansbee once, Walt Stugis once, was against Canton Tech. (a team and Phil Halpern once. The coached by Coach Manfred Von biggest problem at the other end S c h i l l e r ' s b r o t her). The of the field seemingly as deciding Continentals fell behind quickly which of the Continental goalies on two well executed goals. But looked best. Fullbacks once again through strong defense, let by proved a mainstay as Bruce Captain Bruce Johnson, and Johnson, Tom McLoone�, Bill superior conditioning, the final Foley, John Hutchins and Scott talley proved to be in Hamilton's Toop all performed exceptionally. favor: 4-3. The winning goal was a After Hamilton's victory over blast by sophomore right wing Oswego Coach Von Schiller was Dave Wollman with just minutes quoted as saying, "This is one of remaining. Wollman, one of the the hardest working teams I have most improved players on the coached, and with the proper squad this year, may earn himself attitude it could be one of the a starting berth by his inspired best." pre-season play. The only real sour note of the Due to the continued fine pre-se�son was the Continental's goaltending of Captain Jeff Rose loss to Colgate. Although not at '74, Gary Neville '76, and Dan all outclassed the hooters failed to Daly '76, the soccsters also proved p u t together an all out v ictorious a g a inst Portdam. coordinated effort. S p e a r heading the attack for Of. this year .s team, Assistant Hamilton was a potent front line Coach Gordon Pritchett said, "If consisting of last year's leading this team can develop a winning scorer j u n ion Ray Trepka, m e n t a l a t t i t u d e w h i ch sophomores Pete Follansbee and precipitated poise and confidence Dave Wollman and freshmen Pete in their play they could well Nagrod, "Chip" Williams, and become the most winning team in Bruce Peckham. the history of Hamilton soccer. As This attack accounted for the long as they believe no one can Continental's three goals, while beat them--1 believe no one can the defense allowed only one beat them!" Potsdam score. T h e n e t m e n h a v e the M o r r isville, who had tied personnell, skills, and endurance Hartwick and defeated Colgate, necessary for a winning team. The edged the Continentals 2-1. In this home opener will be on Saturday, contest the play of sophomore SentPrnhPl" ?Q . .urainst RochestPr. .halfbacks K�rry Regan, Dave
Polo Club Victorious in In itial Outing; Morrisville College Defeated 13-4
Water Polo action at Morrisville
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THE SPECTATOR HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
Trustees Meet I This Weekend; Buildings, Finance On Agenda
the entrance to Root Hall, to on Rink refrigeration equipment, BY MITCHEL OSTRER install curbing by the College 's P hy sic a l improvem ents of S o u t h D o r m p l u m b i n g W est entranc e, and to South· Electron e th and installation, ·Dunham. a nd the Chemistry incre ase power supply to South Building, and strength ening of Microscope installation will b e Donnitory. The South Dorm Hamilton's fund raising activities · p r e s e nt e d to the Buildings, reque st is part �f long range plans and endowment will be the Gr o u n d s a n d Equ ipm e nt o r enovate th e deterior ated t ee. Committ principle considerations of the · structure . Other projects whose progre ss Planning Committ ee of the Board The Deve lopment Committee of Trustees wh en it gathers as part will be considered include the will discuss performance of the of the general Trustees meeting erec t i o n of Truax Hall of College's fund-raising activities. P hilosophy p i l l a r s in t h e here this weekend. The Honorary Degree s Committee In other Friday meetings, the c e m e t e r y, t h e s a l e o f and the Nomination Committee ses begun last hou College-owned B u ii d i n g s , Gr o u n ds a n d w il l c onsider nominees for Equipm e nt Comm ittee will July, tree planting and the honorary degree s and teaching e ss box pr new the of construction evaluate work done on Dunham posts here, respectively. and the Sage Rink, and will hear at Stueben Field, completed last T h e 1 9 7 2 - 7 3 f in a nc ial requests for beautification of month. statement will be proposed before of walks red traditionally The Root Hall, preservation of red th e Truste es this wee kend by the walks, and further improvement Hamilton's campus have recently · Budget and Finance Committee. of patches with interrupted been of South Dormitory. Evaluation of data proc essing St anding C o m m i t tees on blacktop. The Buildings, Grounds 1ML.a· '.c•••;;,_ needs and the status of the will Committee Equipment and David Locke, Chairman of the Assembly Steering Co�mi�ee. Budget and F ina�ce, endowment will also be discussed. the on proposals opposing weigh Nom inations, D e v e lopm e nt, The P r e s idential Search of preservation and construction a Committee, which is not a • the red walks, which h'ave been �;:;:, �d standing committee of (he Board, found to be more expensive to ee ass e is met for dinner last night and the n ;r;i:!e!11 ar: ;;:i�- made by build and maintain than blacktop convened. at 8 p.m. in the Brown H a m i l t o n f o r i m p r o v in g walks. Room of the Bristol Campus The College will propose to the Chemistry facilities, which have example , might.receive a reduced BY PAMELA THOMPSON Center. beautify to projects Committee been found inadequat e by th e The Kirkland Assembly once course load at the discre tion of Department and the students. The culty a F Division. mic e acad e th again faced the problem of Trustee Planning Committee will recruiting faculty members to will then be expected to rece ive progress reports on these of amount certain a in e rticipat a p aerve, according to David Locke, studies. chairman of th e Steering e xtra -academic affairs, and - will The Committee will consider against advised e b o s l a Committee of the Assembly. The continuing Dunham renovation their faculty has now elected their 0 v e r_ e x t e n d i n g be yond the one hall e xperiment the responsibilities. although representatives, nearly completed, and they will Elections for student members results have not been m ade public BRISTOL REFUSES INTERVIEW alternative plans for entertain ori ld e h be will mbly se As the of pending the faculty membe rs• ent surplus which stud housing GIVES STATEMENT distributed Ballots Monday. acceptance. Mr. Lock e referred to the through campus mail will be would result from the reduced capacity of Dunham transformed. reticence on the part of faculty as collected at the ballot box located of enlarging the The Search for a new.president screening. As the field grows a "continuing problem," noting at the McEwen information desk. . -� e t h ods g 3 endowm�nt. - of. Haniilfon . Collegecontfnues narrower an even iitore - stringent- million ' . Representatives· will oe· chosen -G»le � s- S- � that it mig1if be due·fo a general improvmg and expanding with no word from the committee screening involving inte rviewing in a vagueness concerning the powers according to dorm resididence: nd will also be discussed or any of its members on when a person has occurred. Th ese raising fund one r e presentativ e from each of the Assembly. He said that some questioned whether th e dorm, two from each suite, and by the Planning Committee in candidate will be presented before screenings and personal interviews will continue until such tim e as a the Board of Trustees. w as Assem bly truly a one from Kirkland students Principle action. Reports on the Sage Rink roof is and eme rge s The Board is meeting here this candidate policy-making body, as its powers housed in Hamilton dorms. In improvements, engineering studies weekend, but indications are that recomme nded to the Board.,, addition a t-l a r g e two were not always spelled out. have members Committ ee The full Board of Trustees will a new president will not be named B a bbitt Presid ent also representatives will be chosen e ir th throughout nt e sil remained ti rtain e c ar e h to y a turd a S fr on this ther me. a at g the om Kirkland student expressed concern over the According to the best available deliberations which bega n soon r e solutions which call for difficulties in recruiting faculty community. information, three candidates after John Chandler's March l 0 continued on page six complete Board action. members for committee positions. have visited the Hill. A high State resignation announcement. Mr. He suggested that the time Bristol said in his statement, "This e nt official and a dean of Departm inv o l ved in committ e e confidential -treatm ent is essential a northeastern college visit ed the membership may be a factor in The ii\ a presidential search lest summer. this campus limiting faculty participation. government officia l spent most of promising candidate s refuse to Although Kirkland faculty ,are his til!l e with former presid ent mee t with Committ ee members expected to involve themselves in John Chandle r, but the college and also lest the Committee's _ the col lege community in areas dean met with Acting President J. pos1t10n be compromised by outside of their regular teaching Martin Carovano, Dean Stephen appearing to be 'shopping the job' du t i es, their a cad e m ic G. Kurtz, a selected group of to too many candidates." responsibilities may make such The Search Committee consists Hamilton faculty and Kirkland activities difficult. P•resident Samuel F. Babbitt. The of five trustees, three faculty In an effort to alleviate this third candidate came to Clinton members and three students. situation, Carl Schneider, Dean of the lo Bristol on or about Se ptember 8, and met According cademic Affairs is studying with Carovano, Kurtz, Dean R. statement, it has been meeting various faculty responsibilitie s to every two weeks since its Gordon Bingham, and Babbitt. estimate the time and work The Search Committee met last formation. Bristol said, ..Student. involved. These responsibilities faculty and trustee members have night from 6 p.m. until 11 :45 include course load, independ ent p.m. in the Bristol Campus participated zealously, spiri tcdl y, study projects, advisees, and Center. Two members approached helpfully and in equal measure in committee work. after the meetii1g adjourned the deliberations." The results of this study will be refused comment on the progress used to develop a work load of the sean.-h. W .l\l. Bristol I H, "point" system. A faculty chairman of the comm1llee, INSIDE THIS ISSUE member can then estimate the would not consent I.F .C. Responds . . . . . . 2 to an 'extent to which it would be inlerview, bu l issued a prepared feasible to take on more Adler Report febuted statement. responsibilities. Davis Cartoon . . . . . . . 3 In his statement, l\lr. Bristol President Babbitt said that The Search Committee said, "Every name has been given faculty with extensive committee a most diligent review and or advisee obligations, for Chemistry labs, are they too small?
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2/THE SPECTATOR/September 28, 1973
EDITORIALS
From the Sanctuary_
Another presidential candidate has come to the campus. He met with administration officals · and with a selected group of faculty. He did not meet with any groups of students. Why is it that certain faculty members are taken into the committee's confidence and students are not? The students on this campus are obviously not being represented fairly in the search process. And who are the faculty members who are doing the interviewing of visiting candidates? Even their fellow faculty members would like to know. Must this type of information really be secret to the college body? The level of secrecy the committee has decided to maintain under the guise of "confidentiality" is incomprehensible. The committee must not set itself compietely above the rest of the community. It can not claim to be representative when there is no flow of information outward and therefore no intelligent feedback from the commuuity to the committee. The chairman of the committee will not consent to an interview, instead he issues a statement which adds little to what everyone on campus alr�ady knows:- "The committee is working veey hard." Other members of the committee refuse comment on even the most general aspects of the search. To be secret for the sake of being secret makes little sense especially in a community._ of intelligent men and women. We care about who will be Hamilton's next president. We want the Search Committee to make the best possible recommendation to the Board, but we believe it is the committee's duty to inform their constituency of their progress, their planned procedures as the search continues, and the prospects for the near future.
BY LEROY PORTER Dreams have a way of dissipating and fading as you fall close to consciousness. Hamilton is a dream. Once you awake, apocalyptic sensations make you say it is a nightmare. Startled, you turn from the pillow, hard from the tears you cried struggling to free youF ambition from the clutches of a disdaining foolhardiness called education. Not believing its real that you have awakened, th0se near you try to convince you of the sleepiness they wish on you. You're never supposed to resist help even if perdition bums out each eye; so they. say. Who are they is the wonderment. Nobody is the resolution, but you must sleep and someone said you must dream... then there must be tomorrows to live-die again. What happened to the dream deffered? It was dreamed at Hamilton College. It was dreamed at a place where no one feels the need to exploit his full potentials. . . just someone else's. Dreams deferred can fester and burst into unhappiness or bitterness or they can be forgotten. Dreams are mailed out each year and somehow by a quirk of the imagination they are reduced to vague deja vus that you know are real.
The Secr et Search II
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Hamilton Dream Analysis
Comment
Motivated by the truest of the old lies you begin to allow a plea for patience to gnaw at your conscience after Langston Hughes has explained it all. There is no need to dream of a Black studies department taught by Black professors; Hamilton College can not afford that; or a Black musician to teach you the meanings of jazz. Oh no, you dare not dream that of the music department at Hamilton. One day after the nightly nightmare you awake to a real Jewish Studies department that kinda snuck up on you via a more remote dream itself.. ....Kirkland College. You ask, 'What happened to the things I believe in?' They don't answer, hopmg you will forget that you asked for a Black studies department long before Jewish studies was thought about. Just can't get frustrated over thinking about how they never thought that you might take it all as an insult......probably ain't concerned. Does it make a difference who dreams? Is it fair to feel just a little dismayed and can you be at fault for dealing with misconceptions, for apathy, and unjust criticism. Your answer is their answer. All these people who ask such questions must realize that whatever they say to you they are saying to themselves.
IFC Adler Analysis
BY THE INTER-FRATERNITY COUNCIL ago, but when the suggestion was put to several Kirkland women, they said that they wereri"t really Having fully digested the reported findings of the that interested. On the other hand, ELS and Sig do Adler Committee on fraternity-independent open their dining rooms to independents willing to relations on the Hill, the Inter-fraternity Council meet the board payment. feels it is time for some comment. Increased eating membership means increased We ask the reader to recall that each year some Hamilton men make a decision to join fraternities. f ood production and increased pressure on In so doing they make a commitment. At the same fraternity cooks, accompanied by a decrease in the time, other members of the freshman class make a quality,of food set on the tab.le. Increased salaries to cooks and kitchen workers, unfortunately, would be decision to go independent. By opting out of fraternity life it would only seem logical that these unavoidable. Again, better food and eating conditions are part students are opting out of the benefits and functions for which the fraternity men pay each of the fraternity attraction. We see no reason to semester. It seems nonsensical and irrational to us _ open the kitchens to the college community en masse and eliminate that drawing card. that these students should turn around and ask the C} College independents live in college housing. fraternities to sponsor community activities, open Fraternity men (TEAKS, D Phi's and Gryphons their dining rooms, and defray some of the cost for excluded) live in fraternity houses. Independents college overhead. For the sake of clarity and specificity, we would pay for the overhead of the buildings they live in. like to answer the Adler Committee point by point. Fraternity members pay for the overhead of their houses. Perhaps some people don't realize that the A) The first recommendation suggests that the fraternity houses open their facilities by sponsoring fraternities and their alumni corporations own the physical structures in which they reside. The money campus events. Although we-had difficulty defining "community events," it is a fact that some we pay each semester goes to the upkeep of the f r aternities o p e n their doors to campus house. Fraternities spend between $22,000 and organizations ev�ry year. Alpha Delta Phi opens its $55,400 per annum on taxes, utilities, insurance, doors annually to German Club functions. AD also and maintenance. Almost every cent that comes in held a choir reception last spring. Both Sigma Phi each semester is poured back into the house at some and AD hosted the three Soviets on their visit here point. With this in mind, consider the fact that the in the spring of 1972. Each January the Alpha Delts brothers throw so many hours of free labor into the present their house play to the college community, houses each year. DU estimated 144 work hours last and DKE sponsored a Halloween party ior the work week, while AD put in over 5.00 man hours into house maintenance. faculty children last fall. We do not mean to sound totally exclusive, but Consider also the burden placed on the fraternity shoulders during sub-freshmen weekends. The we work and pay for the benefits we reap from our houses not only feed prospective freshmen, but they fraternity membership. Ten years ago this problem also house them. DKE, DU and PSI U were more was minor if a problem at all. Ninety percent of the college community were fraternity men. Today fifty than generous in this respect last year. To go beyond this and expect the fraternities to percent are independents. The Inter-Fraternity open all their parties to the college community is Council wishes the college community to realize not only unfair, but it renders meaningless one's that we're not cutting ourselves off from the membership in a fraternity. Nor are the cocktail independents, but the time has come to make our parties and beer and bands strictly closed-door. The position known. We feel we have been taken college community must admit that despite their advantage of to the point where such exploitation is advanced billing of "closed parties," the fraternites taken for granted-to a point where the very reasons have been more than lenient in allowing members of for fraternity membership �re losing their meaning. Economic survival dictates that we be exlusive to the mdependent community into their parties. Sig was overrun by more than six hundred people last this extent. We only ask that the college community winter houseparties, and DKE and Sig usually end see our side before passing judgement and making up opening the doors on their spring gin and juice as such recommendations in the future. well. We ask the college to remember that the fraternities foot the entire <::ost of these functions and that the independents foot none. When su<.:h is the case, it is maddening when a fraternity member can ft wend his way through the throng to his own Anyone interested in being beer tap. Photography Editor of The B) Most fraternities have already considered the Spectator, please contact Frederic possibility of opening their dining rooms to the Bloch. Interviews will be held college communities. Some have rejected the idea next week. because of space limitations. DKE, for instance, rejected it because their dining room is filled by its own membership. AD weighed the idea two years
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September 28, 1973/THE SPECTATOR/3 ·uBRARYTOURS Conducted tours of the Daniel Burke Library are scheduled from Monday through Thursday, October 1-4, at 7 p.m. The tours will be brief but informative, and all Hamilton and Kirkland students are cordially invited to take part. Point of departure will be the Reference Desk _ on the main floor of the Library. SENIOR CARRELS This year, the Library has set aside some 120 carrels to be assi gn ed to students engaged in H?nors work or on _ special projects, calling for �e assemblm� over a penod of time of a fair amount of Library matenals. The relatively small number of carrels available makes it necessary to assign carrels only to Seniors, to have _ applicants obtain the written permission of t�e charrman of their department or division, and to confme the term of assignment to a period not longer than a semeste�.
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FULBRIGHT PROGRAMS The 1974-75 comoetition for grants for graduate study abroad will close shortly. Full grants provide for round-trip transportation, tuition and maintainence to 33 countries. Candidates must be U.S. citizens, have necessary language abilities. Seniors in the top quarter of the class should see Prof. Richardson, if interested, very soon. Deadline for filing applications is Ocotber 13. SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS Any student or groups of students needing money for any special publication, please contact' Harold Bogle through Campus Mail. The Publications Board has some money available for these special projects. Each request will be considered by the Publications Board.
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor: I'd like to add a bit more to the series of football articles regarding the status of Don Jones-vacationing head coach. First of all, if the Don has as much interest in the game as his c.Tonies say he has, then he shou ldn't leave his team during the season they play, for any reason. Secondly, maybe Robert J. Keren didn't delve into the f o ot b a l l a r chives h i dden somewhere in Lyle's laundry pile for the latest trends in scholarship offers. But all he needed was a slight grasp of the obvious to see th a t Ha m i l t o n , w i thout recruitment, had enough talent on the field last year to beat more than just Oberlin. So why then did we lose all the time? To cite a perfect example, I pick Mi ddlebury. Middlebury looked devastating. I admit they had some impressive athletes, but then again so did we. The three best m ay have been Andy Sopchak, Jeff Hewitt and John Gravelby, but there were others. Andy made all E.C.A.C., Jeff made offensive lineman have nightmares, and John was the greatest in finding the open area to catch the ball. However, Midd lebury b e at u s 60-0. Offensively, the l i ne split
assignments. By that, I mean the books; on the same play, some left .side of the line went one way guys were told to do one thing while the right side went the other while others were told to do way. As a result, a couple of another; and putting in a new Middlebury defensive linemen offense on a Thursday afternoon remained untouched and killed for a Saturday game. Little League football is fun to watch our quarterbacks. Defensively, we were out there because the. kids don't know on the field all the time. Since our where they are going. But to hell o f fense c o u l d n 't m a i n t a i n with that philosophy in college possession, Middlebury's offense b a l l. I t i s t h e c o a c h ' s a l w a y s had t h e b all. It's responsibility t o discipline his indisputable: if you have the ball, team, to make sure they know the chance is a lot greater that w h a t t o do. L a st y ea r , yo� will score than if you don't organization was lacking. This year,. Bob King, acting have it. And Middlebury ran ninety-four offensive plays to our head coach, has grabbed a hold of forty-eight. They pounded away the reins and he's been steering at our defense with basic plays, Hamilton football in a positive but more importantly, plays direction. He has been plagued which were run efficiently 3 Rey with quitters who couldn't take were a well-drilled team. Everyone his� triple session workouts in went to the right spot at the right pre-season and with injuries to time with very few exceptions. potential starters. They were an organized team. Last w�ek against Washington Hamilton wasn't. and Lee, his team battled to an Organization has to be the 8-7 half-time W & L lead. But the most important aspect of football. second half, due to a couple more Every guy on the team has to injuries and lack of depth, proved know what he is supposed to do disheartening as W & L scored on every given play. It is hard three touchdowns and won 29-7. enough for an offense to score I'm optimistic about this year. and a defense to prevent a score I feel we now have the potential without aiding the opposition to beat the best. Our guys are against your own team. And that's working hard; they want to win; what happens when the players and now they feel they can. Good don't know how a play is luck against Rochester. supposed to be run. Last .year, I Name withheld heard some great stories: no play upon request
Women's Center Opens
BY JUDY SILLARI A newly reorganized Women's Center opened to the college community last week in the Milbank lounge. The Center is under the direction the of Trustee Committee on Kirkland as a College for Women. Student members of the Committee, Claire Brown, Buffy Chisholm, Martha Freymann, Pennylyn Kornicker, Kate Pamela Thompson, and
McGraw, serve as organizers for the activities of the Center. Megan Charlop, Kirkland '73, is also a member of the Committee and the executive ,:,-oup. Several programs are being developed for the coming year. They include such activities as consciousness-raising groups, free school courses; a lecture series, a film series, and the planning of a women's book collection. continued on page six
The Search Committee
Public Interest Research ·Group
CAREER PLANNING MEETINGS A series of open meetings will be held on the theme of Career planning and the College's Resources each Monday evening in October. The first will be held at seven p.m., Monday, October I in the Science Auditorium. Speakers will be Mrs. Beatrice Lieberman, Director of the Career Center, and Dean of the College, Stephen Kurtz. The purpose of this first session will be to outline the College's responsibilities and resources for helping students to investigate career possibilities and to answer questions relative to the services of !he Career Cente�. . The meeting will end at 8: 15, m trme for the public lecture by Representative Shirley Chisholm. In succeeding weeks Professor James Traer will speak on planning for a law career (October 8), Dean Robin Kinnel on medicine (October 15), and Dean Kurtz on teaching and scholarship (October 22).
Search Committee Statement [This statement was released to The Spectator yesterday.] The Presidential Search Committee appointe·d by Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Burke, has been meeting fortnightly since its formation in March of this year. At the outset it was agreed by the Committee that its· activities and deliberations were to be treated with the very highest level of confidence. This confidential treatment is essential in a presidential search lest promising candidates refuse to meet with Committee members and also lest the Committee's position be compromised by appearing to be "shopping the job" to too many candidates. We have sought recommendations of names from not only the Hamilton Family (alumni, faculty and students), but also leading educators, foundations and in short, any known sources of names. Initially hundreds of nam.es were received and although the number of submissions has d.eclined it has not ceased. Every name has been· given a most dilligent review and screen�ng. �s t�e fie�d �o,�s narrower an even more stringent screening mvolvmg mteTVIewmg m person has occurred. These screenings and personal interviews will continue until such time as a candidate emerges and is recommended to the Board. As Chairman of the Committee I am pleased to report that all members of the Committee have shown the dedication that the Hamilton Community would expect. Student, faculty and trustee members have participated zealously, spiritedly, helpfully and in equal measure in the deliberations. Attendance at meetings has be�n exceptionally good, especially considering the time of year. Our advisors tell us the average presidential search requires nine months. We of our Committee would like to equal or exceed that average, but as these word are being written on September l, it _is not possible to predict whether we will hit the average. As Chairman of the Committee, I know I speak for each of its members in stating that no compromise will be made to meet. a timetable. We shall recommend only a truly outstanding and worthy candidate to become the sixteenth president of Hamilton College. W. M. Bristol III
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4/THE SPECTATOR/S�ptember 28, 1973
Woodland Experie nce Captured; Porter Portraits Enchan ting BY JON CRAMER
Eliot Porter Color . . . is the
The shot 1s of an autumn scene, depicting a patch of newly fallen leaves which are scattered on the ground. The print is colored with autumn, splashed with predominant reds and yellows. The photograph is bold, and I was soon thinking of autumn and all that characterizes the season. This particular print disturbed me
Porter's intent. Porter's photographs are nearly impossible to translate articulately into words. I can only· try to express my reaction to the collection. The best and probably only way to understand Porter's mode of expression is to view the exhibit at the Munstitute.
title of a collection of works by the famed nature photographer. The exhibit is currently showing at the Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, 310 Genessee Street, Utica. The portfolio consists of thirty-two portraits of the Adirondacks. The prints were llrst viewed it, hut selected from a group of 300 w hen I photographs taken by Porter on :::�:tr :i::•.:g:i.: ���.�h::.j��I . u o five· trips through the region. The One of the mo re subtle prints trips spammed a twelve year is "Beaver Meadow Falls, St. period, 1953-65. T ' Porter uses _ Each print is framed simply in Huberts." white to complement the effect of over-hanging branches as a frame I feel that it is important to see are much closer to biographies. BY HARRY f. PlllLLIPS III Porter's striking use of color. The and the grey-black ro cks o:ver this exhibition again and again. "Blessed ·are they· that move in While I am n ot familiar with the are whic h the falls tumble as a pho tographs individual a<;co mpanied by passages fro m the c_ontrast to the light grey o f the ihe best circles for they shall be wo rk o f most of · the poets On each subsequent viewing these wo rk o f William Chapman White, waters themselves. The entire called big w heels." Onan Onerous represented in this portfolio , I feel works become a little more that in each case Kitaj manages to comprehensible. I may discover a lifelo ng admirer o f the phot o graph ranges in shade. from . 46 B. C. \ The graphics of Ro�ald Kitaj, capture the essense o f a very real that what I said in the beginning Adironda ck region. white to bla c k· with the green of Several of Po rter's tradem.arks the leaves forming ·the frame for on exh,lbitio n at the Ro ot Art and very mu ch alive human being. of this review is t o o harsh... after I are known amo ng photography the entire shot. Most of the thirty c'enter through October 14 TI:us. is not something to be have seen the exhibition three or four more times. For the moment ·work df one wh�. treated lightly. buffs. One such chara cteristic is remaining ·prints ae . caught r�present I will let it.stand. Ambivalence is a· In additio n to this portfolio ' o ne of a his zeal for portraying the power somewhere , between . these two has been described as � •... difficult thing to write about and there are two other prints that I o ung m�p to �,nerge y hand ul f f Q and force o f nature. Ano ther is extremes, but the clarity and fl:<?� the ,19_{;0'.s � a m�jo r f9r ce think work parti cularly well. They; . I realize that, before Mahler the· capturing of natural patterns .. color o'f each is staggering. t e world."_ I hoRe tha(all are Hours with Men and Books Becomes Politics, Beisbol... leaves which the woodsman or hiker . The composition of. these· � q � who attend this exhibitio n will be and_ Reduction of Anxiety in Root Art Center I may have to would not observe in their natural prints is so precise that each one · awed by the fact that Terminal Patients- Both o f these revise my opinion several times. I suit�bly woodland co ntext, but which seems a window, out of which one urge everyone to see this exhibit. when isolated have a totally new can view the. splendor and beauty, they are being , co.�fro nt�d with a prints rely o n a simple, subtle ice to dev It is wo rth the time, e°rfort, and the make viewer ma not orce. or day is ev�ry It " j f " i and fasinating effect of the of the Adirondac ks. The w ndows, the o c casional frustration it viewer. The current ·Munstitute however, have one drawback, for that an individual can co nfro nt experien ce rather than be told the entails. exhibit is consistent with Porter's they are rather limited Jn scope. . SUC�• a force: and be ,able" to say' message o f-the. print. REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT style. true "So what?'' The o nly persbn who are The photographs Rod Serling adapted Requiem from his fam ous "Playhouse 90" natural" _ se�ms absplutely convinted that of Eac h photograph is highly representatio�s . colo rful. The colors in some . splendor, yet eve)) the· viewer' wlio thi� epithet� i,s true is� the artist drama without diminishing any o f the impact of the original. instan ces are quite bright, almost knows the Adirondacks well may himself. He is so co nvinced, in Anthony Quinn plays the inarticulate prizefighter who is beaten to an extreme. In other prints, the no t recognize the area. The fact, -that he d o es not feel the physically at the opening, and emo tionally and spiritually during the extreme close-ups of the prints · n�ed to co mmunicate much more rest of the film. J ackie Gleason is excellent as the ruthless manager colors are more subdued, but the Flarity and contrast ar� ·still left me with a · remarkable - than his self-satisfactio n. The end who push� the fighter into a series of degrading wrestling matches. . striking. One print in whic h Porter· impression' of PQrter's technique, result ,is �bout as,irnpressive. as the Also _ starring Mick�y Rooney as the understanding trainer and Julie orld s o r delivering rat greatest o � Harns as a compasSlonate social w orker. A film not to be missed. uses brightness effectively is and of natural woodl and beauty, entitled "From the Road Between but not of the Adirondacks in hIS finest speech while eating a MANWARING Perhaps this was pillow. · �lue Ridge ancl Newcomb." particular. An exhibitio n of 24 recent lithographs by Bruce Manwaring, This is no t to say that Kitaj's work lacks visual impact. On. the professor of art at Syracuse University, will go on display in the contrary, his wo rk is; ·at first S�cond Floor Lounge o f the Bristol Campus·center, Hamilton and glance, very impressive: It is Kirkland Colleges, on Wednesday, September 26. The exhibitio n, which will remain up through October 19, is open obvious that the artist kno ws his medium inside and out and can to the public without charge. The lithographs were selected and manipulate it to achieve any end prep�-�9. by Eva Thoby-Marceline, director of the Candida Gallery he chooses. His composition is Cazenovia. Before coming to Syracuse, Mr. Manwaring taught at the sim ul tan eously powerful and Claremont Graduate School in California, at Jamestown College and subtle; it grabs the eye and forces the viewer to come to terms with at the University o f Massachusetts. His work has been displayed at the statement that the artist is San Diego State University and at Rochester Institute of making. However, to me, as well Technology. Recently he was represented in an international as others I have talked with, the traveling print show organized by the Museum of Modem Art in m e s sa g e i s i n m o st cases New York. incomprehensible. RAITT-NEWMAN I realize that I am flaunting my The Colgate Social Committee will present guitarist Bonnie Raitt n aivete. I am told, in the and singer-songwriter Randy Newman in the University Chapel on Foreword to the exhibition, that Friday, September 28, at 8:00 p.m. Tickets, which cost $3.00, will while he is: "Less obviously be sold at the door. humorous than some of his 'Pop CHARLATANS Art' contemporaries, Kitaj shares As part of its effort to involve more people in the production of their penchant for irony and drama on the Hill, the Charlatans of Hamilton and Kirkland are v i s u a l a n d c o n t e n t u a l sponsoring a series of student initiated one-act plays. The series will sophistication." If this is the case debut October 3, 4, 5, with JM. Synge's "In the Shadow of the then I freely admit my lack of Glen," under the direction of Ray Dooley. The play, which has been sophistication and resign myself called a comedy/melodrama, is concerned with the attempts of f.-.:� .. to being a member of the "Great individuals to get in tune with the forces of nature. The cast includes (left) and Joseph Cotten in a scene from Citizen . Unwashed." Apparently, in order Brook Hedick, Steve Zorthian, Dave Cross, and Chris Zenowich. Kane, showing this weekend in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. to be sophisticated enough to Curtain time is 8:00 p.m. in the Minor Theater. Any students CITIZEN KANE understand a considerable part of Kinokunst-Gesellschaft presents this weekend Orson Welles' interested in tpe series, particularly directors or actors, should Kitaj 's work (in particular the Citizen Kane, known as "the greatest American sound film." At the contact the Charlatans through Campus Mail. portfolio whose title is used as the 1971 Academy Awards presentations, Orson Welles was given a TWO title of the exhibition) one must special award for his consistently high achievement in this film. Two teams of Hamilton-Kirkland debaters will confront each either be the artist's psychologist Citizen Kane, given the 'best screenplay award in 1940, was again or attend all the best cocktail other in the Chapel Friday night at 8:00 p.m. in order to decide honored as a film excellent in every respect. So excellent, in fact, parties in New York. I aspire to whether "sex is to wo men as colo nialism is to the third world." that Pauline Kael recently published an extensive critique, "Raising n e i t h e r o f t h es e h o n o r ed Louis Levenso n and Paul Curcio, defending the proposition will Kane," in the New Yorker magazine, and articles have appeared in pos1t10ns. However, there is also opp0se Vince Di Carlo and Bill Song.- Since this will be a Pub Debate publications across the country extolling this timeless film. in the Parliamentary style, members of the audience will be expected on display a number of prints in Cit(zen Kane is being shown with The Immigrant, a Charlie which Kitaj has descended to my and enco uraged to co ntribute generously from their fund of bawdy Chaplin short, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and at 10 level, and I feel I am seeing a truly eloquence and urbane wit concerning matters relevant to the p:m. Sunday, in the Kirner-Johnson auditorium. Admission is 75 resolution as well as to the skill, merits, ancestry, and personal habits fine artist at work. cents. of the participants. The entire Hill is invited to attend. Among these are the second BROMBERG p ortfolio that is being presented renowned present will College TYPING LESSONS Utica of Council The Inter-Greek at the Root Art Center, entitled Would yo u like �o learn to type this semester? If so, contact Lois guitarist. David Bromberg in concert on Saturday, September 29, in Some • Poets. It would be too Ann Wei thorn through Campus Mail or. at Ext. 4130 bef�re next the college gym. Back-up artist for the 8:00 p.m. show will be Mike simple to call them portraits; they Friday. Palacco. Tickets, which co st $3.00, will be available at the doo r.
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EVENTS
FILMS On Campus This Weekend Citizen Kane and The Immigrant. 8 pm Friday and Saturday in the Kirner Johnson Auditorium. Sunday at 10 pm. 75 cents. Requiem for a Heavyweight with Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, and Mickey Rooney. Written by Rod Serl ing. 8 pm Friday and Saturday in the Science Auditorium . Sunday at 10 pm. 75 cents. October 1 (Monday) Women's Center Film Series; Adam '.5 Rib and Documentary on Margaret Sanger. 8 pm in ·the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Also on Tuesday. October 3 (Wednesday) Civilisation Series presents Romance and Reality. 8:30 pm in the Chemistry Auditorium. October 4 (Thursday) Persona and The Vagabond. 8:00 pm in the Chemistry Auditorium. Seven Samuri. 8 pm in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. At Nearby Theaters Cannonball (853-5553) State of Siege (R) Kallett (736-2313) Blume in Love (R) Stanley (724-4000) The Secretary and All the Young Wives (R) Uptown {732-0665) Jesus Christ Superstar (G) 258 Cinema (732-5461) 7,007 Danish Delights (X)faper Moon · (PG), and A Touch of Class (PG) . Paris (733-2730) Romeo and Juliet (G) MUSIC September 28 (Friday) Coffeehouse, Jim Ringer with Mary MacCaslin. 9 pm. Free with Social Tax, 50 cents without. September 29 (Saturday) Breakfast Special, Bromberg's former back-up, and Country Granola. At 8 pm in the· gym. Free with Social Tax, dates 50 cents, general admission $1.50. EXHIBITIONS Currently on Campus Mahler Becomes Politics, Beisbol ·and other Graphic Works by ·· Ronald Kitaj at the Root Art Center through October 14. Selected Lithographs by Bruce Manwaring at the Bristol Campus Center through October 20 Sculpture by Alan Paulson at the List Ari Center through October 20. At the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Eliot Porter, 32 Photos from the Adirondack Museum through October 28. SPORTS September 29 (Saturday) Soccer. Against Rochester. Home at 11 am. Football. Against RocheJ.1�(. Home at 1:30 pm. October 1 (Monday) Kirkland Tennis. Against Syracuse. Home at 4 pm. LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS September 28 (Friday) Hamilton-Kirkland Debate: Sex is to Women as Colonialism is to the Third World 8:00 p.m. Chapel September 29 (Saturday) Newman Mass. Father Drobin. At 5:30 pm in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. September 30 (Sunday) Free Church of Clinton. Joel Tibbetts. At 11: 15 am in the Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. At 12:45 in the Chapel. Community Worship. At 7:30 pm in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. October 1 (Monday) Root-Jessup presents Shirley Chisholm. At 8:30 pm in the Gym. Students $2.00, General Admission $3.00. October 2 (Tuesday) Writers Salon. At 8 pm in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. October 3 (Wednesday) Intercom. Informal c.onversation. At 9 1 0m in the Alumni House.
TONIGHT
The Alexander Hamilton Inn is the scene of a budding new experience. It features a pub below ground where you can actually enjoy a good drink and share stimulating conversation without the wha-wha-wha of the bubble gum set. The Inn welcomes all who enjoy good beer, comfortable surroundings to an evening of ten cent beer as an introduction to what just might . be a very good thing.
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enjoying the music to try and BY BROOK HEDICK master the folk art of cracking One of the things Susan Sacks one's voice from falsetto to stressed about this year's coffee singing in a normal tone. The songs that followed house is that there will be variety from week to week. So far so showed further Andy's listening good. Andy Cohen gave us nearly taste. He played traditional music four hours of sing alongs, as well as songs from Jimmie Appalachian ballads, St. Louis and Rogers, Utah Philips, Woody country blues and western Guthrie, Big Bill Broonzy and the Rev. Gary Davis. At one point in dustbowl and cowboy songs. He opened up his first set with his life Andy Cohen was a student a freshly written song about the of Rev. Davis. Near the end of the King/Riggs match. Definitely a first set he played an instrumental song of the moment; most of the by the Reverend. The piece was a people to whom I spoke there can difficult one and sloppily barely remember the tune and the performed until the audience was lyrics except for a phrase that asked to move in closer enabling went something like " Goodbye those students not particularly Bobby, we'll miss your ugly interested to leave discreetly during the shifting of bodies. face." There were mixed There was a reactions in the audience which noticeable might have accounted for the difference in the performance at uneasiness which prevailed during this point. Andy seemed to relax · the rest of the first set. more and his playing of · With the playing of ''Way Out complicated runs during ragtime There" Andy established himself· pieces seemed tighter and better as a musician who listens to Pete· · accomplished. Unfortunately a lot Seeger. The arrangement differed of his work was lost through poor little, if at all, from the latter's. use of the mike. In addition to the The audience's yodeling response picking improvement his voice on the chorus was weak to say the . reached notes with a quality we least. Some students, for whatever · had not heard before. reasons,· ·squirmed, gigglc;d and The only diversion ·of Andy held their· hands over their ears Cohen's was ·his "twangoleum"; a making it difficult for those fascinating instrument in it's own
right in that a massive body extended around the neck and the tuning pegs. As far as sound is concerned it was no different than a normal steel string guitar although because the of arrangement of the sound holes on opposite ends of that vast body, there is supposed to be a stereo-like effect. The first set ended on a pensive note. Andy Cohen played a song entitled "Minstrel Show" by Bob Coltman after giving us the news of Jim Croce's death in an airplane crash on the w�y to a gig. He thought the tragedy a political one in that it mirrored the way the American music business pushes it's artists for pure monetary gains. He cited Jimi Hendrix and 'Janis Joplin as two other deaths that were results of that general attitude. Most people attending felt that his point, though valid in nature, was being pushed a little too far. Mr. Cohen made his political preferences . even more clear during the second act. We got a taste of many pro-union and I.W.W. organizational songs. Joe Hill's parody on "In the Sweet Bye and Bye" was sung along on with strength. An i�p�omtu talking blues on the maintenance problem here on the Hill made "Goin' Down the Road Peelin' Bad" more germane than it seemed at first hearing. Andy's versatility was not · consisted of both . faculty and shown completely last Friday. In BY THEODORE LOWEN addition to his guitar and banjo The Last Lecture Series began students. According to Mr. Briggs, a work he plays mandolin and last night in the Chapel as Austin Briggs, Jr. delivered the opening member of the Hamilton English barrelhQuse piano. Although the address. He is the first of three Department,' one of the most dissertations on unions fill�d with selected faculty members who will. favorable aspects of the series was catch phrases became somewhat and many of his have the opportunity to deliver the diversity of the audience. He_ tedious their "Last Lecture" in front of felt challanged by the fact that arrangements lacked imagination the audience was t�ei'e on it's it was definitely a worthwhile the college audience this year. The idea for a series of Last own, interested_ in hearing the evening. If not to be impressed by. _ his and flatpicking Lectures was first introduced to lecture, not because it was his the Hamilton-Kirkland campus required. Professor Briggs did twangoleum then to enjoy the four yea:r:�.. -- ago . _by College expect many of his past and very human past time of singing Chaplain Joel W. Tibbetts. Mr. present students would attend. -·-- our traditional music for the speakers satisfaction it gives. two next The Tibbetts conceived of the idea from a similar program presented scheduled for the fall program will (Best Area Prices Can Be Had) at Carleton University. The b� Don Muilenberg, Clinical · program has been highly Psychologist, and Marcel Moraud, at successful in giving the audience a Professor of French. Mr. Tibbetts Weavers Wine and Liquor Store personal view of the speaker is presently planning a spring . on the Square which is rarely seen in the program along the same lines as 8:30 A.1\1. - 9:00 P.1\1. ordinary classroom. The lecture the fall program, although the Monday - Friday also gives the teacher the general topic will be different: · opportunity to speak on a topic 8:30 A..l\1. - 9:30 P.l\L outside of his field, something CLINTON SHOE CENTER Saturdays which he rarely has the chance to SPECIALIZING IN do. Free Delive ry WINTER BOOTS The faculty member is asked to AND SHOE REPAIR 853-8764 deliver a speech as if it were his 853-5242 last speech, his last lecture in front of an audience. In past series L-------------J•--��----1111111 there have been some very illuminating personal insights and statements, according to Mr. Tibbetts. He said that the program has been beneficial to general faculty-student relations. "The audience usually gets to see the personal side of the speaker' as Route Sa Commercial Drive well as have a generally interesting 736-7106 New Hartford evening," said Mr. Tibbetts. Mon-Fri 10-9, Sat 10-5 During the past four years THE PROFESSIONAL BACK PACKER student and faculty reaction has AND SKI TOURER SHOP been consistently enthusiastic. Audiences have ranged from 50 to Largest Selection of as many as 250 'persons for a Packing Equipment by X-Country Skis single lecture. The audiences h ave Noqh Face Trak _ Alpine Design Toppen Bonna . toilet ri� and
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PIRG Campaign Begins
October is PIRC month. The student Public Interest Research Group of Hamilton/Kirkland will conduct a month long campaign to establish itself as a chapter of NY-PIRC. To gain a financial foot-hold at Hamilton and Kirkland, PIRC hopes to collect an automatic $2.00 fee per semester from each student. The PIRC Steering circulate a Committee will petition among students to agree to this tax. At least 2/3 of the student body musf sign the petition for the tax proposal to win administrative acceptance. PIRG's goal is to complete the petition drive successfully by the end of October. Donald K. Ross, Executive Director of NYPIRG will be on campus Wednesday, to publicize
the petition drive and to discuss the spring of 1 973, NYPIRG had the various aspects of the group. expanded to eight additional Mr. Ross will speak to campuses. government and history classes on Kirkland and Hamilton the morning and afternoon of his students associated with NYPIRG Oct. 3 visit. In the late afternoon plan to look into· issues in the he will attend a faculty tea. Mr. Utica area. Organizers of the Ross is scheduled to speak and October petition drive see the meet informally with interested automatic student fee as a students at 7:30 p.m. in the Red necessary first step in establishing Pit. PIRG as an effective organization Ralph Nader has described the on this campus. PIRC movement as "the most important effort of its kind taking place. on the nation's campuses." <: PIRGs are modeled on Nader's Washington, D.C. organizatfons, a l t h o u gh t h ey op er a t e independently with n o official ties to Nader. NYPiRG was organized by students at Syracuse and Cornell University in the fall of 1972. By
ASSEMBLY continued from page one This year's elections were originally scheduled for last week but were postponed due to the inadvertant ommission from the ballot of Kirkland students housed in Hamilton dorms. Under the revised ballot, all resident be Kirkland students will represented. The Kirkland faculty t h ei r r ec en t l y e l ec t e d representatives to the Assembly, although results have not yet been made public pending acceptance. Fa c u l ty a nd s t udent to appointments th e subcommittees of the Assembly will be completed at the Steering Committe meeting this Monday. Mr. Locke said that a problem with the Assembly lay in its frequent passivity in forming Kirkland p0licy. While he believed
the Assembly to be responsive to outside proposals, he expressed the hope that the Assembly would become an initiatory body as well.. In the past, much of the incentive for proposing legislation has been taken by groups independent of the Assembly. Mr. Locke cited Options in Educatio,� and L.O.B.B.Y. as examples. He noted that these groups may be indicative of a lack of awareness on the part of the representatives of the needs of the Kirkland Community. The Steering Committee plans this year to reevaluate the functioning of the Assembly in order to make it a more effective body. A subcommittee of the Assembly,' to .be· formed in the · near future, will direct itself specifically to these problems.
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BY PETER ACKERMAN these letters that we can make our In addition to the academic students look like people against competition at Hamilton, the all the other applicants," he said. competition across the country These letters, according to continues to widen the difference Kinnel, are what make a Hamilton between the number of medical pre-med stand out from the school applicants and the number myriad of other aspirants. It is of openings at those schools. through them that a teacher or In response to the problem of advisor may comment on a grade inflation at competing . personal level about the applicant. undergraduate schools, as well as the difficulties inherent in a You 're a Stranger Here size, Hamilton's of school once ... but Associate Dean Robin Kinnel has begun an intense program of with medical communicating schools. He made several trips to Colonial Copper Room medical schools last year and Italian7American Food plans to visit more this year. 5 College St., Clinton Through these visits he has been able to alert certain schools to Hamilton's plight as a small, by institution arts liberal WANTED Coffee house entertainer to discussing the grading system and play in below ground pub at the calibre of students on the Hill. The Alexander Hamilton Inn. He has also sent letters to many of S alary c ommensurate with the schools that he· has not been talent plus % of saies. Contact able to visit. Dean Kinnel noted that the1·e Peter Bliss at the in for an has been a recent response by �udition. 853-5555. Hamilton alumni to this problem, and that the active intervention of alumni could be of considerable import when medical schools c o nsider applications from WEST HILL STABLES Hamilton. He has fostered alumni concern through a comprehensive Horses Boarded and l etter writing campaign to Trucked potentially helpful Hill graduates. In view of the numbers of Also Western and applicants and the import placed English Riding Lessons by medical schools on numerical evaluation of applications, Dean 3 Mile s From the Hill Kinne! stressed that perhaps the greatest asset of a Hamilton CALL 853-6728 p r e- m e d h i s w a s recommendations. "It is through ._______________.
WOMEN'S CENTER Continued from page three s u b - co m m i ttee, A nother headed by Kate McGraw, is working on a list of books to be included in the Millicent G. M cI nt o sh Collection. The Collection will specialize in books by and about women. The Women's Center solicited student ideas and help at an Open House, September 16, and at an on Meeting O r ganizational September 20. The Center,
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Tennis Tealll Over R.P .I.; Caswell Leads Whitewash
BY C. JAMES CARR, JR.
Continental Approach Physical examinatio1 .s AFTER practice has started! Impossible, you say; not so, for in fact, who students Hamil to n participate in intercollegiate sports generally don't receive their p hysicals until several days after p.actice has started. The work�uts of which I speak sometimes consist of, at least where football is concerned, two or even three grueling sessions per day. That there have been no serious consequences resulting from this practice is pure luck. Does the College expect to protect the health of its student-athletes by
BY C. JAMES CARR JR. The Hamilton College tennis team evened its season record at 1-1 with a convincing 9-0 victory over the RPI Engineers last Friday in Clinton. Once again nature smiled on the Hill as the Buff and Blue netmen rebounded from their 8-1 defeat at the hands of Cortland State the previous Wednesday. It was strictly no match as · virtually every singles . match was won in straight sets and all but one doubles match was also decided in two sets. Captain Brad Caswell led the way once again followed in order by Dave Schutt, Phil ·Spellane, Tom Griffith, Rick Kaplan, and Dave Dawson.
hoping that Lady Luck continues to smile on the Hill? I hope not, for as evidenced by one case of abnormally high blood pressure, the lady of good fortune cannot always be counted on. That this is a gross injustice where the athletes involved are concerned is an understatement. That this could also prove to be an uunecessary financial burden on the College should also be considered. This is not a question of dedding which came first, the chicken or the egg. Physicals come first, then practice.
CROSS-COUNTRY MEET The Intramural Council will sponsor an all-college cross-country meet on Friday, October 12, at 4:30 p.m. Teams may have up to seven members, and unattached individuals are encouraged to participate. Scoring will be judged according to standard cross-country procedures. Faculty and students from both campuses are eligible to run the course which will begin by the Chemistry Building and continue thru the Kirkland Glen, back to the point of origin for an approximate course of 2.3 miles. Teams of 5-7 members should be submitted to Coach MacDonald by. Thurs. noon, Oct. 11th. No Varsity or J.V. Fall Sports athletes are eligible. Any questions should be directed to Sara Gordon, x4933.
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Fourth and 22 BY E D WATKINS The smashing victory of Billie Jean King over Bobby Riggs p ro v e s m u c h or nothing, depending upon your persuasion. To this columnist, the match serves as a reminder that women athletes are more determined than ever to achieve all the pay and opportunities afforded to their male counterparts. It is encouraging to note how much progress Ms. King and the rest of her fellow tennis players have gained in obtaining equal standing with the male tennis players. The victory in tennis though is only a minor victory in the quest for equality between men's and women's athletics. In the colleges and secondary schools of this country athletics remain an almost exclusive male domain. Gross neglect of the women's athletic departments is common. Schools with an equal amount of women and men spend. twenty to thirty times as much money for men •s athletics as for women's. S h o u l d a w o men's team happen to excel in a particular sport, the accomplishment is often ignored by the school; the reasoning being that no one is interested in how the women are doing. Athletics are an important part i n t h e d e velopment of an individual. To deny anyone a chance to participate in physical activity because they are of a particular sex is inexcusable. Kirkl and C ol leg e i s a n institution which is p r o u d of its abil ity to understand the problems and hopes of women. Yet Kirkland has an athletic program ·that is best described as b e i n g u n d e r s t a f f e d and under-financed. Except for a handful of basketball backboards and a volleyball net, Kirkland has no athletic facilities at all. There is no gym, no tennis courts. This arrangement is neither fair to the Kirkland or the Hamilton students who must share already overburdened athletic facilities with an increasing number of Kirkland students. It is most unfair to the Hamilton coaches who must sacrifice some of their practice time so that Kirkland students t·an use some of the jointly shared facilities: the pool, the tennis courts, and the squash courts. In view of the increasing enroll ments of the l wo colleges, it becomes imperative that Kirkland begin the immediate construqion of some athletic facilities. not just t o reli e v e t h e burden 011 l lamilton. but also to afford Kirkland studenL-; the opportunity to participate in the physi1 ,ti .1s wdl .1s the mental development ol the self. .\ sound mind in ,1 sou1ul body is more than .1 dichc.
8/THE SPECTATOR/September 28, 1973
Continentals Drop Washington & Lee QP,ener 29-7; Rochester Eleven· are at Steuben Field Tom'w
BY ROBERT J. KEREN The Washington and Lee Generals scored on two third quarter drives, coming but 5½ minutes apart, to ice the Contenental's season opener 29-7. Hamilton trailed by only one point, 8-7, at the half. But the General head coach Bill McHenry, W&L '53, escorted the Virginians from the locker room with an altered game plan designed to outfox the Blue defense in the last 30 minutes. · In the first half, Hamilton's front four proved to be strong against the W&L inside running attack and pressured quarterback Louis Powell all day long. But in the second half Powell sprinted out and beat the Continentals on long bootleg runs or sideline roll-out aerials picking apart the Blue zone. Taking the second half kickoff the senior · quarterback, son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Powell W&L '29, engineered a 73-yard drive capped by a five yard keeper to make it 15-7. The · Generals marched the distance in eleven plays, with Powell keeping on five. He amassed 69 yards in 17 carries for the afternoon. The Generals scored again five minutes and thirteen seconds later. With the baH resting on the W&L twenty, after Bill Finan's 49-yard field goal attempt failed, Powell kept again around the weak side moving it to his own 37. Freshman end Tony Perry made it 21-7 with a circus catch and lightning speed covering 63 yards. Perry was a mid-September ''walk-on" who at 6'1" and 185 pounds pulled in five Powell passes for 113 yards dazzling the house at Wilson Field.
the earlier half the Continentals 1953 All-American center and especially in the second half. They to the battlefield. Elsewhere Stark amassed 147 yards with 103 of sixth-round draft choice of the weren't so good. We have played, has had to rebuild-especially on those corning on the ground. W a s h i ngton Redskins who and definitely will play much . the front lines. Among other Hamilton foes Sophomore running back Lou returned to his alma mater in better. teams. It was our first game Cordia led all ground gainers with 1971 as Athletic Director , after a- and the attitude was really good." last weekend rival Union tied Tech, Oberlin was 113 yards in the game through short stint at Williams� He assumed The Continentals will do battle Worster gaping holes opened on the strong the coaching duties this fall. with the University of Rochester squashed by Hiram 40-14, Alfred side by center Don Armstrong Co-captain Jeff Hewett was tomorrow at Steuben Field. The shut out Brockport State 21-0, '76, guard Jake Cunningham '76 outstanding in the game making Yellowjackets lost to Washington the Hobart Statesmen drew with RIT in a 14-14 upset, Middlebury and tackle Dave Duggan '75. nine unassisted tackles, dumping University last weekend 30-21. Blue football fans are not Powell on three occasions and The Blue will be looking to avenge knocked qff Colby 32-18 and St. accustomed to viewing a powerful recovering two fumbles. It was last year's 20-7 loss at Rochester's Lawrence downed Bates 26-0. running offense in recent Hewett's dominance along with Fauver Stadium. Marten and Pirodsky c ampaigns. Hamilton's two the aggresive play of fellow Pat Stark's U of R Squad lost leading receivers Mike Scarpitto linemen Charlie Liebling, Donnie all games after last campaign's Be sure to bring your radios to '72 and John Gravely '73 'have Armstrong and Pete Fasolino that Hamilton opener and are Steuben Field tomorrow as graduated, and Coach Bob King is forced the Generals outside. Kenny broadcasters currently riding a nine-game losing veteran Rob Winter '75 completed streak. Rick Renzi (two t.d. passes Marten and Thom Pirodsky looking to open up a running offense. Last year's workhorse twelve passes in thirty-five heaves vs. Hamilton in '72) and Brian reassume their natural pos1t1ons Dave Macintosh, who added eight for 144 yards. The freshman Pasley are battling for the mikeside for WHCL-FM; the yards in five tries, led all Blue receiving corps was impressive as quarterback spot and veterans pre-game show starting at 1 pm. ground gainers in 1972 with 196 Dave Lecher hauled in four, and Steve Hoffman, Tom Jarrett (one The opening kickoff is slated for • George Grarnmaglia, Dave t.d. run) and Jim Jimenez return 1:30. yards in seven contests. The Generals scored first in the Pisanelli and David Baker ·each · game moving 67 yards in eleven had two. Veteran flanker Kevin plays going in with 9:50 gone in Snyder was shut out for the day: Ex-quarterback · Cordia ·was the opening quarter. With Powell seemingly set to hold, the impressive in his first game as a Generals employed a pretty running-back and showed marked BY STEVE SEIDE extra-point fake__ for a two-point improvement in . his punting. Vito Stilato and - Paul Ford, On Saturday, September 22, seniors. The number one man in Louie boomed seven kicks for a conversion and a 8-0 lead. But the Blues came back late in 40.0 yard average, ten yards the Hamilton Cross Country Team the squad is Tim Delaney, a the second quarter with their own better per kick than his opened up their season by senior, considered by Coach Long 1972. The destroying R.P .L, 15-46. This was one of the steadiest long distance in 69 yard march in eleven plays. performance Sandy Macintosh took a Robbie General's hooter, Tom Tucker, the 19th consecutive victory for runners he has seen. The other Winter flare pass breaking two averaged 29.2 yards per attempt. Hamilton in duel competition. five starters on the team are Vito As in past years, Hamilton is Stilato, Paul Ford, Paul Carter, tackles in the flat for 26 yards. Guden Party showing other schools that they John Winter scrambled on four plays, Shmeyer, and John The loss came as a great can do it all. Coach Long says that all for substantial gains, before Rodgerson. lofting a 3-yard touchdown p<J.Ss disappointment to the Squad who this year's team is the best Coach Long could not be to freshman halfback David took four days off to cushion the conditioned team he has ever coaxed into any predictions, but long bus travel and spent three coached. Most of the boys worked Baker. maintains that most important is Baker was in spelling Cordia nights in strange small town out all summer. Coach Long has that his athletes stay healthy and triple sessions in who gained 9 yards and grabbed a hotels. The food at Washington them on keep in shape. This observer tends to agree, and he is easily coaxed 15-yarder in the drive, Bill Finan's and Lee's freshman dining hall preparations for R.P.I. There are sixteen men on the extra point split the uprights with was sub-pur making it tough for into predictions. If this team stays only 37 seconds remaining to the team and especially difficult squad, eight of them returning. healthy, Hamilton fans will not be make the halftime scoreboard for the students at the 224 year The team is led by co-captains disappointed. old all-male college. It is the only read 8-7. institution with which we engage GOLF MATCH Hewey Excells_ that is not co-ed. Cordia is Impreaive L i n e b a c ker-gu a r d Any Kirkland Students interested in porticipating in an Only Powell's second half heroics, Jake inter-mural golf match should contact Sara Gordon (X4933) by In the second half the Generals carefully executed on McHenry 's Cunningham speaking after the generated just too much offense orders opened up the game. game said, •'We made numerous __ . _noon Saturday, Sept. 29. -Representa"tiveneed·ed! ·Earn - for-the Blue to -come-back.· But -in . -W&L'.s- -n�-liead---coac:h -was-·--a mental- · -errors· -·--on - ··-de fense ,----------- -- · $200.00+ each semester with only a few hours work at the beginning of the semester.
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THE SPECTATOR� VOLUME IV, NUMBER 5
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
Assembly Convenes Monday; Senate Axes PI RG Funding ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS HELD WEDNESDAY BY LISA GALLATIN Little more than 1 7 percent of the Kirkland student body participated in the second election for Assembly representatives on October 3. The first election, held Monday, was already one week behind schedule. The results were invalidated due to the ambiguity concerning the collection of ballots, and the suspicion that several students may have voted more than once. The precedure for l;he first election began with nominations for one or two representatives, which includes students living off-campus. The number of nominations was found to be insufficient: Minor dorm had no nominees and others had only one where two were required. Thus, nominations had to be reopened and the student elections and the first Assembly meeting were delayed by one week. Ballots were put in mailpoxes on Saturday for the election on October 1. However, there was some confusion about the return of ballots. Ballots should have been cast on Monday at voting tables in McEwen and Bristol, although some voters mistakenly dropped their ballots in the SAC box in the mailroom. It was therefore impossible to get an accurate record of who had voted. During · the election on Monday, a student admitted to having voted three times. With the suspicion that many people might have voted more than once, the election was declared invalid and once again postponed, this time until Wednesday. To insure that the ne� ..... : .::� 1 •• ,,.;v kl •._ air, voting tables were set up in McEwen and Bristol. As votes were .cast, the names of voters were checked off. Only 17 percent of the Kirkland students voted. Maria Zammit, chairwoman of the Election Committee, said · that the confusion and delays could be attributed to the fact that most of the committee consisted of new members who were unfamiliar with the voting procedure. Ms. Zammit suggested that problems may have arisen because the Kirkland Assembly election process has not yet been standardized. Freshwomen pose the biggest problem for the Election Committee, she said. In the fall, they are not yet familiar with nominees and voting procedures. If the election is delayed until the spring, they risk being improperly represented. Ms. Zammit suggested that elections be held in the spring in order to avoid delays in scheduling early Assembly meetings. For faculty elections, instead of formal nominations, the Steering Committee eliminated the names of faculty members who had requested not to be considered. All others, almost two-thirds of the faculty, were listed on the ballot. Approximately 70 percent of the faculty voted. The results • of the student elections were as follows: Dormitory Representatives: Root-Susan Elfin; McIntosh-Leslie Loomis; Milbank-Toby Landis, Martha Hamblin; B-Patty Pomerantz, Audrey Merwin; Minor-Liz Barrow; Keehn-Robin Fields; Majo r-Deborah Aidun; Kirkland Students at Hamilton-Nancy Burnett; At-large-Sara Gordon, Mar sha Weinstein; Black and Puerto Rican Union-Ann Sierra. Steering Committee Members: Maria Zammit, Debbie Curry, Lisa Rosenthal (first semester), Maggie Stern (replacing Ms. Rosenthal second semester.)
Inside this issue: Hamilton Women F acuity No discrimination can be found Kirkland Counseling Dean and Assistant Dean of Students at work
OCTOBER 5, 1973
PIRG FUNDS DENIED BY 54 VOTE SPECIAL TO THE SPECTATOl,t The Student Senate defeated a motion to allocate $110 to the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) in action at its Monday meeting. The vote was 5-4. The campus organizers of PIRG had asked the Senate to approve the request so that the group can publicize itself and its proposed activities to the student body before the upcoming referencum. The Kirkland Student Life Committee agreed before the Senate meeting to fund one half of the total $219 request. After the Senate action, the Kirkland i committee agreed to contrbute the full amount. In a meeting dominated J?y monetary requests, the Senate allocated $100 to the Asian Student Union, $280 to the Environmental . Ecology Committee of Hamilton and Kirkland (EECHK), $285 to the Bowling League, and $525 to the Water Polo Club. The PIRG defeat came in spite of the support of Student Senate President George Bak.er. He has no voting power except in the case of a tie. Expressing disappointment about the Senate's· decision, Mr. Baker said, ''The $110 was a minimum expenditure for the benefits that can come from being knowledgeable about this group. Our failure will not allow information to be ·disseminated properly." Neil Scheier, a senator representing the senior class, voted against the PIRG allocations. He said, "I have nothing against PIRG itself. I just do not feel that student money should be used to pre ent one side of an argument for an election." ''The Senate does not want to get ,t>Olitically oriented,'' he said. The organizers of PIRG at Hamilton-Kirkland have labelled October 'PIRG Month" in their efforts to fund the organization on this campus. Donald K. Ross, executive director of NYPIRG spoke on the campus Wednesday to begin PIRG's month long activities. The petition drive to collect $2.00 per student to fund PIRG activities will begin on October 29. The Bowling League allocation will be used to defray bowling costs of members and to buy trophies for the winners of bowling tournaments. The Water Polo Club will use its $525 to meet their travelling and equipment expenses. President Baker expressed. the hope that the Physical Education Department will assume the costs of the Water Polo Club in the future.
ShirleyChisho Im Urges ''Do Your Homework!''
BY DOUG GLUCROFT Shirley Congresswoman Chisholm, the only Black ever to run for the office of President and the first Black woman elected to of House U.S. the Representatives, adressed the College community Monday evening in the· first of three Root-Jessup Lectures. When the crowd of 800 seated themselves in the Alumni Gym after the first of three standing ovations, Mrs. Chisholm began by addressing herself to "the decline of the republic." The tone of her speech emerged rapidly as she said "the people are to blame" for the current malaise in American society. She deplored the wasted brainpower in America, the group in which psychology independence was forsaken, and the MadisCln Avenue propaganda
which accounts for many of the problems our nation faces. Not the least of the problems, she said, ¥e the presidency of Richard Nixon and vice-presidency of Spiro Agnew. Mrs. Chisholm said that if citizens had studied the political patterns of behavior of Richard Nixon-if they had "done their homework"-he would not have the mandate which he received in November. At an early juncture, Mrs. Chisholm made it clear that she was speaking primarily . to issues and facts. She said if her remarks appeared partisan in nature, it was a consequence of the state of affairs she described. Her plea was obvious: students here have the education and the potential, but it is up to them to use it effectively and to do dilligent research and not to act in "pack psychology." The audience was silent as Mrs. Chisholm spoke except for a faint "right on" or sparse applause. When speaking of the economy, she referred to the "big business orientation" and the closed alliance with the huge corporate interest and the administratio . She began. to• spew facts at the audience concerning the rates of unemployment, the trade deficit, the interest rates, the exploitation of foreign labor markets, the paucity of mass transit, but she stopped and reiterated one fact which took the audience by surprise as much as she knew it would. "Japan." she said, "felt sorry for the starving unemployed workers in Seattle, so they sent food to help them to survive." The realization that U.S. citizens were g<'lt£ng foreign aid had a tremendous impact on the audience. Mrs. Chisholm's comments were not all solemn. She spoke ot continued on page five
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EDITORIALS
Assembly Apathy .. •
Spectator's Spectator
Gerry's Style Forecast for Fall BY GERRY PAYNE
The results of the second attempt to elect student Styles come and go. Approaches, ways of thinking, ways of living -- they all reach their peaks representatives to the Kirkland Assembly are embarassing. of acceptance, and then almost disappear. When only 1 7 percent of the students make the minimal But there always seems to be a few people who effort req -..ired to cast their ballots, we can only conclude settle too comfortably in one style or another. To the obvious-the rest are unconcerned about the governing 'tliem, - mis-taken though they may be, "this is it; structure of the community. everything else was a series of fads, but this is it!" J.ike my''uncle who wears Nehru jackets.He has a This apparant lack of interest in the legis�atiye bodiAf . �lo�et full -of them, in royal blue, saintly pink, the college can have distressing consequences. As1 a sc;qu4'ied silver,. and Brahmin brown. Ai\d dressers "participatory democracy," the Assembly is dependent ,on full of dickies, and peasant hand crafted pendants. administration, faculty and student support. When this My aunt doesn't take him out anymb They sit suppo1t is weak or absent, more than the effectiveness of _ :a"t hon.11::Saluri:lay nights, my aunt in her new wool plaid dress, °from Saks, and my uncle in his Nehru t�e governing structure is affected. The claim that the jacket, and my uncle looks over the snapshots· he Assembly is a representative body, respvnsive to the needs took on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary trip of the community, becomes questionable. to India. Which is what my aunt thinks did it. The lack of interest revealed by the Assembly election is My uncle was awestruck the day he saw Nehru in especially distressing at a college whici1 actively seeks person. Exotic grandeur filled my uncle's touched head and never left. studem participation and amply p�ovides for thisp�ci It was chemistry. Stupid chemistry was all it pation, even at an administrative level. The election of could have been� Because my uncle saw Mayor representatives to the Assembly is. one step in securing LaGuardia in person at formal government student influence in college affairs. We hope the majority functions many times, but he never had a spiritual of students will exercise their governing "rights." They inclination towards "short and stocky" grey rumpled suits. should view these rights as responsibilities. My aunt doesn't even bother to ask him to throw them away anymore. "Just put them away. Put them downstairs in the closet with your army • • • uniform." If they come back, and she hopes to God they won't come back, he can be the first on the The Student Senate's refusal to allocate $110 to the block with Nehrus. Public Interest Research Group might be understandable. I have a friend whom his mother calls a hippie. It might be understandable if the Senate did not give $285 He left college to hitch across the country. He's to the Bowling Club. It might be understandable if it did been eating granola and saw dust, and finding out what it is like to get back to the land. not give $35 to Chi Psi to help finance a Community Beer. The guy was· a math wizard. Everyone expected But the Senc..te did give money for bowling and for beer. It
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acted irresponsibly in defeating the allocation request of the PIRG. PIRG is one of the most in1,.ovative projects to be suggested in a number of years. As a Nader-type organization it has the potential for significant student imput into investigating many of the problems in this are�. The PIRG organizers asked the Senate for just a small amount to help publicize itself for the petition drive which begins in three weeks. The Senate turned its back on PIRG's modest request. The 1973 Adler Report stated, "A liberal arts education , must transcend the classroom and deal with life outside the classroom." The students here must decide whether they believe PIRG is the best way to broaden their liberal arts education. The Senate action, however, has made the chances of truly intelligent decision-m�ing difficult. The Senate's role goes beyond bowling and beer. Its role to support that segment of a liberal arts education which does transcend the classroom cannot be ignored. It ignored this role Monday. The student body should see to it that it does not ignore this important role in the future.
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THE SPECTATOR
VOLUME FOUR
NUMBER FIVli
Editor-in-Chief - Frederic Bloch Managing Editor - Henr y Glick News Editor - Mitchel Ostrer News Editor - Pamela ThJmpson Business Manager - Peter Sluys Associate Editor Robert J. Keren Arts Editon Jon Cramer Kathy Livingston Acting Photography Editor Phillip Morris Assistant News Editon Peter Ackerman Doug Glucroft Paula Leon
Sports Editor C. James Carr Production Manager Glen Gilbert Production Assistant Brook Hedick Business Staff Geoffrey Lawrence Wm. D. Underwood Peter Brandon Bayer Martin J. Kane Donald Kendal I
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From the Sanctuary
him to return to M.I.T. But his brain turned to the molasses he uses to bake his organic bread. When I meet his mother in town during vacations from school, she greets me like her own."So you're . going to school! Gerry, Gerry, you've grown up just fine." And then she pleads with me, that if I could just write one letter to her son, "the hippie in Tennessee, who still has · long · hair," maybe he'd come back. n So I've always tried �y best to avoid get.ting too settled in styles and fads. It's not that I move with every passing fancy, but I avoid getting entrenched. I watch out for innovations. Because what's innovative in one year is common knowledge or rejected theory the next. Everyone was drinking sangria a year or two ago. Those who got too entrenched are juiceheads now, or have moved to the Bowery to wash windshields. And it's especially difficult for something to be innovative for very long. One has to be careful about signing up for something innovative. " Today's new army" is tomorrows splintered billboard. I could always take the easy way out, and opt for things that are always to some degree in style.Like I could wear grey Brooks Brothers suits, black wing tip shoes, and drive a Marathon Checker. I'd be timeless. But I don't want to be. Give me my hat and cane, and I'll sidestep my way forward.Materialism is in this year, so I can stop hiding my suburban wealth. I'll buy the pants I've wanted to buy, but couldn't before because of blue jeans. If Nehru's come back, I can see my uncle. If patched jeans, or if soybean burgers come back, I can see my Ozar.k friend caught ridiculous in time for the recipe.
Storm Warning
BY LEROY PORTER There is a not too distant problem steadily approaching our campus. Those of us who have been charting its course know that once it reaches the Hill in full expression not only will the cat be let out of the bag, but kitty will also be skinned.Some have been observing and speculating about the destructive nature of this converging provocation since its course was noticed way back in 1968. In a sense we can look at this dynamic problem as we · could a hurricane of sorts. Hurricane Caucasoid in all its alabaster and fury is on its way to wreak havoc all over the Hill. Hurricane Caucasoid seems to have an eye on a particular group around here...that is what is attracting him. H.C. presents itself as a problem in the form of a question that firstly asks, "Do the white folk up •. n this hill want to sacrifice their reputable high quality education for such a, after all superficial luxury as diversity. This question is definitely. on its way to being asked and the answer definitely will take on hurricane proportions. The whitewashing effects of the rains of reprisal and re-evaluation simply come down to the fact that the luxury of Black students has well been afforded and now has become too expensive. In preparation for the storm, H.E.O.P. shelters were provided to protect Black students from the oncoming winds of
castigation. The main thrust for having Black students around is to provide the white population with the privilege of diversity, at the cost of those diverse student's integrity. How mut:h more racist can it appear to a Black student who looks at the situation from the above point of view? An Afro-Latin Cultural Center is given to students because of the traditions of the times, not because of an understanding about what it is to develop Black heritage in an educational institution. It is hard to believe concerns about anybody's identity are a real conviction of this institution. Keeping in mind our sense of proportions, how much of the pie can so called marginal Black students have? Hamilton's need for diversity is a farce. There's not �at much meaningful learning going on between races here. In fact, benefits of this educational experience for white students need not ever require dialog ue between races...that situation exists and no one is going to get into talking about devaluing the student's experience or diploma. When a Black community on a college campus is not longer an extension of a Black community or communities, certain expectations become absurd, like diversity. If the college wants Black students from families who are a part of the dominant white culture and at the same time want diversity, then Hamilton College might as well want blood from a diamond.
Letters to the Editor
"Alias Smith,, & Jones "on Hill" rooms available to all To the Editor: independents, and those in the Before it is too late, I would Class of 1976 in particular. Any like to make some comments freshman with a lottery number about the Hill's housing policies, above twenty was faced with an specifically about co-ed .dorms.. eight to nine month extended stay Co-ed dorms are a necessary living in Bundy. This does not mean option for college life, but the that Bundy is not a good dorm. In concerning which fact, it is a very fine dorm- good decisions well equiped Hamilton dorms are to be co-ed sized rooms, dorms have left something to be bathrooms, wall to wall carpets, · electric heat (not oil), plenty of desired. Last spring, the independents hot water, etc,.etc. in the Class of 1976 were faced When the co-ed dorm situation with the problem of where to live. was being discussed last year, I It is safe to assume that most recall that one importantpeople did not want to live in the characteristic which people Bundy complex. The decision to thought a co-ed dorm w:.Ould utilize two floors in both North have was a lounge where the sexes and South Dorms for co-ed could congregate. South Dorm housing diminished the number of does not have a lounge, nor does
North Dorm. Last years decision should have been co-ed living for the East wing of the Bundy complex. This wing would admirably suit the needs of a co-ed dorm. There is a furnished, fire-placed lounge which presently gets no use. In the basement, there is a large recreation room-kitchen area. Why not take advantage of this wing instead of trying to force · co-ed living into buildings which are not as suitable ?In addition to providing excellent co-ed housing, this use of the East wing of Bundy perhaps will give those sophmores and juniors who would like to live "up on the Hill" an opportunity to do so. Neil Cheney '76
YEARBOOK An Organizational meeting for the Yearbook will be held Sunday, October 7 at 9 pm in the Pub. Anyone and everyone interested in writing, sketching, taking imo tographs, etc. or just working on the Yearbook is welcome. If you can't make the meeting, contact Vin Pomeranz for more information about the Yearbook. MEASURE FOR MEASURE A staged reading, with costume and music, of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure will be held in Minor Theatre on October 12, 13, and 14 at 8:30. The play, directed by ·Prof. E;.dwin Barrett, will be free to the public. POETRY PRESS The National Poetry press, publishers of The College Students' Poetry Anthology, has annour:.ced its Spring l:ompetition for all college students. The closing date for mbmission of manuscripts is Novemver 5. There is no Imitation as to form or theme, and shorter works are preferred by the Board of Judges because of space Imitations. Each poem must be typed or printed on a separate meet, and must bear the name an� both the home and college address of the student. Also, entrants are encouraged to submit the name of their English mtructor. Manuscripts should be sent to: NatioLal Poetry Press, 3210 Selby Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. 90034
Blurbs
RELIGIOUS EVENTS There will be a Theology Workshop on ''Theological Reality and 1:echnological Mythology" Sunday, October 11, at 7:30 in KJ 128. The Workshop will be led by the Reverend Thomas Troeger of the New Hartford Presbyterian Church. Chaplain Joel W. Tibbetts will be the speaker at Free Church earlier that day in the Hamilton Chap el at 11:15. Both events are op;n to all members of the college and area communities. TOURNAMENTS DIRECTOR NEEDED Any student interested in organizing a campus recreational tournament in such minor sports as table tennis, billiards, etc., should contact Mr. Wertz at the BCC office as soon as possible. This is a part time employment opportunity. Person must be able to travel in February. FOREIGN SERVICE EXAM APPLICATIONS Graduating seniors are reminded that the once-a-year Foreign Service Officer Examination applications are due no later than Oct. 31 in Washington. The Examination itself will be given December 8 in Syracuse, among other places. Prof. Richardson will be glad to discuss the Examination with anyone. Applications are available at ..he Career Center.
Left Writes
October 5, 1973[THE SPEC'fATOR/3 PORTFOLIO EDITOR NEEDED The Publications Board is seeking an editor for Portfolio,Hamilton-Kirlda.nd's photography. magazine. Anyone interested in being considered for this position, contact Harold Bogle through campus mail. PERSONA Kinokunst-Gesellscaft presents this week in tlie Chemistry auditorium Ingmar Bergman •s Persona starring Liv tillman and Bibi Andersson, and a Charlie Chaplin short, The Vagabond. Showings will be at 8 Thmsday Friday and Saturday and at 10 Sunday� Admission � $.75. Persona is one of Bergman•s more difficult to understand movies. He delves into the human psyche, and P?rtrays the torment of the soul. Images often confusmg fight to gain recognition, but the excitment generated is never lost. Liv Ullman and Bibi Andenson play two women whose roles, or &'personae" become confused, in overlaps of dreams and actual conflicts. Bibi Andersson's tale of a day and night of sex is one of the most difficult and . erotic scenes ever filmed. Sven Nykvist's black and white cinematography expertly blends dreams and reality. The film is bani to grasp, but the complexity and obscurity arc unavoidable. However, Persona is easy to feel, and is a wondedul, beautiful . movie. "A magnificeqt fihn"-John Simon. uAn open puzzle"-Pauline Kael
between opinions expressing the I moved from official reports to financially impossible. In the light need for scuba-diving and a more t h e i n d i v i d u a l l y e xpressed of the recent formation of a ''rigorously evaluated" Winter opinions of students. Some Jewish Studies department, not Study program, I found several stud en t s were disturbed by even a year after the initial paragraphs concerning t he "tensions" revolving around the student request, they found such p r o b l em of "Black-White Black and Puerto Rican Union, r e p o r ts t o -b e n o t o n l y relation$-" echoing the 1972 Adler report p r ovo c a t ive ,. b ut disturbing. We all know that no one burns which held that "Many white Judging from the preliminary crosses in front of the .Black and students .. . still feel strange homework that rvc done ,. there Latin Union, nor uses such walking into the Black and Puerto seem to be many facets of the pejoratives as "nigger" and "spic", Rican Union." All seemed to 'Black-White problem', from such (at least not in the vicinity of think that the general relationship . institutionally related issues as the blacks and Puerto Ricans). We between blacks and whites in this H .E.O.P .,. H a m ilt on-Kirkland also -know that the widespread community is not a good one. In policy on the hiring of black legislating attitudes." BY JOHN HU TCHINSON p olitical arson · and srupmg fact, some people even expressed faculty, and admissions' recnnting -19 73 Adler Evaluation Report "From the very beginning, A n extraordinary black experienced by other colleges a a suspicion that racism exists on of minority students, to the more it was agreed that grave racial years ago byp assed Hamilton this hill. individual, and perhaps ultimately tensions exist in the student stateswoman advised a group of us few and Kirkland's wooded acres. When I inquired into the ways m o r e d i f ficult problems of bodies ofboth Hamilton and in the gym' a few nights ago to However, over the past several that students experienced &'racial black-white interpersonal relations Kirk.land .. it was commented start dojng our homework. Ms. y e a r s w e h a v e retur n e d tensions", varied responses started and attitudes. They · would all that these tensions have in no Chisholm repeatedly emphasized f way been eased and ·could at that eternal vigilance on the part ate�ttently t 9 this -vaguely �e thinking about why such seem to point to the immediate concerns are only · expressed necessity for a serious and honest any ti me resurface · with of us budding intell�ctual-types defined problem of "Black-White relations." The Adler Conferences annually, in the sequestered confrontation with these issues. u n fo r t u n a t e might be the best way to avoid have seemingly made perfunctory wilderness of the Higby Lodge. not only ·within the confines of the repetition of atrocities such as consequences . . . " effort s at a p p e a s ing black Some people were ap parently very officially sanctioned conferences, -1971 Adler Evaluation Report the one we all witnessed last d i s c o n t e n t b y p l a c i n g curious, for example, about the but in the broader,. and more November 7. It sounded like good "It 'w as a gr e e d t h a t "Black-White relations" on their validity and possible meanings of personal context of a community. Black-White tensions continue advice to me, so I started doing agendas. The evaluation reports of reports that for the past three SQme homework on the problems to exist on the Hill. " these conferences would seem to years certain women of the Black This is the second of a -1972 Adler Evaluation Report· existing right here on the Hill. I indicate that no serious attempts and Latin Union have been told bi-weelily column,. written by a began by checking out the reports "The conference was aware have been made to go beyond the by very sympathetic Kirkland group of Kirkland and Hamilton-,,. that Black-White relations are of some recent Adler Adirondack mere raising of the issue. a d m i n i s t rators that a Black people who share similar critical Outings. My homework proved in need ofimprovemen-t, but In the course of my homework Studies department is indeed recognised the impossibility of rather interesting, because in on this seemingly perennial issue, desirable, but unfortuntely approaches to issues that affect us ,. as students and as indiuiduals.
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News Philosophy Questioned
p r o mismg candidate not caring about the BY PETER ACKERl,\1AN Together, Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges publication ·of his name (or a detailed description of constitute a very small community. Hence, the himself) in connection with Hamilton's search for a degree to which we can function smoothly as a new president are two: slim and none. Assuming a community, and also progress as an educational candidate already has a job that would like to keep institution, is directly dependent on our separate · should he not be chose, making his candidacy public abilities to appreciate and act in accordance with information could most seriously jeopardize his current situation. Also, if names were printed now, each other's needs and goals. Certainly, despite its ostensible function of then after the final difficult coice was made, the "getting out the news,"The Spectator has as great a "losers" could be construed by their other potential responsibility to serve the college community as any employers as "also rans." Yet, this would be a gross other organization or individual on the Hill. The misunderstanding of the individuals involved. If the committee has good reason to guarantee word "despite" is used here since it is entirely confidental treatment to all its candidates , then possibly for cases to arise where the publication of a particular story would serve only to inflict how can The Spectator possibly aid this search by insisting on the publication of names and considerable damage on the general welfare of these information?True, the presidential search is news, colleges. For example, several articles have appeared this and, as a paper, The Spectator has a responsibility to publish the news. But, it would seem to have a year regarding the Presidential Search Committee, and, in particular, the "secrecy" of this committee,. greater· r e sponsibility - to serve the college community. Given that the latter responsibility is More precisely, however, the committee is not being foremost where the two may conflict , to claim that "secret." Rather, it is acting, according to its own presid ential search infonpation should bereleasedis statement, with the "highest level of confidence" to insist that this information would actually and it has good reason to do so. comtribute to the well-being of the colleges by That is not to say that we should all relinquish aiding in the search. And this is certainly to our interest in the matter. Indeed, the committee misunderstand the prerequisite conditions for has publicly invited suggestions from all members of choosing a president worthy of Hamilton. the college comminity, �d we are all concerned that the search produce a sixteenth president worthy Peter Ackerman ·is an assistant news editor of of this college. But, to insist from this that we should be given an "indepth" puJ:>lic account of the The Spectator. This space was made available to him as part of The Spectator's policy of allowing editors arch is both selfish and self-defeating. The committee realizes that the chances of a ·to present dissenting opinions on editorial policy. J
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Endowment Reviewed At Trustees Meeting
principle concern once action is Hamilton Trustees approved of the College's attempts to secure completed regarding Chemistry and Dunham. Black faculty in action related to The Committee on Resources the Committee on Instruction taken last weekend. Fund-raising and Development discussed means plans, programs to strengthen ·the o f i n c r e a s i n g the flow of endowment, and improvements contributions in light of the o n buildings, g rounds and absence of John Chandler, who equipment were "also considered at was a major fund raiser, and in response to contributors' concern the General Trustees Meeting. The Trustees supported in a bout Hamilton's lack of a principle the College's efforts to president. T h e R e s o u r c e s and recruit Black faculty. Dean of the College S t ephen G. Kurtz Development Committee ii reported of Hamilton's attempts developing a ten-year progran for in this area at Chapel last Monday raismg $43,000,000 of whid $15,000,000 has already been morning. The Pl anning Co mmittee committed. During the next two to three reviewed studies made towards improving Chemistry facilities, years, the Committee hopes to . . w h i c h h a v e been f ou n d r a i s e o v er $6 ,000,000 for Ms. Anne Patenaude, Assistant Professor o f English . M s· Annette Stoler , Assistant Professor o f English 1 n a d e q u a t e b o t h b y th e C h e m i s t r y i m p rovem ents, Department and by the students. $3,000,000 for four endowed rustees endorsed further professorial chairs, $475,000 for t ton "'omen ac endowment of scholarships, and y;:.�/ The Committee also supported, $1,000,000 to complete payment . in principle, College plans to of the Burke Library. The Buildings, Grounds, and e valu ate the pilot Dunham · Dormitory renovation project in Equipment Committee authorized December, a n d present its expenditures of $30,000 for , cases of male chauvinism on the full-time women. It's a good recommendations at the Winter new electric power supply IC BY FELICE J. FREYER T h r e e f u l l - t i m e w o m a n Hamilton campus. She is very b eginning,' Ms. Ring said. She Trustee Meetings. Schemes for South Dorm, and Silliman and professors were hired b y Hamilton enthusiastic and positive about would like, however, to see the housing student surplus resulting Benedict Halls. No difference in this semester, a change from the the school. 'It's gorgeous. It's an percentage of women on the from Dunham's reduced capacity service will be felt, though, until past when woman professors have E d e n . T h e p e o p l e a r e Hamilton faculty equal to the if renovation is continued were interior electric improvement � been faculty wives and have t r em endously f riendly.' Ms. national percentage of women on also discussed. made. usually taught on a part time basis Patenaude enjoys the 'sense of college faculties. 'I don't want The committee also authorized The Planning C ommittee only. Although the majority of community' here. Her students, Hamilton to think we can hire decided that strengthening of the renovation of the swimming pool women faculty members felt that who she feels are above reacting three token women and then e n d o w m e n t , e s p e c i a l l y ceiling and light fixture, and it would be beneficial for the unfavorably to a woman teacher, forget about it," she added. endowment for financial aid and approved the construction of college to hire more women are 'very bright and responsive' continued on page five professorial chairs, would be its Continued on page nilll professors, all five said they and she finds the faculty 'warm, encountered no discrimination helpful and friendly.' Like Ms. Stoller, Ms. Patenaude against them on the part of their said she is 'frustrated' that there male colleagues. · · There are presently five female are no women in a predominantly faculty members at Hamilton, and male environment. 'You get used sixth, Valerie Warrior, has not yet to it,' she said. arrived from England. Two new Ms. Patenaude believes that she C�pus and LOBBY so that both BY DOUG GLUCROFT information to all students. professors who have arrived are and Ms. Stoller were hired partly LOBBY, the information centers can remain _up to date on LOBBY is open 10 a.m. to Annette S t o l l e r and Anne as a result of pressure on the center in McEwen, is expanding campus functions to a greater. midnight, Monday thru Priday1 Patenaude, both of whom teach college to include more women in and moving into new areas of extent. and noon to midnight on tht English. Three faculty wives who the faculty. activity as it begins its third year 'We are not trying in any way weekends. Schedules will he teach at Hamilton are Elizabeth Ms. Patenaude has never felt of operation. to compete with Bristol,' Ms. posted for .the trains, httSeSi Ring, F ra n c oise Davis, and closely aligned with the Women's According to its director Ms. Fields said,'but we simply want airplanes, arriving in and departin1 Hermine Williams. Movement, and attributes this to Robin Fields '76, LOBBY will students to know that there are out of the Utica area, and a jitney Ms. Stoller came to Hamilton the fact that she had never attempt to offer information two information centers to which schedule between Clinton and the because ot was- a college of high doubted that women were capable concerning 'alternatives in they can go.' Hill will-be posted as well. academic standing on the East of becoming professionals. Ms. education.' Material will be is setting up LOBBY Information on activities at the coast. Since coming here, she can Patenaude said that, in attaining schools, cooperative relationships with the on free available Kirkland Art Center and aru recall 'no examples of significant their equality with men, 'women programs abroad, opportunities Women's. Center and the Options colleges will be kept on file allll chauvinism,' and has found the should also be willing to share the for work on projects involving in Education Center in order to posted. people to be extremely friendly liabilities, such as the draft.' social change, and probably off f�cilitate the transfer of. pertinent Continued on page ni11 -and helpful. She said that both Ms. Elizabeth Ring taught campus Winter Study proposals. the students and faculty have philosophy at Hamilton from If the new vending machines reacted to her no differently than 1959 to 1960 and has been behind the McEwen Coffeehouse they would to a man, although teaching part-time since 1968. She remain in working operation, the she said it can be slightly awkward is the wife of James Ring, LOBBY will not be in the candy being the only woman at a faculty Professor of Physics at Hamilton. business this year. 'This was a meeting. 1 West Park Row In her years at Hamilton, she has to contributor its Ms. Stoller regrets that there found that there is no actual major Clinton, New _york drawbacks last year' said Ms. are not more women in her classes discrimination a gainst t h e and on the teaching staff. 'I miss individual woman, but feels that Fields. Nick Burn·s, Broker Hamil ton '46 LOBBY will be selling art women,' she said: 'I would be the policies of the college are reproductions at reasonable much happier if there were more.' better suited to men. Auto, Tenants, Motorcycle and Homeowner's Insurance prices, contraceptives, paperback 'Students miss a great deal by She noted that there are no books, and will be continuing the not having more women teachers,' programs for parental leave, child UL3-5051-2 of the textbook she added. 'Women have a care, or for going back and forth operation different point of view. Men f r o m ful l-time to part-time exchange. LOBBY ericourages aren't as sens1t:1ve to certain teaching. 'The college needs to students to bring plants and concepts, and vice versa. It's a consider ways that people-both cuttings, and any spare posters or CLINTON SHOE CENTER (Best Area Prices Can Be Had) original artwork to the McEwen different type of empathy.' · men and women-can ,combine a Lounge to 'make it a livable at SPECIALIZING IN Ms. Stoller, who is teaching a teaching career with parental WINTER BOOTS Weavers Wine and Liquor Store place.' Kirkland College is, in winter study course on women in responsibility,' she said. on the Square addition, purchasing six chairs to AND SHOE REPAIR fiction, is ah avid supporter of the Ms. Ring said she would prefer make more lounge the 853-5242 women's liberation movement. that both Kirkland and Hamilton 8:30 A,.M. - 9 :00 P.M. Her interest in the movement, were co-ed colleges, or that the comfortable. Monday - ·Friday Various alternative periodicals •"••••••••••••••••••.-.•••..•••••••••••••••••••••••.•.-.-.•111."" however, is 'less institutional than two schools become a single co-ed and newspapers such as the Los personal.' The most important institution. 'I don't see why a 8:30 AM. - 9:30 P.M. toiletri� and issues, she believes, deal with how p e r s o n s h ould b e d enied Angeles Free Press and The Great cosmetics Saturdays a woman feels about her personal admission to a school on account Speckled Bird will be stocked for delivered on campus Free Delivery student use. life and her relationship with men. of sex.' CALL 853-6914 There will be a closer 853-8764 Ms. Anne Patenaude said she 'The college has done a relationship between Bristol Weekdays after S pm or weekends has not yet run into any serious remarkable thing to hire three Campus Center on Hamilton's "----------------
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Mrs. Chisholm Blasts Nixon; Terms Watergate c- Blessing' campaign spending bill when her corporations illegally but had continued from page 9ne the space program presenting a voice fell to a stammering returned the money. "Ignorance of the law is no excuse,." she said. terse and wry vision of the sarcastic whisper. Mrs. Chilsholm delineated the apocalypse. "With our insane path In an informal gathering of priorities," she , said, "we will bleak economic realities for following the lecture, Mrs. someday have to escape from the minority groups in America and Chisholm admitted that she was the power structure embodied in planet earth." planning to quit electoral politics Congresswom.,in Chisholm the Administration which assures after · the 1976 Presidential aptly drew a picture of "immoral the continuance of inequality. Election in which she plans to and amoral relationships between About halfway through her take an active part. Her the administration and big . talk, Mrs. Chisholm turned to post-congressional plans include business." With voice modulating Watergate, terming it "a blessing the formation of a "travelling between cries of disgust and in disguise." "We will realize that political institute" to study about whispers of despondency, Mrs. eternal vigilance is the price we twelve districts around the Chisholm described the inability pay for liberty in the United country in terms of latent of the House of Representatives States," she said. political goals in the populace and Again adopting a sarcastic to help candidates who would to override the vetoes on the emergency health legislation and stance Mrs. Chisholm decried the otherwise not have the support phrase "law and order" and said, necessary to maintain a viable on the minimum wage. With sarcasm pervading her "The past few months have shown candidacy. voice Mrs. Chisholm mocked us to whom that law and order "We have to get off of that one President Nixon's rationale for the was directed." name," said Chisholm in reference "How many of you realize the to Senator Edward Kennedy as vetoes as she blurted "Inflationary implications of Watergate? " she the most talked about 1976 pressures." "This administration is not asked. Watergate was not a Democratic candidate for atuned to the powerless and question of partisan politics as president. Her choices for that would believe, Mrs. office are Senators Birch Bayh, helpless in the country," Mrs. some Chisholm said. Once again Chisholm explained, but instead a Walter Mondale and Gaylord mocking Republican Party ideals concerted effort to "take the Nelson. She said all these men she continued, "What's good for American people for a ride." have the courage and are Mrs. Chisholm expressed her sufficiently "people minded" to General Motors, is good for the country," evoking supportive hopes for America to the young in lead this nation. Mrs. Chisholm the audience. "I hop_e...that as applause from the crowd. said she would not be surprised if The audience was told to stop you mature...and as you get a the Republican party nominated moving in packs, to use its brains, good education...that you will use Senator Edward Brooke or and above all not to take for your education wisely... that you Massachusetts, the only Black in granted what Shirley Chisholm or won't follow a candidate because the Senate, for Vice-President. anybody else tells it until its others do...that you will do some she said, Of feminism, have some homework •.. and that you will "Feminists must first develop members done study those who hold our research. self-confidence. They can't move denounced destinies in their hands." She until they know themselves." She Mrs. Chisholm federal spending cuts authorized urged the young to "accept the insisted that the movement is by President Nixon in education, challenge," to "rock the boat," splintered and not addressing health, and library and medical and to "redeem faith in our itself to the "bread and butter school projects, while pointing to democracy and restore faith, issues." She cited the example of cost over-runs in defense contracts integrity and trust." the "Ms.", "Miss", "Mrs." "God still loves America," she controversy as being meaningless and subsidization of corporate said. farms. to those women, particularly In response to an audience black women, who are not earning She listed Presidential vetoes with a crescendo until she question, Mrs. Chisholm confessed the money they should. mentioned the Nixon veto of the she had received $686 from
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BY PETER ACKERMAN A 'network' of counselling services has been introduced at Kirkland this year. The offices of Dean Jane Poller and Assistant Dean Carol Cooper will function as the 'hubs' of this network. With the bulk of academic problems being handled by Dean Ruth Rinard's office, Deans Poller and Cooper expect to devote m o r e t i m e a nd energy to non-academic kinds of counselling needs.
Women On Faculty .continued from page four Hermine· Williams has been teaching religion at Hamilton on · and off for the past several years. Her husband is Jay G. Williams, c h a i r m a n of t h e Rel i g ion Dep artment. Even before the establishment of Kirkland, she met with no discrimination, and felt she was treated as an equal by both the students and the faculty. She believes that Hamilton's failure to hire more women in the past was due to the shortage of w o m e n w i t h P h.D . 's, t h e assumption that men would teach men at a men's school, and the fact that many women 'didn't want to come all the way up here in the sticks.' M r s. W i l l i a m s s a i d that Hamilton made a special effort to_ hire women this semester, and she recommended that the college be 'cautious of discrimination in reverse.' She said that equally qualified men should not be discriminated against in order to have a certain number of women on the faculty. 'Sometimes there are good reasons not to hire a woman,' Mrs. Williams acknowledged, 'Women do tend to get married and have babies.' F ra ncoise Davis has been teaching French at Hamilton part-time since 1961, and is
presently employed full-time. Mrs. Davis said it was 'rather pleasant to be the only woman in a world of men.' When she first began teaching here, she had small children at home, and thought it was a 'blessing' to be able to work part-time and arrange her own hours. 'These gentlemen were very understanding. I have a profound gratitude to my male colleagues.' Mrs. Davis is married to James B. Davis, Associate Professor of French. Although she said that women need a liberation movement, Mrs. Davis added· that it shouldn't go too far. 'Being a woman is a pretty good status in life. We shouldn't get too hberated or we will lose our priveleges.' Mrs. Davis said the college shoud not hire 'a woman for w om a n ' s sak'e ,' but should consider the individual for his or her own qualifications · withcmt regard to sex. She said it would be a worthwhile innovation if the college instituted regular part time positions for wome. Mrs. Davis said that the true liberation of women can be brought about by making available more part-time jobs, thus enabling a_ woman to enjoy 'the best of two worlds,' a satisfying domestic life as well as a career.
More specifically, the deans noted that this year, for the first time, every Kirkland Freshman has a student advisor as well as a facul ty advisor. The faculty advisors primarily assist with academic problems; the student advisors, who began their training September 2, assist in the more general problems of college life such as roommate difficuties and drugs. In addition to these new student advisors, the 'network' will include Bunny Lieberman of the career center, Ken Kogut ot financial a id, Hill Newman chaplain Father Paul Drobin, and Christine Johnson of HEOP. Dean Poller n ot e d that Kirkland students used to have to go to Hamilton to reach these people, but under the new system, it is possible to contact them directly through the Dean's office. Dean Poller stressed that this arrangement would answer the need to have a more diverse range o f c ounsellors for · Kirkland s:tudents. In the past, most n on - a c a d emic problems were directed to Dr. Muilenberg at the Health Center causing an overload for him. Besides the deans and othex.. members of the community who make themselves available in. this program, D·ean Cooper noted that in each dorm there is a live-in faculty resident willing to aid students in any way. Deans Poller and Cooper said that the title 'Counselling Service' w a s m eant to welcome all students who feel that the 'just need someone to talk to or someone to help.' 'The trust of the students is most important,' said Dean Poller, adding that she would not release information on any student to anyone without first obtaining the permission of that student. To illustrate how they expect to work with individual students, Dean Poller explained that continued on page nine
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Comment
Arts in an Academic World
those among the twenty odd I would take in college BY THOMAS COLBY In the spring of 1940 I was taking my freshly probably wouldn't disorient my intellect forever. completed Course Selection Card to the Dean's Irony was surely part of his manner. Nevertheless, as office. En route I met a senior member of the I left him, I felt perhaps I was very possibly an Faculty, a man who had shown me much kindness outward-bound Prodigal Son. I was reminded of this scene last spring when I in the year just ending a,nd one for whom I had enormous respect. On a whim, I decided to get his read CAP's "Goals" statement, and again this fall �hen this was reprinted in the Spectator. Surely opinion of my choices. The beginings of an approving nod halted much has changed since 1940, even on this hilltop. abruptly as he remarked that I had listed the course But the "Goals" statement, particularly �here it in studio art, a newcomer: among ·Hamilton's touches on what it fastidiously designates as offerings, recently (and grudgingly, I think) "expressive courses" is at its· bravest a patronizing approved by the Committee on Studies and the- "Oh we're not afraid of the arts . .. why some of f acuity. Feeling uneasy, I said, well, er, yes, I had, our best friends are artists." But the concluding done that-but the course was in the curriculum, and r e commendation, that H.µnilton students be I had chosen it as one of mv two free electives. prohibited by statute from too much expressiveness Regarding me over his rimless glasses, he noted that melts the years, and I stand again a sophomore I was already singing in the choir. And even less before my frowning mentor. I was therefore greatly refreshed when I read the steadily than before I ventured to mention that the choir was, after all, an over election; and then report of the Danforth team, and I can only hope warming to my defence, I p.9inted _to the chemistry that their quiet wisdom will guide our curricular in my record, to the mathematics, the German, the thinking in the future. It is very likely that I ·will Greek, the economics, the honest Beowulf to whisper my nunc dimittis when my eyes behold a Thomas Hardy in my hand, to the years of Hamilton that concerns itself with man's whole brain and not only its left hemisphere. excrutiating, redemptive Latin behind me ... His brow brightened a trifle and he even gave me a thin, avuncular smile as he said, well, an art course Thomas Colby is a Professor o/ German at wasn't really academic, but he supposed that one of Hamilton. He has been on the faculty since 1959.
Pal,ucc o Moon-June-Spoons in Utica; Dave Bromberg f'Gets the Room Right'
holding his massive creativity back for the sake of the act. One thing I can say in his favor ''You've probably been saying to yourself all week 'What's a is that if you could stomach Mr. Mike Palucco?" True. And Palucco's half lidded eyes and Saturday night we found out that pouting lips, you could hear a well an and back-up worth arranged question wasn't the worrying about. I'm usually very extremely competent clarinet sympathetic towards the first act soprano sax player. The next time we hear of Mike in any unknown/name concert. Even if David Bromberg isn't as Palucco might be on the A.M. big a name as many the first dial. His bland voice and maudlin performer inevitably a lyrics were enough to make the 30 has difficult job. or so members of the audience I Mike Palucco plays an Ovation asked to comment ''He's o.k." or guitar, a brand shared by David "He's great!" When the same �Cassidy and Glen Campt>ell. He people were asked about what entered the stage in the Utica they know of Bromberg, tliey College gym baring his teeth in an replied "I've only heard his name. BY BROOK HEDICK
Is he good?" Aside from Bromberg's exceptional talent, he has another quality which captivates his audiences. He throws his whole being into every minute of each performance. Wherever he plays, and no matter how obnoxious the audience or unprofessional the sound and light crews, he can "get the room right." Of the few performers who are able to accomplish this, Bromberg is perhap s the best.
A substantial number of Hamilton and Kirkland students showed up last weekend in H a m i l ton t o w a tch Randy Newman effortlessly outperform Bonnie Raitt and her pitiful backup at the Colgate University Chap el. The concert was generally impressive, when Raitt was not fighting her supporting trio, and Newman left no doubt as to the quality of his performance.
ultra-bright smile and looking like a gigolo come to court blue haired ladies; tight fitting bodyshirt and hair carefully arranged to hide his bald spot. We got a strong dose· of moon-] une-spoon type lyrics in a set full of self pitying ballads. I· don't know whether they were original or dug up from Buddah record rejection piles. His right hand seemed to work all right but - his left was obviously attached to a brain void of imagination. He had a habit typical of many second rate rhythm guitarists that of doing all sorts of showy runs between songs to prove that he's
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What can you say about David Bromberg? He consistently puts on a good performance. He told us he likes to get beyond the custard stands in his music. His back-up is sul--'erb and an integral part of his music, not mere scenery for an act. In spite of hostile sections of the crowd, unbelieveably poor mixing with constant feedback and for twenty minutes a dead sound system, he "got the room right," as he said he would. As for his guitar playing, a neighbor of mine at the concert who has seen him five times said "There ain't no flies on his fingers."
The first concert o·f the year in Boston Camerata and the Brandeis the annual series sponsored by the University Early Music Ensemble. Music College Hamilton The remaining members of the Department will be held Monday Bryden, Jane are: (October 8) at 8:30 p.m. in the consort Chapel, with the soprano, a graduate of the New Hamilton an England Conservatory of Music, Consort, Cambridge instrumental and vocal group who has made concert tours of specializing in the music of Old Spain and the Soviet Union under. Europe. the auspices of the State The concert is free and open to Department; Frank Hoffmeister, , the public and will feature French tenor, a former voice instructor at music of the Middle Ages and Harvard University, currently on Renaissance. Included on the the faculty of the University of program are works by Claude Maine; Gian Lyman, voila de Debussy, Josquin des Pres and gamba, formerly on the faculty of McGill University, now with the Guillaume de Machaut. Consort Museum of Fine Arts and the The Cambridge includes two singers and three Longy School of Music and instrumentalists from the Friedrich von Huene, recorder, Camerata of the Museum of Fine flute and krummhom, known Arts in Boston. Its director is Joel both as a player and manufacturer Cohen, who also directs the of woodwinds.
Newman Shines at Colgate; Raitt Performance Lacking BY JACK CURRAN AND JON CRAMER
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Bonnie Raitt has certainly s-ounded better, nevertheless the crowd loved her. She is one female guitarist who has a fine sense of musica.1 direction, capable not only of adopting traditional styles, but of creating her own clear and striking blues-folk style. With her hard-0riving locomotive vocals she railroaded right into the hearts and souls of the audience on the wheels of Chris Smither's "Love Me Like a Man," Randy Newman's "Guilty," and her own "Give It Up or Let Me Go." On the latter tune she played electric bottleneck guitar, with the same startling effect with which she flat and finger-picked her a�oustic guitar. U n f ortunately, her backup sounded like the. little engine that
couldn't. It seemed they were constantly trying to derail her act. The drummer and bass player seemed to hold back their obvious talents, while the one who did not hold back should have. He was the piano player, Dave Maxwell. He chugged along as if he were a r e ject from the m a t c h book correspondence school of Otis Spann: Piano Techmque. His rhythm had all the steady inconsistency of the Penn Central and the certain unreliability of th; chapel bell here on the Hill. Randy Newman had no choice but to sail away with the concert. He proved he has the rare ability to deliver one witty and sardonic song after another. He has the peculiar and impressive power to twist the serious into the amusing (Drop the Big One Now) and the laughable and silly into the lovable (You and Me). As is the nature of climaxes, this concert's came at the end. Newman returned for two encores, the first of which was a three song set.
When more was yet demanded he told us he was going to send us away with something cheery, and in his own paradoxical style he played one of the moodiest songs even written, his own classic / Think It's Going to Rain Today.
Newman's fourth floor view of the world may be properly construed . as a condescending attitude toward reality. Some of us who live on the ground floor are unable to see, sadly enough, some of the truth that rests withjn his rooftop philosophy. We a r r iv e d in Hamilton expecting Bonnie Raitt to outdo Newman. As it was, Newman didn't have to steal the show from her. She let it slip from her grasp with her constant fussing between songs, and her forty-five minutes of tota l performance time. Marvelously inept sound and light crews also aided in her demise. The fact that she still managed to get her music through to the audience is a substantial credit to her talent and ability.
S.A.C. DEADLINE The social tax fee of $25 grants one free admission to all S.A.C. sponsored events. These events include beer and bands concerts ' coffeehouse, folk festival and other various functions. The deadline this year for all social tax transact ions will be Friday, October 12. Social tax arrangements can be made at the Busines� Offj_ce,Buttrick Hall, on the Hamilton campus.
EVENTS
On Campus This Weekend
FILMS
Persona , the Bergman classic, and The Vagabond Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 10 p.m. Chemistry Auditorium. Admission $.75. Seven Samurai , Kurosawa's model for The Magnificent Seven. Friday and Saturday- at 8 p.m., Sunday at 10 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75.
October 8 and 9 (Monday and Tuesday)
Whistle Down the Wind with Alan Bates and Hayley Mills. 10 p.m. Chemistry Auditorium. Admission $.50.
October 10 (Wednesday)
Civilisation Film Series presents Man-The Measure of all Things. 8:30 p.m. in the Chemistry Auditorium.
October 11 (Thursday)
Play it Again Sam, producetl by and starring Woody Allen. 8 p.m. in the Science Auditorium. Admission $.75. The Music Man and The Unicorn in the Garden. 8 p.m. in ·the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75.
Currently on Campus
EXHIBITIONS
Mahler Becomes Politics, Beisbol, and other Graphic Works, by Ronald Kitaj at the Root Art Center through October 14. Selected Lithographs by Bruce Manwaring at the Bristol Campus Center through October 20. Sculpture by Alan Paulson at the List Art Center through October 20.
At the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Eliot Porter, 32 photos from the Adirondack M useum through October 28.
LECTURE AND DISCUSSION October 6 (Saturday)
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5 :30 p.m. Chapel. Intercom, informal conversation. 9 p.m. in the Alumni House.
October 7 (Sunday)
Free Church of Clinton, Speaker; Joel Tibbitts, College Chaplain. 11 :15 a.m.. Chapel. Newman Mass, Father Drobin. 12:45 p.m. Chapel. Theological Workshop. Topic: Theological Reality and Technological Mythology. 7:30 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
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New Arts Profs Enthusiastic Enjoy Kirkland Philosophy BY THEODORE LOWEN The Kirkland Arts Department has welcomed three new members to it's faculty this fall. Teaching creative writing is Ms. Katherine Saltonstall. Mr. William Salzillo is teaching drawing and design and Mr. Anthony Salatino is teaching modern dance and ballet. All three teachers are experiencing their first year of college teaching. Ms. Saltonstall, who graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts from Cornell University, is teaching 101 Introductory Workshop in prose and p o etry. Originally from .. I t h aca, New York, she has ¥ attended the Fashion Institute of New York City and has taught in the Montessori School in Hanover, New Hampshire. Coming from Cornell, she has t r e m e n d o u s a m o u n t o f found Kirkland to be a refreshing enthusiasm for the visual arts in change from t h e st andard such a small liberal arts college as institu t i o n al i z e d e ducational Kirkland. In teaching painting and s y s t e m . S h e i s strongly design, Mr. Salzillo tries to have enthusiastic about the Kirkland his students become familiar with philosophy of teaching, believing the working process of art and use it to be "the only direction in their intuitive knowledge and which education can go." She senses for drawing. "It's really agrees with placing the creative impossible to make a bad drawing writing courses under the Fine because every drawing we make is Arts Division because of the a c tually a n e xt e n s i o n o f different emphasis and greater ourselves," h e explained, "What holds back most students in freedom given to it. W o rking with a class of d r a w i n g i s t h e i r o w n seventeen, she has split this self-consciousness, they should number in half in order to obtain really not be afraid to express a better one-to-one basis with the their own thoughts and ideas
October 11 (Thursday)
Sat Sang (Divine Light Mission) Spiritual Discourse. 7:30 p.m. Bristol Campus Center Fisher Room. Last Lecture Series. Speaker: Don T. Muilenberg, · clinical psychologist. 8:30 p.m. Chapel.
October 6 (Saturday)
MUSIC
McEwen Coffeehouse presents Jane Voss , traditional folksinger. Free with Social Tax, 50 cents without.
October 7 (Sunday)
McEwen Coffeehouse presents Blind Jim Brewer, Chicago blues. artist, 9:00 p.m. Folk Dancing. McEwen Quad (List if raining). 7 p.m.
October 8 (Monday)
Cambridge Consort. 8:30 p.m. in the Chapel.
October 11 (Thursday)
McEwen Coffeehouse. Hootenanny, 9 p .m. SPORTS
October 9 (Tuesday)
Kirkland Tennis. Against Skidmore. 4 p.m.
October 10 (Wednesday)
Waterpolo. Against Colgate. 7:30 p.m.
Brook Hedick and Chris Zenowich in Synge's "In the Shadow of the
Glen." The play will be presented Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in
Minor Theatre. Free admission.
when they draw." Generally Mr. Salzillo has been very pleased with the philosophy of Kirkland College and with the set-up of the Arts Department. Being an artist himself, he has found the college atmosphere to be very conducive to his own art work. "I like to look at the college cam p u s as a true community, a community to which the artist, whether he be student or teacher, has a definite commitment and responsibility," he explained. The third new addition to the Kirkland Arts Department is Mr. Athony Salatino who, along with his wi fe, will _ be teaching B egi nning and Intermediate Comtemporary Dance, and Basic, Int ermed iate, and . Advanced Ballet. Mr. Salatino is a graduate of the Julliard School, where he still acts as a visiting guest instruct or, and has danced professionally both in the United States and in Europe. He has been a member of the Cologne Dance Forum as well as numerous New objects they see and portray on York City Ballet companies. -c a nvas. He h a s f o u n d a As a teacher of dance, he has students. In teaching creative writing, she believes an honest rapport and exchange between the student and teacher is vital. Ms. Saltonstall also hopes that she giving her students more is freedom in their writing of poetry and prose by not having them follow traditional guidelines. · Ms. Saltonstall, who became interested in writing while living in Hawaii, has published much of her own work in such literary magazines as Epoch, the Cornell literary publication, and considers herself a serious writer. "A writer should use his· own senses and creativity when writing and not be overly influenced by others," she said. Teaching introductory courses in painting, drawing, and design at Kirkland this fall is Mr. William· Salzillo, a graduate of Middlebury College and the Rhode Island School of Design. When talking about his goals as a teacher, he stated that he hopes to make the student discover things about himself through the
been satisfied with the talent and interest of the Kirkland students although he regrets having few students who have had previous dance training. He also feels it is u nfortunate t hat H a m ilton students cannot major in dance. Mr. Salatino considers himself a technique teacher in the classic style. ''There is only one correct way to make your body move in a creative expression, whether it be modem dance or ballet," he explained," because of this a strict technique must be mastered to be a true dancer." Mr. Salatino has found a d i f f e r e n t , m o r e , r el a x e d atmosphere at Kirkland than the one he was used to at thejulliard S ch ool, W o r k i ng with 115 students, he has split instruction with his finnish-bom wife Sirpa, who is also a graduate of the Julliard School and the School of A merican Ballet Theatre. This fall Mr. Salatino will be working on creating a resident inter-community dance company a t Kirkland, taking advance students from his classes as well as dancers from the surrounding areas. Hopefully the company will perform both on and off campus, much like a professional dance company, during the year. Mr. Salatino asserted that this program will not only promote the dance activity on the hill , but will also be beneficial to the general relationship between the college and the surrounding areas. He also expressed enthusiasm about the opportunities the company will provide. for the dance student to perform in front of a real live audience.
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BY MONICA LIFF During the Activities Night who, however, had little or no The Hamilton Student Senate, sign-ups, between 125 and 150 competition for the offices. headed by George Baker, is people expressed an interest in Although these students were attempting to involve a greater participating on the committees. dedicated and concerned, they number of students in student Mr. Baker realizes that not all of virtually worked in a vacuum; government. Last spring the these people will stay and work. they received neither criticism nor Senate began to actively seek 'However,' he said, 'if we get even support f r o m t h e s tudt;nt students interested in fifty who stay, that would be a body-t heir 'constituents.' In participating on committees that very substantive result.' effect, the students entrusted are concerned with many of the Because of the sign-up, the their government to these few college's activities. Mr. Baker has com:rµittees are larger and have people. "The participation by· the encouraged the students to use potential for accomplishing much mass of students is to put an X on the Senate as a sounding board more work than previous Senates. a ballot once a year," Baker and vehicle for their co�ments As an example of the success stated. ·anc criticism. of the reorganization and As a correlation of this lack of This year the Senate is actively publicity, Mr. Baker cited the student concern, the members of soliciting the support and Curriculum Committee--'the most the Senate did not actively seek involvement of the campus important aspect in campus life the advice and S'Uggestions of the community. To gain the students' involving the students.' Last year's students. This resulted in their support, they are trying to break committee had about a half dozen following only their own down the aura of selectivity and members. They were involved in convictions and of ideas importance that surrounded the their work, but their group was policy-making, since those were Senate and its committees. too small for substantial the only ones that they heard. Senate meetings are being accomplishment. After the Under that situation of p u b l i ciz e d - i n C h a p e 1 Activities Night sign -up, the 'ddegated authority,' there was a n n o u n c e m e n t s , i n t h e committee found itself with 35-40 no communication and little Gynecologist whose services are provided by Planned Parenthood Spectator-with an emphasis on people, and will probably recogn ition, between the at a clinic at the Hamilton-Kirkland Health Center. "If you have a gripe, come and accomplish a great deal. governing body and the governed. Mr. Baker is very optimistic speak your mind.'' In an attempt to increase about the success of the Senate's communication, the Senate is student involvement program. 'We planning to conduct, within the have gone a long way since next two weeks, a door-to-door March,' he declared. 'We are now survey of Hamilton students. The well enough set up that we can BY SUSAN MALKIN Mrs. Isabel Chiquione includes Senate members want to hear begin to really move.' _ Birth control counseling for two doctors, two nurses, and what the students want, what Mr. Baker won last spring's Hamilton and Kirkland students is several volunteers. The clinic they do not like, and what they Senate Presidential election on the provided by the local division of opens to students at, 3:30. At feel the Senate should be doing. _platform that more involvement the Mohawk Valley Planned 4:00 a group instruction session is 'We are going to go out of our on the part of the student body in �arenthood Association. Planned held. The doctor arrives at 4:30 to way to shake people,' declared the campus affairs was badly needed. Parenthood comes to the campus c o n d u c t t h e p h y s i c a l Senate President. 'We want them He was convinced that his Health Center every Wednesday program would meet the student's examinations. Appointments for to talk back.' from 3:30 to 6:00 p.m. an examination must be made in 'We made a controversial decision needs. Although the primary purpose at our last meeting,' said Mr. All Your Baker said that most of the advance. of t h is Planned Parenthood the in Baker. written was It of kno':Vledge little had students ' Although the of some Hardware Needs services organiza tion i s to provide of the health service and Planned Spectator, but only one person the functions of the Senate and its education and instruction in birth committees; and some hardly c o n.t rol m et h o d s, P l a n n e d Parenthood overlap, Planned who read it called us about it.' The Senate also needs people · knew that the governing body Par enthood's m ajor campus Parenthood is preferred by most One College Street students seeking this kind of help. to work �m their committes. All even existed. The - Senate was function is dispensing appropriate the· committes of various Senate people· with a small number of About 120 students made use of birth control devices. Planned involved, interested students, ,________________. the Planned Parenthood services have been reorganized. Parenthood also has pregnancy counselors who help students find r::•:;'.•{•::::•>:=:.:r:•::•�•r:.:,.,:,:I•:,,:�-s,::•::-•t•:•::•::;•:•:<:.•;;,,:,e�•c:.:,,-:�:,�-?•::•:,,1 a l t e r n a t ives to u n w anted pregn ancy. The c omplete services of Planned Parenthood include a wri 0 d group instruction session where g;;fi;:i;:tt� ; n �; :�: oe;� students are instructed in the reason Planned Parenthood is possible methods of birth control. favored. 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Don Ross Visits Hamilton-Kirkland Discusses NYPIRG Activities
Dean of the College, Stephen G. Kurtz, who spoke at Chapel Monday concerning Hamilton efforts to secure Black faculty.
Don Ross, executive director of New York Public Interest R e s e arch Group, visited the campus Wednesda,y to discuss the possibilities of PIRG activity at Hamilton and Kirkland. NYPIRG is a non-partisan, non-profit, student-directed and financed corporation which will represent the interests of New York students and citizens on issues o f c onsumer fraud, discrim inat ion, environmental protection, and political reform. Students put into NYPIRG on several levels: representatives on the state board hire and direct a professional staff, students at p a r t icipating colleges conduct local r e search p rojects for academic credit, with faculty s p o n s o r s h ip , a nd i n t e r n s undertake in tensive projects, with staff supervis1on, during the summer, for Winter Study or an entire semester.
I n h i s d iscussions with government and history classes Wednesday, Mr. Ross stressed the need for training in the skills of c i t i z e n s h i p and f o r t h e organization and articulation of consumer interests. NYPIRG the Dean said, "l don't know ,, serves these two purposes by (1) where we could have them. training students in the skills and In an interview later, Kurtz techniques of consumer advoca�y explained that since becoming and (2) t r anslating student Dean in 1972, he has tried to research into legislative proposals, attract Blacks to Hamilton, and he law suits and public education has directed the faculty to do campaigns. NYPIRG also provides likewise. t h e expertise and continuity . B l a c k scholars command lacking in many ad hoc student unusually high salaries, though, efforts. and prefer to teach close to large black communities. They are A general meeting at 7: 30, in often lured by large state and the Red Pit, drew over 50 urban universities, such as the students from both sides of the University of Illinois, or City road. Mr. Ross devoted the early University of New York. part of the evening to the history A Black man was - in fact of PIRG, a subject he knows offered a faculty at Hamilton last spring, but reportedly chose to teach at C.C.N.Y., where he received a stipend, and a salary higher than Hamilton could offer. The College is constrained to pay assistant, associate, and full professors within predetermined l i m i t s set by the Trustees. Hamilton is thereby not free to separately negotiate salaries for B lack professors, nor would granting e x c e p t i o nally high salaries be generally acceptable to regular faculty. Hamilton salaries, high on a national par, are not competitive in the present market for Black professors. The College's rural location is also a disadvantage in recruiting. Visiting professor programs or lecture series have been informally discussed in lieu of attracting full time Black professors in the near future. Graduate student teaching i n t e r n s h i p s have also been suggested.
Kurtz Reports Efforts To Recruit Black F(lculty
Hamilton College is in the process of trying to secure Black professors, Dean of the College Step hen G. Kurtz reported at Chapel Assembly, Monday. Initiatives have been taken by the administration and College, and though he had no substantive results to report, Kurtz said he felt the need to make known to the students the College's efforts. I n r e f er r i n g t o r e c e n t discussion on the campus, and comment i n The Spectator concerning Black-White relations here, Kurtz said that everyone should try to foster smooth human relations. "If we can't have good race relations at Hamilton,"
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black walkways in lieu of the traditional red. The College h a s always maintained red walkways. They have been found to be more expensive to install and maintain than blacktop, and the Committee decided that the need for red wal kwa ys was not one. of Hamilton's m o s t prominent exigences. The Nominations Committee elected one charter trustee to replace Ned Doyle, whose term ended June 30. The man's name will not be released to the public until he is notified of his election and accepts the position. The Trustees left vacant the position freed by the resignation of Jeremy Jenks. The Budget and Finance Committee received the financial statement -for 1972-73, which rep orted a $31,000 surplus realized · by the College. The Committee authorized J. Martin Carovano to engage a consultant to evalute the data processing ne eds o f the C o l lege for instruction and administration. The e ndowment, based upon market pr ices of June, 1973, was quoted at $28,253,711. The book value is $25,350,222. In 1972-73, the e nd owment realized its highest percent increase since 1969-70. The Trustees will meet again December 9, 1973.
intimately, having spent 3½' years . for next semester. organizing PIRGs across the The NYPIRG requested $2_19 country while working with Ralph for an information campaign at a Nader. The first PIRGs began in joint meeting of the Hamilton Oregon and Minnesota in 1971 B u d g e t C ommittee and the and close to 500,000 students Kirkland Student Life Committee now op�rate independent PIRGs last week. The Hamilton Senate in 18 states. refused to authorize its half of the requested funds. The request was NYPIRG just incorporated this d e n ied, according to Senate summer, but a small group of president George Baker, because schools operated as the Central the Senate felt that authorization New York PIRG for a short time. would imply "tacit approval" of A t o m i c E n e r g y Commission NYPIRG. The Kirkland Student officials praised the CNYPIRG Life Committee has agreed to critique of plans for the Nine Mile double its contributlon to the full Point Atomic Energy Plant as one $219. o f t h e m os t p r o f e s s i o n a l
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to practice on the Hamilton courts during the afternoon hours for the first time this Fall; Coach Batt of the tennis team and Gene Long a r e e s pecially to be commended for their gracious cooperation. Leading the team's efforts on Monday afternoon was Sara Gordon who easily defeated her DOOMS Syracuse opponent in first singles UNLIMITED play. Sarah Tuten, cont�cted to play in the match only minutes 853-3250 before the Syracuse contingent's CUSTOM IMPRINTED a r r i v a l , patiently battled to T Shirts - Sweat victory in the second. sing}�� slot. Anne Rice played well during her Shirts & Jackets s i n g l e s m a t c h b u t · w as unfortunately overpowered by her opponent. The frosh duo of Bunsy McLean and Betsy Kinnick CUSTOM MADE TO easily swept their first doubles YOUR SPECS. 1 to 1000 opponents off the court, while the GOOD PRICES other Kirkland doubles team of FAST SERVICE Polly Brazelton and Meg Newman went three sets before finally asserting themselves and trouncing SPECIAL their opposition. SNOWMOBILE BOOTS The freshman and sophomore members of the team travel to Phil Spellane on a forehand volley Cazenovia for a match today, with ORDER NOW SAVE the Complete team roster facing Skidmore in Tuesday's home MEN'S & LADIES $7.50 fine game was played by freshman contest. With the continued BY STEVEN A. GOLDENBERG KIDS $6.50 enthusiasm and spirit of Mrs. The Hamilton College Water Dave Greenhalgh, who continually EXTRA SPECIAL Richardson, the team hopes to Polo Club was defeated Thursday h u s t 1 e d a g ainst a better repeat its dazzling success. 8-0, by a deeper and more conditioned Cornell Team. $1.50 Cornell evened their record at experienced funeB team at Ithaca. WH ITE "T" SHIRT 2-2. This Saturday Hamilton will The first half of the game was YOUR CHOICE OF TRANSFER e x t remely hard fought with e ntertain the Royal Military PLEASE RECYCLE Cornell leading · 1-0 at halftime. College in Alumni Pool.. Grand Union Shopping Center Jeff C a rlberg the Hamilton net Clinton tender, was spectacular playing beh in ddefensemen Grad Johnson, John Needham, and Eric Kraus. However, the lack of depth caused Hamilton's falling apart in the .second half. One by one the defensemen fouled out leaving four Cornell offensive players to bombard the nets. The Hamilton offense,� experience, rushed their shots and took poor percentage shots. Hamilton's record was evened at 1-1 in what could be termed a rebuilding year. According to Campbell'-s T omato Juice 46 oz./39 cents Brad Johnson, club president. a Campbell's Tomato Soup 8/$1.00
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The Hamilton College tennis team had little trouble handling the Utica College netmen by the score of 7-2, to up their fall season record · to 2-1. Despite topping the .500 mark for the f ir s t t i me this season, the Continental _team did. not look sharp, the result of competing against a decidedly inferior Utica team as well as the muggy weather. Nubers one and two singles, Brad Caswell and Dave Schutt, both lost their matches, Schutt in a h eart-breaking t hird set tiebreaker. Caswell, plagued by a , t roublesome forehand, never seemed to get his powerful game going and was handed a 6-4, 6-1 defeat by Utican Dave Calabrese. The remaining matches can be described as farcial at best. Freshmen Tom Griffith, Phil Spellane, Rick Kaplan and Senior Dave Dawson all won their singles matches with ridiculous ease. T h e doubles tandems of Caswell-Schutt, Griffith-Spellane, and Dawson-Carr, continued the rout with straight set victories over their Utica College counterparts. The Continental N etmen will · close the fall portion of their season travelling to Binghampton next Tuesday to meet SUNY at Binghampton. The team can look forward to a long ride back unless the lethargy which characterized their Utica performance is shaken.
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Hooters Struggle at 0-2-1 Crucial Ten Days Ahead NEWS BREIF The Hamilton College Soccer team, despite fine overall team efforts, completed their first two weeks of the '73 Fall campaign with an 0-2-1 record. The season's -opener saw the soccsters travel to Middletown, Connecticut to engage the boot�rs from Wesleyan U n ivers ity. Wesleyan, a perennial New England soccer power had to struggle in gaining a controversial 3-2 decision over an inspired Continental squad. Junior Ray Terepka scored on a penalty kick with six minutes remaining to give the Continentals a 1-1 tie against Albany State.
A last ditch comer kick was thwarted by the Rochester goalie as t he soccsters dropped a hard-fought 3-2 decision to the Yellowjackets. Sophomore Dan Daly and junior Phil Halpern a c c o unted for the Hamilton scoring as the duo lead a determined Blue comeback from a 3-0 deficit only to see the rally fall short. The next ttn days will pretty much tell the story for the team this year. The team meets traditional foe Union College on October 10th to begin the saga followed quickly by matches with Hobart on the 16th, Clarkson on the 18th and concluding with St. Lawrence on the 20th.
SPECTATOR SPORTS Blue Loses to U of R, 22-19
Fallon: Key at Oberlin
BY ROBERT J. KEREN Ralph Gebhardt, ·a Univ ersity of Rochester sophomore, took a fourth quarter Hamilton punt on his own thirty-nine and re turned it 6 1 y a rds to p u t t h e Yellowjacke ts out in front of the Continentals for good, 22-19. Rocheste r scored twice in the final frame last Saturday to erase Hamilton's "comfortable" 19-7 third quarter edge. The Steuben Field crowd witnessed fifteen m inut es of horror as the Continentals blew a twelve-point lead on Gebhardt's punt return, two interceptions, a lost fumble, a dropped touchdown pass and even a brief fre e-for-all. The U of R scored first mid way through the second quarter on Tom Jarr ett's 13-yard sweep. Thierry Deegan's extra point was good and the 'Jackets led 7-0. Jarret t, the 205 pound se nior halfback, carried .the ball 29 times for 132 yards and two touchdowns during the afternoon. Fallon Gets Nod With six minutes remaining in the fi;st half, head coach Bob King replace d starting quarterback Rob Winter with the senior south paw Craig Fallon. Winter had b een a starter since he led the Blues in 12-10 final game victory over Union in 1971. Mark Rice '73 was injured e arly in that Schenectady affair and Winter, a rangy fresh man at the time, had a s s u m e d t h e quarterbacking chores since then. Winter started all but one game last season (Lou Cordia called the first two plays at St. Lawre nce be fore Don Jones sent Robbie in), but found the going much rougher in 1973 as both Cordia and Fallon were battling close b ehind for the . sent Cord"1a to halfback spot. Kmg where he'll probably stay; Lou has gained 140 yards rushing in two contests. A n d Fallon was s t a t i o n e d in t h e defensive backfield, wh ile Winter called the opening plays last Saturday and directe d the Virginia opener. But with the Blues trailing 7-0 late in the half, Craig Fallon
occas10ns. Fallon converte d his second touchdown p ass with 9:38 ren_iaining, drilling it_ th is �ime to spht e nd D:3-ve Pisanelh. The freshman receiver beat comerman Mark McAn�ey �d too� t�e ae rial at full tilt sprmt e dgmg m for the score. The play covere d 58 yards. Bill Finan's ext ra point and a Hamilton safety moments later made it 19-7. The Continentals got the two points as Donnie ·Armstrong buste d in and blocked a Rochester punt from U of R's 27 yard line. The ball squirmed around until the Rochester's John Badowski fell on it, and Jeff Hewitt fell on him, in the endzone. Turn of Events But three solid pe riods of football were not enough to contain the Yellowjackets, who closed the lead to only five points early in the fourth quarte r. An u n t im e ly f umble by Sandy Macintosh re covered by Gephardt, gave the ball to Pasley only twenty yards _ from paydirt. The Rochester quarterback handed off . to workhorse Jarrett three tim es before the big halfback finally carried it over from the one. Pasley was to throw only pass, an incompletion, in final quarter. The Hamilton offe nse went nowhere, and with 13: 11 left Lou Cordia's 28-yard punt set the stage for Gebhardt's heroids. The nineteen year old safety-man "Wheels! Which end is up?" broke two tackles before sprinting One minute and forty seconds down the home sideline for the later Fallon move d the offense one-point advantage, 20-19. The down to the 28-yard line where, two point conversiari was good as with only nine seconds remaining, Pasley rolled out and tossed to Finan added his first collegiate tigh t end Ed Heffernan in the comer. field goal making it 10-7. On the subse quent Hamilton The defense excelle d in the half s a c k i n g R o c h e s t e r drive a melee broke out between fi eld-ge neral Brian Pasley four righ t end George· Grammaglia '77 time�. Safety Dusty Batley picked and de fensive e nd Ke vin McGinley off a P asley desperation bomb who were promptly ejected by setting up the first Hamilton Referee Joe Klimschot. McGinley had burst off-side as Fallon went score. In the third quarter Rochester t o a 1 ong count. Gebh ardt k ept coming up short against the inte rcepted two plays later, 10:40 Hamilton de fe!}se as they turne d to go in the game. With 5:33 remaining and the the ball over to the Blues on five clock ticking away a quick opene r to Alec Singer, in for Grammaglia, m o v e d t h e b a l l down to Rochester's 34. But the Blues were never to see the 24 yard marker as the classic third-and-one situation stymi ed the Continental attack. Cordia came close on third down, only inches short. On fourth-and-one freshman David Baker dropped Fallon's roll out pass, a good call noneth�less as Rochester was stacked aga,inst the run. The contest was the last betwee n the two teams whose s e r ies dates back to· 1890. Rochester won 3q of the 60 gam es; four ended in ties. Bates C o l l e g e will replace t h e Yellowjackets i n 1974 as the Contin ental's -football schedule m o v es t o ward e x cl u s i v ely containing schools in the infant N e w Eng land Small Coll eg e Conference. Seek Fitst Win vs. Obies Tomorrow Hamilton will travel to Ohio to meet the Yeomen of Oberlin College who are curr ently 1-2 coming off last week's 23-8 The Defensive Crunch trotted onto the field to lead the Blue offense. Fallon engineere d a 74 yard drive, highlighted by a 61-yard touchdown p ass to Kevin Snyder •75, last year's scoring leader with 24 points. The p ass was a wobbler pulled down by Snyder at the u of R 30-yard line. Kevin raced in for six and Bill Finan's boot tied the sc;re at seven-all.
Fallon, deep in the pocket, sets to pass l o s s a t the hands of In other games of interest to Carnegie-Mell_on. The Continentals Hamilton fans, Hobart (Oct. 13), soundly de feated the Obies in Middlebury ( Oct . 20), St. 1972 at Stueben Field as Kevin Lawrence (Oct. 27) and Alfred Snyder scored two touchdowns (Nov. 10) all remained undefeated and halfback Vinnie Puleo, no wi t h vic tories last Saturday. longer with the Blues, added a Union (Nov. 17) was idle after third in the 21-12 final. 'the ir opening loss to Worcester Oberlin has Carl Carpe nter at Te ch 20-0. Washington and Lee Qu a r t e rback along wi th the rolled over Centre 22-0, while returning underclass offensive unit Williams knocked off Trinity from 197 2. Ed Ramirez and Larry 15 -1 O and Amherst downed Wilkite spearhead the Ohioan's Springfield 24-14. running a ttack. In last ye ar's affair The game from Oberlin will Oberlin was able to comple te only not be b roa dcast due to four passes in the game, but h ead W H C L - F M ' s b u d g e t ing coach Cass Jackson has revamped difficulties. The kickoff is set for the attack for '73. 2 p.m.
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Gian ts and Jets Disappoint BY ED WATKINS Last Sunday was a grim day for playoff contenders. Then the and Gotham City football fans as both second half blues hit them their drive. Fortunately lost they Giants and ts e J York w e N the went down to defeat. The manner their lead was such that the in wh ich th e two teams lost was outcome of the game was never disturbing; neither really in doubt. In the Eagles' e sp e c i a lly t e am's d e f e nse gave up a game, the Giants once again touchdown; it was the lowly field played well in the first half only goal that did them in. In the to experience a le tdown in the Giant's case Clevel and's four field second half. A desperate last goals provided the margin of minute drive earned them a tie. victory while Buffalo only neede d Against the Browns the Giants were not so lucky. Without Ron three to defeat the Jets. The Je ts lost to the Bi�s by a Johnson or Bob Tucker, the Giant score of 9-7, but th e Jets did not offense was less than mighty. score until the re were only two Norm Snead seeme d unsure of seconds le ft in the game. The Jet's what plays to call. The Giant offense led by Al Woodall went defense played well but grew tired nowhere against the Bills. The during a second half in which they Buffalo defensive line simply were on t he field for nearly e very poured through the Jets' offensive play .' line. Even as Woodall complete d The Jets will have to improve his only scoring p ass of th e game tremendously if they are to have a he was hit and had the wind winning season. The defense has knocked out of him. been surprisingly strong; now it is Once again the Jets find up to Al Woodall and the offense themselves without Joe Namath. to get moving. Even Joe's critics have to admit The Giants are too good of a that he can lead the Je ts to team to continue their present victories no other quarterback habit of throwing games away. could. Without Joe, the Jets have Norm Snead must regroup his lost their leader; a leader they offense and show a little more needed in vi ew of the dissension daring play calling expecially in on the team cause d by the miserly the se cond half. The Giants have a ways of Coach-General Manager, young, aggressive team which Weeb Ewbank. should be in first place with a 3-0 The Giants have been New reco r-d. Instead they find York's biggest disappointment themselves with a 1-1-1 record. t h i s f all. Unbeaten in six The Giants play Green Bay next. pr e season games, the Giants If the Giants can play two strong a p p ea r ed as likely playoff halves they can beat the Pack. If contenders at the beginning of th e not, . the strains of "good-bye season. For the first half of the - Alex" may be heard at the Yale Houston game they looked like Bowl.
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VOLUME IV, NUMBER 6
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES. CL�TON, NEW YORK
Kirkland Coll. Trustees Meet Here Tomorrow BY PAMELA THOMPSON The Board of Trustees of Kirkland College will convene tomo rrow for the first of its tri-annual meetings. Additional health services and a new space for the Women's Center will be among the topics to be discussed today by both the Trustee Committee on Kirkland as a College for Women and the Student Life Committee before the Board Meeting. Also on the agenda for the Women's Committee will be a report on the status of the Women's Center. The Committee will ask for a report from the Board concerning the funding of a Lecture Series under the auspices of the Women's Center. The Lecture Series had been proposed by the Committee at the Spring meeting of the Board. The Trustee Committee on Kirkland as a College for Women will also look at proposals for inproved gynecological services and the addition of a second psychologist, preferably a woman. In addition, the Committee will investigate the advantages of the newly-created system of Associate Advisors. This group, co m p o s e d o f w o m e n professionals, was created to provide Kirkland students with "role models" and a source of infonnation on options open to women in the professional and non-professional world. The Women's Committee will reevaluate the definition and scope of the Committee, including its relation to the Women's Center. The Student Life Committee· will consider the problems of joint committees at Hamilton and Kirkland, a s well as the relat i o nship between the As.,embly and the Senate. The progress of the co-op dorm and a report on the theft of furniture from Kirkland dorms will be additional concerns. There will be two new items of business on the agenda of the Physical Plant Committee: the possible construction of a permanent entranceway to the Kirkland Campus and the problem of water run-off from the Hill. The Committee will look into the question of water run-off onto The Spectator will not be pab:lished next Fr iday, October 19, the beginning of mi d-seme s t e r b r e a k . Pllblication will resume on October 26. All letters and blwbs llac,ald be submitted no later than October 24.
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Pre-law ............. : 5 Reorganization helps students. Relations on the campui .2 Rampant racism?
lands adjacent to college property and will hear a report on the mat ter by John Kreinheder, Director of Planning. A variety of status reports will be presented to the Committee. Among these will be a status report on the Kirner-Johnson Building and a progress report on the renovation of Keene into a co-op dormitory. The Committee will also hear a general review of capital expenditure items for the physical p l a n t which were authorized by the Board at their last meeting. Expenditures would include the replacement of glass windows in Kirkland dorms. Gerald Leuiken, Director of Physical Plant of Hamilton and Kirkland, will report to the Committee on the progress of the c o- op d o r mito ry. He will enumerate the equipment still needed, and possibly give an e st i mate o f t h e d ate o f completion. The Planning Committee will hear a prelimin ary report from a special task committee chaired by Ursula Colby, Humanities Division C h a i r p e r s on. The s pecial committee was design�ted to draw up a general planning document for Kirkland for the decade 1975-1985. They will discuss aspects of coordination, sexual orientation (whether Kirkland should remain a college for women) and long range financial plans. No formal proposals will be made at this time. The Curriculum Committee wi l l e v aluat e t h e Standing Committee on Academic and Curricular Affairs (SCACA) and will investigate the division of duties between the Dean and Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs. The newly formed President's Council will also meet on Saturday, after the meeting of the Board of Trustees. The Council created last spring, is made up of consistent or large donors · to the college, and will be used as an advisory group to the President. I
OCTOBER 12, 1973
COileges Announce W.S.Courses
BY PETER -ACKERMAN T h i s year's Winter Study Program will have several new Jeatures, according.. to Associate Dean Robin �I, instituted as a result of increased coordination between Hamilton ·and Kirkland Colleges regarding both academic and non-academic affairs that will take place in January. Dean Kinne! noted that for the first time there will be open cross registration between both schools for Winter Study programs. Also, there will be faculty-sponsored, i nd e p e n d e n t s t u d y projects undertaken on both sides of the Hill, in addition to a full compliment of classroom-style courses. The Dean stated that both the Hamilton and Kirkland Winter Study catalogues will be avilable by either Monday or Tuesday of this coming week. All students must register for Winter Study between the 8th and the 16th of November, and October 24 is the deadline for A scene of Kirkland campus, where uustces will meet this weekel}d submitting proposals for both on a nd off campus independent projects. Dean Kinnel emphasized that all independent projects require the signature of the sponsoring instructor. Perhaps the most pleasing BY MIKE BOZHAltT inflation, an increase must now aspect-of this January's calendar is A meeting of the Auxiliary come about. the c oordination of cultural Pub profits are now split 50-50 events at both schools. Dean Services Committee on October 1 brought forth major decisions between the students and the Kinne! mentioned that all films, affecting both the Pub and the College. The students' share is lectures, concerts, and exhibitions B r i s tol Snack Bar beginning placed in the Student Reserve have been planned so as to be Monday, October 8. the most Fund, which is managed by the · readily available to everyone in important being the decision to Auxiliary Services Committee. the college community. These monies are used for Hamilton's on-campus Winter increase beer prices at the Pub. A glass of beer purchased at . i m p r o v e m e n t o f t h e P ub, Study program will bring some the Pub now contains 10 ounces, i n c l u d i n g t h e p u r c hase of interesting courses to the Hill. Two in place of the previous 12 furniture, the replacement ·of - visiting ¥t professors will teach ounces. The price per � will broken glass, the maintenance of courses in drawing and sculpture, remain the same. The price per the juke box, and the future and an American IJ:idian will conduct a study of contemporary pitcher will increase from $1.35 installation of cable television. The College's share is used to I n d i a n p r o b lems. Also, the to $1.50, and bottled beer, 20%-50% per bottle. Ac�ording to defray the cost of janitorial Government Department will Ear l D ' A prix, Food Service se:rvices, electricity, and other sponsor a course in criminal Director, this will be the first utilities needed to maintain the justice and, the U.S. Constitution increase in beer prices on the Hill pub. In past, years, Pub profits to be taught by a member of the since the Pub was established in have reached $1500. Last year,_ faculty of John Jay College of 1964. Due to ever-increasing however, due to the acquisition of Criminal Justice in New York a new cash register, a profit of _City. only $210 was realized. This, in WINTER STUDY CALENDAR part, is responsible for the· price Oct. 24: Deadline for requests increases. for all Independent Projects to be A decision to continue with submitted to an instructor. Nov. 2: Final date for the the new 4-6 p.m. Friday hours at the Pub was reached at the selection of Indep endent Project m e e t i n g. a l ong w i t h a n proposals by faculty members and announcement of the reduction in notification of students and the the price of Snack Bar coffee Dean of the instructor's decision to accept or reject proposals from 16 to 15 cents. Between the submitted to him. hours of 10 and 11 a.m. and 3 and Nov. 7: Final date for students 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, to find an alternate sponsor for Bristol coffee can be obtained for their Independent Projects if not approved initially; notification of a dime. Food Service Systems also students and the Dean by the announced that it will begin to instructor of the acceptance or m anufacture yogurt in three rejection of the Independent Project. flavors, to be sold at 35 cents per N o v . 8-16: S t u d e n t eight ounce container. Registration for Winter Study = C o m p l a ints or - suggestions Projects ( and preregistration for d�aling with Committee decisions Spring Semester). Dec. 6 Notification of student should be directed to either Chip Presutti or Cathy Belden through assignments to Winter Study Project. Earl D"Aprix, Food Services Manager of Hamilton and Kirkland campus mail.
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Seeking Black Faculty Good intentions alone do not succeed in securing minority professors. Attempts to bring black scholars to the Hill were suppor ted in principle by the Hamilton Trustees at their autumn meeting two weeks ago. And th� Kirkland College Trustees· · nave approved. the principle of "Affirmative Action," which . includes a general policy in favor of recruiting black faculty. ·· _rhese actions, however, are not bringing black professors to · the campt..:;. Black scholars are in great demand by colleges and uni ·versities across· the country. They command exceptionally - -h� salaries and stipends, and they generally prefer to teach close to urban areas, among large Black communities. · Hamilton, it was reported, did offer a Black a faculty position last spring. He oh0se to teach atC.C.N.Y., where he received a salary higher than Hamilton could offer, though Hamilton salary scales are very high on a national par. In order to recruit this Black scholar, it would have been necessary for Hamiltoh to exceed its set salary scales; such action would have violated Trustee defined limitations and would, reportedly, have been unacceptable to the Hamilton faculty. Since there is little chance, at Hamilto1. at least, of amen ding salary scales for recruiting purposes, it is unlikely that Hamilton or Kirkland can attract regular Black teaching faculty with its rural location and the · high, though restricted, salaries it offers. Prop0sals for visitng professor programs, graduate student teaching internships, and or a series of prestigious lecturers, then, shoul� be publicly considered now, responsibly and diligently. ,_ Graduate students, it is assumed, would be willing to work at comp�.ratively low salaries, since they have yet to earn their degrees. They would profit from the teaching practice, and the unique opp0rtunity to sample the small, liberal arts college experience. Students here,- though forced to tolerate the interns' teaching inexperience, would have opportunities to study under and to socially relate to black instructors. Visiting professors similarly would afford themselves variety in coming to Hamilton or Kirkland, while students on the Hill could avail themselves of unique course offering, and professors otherwise Jacking here. A lecture series would have the most short lived effect of the three proposals. But it too, would break the academi.c and cultural mo. .totony of Hamilton and Kirkland. · Statements of support "in principl�" of recruiting efforts are worthless if the Colleges are unabl� or unprepared to support these efforts in practice. The alternatives to hiring full time faculty, are sadly, second best. These proposals, however, if instituted, would contributed to the Colleges' good more than additional statements of support "in principle."
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VOLUME FOUR
NUMBER SIX
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Fr-om the- Sanctuary. An /ndepth Stu�y 'BY LEROY PORTER It's quite interesting that last year a graduate student from Syracuse University, Richard Hawkins, came on the Hill to do field work which ended in a 15 8 page paper entitled, "Sustaining a Second Dimension: Towards Coordinate Education and Community at Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges." Some students were fortunate enough to run across this document of sorts and -get alarmed at some of the lucid as well as lucre implications within. Because of the notice not to quote in writing or reproduce without permission, discussion of the paper will be at best allusion. However, it only seems fair that we all know that we have been studied ... (for some of us) again. What is truly surprising about this study is its blatant incorrectness and backwards information in one particular section on Minority Students. Mr. Hawkins would have you believe that Hamilton and Kirkland professors give grades and evaluations to · minority students from the bottom of their hearts. There might be a kernel of truth in the above notion, but it hardly lies in anybody's heart. There are few minority students who feel they have · experienced the inflated grade. It is not hard to understand that some students find it distressing to see meaningful events• misconstrued and inappropriately interpreted; such as the date on which- theAfro-LatinCultural Center
was opened and the aims of the Black and Puerto 'Rican Union's peaceful demonstratiQn of Fall '71. The obvious obscuring of the events during that fateful Kirkland charter class graduation moves a lot of people who were there. What is difficult to understand are those statemen·ts from former President Chandler which suggest Hamilton as being several years in front of other schools in minority recruitment back in '69 ... somehow it just does not compute. Miss Johnson (H.E.O.P. -Director ) says something to the effect that Blacks and Puerto Ricans are feeling better about being at Hamilton and Kirkland an� on the _next page she and Mr. Chandler are talking about discontinuing a.E.O.P. at the college. This kind of information gathering shows very little ' depth where depth is needed. Odd that while all this studying W9S being done, few if any Black and· Puerto Rican students were sought out as information sources, and interesting how such going's on were not made too public. It makes one stop and think whether or not people are aware of· the use that such a paper as, "Sustaining a Second Dimension:" can be put to. It's easy to . forsee all kinds of incorrect assumptions and validations being reinforced. Assumptions that may well affect the future of Black and Puerto Rican Students on the Hill as well as the likelihood of Black and Puerto Rican Faculty-studies.
Left Writes Black Community: A Superficia/ Approach' 1
BY LEE SKOLNICK AND JOHN HUTCHINSON "An Open Letter to Prospective Black Students:" In an effort to supplement the information available in the Hamilton and Kirkland College catalogues, we offer you· the following insights into what four years here on the Hill will mean to you, a black student. Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges are two privately owned institutions, established for the propagation of liberal learning, and designed to prepare young men and women to take their places in our rapidly changing society.In keeping with this goal, and with the general academic tradition of exposing students to the latest currents in the intellectual mainstream, these colleges have found it desirable in recent years to open their doors to minority students from "disadvantaged backgrounds." Perhaps, then, you're wondering how you can expect to fit into the daily life of this intellectual community. Well, quite frankly, you won't... WHY YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO COME HERE It might interest you to know that at these colleges there are no black secretaries, there are no black security guards, there are no black faculty, and there are no black deans. In effect, there are no academic administrators ·or advisors who are black. However, last year a black man was reportedly in the employ of the Hamilton College Physical Plant. In lieu of any black voice in the academic affairs of the colleges, you, as a member of the black entity here on the Hill, can expect to be afford�d the use of a late-model, college-owned, blue Chevrolet station wagon, one college-owned building in which to ,conduct your own separate, but equally valid cultural pursuits, and a table of your choice in two of the three college dining facilities. You will also
find a state-supported black representative of the Higher Education Opportunity Program who will direct you on the road towards assimilation, and act as a liaison betweenyou and the academic hier�chy. In return for these privileges, you will be expected to entertain from time to time liberal white students who will enter your building, intent u p o n "r a p p i n g" and "relating " with the disadvantaged students while they simultaneously show their good faith and broaden their cultural horizons. You may further count on sparking resentment on the part of the white community regarding these privileges. This resentment will manifest itself in forms ranging from subtle innuendo to gross irrationality behind closed doprs. In your presence, the behavior of whites here will vary from overindulgence to aloofness. Their fears of h,eing misinterpreted will inhibit them, leflving them to treat you as they would a peer. They will be uneasy around you.They will not look you in the eye. Another area of potential interest to you would be the ex tent of black-oriented curricular offerings on the Hill. Neither college has yet established a substantive black studies program.Actually, neither one has affirmed any real commitment to your needs as black individuals. The preceding might suggest to you that you aren't really wanted here. As black students at Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, you will be the embodiment of a superficial approach to the principle of cultural . diversity, a luxury these institutions have found morally desirable, educationally profitable, and economically practicable. In short, you might find your i>rescribed role as symbol to be a severe obstacle to any real -personal fulfillment�
Comment -PIRG: Here and· Now· BY MARSHA WEINSTEIN America today. A myriad of probleiµs, issues, causes. It's almost enough to make one wish for a · lifetime existence in a Bundy single or List's womb-room. But face it. We're realists. Escapism rarely shields us from the world, and there's more than a bit of truth to the slogan, 'If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.' So what difference can we make, anyway? Look, we've tried. College Hill probably has more than its share of high school big-shots and amateur activists. . But we're idealists too. We get glimpses of the way things could be. And if we, who are as yet une n t r e n c h e d i n f a mily o b l i g a tions and unencumbered by career constraints don't stand up to the problems and focus our ideals, who will? S o w hy P)R G ? W h y .a s t udent-run, student-funded organization?
Because we're realists. And because we're idealists. And because we have the energy, the resources, the time and the ability to seek out citizen interests �d issues. We have (or could quickly develop) the research skills necessary to investigate local problems. Because with our funds professionals are hired to aid in our research and to help translate our findings into concrete and effective results-lobbying, legislation, prosecution, public information. And because, as our employees, these professionals provide the. continuity of full-time work so often lacking in former student movements. Why PIRG? Because it's a chance-one for which many have searched-to put our education to work. Now. It's not far-fetched. It's working. Students on campuses in nineteen states are researching, continued on page ten
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PHI BETA KAPPA
The following seniors were elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Convocation ceremonies: John . Donahue, Robert Gian, William Pum, Gary Swim and Daniel Ruff.
CAttEER OPPORTUNITIES
Representatives from the following graduate and professional schools will be on campus this week. Seniors who are prospective applicants are encouraged to sign up for interviews at Career Center, Dunham Basement. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors are welcome to join in group meetings for in{ormation. Sign up at_ Career Center also. Amos Tuck Grad. School of Bus. Oct. 15 Monday 9-12 Syracuse U. Grad. School of Bus. Oct. 16 Tue�ay 1-5 Penn State U. Grad. School of Bus. Oct. 16 Tuesday 9-12 U. of Pittsburgh Grad. School of Bus. Oct. 17 Wednesday 2-5 Washington-Lee Law Oct. 18 Thursday 9-11 :30 Columbia Teachers Oct. 18 Thursday 2-5
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HUMANE SOCIETY
All Humane Society meetings are open and are held every. Wednesday evening, 7 p.m. in 305 South Dorm. Complaints should be placed in the box in the McEwen Mail Room or sent (via Campus Mail) to Linda Mackenzie. All complaints must be signeq.
WOMEN'S CENTER ELECTIONS
The Women's Center will hold elections at their next meeting Wednesday October 17 at 4:30. :Nominations for the fo ur meµiber Steering Committee, or any questions should be brought to Buffy Chisolm in the Dean of Students Office. Nominations are open to students, faculty, administration, and junior and senior staff.
On Thursday evening Oct. 4, the Hamilton Judiciary Board found a member of the class of 197 6 guilty on two charges-tampering with Dunham fire equipment . and invasion of privacy. Penalty includes a letter of reprimand, a fine, and prohibition from socializing in Dunham. A second offense will result in serious c o nsequences including disciplinary and/or social probation-with suspension as a possibility.
PRESIDENTIAL FILM The Making of the President 1964, a television special
adapted from Theodore White's book, will be presented by the Government Department Monday in the Chemistry Auditorium. There is no admission charge.
LOBBY LOUNGE NEEDS LIFE!
The LOBBY Lounge in McEwen needs plants, poste.rs, paintings and pottery. LOBBY would appreciate TM contributions and creative minds. Anybody interested in Transcendental Meditation ,�II be the subject of an contributing some of these objects and/or in helping to · introductory lecture to be held on Wednesday, October create a sociable environment should contact Robin 1 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. All are invited to attend. Fields at 7555. d u r i n g a b r i ef adv is ory breakdowns Hamilton sends out conference: with each transcript. ME: Is it possible for students We all know the attitudes up from small liberal arts here on our hill must change, colleges to compete with particularly in relation to grades. f rom p r ev iou·s i n st ructions: those from large How to accomplish this I do not students attending schools which thus, important to have one's universities? know. I do recognize that a .awarded 3.5 quality points for credentials.sent as soon as possible HIM: Yes, many of our metamorphosis of sorts must B+'s, 2.5 quality points for C+'s to insure ample consideration. If a students come from what occur very soon if it is to be at all etc., could raise their B+'s to A's student with a low average is you call 'small liberal arts influential. etc. in computing grade point placed in a "lightly consider" class colleges.' We try to evaluate If Dean Kinnel needs help in averages. Pre-meds at schools based on his grades and MCATs, applicants on an individual attending to administrative affairs where already inflated grades were who will bother to scrutinize his basis. in order to concentrate on his awarded raised their GPAs to l e t t e r o f r e c o m m e n d a tion, pre-medical duties during critical ME: Do you take into account astounding levels; those at schools considering the enormous number times of the year, I suggest an t he i n stitution and its comparable to Hamilton also o f s tudents with far more a s s i s t a n t be a ppointed. If reputation? bloated theirs, increasing the impressive credentials than his. converting to a quality point HIM: To some degree, of attractiveness of their profile, For whatever it's worth, Tulane system (which every AMCAS c o u rs e. Y o u r g r ades, decreasing the attractiveness of U n i v e r s i t y w r i t e s i n i t s applicant must do anyway in especially in science are the Hamilton student. The major i n f o r m ativ e c o rr espondence, order to complete his form) will most important, although effect of this entire scheme was "E mphasize to the person e n h a n c e o ur c ha n c e s o f we do look at your entire i nt e nded to force admission r e s p o n s i b l e for the faculty acceptance, I suggest the faculty rrecord. committees to evaluate a student appraisal that delay in submitting and administration approve it. If ME: Is it possible that you from a broadly based range of it will be to your disadvantage." the AMCAS application entails w o�d believe that the m a t e r i a l by eliminating the Hamilton's pre-medical committee pitfalls, traps, and problems, I school I attend __ gives out effectiveness -of grade point" has not been negligent, it has suggest a pre-medical committee inordinately low grades? cut-offs. This seemed to be seemingly misplaced its emphasis. member meet with all of the HIM: No! exactly the hope expressed by the I can only hope I am wrong. pre-meds to discuss the subject. ME: But we· ran a computer students and fa culty here at To borrow an overly cliched p r o f i l e, c omparing our Although I have not fumed or Hamilton. phrase for an overly repeated school to Williams, Hobart... .However, AMCAS informed fussed as is expected in this sort statement, "what we _have here is HIM: Computer profiles are of statement, I probably have me t h e c h a ng es were not a failure to communicate, u that m e a n i ngles s. We h a ve applicable to Hamilton students overstated my point. Yet, evaluate may well crush the hopes and students from colleges you because we did not operate on a a fairly accurate reconstruction of desires of far to9 many qualified have never even heard of. quality point system. I reasoned my conversation with the Director I e n v i s i o n e d a d.m i s s i o n Hamilton students. of Admissions of the N cw Jersey t hat the administrative work Jan Herrman, '74 committees ripping up the grade i nv olv e d i n c o nverting our College of Medicine and Dentistry
Recamendations & GPA's
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor: It is generally conceded that Hamilton students go through the medical school application process wit h one foot already in the grave. The one advantage they might apect to accrue from attending a school like Hamilton is a high caliber of cooperation and assistance from the pre-medical committee. These -people are responsible for sending out a comp os ite letter of recomm endat ion w h i c h i s requisite for the consideration of • my application. In fact, the desire of this committee for the success of its pre-meds is so earnest that some applicants have still not had their letters sent. This is despite the fact that other portions of their applications were completed weeks or months ago. It is appalling that an already dismal situation is being aggravated by negligence and nonchalance. Early completion of an application is of pr ime i m p o r t a n c�. T h e ramifications of this hindrance arc lea than full consideration for Hamilton applicants or, at best, needless extra months of the numbers or letters to _ their's would be well worth the effort. Senate Blasted for PIRG Denial •onizing waiting game. The -only moral that can be -Bean -Kinnel, -however, told· m-e and other consumers organized so drawn from these circumstances is that such a move would receive To the Editor: So Kirkland upstages Hamilton that they can defend themselves that a prospective undergraduate strong faculty opposition, and, in interested in medicine would do fact, entailed some measure of College yet again! After the and speak up for their interests is better to take a space walk in a dishonesty. I believe both points· Student Senate- refuses to allocate such a one-sided activity that our raincoat than to matriculate at , are deba�able. The actual grades, $110 to the Public Interest Student Senate cannot stomach it. Hamilton. f or·· -example,- would continue- to R e search Group -- (PIRG) the The · second· · justification for David Brillman '74 be f orwarded. Granted Hamilton Kirkland Student Life Committee this outrageous decision was, i s not a service institution, comes through and agrees to fund "The Senate does not want to get expressly designed to place its PIRG compl_�tely on its own. p o litically oriented." What To the Editor: students into graduate schools, The only arguments offered to nonsense. The fact is that it was _I can make nQ pretsnse of · t h e c o llege s t ill retains a justify the tum-down are not n o t p o s s i b l e ·t o m a k e a altruism in this writing simply responsibility to provide for their supported ·by the facts and are non-political decision on this beca use this letter represents an welfare. self-contradictory. First, it was issue. One either came down on outlet for some of the frustration · Undoubtably, there is a trend claimed that the Senate should the side of business as usual and and needless confusion I have let's give $285 to the - Bowling d e v e loping at many medical encou nter ed as a Hamilton. not s up p o r t P IRG because League 'cause, you know, that's schools to regard grades as only pre-med. I intend, however, "student money should not be "non-political"; or else one came one indication of a student's neither to insult the integrity of used to present one side of an d o w n tn s up p o r t o f a n m e r i t . U n d e niably, however,. ,, my individual through absurd vades remain the major selection. argument for an election. Yet, organization -that might .get people the New York chapter of PIRG accusations, nor to disrupt the off their rear ends and start asking factor. The fact that 50% of Holy (as described on page 9 of last ongoing processes of reform Cross 1973 ·pre-meds gained w e e k ' s S pectat or) is "a questions. But any attempt to which, unfortunately, will have disguise continued support of the entrance into medical schools non-partisan, non-profit, student little effect upon my chances of s t a t u s q u o a s s om e h o w attests to this fact. Recall that directed corporation which will admission. Thus, I shall merely non-p o l i t i c a l i s a n obvious 50% of our 1973 students were represent the interests of New relate a summer s a g a of misstatement of the issues. accepted. York students and citizens on a pplications and f or m s - a Well, let's at least be thankful pre-med's horror story which may In explaining why the letters of i s s u e s of c o nsumer fraud, that Kirkland is around to save us p r o v e i n f o r m a t i v e a n d recommendation had not been - d i s c r i m i n a tion, environmental from t h e m a jority of our discouraging to the college sent out early, Dean Kinnel stated protection and election reform." representatives. Why doesn't The community. that each letter included a full A n o n - p a r t i s a n c o rporation Spedator print the name of each Early in June I obtained a copy appraisal of the individual as a representing the interests of all Senator and tell us how he voted? of a missive sent to all Holy Cross person and not a file. They were NY citizens and students can That would be a public service pre-meds. In short, it stated that a inte nded f or an admissions hardly be called one-sided, except indeed. group of pre-medical advison committee eager to evaluate a in the sense that PIRG is Hamilton Beck, '74 {which Dr. Kinnel informed me student as a human being. Indeed, one-sidedly in favor of "training in t h e skills of that Dr. Chiquoine attended) met it was an admirable undertaking. [pe o p l e] M ORE PIRG with representatives of AMCAS at Yet the enormous volume of citizenship" and is one-sidedly in Bucknell University to discuss applications have impelled most favor of legislation that would, for LETTERS IN applic a tion procedures. The or all medical schools to screen example, set safety standards for NEXT ISSUE rr,mlts w�e a radical departure and categorize its applicants. It is, toys� Evidently getting students ... "t � ... ,. •· • ' ..... ,"' 1 �, ,
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Jones Controven$Y Cont. To the Editor: The letter attacking Don Jones which appeared in the Sept. 28 issue and was signed "Name Withheld u moves me to respond, not as director-of public relations but simply as a member of this community. I will leave the issues raised by yoqr anonymous correspondent to those wto may be better informed than I. It is only his anonymity that concerns me. I am saddened to discover in an academic community -indeed in any community- a person who can work up enough outrage to ' compose and send in eight paragraphs of denuncitation but who apparently cannot muster sufficient courage to publicl-y write his name. George Newman
Psi U Takes Action
To the Editor: Last school year Psi Upsilon kitchen was plagued by a series of t h efts of f ood and kitchen equipment totaling well over $2000. This trend seems to be continuing this year. Within the p a s t two w eeks alone approximately $200 worth of food was stolen. Unfortunately, Psi Upsilon is no longer able to absorb these financial losses, and we have taken steps lo prevent co�tinued on page el�ven
4/THE SPECTATOR/October 12, 1973
Size of Hill Classes Increase; CaUse Scheduling Difficulties
BY BOB GRIEVES Hamil ton s tudents hav e expressed anxiety over the trend toward larger classes , and the fact t hat many s tu dents were "bumped o!-1-t" of courses for, which they registered. Last spring 46 seniors, 64 juniors and 42 sophomores were deleted from over-subscribed classes. According to Palmer Fargnoli, College Registrar, the process of decreasing class size to meet a certain limit is not an arbitrary affair; class enrollments have been reevaluated with preference based on the class and major of each student. This process has occurred primarily at Kirkland, where maximum course enrollment is part -of the college's educational philosophy.
The Truax Hall of Philosophy
Truax Pillars Rise Again, Find Home In Cemetery
BY LIZ BARROW F o u r l imestone pillars of Corinthian structure have been trans£erred from their former home at the Truax Hall of Philosophy to a new residence at the Hamilton cemetery. These four columns, along with two other s, were t he suppor t structures of the hall's front porch. Erected in 1900 as a gift from Chauncey S. Truax, '75, Truax Hall stood at the north end of the quadrangle, facing south, until 1970 when it was torn down to make room for the Burke Library. The architect, Frederick H. Gouge '70, of Utica, designed this large (90' by 45') two story building in the popular Colonial style. The interior of Truax Hall was finished with solid Roman brick rooms, hard wood floors, and (according �-> the Hamilton College Catalogue of 1901) "it, like the rest of the new buildings, is satisfactorily warmed by steam heat from the steel boiler system." The Hall of P hilosophy housed the d e p a r t m e n t s o f R hetor i c , Psychology, History, Economics, and Ethics. When the site for the Burke Library was chosen and it was know that Truax Hall would have to be razed, Truax relatives expressed a desire to John C h a n d l e r, t h e n H a m i l t o n president, that some portion of the building might be saved as a remembrance to Chauncey Truax. Hamilton complied with their wishes by preserving not only the columns, but also much of the "Indiana stone" which comprised the outside of the building. Some of this stone now surrounds the planters at the Burke Library. The remainder of the stone is being used to construct the base on which the four columns will stand. An acceptable plan for the memorial was drawn up last year, a n d , w i t h s u b st a nt i al contributions from the Truax family, work was begun on it in ) L
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faculty member teaches three W i l l i a m Snead of the courses a semester. Economics Department defended Under the new curriculum, the innovation for two major though, a professor might teach reasons: first, the one-semester two courses in the fall semester, course covered only_half the text; one during winter study, and and second, advanced courses three in the · spring. Because were held back by a lack of basic forty-six winter studies are knowledge. Economics 11-12 con ducted each January, 46 classes c.ould be made smaller, courses must be deleted from the thus eliminating at least two offerings of both semesters. Fewer advanced courses, but, acc�rding courses are taught each semester. to Mr. Snead, the Department and, because the size of the would prefer to offer more faculty has remained stable while diversity in the advanced courses. the size of the student body has A d h e r i n g t o this n e w grown, classes are larger now than arrangement, the four-member before 1969. The student is, Economics Department will offer however, guaranteed a small class eight different courses. All four during Winter Study. will teach Economics 11-12, but The problem with increasing each will cover the material of his t he s ize of the faculty is s p e c i a l t y . In t h i s way monetary. Many faculty members introductory classes will have a have urged that the Winter Study u n i f o r m b a c k g round for program be dropped because of u p p e r -1 e v e l c o u r ses, and incr(;':asing prices. However, since prospective majors will become both students and faculty favor expos'e d to the Department Winter study, professors have split faculty. Review sessions will be up their courses into a greater held at night on a semi-regular number of sections even though basis. they are prohibited from doing so. Mr. Fargnoli said that students This semester the Economics D e p a r t m e n t d i v i d e d i t s cannot expect the student-faculty introductory course (Economics ratio listed in the Hamilton 11) into a two-semester course. catalogue to hold for all classes This year all 109 enrolled students since an entirely different ratio are in one section, whereas last will be obtained if part-time year there were nine sections professors are included among the covering both semesters with a faculty and if Kirkland students combined total of 102 students, are permitted to take Hamilton courses. according to Mr. Fargnoli.
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Number of Student Loans · Drop; Middle Income Families Hurt '-
.BY JOHN HINCHLIFF The number of studc�t loans available to those who need· a s s i stance in financing their education is in a state of decline. These federally-insured loans, commonly called guaranteed or state loans, are not as profitable for banks as other loans which bring higher interest rates. According to Kenneth Kogut, director of financial aid, the · purpose of these loans is to p r o v i d e t hose in the middle-income bracket with an opportunity to offset the financial burden of higher education. They also enable private institutions to contribute .to the community through low interest loans to students.
One of the major problems causing the decline in the availability of these loans is the t ight m o ney market. Banks cannot afford to have large sums tied up in long term, low interest loans when they can make more money through other means. The religion both intellectually arid · interest rate for student loans is a BY JEFF TULCHIN relatively small 7 percent per year. A progressive religious attitude traditionally. Other problems contributing to Father Drobin is eager to and some distinct future plans charact erize what the New advise students in any capacity, the decline stem from the actual Newman Chaplain Father Paul and feels that helping students in process of granting a loan. There Drobin will b r i ng to. the any possible way is just as is considerably more red tape.than Hamilton-Kirkland Community. • -important f if not more important in pre·vious years. The school's financial aid office Father Drobin in his first year than his ceremonial functions. His as the Newman Chaplain to visitors find him to be a friendly, is now required to submit to the Roman Catholic students at the energetic man with an infectious lender a recommendation for the amount of the loan. To arrive at a Colleg ereplaces Father Finnegan. laugh. "Religion," Father Drobin · recommendation, the financial aid He will be able to devote virtually all his time to the Colleges, where believes, "should be an expression o ffice performs a "ne eds as due to other abligations, Father of your beliefs." He is trying to analysis". Because of the analysis, Finnegan was only able to serve as provide . students with a deeper it now takes -about 15 minutes to understanding and awareness of process an application, whereas a part time Chaplain. under the former system it took He is enthusiastic about the their faith. Father Drobin's future plans about three minutes. interest in their religion that The needs analysis is a process Roman Catholic students have include, if needed, a Big Brother shown. He has found that the program for the surrounding by which a · family's available . to dete.r mine continued on page ten assets are evaluated students are serious about their Father Paul Drobin, New Newman Chaplain
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what amount it can reasonably be expected to contribute. The difference is then recommended as a loarC According to a bulletin from t h e d e p ar tment of Health, Education and Welfare, the sole p u r p o s e of the school's r ec o mmendation is to help determine if the student will qualify for federal interest benefits. Any student, regardless of need, may still receive an unsubsidized loan if the lender is willing to assist the student. Although it is possible for a bank to increase the size of a loan, it must document its reasons for -doing so. If the bank cannot provide good reasons for an increase, then it is liable to stiff penalties. Because of this, few banks are willing to lend more than a school has recommended. A problem has developed in tl}e needs analysis. If the financial �d office lumps a family's assets into a group, then non-liquid assets, such as homes, are considered available money.
Hamilton-Kirkland's financial aid office will separate the assets, thereby giving a more accurat� recommendation. However, there· ar� �ometimes conditions existing_ w1thm a family which may not be evident to the college. Due to this, a student may be recommended for. either more or less than he actually needs. The college is also bound to give an accurate account of its ,r e a s o n s for a p art i cu I ar recommendation. According to Mr. Kogut, there ii a maximum $5000 fine and/or ,up to five years imprisonment for the falsification of information on the needs analysis. Mr. Kogut said that although the loan situation is tight, a student should not hesitate to investigate t h e possibilites. "Sometimes students who think they're not eligible may be," he , said. "He should let the financial aid office decide. However, if one· is eligible and doesn't really need assistance, then it is only fair for -. . . him not to apply."
Reorganized Efforts Aid Pre-Law Students
League universities and small BY PHYLLIS TAYLOR . Th� . tremendous ·•·mcrease' . in . private colleges· in. -the Northeast:" According to Mr. Traer, efforts Law School applicants has caused Hamilton pre-Law students to being made to ease these problemsface a greater number of problems include: 1) R e o r g anization of in the past few years. According to recent statistics on Law School pre-law advising and formation of admissions, of the more than 70 a pre-law committee to aid Hamilton students who took the advisement. This would include 1972 LSAT's, approximately 4 5 earlier taking and retaking of the applied to Law School, and at LSA T, heightened student least 31 received one acceptance. awareness of the importance of Seven w e r e a d m i t t ed into the grade point average, a better "prestige" schools, three into liason with the Educational "good" schools, and 2 1 into Testing Service (ETS), and special letters, phone calls, and visits to "fair" schools. Approximately 65 members of law schools where app ropriate. 2) An improved transcript the class of 1973 took the LSAT. sheet. explanation ' Of these, 30 applied to Law 3) A series of visits to law School and 2 5 were accepted. Compared to the previous year, schools admissions officers in eight were admitted to "prestige" orde r to promote individual schools, six to "good" schools, s t u d e n t s a n d t o gat he r information about the law school and 11 to "fc!ir" schools. T he 19 7 3 s tatistics for (Mr. Traer has visited schools in Kirkland are as follows: six out of Boston; Washington, D.C., and 118 members of the senior class Virginia, and ·Norman Bowie has are attending Law School. Of the visited schools in Phil_adelphia). 4) The formation of the· Kirkland students going on to graduate schools, the third largest No r t h e as t e r n Association of number go into law, with business Pre-Law Advisors (NAPLA) which and teaching - holding first and grew out of a Conference on Admissions Standards sponsored seco_nd place respectively. by Hamilton. Dean Stephen G. According to a memorandum Kurtz last spring. NAPLA held. a fromJames_.· Traer, there are many successful first annual meeting of p r o b l e m s i nvolved in being pre-law advisors, law schools · admitted to Law Schools with admissions deans, and ETS respect to being a graduate of personel at Williams College in Hamilton. First of all, Hamilton is August, 1973. not well known.. 5) The llistofy Winter - ~ Second, grade 'levels are low Study Project, "Legal Internship," (although rising) in comparison which is favorable and useful in · with many schools. This hurts testing career plans and law a p p Ii cants because i n i t i a l schools. screenings are frequently done by D e s pi t e t he f r u st r at i ons a n u m erical procedure which involved, · there seem to be no combines the LSAT, the grade signs of a significant decrease in point average, and a few other t h e nu mber of law school minor factors. Schools that do not applicants, according to Mr. Traer. know the grading pattern of But, as Mr.. Traer said, there is Hamilton, or do not take the time likely to be an expansion in the to read the transcript explanation, number of opportunities lawyers weed out good applicants because will be involved in the future. of what are perceived to be And although the job market is · mediocre grades. not as good for law school Third, a few Law Schools are graduates now as it was five years trying consciously to broaden the ago, the L.L.D. gives its holder base of recruitment and rely less· many more options than the heavily on graduates from Ivy Ph.D.
6/TH E SPECTATOR/October 12, 1973
Medieval Music by 'Consort' Captivates Capacity Audience performing and interpreting the instructive and entertaining, with pieces with obvious enthusiasm, director-lutanist Joel Cohen and moving about freely when they winds specialist Friedrich von found it necessary or desirable, Huene freely bantering with one talking and. joking with the another, each one touting the a u d i e n c e , a n d s m i l i n g " ' s u p e r i o r i ty" of his own good-naturedly at the disruptive i n s t r u m e n t s . T h i s Ii ttl e ent r a nces of t h e a udience p e r f o r m a n ce u n d o u bt e d l y late-comers and at the sporadic incresed the audience's enjoyment chiming of the Chapel bells. of the second half of the program, French chronicler. The music, of course, spoke which ended with two rousing An unusua1ly 1 a r g e very nicely for .itself, and most of numbers about "'relations between H ami l t o n -K i r k l a n d c o n c e r t the audience seemed able to t he s e xes". T he spectators audience crowded into the Chapel appreciate its quality, despite its expressed their satisfaction with otl Monday evening, to examine removal from us in time, and the the performance as a whole by Louis Brown, Jed Coffin, and Tom Stoenner in Measure for Measure for themselves the type of music fact that the individual sounds are insisting upon an encore - an which insp ired Maistre Molinet's often strange to the 20th-century amusing German piece about "the BY STEPHEN SOBA enthusiasm. Judging by their ear. The strong popular qualities Cuckoon, which the pe�formers Fair tidings, 0 noble Venetians. .. William Shakespeare's Measure response, they quite agreed with of this music are still able to reach dedicated to Professor Thomas for Measure will bow Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, October the reactions of the medieval out and communicate with the Colby, one of Hamilton's own 12-14, at 8:30 P.M. on the hallowed boards of Minor Theater. music-lover. The program, an listener, and it is, in fact, a music medieval music experts. Admission is costless and promises to be advantageous for all. e nchanting historical tour of which almost invariably delights, Mr. Edwin Barrett, Professor of English, has directed this For those of us who already Frence medieval and Renaissance b y m e a n s of i t s s t r o n g know (a little) and loved (a lot) script-in-hand spectacle, first performed at court 369 years ago, and music, was provided b y the five expressiveness and forthrightness. centering on that never-wearied point at issue: Sex. Do not mistake the culture, and in particular the talented, young members · of the The program selection ran the this monosyllabic plot reduction for another trick of the music of the Middle Ages, the Cambridge Consort. gamut of subjects and moods and concert was everything that could press-agent's trade, for indeed Measure for Measure contains the span The· p e rformers led their the audience, not surprisingly, · have been wished or hoped for. of carnality from brothel to nunnery. Passion is, of course, merely w i l l i n g a u d ience successively reacted especially well to the the point of departure for an observation of the relationship For those who were making the through the various musical style more lively, rhythmic, slightly between law and morality in a healthy society, as suitable to marvelous discovery for the first periods - 12th-century Provencal ribald numbers (which were in no Shakespeare's time as it is to ours. time, the Cambridge Consort has (the trouf!adours), 13th-century short supply in the Middle Ages, The worthy cast includes Paul Blanchard as Duke Vincentio, Fred u n d o u b t e d l y s uccee d e d i n northern, 14th and 15th-century or on the program). In fact, most Goehner as Lord Angelo, Jonathan Huthcison as the young Claudio, creating some new devotees. In Franco-Flemish, and 16th-century e v e ry o n e s e emed a b l e t o Maris Newbold as his sister Isabella, Joanna Langfield as his any. event, a return visit of this popular Parisian . The group was understand enough of the music betrothed Juliet, and Kathleen Smith as the spurned Mariana. unusual and talented group would most impressive from the point of itself to be able to read well Discussions will follow the performances. Lie not then in cold surely be welcomed by the · view of musical excellence - all of beyond the euphemistic and obstruction this weekend (or rot). . . see Measure for Measure. H_amilton-Kirkland community. the members displayed virtuosity attenuated translations of the (notably in the use of the clear . lyrics, offered in the program "head voice" on the part of the notes. As director Joel Cohen principal vocalists, which at times pointed out, though, even when ma de for a b r e a t htakingly the music w as "elegant, refined beautiful effect), versatility (each and rationalistic", no sacrifices individual sang, and also played were made with regard to the s e v e r a l i n struments), and a e l e m e nt o f "p ure s e n sual remarkable sense of ensemble. But e n j o y m e n t ' ' . P ar t i c u l a r l y BY SUSAN MALKIN some cul t ur e sh ock • upon paint and get involved in the field, . perhaps more important on the outstanding i n the unhawdy returning to America, he claims to T w o n ewcomers t o the the more we realize how difficult -whole, however, was the relatively department was a melancholy love enjoy being at Hamilton. "I like it Hamilton College Art Department painting is. In the beginning (as informal atmosphere (and the son g, Com ment Ou'a Moy, J o s e p h A. Trovato, Visiting am ateurs), we are not aware of all. here very much. Hamilton's the resulting audience rapport) which composed by the 13th-c entury kind of place where you have Associate Professor of Art, and the problems of' painting and they prevailed throughout the concert, t r o u v e r e-poet G u illaume de some contact with the students on David R. Wright, Professor of Art don't get in our way. At first a a n d w h i ch o f f e r e d i d e a l M a.c h a u t , a less formal level. Generally, the a n d s u n g History, present fresh perspectives student approaches problems in a conditions for the presentation of (unaccompanied) with . a high students you get here are on the study of art. more innocent, fresh way, and he this. music. degree of sensitivity and emotion intelligent and interested. It's very - Mr. Trovato teaches beginning w i l l a c c o m p l i s h t h i n g s inspiring for an aspiring teacher." The group entered the chapel by tenor Frank Hoffmeister. Also and advanced Drawing, Painting, unconsciously. Once a student Mr .. Wrig ht's courses are dressed in their quasi-medieval noteworthy was the lovely Missa a n d S c u l p t u r e c o u r s e s a t becomes aware of fine painting, conducted in -either lecture or costumes (short embroidered_ "II m e suffit", a '"parody mass" Hamilton. H e said the purpose of he ·will achieve quality, but at the discussion form., but in either·case tunics for the men, and long by Orlando di Lasso, for which his beginning, studio couse is a same time he will encounter more visual media is essential. He peasant-dresses for the women), the cantus firmus was derived con�ern ""with the basic aspects of complex problems," that he could said,"Media stimulates students and ca1rying their ancient-style from a French love song, R me painting such as design, two and p er h a p s h ave solved before and gives them a chance to see instruments under theirarms. With suffit de tous mes maux . three dimensional art with its intuitively. things for themselves. If a student very little imagination, the viewer Certainly one or" the high .exe cu t io n , t ec h niq u e , a n d has to look at visual material, he Mr. Trovato is at Hamilton could envision them as atroupeof points of the evening came at the i nterpretation." O f his more gets to see what I'm lecturing wandering musicians who were beginning of the second half of advanced course Mr. Trovato said, College for a one year leave of t h e about. You can't give an art f r o m stopping off in the neighborhood the program when an offer from "'We do more esoteric things. We a b s e n c e history lecture without at least a castle to disp lay their talents and the performers to explain their co.;._cem ourselves with more ways Munson-Williams-Proctor-Institute to have a lot of fun in the process. a n c i e n t i n s t r u men t s was slide. You m u s t have an of expression, more complex in Utica, where he is Assistant to In fact, the Cambridge Consort entusiastically accepted by the problems: use of colors, figure the Director of the museum. He is i l l u s t r ation of what you're proceeded to do just that - audience. The session was both saying. " As an even further painting, landscape painting. It's not . a co�plete ne�comer to a n opportunity to work in. Hamilt?n� smce he taught art he�e illustration, Mr. Wright would like MUSIC MAN to implement a winter study art different ways of expression." on a srmilar leave of absence m This weekend Kinokunst-Gesellschaft presents the musical history program in Italy. Aside from these stated goals, Mr. 1 9 6 5 - 1 9 � 6_. M_r .. Trovato spectacular THE MUSIC MAN and a James Thurber cartoon short, Trovato spoke -0 r a more idealistic co�?leted his trammg at the Each of Mr. Wright's courses THE UNICORN IN THE GARDEN. Showings will be in the goal. '"I'd like to teach people to Tnmty _Art Students League �d centers around a specific problem. Chemistry Auditorium, at 8 Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and at The Roman Art course deals with use their own eyes; to see more the National Academy of Design. 10 Sunday. Admission $. 75. H� has an Honorary Doctora_te of clearly." diff�rentiating Roman art from THE MUSIC MAN is a schmalzy, corny, uproarious musical, and Students work independently Fme A r t s f r o m Ha milton, Greek art and showing how has already become a classic. Robert Preston as Professor Hill is for most of the course but conferred upon him in 1963, for Roman art was related to the boisterous and wonderful, and Shirley Jones as Madame Librarian is weekly lectures are given t� help work as head of a pro�ect to development of early Byzantine cool and sweet. Remember "76 Trombones," and "Gary, Indiana" direct the students' projects. One reconstruct the_ 50th Anm vers� and Christian art. The problem of and "Till There Was You"? Hear them all and much more in this lecture a week is sufficient Armory show m New York City• the Renaissance --art course is to nostalgic, colorful musical entertainment. David R. Wright is teaching because, as Mr. Trovato stated, study the Renaissance art as a period and "to define the "People who've elected to take an two art history courses this PLAY IT AGAIN SAM art course have some interest; semester; Italian Renaissance and intellectual aspirations of the something attracted them in the Roman Art- Eastern and Western. Renaissance artist, sculpto , and Play It Again, Sam, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, first place. I try to give them a He graduated from Williams as an architect. Jerry Lacy. After his wife leaves him for "insufficient laughter," few basic principles, yet I am English major, followed by an Mr. Wright is satisfied with the neurotic film critic Allen turns to his married friends for help in constantly surprised at how much i n complete study at McGill c o o rdination o f t h e arts establishing a meaningful relationship with the opposite sex. He departments of Hamilton and a person can do on the basis of his Medical Schoel. From 1966 to conjures up shades of his idol, the slouch-hatted, trench-coated 1970 Mr. Wright studied .Art own interest." Kirkland. He finds that none of Humphrey Bogart of Casablanca - who gives him bits of hard-boiled the arts courses overlap, rather Because his pupils have varying History at Princeton. He spent the advice of how to handle dames. Dick and Linda fix Allen up with a they complement caclt other well. amounts -0f previous training, Mr. past t h r e e years in Italy procession of swinging girls but they all reject him -- even a "That's the p11rpo.,,· of the two Trovato said he has learned much researching the historical art in self-avowed nymphomaniac. Allen falls in love with Linda (who sch(.ols, isn't iU Tn complement about the effect of art training on Medici villas. returns his love in a one night affair) but he is immediately Although Mr. Wright admits to a student's ability. "'The more we each other." remorseful and turns to Bogie for a solution. BY DAN RUFF
For music is the resonance of the heavens, the voice of the angels, the joy of paradise, the hope of the air, the organ of the Church, the song of the little birds, the recreation of all gloomy and despairing hearts, the persecution a nd d r i v i ng away o f the devils.-jean Molinet, 15th-century
Hamilton Expands Arts Sta/f; Fresh Perspecti"es Offe�ed
Octobe�_ 12, 1973/THE SPECTATOR/7
EVENTS
Amici Strings Return to Hill; Chamber Music This Sunday
FILMS
On Campus This Weekend
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Play It Again Sam, with Woody Allen. Fn�ay _and Saturd ay at 8
pm and 1o pm in the Kirner Johnson Auditorium. Sunday at 10 pm. Admission $.75 . The Music Man and The Unicorn m t�e �arden Fri'day and Saturday at 8 pm in the Chemistry Ayd1tonum. Sunday at 10 pm. Admission $.75
T h e A m ici Quartet is a Honigman Competition and the participant in .the Young Artists F r i d a y Morning Music Club Program in Chamber Music at the Concerto Competition. State University of New York She attended Oberlin College Center at Binghamton. Initiated and received her Bachel�rs Degree by Peter Marsh of the Lenox in Music from the Juilliard School Quartet, this program allows as a scholarship student for
- Ms. Rosow holds a Masters Degree in Music from Juilliard School where she studied viQlin with Dorothy DeLay and chamber music with members of the
J uilliard String Quartet.
October 15 (Monday)
The Making of a President -1964, at 4 pm and 8 pm in the
Chemistry Auditorium. . . Women's Center Film Series presents The V1rgm and the Gypsy.: At 8 pm in the Kirner-Johnson Auditori.Jm. Also Tt.Kroay at_8 p.m.
October 17 (Wednesday)
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Civilisation Film Series presentsThe Hero as Artist. At 8.3_0 pm in the Chemistry Auditorium. At Nearby Theatres Cannonball (853-5533) Tom Sawyer G) Kallet (736-2313) A Time To Run (G) Paris (733-2730) Bang The Drum Slowly Uptown (732-0665) Legend of.Boggy Creek (G) and Frogs (PG) 258 Cinema (732-5461) Fritz the Cat (X), The Cheerleaders (X), Romeo and Juliet (G), and Night Wotch(PG) EXHIBITIONS Currently on Campus
Mahler becomes Politics, Beisbol, and other Graphic Works by Ronald K"ilaj. At the Root Art Center through October 14.
Lithography by Bruce Manwaring. At the Bristol Campus Center
thr ough October 19.
Sculpture by Alan Paulson at the List Arts Center through October 20.
At the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Eliot Porter 32 photos from Adirondack Museum through October 28.
MUSIC October 13· Saturday)
Bill Staines, Songwriter. At the Coffeehouse at 9 pm. Free with
social tax.
October 14 (Sunday l
Am ici Quartet. At 3 pm in the Chapel. DRAMA
October 12, 13, and 14 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
Shakespeare's Measure For Measure. At 8:30 pm in Minor Theatre.
LECTURE AND DISCUSSION October 13 (Saturday)
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. At 5:30 in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
Intercom. Informal converstion. At 9 pm in the Alumni House.
October 14 (Sunday)
Free Church of Clinton. Speaker; Rev. Colin F. Miller.Damned Nonsense; New Testament Style. At 11 : 15 am in the Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. At 12:45 p.m. in the Chapel. Community Worship. At 7:30 pm in the Chapel.
October 15 (Monday)
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Poetry Reading of Robert Bums. TheRev. Colin Miller. At 1 :30 pm in the Chapel.
October 16 (Tuesday)Writers Solon. At 8 pm in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
October 18 (Thursday)
Sat Sang (Divine Light M ission) Spiritual D iscourse. At 7 :30 pm
in the Bristol Campus Center Fisher Room. Lecture: Avant-Garde Art in the Soviet Union. Mr. George Costakis, art collector, Moscow, U.S.S.R. At 8 pm in the Science Auditorium.
October 12 (Friday)
SPORTS
Kirkland Tennis. Against Colgate at 4 p.m. October 13 (Saturday)
Football. Against Hobart at 1 :30 p.m. October 16 (Tuesday)
Soccer. Against Hobart at 3 p.m. October ·17 (Wednesday)
Waterpolo. Against Morrisville at 7:30 p.m, October 18 (Thursday)
Soccer. Against Clarkson at 3 p.m. PHOTOGRAPHS NEEDED
A collection of old ph�tographs and memorabilia, "The Anonymous Photographer", will exhibit at the List Ar-t Center, Kirkland College in Clinton, New York from October 23 through November 23. Under the direction of Steve Liebman, Assistant Professor of Film and Jim McDermid, Associate Professor of Sculpture and Prin�aking at Kirkland College, the exhibit will be comprised of family photographs, old picture post cards, and other visual artifacts donated by Kirkland faculty and staff. A "gay 90's" atmosphere, complete with draft beer, a player piano, and "funny foto" sessions will highlight the event. The _ exhibit, the second of the season at the List Art Center, will be followed by a showing of primitive American F olkArt. The upcoming exhibit is dependent on contributions by "anonymous" photographers of the Kirkland community. All old photographs of nostalgic interest should be given to Steve Liebman (859-7468, 853-6012} or Esther Delaney (859-7469} at Kirkland College.
Amici Quartet-glad to be hack. young artists desirous of forming chamber group:.. to mature as . chamber performers under the tutelage of members of the Lenox Quartet. The Quartet will appear at the chapel Sunday,.Octobei;, 14, at 3: 00 pm. The program will include Quartet K. 464 in A Major by Mozart, Sechs B-agatellen fur Streich quartett Op. 9 by Anton W e b e r n , a n d , a fter the intermission, Quartet No. 6 in F "American" by Major op. 96 : Anton Dvorak. Evelina Chao, violinist, began her studies in Washington, D.C., with Neva Greenwood and Werner Lywen. While still in high school, she gave numerous solo recitals sponsqred by the U.S. State Departm ent a n d Ame rican University. She was awarded first prize in the National Hinda
Dorothy DeLay. in 1972 she was awarded a teaching fellowship in violin performance. She was a participant in the Aspen Festival, Kneisel Hall and the Lenox String Quartet Seminar in San Francisco. Recently she has given solo recitals - in New York City and W a s h"ingt o n , D .C . and has r e c o r ded broadcasts for the "Voice of America" series. Cordula Rosow, violinist, did undergraduate work at Hartt College of Music where she had a four-year scholarship and served as concertmaster of the Hartt College Orchestra. She studied violin and chamber music with Raphael Bronstein and Renato Bonacini, and was also a member of t h e H a r tford Symphony Orchestra.
John Dexter II, violist, began study at age 9 at the Drake University Preparatory Dept. in Des Moines, Iowa. His chamber music experience began during his three high school years -when he was first violinist of the Friends of Music Scholarship String Quartet. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Drake· where he studied with Donald Haines and Wilfred Biel, and a Diploma from the Juilliard School following violin study with- Dorothy DeLay and c h a m ber musi c performance classes with Lillian Fuchs and William Lincer.
Dexter has been a member of the Ues Moines Symphony, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, the USMA String Quartet, the Hadyn Festival Orchestra, and served as c o ncertmaster of the Drake University Symphony Orchestra. H e h as participated in the - Monadnock Music Festival, the Viol Consort Workshop, and this The Charlatans will present a mode of pre;e�tation. For this past summer toured Europe with production of Jean Genet's The staging the cast has attempted the Juilliard Chamber Orchestra. Maids on October 26,27, and 28 . what Peskin calls "an evolved Dexter has presented solo recitals in the Minor Theatre. This show p r odu c t i o n ."- - on e w h i c h in Des Moines, San Francisco, grew out of a series of theatrical concentrates o n "interpreting the N e w Y o r k City, and New exercises last spring. The director primary forces of the text." He England. i s J i m P e s k i n , a n d Zivia has abandoned the traditional Fred Ranni, cellist, was born Flomenhaft (who appeared in the directing approach in favor of a in Detroit, where he began his production during the summer of "process of development and cello studies with Paul Clefsky. 1972) and Kathi Smith play the discovery" for both director and While still in high school, he title roles. The addition of Jill cast. The aim of the rehersals has p e r f o r med with the Detroit Maynard as the mistress completes been, according to Peskin, "to S y mphony and the National the cast. make every moment in the play Youth Orchestra at Interlochen, The Maids is a difficult play to very honest to the actresses." Michigan. Ranni attended Johns produce. The action, adapted by Genet's stage directions call for Hopkins University, the Peabody Genet from real events, centers a set in the style of Louis XV-a Conservatory, and graduated from around the repressed emotions style which epitomizes French the Juilliard School in New York, involved in the mistress/servant de ca den ce. For t his show where he studied with Maurice relationships of a madam and her production designer William L. Eisenberg. whores. The relationships involve Whitham has substitued the 20th Raimi has been solQ cellist of b o t h v1c10us ·bitterness and Century art nouve.siu form, a style the Juilliard Orchestra and the necessary mutual dependence that which conveys the ideas of wealth Poleto Festival Orchestra under s o m e t i mes approaches tender and decadence in a manner more such c o n d u c t o r s as Alfred lovingness. The theme of the play, apparent to a modern audience, W a l l e n s t e i n and T h o m a s w h i c h Sartre called a true thu s e s ta b l i s h i n g a v i s ual Schippers. H e has appeared o n the existential drama, involves the metaphor for the in temal action European television network, and nature of roles which people must of the play. The set, constructed has given recitals throughout the a ssume and the urgency of entirely of scrap iron, shows an Eastern U.S., Spain, Portugal, and maintaining masks. Structurally, innovative use of metal new to the Italy. Raimi was a winner of the this play is a mixture of classic Minor Theater. The crew has International Cello Competi_ tion French suspense-melodrama and found work in this medium in Estoril, Portugal, in 1971, and absurdist experiments, which were frustrating, but very rewarding. this past summer performed in the occurring when Genet wrote the The combination of Genet's C a s a l a Ma s t er C l ass as a play, his first, in 194 7. play and a new approach in both participant in the Marlboro Music The realistic events of the play the directing and the set promises Festival. contrast sharply with Genet's an exciting night of theatre.
Charlatans Presents'Maids' ;· French Decadence Viewed
8/THE SPECTATOR/October 12 1973
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PIRG, Here and Now
Russian Art Collector to Speak
George Costakis, owner of the ordinary collection but one of wo r l d's o u t st a nding private compelling interest to all who c o l le c t i o n o f 2 0 t hcentury would understand the art of this and i:ecommendations in that continued from page two Russian art, will lecture on century� For 26 years he has working, wpting, acting to try and state. c o n d u c t e d his private -Massachusetts PIRGs have Thursday (October 18) at 8 p.m.. make the system more responsive archeological excavation-and this published a consumer guide on, in the Hamilton College Science · to the people: A u d i t o r ium. H i s talk , is what it has required-to unearth - S t u d e n t s a t S y r acuse "How to Sue in Small Claims "Avant-Garde Art in the Soviet. the Leftist art movement which University conducted a toy safety Court", and have established Union," will be open to the public burst on Russia in the years study last year which resulted in s t u dent-staffed Small Claims without charge. around the Revolution." the passage of a significant piece C o u r t Counse l l ing S e r vices Mr. Costakis, a Greek national M r . Costakis has received throughout the state. of consumer protection legislation Why PIRG? Because it's time. who kives in Moscow, is on a p e r mi s s ion from the Soviet in Albany. lecture tour of the United States Ministry of Cult\,lre to take six of -The ''Tooth Fairy Act", It's time to focus and direct our which was arranged by Michael passed by the Vermoni state realism, our idealism, our energy, Haltzel, assistant professor of our knowledge. legislature last year, guarantees history at Hamilton. Professor FATHER DROBIN Why ·PIRG? Because your dental care to all Vermont Haltzel is a specialist · in Russian Continued from page five children under eleven y�ars of age signature on a petition can mean history and met Mr. Costakis in community. He also hopes to �d is the result of PIRG research organized, constructive ACTION. . Moscow last January while leading schedule several interfaith services a Hamilton Winter Study group at the Co lleges and a possible through the Soviet Union. - interfaith retreat sometime in the A recent article-in the London spring. Saih each September F�. Sunday Times magazine said of Father Drobin stresses that his· This is the way you've always wanted Mr. Costakis · that he "is the door is always open for any to learn . . . and should. Combine ieading private art collector in the student. His dull, somber office is accredited study with a fascinating Soviet Union. And his is no in vivid contrast to his lively semester of travel to Africa, Austral asia, the Orient, and the Americas. �rsonality.
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� October 12, 1973/TH E SPECT A TOR/11 Kowalski (over 1000 yards total FOOTBALL gain in 1972) and junior Jerome Continued from page twelve Hobart Statesmen here at Steuben Hanley return to continue the Field. Hobart is 3-0-1 thus far in rushing tradition again this fall. 1973 and were 7-2 in '72. Led by Jeff Thon, a freshman, directs an Don Aleksiewicz '72, last year's attack which rarely ever leaves the Statesman offense led all the ground. Look for the Statesmen nation's colleges in rushing. In the to run right ·at Blues, but don't 26-14 defeat suffered at Boswell put anything past Coach Bob King Field l�t season, the Statesmen who has at least one BIG surprise trounced the Continentals as they for the over-confident invaders rushed for 498 yards. "Mr. A'thru from Geneva. , If you don't bring your radios Z , was the big m<;U1 in Hobart's· Wis hbone-T, and the Little to Steuben Field tomorrow you'll All-American has graduated and miss all the play-by-play as Kenny gone on to the Canadian Football Marten and Thom Pirodsky return once again to WHCL-FM mike; League's Ottawa Roughriders. But sophomore back Rich the pre-game show starts at. 1: 10.
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PSI UPS.LON THEFTS Continued from page three further thefts. No unauthorized person will be allowed in Psi Upsilon kitchen at any time for any purpose. An unauthorized person is defined as one not accompanied by a member of the house. This will be enforced rigorously. All offenders will be brought before the Judiciary Board. Also, all thefts will be reported to and investigated by the State Police. We regret that such action is necessary at Hamilton College, b ut we are l eft with no alternative. Brothers of Psi Upsilon
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SPECTATOR SPORTS
Water Polo U�s Record to _3-1; Victors Over RMC, Colgate BY STEVEN A.GOLDENBERG The Hamilton College Water Polo Club came up victorious twice in two tries in Alumni Pool this week by sinking Royal Military College 10-6 Saturday morning and Colgate 10-7 Wednesdav night.
Donald, and Dave Greenblagh attack w ere passes f rom Walters and Needham, each setting up each threw in one. H ami lton's d e f e n se w as scores. RMC rallied in the fourth inspired in the third period p eriod following a wholesale following the fouling out of substitution by Hamilton. A score standout Brad Johnson. Goalie by Mac Donald on a pass from Jeff Carlberg let only one ball by Johnson iced the victory for the him as he continued his usual fine Continentals. Craig Mac Donald Ied the play. The final stanza saw defense Hamilton scorers with five goals remaining dominant. Defensemen followed by Dave Greenblagh who John Needham, Mark Walters, and registered three times. Mark John Ziegler held the Colgate Walters and Lester Lanon each offense to one goal as the threw in one. The week's action raised Hamilton swimmers threw in two. Hamilton registered four times Hamil ton's recor d to 3-1. in the third quaf!er as they pulled Wednesday Hamilton will host away from RMC. Highlighting the Morrisville in Alumni Gym. Carlberg stret.ches for the save
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footb all. World-record holder In the final quarter, the s tands at 0-3 and go into BY ROBERT J. KEREN Tommie Smith won the 1968 The Hamilton Continentals Continentals scored again on a tomorrow's Hobart contest riding Olympic gold medal in the dropped their third straight game 12-yard pas_s, Win�er to junior an eight gai_ne losing streak. 200-meter dash, but is better Ob1es on t�e Move last Saturday yielding to Oberlin hal!-back Bill C?llier. B�t the _ tic e l h t A n i l r e for his black-gloved remembered b O e h T classic exercised ball Obies then 29-14 on the enemy turf of Dill · salute, with silver medalist John control running down the clock Department, headed by Jack Field in Ohio. Brad Johnson •7 5 looks for open man some mention Carlos, on the victory stand. The Obies went into the for six minutes, before half-back Scott, deserves Colgate came out shooting as here. S cott a ssisted D ave Holloway had an undistinguished gave Yeomen Harry Bonner the contest with a 1-2 record, but also they had two balls in the net in f Their Out o author of Meggyesy, career wi th the St. Louis and of th their ur the score fo final t he· opening seconds. The boasted the second best passing Cardinals. Bonner 103 day. for carried ards League, in the writing of the y offense in the country (NCAA Hamilton defense then settled Such is the quality of the ex-St. Louis Cardinal linebacker's down as the Blue struck back with Division III) averaging over 205 on the afternoon. National Football League expos� Oberlin athletic staff, and the and Lou 6'1" the Cordia, 190 a e r i a l y a r d s p e r g a me. the next t h r ee g oals. An in 1969.Scott hasbeen tennedby M a r t i n e z -G r e e l ey passing improving off ense exhibited Quarterback Willie Martinez a p ound H a milton sophomore, certain s p o r t s conservatives, combination was no mistake by 123 the up picked on yards · freshma n f r o m S a n J;se , excellent passing and movement. "an uding the incl as NFL, Scott either. Tommie Smith (San 32 ound in After carries. only gr A nullified Craig Mac Donald goal California, didn't disappoint the irresponsible radical and enemy of Jose State '68) and Cass Jackson game his third halfback, at the hometow n crowd as he complete cost t h e Continentals their d sport" in an October 1972 issue brought the two San Jose high momentum as Colgate once again 16 passes in 33 attempts for 229 ex-quarterback totals 263 yards gained in 67 carries. Cordia has of Sports Illustrated. He also school st ars along with them this yards. bol)barded the nets for three more fall. A third freshman, Javier Oberlin scored twice in the n o w a masse d more rushing assisted Harry Edwards, the Black goals. y�.rdage than last season's leading sports �ctivist, during the 1968 Alamanza, who starts in the eni op g n iod. r e p A 36 yard The action got rough as the second quarter opened with combination, Martinez to wide Colgate fouls and turnovers receiver Jay Greeley, put the helping Hamilton regain its Obies on the board less than two momentum and movement. The minutes after Bill Finan 's opening Blue swimmers shut out Colgate kickoff. Two questionable pass with Eric Kraus leading the interference calls against the Blue period's attack with two goals. secondary set up Oberlin's second Jo hn Needham, Craig Mac touchdown, as fullback Chris White carried over from the one· to make it 14-0. Midway through the second quarter Blue middle linebacker JohL Newell picked off a Martinez The Kirkland tennis team lost pass and returned it twenty-four its s p a r k l e on Tuesday in yards to the Oberlin 41. With competition with Skidmore. The Senior QB Craig Fallon at the only Kirkland representatives to helm, the Continentals went to win their match were first doubles the air. First Fallon hit Kevin Snyder Polly Brazelton and Meg Newman. Freshman Bunsy McLean slated in for 26 yards bringing the ball to the first singles position, lost -a Oberlin's e l e v e n yar d-li ne. tough two-set decision. In second F r eshman tight end George singles play, Sara Gordon looked Grammaglia grabbed Fallon's toss noticable fatigu ed as her match on the next play� the southpaw's wore o n , e x h ib iting l ittle third touchdown pass of the Cor4!a follows Fallon & Kizielewicz ground gainer, Sandy Macintosh Olympic boycott at Mexico City. defensive backfield, was a high res istance during the closing season, making it 14-6. '74, piled up in seven games. L a s t year's head football school teammate of Martinez and Oberlin period third the In games of the match. Third singles Martinez QB Oberlin t u B Bill Grice, left the Oberlin Greeley. coach, player, Sarah Tuten, also followed stymied the Blue attack on four · In 1972 Hamilton, with a after numerous disputes campus 21 totalling attack an engineered seasoned the with · asions occ the lead of the other singles much less talented Eleven downed new the of facets over Scott with a directed He downs. t s r i f directing now Winter, Rob junior, contests in losing her match in the Obies 26-14 within the two sets. Randy Berger �d Ann the offense. Obie co-captain Ted balanced offense hitting his high Athletic policy.Grice is currently friendly confines of Steuben up shook Scott job. a for looking on Yorker New only the Hommel, six with Greeley Jay mate school R i c e , composing the second Field. The rapidly _ improving doubles team, rallied for awhile in the Yeoman Squad, intercepted clutch aerials while handing off to the ,oaching staff and hired Cass Oberlin team invades Clinton Black old -year 1 3· a Jackson, line 21-yard own his on Winter 5 averaged who Bonner Harry big their second set, yet eventually again next fall (Oct. 5) and could yielded the two set win to the and returned it all the way back yards per carry. Martinez passed graduate of San Diego State and easily be devastating with Scott's assistant with him surrounded being before eleven Hamilton's to Hamilton first-downs. 13 for Skidmore team. picked up only 12 first downs all coaches George Sauer, Tommie imported talent both in the Last Friday, the underclass pulled down. huddle and coaching on the the from in went White Chris day and had their attack marred Smith and Ralph Holloway. members of the team travelled to Sauer was a former wide sidelines. Cazenovia, returning with a team two, set up by a Martinez to with u n t i m ely interruptions, Hobart Tilt on Deck victory. In first singles play, Sarah Greeley nine-yarder. A two point fumbles and penalties; nothing receiver with the New York Jets Tomorrow the Continentals 28, age at fall, last retired who Tu ten combatted a gu sting wind conversion ended the qu arter with n e w for t h e i nc o nsistent will be makht-·d .1gainst the the Ohioans leading 22- 6. Continentals whose record now disenchanted with professional Continued on page eleven Continued on page eleven
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THE ·SPECTATOR VOLUME IV, NUMBER 7
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
OCTOBER 24, 1973
WORKERS AT COLLEGES STRIKE; DISPUTE IMPEDES· HILL SERVICES Pickets Out Since Midnight Monday, Talks Falter After Several Months BY BOB WEISSER
Workers lining College Hill Road outside main entrance.
Walkout Slows Deliveries; Food Services Prepared BY ROBERT ROCK
Students, faculty members, tou ring fa milies, and even non-union workers were surprised on Veteran's Day morning by picket signs in the hands of s t riking Ha milton-Kirkl and maintenance men and women greeting them at the major entrance roads to the campus. Re a c t i o n s r a n g e d f r o m complacency to bafflement, and many people questioned the strikers on the strike's causes and its ramifications. The major cause for concern was the possibility that the strike would impede the normal operation of the college. This is the ultimate goal of the striking union members. Though their spirits are high, the strikers are not confident of immediate success. In fact, when some inquisitive students talked to picketers early Monday morning, a number of them jokingly suggested that students should "stuff paper down the toilet" so that problems for any non-stri king workers would mount. The underlying reason for the dismay is a prime factor in the negouauons with the college administration - only two-thirds of the school's workers are union members, and, therefore, a third of them are remaining on the job during the strike. Twenty-one workers (approximately one third) showed up for work on the first day of the strike. Both the striking force and the a d m i n i s t r ation said t hey anticipated more "drop-outs" as the strike progresses. Also, one of the spokesmen for the union,
Donald Moore, believes that once "people in higher places [ referring to the Board of Trustees and major fund contributors] get wind" of the strike, further action towards a settlement will occur. Publicity of the strike has been aided by local television and radio news coverage. The strikers are also uncertain of the student support they hope to receive, chiefly because most students have been away for the four day weekend.', Emerson Literary Society allowed the union to pitch two tents in their
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Members of Local 200, Service Employees International Union, went on strike against Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges late Sunday night. The strike was to have officially sta_rted at midnight Monday, but was moved up an hour because of reports that non-union workers planned to come to work earlier than their twelve o'clock starting time in order to avoid the pickets. The people on the picket lines were intent on showing the importance of their demands. Several of them said that they had been "pushed around enough in the past," and that they were going to make a determined effort to stand this year. The conflict has taken several months to reach this stage. The contract for the workers (the union acts as the bargaining agent for all workers) ran out on June 15. Since then, negotiations have been in progress; there have been f a c e-t o - f ace talks and then mediation for the last several sessions. Several points have been resolved by these negotiations, and other problems have emerged as major hurdles to a settlement. J. Martin Carovano, acting preside n t a n d p r o v o s t o f Hamilton, sent a message to all o f t h e m e m b e r s H a m i l t o n-Kirkland community explaining the developments up to the time of the strike and the c o l l e g e ' s pos1t1on o n t he remaining issues. Carovano said, "in the many matters discussed in negotiations thus far, agreement
has been reached - with two exceptions on virtually all issues." These issues include the vacation program, number of holidays, pension plan, sick leave procedures, leave for death in the family, and the probationary period.
union would like to change to either a union shop, a modified union shop, or an agency shop. An agency shop would require all employees to pay the dues, but not necessarily to the union. Consequently, they would be under no obligation to the union.
The two matters that had not been resolved were the union shop and the wage package. The union added one other, lesser problem: personal days. The school's argument against the union shop is based on the belief that the people that are connected with an institution of higher learning should be allowed to have various options open to them. The concept of a union shop would defeat this policy, the college argues, because it would force the workers to join the union, even if they did not want·· to do so. The union claims that a union shop would put an end to any favoritism towards non-unionists· that the union says has or may occur. Such a shop would also resolve the issue of the non-union workers getting the same benefits as the union employees, while not having to pay the union dues, which are $60 per year. The expired contract stated: "Any present employee who does not belong to the Union and any future employee shall have the right to join or not to join the Union without such decision affecting his employment status." The college would like to keep that same condition, whereas the
The wage package that the college has offered is a total raise of 40 cents divided equally over two years. The union demand comes to 50 to 60 cents over two years. The discrepancy is larger than is readily apparent because the college . wants to give the increases in increments every half-year, while the union wants the raise to be given in a lump sum. As a result, the college's true yearly increase would be 16 cents, and the union's would be 25 to 30 cents. The third point is the personal days. These days would be used by the employees to take care of a ny p e r s o n a l b u s i n e s s o r appointments that they may have. They would be paid for these days, instead of having to take a day off of their vacation time or sick leave. Other colleges have these days for their employees. Syracuse, Colgate, a nd S t. Lawrence Universities all have two personal days, and St. Lawrence will have three per year in 197 4. In fact, according t o S a m Vi llani, secretary-treasurer of Local 200, Hamilton is the only school in New York State that does not have any personal days. The issue of personal days, along with others, such as an improved hea l t h paln, are considered by the union to be important demands, but not as important as the union shop and the w ages. In effect, these less-salient items could be used as trade-off items in exchange for a better deal on wages or the closed shop. Throughout the negotiations, both sides stressed that a strike was an undersirable solution to the dispute. However, the talks became so stalled over union security and wages that the union decided to walk out. At a meeting held Friday, the union members voted unanimously to strike.
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The number of union workers is 52 out of 75 eligible employees, and for the past three days, only those non-union workers and supervisors (who are not covered by the co�tract) have been taking care of the campuses. Essential services, such as garbage disposal,
Bill Lambdin '73 intervi ews striker for WUTR-TV.
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2/TH E SPECTATOR/October 24, 1973
Union. vs. · College: A Case of Power Politics T h e n e g o,t iations between that nobody knows what anybody Hamilton College and Local 200 is talking about, but rather that of t he S e r v i c e E mployees' the two sides concentrate on International Union, and the different issues. The examples resultant walkout, are the cause of could also be a result of the type much confusion. The confusion of negotiations being used. The stems not only from the lack of two groups were using a mediator knowledge of the bef o r e the strike, and will problem on the part p r o bably continue with him News of the community, during the walkout. Most of the Analysis but also from the b a r g a i n i n g i s n o t d o n e c onflicting reports face-to-face. Instead, the mediator that one gets from acts as a go-between, and is the either of the two parties involved. o n l y p e r s o n w h o k n o ws Two examples illustrate this everything that each side is saying. problem. When asked his opinion Therefore, it is possible for one of the college's offer to make the side to advance an idea which will pay increase · for the skilled be given to the other party in an employees higher than for the abbreviated form. unskilled workers, Charles Duffy, The consequences of having a representative of the union, said, union shop are quite important. If "They haven't told us about it." the union does achieve it, the And when George Newman, balance of power within the pub lic-re lations o f f ice r o f colleges will shift. The union will Hamilton, was asked about the have considerably more bargaining college's views on a suggestion by power, because they will be able the union for marathon bargaining to have 100 percent of the work sessions, he said, "Have they force out in case of a strike. This b r o u g ht t ha t u p a t t h e w o u l d c r e a t e m an y m ore problems than the current strike negotiations?'' These examples do not imply will, with only two-thirds of the
Therefore, it is in the interests of the college to oppose a union shop. However, the official reason for opposing it is somewhat weaker than it could be. The reasoning is rather narrow, in that the school wants to give the workers freedom of choice within the framework of the school only. In a larger framework, the life of the workers and their families, their choices are limited not by their membership in any union, but by their low pay and rising cost of living. The union also has its official reasons for wanting a union shop. They are valid, as are the administration's, but they also mask the real reason for the union shop. One of the arguments that the union uses in favor of the union shop is that it will not cost the college any money. But while it is true that the implementation of the union shop will cost nothing, the wages and benefits �hat the college will have to give m the future will cost much more thin they will without a union shop.
Around The Picket Lines
Strikers Address The Issues
One night janitor said, "I bid for It was a chilly Sunday night at--that library job [referring to the 11:30, but several men! and two new Daniel Burke Library] and women were already forming they gave it to a new, non-union pickets. When the morning shift· worker. I have nothing against arrived, many students and other non-union workers, but I've been m e m b e r s o f t h e c o l l e g e here three or four years." It is a community became aware that a common complaint :unong union strike had begun. workers that non-union workers Shortly after the pickets had get the better jobs at the colleges. formed, members of the Emerson "Just stuff toilet paper down Literary Society brought out your toilet and throw that garbage some hot coffee for the strikers. out the front window," said one ELS also permitted the union to c u s t o d i a n 1 as t Fr id a y i n pitch two tents on the front lawn anti cipa t i o n of this week's of the house. One tent is now walkout. At one point, three equipped with coffee and other Hamilton students approached the men picketing and asked for some amenities. Besides demonstrating their signs. Once they had them they grievances, the strikers, yelling ran down the entrance road to "slow down" or "hey, what's Kirkland College and protested in your rush?", helped to direct the behalf of the striking workers. early morning flow of traffic in "We need 100 percent student and out of the main entrance to support for this strike. When this happened at St. Lawrence, the Hamilton. Some of the workers are blunt students and faculty really lent a in their criticism of the college. hand," said one of the strikers. BY DOUG GLUCROFT
"Moi:iey is the most important to us. We earn $6200 a year and when we go into the store we pay the same thing for a loaf of bread as the guy who takes home $15,000." Although the union shop is an important issue, many strikers are feeling the effect of rising food prices, and wages are a vital consideration for them. The men and women expressed d i s a ppoi n t m e n t a bout their relations with Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds Gerald Leuiken. Two strikers had the same comment about their boss: "He never says good morning to any one of us." Another janitor said, "I never see the guy but once a month." On Monday afternoon, the s tr i k e r s d i r e c ted shouts of "Scab!" towards some of the workers on the job. Many of the workers who �ave not joined the strike now take back roads to and f r o m t h e H i l l t o avoid confrontation with the picketers.
This is not to say the union is making inordinate demands. Its claim that Hamilton is way behind other colleges in wages and benefits is justifiable in some cases. The wages for unskilled labor here is comparable to other schools, but the rates for skilled labor compare poorly. The average wage for unskilled labor at Hamilton is about $3.00 an hour; for skilled labor, it is about fifty cents higher. At St. L a w r e nce U ni v e r s i t y , t h e unskilled labor wage i s about the same as it is at Hamilton, but the skilled employees wage is about fifty center an hour more. An important consideration is what the employees will get out of the strike. It would seem that the attainment of a union shop is essential to their hopes for better wages. If the strike fails, it will be much harder to gain a union shop i n s u b s e q u e n t n e g o tiations, especially if the members lose faith in their union. In a way, this strike is almost a do-or-die proposition for the union, for if it cannot get its demands with less than 70 percent of the workers on the picket lines, w h a t w i l l h appe n i f t he membership declines, as it has recently? It might seem that the college is in a good position to weather this walk-out, since one-third of the employees are still working. However, t h e re are certain intangibles that are involved that give the strikers a needed boost. Primarily, the union members have a great feeling of solidarity. They believe that they have
continually gotten bad contracts, and that this is the year that changes will be made. The matter o f f a v o r i tism, although not w ith concrete substant iated evidence, adds to the members' solidarity. If the strike continues longer than a few weeks, it may well have a good chance of succeedin�. Various supplies that the colleges have accumulated, especially oil, will not be replenished because the drivers will not cross the picket lines. Another "if" in the plans of both the administration and the union is faculty and student s u p p o r t . A 1t h o u g h not necessarily a deciding factor, enough pressure can be brought to bear to swing the decision either way. The reaction of the students and faculty to any shortages or inconveniences will be important in deciding to whom they will give their support. The major issue in the strike is one of power. The union wants a larger share in deciding what benefits its members will get, and the school does not want to give them as much leverage as they are asking for. As for the strike, it is a waiting game. Whoever can hold out the longest, whoever has more nerve, will probably gain most of their objectives. An instrumental part in the game is who has more reserves. Will the college run out of essential materials before the union strike fund runs out? That is one of the most salient questions in the strike, should it continue.
continued from page one front yard, but this has been the o n l y a p p reciable s t u d e n t contribution t o the strike. "It's unfortunate that our strike fell on these vacation days," said Charles Duffy, the local representative for the striking union, "but we couldn't put the date off any longer." The students will soon be made aware of the strike, if they aren't alre ady. Fi rst among their problems will be the handling of
linen, for the trucks of the laundry service on which many students depend turned around y e s t e r d a y w hen spokesman Moore discussed the matter with Wayne Smith, the co-owner of S m i t h 's L a u n dry Service. Although Smith argued that the contract was strictly between the student and the laundry service, Moore reiterated that no trucks should cross the lines, citing that such an action. would impede the "momentum" that the strike has obtained since its outset. The trucks, after delivering to only the Thomas Rudd Health Center, drove away under the sup ervision of the picketers. Later, when questioned about the lack of service, Smith said, "It is my understanding that Hamilton is on vacation; we don't deliver on vacations." Therefore, studenU will not receive last week's laundry until next Tuesday. Earl D'Aprix, food service director for Hamilton-Kirkland, also foresaw little or no problem as far as his dining facilities arc concerned. His storage rooms arc "bulging at the seams" with enough food to last the next three weeks. When truck drivers carrying food supplies refused to cross picket lines, D' Aprix drove the shipment in himself with a college truck. He expects to do this several n\ore times before the strike is over, but he insisted this will be his only problem. None of his staff are uni�n members.
Strikers Attempt To Disrupt Hill Services
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contmued from page one are bemg performed, but most operations have been suspended or curtailed. Both sides were reasonably prepared for the strike. Over the weekend, the schools built up their supplies o f food and other items. Water supplies are no problem, but heating may be, in the event of a prolonged strike. Most delivery truck drivers are
honoring the picket lines, and until the strike is over, the colleges will have to do their own t r anspor ting of f ood a nd materials. The union is prepared to meet the loss o f pay that its members will sustain. It has an emergency strike fund, and the workers will for be co m e e l i g i b 1e u ne mployme nt c ompensation
THE SPECTATOR
VOLUME FOUR
NUMBER SEVEN
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after a certain number of weeks. Despi te t hese cushions, the strikers will lose approximately one-third of their usual pay. To date, there have been no n e w n e g o t i a ting se s s i on s scheduled. Yesterday morning, union representative Duffy said he hoped that there would be a meeting t ha t a fternoon. A meeting was never held. George Newman, public relations director of Hamilton said,"We think it's up to the mediator, Joseph Gentile, to call a meeting. We do not feel that it is up to us to initiate new negotiations." Despite the failure of previous negotiations, both sides expressed great i n te r e s t in reopening meaningful negotiations in order to end the strike and produce an agreement amenable to both parties.
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OCTOBER 26, 1973
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES. CLINTO , NEW YORK
WALKOUT NEARS FIRST WEEK; NO EGOTIATIONS SCHEDULED
Service Disruptions- Remain Minimal BY BOB WEISSER A strike, involving members of Local 200, Service Employees International Union and Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, is now in its fifth day, with little progress towards reaching a settlement. The striking maintenence men and women are engaged in intense around-the-dock picketing at most major entrances to the Hill colleges.
T here have been no negotiations between the colleges and the union for eight days, and there is no possibility of any meetings taking place before the latter half of next week. Joseph Gentile, the state mediator, is presently working on another set of negotiations, and will not be available until that time. Ray Murray, Hamilton attorney, is also
1£uiken: "Everything Calm'
twenty-o ne to t w en t y.:.t wo BY ROBERT ROCK ''Everything is very calm," said workers have reported during the Gaa1d Leuiken, Director of the week. The college knows of 41 Physical Plant and supervisor of union members who pay their the maintenance wor k e r s , dues through payroll deductions, referring t o the p resent leaving 34 non-union workers. George Newman, spokesman maintenance strike. The strikers have d i s p l a y e d r e se r ved for the college, said that it is temperaments as they have possible to pay dues directly to the union and not have the college mtcd their harassment. The non-striking employees deduct them from the checks. He uve few complaints with what estimated that "one or two" little harassment they have workers may pay union dues in itteivcd from the strikers. They this manner. It is not entirely lmc interpreted the occasional clear exactly how many union taunts as humorous teasing rather members there are at Hamilton. Newman sai d, "At least 10 ian serious threatening. Leuikcn himself has been the non-union people have not . been subject of most harassmenL coming to work during the Yesterday, two picket signs strike." Concerning the shortage of Jading '1mpeach Leuikenn were diplaycd at theCollege Hill Road manpower affecting the college mtrmcc to the Kirkland campus. maintenance, Leuiken said, "All May other strikers have sounded the necessary work has been taken off in agitation about his care of." Referring -to work priorities he said,''I really can't mtment to union employees. Lcuikcn said that all of the say what we do and don't do. a-anion workers have reported Many contract workers have to work during the strike. proceeded to do their usual quota continued on page seven Hamilton College said that
unavailable until next week. C h a r l e s D u f f y , u nion representative, said that the union "would like to get a few things s quared a w a y, without the mediators." He feels that even t hough the negotratmns will continue through mediation, the two sides should get together to discuss the issues in the absence of a mediator. George Newman, Hamilton Director of Public Relations, said, "One thing that the college has not learned is whether the union is going to restate the demands we already know, or if they are going to modify them." Apparently this is not a prerequisite for future talks, though. The s t r ike has not yet disrupted daily campus life. Garbage is being collected, and intracollege deliveries are being made. However, routine outdoor work is not being undertaken, and many janitorial chores have not been performed. Two trucks have thus far crossed the picket lines. Laundry trucks were turned away Tuesday, but are now being allowed on campus, due to the fact that Smith's deals directly with the students. Student support for the strike has been minimal so far, but this can be a t tnl>uted to their absence over the mid-semester re cess. There have been an increasing number of students stopping to talk to the picketers. a n d m a n y a r e s ho u t i ng encouragement to the strikers � they pass the lines.
PIRG Al,ters Billing Proposal; Petitions Due This Wednesday
BY LOU CORDIA In a shift in policy,, NYPIRG • mggcskd a new means of · for the money needed to apport the consumer�riented llplli7.ation. Under the plan. interested admts will notify the business allice mould they . h to be lilled. The b.illin,g will work in a ny similar to the billing of Social T11. Students desiring to pay Social Tu send a .small card to Business Office asking it to than for die tax. 1'lle previous form of billing ..,atal dw: the Business Office llllllaaticaDy bill all students the IUO PlllG charge. Students who 61 not wish to pay the money 111ft to contact the Business Office and have the charge deleted a their tuition bill. Both procedures have been
contigent upon PIRG gathering signatures of one half of the s t ud e n t body. The required support is necessary for the formation of a PIRG chapter here. The new form of billing was suggested by PIRG due to adverse reactions from bo!!i students and the administration. Many students expressed dissatisfaction at the prospect of being billed for something which they had not endorsed. They objected to having the burden of removing the charge placed on them. Acting President of Hamilton, J. Martin Carovano, had said before meeting with PIRG, "We'd be hard pressed to bill all the students for what two-thirds of the students want," indicating the unwillingness of the college to carry out the billing as originally proposed.
The petitions being circulated will be changed to indicate the new b ii ling proposal. Those students who have already signed the petitions showing the other form of billing are assumed to endorse the new form as well, and therefore new petitions will not be required. PIRG will interpret signatures on the petitions as notification of a desire to be charged the $2.00. Those students who had not signed the petitions with that intention will be afforded the opportunity to advise PIRG of this. The petitions at Hamilton and Kirkland are supposed to be collecte this Wednesday. Exact billing procedures are being discussed by both colleges and NYPIRG.
Acting President J. Martin Carovano (left) and his assistant John avrogcnis (right) are representing Hamilton College in the present labor difficulties with the Service Employees International Uni9n.
ater· Very Hard Hi Caci m May Be Unsafe
maximum is 500 parts per million BY JOHN VIGREN The water used by Hamilton c a l c i u m carbonate suspended and Kirkland Colleges is uso hard solid. The "ideal" for domestic that if you straighten it out you purposes is 60 parts per million, can drive it into the ground with a according to a chemist at the sledge hammer," according to Environmental Protection Agency Professor David Hawley, of the in New York City. "Winter Study Hamilton Geology Department. It is likely to be a bad time for s harder than the wat�r in most measurements," Mr. Cratty said, of the state and is comparable to ''You get much less runoff at that the highest state averages in the time of year." country. M a g n e s i u m c o m poun ds, The Colleges draw their water another factor of water hardness, from three reservoirs on College were measured as magnesium ions Hill Road at Skyline Drive, and at about one-fourth the calcium buy water from the old Clinton level. Other metals were found rescNoir uabout twice a year," only in trace quantities. Only the utility and hot tap said Gerald Lcukin, Director of Phy s i c a l Plant. Mr. Hawley water in Hanulton and Kirkland explained that the water gets its campus buildings is softened, Mr. hardness from limestone and Jewett said. This is because hard calcareous shale aquifers in the w at e r d am ages heating and Hill area. The water then forms air-conditioning machinery with s pring s when it meets the lime buildups, and the repair impervious layer of Vernon shale, process is expensive. The softening is done my an the reddish surface rock that froms the stream bed. in Root ion - e x c h ange p r ocess with Glen.. The reserviors are almost "Zeolite" compound in each completely fed from underground b u i l d i n g , where s odium is exchanged for the calcium in the springs. Estimates vary on how hard water. This exchange removes tlie- water � but an "outside · "nearly 100% of the hardness" company" last October measured accordinJ,? to M! !.Jewett. Only Kirkland College and the 460 parts pe-r million suspended solids in College heating boilers Burke· Library are electrically before the water was softened heated; all other campus buildings a cc ording to Arthur Jewett, are heated by steam or hot water. .Assistant Director of Physic.al The Colleges buy "about a Plant. This includes all water trailerload of salt a month" to m i neral content. Hardness is replenish the Zeolite, Mr. Jewett usually expressed in parts per said. Mr. Cratty called the process million of calcium carl>onate 'bad news for people on low-salt (C aC03) ,. har d n e s s' c h i e f or low-sodium diets." component. Jim Pechm.ann '76 The Physical Plant has no measured 167 parts per million control over water PH but will get calciumion(418parts per million equipment to do so soot), Mr. CaC.03) in College tap water last Jewett said. The water is slightly January. alkaline (pH 7 .4 - 8. 4) and the "Federal standards are- only Hamilton pool, although carefully guidelines, n said Leland Cratty, r e g u l a t e d, s t ill gives some of t he Hamilton Chemistry swimmers eyebums. continued on page six Department... "The recommended 4
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EDITORIAL Modified Shop Proposed
The strike by the Service_ Employees International Union against Hamilton College raises some fundamental questions about the maintenence workers' predicament on College Hill. Foremost among these is the question of a union shop. The imposition of a union shop is uncalled for at this time. To force the 32 to 34 non-union workers presently employed to choose between joining the union or losing theiP jobs is simply unfair. The college is correct in saying that these men and women should have the freedom to choose whether or not they wish to join the union. The college, however, has itself made this issue a crucial one. Most informed observers agree that the workers here would never have unionized had the college been fair in its treatment of its employees and reasonable in its wage offers. It has been neither fair nor reasonable in these respects. A un10n should not be necessary at Hamilton-Kirkland. Ideally, the employer should have enough regard for its workers to insure good working conditions, fair treatment, and decent living wages. Had the college recognized the needs of its workers several years ago, there would be no union and no strike. But the college has chosen to play power politics with its own workers, and the workers, therefore must fight for a strong organization to protect their rights and achieve their goals. The college and the union should agree to a modified union shop whereby present employees need not join, but all future employees must. The choice for those· seeking employment on the Hill would therefore be clear. To work at Hamilton, one must join the union. A modified shop, however, does not infringe upon the rights of present non-union employees. We wholeheartedly support the union's demands for a wage increase. It is embarassing for a college which considers its physical plant one of its chief assets to pay those who service the physical plant their present wages. Considering the skyrocketing cost of living and the present wage structure at Hamilton, the union demand of a· 50 to 60 �ents per hour increase over two years is well within reason. A ·-quick settlement of the present strike is in the interests· of both parties. The college must not ignore its responsibilities to their employees nor must the union member� ignore their responsibilities to their non-union colleagues. Settlement can best be reached by both parties' mutual respect of the other's · position and fair and reasonable compromise.
-THE SPECTATOR
VOLUME FOUR
NUMBER EIGHT
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Egg Cream Hits The Fan
BY GERRY PAYNE "And then my father would say to me, 'You don't . think I got to where I am today because I'm a spend ' thrift do you? It's been pru�ent planning, prudent in vestments, and prudent spending. The key is pru dence. G o t t h at s onny boy? Prudence. P-R-U D-E-N-C-E-.' "He would lean back and show me his shelves of almost-fresh chocolate bars, and dated magazines he used to buy at a discount. 'It's not easy to run a candy store. Times have always been rough,' my father would add. "And I realize now gentlemen, that what's been good for my father and his candy store, is good for Hamilton College.'' A trustee leaned back and smiled. "I'm impressed. This is a fresh approach. Men, I think our search may be over. I like what this man says." " H e y, w ait a minute! Don't we have a new manager of the school sto.re? ! ? !" ''This man is up for President!" a trustee bellowed in answer to the student. "Now then, before we were irtterrupted, tell us more about your ideas." "College is like an egg cream," the candidate went on. "Sure·, it's made with milk and chocolate syrup. But if you can get away with stiffening the guy with an extra mouthful of seltzer instead of syrup, then it's rriore syrup in your own pocket. You know what I mean?" One trustee leaned over to another. "What's an egg cream?" "I don't know," the other whispered,"but: I like the syrup pai:t." "My father never had employee problems. He used to have some young guy behind the counter; all the kids liked him. He asked for a raise and my father re fused. He threatened to quit and Dad told him, 'Quit. See if I care.' The guy started his own store, a nice one too. Dad hopes he chokes with success, the ingrate. Now Dad has my mother sweep the floor. When she gives him trouble he can always starve her." The trustees smiled. "My father never had invest ments that went sour. He kept his money in the mat tress and solid Studebaker stock; he almost made his money back in dividends. "He stayed in the same store with the same fix tures for fifty years. Sure they got old, but now they're antiques and he can get at least half his dollar back on every item. " 'Hold.' That's what should be Hamilton's motto. 'Hold.' Everything moves too fast." "The man's on to something!" A trustee seconded. The others busily took notes. "Magazines are a good example of things moving too fast. Dammit if they come out every single week," the candidate explained. "How can you possibly keep up, especially having to pay top dollar?" "We know what you mean," a trustee said. The others hit the table with their fists in agreement.
"My father bought them secondh,.nd. Once he saw that everyone had an issue, he knew it was good. And don't think people wouldn't come for the used maga zines. ''The same goes for computers. Hamilton doesn't need computers so fast. Wait for Utica College and MVCC to test them out. We have time." The trustees were elbowing each other gleefully. They found their man. "A wizard." "A genius!" "A wonder of higher education!!!" The candidate was encouraged. "Yes. Yes. And I'll tell you one more thing about my father. He knew what an honest day's work was. He had arms like Hercules. He didn't need gyms or football to be healthy. You know what I mean?" The trustees were stopped cold. 'No;I don't know what you mean." one trustee warily said. "Neither do I," another said.
"Squash, h o c k e y . It's junk," the candidate answered unabashedly. "There was and there is, nothing like stickball in the streets and handball in the alleys. Gyms mean throwing your money away." He · smiled, expecting favorable nods. "I think we've had about enough." A trustee• proclaimed. "I knew it was too good to be true." "I was tackle on the old '39 squad. I'd be damned if I'd let this guy through." "I'm sorry sir, but we'll have to cut it right here. The secretary will show you to the door." Witz was waiting outside. "So, how'd it go? You were in .there pretty long." "Alright for a while buddy. I had them going fora while. ·1 thought you were crazy putting me up for president of your college. But they liked me . Too bad I didn't get a chance to tell them to come down fora soda sometime."
From the Sanctuary
Hamilton Spurs Inferiority Complex
BY LEROY PORTER If ever a place made one question his innate po tential, the hallowed halls of education here at Hamil ton is that place. Beyond the intrigue of the challenge, the descent towards self reproach begins after the se cond D+ is received on an exam that was studied for , two weeks in advance. It's easy the first time around to accept failure, af ter all you're not the only one who has two D's and if you're a freshman it's to be expected. However as the. wheels of progress keep moving right along, you look around and notice how the academic band w agon is leaving you behind. Your diligent inputs just aren't producing gratifying amounts of output. On the surface the situation may seem a function of bad study habits or too much socializing, but un derneath the beginnings of a severe problem are begin ning to take place. Dealing with the recurrence of these discrepancies becomes a burden on personal in tegrity which in turns forces a search for relief. There isn't any apparent external reason for the constant academic displacements, so a lot of us tend to unload the burden on ourselves. All those rational courses of action just don't seem to be getting very far, but at least since you've gathered a whole slew of tutors you're able to get the gentleman's C; but really you're not satisfied and there is a lot of input now, however the output again doesn't realize this. After a \o\'.hile the mistake is made. You begin to
entertain Jensen-like thinking; that there is something more or less wrong with the insides of your head or maybe you question your ability to understand cer tain things. This kind of thinking turns a would be doctor into a government major. The point is that a person changes his life's goal...and for what? To be at Hamilton College and absorb a pres�igious education in exchange for what you really want to be is another discrepancy. There may be something about Hamilton wh;ch does not allow you full expression of your capabili ties. Around here there is a tendency to point the fin• ger and take statistics on who is smarter than who. When the finger is on you and you're from somewhere other than where most sons are from, you're liable to miss some of that learning that can only go on be tween a father and a son. Your adopted self can't af ford to feel responsible to these instances. Secondly, education at Hamilton is on a time sche dule. Tradition requires this. Just because the right understanding did not come on time, don't attribute this to any kind of cognitive disability. It doesn't even have to mean you're slow; it just may mean you did not feel like learning a particular at a given time. All this boils down to saying that you will be a lot better off if you take the attitude, "It's them, not me.'' When you need help seek it. If the help fails you, dismiss it. A Hamilton degree only requires the right attitude about successes and failures.
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October 26, 1973/THE SPECTATOR/3 PROFESSOR L. ADELE JINADU On Friday November· 2 at 8 P.M. Professor L. Adele Jinadu will talk on "Nigeria after the Civil War". Professor Jinadu is a Professor of Political Science from Ahmadu Bello University in Kano, Nigeria, and has authored several works on African politics and philosophy. This program is being sponsored by the Hamilton Government Department, and the Kirkland Social Sciences Division. THEOLOGY WORKSHOP Sidney D. Skirvin, Dean of Union Theological Seminary, will be the speaker at Theology Workshop, Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. The topic: ''The Liberal Vision in a Reactionary Age." TONY SCHWARTZ Tony Schwartz, political media consultant and advertising analyst will speak via telephone hookup to Hamilton and Kirkland students in the social science room of the Burke Library at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, October 29. His talk, supplemented by samples of his work, will be on "Manipulation and Persuasion of the Electorate Through Television andRadio." EST Eastern Standard Time begins Sunday morning October 28th at 2 a.m. Please remember to turn your clocks BACK one hour. Or, if you go by Chapel time, EST begins at 2:03 a.m. Use your hour judiciously!
Blurbs NRBO CONCERT Advanced tickets for the November 3 NRBQ concert, which will be held in the Chapel at 8 and 10 p.m., will be on sale at Bristol 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, Wednesday, Oct. 31, and Thursday, Nov. 1. for social tax holders as well as general admission. ITHACA DANCEMAKERS A dance concert will be given at the Hamilton College Gymnasium in Clinton, New York by the Ithaca Dancemakers on Saturday, October 27. The 8 p.m. program will offer "Potlatch," "Interabang", "Venus in Capricorn," "Linnunrata," and "No. 11 Spock's Travels and Other Stories." The event is sponsored by the Kirkland College Arts Division. STUDENT CONCERT The H a m ilton C o l l ege B r ass C h o i r , the H a mi lt o n -Kirkland Flute Choir and Woodwind Ensembles will be among the student groups which will participate in the Hamilton-Kirkland Student Concert, to be held in the Hamilton College Chapel on Tuesday, October_ 30, at 8:30 p.m.
Editor's Note: The following statement is a national student newspaper editorial being circulated by the Amherst Student of Amherst College. Many newspapers have already endorsed and printed the statement. Prominent on the list are the Daily Princetonian, The Dartmouth, The Wesleyan Argus, Record Advocate of Williams College, The Yale Daily News, The Stanford Daily, The Haverford-Bryn Mawr News, and The Duke Chronicle. The Spectator adds its name to the list of supporters of this position.
Impeachment Now
Constitutional, goyernment in the- United States may have been iisp ended at 8 :00 p,m. last Saturday night. Richard Nixon now rules by fiat and force. He is no longer a legitimate leader. With callous disregard for his oath of office and the intents of Congress, and· the Judiciary, the President first refused to abide by a court order to produce Watergate documents. His later turn around defused the immediate confrontation, but cannot obscure his repeated abuses of power. He then forced the resignation of the Attorney General and fired his deputy and the Watergate Special Prosecutor when they refused to condone his conduct. Moreover, lhe President abolished the office of Special Prosecutor and dispatched the FBI to seal off its records. These decisive and unprecedented actions represent the tactics of a military coup. They re anathema to a rational democratic policy. Even before these steps were taken, public confidence in the ixon Administration's ability to govern was at one of its all-time bws. Now this support will deteriorate still further. The mandate of 1972 has been buried in a legacy of illegality, hypocrisy, and deceit: San Clemente real estate deals, impoundment of congressional appropriations, widespread wiretapping, covert Cambodian bombing, and all of the ramifications of the Watergate affair-milk kickbacks, lhe lTT case, the Ellsberg burglary. When elected officials violate the sacred trust placed in them by lhe people, the Constitution provides means for them to be mpeached and, if convicted, removed from office. These procedures re very difficult to implement and are seldom used. But if ours were a parliamentary system of government the Nixon Administration t«>Uld have fallen months ago. Mr. Nixon cloaked his actions in a veil of legality,._but his record is President bears his intentions. The President must be impeached. While other judicial and legislative measures should be pursued, doubletalk or political timidity can obscure this fact. There is real question whether the Congress and the Judiciary can force Richard Nixon to deal with them within the confines of the �w. But our actions, for the moment, must be based on this premis e. Members of the academic community have a special responsibility. They must not simply react to the latest outrage. This serves Mr. Nixon's purpose. Instead, they must articulate the ilndamental principles which are at stake. They must impress upon Congressmen and other national leaders the gravity of the situation and their duties under the Constitution. Most importantly, they ftlst communicate the strength of their convictions to the public at llge and join with others in a nation-wide struggle for the preservation of democratic rule. The methods of response are numerous. Now more than ever, we 1111st write our Congressmen. The balance of mail over the next few weeks will be critical. Sustained public expressions of dissent-no mtter what form they take-are equally important. A massive tional student effort is essential. The weeks ahead could represent either the redemption of American democracy or the prologue of its collapse. We remain ilent at our own peril. ✓
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Representatives from the following graduate d professional schools will be on campus this week. Seni9rs who are p�ospective applicants are encouraged to sign up _ for mterv1ews at Career Center, Dunham Basement .. reshmen, sophomores and juniors are welcome to join � m group meetings for information. Sign up at Career Center also. U. of Rochester Grad. School of Business (Consortium) Nov. I Thurs., 9-12 a.m� Northeastern U. Grad School of Professional Accounting No\7 .2 Fri., 9-11 a.m. WATSON GRANTS The College has nominated the following Seniors for the Thomas]. Watson Travel Grants, 1974-1975: David Buck; Craig Harrick; Jan Herrman; William Song. These men, according to Prof. Richardson, will now apply for the $7,000 award which involves a creative and responsible year of travel and possibly study abroad. From the four, it is likely that two will gain awards. A total of forty-three proposals were submitted from the College this year. The quality was extremely high. FREE CHURCH SERVICE The speaker at this week's Free Church Service will be Thomas E. Colby of the Hamilton German Dept. His topic is "Faith." 11:15 a.m., Sunday, in the Chapel.
Letters to the Editor
GRADES CLARIFIED
eight-point grade system to count g1v1ng special preference to 3.5 as 4.0. This would bring it on applicants with athletic abilities to To the Editor: Mr. Herrman's letter in the a par with the five-grade system, parade its "concern" for ''rigorous October 12 Spectator reflects the presumably. Our own grading liberal education" and so forth is dangers inherent in the efficient system has been viewed as a hypocritical farce. Such things grapevine that exists among analogous to the five-grade as concern for the "student premedical students, particularly system. Since we have an equal athlete" provide examples of how at a small college like Hamilton. number of A grades, B grades, and the educational conceptions here Certainly when misinformation is C grades, etc., this is formally do not constitute a carefully faced with information, confusion similar to the five-grade system; it reasoned-out philosophy, hut are is also true that the distribution of a hodgepodge of myth and is bound to be the result. The changes made by AMCAS those grades may, in fact, be tradition, and a rather obnoxious which were applied to this year's different from institution to tradition at that. How many b r oadly curious "Renaissance 'c l a s s a re explicable if not institution. Alteration of our grades, using Men" do we find among the acceptable. There are two kinds of "quality point" grading systems: any administrative device, would Hamilton faculty? I haven't met those which give only 4.0, 3.0, clearly be dishonest. If, however, one, and certainly there aren't 2.0, 1.0 and no credit and those the faculty decides that our e n o u gh t o w a r r a nt t h e i r which give 4.0, 3.5, 3.0, 2.5, 2.0, p r esent g r ading s ystem is imposition o f their educational 1.5 and 1.0, as well as no credit inadequate, unfair or not as good philosophy on others. I seem to (or failure). In comparing these as another, it alone has the power recall that one of the flowers of grading systems alone there is to change it. Such changes are traditional HamCol education was potentially a built-in bias toward usually initiated in the Committee Ezra Pound, who apart from his poetic gifts was noted as a Fascist the five-grade system; that is, a on Academic Policy. R.B. Kinnel and anti-Semite. teacher is more likely to give a 3.5 Peter Day '75 Associate Dean than a 4.0 in the eight-grade system, whereas under a similar HAMILTQI\J HODGEPODGE PIRG BILLING set of circumstances he may well To the Editor: A f ter discussion with Mr. choose a 4.0 rather than a 3.0 for Re: the recently mentioned C arovano and debate among a given borderline performance. question o f r e -esta b l i s hing Therefore, AMCAS decided to distribution requirements: for an s t u d ents, the PIRG Steering allow students who attend institution such as Hamilton that C o m m i t tee decided to alter continued on page seven in·s titution s w h ich use the engages in such irrationalities as
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4/THE SPECTATOR/October 26, 1973
Corinth Exhibit Opens Oct.28; Joins Realisn:i,. Expressionism
Prints, drawings and paintings show Corinth to be an artist of enormously-61 completed oils _ by Lovis Corinth (1858-19�5 }, a great power. that year _and count�ess pnnu. . major . German artist will be Art critic Hilton Kramer, And .1t was. m this year that he was shown at the Root Art Center writing in the catalog · for a elected chairman of the Berlin fro m O c t o b e r 28 t hrough Cori nth retrospective in the �t's Association. But then November 25. The prints and Gallery of Modem Art in New, disaster struck. He was fell dbya � drawings are circulated by the York, � n oted " ...Corinth is stroke and appeared doomed painter and Smithsonian Institution Traveling unquestionably a never to paint again. Exhibition Service throughout the draftsman on the old, heroic scale. Showing indomitable courage, United States. - The two oil His brilliant and copious oeuvre, Corinth within a year was back at paintings in the exhibition have far from being in any sense an the easel, and although he never been lent to the Root Art Center aesthetic byway or a sport of regained his health, continued to by the Allan Frumkin Gallery of history, takes its place with ease work steadily, but with broader New York. There will be a and authority in the mainStream technique and deeper insight. reception to open the exhibition of Western painting...lt joins one psychological" his on Sunday, October 28 from 8:30 of the great movements of the last ·"Diabolically late portraits and self-portraits to 10:30 p.m. to which the public century-the realism initiated by have been called. is cordially invited. Gustave Courbet in France and Greatly honored in his later Sixty-four etchings, drawings, practiced with great distinction by Corinth died while making and lithographs in the collection Wilhelm Leibl- in Germany and years, a pilgrimage to Amsterdam to are ta.ken from all stages of the Thomas Eakins in America-to Mtist's creative life, ranging from one of the central and essential 8-tudy a ga i n t he work of Remb randt and Franz Hals. some sketches Corinth made as a s t y 1 e s O wn of ou r Following his death, his fam e boy to some of his last brooding era-expressionism." increased and the prices paid for works. Members of the artist's A transitional figure then, family, mythology and religion, Corinth in his early works reflects his pictures rose. But bis work was and the Bavarian lake known as the pictorial style of the 19th s up p r e s sed in the following decade when the Nazis came to Walchensee w here Corinth painted c e n tury, w h i l e his l at e r , power and many of his things s o m e of h is most famous pre-expressionist works are clearly ave disappeared from sight, landscapes are depicted. They · p a r t of t he s t i r r ings of h · th Detail from "Young Girl Ba_fkingu by Lovis Conn appare ntly destroyed. Following contemporary art. the war,. however,, Corinth was Born· in Prussia and trained in widely honored in exhibitions in I� L t lFi .. i IIAO K onigsberg, Munich, Antwerp, Germany and in other countries, and Paris, Corinth was 31 before including a large. showing in he sold his _first picture. A London"s Tate Gallery. His works blue-eyed giant, Corinth was an a r e n o w . i n clu ded in the ,., looked messy and chaotic; but obsess "What's the difference? BY STEVE ZORTIIIAN ive painter. He did more ''The difference is that for there were moments when Mr. than 50 self-portraits in oil and 60 permanent collections of major Last Friday night instead of museums around the world. doing my weekly chore of sorting some unexplainable reason the Barrett captured the mood of the in etchings, as well as drawings play perfectly. The final scene was director of the production Mr. , a n d a q ua r e l les-without ever my socks, I decided to expand my CLINTO l OUOR STORE horizons and go to the Minor Barrett, decided to do Measure for aptl y directed in the great flatte ring himself. His wife t ra d i t io n o f S h ak es p e a rian Charlotte appears in Theater to see a staged reading of Measure as a staged-reading.'" GRA D UNJON 81 of his directors, having each couple William Shakespeare's Measure for SHOPP fNG CENTER "Well, what's wrong with that? advised, matched, and sent off to pictures. Measure. After the production, I At the beginning of the show, Mr. By 1911 Corinth was selling ever after." NOW YOU CAN PURCHASE · h a d an a ft e r -the-theatre-late Barrett told the audience the live happily . , weIl a n d p r oduc1ng to sound b . "You re egmmng night-cocktail at the Pub. (Please advantage of a staged-reading was LIQUOR AT LOWEST do not think this is my usual to eliminate the necessary time like Clive Barnes." CLINTON SHOE CENTER •�aybe I should become a DISCOUNT PRICES IN behavior or a result of the produc r equ ired for the actors to SPECIALIZING IN critic." tion; I've never been to the Pub memorize their lines and to be N.Y-STATE "No, they are always so WINTER BOOTS befo re.) -There, I could not help able to prepare a show in half the neg at i v e and m i t i g ate the AND SHOE REPAIR ½GAL overhearing a couple talking about time usually required.'' imp o r t a n c e of a _show to 853-5242 UNDER the latest production. "In theory that is a marvelous, insignificance. These critics are "I told you we should have Canadian Club . ..••• .• $15.41 seen Play It Again, Sam. Woody innovative idea, but :in practice it usually· unsuccessful on the stage Black Velvet • ..• . . ..• $11.90 Allen is supposed to give one of does not work, at least with th.is and must resort to criticizing Hnwood Canadian .. . $' 9.79 toiletri!' and '" the better performances seen in production. Visually, the .actors others. Anyone can voice his S cosmetiq eagram S s ,, 7 C:rown •• ll.29 appeared stiff and uncomfortable opinion, but it doesn't mean he's months." $ delivered on campus Carstair� • • • ••• .••.• 9.35 Mr. hand. right. What are you doing?" in books "W e s a w s o m e g o o d with their ALL HARD SPIRITS AT do to CALL853.14 "My Clive Barnes. 'Tonight at chosen have should Barrett performances tomght." DISCOUNT PRICES the play in the style of the the theater, I saw a staged-reading Weekdays after S pm or weelteads "Like who?'.' of Measure for Measure. It had "For one, Frederick Goehner_.,, original Under Milk Wood where many strong highlights, 11otably "Frederick who?" the actors sat on high stools on the p e r fo r m a n ces of Maris "Goehner. I can honestly say the stage and read their lines, or he gave a dazzling performance. he should have staged the show. Newbold and Frederick Goehner. His portrayal of Angelo was The way this production was Kathleen Smith and Jed Coffin precise and perceptive; concise pesented was neither one type of also made a strong impact with and conceptive. Fred was Angelo, show nor the other; it was a weak their rewarding performances as Mariana and Lucio. Also worth he was not an actor portraying combination of both." mentioning are the perfo rmances Angelo. He won the audience's "Chris, Mr. Barett wanted to , love and laurels, deseivedly so.,. do a staged n:ading and that is o f John Hutchinson, Joanna Langfeld and Thomas Stoenner. "Okay, Chris, you are right, what we saw."' '11ie sets, ·the lights and the but I felt the combination of "That's fine; all I'm saying is c o s t u m e s app r op r i a t e l y F r ed' s �··Ang e l o a n d M a r is that it did not work. Many times emphasized Mr. Barrett's concept Newbold's Isabella made the show the actors were unable to act of _a staged-reading. The direction successful. Their scenes were the because they had to refer to their was inconsistent, bordering from needed highlights which kept the books for lines. Many actors had refreshing to depressing." audience in the theatre." g oo d p o s s i b i l i ti e s for fine Chris, "Pl ease yo u 're "Maris sparkled as Isabella. performances but were plagued by making a fool of yourself. Let's Maris's Isabella was as gentle as the continual search for the next Juliet yet as firm as Portia. She go." line.." "Okay, Christine." won my adoration for her as a "Chris, are -you saying that fine actress." I left the Pub for my room to when the actors were independent sort my socks. "Isn't that going a bit too far, of their scripts, they were able to Chris?" be in character, but when they "N o , F r e d ' s a n d he r were dependent of their scripts, You >re a Stranger Here performances were extremely well th were merely reading a part?" once ... but ey FEATURES done, especially if one comp�es ''Yes, Christine." them to many of the supportmg MON. NITE FOOTBALL 18 CENT DRAFTS "Well I thought Mr. Barrett cast. When alone on stage, Fred ' WED NITE SILENT MOVIES and Maris not only captured but did a good job of direc�g Co�nial Copper Room FRI NITE FISH FRIES also held the audience in the considering his cast. I do question Italian-American Food palms of their hands. Luckily, some of his choices for certain SUN SOUR HOURS 50 CENTS PER SOUR n ton 5 College St., Cli they gave fine performances and roles bu he did well with · what 12-2, 8:30-9:30 directing the At times, he not mere readings ."
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EVENTS
Currently on Campus
FILM
On the Waterfront at 8 pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and B�at the Devil, at 10 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75. Eva at 8 pm Friday and Saturday, Sunday at 10. In the Chemistry Auditorium. Admission $.75.
October 29 (Monday)
The Making of a Presiden_t-7960. At 4 pm in the Chemistry · Auditorium. Also at 8 pm. _ • The Corpse Grinders. At 10 pm in the Science Auditorium. Also Tuesday.
October 31 (Wednesday-Halloween)
Civilisation Film Series presents Grandeur and Obedience. At 8:30 pm in the Chemistry Auditorium.
November 1 (Thursday)
East of Eden and The Critic. At 8 pm in the Chemistry Auditorium.
Nearby Theaters
Cannonball {853-5553) Blume in Love (R) Kallett {736-2313) American Graffitti (PG) Stanley {724-4000) Stone Killer (R) Uptown {732-0665) Jeremy {PG) 258 Cinema {732-5461) Miss September (X), Africa Uncensored (X), and Poseidon Adventure {PG) MUSIC
October 28 (Sunday)
Pink -Anderson and Roy Bookbinder. At 9:30 pm in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. Free with social tax.
October 30 (Tuesday)
Hamilton/Kirkland Student Concert. At 8:30 pm in the Chapel..
October 27 (Saturday)
DANCE
Dance Recital, The Ithaca Dancemakers. At 8 pm in the gym. DRAMA
October 26 (Friday)
The Maids. At 8 pm in Minor Theatre. Also Saturday and Sunday. EXHIBITIONS
On Campus
Matt Solon '74; Student One Man Show. Opening at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 31, in the Bristol Campus Center. Through November 17. Anonymous Photographers. Opening Saturday, October 17. Free beer frqm 2 to 5 p.m. at List Art Center. Through November 27. Modern Housing Prototypes: Seventeen of the greatest housing projects of this century. At the Bristol Campus Center, through November 11.
Prints, Drawings, ancl Paintings by Lovis Corinth.Opening at 8:30 pm, Sunday, October 28, at the Root Art Center. Through November 25.
At the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Eliot Porter, 32 Photos from Adirondack Museum. Through October 28.
LECTURE AND DISCUSSION October 27 (Saturday)
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. At 5:30 pm in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
Intercom. Informal conversation. At 9 pm in the Aiumni House.
October 28 (Sunday)
Free Church of Clinton. Speaker: Thomas Colby. At 11:15 am in
the Chapel.
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. At 12:45 pm in the Chapel. Theology Workshop. Speaker: Sidney Skirvin, Dean of Students,
Union Theological Seminary. Topic: The Liberal Vision in a Reactionary Age. At 7:30 pm in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
October 30 (Tuesday)
Hamilton Government Dept. Panel. Informal Discussion. Topic: Nixon and the Constitutional Crisis. Bristol Campus Center Second Floor Lounges at 7:30 pm.
October 31 (Wednesday)
Intercom. At 9 pm in the Alumni House. Student Activities Committee Halloween Magic Show. Steve
Dacri, magician, hypnotist, comedian. At 10 pm in the gym. Free with social tax.
November 1 (Thursday)
Sat Sang (Divine Light Mission) Spiritual Discourse. At 7:30 pm in the Bristol Campus Center Fisher Room.
Root-Jessup Public Affairs Council Lecture; Suppressing the Press. Les Whitten, Chief Investigator for Jack Anderson. At 8 pm in the gym.
October 27 (Saturday)
SPORTS
Football. Against St. Lawrence at 1 :30 pm.
October 30 (Tuesday)
Cross Country. Against LeMoyne at 4 pm. STUDENTS SELECT FILMS
The two film societies are in the process of selecting films for second semester. We would like some help from the student body, and would appreciate it if any students interested would send suggestions through campus mail to Howard Port at Hamilton or Anne Thompson at Kirkland, no later than Friday, Nov. 2.
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And erson, Bookbinder Highlight Country-Blues Concert Sunday Eve BY SUSAN SACKS The Coffeehouse is sponsoring a s p e c i a l c oncert in t he Kirner-Johnson Red Pit, with Pink Anderson, an old-time medicine show e ntertainer, and blues g u i t a rist Roy B ookb inde r. Concert time is Sunday, October 28, at 9:30 p.m. Admission is free with social tax, and $.75 general admission. Pink Anderson, who hails from Spartanburg, South Carolina, is on a special northern tour. He first went on the road with W.R.. Kerr's traveling show� and toured with the medicine shows until his retirement in the mid l 950's. His songs have been performed and r e corded by yo u nger musicians, including Jim Kweskin, Tom Rush, and Paul Geremia. Un t i l R o y B o o k b i n d e r rediscovered him in Spartanburg in 1969, though, Pink himself had been forgotten. He had stopped playing guitar, and was amazed to find that anyone remembered him, and that his songs lived on. He began to play again, and last August he played his first gig in nearly twenty years, at a small club in Newport, Rhode Island. The audience loved him. Pink wrote and performs humorous country-blues songs such as Travelin' Man, In the ]ailhouse, and J Got Mine, which have been popularized in this area by a host of performers including Bookbinder. Those who have heard Roy may remember his mentioning Pink. Roy planned this tour himself, and will play an opening set, accompanied by Fats Kaplin on fiddle and tenor banjo. Roy was a winner of the 1970 Folk Festival. He has played on the Hill several t i mes sin ce then, including
Bluesmen Pink Anderso n, left, and. Roy Bookbinder opening David Bromberg's concert last January. He was a student of Rev. G a r y D avis, and hae performed at many colleges and
clubs in the East. He toured England last winter, and has recorded an album for Adelphi Records.
KINOKUNST AND AMENIC
This Weekend Amenic presents Eva, with Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, and Virna Lisi. Showings are tonight and Saturday night at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday at 10:00 p.rn in the Chemistry Auditorium. \.dmission is$. 75. This weekend KJnokunst presents a fantastic double feature. Each movie could stand alone, but they are being shown for only$.75. At 8, all four nights, On the Waterfront will be shown, starring Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb and Rod Steiger, and directed by Elia Kazan. Another 1954 film, Beat the Devil, stars Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre, and Robert Morley. A
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Colleges Plan to Change Water Supply could avoid that if you apply the copper sulfate before the algae gets to bloom," he said. The Library drinking water is softened b�t still tastes the same to many students as the hard water. Hard Clinton water can affect your health favorably. Lawrence McManus, a Hamilton Bioloby professor, said that on the basis of a comparative study of heart d i s e a s e r a tes in hard- and
soft-water areas, "longevity is greater in a hard-water area. The conclusion, generally, is that hard w a t e r is b ett er for you." Consumer's Bulletin for February, 1965 cites such a study made in 1960 by Dr. Henry A. Schroeder, a Dartmouth clinical physiology professor. It asserts that there is "no doubt at all that the difference is real in favor of fewer heart-caused deaths in hard-water areas." No correlation was fo�nd for other diseases. A d elle Davis, the popular nutritionist, maintains that a ratio of twice as much calcium as magnesium in daily intake is best , for good nervous function. Milk contains about 1000 milligrams BY ROBBY MILLER S c heier's vi e wpoint w as The Student Senate voted to disputed by Rocco Orlando '74, calcium per quart (roughly 1000 allocate $110 to PIRG by a 6-5 who argued that "part of the parts per million) and would margin last week, with a provision Senate's responsibility is to take a affect this balance much more that the money be used for an positive stand on .issues whether than hard water, which has about twice the above ratio in a much educational campaign. that stand be on one side or The motion for the allotment another." This statement was smaller quantity. Mr. McManus of Hamilton funds to PIRG was further supported by Student said, "I have never heard that such rei ntroduced as a result of Senate President, George Baker a balance is necessary to a good mounting criticism of the Senate's '74, who said, "It is necessary that diet." The water on the Hill will prior 5-4 decision to defeat the the Senate and Hamilton as an eventually be drawn from Utica's motion. institution vote in favor of PIRG The vote "' as the culmination funding in order ·to foster that soft water supply along with those of Clinton and New Hartford, but of heated del 1te as to whether viewpoint." this supply is not expected for the funds \\ JI be used for In other Senate matters, a several years. John Kreinheder., adve rtising or educa tional purposes, whether PIRG i� -a ---!'esolution was passed stating that Director of Planning, said that the ...'poE:ic,..r organization, and if it "after three years of student idea was proposed to the voters of is legitimate for the Senate to s upp ort, any group that is the Town of Kirkland, but was departmentally oriented should be defeated because of disputes with fund such an organization. Sec r e t ary Tim Finan '75 investigated by the Student N e w H a r t f-o r d m un i cipal m aintained that PIRG, with Senate regarding the possibility of authorities over how to divide the assistance from Kirkland funds, co-funding by the Senate and the work involved. In time, he added, "has not used its money to D e p a r t m ent involved." This the Utica water supply will serve educate the college community of resolution would relate to such all of Oneida County. The Colleges presently have an the group's necessity and purpose; organizations as the Water Polo instead, it has just put the letters Club and the Spanish Club, which "average capability" of about are presently being funded solely 300,000 gallons per day and a 'PIRG' all over the campus." 1 "reliable" (dry-weather) capacity Neil Scheier '75, who led the by the Student Senate. of about 200,000 gallons per day. The Senate also acted upon . vote against related motions both and accepted the charter of the The Colleges use an average of at this meeting and at the earlier International Students Club of 186,000 gallons per day. Clinton one, stated, "The voting down of now • gets its water from wells PIRG is not a vote against PIRC Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, constructed at the advice of Mr. allocating $95 to the club for itself but a vote against the Hawley in the Oriskany Creek principle of funding one side of an films, transportation for field Bed. trips, and other activities. issue." continued from page one
The taste of the drinking water is caused more by harmless algae sediment in the �ollege reservoirs than by the water's hardness, Mr. Cratty said. He explained that the Physical Plant "applies small amounts of copper sulfate to algae blooms" that grow over the s u m m e r , killing t hem and depositing them on the reservior bottoms. "My opinion is that you
Senate Reverses Itself; Meets PIRG Request
Public Interest
Research Group
Les Whitten, the next speaker in the Root-Jessup Lecture Series
Whitten, Anderson Aide, Speaks. Here Thursday
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SPECTATOR SPORTS Soccsters Win 3, Lose 1
8/THE SPECTATOR/October 26, 1973
Even Record at 3-3-1
Rob Winter '75 spots receiver downfield
Powerhouse Middlebury Handles Blue Winter Directs Lone Scoring Drive University, was in quest of the BY ROBERT J. KEREN The Hamilton Continentals coveted Lambert Bowl (ECAC registered their fifth loss of the Division II) which was awarded 1 97 3 season y i e l d ing s i x anyway to its perenial winner, the touchdowns to the undefeated University of Delaware. Newcomer Mike Heinecken, an M i d d l e b u r y P anthers l a s t Saturday. When the dust cleared ex-Delaware assistant and captain at Porter Field, the Blues had of the Blue Hens squad in 1960, took over the coaching reins from bee� m,anhandled 40-11. Hamilton scored first on a Anderson and inherited nineteen 38-yard Bill Finan field goal. On returning starters from last the first play from scrimmage the season's 8-0 club. The only void Panthers fumbled and Tommy Heinecken had to fill was at Janosky, a senior cornerback, halfback with the graduation of came up with the ball setting up Phil Pope, who was elected last Finan's second three-pointer of February as Division H's Player of the Year. Pope carried 176 yards the y_ear: and three touchdowns in the 1972 But from then on it was all Middlebury. The Panthers scored Hamilton-Middlebury affair.· Down 27-3 in the first half, t wi ce in t he f i r s t period establishing a running game that Coach King replaced QB Craig was to amass 3 61 yards before the Fallon with junior Robbie Winter. long afternoon was over. With Winter went on to complete 11 Peter M a c k ey directing the passes in 24 attempts for 173 offense, halfbacks Tom O'Conner yards. R o b had his finest and Charlie O'Sullivan and full afternoon since last year's St. back Jack Leary averaged over six . L a w r e n ce game (13 of 20 yards per carry. All three running completions for 186 yards) but backs hail from the Boston area. the Continentals didn't get on the I n l ast year's Middlebury scoreboard again until there was contest at Baron von Steuben but 5: 13 left in the game, with F i eld, e x - he ad coach John Middlebury out in front 33-3. The touchdown was set up by Anderson ran up the score 60-0. An d e r s o n , n ow at B r o wn a Panther fumble, their ninth
miscue of the day. As reserve h alfback Ben Kingsbury, a t r ansfer from Johnson State (Vermont) College, swept left he was hit by freshman defensive end Don Oyer. Standout senior tackle Jeff Hewitt recovered the loose ball on Middlebury's 32-yard line. Winter engineered a 14-play drive capped by a 13-yard touchdown pass to tight end Alec Singer. The Continentals moved the ball deep into enemy territory on long gains by halfback Lou Cordia. Winter passed on five occasions during the march, and four were complete as both Singer and Dave Pisanelli hauled in two each. Singer, a 23-year old soph, took Winter's pass at the sideline and bulled over three defenders for the score. T h e t r a d i t i o nally routine extra-point attempt left the Porter Field crowd of over 4000 buzzing for the remainder of the game. -Following the touchdown Bill Finan trotted onto the field, bu·t as the Blues broke from the h u d d l e o n l y center Don Armstrong, holder Fallon and kicker Finan lined up anywhere near the ball. The remaining Continentals were split wide to the right in a technically legal formation, with six more linemen and two backs. Fallon took the snap and tossed to big Jeff Hewitt, one of attack was highlighted by Craig the backs, who dove straight ahead of six charging linemen for BY STEVEN A. GOLDENBERG Mac Donald's three scores. The Hamilton College Water In the third quarter Morrisville the two-point conversion. Coach Polo Club defeated Morrisville appeared to run out of gas as they King had employed the nameless 10-3 Wednesday night in Alumni · ceased swimming. Hamilton's sneak play against Rochester only Pool. The victory was the Club's mixture of regulars and reserves to have an illegal procedure penalty call it back. third in a row. kept control of the game giving Morrisville scored the first two Dave Shapland an opportunity to Jeff Hewitt, the 6'4" 235 goals as Hamilton started their score the only two goals of the pound co-captain, has seen some reserves after having defeated period. limited action in the offensive Morri�ille 13-4 in their first In the fourth period Mark meeting. The Continentals were Walters sq>red twice for Hamilton backfield, aside from his regular unable to move, so midway before Morrisville retaliated with chores anchoring the Front Four. through the first quarter the the final goal. Walters' final goal Prior to the Hobart game Hewey regulars entered the game. The was set up by the rebound of changed jerseys, from 74 to 841 making him eligible to carry the H a m i l t on attack immediately John Murphy's blocked shot. t o o k the initiative as Dave Lester Lanon and Jeff Carlberg ball. King has employed Hewitt in Greenhalgh pulled the Blue to t e n d e d t he nets ably for front of Cordia in an "I" within one at the close of the Hamilton. The offense was led by Formation termed by Hamilton quarter. M a c Donald's t hree goals, broadcaster Kenny Marten, the Hamilton's tightened defense shut followed by Greenhalgh, Shapland first time he saw it, as the "Baby off the Morrisville attack in -the and Walters who each threw in Bull Backfield." Jeff has been second quarter. The Continentals two. Brad Johnson scored once as blocking, hitting the line to clear outswam and outpassed the the Polo men raised their record· the way for Cordia with the ball. Morrisville squad on their way to to 4-1. The Club travels to He has carried once though, for seven yards last Saturday. scoring ten straight goals. The Montreal on Saturday.
Water Polo Club Wins MacDonald Scores 3
BY C. JAMES CARR,JR. AND PAULA LEON The Hamilton College soccer team garnered three wins and a loss during the last two weeks to even their record at 3-3-1. Victories were scored over Hobart (3- 0 ) , Clarkson (3-1), and Eisenhower (6-0), the loss coming at the hands of St. Lawrence (6-0). Last year's scoring leader Ray Terepka '75 made a strong bid to retain his title as he accounted for all the Continental scoring, as the beoters registered their first win of the season over Hobart, Oct. 16, in .Clinton by the score of 3-0. Senior, co-captain Jeff Rose also turned in a stellar performance, as he recorded his initial shutout of the '73 campaign. Clarkson University was the soccster's next victim, bowing to the Continentals 3-1 in Canton ·on October 18th. A last minute score
by the Clarkson team foiled R ose's b i d f o r consecutive shutouts. The team's two-game victory streak was ended abru ptly two d ays later as St. Lawrence University simply overpowered the Continentals, winning 6-0. The team, obviously suffering the ill effects of grueling fire day schedule (3 games), was not able to cope with the Larrie's overall team strength. Overcoming a sluggish first half p erformance, the Continentals scored a 6-0 victory over a weak Eisenhower team last Tuesday in Clinton. Terepka and sophomore Pete Follansbee each accounted for two of the hooters scoring thrusts, while junior Phil Halpern and sophomore Dan Daly each added one. The Continentals travel to Lemoyne this afternoon and Utica t o m o r r o w w i t h ho pes of surpassing that elusive .500 mark.
John Hutchins '75 battles for the ball
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THE VOLUME IV, NUMBER 9
SPECTATORhL HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
OVEMBER 3, 1973
Workers' Strike Continues; Campus Feels First Effects
Duffy has said that the wages of Carovano answered questions and BY ROBERT ROCK relayed the college's standpoint in N e g o t i a t i o n s t o w a r d s the union workers are much lower the strike to them. settlement . of the maintenance than the market wage. He supported his statement However, Acting President and strike at Hamilton were again that unskilled workers are paid unsuccessful yesterday. In the Provost of Hamilton J. Martin competitive wages b submitting face of unkept grounds, student Carovano said that only the skilled di ssent, and several acts of workers ·are being paid below the wage scales of other area colleges. v a n d a l i s m , t h e s c h ool's competitive wage, whether they The scales indicate that in the negoti ation t e a m of John are u n ion or not.' At an unskilled labor categories, in other Mavrogenis, Assistant to the unscheduled public meeting with w o rds,. housekeepers, janitors. a111 • _ cd on page seven H am i l t o n P r e s i dent; Ronald dissident students on Tuesday, McDonald, Hamilton Controller; and Ray Murray, college attorney; h ave m o dif ied the school's proposals only slightly. On its eleventh day the strike has t a k e n oh m an y new d im e n s i ons. A t yest erday's meeting at the American Legion in Clinton, the union started off by proposing the "agency shop," rescinding their previous demand for the "union shop," which req u ir e d that all non-union w o rkers p ay the a m o u n t equivalent to union dues to a Window in Root Hall office of R. Gordon Bingham, smashed by a pumpkin Tuesday night. charity such as, some of the strikers suggested, the Hamilton scholarship fund. According to representatives.of Local 200, Charles Duffy, the Union representative Charles Duffy talks widi c o 11 e g e r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s Monday's meeting in ELS. counter-proposed the previously Ha m i lton and Kirkl and committee of nearly forty-five proposed forty-cent raise but with a faster increment of distribution. students have joined pickets of �tudents met at Emerson Literary Duffy said that the proposal Local 200 on College Hill Road Society Wednesday night, and in would result in a two cent hourly and Campus Road. The students the lobby of Buttrick Hall, raise and, even though the union hope to attract student support T h u r s d a y a f t ernoon. A n dropped their wage demands< by unscheduled meeting with Acting for the union by the action. They two cents, the college was still Two dollars per semester will also hope to dissuade workers President and Provost of Hamilton BY LISA GALLATIN twelve cents short of them. Later Martin Carovano, College, J. be collected from those pco .? from crossing the picket lines and last night, the strikers met again S t u d e n ts approved the who signed petitions. The money prevent entry of deliveries to the followed the Thursday gathering. and voted down the college's establishment o f an official PIRG C h a r l e s D u f f y , L o c al will become part of a statewide campus. proposals and for the stike's· chapter at Hamilton and Kirkland budget funded by all member Students are p e t itioning Representative, was invited to the continuation Colle g e s , it was announced . meeting at ELS to offer the schools, composed at the central me mber s o f t he college Duffy also learned today that Wednesday. At least 50 per cent ofr.1ee in Albany. The funds are community for support of the Union's point of view in the the wages of the college community was of the non-striking used to hire professionals, such as union, and are circulating "fact strike, and to answer students' workers were raised last week by r e q u i r e d f o r l e git i m a t e directors and lawyers, who aid sheets,"• in other action being questions. Mr. Duffy explained 12 cents, retroactive to June 15, membership. that the two basic demands of the students in their public interest taken in support of Local 200. 1973. He said that it was a Don Ross, Executive Director projects. Students on each campus The decision to take such union are increased wages and the "t yp i c a l m o v e" of t he of NYPIRG, attended a PIRG choose projects of value to their action arose from two meetings granting of a union shop. Duffy administration to raise the wages meeting on Wednesday afternoon, respective areas_ w h er e s tude nts d i scu sse d also discussed job discrimination of the "scabs" and not those of and offered congratulations to the against union members and alternatives for expressing support Resean::h wotk will begin next continued on page seven the "actual year-round laborers." new chapter. of the striking Local. The ad hoc semester. It is possible that academic credit will be granted for pn>jects done independent study. Within the ncx.t two weeks complete information on PIRG opportunities will be put in mail boxes and meetings will be .,., schcdu..lcd.. of was Chairman than first year he taught here. While he classes Colby, their J. in rsula students u ·. PIRG offers Wm ter S�y_ Tltis is the firs t of two desirable, and there are no other the Humanities Division, said that realized the need for Jewish internships in Clinton, Utica, Jewish news-feature articles on They f ul l time professors in the Jewish Studies began with the studies at the colleges, he was Syracuse,. and New York City. ies. stud k Blac and ies Stud unable to get another full-time The most important project at t Religion Department. This, and awareness on Kirkland's part that recen to come in response were students KirkJa.nd the fact that Hamilton offers many member for his departmenL He present involv� intrrvirwing New �g comment in the Spectator link courses in Christianity, Islamic taking Hamilton religion courses. sup porte d fully Kirk l a nd's York State Assemblymen and tl&t two. Thought, Hindu and Buddhist She pointed out that very few decision to fill a position in Judaic writing objective profiles for Th�ught, and Chinese Religion courses at Kirkland dealt with studies. He pointed out that one distribution to the voters in their BY JACK HORNOR and Thought but not in Jewish religion; one of the few is reason that Jewish studies has rcsptttive districts.. Bqinhing on Kirkland at Jewish Studies were not established simply - studies, was a reason for Hamilton Sociology 307, The Sociology of been so long in coming to the Hill January 2, there will be a two day because of the requests of Jewish appro val of adding a man Religion, taught by Instructor is the difficulty in finding o r i e n t a t i o n in A l b any, -all students. Nor was the program a spccializi!ig in Judaica to the Walter Broug hto n•,. of the someone trained in it. According expenses paid ,. on the ttthniques Kirkland Social Sciences Division. to Mr. Lasker, there are .only of interviewing,. and students will new idea at Kirkland during just Humanities Division faculty. have a chance to speak with President Samuel F. Babbitt of Mrs. Colby also said that Assistant about 300 full-time prof�rs die last year. The reasoning Miller David teaching History Judaic Assemblymen and lobbyists.. The of studies at Kirkland p o i n t ed out that colleges Professor at started courses new the behind remainder of the Winter Study in the United States. Kirkland did not have any teaches courses in this area. Hamilton several years ago, While there have been student will entail the rcsean:h and ,vriting · Associate Professor Jay G. Ac cording- to J. M a�fferings!ring in Judaica either, and Carovano, Acting President 01 that this was the prime reason Will i a m s , Cha irman of the requests for Jewish studies for of the profiles. Thne is still time Hamilton College, the Religion why the empty slot in the Hamilton Religion Department, several years, and an erganized to apply for this coming January Department at Hamilton was Division was filled by Mr. Daniel said that the first time he heard of one that was a contnouting factor Internships will also be offered over-e nrol led ". Professors J. Lasker, presently Instructor in the desire for courses dealing with to Mr. Lasker's hiring. the main next scmestn and during the s u m mn. continued �• r � six Jewish studies was in I 960, the Williams and Rody both had more Judaica. _
Students Join p· eke ts; Meet With Carovano
PIRG Petition Wins Student Apprm,al,
Jewish Studies Established Due to ·Academic Need; New Offerings Complement Existing Curriculum
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2/THE SPECTATOR/November 2, 1973
EDITORIAL
Enlightenment Needed The strike of Service Employees Intern"'tional, Local 200, is approaching its third week, yet neither the college nor the union will escape from rhetoric to face the issues that will lead to a quick settlement. Acting President Carovano has said that the first rule of enlightened management is staying one step ahead of the market in wages, fringe benefits, and working conditioi1S. He noted . that if Hamilton had practiced enlightened management three years ago, there would probably be no union today. Why then does Mr. Carovano want to give the workers the lo'Y'est wage that the market will bear? This is not enlightened management. If he would act on his statement, the strike would end immediately. The union, however, is not guiltless. It practices its own forms of distortion. It cannm; recoi .cile its claim that skilled workers are receiving below market wages and unskilled workers are receiving market wages with its demand for an across-the-board wage hike. Mr. Carovano has expressed a desire to begin equalizing the wages of skilled workers with those of other colleges. With an across-the-board increase, skilled worker wages cannot be raised to near parity without bringing unskilled wages to an unrealistically high level. Apparently, the union, which represents all workers, is committed more to the welfare of its unskilled than to its skilled members. Now that the union has officially proposed an agency • shop, it is evident that the real issue of conflict is higher wages. The enlightened management policy described by Mr. Carovano would indicate that the college should raise �ages above market level. By following such a policy the college would be in a better market position for new employees, and would prevent future confromations between management and labor. The u n i on must drop its demand for an across-the-board increase in wages. The wages for skilled workers are far below the nonn and mu:.-t be significantly increased. The college, however, cannot ignore the necessity of raising unskilled labor wages as well. Raising these rates above the market would be one step fo1 Hamilto11 to begin its long neglected enligh�ened "'management policy. The college has the choice of continuing its power politics stance or acting responsibly towards its employees. The college has the power to hold out, but to do so would certainly not be in the best interests of all pc.rties concerned.
THE SPECTATOR
VOLUME FOUR
NUMBER NINE
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Witz vs. The Diletantes
BY GERRY PAYNE "A guy like Mandel over thl'.!re impresses me. That's all." "But why?" I stubbornly asked, hoping for once to find some consistency in the values of my friend Horowitz. "Why Mandel over there?" Witz composed his answer as he gazed across the Coffee House pit at Jeffrey Mandel, who sat reading The Christian Science Monitor . "He's a Marxist. I once talked to him, and found out that he's a Marxist. That's why Jeffrey Mandel impresses me. He's the Marxist on campus." "What do you mean by 'the Marxist on campus?' Mandel is the only Marxist on campus." I struck a tender chord. Witz nearly jumped-into my lap. "Right! Gerry, you hit it! He's the only Marxist." All of a sudden Witz was turning my wisecracks into higher wisdom. I was confused. "Look, I may be the only Carpenters fan on campus. Do I impress you?" "No!" "Why? Don't you like the Carpenters?" Witz glowered, so I shut up. It makes things a whole lot easier. "Okay, okay." "What the hell do the Carp enters have to do with anything?" I remained silent, but thought, that's just it. "We're all so much a bunch of dilletantes." Witz lamented. "Under the guise of a liberal arts education we take a little music, a little art, a little history or literature. So that after we get our jobs,
we can go to the opera, the museum, and read Arthur Sulzberger or , The New York Times Book Review and feel smart." I looked over at Jeffrey Mandel drinking Russian Tea and reading the Monitor. You mean to tell me that your man Mandel over there, the Marxist, is your idea of a Renaissance Man? "He spends his afternoons squatting between the magazine racks of the library. Every other word out of his mouth is 'dialectic.' " "At least he's curious enough to search out magazines. It seems the highest point of intellectual committment around here, the greatest degree of · involvement with the world of modern thought is gained by reading Time Magazine or listening to David Brinkley.'' "What should I do, subscribe to Commentary ?" "Commonweal, I suppose," Witz answered. "Funny." "Look Gerry, I'm not perfect." "Can I write that down?" "All I'm saying, well at least one of the things I'm saying is that we shouldn't confine ourselves. We're supposed to be intellectually curious." I was still unwilling to swallow his pitch completely. "Look, if you're so dead set on all of this, why don't you go sit over there with Mandel, drink tea which you can't stand, wrap the string around the teabag, and fulfill your committment as an intellectual." Next week: Witz joins the Marxists.
Health and Drug Advisory Committee One function of the Health and Drug Advisory Committee is to keep various constituencies of the College informed as to the letter and spirit of those state, federal and college regulations governing the possession, use, or distribution of illegal drugs. Toward that end we �ope to soon sponsor an open forum on the new drug law and the legal rights of an individual under this law. Watch for publicity later in the month. On almost any college campus, the use of drugs is a problem for the entire community: it is illegal, it is often harmful to one's health and ability to cope, and many persons become concerned about the fact that there are laws be-ing broken. On this latter point, we particularly wish to call to the attention of the community that in almost all cases the use of drugs is not simply a matter of personal choice. Whenever illegal activity takes place in the presence of others, there is the potential for everyone present to be implicated . For example, if someone were smoking dope in the Coffee House (or the Pub, or in a dorm room) and the police arrived (for whatever reason), all the persons present could be arrested.
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Further, if illegal drugs are stored in a living unit (room or suite) all those in that unit may be subject to prosecution if the material. is found by law enforcement officers. In light of the new drug law, these are considerably more serious matters than ever before. We believe that all individuals must take care that the exercise of their personal freedom does not infringe on the rights of others, and wish to call special attention to the implications drug use may have for "innocent bystanders." In summary, it is important to remember that simply being a member of the College Community does not grant one immunity from investigation and/or prosecution for violation of relevant laws. The Colleges have no "arrangement" with external law enforcement personnel which would prohibit or restrict such investigation and/or prosecution. We urge all members of the community to read and be certain they understand the drug policies of the Colleges--the Hamilton statement is on p. 24 of the Handbook, and the Kirkland statement is in the Legislative Handbook available in the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs or in the core library.
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To the Editor: "Just as we feel that there is tremendous importance to a sense of self in each woman, so there is an equal value in the sense of self of a college for women." -Kirkland Particulars, 1972 "We are a college for women. We are a coordinate college with ·our distinguished partner Hamilton College. Essentially, c oo rdin ation means doing t hi n g s c o m p a r atively and jointly when it makes sense, a voiding d u plication, and preserving the right to be different and separate when that seems best." -Kirkland Particulars, 197 3 It is important for Kirkland to stop as often as she needs to and ask herself what a women's college is. Why is Kirkland a women's college? We could have easily gone coed, but it was in the designs and hopes of the creators of Kirkland that Kirkland would become the stronghold of female s t r e n g t h a n d in n ovation. ., E,1,�eJjlti�lly,;-th('-y felt we could do a better job if we devote and
direct our collective energies just to women. Kirkland is different and separate. It is vital that we p reserve a Kirkland identity, separate from Hamilton. These are some of the reasons why it is not only important tha_t Kirkland women should but must set one night off to themselves as w o m e n. I n t h e s pi r i t of sisterhood, the Women's Center w i l l be sponsoring and All Women's Night Friday,. Nov. 2, f r o m 8:0 0-12 :00 i n t he Coffeehouse. The entertainment for the night will be provided by an all women's music ensemble, Lavendar Jane. In the spirit of coordination, the Women's Center is also sponsoring a dance, open to the community at large, Saturday, Nov. 3, from 10:00-2:00 in McEwen. Saturday night's dance will feature an all-women rock band, Sister Moon. "In a coeducational institution, the argument continues, the campus tends to mirror the larger society, replicating the pattern of male-dominated systems on every� level. In administration and faculty, in
the classroom and outside it, there tends to be the same pervasive pattern, and its o u t c o m e i s t he same: inhibition of female potential, resulting in waste and crippling frustration.'' -Kirklan d Particulars, 1972 "And outside it" refers even to social activities. An entertainment affair tends to "mirror the larger society, replicating the pattern of male-dominated systems." An All Women's Night is a positive and constructive step forward in helping Kirkland women develop that sense of self as a women and for Kirkland as a college for women. 'Friday night will be a night for women to learn to express their solidarity as a group of women, a night for women to learn to enjoy being just with their sisters and anight to hear the music of a professional group of fem ale singing artists who have devoted a great deal of their lives to writing songs for women and about women. The Women's Center welcomes all women! ., , ., _,.. •. , ½ourdes .��n '76 Letters continued on page thrre
November 2, 1973/THE SPECT ATOR/3 ACADEMI� YEAR IN SPAIN On Tuesday, November 6, 8:00 p.m. in the Bristol lounge, there will be an open meeting for all those interested in the newly organized Hamilton College Academic Year in Spain. Prof. Medina, permanent overseer of the program and its first director-in-residence (1974-75), will clarify certain aspects of study abroad and explain the unique features of Hamilton's program LIBRARY LOCKERS The Library has a number of lockers available for students in which _they may keep books, papers, etc. The lockers may be applied for at the Circulation Desk of the Burke Library. Students will be expected to deposit $2.50 for the use of a locker. This sum is returnable at the end of the academic year. The lockers operate by combination, not by key. No food, loquors of any kind, candies, or combustible substances may be kept in the lockers. INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL Any Kirkland student interested in playing on an Intramural Basketball team is requested to contact Sara Gordon, x-4933 by Tuesday, November 6. KIRKLAND ATHLETIC COMMITTEE Any Kirkland student interested in becoming a member of the Kirkland Athletic Committee is asked to contact Sara Gordon, x-4933, as soon as possible. Participation is sports is not essential to membership. CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Representatives from the following graduate and professional schools will be on campus this week. Seniors who are prospective applicants are encouraged to sign up for interviews at Career Center, Dunham Basement. Freshmen, sophomores and juniors are welcome to join in group meetings for information. Sign up at Career Center also. N.Y.U. School of Law, November 5, Monday, 10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon. Syracuse University School of Environmental Science and Forestry, November 6, Tuesday, 1 :30 - 5:00 PM. Columbia University Business, November 7, Wednesday, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM. Columbia University Law, November 8, Thursday, 1:30 - 4:00 PM. BY RAND CARTER The recent outbreak of open hostilities in the Middle East has once again focused attention on that difficult area. Most of us must have felt considerable relief when a cease fire was reached. If however, a just and long-lasting settlement is to be achieved in that part of the world, considerably more open-mindedness and freedom from· bias is required than has been d emonstrated in the reportage and public discussion of the situation. One of the first requisites is the recognition that there are two sides in every conflict and that each has a right to make its position known. Another necessary condition is that political programmes and goals be based not on emotion but on a reasoned and informed examination of historical and actual events. Anyone who dares to suggest that there are two sides to the Middle East problem runs the risk of being labelled--quite irresponsibly--an "anti-S emite;' . (Are the Arabs not Semites?)No reasonable person would hold the Jews responsible for the political actions of Zionists anymore than he would hold Americans, .collectively and individually, responsib_le for the conduct of the Vietnam War or.all Germans for the policy of the Nazi party. One of the greatest victories scored by Zionist propaganda, however, is the identification in the popular im agination of world Jewry with Zionist goals. Make no mistake about it: although Zionism may exploit racial and religious feelings, it is not a racial or religious issue but a political one. Until we can discuss it as such, disembarrassed from religious and racial emotions, we are not likely to achieve much objectivity. Nor are the inhabitants of the Middle East likely to live in peace and harmony. The existence of the Zionist state of Israel and our continuing support for it is usually defen ded on three chief gro u nds--historical, humanitarian, and political. on· close scrutiny none of these remains entirely convincing. The· historical defense, that Palestine is the historic homeland of the Jews, is the easiest to dismiss. Since Arabs, like Jews, claim descent from Abraham, they have an equal claim to the "Holy Land". Mor eover, as Isla m a ccepts (but
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SQUASH CLUB There will be a meeting for all students interested in playing Squash on the Hamilton Squash Club on Monday, November 5 in the Baker Room of the Gym at 4:00 p.m. All old members please attend, as this will involve scheduling for the coming season. Practise will begin on Tuesday, 11/6. Any questions, contact Brad Caswell x-4183 or Louis Levenson x-7372. TM T w o i ntroductory lectures on Transcendental Meditation will be given on campus Wednesday, November 7 at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. The first will be in room 220 in Kirner-]ohnson, the second in the Chapel. All are invited to attend.
BOOK THIEVES·
To the Editor: Those "other people" who cause all the problems around here have succeeded in causing another one. It was easy. All they had to do was start taking books from the library without checking them out. This way, they get to keep the books forever, since nobody knows who to ask for the book at the end of the term. The same thing applies to attempts at nailing· people for a violation of the honor code, or just trying to get the book back. The only hitch is that it causes a pain in the ass to anyone else who wants the book. To see how bad the problem is, I randomly picked a drawer of the card catalog (264) 'and tried to find the first twenty books. Of those twenty, fifteen were on the shelves. A check at the desk
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FREE CHURCH SERVICE The Free Church Service this week will be led by Joel W. Tibbetts, College Chaplain. The topic: "Impeachment and Forgiveness." 11:1 5 a.m., Sunday, in the Chapel.
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showed that of the five that were out, only two were checked out. The other three were ripped off. Three out of twenty is fifteen percent, an awful lot. But even worse is the fact that of the five books that were out, only two awere checked out. More people had swiped their books than had checked them out! There is no system that the library can use to stop this. Only a change in those "other people" can help. And everybody is somebody else's "other person". Brian Mc Cue '76
CLINTON JAZZ
To the Editor: On the evening of October 12 I had the privelege of audiencing
the ClinJon debut performance of a jazz duo at, the Alexander Hamilton Inn. The duo consists of two Hamilton seniors, Peter Ackerman (at the piano) and Chuck Anthony (on bass). The two extremely talented musicians played in the Colonial Room of the Inn where the management has built a small stage and has acquired a piano for the use of Peter and Chuck. Since I'm hardly k n o w l e d geable on the technicalities of jazz I will not a t t e m p t t o r e v i e w t he performance, but from a layman point of view the listener's performance was marvelous. The duo will be playing at the Inn on Friday and Saturday nights for an indefinite amount of time. So for a really great evening of drinking and entertainment go to the Inn to see Chuck and Peter. Jill Brandt '76
of United Nations Resolution 242 passed unanimously by the Security Council in November 1967. The Arabs reconciled themselves years ago to the de facto existence of a Zionist state of Israel (iii' spite of Israel's continuing intransigence in regard to the Palestinians). Syria and The third defense, the political one, is Egypt publically stated on 6 October that rather more interesting. The so-called.· their intention in the present military Balfour Declaration, written in 1917 operation was to regain land occupied by during the heat of World War I, is Israel (in defiance of the United Nations) frequently cited but rarely understood. since 1967 and to persuad.e Israel to That statement, extracted from the commence serious negotiations. context of a lengthy letter, stated that His What we must attempt at this point is Majesty's Government would "view with to provide international guarantees to the favour the establishment in Palestine of a national frontiers in the Middle East. To national home for the Jewish people and speak of maintaining a "balance of power" will use their best endeavours to facilitate there is both impractical and dangerous the achievement of this object, it being since it implies supporting one tiny clearly understood that nothing shall be country against more than a dozen large done which may prejudice the civil and countries spreading from the Atlantic to religious rights of the existing non-Jewish the Persian Gulf and can all too easily lead commumt1es in Palestine..." For the to an "escalation" in our military record, there were at that time 600,000 involvement. Moreover, to maintain our Arabs and only 80,000 Jews (mostly present course will serve the interests of Sephardic) in Palestine. No one except no one. It will exacerbate the frustration European Ashkenazid Zionists seems to and anger of the Arabs and push them have taken this statement of Balfour further into the Soviet sphere of influence, seriously, least of all its author who wrote embarrassing the Russians and endangering to Lord Curzon that "as far as Palestine is our supply of oil. Israel will remain concerned, the Powers have made no surrounded by hostile neighbors and will statement of fact which is not admittedly surely be caught more and more in th-t wrong, and no declaration of policy vise of Soviet-American relations, friendly which, at least in rhe letter, they have not or otherwise. United Nations Resolution always intended to violate." .So much for 242 calls for the withdrawal of the Israeli the "Balfour Declaration". from land occupied since the 1967 war - We in the United States have persisted though it allows for modifications. of the in maintaining our support for - the borders to bring them into greater principle of self-determination. Yet as we conformity with natural topography. all know the native population of Jerusalem is a city sacred to at least three Palestine, whether Arab or Sephardic Jew, major religions, and the holy places there had no voice in deciding the fate of its must be accessible to all. The national native country in 194 7 and 1948 when sentiment· and human dignity of the outside powers decided it for them. There Palestinians must be acknowledged and at are many who after almost a century of least a part of their homeland returned to white settlement in Rhodesia and South them. Africa refer to the white settlers there as No one side has a monopoly on right or "colonists", yet are prepared to support wrong, but until the human rights of the European and American rulers of the everyone are recognized the Middle East Zionist state of Israel. will remain a source of sorrow. The war which began not this October nor in 1967 but twenty-five years ago could have been settled long ago had this Rand Carter is Chairman of the Art country brought pressure to bear on Israel Department o.f Hamilton College. to· accept rea�onable terms such as those
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"improves" upon) the Old _Testament, Moslems are also participants in God's plan. (Christians, one may recall, also expressed their proprietary attitude to the t "Holy Land"duing the Crusades, though t he Crusader k i n g doms eventually vanished into romantic memory.) When Jerusalem was conquered by the emperor Titus in A.D. 70 the Jewish political state in Palestine effectively ceased. If everyone today wished to return to the land where their ancestors resided in A.D. 70 there might be considerable political and economic repercussions. The humanitarian defense brings us to t he t w e n t i e t h c entury--though not logically to the Middle East. One is so frequently reminded of the Jews who lost their lives during the Nazi period. All reasonable people will surely deplore that dreadful occurrence, but those less prone to melancholic hysteria will recall that those Jews died in Europe, not the Middle· East, and at the hands of Europeans, not Arabs. Is it not curious that atonement for European sins should be bought at the expense of the natives in the Middle East? Should the Palestinians be expected to give up their human rights and dignity as well as their land?One is indeed reminded of the Nazi period, not by the Arabs' desire to recover their occupied lands and the desire of the Palestinians for a share of their homeland, but rather by the rhetoric of the Zionist leaders who speak of acquiring "L e be nsr aum" and of rationalizing their frontiers in · language reminiscent of Hitler's Drang nach Osten. The contemptuous attitude towards their neighbours expressed by the suggestion that the Zionists can make better use of the land than the Arabs recalls the Nazi attitude towards the Slavs whose land they occupied. The notion of a "chosen people" .is a colourful religious tenet, but when translated into political·policy it has all the disadvantages of Hitler's "master race".
SENIOR AND FRESHMEN ELECTIONS Vito Stellato was elected Senior Class President. Kevin Smith, Mark Rosenbaum, Matthew Pecchenino, and James B. Francis were elected Student Senators from the Freshman Class. YEAR IN SPAIN On Tuesday, November 6, 8:00 p.m. in the Bristol lounge, there will be an open meeting for all those. interested in the newly organized Hamilton College Academic Year in Spain. Prof. Medina, permanent overseer of the program.and its first director-in-residence (19 74-7 5) will clarify certain aspects of study abroad and explain the unique features of Hamilton's program.
4[fHE SPECT�TOR/November 2, 1973
Charlatans Conquer <-Maids'; Peskin's Production Excels BY LIZ HORWITT Last weekend's performance of J e an Genet's ''The Maids" demonstrated a basic law of theatre: no amount of good acting, direction or staging can overcome basic problems in a script. An ironic corollary follows from this: if an author errs in his inten tions, then t he m o re successfully a production fulfills those intentions, the further it strays off the mark.
Cathy Smith and Zivia Flomcahaft in The Maids
Throughout the performance Saturday night the skill, artistry and preparation of all concerned were in evidence. The nouveaux art set was impressively macabre. Directo'r Jim Peskin effectively achieved the author's intentions: and Genet intended a hea vyweight, highly ritualistic d r a m a about t he ne urotic relationships of servant-mistress · and servant-servant. Claire (played by Cathy Smith) and S o lan g e (Zivia Flomenhaft), sisters, are personal maids to the elegant and romantic figu re of Madame Oill Maynard). They are both locked into the negative self-image that goes with being of t he servant class; they see themselves as ignoble, infinitely
'Mass in B Minor' on a Desert Island, Bach's Creation of Spiritual Paradise ever in this Prospero-like situation BY RJCIIAitD K.AVESH Imagine yourself exiled to a I would unhesitatingly select desert island; you an= to be given Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B no material possessions except for minor. a record player and one record of Why the Mass?For the same your choice. If someone ever reasons that I would try to found himself in this position smuggle along Milton's Paradise {and given the political bent of Lost-as artistic documents and the present administration in spiritual revelations these works ashington, it lies well within the a r e u ne q u a l le d f o r their �realms of the imagination) he profundity, depth, "timelessness" would be faced with quite a and universality of expression. One must inevitably feel a monumental choice. What would sense of inadequacy in attempting he choose? Beethoven's Ninth? to communicate one's feeling Handd's Messiah?Mo7.art's Don about such a powerful, empyreal Giovanni? T h e options are obviously endless, but if I were work as the Mass; and I f�el about -
· HOUSEPARTIES
ALPHA DELTAPm Friday at 9:00 p.m.-Gin and Juice Open to fraternity members, freshmen and dates. $5.00 for independents and their dates. DELTA KAPPA EPSILON Sunday at 1:00 p.m. -Gin and Juice Open to Fraternity members, freshmen, guests and their dates. DELTAPm Friday at 11:30 a.m.-Hot Dogs and Beer and Music-Open t.o frat.emity members, freshmen, Kirkland students and guests. DELTA UPSILON Saturday at 10:00 p.m.-Beer and Band Open to fmt.emity members, freshmen and their dates. EMERSON LITERARY SOCIETY Friday at 10:00 p.m.-Beer and Band Open to couples. PSI UPSILON Saturday at 10:00 p.m.-Beer and Band Open to Fraternity members. SIGMA PHI Saturday at midnight-Beer and Band OPEN CHIPSI Saturday at 10:30 a.m.-Gin and Juice Open to fraternity members, freshmen, and dates. $5.00 for independents and their dat.es. ALPHA DELTAPm Friday at 9 :.00 p.m.-Beer and Band Open to Fraternity members, freshmen and their dates. TEAKHOUSE Friday at 9:oo p.m.-Beer and Band Open to Fraternity members, freshmen and invited guests. THETA DELTA CHI OPEN TAP all weekend
inferior to their mistress--not only in the abstract sense of belonging to a lower class, but as a different species, created to be despised and endowed from birth with shame and a kind of intrinsic evil. The two maids enact bizarre rituals in _ which one plays the "mistress" and the other the "maid", in which the roles of torturer and victim, the debased and the exalted debaser are constantly being reversed. The relationship of Solange and Claire is complex� hate, resenbnent, e r o t i c d e s i r e , p r otective tenderness and mutual distaste s ucceed e ac h other i n a b ewildering parad�. The two mters are a double image of the servant psyche: like two m irrors facing. one another they reflect back and forth the feelings of a sensitive member of a debased class. She must either triumph completely over the self image society has forced on her and love herself as a tragic heroine who must someday be lifted out of her degradation or submit, disown herself, and draw a kind of twisted pleasure from identifying with h e r t or mentors--wit h society-by torturing herself. Genet has overloaded his play significance, s ymbol, with p sycologi c a l i nnuendo and emotional impact. The audience emerges with glazed eyes; eyes begin to glaze, in fact, after the
first fifteen minutes. The play begins on a high emotional level and stays there, except for the comic relief provided by the short scene with Madame. Jim directs it for laughs, and Jill cooperates by portraying a flighty 1 unworldly, slightly satiric lady who droops and drips graceful self-pity as she mourns her imprisoned lover. She appears to float in and out on her �w n s pe ci a l w ave- len gth, untouched by the furious static generated by her two maids, who "worship" her.
The a·udience reacts with r e l ie v e d l aughter--but the interlude is a short one, a!ld the play's overall effect is of being trapped for hours inside a grinding set of gears. Zivia and Cathy demonstrate their capacity to sustain a high level of energy and believability in demanding roles. Perhaps it is, again, Genet's fault that their scenes come out as a faintly monotonous, repetitive c y de through the emotional gamut from love to hate to fear to anger to despair to ecstasy and back again. Perhaps the director could have mitigated this by playing down certain parts of the drama, thus emphasizing the impact of others and giving the p l a y s o m e w h e r e to go. Nevertheless, the production was technically impressive, polished, and tastefully done.
as powerless as J. Alfred Prufrock. How should I presume? How should I begin?fo try to explain w h a t I mean is probably u lt i m a t e ly i m possible a n d self-defeating. I think i t was S chopenhauer who said that music begins . where words end. Alfd it was the great Romantic composer Robert Schumann who pointed out that "the best discourse upon music is silence." So how should I presume?And how should I begin? To somewhat clumsily describe it, in the Mass in B minor Bach lias "squeezed the universe into a --b a l l:" He has aslfed t he ''overwhelming question" that - only he and the greatest of composers have managed to ask and resolve. Only through such wor� as the Mass in B minor or in ; the late works of Beethoven, do we confront what J.W.N. Sullivan calls "the revelation of existence as seen from the vantage point of a higher consciousness"-a state of awareness and spiritual content which illuminates not only the composer's, - but our, deepest experiences. In such works we can briefly make contact with . the Julie Harris confronts James Dean in East of Eden singing of Prufrock's mermaids or with KINOKUNSJ ''The prophetic soul This weekend Kinokunst presents East of Eden, one of James of the wide world Dean's f"mest films. Based on the last third of Steinbeck's novel, it Dreaming on things to come." has been variously called a modem day adaptation of the Biblical If one thing has become Cain and Abel story, a study of the generation gap between parents apparent from this brief essay, it and children, and an explanation of the false values of the puritan is-to quote again from Eliot's ethic. The events revolve around two sons and their father, a girl Prufrock-that "it is impossible to betrothed to one brother and in love with the other, and a mother ,, say just what I mean. Hear the B who deserted their father years before and runs a gambling casino. Minor Mass for yourself. On a Elia Kazan, (On the Waterfront)·· directed this masterful film in superficial level it will not 1955. Jo Van Fleet won an Oscar for best supporting actress, a nd transform a desert island into a Julie Harris, Raymond Massey and Burl Ives also give great paradisiacal oasis; but on a deeper performances. It will be shown, al,;mg with the comedy short The level it can transform a spiritual Critic, at 8 p.m. Thursday, }'riday and Saturday and at 10 on wasteland into what Milton called Sunday in the Chemistry auditorium. Admission is 7 5 cents. Monday and Tuesday Kinokunst presents the musical classic 42nd "a paradise within thee, happier StreeL This is the original story of the pretty chorus girl who rises to far." Richard Kavesh '73 was the stardom when the star breaks her ankle. Directed by Busby Berkeley in his limitless imagination, it stars Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell. Arts Editor of The Spectator last 'Admission is 50 .cents at the Chemistry auditorium. at IO p.m. year.
EVENTS
fMCampus This Weekend
FILMS
The Incident. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Sunday at l O pm. East of Eden and The Critic. Friday and Saturc:fay at 8 pm in the Chemistry Auditorium. Sunday at 10 pm.
November 5 (Monday)
42nd Street. At 10 pm in the Chemistry Auditorium. Also Tuesday.
tbember 7 (Wednesday)
Civilisation Film Series presentsThe Light of Experience at 8:30 pm in the Chemistry Auditorium.
November 8 (Thursday)
Winter Light. At 8 pm in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Some Like it Hot and I'm no Angel. At 8 pm in the Chemistry i\uditorium.
At Nearby Theatres
Cannonball (853-5553) Enter The Dragon (R) Kallett (736-2313) American Graffitti (PG) Uptown (732-0665) Mash (PG), and National Velvet (G) 258 Cinema (732-5461) The Whistle Blowers (X), Hit (R), and Italian Connection (R) lovember 2 (Friday)
MUSIC
lavender Jane. A feminist musical adventure. AT 8 pm in the McEwen Coffeehouse.
Nowember 3 (Saturday)
Student Activities Committee presents NRBQ. At 8 pm and 10 pm in the Chapel. Free with social tax, dates $.50, general admission $2.00. Women's Center Dance. Band; Sister Moon. At 10 pm in the McEwen Dining Hall. Admission: $1.00
Currently on Campus
. EXHIBITIONS
Modern Housing Prototypes. At the Bristol Campus Center Lounges, through November 11. Recent Works by Matt Solon '74; Student One Man Show. At the Bristol Campus Center, through November f7. Prints, Drawings, and Paintings by Lavis Corinth. At the Root Art Center, through November 25. Anonymous Photographers. At the List Art Center, through November 27.
LECTURE AND DISCUSSION Nawember 2 (Friday)
Nigeria After the Civil War. Speaker: Professor L. Adele Jinadu. At 8 pm in the Science Auditorium.
November 3 (Saturday)
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. At 5:30 pm in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. Intercom. At 9 pm in the Alumni House.
November 2, 1973/THE SPECT A TOR/5
Successful Student Concert Offers Wide - Range of.Sounds BY DAN RUFF All the signs to date seem to indicate that a year of music may be upon us at Hamilton-Kirkland. The second concert of the year, last Tuesday night, once again attracted an unusually large and enthu s i a s t i c au dience. More i m p o r t a n t , however, the perfo rme rson this program were Hamilton-Kirkland students; and there seemed to be more of them than in previous years, and they generally seemed to be making better music. The concert program, which was especially interesting because of its wide variety, opened with the "Sere n ade to the Madonna" by Hector Berlioz, played by the Wood Wind Quintet under the ,direction of Mr. John Flaver. The same group (after exchanging some individual performers) then offered a Bach Choral Prelude, "Christe, du Lamm Gottes".
The next segment of the program was a complete change of pace, with jazz selections played by Peter Ackerman at the piano and by Chuck Anthony on bass. The talents of this pair have been known to many members of the college community for several years; and it can only be said that the two are better than ever. Their offerings were "Who Can I. Turn To?" by Anthony New ley and Lesley· Bricusse, and "Night in Tunisia" by Dizzy Gillepsie, w hich included an especially . memorable bass solo from Chuck Anthony.
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Free Church of Clinton. Speaker: Joel Tibbetts, "Impeachment and Forgiveness." At 11:15 am in the Chapel. Newmon Mass.- Father Drebin. At 1-2:45 pm in-the Chapel. Commur,ity Worship. At 7:30 pm in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
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Nonmber 5 (Monday)
The Selling of Candidates, a History of Political Advertising. Speaker: Mr. Julian Kanter. A t 8 pm in the Science Auditorium.
Notember 7 (Tuesday)
Intercom. At 9 pm in the Alumni House.
November 8 (Thursday)
Sot Sang (Divine Light Mission); Spiritual Discourse. At 7:30 pm in the Bristol Campus Center Fisher Room. Copernicus and his Conservative Revolution. Speaker: Gerald Holton, Professor of Physics, Harvard University. At 7:45 pm in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. Advertising and the Vote; Does it Make any Difference? Speaker: Robert McClure, Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University. At 8 pm in the List Recital Hall.
AN AMERICAN DREAM 1970 Plymouth "Gold" Duster 3/8 V/8 Automatic Transmission Power Steering, Black Vinyl Top and Interior Snow Shoes Already on Her
PLAYWRITING COMPETITION The Wallace Bradley Johnson Playwriting Competition is funded • award prizes of about $300 a year for the best plays, adaptations, musical works for the theatre submitted by Hamilton and lirkJand students. Usually� one-act plays have been submitted. For further information, see Mr. Barrett, Mr. O'Neill, Mr. osenfeld, or Mr. Wagner.
Based upon the votes returned by both Kirkland and Hamilton ·ors, the Publications Board has decided that there will be a joint k for 1974. If you have any questions about this decision or t the yearbook please contact Peggy Read or Vin Pomeranz.
The second half of the program was provided by the Hamilton College Brass Choir under the direction of Mr. Bonta. Their performance was another bright spot in the program. The group is large and well-voiced this year (5 trumpets, 4 trombones, 4 horns),· and already at this early date they are sounding the best they have in a I ong time. The members d i s pl a y e d b o t h i nd i vi d u al musicianship and a developing s ense o f e ns e mble. T h e i r s el e ct i o n s were "Co n z o n a D e c i m a" b y L u z z a s ch i , "Intermezzo" (from "Music for Brass I n struments"-1944) by Ingolf Dahl, and "Canzona a 12" by G. Gabrieli. This last piece was especially interesting; it played upon spacial effects, with the musicians distnbuted throughout the Chapel on both the first and second floors.
Probably the most impressive woodwind performance of the evening was given by Mr. Flaver's Woodwind Septet, who played C.P.E. Bach's "Sonata No. 2" and "Sonata No. 5." The first half of the concert was completed with After some quick re-arranging an interesting and unusual piece onstage, David Kulle sang two entitled Ani musi for tr o mbone 17th-century Italian songs, "Selve an d t ape , composed in 1966 by amiche" by Antonio Cladara, and Jacob Druckman. The cueing of "Udite, a manti" by Giulio the tape, which provided an Caccini. Accompanying him at the accompaniment of strange and Perhaps the only real criticism piano was Dave Zimet. Kulle's varied electronic sounds, was that could (should?) be made of baritone voice is very pleasing to handled by Mr. Hartwell of the listen to - it is quite large, has its K i r kland music faculty. The the concert was an apparently moments of especial richness, and trombone was quite ably handled accidental arrangement of the is certainly highly promising. His by Thomas Leff, who seemed to p ro gr a m w h i c h ne cessitated performance was very enjoyable, manage to get an equal number of· moving the piano on and off the stage between e very other particularly in the comparatively strange and varied sounds out of light and lilting "Udite, amanti". his instrument. The piece involved program segment. In a sense, a fair amount of drama, with Leff though, this technical difficulty The next group to perform was alternately standing and sitting, was made up for by the success of f i v e - m e m b e r moving his music from stand to t h e a new ushering system which Hamilton-Kirkland Flute Choir, stand, and using a number of prevented l a t eco m e r s from again under the direction of Mr. mutes; at one point in the middle barging in during the middle of Flaver. Their offering was a of the piece, he put down his individual performances. This was t ranscr i pt i o n· of a baroque trombone and left the Chapel a definite improvement, both for "Concerto for Four Violins" by with a slam of the door, which the performers, and for the Telemann. It had some fine precipitate� a _theatrical cutback listening audience already inside. iiIU II ._.._.___ DI iml II I Il Jllil -:mum EDD! I II!•UI JI II JIDI I I-i'liI
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in the houselig hts The tape continued, and Leff (and the lights) returned at the appointed moment to complete the piece. Judging by their reaction, the piece as a whole left the audience wondering, 'but certainly not ' about Leff's trombone abilities.
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Whitten Stresses Campus Activism to bring about some of these when it affects political life," he BY SUSAN MALKIN Les Whitten, chief aide to changes. "I think investigative said. In the question and answer columnist Jack Anderson, stressed . reporting is important for moving the importance of activism on the things in the community or on the period that followed his lecture, college campus in a lecture last campus. Changes can be brought Mr. Whitten entertained questions night in · the Alumni Gymnasium. about through organized and ranging from his personal outlook His lecture, the second in the intelligent activist organizations," on c u r r e n t affairs to the technica lities of investigative Root-Jessup Series, also dealt with he said. Whitten expanded the idea of reporting. When questioned on the role of the newspaper in providing the stimulus for social investigative reporting to a t h e r ol e o f j ournalism in national level. A major fear is presenting the news objectively, change. Whitten discussed the need for g o ve rnment intervention with Whitten replied, "I'm an advocate investigative reporting on the freedom of the press. He asked, journalist. Rather than sacrifice college campus as a means of ''What does it matter, suppressing what I have to say, I'd rather be p rovoking action. 'Why," he the press?The people's right to considered un-objective. Working asked, "is no one looking into the k n o w d oesn't r eally mean with Jack Anderson is the way I way endowments are being used? anything. It's an abstraction. But can be both an activist and a It is your right and your duty to if we lose the newspapers, we lose functioning journalist." make sure the stock is used for the little things th4! make up the f i r s t a me n d me n t." Without your needs." Whitten also questioned the newspapers, Whitten felt that "the reason for the lack of courses in government could work its will on participato r y d emocracy or the people." "Why," he asked, continued from page one corporate activism. He stressed "were the newspapers the first for approval. Dean Carl Schneider the use of investigative reporting things shut down in Chile and C z e c h o s l o v a k i a ? Wit hout said that the usual procedure, newspapers there can be no which was followed in this case, is criticism of the government, no for the Chairman of the Division defense against the government." to initiate the search for faculty "If ever there were a need for members in the Division. freedom of the press, it is now," A group of Kirkland students Whitten said, in reference to did organize and make a formal Watergate. "I think we have to request for Jewish studies. The constantly expose what Nixon is group, the Jewish Interest Group, doing." had formed to provide access to Mr. Whitten spoke at length Jewish, services, and to promote a b o u t t h e p r o b l em s of some solidarity _ between Jewish investigative reporting: accuracy, students on both campuses. Since sel e c t i v i ty, a n d political the Humanities Division and the consequences. He was questioned r e s t o f t h e K i r k l a n d on the inaccurate reporting of A dminist r a tion h ad already Tom Eagleton's drunken driving� decided that the Division's first Mr. Whitten replied, "We try to be priority would be to enrich the accurate but our business is not an Kirkland curriculum in religion, exact science...But it is better for particularly Judaica, the students' us to make stupid mistakes, and I request for a faculty member was think Tom Eagleton would agree, more easily fulfilled. Mr. Lasker, while pointing out than for us not to function at all." Whitten was also questioned on that he was not a first-hand his use of stolen or classified observer over the past few years, information. "Our organization said that as far as he knew, the has printed stolen and classified students requesting his position documents," he admitted. ''We w e r e told by the Kirkland Les Whitten are not going to keep things administration that the search for hidden for political reasons, and For Sale we are not going to print things Fireplace wood, cut to that are dangerous for political size, we deliver. Reasonable reasons." Investigative reporting prices. must also distinguish between call 737-7272 personal and public information. Ra: m Savicki "We only publish personal life
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someone had already begun. Mr. Babbitt said that the college had been looking for almost two years before it found Mr. Lasker. reason behind it was academic. The proposal for Jewish studies was not treated differently from any other academic proposal, according to Mr. Babbitt. He said that the matter had not gone up before the faculty or the trustees Mr. Lasker also said that there were two things to consider when discussing Jewish studies. First, Judaica fills a need in the existing academic p rogram; it helps programs in philosophy, history, and language by adding to what they can offer. The program, according to Mr. Lasker, "fits in " because of this; it is academically sound. He pointed out that another full-time professor at H a m il t o n w asn't f ea s i b le , especially in view o f the fact that the college wasn't hiring. Second, J e w i s h Studies s houl d be considered as a way for Jewish students to fill their spiritual needs by learning more about their heritage. He said that rough figures he had heard placed the
µercentages of Jewish students on campuses at about 15% for Hamilton and about 45% for Kirkland. Mr. Lasker said that these were t wo very different ways of looking at the same subject. The Administration was using the first l i ne of t hought when it formulated Jewish studies and hired Mr. Lasker. Unfortu nately, he feels, some people are looking at it from the other point of view, which had very little to do with the addition of the program. He feels that unless the college had decided to have Jewish studies, even student pressure would have done little to hasten the institution of such a program. He said there is a national trend towards more Jewish studies in colleges and universities. There were only about 60 fulltirne professors teaching Judaic studies 5 or 6 years ago; now. there are about 300. He got these figures at a convention he attended last week of the Association for J e w i s h Studies, a national o r g an ization for teachers of Judaica.
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Workers' Strike Continues: Campus Feels First Effects
continued from page one janitresses, and groundsmen, Hamilton pays higher wages than Co lgate and S t . L awrence Universities and Utica College, with the exception of "a very few'. g r oundsmeq. at Utica. However, Skidmore College pays higher wages than Hamilton in all three categories and u tilizes a union shop. Caravano also pointed out that the three lower-paying colleges include a "maintenance and membership" shop, in which all new union members are required to remain in the union until their contracts end. I n r e sponse t o s t u d ent questions, Caravano said that the college has offered to . raise the skilled laborers' wages, but the union insists upon an across-the-board increase. He also rebutted the charge of sexism by saying wages differ by the job, not by the sex of the employee. The students were cQnfused by the fact that most women are maids, md maids are paid less. In an swer to charges of favoritism, towards non-union members, Caravano said that no such instances have bee n m e n t i o n e d at t he negotiations and he would not comm ent until he received R1bstantia tion. Pressed on the issue of raising the skilled worker's wage outside of negotiation, Caravano said that 11It's a possibility, and that's� far as I'll go." In an interview before his student confrontation he said, "I've had the support of the trustees. They've all been advised and showed a good deal of interest." He said, "We haven't even , discussed strikebreakers. . Caravan o s aid t ha t the vandalism that occurred this week is "a very serious matter." Win dows of the Dunham dormitory basement, the office of
De an R. Gordon Bingham, . and the Bundy dining hall were smashed Tuesday night. T h e i ncident at Dunham occurred at about 10:15 p.m. Monday, soon after a group of students met at ELS in support of the workers. Eyewitnesses William Smith '74 and Jeff Collins '74 rep orted seeing one of • the picketers walking from the scene. They later identified the striker on the picket line. The four men picketing at the time denied any knowledge of the incident. P ie c e s of t he s hattered . Dunham windows landed in some of the data processing equipment located in the Dunham basement. A serviceman from International Business Machines was called in to repair the damage. Officers of the Oneida County Sheriffs office were called to the scene Wednesday morning to confer with college officials. Mr. Caravano said he expected arrests ·wili be m ad e . The broken window i n De an Bingham's Root Hall office was d i s c ov e r e d e a rly Wednesday m or n i n g . One pumpkin lay smashed on the office floor, while another had bounced off a screen while still smashing the lower window pane. There are no suspects. Three windows were smashed in �undy dining hall. A pumpkin
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was again used and there are no th'e nails. According to sources, a deposition has been signed by one suspects. Some believe all these incidents or both of the non-union workers. were strike-related, but no charges Arrests may be made. Many minor pranks have also have been pressed for the latter occurred this week, but it is two. One act of violence was unclear whether these were reported by the college against related to the strike or to non-striking workers. According Halloween mischief. A second floor bathroom in to officials, picketers at the entrance to the Physical Plant the Burke hbrary was found office on Griffin Road threw nails covered with scouring powder int o a t ruck occupied by early this week. Tuesday night, a non-union workers. One of the garbage can was overturned in the passengers was struck by one of s t ai r w el l l e adi ng from the
southwest entrance to the Pub next to the Commons . loading platform. There have been no concerted efforts by an y party to disrupt the operati o n s of t he c ollege. Suggestions have been made by union workers to stuff toilet paper down the toilets and throw garbage out windows, but nobody has taken such action. Garbage has been collected throughcut the strike and the effects to date on the campus have been described as minimal.
Students Meet With Carovano
contracted with the students and discussed. Students decided to continued from page one distribute leaflets in classes. student action taken during the not the college. ''. If we don't hurt the students, Students suggested that they recent Local 200 dispute at St. though," Duffy said, ''They won't file formal grievances to the Lawrence University. Coll ege Physical Plant when they Mr. Duffy s tr e s s e d the notice us." Mr. Duffy did not directly encounter dirty bathrooms or importance of union security and characterized many of those who advocate any action by students, other unu�al conditions resulting have not joined the union as but referred to the wide sp read f r om t he Colleges' lack of freeloaders. A union shop, or student support at St. Lawrence maintenance personel due to the m odified u n i o n s hop, was University. strike. Students requested a meeting acceptable to the union, Duffy Students blocked entry of s aid Wednesday. The Local trucks at St. Lawreance, staged with Mr. Carovano. The Acting Representative also said that · s i t -ins, shave-ins, door-to-door President agreed ·to meet with the negotiations had reached the c a m p a i g ns , and phone call group, which then asked him for p oint where the union was c a m p aigns to the University an explanation of the Colleges' considering dropping the union President.Classes were held off of position. Mr. Carovano reiterated the shop issue, if the Colleges granted the St. Lawrence campus during the Local's wage demands. No t he strike · last spring, since Colleges' commitment to the proposals to that effect,though, professors refused to cross the notion of an open shop and the had been made at the bargaining picket lines. preservation of workers' freedom "I don't know what to do to of choice. sessions. , Wages for skilled workers at arouse your support,, Duffy said. In defense of the College's Students discussed possible wage offerings, Mr. Carovano said Hamilton are considerably below those at other colleges, Duffy action in support of the strikers, that the offers were based on said. The union has asked for i n cluding a s t udent strike, present market values for skilled across the board wage increases phone-call campaigns, and civil and unskilled labor. Mr. Carovano for skilled and unskilled workers. disobedience. adm itted that Hamilton and ''We could all have a very Kirkland pay wages for skilled The majority of uni·on members , c r e a tive H al l o w e e n ,, John workers considerably below par, are unskilled. Don Moore, employee of the Hutchinson '74 suggested. but said that the Colleges- would Peggy Farber was unanimously like to begin to "catch up". He Colleges and Union Steward, explained that the request for elected as chairman of an ad hoc said he is prevented from doing so acros� the board increases would committee at the end of the due to the union's demand for prevent the College from granting meeting at ELS. across-the-board hikes. Wages for · hi&her increases to skilled workers labor are competitive, he · k meeting, 4 :00 unskilled At the Buttr1c _ _than to unskilled workers. T u e s d a y , a p p r o x i m a t e 1 y said. Students insisted that the M a ry A. n n J o n e s , twenty-five students considered Vice-President of the Local and and discarded a proposal for a workers deserve a decent wage on employee of the Colleges, charged student strike for Monday. The which to live, even if that entailed at t he meeting that union students decided to publish a flyer paying more than that which housekeepers were the obj ect of on the issues relating to the strike. m a r k e t values dictate. They ]. ob dis c r i m i n a t1·o n. Un1·on Suggestions for student picketing appealed to Mr. Carovano to base · on a more members are forced to move were also seriously considred, the' wage offenngs he avy furni ture during the though no vote on the issue was humanitarian and moral standard. They also suggested that the summer cleanings while non-union taken at the meeting. wages be such that the workers' housekeepers were provided with Publicity was cited as essential male helpers. i f t h e s tud ents were t o annual income exceed the Social A d minis t r a t io n's "The majority of scabs are successfully attract support for S e c u r i t y lousy workers," Duffy said, in the union. A petition was to be designated poverty level. No one reference to those employees circulated·. t e st student at the meeting knew the exact to crossing the picket lines. Duffy opinion� A teach-in was also level of income which exceeded said the umon had been try mg to -- - · - - - - - - - ·· that level, however. . -At one point, Mr. Carovano dissuade delivery trucks from --pnces - Be-Ha-d) ' (.Best--Area Can said, "I'm sorry if I sound like an · the lines. crossmg I at economist. But that's what I am. . . A Smith's Laundry truck had t Store Liquor and Wme j Weavers If you can give me one standard bee n h a lted, b u t s t udents on the Square which I can go by, (other than the -expressed discontent, and the Union decided to allow Smith's to I 8:30 A.M. _ 9:00 P.M. t market values for labor), I'm I willing to listen." enter, on the grounds that it was Monday _ Friday I
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Larries Overpower Blue 21-6 Alfred at .Steuben Nov. 10
BY ROBERT J. KEREN Before a sparse Steuben Field a ud i e n ce l a st Saturday, St. Lawrence University handed the C o n t i n e n t a l s t heir s ixt h consecutive defeat of the 1973 season, 21-6. The Larries scored three times in the first half, capitalizing on costly Hamilton errors. On the f irst p l ay f rom - s crimmage sophomore halfback Brian Smith fumbled and the alert Larrie safety-man, Mike Vail, came up with the ball. Seven plays later St. Lawrence was out in front 7-0. The Larrie second ary had a field day as they intercepted seven Blue aerials. Comerback Kevin Dooley took top honors in the St. Lawrence defensive backfield picking off four passes, one in each of the four quarters. His first interception, with only seconds remaining in the opening quarter, set up SLU's second touchdown. D o oley returned QB Rob Winter's errant pass to the Hamilton ten-yard line. Larrie
quarterback Steve Richardson hit tight end Tony Ross on third d o w n m a k i n g i t 1 3- 0 . S o c cer-stylist Hans Farnstram added the extra-point for a fourteen-point advantage. The Larries' third score of the h a lf cam e on a 7 3- y ard touchdown run by halfback Barry Dutter, a senior co-captain from C e n t r a l Square, New York. Dutter, who amassed 118 yards for the day, burst through a big gap up the middle and beat secondary men Craig Fallon and Gary Smith in a footrace to the end zone.
The Hamilton offense, which sputtered and stalled in the first half, showed some -signs of life in the second half. With Craig Fallon at the helm the Continentals maintained a more consistant attack than in the earlier half, but the southpaw threw four inte rceptions that interrupted drives deep in St. Lawrence territory.
; F a I Io n c o nnected wit h freshman flanker Dave Lecher for Hamilton's only score of the a fternoon coming with 1 :29 remaining in the game. Consistant with the pattern of this particular Hamilton-St. Lawrence contest, the Blue touchdown was set up by an interception. Middle linebacker John Newell ' 7 5 p i cked o f f f r e s h m a n quarterback John Farrar's flat pass and returned it 21 yards to the Larries' 46-yard line. Lou Cordia and Sandy Mackintosh made good g ains on the ground before Fallon found Lecher on a deep slant-in, the play covering 34 yards. Bill Finan's extra point attempt was wide making the final 21-6. The Conti nentals have a breather tomorrow, a bye, before taking on the slick Alfred Saxons (4-2) next Saturday at ·Steuben Field. The season's finale will be November 17 at Union in the 78th meeting of the Continentals and the Dutchmen.
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STEVE SEID& -Ford set a record for the fastest The Hamilton Cross-Country time on the Hamilton Course and Team capped its fourth straight Tim Delaney has the fastest time undefeated season at Lemoyne ever recorded on the · Union yesterday. In a spectacular display course. For most of the team this of team strength and superiority, · the· Continentals shut out the signals the end of competition for Lemoyne team, 15-50, taking the another year. But for seven men first eleven places. This victory (Ford, Delaney, Sieiiato, Carter, has to be a special landmark for Pacilio, Schmeyer, and Rogerson) seniors Tim Delaney, VitoSteUato this could be just the beginning. ·Paul Ford, and Dave Herzog. For these men have been chosen These four young men have not to represent Hamilton at the New participated in a losing cause in Y ork State Collegiate Track f o u r y e a r s of D u al Meet Ass o c i a t i o n M e e t held on competition here on the Hill. An S at u r d ay. As was expected, e x t r a s p e c i a l w o r d o f Colgate is the strong favorite with congratulations should • be given Hamilton expected to finish in the Gene Long for his brilliant job as top three. But a strong Hamilton coach for this team. As further showing coupled with any Colgate credit to this year's team, two slips could result in a first for the records were set this season: Paul Con·tinentals. Wish them luck ...
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Water Polo Undefeated in Morrisville Tourney
STEVEN A. GOLDENBERG The Hamilton College Water Polo Club, finishing up this year's action, captured the Morrisville Tech Water Polo Tournament Sunday afternoon. Hamilton was u n d e f e ated for the d ay , methodically defeating RPI 9-4, SUNY at Binghamton 13-5, and Morrisville 11-8. After making up a first quarter deficit of one goal in the RPI game, the Hamilton Club never again trailed another team. The Club scored six straight goals in the second quarter of the RPI game, putting it out of reach. Hamilton took command from the beginning in the SUNY at Binghamton game by scoring six goals in the first quarter compared to one for SUNY. The Hamilton domination of the game can be i l lustrated by exammmg the number of shots taken by each team. Hamilton attempted . 28 shots on goal compared with eight shots attempted by Binghamton. T h e d a y ' s a ct i on w a s
concluded with Hamilton's third victory over Morrisville this year. O nce again the Continentals opened the game with a strong attack. Hamilton scored seven goals in the first quarter to match the one Morrisville goal. The Hamilton scoring leader for the tournament was Craig MacDonald who tallied ten times. Dave Greenhalgh collected seven goals a nd John Needham registered five times. Other scorers were John M urphy 3, Brad Johnson, Jim Matthews and Mark Walters two apiece, and Eric Kraus and Stanley Kaye each scored once. Jeff Carlberg and Lester L annon tended the Hamilton nets. The previous week the Water Polo Club visited Montreal when they earned one victory in two games. Hamilton defeated McGiD University 6-4, and was set bad by Sir George Williams University 16-5. The Club tmished the year with eight victories against two setbacks.
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VOLUME IV, NUMBER 10
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
NOVEMBER 9, 1973
Presidential Seareh Narrows; Three Candida es Remaining BY FREDERIC BLOCH Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco, Carron W. Brewster, Dean of Dartmouth College , a n d another State Department official are the three prime candidates for Hamilton's presidency, The Spectator learned this week. These three men have visited the Ha m i l t o n c a m pus and nformed sources report that the Presidential Search Committee has selected one for consideration by lhe Board of Trustees. There has been no official confirmation cof lhese latest developments, but Coleman Burke, chairman of the Board of Trustees, expressed 'quiet confidence" that a ne rv president will be named by December 7, the date of the next meeting of the Board. Chairman of the committee William M. Bristol III refused comment on the progress of the search, but assured a questioning reporter that The Spectator would be the first to know when ..that great day arrives" when a decision has been made. Mr. Sisco, presently- in the Mideast with '"'ecretary of State Henry Kissinger, was approached for consideration long before the most recent Arab-Israeli conflict. He first visited the campus early this summer and met with former president John Chandler. He returned September 8 to meet with college officials and faculty. Dean Brewster, a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, came to Clinton on August 21. The third candidate. whose identity has not been
learned, visited the Hill on October 6. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of �ox College, Mr. Sisco received his :Ph.D. in 1950 from the University of Chicago. He has been in the State Department since 1951, following a brief stay with the Central In.telligence Agency. He worked his way up in the S tate Department, and· was named Assistant Secretary for lntematio� Organiz tion Affairs in 1965. When a new administration arrived in 1969, Mr. Sisco believed h i s t en u r e in t he S t a t e Department was over. Secretary of State William Rogers ., however , asked him to stay with the department to become Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,. the post he presently holds. Before President Nixon took office, Sisco was offered the presidency of a large university. H e d eclined when Secretary Rogers asked him to stay on. "It was a good job pportµ.nity I couldn't et go of/� Mr. Sisco was quoted as saying. Dean Brewster 39. is noted for his work from 1961 to 1965 in the Sudan, where he compiled 150 pages of law journals for the Sudanese g o ernment. The Sudanese government had decided that it needed. to compile law journals so its · dges could find precedents set by ,other judges. Before that. · dges. had. relied on their knowledge and their own limited number of cases. During Brewster's stay in the U6all, he sent 11 · dges to law
schools in this country cilld established a permanent program whereby two or three judges go to law school each year. The New Yorker said of Mr. Brewster in 1966, "Brewster, for h i s p a r t , i s f r ank a n d unself-conscious, open, full of hum o r. more than a little romantic, and always ready to m ove w i t h enthusiasm into something new." The presidential search, which now appears to be at an end, has lasted eight months. It has been described as "gruelling" by some members of the committee, which has been meeting regularly since John C h a n dl e r's resignation announcement on March Io.· A n estimated 200 names were received by the committee for consideration. These names were solicited from students, faculty, alumni,. foundations, and other sources. In a statement released in S e p tember, Mr. Bristol said, "Every name has been given a m o st d i l i gen t r e vi e w a n d screening. A s the field grows narrower an even more stringent screening involving interviewing in person occurred. These screenings and p ersonal interviews will continue until such time as a candidate e m er g e s a n d is recommended to the Board." Mr. Bristol was appointed chairman by Mr. Burke. The committee includes six trustees appointed by Mr. Burke, three faculty members elected by the fac u l t y > and three students appointed last spring by Student Senate President Clyde Leff.
Stude�ts Desire B ack Studies Here: Colleges Seeking isiting Professors This is the second of two news-feature articles on Jewish Studies and Black Studies. 7:hey come in response to recent comment in the Spectator linking the two. BY JACK HORNOR The Colleges have taken several steps to hire Black faculty and to offer courses in Black studies. despite comments that little is being done. There is a great deal of con fusion as to just what Black studies should be, who should teach them, and what their purpose on campus would be. also some Th e r e i s misunderstanding about their bei ng suggested or proposed befo re. A request for Black studies has never been received by neither Acting Pr esi dent J. Martin Ca r ovano, Dean Stephen G. Kurtz, Professor Channing B. Richardson, Chairman of the continued on page ten
. kland Pttsi«knt Samuel F. Babbitt
MediatWn Contimres; Pres. Babbitt Speaks NEGOTIATING SESSION HELD TODAY
PRESIDENT ADDRESSES STRIKE ISSUES
BY PAMELA THOMPSON Kirkland President Samuel F. Babbitt, speaking at a special community meeting held last Monday, countered the fear on .. the part of some students that an increase in wages for maintenance workers - would necessitate an increase in college tuition. "Many factors contribute to t he annual tu.1t1on increase," Babbitt said, but "there is no direct correlation" between the increase in wages for maintenance workers and the increase in tuition. President Babbitt explained that the purpose of the special meeting on Monday was to inform the community of the issues of the maintenance strike, rather than to attempt to convince the students of the truth of any one position. Babbitt said he did not actually MORE STR(KE EWS PAGESSA 09 represent the administration, since te c h n i c a l l y t he maintenance A member of the negotiation w o r k e r s are e m p l o yed by committee for the union stated Hamilton, but that he was present that it was going to come out of to explain the administration's today's meeting with a settlement. position. Cindy Shapiro '76 acted "If you don't see us. here Saturday as a student representative for the a f te r no-on, you'll k now we strikers, who could not cross the reached an agreement, "he said. A picket line. f u 11 m e m bership meeting is President Babbitt and Ms. . planned for tomorrow . morning. John Mavrogenis, Assistant to. Shapiro spoke on the two issues of wages and Union membership. the President, said that he hoped that the union has finally realized · Ms. Shapiro expressed the union's complaint that non-union workers that the College will not give in on r e c e ive preferential treatment the union shop ·ssue. The union when specific job assignments arc shophas been a major factor in the made. dispute. continued on page nine continued on page nine BY DOUG GLUCROFT The strike by Local 200 of the Services Employees. International U n i on against Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges is into its. 19th day. Although both sides are officially maintaining their stated p o s i tio ns, t he re are strong i n d i cati ons of an imminent settlement of the dispute. George Newman, spokesman for the college ! said, •�we hope the strike will be over very soon. n Charles. Duffy has arranged to move the date - of the next negotiation session from next Monday to , this afternoon.. He said, "They're trying to freeze us out now that cold weather is here." He continued, usome of the men are ready to bring their snowmobiles up to the picket lines.n
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EDITORIAL Frustrating Strike It has become increasingly apparent that the College is the stronger of the two protaganists in the powei. coi.flict between labor and management. Striking workers of Local 200, on the lines for almost three weeks, have not affected the rendering of College services as they had hoped. Nor have they received. significant student suppor-t in any way comparable to that shown at St. Lawrence University during the Local 200 dispute there last spring. Meanwhile, the College has provided the essential services to the community. Desplte an early snowfall, · which might have heightened the affect of the walkout, • paths were eventually cleared, building remained warm, and garbage, though removed late at times, was removed. The strike by maintenance workers who justifiably ask for a decent wage has grown into a pitiful exercise. The College becomes increasingly more coi.fident whJe the workers grow progressively disheartened as their actions prove ineffective. Both side must make significant compromises at the bargaining table. The workers want to return to work. Serious, intemive negotiations will bring about this end.
Martin· Carovano The Presidential Search is near its end, and althot..tgh it is nJt known who the next president will be, nor when he will assume office, the· end of the search means the end of· the short administration of Acting President J. Martin J·/ Carovano. The role of an acting president is not an easy one to fill. In such a role, one hesitates in makJ.Dg long range · · decisions, but must provide strong leadership to the institution.· Mr. Carovano has performed well in this regard, gaining the respect of mariy members of th ..s community. He withdrew his :t1ame as C4 candidate for ' Hamilton's presidency, but we have no doubt that he is presidential material -- here or anywhe.. e else. We have disagreed with Mr. Carovano several time .. in these pages, especially regarding the present labor dispute. Nevertheless, we admire the way he hfi.S presented his views on the issues openly and frankly. We applaud Mr. Carovano and wish him success in his remaining months as Hamilto1.1's chief executive. f
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Ftom the Sanctuary
Black Sexuality Discussed
BY LEROY PORTER James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni, two of the foremost Black literary people, come together sharing past experiences, convictions, wisdom and disagreements. When two writers such as J a.mes and Nikki get together, discussion goes off into a soft quintessence revealing the hard-nosed truth. A Dialogue is a conversation taped in London for the television show "SOUL". The exchange sheds light on one of the most pressing dilemmas that face Black people today...the relationship between the Black woman and the Black man. Their communication expresses a respect for each other, not a cat and mouse-confrontation. While reading, Nikki's listening can be felt, as James eradicates the age difference and at the same time allows the reader to feel seated in a third chair. The conversation contains many of the elements that Nikki and James believe is lacking in numerous relationships. Nikki is a poet-mother and James a fiction writer (except for an autobiography, The Fire Next Time). They both approach the man-woman dilemma by speaking to the price of being a Black man in America. Baldwin says, "... the price the Black male has had to pay, is expected to pay, and which he has to outwit-is his sex. You know, a Black man is forbidden by definition, since he's black, to assume the roles, burdens, duties, and joys of being a man. In the same way that my child produced from your body did not belong to me but to the master and could be sold at any moment. This erqdes a man's sexuality, and when you erode a man's sexuality you destroy his ability to love anyone, despite the fact that love and sex are not the same thing. When a man's sexuality is gone, his hope of_ loving is also gone." Statements like the above lead one to believe that most of the upset in Black male-female relationships begin and end in the insecurities of the Black male. Baldwin points out that understanding how a Black male reaches his insecurities means understanding that love is not rational, and one
cannot be romantic about human nature; so when a man doesn't come home because he couldn't get a steak, he has violated the ideal. He's neither loving nor romantic ...it's unfair to say. Nikki takes on this attitude, "I'm not going to deal with the cracker who is mistreating him. I'm going to deal with him. He knows that he is not being treated with the respect due him as a person, as a Black man. In order to get that together, when he comes into the house, he begins to brutalize my mother. Which becomes a strange phenomenon to me because I don't like white people and I'm afraid of Black men. So what do you do? It's a sad condition." Nikki in many instances throughout the book hits the nail on the head. She truly describes the situation, and explains that if Black men are always about directing their rage at home, on their women, other brothers, then it's not hard to realize that whitey doesn't know why they're angry. "You have to decide who you're going to smile at, job or no job. Can you be a man wherever you are and whatever the circumstances?" Many Black women are willing to accept a man who realizes his weaknesses and these same women will say it doesn't matter what a man can give them as long as they can touch a man in the morning, but the man says he doesn't want to be with a woman in the morning if he can't materially give. There are Black men who feel that every man should be able to acquire the material things he wants. And when he is unable, he isn't a man as he feels a man should be. The Black woman, she isn't going to endure anymore of the back seat waiting, never had anyway and definitely will not now. Only the gut of the problem has been touched. We need to get into the extremities and work for solutions because Black men and Black women are on their way to dissolving. James Baldwin is now living in Southern France and Nikki Giovanni has a recent book, My House. James has a new book entitled, No Name in the Streets and Nikki has gotten mellower.
letters to - the Editor to pursue our own interests without interruption easily forget To the Editor: V i c t i m s o f s e x u a l those who resisted a war that the di s cr i m in a t i o n , high lottery �ajority of the population in time numbers, and student, medical, has come to despise. The only way to solve any p are nt a l a n d o c c u p a t i o n a l deferments, We o n the Hill did dilemna is to squarely face the not have the opportunity to make issue · so as to understand all the fateful decision to accept or viewpoin ts. One must then resist the demands of the Selective i d e n t i f y his p r i o rities and Service System. Although the formulate an opinion on which to need to directly consider the issue act. This January I am conducting seemed to pass us by, the k no w l e d ge t h at more than an Amnesty Workshop which will 1,000,000 men are now facing discuss each facet of the amnesty charges (punishable by military problem thoroughly, volleying the law alone) due to the Vietnam pros and cons among ourselves. War haunts and divides our Spe ake rs, d i s c ussions, films, interviews and polls, individual country. It is so easy to forget the readings and various forms of concerns of others when our lives other educational activities are have no contacts with which to scheduled for the first two weeks. make them relevant. Consider the The final week will focus action based u pon the individual's following: o p i n i ons . P e r s onal research, 52,143+ Draft Resisters ( S o ur ces: Administrative e x t e n s i ve i n t e r vi e ws , a n d Office of the United States community education are but a Courts, Selective Service , few of the options available. The Systems, Department of Workshop will be open to anyone interested, including members of Justice) the faculty or community. For 32,557+ Deserters, AWOLs (Sources: Department of those unable· to be a regular participant, evening seminars will . Defense) 450,000 Discharges less than be held to review the day's activities. Honorable With respect to all opinions (Sources: Department of and positions, I ask only that we Defense) 550 , 0 0 0 C o u r t - m a rtial share, come to understand and care. convictions Jeanne Kaylor '7 5 In a day where we are beseiged by large numbers, what's another million? They are men of our generation li·:ing underground, in To tht· Editor: In his talk Les Whitten urged prisons, foreign countries, and s ocially a n d e co n o m ica lly students to become more involved discriminated. Y ct we, their peers, in the affairs of the college community. and the nation as a can ignore this segment of the whole. He mentioned, and I agree, µopulat ion withc;ut a second that a fundamental participant in thought. We: who have: bc:cn able
a new activism would be the college newspaper, the Spectator, or the newly established PIRG chapter. That he did not mention the college radio station (no doubt he did not even know it existed) is a sad but revealing comment on how out of touch WHC L-FM is w i t h t he community. That the student body has not demanded more than just twenty-one hours of music from a station their money helps to S\lpport is also telling. Yet there is much good that a radio station can do, good which cannot be exploited by other media on the hill. I believed that last year when I assumed control of a defunct news department, and I believe it now as I struggle to hold together a handful of d is c o uraged_ s t a f f m e m bers disappointed by an apparent lack of inter est in the college community. So important has the station's management decided a comprehensive news show is to the community that they have committed almost one-third of their meager budget to a UPI wire service, expected to arrive within a week. And yet they could buy all the most expensive equipment and still not make the· news show a s u c c ess, not make it a considerable contribution to the community. Only people can do that; not necessarily people with a n y particular experience or talent, but rather those concerned about the colleges, about this community, about the nation and the world. People are needed who are not only interested in reading news but also in analyzing it, who are wtlling to devote some of their
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Letters to the Editor Strike Turmoil Continues To the Editor: It is interesting to note that, in the current strike of the Colleges'maintenance workers, one side of the dispute is yelling for "a more humanitarian and moral standard." I see nothing moral about win dow-smashing, and, although no charges have been proven as of yet, there is evidence pointing an accusatory finger at one or more of the strikers. I see nothing humanitarian or moral about throwing nails at people. Nor do I see anything humanitarian or moral about shouting insults and obscenities at people who are merely doing the work they are paid to do. I support the union's demand for wage increases. Three dollars an hour isn't very much with which to support a family. However,"! strongly urge the students of both Colleges to oppose the proposal for the creation of a union shop, a modified union shop, an agency sho p, or any o t h e r c o m p u lsory organization. Just as any person should be able to find employment without being prohibited from joining any legitimate org-,mization, so too should a person be able to find employment without being forced to join any organization. If there are unfair employment practices, as the union claims, then those practices should be brought out and corrected. But the way to do this is not to force all of the workers to join a union or any other body. Might I remind the students that if not for the non-striking workers, we might all be drowning in our own garbage. Tom Olin '77 Carter Resignation Demanded To the Editor: History shows that the anti-Semite is frequently the quickest to deny his own anti-Semitism. Rand Carter's statements (The Spectator , November 2, 1973) certainly bear out this observation. Any man has the right to express his opinions on the history and politics of the A r a b - I s r a el i crisis ; b ut ·b lat an t anti-Semitism such as demonstrated by Mr . C a r t e r c a n no t g o un challenged-e s p ecially when such irresponsible views come from a professor of Hamilton College. We are referring to the numerous analogies that Mr. Carter draws between the Zionists and the Nazis. What Mr. Carter refuses to comprehend is that Zionism is not merely a divergent philosophy of Judaism, but is rather one
of the basic tenets of the Jewish religion-a tenet that has played a major role in keeping a scattered people alive and unified for nearly 2000 years. Thus, to call Zionists Nazis, as. does Mr. Carter, is to brand the entire Jewish people in a like manner. We are still living in the shadow of the Nazi Holocaust. The creation of the State of Israel, had it come a mere decade earlier, would have saved six million lives that no other country was willing to lift a finger to preserve. It was and is the hope that all Jews throughout the world in need of refuge-in the Communist countries, in the Arab countries, and perhaps someday even in the United · States (based on statements such statements as those of Mr. Carter)-will be able to find refuge in the State of Israel. Israel has already provided a haven for tens of ·thousands of Jews fleeing from oppression all over the world. The concept of the Jews as the "chosen people" is not an example of Hitler's "master race" philosophy, as Mr. Carter would have us believe� It merely cites the belief that the Jews were chosen by God to lead a certain way of life guided by a precise moral and religious code as outlined in the Torah. For Mr. Carter to ridicule such a basic religious belief is deplorable in the extreme and offends the sensibilities of any moral person-Jew or non-Jew. We are confident that Mr. Carter's statement, laced with historical fallacies, n o n s e n s i c al u no ri g i n a l p o l i t i c a l propoganda, and just abysmal ignorance, .can easily be seen through by most intelligent and informed people on this campus. Our purpose in writing this letter was not to argue with such obviously illogical, biased, and uninformed political views. Our objection is to the anti-Semitic rhetoric straig_ht out of all the virulent anti-Semitic publications of the last years-from The Protocals of the Elders of Zion to Mein Kampf. Th e., s e nse of o p e n- mindedness, equality, and freedom of religion on which this College prides itself is shattered when we learn that a member of our faculty is s o o b v i o u s l y p r e j u d i c e d and closed-minded. W e demand a public apology and retraction before the entire College community of these deeply insulting remarks. Should such a response not be immediately forthcoming from Mr. Carter, we d�mand prompt termination of his tenure at Hamilton College. Joseph Wachspress '76 Roger Schneider '7 5
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. were interested in hearing die concert, but in turning them away t h e Center To the Editor: succeeded in embittering them. The Women's Center concert Friday The nature of the concert aka alienated night proved to be quite controversial. I quite a number of women for two reasons, agree that it's very important for women one · being the previously mentioned to be conscious of themselves and to have exclusion of males.. The other was the a chance to be together and interact' with emphasis on lesbianism.. I find nothing each other as women, and understand that unnatural about esbiani:sm. and have Lavender Jane didn't want any males in recognized my own potential to have the audience for that reason, if not for lesbian relationships.. However,. J object to others. Yet I can't help but disagree with b e i n g b ombarded ·th SODgS and the way the concert was advertised or the magazines telling me t the �nly good time and place it was held. There could� woman is lesbian. One can be a feminist have been more publicity and explanation and not be a lesbian, or be a lesbian and of why males were not to be allowed in. I not . be a feminis:L It is impornm to also think it should have been on a recognize and accept the poten · for different night and perhaps in a different lesbianism within oursdwcs and to be ab1.e place. The concert was advertised as an to, if we want, have open csbian alternative to ·houseparties. Yet not only relationships without ftt:ling e have to were males not allowed to participate, but hide or that are do" g some - g the Coffeehouse, one of the few places wrong. But we do ot have o oose open to them to relax without joining the lesbianism to be women. :ror do we ha e mass drinking orgy, was made off-limits. to cut off our associations males to The males who would have been be women. interested in the concert would have The members of the Vome s Cen er already been fairly open-minded in their hate male chauvinism.. ·et instead of- views of women. These feelings could have trying to do something about it, the.· turn been strengthened by their hearing songs around and throw female chauvinism in about women and seeing solidarity and the males' faces. rm not sure if l have a togetherness that many of the women good definition of wmrum �� but it is present felt. Wouldn't we benefit ourselves and something inside each in · · b y, t r y i n g t o r aise a few male definitely can not be found by g a consciousnesses along with our own? Or g r o u p of femaks o nise their are we to become female chauvinists? The consciousnesses to the total cxdu.sion of Women's Center seemed to only defeat males. If the omen's Cent« wan cd some of its purpose Friday-it lost the attention, it certainly got it. But I ondo sympathies of many males who aren't toward what purpose that desire for chauvinistic and who also wanted an attention was aimed. alternative to houseparties. They really J e cinstcin.'75 Female Chauvinism
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BY MICHAEL H. HALTZEL welcome the observations on the Middle East situation in last week's Spectator by my friend and colleague Rand Carter, but I feel that several of his ass ertions require further comment. I) Let's stop beating the old dead horse about pro-Arabs being called anti-Semites. We all surely know that both Arabs and Jews are Semites and we should by now be aware of the numerous and influential pro-Arab voic�s in American journalism such as Dana Adams Schmjdt and John Cooley, to name only two.Cooley's recent front-page story in the Christian Science Monitor looked like it had been composed by the AI-Fatah propaganda office. The fa c t t h a t m o s t American commentators-and private citizens-have s ympathized with Israel has never prevented pro-Arab sentiment from being aired, as anyone who has followed the events of the current crisis via newspapers, radio or television can attest. 2) The insidious equating of Zionist and Nazi behavior is historically fallacious. Just as it was the Germans who attacked the Slavs of Eastern Europe in 1939 and 1941, so it was the armies of seven Arab nations wfio attacked Israel on the first day of her existence in 1948. Moreover, the purveyor of Nazi-style racial and religious hatred in the Middle East continues to be the "Voice of the Arabs" radio sender in Cairo, an arm of the
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Egyptian government of Mr. Sadat who, we may recall, worked for the victory of the Nazis in World War II. 3) Not all Arabs "reconciled themselves years ago to the de facto existence of a Zionist state of Israel." Even if we choose to accept at face-value the dubious protestations of the Egyptian and Syrian governmen!s that they really only wanted to return to the pre-1967 lines when they made their attack last month, we must not forget that the stated aim of all the Palestinian organizations is to set up a '-'multi-..;_ational, secular state in Palestine" - a code word for the elimination of Israel. While the Palestinians· propaganda in English and French to the Western world has of late become margina.J,ly more moderate in its discussion of Jewish rights in t h i s proposed new state, their A r a b i c- l anguage pronouncements for home consumption have retained the old formula: "all post-Balfour Jews (i.e. all Jews but septuagenarians and up) must
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4) Professor Carter is perfectly correct in saying that "Jerusalem is a city sacred to at least three major religions, and the holy places there must be accessible to
all." The point is quite simply that for the first time in decades they now are. During t he 1948-49 war the Kingdom of Trans-Jordan (it has· subsequently altered its name in an attempt to "legalize" its deeds) illegally annexed territory west of the Jordan River including the Old City of J e r u s a l e m. Its soldiers then began systematically to desecrate many Jewish holy sites in the most vulgar manner, at the same time barring,. Jews from those sites which remained intact. I saw this situation first-hand in 1964 when, I am ashamed to say, I was forced to hide the fact that I am a Jew in order to be able to. stand before the Wailing Wall in the then-"Jordanian" sector of Jerusalem. Today, Christian, Jew and l\foslem alike have free access to Jerusalem's holy sites. 5) M o s t important of all: the Palestinians had a state of their own, set up by the United Nations in 1947. The U.N. Partition was not an ideal solution - f ew political compromises are. The Palestinians decided that they wanted a whole loaf rather than a half. They were convinced that with the military aid of the other Arab countries they could push ..the Jews into the sea. As a result they lost
their state, and most of th.cm became refugees. Their current t pathetic one, but it sbo d no KUR two salient facts. Fir theirs · the o _ case in the 20th century where a people has not seriously attemp ed. to reset e it own refugees. In the 19 ' and l95o•s Germany, Finland, India and akistan all admitted millions of refugees, in e fast two cases into geograp area greatly reduced by World ar Il. It is clear tha the squalid camps run b U..N. ch · y are largely a testimony o t he cailo of e dd the Arab governments hie Palestinians as pofuical pawns for a q u a r te r - ce ntury. Seco:nd, lsr.te as meanwhile absorbed 750,00 Jn s from Arab countries, most of treated the Jews shameles5ly. e feel that some form of co sation should be made to thr Palestinian refugees, o�e mnst gr.m logic Israeli assertion that • happeried has been a mass- e exc e of populations. As. one who has had happy involvement Jews from the Middle East , concur that the rights of both part" be recognized. l e can qin. ho er. only by judiciously • · ving the historical e v i d e·n ce v it h ou t · d e o og- cal preconceptions.. T
Michael H. Halt=el is Auistant &ofessOT of History at Harnilton Co c
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Kirkland Sponsors Alumnae Weekend
ICE SKATES Hockey and Figure models
CCM and Bauer $19.95 and up
Supervisory personnel colle,::ting garbage outside Soper Commons. Essential services have been maintained throughout· the 19 day walkout by Local 200 of the Service Employees International Union. Details on page 8.
Lavender Jane Plays For Female Audience
BY TRACY STERN The Women's Center sponsored a concert last Friday night at the C offee House, featuring the t hree-pi e ce w o men's b and, "Lavender Jane." The organizers of the concert limited attendance to women. This stipulation that men be excluded sparked off a variety of reactions, ranging from extreme -anger to the conviction that the atmosphere among the women present could not have been achieved in a mixed audience. A random selection of students f r o m b o t h c o l l e g e s w e re interviewed, and were asked about t heir feelings concerning the exclusion of males, and why they thought this had been done. The students questioned would not give their names. One Kirkland student felt strongly that the concert was a violation of men's rights and is trying to organize a meeting to discuss this and present her complaints to the Women's Center
next week. Another Kirkland student said, "Generally I do not believe in reverse descrimination, but that concert was the first time since I've been at Kirkland that I had really positive feelings about it being a women's college. ''This is a college that only admits women and it seems natural that there should be functions for the students of this college only. The concert was definitely oriented to women; there was a perceptible change in the atmosphere when a man entered the room." Another Kirkland student said, "I didn't go. I was busy but I would have gone to House Parties if I had gone out. I think it's a crazy thing to do in terms of principle. I couldn't figure out why it was only for women." Another said, "It was an excellent concert. I really enjoyed it. Last weekend was the best that I've had here. yet. It couldn't have continued on page five
BY FELICE FREYER Associates/Alumnae Weekend at Kirkland will be held this Friday and Saturday. Fifty to sixty of Kirkland's estimated 400 alumnae are expected to be present for the first official reunion of the newly-formed Alumnae Association. Considering that a large number of the Kirkland alumnae are presently holding full-time jobs or attending graduate school, this will be an excellent turnout. The affair has been organized by Assistant to the President Dorothy Evans. She said that she was greatly impressed with the letters she received. "I'm amazed at the response," she said. ''The alumnae's feelings about Kirkland are warm and high. They realize how much their years here have meant." Most of the activities will be sponsored by both the Kirkland A s s ociates and the Alwnnae A s s o c iation, s ince Associate Weekends have been held in the past and most alumnae have also chosen to become Associates. The Associates, the "foster alumnae" of K irkland, are advocates of the college who were i n volved w i t h admissions, recruiting, field service, and career counseling before there were any alwnnae. The Alumnae Association was established this fall and has recently been chartered by the University of the New York Department of Education. At this year's first meeting of Kirkland's Board of Trustees, the Board agreed on a set of by-laws and a ballot for nominating a slate of officers. The Weekend's activities will begin Friday at 6:30 p.m., when cocktails will be served at the List Arts Center. The Alumnae Dinner will then be held at 7:30 in
M c E w e n H a ll. Students are requested to eat at Commons or Bundy Friday evening in order to accomodate the visitors. A s y m p o s i u m on "The Freshman Wasteland, Reseeding the Orchard", open to Associates, alumnae, students, and faculty, will be held in the Kirner-] ohnson Auditorium at 9 a.m. Saturday. The topic of discussion will be a proposal for an experimental freshman seminar designed by three Kirkland fac.ulty members: David Locke, Henry Stabenau, and Walter Broughton. The alumnae will then have an opportunity to attend one of seven 80-minute mini-courses. The courses are: "The Synthesizer: How, What, and Why," taught by Patti Pomerantz '75; "Feminism in 12th Century France," taught by Jerrald TownsenQ, instructor of history; a creative writing workshop, led by Chairman of the Arts Division William Rosenfeld and A s s i s tant P rofessor of C reative W r i t i n g Katherine Saltonstall; "Micro-Teaching: the L e a r n i n g M irror," given by Assistant Professor of Education Evelyn Hendricks and Visiting Assistant Professor of Education N anc_y Blodgett; "De-Bugging Persons," presented by Phyllis Morris, Assistant Professor of Philosophy; a relief sculpture study in space, by Associate P r o f e s s o r of Sculpture and Printmaking James McDermid. Chairman of the Sciences Division Eli.zabeth Gilbert will lead a walk in the woods south of the Kirkland dormito�ies. None of the mini-courses .re open to students. A reception wil,l be held on the s e c o n d f l o o r of the Kirner-] ohnson Building at about 3:00 p.m. Saturday to give all Kirkland students the opportunity to meet and speak with the alumnae.
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STUDENT SENATE At the meeting of the Student Senate on Monday, November 5, the current strike by Lo cal 200 of the . Service Employees International Union was presented for open debate. The intention was to synthesize·some statement representative of the entire �enate. However, it became apparent that no agreement could be reached on any single issue or aspect of an issue. This was due partially to a lack of information available concerning offers and demands on the parts of the College and the Union. As a result of this discussion the only statement the Senate could make concerning the strike was the following: STUDENT SENATE RESOLUTION ON THE STRIKE OF LOCAL 200 The Student Senate calls upon the Hamilton-Kirkland and Local 200 bargaining representatives to return to the bargaining table and pursue a just settlement in good faith. The senate declines to take a position on either side of the wage demand or union security issues in light of the paucity of reliable and uncontended information on those issues. The Senate, however, will pursue the goal of obtaining and disseminating accurate information. In anticipation of more reliable information the Senate reserves the right to change its current position towards any concerned party or issue involved in the dispute. In consideration of the multiplicity of opinion on the part of the indivirlual
members of the Senate, the Senate agrees to allow any or all of its members to express personal considerations concerning the strike as addenda to this resolution. These opinions by the individual senators are not to be interpreted as representative of the opinion of the· Senate, nor are they to be interpreted as inclusive of all individual opinions in the Senate. George D. Baker President of the Student Senate The following statements are expressions of individual senators' views on the maintenance workers' strike.
I think the student body wants the strike to end, because clean buildings and well-kept grounds are something we as a community have become accustomed to being proud of. However, the way to solve the strike, in short, what is best for both of the arguing factions is a highly debatable matter. I am in favor of wage increases, but so are both the college and the union. The humanitarian in me says to give the strikers the raise they want. However, I know I don't like paying $4100 a year to go to college and would like paying $4500 a year even less, so I guess in truth I don't think the college can afford to give the strikers all the money they need. I am against across the board wage increases-I think skilled workers should get a
larger wage, they are presently more grossly underpaid. I was against a union shop bec ause it gave the union a vehicle to extort money from the college, and I am similarly against an agency -shop because freedom of choice is not allowed (Who wouldn't rather give $5 a month to a union which would benefit him than to a scholarship fund? On the other hand how many wouldn't just prefer to keep the $5 ?) It sounds very much as if I totally support the college, but this is not the case either. I know the money saved in any wage dispute will be put towards some other expenditure along with thousands of dollars yet unanticipated-impersonal expenditures like a $39,000 electron microscope. I'm not arguing that such things are not important, however if it comes to a choice whether to give money to someone living in debt or to spend it on something which will benefit 15-20 students a year, I have to favor the former choice. Bob Applegate '75 Student Senate find it upsetting that the Service Employees' Strike on the Hill still continues. I personally support the union's demands for a 30c/hr. wage hike--lump sum and net piecemeal--for both skilled and unskilled workers as well as the creation of an agency shop. continued on page eleven
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All-Female Concert Excites Comment continued from page four been done with men there. We we r e c e l e b r a t i n g o u r fem ale�ess-how could men have· shared that? I wish they could have things like that more often." A I-la milton student remarked, "I really find the idea ridiculous. If the people at Hamilton did it I would find it equally ridiculous. The women who were there say they ha d a certain feeling of comraderie. They should have been able to feel that with men there, too." Another Hamilton student said simply, "I don't see anything wrong with it." A third commented, "I was interested in going, but when I found out it was closed to men I wante d to go, just to be antagonistic. It was basically a wrong-headed idea. I can accept Blacks doing something similar because they need to establish
concert. their identity apart from whites. One Hamilton student ·who was But women here have a strong interviewed said he had really enough identity already. They wanted to go see Lavender Jane don't need to do that. Males have and felt it had not been advertised to come to an understanding early enough that only women also." would be admitted. He said he, as In response to this a Kirkland well as some other men from student said, "That's exactly the Hamilton, had also wanted an point. Oppressed people need to alternative to House Parties. establish a unity separate from A Kirkland student responded other groups. I respect the need to this by saying, "The Women's for Black people to get together without whites, and I respect the Center planned this for Kirkland women. The men who wanted an need for women to get together alternative could have taken the without men. It isn't setting a initiative. to plan an activity also." p r ecedent for all time; but Kirkland Dean of Students occasionally it is strengthening for Jane Poller was asked about her women to meet without the opinion on the concert and her pressures of men." ,. reply was, "The concert on Friday S e v e r a l s t u dents f r om was one of the best things that has Hamil ton who w�re approached happened around here for � long had not heard about the concert, time." She did not feel that this and some Kirkland students could have happend if men had responded neutrally saying that been there. they had been to House Parties President Babbitt was asked for and had no opinion about the h i s f eelings on the matter.
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"Frankly, I was delighted with the idea." He went on to say that he thinks we need to explore new options for social activities on campus, an d that in context, the concert was fine. He wouldn't recommend that ·there be a closed concert every Friday night but he felt that there was nothing wrong with trying out new ideas. Another young woman who was present at the concert feels that, "It is essential for Kirkland to continue to have activities such as this; there was a r�al sense of community. It was our first bond." At any rate, as one student said, "If it made people thinls., it was a good thing."
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BY FRED ACKERSON
Students Support Winter Study in Poll BY ROBERT HYLAS
In recent years there has been some question among college officials as well as stude�ts as to the v a lue of Winter Study Program. Over the past three years the student curriculum committee
proposed for Kirkland's 1974 spring semester. Both courses, one involving consumer economics a nd one involving sex d i s c r i m i n a t i o n , h ave been s uccessfully offered at other PIRC-supporting campuses. S tudents in the consumer economics course would staff a soon-to-be-opened consumer aid office in Utica and research food prices in the Utica-Clinton area. A study of hearing aid fraud is also under planning. The sex discrimination course c o u l d i n vo lve r e s e a r ch i n g employment agencies and credit organizations in the area for unfair practices due to sexual discrimination. Both courses are coordinatt:d with research at othe PIRC chapters. The results of this l a r g e - s c a l e research will be publicized by PIRC later. The previous success of these projects is a primary reason for there being the first PIRC proposals here. Both courses are subject to the decisions reached by the SCACA Thursday night.
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Thursday night PIRC brought two course proposals and one Winter Study project before the Kirkland Standing Committee on Academic and Curricular Affairs for approval. These proposals would allow Hamilton-Kirkland students to gain course credit while doing a valuable research service for the public. Over ten students have applied for the Winter Study project, a NYPIRC-sponsored internship in Albany to gather political profiles. Students accepted for this-project will go to Albany to interview various state politicians and write brief profiles on them. The profiles, including voting record, personal history, staff size, and other pertinent facts, will then be compiled by NYPIRC and distributed to the voting public before the primaries in March. Don Ross, executive director of NYPIRC, will be on campus within the next few weeks to in terview candidates for this project. The two courses have been
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polled Hamilton students as to -· their feelings about Winter study.· The results of these polls seein '1 to irtdicate a firm support for'.:, -f Winter Srudy among students·and · a strong desire that it be' 'f___, continued in its present form. f During the three years that th� . ;i polls were taken, 1970, 1971, .... _ 19 7 2, the results were similarly favorable. In all three years, weff over 50 per cent of the students felt that Winter Study was either "highly worthwhile" or "one of the most worthwhile things {they had) ever done." Less than 10 per cent in air three polls felt that Winter Study was either of "little .. 1 v:1lue" or "completely worthless." -��· Most students admitted that ·, the workload in Winter Study was, . ·: less than during the regular ' · semester. Over half in all three. polls characterized their workload as either "somewhat less" or, . "much less" than their regular •. workload. -An overwhelming majority of the students felt the work ths1 t was assigned was about the right F amount. . urther, students felt the· work they did do "helped awaken',. greater interest and a mor�· · favorable attitude towards course work" in general. Students also noted a greater degree of independence during Winter Study. Only around tea • · J.· percent of the students felt the p r o g r a m wa s t o o closel_y supervised and the vast majority felt a great deal of independence. in their work. Overall, students seem to feel .� that Winter Study is a worthwhile experience, and that it is carried· out rather well. Appare11tly, most .. "-:, students think that Winter Study :_" -should be continued, although no· · .- � specific question. was asked to that effect. There has been speculation that Winter Study will be either altered or terminated altogether but no specific plans have been made as yet. This years Wint�r Study is. for the most part, the . same as �n years past.
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Sister Sounds at McEwen: ''The Woman in Your -Life"
BY ANNE THOMPSON Friday night some women left the McEwen Coffeehouse as high as they had ever been at Kirkland. Grinning broadly, they hugged each other and expressed warmly their feelings about the all-women's concert which had roused so much criticism in the past weeks. "It's funny, but it didn't make me feel hostile towards men/' one girl said. HI just feel more positive about women, and feel better able to turn to them and be clo'Se to them." Other women nodded. Another women said, ''It was a positive, reinforcing event, not a negative, excluding one. Men can't seem to understand th'at. They feel we left them out for one
night, and that threatened them. T h ey s h ould b e a b l e t o understand that women need to b e ju s t a m o n g w o m e n; occasionally. We need to direct our energies to understanding ourselves some of the time�" The.se women were among t h o s e w ho w e r e in t h e Coffeehouse listening, singing w·th, and applauding Lavender Jane, a feminist folk group who prefers playin,g only for women. Alix Dobkin, the singer and songwriter of the group, played the guitar proficiendy and sang a beautiful vairiety of .songs. They were American� Balkan and Scottish� as well as her own. She was backed up on electric bass and flnte, and the group was tight
--- New York -based "'rock group. Sister Moon PROGRAM ON MORMONISM Monday evening representatives of the Chur-ch of jesns Christ of Latter-day Saints will be on campus to p:r,esenit a pmgram caUed "Why I Am a Mormon." The meeiing will take place in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit at 8:30 p.m. KIRKLAND HUMANITJES LECTURE Professor Carolyn Heilbrun of Columbia University will lecture on Androgyny in Literature on Tuesday� November il3 .at 8:.30 pm in the List Recital Hall. Professor Heilbrun's most recent book,. Toward a Recognition of Androgyny,i is a study of mythology in literatur,e which is concerned with the mingling of "mascnlinen and •1reminine" characteristics in gods and human beings. Ait the same time,. Heilbrun argues for the necessity of humanity to recognize the dangers of sexual polarization in politics and environmental studies. POETRY READING Milton Kessler will give a poetry reading at The Red Pit, Kirkland College on Thursday, November 15 at .8:.30 pm. The weU-known poet is a professor at SUNY in Binghamton, New York. His latest book, Sailing Too Far was published this year iby Rarber and Row. A warm person and poet, his work is ima,gistic and-fuU of preople. The event, sponsored by the Kirkland College Arts Division ,, is open to the public. AMENJC This weekend, AMENIC presents Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light. Second in his trilogy on faith, Winter Light springs from iB�gman's . explicit desire to define man's relation to God-if Be exists. A village pastor, empty of faith and despecatdy umloved, reveals his bitter failure to off er spiritual consolation to his flock. Somberly poignant, the film sketches a world of half-empty churches but not entirely without a hope in God's universe. Science Auditorium. Thursday, J•riday, and Saturday at 8; Sunday at rn. A.dmis.sion is $.75.
and friendly. Some of the house favorites were "The Only Woman in Your Life is You," "Song from Gayhead," and "I Only Want to be with You." The feelings in the room were those she described a woman's love as, soft, warm, and peaceful. There was more relaxed w ar m t h, p o s i tive interaction between performers and audience, and grins on people's faces than� the Coffeehouse has ever · seen before. In the middle of the last set there was a discussion. The three performers answered questions and discussed their lesbianism w i t h s o m e w o men in the audience. One of these was negative and questioning, asking why there was exclusion of men, s o m e t hjn g s h e f el t w as discriminiatory and wrong. The women explained why they didn't like playing for men,· how they didn't get the same good vibes back, and how the feelings were never· as good as with all-women g r oups. We understood and agreed, and left at the end contentedly humming the good songs to ourselves. The Women's Center Dance on Saturday night, held in the spirit of coordination, was a definite success. The band was Sister Moon , a group of hard-rocking New York musicians who were excellent. The lead si nger had a good, strong voice, and belted out blues, Stones, and Latin soul with equal fervor. McEwen was a good place for a dance, with lots of air and space, and everyone who came early enough drank the excellent sangria ahd stomped happily. Sister Moon. lost some m o m entum with its long breaks, and the sangria ran out rather early, so many left for drinks and dancing elsewhere, but a number stayed to the end, using the space creatively and having a good time. The two women's ev�nts were the nicest things to h ap pen at Kirkland in some time. They offered an alternative to Hamilton houseparty events, aria provided s o m e g o o d feelings a n d entertainment for_ many people.
Pianist Richard Goode
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Classical pianist Richard Goode will perform in the Chapel on November 1.3. His program will inclu d,e w or k s by Mozart, S choenbe r g ,. Schumann, and S�hubert. The concert will. start at 8 pm. Mr-. G e>o d e h a d h is i n t r od u ct i on t o Manhattan concert a ud i en ce s on f"we successive Youn g Concert Artists" Series beginning in 1961. He has a l s o b e e n heard o n t h e Metropolitan Museum o f Art's Young Artist Series,. at Town Hall in 1967 and 1969 with Music from Madboi-o, at Cam� HaD in 1968 on Akxander Schneider's Bach Series and on serveral occagom with the New School Chamber Series, and the Boston Chamber Players. As a member of
the latter group he made a State Dep� rtment tour of Russia in 1967. A native New Yorker, Mr. Goode studied at the Manne! College of Music in New York City, then with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he assisted for a year on the faculty. In 1964, '65, and '66 Mr. Go ode was featured in the cham he r music programs at festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto; he is a founding performer of the Lincoln Center Music Society which appears regularly at Alice Tully Hall. He has also been heard as s oleis t - - w i t h -th-@-• symplwny orchest ras o f P h i l adelphia, Baltimore, Washingt�n, Toronto and Mexico City.
Uhuru Sponsors Poetry Readings; Experience in Mro-Latin Culture The Uhuru Ensemble will host a Fa l l Afr o-L a t i n Cultural Weekend at Kirkland College on November 9 and 10, beginning at 8:00 p.m. each evening. The two-day program, which will be presented in the · Red Pit at Kirkland, includes poetry readings by two New York City writers, Tom Wetherly and Kali, as well as by the Kirkland-Hamilton Uhuru Poets. On Fri d ay evening, Tom Wetherly will read his new poetry and a selection of poems from "Thumbprint," his most recently published works. He has also written "Mau Mau American Cantos," ''Natural Processes;• an anthology, and · ..Climate." Born in Scotsboro, Alabama, Wetherly attended Morehouse College in Atlanta and Alabama A & M. He is presently living in Brooklyn.· Kali, who was born and r.iised in New York City's Spanish
Harlem as Vido Ramirez, is a writer and a •"Mwalimu/' or teacher of Swahili A member of the Mashariki family. he began writing four years ago at the age of 17. Presently he is working on an anthology entitled ""Natural Man, From a Circle of Black Force..... which he describes as u360 degrees of Blackness coming at you.•• On Saturday evening, beginning at 8:00 p.m., he will read a selectjon of his poetry. On Friday night, Joe Lewis and Lynn K. Pannell will present their film, Brothers Dead. A dead Black man lies on a slab, while different people in his life speak over his body. They communicate their Jove for him. and the many ways in which he retwned that love. Om both evenings students from Kirkland and Hamilton CoUeges will read their poetry. T h e Uhum Poets who will perform include Brenda Mayers,
L ynn P an n e l l , Ana Sierra, S h arleen D i c kinson, Edna Cardona and Celeste Cobham o! Kirkland College, and Joseph Lewis, Anthony Scoon, Rick Hicks, Albert Jackson, Donald Ta ylor and Martin Soto o! H a m i It o n C o 11 e g e. In conjunction with the cultur� w eekend, an exhibition o! sketches by f'reddie Cruz, a junior at Clinton High School will be held in the Afro-Latin Cultural Center on the college campu1 from November 8-16. The artist'! work ·has previously been shown at the Hayes National Bank. According to Ana Sierra, an Uhuru Poet, the exhibition and the Fall Cultural Weekend are part of a series of programs sponsored by the Uhuru Ensemble in ordei to acquaint the people at the c olleges and the surrounding community with the Black and Puerto Rican culture.
EVENTS FILMS
On Campus This Weekend
Winter Light directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow and Ingrid Thulin. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 10 only. Science Auditorium. Admission .75. Some Like It Hot. Comedy with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon. Alsol'm No Angel,a Mae West short. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 10 only. Kirner-Johnson Aud. Admission .75
November 12 and 13 (Monday and Tuesday)
Women's Center Fi Im Series: Two Women. 8 pm in the Kirner-Johnson ,'\uditorium.
November 14 (Wednesday)
Civilisation Film Series: The Pursuit of Happiness;the music of the 18th century. 8:30 pm, Chemistry Auditorium.
November 15 (Thursday)
Pierre le Fou. 8 pm, Science Auditorium. Admission .75 Oliver Twist and The Balloonatic. 8 pm, Chemistry Auditorium. Admission .75
At Nearby Theaters
Cannonball (853-5553) The Immigrant (PG) Kallet (736-2313) American Graffiti (PG) Stanley (724-4000) Campus Swingers (X), The Young Seducers (X) Uptown (732-0665) M.A.5.H. 259 Cinema (732-5461) Soft Shoulders, Sharp Curves (X), Tales That Witnesses Madness (R) The Italian Connection(R) LECTURE AND DISCUSSION November 9 (Friday)
Two Nights of Poetry. Uhuru poets, film, and guest poets. 8pm, Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. Also Saturday.
November 10 (Saturday)
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:30 pm. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. Intercom. Informal conversation, discussion, and music with students, faculty, and townsfolk. 9 pm, Alumni House.
November 11 (Sunday)
Free Church of Clinton. Speaker: George Nesbitt, Emeritus Professor of English. Hymns, Sacred and Profane. 11 :15 am. Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 pm. Chapel.
November 12 (Monday)
Community Meeting. Kirkland President Babbitt. College Finances. 3:30 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Discussion: College Degree Program offered by Empire State College. Speaker: Mr. George Bragle, Coordinator for Empire State College. 4:30 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. Development and Income Distribution. Speaker: john H. Adler, Director of Program and Budgeting Department, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. 8 pm. Science Auditorium. Theology Workshop: Why I am a Mormon. Elders Oldroyd and Horn of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 8:30 pm. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
November 13 (Tuesday)
Writers Salon. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. Lecture: Androgyny and Literoture-. -Speaker: - Ms. -Carol.yn Heilbrun, Professor of English, Columbia University. 8:30 pm. List Recital Hall.
November 14 (Wednesday)
Lecture: The Innateness of Freedom. Speaker: Dr. Thomas Bever of Columbia University. 8:30 pm. Chapel. Intercom. 9 pm. Alumni House.
November 15 (Thursday)
_ Sat Sang (Divine Light Mission): Spiritual Discourse. 7:30 pm. Bristol Campus Center Fisher Room. Poetry Reading. Milton Kessler, teacher at SUNY Binghamton. 8:30 pm. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
Currently on Campus
EXHIBITIONS
Modern Housing Prototypes. At the Bristol Campus Center Lounges, through November 11 . Student One Man Show; Recent Works by Matt Solon '74. At the Bristol Center Snack Bar, through November 17. Prints, Drawings, and Paintings by Lovis Corinth. At the Root Art Center, through November 25. Anonymous Photographers. At the List Art Center, through November 27.
November 15 (Thursday)
Exhibition and sale. Paintings and prints from Ferdinand Roten Galleries. 11 am. Bristol Center Snack Bar.
MUSIC November 9 and 10 (Friday and Saturday).
McEwen Coffeehouse Presents Paul Combs, country musician. 9 pm. Free with Social Tax, $.50 without.
November 13 (Tuesday)
Concert Richard Goode, Pianist. 8:30 pm. Chapel. November 15 (Thursday)
Hootenanny. 9 pm. McEwen Coffeehouse.
November 10 (Saturday)
SPORTS
Football against Alfred. 1:30 pm at Steuben Field.
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County Deflates Arts Fuads; Hill Summer Stock lnJ,periled
The Oneida County Board of Legislators' Ways and Means Committee has, in effect, told local arts lovers that they can pay their own way, th';! county is not going to throw its money away on such frivolity. This is about the only logical conclusion one can draw from the v i r t u a l e l i m i n a t i on of a comparatively paltry $15,000 that County Executive William Bryant had added to his 1974 proposed budget. What the committee did in a seemingly barbaric turn of mind was eliminate $11,450 of the proposed $15,000. This means the C ivic Musical Society, which sponsors the city's excellent s y m phony, will not get an additional $ 5, 000 that it desperately needs. The Utica Opera Guild, which is an o utstanding and rare �rganization for a city this size, will not get the $2,000 Bryant propo s e d. T he A d irondack P l ay house, which opened at Hamilton College last summer as t he only l o cal professional summer stock company, will not get $2,000, which may spell its demise. Other smaller amounts for various Utica groups were also eliminated. Rome organizations, for some reason, fared better and will get their pittances. The Committee's action is shocking when one considers how niggardly the county has been in its support of the arts in the past. Such support has been virtually non-e xistent, especially when compared to Onondaga County, w hi c h g i ves something over $300,000 and Monroe County (Rochester) that gives more than twice that amount. lt may well be that the Committee had to make up for a $1 million error in the proposed budget, but surely it could have spared $11,450 (in a budget of more than $55 million) for such a �ort�while_ ��us�.
Not only could the denial of these funds to the financially hard-pressed groups be a matter of life and death, it could limit their ab"l"t 1 1 y to obtam · ma tch"mg funds. • There can be no justification for the elimination of
A one-man exhibition of recent photographs by Steven Liebman, A s s i stant Professor of Photography at Kirkland College, opens November 3 at the Two Rivers Gallery in Binghamton, New York. The exhibit will continue through November 25 and is sponsored by the Fine Arts Society. Forty photographs of family, friends, circuses and wrestling are included in the exhibit. Liebman was selecte_sl �Y- a jury for the show and has exhibited at the Light Gallery, New York City; Kirkland ·Art Center, Clinton; Light Impressions, Rochester; and the 60's Continuum at George .Eastman House. His photographs are- included in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New York C ity; George Eastman· House, Rochester; Rhode Island School of Design and Kirkland Art Center. Three photographs of children are now exhibited in a group showing at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, and will remain as part of a permanent exhibition.
Liebman received his B.A. degree from Brooklyn College and his M. F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied under Harry Callahan. He has taught photography at the Rhode Island School of Design as a graduate assistant and Ohio Wesleyan University. In a d dition to t eachin& p h o t o g r a p hy a t K ir k l an d, Liebman organizes exhibits at the List Arts Center of the college.
these fe thousand dollars that bring such great return to the community. Ed. ote: This article is part of an editorial reprinted from a rece1 t Utica paper.
Dame Folly Speaks, l>y Fritz Eichenbng
Original Prints al Bristol Original works by several of the great masters of art will soon be e xhibited at the Bristol Campus Center. An Exhibition of Contemporary and Old Master Original Graphic Art is presented by the Ferdinand Roten Calleries of Baltimore, Maryland.·. The_
Liebman Photo Exhibit Opens in Binghamton
Exhibitions Committee on the H i l l i s s p o n o r i ng t h e presentation, which will be held on Thursday, ovember 15, from 11 am to 6 pm in the Snack Bar. Included in the exhibition will be over 1,000 original etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts by artists such as Picasso, Chagall, Mir o , D a l i , G o y a , Renior, K ol l w i tz, and many others i n c l u d i n g c o n t e mp o r a r y A m e r i c a n, Eur opean, a n d Japanese printmaters. Prices start at 5.00 with the majority priced under $100.00 A well-qualified representative of the Roten Galleries will be present at the exhibition to answer any questions the public may have regarding graphic art and printmaking. Roten Galleries specializes in arranging exhibition sales of -original graphic art at colleges, m u s eu m s, a n d a rt c enters throughout the country.
CULTURAL WEEKEND
The Black and Puerto Rican Union of Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges invites the college community to a cultural weekend of poetry November 9th and 10th from 8-10 pm. There will be three guest poets from N.Y.C.: Kali, Yusef Walemaya, and J'om Wetherly !
KINOKUNST
This weekend Kinokunst presents Billy Wilder s Some Like it Hot and a Mae West short, I'm No Angel. Some Like it Hot is a hilarious comedy starring Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as two musicians on the run for having witnessed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. They dress in drag and join a women's band, where they meet Maril yn Monroe, with whom they both fall in love. eedless to say, the plot thickens and the laughter increases. Shows are at eight Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and at ten Sunday, in the Kirner-] ohnson auditorium. A dmission is$. 75_. -
8/THE SPECTATOR/November 9, 1973
College Officia ls Evaluate Workers' Strike Here Workers Maintain Services
workers attempting· to replace found, however, that employ�es BY BOB GRIEVES Leuiken here have not shown the interest All the carpenters, half the broken windows. Mr. plumbers, and the majority of the believes strongly that vital in m oving i n t o higher-paid janitorial staff have returned to serv_ices, such as elevator repair positions as the workers did at the work at the two colleges, Gerald and garbage disposal, must University of New Hampshire's physical plant, which Mr. Leuiken Leuiken, Director of the Physical continue if the strike prevails. H a m ilto!l-Kirkland pays its m anaged b e f ore coming to P !ant s a i d Thursday. The bargaining unit, or those that are ground employees higher salaries Hamilton. Mr. Leuiken said that eligible to join the union, includes than both Colgate University and he would much prefer promoting roughly seventy-five members. Of M o hawk Valley Community people familiar with the colleges t h o s e sev enty-five, about College, according to Mr. Leuiken. than hiring someone from outside. H e e m p h a s i z e d t he twenty-eight have returned to Wo rker l o yalty, particularly among employees who have been misinformation which the strikers work. Many were told, according to here many years, is high. Open have given out concerning the Mr. Leuiken, that they would be c o m m u n i c ation has been number of employees involved in beaten if they did not join the maintained throughout the strike the strike. Mr. Leuiken said that strike. After the first week many between the strikers and the staff only George Newman, I;>irector of Public Relations for Hamilton, has of these same people came back · on duty. Mr. Leuiken believes that if distributed reliable information. to work. Those working at the physical Mr. Leuiken contends that the more employees, for example, recent vandalism .on campus those who now work on the plant refused to make any ( especially the breaking of grounds, became interested in observations on the strike. windows) --which he prefers to taking courses at BOCES or at call "mischief'--has hurt the cause Mohawk Valley, they could earn toiletries and of Local 200. The strikers have more money as skilled workers cosmetics prevented maintenance men from instead of striking. Under such a campus on delivered . entering Bristol to service the plan those who enrolled would be · 853-6914 CALL elevator and sfudents at Kirkland reimbursed some proportion of h a ve harassed m aintenance their tuition. Mr. Leuiken has Weekdays after 5 pm or weekends
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Some employees are paid to use their own vehicles on the job, in order to eliminate the need to· wait for transportation before getting tools or taking a break. New, more effective equipment is being acquired. M r . L e u i k e n has certain priori ties concerning grounds maintenance to follow. He feels that a strip of ground turned up by a snowplow can be replaced, while a machine or an elm is much more costly. There is a distressing a m o u n t o f m a i n t e nance e q u i pment breakdown, which results · in the inability to do a good and quick job. Much of this breakdown is due to a "tremendous mistreating of equipment" and rough handling. This is a difficult problem to combat, but preference is given to those w o r kers who handle machinery w i t h c a r e, and disciplinary action can be taken against those who don't. Number one on the list of priorities is the dining facilities; next on the list is the dormitories. Maintenance and repairs are made in t hese areas first, before classrooms or 9ther less vital areas are final. No one has been fired during Mr. Leuiken's administration, and there has been very little turnover of the work force. Two cleaning women who had been displaced at Kirkland left on their own, after not taking janitorial jobs offered to them in the Library and at Kirner.] ohnson. But Leuiken feels that the workers have good grievance procedures open to them . through the union, and t e r m s t h e c har ge s o f d i s crimination by a summer outdoor painter "The biggest, phoniest thing that I've heard in a long time." Mr. Leuiken maintains that while administrative problems are never fully under control, the preventive maintenance program is on a much more organized and effective footing.
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BY THOMAS LIE-NIELSEN Director of Physical Plant Gerald Leuiken came to Hamilton in 1972. He had worked at a state operated institution before that and feels that in a school like Hamilton there is more freedom of action than at a school in which everything had to be accounted for to the state. This freedom allows everyone to give better seivice and do a better job. Mr. Leuiken worked primarily on construction jobs and with e l e c t r i c a l a nd m e c ha n i c a l equipment, and was able to apply this experience to the mechanical maintenance which he found lacking here. Much of Hamilton's plant is very old and some of Kirkland's equipment is not good, so a great deal of time is spent in rep;; iring and maintaining it. Mr. Leuiken is instituting more pr eventive m aintenance programs, and programs to renew old equipment, which he says will be of "reliable Ford" quality r ather than Cadillac. Some parts of our present plant cost more ·to keep cost to repairing than it would ' replace them. Upon his arrival, Mr. Leuiken found that, as well as a lack of expertise in t he areas of mechanical maintenance, there was a very loose organization and some inefficient administrative procedure. These shortcomings have been improved on by a g r e a t e r d e 1 e g a t i o n .o f responsibility, as well as increased controls. Work orders are required for every job, and these are signed by Mr. Leuiken or one of his assistant directors. Each worker must have a total of 40 hours worth of time, indicated by his work order, each week. Stockroom inventory has been increased from about $30,000 worth to nearly $100,000. This reduces the need to wait for parts, and speeds seivice. Simplifications in the system now allow a worker to.withdraw stock more easily.
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Continued from page one She discussed the 90 day probationary period during which maintenance workers could be fired "for no reason," and said that some workers were hesitant about joining the union during this period because they believed it might endanger their jobs. Babbitt refered frequently to "Affirmative Action," an official statement of the college's desire to e l i m i nate p os s i bl e discrimination in hiring and firing practices. He said that the college will take two steps along these lines relevant to the employment of maintenance workers. The first step will be to provide a more specific definition of job cate g o r i e s a n d d u ties· f or prospective employees to insure that wage levels are appropriate for the vadous job requirements. The second point was in reference to 1the fear on the part of some union members that
non-union members would be favored when jobs are assigned. Babbitt said that maintenance w o r k e r s w o u l d b id for assignments, and that "seniority w i l l be the ruling factor," regardless of union or non-union status. Ms. Shapiro said that the union was concerned with the question of union membership as a requirement for all workers. The union supports the establishment of an agency shop, which requires that all present and future workers join the union, or donate the equivalent of its dues to a charity such as a scholarship fund for students. / Ms. Shapiro said that the Age_ncy Shop was necessary to insure that the workers ''have power and security as a unio_n." She added that the job turnover r a te had b e e n h i gher for maintenance workers before they established a union.
Oil Shortages · Pose No Problems For Colleges BY KEVIN MCGOWAN Hamilton College fa ces no imm e d i a te f u el s hortage, according to Controller Ronald McDonald. As long as the Agway Oil Company continues to be adequately supplied, Hamilton will receive the No. 2 fuel it needs to heat most of its buildings. The international oil crisis has had some effects, however. Mr. McDonald revealed that, in the comp et itive bidding for the Ham i l t o n c on t r act , t hree companies refused t o quote bid prices. The oil companies were generally reluctant to take on new busine s s. W i t h the Agway Company, an escalating price contract was implemented. This means Hamilton pays current fuel prices instead of one fixed price. Even as the price rises, Hamilton
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Another student supporter of the strikers, Peggy Farber '74, m entioned the complaint by union members that their dues are helping to pay for the benefits of workers who have not joined the union or paid the union dues. She said when the union negotiates for a new contract, all workers receive t h e w a ge increase and the benefits, not just the union members. President Babbitt said the administration objects to the idea of an agency shop because it feels it is too coercive. In addition, the a d m i n i s t ration questions the morality of such a requirement for employment. M a i n t e n a n c e w o rkers are asking for an immediate 30 cents an hour across-the-board increase, Ms. Shapiro said. The college feels it cannot meet these demands, Babbitt said, and has offered instead increases of 12, 8, 10, and 10 cents respectively over the next two years. Mr. Babbitt said that the first 12 cents an hour wage increase has already been made and is retroactive to June 15, the date at which the last contract expired. Workers who have remained on the job are already receiving this increase, and Mr. Babbitt said the strikers will also receive the increase when they return to their jobs. According to Babbitt, the college admits that workers at the skilled level are underpaid, and t h a t t h e a d m i n i s t ra t i o n would "like to do something about it." However, they believe that t he u n s k illed labor already receives wages on a scale equal to other employees doing similar work in New York State. President Babbitt said that he expected the maintenance union and the college administration to reach an agreement on the wage issue in the near future.
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BY JOHN T. OUDERKIRK Although the strike of Local 200 is now reaching the end of its third week, the strikers have few fears about the strains being placed on them. Most of them feel secure enough to maintain the str*e until the Union's demands are met, since they are eligible for aid from the Union. Picketers receive this support as long as they remain on the picket lines. After seven weeks on strike, they can apply for Unemployment Insurance, and a few have already gone on Welfare. One man said, "I'm not worried. I can sit it out all winter if I have to." The workers would like to see a settlement soon, but only one that would improve on the previous contract and ease their living situation. "Of course, nobody likes a strike, it's hard on all of us. Everybody would like to see a settlement soon." The strikers expressed c01�cern over the conditions of the dorms. They felt that "it's too bad that the students should have to suffer, too" The major concern was the question of wages. Many feel that if the college would make a reasonable wage offer the Union would drop the closed shop issue. One of t he picketers said, "Something like that would have to be voted on, but most of us would go for it.' T h e s t r iker s e xp r e s s e d discontent with the fact that non-union labor will get the same
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benefits as the union men who went on strike for them. Since the Union is supporting complaints of non-union workers against the colleges Union members feel they have a right to ask them to join the Union. The strikers were confident, and seemed to think that they would end up with a reasonable settlement. They feel that "a loaf of bread cost $.50, no matter who buys it. We just can't meet the rising cost of living on what we get." NEGOTIATIONS continued from page one Many pickets have said that they would give up the union s h o p i s s ue i f t he c ollege substantially increases the wage offer. The college has expressed flexibility with respect to wages. Student support for the strike has been minimal. Last Friday, however, students attempted to block a delivery truck and only r e lented whe n t he y were threatened with arrest. There have also been some student pickets on the lines during the early morning hours. Acting President and Provose J. Martin Carovano held a meeting in the Chapel on Monday at 4:30 to answer questions concerning the strike from students. The meeting was only attended by about 20 people. Mr. Carovano reiterated t he C o l le g e ' s p osition and explained some of its more technical points.
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Colleges Respond to Call for -Black Studies and Faculty
attract more Negro students and Committee would approve the underpriviliged students." The Tequest,Mr. Blackwood said. The 1970 Higby Conference Committee might have re�eived Evaluation Report included the requests in the past, but of w�ich following statement under Section he is unaware, Mr. Blackwood II: The Problems of the Black said. Student: "There was also a desire Professor David Ellis, Chairman e xp r e s s e d f o r m o r e Black of the History Department, had faculty." received two requests for Black The 1971 Adler Conference studies. He said that Associate said that more must be done to Professor David Millar had been attract Black students here, and approached four or five years ago offer them a more rewarding by Black students and was asked college experience. No Conference to teach a course on the Black s i n c e 1 971 h a s r e p o r t e d man in America. This course is substantially on the subject of now History 24, which is not either Black Studies or Black being offered this year. History faculty. 3 lS, also taught by Mr. Millar, is a Louis Brown '7 6 said that the seminar dealing with the same courses dealing with Black Studies subject. President Babbitt has also are jokes. He said, "If you haven't taught a course dealing with Black been associated with the Black tradition and culture. experience, how can you teach Bill Smith •7 4 complained that several of the courses dealing with it?" He said that a Winter Study Black Studies are not offered last year on Black autobiography every year, such as History 24. included good reading, but that Several courses have also been the professor did not approach discontinued. He would like to see the swjx:ts as well as a Black man a Department dealing with, Black would have. He suggests that a Black Studies established. Mr. Smith said that members literature course be added to the of the Union have been requesting curriculum, including works by a d e p a r t m e n t a n d r e l ated Jesse Jackson, James Baldwin, and c urricular inclusion of Black Booker T. Washington. He also studies. The requ�sts, he said, date suggested formulation of a college back to President John. W. p r o g r a m i n B lack t heatre. C h a n dle r 's t i m e , and have Ham i lton has resources and extended to specific requests to knowhow to find any faculty it dif f e r e n t d ep a r tm e n ts and wants, if it wants to, Brown said, adding that whoever controls the . divisions. He said that he was able to· money and hires the faculty is at have a Black studies major, but fault. A request for Black Studies only with great diffic�lty, and he Stephen G. Kurtz, Dean of the College at Hamilton, who heads feels this is a slap in the face, might have been made sometime an ad hoc committee on luring Black scholars to the Hill. considering that it is possible to in his freshman year, Leroy Porter continued from page one the three or four professors on major in the newly established s ai d. P o r t e r, another Black G o v e r n m e n t D ep a r t m e n t , leave next year . While the college is J ewish Studies Program. Mr. st udent, w r ites From the President Samuel K.. Babbitt, doing as much as it can, Babbitt Smith also pointed out that Sanctuary a column dealing with Dean of Academic Affairs Carl J. said, it needs help from students Jewish students have more of an Black life, for the Spectator. Porter said that if Black S c h neider, nor several other in getting in tonch with Black or opportunity to learn about their other minority fa culty. Babbitt culture than Blacks do. Studies is necessary, then White faculty members. According to :Samuel J. Lasker, students have to be receptive Mr. Caravano met with Black would like to see a greater s t udents several weeks ago. emphasis on Black culture and Instructor in Judaica, there •is before it can be put into effecL Though the meeting was called to t r a d i t i o n i n t h e p r e se n t certainly the capability to have a He feels that any program dealing discuss other matters, the topic of curriculum, much the same way in major in Jewish Studies. Due to with Black Studies will be mostly Black studies was not r aised even which there is now an emphasis the newness of the program, for White students, since they as a peripheral question. Nor bas · on women�s culture and their role however, the major will not be constitute a majority of the Mr . C a r o v an o received any in past and present society. available for another couple of student body. It is no longer necessary to deal D e a n S c h ne i d e r's only years. complaints about the formation onJy in Ph.d's when hiring faculty, of a Jewish Studies program while recollection of a meeting about . Mr. Smith said that it is not a Black Studies program remains this subject is of approximately a essential that a Black person teach as long as prospective faculty are nonex istant. year ago when he met with the a Black-related course, but he said good enough to teach, Porter said. Professor Richardson said that Black and Pueto Rican Union. At t ha t any department should Mr. Carovano. wants to deal only he thought a separate Black that time he was asked what steps i n c lude Black teachers. The in Ph.D's however, Porter said. Studies program w o u 1 d be were being taken to hire Black college is not making a sufficient Dean Kurtz probably believes that unnecessary. He said that the faculty. effort to recruit Black faculty what he is doing is an honest appropriate knowledge should be He pointed out that using the members he said. Smith said that effort, Porter said, but a more in c o r p o r ated in the regular sabbatical program would aid colleges have made only token concerted effort is needed. The college should discuss with departments. attempts to lure Black scholars. efforts thus far, and he said the a l l s t u d e nt s r e c r u itm ent P r esident Babbitt has not Scholars would not be forced to colleges give up too easily. Williams has six Black faculty, procedures for new faculty, Porter received any complaints either. He make a long term committment, discussed Black and Women's and they would be permitted to according to Mr. Smith, and said. Black studies is not already studies "internally- our view". He examine Hamilton-Kirkland. He Co lgate h as Black faculty, part of the curriculum , Porter said that since Kirk.land is on a feels that money is a probleI_D that administration, and admissions explained, because Hamilton does smaller scale than a university, it can be overcome, if necessary, staff. Although there is very little, not see it as necessary for the d o e s n o t h a v e t h e and, like Mr. Babbitt. would like if any, Black community on the survival of the school. Black courses should be taught r e s e a r c h-o r i e nted f a cu l t y to integrate Black contributions Hill or in Clinton, Smith said that necessary for either a Black or (in terms of past society, etc.) a Black teacher could always live by Black teachers lsaid Porter,. in Utica and thus not have to Facts are easy enough to teach, Womens' program of study. He into the present curriculum. Professor RusselIT. Blackwood, forsake part of his lifestyle. Porter said; the evaluation of the pointed out that the college has Smith thinks that Dean Kurtz's facts is not however, and it is in tried to hire faculty who are Chairman of the Committee on sensitive to women in their own Academic Policy since about Sept. lecture efforts are fine as a a t t e m p t i n g t his that White 10, said that he had received no temporary solution. Smith would professors have difficulty teaching teaching fields. He said, however, in reference requests. He pointed out however l ik e t o s e e a d e partment Black studies. Porter has never experienced a to Kirkland and Hamilton, "We that his committee is usually the established however. Future goals and aspirations of Black professor, and he would like have not met our oblig--.i.tion to la.st to receive requests for new Black culture." He pointed to the academ.jc material. By the time Hamilton are sometimes decided to because of the different come before the through recommendations of the viewpoint which would be used in fact that courses dealing with proposals Black culture are taught by white c o m m i t t ee, t hey are faidy Adler Conference (formerly the evaluating the material. He said professors, that Black hiring has advanced. He also pointed out Higby Conference). The 1968 �at he doesn't want to learn the been slow. Mr. Babbitt said that that his committee does not Higby Conf. Report said: ''The material all wrong. He also said he was well aware of the search for new academic material, Hig b y C onferen ce s t r ongly that it would be useful to have difficulties in hiring Black faculty, but certifies what comes before endorses the new curriculum reJ{Ular guidelines for a Black one of which is the high cost of the C.A.P. presented by Mr. Adler for the major in order to make it both Black scholars_ If a proposal for Black Studies Faculty Committee on Academic more concrete and meaningful. At Hamilton, Dean Kurtz is the Kirkland is trying to institute a were to c o me before the Policy. It was felt that this new sabbatical replacement program, committee, accommodating the curriculum should include such person most directly occupied by Mr . Babbitt s a id. Minority needs of the college in academic courses as African History and the Black studies and faculty. He said professors will, if possible, replace a n d cu rricular t e r m s. the History of the American Ncwo to that the Board of Trustees had
give n t h e H ami l t on Administration a directive to try to fill faculty vacancies with minority scholars, and to search for suitable visiting professors, to start the academic year 1974-75. Kurtz hopes to implement the above plans by bringing in Black or other minority lecturers who m i ght a ct a s an a dvisory committee to help locate minority scholars. In order to further aid this procedure, he has created an ad hoc committee of the faculty c:cmpollrl of Mr. Richardson, Mr. Millar, and Assistant Professor of English John H. O'Neill . The committee will report to Kurtz, and it is supposed to involve s t u de nt s in the search for , minority faculty members. Dean Kurtz said that he will begin �e ry soon to 'invite people to come to the campus to speak. He said that Hamilton has been making an effort to hire minority faculty. Last year an offer was made to a Black professor to take Professor James Penney's place this year while he is away on sabbatical_ The offer was refused, and another non-minority scholar was hired. Despite this, Dean Kurtz said, the college will continue to try to attratt Black scholars. He pointed out t h a t p roblems involved i n c l u d e d l ack of a Black community and the question of salary. Black professors normally c a n c o m m and much higher salaries than White professors can at the, same level. The College cannot pay the high demands because of an act of the Board of Trustees which specifically sets the pay scale at certain levels. Kurtz thinks that through the network of contacts, and the outstanding scholars who come here to lecture, it will be possible to get people here for semester or full-year appointments_ He thinks that this is the most realistic idea of what we may hope to achieve and that it is unlikely that we will attract permanent faculty. Dean Kurtz pointed out that there are several courses dealing with Black contributions taught at the colleges. He admitted however t hat t h i s was not a very comprehensive group of courses. He said the idea of a Black literature course was a good one. Dean Kurtz said that while it would he possible to list several courses, such as the ones we now have, under the heading of "Black Studies", there would be little pomt to it. "It's no big deal, really," he said. He pointed out that the nationwide demand for these courses had dropped, and he wondered if there really was as much demand for this kind of thing as some people say there is.
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Senators Comment on Strike
continued from page four Without going into all my reasons for my particular stance, may I say only that I believe it is imp ortant t hat all working personnel --b o t h s k i l l e d a n d unskilled--be paid a living wage and one that is in step with increases in the cost of living. I also believe it necessary to provide some measure of union security. Thus my advocacy of an agency shop. While I can sympathize somewhat with the "compulsion versus free choice" argument and see some merit in it I totally agree with the union position that it is unjust and wrong for .10n-union members to reap the benefits earned and provided for by the union at no cost. Not only do I find the strike itself distressing, but the strike has brought to light several other disturbing issues. Particularly disturbing is the fact t h at A c t i n g President Caravano has denied union officials access to campus mail. As a result, the union has had a difficult time presenting its side of the whole issue. The Hill has had as its sole basis for information college news releases written and presented as the college has interpreted the situation. It is important that the college allow the union to openly express itself to the college community and provide the means necessary for open expression. An airing of both sides of the strike issue would be beneficial to all involved. The college rationalizes its reluctance to increase wage rates by arguing that the Hill's wages compare favorably with those paid at similar institutions. By ·hiding be hind this line of reasoning they are evading the major issue: does the college pay a living wage-one that is in pace with cost of living increases? Lastly, Union officials have told me they find it disturbing that President Caro-✓ano will not sit down at the negotiating table with them. They feel his presence would i m prove negotiations. President Caravano told me he does not have the time. This is perhaps understandable. But if his presence will improve negotiations and help bring a speedy and mutually acceptable settlement I urge President Carovano to find the time. Timothy Finan
We the undersigned, realize the responsibility of the Student Senate to express an opinion ab out issues concerning the college community. However, we do not consider the negotiations between the union membership and the administration , about which students can not be co m p l e t e l y i n f o r m e d o r knowledgeable, a n appropriate. issue for S t udent S e nate involvement. The Senate's only legitimate concern and obligatior.
in connection with the'strike is to inform the administration of inconvenience and discomfort to students resulting from the strike. Martin F. Hillsgrave '74 Neil R. Scherer '75 Robert Applegate '75 Matthew B. Pecchenino '76
d i fferentially for skilled and unskilled workers. I support the college on its stand against a union shop, whatever be its nature. Brian Chanatry '76 Student Senate
I feel that the studen LS of The d oc t r ine of mutual Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges concession has already been should not get involved with the employed by the colleges and 1 strike. It is strictly a matter 1 Local 200 to reach agreements on between the Hamilton College seven i s s u e s of contention. Administration and the Union Certainly, the same compromising workers. The students definitely policy should be used to arrive at have a right to complain when a wage offer acceptable to both they aren't getting the services parties. However, I don't believe they had paid for, but they don't th at the question of union have the right to tell the security deserves similar treatment administration how to run their by the colleges, as the Union . business. That would be putting p r o p o s a l s t o d a t e a r e the college in the hands of u nd e m o c r a t i c and therefore amateurs instead of professionals. fundamentally unacceptable to If s tu d e nts really want to Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges. contribute in some way, I would Mark Rosenbaum '77 recommend that they make things Student Senate as pleasant as possible for both parties. This would entail not harrassing the administ;ation and I am in favor of union demands making sure the Union workers for substantial salary increases. are comfortable. (Perhaps invite However, I do not support their them into your dorm or fraternity demand for across the board for some hot coffee.) increases. The college should be John McFarlan '75 a l l o w e d t o r a i s e w a ge s Student Senate
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FREE CHURCH SERVtCE
This---week the Free Church Service will be led by George E. Nesbitt, Emeritus Professor of English at Hamilton. His topic will be "Hymns: Sacred and Profane." Sunday, 11: 15 a.m., in the Chapel.
PROGRAM ON MORMONISM
Monday evening representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be on campus to present a program called "Why I Am a Mormon." The meeting will take place in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit at 8:30 p.m.
BRITISH UNIVERSITY STUDY
Students who plan to study in Great Britain for the academic year 1974-75 should start their planning now. Available opportunities in fully accredited Programs sponsored by American colleges and universities are limited, and early application is essential to participate in Programs cooperating with British Universities and offering regular degree course enrollment. Information on accredited study at the lhiversities of Edinburgh, Lancaster, London, Southampton, Surrey and Wales is now available t hr o u g h t he C e n ter for International Programs, Beaver College/Franklin and Marshall College, Glenside, Pa. 19038.
UPI
WHCL-FM has ordered a UPI wire service which is expected to arrive within the next two weeks. With news stories breaking as fast as they have been in recent days thanks to the President, the piachine could not be coming at a better time. Howeever, in order to use the service most effectively, we need people willing to work on the news staff. If you are interested in reporting national and local news, please drop a note with your .name and phone number to WHCL-1''M News through Campus Mail.
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6:30 p.m.-Rcception at the List Arts Center 7:30 p.m. -Dinner for Alumnae and Associates in McEwen Hall After dinner-a workshop conducted by the faculty of the
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8:30 a.m. -Coffee in McEwen Hall • 9:00 a.m. -symposium: "The Freshman Wasteland; Reseeding the Orchard", in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium after the symposium-mini-courses on the following subjects: Electronic Music: How, What and Why? Feminism in 12th Century France Creative Writing Workshop A Walk in the Woods Micro-Teaching: The Ledrning Mirror De-Bugging Persom A Relict Sculpture Study in Spdce 12:30 p.111. Luncheon for Associc1tcs in McEwen HJII Luncheon lor Alumn<1c in Ki, ncr Johnson 220
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-ini�n representative Charles Duffy (left) confers with Hamilton's Assistant to the President John Mavrogenis outside van parked in the ELS parking lot. As the strike nears its fourth week, the spirit of the strikers is still high. Details on page 9.
Letters to the Editor
Strike Support To the Editor: Everybody talks about the Ivory Tower nature of this hill we live on. The real world goes on every day, or so we read in the Sunday Times. It's really easy and comfy, if y o u can ignore· occasional pricks of conscience,, to sit on your butts and meditate on earth-shaking problems like the conclusion to a paper. O.K., when a paper's due, it's real important. But we all could use some more perspective. We, as two colleges, haven't gone to the real world-too much insanity out there, and besides we've got pap-ers due. But the real world has come here, right to our very driveways. There are men and women standing out there carrying signs. Even though it's damn cold, and it's a bummer to stay on your feet for 6 hours at a time. They're fighting for the right to earn enough money to eat-if you don't believe me, ask them-but they seem to be losing. You see, there's no union shop, so t he r e a r e non-union people working on campus, so the colleges are feeling almost no strain from this strike, so when t he t wo sides got together Monday morning the administrations felt no need to give a goddamn inch, though the strikers gave up their demand for a closed shop in the hopes of getting some more money. They of course got neither. They stand a good chance of losing whatever strength the union gave them in the first place. Now it looks like the administrations are going to get this freedom of choice that is so appropriate to an academic community. They 're also going to have their jobs much simplified, because it is such a bother to have to deal with workers who have some control over their own lives-much better to keep them separate but equal; tell them and with no back-talk when, where, and how much. Sure, the workers will be poorer, but with freedom of choice intact.
If you talk to the strikers you'll find out th.ey're not onl; cold, tired, and worried, but they're also really surprised. I mean what better place to fight against a power that's trying to screw them than on a college c ampus. A t S t . L a w r e nce University, where the same thing happened, students refused to cross the picket lines and hold classes on campus, and protested with a shave-in in the only clean bathroom they could find, which u n f o r t u n a t e l y f o r t'h e a d m i n i s t r a ti o n was in the President's office. That strike worked. Maybe they don't give papers at St. Lawrence, or maybe it's time we got off our asses. Susan Friedelson Rowdies To the Editor: The SAC, an organization forced to adapt to a finite budget, i s t o be c om m e n d e d for sponsoring a novel_ and enjoyable e v ent-namely, the Halloween m a gic p e r f o r m ance. Unfortunately, the committee's e n d e a v o r s to feature varied entertainment on the Hill are s e r i o us l y m a r r e d by t he ingratitude and rudeness with which such events too often are received. Although I cheerfully support t h e s t u d e n t s ' t r a d i tional "gentlemanly rowdiness" visible, and indeed expected, at such functions, I consider both the attitude and the conduct of some in the audience to be excessively a n n o y i n g , i m p o l i t e , and embarrassing. If the students, by their general d i s c o u r t e s y a n d l ack o f cooperation, continue t o spurn the laudable attempts of the SAC to provide worthwhile, diverse amusement for the community, t he n p e r ha p s t h e S tudent A c tivities Committee simply should curtail its efforts, and thereby escape the unfair abuse to which it is presently subjected. Warren Emerson '74
BY LIZ BARROW
The 1973 Hamilton Alumni Fund maintained its high level of alumni participation with contributions totaling $255,656. Over half the living alumni, 3177 men, donated to the annual fund. This money will constitute approximately 8% of Hamilton's fi\'e million dollar budget. George Newman, Hamilton Public Relations Director, emphasized that the fund is even more impressive when one realizes that the term "alumni" includes not only students who actually graduated from Hamilton, but also all those who were matriculated. This year 198 men contributed $250 or more each. enabling them to become members of the Achievement Club. Their total donations amount to about half the entire Alumni Fund. Although other colleges have experienced ,l drop in .tlumni donations, Hamilton's contributions have risen steadily in the past few years until leveling off in 197:L :\t one point the pcrtcnt.tgc of ·.tlumni who contributed w.is more than (10%. the highcst level of p.trticip.1ting alumni in any ll.S. lolkge. Since then it h.ts rem.tined .unong the top ten pcnentage, in colkgcs ,111d unin-rsitics.
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X-Country Second at States Foor Close Brilliant
BY STEVE SEIDE Last Saturday, seven men from Hamilton jomn.eyed to Fredonia to run .in me 24th Annual NYSCT F .A C r o s s C o u n t r y & C h a m pi onship to dump the perennial champion. Colgate, as the best in the state. Well, we clidn't make it but we came pretty dose. \Ve came in second with 6 men in the f"irst 25 positions . Colgate, who won again, also has 6 out of the first twenty-five hut their times were slightly better. Th is ends the Cross-Country season foT Hamilton. but it doesn't mean I end my story_ On the contrary� I m just getting ,: ·ar m e d u p. I f e e l s o me recognition i due this team; its gone four seasons without a loss and its about time somebody recognized them. You probably think that I think you should be ova-whelmed with guilt and run to your nearest CC man and shake
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his hand. Well. you're right. YOU SHOULD be overwhelmed with. guilt; YOU SHOULD run to your nearest CC man and shake his hand while expressing your most sincere congratulations for a job well done. There are four runners in particular who should be especially thanked, because they have put in four years on the Hill: four years of grueling practice through terrific heat and bitter cold. These men are Vito Stellato, Tim Delaney, Paul Ford, and Dave Hertzog. These men started in 1970, the first year since 1959 that a Hamilton Cross-Country team went undefeated. That year Paul Ford and Vito Stellato ran in the fourth and seventh positions respectively, while Delaney and Herzog ran ninth and tenth. They had no real accomplishments, but I'm sure that ru.nning on an undefeated· team was enough to satisfy all of them. In 1971,
Hamilton was again undefeated and also managed to take the S t ate Championship. Delaney, Ford, and Stellato ran second, third, and fifth, Dave Hertzog had, a disappointing, season, getting injured and having tf f watch his friends run from the bench as team manager. This would begin a two year layoff for Dave which would end in his senior year. In 1972, Delaney, Stellato, and Ford really came into their own. De4lney ran brilliantly as number one man and Stellato and Ford were consistent as three and five, respectively. This brings us ·back to this season and we all know what a fine job all the guys did on the courses this year. So I make one final plea. Go find a Cross a ny runner, Country C r os s- Co u n t r y r unn e r a n d congratulate him.for.being o n one of the finest teams the Hill has ever has.
Seniors Paul Ford and Vito Stellato
Continentals Face Alfred TOm'w at Steuben; Hamilton Squad Now Numbers Thirty-Thre� Defensive end Peter Fasolino '74 Both men have experienced very BY ROBERT J. KEREN After a one week lay-off the is a doubtful starter out with a leg little success through Hamilton's first six games, but each one has H am i l t on Continentals will injury. Vredenburgh Leads Attack seemingly had the ability to direct oppose the Alfred Saxons, 5-2, Last year's Alfred-Hamilton a potent offense for short spans tomorrow at snow-bound Steuben game can be best expressed by the . upon �ntering a gaIJ;Ie to replace Field. Coach Bob King's squad are offensiv� o·utputs of each team. the other. Winter was successful rnplacing currently 0-6 on the year. They The Saxons picked up 469 yards will be looking at a superbly in amassing 28 first downs and six Fallon at Oberlin and Middlebury coached Alfred team, one who touchdowns. The Continentals' midway through each affair, while crushed the Blues 45-6 in 1972. total net gain for the afternoon Craig was impressive coming in for The Saxons, who were upset by was minus seven yards. The Blues Robbie against Rochester and St. Bridgeport and dropped a 30-28 only score came on a brilliant Lawrence. Soph. Lou Cordia· leads all Blue squeaker to Hobart thus far, will 95-yard kickoff return by Kevin wind up their 197 3 camp.:tign on Snyder '75. rushers with 402 yards in 114 Head Coach Alex Yunevich, attempts. Brian Smith (89 yards} the.hill tomorrow. The Continentals will take the named "Coach of the Ye..;" by and Sandy Mackintosh (68 yards) field hoping to avoid the futility the New York F oorball Writers will also see action ,in the of a 12th consecutive defeat. The A ss oc i a t i on a f t e r A l f re d 's backfield. Hamilton's receiving corps, led Saxons are a precision ball club undefeated 1971 campaign; has all that can execute on the same level of last year's (7-1) backfield by freshmen Dave Pisanelli and with some of the best small returning. Fullback Doug Earle· D a v e Lecher ( 19 and 13 colleges in the country. Hopefully and sensational halfback Henry recep!jons, respectively), is hopin� the field conditions will put a Bzdak (who rushed for over 1000 to be in high gear tomorrow. d amper on Alfred qb Tom yards in '72)- do most of the ball G e o r g e G r ammaglia, another Vredenburgh's antics and keep the c a r r ying, while flanker Rick freshman, will replace the injured score down. In last years Union Hansinger and end Bob Yound are Singer at tight end. Grammaglia has seven receptions and returns game, played here on a plowed the passing threats. Tom Vredenburgh, a slick after missing three games with a field after three days of snow, neither team could effectively senior, directs the offense and is leg problem. Speedy Kevin Snyder move the ball through the slosh in dangerous on the quarterback (8 receptions) will alternate with option. Only the big gaps left by Lecher at flanker. a 3-0 final. The Continental defense which There will be only 33 men in three graduating seniors on the blue uniforms tomorrow. Since offensive line has limited the the St. Lawrence duel two weeks Saxon's success in 1973. But ago King has lost the services of Vredenburgh is a roll-out type The Spectator le arned three starters;: Dave Duggan, Alec who is just as effectiv.e dodging enemy tacklers as he is remaining yesterday that Steuben field will Singer and Pete 1-'asolino. not be plowed for tomorrow's Duggan is a junior. tackle who in the pocket. D o n H o c k e n b e r r y , a f o otball game against Alfred w a s k n o c k e d u n co ns c io us sustaining a head injury in the 2 2 0 - p o u n d p l a c e University. Every ten yard line Middlebury game. He played kicking-specialist, hit three field a n d b o t h sidelines will be against St. Lawrence, but the goals (22, 4 8 and 50 yards) in last shoveled. Athletic Director Gene Long doctors have now put an end to weeks' 23-7 victory over Kings Dave' s football career. - The Point. His foot could prove cited the three reasons behind the Syracuse native was a leader va luable should adverst field decision not to plow the field: among the closely-knit Blue squad conditio�s prevail at Steuben 1 )the cleated tractor equipped to plow the field is presently out of and was a cinch for one of the t'ield, seivice, _ 2) plow operators are Quarterbacking Dilemma 1974 co-captain spots. Quarterbacks Rob Winter and members of striking union Local Alec Singer dislocated his shoulder in practice Monday and C r a ig Fal1on have split the 200, and 3) the cost of cleaing the will be out for the season. The quarterbacking chores thus far. field is in the "500 to 600 dollar sophomore tight end had an Winter has completed 41 passes 1n range." Long has informed the Alfred outstanding day at Middlebury 10 7 a t t e m p t� f o r t h r ee catching six passes, one good for touchdowns, while Fallon has hit University football officials of the H am i l ton's only touchdown. on 25 of 91 for four touchdowns. field's condition, and the Saxons
has spent nearly 75% of every game on the field has yielded an average of 29 points�per-game in six losing affairs. With the limited offense that the Blues have d em o nstrated thus far, Jeff Hewitt, J0hn Newell, Charlie Lebling and the Continental "D" will have to do better than that against the Saxons. T o m o r r o w ' s weathe r conditions will determine the flow of the game. Under anything near normal conditions the Alfred Saxons should put on quite an impressive show for the local crowd But should driving snow prevail, or at the other extreme, should a warm sun transform the frozen ground into muct (as in last y e a r' s Un ion game) almost anything can happen. The humble Continentals will take the field, no matter what the conditions, at 1 :30'. Bring your radios f o r s o me· additional entertainment as Kenny Marten and Thom Pirodsky will be broadcasting the game locally over WHCL-f'M, as well as throughout western New York State over WHHO-AM and FM. Th� special pre-game show starts at 1:05.
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VOLUME IV, NUMBER 11
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
1973
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NOVEMBER 16, 1973
Student. Papers Rap ixon; Demand Quick Impeachment
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Eighty-four college and university newspapers have called upon t h e H ouse of Repre s e n t a ti ve s to impeach P r e s ident R ic h a r d N i xon. T o g e t h e r t h e newspap e rs represent more than one million students from 29 states, and have a combined circulation of nearly 700,000. The joint editorial, mailed to the members of Congress Monday, was printed in the October 26 issue of the Spectator. In it the newspapers call for the removal of a President who ''has forsaken , rule by law. . "Richard Nixon now rules by fiat and force," the editorial states. "He • is no longer a legitimate leader. The President must be impeached. No amount Ltading Indian .spokeswoman, LaDonna Hanis, who will visit the of legal double-talk or politic;al Bil next week as part of the Wilson Fellowship Program. timidity can obscure this fact." "At a time when popular c o m m e n t a t ors d e l i g ht i n d i s c ussing nationwide student apathy, Mr. Nixon's repeated • abuses of power have rekindled the outrage of the late 1960's/' the newspap ers state in a letter LaDonna Harris, the American Chapel, her topic will be "The accompanying their editorial. uwe Indian leader. who will arrive Right To Be Different.0 cannot stand idly by while In addition she will attend c o u n t l e s s r e ve l ations o f Sunday. November 18 for a four-day stay at Hamilton and c l as s e s in anthropology and corruption, illegality an d deceit Kirkland Colleges, is not a believer government and hold a series of shatter the faith of the American in the theory of the American informal meetings with students people in their governmental and faculty of the two colleges. system." melting pot. "Dark skins don't melt,n she Plans also call for her to meet Included on the list of says. "Indians don't want to melt. with American Indian leaders in signatories are newspapers from We want to retain our individual the area. large state schools as well as those lri>al culture. We want the right to be different." Mrs. Harris is the president of Ame r i c a n s f o r I n d i a n Opportunity, which she founded together with her husband, former Senator Fred Harris of Oklahoma. BY BOB ROCK '' g l ad to c o m e t o s o m e Her visit to }¼mlilton is part of Maintenance workers voted on agreement/' but h e was "not the Senior Fellows Program of the Wood row Wilson National Saturday to end the strike and necessarily satisfied" with the •·ellowship Foundation. The accept the offer made by the omission of a union security program brings leaders of the c o l l e g e a t l a s t F r i d a y' s clat.1se. He said that, "a good deal nonacademic world for short visits negotiations. J. Martin Carovano, of the strikers were willing to to colleges and universities as Acting President and Provost of continue the strike," because of visiting faculty. Hamilton is one H a m il to n C o l lege, officially the omission. of 59 institutions throughout the announced the settlement on However, after twenty days of country selected to participate in Monday. lost pay and picketing in bad The college's proposal included weather, the strikers had "lost the 1973-74 program. Part Comanche and part Irish, a twenty cent hike in hourly confidence" in the strike, Duffy Mrs. Harris grew up on her wages for all maintenance workers said. "If we had known that the Com a n c h e g r a n d p a r e n t s ' retroactive to June 15, 1973, the weather would tum favorable, we starting date of this year's might have stayed on," he said, Oklahoma fann. ''We were made ashamed of contract. Beginning June 15, referring to the unseasonal heat our culture," she recalls. ''To 1974, the hourly rate will be wave that arrived Tuesday. Duffy said that ninety percent obtain OUT education we had to raised an additional two cents, ma king the skilled workers's of the workers are at "the poverty give up OUT Indianness." "Today, you can't make an• hourly wage range from $3.50 to level," and that the continued loss Indian ashamed of his language $4.50 and the unskilled nnge of wages to such workers would prove d angerous t o t h e i r and· skin. The native American from $2.90 to $3.50. Although the strikers were well-being. When he considered ICtS himself with pride and dignity. He sees himself as having vehement about attaining union the substantial collections that security, the settlement involved had been taken up for strikers at a cult ure of value." Two public le ctures are no such condition. The college o t h e r c o l l e g e s , h e w a s included in Mrs. Harris' schedule p l a n s t o c o n t i n u e i t s "disappointed'. by the lack of n "economic support from the at Hamilton and Kirkland. Sunday "maintenance and membership p o l i cy, w he r e by a ll union college community." al 8 p.m she will speak on "The Duffy said that the only action American Indian Movement" in members remain in the union for that the union will take now is to the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium the duration of their contract. Charles Duffy, representative "talk to non-union workers and on the Kirk)and campus. Monday c,cning at 8:00 in the Hamilton of Local 200, said that he was continued on page ten
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f r o m w e l l - known p r i v a te institutions. The editorial was originally drafted by the editors of the Amherst Student, and was circulated to campus newspapers across the country. Almost all of the newspapers which endorsed the editorial also printed it, along with a list of signatories. "The impeachment of Richard Nixon is prerequisite to the restoration of confidence in our s y s t em of government," the newspapers state. They call on m e m b e rs of Congress t o "overcome political timidity and put aside partisan considerations. In this time of national crisis, t h e i r d u t i e s u n d e r the Constitution are clear. They fail to act at the nation's peril." ''Many papers have called already for impeachment," the Amherst Student editors .stated. �'This editorial is not intended as a replacement for those expressions of dissent. It is designed instead to fulfill the need fo r one national statement of student sentiment to r e i n f orce and amplify these individual statements." The decision to launch this n ational student impeachment campaign f o llowed the firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and the resignations of Attorney General Eliot Richardson and his D ep u ty William Ruckelshaus. While many students feh that the grounds for impeachment had been apparent for some time,
most had hesitated to recommend such an extreme measure. But "M r. N i xon's d e cisive and unprecedented actions-his · rule by fiat and force-permitted no other recourse," the editors informed Congress. "Even before these steps were taken, public confidence in the Nixon Administration's ability to govern was at one of its all-time lows," the editorial explains. "Now this support will deteriorate still further. The mandate of 1972 has been buried in a legacy of illegality, hypocrisy and deceit: San Clemente real estate deals, impoundment of Congressional a p p r opriati on s, w i d e sp r ead w i retapping, covert Cambodia b o m bing , and a l l of the ramifications of the Watergate affair-Milk kickbacks, ITI, the Ellsberg burglary.u M o s t o f t h e s i g n a t ory newspapers sa i d t h a t pro-impeachment sentiment on their campuses was widespread. "Only limitations of time and m on e tary considerations have k e p t t h i s l i st f rom being s i g n if i c a n t l y l on g e r," the newspapers declare. "From Maine to Washington, from Minnesota to Texas, from liberal arts college to multiuniversity, from elite private institutions to broadly-based state schools, the message is the same: The President must be impeached. The ca mpus commitment is unmistakable."
Settlement Ends Workers' Strike On Hill; Union L()ses Closed Shop; College Ups Wages
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2/THE SPECTATOR/November 16, 1973
EDITORIAL Completing the Search The Presidential Search Committee has narrowed the field of candidates to three and will soon submit a name t.o the Board of Trustees. It shotJd not do this before allowing a representative group of faculty and students to meet with the top candidates. Since the search began, most faculty members, students and administrators have assumed that a candidate would not be submitted to the Board before such a review occurred. The Search Committee has worked long and ha.rd, and has narrowed the large field to three. It would now benefit from intelligent comments by persons not connected with the committee. These faculty members and studems would be unblinded by committee procedures, and free from the persuasiveness of influential and well-respected trustees. The Search Committee has done its job, and it still must make a final _determination, but it would be shirking its duty to its constituency, the Hamilton community, if it did not solicit and consider opinions of others further removed from the search. The complete delegation of responsibility by the Board to the committee has already been negated by having non-committee faculty members -interview visiting candidates. Much to the dismay of many individual faculty members, these men were selected without consideration of the faculty as a whole. This is no-c the way to pick a president if the committee wishes the new chief executive to have the support of the emire community. Three students were appuinted by an outgoing Studen., Senate president t.o fill the most important student positions ever created on the Hill. Faculty members were appointed to interview candidates during the candidates' brief visits to Hamilton. Notwithstanding the tireless efforts of twelve men on the Search Committee, it will be antithetical to the committee's purposes to aggravate concerned members of the community by not properly representing them in the search. It is presently inappropriate for this newspaper to comment on the merits of any individual candidate, but we urge the Search Committee to re-evaluate its role vis-a-vis this community and expand the scope of the search to include representatives of Hamil ton's m ost important constituencies. The Spectator will not be published next week, Thanksgiving vacation. Publication will resume November 30.
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Witz And Wayne See Eye To Eye
BY GERRY PAYNE Witz came back from his meeting upset. I was reading my Eco 10, when he barged into the room. "Even you! Even you! My best friend. Even you couldn't come to the meeting." "Witz, do you know anything about marginal propensity to consume curves?" I asked, looking up from my book at my raving friend. "How could you ask me about that now? I just came from our meeting of the Campus Marxist Coalition, and no one showed except Mandel.
"This place amazes me. Not one student showed. It's depressing, that's all I can say. It's depressing." I knew that wasn't all he could say, so I put away my book and settled down for some ranting. "Look Witz, you didn't really expect anyone to come to your meeting, did you?" "I don't know what to expect anymore!" he answered. "People just don't care about anything here. It's amazing."
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BY VINCENT L. DICARLO There i s a d a m a gi n g and widespread preoccupation these days with credentials. Colleges and universities are the main providers of these credentials which have become prerequisites for entrance into even the least academic of careers. Thousands of people are being forced to enter institutions of "learning" in order to further the pursuit of goals entirely unconnected with education. The time and money wasted in this way is enormous. Many are frustrated because of the necessity of postponing the fulfillment of their plans due to the merely technical requirement of a diploma. They neither want nor need four years of study which will leave them no better prepared for their eventual careers than they were when they graduated from 'High School. Yet, the system continues to require more and more irrelevant degrees as tickets to its positions of prestige and financial success. Worse still, the traditional and now obsolete notion that colleges train leaders has raised expectations on the part of some half of the young population that simply can't be realized. There just are not enough leadership positions in any society to accomodate these numbers.· The potential for frustration and discontent will be staggering when millions of those led to believe that they are members of an elite pour out of our colleges only to discover that they will be something less than affluent. In the rush to get everyone through college perhaps the most unfortunate casualty -�as been
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"People don't just get excited about anything, Horowitz. They have to be personally affected." "What should I do then," he said, sitting down on my bed. "Offer them free beer?" I got up and put on a record. I took a can of Coke off the windowsill for myself and offered one to Witz. "You know, Gerry," Witz began again calmly enough, pulling off the flip top, "I'm just too us,ed to excitable people. People who'd fight for what they thought was right." "Who was your father,John Wayne?" "Funny. When they fired Yogi Berra from the Yankees and hired Johnny Keane from St. Louis, 1 wrote letters to Dan Topping and draped my Yankee pennant in black for a week. How could they get a guy from St. Louis to manage the New York Yankees? I went berserk. "And don't think I was the only person who protested. Others protested too. "Do you think people stood idly by when Mel Allen was fired? Or when Star Trek was taken off the air? Or when they..." "And what good did it do? Huh?" I said. "Keane still managed your Yankees, Mel Allen wasn't reinstated, and Star Trek got the ax one year later, big deal." Witz sat crestfallen. Then he rose and began pacing. He started to walk, faster and faster. I braced myself. "Sleeping dogs shouldn't be left lying. Gerry, if you have any moral standard you can't let them lie. You shouldn't even let them sleep. It may be futile, trying to wake them, but you have to do what is right." "You may be right, Gerry," Witz continued. "Maybe John Wayne and I do have something in common. Wayne has standards. John Wayne would have come to my meeting." "Yeah," I said. ''To kick your head in." "But at least he would have come," Witz said, and I fell back crestfallen.
liberal arts education itself. One could hardly expect that institutions glutted with students who consider the diploma as the goal rather than the education will produce educated men and women. The unwillingness or inability of these students to pursue an education has devalued the academic experience. What is occurring at many colleges and universities across the country can hardly be called "high er" education. Serious study is virtually impossible when the curriculum is designed to accommodate those who are bored with the- forced pursuit' of a n activity irrelevant to their real goals. This lack of interest must prevail as long as learning is valued primarily as a means to some extraneous end. The revival of true liberal arts education can only occur when it is recognized that the academic experience is not a form of vocational training. Learning must be divorced from earning and the proper perspective of the real value of education restored. When the irrelevant inducements to spend four years in the classroom are eliminated it will again become the case that the goal of college is an education and not a diplo�a. Perhaps some will be disturbed at the suggestion that fewer rather than more people should attend colleges. This misgiving is due largely to the present irrational state of affairs in which a diploma is a necessary condition ,for financial success and to a mistaken belief that for more than a small number of students anything resembling higher education is occurring at most colleges. It is time to eliminate the irrational financial premium on the diploma and to _r.��!pre_the place of e�ucation at college.
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To the Editor: J-Board Adds Perjury Amendment My comment on the situation in the Middle East which appeared in the To the Editor: Spectator of November 2 ultimately may L a s t week t h e Student Senate well have been a case of a fool rushing in unanimously passed a measure ammending where angels fear to tread, but who would the rules under which the Hamilton have thought that the suggestion that Judiciary Board may treat instances of there might be two sides to any p e r jury at hearings. Ther proposal, international conflict and that political recommended by the co-chairmen of the decisions should be based on reason rather J-Board and supported by the Faculty than emotion would provoke such an Committee on Student Activities, states: impassioned response (Letters to the If the J-Board believes that a witness Editor, November 9)? I should be willing has perjured himself in a hearing it will to sit down and discuss with anyone the initiate proceedings against him. If the issues raised in my article provided that J-Board finds the witness guilty of the same atmosphere of good will and perjury, it will normally recommend to mutual respect obtained that has always the Faculty Committee on Student marked t he con versations between Activities that he be suspended from Professor Haltzel and myself (and which I - school for one semester. have every 'reason to believe represents the norm at Hamilton College). In the Such an ammendment may appear meantime, I might suggest to Messrs. inordinately harsh. It developed, however, Wa c h s press and Schneider that out of a real need to curtail an increasing organizations such as the American number of perjury incidents. In other Council for Judaism in their numerous , words, it has become common practice for publications have long opposed Zionism as defendants to bring along witnesses who a political movement which pollutes the co rroborate blatantly false accounts. universal spiritualism of Judaism with Because the Judiciary Board wants to chauvinist nationalism. In my "abysmal operate from the premise that witnesses ignorance" I have always believed that will be honest and because there has God chose the Jews to bring monotheism previously been no mechanism to punish to a pagan world rather than to encourage perjury, the entire concept of students a "we" and "they" attitude in which ones adjudicating their own affairs has been neighbors must always be viewed as undermined. This ammendmen t is an enemies and potential executioners. attempt to stop -the few from ruining things for the rest of the student body. Moreover, it remains my conviction The reasoning behind the rule is that the extreme nationalism and racism straightforward. If we don't trust each inherent in Zionism has been and remains other enough to govern and judge a greater threat to the Jewish faith and. ourselves, then let's consider ridding physical well-being than was Nazism. ourselves of the trappings - like the Some of your readers may be unaware Judiciary Board. If we do believe its that the efforts of Australia and other important to have students govern and countries during the 1930's to settle judge themselves, then it makes sense to Jewish refugees as homesteaders on support this process. I think it is unoccupied land and the plan of President important and that the new amendment Roosevelt during World War II to provide will l1elp strengthen the community's a w orld-wide political asylum were judicial process. Gordon Kaye '74 sabotaged by Zionists who insisted that Co-Chairman J-Board the only place for Jewish refugees was X-Country Captain Writes Palestine. Throughout the l 930's and 40's the Zionists consistently subordinated To the Editor: humanitarian rescue operations to the Despite his assumed good intentions, realisation of their own political ambition. the author of last week's cross-country Jewish writers have done a far better job article failed to accurately convey the of exposing this fact than I could, and I forces which motivate the team. The would urge concerned people to read Ben rewards of running are numerous. Anyone He cht's Perfidy (New York, Julian who has ever jogged knows the physical Messner, 1961) and Hannah Arendt's s atisfaction. o f the free rhythmic Eichmann in Jerusalem (New York, Viking movement itself. In addition there is an Press, 1963). aspect of pure competition stressing both the individual and his team. Unfortunately, the Middle East and the epic of Israel's struggle for survival have replaced the Wild West and the Hollywood western as a source for fantasy fulfillment and vicarious heroism for all those who view the conflict there as a struggle between the "goodies" {the Israeli) and the ''baddies" {the Arabs). Mercifully, Amerindians are no longer portrayed as bloodthirsty s avages h e l l bent on gratuitously massacring hapless white men. Isn't the propaganda image of the Arab as a lice-r idden, n o ma d i c cut-throat continuously preying on innocent settlers due for retirement also?
Gratification lies not only in winning, but also in the thrill of achievement, in "doing well." It is a personal, creative pleasure which transcends the adulation of others. The runner feels the need to push himself to his limit, and in this manner he attains some of the self-knowledge which is essential to a liberal arts education. Even the hours of training can be satisfying. During his endless miles of road-running, an athlete is at peace with h i ms elf. Surrounded by nature, he achieves a sensitivity to his environment and his place in it. It is an opportunity to forget the demands, tension and pettiness of the "classroom. Mind and body unite, gracefully. These are just words to those who have never run. Like anything else, "you have to be there... (man)."
At any rate, we do not crave the handshakes and praises of the student b ody. Words of encouragement are a p p r e c i ated, but anything more is unnecessary. Those of us who have been running here for four years are used to anonymity, and the underclassmen are learning fast. Perhaps the major loser has been The Spectator which has failed to capitalize on the newsworthy aspects of an undefeated team. So ra_ther than shaking our hands, try talking to us. Although we each have interests that extend far beyond running { except one), we all welcome the opportunity to discuss the sport. If the runner you choose has a beer (or a beard) he'll keep going for hours. Perhaps you'll extend your understanding of human nature, and realize that that boisterous pack of grey-shirted nomads isn't so crazy, after all. Timothy Delaney '74
Ms. President To the Editor: Concerning Mr. Bristol's statement, explaining the activity of the Presidential Search Committee, we would like to know whether any women have been considered for the position. We think that the time has come for
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For well over a thousand years Jews enjoyed a status in the Moslem world they have rarely enjoyed elsewhere. They participated fully in the social and economic life of Arab countries during periods in which they were viewed with suspicion or openly persecuted elsewhere. In my view it is a tragedy that this happy situation should have been so seriously impaired by Zionist activities. It is my fear that Zionist policies will cause resentment against Jews throughout the world. I consider Jewish Americans my neighbors and friends. I also consider Arabs in the Middle East my neighbors and friends and look forward hopefully to the day when the elimination of nationalistic and racist ideologies will allow us all to live as brothers and God's children. Rand Carter
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Hamilton to make a greater eff ort to hire women not only for faculty positions but for administrative positions as well. The only way in which more women will be encouraged to enter these fields-, is to make it dear that institutions, such as Hamilton, are interested in qualified women. In our three years here we- have seen coeducation take place at both schools without this meaningful change in the make up of Hamilton's faculty and administration. Melissa Fast '74 Judith Sillari '74
Strikers "Will Remember" To the Editor: The strikers of Local 200 would like to thank all the students. who actively supported the strike. We appreciate the student picketing as well as the meetings which the students organized. We also are grateful to the professors and the many other people who showed us sympathy each and every day. We extend our special thanks to ELS for their various kind deeds, particularly the use of the fraternity house. This has been an experience which we will all remember fo r a long time to come. Mary Ann Jones Vice President, Local 200
Soccer Fan Displeased To the Editor: I have been extremely disappointed in your last two issues of the Spectator which have failed to recognize the soccer team's winning season. It is an insult to the team, the coaches, and numerous spectators (many whom followed the team on the road) not to recognize the soccer team as an outstanding group of men who brought a victory home for Hamilton. Freida von Schiller
Female Chauvinism II To the Editor: As the co-organizer of the alternate weekend held November second and third by the Women's Center, I feel compelled to explain in full the inception of the idea. I am writing partly out of a desire to clarify_ misconceptions and argue points but more importantly because there never was an "official" statement of purpose. At the first Women's Center meeting of the year various ideas were discussed concerning t h e d i rection of the organi za ti on: i ts purpose and its ideology-all those intangibles which are never decided upon. Major consideration was given to some suggestions for fu�re activities. One woman mentioned having a women's dance and Lourdes Wan made a plea for- a "hangout" specifically for the Kirkland community. There appeared to be somewhat of a malaise over the current social institutions prevalent on bC'th campuses. This was evidenced by the discussion which ensued. Out' of this discussion grew the idea of an alternative to house parties which was viewed as an articulate way of registering discontent. However the main emphasis on the alternative was positive: i.e. that there ane different ways of getting together socially, ways which enrich, do not inhibit� which a re potentially non-sexist and thus rewarding. Enthusiasm over the idea spread and a committee, consisting of Lourdes Wan and myself. was formed to begin planning the event. It was after Lourdes and I began working on the plans that the idea for an all women's night was decided upon. I would like to make it clear that it was not an organizational decision and that mariy members of the Women's Center er-e cr i t i c al but nonetheless suppurti ·e. (However I feel there is no reason why they would wa nt to _ disassociate themselves from that decision.) I am making t h is seemingly unimportant distinction because l feel that the bulk of the cnt1c1sm was in fact a · specific � manifestation of a more general animosity towards the Women's Center. This animosity finally found a place under the continued on page eleven
4/THE SPECTATOR/November 16, 1973
Frisbees Fly Free at Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges; Stud-ent 'Master' Discusses Contemporary Issues "I prefer the moonlight model," he said. (Wham-o makes several models of frisbees ). The Hamilton m a s t e r e xplained that the moonlighter weighs 120 grams, giving greater ·stability than the traditional model, which weighs only 108 grams. The IFA holds a tournament each year on the fourth ofJuly or Labor Day on the Keweenaw peninsula of Michigan. "The highlight of the tournament is the playoffs in which the winner receives the Julius T. Nachazel Tropl-y," Calder said. It used to be the Julius T. N a chazel Memorial Trophy because Mr. Nachazef, a spectator at one of the first tournaments faithfully, chased an "errant toss" into the woods and was never seen again for fifteen years. The T r ophy w as de-memorialized when Nachazel appeared once again at the tournament several years ago. Indeed, as Calder explained, the sport of frisbee has an interesting history. There are Amateur Frisbee enthusiasts, who obviously do not aspire to the greatness of "Master' Mike Calder. major disputes among the various hypothesizing, the Wham-O frisbee scholars and historians. Corporation bought the patent "Some frisbee scholars believe from a man named Fred Morrison that the famous Greek statue of in the early l 950's. Frisbees the discus thrower was really played second fiddle to the throwing the first frisbee," Calder hula-hoop for several years but said. they have now made it into the "Others say that not until big time. BY VIKRAM DEWAN beyond our knowledge, we would 1827 when Elihu Frisbee rebelled Like any other popular hobby, A study is being undertaken to like to_ argue the merits of the against compulsory Chapel at Yale there is always the danger of determine whether the current . case, particularly since all the and threw the collection plate exploitation. Calder recalled that needs of the Hamilton Chemistry sciences at Hamilton except across the Campus Quad did the over a four year period, the Navy d e p a r t m e n t f o r i n creased chemistry are now housed in a spent over $375,000 on research instrumentation and independent common building." sport begin." However, other interpretors of to see whether the a_erodynamic study can be accomodated within Because of the pressing need t h e p a s t d o n ' t t h i n k principles of the frisbee could in the present Chemistry building. for a library, as well as student frisbee-throwing began until after any way be used in warfare. T h e R e s o u r c e s a n d housing requirements, little action World War II when pie tins from Ne w spaper edi t orials were Development Committee meeting was taken on the chemistry needs Frisbee's Bakery in New Haven published criticizing this move of September 30, estimated a cost until the spring of 1973. Donald were thrown around the town and and the IFA lambasted it as well. of one million dollars over the J. Denney, Chairman of the Their plea was to keep frisbees in next two to three years to cover Chemistry Department, made an the Yale College campus. N ot i t hstandin theoretical the projected expenditure. But estimate of minimal space needs ,,,,,, ,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,�,,,,,,,,,,, � -� ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, - -------------� the d ema nd f or i m p roved of the department. He placed his che m istry facilities was first requirements at 15,400 square voiced in 1969. feet. But the estimate was made The "Report of the Visiting assuming that the limitations of Committee to the Chemistry the chemistry building were to be Department" of September 1969, disregarded. m a d e t hree recommendations The projected space allocations based on the expanding nature of included laboratory sizes ranging t he c hemistry program. The from 2000 to 2600 square feet, an Committee advocated the need auditorium of 1920 square feet, for "f lexibility in physical and a storage room of 1300 structures." This implied that square feet. There was to be an UN.LIMITED there should be no physical allowance of 500 square feet to I ' limitations on innovations; that a c c omod ate m ore advanced conventional laboratory design instrumentation. s hould g i ve w ay to more But, "getting money for independent work conditions; and structures is difficult," claimed CHRISTMAS SPECIALS ' that with the increasing use of Mr. Denney. The Planning Office, . :. i n s t r u m e n t a tion, p hy s i c a l headed by Mr.John Kreinheder, is Now at Dooms,,. ' precautions would have t o be now trying to establish whether Men's dress shirts at a low $1.90 undertaken. most of the chemistry needs can Lots of sock, at only 25 cents pr '' In addition, a number of b e m e t within the present Men's lined and unlined jackets specific suggestions were made. structure. Mr. Kreinheder is studying the ' These included the notion that l a b o r a t ories f o r Ge neral, cost involved, the maximum Personalized "T" shirts ' Analytical and Organic Chemistry flexibility available within the or sweat shirts make ' be of the same basic design and current chemistry outlay, and the wonderful Christmas gifts with the same services. Also, the possible alternatives. Although he need for marked exits and safety gave the impression of being At Dooms we make them while showers was expressed. moderately confident that the you wait-and at the T h ere was no def inite needs could be met within the Right Price commitment made in this report present structure, Mr. Krienheder as to whether there should be felt that too many variables had renovations of the existing yet to be resolved before he could structure or if new construction recommend any course of action should be undertaken. at the Board of Trustees meeting Grand Union Shop�ing Center . ·. "Many matters stated in this this December. , .. Clinton r eport would lead to the S ince Hamilton is passing t �" consideration of expansion of the through an interim stage, much of ,I Science Building," the Visiting the future of the chemistry needs Com m ittee s t ated. "While will depend on the priorities of I recognizing that such a proposal the new President. The plans now 'I I may be unrealistic for reasons remain vague .
BY DOUG GLUCROFT Hamilton College has long had the reputation of attracting the intellectual elite, but few realize that also within its midst is one of the few "frisbee masters" in the United States. John Carmichael Calder '75, known to friends and frisbee fans alike as Mike, is one of the less than 200 extant frisbee masters in America. The rating of "inaster" denotes the highest proficiency level as designated by t h e I n ternation a l Frisbee Association. Mike and his father John Calder are the only two masters in t he state of Colorado, and indirectly this has caused the latest episode in Mike Calder's frisbee endeavors. This Saturday t he Denver Rockets of the American Basketball Association are giving awa� 3,000 frisbees for promotion. Mike and his father will give an exhibition during halftime at the game to be held in Colorado. Calder hypothetically queried A s s oci a t e P r o f e s so r o f Gov e r n m e n t E u g e n e Le wis whether he could take an exam t his Friday instead of next Wednesday because of his trip to Denver. Calder will return for the exam, but Professor Lewis was nevertheless impressed. He said, "This young man presented me with the most terrific excuse I have ever heard in my life." What does a frisbee master do that novice frisbee-throwers don't do? To become a frisbee master, one must demonstrate a high degree of proficiency in throwing a frisbee straight, with left and right curves, in boomerang style, and in other manners common to the sport. Calder is a veritable wealth of
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Visitors Evaluate Chem Needs The following is an excerpt from the "Report of Visiting C o m m i t t e e to C h e m istry Department of Hamilton College" submitted by ,Charles Compton, ].A. Kampmeier and Walter Keighton in 1969. The evaluation initiated demands for changes wi'thin the Chemistry department.
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We have been asked to forecast the probable changes during the next decade in undergraduate chemical education at Hamilton College and to suggest the nature of the physical and auxiliary facilities that will be required to meet these changes. We will first state four general principles which underlie the changes which are expected, next enumerate the changes in physical plant required for the consummation of these principles, and finally list other lon g range i nn o vations-not necessarily physical. The first general principle under! yi ng t he changes we recommend is that one should strive for flexibility in physical f a c i l i t i e s , e s p e c i a l ly in laboratories. There will certainly be changes in the laboratory experiments associated with any particular course and it would be unfortunate if the opportunity for innovation were limited by the physical design of the laboratory space or by the services associated with it. A second general principle is t ha t t he r e w i l l b e m o r e independent work by students in the nature of short research studies. These will require more flexible f acilities than the· conventional laboratory designed for large classes, with its fixed benches and individual lockers. A third general principle is that undergraduate chemical education will certainly make use of more s o p hi staicated instrumentatio�. Instruments should be situated
near the place where they are used' but often in a separate room, in some cases to provide temperature control or humidity control, in others to protect students from radiation produced, and in other cases s i m ply to keep the instrument out of traffic so as to maintain its calibration, or keep it ·clean, or to keep it secure against meddling. The fourth general principle is , that it is important to encourage a community of interest between students and students,between faculty and· students, between
each faculty member and the others. Opportunities for the e xcha nge o f ideas between students, f o r t he informal· teaching of one student by another, should be fostered in addition to those exchanges that involve the faculty. Finally, we are impressed with the general soundness of the Hami lton chemistry program. Consequently, our suggestions. are intended-not to tamper with that program-but rather to support and strengthen it as it continues to develop.
The illuminated spire of the Chapel has become a casualty of the national energy crisis. Turning off the Chapel lights, w h i c h h a ve been v isible throughout much of the Mohawk Valley for the past 16 years, was one of several energy-saving measures put in force by J. Martin C a rova no, act ing Hamilton president. The 145-year-old Chapel is the oldest three-story colonial church still existing in North America and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The steeple was first illuminated in 195 7. According to calculatiQns by Dav i d W e r n e r, c o m muni ty relations supervisor in the Utica office of the Niagara-Mohawk Po�er Co., electric power for the Chapel lights cost $200 a year. A total of 1,200 gallons of oil was required to generate the 20,000 k i l o w a t t h o u r s consumed annually, Mr. Werner said. The
lighting system was designed by Michael Morette of New Hartford, then a Niagara-Mohawk engineer and now the local community relations m anager for the company. Mr. Carovano also anpounced t he e xtinguis hing of other decorative lights on the campus, including exterior illumination on the library and the Bristol Campus Center. All building thermostats are being turned down to 68 degrees and students, faculty and staff are . being asked to keep windows closed and unnecessary lights off, he said. Lights on campus roads and walkways will remain on, but the incandescent bulbs will be replaced by lower-consumption mercury lamps as they wear out. No change is contemplated a t present in the college's academic calendar because of the energy crisis, Mr. Carovano saig.
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essage to a Beautiful People; Peace, Unity, ·and Freedom BY PHYLLIS TAYLOR Wake up brothers and sisters and face reality. "I'll be Black for today and I'll wake up tomorrow and act like a nigger again," is not g ood enough. Skin color is ineradicable. Therefore there is an external basis for being Black. But Blackness is more than visible skin pigmentation. To be· Black is to know and accept one's Blackness and wear it proudly and internally as well as externally. In an informal interview with the three guest poets fronJ. last week's Poetry Weekend on the Hi ll, Y usef Walemaya, Tom W e a th e r l y, a n d K a li, each commented on the weekend. Yusef: "There is a very warm
atmosphere here at Hamilton and Kirkland. I liked the setting the brothers and sisters have set up for themselves in an atmosphere where it's not very easy to do so w ith the different types of strategies set up here. A lot of brothers and sisters know what type of environment they're in and the purpose of being here. They know we· have to acquire ce rtain skills to obtain our purposes-some type of direction d e a l i n g with the whole of people-Black people. I liked the poetry set with the exception of the "non-family" (white people) mem bers. The weekend had everyone's spirits up and the brothers and sisters got involved with what was happening."
Parker Water Colors ; Oriskany Valley View
T om Weatherly:· "Brothers, sisters, there was energy pure, too often undirected energy: there was hate, pure hate, 99 and 99/100% pure hate; there was black love a diluted love, love diluted by so much hate-and the trip is that the hate wasn't even all for real. Now, get away from academia for awhile, come down to New York City to see some real hate; yeah give up books, abstract ideas, and move into an apartment on the Lower East Side. Here you reject knowledge. You also reject the knowledge of your ancestors. You rally 'round any sounds called speech 'cause they appeal to your prejudices; any loud furious nigger-read Al Young's p o e m "Da n c e f o r Militant Dilettantes"-yep! any loud nigger w i t h LOUD h on k y-baiting · (similar to bear-baiting when you're safely behind bars outside the cage) cliches can drive you into the role of bersarker. "Stop that lame shit, brers, sisters, 'cause you knowJ yooouu know you ain't gone go out-full moon or no-and spill white blood; you know that you don't even wish to. You have some brothers and sisters among you who can write well, do it, and ignore all the ragged dagger shit. They would be brave to tell you where you're wrong. "I love you and 'cause I love you I can't let you believe that I approve of everything you do and it is not love to lie to one�s brothers and sisters who are lying to them.self-what they think is their bad self. Why do you ignore knowledge? You aren't raggety in chem or bio or speech or any dem , factual subjects. The same in life. .
Watercolor by Paul Parker An exhi bi ti on of recent barns, silos and tilled fields, w at e r c olors by Paul Parker, s u p e ri m po s e d on n a t u r e ' s professor emeritus o f art at accommodating contours. But in Hamilton College, will go on the grimmer months I paint in a display Sunday, November 18, at different area, most recently Key t he college's Bristol Campus West." Center. Mr. Parker will be present at an ---: Mr. Parker retired from the opening reception at the exhibi6�n Hamilton faculty in 1970 after site, the Second Floor Lounge, serving for 22 years. He studied at tonight at 8. The public is invited the University of Chicago, the Art to attend the reception. Institute of Chicago and the The exhibition, which will American Academy of Art. He remain on view through December was head of the art department at 21, includes 47 watercolors, 18 of the University of South Dakota t hem depicting the Oriskany and director of the Colorado Valley and the remainder painted Springs Fine Arts Center and of the Des Moines Art Center before in Key West, Florida. "These watercolors are painted coming to Hamilton. He maintains on the spot, not recollected in his home in Clinton. tranquility," Mr. Parker writes in Mr. Parker's work has been the foreword to the exhibition program. "Nothing consequential exhibited at t h e following has been added, much has been l oc a t i o ns: A rt Institute of T h e y are not Chicago, Colorado Springs ·Fine subtracted intended as sketches for paintings Arts Center, Denver Art Museum, in other mediums, but- as final New York World's Fair (1939), s t a t e m e n t s w i t h f u rther Kansas City Art Institute, Walker Art Center, Philbrook Art Center, elaboration redundant... "Most of my painting is Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute concerned with the Oriskany (and represented in its permanent Valley, surely one of the great collection), Colgate University, valleys of the world with its Root Art Center, Utica College, unique harmony of man's work, and Kirk-land Art Center.
Kali: "In reference to poetry weekend, it was the sort of thing that a school like this should have more of because the level of consciousness on campus is a thing like "rll be Black for today, and I'll wake up tomorr-ow and act like a nigger again." Really · there is no change since last year in terms of where people's heads are at. There is a certain rapport that Blacks usually have within an institution like this, but it's lacking. The reason being that brothers and sisters fail to accept each other for what they are. You aren't open to each other. There doesn't seem to be a response to t hi ng s w hi c h s h ould come nat urally -i.e. b r other-sister relationships. The Black and Puerto Rican Student Union is s uffering b e ca us e o f this. Consequently brothers and sisters are suffering; when it comes to
Tom Weatherly, guest poet at Uhw-u weekend dealing, the same people are dealing. "Blacks need to get together in order to survive. No problem is petty-you have to deal with them a l l . Blacks are acting a p a t h e t i c a ll y -l ik e t h e administration will take up the a n d U n i t y s l a c k . self-determination are lacking and this calls for a regrouping of values. On the positive side, there is a lot of commitment from certain people, for instance the success of the weekend. You dealt with the situation at least for this. If this could be done year round, you can get over. "I f ee l t ha t t he Black community in Clinton and Utica should be more receptive towards Black students on campus and the other surrounding campuses. In terms of the Black and Puerto Rican Student Union, I would like to see more activities on a continual basis. The Union should be a shining example to the school itself as to what Third World people be about. I would like to thank all the students here for being very warm and receptive to the work that I dealt with. My greatest pleasure and feeling of joy will come from seeing the brothers and sisters here take care of each other and move on issues and anything that would deal with jeopardizing the security of the sisters . and by that I mean brothers protecting them by any
THE ROOM TRYOUTS
Readings for Harold Pinter's The Room will be held Sunday afternoon at 4:00 pm on the 4th floor of Kirkland Dorm. Anyone interested should contact Jerry Nunziato at ext. 4563.
'CHOIR CONCERT The Hamilton-Kirkland Choir will give its first performance of the year Sunday at 3:00 in the Alumni Gymnasium. Led by Assistant Professor Lee S. Spear, the Choir will sing works spanning six centuries of music, including works by Scarlatti, Brahms, and Byrd. The concert will also feature the Hamilton Brass Choir, conducted by Professor Stephen Bonta, and a newly fo rmed group called the _College Hill Singers, which will make its debut at the concert. The group contains members of t_he regular choir. and will sing works requiring more delicate sounds. The Buffers will provide the humor for the program. Their light-hearted barber shop style will round out the afternoon's entertainment. There will be no admission charge.
means necessary. I would like to say to the sisters, show the brothers� that Black womanhood be about and start living up to the t r a d it ional greatness of our women in the past. If you did that the brothers could only be better Blackmen for it! For those not present 'at the poetry weekend, when Kali came up to speak, he turned the podium from the center of the stage to face the majority of the b r o th ers and sisters in the audience. In regards to this, Kali first of all stated that the intention of moving the podium was to tell the white people to get lost. '�My poetry is written for Black people, geared toward Black people and therefore to have w hi t e p eople s1ttmg around feeling guilty and gaping with their mouths open and not understanding what the hell is going on and trying very hard to say, well I have nothing to do with that, I wasn't respoilSlble for what my ancestors did is bullshit because the best way they could help us out is by leaving us be; as in ALONE. And it's not that I'm racist. It's just that they've bcai allowed to use us to build tha world, so it's about time they left us alone and let us build our world- because a ripple in a pond of a white student's concern is not going to help the tidal wave that has to wash away 400 years of being enslaved, being raped, being whipped, being made to compete for meaningless jobs and having Black people assimilate into thtir values which are historically, p h y s ically, m enta lly, and spiritually against everything that we be about! baka na heri. (Remain in Peace) Special Ahsante to sistm Sharleen and Fonda." As further clarification of the word Black, Kali stated that the tenn includes "all people of color with disregard to ge ographical b o undaries." According to Shar le en Di ckins on, Fonda Johnson, and An thony Scoon, the program '-s organizers, the weekend was a complete success.
November 16, 1973/THE SPECTATOR/7
On Campus This Weekend
FILM
Oliver Twist and The Bal/oonatic. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm,
Sunday at 10 pm. In the Chemistry Auditorium. Admission .75
November 19 (Monday)
The Making of a President-I 968, at 4 pm and 8 pm in the Chemistry Auditoriµm. Captain Blood. At 10 pm in the Chemistry Auditorium. Also Tuesday.
At Nearby Theatres
Cannonball {853-5553} The New Land {PG) Kallett {736-2313) American Graffitti (PG) Stanley {724-4000) House of Unclean Girls {R), and Secret- Life
of a Schoolgirl Wife {R) Uptown (732-0665) Instinct For Survival {G) 258 Cinema {732-5461) The Italian Connection {R), Screaming Tiger {R), and Walking Tall (R)
LECTURE AND DISCUSSION November 17 (Saturday)
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. At 5:30 in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
Intercom. Informal conversation, At 9 pm in the Alumni House. Kirkland Bazaar. Lobby lo'unge at McEwen. 11 am to 5 pm.
November 18 (Sunday)
Free Church of Clinton. At 11:15 in the Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. At 12:45 in the Chapel.
November 19 (Monday)
The Right to be Different. Speaker-LaDonna Harris, President, Americans for Indian Opportunity. At 8 pm in the Chapel.
November 16 (Friday)
DRAMA
Rhinoceros. At 8 pm in Minor Theatre. Also Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Admission$1.00. Students$. 75.
November 16 (Friday)
MUSIC
jack McGann, Patti Nunn. Student Activities Committee Concert.
At 9 pm in the McEwen Coffeehouse. Also Saturday, Free with social tax,$.50 without.
November 17 (Saturday)
Amnesty Concert and Dance. At 9 pm in the Bundy Dining �all. Admission$1.00.
November 18 (Sunday)
Hamilton-Kirkland Choir Concert. At 3 pm in the gym. EXHIBITIONS
On Campus
Prints, Drawings, and Paintings of Lovis Corinth. At the Root Art Center. Through November 25.
Recent Work by Matt Solon '74. At the Bristol Campus Center Snack Bar. Through November 18.
Anonymous Photographers. At the List Art Center. Through November 27.
Recent Water Colors: Key West and the Oriskany Valley, by Paul
Parker, Professor Emeritus, Hamilton College. At the Bristol Campus Center through December 21. Opening and reception November 18 at 8 p m. At the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Three Swiss Painters, including work by Augusto Giacometti. Opens November 18 at the Museum of Art, 310 Genesee St. Through December 30.
RHINOCEROS The Kirkland College Arts Division will sponsor a production of Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros " on November 16-20 at Minor Theater on the Hamilton College campus, beginning at 8 p.m. each evening. Directed by Paul Cooper, Associate Professor of Drama at Kirkland, the production combines the theatrical and artistic talents of more than twenty-five members of Kirkland and Hamilton Colleges. The play, which is both a comedy and serious theatre, deals with man's struggle to remain an individual as people around him become thick-skinned and insensitive "rhinoceroses," according to Cooper. Althoug h written for audiences in Provincial France, the play has a universal message, and under Cooper's direction the players will wear costumes of the 1950's syles in America. The transition of the players to rhinoceroces will be enacted by using giant masks, resembling rhinoceros heads, that have been designed- and constructed by Mei-ling Hom, a graduate of Kirkland College, who is presently working as an in tern for the Kirkland Arts Division. Kl NO KUNST This weekend KINOKUNST presents David Lean's Oliver Twist, along with B uster Keaton's comedy short, The Ba llo onatic. Oliver Twist is an exciting drama of a bastard boy's misadventures in London, and stars Howard Davies as Oliver and Alec Guinness as Fagin. Show times are at 8 pm Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and at 10 pm on Sunday, in the Chemistry Auditorium. Admission is $.75. Monday and Tuesday KINOKUNST presents Captain Blood. Errol Flynn is the swashbuckling doctor turned pirate, and Olivia de Havilland is his lady love. Exciteme_ nt and romance mingle in this high seas drama. Admission is $.50.
Matt Solon, One Man Show; Success in Abstract. Design
BY VIN POMERANZ I shall begin this critique of Matt Solon '74; One Man Show r a t h e r w e a k l y ; w i t h three confessions. First, I know and like Matt Solon. Second, I own one of the paintings in the show. Third, I know very little about painting, etching, and lithography. While t he s e t hree f a ul t s in my objectivity and ability should prevent me from proceeding with a critique of Matt's opening, they obviously have not. My reason for stating thein is to help place my comments in perspective. I would advise readers of this critique to see the show and judge it for themselves and then read the rest of my comments, or to form their own opinions and disregard my views entirely. For those of you who wish a biased, secondhand view of the show, read on.
I ·wrote the introduction to this article at Bristol, sipping Diet Pepsi, surrounded by Matt's show; and now I'm behind the desk at the Root Art Center, listening to an organ being played in another room, wondering where to go f rom m y i ntroduction. The simplest route I can take is to discuss two paintings; one abstract . painting and one realistic painting. I choose this method because most of Matt's work falls into these two styles. It's sim:ple to throw around the labels abstract and realistic, but it should be understood that they are used for the sake of discussion, not categorization. If I wanted to overextend my credibility I could call some of Matt's paintings abst ract design constructions, which I really feel they are, but
I'll stick with abstract and realistic. The two paintings I want to discuss are labeled number 3, oil, Salle D'Attente, and Number 9, oil, Untitled. Painting number three, Salle D'Attente, (The Waiting Room),
particularly like the hard edge of the wall boards against the free representation of the surrounding landscape. In some of Matt's paintings, especially number 7, The Car a photographic framing sense is
Detail-of Number Five, by Matt Solon was painted from one of the evident. To some extent this way buildings at the deserted Migrant of seeing and representing is also Workers' camp on Griffin Road. I , found in Salle D'Attente. The call this pain ting realistic because placement of the building in the it deals with an identifiable upper portion of the canvas (so• object. Matt successfully presents that the roof is cut off) and the an impressionistic view of a large ground area placed at the d i l apidated house with both lower portion of the canvas could o r g a n i c a n d archi te ct ur a l s u gg e s t t he f r aming of a t reatment of_ the subject. I photograph. I say "could suggest"
Decision · Reversed; Playhouse Furided
BY DAVID SCHUTT to perform That Championship The Adirondack Playhouse, a Season which will be closing soon s�mmer stock theatre located on in New York City after a highly t h e h i l l , w i l l r e ce ive a successful two year run. The Noel two thousand dollar share of the Cow a r d p r o d u c t i o n Present county budg�t. Laughter is also being considered This move, a reversal of an Ly producers Mr. and Mrs. earlier decision by the Oneida Maitland Ijams. County Board of Ways and Means The Adirondack Playhouse is to withold these funds, eases the one of the few summer stock financial woes of the Playhouse. theatres in New York State which Other problems, still unresolved, offers a resident prof�ssional face the company. No agreement com pany. T h i s means that with the school has been reached emphasis is centered on the on housing and dining facilities production itself not on a single f or t he actors. Last year's well-known star. arrangement, in which actqrs ate According to Hamilton English and lived in campus fraternities, Professor Edwin Barrett, who is re suited in a financial loss. a s s oci ate p r oducer of the Proposals concerning the use of program, the Playhouse provides college dormitories and the Bristol "ve r y good experience" for Campus Center for these purposes Hamilton and Kirkland students are as yet unresolved. who participate as apprentices. The company is also awaiting They receive acting lessons from approval of a ten thousand dollar professionals as well as valuable grant from the New York State stage time. Another benefit of the Council of the Arts, which it company is its Children's Theatre received last year. which it performs for youngsters Despite these difficulties the in the village. Playhouse has tentatively planned AMENIC Due to shipping problems from McGraw-Hill Films, Pierrot le Fou will not be shown this weekend. CONTEMPORARY MUSIC l�he SAC and BPR U are presenting a weekend of contemporary music on Nov.30 and Dec. I. On Saturday Chick Corea's group, Return to Forever, will perform at 8:00. On Friday John Blair will �erfo� at 8:00 and 10:00. Both concerts will be in the Chapel. I< ree with social tax, dates 50 cents, $2.50 gen. admission. There will �.e advance ticket sales in Bristol on the Tuesday, Wednesday, and l hursday of the week prior to the concerts.
but I really believe that it's Matt's sense of design and placement which creates a satisfactory visual nnage and not a tiybridization of representational methods. Matt's sense of design is even more evident in his abstract paintings. In these paintings one can also detect a talent for t e xt ure, c o l or and surface. Painting number 9 combines all of these attributes and succeeds in creating both a sense of depth and. movement. There is very little more that I would say about number 9 except that as a design oriented painting it is very successful, as are most of Matt's other abstract works. Matt's sense of design and technique are evidenced in both his realistic and abstract paintings but his realistic paintings offer more substance for the viewer. The abstract paintings, while they are handsome, prove only to be successful exercises in design. W h i l e t h i s m a y b e an accomplishment for some, I feel that Matt's true talent lies in his ability to incorporate his sense of design, texture, and color into realistic paintings which go far beyond the successes of his abstract works. I like (with variations in degree) most of the paintings, etchings and - lithographs, with only a few minor exceptions. I don't feel this critique does justice to the amount of work involved in the show, but I hope it suggests that a glance up from your cup of coffee and crossword puzzle at Bristol tomorrow morning will reward you in many ways.
8/THE SPECTATOR/November 16, 1973 BY ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE
Our preservation correspondents are always with us. They make a cogent, passionate case, more often than not with pictures. And they range from Harvard professors to the man, or woman, in the street. What they write is usually a litany of damage to the cultural environment. They flood this office with crises. We apologize to all that we have no magic formula for help, or even the time, energy or manpower to deal with multiple emergencies. Herewith, a sampling- of what comes in. Curiously, the barbarians are not just in City Hall, but on campuses, as well. Enlightenment one hardly expects in politicians' offices, and the vicissitudes of urban renewal and preservation in Kingston or Newburgh, New York, for example, are too long and awful to be recounted here. The tragedy of the deliberately sacked city is repeated over and over. But one does expect enlightenment in academia? it is made up of educated people. Still, with the best intentions and unmotivated by the "economic progress" syndrome of the Chamber of Commerce, they make equal mistakes. There seems to be an epidemic of environmental myopia at our schools. On two of 'the college campuses we visited this spring, Colgate and Williams, there were almost identical preservation problems, and we were well apprised of them by correspondents before we ever got there. Similar examp !es arrived in the mail from Vermont College, Harvard and Yale, to cite a few. In almost every case, there is an old building on campus that some want to demolish and some want to save. Ususally the administration wants to demolish. _With the exception of Vermont College, there is
an evident inability of the proponents ot opponents to evaluate the architectural and en vironmental factors . with any accurate knowledge or insight. At Colgate, a small handsome, typically Richardsonian building is condemned by those who wou Id be rid of it because it is not in the same "style" as the rest of the Quadrangle. It doesn't "match." It is therefore "inappropriate and ugly." It is not to be replaced, just eliminated. Vision comes no shorter than that. What few seem to recognize is that the building is the key to the scale of the Quadrangle; remove it, and that scale would be· gone. It not only adds the appropriate historical counterpoint in a far from unsympathetic style, but it is critical to the enclosure of the space as it is admired no. Only after demolition for the ".view of the hills" would anyone realize that irreparable damage had been done. The view exposed would be primarily of a large and hideous new building which would then d o m i n ate a n d disrupt existing felicities. Gentlemen, look again. Williams is taking down, brick by careful brick for re-erection somewhere, after a drag-out _b a t t l e , the bastardized remnants of an 18th-century house. Once moved, twice altered by other architectural hands, it has value not as any special kind of architecture any more, but just as a good old building. This is not to be discounted today when good buildings are hard to get, but the arduous job of rebuiling it is reverence misplaced. It would be nice to see the values better read. On the other hanc;l, Harvard has already begun demolition of Hunt Hall, the Richard Morris Hunt building put up in 1895 as the original· Fogg Museum. This one was not expendable.
Clark H. Minor Theatre. The building once served as the college hospital. It also housed the Perry M. Smith Library, which was the College's maih library before construction of theCurtiss-JamesLibrary. Interior renovation design by Edward Duffell Stone.
College Architecture: Preserving Those Worthy Buildings
P ro fessor Eduard F. Sekler, renowned architectural historian and director of Harvard's Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, told the administration so with a petition carrying more than ·100 University signatures. Protests came from as far as the University of California at Berkeley. Dean William L. C. Wheaton, who has worked in Hunt Hall and knew its imperfections, wrote President Bok that destruction was a "violation of the integrity of the Yard, representing as it does the architectural styles of over 200 years of building." "Harvard sets us back by the symbolism of its willingness to destroy a historic building," he writes this office. Of course, Hunt Hall's Beaux Arts classicism didn't "go." There is a lot of red brick reverence at Harvard and it has produced some godawful and some so-so new buildings. Not surprisingly, Hunt Hall will be replaced by a -dormitory, by a highly regarded firm, with the mandate, according to a Harvard publication, that it is "to be built with brick to harmonize with the character of the existing buildings in the Yard." We tremble. The ".harmony fallacy" is a universal invitation to design disaster. At Vermont College, a division of Norwich University in Montpelier, they look at old buildings differently. The provost, Eber A. Spencer, Jr., writes of century-old College Hall. They do not want to bulldoze or replace it; they want to rehabilitate it. "We believe it displays a style and means in architecture so exemplary that it should house fine arts and music for the whole community." They are finding it an uphill financial fight. College Hall is pure Victoriana of the kind most people, including administrators and trustees, have been taught to love to hate. Towered, mansarded brick with round-arched windows and heavy cornices. A very fine structure, _and they will see it clear at Montpelier. All good luck and many foundation grants to Vermont College, for 20-20 environmental vision. ''@) I 973 by hy the New York Times Company. Reprinted hy pfrmission."
The Truax Columns. Erected in the College cemetery in October, the columns are remnants ot the rruax Hall of Philosophy, built in 1900, and demolished in 1970 to free the site of the Edmund Burke Library.
Ada Louise Huxtable is architecture critic of i'he Times. She received an honorary degree from Hamilton Colle e last s12rin
November 16, 1973/THE SPECTATOR/9
Jame s Building Lays Fallow Awaiting President BY ELIZABETH BARROW
Although several plans have been proposed for its use, the fllen Curtiss James Library has stood vacant for the last fourteen months, following the completion of the new fdmund Burke Library. A final decision will not be made until lhe new Hamilton president is chosen. This will allow him freedom in deciding what office space he needs and how he wants his administrative offices arranged. The full decision will be made by the next president and other administrators, faculty, and trustees. Builfin 1914, the James Library replaced the smaller Perry . Smith Library, which, incidentally, was later renovated and enamed the Clark H. Minor Theatre. Designed in the Tudor othic ar-chitecture of the early nineteenth century, the three 1tory James Library utilized local stone for its exterior in order that it might harmonize with the other campus building. However, an artificial cast stone, Onondage Litholite, was used for the decorative traceries both inside and out. This later roved to be a mistake as the fake stone quickly showed signs f wear as a result of the rough Clinton winters. All possible furnishings were made of iron at the insistence f certain trustees who believed "insurance would be nneccessary" if iron was used. Iron tables, iron girder based
Interior view of Minor Theatre.
Curtiss-James Library, erected in 1914. View from the south-west.
floors, and iron filing card catalogue cabinets "that squeaked so loudly they could be heard on all three floors when opened" dominated the library. The only things made of wood were the chairs. During the James Library's first few years of use neither students nor faculty knew exactly who donated the money for its construction. Although it was called the New Library there were. speculations that Andrew Carnegie gave the necessary $233,144. In 1917, the donor was revealed. Ellen Curtiss James, the wife of English industrialist William James, had wished her gift to remain anonymous until a year after her death. In 1972, the James Library, after 55 years of use, was replaced by the Burke Library. The question of what to do with the Library building was first asked in 1968, when the plan for the Burke Library was announced. One of the plans suggested that the mammoth amount of space be utilized as administrative offices. This would have placed all the offices in one building. Although tfiis would certainly have been more convenient, the plan met with some opposition from the faculty. They were afraid that this single building might be made the focal point of student unrest and dissatisfaction, and might incur blockading of offices such as has occurred at colleges throughout the country. Concern has also been expressed that removal of the deans' offices from the "beaten path" of the s t udents w o ul d disrupt the informal student-dean relationships.
TheCurtiss-James facade, which includes the Hamilton College seal.
Mr. john Kreinheder, Director of Planning
Between 1970 and 1973 various other plans for the Library bu ii ding were proposed, including renovating it for a computer center, lecture hall, exhibition hall, music hall, student housing, print shops , or offices. Hamilton, however, is in the unique position of having an ample supply of space on campus. There is only 30% class utilization and there is five times as much space for students here than at state institutions. Most teachers here have their own offices, while at many colleges and universities teachers share group offices. This sufficiency of room may be an answer as to why the building hasn't already been used. The College has noted deficiencies in chemistry lab space, art studio space, and music practice space. Some plans recognize the need for these various departmental areas and incorporate this need into the plans in conbination with office space. The building is now used occasionally for registrations and ID card picture taking. Various student organizations such as the Outing Club and the student radio station have expressed a desire to occupy office space there and several students have expressed a desire for a more refined Pub-like place, perhaps serving wine and cheese. The building will be heated to prevent its deterioration. Plans for future use of the Curtiss James Library, however, remain undetermined.
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Synopsis, Strike Lasts Three Weeks HISTORY OF fflE STRIKE
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The first shift of strikers arrives at main entrances of Hamilton-Kirk.Jand Colleges. P i c k e t s t u rn a w a y trucks. Emerson Literary Society donates front yard to strikers. Students r e t u r n ing from vacation are baffled by strike. All but two n on-union workers show for work. D'Aprix and Leuiken say they are prepared for long strike. October 24Leuiken says "everything is calm. 0 Newman says that at least ten non-union workers are not showing for work. Still, no negotiations are m sight. No effects of the strike are noticeable. October 28- Concerned students me et with Duffy and shop s t ewards at ELS. Action is planned: "Sit-in" in Buttrick Hall, constant phpne-calls, fliers to be distributed, and vandalism hinted. October 29- Students meet informally Carovano. He says t h a t H am i l t o n i s p a y i n g competitive wages to unskilled workers, but not to skilled. He says that the college is willing to raise skilled wages, but the union will not accept such an offer. Vandalism is reported: broken
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windows at Dunham and Bundy. faculty members remain aloof to Trash is strewn around college s tr ik e s u p p o r t. During the p u b. N a i l s a r e thrown at morning rush hour a group of non-striking workers. Can>vano students attempts to block a d e li very truck at the main expects arrests. October 30- Dean Bingham's entrance of Hamilton College. w i n dow is broken. Students They back down only after being distribute fliers supporting strike. threatened with arrest. Cold weather and hard rains November 5- Acting President a r r i v e. Carovano meets with a sparse November 1- The college and group in the Chapel to clarify the union negotiate in the afternoon. issues of the strike. The union modifies union security November 8- Negotiation session proposal to ..agency shop." The is arranged at Mr. Duffy's request. college counter-proposes a 40-cent November 9- Final marathon r a ise with faster distnl>ution negotiations are held in Franklin increment. The union meets at Spr ings. The college and union night to vote on the proposal. reach agreement after almost three weeks after the walkout which is flatly refused. November 2- Student shift is began. incorporated into picket line. November 12- Members of Local However, other students and 200 return to work AMERICA: LOVE IT AND FIX IT, OR LEAVE IT BY ROBERT PELZ JR. '75 It was during Lyndon Johnson's reign, ap tly enough, at the height of an escalated VietNam war, when the term 'credibility gap' came into prominence. When one cannot believe what he is told because there is serious doubt as to the integrity of the person or organization giving the 'fact', then there is a credibility gap. It was also in Johnson's term that some good journalism revealed the widespread use of American herbicides in · VietNam. The environmentalist tells America that herbicides can create new breeds of 'super-insects' and defoliate all the plants in VietNam, and th-e military tells America we need to employ herbicides so we can see the enemy. The American Revolutionists in 1776 hid behind trees and successfully depleted British ranks. Does this irony indicate anything? Today, November 16, 1973, when the credibility of the entire government-military-industrial complex has reached its alltime low, from Nixon on down, it is easy, and maybe even realistic, to be cynical and claim, "The use of pesticides and herbicides in VietNam was just another filament of our corrupt society trying to justify manipulation (usually to the detriment) of the ecosystem for man's uses, in the name of progress.'' How far have we progressed? We no longer bombard South VietNam with herbicides. Or do we? These are the doubts that a credibility gap perpetrates and we, those who care and think about America's present course, who have been lied to so many times, who see such inequity in the land of the free,. who see �e destruction of their country which was once beautiful throughout, and who have ultimately come to understand the history of our ecological problems as the history of Western man, with his ethic of controlling the earth for his own use, future be damned-we do not believe the sophists anymore. If a politician or a military personnel, or even a newspaperman tells the American public that we have stopped using herbicides in VietNam, we better not be too quick to believe it. You _cannot always believe w�t you read•••
Lourdes Wan (left) talks with John Mavrogeni� (right) as English professor John O'Neill (left background) and Dean of Students R. Gordon Bingham discuss the strike as students joined the picket lines during the walkout. STRIKE ENDED continued from page one try to persuade them to join." Carovano responded by saying, "We will not accept pressure by union on non-union wqrkers." Gerald Leuiken, Director of Physical Plant, held a meeting of all leadmen and stewards last Wednesday. They assured ,him that "they will cooperate fully to keep friction between union and n o n- u n i o n w o r k e r s at a minimum." Leuiken said, "When we hear of something like th"at, we jump right on it." C arovano also said, ''The longer a strike goes (and this was a long strike), the more bitterness occurs." Commenting on any
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discussion of c o I 1 ege d i s c r i m i n a t ion against union members, Carovano said, "We have never heard any grievance filed on this issue. In fact, Gerry Leuiken doesn't have any record of union and non-union workers." Leuiken confirmed Carovano's statement, and said he does know who the few shop stewards are. Ge orge Newman, Hamilton Director of Public Relations said that the most unfortunate re sult of the strike is the bitterness between union and non-union workers. He also said that there w e r e "n o p h ysical effects, certainly" and that "the outside world saw it for what it was-a labor dispute, and nothing more."
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K-land Athletic Cotpm. Explores Possibilities
T h e K i r k l and A t hl e ti c Committee met yesterday to discuss existing athletic options and programs that should be considered. The fall owing sports are a l ready offered through the planning of M r s. C omfort Richardson, C o ordinator of Athletics: s wi m m i n g, judo, volleyball, squash, basketball, and sk,ating. / The members of the committee stressed that, if enough interest develops in establishing intramural "teams" at Kirkland, people of all a thlet i c a bi l ities should be encouraged to participate in the sports. The "teams" are basically designed to give Kirkland students an ·organized time when others with an interest in a particular sport will be present. Visiting team locker room "C" will be available for use by Kirkland students on weekdays
from 9-3 after the Thanksgiving recess. Janet Perloff will be responsible for attending to the Outing Club's Equipment Room on the Kirkland campus after Tha nksgivi ng v a c a t io n; the location of the room is the basement of Milbank Dorm, t h r ough Ent ry n o. 3. The Equipment Room will be open on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7-7:30 p.m. and on Saturday a nd Sunday mornin� from 9:30-10:00 a.m. A coed Yoga class has been meeting each weekday morning on the second floor of the List Arts Center from 6:30-8:00 a.m. Kirkland students interested in playing tennis during the winter months at the local indoor tennis co urt s s hould contact Mrs. Richardson; the cost of 1 1/2 ho'1}'s of playing time, with a lesson fron the resident pro, is $3. Hockey perview in two weeks This would only be available on We d n e s d a y a f t e r n o o n s , transportation wo1:1Id be provided. The possibility of a full-time rights and 3) that the Lesbian music, it served as an enlightening long run. For in the throes of emphasis in both the music and and refreshing voice. No one can controversy the idea for the athletic staff director for the protection of an issue involving the accompanying literature was say that Kirkland has suffered women's concert flourished and s ec o n d s e m e s t e r i s being ba s i c h u m a n r i g h t s : offensive and presumpuous in its from an overdose of Radicalesbian succeeded in its intent to provide investigated, said Mrs. Richardson. discrimination. rhetoric, i.e. the only good material now or in the past. To Kirkland with an alternative-and Invitations have been sent to the deans of various colleges in New What is difficult for many to woman is a Lesbian. I agree that many, Alix Dobkin's lifestyle was a radical one at that. understand is the very real need publicity was poor.· It was late seen as a courageous decision ,of Margaret Mercer '76 York State, requesting a senior majoring in the field of physical for associations free from the and vag ue in c ontent; an devotion to women. There was no education for this position. Room strictures of convention and the organizational slip-up on our part. desire on Lavender Jane's part to and board would pl_'obably be intolerance of bigotry. For those However I feel it is irrelevant to pigeonhole women into categories given to a director during her time who attended the Coffeehouse on the real issue at hand. The same . with value judgements. It is ironic on campus. Friday night and heard Lavender argument applies to the criticism that at a school where feminist There is a possibility that an Jane, it became quite evident that o v e r t h e l o c a t i o n. The concepts are acknowledged, some • excercise class will be given during there was a marked difference and Coffeehouse is used for various students rejected an event which the Winter Study Period, with the improvement over other similar functions and there is no reason carried with it personal relevance possibility that it would continue social activities in which men are why it should not be used to them. through the second semester. included. e xc l usively for the · Kirkland The all women's night became Associate Professor Virginia More information on this and all There were other objections. In community. In response to the a much larger event than it was a letter to the Spectator dated objection to the Lesbian literature ever intended to be: I found Held will speak to the Philosophy other athletjc news is posted on November ninth one woman it is interesting to note that all of myself developing an ideoi'ogy to · Club on "Justifiable ways of the Athletic· Committee bulletin voi ce d m a n y p o i n ts of the Cowrie magazines were taken defend the event subsequent to Combating Injustice." The talk ·board located in the entry to contention: 1) that the advertising by the end of the evening. As for the decision to have it. But I will be at 8:15 p.m., November McEwen Hall. Any girl interested in playing of the event was deceptive, 2) that Dobkin's Lesbian Feminist bent suppose that was to be expected 29. She is on the national board the location infringed on others' which was woven through her and I believe it was good in the of directors of the newly formed basketball may play in the Democratic Socialist Organizing gym after Thanksgiving gn1 111[-l'lll IIIN:ItW E-DDI II Hrt?H I Il'itn I mmm I mna I 1[1)11[1] IL Iil11 1111 rn1aimaag Committee, a group headed by Hamilton vacation from noon - 1 p.m. on Michael H�rrington, a leading weekdays; firls interested in American Socialist. playing jungle hockey may do so V irginia Held is Associate on weekdays during the same Professor of Philosophy at Hunter hours at the Sage Rink. Girls College of the City University of interested in intramural swim . New York. She has also taught at team should see Sara Gordon or 1970 Toyota Corolia, 2 Dr. Barnard and worked as a reporter. M rs. Richardson. Coach Eric Standard $1595 Author of The Public Interest and MacDonald of the Hamilton Swim 1970 Toyota Carona, 4 Dr. Individual Interests (1970), Assoc. Team has helped to evolve a Automatic $1695 197 3 Capri, Vinyl Sliding Roof Prof. Held has also written articles practice work-out for use by the Stereo Tape $3195 on social and political philo·sophy, Kirkland students. Any Kirkland 1970 VWKharmann Ghia game theory, ethics, and public student interested in enrolling in a Coupe Standard $1595 policy.. She has been published in Hamilton skating class should see 1970 Fiat, 124 Coupe The Journal Of Phifosophy, The Mrs. Richardson. 5 Speed $1795 Public Interest, and Ethics among 1969 Austin-Healey Sprite other publications. CROSS COUNTRY $1095 A s s o c i a t e Professor o f continued from page five Philosophy at Hamilton, Robert Schmeyer, who in his first state Simon said, "She'Jl be concerned Another American Special meet took a 24th, and John w i t h evaluating t he moral Rodgerson, who took a 27th in · legitimacy of such means of 1968 Chevy Bel-Air state competition. Seldom has bringing about social change as Station Wagon, Coach Long seen Freshmen run as civil disobedience, strikes, and V /8, Power Steering well as these men did this season. resistance, which are outside the BELOW RETAIL Bringing -depth to this squad will normal political process." · Mr. be Sophomores, Joe Tenenova Simon further promises that the and Charles Hathaway, Freshmen, talk "will be of interest to a wider Guido Adelfio, Bruce Murphy, NOW UTICA'S ONLV audience than people specializing Charles Hudson, Kirby Joss, and AUTHORIZED FIAT DEALER in philosophy." Greg Maynard. These men- will SALES-SERVICE-PARTS present a challenge to any team DEBATE WEEKEND T his weekend three debate that they will face. More than half t e a m s f rom H a m i l ton and of next year's team are Freshman We service Kirkland are competing in a now and that means that they'll all makes of QO LOMOND.PLACE t o u r n a m e nt a t Princeton be around a few more years. imports Ju•t off Nertie/ S.11tlt Arter,.,University where the prepared Don't think this is the end of a topic is :'Being Presid�nt mean � dynasty; this could be just the , beginning. never havmg to say you re sorry. SWIM MEET The Hamilton College · Swimming Team will hold an intra-squad go under route 8 and tale LOCATION: your first left. meet, Monday, November 19, from four to six in the afternoon at . Clinton Road to Rt. 12 N., the Pool. All spectators are welcome. rm,n mwt r mall lilJI IIDIIIU II nm I II[ :nrm I mmu I J!jJjlJJ I IC·IilHJ I IILDlll111I IllIU
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Saxo11s Slip By Blues 14-3 in Steuben Snow Bowl; Continentals Wind-up Winless Season at Union BY ROBERT J. KEREN The Alfred Saxons, ranked didn't come until midway in the third in the state, handed the second quarter, after the ball had Continentals their seventh straight exchanged hands eleven times. Alfred scored first on a six setback of the 1973 football season last Saturday 14-3. Only yard burst by halfback Henry the snow-clad field conditions, Bz d ak. Star linebacker Tom freezing temperatures and a Krenzer blocked Kevin Snyder's fired-up Continental defense put a quick kick from the Hamilton damper on the always potent eleven yard-line to set up Alfred's w i n n i ng t o u c h d o w n . D on Saxon attack. A l f r e d c o n c l u d e d their Hockenberry's extra-point made it campaign with a 7-2 record, 7-0. The game resumed its normal a v e r a g i n g c l ose t o f o ur touchdowns per game. But at course, (3 plays then punt) and Steuben Field, Alex Yunevich's s l oppy p,lay (there were 8 S ax ons m an a g e d , only two ·rumbles) until late in the 3rd touchdowns, the second score period when Charlie Liebling coming with but 59 seconds ·recovered a Snyder punt that got 'away from Saxon return-man remaining in the game. Yunevich, who is the country's Charles Stanley on Alfred's 26. Quarterback Craig Fallon, who senior coach in terms of longevity at any one college, commented went all the way for the Blues, that the field conditions "were moved the ball down to Alfred's the worst I've seen in my 33 years 10 before place-kicker Bill Finan connected on a 28 yard field goal. of coaching." With the score now 7-3, the The Continentals will have one more opportunity to get into the r e m a1n1ng t w e nty m i nu t es win column in 1973, as they . produced some of the most brutal square off against the Union football ever seen at Steuben College Dutchmen tomorrow in Field. Personal fouls, roughing Sc hnectady. Union has been and face mask penaltys and brief h aving their difficulties also, free-for-alls were prevalent in a showing a 1-6 mark on the year. frustrating game which had 21 The Dutchmen have been shut out punts and only 13 first-downs. Fourth and Three five times and haven't scored a Hamilton got the ball back for· point in three weeks. Their lone victory came on a 18-14 decision one iast shot from their own 19 with five minutes showing on the over small-collegedoormat.RPI. Twenty-one Punts clock. But Coach Bob King Saturday's Alfred game was elected to remain on the ground played in six· inches of snow that calling Lou Cordia's number three went unplowed due to the times and coming up three yards maintenance strike which ended short. Facing a fourth and three Sunday and a breakdown in the situation and with their backs to cleated plow-tractor. The weather the wall (trailing by four points) forced the Saxons into a defensive King surprised the brave Steuben b attle f av o r i n g c onservative Field throng as he sent Snyder in to punt. football . In a game which saw only four It is difficult to second-guess completed passes and 94 rushing the winless rookie coach, but had p la y s, most of them going the Blues gone to the air or nowhere, the initial first down chosen to go for the three yards
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throwing to the brilliant junior T o m o r r o w , at Uni on's halfback Ron Westbrook. The Alexander Field, the Continentals Continentals will be keying on the will try to register their first :5'8" and 155 pound specimen victory in 13 games and put some from Holyoke Massachusetts. Snyder punted to Alfred's 48 joy in an otherwise humiliating Hamilton will run right at the and on third down Quarterback se ason. Pr i de and i n tense porous Union defense with T o m V r e denburgh turned a determination are about all that Cordia, Sandy Mackintosh and b o otleg run into a 47-yard the Blues have to go on as seven Brian Smith trying to inflict the touchdown play going around left Hamilton seniors will wind up damage. while Fallon will be e n d f or t he score. Kicker their col\ege careers in unfriendly looking to balance out the attack Schnectady. Hockenberry made it 14-3. going in the air to Grammaglia, Tomorrow's rivalry, the longest Snyder, Dave Pisanelli and Dave o As the clock ran out, Fallon hit running f otball matchup in the Lecher. f r e s hm an t i ght end George state, will be the 78th meeting of B a r r i n g a ny unforseen Grammaglia on two quick passes the Dutchmen and Cor;itinentals technical d ifficulties, Kenny of 8 and 12 yards. But it was too dating back to 1890. The Blue Marten and Thom Pirodsky will late now to stop the Saxons from lead in the sedes 34-31-12 and wind-up their 3-year career as the gr acing their disgruntled coach his will be looking to avenge last Hamilton broadcasting duo over 162nd career victory at Alfred. years 3-0 loss in a Steuben Field WHCL-FM tomorrow. Tune in to Henry Bzdak, a senior from mud-bowl. 88. 7 for all the play-by-play Olean, led all ground-gainers with Union's offense has only one action from Union College, the 86 yards on 18 carries raising his real p lay: quarterback Gary starting at final career total to 3,020 rushing Lauver handing off, pitching or pregame s ho w 1:15. yards. Vredenburgh had 61 yards i n 12 attempts while going o ne -f o r - s i x in t he p assing department. Louis Cordia amassed 58 yards.. in 31 carries, while Fallon hit on only 3 of 12 passing attempts for 31 yards. BY ED WATKINS information about him. Bill is With soccer, cross country, and only the second Hamilton player water polo finished for the season, in the last twenty years to be only the Union football game, contacted by the pros. The first remains on the Hamilton fall was another football player who sports schedule. played at Hamilton during the :For the football team, it has 1950's. Bill believes the Bengals been a long hard season. The team first le arned of him while has lost its first seven games of H a milton w a s playing at this season extending its record of Middlebury. Middlebury has a consecutive losses to twelve. A couple of players of sufficient win against Union would serve not talent to be scouted by the pros. only to break the slump but also Bill had a good game against · to install some hope for next Middlebury and so the Bengals' season. scout thought it was prudent that This year's team is far superior the team contact Bill. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman to the one that took the field last Bill hopes to improve his skills year. Not only are the statistics during his last two years at better, so is the team spirit. Last Hamilton. He suffered a broken year, the team often appeared leg in his senior year of high lifeless, both on the field and school (while running back a bad sidelines. Once they were behind, snap) and the leg still has not setting the pace running a 25:12 Hamilton would have had a BY STEVEN SEIDE On Saturday, November 10, (that is a 5:02.2 mile for five chance for a first place and a they lost all interest in the game. quite returned to its normal size This year the team shows some and strength. the Annual NCAA Division II miles) and coming in 44th out of national standing. Bill is only one member of a This is the end of all Hamilton spirit. The players and coaches Cha mpionships were held at a field of over 200. Coach Long Wheaton, Illinois. In this meet, a doesn't remember a Hamil ton C o 11 e g e C r o s s - C o u n t r y yell encouragement from the Hamilton team that· wants to runner has to qualify by past runs, runner ever keeping that fast a C ompetition for 1973. Most sidelines and it is obvious that the prove itself capable of winning. usually based on his competition pace for the full five miles. If people would think that with four team on the field is playing its No one wants to beat Union more in the State Meet. Four Hamilton Tim's performance was superlative of their best runners leaving heart out. than Coach King. This season has An example of the team:'s been a tough one for Coach King men qualified (one short of the then the performances of the rest (Stellato, Ford, Delaney, and qualification necessary for a team of his teammates must be called Herzog) Hamilton hasn't iot a improvement is Billy Finan. Last to bear especially because of the rating). In a display of individual merely outstanding. Sophomore, chance n e xt year. On the year, Bill tried only three field tremendous writeup he received performances that Coach Long Bruce Carter ran a 74th with a contr a r y, Hamilton is quite goals, all of which were at least 45 · when he took the coaching job. termed as "simply tremendous," time of 15:36; Vito Stellato's capable of maintaining their y a r d a ttem pts. A l l wer e King does not have the tactical these four men, Tim Delaney, 25:38 gave him 77th place and winning ways in the years to unsuccessful. His extra points and brillance of a Lombardi, but does Vito Stellato, Paul Ford, and Paul Ford rounded it out with a come. Sophomore Bruce Carter kickoff were good but notbing share with him a burning desire to Bruce Carter, showed the nation 25:45 and 84th place. That means has emerged as one of the best spectacular. This year Billy has win. that Hamilton College has more that the Hamilton team finished runners in the state; Junior Lou kicked· three field goals, two of 38 A win against Union will prove than academia to be proud of: _in the top two fifths of all Pacilio is running very strong and ·yards and one of 30. Most of his a great deal to the team, its we've got some runners. These competition as· a team. If 01.e t here's a w hole c orps of kickoffshave reached the goalline. friends, and critics. Go to Union men ran better than they've ever more Continental runner has Freshmen. Among them are Jon Bill has received a letter from the this weekend and see the team Cincinnatj Bengals asking for earn its long deserved win. run before with Tim Delaney qualified for NCAA Competition, continued on page eleven
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NOVEMBER 30, 1973 .
SISCO PRESIDENCY EXPECTED; SENATE CENSURES SPECTATOR Disclosure 'Damaging'
BY ROBBY MILLER The Student Senate last week c ensured The Spectator for printing the names of Hamilton's pr esidential candidates, (The Spectator, November 9, 1973). The vote was 10-4. The S e n a t e s a i d t he n ew s p a p e r ' s a c t i o n w a s "irresponsible in light o f the fact that it is potentially damaging to the c a n didates and to the College." The surprise resolution was introduced by Rocco Orlando '74. As Rocco stated later, "Fred (Frederic Bloch, editor of The Spectator) was specifically asked not to release the information, and I, for one, agree with the way in which the Search has been conducted. The only way to conduct a search is to keep the information c onfidential for the simple reason of common fairness to the unsuccessful applicants whose present jobs may be placed in jeopardy." The a r g ume n t o ver the censuring is directly related to the long-standing battle over the procedures of t he Sea rch Committee. As Bloch said, "I would advocate a certain amount of interplay between a search committee and the community so you could have at least some fe e dba c k i nt o w h a t t he
c o m m u n it y w a n ts fr om a president." The censure action has also brought to the surface fresh debate on the proper role of a n e w s p a p e r i n a c o l l ege community. Orlando said, "It's fine for the New York Times to do that type of thing, but the Spectator has an obligation to Hamilton College, and it's part of the community, and Fred i s p a rt of the community and has an obligation to do things in the best interests of the community." .. I think he made a big IIDistake in applying standards that are used in the outside world, because I t hi nk there is something different about this place and the trust people expect to have in one another." B l o c h h a s a d if fe r e n t p e r s p e c t i v e t o w a rd s h i s responsibilities and obligations: "Our job as a newspaper, the job of any newspaper, is to be the eyes and ears of its readers, and we are in the business of gathering news and reporting it." As for the potential harm done to the unsuccessful candidates, Bloch said, ''There's always a risk, but I think the risk is taken by the individuals who choose to look at Hamiltai and visit the campus. The continued on page three
College Refuses Comment
Joseph J. Sisca
Joseph J. Sisco will leave the State Department shortly to accept the presidency of Hamilton College, the New York Times reported this week. W i l l i a m M. B ri s to l III, chairman of the Presidential S ea r c h C o m m i t tee declined comment on the Times report and similar reports carried Wednesday by Associated Press, United Press International and ABC News. J . Martin Carovano, acting president of the college would neither confirm nor deny the reports. An official announcement of M r . S i s co's a ppointment is expected at next week's Board of Trustee's meeting in Clinton. Mr. Br i s t ol, however, refused to comment on the suggested date of the announcement. Coleman Burke, chairman of Hamilton's Board had earlier expressed "quiet confidence" that a selection would be made at the D ecember B o a rd m ee t i n g . Contacted yesterday, however, he refused to comment on the published reports of Mr. Sisco's selection. The State Department released the following statement: "There have been reports that Mr. Sisco will remain here in the State Department and other reports that he will take an academic post. His plans will be announced i n cbn n e c ti o n w i t h a ny
Secretary Sal.aries Reported Low; Both Colleges Examine Policies
Hamilton secretary filing in Root Hall
BY DOUG GLUCROFT "I like my work and the people here, but if I were offered another job, I'd go," said Gale Powers, secretary to Doris Ballard, Offices of Resources and Development. Junior staff members on both campuses are reportedly dissatisfied with the salaries offered them by the colleges. Several secretaries on the Hill would not comment on reports that they are dissatisfied with their wage scales and that they may bring their grievances directly to the Board of Trustees. Bot h H am i l t on a n d Kirkland are investigating the salaries they pay to secretaries. Hamilton Comptroller Ronald F. MacDonald acknowledged, "We are a little low on the starting salaries." Jesse Zellner, Director for Institutional Affairs at Kirkland, said, "We are not as competi6ve as we might Messers MacDonald and Zellner are be." both compiling data for the respective colleges. Mr. Zellner refused to release specific data since it is still in the "worksheet" stage. Last summer, Kirkland hired six secretaries to fill vacant or newly-created positions in the Administration. Respondi pg to allegations that Kirkland lost several employees because
the salaries are too low, he said that of the five secretaries who quit, only one left for salary reasons, and she received an administrative non-secretarial position at the State University in Rome, New York. Kirkland received sixty-four applicants for those six positions all of whom Mr. Zellner interviewed personally. He s said, "We got the ones we wanted."
There were reports, however, that the college had difficulty in attracting enough qualified applicants at the starting salary w a s offering. Zellner explained that from his experience during the summer he felt that the salaries were not competitive enough and that he h a s c on vi n ced v a r ious high-level administration officials at both colleges that a re-evaluation is necessary.
announcement made at an early date regarding upcoming changes within the State Department." The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday that M r. Sisco would stay in the department to become Under- Secretary for Political Affairs, the third highest position in the DepartmenL One informed soun:e close to the State Department said, however, uThe news {of his expected resignation) came as no surprise to me. Joe i,s tired of running around the w o rld ...I think he's looking forward to going to Hamilton." The source also reported that Secr etar y of State, Henry Kissinger wanted Mr. Sisco to c o n t i nue w i th the State D e pa r t m en t i n his present position, Assistant Secre tary for ear Eastern and South Asian Affairs or in some higher post. No Stepping Stone
The New York Times story said that Mr. Sisco had decided to accept the Hamilton post before t he most recent Arab-Israeli conflict; but it is unclear when an offer was made or what the nature of the offer was. In its story, the Associated Press quoted sources within the administration as saying that Mr. Sisco's retireme�t was imminent. The New York Times reported that Mr. Sisco has agreed to remain in his post as long as necessary to maintain continuity in the .Middle East diplomacy, but a source reports that he will be e a g er t o leave the S tate Department soon after the official announcemenL Dean Stephen G. Kurtz, who spoke with fr. Sisco earlier this fall said that Ir. Sisco indicated that Hamilton would not be a s tepping s tone for another position. tr. Sisc o also indicated. according to Dean Kurtz. that he would not make an major changes in the institution until he became more familiar vith iL i Ir. Sisco, 54� is the son of Italian immigrant parents. A native of Chicago, he graduated from Knox College in 1941. He received his Ph.D. from linn•ersitY of Chicago in 1950. His _ IVife. the form er Jean Churchill Head is vice-pTesident in ch arge of p e r so nnel with \ roo •.ud & Lothrop. They haye t o daughteTs.
Hamilton already has categories and ranges for junior staff. There are three classes of executive secretaries, and there are also classes Before beginning government for stenographers and clerks. Mr. MacDonald . service \ i th the Centra l is in the process of reviewing the salaries for Intelligence Agency in 1950. :\Ir. these categories. The salary ranges are set in Sisco was a reporter with the coordination with the director of the specific Chic·ago City 1 1e ·s Bureau and a d m inis t rative dt>partmcnt a n<I tht· later a igh s<:hool tea<·her_ Ht' competitive market of this area of New Ym·k. -oined the State· lkpartmrn( in continued on page six 1951.
2/THE SPECTATOR/November 30, 1973
EDITORIALS
Narrow-minded Censure The Hamilton Student Senc..te, in censuring The Spectator for its coverage of the Presidential Search, has demonstrated its narrow-minded conceptim1 of the role of the student press. It acted hastily and recklessly, without the testimony of any Spectator personnel or College spokesman, and withJUl, the official comment of any search candidates themselves. R occo Orlando, wh0 introduced the moi;ion for censure, pron0unced that The Spectator "should not apply . standards that are used in the outside world," in publishing the news. He called for the newspaper to withhold news that may damage the College. By a 10-4 vote, the Senators app...rently accepted this view, and thereby called for self-censored news, stripped of any possible relevancy or import. It is neither the goal of The Spectator to specifically damage nor to protect the College. Rather, it is to present all news, unbiasedly. Self-censorship would not only protect the college from embarrassing news, but would shield the student from all information except that which the administration or the newspaper itself thinks harmless. The New York Times, the Washington Post, and other newspapers aero� the country nave recently published reports which have been shown damaging to the government. The public has responded with a renewed interest in the people who govern them. In this light, it is distressing that Hamilton's Student Government has chosen not to carefully COi1sider the reports of the presidential search, but instead, to censure the free flow of such news.
BY LEROY PORTER Imamus Baraka, back in September gave a speech on "The Eight Pitfalls of Nationalism at the East" in Brooklyn. Imamu is a member of the Congress of Afrikan People and his speech was a comment on the fostering and maintenance of a nationalist cadre group. A cadre group of nationalists is dedicated to the development of Afrikan People, dedicated to a cause. Causes become cliched after awhile only because people were never dedicated to them. Some causes are manufactured solely to be exploited, and it's only after all profits have been exhausted that people become dismayed. Blacks on the Hill may find it easy to be dismayed with causes like improv ing the condition of Afrikan peoples all over the world. Starting with self has got to be the first step in any considerations of improvement of any type, but selfishness is no answer. It only servies to make
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collective efforts become diffuse and weak, and ri pens such a group to be plucked by the old but effective strategy of divide and conquer. At some point any cause has to be supported by real persons, with a desire to accomplish some defined ends. Blacks who come and leave this hill may fina that they no longer believe in causes, or can't define a cause greater than themselves. Well, just outside of Utica begins the real world, full of pitfalls, and people trying to define your life for you, for their cause. You may find Imamu's description of these pitfalls helpful in avoiding unnecessary dismay. A person who has memorized bits and pieces about African nationalism and evolutionary science may use this rap to "program" sisters and brothers or to get one of those fast jobs in a white school... that's a hustler, a black hustler. Another pitfall is the neophyte, the brother who found out he was balck day before yesterday, and for now is the leading actor in revolutionary drama. Imamu describes him, "someone who would jump
on a subway and talk bad to the subway conductor thinking that's got something to do with the revolu tion." Neophytes aren't involved in working to wards Black solidarity. He goes on to explain "around the comerism." That's the brother who thinks the revolution will come before the end of the month so he can go to Afrika in December. Such a brother believes the U.S. government will be overthrown because he is angry, and he just got angry last week. "Pseudo activism" is another stumbling block. Bloods who_ never do anything but look Black and talk Black, never do anything Black because they are talking about a need to move and never move on that need. "Cometism" involves a person who will come in to an organization and will work hard for a wee k and then fizz out on Monday. Like a comet he will turn from fire to stone. They will fall out of the sky and you'll never see them again...working. "Flightism" refers to the people who are always splitting efforts. They can't allow a cause to con geal. They may see the "struggle" as really being in Afrika, meanwhile they never give much thought to their own condition. Many Blacks on college campuses are into "ad venturism". Imamu says, ''These are bloods who think the national liberation of Afrikan people is an adventure. Tl}ey think that it even involves some kind of romance, some kind of movie state of ro mance where they will rush in and overthrow the government with one 22 rifle (or a college diploma) because they think that's the way it ought to hap pen because that's what they have been taught in some white boys' handbook on revolution. The�e pitfalls are not peculiar to Black people, whites helped to create them and so no one in this college community can really afford to laugh. Any· one who attends Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges runs the risk of falling into a pit, but we have to keep in mind that one of the first steps to self bet terment is realizing how bad off you are.
'Ripping-off' at Hamilton
Save a Watt
Now that President Nixon has declared the beginning of the Age of Sacrifice, it is incumbent upon everyone to help conserve energy. The Colleges have taken responsible steps to adjust to the short supplies of heating fuel, and other energy sources. Decorative lights have been turned off in the Chapel and Library. Thermostats have been lowered to. 68 'degrees in all buildings. We, as students, can also help. Driving from one part of the campuses to another should be replaced by a stroll in the brisk Clinton air. Sixty-eight degrees has never led to frostbite, and none of us need bum eternal lamps while we are out. Notwithstanding the energy cr1S1s, a recess from conspicuous consumption can never do any harm.
THE SPECTATOR
VOLUME FOUR
Eight. Pitfalls of National_ism
NUMBER. TWELVE
Edi(or-in-Chief - Frederic Bloc·h �anaging Editor - Henry Glick News Editor - Mitchel Ostrer News Editor - Pamela Thompson Business Manager - Peter Sluys
BY GEORGE D. BAK.ER A student of organization knows that with age an n amount of tradition or institution accumulates ay myth; some accurate, some sheer fairy tale. One of the mroe enjoyable myths in which we Hamilton ians take great pride is the idea that among the class of contemporary colleges Hamilton is somehow dif ferent, somehow better than the rest. More particu lar, we pride ourselves in the tradition of trust and respect that, as the myth goes, permeates the insti tution. We gladly wheel out our monuments to Hamilton's "trust and respect" attitude when neces sary: the Honor Court, unproctored exams, student -faculty committees. You can continue the list. I enjoy be.lieving in the myth of superior trust students have 1 for one another at Hamilton, and to be fair, I have to admit, in gazing around at other colleges, there is far more fact than poetry to the myth. However, as with all myths, this one some times deludes the "paying public". The public now paying the price is the student who wants to use the library. The number of violations of the honor system we rely upon in our library has mushroomed to prohibitive proportions. Books listed in the card catalogue cannot be found in the stacks, nor can they be traced through the carrel reserve or take-out indexes. The librarians discount the "to-be-shelved collection," one of Hamilton's largest and most val uable collections, as the source of the problem. The problem lies in the "noble rip-off."
"Noble rip-off', that euphemism cracks me up. Who's kidding whom? You know what the term means in the common parlance� "Using your supe r ior intelligence to take advantage of the system be fore it takes advantage of you." What a crock of patent nonsense. Generation of Aquarius, you are full of crap. You delude yourselves. It matters little whether you intend to return the book the next day or -the next year, or never to return it at all. Each time you "rip off'. a book or reserve article you are stealing- nothing more and nothing less. If the simple
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rule of requiring you to sign materials out is too oppressive for you, you do not belong here. You belong at one of those other colleges which you mean-mouth as being inferior because students are not trusted there. I am angry, and as the problem grows I get angri er. Victims of the "rip-off" become perpetrators to protect their own interests. After all, "everyone else is doing it." The only way to stop the thefts is for each_ individual to stop his own thefts. There is no other way. No electronic sensing device or human watchdog can stop it. It is insulting to our desire for a community based on trust and cooperation here at Hamilton to have to consider these measu;es. But consideration of these measures is the reality and not the myth.
Next time you see someone polluting, point it out.
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CAR'J;ER CENTER Peace Corps/Vista will be on both campuses on Monday, Dec. 3 from 9-5. There will be an information table in McEwen Lobby all day with a person to speak with from 11:30-1 p.m. There will also 'be a table in Bristol Campus Center Lobby all day. Individual interviews can be arranged through the Career Center. Call (859-7346) or drop by to sign up. Students are reminded that now is the time to consider and decide upon Summer programs-job opportunities as _well as volunteer and study programs. Much information is presently available at the Career Center and more is coming in daily. Drop by the Career Center to read, consider and consult. CHILE REVOLUTION Two Americans who were in Chile's capital during the military coup that overthrew Premier Salvador Allende will tell of their experiences in a free public lecture at the Hamilton College Chapel Tuesday (December 4) at 8 p.m. The lecturers will be Marvin Re�inkoff, a physicist, and Jeri Kalin, a bacteriologist. FREE CHURCH SERVICE The Free Church SeIVice this week will be led by Warren Wright of the Hamilton Speech Dept. His topic: "Baa, Baa, White Sheep." Chapel, 11: 15 a.m. Sunday. ISLAMIC SCHOLAR TO SPEAK Abdur Rabb of the Islamic Institute at McGill University will speak on Sufism at the Interfaith Workshop, Sunday evening, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. T.M. Student International Meditation Society of Kirkland and Hamilton Colleges will present the final �troductory lecture of the semester on Transcendental Meditation at 4:00 on Monday, December 2nd in Kirner Johnson, Room 220. Those who want to take the course this semester and have already heard the first lecture should attend the preparatory lecture Tuesday, December 3rd at 4:00 in McEwen B. TOUR GUIDES Any Hamilton students who will be on campus during Winter Study and would be interested in serving as tour guides for the Student Admission Committee should contact Dean Mitchell or Eric Ruckert as soon as possible. PLAYWRITING COMPETITION The Wallace Bradley Johnson Playwriting Competition is funded to award prizes of about $300 a year for the best plays, adaptations, and musical works for the theatre submitted by Hamilton and Kirkland students. Usually, one-act plays have been submitted. The date for submitting entries this year will be February 4, 1974. Performances are scheduled for March 9, 10, 13 and 14. Entries are read by a board of judges and the best chosen for production. The authors are encouraged to work closely in the producing of their p I ays, as the object of the foundation is to encourage practical persons of the theatre. The authors are responsible for enlisting the aid of directors and actors; in addition, the authors are expected to work together to publicize the plays. A small budget for each production is available from The Charlatans on request. Af t�r production, the plays receive final evaluation by the judges, and a session of critical discussion is held for judges, authors, casts, and staff. The prizes are awarded for the best play or plays as produced. For further information see Mr. Barrett, Mr. O'Neill, Mr. Rosenfeld, or Mr. Wagner.
New Class Schedule Pro posed; Needs HamHton Approval, BY FELICE FREYER A new coordinate format for class time schedules has been proposed at Kirkland and would become effective if approved by the Committee on Academic P ol i c y and the H a m i l ton Academic Council. The schedule was devised by Peter T . Marcy, As sociate Professor of History, in response to dissatisfaction with the current system ·on the part of Kirkland faculty and students. The proposal was brought before t he C o m mi ttee on Ac a de m ic ·Coordination, who agreed to submit it to Dean Stephen Kurtz and the Standing Committee on Academic and Curricular Affairs. Both SCACA and the Kirkland A ssembly have approved the schedule on principle, with the understanding that it may be neces sar y to m a ke certain changes. The proposal is now being Mr. Palmer Fargnoli, Registrar, who will institute dass schedule changes, considered by Dean Kurtz and the if approved by Hamilton. H am i l t on Academic Council. classes will have lengthier arid Dean Kurtz was unable to offer travel from one campus to the more fruitful discussions. other. any comment or prediction with 3. There would be no 8 o'clock 2. There would be more regard to the possible adoption of classes. bi-weekly 75-minute classes, most the schedule. 4. The faculty· would have The proposed timetable would of which would take place on greater flexibility in planning their Monday and Thursday or Tuesday make the following changes in the and Friday, allowing for an extra own class-hour week. current schedule: 5. Overlaps with lab and studio 1. The present ten-minute day between classes. This revision courses would be reduced. was suggested in the belief that interval between classes would be 6. W e dn e s d ay afternoons increased to 15 minutes to allow much time is lost in the 50-minute would be left free for meetings o r class arran_ g ement and that longer more time for students who must l ab and studio courses.
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continued from page one risk is taken by them, and they are quite aware of that risk." Conversely, O rlando ·said "the potential harm to the candidates and thereby to the reputation ex the College outweighs any potential good which the article may have served." He called the newspaper's action "a serious mistake" and a "breach of community trust and courtesy." S tude n t S e n a t e President George Baker opposed the censure motion. At the S e n a t e m eeting, although four members voted against the motion, Baker was the only person to voice opposition to the resolution in debate. In a r ecent interview, Baker said, "First of all, there was no barm done w ha tsoever by Fred's disclosure of the names; such .r fear was merely an unfulfilled expectation. Secondly, even if it did hurt an individual, I would have to question whether it is proper for the Senate, as an organi zat ion, to censure a n e w s p a p e r . T h a t's t h e responsibility of the Publications Board." Bloch called the Senate action "silly and irresponsible." "The Senate took the action without the facts," he said. "They based t heir decision on third-hand information and that information was wrong." "It scares me," Bloch said, "that the student legislative body of a college objects to the student newspaper's publishing of news. I hate to sound alarmist, but it's N ixonian."
4/THE SPECTATOR/November 30, 1973
Cooper's 'Rhino' Thick-Skinned
BY PETER W. SLUYS T h e w or d Rhinoceros. conj u r es u p v i s i o n s o f a throwback to prehistoric times, so thick-skinned that it is immune to the many pains of life - and. if Ionesco and Paul Cooper are to be believed, we are all rhinoceros�s-
Ionesco's play is both a history and social commentary. By using the device of men mutating into rhinos as they lose sensitivity to life around them, Ionesco presents a history of the rise of the Nazis and a stem lesson that we in the present must also be aware of and concerned for our neighbor's welfare, lest we too become rhinos. Rhinoceros is a difficult play
to produce, especially in the technical d e p a r t m e n t . The precmon achieved here with lighting and audio is a credit to Steve Flores and his aew. The set itself was versatile and weD-suited to Ionesco's play, if a little radical in design. Director Cooper chose bis
actors well - unfortunately, some did not live up to their potential. David Cross played Berenger, the only. soul sensitive enough to avoid becoming a Rhino by the play's end. Cross had fine diction, and his carriage always reflected the character, but his energy was abysmally low. This lack of energy robbed David's character of its central position within the play. and turned Berenger into a C a s p a r M i l quetoast. This is unfortunate, because Cross is generally a fine actor, and could be a great one. In the absence of a definitive B erenger, Joe Weimer's Jean dominated the stage. From first to Joe Weimer takes center stage in Ionesco's Rhinoceros. l as t h i s p er f o r m a nce w a s the play, only coming to life near problem was low energy. Kathleen convincing and exciting. His imal the imal curtain. Perhaps this was Smith's Mrs. Boen( by way of transformation from man to rhino a function of the character, for contrast, was so exciting and was well played and frightening in_ Fred has dominated previous dynamic that the audience was its impact. Joe's performance was dramas with an exciting and swept up by the power of her the highlight of the evening. sometimes compelling presence. presentation. Paul Marsh, as the Logician, Low energy, a lack of vigor, Giles Hunt as Mr. Papillon was not seemed to strike other characters convincing in his role, though he convincingly carried out his beside Berenger. Fred Goehner, as sometimes carried himself with transition from reason to rhino in Dudard, was static for much of a ut hority. O nce again, the what could be construed as a grotesque parody of Hitlerian mannerisms. His acting provided a fitting culmination to the first section of the play.
S.A.C. Concert Controversy; What Ever Happened to ••. ?
BY 111EODOP_E LOWEN Who isNRBQ_? Why aren't we having more dances during the first semester!'... What happaled to Loggins and Messina ].Geils BaJUl, Traffic, and The Beach Boys? Where did they get that magician on Halloween night? Ove r t h e p a s t w ee k s considerable controversy has arisen concerning the actions of the Student Activities Committee, the decmon-makinj body which plans most of the entertainment �on the Hill. Many students feel the money they paid for so cial tax has been wasted while others believe that they have been seriously misled by the big-name polls given out by the S.A.C. The best way to answer all of these inquiries is to take a good hard look at the committee and see just where t he b reakdown has occurred with its planning and c o m m u n i c a tions w ith the students. Th� S.A.C. is composed of five H a m i l t on and five Kirkland students who hold open meetings once a week. The Kirkland members of the committee are Kathy Collins, Liz Green, Fonda - �ohnson, Carolyn Bemis, and Mardi· Considine, while Hamilton is represented by Page West, Gardner McLean, Gary Matthews, ·non Hughes, and Jeff Grable. The meetings have been generally poorly attended according to S.A..C. president Kathy Collins. The financial backing for this co m m i t t e e comes from the optional twenty-five dollar social tax which the Hamilton-Kirkland students pay. This tax gives s t u d e n t s free access to all S . A .C .- sponsored a c t1v1t1es, including concerts, dances, and the Coffee Shop. When deciding on what band to get for a concert, the committee usually makes a preference list of six groups. These bands are then sought for through a talent agency. Most of the time it becomes a matter of what group is available to play at the particular time. While most people would like to have a
Rhinoceros is supposed to take place in Fran ce, and we have Berenger's flat with Paris Match to prove it, but we hear American music in the background. The a u d i,e n c e was composed of sensitive souls, · eager to draw moral lessons, but they are handed tickets at the door that tell t h e m they are rhinos. Direction must be consistent and u n i f i e d� e s p e c i ally with Rhinoceros. Mr. Cooper fails by a t h in margin to provide the direction needed.
Ionesco's play is one of many The last fault which prevente popular band play on campus, Phi, could get a cheaper band subtleties, and it was director Paul the evening from being trul many to according hich, w many times it is just not feasible Cooper's job to bring these for the committee to obtain one. students, provided just as good forward. Yet by trying too hard enjoyable was the length o · to make everything apparent, Ionesco's imal act. It dragged th The problem with gettmg a music. Cooper lost the opportunity to play out twenty minutes longe polls Concerning the opinion big-name band is that Hamilton than was necessary to make th just does not have the funds. given out in late September, ·convi ncingly demonstrate the point the author intended, an theme of the play. Inconsistencies Larger colleges like Colgate are Kathy Collins admits that groups introduced real boredom into th able to get top entertainment like Deep Purple, Traffic , Loggins also abounded. The stage crew, we audience. That perhaps make are told by the green arm bands and Band Geils because o f a larger social tax and and Messina, ] . student body. Also, most big Stevie Wonder should never have they all wear, are storm troops. Ionesco a rhino, for he dulls ou sensitivities to the near-success£ bands today want a percentage of been on the list. These bands Yet, they're not brutal. They even work of a number of very talente furniture the money made at the door along wanted up to 20,000 dollars for a seem to have fun moving people. : etween the scenes. th the flat guaranteed sum. guaranteed payment, as well as a wi Because Hamilton cannot provide percentage of the gate receipts. KINOKUNST a large tum-out at the gate, these One of the S.A.C.'s biggest Originally released in 1938 Pygmalion was unanimously h_ailed as bands are usually hesitant to problems has been getting a · a great adaptation of Shaw's comedy of manners. perform here. A possible solution general concensus of what the Pygmalion has long been unavailable, due to legalities involved to this problem, according to s t u d e n t body w a n t s for when it became the basis for the hit musical, "My Fair Lady." Now Kathy Collins, would be to have entertainment on the hill. Only you can see it at the Kirner-Johnson auditorium, Thursday, Friday the social tax create discounts on 600 of the 1600 opinion sheets and Saturday at eight, and Sunday at 10, for 75 cents. the access to the concerts, rather given out were returned to the An additional feature this weekend is The General, Buster than make access totally free. This committee. These returns usually Keaton's masterpiece, a silent film made in 1926. It is considered would be beneficial in three ways. s ho w e d a tendency toward Keaton's best feature, combining exquisite comedy with remarkable First of all, it would bring money extreme views or were just not t o the S .A.C., subsequently taken seriously to begin with. historical accuracy and acrobatics. AMENIC bringing better bands to the Also, a minority opm10n is weekend AMENIC presents Eclipse directed by Michelangelo This campus. Also the new social tax difficult to appease because it Up) and starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. would help finance the payments usually represents only about 200 Antonioni (Blow film in Antonioni's trilogy (which includes third Eclipse the is for lighting, sound, ushers, and students on the campus, thus work crews. Finally people would making a concert impossible for L �vventura and La Notte) centering around the absence of try to go and enjoy the concerts so few people. However, it is meaningful communication and emotion in the modern world. Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8, Sunday at IO. Science knowing they paid for them strongly encouraged that pe�ple directly, instead of just going to write to or contact the S.A.C. if Auditorium. check out what entertainment the they have any ideas for planning BOOK REVIEW S.A.C. spent their social tax entertainment on campus. Professqr Thomas M. Johnston, recently retired from the English The committee runs into many department of Hamilton College, will be the speaker at the second money on. During house party weekend, problems when trying to obtain a session of Lunchtime Book Reviews at the Kirkland Art Center at 12 many people felt the best band on big-name group for a concert on o'clock on W�esday, December 5. the hill was Seagull which played campus. Thre has been a general Mr. Johnston will review Lady Antonia F e� 's Cromwell, _a at Sigma Phi on Saturday night, lack of information from talent biography which has received much favorable � cnt1cal comment m rather than NRBQ, which played· agencies as to these bands' England last year and recently in the United States. in the Chapel. Also there were whereabouts, availability, price, There is a copy of Cromwell in the Kirklan d Town Library. rumors that J.J. Walker, David and contract procedures. As was Coffee will be served at the Kirkland Art Center before the Bromberg, and 'Maria Muldaur the case with Taj Mahal and session and persons attending are urged to bring their own were available to play - that R ichie H a vens, many times sandwiches. evening. This rumor was totally performers cancel out at the last BPRU MUSIC WEEKEND false according to Kathy Collins. minute. As always money is a However it is true that both problem; most decent, popular The Black and Puerto Rican Union will present a weekend of Richie Havens and Taj Mahal were bands today cost $8000 and music on Friday and Saturday, starring John Blair and Chick Corea. scheduled to play but can celled ' above. To solve this problem, the Blair will perform on friday night at 8:00 an d 10:00, while Corea out at thelasfminute for assorted S.A.C. is trying to arrange for one will have only an 8:00 Saturday evening performance. reasons. Time became a nuisanc e concert a month which will have a Chick Corea is one of the foremost jazz pianists in the country. f o r t he S t udent Ac tivities band that costs $4000 or less. Hailing from Chelsea, Mass., he has played with such jazz supe�stars Committee and with three weeks Hopefully this plan w·m bring as Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, and Herbie Mann. He w1U be left NRBQ was chosen. The enough good entertainment on supported by his own backup ban d, Return to Forever. S.A.C. felt that this ban d provided John Blair is a violinist; he has played with several jazz and blues campus and will alleviat.'! the cheap, enjoyable entertainment. boredom which occurs during the greats, one of whom is Isaac Hayes. Admission is free with social tax However, one wonders how a and 2.50 without. fraternity with less funds, Si gm a winter months.
November 30, 1973/THE SPECT ATO�/-'
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Pygmalion, based on the play by George Bernard Shaw, and Buster Keaton in The General. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm. Sunday at 10 pm only. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75. Eclipse. Fr'iday and Saturday at 8 pm. Sunday at 10 pm only. Science Auditorium. Admission $.75.
December 5 (Wednesday)
Civilisation Film Series: The Worships of Nature. 8:30 pm Chemistry Auditorium.
December 6 (Thursday)
Little Murders. 8 pm Science Auditorium. Admission $.75. Tom Jones and The Barbershop, a Charlie Chaplin short. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75.
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LECTURE AND DISCUSSION December 1 (Saturday)
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:30 pm. Chapel. Intercom. Informal conversation, discussion, and music by students, faculty, and townsfolk. 9 pm. Alumni House.
December 2 (Sunday)
Free Church of Clinton. Speaker: Warren T. Wright, Hamilton Speech Department. 11:15 am. Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 pm. Chapel. Interfaith Workshop. Speaker: Dr. Abdur Rabb, Islamic Institute, McGill University. Sufism. 7:30 pm. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
December 3 (Monday)
Open Forum on New Drug Laws. Speakers: Anthony LaFache, Assistant District Attorney of Oneida County, and Jules Smith, Counsellor for American Civil Liberties Union. 8 pm. McEwen Coffeehouse.
December 4 (Tuesday)
Root-Jessup and Government Department Lecture: Speakers: Geri Kahin and Marvin Resnikoff: Military Dictato'rship in Chile. 8 pm. Chapel.
December 5 (Wednesday)
Illustrated Lecture: The Cosmic Landscape of Charles Ives. Speaker: Professor James Cavanaugh, Hobart and William Smith College. 8:30 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Intercom. 9 pm. Alumni House.
December 6 (Thursday)
Sat Sang {Divine Light Mission): Spiritual Discourse. 7:30 pm Bristol Campus Center Fisher Room. The Death and Rebirth of the Novel, or What is Literature? Speaker: Leslie Fiedler, author. 8 pm. Chapel.
MUSIC BPRU AND SAC MUSIC WEEKEND November 30 and December 1 (Friday and Saturday)
Concert with John Blair. 8 pm and 10 pm Friday. Chapel. Free with social tax, $2.50 without. Concert with Chick Corea. 8 pm only, Saturday. Chapel. Free with social tax, $2.50 without.
December 2 (Sunday)
Handel's Messi ah. Audience part1 c1pation with the Hamilton-Kirkland Choir. 3 pm. Chapel. McEwen Coffeehouse presents Mike Allen, blues performer. 9 pm. Free with social tax, $.50 without.
December 6 (Thursday)
Hootenanny. 9 pm. McEwen Coffeehouse. SPORTS
Hockey
Against Oswego. December 5 at 8 pm.
JV Basketball
Against Herkimer Community College. December 6 at 7 pm.
Annual Student Bridge Tournament
Dwight Lounge, Bristol Campus Center. December 6 at 7 pm.:..
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EXHIBITIONS
Recent Watercolors: Key West and the Oriskany Valley. Professor Paul Parker. At the Bristol Campus Center, through December 30. CHOIR SAENGERFEST
The Hamilton-Kirkland Choir is sponsoring a Saengerfest on Sunday, December 2 at 3:00 in the Hamilton College Chapel. The Christmas sections of Handel's Messiah will provide the musical fare for the community sing-along. The idea of the "Fest" is that all participants are performers-there is no audience. Everyone is invited to come and sing and encouraged to bring his own Messiah score. Copies will be available for purchase ($2.25) or on loan for $.25 for anyone who needs a copy. Starting at 3:00 then:: will be about forty minutes of rehearsal to reacquaint everyone with the more difficult parts. Then, after a short break, will begin the sing-through. The major choruses "And the Glory," "For Unto Us," "Glory to God," and "Hallelujah" will be surrounded by the most familiar of the recitations and ,arias: which also will be performed in community fashion. The program will last from 3:00 to about 4:30.
Stan Kenton at �oasis' Big Band Sound Back
BY COSMO COSTELLANO Stan Kenton, pianist and band director, is a tall, white-haired, friendly gentleman. His band, which consisted of five trumpets, five trombones, five saxophones, bass, drums, and conga drums, provided an excellent evening of m u si c a l e n t ertai n me nt last Wednesday at the Oasis. The performance was far superior to concerts I have heard by Buddy Rich or Manard Ferguson. The program was quite varied. Such Kenton favorites asPean ut Vendor, and In termt"ssion Riff were featured along with Lt"ve And Let Dt"e, 2002 - Zarathust r e v t"s ited, God/a t he r , and M a cArthur Park. All of their arrangements were excellent, very demanding, and not the least bit corny. They also played Street of Dre a ms , To n ight, a stlrrmg rendition of El Cordo bez and a special arrangement written for Ramon Lopez, which featured him on conga drums. Other soloists included: Alex Rodrigez, t r u m pet; Richard Torres, tenor sax and flute; Roy Reynolds, alto sax; Peter Erksine, drums; Kerby Stewart, bass; and Dick Shearer, trombone. Mary Fettig, tenor saxophone, did not appear with the group since she returned to school in the fall. There are no other women in the group now. The band enjoys an extremely f u l l sound. A minimum of e lectronics i s in vo lved in amplifying the string bass �nd the Fender bass, and for soloists' microphones. The main sound is due to just pure breathing power. The ongm of high, intense, trumpet tones was given away by the deliberate motion of a couple of pot bellies in the trumpet section. Each section created sound that was more than solid,
truly not at all reproducable by stereo equipment. The only dissappointment of t he evening was l a c k of attendance from Hamilton and Kirkland students. If you have never had an opportunity to hear a real "big band" (as it is usually a rare occasion since I am not referring to just average "dance band" organizations), I can't really begin to describe what the e x perie nce is like. Kenton receives much of his rich sound by using two baritone saxophones, and two bass trombones, with one of the bass trombonists doubling on tuba. The unusual sax section consists of the two baritones, two tenors, and only one alto. Kerby S t e w a rt, bassist, doubles on fretless Fender bass, maneuvering excellently on both electric guitar and string bass: As the band prepared to take its first break, Kenton set the audience at ease, saying,"Don't worry, these boys have all been checked out. They all come from good homes. None of them have been busted...only the leader!" The average age of the group is about 31 or 32. The two youngest members are 19 and 20. The group does not have an extremely rapid turnover of personnel. Fortunately, I managed to talk to Dick Shearer, who has been playing trombone with Kenton for nine years. Another member has been with the group for three years, while on the other end of
the spectrum, one trumpet player w as e x peri encing his first performance with the group. When asked why most of the band members had decided to accept a musical career, Shearer replied, "Desire. One must overcome fear in making the decision." The Kenton band does not usually play in bars and clubs. They perform more frequently for colleges and music schools giving clinics. My h_igh school stage band was a result of a Kenton clinic. Shearer c la i m s t he biggest problem in setting up stage band programs is resistance from fearful music department chairmt n who do not really know much out a jazz program. The myth of J �z as only i m provisation or iJure "jamming" gives a picture of total disorganization. However, a stage band must be very organized. Today's jazz musician in a big band reads the same notes as a classical musician and is also called on to - improvise in certain sections. All of the members of the band have received formal music education and could have just as easily accepted work in the classical field. However, 90% of music i ncome is made by commercial artists. Shearer advises people interested in music to study at a music school that has a good jazz program, and to follow the clinics as much as possible to get to know many of today's musicians.
KIRKLAND COLLEGE AMERICANA EXHIBITION American Primitives is the current exhibition at the List Arts
C e n t e r . M a d e p o s s i b l e t hro ugh a loan by t h e Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute i n Utica, the exhibition will include samples of American folk art. The collection will be shown through December 21. Artifacts included are furniture, farming implements, textiles, toys and quilts. Many of the articles are from the upstate New York area and all are uniquely American in origin and design.
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.Kirldand 's Fin nces Dis�u,sed
BY LINDA ANZAL ONE President Samuel F. Babbitt discussed college finances at a Kirkland Community meeting on Monday. He said that community meetings help provide a "candid disclosure of how the college operates." K i r k l a nd's i ncome and expenditures, both in. the general and t he e ducational budget . categories were discussed. One of the immediate goals of the college i s t o raise enough income, annually, to co ver annual expenses. At the end of 1972 the college had a $ 427,000 deficit, a lm o s t $ 200 ,000 less than originally planned. A major reason for the deficit, Babbitt explained, is that in order to educate each student the college spends $ 1000 more per student than it receives in tuitior. c h a r ge s a n d f e e s . T h e Devel o p m ent Committee has recently formulated a plan to recoup the $ 1000 difference. The annual Fund Drive will help lessen the anticipated deficit for 1 973. Babbitt explained, however, that a special "pitch" will be made to parents who now pay the entire bill
Fuel Shortages Pose Questions For College
The effect on the College of President N i xon's proposed he a ti n g f ue l r e d uc tion� is uncertain, according to Hamilton Acting P r e sident, J. Martin Carovano. In his speech Sunday, Nixon proposed 10% cuts to industry, 15% cuts to residences, and 25% cuts to commercial enterprises. The Colleges do not know how these reductions would apply to private educational institutions, should proposed legislation pass Congress. It is also uncertain whether cuts would operate monthly or _a n n u a l l y . T h e C o l l e g e administration has contacted the American Council on Education, a professional organization and lobby in Washington, regarding these questions. Hamilton has not yet received clarification of the proposals, however. Nor is it known when the suggested reductions might go into effect. It has been proposed that colleges in cold regions close for the month of January, extending the school year through June, in order to preserve fuel. No assurances have been made, however, that closing in January would reserve double deliveries in February, especially if suggested reductions are effected monthly.
Ms. Mary Schilling, Secretary to the Dean, at work in Root Hall
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BY LEROY PORTER The Ministry of Cultural Affairs of the Black and Puerto Rican Union is sponsoring Project Awareness, a program in which students from Hamilton-Kirkland will teach students at Utica Free Academy and Proctor High School. The project is an attempt to bring the Black and Puerto Rican communities of the Hill and of Utica together in a meaningful exchange. The high school students will take the courses in a "free school" setting. Classes will be held each S at u rday with morning and afternoon sessions. Project Awareness hopes to enrich the education of Black and Puerto Rican students in the Utica public school system by providing an opportunity for them to learn from and about people like themselves. Education as a means of engendering pride in themselves is often a difficult task for Black and Puerto Rican students. The program offers students the
chance to get specific academic instruction, and also allows for p ur su i t s in c r e ativi ty and recreation. The M i nistry of Cultural A ffairs' intention is not to u n d e r m i n e t he s tudent s' continuing education; what is being attempted is a supplement that points out the contributions of Blacks and Puerto Ricans. T h e r e w i l l b e -v i ab l e c o m m unication between the students' regular teachers and the student teachers, in order to try and pinpoint specific weaknesses and strengths. Parents will be informed of the progress or lack of it made with each student, in an attempt to involve the total B l a c k a nd P ue rto Rican community in the developing and carrying out of the students' education.
continued from page one present salaries _are, but estimates "Most of our women are happy fall within the $5,000/year rang_e, here,'Mr.· MacDonald said, ''They with some part time workers ,, wan t t o work. Many of receiving less. Mr. MacDonald Hamilton's s ecre t a ries have refused to release this data. It is worked on the Hill for fifteen or difficult to translate human work t w e nt y years. The newer into statistics. secretaries, however, find less to be happy with at the college. This �� has manifested itself in the recent turnover at Kirkland. EUROPEAN AUTO PARTS Although salaries are the main issue ( fringe: benefits are _generally Oriskany Blvd. agreed to be very adequate), one Whiti!sboro, N.Y. 13492 m e m b e r o f H a m i l t o n's administration cited the need for Phone 736-0841 Assistant District Attorney of a personnel director to handle O n e i d a C ounty, An thony Regional Distributor n o n-f a c u l t y e m p l o y e e s . LaFache, and Jules Smith, a M a cD onald currently handles representative of the Syra_cuse Beck/Arnley Lucas and Bosch Ladies Apparel personnel problems in addition to chapter of the American Civil and Parts and Accessories for his duties as Comptroller of the Liberties Union will be on campus (;jft Items All Foreign Cars college. He said, "we don't want Monday to speak about the New one (a personnel director) and we York State drug law. 10% Student Discounts can't afford one. We don't have a The two men will be here purchasing agent either." 11arts & acc. on principally to answer questions Mr. Zellner acknowledged the about the law itself and citizens' 10 West Park Row @ . disquietude among the junior staff rights, especially those concerning Clinton, N. Y. and said that action will be taken search and seizure. The forum will this year. He said, "Both colleges be held at 8:00 p.m. in the Coffee -�-------------' _______________, are in substantial agreement on House. this issue." Deans Bingham and Poller have Gale Powers h a d o t her organized the forum in response c o m p l a i n t s b e s i d e s h e r t o c onfusion e xpressed by c omp e n s a t i o n. She s a i d , students regarding the new law. "Secretaries in general are treated Bingham said that he has found as gophers. We are not appreciated himself unable to adequately for what we do and what we can answer students' technical legal do." questions. The two men will give short Nonetheless, wages are -r.r m o s t i m po r t ant. The State presentations before speaking to U ni versity in Utica-Rome is the students. The meeting will moving into full operation. That s upplemen t t he information institution pays state salaries alre ady c i r cul ated b y the' which are considerably higher Spectator about the law, Bingham ,,.. · than those offered at Hamilton, at said. Kirkland and other colleges in this area. It is felt that unless the You 're a Stranger Here Colleges re-evaluate their salary but once ... scales, they will lose some of their employees to S.U.N.Y. There are problems inherent in adjusting wage schedules. Who Colonial Copper Room ·should get how much more? Italian-American Food T h ere are unofficial and Route Sa Commercial Drive._ 5 College St., Clinton conflicting reports on what the 736-7106 New Hartford
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Blues File First 0-8 SeaSOn atUnipn; John Newell Takes Home Rue 'Ilophy BY ROBERT J. KEREN A 24 yard touchdown pass from Union's Joe Urshall to Lou Miller put the finishing touches on Hamilton's l e ast productive football campaign in 83 years. The Dutchmen prevailed over the Continentals 7-3 in the November 17th season finale. For the first time since the inception of collegiate football on the hill, the Blues failed to win or tie a game during a given season. Hami,lton's 1973 record will stand at 0-8, Union's at 2-6.
outstanding players in the game was awarded to Hamilton's John Newell and Union's David Kates. The trophy was started by a Hamilton alumnus, Charles Root, in memory of his Union College buddy Ralph Rue.Newell, the junior middle linebacker, made ten tackles and was in on fifteen assists. John intercepted his fourth pass of the season to lead the Blues in that department and also recovered a fumble. Union Rue winner, halfback Kates, led all ground gainers The 78th meeting of the · Continentals and the Dutchman picking up 99 yards in 1 7 carries. was sure to produce a defensive A converted end, the 5'9" 160 battle as Hamilton had scored pounder, had 26 receptions coming into the game and only 33 seven touchdowns and Union only rushing yards. four coming into the game. The Last year's Rue winner, Ron Dut chmen w ere the lowest Westbrook, put on quite a show p o i n t-p roducing collegiate for his local Dutchman fans. football team in the nation. That Playing both ways, Westbrook distinction now belongs to intercepted 4 Craig Fallon passes Swarthmore College (0-7) who but also fumbled six times. Late registered a final 33 points to in the final quarter Westbrook Union's thirty-nine. picked off an underthrown toss Unlike the previous week's and returned it to Hamilton's Alfred contest, the Union game three-yard line only to drop the was played on dry turf under clear ball and watch the Continental's skies. But like that Alfred contest, Walt Kizielewicz '7 7 recover. H a m i l t o n ' s o f f e n s e w as Typifying the game and the non-existant. Only the celebrated season for both teams, the fourth left toe of Bill Finan, who quarter produced 15 m,inutes of connected on a 40-yard strike, non-football highlighted by four produced any Blue points on the fumbles and three interceptions. Alexander Field scoreboard. The interception, among other Union's offense was similarly thing s , was in many ways inept, Urshall's touchdown pass responsible for Hamilton's 1973 not withstanding, as neither team negative results. Lacking the c ou l d e ffectively move the running strength . and needed football. The game was marred by blocking to be effective against s even i nterceptions and ten H a m i l t o n 's a l wa ys l a r g e r fumbles, and counting punts there opponents, the Continentals were were twenty-six turnovers. The Rue Memorial Trophy forced into an aerial game. On the traditionally given to the two season Blue passers threw 28
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interceptions in 251 attempts (Fallon had 19, Winter eight and Corclia one). Hamilt on's r u s hing game totaled 713 yards and Sophomore Louis Cordia accounted for 517 of those yards. The Continentals did not score a single touchdown on the ground. The pass was th� only weapon in the Blue offensive a rsenal, and with opponent defenses playing the Continentals to pass, a high incidence of interceptions was inevitable. Football Future Looks Dim Among the·� seven seniors playing in their final game, co-captain Sandy Mackintosh had an ou tstanding afternoon at Union gaining 29 yards on a slick screen pass, while adding 40 additional _rushing yards in seven carries. Co-captains Jeff Hewett, Tom J anosky and Charlie Liebling wound up their collegiate careers (the 6'4", 250 pound Hewitt has been contacted by the Dallas C owboys, while Liebling has t h o u g h t o f g1vrn g t h e newly-organized World Football League a try), as did quarterback Fallon and linemen Peter Fasolino and Harold Warren. Next year's coaching staff will have a l i mite(l s upply of experienced first line material with which to build, and even if all 27 underclassmen return the bench talent will be thin. There is depth at the receivers though, with freshmen Dave Pisanelli (19 receptions), Dave Lecher (15 r e c e p t i o n s ) a n d Ge o rg e Gr ammaglia ( 1 1 receptions) returning along with Alec Singer '76 and junior speedster Kevin Snyder. continued on page 8
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Hockey Outlook ''Promising" Batt Brimming With Frosh
Co-captain Medonia in last year's action.
BY L. MANLIUS SARGENT W i t h l e s s t han a week remaining, the Hamilton College hockey squad has been tuning up for this season's lidlifter with the O s we g o State Lakers. Next Wednesday's tilt with Oswego at Sage Rink will mark the opening of a twenty-two game season that will hopefully end with the C o n tinent a ls placed in the Division II E.C.A.C. playoffs. With a host of practices and two scrimmages behind them, the Continentals have solidified into a
B-ball Opener Tom'w at Hobart; Murphy Missing Bi_gMiddle Man
I f e nthusiasm could win basketball games, the Hamilton Continentals c o u l d be an o u t s ta nd i n g b a l l c lub. Unfortunately for Coach Tom M u r phy a n d his c ha r g e s , enthusiasm i s but one ingredient necessary for a successful season. Once again the absence of a top rebounding forward or center will probably be the team's greatest weakness. Murphy, entering his fourth year as head coach of the Continentals, a f t er a very successful career at Belleville High School, is not at all pessimistic about the upcoming season. Seeking to improve on the 5-14
Commenting on the 23 game the Class A all-state team. His great offensive ability as well as schedule, Coach Murphy noted h i s m o r e t han adequate that the press releases from most r e b ounding will be a great of the Continental's opponents addition. boast of their best teams ever. The Should any of the starters most notable additions to the falter, the bench is stocked with schedule are Hamilton College's talent along with experience. 6'5" first Christmas basketball festival junior Doug Wright (4.5 ppg) will December 20 and 21 with Bates, provide d e p t h a l o n g with Hobart and a team to be named sophomores Mark Kasdorf ( 4.1 later, participating. The cagers will ppg), Don Reynolds and Bob also take part in the LeMoyne Johnson, both up from last year's Christmas tournament at Syracuse junior varsity squad. December 28 and 29. Rounding out the varsity squad The team opens at Hobart is 6 '3" freshmen Tom Masterson. College tomorrow at 8 P .M. The The Bogota native averaged in C o n t in e n t a l s u pe n d e d t he double figures in scoring and Statesmen last year 73-70 and rebounding while shooting a very 75-70 in two thrilling battles. You can hear the game over respectable 54% from the floor. Quickness is the Continentals WHCL-FM with veteran football greatest asset. The front line, while announcer Kenny Marten calling not overpowering, will count on the play by play, assisted by a conditioning to overcome the new face in the broadcasting 'lrld, Jim Carr. obvious lack of size.
Swimmers Host Larries Sat; Tough Schedule Looms Ahead
team that includes nine frosh as well as the fourteen returnees from last year's 7-15 squad. One aspect of improvement most on Coach Gregory Batt's mind, as he ·e n t e rs his twenty-fifth year behind the Hamilton bench, will be in the area of defense. The Blue will have to cut down on opponents' scoring, which last s e ason amounted to a 5.7 per-game clip. Offensively, the addition of freshmen up front should assure Hamilton of another prolific scoring attack. A pre-season look at the offensi ve c o r p s shapes up tentatively as follows. Coming off a team-leading fourteen goal total in '7 2-' 7 3, C o-captain Ben Madonia '74, has been centering for wingers Bill Hutchinson '77, and Rick Anderson '76. This line was instrumental in the Blue's 7 -5 exhi bition win over Elmira College two weeks ago, with Madonia potting three of the line's four-goal total. Another threesome is that of Peter Ascher! '76, flanked by frosh Keith O'Brien and Gibby Hedstrom '75. An effective passing game here could definitely place this line in a lamplighting role. Three linesmen who have seen action together are frosh winger Phil Hildebrand, centerman Tom Griffith '77, and senior winger Steve Malcom. Should any lines fail to click after e xtended s e r v i ce, look for hard-skating Scott Douglass '74 and heady John Hutchins '75, to move into a regular line shift. The Continental's defensive corps remains pretty much intact f r o m t he '7 2-' 7 3 sextet. Co-captain Jim Rishel, another four year vet, is paired with freshman Kurt Ziemendorf, and opponents will soon learn to be wary of these two when entering Hamilton's defensive zone. The
BY JOHN NAVARRE Garcia grapples underneath. record of a year ago he can look forward to no less than six returning lettermen along with some very impressive freshmen. Heading the list of returnees is senior captain Ernie Found (11.4 ppg). The 6-4 BataviaL native is entering his fourth season of v a r s i t y competition and his experience will be an invaluable asset to the team.· In addition to Found on the probable starting lineup will be juniors Mark Badger and Pedro Garcia, sophomore Marty Guy and freshman Brian Coombes. The flashy Badger (14.lppg), a Scotia native, is being heavily counted upon by Murphy to provide some offensive punch in the backcourt. 6'1" Pedro Garcia, (12.2ppg) from Brooklyn, N. Y ., ·will be used at guard if Coach Murphy has his way. The smooth junior, however, should see some action at forward where his great leaping ability can be used to better advantage. Along with Badger in the backcourt will be the 5'll"Guy (12.9 ppg)_. Guy will probably be the point man in the Continental offensive alignment. The 6'2" Coombes has a world of talent. A native of Aimsbury, Connecticut, he averaged 21 ppg as a senior while being named to
Coach Eric MacDonald predicts '' that this season's swimming team has the most potential of any previous Hamilton squad. Last season's team graduated only two seniors and has a total of eight returning State finalists. Included in these State finalists are Doug McDevitt '75 and Jeff Carlberg '75, who both competed in l as t year's small college Nationals. McDevitt was 11th in the 100-yard freestyle nationally; and in the State meet won the 200-yard freestyle, was 4th in the 100-yard freestyle, and also swam a leg of the 2nd place 400-yard freestyle relay team. Carlberg placed 4 t h s w i m m i n g· the 1 0 0 - y a r d bre a ststroke in All-Ameri�an Carlberg comes up for air. Nationals last year; and also placed 2nd in both the 100-yard 200-yard butterfly, the -1650-yard year's team are butterflyer and and 200-yard breaststroke, and freestyle will also help in the individual medley swimmer Gary Karl '75 and backstroker Craig swam the breaststroke leg of the distance events. 3rd place 400-yard medley relay Another returning letterman is MacDonald '75. James Matthews in last year's State meet. Fred Holender '74, a Hamilton '77 should add some new blood to Also returning are Captain diver. Holender will have help this both the individual medley and D a v i d Sha pland ' 7 4 and year in two promising freshmen: backstroke events. Co-captain John Baird '74, both Paul Edict '77 and Eric Kulp '77. H amil ton 's '7 2- ' 7 3 team of whom swam on last year's 2nd Th is will add some needed finished 3rd in the State meet place 400-yard freestyle relay. strength to the diving events. b e h i n d C o l g at e a nd S t . Baird will swim the backstroke Joe Schrum '76, a member of Bonaventure. The '73-'74 team events this year, while Shapland is both of last year's State final now swims both Colgate and St. one of Ha milton's distance relays, along with All-American Bonaventure, which is sure to swimmers. Helping out Shapland McDevitt and freshmen John provide some stronger dual meet is David Greenhalgh '77, who has Murphy '77 and Jack Widman '77, conpetition. The team has its had a strong pre-season showing. will be swimming the sprints this opener Saturday at home in the John Needham '75, a State finalist season. Alumni Pool against a tough St. Two other juniors on this Lawrence team. in t he 2 00-ya rd f reestyle,
same goes for the defensive couplet of juniors Dave Gillmore and R ick Aubry. With the additions of sophomores Don Armstrong and Al Colby, this talented and experienced sextet may provide the inner key to Hamilton's season. A prerequisite for a successful Hamilton hockey season will be that this corps must spend more time on the ice than in the penalty box. Any help they c a n g e t f r om backchecking forwards in achieving this end will, o f course, be greatly appreciated. Two new faces are to be found in the Continentals' nets to supplement returning senior Reed Beckjord. This most uncertain in terms of deciding an initial start on December 5 finds freshman Ray Rossi and Shawn George battling for the nod with the Beck. This is a tough one to prognostigate, but this writer sees Ray Rossi as the one who will be tending the twines opposite Oswego eight o'clock Wednesday. All in all, this looks to be Hamilton's most promising squa d since the Blue's contending team of 1970-1971. Their untested p ot e n t ial w i t hsta nding, the Continentals are confronted with a twenty-two game schedule that includes only Conne c ticut, Wesleyan, and Ithaca as potential cakewalks. Schools like Vermont and Massachusetts are advancing right past Hamilton into Division I play. Opponents such as Bowdoin, Oswego, Middlebury, Colby, and A.LC. have garnered skaters in alarming numbers in an effort to grab Division II laurels. Even Little Three schools like Amherst and Williams have redirected their athletic attitudes to perpetrate winning hockey teams. So much the better if Hamilton's team can achieve a better than .500 record in the face of opponents such as these.
FOOTBALL
from page 7 Winter, Cordia, Bill Collier and Brian Smith will return to the offensive backfield. The defense will be molded around linebackers Ne well, Bill Ferris '75 and freshman Mark O'Brien, and deep backs Gary Smith and Dusty Batley, both juniors. Dependable l i n e m e n a re scar ce, b ut Kizieliwicz, Donnie Armstrong anct Jake Cunningham will return. And of course place kicker Bill Finan, a Sophomore, will be back (4 of 9 Field Goal attempts, 3 of 5 Point After Touchdowns) to once again provide New York foo t ball writers with "good copy." The future of Hamilton's football program is presently resting on shaky ground. The Steuben Field Blues have produced successive 3-5, 1-7, 1-6, and 0-8 records. The coaching situation is up in the air; "Acting" Head Coach Bob King has the support of the 33-man squad, but veteran Don Jones, on sabbatical, has 2 3 years experience, tenure and a job if he returns. The entire situation would not be helped by any undue speculation here. Hamilton has another tough eight-game schedule for 1974 and presently intends to fulfill its commitments, only who will be the man at the helm remains a question.
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THE SPECTATOR VOLUME IV, NUMBER 13
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
IT'S �W OFFICIAL: JOE SISCO'S THE MAN
DECEMBER 7, 1973
As expected, Joseph J. Sisco has been named the 16th president of Hamilton College. The announcement, made simultaneously in Washington and Clinton Wednesday, marked the official end of the nine-month search for a successor to )ohn W. Chandler. Mr. Sisco will visit the campus this weekend in conjunction with the winter meeting of the Board of Trustees. He will briefly attend the Trustee meeting at 9 a.m. He will hold a press conference at 10, meet with the faculty at a special meeting at noon and meet with students and any other interested members of the community at 1 :30 p.m. in the Chapel. Mr. Sisco, presently Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs said Wednesday, "I am deeply honored to have this opportunity to serve Hamilton College, which ranks among the very best institu tions of higher learning in the co unt r y. While there are continuing opportunities open to me in the field of diplomacy, education of our youth in the liberal arts tradition has been one of my prime interests along with public service. My BY JON ATHAN L. YARMIS decision to join Hamilton reflects my Joseph John Sisco, the 16th President of confidence in the importance and viability Hamilton College is a career diplomat, having spent of the small liberal arts college in our most of his time since 19 51 involved in Middle Eastern affairs. He is currently the Assistant country, and in the contribution that it can Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian make in the future to the richness, diversity Affairs, a post he has held since 1969. and strength of the American educational Hamilton's President-Elect was born on October system."
Sisco: A Long A waited
Return To The Academic World
31, 1919, in Chicago. His parents were Italian immigrants and Sisco says he comes from "good peasant stock." As a young boy, Mr. Sisco was educated in Chicago and he worked at odd jobs after school. Upon his graduation from high school, he enrolled at Morton Junior College. After two years, he transferred to Knox College. There, Mr. Sisco was an excellent student. He was top man on the tennis team and he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. During these years, he also worked as a newspaper reporter, Sears Roebuck salesman, bartender, and steel mill laborer. The diplomat received his B. A. degree magna cum Laude from Knox College in 1941. After graduation, Mr. Sisco worked briefly as a teacher but with the start of World War II, he answered the call to dqty and joined the Army. Mr. Sisco served as a first lieutenant in the Pacific. It was his overseas service thz.t stimulated his interest in foreign affairs. After his discharge, in 1945, he enrolled in the University of Chicago to study international relations. He received his M. A. degree in 1947 and, in 1950, a Ph.D. as a specialist in Soviet affairs. continued on page nine
It is expected that Mr. Sisco will take over his duties sometime in the Spring, but the exact timing, according to Coleman Burke, Chairman of the Hamilton Board of Trustees, will depend on arrangements made between Mr. Sisco and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Mr. Sisco, a key figure in the current negotiations on the Middle East will remain at his present post during the important next phase of 'the peace negotiations. The selection of Mr. Sisco was made by the Executive Committee of the Board upon the r e c o m m e n d ation of the Presidential Search Committee. The Executive Committee was given the power to make the selection at the September meeting of the Board of Trustees. Members of the Executive Committee were polled by phone last month. The full Board of Trustees will confirm the Executive Committee's action tomorrow. Chairman Burke, contacted yesterday b y telephone, said, ''The college has a very fine new president. Mr. Sisco is a very able and dedicated -continued on page te,n man."
Marcy Appointed Acting. Dean; Schneider To Be Vice-President
Dean Carl J. Schueider
BY FELICE FREYER Peter T. Marcy, Associate Professor of History, has been appointed Acting Dean of Academic Affairs by President Samuel F. Babbitt. He is replacing Dean Carl J. Schneider. The choice of Mr. Marcy was made in consultation with the Search Committee and the Faculty Appointments Committee. Mr. Marcy is Chairman of the Search Committee, which has been searching for a permanent dean since last spring. The Search Committee consists of four faculty members: Peter Marcy, chairman, David A. Begelman, Associate Professor of Psychology, Nadine George, Instructor in History of Science, and Robert B. Muirhead, Associate Professor of Painting, Printmaking and Drawing; and two students, Sara Gordon and Connie Miner. According to Mr. Marcy, approximately 650 applications have been reviewed and seven preliminary interviews have been conducted. Several more folders are yet to be reviewed. The Committee will make a final recommendation of three candidates to President Babbitt in early January. When asked if a special effort would be made to hire a woman for this position, ·Mr. Babbitt replied, "Yes indeed. We will bend over backward to find a woman for the job." The Dean of Academic Affairs is the chief academic officer at continued on page five
Police Investigate Hitching Problem President-elect Joseph J. Sisco
T h e r e h a v e b e e n f i ve Poller noted that the Kirkland "hitchhiking incidents" involving students involved in all instances ten Kirkland women in the past remained calm and ·collected. She several days, according to Jane pointed out the danger involved if Poller, Dean of Students. "It is the problem began to effect our hope that it will be resolved young girls at the high school in very shortly," said Poller. Poller Clinton. refused to divulge details for fear However, she did release a that they may jeopardize the s ta tement t o t h e Kirkland success of the police investigation. Community this week in which A Kirkland student reported, she said, however, t ha t t h e suspect For most of you it is a indecently exposed himself to major means of transportation students, and he is considered between the town and campus . dangerous. Obviously, we cannot prohibit The State Police and Oneida you from hitchhiking. We are County Sherriffs are now working concerned, however, that you closely with the Dean's Office to e xe r cise, j udgmen t w hen close the case as quickly as accepting rides. possible. In response to these If you must hitchhike, try recent problems, Jesse Zellner, to do so with another person. Director of Institutional Affairs at If a driver is acting in a peculiar Kirkland College,has re-instituted manner, please try to remain jitne y s e r vi c e between the calm. Ask him/her to let you campuses and Clinton. The jitneys out. If possible, try to note the will operate on a half-hour basis license plate number and a with stopping points at the description of the auto and McEwen Circle, the Library and driver. Please call Carol Cooper t he C a n n o n B a l l T h e a t r e or me if an incident occurs. d o w nt own. The jitney will You can be assured that it, ill operate between 12:30 and 3:00 be handled in a confidential p.m. manner. The incid�nts which students reported to Poller all occurred This is the last issue of Tiu between December 3 and 5, and Spectator for this semester. One in one instance happened within issue will be published during fifteen minutes of each other. wi nter s t u d y. a nd r egular Poller acknow!edged that there public ation wi ll resume in were several "related incidents" February. Happy Holidays to all on the Kirkland campus earlier our readers. this year.
2/THE SPECTATOR/December 7, 1973
)-Boa rd Reform Judiciary Board procedures and precedents are in need of clarification and improvement if the body is to remain a workable extra-legal organizc:tion at Hamilton. The Board has heard two important cases in the past month, which have involved the prosecution of three students on charges ranging from physical assault to alcoholic misconduct. The Board's rendered verdicts should be,brought into question, however, in light of the confusing set of procedures, often unspecified, by which the Board operates. In the case of one student, who admitted to striking another student in the Pub, the Judiciary Board was called to decide whether the defendant was sufficiently provoked to have reacted violently. Without any definition of what constitutes inexcusable violence on campus, the Board convic �ed the student in question. With.9ut any precedent for sen ..encing offences of violent misconduct, the Board recommended that the student be placed on two ai1d one half years disciplinary probation. Finally, the Judiciary Board did noL keep a complete record of its proceedings. The cases have gone to the Faculty Committee on Student Activities, which will consider the Judiciary Board's recommended sentences, and enact actual punish-ment. The Committee, invested with the power to reject a student decision, is said to have not increased a Judiciary Board sentence in ten years. Faculty members have said that the role of the Student Activities Committee is also unclear. The Judiciary Board is saddled with a scanty and confusing set of procedures. The Student Senate has rightfully appointed a committee to investigate the procedural precedents of the Board. AU Hamilton students should re-evaluate the presumed role of the Judiciary Board at Hamilton, while investing the extra-legal body with workable and popular procedures and by-laws. As it stands now, however, the Judiciary Board unfortunately fails to act with the confidence of the students and the faculty of Hamilton College.
Welcome, Mr. Sisco
At Ion� last, the presidential search is over as Hamilton announced Wednesday that Joseph J. Sisco will be the college's 16th president. This· newspaper disagreed with many of the procedures of the Presidential Search Committee, but we applaud the dedication and hard work of its members in reaching their goal. Joseph Sisco comes to Hamilton with a distinguished career of public service behind him. His work, in the Middle East especially, has been admir.ed by most experts familiar with the situation in that part of the world. We have no doubt that he will continue to perform in the intelligent and energetic manner that hz_s characterized his 2.4 years in the State Department. As Mr. Sisco makes his first official visit to the Hill this weekend, we extend our congratulations to him and wish him the best of luck in the new challen_g_e thz.t lies ahead.
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Spectator's Spectator Of Presidents and Mothe-rs BY GERRY PAYNE
"I think we should be allowed to bring_ our mothers to school with us. I really think we should," the guy said, standing behind the Chapel podium in a Hamilton College T-shirt. I was sitting there, and just couldn't believe what he was saying. But since Chapel is an open forum and all, I let him speak-the momma's boy. Witz looked on in disbelief. "My mother used to do so much for me. She tied my shoelaces; she cooked for me; she told me when to go to bed; she even rubbed Vicks into my chest when I had the sniffles. And I love my mother! I r eally do!" Claps and finger snaps roared throughout the Chapel. I was touched. I mean it isn't every day thc..t a momma's boy comes out. Then again, homosexuals have been coming out these days. Italian-Americans come out. Even the Teamsters are coming out in the open. So I couldn't be surprised too much. Still, you wouldn't think that mamma's boys would be coming out at college. Witz was holding his head and his stomach. "Mom never asked me if I wanted a sister. Mom just came home with her one day. She told me that I would love her so long as I didn't have to share a room with her. "Which is just the point," the guy continued. "Momma made all the decisions for me. She made life so easy. Oh, how I would trade staying up late this minute, if I could just have Mom and some of her cookies with milk!" he sighed, before a couple of hunc:lred Hamilton momma's boys looking on. The crowd was moved. Thoughts of mommas scurried through the touched heads of almost every Hamilton stud�nt there. "Take me back to the nineteen-fifties," the guy cried out. "When we were boys, and mommas were
MOMMAS!" The crowd applauded, as the kid triumphantly walked off stage, doll in hand. Horowitz was appalled. Then color returned to his face, as the Portnoy in him began to rise from the depths of his heart. The Momma hater in him. "Gerry," he said to me aside anxiously, "I get to get up there. I have a right, don't I? I mean it is a free forum." "Sure it's free, Witz. But that means they're all free to get you." Witz wasn't daunted. He strode up· to the podium. The crowd was awed to silence. Witz had gumption. "I don't know what the hell's gotten into you guys. With this momma on the mind. Hamilton doesn't mother you enough? For all one would think, you guys still believe the stork brought you." "Who says he didn't?" a guy shouted, worried. "What? Wait a second. The stork didn't bring you. It's in all the books." Another snapped his fingers, as they began to shout, "Burn the books. Burn the books. BURN THE BOOKS!" "But it will be in all the newspapers!" Witz answered. "BURN THE NEWSPAPERS. STOP THEM TOO!!" the crowd screamed. "You're running away from the truth," Witz said, drowned by the mob. "What about your role as men? What about your role as citizens? How could you ever be fathers to sons?" Witz stood screaming while two students in Hamilton College Doctor Dentons approached him carrying a net. They quarreled with Witz as the crowd continued their chanting. Then Witz was carried off the stage. Witz was disappointed, but not defeated.
Perspective The Fallacy of 'Irresponsibility' BY JOHN WILLIAMS
We have heard a great deal lately about "freedom of speech." This doctrine has captured our attention because of the Spectator's use of it in defending its publication of the names of the presidential candidates. All hopefully agree that freedom of speech is a noble doctrine and deserves protection. Recently, however, an unrelated event occurred which constitutes the greatest challenge to freedom of speech I have witnessed during my four years at Hamilton College. I am referring to a letter which appeared in the November 9, 1973 issue of the Spectator. The letter was signed by Joseph Wachpress and Roger Schneider and was a response to a "Comment" written by Associate Professor Rand Carter. Messrs. Wachpress and Schneider demanded that Mr. Carter publicly apologize and retract his views "before the entire College community." Should this apology and retraction not be immediately forthcoming, the pair demanded prompt termination of Mr. Carter's tenure. These demands are apalling! This is an invasion of Mr. Carter's academic freedom. It is surprising to find that there has been no response to this absurd letter, especially in light of current concern over freedom of speech. Mr. Carter, in the November 16 issue, chose to rebut Wachpress and Schneider, but on the ,nerits of his Middle East argument rather than on the issue of academic freedom. Consequently, the implications of these demands mus;. be analyzed in light of the institution of academic tenure. Tenure is granted not to protect old professors from losing their jobs. It is not "seniority." Tenure is given so that professors may express their views without fear of dismissal. Tenure is simply another protection of freedom of speech, and m a y be terminated only because of incompetence in, subject matter of moral turpitude. Tenure is not awarded as a fringe benefit to our underpaid professors. Rather, it is a guarantee of academic freedom. A college community is intended
to be a forum for academic debate. As such, it can not survive unless all may speak freely without fear of recrimination. Without tenure, some may be intimidated to speak out against accepted norms. Elimination of tenure could weN threaten free debate. This appears to be what Messrs. Wachpress and Schneider are advocating. Their demands are clearly illogical if the institution of tenure is understood. They demand a termination of tenure merely because Mr. Carter expressed an opinion different from their own. As a tenured professor, however, he has the right to both express his views and remain on the Hamilton faculty. What Wachpress and Schneider have done is to commit the "fallacy of irresponsibility". I refer to the accusation that Mr. Carter's views are "irresponsible". His views are certainly noL irresponsible; they are merely different from theirs. To call his views irresponsible is an affront to his dignity as a member of the Hamilton faculty. Wachpress and Schneider are not alone in committing the fallacy of irresponsibility. Even prominent members of our community are guilty. The Senate said that the Spectator acted irresponsibly in disclosing the names of the candidates. Then Editor Fred Bloch called the Senate's ensuing censure irresponsible. Neither actions were irresponsible. They were both manifestations of differing philosophies of news reporting. Both philosophies are assuredly well enough formulated to preclude irresponsibility. The intellectual health of our community is dependent upon the free flow of ideas. We sh ould be open-minded enough to respect and discuss views different from our own. lmmediat eiy dismissing a different opinion as being "irresponsible' serves only to stifle intellectual debate in our community. This is the third installment of a weekly column written by four Hamilton students.
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Letters to the Editor
Secretary Complains To the Editor: Mr. D o u g Gl ucroft's article on secretaries' salaries in The Spectator, Volume IV, Number 12, dated November 30, showed great irresponsibility on his part and on the part of the editor. The authenticity of articles 31\d photographs printed with them should be checked out if The Spectator wants to gain the reputation of a responsible campus newspaper. The secretary in Root Hall, whose picture was printed with the article on secretaries' salaries had no conversation with Mr. Glucroft or anyone else regarding her salary nor have I made any complaints to anyone. If I ever have a complaint, I will take it to Mr. MacDonald, not a campus newspaperI I believe Mr. Glucroft and The Spectator owe me a public apology for the implication, through printing my picture with the article, that I had discussed sal ary with Mr. Glucroft or anyone else. Sharon Ewalt
responsible pos1t10ns, we should be compensated on the basis of our experience and abilities, and not solely on what the market will tolerate. Gale B. Powers
Photo Comment To the Editor: I wish to correct the impression given in a recent Spectator that I had discussed the salaries of secretaries with a member of the newspaper staff. I have talked to no one regarding this subject. Mary Schilling Editor's Note: A photograph of Mrs. Sc hi lling, De an Kinnel's secretary, appeared in last week's Spectator.
Alumna on Chauvanism
To the Editor: Today I received The Spectator of Nov. 9 at my home in New York City'.
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I had learned of the Women's Center alternatives for House Parties Weekend from friends at Kirkland and had read Lourdes Wan's article on the concert and dance in an earlier Spectator. In this issue my eye caught the letter to the editor entitled Female Chauvinism. I went on to read Lav ender Jane Plays for Female Audience. During my three years at Kirkland I can recall Spectator coverage of the Fall '71 Conference on Kirkland As A Women's College, of the long-awaited hiring of two women professors at Hamilton and a few scattered comments or letters to the editor. This coverage reflects the scant attention the colleges have given changing sex roles in our society and the changing needs and goals of Kirkland/Hamilton students. I have seen the Kirkland Women's Center grow, flourish and fade into the nothingness of an unkempt room in
To the Editor: Re your November 30 article in which you examine the Colleges' policies with respect to members of the Junior Staff: In the interests of journalistic integrity, I think it necessary to point out an inaccuracy in Mr. Glucroft's article. I was not referring to secretaries as "gophers, of the genera Geomys, Thomomys, etc.," but CHRISTMAS CANDELIGHT SERVICE rather as "go-fers" (sic_) (Is it possible that Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m. the annual Mr. Glucroft is a zoology major?) Christmas Candlelight Service will be held While it is not my function to evaluate Mr. Glucroft's investigative prowess, I feel in the Ch ap el. Included in the program are he omitted a very basic issue which, anthems by the Hamilton-Kirkland Choir evidently, I failed to convey: it is and the Free Church Choir, along with unquestionably true that the pay-scales of several selections by the Brass Choir and the Colleges' secretaries are grossly the woodwind_group De Gustibus . inadequate; this is, by no means, an Carols will be sung and there will be indictment of Hamilton and Kirkland readings from the Christmas story. BAZAAR Colleges in particular, rather of the secretarial profession in general. There will be a bazaar to benefit the Doubtless, there are those still suffering Clinton Child Care Center this Saturday, from the puerile notion that secretaries are December 8, from 10-4 in the Lobby little more than gum-smacking bagwomen Lounge in McEwen. The bazaar, sponsored (se e "gophers" above) whose only by the Apple Corps (a group of contribution to business consists • of college-affiliated women) will be offering tending the exec1;1 tive coffeepot and crafts, baked goods and artwork for ·sale. occasionally taking a letter while perched Donations of these items can be brought on the boss's knee. Most of us feel, to Lobby Information Center or the however, that as skilled and professionally Public Relations Office. Come one and all to browse and buy! trained individuals, capable of handling
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EDITORSHIP OPEN Due to unforseen circumstances, the editorship of Portfolio, the photography magazine of Hamilton-Kirkland, is now open. Aily interested students, please con�ct Harold Bogle as soon as possible. I
. NEW PHOTO PR OFESSOR Norman Bloom has been named visiting professor of film at Kirkland College w he re h e w ill teach photography, animation, production and the language of film during the 1973-74 academic year. Mr. Bloom replaces Nathan Boxer,' Associate Professor of Film, who is temporarily on leave while directing sound for the new film "Godfather II." An independent film maker, Bloom received his masters degree at the University of Iowa and attended the London Film School and the University of Connecticut. He has made over twenty films which have been shown at various colleges, schools and festivals. FREE CHURCH SERVICE The Free Church Service-·this week will include an anthem by the Free Church Choir, a solo by Nancy Dolliver, '75, and a dialogue sermon presented by Ginger and Joel Tibbetts. Chapel, Sunday, 11: 15 a.m.
Milbank_ My friends a Kir'kland t me that there is renewed energy and interest in t he Women's 0:nter. My opinion is that Friday · ht"s exclusively female concert was a positive and growth-promoting even� no a destructive one. After all-Saturday night's dance included any male or female who wished to come. Only by taking time to enjoy, respect and v.due one another, can w o m e n move into more equitable, dynamic and ful:6Iling rdatiomh.,s with men and with women. And I am afraid that in the past we (Kirkland students and women, in general) have not bttn granted and have not seized the time or emotional· energy for that cnjoymcnL W h a tever people's opinions-I am happy to see this dialogue. I hope that _ people of all points of view will share their thoughts and that the rnmnmnity will seek to confront, rather ilian brush aside controversy. I applaud Jane PoDcr and whole-heartedly agycc with her sentiment that this ''was one of the best things that has happend around here for a long time." Susan Cohen •73
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To the Editor: Since the announcement was made in Chapel two weeks ago,. sevaaI a:mccmcd members of the college have suggested that it should appCH in Tl&e Spectator, where it would reach a broader audience. The Hamilton-Kirkland canine coalition announces the opening of the Dog Center, an organization composed of an f« the dogs· of the college community. As their first major social Cftllt, the Dog Center w i l l s p o nsor Olive Solidarity Day, featuring a concert for dogs only starring an all-dog band ,. the Pmplc Poodles. The Poodles- are a band doggedly committed to spreading the masage of the canine movement, and they have college quads aero� the nation. Their d.r\glDalism in no way detracts from their music ,. as their many rabid fans w!8 attest. The all-dog concert will be presented in the coffee house as an alternative to the usual demeaning b eg-and-fetch natUR of campus social life, and will give participants a chance to celebrate the fullness of their doghood. All proceeds will go to the Olive defense fund. All interested canines should cont.art Chochie or Eeyore at Commons or McEwen as soon as possible. Fred Goehner '"74 Dog Center Buman Relations
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i/THE SPECTATOR/December 7, 1973
A. R. C. Duncan Assumes Truax Post; Lectures, Course Planned For Spring
BY JUDITH SILLARI Professor A.R.C. Duncan of Aristotle's Nicomac hean Ethics. Qu ee n s U n i v e rsity, Ontario, He is also scheduled to deiiver the Canada, has been name d Truax Kant lectures in the Hamilton Visiting Professor of Philosophy.. History of W estern P hilosophy P r e s e ntly C h airman of the course, (Philosophy 22). The P hi l osop h y D e p a rtm e nt at Truax Professor of Philosophy r e c e n tl y Queens, Professor Duncan will be f r om 1 97 0-19 71 publis hed his se rie s of public in residence at Ha milton for the duration of the Spring Se mester. lectures given here under the title y, E d u c a t e d in Scotland at Freedom, An arch and the Law. The Trua x Professorship was Ge orge W atson's Boy's College, Prof. Duncan gra duated with First established eig hteen years ago by Class Honours in P hilosophy from Hamilton Alumnus, R. Hawley the University of Edinb urg h. He Trua x, who wa s Chairman of the received a M aster of Arts degree B o a rd o f the New Yorker from Edinburgh in 1936. After m a gazine. Truax persued his studying at the University of u n d e r g r a du a t e i nt e r e s t in Marburg, Germa ny, Duncan was philosophy studying und er J a mes, named a Ferguson scholar in and at the Sorbonne under Bergson. Realizing tha t a college Philosophy in 1937. of Hamilton's size could probably Professor Duncan has been not attract a ph ilosopher of great head of the Department of Philosophy at Queens since 1949 . reputa tion, he nevert heless felt it Before that, he was Director of was possible to strengthen the Studie s in the Faculty of Arts, P h ilosophy program here by University of Edinburg h. He has presenting . a sch ola r of distinction a l s o t a ught P h i l o sophy at at le ast once in each student· g e n e ration. The Trua x cha ir Edinb ur gh and the University of f\..R.C. Duncan, Truax Visiting Professor of Philosophy' who assumes endowme nt is the result of Mr. London. nis duties as teacher and lecturer next semester. Trua x's interest and ckdication Professor Duncan served as Past incumbents of the c hair P r e s i d e n t of t h e Canadian hav e b e e n D.D. R a p h a e l, Philosophical Association from II University of Glasgow, 1958-59; 1960-1961 and 1966-1967. His public ations include Practical the University of Alexa ndria's A.E. Affifi, 1960-61; G eorge Re a s o n a n d M o rtalit y , a II II translation of V. Ceeschouwer's Da vil, University of Edinburgh he Develop m ent of Kantian 1964-65; Owen B arfield, Bran deis Leaving the Libra ry with out T BY STEVE ZORTHIAN ought, and Moral Philosophy: University 1967-68; and Richard Th T his yea r, the number of checking a book out "is not Taylor, University of Rochester, -1965. nissing books in the D aniel Burke theft," Pilkington sta tes," but it is Dunc an is the author 1970-71. Professor .ibrary has increased se verely. c a r e l e ssne ss a n d l a c k of Professor Russell T. Blackwood, of numerous articles, whose topics ,tudents and librarians are finding considera tion. Th e students are C h airma n of the Ph ilosophy e from eth ics to education al ran� t increa singly difficult to find the taking advantag e of a good deal." philosophy. Duncan is a member: De partment of Hamilton Colle ge , ,ooks they need. As a result, the Pilkington feels that t he Burke of the Aris!otelian Soci ty, the e xp r e s s e d plea sure at Prof. . ibrary Committee has been Library asks very little from th e � Royal Institute of Philosophy Dunc a n's acceptance of the orced to ma ke some changes in students w hen it comes to (London), the Mind Assiciation, Visiting Professorship. "We look he Library. regulations, and that students forward to having a distinguished and t� e Da nte Society of Nort h The Library Committee hired a should help the Libra ry in return. philosopher among us.'' Prof. � as Am�nca, ell as the � a a dian i:i helver a few weeks ago in Pilkington and the Library Blackwood noted, "Mr. Truax's l Assoc1at10n. l�s i h P oph1ca esponse to the report of a study Committee feel that the books are als have been met admirably in go h W ile t a H a milton, e Prof ssor . nade last year. His job is to continued on page ten Duncan will offer a course on th e past, and we have every reason eshelve all mispla ced books and I 311-HII r:I Li l!l:I fU Li 111111 ifi ·llill Li 1111111-DFZ 11..:m,: -!,D naga zines. It is hoped that this mprovement will allevia te the m. � =· ,roblems of mislaid materials. W alter Pilkington, the head bra rian, feels that students who .oard materials in carrels and do .ot return materials properly MERCEDES-BENZ 'lack considera tion for their ·llow student". M any times, j ents can not find books, ecause the books are sca tte red round t he Libra ry on various ables and desks. 430 Lomoncl Place Pilkington Explains Utica N.Y. T.
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M e a nwhile, the Philosophy Club will host a lecture by David F. Linowes, an internationally known ma na gement consultant. He will• spea k at Bristol Campus Cente r, Mond ay, (December 10) at 7:30 p.m. His lecture, "Socio-Economic Accounting," will be a discussion of his theories on the ways in which mana gement principles can be used to further the objectives of governments an d nonprofit institutions. These theories ar e part of his recently published book,Strategies for Survival, which is subtitled
"Usin g Busin ess Kn ow-How to Make Our Social S ystem Work."
Mr. Linowes has devised a sys t e m o f "socio- e conomic mea surement tools," by which, he mainta ins, an orga nization can determine whether it is meeting the needs of the people it serves. This will be th e ch ief topic of his lecture , M r . Linowes has been a consultant to the United Nations and to th e U.S. Depa rtments of State and Health, Education and Welfa re, and an adjunct professor of ma na gement at New York University. A certified public accounta nt, he is a partner in L a venthol, Krekstein, Horwath & Horwa t h, a world-wide auditing an d consulting form.
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Decemb_er 7, 1973/THE SPECTATOR/5
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College May Raze Wallace House BY DAVID SCHUTT The Wallace house, which was gutted by fire this past summer, may soon be tom down. Acting President J. Martin Carovano will propose this measure at today's trustee meeting. The college feels that renovation and repair of the building, located just off College Hill Road, would be economically unsoun4. for at present it fulfills no needed function. Renovation is estimated in the area of 60-70,000 dollars. The house is unsuitable for student housing because it contains only three bedrooms, lacks mm1m um fire safety precautions, and has little parking space. The college also thinks that the house is unfit to serve as a faculty residence since it is located in a n o i s y a r e a between t w o fraternities and near the Bristol Campus Center. Because of the noisy location, the college thinks that the house is not salable on the open market. Should the house be razed in the future, use of the lot has not been determined. Renovations in the Dun ham dor mitory, if c o n t i n u e d , will decre ase occupancy in that building by twenty five per cent. If the Wallace house is destroyed and the Dunham renovations are continued, the lot may become the site of a new student housing facility. The college received 56,000 dollars in. insurance claims.
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Dean Search Continues; Schneider Plans Sabbatical educati onal e x perie nce for students.'' Mr. Schneider said that his Sabbatical will be devoted to l e arning a b o ut e ducational r e s e a r c h , v1s1t1n g o t he r experimental colleges, especially those with evaluation systems, and gathering ideas to incorporate here at Kirkland. Mr. Schneider will assume the post of Vice President upon his return. As Vice P r e s i d e n t , Mr. Schneider's duties will be to res earch and e valu ate the effectiveness of Kirkland College and to contemplate "the goals of the institution and ways of achieving them more efficiently and more economically."
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'Return to Forever' Arrives; Ability, Warm th Win Crowd BY JACK CURRAN Chick Corea did not play in the Hamilton College Chapel this w eekend. Return to Forever played, and Chick was just one of them. Thank the Seventh Galaxy that someone finally showed this campus how to hold a concert and how to enjoy music. I'm not just talking about the music of Return to Forever but any concert music whether classical, rock, folk, or blues. If the BPRU people were as instrumental as they claimed in bringing Return to Forever to this campus, then they should be given control of the SAC. It's about time that the SAC learned t h a t d r u nk - s e l f - p itying folk singers, out of tune blues bands, and performers who bitch for half their playing time at the audience and inadequate sound equipment just can't put on good concerts. At least the SAC has learned that perfect concerts can be had cheaply, and that it is not n e c es s ar y t o waste twenty thousand dollars on amateurs like Pink Floyd. Return to Foreverplayed for an amazing three hours: continual music, two one-and-a-half hour sets, and no futzing between tunes. (That's another thing: most
performers up here think that five minutes of garbage between songs makes a good concert). Chick just h a p p ily and straightforwardly announced the show, with class: that is all that's needed. And were those guys happy, playing with ear-to-ear grins and clownlike smiles plastered on their faces. Billy Conners was a bit of a s o u r p us s , b u t his p l a y ing fantastically hid the lack of joy on his face. The sheer happiness blasting from those speakers Saturday night contaminated the audience with a mass euphoria I've never seen at any other concert. People sat bug-eyed, head-in-hands, not daring to miss a single surge of phantasma. They left in a shuffled and wowed daze not believing they actually heard such incredible technical ability and galactic improvisation. They loved it. Return to Forever music is nearly impossible to classify. It is detmitely not rock, but it is not strict jazz either. The music is obviously a direct oµtgrowth of jazz, not rock, utilizing jazz h a r m o n i e s a n d r h y thms s y n t h e s i z e d a t t i m es with near-rock beats and lead lines. At any rate it is a brand new and synthetic style being developed by
a few other groups (though in s o m e w h a t d i ff e r e n t veins): Weather Report, The Mahavishnu Orc hestr a, and Children of Forever. The development of this new music is bound to be, slow, for only a few musicians can a t t a i n t h e t e chnical ability necessary to play it. Call it what you will. Razz? I doubt -it, and certainly not Jock. The group was tight: not a single slip in a rhythm and harmony most could not even begin t o under stand. Each individual of the group was bound to the others by a combination of t e c h ni q ues: C hick p la y e d percussion o n piano, Billy, a thoroughly modal and nearly drum-like lead, Lenny, incredibly melodic drum lines, and Stanley, lead and rhythm on a bass. This is not to say that the conventional uses of the instruments weren't employed. They were, but in combination with new techniques. One of the most important approaches of this new synthesis o f m usic is a break from traditional means of playing. Even the titles of the pieceS, Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy, Return to the Mother Ship, and C a pta i n S e1ior M o use, are sometimes out of the ordinary, although I suspect that not all of them are serious indications of the music. The songs were long, ranging from fifteen to forty-five �inutes. The highlights of the performance were Sometime Age
Stan ley Clarke, Chick Corea, and Seifor Mouse Return in which Chick "broke down" and played acoustic piano (amazing, fantastic) and Spain, an older piece made famous by Miles Davis and played for the inevitable encore. When asked why the group did not play more straightjazz, Chick said they had to play to the audience. He was suspicious that strict jazz would not have caught the audience nearly as well as what they actually played. I suspect that Return to Forever is through with strict jazz and devoted to the development of this new form.
Reactions to the show range from, "I've never been more excited and nervous at a concert" and simply "WOW" to "Well, it was o.k., but I don't like acid rod that much." Ahh, what can begin to say about that las comment? Most of the people were wowed, but as always the few and unavoidable dead-legs were there dragging down what would have been a perfect a udience. Probably the best comment floating around after the show was: "Yeah, they had their shit up to snuff!"
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VIDEOGAME On Friday through Sunday, December 7, 8, and 9, a unique event entitled VIDEOGAME will take place at the Kirklan� Art Center in Clinton, New York. The V1deofreex of Media Bus, Inc., a group of artists/technicians from the Catskill Mountain hamlet of Lanesville, will present a direct experience with television both for the general public and for local artists. It's no ordin ary television, however, but a series of videospace environments where you might find that your best friend and yourself have become a new person.
LEO Leo Hurwitz, Chairman of the Graduate Program of the Institute of Film and Television at New York University, will present a three day film festival December 9-11 on the Kirkland campus. Hurwitz, a Marxist, will discuss his films on such subjects as concentration camps, poets, athletes, sculpture, labor unions, death and autumn in Vermont. While his films vary stylistically, viewers can observe his interest in man, nature and art as well as his committment to political struggle. Alice Stem '74, is well acquainted with Mr. Hurwitz's work, and said of the filmmaker, "It is a rare person who can involve himself with such a variety of themes and yet manage to keep the human experience as his central concern." The festival is sponsored by the Kirkland Arts division. He will be showing his films continuously in Kirner-Johnson or the basement of McEwen from Sunday to Tuesday.
BY DAVID DUERR "I said to Carolyn, 'There are several I could live with with no t r o u b l e. He's that kind of painter."' Paul Parker's work is expressed quite wellin this passing remark I heard at the opening of his s how on November 18. Obviously Mr. Parker knows his craft. But it is little more than a craft. Very rarely do his paintings achieve the vitality or life which marks outstanding watercolor. Watercolor is an extremely difficult medium. It does not forgive overwork: the painter must know when to stop. The e f f e c t s of s pontaneity and transparency are produced by laying down washes one over the other in conjunction with lines which give detail. If the pain ting is. overworked it has a muddied, dull e f f e c t . If done well i t sparkles. M r . Parker's paintings are neither muddy nor do they sparkle. They fall in a middle ground of illustrations or pretty pictures. Take- for example the painting, West Hills from the Dugway. The technique verges on the obvious-the vivid foreground, the d ul l e r background, the c a r e f u l l y l a i d- do wn washes defining the fields. The painting has little if any focal point; the eye does not move in the painting. Rather it rests on the painting, and tires quickly. Much more interesting is the painting next to thi s one: Silos and Barns, Millbro ok Farm. The silos provide an upward thrust in contrast to the diagonals of the barn's roof. The shadowsare expertly worked:
the silos are round. The sun comes from the right hand corner making the barn red more intense and the fieldstone brighter. And so it goes for the rest of his Oriskany Valley paintings: he treats a limited subject better than a panoramic landscape. Even closer to the magic inherent in good watercolor are the Key West paintings. The painting Majestic and Gemini II is one of the best. It gives the feeling of boats moving on .water. The colors are clear without being viole nt. O ddly enough, the brightest are in the water: deep blues and greens. The eye is immediately drawn to the triangle of water which separates the two boats, dividing the painting in two. The focal point is a boat in the background. The eye then moves around the pleasant tangle of rigging and deck parapharnalia. This clutter of lines and chains gives the painting its life and charm. The Key West houses create more of an atmosphere than do those of the Oriskany Valley. Carolin e Street Mansion is a good example of a painting which evokes a mood. The trees are feathery, not having the overly defined forms of the Oriskany trees: the technique is more subtle. The house, Victorian in style, rises out of these nebulous shapes. As in most of his paintings the sense of perspective and architecture is quite good. The colors are subdued except for hints of turquoise that make the house s t and out from the foreground of trees and shrubs.
An era of separateness and privacy is reflected both in the house's position in relation to the trees and the gentle light. Most of the facades have this quality of nostalgia in varying degrees. 0 u t of forty-seven works represented, five have already been sold. Four of the five are from the Oriskany Valley group. They are not his best work. Judging from the opening I should say that the buyers were people who know Mr. Parker. Instead of buying a photo of the area in which they live they chose to make an investment in a work of art. Had they truly wanted a good example of Mr. Parker's skil l they would have chosen from the Key West group. A · point of interest: no Kirkland art professor came to an opening that was otherwise widely attended. There were close to fifty people and they seemed to take a genuine interest in the paintings. Normally at openings few people actually look at the artist's works. Happily this was an exception to the rule. However the fact remains that no Kirkland art professors were there. I can hardly blame them. Mr. Parker is proud that his paintings are painted directly from nature. However they do not seem any more vital for it. They do not s h o c k p e o p l e i n to new recognitions or understandings of their surroundings. Granted he captures the mood of his subject occasionally. But rarely is this realization carried any farther. T h e paintings, in themselves remain pretty pictures.
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FILM On Campus This Weekend Jules Feiffer's Little Murders. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm and 10 pm. Sunday at 10 pm only. Science Auditorium. Admission $.75. Tom Jones. Henry Fielding's classic starring Albert Finney, and a Chaplin short, The Barbershop. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm. Sunday at 10. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75. December 10 (Monday) Women's Center Film Series: The Girls. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Civilisation Film Series: The Fa_llacies of Hope. The Age of Reason gives way to the Age of Revolution. 8:30 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. December 12 (Wednesday) Civilisation Film Series: Heroic Materialism. The Industrial Revolution. 8 :30 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. December 13 (Thursday) Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke, with Roadrunner cartoons. 8 pm. Also Friday and Saturday. Sunday at 10 pm only. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75. Invasion of the Body Snatchers. 8 pm. Also Friday and Saturday. Sunday at 10 pm only. Science Auditorium. Admission $.75. At Nearby Theaters Cannonball ( 853-5553) The New Land (PG) Kailett (736-2313) American Graffitti (PG) Uptown (732-0665) The Sacred Knives of Vengeance (R) Stanley (724-4000) Return of Count Yorgo and Belle of the
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258 Cinema (732-5461) Instinct For Survival and Walking Tall (R), Cinema 1: Four Times That Night (X) and Voices of Desire (X), Cinema 2.
MUSIC December 7 (Friday) McEwen Coffeehouse presents Alan Stowell, fancy bluegrass fiddler. 9 pm. Free with social tax. $.50 without. December 8 (Saturday) McEwen Coffeehouse presents Eric Shoenberg and Guy Vanduser, ragtime guitarists. 9 pm. Free with social tax. $.50 without. December 13 (Thursday) Hootenanny. 9 pm. McEwen Coffeehouse. December 14 (Friday) Concert. Jack Hawkins, pianist. 8:30 pm. Chapel. RELIGIOUS SERVICES December 8 (Saturday) Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:30 pm. Chapel. December 9 (Sunday) Free Church Service. Dialogue Service; Ginger and Joel Tibbetts. 11 :15 am. Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 pm. Chapel. Christmas Candlelight Service. 7:30 pm. Chapel. December 13 (Thursday) Sat Sang (Divine Light Mission): Spiritual Discourse. 7:30 pm. Bristol Campus Center Fisher Room. December 15 (Saturday) Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:30 pm. Chapel. December 16 (Sunday) Free Church Communion Service. 10:15 am. Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 pm. Chapel. LECTURE AND DISCUSSION December 8 (Saturday) Intercom. 9 pm. Alumni House. December 10 (Sunday) Visiting Filmmaker, Lee Hurrwitz. Film presentation and discussion. 3 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Also Tuesday. Plate Tectonics and the Ori_qin of the Magmas., Dr. John Bird of Cornell University. 4:30 pm. Room 112, Science Building. Socio-Economic Accounting. David F. Linowes, CPA. 7:30 pm. · Bristol Campus Center Fisher Room. Poetry Reading: Joseph Brodsky, one of the foremost of all contemporary poets. 8 pm. Chapel. Global Tectonics: The Revolution in Geology. Dr. John Bird of Cornell University. 8 pm. Science Auditorium. December 11 (Tuesday) The Party. An offering of the choreographic workshop. 8 pm. Meet at the office of the Kirkland Dean of Students. December 12 (Wednesday) Intercom. Informal conversaiton, discussion, and music with students, faculty, and townsfolk. 9 pm. Alumni 'House. Also Friday and the following Wednesday, 12/19. EXHIBITIONS Currently on Campus
Recent Watercolors: Key West and the Oriskany_ Valley_.. Professor Paul Parker. At the Bristol .Campus Center, through December 30.
American Primitives. Samples of American Folk Art. List Art
Center, through December 21. December 11 (Tuesday) Exhibition and Sale. Watercoiors, oil crayons, and acrylics by Jack Bigger. Opens 10 am. Bristol Center Snack Bar.
BY BOBBY MINTER In 1967 Steve Joffee conceived of several ways to bring folk music to Hamilton College. A coffeehouse with several performers during the year in a low-key, non-commercial atmosphere was one means. An annual folk festival was another. The festival was to bring people from other colleges with similar interests together for a weekend of song and fun. By having the festival annually at Hamilton, Joffee also hoped that a community spirit centering around_folk music would happen throughout. the whole year, or at least during one weekend. One must remember that 1967 was just at the tail-end of the "folk-craze" that swept the east with Peter, Paul, and Mary; Bob Dylan; and Joan Baez. Jorma Kaukonen was still playing in Rev. Davis' basement. Tom Paxton, Tom Rush, and Arlo Guthrie had not yet been co-opted by the corporate rip-off now termed folk music. What, for lack of a better name, one must call "traditional" folk music was to be found on street corners, in small, dingy, nefarious clubs and bars, or on small insignificant recordings from Prestige, Verve Folkways, Arhoolie, and other relatively unheard of labels. Except for perhaps Columbia, who owned Bob Dylan, the term folk music had not yet entered into the lingo of the larger companie�. The Ne�port Folk Festival during this year had moved from a relatively small gathering in '65 and '66 to a gate-storming 30,000. With all this in mind, let's move back to Steve J offee trying to bring parts of this movement to the Hamilton campus. Unlike many of the stormers at Newport, he understood the roots of the music, understood the oral tradition of the music, and recognized the need to continue this tradition. In· order to bring people together he organized a judged con t e s t where a fterwards the exceptional performers would be able to perform before a large audience and receive a small amount of money. The first few festivals were small as was the emphasis on the prize money and competition. As the festival became an established event, the number of contestants grew in proportion to the size of the prize money and the stress on .· competition. It soon lost any semblance of its original design. Competing for the $100 and the prestige of the Saturday night performance, closed many eyes to any other people's mu..:ic. The festival became not a chance to come together with other musicians and share ideas and songs, but rather a chance to make $100. Perhaps last year's crowd hanging. out at
B ristol w aitmg for the all important (?) announcement of the winners did not indicate that people were only at the festival for the possihle distinction of being a winner and $100, but one finds i.t hard to overlook. The attempt to establish an atmosphere and understanding of "traditional" music seems to have been lost in the fervor of competition. Festival Program Revised A month ago this year's folk festival committee held its first organizational meeting. The turn-out consisted of an expected few who have been connected with the coffee-house and folk festival of past years. It was our decision, in light of responses from last year's performers, judges, and organizers, that the festival needed drastic revision. We conceived of a new format which would eliminate the competition for a monetary prize, the impossible task of judging the performers, and the contest atmosphere. Our proposal included an open stage on Friday night for people who wanted to share their music with others in a formalized stage presentation, a crafts fair Friday and Saturday, workshops on Saturday afternoon, and a concert Saturday night by people who are not perpetrators of commercial folk music. That this proposal did not recognize one of the important facets of the, festival (non-professional performers) did not occur to us. As a result of a second, much larger meeting with campus contestants and others connected with the past festivals we recognized this and have worked· on several other formats. No decision has yet been made, for we are hoping to come up with more possible ideas. Perhaps it is indeed bold to us on the committee ·10 institute a change in the format, or maybe we are elitfst folk snobs, but perhaps we recognize that as it stands the folk festival does not fulfill its original design. It no longer helps to promote a true consciousness towards an understanding of folk music: if anything, it continues to promote the bastardized form that record profiteers have forced on our culture. Let's no longer kid ourselves about the Festiv;Jl by saying that a contest is the way it has been in the past, that it should continue to be so, that the festival does reflect J offee's original ideals, or that a change would destroy the original ideal. If a Ted Mack trial by jury is what we want for our festival then no change is in order. However, keep in mind that it is no longer a folk festival but a folk farce.
Kino ku�st Offers Bawdy 'Tom Jones' Richardson Directs Rollicking Farce BY ANNE THOMPSON This weekend Ki nokunst presents Tom Jones, Tony Richardson's fast-paced bawdy farce, made in 1963 and starring Albert Finney, Susannah York and Dame Edith Evans. Each reel is more rollicking and wild than the last. Also to be shown: Charlie Chaplin's short, The Barbershop. Shows are at 8 Thurs, Fri, and Sat, and IO on Sun. Admission is $. 75. The films are showing in the Kirner-] ohnson Auditorium. Henry Fielding's 18th Century novel Tom Jones is one of the funniest, bawdiest novels ever written. Director Richardson's film version has brought out all its rowdy humor and wild escapades to the screen. Finney is superb as Jones, a country lad uncertain of his birth, a basically nice guy with a strong libido who gets himself into too much trouble. Sophie Weston (Susannah York) is his beloved, a strong-minded young woman who loves him. enough to follow him to London, but won't compromise for him. "No, sex isn't funny in Tom Jones-it is hilarious, in haystacks, wooded dells, wayside inns, and elegant boudoirs as Tom and Squire Weston have their way with willing wenches and/or
Albert Finney woos willing wench in Tom Jones equally lustful ladies of fashion. And its hilarity lies in its openhearted lustiness, the frank bawdiness that allo\.\'.S for no sleazy hinting or coyness · and s l i d e s n e v e r i n to prurience."-Judith Crist. Tom and Mrs. Waters' dinner seduction scene is the best I've ever seen in film; Woody Allen went on to spoof it in Bananas. The film is fast-paced and
cinemati cally wonderful, the wizard camera contriving to see amazing things. It shows a time in old England which seems "all j o y o u s ·a p p e t i t e a n d consummation"-Brendan Gill, But Richardson's barbs are sharp; the film is also a social satire of a strong sort, as well as being one of the funniest farces ever made. The film deserved each of its four Academy Awards.
Soviet Poet Jose p_h Brodsky To Read Works In Chapel
AMENIC This w e e k e n d , AMENIC presents Little Murders, an award-winning feature film directed by Alan Arkin, and starring Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland. Showings will be on Thursday at 8 pm, Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10 pm, and Sunday at 10 pm, in the Science Auditorium. Alan Arkin's first directional effort and Jules Feiffer's first screen play from his own play of the same name, blend in a funny and fr ightening way. The film is a parody of the Newquist family and their willingness and abilities to accept an urban world of muggers, creep callers, choking air and hidden assassins. Little Murders uses comedy and satire as a catharsis for the evil in the world. Judith Crist has said of "Little Murders," "It's a mad movie, insane, angry, devastatingly funny and comically devastating! A vicious, brilliant comedy! A howl of laughter! I urge you to see it!"
J o s e p h B r o d s k y , t h e 1972-73 as a poet-in-residence at Harper and Row with translations 33-year-old Russian poet who in the University of Michigan, and by George Kline, professor of June,1972 was officially "invited" during the fall semester of 1973-74 philosophy at Bryn Mawr. to leave the Soviet Union as an held a similar post at Queens The n e w B r o d s ky book undesirable citizen, will read some College in New York. He will contains 50 poems, including his of his poems at· the Hamilton r eturn to the University of famous Elegy for John Donne, C o l l e g e C h a p e l M o nday Michigan this upcoming winter (whose p oems Brodsky has (December 10) at 8:00 PM. quarter. t r a n slated into Russian). his Born in Leningrad May 24, At Hamiltop.,Brodsky will read Verses on the Death of T. S. Eliot, 1940, Brodsky at an early age his poems in Russian, and David and two cantos of his long poem, exhibited an independent cast of Rigsbee, Hamilton College English Gorbunov and Gorchakov. mind which brought him into instructor in creative writing, and A selection of Brodsky's more c o n f l ict w i t h t h e Soviet a personal friend of Brodsky,will recent poems can also be found in authorities. In February 1964,he read the English translation. Mr. The Living Mirror: Five Young was brought to trial on charges of Rigsbee has translated some of Poets from Leningrad, edited by "social parasitism" and sentenced Brodsky's poems. Suzanne Massie (Doubleday, to five years' hard labor in Brodsky's book, his Selected 1972). Northern Russia. He was released Poems, has just been published by after only 20 months and· although he continued writing COMMUNITY CHORUS CONCERT poetry after he left prison, his The Clinton Community Chorus will present a Holiday Concert at works were never published in the Soviet Union. He was asked to the Kirkland Art Center on Tuesday, December 11 at 7 :30 p.m. This is the second time the chorus comes to the Center during the leave the country in 1972. The fact that he was Jewish is thought Christmas season. Under the Direction of Ron Thayler,the chorus is to have contributed to Soviet in its third season and is made up of local people who love to sing and meet regularly on Tuesdays to practice and prove it.The Center's officials disaffection with him. He spent the academic year concert is open to the public. There is no admission fee.
A Presidential Pilgrimage To The WindyCity •·&<� Or, Why Samuel Babbitt Was In A Chicago Bar EUROPEAN AUTO PARTS
. BY ELAINE WEISS The President of . Kirkland College and his small entourage stepped down into the dimly lit bar. Life-sized posters of G-stringed w o men with come-on smiles adorn the entrance. Around us Rush Street, the 42nd Street of Chicago, flashes its neon charms. Surely, this was not seemly. But no, that was the Barbary Coast Lounge, not the place we were headed for. Next door, that's i t, more sedate-Punchinello's, with a jester instead of a stripper over the door. Lest anyone get the w;ong idea, there was a perfectly good reason why the President and Admissions Director of Kirkland, one Hamilton graduate and a Kirkland alumna were entering a bar at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday night in a sleazy section of Chicago. Natura l l y , Samuel Fisher B ab b i t t was going to be interviewed for Chicago radio in a celebrity bar. Naturally. Liza Minelli eats there all the time; her autograph is on the wall. The cab brought us uptown from a cider-and-donut admissions soiree. At a small, round table we hunched over gin, scotch and bee r. P e ter Zicari, former managing editor of The Spectator, and a curious reporter were asked for ID's; they produced them indignant l y . Bridgie Cosper, Admissions Director, giggled into her glass. A young man with pale skin and a heavy beard sat at the next table with his colorful friends. His striped knit jersey matched his striped cap which matched his striped scarf. His steak sandwich was a darkm: shade of brown. The long skirts of the roughed waitresses swished along the tile floor. The cast members of the musical "Grease" were dining after their show. They are shiny and noisy and trying their best to be conspicuous and theatrical. They �e all modishly dressed, s o me still wearing coats of makeup, some simply looking
impress our waitress into bringing greasy. Mr. Babbitt straightened the our salads.Bridgie is hungry. Sam tries to edge in a comment solid blue tie of his somber blue about higher education. Everyone suit. The talk show is about to begin is clapping and whistling-Perkins broadcasting from a comer of the has ·finished warbling. The second room. Host Ted Weber intr.oduccs tape ends. Weber flashes his Babbitt to the other celebrities of toothy, studied grin and purrs that evening: Carolyn Caldwell, a into the microphone: "We are reporter for Chicago Today; Dr. coming to you from Fabulous Littner, a child psychologist. P u n c h i n e l l o ' s o n R u s h Hello, hello. There is some Street -home of the fascinating misunderstanding;. Dr. Littner people." thinks Dr. liaoont is a mortician. A gent with platinum blond What? Mortician? Maybe it was hair pulled over his receding t'he dark blue suit. hairline toasts the curly-topped Weber, like a perfectly clipped cutie on his arm. As a dude in a Ken doll with no-color hair, blue W r angle r j a c k e t be gins to blazer and gold anchor buttons, 0oo00-eee-ooo next to the has a bright idea. Why not have piano, Sam is . finally asked a the three celebrities all talk about direct question: emotional problems of children. ''Tell me, President Babbitt, T o g e t h e r . B a b b itt l oo k s this Kirkland College, a women's distressed. Oh, but don't you see, college, isn't there some sort of Ms. Caldwell reports on mental gimmick?" Weber is proud of health facilities, Dr. Littner treats himself f or asking such a troubled children, and Dr. Babbitt is the President of a women's college. Won't that be nifty? Sam orders another scotch and soda. They can't begin taping until the piano stops. A fat, bald man who bears a striking resemblance to the publisher of Mad Magazine, BY KEVIN McGOWAN is playing mood music, a fixed The Academic Council and grin on his face. He is doing a one faculty members of Har,nilton man impersonation of Muzak. College are seriously thinking of P s y c h o l o g i s t L i t t n e r dropping the fall midsemester m o n opolizes the first taping recess from next year's school segment with a monologue on calendar. The premium on class Freudian basics: "By the age of days, created by the recess and six, t h e d amage is done." the December reading period, as Punchinello supers tar Britt well as by students who leave Perkins,sporting a moustache that early, poses problems for the must have been pasted on, begins faculty. There are a minimum a medley of Tony Bennet ballads. number of class days,and teachers Ms. Caldwell explains her series of aren't allowed to hold classes articles entitled, "Kids on a during the reading period. Couch." Sam puts in a plug for This semester was a trial period parental discipline. Perkins sings for the recess, and Dean Stephen "Let Me Love You." G. Kurtz is dismayed that it may The man in stripes who have t o be cancelled. The m a tche s all over is hardly organization of the recess and the listening, striking the bicep of the reading period, said Kurtz, was perfectly coiffed girl beside him. the result of hard work by a group The psychologist is running on of students and faculty last year. about childhood traumas. He The recess was meant to break up winks at Ms. Caldwell and buys the longest stretch in the school her another beer. Peter is trying to year, and to give students and
scintillating question. Bridgie glares. Dr. Littner is very busy with Ms. Caldwell. The beautiful people are clapping for the dungareed singer. The piano player is still grinning. The waitress is playing up to Weber. I'm chewing on my lettuce. Punchinillo's is in its star-studded flory. Sam frowns and shakes his head. 'No, you see Kirkland is a coordinate college of Hamilton, dedicated to ..." Dick Somebody, star of the ice follies, is perched on a stool, kicking his legs impatiently. Come on, it's his tum to be interviewed. Weber cuts Sam short, and we leave soon afterward. We did get free drinks.
Elaine Weiss •73 is now a graduat e s tudent at Northwestem's Medill School of journalism.
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Health Center •• BY JOHN VIGREN Venereal disease has decreased at Hamilton and Kirkland in the past two years, reported Dr. Leon Roe, Director of the Health Center. Last year, he said, 96 students from both campuses were treated for ,gonorrhea·; only 11 had been positively diagnosed for the disease. Treating suspected cases
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and contacts is a regular practice, to curtail the spread of the disease, Roe said. 132 students were treated for gonorrhea in the 1971-72 school year, and 12 were positively diagnosed. Records · for the preceding years are kept only in ind ividual f i l e s , which are confidential. The peak years for the disease were 1970 and 1971,
permissiveness became prevalent" among students, and "gonorrhea began to be seen" in significant proportions. He said this was at · No cases of syphilis have been . least as much the reason for the diagnosed to date from either · presence of the disease on the Hill campus, Dr. Roe said. as was the coming of Kirkland Gonorrhea did not appear College. among the students here until Diagnosis and treatment of 1968, Dr. Roe said. This was "the students for venereal disease is period in which, nationally, sexual done in "absolute confidence,"
said Jeanne Culkin, Supervising Nurse at the Health Center. P o s i t i ve diagnoses must be reported to the State Public Health Department, she said. The Center does not use penicillin for treatment, Dr. Roe said, because huge doses (up to 5 million units for women, 3 million for men) are needed, and this poses a possible health threat. O ther antibiotics, such as tetracycline, are used instead. Dr 1 Roe expects that a biood test for gonorrhea will be in common use in the next two years. He said that positive cultures are "virtually impossible" in women. T h e C e n t er d oes g i ve Wasserman tests f�r syphilis, but these tests "may not be positive until after a month after the primary lesion (chancre)," Dr. Roe said. Nat ional s t udent venereal disease rates have been decreasing in the last couple of years, a c c o r d i n g t o D r. R oe. Metropolitan schools have had the highest rates, especially syphilis. Dr. Roe, President of the New Yor k State C o l lege Health A s s o c i a t i on, p re sent e d a nationwide survey and study last June to the Third International Symposium on Venereal Disease. The decrease in VD recently has come a b o ut because "more doctors are getting more realistic about it, and realising that to have gonorrhea is not a sin, but not to have it treated is."
D r . R oe said. The positive incidence rate since 1968 has ranged from 1 to 1.5 per cent.
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continued from page one After a brief· stint with the C.I.A., Mr. Sisco joined the State D e p a r t m en t . W i t h t he government, he specialized in U.N. · and Middle Eastern affairs during this period. Finally, in 1960, he was named Director of the Office of U. N. Political and. Security Affairs. Mr. Sisco still continued to rise in the hierarchy of the State Department and in 1965 was named Assistant Secretary of S t a t e f o r I n t e r n a t i o nal Organization Affairs. He worked closely with Arthur Goldberg, U. S. Ambassador to the U. N., and when Goldberg left in the spring of 1968, Sisco assumed the role of chief U. S. mediator in the Middle East. With the election of Richard Nixon as President, M. Sisco assumed he would have to leave t he State Dep artment, but Ni xon's men were obviously impressed with him because they asked him to stay on. In 1969, Nixon appointed Sisco to his current position.
Mr. Sisco "appears ready to combat the Clinton weather. Newsweek (Dec. 1, 1969) reports, "One former aide recalls with delight Sisco's arrival at the State Department during a Vietnam crisis a few years ago. Freezing snows had closed most of the roads i n to Washington. But . Assistant Secretary Sisco, clad in b o o t s , overcoat, a nd h i s · - daughter's wool stocking cap, drove up on a snow plow he had commandered in his suburban Maryland neig hborhood. He expects a similar devotion to duty from his subordinates."
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Sisco: Hamilton's 16th President
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on his brief administration. "It has been a very continued from page one interesting challenge," he said, "I appreciate the from the The move to Hamilton marks the beginning of a cooperation I have received from everyone Alexander Hamilton life-long dream for Mr. Sisco. He entered the State especially Dean Kurtz and Coleman Burke. Players ''This has been a difficult period for the college, Department in 1951 with the intention of leaving after two or three years to return to the academic but because of its strengths, the college has not world. Those two or three years turned into 24 as he suffered serious damage:• Mr. Carovano said, "Any Aaron Burr finally steps down from government service. Mr. period without a president is difficult. It is an Lucky Shot T-Shirts Sisco turned down a university presidency in 1969 interim type of thing. This is a strong institution, Still Available! and in 1972 , he was one of the prime candidates for however, and the important thing, namely the Contact: teaching of students, is still being done-., Swarthmore College's presidency. Geoff Lawrence, AHP Mr. Carovano will remain at his post until Mr. In the five months since President Chandler's All Sizes departure, the college has been headed by J. Martin Sisco arrives sometime next Spring at which time he (S-XL available, 12.50 each) will move back to the Provost's office and continue Carovano, Provost. Of the appointment of Mr. Sisco, he said, "I am delighted that the search is completed in that capacity. The presidential search, which culminated in Mr. and the Hamilton has been able to attract a man like Sisco•s appointment, began on March IO with Sisco." _ �•1 am excited," he added, "about the prospecb President C h a n dler's announcement of his �.. . •'..•••••••••••••••••••••••••• •: • ••. ·-················ •f.'J :::�- Wanted P1amst(s) ::::: resignation to assume the presidency of Williams of working with him and I am looking forward to �:� To accompany silent passing on the responsibilities of this office to him." College. A Presidential Search Committee was formed consisting of six trustees, three students, :=:�owings, · Monday throug�::: Munching on a Three Musketeers candy bar and �:1-'riclay. C. 7-10 p.m., or and three faculty members. sipping coffee, the casual acting-president reflected :::;any fraction of that time,:::: LIBRARY ::::throughout Winter Study�::: continued from page one ::::$2.00 per hour. Must be ahlt-:•: not being taken for monetary gain :::�o play melodramatic music.�:�:_ The following is the text of a letter to President Nixon from but are missing because of Joseph/. Sisco. :•:illld.to improvise freely. �:•: forgt;tfulness. Dec.3 :::: Contact Anne Patenaude:;::: Several members of the Library :;:309 Root Hall, ext. 4210, or:::� Dear Mr. President: C ommittee h a ve s u ggested I am submitting to you my resignation as assistant Secretary of :::853-5026. instituting an electronic gate at •=·=·=·=·=•:::3.. :-•·'! .::-:•• State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs to take the position the door of the Lib�. of President of Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. I have discussed the timing of my leaving with Secretary Kissinger, and we have agreed to work towards a suitable date in the spring of 1974. I am leaving because I have an unparalleled opportunity to return to the field of education which, along with the field of diplomacy, has been of major substantive interest to me. I welcome the new and fresh challenge ahead. I am gratified that the members of the Selection Committee and the Board of Trustees of Hamilton College Route5a Commercial Drive. have selected me as their next President. Hamilton is one of the.best 736-7106 New Hartford liberal arts colleges in the country. Since the early days of our Republic, Hamilton College has maintained a tradition of intellectual Mon-Fri 10-9, Sat 10-5 distinction, deeply committed to quality education and academic T HE PROFESSIONAL BACK PACKER excellence in an environment in which individual atten ti.on to the AND SKI TOURER SHOP individual student is �ppermost. 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Dec.5 Dear Joe: I have your letter of Dec. 3 and will, of course, accept your resignation as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian · Affair:s, effective upon the appointment and qualification of your successor. I do so with deep personal regret because I know firsthand of the great energy, skill, uncompromising integrity and dedication to duty which you have brought to your work and your profession. Your unflagging determination in the pursuit of peace in the Middle East and the si gnificant contributions you have made in helping achieve the cease-fires of August, 1970 and October, 1973 have earned my special thanks, the high esteem of your colleagues and the gratitude of all Americans. You have served your country with unqualified distinction for over 20 years in the finest tradition of our public service, and it is gratifying to note that from time to time, we may continue to call on your considerable experience and wise counsel. I am confident _ tha! YQI.! wi)l !:>rin_g_ to __the presid�n.f_y_of 1:1.amiltQn _CoJ��g� t!i�-��e____ talents, good sense -and dedication- that -has marked your ear-eer in the Department of State. Mrs. Nixon and I welcome this opportunity to extend to you and Mrs. Sisco our warmest good wishes for every success and happ�ess in the years ahead: Richard Nixon
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Kirkland Evaluations Present Problems to Grad Applicants
Kirkland President Samuel F. Schneider said. BY BOB ROCK Kirkland students who receive Babbitt said, "We're generally The New York State Board of written evaluations instead of pleased with graduate school Education aids such efforts, and gra d e s o f t en "en c o unter admissions and with the number en dorses innovation in state difficul ties i n g etting into of evaluations we don't have to colleges. Dean Schneider said that graduate and professional schools, translate." the New York Board of Regents In cases in which the instructor has been "pushing and shoving" especial l y l aw and medical schools," said Carl Schneider, - has left the college and cannot be schools under their aegis "to think Dean of Academic Affairs in a contacted, the Kirkland Office of creatively." New York Times article last Academic Affairs must . do the A system similar to that of month. "I am not ready to make translating. Reed College was rejected · by Mr. Babbitt said, "Although we Kirkland's administration. Both any kind of proposal, and I don't think there is anybody who is," do translate the evaluations for administrators agreed that secret Dea n Schne i de r cont inued, s uch g r a duate s chool, the g r a d ing w o ul d undermine commenting on possible solutions instructor's translation is not K i r k l a n d's phil osophy o f to the problem. "There is concern always satisfactory," especially if education. "It's hypocritical to but no one is out to change the the student took the course as our system," said Mr. Babbitt, "if much as three or four years ago. w e keep s e crets from our system." · "Disappointed" Dean Schneider has not heard students." of any alternate programs with Messrs. Babbitt and Schneider Dean Schneider suggested which the college can better are disappointed by the number spending more time and money in eva l uate · the potential and of requests the college receives encou raging grad schools to progress. of its students. He said each year to translate evaluations, accept the evaluations. that no official actions are being although Schneider said there is Dean Schneider and _President taken to investigate the problems good cause for hope. ''There are a Babbitt expressed great faith in Kirkland s t udents may be number of others on our system, the current system. "Evaluations expe riencing because of the such as Hampshire, Reed, and the are very informative to the New College," he said, "and if we student and graduate schools," evaluation system. Many medical and law schools can increase that number we can Dean Schneider said, "and tend request that the evaluations of c o m bine forces to influence to make instructors think." students applying from Kirkland graduate schools in our favor." To date, this is the only moiiori be translated into the traditional grades that 'most other colleges taken to alleviate the problem. use, although in the last few years "We have been talking to other the number of such requests has colleges and graduate schools in decreased. effo�ts to persuade them," �ean
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Hobart Defeats BlueHoopsters As Second Half Rally Falls Sh ort
A nineteen point halftime of never having lost an opening deficit proved too much to game in 15 years of coaching. overcome as the Hamilton College A tough Hobart· half-court Basketball team dropped their zon e p r e s s , w hich f o r ced 1973-74 opener last Saturday at innumerable Hamilton turnovers, Hobart, 67-65. and the super outside shooting of place special orders for Christmas With 10:48 rem1ining in the sophomore Jim McLaurin(18 pts.) contest the Contimntals knotted carried the Statesmen to a 20-8 the score at 49-49, hut two quick bulge midway through the first buckets by Statesmen co-captain half, offsetting a 6 for 9 1st half Bruce Beswick broke the deadlock performance by sophomore �farty ' and Hobart held on, maintaining Guy. The 42-23 halftime cieficit 3-4 COLLEGE STREET• CLINTON• NEW YORK 13323 rookie coackJack Flowers' record could just as easily have been considerably larger without Guy's ,,�,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, t i mely buckets. Overall, the I : I Statesmen connected on 52% of I their shots in the first half with I I Hamilton managing a meager 29%. The second half was such an 'I abrupt turnabout that one might I have justifiably assumed that the I teams had switched uniforms. I I Hobart hit a very weak 27% from I th,e floor while the Hamilton cagers shot a blistering 57%, with I Mark Badger collecting 15 of his ' I game high 21 pts. to lead the
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Continental comeback. A t r a ve l i n g call against Hamilton with the score knotted at 49-all gave Hobart the ball and the two jumpers by Beswick gave the Statesmen a lead which they never relinquished. The final few minutes were not without their exciting moments however. With 1 :00 remaining, Hamilton closed to within two (63-61) out. Badger failed to connect on a 20-footer from the top of the key, and four clutch free throws by senior Kevin Legg and sophomore Dave Silveri in the last 45 seconds iced the home opener for the Statesmen. The difference can be found at the free throw line as both teams hit on 29 of 63 field goal attempts, while Hobart hit on 9 of 12 f o ul s hots, H a milton managing only 7 of 12. Rebounding, or rather lack of it, was also a contributing factor to the Continental demise, though not· as pronounced as one would have expected. Hamilton lost the battle of the carooms 37-29. Balance was the key to the Hobart attack with McLaurin leading the way with 18 followed by Legg and Beswick collecting 14 and 12 points respectively. For Hamilton, Badger led all scorers with 21 pts. followed by Guy with 16 pts. H a m i lton hosts SUNY at Binghampton tonite at Alumni G y m n asium, and barring the techn i ca l d i fficulties which prevented the Hobart game from being broadcasted, the game will be heard over WHCL- FM with Kenny Marten and Jim Carr calling the play by play. A twenty point performance by 6'5" freshman John Driscoll paced a 92-68 Hamilton J.V., victory. Though perhaps lacking in physical size, the "biggest" man on the HamiltonJ.V.squad is 5'6" sophomore Brian Gelber whose ball control and floor leadership are invaluable assets Io the frosh-laden squad.
12/THE SPECTATOR/December 7, 1973
SPECTATOR
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of the 3rd place team from the Hill. Coach McDonald is hoping for a victory. He feels his swimmers have worked hard in the preseason and so far appear b e t t e r "on p ap e r" t h a n 3onaventure, who has had a slow e arly season. McDonald also predicts pool records to fall, and. has rested his swimmers for this one in the face of up and coming exams and Christmas Vacation. With the well rested and psyched team, this writer can forsee new pool records in the m edle y r elay, 200-yard fly, 1000-yard free, and 500-yard free. But this all depends on how s t r ong t he c o m petition by Bonaventure proves to be, and the psych of Coach McDonald and his two pool records; 1 :57.4 in the swimmers. This meet for sure is 200-yard free, and 2: 15.8 in the one Hamilton fans ought not to 200-yard butterfly. Greenhalgh miss. a l s o s wam on the winning 400-yard free relay with Shrum, Shapland '74, and Murphy '77. John Needham also posted two pool records; 5: 17.6. in the 500-yard free and 10:57.2 in the BY L. MANLIUS SARGENT 1000-yard free. Double winners Richard Tremblay's overtime were Jeff Carlberg, setting a pool r e c o r d i n t h e 200- yard goal provided the Oswego State breaststroke (2:20.8) and winning Lakers with a 5-4 victory over the 200-yard individual medley. Hamilton last Wednesday. What t he C o n tinental's fans were provided with was a· Hamilton t e arn t hat o u t s k at e d and outchecked one of Division II's better squads. As usual, Sage Rink swayed under the weight of a vociferous group of fans who turned out in large numbers to witness · the Blue�s 1973-74 opener. As the two teams emerged for their pre-game warmups, they were greeted by a hindering fog caused by Clinton's unseasonably warm weather. The mist was still there when Oswego's Dan Ane blasted a slapshot past Ray Rossi at the 5:56 mark of the first period. It was only minutes later when frosh Tom Griffith countered with the e qualizer. Thanks to _a fine individual effort by winger Rick Anderson '76, who carried the puck in from the red line, Griffith found himself alone-in front, puck on blade. Grif' shot, and it was John Needham '75 splashes his way to victory. one apiece. A n othe r s u r p�i�e of the Jack Murphy won the 50-yard The Continentals responded to , afternoon was Paul Edict 77, who free in 23.8 besides his winning Ray Rossi's splendid first frame placed 1st in both the required efforts in the' last relay. goaltending with their second goal and optional diving events. and F at 18:28. While on a power play, set the Widman Jack reshman . _ now leads the Hamilton divmg final pool record in the 100-yard Kurt Ziemendorf let go with a squad. . blue line shot that appeared never free (51.5). . Hamilton began the meet with C ach McDonald confident of t o h a ve left the ice· until a 7 point lead and a win with the a wi�, worked out his swimmers co-captain Ben Madonia deflected 400-yard medley relay team of before the meet in anticipation of it past a startled Oswego netminder McDonald '75, Carlberg '75, Karl tom orrow's meet against St. to give Hamilton a 2-1 edge as the '75, and Shrum '76 (3:54.3). St. Bonaventure. This left our period closed. Lawrence did not come much swimmers tired, but still hungry The two squads matched goals closer th�n that all day. early in the second period. Gibby for victory. McDonald won the 200-yard St. Bonaventure placed 2nd in Hedstrom '75, followed the backstroke (2:16.4), and John the last year's state meet in front Lakers• second tally with a high wrist shot that beat Oswego's Pete BLOCK H Weimer on the far side. The Blue Anyone interested in working at the basketball festival on upped it to 4-2 with a 15:51 gone December 20 and 21 please contact Ben Madouia (7293) or Tom in the second stanza. Once again, J anosky (7402). Tickets takers and sellers are needed as well as sophomore Rick Anderson made ushers for each game. Watch for upcoming questionnaire concerning the play. Having cruised past letter awards. Oswego's defense, Anderson let a TABLE TENNIS ANDBILLIARDCOMPETITION p a s s go t hat f ound Bill There will be a statewide competition of table tennis and billiards Hut chinson alone o n t he held in Buffalo during the month of February. Tournaments to doorstep. Hutch's wrist shot beat decide who will represent Hamilton in these events will be held over Weimer and gave Hamilton a Winter Study. Sign-up sheets are down in the games area. two-goal edge. Participants must sign up before Christmas vacation. All are The final frame saw the welcome. Continentals miss an early chance
BY JOHN A. NAVARRE H a m i l t o n b e l it t l e d a n overworked St. Lawrence team 72-35 last Saturday in the season's o p e n e r . A l though the Continentals encountered little competition, they had their eyes on other goals and broke three pool records. The highlight of _the meet was Je{f Carlberg . '75 who qualified for this year's College N ati onals i n t he 200-yard breaststroke d oi n g 2 : 1 9.8. Carlberg placed 4th in last years Nationals. T h e L o r ries were n ot completely upset though, with s o p h o m o r e J o h n K e l le r continuing his undefeated college career in dual meet comeptition in t he 1000-yard and 500-yard freestyles. Doug McDevitt '74 set a new pool record in the 200-yard free (1:51.5), with John Needham placing 2nd. Needham and McDevitt also swam on the pool r e c o r d b reading 400-yard free relay (3:23.6) along with John Baird '74 and Jack Widman '77. W i dman t ouched o u t St . Lawrence's lone senior John Affel in a tight 50-yard free race to win in 23.2.
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N e e d ham t he 2 00-yard fly (2:10.8) to bring the total of Hamilton double winners to six. There were also some fine second place performances by Dave Greenhalgh '77 in the 500-yard and 1000-yard freestyles and John Needham '75 in the 200-yard free. The H i l l s w immers then t r a ve l e d t o Cortland l a s t Wednesday to easily defeat a weak squad. Two Hamilton swimmers, Doug McDevitt and Gary Karl stayed behind in favor of their studies; but Coach McDonald's swimmers still had no opposition as they swam to six pool records and a final score of 68-45. Star performers for Hamilton were David Greenhalgh, who set
Sophomore Craig MacDonald off to a flying start
Pucksters Drop Opener 5-4 to put the game out of Oswego's reach. Within a two minute span early in the period, the Lakers c o n t r a c t e d t h r e e m inor infractions. Despite this prolonged t w o - m a n a d v a n t a ge, t he Continentals failed to tally. Oswego picked it up from there and t heir revitalized offense n e t t e d t w o q ui c k g oals surrounding the ten-minute mark. Regulation time dwindled down without additional scores and the third · period ended with the Continentals and Oswego notched at 4-4. O v e r time play began and Hamilton quickly took control.
Oswego's defensive corps stopped an Anderson solo effort and later stifled a Contintal power play. T hree minutes later, Oswego decided to take advantage of a man-up situation. With 5:25, Tremblay took a center pass and lit the final lamp, beating Rossi on the short side. The Continentals have only Amherst to look forwatd to before the Christmas Tournament. The Jeffs are attempting to recover from the futile hockey season they suffered in '72-'73. Their revival will not be helped much by Hamilton's arrival on Saturday.
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Against SUNY, Binghamton. December 7 at 8 pm. JV at 6 pm. Hamilton College Basketball Festival Against Bates and Hobart. December 20 and 21 (Thursday and Friday). Watch for further announcements! Swimming Against St. Bonaventure. December 8 at 2 pm.
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VOLUME IV, NUMBER 14
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
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JANUARY 8, 1974
SISCO BACKS DO
President-Elect Withdraws To Continue Diplomatic Work
Former President-Elect Joseph J. Sisco
. Sisco Addresses Students January 7, 1974 To the Student Body of Hamilton College: I am addressing this letter directly to each of you fresh in the memory of December 8, the day on which I spoke briefly to the student body and shared with you my hope and aspirations for Hamilton. After that warm, friendly and memorable reception to me and my family, I le£t immediately for the Middle East, our efforts culminating in the opening of the Geneva Conference. For the first time, the Middle Eastern adversaries sat face to face at the peace table. I was once again reminded how decisive the United States' role is if there is to be a just and durable peace in the Middle East. There is today an unparalleled opportunity for progress towards peace in the area-a peace which is important to all of us as Americans who suffered the anguish of Vietnam. Upon my return from this trip Secretary Kissinger urged me to re-assess my decision to leave the Department of State so that, as the principal element of continuity, I could continue my role as the principal adviser on United States policy in the Middle East. I anguished for a number of days for it meant sacrificing a lifelong ambition to return to the academic field, and in particular in assuming the presidency of such a fine and wonderful school as Hamilton. It meant also a complete reversal of family plans for we were in the process of making the final arrangements for moving to College Hill. Nevertheless, I decided that my duty, in the light of Middle East developments, is to remain in the public service for the indefinite future regardless of my pers�nal feelings in the matter. I have informed the Secretary of State and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Because my commitment to continue in the State Department to work on Middle Eastern and other matters involves a commitment of indefinite length, I am withdrawing my informal accep tance of the presidency of Hamilton tendered at the December 8 meeting of the Board. To do otherwise, in view of the indefiniteness of the future, would leave Hamilton in an anomalous position and would not, in my judgment, be in the overall interest of the College. Finally, let me say that you paid me a high and deeply felt honor by offering the presidency to me. I will always cherish this, even though there is no way for me to reciprocate in full measure. Joseph J. Sisco
The Western White House a n n o u need today t he appointment of Joseph J. Sisco as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs.Mr. Sisco has withdrawn his. acce ptan ce of Hamilton College's presidency to accept this position and remain close to the Middle East negotiations in Geneva. M r . Sisco decided to remain in public service in view of the developments in the Middle East, and in particular the opening of the Geneva Conference. In a l et t e r t o the Hamilton student body released today, Mr. Sisco said, "I anguished for a number of days for it meant sacrificing a lifelong ambition to return to the academi� f ield, and m particular in assuming the presidency of such a fine and w o n d e r f u l s c hool as Ha milton. Nevertheless, I decided that my duty, in l i g ht of M iddle East developments, is to remain in the public service for the indefinite future regardless of my personal feelings in the matter." In a telephune intervi_ew yesterday, Mr. Sisco said, "I've tried to do what my conscience dictated. I spent many sleepless nights." There is no indication what action the college will take in seeking a replacement for the r e signed president-elect, but Coleman Burke, chairman of the Hamilton Board of Trustees, s ai d that the Executive Committee of the Board will meet later this month and that the entire Board will meet in February. C o m m enting on M r . Sisco's change o f heart, J. Martin Carovano, the man whose acting presidency will extend longer than expected, said, "I am disappointed and saddened. I am very sorry he is not coming. It would have been ver y e xciting for
Hamilton as an institution and I was very excited about the prospects of working with him from a personal point of view. I can understand, however, why he believed he had to reassess his decision to leave public service. I certainly wish him well.'' Mr. Sisco's appointment as Hamilton's 16th president was made December 5. He visited the campus three days later to attend the winter meeting of the Board of T r u s tees. At a p r ess conference on December 8, Mr. Sisco said he was leaving Washington because of a long-st a nding interest in higher education and a deep personal commitment tu the standards and values of Hamilton. At his December visit, he was greeted by over 500 students in the Chapel with a standing ovation. Mr. Sisco i n troduced his two da ughters, who were to attend Kirkland College. They will now attend college
near Washington, D.C. M r . S isco termed his acceptance of Hamilton's presidency "informal" in his letter of withdrawal to Chairman Burke, but in light of the December a nnouncement and visit, most observers questioned the informal nature of the acceptance. It was apparent that Mr. Sisco's acceptance was official and formal. A reconvening of the P r e s i d e ntial Sear ch Committee seems unlikely at this early date. One search committee member said that the committee's files were dest:r:oyed on Mr. Sisco's a pp oi ntment and t hat individual members of the committee had destroyed their own files. Mr. Burke indicated that the present a r rangement of sharing presidential du ties between Mr. Carovano and Dean Stephen G. Kurtz would continue. "We're awfully lucky to have Mr. Carovano and Mr. Kurtz," the Board chairman said.
Joseph J. Sisco at his first. .. and last... Chapel address
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The 'Big Fish' Hamilton went for the "big fish;" it had him tied to the boat, but the sharks got to him before the college could bring him to shore. Joseph Sisco made an untimely decision to continue his work in the State Department as chief Middle East advisor. We find it difficult to excuse Mr. Sisco's withdrawal from the institution to which he made a commitment. Again without a president, Hamilton has been placed in an embarassing pusition, and the efforts of the Presidential Search Committee have been frustrated. Joseph Sisco, who was to have done great things for Hamilton College, has damaged the institution without even having taken office. But now is not the time to bemoan the loss of Hamil ton's "big fish." The business at hand is selecting a succes sor to John Chandler as quickly and as fairly as possible. A completely new search is unrealistic. There are, how ever, reasonable alternatives. A newly constituted Presiden tial Selection Committee should be formed. Rather than repeat the old committees labors, it should re-evaluate the top candidates, using the Search Committee's work, and move quickly to a new choice. The selection committee, composed of six trustees selected as the Boru::d sees fit, three faculty members elected by the faculty, and three students elected by the student body, should operate with the advice of three non-voting members of the old Search Committee. Not only should the Selection Committee re evaluate top candidates, but it should seriously consider men within the Hamilton community with the qualifi cations of men like J. Martin Carovano or Stephen Kurtz, or Trustees Sol Linowitz or Richard W. Couper. This Selection Committee has the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the earlier Search Committee. We can now see that perhaps the inputs of only twelve men wor king closely together is not sufficient for an effective search and selection process. Seeking inputs and feedback from the general college community, or at least a wider circle of community members, can only benefit a new selection committee in what promises to be a difficult task. Considering the unfortunate turn of events, we implore the Board of Trustees to seriously judge the cloak and dagger secrecy which characterized the last attempt in finding a president. That is not the way to pick Hamilton's chief executive. Any candidate who is good enough to be considered as Hamilton's president is certainly strong enough to face the students and faculty before any decision is made.
Dear Coleman: It is with heavy heart and deep regret that I inform you that I will not be available within the reasonable time frame planned to assume the presidency of Hamilton College. When I rendered my informal acceptance to the Board of Trustees at its meeting on December 8 my hope <l:nd expectation was that I could be available on the campus some time in the spring of 1974. With developments as they are in the Middle East, and, in particular, the opening of the Geneva Conference this is no longer a realistic timetable. Secretary Kissinger and I have discussed this matter at length, and I have agreed in response to his desire to make a further commitment of indefinite duration to continue in the department of State. I am informing you promptly so that Hamilton College can take this into account in its plans for the future. I shall always cherish this expression of confidence and honor paid to me by Hamilton College, its Board, Faculty, alumni and student body. I realize that my unavailability in the foreseeable future will require the making of other arrangements. I would be more concerned if Hamilton did not have in Martin Carovano and Stephen Kurtz two outstanding men of proven leadership and a strong and outstanding faculty and other dedicated supporters who can carry on the work of the College with distinction. Hamilton has displayed great courage and an innovative spirit in being willing to repose leadership of the College in an individ ual outside the normal educational framework. This spirit will undoubtedly assure Hamilton's continuing preeminent position in the liberal arts college system of our country. I wish to thank you for all the courtesies and considerations so warmly rendered both to me and my family. I would appreciate it if you would make this letter available to all concerned at Hamilton. Joseph J. Sisco C oleman Burke '34, Chairman of the B oard of T rustees, r eceive d t w o lette r s from As sistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco explaining his i n abi l i t y t o a cce p t the presidency of Hamilton C ollege. Mr. Burke is now faced with the task of seeking another successor to John Chandler. The length of time in which the c o l lege community can e xp ect a new president is, according to Mr. Burke, "in the l a p of the Gods."
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conceivably, be injurious to b r i m m i n g C h a p e 1 , the jobs of men like Mr. thunderous applause, and a Sisco. How wrong some standing ovation. One of Mr. people can be! As a result of Sisco's daughters hugged and M r . Sisco's t hre atening kissed her father as he left departure for his "first love", the Chapel, the students still Henry Kissinger nominated applauding their new leader. Will that young woman be at him for a promotion. T h e n , t h e f o r m a l Kirkland as scheduled m announcement, a whirlwind! February, or is this a "family visit, and memories, only resi_gnation?" It was direct answers to memories. I t w a s a s m ile, a direct questions. The serene handshake, and some banter. Clinton atmosphere, the "I plan to spend a great deal quiet of a Saturday morning of time on campus," on College Hill, was a strange remarked Mr. Sisco following b a c k g r o u n d f o r a n h i s December 8 press international diplomat and conference. He reminisced discussion of the M iddle East about his days as reporter cnses. A man wanting to finish a and college journalist. It was a speech to a book, maybe teach a course. A woman looking forward to retirement after a business A 1 "r .l.�.I. career in Washington, D.C. This was to be the Siscos' life NUMBER FOURTEEN VOLUME FOUR here. Did we for a moment Editor-in-Chief - Frederic Bloch think we could compete with Managing Editor - Henry Glick Richard Nixon and Henry TIN Pultlicatiom Board publilll• ..The Spectator," a newspaper edited by 1a.de•ta. 26-.. •ur1•1 the academic 1••· Sublc:riptiom: S7.00 per year. Kissinger? After all, they Addlaa: Box 13, "--ltoe Cal.... , Claton, New York, 13323. Letten to the were Time magazine's men of ..llor alllt N ....... ,111 aa-wtU be wttllbel4 upon nqueat. the year for 197 2.
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Dear Coleman: In order to avoid any ambiguity resulting from my letter of January 3, I want to inform you and the Board of Trustees that for the reasons contained therein I am withdrawing my infonnal acceptance of the presidency of Hamilton tendered at the December 8 meeting. As you know from our conversations, this is a matter of deep regret for both me and my family. However, the decision I took to remain in the State Department was the course I felt I had to take. In view of the fact that I can give no assurance as to when I might be available, I believe in the interests of Hamilton steps should be initiated promptly to select a new president. Again, on behalf of all of us we want to thank all of you for the courteous and warm reception we received at Hamilton. Joseph J. Sisco
Burke Accepts Sisco Decision Dear Joe:
President of the Month
BY DOUGLAS GLUCROFT Joseph Sisco's first official act as President of Hamilton College was to submit his resignation. No matter. One must look back fondly as one did upon the Chandler years. One must evaluate the Sisco days-about 35 of them in all. First, is he still Hamilton's 16th President? What will Walter Pilkington say about him if he revises his History of the College? Sisco' s candidacy was m a d e pu blic b y T he Spectator on November 9. A campus debate then followed on the propriety of that publication. Some felt that s u c h pu blicity could,
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"It is with heavy heart and deep regret" that I acknowledge your letters of January 3 and January 7 informing us that you will not be available to assume the Presidency of Hamilton College within the time frame that we and you had planned. Your words accurately reflect our feelings as it has become necessary for us both to conclude that it would be unfair to Hamilton and to you to continue as President-elect while undertaking an indefinite term as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. In view of the circumstances in our country and in the world which impelled you to accept the post of Undersecretary, we, of course, have no alternative but to accept your withdrawal of your informal acceptance of the Presidency of Hamilton tendered at our Trustees' meeting on December 8. I am sure the entire Hamilton community who rejoiced in your acceptance of the Presidency of Hamilton College wish you well in the Middle East negotiations in which you are now involved with Secretary Kissinger. We have gained great respect for you and your family, for the integrity of your relationship with Hamilton these past months, and for the contribution we are confident you will be making to our country and to the peace of the world. If Elihu Root were with us today, I am sure he would join me and my fellow Trustees in altering the famous Latin phrase to read: Ave, sed non vale. As you are a Latin scholar you know that this is, "Hail, but not farewell." Coleman Burke
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THE SPECTATOR VOLUME IV, NUMBER 15
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
JANUARY 18, 1974
Professor McDermid Ousted; Stu dents Call For Reversal
Eugene Lewis, associate professor of government.
CArovano Names Lewis Acting-Provost of Hamilton In a surprise move yesterday, Eugene Lewis was appointed Acting Provost of Hamilton by J. Martin Carovano, acting president. The appointment is effective immediately. The administrative change was made in the wake of Joseph J. Sisco's January 8 announcement that he could not accept the presidency of the college. Until that ann ouncement, it was· assumed that Mr. Sisco would take office within the next few months and Mr. Carovano would return to his position of provost. The situation today is different. "With the Sisco withdrawal," Mr. Carovano said, "I could no longer act under the assumption that I would soon be leaving my present post." "I need help," he added. Mr. Lewis will remain acting provost indefinitely. Nobody on College Hill knows when a new president will be selected or how the selection will be made. The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees is meeting in New York Thursday to determine procedures for the selection. The administration has been in a transitory state since the July departures of John Chandler and Vice President for Resources and Development Albert Wallace. The appointment of an acting provost, Mr. Carovano explained, is designed to fill the gaps created by the vice presidential vacancy and the double duties of the acting president.
Robert B. Brooks, director of development, has been carrying o u t t h e vice p r esident's responsibilities since the summer. The search for a new vice president began immediately after Mr. Sisco was chosen. With his withdrawal this process is now "in neut r a l", a ccording to one continued on page five
BY FELICE FREYER James McDermid, associate professor o f s culpture and printmaking at Kirkland, was not reappointed f o r t he t erm beginning Fall 1974. Despite favorable student evaluations of Mr. McDermid, President Samuel F. Babbitt agreed to the decision of the Arts Division Personnel Committee and the college-wide Appointments Committee. Mr. McDermid, whose original appeal within the Arts Division was defeated, is now planning to appeal the decision of the Appointments Committee to the A p p e a l s C om m i ttee. The reappointment process was begun last Spring. M o s t s t u d e n t s c annot understand why Mr. McDermid was not rehired. President Babbitt would not reveal the committees' reason for dismissing him, but said that "the Division felt so strongly about whatever it was that they made their minds up on that they o ver came the very positive student input." William Rosenfeld, chairman of the arts division, insisted that committee information be kept confidential for the protection of t he p r o f e s sor involved. Mr. Rosenfeld would not say if he ag reed w i th t he Personnel Committee's decision. Mr. McDermid also refused to discuss the specific issues involved with his dismissal. He said, however, he felt that the opinion of the Personnel Committee was "contrary to the efforts I have been making here. The summary of t he m eetings with the Personnel Committee have not agreed with what I was trying to communicate." "In some ways," he added,"!
understand things no more than the students do." T h e f a cuity's a pparent disregard of student opinion has led to feelings of outrage and disillusionment on the part of those who find the firing of James · McDennid to be, in the words of o n e s t u d e n t ,"b l a t a n t l y contradictory" to the Kirkland philosophy. Students believe that their evaluations of Mr. McDermid were not seriously considered by the P e r s onnel Com mittee. One c laimed that the evaluations "were rendered invalid because the professor was presumed to
have given false flattery in order to receive such evaluations from his students." Mr. Rosenfeld said he had never heard of this. According to Mr. Rosenfeld, e v a l u a t ion$ a n d i n f o r m a l interviews with selected students are used along with input from both Kirkland and Hamilton f acuity m e mbers when the Personnel Committee is reviewing a candidate for reappointment. H o w e ver, Mr. Rosen feld refused to say how many students actually were interviewed about Mr. McDermid. continued on page six
James McDermid, associate professor of sculpture and printmaking.
Dean Search Commit�ee Designates Finalists; Professor Colby Nominated In Field of Three BY MONICA LIFF Professor Ursula S. Colby, Professor Catherine S. Frazer of the University of Denver, and Professor Marianne H. Micks of The Western College have been designated as final candidates for Kirkland College D ean of Academic Affairs. "The Dean Search Committee received somewhat over 650 applications and subsequently invited eight candidates to the campus f o r a p re l i m i nary interview," Professor Peter Marcy, Chairman of the Kirkland Dean Search Com m i t tee said on Thu rsd ay, January 14. The Committee has recommended the t hree w om e n f or f u r t he r consideration. Professor Colby is presently Professor of Literature at Kirkland and is chairperson of the Kirkland Humanities Division. She received her �.A. from Barnard College, and her M.A. and
Ph.D. from Columbia University. Doctorate of Divinity degree from position as a small, women's Professor Frazer is Department the Church Divinity School of the liberal arts college, and the fact · that the position was advertised Chai r m an a n d Professor of Pacific. Philosophy at the University of Of the eight candid<;ttes for the widely, account for the 650 Denver in Denver, Colorado, preliminary interviews, four were applications. "And we received where she has been since 1965. males; and according to Mr. a p p l i c a t i o n s f r om e v er y She received her B.A. from Marcy, ''Many more than half of c o n c e i v a b l e f i e l d ," h e Wellesley College and her M.A. the applicants were men." He said. Among the qualifications and Ph.D. from Yale University. said, ."I would like to underline and experience that the Search Professor Micks presently holds the notion that we ended up with Committee was looking -' fort the pos1tlon of Professor of the three people that we thought according to Mr. Marcy, were: Religion at The Western College in would be the best; our decision evidence of academic attainment Oxford, Ohio, where she was has nothing to do with sex." in die form of the highest degree Chairman of the Department of The Dean Search Committee attainable in the applicant's field Religion from 1962 to 1966, and was formed before spring vacation and in the form- of publications; Dean of t he College from last year. The college widely experience as a teacher; prior 1966-1972. She- received her B.A. adve r t i s e d t he opening for administrative experience either as from Smith College, her M.A. Academic Dean; and Mr. Marcy a department c hairman or from Columbia University in stated that they contacted cert.ain member of measure committees c o nju n c t i o n w it h U n i o n "obvious g ro u ps," such as dealing with curricular and faculty Theological Seminary, a Bachelor pr o(essional organizations and matters; evidence of interest in of Divinity degree from The women's caucuses, about the t he kind of education that Church Divinity School of the p osition. The n u m b e r o f Kirkland offers. The Committee Pacific, in Berkeley, California. applications received were more a l s o considered "intangibles,'' She received her Ph.D. from Yale than were expected, according to according to Mr. Marcy U ni versity, and an honorary M r. Ma rcy, b ut Kirkland's
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On Re-appointmerits Kirkland art students have expressed overwhelming approval of James McDermid, associa.,e professor of sculpture and printmaking. Nevertheless, subject to the recommendation of the Appeals Committee and the final decision of PrE:sident Ba'bbitt, Kirkland has decided not to rehire Mr. McDermid. Thus, the powers on high at Kirkland have over-ruled substantial student opinion, and have disenchanted many students who presumed that their judgments carried more force than has been evidenced. The idea of commu11ity and communications, a key stone of the Kirkland philosophy, has apparently been ignored here. Is the philosophy and direction of a division to be determined solely by faculty members in that division or is there to be frank, open and continuing interplay between the students and the faculty concerned? The purpose of Kirkland is the teaching of students, yet in this supposedly innovative and forward-looking institu tion, students have so little power in deciding who should be teaching them or how they should be taught. Obviously ·student interests must in some way be protected from the potentially arbitrary decisions of key faculty committees. It is distressing to note that no public notice was given to the beginning of the most recer.1t re-appointments process and that there was no active solicitation of studen" opinion on these matters aside from student evalua.,ions. This type of non-commui ..ication weakenc: the already strained credibility of true community participation. The need has therefore become apparent for students to retain non-voting representatio.11 on the Appointments and Re-appointments Committee. Without such participation, students will continue to be powerless, and will continue to be alientated from the administration with which they are supposed to have an intimate relationship. The confidentially of hiring and firing would be maintained. Indeed, student involvement does not neces- . sarily entail dissolution of the faculty a�1d administration's right to ultimately render it's own decision. Nor does it, as some faculty members fear, turn the appointments process into a popularity contest. The present situdion · in the Arts Division is marked by anger and alientation. Students feel ignored and abu.,ed, and faculty members are frustrated in their efforts to explain their position on various issues. The McDermid controversy indicates dramatically the need for improved student-faculty communication. It calls, also, for a re-examination of appointments and re-appoint ments, and student particip ation in that process.
Doug McDevitt The Hamilton commmiity lost one of its most outstand ing citizens December 21. Doug McDevitt was an honors student, a talented athlete, and a loy..J friend. He was most noted for his swimming ability, but he will be mo .. t re membered for his modesty and his perpetual good naturedness. The memory of Doug McDevitt will not dissi pate as each of us leaves the Hill. Rather, it will be deeply implante9 in the minds of all of us whose lives he touched.
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The American Canning Tradit ion
BY GERRY PAYNE It's a matter of propriety; important people, or upper class people don't get fired; they resign, or they aren't rehired, or something else is done. But they are never fired. Not only is it a matter of propriety, it used to be a matter of pride. When some idiot in a movie wanted to fire a hero played by Clark Gable, he never got the chance. Gable would say, "Don't waste your breath, buddy, I resign!" Nowadays, in offices on Madison Avenue, grey pinstripers are asked to "offer" their resignations, just in case they don't have as much gumption as Gable. Washed-up baseball players who don't know their own age aren't fired; no one fires idols of little-leaguers; they're put on waivers. Either way though, they're canned. Then again, Mickey Mantle retired, and no one ever thought it was anything but a voluntary resignation. Mickey was important, yes, and he did publicly retire. But no one would fire Mickey Mantle. How could they have fired him? They gave him Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium. No, the cool briefcase carriers might resign and really be fired,-but when Mantle resigned, he resigned. Period. But how is someone to tell when a guy resigns because he is being pushed, or because he wan ts to resign? Blaming is difficult when propriety clouds the impartial observer's view. When a woman goes to "powder her nose," it's a 2-1 shot she's going to do something else. But still it's 2-1. You never know. Is it her nose, or the spice in the food? Joe Sisco couldn't have been fired, because he resigned right after he was hired. The Trustees of Hamilton couldn't have had a secret, drastic change of heart. Never. Joe left on his own. It is just too incredible to believe anything but that Joe had his own patriotic mind to finally make up.. Methods for canning people are becoming more
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and more sophisticated though. So, in turn, it's even harder· for the impartial observer to know what's up. Whoever heard of a retailer closin� up and going on vacation two weeks before Christmas? Or an accountant taking off during tax return time in the spring? Or a coach, for that matter, going o n sabbatical during his sport's season? It was done, however. The coach came back one sport short. Clever. The man didn't resign; he wasn't fired, but somehow, he's been canned. Clever. Untenured professors aren't fired either. They don't even have to resign to be pushed out. It's merely a matter of not hiring again. It may seem that "not hiring again," means "firing," but don't let the terminology confuse you. The professor may be looking for a new place to teach, he may be leaving heartbroken students, out don't say he was fired. Canned, yes. Fired, no. But such is propriety, Ham Coll Cool and K-land Class. No one is fired anymore. Still, they end up packing up their bags and sorrows, and take the next train right out-a-here, if you will. What will this propriety junk come to? Soon, the confused and embarrased housewife, who found her maid inept, will avoid a scene by conveniently asking, "Bertha, I sincerely request your summary resignation." Ditch diggers won't be fired, they'll offer their resignation. The class structure will fall by the wayside; everyone will resign, or be un-rehired; hiring and firing will become a thing of the past. When it comes down to it, no one will ever be sure that someone is really resigning, or that someone is really being fired. No one will ever be sure who to blame. Has the brave young soldier voluntarily taken that step foward? we will ask, or are we to blame the rest of the flank, which has conspired to take together one inconspicuous step back and away?
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From the Sanctuary It's Different in the West' Indies
BY LEROY PORTER At the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, the Chairman of the Social Sciences Division is a Black man. I had come to the university to- talk with any of the sociologists about what they might know of the Shango people in Trinidad. Fortunately as I roamed the campus looking for an appropriate place to enquire I happened upon a lunching· librarian, unwrapping a sandwich under a coconut tree. After exchanging greetings, and joining her in some coconut water, she directed me to the office of the Chairman of Social Sciences. I was all prepared for haughty formalities, but as the librarian and I walked along the cement verandas, I looked out over the vacation-cleaned ·camp� and became aware that I hadn't seen any white faees since entering the grounds. The ponderosity of the relevation kinda took me back because now I could not decide how to prepare myself for the interview I had in mind. The librarian was aware of my mind's tickings so instead of walking me to the door she stopped at the beginning of a new corridor and pointed out the rest of the way. I thanked her and decided to ad lib.
I stood in front of the office door for about a minute before I knocked. The inside seemed very quiet and deserted. I could hear the sound of voices getting louder and louder. I didn't want the chairman to be one of the voices coming around the corner. I preferred much more for him to be sitting when we first met, so as the voices rounded the r.orner, I kinda stepped away from the door and began looking over the railings until the voices faded out. Immediately I went back to the door and knocked politely. As my hands reached to try the knob, an unsuspected "Yes mon" startled my fingers and made me miss my first grip. When I finally let myself in, a brother sat behind a neat desk, with an obliging half-smile on his face to let me know he had checked out my whole trip a few seconds ago. This time I added a hand shake to my greeting and accepted a seat. It was the first time I had ever met or was able to talk with a Black Sociologist. We were conversing for a good little while before I realized I had not noticed the name
plate on the door. After substituting some of my new learned colloquialism for his name, he broke into the conversation, "I'm sorry you didn't get my name...Mr. Cameraj." We both looked dismayed for a second. I had forgotten what I was about to say, so I changed the topic. "How many whites are on campus?" "Not enough to talk about,"...so we didn't. "You know, at Hamilton College we don't have any Black professors, and we are less than thre e percent of the student body." "That's why you don't have any Black professors." Mr. Cameraj's calm husky voice didn't have a slow Trinidadian drag like a lot of the brothers down there had, and whenever he broke his c o ol with a rhetorical retort, the point was well made. He had a lot of deep feelings about the future of social sciences in the West Indies. He explained how social scientists in Trindiad were looked at as trouble makers and highfalutin' liars who couldn't prove anything. Most students are encouraged to study engineering or medicine, even trades, before -sociology. He went on about how big businesses always bring their economic and social investigaton to do studies and collect data on the island. "lt'1 just plain hard to get people to see that the governmen t c o uld also profit from more Trinidadians with such skills." I asked Mr. Cameraj if he believed that Bla�ks could better understand Blacks and if he would take such a belief into the classroom. His answer was an emphatic yes. We discussed the methodological issues for awhile until he said, "Of course you understand that when anyone wants to claim he has a certain understanding of something, the person has to justify his claims; and anyway theories are a dime a dozen these days. Too much methodology is theory; that's how I feel." After we both had cleared our minds of a lot of jargon, we began our good-byes and best wishes. I could see a figure halting the rays of the sun from coming through the blinds. When I opened the door my librarian friend walked in past me and asked, "Are you going to take me to lunch?"
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of the paper's editorials, and indicates the paper's desire to raise, unaided by thought or a sense of propriety, its readers' consciousnesses to its superior level of moral rigidity. This is called irresponsible journalism, and that is what I find difficult to excuse. Mark Walpole •74·
who was to have done great things for Hamilton College, has damaged the institution without even having tak.en office." These statements verge on the To The Editor; To The Editor: irrational. As a Spectator subscriber (and I read with sadness Robby Miller's fine newsman for 2 3 years), I cannot let the To employ the article's idiom, the 'big · story in your Nov. 30 issue reporting that No vem ber 3 0 i s s ue pass without fish' got away, but the ocean is still there, the Student Senate had voted 10--4 to commending you for your ringing editorial Alumnus Makes Pres. Suggestion "censure " The Spectator for doing its job. the boat shows no new leaks, and the pole on Freedom of the Press. and bait are intact. The charge that Mr. It seems odd that 10 men, wpom I Sisco h as h a rmed this school is presume are considered leaders of the The decision of your student Senate to To The Editor: preposterous. In fact, he got Hamilton's student body, would prefer their college censure you is the highest possible tribute Now that Joseph Sisco has turned name in the national press and television newspaper to be a mouthpiece of the you could be paid. You had the duty to down the presidency of Hamilton, has news broadcasts twice, exposure that can college-a la Pravda-instead of a medium print the Sisco search story and did so Coleman Burke considered offering the to inform its readers of the news which only be viewed as a positive good. His "red hat " to another State Department conservatively and fairly. That your own concerns them as it discovers that news. withdrawal in no way lessens the honor he luminary whose politics may be more in student legislature should attack you is Rather than "censure" The Spectator, did this college in accepting its presidency, line with the Board of Trustees's? I am evidence that the spirit of pre-Hitlerian it would seem more appropriate for the and in no way lessens the honor Hamilton thinking, of course, of Otto Otepka. Germany-craven and fearful-is alive and Student Senate to commend it for will do the next candidate to ·whom it Harry Weintr�ub '68 well at Hamilton among the ·students who performing its responsibilities in the finest offers the post. The only one who is put the majority of 10 in power.That four traditions of a free press. embarassed, or needs to be, is The of your fellow students, led by Senate Spectator. My congratulations to you, Mr_ Editor, president George Baker, sided with your Grim ex-Pre-med Knocks Grading When Mr. Sisco says he regrets his for running an honest newspaper. constitutional rights is evidence that a inability to come to Hamilton, we must To The Editor: George M. Ewing •counter-spirit of courage is also �live. Pray believe him; and no one can question his Jn the fa ll, a letter of mine was Editor and Publisher that latter spirit prevails, and from the perspective on the relative importance of publi s hed describing admission into The Daily Messenger bold, able sounds coming from your his affairs if he feels compelled to see foreign medical schools. The letter was an Canandaigua, N.Y. editor, Fred Bloch, I predict it will. I through the peace negotiations.We should edited version of a personal letter to Dean further predict that Joe Sisco, a former wish him well in Geneva, as peace in the Kinnel. With my permission, he prepared newsman of the "Chicago school", will be Metaphorical Argument Middle East must must ultimately concern the edited version for distribution to on your side-we in Washington have lost us more than the ".J.ueen For A Day" i n t e rested pre-medical students. The him with regret, but to a school that To The Editor: question of who shall be Hamilton's "' Spectator subsequently published this obviously needs him badly to help In "The 'Big Fish , an article in its president. form of the letter. I discovered all of this re-inform them about the Bill of Rights. special issue on Mr. Sisco's decision to F o r t u n a t e ly, T h e S pe cta to r's during a visit to the campus last · Leslie H. Whitten remain with the State Department, The thoughtless and unfounded allegations December. Below you will find some The writer, an aide to syndicated Spectator states "we find it difficult to against Mr. Sisco can do no harm. They additions to this letter, much of which columnist Jack Anderson, spoke on the excuse Mr. Sisco's withdrawal from the went by the wayside during editing. HiU in November. His letter was written instit ut i on t o which he made a are the roaring of an .insidious mouse.But I remain convinced that the grading before Joseph Sisco's withdrawal as commitment...Hamilton has been placed their petulant tone of moral indignation policy followed at Hamilton is directly Hamilton's president. in an embarassing position...J oseph Sisco, threatens to become a permanent feature responsible for the recent trend of poorer �edical admissions records. This grading policy is based on the very sound principle of academic integrity. Yet it is a self-,defeatist doctrine. Academic integrity keeps grades low (rewarding only the few Mitchells does not address the difference between the kind of B Y CHUCK FLYNN who are truly outstanding) and it thereby community I have found Hamilton to be and the conception of Several people have repeated to me a suggestion which has keeps many of Hamilton's good students community behind the suggestion. But from my dose minded, provoked considerable thought, ie. a faculty advisor should not from attending the better or any of the ideological standpoint, I believe the resolution of that difference attempt to discover the causes or nature of a freshman student's medical schools. Last year's medical is easy and obvious in this case.While Hamilton has preserved the academic or social problems from sources other than the student admissions bears this point out. There warm atmosphere of a true community which even many small himself. These persons believe a faculty member should remain were no students who received multiple schools similar to it have lost, the suggestion seems characteristic merely a resource to which a freshman could turn if he so chose.I offers, most acceptances came out late in of an impersonal atmosphere into which large schools are usually find this suggestion objectionable because I believe it is founded the year indicating that the students upon a notion of community inappropriate to Hamilton College. forced. The claim of invasion of privacy is difficult to accept.In a chosen were not in the "most wanted family, among friends, or even between good neighbors, one need Members of a true community must possess a sense of category," and only 12 of 22 students not wait to be asked before one expresses concern or extends an commonwealth. Each person may need the drive of individual were finally admitted. effort to help. initiative, but he has a general obligation to his community as a Previously, this grading policy did not To abandon the expectation that some faculty will initiate whole and to the individual members within it. Likewise, his prevent students from having to finally efforts to understand and aid a student in difficulty would be fellow citizens individually and collectively have a responsibility resort to a foreign education. In fact especially regretable in the case of freshmen who often must to him. Off this hill and outside my extended family have not though, the foreign systems are catching make many difficult adjustments. To abandon those efforts, experienced a community of commonwealth although they used up with their American counterparts. The direct or indirect, individual or in conjunction with students or to be a fairly common part of American life. The sense of Italian consulate, for example, informed other faculty would be to deny the validity of the reasons commonwealth which has been preserved at Hamilton College is, me that the students to study medicine in Hamilton has chosen to remain a small school, for it must be perhaps, one source of my, and many others' affection for the Italy this year will need about a 3.3- 3.5 remembered that the appealing qualities of Hamilton College are college. cumulative average (88-90 on Hamilton's not a function of size alone. It is argued that if a faculty member were to attempt to grading) and 5 50-575 MLAT's. Indeed, discover the sources of a student's problems by, for example, a To honor the rights and privacy of students, faculty need not only Hamilton Phi Beta Kappas will conversation with his Dunham advisor, it would constitue an abandon those incapable or fearful of taking the necessary steps qualify to study in Italy! invasion of privacy and would give the impression that the faculty toward help themselves. Nor should it be forgotten that we each When I was a student at Hamilton, I member was spying on his advisee. can occasionally be unmindful qf the severity or �ven the remember hearing on several occasions To laugh at the image of our faculty acting like little John existence of our own problems. that as much as 40% of the freshman class entered interested in medicine. Only 10-1 5% of this same entering class will go on to apply to medical schools. Th us as much as 30% of Hamilton's graduates, who do not pursue medicine, come there by virtue of Hamilton's "pre- medical Editor's Note: The following Comment was submitted by five Hamilton Men-Where's the action after 1 :00 a.m.? The Rock lure." As success in medical admissions Skidmore women spending January on College Hill. and the Shoe are fine, but what happens if Emily Post neglected lessens, so will the number of students to teach you how te play pool ? choosing Hamilton for its pre-medical Hamilton Men-Hey, we're not from Wells...take another program, and this situation , I contend, Hamilton Men-We certainly don't miss our cinder block look and you'll see that we're not from Kirkland.We've been told may change the quality of the new rooms of uniform size...we can put up with holes in our walls that we're· "put together! preppie! wear make-up! have clean students. If not, it will at least alter the and the dirt on _our floors to make room for your mighty fine hair!. ..and according to Mrs. Z in the Bristol Center mail room, overall nature of the student body. fireplaces and the three-room suites. Needless to say, your we have kind faces!" campus is awesome-cross-country skiing, squash, and free skating Hamilton Men-Fraternity, that is ...AD-we love your crew The prospects are grim for pre-medical certainly show that we're lacking in athletic -proficiency. But, neck sweaters in pastel shades, your Topsiders, and your classic students. I fear the prospects are just as we've found that we can easily compete with your mo:t avid La Costcs;. ..but why can't we find you? Where are you living grim for the institution. If a poor record rooters, since we've found that it's a little difficult to muster up now?..."High" Phi-you have great parties, but only if we of admissions will indeed correlate with enthusiasm over a Powder Puff League basketball game. rancmbcr to bring our knives with us, as it's often difficult to cut the type of students choosing Hamilton, it Hamilton Men-You should have made your truck rolls more through the fog! ...DKE's-you play great hockey and we relish would seem logical to expect fewer often! As we may have {technically) turned towards coeducation, your being on tap, but we're afraid we'd get too many bruises! s c i e n c e-o r i e n t ed s tude n t s . The where arc the coeds? -rHE ZOO"-you speak for yourselves, what can we possibly repercussions arc obviously vast and I Hamilton Men-How can y'ou possibly survive? If we weren't ay? We could go on, but the rest aren't worth mentioning, save humbly suggest that the,faculty, student, the genteel lad�s we arc, we would have thrown a few potatoes-at for DU who sends out engraved invitations to their parties, only and administration wake Up, get off your that portrait h�nging_ in the Commons ourselves. Yet somehow they arc received a day too late! haunches and do something about this we've all managed to gain a few pounds, although subsisting on Hamilton 'Men- Your choice of night clubs surpasses the situation!! salad with blue cheese dressing. Those many nights at the Pub and Copacabania in New York. What's with the Matts and the Utica Respectfully, the Shoe will do it to you every time. Club? "When I was back home in Washington, I really missed Steven J. Weisman '73 continued on pa� twt>lvc being able to have a good Genesee..."
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January Amnesty Workshop Includes Lectures and Film
BY JOHN OUDERKIRK interest shown. An average of and 11 are working on Action for Jeanne Kaylor wished uto 35-40 people attend the lectures, Amnesty. T h e re a l s o w i l l be an spend her winter study working at and there had been 32 people at something that was a concern to the Potluck supper. The second Independent Kirkland Course for her," and to "provide a forum to lecture was scheduled against a Att i o n f o r A m nesty next inform others." The fruition of hockey game and a dance, yet 35 semester. Friday, the 18th, is the last potluck supper, featuring her plans: Amnesty Workshop. people were there. W i l l i a m Rus her and Henry The Workshop, consisting of a The workshop has sparked an Schwarzchild, at 6:30. lecture series and films, is the However, Jeanne pointed out, r e s u l t o f h a r d w or k and active interest in amnesty. It has determination. Ms. Kaylor worked stirred up an interest, and made ''The thing a series like this needs as a cook and dish washer to raise people aware of a situation that most is hardworking people, and I money, held a beer and band, and they might not otherwise come believe that we have interested, travelled as far as New York City -into contact with. Thirteen people· hardworking people. That's the and Princeton, New Jersey to are now working on the political thing which makes something like obtain speakers for her program. prisoner situation in Viet Nam, this a success." The American Civil Liberties · Union and Emergenc;:y Ministries concerning the war aided her in her search. Originally, Jeanne Kaylor had planned to hold a class, meeting three hours a day,- and some Ms. Kaylor, posting an announcement of a debate on amnesty. evenings for lecture, discussion, and movies. During the last week, Karl Rogers, who worked on the Ellsburg trials, was to come and assist with the class. However; the plan fell through. She then decided to offer her course in the form of a lecture series, with speakers presenting BY STEPHEN ZORTHI� Hamilton, Mr. von Bergen is no wide ranging viewpoints regarding Visiting Winter Study faculty stranger to the campus. Amnesty for those who fled the are offering courses here ranging When not at Hamilton, Mr. von United States to escape the draft. from the study of the American Bergen t e aches at Munson The program is cumulatively Indian to the making of aluminum Wil liams Procter Institute in planned: the problems discovered sculpture. Utica. His students make their in one lecture are often important Oren Lyon, Chief of the sculptures out of styrofoam, and in the next lecture. Each lecture, O n on d a g a Nation, commutes then, they cast their styrofoam however, is a separate subject, and from his home in Nedrow, New creations in aluminum. there is no need to have attended York, to teach his course, The Dennis L u k a s is visiting all the lectures to understand one. American- Indian· Today. Chief Hamilton from Montreal, Canada. The "Potluck Suppers" add Lyon designed his course to give Besides teaching at the Montreal some variety to the program. students a brief but informative Museum School for the Fine Arts, They are casual, informal suppers history of the American Indian. Mr. Lukas has had his work hung By the end of the course, his in nine major museums. Mr. Lukas in the Alumni House, where students will have formulated was a guest lecturer at Hamilton speakers and interested people can discuss problems ip. a relaxed positions on the· take-overs of the in 1971. atmosphere. Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1972, Although he works within the Ms. Kaylor remarked that there and of Wounded Knee in 1973. Art Department, Mr. Lukas claims had been a large amount of Jeanne Kaylor, who has promoted the Amnesty Workshop. While Chief Lyon does not want he is not teaching painting and to mold his students' ideas, he drawing. "I am teaching people to does intend to inform his students see again; people rarely see what is of the situation of the American around them anymore." Indian today. A soft spoken man, Mr. Lukas This is the first time Chief said that his method of teaching is Lyon has returned to Hamilton not unusual. He claims that h.e since 1963, when he played only brings out the artistic part of lacrosse for the University of a person. By using grids, Mr. Syracuse. Usually teaching under Lukas shows his students how an the Department of American inexperienced painter can become Studies at the University of an artist. E x c i t e d b y the pos1t1ve Buffalo, Chief Lyon finds working response from his class, Mr. Lukas here "enjoyable and exciting". B a r bara Koller is another admitted that he was surprised by visiting professor here this month. the favorable results. The Root A private psychoanalyst, she sees Art Center is showing some of his patients in Boston and New York, work in its present exhibition. Leo Loughery comes from in addition to consulting and teaching. Having lived in New New York City. After twenty-one York City for fifteen year�, Ms. years of serving on New York's. Koller moved to a farm in New Finest, he retired as a Police H a m p s hi re . Spe a k i n g quite Lieutenant 'in 1967. Since then, proudly of her farm, she said, "I he has worked for the Police do everything myself, from taking Department in other respects. Mr. Loughery practices law, care- of my own garden to feeding _ and teaches at John Jay College of the pigs." Criminal Justice in the city. Her - cours.e in Environmental Recently, he was honored to be Psychology is partly based on her the first former American police own life experiences. Through officer to teach at the British. psychoanalysis, Ms. Koller and her Police College near London. class examine living in two M r . L o ug he r y's course , different environments-the city C ri m inal Justice a n d t he and the country. ''We study the . Constitution, deals with police, phenomenological feeling of citizens, and the Constition. being ·a do-it-yourself farmer and a Loughery wants to cover the do-it-yourself city dweller." Supreme Court's decisions on S p e n d i n g h i s s e c o n d search and seizure, wire tapping, consecutive year with Hamilton's due process, and confessions. Winter Study program, John von Many times, he admits, the Police B erge n i s te achi n g. M etal are not aware of all the rights a Sculpturing in the art studios at citizen has; many times the citizen Dunham. A 1963 graduate of is not a.ware of his rights, either.
Indian And Artists Join W. S. Faculty
January 18, 1974/THE SPECTATOR/5
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Course on Sexuality Offered; Larger Enrollment Expected BY JONATHAN L. YARMIS For the second year in a row, a series of lectures and discussions on human sexuality will be offered to the Hamilton-Kirkland community, students and staff. The pr ogram will begin February 5 and will continue on every Tuesday night, from 7 to 10 p.m., through March 5. It will be held in t h e Kirner-Johnson Aud i t o r i um i n o r der to accomodate a large number of people. In a similar program last year, there were more applicants than places available. Registration will take place in Dr. Don T. Muilenberg's office, which is located on the second flooor of the Health Center. To help defry expenses, there will be a registration fee of $4. Included in this _price is a book on human Your hosts Charles, Jennie & Butch Barady welcome all Hamilton and Kirkland students to
sexuality. The topics to be covered by t h e c oq.r s e i n c l u de t he anthropological aspects of human s ex u ality, the physiology of r e pro duct i o n , contraception, venereal disease, heterosexual b e h a v i o r , p r e gna·n cy and c h i l db ir t h, a nd homosexual behavior. There will be a panel discussion of comparative values and lifestyles. The course will consist of lectures by speakers, both from within and outside of the two college community, movies, a question-answer period, and small group discussions. This non-credit course was planned by a committee of students and staff under the coordination of Dr. Muilenberg. Dr. Muilenberg expects a large number of people to apply for the course, and he recommends early e n r o l l m e nt.
BY MARY McKNEW Forty-six fugitives of Earl ° D' A prix's infamous meal-plan have discovered a means of improving the food. They don't eat it. The Hamilton-Kirkland Co-op community, located in Keehn dorm, has initiated a program of gastric survival. Through a friend of a friend a dinner invitation was extorted and g r atefully accepted. At 6:00 o'clock it was with great satisfaction that I headed in the opposite direction of Commons and joined a group of "co-opers." The co-op dining room is on the basement floor of the dorm, as if seeking the most remote location possible from McEwen. which looms ominously in the distance. Various efforts to avoid college food w e r e discussed during dinner. The design of the co-op had. been to evade the meal-plan during the first semester, but the incomplete state of the kitchen shattered these plans. However, January brought its completion. Meals at the co-op offer "a great diversity of gastronomic �xperiences." The job of chef is open to any member willing to try, and some regard this as an opport�nity to experiment on a live audience. One member attempted banana cake which remained banana pudding after nine hours in the oven. La�t Friday macaroni and cheese was a success, but the question of "who made the salad?" was even more fervent; and no wonder, staring up at me from under a thick sauce of French dressing was an array of avocado. cucumber, fresh lettuce, ca bbage , r e d t o m a to, and hard-boiled egg. Everyone present left the meal smiling. A t hreaten ing source of discord'.: is the inability of co-op meals to offer a choice of main courses at a single meal. This has created a schism between the herbivorous and the carnivorous members. However, the high cost of meat usually serves to settle the dispute effectively.
Heather Kirkland stirs something up in the Co-op kitchen. A s w i t h m o s t o t h e r was needed to initially stock the communities, money is beginning kitchen with such basic cooking to be a problem at the co-op. ingredients as spices. These items Members pay the same room and will last through the coming board fee as other students of semester but require a large outlay Hamilton and Kirkland, however of cash. the board fee of students living in The <.:u-op has attempted to the co-op is kept aside and serve food of a higher quality than refunded to the co-op at set time that offered by the colleges, and periods. The first allotment of at a lower price. After the crises money for the W inter Study of Winter Study has passed, its period was insufficient because it members should be able to did not allow for the amount that balance its budget.·
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continued from page one administration spokesman. The College will await a decision by the Executive Committee of the Trustees before selecting a new vice president. The Executive C o m m i t t ee coPld decide to postpone this selection until a new president has been chosen. Mr. Lewis, 33, is a graduate of Temple University and Indiana University. He received his Ph.D. from Syracuse in 1967. The m u stachioed, pipe and c i g a r - s m ok i n g g overnment professor is known by students for his flamboyance in class. His feet propped on the desk of his new Buttrick Hall office, the acting provost said, ''This really came as a complete surprise to me. The principal reason for this move at this time is to help the president. •t "I never had any ambitions to be a college administrator," Mr. Lewis said, "but I'm interested in the type of things that go on in this office." Mr. Lewis has had
varied experience in governmentaf budgeting. As chief financial officer of the college Mr. Lewis's primary responsibility will be preparing the budget for the 1974-7 5 school year. He cited the acquisition of a computer for the two colleges as one primary goal of his term. He said he hoped an operating computer would be on campus by the end of 1974. Just reaching this goal, Mr. Lewis quipped, "may be a full-time job." The teaching assignments of the government department will be affect ed by the Lewis a ppointment. In a form of a c a d e m i c m u si cal c ha i rs, Government 29 will now be taught by Richard P. Suttmeier who will not be teaching G o ve r nment 12, Comparative Politics. This course will be taught by Jeffrey Ross, a Kirkland gov e r n m e n t p r o f e s s o r. Gpvernment 314, in which two students were enrolled, will be offered as an Independent study.
6/THE SPECTATOR/January 18, 1974
McDennid r.Appeal Exposes Reappointment .Process
· continued from page one s u r r ound i ng Mr. McDermid's · offer," said another student, "was the degree to which the student Some students claim that Mr. dismissal. was allowed to exercise his own McDermid's dismissal seems to be Petitions have been circulated related to. current trends and requesting that Mr. McDermid be individual approach. He helped · phil osoph.y w1"th"m the reappointed, and some . students. the student work with his own changes m Arts Division. According to one a r e d e m a n d i n g s t u d e n t ideas. He molded his teaching to . · student, the Arts D1vis1on at representation, with equal voting fit what I needed." · Mr. McDermid said he found Kir kl a n d is moving in the rights, on the Personnel and the s tu d e n t s up port "very direction of "a formalization in Appointments Committees. structure and attitudes, where art "The voices that counted in, e n co u r aging." He called his would be taught more or less like t he decision to fire James contacts with the committee any other academic course," and McDermid were those of the process "very depressing." ' He also said that he would n ot · that Mr. McD erm1"d's approach IS faculty," wrote one student in a . have decided to appeal a second • contrary to this. letter to President Babbitt. "What In r esponse to this, Mr. d o t hey know about the time if the student reaction to his Rosenfeld said the Arts Division is excitement towards art generated dismissal had not been so strong. "I had faith in my abilities," he "movi·ng towards a program, an wit • h"m me by Mr. M cDerm1"d"" r said. outlook, a s opposed to a "The best thing Jim had to collection of media. All of that is in the exploratory stages. We have to see what the possibilities are for generating a program here that would be superior to what it is now and hopefuA".' to what you find in other colleges." Mr. Rosenfeld could not isolate any relationship between these proposed changes in the Arts Division and . the dismissal of Mr. William Rosenfeld, chairman of the Arts Division, who dismissed McDermid. connections made between proposed changes in the Division and the Asked if he thought he was not decision not to re-hire James McDermid, associate professor of reappoi nt e d because of his sculpture and printmaking. approach to teaching art rather than his actual teaching ability, Mr. McDermid said, "You'd better not even ask me that." . Many .u=-t students believe the dismissal of Mr. McDermid would constitute a great loss to both When a Kirkland faculty the Chairman are then sent to the Kirkland and Hamilton Colleges. m e m b e r c o m e s u p for Dean of Academic Affairs and the An open meeting was held Wednesday, January 9, in the List reappoin tment, he is first Appointments Committee. reviewed by t he Personnel The Appointments Committee . Arts Center to inform the college Mr. McDermid, at work on a sculpture. Commit tee w ithin his own is advisory to the Dean and . community of the general issues d i v i s i o n . T h e P e rson ne 1 consists of one representative for Committee is advisory to the each of the four divisions, plus Chairman and is elected by the t w o m e m b e r s o f t h e f acu1ty- at-1 arge. The members-of the division. The Committee gathers data App ointments Committee has about the professor from division access to a l l i n f o r m a t i on faculty or those in related areas, concerning the professor and may them by their parents and friends. applicable to one's profession;" he BY LIZ BARROW Hamilton faculty members in the also c onsult back with his "College is greatly oversold," Challenging the audience by also said that the benefits of a same field, as well as from student division. according to Carolyn Bird, second repeatedly asking, ''What do you liberal arts education possibly e v a l u a t ions a n d info r m al - The Appointments Committee speaker in the Kirkland Winter get out of it? Why are you here?" may not be fully realized until presents its decision to the Dean Study series, "Earning a Living Ms. Bird began her lecture with an many years later in one's life. interviews with students. The Committee deliberates of Academic Affairs for approval. and Living Too." Before a large attack on liberal arts colleges. During the second half of the over all the information and The Dean then sends- all the a udience in t he R e d Pit B o t h s t udents a nd faculty program, Ms. Bird expressed makes a recommendation to the d a t a , t he decision of the Wednesday night, Ms. Bird, author strongly defended liberal arts satisfaction that she had catalyzed Chairman of the division. The Committee, and his opinion to the of Born Female said however, th'at c o l leges. M i chael H a l t z e l , such- a stimulating exchange of Chairman either agrees or President. The President reviews students often coine to college Hamilton assistant professor. of opinio.ns. The author said, "I'm disagrees, and sends a letter to the al l t he information on the because they have "nothing better history, argued, "Not everything trying to get people to better faculty member relating his o_wn candidate for reappointment and to do" or because it is cxpect-ed of one gets out of c�llcgc is directly define what they are doing." She said there is a "case for liberal arts opinion and the decision of the makes a final decision. Personnel Committee. · colleges" because they provide The Kirkland College Faculty provoking social situations and According to . the Kirkland Handbook says that ','a notice of College Faculty Handbook, "a non-reappointment is not the "give young - people a respectable ,, statement of the · reasons for a same as a dismissal for cause. Such moratorium for options. She de cisi on not to recommend a decision does not necessarily stressed, however, that there are re appointment, promotion, or rdlect adversely upon the faculty important a lternatives about tenure should be given to the member; it may be based upon which high school seniors should faculty member by the division c o n s i de r a t i ons o f budget, receive counseling, including chairman upon request." volunteer work and public' service: curricular changes, of program If the faculty member agrees development which have nothing Ms. Bird will be using students with the committee's decision, it to do with a faculty member's during t he spring term as is sent to the dean of Academic com pe tence or p r ofessional researchers for her forthcoming Affairs together with all the data -qualifications." book, The Case Against College collected up to that time. Can the Liberal Arts Survive1 If a faculty member feels that If the faculty member does not his case involves a violation of Various topics of research will agree w i t h t he Personne l academic freedom, he may appeal include: liberal arts faculty replies Committee, he may carry on an the final decision to the Appeals to students' questions concerning a ppeal s p r ocess within his Committee, composed of the the vocational validity of a liberal d i v i s i o n . T h e P e r sonnel D e an or his surrogate, the a r ts e d ucati on; g r a d u a tes' Committee will then check new chairmen of th'! Kirkland College o pi nions on w he ther their #Pur ce s f or more favorable Divisions with the exception of educations have helped them get formation, some of which may the Division Chairman of an the jobs they want; going through be suggested by the professor affected faculty member, and four college catalogues and n o ting involved. various college's stated purposes. elected faculty members. The Personnel Committee will The current members of the Also included will be: t._alking to then reconsider the case and send Appeals Committee are William people who are forced to attend its decision to be approved by the Hoffa, assistant professor of college by parental or other Chairman. The faculty member literature; Robert B. Muirhead, pressure; employer's opm1ons being reviewed is again notified of associate professor of painting, about a college degree; expulsion the decision and the Chairman's printmaking and drawing; Thomas processes; and the financing of opinion, but this time does not Scott, associate professor of college by families in varying income brackets. Students will have the option of agreeing or P sychology; and Heinrich H. disagreeing. interview t heir· subjects by Stabenau, assistant professor of All the data and the opinions literature. telephone and may travel to of the Personnel Committee and selected college campuses& F.F. Carolyn Bird, who discussed the value of the liberal arts education. i1 •' l , t 11 • i _ ,, J r, 0 i : :t O 'f I •J l � G 1: I, { 1J
Reappoint'fflent Process Viewed: Decision Rests With President
Carolyn Bird Provokes Audience QueStions Liberal Arts Education
January 18, 1974/THE SPECTATOR/7
Babbitt Clarifies Position on M cDerm id : . Controversy
Associate Professor of Sculpture and Printmaking James McDermid has not been re-hired for the fall of 1974. The decision and the entire process involved in it has precipitated student protest over the decision and an imminent appeal on the McDermid case. The following is a transcript of an interview with Kirkland President Samuel Babbitt concerning these , recent developments. Q: I'd like to ask you a few questions on the McDermid controversy which has just come up. Could you describe your role in the controversy? A: I h a v e n o r ol e in the controversy...No� let me say a few things •preliminarily. I am not going to comment on the virtues of the case one way or another. No way. That always has been policy and always will be. You don't air people's dirty linen... at least I don't. Q: Then you consider the case to be dirty linen? A: Not at all, I consider any-personnel decision to be difficult, rough, and to involve, obviously negative judgments, which I am not about to make public one way or another outside of channels on which it is supposed to be. But let me tell you what happens. A faculty member is up for a decision, and the decision in this case does not involve tenure, but involves whether or not a faculty member shall be re-appointed for a new term.. The word dismissal has never been used. The question is whether you will hire again a faculty member for a discreet term. That issue is mandated to be raised at a given time in the calendar before the expiration of his term, and it is the responsibility of the Chairman of the Division to raise it with the Personnel Committee of the Division. Q: Who is on a given personnel committee of a division? A: That is determined by the divisions and is really totally up to them. Q: But is it usually only facuity members? A: It is only faculty members, yes. Q: And only faculty members in that division. A: Correct. The division chairman, working with that committee, is mandated very specifically to consult in certain ways with colleagues, with students, with anybody, at the opposite college if they are in the same field, and to come up with a decision. As you know, our system, as at Hamilton, involves student evaluations in a formal sense at the end of each semester. 11&at's .in there. In every case that I know of, the division goes beyond that in seeking out student opinion about the instructor involved. The division personnel committee comes to a decision. It is advisory to the Chairman of the division, he may or may not agree. All of that, together with any data, any writtel\ conclusions, written opinions, student input goes up to the Dean. The Dean has an appointments committee which is advisory to him. The appointments committee is representative of the four divisions of the college, plus two elected members of the faculty-at-large, no students. They see all of the information. They have access to any information they want, they can go back to the division if they want, and they come to a conclusion. They make their recommendation to the Dean. He may or may not agree. He then comes to me, by this time carrying a load of papers...and says, "This is what I think and this is what the appointments committee thinks." If they agree, then I look at it ·and I either agree or disagree, and at that point, if there is not tenure, that is where it ends. Q: And at this point, you ar_e not going to say whether you agreed or disagreed? A: No, I must tell you that I agreed. Q: Now, you know what my next question is going to be that in this case what you said about using student evaluations, and what you said about consulting students, especially in a subject where the classes are small and many of
say students ruined the institution, I mean Q: So, the people who decide are the that system really fouled up in a couple of senior faculty of various departments. institutions be-::ause faculty didn't want to A: Same thing, the appointments come into that. They didn't want to get committee. into a popularity contest to see if their What you are getting at is, I assume, tenure was going to be renewed and there the nature and the direction of the division. And how much Bill Rosenfeld tended to be some rotten teaching going can dictate what the Arts Division is. The on because that's what was foremost in fact is that if he has the majority of his their minds, and so on. faculty with him... But I do very much agree, in fact I Q: But isn't that against the Kirkland always hav�, that students should be philosophy? involved in those decisions and I mean in A: In what way? the places where the decisions are being Q: In that, at least the students who are discussed. Q: The obvious question is, if you've involved in the McDermid situation felt always felt that way, why dtdn't you try that Mr. Rosenfeld and several of his colleagues in the division felt a certain way to change it? A: That's what everybody says to about what an arts division should be. presidents. You don't just go do that. Fine. But if so many of Mr. McDermid's Q'.· Do you need something like this? students felt that his attitude towards his A: I think you need something like profession was different, then there should this, but it is not going to happen if an be room for him. It is not really up to Mr. Rosenfeld to dictate his pedagogies on all, attempt is made to ram it down anybody's throat. It will only happen if and when his colleagues. faculty are willing and agreeable and do A: How far can you take that before you haven't got anything? Who was it that not feel threatened by _it. first dictated that Kirkland would have Q: In other words, you 're not going to evaluations? Who was it that dictated that, try to convince faculty. I don't know, that anything we do is in A: Oh, sure I am. the shape that it is in? And I think you Q: But it has to be their decision? find that groups of people move and the A: In effect, they're going to have to be groups of people come to conclusions willing to do it. about what standards are, what the Faculty Reacti on humanities are, what the sciences are or Q: What kind of sounding have you are not, and that those things do define received? What is the general feeling and that you have, you begin to have, a among the faculty about this? It would law working in which the college says in a almost seem as if someone were invading James McDermid, in List Arts Center. catalog, "this is what we're trying to be". their territory. Sometimes people say this is what we are, the students have gotten to know Mr. A: That's absolutely correct. And that's but usually we can say "This is what we're McDermid, the allegations are that that not strange at all. That has a long, long trying to be." never happened. tradition in the profession. And there's a And students either respond to that or A: Correct. great deal to be said for it; we are the n o t in t erms of applications and Q: And that evaluations were read, but people in whom the standards of the admissions. Now one hopes that if one is maybe used very, very lightly. The institution finally reside. going to make any definitive change one allegations stand because most of the Now, I don't believe that means that ought to signal that ahead of time, and I s t udents 'know each other .and ·they students cannot have a part in that think that what has happened in part in contend that they all gave him excellent process. I think they can. But one does the Arts Division at the moment is that evaluations, and that... have to move with care, because it's very there were some signals going out as far as A: Nobody has denied that. easy for faculty members to say,"No, not an attempt on the part of the Arts Q: What is your solution to this then? across this line." And when we were Division faculty to come to some unified A: Logic would require one to starting the college, I was more concerned ideas about what art ought to be about in conclude that the division felt so strongly that we get good faculty members and a liberal arts college, this particular liberal about whatever it was that they made keep them than I was that we initiate that arts college. My point is that what .I am their minds up on that they overcame the particular piece of pie. We had a lovely interested in doing now is getting the Donnybrook · in the assembly; that was in very postive student input. students and faculty as close together as Q: Why'! The students contend that the the first year, I think, when we were Arts Division is trying to move in a certain · possible, getting them to exchange ideas starting to design what SCACA would be, direction wkich: Mr. McDermid is not on what they are doing. and all of this was in the discussion of it. Q: Possibly, the problem you were just inclined to. Have you spoken to Mr. And I took the stand then, that I'm taking pointing to was caused by the absence of McDermid'! What are kis feelings'! now, that they ought to be involved; and I s t u d e n t s o n a p p oint m e n t s a n d A: He'd have to talk for himself. I can lost. We have not had a major push on it reappointments committees. Is that going only tell you this. Now, I am not going to before; but I don't find the current, ·· to be reevaluated'! take any position other than the official interest in it unwelcome. A: I don't think that is what caused the position I have taken until I have grounds Q: Do you have the power, according problem. But the answer, as far as I am to do so, and by that I mean formal to rules of the college, to override the concerned, is yes. I tend to be for having decision of the appointments committee grounds to do so.. My understanding is that students involved in those processes. I do the case is going to be appealed to the or the appeals committee 1 not tend to be, make no bones about this, appeals committee. I think that will A: Yes. Hiring and firing is finally and I do not think that students ought to happen instantly. legally vested in me. control those processes, and I can point to Divisional Direction Q: So no matter what happens, the a number of places where they damn near Q: My question is this. The system at decision on James McDermid ultimately Kirkland of Divisional Chairmanships I · did and damn near ruined the institutions, will be in your hands. think has its advantages, this is just my . because i� got into-and I don't mean to A: It usually ends up here. own opinion now, in that when you are trying to build a curriculum with � lot of interdisciplinary involvements, this is probably a great way to go about it b e c a u s e y o u h a ve everything in concentrated, small groups, but it occurred to me that possibly the people that run the different divisions might have more influence than possibly they should have, whereas at a school where you have twenty departments, the possibility of someone trying to push someone out or get somebody in would be severely minimized. Has any thought been given to. this? A: I think the opposite might be said, and I am just talkin' logic now. Why not, if you have a department which consists of two people and you have one guy in charge of hiring. Q: At Hamilton, at least, the hiring or the tenure is decided by a committee of senior faculty ... A: On the recommendation of the Samuel Babbitt, who will make the final decision on Mr. McDermid. department head.
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The following are exerpts from an interview with Kirkland President Samuel F. Babbitt The interview was taped in Mr. Bobbitt•s off,ce on January 11, 1974: Questioning Mr. Babbitt for The Spectator were Elizabeth Barrow, staff reporter, Douglas Glucroft, assistont news editor, and Mitchel Ostrer, news editor. The portion of Mr. Babbitt•s remarks dealing with Professor James McDennid and related matters can be found on the preceding page. Q: In a recent student survey, p<Jrlicipating students relayed the feeling that Kirkland being a womens school was not an important reason for their matriculation here. The Commission of Higher Education in its 1973 evaluation stated, "It is our impression that at this time all the distinctiveness of Kirkland could be .maintained w itho ut significant change if its student body became coeducational,.. Are there any plans for Kirkland to become coeducational? A; None. As I read this document, which is what you're basing it on:-there's a very interesting phenomenon which I'd like to follow up, which is that the awareness of the college as a college for women inaeases the longer the students are here. L think there'ssomething to that, and that pleases me. One of the ways one could answer this is that we haven't advertised ourselves sufficiently as a college for women. Another way, obviously, that you can answ·er, is that we don't perhaps present ourselves that way sufficiently. And pethaps we're not doing enough about being a college for women. Last year when we reinstituted a trustee level committee, this is one of the impetuses for -it. We sensed that this might indeed be true, we had this kind of doubt, and we wanted to institutionaloze a focus on that aspect of our definition. I am at the moment pleased with that as one vehicle, I am pleased with Dean Poller's work as another vehicle. We're making more and better progress than I think we ever have; towards responding to and defining ourselves more as a college for women. A Woman's College?
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Q: The Women's Center sponsoring films: do you think that is increasing awareness, too? A: Yes. Q: What has the trustee committee accomplished so far? A: I guess one would have to say two sorts of things. One is very practical. That is to say: it's an interesting committee, because minus the trustees it keeps meeting all the time as a kind of resident committee. And in that mode it concerns itself with very practical stuff: Health services is a big issue and it is centered in that committee at the moment. How does this health service respond to women? Is it fulfilling Kirkland's needs? Does our health insurance cover abortion? Should it? Why shouldn't it? What's it going to cost? How do we get it into the budget? Do we have sufficient access to athletic facilities? Answer,"no." What are we doing about it? How much is it going to cost? When are we going to do it? Do we have psychiatric counseling and personal counseling that is responsive to women? Should we then have a woman clinical psychologist? What are the grounds for it? Can you justify it? What does Don Muilenburg think about it? Or shou Id we up the oounseling staff in the Dean's office? I mean our Dean of Students office. Now, lf:lose issues are very clear cut policy issues for the college. The administration has got to formulate for the Board specific answers for all these questions. Most of them before February 8th, at which time they begin to get built into the budget for next year. In most of those areas which are student life areas, Jane Poller is carrying the ball; she's got the responsibility to come to me with proposals that will go to the board. Obviously those. proposals that get talked about and worked through in that committee, and that committee will be meeting with trustees; the chairman of that committee, a trustee, will be reporting those things to the board for action. That's what that committee is doing and I thing that's "sensational. ·And the other thing it's doing is by existing, it's got a fine, agressive chairman. She needles the trustees and she needles the administration. Q: Who-:S- that? A: Iola Haverstick. Very energetic lady, very smart. She really does work at it. We start off someplace, and she says, "Yeah, but-" And that works; it's a kind of sensitivization at the board level. Q: Do you think that since 1968 when the first group of students came to Kirkland has there been more emphasis on Kirkland as a lNOman •s college in general? A: The whole issue has changed so much since 1968 that you're playing a different ball game. Literally (I love to tell this story), dorms were designed with those lounges on the second floor so that all those sweet girls in curlers wouldn't have to be seen in public. Well, A, by the time the college opened nobody had curlers and B, nobody gave a damn whether they were seen in public with curlers. It's just a completely new world, and a lot of things like that have shifted. We've been trying to shift with them, obviously, becau:-;e students come to us now that have a totally ·different concept of what that's about than they used to. Q: During a discussion with some friends we noticed an
interesting change from how we interpreted stud en ts in the late 60's and how we interpret ourselves-which is that we are more interested in our work and in ourselves, and students then were maybe more politically oriented. Huve you noticed this change made from_ the charter class to the class of '77 now? A: Sure. But I think it's dangerous to be too simplistic about the shift. For example, I thing that something happened to us this year which is very instructive. I think that maybe we began to gelieve the roundup stories in the N.Y. Times that talked about the students who are coming into colleges these days. And you always hear the same sort of pattern:. much more professionally oriented; they do their homework and they get their papers in on time; they're good little people and they're less involved politically, and obviously less drugs, and so forth. The implication also being: less imaginitive, somewhat dull, and somewhat routine. You get the parallel: back to the 50's-that bit. And I think that maybe, subconsciously, we began to believe some of that, and we woke up rather sharply a couple of months ago when our freshman class began to get vocal. And they're very vocal. They're saying, where's this innovative college we're talking about? And they began to bitch in the best possoble way; very well. I'm just pleased as hell. It makes me think that our recruiting is not without its merits, that is to say, we may still be searching out and getting that kind of stu_dent. Admis sions Q: Has there been an increase in applicants over the years? A: Both an increase and a decrease. We're down somewhat this year. It doesn't bother us and we're not down to any panic point at all, but it's down. Although it's interesting; the picture isn't over yet. Obviously, I mean the deadline for applications isn't over yet, 'so we don't know fundamentally where we're going to end up. Hamilton, for instance, had a weird picture last year: they were behind at this point, then it peaked at the end. We don't know whether that's going to happen or not. We've interviewed. more people on campus this year than we ever have before; we don't know what that means or why. We don't know whether those campus interviews are going to drop now, there's some implication that they will with the gas thing. People would normally come up on a weekend; they're not going to drive on Sunday, probably, most of them; and we think this is going to cut down. So we don't know really where we're coming out; somewhat fewer a p p l i c a t i o n s , s o m e w hat more interviews;-what does that mean? I don't know. Q: The student body increased by 50 people this year-are there any plans to increase it even more? A: No. And it didn't increase by that much. We were authorized to go to 650-we opened at 629. We're still · authorized to go to 650, and we will if we can, but the swing factor in that is how many students we have who either want to live off-campus or are locals. And you about shifts in undergraduate habits, that one turned right around last year. We wrote people in midsummer saying anyone who wants to live off-campus can live live off campus, expecting that we'd have to ration that somehow. Four people wrote and one of them actually did it. And I just couldn't understand. Anyway, that was a surprise, and that's why we didn't get all the way to 650. Q: What increases in tuition are seen for next year? A: A few hundred bucks, at the mome�t. Q: Have you re,;eived much response from the letters you sent out for $1000? A: In the first place we had no idea what to expect; we have over $8000. I don't know whether that's good or bad; it's $8000. Q: It's been amounts less than $1000 usually? A: Yes. There were maybe half a dozen people. One wliom want to pin a medal on somewhere. Magnificent letter, I wish
could release it publicly, but I ca agree with you entirely, here's were, as I say, about a half do scattered in amounts. The happy were parents who, if they h contribution. So we're very plea whisper-and that's surprising. I people might have written in an they didn't. Q: What is being done with
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donated by Milbank last year? A: My guess is that that is al that falls into a vacuum. Q: I heard rumors of a new bul A: Let me clarify that. We ha the line, ask for estimates of estimates for new art space, I dickered with estimates for possit we're in the throes of trying ta Science wants some more social want estimates from time to tim{ build a darned thing. But somt application to a foundation and comes through you have a buildi1 don't have a building.
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can't. But the first paragraph was,"I 's my check for $1000." And there dozen others, but the others were py thing was that in most cases these had given last year, upped the leased, and no one made a negative �- I would have thought that some and said"hey, enough is enough."But
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Q: Okay; back to the science thing. A lot ·of Kirkland students are interested in science courses, but they find that taking them at Hamilton is so competitive bacause most of the people in Biology. or Chemistry. are ·pre-med: it's too competitive for them. Are there solid plans being made right now for Kirkland's science deportment to be enlarged, Just for the Botany courses, Biology maybe, or more courses than that?
A: I find it difficult to answer the question the way you put it. And I guess I take umbrage at a couple of things. One thing is that the science courses at Hamilton are too competitive for women or even Kirkland students.-! know you didn't mean it that way, but that's the way it comes out sounding, and I object-that's not true. And one of the reasons we know it's not true is that there are a number of Kirkland students doing very well in science courses at Ham ii ton. There are a whole lot of Kirkland women scared of science at Hamilton. And there are some good reasons for that, also.
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Q: There are a lot of Hamilton men who are scared of science at Hamilton.
A: Right. I haven't really answered your question about science. I cannot tell you because I do not know where we are at. I can tell you that we have not been id le; we have been talking hard with Hamilton on a variety of possible schemes that might be worked out which would connect the sciences on both sides of the street. I've been talking with the National Science Foundation. I've been talking with some other colleges which have some interesting schemes afoot, in process, but it is clear that we do not have at this point a clear vision of where we're headed, and more that that I can't really tell you. Every place we've gone to so far we've hit real difficulties with developing it.
Q: Rut h Rinard sent out a questionaire to students asking about summer school plans. And it appeared to me that she was asking that if Kirkland had a summer school, would we attend. Are there plans for a summer school?
A: Sure, that's why we went it out. i think that Ruth wants other information from it, but I had urged her to send it OU.: in order to find out if there is indeed market for it, and if there is I think we will try to develop one.
Q: Would the courses be a regular variety of Kirkland courses?
A: What we were trying to do was to o f fer t hose courses which were su fficiently oversubscribed, that people were not able to get into. This is in any area. It wouldn't be an art school. The breadth of the curriculum would be there. There are a lot of English courses people can't get into, a lot of Social Sciences. Beginning psycholog'y classes are big, people can't get in them.
Q: And finally, on the evaluations system. There have been some surveys done recently: Of students who are in the same class-one student taking it pass-fail or written evaluation and one student taking it for a grade-the pass-fail students' grades were . lower than the graded students'. What are Kir�land's thoughts on changing it's grading system?
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Ve have and we will continue to, along of various things. We've asked for ce, because they want· space. We've rossible new science space, as you know 11g to decide what to do there. Social ,cial psych experimental space. So we time, that doesn't mean we're going to sometimes we'll form a basis for an and that's a fishing expedition. If it uilding, if it doesn't come through you I
A: None. We've looked at this about every two years. All I can tell you is that the majority of faculty, and, at least at last count, the vast majority of students want to keep it the way it _is. Our reasoning is primari-ly pedagogical. We believe that it's a better way to teach. And it's a better way to transmit information about the quality of work here. We also believe that the scare about graduate admission and transfer is largely overdone. Q: A lot of schools hove changed, though, from a pass-fail evaluation back to grades.
A: Very few schools are like ours, and have an entire system like ours. Most of them have a pass-fail option, like Ham ii ton. And of course with a pass-fail option, if you get squeezed, every undergraduate in the world has got the problem of juggling his r:011rses. And you get the bind of the final exam, and you're going to
work harder {on the graded course) and do better because that's an immediate result: you know that that's where you're going to invest your energy, the result of which is a grade.
Kirkland's Finances
Q: The Carnegie Commission had rated Hamilton as "in no
danger. " A thing of concern to people at Hamilton is that although Hamilton may be in no danger, they may be pulled down by Kirkland. What, exactly, is the relationship, financially, between Kirkland and Hamilton?
A: Let me tell you the facts. We haven't borrowed a nick le from Hamilton in three years. We're paying them interest on money that we've borrowed from them and we're supporting forty percent of the joint enterprises of both colleges. In short, we're in quite lovely shape. And, as of January 20th, we'll be in even better shape if you come ask me. But, we're no drain on Hamiiton. Quite the contrary. Q: Do you expect to get a significant grant January 20, or-is that when the report will be issued?
A: That's when the report will be issued. I'm really very proud of where we are and to make the historical story· a short one: no question, we exceeded the amount that anybody anticipated in terms of borrowing from Hamilton during our first four years. We had predicated our financial life in 19'12, and if you want to have fun sometime, look at the economic graph and see what happened between the time those plans were laid and the time they had to come to fruition. One illustration of the difference is that in 1966 when we first started to talk about the bond issues that built these buildings, we were talking about 3 per cent bond issues. When we got the bank loan to bui!d this building it was at 10 percent, and you cannot futz around with 7 per cent of millions of dollars and not scre·w your budget so you wou Id n't believe it. At any rate, we certainly did exceed what we had planned to borrow from Hamilton. No question. What was somewhat miraculous is that in the fifth year we floated, and that was our original prediction, and: in short, we did not borrow money. We covered our debts, and we started our fu II contribution to all the joint enterprises. On a per capita basis we've done it from the beginning, but we were up to full strength at that time, so we're making' our contribution.
Q: That image is not proje'cted, though, when parents receive a le'tter asking for$ 7 000.
, A: Interesting that you should say that. The same thing exists at Hamilton. Colleges are beginning to learn, honesty for the first time: I'm serious about this-I don't mean to say that Hamilton hasn't been honest-I mean that we're all beginning for the first time to say the truth. One of the reasons that Hamilton is on that list of "not in danger" is that they had not made a public statement about their finances for a long time. It was very distressing to John Chandler when they got on that list because they didn't deserve to be on that list I'm not saying Hamilton is in danger. It is not. But it is not among the richest colleges in the world, and it has its financial problems, that is to say, it's gotta run as hard as the rest of us do to keep that dough coming in. We all do. And it is silliness to try to con parents or anybody else into thinking that that's not true, because it is true. We all have to run very hard to stay alive.
Babbitt's Personal Plans
Q: And now a few personal questions.
A: Is this coming out in a three volume edition?
Q: Is yours a lifetime committment here?,
A: No.
Q: Have you been looking into other opportunities?
A: I get an occasional letter and I tell them that my commitment ·here is not through, and I don't know_when it will be through. I am a general subscriber, and th is is no secret, to the "decade theory." If you can't get your song across within teri years, you ought to go sing it somewhere else.
Q: How do you think your song has been going here? A: I am reasonably pleased.
Q: You were appointed, when, in '65?
A: In all seriousness, I don't know when I'm leaving. That is barring unforseen events. If the matter is up to my own volition, I don't know when that would be and I'm staying nice and loose about it because I can date my ten years from a variety of differenl places. I came in 1966, the school opened in 1968, and I was inaugurated in 1969. So I have a loose decade. I am doing a lot of thinking, and this has nothing to do with the institution, this is totally personal. I'm doing a lot of thinking of what else I want to do some day. I'm not going to be dead by the time I leave here but there is no reason why I shou Id go be a president somewhere else. I've done that. In fact, I am so spoiled rotten because of this situation, I doubt there is another situation I would want.
Q: What other kind of work do you think of?
A: I don't know: I really don't. I know some things I don't want to do.
Q: Whenever a successor to you is appointed, do you advocate that she be a woman? A: Oh, yes.Very, very strongly.
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the· arts page Montgomery Wards Off Blues;
lntervi:ew Reveals Mixed S_tyle BY FRED GO EHNER The James Montgomery Band plays the bJues Chicago-tough and gritty, but unlike the J. Geils Band with whom they are· often compared, the r'n'b influence is closer to the smooth style. of the Motown sound than to the meat-and-p o t a toes of the Stax-Volt school. Yet, like the Geils band, their music is prope lled by rugged, honky enthusiasm, as evidenced last Saturday night during their two shows in the Chapel. Like their forthcoming single says, they're funky, but they're clean. The b ottom provided by
Chuck Purro's drumming and Billy Mather's bass work was a solid footing augmented by David "Expose Yourself" Case's organ fills and piano riffs. Peter Bell's u n u sual f i n g er-pick rhythm guitar style was evidenced in his ow!! composition, If You Want: . M e,·. to which he also contributed a c l e a n , controlled, highly · appealing vocal. Pete Malick's guitar was the musical main course, with his confident fingers moving through several various blues and rock styles, ranging from Albert King to a personal version of funkadelia. Carefully c h a n n e l ed e ne r g y f l o w e d abundantly from each member of the group, but the focal point was · clearly James Montgomery. He is not the group's best musician, (his harp playing was solid, confident, and driving, but he's no Junior Wells), nor its best singer. He nonetheless established himself as the group's leader by the power of his personal-ity and stage sense, which d r e w the audience immediately to this band. Yet James could stand aside and share the spotlight with any of his partners without endangering his rapport with the audience or the band's power. Like the best of rock'n' roll bands, the James Montgomery Band succeeds not on raw energy, but on energy refined by artistry and craft into a highly communicable, infectious f or m . B a ckstage, the band members were friendly, witty, open, and extremely helpful when
I interviewed them after the first show. Q: Yo u'v e oft e n been compare d with the ]. Geils Band. Do y o u w e l c o m e t h o s e comparisons? Montgomery: That's one thing us and J. have never been able to figure out. We both started out as Chicago-type blues bands-we have a similar base, but other than that... It doesn't do us any harm, though. Bell: I like J. Geil's music, but I don't go for their show much. Their last couple albums are really good. Peter Wolf runs their act, and he's very conscious of the show. He even carries his stage personality around with him. He talks in rhymes a lot; he's a witty guy, but some of its just gibberish. I told him once that we like to jam some even if we're doing a concert setup, so that we can stretch out and focus on the music, and he told me, "That's why you're wearing sneakers and I'm wearing these fancy boots." Q: I've got some friends who are real blues purists. Montgomery: Well, ·they hate us, then. Q: What woul d you say to them? Montgomery: Our guitar player played with Otis Spann and was one of his pallbearers, we've played with John Lee Hooker, Junior Wells, James Cotton, but we don't play the same music because we're not the same people they are. I can sit down and learn a Junior W e l l s h arp solo : note-for-note·, and play back a tape of it, and it won't be right. We used to play mostly 12-bar blues, but then one of us would come up with a tune, and we'd play it and say, "Yeah, that's all right," and we'd start using it. We had to stop calling ourselves a blues band, because these experts continued on page 12
Sin, by Edward Rusch.a
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Rusche Display at Root Revie11ed: Intriguing Though not Inspiring BY JON CRAMER A nyone w ho finds ants, cockroaches, and flies particularly nauseating should probably not attend the current Root Art Center exhibit, which features the work of California artist Ed Ruscha. His work is, to quote a review which is also part of the show, the "epitome of...irony and inspired triviality." Along with his obsession with insects (at least six silkscreens are covered with swarms of them), Ruscha has brought to the Hamil ton-Kirkland campus a witty and I clever approach to art. Such a style has not been seen here in a long time, and it's about time. Ruscha's work is not so
esoteric as that of some previous exhibits. He clearly creates with an eye toward the satirical or hum�rous p ossibilities of a s i t uati on. H i s d e l i v e r y i s s t r a i g h t f o r w ard, rather than loaded with abstruse symbolism which the mere dilettante could never hope to understand. This exhibition is especially for those w h o appr eciate the campus exhibits and who are sometimes frustrated by the blandness or complexity of what they see. T h e a r ti s t h as mastered s i l k s cr e e n a n d l i thograp h technique. He i s adept at detail, which may further nauseate insect haters. He has a flair for geometric precision, as exemplified by one of t he cxh ibit's fou r teen
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silkscreens, Cheese Mold Standar d with · Olive. Of the artist's twelve· booklets, which are suspended from the ceiling, the ones most representative of this precision are Thirty-Four Parking Lots and Nine Swimming Pools. Ruscha stirs the viewer's imagination with his unusual perspective. The booklets are myste ri ousl y sus pended in lithographical mid-air. The gas stations are all photographed aerially, and even the Cheese Mold Standard is seen from an odd angle. These t echnical variations, though fascinating, are merely v e h i c l cs f or further art1St1c expression. Some of these works take the fonn of social comment, an example of which is the l984 lithograph. A large grey 1984 is executed in .a ·computer punch card type-style, and a lone fly wanders off toward the bottom of the print. The point is clear, yet not overdone. I p a r t i c u l a rly liked Ant i-De p re s s a nt s a n d F ru i t-Me t r ecal H o l l ywoo d. Neither work is aesthetically pleasing, but viewing pleasure is not at issue. Ruscha conveys a message by employing a medium which explains what meets the eye. Hollywoo d is a silkscreen of the Hollywood billboard, neatly executed in grape and apricot jam and metrecal. The other work, also a silkscreen, shows a box of pills (also hovering in the air), done in pastel, and, ironically, gunpowder. 1Other works, such as The Royal Roa d Test and Crackers, which was written by Mason Williams (of Tomato Vendetta fame) and which stars Tommy Smothers and Rudy Gemreich, are simply humorous. I doubt that Ruscha's work will provide much in the way of divine r e velation or cosmic inspiration. A few light-hearted moments on a bleak January afternoon are sufficient.
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events FILM
On Campus This Weekend The African Queen. Bogart and Hepburn classic. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Sunday at 10 p.m. only. Kirner Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75. January 21 (Monday) Silent Film Series: The Last Laugh and Nosferatu. 7p.m. Chemistry Auditorium. January 22 (Tuesday) Silent Film Series: Destiny and Metropolis. 7p.m. Chemistry Auditorium. January 23 (Wednesday) Silent Film Series: Underworld, Kino Pravda, Nanook of the North, Rain. 7 p.m. Chemistry Auditorium. January 30 (Wednesday) BPRU Film Series: A Man Named Charlie Smith, Harlem Renaissance: The Black Poets, Langston Hughes. 7 p.m. Kirner Johnson Auditorium. January 31 (Thursday) They Shoot Horses Don't They? 8 p.m. Kirner Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75. A Night at the Opera Marx Brothers classic. 8 p.m. Chemistry Auditorium. Admission $.75. At Nearby Theaters Cannonball (853-5553) Walking Tall (R) Kai lett (736-2313) Westworld (PG) Uptown (732-0665) Cops and Robbers (PG) and The Outside Man (PG) Paris (733-2730) Papi/Ion (PG) 258 Cinema (732-5461) Sex Shop (X), Cinema 1: Executive A_c_tion (PG) ! Cinema 2: The W�v We Were (PG), Cinema 3. MUSIC January. 21 (Monday)
Concert. Amici Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Chapel.
January 22 (Tuesday)
Concert Lecture. Bernard Krainis, Virtuoso Recorder Player; Ray Erickson, Harpsichord; Fortunato Arico, Cello, 8 p.m. Chapel. January 23 (Wednesday) In - Concert. / Trento Cantori di Lisa. (30 �amilt9n-Kirkland students). 3 p.m. Ch_apel. January 26 (Saturday) Concert. The Ba/fa Freres; Cajun Band, 9 p.m. McEwen Dining Hall. Free with social tax. RELIGIOUS SERVICES January 19 (Saturday)
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:30. p.m. Kirner Johnson Auditorium. January 20 (Sunday) Free Church of Clinton. Speaker: Joel W. Tibbetts, Chaplain. 11:15 a.m. Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 p.m. Chapel. Janu.ary 23 (Wednesday) · · Scripture Study: God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. Mrs. Rinard leading. 9 p.m. Alumni House. January 27 (Sunday) Free Church of Clinton. 11:15 a.m. Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin 12:45 p.m. Chapel. Comr:nunity Worship. 7:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. LECTURE AND DISCUSSION January 18 (Friday) Debate: Amnesty - Why? Why Not! with _William A. Rusher, author of Amnesty - Now? Never! and Henry Schwarzschild, American Civil Liberties Union. 8 p.m. Chapel. January 21 (Monday) Lecture: The American and British Police Systems - compared. Professor Loughrey, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 4 p.m. Bristol Campus Center Lounges. January 30 (Wednesday) Lecture: Zen in ordinary mind. Time· to be announced. List Arts Center. January 31 (Thursday) Lecture: What We Don't Know. 8:30 p.m. Kirner Johnson Red Pit. THEATER January 29 (Tuesday) Japanese Noh Theatre. 8 p.m. Chapel. Currently on Campus
EXHIBITIONS
Next Door, Down the Road, Around the Corner. Photographer Richard Balzer's 1970 journey through 47 of the 50 states. At the Bristol Campus Center, through January 24. Sculpture by Nell Russell. At the List Art Center, through January 28. Drawings, Prints, and Books of Edward Ruscha At the Root Art Center, through January 23. .
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virtuosity. The Bartok work may have been the most interesting piece of the evening. It opened with a "Molto moderato", in which an e t hereal, sometimes hum a n-so un di n g vio lin was suspended above a dark mass of s urging, e ve r-changing piano colors and textures, which were rendered the more mysterious by
T he p iece w a s m arked throughout by great contrasts in rhythm and dynamics, and was noticeably punctuated with an occasional sweet chord amidst the o ther wise "le ss-conventional" harmonies. Both artists again disp layed admirable mastery of their instruments, and also a much kenner sense of ensemble, in this very demanding piece. The Brahms sonata constituted a fi ne c oncl usion to the performance. It was (as might be ex pect ed) rich and highly dramatic, with recurrent themes built on sweeping lines, and a s t o r m y , p r o p e r l y Romantic ending. On the whole, it may have been the best-played piece of the concert. Perhaps it could be best described as "lieblich". The audience was obviously delighted with the whole program, and they demanded an encore, which turned out to be an amusing and interesting little composition entitled How Old Is Song? Written by the American composer Henry Cowell, it required the pianist to lean into the instrument and strum the strings with her fingers to produce a harp-like accompaniment for the violin melody. It was a very pleasanf way to spend a January evening, Some things, of course, never change. The Ajemian Sisters Perform. Apologies to theaudience and the artists. Even with the addition of a ntw Flat Major, Op. 12, No . 3, extensive use of the damper pedal. sign on the Chapel door ·whk:h Bartok's Sonata No. 2, and The expert - fingers of Anahid specifically requests that people Brahms' $onata in D Minor, Op. A jemian p.r:oduced remarkable refrain from entering in the 1 OS. violin effects, which at times middle of a piece, some peoµt_e The first movement of the could only have been called sighs. apparently still feel compelled to Beethoven sonata ("Allegro con A most subtle transition carried do so. And now, we may have to spirito") alternated moments of the piece directly into its second· add a sign about flash bulbs. great warmth and emotion with m o v e m e nt ("Allegretto"), Sometimes, we seem to be out t9 lighter, more playful passages. The wherein the mood was lightened, deliberately destroy the old piece continued with a slower notably by an exciting pizzicato Hamilton myth about how "Adagio. con molto espressione", section which was evocative of intelligent and sensitive we are and ended in "Rondo-Allegro gypsy music. The end of the around here. Maybe we should molto", full of flourishes which piece, however, was marked by a work on preserving and .protecti4'g_ gave both artists a chance to deliberate recollection of the it instead. After all, it is ·a ratner demonstrate their considerable opening. nice myth.
The energy crisis may have caused the Chapel to be a little chillier than usual; but there was n o. lack of energy in the perf ormance g i ven Monday evening by pianist Maro Ajemian· and her sister Anahid, who played the violin. They offered a most e nj o.yable p r o g r a m , w hich included Beethoven's Sonata _in E
List Features ·Steel Sculpt_ure; Biomorphic ForrTls ·, Mark E�hibit
The work of Nell Harrison Russell, a sculptor from Rome, New York, is featured in the current exhibit at the List Arts Center. The show closes January
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Mrs. Russell works iil_steel. The pieces in the List exhibit range from three to over eight feet high. All ten were done between 1966 and 1973. Mrs. Russell says that her sculpture begins with the circle and "evolves through a process of bending, tw1stmg, adding and subtracting parts until the whole conforms to some image in my mind." She calls the "curvilinear form" the best reflection of "the cycles , rhythms, spirals and repetitions inherent in all living t h i ng s a n d in the daily occurrences of life." Mrs. Russell was born in New York City and received her tramrng at the Philadelphia College of Art, Parsons School of Design_, Hunter College and Syracuse University. She received 1 a Mu nso n Wi lliams Proctor Institute award for her work in 1966 and the Rudy Wedow Memorial Prize from the Kirkland Art Center in 1967. In 1969 and
19 7 3, M r s. Russell received Cooperstown Art Association and awards at the Cooperstown Art the New York State Fair. Association annual exhibitions. Her work is also part of the Mrs. Russell has had several collections of the Munson s ho ws in Rome, Utica and W i ll i a m s P roctor Insti tute, Oneonta. She exlu'bited at the Rensselaer Polytechnic. Institute, Muns�n Willia.ms Proctor- Museum "the Schenectady Museum and the of Art, the Everson Museum, the Hobart School of Welding Tech., Albany Institute of History and she was also a A r t , SUNY A lb a ny, t he
Sculpture by Nell Harrison Russell, at the l,i�t Art <:enfrr
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. Montgomery Band Interviewed; Musician's Lifestyle Disclosed getting out a top 40 record? Montgomery: I've been in this would come in and say, "That's business since I was fourteen, and not the blues." We're just playing so far I've managed to save what we're hearing. We're not enough money to be about $200 good enough yet to play it right, '\in debt... but we're trymg to get there. - Bell: The whole band's in debt. Q: Why do you think so many I don't know how any bands stay blues bands come from Boston? Montgomery: There are ten together. Montgomery:...and then you clubs in Boston which are the most popular clubs, and you can't ask what I'd think if we had an play there unless you play original AM single that was doin'well. I'd material or blues. I come from think it was just peachy. Boy oh Detroit, and friends of mine there Boy. It would be nice to play continued from page 10
what they're like." That's all we're askin' for. An AM single would be something to stand on so people won't think, "Boy, that Soper really feels good, and if these guys play too long, I'll pass out," and they want you off, so when they're ready to pass out, their favorite group will be on. "Ahh! There they are!!" Klunk! We've played with some people who...well, we were puzzled that's the only word I can think of. I mean you see these people doin' this stuff and you think, "Yuck," and after the tune's over, you look at the audience, and they're all goin, "Yaaah," and jumpin' up and you think maybe I oughta hire six guys who never played before and get up in front and just jump up and down.
This weekend Kinokunst presents The African Queen, the movie for which Humphrey Bogart is best remembered and the one for which he won his only Academy Award, for best performance. Katharine Hepburn earned her fifth nomination. "It is a comedy, a love story, and a tale of adventure, and is one of the most entertaining movies ever made."-Pauline Kael.
Q: Do you run into a lot of shady characters? Montgomery: You know, with LUKAS . all the bad stuff you hear about Dennis Lukas, a visiting· artist from Montreal, is exhibiting some the business, so far I think that of his work in a room at the Root Art Center during Winter Study. about 98.9% of the people we've Thus far he has installed several of his creations. Perhaps the most r un i n t o h a ve been really notable of these is a work entitled Holiday Food, 1973-74, which down-to-earth, good people. was formerly on display in the refrigerator of a noted Hamilton art Bell: Meanwhile, can I go on history professor. Observe the startling daily transformation of a record as saying that the Gary living work of art. Ask for the "Dennis Lukas Room" at the Root Farr band is an outasite band. Art Center. Montgomery: Yeah, me too. They've got a rhythm section out there. (I felt differently about that. Farr's band may have been fairly tight, and I thought his voice was nice and full, but his phrasing was The so-called Kirkland Arch, became part of a project for the second-hand Joe Cocker with which collapsed on the List Winter Study Course The Physics some Van Morrison pinched in, Terrace Wednesday, had been o f A r c h itecture, taught by and his lyrics were slightly bui lt b y Professor, Ralph Professor James Ring. The vault varished Jack Bruce. The band, Lieberman's Gothic Architecture w as systematically overloaded whil e t i ght enough, lacked course during the first semester to with weight, and the stress and anything special enough to give an demonstrate and help teach deformation constantly gauged edge to their overly mannered students Gothic structural and and recorded until it finally gave sound.) erectional principles. Technically w a y. Presumably the whole Montgomery: I'll tell ya, we've it was a quadrapartite rib vault; system of individual crossing and been on the road for almost the four piers and six interlocking converging arches fell more last two years. Playin' five nights a arches of mortar and . concrete according to theoretical principles week and drivin' 3 or 4 hours a . brick, built on wooden entering than a nyone h a d thought day. And that is...somethin'. It's over a rectangular floor space. probable (the precise geometrical not like sittin' in front of the TV A similar vault was constructed configuration of such a structure with a beer and your girlfriend two years ago, but lasted only means that stress fissures and and the hockey game... Wow! four and a half h�urs. The present Now, that's life, especially if the structure stood for over eight cr acks s ho uld d evelop in predictable spots.) All of the Bruins are winnin!. weeks, but was never intended as .,irches and three out of the four Q: Thanks a lot for your time. a permanent fixture. Rather, it main piers were carried away in Montgomery;· Aren't you the, collapse. going to ask me how I lost my tooth? Q: O.K. How'd you lose it? Montgomery: I don't know..
Gothic Arch Collapses; Aids Physics Proiect
Bluesman James Montgomery can't get a job unless they-re playing top 40. , We get back, and we hear another new band that's fuckin' killer. You know, there's bands in Boston right now that could go downstairs here and just tear the joint up, and they're workin' bars for $100 a night, and they burn and they're dedicated and they love it. Boston's vibrant with new music, man. It it's blues, its gotta be different. Most of the Bost o n b a n d s have a real r e lationship thing with their audience. Q: How long has this band been together? Montgomery: Well, it's about two years now. Man, this giggin' is something else, man, I can't believe it'sjanuary. Purro: \yhen you're on the road, you go into suspended animation. Q: How do you feel about your album? Purro:· I like it well enough, there were lots of things that could have been better, mostly production-wise. What's weird is those tapes had a lot of presence before they were mixed, but when they were finished, they got washed out. We won't make the same mistakes next time. It's hard to be objective about your music. Montgomery: Objectively, I'd say we're the greatest band that's ever been on the face of the earth. Go out and buy the record. Bell: The Rolling Stone review was fair. The producer's sound was too smooth for us. Q: How would y·ou fer! about
Photo by Bill Peek places and just have your foot in the door, that's all we want now, really. When we get up to play in a place where no one's see us, we have people thinkin', "Lets hurry up and get these guys off so we can see Black Oak Arkansas or so we can see Foghat." Bell: I'd rather have my teeth drilled than listen to Black Oak. Montgomery: Just to have them think, "Oh, yeah. I've heard about these guys. I think I'll actually listen to them and see
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Modern Jazz Quartet Due; Group in its Third Decade Friends of Jazz, all music musicians and would undoubtedly l o ve r s , a n d, a l l lovers: an be mistaken for "classical" unprecedented group of artists performers· if it were not fo; the will arrive on the Hill thanks to sounds that came from their the H amilton College Music instruments. They stand out as Department and the Root Art uniq_u e j a zz m en by t he Center. The Modern Jazz Quartet seriousness and professionalism arrives February 9 at the Chapel, they put in their music. With John Lewis on piano, Milt 8:30 p.m., to play their music with skill, experience, training, Jackson on vibes, Percy Heath on and love that few other musicians bass (who replaced Ray Brown), and Connie· Kay on drums (who even hope to perfect. replaced Kenny Clark), the MJQ is Starting o·ut as the rhythm section of Dizzy Gillespie's big one of the tightest groups to be band in the 40's (relieving the heard anywhere. Do not go and brass section of the band for expect to hear the roar of a big hours at a time) the MJQ is now band, the electricity of amplified in its third performing decade. instruments,· nor the subtleties of a classical ensemble. Go and hear The MJQ can now play everything the fire and creativity of an from the Blues to Bach. improvised art which still stands They have modeled themselves up despit� changes. in the tastes a f ter ·''c lassi cal'' c h am her and fads of Jazz.
H a m ilton Men-Give us a chance! W e s till appreciate common courtesy, a warm smile, and a quick hello. We appreciate good times and certainly don't dwell on the bad. While January Term may be welcomed by the academians as a chance to pursue, in depth, a course not available for study during the traditional semester, we share the same a m bit ion s t o utili ze t hi s opportunity for boozing and cruising. Hamilton Men-On the Hill, while isolation may have its merits, we'd love to step into your world. In the depths of winter, Clinton can be a pretty lonely �lace if you don't know anyone. While we may not deserve your kind consideration and attention, if you'd only get off .your pedestals long enough, you may find that we have quite a bit in c o m m o n.
Haiµilton Men-You may rest assured that most of this is written in jest. After all, how can one possibly judge a college and its students in only three week's time? We welcome your shots at Skidmore and, no doubt you'll . have plenty to say. Hamilton Men-There is one thing that we dislike the most, "You're from Skidmore, aren't y,ou: -po you know Marrianne?" .Hamilton Men-Especially, you pre-Harvard meddies, pre-law Y a l i e s , and p r e-Wharton· bankers...academics are not the sole means of survival in college. How about saving a little room for us when you're applying to those Ivy League grad schools. You might try following our suggestion and try getting off before taking you boards ...yes, you may have to settle for a six instead of your a nt i cipated s e ven h u�dred. However, you may be satisfied in knowing that you have now given someone else a chance.
January 18, 1974/THE SPECiTATOR/1;3
· Adler Conference Follow-up Postponetl, Schneider Desi�ted New Chairman
J. Martin Carovano, at the Adler Conference in September.
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BY ROD STITT Several factors have intervened to force a postponement of the follow-up Adler Conference since the regular Adler report was written. That report states, "In order t o best evaluate the Conference as a whole, it was decided that there should be a follow-up conference that will be held on Saturday, December I. A final recommendation will be released at that time." Kenny Marten, Chairman of the 197 3 Adler Coordinations he "didn't Committee, said really appreciate the fact that this conference should be led by... (his) successor" until some time after the Report had been released. Dean Bingham, who conferred with English• Professor Frederick Wagner in a "strictly advisory" role to help Marten finalize his choice of a successor, said it was his opinion that it would be better to have someone who would be here during the coming semesters a s t he n e w C o o r di n ations C o m m ittee c h a i r m a n . Alan Silverman '76, who was to preside at the December meeting, has plans to be off campus for the. spring semester as well as the fall 1974 semester. Roger Schneider was picked as the new chairman. B i n g h a m s ug gested t hat "logistical problems" which arose from impending final exams and s c h e d u l i ng con f l icts a l s o encouraged postponement of the conference. According to its chairman, the follow-up conference will be held "on the second or third weekend in February." T h e conference, which is organized and administered by the s i x - m e m b e r C o o rdinations Committee, will deal with two fundamental areas: the validity of
the Confe ren ce itsel f-and K i rkland's role at the 1974 Conference. Although he feels that Adler "s hould remain essentially a Hamilton function," Schneider b e l i e v e s t h a t a "j o i n t Conference," in which people from Hamilton and Kirkland would discuss problems that are germane to their own colleges, followed by a discussion of ''joint areas of concem ... may be best." Sc hneider said last year's Conference decided a subsequent meeting should be held so that a "clearer view of what had gon � on" since the Adler Report was written, would result; the meeting would also evaluate "the progress, i f any, towards the i m p l e m e n t a t ion of t heir proposals." Such a conference is "un precedented" in Adler's history, and Schneider said he hopes "it will remain so." The Chairman of the Coordinations Committee i s "not r eally convinced that there is anything good that can come out of a f o l l ow-up conference," as it "df'·f� ... f:s the entire purpose of
Adler." He noted that the Conference was not originally intended "to formulate concrete proposals and see if they have been implemented." The occurrence of such a confe rence on the Hill, in S c h n e i d e r' s e s t i m a t i o n , encourages "elitist tendencies" and the loss of "objectivity" among participants. H owever, he believes that Marten's suggestion of holding a "final, general meeting · at the Chapel" open to all who wish to attend, to show members of the colleges "some sort of idea" of Adler's decision-making process, is worth considering. Marten suggested that the postponement of the follow-up conference could serve two useful purposes: "a greater amount of time" would be available "to re-'evaluate what has happened" since the conclusion of the Conference; and a concurrent "opportunity" would be provided "to publicize the existence of Alder" and possibly generate community interest.
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A D Boiler Fails;
BY MIKE BOSHART A boiler failure at Alpha Delta Phi on December 24, 1973 necessitated vacating the house until this weekend, when the students will be permitted to return. Jim Kennedy, president, said that due to lack of funds, the Trustees of Alpha Delta Phi "seriously considered" selling the house. There was not an explosion as many students had thought. The cause of the failure of the forty y e ar .old boiler was diagnosed as "old age". Several
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attempts had been made to could not be repaired would be to prolong its life, but they proved sell the house. This idea, however, to be in vain. was subsequently rejected. Of primary importance in The replacement of the boiler replacing the boiler was the was begun, but the problem of m a t t e r o f fi n ance s. E arly money still remained. A loan for estimates placed the cost at $8,000 was taken out from the $7,000. Later, this estimate was A l p ha Delta Phi Scholarship Fun d. T o s upplement this, raised to $15,000. Attempts were made by the another $8,000 was borrowed trustees of the fraternity to get from the Hayes National Bank. Due to an inheritance from an the college to co-sign for a loan to cover the repairs. This request was alumnus of the fraternity, $5,000 refused by Acting President J. of t he bank loan will be Martin Carovano It seemed the immediately repayable. A fund only course open if the boiler drive was initiated Monday to
raise the remainder of the money. This consists of letters to the alumni of the house, explaining the situation and asking for assistance. The failure of the boiler was first noticed on Christmas Eve by two cooks living in the house. They notified the Vice President of the house Coleman Harding, who lives in Clinton. It was Harding who first notified the trustees. Harding also obtained the services of the firm doing the work, William Owens and Sons of
Clinton. Mr. Owens - has done con s i d erable other work on campus. Work on replacing the boiler was begun immediately. Because of the lack of heat, the 25 students living in the building had to be relocated. They were asked by Dean R. Gordon Bingham to find their own accomodations for Winter Study. Any students not able to find housing were helped by the administration. The house has been opened once a day so that the members ·could get personal belongings. They could also get in by notifying one of a few members who had keys. This eliminated the moving of many personal effects. The relocated students had two choices for meals: fending for t h e m s elves, o r e ating at Commons. Most of them chose to eat at Commons. They will be charged for this by the College, and m u s t a p p l y for reimbursement to the treasurer of the house. When asked how it felt to be eating at Common.s again; the students replied with, "It's a remembrance of the past," or "It !!!l's". The latter opinion was the most popular. No damage occured to the house itself as a result of the boiler failure. Howeve�, the portable heaters used to prevent the freezing of pipes deposited a layer of soot on everything. The whole house will have to be cleaned before members move back in.
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Hoopsters Edge By Middlebury; ' Outplayed by Williams & _ U#ca I BY DAVID LECHER F o 11 owing t he t hr i l l i n g t w o-point, last-second victory over Middlebury, the Hamilton cagers have dropped two in a row to S t. Lawrence and Utica College. Against Middlebury, it was all Mark Badger '75. The 5'9" guard pumped in 2 8 points, including the deciding shot with only three seconds remaining on the clock. Badger shot a phenomenal 72% from t h e f l o o r - g o i n g t hirtee n-£ or-eighteen-and was perfect at the line. Marty Guy· '76 chipped in 17 points, while captain Ernie Found '74 talliedeleven and pulled down 10 rebounds. Found played the entire second half with four personal fouls while still retaining his aggressiveness off the boards. Sophomore Dave Nelson led Middlebury scorers with 24 points. Middlebury led 47-40 at half-time, but a 10-4 spurt by the Blue brought them within one. With nine minutes left the Panthers p ul l e d out to a seven-point bulge again. A bucket by Badger and Found's 3-point play made it 61-60. It remained a tight ballgame the rest of the way until Badger's shot from the ':omer with three seconds. A last second shot by Cummings fell short and the Buff and Blue had a hard-fought and deserved victory. As the Middlebury game was all Mark Badger, the St. Lawrence c ontest was all Eric Pritchard, a St. Lawrence freshman.-c Pritchard was not even listed in the program, but his 36 points were enough to lead St: Lawrence to an 84-72 victory. Pritchard scored his team's first twelve points, using a variety of moves to penetrate the Blue zone defense, leading the Larries to a 43-32 half-time advantage. Brian Coombes' '77 accurate shooting brought the Blues back in the second half. Coombes shot 8-10 from the floor and finished the evening with 16 points. Hamilton closed to within one and was behind 74-72 with just over a minute to play. ' Then the turnovers began. Poor
passing, which had marked the Blue's game all night came into e vidence again, allowing St. Lawrence to run off the final 1 O points of the game. Badger led Hamilton with 18 points but was not as accurate as against Middlebury. Captain Ernie Found again dominated the boards against taller opponents.. He had 14 points and 12 rebounds. Pedro Garcia turned in a strong performance with 14 points. Pedro hit 8-8 from the .,_
. Semor �1chy WIiham� l�d UC with 19 frrst ha� pomts and sparked t�e team m the seco1�d half. Kevm Wolfe and Charhe Gardner both had 20 points for U.C. Brian Coombes and Pedro Garcia paced the Continentals w i t h 19 a n d 20 p oi n t s respectively. High scoring guard Mark Badger had an awful night scoring only 6 points while hitting only 3-13 from the floor. A tough, trapping defense by UC led the Blue quintet into many turnovers and forced shots. Coach Murphy summed up the Continentals' play when he said, ''We j ust p l a ye d t e r r ible basketball." The loss dropped the cagers to a 2-7 record with Hobart next on the scheduJe.
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fifth goal, and Hildebrand and Jim continued from page fifteen reflected on the win by saying Rishel got the assists. Then that he "thought the whole squad Madonia with 3:54 left, skated played exceptionally well." Benny through two defenders, stopped, and Jim Rishel also expressed and from fifteen feet out lifted their thanks to the fans for their one over the R.I.T. goaltender's shoulder. Rick Aubry , whose boostering vocal support. In the Oswego Tournament penalty killing was superb, was during Chri s t m a s v a ca tion, credited with his fourth assist. In the· second period at 11 : 06, Hamilton grabbed second place B e n n y M a do ni a d e f t l y behind Waterloo University of maneuvered the puck in from an Ontario. Waterloo beat the Cont's impossible angle for his second 10-3, and shut out Royal Military goal of the evening. Ricky College of Ontario and Oswego by Anderson picked up his team respective scores of 9-0 and 1 0-0. leading six th assist, Gib Hedstrom The Blue downed the RMC 7-3, made it 4-0 when Pete Ascher! and avenged their open�g season we · loss to Os go by ·a trouncmg 4-2 Pedro shoots from outside score. Wednesday, Jan. 16, Hamilton foul line, increasing his foul skated to a 5-2 win over R.I.T. shooting percentage to 9 4%_. A factor which was evident to Tom Moore, WHCL broadcaster, all fans was the apparent ineptness commented that the "refs were January 19 (Satmday) of the referees. It is not the fan's really stupid, they can't call Hockey. Colby, 1 p.m. position to criticize these men, anything tonight." The shoddy but it appeared to the partisan play of both teams seemed to be Sage Rink. home- cou rt crowd that the due to the poor reffing. · January 22 (Tuesday) Hamilton, however, was in o f ficiating w a s c l e a r l y s ub- standard, and may have control of the game all the way. Basketball. Hobart. JV: 6 possibly had some influence on The Blue took an early lead in the p .m. Varsity: 8 p.m. first period when Steve Malcolm the outcome of the game. Alumni Gym. Utica College turned a tight came around the net, and made a ball game into a rout in the centering pass to Phil Hildebrand. January 24 (T hursday) second half and defeated the Blue The puck caught the back of the H ockey. University of cagers 91-71, for their first win of goalie's stick and deflected in. Malcolm was credited with his the season. Massachusetts. 3 p.m.
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skated around the net and tried to jam it in. Gibby was there for the rebound and score. Although R.1.T. tallied twice in the third period, Hamilton was never in fear of losing. Dave Gillmore and Donny Armstrong received game misconducts. In fact Armstrong, or "Bruno" as he is a ffect ionately nick-named, grabbed one of the referees. The Hamilton bench clamored fm: dukage, but Donny spared the r eferee's life and play was resumed. W h i l e H amilton w a s short-handed, Phil Hildebrand put the game out of reach when he alertly picked off a pass at center ice, skated it down, and lifted 1t over the shoulder of R.I.T.'s helpless goalie for his fifth goal of the season. He was unassisted and leads the team in goals tied with l\fadonia and Malcolm. Rossi made 19 saves, while his. R.I.T. counterpart had 28, many' of them "gifts." Aubry and G i llmore came through with effective penalty killing. On the whole the team played well, but was subjected to an inferior brand of hockey, and an inferior brand of reffing. In the third period both inferiorities caught up, and the lapse resulted in two goals for R.I.T. T h i s S aturday afternoor., January 19, Hamilton battles Colby in what promises to be a good game. Game time has been switched to one o'clock. The UVM and U. Mass games to be played during intercession are vital to the Cont's, and will feature college hockey at its best. THE SUB STATION 19 COLLEGE HILL ROAD 853-8081 WE DELIVER!! Descripti�n Italian Mixed Ham Turkey Russian Roast Beef Sausg./Cheese M.Ball /Cheese . Tuna Texas Dog Cheese
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16/THE SPEC(ATOR/January 18, 1974
Greenhalgh pulls his way to record victory .
Blues Ice RIT and ·Williams; Second in Oswego Tourney BY STEVE HAWEELI Hockey Coach Gregory Batt celebrated his 57th birthday last ·. week, and on Jan. 5, the Hamilton . Te.;m presented him with Hockey a 4-1 victory over Williams at Sage Rink. Coach Batt said to his players before the game that this was to be the "barometer of success for the season." And if the Blue continues to play the same brand of hockey that they displayed against Williams, they will no doubt tie the surprise of Division I I.
Swimmers Step· By Bonnies and_ RPI; A Strong Williams Team Looms Ahead . BY JOHN NAVARRE Coach Clarence Lephart of T he Hamilton swim team R . p. I . c o n t a c t e d C o a c h . b r u s he d aside ·a weak and MacDonald prior t o the meet and d i sappointing St. Bonaventure rearranged the schedule of events team, 76-37 on December 8. The from 200 yards in all the strokes t ankmen posted their fourth to 100-yard events, and also victory Saturday with a 74-39 switched the Freestyle Relay from dunking of the R.P.I. Engineers in 400 yards to 800 yards. These are the Alumni Pool. e v e n t s u s u a 11 y swum i n A standout in the Bonaventure post-season competition, such as meet was Jeff Carlberg, who, for the New York State Meet and the the second time this year, broke NCAA College Nationals. This his own r�cord in the 200-yard gave the R.P.I. team a chance to B r e a s t s t roke. C a r l b e rg also qualify swimmers to the State combined with Craig MacDonald, Meet in the shorter events, who Gary Karl, and Doug McDevitt, all might not qualify in any other juniors, to set a new pool and events. school record in the 400-yard Freshman David Greenhalgh Medley Relay. McDevitt repeated posted a new school record in the his record setting performance in 1000 yard Free, outswimming the 100-yard Free tying the R .P.l.'s t o p f reestvler, Hal long-standing record of Rick Volp Ehrhardt, in a closely contended '69. John Needham, who was race. Greenhalgh and Ehrhardt advised· by Coach MacDonald "to were stroke for stroke until the take a bath" in the 200-yard Free, last 200 yards, when 9'reenht1lgh swam only fast enough to win. pulled ahead to finish with a 5 Needham returned in the second lead and the record. 500-yard Free to let loose and set John Needham, a teammate of a new school and pool record. Greenhalgh's both at Hamilton a nd during the summers in Hamilton 76 St. Bonaventure 37 Syracuse, also swam well when he 400- yd. m e d l ey r el a y: finished with a first in the Hamilton, 3 :48.6 (school and 200-yard Free, only one tenth of pool record) IOO0-yd. free: Greenhalgh (H), a second off the present team and 10:58.2, Cavanaugh (8), Shapland pool record. Gary Karl finished (H). second in the 100-yard Butterfly 200-yd. free: Needham (H), 1:56.3, Hoffman (B), Baird (H). with a time of 57 .8 behind Greg SO-yd. free: Widman (H), 22.9, Wroclawski of R.P.I. This is a Closs (8), Murphy (H). 2 0 0 -yd. individual medley: school and personal best for Karl, Hickey (B), 2:11.6, Walters (H), who sh_ould now add a stronger Collins (B). backbone to the 400-yard Medley Required diving: Edick (H), 151.60, Kulp (H), Russo (8). Relay. 200-yd. butterfly: Greenhalgh ( H ) , 2:1 2.5, Cavanaugh (B), Matthews (H). 100-yd. free: McDevitt (H); 4 9.0, (ties school and, pool record), Widman (H), Closs (B). 2 0 0-y d . b a c k s t r o k e: MacDonali:t" (H), 2 :13,7, Collins (B), Freeman (B). 500-yd. free: Needham (H), 5 :09.l, (school and pool record), Hickey (B), Stillwogon (B). 200-yd. breaststroke: Carlberg (H), 2:19.5 (pool record), Cohen (H), Antosh (B). Optional diving: Edick (H). 198.35, Kulp {H), Doyle (B). 400-yd. freestyle relay: St. Bonaventure, 3:32.4.
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4 0 0-y d . m e dley r e l ay: Hamilton, 3:57.6. 1000-yd. freestyle: Greenhalgh (H), 10:49.0 (school record), Ehrhardt (RPI), McGuire (H). 200-yd. free: Needham (H), 1 : 5 1. 8, Wr o c l a w ski ( RPI), Shapland (H). SO-yd. free: Murphy (H), 23.7, Davis (RPI), Vanderveer (H). 4 O 0-yd. individual medley: , M a tthews (H), 4:55.4, Boyd (RPI), Kraus (H). Required diving: Edick (H), Coach MacDonald and the 146.50, Holender (H), Strollo team left campus in high spirits, (RPI). 100-yd. butterfly: Wroclawski b u t d u r i ng t he holi d a ys MacDonald suffered the worst loss (RPI), 57.4, Karl (H), 57.8 (school record), Vanderveer (H). of his 64-7-1 career. All-American 100-yd. free: Murphy (H), Doug McDevitt was killed in an 53.5, Davis (RPI), MacDonald auto accident, and freshm�n Mark (H). 100-yd. backstroke: Baird (H), Walters, also on the team, was 1 :01.8, McCarthy (RPI), Shrum injured along with him. Walters is (H) expected back to school within 500-yd. free: Ehrhardt (RPI), the next two weeks, but his status 5 : 3 3. 3, A n drepont ( RP I ) , McGuire (H). on the team is questionable. 100-yd. b r eastroke: Boyd The swimmers dedicated their (RPI), 1 :09.0, Cohen (H), Luce efforts in Saturday's R.P.I. meet (RPI). Optional diving: Edick (H), to the memory of Doug McDevitt. The t e am won with little 186.80, Holender (H), Strollo (RPI).
competition offered.
St. Bonaventure and R.P.I. are the two most recent examples of H a m i l t.on 's l a c k o f e qual competition. The Bonaventure squad was added to this year's schedule to improve the quality of swimming opponents, but proved d i s a p p o i nting. Bon a ven ture finished ahead of the third place Hamilton squad in last year's state m e e t. The Willi ams meet tomorrow and the contes� against Colgate in February are the only matches that will prove to be difficult. Coach MacDonald has worked his Swimmers hard in anticipation of Williams and even had the distance swimmers in the pool for workouts both before and after last Saturday's meet. MacDonald has also tapered his swimmers the last three days so they will have the rest they need after a heavy practice load. He feels that they are strong and ready for the meet in Williamstown, but can only guess at what is usually one of the hardest teams of the season. W i lli ams h as spoi led undefeated Hamilton swim seasons for the past two years.
On Friday December 21, Doug _Mc Devitt '75, an a l l - A m e r i c a n v a·r s i t y swimmer, was killed in an auto accident. On the same day, Doug was listed as the fastest 100-yard freestyler _ in the NCAA college division. Doug's tremendous swimming ability earned him 6 Hamilton s c ho ol and pool records. Moreover, his sincerity and gradousness earned him the respect and admiration of his peers. Hamilton has lost not only an outstanding athlete, but a true gentleman as well.
During the Williams game, stellar performances were turned i n b y d e f e n s e man Kurt Ziemend orf '77, wing Pete Ascher! '76, and goalie Ray Rossi '77. Sophomore Ricky Anderson, along with senior co-captains Benny Madonia and Jim Rishel played their usual impressive games. Hamilton controlled the first five minutes of the game. With 15:36 left in the period, freshman Keith O'Brien, assisted by Gibby H edstrom '75 and Ascher!, slapped one in from ·twenty Ject out to give the Continentals a 1-0 edge. Ten minutes later Teddy Walsh of Williams put one by Rossi to the tilt. Then Hedstrom poked one past Bill Jacobs, the Williams tender, for the go-ahead goal. Ascher! tallied his second assist of the evening, and O'Brien picked up his third assist of the year. The third line of Tom Griffith '77, Phil Hildebrand '77, and Steve "D o g" M alcolm '74 produced the only score of the second period. Throughout the game Hildebrand, the center from "C hicagoland," exhibited his
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savvy on the ice, while crafty Griffith from Duluth seemed to come out of nowhere to pick up loose pucks. Malco�m, as usual, played aggressively. Many fans felt sure o f i m m inent fisticuffs between "Dog" and awesome Angus Morrison (no. 3) of W i l l i ams, Instead Malcolm delighted the partisan crowd with his fourth goal of the season, with 14:34 remaining in the period. He was· assisted by Hildebrand and Rishel. In the final period right wing Rick Anderson insured victory with his fourth goal of the season. He was assisted by John Hutchins '75 and Ziemendorf. The first line p I aye d well considering the absence 0f freshman left winger Billy Hutchinson. On the first line, Al Colby, the sophomore defenseman from Quincy, Mass., started the game at left wing and was interchanged with Hutchins. Thus, Anderson and Madonia were forced to make constant adjustments during the game. Hamilton outshot Williams 32-28, and the victory gave them a 3-1 division record. Madoni continued on page sixteen
Hockey Fever Climbing High BY ED WATKINS If you stop by at Sage Rink this winter, you will see a welcome addition, a quality hockey team. Not since the 1970-71 season has the squad looked so ffoe. Long supressed hopes of a Division Two playoff spot are being publicly expressed for the first time in several years. Prior to this season, it appeared that Hamilton hockey, like Hamilton football was experiencing a period of rapid decline. Last season was one both the hockey team and the fans wish they could forget. A record of 7-15 brought few cheers; the claim about a tough schedule brought little comfort. Last year's team suffered from a lack of conditioning, spirit, and leadership. It was apparent during several games that some players did not give a damn if Hamilton won or !ost. Little effort to hustle was exhibited and the scores reflected it. Those players who continued to play to the best of their ability grew discouraged over what they believed to be the disintagration of a once proud hockey team. Prior to the first game of this year's season, Hamilton fans were concerned that the team had not improved from last season. The team had not been particularly impressive in two exhibition games and freshmen were starting on all the lines and in the goal. The Oswego game quickly laid the fans' fears to rest. Though Hamilton lost 5-4, there was little doubt in anyone's mind that had the game been played later in the season, Hamilton would have won. The Blue than won four out of its next five games including a re-match against Oswego and a 4-1 decision against Williams. The Williams game was indicative of the spirit shown by this year's team and fans. The team simply outplayed Williams in every facet of the game except for the deliverance of cheap shots. Unfortunately for Williams, Hamilton was not about to be intimidated. The fans were excellent, having reached ,their mid-season form after only two games. Most fans do not realize their importance to the outcome of the game. Several Hamilton players have told this columnist what a . psychological boo t it is to skate out on the ice and see a thousand screaming maniacs cheering them with banners, horns, and most importantly, their voices. Reasons for the early season success of the team are many. The contribution of the freshmen, Ray Rossi, Kurt Ziemendorf, Tom Griffith, Phil Hildebrand, and Keith O'Brien, is a major part of the success. More important though is the improved mental and physical condition of the team. This year's squad is ready and able to play goo hockey. The players are willing to make those personal sacrifices which are necessary to the establishment of a winning team. There is good leadership on the team and a belief that hard work in practice will pay off during a game. The team appears to have developed some sort of collective identity based on a common desire to win . hockey games. True to its "out to lunch" nature, the college has scheduled two extremely important home hockey games over intersession. The games are against the University of Vermont and the University of Massachusetts, the top two teams in Division 2 . In view of this, why not help ease the evergy crisis an d remain on· campus over intersession and see a pair of great hockey games. Your government and, to cite a more noble authority, your hocky team, would appreciate this sign of support.
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THE VOUJME N, NUMBER 16
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
PIRG Program Falters; Board Elections Planned
Meeting Held On McDennid Appeal Case BY FELICE FREYER Many Kirkland students were angered this week when they discovered an advertisement for a sculpture professor to replace James McD e r mid, a ssociate profess o r of s culpture and printmaking at Kirkland, in the New York Sunday Times on January 7, despite the fact that the appeals process for Mr. McDermid's non-reappointment has not yet begun. Although Mr. McDermid does intend to appeal the decision of the Appointments Committee, his letter has not yet been received by the Appeals Committee. The students were disturbed by the advertisement and said it was a "low" or "obno).{ious" move on the part of the Arts Division. One student said it was "like holding a funeral for a patient in the hospital.'' Arts Division Chairman William Rosenfeld said, "This move has nothing whatever to do with the fact that Mr. McDermid is appealing. In the task of recruiting, surveying the field does not mean we are going to hire anybody. The earlier · you move, the better· chance you have to ke ep g o od p e ople under consideration. "If the appeal is successful, we will stop negotiating." Mr Rosenfeld also said that the Arts Division has already received several unsolicited inquiries after the position. "It's part of the syndrome for getting ready for a possible eventuality," he said. According to Mr. Rosenfeld, the Arts Division is looking for candidates with good preparation, good qualifications, and the desire to' work at Kirkland. Asked how these criteria differed from Mr. McDermid's qualifications, he responded, "I can't discuss that. We are locked into confidentiality now. I think that's proper. "It's unfortunate in the light of feelings that are running so strongly amongst the students that they will have to wait until the process has run its course. I think as an undergraduate, I would have felt the same way." A me eting, a ttended by approximately forty students and organized by Melissa Drier '73, Kate McGraw '72, Patty Lowy '74, and Alice Stern '74 was held Tuesday in the List Arts Center. The topics discussed were the d e s i r e t o h a v e s t ude n t repres entat ion o n personnel committees and plans to exert the power of student opinion upon the Appeals Committee and upon the Kirkland Trustees, who will arr i ve on c a mpus Friday, February 8. Students were urged to write letters to faculty members, trustees, and the President, continued on page four
FEBRUARY 1, 1974
Melissa Drier, (left), and Kate McGraw at the McDermid meeting
College and Union. Still Dispute; Strike Over, Complaints Remain BY BOB WEISSER After two months, the dispute between the College and Local 2 00, S e r v i c e Em ployees International Union, has not been fully settled. The agreement that ended the strike last November has · yet to be formalized and signed. Ronald MacDonald, controllor of Hamilton College, explained that the agreement had been only a first draft. Both parties to the dispute were given copies of the agreement, and each was supposed to settle on the exact wording of the document. MacDonald noted that the college had already sent their preferred draft to the union. However, the Union has held back their agreement so far. Archie O'Dell, one of the shop stewards at Hamilton, felt that "it was being held up in -Syracuse," meaning that the union members agreed with the wording, but the leadership, for some reason, did n0t. Chuck Duffy, the union representative in charge of the negotiations, wa·s unavailable for comment. The consequences of the strike seem to have been not too pronounced. Gerald Leuiken, director of the Physical Plant, commented that "there was some antagonism, but it's settled down. ¥,verybody wants to forget about the strike." The workers generally agree with Leuiken's statement_, but there were still some complaints. Some union workers complained of harassment through verbal and written warnings, and several of t h e e m p l o y e e s a re s t i l l with some of disenchanted Leuiken's actions, although they are glad to be back at work. 0 n e i n c i dent t hat has p a r t i c ula rly concerned the
employees has been the firing of Bill Prosser, a gas-and-oil burner mechanic, who was also deeply involved with · the union. The official cause of his dismissal was "unsatisfactory work," but there were other circumstances. Leuiken stated that Prosser was told to fix the heating controls in the g y m n a sium, which also i n v o l v e d i n s t a l l i n g new equipment. He went o n t o say that Prosser claimed to have done the job, but when the equipment continued on page eight
BY MARY McKNEW The Hamilton-Kirkland chapter of New York Public Interest Research Group will vote to elect a board of officers ''within the next two weeks", said Steffi Feuer, a leading member of the group. spring elections are The delayed pending a final list of paid members from the Business Office. The organization requires a minimum of 50% student financial backing to continue as. a chapter of NYPIRG. A total of ·1 ,024 students were sent bills, but many are still outstanding. It is also reported that a number of students have cancelled their membership. Marsha Weinstein and Lisa Newell, student organizers of PIRG last semester, have been in Albany since the December recess. They· are part of a state-wide project researching the New York legislature. As a result of their departure from College Hill, the Hamilton-Kirkland chapter is beginning the spring semester in an uncertain and disorganized state. study independent Two Sex one on c o urs e s , Discrimination in Jobs and the other in Consumer Economics, were to be offered this semester in conjunction with PIRG, but have been cancelled. They would have been sponsored by Instructor in History of Science Nadine George Assistant of Professor and Government Stephen Frantzich, respectively. George said that "a lack of communications" prevented the program from beginning at the
start of the semest�r, and she herself had not yet received information about enrollments. George has not been in contact with Lisa Newell since the beginning of the year; but wrote a to Albany yesterday letter requesting further information. She was not aware until recently that Lisa Newell was spending the semester off-campus. LisaNewell, when reached for comment in Albany, claimed that she did mention her plans to Instructor George. In response to George's frustration concerning the course, however, she added, "She has a point. I understand her feelings." Assistant Professor Frantzich cited lateness in registration and lack of interest as the factors in the cancellation of the course in Consumer Economics. "I was willing to take some students on in an independent study", said Frantzich, but only two students expressed interest in it, one of whom was a Hamilton freshman who was not permitted to elect independent studies during the regular semester. "People get all excited to get things done and don't really think things through", said Frantzich. Over Winter Study, students John Williams, Steffi Feuer, and Laurey Galka were enrolled in an independent research project with New York PIRG. They worked on a state-wide project investigating members of the New York State Legislature. Specifically the three students compiled profiles on many local candidates from information continued on page eight
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Kirkland Dean Candidate Visits Hill;
Dism��GoakatStudmtGa�ering
BY MONICA LIFF Speaking at an · informal meeting with Kirkland students Monday night, Catherine Frazer said she felt she could bring ''r a t h e r s t rong a cade m i c leadership" t o the college. Ms. Frazer, one of three candidates for Dean of Academic Affairs, · added, "It's something that is somewhat lacking here." , Kirkland needs this leadership to help define itself as a community and a college for women, in terms of Kirkland's position as a co-ordinate college, and as a liberal arts college, she also said. Ms. Frazer is currently Department Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado. At the Red Pit meeting, Ms. Frazer said that her interest in Kirkland is a result of her perception of Kirkland. '�As I read the college, it is at a difficult developmental stage, but has much potential." She said that Kirkland is at a critical point in its continued on page four
Catherine S. Frazer, candidate for Kirkland Dean of Academic Affairs
2/THE SPECTATOR/February 1, 1974
EDITORIALS
Searching at· Kirkland Unlike other searches presently being conducted on the Hill, the Kirkland Dean Search is a model of thoughtful planning and honest interaction with the community. All parties connected with this search should be commended for recognizing that community pariticpation is necessary in conducting this type of selection proedure. Catherine S. Frazer, one of the three final candidates visited the campus Monday and met informally with students. This type of forum provides both the candidates and students the opportunity to learn about eachother. But .;he college has gone one important step further. Dean of Students Jane Poller has indicated that any student evaluation written about the candidates will be considered before a final decision is made by President Babbitt. Kirkland obviously realizes that widening the scope of participation beyond a select few at this last, and most important stage of the search, can only be beneficial in making- the final determination.
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A final decision on Hamilton's presidency, however, once again is remote. At this early juncture it is imperative that the Search Committee revise its narrow procedures which virtually exclude student input. The responsibility for reform lies not only with the committee. The Student Senate must move decisively towards insuring a wider scope of involvement for its constituents. Senate President George Baker and his colleagues have a renewed opportunity to initiate a relationship with the Search Committee which will increase student involvement in the selection of someone with the strength of character and foresight which Hamilton so desperately needs. Mutual trust, and an. acknowledgement of both collective and individual worth are ideals that are as important to the selection of Hamilton's next president as they are to the maintenance of our Code of Honor. The -!Ionor System, a cornerstone of the college's integrity, is based upon this -mutual trust and recognition of our peers' worth, and as Dean Stephen Kurtz said, it is something of value that we cannot afford to lose. The Hamilton community gave the Search Committee its trust. It is time for that dedicated body to reciprocate
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Spectator's Spectator
Witz Sinks to the Depths BY GERRY PAY_NE Witz was lying in bed when I came into his room at 5:00.The lights were all but off,the.shades were drawn,and Joni Mitchell was playing on his stereo. "Hey, Witz. Anything wrong?" I thought you might want to go over to dinner." "I'm depressed, Gerry," he said. "No appetite. Why don't you go on without me.Don't worry,I'll be all right.Go on ahead." I didn't know if he were serious or not."What do you mean, you're depressed.About what?" I asked, amazed that Horowitz was passing up a Sunday dinner of assorted macaroni. "Oh," he sighed, his hairy trunk heaving under his Adelphi tee shirt. "I was merely sitting in the room reading this afternoon,dreaming,you know, Gerry?And then I started to think about Amy.Oh, how I loved her, Gerry. And with the snow, the desolation,I felt terribly alone.So I retreated to my bed,I was lonely,Gerry, and depressed as all hell." The walls shuddered as he sighed,loud and hammy as only Horowitz could. "But Witz," I said, trying to speak some sense while standing in his :ridiculous sickroom. "You haven't seen Arny in two years! You knew her for two weeks freshman year. Then she transferred to Berkeley." "Love has no germination period, Gerry. Take your nose out of biology.Listen to Joni.She'll sing it to you.Love can be so quick,and so painful." I looked at him; Witz was one of those kids who never missed a day of school. He was the Lou Gehrig of public education on "Long Island. I suppose this was his exercise in hypochondria. If he couldn't have the luxury of being sick,I suppose his only alternative was to play depressed. "Yeah, Witz," I pursued, nevertheless. "But what's with the Joni Mitchell,and this set -ap?You have the drapes drawn, and except for that stupid tensor lamp pointed at the ceiling, the lights are
off." ''When you're depressed,Gerry," Witz explained, "you have to know how to go about it. If you don't, your depression may just disappear. If you play the right music,and with the right lighting,and the right sort of bitching,you could stay depressed for hours,maybe days. "It's an art, Gerry. My tensor lamp, glowing alone at the white ceiling represents the aloneness, the futility of my insignificant existence. Like I said,you have to have the right touch." "Well,then,what's the matter with drinking?'' I asked."Want to go to the pub later?You can drink yourself stupid with beer and drown your troubles." Witz got psyched. "Hey, that's not bad.Maybe we could even go down to the village and drink hard liquor,some bourbon from the hip,like Bogart." He was getting worse. "Witz,I was only kidding! What the hell's going on?" "I told you Gerry,I'm depressed.Depressed over a woman.It could have been over life in general,but I thought this was a common enough theme. I'll play some more music, put off some work, write some letters or poems ... You know, I'll enjoy it for a while , and then I'll miraculously pull myself out of it. Don't worry about me,Gerry, I'll be all right." "Witz, baby. You were never made for this," I said. "Depression just doesn't suit your character. If you have nothing better to do,for god sakes don't be depressed. "Why don't you take up cynicism?It suits you better.'' I asked. Witz lay in his bed, still sighing periodically. ''Maybe you have something." "Sure I do,Witz," I encouraged. "You're right,Gerry." He decided,throwing his covers and jumping out of bed. "Let's go to dinner."
Perspective
Winter Study, R.I.P.
BY VINCENT L. DICARLO When Winter Study came to the Hill five years ago it was promoted as a unique and valuable opportunity to study a particular problem with the kind of depth that is presumably impossible during the course of a normal semester. Furthermore, certain traditional limitations on the kinds of subject to be studied for academic credit �ere relaxed. Often a project will involve reading a work in translation or deal with a problem of interdisciplinary or extradisciplinary scope. In an a t t ern pt t o e n c o u r a g e confidence a n d experimentation, the normal grading procedure gave way to the simple pass-fail-honors system. Five years has been more than enough time to demonstrate the failure of Winter Study. The most recent Hamilton College catalogue unintentionally spoke only too truly when it said that "upon his return to the campus in January,he [the student) will find a change in emphasis, an opportunity to pursue a single endeavor intensively for three weeks." The "emphasis" however, is on intellectual indolence and the "endeavor" largely consists in the attempt to spend as little time as possible in any disciplined st�dy. One is forced to admire the dedication of a student body with the stamina to spend an entire month at intense recreation but is this I way to run a college? In a vain attempt to revive flagging student . interest, the rules governing Winter Study have become even more lax. In fact, there exist a wide selection of projects whose content can only be called academic if one completely crushes his . aversion to abusing the English language.I say that the attempt was vain because it simply is not possible for ahything even reminiscent of purposive study to compete on an equal footing with squash, billiards, wine, women, and song. The appeal of scholarly pursuits simply is not made at the level of instant gratification. It might be suggested that some modification or a combination of modifications would restore some of the Study to Winter. Perhaps more rigorous superv1S1on and a return to normal grading procedures would change attitudes and produce results.This is an illusory hope.Even assuming that such unlikely changes were made and that they were
effective,there are flaws inherent in Winter Study as it is practiced on the Hill that clearly justify its termination. The entire concept of Winter Study is based on the premise that spending a short period of time studying one subject is in some way superior to studying four subjects over the course of a semester which is four times as long. This premise is questionable considering the fact that a body of knowledge is best mastered and retained when it is reviewed at intervals.Three weeks ( or four,for that matter) is simply not a long enough period of time to accorno d ate that reinforcement of memory requisite to sustain satisfactory retention of a really large set of concepts,facts,and skills. Also, many students find that the variety possible during the normal semester helps to keep up interest in their work. It is a well known fact that on certain occasions o'ne subject will present a more enticing prospect than another. Taking four courses allows such human variability to be indulged in a constructive way. In any event, it is agreed by most that three weeks is simply not long enough to realize whatever (probably imaginary) advantages Winter Study might have to offer in principle.Since,for economic reasons, it is impossible to lengthen the study period without committing wholesale depredations of the regular semester,this problem will exist as long as Winter Study does. Perhaps the best reason for ending Winter Study is .hat is it so manifestly evident that Hamilton and Kirkland would reap significant academic benefits by the addition of the freed calendar time ,o the Spring and Fall semester. All of us are aware of the inadequacy of the present thirteen week semester.It has forced unfortunate revisions of syllabi and fosters an unhealthy feeling of rushing headlong toward the end of the semester before it seems even to be well under way. Lack of a President may unavoidably delay the revision of the academic calendar to eliminate Winter Study. However, at the very least the administration and faculty should be preparing to accomodate such a revision as soon as it becomes possible so that the travesty of Winter "Study " can at last be ended.
February 1, 1974/THE SPECTATOR/3 Spect.ator Censured Again To The Editor:· The editorial on page two of the special January 8 issue of The ·spectator published upon the withdrawal of Joseph Sisco as Hamilton's President has brought to a head my feelings about the tone of The Spectator this year. We can all agree that Sisco's withdrawal was an extreme disappointment as he would have been a ,great asset and would have brought to Hamilton some needed new blood. Our dis a p pointment however, should be accompanied by an effort to understand Sisco's difficult situation. He was probably tom between his own personal wishes and t h e o bligation s of h i s present office Although I do agree with The Spectator that Sisco's use of the word "informal" to describe his presidential acceptance is inappropriate, I do not being h owever, see his decision inexcusable or as having "damaged" H amilton. T he Spectator's attitude throughout the whole presidential search has been· unnecessarily arrogant and uncooperative. Although we can never be sure, the publishing of the presidential nominees in the fall ma y have forced Hamilton into it's present situation. In my opinion, The Spectator should reevaluate its actions and directions. Rather than having worked with the coll ege towards finding a responsible and enthusiastic new President, The Spectator, with i t 's i n sensitive coverage and unnecessarily bitter tone has jeopardized the college's credibility in its continuing search for a new Pr_esident. Carey Schmertz '75
Letten to the Editor
diverse s tudent body at 'Kirkland, something which its lack of endowment prohibited. That spring Alice Stern. wrote, "If planned well, the co-op becomes a place where everyone does his job because it is expected of him... and because the benefits of co-operative living are ·woithwhileto him. The co-operative is a place to be together with a group of people in a homey environment. It is a c o·m p 1 i m e n t t o i n d i v i d u a 1 programming...the best of both worlds. At Hamilton and Kirkland, this type of living arrangement could close the gap of loneliness which causes some of the finest students to leave." J\. year and a half later, after a lot of hard work, we finally have a co-op. It is working very well, the food is good, the atmosphere better. To write it off in such , a flippant manner as was done last week in The Spectator is to insult every person who has been involved. I spent many hours in the capacity of, with Earl D'Aprix food manager and Ann Martin. They gave of their time willingly, something they did not have to do. I want everyone to know we are indebted to them for the work they did for us and for the advice, the cookbooks, and information they have given us. As for the other difficulties mentioned, I found them rather amusing, but on every count inaccurate. The budget crisis does not exist, nor does the friction between m·eat eaters and non-meat eaters. As for the location of the dining room, it is on the only floor with enough s p ace for- storage, · kitchen and dining room. facilities, Co-oper AHeges 'Flippant' Reporting By the way, the banana cake became cake at about 8:30 and was delicious!! To the Editor: Becky Eddy If we take a look at the articles written in the past two years about the co-op, it Alumnus Examines Educational Goals becomes apparent that "escape from food services" was the last thihgon our mind. A To the Editor: I read with interest your remark's on brief history: The idea of a co-operative dorm sprang Mr. Sisco's change in his plans, your desire out of a discussion in the class, for a quick and fair solution, and your "Education and Social Change," in the belief that the Hamilton community spring of 1972. We were concerned with s ho uld be better informed abour the loneliness on the hill, with the sense of candidates before a final determination for isolation, the lack of co-operative efforts the presidency is made. Concerning Mr. Sisco's reversal, if it among people. Also, we wanted a more
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was a matter of conscience and if time and circumstances brought it about in a natural way, then I admire him for it. It may well be that he is making a personal sacrifice and would prefer to be at Hamilton. If so, I am _grateful that such character is in the service of the country and certainly would not want to add to his burden by anything we might say or do. In regard to a quick and fair resolution, I would say that some of us are more interested ·in the nature of the process of selection and the principles involved than in the time element, the breadth of involvement, or the actual personalities examined. Let me explain with a series of questions: . Did the .selection committee operate with a set of specific educational goals for Hamilton before them? If so, what are those goals and to what· extent did each c andidate's p h i l o s o p h y and past performance match those goals? If the committee did not have clearly defined educational goals and principles to guide them, then was it their stated policy to have the new president provide the direction and philosophy? Did Mr. Sisco enun�iate an educational philosophy and any approaches to its implementation? If so, what were they? If his ideas for the future were orre of his main assets, we may have lost him.but need not have lost his ideas. Let those ideas generate a dialogue in the interest of Hamilton's future. If neither Mr. Sisco or the selection committee had or made known to one another and the Hamilton community their educational philosophy, then what did guide the committee? W e can look at a man's past performance to help assess his capacity to reach goals, but it may not be easy to determine a person's goals in a new field by looking at his past or by gathering letters of recommendation. Perhaps it seem8 obvious to you what Hamilton is trying to do for its students and society, but some of us who deal with the products of American colleges and universities are beginning to reexamine the "obvious" goals and the "assumed" progress towards them. At the risk of appearing too personal
and presumptuous, and in the interest of communicating. more than just broad generalizations, I shall state my interest and purpose in education. As a Professor of Medicine, I have bec�me increasingly aware of the price society pays when educational institutions: L Emphasize and teach a core of knowledge as opposed to a core of behavior. 2. Make achievement the variable and time the constant as they set up curricula with fixed times for all for a given course. 3. Perpetuate and even increase the false barriers among the so-called different disciplines of thought. 4. Fail to appreciate that the real world and ,real problems do not represent • s o me ugly step downward both intellectually and emotionally. (Rather, real problems are the ultimate test of all that the academic and theoretical worlds spawn-and if "unexplored limitations", our illusions, and the sham of some of our arrogant ways.) It is disturbing to get· products of our colleges w.ho really do not have a sense of being thorough, reliable, analytically sound, and efficient no matter what the task. There is a tendency, even when priorities and pressures do not require it, for_ some to proceed to a new task without having reached a certain level of excellence at h an d . task the with C o ntent -independent words such as responsibility, ethical sense, and priority are not an integral part of their very being as measured by the way they perform in society. To the extent the previous paragraph is accurate, then the way we administer education may be directly responsible. I would rather have a man with a degree based on excellence in three courses and no other experience than one based on a degree based on mediocrity in twenty courses. Many a student has been forced through a period of life when the load he carries and the method of teaching he was subjected to precluded his ever having the feeling that he did a job magnificantly. Moral is an achievement of high order. There are so many of us that society is not dependent u p o n t h e n u mber of achievements per individual, but its progress may well be determined by the level of those achievements. Work done sloppily and irresponsible deceives and destroys. We see students so ·used to persuingr their own interests along artificial -lines, that they have lost the capacity to be responsible in the persuit of honest solutions to real problems. Nature does not respect our discrete boundaries-and students forget that. One cannot find in a colored leaf in autumn the boundaries among - poetry, biology :. and organic chemistry that the leaf represents-that seems obvious to a11: But it must not be obvious to our college -graduates that a :sick patient has within her no sh arp boun d a ri es among the chemistry, sociology, ethics, biology, psychology, physics, · a n d economics, that she represents-or · they would not have dismembered. the patient with their necessary specialized approaches without h a v i n g s o m e h o w. a ss umed t he re sp onsibility for putting her back together again. There are, it seems to me, some generalities and basic principles in education that can guide us, and it is rione too soon to state them and anchor ourselves to them. The world of the computer and information tools of great power -are upon us, and whether they serve us or destroy us may be dependent upon whether colleges can begin to think in a manner that is different than they have up until now. r�'here are Hamilton Alumni among us who . would like to know throu··h as detailed and precise communications as possible just how Hamilton is going lo try to increase the yield of character and responsibility among its graduates? We have lived with the Princeton testing ' continued on page eight
4{fHE SPECTATOR/February 1, 1974
Marcy Denies Politics
continued from page one emphasizing that they can 110 l onger r e c o m mend Kirkland College to outsiders because they feel it has not lived up to its promises. A group of students plan to compile and send to each Trustee "a little McDermid packet," consisting of information about the McDermid case and the student reaction to it. In addition, a motion to form an ad hoc committee for the purpose of investigating ways to formalize student participation in the reappointments process will be placed on the agenda of the Kirkland Assembly meeting on Monday at 3:30 pm. At times the discussion at Tuesday's student meeting strayed to the wider issues of the overall disillusionment some students feel with the college and its proposed philosophy. "Kirkland is not what it was advertised to be," one student said. "They lied to us." "Kirkland has not lived up to its promise to give students a ance to direct and shape the ool," said another. A l l m e m b e r s o f t he A p pointments Committee are sworn to secrecy as a condition of their membership and may not discuss a specific case with any st ud ent o r faculty member outside the committee. As a
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continued from page one employers will hire people who ,history; the spontaneity and h a v e d e v el o pe d s u c h an novelty of the beginning ere over, imagination, she said. but now the college has to mature R ef e r ring t o he rself as and gain a sense of quality. "middle-aged," Ms. Frazer asked "Kirkland's growth has to be the question "Why would I want q u a l i t a tiv e , rat her t ha n to leave my present comfortable quantitative." she said. positi o n t o t r y s omething Appearing aware of Kirkland's different?" and then answered it: "I know I can be a department · position as a women's college in a coordina te situation with a chairman; and I have have a mal e-oriented institution, Ms. horror of growing old for fifteen Frazer said, "You have to define years in the same mold. One has a what makes a women's .college." limited impact period, in which She said that there ar� some perhaps you can help things to serious questions regarding the move a little bit. But if you have definition of a woman's role in good sense, you leave when you t he situation that must be feel in your head that it's confronted. "I've been fighting time-before they kick you out." for adacemic rights for women for In a related area, Professor thirt)' years, I don't see any Ursula Colby, Chairperson of the reason to quit now." Kirkland Humanities Division and "But," she said;"we should not a candidate for the position of create a seperatist society. We Dean of Academic Affairs, will be should search for the ways that meeting with students Sunday, coordination can be an asset February 3 at 9:00 p.m. in the rather than a liability." coffeehouse. A third candidate, Ms. Frazer said that there is a Pr ofes s o r M arianne Mi cks,. "real need" for the emergence of Professor of Religion at the a little stronger leadership from Western College in Oxford, Ohio, K irklan_d, to more forcefully will be at a similar meeting at articulate Kirkland's feelings and 9:00 Tuesday, February fifth, also needs. in the coffeehouse. Students meeting in List regarding the McDermid matter. In answer to the question, Subsequent to the candidates r e s ult , s t u de n t o ut r a ge - is- Acting Dean of Academic Affairs "How can we change Hamilton?" visits, the appointment of a Dean, accompanied by curiosity and a n d a m e m b e r o f t h e Ms. Frazer said, "We may even effective July I, 1974 will be speculation as t o the real reason Appointments Committee, the. !iave to persuade people on both announced behind Mr. McDermid's dismissal. reappointments process as it is sides of the road that there is a . .,,.___________..._...... "I wonder if it's something d esigned could not possibly. solution" to the ,problem. · YouwaSlnnlslae juicy, like moral turpitude,'' a involve this type of poljtical Asked about the benefits of a but once... p ower play, since both the h"beral arts education she said, "I student said. '7here's no deep dark secret Appointments Committee and the have a pretty firm bias towards behind this," another said. "I A p p e a l s C o m m i t t e e are boeral education." Ms. Frazer � doubt piere's a scandal. It's college-wide and are comprised of added, ''The most important thing · probably just politics amongst the · completely different groups of gained by a liberal arts education ltaliaa-Americaa food professors whose owu jobs will professors. is a disciplined imagination." A s Colleae St., Oiaton eventually be at stake." "It doesn'·t make sense in the Kirkland education would prepare According to Peter T. Marcy ,. context of. this system," he said. women for the job market, for
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Colleges Up Fringe Benefits; Faculty Salaries Inadequate New Plan Will Aid Non-Tenured Faculty At Both Schools Non-tenured faculty will receive an increase in administration funded fringe benefits equivalent to 2.5 per cent of their salaries next year, both colleges have recently reported. Hamilton and. Kirkland salaries do not now favorably compare with those of the colleges' commonly cited peers, such as the Little Three and the Seven Sisters, according to members of the faculty and administration. Both Presidents Babbitt an d C a r ovano had expressed their intentions, however, of raising each college's standing. The new raise is a result of their recent efforts. The reported compensation increase consists of employer contributions to the retirement annuity plan which is arranged with the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA-CREF).· Hamilton Trustees had approved the increase, and it is expected, according to President Babbitt, that Kirkland Trustees will ratify the identical plan during next week's meeting. All full-time faculty and senior staff will recei ve c ol lege c ontributions amounting to 7�5 per cent of their salary, up to $13,200, and 10 per cent of their salary which exceeds that, according to a marnorandum sent by Mr. Carovano to Hamilton staff.Individual contributions by the employee will not be required. Under the old plan, participation in the e---tirement _.,,program·· by · non-tenured faculty was contingent upon a voluntary contribution by the faculty of f�ve per cent of salary, which was then matched by the colleges. Non-tenured faculty, including most assistant professors and all instructors, otherwise received no retirement benefits from their college. Jnose who had participated in the plan will now feel an effective raise of five per cent in salary. Hamilton and Kirkland have previously contributed ten per cent of salary of tenured faculty, individual contributions not required. The 2½ per cent saving, however, will be passed on to the professors in the form of appropriate salary increases. "No other institution discriminated between tenured and non-tenured faculty in the way Hamilton and Kirkland do, " Mr. Carovano wrote. The proposed contributions are identical to those offe red at W illiams and Amherst, according to the Acting President, but both of the Little Three schools required individual contributions.
Poor Market, Inflation and Tight Budget Reduce Salaries
BY MITCHEL OSTRER Faculty who have complained of tight economic conditions should expect little relief, despite announced changes in the benefit plan which will . result in an effective salary increase of five per cent to some non-tenured faculty, unrelated to normal salary raises. Samuel F. Babbitt J. Martin Carovano Regular increases in university state universities. Tax funded State you value a lot here, but it can't be professor salaries, which were significant Universities of New York at Brockport, money," he said. during the last decade, have levelled off Geneseo, Albany and Stony Brook pay Faculty and administration officials the past few years, and some /here, junior median salaries of $14,700, $14,600, interviewed said the atmosphere for faculty in particular, are feeling the crunch $16,700 and $17,800 respectively. teaching and research is enticing on the as their salaries fail to keep pace with the University professors do not have the Hill, and the environment, free of crime rate of inflation. job mobility to take positions at schools Between 1960 and 1967, professors on. and h u r r y a n d a ffo rding varied offering higher salaries or more enticing r e c r ea t i o n a l activities, is extremely a national average saw an increase of about benefits than - they presently receive. .attractive for raising a family. 4 per cent each year in real purchasing "There's no question I don't get paid Faculty, however, unable to save, are in power, according to figures published in th enough," one professor said, ''but there fact draining their _monetary reserves. As a Bulletin of the American Association of aren't many other places where I could go result, their ability to be responsible to a University Professors. . and be better paid-." growing family _is lessened and they may In 1969 to 1970, however, the · The situation was considerably better approach the point where even the rural consumer price index climbed 6 per cent, ten years ago, according to John Ellis, academic environment, attractive despite while salaries ro_se 5.4 per -cent; in the next · · Ham ilton professor of biology and salary, is no longer a significant lure. annual ·period,_ the c.p.i. climbed 4.3 per president of- the College chapter of the "I perceive that serious point as having cent while salaries •increased by only 3.1 .. ' AAUP. The teacher market is glutted in been reached," Mr. Snead said. per cent. The losses leveled off in most fields of study, and colleges are not The colleges are trying to raise salaries, 1971-72, when faculty salary increases now compelled_ to raise salaries. but they ·are constrained by their efforts met the c.pJ. increase of 3.3 per cent. Rotte� Teacher Market to maintain low faculty-student ratios and The lowest paid members of the "T h e a d m i n i s t r a t i on s peaks to avoid excessive raises in tuition. LOW fa c u l t y , assist ant p rofessors and marketplace economics when talking instructors, budget more principally for · yields from endo�ments have also limited s a l a ri e s ," Norman Bowie, Hamilton the two schools. essentials than the more highly paid assistant professor of philosophy said. Colgate University has 17-18 students faculty. Rises in inflation haveoeen most The presidents of both schools agreed severe 'irlJ essentials,· however, including · per faculty member, while Hamilton and Kirkland have roughly. 12 students per that the national picture for professors is food, ·fuel, clothing. professor. A rise in the ratio could allow poor. "It's a rotten market, let's face it," Young Faculty's Burden higher salaries, Mr. Carovano said, but that Mr. Babbitt said. A s s i s tants and . instructors receive would have an adverse effect upon the "One could really play Scrooge at the salaries, exclusive of fringe benefits, of at education Hamilton offers. moment," he added, "and neither one of least $9,500 and $8,500, respectively, at Kirkland's salary median, according to the colleges. want to go that route." Mr. Hamilton, and oi at least $9,500 and the AAUP is $11,700, which ranks the Carovano said consideration of faculty $7,500 respectively at Kirkland. college behind schools such as Skidmore, morale prohibits the colleges from playing Young professors, often burdened with Wellesly, Vassar, and Mt. Holyoke. The a str i c t l y m a r ketplace role. Bot.h the e�pense of growing families and home college's rank however, is affected by its presidents promise that salaries and overall mortgages, are finding it increasingly high number of young faculty. compen�tion will remain "competitive," difficult to survive. D e spi t e market conditions, some Although Kirkland ranks low in average John Q'N eill, assistant professor of professors contend that Hamilton has lost compensation at all teaching levels7 English at Hamilton, admitted that his valuable faculty members to other schools. President Babbitt said that this is due to salary was "inadequate." Unless one has Others feel that though the college is the fact that Kirkland faculty, most of a n i n d e pe n dent source of wealth, drawing "qualified" men, they are not th�m recently promoted, all sit at the H a m i l t o n A s sistant Professor of hiring the best, as they should if the bottom of the pay scales for instructors, Economics, William Snead explained, he is colleges are to improve their reputation. assistant, associate, and full professors. in trouble. "I don't know whether, if they were In reference to its standing among Dean of the College at Hamilton, offered more money, they would have other colleges, Mr. Babbitt said, "I don't Stephen G. Kurtz agreed that it- is very come," said one professor about a recent think we are now in a poor position, but difficult for young· people to make ends prospective member of the faculty. He I don't think we are in as go.od a one as we meet. "The burden stays right through his said, however, "There have been recent would like to be." forties," Dean Kurtz said. cases where the college made offers and President Babbitt and Carl Schneider, The Dean cited low salaries as an they were declined." Kirkland Vice-President, have tried to unfortunate penalty of the teaching institute compensation increases in varying Presidents Babbitt and Carovano, and profession. "There has to be something forms which will improve Kirkland's salary other faculty members disagree, however. situation within the next two years, the Poor job market conditions in the teachii;ig FACULTY COMPENSATION, 1972-1973 President said. profession they contend, prohibit loss of Average compensation by rank Mr. Babbitt cited the expected qualified professors. The colleges have also TIAA-CREF increase, a tentative across made honest efforts to remain competitive Salary the board salary increase of 5.5 per cent with other schools in its class, according to Inst. Median Asst. Prof. Assoc. -proposed in the preliminary budget for the presidents. next year, and a plan to more equitably Inflation has taken its toll on the $20,100 $14,900 $13,000 $10,500 $11,700 Utica compensate professors according to their profession as a whole, however. David -11,700 12,000 12,900 16,400 Kirkland experience and credentials. Rosenbloom, former assistant professor of 12,100 10,700 13,700 18,200 22,000 Mt. Holyoke Hamilton, with a faculty considerably · government and Edwin Erickson, former 20,200 16,000 13,400 11,200 12,500 Middlebury older than Kirkland's, pays a median assistant professor of biology, both · left s a l a r y o f $14,300. Highe r than 22,500 16,000 13,600 11,000 13,000 Bowdoin the profession last year to take jobs in M i ddlebury, Union, Dartmouth, and government and public health which pay 21,100 15,900 13,500 11,100 13,400 St. Lawrence Williams,· Hamilton ranks behind Colgate, considerably higher salaries than they were 22,500 16,900 13,600- 11,700 13,800 Union Wesleyan, Amherst and Trinity. receiving at Hamilton. It is not known by - 14,300 21,800 17,200 13,300 Hamilton The College fares less favor 1.bly in people here whether they left primarily -- 14,400 24,000 17,500 13,300 Oberlin respect to overall compensation, which in because o f s a l a r y con s i derations. 25,900 18,100 14,300 12,500 14,500 Colgate cludes f ringe benefits. The Acting· Skyrocketing inflation continues to President said, however, that Hamilton 28,100 20,100 16,300 12,700 14,700 Wesleyan push the cost of living up, nevertheless, will rival colleges such as Williams and -- 15,800 and raises in all fixed income professions 25,300 -18,900 15,000 Amhers t Amherst, now that the TIAA-CREF continue to be eaten up. -- 20,000 28,200 20,200 14,600 Harvard increase has been approved. In reference to the latest developments Nearly all private colleges listed in the Mr. Snead said, "We'll be keeping up even, . . Source: AAUP Bulletin, June 1973;pp.' 216-246. AAUP study, however, ranked b�_hind or just barely getting increases."
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6/THE SPECTATOR/February 1, 1974
'Beggar's Opera' Bawdy Satire; Superb Acting Highlights Play BY STEV E ZORTHIAN
After attending the preview of John Gay's Beggar's Opera, I went to the Coffee House. There, over a cup of hot apple cider, I met my old friends, Chris and Christine, arguing about Beggar's Opera which opens tonight at Minor Theater. ''Christine, I knew from the beginning th_at the productipn was going to be special." "I don_'t know. I found a·lot of the acting, artificial and
"I must admit that parts of the show were very funny, but Act Two tended to drag." "T h a t's t r u e , b ut Zivia Flomenhaft's scenes were the highlights of the evening. Her Mrs. Peachum stole every scene she was in." "But Michael Sigler hilariously acted the part of Mr. Peachurn. His portrayal headed the show in the right direction." ''You cannot forget David Kulle's M a c H e ath. He was ✓
demanded." ''The nine piece orchestra under L ee Spear's direction enc hanted the audience and enhanced their enjoyment." ''There is one thing, though." ''What?" ·"At times, I felt the cast was enjoying the show more than the audience did. The fun they were having on stage did not always transfer to the crowd." At these times, I wished the show would move on. Their joking around was just not funny after awhile." ·"Th e d irectors might be responsible for this. They did take advantage of every laugh they could, but they also tried to force a few. It_ became tiresome seeing the same kick, slap, or pinch over and over. "Besides these problems, the show flowed smoothly. The direction gave the show style and charm." ''This charm was reechoed with t h e c o s t u mes by Nancy Op penheim. She dressed the actors with clothes that added to thier characters." ' 'T h e s e t w a s a big disappointment. It had colorful charm, but lacked the im agination and the style of the show. The set was distracting to the audience and, apparently, to the players. .T h e l i ghting director, unfortunately, did not have much to work with, but his lighting was sufficient."
"The cast and the direction m a d e u p for the · lack of enthusi asm in t he designs. is a fun, Scene from The )Jeggar's Opera, Fri-Sun, & pm at Minor Theater. Beggar's .Opera entertaining show that captivates . unconvincing. I felt the actors were appropriately cast as the !over, · the audience from the start. The · - mocking the characters they were the charmer, and the fighter. ' actors do not beg for attention, playing." "Finally, one must remember but they give their love." "The acting was not overdone. ·it Nancy D ol l i ver . As P o l ly After Chris and Christine w a s i n t u n e t o t h e Peachum, she innocently fell in finished telling ·me what I should burlesque/ melodrama affect of love with MacHeath and married think about the show, they left. the play." This is what made him. Although quiet, her singing Knowing that what they said was Beggar's Opera humorous and beautifully complemented Gay's only their op1mon, I bought special. Carol Bellini-Sh arp and score." myself another cider and went J i m P e s ki n d i r e c t e d t he "In fact, the whole cast of · back to the dorm. pr o d uction with such light Beggar's Opera worked quite well heartedness that even the quietest together. Their singing and acting among us could not keep from gave the play the special charm laughing aloud." Carol Bellini-Sharp and Jim Peskin
Romeo Doug Spirduso awakes to find Juliet (Martha Reiners), dead. February 8 at 4:30 and 8:00 pm in the Chapel.
Paul Kuentz Cancelled.I •
Rosen 1n Piano Concert BY DAVID SCHUTT
The Paul Kuentz Chamber O r c hestra, in an unexpected move, has cancelled its concert here. Instead, Charles Rosen, a distinguished pianist and scholar, has consented to give a special recital in the Chapel on Feb. 15. According to Hamilton Music Department Chairman Stephen B onta, the orchestra's North A m e r i ca n t o ur h a s b e en completely cancelled. As a result,
'Return to Forever' Concert; SAC, Not BPRU, Foots Funds BY JACK CURRAN position on the SAC. · In cooperation with the SAC, A s o me what m i s l e ading statement appeared in the Return David Dince and Curt Hansen to Forever review (The Sp�tator, m a d e t he arrangements and Dec. 7, 1973). This statement concert date with Return to implied that the Black and Puerto Forever's New York agents. SAC R i c a n Un i o n w a s m o r e funds footed the bill for the instrumental than ·the Student concert. Cathy Collins, head of Activities Committee in bringing the SAC, also deserves as much Return to Forever to this campus. re cognition for her help in While the truth is that the producing the Return to Forever BPR U helped produce the John concert, one of the best. ever on Blair Con.cert, the people who are the Hill. really responsible· for producing Along with the SAC, Cathy and setting up the Return to also deserves a great deal of credit Forever who· -originally had the . for getting the James Mon·tgomery idea - of contacting Return to · Band (during_ Winter Study) and Forever are David Dince and Curt Orleans and the Persuasions who Hansen. Dince hopes to be on the will play in two weeks for Winter SAC next year and certainly House Parties. Two other concerts anyone who can produce a are planned for March and April concert that good · deserves a in addition to the Folk Festfyal.
KINOKUNST This weekend Kinokunst presents the Marx Brothers in their mo.· hilarious comedy, A Night at the Opera. It features the stateroom scene, the funniest five minutes on film. Also, The Cure, one of the funniest of the Charlie Chaplin shorts. Shows are at 8 Thursday, 8 and IO 1-'riday and Saturday, and IO on Sunday, in the Chemistry auditorium. Admission is$.75. On Monday and Tuesd ay we present Antonioni's great masterpiece, L'Avventura, starring Mo_nica Vitti. Shows are a� 10 in the Chemistry auditorium and admission is $_50�
i t w o uld be "fin anciall y impossible" for the school to fly Mr. Kuentz's fifteen member group from E_urope to the United States for only one concert. The Chamber Orchestra has performed on the Hill annually for the past eleven years. T h e e n s e m b l e , w h i ch specializes in late Baroque and Classi cal music, as well as contemporary pieces, has always been well received here, and Professor Bonta said he was "very sorry this had to happen," and stated that the group would be scheduled again for the next year. He added that Mr. Kuentz had s'e nt s e veral letters to him expressing his own personal regrets. A l t h o u g h t h e m u sic department received the Kuentz cancellation on very short notice, it was extremely fortunate in procuring the services of Charles Rosen. Mr. Rosen, who has a PhD. from Prince t on i n French Literature, will be delivering a lecture on campus on February 14 as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visit�ng Scholar lecture series. He will then give his recital on the 15th.· Mr. Rosen, considered a rare blenq of great natural talent in music and surpassing �tellectual prowess, has recently written a book entitled The Classical Style-Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven,
and has also recorded works of both Bach and Beethoven. In addition to his lecture and recital Mr. Rosen will meet with musi� stu4ents during his stay here.
February 1, 1974/THE SPECTATOR/7
events On Campus This Weekend
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German Expressionist Bloch Viewed in Dua I Exhibit
An exhibition of paintings, respect and sympathy with Franz l a n d s c a p e s a n d freq uent drawings, and prints entitled M a r c , J;>a ul Kl e e ," Wassily preoccupation with death that Kandinsky and later with Lional c h a r acte ri zed s o me of his Albert Bloch (1882-1961) An Feininger and George Grosz. With [Bloch's) later work undoubtedly American Expressionist jointly Franz Marc he had the most stem from this experience," writes sponsored by Munson-Williams Proctor Institute and the Edward - empathy of all. He wrote that 'my Penney. Since his death in 1961, the W. Root Art Center, Hamilton first experience of his work-a College, will open Sunday, large one-man show at Der work of Albert Block has been Modernen Galerie in Munich early shown in numerous one-man and February 3 at both centers: Organized by Joseph S. Trovato, in 1911, before I had met the man g r o up e x hi bi ti o n s . H e is himself, took me captive at first represented in major collections Assistant to the Director of the sight-here, at last, I found both in this country and abroad, Museum of Art at M-W-P, in collaboration with J atnes Penney, painting that fed in full measure including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute artist and Professor of Art at my need and my longing.. .' " "An alien artist in a hostile of C hi c a g o , and Stadtische Hatnilton, the exhibition contains approximately 70 paintings on land during World War I, he saw Galerie, Munich, Germany.. The Albert Bloch exhibitions display in the M-W-P Museum of Marc go into the German army to Art, and 57 watercolors, drawings be killed in battle in 1916. This will remain on view through and prints on view at the Root tragic era affected the German Sunday, March 3. The exhibition Expressionists more than other of watercolors; drawings, and Art Center. Albert Ploch, a member of the groups. The tragic figures, the prints will open from 8:30 to gaunt, sad, mystic and religious 10:30 pm at the Root Art Center. German Expressionist movement from 1908 to 1921, was born in St. Louis in 1882. A close friend once said, "He is a man of much force, which you might almost call stubbornness, and nobody can tell him anything, but n1appen to MUSIC know that he is willing to endure February 1 (Friday) privations and obloquy for the Campus Wide Dance, featuring Seagull. Free with social tax. idea that possesses him,' and so he February 2 (Saturday) has my unlimited respect." McEwen Coffeehouse features U. Utah Phillips-"The Golden Bloch studied in the museums Voice of the Great �outhwest." 8 pm. Free with social tax. of England, France and Germany, remaining in Europe for the next LECTURE AND DISCUSSION 13 years. It was at this time his February 7 (Thursday) Lecture: The Dead Sea Scrolls: Portrait of a Pre-Christian Jewish work impressed Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky, who invited Society Dr. Lawrence Schiffman. 8 p.m. List Auditorium. Poetry Reading, Marie Harris. 8:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit him to join with them and several _ other painters in a group which EXHIBITIONS later becatne known as Der Blaue February 3 (Sun�ay) Reiter (The Blue Rider). The Exhibition Opening.. D rawings and Prints by Albert Bloch. purpose of this loos�ly-knit group 8:30 -10:30 p.m. Root Art Center. Public Invited. was to generate an atmosphere of Felruary 4 (Monday) artistic freedom, free of juries or Exhibition Opening Mo/as from the San Blas Islands (II)). Bristol othe r o ffi ci a l and artifical restrictions. Campus Center Lounges. Classes February 27. In the enlightening for�word to RELIGIOUS SERVICES the Albert Bloch catalogue, James February 2 (Saturday) Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. Penney writes: "He found mutual Detail from Albert Bloch's Conference.
A Night at the Opera, the Marx Brothers. Also, The C ure, Charlie Chaplin. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm and 10 pm, Sunday at 10 pm only. Chemistry Auditorium. Admission $ .75. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Nominated for nine Academy Awards. Starring Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, and Gig Young. Friday and Saturday, 8 and 10 pm. Sunday at 10 pm only. The film will have a special matinee showing at 2 pm on Sunday. Kirner-Johnson. Admission $.75. February 4 and 5 (Monday �nd Tuesday) L'Avventura, directed by Antonioni, and a Buster Keaton short, The Boat. 10 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. Admission $.50 African Film Series:. Phela Ndaba and Vinceremos. 7 pm. Science Auditorium. Tuesday only. February 7 (Thursday) That Man from Rio and a Rene Clair short, La Tour. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75. Blonde Venus, and Dementis,. 8 pm. Science Auditorium. Admission $.75. At Nearby Theaters Cannonball (853-5553)·Walking Tall (R) Kallett ((736-2313) Chariots of the Gods (G) Uptown (732-0665) Sleeper (PG) Paris {733-2730) Papi/Ion (PG)
February 3 (Sunday)
Free Church Communion s�rv ice. 1 0:15 a.m. Chapel. Free Church of Clinton. Speaker: Joel W. Tibbetts, Chaplain: Is Anybody Listening? 11:15 a.m. Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 p.m. Chapel Free Church Pot Luck Supper. 5:30 p.m. Alumni House. Interfaith Workshop: Speaker, Jay Williams, Hamilton Religion Department 7:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. THEATER February 1 (Friday) Beggar's Opera. 8 pm. Minor Theater. Also Saturday and Sunda.y. KAC PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
The Annual Photography Exhibition is currently on display at the Kirkland Art Center. Craig Mengel '75 received two honorable mentions for his work, and Mrs. Lee Kreinheder received one. The show will close February 3.
MOLAS OPEN
An exhibition of molas, the unique craft of the Cuna Indians, epensMonday, February 4, at the Bristol Campus Center. The exhibition, in the second floor lounge, is open to the publie 111d will be on display through February 2 7.
BLOCH EXHIBITiON OPENS
Albert Bloch: An American Expressionist, an exhibit of paintings, i'awings, and prints, will open Sunday, February 3.A two hour reception at the Root Art Center will start at 8:30 pm. The public is uwited. Another part of t he e x hi bi t will o pen at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute on Sunday afternoon, from 1-5\ pm.
SEA SCROLL LECTURE
Lawrence H. Schiffman, assistant professor of Hebrew at New York University, will lecture on The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Portrait of , Pre-Christian Jewish Society at 8 :00 pm February 7 in the List lecital Hall, Kirkland College. Professor Schiffman is a member of the faculty of the Hagop levorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University is an authority on post-exilic and Rabbinic literature.
Bowie's Billion Dollar Babies; Glitter Rock Strikes Back BY FRED GOEHNER
David Bowie's music is firmly based in the British sound of 1964-1967; witness the Beatle-y chorus of Mott the Hoople's All the Young Duaes which Bowie wrote and produced, and the Yardbirds-heaviness of The Jean Genie from Aladdin Sane . A . prevalent theme of Bowie albums is the contrast between the m ystique and mythology of rock'n roll stardom and its often sordid realities. This contrast contributes to the confusion created in our media-glutted world, and so rock becomes a metaphor for this world. Alice Cooper • cynically celebrates the phenomenon of billion dollar babies- that the children of the TV age are both the objects and the products of energetic, efpensive schemes to shape our thoughts and tastes, to con vince · us that we need ClearasiJ, cigarettes, Veg-o-matics, and re cord albums by the Chocolate Watchband. Bowie asks, "What does all that mean? What has it done to us? Hey dudes! Where are you?" To examine complex ideas as well as Bowie does, using an established musical idiom, and yet to make your music entirely your o w.n., , r equ ire s n ear-t ota l
understanding of that idiom. Shapes of Things is worth the Thus, it is too simple to call price of the album alone. Bowie Pinups a collection of Bowie's has often demonstrated that his "favourites from the '64-'67 understanding and application of pe riod of London" a mere Broadway grandeur exceeds Bette nostalgia (ecch) ajbum. Midler's in originality �d power. · This record is his attempt to This version of the Yardbird's; reexamine and recreate his roots song sounds almost exactly like imaginatively and daringly, of Anthony Newly doing an upbeat respectfully molding them into a rendition of The 1m possible fresh work of art. For this effort, Dream offset by a soaring guitar he is freed from the constraints of duet. I love the way he says expressing his own lyrics. He is sol-jah. the refore able to focus his . Anyway-Anyhow-Anywher.P... attention on his remarkable allows Aynsley Dunbar to show command of sound. off a bit. Not many people can B��ie' s band is very fine, compete with Keith Moon for particularly Mick Ronson on quality madman drumming, but guitar and Aynsley Dunbar, who Dunbar is equal to the task. has played at the Hamilton I n his re-examination and College Gym as drummer for the revision of an era, Bowie has Mothers of Invention. The entire created an amalgam of British album is great fun, but there are, rock. He shows where the music of course, standout cuts. See was then, where it has been since, Em i ly Pla y pr ogresses intc and where it is today, fusing it all abstract Lennon-esque weirdness a· into a single work, with some la / am the Wal"'s ending with a �t�j' Tony Newlcy blended in. string quartet. / Can't Explain is a tough-sounding arrangement of TYPISTS: The Spectator the : Who hit driven by snarling . needs a typist for the "grave sax and guitar with a slow vatnp --yard shift"_ (t)'om 11 p.m. to vocal. Friday on my Mind features 2 or 3 a.m.) Thursday nights. a s peed-freak chorus and --a The job pays the going rate of beautiful multi-tracked fade-out ·· $ 2/hour. Those interested vocal. So"ow is slow and sli_nky should call Glen Gilbert at X4547 .. with a sweet sax commenting on the melody 1hroughout.
Baker Assesses Student Senate Performance
George Baker, Hamilton Student Senate President compensation, he says, because UNION RELATIONS the college '\n<Slfrl up"· some of his continued from page one was checked, it was discovered papers. At this point, Prosser's case has that he had not, and that the new g o n e t hr o u g h the standard equipment had _not been installed. l grievance procedure, and wil be L e uiken claimed that the settled by arbitration. equipment was found hidden in a dormitory, and when Prosser was PIRG asked about this, he could not continued from page one explain it. Leuiken put the cost of they gathered from the parts at about $2000, and, he which newspaper clippings and other added, "not to mention the time sources in both Utica and that he was paid fo�. �en we're paying a man and he doesn't do Syracuse. At the beginning of January, his job, we can't keep him." He Williams, Feuer and Galka s_tressed that the issue had nothing to do with the strike. He travelled to Albany to' receive maintained that it was simply � their assign ments. Newell said, "th;y · ( the students from matter of a worker not doing his Hamilton a.11d �i�kla:1}d). �ere job. urged to keep .in touch with The opinion of several of the Albany.'' Williams, noting-� the workers differs greatly frQm that of Leuiken's. They feel that ther:e " difficulties with the assignments, "spoke to therµ (the Albany were insufficient grounds for office) twice a week: and Prosser's dismissal. requested ano_ther assignment." Archie O'Dell said that it Williams has just completed his definitely had something . to do · with Prosser's union affiliation. profjles of a local candidate for H e m e n t i on e d that others, the legislature, Nicholas Galagero. However problems in organization specifically non-union men, had hampered the research. For done unsatisfactory work before instance the students in the and had not been fired. He felt pr.oject were asked to travel to that the finding of the equipme_nt Binghampto· only to discover did not mean that Prosser was in any way connected with any that a PIRG researcher from , Albany was doing work right in underhanded work. Prosser himself maintains that Utica. The Hamilton-Kirkland chapter he had nothing to do with the was instituted NYPIRG disappearance of the equipment, of following a petition drive in the a nd t h a t his w o r k w as Fall. Newell explained that unsatisfactory because he had been put on a job for which he various problems accompany the was untrained. He has been out of efforts of a fledgling organization, work for two months, and has not and that the time pressures of registration and billing aggravated re c e i ved a n y unemployment those difficulties. THE MODERN TAILOR SHOP OF CLINTON INC.
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much more workable document, own job as Senate Presidenl BY BOB GRIEVES Some of the most important · something you work by, not consumes about thirty hours per H a m i l ton S t udent S e nate around." week. T h e p ractice of Senate legislation of his term will come Baker called poor utilization o to fruition this month, Senate committees presenting legislative officers' time the greatest failu proposals directly to the Senate of the Senate- during his term President George Baker said. "Making the Honor Court and has increased the efficiency of the "Not enough individuals approa J u d i c i a r y Board w o rking Senate committees during his their capacity to work, and it' institutions will be the real term, Baker said, and the January partly the fault of the Studen crowning achievement of this a p poin t ment of ·senators to Senate President." year's Senate." The activities of c o m m i t t e e s w i t h o p e n But, "the student body has to the Judiciary Board and the membership has made the Senate be much more selective in gettinr Honor Court must be "solidified" b o t h m o r e responsive and pe ople w ho w ill work. A and "the rules of the game must responsible. ·popularity contest should havt A l t hough "certain senators nothing to do with it." be broadcast" in order to prevent any possible unfairness due to don't work," most do work hard, The Senators fit into thm u n k n o w n p r o·c e d u re s o r and Baker cited, as an example of categories, according to Baker: the Senate's attempt to gather "Those individuals who have dom precedents. The chairmen of the Honor s tudent op1mon, the recent good work; those who have dont Court and the Judiciary Board door-to-door campaign in which nothing; and those who· have done are not to blame, however, for the ninety students were interviewed nothing but have whined that ineffectiveness of their respective and the results of which will soon they have no responsibility." Ht organizations, Baker said. He also be made public. emphasized the importance ol "The Senate has tried to shake e l e c t i n g h a r d - w o rkin pointed to a general corrosion of the honor system, which must be the student body," Baker said. representatives. ''Most people have opinions and checked. The Senate President said he are willing to work, but that would like the Faculty Committee 'apathy lies in eliciting student on Student Activities to serve as a opinion and action." He cited direct and constant channel of ·Rocco Orlando of the Curriculum communication between students ·committee, Chip Presutti of the a n d f a c u 1 t y; a l l e v i ating A uxiliary · Services Committee, misunderstandings that arise over and Jack Lynch of the Judiciary many issues. This committee, Board C o m m i ttee as three consisting of Professors Anderson,,: .e xa m p les o f hard-w o rking Endy, Haltzel;- " Simon, Tibbets,• senators, and estimated that his and Dean of Students Bingham, ·p·::;{; has authority.over the Senate, the� eva l uated admission interview Honor Court,- and- the Judiciary. -tee_ h.niques, ·Phi Beta Kappa keys, Board.· arid core of knowledge approaches B a k e r s a i d the F. ac uity' for. a long time. Could it be that Committee· has been sympathetic there is a whole new education·al towards Senate /ec'ommendations, paradigm f or H a m ilton to arid indicated that it. is now • the recognize and persue? Or ·are we only official liaison between the to just stay within the present Senate and the faculty. par adi� �d say that the_ He . a'lso-• said\-' that :·Acting· professional men who led us info. President.. Carovano and Dean· the Vietnams, the Watergates, and K u r t z have been "receptive, the "Group think" of the Bay of r esponsive," and "bend over Pigs are the responsibility of backwards to help the Senate. everyone but the institutions who They are not afraid to act." educated them. Plans for rewriting the present W i t h sinc erity and gr eat constitution, which is "unclear, affection for Hamilton, complicated, and too long," will Lawrence L. Weed, M.D. '45 hppefull transform it into "a
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Large Classes Mark Spring Registration
anticipates very little change. BY BOB ROCK enrolled in a class of 50 or 60 ''Judging from raw statistics," students. With the beginning of the sec ond s e me s t e r , H a milton said Fargnoli, "the percentage of Professor of English Austin professors have begun to make cha nge in the cross-registration Briggs, whose English 23 ("Gothic known some of their complaints after pre-registration is minimal." Literature") enrollment is 71, reg arding the discrepency between However, Fargnoli contends that recently commented that anyone Hamilton and Kirkland cross an unequivocal figure cannot be who cannot cope with a large class registrations, the different sort of obtained without weeks, and should "leave, and let the class limits that either school places on perhaps months, of research, and become one (student) smaller." class enrollme n t , a n d the to his knowledge, no one at either Fargnoli pointed out that most imbalance in student distribution school has taken on such a task. of the large courses are either and unacceptable class sizes. The Registrar said that there i n t r o d u c t o r y c o urses o r One professor, commenting on are _so many variables involved prerequisites for majors, or those his over-crowded classrooms this that figures alone are hard to w i t h popular professors or seme s t e r , s uggeste d that believe. For example, this term's involving relevant subjects. "Just Hamilton, by emplo.ying the open pre-registration fi gures indicate a as Sputnik triggered a large e�rollment policy, is indirectly loss of 200 female enrollments popularity in engineering and subsidiz i ng Ki rkland, whose ( n o t students) in Hamilton science coui:ses," said Fargnoli, policy is to restrict and often courses. But these enrollments are "so is Watergate triggering a close enrollment for numerous accounted for, said Fargnoli, by greater interest in government courses. But this claim relies on those Kirkland students who do related courses." the assumption that once a not pre-register. One of the most over-crowded student is closed out of a Kirkland After all th� accounting and departments at Hamilton is the course, he or she ,compensates for calcula' ing is done, the problem Language Department, mainly due the loss by adding a course at of over-crowded classrooms at to the high enrollment rate of Hamilt on (where all course b o t h c ol lege s still remains. Kirkland students. There are more registration is open). According to A s s i s t a n t P r o f e s s o r o f women than men in many of the statistics gathered over the past Government Stephen Frantzich, French classes, and, in fac�, the four registration periods, this who teaches two of the largest Hamilton Language Department· assumption has no foun dation in courses at Hamilton , believes the as a whole, with 193 men and 153 fact. publicized student-teacher ratio is women, contains the greatest Last spring semester seven ''misleading." Frantzich said "The percentage of Kirkland students in percent of the total course freshmen - get the bum end of the any dep�tment at Hamilton. enrollments were deleted from deal" because they must adjust t o t he H o w e ve r , Fargnoli, Kirkland classes. This figu re was many stranger� when they are Registrar, does n o t foresee any obta i n e d b y c o m p a r i n g -------------■ action, such as instituting a preregistration figures from the .. Your hosts Charles, Jennie & Butch French or Spanish course at second semester of 1973 to the Barad� welcome all Hamilton and Kirkland, being ta ken in order to . . · Kirkland students to actual class enrollments for th at equalize the s1tuat1 o.n. semester. And though the f igures for t h is s e mes t e r' s c l a s s enroll me n ts have not been tabulated, Hamilton and Kirkland Registra r P a l me r F a r g n �li
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POETRY READING There will be a Poetry Reading on Sun., Feb. 10 at 8 :0 0 PM in the Chapel. PLAYWRITING ENTRY Entries for the Wallace Bradley Johnson Playwriting Competition are to be submitted on Monday, February 4. They should be turn ed in to Dean Kurtz's secretary i n �oot Hall. BRISTOL EXHIBITION The paintings done by the Winter Study class in Drawing and Painting, under the instruction of Montreal artist Dennis Lukas, are n ow on displ ay in the Bristol Snack Bar. The exhibitiop will continue through Wednesday, February 13.
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The Student In ternational Meditation Society of Hamilton and Kirkland College will present a lecture on Transcendental Meditation at 7:30 on Wednesday, February 6 in the Hamilton Chapel. AUDITIONS Audition s for School for Wives will be held Tuesday, February 6, at 7 p .m. in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. Scripts are available in Esther Delaney's office in List. FIRST·AID COURSE A First Aid Course will be given on Tuesday evenings from 7-10 pm, Feb 5 through March 12. To register call Betty Gilbert, x7175 or come . to the first meeting� FREE CHURCH EVENTS Sunday morn ing, at 10:15 a.m. in the Chapel� there will be a communion service. Following the communion� the regular Free Church service will be led by Joel Tibbetts, College Chaplain. The topic: "Is Anybody Listening?" As part of the service, I Trenta Cantori, under the direction of Lisa Jablow, '74,.will present an anthem. 11:15 a.m. in the Chapel. INTERFAITH WORKSHOP Jay G. Williams, of the Hamilton Religion Dept., will lead a discussion Sunday evening on 1,the topic "One God?" The meeting is at 7:30 p.m. in the Kirner-Joh�son red pit. HUMANE SOCIETY Bills for the second semester animal registratio:q. fees will be sent out in the near future. Please contact the Business Office by Feb. 8 if there are any changes concerning pets. Registration will take place for new owners and thei r animals from Jan. 28 through Feb. 8. Owners must present proof of living unit, proof of shots, and a description of the animal. Fees may be arranged by direct cash or check payment or through billing by the Business Office (see p.55 Student Handbook). Signs will be posted for time and locations of Registration. Anyone is welcome to join the Humane Society. Meetings are open and take place on Wednesdays at 7:00 pm in South dorm, room 305. All students are strongly urged to follow Humane Society regulations. Disregarding regulations designating no animal sections in dorms may cause severe medical problems for those allergic to cats and/or dogs. SAC ELECTIONS On Tuesday Feb. 12, elections for the SAC will be held for both Hamilton and Kirkland representatives. Three representatives will be elected from each school. All current freshman, sophomores, and juniors are eligible. To nominate yourself, submit your name and a platform or nomination statement for publication in the Spectator to Cathy Collins, or Liz Freene through Campus Mail by Wednesday, Feb 5. SENATE VACANCY Juniors are reminded that s_elf-nominations for appointment to the vacated Student Senate seat are due by 12:00 pm tomorrow. 'Submit nominations to George Baker via campus mail. KIRKLAND CONCENTRATION Kirkland Sophomores must sign up for a conference with Ruth Rinard in the Office of ;\cademic Affairs concerning their concentrations. Please try to make appointments as soon as possible.
10/THE SPECTATOR/February 1, 1974
Browning Gets Fel/uuJship For German Poetry Study
BY ROBBY MILLER One of the nation's most prestigious academic honors, a National Endowment for the H u m ani ties (N E H) S enior Fellowship, was recently awarded to Hamilton Professor Robert F. Browning. Mr. Browning, who has been a professor of German at the college for 24 years, is the only German scholar among the 102 recipients of the award. He is also one of only three small-college faculty members in the United States so honored. The recipients were selected f rom a mong 6 71 e l i gi ble applications submitted to the Endowment from scholars across the ·country. According to NEH, the awards· - are "designed to s u s t a i n t he nati on's t o p scholarship" and "are awarded annually to teachers, scholars, and humanists who have substantial experience as writ ers and interpreters of the humanities and who have published significant
work." By carrying a stipend of up to $1,500 a mpnth, the Fellowship will allow Mr. Browning time off from teaching responsibilities for twelve months of uninterrupted study and research. Professor Browning plans to use his award to compl�te the second volume of a history of G e r man p oetry fro m t he beginning of the 17th cen·tury to the end of the 19th. He had already planned to undertake this research in 1974-75 under a Gertrude M. Bristol Faculty Fellowship awarded by the fOllege. His research will follow up the labor that went into his German Baroque Poetry:1 1618-1723, which was published two years ago by .the· Penn State University Press and is already regard,ed as a definitive work by scholars in the field. That work was funded in part by a grant from the Ford Foundation to Hamilton College for furtherance of scholarship in
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T h e P re s i d e n t i al Se arch 1973. It has since been learned that Curtis Tarr, former Director Committee is back in business. This announcement was made of the Selective Service System, last week by Coleman Burke, was the third candidate, originally chairman of the Hamilton Board unidentified in The Spectator of Trustees. In a short statement report. It is not known whether released on January 25, Mr. Burke Mr. Tarr is still a candidate for the said, "This action reflects . the position. The Spectator also reported confidence the Trustees have in the Committee. It also represents, that the three candidates who in our view, the most efficient and visited the Hill met with Acting expeditious manner of continuing President J. Martin Carovano, Dean Kurtz, Kirkland President the search." There is no word, however, on .Samuel F. Babbitt, and a group of. how the committee will proceed faculty not connected with the in its peculiar position of looking ·S e a r c h C o m m i t t e e . The for a president after the selection candidates did not meet with and subsequent withdrawal of non-committee.students. When asked about student Joseph J. Sisco last month. Contacted by phone Wednesday, participation in the search, Dean William M. Bristol Ill, chairman of Kurtz said he had talked with the Search Committee, refused to Chairman Bristol asking that the discuss any of the plans and committee consider wider student procedures of the search. Asked if input in the renewed search. Dean he w i ll make· a n y p ublic Kurtz cited growing interest on statements before the end of the the campus in the selection of the search, Mr. Bristol said, "I hope president as his reason for the request. According to the dean, not." Apparently, this phase of the Mr. Bristol assured him that he presiden tial se arch will be would bring the proposal before conducted along the same lines as the committee. Trustee members of the Search the first phase. Members of the Search Committee, in the months Committee include Mr. Bristol, prior to Mr. Sisco's selection, Howard M. Bin1iham, Richard W. would not discuss any aspects of Couper, Edward Gelsthorpe, and their deliberations. There seems to John D. Phillips, Jr. Faculty be no change in the committee's m e m b e r s a r e R u ssell T. Blackwood III, Grant Jones, and policy of secrecy. The names of. two candidates Donald Denney. The student for the presidency were published members, all seniors, are Charles in The Spectator, November 8, Flynn, John Osborne, and William Smith. For Convenience ?nd Safety Keep your checking acco_unt at
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with 12. Badger's dribbling had the fans ecstatic. Freshman Coombes had a good night with several key buckets. Guy ran the ball club well and made his shots count. Kasdorf and Doug Wright '75 chipped in 15 p oints between them. Coach Murp hy is hoping this game could be the turning for his club. Clarkson came to Clinton· with only one win in six tries, but they played an excellent ball game at Alumni Gymnasium, throwing a scare into both the Blue cagers and their fans.
Following their defeat at the hands of Utica College, the Blue cagers rebounded to score two t r i umphs o ver Hobart and Clarkson, before losing to R.I.T. Having already lost twice to Hobart, the Blue cagers were l o o k i n g fo r r e venge. ' The Continentals jumped to an early lead which was not relinquished during the first half. The opening period was one of tough defense, w i t h both s i des press ing. Hamilton was content to work the ball for open shots inside, w hile l ong-range bombs by Hobart were on the mark. ' Hobart was clearly dominant off the boards, sometimes getting as many as five or six shots. Captain Ernie Found '74 got into e ar l y f oul trouble against Hobart's big men, and sat out much of the first half with three personals. Reserve Mark Kasdorf '76 did an excellent job as his replacement, scoring Hamilton's last five points of the half. Sharp passing by guards Mark Badger '75 and Marty Guy '76 set up easy buckets underneath for the Blue.Hobart's press hurt them more than helping, and the Continentals held a slim 49-48 advantage at half-time. An offensive rebound by Hobart put them back in the lead in the second half, 50-49. The Orange then switched to a man- to-man defense which see m e d to rattle the Blue momentaril} . After reg am mg their composure, Hamilton reeled off six unanswered points to take a 59-54 lead with fifteen minutes remaining. Hobart was not dead yet. They picked away at the Coptinental's lead, and an outside jump shot with 7:02 remaining tied the score at 74. The score remained the same until another offensive rebound was converted by Hobart with 4:00 left.
fourteen for 18 points. Captain Found tallied 10 points and pulled down 6 rebounds. Garcia's points were made a va ilable by the tremendous passing of Mark Badger. He picked ·up 10 assists to go with his points and also picked off 4 steals. Several of Badger's passes brought the fans to their feet with cheers. Badger's backcourt partner, M a r t y G u y, a l so ha d an outstanding night. The 5'11" Guy led the Blue with 10 rebounds while chipping in 16 points. Res e r v e Doug Wright again showed his consistency by adding 4 points. ' R.I. T. gained an early lead and held on th defeat the Hamilton cagers 72-70. The Continentals led oniy once during the first half, at 7-6. The first half was marked by sloppy play by both teams, which caused a low scoring half. The Tigers led 38-33 at the midway point. Numerous shots by Hamilton were rejected by Ray Brown and Ed Davis of R.I.T. The Blue, unable to get inside, began taking long, non-percentage shots
February 1, 1974/THE SPECTATOR/11 which were not hitting. With 13:28 left in the game, Hamilton took a 51-48 lead on a steal and shot by Brian Coombes. However, RIT came back with eight consecutive points for a 56-51 advantage. After three points by the Blue, the Tigers ran up ten more without an answer from Hamilton. Leading 70-60 with 2:52 left, RIT seemed sure of an easy victory. The Cont i n e n t a ls, how ever, thought otherwise. Slowly they chipped away at the 10 · -point bulge. A basket by Garcia with :48 left made the score 71-68. After both sides exchanged missed foul shots, Ernie Found sank two free throws, bringing the Blue within one. However, Mark
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Hot Icemen Get Cooled; Downed By UMass, UVM I
BY STEVE HA WE ELI
After squeaking by. Colby 3-2 in an overtime period,10th ranked nationally in Division II,Hamilton College dropped two games to the University of Massachusetts and the University of Vermont. In the 10-2 drubbing at the hands of UMass, the team did not have the. spark that it displayed in the 6-1 loss to UVM. The crowd tum-out against UMass and UVM was _ BY ROBERT J. KEREN Hamilton's awesome defensive creditable considering the end Jeff Hewitt was ignored untimely Intersession. The hockey team, coming off a during the National Football League's draft of 442 college poor UMass game, came close to seniors, but the persistent Dallas beating UVM, one of the better Cowboys wasted no time after teams in the nation, last Saturday T u esday's select i ons w e r e afternoon at Sage Rink. For two completed i n seeking Hewey's per iods t he Cont's stymied s e r v i c es as a "free agent." Vermont's offense, but finally Ernie grabs the opening tap Yesterday evening Hewitt signed succumbed to penalties and w i t h t he C o wboys for an injuries. The defense was the key undisclosed sum. The first half was close all the Dallas had contacted Hewitt factor. Early in the game Kurt w ay, w i th excellent outside early last November, in the midst Zie mendo rf, t he prom1smg shooting by Clarkson the key. As of Hamiltoµ's least productive freshman defenseman, absorbed a against Hobart, the Continentals football campaign ever, requesting cheap shot against the boards, and shut off the inside lanes, only to that he fill out a preliminary consequently was severely injured. be burned by long outside report. And the cooly efficient His head smashed into the comer, jumpers. A well played first half Cowboys apparently never forgot which bloodied his left ear and had Clarkson with a slim two the co-captain from Fayetteville. left eye. His replacement Dave point advantage, 4644. A Dallas scout visited the Hill Pryor was shaken up in the second HAMILTON 85 HOBART 82 A g r e a t drive by Brian yesterday and reviewed game period, but was ably replaced by FT TP Coombes opened the second half films with head coach Bob King. Don Armstrong who exhibited his FG 3 8 Badger and tied the score at 46. Hamilton Hewey was timed in the 40-yard f ine defens i ve ab i l ity the 2 5 Coombes 3 1 s either led or was tied the rest of 6 Found dash a n d d em onstrated his remainder of the game. The three 4 5 13 t he Garcia way. Several times the mobility on the basketball court. rem a1 n1 ng def en s emen, Jim 0 1 5 . . Guy o Contmenta ls opened f"1ve pomt Short l y after eight o'clock Rishel, Dave Gillmore, and Rick 0 0 Johnson 4 1 Kasdorf 9 bulges, only to have Clarkson "Kootch" became the property of Aubry played very well. 1 0 Masterson come roaring back. In fact it was a team effort. 0 the Cowboys. 3 Wright Hewitt will travel to Texas in Coach Batt was pleased with the 1S 8 S HAMILTON 90 CLARKSON 81 3S Totals overall performance of the club. FG FT TP March with Dallas's other rookies, Bot h teams k e p t e ven, He feels that their spirit is very 16 and will be fighting for a spot on 7 2 Badger exchanging bask.et for basket Coombes 18 t he roster in 0 9 the Cowboy's high, and the squad certainly lived 4 until Brian Coombes '77 sank two 3 10 1-ound up to his claims. They played a 2S training camp starting inJuly. 7 9 Garcia in a row. Coombes first sank a Guy 4 6 14 It should come as no surprise hard-hitt ing game, but just shot after an offensive rebound, Johnson 1 1 0 0 2 to football observers thatJeff,was 1 Kasdorf and then, following a Hobart chosen during Tuesday's 0 0 n ot 0 Masterson travel, made a beautiful drive to 0 draft. Professional football scouts 0 0 Reynolds 4 0 2 Wright the basket to make the score use their 17 coveted choices to 90 82-78 with 1 :50 remaining. 20 35 Totals nab solid big school stars or Hobart then called time and Three consecutive Blue baskets .well-known blue-chippers, but for took the ball out of bounds. BY GARY VILLANOVA with 6:42 remaining put the game an unheralded small-time college However, the in-bounds pass hit As the season m,'lves into its out of reach. Hamilton began to prospect, scouts rarely risk draft the back of the backboard, giving run and quickly opened up a nine selection. As in Hewey's case they final stages, no less �han 7 teams the ball to the Continentals. p o i n t b u lg e , 7 6 -67. The prefer to scramble for lesser are still in the race for 4 play-off 'Found was fouled with :05 left Continental lead was never less knowns and sign them as free positions. and made both, leaving the final than five the rest of the evening agents. In Division I, Theta-Phoon-Phi score at 85-8 2. A steal by Marty and they waltzed home with Unfortunately at press deadline has clinched first place. They are Guy left no doubt as to the another victory, their second in a H e w i t t w a s unavailable for led by Kevin McTernan '75, Andy outcome. comment. It is believed that he Sobel '75, and Joe Zaiden '76. row. This game has to be classified Pedro Garcia '75 had an was out celebrating. But the 1974 With Tom Moore '76 playing well as a great team effort. All five outstanding evening. His team c a pt a i n - e l ect J o hn Newell in the nets, they appear to be the starters hit double figures, led by high 25 points and six assists observed that ''you don't drive all favorites for the play-offs. PSI U Badger's 19. There were few sparked the Blue offense. Pedro the way · to Clinton the day after is in second place, but they may Hamilton turnovers (8) and a shot a blistering 75% from the the draft just to sign any old free be hard pressed by the INDY 2 tough defense forced Hobart into floor but had an off night at the agent. The Cowboys really wanted team. many (28 !). Ernie Found began to foul line, hitting only seven of Hewey, and were in a rush to sign In Division II, four teams are grab his share of rebounds in the eleven. Coombes was also hot him before someone else came separated by only 1 game in the second half and fin�s�ed the nii�t from the floof hhting nine of around." stapdings. AD is in first place but
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Kasdorf was forced to foul RIT's captain, D'Andrea, who was playing his first game in a month. D'Andrea sank the first of a one-and-one but missed the second. Found rebounded and hit Garcia along the sideline. Pedro took it down, stopped from twenty feet and fired. The shot just missed, and the game ended with Mark Kasdorf pinning Ray Brown to the floor.
couldn't quite put it all together. In the third period, with the score 2-0, UVM finally erupted, and thus the final was 6-1. Against UMass, things were a little differen-t. Co-cap tains Ben Madonia and Rishel characterized the game as "the poorest effort of the year. They are no better than us." From the start, something se e m e d w r o n g w i th t he Continentals. UMass skated rings around them, and ended up scoring profusely. Goaltender Ray Rossi had an off night, and it seemed that the breaks were not falling their way. Unfortunately, Hamilton was expected to win the game. Instead it turned into a nightmare. As Coach Batt remarked, "the team has already forgotten the UMass game." The team showed that they did forget the game by their performance against Vermont. In a game prior to UMass and Vermont, Hamilton skated to a 3-2 overtime victory over Colby in an exciting game. Keith O'Brien slapped in the winning goal with I :0 I left in the sudden death period, unassisted. He fired it in two steps over the blue line, and beat the goalie cleanly to the right side. The team plays Oswego SL Thursday Jan. 31 in the rubber match between the two. The season is rapidly getting old and every game is crucial for the squad. On February 2, Hamilton travels to Middlebury. Middlebury is 4-6 on the year, but is none-the-less a worthy opponent. Hamilton returns to home ice Wed. Feb. 6 against St. Anselm's.
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12/THE SPECTATOR/February 1, 1974
The Blue Wave Rolls TmJJard Undefeated Season
BY JOHN NAVARRE T h e Hamilton -swim team edged out a powerful Williams squad Saturday, January 19, by the s c o re o f 5 9-54. The Continten tals also po sted easy wins against Hobart (74-36) on J a n u a r y 2 3 a n d Brockport (74-38 ) onJan uary 25. The Con tin entals · travelled to Williamstown for what pro ved to be their clo sest meet of the s e a s o n . C o a ch M a c D on ald expected a strong o ppos1·t·10 n an d to ld his team before the meet that they would take it "one eve nt at a time." Haml.lton started stro ng with a stacked Medley Relay of J�n iors Craig MacDonald, Jeff Carlberg, Gary Karl, an d sophomore Joe Shrum, to fin ish six seconds ahead of the Williams relay. D ave G r e e n halgh o u tswam Scott Schumaker of Williams in the last 500 yards of thelO00-yardfree to fin ish with a first and a new school record. Jo hn Needham foll owed with a first in th e 200-yard free and also tied the school record in th:;.t even t. It Was more than coin ciden tal that the Williams pool was named for Robert B. Muir, who was a Williams coach for twen ty years, :md who also happen ed to be the only referee at the meet. His partiality seemed apparen t in the 50-yard f'"ee when Jack Widman was anno unced as taking third behind two Williams sprinters. (Afte·r a protest by Co acJ:t MacDon ald, Widman was awarded first place and given the same time as the first Williams finisher). This took the wind o ut of the C o n ti n e n t a l ' s s ails. Williams fin ished one-two in the 200-yard Individual Medley. The diving again showed partial judgin g with Muir assi.sted by Carl Samuelson , the present Williams coach, in the sco ring. Paul Edick ma naged to dive to ·a second, but all of the
Hamilton divers showed signs of This made the score 54-52 in pressure. favor of Williams and a victory by John Needham to uched out either team in the 400-yard Free Ted Barclay of Williams in a �elay wo uld mean seven po ints stroke for stroke race in the and the meet. Co ach MacDon ald 200-yard Butterfly. Widman in had his four fastest "guns"left as another clo se con test sprin ted to a did Samuelson . After the first second place in the 100-yard free. three legs had been swum Williams took the first two places Hamilton led by on e tenth of a. in the 200-yard backstroke with second with Jo hnny Needham as Paul Reilly posting his secon d win the anchor. Needham outswam for the best Williams effort. Jim Har per for the second time of the day to cop the first place an d · ory HAMI LTON 59 WILLIAMS 54 v1c t for the Con t·men tal s. 400-yd. medley relay: Hamilton, Coath MacDon ald gave his team 3:5 6 three a day on pti vacati o onal with II ( 0 00_yd. free: Greenhalgh ),
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10:47.2, (school re.cord) Schumaker IW , .. )' McGu1·re (H) · 200-yd. free: Needham (H), I:49.8 (ties school record), Harper (W), Anderson (W). SO-yd. free: Widman (H), 23.l, Barclay (W), Preiss (W). 200 Yd. Individual medley: Reilly (W) 2 :08.l, Greenwood (W), Matthews (H). Required diving: Goff (W) 150,6 5, Edi ck (H), Pregent (W). 200-yct. outtertly: N eecthain (H) 2 :IO .4, Barclay (W), Mc Evoy (W). lO0-yd. free: Harper (W) 50_7, Widman {H), Anderson (W). 200-yd. backstroke: Reilly (W) 2 :IO.O. Schumaker ). MacDonald (H). 5 o O- y d. free: Greenhalgh (H) s :17.6 , Greenwood (W), Martin (W). 200-yd. breaststroke: Carlberg (H) 2 :20.3, Greer (W), Martin (W. · Optional diving: Edick (H) 203.60, Goff (W), Erickson (W). 4 00-yd. free relay: Hamilton, _ _ 3:23 7
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A freshman Medley Relay of Jim Matthews, Jeff Co hen , Dave Green halgh, and Jo hn Murphy took a first. Matthews repeated with a strong showing an d a win i n the 200�yard backstroke. • Greenhalgh counter�d with a first i n t he 2 0 0-yard Individual Medley. An d Cohen stroked to a first in the 200-yard breaststroke. Eric Kulp, ano ther frosh, scored Karl touches first in 200 LM. i n b o th t he Optional and Required diving in the ab�ence of CLINTON Pau l Edick. LIQUOR The J.V. squad plays three Jo hn Needham made his usual STORE· home g a m e s t his weekend. impressive performance with a Grand Unio n Shopping Center Thursday they take the ice against two-length win in the 500-yard 853-8878 Utica College at 4 p.m. ho ping to free and also a first in the 50-yard REMEMBER: We are now lengthen their 35 game win streak sprint. This was the first time that discount Liquor Store. We on home ice. Friday at 7 p.m. Needham swam the even t the will not be undersold. they skate against Un ion, and whole year. Cl arke McGuire, who Lowest prices Saturday afternoon they meet the did no t take his place on the Allowed by la w "Clinton Bo ys" at 1 o 'clock. The roster un til Win ter Study, sho wed Any wherf in N. Y. State leading sco rers are Chip Williams signs of improvemen t an d a ho pe '77, George Gillmore '77, and ---------------... for the State Meet with a win in Dickie Malco m of the so pho more the 1000-yard free an d a seco nd in t�iletri� and class.J.V. games usually guarantee the 500-yard free. fll' \ cosmetics many goals and man y fights. H a m i 1 t o n t r a ve 11 e d t o delivered on campus Manfred Von Schiller, the co ach, Brockport last Friday to coast to CALL 853.a14 hopes that the fan s can co me o ut ano ther easy victory. The tan kers this a n d suppo rt the club' took every first place except the We-=kdays after s pm or weekends weekend. last relay. Mark Walters, who
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HAMILTON 77 BROCKPORT 36 400-yd. medley relay: Hamilton, 3:54.5. IO00-yd. free: McGuire (H) ll:28·3, Widman (H), Nuffer (B). 2 00-yd. f ree: Greenhalgh (H) l:57. 6 , Christianson (B), Neilson (B) SO-yd. free: Needham (H) 23.9 Drake (B), Fallon (B). 200-yd. Individual medley: Karl (H) 2:14.9, Mathis (B), Simm (B). Required diving: Edick (H) 122.70 Edwards (B), Kulp (H). 200-yd. butterfly: Needham (H 2:I0.8, Saltarelli (B), Fallon (B). 100-yd. free: Widman (H) 52.! Shrum (H), Drake (B). 200-yd. backstroke: MacDonaM (H) 2:13_ 6 , Simms (B). Matthews(H S 00-yd. free: Greenhalgh (H S:16 .7, McGuire (H), Sivecz (B). 200-yd. breaststroke: Carlberg (W 2:18. 6 , (pool record), Kraus (H Nuffer (B). Optional diving: Edick (H) 171.80 Edwards (B), D u1P (H) · 400-yd. free relay: Brock 3:33.9.
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142. 6 9, Kulp (H), Lowin (Ho). 200-vd. 2 0 0-yd. b utterfly: Karl (H), 2 :19.28, Drosser (Ho). Ovellette (Ho). 100-yd. free: Shrum (H) 53.10, Mulcahey (Ho), Hertzog (Ho). 200-yd. backstroke: Matthews (H) 2:17.17, Andorsky (Ho), Finch (Ho). 5 00-yd. f r e e : Needham (H), 5:09.58, McGuire (H), Fishbeck (Ho). 200-yd. breaststroke: Cohen (H) 2:35.32, Dittmar (Ho), Kraus (H). Optional diving: Weiner (Ho), 174.50, Holender (H), Kulp (H). 4 00- yd. f r e e r e l ay: Hobart, 3:38.03.
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workouts in return for the win. Hamilton !!��! met Hobart January 23, during Intersession. It was n o con test and the swimmers showed their lack of enthusiasm. Dave Greenhalgh do min ated But MacDon ald did have a chan ce the 500-yard free, finishing a to swim some regulars in events length ahead of the second and they usually dol n o·t see action i n , third place Williams distan ce men . and also let the freshmen carry J e f f C a r l'b e rg, wh o w a s the load. unimpressive in the I.M., swam to HAMILTON 75 HOBART 38 an easy first .in the breaststroke 400-yd. medley relay: Hamilton, event, with Jeff Cohen grabbing a 4:06 .03. 1000-yd. free: McGuire (H) ll:30.9, badly n eeded third. Drosser (Ho), Baird (H). . Coach MacDon ald pulled Paul . 200-yd. free: Widman (H) l:59.8, Edick aside before the Optional Ovellette (Ho), Briggs (Ho). SO-yd. free: Needham (H), 23.97, diving and told him to disregard . the scores and just dive well. Shrum (H), Hertzog (Ho) 2 00-yd. Ind i vi d u al m ed l ey : Edick responded with a decisive Greenhalgh (H) 2:17.17, Shapland (H), win again st the Williams Captain , Saumby (Ho). Required diving: Holender (H). Mike Goff.
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return ed from a Christmas auto mishap, saw action in the 200-yard backstroke, but is still limited in his work load. · Carlberg posted his best dual meet effort ever in the 200-yard breaststroke to set a pool record. John Needham grabbed first in both the 50-yard free an d the 200-yard fly. Joe Shrum qualified for the State Meet in the 100-yard free with 52 .6 fin ish for second place. Dave Green halgh swam .rmp ress1ve . ly m . the m1"ddle and long distances with win s in the 200-yard and 500-yard freestyles.
Meet, at the end of Inter.sessio The only o bstacle remaining the schedule is last year's Stak Champio ns and this year's favoritt in the state, Colgate.
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Back To The Hockey Roots
BY ED WATKINS Mention professional hockey to your average fan and he will respond by talking about the Boston Bruins o r Mo ntreal Canadiens, A very knowledgable fan might name the New En gland Whalers of the World Hockey Association. But rare in deed is the person, who when queried about professio nal hockey, will reply with a discussion regarding the merits of the American Ho ckey League. Yet it is the minor leagues of hockey which provided the fan his first chance to watch and learn the game. Back in the pre-expansion days of the National Hockey League, there were only six teams, New York, Boston , Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, and Chicago. There was little television coverage of the league in those days so if a fan did not live n ear on e of those cities, he would rarely ever s�e a major league game. The minor leagues, though, filled in the gap. While the hockey was not spectacular, it was exciting and colorful. The fan acquired a taste for the game which developed into a passion . Soon he was struggling with his radio to tune in Mon treal and Toronto stations to discover how the stars in the NHL were doin g. Today the expan sion of the National Ho ckey League and the creation of the World Hockey Association co upled with n etwork broadcasting of games has greatly changed the fan's position . He is increasingly able to view maj or league ho ckey. It is no longer necessary for him to be con tent with watching the minors. In terest in the 1nin or leagues is far from dead however. Fam con tinue to flock to the games for there is somethin g rather appealing in watching men play hockey for salaries that arc measured in the hun dreds rather than in the thousands of dollars. A visit to the Clinton Arena will bear this o ut. The Mohawk Valley Co mets are currently in last place in the newly formed North American Ho ckey League. The Comets have fallen on hard times; the are nowhere near the power they used to be. Yet they continue to play a brand of hockey that is far more en joyable to watch than the brand played by a major outfit such as the Vancouver Canucks. The Comets an d their fan s have a close relationship; the Comets live, eat, an d drink around Clinton;' they are well known to the community. The fans roo t hard, giving no quarter to the opposition, Former Comets who have been traded to other teams gef 1 particularly r.ude reception . Dale McBain , the ''policeman" for the Broome County Dusters, is a former Comet. When he returned to the aren a the oth�r night, he received a reception best described 31 hostile. Comments such as "McBain, how much do you charge to haunt a house?" were common. To McBain's credit, he to ok the abuse in stride, giving the fans a little wave now and then. With many major league hockey teams playing to huge standing-room-on ly crowds, it is refreshing to n ote that some of the most exciting and en joyable hockey being played anywhere is to bi foun d in the small arenas of monor league hockey. For every NHL superstar playing for 25 0 thousand dollars a year, there are a d ozen guys like Dale McBain , playi ng good ho ckey for a couple of hundr� dollarsa game. To fan s tired and sicken ed by the money scramble m the majors, I suggest a trip do wn to the roots of the game, tlx mino rs, where hockey can still be fun. CLINTON SHOE CENTER SPECIALIZING IN WINTER BOOTS AND SHOE REPAIR 853-5242
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Hamilton Committee Studies Student Judicial System
BY SUSAN MALKIN Court, however, does not see this serious cases this year. Kaye said, As a result of numerous, as an area of concern. "I don't "The two cases of malicious serious violations of social and think we are having that much physical assault at Hamilton have academic- regu,lations at Hamilton trouble. I don't think that the generated unusual interest in the C ollege, a J u d i cial Review p e n alties we hand out are judiciary process and put strain on Committee was formed during a m b i g uo u s ," s ai d Bill Yu, a system that had weakness and Winter_ Study to investigate the chairman of the Honor Court. ambiguity to begin with. When we e xi s t i n g s t u d ent disciplinary B o th the Court and the were dealing with little stuff. a system. Judiciary Board have had to deal little ambiguity didn't matter." According to Gordon Kaye, w i t h especially involved and continued on pa� twelve co- chairman of the Review Committee and chairman of the Judiciary Board, "The biggest problem is that the whole system is confusing. No one knows whQ can do what, when, where, or how." Confusion has arisen because the two independent judiciary bodies, the Honor Court and the Judiciary Board, are operating u n d e r constitutions that set minimal guidelines for penalities, and procedures, including appeals. TheJudicial Review Committee is considering three possibilities for revising the judiciary system: (l) rewriting the existing set of regulations to clarify some of the ambiguities, (2) formalizing the students are becoming more aware structure of the Honor Court and of the extra edge a computor gives the Judiciary Board, placing a i n e d u c a t i o n . T herefore stronger emphasis on courtroom Hamilton-Kirkland's lack of a very procedure, (3) merging the Honor d e ve lo ped system might be Court and the Judiciary Board hurt i n g t heir faculty-student into one committee, to deal with drawing power. infractions of the social and James McDermid, Kirkland associate professor- of sculptu.re and printmaking, (left) who has retained a lawyer to help prepare In light of these reports, J. academic regulations. Martin Caravano, acting president Dean of Students, R. Gordon materials for his case before the Appeals Committee, and Robert o f H a m i l t o n , r e c e i v e d Bingham, prefers merging the two Muirhead, Kirkland associate professor of painting, printmaking, and authorization at the spring, 1973 systems. "By combining the two drawing, and a member of the Committee. meeting of the Board of Trustees committees, student responsibility to hire a consultant firm. Their in the area will be more focused, r e c o m m en d ations w i ll b e and therefore it will become a compared to the presentations of more powerful body." IBM and Burroughs, the major C o-chairman Kaye s a i d , contending firms. A decision will "Merging under a whole new set be made on March 8. BY FELICE FREYER information that was not provided of rules is a good beginning Pete, Marwick, and Mitchel toward eliminating ambiguity and J ames McDermid, associate me. " "It seems they were Consulting Firm have not publicly restoring faith in the system's p rofessor of s culpture and centering in on my sculpture, released their recommendations. workings." He said one of the printmaking, said Wednesday that which I consider to be my However, IBM and Burroughs major problems of the Judiciary ·h e b e l i e ves he w as not strongest sensibility," he said. "I have offered tentative proposals. Board is the "ambiguous and reappointed for tpe fall semester don't know what they expect IBM will probably recommend confusing iaws under which it has because the Arts Division felt completely. It may have been continued on page six been operating. n The Honor there was a lack of structure in his suggested that there was not sculpture courses. enough organized structure. The "Basically," he said, "they felt past three semesters, I considered I was understressing fundamentals the ( basic sculpture) course to be and giving students a false illusion very structured." Discussing the alleged lack of o f t heir s c uptural abilities, particularly in my basic sculpture s t ructure in Mr. McDennid' teaching, a student currently Ms. Frazer visited the Hill last candidates and ask questions. course.'' Mr . M c D e r m id' s let ter enrolled in Basic Sculpture said, week for an intensive series of About forty students attended a p pe a l i ng t he Appointments "I don't know how much more interviews with faculty. students, each meeting. Dean Poller said the students Committee decision will probably structured you can get. He can't and administrative personnel. Mrs. Colby already met with students asked "some good, probing, and be received by the Appeals go around doing your work for last Sunday, a nd will be very necessary questions." She Committee sometime next week. you. In sculpture, it's hard to be interviewed by faculty and asked that students bring their McDermid has retai .ed a lawyer strucnued." ''Mc Dennid was creatively administration at some later date. evaluations of the candidates to to "generally search out and President Babbitt is expected her office by Monday, so that organize" the data for the more helpful, whereas he didn't to make the final decision with from there they can be sent to presentation of his case to the he Ip as much with specific techniques," said a student who President Babbitt as a group, Appeals Committee. the next two weeks. Mr. McDermid said he had took Sculpture I, Art 209 in President Babbitt said he is rather than in a fragmented asking stud en ts and faculty to fashion. She stressed that the been reluctant to discuss the fall, 1972. "He let you feel your send him written evaluations of contents of the letters would be particulars of his appeals case own way, which I think is good.•• because he had not understood In response to the casual the candidates. which he will kept confidential. President Babbitt said, "I felt, with full clarity the reasons for his student speculation about his seriously consider in making his and feel, that we have two very dismissal and was hesitant to moral integrity, McDcnnid said decision. "It never occurred to us not to strong candidates." He said he has make a public statement on the that there were no "skeletons" or scandals involved. have students involved," he said. given no directives to the search. issue. Even now, he claims that "I don't drink." he said with a Mr. Babbitt and Jane Poller, dean "I was somewhat, and pleasantly. of s t udents, had organized surprised to see that they came "much of this is somewhat of a smile. continued on page four continued on page five mystery. Th'ere was a great deal of meetings for students to meet the
Recommendations Vary On Computer Systems BY LIZ BARROW "Hamilton and Kirkland have a real problem that I think effects not only the caliber of education, but also the recruitment of students and faculty," stated Lawrence E. Wright, Director of Computor Services at Williams College in a report on the colleges' computer requirements. "We are at a disadvantage in the recruitment of new faculty and stude n ts," agrees John Anderson, H a milton M at h professor and author of a 19 72 report on Hamilton-Kirkland's data processing resources and needs. Re f erri ng t o Ha milt o n Kirkland's rather minimal data processing equipment, Mr. Wright recom mended in the Spring 19 73 report, that the colleges purchase additional equipment. He said that today, both faculty and
Micks Withdraws as Candidate; Two Women Remain in Search
Marianne Micks, one of the three original finalists for the pos it ion of Kirkland Dean of Academic Affairs, withdrew her ca nd i d a c y M o n d a y. Her withdrawal has narrowed the field to two. Ms. Micks, prest,1tly professor of religion. at The Western College in Osford, Ohio, informed President Babbitt in a telephone conve rsation t hat she had ·accepted a professorship at a t heological seminary in Virginia. The new dean will thus be either Ursula Colby, chairman of the Kirkland humanities division , or Catherine Frazer, chairman of the philosophy department at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, the tw<;> remaining finalists.
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P r esid ent Babbitt faces an understandably difficult decision in the selection of the next Dean of Academic Affairs. The two candidates, Catherine Frazer and Ursula Colby each show the leadership talents and the originality necessary for such a position. The college must consider itself fortunate to have attracted two such able candidates. Yet one can not ignore the fact that the choice is not simply between two fine candidates, but between a person presently com1ected with Kirkland, and one who is not. There are, indeed, certain advantages in "looking within" · to fill such a position. However, considering the strength o f b oth candidates, Kirkland would be wise to look outside and select Catherine Frazer as its next Dean of Academic Affairs. We have no doubt that Mrs. Colby would make an excellent dean. If there are traditions at Kirkland, she is , certainly one. She has provided strength and leadership to the college since its beginning six years ago, and is among the most respected scholars on the Hill. Nonetheless, of the two finalists, only Mrs. Frazer can bring into the position perceptions and ideas unrelated to the college's p...st and only she can provide the new blood essential for Kirland 's awkward transition from infancy to maturity. In addition to bringing in new blood, Kirkland must maintain existing strength. Losing Mrs. Colby as a Literature professor with slim prospects of replacing her with anyone nearly as capable would be unwise. Kirkland has an opportunity to add new leadership. Rather than risk the quality of the Humanities Division, President Babbitt would be well advised to retain Professor Colby in her present position, and select Professor Frazer as Dean of Academic Affairs. Kirkland's potential will be best realized if supported by both a strong dean and a stro:..1g faculty.
IBM System 3?
Unless the H a m ilton and Kirkland trustees and administrators are careful, they may end up substituting an abacus for an adding machine. After years of trying to bring the two colleges into the twentieth century and the age of computers, it would be a shame if the trustees, for the sake of mistaken economy, chose the IBM System 3. [see news story, page one] The System 3 is a business computer. The costs of expanding this small system to adequately meet academic needs here would be prohibitive. The Burroughs B5000, on the other hand, is a sophisti cated and powerful computer. It would be able to handle both the administrative and academic programming load. Its greatest t.dvantage is its multi-processing capabilities_. _ Even when the administration is processing payrolls, the Burroughs machine can simultaneously handle students' programs. This is necessary if a sophisticated, and flexible computer system is to be established on the Hill. It is important that Hamilton and Kirkland get a com puter on the campus. It is no less important, however, that the trustees do not mistakenly buy an inadequate machine.
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Conference Creates Fellowship
BY LEROY PORTER Blackness, Whiteness was the title of a conference held at Cornell University. The conference was designed to look into what Blackness and Whiteness implies and describes. When the participants arrived they were split up into Black and White groups. Groups were to remain separate for the rest of the conference, only getting together at the end of the days discussions for wine and cheese. The delegation from the Hill consisted of Dale Garrette, Jim Townes, and myself. When we arrived, the conference was alrea4y underway. After checking into the Statler Inn, we went up to our rooms and then to the discussion suite. The group had already formed a large circle. Wavering pencils and remarking hands gave the group a rather intellectual look, but as I took my seat and opened my ears, I could tell that these brothers and sisters were getting "deep". The discussion was centered a round a booklet of questions on "Black consciousness raising"; the booklet asked you to remember experiences like the first time you regretted being Black, and when were you first aware of the color caste system among Blacks. From the periphery everyone seemed into it. Just before the wine and white people came up, the three of us were introduced to the entire group . Three members· o f the Whiteness group walked in and sat along the side of a wall like see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil, anxiously awaiting some social interaction to bring them to life. The director of the Blackness group gave us an outline for the weekend and we drank and discussed on into Saturday morning. I was the only one to go to breakfast. Aside from being surprised that I remembered the directions, the brightness of th€ day was well appreciated. The conference was a rigorous affair, with meetings from nine in the morning until eleven at night. Brother Fred was the group director. He began the morning's session with a game of elephants and giraffes. The game was played by making a circle with one person in the middle as "it". "It" was to walk around the circle and point to someone and say "elephant" or "giraffe". When you were pointed to, the persons on your left and right had to help you make like an elephant or giraffe before the count of five or else you became "it". After this preliminary game we began the session. The topic of discussion involved talking about what Blackness means. We were broken up into groups of three, then groups of six, then into two's. Following this procedure, we returned to our respective groups of six and picked two people to
represent the group views. A large circle was formed, w i th a smaller circle of group representatives in the middle. The discussion of this inner circle was video taped. On the issue of defining Blackness, two major attitudes prevailed; one sister felt that Black people needed an academic means of discussing Blackness which meant we should be about defining ourselves and what we are. The other point of view talked to the idea that defin ing Blackness was in a sense "operationalizing" a person's experiences and like all operational definitions, they tend to be obscure. All of the Hamilton delegation made it to the inner circle, and as we related our experiences of the Hill, we were not so surprised to find that we did not have a unique situation. We broke for lunch and returned for an afternoon session on the correct values for Black people. We followed the same procedure minus the elephants and giraffes. This was an interesting session also, but the highlight of the conference was the evening discussion on Black sexuality. This time the Black men were separated from the Black women and the task was to outline the way we saw the present situation of Black men and women, to outline an ideal, describe how Black men should change and how Black women should change. As we brothers m�ved to our chambers for synthesis, I could hear the sisters reveling in their larger number. Mark, a brother from Delhi University, and I k ept slapping each other five as we corroborated on such points as ...Black women form their more global opinions of Black men moreso from painful experiences than pleasurable...and the list went on in that vein. When we emerged to join the sisters, I expected a battle royal. I was chosen to represent the brother's side. In making up the list, the secretary from our group was not too careful with grammar or wording since all the statements were going to be explained. There was one statement that went, "Black women don't know how to love." Before the explanation was given, one sister stood up briskly and sat down remarking, "I just couldn't sit on that one." One of the more interesting statements from the sister's side said that a lot of brothers deal with their women like an oppressor might deal with his. After both sides explained their statements we got into some very serious and sincere exchanges. People were very secure, frank and honest, making for quite a conducive leading atmosphere. Sunday morning's good-byes were a very moving scene. Among the kisses and handshakes you could tell that a Black family had gotten together.
Perspective
Inequity( loudsDepartmental Honors JOHN B. WILLIAMS Much confusion exists in the minds of Hamilton students as to what Departmental Honors are and how one comes to be awarded such an honor. Departmental Honors appear to be granted to graduating seniors by a general consensus of the professors constituting the senior's department of concentration. However, the selection criteria are, at best, cloaked in obscurity and doubt. Consequently, the confusion can be said to exist not in the minds of students, but rather in the system itself. Over the past three years, the number of seniors receiving Honors has varied greatly from department t o department. Approximately one-third of Hamilton graduates received Departmental Honors. However, in some departments well over half of the majors are awarded Honors, while in other departments fewer than one in ten are seen fit to graduate with Honors. On the basis of these figures alone, the present system seems inequitable. This situation is further clouded by the fact that in 1972, the Speech Department granted Honors to seven graduating seniors, despite the fact that there were no Speech majors. D uring the past two years the History Department has awarded Honors to 25 seniors, while the Government Department has granted only four. What is the reason for this lop-sided distribution? Are there that many more History majors than Government majors? This certainly is not so. Are History majors smarter? Do they work harder? Are they more honorable? The answer to these questions lies only in the fact that the gepartments use different standards in .gr��ting Hqn�s. :Some departfn'�nts •seem 'to 'make '"
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Letters to the Editor . Alumnus Boosts Don Jones
For one thing, interest facilitates learning by memory, and also makes things enjoyable. Secondly, and much more importantly, exclusive rote learning belongs b a ck i n the one room schoolhouse. How easy life would be if e ve ry t hi ng c o u l d be l e arned by m e m onzmg. Experiencing, practicing, discussing, and arguing are equally as important as reading and writing. If nothing else, Winter Study's worth lies in its potential ability to show people that education can be pleasant, and that the word "education'' is widely encompassing. Susan Elfin '76
To the Editor: If I understand the "Gerry Payne" editorial of January 18 correctly, Don Jones is no longer head football coach at Hamilton. If that is so, and I hope it isn't, I regard the handling of his case as the shabbiest mei.s of several that Carissima has managed itself into lately. I look upon that "clever" move as an institutional declaration of NO CLASS! A s I see it from 3000 miles away, Don didn't win. Well, I could get you some coaches who will win! One of the places I worked had a coach who bent clipboards over players' helmets, made the timid Baker Clarifies scrimmage without pads, and handled biacks by asking "Do you want to be a · To the E ditor: nigger or a football player?" He was 12-0 Last week one of your reporters, Bob last year and won a small college bowl Grieves, interviewed me for a Spectator game. Or I could offer you our own Jim article. The resulting article was rather Owens at bargain rates (say, $35,000 a accurate but for one specific item, namely, year). He can't win in the Pac-8, but his the quotation attributed to me which recruits could probably give Middlebury read, "Making the Honor Court and the their comeuppance-and he can recruit, by Judiciary Board working institutions will one means or another. be the real crowning achievement of this , I played for Don Jones in good years year's Senate.' I believe that this and bad. He loved me _and he wouldn't statement is an honest misquotation. speak to me. He made me captain and he What I thought I had said, and meant benched me. But he cared about his to say, was not that the Honor Court and players, about the college, about the game J-Board had failed this year, but rather of football and about winning. In that that the Honor Code and Disciplinary order. I was always proud of him (he Behavior Guidelines (as set forth in the wasn't always proud of me) because he student handbook) could be paid more represented the best of what I though attention by students so that those norms Hamilton football was all about. He made might truly govern student behavior on great runners out of blocking backs, campus. I did not intend to run down the All-American ends out of high school hard work of either the Honor Court or ta ckles, a n d winning t eams out the J-Board. I have made that clear to the of-m aybe-fifteen or twenty decent chairmen of those two judicial bodies, and athletes. Most important, he is a good and it is through this letter to you that I would decent man-the kind you wouldn't worry l i ke t o e radicate the unfortunate about having your kid play implications of the mistake in the minds under-ideally suited to a school dedicated of the community. to excellence (which is not necessarily to Related to the subject of mistakes, I be equated with winning). would appr��iate your destroying every Why did Don suddenly become a loser? photograph of me which the Spectator has Look at the schedule. That and the rule in its possession. Your compassion for this change which brought in two-platoon request would be greatly appreciated by football. The real loser is the College my mother. which seems to have moved from the George D. Baker '74 McEwen era into the Nixon era with a Student Senate President corresponding loss of integrity. Frankly, I'm disgusted. As for the new coach, I $1.85 an hour wish him well. But if we're going to demand a winner, he'd better be ready. As To the Editor: one of "those" alumni you keep reading The Environmental Ecology Committee about, I'm going to expect big things. And of Hamilton-Kirkland will start paying my man with the clipboard is waiting in students $1.85 per hour for their able a s s i s t an ce. The recycling program the wings, and maybe just the man for the desperately needs more students to drive job. and man the pick-up trucks. Recycling Richard A. Blessing '61 takes place on Tursday and Friday afternoons from 3:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. In Defense of Winter Study EECHK will hold a special meeting on Monday, February 11, at 9 p.m. in the To the Editor: · Fisher Room at Bristol Campus Centt;r to The article concerning Winter Study on explain the recycling operation and, page 2 of last week's Spectator was hopefully, schedule students to work in disturbing to me. Mr. DiCarlo's negative the program. view obviously reflects his own utilization · The side benefits that a recycler of the Winter Study period. Certainly receives are great. Besides the primary there is enough diversity in option for benefit of earning $1.8 5 per hour, Winter Study projects to make it possible recyclers boost their physical and spiritual for each student to work on something well being. Recyclers get invigorating worthwhile and interesting to him/her, exercise and know that they are helping to especially when virtually any type of save the lives of defensless trees. independent study can be designed. Please come to our Monday night If one is so bound by rigidity during meeting to learn more about the recycling the fall and spring semesters as not to program. recognize any form of motivation other Kevin McTernan (3-8063) than the force of grades, evaluations, and Nan Napp (445 1) tight schedules, or . that of "instant gratification," then Winter Study becomes McDennid Case Continues essential-to illustrate alternative modes of learning. To the Editor: To begin with, Mr. DiCarlos' definition Having been placed by the Spectator in of ''purposive study" is not clear, but an organizational role at the student · surely there are thousands of academic, meeting concerning Mr. McDermid's artistic, vocational, and recreational things n o n r e a p p o i n t m e n t w i thout a real worth studying, which are not contained representation of. my views, I would like in the Hamilton-Kirkland catalogue, and to clarify my involvement. which may not even involve reading. I have never had Mr. McDennid as a Attempting to invalidate Winter Study by teacher. My direct involvement in the Arts arguing that three weeks is insufficient Division has only been through two time to "accomodate the reinforcement of courses. However, I have listened to memory," shows quite a narrow view of people that I respect express their deep what education involves.
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Wine, Women, an� Song
BY FELICE FREYER Vincent DiCarlo's commentary in the last issue of the Spectator, calling for the termination of the winter study program, has enraged so many students of Kirkland and Hamilton that I feel it is necessary to refute his arguments and to emphasize that his opinion is not representative of the sentiment of the majority of his peers. According to Mr. DiCarlo, "Five years has been more than enough time to demonstrate the failure of winter study." It is still not clear exactly how he feels it has failed. Many students have found winter study to be a unique and enriching e xperience. Perhaps the "intellectual ,, ,, indolence and "intense recreation that Mr. DiCarlo refers to could be best applied to his own goals in pursuing his winter study project. As yet, I can find nothing indolent about the long hours spent rehearsing for the drama course, "Two Boards and a Passion," nor can I discover the recreational aspect of one Kirkland student's independent study working with mountain people in an Appalachian resource center. It is true that many, though not all, students will find their academic load to be considerably lighter during winter study. This does not mean that everyone is doing nothing. In fact, there are infinite advantages t o t he re laxed social atmosphere and absence of academic pressure during these three weeks. More is accomplished than if we were given a month of vacation, but the work is generally less draining than the regular semester schedule. It is also true that if you look hard enough, you will find a population of loafers inhabiting the Hill during January, but this is a minority population. It would be extremely unjust to deny to the entire student body the opportunities offered by winter study simply because there inevitably exists those few who will approach it as a chance to spend a month goofing off. Mr. DiCarlo's suggestion that "more rigorous supervisiop and a return to normal grading procedures would change attitudes and produce results" has no basis in fact. The grading system, usually no more than a cross between bribery and coersion, may force certain students to work for a grade, but it does not change attitudes. Instituting winter study grades at Hamilton would defeat the whole purpose, causing students to study for a
grade rather than to derive personal gratification from their unique winter study projects. Also, winter study grading at Hamilton would be an injustice to these students, who must work under the aegis of Academic Tradition for four years and have only these three weeks each year in which to be truly self-motivated and self-directed. Furthermore, Mr. DiCarlo's assertion that "it simply is not possible for anything even reminiscent of purposive study to compete on an equal footing with squash, billiards, wine, women, and song" could apply to the whole college year and to liberal arts education itself. Yet it must be possible, for we are all here, and most of us, or at least ma�y of us, are working hard, and we should have enough faith in the admissions offices of both colleges to believe that those seeking no more than "in s tant gratification " will not be admitted in any great numbers to the Hill community. Mr. DiCarlo then argues that the whole principle of winter study is faulty because it is "based on the premise that spending a short period of time studying one subject is in some way superior to studying four , subjects over the course of a semester. ' First of all, who ever said that? It is not a matter of the superiority of inten::ive work, but the fact that it is a different way of learning, valuable in itself, and a change of pace offered in addition to the two semesters of four-course work. Winter study allows the student the chance to devote as much time as he wishes to a single project that he really wants to do. It is a great m«:ntal relief to have only one course or project to worry about, and this sense of relief does not necessarily entail laziness or absence of responsibility. Mr. DiCarlo procedes to insist that winter study also fails because three weeks is not long enough to accomplish anyting worthwhile. I find it difficult to conceive of a student spending January working diligently on a single project and emerging
c o n c e r n o v e r M r . M cDe r mid's nonreappointment. As I listened I began to empathize with their feeling--after all, for all I know, it could have been any number of faculty members who have greatly influenced my growth. I also began to see the situation as the reflection of a larger problem. Why did the students know nothing until after the decision had been made? Why did they only find out then by the guesswork of a few students? Why did the students not even know that Mr. McDermid was up for reappointment? And now, why is so little known about the reasoning behind the decision? There s e e ms t o be a great deal of misunderstanding about how student concerns and needs are to be evalm ted and applied to personnel decisions.
This problem in turn reflects an even more encompassing one. I perceive an increasing sense of frustration in myself, in my friends and in fellow students which seems t o e vo l ve f rom unfulfilled expectations about Kirkland. Part of the Kirkland rhetoric is that· students will be directly involved in influencing the shape Kirkland will assume. More and more I think that some Kirkland students are beginning to realize that this possibility is' a farce. Indeeed, if one manages to express ideas to the proper people (if you can even figure out who they are) one is listened to with concern. However, what ever happens to those ideas? For all the student knows they have disappeared into thin air. Also, it appears that major decisions which directly influence the students are being made without consulting them. The lines of communication between students, f a c u l t y and administ r a t o r s a r e malfunctioning. I think that i t i s time for Kirkland to stop and take a long deep look at· itself in order to determine where it is going and whose interests are being served-and this examination should be an open one.
SPECTATOR EDITORSHIP Applications for editor-in-chief of The Spectator will be available at the Dean of Student's office at both colleges starting Monday, February 11. Any Hamilton or Kirkland sophomore or junior is eligible for this position. The final determination will be made by the Publications Board in early March. The deadline for completed applications is February 19. Please refer any questions to Fred Bloch, ext. 7191 or 7101.
Rather, I'm inclined to suspect that Mr. DiCarlo is looking forward to the extended Christmas vacation that would result if winter study were discontined, so he could engage in his own "intensive recreation" at home, without having to write a paper or evaluation about it. continued on page fifteen
Given the Kirkland ideology, I do not see how we can sacrifice a good teacher to serve what app.ears to be the interests of an anonymous few. Kate McGraw '74
4/THE SPECTATOR/February 8, 1974
Trustee Volunteers $10,000 For Athletic .Facilities, But . • • BY ROBBY MILLER
Will iam Hoffa, Kirkland assistant professor of literature (left) an8. Thomas Scott, Kirkland associate professor of psychology, both members of the Appeals Committee hearing the case of James McDermid, who has not been rehired for next year.
McDermid Seeks Counsel
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Mr. McDermid said he hired a lawyer because he "was advised, primarily by Peter Marcy, to seek counsel because of the complexity of the.case. "The information stated in the Personnel Committee letters did not give me much to go on as to what exactly I am appealing," he said, citing this vagueness and complexity as the reason behind the delay in compeleting his letter to the Appeals Committee. According to Mr. McDermid, having a lawyer "detaches me from firsthand encounter with my colleagues. I don't want to destroy any relationships." His lawyer, Steven Lockwood, said that in gathering information for the appeals letter, he had consulted with students and faculty members, and read The Spectator, Particulars, college brochures, and all the student evaluations of Mr. McDermid to ascertain the exact procedure followed by the Arts Division Personnel Committee, and how this compares with the professed philosophy of Kirkland College. Mr. Lockwood requested, this week, certain information from the Arts Division. He asked the Division for a complete file of all reports a n d in ter-committee com m un i cations, and details concerning this re-appointment pr ocedure, p a rti c ularly the m e t ho ds of evaluating student opinion. Mr. Lockwood said he was unwilling to disclose the content of the letters of explanation sent ..io Mr. MrDermid by the Personnel Committee because he feared such a ction would be an mis-interpreted as an attempt to encourage student involvement. "The students are already involved," he said, "and without
A Kirkland trustee has offered $10,000 for the construction of athletic facilities at the college, under the condition that the money be matched by another trustee by September of 197 4, it has been reported. The Trustees are meeting today and tomorrow to formulate a "concrete plan," according to Comfort Richardson, head of the athletic department at Kirkland. One proposal, advocated by R i c h a r d s o n , i nc l u de s t he construction of one or two tennis courts, one or two paddle tennis courts, or both. Tennis courts are favored over other athletic facilities due to their comparatively low cost, the primary need and demand for them by Kirkland students, and their recreational aspect. "Whatever athletics we ·do get organized, the emphasis should always be on recreational and carryover sports," Richardson said. "We n ee d an all-purpose playing field, too," she said, "but that's $100,000, so forget it." One tennis court is priced at $10,000, while the cost of four courts built together would be $36,000. An advantage of the paddle tennis courts is that it would take only forty days to complete construction, whereas the tennis courts, �ue to drainage and land problems, - would take at least a year to complete, according to Ms. Richardson. Discussing the Trustees' past reluctance towards athletics, Ms. Richardson commented, ''The Trustees have felt that Kirkland is a new college, that it had to get everything else together first, so
solicitation, have sent letters ·to Babbitt, the Trustees, and the Arts Division." He emphasized that, although he is an attorney-at-law, the McDermid case is not a legal matter under New York State law, but is enti rely within the f r a m e w o r k o f college p r o ced ures ." Thomas Scott, associate professor of psychology and chairman of the appeals com m ittee , s a i d t ha t the Committee, �hen it convenes to review the appeal, will consider any additional information which it believes to be appropriate. Asked specifically about the possible i m pact of student opinion, Mr. Scott said there would be no reason not to consult students. ''The Committee can be persuaded by any information or ideas that can be properly brought to it," he said. "Its impartiality fiC!·llll I ltHJ cannot be affected by any kind of outside pressure." A t M o nda y 's A s sembly meeting, a motion was passed · c a l l i n g f or "a n ad hoc committee . . . t o examine the processes by which student input is a ss essed and applied in personnel decisions concerning the hiring, reappointment, and tenure of faculty members." This motion, proposed by Robin Fields as a representative of "concerned students," is an outgrowth of the recent student reaction to what they felt to be i nadequate consideration of s t u d e n t o p i n i on i n t he non-rea ppointment of James McDermid. CLINTON SHOE CENTER SPECIALIZING IN WINTER BOOTS AND SHOE REPAIR 853-5242
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student athletics has been at the bottom of the heap." 'There is now a break in the dam," she said. "They have expressed a particular interest in athletics, but how much they can or will do is unknown." K i rkland is also looking forward to the construction of s uch facilities to relieve its dependence upon Hamilton's facilities, according to Richardson and Dean of Students, Jane L. Poller. "Hamilton has been more than gen e r o us with their athletic facilities," · Poller said, "and this would give us the opportunity to give something back to them." Although the construction of
facilities is a vital step in the growth of Kirkland athletics, Richardson stressed the even greater need of staffing. "What we need is a minimum of facilities," she said. "More i mp or t a n t l y , I f eel totally short-handed, with a lack of skills." In regards to this problem, K i r k l a n d ' s b u d g et ha s appropriated an extra $2,000 to the athletic department next year t o b ring i n o utside skills, according to Poller. R i c ha r dson also expressed hope in receiving coaching help in Junior Varsity Tennis from an Ithaca College intern.
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Students Meet with Candidate Ursula Colby BY MONICA LIFF "We must be careful not to del i b e r a t e l y m i s r e present ourselves as a school that can do everyt hing for e ve rybody," Professor Ursula Colby told over 40 students Sunday night in the coffeehouse. "There must be a genui ne hon est r e lationsJiip between what we say we're going to do and what we do." Professor Ursula Colby met with over 40 students as part of the evaluation process for her candidacy for the position of Kirkland Dean of Academic Affairs last Sunday evening in the Coffee Ho use. Professor Colby, presently Chairperson of the Kirkland Hu manities Division, and a member of Kirkland's charter faculty, said,"We must maintain and increase direct student-faculty contact. It is potentially the best thing we have to offer." Mrs. Colby said that the primary concerns of the Dean should be faculty administration, curriculum, and student academic works and problems, but that the specifics of the student academic affairs are taken care of by the Assistant Dean. She said she believes t he D e a n t o be responsible for t h e whole
A�ting Dean of Academic Affairs Peter Marcy c u r r i c ulum pattern, and for maintaining contact with the faculty in this regard. Mrs. Colby said her greatest shortcoming for the Deanship is that she has never dealt with financial problems. She explained that, as Division Chairperson, she j ust received and filled out proposal forms and returned them to the Dean's office. Someone "in
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there" took care of th-em, and later she was informed about how much money she· h·ad for the next year. Mrs. C_olby said that as the Dean her priorities would be "m a i n t a i n i ng· excellence and d i v e rs i t y in t he f aculty; m ai n t ai n i n g e xce l lence and creating diversity in the students; how to s olve problems of co-operation and co-ordination w i t h Hami l t on; money for survival; money for a decent f i n a n ci a l a i d p rogram; a curriculum that is flexible and responsive to students' needs; and m a i n t a i ni n g st a n d a r ds of excellence." "One has to somehow keep intellect, sense, emotion, and body developing in tandem with each other," she said. "Th e c ur r iculum can be expanded in many ways, including vocational training, understanding and awareness of being a woman, a n d a wa reness of individual possibilities and imagination,"
said Mrs. Colby. Responding to comments that people have been unable to see their professors or advisors, Mrs. Colby said that many professors are i n vol ved in too many committees and planning groups to be able to do effectively everything they have to do. "There is a lot of energy and effort wasted here," she stated. In response to a question asking what she would do to improve the quality of advising, she said that not every professor should be anadvisor; and that the course load should be adjusted for those p ro fe s sors who were advisors. She said that seminars and sessions to train faculty members in advising such as those that were held in the fall, are very necessary. Academic and career advising should be connected early in a woman's college career. Mrs. Colby was asked several questions about different facets of t h e c o -ordin ate a cademi c relationship with Hamilton. She stated that she was opposed to cross-campus advising, that it would "interfere with Kirkland's sense of autonomy," and that she felt that the "final conversations" should not be removed from Kirkland. "You do not have a major at Hamilton," she said. "You have a major at Kirkland." Mrs. Colby stated that there a l r e a d y a re c hannels o f communication with Hamilton; but that they are not being used. She proposed as an example the C o m m i t t e e o n Academic Co-ordination, made up of three faculty members and one student from each college. The committee was established last year, she said, but w a s n e ver called into function. This year it is beginning to meet, she said. Mrs. Colby said that she sees the Hamilton-Kirkland academic
r e l a t i onship a s a "basic co-ordinate situation." She said t h a t there is a variety of curriculum, and a variety of exposures to curriculum at each college. "Not that there is a Hamil ton a p p o r a c h and a Kirkland approach ," she said. "There is within both a wide variety of approaches." On the question of grades versus evaluations, Mrs. Colby said that Hamilton has "a perfect right" to use grades, just as Kirkland does to use evaluations. "Evaluations are best evaluating t ools I know," she said, In response to a question asking how Kirkland can improve relations with Hamilton, Mrs. Colby stated, "We can improve the relationship by being good, so that we will be taken seriously; and by making the school function as a community."
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Lewis Recommends Business Computer
continued from page one H o w e ve r , once the new decided is the location of the computer is installed "all the computer. The computer must be the System 3 Model 10 computer. students who want to use it will in a n a i r c o n d i t i o n ed , When informed of this, Peter be able to," said Anderson. He d ehumidified b u i lding. An Vonesch, assistant director of the added, "Actually, the number of existing building will be utilized computer center at Syracuse students who use it will be and Lewis said definitely, ''We Un i v e r s i t y s a i d , "That' s d e pendent on how m an y will not !>uild a computer center!" incredible! I'm just incredulous instructors require it for their that IBM would recommend the Although the computer itself System 3 to Hamilton-Kirkland." classes," explaining that presently will fit into a relatively small area, there are not many faculty key punch facilities, classrooms, He explained that the System 3 is usually used by small enterprises members on the campuses who and offices must be located close for their business needs. are sufficiently familiar with the to the computer. Speaking from IBM quoted the approximate use of computers in education to his third floor office of the rental cost of the compute itself immediately incorporate it into Scien ce B u i l d i n g , Anderson as about $3000 per month. the course structure, but that he named the Science Building as his Vonesch said for that price, "It h o p e d i t w o u l d b e co me first choice. probably has minimum memory, Anderson said that power progressively more accepted. - slow speed, limited disc and main Government Instructor Jeffrey would be no problem in the stor age, and limited printer Ross said "old courses will be Science Building because of lines performance." He added, "It is so r e d esi gned and new courses already laid for the Burke Library. simple minded that it can only do i ntroduced." He presently is He added that the space needed one thing at a time." considering a political science f o r t h e s y stem will be Eugene Lewis, Hamilton acting course that will be supplemented approximately one half a floor of provos t , di rectly co ntested by labs in the data processing t he b ui l d i n g. ''The Science Building is most accessible to Vonesch's statements, saying that center. s e vera l s m a l l co lleges and Following the March 8 trustee people," he said. Two other possible locations universities have been successfully decision, the machine will be using the System 3 for about ordered. A four to six month are t he Burke Library and three years. "Given the financial delivery date will exclude the fall Dunham basement. Hamilton students have been limitations," he said, "I place a term from active use of the gr.eat deal of hope in these computer, although it will be able to use some data processing machines." completely ready in Spring, 1975. fa cilities s i nce 1957 when A g reeing w i t h V onesch, Once the machine is selected Syracuse University began to Acting Provost Eugene Lewis Michael Kaplan '7 5, an advanced and ordered, a search committee allow them use of their computer. com puter science student at month. To buy a computer, H a m i l t on-Ki r k l and's r a pidly will immediately begin looking for In 1966, Hamilton became a time Hamilton, said, 'The IBM system expenditures would range from growing academic requirements. a Director of the Computer sharing user of the facilities at is an absurd choice for a school S 120,000-$150,000. However, Presently, there ai:e only 35-40 · Center. Qualifications f or the Rome Air Force Developement -- which intends to use it for Lewis said there was no chance of students, and fewer than five position, said Lewis, will include Center. With the addition of a faculty members who can possibly "expertise with the machine and terminal to Colgate, this has been a n y t h i n g e xc e pt bu siness this. use the limited, existing facilities computing.'' Meanwhile the Booth-Ferris (four terminals located in the with small colleges." The person t he e xt en t of the campus selected will probably be directly computer systems. The basic System 3 will Found ation has awarded a Science Building). Extended work res ponsible to the Hamilton Last spring Anderson and probably come equipped with 24 $ 100,000 grant to Hamilton and research must be done at provost. The director will guide Wright submitted reports on the o r 3 2 K. (K=approximately College. The grant will be used to Utica College, CoJgate University, and assist faculty in programming needs, resources, and possibilities 20,000 binary places.) To meet ''upgrade the colleges' computer and Syracuse University. Courses their courses, teach a class, of computers on the campuses. the K need of the Statistical facilities,'' Mr. Carovano said. now regularly using the computer establish priority in usage time W i t h t hes e r eports· and Package for the Social Sciences P o s s i b i l i t i e s f o r. joi n t are limited to the introductory a n d g e n e r a l l y o ve r s ee the supplementary information from (SPSS), one of the most advanced Hamilton-Kirkland financing are computer science course, upper operation. Although Lewis said a j oint H a mi lton-Kirkland social s cience packages, the 1) H a milton initially leasing level math courses, and an "At this point we're thinking of computer committee, Caravono computer will need a minimum of computers with Kirkland buying economics and psychology course. (hiring) just one person," opinion went to the trustees last spring 100 K. Although additional K is the time it needs from Hamilton, The terminals don't allow use in of other committee members on requesting a ut horization to "f ield insta llable," it costs or 2) Hamilton and Kirkland s ocial sciences or humanities the number of new personnel to improve the facilities. A monetary approximately $640 a month just splitting the cost · 60 percent because data must be processed. be hired vary from two to three. addition for this purpose was to double the K capacity. Hamilton, 40 percent Kirkland. Other standard equipment the The final point that will be included in the 1973-74 budget. There are two basic areas in computer is expected to have which the computer will be used. include a printer with a speed of T h e f i r s t , b u s i ne s s u s e WEST HILL STABLES 300 lines per minute. To increase (administrative) has only recently its output would cost $75 to $150 b e c o m e a n e ed b e c a u s e Hones Boarded and per month. previously, "the college machines COUNTRY COMES TO SYRACUSE Trucked The machine will originally could do everything," said John only be able to handle one job at B a c he 11 e r , K irkland assistant THE Also Western and a time. For an extra $106 a government professor. Even now, English Riding Lessons month Hamilton and Kirkland can however, "most any machine lease a dual processing unit. (adequate for academic needs) can 3 Miles From the Hill - The second contender for the handle simple business needs," hi d , B u r r o ughs C orporation Anderson said. CALL 853-6728 expects to recommend the B-5000 It is widely agreed that the new computer. Vonesch reacted much , computer must be able to satisfy ..______________. more favorably to this selection. "It is a machine of sophistication that make the System 3 look like a horse and buggy!" he said. "It is much more academic oriented although it can be used in 1 West Park Row administrative capacities." Clinton, New York The cost of the B-5000 is in a with special guest comparable range, leased for Nick Burns, Broker Hamilton '46 $3000 to $4000 per month. Its K SYRACUSE capacity could go as high as Auto, Tenants, Motorcycle and Homeowner's Insurance Record Runner Ma,sh,,tl St 200-300 K with some additional Ge.bPr Mus,c - Nnrthe,n l•Qhts Plaza N Sy, outlay. UL3-5051-2 - Shopp,ngtown. Df'wott IBM and Burroughs will make - �a11mont Faor t heir formal recommendations ITHACA MK1-Town RP.cords during the week of Feb. 19. 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Several members of Psi Upsilon reportedly were seen streaking at the Ponderosa steak house in New Hartford. Streaking, a national fad wh ich is most popular in the S outh and West, is the activity during which young men run naked through a public area. In response to the allegations against his brothers, the President of Psi U, Gardner McLean '74 replied, "no comment."
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The Pub was closed for four days earlier this week due to dama g e f r o m v a ndal i s m . According to Hamilton Dean of Students R. Gordon Bingham, this vandalism occurred sometime during or after the dance held in Commons last Friday night. Bingham said that the damage was "not extensive" although the bill for the repairs was between $350 and $400. Two spigots were broken and the cash register was pushed to the floor when the bar screen was pushed in, and the cigarette machine was tampered with. Nothing of great value was stolen. In a possibly related incident, some foodstuffs were stolen from the kitchen in Commons, along with over $300 from Pub receipts that was in the Service Systems office. No suspects have been found for either incident.
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More than two hundred dollars worth of cash, record albums, liquor and other personal items have been stolen from Kirkland Donnitory in the past two months, according to residents of the building. Seven separate entries through locked doors have occurred, said the students, during Christmas vacation, intersession; and the first week of the second semester. In a meeting at the dorm this wee k, students termed their
efforts with the administration to solve the problem "frustrating." Dean R. Gordon Bingham called the thefts "deplorable" and concurred with the students' theory that the break-ins were "inside jobs" committed by the same party.
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Theodore Kennedy, a member of the graduate program in anthropology at P rinceton University, is a candidate for a visiting assistant professorship at Hamilton College. Kennedy's candidacy is part of the college's efforts to attract Black faculty. Ms. Alfreida Parks, also from P r i n c e t o n ' s a n thr o po l o g y program, will make a visit to the Hill later this month. Anthropology Chairman Grant Jones e mp h asized that the department will continue with two permanent faculty in the forseeable future.
proposed class schedule submitted to t he m by the Kirkland Assembly. The proposal, which featured more seventy-five minute class sessions in place of three fifty minute meetings, was acted upon after the Academic Council had reccommended that it be voted down. Dean Stephen Kurtz will supply the details on the decision to the Spectator shortly.
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Associate Dean Robin Kinnel reports that nine pre-med students f r o m Hamil ton h a v e been accepted to medical schools so far this year. At least three students have received acceptances · from more than one institution, added Kinnel. Last year, a total of twelve Hamilton students gained admission to medical colleges. ""' ' At the Student Senate this w e e k , Craig Sonnenberg '76 resigned from the Senate for personal reasons. Senators Rocco The Hamilton chapter of Delta Orlando '74 and Roger Schneider Ka ppa Epsilon has received '75 of the Student Curriculum achievement awards in all of the Committee reported that they are categories which the national working on a proposal to increase o r g a ni zation designates. DKE s t udent i nvolvement in the took second place in "chapter present faculty advising system. i mp r o v ement" and runner-up T h e c o m m i t t e e i s a ls o spots in . "L ion T r o phy", investigating falling SAT scores commu nity s e r vi c e , alumni and lower class ran ks of recent relations, and scholarship. freshman classes. These statistics, it is felt, might be the product of During their Tuesday meeting, increased attention to athletic the Hamilton faculty rejected the recruitment;
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WAC OFFICER TO VISIT Li. Donna Jean Krukar, Women's Army Corps Selection Officer, Syracuse Recruiting Main Station, Syracuse, New York will visit Kirkland College on Wednesday, February 13, 1974. She will be at McEwen'LOBBY from 10-1 to discuss opportunities for young women in Today's Army. PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS Two year innovative, individualized MS. program seeks imaginative applicants motivated toward professional careers in public policy analysis, planning and management. Individuals with an aptitude for quantitative analysis from varied academic and career backgrounds sought. Financial aid and summer internships available. Contact: Program for Urban and Policy Sciences, State University of N.Y., Stony Brook, N.Y., 11790 Call (516) 246-8200. FRESHMAN ADVISORS Freshman Advisor applications are now available from Mrs. St.· Clair in Root 108. Completed forms are to be returned to her on or before Monday, February 18. The selection process, including personal interviews, will then begin with final determinations made before Spring Recess. Fourteen Advisors will be chosen from the pool of applicants. In general we seek mature, responsible individuals who can relate well to persons with all sorts of personalities, abilities, etc. Applicants should have compiled a respectable academic record and be willing to give the time necessary for the proper attention to their duties as Advisors. Compensation is a 50% reduction in room and board cost. KIRKLAND SOPHOMORES Sign up for a conference with Ruth Rinard about your concentration in the Office of Academic Affairs. All sophomores should try to make it soon. FREE CHURCH SERVICE The Free Church Service this week will be led by Anne Kinnel. The topic is "Changing One's Mind." 11:15 a.m. Sunday in the Chapel SEMESTER IN WASHINGTON There will be an information and application meeting of all students interested in Hamilton's Semester in Washington program Wednesday February 13th at 8:30 p.m. in the Fisher Room in Bristol Center. The Semester program is open to all Juniors and Seniors with above average academic records. If you are interested in the program for the fall of 1974 and cannot make the meeting, see Mr. Frantzich as soon as possible. The deadline for applications is March 4. WINTERSETL For its Spring issue WINTERSETL is now accepting literary essays and criticism, in addition to poetry, short prose, and drama. Send typed manuscripts to Charles Liebling or WINTERSETL, Campus Mail. CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Representatives of several corporations which hire liberal arts graduates will be on campus this month. The following will be here next week. Seniors who are interested should sign up for interviews at the Career Center. Tuesday, Feb. 12 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Wednesday, Feb. 13 Women's Army Corps (at Kirkland) Thursday, Feb. 14 General Electric Company MORE CAREER INFORMATION Students who are applying to graduate school of Business, Division of Professional Accounting, should take the AICPA Orientation Test for Accounting aptitudes. The test will be administered by the Career Center. Please call x7346 so that suitable arrangements can be made. RING TO SPEAK The structure and motion of molecules will be the topic of a lecture Monday, February 11, by frofessor James W. Ring, chairman of the Physics Department. Professor Ring's talk, at 8 p.m. in the Science Auditorium, will be designed for the layman and will include slides and models of molecules. BIBLE STUDY A Bible Study sponsored by the Free Church is held each week on Wednesday evenings at 9:00 p.m. This week the group will meet in the Penney Room on the 2nd floor of Bristol, and will be led by Jay G. Williams of the Hamilton Religion Department. FACULTY LECTURE The second lecture in the series ''What We Don't Know" will be presented by Nadine George of the Kirkland Science Division. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit, Thursday evening at 8:30 p.m. KIRKLAND SQUASH Any Kirkland student interested in playing in t_he Intramural Squash Tournament is requested to call Sara Gordon, x. 4933 by Friday, February 15th. KIRKLAND HOCKEY Any Kirkland student willing to play in an ice hockey game against the Colgate women is requested to contact Sara Gordon, x. 4933 by Wednesday, February 13th. A willingness to play, rather than skill on the ice, is the only requirement. Equipment will be supplied.
8/THf. SPECTATOR/February 8, 1974
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Lectures, Recitals Highlight Pianist Rosen's Visit to Hill
Among artists of his own or forth on every page; The emphasis e xt r aordinary. Rosen is the other generations, Charles Rosen on the dramatic nature of the unobtrusive expounder of Bach's is the living embodiment of a classical style is by no means new, thought; everything he does serves great tradition begun with the but I can recall no discussion that the c l e a r e r a r ticulation of master of piano virtuosity, Franz so amply explains, by musical counterpoint and structure." Liszt himself. Liszt was the i l l ustr ation, exactly what is As a recording artist, Charles teacher of the legendary Moritz meant." Rosen has had brilliant successes Rosenthal, from whom Charles Few recordings have received with many "firsts" to his credit. Rosen learned his prodigious the wide acclaim in America and He was the first to record on the t e c hnique. Perhaps his most in England that greeted the release piano Bach's Art of the Fugue and remarkable characteristic is the of his recent three-record set,' The the Six-Voice Ricercar from The f self-efacing musicianship which inspires him to serve music entirely for the sake of itself rather than himself. C h a r l e s R osen is a phenomenon in the world of music and not only for his highly individualistic virtuosity. He has also won outstanding distinctions in the non-musical academic world. Possessor of M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in French literature, he is a Phi Beta Kappa summa cum laude graduate of Princeton. He w a s a warded a F ul b r i g h t Scholarship which took him , to Paris. Mr. Rosen teaches on semester a year at the University of New York in Stony Brook where he is professor of music. National Book Award Winner His book, The Classical Style: Utah Phillips, "The Golden Voice of the Great Southwest." Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, was published by Viking Press in 1971 and won the National Book Award for Arts and Letters (and also the ASCAP Deeems Taylor Award). He writes his own jacket notes and has also contributed C hicano victimized by social articles to the New York Times BY BRUCE HORNSTEIN A small piece of American inequality, the most moving. and the New York Review of culture was on display at the U. Utah Phillips may not be Books. Pianist Charles Rosen Coffeehouse last Saturday evening ''The Golden Voice of the Great Of The Classical Style critic Last Keyboard Works of Johann in the form of 'The Golden Voice Southwest," and his guitar work is Edward T. Cone wrote in the S e bastian Bach, which was Musical Offering. He was also the first artist to do a complete of the Great Southwest," U. Utah rarely confused with that of David Sunday New York Times Book released in 1969 on the Odyssey recording of the Debussy Etudes. Phillips. Bromberg, but at least he is a Review section: "The author's label. David Hamilton declared of The silver-haired story-teller voice. A voice that arrives every so combination o f enthusiasm, this monumental achievement in The New York Times· greeted this brought with him tales of his often to remind us how little we erudition and musical insight High Fidelity Magazine of August, accomplishment: "Rosen played birthplace, Utah, ("where men are know of our heritage. And we causes the splendor of Haydn, 1969, 'The musical qualities f with a clarity, understanding of 0 formal problems and technical men and the sheep run scared"), love it. Mozart and Beethoven to shine these performances are really skill that make this the and of Vermont, his new home, outstanding disc devoted to these where he successfully inhabits an works." ancient railroad car. Phillips, accompanying himself His most recent recording is on six-string acoustic guitar and, . the three-record set of the last six at times, mouth harp, played an Beethoven sonatas issued in 1972 extended set. It was interrupted by Columbia Masterworks. The by a break for refreshments, as is category. He oontinues, ''In this Dylan has ever recorded. Tht. New York Times called the BY JOHN JOELSON custo ma r y a t C o f fee h o us e age of fiberglass, rm searching for music is precise, and expertly albums "a set any pianist would concerts. be justly proud of having made." Bob Dylan's latest effcxt, Planet a gem." )ust what Dylan is underscores Dylan's distinctive H e beg an with a Waves, combines the authoritative looking for is not clear. He seems �oice. The rich, full sound of the Michael Steinberg in the Boston semi- a utobiographi�al, musical sound of The Band with Dylan's to be telling us that he has left group blends well with Dylan's Sunday Globe called the recording i n t r o d ucti on, in which. the songwriting and vocal abilities. "a rare combination of musical Desolation Row. the outside ,harmonica. audience became acquainted with The album, released to coincide sensibility a nd imagination, world where life was too empty The group's use of instruments his many humorous lines ("I just with the artist's first major tour in and confusing. Instead, he has is also quite diversified. Dirge, for intellectual force and s pectacular signed a contract with Columbia eight years, reveals an intimate found identity within his family. e xample, employs only two command of the instrument." Records. I get four records a side of Dylan's personality. He is Records for Stravinsky DyIan ventures .into many new instr uments, piano and lead month for $5.98."). This was n ow i n te nsely personal and guitar, and Wedding Song features followed by More Doors, a Woody somewhat introverted, singing fields in Planet Waves. The The seal of approval from Igor G u thrie song in which the songs about his wife (Wedding is not a homogeneous collection Dylan in a guitar and harmonica Stravinsky was placed upon the audience participated. Song) and son (Forever Young), of songs of one type; there is little solo. Other songs on the album outstanding talents of Charles Following the cry, "Dave telling the latter to ''have a strong continuity from one track to the offer a full accomp�iment of Rosen when the dean of 20th Bromberg, eat my heart out," U. foundation when the winds of next. Rather, Dylan has produced guitar, bass, piano, organ, and century composers invited the a c o m p ilation of diversified percussion. Utah launched into a series of changes shift." artist to record the master's compositions which range from songs dealing with the railroad Planet on songs the Lyrically, Planet Waves is a marvelous Mov e m en ts f o r Piano and life, a life which his son, Duncan , Waves at first seem simple and the jubilant On A Night Like This album. The music is crisp and O r c h e s t r a f o r C o lumbia never had a chance to experience direct. However, as with most to the more somber Going, Going, expertly arranged, and the lyrics, Masterworks. He was later invited (Daddy, What's a Train?). other Dy Ian compositions, the Gon e i n which the author though they are not nearly by Elliott Carter to record that Phill ips' s t o r i e s between listener's a w a reness of the bemoans how little time he has Dylan's best, are both direct and composer's Double Concerto. numbers, touching on everything author's message becomes clearer left. Dylan's outlook on his future sophisticated. This new album · from child taxidermists to his with each subsequent listening. In is quite solemn: Mr. Rosen will give a recital in marks the start of a new era for There's not much more to be Dylan, for it demonstrates that he the chapel on the evening of short career as a semi-pro wrestler, Dirge, the simple piano chord said were humorous, but it was his progressions combine with Robbie is more than a legendary superstar Friday, February 15, at 8:30. His It's the time for the end. songs, especially in the second R obertson's eerie guitar to of the past struggling to make a program will include Claude I'm going, I'm going, I'm revival. Clearly, Bob Dy Ian is still Debussy's Images (second series), half of the concert, that impressed emphasize the haunting lyrics of gone. the audience. Range wars, urban the song. a great master, and even now he Fantasy in C major, opus 17 by ren e w a l , an d c r owding in B a n d's m u s i c a l continues to grow. Without a R o b e r t S c h u man n , and The Dylan says that "there are Colorado were all touched upon, accompaniment is far superior to doubt, he is the finest artist of his B e e t h o v e n ' s s t u p e n d ous but I found The Ballad of Jesse those who worship loneliness," any backup group with whom generation. Hammerklavier Sonata. but he excludes himself from this Garcia, the story of a young
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events FILM On Campus This Weekend That Man From Rio, and La Tour. Rene Clair short. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm. Sunday at 10 pm only. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. $.75. Blonde Venus and Dementia. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm. Sunday at 10 pm only. Science Auditorium. Admission $.75. February 12 (Tuesday) African Film Series: Borom Seret and Mandabi. 7 pm. Science Auditorium. February 13 (Wednesday) Russian Film Series: Mother. Film adaptation of Gorky's classic by the master Pudovkin. 8 pm. Science Auditorium. February 14 (Thursday) The Gold Rush. Chalie Chaplin called it his greatest film. The Last Laugh, with Emil Jannings and directed by F.W. Murnau. Chemistry Auditorium. Admission $.75. Juliet of the Spirits. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $ .75. At Nearby Theaters Cannonball (853-5553} Walking Tall (R) Kallett (736-2313) Serpico (R) .,) Uptown {732-0665} Sleeper (PG) Paris (733-2730} Papi/Ion (PG} Stanley (724-4000} Lady Sings the Blues (R} and Godfather {R) 258 Cinema (732-5461) American Graffitti (PG} and The Sting (PG} DOCTOR CHARLES ROSEN February 13 (Wednesday) Discussion of thematic transformation in late Beethoven with all music students. Open to the public. 4 pm. Root ArtCent�r. February 14 (Thursday) Discussion with music majors. Open to public. 10 am. Root Art Center. Phi Beta Kappa Lecture: Romantic Theories of Language and Expression and Schumann. 8:30 pm.Chapel. MUSIC February 8 (Friday) McEwen Coffeehouse present Bill Vanaver and Livia Drapkin. 9 pm. Free With social tax. February 9 (Saturday) Concert: Modern jazz Quartet. 8:30 pm. Alumni Gym. $2.50 with student I.D. $3.50 without. February 10 (Sunday) McEwen Coffeehouse presents Kurt Anderson, country musician. 9 pm. Free with social tax. LECTURE AND DISCUSSION February 10(Sunday) Poetry Reading by Faculty and Students. 8 pm. Chapel. February 11 (Monday) Faculty Lecture Series: Molecular Structure, or Through the Microscope. Professor James Ring, Hamilton Physics Department. 8 pm. Science Auditorium.' Recycling Organizational Meeting. 9 pl"fl. Fisher Room, Bristol CampusCenter. February 13 (Wednesday) International Film and Lecture Series: Sweden,. Speaker: Carsten Aastrom. 7:30 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. Information Meeting: Semester in Washington program. 8:30 pm. Fisher Room, Bristol CampusCenter. February 14 (Thursday) Lecture: What We Don't Know. Speaker: Nadine George, Kirkland Science Division. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. EXHIBITIONS Currently on Campus Albert Bloch, an American Expressionist. At the Root ArtCenter through March 3. Mo/as from the San Blas Islands (II). At the Bristol Campus Center Lounges through February 27. RELIGIOUS SERVICES February 9 (Saturday) Newman Mass. 5:30 pm. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. February 10 (Sunday) Free Church of Clinton. Speaker: Anne Kinne!. 11:15 am. Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 pm.Chapel. SPORTS N Basketball Against Utica College. February 8. 6 pm. Varsity Basketball Against Trinity. February 8. 8 pm. JV Hockey Against Oswego. February 9. 1 pm. Swimming Against Rochester. February 9. 3 pm.
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WHCL-FM Expands Programming; Student Station Informs Campus
news programs five times a week. minute special features segment. The wire service made much of The station has used taped feature the work for the news staff easier, s to r ies p r o v i d e d by Time since all of the machine's reports M aga zi ne, R ad io Canad a were written in radio news form. International, and Campus Radio By this time, the staff began to V oice. There have also been taped expand and plans were made for in ter views with Father Paul e v e n f u r t h e r e x p a n d e d Drobin, the Catholic chaplain of programming to begin during the Hamilton-Kirkland campus, and J. Martin Carovano, Acting Winter Study. During Winter Study and up to President of Hamilton College. The most important interview the present time the· staff of WHCL has continued to expand in that the radio station has done numbers and efficiency. Margaret this year was a taped conversation Doris, news editor for the station, with Joseph J. Sisco. Margaret has run several classes training the D o r is interviewed him while news s t aff on writing and spending her Winter Study in delivering news reports on the air. Washingtdn. The tape was sold to Having four years of experience in United Press International by the field of journalism and radio WHCL a few weeks ago. news, she has been mainly The campus radio station responsible for the increase in the personnel hope to expand their quality of news reporting on the news program to cover off campus station since the beginning of the n ews in C l i nton a nd the Qver t he past year the year. surrounding area. They also plan development of the radio station WHCL now covers stories on to run more training programs for has been encouragingly successful. its own, rather than merely announcers, possibly working For many years WHCL has given reporting what students have with some of the Hamilton speech students the opportunity to be already read in the papers. This professors on speech delivery. heard on the air, to play to the year the news staff has opened Also, WHCL is hoping to expand student body and surrounding contacts with the Oneida -County i t s p u b l i c i t y operations by community the type of music Sheriff's office and has personally distributing program schedul�s they enjoy broadcasting. All that covered the hitchhiking incident and generally making its presence was needed to enter this elite which occured last December at more widely kn.own on the group was the willingness to spend Kirkland. campus. some time and effort and the The radio Pinned up on the bulletin station now a b i l ity to p as s- the FCC broadcasts news shows five times board in the broadcasting room of broadcasters test. Because of a day. The program day includes the station is a large sign which WHCL's presence, students are five minute morning, noon, and states, "Whatever you say, don't offered a varied musical program evening reports, a fifteen minute apologize!" With the progress ranging from classical to pop, evening news show, and finishes WHCL has made so far this year, from soul to jazz, from Beethoven with a late night news report. The the station certainly has no reason to David Bowie. news show also contains a five to apologize for anything. WHCL was started in the late 1950's by the donation of a large . alumni gift and assorted campus funds. All of the equipment used by the station was purchased dur ing these first years of broadcasting. Today the station is funded mostly by the Hamilton Senate a n d o ther p r i vate contributions. Despite the fact that half of WHCL's operators are Kirkland students, the Kirkland Assembly does not donate any money to the radio station. The biggest addition to the station this year has been the UPI wire service machine which WHCL rents at a cost of 42 dollars a month. News Department Expanded The presence of the UPI machine has been the catalyst for t he station's most ambitious project, a series of news shows d e l i vered five times a day, reporting national, state, and campus news. For the first time in two years Hamilton-Kirkland students are provided with actual n e w s r e p o r t s , p r oviding information about national events and c a m p us a ctivities. The MODERN JAZZ QUARTET station's newcasters have also The Modern Jazz Qµartet will be on campus Saturday, February taken on the responsibility of 9, at 8:30 p.m. in the Alumni Gym. The concert is sponsored by the public service announcements and music department. Cost is $2.50 with student I.D., and $3.50 for the personal messages, such as lost general public. animals and community events. PLAYERS AUDITION FOR PINAFORE Last October, before WHCL Auditions for H.M.S. Pinafore will be held at the Root Art Center obtained the wire service, the station started an evening news this Sunday beginning at 7: 00pm. Contact Professor Lee Spear at report that was broadcasted at the RAC for more details concerning this Alexander Hamilton 7:30. three times a week. All of Player's Production. the writing for the news program AMENIC was done by the members of the This weekend Amenic presents Blond Venus, directed by Joseph radio staff; sometimes they relied von Sternberg in 1932, starring Marlene Dietrich and Cary' Grant. on such news sources as the New The second feature is John Parks' Dementia. This feature was York Times and the CBS Evening described by D ownbeat as "the first foreign film made in News to convert news stories into Hollywood," and was banned by the New York Censor Board as a radio news program. "inhuman, indecent, and the quintessence of gruesomeness." The In November the UPI wire films will be shown at the Science Auditorium, Thursday, Friday, service was delivered and the and Saturday at 8 pm, and Sunday at 10 pm. Admission is $.75. station began half hour evening
BY THEODORE LOWEN Two small, cramped rooms in the basement of Minor Theater serve as headquarters. Most of the equipment used dates from the late fifties and early si,xties. The walls of the rooms are adorned with posters of Carly Simon, Neil Young, and Elton John. Behind the incessant drone of a UPI wire . service machine, reporters and disc jockeys gather day after day and bring their message to the Hamilton-Kirkland campus. Aspiring to the heights of Walter Winchell (and possibly Wolfman Jack), WHCL-FM, the campus radio station, fills the air with music, news reports, taped i nterviews, play reviews, and assorted · functions with an ever increasing efficiency and professionalism.
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SAC Candidates .Present Qualifications; Fourteen Enter Race For Three Positions BROOK HEDICK '77
Since the SAC's main projects are in the field of music my qualification can be simply put. I have seen a good number of performers, mainly in rock and folk music, and know a good deal about the performance of music, at least technically, and hope that my judgments of musical quality and value are valid. If elected I will not kiss babies, feet, or promote gargantuan concerts for the sake of gargantuan concerts. Neither will I push esoteric concerts simply for the sake of esoteric concerts.
year's budget be used to give the members of the former committee, and Mr. Wertz, an extended vacation in the Bahamas-they deserve it. For Houseparties, rather than spending a lot of money on a concert that never pleases most people anyway, we should instead plan a massive gripe session a n d t o mato-throwing in the gym. Rememeber, this is just a beginning: if we pool our ideas, I'm sure we can manage to come up with many more exciting ways to w a s t e m oney, and truly give the Hamilton-Kirkland community something to bitch about:
dances, marathons and so on, within the _limitations of the budget in order to establish a list of credible priorities, and (3) work to contact and contract groups early enough to insure implementation of these priorities and publicize these events and activities throughout the campuses. The mention of such groups as Sly and The Band on the SAC survey at the beginning of the year elicited high hopes of super talents on the Hill. Such ego trips have led to student disillusionment since that time. Consequently, the credibility of the SAC has suffered. Once priorities have been established by the students, investigation by the SAC into contractual agreements on specified dates follows. Plans made far enough in advance will insure the cooperation from the desired group. Refreshments supplement any activity. When beer is offered there must be enough to last for the duration of the activity, and it must be readily available so that crowds are not fighting for the tap! My primary concern is to ins11re effective management of the student's priorities by the SAC.
RICHARD KOFFS '75
Qualifications: managed church choir, love Roller Derby, and have never been on SAC. Aspirations: I feel that SAC's most important role is to provide good entertainment frequently. By holding m o r e d a n c e s (pe r haps a lternating w e e ke n d s w i th t h e C o f f e e ho use "Concerts"} we could bring a wider variety of musical styles and performers to the Hill, and alleviate the "nothing-to-do" blues w h i c h e n velops the college atmosphere between major party /concert weekends. Better SAC functions would also remove a great burden for providing e n t e r t ainment from the fraternities, allowing them to concentrate more money on house parties, and possibly enabling them to open these events to the general community. One-Year Guarantee: If elected, I will serve.
TIM SHOEN '76
JEFF WALLACE '75
As a junior returning to Hamilton from a leave of absence, I want to be on the SAC partly for selfish reason�. Joining the SAC would not only enable me to return to the mainstream of activity on campus, btlt would also allow me· some control over what is the mainstream. My contribution to the SAC would be mostly technical; I am interested in attempting to improve the quality of the sound systems used at Hamilton-Kirkland concerts. Having been a member of the Clinton community for close to ten years, I believe I have untapped contacts that could possibly provide better sound equipment.
SUSAN SACKS '76
I have been running the coffeehouse this year and am working on the Folk Festival, and have worked closely with SAC, even though I have not been an official member of the committee. Since it is not possible now for me to eat lunch in peace and quiet, without being questioned and attacked on SAC matters, I feel I should be on the committee. That way I . can have some responsibility for SAC actions, along with the blame. I feel that SAC's main function on this campus is to, give people something to complain and bitch about. I think we could be doing a much better job of that. Instead of continually tyring to please p e o p l e , a n d pro vi d e t he b est. entertainment possible for the budget we have, I propose that the remainer of this
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It would be impossible to promise you the world. Kirkland-Hamilton Colleges don't have the funds to offer you lots of super concerts. Yet we could certainly work more efficiently with the money we do have. The Coffeehouse is a bust. I'd like to change the format, to bring in diverse music catering to a larger part of the college populace. We need female vocalists, quiet jazz, soul, blues, as well as folk music. I've been interested in music since childhood, beginning in fourth grade when I played a singing dreidel in the Chanukah play. I'm still interested. I work with the radio station and I'd like to work with you. For you.
MARDI CONSIDINE '76
Experience: 1 year of eye-opening work on SAC. Aims: dig out high quality artists before their prices pass beyond our limited funds abilities. Character: I'm funky, but I'm clean.
TOM GREENWOOD '76
Who has the right to choose the a c t i vi ties for the Hamilton-Kirkland s t u d e n t c o m m unity? Certainly the students must designate their preferences and priorities for activities on the·Hll. The SAC's concern must be merely that of practical management. If elected I will urge the SAC to: (1) evaluate their budget position, (2) propose to the students, activities i.e. concerts
tnat we have the facilities, the money, nor the support to think of sponsoring one "big-name" concert -l year. The small concerts satisfy a broad range of musical tasts and can be presented more than once a year. Also, I would like to see some of the money spent on the Coffee House Concerts put towards an event that would attract greater community interest.
DAVID DINCE '75
I have been involved with the SAC since December when I worked with the committee to bring Chick Corea and Return to Forever to the campus. During this time I have gained experience concerning the working of the committee, and I have also formed opinions on how t he q u a l it y o f e n t e rt a inm ent at Hamilton-Kirkland can be improved. Also, I have been working with the SAC on plans for this spring which would hopefully include a major concert in April. I feel that my experience and interest would enable me to do the job well.
ANNE GORFEIN '77
Time, Energy, and Willingness-I think I would very much like a position on these are the three most important the SAC because it is the organization that qualifications of a SAC committee person. has the greatest influence on my life here Modestly speaking (of course}, I believe I on the hill. possess these virtues. I have the time As far as a platform, I don't believe · because I'm not yet concerned with the trivialities of life, such as applying to Med school or taking the LSA Ts; the energy because I'm up on vitamin C these days and the willingness because I'm a freshman and I haven't learned the harsh realities of life. Seriously, I feel that I can bring new life into the committee in the form of an objective and fresh viewpoint. I'd like to try and I'm willing to work hard.
ROBERT KAPLAN '76
My reasons for running for the S.A.C. are twofold: I) I think that a better relationship could be established between the S.A.C. and the college community. 2} I'm sick of the blues. What I would like to see is to have the S.A.C. start a "Kvetch Column" in which they could list the zillions of problems they are encountering in trying to hire a good group. In this way, people could either offer constructive criticism or sympathy. The college community would know what the S.A.C. is doing and the S.A.C. would know what the college c ommunity wants. This could even eventually lead to the establishment of an armed truce between the two parties. My qualification for being on the S.A.C. are as follows: 1) Sponge toss target in three carnivals for Muscular Dystrophy 1964-1966. - 2) Director of the Bridge Club. 3) I do not have a stereo.
February 8, 1974/THE SPECTATOR/11
Ms. Warrior , Classics Professor, Now On Hi·//
SAC Candidates CURT HANSEN '75 After having worked with Cathy Collins and the SAC in producing the concert last semester featuring Chick Corea and Return to Forever, I've realized that I would like to become a regular member of this committee. My qualifications and prior experiences in this field may seem rather limited; however, I do believe that they gave me an idea of some of the responsibilities necessary for such a position. As I stated before, I was somewhat instrumental in bringing Chick Corea to this campus. Dave Dince and I suggested the Corea concert to the SAC and then I contaced Corea, arranged the date, and settled the fee. One of the factors which contributed to the success of the concert, other than the group's musical talent and appeal, was the promotion we gave the group prior to the concert. Dave Dince and I saw to it that the people of Hamilton and Kirkland were familiar with the group's music before they came to the campus so that people would not run around the day before the concert wondering who or what Chick BOBBY �INTER '74 Corea and Return to Forever was. I wrote You can't please no one no way. If you away and obtained a copy of the record before it went on sale to the general public somehow happen to become identified and then gave the record to the college with S.A.C. you're always happening ra dio station to play over the air. I feel across someone saying, "why did you have that this kind of promotion is necessary 'X' play here, they s*ck", and you're for the success of a concert in a small always refraining from saying, ''well f*ck college situation like �amilton and you too buddy" by saying some rational Kirkland, for no matter how good a group nicety instead. So why put yourself up for we get, the concert will not be a success election you say? Well, I'm having fun unless people are familiar with the artists. thinking that you're all going to decide As far as personal tastes are concered, I who to vote for by the little case histories strictly prefer jazz, although I do also we're supplying you with, such as enjoy and am quite familiar with black coffeehouse programer, 1971-1972, drop blues and progressive rock. However, no out, 1972-73, folk festival chairman, matter what the style of music, I feel that 1974, five foot two eyes of blue, and good promotion is essential for a other such nonsense; and knowing they are about as meaningless as a blank page. successful concert. Anyway, lets talk about a few realistic possibilities, impossibilities, probabilities GREG THOMAS '76 I cannot say that I am qualified for a for next year. SAC position due to my musical taste; Impossibilities: Very Many taste is an individual matter with no Possibilities: Very Few possible way to say one person's is better Probabilities: Somewhere in between than another. Since no one can then It would be absurd to be any less truthfully say that Hamilton-Kirkland nebulous; no one knows anything about should hear this band instead of another, next year's entertainment anyway. the best way to decide on a band is to try Shall we continue with a few more to get the one more people want to hear realities of hard and cold economics: than any other. T o s tart with there is approx. The SAC polls are the answer to this; $30,000.00 social tax income (perhaps a yet some members of the committee very liberal estimate because there are so reportedly put their own preferences over many tight-fisted people out there wanting the poll results in deciding which bands to go after. I do not wish to get on the SAC so I can help get a band I'd really like to hear play on the Hill; I would like to use the polls as the basis for action. I also realize that musical interests are so varied around campus that the majority should not always rule: jazz, classical and other BY PAMELA THOMPSON types of music should also be heard on the Ethel Michaelson, a member of the Hill. As for qualifications, all I can say, Poughkeepsie ·Women's Center, will hold besides that music has always been ,very an "Assertiveness Workship" open to all important to me, is that I have worked on members of the college community and WHCL-FM since I've been here, part of the their guests, this Sunday from 1:00-7:00 in the B Dorm Lounge. Enrollment is time as Assistant Music Director. limited to 1 0 s t u d e n ts and 10 non-students. Ms. Michaelson will also be POETRY READING available at the Women's Center Open A poetry reading by faculty and Ho use f or informal discussions on students will be held in the Chapel Sunday Saturday afternoon from 3:00-4:00. evening at 8: 00 p.m. Kirkland Dean of Students Jane Poller, who arranged for Ms. Michaelson's visit, said that the "Assertiveness Workshop" KINOKUNST This wee k en d Kinokunst presents would focus on the reasons why women Philipe de Broca's (King of Hearts)That do or do not achieve, and expose attitudes Man from Rio, star ring Jean-Paul they may have which are self-defeating. Dean Poller said she had planned the Belmondo and Francoise Dorleac. It is a hilarious satire of adventure-intrigue films, workshop because she saw a need for "a wit h Jean-Paul Belmondo playing a trained and objective outsider to examine debonair Humphrey Bogart type. In color, some feelings we have about society," and this swiftly-paced film will be in the intends the workshop to be a response to Kirner-Johnson auditorium Thursday, students groping not only with feminism, Friday anq �a�urdaY, at 8, and Sunday at but also with problems concermng tnerr ·J1 basic ide4tity .' '.,\': .' • � • . _ ·: • • 10. Admission is $.75. . t � ... ,
BY MIKE BOSHART Ass ociate Professor of Classics Valerie M. Warrior has assumed her position here one semester late. Warrior was to have begun teaching in the fall but was unable to do so because of a delay in obtaining a visa. Warrior is no stranger to the North American continent. She has attended schools and taught in Canada on a number of occasions, and has visited the United States and toured the West. Warrior is often asked how it feels to be working on a predominantly male faculty. She said that issue is possibly overemphasized.
However, Warrior said, "It's not a novel situation." During her previous appointtnents and as an undergraduate at Cambridge, she was also in a female minority. She feels that this has never been a major issue or problem elsewhere and from her experiences in the past few weeks here, thinks the same will be true at Hamilton. something for nothing, or at best some first rate entertainment for second rate m oney). S ub t r a c t $5, 0 00 . 0 0 for coffeehouse and folk festival (they the only k n o w a b l e and a ccountable entertainment probabilities for next year), $1,000.00 operating costs, and you're left with $24,000.00? There are innumberable probabilities that can happen for $24,000.00, and for me to expound them all now would be incredibly tedious. When you come down to it we are only limited by the monetary realities. Music is now big business and means big money but what we've got to spread around ain't even chicken scratch to most of o.ur popular star_s; so one is left with choosing between the half and quarter stars of our era. Which doesn't mean no "good" (whatever that means it usually falls far short of any descriptive quality) music, entertainment, but Grand Funk, The Mothers, Sly, The Dead, The Airplane, Dylan, Conway Twitty, Johnny Cash, etc. etc. etc. etc. just don't make it on chicken feed. What we end up with is trying to satisfy our champaigne expectations with a beer pocketbook. Meaning whoever is elected will never satisfy the expectations but will always have to substitute Utica Club for Chateau Lafitte Rothschild '64 and wake up with a hang over anyway.
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Warrior said that no special effort should be made to hire female instructors, and that a person's academic qualifications and personality are of prime concern in being considered for a position. She is, however, pleased by the recent hiring of two female instructors by the college. She believes that more emphasis on the matter comes from students, both male and female, rather than faculty, and does not see it as a subject for debate. Warrior adds, "It's not a burning issue." When asked about the value of a hberal arts education today, Warrior said that "there is a tendency in education to get the qualification� for a specific job." This is especially true in Great Britain. There, students are aske4 at the age of 15 to choose a field of specialization for college. According to Warrior, in an era of an uncertain job market, many trained specialists may be left without jobs. A student with a broader background would be able to turn to a different field. Warrior also said that students sometimes expect what they have learned to be immediately applicable. ''They have no right to expect this of education in the true sense. Education is not for a utilitarian purpose such as that." She views a liberal arts education as giving a basis for attiWdes in life. When asked if there is an increasing interest in Classical studies, Warrior said that there is, and cites three major reasons for the growing interest: the availability of good translations of the ancient works, books for non-specialists dealing with the ancient civilizations, and an increasing amount of travel to Europe. This increasing interest has been . evidenced in courses taught by Warrior in Canada and Italy. Many more ''mature" students . have decided to continue their education in this field. This is in direct contrast to the "elite" who were previously the only ones knowledgeable in the classics. In addition t o h e r teaching experience in Canada and Italy, Warrior has also taught in Great Britain prior to coming to Hamilton. Warrior attended high school in Manc hester, England. She entered Girton Co llege where she obtained her . B.A. in the Classics. She then obtained a M.A. while on a gradu:;te fellowship to M c M a s ter U n iv e r sity, O n tario. Following this, Warrior received a doctorate from London Univer sity, . 1 London ( England. I , J • • I
12/THE SPECTATOR/February 8, 1974
Judiciary Review Begins
continued from page one Punishments are also a source of confusion within the legal system. Neither the Honor Court nor the Judiciary Board have set P,Unishments for specific crimes. The Judiciary Board determines punishment by evaluating the seriousness of the crime, and how it fits into precendents. While the J udiciary B o a rd views this procedure as a weakness, the Honor Court does not. According to Yu, the Court follows "some sort of invisible guidelines. I don't want to try to define them now. Decisions are made on an individual basis. You have different cases and you have flexibility built into the system. The whole thing is whether you want to be a fairly loose structure. "It is important that the punishment be commensurate with the crime," said Yu. "I don't thin k we need formalized guidelines. If a person breaks a window he will get a certain punishment. It's really hard to define whether you consider e x t e n u a t ing cir cums t a n c e s important o r not." However, according to Dean Theta Delta Chi, which has offered ten bids thus far in fraternity rushing. Stephen G. Kurtz, the Honor Court decisions on the past three cases of plagiarism were not commensurate with the crime. "Cheating is a very serious matter. I am not critical of just the Honor Court but the faculty committee Delta Upsilon has given out the as well. The penalties were too Rushing activities have changed BY MA TT PECCHENINO most b id s t hus far-"about light." Rushing at Hamilton was more little. On an organized basis, R e g u l a t i o ns c once r ning i n te n s e a n d w ill be more fraternities offered "Beer and f orty-six," according to Rob courtroom procedure for the Winter, DU rushing chairman. successful than in the past few B a n d s," "jukers," invitational years, according to optimistic cocktail and sangria parties, and Gryphon has offered none. Psi U Honor Court and the Judiciary rushing chairman of the College's wine nights. "Rolls"to nearby and Alpha Delta Phi have given Board, have also been claimed to 11 fraternities. women's colleges were also a part out 44 and 41 bids, respectively, be insubstantial. The Board claims Freshmen had returned 80 of of some houses' rushing program. Chi Psi, DKE, and ELS reported that it has never been clearly the 278 reported _bids to Dean of Trips to local bars were included respective offers of 30, 27, and 25 stated who can testify during a Students R. Gordon Bingham as in the activities of Psi Upsilon and bids. Teak and Delta Phi follow trial. One witness involved .in a of yesterday afternoon, four days Delta Kappa Epsilon, while the with about 20 bids each. Sigma recent assault case said, "It was Phi offered 15 bids and Theta before the Monday deadline. E m e rs on Lit e r a ry S oc ie t y H o u s e s a r e b o u n d b y sponsored a trip t o a Utica "strip Delta Chi reported 10 invitations very disorganized. Everyone wanted to get their little say in. Inter-Fraternity Council rules to joint" in an attempt to influence for membership. continued on page seven There was a great deal of accept all freshmen who return freshmen in its favor. their bids before February 11. All Inviting interested freshmen to f r e s h m e n w h o a cc e pt a dinner was the most popular I fraternity's bid by that date are informal rushing activity. Most �-3 bound to join that house under fraternities considered it very penalty of being barred from important because it gave the fraternity membership for one freshmen and brothers a chance to ¼ year. meet.
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difficulty trying to get the facts out because of the tremor of the thing. You can't have everyone saying whatever they want. It results in a duplication and distortion of facts." The Judiciary Board also finds problems with the regulations concerning s tude n t appeals procedures. One part of the constitution states that no decision can be appealed unless the penalty is either suspension or e xpulsion. Another regulation states that the Faculty Committee on Student Activities is ultimately responsible for all punishments. Since it is the Faculty Committee that serves as the Appeals Committee, a student with a lesser sentence than dismissal from the college does not know whether he can appeal his case.. The report by the Judicial Review Committee, due on April 1, will determine whether these sorts of problems can be resolved within the structure of the present system, by clarifying the rules or formalizing the procedures, or whether a total revamping will be necessary. The latter would likely involve the merging of the Honor Court and the Judiciary Board. Dean Bingham believes that the ideal system would be a "single student c_ommittee into which cases would come through the dean of the college for academic matters and through the dean of students on social matters." The Honor Court spokesman, Bill Yu, is not yet sure which alternative he favors. "At first I was very pro keeping them separate. Now I am more willing to listen. It's still too early to pass judgement." "The Honor Court and the Judiciary Board can merge under one set of rules," said Gordon Kaye. "We should stay away from making it too legalistic. We can merge them, but leave flexibility."
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New Kirkland Committee To Investigate Hiring All Hamilton and Kirkland students enrolled in Kirkland courses will now be required to complete course evaluations as a result of legislation passed by the Kirkland Assembly at its Monday meeting, In another action, the As sem bly passed a motion introduced by a group calling t hemse lve s t he "c on cerned students " to establish an ad hoc committee to examine hiring, reappointment and tenure policies of the college. T h e c o u r s e e v a l ua t i on proposal, introduced by SCACA (St a n d i n g C o m m i t t e e on Academic and Curricular Affairs), specifies that evaluation of a student's performance will be withheld from the student unless the student completes a course evaluation. Thi s pro v1s1on apparently applies to Hamilton as well as Kirkland students. After a brief parliamentary squabble regarding a suspension of the rules, the motion to form the ad hoc committee was introduced by Robin F i elds ' 76, and s u b sequently p a ssed. The committee will include four faculty members elected by the faculty, and four students elected at large by t he students. According to the legislation, the committee must report to the Assembly by April 15. The formation of the ad hoc committee came as a result of the
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definition of a Zen master who explained it as "every mind as it is." Zen, she said, is not mind-pure intellect, and not no-mind, or blankness; rather it is the place from which both mind and no-mind arises. The relativistic sense of mind dissolves in Zen. One no longer distinguishes right and wrong, good and evil, light and darkness and "me " and "they." The person who lives the Zen life does not conceive these intellectual dualisms; they are all synthesized and undifferentiated.
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to hide." They began to explain, to describe, to communicate. And once the channels of communication had been opened, they began to learn. We're helping the children of tr i inner-city. And we're also helping the adults. We're involved in inner-city job pro grams. To train unskilled people in useful jobs. What does Kodak stand to gain from this? Well, we're showing how our products can help a teacher-and maybe creating a whole new market. And we're also cultivating young customers who will someday buy their own cameras and film. But more than that, we're cultivating alert, edu cated citizens. Who will someday be responsible for our society. After all, our business depends on our society. So we care what happens to it.
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INTRAMURAL B-BALL
'A Glimpse of the Real World' continued from page three Finally, in presenting all his shaky arguments against winter study, Mr. DiCarlo fails to acknowledge the most essential and most invaluable aspect of the winter study idea: that it provides those who want it with the opportunity to go off campus and explore a different area of life, to study in depth a field of special interes, to discover a new interest or aptitude, to open oneself up to experiences outside the range of the normal academic curriculum, and t o d o s o me t hing of e ducational value other than reading textbooks and writing papers. Winter study can be a chance to gain some practical knowledge and catch a glimpse of the real world, it can be a broad ening or e n l i g htening experience, and it can be fun. In short, winter study is part of the type of education which was promised us and therefore is owed to us as students of Kirkland and Hamilton Colleges. And I doubt that I am the only one who would seriously consider transfering to another s c hool if it were eliminated from the calendar.
BY GARY VI LLANOVA Some play-off races tightened and ot hers were settled in Intramural Basketball action, in a complete reversal of form. On January 17th, winless TEAK defeated the leaders of the North league AD by a score of 32 to 27 . On the same night South Dorm massacred CHI PSI� 45-12, to create a 3 way tie for first in the North League. AD, South, and Dunham South all share the lead ·:�:;::::::: .t' with 2-1 records. Coach Murphy is concerned... consternated... and calculating In the South league the INDY No. 2 team continues to look like the class of the entire circuit. They followed up a fifty point win over SIGMA PHI with a 62-35 thrashing of the Dunham Independent team. With Herbie Ogden '75, Pat McDougald '74, John Psiaki '74, and Big John BY DAVID LECHER with eleven minutes remaining but with 16 points. Adams '75, the INDIES have the The Hamilton Cagers continued Union outscored the Blue 14-3 turnovers and fouls cost them best rebounding team in the their hot and cold streak, first in the last eight minutes of the their chance. Union continued league and possibly the best losing disastrously to Union but first half to take a commanding · their pressure and ended by defense on the Hill. They have coming back to defeat Ithaca 34-24 lead into the locker room. scoring the last ten points, for a 4-0 won-lost record and have to College. An interestin Hamilton statistic 70-48 victory. be rated the pre-tourney favorites. A s a r es ult o f Union's Against Union College, the was a total of eight rebounds in The South league was not s t o r y o f t he g ame w a s the first half. Union was not tenacious defense Captain Ernie without its drama, however,as last defense-Union's. The Dutchmen missing their shots, leaving little Found '74 did not score a field Monday DKE won 45 to 39 in a relentlessly harassed the Blue chance for the Continentals to hit goal. Although Brian Coombes '77 hard fought game. A pair of cagers all over the court, with a the boards. tallied 14, he was overplayed and sophomores, Walt Stugis and Dave tough m a n-to-m an p ressing Hamilton closed to within six did not score in the last twelve Marshall, stood out for the DKE minutes. High-scorer Mark Badger team, no w 3 -1. SIGMA PHI, was '75 scored only six points. Union led by Gary Villanova '76 and Jeff was obviously well-coached in Bown '74. defensive skills and had been In Division No. 2, DU No. 1 conditioned superbly. still leads the East league with a Following their disappointing 4-0 won-lost r ecord. Last showing against Union Wednesday T u es d a y t he y d e f e a t e d a night, t he H amilton cagers stubborn, but outmanned Faculty r e b ounded to defeat Ithaca team, 51-41. Gary Neville '76 College, at Ithaca. and Robbie Winters '75, two Mark Badger '75 had one of his ex-varsity ballplayers, led the finest games in a Continental DU's to victory. The faculty was uniform. Aside from his game led by Gordon Prichett and David high 29 points, Badger chalked up Smallen, both of trre Math - 14-anrsr . Evenrlrougn Badger department. On the same night had a superb game, the ball game PSI U No. 1 clinched second place was not decided until late in the in the East by routing, winless final period. ELS_ the score was 67 to 22. Mike Hamilton held a slim 44-43 Catapana, Vlad Hoyt, and Dave advantage at half-time and the So hn, all juniors, led PSI U, who ga in remained tight most of the has now won four in a row after second half. With six minutes left, an opening night loss to DU No. Hamilton broke it open and 1. Both these teams appear to be surged ahead 78-67 putting the lid hea ding for the play-offs under a on the game. full hea d of steam. Indeed, if Another integral factor in the INDI No. 2 is to lose, it will Blue victory was the play of the probably be to either DU No.I or .. Continental's bench. Doug Wright PSI U No.I. '75, Mark Kasdorf '76, and Tom Still, in another game on Masterson '77 combined for a Tu esday tthe Black and Puerto total of 21 points, led by Wright's Rican Union (BPRU) met INDY 10. Wright replaced Captain Ernie No. I team in a battle of Found, who fouled out with unbeatens. The INDY No. 1 team better than 10 minutes to play. won by a score of 33 to 25. They The Hamilton reserves have are now in first place in the West shown that they are capable of league, BPR U actually led at doing the job. With increased half-time behind the shouting and playing time in pressure situations rebounding of Vroman Wright '76 they could develop into fine Badger Tallies Two on Drive and Alex Burch'74. The INDY defense. Hamilton was unable to team capit a l ized on strong yearly best is only one second second-halves by Jeff Hewitt '74, set up any sort of offense and was slower than Carlberg. forced to take low percentage Alex Singer '76 and Tim Shoen continued from page sixteen In fact, the whole impetus of '76 to remain as one of three shots. "shaved" this year against Army. the Colgate match-up could be Hamil ton looked strong at the undefeated teams in the circuit. This may have been a mistake on enough to push Hamilton to top They will be the darkhorse in the outset, outscoring Union 10-2 in the part of Colgate's Coach times of the year. Still Coach the f i rst minutes. But the play-offs and they could surprise Benson. "Shaving", although a MacDonald plans to "go down some teams. The BPRU dropped Dutchmen soon settled down to psychological and physiological there and be concerned with what t he i r patterned offense, and to second place, 3 -1. They may advantage to a swimmer resulting we do, and not with what Colgate be pressed for the second play-off worked the ball deliberately for in a drop in times, u·sually works does." good shots inside. Junior center spot by the PSI U No.2 team only once a season. This could be M ac D onald a l s o at t he which is 2-1. The play-offs start Charlie G o gliott a was the a factor when Colgate reaches the beginning of second semester r e cip i e n t of s harp p a sses February 25th at 8 :00 p.m. Brian Coombes implemented the training program underneath and led all scorers States. L w The Colgate meet could also be of Springfield S wim Coach 'Red' ballplayers. Hopefully, they well West __ w ____ L the right situation for some Silva, his former collegiate coach. begin seeing the action they 0 ____ 3 Ind. No 1 1 _2 2 1 Hamilton swimmers to better T he s e a r e tough t wo-a-day deserve. B&PR Union AD 1 1 1 individual , D Phi 2 Dunham S. performances. John workouts and are used to build A n ot her s e t o.f f i ne 1 1 1 l'si U No 2 2 South 2 0 DU No2 2 Needham will be matched against 1 Chi Psi t he s t r e ngth and endurance ballplayers is the Hamilton J.V. 2 State leading 1 Teak performers which needed for the State Med. The squad. Led by nine freshmen, East W L L could push him to several new w o r k l o a d a n d e n d o f t h e they have scored seven victories w South DU No I 4 0 _ 0 school records. Jeff Carlberg will season blahs has dampered the against only two defeats. Coach -Ind _ _N_o._ _2 _____ _5____ l'si U No 1 3 1 1 finally taste competition in the Continetal's spirits, but plan to Bob North is doing a fine job 3 DKE Dunham N 2 1 3 2 Sigma Phi Ind No 3 1 2 B r e a s t s t roke with see them at full strength against p\ep�ri�g the team for future 3 200 - y a rd 0 Dunham I n d , , Faculty 1 3 3 • Colgate's T X ootrtdeli16on at the varsity level. Jim • • • Hopkins, whose Colgate and in the States. : . , c, :! 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16/THE SPECTATOR/February 8, 1974
Con.l's Outskate St. Anselms ; Playoffs Not Out Of Reach
the score 4-2, Donny Armstrong working the point took a hard slapper from the blue line and Sage Rink was in pandemonium. End to end action ensued, as P h i l Hildebrand missed a breakaway as he lifted one just over the crossbar, but Anselm's Dick Gerry was called for hooking setting up the power play. Hamilton's power play has been fair at best this season, and
to his right, tying the score at 4 apiece. Shawn George made key saves throughout the third period and was prepared for the sudden death period. Hamilton played as a team. Every player covered up for the other on defense, and once BY STEVE HAWEELI again there was end to end action. The Hockey team may be The Cont's s eemed to be skating its way toward a play-off dominating play. The hometown berth as a result of their overtime advantage worked wonders for vict o ry against St. Anselm's them, but with 1:15 left, George Wednesday night. In two previous Individual Statistics was sprawled unconscious after ga mes the Continentals split a pair ___P_t_s. covering up the puck in front of ___A _________G of 5-1 decisions with Oswego St. n e t. H e h a d b een Anderson 6 9 15 t h e and Middlebury. Madonia 7 7 14 inadvertantly kicked in the head. Oswego St. caught the Cont's Hildebrand 5 7 12 Griffith 6 5 11 The climax of the game came with flat on their feet with a 5-1 6 5 11 46 seconds left. Steve Malcom Ascherl victory Thursday, January 31. 3 9 skated down the left side, and 6 Malcom The first period told the tale as 8 4 4 Hutchinson 3 5 8 spotted Tom Griffith on the Hedstrom Oswego picked up three "greasy > 3 4 O'Brien 7 opposite wing. "Griff" wisked it goals" that were basically due to a Ascher! lets loose on goal no. 2. 1 6 Ziemendorf by the goalie before he knew what lack of aggressiveness on the part T wo d a y s l a t e r , against ranked ninth in Division II prior 6 1 Rishel 4 6 had happened. 2 Gillmore of the entire Hamilton squad. Middlebury, the Cont's regained to the game, having played such ·, 0 5 5 Aubry The victory is a positive step Adding another goal with 20 their composure and consequently opponents as Salem St., Army, 1 1 0 Williams 1 0 Armstrong 1 towards the post season play-offs. seconds more remaining in the beat the Panthers 5 -1. The Boston College, and Vermont. Coach Batt after the game said first period, Coach Batt decided ''general lapse of aggressiveness" They lost three of those games by At exception. no was that the win was "the hump we tonight to lift goaltender Ray Rossi in that Coach Batt witnessed against one goal. They also lost their· 3:58, Griffith took a pass from had to get over". The team plays favor of another freshman Shawn Oswego was missing as the club tri-captains just before the game Hildebrand, wound up, and fired two Division III teams next week, George. Amiable George took controlled the game as soon as Wednesday night due to academic it past Gavin, but Pete Ascher! but Batt warned against any more problems. However, they were the over the tending in the second they scored their first goal. was offsides. But Bill Hutchinson, mental lapses. From now on the period and has since played In the first peiod, down by one only seniors on the club. 24 seconds later, took the puck Continentals must skate to win. Peter Ascherl tallied twice on exceptionally well. He let in one goal, the first line came to life as from his own zone, and rushed it They are a young club, but proved goal on a power play in the third sophomore Ricky Anderson hit unassisted goals in the first period up ice. Three steps over the blue on Wednesday night that they period, and overall played an co-captain Ben Madonia for the much to the delight of the line, he lined it up, and beat Gavin have a definite future. excellent game. At times the tying goal. With the team skating Hamilton fans. Breaking in on the Gillmore and George keep their eyes on the puck. action in his zone necessitated well and hitting hard, young Tom left wing, Ascherl juked his first but quick movement in the nets, Griffith '77 popped one in with defender Bob Kearns, moved to Sean was equal to the task, help from Phil Hildebrand '77 and the left of the cage, eluded corning up with spectacular saves. Dave Gillmore '75 in the second another defenseman, and fired it Unfortunately the game was period. Middlebury had problems past Tom Gavin for the opening m a r r ed b y p oo r officiating breaking out of their own zone, tally at 9:54. His second goal was - took advantage of off the skate of an Anselm's Although one hates to criticize and the Cont's the officials, it was apparent that this by converting misguided defenseman, as Peter struggled for one particular ref was over Middlebury passes into scoring the puck with two opponents. zealous. For example in the first o pp o rtunities. Anderson and Both goals were the result of his period, Donny Armstrong and an Madonia added two more goals in unending hustle, but it might have Oswego player merely rubbed the last period and an unassisted taken its toll on him in the elbows behind Hamilton's net. goal by Pete Ascher! rounded out overtime period. The period was They were both thrown off for the scoring. SbawnGeorge started relatively even, as Hamilton only roughing. Hockey is an exciting his first game and responded. outshot Anselm's 17-14. sport, and a little excitement Donny Armstrong and David T he second period spelled behind the nets incites the fans, P ryor filled in well for the ailing and improves the tempo of the Kurt Ziemendorf who may not disaster for the Cont's. Penalties game. Instead this particular ref return to the lineup until the and sloppy passing allowed three Anselm goals. Freshman Rick decided to call anything that Williams game in two weeks. Wednesday night Hamilton's Graham scored twice, and the fan:-; resembled an infraction. Oswego w a s n o t p le a sed with the smooth and spunky hockey team were edgy as Hamilton had h"o BY ED WATKINS officiating either, and it seemed skated to a 5-4 overtime victory men in the box to open the third · the Chandler Administration a request was of days closing the In of 90 about % against a highly respected St. period. St. Anselm's wasted no that this ref called received from the Physical Education department requesting that the A nselm's club. Anselm's was time in reinforcing their lead the penalties. college purchase a Universal Gym. Country John, revealing his while a man up, and it looked as if tendency to think on a highter plane of thought, told Gene Long he Hamilton was in for a rough did not believe the college could afford a three million dollar gym. pe riod. The anxious crowd To his relief, Gene told him the Universal Gym was a piece of weight chanted the traditional "Let's go training equipment whose price tag was closer to three thousand Blue", and this seemed to revive dollars rather than 3 million. Hearing that, John okayed the the Cont's. Anselm's goaltender purchase and turned his mind to more important matters. was nabbed for an interference The Gym was ready and waiting to take on all comers by the time penalty, and Tom Griffith, who BY JOHN NAVARRE the school opened in the fall of 1972. It had an immediate impact reigning State Champs, Colgate, scored the only goal against The Hamilton swim team, 7 -0, dominated the ratings. Colgate's upon the Hamilton community. The faithful runners of the stairs, Oswego, weaseled his way into the is cruising into the final weeks of Freestyle and Medley Relays are themselves a Hamilton tradition, abandoned the stairs in favor of the Anselm zo,� e, and tried to pop the season, meeting University of listed 1st with Hamilton holding new machine. Soon they were deeply engaged in a series of exercises one in. G,nvin m.1.de d�e glove Rochester tomorrow in Alumni ho t h second places. Colgate designed to prove how much pain the human body can endure and save, but Griffith's efforts awoke Pool. In the next three weeks the copped 1 st's in all other events survive. the Continentals. At 11 :56 with swimmers will tangle with a strong e xc e p t i n t h e 200-y ard The stair runners were by no means the only ones to utilize the and favored Colgate squad, a weak Breaststroke, where Jeff Carlberg, Universal. Athletes of all the varsity and junior varsity teams soon Union club, and then participate last year's title holder, is still appeared in the weight room, many following programs devised by in the New York State Meet on leading the League. Colgate holds their coaches. Then there were the non-athletes, those who wanted March 2. to shape up their beer-bloated bodies. Many came with the both the second and third spots. Coach MacDonald remarked The Red Raiders clearly are expectation that the Universal would do most of the work and that the Rochester team would dominating the League, and out require little work on their part. The Universal proved to be no gu. p r o v i d e "a m u c h m o r e class all the opposition with at however. It demanded a rigorous workout and faithful attendance. representive meet than a year least two of the top three finishers As soon as a workout became "easy," it was time to raise the ago." The Rochester squad sports in every event and many more for amount of weights. Few managed to stick with it. Every week the a quick sprinter and a strong back up. machine lost followers to the squash and tennis courts. Some dis t ance man. MacDonald is disillusioned particiI, 1nts swore off exercise altogether. When questioned about the looking for "individuals swimming bleak out-look against Colgate Yet a small core of faithful followers remained. They could be well and qualifying for the State Coach MacDonald said, "I don't found in the gym day after day at the same time undergoing the Meet." ordeal. When asked why they punish themselves, the most frequent care if we get beaten 83-30, just At this point in the season as long as we swim well." respons,e, "Because it feels so good when you stop." se venteen of the twenty-one MacDonald does not believe in Today the Universal remains a center of great attraction not only for the Hamilton student body but for other groups as well. An . members on the Hamilton roster "psyching up" his squad, but have qualified for the States. relies more on the intellectual occassional faculty or administration member will appear in the Qualifiying times for this year's efforts of his swimmers. About weight room to put some life in his old body. Use by members of meet are taken from the twelfth the Colgate meet he said, "I'll be the Kirkland community has, unfortunately been sparse. So far only place finishers in last year's looking to our guys to suppress all a brave few have broken Kirkland policy by recogn.zing that their competition, with open entry in extraneous stimuli, and swim bodies as well as their minds need great improvement. the Diving and Relays. Regardless of who uses it, the machine always "wim." Either the within themselves." The top ten listings in the State user grows discouraged and quits or is committed to a never-ending MacDonald also sighted that for individual events were released the Colg-.t.te team has already series of workouts to maintain the progress that has already been this week, and as expected the continued on page fifteen.· Tom Griffith on the prowl. made.
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VOLUME IV, NUMBER 18
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
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FEBRUARY 15, 1�74
CAP Weighs 4-1-4 Plan, Tables Statement of Goals
BY BOB ROCK The goals of Hamilton College, a s stated last May by the Committee on Academic Policy, have been moved to ''the back burner to simmer," according to Professor of Philosophy, Russell Blackwood, the committee's chairman. The CAP has recently turned its attention to the matter of Winter Study, which it considers a more pressing issue. Blackwood explained the Committee's plans to Roger Schneider, chairman of t h e S t u d e n t C u r riculum Committee. B la ck wood s aid regarding Winter Study, "It. looks as if the costs are greater than the assets," r e f e r ring to expenditures of money resources, and losses in the w\ number of classes for the two semesters during the school year. Peter T. Marcy, Acting Dean of Academic Affairs "There are many valuable aspects of the program too," said Blackwood, "but is there a way to capture the good without the bad (aspects of Winter. Study) of the Winter Study program," Dean Robin Kinne!, said, "the balance The Hamilton College faculty for Kirkland, Peter Marcy are now of good and bad classes shifts," has unanimously voted to reject a trying to arrive at a compromise depending on the supervisor's -proposed class schedule passed by, that both colleges will find knowledge of the subject and the t h e Kirkland Assembly. The acceptable. motivation of the students. Kurtz and Marcy both have A c a d em i c Council, w hi c h Kinne!, chronicling the success f u n c t io ns a s a n e xe c utive counter-proposals, and they hope and failure of the program, said committee for the faculty, had to find a mutual solution. Kurtz, t hat Winter Study came to earlier voted down the proposal who took two straw votes at the Russell T. Blackwood, chairman of the CAP Hamilton at a time (1969) when 5-0. last faculty meeting, said that two higher education was booming. - ·rhe major features of the thirds of the faculty did not mind "Schools didn't have to worry proposal are additional slots for the change to fifteen minute about where the next dollar of s e v e n t y-fi v e m in ute classes, intervals between classes, but that student money was coming e i ght-t h i r t y c la sses Monday only one third of his colleagues from," said Kinnel. Most students t h r o u g h Friday, and fifteen a g r e e d t o a d d i n g m o re it s f u n c tions could include, during this period were crying for minute intervals between classes. seventy-five minute classes. BY SUSAN MALKIN Due to student apathy and "giving out information, telling imaginative concepts in education. Other features of the proposed Proponents of longer breaks disinterest LOBBY, the Women's what's going on on campus for the Kinnel explains that Hamilton, as schedule are an arranged coffee between classes point out that it is Center, and EECHK are evaluating week, telling people bus and train well as many other prominent hour from 9:45 to 10:45 during difficult to get from List Arts their goals and expanding their schedules, and taking care of the c o lleges i n t he No rtheast, w h i c h Hamilton's C h a p e l Center, for example, to the Burke act1v1t1es for this semester. riders and schedule of events responded with the curre.nt Winter Assembly could b e held on Library in the ten minutes now Leaders of these organizations feel board." Study program. Tuesday mornings. Until recently, allotted on Monday, Wednesday, that more student support is The success of LOBBY has ''Today, however, the economy Chapel assemblies were held on and Friday, particularly if a class essential if these groups are to suffered due to a lack of is such that students are under that day. runs overtime. continue to function. Robin community support. "People have continued pressure to get out and Dea n o f t he College at Kirkland, which emphasizes Fields, organizer of LOBBY, not accepted LOBBY as a stable get a job. College is not the luxury Hamilton, Stephen Kurtz, and discussion and small classes more said k that, "If LOBBY does not organization. It's undefined as far continued on page four continued on page nine Acting Dean of Academic Affairs work out this semester, it may not as the community is concerned," be here next year." she said. Claire Brown, member of the The reluctance of leaders of Steering Co mmittee of the campus organizations to utilize Women's Center claims, "We LOBBY as an information center don't know why we are here, but a l s o h i n d e r s L O B B Y ' s everyone wants the Women's effectiveness. Organizations have Kirkland is going to have four their feeling was reinforced by the Center to work... although many not been reporting their activities tennis courts and two platform entire Board of Trustees the people don't think the Women's to LOBBY, therefore LOBBY tennis courts ready for use by fall, following day. Center is doil).g a good job." could not report them to the "First they got excited; then President Babbitt said at the Kevin McTernan, co-chairman community. "The coordinate they got carried away," said Mr. Community Meeting. Monday. of EECHK, says that "Ecology is relationship with Bristol just not "in" this year," and the didn't work. People were not The decision w� made at Babbitt. The initial $10,000 gift, organization has found little calling in activities information," Saturd;..v's Trustee meeting at p re viously p l edged by one student support during the fall said Fields. which �he Trustees decided to Trustee, was matched by two �•'"l'lester. alloc�te the money-$30,000 from other Trustees, and the remainder L O B B Y i s also having , In . .,._t years, LOBBY has difficulty with its employees. "reserve accounts, in addition to of the money was voted into the served <.1 'n information service "LOBBY should be more than $20,000 pledged by Trustees' budget by the Board. President Babbitt also reported altern ative li brary, activitie� just a financial aid job," Fields gifts, for the construction of those that as a result of the $350,000 center, and candy, coffee, and said. Since LOBBY is an assigned facilities. cigarette stand. Now, however, in financial aid job, many of the It f o l l o w e d p resentations available this year from the Ms. Fields' opinion, "LOBBY is employees are not committed to Friday to the Trustee Student three-year $750,000 Milbank gift, uown to a change and babysitting LOBBY's goals. According- to Li f e Su b-Co m m i tt ee f ro m the College budget for this year place." C o-ordinator o f Athlet ics, will break even. He said that next Fields, "LOBBY is the type of Fields would like LOBBY to organization where you need to Comfort Richardson and from yea r ' s projected budget will establish itself as a reliable pay people so they are fairly three students. The members of contain the lowest deficit ever, of "a n responsible." info rm a t i o n cente r the committee reacted favorably $200YO00. continued on page eight alternative to Bristol.•• Sh� feels continued on page five to the plea for mor� _facilities� and•
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Faculty ejects Schedule Deans Seek Compromise
Organizations Lack Support Community Interest Dwindles
Kirkland Trustees Meet on Hill; Allocate Funds To Build lennis Court
2/THE SPECTATOR/February 15, 1974
-Bundy Squeeze For the third year, Bundy dormitory re.sidents have been hiking up College Hill for all of their weekend meals, and weekday breakfasts, despite the ·presence of a separate �ini:ggfacility at_ the complex. During Winter Study last month, the dining hall was closed completely, for the first time. Although the College has complained that the dining operation is losing money, the interests of the Bundy independent residents should be and fraternities sympathetically reconsidered, especially before any other changes in the meal plan are made in the fu-�ure. The lower hill complex, set off physically and architectumlly from the main Hamilton campus, was · planned so as to include a separate dining hcll to serve its residents. Bundy fraternities, Delta Phi, Gryphoi1, and Teak, whose houses were razed due to a new College fire policy restricting wood frame structures, were assured, upon taking residence in Bundy,. that the ambience of fraternity living would be preserved. Thus, separate dining rooms at the Bundy dining hall were included in the original arrangements. Teak, however, has been investigating other its Bundy .and of outside arrangements living dissatisfaction is to a great degree due to the shrinking Bundy meal plan. All the fraternities require a nearby, full-time dining facility; trekking to crowded Commons Sunday nights is detrimental to fraternity momle. If Dunham Dormitory is renovated, students will be hou::.ed in new units to be built below Bundy. At that time, the increased student population there may make the dining operation more economic_al.
Spectator's Spectator
Insiders Hou_separty Guide
BY GERRY PAYNE another, more roundabout way. Just eavesdrop People do strange things during houseparties. during her conversation with her Hamilton escort. If Things they normally don't do. ·Beside the drunks she says anything like, "What's your name again" or from Chi Psi, shading their blood shot eyes in the "You are the date Susan from Oswego set up aren't middle of the afternoon, and beside the bleery you?" that may tip you off. eyed in the Library Sunday night, groaning over 2. Why the Hamilton student is talking to the their books and holding their heads, there are some sweet seventh grade girl from Clinton Central at five individuals whose presence is difficult to accourit o'clock, Friday afternoon. for. He belongs to a fraternity whose houseparty is .1. How to identify the unfamiliar female faces at open to dates and only dates. He's at wits end. He the Bristol Snack Bar. must swing the local to the beer and band, even if Many of them are from Skidmore, Cazenovia, she has to be home by twelve. If not, he will go Wells, or elsewhere. But some of them are new drag, accompanying his worried roommate who also· Kirkland Transfers whom you have just never seen has no date. before, or they are home town girlfriends. In any 3. Who is the girl in the ankle-length dress, case, guessing wrong can lead to embarrassment at sneaking out the back door of McIntosh at dusk. the cash register. There are still two ways to tell She is a Kirkland student who has been invited to where they're from after th ey 've ditched their a cocktail party at a Hamilton fraternity. Don't say suitcase, without coming right out with it. anything to her; she feels guilty enough as it is. Walk up to the girl and say something 4. What is the gawky guy with a mustachio, non-commital about Kirkland College, like, ''The dressed in a tennis sweater and plaid pants, doing, sun is shining bright over Kirkland this afternoon, conspicuously. loo king inconspicuous. don't you think?" If she answers from out of That is Dean of Students R. Gordon Bingham. It's not that he means to crash any parties; he just nowhere, "Ooooch, they dress so sloppy at Kirkland, don't they," you know she is an . wants to make sure no one runs off with the statue out-of-towner. of Alexander Hamilton. Drunk stude�ts have been If she doesn't answer favorably however, there is know to do such things.
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·'A Giant Walks· the Earth'
BY GEORGE BAKER It is time to put away the toys and books, to put down the beers, and talk about something realiy important, something that· really matters, that makes a difference. Caught in the swill and the swirl of our daily lives, we tend to lose our perspective, There is a time-wmn complaint tha ., a crime wave only our capacity to distinguish the mundane from the exists when the mass media choose to report it. It would crucial. So let's stop a minute, stop bumping ar ound be misleading to characterize the situation on College Hill in the d ark and light a match for something that's a in those terms;· neverthele..;s, there are several discoumging little bigger than you and me and this college comm1,mity. events which do not augur well for the future. Mother Russia-a crushing vise of a social Earlier in the fall, Dean R. Gordon Bingham complained 0rder-has set the vicious screws a'turning again. She of furniture and beer kegs being ripped off from lounges has slammed her hammer and sickle down upon her • d' and campus parties. Most recently, the Pub was vandalize most sensitive, yet most stalw art son. She ha3 set personal items have consistently been stolen from Kirkland her heavy boot · heel upon the bare throat of her most eloquent and insistent witness to the dignity Dormitory, and the Co-Op Art Store has been the victim of mankind, hoping to squelch his strident but of thievery. The College Boo�store has also registered articulation of justice and right. graceful complaints of missing inventory. Unfortunately, there are Mother Russia-a nation whose exquisite beauty other examples. is perversely matched only by her consumate and Being able to leave one's books in the library for two incomparable p aranoia and visciousness, has once again thrown her entire weight headlong against her hours and knowing that they will be there when one constant enemy-the truth. Mother Russia, that returns, purchasing materials at the various college outlets kindly old woman who spit in the face of the with the assurance that everyone else in the community human spirit with her pogroms, her Stalinist purges, behaves accordingly are privileges of a small, supposedly and her present curious concern for the mental congenial atmosphere. healtl}. of her intellectual class, has gone toe-to-toe with one man who spoke the truth. She has Freedom from fear is a fragile commodity, and distru..;t attempted to bludgeon the truth from his mind and and .tnorali carelessness can breec;I quickly to erode that his pen. But for all her collective might, Mother Privilege. Apathetic silence in the face of those who abuse . Russia has lost; the world beholds a new our community is no more justifiable than the hero. Heroes and heroism-not modern words, encoumgement of their acts. nor are they vogue in the modern world. Today, we fain a sophistication that tries to make those words Maybe crime does only exist when people start worrying hokey, or childish, or at least unnecessary. That is a concern about it. But maybe it exists because people don't · shame. We modern men live in an environment void themselves with it at all. .,...____________________________ of heroes, a sterile melieu of banality and absurdity in which we inwardly grope for that one person whose life breathes a. spark of fire and purpose into our own soul.I Like children lost in the night, we NUMBE R EIGHTEEN VOLUME FOUR beg the darkness to be merciful, to allow that one man, alone unafraid of the dark to find us and take Editor-in-Chief - Frederic Bloch our hands in his, gripping us tight, showing us the Managing Editor - Henry Glick 1- · way home. In the years of the last world holocaust, Executive Editor - Mitchel Ostrer Winston Churchill was such a man, such a hero. It was Churchill who, in the dark nights of war torn: News Editor '- Doug Glucroft London, put aside his personal risk, hid from sight' Business Manager - Peter Sluys his own fear s, and summoned up courage . enough �i..\\\\, Associate �ditot \.� � � � ,� �\. '"&\. �\u� 'l\"A..�l.\. �l.\. �c 'itt� John Navarre Robert J. Keren, of desp?ir. It was courage, one man's raw guts which Production Manager Arts Editor made all the difference in the world. Glen Gilbert Where do such men come from? I do not pretend Jon Cramer Production Assistant to know. But I am certain of one thing-today such Assistant News Editors a giant walks the earth. A giant with enough courage Peter Ackerman Pamela Thompson for all the world; a giant whose soft eyes instill not Editor · Photography Bob Weisser terror but tranquility, as if those eyes allowed you David Cantor Linda Anzalone to peer into the peaceful mind which lay behind Business Staff them. This giant, not a young lion, but a fifty-five Jack Hornor, Martin J. Kane, Peter 8. Bayer, Geoffrey E. Lawrence, year old man, can stride the length and breadth of Donald. R. Kendall, William D. Underwood, Marc Standig. Mother Russia and the world without leaving his
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home on Gorki Street. He is a small man, but one who possesses the invincible strength to draw the line over which he will not step, and even to refuse, with all his sinew ar:d soul, to be bullied over that so very crucial line. This giant wa.c: too much for Mother Russia; too big to store away in the vast expanses of Siberia; too strong to shackle in a work camp. What work camp could outdistance his reach on the minds of men? What shackle could contain his spirit? None could; a true testament to his greatness. It is interesting that from the land of least liberty emerges the most telling statement on liberty in recent history. The events of this past week in Moscow emblazon the name Solzhenitsyn on the rolls of those rare individuals who love freedom passionately and who have the courage to measure up to the challenge which that passion instills within them� It is indeed an honor to live in the same times as Alexandr I. Solzhenitsyn.
Soviet Speaker Coming to Hill
BY LIZ BARROW A natoly Shvartz, a member of Russia's "silent opposition" will �eak of "Solzhenitsyn, Censorship and Soviet Life" Wednesday, February 20. The lecture will take place in the Science Auditorium at 8:00 p.m. Shvartz has interviewed some of the same people Solzhenitsyn refers to in his newest, most controversial book, Gulag Archipelago. Shvartz has earn«:d both a degree in medicine and history. Following these interests, he has published IO books in the past 20 years in more than six different languages. The topics covtr various sciences, biographies, and non-fiction short stories. In writing on these subjects, Shvartz had access to previously unstudied archives, both government and ·private, and to unpublished letters and other materials. As a result of the new information, he has completed a new book. The Value of Truth or A Robin• in the Garden contains a series of essays about Russian academicians and biological scientists. It was, however, considered unpublishable in the Soviet Union. L�'l� Russia -in Ocotber, 1973, Shvartz, 50, emigrated to the \Jnited States with his wife and son. Since that time he has spoken at several collcga and universities in the northeast. Although he ii now learning English, an interpreter is stiU needed to translate his lectures. "It is a unique opportunity for the Hamilton-Kirkland community to hear the opin'om of a very talented former Soviet citizen on the intellectual ferment and daily Soviet life," aid Michael Haltzel, Russian history professor Hamilton.
DiCarlo Defends Position: 'W'mter Study R.I.P.' II To the Editor: Any questions concerning the comparative merit of varjous courses of aciton at any particular time are necessarily relative. The •questions that must be asked about : Winter Study do not involve whether or not the experiences obtained during Winter Study are inherently valuable. Rather, what is relevant, to use the current term, is whether the existence -0f Winter Study advances the specifically academic aims of the colleges in view of what is being given up in order to maintain its existence. In what has apparently turned out to be a controversial comment in the February 1, 1974 issue of The Spectator, I maintained that, in view of the attitude of students in general and the economic realities of the two colleges, Winter Study is not serving the. purposes characteristic of an academic institution. I do not intend to restate the arguments that were presented in the original comment. Instead, I will present a critique of the fallacies involved in last week's reaction to it. The first distinction that must be mde is between what is "useful," ''valuable," and "unique," and what is appropriate for pursuit in the college or university. I do not doubt that automobile mechanics is a topic worth being familiar with. Nor do I contest the legitimacy of an in terst in first aid, PIRG, basket weaving, or "shop skills." However, serious questions can be raised about the academic legitimacy of such projects. Furthermore, the question at hand is not whether Winter Study ought to be replaced by a three-week vacation without any other effect on the curriculum. The options available are not two semesters as presently constituted versus two of the same plus Winter Study. Whatever alleged bmefits of Winter Study are advanced must be weighed in terms of what is being given up. What is being given up includes regular semester of decent length, classes of reasonable size, and an acceptable breadth of course selection. This is because a faculty burdened by Winter Study can teach fewer other courses and because the money available to the colleges simp!y cannot accomodate both Winter Study · and a semester longer than the presently inadequate thirteen weeks. SPECTATOR EDITORSHIP Applications for editor-in-chief c,f The Spectator will be available at the Dean of Student's office at both colleges starting Monday, February 11. Any Hamilton or Kirkland sophomore or junior is eligible for this position. The final determination will be made by the Publications Board in early March. The deadline for completed appij.cations is Eebruary 19. Please refer any questions , to Fred Bloch, ext. 7191 or 7101. There is little doubt that some students have been rewarded academically by the Winter Study period. There is even less doubt that others have put th·e time provided to some other . useful purpose. There is no doubt at all that for most students Winter Study constituted a period marked by the "absence of academic pressure," as Miss Freyer (Comment, February 8, 1974) so aptly put it. Given the facts of life concerning Winter Study as it is practiced and the academic costs of its continuance, the conclusion that it ought to be discontinued will suggest itself to all disinterested observers.· Vincent L. DiCarlo '75
J-Board Chainnan Clarifies To the Editor: For general information, members of the Hamilt�n Judicial Review ,Committee
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include Professors Briggs, Endy and Tibbets of the faculty, and messrs. Baker, Lenihan, Percy and Terranova representing the student body. Dean Bingh,im sits on the committee ex officio. The chair. is shared by Professor Rockwell and my::;elf. While committee meetings are of necessity closed, each of the members is open to, and vitally , interested in, community opinion. If you are interested in the issue, please feel free to contact m e m b e r s - p a r t i c u l a r l y s t u den t members-and express your views. We want that type of input and we will consider it seriously. Thank you. Gordon Kaye '74 Co-chairman, Judicial Review Committee
Pro Winter Study To the Editor: After reading the article "Winter Study, R.I.P ." which appeared in the February 1 issue of the Spectator, I feel compelled to say a few words in favor of Winter Study. Let me preface my comments by stating that although I'm a Junior, I have not as yet spent Winter Study on campus, and a m therefore unqualified to discuss ''On-Campus" projects. I can, however, speak with the voice of experience when I discuss what I feel are some of the t remendous assets of Winter Study "Off-Campus." I honestly believe that through Winter S tu d y , H a m i l to n h a s s u ccessfully overcome some of the major limitations of a small college situated in a rural area. In effect, Hamilton now possesses a campus as large as the world and a curriculum as vast as the interests of man. I have three major academic interests: art, English, and ·France . In each of the past three years Hamilton has offered me the opportunity to pursue these interests in richly rewarding �d very memorable programs. I present my experiences not as an idea.I but as a basis upon which to base my comments, and with which you can judge their merit. During my freshman year, the English Dep artment offered the Hamilton student body a chance to study theatre in London, where many of the major innovations in theatre and where some of t he f inest classical productions are currently being presented. Not only did we study theatre, but one could also observe the English spirit, English humor, and in short the English way of life. Last year, Dr. Carter enriched his Architecture course with an on location st udy of England's contribution to modem architecture as expressed in the outstanding architecture to be found in London today. This year, my Winter Study project was an integral part of my Junior Year in France. It consisted of a six week o rientation program in Biarritz (a well-known resort town on the southern Atlantic Coast of France) where we brushed up on qur French, experienced life in provincial France, and had contact with the unique Basque civilization. With these experiences behind me, I cannot help but come to the defence of the program that has taught me so much, when I see it being attacked by what I feel is Hamilton's worst enemy-narrow-minded near-sightedness. Knowing Mr. Dicarlo, and having heard similar comments from most of the students I know who have stayed on campus, I'm sure that the article is quite accurate and that the picture it presents is quite realistic. However, ending Winter Study (which is the solution offered) appears to me like shooting a horse because his rider drove him into a ditch. One of t he inc o n veniences that a c c o m p a n y l i b e r t y i s p ersonal responsibility for the state of affairs that result from one's actions. It is time for the Hamilton Man to stop finding excuses for his own faulty character, to stop his futile · 'i l
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witch hunts, and to come to grips with th� problems by taking a good look in the mirror. Hamilton has entrusted us with the freedom to pursue an education and to seek knowledge � it may lie. If the emphasis"is on intellectual indolence and . . . the attempt to spend as little time as possible in any disciplined study" then call a spade a spade and name our enemy indolence, not Winter Study. . Winter Study is "a unique and valuable opportunity to study a particular problem with the kind of dep th that is ... impossible during the course of a normal semester." How else could Hamilton offer 30 professional performances by such well known actors as Sir Lawrence Olivier? How else could Hamilton expose its French students (who do not feel that they ·can take a year abroad) to French civilization as it really exists today, and to real spoken French. These achievements are academic in every sense of the word. As for it being a vain attempt for Winter Study to compete with wine, women and song, it is only the very narrow minded soul who cannot see the necessity for study and recreation to coincide with and compliment each other. The very success of the Winter Study . projects that I have had has sprung from the marriage of these two essential facets of life. If one is really "forced to admire the dedication of a student body with the stamina to spend an entire month at intense recreation" let's channel this "stamina" and "dedication" to the creation of fruitful Winter Study projects. As for the basic flaws of Winter Study/, I have de�onstrated the flexibility made possible by "spending a short period of time studying one subject in depth." Architecture is not a painting which creates illusions of volume and space which can be accurately and honestl; portrayed by slides. It is not free standing sculpture which can be studied as an independent and sep arate entity.·It is an integral part of cities and must have a rapport with its surroundings. Therefore, it can only really be appreciated on l o c a t i on. How can Hamilton offer worthwhile courses if the experiences essential t� an in-depth understanding are impossible to achieve? The academic value of comparing the various techniques used in 30 shows seen in 30 days is obvious. There exists not only the vast experience accumulated but also the fresh vitality of an immediate past in each and every comparison. I question very strongly the "fact" that "a body of knowledge is best mastered and retained when it reviewed at intervals." To my way • of thinking education is not based on the methodical memorizing of math formulas (or the like) but on the acquisition of inspiration and the ability to think, reason, and j�dge accurately. As for the 3 or 4 week time limit, that is for the core of the work. Nothing is stopping us from beginning early or continuing after the designated period. If we really want to "sustain satisfactory r e t ention," nothing is stopping us from reviewing our notes whenever we feel it is necessary. As for variety, in the overall view of the academic year, doesn't Winter Study offer the greatest possible variety? It divides the two semesters of more formalized and classical academic research. It also offers the pcrssibility to change location and system of study. Many of those who have• left campus have returned refreshed, inspired, enthusiastic, and eager to start the next semester. Some of- those ·who devote themselves almost completely to uacademics" during the semester use the relaxed spirit of Winter Study to partake of the social atmosphere which is an essential part of the Hamilton community and of each person's education. To my way of thinking these are far more important than the l½ weeks which the ·. Spring semester would gain. And what about Fall Term, would we return to the • ' I l •
hideous system of finals after Christmas Recess (it would no longer merit the term vacation)? The "significant academic benefits" "so manifestly evident"' look a little illusory from where I'm sitting! I have nothing to gain. As Mr. Dicarlo points out, Winter Study will probably be here next year, so whatever changes are made will not affect me! However, I believe in the value of this program; and I am willing to fight the evils that its liberty (which is an essential part of its nature) has let loose on campus. As I see it, Winter Study 'is being condemned to death for the crime of giving the less desirable qualities of our human nature the opportun·ty to express themselves. Either we will take whip in hand and beat ourselves into shape, or we will decide that it is too much work and give someone else the power to do it for us. Are we going to retrogress to having homework coUected and to pop quizes to see that we are working; or are we going to prove that we are worthy of independent study and progressive techniques. I would hate to see one of the most promising approaches to education lost for the future classes of Hamiltonians simply because we were so tied to, and so dependent upon, external structure and discipline. CORRECTION A headline on page 6 of last week's newspaper incorrectly stated, uLcwis Recommends Business Computer ... Acting Provost Eugene Lewis has, in fac t, r ec o m mended no particular machine. The Spect.ator regrets die error. We are, however, a community; and the individual in a community must make sacrifices for the benefit of the majority. If it doesn't, and if we believe that it nev.:r will serve the majority of students, then it is our duty to end Winter Study, here and now!! But, if we believe that it can work that it can aid the majority, then we mu� all work to make it a functioning p�.rt of the Hamilton education. I've committed myself. Mr. Dicarlo has committed himself. Now I would like to see others do the same. If I haven't already taken too much of your time, think about where you stand on this problem, over dinner tonight-it may help you ignore the taste!! Robert J. Sigmund '75
Yachtsman Wanted To the Editor: As a member of the' class of '73 I was aware that numerous seniors begin to grow fidgety about this time of year, especiaDy those with no plans for next year. It is to those seniors that this letter is directed. I am presently a paid crew aboard a 60-. sailboat whose home port is Riverside, Conn. I began this job in September last fall and plan to remai'n until June this year. The owner of the boat, Mr_ Peter Richmond, is looking for a replacement lo start crewing early in June and continue at least a year. The general itinerary of Magic Anne includes the maritime provinces of Canada in the summer, the Bahamas in the winter and the U.S. east coast in between. The owner and his wife live aboard year 'round and treat their crew almost like a member of their family. The Richmonds and their crew are the only people who live on the boat continually, although they often invite guests aboard for cruises. Applicants for the position of crew should be experienced sailors with no plans for the coming • year. If you're interested in learning more about this opportunity or arranging an interview this spring, contact me care of the owner,or the owner himself, Peter Richmond, 1071 6th Ave., N.Y ., N.Y. 10018. Allow about a month for a reply, as correspondence must be forwarded to the Bahamas. Jim Vick '73
College Union Dispute BY ROBERT WEISSER Although it is probable that the contract between Services Employees International Union '....ocal 200 and the colleges will ;oon be signed, the grievances that '.lave arisen since last Nove·mber's ,trike are still outstanding. Charles Duffy, · representative f the Local, said that he hoped to have the contract signed late this week or early next ·week. According to him, the delay can be attributed to the time it took nim to get the contract from the :ollege and problems with the .vording of some job descriptions. He also discussed the cases of Bill Prosser and Chester Koziarz. Prosser, a boiler and burner naintenance man, was fired Dec. >, 1973 for "unsatisfactory work" md has been without work since ':hen. Koziarz was suspended for a Neek without pay for supposedly ::oming to work late. Both cases �ave gone through the grievance Hoc e d u r e and are in the ll'bitration stage. . According to Gerald Leuiken, 1ead of the Physical Plant, Prosser 1ad been told to install new 1eating controls in the gym. �euiken claimed that Prosser told 1is supervisor that he had finished .he job, but when the controls vere checked, it was found that te had not, and that some of the naterials were missing. Leuiken said that "when we tsked him about this he couldn't five us an answer." Prosser's side of the story, 1o w e ve r, is very different. <\.ccording to Duffy and Prosser, 1e never said that he had finished
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definitions," said Blackwood, ."is ·ontinued from page one t on-ce was,';· Kinnel said. With that it is difficult to draw lines" his change has come the decline by such vague and commonly >f Winter Study. · misconstrued guidelines. Kinnel Therefore, in his Jetter to termed such words as "cognitive" "e x p r e s s i v e" a s khneider, Blackwood wrote, a n d 'May I suggest that in addition to "unproductive." Kinnel said each brief discussion of the goals course should be evaluated on its ,ucument a part of your 'Second contribution to the liberal-arts ,ession (Adler Conference)' be education. levoted to an open discussion of Kinnel believes that there is Ninter Study." room in higher education for Although the statement of different t ypes of colleges. �oals initially met with the Hamilton fits into the pattern as pproval of its authors, many strictly a liberal-arts college, in the lefinitional quirks have been minds of its trustees, faculty, and , ealized, said Blackwood. Eugene many of its students, past and ., ewis, associate professor of present. overnment and acting provost "We cannot be all things to all as chairman of the CAP when people," said Kinnel. "If we h� document was written. (Han.iilton) can carve out our S c hneider's committee will purpose clearly, we'll have a liscuss many of the problems better time attracting the right .vith "the goals document" that type of students." 13lackwood ref erred to. According There were other controversies co the document, the delicate .ssue" is the following clause: The initiated by goals publication in :ommitteee does not believe that last S pring's Spectator. The me sort of course is necessarily purpose· of such a statement is, nore valuable than the other, but through constant scrutiny and Ne do believe that within the criticism, to eventually round it :raditional role of the liberal arts off into a set of goals that are lam ilton should focus on acceptable to be published in the tructured academic disciplines of college catalogue. Another me mber of the cognitive nature." T h e "cognitive" course is n i n e-m a n C o m m i ttee on lefined by the document as in Academic Policy, Professor of JPposition to the "expressive" History Edwin B. Lee said the :<Jurse, such as dance, choir, and goals were made public as "a straw man that they (college ;ome art and writing courses. "The probleµi with _these community) could attack." In this 1
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were ambiguous. The one that bears most directly. on Koziarz' grievance was his so-called lateness. Koziarz was allegedly late when he reported to his s up e r vi s or for his job assignment several times in one week. However, he claimed that he had clocked in on time and had gone straight to the supervisor. When the clocks were checked, it was found that the one in the supervisor's office was about ten minutes faster than the time clock. Duffy then said that at the first hearing of Koziarz' case, this was brought up, and he asked for the time cards for that week, but the college representatives at the meeting could not produce them. ·Wh en R o nald MacDonald, controller of Hamilton College was asked about this, he said that he could make no comment at this time. Duffy also cla�ed that a good deal of this "harassment" was due to efforts to break the union. He cited a nother example, also i n vol v ing Koziarz. After his suspension, he had to take a day the job, and that he could not give off for extensive dental work he an answer for the missing tools, qad to have done. because, as far as he knew, they He called his group leader to were still in the gym. Prosser said tell him that he would not be in that "I had nothing to do with· the next day. Although there is a their removal." rule saying that employees have to Duffy said that it would have call the'Physical Plant, Duffy said been ridiculous for Prosser to steal that "it has been general practice the material, because each part to call up the group leader to save was inventoried and would have a toll call." to b e accounted for. "The Duffy went on to say that this controls would have been checked got the supervisor mad at Koziarz, when the man from Johnson (the but that he had cases that he company that manufactures the could document of nonunion men controls) came to make the final who "did no\ even bother to call adjustments. There was just no in, and who haven't lost sick pay way that he (Prosser) could have ·or have been suspended." Both gotten away with it." Koziarz and Prosser are strong He went on to praise Prosser's union members. - -- . .... - work record, having worked five ., ' y ears "\\'ithout one written fI j TIIE SUB STATION reprimand or discipline, and no 19 COLLEGE IDLL ROAD ! unsatisfactory work. Bill would r; ; 853-8081 never do a thing like this." WE DELIVER!! T h e o ther case, involving · Koziarz, also has two sides. Duffy Ro� I mentioned several incidents that Description Runner Large
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respect, it has succeeded, for it has been the cause of much c r i t i c i s m and, · at times, condemnation. A controversial clause reads as follows: An unusually well qualified student, however, may wish to undertake in his junior or senio r y ear independent r e s e ar c h in his field of concentration or in a closely related area. Many students have queried as to why they may not qualify as a freshman or s�phomore. In fact, there are ''rare cases", Kinnel cautions, where a freshman or sophomore are allowed to study independently. The Hamilton catalogue terms independent study as open only to juniors andi seniors in order to discourage any such endeavor by underclassmen. In reviewing this controversy, Kinnel said, "the 'question to ask is 'Does a freshman have the concept of college-work to carry it into his own supervision. Also, why do the independent study now, when you may be more secure about it and more prepared for it." As well as reviewing the Winter Study Program and the goals, the CAP is also developing programs for the freshmen and senior classes, "which will make easier the transition to the former and more challenging the graduating into the latter."
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Student Groups .Reorganize;· Attempt to Rally New Interest continued from page one Des pite the remuneration, many employees are lax about their jobs. The lack of an authority figure or advisor to whom the employees must report permits this irresponsibility to go un punished. ''The fact that LOBBY is being run by a student does not help....There is not a full time or even half time authority figure for peqple to listen to," said Fields. Director of Financial Aid Ken Kogut said, "I have no objections to Robin firing a student who is pe rf o rming u n s at isfactorily." However, he also said, ''We can not guarantee a replacement." L O B B Y, w i t h o n l y n in e e m p l o y e e s , i s pre s e n t l y understaffed. Of those students who do show up for work, many are not interested in making LOBBY succeed as an information center. Field s' regular meetings to establish communication between the employees were not well attended. A posted guideline of responsibilities was not read by the students. According to Fields, "part of the problem is that you expect people who work at LOBBY to keep their eyes:open, to read signs, to know what's going on. I don't know if you can expect this of people." Chaplain Joel Tibbets, who was i n s t r umen tal in L O BB Y ' s creation, feels that, ''The key wo rk is 'committment.' The people who get paid to work there are not committed. The work must be voluntary. I know this is idealistic, but people must work · there because they want to, not because they have to." Both Joel Tibbetts and Robin Fields think that LOBBY. has !ill?!
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never been accepted by the comm un ity. "LOBBY didn't fulfill its potential. It never became the kind of information center it could have been," said Mr. Tibbetts. Ms. Fields added, "We have been trying since its conception to make LOBBY used by the community. I don't knov..: if it will ever work." Ms. Field's plans for the improvement of LOBBY involve a move from its present location in McEwen lobby to the site of the n e w W o m e n 's Ce nter i n Kirner-] ohnson. Ms. Fields feels if they can accomplish this move, "there will be more of a chance for LOBBY." At the same time that LOBBY has not fulfilled its potential, the Women's Center has also fallen short of its goals for this semester. Committee member, the group of "Our goal, as I see it, is that we people who ran it last year "came have to reach all the women of on radically;" they were into campus, to feel out their needs," "lesbianism and crazy things like said Claire Brown, member of the that," and this scared many W o m e n ' s Center Stee ring people away. Committee. The alternative weekend with "Probably the most specific Lavender Jane "helped and need on this campus is the need of hindered" the Women's Center c o m m u n ity. There is a n this year, according to Brown. "It overwhelming sense o f isolation further alienated all the people here. We want to bring women that didn't go, but encouraged all together in a sense of sisterhood," the people that did go... .It she said. promoted a sense of sisterhood The l a r g e s t problem the for ·those who did go, but for Women's Center has encountered those who didn't go, it gave bad in attempting to fulfill this goal is feelings." o ve r c o m i n g m an y K irkland T h e W omen's C en ter students' alienation from the R e o rg an i z a t i on Meeting this Women's Center. "People always Sunday is an attempt to reach out feel the Women's Center is a to the women on campus. ''The clique. We don't even have enough Women's Center is a center for all going for us to be a clique," women. It is our tum to reach out Brown said. to all the women previously Many Kirkland women feel excluded," said Brown. Women a l ienated from the Women's t hat the ·women's Cen ter C e n t e r because of its past ·· especially want to reach are the reputation. According to Julie non-student women such as staff A r n o w , a n other Steering and faculty wives.
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This semester the Women's C e n te r h a s s e r ved a s an information center for women. It has also sponsored consciousness raising groups, self help groups, and served as an outlet for the women's film series. However, according to Arnow, "Our success per semester depends on our activities per semester." In an effort to make the Women's Center a nucleus for all women's activities, it is moving from its present location in Milbank to a more convenient area near the Dean of Student's office in Kirner-Johnson. This move to the more central location is expected to attract more students and make them a ware o f t he organization's activities. The Women's Center views the coming semester optimistically. "In terms of progression, we've come a long way. We're moving forward, slowly but surely," Brown said. The Environmental Ecology C ommittee of Hamilton and Kirkland (EECHK) has also faced t h� pro blem of diminishing student support over the last semester. EECHK, founded in 1970, was or iginally a politically active organization. Now, however, it functions only as a recycling service. In past years EECHK was invol ved i n e val uati on of environmental legislation. It also supported and worked with local environmental groups on local issues.
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6/THE SPECTATOR/February 15, 1974
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MJQ; asterful 'Quiet Cooking'
BY JACK CURRAN Marilyn Hover never had a nicer birthday present; and so she s aid when she thanked the Modern Jazz Quartet after their performance last Saturday. Most of the audience, which nearly filled the Hamilton College Gym, felt the same way, but comments ranged from "It's beautiful" and "I love it," to "It's boring, it all sounds the same." Despite the few discouraging comments which the MJQ inevitably receive after their shows, their music rang last Saturday with a twenty year old newness that could make the unknowing believe it were truly "modem" jazz. Perhaps the name Modern Jazz Quartert as well as the $2.50 tariff and incompetent publicity on campus, kept the gym from being filled. Many students unfamiliar with the MJQ shyed away from the concert fearing that they would be bombarded with avant-garde �oltrane, and others have just
been spoiled by the free SAC concerts. 2.50 is a mere pittance of a payment to see the MJQ,, but most people thought that that high a price was ridiculous. Good publicity on the Hill could have dispelled these misconceptions. N �ertheless, the MJQ's music floated unflawingly (as usual) a round a dinky and smelly gymnasium to the ears of a predominantly · white audience. But these circumstances did not phase the MJQ at all. They said they "didn't mind at all" playing in a gymnasium and "felt real good" about their performance. That takes class and indeed if there is one word that completely captures tthe MJQ's style, it's class.
Whenever they were on stage the whole audience just settled Milt Jackson of the Modem Jazz Quartet down, overcome · by the cool c l a s s i c a l s c h o o ls' recent Ackerman) have best described Bl u e,s, span everything from c o m posure o"f t he s e j a zz acceptance of jazz as an important their music as "inimitable quiet C h a r l ie P a r k e r B-Bo p to classicists. Oohn Lewis and Milt and worthwhile musical form. harmonically and structurally cooking." Jackson even announced their B u t o ff-s t ag e they were complex and fairly modem pieces. The MJQ can adapt nearly any program with class.) Jazzmen like different people. They lost their There is nothing extravagant type their to and music of style these are responsible for the almost "m ortician-like"stage about John Lewis and his piano easily transform it into jazz. presence. Percy Heath was fussing Several of their blues heads are solos. He writes most of the around wit-b the universal gym based on Bach melodies: blues in original music the quartet J plays. before the show and during B flat, Blues in A minor, and blues and so naturally he knows just intermission. what sort of improvisational in H (B natural), as well as leave to inform his audience that treatment each tune needs. The MJQ played their music as R e gr ets, another Bach piece Mr. Baker is a fast rising young actor. whom it would be well to tightly as ever. They do not try to transcribed by the MJQ. They -- His notes are sometimes sparse keep an eye on.) Mj.ke Sigler, as an pull music from their instruments played the adagio movement of and his playing reserved, but what effervescent Bubbles Lubermans, and then toss it at the audience all Concerto do Amjuez, by Joaquin he does with the few notes he choose is amazing. He can work at once. Rather, they wait' for Rodrigo, which is also an old tune is also worthy of mention. ever motivically in such a them Miles by made famous Davis Eventual ly El i s a m arries• their IJllusic- to gel. They draw it way that, with the aid of Connie (Sketches of Spain). slowly and develop it in stages to Freaky, but comes back to he can hang the Kay's are drums, Roses Misty like ds ar Stand an improvisational climax, then Professor Blight in the final scene, quartet in a limbo between regwr music. their to e adaptabl it winds naturally back down into head. the which is pregnant with meaning. The old _·adage "quality, not -They even transformed God Rest and double time. I nave never Olive led the 200 spectators in a ,, quantity never had a better Ye Merry Gentlemen into a jazz heard another pianist do this. hearty round of applause, which It has been said that Connie was modestly acknowledged by subject than th� MJQ; And canon arid fugue. And of course Kay is one of those drummers their own works, Django, True Gunther Schuler (and now Peter the actors. who "can play in 5/4 while he chews gum in 4/4." And certainly he is just as important as John Lewis in creating that unsettling limbo be_tween regular and double time. M i l t Jackson's · solos and especially his phrasing are superb. It is as irrelevant to wonder The dialogue is sparse and His whole body stiffens while he BY SUZIE ELMIGER how or why Groucho Marx particularly funny when thick plays but there is nothing rigid in his improvisations. His solos are Woody Allen always seems to b e ca m e college president in nasal whine meets space age appear where he is most out of Jlorse F_eathers· as it is to wonder monotone. Most of the jokes are nowhere near as sparse as Lewis' solos and therefore his playing place-as a revolutionary in South how Miles found a robot suit so visual-neon gadgeted settings or America or_ a stand-in for Bogart fast or why he escaped detection costumes or simple shots of Miles' seems a bit more free. The red in Casablanca. But he always as the only one in the bunch with bewildered expression. Scenes like mallets blur Qver the vibes but manages to triumph, just barely glasses and a nose. When absurdity the one in which he bluffs his way they spout out crystal clear balancing the hits with the misses. i s n o r m a l i t y , n o t hi n g i s through the "cloning" process, a cosmicasms of sound. Som eone This time, i n Sleeper, he's 200 impossible. So, once again, Woody way of recreating a whole man commented during intermission, Allen's fantastic imagination and from the last living cells of his years behind. "that vibes-ist is really cooking." As Miles Monroe he entered St. techni cal ingenuity have no body, also has visual appeal. A Percy Heath spidered his bass V incents• Hospital, Greenwich limitations. panel of doctors peers down at incredibly, especially during his v·illage in 1973 fresh from h� The audience has time in the Miles peering at the nose on the solo in A minor blues, which Happy Carrot health food store, beg inning to adjust to the operating table, all that's left of brought down the house, or at and woke up in a zone where situation; they wake up to the the fallen leader .... And then there least raised the roof. He played wheat germ and New York are disorientation along with the are the machines like the nearly every bass style from mere remnants of the past. sleeper. Then there is a party orgasmitron, in case manual sex "simple" obligate (Visitor from Interesting, but long gone. No · where people drink green wine doesn't work, or the confessional Mars) to complex harmonic wonder he can't walk too well. and get high holding a slover that flashes "absolved" at the end support (In Memorial). After wobbling around the sphere, while Miles the new of a rap. He is probably the least room, bumping into everything portable domestic puts the coats Woody Allen's facility for restrained and composed member several times, he is declared by the in the incinerator and floods the subversives who unanesthetized kitchen with instant pudding. It comedy is remarkable. His wit of the quartet on stage. He nearly him, to be the only man alive who all makes coherent nonsense as flashes so quickly that you're blew the quartet's cool with his could infiltrate project Aries. jokes pile up on top of each other. laughing at a new joke well before' "gunshots" at the beginning of The Sheriff Soon after, the police capture the Allen uses a lot of familiar gags the old- one is stale. His humor After twenty years it is subversives and Miles ex.capes with but always adds a personal touch. runs along the same nihilistic lines amazing that these performers still is and Brothers Marx the as The cream pies he throws are his mission. Hi s quest consists of an blue, and the banana peel he slips greatly enhanced by his awareness enjoy playing together. Their long extraordinary series of run-on on is twice his size. He ends up o_f his medium. He has a cinematic development has imbued the adventures. As with most film dangling· from branches due to a i m a g i n ati on, w h ich c reates group with a tightness and style comedy, the interest in · in faulty flying machine and gets visually as well as verbally and that are immimicable. But what individual episodes rather than in chased to the tunes of the considers nothing too sacred for can be expected? After twenty any meaningful continuity. or Preservation HaU- Jazz Band satire: religion, politics, sexuality years of cooling things are hound to tum _out well done. and least of all himself. �cad o_f a nickelodeon piano·.· theme.
AD Tries Humor BY PETER W. SLlJYS Theatre goers rose en-masse last night at the new Alpha Delta Phi Theatre to applaud the final curtain of My Fair KiTkie. This epic production was directed by James Kennedy,·•written by James Kennedy, and starred James Kennedy and a cast of tens. The plot of . the play is deceptively simple, as is the directing. Ms. Elisa Dimwittle (Stephen Applegate), Kirkman women's libber ('I have all the Laven d er Jane records') is desperately in love with lead tenor Fre a k y L o v e b ush-Root Qoe Weimer). But before she can cohabit with him, her elocution must m ee t F r e a k y ' s h i g h standards. In desperation, she turns to Ham. Tech. Professors Warren Blight (Kennedy) and Leaf Toad (Dirk Tacke), who reluctantly accept the challenge. Imagine their total surprise when she perfectly enunciates 'The guys can fly real high at Sigma Phi'. All is celebration as she is prei,dred for her coming out at the Homecoming Football Game, which · Professor Toad explains 'is sort of a variation of football, where we try to win without scoring.' There, Elisa confronts her real test - a meeting with Boredom Bing-Bong (Bob Presutti), who laments his job in 'Wouldn't it be Lovely', After all, if the students tried, they could make his job so much easier. Well, things keep going from bad to worse as' Elisa f a c es t h e AD's a t t h e i r Homecoming cocktail party. Martin Hillsgrove as J. Merkin Verrazano acts every inch the gracious guest, but confides to the audience that 'for me to be· a President is really acting.' Unn oticed by the crowd > Freebish Schlock, ace-reporter •. is about to expose the identity of t he Kirkman molester, - when George Bak.er moves in· with a �ely censure.(The a�or begs
With 'Kirkie'
'Sleeper' Entertains Audience; Uses Fresh Slant On Old Gags
f"ebruary 15, 1974/THE SPECTATOR/7
events FILM
On Campus This Weekend
The Gold Rush and The Last Laugh. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 8 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. Admission $ .75. Juliet of the Spirits. Frederico Fellini . Friday and Saturday at 8 pm. Sunday at 10 pm. only. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75.
February 18 (Monday) And Then There Were None and The Box 10 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. Also Tuesday.
February 19 (Tuesday)
African Film Series: East Africa-Kenya and Tanzania and Tanzania, Quiet Revolution. 7 pm. Science Auditorium.
February 21 (Thursday) Diary of a Chambermaid and Le Chien Andalou.B pm. Chemistry
· Auditorium. Admission$ .75. Breakfast at Tiffany's and the Betty Boop· shorts. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission$.75.
At Nearby Theaters
Cannonball (853-5553) M*A *S*H (PG) New Cinema (736-2313: Formerly the Kallett Cinema) Serpico
(R)
Cinema National Uptown (732-0665: Formerly the Kallett Uptown Theater) Sleeper (PG) Paris (733-2730) Exorcist (R) Stanley (724-4000) McQ (PG) 258 Cinema (732-5461) The Sting (PG) and American Graffitti
(PG)
February 15 (Friday)
MUSIC
Piano Recital. Doctor Charles Rosen. 8:30 pm. Chapel. Beer and Bancf: SAC and the Women's Center sponsor a FREE dance featuring Uhuru. 9:30 pm. McEwen Dining Hall.
February 16 (Saturday) SAC Concert: The Persuasions and Orleans 8 p.m. Gym. Free with Social Tax.
LECTURE AND DISCUSSION February 16 (Saturday)
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:30 pm. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
February 17 (Sunday)
Free Church of Clinton. Speaker: Joel Tibbet�s, College Chaplain. 11:15 am. Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobih. 12:45 pm. Chapel. Interfaith Workshop. Professor Paul Davidson, Mohawk Valley Community College. Perspectives on Pentecostalism. 7:30 pm. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
February 18 (Monday) The Middle East: Oil on Troubled Water? Professor Herbert L.
Bodman, History Department, University of North Carolina. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium.
February 20 (Wednesday) ,
International Film and Lecture Series: Turkey. Speaker: Cemal Kafadar '77. 7:30 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. Solzhenitsyn, Censorship, and Soviet Life. Dr. Anatoly Shvartz. 8 pm. Science Auditorium. Bible Study. 9 pm. Alumni House.
EXHIBITIONS Currently On Campus Albert Bloch (7882-7961): An American Expressionist. At Root Art Center through March 3.
Mo/as from the San Blas Islands (II). At the Bristol Campus
Center Lounges through February 27. Rare books printed before 1500 dealing with printers' marks used by early Europeans. At the Daniel Burke Library, through March 1. Photographs by Andy Mosner '74. At McEwen coffeehouse. Ceramics by Richard Zakin. At List Art Center through February
23.
February 19 (Tuesday)
BLOODMOBILE
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at McEw en Dining Hall from 10 am. until 3:45 pm.
Kl NOKUNST
This weekend Kinokunst presents a silent double feature: F.W. Mumau's The Last Laugh and Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush. The Last Laugh was produced during Germany's golden age of film making, and is a moving, cinematically wonderful silent film, a narrative without titles. The Gold Rush is the saga of the little lone prospector, Chaplin's favorite of his own features. Shows are in the Chemistry Auditorium Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with The Last Laugh shown first, The Gold Rush second. Admission is $.75.
WATERMARK
The editors of Watermark, a new magazine of fine writing, graphics, and photography on the Hill, encourage contributions- of humanistic perspective in any field-from students, faculty . and administration. Material may be sent to Hamilton Box 163 or Kirkland Box 304. An open staff meeting will be held Wednesday, " \ February 22 at 81 pm. in the Coffeehouse.
Lorna Haywood
Sheila Nadler
HiU Choir Features Soloists; Backs Haywood, Nadler
The Hamilton-Kirkland Choir is presenting a very special chamber concert. The featured artsits willl be the young British soprano, Lorna Haywood, and the young American contralto, Sheila Nadler. The program consists of Stabat Mater by Pergolesi and Neue Liebeslieder by Brahms. Assisting the soloists and the' men a n d• w o m e n o f t h e Hamilton-Kirkland Choir will be the Amici Quartet and Grant and Mary Jones, duo-pianists. T h e Stabat M at e r w as
Pergolesi's final work, completed replace the Scarlatti setting of the shortly before his death in 1736 same text used at Good Friday at the age of twenty-six. It was services in Naples. composed on commission from B r a h m 's Neue Liebeslieder t h e N e o p o litan nobility, to was composed in 1874. The Sheila Nadler was born and educated in New York City. In composer selected from Daumer's 1966, while still a student, she Polydora a series of love poems made her operatic debut with the which, in portraying the many Chicago Lyric Opera. After her emotions of human love, runs' debut, Miss Nadler was chosen to f r o m s e n t i m e n t a l i t y and to frivolity. The sing with the Fort Worth Opera sobriety . and also join the Metropolitan_ poems have been set as waltzes, which match in their variety the Opera Studio. m o ods of the texts. As a conclusion, Brahms composed a sublime setting of Goethe's poem ''Nun, ihr Musen, genug" in which the poet expresses his fru�·tration in trying to capture all the various moods of love.
Prof. Spear Completes 'H.M.S. Pinafore' Cast
Instrumentally the program BY PETER W. SLUYS p roduction, Spear will features the Amici Quartet in the Casting has been completed for· concentrate on the music for Pergolesi Stabat Mater. and Grant Gilbert and Sullivan's "original P i n a/ o r e , "espe c i a l l y t h e and Mary Jones in the Brahms ·n a u t i cal ·comic opera,"H.M.S. orchestral music, which i s very P i n a/ o r e. T h i s A l e xa n de r difficult." Then, with the help of Neue Liebeslieder. The Amici . Quartet is quartet-in-residence at H a m i l ton Players production, a stt1dent director, the play will be Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, directed by Associate Professor of staged. and is already known locally for Music Lee Spear, will be presented Publicity, finance, technical April 26-28 in the Chapel. and other ''behind the scenes" its excellent sense of ensemble. Grant and Mary Jones are H.M. S. Pinafore is one of jobs will be handled by the members of the Hamilton College Gi l b e rt and Sullivan's finest Players and their Executive Board, faculty. Mr. Jones is Assistant works, combining elegant satire of who will act as producers for Professor of Anthropology, and the British establishment and fine Pinafore. Mrs. Jones is Part Time Instructor music. This is somewhat unique, as of Music. The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph most college productions are Porter, K.C.B., is First Lord of the The performance will tak� under the complete control of the Admiralty, and will be played by place in the Hamilton College director. But with the mundane K i r k l a n d C o l le ge P r e sident Chapel, on Sunday, February 24 details handled for him, Professor at 3 PM. All seats for the Babbitt. Sir Joseph plans to marry Spear can devote more time to the performance are reserved and the daughter of Captain Corcoran play and its success. tickets may be purchased in (played by David Kulle), but she Spear is happy and confident has other ideas-she's in love with advance at the Bristol Campus with this arrangement, and hopes Ralph Rackstraw, a common to do some Gilbert and Sullivan Center on the Hamilton College sailor. campus. Ticket prices range from with the AHP every year. For F r o m t his beginning, the $1.00 to $2.50; students will their part, the Players are happy characters jump on the plot and receive a $.50 discount. to welcome him aboard. ride off in all directions, with the HOUSEPARTIES outcome providing a surprise for Chi Psi everyone, including the Captain. Gin and Juice-Saturday, 10:30 a.m. Open to Fraternity members, Jos e p h i n e , t he C a p tain's $5 admission for indrpendents daughter, .will be played by Nancy Delta Kappa Epsilon D ol liver and Rebecca Spear, Gin and Juice-Sunday, 12:30 p.m. Open to fraternity members. depending on the performance. Delta Phi Each will have her own Rackstraw Wine and Cheese Party-Friday, 7 p.m. Open to fraternity in the persons of Fred Hollender members, invited guests, freshmen, and all Kirkland students. and Mike Sigler, who will be Delta Upsilon s up p o r t e d by Seamen Tom Beer and Band-Saturday, 10 p.m. Open to couples. Ramsey and Chris Caswell, as well Emerson Literary Society as a chorus of ten other sailors. Beer and Band-Friday, 10 p.m. Open. The "villain," Dick Deadeye, will Psi Upsilon be played by Larry Wingert. Beer and Band-Saturday, IO p.m. Open to fraternity members. Professor Spear is delighted to Sigma Phi be at the helm of the Pina/ore -�and (featuring Some of My Best Friends) Saturday 12 a.m. again, for he has directed the Open. show twelve times before coming Teak to Hamilton. He feels that the Beer and Band-f'riday, 9 ·p.m. Open to fraternity members. production will be a solid success, . Theta Delta Chi and is pleased with what h�_.terms Beer and Barids (featuring Steak Nite, and folk, a la carte)1 "an excellent cast." · · ,'" · f riday, 9:30 p.m. Open. 'r-n . the f i rst wee ks � f
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K'land Trustees Provide Funds continued from page one
John O'Neill, Hamilton assistant professor of English
Court Ruling Effects O'Neill's 'Porno' Book
BY SOPHIE DEVENNISH A n a n t h o l o g y• o f t he pornographic verse, parodies and satires of Restoration England being compiled by English professor John O'Neill could p o s s i b l y r e main temporarily unpublished. Accordin� to a recent Supreme Court ruling, local communities can a n d should decide for themselves what their standards of decency are. Hence, it is left up to local areas to decide what books m a y be s o l d w i thin their .boundaries, and what movies may be shown. This has raised an unexpected problem f<r O'Neill. "I've spent three or four years working on this book. I've committed a lot of time to it. Up until the time the Supreme Court decision became known to me, I thought I had a pretty hot item.'' O'Neill's book is basically an anthology of English poetry from around 1660 to 1700. Some of it has already been published, some he will be editing himself. Of the poetry, O'Neill says, "The poetry is primarily satirical, humorous and obscene. It is not erotic; it does not arouse the reader. It amuses him, shocks him maybe. I do not believe in fact, that poetry can be erotic." "In that century, sex was very casual, the people had fairly loose moral standards as much as we have today. They did not need erotic literature because they led erotic lives. They tended to make .1 furi of sex the way we sometimes do. "Look at the way sex was dealt with in the movie The Graduate. D us ti n Hoffman's stumblings a r o u n d the h o te l, t he juxtaposition of shots of his jumping onto a raft in a swimming ' pool and of his jumping onto Mrs. Robinson in bed were all treated very humorously. "This is the sort of thing that people during the Restoration did with sex. They were satirical, sometimes viciously so. They were i nt e r ested in writing satire; I g e n e rally being abusive, and � obscenity is a good way of being abusive." The_problem in O'Neill's case is
how the publishers will react to a pornographic book, even a scholarly one, in light of the Supreme Court ruling. "My guess is, and it's only a guess, that if I approach an academic press with the title, Re storation Pornographic Verse,
they may well like it, but not think they can afford to publish -it. "If a big publisher wants to publish a pornographic novel, he ha·s behind him a big legal department t o fight court obscenity battles. In the process, the book might even become notoriously popular and bring back his investment many times over. "Mine is a scholarly work to be published by an academic press and they just do not have the funds to do this. One court's decision on whether or not a book is obscene is not enough. The publisher might not want to take a chance on numerous court battles that could run into millions of dollars in legal fees. It is a distortion to say that I tried to get published and could not, I m e r e l y ant i cipate trouble." The Supreme Court decision is still fairly new and the full ramifications of it cannot yet be known. It is bound to have far r e a c h i n g e ffe cts o n t he di s tr i b ution of all pri?-ted material. O'Neill said, "I believe the decision will be enormously restrictive on publishing. It seems to me to be an instatement of censorship. A community could very well declare The Bible obscene if the majority of the town agrees it is."
However, there will be a $200 increase in general fees for next year. Babbitt said that there would be a comparable increase in financial aid to cover the rise. In his talk, Babbitt expressed concern that the number of student presentations to various committees, namely the Student Life Committee {which caused the Trustee meeting to go on for four hours) reflects mis-use of the Assembly. He s t re ssed that Trustee meetings are intended only to be i nform atio n a l , so that the Trustees will know what is going on. S pecifi c p roposals and complaints should be brought to t h e a ppropriate Assembly committees, rather than the Trustees, he said, because the Board does not have the power to act administratively. Babbitt said that the Trustees would have to refer any proposals back to the legislative bodies for a c t i o n . "S t u de.nts don't understand the rather incredible p ower t h e y h ave in t he Assembly," he said. In other action, the Trustees a ccepted Go ver n or Wilson's resignation from the Board, submitted on grounds of conflict o f i n t e r e s t . T h e y a l so recommended the appointment of Mrs. Ann Matthews as a member of the Board of Trustees. Mrs. Matthews, a black woman, lives in New York City. She was Chief Nurse at Cornell Medical School for a number of years before resigning that position to raise a family. She is now active in civic and political affairs, and is an Associate of the college. She will be coming to the campus for the Spring Trustee meeting in May, a n d students will have an opportunity to.meet her then. The Trustees were appraised of
t h e M cD e r m i d c ase , and generous than it has been able to reaffirmed their support of both be. Now we can move on some the present rehiring and dismissal programs that we have been procedures and the Board's wanting to do for some time." position of no jurisdiction. Mr. The Development Committee Babbitt said that they all took the reported that among the funds time to read the material put raised in the past six months were together for them by students, $13,000 from Kirkland parents, and said, "They asked me to be · received since letters requesting sure to say that they had read it, contributions were sent out in they appreciate it, and they will mid-December. Mr. Babbitt said, use it." "This is a remarkable and The Kirkland Student Life thumping vote of confidence in Committee accepted a resolution what we are doing." of appreciation directed toward Possible revisions of Winter Deans Poller a nd C o oper, Study, alternative daily class submitted to the Trustees by the schedules, and faculty load and s t u d e nt m e m be r s of t he overload were among the issues C o m m i t t e e . "It w a s a n di s cussed in the Curriculum unprecedented and good action," Committee. They also heard and Mr. Babbitt said. 'VJ'he Trustees endorsed reports from SCACA accepted it with delight." (S t a n d i n g Commit tee on T h e S a l a r y Com m ittee Curricular and Academic Affairs) recommended pay increases for concerning changes in course faculty that reflect the rise in the evaluation procedures. cost of living as well as a The Women's Committee re•arrangement of the retirement endorsed proposals of the Student payment pla n . th e Life Committee for improved recommendation was approved by health services, received reports the Board and became part of the from the Women's Center on prelim�ary budget. current and future actions, and The Finance Committee learned of the formation of a reported that additional money professional women's caucus, would be available for next year made up of faculty and senior for two full-time people in the staff members. Dean of Students Office, rather t han one full-time and one CLINTON SHOE CENTER half-time, as at present. They also SPECIALIZING IN allocated $2000 to the Dean of WINTER BOOTS Academic Affairs Office for AND SHOE REPAIR students who wished to take 853-5242 independent studies with advisors from outside of the college; _.._____________ $2000 for athletics, to hire coaches and instructors on an individual sport basis; and the funds for the position of Vice President o f Re search and Development, which will be filled Downtown Utica by·Carl Schneider when he returns For from his sabbatical. I n h i s r e p or t t o t he. community, President Babbitt FOR GUYS & GALS s aid, "The budget is more
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Milbank Fund Supports Kirkland Grants $750,000 Over 3 Years The Milbank Memorial Fund has awarded a $750,000 grant for g e n e r al support to Kirkland College according to President Samuel F. Babbitt. The grant, which will be distributed over a three year period, brings to $1.75 million the total funds given or pledged to Kirkland from the Milbank Fund since 1972. This recent grant is the largest s i n g le foundation grant ever received by the college. Like the two other gifts from the Milbank Fund, it is unrestricted, an unusual condition for large grants. In announcing the grant at a recent Board of Trustees meeting, Pr esident Babbitt said, "The Milbank Memorial Fund has, with t his g e ne r o us pledge, given
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Kirkland precisely the financial stability needed for the next few years-years which will be tough ones, economically, for all of private education." In commending the directors of the Milbank Fund, President Babbitt stated that it was a p e r f ect e xample of w i s e philanthropy, a subject which he addressed in a recent article in
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s a i d , i s c o n ce rned w i t h �'preserving what is best in the current practice of private colleges and universities.'' T r aditionally, the Milbank Fund has supported agencies undertaking activities in public health, education and welfare, especially those concerned with w omen. Samuel F. Milbank, Chairman of t. he Fund, is an active supporter of women's education, particularly at Kirkland and a� Barnard College, where he was C h ai r man of the Board of Trustees for many years. A trustee -of Kirkland since last June, Mr. Milbank is also a recipient of the President's Medal, which is awarded to persons whom the college recognizes as having made special contributions to Kirkland and to society.
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Little Green Men Spotted on Hill; PEZ Collection· Features Batman
BY VINCE DICARLO p r e v i o u s l y u n r e pr esented of its early years are otten That the most complete kJ.town dispensers, many of which are forgotten. Back when the cand y PEZ dispenser collection in North unavailable in the New World. was first being marketed, a America is at present residing at Thus, many of the polystirol motion was introduced into the Hamilton College has been, up to homunculi of his collection are Czechoslovak legislative assembly now, known only b y a select few. the only ones of their kind on this at the instigation of the Union o( This is because Jack Brillman '74 side of the Atlantic. Druggists banning the sale of PEZ bas shunned publicit y due to the The name "PEZ" is derived anywhere but in drug stores. rrious nature of his interest in from the German word for Luckily , the measure failed, and PEZ. According to Jack "the p eppermint (pfefferminz), the millions of Czechoslvaks were not world was not read y for PEZ." original flavor which is still widely denied easy access to miniature Now that the collection can available in Europe. Since PEZ likenesses of Mickey Mouse and properly be displa yed, however, were first manufactured in 1927 , his friends. the news of its existence has however, many more flavors have Brillman does not expect to His been marketed including grape, r e s t o n h i s p r e v i o u s spread by word of mouth. forty-t hree b r""ightly colored accomplishments. In order to plastic figures have been moµnted finance the continuing world wide oo a revolving displa y platform in search for those elusive missing the shape of a tiered cy linder that dispensers he intends to practice looks reminiscent of a wedding medicine. de. "Man and His World" is the_ "I will comb the world," say s nmie that Jack has chosen for the Jack, his features composed in a display since it is his belief that look of quiet resolve. Hthe world is a macrocosm of PEZ." Dispensers are arranged into ,oups which show man in his diffe rent c apacities as an ilhabitant of the world. The BY LISA GALLATIN categories include ''Man Serving His Fellow Man," "Man the The College administrations Spiritual," and ''Men of Other have recently been considering Worlds." "Man the Brave and some changes in Hill health Free" is represented by Batman services designed specifically for the benefit of Kirkland students. Ilda medieval Knight. These include the addition of a Brillman's collection began wom an psychologist, and the He first Jack Brillman;'74, with PEZ with Donald Duck. realized the gravity of his l i m e, w i ld c herr y, licorice, e ventual establishment of a obsession when he found himself chocolate, incredibly , glucose. woman physician as director of In 1949 the familiar PEZ medical services. purchasing one of the devices Kirkland A l though m a n y &om a vending machine at the dispenser, a mechanism based on Hickory Run rest stop on the the Browning automatic, was students have expressed a desire Pennsylvania turnpike about one invented. Finally, in 1952 , PEZ for a woman psy chologist, the low and a half years ago. While Jack crossed the Atlantic and was· case level does not permit the mnembers eating PEZ as a youth, introduced · h ere where the hiring of a full time assistant to lllle of his original dispensers of ubiquit ous dispensers have D r . D o n a l d T- ·Muilenberg, become a part (if not a crucial p resentl y the o nly clinical thcearlyperiod survives. Since the incident at Hickory one) of the childhood memories psy chologist. He said, "I'm not lun, Jack has been anything but of most of us. Now PEZ is a far convinced it would make a ilk. On a pilgrimage to Austria flung empire representing fifty difference, but in any Health Center students should have a last summer he visited the world nations. Now that PEZ is prospering, choice." corporate headquarters of PEZ at Muilenberg has often found in 1.inz. There he obtained seventeen the difficulties and persecutions :���=������i�3���������� � �
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Colleges Examine Student Health Services Doctor Leon Roe To Retire After Next Year
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u n i v e r s it y he alth c enters employing both men and women psychologists, that "th�re are . women who, given a choice, w ant to see a man, but rarely a man who wants to see a wom an." Kirkland Dean of Student Affairs, Jane Poller, now devotes about 30 per cent of her own time to individual and group counseling of students. This s�mester she will have two interns working in the Dean of Students office; Said Dean Poller, "We do need more women around here for women to talk to." The Women's Center has also been providing health counseling, a n d ihelpingi tQ organize consciousness raising groups. Dr. Leon Roe, M.D. , director of the Health Center, will be retiring within the next few y ears and a committee has been formed including D9n Pollaand Actin�
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continued from page one than Hamilton, would find longer. ses sions p e d a g ogically more useful, it has been pointed out. SPORT COATS However, at Hamilton in the Starting at $10! science and large lecture courses, �:(: t h r e e sessions of somewhat � shorter duration is said to be J! preferable. Kurtz said that only eight �.�·. �=•- :_ ·:·.�•. iHamilton faculty were unhappy WE ONLY DO THIS KIND OF SALE � j with the present scheduling of ONCE EVERY 3 YEARS • classes. COME IN AND TAKE ADVANTAGE!! In addition, the proposed �? schedule offers more flexibility . :-.-: Many time slots could have been used for fifty or seventy -five m in ute c l asses, and classes· . �- meeting twice a week could meet !P. on Monday s and Thursdays, or :? Tuesdays and Friday s, instead of and the present Tuesday �::: Thursday schedule which only. allows two days to·prepare for the GENTLEMAN'S HABERDASHER M latter ses�ion. However, under the new sy stem, there would only be ONE EAST PARK "ROW � ten rather than twelve time slots. CLINTON NEW YORK 13323 . C o n c e r n i n g t h e d a ily commencem n f cla s e a t 8 3 l__ :-.ai.�-.:-.-....�-:-:-:....,�-:=:-�-�-:. -:-•·•·�==•:•- .:...:•�--=-.• .;.a..�.:-.-•�'�-�:• •Aai-�-=·���·.:-:•:aa..'�-��.-..,�;-._ .:.aa..'".•==:�·-·=··=·��--=-=,..._,:<•:w.,�-=�::� am ' Kur t z sa1�d ,\?I 11_ ke i�t .�, He sa: _1 d O ·•�-"' ···�'····•.,..,.,.-=-.....,�. ,�.--·.,-..,;,,·. 9.,cw:,.- -;�.,,-...._.....,._......,..,.,. .•., ..... ..�. ..•._..........�...-.:.<:W9"',.•.: .�•-·· ·�· ·.,.....,..•....•,. ,. ...-."'.Aa.:.•�===: r_ tr1 tlf t I l t t l -•• · .
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there are only six classes at Hamilton that meet at 8 AM this semester, because neither faculty npr students like to get up that early . Kurtz added that having 8 : 30 classes everyday would enable us to use that hour more than we do now. Any schedule change for the fall term must be finalized soon, because t he Office of the Registrar begins preregistration procedures next month. Marcy said, "this depends on how quickly the Vc!,l'ious governing structures at the two schoC\ls work." The proposal originated in SCACA, the st anding committee on academic and curricular affairs, and was subsequently approved by the Assembly-at-large. The C o m m i t t e e on Aca de:r:ni c Coordination, CAC, referred the measure to the Hamilton faculty for further consideration. This was the first time that the Hamilton faculty had received a proposal already passed by the Kirkland Assemb ly . )
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WOMEN'S CENTER OPEN HOUSE The Women's Center is sponsoring an open house in Milbanl Main Lounge on Sunday, February 17, from 2 - 5 p.m. Kirkland students are eager about the possibility of hearing the views of other women iri the community and are anxious to exchange ideas. The Open House is for all. AMENIC This weekend AMENIC presents Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits. Iti his first color feature (with phenomenal use of color) and 'the companion piece to his autobiographicai 8½ (this time it's his wife'1 fantasies; she demanded equal time). Judith Crist calls it "certainly one of the most beautiful and stimulating films ever made ... an exploration of a woman's past and present in terms of feeling and imagination that transcend the merely psychoanalytical or purely intellectual." The film will be shown in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 10. Admission is $.75. FREE CHURCH SERVICE . The Free Church service this week will be led by Joel TibbettJ, College Chaplain. The topic: '"Nice Guys Finish Last." ChaM 11:15 a.m. Sunday. PENTECOSTALISM · The leader of Interfaith Workshop this Sunday evening is Paul . Davidson, a member of the Biology Department, at Mohawk Vall ey Community College and an active layman in the Assembly of God Church. The topic is "Perspectives on Pentecostalism." Kirner-Johnson Red Pit at 7:30 p.m. LITTERATURE MAJORS? Anyone interested in working on the Curriculum Committee sub-committee concerned with establishing a Literature major at Hamilton please Doug Richards at Box. 392 or x7356. . . contact . .... . .. · TWENTY-FIVE WORDS Send twenty-five words or less to: A.W.M., Box 73, Clinton, New York 13323. ·•·'· Hurry .. .Deadline soon...Satisfaction Guaranteed!!! -··· . --·-
��o:,�1! . �� oil���.��. the Co-op Art Store reported that exercises, an opportunity for and just about anything else $350 was stolen from the store people to learn more about people ever need, newsprint and Friday. The store located in the themselves as well as the was they other cheap grades of paper are in basement of List, was broken into relate to others. short supply. The Spectator has It is emphasized that the series r ecently fallen prey . to this again Wedpesday, but no cash was • taken. Philips said that cash will is not a form of psychotherapy or shortage among shortages. n,o longer. be kept fu the store any kind of intense and The F�bruary 8 issue of The sensational encounter group. overnight., Spectator was printed on a heavier K i r kl and and Ha milton bonded paper than usual. Bill '7he co-op art store may have to dose," Phillips said, •The students wishing to participate are Daviis of the Steffen Publishing break-in wipes out any margin we asked to stop into the Dean of Company, the firm which prints might have." Students office to register. An the newspaper, said, 'delivery is The store will remain closed i n t r o d u c t o r y m eeting i s our biggest problem.' until the door is fixed. College tentatively scheduled for Tuesday ,. Although this number of the officials are now investigating the February 19 at 6:'30 in the Red Spectator is printed on newsprint, P.it. robbery and break-in. Davis added that the problem will ·• 'stay on the scene' for at least five Cynthia Allen who is currently John Mavrogenis, assistant to working on a Mastees degree in years. In recent years, the United States has depended upon the president, has announced that Counseling at Colgate, is interning Canadian paper supplies, but now Dr. M. Stuart Lynn, director of this semester in the office of the paper mills are being constructed the Institute for Computer Dean of Student Affairs and is in America. The industry's goal is Services and Applications at Rice available for personal counseling self-sufficien cy. University will address the college of individual students. The term 'shortage• can be community. M s . Allen, a native of misleading. The reason for the Lynn"s lecture is entitled, Massachusetts, graduated , from short supply is that producers do "Computer Applications· in Wellesley High School in 1955, not. make enough of a profit to Unde r graduate Instruction: after spending her junior year manufac ture newsprint and other Demonstration and Discussion,'" living in Madrid, Spain. In 1959 ch_ eaper grades of paper goods. and will be held in the Science s he g radua t ed from Mount The price of newsprint has Auditorium, Fd>ruary 21, at 3 Holyoke College, having �ajored skyrocketed in the past year from in philosophy and ·written an $185 per ton to anywhere from p.m. . honors thesis in aesthetics. After $300 to$430 per ton, according BLOODMOBILE Watermark. a new student doing graduate work at the to Da vis. The Winter Blood Drive will take place on Tuesday, February 19, publicatio� received $1600 from University of Minnesota she came Presently, Steffen Publishing is from 10 A.M. _: 3:45 P.M. at the McEwen Dining Hall. Donors aft the Publicatiqns Board yesterday. to Central �cw York to live. forced to purchase newsprint in badly needed. GIVE TIIE GIFT OF LIFE. The • • magazine will contain Ms. Allen taught English at very large quantities or run the photography, non-fiction work, Oneida Junior High School for risk of not receiving any. at all. topical articles, and graphic two years �d then worked as a Editor-in-c h i e f F r e deric artwork, in addition to poetry and substitue and part-time teacher, THE ALEXANDER HAMILTON INN Blo c h, commenting on the \��� fiction, according to Paul inin French and English as a problem, said, •our costs have Weicbdbaum "74. graduate assistant at Syracuse gone up a bit, but it doesn't look ..... HOUSEPARTIES OFFER ..... This semester, one sixty to University, from which she earned like it will seriously effect our ::::First . drink free to any seventy page issue will be her M.A. in English Literature in operation.' :::: • couple from Hamilton published as a pilot project by the 1971. Ms. Allen tauglit English A number of rare books Ocdging group. Weichselbaum composition and literature for emphasi-Les that his journal has S.U.N.Y. at Morrisville from 1971 printed prior to 1500 are part of a much different interests than does to 1973. Hei- experience with new exhibit in the Daniel Burke Winterset!, the campus literary students there led to a desire to Library of Hamilton and Kirkland magazine. work more intensively with Colleges dealing with the marks, &&\Ve will utilize as many college students, in a counseling or '"devices," used by early resources of creativity as we can," rather than a classroom situation. European printers to identify :;:; :·:·�---� ·•· ·.·.---- :::::::::.:::.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.: .. :·:::::· ·; their works. said W eichselbaum. He hopes to i nclude fifteen pages of p hotographic work, papers written by students for academic courses, and a lot of artwork. College Hill Road across from Psi . acquisition of the college owned, in violation of the trustees' BY KEVIN CONWAY Anne Thompson, Scott Wright, Upsilon. A resolution instituted at former Albert Wallace house r e s o l uti on. Harry Kondoleon, Andrea Kantor, that time by the college trustees located on College Hill Road near John Kreinheder, Hamilton Teak President Ed Watkins has Eileen Moskin, and Weichselbaurn confir med r eports that the p r o h i bited s t ude nt s f r o m D el ta Kappa Epsi lon. The College Director of Planning said are co-ordinate editors. Sharon Hamilton chapter of this Bundy occupying woo_<;! frame structures structure, extensively damaged by that · he knew of no particular Katz and Andy Mosner are housed fraternity is seriou:-ly of more than o ne story. fire early last Fall, wouid,, resolution barring students from photography editors. considering alternatives to its Consequently, the wood frame according to college officials, residing in multi-storied wood house that Teak had occupied for' require considerable renovation to fram e st ructures. The three present housing situation. Kirkland Dean of Student Hamilton Dean of Students R. eighteen years was razed in 1970 meet acceptable standards of the fraternity houses razed in 1970 had been found to be unsafe for Affairs Jane Poller has announced Gordon Bingham acknowledged along with buildings maintained college. tru'stees. that a h uman growth and that Teak has held unofficial by Delta Phi and Gryphon, If Teak decides against the student occupancy according to interpersonal growth workshop dis cussions with the college fraternities, like Teak, now Wallace house, the structure may K,einheder. Upon the failure of tenants of Bundy. will be offered at the college concerning the proposal. be employed as general housing if the fraternities involved to make Teak envisions no serious t h e c o l l e ge de cides that the structures fire resistant, the this ��ester. The· possibilities now being The workshop, based on the investigated by Teak include financial problems should the renovation of the building is houses were taken down. The Encountcrtape Series of the acquiring college owned property, fraternity effect a move from financially feasible. The building, college trustees; said Kreinheder, Western Behavioral Institute of non-college owned property with Bundy. Alumni s upport is according to Bingham, could require that students reside in fire LaJolla, Californa, is comprised of an existing structure, and building developing in favor of the house from fifteen to eighteen resistant housing. The college owned Griffin Road apartments eight or ten group meetings which a new structure to house the proposal to find a new residence, students. fall into that category. f r a t e r n i ty. T h o u g h other a n d Watkins h i nted that The college has offered to The Bundy complex, occupied possibilities are being explored, substantial contributions would Teak in its decision and is i n 19 7 0, accomodates three assist such as making changes in the be forthcoming. While Teak is not now an currently carrying on discussions fraternities and students from the Bundy complex, Watkins did not initiated member of the national of the various options. However, general lottery. It also provides a continued from page nine care to elaborate. fraternity, Tau Kappa Epsilon, the. the college maintains that the dining hall which has been o r the f termed reason Watkins K i r k l a n d's S t u dent Life fraternity cannot be housed in a running at a deficit each year. The C o mm i t t e e t o a t t empt a s e e k i n g n e w housing as local affiliate is con�idered to be a m u I ti-s tor ied wood frame withdrawal of Teak from Bund definition of health center costs ..dissatisfaction with Bundy du<:_ member in good standing of the y. t r u cture which is not fire wo uld cause the college to s c KE T mmuni . y t Some Teaks o with regard to how much of the . to the fact that we don't have resistant. r eevaluate its future ho using services can be covered by the control over dining facilities." have favored plans to resume full T h e Dean of Students plans. Asked if any housing shift RgUlar fee as opposed to special Watkins said Teak is unable to ties ·with the national order. TKE costs (specifically the question of compete with other Hamilton has already offered assistance and e x p lained that Griffin Road from Bundy might result in the fraternities because of the dining . has pledged financial support for a apartmen_ts meet the requirements closing of the Bundy dining gynecological services): new Teak house. of trustees and provide sufficient facility, Bingham responded that Although no Kirkland student facilities as they now stand. Teak has already examined exits. He said the Afro-Latin no predictions could be made, Teak received twelve pledges has ever brought a complaint or · plans to build or to buy or rent Cult ural Center "houses only that the entire situation was "very. suggestion to Dr. Roe, many will this year. Before moving into the Bundy existing structures, and the college about three or four students" as problematic." o.,mplain ·to nurses. Kirkland Watkins called Teak's proposal w omen also discuss personal f.Om.p,l�x. ,i,n,.I 1 9 7_0 ,, , T ea k, has· o�er�d- jt, �wtpice. On� does h�. i;e,ifl�nq: ! .A_cc?,r!1ing to.. appears to be the- · 1rngffmi, 'ffle'se. sititatrons• -ai� Mt:·! " ng,l'QiC, plans. �1-j,-... •••• . .. maintained its own house on f ..alternative problems with the nurses. ·•.... -• i"\i.!"1o"
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Unbeaten Cont's Roust .Yellow jackets 'Blue Wave to Meet Red Tide Next eleven years. His team consists of BY JOHN NAVARRE Hamilton met a young and m o s t l y S o p h o m o res a n d inexperience Univ. of Rochester Fr eshmen, and he does no team, last Saturday in Aluni Pool, recruiting. Boomer described his__ for their eighth win of the season, position ai · ''basically a high outsco ring the Yellowjackets s chool t e a m in a college situation." 69-44. Coach Boomer and Coach Coach William Boomer led his team into the meet with � very MacDonald both expressed their relaxed attitude, considering the dismay with the scoring in the slim possibilitie.s of a win. He was d i vin g . Th e s co re r s w e r e disappointed in his team's efforts inconsistant, and some o f the best and especially in Jack Tuholske , dives of the day · for both teams who placed second in the recieved the lowest scores. Fred 1000-yd. Free ·and 200-yd. Holander, Hamilton's senior diver, remarked that "it takes all the fun Butterfly. Coach Boomer has governed out of diving," when the referees the Y ellowjackets for the past are so poor. Coach Boomer said
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that the divers were cheated after putting in so many hours of practice and then encountering such poor judging. Paul Edict, Hamilton's leading diver, was tlie only double winner of the meet. Both Rochester divers gave up after the Requireds and therefore dove poorly in the Optionals. John Needham broke another school record in the 1000-yd. Free and also topped the pool record which had stood since last year's Williams meet. Dave Greenhalgh continued his Hamilton 69 Rochester 44 relay: medley 400-yd. Hamilton, 3.55.2 1000-yd. Free: Needham (H), 10:43.3, school and pool record, Tuholske (R), Turbayne (R). 200-yd. Free: Greenhalgh (H), 1:56.2, Hachen (R), Evanice (R).. SO-yd. Free: Shrum (H), 23.9, Adams (R), Vandeveer (H). 200-yd. Individual medley: Widman (H), 2:15.S, Reith (R), Shapland (H), Required Diving: Edick (H), (R), W al k er 1 S 1.80 Lederman(R). 200-yd. Butterfly� Matthews (H) 2:18.2, Tuholske (R), Kraus (H). 100-yd. Free: Murphy (H), S2. 1, Evanice (R), Turbayne (R). 200-yd. Backstroke: Mac Donald (H), 2:12.7, Baird (H), Masuck (R). 500-yd. Free: Hachen (R), S:1 9.0, Widman (H), McQuire (H). 2 O O - y d. Breaststroke: Carlberg (H), 2:20.0, Gunther (R), Cohen (H). Optional Diving: Edick (H), 189.2S, Walker (R), Holender (H). Relay: 400 - yd. Free Rochester, 3:34.6.
'Jack Widman "flys" to win in I.M. winning ways by touching out · of individuals swimming well, the Ray Hachen of Rochester in the Rochester squad seemed to 200-yd. Free. Hachen returned to consider their efforts as a farce. win the 500-yd. Free· with Jack Boomer s a i d t hat he was Widman placeing a surprizing "disappointed.'' second. Widman, usually known Hamilton faces · a wesome for his efforts in the sprints, also. Colgate this coming Wednesday at copped a first in the · 200-yd. Colgate. Coach MacDonald also plans for his swimmers to be Individual Medley. Fre s h m a n Jack Murphy's relaxed against the Red Raiders, winning time in the 100-yd. sp rint, but if they approach Colgate as qualified him for the up and Rochester_ did Hamilton, the coming State Meet and should add p o s s i b i li t i e s of i n d i v i d u a l s some fire t o the Hamilton Relays. swimming well will be slight. Coach Boomer brought his T h e C o l g a t e/H a m i l ton two of the swimmers to the Hill hoping that matchup will feature 1 they would swim well against such top ranked teams in New York formidable opposition. Instead of State and should be a good capitalizing off of the possibilities preview of the State Meet.
Continentals Continue Winnings, JV.'s Spotless 6-0, Varsity Soars 10-5
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BY STEVE HAWEELI BY DAVE LIPKIN The Hamilton College Hockey The undefeated J.V. hockey team, now 6-0, will face the team continued its winning ways Ameh u r s t H o c key club on last week �ith victories over Monday, February 18, at 3:30 at Wesleyan and Ithaca. The 3-2 the Sage Rink. Amehurst is a decision over Ithaca Wednesday suburb of Buffalo, and most of its night was the fourth straight players are 17 and 18 years old. victory for the club, whose overall Four members of the Amehurst record now stands at 10-5. In the 8-3 win over Wesleyan, delegation are likely prospects for Shawn George and Ray Rossi split Hamilton next year. The Amehurst club, ranked the goaltending chores. Rossi number one in the nation, has had playing t�e first period and a half, a busy week. They were invited to let in the only Wesleyan tallies. M o n t re al 1st w e e k e n d t o The Conts led all the way as Phil p articipate i n t h e L oyola Hildebrand '77, Tom Griffith '77, U n i v e r s i t y I n v i t a t i o n a l and Pete Ascherl '76 tallied twice. Tournament. They won all their D a v e G i llmore, the junior games at the tournament by defenseman, and sophomore Alan convincing scores, and 4 of the six Colby also registered for the . berths on the all-star team were Conts. Colby, who does not take a filled by Amehurst players. regular shift, is normally a penalty Amehurst is playing the West killer with Scotty Douglas '74. P o i n t fr e shman team o n Hamilton o u t s h o t Wesleyan Thursday, the Middlebury J.V. 61-26, generally dominating play. W e d n e s d a y night a gainst Friday, the University of Vennont J.V. on Sunday, and the Hamilton Ithaca, however, the Continentals J.V. on Monday_ needed a Third period goal by The Hamilton J.V. team will Hildebrand off a Rick Aubry shot put its 40 game home ice to . slip past 3-2. Rick Anderson undefeated streak on the line '76 tipped in two goals in the first against the Amehurst team on period to give Hamilton a 2-0 Monday in what Coach Greg Batt edge. Anderson alertly directed calls 'Unquestionably, the J.V.'s shots from Aubry and Jim Rishel, most challenging game of the and barely missed the hat trick later in the game. year. T h e seco nd period blues victimized the Buffs never the less You're a Stnnter Hae as Dave Parks and Rob Driscoll but once... tied the score. The period was marked by sloppy play on Hamilton's part against a team that was termed as a "push-over." Coloaial Copper llooa Although a Division III team, ltalian-Americao foocl · Ithaca lost to one of the Division 1 ��-���-��� 1 .; • -,n' c<?�!flld�f., ,��Y, i,�, ?�,e�t/'fe ') j
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by one goal. Army was 15-3 on Fe b r u a r y 1 5 , w hi l e t h e Continentals a t that point were 7-5. I n t he third period, the Continentals came out skating and dominated play once again. With 9:36 left in the game, Rick Aubry's hard slap shot bounced off the Ithaca's goalie, and Phil Hildebrand was there for the winning goal. Hamilton not only had trouble breaking out of the zone, but was unable to cash in on seven power play opportunities. Twice Ithaca was two men down, and the Continentals failed to capitalize. It appears that against poorer t�ams the Continentals lower themselves to the caliber of the opponent. They are definitely capable of playing good hockey as exemplified in overtime victory against Anselm's. Fortunately the team continues to win. No doubt the recent-victories have instilled more confidence in them. The recent goal-tending of Shawn George has also contributed to the team's present winning groove. After the Connecticut game tomorrow, the Continentals meet Williams away next Friday. The play-offs will be on the line in both these games. And to add to this exciting Williams rematch. is the fact that the Ephmen have not lost a game since the Continentals upset them 4-1 on January 5. Last week, they beat Army 4-3. A 'spirited' houseparty crowd is expected on Saturday, to see the team battle the University of Connecticut at 3 p.m ,. •. i ! ·1 ! ' t J lt I,... • , f '· • I ' �, • 'l ! ,I ' f :, r f I 1
12/THE SPECTATOR/February 15, 1974
Winter Track SetsRecOrds,Bright Hopes forSpring BY MARK MAC MURRAY,' designed to culminate later in the The little noticed Hamilton spring. "To be able to compete winter track team does not expect effectively in the spring season," . to win many of their eight indoor Coach Long points out, ''you have meets this season, but after four to be in training during the meets and the establishment of winter.'� The six records that have six school records, it does not been broken so far seem to really matter. indicate that the low pressure T h e low key team is p r o g ram of Coach Long is roncentrating mainly on long term working very well. individual training programs in After coming off of a· strong. preparation for the spring season cross country season, sophomore a n d i n d i v i d u a l q u a l i t y Bruce Carter started the record performances at the state meet on breaking in December by setting a Ma r c h 1 6 . Although Coach new indoor and outdoor two mile Eugene Long sees winter track as record of 9:27.4 which easily a team effort. "You don't worry qualified him for the state meet. 'about a team until you get F reshman John Schmeyer's outdoors. Right now we don't 4:22.3 mile clocking not only want that kind of pressure." puts him on the heels of senior Typifying this kind of training Stellato, but also breaks Tim and attitude, co-captain Vito Delaney's p revious freshman Stellato qualified for the state record of 4:29.0. John is also on meet early in the season with a the two mile relay team along strong 4:21.9 mile while engaged with Stellato, Durk Tacke '74, in a rigorous training program and Lou Pacilio '74. A new two
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Houseparty Blitz Hits the Hil�· Prospects for Coming Weekend
BY ED WATKINS The Winter Playoffs of the Hamilton party scene are upon us. Intensive preparations for Winter Houseparties have been underway for the past several weeks; the participants' mental and physical conditions are excellent; everyone is ready. Houseparties demand a superhuman effort even from the most experienced partier. The amount of activity, dancing, drinking, and flaming combined into a single weekend places a tremendous strain on the body and mind. While some try to back into Houseparties by beginning the partying on Wednesday or Thursday night, there is no way to escape the_ devestating impact of the Houseparty blitz.. A true test of the Houseparty pro is his ability to partake in the Saturday morning festivities at Chi Psi. Gin and Juice or the Dance, Drink, and Throw Show requires the ability to leap out of bed and immediately reswne the sort of activity that you went to bed to recover from.Various stages of mental and physical discomfort must be overlooked if Chi Psi is your goal. Once at the Lodgt., though,:he systems seem to disappear in a sea of orange juice, gin, and beer · more or less equally distributed among and on several hundred warm bodies. Sound effects are provided by a band that is always a success no matter what it plays. Post Gin and Juice plans depend on the individual. If he can stand, he takes a shower; if not, he goes to sleep. Further plans include attendance at the hockey game where the crowd shouts itself into sobriety. Once that stage has been reached, it's time to head
back to the cocktail party. Faculty members often come to these parties where they talk to each other and hope that a.) a drunk does not spill a drink on their wives, b) �. drunk does not walk into the party having forgotten to get dressed; and c) a and b together. After cocktails, it's off to dinner and the SAC concert. However due to the recent quality of SAC concerts, post-dinner cocktails are increasing in popularity. The rest of the night is spent at the various band parties where a pleasant mixture of beer and music is dispensed to all hours of early mom. Then it is time for bed. A few hardy souls rise to go to chur.ch. Even more though rise to attend DKE Gin and Juice. So much for the state of religion at Hamilton College. While the above is a composite description of Houseparties, I believe it accurately reflects the idea of Houseparties as the ultimate party on the Hill. Some m�y find Houseparties childish, stupid, and perverse. They are entitled to their opinion. To that part of the community who will participate in this weekend's activities, have a hell of a time and FLAME ON. SPORTS Varsity Hockey
Against University of Connecticut. Saturday, February 16, 3 pm. Sage Rink.
J.V. Hockey
Against Amherst Hockey Club. Monday, February 18. 3:30 pm. Sage Rink.
KIRKLAND ICE HOCKEY The Kirkland-Colgate Ice Hockey game is scheduled for Saturday, March.2, 7:00 p.m. in Sage Rink. All women interested in playing are encouraged to receive instruction with Hamilton Gym classes at the following times: 9:00 Monday and Wednesday; 10:30 Monday; 10:00 Wednesday; 11:30 Monday; 11:00 Wednesday; 10:00 Tuesday and Thursday; 11:30 Tuesday and Thursday. Gene Long and Coaches Batt and Von Schiller have graciously agreed to cooperate in this venture. Any questions should be directed to Sara Gordon, x4933.
Dale Garret record-breaking long jumper.
mile relay mark of 7:59.6 was set earlier this month at a four team meet on Union's tartan track. _ While the times in the longer events have been dropping, the s print events have remained unchallanged as co-captain Sandy Mackintosh, even though training daily, has · decided to wait until s p r i n g b e f ore b e ginning competition. Leading mile and two mile runner Tim Delaney has also not seen corn petition this season due to his slow recovery from tendonitis. In the field events, Bill Shafer, setting a new frosh record of 6'1" in the high jump, is closing iu on Tommy Broderick's elusive 6'2½" mark. Kurt Handschumacher '77 in a tough twenty-one team meet at the Cornell invitational on Jan. 19, set a 35 pound weight record with a throw of 39'3¼" which earned him a fourth in the competition. Besides turning in consistantly good triple jump efforts at 42 ft., sophomore Dale Garret set a new long jump record of 21'5½" If improved a little, both jumps by Garret could look very good at the States. A l tho u g h ca uti ous about predictions, Gen e Long is obviously 'p leased with the performances of sophs Garret and Carter and the unusually strong freshman potential of Schmeyer, Shafer and Handschumacher. Along with Stell a to, �Pacilio, and Tacke, the March 16 State Meet at Cortland might see a few more records broken.
Cagers Dump_�d by Trinity and Union; Hold Up Against Oswego, 6-12 for Season
game with 48 team rebounds to . BY DAVID LECHER H a milton had obvi ously The Hamilton cag�rs had a ·only 29 for the Continentals. learned their lesson from the High-scorer Othar Burks led previous evening. They shot 50% rough week, playing three games in six days. Their record now Trinity's second half comeback. stands at 6-12 after dropping two T h e 6 f o o t g ua r d f r o m from the floor and pulled down Jacksonville, Florida pumped in 44 rebounds. A fine team effort while winning one. Trinity College came to the 2 3 p o i n ts following the clinched this victory for the Blue. Wednesday, _the Continentals Hill last Friday with a 14-3 record intermission, mainly on long a n d t he p o ssibility o f a outside shots. Hamilton held their hailed for beautiful downtown post-season playoff_ b e r t h. last lead when Brian Coombes '77 Schenectady to seek revenge for a Although the·y won 99-8 5., it was hit a jumper to put them ahead previous 70-48 defeat at the hands n o t e a si l y d o n e , as t he 61-57 with 14 minutes remaining. of the Dutchmen. But Union F ree throws were also a again prevailed 66-56. Continentals were prepared for contributing factor to the. Trinity HAMILTON 56 UNION 66 their adversaries from Hartford. Hamilton came out of the gate victory. Trinity converted on 21 FT TP FG quickly, leading by as many as ten tries from the charity line while 4 0 2 Badger during the first half. Captain Ernie the Blue hit on only 9. 4 0 8 S a t urday, the Continentals Coombes Found '74 led the scoring charge 4 12 4 Found with 15 opening period points and traveled to the windy shores of G arcia 10 0 5 finished as Hamilton's high scorer Lake Erie to take on Oswego Guy II 1 5 4 0 2 with 21. Mru-k Badger '75 dazzled State. Hamilton came away with a Johnson 0 0 0 Kasdorf the crowd with pinpoint passing well deserved 95-85 vi�tory. 3 3 0 Masterson Captain Found again led the Reynolds as he picked up 7 assists in the 2 0 1 Blue attack. The "Big E'' dumped Wright 2 first stanza. l 0 HAMILTON 85 TRINITY 99 in 25 points while pulling down TOTALS 56 24 8 13 rebounds.. Pedro Garcia '75 FG FT TP Union's defense again harassed Badger 6 12 continued his hot streak at the 0 Coombes free-throw line, hitting six of six, the Blue into turnovers and bad 0 14 7 Found 25 9 7 and finis�ed with 16 markers. shots. Hamilton's frustration was Garcia 6 5 16 best exemplified by Mark Badger's Guy 9 1 19 HAMILTON 95 OSWEGO 85 p e r formance . The usually Johnson 0 0 0 Kasdorf 0 0 0 FT TP high-scoring guard managed only FG Masterson 2 1 5 4 points, hitting on two of twelve 9 0 Badger 18 Reynolds 0 0 0 shots, while committing eight 0 Coombes 10 5 Wright 1 2 4 ·Found 3 9 21 turnovers. TOTALS 39 95 Garcia 17 4 0 8 F o u n d a g a i n le d the 6 Guy 0 12 Continental scorers, but with only Marty Guy '75 hit Badger with Johnson 0 0 0 12 points. Guy was next with 11. a full court pass to put the Blue Kasdorf 4 1 2 1 0 2 Union broke the game open in ahead 47-46 at half-time. John Masterson 0 Reynolds 0 0 the second half, when they reeled Pitaressi '70, now a sports·scribe Wright 4 3 10 off nine consecutive points and for the Utica Daily Press, called 9 38 85 took a lead which proved the first half the finest display of TOTALS insurmountable. It was the fifth basketball on the Hill in a long Marty Guy had one of his finer straight win for the Dutchmen, time. games this season, tallying 19 Trinity's height acivantage points. Freshman Coombes also and with their 15-3 record, they began to teU in the second period. played w.f'}-, picking up 14 points are rated as number one small college in the state. The Blue & Gold finished the and 9 rebofinds.
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THE SPECTAT
VOLUME IV, NUMBER 19
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
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FEBRUARY 22, 1974
Dean Kurtz Proposes Abolition of.Winter Study Jay Williams Drafts Alternate Curriculum; Both Men Call For More Community Input
BY DOUG GLUCROFT Hamilton faculty members and administration officials are actively seeking an alternative to Winter Study and the 4-1-4 calendar. Dean of the College Stephen Kurtz, Associate Dean Robin Kinnel, and the Committee on Academic Policy are currently soliciting proposals Qf a tentative nature and general opinion_s amongst their colleagues _and students. Dean Kurtz in. a recent report distributed to the Hamilton faculty, says most of his colleagues are prepared to seek a change but will not vote for.. something that is not an improvement over the present system. No changes would be effected for academic 1974-75, but any change in curriculum for 1975-76 must be finalized this spring b y t he Hamilton faculty. Assocjate Dean Robin ·. Kinnel agreed there is "no conceivable way that we could abolish it for next year.'.' Kinnel r e p o r t s t ha t questionaires have been sent to bo th f a culty and students concerning the proliferation of Winter Study. Kinne! adds that student input in any changes will be purely advisory since ·the faculty vote is final. Kinne! said that in the event Winter Study is done away with, he would do his best to insure that next year's January would not be a ..ruptured duck " academic session in light of a Dean Stephen G.Kurtz, who has proposed the end of Winter Study negative vote by the faculty this spring. Meanwhile, Associate Professor of Religion, Jay G. Williams, a member of the CAP has been w o rki n g t o f i n d s u i t a ble alternatives to Winter Study. His January....: ..........the Pub's biggest month BY MONICA LIFF her heavily and to rely on her recent memorandum to the CAP, Catherine Frazer is to be splendid contribution to every appears in this week's Spectator. Williams emphasized that his Kirkland's new Dean of Academic aspect of our institutional life." In addition, President Babbitt suggestions are by no means final. A ff a i r s , P r e s i d e n t B a b b i t t "We should all come up with as announced a t a brief Community said that the appointment was for a period of three ye�.rs, and many ideas as we can and be as Meeting on Wednesday. Mr. Babbitt read a statement reviewable at the end of that tim(;. imaginative as possible." He said Mr. Babbitt said that he had BY MARY MCKNEW Hamilton-Kirkland PIRG as yet that from a wide variety of plans, which follows: "All of us are aware that this is spoken to Ms. Frazer on the Kirkland students Lisa Newell, has no clear idea of the number of t he c ol l e g e can devise an a choice which, because it is telephone and that she was Marsha Weinstein and members of students that have fulfilled their alternative that is suitable. New York Pu bli c I nterest promise of support by paying the Commenting on the difficulty between two able and qualified enthusiastic and delighted, and Research Group (PIRG) met at two-dollar fee. Fifty students have of changing the program, Kinnel candidates, cannot be a bad one. looks forward to coming and working at Kirkland. Kirkland College Wednesday to sent a formal retraction of this said, "It becomes a problem to Yet it has been, for the same M s . F r aze r i s c ur r ently reorganize the campus branch of promise to the Business Office, design a calendar that suits all reason, a very difficult matter. I that organization. however, and the number of discip lines." Williams noting wish to thank all of you who have P r o fessor of Philosophy and Newell and Weinstein feel that students that have already paid adamant opinions among both helped by your comments, your Chairman of the Department at the University of Denver in the Hamilton-Kirkland PIRG has should be known within the next his colleagues and the student ti me and your concern for body, said, "we won't please Kirkland and its future. Denver, Colorado, where she has had problems getting· on its feet week. "I am pleased to announce that everybody no matter what we been since 1965. Previous to because of a loss of student The Hill chapter of PIRG Catherine Frazer has accepted coming to Denver, she taught at interest and activity. The purpose enco unte r e d o r ganizational do." In an earlier proposal, Williams appointment as Dean of Academic Wellesley College in Wellesley, of the Wednesday meeting was to difficulties at the beginning of tht: Mass. discuss future, PIRG plans and to spring semester partly because had �uggested a long winter break A ff ai r s at Kirkland College, She is a member of the explore methods of keeping Newell and Weinstein, the leading in c l asses with the second effective July 1, 1974. She will A m eri c a n P h i l o s o p h i c a l student interest alive until some coordinators, decided to spend semester starting in March and hold the rank of Professor, and Association, a consultant for the of these plans can be realized. the semester with N YPIRG in running until late June. He said will, at the discretion of the that it had ''been shot down " by Humanities Division, teach one Colorado Council of Arts and The Utica office of New York Albany. PlRG is scheduled to open in Other problems, particularly adverse opinion.In a report on course in Philosophy per semester. Humanities, and a Phi Beta Kappa S c h o l a r . S h e has published "ln malting this decision, I am about a week. It was suggested regarding comll)unication between faculty .interviews compiled by De an Kurtz, of 31 faculty numerous articles in scholarly a c u t ely aware that Kirkland that Hamilt0n-Kirkland students H amilton-Kirkland and the journals, and is currently working could work on various projects J .. lbany , office of PIRG, arose members who had strong opinions comes out ahead not only in the on a book, funded by a University there. during January, when several about _Winter Study, 19 favored appointment of a distinguished of Denver Faculty Research Grant ·;tudents . were involved in a its termination, 12 favored the person in the new Dean, but by Ru t h Ri nard j oined the present system. All but one of the the fact that Ursula Colby remains and a Sabbatical Leave Grant. ,tate-wide research project. meeting at one point and agreed continued on page four as Chairperson of the Humanities 31 are ''veterans at Hamilton." to sponsor future PIRG courses. PIRG, which has spread to Kurtz recommended several Division and as one of our most R osemarie Pooler, Regional many states since its inception, major changes in the curriculum respected and effective teachers. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Coordinator of N.Y. PIRG, will was founded by Ralph Nader in and calendar. :First, two semesters In those capacities, as in her Winter Study Reports .. 8&9 make a list of six projects that Washington, D.C. New York PIRG of fif teen-w�ek duration, with the central role in the development of Kurtz and Williams could be done in the Utica area was organized in the fall of 1972. first ending before Christmas ·c u r r icu l a r g u i d e l i n e s f o r and send it along in time for Don Ross is coordinator for the r e ce s s. Second, initiation of Kirkland's second decade, the Houseparties Review ....12 pre-registration. state. continued. on page ten college will continue to lean on
Dr. FrazerAppointedDean Plans to Teach Philosophy
Group Studies PIRG Programs Tries to Solicit Student Support
2/THE SPECTATOR/February 22, 1974
Curricular Concerns
The two reports which appear in today's newspaper represent an important, and long overdue, first step in serious re-evaluation of Hamilton's curriculum in general, and the Winter Study program in particular. The alternatives suggested by Dean Stephen G. Kurtz and Professor Jay G. Williams will undoubtedly contribute much to direct thought and discussion towards revising the presently inadequate system. At the heart of any curricular change must be a change in Winter Study, and perhaps the entire 4-1-4 concept. Winter Study is a controversial and at times an emotional issue, but it is commonly accepted that it is, in Williams's words, "a mixed blessing." Foremost among Winter Study's faults are the increased teaching burden it places on an already overburdened faculty and the reducti.on in the number of semester course offerings which aggravat.es average class size. The key question which must be addressed is whether the benefits of Winter .Study outweigh this d_eletion of more than 30 course offerings each year. Aaditional problems in the 4-1-4 calendar include the loss of continuity for certain two-semester courses, the necessity for 13-week semesters, considered too short by many students and faculty members, and the limited possibilities available in a three-week program. Yet the concept of Winter Study should not be abandoned entirely. For many students it has provided a unique opportunity for independent coverage of a -particular area of interest; for others a chance for valuable experience in places far more exotic than the hilltop in Clinton. In its haste to put more academic "rigor" in Winter Study, the faculty must not lose sight of the rewards many have received from this type of program. Of the two reports published, one calls for the abolition of Winter Study; the other proposes a "Delayed Studies" option and a return to the credit hour system. Each of these should be topics for debate in the coming months. These are hopefully just two of many more proposals that will come from students, faculty members, and administrators. A new curriculum should be the concern of the entire community. In the two reports and the well-intentioned, but unpopular Statement of Goals for Hamilton College published last Spring, we see the beginning:_; of a much needed long-range plan for academics at Hamilton. By close consultation with Kirkland in forming an academic plan, and with continued communication among all members of this community, Hamilton can devise a �evit�ized and exciting curriulum �or 197 5-197 6:.
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Good O I' Hamilton BY LEROY PORTER You're so superstitious Hamilton. You, with Hamilton, you're losing yQur oldest members. We your S.A.T. tarot cards, and those all revealing know you. We've seen you been you the longest. placement exams. Hamilton you really get carried Four years isn't a long time, but old boy you've away with coincidence. You have it down to a made it long and hard and only fun at times. It's science, or at least a job. Ever since you took upon your changes we had to deal with, while you yourself a woman, you've been frustrated...and took ascended to intellectual bickering about exactly it out on us. You sold us out to· the slavery of what you were never gonna change. The thing Kirkland closed courses and forced us to be is...Hamilton ain't never gonna change. Hamilton is open...minded. As the ambivalence continues, more about t alki n g a bout c h a n g e , t oken ism, and more words describe the tensions of just-a:little-bits, and beer. We know. coordination; when what you really want is a We have seen you take your head off and pu,t marriage without the responsibilities involved it on again, keeping the same old traditional smile. (where are the Puritans.) It's ok ihough. Most of us Even when you talked to some of us you never don't think you would be much of a father. We can could look us in the eye. Don't think we felt you understand how freedom becomes an absurd w e r e guilty. Most of us understand your abstraction to grope for to the _hill inhabitants after ambivalence and your ambidextrous mind...that's being here for more than four years; but you know why a lot of us stayed. You really sold a lot of us on a lot, so a lot must exist somewhere. ambidexterity. We thought it would be saying By any chance are you concerned about how something to tell someone we went to Hamilton. many of us will become trustees or alumni. You Well, would you ever think that some of us will go should be. After all you're just an institution and home and have to justify to people we love, why we - tradition can't live without money. We know cam e to H a m i lton. How about that for tradition is your heart, and if money ceases to be ambidexterity, treachery, and deceit. Strange how pumped, the heart .can't beat.•.and so on. Are there some of us loved it and others not. We're ambivalent enough of us leaving who will return to join the too. Did Hamilton make us so, or did Hamilton play ritual? Can you be sure. Were you ever sure. We it straight and forward. Did you tell us that you think so, but the little bits, and tokens aren't the wanted to save face in the light of what was only ones feeling the brunt of your steadfastness happening in '69. Were you up front about how you and they won't like you for it.· Your unworkable really felt about your ritualistic education. Did you intentions have just about run out and with them tell us in September '70 to love it or leave it, or did ebbs your hold on us. After all, one good tum you wait for Adler '73 to say, so nothing would deserves another. come of it. We don't want to believe that. In fact we Don't badger yourself though. There's no one for excused the insinuation and chalked the whole thing us to tell. Even if we tried, no one would believe us up to our apathy and dissonance. Anyway, no one or ever want to. Your normalcy resists time; maybe likes to feel the cold shoulder. that's why ivy could never grow on your walls.
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Tenure BY CHUCK FLYNN A l a ck of soon-to-retire professors, an overabundance of Ph.D's reducing the number of voluntary faculty departures, the financial burden of a heavily senior faculty, and pedogogical concerns dictate that the administration should establish a dear policy on the granting of tenure. It is planned that the percentage of tenured faculty remain somewhere in the vicinity of sixty per cent. This approximation is generally accepted as a prope"r balance between the college's budgetary pr·essures, desires for "new blood," and the continuity of an experienced faculty dedicated to the institution. There are three most frequently discussed alternatives. First is the Union plan, under which professors are often granted long term contracts rather than tenure. This plan is usually dismissed because it merely postpones decisions which those responsible should be perfectly capable of making after the "trial periods" under the present system. Under the second plan, which many· here at Hamilton reputedly favor, many decisions would be made prior to hiring. Quotas of a sort would determine the maximum number of tenured faculty members in a department. This policy would mean that many long term but nevertheless temporary appointments would be made. Third, standards of excellence in line with market conditions could be applied to faculty members up for reappointment and tenure,i.e.,standards of scholarship and teaching ability would be raised to an even more demanding scale similar to when colleges raised their admissions standards to approximate market demand through the late sixties.
Proposed many attractions to anyone who wishes to be a teacher, we should recognize that it presents a number o( liabilities to junior faculty in particular. We should not permit ourselves to be outbid f or a candidate. To be an excellent college we must n ot only raise much more money; we must be willing to spend it. 4.Lastly, we must recognize the difficulty and plan with which these decisions are made and received. Although the men, especially in our administration, who make these decisions have sought their responsibilities, at Hamilton we usually hope for compassion in positions of responsibility as well as competent and decisive decision-making. When possible we should try to ease the burdens of responsibility, one of which is the knowledge that the path of rejection cannot be assuaged.
Several comments on the above statement: I.Saying that standards of scholarship and teaching ability should approximate market conditions does not mean 'a publish or perish rule' sould be instituted. 2 .Several people have claimed that the third system is too "subjective." This claim is based on the false sense of security aild objectivity many receive from quantitative data. Certainly the decisions which are made now are "subjective" or qualitative. The sense of increased subjectivity arises from the insecurity of making increasingly difficult decisions: 3.If we wish to retain and build on a faculty which is extraordinarily fine, we must pay salaries which substantially exceed what the market will bear. Obviously the best candidates will always be in greatest demand, and although Hamilton has painful a system; yet, it would be so much less satisfying an educational policy. Certainly even with There is a major difference between what was present Ph.D. market conditions the very best done in c o l l e g e admissions and -decisions candidates shall not seek posts they know they on reappointment and tenure: admissions officers cannot keep. Those who are appointed might often did not really know the applicants, had not been concentrate on politics to try to keep their position close friends with them and their families for up to ; or put such stress on- scholarship ( to better their six years; and would not have to face them daily for chances of an appointment elsewhere) as to another year while they sought and sometimes· shortchange their teaching responsibilities. And an failed to find another position. excellent teacher is such a special find that the The second choice seems appealing to many "system". should �ot �eqµ�e an �xception to a rule decision makers precisely bec'ause of the impersqnal in ord�:r_: to keep him: it should encourage his quality of the decisions. It would be so much less retentiop. .. _, . . .
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very hard on meetings, posters, and To the Editor: recycling; she should receive credit. I hope On behalf of both myself and the other that Ms. Malkin accidentlly overlooked members of the WHCL-FM News Staff, I Nan, but if she did not it seems that there would like to thank you for the most existed an expectation of male superiority. complimentary article which appeared in in a leadership role. the February 8 issue of the Spectator. We Harold Warren '74 don't often get input from outside sources; it is good to know all our effort is He�th Committee Up-in-Artn� being appreciated. I would however like to clarify a few statements which might mislead your To the editor: Lisa Gallatin's 'Student Health Services' readership. At the time of this writing, WHCL is paying 42 dollars a week (not a article in the Feb. 15, 1974 issue of the month, as reported) for our UPI wire Spectator contains a number of glaring service-a figure that represents nearly half inac-curacies, as well as some misleading_ of the station's yearly operating budget. implications, which we would like to· We did sell several stories to UPI clarify. Ms. Gallatin seems not to have kept concerning the non-presidency of Joseph Sisco, but never at any time did they buy current. with the events of the previous a tape from us. And finally, as ·much as we weekend during which the Kirkland would like it, we have never had a feature Trustees discµssed health services at length. If her information were up to date, interview with J. Martin Carovano. Once again thanks for what we consider she would have mentioned that, as President Babbitt reported at the to be, at least an excellent article. Margaret E. Doris '77 Community Meeting, Monday, Feb. 11, News Director, WHCL-FM the Trustees supported in principle three proposals presented at the Trustee Student _ Life Committee meeting by a student. 1. Nan Works Hard Too It was proposed · that an ad hoc Community Steeri�g Committee be set up To the Editor: to review the types of services presently Do we have sexual discrimination offered at the Health Center, to propose towards women by Kirkland students? It modifications, and · to be involved in the seems we do. In an article written by search and selection processes that will be Susan Malkin (Feb.15, 1974) concerning necessitated by Dr. Roe's impending the different organizations on campus, it retirement. was reported that Nan Napp and Kevin It was implied several times by Ms. McTernan were the two members left Gallatin that the primary concern of the from EECHK for this year. This was true colleges in hiring a physician has been and and they are the co-chairmen of the continues to be that the ..doctor be a committee. It is not, as Ms. Malkin would woman. In fact, the sex of the physician is seem to infer, all Kevin. Kevin does a lot ,secondary • to his or her qualifications. of work, but shares some half of the total Through t he Community Steering work load with Nan. Committee, students will have a part in This semester I have seen Nan work the formulation of the job description,
which was ascribed to Dean Poller and Acting President Caravano in the article. 2. It was also proposed that supplementary gynecological services be provided as a regular part of the student health services, instead of on the present fee-for-service basis. 3. The third proposal presentep was to urge Dr. Muilenberg to supplement the counseljng services offered at the Health Center by the addition of graduate student intrrns in clinical psychology. Dr. .Muilenberg is interested in this possibility. Upon discussing the article with Dr. Muilenberg, he expressed concern that statements he made were taken out of context and misinterpreted by the reporter. We doubt very strongly that 'no Kirkland student has ever brought a complaint or suggestion to Dr. Roe', as Lisa Gallatin states. At any rate, students have brought their feeling� ·about health s e r v i ces on t he H il l to t he H amilt on-K i r k l a n d Student Health Advisory Committee, which is attempting to further open communication between the college commu�ity and the Health Center. Student input is welcome and encouraged. Jleather Kirkland '74 Adam Levin '74: Susan Greenblatt '75 Recruiting Weekend a Success
To the Editor: I would like to thank those members of the Hamilton College community who, through their contributions of time and energy, ensured the success of the recent Pre-Freshman Student Athlete Visit, held Frebrary 6 and 7. The majority of the planning and actual operation of the visit was done jointly be the Student Admission Committee and the Block "H" Club, with Rob Winter '75
serving as the chief co-ordinator of the event. Also to be thanked are the following Hamilton fraternities which provided the visitors with room and board and whose members served as hosts: DKE, AD, DU, Psi U, ELS, and Sig. The Pre-Freshman Student Athlete Visit is but one of the events planned by the Student Admission Committee in conjunction with the Hamilton Admission Office and various ·student organizations which is designed to encourage qualified students with outstanding talents to attend Hamilton. The recent visit was a success in that respect, and all concerned deserve this grateful recognition of their efforts. Larry Wingert '74 Chairman, Student Admission Committee
Presidential Pool To the Editor: Concerning the seMch for the president of ·• Hamilton, I hope that the search committee will follow the legally required affirmative action procedures. Women and minority candidates must be actively sought for the presidency. Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, all employers have a duty of fair recruitment. A word-of-mouth procedure which excludes qualified women and minorities is illegal. Preference of faculty for male "supervisors" is not relevant to hiring decisions and if considered , would be in violation of the law. · If Hamilton ends up with a white male president, when there is a pool of qualified women and minorities, they may have to come up with empirical evidence to establish their defense against a charge of discrimination. I hope that all individuals, on l;>0th sides of the Hill, are aware of their affirmative action obligations under the law. Patty Coleman '77
the notes Ursula Colby, chairman of the Curriculum Committee for the Second Decade (CCSD) has ann ounced a sc hedule and procedure for the development of a poli cy document to be s ub mitted to the Board of Trustees, January 197 5. In a recent memo, Mrs. Colby said, "The document is to consist of b road, general pol i c y recommendations for Kirkland's second decade." As the first phase of writing this report, Mrs. Colby announced the establishment of a CCSD mailbox in the faculty loungs and solicitation of communications beari n g on the committee's concerns from students and faculty. Mrs. Colby said, "We would be delighted to hear from anyone.'' More details concerning the work of the CCSD will appear in The Spectator next week.
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Louis Levenson '74, a.k.a. Dr. Raoul Duke, emeritus professor of gonzo j o urnalism, has been awarded a $4200 grant to study for one year at the National University in Bogota, Colombia, South America. Levenson, a phi beta kappa s t u d e n t , w i ll study t he constitutional law of Colombia in addition to topics in international law. The fellowship is being financed and administered by the International Telephone and Telegra ph C o m p a n y (ITT). How eve r, L eve n s o n w a s interviewed in New York City by
t he FullQright Committee of International Education at the United Nations. When a s ked for personal reaction to his fellowship, Leven�on replied, "I don't know. Make something up."
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George Baker, president of The Hamilton Student Senate, in a meeting this week distributed copies of a pro.posed constitution to the senators fo r their perusal. A special meeting will be held Monday to discuss the p:r:oposal. B aker said many- procedures stipulated in the old constitution have become outdated.
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secretary; Kevin Clark, publicity; Bill Underwood, technical; Jeff J a m e s , m us i c; a n d Geoff Lawrence, Jim DeVittorio, and Jill Brandt, members-at-large. Outgoing o f ficers include L awrence Wingert, chairman; Glenn Perelson, secretary; and Bob Smith, music. The new officers will be in. charge until February, 197 5, and will be w o r k i n g under a n e w 1 y-r e vi s e d , streamline d Constitution. The Players held their first board meeting in February, 19 73. Their mo st recent production is the forthcoming H.M. S. Pinafore, directed by Mr. Lee Spear.
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Professional Women's The Figures compiled by state and Caucus, a new establishment for private agencies indicate that women faculty and senior staff, Hamilton is New York's leader in has been formed on the Hill. the percentage of Regent College Organized by Dean Ruth Rinard Scholarship winners among its and Ms. Eve Hendricks, the group students who are residents of the was founded to examine the role state. of p ro f es sional women and According to the Commission e x a m i n e p o s s i b le j o b on Independent Colleges and discrimination, as it concerns Universities of New York State Kirkland women. A bare. two ( C ICU), H a milton had 477 weeks old, the group has met with R eg ents scholars enrolled in a "ver y p o sitive response," 1972-73, the most recent year for according to Ms. Hendricks. which these statistics are available. Professional Hamilton women New York State Department of are not included in th� group. The . Education figures for 1972-73 problems involved in working at show 569 New York residents in Kirkland, a women's institution Hamilton's student body. Thus, were felt to differ from problems the percentage of state residents · at Hamilton. who are Regents scholars in 83.8. An anal ysis of CICU aµd The new officers of the E d ucation Department figur� Alexander Hamilton Players . shows that this is the highest elected last Tuesday night were: percen�ge in the state for an Tom Greenwood, chairman; Peter independent liberal arts college or Sluys, treasurer; Susan Strang, universitv.
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FRESHMAN ADVISOR INTERVIEWS Anyone who applied for a '74-'75 freshman advisor pos1t1on should take note that they will receive a schedule of first round interviews in their mailboxes by Monday. The interviews wi commence Monday eyening. COMMUNITY HEAL TH FORUM There will be a presentation and open discussion on Health Center Services and procedures by Dr. Leon Roe on Wednesday, February 27, at 7:30 p.m. in K-J 220. CAREER CENTER INFORMATION The following companies will be recruiting on campus next week: First Trust & Deposit Company Feb. 25 Irving Trust Company Feb. 26 Paul Revere Life Insurance Company Feb. 27 Feb. 28 Buffalo Savings Bank N.B. Buffalo Savings Bank is a new listing. Tanglewood Berkshire Music Center is offering a seminar for singers from June 30-August 25, 1974. Auditions will be held in Boston on Saturday, February 23rd. F_REE CHURCH SERVICE The Free Chur�h Service will be led this week by Clare Guzzo, Kirkland '73. The topic is 'God as Qµestion, God as Answer'. Also taking part in the service is 'De Gustibus a recorder ensemble unde1 ....., the direction of Thomas Colby. 11: 15 a.m_, Sunday, in the Chapel. POETRY ANTHOLOGY The National Poetry Press announces its spring competition. Any Hamilton or Kirkland student is eligible to submit his verse. There is no limitation as to form or theme, but shorter works are preferred. Each poem must 'be typed or printed on a separate sheet, and must bear the name of the writer, and both college and home addresses. The deadline for 'submission of manuscripts is April IO, 1974. Contributions �hould be sent to National Poetry ·Press, 3210 Selby Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90 034. STUDENT CURRICULUM COMMITTEE The Student Curriculum Committee invites all interested students to meet with the faculty members of the Committee on Academic Policy to discuss Winter Study and Alternative Calendars. The C.A.P. has been evaluating the Winter Study Program and the feasibilities of various alternatives to it through meetings with member s of� the College Community, and intends to reach a final decision by May. Students who have thoughts or questions on these matters may express them to the C.A.P. on Tuesday, Feb. 26, between 4:00 and 5:00 PM., in the •·isher Room. third floor Bristol. The faculty is cager to hear your V�WI - come and be heard!
.)/THE SPECTATOR/February 22, 1974
Jlamillon 0/Jirs· Se]j-Paced Calculus �Courses to Beginning Math ,Students BY JEFF TULCHIN I r re le va n cy a n d lack. of '."eedom in courses, long a cry on ·-o l l eg e campuses i s being _ _. ur ren tly combated by the : Jamilton Math department. In an , Kperimental program, Math 13 fall) and 14 ( Spring) are now eing offered on a self-paced basis t Hamilton. Co-Chairmen of the program, lSSistant P rof e s s ors of tathematics John Anderson and· :ordon Pritchett are "very nl'nusiastic" about the success of 1e program so far. The SPC ,. (self aced course) is based loosely on milar programs at Williams, olgate, Oberlin, and MIT. T h e c o u r s e prnvides the ·· :udent witL tht ,,pportunity to ·ork at his uwn p-•ce and under is own initiative .• Hopefully the :udent will also gain a greater e g r e e o f a cademi� s e lf 1fficiency. In the recent Fall semester 4\ .students here took Math 3 in the S.P<..: program. The :mrse is divided in tQ twelve units. )r which twelve study guides are .ven to each student. A student an not go on to a new unit until e has passed the previous unit. assing a unit is accomplished nee a student receives a 100 on a uiz on the unit. Failure of uizzes is expected and there is no enalty for doing so. In the SPC plan, there are no lass meetings. Five student-tutors ,e available to students for ertain hours every day. These :udent tutors administer quizzes
whenever a student feels he is still open to anyone who wishes. ready for one. They also answer to attend. Although the SPC quizzes were any specific questions students may have. According to Professor different from any quizzes or tests Pritchett the "tutors are very taken by the regular Math 13 capable of teaching the course." classes, both SPC students and However both Anderson and· students in regular classes took Pritchett are readily available to the same final. According to students. Through the one to one Professor Anderson there was "no relationship of the SPC course, significant difference" in the Prichett feels that he has "a better grades between the two groups. knowledge of s t ude n ts as There was also no significant i n d i v id uals a n d a b etter difference in the final marks relationship with · them" than is . between the two groups. SPC students were asked, at p ossible in a regular class. Anderson says that he "is the end of the first semester, for guaranteed the opportunity, of their reactions to the program. seeing a student at least twice a The r ea ctions, according to week." Anderson, were ''extremely A basic complaint of students favorable." Several SPC students in general, Pritchett says is the agreed with Anderson's statement. belief that they don't know where The two professors were also t hey sta11d concerning final pleased with the helpful criticism gr ades . To deal with this w hi c h m a n y students gave complaint each student is given a concerning the program. A few chart at the beginning of the year minor changes have been made in showing him what his grade will the course because of these be going into the final based on criticisms. how many of the twelve units the For the current spring semester student has completed. A chart is · thirty students out of eighty also k�pt_ on the Math office wall taking Math 14 have elected the Catherine Frazer, the new Dean of Academic Affairs showing each SPC student his SPC co urse. This ration is position in the class compared to comparable to that of the Fall other SPC students. The chart is s e mester. Only two students were detailed and good." updated on a day to day basis. switched from the SPC course to a continued from page one l The third finalist, Ms. Marianne Ms. Frazer wil -replace Carl To strengthen the relevancy of regular class while eight switched the SPC course it is accompanied into SPC from• the regular course. Micks of the Western College in Schneider, who, after sabbatical Both Anderson and Pritchett Ox f ord, Ohio, withdrew her leave, will return to Kirkland as by optional lectures· during the year. The lectures are given by are confident about the SPC's c andida c y a fter receivmg a Vice President for Research and Professors Anderson and Prichett future. However they don't think professorshop at a theological Development. Mr. Schneider left and are geared to show the that the experimental course will seminary. on sabbatical leave on January 1, The remaining two finalists a n d A s s oc i a te Professor of relatioship of Math to other fields. be incorporated into higher Math Last semester about one half the levels. This is due to the more met individually with faculty and History, Peter Marcy, chairman of SPC students came regularly to complicated concepts in higher students in a series of interviews. the Dean Search Committee, was the lecture. This semester the courses and the small enrollment President Babbitt requested that named Acting Dean until July 1. The six-person Dean Search lectures are continuing and are in these courses which reduces the those involved submit to him in s . SP writing their reactions to the two Committee (four faculty members nec;�::e:;: t ��e �t:: : f the candidates. He received between and two students) was formed a GUITAR S FRIEND [ �; �. S P C, t he . Ha milton M a t h twenty and thirty letters from year ago. The committee reviewed . :._ .. department 1s doing its shar e to f a cuit y m e m b e r s , a nd a approximately 650 applications, •··· :❖ lessen the complaints of irreleven t c o m p a rab l e n u m be r f r o m and in mid-January submitted to :::: We are the Guitars Friend, :::: and c onstrictive courses on students. H e said that he was President Babbitt the names of :�:; a mail order guide to acoustic :::: campus. impressed with the letters: "They · three candidates. ::::: instruments & accessories. We :::: : : ::::: carry guitars as Martin, Guild, : : ::::: Gibson, Ovation, Yamaha; :::: Hohner harps, dulcimers, �:�: ::::: recorders, banjos, books and :::: ::::: more-and discount 25%. Our':::: ::::: catalogue will be sent out free ::::
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Eight Students Examin Politics fn Washington
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BY JOHN DONOHUE The experiences of the last six yea r s h a ve resulted in the dissipation of much of the cachet t hat h a d p re vious l y b een · identified with the position of Attorney General. However, if we can remember back before the tainted terms of the egregious t John Mitchell and the castigated Elliot Richardson, we can focus our attention on a man who· exemplified the highest ideals ass,o.ciated with that office. That man is former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and he will be speaking in the Hamilton College gymnasium at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 26. Mr. Clark was· first appointed to the Justice Department by President Kennedy in 1961. He distinguished himself through his Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark prominent role in handling a and help alleviate the causes o{ his intensification of the war on number of Southern school and. r i ot ing. In 1 967, President c r i m e w'h i l e i n s i s t e n t ly college integration cases in the Johnson appointed Ramsey Clark safeguarding the rights of the early 1960's. In 1965, shortly to serve as Attorney General of accused. after rioting in the Watts section the United St�tes. He was sworn He p r ecipitated. a raging of Los Angeles erupted, he was into that office by his father, controversy in 1972 when he named chairman of a special S u p reme Court Justice Tom spoke out against the American federal task force which studied Clark. Mr. Clark was widely bombing of Hanoi during his tour ways to expedite federal programs p r a i s e d b y l a w-enforcement of North Vietnam. While, he was designed to aid the community officials and civil libertarians for lauded by anti-war protesters, the r ea ct ion of m o re m i litant ·iilU EDI Americans ranged from wanting him tried for treason to seeking to bar him from the state of
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BY JUDY C ROWN successful, or E. Howard Hunt' Two m on t hs ago e i g ht t e s t i mony before the Ervin H a m i l ton-K i r k l an d students Committee. p a c ke d ·u p, t heir respective The Hamilton-Kirkland group apartments in the nation's capital seemed to be fairly evenly &l)lit and headed north, leaving two of b e t w een Rep ub l i cans and their comrades behind. Democrats. At one end of th They are itt>w back on college ideological spectrum, perhaps, was hill, b.ut were formerly under the Michael Ingham, who worked for auspices of the Hamilton College _James R. �rover, Jr. (R-N.Y.). W ashington semester program, Grover represented a middle class sponsored by the government district on eastern Long Islandj departme_!lt. Its purpose is to and seemed to be primarily e xpose the student to the interested in representing th 'machine r y of g o vernment,' specific interests of his distric through two internships; one in a On the other end was Bill Purcell, congressional, and a second in an who interned for Ron Dellmus executive office. (D-Cal.), a black representative T h e 'p r a c ti cal p o l it i cs ' from Berkeley, who saw Congress observed in government offices is as a platform for representing a dazzlinglY, c o n t r a sted to larger national constituency. theoretical political science, which E m i l y Simon worked for is stressed in a weekly -seminar f o r m e r party renegade Pete conducted by the supervising McCloskey (R-Ca.), who seemed Hamilton professor. to be principally devoting his Do political scientists really energies to re-election. Mary understand the reality of the Frances Clark worked for the machinery? Do politicians have Dem o c ratic Study Group , a any respect for the advice and/or poijtical research organization in forebodings of political scientists? the House, where she did political The first six or seven weeks of t a r geting and strategizing in the semester were spent in a anticipation of the 1974 elections. congressional office; in most· · Around November I, most of c a s e s , i n t he House o f the group moved to an executive Representatives. Of course, it was office. Here, the work was less an eventful time to be on Capitol political, more technical and Hill. Work closely followed the specialized. Most of it tended to events of September 4 through be in the form of a research O ct ober 28: T he Kissinger project or study, related to the c o n f i r ma t i on , t he Agnew o f fi ce's area of jurisdiction. resignation, the 'Saturday Night Hamilton-Kirkland students were Massacre,' the Middle East war, involved with such varied agencie, and the first rumblings of the as the Environmental Protection energy crisis. A g e n c y , S m a 11 B u s i ness What the intern ends up A d m i n i s t r a t i o n , F e d er al working on is largely determined Co m m un i ca t ions Commission, by the particular represen�ative's Office of" Telecommunications, interests, style, ideology, and a n d Hea l t h, Education and corrrmittee assignments. On the Welfare. other hand, there is much work M e a n w h i l e , p r a c t i c al w h i c h i s c om mon to a ll e x p e r i e n c e w a s bei ng c o n g r e s s i on al offices, be it supplemented by academia. The answering constituent mail, or stude�ts went weekly to a local requesting a copy of a bill from Ch ur ch f o r a seminar on the House document room. The government reform. intern also has the opportunity of T h e s e m i n a r i n cl uded - w a t c h i n g f l oor debate or i n t e r v i e w s w i t h v a r ious committee sessions, such as a government figu res, in this case, House attempt to override a persons as�ociated with reform: a P r e s i d e n t i a l v e t o , rarely continuedonpaget!D
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Kirkland Dorm Soaked; Dean Fears - Vandalism BY BOB WEISSER. The first floor of Kirkland Dormitory was flooded early last Saturday, when a sink in the men's b athroom was ripped off the wall. The incident occurred about 3 a.m., according to Hamilton Dean of Students R. Gordon Bingham. He said that several pipes were broken when the wash basin was rippe d from the wall. He discounted the possibility of accident, because a partition between a urinal and the sinks was also k nocked off the wall. Before the flooding was no ticed, much of the first floor had been inundated, and some of the water had seeped down into the fa cultv offices in the basement. Water damages from the flood varied, four of the eleven rooms were spared entirely. Several students lost material worth considerable amounts of money. One student sustained water damage to a rug, and the loss of books, and approximately one hunderd albJlIIl covers. Other occupants had books (including library books), rugs and various other property damaged. The water seemed to run down to the sou th end of the dorm, and those rooms were particularly hard hit. Many of the offices in the baseme nt s ustained s o m e waterlogging, but few were greatly _dama ged. Professor William
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Possibility of Lit Major Examine<l: By Sub-Committee
BY MARY MCKNEW The prospect of a possible Literature major at Hamilton has been interesting students for several years. The need for this major has been created by the refusal of the Hamilton English department to credit Kirkland Literature courses using translated readings, or 100 level Literature courses toward the English major. As the policy stands now, a . Hamilton student must take eight courses of English or American (i.e., untranslated) literature in o r d e r t o c o m p l e t e the req uirements for an English The bathroom in Kirkland Dormitory major. Any Kirkland Literature courses which -consider translated texts are not credited as one of these eight courses. Gr ant D. Jones, associate maintain their military success Certain compromises have been professor of anthropology at and by 1850 had been forced into made. The two semester long Hamilton, will deliver a lecture an uninhabited wilderness region, l(irkland "Romanticism" course Monday (Feb.2 5.) titled ''The where they discovered a wooden can count as one credit toward an Silencing of a Talking Cross: An cross that spoke to them as a English major because, although it Analysis of Rebellion in a 19th manifestation of Christ, telling deals with many European works, Century Maya Society." half of the material is of English them to reorganize their forces. The lecture, at 8 p.m. in the In time a cult of the talking origin. Bristol Campus Center Second cross grew up under a high T h e H a m i l ton E ng l i s h Floor Lounge, will be open to the priesthood. But the high priest department does not feel that its public without charge. It is one of was assassinated in 1863 and a policy should imply a slur on ·a series in which Hamilton faculty period of military rule ensued. translated works. "It shouldn't be m e m ber s d i s c u s s , i n a The cult, discredited for a time, construed that we think literature nontechnical way, the research was reinstituted, but the cross no. in translation is inferior, it is just work they have been doing. longer spoke to the people and es.sentially different," said Ivan Mr. Jones' talk will focus on the high priest became a less Marki, Assistant Professor of changes in. the leadership system powerful fugure. English. Translations, he added, of the Maya Indians of eastern According to Mr. Jones' are being used extensively in the Y u catan following a massive research, the history of this group English 11 and 12 courses. rebellion in 184 7 in which much of Maya from its founding has E f f orts to e xplore the of the population of the area lost been characterized by struggles possibility of a Literature major at THE VILLAGE TAVERN their lives. between military and ci,vilian Hamilton are being made by a Research on the military l e a d e r s . T h u s both the' sub-committee of the Academic Special Every Monday Evenin� organization of the "Caste War of organization of the Caste War and Policy Committee. Mr. ·Edwin Dozen Clams and Yucatan," as it is known, shows the subsequent cult of the talking Lee, chairman of this faculty A Pitcher of Beer that the Mayan fighting units were c r o s s c a n b'e s e e n a s committee, said that "thus- far it $2.50 organized on principles that had manifestations of an indigenous has not gone beyond the idea of a survived four centuries of Spanish w a y of l i fe that remained Lite'r a t ure m a j or." 14 College St.853-8010 control. niminally affected by the long T h e H a m i l t o n English The Mayas Spanish colonial periodr dep a rt me n t feels t hat the Ii promotion of a Literature major ,,.3 should be the concern of the Foreign language departments r ather that theirs. "I don't consider literature primarily the English department's business," said Dwight Lindley, Department C h a i r m a n. O ne trans l a t ion literature course is being offered by the Russian department. Mrs. Ursula Colby, Chairman of Human iti e s Di vision of Kirkland, feels that "this is an i nternal affair of Hamilton." Howeve r, she expressed the willingness of Kirkland to discuss any proposals made by Hamilton concerning this subject. There i s some confu ion concerning an informal proposal made in 1970-1971 which offered the possibility of a Hamilton Literature major and a Kirkland As proof, the Fiat �28 has now won !he Canadian International · English major. Members of each · Winter Rally three years m a row. Outrunnmg Vega, Datsun, Toyota, and department disagree as to which Volkswagen over 1,000 miles of treacherous ice and snow. college turned down the proposal And along with front-wheel dr_ive and a list of featu�es t�at go ft:om and the reasons why the proposal self-adjusting front disc brakes to all-mdependent suspension, 1t also gives was not encouraged. you more legroom than a Cadillac Eldorado. As well as around .34 miles to a Doug Richards and How<!rd gallon according to an August, 1973 Motor Trend test. Jacobowitz, two Hamilton English 'T he Fiat 128 ·is· available in 2-door, 4-door, and station wagon models. majors, are presently involved in And we suggest you see it soon. discussions with those officials If it can plow through to victory in the wilds of midwinter Canada, and faculty members concerned think of the job it can do getting the wife and kids to the supermarket. with this question. They hope to be able to present a viable prpposal in the near future. "The purpose of t he Curriculum The biggest selling Ccl! in Europe. Commit te e 's mo ve t owards Overseas delivery arranged through your dealer. creating a literature major at Hamilton," Richards said," is to allow our students to take advantage of the facilities which exist at Kirkland." · JU Ubl )1
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8_1THE SPECTATORJFebruary 22, 1974
The Kurtz Ap-praiSal _
The following, is a transcript of Dean Stephen G. Kurtz� Report on Faculty Interviews. The report, dated January 17, was distributed to
the Hamilton faculty and was released to The Spectator this week. Of his report, Kurtz sa.i� "at least people con react against it and come up with somedling better.,.
A Report on Faculty Interviews, January 1974 I. Introduction
Since the end of August I have talked at length with seventy members of the faculty about their .teaching, scholarship, and working condttions.. In the course of an interview I asked each instructor to describe the courses he is teaching and the contact hours involved. Under the present rurriculum a full-time faculty member is expected to teach, three courses one semester, two another, and a. Winter Study. prpject or an equivalent combination which equals eighteen hours of contact time during the academic year. Yet it is common knowledge that many faculty-partirularly those whose oourses have large enrollments-have made informal arrangements with their students to teach outside the hours scheduled by the registrar and have raised their actuiil teaching loads beyond the norm. How widespread this has become is_- a question I wish to answer. J. asked each member of the faculty also to comment upon his scholarship-to assess his ability to keep up with his subject or to conduct research and to air any problem which was bethering him or preventfng him from carrying out �is responsibilities as he Wc;>Uld like. A number of our department chai'manship appointments are due to expire at the end of June. Each person regardless of rank was also asked to- express a preference or prefere)Jces which I might share with the Committee on Appointments .and consider in making recommendation� to the acting president. Finally, I requested opinions on the question of our Winter Study program and recorded pro or con opin1ons whenever I received a clear-wt answer. Without breaking the confidentiality of the conversations, I have had, I wish to share with you the results of this experience in the hope that both my increased knowledge and gibjective inpressions and judgments will be helpfuf. I .did not interview faculty who were· on leave, their replacement appointees,· or those who had been on the faculty less than one year. 11. Teac:hing Loads There is no sati.sfac;tory way of determining teaching loads or of spelling out what they mean. A young instructor offering three courses for the fir-st time faces a far different work sheet than an experienced teacher who is repeating a sequence of courses given many times previousry. One person reworks his basic courses each year or every thr-ee years while another has fallen into the habit of repeating himsetf from the same note cards year after year. No one,
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l'Hamilton teach.ing loads have become heavy�. The average is 21.8 rather than the very respe�fable · 18 taken as the norm.' to my knowledge, has yet found a way of equating laboratory hours with those given. to lecture or discussion. Some 4boratory supervision requrres constant instruction, some does not. As measured by contact hours, Hamilton teaching lo...:ds have become heavy. The average is 21 _8 rather than the very respectable 18 takert as the norm. By comparison, a Williams College normal load is nine and six plus a Winter Study project, but the de.an of the faculty gave it as his opinion that faculty d9 not exceed that number of hours. A Princeton faculty member above the rank of preceptor or instructor is expected to teach one three-hour undergraduate and one thret}-hour graduate course each semester-something like twelve hours per year with thesis advisement an additionar normal obligation. Research and publication pressures,, ·however, are either greater or much greater at these institutions than at Hamilt(?n. Appearing on the tabfe which follows are three numerals to indicate these headnotes: (1) T_he registrar's total registration figures for each department dated 9/26/73 and 12/31/73 have been added
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and divided by two: Winter Study figures are not included. (2) Under "Individual Full-time Instructors" I have. included all but part-time, replacement, or full-time faculty who joined the staff only this year. (3) As above, figures in the contact hours column were supplied by faculty members themselves and reflect both scheduled and unscheduled classes. Independent study students have ·been included when either specifically mentioned in interview or when credite.d to an instructor in the registrar's reports. I am certain that the listing of· I nde'pendent Studies is incomplete. No attempt has been made to analyze what an Independent Study mea'ns in-. · · terms of contact hours, but from conversation it is obv_ious that some are demanding on a weekly basts and some are not. Ill. Attitudes Towards Winter Study �Ost faculty �embers wit� whom I talked had ambivalent reactions to Winter Study. Many clearly recognize the fondness which students have for it-the relaxation and the excitement of it for many of the better students-and are therefore reluctant to consider an end to it. Others appreciate the time off, and a good many _have used the month for study or writing. · ,.,. Thirty-one members of t�e faculty, all but on_e of them veterans at Hamilton, felt that their minds were made up. Of these thirty-one, twelve wjsh fo retain our present 4-1-4 curriculum and the Winter Study, while nineteen believe it should :�� � ;:.:t: ��g w what the alternative might be .
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a. Morale of the faculty. I believe that the faculty has spoken with me rather freely. I know the faculty as people better, and my overwhelming reaction-one I hay!. conveyed to the alumni during the many meetin.gs Tony Woodin and I have attended and addressed this past semester-is one of pride and respect. In a time of unsettled conditions in the administration, . I sensed calmness and confidence about the college, and above all, I discovered a great devotion to the college-to high standards and to openness qf mind about issues and pr�blems. Nothing has impressed me more than the willingness of so many to teach more students and more hours than the munimum expected. One story I have repeated in my alumni talks: Just before faculty meeting two months ago, an upperclassman asked if he could see me to register a complaint about the department in which he serves as a student assistant. A little vexed because of the hour, I told him to come in. His complaint was that the men in this small department were tired and over-worked, constantly teaching or advising, without time for themselves, no time to read or simply be alone. He wondered )Yhat th_e administration could 90 about it. · Perhaps this anecdote does .not describe a typical ·situation but it - is close enough to merit our concern in thinking about the future of - the college. Only quality of a high order will continue to draw promising students in sufficient number to maintain liberal arts colleges of this kind. The cost is so high that parents must know the value of what it is they will borrow for ind sacrifice to attain. And the heart of a great college whose true purpose in nurture of the mind and spirit is a talented and devoted faculty. This, I believe we have. Cynical and demoralized men and women do not voluntarily go beyond the call of d.uty, and a good many have. Oth_ers persuade me that, whatever the student load or the contact hours, they are busy, active, and hard-pressed to find time for personal growth as scholars during the course of the school' year. b. ·A practiced eye will detect areas ordepartments of particularly heavy pressure, and the administration in consultation with those instructors and their chairmen must work to gradually alleviate undue stress. A long-range academic plarming committee of experienced faculty members might well be created to deal with this admittedly delicate problem. A student-faculty ratio of approximately 12 to 1 seems about what the college's resources will allow so that the shift of personnel from one department to another as retirements occur offers one possible solution to staffing problems over the next decade. Since 1968 when the present curriculum went into effect the student body has grown from 850 to 960 while the academic faculty increased by two members. Simultaneously, Winter Study was instituted with 45 to 50 projects annually offered by the Hamilton faculty. As is so often pointed out, -these projects represent 45 to 50 courses or sections of �ourses taken away from the regular semesters. The strongest argument against the retention of Winter Study, I believe, lies here. Complaints by students about large classes and lack of direct communication with the teachers of
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SAT scores and uneasiness about the quality of college increases. I conceive this as timed to give them maximum, the future student body were expressed. Yet it help in settling. upon a major. Such a program would include would be less than honest to omit mention of a instruction of the kind now available on a voluntary basis at the clearly discernible division between older and Career Center-lectures and discussion on vocation, personal interviews, learning to know their own strengths and weaknesses, younger faculty in terms of morale. Our untenured faculty are distressed by three and to identify their genuine interests. major pressures: inflation, retention, and external Most important, a time to consider the needs of the world about·. scholarly demands. Can Ham1lton pay· them them and their obligations towards others. Such a course wou Id enough to gain on inflation or to stay even with carry no academic credit and would follow completion of the it? What are the chances of remaining on the physical education program by the end of the students' third faculty? How can I enhance my reputation as a semester. (4) An· independent study ··pr· ogram for the senior year. In good scholar teaching as much as I do? Quick answers would do an injustice to the addition to a semester program of four courses, each senior would . . . ,. seriousness of these q·uestions. To talk of the commit himse1f to an independent project within his major College's compensation program or of the deliberations of the Appointments Committee would out of order. The acting president has already outlined what the trustees have recently authorized with regard to compensation, and discussion of what promises to be best for the college in terms of retention policy lies in the not far-distant future. The financial pressure upon junior faculty in particular is clearly recognized, and the need for a more specific statement regarding promotion ·and tenure reflected in deliberations of the administration and Appointments Committee. The bulk of -this report, properly, addresses the third question either directly or indirectly-long-range curricular. planning, protection of our program for faculty development, and the need to• reduce the heavy teaching duties which fall to several departments department or, by agre�ment, of ah interdisciplinary nature. ·A have been advocated. 2. A new curriculum. One choice would be offered: either to write a research paper of fifty to senses that we are searching for alternatives to the •a hundred pages or present a written report on an experimental present calendar and curriculum and that a laboratory project of presumably shorter length-honors to be number of pieces are beginning to fall into place. awarded on performance in this work-or, alter.natively, to complete The statement of goals issued by the Committee a reading program approved by his majpr department upon which he. on Academic Policy last year did not meet with would report by written examination. Conceived as meriting two universal acclaim. So far as I am aware, it lies semesters' credit, senior independent projects would be completed fallow. Yet it was the result of weeks of by April 1 and results announced on or before a late April Class and thoughtful discussion by an elected senior Charter Day. Conceivably, present senior level courses or seminars in committee. That every student who attends methodology could be shifted to the junior year so that results Hamilton shouId be asked to study and .reflect might be glimpsed in the senior independent work. The stimulus to upon a broad variety of disciplines, to study one� faculty study and research which senior .independent work might or two in deliberations of the Appointments well produce is an attractive possibility. Such is this report on faculty interviews. I cannot end it without idea of quality education we pr'oject and in Committee would be out of order. The acting president has already ! is also damaged by such complaints when outlined what the trustees have recently what it means to prove noting the absence of any discussion regarding coordination with the voluntary response many faculty. have · something, are time-honored, never out-moded values which all of our sister college. I did not specifically request that faculty members the faculty, I believe, embrace, however they may be phrased. comment upon their relations with Kirkland, but it is a matter of arge enrollments. that intellectual resilience in a teacher's life Breadth, depth, and independence do express values deeply fact that not one of seventy faculty members with whom I talked tidual study and research. The College must respected and widely held. Perhaps the time has now come to move chose to comment upon coordination problems. I interpret this in te faculty toward this end by protecting its· to a different way of expressing them. Unfortunately, or perhap_s an optimistic light. S. G. Kurtz >wships based upon scholarly projects, by· inevitably and fortunately, suggestions for change or reform on. a 1uate faculty support funds, by encouraging · campus as close-knit as this cannot but reflect the thinking of many esearch, by supporting attendance at ·others-even though one person voices them. nd by channeling resources to the library Bearing in mind the need to offer a program which awakens the essential laboratory equipment. Younger, intere.st of prospective students-a need eloquently voiced by Mr. Associate Professor of Religion Jay G. William's, a member of the ious to maintain maximum mobility in Covert in a recent meeting of the Committee on Academic Policy-I Committee on Academic Policy, has sent the following market, are particularly anxious that the believe that the following ideas can successfully cohere into a new memorandum to Robert Browning, Grant Jones, Edwin Lee, e and recognize the value of professional program which meets both faculty and student hopes and William Snead, Lawrence Yourtee, Frederick Wagner, Chairman Russell Blackwood, and Dean of the College Stephen G. Kurtz, the :hem who become permanent members of aspirations. ' other members of the committee. y to lose what they themselves describe as (1) Adoption of the early semester calendar of two fifteen-week . . The following is a porposal for a new calendar and curriculum for ttitudes. Not fearing that publish-or-perish semesters, approximately August 30 to December 21 and January d for promotion and tenure and not fearful 15 to May 15. If the disadvantage of student summer jobs ending Hamilton College. It is based upon the assumption that Winter ce will lose its place as the primary just before Labor Day is raised in opposition, many colleges report Study has been a mixed blessing with certain attractive features : the faculty, this gradu,.I shift in emphasis great advantage ingetting to these jobs early. Language and science which might well be retained but with some weaknesses which need instructors dislike the long break in instruction under the present careful correction. This proposal attempts to preserve something of 1d accomodated. Present teaching loads in the variety and intensity provided by Winter Study without ch demand as many as five or six different calendar and prefer two semesters, generally. (2) The introduction of freshman -seminars. With twenty-one sacrificing intellectual integrity. It is based upon the foll'owing year discourage this development, promise tie hope that fresh thinking will be reflected academic departments and three interdisciplinary programs to draw provisions: 1lty the majority of whom will be tenured. I. The calendar would have two regular semesters, the first from, it wouId be possible to guarantee each freshman a one-semester seminar or thematic course of small class size. Twenty thirteen weeks in length, the second fourteen. The first would begin � now persuaded, Winter Study contribuLes several faculty members described as "a with enrollments of 10 to 15 wouId accommodate the entire in early September, with final exams before Christmas. The second entering class, would permit the most successful Winter Study would begin around the first of February and end in May. The use ;sment" under the present curriculum, the a strong one. There is more to be said for projects to be retained, introduce a mechanism for experiment, and to be made of the January period, will be explained below. 2. The college would return to a credit hour system. Most assure each new student a close relationship with an instructor at ,red in substantial study and rumination ing courses than fqr teaching that reflects the beginning of his lif-e here. These seminars might well serve as a semester courses would be valued at three credit hours but 1ew projects ""nd courses at an artificially means for identifying methodological techniques and, problems or laboratory courses might be valued four while some others might be the classic debates which have engaged scholars of a given discipline. valued at one or· two. The requirement for graduation would be 105 may well consider reduction of preparattons !S should Winter Study be eliminated as an Small departments of one or two instrucfor.s might omit a seminar credit hours. 3. The student who fulfilled his requirements in the usual way ::;ing the heavy loads which several of them every third year. (A number of persons have independently mentioned freshman seminars as an idea worth exploring, among would pursue the following program. a. As a freshman, he would elect four courses each semester for a them Dean Kinnel in an excellent essay addressed to CAP recently.) total of at least.24 credit hours. No work in January would be lCUlty morale is generally high. Unless I am (3) Development of required program in personal analysis and required but there would be a non-credit "freshman seminar" for career counseling to be entered upon during second semester of w have serious doubts about Hamilton as a one week in late January which all freshmen would be expected t was noteworthy that the faculty members sophomore year.. Clearly, the anxiety of our students about what cted the stu_dent body. 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�- Other ?ses of the January might elect five regular courses continued from page nme during one semester while others to att end. Conducted by penod could mclude: a. Double courses constructed might use extra credit hours several memb'-'rs of the faculty to _empl�y both extra class g a i n e d t hr o u g h A dvanced �nd administration this.semina! hour_s d�r�g the semester J?lus Placement or laboratory courses would be designed to promote · an mtensive January penod. to meet the credit requirements. self-analysis and reappraisal of S_uch c�urses would be �en 8. It might well be that some the first semester of college· six credit h�urs. Departments would employ the w o r k , a n d v O c a t i onal b . An mdependent study "Delayed Studies" plan for a discussion: p_ rogram could_ be taken as a special program for seniors. This b. Sophomores, Juniors, and fifth course with the date for 'arrangement might be particularly Seniors would elect either a 5-4 the submission of the project u seful for small d artments or a 4-5 p ro gram, thus ep set for late January. · accumulating each year a total which cannot afford the staff for c • T ravel p r o g ra ms and a regular senior seminar. In any of at least 27 credits. '\rocational" experiences might case, most departments would 4. During the first semester one still be followed, but on a probabl (but only one) of the five courses offer at least two y. s ome w h a t m ore academic �'Delayed Studies" courses each e le c t e d c o u l d be of a basis._ That is, -someone taking year. Some would offer more. "Delayed Study" type. Such a a L o ndon Theater course 9. All courses would be graded course would meet during the o ul d d o m o r e actual but a student would be allowed w sem e s t e r for a number of preparation for the trip during o ne Pas s F ai l o pt i on each preparatory sessions at an hour first semester than is now semr5tPT the a ssigned for Delayed Study the advantages of are Wttat might Internships equired. r courses. Some assignments would propo a l? such more sa for also prepared be surely be made but the bulk of 1. There would -he only two academically. the class· meetings and work regi stration periods, not three. could there say, to 6. Needless would take place in January, after 2. All intensive courses would f i n a l e xam s and Christmas be no ''Delayed Studies" during · the second semester but it is be a part of the regul ar curriculum vacation. This would still be an academic conceivable that some might wish but would achieve many of the course, duly described in the to construct a course beginning same results as Winter Study: r e g u l ar catalogue and hence with an intensive three week- They would have the same status approved by the Faculty as a pai-t session and then actually demand and hopefully the same rigor as a gu of the curriculum, but it would · much less during the regular• re lar course. 3. The employment of credit semester. a lso emphasize an intensive 7. Not all students would have hours w o uld help give to three-week program similar to our to take a January program. Some laboratory courses their due and present Winter Study.
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might st�ula�e more enthusiasm work _would be simplified, not complicated. for electing science courses. 2. Would all Departments be 4. The good features of Winter Study �ould be re�ained--there able . or,, want to of�er "Delayed could still be trav�l progra�ns and �tud1es �ourses? This, of course, courses of a decidedly different 1s a question that only the various n a t u r e -- bu t , b e c a use fewer departments can answer. It should students wou!d probably take ?e n�ted, however, that a) no Delay�d Studies courses, some mtensive courses need be offered pressure w�uld be taken off the to freshmen. Hence all such courses could be taught at a January period. 5. The preparatory sessions slightly more advanced level than preceding the January period is presently possible ·with Winter would strengthen the intensive Stu-d y . b ) A l l departments - ·currently offer Winter Study period of study itself. 6. The curriculum would allow ·programs. I would suggest that it for even greater variety and would be easier to construct a than a flexibility than we now have; yet Delayed Studies .program . i t w o u l d a lso be more Winter Study. it would be the task of the C.A.P. to assure that academically based. .7. The college could encourage enough Delayed Study courses are the development of a non-credit offered each year. 3. Would such a program "sell" Free School to offer avocational courses (like auto mechanics, etc.) to subfreshmen? Again, this is difficult to answer but I would for those who desire them. W h a t are t he difficulties suggest that there are many unique features about it which are inherent in the program? l. Wouldn't this make the saleable. If Winter Study can be R e gi s trar's work even more sold, Delayed Studies ought to sell complicated? No, I don't think so. too. There - w o uld be only two registrations and only two final grade cards per year. No grades would be sent out ·rrom the first semester until after the January period. .HP.nr.e the Registrar•.�
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February 22, 1974/THE SPECT ATOR/11
Albright To Visit, Consult
B.C.C. Laundry Deteriorates Wertz Defends Use of Lounge
of what they term "outside BY ROBBY MILLER The base ment of Bristol parties." The conflict of interests Campus Center, particularly the came to a head during exam week Laundry Room, the Boiler Room, and the Games Room, is in need last sem ester, when the lounge o f an ade quate . ventilation was closed for several �ys oue to Archie E. Albright, one of the system, according to Andrew the preparation of the room for a nation's l eading investm ent week-end · p arty. Wertz, Director of the Center. bankers, will be the second Mr. Wertz r esponded to The pr�sent system is unable Woodrow Wilson Seni�r Fellow to to control the oppressive level of complaints by emphasizing the visit Hamilton this academ ic year, heat and humidity in these '.'multi-purpose" of the lounge, said Dean Stephen G. Kurtz. facilities. Deterioration of the The 53-year-old Mr. Albright, plaster· on the ceilings and walls who had distinguished careers as a thus continues to increase along lawyer and a corporate executive with the discomfort ·on the part of before entering the investm ent the individuals who use the field, will spend March 3-8 on the room s. Hamilton m,d Kirkland campnses. A mem orandum regarding this His visit is part of a nationai problem was sent to the Provost program administered by the l a s t November, according to Wood row W i lson· N ati orial Wertz, but "no feedback" or Fellows hi p F o unda tion of p ossible solutions have been Princeto n, N .J., in which ·offerred to this date. representati ves of business, ''We are still waiting to hear industry and public affairs spend back from the Budget Committee periods . of time on college and the Prpvost," he said. campuses to exchange experiences Other problems in the Laundry and ideas with students and Room are being taken care of. fac ulty. Hamilton is one of 59 Thi_s i n c ludes the g radual co lle ges and uni ve r siti es rep lac�m ent of old washing throughout the nation selected to Archie E. Albright, visiting Woodrow Wilso_n Scholar m achines with new ones and the participate in the program. "considerable improvement" of In November LaDonna Harris, of 1969-70: The Billion-Dollar head of Drexel Burnham. Andrew Wertz, Bristol Director _ He has· publis!J.ed articles and the dry ers. the American Indian leader, Ne ar -Miss." M r . Al bright entered a speeches in a number of financial As for any expansion of the and by defending the "'�inimal" visited Hamilton under the Wilson program, which is financed. by a corporate law career in 1948 after and trade journals . and is a Jize of the laundry facilities in use of the lounge by nop-campus members. three-year, $I-million grant from graduation from Yale Law School c ontributing author to The Bristol Center, Mr. Wertz said he "B . C . C . i s a n on-profit the LiJly Endow m ent of but after five ye ars he felt the Business of Acquisitions and know of ''n� plan," since "B.C.C•. facility," he said. ''We are not need to exercise m ore control Merger, p-ublished by The . simply lack� the space to do such Indianapolis. trying to develop an organization Mr. Albright will give two over the affairs of his corporate Pre•sident's Publishing House in expanding." It is this "lack of space" in the catering to the outside. However, public evening lectures, on March clients. He became executive 1968. He is chairman of the Board of Ce nter that has caused the ·we are not in a shell." 4 and 5, in addition to a num ber assistant to the president of "There is an understanding of visits to classes and informal Stauffer Chem ical Co. of New the National Repertory Theater, a . occasional closing of the second discussions with members of the York City and rem ained with the member of the Advisory Board of floor lounge for "other activities," that we are not a community to ourselves, so we offer the outside K i r k l a n d com pany for 15 years, rising to be Yale Law School, and a trustee of Wertz said. Many students have Hami l t o n a n d executive vice president. the New York Police Athletic questioned this policy of closing the opportunity to use the communities. In 1968, searching for new League. In 1970 ·he served on the· lounge· as a study area in favor facilities." On Monday, March 4, at 8:30 p.m. in the Hamilton Chapel he challenges, he came to Wall Street 'May or Lindsay's Cou�cil on the will speak ort "The Energy Crisis an<:! soon was nam ed a partner in Environment. and the Economic Outlook" and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He then served His daughter, Anne, -rs a on Tuesday, at 8:3 0 in the as head of Glore Forgan, seeing it sophom ore at Kirkland College, Science Auditorium, his topic will through its m erger with a larger and he h,.s a son at Yale and be '7he Securities Industty Crisis investm ent firm, and is currently another daughi.er in high school . BY DAVID SCHUTT in a State Police laboratory. Three Hamilton students were Brandt and Bryson were arrested last weekend in two arraigned on a charge of .criminal separate ' i n c i d e n ts involving p osse s s i o n o f a c ontrolled possesion of drugs. substance in the sixth degree, Two students, Richard Bryson which is a Class D felony. The and Mark Brandt were arrested maximum penalty for this in New early last Friday morning in their York State is one to seven years room in the Em erson Literary imprisonment. Society. Drew Sisler. was arrested · The two students were then late Saturday night. placed in the Oneida County Jail . Lt. Robert Ingalls, com mander .and bail was set at $1500. of the Sheriff's Department I nformed of the incident, 1/3 Off 1/2 Off All Criminal Investigation Division E .L.S. house president George All Oil, Watercolor Batiking and f i r s t infor m ed R. Gordon Walsh called a hurried house Pastel & Acrylic Bingham, dean of students, that m eeting for noon Friday. The Decopage Supplies Sets in Stock an arrest would be- made on fraternity raised $2,000 to pay a & Candlemaking Sets campus early Friday. l arge share of the bail and have At about 6 :45 a.m. Lt. Ingalls the· two released that afternoon. and several other plain clothes Both Brandt and Bryson will detectives entered the room �here appe ar at a preliminar y hearing in the students were sleeping. During Whitesbory on Tuesday. a search which Dean Bingham In the other incident Sisler was termed "quiet and professional," arrested for drunken driving on the officers seized between one Norton Ave. by uniformed police. _ quarter and one half ounce of The police searched his clothes marajuana along with 15-20 other and car finding a small amount of item s including "speed" and other m arijuana.on his person. undetermined substances. These Sisler was later released from last items are now being analyzed jail in lieu of $1500 bail. He will appear in the Whitesboro court within the next week for a 1/3 Off 1/3 Off preliminary hearing. All Reproductions The future standing of the All Fingerpain t th�ee students at the college fa. (paintings & drawings) Sets Scotch under $10 unresolved as yet. Dean Bingham . 12 yr. Scotch under $16 s t a t e d t h at t he F a c u l t y Vodka under $9 Committee o n Student Activities, Canadian under $9.80 whi c h h a s j urisdiction over Bourbon under $9.80 d i s c i plinar y m easures f o r Weaver's Wine and Liquor drug-related issues, is i n the process of reviewing each of the On the Square in Clinton H.J. Allen/ 1 College Street/ 853-5593 cases and has not yet reached a 853-5421 decision.
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12/-rHE SPECTAT(?R_/Fe_bruary 22, 1_974
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College Hill In Concert
Houseparty Crowd Adores Persuasions ..-. BY BRUCE HORNSTEIN There had been a delay and the audience was becoming restless. Som eone was doing forward rolls across the stage in the Alumni Gyll]. T he• Persuasions were coming. "The SAC's done it again. They've got us some unknown, group." "I hear they play without" instruments. That's weird." It is difficult to describe The Persuasions. Five Black men came dancing on stage in garish suits. Steve Huntington of WOUR introduced them as "the best at what they do," last Saturday night. It is called a cappell�, singing without musical accompaniment of any kind. Street corner singing. "Doo-wop."
Persuasive Music
T h e Persuasions are Jerry that the a cappella style of singing Lawson, lead, Jimmy Hayes, bass, is derived from the songs sung by Jesse Qoseph) Russell, Jayotis Southern slaves. Today, he said, Washington, and Tube (Herbert) street corner singers �re being Rhoad. Long-time friends from f o r c e d f r om t hei r u s u a l B r o o klyn's Bedford-Stuyvesand environment into hallways. There section, they formed the group in they discover drugs, and their 1965. Since then, they've amassed creativity dies. a repertoire of over 160 songs. M u s i cally, The Persuasions The Hill crowd was treated to amazed the audience. The novelty a lm o s t a n hour of sweet of their performance was unlike harmonizing for the second half �ything the crowd had ever seen. of the SAC Winter Houseparty The amount of sheer energy C o n c e r t . The P er s u as i on s emitted by the group and their presented a short history of the trem endous vocal abilities are popular song, ranging from a qualities sadly missing from the half-dozen 'Fifties standards, past m aj o r ity of today's popular The Chambers Brothers, to a musical groups. recent Gladys Knight success, . . Tube Rolls Stomach lmagznation, with 11m . . my Hayes . . . . supplying the Motown bass line.• � D1sregardmg th�rr musical Persuasions possess Jerry · La\Vson told the audience strength, The magnificent stage presence. After each song, they stepped back the m icrophones, took bows, slapped hands, and congratulated each other on the fantastic job they had just done. It reminded me_ of a football team huddling after a good play. Jerry Lawson and Tube Rhoad danced with each other, and later Tube rolled his stomach for the fans. T h i s b o d i l y ,contor tion., however, was not the highlight of t he ev ening. I t w a s T he Persuasions' encore, during which they invited the audience on stage, that served as a fitting emotional and mu'sical climax to the performance. Herbie Ogden '75 and John Joelson '77 both took the microphone for a few p l e a s in g b o t h m ome n t s, t hemsleves and the audience imm ensely. After a time, The Persuasions danced out of Alumni. Gym, just as they had entered, leaving their listeners with the know ledge t ha t they had discovered a musical power.
· ... Orleans Concert Lvkewarm BY FRED GOEHNER licks were an assurance to the Steve Huntington introduced ushers that there would, _indeed, Orleans at last Saturday's Alumni be "no smoking" during th eir Gym concert as the band "that's performance. going to do it to it in 1974." He In fact, the only styli sh m ay be right, but what they did moment was when the drummer to it fell far short of my played guitar. He was flashy. If expectations. the guitarist hadn't been such a To give them their due, Orleans lousy drummer, it would h ave is a tight, well rehearsed, been criminal to give him back his technically proficient band w�th guitar. an OK beat. None of that in itself Prior to the concert, I heard is i n t eresting, innovative, or more unreservedly positive word entertaining. of mouth recommendations about The good number of happy Orleans than I've heard about any faces bobbing around above other rock group in the last year. shaking hips showed that the band Author's Choice was good for dancing, but outside If the public isn't being of the houseparty atmosphere, snowed, and they really want this there was little that said "Move kind of studied, bland pablum, your feet!" to me. I'm turning in my counter-culture Orleans' embarrassingly hollow membership. If anyone wants to s t ock l y r i c s , the s o u l less, hear some white men really play characterless, rhythm'n blues r'n'b, catch James Montgomery at tunes, and their standard solo Colgate tonight.
WHCL Restyles Broadcasting and Shows; Public Affairs and. Talk Programs Added
BY JACK CURRAN W H CL-F M has v ir tually transformed itself into a brand new radio station this year. A recent Spectator article (February· 8, 1974) emphasized the new UPI wire service, but other new and im p ortant c ha nges in the character of the station have been instituted.
Tube and Jerry t,ake a break.
The Mnter Houseparty Concert Opens u-ith Orleans.
A l ong with a twenty-fold increase in platter power output (giving an approximate broadcast radius of 12 miles) the station has diversified its music as well as instituted public affairs services: Succintly, the station wishes to offer "an alternative to dentist chair music." Two things are being kept in mind during the revamping of the station's personality: the needs of t h e C l i n t o n a n d U t i ca communities as well as the college co mm unity, and the station should offer music not regularly broadcast by surrounding local stations. To serve the needs of the
com m u n i t y , WHCL -FM has announced every three hours. i nstituted a Public Affairs · With the addition of the ride program on Sunday afternoons. board and the concert listings, as The program features interviews, well as the Public Affairi,. program, announcements of lectures and the station is ''hoping to extend cult ural e vents, readings of itself a lot more to the Clinton student works. c omm unity," the WHCL-FM The Am i ci Quar tet was program director said. recently interviewed, and this Music, which fills - the major Sunday there will be an interview part of every broadcast day, is with Orleans, one of the groups being diversified. This year there featured at the SAC ho useparty are Blue Grass shows, Folk shows, concert. The first Sunday in and •.Soul shows, as well as March will feature a discussion Classical, Jazz, and (naturally) with Mrs. Natalie Babbitt and Mrs. Rock programs. Val erie Bahlke on children's No other local stations offer literature. An expansion of this Jazz or Bl uegrass and few others pro g r a m is expected next offer Classical. WHCL is finally semester. offering the Clinton and Utica com.mu nity an alternative to strict Ride Board Announced In addition to the public affairs· Rock, b ubble gum and dentist p r o g r am , o t he r c ommunity chair radio stations. By offering such a diversity of functions are served reg ularly throughout the broadcast day. mu sic, WHCL-FM is cutting back The station is instituting a ride on tiresome reptition of the same board to augment the boards at music. Too often in other years a Bristol and McEwen. Rides will be new popular album wo uld be announced at . regular intervals. played over and over ad nauseum. Also, a list of major concerts occurring in the northeast· is to be
The station is now avoiding these repetitio us streaks by diversifying its music and spreading programs o f s i m i l a r m usical style throughout the week. Programm ing decisions are only made after the campus has been surveyed as to present musical and programming taste. Surveys are taken at least once a semester. A program guide will be p u b li s he d a n d d i stribut ed througho ut the community later in the semester. Broadcasts of special interest will be published in Spectator Blurbs. I� addition to the regular weekly shows, a feature series ii o f f e r e d o n o c c a s i onal Wednesdays. In the past artists such as the Beatles, Frank Zappa, and New Riders of the Purple Sage have been featured. Sports even ts are regularly broadcast. EYery Friday · night Golden Oldi�s are played. And Trivia is back by-popular demand.
February 22, 1974/THE SPECTAT0�/13
events On Campus This Weekend
FILM
Diary of a Chambermaid and Le Chien Andalou. Friday and Satu:day at 8 pm. Sunday at 10 pm. only. Chemistry Audito rium. Admission $.75. Breakfast at Tiffany's and two Betty Boop shorts.Friday and Saturday at 8 pm. Sunday at 10 pm. only. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75.
February 26 (Tuesday)
African Film Series: , White Man's Country and Africa-Another Vietnam? 7 pm. Science Auditorium.
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February 27 (Wednesday)
Anthropology Film Series: The Nuer. 7:30 pm. Science Auditorium. Environmental Film Series: Realities of Recyciing. 9 pm. Chemistry Auditorium.
February 28 (Thursday)
200/: A Space Odyssey. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75. Hiroshima Mon Amour. 8 pm. Science Auditorium. Admission $_,75.
At Nearby Theaters
Cannonball (853-5553) Cry of the Wild (G) arid Bigfoot (G) Cinema Theater · {736-2313: Formerly the Kallett Cinema) Serpico (R) Cinema National Uptown {732-0665: Formerly the Kallett Uptown Theater) Superdad (G) Paris (733-2730) Exorcist (R) Stanley (724-4000) McQ (PG) 258 Cinema {732-5461) American Graffiti (PG) and The Sting (PG)
Currently On Campus
EXHIBITIONS
Albert Bloch {7882-7967}: An American Expressionist. At Root Art Center through March 3. Mo/as from the San Blas Islands (II). At the Bristol Campus Center Lounges through February 27. Rare books printed before 1500 dealing with printers' marks used �: early Europeans. At the Daniel Burke Library, through March Photographs by Andy Mosner '74. At McEwen coffeehouse Ceramics by Richard Zakin. At List Art Center through February 23.
. LECTURE AND DISCUSSION February 22 (Friday)
People's Republic of China: An Asian-American Perspective. Slide show. 8pm. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
February 25 (Monday)
Faculty Lecture Series: The Silence of a Talking Cross: An Analysis of Rebellion in a 79th Century Maya Society. Professor Grant Jones of the Hamilton Anthropology Department, 8 pm. Bristol Campus Center Lounges.
February 26 (Tuesday)
Root-Jessup Lecture Series: The Right to Privacy. The Honorable Ramsey Clark. 8 pm. Gymnasium.
February 27 (Wednesday)
Poetry Reading. Diane Wakoski. 9 pm. Kir ner-Johnson Red Pit. Lecture and slide show. Richard Zakin,.ceramist. 7 pm. List Arts· Center.
February 28 (Thursday)
Lecture: George Ortmans.. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit.
februray 22 (Friday)
MUSIC
SAC Concert: Berkshire Jazz Ensemble. 8 pm. Chapel: No admission charge. MeEwen Coffeehouse Presents Margaret MacArthur, traditional folk singer. 9 pm. Free with social tax.
February 24 (Sunday)
Concert. Hamilton-Kirkland Choir singing with Lorna Haywood, Soprano, and Sheila Nadler, Mezzo. 3 pm. Chapel.
RELIGIOUS SERVICE February 23 (Saturday)
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5 :30 pm. Red Pit.
ftbruary 24 (Sunday)
Free Church of Clinton. Speaker: Clare Guzzo, Kirkland '73. God
as Question, and as Answer. 11 :15 am. Chapel.
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 pm. Chapel.
ftbruary 27 (Wednesday)
Episcopal Lenten Service. 5 pm. North Lounge, Bristol Campus Center. Ecumenical Ash Wednesday Service. 7:30 pm. Chapel. Bible study. The Eucharust is John's Gospel. Father Paul Drobin. 9 pm. Alumni House. . WHCL PUBLIC AFFAIRS ruary 24 (Sunday)
Interview with Orleans. A look at their music. 4 pm.
Rosen Electrifies Audience
BY LISA GALLATIN On the Hill pianists hav� performed) who bang out a forte by erupting from their seat with coat tails waving behind and loose hairs falling over one eye, striking the keys with dramatic force. And there have been those who o n ly change dynamics at a cadence, yet j.mpress the audience with their speed iri those long runs up and down the keyboard. And on February 14 there was Charles Rosen, whose unequaled musical s e n s i t i v i t y a n d m e lodic interpretation constitute true artistic expression. houseparties, the D espite C h apel was packed for the concert. Charles Rosen walked down the aisle smiling sincerely, stood along side the piano, unpretentiously bowed to the a udience, and quietly placed himself at the keyboard. The p r ogram began with Images, a series of short p'ieces by Claude D:bussy. This included Cloche a travers les feuilles (Bells through the leaves), El la lu�e descend sur la temple qui fut,
(And the moon descends on the temple which was), and Poissons d'or, (Golden Fish).
Pianist Extraordinaire Charles Rosen
exhausting performance. During the two days prior t� the Friday night concert, Rosen delivered several lectures to music students and other members of the community on various aspects of music. A Phi Beta Kappa scholar, Rosen referred to literature, art, and science ·as well as, of course, music.
In t he m ain lecture on Thursday evening, speaking of the Romantic period, he said that music of the early ninteenth century was subordinated to words. Although he is a learned speaker, Charles Rosen has shown that his music, in which he applies this knowledge to interpret what �e plays, is superior to words.
Free Concert Ton ight!I BerkShire Jazz Ensemble
R o s e n a n i m a te d ,t h e s e BY JACK CURRAN reeds and piano. He was lead horn impressionistic pieces by skillfully The Berkshire Jazz Ensemble player for the U. Mass. stage band, accentuating the melodic phrases which. form the subtle core of the will perform in the Chapel on and did some arranging and other music. Each note was stressed or Friday night, February 22, at . work around the U. Mass. area. S t e v e M u r r a y, also a restrained deliberately and the eight p.m., and thus continue the recent trend of first quality jazz Stockbridge Inn regular, plays dynamics were never stagnant. concerts on the Hill. No admission acoustic and fender bass. His wife Intense· "Fantasy" fee will be charged. Vivian sometimes sings with the The next selection was Fantasy Clifford Jarvis, who plays ensemble. He teaches music in in C tµajor, opus 17 by an earlier compo s e r , Robert Shumann. drums and per cussion, has Williamstown, Mass. Royal Hartigan, the youngest Rosen performed the Fantasy, a recently played with Sun Ra and of the group and also a member had has and Arkestra, Cosmic his more dramatic work than the D:bussy, with intensity, pausing several recent recording dates with recent graduate of U. Mass. (with between sections to take a breath. New York artists. He started a philosophy major) plays drums, Although there · were moments playing with the Berkshire Jazz percussion , and piano. (A when his playing lacked clarity, • Ens�mble when he located himself philosophy major finds a job, one m i ght say.) He has studied t he s o phistica tion o f h i s in western Massachusetts. under Max Roach, and _percussion interpretation matched the mood John Talarico on piano, reeds, piano under John Talarico. of the piece. and percussion, is a regular The musicians will trade Last on the program was performer at the Stockbridge Inn instruments during the concert, Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He and play a variety of styles from no. 29 in B-flat major, opus 106, is a graduate of the Boston B-Bop and Latin to Modern. The known as llammerklavier. Rosen University Conservatory of Music Berkshire Jazz Ensemble is an demonstrated his ability not only and the Berkeley School of Music. offshoot of the group Montage of to vary the dynamics from a Jake Epstein, a graduate of the .w hich John Talarico was a pianissimo to a sudden fortissimo, University of Massachusetts, plays member. but to clearly differentiate as well between even the slightest change TONIGHT in sound. His playing was ·rich Come and see Elongation at the McEwen and Kirner Johnson with expression. Basement today, Friday, from noon to midnight. In response to a standing "I LE" ovation, Rosen played a short "Ile�; a one-act play by Eugene O'Neill, will be presented at Minor No�turne by Chopin after an Thea"tre on Friday, February 22 at 8 p_m., and on .Saturday at 8 and 9 J_>,m. Trevor Drake is directing the production, which will star !lay Dooley, Lisa Schilling, George Walsh, and David Cross. No admis�ion will }?e charged. DIANE WAKOSKI Well-known poet Diane Wakosk.i will·give a reading of her works on Wednesday, February 27 at the Red Pit. The 8 p.m. event is one in a series sponsored by the Kirkland Arts Division. Wakoski, author of numerous important works, has been cited in Bookweek as "the most vital and accomplished of young American poets." She ha!i written Magellanic Clouds, published by the Black Sparrow Press and Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, published by Simon and Scliu·ster, 1972. KINOKUNST This weekend Kinoktinst presents Luis Bunuel's Diary of a Chamberma id starring Jeanne Moreau, and his famous collaboration with Salvador Dali, Un, Chien Andalou featuring the eye-slitting sequence. The short is silent and Diary of a Chambermaid is in French with subtitles. Shows are at 8 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and 10 on . Sunday, in the Chemistry Auditorium. Admission is $.75.
14/T�E SPECTATOR/February 22, 1974
Schvartz: Soviet Censors Still Fear The Word 'Truth'
number when they need to be on friendly termswith ,the West. A recent example of this bargaining was the increase of departing people during the Israeli-Arab war. Censoship of even acceptable literature by the' government r e m a i ns a serious problem. Schvartz said, all Russian writers to some degree have experienced some pressure from the regime. "None of us was able to tell the entire truth," said Schvartz. Schvartz's last two books were d i s t orted beyond recognition; even the word "truth" was crossed out. When Schvartz asked his editor about the censorship, his editor replied, "I think maybe you are trying to say something between the lines." Schvartz's· most recent book, The Value of. Truth, or A Robin_ Anatoly Schvartz Photo Courtesy of Rudy Elder, "The Geneva Times" in the Garden, was considered BY LIZ BARROW people, would be a great blow to compl�tely unpublishable by the ''Th e Soviet regime fears the movement. He said that mai;i.y Soviet government. It was written speech more than the devil itself." people who previously could not in the same vein as Gulag said Anatoly Schvartz, a recent decide whether to remain in Archipe lago, b u t concerned Russian scie11tists who perished in emigre from the Soviet Union. Ru�sia will now prefer to leave. B e f ore a p a cked a udience Schvartz said his own decision the prisons. Schvartz interviewed Wednesday night in the Science to leave took many years. One of some of the same people as Auditorium he confirmed what the main reasons he finally Solzhenitsyn. The censors have no rules m a n y people have recently decided to come to the United b e c o m e a wa re o f th rough States was his nine year old son. about what can or can't be AlexsandrSofahenitsyn's expulsion He did not want his son to have written, but "They have a good from the Soviet Union. to repeat his own "bm densome feeling for it, and the government "The country is under control life." He added, "We were looking gives them instructions from time of g an g s te rs ... t ho se b o und f o r ward an"d could not see to time." together by common crimes. They anything good for us." Before the evening lecture, persecute any thought born in a The processes involved in S c h v artz and his interpreter normal human head because it is a leaving the Soviet Union are -very v i s i t e d two Russian Studies hidden threat to the regime. The "hu m ilia t i n g". I n t imidation, classes. In R ussian History regime realizes full well that it unlimited numbers of papers of P r o fe s s o r M i c h ae l H a ltzel's took over illegally and because of permission, and references are R u ssi a n R evolution Seminar, this ...is afraid of opposition," some of the criteria needed to S c h va r t z answered students' explained Schvartz. leave. Ninety percent of the questions about contemporary Schvartz said that this fear has 33,000 people allowed to leave Soviet life. prompted Russia to "put an end". last year were Jewish. He t ol d of the Russian to those who think differently The Soviet Union uses the s ociali zed medicine program, from the government. This can be number of people to whom they e xplaining that the hospitals done in several different ways. It issue visas as "purcahse money" d i s t i n g ui s hed between social .is advantageous for Russia to keep classes. While a "simple man" s ome dissidents at liberty t o the West, ·increasing the often goes hungry durin his stay, � �hove grotmd though separated from one another. In this way, they would act as decoys. A list of them is carefully kept at KGB (the secret police) headquarters. Some lesser known dissidents may be put in prison or sent to Siberia or Central Asia. In other cases the regime is ''very quick to hospitalize dissidents" but those w h o h � v e t r u·e m e n t a 1 disturbances may live in s9ciety for years without being admitted . I n S o l zheni tsyn's case , Schvartz believes that in addition · to his expulsion from his native country, blackmail may also be used. Solzhenitsyn's family could become an object of trade, allowed to leave the Soviet Union only if Solzhenitsyn will promise not to release the third and fourth parts of his controversial book, Gulag Archipelago. In a WUTR television .interview Schvartz told how he felt when he 1 e a r n e d of Solzhenitsyn's expulsion. "My first feeling was one of bitter gladness. I was glad that he was finally free." He. added, "I think that the majority of Russian dissidents and liberals experienced the same feeling." However, Schvartz expressed concern that the deportation of Solzhenitsyn, the spiritual leader of the dissident movement and the moral support of many
�MENIC T he return o f Betty Boop (ho op ho op be. d�oj:>) in two· episodes displaying her magnetic personality and her activism. Followed by Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal and Mickey Rooney. Ms. Hepburn is a woman living by her wit and charm as she browses about world fam�us Tiffany's. A series of events takes place, which results in pleasant madness: Winner of the Academy Award for scoring and the best song: Moon River {1961). At the Kirner Johnson Auditorium, Thursday through Saturday at 8:00, Sunday at 10:00. Admission is $.75.
Alexsandr 'Solzhenitsyn an official from the Kremlin eats caviar every day. A nurse in a worker's hospital might have sixty patients, while one in a specific organization's hospital might have only six or seven. Schvartz observed these differences in treatment as a patient in both types of hospital. Since October, when Schvartz and his family arrived in the Un ited States, he has been lecturing at northeastern colleges and universities. However, when he learns English better, he wan ts to return to• writing books.
Schvartz particuliarly wants to tell Americans abo1..:.t Russian life and people. Schvartz takes his lectures very seriously. Before the tel�vision taping of his stateme nt he practiced for 35 minutes, making s ure that his grammar and pronunciation were perfect. He say of his lectures and discussions about his country, "I neither protect, defend, nor attack. I am an ordinary writer, and my task is to tell the truth about my country. For now, I'll speak to colleges and universities...then I'll concentrate on my writing."
Casino Night Benefits Interfaith Volunteers
The Freshman Classes of Hamilton and· Kirkland will
Although a major purpose of the evening is simply for the two Freshman classes to provide an . evening of entertainment for the college community, the event will also raise money. The Interfaith Volunteer Action Program, which helps hospitals, tutoring, and other needy causes, will be the recipient of the money. Casino Night _will be held on the first and second floors of the Bristol Campus Center. The games, accompanied by live music, will be in the lounges upstairs. The Snack Bar area will be used to sell beer and snacks.
Budweiser will be sold for $.20 a glass. The evening will begin at 10:00 p.m. and end at about 2:00 in the morning.
Unfortunately, with the one exception of Off Track Betting, it is illegal to gamble for money in this state. For this reason, people will not be able to cash in their chips at the end of the evening. Since any money the event makes will be given to charity, few people should be offended by not being able to make a little money for themselves. Even so, there will be a continuing series of prizes given away throughout the evening. When people buy their tickets at the door, they will go to another table, where they will be given a certain amount of chips. Should they run out of chips, more will be sold -during the evening. P e op 1 e w ill also receive numbered tickets, which will be used to determine who wins the prizes throughout the evening. The greatest prize will be givm away at midnight.
Continental Cagers Lose - Twice, Lack of Rebouflding Major Cause
BY DAVID LECHER The primary weakness of the Hami lton cagers, l a ck o f rebounding strength, again came to light this week as the Blue dropped contests to Utica College and the University of Rochester. La s t S a t u r d a y , t h e Continentals fell behind early to U.C. and were not able to come back, losing 88-73. Coach Murphy voiced his dissatisfaction with the play of the Blue early. He felt that players_ were not giving a total effort and benched a couple of starters, hoping to in�till hustle into the club. Coach felt it may have been a mistake to sit his starters down, but it is unlikely it changed the outcome of the game. Utica domi n a t e d t h e b o a r d s , outrebounding the Continentals 47-29. Mark Badger '75 had a good ball/ game, picking up 27 points. Marty Guy '76 added 17. Hamilton 73 Utica 88 BADGER
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Rochester lost to the U. of Niagra by only six points and Coach Murphy said he understood why. Their front line is big and tough, and again Hamilton was overwhelmed on the boards. The Continentals grabbed 45 r e b o u n d s t hi s t i m e , but unfortunately Rochester pulled in 64. The Blue had numerous picture-perfect fast breaks but Rochester had many more. Hamilton shot only 37 percent from the field. Coach Murphy attributed this to the height advantage. "Pedro would be set to shoot," he said, "when suddenly here was a .guy 6'7" sticking a hand up and forcing him to alter the arc on his shot." "Mu r p h" a l s o f elt t he Continentals played a much better
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game against Rochester than their effort against Utica. ''If Rochester had a good back-court man, they would be unstoppable. The only reason they lose is that they are lacking a good guard." Coach is hoping for a good big man to enter school next year and help solve his problems. With only Captain Ernie Found '74 leaving the team, a good center could be •· the catalyst needed to turn a mediocre team into a good one.
J�V. Splits The Hamilton J.V., while not able to supply the varsity with a big man, has' continued their winning ways. They demolished Utica 81-41 on Saturday, but dropped a tough ball game to U of R Tuesday, 81-72. Primarily a freshman squad, led by Mark Rybarczyk, John Driscoll, and Kevin Smith, all class of '77, and Brian Gelber '76, the J.V. club is showing a good deal of promise. It will be a tough decision to who will play varsity next year, with so many : of the present varsity remaining. It should make for some.interesting tryouts.
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Winning - Streak
BY ED WATKINS Few sports fans are aware that the athletes who competed in the Ancient Olympics participated in the nude. The Greeks, with their worship of the human body saw · this as perfectly acceptable and natural. The- decline of Greece though brough an end both to the Olympics and nude competition. When the Olympics were revived in 1896, the athletes were clothed. In the past several years, sports such as swimming and gymnastics have considered adopting the "nude look'' in order to provide for greater freedom and performance in the sports. However, one type of athletic activity has already gone nude; "streaking," a form of cross-country running. While streaking has not won the approval of the IOC, AAU, or NCAA, such recognition cannot be far away as hundreds of young athletes have taken up the sport. · Streaking originated on the West Coast and in the South where the warm weather proved most conducive to streaking. Today streakers may be found in every state in every season. Locally, streaking appears just to be getting underway. An incident involving local area college youths occurred at the Ponderosa Steak House, a family dining establishment on Route 5. According to an eyewitness, the streakers clothed only in hockey helmets, leisurely made their way. across the dining room floor before they departed via a car. The crowd was reported to be rather enthusiastic about the feat with only a handful of elderly ladies -protesting what they believed to be the latest break-down in the moral fiber of American youth. The manager did not bother to call the police for as he put it, "I could not recognize any of the boys." A more recent incident occured on the Hill Friday night of Houseparties when two streakers invaded a fraternity punch party. The streakers moved so quickly the brothers did not even have time to put down their glasses before the streakers had disappeared. Usually reliable sources have stated that the streakers will be invited back in order that they can take their show on the road. The future of streaking is rather nebulous at this point. While it has many attractive features, it does have a negative side as well. Streaking has remained so far a predominately male sport, a condition which is sure to come to the attention of various womens' groups. While there are many sports fans who would gladly watch streakers perform, there are those who are violently an i-streaking because of its alledged "lewd qualities." These people would rather sit home and watch Ted Williams shoot duck on the American Sportsman. The recel)t Supreme Court decision allowing local communities to set their own obscenity standard could result in many commmunities banning streakers. In addition, who is going to "'' · ......... • - - ·· - · • ·. coach? . , ..._� �
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ATTENTION KIRKLAND WOMEN: Basketball from 12: 15-2:00 this Sunday. (We have the use of the gym.) Use the locker room that Kirkland uses for swimming. Questions: Meg Newman x7563, or Monica Liff x4939 . COME!!!!! · SQUASH TOURNEY · Daily matches for the tournament will be scheduled and posted on the Intramural Board in the Gym. Each player is responsible for finding out when his matches are to be played. In case of conflicts, contact Brad Caswell or Louis Levenson. The -consolation draw (all 1st round losers) will be made on Monday · night - some of these matches will be scheduled for Tuesday. There will be no matches on Thursday or Friday this week. BLOCK H MEETING A very important meeting of the Block H Club will be held to decide changes in the letter awards system on Monday7•:February 259 at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. SPORTS J.V. Hockey
Against Union. Friday, February 22. 4 pm_.
Swimming
Against Un-ion. Saturday, February 23. 1 pm.
Varsity Basketball
Afainst Tufts. Saturday, February 23. 3 pm.
16/THE SPECTATOR/F_ebruary 22, 1974
Icemen Move Toward Pl�yoffs with Sat. Houseparty Victory
BY STEVE HA WEELI The Hamilton College hockey team won its fifth straight g ame by a score of 8-3 over the U n i v e rs i t y o f Connect icut, S at u r d a y February J6. The victory moved Hamilton into 10th place in the Division II standings. fi r s t p e r i o d T h e w a s b a s i c a11 y uneventful, as b o t h t e a ms h a d t roubl e connecting on passes, and setting up plays. Hamilton jumped out to a 1-0 lead when Jim Rishel tallied
with 2:03 left in the period. From Madonia, the other co-captain, - paused, then flicked it by the then on it was the Continental's a s s i s t ed him. Andersori also tender, assuring the Continentals g a m e . Rishel, a senior and received an honorable mention of a victory. Shawn George c o-c a p t a i n , w a s g iv e n a n from the ECAC for his fine pl ay continued his fine play in the h o n or a b l e m e n t i on , as a last week. Madonia had a 102 nets, and as a result was n amed defenseman last week by the temperature before the gam e, but the ECAC goalie of the week. In the third period Hamilton E a s t ern Colle ges A t hl e t i c still managed to team up with Conference. (ECAC) Anderson for two tallies. Keith continued to dominate play, The Continentals c ame out O'Brien made it 3-0 when his much to the delight of the flying · in the second period. sl apper shot by the Connecticut houseparty crowd. The stands Sophomore star, Ricky Anderson, goalie. Davey Gillmore picked up were packed, as the fans were the leading scorer on the club, his seventh assist. At 9:55 treated to four more H amilton popped one in at 15:02 for his Madonia took a pass from Ricky goals. Five minutes into the ninth goal of th.e year. Benny Anderson in front of the net. He per i�, Phil Hildebrand ' 77, scored h is first horn e goal o f the season o n passes from Steve Malcom '74 and Rick Aubry '75. -"Hildy" has nine goals and ten assists thus far this year, tying him with Madonia for the runner-up spot in scoring behind Anderson. . Anderson, having an excellent year, was back in fine form against U Conn. He picked up a goal and two assists. The Continentals continued to ramP,age U. Conn., whent Jimmy Rishel scored his second goal of · the ·night one minute later on a breakaway. Madonia picked up his tenth assist. U Conn finally_ got on
th.e scoreboard at 14:11 when Scott Balaban slipped one by George. Jack Davis also trickled one by at 10:49, making the score 6-2. Pesty Madonia, and his first line, came back five minutes later for the Continentals' sevent_!l goal. Freshman Billy Hutchinson and Anderson assisted Benny on his ninth goal. Rick Aubry broke his dry spell shortly after, as he scored his first goal of the season. Steve Malcom assisted him as did Tommy Griffith, who assisted on Rishel's opening goal. Ray Rossi played the l ast nine minutes relieving George, who received a nice applause from the a p p r e c i a t i v e f a n s . Th e C ont inentals face a psyched Williams squad Friday night, then travel to Norwich (Vermont) for a Saturday afternoon tilt. Should the team win both these games, a p l a y - o f f s p ot woul d be guaranteed. Hopefu lly, Hamilton will have some fans on hand at both o f these vital games. Hamilton has an overa lll record of 1 1-5 , while standing 6-4 in division play. -
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Swimmers_ Flou_nder in Colgate Wake
Lo.ok ·by Union toward State Meet
rest of the fie l d by two and one Bolender rose to the occasion and BY JOHN NA VARRE The Hamilton •swim Team half seconds. proved Coach MacDonald right Carlberg also copped a 1st place when he said you could always finished on the low end of a lopsided, but expected, 77-36 in the 200-yd. Breast, and had the count on them when needed. s core a g a i ns t Col gate, last whole pool on its feet, when he Baird bull ed his way to a second Wednesday. The Coot's had p u l l ed ahead after 100-yds., place in the 200-yd. Back in expected more from themsel ves, finishing a body length in the 2:11.8 putting him in good but ended the meet with only two lead. Carlberg's time of 2: 17.3 is position for the States. Holender's only three tenths of a second off diving form was a personal best of first places. Jeff C a r l b e r g t urned in his winning time in last year's the year earning him ,seconds in impressive performances in the States. After shaving the Joker is both the Required and Optionals. 200-yd. Breaststroke and in the sure tofly. _F r e s hman diver Paul Edick F re s h m a n J a c k W i d m a n ·couldn't handle the presence of Breaststroke leg of the 400-yd. Me d l e y Relay. Carlberg was showed his true fiber as he l ast year's State Champ Dave matched against Tiffy Hopkins, o u t s p r inted both Colgat e Moxen or his nerves, and dove who prior to the meet was less swimmers in the ·50-yd Free. He poorly to two third places. than a second off Carlberg's · returned in the 100-yd sprint to · Johnny Needham suffered fastest swim. Jeff was two body pl ace third in a powerful swim, unusually in the meet after losing lengths behind Hopkins after his bettering his fastest time of the a tight 200-yd. Free Race to relay start and f"mished with him season by a second (50.5 ). With Moros ky. Morosky, one of at the wa ll after 100-yds. His split t he right conditions Widman Colgate's ''big guns", leads the was 1:01.1 which makes him the coul d show a strong finish in both State in four individual events and leading contender in the 100-yd. State sprint finals. on two· Colgate relays, and has Seniors John Baird and Fred placed in the top twelve in four Breast in the States leadiIJ.g the
Jeff Carlberg pulls for another win.
Shawn_ George dominates the nets. other events. Needham fell to a riding on Needham in the States, slow third in the 500-yd Free. but until his shoulders strengthen and h i s m ora l e l ift s , his HAMILTON 36 COLGATE 77 achievments will be less than par. Looking by this weekend's 400-yd. Medley Relay: Colgate, meet and forward to the Union 3:46.5. 1000-yd. Free: Barret (C), 10:44.0; .State Meet in Rochester next Greenhalgh (H); Sinocchi (C). weekend, Coach MacDonald said 200-yd. Free: Morosky (C), 1 :49.9; he was "pleased with some Needham (H); Craig (C). performances, and vidual indi 50-yd. Free: Widman (H), 22.8; some of the performances are Carver (C); Soar (C). 200-yd. I.M.: Keogh (C), 2 :09.9; going to have to improve, if we Pitier (C); Karl (H). are going to do what we want to R equi re d Diving: Moxen (C), in the State Meet." do 158.45; Holender (H); Edich (H). T he Colgate meet is the 100-yd. Free: Ray (C), 49.5; Morosky (C); Widman (H). poorest s howing that the 200-yd Back: Deakins (C), 2:08.4; Conti nental 's have made all (H). MacDonald (H); Baird season. Their performance was 500-yd. Free: Collum (C), 4:56.9; marred by the pressure exerted by Greenhalgh (H); Needham (H). 200-yd. Breast: Carlberg (H), 2 :17.3 the competition. It is ironic in (pool record); Hopkins (C), Kraus (H). that, besides the Williams meet, Opt i o n a l Diving: Moxen (C), H ami lton was in Colgate's 233.90; Holender (H), Edich (H). position over all their opponents. 400-yd. Free: Colgate, 3:27.9. The security they gained from Johnny's shoulders have pained previous competition might have him since the beginning of the had a more devastating effect had week, and he saw limited practice it been unchecked until the State before the meet. He was obviously Meet. But their baptism by weak and strained during the Colgate might be just the thing meet, and the competition made the Cont's need going into the big it worse. Hamilt<m has high hopes one on March i and 2.
Second C\aM
VOLUME IV, NUMBER 20
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES. CLINTON, NEW YORK
Clark SpCaks to Community; Decries 'Social Inequality'
BY KEVIN MCGOWAN Ramsey Clark said Tuesday th at the Wate r gate affair, w ire t app i n g , a n d o t h e r encroa c hments on personal privacy "reflect the nation's character and value patterns." Th e f o r m e r U.S. attorney-general, speaking before a large crowd in the Alumni Gymnasium., warned that the rq>ublic is threatened by the people within it who give way to "illusion and despair." The real energy crisis, said Clark, is the "human energy crisis" in not solving major problems such as crime and social inequality. "Our capacity is so stagge ring," he said, "and our moral paraly.sis so outrageous." Speaking without notes, Clark wa s oft e n eloquent and
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occasionally ironic in his analysis of the issues of violent crime and personal privacy. He called for strict gun control legislation as a means to curb violent crime. He said, "If we can't control guns, we can't survive." C l a r k c harged the Nixon administration with using law and order as a "code phrase" while not effectively controlling guns. C l a r k c a lled v i o lence "the ultimate human degradation" and noted the tendency of people to "glorify the power of guns and igno re their pity." Concerning personal privacy, C l a rk s a id Justice Brandeis' comment ''Wiretapping is a dirty b u s i n e s s , ' ' i s a s e r i ous understatement. ''Wiretapping," said Clark, "is society tinkering with individual integrity and
personal growth-the ability to know yourself." America had.been persuaded by"people like Nixon,'' according to Clark that wiretapping was necessary for personal safety and national security. In their fear, and in their 'willingness to believe crime was something due to dangerous and foreign sources, people accepted the invasion of personal privacy. He said the. a b u se o f w i r e t a pping i n Government is "not surprising because you've broken do�'D a simple moral barrier." Clark said the problems of violence 'and invasion of privacy won't be solved until a solution is found for the '"human energy crisis." He recalled the words of B�njamin_ Franklin, �ho said the Constitution gave the nation ••a republic � you can keep it." America exhibits a dangerous ._,4 �J �• tendency to '"put what is not Ramsey Clark, form.er Attomcy General, delivering Root-Jessup lecture pretty out of mind." Clark used the example of have lost the reality of the Congress would grant amnesty "in time", but wouldn't consider the � 141' f &,is, making mentally retarded people republic.'' In a news conference preceding controversial issue "until the productive citizens as the kind of problem Americans prefer to the Root Jes.mp lecture, and a people stand up and demand it." The question, said Clark, will be ignore. Clark said "America could q ue s t i on and answer period be tween uncondi ti onal and be destroyed by seven year of ,following it, Clark shared his conditional amnesty, with some views on a variety of current inhumanity." He echoed Earl kind o f a l t e r n a t ive service i ssue s. C l ar k s p o k e wi t h Warren in calling for "a political conviction o f"the desparate need demanded. BY MITCHEL OSTRER president between the McEwen conception of compassion." Indications are that J. Martin , and Chandler administrations said Clark said "criminal penalties Clark asked the audience to for full, unconditional amnesty" Carovano, acting president of however, "In general, higher follow the advice of Pablo Casals, for draft evaders, deserters, those for marijuana have caused all sorts Hamilton, is now among those education has had a prejudice "to always be young, and to tell who failed to register for the of injustices," and he said it's bciag conside r ed b y the against insiders. They thin!t the the truth." Clark said being young draft, and the thousands who become obvious that "criminal Presidential Search Committee as man who can walk on water is meant "being unafraid and not to received a "less than honorable sanctions don't work." discharge" from the service. a possible successor to John alway!: outside the insitiution." On corruption in the Justice hate." Witholding a mnesty, said C o u per s a i d h e hoped Chandler. Department, Clark said it was the He warned that the republic result of using government for During the search this fall Carovano and all members of the could go the way of the Roman Clark, is "causing suffering and which ended in the choice of present c ollege organization Republic. He quoted Marcus dividing families" and using the personal political advantage. ''We Joseph Sisco, Carovano had said would receive equal consideration Aurelius, who said, "Because of law •'like some hungry- vulture have felt the hot · breath of that he was not a candidate. and treatment. our own moral failure, while picking at the bones of the poor tyranny," said ·clark, and the continued on page nine Asked earlier this month, The Search Committee has maintaining the appearance, we . and despised." Clark predicted however, 1f his position had continued to dehberate since remained the same in light of reconvening iR January, although Sisco's withdraw!, the acting no major announcement can be presi<ien� said, "I am presently expected at the Trustees meeting reconsidering my position." here March 8, according to Carovano said last week, "I . William Bristol ill, chairman of BY MONICA LI.FF don't want to discuss the search," the committee. T he K i rklan d Curriculum when asked if he had reached a ''We are looking for the best Committee for the Second Decade decision. possible man, in the shortest • (CCSD) will issue its first working Richard Couper, a member of possible time," Bristol said. He paper next month as its initial the committee, declined to also said that the average college step in formulating a statement of comment d i re ctly about a . search for a president takes nine go a ls a n d gen e r al p o l i c y Carovano candidacy. Couper, months. recommendations for the college Dean of the College, -Stephen who was· Hamilton's acting as it begins its second ten years of · G. Kurtz reported in January that corporate existence. he had suggested that Bristol fter several drafts and public c o n s i d e r w i d e r s t u d e nt hearings, the report will be participation in the selection s u bmitted to the Board of process th,..n h; d been exercised. Trustees iI1 Jan_!lary, 1 9 7 5. ' Bristol said that he would present The CCSD is a subcommittee the proposal to the committee, of the Long Range Planning accprding to the Dean. Committee of the Board. Chairman Bristol declined to T h e S e c o n d Decade confirm the existence of any C O m m i t t e e , a CC Of din g t 0 suggestion by Kurtz when asked Chairman Ur:sula Colby is charged about the status of the Dean's to determine Kirkland's goals and request. ''The deliberations of the. to set the policy to serve these Committee should not be made goals. public," Bristol said. Colby said the CCSD has George Baker, president of the . _ power to make recommendations Hamilton Student Senate has also of policy. She stressed that the communicated fo the Search co mmittee has no legislative Committee a request for increased po er. The final document- will be student input. He suggested that a body of suggestions which the students meet with a final group committee will have no power to of candidates, but the request did continued on page eight continued on page four J. Martin Carovano
Searrh Marrh n� O�· t u O Ta d n n ,f/' e t ls l hl rr r B Carovano May Now Be A Candidate Kurtz And Baker Request More Student Input
Kirkland College: Ten Years After Examines Role of Women's Education /
2/THE SPECTATOR/March 1, 1974
editorial
Perspective
Right Wing Offense
New . Curriculum Proposed
Students, faculty, and administrators are presently involved in open discussions of the Hamilton curriculum. Much to the credit of the faculty Committee on Academic Policy and the Student Curriculum Committee, opinions of all members of the community are being actively sought and carefully considered. We are encouraged by the active participation of many interested parties in this all-important decision-making process. M any different proposals must be considered before a final decision is made. This newspaper, therefore, presents its proposal for curricular change at Hamilton. As in all the proposals presented to date, this one has its obvious advantages and disadvmtages. It is presented as one of many viable options for a new curriculum. The proposal is based on the premise that the winter study concept is a good one, providing a change of pace for both faculty and students and a unique opportunity for stud ents to pursue a topic intensively and inde pendently. Its existence, however, combines two significant evils; increased faculty load and fewer course offerings, resulting in larger classes. · In brief, this proposal calls for required fre�hmen seminars during the last two weeks of a. four-week winter study period, _and required projects for seniors in their depa rtments o f concen tration. The graduation requirements would be changed from 32 courses and four Winter Study projects to either 32 courses, the freshmen seminrrs and two winter study projects (including the senior study) or 33 courses, the freshmen seminars, and only the senior study. All students would be allowed at least one free winter study period. More specifically: • The Winter Study per!od would be exte;· ded to four weeks. • All freshmen would be expected to attend a two-week session of "seminars" devised along the lines suggested in the proposal written by Professor Jay G. Williams (The Spectator, Feb. 22). · Williams wrote, "Conduct.ed by several members of the faculty and administration, this seminar •would be designed to promote self-analysis and reappraisal of the first semester of college work, and vocational di.scussion." • Each senior would work in depth in his area o f c oncentration in a manner · determined by the department. A type of_
"Delayed Studies" plan proposed in the Williams document would be possible here, involving an extension of a semester course into the Winter Study period. The possibility of using se .ior majors for conducting some of the fref'hmen seminars could also be explored. • Sophomores and juniors who wish to maintain a normal four-course load each semester would be required to take only one Winter Study project in those two years. All students would hrve the option, however, to elect 33 courses or use advanced placement credits instead of taking a Winter Study project. •All Winter Study projects would be independent, graded and averaged as a regular course, but eligible for the exercise of the nprmal pass-fail option. Under this proposal, faculty members would have more of an opportunity during W i n t e r Study to pursue professional activities and prepare for the second s emester. Faculty members would be responsible for advising independent study students and certain professors would be involved in the· freshmen seminar programs. Each department would determine how to supervise the January senior studies. As an c1Jterna·;,ive to the present faculty load of a 3-1-2, 2-1-3, or 3-0-3, faculty members would be required to teach 11 courses every two years -( six one year, five the next). Since many courses are offered on two-year cycles, this type of teaching load could fit well into the present framework. Unfortunrtely, this proposal does not solve the problem of class size. The solution _to this problem does not lie in increasing the course lord of an already over-burdened faculty. Ihcreasing the size of the faculty at this time would be financially unrealistic. Completely eliminating Winter Study would be academically imprudent. We see no immediate acceptable way, therefore, to significantly reduce general class size. _ Our curricular proposai allows the student a great amount of freedom in deciding what type of program he wishes to pursue at Hamilton, encourages both independent work and coverage in depth, and gives the faculty greater freedom to pursue their own interests: The proposal is obv:ously not flawless. We encourage discussion of the merits and the flaws of this and other proposals.
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Suddenly he ripped his paper out of the machine and tore it up. "Dear Dad: "How are you? It's still He turned away from his desk and looked like he was going to snowing. "I've been thinking abQut what pounce on me. ''WHAT TIIE HELL AM I you said to me on the phone Sunday. A professor also asked GOING TO DO!!! H UH me, ju::t the other· day, what I was GERRY!?! HUH???" I put my Leonard Cohen away, going to do when I got out of figuring that Witz was in need of here. "I told him that my father some friendly consolation ....Take wanted me to be a lawyer, my it easy, Witz," I said. He was wheezing. ''Do you grandfather wanted me to be a doctor, and my mother would be think I'm really going to go to law happy if I just grow up to be a school? Can you see me doing good boy, no matter what I do..." that? "I can't believe it. I'm sitting • ''Hey, Witz, what are you here, wondering if I will or if I won't. I don't even know if I have typing?" "A letter." .. 1 . , , , , • the grades." , , , , . , · "I thought you W'antetho be a ''Uh liJh�' i �aid. · ,' .
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It is a bad time for conservatives in America. They have allowed themselves to be shackled politically to a man who, while ·embracing their principles in theory, tramples them in practice. As a result, they are completely incapable of taking the ideological offensive and of effectively protecting the ideals they cherish from the onslaught of collectivism and social control presently, emanating from Washington. This situation need not continue, however. The idea that Richard Nixon has any real identification with the conservative social and c:;conomic perspective is a false one, created in part by Nixon's own insincere posturing and in part by his reputation as a "cold warrior." Even a cursory examination of Nixon's political history will demonstrate this. In 1960, after a Republican coiivention marked by doubts about his conservative bona fides, Nixon himself responded to a question from the press by stating that he saw no substantive differences of principle between himself and Kennedy. According to Theodore White's book on that election, the outcome came to be decided on matters other than ideology precisely because of the lack of philosophical clash between the two candidates. More recently, Nixon's deeds as president have consistently belied his words. While preaching the simplification of the federal and local patchwork of social engineering programs collectively known as "welfare" through consolidation into a saner and less paternalistic system of standard cash grants, he proposed to congress yet another program as an addition to all the rest of the mess. While delivering perorations before boards of commerce about the virtues of a free economy, he introduced us to the joys of price control by federal edict so that it is at present impossible to forsee the time when our economy will no longer be subject to coercive manipulation by the politically motivated. While sternly warning against the dangers of an ever-growing federal budget, he continued to sign into law statutory increas�s which, once approved, are beyond the power of the �xecutive to limit in size. Nixon's response to proposals for the nationalization of medical care has been to propose a program of his own which differs less in principle than in size. Furthermore, as Senator Jackson has been maintaining, the President has allowed our armed forces and the structure of our international alliances to fall into a state of dangerous disrep2ir. Th.is military unpreparedness is made even more perilous by the illusory sense of security created by Nixon's millenial pronouncements about the future of international relations. Credulous listening to such chiliastic nonsense might lead one to conclude that the Committee to Abolish Original Sin had finally accomplished its mission. It might be maintained on Nixon's behalf that h:s co· sessions have been necessary in view of the present attitude of the nation toward the issues in question. Since it is impossible to implement conservative philosophical principles in contemporary America, Nixon has done well to limit the inroads proposed by the most extreme liberals the line goes. This analysis is completely unsound. An appeasement strategy serves only to delay eventual capitulation in any sphere of activity unless circumstances are expected to improve in the interim so that further concessions will not have to be made. There is no reason to expect th2t this will be the case-in Ameriqm politics. The so called "conservative shift" will not stand the test of a comparison of the programs dismissed as radical in 1965 with those seriously being · considered and passed by the congress today. Furthermore, politicians are not merely followers of opinion, they mold it. The public can never be expected to embrace conservative principles wh�n "conservative" partisans refuse to advance them with the enthusiasm, cogency, and. urgency that they deserve. If American conservatives are ever to make some sort of return to credibility they must take the ideological, rhetorical, and political offensive. They cannnot do so as long as they feel constrained to work within the framework of opinion circumscribed by the presiden . Watergate may tum out to have at least one benefit. It may provide the impetus needed for conservatives to break the ''rope of sands" that they imagine binds them politically to Richard Nixon.
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lawyer. ACLU and all that." C NUMBER TWENTY VOLUME FOUR "Yeah, but how about those Editor-in-Chief - Frederic Bloch grades of mine. I'll have to bribe an admissions officer to get in. Managing Editor - Henry Glick Drop dust in my eye to bring a Executive Editor - Mitchel Ostrer tear and pull an . admissions News Editor - Douglas Glucroft officer's heart-string What should Business Manager - Peter Sluys I do? How can I tell them that I'm Photography Editor Associate Editor a good boy? Get a letter from my mother? My first grade teacher?" Robert J. Keren David Cantor ''Hey look, Witz. Things will Arts Editor Sports Editor work themselves out. Just don't Jon Cramer worry so much about what will · John Navarre Assistant News Editors happen," I offered. Linda Anzalone Production Manager "I don't know what to do, Gerry, that's all," he said, settling Robert Weisser Glen Gilbert down. "I mean, what the hell is The P.ublications Board p ublishes The Sp ectator, a newspaper edited by the alternative. . students 26 times during the academic year. Subscriptions: $7.00 per year Address; Box 83, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 13323. Letters to the "Should I take a year off after editor must be signed, but names will be withheld upon request. school to find myself? Ta�e the , <. , _ , �co!1�ue4 OP:_P.-IBC: J�n l J 11 !ll , , , 4-,�
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March 1, 1974/TH E SPECTA TOR/3, Transfer Blas� Credit-Hours
Letters to the· Editor
Some choice passages: created by the refusal of the' Hamilton To the Editor: "M other R ussia," "slammed her English department to credit Kirkland As a former participant in the credit L i t erat ure c o u rses using translated system employed at Clark University in hammer and sickle down," "heavy boot readings, or 100 level Literature courses Worcester, Mass., I would like to point out heel upon the bare throat," "spit in the toward the English major." This is simply some of the inherent dangers in assigning face of the human spirit with her pogroms, her stalinist purges" (spit with a pogrom? not true. At present, Hamilton offers an degrees of credit to certain courses, and English major, along with majors in making a certain number of credit hours a purge?), "bludgeon the truth from his French, German, Russian, Spanish, and necessary for graduation. I found that mind and his pen." In the way of the Classical langu,.. ges. All of these majors such a system has a destructive effect on g e n e r a l i t i e s : "c o n s u m ate and incomparable paranoia and visciousness," comprise studies of works in their original the ideal of liberal arts education existing l anguage. The p r o posed Hamilton in America, that one should (and can) take "modern world," "sterile milieu of Literature major would, like the Kirkland courses of p�ary interest ·and relevence banality and absurdity." It is useless to attempt a comprehensive list, to comment Literature major, include . courses in to one's educational goals. upon Baker's romanticisµi and hero translation. The study of works in the At Clark University there was a habit original and works in translation are, as among the upperclassmen, of taking worship (not quite the issue here) or even Mr. Marki points . out in the article, courses t h a t f ulf.illed credit hour his pretense to some special intimacy essentially different. A Literature major is requirements, rather than taking those which allows him to speak of • Solzhenitsyn's "soft eyes," "sensitive yet far different from an English major. To courses that really interested them. This paraphrase Ms. McKnew, the need for a was in courses both in and outside of the stalwart." The person who writes that someone's · Literature major at Hamilton was created individual's major discipline. The popular because there is no Literature at Hamilton. attitude was that lower credit courses with life "breathes a spark of fire" is simply not thinking about what the words mean. challenging work loads were not w�rth the Now, I must try to explain myself. To c a st t he H amilton English effort involved in successfully completing I am not giving advice to George Baker, · department in the role of villain is unfair. the course. As a result, full credit courses As I said in the article, the Curriculum were often taken only as a requiremental. nor is . a criticism of his particular article Committee is interested in establishing a substitute for interest. It is the lack· of my end. It hardly matters if he reads this. That this sort of stuff can e�ist Literature major at Hamilton so that our basic enthusiasm for the courses one is anywhere is scary. Anybody resorting to students may benefit from the existing taking that I find destructive to any facilities at Kirkland, and thus take full academic atmosphere. I am afraid the the style or manner in Baker's article ends up by hiding or confusing (not necessarily advantage of the coordinate relationship. "grabbing" for credit hours coupled with Doug Richards '75 academic disinterest that accompanied the by intention) the truth. This is what. George Orwell feared when he wrote in aedit system at Clark will take place at Hamilton. I have no idea what the "Politics and the English I:.anguage" that CAP: Take Note ramifications involved with Kirkland will "one ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay be. I personally hope from experience that To The Editor: of language/' and if one can get rid of a credit hour system is not begun here. R e g a r dless of the final decision Linda Yates '7 6 certain � habits "one can think more concerning the academic calendar, we clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary hope that the Committee on Academic . first step towards political regeneration: so Policy will bear the following in mind: that the fight against bad English is not · George is Called 'Small Time' 1. The Credit Hour System, in addition frivolous andis not the exclusive concern to being conducive· to confusion, is of professional writers." To The Editor: inherently unfair to those departments I suppose this is all overdone. I have which do not lend themselves to labs, as When George Baker's Perspective article chosen to get angry at a small time well as to those _students concentrating in regar� Alexandr Sozhenitsyn came out operator who lazily takes recourse to a these non-laboratory fields. two weeks ago (Spectator, February 15) I worn out lexicon rather than finding some 2. A Senior Project should involve the had decided that it was not worth the fresh expression that would tell the reader discretion of the individual departments effort to say anything about it. However, (and the writer) what is_ actually being with consideration given to other nature ultimately forces comment on such said. But this is because it is the first really requirements of concentration. a thing. bad specimen of it I have seen while at 3. If Winter Study is to be eliminated, Clearly Baker is sincere in his piece. Hamilton that came from a student. some system must be initiated enabling And he goes as far as to point out how Kenneth Gross '76 the pursuance of Independent Studies much more important an issue it is that he during the regular academic year involving is discussing than the trivial affairs of those topics which do not fall into the college life and individual students. I A Hamilton Lit. Majo�? realm of presently existing d ep artments. might grant him that. , 4. Extending the academic year from What is so remarkable is that as soon as .To the Editor: the last week of August until the last week In regar(f. to the article in last week's he begins to write he resorts to the most of June would severely inconvenience outrageous cliches and deadest metaphors Spectator concerning the possibility of m a n y m e m b e r s of t he Hamilton that I have seen outside several Trotskyist establishi ng a Literature major at community, particularly those· who hold pamphlets. The style seems to be Hamilton, I would like to clarify a few m i s concepti ons which are already summer jobs. inevitable in this sort of heartfelt 5. Four courses per semester is more vehement, condeming political writin� prevalent on the Hill, and which the article than adequate. Five courses will only· give (and Baker's is really political commentary seems to reinforce. Ms. McKnew states that "the need for this major has been further advantage to those students with of a species).
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What is Purim? The Jewish Local 200, Service Employees The Eduardian Pub will be dosed tonight, Friday, during festival for everyone young and International Union and Hamilton Casino Night (beer: 20'11) in the old to indulge in nonsense and College has still not been signed. Bristol Campus Center. But ·m e r r i m e n t . A boisterous John Mavrogenis, assistant to the starting Saturday, March 2nd, the masquerade holiday which rivals. President of Hamilton, said that as Pub will be open every night from Halloween and New Year's Eve. of last week, the college had 10 PM to 2 AM. The Pub will The time when it is mandatory to received no word from the union continue to be open on Friday get drunk. Traditionally gifts are on when they would be ready to afternoons from 4 to 6 PM and exchanged between friends and sign. beer will sell at 15'1 a glass for the neighbors. Money is put aside for Still o utstanding ·are the pre-dinner crowd. The ch�ges in the poor. arbitration cases of Bill Prosser Pub Policy have been handed In Jewish communities of and Chester Koziarz .. These two down by the Auxiliary Services Europe, Purim was "showtime" cases, involving allegations of Committee. Any further questions c o m p le t e with w3:ndering prejudice against union members or comments should. be refered to companies of actors, clowns and _by the college, will be considered the Committee. musicians. All on the Hill are by members of the American • invited to celebrate Purim on Association of Arbitrators starting A student book auction will be March 7 in the Alumni House at April 10. held in the Daniel Burke Library, 8:00 pm. One may hear the Monday through Friday, March reading of the Purim story, wear 4-8. The books for sale will be w'i l d c o s t umes a n d t o t e There will be a meeting of the disp layed throughout the week on outrageous original noisemakers. qu r r i culum S u b- c o m m i t t e e tables across from the Circulation W i n e a n d h a m a n t a s h a n concerned with the establishment Desk, and students are invited to (ceremonial �kes with filling of 1 of a Literature Major at Hamilton mter their bids for any volumes pc;>ppy seed and honey) will be on Tuesday, March 5 at 7:00 p.m. desired. P roceeds from the served and noisemakers provided. in the Fisher Room, third floor of the Bristol Campus. Center. All auction will go toward the • _ .. -- J ·-••••----• · · 11\tere-"sietl. students are urged to purchase of -new books· for· Uie·: · · - · The final contract between. attend. Library.
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AP preparation. The addition of· four pass/fail options is hardly a reconciliation to the addition of an extra course per year. It is in light of these views that we hope the Committee on Academic Policy will decide on the · future of Hamilton's academic program. Jeffrey Hjelm '77 Thomas Willis '77 "... for smiling on a cloudy day"
To The Editor: I am writing to protest a general point of view, which was exemplified in your review of the "Orleans concert. The key comment is where the reviewer criticizes the band for not being stylish enough. It seems that the band was _bland and not innovative, but to my ears, and to my feet, they were not merely tight, but were m o ving and cooking. This personal perspective is not just a matter of taste; it is also a matter of the pre-conceptions Mr. Goehner (the reviewer) and I brought to the concert, and those implicit in the review are what I· object to most. It seems as if a band that is good and unpretentious cannot make it for those only impressed by the gimmick, by the flash of a Bowie, a Zeppelin, or the Dolls. It is drepressing to hear Orleans criticized·. - . for not really -cooking, by someone sitting._: - and watching them, and judging the_�-_ _ dancers merely to be participating in the "houseparty mood." It was not those who --�--_, were drunk who dug them enough to · · dance. Maybe Fred thought the dancers- - couldn't hear .that Orleans. were too._.::: tfnspectacularly good. Sober (or maybe--·s stoned) "the lousy drummer" drove the band -with strong, and well-played, force, and the guitarists took more than showy, standard solos. John Hall is a good guitarist, if you listen. But, finally, perhaps listening, or over-listening, is the major problem with the "flash is all" point of view. Rock 'n'. roll should not have to be for the pure concert arena, it should not have to be pretentious, and it should be, I would think_, direct, exciting, and interesting. Be hind _ t h e large, tho ugh often tongue-in-cheek, metaphysics of David Bowie (and I like Bowie) there is a vacuous shell. In Orleans' fairly simple and . direct lyrics (written by a woman, which makes them more , int�resting in being double-edged) they try, and often succeed in revitalizing those ready-mades that seem stale: Like the Beatles, Orleans' value is not in their originality, but in their transformation of what we know (and in their contradiction of some of our e xpectat ions) i nto something very powerful. And I think that's just what they did last houseparty weekend. Paul Weichselbaum '74
FREE CHURCH SERVICE This week the Free Church Service wi� be led by Joel Tibbetts, Coll-ege Chaplain. 11:15 a.m., Sunday, in the Chapel.
CAREER CENTER INFORMATION
The following companies will be recruiting on campus next week: . March 5 Chase Manhattan Bank and IBM March 7 Norton Company Sign up for interviews. at Career Center. Connecticut Mutual has changed its interview date from March 5 to March 12. CO-OP DINNERS Are you curious about the co-op .and want to come for dinner, but don't know anyone there? We have_ space for guests but must know in advance. Contact either Melinda Foley x4943 or Harry Parker x4941 and we will arrange for you to be personally escorted. (Costs: .75 lunch, SI.25 dinner.) SQUARE DANCE TONIGHT Tonight (Friday) there will be a square dance in Bundy Dining Hall, from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. The caller is Lucille Graf from Utica. Admission is$.50and proceeds.will go to the Interfaith Fund Drive. CHILD CENTER WORKSHOPS "Dramatic Play and Music" is the title for the next Spring Workshop conducted by the Clinton Child Care Center. This workshop will take place on Wednesday, March 6 at 7 :30 p.m. and will be led by Arlene Liebman. tt, Both The p_.e>5- wor�shop will be entitled "Infant .Currkulum I . · • • ·• Room 220, Kirner-Jonnson. neld m .works , h ops. wfll Be ( ,� I
/THE SPECTATOR/March 1, 1974
Judicial Committee Postpones Merger
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and· academic misbehavior. I look BY SUSAN MALKIN 'We have put aside, not at it as that they both hurt the James McDermid's letter of 1elved, the question of merging community." appeal was received by the 1e Honor Court and Judiciary "Although a number of people K i r k land Appeals Committee oard," said Dean Bingham, favored keeping the Judiciary Friday , F eb ruary 22. The .ember of the Judicial Review Board and Honor Court as committee members have begun ommittee. separate entities," Dean Bingham reviewing the material and held T h e J u c i c i a l R e v i e w said, "I think th.ere are some good their f irst meeting Tuesday o mmittee, originally charged reasons for doing otherwise, but it afternoon. ith the investigation of the is the students who should make Appeals Committee Chairman amilton student j udiciary the decision." Thomas Scott said the final rstem, has be.en considering since There is also a reluctance to decision will be sent to President rn uary t he p o s s i bility of violate the long tradition behind Samuel F. Babbitt on Friday, >mbining the Honor Court and the Honor Co.urt, according to March 8. P r o fessor R o c k w e l l . ''The 1e Judiciary B.oard. With regard to the President's "Now we are simply trying .to tradition . that the Honor Court role in the appeals process, the !vi s e t h e composition and has dealt with for years is Kirkla nd College Faculty r o ce d ures of the Judiciary academic misconduct. There is a Handbook 1973-74 states the o a r d ," said Mr. Rockwell, feeling among some that it should following: o-ch airm a n of the c�mmittee continue to do so," he said. "If the President concurs in According to Kaye, another According to Joe Terranova, a t h e s e [t h e Commi ttee's] ;,mmittee member, the question reason. the merger was opposed recommendations he will take all f merging the Honor Court and was because, "some people believe Gord0n Kaye, Chairman of the Judiciary Board. n e ces s a r y s t e p s for t heir the Honor Court is working and ; Change in the structure of the Rockwell said, "we are in the implementation. The findings and there is a wariness to mess with committee is the major proposal midst, without having settled very judgment of the Committee will someth ing t h a t i s a lready under consideration. A standing much, of examining the whole be reversed by the President... only working." board of eleven members, of thing. I'd rather not say spe.cifics in exceptional circumstances and Since there was no agreement which five will be chosen on a except those things that are for compelling reasons which will that the two types of conduct rotating basis for each case, will obviously covered by the word . be communicated to the Appeals should be dealt with by the same replace the present system of 'procedures'. This includes all the Commi ttee in detail." body, the merger of the Judiciary selecting a dif�rent jury for each stages and ingredients of · the Asked if there would be an Board and Honor Court has been ca.,e. According to Bingham, "that. judicial process that the Judiciary expose of the issues involved .in abandoned. 'We didn't want to will go a long way toward Board exercises when it has a M r . M c D e r m i d ' s force anything," said Rockwell. n on r e a p p o intment, Chairman e li m inating inconsistencies. "A case." ''There was strong feeling on standing board will achieve a In order to meet the April 1st Scott said, "An expose, certainly the part of several members that a b e t t e r standard i z at i o n of dea dline, the committee has not." The Committee's sole duty, decided. to limit the investigation he said, is to report to the merger was logical, made sense, penalties," Terranova said. and should be done now, but The formation of a s.eparate to r ecommendations for the Pre�ident, and it has yet to there was no pressure to force the appeals committee has also been improvement of the Judiciary consider what, if anything, will be issue on those opposed," Kaye proposed. Bingham said that the Board. The Judicial Review revealed publicly. said. problem with the present appeals Committee hopes to set up a 1 As of now, the committee is system is , that, ''The Faculty model system for the Judiciary ' limiting itself to resolving the Committee on Student Activities Board which the Honor Court can ; procedural ambiguities of the is both the Review. Committee imitate. . G ordon Bingham Judiciary Board constitution. and Appeals. Committee. That is. a ''The approach we decided to he J u d i c i a r y B o a r d was 'We will rework the whole real mess. I've proposed that the take is to rework the Judiciary bandoned because, "we weren't thing from the beginning to end Faculty Committee on Student Board from scratch and then . Downtown Utica !tting anywhere because of the mak ing it more regularized, Activities still review the cases, recommend that the Honor Court For pposition. We were split into two predi ctab l e , and o r d e r l y ," but that a separate· appeals duplicate •the Judiciary Board unps because of this issue." Rockw.ell .said. "It is possible to committee composed of four structure with the possibility of Terranova said that he and make it fairly specific, but still faculty ,members be set up," said an eventual merge," Kaye said. • FOR GUYS & GALS t e v.e P erc y , the t w o keep it informal." The Dean acknowl e d g es Bingh:-:m. !presentatives from the Honor Rockwell said that he is ''not CORQ�ROYS ··-. Regarding punishments and however that, "Constitutionally ourt, comprised the opposition. much c o ncerned w i th the appeals., "ultimately the faculty and procedurally, it would be very STRAIGHT e said that nearly all the other pun ishmen ts; we are more has the final say," according to difficult to combine the Judiciary LEGS. lmmittee members, with the concerned with procedures - how the .Dean. "A s0tudent is judged by Board and the Honor Court." ::>ssible exception of Professors a case is dealt with from the · hIS peers first. If the appeal ''The Honor Court is the SUPER ndy and Tibbetts, favored the beginn;ng through the appeals committee or the f a c ulty str.ong e. s t .opposition to the WIDES 1erger. stage� We are trying to get the c o m m i t t e e b e Ii e v e s the merger," according to Kaye, "If "Initially everyone liked the procedures clarified." pllJ!is-hmcmt is too harsh or too · the Honor Court wants to be BUTTON erger except for me...I opposed ''No specific changes have been l e n i e n t, the f a culty c a n stubborn, we really don't have' -tFRONTS. idea from the beginning. I had made yet. We are still in the intervene." any power. We hope that we can intuitive feeling that the discussion stage," said Rockwell. , . The committ�e is also working influence them by weight of *- DENIMS; enalties from academic violations Procedural chang.es are being o n r efi ning procedures and·· reason, showing that the proposals _ 1ouldn't be handled by the same discucsed however and Bingham defining t he rights of the for the Judiciary Board are logical if PLAI.DS ody as social violations. Mainly, feels that, ''procedural ambiguities defendent. As to e;xactly what and sound, and by public opinion HiGH WA"istED-1EANS · 's a difference in philosophies/' will be cleared up by specifically procedures are being defined, 3:11d �tudent pressure." e rrano v a s aid. Co-chairman stating the p_olicies for each HIP HUGGERS ordon Kaye sai� that, ''There is hearing and stating how it will be . LEE- LEVI ::> real division between social run." WRANGLER
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-,ntinued from page I presidency before Sisco was >t pror.ose any specific program, chosen in November. aker said. "I have had no contact at all The Senate president would (with the Search Committee), ot identify to whom he made his Brewster said this week. He did !q�est. He said that he promised. n o t k n ow t h e search had onfidentiality. Baker said that he · reconvened. "I had no way of f f e r e d h i s s u g g e s t i o n knowing," the Dean said. 1dependent of the Senate, "on ''Nothing would make me ehalf of the office" of president. Baker said, "I think it would happier than to stay here for the e good, as far as the community rest of my life," Brewster said, ; concerned, to give people a according to a report in The ole," especially since Sisco Dartmouth November 12, after it was made known there that he ithdrew. Meanwhile, Carroll Brewster, was a candidate for the Hamilton ean of the faculty of Dartmouth presidency. :allege, and Curtis Tarr, former Curtis Tarr was reported to irector of the Selective Service have taken an administrative post re no longer being considered by with John Deere. Couper said, he Search Committee, it has been ''I'm very sure the committee eported. Brewster 'an� Tari w�te won't be thinking Jurther about e�d i n g c andidates for the 1 Mr. Tarr."
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Cornell Offers ·computer System To
Plans to link Hamilton to seconds to the Cornell Computer C ornell University's multi-million Center. The center, one of the dollar Computer Center were largest in the state, can handle presented this week by a team of most computer problems in the experts from the Ithaca-based Social Sciences, an area in which comput er u se is becoming institution. Under the proposal, Hamilton increasingly necessary. The RJE connection is effected would link its computer operation to the Cornell sy�tem through with what is termed by computer Remote Job Entry (RJE). Michael technicians as a· bisynchroneous Ka plan, s t u d e n t c o mputer adapter (BSA) and modem. This assistant,said, "an RJE system will adapter makes the language of the provide Hamilton with access to Ha milton machine compatible large scale computer facilities at a with the telephone hook-up which links the Hamilton System with low cost." Meanwhile, proposals by the the Cornell Computer. At the Cornell end of the Burroughs Corporation and the International Business Machine hook-up, a second bisyncroneous Corporation seem to have been · adapter will translate the impulses stalled by unforeseen costs and an passed along the phone line into inaccurate estimation of the langu�.ge intelligible to the Cornell machine's Central Processing Unit oollege's needs. If the Cornell plan is accepted, (CPU, that part of the computer the college will purchase a small that does the actual manipulation oomputer for administrative and of data.) The cost of the BSA st u d e n t u s e . A d d itio n a l ·system is estimated at $300 per oomponents will b e added t o the month excluding the cost of the machine to allow for the RJE telephone lines. Computer systems are fed data hook-up. Eugene Lewis, acting provost, in different languages (softwares) will present the college's proposal for social science, natural science, for a new computer system to the business, mathematical, and other Board of Trustees at its March 8 programs. The Cornell system can meeting. Lewis hopes to have a handle a wide variety of computer s ys t e m i n o pe ration b y langur.ges. HASP Se ptember. F o r the Cornell hook-up, If the C9rnell plan is adopted, the college will recommend one of Hamilton must use a HASP three small business computers. package. The term HASP refers to Under consideration are the IBM the operating system of Cornell's The HA�P System 3 Model 10 (16K memory complex computer. capacity), Burroughs Bl 714 (32K operating system schedules and memory ca pacity), and the gives priorities to programs and National Cash R�gister 101 (16K generally coordinates the input memory capacity). Earlier, IBM and output functions of the had proposed a system three with computer. The type of machine that 32K capacity, and Burroughs had suggested the B-5000, a much H a m i l t o n is considering for purchase does not need a HASP larger machine. system because it is not complex RJE RJE, remote job entry, is a. enough to require the kinds, of system through which Hamilton can operations it performs. HASP is distinct from ·the tap the tremendous capabilities of the Cornell system. Hamilton language in which computers would purchase a machine with process data. Although both the limited capabilities that could be Hamilton and Cornell systems can used for administrative jobs as deal with the same language, for well as e l e mentary student example, Hamilton's computer pro g r a ms . I n a d d i t i o n , will need a HASP package to be sophisticated tasks could be fed able to interact with the complex into the terminal here w liich Cornell. machinery. The package would then be transferred in will enable the Cornell computer
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All three corporations soHcit-.. ing Hamilton's contract for a computer system guarantee that their respective equipment comes with a HASP package. However, Lewis is currently looking to see if· any of the proposed machines are now in use with the package. It has also been pointed out th: t when the administration js u•;ing the computer it cannot be u,ed as a terminal. That is, if the Business Office is compiling the payroll, the computer could at that time not be used as a terminr.l and hence not serve as a link to the Cornell computer. The m achine cannot work as a computer for administrative use and as a terminal
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th:-:t they cannot afford the, newest; most sophisticated computers as they are developed. NEEDS AND USES Jolpi Rudan, direetor of the Cornell computer services, will send a proposal for a cost per month charge on an experimental basis to Lewis in the near future.
For the year 1974-75, Hamilton would p r o bably be granted U!llimited time in order to fix a cost on th� basis of the needs the· college demonstrates during this pilot period. At this time, "we literally don't · know what the cost will be", said the Provost. A s s i s t a n t P r o f e s s o r of G o ve r n m e n t John Bacheller, Assistant Professor of Psychology J o n a t h an Vaughan, Associate Professor of Mathematics John Anderson and Michael Kaplan met with Rudan in addition to the Provost. 1 P r e s i d e n t Ba b bitt has committed Kirkland to 40 per cent of the costs of� whatever computer s y s t e m H a milton purchases. In addition, Kirkland will be hiring a professor of computer science for the fall t e r m. Hamilton will hire a computer technician to manage the actual operations of the computer center, which will probably be located in the science building. Vaughan said the suggested· ho ok-up with Cornell would e n a b l e h i s d e p ar t m e n t to · introduce computer work into courses in statistics, research methods, and on a more limited basis, into the Introduction to Experimental Psychology course. Lewis, commenting on the proposal, said, "It meets the pr o b l e m o f va r i e d a n d discontinuous demand on the part of both the administrative and academic user."
Kirkland Probes Winter· Study; .Evaluates Questionnaires BY MARY MCKNEW The Kirkland Winter Study Committee, composed of fow: faculty and six student members, has f in i s h-e d conducting an in-depth evalm tion of the 1974 Winter Study program.
Although off campus students · w e r e u n represented in this ; discussion, their completed winter · study questionnaires constituted · abou� half of the. eighty-two · . questionnaires returned by the student body. Features of Winter Study said Last year a similar survey of to be of the greatest value by the Winter Study in general was students included the opportunity RJE hook-ups will become conducted by SCACA. As a result of "total immersion" in their , increasingly popular in years of tp.is study, two significant proje ct, the opportunity to ahead as more institutions find changes were introduce,d: the explore areas of study usually introduction of an overall theme outside the range of a liberal arts for Kirkland's program, and the semester offering, the change of creation of advisory groups to -pace, the availability of time to review proposals and completed attend e vening lectures and Counselors Physically •Fit conce r t s , r e a d b o o k s and projects. General Water Sports & Excursions periodicals, and get to know other Adirondack Swim & Trip Camp (Boys) The present Winter Study students. However, in the opinion of Committee looked specifically at the s uc c e ss o f t hese two many students, courses which 1 39 Mill Valley Road innovations and attempted to were µon-academic in subject isolate those aspects of Winter matter were discriminated against Pittsford, N.Y. 14534 Study which were most beneficial i n t h e a pprovals procedure. or costly to the program. A group Especially resented was the of fifteen to twenty students who exclusion of Hamilton students had been involved in a wide range from many student-led courses. of projects met in a two-hour· There was also dissatisfaction session to discuss characteristics concerning the small amount of of Winter ·study which they felt funds available for non-academic t o b e a d v a n t a g e o u s o r courses. disadvantageous. Written student In general, faculty members evaluations were also distributed said th� t the Winter Study of and members of the faculty were 1974 ''worked in a smoother asked to give their views. fashion than in previous years." Still, many complained o.f an CLINTON overloaded schedule, and said that 'LIQUOR· Get FREE Munchies further changes in the program were necessary. The system of STORE Just buy three sixes of beer group advising was regarded as an .Grand. Union Shopping Center and get a bag of pretzels free!! improvement on th.e old systen:i of IJ53-IJIJ7IJ OFFER GOOD THIS WEEK ONLY evaluation. .... REMEMBER: We are now Ann Johnson, chairwoman of discount Liquor Store. We the Winter Study Committee, will not be undel'lold. said, "We feel that Winter Study is ,Lowest prices . � . importai:.it . ,concept, -in . tjle. • I Alloiueil ,;y law. • ·OrFERu00D£JNLY WlkH THJ$£lJUPON.•••.... : . ! • • . Anywhere in N. Y. State K ii. r k-1 ·a n <ii • e .d1 u ·c a ,t i o n a l , . \ philosophy."
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Choir Hosts Guest Soloists;1 Concert Wa_rm, Nostalgic
the on nowhere twenty-six year old composer on appeared bis deathbed is a difficult, uneven, · program) gave a performance that u n f o r t u n a t -e. I y s e e m e d and baffling little .masterwork. 1 The Latin text, a painfully under-rehearsed. Things didn't seem to come intense evocation of the Mother of God· beholding her Son dying together to create and sustain a upon the cm , sets up a tragic u nified effect so that the elevated mood which seems only at tention of the listener was drawn to fitfully sustained b the music. some of the There is much very pow.erful less-than-flawless details. A music ., but some sections betray a combination of factors such as quick tempos, the use of solo technique more suitable for opera . strings to Pergolesi's rather buffa. The Kirkland choir, with spare accompaniment writing, and Loma some sloppy ensemble lent a i m p orte s ol oists Ha ywood., soprano, and Sheila tense, aggressive aura to some adler, alto, accompanie d by the sections of the piece and could Quartet and not conceal the triviality of the Amici String conducted from the continuo music in others. several Still,· there, were harpsichord by Professor Lee Spear (whose name, incidentally, passages of great beauty and emotion, due,asoftenasnot, to the very fine_ and committed singing of. the soloists. The chorus carried off its sections fairly well, but I have heard them sing with richer tone. GEORGE OR'TMAN But after the qualified Lithographs and drawings by George Ortman, artist-in-residence pleasures Qf the Pergolesi came a winning performance of Brahms at Cranbrook Academy of Art, will be shown in a special exhibit through March 7 at the -½ist Arts Center. waltzes that captured the "Oaxaca", inspired by the artist's visit to Mexico , is the title of audience with its warmth and "Ne u e the collection, which is composed of a suite of fourteen lithographs. -s e_nti m e nt. T he Ortman's work is included in the Museum of Modem Art, Liebeslieder," a companion to an Whitney Museum, and Walker Art Institute in addition to many earlier set, comprises• ·fifteen private and public collections. He is the subject of an article in the waltzes (thirteen were given on latest "Whitney Annual." Sunday) scrt to texts by G.F. Damner (I wonder .who he is?) RIDICULOUS, PRETENTIOUS, AND OBNOXIOUS and a closing text by Goethe. The three plays which have been selected to appear in· the finals The delightful nonsense of the lyri£s (sample: "Yow dark eyes of the Wallace Bradley Johnson Play Writing Competition will be produced on the fourth floor of Kirkland Dormitory at 8:30 p.m. on need only wink: palaces fall and Saturday and Sunday, March 9 and 10, and on Wednesday and . Thursday, March 13.and 14. · The Johnson Foundation provides a prize for the student who writes the best one-act play produced at the coBege. At the founding of the competition, it was decided.to encourage each a uthor to work on his production, prefe�ly as director. This year all three plays are being directed by their. authors. The program will consist of 'c.Pandemonium," by Harry BY SUSIE ELMIGER Kondoleon '.77,. "Gloria," by Jon Hutchison '7� and "A Concise· Last semester the Women's History of the Berkman Egg Corporation, or The Ever-Ending Story Center began a film series focused / primarily on worlts by or about · of.Bill Hambit-:--A Melodrama in S� Parts ' by Marc Lifset '74. The program promises to be an interesting evening of theater. women. The series will continue Each play is cast in a different dramatic genre: ridiculous, this semester with a slightly pretentious, and obnoxious. The prize plays traditionally attract to different orientation. Each film � the stage many campus celebrities, as well as marking the appearance will be more of an cv.ent; only one of µiany new faces. Eggs will be provided. will be shown every two weeks and coffee will be served for µtose AMENIC who stay to share their reactions This weekend Amenic prese nts Alain Resnais' shattering film to the fibn. There is also a Hiroshima Mon Amour. It is a love story intercut with war distinctly international flavor to newsreels. "Sight and Sound" magazine called it "One of the most distinctively original works given us by the cinema •..this is the sort of film that can change the art of cinema." Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 10 pm, in the Science Auditorium. Admission is $.75. BY DAVID SHILLIETO The Hamilton-Kirkland Choir, abandoning the lengthy, grab-bag medicine-show approach of past years, gave a chamJ:?er concert -on to a Sunday afternoon moder.ite-sized audience · in the Chapel. Two large-scale works were pres�nted, the "Stabat Mater" of Giovanni Pergolesi, and the ''Neue Liebeslieder," a set of waltzes by Johannes Brahms. On paper, the concert was neatly - balanced between the sacred and the profane, but in reality, it was the latter that carried the field. ,, an early. 'f!ie HStabat Mater. ·e i gh t e e n t h-c ent{!ry w or k supposedly written by the sickly
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'Professor Lee SpeaT leads the Hamilton-Kirkland Choir. cities crumble.") is effortlessly Mr. Spear seems to have a echoed by Brahms in a varied special rapport with Brahms and series of waltzes ranging from all of his tempos and the thrusting innocent pastoral Laendler to accentuation and sentimental swooping impassioned valses filled ritards suit6d the music perfectly. Brahmsian wit h t ypically I was soon caught up by the chromatics and part-writing. sweeping pulse and lost all track The w or k, necessarily of the little problems of ensemble rearranged a bit from the original and intonation. It is good to see vocal quartet and chorus was the choir expanding into the given by the Hamilton Choir and a nineteenth-.century repertoire and smaller group of Kirkland singers they certainly seemed to be with Miles, Haywood and Nadler. enjoying this work a gr-eat deal. The accompaniment was I certainly did, and left the sensitively and musically provided Chapel, like many others, full of by Grant and Mary Jones of the romantic nostalgia and the warm Hamilton faculty playing a piano remembrance of Miss Haywood's duet. - dazzling smile.
-Women's Center Plans Spring Series; Diverse, Provocative· Films in Store
ART FILMS Three films on Islamic Art in Persia and India will be shown on Thursday, March 7, in the ballroom of the Root Art Center. The films are titled: Invaders and Converts, The Great Sophy, and The Great Mogul. The program will start at 8 pm, and will be followed by an informal reception to which the public is invited. NATALIE BABBITT Natalie Babbitt, children's book writer and illustrator, has contributed an article to the April issue of The Hom Book Magazine� a review magazine for children's books. Mrs. Babbitt, wife of Kirkland College President Samuel Fisher Babbit, is a teacher of writing and illustrating at the college. She is also an occasional reviewer of children's bo·os k for The New York Times and has previously contnbuted articles to Redhook Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, and Cricket. In her article for The Hom Book, "The Great American Novel for Children-And Why Not", she criticizes the American children's novel as being too optimistic. . _ Mrs. Babbitt• Ji.as illustrated two books , The Forty-]!intli. . Magician, y,ri�ten by her.husband, and Smal.l Poems, and��· �ptten: and illustrated SIX. other books. Her newest book, The' Devil's Storybdok, �ill be published by Strauss and Giroux in the��--
the selection of this semester's films. The first film of the series is Queen Chris.tina, rescheduled for Tuesday March 5, and featuring Greta Garbo, Swedish star of the 1930's and '40.�s. Garbo is a legend in Hollywood history - a history based substantially on women whose faces or legs brought them fame as goddesses of the screen. The next film, planned for
March 12., is about Gertrude Stein and her cir.cle of painters and writers living in Paris., When This You See Remember Me was made in 1970 using still photographs, . painting s and rare home movies to provide an engaging reconstruction of Ms. Stein's life. In April, the Women's Center will show one French arid one Italian film. Le Bonheur by Agnes Var..da deals with a triangular relationship which _ ''happy" comes to a brutal end. Ms. Varda is part of .the "New Wave" of including dir.ectors, French Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais. Her style is one of very subtle and careful control so that one is scarcely conscious of her intention, and her ending is thus doubly effective. · Next, on April .23 will be Eclipse, the thrid in a trilogy by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Monica Vitti. L 'A vven turra, also part of this trilogy was shown earlier in the semester and dealt similarly with a woman's existential despair and an abysmal lack of communication among people. A film p�ned tentatively for KINOKUNST May is Loves of a Blo,;ide, by This weekend Kinokunst presents Stanley Kubrick's space epic Milos. Fonnan, Czech director of 2001: A Space. _ Odyssey. Kuhne� •. , �SU{r.ounds this · hifospphical-intelle .JI discussion of .tlie,��'. "tYitJi �su,�rh • T-,�ing Offi ,i}DY. sugg estions for 1 1 .. ;Other, films can be submitted to im_a gery and dpert effects. It is •a must. 4A 1Cincma5eope �d t ... visual, the Women's Center through 'Qi� iC:Olor1, y -shows will be• at 8 a 7:30 and 10:30 ,Friday and , , . campus mail. Saturday , and 10 on Sunday. Admission to all shows is $.75.
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March ( 1974/THE SPECTATOR/7
FILM
2007 :A Space Odyssey. Friday and Saturday at 7:30 and 10:30 pm. Sunday at 10 pm only. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75. Hiroshima Mon Amour. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm. Sunday at 10 pm only. Science Auditorium. Admission $.75. March 4 (Monday) An Affair to Remember and Henry from 9 to 5. 10 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. Admission $.50. Also Tuesday� March 5 (Tuesday)
African Film Series: Mau Mau and Joma Kenyatta. 7 pm. Science Auditorium. March 6 (Wednesday) Russian Film Series: Ballad of a Soldier. 8 pm. Science .Auditorium. March 7 (Thursday)
Films of Islamic Art in Persia and India: Invaders and Converts, The Great Sophy, and The Great Mogul. 8 pm.. Root Art Center Ballroom. Marat/Sade. 8 pm. Science Auditorium. Admission $.75. Cries and Whispers. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75.
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Cannonball (853-5553) Cry of the Wild (PG) and Bigfoot (PG) Cinema Theater (736-2313) Serpico (R) Cinema National Uptown (732-0665) Superdad (G) Paris (733-2730) Exorcist (R) Stanley (724-4000) Blackbelt Jones (R) and The Train Robbers
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March 3 (Sunday)
Discussion of children's books with Mrs. Valerie Bahlke and Mrs. Natalie Babbitt. March 6 (Wednesday) Feature: The Who 8:15 pm. LECTURE AND DISCUSSION· March 2 (Saturday) Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:30 pm. Red Pit. March 3 (Sunday) Free Church Service. 11:15 am. Chapel. Newm�n Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 pm. Chapel. Interfaith Workshop. Father Drobin. 7:30 pm. Red Pit. March 4 (Monday) Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12 pm. Chapel. Also Tuesday through Friday. The Energy Crisis and the Economic Outlook. Mr. Archie Albright. Woodrow Wilson Senior Fellow. 8:30 pm. Chapel. March 5 (Tuesday) Opportunities for Women in Today's Financial World. Mr. Archie Albright. 4 pm. Red Pit. The Securities Industry Crisis of 1969-70: The Billion Dollar Near-Miss. Mr. Archie All:lright. 8:30 pm. Science Auditorium. March 6 (Wednesday) L�tu_re: Ann M arie Cunningham, Associate College and Career _ Editor, Mademoiselle Magazine. 8 pm. Red Pit. March 7 (Thursday) Epi�copal L�nten Se�ice. 5 pm. Bristol Carripu_s Center Lounges.. P�nm: Meg1lla reading and costume party. Hamantaschen and wme served. 7 pm. Alumni House. Psychology Colloquim. Machiavel/ianism: The Cool Syndrome and the Soft Touch. Dr. Florence Geis Professor of Psychology' University of Delaware. 7:30 pm. Red Pit. Th� Negro in Russian History: a Preliminary Sketch. Professor A!l1son . Blakely, Department of History, Howard University. D1scuss1on also. 8 pm. Bristol Campus Center Lounges. MUSIC March 1 (Friday) Square Dance. 7:30 pm. Bundy Dining Hall. March 2 (Saturday) McEwen Coffeehouse Presents: Woody Mann, Blues Guitarist. 9 pm. Free with Social Tax.
March 3 (Sunday)
McEwen Coffeehouse Presents: Buffalo Chips, Women's Bluegrass Group. 9 pm. Free with Social Tax. EXHIBITIONS Currently on Campus George. Ortman: Lithographs and Drawings. At the List Art Center through March 7. Opening Soon Senior's Art Show. Bristol Campus Center Lounges through April 12.
SPORTS Varsity Hockey Against Ithaca. Friday, March 1. 7:30 pm. Against Bowdoin. Saturday, March 2. 3 pm. JV Hockey Aga�st Northwood, Friday, March 1. 3 pm. • '· £ { , t • ; , A_gain>t Northwood. Saturday, fr1arch 2. 11 am. I t ; : ' � CASINO NIGHT , ) . TONIGHT!!! 9:30 pm. Bristol Campus Center Lounges.
Three of the works by George Ortman, now at the List Art Center.,.
WUTR To Feature Record Review; Hamilton Student Mans Weekly Show
Television station WUTR-TV overcome the se two obstacles of Utica has expanded its news before such feature programming programming to feature record could be initiated. When he reviews� The first se gment of the ·. returned to the campus to review series of two minute reviews may the recent Modern Jazz Quartet be seen on channel 20 on concert, he was able to solve both Tuesday' March 5 during the six problems. ' John Held '7.5, the music and eleven o'clock news. ..,FM, offered Bill Lambdin '73, who has dir ec tor of WHCL of the radio use the only not worked at the station as a news 'an c horman a nd p roducer, station's store of albums, but also originally conceived of the idea. volunteered his own services as a r ev iewer. Arrangements were· He said that he was unable to do made for Held to tape the f irst the reviews himse lf, and that the managers of the station, which segment. When the general manager and operates on a limited budget, did director viewed the not relish the idea of buying a operations tape earlier · this week, they great number of records. "ent h us i astically" agreed to Lambdin said he had to implement the series, Lambdin said.
now. An important dividend is that. during each segment, the words "Records courtesy of WHC L -F M ...88. 7" will be superimpo sed on the television screen. M a n y p eople outside the immediate listening area will thus be informed th,t an alternative to their own standard radio fare exi s t s , i n t he H i l l 's own WHCL-FM.,
Three albums will be reviewed each se gment. The opening edition will include Bob Dylan '.s. ''Planet Waves" (reviewed in the February 8 Spectator), "'A New Life," by the Marshall Tucker B an d , and "S olti C hicago S h o w c a s e , ' ' r e corded by conductor Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
List Features Lambdin himself is �nthusiastic about the project. After seeing the The album selections will tape, he said, he wante4. to Hirsch Exhibit - fu:st have the ries scheduled weekly, follow the same general format�
The upcoming exhibition at the List Arts Center is a collection of oil paintings by Gilah Hiroch, a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles who has . exhibited extensively over the past four years. The collection is on loan from the Tibor deNagy Gallery, New York City, and will be shown March 7 -through April 12 . According to James McDermid, Associate Professor of Sculpture and Printmaking at Kirkland, the artist's work realistically portrays f r u i t s a nd v egetab les in c o n g l o m e ra t e , f r agmented com positions, similar to the paintings of Jam.es Rosenquist. Unlike the slick, flat paintings of today, she works with earthy, heavily mottled paint which give her designs a primitive quality. Ms. Hirsch's work is presently on e xhibit at the Downey M u s e um, C a lifornia. She is Assistant Professor of Art at C alifornia S tate University, Sominguez Hills and was artist-in-residence at Tamarind In s t i t u te, Albuquerque, New Mexico, duri!1g the summer of 1973. She has exhibited her work at the P asadena Museum of Art, New York Cultural Center, l.os Angeles County Museum, and Whitney Annual 1973.
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instead of bi-weekly. "I think it will be one of the most interesting parts of the news," he · said,. ''it will be a good added feature."· Held will not be reimbursed for his efforts. He said he would like to work in television, and he is happy enough to b� able to start
Two rock album reviews will be f o l l o w e d b y a c ho i c e representative of more diverse musical taste. Each of the reviews will be sent to the company which recorded the work, a procedure which will give further promotional exposure to WHCL-FM.
8/THE SPECTAT�OR/March 1, 1974
Records Kept Secret·
Kirkland Maps Future
BY ROD STITT
D e s p i te the personal and sometim es sensitive nature of the files that the Dean of the College m a i ntains on each Hamilton student, there is no established p r o c e dure t hr o ugh w h i c h individud students may either inspect or affect their contents. Neither is the information contained in the files smveyed regularly in _order to assure its a c c u r a c y· a n d c o nt i nued usefu lness, said Dean Stephen G. Kurtz, who described parts of the student records as "not vJry interesting." While he agreed in principle that students sholl;ld have the opP._ortunity to challe nge the verac ity· of records in their files, either by petition for the removal of specific items or the a d d i t i on of c omments and explanat ions, the Dean said that the implementation of such a proce dure w as a ''practical impossibili ty,'' c l a i m i ng "a dministrative chaos" would result. Records of decisions reached by deliberative bodies like the Judiciary Board and Board of Review regarding such extreme disciplinc.Ty measures as social or academic probation are kept in a sealed envelope which can be opened only with the Dean's permission. No government invest igators, apr..rt form civil service examiners, have asked to in "pect student files in the pe riod since Kurtz was appointed dean. ·Although prior consent of. the student concerned is necessary for any researcher outside of the Hill community to u s e i d e n t i f i a b l e s t u d-en t information, members o f the Dean's Offic e staff, Board of -Adm ission, ;md faculty members are allowed access to these data without student permission. Kurtz indicated that he favored the incorporation of the student records ke pt by h:s <:>ffice into the
continued from page one work between meetings. . implement. Specific proposals, Meml>ers of the Committee Colby said, will be added ir an w h i ch began me e ting last a p p e n di x t o the g e r ,ra l September, are Chairman Colby, document. Professors David Mille r, Walter Prior to Kirkland's char .r, a Brough.ton, Nadine G eorge, and study group, heade d by Pre dent Robert Muirhead, and Judy Emeritus of Barnard C llege, Sillari, a Kirkland se nior. Millicent McIntosh, wrote .f policy The 'f irst draft will be stateme nt which reflect, d the - distribute d in April to the needs that should be serve d by a Kirkland faculty and to students woman's liberal arts college in the involve d with coll ege government second half of the twentieth (such a s SCACA, and the century .. Assembly). Re actions in writing . The state me nt, known as the will be requested, and the paper McIntosh Document, was writte n will be revised according to the te n years ago, and is no longer responses. cons i dered an entirely clear The pap.er will be presented to reflection of the needs of women the Trustee Planning Committee in college. as a "tentative report,"·in May. In August, during a two-week It stressed, for e xample , that in tensive work session, the t h e orientation of education curricular policy statement will be should be toward the married fused with other documents being woman, and toward the type of prepared by other administrators. educat ion that would make a The documents will relate to woman a good wife and mother. other aspects of Kirkland, Colby said that many of the including financial expectations recommendations expressed in the and expectat ions concerning the M cl n t o s h D o c u m e nt w e r e make-up of the student body, in �'excellent and realistic," but that Palmer Fargnoli, registrar of the colleges· the next ten y e ars. as a result of a "shi(t in the ftling system operated by· the p- o t e n t fa 1 e m p 1 o y e r ·s , At the· August meeting, the climate of thought," the stress -of Registrar, in order to achieve representatives of government concerns of the Se cond Decade th� educational proc ess now· has g r eater e ff ic i e n c y in t he agencies, and parents. Doc ument will be expanded to be re assessed. c o m p i 1 a t i on a n d u s e of With the aid of a ''half-manual, beyond curriculum to include information. half-mechanical" records system, The Second Decade Committee- formulations of all policy having Registrar Palmer N. Fargnoli, the Registrar conducts periodic has established a mailbox in the to do with !{irkland Coll ege. maintains the official transcript of reviews of transqipts in order to fac ulty lounge (labelled 'CCSD') academ ic work completed by assure their "one-hundred per and e xpressed interest in any ideas A f t e r t he · h e ar i ngs, the every student. Members of the cent· accuracy." He said a new conc e rn i ng c urr i culum that document will be revised a final faculty or administration have com puter will "simplify the students and faculty members time� and will be submitte d as a routine access to these records, if .m a n u a l h o d g e p o dg e" of might have. Colby said that the final policy document to the they can demonstrate a ''need" or generating grade distributions. committee would welcome all· Trustee Meeting in January 1975. a ''valid reason" to use the ·Fargnol i a l s o e xpressed correspondence, but add ed that it information. concern about a computer system was not "taking a ce nsus." THE VILLAGE TAVERN For example, faculty advisors i n w hi c h sensitive student ''We will not be able- to reflect or professors who have been asked info�ation. such as psychiatric ev ery opin ion that comes in," she Special Every Monday Evenin1 t o w r i t e a 1 e t t e r o f notes� discipline records, and said. "But we will consider them · Dozen Clams and r e c o mm en d at i on w o u l d be f a c u l t y e v aluati ons w e r e all seriously." APitchec of Beer perm itted to examine a stu dent's incorporated into. a central data _The Committee . is working '$2.S0 transcript. Also, employees of the bank. "I haven't really talked to under what Colby tem1e d "a very J Financial Aid Office are allowed anyone who showed that kind of tight sche dule." It presently meets 14 College St.85�010 to verify that a student receiving an interest I can see a transcript twice a week, and Colby said the a id is taking a full course load. file, but not a total integration." members are also doing a lot of Fargnoli said "students should ;::e;,;,:a,it•�>S-�;;,;'.-�1�•1,;,.},;S--�i:ill-?'::.•�,;-�,;"9!�--�,,.:.;,tW.<it-i;'.iD,:;6;9;:�: have full and complete discretion" . , in the dissemination of their records, and noted that a written rele ase by a student i s required ' � � before ·exzmination of his record by e xternal ·researchers, including
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Kirkland Sophomores Meet Dean on Majors
Dean Poller Boosts Student Advising Plan BY SUSAN ELFIN Basic alterations in Kirkland's sys te� of student advising, including a formal thorough screening process for advisors and the assignment of advisors to the same dorm as their advisees, will go into effect next fall. The Student Affairs Office proposed major changes in the expectations and requirements for peer counseling in response to ne gative feedback about this year's program. Applicants, formerly chosen by a closed committee, will now be judged on the basis of a written application, a panel interview, and fac u l t y a n d s t u d e n t recommendations. The Student Affairs Office is seeking applicants. with sensitivity, awareness of Kirkland, abili�y to listen, and the willingness to give of themselves and their time. Advisors will be expected to be in their dorms at least one evening per w e e k , t o d i s tribute information, and to initiate dorm programs and events. Student advisor s wm also work closely with faculty residents. Dean of Students Jane Poller continued from page one said that the program will "help Nixon appointments to Justice effect change in the atmosphere" were a ·"symbol of this political of donn living. lhcreasing the use occurence" of using governmental of donnitory lounges, which now institutions. usually remain vaca."1.t, is an On the claims that Kennedy expected improvement. Coffee and Johnson administrations also pots will be purchased for each indulged in breaking and entering, dorm to encourage the students to· Clark said, "I never saw it, or congregate in the lounges. authorization for it. I don't Strengthening various other believe it." programs and coordinating them Clark, who is considering a try with the student advisor program for the Senate seat held by Jacob i another objective of the new J avits, called the recent decision advising system. Poller foresees of the state legislature to push the integ ration wi th H a m i l t on Democratic' primary back to iM!visors and with the Orientation September "manipulative and Committee. shameful.·• Though he favors There will be one advisor for s h o r t e r cam pai gns "in the every 10-1-2 n@w students. Unlike abstract," Clark felt "such seeking Hamilton advisors,· who receive a of political advantage" cause fifty percent board rebate, people to feel "cynical, alienated, Kirkland advisors will be all and disgusted, and it hurts the wlunteers. They will, however, be system." guaranteed a single room, and a Commenting on the number of q,arate housing lottery will be lawyers that have been indicted in held for advisors. This program Watergate hearings, Clark. said he insures that their motivation will was a "hopeless romantic" about come from genuine·interest. his profession. He said ethics are Appr oximately forty students still an important part of the law, have requested applications so far, and he said he teaches law "as an and 18 of them have already been instrument for social change." returned. Applications are due Clark b l a m e d the arch l O; and- the ·results will be concentration of power in the announced by April 8. Presidency, and the impotence of After the advisors for next year Congress. "They shoved those ft chosen, they will participate in powers away as fast as they a day-long seminar led by Jane could," said Clark, noting that Poller in April. In addition, they Congress is "reluctant to handle will attend a two-day preparatory tough, mean problems." Clark noted a "new level of workshop in August. Several books concerning peer counseling cynicism·" in the country today, have been ordered for use by and he said "America's character is being tested." "We resent 1t11dent advisors. -------------� s pe a king of compassion and gentleness," Clark said. The audience was noticeably silent when Clark closed by quoting John f'. Kennedy: "I look forward to the day when America wiil no - longer be afraid of grace Elegant Leather Belts & and beauty." Clark received a Old Victorian Jewelry standing ovation as he left the from I 5 - 10 gym . Fine Ladies Apparel Rams e y C l a r k w as U.S. attorney-general from 1967-1969, afte r being d e puty 10 West Park Row attorney-general from 1965-1967 . Clinton N.Y. ._,......_____________, During the 1968 Presidential'
will leave a student unprepared BY NOEL JOHNSON Kirkland Assistant Dean of for a life of broad interests after Academic Affairs, Ruth Rinard, graduc1tion. The conferences have included · has been conferring with members of the sophomore class Tuesday d i s c u s s i o n o f the student's a n d T hursday afternoons to b a c k g r o un d and aspirations. djs c u s s t h e i r u p c o m i n g Sophomores who have already spoken with Rinard said that she concentration prop.osals. S h e has d i s t r i b uted the has been interested in exploring neces s a r y f or m s , a n d h as who each student chose her area explained the role of a major in a of concentration, and when and liberal arts education. She has how· she made her decision. Some students found the s o ught, at t hese half-hour individual meetings, to engage conference more involved than each student in an examination of they expected. Although Dean Rinard has met her academic aims and interests, and the relation of such to her w i t h m a ny s t udents, the appointments schedule · stretches post-college life. S ophomore c o ncentration into April. Many students had proposals previously had been the thought seriously about a possible e xc lusive domain of faculty concentration before speaking to advisors. Ms. R i n a rd said, the Dean. A m o n g t h ose w ho have however, that some students did not properly file their proposals. reached a decision, literature and She also said that she has involved psychology appear to be the most herself extensively in ·conferences popular fields of concentration. because she wished to undertake a formal overview of the students'.---------------. education at the end of the � . I , ,:,,,. sophomore year. &·VOLVO, She said th�t a written progress � report can be useful to a student now and later in her academic EUROPEAN AUTO PARTS career. Dean Rinard said that her Oriskany Blvd. general discu.�sion,s with students campaign, Richard Nixon made were supplementary to the more Whitesboro, N.Y. 13492 Clark an issue, blaming him for s p e c i fie a n d personalized Phone 736-0841 the rise in crime, and vowing to conferences with faculty advisors, replace him. Regional Distributor where the students decides upon Clark was again in the news specific courses. Beck/Arnley Lucas and Bosch during the 1972 campaign, when Dean Rimrd said that courses Parts and Accessories for he made a controversial trip to in a concentration represent only North Vietnam. Clark called the one fourt!J. of a student's college All Foreign Cars bombing of North Vietnam time. A• student must first be ,, "inhuman beyond description. . concerned with the acquisition of 10% Student Discounts T h e A d m ini s t r a tion sharply certain basic skills, according to on all parts & ace criticized Clark of jeopardizing Rinard; the major is the specific the chance for peace, and giving field to which the student applies aid arid comfort to the enemy, by these skills. :� . . · - his presence and comments in ----She s a i d t h a t e xc l usive ------North Vietnam. emphasis on courses in a major
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Blacks -In Russia's ·Past The little-known role of blacks in Russian history w ill be the top!c of a lecture Thursday, March 7, by Pro. fesso r Allison Blakely .of How ard Univer sity. · Professor Blakely's talk, titled "The Negro in Russian Histo ry: A P r eli m in a r y Sket c h ," is sponsored by the Faculty Lectu r e Committee and the Black and Puerto Rican Union of Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges. Scheduled at 8 p.m. in the Second Floor Lounge of the Bristol Campus Center, the lecture w ill be open to the public without charge. Professor Michael Haltzel of t h e H a m i l t o n History Depa r tment, l i ke P r o fessor Blakely, a specialist in Russian history, sayf' the talk w ill give the community "an opportunity ot
get a glimpse of very interesting current research on a heretofore unexplored �opic." Professor Blakely holds an M.A. in Russian history and a Ph.D. in modem .Et.r0pean history_·. from the University of California at Berkeley. His un dergraduate education w as at Or egon State Un iversity and the Univer sity of · Oregon. Before Jo mmg the How ard faculty in 1971 he w as a teaching assistant at Ber keley and an instructor at Stanfor d. Professor Blakely is the author of several scholarly articles, a member of Phi Beta K a p p a and a former W oo d row Wilson fellow . He served in Vietn am in 1966-68 as a captain in Army i ntelligence.
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;J Th e Pu b Ii c a t i o n s B oard Jast w eek voted to reject on grou nds o f unconstitution ality a prop osal for a co-editorship of T he Spectator submitted by Managing Editor Henry Glick '7 5 and Executive Editor Mitchel Ostrei: '75. The mo tion fo r an ame ndmen t t o t he B o a rd's co nstitution s u b m i tte d by Editor-in-Chief Frederic Bloch, was defeated 6-8 wit& four members of the Bo ard absent. A two -thir�s majority was required. Chairman Haro ld Bogle '75, who abstained on the vo te,
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continued from page two grand American tour to Idaho and be in the same place I am now only one year later? Or should I sell my soul to Metropolitan Life? "There's no way out," he continued. "I can't even marry my way out. rm stuck. My minority do esn't even· command special privilege·s anymore." In his own stupid w ay, Witz w as getting to me. He grabbed his books and started to leave the room. ''N ow w her e are you go ing?" ''To the library." ''The horary?" "I have an ho urly tomorrow . I still b.ave,tP suck a 'B-' i0.ut o( th.ii smiling screw. He keeps sayin g I haven 't lived up to my potential.
continued from page tw_�lve domination of play seemed to Hamilton scoring at 7:30. against the Williams-club the night shift b a ck and forth. The The game w as marred by near Continentals controlle4 the first fisticuffs , and a spitting_ match befor e. These two go al ten ders figure five minutes of the game, but then between no. S Phil Wolfe nder, a stro ngly in Co ach ,Batt's plans for seemed to let up as the period reputed Colgate DKE, and the the nea r future. Coach Batt wore on. Colgate tallied forst at Hamilton be nch. The final score remarked after being notified that 11:41 w hen Larry Hay trickled w a s 5- 2, although Hamilton his team would not make the one by Shawn George w ho missed a couple of key scoring play:-0ffs, that he thought this had returned to the nets after his opportun ities. . Benny Maldon:a bee n an excellen t r ebuilding year No r w i c h r e s pi te. 1 H a m i lton hit the- post once, and Scotty for the Con_tinentals. ''Look at countered w ith 2:48 r emaini ng in Douglas, w hile killing penalties · with Al Colby, almost directed th·e per iod as leading scor er . Rick. our freshmen," he said. With the burden of the making Anderson zipped the puck past · the puck in to an open Colgate Chris: G r i g g , t h e G ate's n et. Scotty stole the puck and the play-offs off their shoulder s, tried to jam it in but he was the Continen tals too k on Colgate outstanding n et minder . The riotous Hamilton crow d tripped up by a·Colgate defender. last Wednesday night, in w hat can only be described as · a " w eird " The Con •i n entals hav e two w as r e ady for anything-· game. In the first per iod the anything e xc�pt tw o quick games left this year against Ithaca SWIMMINGColgate scores in the opening and Bow do in. The Ithaca tilt is on continued form page eleven ·minutes of the second per iod. Fr iday at 7 :30 w hile Bowdoin four year� and performs duties Fr eshmen hot-shot Joey Cyr meets the Continentals at 3 pm. equal to an assista nt coach. scored at 18:30, and w as quickly on S a t u r d a y. Although the M a cDonald said,"he does an fo 11 o w ed by freshman Mike Con tinentals are out of the play unbelievable amount of work. He Dosdale at 1 7: 03 to make the offs, these two contests will be puts in more hours than any other s co r e 3 -1. Sophomore J ohn full o f excitement. It will also be B e n n y Madonia's : Jimmy member of the team that's ever Barnett, the leading scorer for Co lgate iced the game for the Rishel's, Steve MJcom's and been her e." Muska will run worko uts in Raiders as he tallied at 9:53. Steve Scotty Douglas' last game in a MacDon ald's absence, run s all M,al co m t al l i e d f r o m Phil Con ti n ental uniform, as they all home meets, phones in meet Hild ebrand to close ou·t the intend to graduate this June. results to the new s services, and gener ally takes care o f the l,1,4 admi nistrative details, freeeing -"."'- • J Coach MacDonald to con centrate expressed in this column will be BY SUSAN GREENBLATT mor e on his team ,and their This column .... w ill appear to th ose of the author (usually me), s w i m mi n g . His v a lue w a s inform the community about the and not those o f the Committee. acclaimed by MacDo n ald, "A -:fl a m i l t o n- K i r k l a n d Student In addition to reporting on the go od manager is right up tber e . 1:Jealth Advisor y Committee. ,,..Advisory Committee, I will also best s w immer s, w ith · your You may ask, w hat is this be discu�sing health services and especially in a tough situation ." committee? Well, w e're not sure pro cedures on the Hill, including Hamilton is fighting for second ourselves. As yet, this body of inter vie w s w ith the people place at the States w her e 1st place students has no official charter , involved. My definition of health is reserved for an o verpowerin g but, w e are in the process of services includes cpunseling and Colgate squad . Niagara and St. draw ing one up for the Hamilton, education as well as medical care, B o n a ve n t u r e, w h o a l r e a d y Studen t Sen ate. The Kirkland · so there w ill be a wid e range of suffered a lo ss to the Blue, also half" is already a sub-committee topics. " plan to take second place. A�d a of Studen t Life. We are trying to Anoth er aspect of this column stron g, but shallo w, 8t• Lawrence find w her e Hamilton an d Kirkla nd will just be gen eral information on has its eyes set o n third. health n eeds overlap, and to healt h p r o blems which are The Hamilto n swimmer s are co-ordinate ou r efforts to provie i mp o r ta n t t o t he college beginn ing to feel tbe squeeze; but better health services for all community. if they can put it all together, stud_ents. Most importantly, though, the they should be home Sund ay with As a member of the Ad visory Health Advisory Committee, the a few surprises. Committee, I will be r eporting on Health Center , and I would like to
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Cagers· and· �acquetee�s End Disfilal Seasons
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season, only four m embers of the BY NED D RINKER · original team were still on . the The Hamilton Coll ege Squash Club completed its se ason last roSter. This lack of inter est and Wednesda y with a 7-2 loss to a weak Cornell team. The loss, commitme nt was partly th e fault which gave th e team a of the players yet th.eir attit ude disappointing 0-5 se ason record, should not be con.demned, but was a fitting conclusion to a long, explain ed. Because of the gas crunch, other club teams were not uninspired, unev entful sea son. able to compete, resulting in an More than a ny other sport on the Hill, squa sh is an individual abbreviated season of only 5 game. O nce in the court, no games, compared to 10 m atch es coaching, . coaxing, jeering or last year. What a squash player cheering can relieve the p layer of needs most to improve is ma tches against his personal re sponsibility. numerous Whether he emerg es victorious different people. Pla ying the sam e from the· unpadded . cell depends pe ople da y . after day results in prima rily on the player's skill, but boredom and stale " play and he cannot win with skill alon e. especially hurts younger players need the valuable Even more than in other who ex esp ecially te am, sport th e player'; ..- inter �ollegiate l?�rience. The attitude is crucial. He .cannot scarcity of competlt ltn from -the count . .on some one &e to· hac k ranks of ·the colle g e community him up. w�en he _ lets down. No also conttihut�d to �is problem. Even wit h , th e a bove coach or teamm at e ca n instill this essential mental attitude in the difficulties, there were som e a cpievm e n t s. player. It must come from within . no t ewo r t h y Freshmen Peter Liqder, K e vin himself. Campbell and Randy Amis filled th e body of th e roster along with The purpose of this discussion D eCamp who made on t he psychology of squash is to Cris remarka bl e improv ement. Ga ry provide an explanation for the Y et this season was not all poor showing of the Squash Club Pandofi '76, Ken Kalina '75, Neil disappoin tments. Mark B adger this winter. The team was not Scheier '75 and John Williams '74 becam e the all-tim e assist leader in l acking in skill. High pre-season were steady performers. Lou Hamilton history and with one interest and a large turnout of Cordia '76 and Steve Powell '77 varsi ty season still remaining, he is BY ED WATKINS play ers attempting to capture one showed promising talent as they s ur e t o o u t d i st a nce his Swimming is not one of the world's major spectator sports. It has of th e 9 startin g places, put the m ade the pla ying roster for the competition. none of the body contact of football or hockey; it does not provide team, skillwis e, in a most last match. With his 8 points against RPI, the chance of death that auto racing offers. Many people find the T h e t w o people most favora ble position. In looking Erni e Found mov ed into third sport drab and colorless, utterly lacking in excitement. bac k on the sea son, captain Brad responsible for any success the pl ace on the all time Hamilton However, at Hamilton swimming is a favorite sport. Often the Casw ell commented that the club team enjoyed were· captains and sc oring list. This is a well deserv ed should ha ve beaten every team four-year-men, Brad Caswell '74 stands are packed with additional spectators lined up against the honor for an excellent ba sket ball wall. The reason for these crowds, success. they faced, but due to lack of and Louis Levenson '74. Working pl a yer: Erni e wa s cl early playing This year's team compiled a 9-1 record, the only def eat coming at depth, experience, and personal in conjunction with Coach Don out of position, against much the hands of Colgate. The record is even more impressive in view of commit tment the tea m failed to Jones, Caswell and Levenson tall er men. Found gave 200% the to ss the team suffered when Doug McDevitt was killed in an win more than 3 out of 9 matches coached, instructed, organized e very time out and grabbed mor e automobile accident over Christmas vacation. Such a tragedy could in any othe the 5 team m eets. and set valuable examples for the than his share of rebounds. ha ve caused the collapse of any other team, but the Hamilton Committment is a major part of other players. The two led the Pedro Garcia '75 is a nother swimmers rallied around each other, dedicated the sea son to Doug's the player's attitude ; the lack of it team via stair circuits and man who was playing against memory, and proceeded to do their best. this season wa s the chief obstacle strenuous court workouts to a bigger and stronger forwards. His This year's 9-1 record is only one of many fin e records the to victory. As the season peak of conditioning unrivaled by amazing l ea ping ability helped swimming team has posted ov er the last several years. Reasons for progressed, interest in the team, opposing teams. This conditioning him tangle with them although this period of success are many. To st art, th ere is a trem endous which had been strong at first, which is vital in what Caswell calls much shorter. H e led the country amount of talent on the team. Each year's freshman class conta ins declined to th e point where n ew the "fast" game, elicit ed a rem ark in foul-shooting for much of th e · several excellent swimmers, insuring to som e degr ee , Hamilton's players had to b e sought from from the Roch ester coach to ·the early part of th e season a nd gave continued success in swimming. lower in th e ladder to complete effect th a t Hamilton was "the many ba sketball fans something Raw talent alone does not produce 9-1 records. Talent must be · the .line-up. By. the end of the fastest t eam he had seen." Caswell to talk a bout. developed and Hamilton's swim coach, Eric MacDonald, is a m aster and L evenson, pl aying 1 and 2, Marty Guy· played his best at developing talent. Coach Ma cDonald has been accused of being are fierce comp etitors who, unli ke gam es of the year in the final too "Gung Ho" in rega rds to his coaching. He is a demanding coach some of the younger players, hav e t hree contests. Aver a ging 18 With t his ye ar of experi ence under le arn ed that squash is a thinlemg, who expects his swimm ers to work to win. If refusal to accept poin �s and 7 rebounds during the ) ,his belt, Brian. should becom e a jus t as much as a physical gam e. second best is too "Gung Ho." then Co ach M�cDonald is guilty. home stretch, Guy took over as sea soned veteran ne xt year. Guilty or innocent, the Co ach ha s compiled a 72-7-1 record and had The Continental bench, while Levenson, who had never pla y ed thC: team leader. : Hopefully Marty a dozen or so of his swimm ers win All-Am erican honors. not seeing much regular action, before coming to Hamilton, n e ver wil l beg in next season on the sam e There is still more to the success of Hamilton swimming than the l a c k e d t h a t comm i t t m ent excell ent note he finished , t�is did w e ll when called on. Doug necessary to bring himself up io talent of the swimmers and coa<;:h. Swimming is very much a Wrigh t '75, Mark Kasdorf '76 and one : "p sych" sport. Each swimmer · or div er must be mentally rea dy to Tom Masterson '77 gave th� the standards of Caswell's play. defeat his opponent. Swimming m ay be a tea m sport but once in the _.start ers their needed rest . time. Caswe ll remarks·· abouf, Levenson·, water, the swimmer is on his own;· his teammates can only shout :'· HAMILTON 73 R.P.I. 102 :-B�b Johnson 'i6,' and Doug that, "He even gives ine trouble encouragem ent. Hamilton swimmer; though, have som e sort' of team Reyn olds '76 saw little action, but , when I'm h aving' a bad day." spirit which makes' the entire "psych" just a little bit easier. The C aswe ll, a long-time te nnis and FG FT TP still hel ped the Continental cause. team is a close-knit community, a community which wim but ha s a squash player, has th e advant ag e I t m a y be unfa ir to m a ke Badger 9 2 20 great time winning. of na tural ability and agility. Coombes 6 0 12 predic t i o n s c o ncerning next Evidence of this was found in their last dual m eet of the sea son Both players are going to the s eason now, bu:: on e fact is Garcia 0 0 0 against Union. Th e tea m, qmfident of victory, has som e • swimmers N a t i o n a l I n t e r c o l l e g i ate Found 1 6 8 glaringly evident · - t!)e Hamilton �experiment" by swimming diffe rent e vents than they usually swam. Tournament, at th e University of Guy 10 2 22 basketball team needs a big man if Pennsylvania this we ekend. What The look on the swimmers' £,aces when they found out what event Kasdorf 1 1 3 they want to win. It is impossible they lack in skill, bo th players they were swimming was re marka ble as were the Hamilton entries Masterson 3 1 . 6 to run a fast-bre ak without intend to comp ensate for in for the last rela y. Despite · the "experime nting" Hamilton still won Reynolds 1 0 2 rebounds and this was preciselv quickn ess and desire , but even so easily. A team like this should do quite well in the St ates this Totals 73 what hindered the Blue attack they know their chance s are not 31 12 weekend. this season. Hopefully som·e good good. The Vill age .Bookstore BOOK SALE! 50% OFF Freshman Coombes proved recru;ting (but w e all know In discussing next year's squad, Seneca Plaza to be one of the more consistent Hamilton does not recruit) will Ca swell comme nted on th e high New Hartfo rd, N.Y ..13413 players on this ye�'s squad. bring a good freshman center to qualiti e s of the returning pl a yers Attic Antiques Shooting bett er than 50% from the Hill next year to complem ent and concluded, "It all depends on If we don't have it, w e Clinton and bring together what could be' attitude. If peopl e tr eat it like it's t he field for t he season, Coombes will order it. t afinebasketball te am. r tlm d re n g. u his of � a 'Ch1·bi i,port, it's going to be onoJ' e b -did shar als6· -�.-· •�--a. 1 .
t he Continentals, accounting for a The C ag ers trav eled to Troy, BY DAVID LECHER hoping to finish the sea son The Hamilton ca ger s ended a 84-73 Albany victory. Mark Badger '75 picked up 7 sweetly with an upset of highly disappointing season on a sour note, dropping their last three a ssists. to go along wit h his team tout ed RPI last Tue sday. The contests. Albany, Tufts and RPI high 18 points. Capta in Erni e B l u e f i n i shed second again, all won decisions from the B lue, Found '74 pulled down 11 however, this tim e by a 102-73 pushing the Continentals to a final r e bo u n ds w hil e . tallying 15 margin. markers. Again Hamilton was out Senio r Tom Juknis poured in record of 6-17. Hamilton snot well enough to . rebounded by a taller team, which 28 poin �s for T ech, 22 in the first win against most teams a gainst has been the story of the half. The outcome was never truly in doubt, as the Engineer s r an UP . Albany last Wedn esday. The Blue Continentals play '.this y ear. Tufts cam e to the Hill in a 16 p-�,int half-tim e advantage . hit an exceptional 54% from the Marty Guy· l ed the Hill team floor to only 43% for Albany. pur�uit_ of a playoff be rth in the Unfortunately Albany got off 92 NC.AA regionals and continued with 22 poin ts and 7 re bounds. field goal attempts to only 59 for their drive, pinning a 101-83 Badger added 20 and 'Coombes def eat on Hamilton. 12. They had lit tle trouble with . ALBANY 84 HAMILTON 73 TUFTS 101 HAMILTON 83 the B lue, out r ebounding them on /' both the offensive and defensive FG TP FT FT FG boards. The Continentals g�t off TP Badger 8 14 4 5 2 18 25 fewer shots than Tufts, and Badger Coombes 6 17 3 7 0 Coombes 12 pulled in 13 fewer rebounds. Found 6 6 3 3 0 15 Brian Coombes '77 led the Found Garcia 2 14 4 5 1 5 B lue attack with 17 points and 12 Garcia Guy 8 16 0 0 8 16 rebounds in one of his fine st Guy Wr!ght 2 7 3 3· 7 2 Johnson efforts of the s ea son. Marty Guy Totals • 32 4 9 73 0 2 '76 picked up 16 points and 9 Kasdorf 2 0 1 Masterson bounds.. 3 1 1 Wright 83 15 34 Totals
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Swmtllers Win �' OnJy the States Remain
BY JOHN NA VARRE The Hamilton College Swim Team finished out the season, last Saturday, ·with a push-over victory against- Union. They .are 9-1 for the season heading into the State Mee t t od a y a n d tomorrow co-hosted by U. of Rochester and RIT. The Union meet was the final dual nieet for the six seniors on the team. They were given the opportunity to call the line-up by Coach MacDonald against · the U-men. In all cases the seniors swam regulars in events whi(;h were notJheir specialties. Sprinter Joe Schrum and Buttedl.yer Gary Karl swam the 1000-yd event. Distance man Dave Greenhalgh s a w action in both sprints. Sprinter Jack Widman copped a first in 200-yd Fly. Hamilto}?. still managed to win 76-37. Johnny Needham, recovering from a shoulder strain, was w o r k i n g o ut o n ly with a kickboard since the Colgate meet, and did not enter the water against Union. His spirits have lifted· though; and he has claimed to be looking forward to the 200-yd. Free in the State Meet. Needham's fastest time of the season is second only to Paul Morosky of Colgate, whom he lost to in an unrefined race last week. Need ham could · be matched against as many as five Red Raiders in the six man finals of the event in Rochester. The Union meet was Eric MacDonald's 72 vi_ctory with only 7 losses and 1 tie in eight years and eight winning seasons. Senior · Fred Bolender gave some i nsi g hts and personal reflections about his coach ''He is the one person I will miss the most ne�t year, he is a friend and
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BY GARY VILLANOVA The f i r s t r ound of the int r a m ural h o c ke y playoffs . started on Tuesday. In the first •game, Theta Phoon Phi winners of Division I met DKE (7-2-1) runner-up in Division II. In one of the best games of the year TPP won 2-1 in OT. Bill Hooke '75 gabe TPP a 1-0 advantage in the first period on an assist from Mac Morrison '75. DKE countered in the second when Dusty Battley '75 scored an unassisted goal. Finally, at 9:37 of the OT period Kevin McTernan '75 scored the winning goal on an assist from Mark Farrel '75. Both Steve , Haweeli 76 for DKE and Tom M o o r e '76 for TPP played exception' lly well as goal tenders.
an a d vi so r ." F r e ddi e also commented ''Coach MacDonald . treats every one qifferent, and knows how to tr�at every one. He is a student of psychology and a student of physiology." Hamilton 7.6 Union 37 4 0 0 - y d. Medley Rel ay:. Hamilton, 3:59.9. 1 00 0- yd. Free: Karl (H), 12:07.4, Shrum (H), Kaufman (U). 200-yd. Free: Shapland (H), 1 : 5 8 . 3 , V a n d e r ve e r ( H), Weisburgh (U). 50-yd. Free: Baird (H), 24.0, Norman (U), Greenhalgh (H).. 200-yd. I.M.; Matthews (H), 2:16.3, Richardson (U), Murphy (H). Required Diving: Erlich (H), 130.80, Holender (H), Foster (U). BY STEPHEN HAWEELI 200-yd. Fly: Widman (H), The Hamilton College hockey 2:41.0, McGuire (H), Kaufman. team fell short of the Division II (U). playoffs by dropping a 7-3 contest 100-yd. Free: Greenhalgh (H), to Williams last Friday night. The f 53.9, Norman (U), Bernat (U). following day they edged playof 200-yd. Back: Richardson (U), bound Norwich 8-7, then lost to 2:17.3, Kaye (H), Magaziner (U). Colgate 5-2 on Wednesday night 5 00- yd. Free: Kraus (H), in the annual contest between the 5:57.3, Vanderveer (H), Jacobsen two rivals. (U). The post season hopes of the 200-yd. Breast: Burbank (U), C ontinental's 1973-1974 team 2:38.9, Marston (U), Murphy (H). were on . the line last weekend Optional Diving: Edich (H), when they traveled to meet 185.70, Bolender (H), Foster (U). Williams and Norwich. Not only 400-yd. Free Relay: Union, w er e b o t h teams p l ayoff 3:40.3. contenders, but the Continentals had to play them back-to-back Co-Captains John Baird and without the advantage of the Dave Shapland also are finishing. home tpwn fans. A. vociferous out their swimming career at the contingent from Hamilton made States this weekend, along with the Williamstown trip, and for Stanley Kaye. Kaye.is one of the half the game it looked like the swimmers on the team, who has Continentals might be on their always swam in the shadows of way to beating Williams, thus many faster and more :renowned[ grabbing a play-off spot. Hamilton swimmers. But the In the first period Williams advantages he saw in staying on scored at 1:33 on a goal by senior the squad for four years with 1ittle tricaptain Nat Robbins. It didn't or no outside recognition says a take much longer for Hamilton to lot for both him,. his coach;' and r e t a l i a t e t h o ugh, as Billy the team. Hutchinson '77 was at the right Two of MacDonald's greatest place at the right time, during a losses will . be Managers Rick flurry in front of the Williams net Muska and Chris BogucH. Muska at 5:54. The 50 odd Hamilton has been the team manager for fans went berserk, much· to the awe of the comparatively sedate con tinued on page 10
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Williams crowd. Minutes later at 12:50 Steve Malcom-· and. the ''Midwest Connection" put the Continentals ahead 2-1. The tilt was tied with 2:25 remaining in the period, as Teddy Walsh was there for the tip-in on Shawn George. Incidentally, Walsh scored the lone goal in the 4-1 Williams loss to Hamilton earlier this year. At the start of the second period, with the score tied 2-2, the game was still up in the air, as all four first period goals were scored on power plays. Williams came out flying, and scored at 1:40. It was Nat Robbins, once again, assisted by Tom Deveaux, who is a senior tri-captain, and also assisted on Robbins' first. goal. The Ephmen their made it 4-2 when at 5:40 Dennis Cahill, a junior tallied on George. The game was still not out of reach for the Con tin entals, bu� it was apparent that the Blue needed a tally. · Defensman Ricki. Aubry , who suddenly has accumulated 14 points, kept the Hamilton hopes alive when his slap shot sailed past Bill Jacobs the Williams tender to make it 4-3 at 11:34. W illiams was penalized three minutes later, and the momentum momentarily shifted to Hamilton. As the Continentals pressured the Williams defense, trying to tie the game, the puck slipped over the blue line only to be picked up by the looming giants of Williams, Angus Morrison and Jim Harkins. - Harkins and Morrison sped down
6 0 Indi no.I 6 5 5 1 BPRU 3 4 2 D Phi 2 2 3 In the second game AD first in. Psi U no.2 1 0 5 DU no.2 Division II blasted J>si U second in 0 Dun N. no.1 Division I by a score of 5-0. It was BY GARY VILLANOVA the second spootout of the year As of today, seven. of the eight play off positions have been filled. for AD goalie Steve Applegate '74. Tom McLoone '76 and Pete Due to a league error which consequently affected the standings, Follansbee '76 each scored a pair South was credited with a28-21 win over Dunham South. In fact, of goals and Phil Halpern added Dunha� South was the victor. This completely changes the race for the runner-up position of-the North league. This Monday TEAK will the fifth. Due to poor ice conditions play South in the final game of the year. If South wins, Dunham during the past 2 days, the final South will be in the play-offs. If TEAK wins, they will play Dunham round has. been cancelled until South for the· play-off spot. In either case the play-offs will start by the latest Tuesday. In' th·s Sund· y. The consolation game (DKE '\'S. Psi U) starts at Division I, AD will meet DKE and INDY no. 2 will face the 7:30 and the final (AD vs. TPP) runner-up of the North. In Division II INDY no. 1 will face Psi U no. l and BPRU will test DU no� 1. immediately afterward.
the ice dealing the puck to eacn other deftly, and Harkins flicked:! it in over the helpless: Shawn George for the back-breaking·· "short handed" score at 5:57. · Williams continued to rampage the Continentals. The Williams crowd, smelling imminent victory, taunted the anguished Continental s upporters during the third period. The final score was 7-3 as Williams scored with four seconds left on the clock. The victory was a must for Williams' play-off chances, and th�y deserved to w in .• T h e y outskated the Continentals in the third period, but it was apparent that the short handed goal; was the margin of victory . · Against Norwich the next aftern oon, . the Continentals bounced back and redeemed themselved by slipping past the play-off bound Cadets 8-7. It was a wide open hockey game that displayed spread out scoring on the part of the Continentals. Ricky Anderson '76. Jim Rishel '74, Kurt Zemendorf '77, Gibby Hedstrom ' 7 5 , Aubry , and Hutchinson, all scored once, and Steve Malcom scored t�o goals. The game see-sawed back and forth, but It was evident that Hamilton was the better club on the ice. Ray· Rossi was in the nets all the way for the Continentals, as Shawn George took a breather after getting quite a work out continued on page 10
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Archie Albright Blasts . Nixon Advises. Law Career Hopefuls
Archie Albright, Woodrow Wilson scholar
Hamilton SATs Decline·; Admissions Toughens Up
BY TOM GREENWOOD Des_p ite the ti ghten ing competition from Ivy League schools, the Hamilton College Admissions department, for the past two years, h as received a greater number of applicants with a wider distribution of SAT scores than in years past. Geographic location and/or climate has been the primary reason applicants cite for selecting other institutions over Hamilton, .:cording to the "Enrollment, Admission, Scholarship and Attrition Report'' prepared by the Registrar's office. Other reasons include, in order of priority: "differences in social life, d i fferences in str eet rcputation, or prestige, differences ii general academic reputation, differences in some academic department, differences in general resource and library material, and differences in freshman housing. Last year 47 per cent of those
high school students accepted by H a m i l ton m a t r i c u l a t e d. Hamilt on's best yield was fifty-eight per cent for the class of 1973. "We are losing more good kids because Ivy League schools are t a k i ng t h em,"· said Edward Wi lson, associate director of admissions at Hamilton. In the class of 1977, Ha milton lost five or more applicants to the following schools: Dartmouth, 24; W i l l i a m s , 1 9; Yale, 15; Middlebury, 14; Wesleyan, 12; Harvard, 12; Colgate, 10; Cornell, 9; Princeton, 8; Brown, 8; Haverford, 6; A mherst, 6;· Brandeis, 5; Tufts, 5; Trinity, 5; and Swarthmore, 5. "You never get everybody you want," said Christopher Covert, d irecto·r o f a dm i s s i o n s at Hamilton. "We have been doing all right," he said. ''The area we have had the continued on page sixteen
"In the mind of the students, I The energy crisis has grown to primarily on oil and natural gas, is a.th a representative of the large proportions as a result of a rapidly coming to an end." The ' E s t a blishment�" said Archie number of interrelated factors, solutions to the problem involve Albright, -Wo o d r o w W ilson according to Albright. He said, tradeoffs which will necessitate a Scholar during his current visit to however, that it is a disservice to r e-a s sessment of n a tio nal the Hill. blame the . oil companies for the priorities. Albright, financier, bank.er and current problems Multinational Corporations lawyer, is the second Woodrow · Government maladministration In examining the role of Wilson Fellow to visit H.µnilton in terms of price control as well as multin ational corporations in and Kirkland. He follows the visit tariff and quota restrictions have developing nations, said Albright, of American I n dian leader depressed incentives to search for it would be wrong to conclude LaDonna Harris. Albright believes new sources of energy. Albright that multinationals are anything that as a Fellow, he should said that "the era of energy but economic animals. To expect introduce an element of the ''real genera ti on which depended continued on page fourteen w o r Id" to t he acade m i c environment. Albright's lectures on the energy crisis, securities, women in business and the career in law elicited a student response that led Albright to say that "there is no implacable gap between· my point of view and the student outlook.'• In addition to the public lectures, Al bright spoke in Go vernment a nd Economics c l a s s e s o n t h e 'r ole o f multi n ational corporations in development as well as campaign financing in the United States. He also met with members of the b usin e&s community of the Utica-Rome area. E�ergy Crisis Speaking about the energy crisis, Albright said that if Nixon had been the captain of the Titanic, he would have assured the p assengers that they were · stopping to get ice. The White House reports on the energycrisis, Albright claimed, have this Titanic quality. Albright said that the Arabs neither caused nor created the ene r g y cnsu. They merely A. group of Black and Puerto m e m b e r s o f Ki rkl a n d's converted a long term problem Rican Kirkland students have administration were reluctant to into a short run crisis. Speaking in r equested President Babbitt's comment. Assistant Dean on s uppl y an d d e mand terms, support in contesting recent state Students Carol Cooper said, "Any Albright said that the basic cause guidelines on desegregation in story at this point wo�d be o f t he energy cns1s was premature. You might be blowing postsecondary education housing. overbloated demand outstripping something out of all proportions." They met with Babbitt in a closed supply· ''Everything is in abeyance," session last Tuesday. The guidelines, issued by the she said, referring to the request State Education Department·, by the students at last Thursday's define segregated facilities "as Residence Committee meeting. those in which admission or "Nobody is quite sure where they residence is restricted, by the stand." Cooper also said, "I suspect institution oi with its consent, to persons of a particular race, color, there might be· more behin_d it or national origin. Such facilities than housing. I would think the include buildings for residence, or Blacks would know better ( than other physical facilities, wings, I). No one should speak for floors, or parts of such facilities, them." Members of the Black and such as separate student lounges." • Jerry Paley, a labor lawyer who Pu erto Rican Union refused handles equal rights cases for comment to reporters and claimed Nixon, Hargrave, Devans, and that ••there is no story." At Hamilton, Dean of Students Doyle, the college's law firm, said that he was not yet acquainted R. Gordon Bingham said that all with all the facts of the case. He student housing at Hamilton is said he was going to speak to arranged through a lottery, and there have been no requests that President Babbitt today.. He did say, however, in a the ·present system be changed. telephone interview, '"It seems- to me that if the college decided to Th e Sp ectator will not he published next Friday, the restrict a dormitory to whites or blacks there would be no question beginning of Spring Recess. that that would violate the law.'' Publi cation will resume Fri B o t h· t h e g r o u p o f day, April 5. complaining students and several Frcdaic Bloch
Ostrer Chosen Ed_itor of Spectator; Will Succeed Fred Bloch . in. April BY SUSAN ELFIN Mitchel Ostrer '7 5 was elected editor-in-chief of fhe Spectator yesterday afternoon by the Joint Publica ti ons Board..�A fter interviewing the three candidates, Linda Anzalone •7 5, Henry Glick '75, and Ostrer, the Board deliberated for over an hour and then announced its decision. 0strer was very enthusiastic about his appointment ancl plans to continue the present editorial policies of the paper. He said, "We will neither protect nor attack the college community. We will try to conscientiously report the news." However Ostrer regrets the Board's rejection of his and Glick's original pr�posal for a ooeditorship. He said that he and Managing Editor Glick would have continued- on page thirteen
dPRU_ WOmen Request Separate Uf'lit Housing
2/THE SPECTATOR/March 8, 1974
Separatism
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Black students at Kirkland have recently requested the right to live together on one hall in one dormitory at the college. This request can only aggravate a situation in which segregation, if only on a de facto basis, is prevalent. Using "racial tension" as a catchword to rationalize and appraise the status quo is convenient, but it obscures the crux of the problem and ignores the need for a solution. Many see nothing objectionable in the fact that Black students move in different social, and sometimes even different curricular spheres than the white majority. Separate but equal, however, has long been discarded as reasonable social justice. There . is no �xcuse for its proliferation on College Hill even assuming Blacks and Whites are treated equally. Presently, non-white voices are often sequestered in the Black and. Puerto Rican Union and only exposed to the college community at large · through infrequent cultural presentations. These activities have been highly successful and should be encouraged, but this is not enough. The time has come for complaints, misunderstandings, and animosities that have grown out of them to be overtly, bluntly, an4 publicly aired, by Whites and Blacks alike. The Assembly at Kirkland, and the Student Senate and faculty at Hamilton would be well advised to initiate a series of public discussions to foster greater understanding amongst the racial groups on campus. It is time for Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Whites to exchange their ideas and views. · Accepting· Black and Puerto Rican applicants and seeking Black faculty and administrators serves no purpose if, after entering the community on College Hill, they never really join it. Cultural differences do not necessitate social barriers. As long as Blacks and Whites continue to ignore each other, our complacency will continue to buy nothing b:ut time, and old sores will continue to fester.
~Streaking
Streaking has at last come to the Hill. Two Kirkland women were reported streaking on campus last night and several Hamilton students streaked in New Hartford last month. We support the·se recent developments, but in order for this movement to become a viable and responsible institution on these campuses, certain positive st.eps must be taken by ·faculty, students, and administrators. The issues at hand in this crucial _question are coordination, credibility, and community. While in no way should the confidentiality of streaking b_e jeopardized, formation of a _concrete policy including representatives from both colleges is essential. -Hamilton and Kirkland cannot afford to ignore re;sponsibilities in making streaking a truly co-ordinate venture. The cr�dibility of the two colleges· will be seriously damaged if they do not respond in an innovative manner consistent with the true goals of a liberal arts education.
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BY LEROY PORTER Kirkland you were a good idea. You were supposed to be a real contrast to the interdictions of Hamilton, but in many respects yo4-r nature has been too pliable because you've compromised your spirit to settle for illusions of high standards. Kirkland you have a worm in your apple. It is a worm that corrodes the will to make philosophies real. Your orchard is turning into a chamel house because you aren't living right. If Johnny Appleseed could see you now. How dare you place an educational lie amongst these apples and turn them into a symbol of another metaphor of the forbidden fruit. Are you an Eve? There isn't very much that is distinctive or obvious about Kirkland anymore, if there ever was. Somehow it seems that the green light is getting dimmer. Perhaps the concern for a philosophy for . Kirkland is waning, and causing an obscure film to fall over the place. Have you decided whether or not you're a woman's college or a female's college or if there should be a distiction? Do you want recognition as a dynamic school for women or do you want to simmer in a sauce of elitism? There's nothing dynamic about a sister school whose coordination · equals cooption. Maybe Kirkland needs to take a real stand, not just an attitude that looks and sounds pleasing to the senses. Kirkland, your liberal and progressive hoax is falling rapidly. Just in passing one can catch bits of converstion and hear Kirkland students saying, "It's a poor excuse for a progressive women's college." It seems at times that you're trying to savor the relics of tradition, ·proclaim the virtues of innovation, and walk the chalk line at once. You've said that what sets you apart from other women's colleges is student participation in the school's government. The Steering Committee has more faculty than student representation, and it's supposed to be one of the vital organs of student government. What's progressive about bag pipes, or buildings ded�cated
Perspective
Tenure
to sponsors. Is it a myth that tests were n ot going to be a part of Kirkland experience, and is the "evaluation" merely a consequence of going through the motions-? You do give grades. There are many who view Kirkland as a place to only endure, to get a real piece of paper and forget. It isn't only apathy that creates such an attitude; sometimes it is just an overwhelming frustration which comes from having to deal with people who have no definite answers, whose opinions fluctuate with the moon and never gets grounded in meaningful action. Kirkland has to be able to understand where it is faltering. Until then the
contraa1cuons will get thicker and soon there will be no room for respect. A conscience has to be developed to recognize tangents and "the not so congruent philosophy-institution relationships. How can you talk about a sense of community when there are no givens? Does Kirkland have an ideal it aspires to, or does the community believe the ideal is established. It's hard to tell. Kirkland, you're young, but there's really no excuse or time to play naive. There are too many rotten apples in your orchard. Maybe you should have chosen a grove to sink your roots in: There aren't any worms in oranges.
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decision makers precisely because of the imperso quality of the decisions. It would be so much le painful a system; yet, it would be -so much le satisfying an educational policy. Certainly even wii present Ph.D. market conditions the very best BY CHUCK FLYNN candidates shall not seek posts they know they A l a c k of s o on-to-retire professors, an cannot keep. Those who are appointed might oftn overabundance of Ph.D's reducing the number of concentrate on politics to try to keep their position voluntary faculty departures, the financial burden of a h e· avily senior faculty, and pedagogical _or put such stress on scholarship (to better their concerns dictate that the administration should chances of an appointment elsewhere) as to shortchange their teaching responsibilities. An d aa establish a clear policy ·on the granting of tenure. It excellent teacher is such a special find that the is planned that the percentage of tenured faculty remain somewhere in the vicinity of sixty per cent. "system" should not require an exception to a rule in order to keep him; it should encourage his This approximation is generally accepted as a proper retention. balance behye�p the college's budgetary pressures, desires for "new blood," and the continuity of an -· · Several comments on the above statement: I.Saying that standar ds of scholarship and teachq experienced faculty dedicated to the institution. There are three most frequently discussed ability should approximate market conditions doa alternatives. First is the Union plan, under which not mean 'a publish or perish rule' sould be professors are often granted long term contracts instituted. 2 .Several people have claimed that the rather than tenure. This plan is usually dlsmissed third system is too "subjective." This claim is based because it merely postpones decisions which those on the false sense of security and objectivity many responsible should be perfectly capable of making receive from quantitative data. Certainly the after the "trial periods" under the present system. decisions which are made now are "subjective" er NUMBER TWENTY.ONE' VOLUME FOUR Under the second plan, which many here at qualitative. The sense of increased subjectivity arila Editor-in-Chief - Frederic Bloch Hamilton reputedly favor, many decisions would be from the insecurity of making increasingly diffic:ull decisions. 3.If we wish to retain and build on a made prior· to hiring. Quotas of a sort would Managing Editor - Henry Glick faculty which is extraordinarily fine, we must pay determine the maximum number of tenured faculty Executive Editor - Mitchel Ostrer members in a department. This policy would mean salaries which substantially exceed what the market News Editor -.. Douglas Glucroft will bear. Obviously the best candidates will alway1 that m�y long term but nevertheless tempo.rary Business Manager - Peter Sluys appointments would be made. Third, standards of be in greatest demand, and although Hamilton baa Photography Editor Associate Editor excellence in line with market conditions could be many attractions to anyone who wishes to be I David' Cantor applied to faculty members up for reappointment teacher, we should recognize that it presents a Robert J. Keren and tenure,i.e.,standards of scholarship and teaching number of liabilities to junior faculty in particular, Arts Editor Sports Editor -, ability would be raised to an even more demanding We should not pC:rmit ourselves to be outbid fora Jonathan Cramer scale similar to when colleges raised their admissions candidate. To be an excellent college we must not John Navarre Assistant News Editors standards to approximate market-.demand through . only raise much more.money; we must be willing to Linda Anzalone Production Manager spend it. 4.Lastly, we must recognize the difficulty the late sixties. There is a major difference between what was and plan with which these decisions are made and Robert Weisser Glen Gilbert d o n e in c o llege admissions and decisions received. Although the men, especially in OI Business Staff. on reappointment and tenure: · admissions officers administration, who make these decisions ban Jack Hornor, Martin J. Kane, Peter B. Bayer, Geoffrey E. Lawrence, did not really know the applicants, had not been sought their responsibilities, at Hamilton we usually Dom1ld R. Kendall, William D. Underwood, Marc Standig. close friends with them and their families for up to hope for compassion in positions of responsibility 1 The Public ations Board publishes The Spectator, a newspaper �ited by six years, and would not have to face them daily for well as competent and decisive decision-ma°' studertts, 26 times· during the academic year. Subscriptions: $7.qo per y�;ir ... •" anoth er �ear wi.:1 ...1-.. �and L•• .J...,.,J .• $Qlllet·u11es :,.1Wb cm p��-ible,.we..•sh.o uId try !°.JCUC th e.t�ta" �o,u5•A •�vtS,.4•f?::\· Ullt"' ' - 'A'!tlteb�. Qo,.i, �1Hilni1JhH C6Ue(�,.urirttc�tfNew Yori<, 13�23. 1.:e te,s (q,..tf:i� ' '. _ ..ed;sqr �ust1 t>e I p mes wall be withheld upofi1bfq\lest.l ,! �r, · ,.i ... � l ,-,failedtto.fmd ano\hfi pqMt-,.on., t f , t," , t < ':"" _,r,3J-_npons1b1hty, one of whidfi 1s�tJM,;Jtrlowktlgo dial , ,mr t�hcu·Hcond <t9fti�� .i. ·�tl:JlJ·, app;taliQ(l to,J UlaflV \ntho•patli&f l'tjii:tion oann"et be assuaged.
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An Extended Metaphor: In Defense of George To the Editor: Kenneth Gro ss, in a letter to The Spe ctator last week, expressed his disappro val of George Baker's article on Alexander So lzhenitsyn. It was not George's t hinking w hich was so objectiona ble, b ut rather the way in which he wrote. It seems that the essay was filled with all sorts of cliches and poor metaphors and other such things which are normally classified by the learned in such matters as poor English; and it hurts me to learn that there are peo ple who dislike poor English. I, for my part, like it. And you may too, and to us, or those of us who have any spirit or spark o f divine fire, not like one of those flaccid sea anemones of grammatical virtue that can. scarcely wobble an antenna in the water s of negativ�ty. To us, as I was saying, eschewmg all such ob fuscatio n, such errant pedantry is something up with which we shall n ot put. A rchitecture, i� is said, is frozen music; who said this, I have no idea, but he co uld just as well have said that cliches are frozen thoughts. They are, to extend the metaphor, tremendous mammoths which wandered up and do wn the earth in the Pleistocene Age- or the Silurian or whenever they wandered-gigantic bea;ts of great age and learning, huffing and puffing and blowing and rolling as they went, up and down the earth, like the Great Sam personifications of immense er udition i� the great and nob le ways: and after a long time, by public . demand, frozen in transparent ice, like Lenin in Mosco w, to be to the glo ry of the human race, Saecula Saeclorum: they are saints, holy and terrific, who after a thousand yea rs and three miraculo us deeds, are �ised to glory by the setting sun, whilst all below approve them cano nized for lo ve: they are books, tomes, volumes, over-sized editio ns which are set upon a shelf to sing to each succeeding generation of glorious tho ughts and n oble deeds: they are Eagle Scouts which soar above the Aonian Mount • pursuing things unattempted yet in whatever Boy Scouts do: they are time capsules, which opened... But I think we've carried this quite far enough. Above is an example of an epic, or extended, metaphor. Any word is a cliche. Any comparison a tired simi le. "What is in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is something often "tho ught but ne'er so· well expressed," and pr obably should b e called a cliche. Nihil dictum quod non dictum prius, said someb ody, and I quite agree. Of all the ways of saying s omething there are few new ways, except for poets and people who make it their professio n. I can't see why it sho ud be a crime if we mortals here below ca� 't speak or write as we see fit, and let the learned go their own way. "Dost tho u think, b ecause thou art virtuous, that there will · be no more triteness?" "Yes, by Saint Anne, and metaphors shall be hot i' the mouth, too." I don't know Mr. Gross, and I hope this don' t offend. Lor d kno ws, that is hardly my purpose: I'm only defending (in my poor way) cliches and triteness and bad English in general, which need defending: and besides, I, like Byron, can't stand an "author that's all author." Te d Danforth,Jr .
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Letters to the Editor Congrats To the Editor: I wo uld like to commend you and your staff on the great improvements made in The Spectator during yo ur editor ship. The pape r h a s unde r g one an exciting transformation fro m a run-of-the-mill fact -sheet to a lively journal of r eportage, commentary, and humor. I sincerel y ho pe that futu re /edit or s will pro vide the q u a l i ties o f leadership and op_en-mindedness that you have displayed this year. Yo ur e fforts to increase Ki rkland's contributions to The Spectator are also notewo·rthy. Thank yo u· for a year of inter esting r eading. Judith R. Sillari '74
Kurtz Reiterates
a t m ospher e . But no, the Housing Committee will prob ably take the same actio n as last year, and I will get shut out of my own rooms. Mayb e when I am a senior I will be ab le to get that single in Nort�; that is, if the dorm still belongs to H a mi l t o n. O r mayb e the· Ho using Committee will be confronted by someo ne with thoughts like these, and make Bundy East a co-ed dor m. Thoughts of the author: Someday, I w o ul� like . to challenge the Housing C ommitte e to present the rationale for its housing policies. Someday, I would like to challenge the Ho using Committee to answer the following que stion: Who determines where co-ed housing on the Hamilton c?.u11pus will be located, Kirkland women. or Hamilton men? Someday, I would like to urge the Ho using Committee to consider this: If Kirk land women are no t willing to live in a truly coeducational enviro nment, in Bundy D orm for example, then they are not truly committed to the . concept of coeducational living, and should not be allowed to live in South' Carnegie, North or Kirkl and Dorms. Neil Cheney '76
calendar than any other class now enrolled at Hamilton Co llege, we strongly urge the Committee on Academic Policy that any change in the status of Winter Study maintain the change ll_l academic pace that the present system provides. Be it resolved: In view of the fact that a decision on a change in the Hamilton Co llege academic calendar is expected shortly, and any such decisio n will probab ly affect the p resent Winter Study program, we, the Freshman Council, urge the Committee on Academic Policy to all ow the student to choose whether his course or project taken under this program be grade d formally or be e va l uated. Pass/Fail/Honors. This choice wo uld allow maintenance of th e present possib ilities for academic experimentation in seardi. of a true lib er al arts educatio n while providing for mal grades for those who desire them.
To the Editor: .._. In the February 8 issue of the Alumnus Examines Campus Apathy Spectator in an article on Judicial Board and Ho nor Court pro cedures I was quoted To the Editor: as stating that penalties have b een too Today I received the most recent issue light in recent cases of plagiarism. of The Spectator, dated' Feb ruary 15, This is what I did say, but I shoul d have 197 4. After contemplating the essence of been more explicit or discr iminating. I.n Rocco Makes a Plug the many articles in that issues from the some re cent cases the Court has handed per spective of a recent graduate, I feel To the Editor: down the maximum penalty of failure in compell ed to write this letter expressing If the Student Senate is· to act as an t�e co �rse. As reflected in a recent faculty my opinion as to the state of mind of the i n f luential body within the college discussio n o n the matter o f plagiarism, Hamilton-Kirkland community. many faculty memb ers believe that this .eo mmunity, it is essential that the student . The · articles on the fro nt page body elect a capable and dynamic Senate sho uld b e the minimum penalty and that accurately · reflect the range of the · president. Because of his past record o. f the faculty had been remiss in not pressing p r o b lems t h a t b e s et t he college service to the community, the candidate for a review of the penalty scale. community (or non-community)-"Organmost qualified to serve in this office is My state ment conveys the impr ession· izati o ns Lack Support, Community Roger Schneider. I feel that the most that I am critical of the Co urt. even when Interest Dwind les;" "CAP Weighs 4-1-4 important qualificatio n for the office is impo sing the present maximum penalty. Pla n , T ables Statement of Go als;" c�mmitment and having worked closel y The Court o f the past two years has taken . "Faculty Rejects Schedule,. Deans Seek with Roger., I would like to make you its duties seriously and I wish to b e Compro mise ;" - "Kirkland Trustees Meet aware o f his activities which I believe to b e s u p p o r t i ve a n d t o e x press m y on Hill; -Allocate Funds To Build Tennis a measure of that commitment. Roger is a ppr eciation. I concur with faculty Court." C o -chai r man of t he C u r r i c u l u m members who believe, however, that B efore assessing these and other C o mmittee, Chairman of the Ad l e r failure in the course sho uld b e the newsworthy articles and . u-enclc, :o.·uc Confer ence Steering Committee, memb er minimum penalty for plagiarism. b ackgro und remarks- seem app ropriate. of the Pr esident's Advisory C o mmittee Stephen G. Kurtz Since I enter ed Hamilton in 1969, its and a memb er· of the Joint Library Dean students have been plagued with chronic Committee. Altho ugh I realize that this apathy, whe ther the issue involved public letter is unusual within the Hamilt on Co-ed Housing Challenged inte rest group _support, for such gro ups as election tradition, I feel that the issues are PIRG or EECH-K, curriculum reform, race _ sufficientl y impo rtant to warrant this To the Editor: relations, alter native living arrangements, departure. Thoughts of a Kirk land co -ed: Co-ed or political activity, both on and off Rocco Orlando '74 dorms at Hamilton? Not a b ad idea. A campus. What energy its students did room in South, Carnegie, Nor th or �• with certain exceptions of course, Energy Crisis Insanity Kirk land woul d b e very convenient. The was devoted to such important issues as rooms are nice, and so are the firepl aces in athletics, houseparties, Chapel and the To the Editor:So uth or Carnegie. They are close to the Pub. Spring will b e delayed this year, if not L ibr�ry, C ommo ns, Bristol and my It_ seems from the recent issue that the cancelled, due to the omnipr esent ener gy Hamilt on courses! Why should I live in a present concerns of the Hamilton-Kirkland crisis. The sun is from N.J. and has an odd cell at Kirkland when I can have all this! community have evidently not ·changed. license plate, entitling it- ·to gas only on Sure its no t a fair tr ade _ roo ms at The p�blic interest groups are floundering odd years. This, as we all know, is an even Kirkland can't compa�e to those at from lack of support, with reactionary (?) year. This is good news for all the Hamilto n - except those atrocious rooms Student Senate senti�ent coaxing their her�its and grinds on both sides of the down at Bundy. We'll get the same rooms imminent demise. Race relations are just hill, who will now have an excuse to stay at Hamilto n as we did last year, so that at dormantly volatile as ever, with white inside their cozy warm dorm, rather than should b e nice. And then ther e are the d o minance exerting its constr ain·ing e �pe r i ence life o utside, cold yet bo ys... inf l uen ce i n m any consc10us and stimulating. If the co lleges were to Thoughts of a Hamilton Fr eshman · · as · 1 activity, unconsc10 · us ways. PoIitlca dist ribute sever al park benches about the ' Sophomore, or J unior : Co-ed dor ms at usual, is nonexistent, with many students campus, peo ple wo uld be tempted to Hamilto n? Not a b ad idea. But I would apparently believing the real worl d outside observe the expanding universe some cold li�e a room in South, Carnegie, North or of pastoral Clinton is b ut another peaceful and lo nely evening. A few nights later they Kirkland. It would b e convenient, the too could answer the follo wing questio n: · wateri�g hole, free from hunger, poverty, rooms are good, and I might get a tr ipl e or pollut10n, and discrimination. Is oxygen or oil the vital energy source? a qua? with a fireplace. But this poll says The G rinning Greek '75 I am sure � r. To dd continues to that if I don't want to live in a co -ed· bemoan the general lack of inter est in dorm, I should no t fill it out. Well, I cultural affairs, ·particu larly in lectures, won't.. But how do I tell the Housing Frosh Council Urges W.S. Revisions c o n ce r ts, po etry readings, and art Committee that any Kirkland roo m exhibiti ons. As ever, frater nity values and To the Editor: cannot compare to a Hamilton room in memb ers r r�ign supreme, nourishing the At a meeting on Thursday, f'ebruary terms of co nvenience and comfort? Why .customs of sexist ; houseparties, athletics are Kirkland women, who do not 27, the Fr eshman Council passed the o v<=: academics, economic ar ro gance;· and following resolutions, which have been participate "in the Hamilton housing "Kirkland b e damned." The status quo of Another Baker Backer sent to the Deans of Hami lton and to the lottery, givendi>ice of Hamilton roomsrl pay t he "Es ta b li s h m ent" is d utifully members of the Committee o n Academic my board bill, why am I discriminated denounced, but its values still ·� in against for the housing that I pay for ? Policy. We hope that the college will take To the Editor: d"isgmse· . d for ms. The elderly, the tenured, · o when int n o ns o ati r uti l nside eso r o c the these at r nde C I cannot help but wo . 0-ed dorms may or may not b e a good . and n· ghteous maJ on·ty on th e facu lty still . . by making its final decision on the academic · Th e · ea. id th r and last did remarkable elucidity . dem. onst r.ated yea 1s s1tuat10n refuses to co ncede that ideas propo unded . calenda r. cnneth Gro�s ,7� m his cntlq�e �f not seem to be too coeducational. The at Kirkland contain much intell ectual �c orge Baker s �tide. My only wish IS physical layout of North and South Do rms Jack Hornor ,77 ·validity and insists that the "lib eral arts ' Secret�r y to the Council that Mr. Gross will see fit to grace The is not very co nducive to co-ed riv . g. Why tradition," s o cherished at Hamilton, must m Spectator with an edito rial df his own so 'not make the east· wing o f B undY ,Do rm remain unscathed from the assau lts of . course structures. • w·mter Study, flexible We, the f'r. eshman Counc1·1 of that the ent rre · co11ege mi·ght marvel at, next year's co-ed dorm· Alt emat· g rooms . m Of · Hamilton Co llege hereby reso lve· that and benefit from, this privileg e d view or floors would. be possible. The lo unge .· h1:>�ral young faculty. m���.ers, and libera l ., in , the. , realiza;ion . that e,· s ·.Pcriecf10n .i. 1 �-w.o_ukl. �e an �oia�r.that,f�w. � d>ascment• and kitchen. area�.would-provici� • c i t , ·,,:;�,��!�,'.��� �1'-��� _ma,ior.i 0:f:�m-: «.. , ' "" '. «cdlcnt oppo':1u�it,i�• _ for-=•men ➔ anlt ," 1, ,fJe�nlCll\.,will tic' a'rfc ',�(j',�r:Ji"p11 01 1 b y:5-: w ll td t JUt. g i ,p. _thOOnuc.lto.0 . uty li�tt i.m_,a. ceftducafiofiaP r- 1 ,pcr10dlof time hy-arif1:ha1tg-c~in- the- --- - --1.enilian ?5t ,.,ronten t@.-er � .
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.Guest Le.cturer Ge.is. Explores.. Manipulative Personalities
Health Report Cites Ailment Rate;
P sycholog ist 'sG ��o�}<?i�1rs 12��!��-���om y
Dr. Florence L. Geis, a profes sor of psychology at the Univer delive red sity of Delaware, l e c t u r e e n t i t l e d , "M ac hi avellianism: The Cool Syndrome and the Soft Touch," at ·7:30 p.m. March 7 at Kirkland College's Red Pit. Dr. Geis and Dr. Richard C h r i s t i e , a p r o f e s s o r of p s y c h o l o g y at C ol u m b i a University, have designed and co nducted extensive testing and e xp e r i m e n t a t ion on Machiavellianism, defined as a ' ' m a n i p1.i,la t i ve p e r s onality syndrome." The term ''Machiavellianism" is derived from the Italian political philosopher Machiavelli, whose view of human nature is that it is essentially selfish and calculating. Dr. Geis and Dr. Christie have found that "high Machiavellians," o r people who receive high scores on the tests, are generally found in pr ofessions that control and manipulate peo ple, such as law, psychiatry and behavioral science. They are generally not �urgeo ns, acco untants or natural scientists. D r . Geis desc r ibes t he trademark o f the Machiavellian p e r s on a l i t y a s t h e ''cool syndrome." High Machiavellians are l i kely to be extremely resistant to social influence, to --· �DI I ti!fIII 11lillI I II IJUI I
appraise situ ations logically rather than emotionally, and to initiate and control the structure of situations whenever possible. The "soft touch," the low Machiavellian who is susceptible to social influence, empathizes with people and gets "caught up" in ongoing human interaction, is the · oppo site of the high Machiavellian, who treats people as objects. He is an effective manipulator, Dr. Geis believes, not because he reads other people and takes advantage of their weaknesses, but because his i n s ensitivity to other people permits him to "bull his way through in pursuit of coolly rational goals." On a societal level, it appears t h a t i n dust rializa t i.o n and urbanization foster the emergence o f M a c h i a vellianism, and cross-cultural studies tend to show that "increased cosmopolitanism is c r e ating a generation of Machiavellianism." Ors. Geis and Christie ha, co-authored a book, Studies i Machiavellianism, and.Dr. Geis ha published numerous articles o the subject. Dr. Geis' lecture at K irklanu was sponsored by the Kirkland So cial Science Division and the Hamilton Psychology D.epartment .
109 BY JOHN VIGREN a c c o unted for 407 Kirklan d to 78. S o re t h roats ranked first students' calls to the Health S t u d e n t s h o s p i t a lized, amo ng calls to the Health Center C enter last year, seco nd in meanwhile,. increased fro m 16 t o last year, the Annual Repo rt n um be r o nly to respirato ry 27 from 19 71 to 1973. Calls t o reveals. Colds ''. came a close ''bugs." Dr. Leon R oe, Health the Planned Parentho od facifity at second," follo wed by allergy Center Director attributed this to the Center decreased slightly in sh o ts, dysmenhorrea, an d sprains. changed clo thi�g and mu nm living styles the same period from 354 to 323. Altogeth�r, 11,094 clinic _calls amo ng wo men and the use o f the The Health Center rendered a were made m !97�-7 3. In-patients pi ll. Genito-urin disorders, to tal of $9 8,784.5 0 in services in ary (students staymg m Health Center which include venerea l disease are 19 72-7 3. The physicians' routine beds) totalled 39 3 for 838 total a separate, much less nume;ous charges are $7 per call during the days. The Health Center exceeded catego ry day and $10 for night calls. These its capacity o nly one day in the Jack's Clinton Shell A to tal of 59 students were and all of the psychologist's year. treated for venereal disease in services are paid by students in 853-8030 The Psycho logist's Office o f 19 72-73, o f which fourteen were regular annual health service fees the Health Center served 8 per p o s i t i ve l y d ia g n o sed. T h e to the Colleges. Beds a t the Health We Service Al I Makes of Cars cent and 13 per cent, of the remainder were treated on the Center are $30 a night, a ch arge Hamilto n and Kirkl and student basis of suspicio n, o r "classical Dr Roe says "isn't practical; the Road Service on the Hill p o p u l ations, respectively, last· clinical findings," said Dr. John actual co st is ·much more than Closed Sundays year. that." Parker, Center physician. IJIDI 1 h1 The Hamilt o n figures at the "Wi t h the best diagnostic Psycho logist's o ffice are stable for techniques currently available, the the preceding four years. The incidence o f positive cultures is percentage o f Kirkland students in only 60 to 70 per cent under the P s y c h o 1 o g i s t Dr . D o n a l d best circumstances. Obviously, Muilenberg's o ffice has decreased thirty to forty per cent o f the steadily fro m 36 per cent in people can never be positively 1968-69. Muilenberg calls this di a g n o s e d, but infect o ther figure "way o ut o f line" for people," added Parker. college students. ''This was a One problem in diagnosis is c h a r t e r c l a s s w i t h n o that while urethritis usually upperclassmen and few formal a c c o m p a nie s a g o n o r r h e a structures," h e said. "It was a n condition, i t o ften occurs alo ne. atypical- freshman class, m ore There is no conclusive diagno sis unusual that most.'' for it. The Fiat 128 Sport L Coupe and a true sports car F a c to r s i n t he high "A frank discussion of recent have a lot of features in common. consultatio n rate, he said, were sexual experiences is essential Rack-and-pinion steering. Independent su§Pension. the College's high selectivity, the be t we en a s t udent and a Power front-disc brakes. Standard radial tires. Front lack o f extracurricular activities, physician," Dr. Parker said. wheel drive. A 4-speed gearbox. Vinyl bucket seats. and "the pioneering Kirklan d There were "alm ost no cases" And �added steering wheel. spirit." o f go no rrhea so f ar this year, Dr. There are, however, two features they don't have H e a t t ri b u t e d the high Roe said. N o cases o f sy philis have Hamilt on figure o ( 13 per cent in ever been reported on the Hill. Dr. Roe emphasized the Health 19 68 -69 to what he co nsidered a ·· -,�, $P. very different time: along with Center's purely clinical appro ach $(3_133 * pnce. . ... draft problems, internal unrest in t o t r ea t i n g a n d diagno sing the c�untry, and a great number venereal disease. The Center, he said, treats it like any other o f social issues. Dr. Muilenberg co mmented that there was "a infectio us germ and any social backlog o f students with no o ne stigmas students or do cto rs attach t o see" f o r p s ych o l o gical to it are irrelevant. counseling until he arrived in Among other statistics in the· _•Utica and Sales Tax and Extra Equipment 1968. He is the Hill's first 1972-73 Report, the number of full-time student psycholo gist. total injuries decreased from 752 . S uggestio ns for a woman to 651 in the perio d fr om psycho logist either at the Health 1 971- 1 97 3 , w h i le K i rkland Center o r at Kirkland were reached full enro llment and the discarded at the end of 1973 due student population increased by to lack of funds o r a demonstrable o n e-f o u r t h t o o ne.;t h i r d. o verload. "It would o nly make "Emotional upsets" decreasc;d Overseas delivery arranged through your dealer. my work· mo re enjo yable," Dr. from 54 to 32 in this .period; Muilenberg said, commenting on pregnancy t,.sts, were down frnm the proposed addition to the 51 to i1:'1J�"'i-ti��h:' Health staff. t he Health Center's part-'time
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Hamilton Trustees Meet This Weekend Proposals for increasing overall charges to students and fo r renovating 104 College Hill Road, the former Wallace house, will be oonsidered by the Hamilton Board of Trustees when they meet here this weekend. The administration w i l l recommend a $300 raise i n overall expenses, it has been learned. Administration recommendations, how ever, are not always approved as submitted . In justifying a probable raise in apeqses, Eugene Lewis, acting provost, said that room charges have not been raised in four years. In comparison to other private colleg es, Lewis a l s o s aid, Hamilton's overall charges are k>w. Ha milton presently charges $4,320. Kirkland charges $4,400, St Lawrence $4,268, Vassar
$4,315, Wesleyan, $4,640, and D a rtmouth c h arges $4,820, according to Lewis. It is also presumed that the proposed increase will include a board hike. Service Systems, Inc., which was caught in a contract n e gotiated last spring before drastic rises in food costs, has entered contract bids calling for an increase of approximately ten per cent. J. Martin Carovano, acting president, will recommend to the Board that 104 College Hill be used for student housing. The building, which was consumed by fire last spring, could house about 15 people. If renovated, however, the house will have to meet college fire standards. Policy here dictates t hat all student housing be fire-resistant.
Health: 'Venting My Spleen'
In other action to be taken this weekend, the Budget and Finance Committee will hear proposals and cost estimates for various c o m p ut e r· f a ci l i ties und e r consideration. The Develo!'TI"P.nt Committee will evaluate present fund raising efforts. The Trustees will also approve the appointment of a visiting black s�holar, who will teach here for one year.
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A team of three Hamilton Co llege Mat h e matics majors recently finished 71 ·out of 295 teams competing in the 34th W i l l i a m L o w e l l P u t nam M a t h e m a t i c s Co mpe ti t i o n a n n u a l l y sponsored b y the Mathemati cal Association 5>f America. The competition, which dates back to 1938, is _ designed ','to stimulate a healthful rivalry in mathematical studies in the colleges and universities of the U nited States and Canada." Entrance is open to regularly enrolled undergraduates in these s c hool s and annually draws con testants f r om the best mathematics students in both countries. This year's six-hour examination drew 2053 entrants from 362 institutions. The five highest scoring teams were Cal Tech, Univ. of British Columbia, Univ. of Chicago, Harvard Univ. and Princeton Univ. Team members ofo1 Hamilton (and their rank among 2053 e n t rants) were Bob Hanek (380.5), Tony Lofaso (701), and Chak Tso (659.5). Although oniy three entrants can represent the school, others who took the exam were Jason Cohen, George Demathas, Vijay Murgai, and John Powers. This is the first time· that a team from Hamilton has entered the competition.
STUDY IN SPAIN AND FRANCE SPANISH STUDENTS: The Academic Year in Spam program will consider one semester students. Those interested should se.e Mr. Medina immediately. The dea<Qinc fo1r all applications_ to both the Academic Year in Spain and the Junicn Year in France is March 15. TRYOUTS ARE SET FOR MCKINNEY PRIZE CONTEST Tryouts for the annual McKinney Prize Speaking Contes.t will be held on Tuesday, Mar. 12 (Freshman only); Tu.uday, Mar. 13 (Sophomores) and Wed., Mar. l4 Ouniors). They will be hdd at 4 pm in the Physics Auditorium. Interested students should prepare a four minute extemporaneous speech, and submit their nam_cs to Prof. Todd, Kirkland 13, immediately. The McKinney Contest for the finalists will be held in the Physics Auditorium on Friday, April 19. Thiree speakers will be chosen from each of the three classes, and both first and second prize.s will be awarded . HEALTH CENTER HOURS Beginning Thursday, Mat"ch 7 ,. and running through Monday, April 8, (excluding Spring Vacation), the Health Center physician hours will be 9:00 to 11:00A.M., '3Dd 3:00 to 5:00 PM., Monday through Friday. After Monday, April 8, regular Clinic hours of 9;00 A.M. to 12:00 and 2:00 P.M.- 4:30 P.M. will be reinstated. STUDENT CONCERT l A student concert sponsored by the music faculty of Hamiton ) ?lap el at and Kirkland will_ take place Tuesday (March 12 at the C 8:30 p.m. The concert, which will- be open to the public without charge, will feature the Hamilton-Kirkland Chamber Orchestra, the Hamilton Brass Choir and vo_cal selections by Kirkland students Lisa Jablow and Susan Shachner.
BY SUSAN GREENBLATT The group which attended Dr. Leon Roe's Community Health Forum on Wednesday night, February 27, was unfortunately small, probably due to lack of publicity for the event. But, Dr. Roe showed himself very knowledgeable and approachable about student health A0IRONDACK PLAYHOUSE problems and described basic health procedures at length. Auditions for actors in the· apprentice program of the Adirondack The Health Center is open whenever school is officially in session, Playhouse will be held on Tuesday, March 12, from 4 to 6 pm. in the with a registered nurse on ·duty 24 hours a day. Drs. Parker and Roe Science Auditorium, and call-backs at a time to be determined after hold routine clinic hours from 9 a.m.-12' noon, and 2-4:30 p.m. the spring holiday. The Playhouse will again present an eight-week Monday through Friday. One • of the doctors is on call for season of resident professional stock in the Minor Theitre. The emergencies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. possibility of academic credit for apprentices is being investigated. All minor injuries such as lacerations, sprains, strains, contusions, Persons wishing to audition should present three minutes of etc. are treated at the center itself, while major injuries or surgery prepared modern material. Please contact Mr. Barrett for questions are referred to a hospital in the area. In the case of broken bones and 'and appointments. die like, even if the injury is not very serious, the patient is usually VOLUNTEERS EEDED sent to a bone specialist. Dr. Roe noted that this eliminates for the Bl.ind in Utica is looking for Association Central The confusion and apprehension on the part of the patient and his or her visually handicapped� This agency also the with work to volunteers friends, although the treatment they would receive at the Health If interested please contact Susan brochures. and information has Center and at the hands of the specialist is probably the s�e. . Slivonik, 301 Court Street, 797-2233. Another service offered by the Health Center is probably not so well known. Either Dr. Roe or Dr. Parker can examine and prescribe FIREWORKS any birth control method, except the IUD, for the student. The Dean Bingham wishes to remind the student body that fireworks patient pays only for the Pap Smear ($4.00 now, $5.00 soon, and other explosives are illegal. Any person found u.sing fireworks on probably), and the supplies, not for the doctor's services, as ·at the campus will be prosecuted accordingly. Planned Parenthood clinic, for example. The student must purchase CLASS AND CHARTER all supplies at a drug store, not through the Health Center. . , If anyone has any suggestions as to what activities they would Physical examinations for post-graduate study, travel abroad, and like to have included in the schedule Jor C1m and Charter Day or summer employment are among the other services offered by the would like to be on the Class and Charter Day Committee please Health Center. X-rays of the chest and extremities are done free of contact Vito Stellato through campus mail oir call X7492. dtarge. J e s s e Zellner, di�ector of The Health Center has laboratory facilities and does blood counts institutional affairs at Kirkland and- urin.e tests at no charge. A charge of $1.00 is made for either a . SQUASH TOUR A ENT and John Mavrogenis, Hamilton mono spot test or pregnancy test. This is for materials only not for Any 1st round B draw matches not played by tomorrow (March assistant to the president have the service, which, Dr. Roe said, would cost $7.00 in a Utica 9) at 6 pm will cause both players to be IJEFAULTE,D. We must com p l eted their reports on hospital. The ce_nter has _access to the lab facilities at Upjohn finish both tournaments next week. S1$MIF'INALSwill oe Monday7 at secretary sa�a!i�s: They gave their laboratories at a savings of 50% oyer other area approved labs. 4 pm, FINALS will. be TUESDAY at 4 Jim� All a.re- invited to watch. findings and recommendations to Some of the more expel)sive• medications (a list of these·is posted Still in the running for the intramural points are AD no.2 Freshman, t h e i r r es p e c t i v e p res·i dents in the Health Center) are charged to the student at cost. DKE, DU no.I, DU no.2, and Psi U. sometime last week. When medically indicated, a student is entitled to an unlimited The precise contents of their ii-patient stay. A charge is made for the meals of ..hose not on the KIRK�AND SPORTS reports is considered confidential. meal plan. One student present at the forum raised a question about This Spring there will be ample opportunity fo Kn:IUa.nd students However, there definitely will be the necessity for in-patient care. Dr. Roe replied that he felt it was a to participate in the following sports· lacrosse-, v.olleyball, soccer, some salary increase, "a normal 1eccssity because the colleges have no health insurance policy for softball, tennis, golf, and track. Some instrwttion and <t.oa£:b.ing will percentage increase plus more," the students. There is a $50.00 deductible policy, but it only covers be available if interest warrants. Sip up immediate-Ly in Mrs. . said Zellner. He added, "The accidents, not illness. In answer to the comment that it was Richardson's office, B dorm �r caD ext 751!2... decision that has not been made is ridiculous for students not on the meal plan to have to pay full price how much more." for meals if all they can eat is tea and toast, he agreed, and said b hcfd Monday, Elections for Student Senate Prcsid'cnt The two reports were b�sed on .,mething would be done about this matter. d i f f e r en t k i n ds o f d a t a . March II, between 9 a.m. an d 5 p.m. in the Bristo Campus Center� If Many students have been surprised and/or disturbed at the a run-off is �ecessary, it will be held on Wafnaday� Mavrogenis' report is the more comparative ease with which antibiotics are perscribed by the Health "comprehensive." He compiled Center doctors (the nurses do not prescribe such drugs.). LENTEN SERVICE the data by doing a survey of the "In dealing with a college community, you are dealing with a by Paul Drob� Ncwmanehapfain, andJod led Service Lenten A of variety a by paid salaries tecial set of health problems," Dr. Roe �xplained. ''Close living Ch College Tibbetts, will be hdd. Wmncmay evening, March lain, ap o rg a n izations, bus iness and quarters, irregular eating and sleeping habits," pose special problems Ch the in 13, p.m. 7:30 at el ap area. the in educational, ii students' health maintenance. Dr. Roe sees the use of antibiotics Some c on ce rn has been in mild illnesses as a preventative measure, to ward off the more FREE CHURCH SERVICE expressed that the salaries cited in prolonged illnesses and periods of disability which might otherwise The Free Church of Clinton Scrvicc this . cc will be led by the the report are equivalent to the result. A student asked if this practice might not tncreaseile patient's Rev. Franklin Fry. His topic is- •:, •. S. B�:. 1\'he Christian as m lowest ones· that could be found "sistance to certain antibiotic drugs, and. thus potentially impair Musician." Mr. Fry is pastor of St- Jof"s· Evangelical Lutheran among those surveyed. Thus, even J his experience, recovery from a serious illness. Dr. Roe s�ated in that N. Summit, in Church s,. and ai.memba of the almnn. Hamilton a ., · · a raised salary would be relatively , this had never been the case. .. Hamilton Board of Trustees·. The scnicc is at 11:15 a..m.. Sonday m low on a comparative scale. This He said that student interest. is imp�rtant in improving those the Ch ap el. · - SlGN STOLEN c o u l d p o te nti a l l y h u r t health services offered, and also to help innovate possible new programs with the doctor who will replace him as director of the · Hamilton-Kirkland's chances of The American Philosophical Assoc� "s sigDhu, hcren stolen� If attracting and hiring secretaries of anyone has any information as to its wflcrcabouu., please- cont.a.<C.1, llcalth Center. lte hopes that similar f�rums will be planned in the ... · '• .._ : � ... ,. • •• · '. •• 1 6 • • • • hfuture. Profe· ·cir Norman BoWie.. · �-1- •' • � )• J •� � rg <;, \J * · , -�, . � · .J �• 'Rlt)!b.- l1 -.:v r�J ot �,:f ,··1�,r1{·.� - (.l •ts;..J ,f (,1 ,·.
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Student -Senate Elections
The problem here is not solely a Kirkland matter; nor is it a Hamilton one: this problem is something that must be dealt with by both schools. It is quite important to continue working in conjunction with the Kirkland Assembly, particularly in deciding budgetary matters. A good deal of the burden for making the coordinate system work rests on the student; and until we can realize this and work together, we will accomplish nothing. I'm aware that I am the only continued on page ei{llt
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Here we are at a college in which 96% of the student body is in favor of winter s t u d y {according. to a Curriculum Committee poll conducted last fall) and t he f a c ulty already has developed alternatives which will, in my opinon, be implemented in the spring. This is a college where, if you're working on a paper, the book you need exists according to the card catalogue, but not according to t h e s h e I v e s o r t....h e c i r cu I at i on
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political bullshit and try to recreate the gfve and take.. between the administration and the student body which should exist at a small co[lege. Now let .. me give �an �xampl� of a mismanaged affair-the discussion of winter s tudy. Win_ter study .has ,been'. a tremenc:lo�sly, popula institution witH the student hody_ since its inception. -1 'm strongly in favor· br Winter Study {and according to the article two weeks ago in The Spectator it would seem that at least a dozen faculty members feel the same way). I guess the reason I'm disturbed about the whole process that ·is presently
college; to take a stand on "political" matters such as the strike and the Presidentail search. The Senate, ideally, should act to inform the faculty and administration of student opinion. And this is why a line of communications must be opened between the Senate and the student body·. The Spectator and Chapel should be used not only as a means of reporting on the activities of the Senate, but as a forum for the presentation of different sides of issues we must deal with. The Student Senators would make an effort to ascertain the sentiments of the class they represent, and the Sentate will be responsive to the wishes of the Student Any realistic appraisal of the working Body. Next year, you would not only of the Senate, however, presupposes a know what the Senate is doing, but the Senate that is capable of more than the Student Senate wou Id know what you allocation of funds to a chess club or the want it to do. granting of a charter to a campus bridge The second way to make the most of club. Unfortunately, most Hamilton the Student Senate is to recognize the Senates have found it difficult to operate need for cooperation and coordination/ in an¥ capacity other than that of a rubber stamps-and there's a reason for it. Bogged d-own- in a mint-bureaucracy of more than twenty committees which are almost totally inactive and content witll conducting meetings void of any sort of operational procedure, the Senate 1w fallen victim to a self-inflicted paraly�s. The internal organization and structureof the Senate is shoddy-period! Such an organization does little to merit student support. At present, the Senate is not worthy of it. Not until the Senate submits itself ·10 some sort of revamping can it expect student input and support that is with· Kirkland: inter- and intra--commfrtee essential in bringing about proper and coordination. The difference in ,the effective Senate operation. ·selection of male and female members of Little things, like the implementation the Health Committee, for example, may of some sort of operational procedure fa retard the progress of that ,committee. the conduct of meetings-can go a long way in helping restore the respectability and effectiveness of the Senate. Committees o ver.l apping in function should be STUFFING THE BOX incorporated. Strong and responsive liasons between the Senate and its committees need to be established and maintained. Senate meetings should utilize agendas . drawn up and distributed to Senators prior to each meeting. TIie recently revised Senate Constitution, J approved by the student body, should bea working constitution and used in the conduct of meetings. Such has not been the case in the past. The Senate has every right to expect working members who are willing to do more than merely grace tlr Senate with their presence at a bi-weekfy meeting. The lack of communication between the Hamilton Senate and the Kirkland Ass_embly _mus.L b.e_ alleYiated. -At present the two bodies work independently of
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increased common sense desk-someone has ripped it off. It is a college where year after year there are complaints about the SAC and yet the amount of student input into its decisions still remains minimal. What ever happened to al I the proposals about moving the Pub ? I guess they never got further than The Spectator letters column. And, why is it that I hear complaints con'stantly about the poor athletic facilities (we need a new field hoµse), and yet the building of a new structure still remains way down on the priority list? The problem appears to me to be that there is .a lack of stL1dent input into the determination of the course, of student affairs.. In order to solve these problems we. don't need increased politization, we need increased common sen·se. There ar_e committees under the student senate, to deal with all of these problems. But there is a lack of coordination between the senate and these committees and, more specifically, between these c.ommittees and the student body. Who is to blame for this lack of coordination? I think it's the President of the student body. It has become obvious to me in my two years on the Senate and, less specifically, in my observation of the American republic, that a republic without a strong leader can't work. All the Hamilton College student body needs is a good organizer, someone who wants to be President, not because it would look good on his gra.duate school applications __ (! '.!1! _']_ot going t9 _ gr_a9u<!_� school, so .what's my reason for running?)', but because he wants to clear away the
To believe that any Student Senate can move mountains is unrealistic. The power of the Stud{\nt Senate does not lie in any ability to- institute breathtaking change. Two years on the Senate has shown me . that the po�er of the Senate lies instead in its abirity to bring about what can • realistically be called "minor" changes-the sum total of which can produce a marked effect on student life.
Emerson It is my firm belief that- the Student Senate provides us with an opportunity to determine our academic future. Not to take advantage of that opportunity is · foolish. The Senate, for example, through its arm of the Curriculum Committee, must work closely with the C.A.P. to develop a program which would capture the advantages of Winter Study {it provides an opportunity for off-campus and independent study, a break from the traditional course load, with all its pressures, and a chance to explore an interest outside one's major field of study) while avoiding its disadvantages {increased · faculty load and fewer course offerings). The Senate must establish priorities and set its sights on those delineated goals rather than operate on an ad hoc crisis-solving basis. It _must not be afraid to play a role in issues. that. confront .the
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To the Men at Hamilton: We are lucky to be at Hamilton: not for the nice rooms we can have at South or Carnegie; not for the quality of the courses we take; not even for the · opportunity to interact with Kirkland academically and socially-we are lucky because we have a community, one in which the faculty, administration, and students all take part. If there is one thing that has made our alumni so generous in their gifts to the school, it is their knowl edge that they were a part of a vital, close-knit body while at Ham Coll. We too have a community, but we need to recognize it and realize how important it is for us.
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The interests of the students are vital to the functioning of the community. What you want is what is important here, as long as you communicate your concerns to the people of power or influence. Sel f-involvement to the degree· that ·one's life is limited tostudies and the "pursuit of happiness" throws a wr�nch into the
To overcome this lack of initiative, this year�s Student Senate went out and canvassed students to gauge opinion; I fully endorse such a method and would · hope to do it more than once. The Senate must be more active in its representation of the student body, and it must continually seek out your opinions in the issues with which it deals. I see the President's role as being one of c o m m u n i c a t o r , m o ti v a to r, a n d coordinator.
1) As communicator, the President must get the senators to communicate with their constituents, and he must also strengthen this communication by keeping the school aware of Senate activities The Spectator and Monday through Chapel. 2) The Senate as a representative body votes on issues that demand much thought and the President must motivate students and their Senators to create informed opinions. By· gathering opinions > the President will stimulate a variety of ideas and make the Senate a forum for discussion of many sides of the issues. continued on page eight
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The coming year is an all-important one for Hamilton, as problems must be fa ced and decisions must be made on such -time-worn subjects as the academic calendar, Winter Study, coordination, course offerings, Honor Code and general college policy. That the student voice is not only heard but is also listened to can be ensured by the election' of a strong Student Senate President. The strength of the Senate as an influential force on campus is related directly to the man who sits as its President. The 1974-1975 Student Senate can be analogous to its brother of three years past, a funding body for student organizations, or the Senate can be a forward moving body, incorporating its funding responsibilities with its new-found responsibilities in academia and in the social life of the Hill. It is this latter Senate that I wish to preside over. The Senate for many years has been a composite of few active members and many disinterested hangers-on. Over the years, consequently, Senate activitiy has been handed down within a select circle. Slowly, though, the circle has begun to crumble. It crumbles because of renewed student interest in campus activities. In response to the crumbling, the Senate has been forced to re-evaluate its role in the
Neil Scheier community. Having served on the Senate for the· past year and a half, I think that I can say with assurance that the Senate now realizes. its role to be more than that of a funding group; it realizes that its position must be that of an influential force in all aspects of campus life.
Hoger E. Schneider and establish the proper rapport with College authorities to see them become reality. The major issues which confront the Senate are as follows: Curriculum · The essence of. Ham ii ton lies in its strong academic program, which is based on faculty and student dedication to the id.eal of intellectual excellence through ! vigorous study in the liberal arts. The Senate must serve to promote student a c a demic c on cerns thr o u g h t he enhancement of student participation in curricular policy-making. (1) The Senate should continue to apply pressure on the administration and · faculty in an attempt to alleviate the competitive disadvantage which Hamilton applicants to graduate and professional schools face because of low grades. To choose· an unqualified Student , (2) · The graduate and professional Senate President is to minimize the school advising system should be closely student voice in the coming year. It is s t u d i e d , s o t h a t c o n s t r u cti ve tremendously important that the student recommendations for its improvement can voice not be minimized, and therefore it is be made. The Career Center should also be terribly important that we give ourselves a strengthened. strong Student Senate for the coming year. The powers that be have never been known to actively solicit student opinion on the many issues that must be decided upon. For this reason, Hamilton needs a strong Student Senate that will provide the means (b o t h m onetarily and physically) for the student voice to be heard. As it moves in a forward direction, the Senate must not forget that it does have a funding responsiblity to the students. The Senate has a responsibility to financially maintain the quality of student •activities (3) The _Senate should investigate the .._ presently on the Hill and to minimize any utilization of faculty resources in eact financial obstac1es to the formation of department, and make recommendatiom regarding the distribution of new faculty new student organizations. appointments. The Senate should also continued on page eight undertake a study of the apparent growth of -administration while the number of faculty members has leveled off. There is an obvious need in certain departments for The Senate is the chief spokesman for more faculty members. This could be student interests at Hamilton, and must accomplished at the expense of some of accept this role with greater diligence and the College's ever-growing clerical staff. forcefulness than in the -past. I sincerely (4) Exactly one year ago, Dean Kurtz believe that Hamilton offers greater reported to the Student Senate that opportunities for student-initiated change self-scheduled exams "can work or be than are presently utilized. If a student made to work." If there is still strong .group presents a rational proposal of any kind, and argues persuasively for · its student sentiment for such a change, the Senate should voice these concerns to the acceptance with sincerity, integrity, and College. persistence, change will occur. Hamilton (S) Because of recent criticisms, the listens intently to its students, but student Senate should support the Curriculum c o n ce r n s must be structured and directed-this is the role of the Senate. My Committee proposal for students. to be in�orporated into the faculty advising views on what the Senate can and should system. accomplish are not ideali�tic, but wholly (6) Students should play a more active pragmatic and reasonable/and • believe continued on page eight that I can provide the strong leadership
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of alteration. Student involvement in the advisi.ng system would provide freshmen and new students with information and continued from page six perspectives not provided by faculty going on, is that,grantecf,the faculty wants members. Concerning any action to be student input, but the student government taken on the status of Winter Study and ·doesn't help the student body to express the 4-1-4 curr:culum, student opinion its views. I propose that the CAP (the should be considered as the major�ty Committe on Academic Policy, which is opinion that it is. An immediate and presently debating this issue) come to · - sustained investigation of crowded classes Chapel on a Monday morning and present is a must. Investigation of the graduate its views, and then allow the student body school and career advising system should to ask questions or make comments. After be undertaken for possible improvements. all, isn't the reason for Monday Chapel to Social and_ Community give the students and the administration a In light of its meager budget. and the forum in which their various views can be prese n t st at us- o f s o c i al tax as interchanged? This Chapel forum would, if I were elected, attempt to bring those = - people in charge of making decisions for you in front of you. For instance, on.e week the chairman of the SAC would appear and tell the student body who was being .�ught for a certain concert, and why one group was being sought instead of some other group. There wouId still be people who would not be happy with the choice (there will always be) but at least the feeling··that the SAC is not considering st ude nt o pinion could be greatly diminished. Another Monday a member of the black student union might like to speak on black cultural affairs (I can say honestly that I am totally ignorant of black cultural affairs, but I am not happy with this feeling). As far as I know, in my two years on the senate there has never ,..._,,. been any effort by the Student Senate to in crease w hi te awareness of the 'opportunities that the black student body . has offered. I think this is unfortunate. Because the length of this platform is limited by The Spectator it is impossible for me to elaborate on all of my views. I have spent a great deal of time thinking about the role of the student body in n_onmandatory,· the SAC should be Hamilton's affairs, and I would very much encouraged by the Senate to secure like to share my ideas with the student quality entertainment at a ·"good price'\ body over the next year. Things have to even if this entails foregoing name acts. improve, this is becoming less and less of a The reinstitution of the speaker's program small college atmosphere. Look to your merits full and continued Senate support student government to improve your lot. of Root-Jessup. If this is another election in which the Senate Funding student body decides who's the best joke Investigation of Senate funding of teJler, and not who could do the best job, student organizations should be one of the then we deserve what we get. I'd top priorities of the new Senate. At appreciate your support. present, many groups funded with Senate money overlap in function with other Senate funded organizations. It makes no continued from page six sense at all to fund groups performing independent running for this position, but similar functions. Equally disturbing is the 1. recognize. the importance of the role Senate funding of student groups that are fraternities play on this campus. It's time associated with Hamilton departments. we saw ourselves as ·a community: a For example, the Senate funds the collective group of individuals who can Student Admissions Committee-an arm of work as a unit, through the Senate, to help the Admissions Department. The money is determine our fate during our four years used to fund Admissions . Department here. I f . you wish to see better functions such as sub-freshmen weekends. coordination with the school across the I q uestion the vi e w that such street, and if you want a Student Senate funding-under the guise of a Student that will be truly receptiye to student Admissions Department allocation-is· the ideas, then I will direct all my energies responsibility of the Senate. towards the accomplishment of those The Senate cannot expec� to help the goals, if you give me the chance. college community until it first helps itself.
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continuedf,ompagesix �. each other on problems common to both s c h o o l s. It does not make sense. Communication between the two groups is so bad that the Senate does not even receive minutes of Assembly meetings. Joint meetings of representatives of both the Senate and the Assembly need to be . �stablished. To think that the Senate· can assert itself. without first confront'ing its ownorganizational hangups is naive. Academic
Th e Senate s ho u l d p us h for · self-scheduling exams despite last year's ·ta,ulty rejection of such a proposal. The ·present faculty adv-ising system. is in n eed .
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3) As coordinator , the president is faced with · the overwhelming task of trying to bring together the numerous factions on campus. The area where there is the greatest need for constructive communication is in black-white relations, a festering sore long ignored by most students; we can no longer deny the problems, but must . deal with them honestly and quickly. Other areas of little communication are between Hamffton's a n�i-�i r�land me n and Kirkland's �nu-Hamtl�on. women, and the5t: forces must face each other before the two
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schools can make real progress via coordination. These are my ideas;· t firmly believe in them and am prepared to work towards their realization. However, what is needed is your pledge of support not only in the· election, but also in your continued concern for the growth of the community at Hamilton.
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The Senate, as the parent group of all committies on campus, must provide both a focal po_int and a forum for all work being done with respect to coordination,.
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at the sa . me time maintaining that quality of life which is uniquely Hamiltonian. · C oo rdin ation must inq:>rporate the uniqueness of both colleges, not drown it. A strong Student Senate necessitates.an effective President. The ideals set forth in these thoughts can remain ideals, or they can become actuality as the Senate moves in a forward direction. That's why I am running.
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role in decisions regarding hiring, firing, and tenure of the faculty. Two advisory positions on the faculty Appointments Committee should be open for students, and majors in departments seeking new appointments should play a more integral part in the selection process. (7) A Hamilton Literaiure major, allowing for the incorporat.ion of Kirkland Literature courses, should be offer.ed. (8) We seem destined to embark on a
new academic calendar. The Senate must accept its crucial responsibility to insure that .the student body is properly
informed about the consequences of such a move, actively lobby for ttie academic
program which will most satisfy student de�ires, a,nd work closely with the faculty and administration to guarantee that the final decisio·n is compatible with student academic and social concerns. (9) The Senate should investigate the · recent decline in admissions standards at Hamilton. Students should sit, at least in• · an advisory capacity, on the Admissions Committee.
(1 O) If Winter .,tud, is deleted from the calendar, a stepped-up . Visiting scholars program should be instituted, so that the diversity of course offe�ings which Winter Study permits co_uld be continued. The College should also suppou certain "experiential" projects of ·, courses (e.g., work-study) for varying
amoimts of academic credit during the school year. (11) A detailed study of the strengths and weaknesses of the Burke Library collection should be undertaken by the academic departments so that future book procurements can be directed to the most deficient areas of study. ( 12) The Senate must take an aggressive role in i n f orming Hamilton's new president (once appointed) about student academic and social concerns. Student Life
· The Senate has the responsibility of governing most student activities on campus, and is also char·ged with being the principle spokesman for student views on how campus life could be improved. The Senate must t a c kle t hese duties conscientiously and creatively. (1) The Pub is badly overcrowded and i n n e e d o f r e l o c a t i on to larger accommodations. (2) The pookstore continues to charge exhorbitant prices for most supplies, and flat retail prices for all books. (3) The Student Activities Committee' should be encouraged to share expenses with fraternities who would be willing to open their parties -to the entire college community. (4) The Board of Stewards should be more visable and accountable. A wider variety· of·- meal plan options should be a v a i l a b l e , a n d a s y s t e m of fraternity-independent meal exchanges should be introduced. (5) The . Senate must pressure the College to· accept its responsibility in p r o v i d i n g b a d I y- n e e d e d capi ta I improvements for the campus ra dio station, WHCL-FM. If the College is uQable or unwilling to provide such·fund s, theSenate should re-allocate some of its budget for such capital expenditures. (6) Students must be kept better informed of the working of the Senate. A weekly column in The Spectator on Senate decisio_ns anct operations might well serve to enlighten the college community. ·· (7) Many students have observed a decline in the quality of maintenance on the campus. Dorm halls and bathrooms are cleaned only infrequently, potholes in the campus roads appear everywhere, ditches to repair pipes remain as eyesores for months. The administration should be brought to bear on these problems. Coordination
Though a closer working relationship between the two colleges has been continually developing, problems still exist, and the students are the ones who invariably suffer the most. (1) The Kirkland policy of closed courses should be modified to permit more Hamilton cross-:registratfon and to alleviate the problem of large classes at Hamilton. (2) The Committee on Academk Coordination _should be revitalized and given authority to deal with specific coordinate problems.. (3) The colleges must work closely in planning faculty distribution and course offerings in the years ahead so that duplication can be diminished. These are the issues as I see them. As o t he r s arise,· they too should be confronted. I pledge to you only that I will be sincere and committed and hard-working. T�ose of you who know me are aware of my stubborness, my zealous love of Hamilton, and my dedication to student concerns. In my eyes, it is most important that ·you elect a student who you can be confident will perform the job well. If you do not believe that I am the right man for this position, I ask you to realize that there is only one other candidate who, in my opinion, would provide the kind <>f leadership needed-Neil
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S.A.C. romotes Higher Soc·al Tax
The members of the Student find a ay to augment that Activities Committee of Hamilto n supply. and Kirk land College would like A social tax referendum will be to continue to bring quality distrib�ted soon. It will consist of entertainment t o the Hill, five alternative plans, each ·of entertainment that is responsive which would increase the budget to the needs of the student body. by at least $10 thousand: 1) To This goal will not be realized raise the present $25 dollar tax to . without· money. $35, keeping the present system ls this just another excuse to of free admission with social pick pockets so we will have more . tax.2) To keep the $25 social tax, i concerts wth peop� like Gary • and. charge an additional partial Farr and Wayne Cochran? admission.. 3) A mandatory social Like the price of candy ban tax with free admission. 4) The and gasoline, concert costs have possibility of paying ·a) $35 with been soaring over the past few &:cc admission. b) $25 with partial years. This spiral has effected admission, and c) no social tax noticeable decrease in the quality and higher admission fe� and variety of S.A.C. activities . This fourth choice is package da:J_ H passed the students will Trend Contiaues · It wou ld be foolish to assume then choose one of its· three that this trend will not con· altcmatives. The fifth ch oice is Given a similar budget for the ,"no change.... coming year, the _S.A.C� will be Th.e social tax referendum �ill unable to comply · the be distrimtcd on Th�y, Api.l , ent ertainment wishes �f the 4.. Studaits who wish to express student body_ their opinion will be ahl� to do so ch tables at the ' Bristol Campus Campus interest group omen. ..-s Center from 9 am to 4 pm next to - s f ra tcrnitics ,- the Cente r, t he Stu dent Life the mailboxes. Tables will be set C o m mittec of Kirkland, the up in McEwen near the swing McEwen Coffeehouse (which • from 9 am to 2 pm and from 5 funded entirely by the S.A-C.),. p to 7 pm. At Hamilton the and the BPRU, have requested SIHVqTS will be in the •mailbo xes, S.A.C. funds. for their v.mous and"Kirl.land students will be ·able activities. to pick them up, at the voting The S.A.C. mem�s fed an tabb in McEwen. obligation ta .respom po - · dy to The S.A.C. members hope that these requests, yet in doing ,, the students wil l e xpress their committee may well spread its · opinioDSp while realizing tha� any money too thin_ rd'aendmn may take a year to be Sp r i n g H ouse-parties enacted,, and - that .by then exhaust t he S.A.C. budget. entertainment possibilities may be Considering this ycar'-s inadequate sevady limited by an insufficient supply of funds,- the S.A.C_ had to h dget.
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Horace Walpole (1717- I 797) is notable for his accomplishments as an author,- an architect '" and a corresp�mdent. The son of a P:rimr Minister of England, he was born to wealth, and he devoted his life to the formation of his own taste . and that of his contemporaries. His interest in the Gothic. style · of architecture found expression in his house at Strawberry Hill. of
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BY STEVE ZORfflIAN Three Hamilton students were informed on February thirteenth that they. had been cho sen as the s e m i-finalists in the Wallace Bradley Johnson Play Writing C o n test. In their letters o f congratulations, .the authors were. told that they _had three weeks to produce their shows. The purpose of the Bradley Competition, according to Mr. Ed� Barrett, the head organizer
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Prize Play Produced· By Authors Despite Leick of COoperation, Time of the prize plays, is to show the person who has the drive and p l a y w r i g h t t he t ec hn i c a l stamina to ru n an activity and limitations of a written script and there arc the others who cling on of an acting script. to him for support." Th e p roced u r e of t he P � o p l e are c ontinually doubl e -ju d g i n g c o n t e s t d r o p pi n g o ut o f Harry's commen ces' w i t h can didates production. "Pandemonium" isan sub mi tt_ing, t h.ci r plays for experimental piece which sets consideration to a board of poetry to movement. judges. These .judges choose the Unfaithful Friends .three scripts they consider most It requires a great amount of promis�. the moods of The three playwrights are rehearsal to capture the words, but man� of Harry's expected to take their scripts and actors are not willing to work; oversee a production of them. The Harry had one of · his main judges re-evaluate the plays and characters drop out three days ago decide how to divide $3 hundred because she didn't want to do the Gothic romance. It is, however, among the three authors. show any more; she did not want on his letters that Walpole's This year Harry Kondoleon's ,, to d o the strenu�n�_swork required reputation primarily rests. ''pa n d e m o n i u m , Jo n to make "Pandemonimum" work. H i s c o r r esp o nden ce was Hutchinson's "Gloria", and Marc llarry also ran up against the extensive even by the standards o� Lifset's "A Concise History of the problem of not being abl e to get his own time, and today his letters k Berman Egg Corporation, or The dancers for a show which needs are-valued not only for their styl e , E v e r-Ending St o r y of Bill people experienced in movemenL and charm, but also for the Hambit-A Melodrama in Several At this time, many of the dancers information about the period Parts." have been chosen as· the are working on a production of which they provide. three pl ays to be performed this their own. However, it should be On Wednesday, April 3, Dr. year. The style of each play varies noted that Harry 's reduced cast is Warren Hunting Smith, of Yale from experimental theater to Uni ve r s i t y, w i l l spe ak at striving to get the production bawdy comedy. ready by Saturday night. Hamilton. The titl e c;>f Dr. Smith's Competition Like Harry, Marc Lifset '74 addres� will be "Horace Wa lpol e: U n f o r t u n a t e l y , t h e had prob lems casting his play. His Life, Letters, and Times." Dr. Smith is Associat:e Editor playwright� have had difficulty ·Most _ of the three weeks of producing these plays. At the rehearsal consisted of rewriting his of the Yale .edition of Walpo le's correspondence, a project now in m o m e n t , t h e re a r e f i v e script to meet the time deadlinc, its fifty-first year. The edition, productions not including the and selecting a cast. believed to be the largest privately prize plays in rehearsal. They are, M arc feels "the play is coming sponsored project of its kind, will School For Wives, Al l On Her very well considering the obstacles e\'cntually fill· fifty volumes; Own, The Creditors, Romeo and we have." He describes his play as thirty-six have so f ar been Juliet, and H. M. S. Pinafore. "having the style of Shakespeare, Each production utilizes all the S h aw , Ionesc o, and 'The published. In addition to his work with theater people who are willing to Adventures of Dud ley Do-right,' the letters themselves, Dr. Smith work at the moment. As a resu lt, and the actors are justifying those was the editor of Horace Walpol e: • the prize plays must be produced stand ards." Writer, Pol itician, a n.d by non-theater peop le who are Senior Jon Hutchinson's play Connoisseur, a collection of essays unexperienced in the theater and s cri pt has proved easier to published in 196 7 on the 250th who are apt to fal l into technical dramatize than those of the other anniversary of Wa lpole's birth. He theater probl ems easily surpassed playwrights. "Gl oria" focuses is the author of a number of with a little knowledge of theater. mainly on two characters, played articles and books devoted to "the The authors have to compete with by Jill Maynard and Joe Weimer. life o{ Horace Walpole and to the five pther productions and the Jon �as thus able to cast quickly, . choir for rehearsal space and time. and start rehearsing immediately. other subjects. The lack of enthusiasm o r Dr. Smith will speak in the .He is, however, very bitter balltoom of the Root Art Center cooperation among the students about the whole situation. He at 8:30. A ,reception ·)Yi l l follow b o dy a la rms t he a ut h o rs, realizes that the unneceasary his address. The general p_ublic is especially Harry Kondoleon '7 7 . difficulty ·of producing these plays invited; there, is no admission He feels "this situation is typical "is .not any one person's fault. 'Chifge.\}. , _�_;. , ,··�,�I. I . • . •' csf ,kbool activitic·s_!• Tbffc is Qnc ,;· · cont.inftd oa ,..1
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his own design, and led to the revival of that sty le in the eighte ent h a n d n i ne teenth cnituri«1 At Strawberry Hill he housed his. collection of objects d 'arts and founded his private press, the first in England. As an outgrowth of n his iterest in thin_gs medie.val, he wrote The Castle of Otranto, the first and most popular n ovel of
Thawed.end ��- prcscn.u � Bcrgman"s most re�nt film, Cries ,uul W1aisi,as, which has bttn DOJDma.ted for an Academy Award. It stars Liv IJUman, and llanid Ander.co. and is a brilliant examination of ·the humaa peych�. Also, showing is The Dove, a· sb.on that inml'cndy spoofs Bapaan.. �Jao�s arc at 8 Thur�ay, 8 and 10 t·ridzy and Satarday.,. aad_ at 10 � �Jtlia)'. in_tth� '\ ..,. • · ·.I • ·-· ' ,. • n.ll'llff�-. WIM'l,D :.JOauMNa 'LA.-1:.� . •Adm· - . .,_ • ·75. , � --( -"
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FILM On Campus This Weekend Marat/Sade. Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10 pm. Sunday at 10 pm only. Science Auditorium. Admission $.75.
Cries and Whispers and The Dove. Friday and Saturday at 8 and
10 pm. Sunday at 10 pm only. Kirner-Johnson i\uditorium. Admission $.75.
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March 13 (Wednesday) Environmental Film Series: Urban Sprawl and the Third Pollution. 9 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. At Nearby Theaters Cannonball (853-5553) Day for Night (PG) Cinema Theater (736-2313) Serpico (R) Cinema National Uptown (732-0665) Superdad (G) of . and Son · Flubber (G) Paris (733-2730) Exor�ist (R) Stanley (724-4000) Cinderella Liberty (R) and Oklahoma Crude
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Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:30 pm. Chemistry Auditorium.
March 9 (Saturday)
Free Church Service. Speaker: The Reverend Franklin Fry Pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church of Summit, New Jersey.' Topic: J.S.Boch-The Christian as Musician. 11 :15 am. Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 pm. Chapel.
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· Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 17 · pm. Chapel. Also Tuesday through Friday. Shooting the Wooden Indian, and Other Primitives. Illustrated lecture. Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Jones. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium:
March 13 (Wednesday) How Carbonate Sediments Become Limestone. Dr. Gerald
Friedman, Professor of Geology, RPI. 4 pm. Science Auditorium. Lenten Services. Father ·Drobin and .Joel Tibbetts, College Chaplain. 7:30 pm. Chapel. Reefs, Tropical Islands, and Far-away Places. Dr. Gerald Friedman, Professor of Geology, RPI. 8 pm. Science Auditorium. Bible Study. 9 pm. Alumni House.
March 14 (Thursday)
Episcopal Lenten Services. _3 pm. Lounges, Bristol Campus Center.
M•ch 31 (Sunday)
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 pm. Chapel.
March 8 (Friday)
MUSIC
Square Dance. 8 pm Bundy Dining Hall.
March 9 (Saturday)
Benefit Dance for Muscular Dystrophy Association featuring "Steak Nite" 9 p.m: At Bundy Dining Hall.. Sponsored · by Delta· -·· . ·Kappa Epsil�n. One Dollar Donation.
March IO (Sunday)
McEwen Coffeehouse presents: Kenny Hall, Mandolin Virtuoso with Willy Spires on guitar and fidd[e. 9 pm. Free with Social Tax.
March 12 (Tuesday)
Student Concert. 8 :30 pm. Chapel.
DRAMA March 8 (Friday) All On Her Own A one-act play by Terence Rattigan. 8:30 pm. Alpha Delta Phi Living Room. Free. Also Saturday.
March 9 (Saturday)
BPRU Presents: Black Movements on the Move: A Divided People Together. Williams College Black Student Union. 9:30 pm. Minor Theater. Free. Wallace B. Johnson Plays. 8:30 pm. Kirkland Dormitory Loft. Also Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, List Recital Hall. March 13 (Wednesday) Strindberg's Creditors. 8 pm: Great Hall of Psi Upsilon House. Also Thur,sday.
EXHIBITIONS
Currently on Campus
Seniors' Art Show. Bristol Campus Center Lounges through April I Paintings by Gilah Hirsch. List Art Center through Aori I 1 3.
Coming Soon
Paintings by Harold Beament. Opens at the Root Art Center - April
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Bluegrass in . Coffeehouse; Buffalo Chips Performs
BY BRUCE HORNSTEIN and Country Granola, t· wo groups "Don't Bother Waitin' for the I have recently begun to spend which played in the Alumni Gym Shrimp Boats, Grandma, 'Cause my weekends in. a most enjoyable last September. Grandpa's Comin' Home with the inanner. Whenever the campus T h e g ro up's p e rformance Crabs/' films are not to my liking or the consisted of a variety of musical The members of Buffalo Chips P u b s eems claustrophobic, I styles, ranging from the bluegrass bring to the group experience in venture across College Hill Road' standards of Monroe and Scruggs, . several musical fields. "Mo" Riley to the McEwen Coffeehouse. to several outstanding original is a classically-trained violinist, There, free of charge (with social folk and bluegrass compositions having given her first concert at tax) I can absorb some amazing by Susie, Martha, and Nancy. Also the age of eight. Susie Monick, and delightful sounds ·amidst a ·included were some a cappella "Queen of the Five-String Banjo;• cozy, living room atmosphere. numbers ("Babylon," and "Swing has played with Syracuse's Down U. Utah Phillips' performa'1ce Low, Sweet Chariot") in which · City Ramblers, while Martha at the Coffeehouse, which was the audience par_ticipated. Humor Tracchtenberg was the winner of reviewed by The Spectator early was provided in "Amazing Grass" the 1971 Hamilton Folk Festival. continued on page 12 last month, was the first concert I ("How sweet the smell...") and a tt e n.d ed. Two. weeks ago, _____________..:.._______________ Margaret MacArthur and her son, Danny, traditional folk singers . from Marlboro, Vermont, played for almost three hours. Last FRANK WARNER TO SING (AND TALK), ON HILL Sunday, Buffalo Chips performed. One of the cou_ntry's pioneer collectors and singers of early A number of reasons prompted American folk songs will present a program of song and conversation _my attendance at the Buffalo in the Bristol Center Lounge on Wednesday, April 3rd, at 8:30 pm. Chips concert. First was the fact Warner, who began collecting with his wife Anne in the 1930's, has that they play bluegrass. Right produced numerous albums of American folk songs and has now -1 hap pen to be in a bluegrass written widely about his adventures in the Southern mountain phase. One of my roommates country and the Adirondacks with such authentic folk artists as picks a little banjo, and a short Frank Profitt and Yankee John Galuscha. Among his more while ago he got me interested in important finds were "Tom Dooley" and the "Ballad of Blue the works of Monroe, Flatt, Mountain Lake." Warner accompanies himself on a five-string banjo Scruggs, et. al. Now I can't get made by Frank Profitt which contains autographs by over a hundred enough of it. Secondly, there was of America's most famous folk artists, including Carl Sandburg, t he n a m e . I liked it. It "Leadbelly," Woody Guthrie and many others. sounded.,.delectable. Lastly, the There will be no admission charge. group was· billed as a woman's bluegrass group. I wasn't too sure MOVIE AUDITION what this meant. I decided to A Toronto based film company, Sunflower Productions Ltd., will investigate. be on campus Thursday, April 4, at 4:30, to audition people for a crowd scene at the McEwen Coffeehouse. All ages - dress casual More Than M·usic olease be on time. Bluegrass music in performance carries a certain looseness along NISKAYUNA FESTIVAL with it. The bad jokes and those of you who will be in the Schenectady area during For. anecdotes are as much a part of Spring V afation, a festival of traditional music and crafts will be the act as the music itself. Buffalo held at Niskayuna High School on Friday and Saturday, March 22 Chips, in this sense, is a bluegrass and 23. Musicians to be featured include Michael Cooney, Sara band. The fact that its members Cleveland, Bob Coltman, Tony and Irene Saletan, and the Putnam have not been playing together String County Band. v e ry long, a n d tha t t h e mandolinist is brand new t o the ALL ON HER OWN group is the major reason for their The Charlatans will present All On Her Own, a one-act play .by :�I!!!J.S:J!_ �attigan, Friday March 8 and Saturday March 9 at 8:30 pm · lack of musical tightness. The five group members are ID the livmg room of tp.e Alpha Delta Phi house. Admission is free. Susie Nancy Josephson, bass, M on i ck, b anjo, M a r t ha A DIVIDED PEOPL.E TOGETHER" Tracchtenberg, guitar, Maureen Once again the Black and Puerto Rican Union of Riley, fiddle, and Carol Siegel, Hamilton-Kirkland wil! present the well �eceived Williams College mandolin a n d Ap p a l a c hian _ Black Student Umon ID a performance entitled "Black Movements mountain dulcimer. on the Move: � Divided People Together." T�e overall performance All are students, at Syracuse . that will consist �f a gospel choir, dance, and an a cappella group University and are friendly with _ (Black Complexities) performances, will be held Saturday, March other upstate musicians, such as 9th at 8:30 pm in Minor Theatre with no admission charge. the members of Breakfast Special
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continued from page 11 She, a l so opened the 1972 Coffeehouse c·oncert season. The aforementioned lack of tightness showed, though, when the five played together. At times, the banjo and fiddle seemed to run away and hide from the other instruments, especially on the numbers where they ·shared the lead. Martha's guitar and Nancy's bass provided a strong, effective backup, but due to microphone positioning, Carol's mandolin was almost completely inaudible. This , also caused the instruments' effectiveness to dimish on loud, vocal harmony selections. All five women contributed . vocal ly to the performance. , Nanc¥, who acted as leader of:the .· group, introdu.cing each number, � has the strongest, but not always the most pleasing voice. She was fine on the_, a cappella · numbers, ·- but her voice possessed too much · vibrato to , be considered- real bluegrass. Martha and c'arol contributed strong, clear harmonies, and in 'the third set, Martha displayed her versatility when she was featured in- a, few folk tunes, including - "Deep River Blues" and a satirical song. about her college town, Syracuse. "Mo" appeared t� be· rather shy in front of an audience -and rarely sang. Susie 'often did, and s he s e e med to ·possess that bluegrass vocal quality. Her voice had that rough-hewn, throaty, shouting quality that this style music needs. A good deal of fun on what would have probably been a rather dreary Sunday evening · aptly describes Buffalo Chips at t he Coff eehouse. Many are · discovering bluegrass music as a very carefree, enjoyable music form, in which the musicians are usually very talented. Syracuse is the home of many bluegrass groups, including the excellent Down City Ramblers, while several Cornell University students for med Country Cooking in 'Ithaca a few years ago. The latter group has released two fine - albums on Rounder Records.
Prize Plays. continued from page IO The general probiem is' .that people don't consider prize plays that important anymore, and so the productions become minor events." The authors are disappointed with the contest.· They did not imagine when they ·submitted their plays for co·nsideration that they were going to be solely responsible for all asp�cts of their shows. But they. are appreciative of the assistance of Kathleen _ Smith. B e s id es helping the 'prize· p l a y w r i gh.t's, Kathle e n is presenting "All on Her Own"· this f'riday and Saturday night at AD. In addition to her play this weekend, Kathy is de�igning the costumes for the upcoming spring production of School for Wives. Time just does not allow these playwrights to work on their p r o d u-c t i o n s . T h e y· a r·e p l a y w r i g h t s·, not 't he a t�r technicians. who know about lights and theater orgamzation.. If this · is th� purpose of the contest, it' does not . show the playwrights how the limitations in I
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* * * * a script must be -realized while writing the script, but rather, it s hows t he :p l aywrights the limitations of producting a show while five other productions and choir are rehearsing for their own ;productions. · T he pr ize plays will be ·presented this Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday at- 8:30: and Wednesday at 10:00. The presentation ·is "free and in Kirkland Dorm loft.
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continued from page one the volumes due to the death of development of historiography in made an excellent team, and Professor William E. Lunt. Lunt the interim period has opened up expressed the hope that Glick had ·left material which he had new fields of competence as areas would remain with The Spectator gathered with Graves concerning of serious study. Before the turn in some capacity. New staff planned historical studies which of the century, social history, ap pointments have not been Professor Graves agreed to work e c o n o m i c h i s t o r y , a n d decided, according to Ostrer. into· shape suitable for publishing. professional local history has been Positions held by Ostrer in the This project took five years and· only in a primitive state of past include reporter, news editor, resulted in the production of development . F u rther, the and executive editor. He also studies of Papal monetary affairs · ancillary fields of numismatics, · authored the column by "Gerry and the judicial relations between linguistics and archeology have Payne." England and the Vatican before d eveloped so as to provide Ostrer is optimistic about The the reformation in England. powerful new tools with which to Spectator- He feels that staff W h e n w o r k o n t h e study history. Technology has morale is high and that coverage bibliography finally began in also h a d a share in the of Kirkland news has improved. earnest, it was necessary to �arch _d e velopment o f hi s t o r i c al Ostrer plans to continue the card catalogues, library stacks, techniques. For example, aerial preliminary work in part or in expansion · of varied reporting. He and journals in order to compile a surveys of terrain arc making it whole. In addition, Professor will assume the editorship on collection of references of. the pos s i b l e to f i n d formerly Graves has made numerous trips April 1. desired comprehensiveness. These unknown sites of past activity. to England in connection with his Frederic Blo ch, outgoing references were listed on a set of During the compilation of the work which will be published by editor-in-chief, said that he has c ards and the actual works· bibliography, Professor Graves has the Clarendon press at Oxford "utmost confidence in Mitchel. referred had to be examined in some time this year. He is extremely competent and I order to be able to guide the Having taught at Hamilton have no doubt that he will be an hypothetical researcher to sift the College from � 92 7 until his excellent editor-in-chief." possible sources so that the really retirement in 1969, Graves is in a Candidates were judged on the relevant material to be found with good position from which to· basis of their interviews and regard to a particular subject survey the course of affairs here. written applications. In addition might be isolated and consulted. His observations, however, are the Board constitution requires The bibliography has used an expressed somewhat reluctantly. the present editor to recommend earlier work as a starting point for In general, he sees the faculty as two candidates. Bloch nominated coverage of all of the material that stronger than it ever has been and Ostrer and Glick. has come to light or been written t h e s t u d e n t b o d y more Prior to yesterday's meeting, during most of the twentieth · superficially facile and sexually Harold Bogle, chairman of the c e n t u r y. "1be Sources and able as their academic ancestors Board, expressed confidence in Literature of English History from but do not have as much depth in the a bilities o f all three Earliest Times to about 1485" by certain areas. In 1 927 there were candidates. Charles Gross of Harvard was first about 400 · students on the hill BREWER LETTER in 1955 when Professo-r Graves published in 1910 and the last studying under rather monastic continued from page three was asked by the American edition appeared after his death in conditions. exercised in the Historical Association, the Royal 1915. Since then, a work of When he arrived on the Hiil Historical Asso�iation, and the c o mp arable thoroughness has after being asked over from traditional administrative ways, Medieval Academy of America to been completely lacking as a guide England, Professor Graves was (faculty committees, tenure), but undertake to produce a guide to to the enormous amount of new asked to teach courses in Balkan also in its selection of applicants the literature of the field planned literature on the subject of History and in Asian history. (obedient suburban sons) and its as a part of a series of six works English history of the period. been in contact with numerous Unfortunately, he has had no limitations on course offering. covering all of English history. One of the reasons for the and distinguished scholars both prior knowledge of either of these Kirkland, an integrai' part of The series was funded by the Ford considerable increase has simply here and in England. David fields, specializing as he did in the the community, is also to blame Foundation. been the number of historians at K n o w l e s , Christopher Brook,. medieval period. Perhaps . the for this inhibited state of affairs. Graves· found it necessary to work over so considerable a time R.W. Southern, Sir Coronway college has not changed as much The recent student involvement in n c h�ve read t�e as -it seems. &oon, though, the struggle over Mr. McDermid 's postpone a serious beginning on s pan. More significatly, the Edwar�s 3i:1�__oth_�n _ �"Digger," as he was known, found tenure is a welcome respite from :::�-;.-�::�-.�;:::-::•1:�::.��:):��:::•:--�;:i:(-�;:::::•=;:::::-;:::�-::�:.-1:�.. it possible to do what he did the complacency of Kirkland's b e s t-- teaching all sorts of (non) liberated students.· Not only s t uden t s t h e "l abarinthine" have students failed to utilize the many viable academic alternatives • history of the Middle Ages. During the course of the work i n Kjrkland's �ducational ·on his projects concerning the s t ructure, but t h e y ha ve P a p a c y , G r a ves traveled to complained that their casual and Vatican City to use historical non-commi ttal attitudes are sources which were only to be s omehow a product of the Because a Gant Shirt is more than some1hing to hang a tie on. It's a found there. In fact, he was one· institutional structure itself. M When I was at Hamilton, the stimulant to make you. feel good, look good throughout 1he day. t:� of the first non-Church sc�Jiars Because a Gant Shirt from its softly flared town, traditional but now allowed to use the re�c,ds of the prevailing state of mind was no I longer bu�n down collar to its trim hugger body is tailored with Sacra Romana Rota in his more blase than ii is now, nor: , =... � � singular precision. research. The Rota is the Papal was I any less a part of it than any � a g e n c y t h a t c o n d ucts the other student. My indictment of Because Gant Shirts have Elan in a 11ntlem•ly manner; •e application of canon law in such t h e s t a t e o f m i n d o f �:� exdusive and wear aaperbly. �-� cir c um stances where juridical Hamilton-Kirkland community is a ction is c alled f ox:. The not intended as a bitter, or even This is why we carry the lagest selection of Gant Shirts in Upsta18 application of Henry VIII for an selfish, condemnation of all that New Vork. annulment of his marriage was the Hill represents. :,;� �! There continues to flourish, just such a circum�ce and is of although somewhat hesitantly, a 1t is also why gentlemen of impeccable taste come to us and insist on .;.:.c obvious historical interest. G� On December 7 of last year the feeling among a significant � Graves room of the Burke library minority of community members New Shipment Just AnivecH was dedicated. In it is a portrait that the prevailing state of mind' is '<{ u donated by the senior class of the merely the inevitable result of the � year of Graves' retirement and a lack of stimuli and awareness 011 display of correspondence and the Hill. I too share that belief� At other items of interest. having the risk of sounding self-righteous, relation to his bibliography. When I suggest that the community· asked how it feels to finish a open its eyes ·and its minds. to the p-oject that has taken almost two world around them. There are M d e c a d e s P r o fe ss o r G r a ve s innumerable phenomena of ev-ery immediately noted that he has sort that demand cognizance by all plans for further work which only people, including those in Clinton. �� -,v. await the time and attention that I believe that only when thoSC" he will now be able to devote to myriad of relevent ideas are realized, contemplated, discuSK«f. ,., them. and. a c t e d u pon w ill any semb lance of a liberal arts Raipatioa Aaaiwnary e n viro n m e n t exis t in the John W. Chandler resigned � i ·• . . Hamilton-Kirkland community. one year ago, Sunday. ���>]IE::>:;:•:<�-�:::::4E===::4111:-:=llF_..-1�filk:@a�:���..:���:�la:�=�=="'1'Etalt�:�♦-. 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Albright Predicts a Recession: Recommends an End to C(!ntrols
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continued from page one worked in New York City. He said that he has a desire, however, to a humanitarian element in their p�actice law in a less intense, rural economic policy is over-optimistic environment; he does not foresee as multinationals have the interest playing the "Wall Street game for of t he c om p a n y and i t s the next fifteen years." shareholders to protect, according to Albright. Commenting on the economic In addition, the lawyer said (o recast for 1974, Albright that multinationals are assuming predicted a technical recession. He an international character as the said that the economy was totally nationality composition of the out of control in 1973 and the stockholders change over time. backlog of demand indicated that Women in Business the economy was straining just to Albright reminded Kirkland keep up with itself."lt would be women· in a talk in the Red Pit he a l thy f r om an economic that out of the top five New York standpoint to have the economy law firms, not one has a senior slow down as the 1973 growth woman partner. He advised the p a t t e r n w a s c l e a r l y a women that they keep their non-sustainable pressure on the options free, however. The door.s economic system," Albright said. are kept open and many women But the slowdown in the are hired but few have yet made it economy has been of a radical to the top. nature rather than a gradual easing Career in Law off, said Albright. He believes that Albright urged those students e li mi n ating wage and price unsure about their future to enter controls would lead to a short run Frankly, I think his decision to the law profession. The options surge in inflation. In the long run, everybody is spending most of their time throwing curve balls at run for mayor was a disaster, I open to a law school graduate however, the market . mechanism told him so at the time. In fact, I i n clude Wall Street business, would balance supply and demand the President. And, as I said, I have such a spent the weekend with him just teaching as well as working for and even out unemployment. Annual inflation would hover disaffection for the ·man that I ten days before he announced his private firms. In choosing a law school the a r o un d eight p e r cent and have a hard time being objective decision to run for the mayorality about it. But I do feel so strongly of New York and he had given me -student should recongize that the unemployment will be up to six on this one point, as I said, that I 20 reasons why it would be a bad the graduates of the to!) four or per cent, according to Albright. In five law schools in the country 1974, unemployment and gasoline want the constitutional process to idea for him to do it. Then he reversed himself, and have many more options open. In lines would grow, he said. be p u r s ued either diligently Albright and John Lindsay through the impeachment process decided he'd do it simply because choosing between a large and Alb right has had a long or to get off his back. But for he felt he was dead-ended in small law firm, one should responsible people in Congress to Congress. And he hated · the idea recognize that there is more association with ex-Mayor John say that they think the President of having to campaign every two responsibility and exposure in the Lindsay. In 1970, he served on years, which is another subject-it smaller law firms, said Albright. Lindsay's Council on the is an awful thing to put But major law firms force the e n vironment. As a "liberal Congressmen t hr o ugh. He's prospective lawyer to specialize. Republican," Albright became running for office the day he's Al bright g r a d u ated from disenchanted with the Lindsay elected! Wittenberg College with a major mayoral style, although they But subsequently, we really in economics. He then went to remained good friends. diverged on politics. We're still Yale Law Scp.ool where he was Albright said that he thought quite good personal friends but I editor of the Yale Law Review. perhaps Lindsey should have never felt he was a good mayor of He received an offer from Robert stayed on in the Congress where New York City. He's not a Patterspn to join a New York law he would have had a chance to well-organized person. Personally, firm. Since that time he has introduce f resh l e g islation. in my judgment, I think that he's not a good administrator, and I s t i ll think that his greatest contribution could be made in the Congress of the United States as a Senator. SUMMER SESSION 1974 I think it's tragic that he couldn't bring himself to say the SUNY-BINGHAMTON right word of accommodation to Governor Rockefeller in order to get that interim appointment as Urtited States Senator. But his ought to resign I find really, as I pride got in the way, and I think said, very distressing. his recent move in jumping from Q: What was your experience the Republican to the Democratic Term I working with John Lindsay? P ar t y was politically unwise June 3-June 28 - 4 Weeks - 4 Credits A: First, I should explain that simple because he has to, in Term II he and I were classmates in law effect, start all over again. July 1-August 9 - 6 Weeks - 8 Credits school. And he and I are also The Democrats, the Career quite warm personal- friends. He is Democrats in New York City and the godfather of my son, John, in New York State, have not and we have had a longstanding jumped with joy at the idea of personal as well as political having John on their side of the I relationship. I was one of his, I fence. There are· too many people Undergraduate - Graduate Courses think, closest friends, advisors, standing ahead of him, who think Arts and Sciences, Management, Advanced Technology and supporters during his early they have a claim to a number of Professional Education, General Studies Congressional efforts. the office appointments or the And I felt that he was really an candidacies for these offices on outstanding legislator. He worked the Democratic ticket. And I hard at it; he was a superb think he's going to have a very campaigner. He was a good tough uphill row politically within legislator in the sense that he did the ranks of the Democratic some very innovative things, even party, · but as I said this has Information·: Summer Session as a junior congressman. He ran a nothing to do with my personal good office. It was a fun office, regard and affection for him. I SUNY-Binghamton with a lot of yo!lng inte'rns. And think it's terrific that you have Binghamton, N. Y. 13901 he had a lot of the same qualities somebody with his enthusiasm (607) 798-2161 that John Kennedy had, in terms and idealism that's willing to of being able to '>tiumulat< and. commit •himself to the combat of inspire young people. public office.
Albright Airs His Political Opini0ns Q: What are your views of impeachment'! A: My view of impeachment i� basically that I do not want Nixon to resign under pressure under any sort of circumstances. I think that this brings us one step closer to · the European system where you can t op p l e governments by mounting sufficient pressure. I'm absolutely appalled by a number of the things that he's done. I've never- liked him to
begin with so it is very easy for me to side with these very vocal critics. • But looking at this thing in its constitutional sense, and maybe· this is my lawyer training coming to the fore, if in fact there is evidence of misconduct that falls within whatever the Congress chooses to define as impeachable offense, I would hope that they w o u l d f i l e i m peachment proceedings and let's get on with it. And if he is removed from office, through the impeachment process, fine. I think that this is probably in the best interests of the country, but the sooner we get on with it the better. If we, if the Congress is not willing to face up to the impeachment process . then I wish they'd all shut up and get on and concentrate on the energy problem and inflation, and a lot of other really very critical problems that are coming to a grinding halt simply because
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Increase In Computer Staff Will Be Minimal
BY BOB WEISSER semester, Traer said, allowing with a good deal of flexibility and Two more pro posals for a new b oth the professor and the a great deal of concentration in school calendar have su rfaced in students involved more time to the last two years. the past few weeks. Both James · learn about the subject. This C unningham suggested that Traer and James Cunningham, ''preparatory study" is much like ' ' c o m p r e h a n s i v e a r e a Assistant pr ofessor of History, the "delayed study" of the examinations" would be given and A s s o ciate professor of pr o posal made by Associate after the senior year, with no Classics, respectively, have drawn P rofessor of Religi on Jay junior year exams but with the up proposals that do away with Williams. summer between junior and senior Winter Study in one form or Other p arts of Traer's proposal year "being used for study." another. This feature is similar to the include letter grades for the May T r a er 's p r o posal would period, a pilot freshman seminar system in Great Britain, where i n stitute a Winter Study-like program, and more independent Cunningham was educated, and he period at the end of the school study projects. a d ds, "In re buttal of the year. This period, called the "May At present, Traer is soliciting a nt i ci p a t e d obj ection about Term," would be used essentially opinions on his proposal, and has summer jobs, let me add that my the same way as the present sent copies to various members of contemporaries and I were able to January period. do both. Indeed we were . the faculty for review. The Cu nningham plan· would to demonstrate the Under Cunningham's proposal, 'invited' do away _with Winter Study as a a student would elect five courses fruits of our summer reading a_t separate part of the calendar, with eacl} semester for the first two the beginning of 3/.ear,4 ! " two semesters of 15 weeks each. years. These would serve to •:•·····•·❖:•:•·•·❖·•·····•:•:•:•:•·····•·❖:•:•:•······•;•;•;•;•;•;•;•;•;•;•;.• • • ····••.•••••• • ••••• ., ••• ·····•• - • . • . • . • . ..•• -- .•.•..$-.- • · The major idea behmd Traer's diversify -the 1student's schedule .. :•:;:. . . · :. · · :::. : proposal �is that� tti�rt are many,. .'· In the· last two tears, fn� ;tuderit s-!::: L. · � ,:, , � • · ·, ::� goo d points to the 4-1-4 system, would take only three courses a ::L :::: The Keyho'le..Lounge hu t that the " l ", is simply in the semester, consisting "exclusively �;�j :;:; on the Utica Road Nr ong place. His sy�tem is of principal subject(s)." :::: Caters to Coll�gians. :::: designed to allow the bex:ieficial The final two years would be :::: :=:: parts to remain, while. solving the . taken up with seminar courses and :::: :: : = problem o f a reduced number o f · independent study:· Cunningham �::: Every Day From 4 to ? courses during the rest o f the : goes on to say that "years three :::: :::] Special Price on year. and four(sho u.Id be) treated as one ···: •:: Pitchers o f Beer : The Traer plan would require unit with the intervening summer · :: ::: (Right bef ore Ditto M arket) : : students to take �ree out o·f four being used for study." :!:!: ::: : • ...., ''May periods." This would f i;ee • •• T h r o u g h t h · s p o 1 • cy, = : ··········· : : :•;•;•;•;•;•;• _i . 1 ················ · ·· ······•·········· . much Of the faculty from May Cunningham •···· :•:: •.•.•.•.•.•;•·•;•···· ·�················�···········-····. .•.•�·························· ma.II1tams, the liberal •.-..:•. period obligations, allo wing them · arts program that the school has to concentrate more on their espoused wou ld be continued, regular semester courses. · Another advantage is that the 4;1"· :. ' May period programs could be run • TIIE SUB STATION over co urses from the regular
BY LIZ BARROW requests for additional personnel There will be neither an for next year, but stress that this i ncrease nor a reduction in is not because of the new compu ter-related jo bs for the computer. However, after the irrst 1974-75 schoo l year, with the year o f computer operation, there exceptio n o f the hiring of a may be an increase in personnel. director o f the Computer Center. This may be due to normal Eugene Lewis, Hamilton pr ovost growth o f the of fices or could be s a i d , "I d o n't see a ny computer-related. administrative growth due to the Broo ks said, "I have no t seen a compu ter. We're trying to keep a c ompu ter operation ye't that lid on it." hasn't ended up hiring new The Peat, Marwick, Mitchell, people." Personnel changes at the 1nd C ·o . r e p o r t o n m o ment a r e still in t h e Hamil to n-Kirkland's computer formulative stage. The expected needs stressed that whatever decision of the Board o f Trustees compu ter the colleges select will March 8 as to what kind of be a manual-labor-saving device. computer Hamilton-Kirkland will The time saved by auto matio n, lease next year precedes any however, will not result in the further decisions. displacement of any present hired Once a system is cho sen, a staff. "N obody will be let g o," director ofth·e computer center· 853-8081 s a id L o u is O u imette, data must be hired. He will be WE DELIVER!! p r o cessing. s up e r v i s o r. He responsible for o verseeing the '�mT�RS FRJEND explained that during the next programming o f the computer and SA.i�DWICHES three to five years w bile the arranging prio rity times for the c o m p u ter is becoming fully vari o u s a dminis t r a t i ve and f:;: Road We .are the Guitars Friend, �:�: implemented there will be shifts academic users, among other :::� a mail order guide to acoustic ·· : Runner Description : in job responsibilities. As the duties. · f:� instruments & accessories. We :::: Italian .85 $1.30 compu ter is able to handle more J o i n t Hamilt o n-Kirkland :�3 carry guitars· as Martin, Guild, :::: Mixed .85 1.30 . :-:• -of the tedious and repetitive Registrar Palmer. N. 1''argno li sees :-:-: •=·� Gibson, Ovation, Yamaha; •:•: Ham , .90 1.30 tasks, the people who previously no difficulty in the accessibility of :::� Hohner harps, dulcimers, :::! Turkey .90 1.40 had done them will be given other the new computer vs. that of :::� reco rders, banjos, books and ···: Ru ssian .90 1.40 work that now can not be do ne as manual labor. ''It is u nlimited," [:;� more-and disco unt 25%. Our �·�; Roast Beef .95 1.50 completely as desired. There will he said. :=:� catalogue will be sent out free :::: be no significant decrease in how Sa u sage/Cheese .95 1.50' However, T o ny W o o din, :�:�: upon requ est. •�: m u ch w o r k e m p loyees do. Directo r o f Alumni Office is Meat Ball/Cheese .95 '1.50 Instead, during the first year, concerned that he will not be able Tuna .90' 1.40 there will probably be mo re t o do to use it when he needs to. He Cheese .80 1.20 ·: n preparing information for the says that use of the addressograph Delivery .Charge $ .50 Stockb,jdge, Michigan 49285 �f ,:omputer. i:h the Alumni Office is adequate. · Garbage in. Garbage out,'' This a rg u ment may b e �·�- ::::::::::: ::r,:::::::::::::::::::::::. ·::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Lewis said. cou ntered b y saying that when The manual files will probably one knows the scheduled priority be maintained for at least o ne usage times it is possible to plan DOWNSTAIRS AT THE INN year until it is sure that .the around them. computer is running smoothly. "If Other offices on the campuses we do go to a computersystem, I are loo king forward to use o f a • Special, Thursday March 14 wou ld be adamant against the more "sophisticated" co mputer. destroying of hand records for at It will give them the chance to go least one year," sai9 Robert B. into things they have had neither Brooks, Director of Development, time nor information to explore, 8 - 10 pm: Two for one Beer of his department. o ffice heads say. 10 -.12 pm: Straight Teq�ila $.50 Once the information is o n the T h e c o mputer will also and Mixe d Tequila $.60 computer, it bas to be audited to coritribu te to a more centralized make sure it is correct. This cou ld system of record keeping by a ls o i n v o l ve the hiring of · permitting all aspects of student THE ALEXANDER HAMILTON INN additional staff. files to be kept together. S om� o ffices have made
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16/THE SPECTATOR/March 8, 1974 1
Q:>aches Here Help To Attract Atheletes Eugene Long, chairman of the Department of Athletics, said yesterday that during the past two years , he has feh "increased pressure" to .attract prospective athletes to Hamilton College.
will be weeded out at this point. Y o u' v e eliminated the early rejects,' Long said. ·we won't start this process unless the kid is a solid student,' said Long.. The'rule of thumb', He said that one indication of according to Coach Long, is to the larger athletic interest is the seek students who are in the top results of a poll he distributed to 10% of their high school class. In some cases, prospective the student body concerning the sports pro�am last - year. He students are contacted by those reports t h a t s t u d e n t s who have interests in the athletic ove r w h e l m i n g l y s upp orted program before they either write i n c r e ased e f forts on t h e for an application or otherwise express interest in Hamilton. intercollegiate level. Friends of the college, alumni, There is, however, no set department policy concerning undergraduate athletes, and athletic recruitment. Long said newspaper reports all provide that 'recruitment' is a misnomer. i n f o rm a tion about desireable John Effinger, assistant director of admissions, with an applicant He· defined the department's c a n di dates. •1 s a y b e fo re efforts .as 'public relations for the Christmas to my students: find s c hool, a c complis hed w ith me somebody who,can do the job dedication and enthusiasm by academically ancl irl terms of track,' remarked the Coach. · according to Covert. continued from page Qne excited and interested coaches.' There are ab�lute•y no college most difficulty is yield. The per Covert attributes the increase New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) f un d s a l l ocated for seeking cent of guys you admit has in the number of applicants for decreased. You have to admit the ·past two years to five ,p r o hi b its f o r mal r ecruiting. qualified athletes, Long s�d. 'Recruiting at Hamilton is done more students to get the class," p r ograms sponsored by the Coaches may not visit prospective Admissions Department; music students at; their· homes or high ,in c o«>,per,a tion, under the_ , said Covert. supervision · of the - admissions Because Hamilton is lo·sing weekends; the Black and Puerto schools. · J o h n E ff i n g e r, a s s i s tant office,' added Long. Long reports more applicants to Ivy Le<!,gue Rican Union Weekend; programs t ha t the largest n umber of schools that it is taking ,from · for . scholar i athletes; increased ·'football applications' in recent them, concern about the quality efforts by the· football coaching years has been received this of the students �ccepted here has staff; and visitations to more high academic year. The new coach, arisen within the student body. schools. Bob King, has been a�tivel y The - admissions department T r ustees · and students are seeking players with two assistants concerned about the acceptance must increase its recruiting efforts on a part-time basis. 'All Mr. King of students at Hamilton with class in order to maintain Hamilton's has done is paid more attention to rank in the bottom two quintiles share of the applicant market, it,'.said Coach Long. and with SAT scores below 550. according to John Effinger, E ffmger, a part-time unpaid This has led to an investigation assistant director of admissions at football coach for the backfield, by a sub-committee of th� student Hamilton. said that increased recruitment for Curriculum Committee, according "Eccfnomic uncertainties and athletes does not at all imply that to Roger Schneider, co-chairman the college-going pattern has the academic standing of the of the Committee. ,changed quite a bit in the past few college is suffering. 'Individuals '' T h e p u r p o s e o f t he years," said Covert. There has who make the assumption that inve tigation is to find reasons for been an ambivalence on the part academics have to suffer because the decline in the · admissions of students in applying to coll�ge, teams are doing well make a standards for the past five years," according to Covert. ridiculous assumption.' "During the past ten years, the said Rocco Orlando, co-chariman He said •there is no concerted along with Schneider. a ve r a g e score o f all SAT effort to admit athletes because ''The Admissions Committee ·candidates-students at all grade they are athletes.' teUs us that class rank is a more levels including those who take Noting King's efforts, Effmger significant indicator than SAT the test as juniors and again as said that although the majority of scores," Orlando said. seniors-fell 35 paints. on the verbal applicants the Coach has attracted Schneider cited a 1.5 per cent a n d 2 1 p o i n t s o n t he director of admissions, said that are football players, 'he got kids increase of students from the mathematical part," the Mar�h he finds Hamilton abides by the interested in the school who can't lower 'two quintiles of their class 1974 issue of "The College Board rulings more conscientiously than even playfootball.' as a reason for conducting the News" reported. The College many other institutions in the 'I believe that our coaches are investigation. Entrance E xamination Board is conference. fully aware of what our policies A c c o r d in g t o Or lando, "convinced that there is no single In its efforts to seek qualified are. ... When I tell them their top Hamilton is "taking a lot more reason for the decline." athletes, the athletic department athletes are being rejected, there is people with lower SATs than we The fact that fewer juniors are m a i n t a i n s a c o o perat i v e no problem.• He added that of have before." repeating the test and that the relationship with the Office of King's top choices, four will be For the class of 1973, 5.5 per SAT population shifts from year Admissions. ' Attracting athletes rejected. This is an academic cent of the Verbal scores fell in to year "in response to changes in to the s�hool is the responsibility i n s t i t ution and athletics are the 550 and below range, while 4 t he �ducational, social, and ef the admissions office. We secondary.' per cent of the Math scores fell in economic climate" arc two factors cooperate with them. We act in an Effinger explained the geiieral the same range. For the class of which may explain the decline, indirect c a pacity. They set system for admitting applicants. 1977, 15.8 per cent of the Verbal according to Dr. T. Anne Cleary, guidelmes for 'recruiting' that are M e m b e r s o f the admissions scores fell in the 550 and below chief of Program Services Division consistent with the admissions mmmittee read a candidate's category, while 10.4 per cent of of the College Board. policies of the college,' said Long. folder and rate him numerically the Math scores fell in this range. Statistics for College Board Long said that the system of based upon academic record, ••There is a consistency within Scores at Hamilton for the class of c o o r d i n a t i o n b e tween h i s p e r s onal q ua l i f ications, and Hamilton College from year to 1977 reveal that 24 per cent of department and Admissions is recommendati o ns . Academic year as far as grades and class rank the Verbal scores fell between 450 much .more organized that it has rating is counted doubly in the are concerned," Covert said. and 549, while eight per cent of been in recent years. Athletic tabulation. Hamilton College admits the the Verbal scores fell in the 700 resume cards are maintained for A study requested by the s m a l l e st percentage of their and up range. Twelve per cent of prospective athletes on which Student Curriculum Committee is applicant group than any other the class of 1977 scored in the a c a d e m i c a n d a t h l e t i c now being compiled by Edward college in New York State, 450 to 549 range in the Math requirements are recorded. He W i l s o n o f t he Office of according to Covert. Last year SAT, while 21 per cent scored said this is an improvement over a A d m i ss i ons. T h e s tudy is Hamilton admitted 572 or 38.9% 700 and above. system in which coaches go primarily designed to determine of its 1472 applicants. Two years Sixteen per cent of the class of r u m m a g ing through students' the correlation, if any, which ago Hamilton accepted 558 • or 1976 scored in the 450 to 549 records. After the prospective exists between those students 38.2% of its 1462 applicnats. Of category, and 14 per cent scored athlete's sports ratings are noted with a 75% aYCrage or less and those accepted, 264 or 46.2% in the 700 and above range on the on the card, the resume is sent to var s i ty a t hletes. Effinger is matriculated in the class of 1977, Verbal section. For the Math the A d m i ssions Office. The c on f id e n t that athletes will as compared to 265 or 47.5 % in SAT, ten per cent of the class admissions office, explained Long, demonstrate a normal bell curve the class of 1976. scored in the 450 to 549 range then informs the -coaches which regarding grades like most other Any increase in the number of and thirty-one per cent of the ilt hletes meet the necessary ; sectors of the Hamilton student applicants to Hamilton in the class scored in the 700 and above apdem� , teq11il:tml!Jtts... 'Some · � do. present situation is commendable, range.· ....:.
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"The Enrollment, Admission, Scholarship and Attrition Report" wrote that the decline in SAT scores was the result of the following: "( 1) A nation-wide decline in the average test p e r f ormance because of less repeat testing, changing classroom emphasis and television. (2) The admission of 265 freshman. Classes previous to the class of 1976 have numbered 250 and 232. (3) A decline in our yield. In order to fill the class, it was necessary to admit 14 more candidates to the Class of 1977 than were admitted to the class of 1976 and 82 more than were admitted to the class of 1975." "The Admissions Committee., v i e w s s e c o n d a r y s c hool aduevementas a best indicator of potential academic success at H a milton," the report said, however. ''E i t h e r t h e S c ho la s t i c Aptitude Test of the College Entrance Examination Board or the ACT Battery of the American C o l l e g e Testing Program is required," the "Information for Applicants" bulletin prepared by the A dm issions Department stated, however. According to the Enrollment Report, the average Verbal SAT score for the class of 19 77 is 605 compared to 624 for the class of 1976. The average Math score decreased from 658 for the class of 1976 to 636 for the class of 1977. These figures do not i n c l ude S p e cial Opportunity Group Admissions. "The SAT was never intended to be a measure of school achievement. Skills and abilities meas ured by the SAT are d e v e lop ed s lowly o ve r a youngster's lifetime," said Cleary. Covert said that •'SAT's arc not i a precise measure of abilty." C l ass rank, and grade average achieved at reputable high schools represent more reliable factors for d e·t e r m i n i n g t h e s t uden t 's p o t e n t ia l p e rform a n ce a t Hamilton. While the SAT scores have decreased over the past two years, · the class ranks have remained relatively stable. In the class of 1977. 71 per cent of the students were in the first quintile and 19 per cent fell in the second quintile of their class. In the class of 1976, 71 per cent of the student ranked in the first quintile and twenty per cent. fell into the second.
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Bill H utchinson was the man ir the third period once agair Breaking out of the Blue zone Kurt Ziemendorf, who has successfully recovered from his head injury against Vermont, passed up ice to Dickie Malcom who in tum dished it to ''H utch" over the blue line. H utchinson fired it past the Bowdoin net minder Freddie Green beating him to his short side. With 22 s�conds left in the_ game, H amilton was two men down following a brief melee in front of the Continental net. Jim Rishel, Ben Madonia, and Steve Malcom entered the game to kill the penalty, and the H amilton fans voiced their appreciation. Rishel, a native of Clinton, earned the respect of many opponents this year. His crush�ng aggressive and checks hip terperment will surely be missed next season. Perhaps Donny
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Armstrong or Dave Pryor can take GeQrge did all _the goal teDfling. Bili .,. H utchinson from. Hingfi.am, up t_he slack. Many different factors aided Mass. was the starting left wing. the Continentals this year in their Keith O'Brien worked ably ith phenomenal tum-around. Last Pete Ascher! and Gib H ed rorn year their final record was 7-15. on the second line. Tom Griffith This year it was 14-7. Last year and P!iil H ildebrand d zled <if: the goals againsr average was 5 .56. opponents with their intricate This year Rossi had a 4.71 and passes and side-steps. They'll all George had an incredible 2.98. be around for three more years. Both are freshmen. Last year Assistant Coach John lfarin there were only three scorers to p I a y ed a silent role during net more than twenty points. This the Continental's season. His pep year there were six. talks and constructive advice The seven freshman on the aided the team immensely. bver club have made all the difference one half of this year's squad was in the world. Kurt Ziemendorf, comp o s e d o f under classtnen, the rookie from Buffalo, stepped leaving a strong nucleus for a club right in to play on the firSt that will undoubtedly be play-off defe nse with co-captain Jim boun next year. d .Rishel, Ray Rossi and Shawn
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SwimmersTake 2nd in- - State Carlberg Headed to Nationals nv JOHN NAVARRE
The Hamilton Swim Team placed second in the 20th annual .., Upper New Y ork tS ate Meet last · weekend with a total of 322 pts. The Red Raider s of Co lgate wer e untouched in first place with 544 pts., and tS . Bonaventure placed a dis tant third with 191 pts. The Blue saw one league record broken ·and ten new school records. Of the nineteen who made the trip to the u. of Rochester pool, seventeen sco red points in the finals. Hamilton had the lowes t enro llme_nt of �y school that competed. Eighteen events are swum in ·the meet, nine on each day. Each event has preliminaries in the morning, and in the evening consolations finals for swimmers _placing twelfth through seventh and finals fo r sixth thru first (except for the 1650-yd. Free which is time finals swum in heats). National Breaststroke bound Jeff Carlberg. , Points are distributed to all f°mishers in the consolations and finals, 16 · for first place down to 1 point for twelfth place. All points are doubled in re lay events. Jeff Carlberg broke the league record in the 100-yd Breaststroke finishing four laps in 1:00.9, BY ED WATKIN S which is also a school record. As a soon to be alumnus, have I b egun to reflect qn what I have Carlberg had already qualified for · gained from attending Hamilton College for the pas t four years. One t he C o l l e g e a nd University thought that keep s running through my mind is the number of hours Nationals · to be swum at Long that sI pent at aS ge Rink both as a spectator and player . Beach State Univ. in California. Ho ckey was a foreign ter m to me when I arrived on campus "The Joker's'� time is one full freshman year. Iknew the New York team was called the Rangers second ahead of the winning time and that the Hamilto n team was suppo sed to be pretty good. I did of last year's Co llege Nationals. not know the diffe rence ·between offsides and icing. I had never Carlberg also took a first in the skated, much les s p lay ed hockey. 200-yd Breast (2:15.9), also a oo S n after my fi rst couple of weeks at Hamilton, hockey began -schoo l record. He led the field the to hold some meaning fo r me. Brian M orin, a playe r, was my hall whol e way · and finis hed four advisor , while Jim Rishel and tS eve "Mad Dog" Malcom lived across seconds in front of Tiff Hopkins the hal l. They taught me en ough about the game to spur my inter�st; of Colgate. within two yea rs wa I s a dev oted �•jungle" player and avid fan. Carlber g will swim both Breast did I not realize how much ho ckey meant to me until I arrived at stroke events at the Nationals and aS ge Rink last aS turday to watch the Bowdoin game, the last game I is a contender for the national would watch as an under graduate. u S ddenlyit hit me; the next time championship in both. Coach I wou ld be in the rink would be graduation day. At that point the MacD o n a l d c ommented that Hamilt o n team came on the ice and �y mind turned towards the - "He's healthy and with the proper game. mental attitude, he could win and The hockey team entered the Bowdoin game hungry for a win; break the r ecord (in the 100-yd the dis appointment of not making the playoffs still hanging in their event); and if it carries over to the minds. Ready as they we re to play, the tremendous crowd r:.eaction next day he could �in the must have been a tremendous psycho lo gical boost. The rug showing two-hundred and break the record a hockey playing moos e, no. 8, and the - "WE LOVE THE MAD again." He added, "What he can DOG "' banner were the visual aids, the cheers from the crowd do and will do you don't know." provided the vocals. The ovations that Benny, Jim, and Mad Dog Johnny Needham grabbed a received nea rly shook apart the old rin'k, the fans jus t knew that first in a slow 200-yd freestyle Hamilt on would win the game. (1:50.79). Colgate Coach Bob F or once, the fans proved to be exceedingly wise. Th.e team went Benson did not swim his big gun, Bill Morosky, in the ev ent. out and played it s best, game of the s eason hustling for th e entire sixty minutes, fo rechecking, diving in fr ont of shots, hitting people. Needham was not pushed to the The team discovered it could produce on a power play and could win, and had swum a faster time defend against it .. The end result, a 4-1 victory. earlier in the season. Itwil l be a long· time before I forget th e sight of BeJ111y Madonia N ee dham returned in the huts ling after a puck, getting it, and heading down ice looking for 500-yd free to place sixth. ln the the open man, of Mad Dog skating full speed after the puck, not s a me e ve n t f reshman Dave caring if the re was · a defen seman in the way, of Jim Rishel wiping Greenhalgh swam a lifetime (and ·out a wing with one of his deadly hip checks. Hamilton) best with a fourth F ortunately for myself I will carry away more from Hamilton place finish. Greenhalgh mad e the than the memorie s of three dozen or so hockey games. If not I fin a ls in two other events, would have was ted fou r ·yea rs and a considerable amount of money. breaking another school .record in But hockey wi ll always remind me of the good times at Hamilton. the 1650-yd. free fo r a third and An alumnus could not ask fo r any more. ended sixth in the 400-yd. .---------------------------•• Individual Medley. ·. Sprinters John Murphy, Joe For Convenience ?nd aS fety Shrum, and Jack Widm an all K eep your checking account showed the effects of Coah at M a c D o na ld' s l o n g - d istance workouts and what "shaving" can do for speed. They all placed in the fi�als of the 50-yd. spring with three Colg-.tte sprinters as competition� Widman and Shrum Banking Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00'p.m. Monday through Friday returned . � ..�e 100-yd. sprin� pl�.4;,� _ Q to 6:00 p.m. Thunday and Friday fi nals fqr · sccot;1d· · and' '"third respectfv1f}'��n11�urphy cbppcd Member F.D.I.C. • a charter New York Bank a ninth in the Consolations.
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The 400-yd. Medley and 400-yd. frees tyle relays both swam to second places with Co lgate taking all the firsts availab le in the relay events. Both Hamilton relays s et new sch ool marks. The Medley Relay was touched out by· Co lgate, and could have possibly beat the R a i d e r s with J o hn Bai r d ,swimming-the backstroke leg. The Co nt's 800-yd. F r ee Relay placed 4th in the finals. Gary Karl turned in the surprise swim of the meet when he shaved fourteen seconds off his seed tim e in the 2 00-yd. Butterfly to qualify 2nd for the finals, and then knocked another s eco nd off his time in the finals for a big I e finish" and a sch 001 second Pac record (2 : 04 ·6) · K arI a lsO Pace I d tenth in the 200-yd· Indivi"dual Mediey -and fifth m · the 100-yd · Fly which earned him his s econd sch001 recor d of the meet (55· 9) · Divers Fred Holen der and Paul Edict fared well in the meet. HoIander bro_ke a schoo1 record .m the 3-Meter. Edict returned in the 1-M eter to spring to a fourth place and a new school reco rd of 347• 65• H0lander Pace 1 d seventh · Edict qualified for the Nationals in the I-Meter, but will not make . • the trip to Califio rrua. eS ru·or J ohn B-2n-d ....... showed a the 200 yd and 100 yd 1., &0urth m· -
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A rather unique sporting event scheduled contest with a Colgate Alpha D�lta Phi won . the intramural hockey play-offs .la st took place in the Sage Rink, on women's team. Much to the Sund ay beating Theta Phoon Phi. S a t u r d a y il i g h t • T h e dismay of orga nizer s Mi ssy ast, The score was 5 to 4. AD add s H a m_i l t o n-Kirkland community Mela nie Oliviero and Sara Gordon, this c h a mpi on s hip t o the was treated to an exhibition of the Colgate contingent cancelled intramural-football crown th6y co-ed hockey. With many campus out. Since the Kirk l anders were group s and organizations such as not to b e d e nied of an , won in the fall. The game was clo sely fought Choir, ELS going well, it was only o p p ortunity to display 'their a matter of time before the ver s a tility and their hockey and the lead see- sawed back and forth. Kevin McTeman '75 gave h o c k e Y r i n k w o uld b e talents, the trio challenged all to a T.P.P. an early 1-0 lead but Mark overwhelmed by the hockey buffs co-ed game. Me singer '76 and Phil Halpern '75 from Kirkland College. Each period of the game was For all intents and purpose s, hard fought with an "excellent" scored to give AD a 2-1 advantage. Another goal by McTeman tied the game. was conducted in a caliber of play. At the out set, the the game. AD's J.im Kennedy '74 manner entirely different from Kirkland girls, on both side s freely and T.P.P.'s Joe Zaiden '76 then the tense, rough and tumble t o o k c ontrol of the game, traded go_als for a 3-3 half time a ction of. a regular hockey assuming the play making, attack contest.. For the majority of the directing roles. Missy Fast was a score. In the second period, Halpern game the participant s religiousiy stalwart in goal, while Mark "red and Kennedy both scored their observed the no checking,. no light" Smith h a d extreme se<,::ond goals of the game to clinch slap shot rule s. But .as the contest difficulty stopping the elu sive it for AD. Bob Hart '75 scored for progre ssed and as the players rubber disc. While Gary Villanova T .P .P. with approximately 6 loosened up, the refere�s h ad their was de sperately trying to remain minute s left to finish the scoring. hands full keeping ruffi a n s · Bob on his feet, his counter part, Lisa Herbie Ogden shows the Indies skill In the final minute T.P.P. pulled H annon, Chip Whitely, Dave M e s inger, w as sk ating and · goalie Tom Moore '76 for the man W o llm a n , J o h n N a v a rre, a nd stickhandling around everyone. advantage, but they couldn't score George B a ker. J a net B ern stein played well BY GARY VILLANOVA against a-tough AD defense. From the ·opening face-off to defensively to offset all of the Intramural Basketball V aughan '76 made a l ay-up apd The In the consolation game, Henry the final buzzer, the combatants offensive ru she s of· Profe ssor play-offs were hdd thi s week and the tilt was tied. Finally, with 11 Bedford '76 scored a hat trick to performed remark ably well. It w as Steven Lee. although past form held up there seconds left, Mike Cannon '76 got lead DKE to a .5-1 victory over Psi fairly obvious to the hockey A bench clearing play in the _were some exciting games. The the bounce on a long jump- shot to U. Walt Stugis '76 and Jake conoisseur s in the stands th at the final second s proved to be a very opening round produced four one give DU the game. With two Cunningham '76 scored the other Kirkland girl s had obtained a few hilarious sight for all to see. �uite victories and set up seconds left W ally Porter '74 had goals· for DKE. while Frank p o i n t e rs from their favorite similar to the antics of the sided rematche s of two early season a chance to tie it for Psi U put he O'Leary '75 had the lone tally for varsity stars. The Kirkland team_ K ey s t o ne C ops, fifty co-ed contests for the semi-final s. In missed two foul shots. Psi U. had been working out during. the hockey player s were scurrying In· the second semi-imal game Division I DU no.1 and Psi U around in pursuit 'of the single no.l, both from the East league, INDY no.2 repeated an earlier hockey puck. As was to be rolled to impressive victorie s. DU victory over DKE winning 57-39. expected colli sion s occured and championship game The demolished BPRU 62-41 and Psi fights broke out. It seemed that U took apart a previously produced probably the most the loser s had a difficult 'time undefeated INDY no.1 team, exciting contest of the year. In a s w a l l owing their pride 'and, 56-31. In Division II, INDY no.2 game in which the bigge st lead con sequently, turned to "dukes" was never more than 6 points, and DKE, both from the South to avenge their lo ss. - league, won in non-competitive INDYno.2 defeated DU to win the After the game, all the players games. The Indies de stroyed title, 48-47. The Indies gained · were immediately beginning pl ans hopele ssly outmanned TEAK control in the early going, for next year's hockey season. A 88-7, and DKE pummelled AD, building up a 16-11 lead. P at formal team with scheduled game s McDoug ald '74_ lead the way with 57-25. in the intramural league is to be In the fir st semifinal game, DU 5 jump shots. DU then tightened proposed by Kirkla nd planner s. no.1 and P si U no.1 squared off in up its defense and came . b ack to From the ·gist of post game one of the most heated contests lead at half time, 26-24. conversation it seem s readily Opening the second half, the of the year. DU won 48-46. On apparent that Kirkla nd's athletic opening night of the season DU Indies scored 8 straight points in p r o g r a m of next year will had defeated P si U by 12 points, the fir st 6 minute s to lead 32-26. definitely include a hockey team. but Psi U played without junior DU came back with 5 quick Stalwart Dave Sohn. Thi s time, · points and from then on it was Is it the downfall of with Sohen in the line-up, Psi U nip and tip. The lead see-sawed b a ck a nd forth until Mike Cannon held a 46-42 lead with 2 minute s U.S.A. - WESTERN left. But DU's Gary Neville '76 hit hit two foul shot s to give DU a HEGEMONY? a side jump sh.ot and Moe 4 7-44 lead with le ss than 2 (or the dawn of a new era) minutes to play. Your hosts Charles, Jennie & Butch The Indies then made the final Barady welcome all Hamilton and F·inally the story can be move. Herbie Ogden '75 hit a long Kirkland students to sung and played .•• OHi Carol Manlove forces Co-ed Dave Wolman into the boards. jump shot and after a turnover, · SAY CAN YOU SEEi . .. KIRKLAND SPRING SPORTS John Psiaki '74 hit ·both end s of a the musical version of the Kirkland women intere sted in playing softball, soccer� or lacrosse, one-and-one foul situation to decline and fall of the · . and Nixon Empire ... a $45,000 forge the final score. DU had a sign up on the Athletic bulletin board in McEw"fu. Y ou can- sign for . production with 43 musi imal chance at victory. Robbie any or all of them; they will meet at different times. Please sign up cians and 21 singers that's Winter's 30 foot desperation shot before vacation, because it has to be known how many people are been suppr�ssed by the Homemade luncheons daily hit the rim at the buzzer. intere·sted in particular sports. If you have any questions, please Establishment for nearly consolation contact Monica Liff or Meg Newman. In game the DKE pies ·Spinach · two years. Order yourcopy gained 3rd place by beating Psi U today •. . · Shish-ka-bob KIRKLAND BASKETBALL 53-44. . .. ' There will be no Kirkland basketball this Sunday, March, 9, •, ·Kibee becasue of the Athletic Conference being held in the gym all day. · "OH I SAY CAN YOU SEEr' ·Meatless dishes c/o C.C.T.D. Ltd., . P.O. Box 743 GOLF ·Stuffed peppersRouses Point, N.Y. 12979 All Kirkland girl s interested in learning basic golf skills should Vallagc Variety Store 1008 St. Vincent St., Utica O One Album at $7.95 $,____. submit their names and class schedules fo Mr s. Richardson by March Ointon. N. Y. O Two Albums at 732-9064 15th. Instruction by CoachJones of Hamilton will begin.after Spring · $11.95 (an extra one Servin1 the Collqe · for a friend) .......... .._$ ____ Vacation; equipment will be provided. · Lebinese and Syrian cuisin�· D The complete Community for o.cr Directions: make right turn off ll!)retto at $4.95 .... $.____ 2s Genesee St. at the Stanley LACROSSE,SOFTBALL,SOCCER Shipping & H,andllng ................ S 1.00 Theatre. Head east on Rutger Girls interested in playing these sports are requested to sign up Total Price .......... $, ____ St. one mile to St. Vincent. Clothing with Mrs. Richardson, x. 7512, before Spring Vacation. (Instruction Tum right, Barady's is opposite HOUKWara "SOARY- No C.0.0.'a". I enclose will be offered in lacrosse, with equipment provided). According t� D c_htq1,1e · D mo!le_y order Q uinn P-1 ayground. - · - -- -- Stationary Closed Sunda and Monda the number of people interested ·in each sport, playing times will be . 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Pride of the Yankees BY TIM" SHOEN and JEFF FEINGOLD
"R is for Ruth. To tell you the truth. There's no more to be said, just R is for Ruth ... " - Ogden Nash
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The director had already planned to use a jump cut from Bendix's bat to a ball flying out ,of the park, but as the actor walked out of the dugout wearing the number three on a pinstriped uniform, carrying a bat in his hand, he stepped to the plate and proceeded to belt one into the stands--he just hit it. Such is the magic of Babe Ruth. Ruth steps to the plate, hisses heard throughout the crowd, but he pays little attention to them. He points towards right center field · (with his bat), and after taking two called strikes, hammers one out toward� the exact spot he pointed to. History forgets that Gehrig followed with another shot, but that's another story. I saw the Babe once - who could forget him pushing his hand thru the straw hat in Pride of the Yankees,? That's about the only- thing left, that and the newsreels. His memory is drowning amidst the clamor for Henry Aaron. His homerun record might die, along with the others, but it wasn't 7 i 4 home runs that saved the national pasttime - it was the charisma of the Babe himself. The charisma that could make today's "heroes" look like shy altar boys. The Babe made it possible for professional sports to take such a firm foothold in American life. After the Black Sox scandals of 1919, men wondered it the professionalization of a boy's game could ever be done on a large scale again. The Babe made it all possible-hear that Mr. Rozelle? As Henry Aaron sits in the dugout for the first three games of the 197 4 baseball season, the ghost of Babe continues to haunt him. Sportswriters cherish the thought that, in their lifetim·es, an unbreakable record will be broken. They flaunt the talents of Aaron, calling his feat unbelievable. But why is it so unbelievable? Jimmy Brown's record was broken with a few articles about O.J. in the papers--but here the Babe's ·mast�ry is challenged. Aaron's slugging credentials are amazing in themselves, but when they ask for the greatest slugger of all time, they'll ask for the man �ith one home run in each eleven times at bat. Murray Kempton wrote about the awesome abilities of Willie Mays - his speed, fielding abilities, and his bat. He said that Mays could look eye to eye with ·any ballplayer ever to reach for a . glove-except one, Babe Ruth. ''The best way to appreciate Ruth's place beyond all comparison is to notice achievements of his that few of us would associate with him.': From Abner Doubleday to today, only thirty men have stolen home plate eight times in their careers-one was Babe Ruth. Six hall of fame pitchers were parsi�onious enough to own ERAs of less than 2.5, George Herman takes his place next to Walter Johnson. If Henry Aaron wants to understand the pressure a man goes through when approaching one of the Bambino's records, he could ask Roger Maris. But, then again, he could ask Whitey Ford, who broke Ruth's record of 29 consecutive scoreless innings pitched in World Series play. Mrs. Babe says Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly over the Atlan_tic, but could you name the �cond. Babe Ruth is the standard by which men can measure excellence. Arnold Palmer, the Babe Ruth of golf. Wilt Chamberlain, the Babe Ruth of basketball. Jackie Stewart, the Babe Ruth of auto racing. But excellence is not confined to sports. i''or that reason, Juan Corona may be the Babe Ruth of mass murder and God may be the Babe Ruth of religion. I
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BY STEPHEN HA WEELI The Hamilton College hockey team finished its season last weekend with decisive victories over Ithaca 9-2, and Bowdoin, 4-1. Although the team barely missed the playoffs, they ended with a record of 14-7, and were r anked seventh in the final standing of Division II. In the 9-2 romp over Ithaca, senior co-captain Benny Madonia t a l l i e d three times, as the Continentals wound up their fruitful season at home. Pete Ascherl starter things off for Hamilton when he jammed one in coming around the net at 1:44. lthaca countered five minutes later at 6:35. Thomas Villa, a senior, whisked one by -freshman Ray Rossi who was called on to make eleven saves. He only had to make two saves in the first period. The Continentals erupted for five goals in the second period as the "Midwest Connection/' led by senior Steve Malcom, tallied at 2:14. Malcom was credited with his tenth goal. Tom Griffith and Phil Hildebrand picked up assists. Benny Madonia tht;n scored his first goal of the evening on a pass from Billy Hutchinson. Dave Gillmore made his bid for a "hat trick" by scoring twice within t hirty seconds. Rick Aubry assisted him on the first one at 8:24, and Madonia and Ricky Anderson assisted him shortly after 8:53. Ithaca responded momentarily as senior Bob Driscoll beat Rossi a t 11:50. After that, Rossi shutout Ithaca who ended up playing most of the game in their own end. Madonia closed out the second period scoring at 13:59 when h e d eflected a Billy Hutchinson slap shot over helpless goalie John Moraudian's sh�ulder to make it 6-2. The third period was action packed. It featured a Benny
Madonia "hat trick," four game misconducts, and three more Hamilton goals. Ascher! tallied again on passes from Keith O'Brien and Gibby Hedstrom. Then Steve Malcom got his eleventh goal on a pass from Gillmore. Steve Malcom, whose aggressive play in the corners enhances his freshman linemate's play, has had a turn-around season from · last year. As a junior his final scoring statistics were five goals and seven assists for twelve points. This year his point total was twenty. He doubled his goal output, scoring eleven this year, and managed to pick up nine assists. He is also a great favorite on the ice. The score was 8-2 in the third period, and "at that point in t i m e" t h r e e m e n h a d o pp o rtunities for the trick: Ascherl, Gillmore, and Madonia. All three of them missed by inches previously in the game, but it was Benny ''Moose" Madonia who wctS to electrify the crowd. One of the most consistent hockey players to come to Hamilton in recent years, Benny '73-'74 SEASON SCORING Anderson Madonia Hildebrand Griffith Malcom Hutchinson Ascherl Gillmore Aubry Rishel
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took a pass from Ricky Anderson in front of the net at 7:36 to _score his twelfth and final goal of the year·. The action was not over yet as ill tempers were brewing on both squads. At 15:l4 Al Colby and Dave Pryor met Charles Brady and Tom Villa at center ice. Colby and Pryor proceeded to pummel their adversaries adding insult to mJury. All four players were removed from the game. The game was lopsided all the way as Rossi made eleven saves and John Moraudian made forty. For the final game of the season, Hamilton faced Bowdoin in a game that was supposed to be p l ayed January 5. Hamilton wasted no time in scoring as Phil Hildebrand and Steve Malcom connected over to Tom Griffith for the goal at 3:09. The Continentals then made the score 2-0 when Billy Hutchinson's hustle resulted in Rick Anderson's twelfth goal of the year at ·4:27. Bowdoin countered at 11:39. Sophomore wing Scott Blackburn put one past Shawn George for Bowdoin's only score. Shawn ended up with 2 5 sa ves , m any o f them __. spectacular. The second period ..-.�aw Billy Hutchinson tally at 13:16 on passes from Dave . Gillmore and Gibby Hedstrom to make it 3-1. Phil Hildebrand had to leave the game when he was walloped by a Bowdoin player. Dickie Malcom got the call, and the Midwest Connection minus Hildebrand was dubbed the ,, ''Malcom Connection. Dickie, a junior varsity standout responded immediately by thrilling the partisan cro:wd. Positioned ten feet in front of the net, his first shot as a varsity Continental missed being a goal by inches as it trickled by the right post. continued on page 17
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THESPECT� Hamilton's year-long search for t h e· c o m m i t t e e h a d a n its 16th president has once again institutional concern to refrain narrowed to a few candidates, f r o m changing its procedure according to Richard Couper, a which migh t prolong the search . t rustee and member of the Couper a dm i t t e d additional ,residential Search Committee. student meetings when candidates Other indications are that three visit the Hill would not seriously candidates remain in contention. obstruct the Search. Charles E. Gilbert, provost of Provost Gilbert, commenting Swarthmore College, who visited on student involvement, said he the college on March 15 and 16, is did have a desire to meet with said to be among the three other students when h� visited candidates. and added "it would have counted "My wife and I went up to as a plus." He also expressed Hamilton and Kirkland and liked int erest in meeting more faculty. wh at we saw . . . I liked what I He said, however, that he was felt," said Gilbert, a native of not critical of the Search . Albany. "Swarthmore's search was more The Spectator has also learned public than it should have been," that Acting President J. Martin he said of his college's recent Carovano is one of the three selection of its president. Carovano said that as an insider· candidates. Carovano couldn't say w he t h er the committee still· he has had sufficient oppotunity · . considers him a candidate, but he to speak with students and said that he still considers himself faculty. H e also said the student members of the search- committee a candidate. Becker The Acting President said, "I are full active members and asked would still be interested and a disproportionate number of willing to be considered by the questions. All members of the committee committee · for the pre sidency." He would not respond when asked except Bill Smith '74 and Trustee if he has formally been offered · Edward Glesthorp e were pre sent to interview Carovano. t he job. at Hamilton. I like. its spirit, and The committee's target date Gilbert, a faculty member at I'm proud of it." for a new president is th e Swarthmore since 1955, said h e is However,' Kurtz said that "the most effort and energy ought to beginning of the next academic c u r r en t l y s e eking no other be given to faculty morale and Y e a r , w h i c h m e a n s a n positions and is serious about his Kirkland relations." H e believes appointment somewhere between responsibilities at Swarthmore. He that "a great need is tQ encourage July 1 · and October 1, said said he has been asked to visit faculty morale at a time of stress; Couper• He also said there is "a other colleges in the past b'ut has to encourage the faculty to good opportunity" for an election not. It is e xpectec\ t hat one continu e to be good scholars and by the Board of Trustees at their next meeting, May 10. A special candidate will be offere'd t,h,e teachers." H e also said, "There is a need meeting before then does not presidency in the very near futur.e. G i l b e r t , w h e n contact e d for long range academic planning seem likely. D ean of the College Stephen G. Wednesday, said he was not y et with Kirkland" to solve the Kurtz and outgoing Student offered the position, but added, difficulties of coordination. Kur t z ap peared optimistic Senate President George Baker "If I were asked I would have a about the future administration of both requested increased student lot to think about." H e said he Hamilton. "I'm convinced -that i n v o l vem e nt i n t h e search was, "looking at the positio'll, not we'll have a fine president f o l l o w i n g. J o s e p h Sisco's for it." When at Hamilton, Gilbert met shortly," he said. '' The committee withdrawal from that position. ''They [ the requests] received with Acting President J. Martin been conscientious. When has very serious discussion - they Ca r o vano, P r o f essor Dwigh t dealing with fam ous candidates o was recently named t h e y w e r e f Or c e d t � were by no means ignored," said Lindley whcontinue d on page five Coup e r. H e added, _ h owever, t h at continued on page eight
BY FELICE FREYER James McDermid, ' associate pr of e sso r of s culpture and printmaking, will not be teac hing at Kirkland this fall. The Appeals Committee has voted unanimously against the r econsideration of the A ppo intm e nts Commi t t e e ' s dec ision not t o reappoint _ McDermid. President S amuel F. Babbitt conc�rred with t he Appeals Committee decision. 1 In a March 7 letter to M c D e r m i d , t h e A p p ea l s Committee said, "We believ e that ...consideration of your case proceeded soundly and with c onscien tio us c o n c e r n f o r thoroughness and fairness. In brief, we found no basis for recommending review of the decision not fo renew your ,, appointment. .. How e ver, t h e C ommittee found "an irregularity in the timing of the College notice to you o·f n o n-r e a p p o-i nt m ent which...would seem to require ,, BY SUSAN MALKIN redre.ss. It then suggested an Stephen G. Kurtz, dean, of McDermid's ex t e n s i o n o f appointment for a length of time Hamilton Colle ge for the past two that would compensate for the years, will leave this June to head short notice he was given by the h is o w n a dministration as A r t s D i v i s i o n P e r s o n n e l principal of The Phillips Exet er Sch ool, Exeter, N.H. Committee. Kurtz, who announced his President Babbitt did not concur with this recommendation resignation at the Monday March 11 c h a p e l m e eting, praised , for an extension. H a mi lt o n as "a wonderful Babbitt Concurs , In a Marc h 13 letter to college. with "a magnificent McDermid's attorney Stephen L. student body and a great faculty." Lockwood, Babbitt said "I do He said t hat le aving Hamilton was no t f i n d e x c e p�i o n a l "t he most difficult decision of my circ umstanc es or compelling life except for my marriage." In a later interview, Kurtz said, reasons which would lead me to reverse the findings of the Appeals "I h a v e be e n o f f e red an Committee. Consequently, I have opportunity to head my own affirmed the Colleges decision administration in an institution not to offer reappointm ent." In that I respect and that has headed his letter to McDermid, Babbitt its field in secondary education. I said, "I take this position with very much wanted that chance." -"I'm disappointed at th e short personal regret but with th e l ength of my stay here," he said. conviction that the procedures of th e College have been adequately "I h ad not intended it." Kurtz- said he views the followed..." McDermid said that the ch ief position of dean of the college as c o n c e r n o f t h e App e a l s prima ril y a "personnel and curriculum job." Despite his short Iea��e�<?!� �en����!??�un!�P.te levels. Committee had been whether the Among the 120 co-sponsors of term at t he colle ge, he said he Three proposals designed to (R - Peru) int_roduced a bill, p r oc e d u r e s w e r e f o l l o we d feels he has made some important improve N ew York State student passed by the Senate, increasing the Costigan bill is Speaker of the properly, while "the issues I felt aid programs are currently under the maximum Sc holar lficentive Assembly, Perry B. Duryea (R were beh ind the judgment of the accomplishments in bot h areas. "I hope t hat I have encouraged consideration by the legislature in Award from $600 to $1,000, for Montauk), considered by many to (A r t s D i vi sion) P e rsonn e l faculty study. and researc h," and Albany. Each of the proposals 1974-75 only. There would be b e a gubernatorial h opeful. Committee were never exposed to that "I have done the right thing would significantly alter existing i n c r e a s e d b e nefits f o r all Anderson, co-author of the Senate questioned." H e said that - the in bringing six new full-time programs and provide greater undergraduate classes. bill, has also been mentioned as a College seemed to feel that th e women to the faculty." candidate for state-wide possible holar Sc he t 6, 7 57 19 In fr e edom of c h oice to middl e judgment of his peers, the "I believe I hav e had good income students applying to Incentive Program would be office. members of the Arts Division was The great differences in the dropped and a new agency would · adeq'uat e g r o unds f o r ' h is working relations with Kirkland college in the st ate. faculty and administration " said to administer all two leading bills, and the absence ed creat be Ass emblyman Peter Costigan ° nonreappointment. Kurtz. "I hope I carried o'ut my (R - Setauket) introduced a bill state-supported student aid and of joint committees in Albany "A Little Angry" f have made compromise difficult. unctions . as ch ief academic recently passed by the Assembly, loan program s. McDermid, who previously said , coordinator.; has been reporte d howev er, that It ents Reg of Board e Stat e h T w h ic h would initially provide a that he would not have appealed Kurtz - c l a i m s c r e dit for maximum grant of almost $2,000 issued its own legislative proposal. some legislators are committed to if not for the strong student support he received,- now regrets retaining the Monday Assembly at to next year's private college Similar to the Costigan Plan in passag e of some new student aid having appealed his case: "It was a a time when it was in danger of fres hmen. The program would e v e ntual financial awards, it measure t his session. As yet Governor Malcolm waste of cre ative ene rgies,•• he failing. "I challen�ed the student continue to give the increased aid would gradually increase the said. He also said that he was not. body to make 1t better . . . and to subsequent fres hman classes; Sc holar Ince ntive Award over t he Wilson has not publicly supported bitter, only "dissatisfied" and "a then encouraged the faculty," he and would be fully implemented next three years, while decreasing any of the proposals. ,, Under the present program, all t h e a� o � n t of_ Re gen t s in four years. little angry at the results of the said. Kurtz also said that h e "would Senat e Majority Lead e r Warren Scholarship aid. Benefits would be in-state students are eligible for Appeals process. conti·nued 9n page ten continued on page four like not to see any radical changes M. Anderson (R - Bingham ton) increased simultaneously for- all
Kurtz Submits · Resignation, Heads &eter Administration
Senate, Assembly Vote Student Aid,
THE SPECTATOR/April 5, 1974
Vital Student Aid Davis' .Comer .. ,
1 The Senate and the Assembly of the New York State Legislature have both passed separate legislation to �prove_ New York's prognµn of student aid to college students. t In the face of rising costs to colleges and skyrocketing (:Jes to students, it � essential that Governor Wilson and tg.e· Legislature support and enact one of the proposals. 'Ilhe continuance of a successful system of private and public education in the State depends upon constructive action now. For the academic year 1974-75, the State University of· New York will charge close to $3,000 for tuition, room, board and general fees for an undergraduate. Hofstra University will bill its students $5,270. Columbia College's fees will total $5,900. Many other private colleges and universities are ..approaching the $5,000 mark quickly. Families that can afford $5,000 per year for each child, and believe strongly in·· the merits of a private education have enrolled their children in independent colleges, while those that are economically disadvantaged can often · qualify for scholarship aid� With few exceptions, however,· the largest sector of the state's population �the Middle Class-'is caught in the very place its name suggests, the middle. For families earning between $8,000 and $20,000 in net taxable �come, private higher education has become unrealistic, especially if the family intends to send more than one child to school. As a result, New York's system of higher education has become increasingly divided economically . . I t is the M i dd le C lass, the overtaxed and undercompensated majority to which Assembly bill no. 9169 addresses itself. Originally introduced by Peter J. Costigan, (R-Seatauket), the legislation increases the • present Scholar Incentive awards dramatically, under a newly dubbed Tuition Assistance Program. This program, to be phased in over the next several years, would provide BY VINCENT DICARLO signifi cant, o r transcendent. placed upon the object of this a family with net taxable income of $10,000 with a grant On May 26 the graduating Ritual ought to reflect the esteem significance. Our present diplomas of $1,150, in addition to the $250 Regents Scholarship a senior class will assemble on the in which a particular intangible is are either grossly inadequate to student may receive if he passes the stat.ewide lawn in front of the Chapel in cap held. In the case of graduation e xpress this esteem for the and gown before beginning the ritual, it is the value of an Samilton degree, or they speak examination. Such a family presently receives a $100 ceremonies that mark the end of education and the intellectual only too truly of a deplorable lack Scholar Incentive Award, and, upon qualification, a $250 four years of effort towards the growth it involves that is being of it on the part of the Scholarship. degree of Bachelor of Arts. The honored. Symbolic acts are like administration. If the former The Costigan proposal phases in support to students by faculty will be clad in its academic words. The acts and words 9f proposition is true, there is no r o b e s and relatives of the honor and respect are the only reason to continue to mislead; if class, over the next four years. In this way, aid to the Class graduates will be watching and appropriate ones when dealing the latter is true, there is good of 1978 will be substantial enough to offer them the listening as the names are · with something of great value. An reason to start. In any event, a genuine choice between public and private education. In solemnly called and the former attitude of esteem cannot be new diploma is in order. Next graduation day, students students are congratulated by the maintained when the verbal or addition, it is believed that complet.e funding by class will physical acts that express it are should receive a quitely dignified president of the college. When the protect the bill from cutbacks in its proposed incre�ents, document to attest to the value of a c t ual presentation is made, absent. despite the common practice of off-election year budget L a d e n w i t h s y m b o l i c the fruits of their investment of however, the document received amidst this ceremony in token of significance as it is, a diploma is money, time, and effort at slicing. the graduates' achievement will more than a piece of cardboard. Hamilton. And yes - it should be The Plan passed by the Senate, introduced by Warren M. look more like advertisement for a I ts design should reflect the value written in Latin. Anderson, (R-Binghamton) and Ronald B. Stafford, Hamilton football game than a (R-Peru) calls for general increases in aid for 1974-75, but diploma. On the walls of homes and offices across the land this in following years, an entirely new program of aid would cardboard testimony to aesthetic be- institut.ed and administered by the proposed New York obtuseness will stand in mute NUMBER TWENTY-TWO VOLUME FOUR Higher Education Services Corporation. Supporters of this witness to the lack of respect in which the administration seems to legislation say that this new corporation will be more able Editor-in-Chief Mitchel Ostrer Managing Editor Henry Glick hold the degree it symbolizes. to efficiently meet comprehensive demands of a student News Editor Douglas Glucroft Administrative indifference to Business Manager Peter Sluys aid program. the concern expressed by students Associate Editor Both bills responsibly address themselves to the Assistant News Editors o v e r f l a g r a n t d i s r e gard of Robert J. Keren Linda Anzalone ceremony in the matter of a more financial problems of higher education between the Senate Arts Editor Bob Weisser fitting diploma has been relieved Jonathan Cramer Editorial Page Editor and the Assembly. Bills providing tuition aid are not only by a condescending derision. Sporis Editor Kenneth Gross special interest legislation. They represent the needs of John Navarre Layout Pomp, ritual, and ceremony are Photography Editor Vikram Dewan widely thought irrelevant in our every taxpayer in the State. New York has support.ed an David Cantor Beverly Draudt materialistic age. Since these Graphics Product'ion Manager expansive network of public higher education while private t h i ngs are thought to have Mike Bulger .,. Kevin Burns institutions offering quality educations have faltered. Cliff Davis negligable effect on bread and Students from all economic backgrounds are entitled to butter issues like graduate school News Assistants: Liz Barrow, Felice Freyer, Monica Liff, Susan Malkin, and job applications and the choose from the widest possible range of college education Robert Rock potential cash income ultimately Sports Assistants: Steve Haweeli, Dave Lecher that New York State can offer. resulting from them, their value is Arts Assistants: Bruce Hornstein, Richard Koffs Besides writing letters to legislators, the student discounted. Our administration is Photography Assistant: Phillip Morris Business Staff: Jack Hornor, Martin J. Kane, Peter B. Bayer, Geoffrey E. not alone in using public relations population of the state should seize �e opportunity that Lawrence, Donald R. Kendall, William D. Underwood, M arc Standig as the sole measure of the value of still exists for them to go to Albany and personally ritual� The Publications Boar.d publishes The Spectator, a ne�spaper edited by confront legislative leaders before the.session ends. College Pomp is important. It is the students, 26 times during the academic year. Subscriptions: $7.00 per· year. conimuniiies across New York can now exert upon Albany · visible manifestation of respect Address: Box 83, Hamilton CoDege, Clinton, New York, 13323. Letters to the editor must be signed, but names will be withheld upon request. f o r s o m e t h i n g v a l ua b l e , their lobbying strength.
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April S, 1974/THE SPECTAtOR/3 Separate Housing
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path to an assured future. In the first To the Editor: Very often when there is a lack of place, competition for the places in all other news, a writer often blows a story quality law schools ranges from intense to out of proportion in order to achieve murderous. With quite respectable grades sensa tionalism or even disharmony. .and one of the highest LSAT scores at Witness, for example, the article and Hamilton last year, I was just barely able editorial concerning separatism which to squeeze into the law school of my appeared in the March 8 issue of The choice, a small school of intermediate quality in my state of residence. No one Spe�tator. The article concerned a meeting held with grades short of Phi Beta Kappa with President Babbitt and the Black and candidacy should even entertain a hope of Latin women of Kirkland College. The getting into one of the tep law schools in Black and Latin women requested the the country; and even the lesser schools s u p p o r t o f P r e s . B a b b i tt in have dozens of equally qualified applicants "conte s ti n g •.. [the] guidelines on for every position. Law school admissions d e s e g r e g a t i o n in p os t - s e co n d a r y . are risky, arbitrary, and unpredictable, and educational housing." I n the editorial those who do not really care if they which also appeared in that paper, Black become lawyers or not should not students were accused of attempting to endanger the chances of those who do. establish ":;ocial barriers." Moreover,. opportunities in : the legal . In my opinion, the request presented to profession for graduates may not be as President Babbitt was not designed to diverse and plentiful as they are often establish "social barriers," but rather to represented to be. The passage of no-fault re alist i c a l l y recognize contemporary insurance and divorce laws may well be housing patterns as they exist in America omens of (well justified) attempts to today. After all, we Black and Latin reduce the need for and the complexity of students (for the most part) when not on litigation, at the expense of business for the Hill live in segregated neighborhoods lawyers. New law schools are still being and communities, so why live in a opened, and existing law schools are expanding their enrollment, so the supply complete fantasy while on the Hill? If it is true that most Black students of new young lawyers is increasing rapidly. move in different social and curricular I am not sure that opportunities in the spheres than the white majorjty, as the field will be as limited as I have sugge�ted, editorial states, then forced intergrated and indeed I hope that they will not; but I housing would obviate freedom of choice have seen too many upperclassmen and consequently provide an atmosphere dressing up in their dark suits, white shirts, which is not homogeneous to the learning and narrow ties to beg some interviewer and socializing proce_ss of an institution of for the chance to slave for him, to believe that the young lawyer can control his own higher learning for many of us. In this letter, I am not advocating destiny as easily as h·e has in the past. I still feel that law is an exciting, "separate but equal"; however, I do believe that as adults we should have the challenging, and worthwhile profession, freedom to simply pursue our individual and a term and a half of law school has choice to achieve compatibility and r a i s e d r a t her than dampened my recognize the realistic living modes of determination to be a lawyer. But I do not feel that law school is now, as it has been America 1974. James Francis '7 7 in the past, a safe "out" for the student who does not want to commit himself to a career yet. If you sincerely want to Prospective Lawyers Warned practice law, be forewarned but not disheartened; but if you aren't sure, get To the Editor: With all due respect to Mr. Albright out of the way until you are. Edwin Frownfelter '73 (and "Respect Your Elders" is certainly (Dickinson School of Law '76) one of the cardinal maxims of this profession I've chosen), I really must caution the potential law student to weigh New HR Hero?· very carefully his statement that law school is a good alternative for the student unsure of what he wants to do, as reported To the Editor: If Tim Shoen and Jeff Feingold wish to in the Spectator, March 8. Based on my limited experience, I would tell the cherish Babe Ruth and his home run potential applicant, "If you are not crown notwithstanding Hank Aaron's absolutely sure !hat you sincerely desire to eventual succession, let them do so. If practice law for the rest of your life, � sports heroes can no longer be measured b y p h ysi.cal tests of strength and somewhere else to find yourself." My reason for saying this is that I no endurance, then athletes may as well stop longer agree that law school is an easy trying to break records, as Shoen and
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STUDENT SENATE ELECTIONS Student Senate Elections will be held on Monday, April 15. Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors interested in running should pick up nominating petitions in the Root general office and return them to Kevin McTeman by Monday, April 8, at 7 p.m. HONOR COURT ELECTIONS Nomination petitions for next year's Honor Court will be available beginning Monday, April 8, in Root 7. There will be one position available for the C�ass of 1977, two positions for the Class of 1976 and one position for the Class of 1975. To run for election a student must obtain a petition and gather a minimum of 20 signatures from members of his class. The petitions must be returned to Root 7 by 4 p.Jll. Friday, April 12. The election will be held from 9:00-4: 00 on Tuesday, April 16. MEETING FOR PRE-MEDICAL STUDENTS There will be a meeting for all freshmen and sophomores interested in the health professions on Thursday,April 11, 1974, in the Chemistry Auditorium at 4:30 pm. STUDENT ADMISSION INTERNS Any member of the Class o{ '75 or '76 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 12. Announcement of the appointment will be made by m1.d-May.
presented. by the selection committ e was not· necessarily �nducive to uncovering Pein.gold would lead us to believe. When the true feelings and personalities of those Henry Aaron passes Ruth's homerun i n t e rvi ewed. For example., l was record this season, will it honestly be introduced to the advisor"s seJ:=�on possible to cling to the "immortal" image committee by being told that my • ces of Babe Ruth vis-a-vis his homerun of being an advisor were mm (.a charibe less than I out of 3 - a well-known fact.).Then, output? Shoen and Feingold use the analogy: rather than having the adviBors whQ. ere "Charles Lindbergh was tl\e first to fly the unknown to me introduoc thc:mscfyes, I Atlantic, but could you name the was asked to scope the members f the second?" How can the number 714, by committee and rcoogni.zc any "strange .inf(>r.mal any d egree of comparison, be correlated to fa c e s .,. Next, before 311 t h e insurrmountable barrier of the conversation or discussion ., the .infamous Atlantic Ocean that Charles Lindbergh had situation questions were begun. I mmt f"ust clarify mv position. My to face in 1927. And if it can, continuing the analogy, this year Hank Aaron will interview was scheduled for 9:§0 Saturday cross Babe Ruth's "Atlantic" and travel morning and I was the product of -an unfortunate hangower. It was not t10 much even farther. I can understand Shoen and Feingold's that I was inapablc of thought at such an desire for charismatic qualities in today's hour, but rather lha.t the nature of the _ athletes. _However, . in this. .age where . situation_ questions was sudl- that if you vociferous 'bonus-babies' fade after a responded somewhat abstractly., you must contract is signed, isn't the consistency of prepare to defend yourself against the an Aaron certainly admirable and even second ''follow-up u line of ,questioning_ After a point you realize that it is not so heroic? I hope that in sports, those who cling much that what you are saying is not what to past heroes will be receptive to more you actually believe, but rather that you . recent heroes as old records are supplanted cannot beli�e that what you are .saying is by the new. On the provision that Hank what you are actually .saying. I suppose Aaron dethrones Ruth as Home Run King, that it is most important to realize that may I substitue _Shoen and Feingold's the type of "sitnation n questions that were asked are not effectively dealt with opening quote (by Ogden Nash) with: in 30 s econds, but perhaps most A is for Aaron, successfully after a number of days of There's no comparin thought. It is probably most encouraging There's no more to be said to realize that many of the ,questions But A i for Aaron. asked were situations that a few of the Paul Marsh '7-7 present advisors were incapable of dealing with themselves. Advisor Selections I by all means·do not wish to present a "sour grapes" attitude for I greatly respect To the Editor: I am writing this letter due to the fact the time that the pre.sent advisors put into that I was once a prospective candidate for the interviewing and the candidates that freshman advisor, subject to the second were chosen. My concern is only that are round of interviews before the present those chosen by the present interviewing advisors. I am writing not because I am process capable of being the best possible d i s a p p o i n t e d i n the sele cti on advisors? I ,refuse to believe that the committee-nor in the advisors that were interviewing process is .subjective to any selected for next year, but because I am great d egree and I can accept the fact that disappointed in myself. It is undoubtedly certain uinterviewers'" played the role of true that everyone who applied· for the "i�timidator" (as opposed to the devil's advisor's job was greatly desirous of advocate) but I sincerely believe that the obtaining the position. I for one, enacted process currently used provides for the the interview many times before I actually individual who is most capah e of surviving went before the "committ�." I have an uptight. guessing game in defense of spo'ken before audiences of people, have himself. rather than for the individual who lead group discussions, have responded to must present himsdf as a person qualified questions on small group levels, and have - in an advising capacity. Pedaaps my participated in a one-on-one give and take interpretation of the ad\lUOr,s intervicwB is kind of thing in many capacities, but I not l'Calistic. If.,, then ch-alk. up another have never before gone in front of an one for the "educational experience'" interrogation squad. In fact, I believe an category (right on Dean Bingham!) interrogation (in which one discloses past Nevertheless, I feel that the :interviews for facts or events) would be a far easier fre shma n advisor are in need of at 'least· a dlange of matter than the advisors' interviews which reevaluation r e q u i r e d 3 0 s e c o n d s n a p e m p basis on the qualifying fact0rs necessary for the adwj:sory role. situation-judgement answers. Bob Evans 75 I believe the general atmosphere·
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LOST BOOK Last Tuesday April 2, at approximately 3;30 p.m., a copy of The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle (edited by David Ross), was left on the shelf next to the coke machine in the basement of Bristol. The book has yet to turn up in any of the campus lost and founds. If anyone has any knowledge about where the book may be_. I would appreciate it if he or she would please help me locate it. This particular edition is difficult to find, and l need it de.sper.ately for a course I am now taking. No questions will be .asked; l merely want the book back. Thank you. Peter B. Ackerman '74 306 North Dorm X4567
4/THf SPECTATOR/ April 5, 1974
/tffl)ermid Case Rev�als College Hit Sct,t_lptor'sPed_agogy
contmued from page one " praised McDermid's "e xcellent his request, members o f the . process, a way of mqmry, a way February 2 2. In summary, his M c.O e r m i d' s s t u d e n t rapport with students," his service _ C o m mitte e, mainly Professors e xperience · and six-page pre sentation founded its of examining evaluations were overw helmingly ·on vario us committees, and the M u i r h e a d a n d P a l u s k y , k n o wl e d g e i t s e l f , t h a t i s case on the following basic points: fav orable, aqd· eve r since his_ high quality of his own "artistic inte rvie wed· some pre sent and c o m pl e mentary to all other 1. L a t e n o t i c e o f nonre appointmen t was .P,.Ublicized discipline s. And although we conceptualizati on and te chnique " former sculp ture students, ''but in nonre appointment: McDermid in January, student react ion has as a sculptor. ca n n o t i n si s t o n :u n i f o rm such a way as to maintain did n o t kno w his rangecl,from extreme outrage and Criticism fr om Rosenfeld methodol ogy am ong our faculty, r e a p p'oin t m ent was under confidentiality ab out the issue of claims.ithat Kirkland had betrayed He then pro ceeded to say tha� p r O f e s s O r M cD e r m i d ' s our intervi ews with Profe sso r · ,.consideration ,.,... and the late its ph4losoph y to be wilderment in McDermid's t eaching, "the re app ointment." McDe rmid gave us evidence of no ··n · o t i f i c a t io n o f h i s and amused spe culat ions about such educatio nal premise ." e xpe ctati on of wo rk o f substantial no nreapp ointment is contrary The Arts Division Pe rsonnel McDe rmid's moral integrity. quality seems lacking. Essentially C ommittee re conve ned October M cD e r m id's re app ointment . to bot h. �he Kirkland faculty Both the coll eg e's refusal to the basics of the discipline remain 25 and voted unan im ously to case was then brought before personnel policies and the d i s c l o s e i n f o r m a t i o n a n d unstressed... As a result of the lack m a i n t a i n i t s O r i g i n a 1 Dean of Academ ic Affairs Carl standards of the American McDermid's own reluctance to o f t raining in fundamen tals, rec ommendati on no t to reappoint Schneider and the colle ge -wide Ass o cia t i on of University discuss the specifics of the case students may come to believe McDermid. A p p o i n t me n t s C omm it t e e . Professo rs. before the appeals pro cess was ·they are working on a level of M cD e r m i d w a s i n f o r m e d 2 . Failur e to consider In his No vember 5 letter to completed added to an aura of proficiency which is higher th an Dean Schneider, Rosenfeld said, N o v e m b e r · 14 t h a t t h e s t u d e n t o pi n ion: Studen t ,mystery surr oundi�g the_ issue. the facts warrant... Appointments,• Committee had "The members of the Personnel evaluations of McDermid were , Process be gun last October · "I n e xammmg McDermid's Committee miss a firm ideolo gical voted to · uphold the Personnel nearly all favorable. McDermid McDermid first le arned that students' work, we . miss evidence stance that en ables Pro fessor C ommittee decision and that claim e d that the student t he A r t s Divisi on Personnel that they have been int roduced to McDermid to direct studen ts President Babbitt had concurred. interviews were "of the most C ommittee had decided against ' the fundamental problems in c o n t i n ually t o t es t t h, e i r Ja nuary Controversy casual and brief nature," and his re app ointm ent on Octobe r 12, sculpt ure and that they have c o n s c i o u s n e s s .as developing I n Ja n uary, M cDe rmi d's th at a substantial body of 1973, 5½ months after the April acquired critical foundations tha t artists, a point of refer ence that , nonre appointm ent was publicize d s t ud e n t e val uati on s and 30 deadline for such notification allo w them to que sti on their own gives· l ar ge r le arning e xperience to by students who were angered at opinion was totally igno re d by specified in the Kirkland C olle ge progre ss." the Arts Divisions apparen t their manag emen t of materials the Personnel C ommittee. Faculty Handbook. disregard of student opinion. First Appeal 3. Failure to consider and technical skills... On tliat:day, a le tter was sent ''W'e;d0 feel...students in art Petitions were circulated, letters M cD e r mi d a p p e a l e d t h e stud ent artwork: McDermid to CarlJ.Schneider, thenDean of d e c i s i o n o f · t he P e r s onnel cours e s at Kirkland C olle ge o f pro test were written, and t wo c l a i m e d t h a t l i t tle A cademic Affairs, from Arts C o m m i t t e e . Accordi n g t o fun ction best with faculty...who open student meetings were held consideration was given t o the C h a i r m a n W illi� Rosenfeld's November 5 letter to enable students to measure their January 9 and 2 9 to discuss the · students' work, and then only D i visi o n Rosenfe ld, sta ting his concurrence Dean Schneider, McDermid met assum ptions against values out side issu e. afte r the original decision had with the Personnel C ommittee's with the Personnel Committee on themselves." En couraged by strong student been made. u n a n i m o us d ecision not to Octo ber 18 to discuss the reasons reacti on in his favor, McDermid In his third letter to Schneider, 4. V ague ness of Personnel reappointJames McDermid. d e cid e d t o a p p eal to the for nonre appointment and to dated No vember 12, Rosenfeld C ommittee's criticism: The In the letter, _ Rosenfeld first present e xamples of his students' furth·e r e lucidated the re asons for college-wide Appe als CQmmit tee, en ti cu m o f McD ermid's wo rk� and retained a lawyer, Stephen L. teaching methods. and abilities McDe rmid 's dism issal. He said At his request , the Personnel that the Pe rsonnel C ommittee's Lo.ckwood, to assist h im in the was said to be "unwarranted, People start pollution. C ommittee met wit h Pro fessors con cern with McDermid's aHeg ed pre sentation of his case. untrue, and without any basis People can stop it. Lie bm an and Salzillo and, als� at need to "tighten his critical T h e Ap p e als C o m mittee, in fact ... " and displaying "a whose membe rs are Associate s t a n d a r ds" w a s b a s e d o n lack of understanding of the Profess or of Psychology Thomas subject of sculpture and the observations o f his students' wo rk me thods o f te ach ing same." and "in no way reflects dat a fr om J. Scott, Chairm an, Assistant 5. Membe rs of Personnel Pro fessor of So ciology Walter studen t que sti onnaires." McDonald's of Clinton, on Meadow St., invites Broughton, Assistant Professor of Committee not qualified to Rosenfeld EvaluatesStuden ts you to visit - our newest, and most up to date Litera ture William Hoffa, and "M ost of our students are judge: The appeals petition restaurant in the area. At an_y time feel free to be ginners. Not many are or will Assistant Pr ofessor of Lite rature claimed the members of the He i nrich Stabenau, voted to call us for an appointment, and we will schedule bec ome sophisticated art students. Committee "lacked firsthand e x clude col.Ulsel from all its But the y are intelligent and knowledge of his. (McDermid's) your dorm, or Fraternity on a tour of our ge nerally capable of addre ssing meetings on the gr ounds that methods and abilities as an restaurant. You will see our new Fry Master ideas within artistic e xperience. "faculty business can best be instructor of sculpture." Fryers, the latest of its kind in the country, along conducted within the familiar and We are he re to bring them to such 6. Failure to transmit with Snap Action Grills, to give you the best in effective structure of an academ ic issues and not to take the chance c om pl e t e inf o rmation to quality of which we always strive for. t hat they might happ en acr o ss community proceding." 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information upon wh ich to deliberations w as the · recognition reach a dec ision . that authority to judge te aching 7. D e a n S c h n e i d er's competence is ve sted in £ culty resignation: McDennid held co l l e a g ues, on whom 3:it is continued from page one attachmen t to upstate N� York. tqat since Sc hneider w as n o incumben t to see k out and P r e vi o us ly, Gilbert taugh t A cting Dean, Dean Stephen G. l onger Dean of Ac ademic , con sider a variety of type s of Kurtz, and Kirkland Presiden t political science and has been a Affairs at the time of the e v i d e n c e b e a r i n g on t h e appeals, the Acting Dean Peter qual ification s of the faculty Samue l F.Babbitt, in addition to full professor since 1967. He has m e mb e r s Of t h e Sea r c h also · c h ai r e d t h e c o ll e ge's T. Marcy should review the member in question . ..We are Committee. Committee on E ducation al Policy . case 'again. satisfied that the Arts Division Twice dur ing his career, Gilbert Gilb er t, 46, has b een P rovost In lieu of app earing before the Perso nn el Committee did th is." since has served at the Brookings Appeals Committee, McDermid's · The Appeals Committee did, o f Swar thmore · College 1969. The provos t there is the Institute as a guest scholar. He aas attorney Stephen L. Lockwood however, expr ess "concern with ch ie f ac ademic officer. He said also been a rese arch fellwo for the sent the committee a 13-page some of the Arts Division review hat he h as dee p conce rn for Social Science Research Coqncil t su pplem e nt ar y statemen t, in pr ocedures and r ecommended and an during the years 1952-3, and whi c h h e c r iticize d t h e t h at ''t h e Division consider liberal arts educ ation re a ppo intm e n ts p r o c e d u r e , aqopt i o n o f t h e s e specific TUITION HIKES Stu d e n t e x penses at the especially the late notice gi ven procedural additions or changes: continue d from page eight colle ges c ompare favorably to Ivy h i s McD e r m i d o f . L e a g u e c o l l e ges s u c h a s ,, 1 . P r o v i d e writ t e n on, Mt.· Holyoke, Vassar, and nonr eappoi n t men t a n d th e Dar tmouth and Colum bia which an nounce ment to Divisional Uni Colby all will charge between will char e $5225 and $ 5 900 su p posedly i n s ufficen t time f a c u l t y o f f o �t h c o mi n g g ' and -� · .,.,4,600· per year for re spectively. allowed him to pre se n t data. re -appointmen t con siderations. $4400· and her o rd t , b o roo a on m, , tuiti Lockwood also objected to tl)e Small colleges like Amherst, 2. R equire written collegial fee s. ArtsDivision's r efusal to name the . subsidize cost incr ease s with gifts evaluations of candidates for . In New York, small private from outside sources. Hamilton students they interviewed , and reappo intmen t. colleges are de pending on passage has rece ived a gran t from the quoted at len gth from numerous 3 • Explicitly invite the of an improved tuition assist anc e Booth Ferris Foundation, and the student evaluations of McDe rmid . candidate to pre sent materials program by the Legislature . "A ttributing favorable student Milbank Fo undation recently gave or infor mation on his own Acting Provost of Hamilton, Kirkland $. 75 million for gen eral evaluations to flatter y by the b e h al f p r i o r t o i n i t i al Eugene Lewis, said,"Un less there use over three years. professor is nothing short o f an consideration f Or is a drastic chan ge in state aid --- •· · at tempt to discred it such student re appointment. • policy, some well known schools �:�: · · · opinion in order that it can be 4. Explicitly advise th e w i l l t h e i r d o o r s ," :::; c lo se ;GUI ARS FRIEND :::: ignored," he wrote. c.:ridid ate o f his right to waive T commen ting on the future of ; �: :_ . _ . "By i g n o r i n g s t ud e n t : c o n fi d e n tiality of stud ent :.;. _;_ private educ ati on in the 1970's, evaluations a nd opinion the Arts evaluations in order that they 1980, s, : : , nd : Frie Guitars e th e ar We ::: :: and l990's. Division Personn el Committe e :::: a mail order guide to acoustic :::: may be read by other faculty ...... _ . _ .. _ : . insults the intelligence of the member s. mS"trume_n ts & acce s�ones. "!e : :: : students. Such a viewpoin t is 5. Inform studen ts that :❖ :::: ::::: carry guitar s as Martm, Guild, :::: directly contrad ictor y to the t h e i r w r i t t e n or o r al :::: :::: :::� Gibson, Ovation, Yamaha; :�: avowed philosoph y of Kirkland impre ssio ns of a candid ate's :::: T :�:� Hohn er harps, dulcimers, :�:� :: �;t::;aL;:::e Colle g e a n d t h e K i r k l and teach ing effectiveness are being :::: :::: ::::: recorders, ban jo s, bo oks and :::: ns Collegia o t s er Cat experim e nt as d isclosed by soli c it ed as part of the ,:,: . :�:� ::::: more-and discount 25%. our Particulars and th e Kirkland Division's de liberations. :•:•: ::::: catalogue will b e sent out frec :❖ : :: • catalogue." 6. Wh ile Contl·nu1'ng the Ar ts •.:•.: ::: : ,::,:: .❖: .· upon requ est. ❖: Lo c k w o o d ' s s t a t e m e n t conclud e d by saying, ''The information commun icated by th e ·A r t s D i v i s i o n P e r s o n n e l Committee to the Dean of Ac ad emic Affairs . . . .contained only scant reference to stude nt justifiable in particular cases, evaluations, failed to recite th e c g n :��l� � : ;;:�::i: :�!�:!�� responses of the studen ts who and unfairn ess that would not were alleg ed ly intervie wed by the , result from total cando r." C ommittee, made no re feren ce to the student wor ks which Pr ofessor t sc a McDermi d display ed to the Afte:�:!! i;:,� •t�e seAppe ls a c ommittee, failed to me ntion Committee letter, Lockwood Professor (R and ] Carter 's strong wrote ari 11-page letter, dated Route 5a Commercial Drive re commenctatlon in favor of March 11, to President Babbitt, in New Hartford 736-7106 Profe s s o r M c D e r mi d ' s which he summarized the h istory Mon-Fri 10-9, Sat 10-5_ reappointment and failed to set of the McDermid case, re iterated THE· PROFESSIONAL BACK PACKER. fordi any specific or concr ete his objection s to the Ar t Division AND SKI TOURER SHOP shortcomings which would justify P e r sonnel Committee's review Profes s o r M c D e r m i d's p r o c e ss, and requested that Largest Selection of nonreappointment." · bY X-Country Skis Packing Equipment B a b bitt reverse the Appeals The February Appeal Trak North Face Committe e decision. 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resources, visiting· artists, field trips, BY PHYLLIS TAYLOR special course activities, plays, films, The Arts Division of Kirkland and the like. College is plann ing once again to 6. A system of modules organized in unde r t a ke a Su mmer Arts pamphlet format, .. one in each medium. Each module may contain Conference, similar to the one s om e h is t o r i cal framework, held last year. Such a conference q u o t a tions represe nting w o uld, h o p e f u l l y , intensify comtemporary modes of thought "awareness of the principles regarding th� arts, and suggestions for further investigation. whereby the arts program may · The purpose of these modules will be to best enhance· the gern;ral learning assure adequate breadth of enterprise at Kirkland Co llege," knowledge for arts con.centrators, to senfeld, o R said Professo r William point out and reinforce those elements common to all media, or to chairman of the division. serve as an introduction to the L a s t slimmer's p ro g r am, division for non-concentrators. financed by �he Mellon Funds, ran from June 4-15, and consisted of a 7. Special courses, conducted by the faculty. The purpose will be to se ries of half-day workshops invent new and common forms to se o exp ts n stude the o t designed which the various media may relate, to various techniques of artistic and to test principles and attitudes common to the arts. The range of expression, with actual exercises the media in each course depends Artist Harold Beament w ith his "Castellated Lava," part of his current Root Art Center exhibit. in each. · on the interests of the faculty and Media Focus students involved. "The fundamental concern was "During the next Summer - inter-media. The groups examined Conference, we hope to refine o ur various media for the common original explorations and to plan a t t i t udes, p r i n c i p le s , a n d procedures for· acting on our techniques th�t w e exercise as and hot licks fill the air, and the night performance times will BY BOBBY MINTER curricular ideas," Ro senfeld said. artists," said Rosenfeld. ''The Grants Committee approved The folk festival . . . just the �ill to go to classes melts as easily hopefully be eased by ending the T h e e x e rcis"s i n cl uded funds enabling the Arts faculty to words evoke feelings of relaxation as the patches of snow lingering in day's preliminaries at 10 pm. A� c h oreo graphy, theater games, that time, however, don't give up invite six students and a faculty i n t h o se people �ho have the shaded areas of Root Glen. visual designs, the t>lectronic representative fr om each of the The Chapel is a hive of. activity. your seat. A four hour concert experienced the full impact ,o f the synthesizer, analyzing musical other three divisions at Kirkland. three days each year when tt>,. Hill Honey-sweet melodies ) evo cative will follow, highlighted by former composition, writing a character The Committee also endorsed the is a place out of time and worry. of jelly roll, waft through the air winners and professional folk sketch, building clay sculptures invitation faculty four of Friendly strangers roam the of that stem, stone puritan artists. and attempting to center clay on members fr om Hamilton Obllege." A t n o o n Saturday t he campuses. Melodies, harmonies, temple. The libidinal tendencies the wheel. preliminaries will � nd and the o f the ghosts and spirits trapped ''We formed an_ enriching for ages- in the damp stone are judges will adjo urn to select the c o m m uni ty o f inter-media released by the seductive power finalists. Workshops, another new understanding, sympathy and addition to the festival, will then of song. appreciation, with the ultimate Each year amateur musicians be held. COMING RAC ATTRACTIONS goal being to develop a method Workshop Frenzy from northeast�rn colleges come Jo hn Rupert Martin, the Chairman of the Department of Art anrl for necessitating (not merely to the Hill to share their music. Archeolo gy at Princeton University, will deliver an illustrated lecture Jack McGann will conduct a making the option available) The traditional competitio n in on April 9, entitled ''The Other Rube ns: Rubens as Diplomat and guitar workshop, Lyn Ungar a Kirkland student participation in which these musicians perform is Scholar." women's son g workshop, and the same artistic com�unity." only one of the highlights of the R a lph San tinelli a b anjo The lecture, which is sponsored by the Art Department, will start weekend. The 3enf or Projects have at 8:30 in the second floor lounge o f Bristol Campus Center. workshop. Workshops in British become fo�al po ints for the Arts This year, the festivities will songs and dulcimers are still in the Three art films will sho wn· in the RAC ballro om on April 11. Department. The �embers believe not end with the Saturday night planning stages. An I.W.W. song Each of the three, Royal Rococo, Venice-the Vanishing Lady, and that students should be guided in co n ce rt . Sunday afternoo n, workshop is also a possibility. Vivaldi's Venice, has won awards at international film festivals. such a way as to ensure a better Highwoods String Band will One more change - the name lear ning experience leading tip to provide the music for a square of the pro gram has been changed REEL REGRETS their senio r projects. The result dance at _1 pm. . to The Stephen FenstererMemorial . Amenic film society has announced that Pi nk Pa n ther,· wo uld be more material and That 1s not all. Startmg Fnday Folk Festival in honor of the bes t scheduled t o be shown o n campus this weekend, has been cancelled activities being placed at the ' afternoon, and again on Saturday ( . . due e e t o unforseeable circumstances. azz t d 1 th o k . ever er b pie o anJ stuc!ents' disposal that would afternoon, the festival organizers In a related development, Kinokunst film so ciety revealed that of the Hamilton and Kirkland enable them to launch more will sponsor a crafts fair, which ears L ittle Big Man; also scheduled for this weekend, h as not yet student body. sati�fying senior projects in both will offer the opportunity for arrivedlf the film appears, the society will po st new viewing times. Housing Needed idea and technique. s tudent and local artists to that has not changed thing One The possible activities included demonstrate and/o r sell their is the need for places for the WOMEN'S CENTER FILM in such a _program are as follows: work. performers to stay. We hope that 'When This You See, .fl.em e m ber Me, is a montage of still 1. Ge n e r a l F orµiat Changes o r i e n t a t i on an.d if you have an extra mattress, photo graphs, home movies, and some scenes o f the Parisian milieu of developmental discussions of the The rat race for favored Friday Arts prograw at the beginning of floor space in a lo unge, suite, or Gertrude Stein. each semester for • students and room, and you wish to make it The film 'will be shown Tuesday at the Kirner-Johnson faculty. available to a performer, you will Auditorium, April 9, at 10 p.m. Admission is $.50. 2. Formal advising intervals, more· let the organizers know by signing frequently and for a different one of the vario us sheets that will GEORGE WATROUS LITERARY CONTEST p ur po se t ha n t hose for appear around campus. pre-registration and winter study. The fifth annual Watro us Literary Contest for Kirkland students The f o lk festival is The new advising meetings may is now under way. The judges will consider catego ries of poetry, involve susper,ding at least the everybody. The initial plannuw pr o se ficti o n, and essays in criticism. The deadline for submissio n is introductory workshops for two or and organization �c �nmpfete Wednesday, April 17, at 5 pm. Contributions sho uld be given to Mr. three-day ieriods so that students Anyone who wishes to participate may circulate among the media William Rosenfeld or Ms. Katherine Dewert at List Art Center. in the imal stages of preparation other than those they are enrolled in. During these meetings faculty s h o uld. c ontact the festival and students may conduct special WOOD POETRY PRIZE committee thro ugh campus mail-,· orientation and discussion sessions. The Charles and F-ann y Fay Woo d Poetry Prize of $100, granted box 748. All those musicians These may also be used as by the �cii.demy of American Poets, will be awarded by the hidden in the various corners of checkpoints for progre�s on senior Department of Ei:iglish for the best poem or group of poems by a projects. the campus who wish to perform Hamilto n student. Manuscripts should be submitted to Mr. Wagner, 3. A resource center, with a calendar of in this year's festival should Root 206, no later than 5:30 p.m., Monday, April 15. relevant events and an information contact Susan Sa(;ks. file, · in which may be listed special The }'ensterer Festival begins books and periodicals in the HAMIL TON ESSAY COMPETITIONS Thursday, May 2 , at noon. So all libraries, audio-visual materials, and The deadline for the vario us competitions in writing for Hamilton a filing system with any helpful y o u l o o kers and good-time students (see pp. 193-194 of the 1973-1974 Hamilton College information, such as students and cookers shine your shoes, restring Catalogue} is Monday, April 15. All papers in these· co mpetitions faculty with special skills who are your guitars, resin yo ur bo ws, and wilfing to advise or tutor. must be left in Dean Kurtz's office before noon on that day. A your flat picks ready. get 4. A series of special films, lectures and student may write on more than one subject and receive more than Ed. Note • Bobby Minter, along field trips. one essay prize in the same year. Most essays should contain with Susan Sacks, is a co-chairman S. A series of symposia as follow-up to between 2 ,500 and 3,000 words. Instructions for preparing •Sacks of the Fensterer Folk Festirial specific occurrences, such as Ralph Santinelli (left) typescripts may be obtained from Mr. Wagner, Root 206. Comm itteP..
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FILM. Ap-il 10 (Wednesday) Horror Film Festival: The Bride of Frankenstein and The Phantom of the Opera, 8 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75. �lso Thursday and Friday. Environmental Film Series: Echo of A nger. 9 p.m. Chemistry Auditorium. April 11 (Thursday) Three Films on Art: Royal Rococo, Vivaldi's Venice, and Venice-the Vanishing Lady. 8 p.m. Root Art Center Ballroom. Savages, 8 p.m. Science Auditorium. Admission is $.75. Choices for 1976 Housing. Urban renewal film. 7:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. At Nearby Theaters Cannonball (853-5553) American Graffiti(PG) Cinema Theatre (736-2313) The Great Gatsby(PG) Cinema National Uptown (732-0665) The Last Detail(R) Paris (733-2730) The Exorcist(R) Stanley (724-4000) Hell Up In Harlem(R) and The Thing With
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LECTURE AND DISCUSSION April 6 (Saturday) Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. April 7(Sunday) Free Church Palm Sunday Service. Leaders: David Carlisle, John Carlisle, Nicholas TeBordo. 11:15 a.m� Chapel Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 p.m. Chapel. April 8 (Monday) Newman Mass. Father Drobin. Noon. Chapel. (Also Tuesday and Wednesday) Introductory Lecture on Transcendental Meditation. 7:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Room 220. Lecture: Arms Control or Arms Race? The Prospects for SALT. Dr. Byron Doenges, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. 8 p.m. Science Auditorium. Faculty Lecture Series: France, Five Years After the Revolution. Professor James Traer, Hamiltpn History Department. 8 p.m. Briston Center Lounges. April 9 (Tuesday) Truax Lecture: The Man and His Philosophy. A.R.C. Duncan, Professor of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. 8 p.m. Chemistry Auditorium. Lecture: The Other Rubens: The Artist as Diplomat and Scholar. Mr.. John Rupert Martin, Department of Art and Archeology, Princeton University. 8:30 p.m. Bristol Campus Center Lounges. April 10 (Wednesday) TaJk: Peace and Other Options-Qµaker Work Here and Abroad. Mel Hollander, Syracuse University. American Friends Service Committee. 4:30 p.m. Bristol Center Lounges. Bible Study. Leader: David Larrabee. Christian Ethics and En vironmental Eco logy. 9 p.m. Alumni House. Workshop on Imaginative Arts and Crafts. Leaders: Lynn Bennett and Ellen Gelzer. Sponsored by the Clinton Child Care Center. 7:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Room 220. April 11 (Thursday) Episcopal Lenten Service. 5 p.m_. Bristol Center Lounges. Agape (Love) Feast. 5:30 p.m. Bristol Center Lounges. Truax Lecture: The Form of thefersonal.A.R.C. Duncan. 8 p.m. Chemistry Auditorium.
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April 5 (Friday) All Campus Dance with Beer, Wine, and Matzoh. Benefit for the Alexander Hamilton Players. 9:30 p.m. Bundy Dinmg Hall. April 7 (Sunday) McEwen Coffeehouse Presents: Lou and Sally Killen. British music, sea chanteys and ballads. 9 p.m. Free with social tax. ·$.50 without. _EXf:1 IBITION Currently on C ampus Paintings by Harold BeamenL At Root Art Center., Paintings by Gilah Hirsch. At List Art Center through April 13. Hamilton and Krikland Senior Exhibition. R,epresentations by Charles •Bond, Richard Muska, and Kath-teen Smith. At Bristol Campus Center through April 12. Coming Soon Exhibition and sale of original graphic art from the Ferdinand Roten G:tlleries. Thursday, April 11. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Bristol Snack
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BY KENNETH GROSS }Jorace Walpole walked with "very thin, mincing steps, like dabchick." He spent 25 years in the English Parliament and only opened his mouth three or four times (preferring intrigue and. b .u t t O n h O l i n g po liti cian� behind the scenes). His ·gu ests complained that he served them skimpy dinners. When given the opportunity to meet Dr. Samuel Johnson, he refused. Dr. W arr�n Hunting Smith of Yale University gave a talk at the Root Art Center last Wednesday consisting largely of such stories and anecdotes about the great Eighteenth century writer of letters (see also The Speefator, March 8 , article on page 10). A s in troduced by former Hami lton E n gl i s h professor Thomas Johnston, Dr. Smith is an associate editor of the proposed : fifty volume Yale edition of Walpole's letters.
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In s p e ctacles and elegant not to throw whatever he sent three-piece black suit, bearing an I them. His letters to Horace Mann odd resemblance to the figure of . (whose own replies to Walpole T. S. Eliot, Smith read from a number about 800) were actually typed lecture, lifting his head to . returned to him, and these he recite, often with animation and assiduously had recopied in to a mock grandiosity, quotes from large volume, providing his own choice portions of the letters that footnotes. he must have known by memory. Smith spent some _time Some contained the latest court speaking of the great editorial task gossip, comments o.n the state of the Russian Czar, the story of a of compiling the volumes. He duchess being· tried for bigamy, n ot e d the f rustrati o n s of descriptions of distant mountains, researchers in trying to get documentary information on the or_ of ruined abbeys, incidents, persons, 'and objects Legendary Letters mentioned in the letters. Walpole wrote to persons of varied interests as a fellow enthusiast, said Smith. He sent his letters from London or Paris to friends in rural areas, military camps, country hotels and estates. Apparently Walpole recognized a possible historical significance in his massive correspondence of_ over 60 years. He urged his friends
Walpole's interests ranged from literature to history, music, a ntiqu ary, arc hitecture, and geneology. Scholars were set to work on such diverse references as the exhibition of a rhinoceros in .'Florence, and. the story of a countess who died falling from an apple tree (she had always been addicted to original sin)•
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continued froqi page one confidentiality� no one has really t ho ug h t a b o ut. I've always thought that bnce the candidate was brought on campus, he should be given exposure, but I can understand why not." Academic and ethical standards 1 are as high as ever . according to Kurtz. "People are. worried when they read about lowering SAT scores. It's a nationwide trend," he said. "SAT scores have gone down generally in the past three or four years, not just at Hamilton. I don't see why people are uptight about that. We have had more applicants than last year and have a good pool from which. to choose." Kurtz said,· "We have a fine honor system· here. It's not perfect, but {unctions well. To abandon it because it is not perfect would be to create an atmosphere nobody would want." Kurtz applied for the position of principal 0: Exeter 10 years ago, and he sajd he was "turned down flat in the opening round." Kurtz facetiously cited his earlier rejection as another reason for applying for the job. He said, "I'm rather compe�itive, you know. But that was 10 years ago, and I admit I wasn't ready for it then_. "
�on F. Doenges Acting Chief of the Economics.and Arms Transfer Division of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency will be on campus on Monday, April 8. He will lecture on "Arms Control or Arms Race?-The Prospects for SALT," at 8 p.m. in the Science Auditorium. He heads up the group of armament experts that does much of the technical work for the SALT negotiators. Prior to his appointment to the ACDA, Doenges had been Professor of Economics and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Willamette University.
D a v i d L ocke, assistant professor of Ameri�an Studies at Kirkland, has been awarded the Research -Professorship for the 19 74-75 academi.5 year by the College's Grants Committee. L o c k e p r o po s e s to do additional research on his doctoral dissertation in preparation for its publication. He intends to deal with an aspect of urban history not extensively treated in the literature-the attitudes of urban reformers toward the cities they sought to reform, during the period from 1885 to 1914. Locke said that most of .the l i te rature o f urban · hisi6�y co ntains a lot of statistical information on city government, demography and growth patterns.
One assumption of his thesis is that the attitudes of people most activc.ly engaged in changing the cities formed an important part of · the so-called "problem ·of the cities." Before the first generation of · city planners appeared around '. 190 7, Locke said, the first urban reformers attitudes were "terribly restricted, parochial and moral." They regarded cities primarily as "h o lding tanks and training grounds" for immigrants, until the immigrants could afford to move to the suburbs ·or country and buy a private home. This expectation, he feels, was highly unrealistic in view of the wage structure, which kept �ost immigrants in the cities . on a permanent basis.
Both Hamilton -and Kirkland have announced fee hikes of S195 a n d $ 2 0 0 , r e s pectively for academic year 1974-75. fn letters to parents, both Kirkland President Samuel F. Babbitt and Hamilton Acting President J. Martin Carovano e xp ressed pleasure that the increases could be held to under five per cent in view of an eight to nine per cent rise in the cost o_f living. Hamilton's increase is 4.6 per· cent; Kirkland's is 4.5 per cent. At Hamilton, tuition and fees will go up $125. A $ 70 increase in Board accounts for the balance, with Room charges remaining at ·$600 for the year.
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number of black scholars are now in large demand, and Hamilton can't c om pe te w i t h larger H am ilton i s offering a one-year post as Visiting Professor unive rsities, o f f eri ng more in Anthropology to Alfreda Parks, lucrative positions, and, perhaps, a now a graduate student at more congenial atmosphere. The Princeton University, in its effort po st of a one-year, visiting to attract black scholars to professor is also a problem; Hamilton. The college has already graduate students are looking for hired one black ·professor, an a more promising situation. Only Economics professor, Germina those who have the prospect of Lubega. A native of Uganda, another job in a year's time are Lubega graduated from Vassar likely to accept such a position. College, and did graduate work at Dean Kurtz, said, h�wever, Duke University. Lubega will · that black scholars themselves see teach in place of William ··snead, the end of the time when they are who will be on leave. She is offered salaries above their presently teaching at University of_ position, and posts which are Maryland-St. Mary's. beyond their qualifications. It is Hamilton is now making a only when salaries , for black conscious effort to fill the void of professors come down· to earth black· faculty at the college. In the that Hamilton will be able to past, according to Dean Kurtz, compete with large universities for Hamilton ha,s received virtually no black -faculty. Mr. Otey S c r uggs, from applications from blacks seeking teaching positions. The college is Syracuse University, was also attempting to solve the problem sought as a Visiting Professor in by starting the visisting professor B l a ck H i s t o ry. Mr. Scruggs p r o g r am, and by ac ti vely couldn't obtain a leave of absence recruiting black candidates for the from Syracuse, but he will appear as a guest lecturer in the Black faculty. The success of these efforts is History seminar at Hamilton pro ble ma ti cal. The li mited during the fall semester. BY KEVIN MCGOWAN
Last year, former President John W. Chandler announced_ an increase of $100 for 1973-74. Hamilton students who do not receive financial assistance or · scholarship will incur expenses of $4425 next year for tuition, room, board and overall fees. Over the past ten years, expenses at Hamilton have risen almost $2000 from a total of $2500 in 1964-65. Kirkland has increased its fees $200 each yeat since 1968-69, the first year it enrolled students. Next year, fees will total $4600 for resident students. Both colleges have been able to cootinued 00 page five
A thorough examination of purchasing practices of the county government regarding drafting of specifications, bidding procedures, awarding of contracts, and possible conflicts of interest. It is anticipated that the students will inspect certificates of incorporation of companies doing business with the county and will also look at campaign financing statements of both parties and candidates. Furthermore, a cost comparison of rendered services, utilizing data available from other county governments throughout the state will be undertaken. This project can be done by 3-5 students,
PROPOSED BEVERAGE CONTAINER BILL
A bill requiring a deposit on all beverage containers is pending in the New York State Legislature, 1974 session. Observers do not exp�ct a statewide bill to pass until a number of counties enact such legislation. Cayuga County· passed such a bill, November 1973. The same bill is being considered in Onondoga spring-summer 1974. Students should begin by reading the literature on this type of bill from Oregoh and Vermont where they have deposit legislation and Cayuga County. A period of familiarization with the issues, and the major pro and con arguments should follow. If the students decide, as many environmentalists have, that such legislation is beneficial, they can use the Cayuga County bill and try to find a sponsor among the local county legislators. A coalition of interested groups can be put together by the students. Examples of sympathetic groups are the Audubon Society, Sierra Club, Environmental Management Council, League of Women Voters (whose New York State Fair survey in 1973 showed 66% of the people voting favored such legislation). Students can supervise a high school or Scout litter survey, inform themselves about th.e cost of garbage disposal and a grocery comparison of the cost and availability in stores of deposit vs. no-return bottles. Students should learn about the governmental process, and, apart from the possibility of getting this legislation passed, they should learn about lobbying, and organizing around issues.
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Stolen ·Materials· Recovered; Cops Close Cas'3 · the credit cards and ammunition was to get the stuff back; there look under the lid of the garbage BY MONICA LIFF The Ha m i l t o n-K irkland were removed -from the glove would be no questions asked," can behind Bristol. rommunity was saved from a compartment. said Bingham. The following poem was read Dean Bingham and President to th_e switchboard operator on potentially embarrassing police The State Police notified Dean · investigation Tuesday afternoon· Bingham of the theft Tuesday Babb.it t called simultaneous d ut y in. Buttrick Hall, The when Deans Carol Cooper of morning, and requested a meeting meetings of the students at 4 p.m. Spe ct at o r has learned from Kirkland and R. ·Gordon Bingham with him and someone fr.om the Tuesday afternoon. Bingham's informed sources: of Hamilton found material stolen Kirkland administration. Later was for the entire Hamilton In order to solve the policeman's from a State Police car in a green t ha t m orning., Bingham and student body; Babbitt's was for woe, garbage container behind the Kirkland Director of Institutional residents of Milbank Dorm. The Listen now to where you should Bristol Campus Center Tuesday. Affairs Jesse Zellner met with students were informed of the go, situation and the deadline.. The car was pilfered Monday investigators. The -case that was stolen by the night Zellner and Bingham said that At both meetings it was anonymous man The materi als-a briefcase the police were not eager to go stressed that if the items were Lies fn back of Bristol underneath containing offical forms and through the official reporting returned before the deadline, the green garbage can. traffic tickets, ammunition for the procedure for the theft. Such a t h e r e would be no further. Dean Bingham, Dean Cooper patrolman's side-arm, and some report would require them to i n ve s t i gation by the police. and the security guard went to aedit cards-were stolen from the broadcast the information of the Prosecutions could have been Bristol, and found the briefcase car Monday night while the theft and the description of the made on a number of charges: containing all of the stolen items, troopers were searching the items state-wide, and would also . petty larceny, theft of a credit in the garbage can. Milbank Dormitory at Kirkland necessitate an intensive search for card, and possibly possession and Bingham said that the police use of a credit card. Each charge is did not take fingerprints. He said for a b o m b r e p o r te d l y the items on the Hill. B in g h a m s a i d that t he a felony. planted thert. that since the police got the About an· hour after the material back, they now consider According to informed sources, investigators promised to refrain among the items stolen was a from filing such a report until 9 meeting, a person·· called the the case closed. narcotics identification chart, p.m. Tuesday-. They told Zellner s w i t c hb o a rd. Dean Bingham The State Police came to the handcuffs, 30 magnum flat-nosed and Bingham that if the stolen described the voice as a female hill in the first place in response goods were returned before that with a phony accent. The caller bullets, and arrest reports. The patrol car was locked, and time the case would be dropped; read a statement that contained was broken into through one of but that if they were not, an r h ymes. Zellner called it a the side vent windows. The official investigation would have limerick. The last line -0f the briefcase was on the car seat, and to be started. "All they wanted statement directed searchers to
to a bomb threat. S�cted of being an April Fool's jokt, the call saying that there was a bomb planted in Milbank cam} to the switchboard at 9:35 Monday 1 night. • The building was evacuated, and four police officers,(together w i t h· Je rrald Tow�nd, the faculty resident of Milbank, Gerald L e uiken and Arthur Jewett t>f the Physical Plant, and Zellner, ·went through the building room by room. "They weren't looking for anything else; just anything out of the ordinary," said Zellner. "They couldn't find anything." The students were kept out of the building for almost two hours. Zellner said that he was not sure of whether an investigation of the threat will be undertaken. "It will be almost impossible to track down," he said. "But it's not very funny."
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receive no money from TAP: The new agaacy i-CiifNWd iii' would be 11,700. The maxim• atte�ding private colleges had g rants - through the Scholar borrowed an average of $3,200. The RegentsScholarship would the hill 1IIUllld be known as thr: grant for upper division studenb Incentive Program. A student can The average borrowing for a State become a flat $250 for students New Yo,k State lligha- Echrariou (janion and rm.ion) would Ix also rece-ive a Regents Scholarship University of New York senior who qualify under the traditional . Savica Corpon1ion (BEDSIC). 11.580. Upper Division studcnb if he performs well enough on the w a s $ 2 , 5 5 0 . A s s u m i n g · State Regents exams, regardless of This new imtibation ....W � would n:o:iv-e less because they state-wide Regents examinations. inflationary trends continue, none f a mity ·i nc o m e . T h us the rapomible far lldliDg oat the 1aMl to earn more money as "they T h e 1 money disbursed to of these figl.ll'es will show any maximum amount of aid -a pR)l[alll � its act1III tams of progr ess through school," aa:onling to a Department· student could receive would be aid. students by these programs is signs of decreasing. d e p e n d ent on their families Fo reseeing s u ch financial· Sl,950 for each of his first two Eada ye-a- the a.caDlt of aid. Fdncation.SUl'ft')'. In 1975-76 the maxim111 net-taxable income (N.T.I.). The· burdens in private institutions, years in college. The maximum offaal � clq,enll mtin:ly OD. annual grant for junion and the mancy ...-opriab:d by the grants anilahle to incomq maximw.n Regents Scholarship is many prospective freshmen have seniors would be $1,750. l e gis la ture -dcr aonnal private c:oOege freshmen wow! $980 for a student whose family opted to enroll at public colleges, mietoll.950.The maximumfrl A l r e a d y p as s ed by the budgetay p.wcm. has an N.T.I. under $2,000. As a cco r d i n g t o t h e S ta t e family income increases, the Dep a r t m e n t ofEducation. As a The parpoR of ucatiag ane • other private college studam Assembly, if the Costigan hillbenefits are scaled -down to a result, many high school seniors were passed by the S enate and SIIJclcnt aid c:orponlm WOllld be would he 11,700. Maxima signed into law. it would represent to set unifmm staadacls of &DDts would be possible for a minimum of $250 for Regents from low and middle income Scholarship winners regardless of families cannot consider applying an additional cost of $71 million c:tigi,ility b all_ ata1£"w4+J1.bed lbldait whose family had m N'l1 Sbldcnt aid p:og;:WL It also of less than 12,000. Again. graDII family income. The maximum to private institutions, even if to New YorkState taxpayers. would make wa,■li,-a•ic• widl wuald be scaled down as famiy The Scute Bm Scholar Incentive Award is J600 • they are qualified. In tum, priv�te -if the family N .T.I. is under colleges have faced a difficult ·The Anderson Stafford hiD other sbldmt gant aad loan iacame rose.The minimum woul S 2 , Q 0 0. T h u s under · no problem in recruiting students takes a different approach to the programs easier aDd lllOR he $550 for a student whole circumstances can a student, from lower and middle class problem and is more complicated. effective. In addition,, a ltlldcnt. family NTI was above $2.000. The bill clarifies the term- would only haft to 6D «.t OD.e In 1976-77 the program wouW whether. he enters a public or families. Since 1 9 6 5 t w en t y-three "emancipated students," in order application 1D n:a:il'dm......,fi•s .be mDy implemented and tht private college within the state, benefits equal to those of the Staar �Iba private colleges in New York have to clearly recognize students recieve more than $1,580. The proposal of the Rcgalts is Cos tigan p lan when it is Present Plan Inadequate c l osed, despite an increased fiscally independent from their parents. Such students receive aid essentially the same • the CDJDplctdy funded in 1977-78. A study headed by the New statewide student population. York S t a t e De partment of The Costigan bill would replace based solely upon their own Costigan plan, hut clffcn in The maximum grant a Lower Dirision student mrolled in a implementation. Education found. these grants the present Scholar Incentive income. insufficient, however, especially Program with a new Tuition Dur i n g . t he interim year, The p:acnt Scholar Inantiwe printe institution could recem 1974-75, the bill would increase Awanl would be soka11•ially would be $1,950. {$1,700 Schol, t o t h ose students attending Assistance Program, (TAP). high-priced private institutions. Under this program a freshman the maximum awards available to increased owr dm:c years while lnc:cntm and $250 flat Regents Priv ate c o llege tuition now or sophomore could receive a students, with a higher award the Rc:gaits Scho!anfu2 would Scholarship) The maximum for averages $1,500 more a year than maximum grant of $1,700, or his s tr uc ture for private college gradually chop to .;_ flat $250 foi Upper Di.vision students would be that of public colleges. t ui t ion, w hi che ver is _less. students. New York State net all students who qualify on the $1,750. {Sl.500Schola:rlncentm Families of students receiving Maximum grants would go to taxable income, asadjustedbythe exams. In a sq,aatc lcgisla.tnrc a n d 1 2 5 0 f l a t R e gents Scholar Incentive Awards and students whose family's NTI is number of students in college, proposal, the Dcpattmcnt of Scholarship) The additional cost to the attending private colleges had the · under $2,000. Juniors and seniors would still be the measure of the Education would also 6h 1D add taxpayer would be $36.8 million same average NTI as those families in a similar financial bracket ability to pay for college costs. 542 new Rcgad:s Scholanhips.. State Corporation Proposed In 1974-75 the lllaJlim.um for 1974-75, $58 million ii whose children went to public would receive a maximum grant As of 1975-76 the bill would c o m h i n e d S ch o I a r 1975-76, and $71.5 million for colleges. Thus these families were of $1,500. As in the present responsible for a greater share of program, these grants would be d o a w_ay with the Scholar. Incentive-Rcgaat Sc:hoJarship full im.plcmm.tation in 1976-77. The political futures of the scaled down according to family Incentive Program entirely but grant for .k,wcr division sbldcnts college expenses. · By senior year in college, 70 income. 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Lacrosse Hopes to· Improve '73 Record
BY NED DRINKER Unlike the high but unfilled hopes of teams in recent years, the 1974 lacrosse team has hopes that it intends to realize. Last year, the squad was strong for the first half of the season (4-2), but then collapsed as a result of injuries, disappointingly dropping the last five games. Injury is a valid explanation for a lost game or a bad season, l;mt in a game such as lacrosse, where injury is part of the game, it is not a good explanation. Billed as '' the fastest game on · two feet", lacrosse is also one of the roughest. Much of the appeal of the sport, for the players as well as the fans, comes from the solid checks, the scrambles for loose balls, and the high speed shots . No one is claiming that lacrosse is a gentleman's game. In order to win or , for that matter,
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to survive, the players must be physically and mentally tough: Though injuries will occur, no t�am is immune to them and all teams should be at the same disadvantage. The only protection against injuries is depth. A team must have men on the bench who can take , over when needed. This year's team has that depth. In this respect, midfielders ·are the most crucial. A t e a m without superstars, such as Hamilton is, need three and occasionally four strong midfield lines to pose a f o r m i d a b l e threat. Promising freshmen and returning players will more than adequately fulfill this need. The weak spot in last year's team was the midfield. This year Coach von Schiller is working for a stronger midfield and has plenty of m at e r ia l. T h e returning lettermen; Collum Hedstrom, and
Watkins Predicts Again
BY ED WATKINS Last year this columnist dared to make predictions on the outcome of the baseball pennant races. To prove he has not learned his lesson, he once again offers his baseball predictions. Oakland won the World Series last year and has to be rated the favorite. Despite being owned by Charley Finley, the A's have shown themselves to be one of baseball's most successful teams. As to the change in managers from Dick Williams to Alvin Dark, the A's consider themselves to be professionals ready to do their best regardless of who is in charge. The pitching is solid: Vida Blue, Catfish Hunter, and Ken Holtzman won 62 games last year; Rollie Fingers and Darold Knowles were tough in the bullpen. The hitting of Sal Bando, Reggie Jackson, and Bert Campaneris gave the A's plenty of runs. It is impossible not to pick that team to finish first in the A.L. West� The AL. East is a more open race with Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, and New York all possible contenders. Boston bolstered its pitching through trades which netted Juan Marichal, Rick Wise, Reggie Cleveland and Diego Segu_i. Their hitting should present no problem but their defense might with Rico Petrocelli coming off an arm operation and the departure of Luis Aparicio from shortstop. Baltimore is not quite the team it was in the late sixties and early seventies when it won pennants at will. To repeat last year's success, the hitting must improve; the pitching must regain some of its former brilliance. The Tigers are getting older;.Norm Cash and Al Kaline will be 40 this season. Ralph Houk will have to work miracles to get the Tigers · on top. The Yankees are too unsettled to have niuch of a chance. The big question is the pitching staff which collapsed last year in late July. The Yankees need a good year from Sparky Lyle to stay in contention. In the National League West, the Reds may not find themselves at the top of the heap. Their pitching remains weak and the rest of the division is ready to challenge them. The Dodgers made a strong run last season and might have gone all the way if their young players had not tired out in August. The Astros and Giants both have young, aggressive clubs, each capable of winning the title. The N.L. East, the division no one wants to win, should not be such a disaster area this year. The Mets were fortunate to get hot at the end' of the season while the rest of the contenders took a dive. This year it is doubtful that the Pirates will be so obliging as to lose four straight to the Mets in the last week of the season. The Cardinals and Expos will be close behind; if one of the leaders falters, they could finish first. The Cubs will not be a contender this year; they are rebuilding and will start four or five new faces. Their former stars are gone or aging. My picks: Oakland and Boston in the American League, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles in the National League. Oakland and L.A. in the Series, the Dodgers will take it all.
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Speno-who was honored as a Northern New York All-star-are more powerful than last year's squad, as well as from the ranks of t h e freshmen class, to new heights. At deferise, the Continentals are peerless. Last season's starting defense of Percy, Assuma, and W i ll i a ms a r e r eturning and newcomers competing for their positions are keeping them sharp. The best way to accomplish this is by hitting the shooters and attackers so hard that they worry more about getting out of the way than taking a good shot. The Hamilton defensemen are all quite capable in this respect, especially Percy who has been nicknamed "The Dreamer" by some fans because of the way he sends opponents into never-never land when he hits them. At attack the Continentals are 'feeling the loss of last year's captain, Nat Follansbee, who foiled the opponent's defense with his twisting., turning� passing and quicksticking. With his good sense of humor and great sense of the game, Nat was a true athelete who will be sorely missed. Returning from last year's starting attack are John Berry and M a r k Bernard who matched Follansbee's skill and agility and may surpass it this year. Vying for the third attack spot are Jimmy Lotz and Jay Tyler, but only time will tell. At goal, Evan Lurie returns to his net from abroad. As far as conditioning goes, vonSchiller has the team in better
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shape than previous seasons. The typically wet and snowy weather has h i n d e r e d practices and preseason scrimmages, but the team came back early from spring break and handily defeated a Syracuse team. The first game against Alfred, scheduled for tommorow has been postponed tQ April 15 because of the condition of the field, but von Schiller is · calling all over the state in an effort to set up a scrimmage. The first game is now against Albany, Saturday-April 13. The J.V. open their. season Thursday April 11, under the able tutelage of Coach Eric MacDonald.
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Baseball Heads 'South'; Prospects Look Bright
hits. c.;�•��r· is pressing Hollan� With the advent of spring, the hard for the starting job and it H amilton Continental baseball should prove to be an interesting team began its own form of confrontation. pre-season workouts. Shunning Batting third is senior Craig sunny Florida for financial Fallon, the first-baseman. Craig reasons, (the trip was totally paid returns to baseball after a long for by · the players, coming to lay-off due to a knee injury. His about $40 p e r man), the big stick has already accounted Cont inentals headed for the for 4 hits in the two games "w a r m e r" c l i m a t e of played. Pen nsylvania. Pnfortunately a Batting fourth, Captain Dave streak of unseasonably cold McLean '75, is playing a new weather turned the spring into position, third base. The switch late November. Three of the five has not affected Dave's bat and he s c h e d u le d games (against is quickly learning to trade at the S h i p p e n s burg State, hot corner. Dave's back-up is a Elizabethtown, and Penn State) senior Charlie .Darrigrand . Charlie were cancelled due to snow on -is also in a new habitat. A Saturday, .March 30. Hamiltqn did c o n ve r ted s e c ond b aseman, manage to squeeze in two contests Charlie will see action when Dave under bitterly cold conditions, takes the hill. against Susquehanna U. and Designated hitter, John Barron Dickinson College. '77, follows "Cappy" in the order. In both contests, the Hamilton This is a new NCAA rule this year, nine was impressive. Scoring a - allowing a player to b�t for the total of 30 runs ( 16 and 14 pitcher (usually) or anyone else in respectively), the Continentals the line-up. Because of a bad demolis hed their opposition. knee, John is unable to play the Hamilton pitchers allowed only field but has a tremendous bat. He nine runs and the defense was has already rapped out 4 hits, tight. Unfortunately only one of including a double and a triple. the games counted in Hamilton's John Thomas, a- junior, bats season record (vs. Dickinson) and sixth and plays right field. John, puts them off to a good start. · The offense is potent. Led by also, has been hitting well and has shown a strong arm. catcher Dave Pisan�lli '77 in the Nordo Nissi '76 is the left - l�ad-off �pot, Hamilton has a f ielder. ''Nords" crashed the --c�istent hitter. Dave's speed Continental's first keeps opposing pitchers wary, "round-tripper" of the season and making it that much easier for has shown amazing speed ii\ the f o l l o w i n g h i t t e r s . Dave's field. re-enforcement is Neil Schier '75. · The situation at shortstop is Chip Hollands '77 has taken over similar to that at second. Two the second base position from freshmen, Don Haggerty and Dave veteran Bri� Gelber '76_ Batting Leche1 , are competing with second, Chip has poked out a few Haggerty having the upper hand.
Carlberg Wins Nationals
BY JOHN NAVARRE have another shot at both crowns advantage for Hamilton in the Jeff Carlberg swam_ his way to next year. His drop off in the State Meet. Jeff will be back for another the national crown for the 200-yard Breast, though only a 1 00-yard Breaststroke in the second off his fastest time, could yea r of domination in the N C A A C ollege Swimmin g be attributed to the post dual Breaststroke. Hamilton loses only Champi�nships March 22- 24 at meet · season. MacDonald had three swimmers to graduation. Long Beach State University. tapered his team for the New MacDonald has also had a strong Jeff finished ninth in the York State Championships on s howing of q ualified a nd 20 0 - y a r d Breast , e a r n i n g March 2. And Jeff went from accomplished applicants for next All-American honors in both there to Long Beach with four year. C onsideri ng this the events. Carlberg docked al:00.56 weeks of tapering behind him. Continentals should see another in the c onsolations of the (Tapering is a reduction in the good season in the water . 100-yard event and qualified as practice workload which usually the first seed. He returned in the p roduces an improvement in 100-yard to win in 1 :01.11. In the speed.) Four weeks of tapering 200-y a rd B r e a st the Joker can be too excessive and cause a qualified seventh with a 2:16.2 plateau effect in times. Jeff did and· returned with a 2:16.3, but not seem to build much from the fell to a ninth place. States to the Nationals. Coach MacDonald cited the Jeff placed fourth in both�v�nts last year, he was a sure bet in the fact that Carlberg was facing even 100-yard, but he lacks confidence greater psychological factors. Jeff in t he longer event. Coach was the only Hamilton swimmer MacDonald said, "He doesn't participating in the meet. For a understand how good he is. He swimmer to swim in this type of has to learn to believe in himself." meet with only his coach and no Jeff doesn't have the abrasive t e a mma tes is c onsidered a aggressiveness of most champions. disadvantage. Jeff handled it well.. As a junior, Carlberg should Team unity proved to be an
Trout Fishing· in America
BY CHIP WHITELEY April Fools Day was the opening date for the start of the area's trout fishing season. The shores .of nearby Oriskany Creek teemed with anxious sportsmen as they sought stocked rainbows and ''brookies" from the famous Onieda County stream. The day was highlighted by a Fisherman's Breakfast sponsored by the Clinton Fish and Game Chm. The club offered a door prize for ·ihe luckiest caster to hook thc;,largest fish. Due Jo the trout's voracious appetite in the snow cooled water, ·wonn,� and minnows were the fisherman's choice for bait. This method seemed to pay off as all reels appeared occupied. Several students were seen practicing on a campus puddle. Some good advice to these slightly misdirected followers - be sure to buy a fishing licence!
School Accepts Highly Touted Student-Athlete
He has displayed fine fielding ability and a very quick release. The ninth spot was filled by centerfielder Bill Tarbell, another fre s h man, but d ue to _ an unfortunate accident, he will be lost to the Continentals for the season. The spot will now be contested by Bill Foley '76 and Curt Ziemendorf '7 7, with an Hamilton Football Coach Bob equal shot offered to both. King called a press conference "Zemo"may also see action as a :Tuesday to announce that Tom right-handed ·designated hitter. Lafountain, former quarterback The pitching staff is young but from nearby John F. Kennedy tough. John Psaiki '74 is the only · High School, had been accepted member who will not return. to Hamilton and plans to attend John, a transfer from West Point, next fall. pitched four strong innings on the LaFountain, the six-foot and ''southern" jaunt. The anchor 175 pound back, has forty-six man of the staff, though, appears touchdown passes to his credit · to still another freshman { 9 of the and passed for over one thousand · I-8 squad members are �irst year y a r d s l as t s e a s o n a l one. men) John Driscoll. "Drisc" LaFountain is also strong in the hurled seven innings down south other offensive departments. and looked very impressive. Andy L a F o untain is entering Pratt '77 also turned in a good Hamilton in the light of a slow two-inning performance. Captain burning controversy over the McLean will only be called in on a ca de mi c q uality of recent emergencies, and has hurled one s t udent- a t hletes. Lafountain inning so far. seems to throw water on the fire The outlook is good. Good hit ting, good pitching, good graduating sixth in his senior class. Asked why he turned down defense, all seem to point toward such schools as Colgate, Columbia a successful campaign. Certainly and Princeton; he said that he there are many "if's." But b·arring thought Hamilton offers one of unforseen circumstances, Coaches "the best educations in the East."· Heckler and Guzetti foresee the Lafountain also pointed out that possibility of a winning baseball he did not plan o� making for an enthusiastic and talented football his whole life. club.
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THE ·s_PECTATOR VOLUME IV, NUMBER 23
Schedule Revisions Proposed
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
APRIL 12, 1974
SCACA And CAP Discuss 4-1-4 Plari
In a meeting last night, the today's meeting concerns the Standing Committee. on Academic length of the calendar as proposed and Curricular Affairs ( SCACA) by CAP. accepted in essence the provisions ; The working paper calls for a'.l, BY ROBBY MILLER . of a curricular working paper academic calen4ar which begins The Hamilton College Faculty_ d ra f t e d b y t h e Hamilton the fall semester about Labor Day last month failed to approve a Committee on Academic Policy and ends it right before Christmas; proposal e ndorsed by the (CAP), according to a member of the Spring semester would begin Kirkland Assembly which would the Kirkland committee. about February 1 and end about have changed the scheduling of The 'working paper' proposes June I. classes at the colleges. the retention of the present 4-1-4 SCACA reportedly favors the The proposal, offered · in its · calendar with two fourteen-week fourteen-week semesters proposed original form by Acting Dean· semesters, instead of the current by CAP, but the Kirkland organ Pet er M a r c y o f K i r k l a nd, thirteen-week terms. pro poses t he a b o l ition of primarily emphasized an increase SCACA and CAP met earlier midsemester break in the fall and in the number of 75-minute today in closed session to resolve a one-week spring recess in order classes. d ifferences between the two to keep the proposed calendar The proposed scheduling also committees. A proposal drafted within the time limits of the would have provided an increase, b y t he S u b c o m mi t tee o n present calendar. in time between ·classes from 10 Academic Planning of the Student Both Martin and Professor to 15 minutes, a change in the Curriculum Committee (SCC) is Russell T. Blackwood, chairman starting hour of early morning also under consideration and of the CAP, emphasize that the classes from 8:00 to 8:30, and several representatives of that working paper is not a formal fuller use of the afternoon as a g r o u p a t t e n d e d t o d a Y 's proposal. 'It is not a final step,-"' time for class periods. conference. said the SCACA Chariman. '' The Hamilton faculty is Peter T. M�rcy, Kirkland acting dean of academic affairs . The CAP and SCC proposals The CAP has been working satis fied w i t h t he p resent and I could not get the vote. I'm Kurt� said that the decision were released to the Spectator this since September on the new schedule," said Stephen G. Kurtz, disappointed in the interests of · w as t o g i ve t he s o-called week and appear in today's issue. calendar and curriculum which dean of the college. "Kirkland Proposal"; to the co-ordination," he said. "In s ub st a nce, there was will be instituted academic year "The s c ience departments According to Kurtz, the registrar to work out over the ··agreement on what Winter :Study 1975-'76. - James Traer, James objected very strongly to the proposal was sent back to him summer to see what conflicts should be and in the educational Cunningham, Jay G. Williams, proposal," said Kurtz, because with the request that it be used as actually exist. opportunities that the Hamilt�n Steven J. Lee, and other Hamilton they felt "it would make it more a "model to see what the actual Presumably, the issue will be proposal offers, but points will be f a culty members have made difficult than ever to schedule difficulties would be in enrolling returned to the Faculty next fall discussed at today's meeting,"said substantive contributions to the students into laboratories . . . That · some typical studefits . under it." for r e consideration and the a n other member of SCACA, working paper. schedule calls for more classes in "The registrar was . asked proposal could, theoretically, be commenti ng on last night's Dean of the College StephenG. the afternoon." whether, having the departmental -used for the spring semester of meeting. Kurtz described the proposals "T h e othe r H a m il ton hour schedules, he could do it in 1974-75, according to Kurtz. The committee memb�r, who submitted by Traer and Lee as position," said Kurtz, "has been time for pre-registration," said Marcy, who has been writing · wished to remain unidentified, · 'kind of nifty'. that we don't want 75-minute Kurtz. ''The answer was no." and revising such scheduling said that no vote was taken and Kurtz said the proposals entail classes, because they' tend to turn "Nor could the Hamilton proposals for over two years, t hat t h e r e w as no formal no radical departure from the into one-hour classes." Board of Advisors, using their commented that he was "very acceptance of the CAP document. four-one-four academic calendar • "Personally, I think the new � own advisees as actual case disappointed" to learn of the Linda Martin .' 74, SCACA a n d retain m o s t o f th-.. schedule could work," said Kurtz. studies, work it out in time for l a te s t Hamil ton d e l a y in chairperson, expects that the characteristics. of Winter Study. "I fought for it as hard as I could pre-registration," said Kurtz. considering the change_. major point to be resolved at He added, the inclusion of some 'interesting changes' will result in 'a very happy solution' of the problems associated with the present structure. Features of these and other proposals have been combined BY MIKE BOSHART Moscow. He is in his final year into a 'working paper' by the CAP L e onid Aslanov, 35, a the U.S.S.R. April 28. of an undergraduate course in which was presented to SCACA A delegation of three Soviet member of the Chemistry The tour, the second of its economics and is a former for its consideration at the joint students will discuss "Youth in kind, J>egins at Hamilton as the faculty at the University of , soldier and youth organization meeting earlier today. Conte mporary Society... " ,with first one did in 1972. Hamilton is Moscow for 11 years and a Chairman Blackwood said he worker. three seniors from Hamilton and the only college to receive a leader o f t he youth Hamil ton Russian History was quite fascinated with the Kirkland Tuesday, April 16, in the return visit from the Russian organization at the university. AlumniGymnasium at 8 pm. Mikhail Bogdanov, 22, a Professor Michael Haltzel said that · proposals from Williams and Lee team. Their first visit attracted Hamuton will be the first stop national publicity - and a standing first-year graduate student in the Soviet students are usually and that· portions of these and philology at the University of chosen· on the basis of their others have been combined in the on a tour that will take the room only crowd to the Alumni In its efforts to participation in Communist youth working paper. Soviets to eight campuses in seven Gymnasium. Leningrad. formulate a new curriculum and state s, from New York to Anatoly Busygin, 27, a organizations Speaking for the Soviets will R e p r ese n t i n g cal endar, SCACA formed a· student at the University of Colorado, .before· they return to be: H a m i !t on-Kirk l an d i n t he subcommittee to evaluate Winter S tudy with a view towards discussion will be: P e ter F a sol ino, 21, a isolating its positive features. H a m i l t o n s e n ior f r o m S t ep hen L i p m a n n , assistant Mamaroneck, N .Y . He was a professor of literature, and Nadine member of the Winter Study George, instructor in history of group that visited the Soviet science, comprised the committee. Union in January, 1973. The Spectator has learned that Vera Ho llander, 21/, a Kirkland President Samuel F. Kirkland senior from Elmhurst, Babbitt, Acting Dean of Academic N .Y. She is majoring in Russian Affairs Peter Marcy, and Assistant Studies and has been accepted Dean Ruth Rinard were invited to as an American exchange share thei,r views on curricular student this summer at the p1oposals with Blackwood and University of Leningrad. She high administration officials ::tt speaks Russian fluently. Hamilton in early .February. L o uis Levenson, 21, a Meanwhile, SCACA was kept H a m i l t o n s e n io r f r om uninformed of the CAP's progress Freepor t , N. Y. Levenson in reaching decisions on the visited the Soviet Union last curriculum. Until last night, summer for one month. continued on page eight continued on page four Leonid Aslanov Mikhail Bogdanov Anatoly Busygin
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Grade Inflation Students have complained for the · past few years that the uncertain reputation of Hamilton College and the grades they have received here made it difficult to gain· admission to the graduate schools they were supposedly qualified to attend. The faculty have apparently responded with inflated grades.· According to professors, grades have risen significantly when compared with the levels of five years ago, when graduate school admissions worries began to come to the fore. Some faculty think, however, that the inflation will soon go too far, if it has not already. Although Associate · Dean Robin Kinnel, in a report he released recently, noted no significant changes in the past three semesters, gone are the days when a student here qualified for Phi Beta Kappa with a �'B" average. A look at the reinstated dean's list reveals significantly more High Honors students than there were in Spring, 1971, when the list was last compiled. The Honors and Credit lists, which distinguished students with averages of 85+ and 80+ respectively, were not revived. Apparently, so many students would have qualified that inclusion no longer would have been a noteworthy accomplishment. Success in applications to graduate schools has s upposedly increased, according to pre-professional advisors. Hamilton has worked hard to convince graduate schools of the quality of its students and the quality of the educations it offers;_ the efforts of Dean Kurtz, and the pre-law, pre-med, and graduate study advisors should not pe discounted. Nevertheless, the change in ffortune can be attributed, at least in part, to effective changes in grading policy. lJut now that eighty per cent of Hamilton's grades. are in the "A" and "B" range, it appears that inflation truly has reached its ceiling. Although rollbacks would be equally inadvisable, any further grade escalation would put a stop to the encouraging news from graduate schools. Students used to complain that rigorous scholarship was not appropriately recognized. Hamilton should avoid now the possibility of granting high grades which no longer reflect a similarly high standard of achievement.
From the Sanctuary
H.E.O.P. Stereotyp�d
BY LEROY PORTER Let's put under consideration the task of reconstructing an already perfiduous body of ideas that constitute how this community goes about meeting the needs of minority students. What we have here at Hamilton and Kirkland is an inability ·to relinquish old, paleozoic modes of categorizing people, and a benign respect for the step:>etype. Right in the midst of higher education we make a mockery of what it is to think. People· around here do not think, they feel. When the term , minority student issued, people feel that it means B lack or Puerto Rican and or undoubtibly part of H.E.O.P. saga whose legcndd of remedial reform only shows again how resurgent our feelings can be. It is very perplexing to try and understand how so many folk thinJt of H.E.O.P. as a remedial institution. To a certain extent Black and Puerto Rican students exist on the periphery of the colleges, if only in the way many people feel about being here. It is in a lot of p�ople's minds that H.E.O.P. is remedial and should be on the periphery and at the same time H.E.O.P. is used as the rationale for having a periphery. Why, in a community where everyone is supposed t� �e combatting ignorance, do we have an attitude about someone learning something he hasn't learned before and why is that same attitude different when it comes to taking an anthropology course as opposed to a communication's course taught by Miss Noble, hired by H.E.O.P. · What it comes down to is that there is an attitude about the people taking these courses. It seems students who come to the college under
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BY SUSAN FRIEDELSON Let others wallow in McDermid. Bill Rosenfeld and colleagues are tired of it all and want to get on with the business of running Kirkland College. At this point they seem to be perfectly capable of, and Hamilton and Kirkland will welcome next week a indeed thrilled with the prospect of running it all by delegation of three Soviet students who will participate in themselves, without the sometimes embarassing and always time-consuming input of s,tudent opinion. a panel discussion with Hill students, sit in on various When students lost the battle over Mr. classes, and attend a social gathering at a fraternity. The McDermid, we took a giant step toward losing the r .turn vis·t of Soviets affords members of the college war. We were fighting not only to keep him, but to comm unit f a privileged opportunity to meet personally get this college moving back in the right with representatives of the nation whose policies so greatly direction-toward fulfilling some of the ideals that we had come here to find. To many giving up .on affect the affairs of our own country. People here can be this issue has been synonomous with giving up on proud that of the thirty-five colleges included in the Kirkland. The majority' of us do not take active, Soviets' present tour, Hamilton and Kirkland are the only forceful positions on college issues, perhaps because colleges that will be receiving a return visit. we know that the result will probably be another committee, and we already have plenty. When we finally felt so strongly that it's impossible to keep quiet, and are so thoroughly over-ridden, the sense of helplessness is reinforced, the continued apathy -ensured. When Mr. McDermid was finally, irrevocably NUMBER TWENTY-THREE 1s . VOLUME 4 pronounced out, I was asked if J. had expected any Managing Editor Henry Glick other outcome. Yes, I had. Maybe not at Sarah � Editor-in-Chief Mitchel Ostrer Lawrence, maybe not at. Skidmore, but yes, of News Editor Douglas Glucroft course_ at Kirkland. This institution exists for the Business Manager Peter Sluys students; this college is innovative, student-oriented, Assistant News Editors Associate Editor and is founded on a firm respect for the intelligence Linda Anzalone Robert J. Keren and maturity of its students. Whether the realization Bob Weisser Arts Editor Editorial Page Editor Jonathan Cramer that all is not what it seems has been slipping Kenneth Gross Sports Editor gradually into my consciousness, or whether it hit Layout John Navarre all at once, I sure as hell don't believe any of it Vikram Dewan Photography Editor �•· anymore. Beverly Draudt David Cantor Graphics Production Manager The Kirkland Appeals Committee was quoted in Kevin Burns Mike Bulger the April 5th issue of The Spectator (p. 5, column Cliff Davis 2) as saying that ". . . authority to judge teaching News Assistants: Liz Barrow, Felice Freyer, Monica Liff, Susan Malkin, competence is vested in faculty colleagues." Robert Rock Obviously, this is the way it works, but is it the way Sports Assistants: Steve HaweeJ ,, •:.ave Lecher it should work? Who is better qualified to judge the Arts Assistants: Bruce Hornstein, -lichard Koffs teaching competence of faculty members than the Photography Assistants: Philip Morris, Chip Whitely Production Assistant: Nancy Oppenheim students who take their classes? To tell students Business Staff: Jack Hornor, Martin J. Kane, Peter B. Bayer, Geoffrey E. that if we were to judge faculty members, the Lawrence, Donald R. Kendall, William D. Underwood, Marc Standig process would turn into a full-time p�pularity -; . contest, is not only insulting, it is untrue. Students The Publications Board publishes The Spectator, a newspaper edited by are no more or less vicious, vengeful, or students, 26 times during the academic year. Subscriptions: $7 .00 per year. simple-minded than faculty members, in fact, we Address: Box 83, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 13323. Letters to the often hold a more objective, accurate viewpoint of editor must be signed, but na,nes will be withheld upon request. ·-...,... teaching ability. We don't attend cocktail parties
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H.E.O.P. have a 3/5 rating because they are able to take communications 101 and get credit, because they may have a 500 or less verbal score on the SAT, and because in some cases Black and Puerto Rican students are thought of as dumb. Any attitude that says, "a student is worth less," can not go on uncontested but for so long before • it starts having an effect. Professors change their opinions of H.E.O.P. students once they know their classification, which in turn affects the student's grade, and maybe his attitude about learning. Take a look at the possibility of restructuring H.E_O.P .. Maybe it will better benefit minority . H.E.O.P. students if the institution of RE.O.P. was academically detached from the college and reinstituted solely as a resource for allowing H.E.O.P. students to really acquire some of massive presupposed learning that higher education supposedly requires. The detachment would be a function of not giving credit for courses· brought to the hill by H.E.O.P. Baldridgge Reading, a writing course, a college algebra course, even classes in chemistry and physics could be taught before H.E.O.P students enroll in credit courses, or along with on-going credit courses. The.se courses are still going to be called remedial (and that just proves how much credit is really an. issue), but neijher Hamilton nor Kirkland can condescend just because they feel they are giving up something. For the H.E.O.P. student the point becomes whether or not you are sensitive to the squalor around you. There is no reason to believe that either institution is going to up and stop feeling that H.E.O.P. dilutes the integrity of the colleges.
with our professors; we know them primarily on the basis of their classes. Faculty members don't ever to my knowledge sit in on their colleagues' classes, so just how do they judge? In Mr. McDermid's case, they seem to have arbitrarily strolled about the sculpture studio looking for work "of substantial quality." Do literature teachers read student papers piled outside their colleagues' doors to determine whether the teacher is any good or not? Is this college concerned with the ongoing process of education, or with the production of so many satisfactory end-products? The reason the McDermid case is not a dead issue is not solely due to my personal bitterness at seeing
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one of the finest teachers on this hill pushed out. While struggling to be heard, I realized for the first time the extent of student powerlessness at Kirkland. I saw open antagonism, disrespect, and distrust toward students on the part of faculty members, who seemed to draw together for their mutual protection against the external threat posed by students. If this is not the kind of atmosphere desired at Kirkland, there had better be some effective, honest lines of communication opened up, and fast, because a great deal of damage has been done. The Spectator welcomes any comments or letters from its readers. All letters must be signed by the author, but names will be withheld in print upon request.
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Letters to · the Editor
Public Notice To the Editor: As a firm believer in the therapeutic effects of alcohol, I · would like to comment on the miserable state of the drinking options on campus and suggest some alternatives. This is a plea for reevaluation. In part nostalgic and in part disgusted, it is based on my observation that the romance of the drug sub-culture which was responsible for the sorry drinking conditions has worn off with the drug sub-culture's apot}:leosis into the pantheon of Americanisms. Now is the time for drinkers to reassert some control over their neglected institutions. In six years ·the Pub has totally degenerated. From glass mugs to 10 ounce dixie ups, the Pub at 11:30 on Thursday night is like an abattoir at high noon. The Pub had sufficient seating when there were .800 Hamsters and 150 denizens of the Land. Now double that, cram them into the Edwardian Pub, and cross your fingers that there is no reenactment of the Cocoanut Grove disaster. The Pub doesn't close now until 2:00 A.M., Oneida County's limit. So ·instead of moving the party to some other local establishment (Rock, Shoe, Restaurant, etc.) we spend three and a half sloppy hours screaming oµr idiocies over Roberta Flack's adenoidal wail. To the Pub - Clean up your act. To Pubbers - Give Scabby a break. Go to the Shoe. v., '7?
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To the Editor: I feel that the title "Separate Housing'' that was placed above my letter in last week's Spectator has unfairly represented
extraordinarily well. All those present it provides one �ith an opportunity to contn"buted to the festivity of the holiday, deal with old personal convictions on a though we were ever mindful to add a higher level of intellectual and emotional somber note of prayer for our less maturity, or, more aptly put, to gain a fortunate Jewish brethren in the Soviet greater insight into the Self in a relatively Union. ·On a campus where the textbook is problem..,free environment. To let this A Reply growing process stagnate or stop can result all-too-oftenthe student's Bible, I am proud i n t h e k i n d o f f e a.r , an g er , to have been part of this expression of To the editor: I am writing this let,ter in response to misunderstanding, and racial tension that Jewishness. I congratulate and thank all those who partook in the Seder, and hope James Francis ' letter in last week's still exists in "America 1974." We have some of the greatest potential that similar activities will continue to Spectator as well as any other letter or article that may arise as a result of the on college campuses today {including manifest themselves on our campus as m o s t r e cent d i s r uption in t he these two) to change society rather than expressions of Jewish awareness. Alan Levy '74 "se mi -conscious coexistence" which succumb to it if individuals are willing to inevitably procreates itself year after year think for themselves and formulate their DKE's Dance on the Hill regardless of the names and own conclusions regardless of group· or social pressure one way or the other. faces. To the Editor: Amofd Ahlert '74 One must l�ok at the Hill as a societal On behalf of the members -of DKE, I "fantasy" of sorts. After all, admissions w o u l d l i k e t o t hank the entire A Seder Note for residency here are certainly selective Hamilton-Kirkland Community for their enough· to assume a higher intellectual To the Editor: support in the fight against MD. As a level than the general populace of This past Saturday evening, the Alumni result of our dance on March 9, we sent "America 1974." It would surely be a House was the site of a Passover Seder. the Mohawk Valley Muscular Dystrophy shame if so�called institutions of higher Throughout the preceding week, the vast Association a check for almost $600, and learning · were willing to accept • the majority of the Hamilton-Kirkland Jewish were the second largest contributors in the methods and/or beliefs of the American students were aware that Saturday night area. society in its present state at face value. was the time when the annual Seder Mr. Thomas J. Carbone, the District Do not misunderstand my point of_ should have been held. Yet, almost all Director, .said in· a letter of appreciation, view, either. I am not advocating were willing to sit back and wait until an ''This money will remain in the Mohawk "integrated and equal" when it is forced annnouncement would be posted on Valley Area to help provide the needed by legislation. I am merely writing this campus inviting them to the Seder which orthopedic appliances, clinic visits at letter in the hope that both black and "someone else would inevitably organize." Children's Hospital, and flu shots." Also, white students will examine their own The old Kirkham apathy almost won out the money will be used to send patients in consciences from an intellectual point of this time, however, as nothing had been New York State to the Jerry Le�is view. Rationalization stemming from arranged as of the day before Passover. Summer Camp at Bergame East in Marcy, , emotionalism, social patterns or even Fortunately, Joe Wachsp ress and Helen N.Y. personal upbringing cannot be considered Kramer took the situation in tow, and I would like to give special thanks to valid in an i ntellectually oriented made rapid preparations for the event. By Steak Nite, and all those who contributea atmosphere. word of mouth, news of the occassion for the. great success; because we received Hopefully college does more for an spread, and at the time of the service, such great campus support, I expect the individual than increase his or her about thirty students were present. Suffice MD dance may become a DKE institution. · proficiency in a particular field. Hopefully i t to s a y t ha t t h e Seder went Jonathan Berry the· ideas I wish to convey. My letter did not pertain to separate housing, but the freedom one should have as an individual to do what is natural. James Francis '77
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appreciated the second method, because it Last year following the selection of gave them a chance, however slight, to Freshman Advisors, letters appeared in shift the burden of question answering. The Spectator condemning the selection Next, the head advisor, Craig Fallon, made· process and levying slanderous remarks informal, introductory remarks; among against those selected· and those selecting. them the statement that X number of At that time I wished to reply in the form ap plicants were involved in the second of a letter, ·but was dissuaded by the then round, while X number would be present staff who said,"It happens every selected-facts which each applicant knew. year. Let the disgruntled and the sour have Frequently, informal discussion took place their say. Don't answer and it will be between advisors and applicants. The questioning began, uniformly, with forgotten." This year's selection process has been the applicant asked to describe the job as over for a month. Since then I have heard he viewed it. Often this question was many insulting and derogatory remarks phrased in terms of how the applicant concerning advisor bias in the form of · would outline his role to his advisees. For pr eference given to friends, certain the rest of the half-hour, questions were fratematies and quotas. At f°Jrst these asked with the intention of ascertaining remarks made me inwardly angry, but I the applicant's self-conception, college would not dignify their crudity with an conception (both Kirkland and Hamilton), answer. However, a letter ap peared in The judgement, sensitivity, responsibility and Spectator last week, written by a person perceptivity. About half of these questions who does not in<lulge himself in sour were situational problems, each of which grap es, whose attitudes are not dominated has been encountered and solved by either by bitternes$, and w_ho was a very strong present or past advisors. candidate for t:Jie · position of Freshman The a p p li cant w a s g i v e n t he Advisor. His letter merits a reply, while opportunity to qualify or to reconstruct the college could use a description of the the questions as far as he desired and to selection , process and the attitude of the take as long as he desired to answer them. selectors toward that process; I am not Not a single situational question asked · concerned with placating the sour, but I during the entire interviewing process was would hate to see potentially strong answered in thirty seconds. No right advisors hesitate to apply for the position answers exist to these questions in terms because they doubt its fairness and of .a specific pattern of answerable facts; right answers do exist in terms of the veracity. The second round . interviews, those applicant displaying sound judgement, referred to by Mr. Evans, and tbose to perceptivity and sensitivity in his proposed which all the horror stories are attached, solutions. Allowances for the situational were scheduled at half-hour intervals. nature of the questions were presupposed They began either with': 1) each advisor by the advisors. Frequently, follow-up questions were i n troducing himself or greeting the applicant if they were acquainted, or 2) asked to gauge consistancy, to pursue the applicant pointing out strange faces clarity, or to give the applicant an with subsequent introductions, while opportunity to restate his answer or changing greetings with those he knew. reevaluate the question. .In addition, Several applicants later remarked that they follow-up questions were employed in case the applicant's answer was misconstrued John M. Newell is a freshfflfJn Advisor. or iri case our question was misunderstood This Comment was co-signed b..y all the or unclear. At no time did situational questions induce a "guessing game" Fresman Advisors and Dean Bingham.
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Child Care��!� BY BOB WEISSER The Clin ton Child Care Center has been o perating in Major Dorm for seven months, and for most people inv o lved, the pro ject has been a success. The Center, which had filled all but fo ur o f the seventy-two spaces open for children in September,
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ABC ·House Seeks Money In Fund Drive continued form page eight In 1964, independently of AVC-ISTS, Dartmouth College began a special summer academic program to prepare impoverished and m i n o r i t y s t udents for preparatory school. In succeeding summe r s , this program was extended to s e ve r a l other campuses and in two years, there was a waiting list of more qualified candidates than the private s c hools could accommodate.
The National Public School AB C P r o g r a m was t hen established and in 1966, the first public school program opened in Hanover, Massachusetts. In 1972, ABC-ISTS formally merged with the National Public School ABC Program to create A Better C hance, In·c., which places students in both public and private schools. T h e re are now 29· ABC programs in the United States, s e r v i n g a p p r oxi mately · 320 students. Thomas' M . M ik ula, the National Director of the ABC Public School Programs, who visited Clinton Wednesday, said that ten more ABC programs were expected to open in September. A c c o r d i n g t o M i k ula, communities to host ABC are chosen on the basis of the quality of their school ,system, and their
ability and willingness to do the necessary work and raise the money. Suburban and college towns are preferred. In order for an ABC house to be established in a community, the school board must agree to wa i ve tuition for the ABC students and the zoning board often must change regulations to house the students in town. ABC recruits students with the aid of a corps of volunteers comprised · of teachers, guidance c o u ns e l o r s , s o cial w orkers, b us i ne ssmen, and c i t iz ens. Through the guidance offices in tity s c hools, s t udents are recommended ·to the national ABC · o f f i ce in Boston for p la cement in ABC member schools. The program seeks students who show signs of initiative and t he potential to succeed if
encouraged. Roth said that ABC does not look for those who would be succ�ssful without the help of ABC, but "those right beneath the very top who have dem�nstrated the ability to work well." Mikula· said that ABC students have little difficulty adjusting to the social environment in their high schools. "There are very few problems," he said. "They are involved in the school and in the community. The problem is with adults. We don't have social problems on the high school level." Mikula also said that ABC often benefits the community which sponsors it. "It makes people face up to their feelings �bout people who are different
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An Embryonic Curriculum Faculty Expands 4�1-4 �oncept The t wo f o l l o wing curricular proposals have been drafted by the Committee on Acat;femic Policy (CAP) and the subcommittee on Academic Planning of the Student Curriculum C o m m i t t e e , r e s p e c t i vely. Minor deletions have been made from the CAP document. The pages whfrh follow should be understood as a "working paper" dealz"ng with the improvement of the curriculum and the calendar. They do not constitute a resolution, nor do they represent a completed decision on the part of the committee. Rather, they should be seP.11 as an expression of a direction in which our discussion - after many interviews and much research and study - is now headed. These suggestions clearly represent an evolution far beyond the present WSP and 4-1-4 program. Yet, as an evolute, the p r o g r a m d e scribed contains various features which are not unfamiliar. But also, as an evolute, it contains features which are quite unfamiliar. This latter fact prompts us to describe the program twice: firstly, in largely essay form, with lists of suggestions; secondly, in outline and schematic form, to point out more s ecifically the ways in which the evolute is sim£lar to what we presently have and the ways in which it is dissimilar. The second statement is a clarification and an a m p l ification of the first, not an amendment to it.
R. T. Blackwood for the Committee on Academic Policy
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1. The academic year is to consist of two semesters of about 14 weeks duration. The first is to begin about Labor Day and end before Christmas; the second . is to 'begin about February 1 and end about June 1. (Call the first "F" and the second "S ".) Between the semesters lies the month of January ("W"), and this will be as fl xible a period as possible. The month m ay be · used for a·cademic work, internships, avocational pursuits, special seminars, off-campus study projects (both domestic and foreign), or vacation. Not all of these enterprises need receive academic credit, but some of them surely would . T o p e r m i t recognition of "non-credit" activity in January (W) -- and of participation during F and S in such extra-curricular activities as publications
"January...w i I I
be as flexible a period as possible" work, athletics, drama, religious activities, work with social agencies, "free school" courses, etc.-the . ! transcript will be r e vi s e d t o i n cl u d e t he r ubric "Co-curricular Activities." The Dean of the College, working closely with a ':January Committee" subjacent to the CAP, will determine :which January activities are to receive academic credit and which are to be noted on the transcript as co-curricular activities. To graduate from Hamilton College a student must receive credit for 35 courses, as many as 4 of which may be taken in January (W). All courses for which academic credit is given are to be graded according to the established grading system - however, a student may request as many as four courses to be graded as per the "Pa s s/Fa i l" present arrangement. 2. The flexibility provided in such a schedule presents an exciting challenge to the faculty. More imaginative minds may
suggest more imaginative proposals. At the the p r esent committee suggests consideration of the following: a) W-courses similar to those now offered as Winter Study. A faculty member who desires to offer \his· type of January activity should be e'xpected to prepare no more than 2 and to offer them alternately. He must, furthermore, be assured that his teaching load would be either 2-1-3 or 3-1-2.. b) Courses that count as a full semester course during the fall semester and culminate in 3½ weeks of work during January (FW). The credit, to both student and teacher, should be 2 courses. It should be noted that large courses which are taught by a single instructor probably could not be fitted into th!s category very easily. c) Courses that begin with 3½ weeks of intensive work in January and then continue throughout the spring semester (WS). Credit: 2 courses to both student
and instructor. d) Internships in law, medicine, education, etc. Thes� shall not receive academic credit but shall be appropriately noted on the transcript. e) Independent research projects (W). A student would receive credit for 1 course, but the faculty member (at Hamilton) who supervises such a project would not receive credit. f) "Intensive studies." Intensive work in January to be preceded by preparatory work during the fall semester (fW). Conceivably the process could be reversed, with intensive work in January to be followed by more leisurely activity during the spring semester (Ws). g) Avocational activity: automobile m e cha n i c s , life-saving techniques, · f upholstery, cooking, fly-tying, etc. Any o these might be noted on the transcript as a "co-curricular activity," but none should . receive academic credit. See no. I above. h) Vocational-professional seminars designed to aid students develop their vocational plans.
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The following comments attempt to put in outline and schematic fotm the program described above.
I. The calendar shall consist of: A. fall semester of about 14 weeks ( F). A spring semester of about 14 weeks (S). A winter term of 3½ weeks (W). 2. A student will be required to complete 35 courses (or their equivalent e.g., A.P. credit) for graduation. 3. Courses may be of the following_ types: Regular fall courses (F). As at present. Regular spring courses (S). As at present. FW courses. Double courses which begin in the fall and conclude with an intensive winter session. (2 credits) F/W courses. Fall courses with an optional intensive "trailer session.'' ( I or 2 credits.) W S courses. Double courses that begin with an intensive session, followed by a regular spring semester. (2 credits) f W courses. Intensive winter courses continued on page eight
APRIL 12, 1974/THE SPECT ATOR/7
Student Ideas Enrich 4-1-4 In light of ·recent discussions on the curriculum and calender of Hamilton Colleg e , t he S t u d e,1 t C u r r iculum Committee would like to suggest ways of strengthening the present 4-1-4 system. We believe that the focus of any revisions should be on the entire curriculum, rather than upon cosmetic changes in the calendar. Above all, the College must aim to strengthen its dedication to the concept of a liberal arts education. The following changes in the present curriculum would present this challenge to the Hamilton community: I. a lengthening of Hamilton's calendar to include two 13 week semesters and a month long January program -
2. an eltpansion and strengthening of the January term to include double credit courses extending into either of the regular semesters 3. an increase in the number of pass-fail options available to the student from four to eight. January project� would be regular 'Catalog courses, and would be subject to the accepted grading system 4. an emphasis on the responsibility of all departments to offer sound introd_uctory courses for non-majors as well as majors 5. a strengthening of the prerequisite system to minimize class size in upper level courses and eliminate · syllabus overlap 6. a n i n c r e a s e d e mp hasis o n independent study throughout the year 7. a strengthening of the advising system through more frequent student-faculty meetings 8. a lengthening of the freshman orientation period to include two full days devoted to intensive advisor-freshman meetings 9. a section of the transcript to pe devoted to extra-curricular activities and experiential courses
The Proposal:
A. Calendar: We suggest two 13 week semesters. The first would end before Christmas and include an October break and a · Thanksgiving re�ess. The second would begin February 4 and end in the middle of May .. The Winter Study Period would be four weeks long. B. Winter Study: For the January term we suggest Mr. Lee's proposal be adopted with a modification of the evaluation EY stem and other minor changes as outlined below. 1) Required for graduation: 36 courses.
As mahyas four of these may be Winter Study courses, but none has to be. AP credit, extra _course work during the regular semesters, summer school work - all may count toward the graduation requirement. 2) W i n ter S t u d y c o ur s es and independent stu�y projects shall he granted credit equal to all other Hamilton courses and will be evaluated under the same grading system. The number of pass-fail options shall be increased to eight, no more than one of which can be exercised during .any semester. 3) Ordinary student load: 4-1-4. 4) Teaching load: 2-1-3, 3-1-2, 3-0-3. Only instructors genuinely interested in te�ching Winter Study courses should do so. Instructors who opt for 3-0-3 · should be asked to devise means of reducing the size of their classes as the result of not offering Winter Study courses. It is expected furthermore, that all faculty members will supervise
� indepen°dent projects in January. 5) Implementation a) A Winter Study Committee should be established with the Associate Dean as chairman and three additional members, one each from the Science, Humanities, and Social Science "divisions", who are not members of the CAP. The committee should have much the same relationship with the CAP as the present Committee on Asian Studies now enjoys. It would approve all catalog Winter Study co urses and arrange for each d epar tment (or, at Kirkland, division) to approve all independent research projects involving its personnel. It would determine which ·K irkland College and exchange college Winter Study projects would receive credit · toward Hamilton's graduation requirements. b) A student may take no more than /three catalog Winter Study courses. If he wished to take a Winter Study course each year, one would have to be a supervised independent project. c) Each year about 20-25 faculty . · members and about five visiting instructors would teach catalog Winter Study courses to about 715 students. No faculty member would be expected to prepare more than two Winter Study courses, which could be offered alternately. If n umbers p e rmitted, a faculty member might teach Winter Study in alternate years, or two out of three years. A faculty member who designed a course to begin in S e p te mber a n d c ulminate in intensive work in January would receive credit for teaching two courses; a student taking such a .course would likewise receive two
thr o ughout the school year. Truly credits. introductory courses and a tightened d) We are adamant that internships prerequisite system will better prepare which can be evaluated in terms of a students for independent study. With this grade should be encouraged and ·that instructors who supervise them in mind, faculty should be encouraged to stimulate more independent work from shoul� be giv�n credit for .teaching students in regular semester courses as well one course; students who participate as in specially designed )ndependent study would also receive credit for one projects. course. Internships would be listed All departments should encourage as catalog courses. Senior Projects {for academic credit) e) Instructors would be expected to during all or part of the senior year. supervise about five_ independent projects regardless of whether or not · E. Freshman Orientation: We suggest the strengthening and they were offering a catalog Winter expansion of the present Freshman Study project. Orientation Period with the addition of C. Introductory Courses: two days of intensive seminars on the By s trengthening the prereqws1te concept of a hberal arts education. In system each department should more hese sem i n ar s , f r e s hm e n w o uld t c l e a r ly delineat� between t ru l y participate in discussions with their i n t r o d u c t o r y c o ur ses in.tended to a d vi s o r s , u pperclassmen, and other familiarize stu<ients with the subject members of the faculty and administration matter and methodologies of the discipline in an attempt to investigate Hamilton as a and those upper level courses· which liberal arts college; what it has to offer and presume b a c k g r o und preparation. how to best utilize it. In addition we stress Introductory courses whould be small eno ugh to f acilitate frequent and. the importance of frequent follow-up meetings between freshmen and their spontaneous oral exchange as well as advisors. regular evaluation o_f students' written F. Advising Syst._em: expression. Certainly requirements may be Advising is an ongoing process of waived, and a student's progress in a regular contact between the advisor and subject should be the ultimate determiner of his entry into upper level courses. The his advi�ee. We recommend that the curriculum in most departments would be, p resent system be strengthened by in a rather poor analogy, similar to a increasing the extent of this contact. ladder with several options on each rung. G. Co-curricular Activities: Small class units should be stressed for There are many valuable activities that introductory courses. Seminars, especially are vital to an education but do not merit in the social sciences and the humanities, academic c r e d i t. All non-academic should be the major format for upper level �cti vities (i .e. student government, course offerings. We firmly believe that community projects, etc.) that contribute to a student's education should be noted the go�ls of a liberal education can best be in a section of the transcript devoted to realized in an atmosphere which stresses co-curricular activities. the articul3:te exchange of ideas. To this While the faculty is directly responsible end small classes must remain a major goal and in some departments should be · for helping a student to • achieve his academic potential, it can make further accomplished even at the expense of more contributions to his education. The limited course offerings. faculty has an immense amount of talent D. Independent Study: in non-academic areas which students are Faculty members are encouraged to continued on page eight supervise independent study proposals
"the College must
aim to strengthen its dedication to the concept of a · 1iheral arts education"
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Fundraising At ABC
BY FELICE FREYER morale, supervise the evening The Clinton chapter of A study halls, and provide the Better Chance, Inc. (ABC) is student_s with academic assistance. 'We are looking for tutors who beginning fund-raising activities both on the Hill and in Clinton. seem to be in control of their own ABC is a national program which work,"Roth said. 'We want them• brings select underprivileged high as capable as possible." Ideally, one tutor should be school students into a community where they can receive a quality - strong in verbal abilities and one education and from where they in math and science, but this is not always possible. The Clinton can hopefully go on to college. The Clinton ABC needs to raise ABC is all-male, and Hamilton, $21,000 to support itself next rather than Kirkland students are year. Canvassing will take place on preferred as tutors because 0a the Hill next Wednesday, April Hamilton student would have a 17, between 7 and 8:30 pm. All broader base of areas of shared canvassers will carry proper interest." identification. Ten students, from New York, Previously financed by the Philadelp hia, and Columbus, national ABC, the 2-year-old Ohio, live at the ABC house on Clinton chapter now must raise all , the Hamilton campus and attend its· funds locally through clubs, the Clinton Central School. At the c h u r c h e s , businesses and high school, they are involved in indjviduals. varsity basketball, track, and ABC is also looking for two hockey, and three are members of resident tutors to replace the the Key Club, the school's service current tutors, Kevin Lenihan '75 club. and Warren Wettlaufer '75, both Clinton's first ABC graduate students at Hamilton. Resident will be Gaiy Dixon, now a senior tutors work .for one semester. at Clinton Central -School, who board exams, including weekly continued. "They often have a They are not paid but .are has been accepted at John Carroll drills and practice tests to help the tendency to give ·up ... lt's fairly provided room and board at the Un i ver s i t y a n d C l e ve land students "develop expertise in easy to become complacent. Once you 're over the first hurdle of ABC house on Campus Road. UDiversity. test-taking." Frederic H. Roth Jr., assistant Discussing the progress of the being accepted into the program, The Clinton ABC will institute· professor of English at Hamilton two academic improvements for _f\BC l>rogram here, Roth said, a c cepted in the community, and an ABC Board member, said, the fall semester: 1 }the Baldridge 'We're co"Q.cerned that students feeling at ease in the community, "The resident tutors are crucial to reading program to improve c o m i n g f r om this ty�e of t h e r e ' s t h e p r ob le m o f the effectiveness of the program." r e ad ing skills and 2) more background � have not acquired maintaining• a high degree of The tutors maintain discipline and intensive preparation for college 't_ena c i t y o f . P,�r pose,'•• he initiative."
. News Analysis: SCACA 's Role In Policy-making One catch: it.was not only BY DOUGLAS GLUCROFT. A c a d e m ic coordination SCACA that was doing the be t w e e n H a mi l ton and coordinating. T h e w orki n g pa p e r Kirkland appears · to be alive a n d k i cking considering presei:ited at today's meeting t o d a y' s joi nt m e e t i n g by CAP undoubte�y is the between SCACA an d CAP, p r od u c t o f m onths of t he c o m_m i t tees directly assiduous labor on the part responsible for ·the academic of the committee's members. direction the colleges will Not so apparent, however, is the considerable role the take.
Working Paper Diswssed.
continued form page one SCACA was unaware of the substance of discussions betwee� the Kirkland administration and officials; at Hamilton, it has been reported.· ln the beginning of March, Acting Dean Marcy informed SCACA that they had to draft a proposal by April 15. In view of the short time period �vailable-to it, SCACA opted to work with CAP. SCACA then pre�nted to CAP an outline of Winter Study features it wanted to retain in the new curriculum and calendar. The guidelines are reportedly similar in
From CAP...
nature to the ideas presented to Hamil�on by Babbitt and Marcy e a r l i e r i n t he s e m e s t e r . Subsequently, CAP and SCACA agreed to arrange a joint meeting�· Chairman Blackwood plans to 'share the results of our thinking' with the Hamilton faculty at a m e e t i n g i n M ay. Although deliberations of the CAP have not yet proceeded 'to the point where i t ' s a b o u t t o m a ke a recommendation', Blackwood did concede that 'a kind of creature is emerging' which should prove 'very, very exciting and attractive to both students and faculty, that both could be proud of.•
Kir kland administration had affairs. in formulatin& -the CAP's 2) High Kirkland officials product. w e re d r awn i n t o t he Al t h o ugh SCACA has policy-making decisions by presented proposals to CAP, Hamilton, and they in tum observers of the Kirkland failed to include SCACA in committe� believe it was the their decisions. President and the Academic In an y c ase, t he Dean that conveyed the s tu d e nt-faculty committee college's curricular policy to s y s t em appears to have Hamilton b r oken d own rn t h is U � d e, r . K i r k 1 a n d ' s situation. governing structur_e, SCACA, The CAP at Hamilton has as the standing committee of demonstrated a great deal of the Assembly, the highest autonomy in producing its deliberative body, is charged working paper ( as well as in c o or d i n a t i on o f other matters) even though it with c ur r i c ul a r· a f f ai r s w ith has received advice from Hamilton. students and, presumably , . . rwo possible conclus10ns the administration . SCACA, d r a wn w h e n operating within a system of be can examining SCACA's role in -com m un i t y g o ve rn a nce, the recent moves towards a appears to have not been new calendar and curriculum given the same sort of at the colleges: policy-making opportunity. 1) The committee itself SCACA is composed of 12 failed to effectively excercise c o n s t i t u t i o n a 1 members. Six are stud-ents i t s responsibility m curricular and six are faculty members.
Ws courses. (Overseas W courses may _ require an earlier registration.) continued from page six 6. It· should be noted that at least one, preceded by several sessions to prepare for but perhaps more, winter periods may be "open.'' Indeed, it is conceivable that a the intensive program �January. Ws courses. Intensive winter courses student could so organize his courses that succeeded by several follow-up-sessions in he could !>c absent from the college every Januaiy. the spring semester. During such open winter term(s) a W courses. Self-contained, intensive student could: courses during the January term. take a vacation. Independent research undertaken in elect a co-curricular activity on campus any of the sequences listed above. 4. Students sh�l elect no more than or take an intern� off campus. These one ,W course per year,. for each W course_ would not be for academic credit but is meant to occupy full academic time would be noted on the transcript. over-elect. during January. 5. In April students shall register for all 7. All courses will be graded in the F, FW, F /W, and fW courses. In Novemb�cr usual way (A,B,C,D.F ,I} b�t a student students shall register for W, S, WS, and may cxcrci.,e a pass..fail option four times
in his college career. 8. All courses offered for credit will l>e considered a part of the regular departmental offerings. Therefore, all . credit courses will be approved by the faculty in the usual way and will be listed in the regular catalogue. 9. Students will be allowed to take as many as five courses any semester without the payment of an extra fee. 10. Co-curricular courses, such as auto-mechanics, upholstery, etc., are to be encouraged by the college as supplementary, non-credit offerings. Students not otherwise engaged in academic W courses should be encouraged to take full advantage of them. Internships are also to be encouraged to continue on a co-curricular basis.
Another difficulty Roth cited was t he ''boarding house atmosphere" of the ABC house. He said t hat students are a c c u s t o m e d t o rece1vmg re�forcement from their families, and the resident directors and tutors at ABC cannot fulfill this role. In order to provide students w i t h a "s urrogate home atmosphere," each student is given a host family whom he visits on weekends to participate in normal family activities. Roth said ABC tries to match the host family with the student, but it often can be no more than "a hit-or-miss proposition.'' Roth a,Iso expressed q>ncem about the problems students encounter when making the tra ns1 tlon f r om - the "rigid atmosphere"· of the ABC house, wh_ere study is enforced, to the freedom of college life, where study must be self-initiated. He said ABC hopes to be able to prepare its students for the first year of college. The Clinton program was the first ABC program in New York State. The first class of eight students arrived in September, 1972, after the Town Board of Education agreed to waive tuition charges for ABC students and Hamilton offered to rent the former residence of Dean Winton Tolles. According to Roth, there was "a great deal of ugly hostility" expressed by the townspeople when ABC was first proposed, and a petition was signed to prevent its establishment. The Clinton Zoning Board rejected a proposed zoning change which would all�w for an ABC house on Utica Street. continued on page five
Curriculum Committee
continued from page seven not exploiting. It is expected that faculty m e mber s w o uld offer non-credit co-curricular activities throughout the year to a ss i s t s t udents in attaining a well-rounded education. The extent of a faculty member's participation in these non-a cad e mic a ct i vities would he considered when he is evaluated. Respectfully submitted, Robert Evans '75, Chairman Subco!"mittee on Academic Planning Student Curriculum Committee /
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When we hired these researchers, we invited them to raise more questions than they answered.
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Making your mark in business used to mean carving a comfort able niche for yourself and staying there. Promotion was simply a matter of time, provided you could spend 20 years in the process. But, today, business depends on technology. Technology that can't wait a moment if it's going to keep pace with what's happening. That's why, at Kodak, our basic reliance on scientific research makes the need for creative young minds more demanding than ever. We must have_people �th drive and ambition, impatient to puJ what they've l�arned into practice. People who. get all the freedom and responsibility they can handle, and tackle our prob. lems with their ideas. . Which, we're haPt)Y to say, has helped many of our scientists yield important discoveries. For exampl�: The woman on the left has devised new and improved photographic·materials for specialized scientific applications in fields such. as astronomy and holography. The young man is an expert on surface analysis. His work in photoelectron spectroscopy helps · to identify unknown substances. The woman on the right has a
dual background in gas chromatography and trace metal analysis, which she's applied to analyzing pollution in rivers and streams. They came up with new problems while solving some of our old ones. But they've uncovered some promising answers, too. As they continue their research, you may read about them again·. The oldest is just over 30. Why do we give young men and women so much room to test their ideas? Because good ideas often lead to better products. Which are good for business. And we're in business to make a profit. But in furthering om: own business interests, we also further society's interests. Which makes good sense. After all, our business depends on society. So we care what ·happens to it.
Kodak. More than a business.-
10/THE SPECTATOR/APRIL 12, _ 1974
· the arts page Spring· Concert Preview Mother ·Earth
BY PA UL WEICHSELBAUM Mother Earth, featuring Tracy Nels�n ,- will be appearing in the Hamilton College Gym, Friday, April 19, at 8 PM. Mother Earth is one of the few groups coming out of San Francisco of the late sixties to grow into a mature, direct, and honest band. There is a strong sense of c o nnecti o n w i t h t raditio nal
American music forms, and one finds a kind· of earthiness in Tracy Nelso·n•s vocals and in the band's unpretentious playing. There is no doubt that Tracy is the focus for Mother Earth, as well as the decision-maker. She has consistently tried to forge a synthesis of country, rhythm 'n b 1 ues, and rock styles; this synthesis rests, in great degree, on the choice of much good m�terial, including songs by Memphis Slim, Boz Scaggs, . Eric Kaz, Bo bby
Charles, Jack Lee, and -:fracy herself. Tracy's power is subtle; her voice is strong, without the rasping of a Joplin or the pure clarity of a Baez, but with a beautiful sense of phrasing and the ability to embody the full m eaning ·of a lyric without disto rting it, o r turning it into a vehicle for her own ego. All in all, Mother Earth should present an excellent concert. W h i le the group has often · e xchanged personnel, guitarist Toad Andrews is a permanent fixture along with Tracy, and he is good -(be prepared to see him play some guitar with his teeth). Tracy has always been able to surround herself with musicians who do not try to upstage her, and yet do not play like hired d ummies; t.here is a l ways p owerful, s u-b t le interaction among the band members, driving the music and suppo rting Tracy. It is a soulful combination.
Billy Cobham
in collaboration with �rtie). He contributes to 'Guitar Player' magazine and started Homespun Tapes, a highly rated set-up out of Woodstock that provides folk instrument instruction tapes along with the o nly fairly readable tablature around. Artie's friends BY MEG TAVISH say that he is ex.elusively the artist put myself in a- tenuous but is fond of children, do gs, and positio n by writing this 'preview' -that he has been known to say o f Happy and Artie Traum. On "John Denver may like an ice cold one hand I can lavishly praise the glass of water but I still like my two brothers, hoping to influence Rheingold after a hard set." the many people who are not · I have only seen Happy and familiar with their music; or I can Artie perform once. They were be as honest as possible in do ing the music for the Long assessing· t h e i r musical and · Wharf Theater's production of performing abilities. I've never "Spoon River Anthology." I was a particularly enjoyed politics, so blushing fourteen year old at the I'll write about what I know. time and had no. idea who they For anyo ne interested in folk were until a Traum freak told me and folk -rooted ·music, their several years later. names are almost impossible to When they perform here they avoid. They have three albums out; the first two are on Capitol. should be bringing a sizeable I have yet to hear 'Mud Acres,' back-up. I've been told that their their third which is on Rounder reco rdings, as good as they are, Reco rds, but if the progressing don't come anywhere near the quality of the first two albums are two of them live. The Spectato r indicative of the quality on the r eview following the concert third-it is pro bably very good should be of considerable interest.
Happy & Artie
•. SAC Raises Social Ta�; Entertainment is Expensive BY RICHARD KOFFS The members of the Student Acti vi t i e s C o m m i t t e e h ave decided to raise the Social Tax for 19?4- 75 from $25 to $35.
"Student Activities" should mean m o r e t h a n C o f f e e h o us e p e r f o r m ances, H o us e p a r t y concerts, and the Folk Festival. Entertainment should mean more than rock or folk music.
8 ·11y Cobham
(and though I might be pushing it) I to excellent. In addition to their own wo rk they've backed up BY JACK CURRAN Chris Smither; Allen Ginsberg, B i l l y Cobham, d rummer Jean Ritchie and Bob Dylan. extraordinaire, will play in the An S.A.C. petition, which was T h e t wo are more , than H a milton College Chapel on a p proved last week by the. $ $ $ c om pe tent mus1c1.ans. }!appy, Saturday, April 20 at 8:30, with H a m i l t o n a n d K i r k l a nd S.A.C.'s financial !)bligations, being the teacher of the two� has h i s n e w b�n d 1 mysteriously I administratio!}s, cited rising costs however, to the Coffeehouse, the and the need for a · greater variety Folk Festival, and the three written nine books on guitar (one entitled Billy Cobham. of entertainment as the main Houseparty weekends consume r e a s o ns fo r b o o s t i n g t he most of a $30 thousand budget. tax. S . A .C. hopes to bring a p r o f e s s i o n a l t he a t r i c a l Sole Income . performance, a circus, top-notch Social tax is the only source of classical musicians, and a 1940's income for the S.A.C. As a result ''big band" to the Hill this coming the S.A.C. budget has stabilized at year. approximately $30 thousand for T h e s e alternatives would the past several years. Thus the b a l a n c e a n d e n rich t he organizatio n has a relatively fixed inco me. Costs, however, are rising entertainment which the S.A.C. can provide fo r the community. rapidly. Var i ety canno t be secured, Despite conservative spending h o we ver, w i t h the existing practices, the 1973- 74 S.A.C. amount of funds. exhausted its budget quite easily. The S.A.C. poll, taken just The new committee would need a larger budget just to before spring vacation, showed 65 maintain the current level of 'percent of the student response entertainment cost�, and the m favor of a higher Social Tax fee. The committee members do quality of entertainment this year n o t f e e l t ha1 imposing a <- has not been exceptional. The hew Student Activities mandatory tax on students is Committee feels a responsibility fair... therefore the only means to to bring a greater variety of enlarge the budget is to raise the Commander Cody cancels; claims he can't come. entertainment to the Hill. o ptional fee.
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Cobham is one of the most i m pressi�e drummers in the business today, and is prob,ibly m ost well known for the drumming he did with John McLaughlin and The Mahavisb.nu Orchestra. But more impressive than his credits is the incredible list of top New York jazz and jazz-rock musicians Cobham has playing in his band. The Band Randy Brecker plays one of the most powerful jazz-rock trumpets you will ever hear and his brother Mike threatens to blow up a storm on tenor. He blew so hard at his last engagement that he ruptured an air pipe in his throat. Both Randy and Mike have played with Cobham before in a group called Dreams, and with Horace Silver. Randy has also done work with Clark Terry and Larry Coryell and played on the first Blood Swea� 1 and Tears album. G arnett Brown, who has played around a lot on the New Yo rk jazz circuit, will be blowing t r o m b o n e w i t h Cobham. Primarily, he's a strict and hard core jazz man to the bone, and has played with Herbie Hancock and N orman Conners. Milcho Leviev is the pianist for the group. He is Hungarian�born, and came to the States only three years ago, so he is still itching to play those weird Hungarian time · signatures. The group uses a lot of "irregular" rhythms in its tunes. Leviev has also worked with Lee Pastore in the Don Ellis big band. L�e will be playing congas with Cobham. John Abercrombie, who has played with Gato Barbieri will be playing guitar. John Williams, of Horace Silver and Cannonball Adderly fame, will be playing bass. The amazing thing is, all these musicians have played with each other bef ore at one time or another. They are not just a bunch of second- rate studio musicians who threw together a 13/4 band. They are top N.Y.jazz and jazz�rock artists guaranteed to be tight, thoroughly imaginative, and purely entertaining: s heer hot stuff. Free with Social Tax, $.50 for dates, $3.00 gener,d admission. Only 500 tickets are ava1iable. Tickets will be on sale April 16, 1 7, and 18 at Bristol and McEwen.
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FILM On Campus This Weekend Savages. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm. Sunday at 10 pm. only. Science Auditorium. Admission$.75. Horror Film Festival: The Bride of Frankenstein and Phantom of the Opera. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. 8 pm. Kirner-johnson Auditorium. Admission$.75. April 18 (Thurdsday) Forbidden Games. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75. Singing in the Rain. Gene Kelly. Also Hollywood cartoons. 8 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. Admission$.75. At Nearby Theatres Cannonball (853-5553) American Graffiti (PG} Cinema Theatre (736-2313} The Great Gatsby (PG) Cinema National Uptown (732-0665) Serpico (R) Paris (73-3-2730) The Exorcist (R) Stanley (724-4000} Alice in Wonderland (G} 258 Cinema (732-5461} American Graffiti (PG) and The Sting (PG} MUSIC April 12 (Friday) McEwen Coffeehouse Presents: Alan Stowe/1,bluegrass fiddler. 9 · pm. Free with social tax. $.50 without. April 14 (Sunday) McEwen Coffeehouse presents: Lewis London., 3-piece (guitar, banjo, mandolin} group. 9 pm. Free with social tax.$ .50 without. April 16 (Tuesday). Concert: Amici Quartet. 8:30 pm. Chapel. April 18 (Thursday) Women's Center Dance: Deadly Nightshade. 9 pm. McEwen Dining Hall. Admission$.50. Free Beer ► Open to all. LECTURE AND DISCUSSION April 14 (Sunday) Lecture: The Relevance of Hermeneutics Today. Professor Hans-Georg Gadamer, Heidelberg University. 8 pm. Physics Auditorium. April 15 (Monday) Lecture: Brendan Behan-Irish Playwright. By Mr. Ulick O'Connor, Television Personality. 8 pm. Chapel. Lecture: The Foretaste of Life: Pre-Existence and Anticipation. By Jurgen l\1eyer-Wendt, Professor of German, Colgate University. 8 pm. Bristol Campus Center Lounges. April 16 (Tuesday) Soviet-American Symposium: What Can Students Do To Improve International Detente. 8 pm. Gym. April 17 (Wednesday) Bible Study. 8 pm. Alumni House. April 18 (Thursday) Lecture: What We Don't Know. Speaker: William Snead, Hamilton Economics Department. 8:30 pm. Kirner-Johnson Room 109 (Red Pit}. EXHIBITIONS Currently on Campus Paintings by Harold Beament. At Root Art Center. Paintings by Gilah Hirsch. At List Art Center, through April 13. DRAMA Faculty Production
Moliere'sSchool For Wives. 8 pm. Wednesday, April 1 7. At Minor Theater. Admission is $1.50 for Adults, $.75 for Children. Also Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
SPORTS Varsity Lacrosse Against Alfred. 3 pm. Monday, April 15. Varsity Tennis Against Ithaca. 3 pm. Wednesday, April 17. Varsity TrackAgainst R.P.I. 2 pm. Saturday, April 12. WHCL-FM SPECIALS Public Affairs Program Poetry readings by Diane Wakowski and Marie Harris. Sunday, April 14. 4 pm. Music Feature Series Jeff Hjelm hosts ninety minutes of Humble Pie. Wednesday, April 17, 8:15 pm. HOLY W EEK SERVICES April 12 (Good Friday) Tenebrae Service of the Seven Last Words. 8 pm. Chapel. April 13 (Saturday) , Ea-;te, Vigil. 10 pm. {through 6 am.Sunday). Chapel. . Roman Catholic Rc-,ur, ectio,i Mass. 11 :45pm. Chapel. April 14 (Easter Sunday) Sunri �l . k . 6 d • Br•\tol 1 (idl ( iRdoors ihveather h lhd). Free Chu1d Serv11.c. Speak('r: Joel Tibbets, College Chaplain. ·11: 15 am. Chapel. Roman Catholic Mass.Father Drobin. 12:45 Chapel.
Minor Theater, home of the Playhouse-on-the-Hill.
Acting Apprentices Sought For Playhouse-on-the-Hill• The Playhouse-on-the-Hill will audition acting and technical apprentices on April 16 from 3 to 5 in the Fisher Room of the Bristol Campus Center. Candidates who wish to be acting apprentices should present t wo selecti ons of prepared modern materiaf, totalling about t hree m inutes, according to Hamilton English Professor Edwin Barrett, who is conducting the a uditions. Applicants seeking technical apprentice positions will be interviewed at the same time. H a m ilton and Kir kland students can receive course credit for participation in the apprentice program. The Playhouse is a resident, Equity company in its fourth year
of operation, its second in the Minor Theatre. Professionals are being auditioned in New York now. The theatre will open on Tuesday, Ju1y 2 and close on Sunday, August 25. During those eight weeks we will produce seven main theatre ' shows and four produc tions of our Youth Theatre. The main-stage shows will i nclude Os car Wilde's Importance of Being Earnes t and Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and a musical Jacques Brei is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.
C l a s ses in all asp_ects of p r o f e s s ional theatre will be offere d to ap prentices five mornings each week and taught by members of the professional
staff at no cost to apprentices. Apprentices (whether acting· 01 technical) will be �esponsible f01 the running crews of main stage p r o d u c t i o n s , i n c 1 u d i n� construction, installation, striking and cleanup. Time will also be s pent i n l i g h t i n g , s o und costuming props, box office and publicity. Parts in main stage productiom w i ll also be available, afte1 auditions, to our apprentices anc appearances on the main stage count as credits toward Equity membership.
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AMENIC Amenic presents Savages, James Ivory's recent and widely acclaimed satire on the one day rise and fall of western civilization. A tribe known as the Mud People, seeking "National Geographic" fame, follow a croquet ball to a 1930's styled mansion where they dress up and lots of bi�arre fun begins. At Science Auditorium, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, at 8 pm. and Sunday at 10. pm. only. Admission $.75. DYSKOLOS Professor James Cunningham's Intermedi�te Greek cl ass is producing- Menander's Dyskolos, or the Curmudgeon, in conjunction with Hamilton English Professor Edwin Barrett, who is directing. The Greek class wrote an English translation of-the new comedy, .which is an adaptatio:n of late fifth century Greek Comedy in which the actors all wear masks. Preparations for the production· which will be presented May 8 and 9 are under way. Professor _Cunningham hopes to arrange for publication of this translation, which is a polished comedy of manners rivaling the elegance of Moli�re. Auditions will be held at 5 p.m. and at 8 p.m. in the Science Auditorium on Monday, April 15.
"GLORIA" A WINNER _ Senior Jo� Hutchison has won the 1974 Wallace Bradley - Johnson Playwriting Contest. "Gloria" focused on two characters, superbly played by Jill Maynard and Joe Weimer. Members o°f the· supporting cast were John Held, Martin Paul, �teve and Bob Applegate, and D ave Wollman. SCHOOL FOR WIVES Moliere's comedy, School For W£ves, wilJ be presented in M inor Theatre at 8 p�. on April 18-21, and on April 25-28. This is a _ product1on of �1chard Wilbur's English verse translation of the play. The pToduction stars Jim Peskin, Mary Beth Lerner, and Trevor D�ake. Admission jg $. 75- for students • nd $ 1.50 for the general public. HELP CHOOSE FILMS Kinokunst Film S<Jciety is choosing its films f\>r •ne.· t year, a.n<l invites suggestions from all. Send ideas to Ann Thompson, Bo.· 584 at Kirkland.
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Th e p r i n c i p a l a c t i n� opportunities will, however, be in the four Youth Theatre shows. They will be directed by our professionals1but all other aspects of these shows will be handled entirely by apprentices. We expect these_ shows will be toured in the vicinity as_ well as presented locally. Each Youth Theatre show will have four performances. Apprentices will be expected to arrive no later than Tuesday, June 18 and leave no earlier than W e d n e s d a y, August 28. No salaries are paid to apprentices. No fees are chared to apprentices, but a $25 returnable deposit is required from each apprentice selected. This deposit is returned at the end of the season. Apprentices are advised to bring bed linen, blankets and t<rn els, and will be financiall ) responsible for their rcwm and ho,ird payments. , 'hi( h last car ran .1pµ10.·imately s��o d . eek. Residence ,, ill be m Kirkland Do rmitory on the Hamilton Campus.
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Despite Glitter, Gatsby Film Merely 'A Confusing �md. Pretentious Blur'
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BY SUZY ELMIGER The trouble w ith prying the f ace t s f r o m a crystal and examining them under floodlight s is that th e gleam from the center dies. H9llywood has bulldozed its way· t hrough another gem of a bo�k � ith a typical incapacity for dehcac½ •
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H am1l ton w ill h ost the Ambo arampeo Ch oir of the Universi ty of Tananarive, (from Malagasy Republic), April 21 through 2 3, as part of the fourth Lincoln Center Internat ional · Choral Fest ival. The chorus, one of thirteen i n t e r n a t i onal choruses participating in the month long fest ival, will perform in the Chapelt.on April 22, at 8:30 p.m. This performance is .part of a national tour arranged by Lincoln Center prior to th eir concerts at · Kennedy Center and Avery Fis.her Hall. ,Altogether, the thirteen visiting choruses will sing at one hindred colleges, universities an d schools in twenty-three states. The' Amboarampeo Choir, founded in 1959, has grown from 6 to 60 singers. Its members are students from several institutions, p re dom inantly t h e U n i t ed T h eol ogical College and the University of Tananarive. The Ch'oir's repertoire covers a range o f · music, but w ide e m p hasi ze s songs from th e · folkloric heritage of the Malagasy people and religious songs. The choir ma kes an annual concert-and-seminar tour: of the provinces, an d gives two major concerts each year in Tananarive, at Easter and_ at Christmas. The g r o up also performs regularly for television and radio. In 1971, it won first prize in an inte r n at ional choral contest organized_ by d_ie government. The n a me "Amboarampeo" means 'bouquet of voices.'
The current film versio n of The Great Gatsby is a fuzzy shadow of the spark ling original; a confusing and pretentious blur of {". Sco tt Fi tzgerald 's novel. The f i lm's tedium begins immediately. Th e camera focuses too long on various objects: the . house, the car, the bed, the asht ray. This blandness fails to build up any anticipation about t o w hom these props belong. By the time th e problem is solved,new questions have floated to th e surface (like what are you d o i n g at t his dumb movie?). The book's plot is very slight, serving only as a basis for the characters to develop. But a Hollywood movie without a plot is an i m possibili t y, so th e filmma k ers have tried to stretch what li ttle t here is into two and a half hours. Sometimes such deficiencies are compensated for by good acting or good music or flashy stars with good lines. Not this time... The lines are lifted straight from the novel but unfortunately' film dialogue and novel dialogue
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are not in terchan geable. So the e f f e c t is j us t about what Shakespeare would be, in th e dialogue bubbles of Superman cartoons: a bit too heavy to be appropriate. Especially because the cardboard characters couldn't possibly comprehend wha t they are saying.
irony of th e events while everyone else in the fib_l) is blind an d dumb. Really dumb. There is something . bitterly appropriate about the fact that H ollywood is doing this to Fitzgerald in exactly the pink plastic st yle that appalled him. The scenes of the Plaza, th e huge t eami ng parties and overst uffed closets are th e ones you remember
from the film; rather than notin much more scotch Nick is drinking or why. Those moments in the book that Fi tzgerald injects with such emptiness provide the film's only vitali ty. Thus there is the final irony that people remember The Great Gatsby as bright and shiny and fun and forget the tragedy in i ts ending. how
Gatsby Deluded Martyr .
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lot . Robert Redford; as Gatsb¼' cultivates a faraway look and re mains the deluded martyr. Jordan laugh s throat ily an d Tom scowls dark ly. And the high society show of t he twenties goes on . Nick, the narrator., played by Sam Waterston adds the only bit. of spontaneit y and humanity to the film. He has a small house, and a sense of humor gradually •turned into sarcasm by w hat he sees. He is fascinated w ith the opulent menagerie as apparently the audience is supposed to be, but we become more int erested in him. He remains detached enough to perceive the extra-ordinary
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Grades- Continue Upward Trend
Lee said they might have an doubt" and thus a higher grade. BY KEVIN MCGOWAN Lee said that his grades "were A report compiled of last "unconscious" incentive to give semester's grades by Associate higher grades to students when definitely going up. Maybe I'm Dean Robin Kinnel indicates that thinking of their futur es. Kinnel asking better questions on tests,'' grade distribution at Hamilton has said that Hamilton has a good he said. Hamilton was "mor e not changed significantly since r e pu t a t ion amon g g raduate academic than .fifteen years ago," according to Lee, "but perhaps Fall 1972. Close to eighty per cent schools. "I suspect schools with inflated not as much as four years ago." of all grades were in the "A" and "B" categories, with slightly mor e grades are taking a look at their ·Students are getting higher grades, reputations," said Kinnel. but they are less prepared, said A's and less B's than in 1972. Lindley said that there is the Lee, a member of the faculty Various faculty members at Hamilton, however, discern an danger · that high grades migpt since 1958. John A nde r s on, associate over-all increase in grades during p r oduce a "backlash" wher e s choo ls b e come p r ofesso r of m athem a t i c s , recent years. "Grades have been g r a d u a t e going up since course distribution suspicious of the student and the commenting o f the nation-wide college. trend in grading,said, "I was a Phi CAMP JOBS requirements were dropped in t. Mass. A u d ubon Society's INTERNSHIPS Kinnel said that students didn't Betta Kappa with an 85 aver age at 1 96 9," said Dwight Lindley, 1. Goddard Space Flight Center Wildwood Nature Center needs ecology professor of English and acting complain about grades "as much Hamilton. This year I wouldn't and environmental counselors. Part Seventh Annual Summer Institute in dean for 1974-75. "Students are as they used to," and that even be in the running." scholarships for counselors workshop Public Administration - for students entering their junior or senior year, (preseason) available. M a t hem a t i cs g r ades were taking the courses they want," he complaints are more often about 2. Crystal Run Camp, Middleton, with a good Social Science background the amount of work which is "about the same as last year," said. N.Y. needs general and specialty and some knowledge of Government N o r man Bowie, as sistant expected. "We want to maintain Anderson said, but there was a c o unselors foi: mentally retarded, and Political Science. Ten weeks study professor of philosophy, agreed the standards, and Iiot do a lower percentage of D's and brain-injured, emotionally disturbed plus field trip to NASA Launch Site. 2. Atlanta Urban Corps public and epileptic children and. adults. there has been an increment in disservice to the· students," said f allures in freshman courses. 3. Clear Pool Camp, Carmel, N.Y. - service internship program - structured grades for about fou r years. He Kinnel. "It's a hard balance to Anderson credited this fo the a camping service for under-privileged ·internship placements in government, broad math background most high said teachers may be giving A achieve." administration, health, mental health, boys. Kinnel thought the grading schools now give. At the same minuses where they once gave B 4. C a m p C h r i s t m as Tre e , e d u cat i o n, day care, recreation, 'Minneapolis, Minn., YMCA Day Camp community service, research, planning. procedure in which each letter time,· thes� backgrounds are not pluses. (Director, Steve Frantzich, Hamilton Ov e r 6 5 0 p I a c e m e n t s t h is ''I detect a tendency that grade has a definite numer ical extensive and Anderson said the College Asst. Prof. Government) needs summer. students think they have a right to equivalent may lead to teachers freshman "math" student was also waterfront director (m/f 21 or over) SUMMER STU DY a good grade," said Bowie, "Yet giving students "the benefit of the less likely to get a very high grade. and counselors(m), five days a week 1. Rho,delsland School ofDesign23, f r e e students don't work as hard as 1 2-A u g u s t Ju n e Courses in film making, TV, creative accommodations, good pay. they did two years ago." S. Many other Y camps and private -dramatics; sculpture, weaving, design, S011:1e professors said that the camps in New York,. New England and etc. Professor Duncan is on leave evaluative system at Kirkland may A.R.C. Duncan,Tr uax Visiting 2. Breadloaf School of English & other states. Writers Conference at Middlebury have affected the rise in grades. P r ofesso r at Hamilton this f r o m Q uee n's U n i ve r s i t y , VOLUNTEER PR OGRAMS 1. Could you give. seven days of College. Professor of History, Edwin Lee semester delivered the first of five· Kingston, Onta rio, where h e i s the 3. 1 97 4 A u d u b o n E c o l ogy your summer to a child afflicted with thinks that system may have Tr uax Lectures in Philosophy Jo hn and Ella G. Charlton Muscular Dystrophy? Bergamo East, Workship in Connecticut. Professor of Philosophy and serves "rubbed· off on Hamilton students Tuesday. 4. New York Studio School of Marcy, N.Y. ,, and teachers. 2. Office of Consumer Affairs needs Drawing, Painting & Sculpture The title of the series is '.'The· as- head of the ·Philosophy volunteers for summer months to summer Sessions in Paris. and New Go r don Pr itchett, assistant , Thought of John MacMurray," Departm erit. answer consumer complaints and do York. Admission by portfolio and He is the author of two books, p ro£essor of mathematics, said dealing with the work of the field work for the City of_ Syracuse. interview. Hurry! Interviews start April that a dissatisfaction with the contemporary Br itish philosopher Practical Reason and Morality and He lpful f o r s t u d e n t s to have 4 and end May 30. background in political science or 5 . G r ad uate S choo I of whole idea of grading was one of who is known for his concern Moral Philosophy, as well as a social work. A good work experience Librarianship, U. ofDenver - workship t he r e volut ionary ideas on w i t h t h e a pp l i catiqn o f number of articles and papers which has been used for credit by on Library Systems, Utilization of campuses in .the sixties and that p hilosophical thought to the which have appeared in books and o n-line computerized bibliographic other colleges. some present teachers are the practical problems of human life. scholarly journals. 3 . N Y PIRG l i s t s s u m m e r systems. A native of Scotland, he was a 6. Pietrasanta, Italy, sponsored by graduate students of those years. internships in Upstate New York to The first lecture, at 8 pm research Mortgage Lending Practices, Providence College - Advanced study in H amilton professors, Pritchett Tuesday in the auditorium of the teacher and administrator at the art drawing, painting, Mass Transit Plans, Divorce Statistics, s c u l p t u r e, said however, are generally more Chemistry ·Building, was entitled University of Edinburgh before Energy Waste, Water Pollution Control, hi story, literature, music, Italian, conservative than their Kirkland "The Man and His Philosophy" joining the Queen's faculty in studio days 35 with language studies Small Claims Court, etc. Friends service work and 25 days study-on-location. 4. Ameri c a n colleagues. a n d con s t i t uted a g e neral 1949. 7. SUNY Brockport - Criminal committee needs volunteers for: The Tr uax lecture series and The p ressure on students i n t r oduction to MacMurray's A. Southeast Pa. Health Project. justice program in Germany & Poland; the Truax Visiting Professorship applying to law, medical, and app roach. at Africa in change Cultural-Political Colle2e students are needed to study, o ther graduate schools was P r o fe ssor Duncan gave a . at Hamilton were established investigate and monitor such problems Ghana; West Asian History and Culture .as improper and excessive charges, in Iran. acknowled�ed by Lee and Bowie. second lectute, "The Form of the . through a gift by R. Hawley Personal." on Thursday in the Tr uax of the class of 190 9, retired 1-.:.�:.w--��=��::,-.:,.,3k��;-;::•t�--��--�<'.,,.3K¢11111'::♦ ;C h e m i s t r y A u d i t o r i u m . chairman of the board of the New Subsequent lectu res in the series Yorker magazine. 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14/THE SPECTA_TOR/f'P�l� 12, 1974
MCTeman Wants More Student Communication ·With Senate
BY BOB WEISSER O pening lines of communication to the college community is very important to Kevin McTeman '75, the new Student' enate president. He said that since he was elected, he has been "meeting people like mad," and trying to learn all1 of the responsibilities of his position. In the course of his meetings, he said, he has gradually developed certain attitudes about various projects. In lus platforn;i., printed in the March 8' issue of The Spectator, McTeman said that he wanted to cure the students of "academic
In his platform, McTeman consumerism," the a p a thy H am-ilton students apparently cited black-white relations and have here toward school affairs. inter-college relations as two of He saiq that this spirit causes the· the most important .and most student to be concerned only with neglected areas on the Hill. getting his diploma. He said, however, that he had When asked how he would go as yet no definite program to about changing this attitude, heal these rifts, adding that these McTeman said, "It _will be are personal goals that he.believes difficult. I would like to have he can :work on more effectively myself and the senators actively when he has learned all the p ur suing �t udents for their dynamics of his position. opinions, seeking out people who McTeman said that he does not don't give a damn about student foresee 31].Y change in the pre-sent government. If we continue to s c h o o l c a l e n d ar, specifically pursue people and show that we regarding -Winter Study. "There are interested in their opinions, .. are a lot of opinions on Winter they will begin to have opinions." Study,-but no single alternate plan
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,-Ir, '1� War r e n M. Anderson (R - yet :rpade public his position on Binghamton) and Senator Ronald the issue. B. Stafford (R - Peru), to discuss Although the tw.o hills differ in procedures for a coinpromise. methods of ir1�plementatiort �d An unexpected snowfall and a other specifics, members of the shortened workweek due to the C o m mi s s i o n o f Independent r e lig i o us h·o l idays forced a Colleges and Universities (CICU) postponement in the meeting, are h o p e f ul t h a t a quick however. In addition, the Senate c o m promise · is possible. The Committee on Education spent Commission, which has been most of its week working on a lobbying for student aid reform separate bill concerning aid to measures, would then have time s e co n d a r y a nd e le me n t a r y to analyze the ramifications of the schools. Despite all the delays, bill before the legislature adjourns it is reported that the legislators next month. concerned are receptive to some A n y compromise that is form of compromise on the bills. reached is expected to have a A staff appointed by the . good chance for passage. In legislators involved may begin addition to the solid backing of work some time next week. It is such powerful leaders as Duryea expected that at least some and Anderson, an overwhelming members of' Governor Wilson's majority of legislators is in favor staff will attend the discussion, of an altered student aid program even though the Governor has not for n�t year. UJ_
BY DAVID SCHUTT Th e N e w Y o r k S t a t e Legislature made no significant prog ress t his we ek o n a compromise between Senate and A s s e m b l y b i lls desighed to increase state aid to college students. E ither· measure, if passed, would particularly aid students from low and middle income families. Private colleges in New York, whose rising fees have become an almost unbearable financial burden to students, are also expected to benefit if the proposals are ena,cted: Speaker of the Assembly, Perry B. Duryea (R - Montauk) who co-signed the bill introduced by Ass_emblyman Peter Costigan (R Seatauket), is expected to meet privately with authors of the Se n a te bill, Majority Leader
has wide enough backing to will determine the funding by the Senate of various organizations, change things." Winter Study is a positive' McTernan promised that a factor in the schools' curriculum, detailed expenditure list will be according to McTeman, but there required from each club showing is a need to establish a real where they have spent their definition of the period and to set money in the past. T o o o f t en wi thin the certain standards for the work committee system of the Senate, that is done. McTetnan also said that he two committees have done the wants the Senate to be involved in s am e work, according to the c om i n g s e arch for a McTernan. He said that he wants permanent Dean of the College. to c u t o ut this needless He said that he strongly favors overlapping, and he also said that �tudent input in the process, and h e w a s concerned about would like the final candidates to accountability in the system. As Student Senate President, meet openly with the student community, similar to the manner McTeman said that he will oversee of the Kirkland Dean search. the work of the committees and Opening the search to student be personally involved as a liaison input might be difficult for two between the college community reasons, according to McTernan. and the Senate. He reiterated the "On our end, it will be· hard to importance of having good lines organize the input. On their end of communication with all parts (the search committee), it may of the community, including the tend to•be another element that Kir kland Assemb ly, faculty they may n'ot want to consider." committees, the administration Concerning Hamilton's next and the students. He said that he considers president, McTernan said that he desires a person who will work h imself as not "just an c 1 o sely · w i t h t h e c ampus organization man," but as the community. "No matter who the source and receptacle of new ideas next' president is," he said, "he that will help the college in the will have to be directly involved future. with the campus. Thi s is especially ::::=·····•··········· ··············�················•:•:❖•❖h.•.•.•.•.•.•!:;•: :;:: important in the beginning, in:::: o rder t o get the lines of :�:j Keyhole Lounge \:j: communication open." :::: :::: Rt. 12B and 5B Clinton Other projects that are high on: ::: :::: McTernan's list of priorities:::: :• :: include the reorganization and:::: :::: Cocktail Hours :: stre amli ning of the Senate,::.... :::: ···· . 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. e xp ansion of the Pub, the:::: :::: All Drinks $.50 upcoming budget hearings, �d:::: :::: Mon. th ru Fri. some changes in the constitution:::: ::: : · of the Senate. :::: ::: : At the budget hearings, which•: :•:;•;:;:❖:;:❖:•:.:.:::.:••••.•.•.•.•.•···································•:•::
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BY JOHN HINCHCLIFF Before the end of the month, all Hamil ton and Kirkland roo ming arrangements will be made. Hamilton and Kirkland students will participate in either of thei r r e s p e c t i ve college lotteries. Other Hamilton students who have joined fraternities are exempt from the' lottery, as well as b oth the Hamilton and Kirkland students who have joined, or will join, the Keehn Co-op. The Hamilton College lottery, which will be held the third week of April, determines who will live where next year. All independent students who will be on campus next semester, as well as any fraternity members not living in a house, participate in the room selection process. The members of next year's s enio r class receive random numbers, followed by the juniors and then the sophomores. A list • of names and numbers will then be published. On or about April 23, beginning with the lowest numbered seniors, students will go to the Trustees room on the second floor of Buttrick to choose their rooms. Charts with the floor plans for each dormitory will be set up there. To claim a room, a
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16/THE SPECTATOR/APRIL 12, 1974
Student Senate Platforms; Candidates Make Promises
GREGORY B.MAYNARD CLASS OF 1977 The way Hamilton can best maintain its high academic and social standards is through interest and work from within. I see this goal being attained through the deliberate and dedicated actions of the Honor � ourt, J-Board, Curriculum
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·DANIEL BECKER
CLASS OF 1977 The Student Senate I want to be a member of is one which is a w ar e , interested, and in volved. A Senate which exerts as much effort as it can t o 'u n i t e H a m i lton and Kirkland i n t o a s tr o ng influential community with honest and free expression between all facets. I support a Senate which is not afraid to re-evaluate itself and one which represents the student opinion with a strong voice. The Student Senate should involve itself in .all areas which are imp�rtant to the community and student alike. The Senate must, take advantage of its responsibility, and as a senator my goal will be to see that it does.
BRENT BARRIERE CLASS OF 1977 The Student Senate is an ineffective institution. As it stands now, the Senate is allowed only ·the most minimal role in the affairs of this college. The Senate and the student body in general are completely at the mercy of the faculty and the administration. A p rogressive faculty and a d m i n i s t ra t i o n w i ll b e benevolent, yet a reactionary · f a c ulty and administration could be tyranical. The recent s e le ct i o n of t h e a cting academic dean illustrates this point._ Students were not asked who they would like to see as dean, but were told who would be. dean. The students of this college should haye an effective voice in all academic and social decisions of the college. I will work to crea�e a senate that will give students actual, not virtual, representation in the affairs of this institution.
GUIDO ADELFIO CLASS OF 1977 The m i c r o c o s m which composes these two colleges is an unusual, artificial, and h i g h ly i d e alistic state of existence. To some this is e x p e d i e n t , t-o o t h e r s undesi rable. W e c an n ot, however, ignore the fact that a world exists around us. The Senate must thus realize that we can no longer exist feeling that self-awareness is our most important concern; we must involve ourselves to a greater extent with the community which surrounds . us, at the same t i m e maintaining a c e r t a i n d e gree of self-awareness. I am entering this election with this in mind, and will, if elected, serve the Senate to the best of my ability.
C o mmit t ee , a n d S tudent Senate. The Monday Chapel clearly gives the week by week informal and popular approval that this system needs to continue. I support this system because I appreciate its value to Hamilton's well being and my own, too. I feel the best way I can articulate my support is by directing interest and concern t h r o u g h the position of student senator . I want the position and I have the time and enthusiasm as well. CLASS OF 1977
There are a lot of good candidates running for the Student Senate. I won't try to say that I am better than any of the others from our class because I would work harder, or because I know more people, or because I am more stubborn. But I want very much to be senator, and I will do the best job I can and that's the only promise I know I can keep.
WARREN E.HART
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RENARDO L. HICKS CLASS OF 1977 I was told that these few words are supposed to be my �ampaign statement. In last w e e k ' s Spe ctator a lon e, Black/White housing, student aid , and student input into t he search for a college p r esident, were issues of concern. These are only a few of the many issues on campus t h a t draw u p on student increase. If you want a senator that is sincere about his convictions, sensitive to the opinions of others, and open in all things he confronts, consider me as one of four senators of the class of '77 for the year of 74-75.
MARK ROSENBAUM CLASS OF 1977 As a senator this year, and having actively sought out student opinion, I find two major issues that will confront Hamilton College next year. On e i ssue i s the disproportionate gap between two campuses only a sidewalk apart. If re-elected, I will work
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MATT PECCHENINO
CLASS OF 1977 The most useful purpose the Student Senate can serve is the c o m m unication of student desires to the administration and, if possible, the subsequent implementation of these ideas. In- order to best accomplish this ideal, the senator must have a grasp of the workings of the college. Hamilton, though small, is bounded by inordinate a mounts of tradition-the senator must be aware of these obstacles in order to be e f fect i ve. I have become acquainted with the problems and intricacies of Hamilton College during my first term as senator, and therefore believe I can be more effective as your representative next year.
MARSHALL HANDLY CLASS OF 1976 By the way of platfonn or plans, I cannot say I have any other than to work as hard and long as necessary to maintain a n d i m prove, where ver possible, the function of the Student Senate. As I presently know ve�y little of the Senate's role, I can offer equally little in t h e w a y o f c o n c r ete "promises" other than, as I have said, my time and effort.
Why should you vote for W a r ren Hart for Student Senate? want to Why? Because work for a better student life at Hamilton. Why? Becuase I have had a lot of experience in student government in high school and as president of the freshman council. This experience has shown me what the Senate will entail in the line of work. I am fully prepared for this work. Why? Because I know a lot of people in the class· of '77 and this will 'help me to better represent the members of the class.
The appointment of Kevin McTernan as the new senate president will probably bring many new adjustments and ideas. Therefore, it is necessary for Kevin to have new people , who are able to solidify or question these ideas. I can do just this, for I have the desire, as others do, to help create something new and useful.
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Harl to help bring the two campuses t o g·e t h e r , p e r h a p s by combining Hamilton Chapel a n d Ki r k l an d Assembly. Another concern is the limbo s t at us of Win ter Study. S t udent input indicates a strong preference for Winter Study that has yet to be expressed by the Senate. In the coming year, the Senate must lead the way to protect student interests in these two areas. I would like to be a member of that kind of Senate.
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Mackay NED DRINKER CLASS OF 1976 The only statement I can - make pertinent to the voter is that, if elected, I will meet each issue as it aris·es with a level head and a real desire to set things straight.
BILL FOLEY CLASS OF 1976
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Foley Please note: Twe n t y-t w o Hamilton students comprise the field of candidates for student senator. Tw e n t y - o n e c a n d i dates submitted platforms to the Spectator for publication, and twenty-one candidates made th e mselves a va i lable f o r photographs.· Missing are a platform by Owen Kratz '76 and a photograph of Bren; . Barriere, '77. Students are reminded that they may vote for up to four candidates from their class. Voting will be held in the basement of Bristol Campus Center, Monday, April 15, from 9:00 AM to 5 :00 PM.
To extoll the virtues of the Hamilton Student Senate in one. hundred words would be a ridiculous gestu.re. To list my qualifi cations w o uld b e f o o I hardy, since my extra-curricular act1v1t1es are extremely limited. My reason for seeking this position is without superfluities. I am intrigued, and if given the opportunity would care to offer my services. Thank you for your time.
JOHN D.SHULANSKY CLASS OF 1976
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Hamilton is presently in a state of transition. However, it is important that with the arrival of a new administration the Senate work diligently to adequately and kµowledgeably represent the student body. I have had experience with many of the issues that will be considered by the Senate next year through my work on the Housing, Curriculum, Auxiliary S e r vi ces (Pub/Bristol), and Trustee Committees. I will do my best as a ·senator to work actively and represent the student body in a responsible manner.
PHILLIP J. MONTALVO CLASS OF 1976 The willingness to work for s o m e-thing y o u f e e l i s worthwhile exemplifies your . concern. a n d d esire f o r improvement. ·Anyone who thinks Hamilton is a virtual paradise is in for a rude awakening. The shifts in the administration, the concern
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Lawrence over what students should be allowed to come to Hamilt<;m, and even the solidarity of the student body are problems that need the support and diligence o f indi viduals i n t e rested e n o u g h t o m a ke s ur e something is more than just done. I was appointed to this position because the senator whom I replaced felt he could not devote the time necessary to meet such ends. Too often, lip service is paid to the job of senator, and such an attitude 1 e ssens the importance of banning t og e ther to get something d one. With . a common interest in mind, and a desire to constantly improve Hamilton, I feel the best way to get these improvements to materialize is to be a senator.
Senate can only do this if the students let the Senate kno'\\ the direction that it wishes tc take. I ' t h i n k t h a t t h 1:. communication problems tha( s ome p e o ple seem t oe· concerned about are a direct r esult o f a p athy; b o t l, administrative and student S t r e n g t h ening l i n es ot c o m m unic ation b e tw een administration and students and between Blacks and White� will not be a simple task. There is some hidden friction and .antagonism which must be dealt with. Lack of interest on the part of students can prevent any w orkable and meaningful solutions.
PETERSLUYS CLASS OF 1975 A student senator must work diligently for the class he represents; he must also seek the involvement and opinions of tliose he serves, and do his �utmost to insure fair treatment for all. That's my politics, that's my promise: I will work for you and the college to the best of my ability.
NEILSCHEIER CLASS OF 1975
As a student senator, I will work for a Senate that is truly receptive to student ideas, and for better coordination with Kirkland. I will also insist on a brevity of rhetoric.
I would like to serve on next year's Senate because I'd like· to have a say in the many issues that will confront it, i.e. academic calendar, curriculum c h a n g e s , c o nstitutional revisioll, and the many socially o r i ented problems t h a t invariably · crop up. I have represented the class of 1975 on the Senate for the past year and a half. I would like to continue, in the hope that I can give our class a thoughtful vote on next year's Senate.
HUGH MACKAY
ROGER E. SCHNEIDER
JOHN B. EMERSON CLASS OF 1975
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A strong Student Senate needs an active student body to give it support. I think that the Senate must do its best .to serve the needs of the college c o mmunity. However_, the
We are entering a crucial period in the history of our College-a new curriculum, a new president, and a new dean are on the way. Each is an unknown variable, and each must be dealt with through extensive and spirited student involvement-in molding the new curriculum and in the briefing of the dean and president on student concerns. Above all else, we must deal m ore decisively . and more crit i c ally w i th issues of academics. Past Senates have g o t t e n p e r m a n e n t ly s i d e s t e ·p p e d b y trivia 1 p r o cedural and budgetary matters. What the Senate needs a r e s t u d e n ts w h o a r e e x perien ced, diligent, and unrelenting. I wish to serve you and our College in this capacity.
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The Student Senate needs bold representatives who won't be afraid to speak out on issues and who will. devote the time hecessary to assure that each concern of the community will be thoroughly investigated and - discussed. The primary goal of the new Senate should be to revitalize itself so that it will be the focus of student opinions and attitudes and not just another anonymous c o llection of· funders.
GEOFFREY LAWRENCE CLASS OF 1975
18/TH,E SPECTATOR/APRIL 12, 1974
New Faculty Named For Next·Year BY
SUSAN ELF�N . At least eleven new faculty appointments will be made at Hamilton a nd Kirkland for c;icademic year 1974-75 , according � to admuiistration plans at both colleges. ,._. Among appointments already finalized is Germina Luhega, an economist from Uga11da;· · She is. one of three women appointed to the Hamilton faculty for next year. At Kirkland, Carol Rupprecht. will teach literature. One other literature appointment is yet to be made. Other appointments are planned in psychology, computer stience, theater, and sculpture, and a temporary appointment is planned for in history. Be sides Lubega, who will replace Assistant Professor of Economics William G. Snead for one year, Hamilton has appointed Sydna Weiss to replace German Professors Robert Browning and Thomas Colby over the next two years. Browning received a grant for one year of study from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Oglivy Retires Permanent appointments in the Department of Mathematics have gone.to David Birnbairn, who now teaches at Amherst College and Northrup Fowler who is presently teaching at Rutgers University.. Stanley Ogilvy , chairman of the department is retiring, and David Smallen will direct the new computer center. Judith Bland, a microbiologist, will replace Edwin Erickson, who resigned last year. Hamilton is also seeking a person to r e pl a c e E n glish Professor Dwight Lindley, who has been appointed Acting Dean of the College for next year. Carol Rupprecht. Rupprecht, Kirkland's new literature teacher, is no-w visiting the campus, and house-hunting. She comes to Kirkland from Y al University where she received her Masters and is completing ha- Ph.:O R upprecht was a Radcliffe Institute ·Graduate Fellow from 1968-1970. It is awarded to outstanding women who have interrupted their careers. Courses to be taught by · Rupprecht include . Expository Pr o se , Cl assi cal . Myths and Con temporary Meaning, The Afro-American Novel:. Impulses towa r ds A utobiography, The Grotesque and the Short Story,
and an introduction to poetry called How Does A Poem Mean'! She has previously taught in high school and at Quinnipiac College, a n d s he presently t eaches Shakespeare at Yale.
"...my first choice" "Kirkland w a s my first choice," said Ms. Rupprecht. She believes· in women's education, and in small, liberal· arts colleges. Although Rupprecht. says that a teacher can be innovative in most settings, it is much easier if the i n s t i t u t i o n ' s p h i l o s o phy e n c o u r ages s uch t e a ching methods. Rupprecht thinks that being a woman helps in the academic job market now, but that having a husband and two children set her back in that respect. Her husband is a lawyer and sculptor.
names to the dean,. An interview publications. Members of Ursula Colby, chairman of the languag·e and literature. Birnbairn, Fowler, and Bland process ensues, including the Humanities Division, who first concerned discipline review dos siers, u s ually numberiDa met Rupprecht when she was . have doctoral degrees from the president, dean, members of the 100-15 0, looking for backgrowid, visiting some friends at Kirkland University of Illinois, Rutgers department, The Committee on experience, ·and research. They earlier this year, said that she is U n i v e r s i t y , a n d Indiana Appointments, an elected faculty committee, a luncheon with "aware of contemporary people, University, respectively. choose a group of candidates who · The processes by which new students majoring; in the subject are interviewed by the entm problems, and attitudes, and .we faculty members are selected at area, and an interview wi_th a division. There is a lunch wii are lucky to get her." students� although they are not At H a milton, Lubega, an Hamilton and at Kirkland are Kirkland faculty member. Written African economist, will teach '.fhe quite similar. At Hamilton, the opinions are solicited. Finally, the necessarily majors. Finally, the Dean of Academic Affairs makesa Political Economics of Poverty bulk of the responsibility lies with recommendation of the chairman (Black Economic Experience), the chairman of the department. and the dean go to the president. recommendation to President Babbitt. and Micr.oeconomic_s, as well as an Advertising is .wide and appears in· Recruitment -At present, student input i i n t r o d uctory q>ur se, a n d the New York Times and various At Kirklan�, advertising is as informal but respected. Thr l11t e rnati onal Economics. In professional journals. Out of the Kirkland Asse mbly recently addition; she will give an intensive many applicants; a department · wide as financially practical, and formed a committee to evaluate preparation for The Political interviews from eight to ten includes the Times, professional journals,. various women'scaucuses, the '.process of student input ii �con,omics _of PoJ!erty, called people. The chairman then brings three graduate schools! · and minority faculty hiring. African , Econ!)mic .._ Development, dtiring Winter Study~. After leaving Uganda, Lugeba received her ·B.A. in the United States, and then her Ph.D. from Since the Office of Student At the'°" first few meetings, amou�t of time. Some studenll Du�e ·University. She has taught Affairs initiated them four weeks Wiriter Study and the role of expressed dissatisfaction with the at St. Mary's College. ago, the Monday Morning coffee minority students on campus were lecture, saying that they bad Snead, acting chairman of the hours at Kirkland have met with topics for discussion. The most expected a discussion. Economics Department said that only limited success. recent gathering dealt with the With the exception of tbt the Hamilton department is fairly Although the _meetings got off n e w housing a n d l o t t e r y meeting on housing, however, the non-traditional, and that Germina to a slow start, Carol Cooper, procedures. coffee hour has not been wei Lubega will help to maintain that assistant dean of students at While talking about the coffee attended. pattern. Ki rkla nd, b elieves that the hour, The most glaring reason fer Cooper mentioned that German scholar Sydna Weiss community take advantage of the the meeting on minority relations this is insufficient publicity. Then received her B.A. from Vassar, and coffee hour in the future. had been quite successful, saying are no spare hands or extra, is completing her Doctorate at "It's not an institution like that "there was a real dialogue min_utes at the Dean's of fice to Princeton. Weiss also attended the Oiape1, but · I think its getting into going on-people were sitting and coordinate a publicity campaign. Uni ver s i t y o f K rieberg in p e o p I e's consciousness," said talking to each other." Another reason for the sparse Germany. She will teach both Cooper. The most recent meeting, on a t t enda nce is ti ming. The housing in the 1974- 75 school meetings are at 10 am. and quite a year, was conducted a_s a lecture, few students aren't willing to give in order to give the most up their extra half hour of sleep continued from page. 3 w h o s e c l o s i n g r e m a r k s i n f o r m a t ion in the shortest on Monday mornings. atmosphere unless the applicant contributed significantly to their a t t e m p t e d t o a n s w e r o u r selection. Before this ·year's. interview questions in terms of what he thought we wanted to hear, rather commenced, we had a meeting to than what he thought to be determine our approach to the correct (i.e. if he attempted to interv�ews and to evaluate some of McDonald's of Clinton, on Meadow St., invites anticipate, to - read our minds, the attitudes present in last year's you to visit our newest, and most up to date rather than answer in an honest, selection process. During the restaurant in the area. At any time feel free to interviews, discussions w.ere held sincere manner). call us for an appointment, and we will schedule In a v e ry few instances each night to determine what your dorm, or Fraternity on a tour of our advisor(s) adopted the role of improvements were possible. Our i n t i midator or attempted to attitude, which is passed on to restaurant. You will see our new Fry Master pressure the applicant. In each each successive group of advisors, Fryers, the latest of its kind in the country, along c a s e t he a d vis or(s) w e r e is one of constant search for with Snap Action Grills, to· give you the best in reprimanded b y their fellows selection process as it stands, quality of which we always strive for. after, or during, the interview. In uphold ·t he v a l ue o f the For the· ambitious Student in your Dorm, or t hese very few cases when interviews, and are assured that Fraternity you can enjoy a FREE MEAL: a eleme n ts <>f intimidation or we have been eminently fair in pressure were present, no matter our evaluation of each individual. sandwich of your choice, drink , desert, by how small their degree, the We believe, based on lengthy collecting orders of $12.50 or more, -and taking a p p l i c a n t i n v o l v e d w a s discussion and near unaminous them back to the Dorm. subsequently reviewed with the voting; that we selecte·d the most McDonald's also offers a special service to selection committee taking the qualified people for the job. support your College, and the Community for At the same time there was an extraneous factors. of his interview abundance of stron_g candidates. I into intense consideration. Meetings, Sports Events and Social Events, we B eca use of the interview would like to be able to choose offer our Orange Bowl, for more information call situation a certain amount of about thirty advisors, but we our store manager, or stop in and he 'will make pressure is bound to exist, but the could not; we choose those whom necessary arrangements. pressure involved in -an interview we felt to be the strongest with fourteen advisors and the applicants. When we concluded REMEMBER ANY ORDER OF $12.50 OR Dean of Students does not the selection process Sunday approach the magnitude of the morning, we conclude with the MORE YOUR MEAL IS FREE pressure involved in setting an belief that our selections were a t m osphere conducive to an well founded, that the selection Store Hours: optimum college experience on a process was sound, and perhaps Sunday - Thursday 10:30 til 11:00 P. M. hall composed of new students. most importantly, on the basis of / Certainly, situational questions do the wealth of qualified candidates, 'friday & Saturday 10:30 til ·1:00 A. M.. not promote ultimate realism, and t ha t Hamilton· College i s the applicant is somewhat limited extremely strong in areas other by time, bU:t you can not take all than academic. day making any decision; some of the applicants might be surprised CLINTON LIQUOR STORE how niany quick and immediate GRAND UNION decisions are necessarily made by SHOPPING CENTER an advisor. NOW YOU CAN PURCHASE At the close of the interview LIQUOR AT LOWEST each applicant was asked, "Are DISCOUNT PRICES IN you satisfied with the way you N.Y. STATE have come off? Is there anything you would like to say or qualify; Prices Un�er anything at all you would like to Southern Comfort $7.43½ add? Has the real ((name of $4.29½ Skylark applicant)) come across in this Cuervo Especial 1/5 $5.81½ interview? Do · you have any $7.97 ½ Gin (½ gal.) questions you would like to ask Vodka (½ gal.) $8.10½ us?" Here the applicant was given Jim Beam (½ gal.) $11.49½ the opportunity to unsay or $8.98½ Scotch (½ gal.) clari fy anyt hing; in effect, construct his own interv·iew. Most ALL HARD SPIRITS AT people had something to say, DISCOUNT PRIC ES several went on for ten minutes I can think of a couple applicants
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BY ED WATKINS Last month, the...New York Times published a series of articles on college athletics. The articles dealt with the abuses in the recruiti�g. The articles revealed the enormous sums of money spent and pressure used by colleges to obtain athletes they believe will be assets to their teams. Some schools invite a high school athlete up for a weekend and offer him food, liquor, girls, a car, just about anything he wants if he will sign a letter of intent. His grades are that imp ortant to many schools; some go as far as to alter high school transcripts to insure their prospects get by the admissions committee. Once in college, the star athlete has little to worry about except for practice- and games; his gr�des are "taken·care of." The process of playing big-time college sports is expensive. Last year Texas had a sports budget of over two million dollars and still fmished the year in the red. Costs run in a vicious cycle; once one team in a conference gets artificial turf all the schools have to have artificial turf in order to remain "competitive." This is college athletics at its worst; a never-ending spiraling of costs and the end to the fun of playing a sport. Instead playing is more like a job. The end result of all this is that the schools which can not play the money game wind up with teams incapable of meeting the challenge of their schedules. Colgate is an example of a school which would like to be a sports power but which for a lack of resources, just can not make it. Colgate has spent considerable sums rebuilding its sports program but not enough to enable Colgate to compete successfully agairtst the teams it schedules. Colgate recruits heavily for its hockey team yet the team finished last in Division One. Colgate could not recruit the play ers it needed to be a winning hockey team. Hamilton will never have to worry about money spent on recruiting. As a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference, Hamilton is not allowed' to recruit. Hamilton can however improve its sports program. The most important step is to schedule teams that are competitive with us. In football, that means no more games with Alfred, Hobart, and Middlebury, all of whom recruit. In hockey, ,Hamilton must stop scheduling Division Three teams ·whose games with us are meaningless since they do not count towards securing a playoff berth. Better schedules along with improved sports facilities, the long-awaited field-house, will bring good athletes to Hamilton without sacrificing the school's high academic standard. It is possible to have winning teams without purchasing athletes as though they were prize racehorses.
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VOLLEYBALLINTRAMURALS
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J.V. Laaosse Not to be ignored, the J.V. lacrosse team roars into another season this spring. Coach Eric M acDon ald, t he p r o ductive swimming coach, once again is at the reins of a team destined to break all previous J.V. records. Midfielders include veterans Dusty Batley ('75), Steve (Swa) Haweeli ('76), Scott Toop ('76), and Rick Wallace ('75). The newcomers who should contribute a lot to the J.V. cause are Steve Gorman ('76), Pete Barrows ('77), Dave Donahue ('77), Billy Kahl ('77), and 'Doc' Bagley ('77). The defense is achored by Bill (Wheels) Ferris ('75 ), John Newell ('75), and Jamie Haige ('74). 'Jake' Cunningham ('76) and Greg Marsella ('77) will also see regular action. Bobby Potter ('74), J.V. goalie extraordinaire, returns to the nets. The attack is ably engineered by David Oakes ('75) and Peter Marks ('76). Mac Donald hopes to go undefeated this year, with a slick combination of finesse and hard-hitting. T11e enthusiasm this , year for J. V. lacrosse can be me a sured by the unheard-of number of piayers (40) who came out this spring to participate in a t horoughly enjoyable activity, which is just as enjoyable to watch.
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BY JEFF FEINGOLD AND TIM SCHOEN pie football wars, having begun so quickly, almost quietly, are, perhaps, the culmination of fifwyears of professional sports. When baseball began to think big, over one hundred years ago, not one of the National Association's ten franchises would have tho1,1ght that their professionalization of a boys' game would lead to the big business of today. Sports today are merely another aspect of big business-another form. The owners are in it for the money, for the profits , and perhaps a handful are in it for the glory. The WFL is the best and most recent example of this. The WFL owners are men who couldn't get their way in one ball field so they built their own. Who can forget the start of the AFL, now a significant part of the NFL? Perhaps the loudest screams that are being registered today are by the same owners who went shopping in the NFL before they became a part of it. Joe Robbie, whose memory is obviously very short, was the same Joe Robbie who ''brought" Don Shula from the Baltimore Colts to the Miami Dolphins. Was Mr. Robbie screaming then? All he said, not completely under his breath, was ''Nuts to you." Now that he has lost three of his Dolphin stars to the WFL, a taste of his own medicine, he is the biggest crybaby on the NFL block. These owners are also the same men who bring their crying towels down to Washington every so often, to pray that the Congressmen will not lift the anti-trust protection they have. E ven Lockheed doesn't have it so good. Larry Csonka, Paul Warfield, Jim Kiick, Calvin Hill, and the rest of the NFL defectors are merely professionals taking advantage of a marketplace whose prices are, admittedly, quite inflated. Most of the harrassment is thrown upon these men, who are trying to make the best living they possibly can. When Harry Reasoner left CBS for ABC were there any of the hollers that we hear today? The salaries that professional athletes receive today are, of course, almost unpearable. But when the American public demands more and more sports and is willing to spend more and more of their money for it, who is to argue? Certainly not the athletes. Even the owners won't say much against them. The owners .have everything in their favor: reserve clauses, options, and the courts. Curt :Flood tried to own his own soul but ' somehow the courts said it wasn't his to bargain with. The period in which an athlete's talent is at its marketable best, lasts for, perhaps, eight years. For football prayers it's even less. Who can tell these men (who are certainly not stupid} that they shouldn't get the most money for their talents? They see the owners bringing in the bucks every season, but when it comes for bargaining time, there's none to be had. While the Yankees are staying at Shea stadium, the Mets will be reaping in $600,000 extra from the concession profits. If they make this much from the concessions alone, how much profit do they make? For, as Jerry Koosman said, that's enough to pay the salaries of the ballplayers. What about the TV contracts, not to mention the take at the gate? Perhaps the owners will learn how to let others live the lie that they created. Perhaps they can afford to take some lessons in simple capitalism that they live off of. Perhaps they, willingly, can tone down the importance of sports in American society today. Perhaps. · P.S. Contrary to what the reading public might think, we wish to congratulate Henry Aaron. For it is only in realizing the greatness of Babe Ruth can you appreciate the magnitude of Henry's achievement. A
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Track Previews Strong Spring
8:04.2. BY MARK McMURRAY banked turns, the track - almost On March · 21, five members of becomes circular, with very little The Hamilton track team wil, try to open its spring season the spring team traveled to straightaway. This tends to slow against an evenly matched RPI Charleston, South Carolina to get the runner down. On a ¼ mile squad on Saturday.. .if the snow the edge on the Clinton weather track, the runner will be able to melts. Continuing a tradition set and to begin a rigorous double use his stride more effectively to by the Cross Country and indoor· session training program for the his advantage, and since the turns teams, which have seen a great spring. Although the trip was are m or e g r adual and the deal of individual training and beneficial while it lasted, when straightaways longer, his times improvement, Coach Eugene Long: school re-opened to several inches will be faster. ''Everything considered," says is looking forward to a· winning of snow after spring break, workouts suffered accordingly. Coach Long, ''I think we have season. Indoor track, which serves· Coach Long said, "The double some exceptional talent in the mainly to prepare for the spring sessions were great, but we've f i e ld events with our main se,ison, had its final competition suffered a let down since we've deficiency being the shot put. In March 16 with the State Meet been back. We are working the sprints, which in past years at Cortland. Although the whole whenever we can, but without a has been our weakness, we should team did not participate,. several field house, we can't depend on see some marked improvement. Hamilton trackmen qualified and any kind of training time table. And after coming off such a · turned in good performances. Right now, we are not as far strong Cross Cowitry season, our distance events are well taken care . Sophomore Bruce Carter took a�vanced as we should be." Another adjustment the team, of." If the snow melts.. fourth in the 2 mile with a 9:2 7.3 clocking, while Lou Pacilio did especially the runners, will have to likewise in the 5 00 yard run with make is the difference in track ° a I :15.8. The 2 mile relay team of size between the winter and Tacke, Schmeyer, Pacilio and spring. An indoor track is usually Stellato also took fourth in 1/10 of a mile. With very sharp
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Baseball Spirits High 1n 74 Track Captains Sandy Mackintosh and Vito Stellato
BY STEPHEN HAWEELI ballgames in warmer weather. One This year's baseball team is game was not an exhibition, sporting new faces, new uniforms, however, and Hamilton won and most important of all, a new h�dily, 14-3, over Dickinson. attitude. In talking with an Thus they returned to Clinton optimistic Coach Heckler, this with a 1-0 record. This trip, paid reporter learned that the team is for out of the pockets of the BY ALAN COLBY 'Ne n t a ls play ten matches, ready to improve last season's players, did much to promote the If the snow ever lets up and the including a six team invitational dismal record of 2 wins and 12 team unity that Heckler desired. sun comes out long enough to tournament at Albany State on losses. In the field, the Continentals bare a few spots on the fairway, Nine of the eighteen players on May sixth. But Coacli Jones is should be respectable defensively. Coach Jones' Hamilton Golf Team optimistic that his forces will be this year's squad are freshmen, Heckler feels that another pitcher should win their share of matches grueling schedule. a°:d three more are sophomores. would bolster the staff, but is very this-year. With only Captain Tim equal to their hitting Captain Wally With the accent on youth, Heckler Long ball pleased with the performances of Jones graduated, and with the six the consistent veteran of · foresees.a spirited club lead by . John Psiaki ('75), and John Porter other regulars from last year's seasons, and fellow veter�s Dave _McLean_ (jwiior Driscoll('77). He, feels that the twice defeated squad returning, three �revious Doug Wright and captain) �d se�ors Craig Fallon club's ability to hit is their strong hoopster seniors, t he p ro s p e c t s o f ano ther point, althoug admitting that if Steve Green should and Charhe Darngrand. successful season on the Hill are ·versatile The coach feels that the closethe hitting should slack off ( as it the experienced unit. If lead · · bright. But even barring more junior Vlad Hoyt can pick up the knit team atmosphere ar did drastically last year), they �� snow, course conditions probably exceptional play that earned him locker room could be mdicatiVe of would be in the same trouble. won't grant Captain Wally Porter medalist laurels in the fall ECAC a productive season. The season Coach thinks that the RPI and Le and his mates much outdoor sectionals at Syracuse, he shoul<l actually started weeks · ago, and M o yne games will be good practice before the.y play their aid the Blue cause considerably. after cuts, the team took it down indication of how the club will first home match on Saturday Sophomore Dave Wollman, the u t h f o r s ome pre-season perform througho1lt the season. April twentieth. However, as only member of the team able to Coach Jones points out, the · head south over spring recess, Continentals plight is shared by played well in a Miami collegiate t heir n o r t he rn Ne w Y ork tournament, and is expected to opposition. turn in another solid season. With today's (Friday April 'A n ot her s o pho m o r e , John t we l ft h) m a t c h at Hobart Perticone rounds out the list of cancelled, Coach Jones hopes to returning lettermen. A contigent gear his team for their April of six freshmen led by swimmer nineteenth match on Rochester's Jack Widman, and Peter Welsh beautiful Oak Hill course. In that will vie for the seventh playing affair, Rochester will host both slot. Hamilton and Geneseo in separate All in all, it looks like the matches, a practice Jones hopes to Cont's biggest battle will be with institute at Hamilton in the near the sporadic Clinton weather. But future. should they get a match or two in After the Rochester match, before graduation, -Coach Jones is Hamilton barrels full tilt into the optimistic that the team can heavy part of its schedule. In little con tinue the recent winning m ore than three weeks the tradition of Hamilton Golf.
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HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COL_LEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
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Soviets: Evolution Towards Communism Seen 'Inevitable'
BY LIZ BAR.ROW Anatoly Busygin, 27, i n his final ''The Marxist-Leninist theories year of an undergraduate course ,ove scientifically that mankind i n e conomics, and Mikh;ril will i n e v itably c o me t o B o gd onov, 2 2 , a first-year Communism'', s ai d L eonid· graduate student in philology at Aslanov, 35, in response· to a Moscow State Universtiy met with question after Tuesday night's three H amilton-Kirkland students Soviet-American Symposium on in the Alumni Gym for the second "Youth in C onte mpor a r y discussion of this kind in two years. Society: . " The discussion consisted of five Aslanov added, "We do not resist this evolutionary force just to eight minute speeches by each as we do not resist the laws of of the participants, alternating Sovie t , A m e r i ca n s p eakers. nature." Echoing the Soviet Communist Questions among the six students Party line, Aslanov explained the and finally from the audience difference between "constructive completed the two hour program. Robert Hall, assistant secretary 11d malicious criticisms" to an audience of over eight hundred. o f_ t he S p e e c h Committee "When we hear criticism of the Association welcomed the college Marxist-Leninist the�ry, we think community to the discussion our opponents do not know or do explairiing the purpose of the not understand this theory, so it is _ e x c h a n g e a s ''t r yi n g t o not a constructive criticism. Of demonstrate freedom· of speech cour se, constructive criticism by bringing various students of would help each country a lot." v a r i o u s c o u n t r i e s a n d The three Soviet students, demonstrating America's freedom Aslanov, a member of the o f s p e e c h t o them." Hall chemistry faculty at Moscow acco_mpanied th� first. group of State Upiversity for eleven years; S.oviet st udents around the
Snead Tenders Resignation;
Salary Can't Support Family
BY LISA GALLATIN because of what they earn." Assis tant Professor William Snead also said that he was Snead, acting chairman of the forgetting the Chinese language, Ec o nomics De partment, has and that he was falling behind in resigned from the Hamilton his f i e l d . Snead has t he faculty, effective the end of thfs opportunity to teach a course on year. Snead, who was scheduled China once a year. After law school, Snead said to be o n leave 1974-75, plans to attend Cornell University Law t hat he hopes to represent companies involved in Chinese School. Snead said that he can not , American commerce, so that he sapport his family <;>n his present can be actively associated with the salary, and that he has been economy of China. Snead's decision to leave the unable to pursue his main academic interest, the economy of profession is typical of a predicted Oma, while carrying his nermal trend in which increasing numbers load of economics courses. The of academicians will quit teaching assistant professor said that both because of generally depressed facto rs equally affected his salaries and the unavailability of attractive positions. decision. In the 1960's, people were ''I can't afford to teach at the alary I'm being paid," Snead said. attracted to teaching from other "I don't know of any lawyers who pr?fessions, according to J. Martin can't afford to practice law continued on page four
country two years ago. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn The highlight of the evenjng focused on the discussion of recently exiled author Alexandr Solzhenitsvn. The treatment of the celebrated Soviet author was. first i nt r oduced ny Vera H ollander '74, the Kirkland member o( the symposium. In reply to her question, Aslanov said that _the topics Solzhenitsyn covered in his novels were not new, and h'is iiterary form "not so good." He said that Solzhenitsyn w a s "-b 1 a c k m a i 1 i n g t h e achievements of his country and people" and presenting the wrong picture of Soviet society. Aslanov did not explain why Solzhenitsyn was exiled from his native country, but did say that Solzhenitsyn's most recent book, The Gulag Archipelago, broke the law because it "told propaganda of war" and "falsified history." Taking a more personal view of the situation, Bogdanov, the youngest Soviet student and often a translator for the other two Russians, said he just didn't find Solzhenitsyn's books interesting. Neither he nor his friends found Solzhenitsyn a great writer. Later, when asked how he had acquired any of that author's books other than One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, published d ur i n g a . c ultural thaw in K r uschev 's period, Bogdanov explained that he had been given the outlawed copies while visiting England. The S ovi ets preferred to answer rather than ask questions because they said they wanted to learn the manner in which Americans direct their questions. Throughout the presentations of their views and the question periods, the Soviets basically remained on the defensive while -the Americans took a somewhat more offensive stand. The six students, with Warren Wright, Hamilton speech professor and moderator of the discussion, sat at a slightly curved table, covered c_ontinued on page eight
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Hamilton Acting Provost computer center, which will Eugene Lewis announced recently pr obably be located in the that the colleges have opted to basement of the Daniel Burke accept the proposal to link Library. At Kirkland, a position has Hamilton and Kirkland . with the Cor nell U ni versity computer been created for a computer scientist who will• teach courses in center. A N ational Cash Register computer operation, research, and (NCR) computer, with 32K · technology_ A candidate for the leased to position visited the Hill April 11. capacity, will be The link with Cornell will serve by itselt as a tool for the administration, and a teaching enable the colleges to tap the facility for - computer science capabilities of · one of the largest students. In order to meet the computer systems in New York need of academic work, the State_ All programs inputed in machine will also serve as a Clinton will have equal status with Remote Job Entry unit connected· those originating in Ithaca. Plans for lighting, storage, and with the center in Ithaca unit connected with the center in construction for the computer center will be presented to the Ithaca. Hamilton trustees on May 10. If Standard Compµter T he NCR machin e has plans procees as expected, the capabilities equivalent to the IBM comput�r will �e installed August 11 3 0 w hi c h is a standard I. Kirkland College is paying 40% computer at small colleges. Hamilton has mac;le a faculty of the costs for the computer appointment in mathematics so lease and link-up, the usual share that Assistant Professor David i t assumes for joint college Smallen can direct the campus ventures.
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;ED{TORIAL Shameful Salaries· Inadequate salaries for university professors and a. glutted teacher market have forced PhD's across the country to scramble for the few attractive and well paying positions available, and has pushed many people out of the profession who are now teaching. The resignation of William Snead, Hamilton assistant professor of economics and acting head of the Economics Department, provides a case in point of the , poor financial situation of many college professors. A scholar, Snead plans to attend Cornell Law China School, after which he expect to become involved in Chinese-American trade. Snead has expressed his respect for the faculty, administration, and students here. He said that Ha,nilton provides, under normal circumstances, an- attractive place to teach and to raise a family. Rising costs due to inflation have exceeded recent teacher pay . raises however, and Snead said that he can no longer afford to teach here, nor, probably, at any other small college. Of equal importance in his decision, Snead also said, was his desire to pursue,his interest in the Chinese economy. "It's a rotten market, let's face it," Kirkland President, Samuel F. Babbitt admitted. And although· both colleges are not starving professors, they have played a shrewd marketplace role. Salaries have been raised approximately six per cent while the consumer price index this year has risen significantly more than that. While p eo p le like Professor Snead, without indep�ndent sources of wealth, will be pushed out of ' teaching, it is expected that the market will supply replacements. The colleges, which also complain of rising costs, presume that the inevitable faculty turnover will not cause a deterioration in the quality of -education offered here. It appears, however, that they are mistaken. Turnovers cause disruptions in departments, and create difficulties in curriculum planning. Turnovers result in a high p ercentage · of. young professors, who are inexperienced in the classroom Hamilton and Kirkland wish to be considered among the pre-eminent colleges 'in the country. In order to achieve and maintain such a position, the colleges must not only keep pace with other institutions, but they must offer salaries above the going market rate. The colleges should offer a cost of living escalator, which · would enable professors to keep up with rising costs due to inflation. Although the supply presently exceeds the demand for university professors, the Hill should be attracting im� keeping the most talented products of graduate schools, of which there is a limited supply. The colleges should not be losing them.
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lnvestmen't In Human Resources BY VINCENT DI CARLO It is no secret that in recent years the cost of providing education at the undergraduate level and beyond has risen substantially in the past decade and is likely · to continue to make higher education a greater and greater burden on those who have to foot the bill. Thus, the question of who should take on the economic burdens of . maintaining colleges and ·u niversitie s -::urrently receiving much attention in the academy. Not unexpected is the fact that students and college officials are nearly unanimous in• demanding that state and federal g�>Vernment: e x t e n d more financial support to their institutions. Students wi.sh to be relieved of the cost of a product for which they are now paying a sizable poriion of their own and their parents' present and future incomes. Administration and faculty employees correctly fear that if the actual cost of education were to be more nearly reflected in its price to the student, the demand for their services would decline. What has been miss�ng from the on-campus discussions of public financing of higher
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education thus far is any consideration of equity. That education is so expensive may well be bemoaned. However, public financing does not lower the costs concerned, it merely shifts the .distribution of the payments. There is no justice in coercing the taxpayer to carry the burden of a commodity investment whose not inconsiderable benefits in money, prestige, and satisfaction will accrue largely to another. By financing college out of the public treasury we are effectively making a pernicious sort of transfer payment - taking from the less privileged to those whose prospects are best. Tax money is, in the final exigency, money collected at the point of a gun. The extraction of such funds from the American middle class for the benefit of the most privileged part of the population is inexcusable. Arguments based on the "trickle down" theory of education are the baldest sort of self-serving · rationalization. No one seriously believes that the income derived from whatever extra productivity a college education may result in devolves upon any one else but the graduate himself. Def enders of public support of the college student usually find themselves constrained to resort to appeals to expediency for the justification of such payments. The usual position is that if higher education is to be economically possible for most persons of middle incomes, the government must make a .significant contribution towards defraying its cost. It must be ·admitted that realistic decision s on the part of students concerning the value of their education in relation to its cost (assuming that this cost might be faithfully reflected in tuition payments) will probably result in a drop in college enrollment. However, the subsequent redirection of resources to other ends would make considerable economic sense, i.e., insofar as education is considered a good, the consumption of which provides its own reward to the recipient, the most total satisfaction will result when the alt.ernative uses for economic resources are determined by consumers who will bear the real costs of the goods that they purchase. That portion of the value of education that is of the nature of capital (since it increases the productivity of the educated) can be financed in the same way as all other capital improvements - loans. Some changes in the laws governing the kind of contracts that are enforceable by courts will make it possible for business enterprises to make investments in human beings that will enable the most efficient use to be made of educational capital. "Investment in human resources" is a common liberal cliche; it is time such investment was made a reality. Even if it were decided. th�t governments or banks were to supply the long:-term loans to finance college education, there· is no reason why students themselves should not ultimately pay the cost. A -college education is analogous in many ways to a house. It is part consumer good and part capitol (assume one floor is leased). If a man can take out a mortgage on a house without inciting universal pity, there is no reason to shed any tea.rs over a man who takes on a long-term financial obligation to · finance an education that will ultimately add considerably to his income. The Spectator is seeking regular columnists, and invites any interested students to apply by contacting Mitchel Os-trer or Kenneth Gross. Students may write columns of political opinion, sati�e, light humor,· or general commentary. The Spectator also welcomes any unsolicited comments or letters from its readers. All letters must be signed by . the author. Names will be withheld from print, however, upon author's request. The deadline for letters and comments is Tuesday evening before each Friday publication. The Spectator accepts public notices, or "blurbs," from its readers, and will print them on a space available basis. The . deadline for ."blurbs" is Tuesday eveni·ng before each Friday publication.
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To-the Editor: April 15th deadline for formulation of a The Spectator articles appearing on In general, SCACA's statement adhered to final proposal. pages one and eight of the April 12th issue the same principles that were to be un d e r l i n e t h e p r o b lem o f On March 7th, the Committe drew up a endorsed by CAP three weeks later in their non-communication which exists on this resolution endorsing those aspects of document "How the Curriculum and the campus. The article beginning on page W�ter Study which SCACA thought C alendar Cqu l d b e hnprovecl: a eight, though it contains a great deal of valuable to retain in any calendar. The memorandum from the Committee on misinformation, refers to one impo rtant proposal was presented and accepted in Academic Policy, 4/6/74." gap in the transmitting of information. the Assembly on March 11th. It read in Please note, we did not "opt" to work The following represents my personal view part: with CAP; we had planned to work with SCACA affirms Kirkland's commitment them from the very beginning. of_the situation. SCACA i s responsible for the to alternatives in education that require The preceding represents an accounting coordination of curricular affairs with departures from the traditional use of of SCACA's deliberations on Winter Study Hamilton College. That has been our the acaclemic calendar....Such a break .since October. At the April 11th meeting, charge from the beginning. The charge will ·continue to offer students the Peter Marcy made the first full statement possibility _for alternative educational to the Committee that a January meeting does not preclude the possibility of anyone · else entering into dialogue with e xper i e n c e s like those presently on Winter Study had taken place between Hamilton on any curricular issue. There is a va il a ble t hr o ugh o f f-ca m pus or Kirkland administrators and· CAP. The room for more than one voice; let all sides _ 'non-academic' Winte_r Study projects..To problem of non-communication to which I remember that. be sure, the established format for Winter referred in my opening statement is Contrary to the statement in the Study may not prove the only way to e xemplified 'by the fact that the article, it was long before March when assure such benefits. A program of Committee was not aware of the nature of SCACA realised decisions had to be made modular courses, some of which might be the Administration's talks; not fully about Winter Study. When preparing the offered during the long break is one aware, in fact, that the Administration had year's agen� in October, the· Committee po ssibility;. a number of such courses had talks with CAP, beyond agreeing on decided to table extensive discussion could become a graduation requirement. an A p r i l 1 5t h deadline. As the about the future of the progr_am until the Further, 'trailer' credit could be granted organisation constitutionally responsible proposal for Winter Study '74 (Earning a for additional work in a regular semester for coordination on curricular matters, Living and Living Too) had had a trial run. course. We offer these possibilities not as we should have been informed, lest the On January 3 1 st, the Committee concrete, proposals but as indications of charge be levelled that a body had been requested a report from the Office of our approach to this problem, and we will "upset" or "undercut" by decisions made Academic Affairs evaluating Winter Study be entering into dialogue with Hamilton at a higher level, i.e., by the Kirkland '74. Deans Marcy and Rinard made oral on these matters in a joint meeting with Administration in conjunction with CAP. In this particular case, allegedly, the reports; the Committee was apprised of an CAP.
efforts of the Committee were not bypassed; · I have been informed that President Babbitt and Deans Marcy and Rinanl presented their personal points of view and referred CAP to SCACA for official negotiations. In order to avoid unnecessary future accusations in this vein be_ing levelled by a Committee, I� like to make two - suggestions: L Meetings, to take place on a regular basis, between the chairmen of all major Assembly committees (SCACA, Steering Committee and Studetn Life) and the chairman of the Assembly. In turn, these people would meet, also on a. regular basis, with the President of the College, the Dean of Academic Affairs, and the Dean of Student Affairs. In essence, this would be a chairmen's advisory group. 2. Reports, to be made at each meeting of SCACA. One made by the Dean, stating _all proceedings relevant to SCACA; and the othcr, to be made by the chainnan, outlining all relevant proceedings of the President's Advisory Group and the Chairmen's Advisory Group. I detail these suggestions because they result from the confusion caused in part by the Spectatorarticle. As for their implementation, that is, of course, being worked on at Kirkland. Linda Martin. '74 Chairman, SCACA
news briefs Albany Leaders Confer On Tuition Aid Hig h-level talks between Gover nor Wilson, Assembly Speaker Perry Duryea, and Senate Majority Leader Warren M. Anderson began Tuesday in a Albany in an effort to find comp r o mise bill to increase tuition aid in the state. Roger Noyes, an aide to the Senate Committee on Education, expect_s a compromise to come out of the meetings in the next few days. He said he expected "a unique compromise knowing the Governor who is very talented in that." The legislative leaders· and the governor are attempting to resolve the d ifferences between the student aid bills which passed the A s s e m b l y and Senate, respectively. Noyes said that the Senate is committed to pass a bill this session. He said that rumors that the Senate's original bill was just to block passage of the Costigan plan is false. Noyes added that the Senate has been researching tuition aid for a long time.
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Soviet· Jews" at the annual convention of the International Studies Association in New York in March, 1973. An article on the structure and composition of alienation among Soviet Jewish emigrants will be published in
Studies in C o mparative Communism in May, 1974.
The paper topic is derived from Ross' dissertation, "Socialization Discontinuities and Political Alienations: An Empirical Study of the Emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel." · He did research in Israel in preparation for his di sser tation, surveying Soviet emigrants residing there.
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The Faculty Women's Chm of Hamilton College has published a colorful, tempting cookbook as its principle fund-raising project this year. Entitled "Once Up_on A Ta'1le ", t he v o l ume cont ains some two-hundred recipes - mostly family favorites of Hamilton and Kirkland faculty wives. Several men have also made culinary contributions. R e cipes in clude Wa rren Wright's "L emon Chicken", historian Dave Millar's "Dill Pickles", Anne Kinn�l's "Rabbit Cookies'" and Anne Patenaude's "Rum Cake". (Spectator .tip: try Merle Suttmeier's Chinese specialties) The books, bound with a plastic spiral, are available in the· bookstore for $2.50, according to the club. All funds the Club raises will benefit the Clinton ABC House and the Clinton Child Care Center.
Jeffrey A. Ross, instructor of government at Kirkland discussed his paper on poFtical attitudes of Soviet Jewish immigrants with officials of the Department of State in Washington, D.C. on April 12. Ross came to Kirkland last September from the University of Minnesota, where he was working toward his doctorate. He read the paper to the Office of External Research, which conducts ongoing r esear-c h on vital issues of international relations. The paper has been published in tlte Working Papers Monogram collection of t h e I n ternational S tu dies This ·summer, from June 3 to Association. July 12, Kirkland_ College will be R o s s has done extensive offering an archaeological field research on the po litical aspects of school Soviet Jewry. He presented a· During this· training session, paper entitled, "Alienation and students will learn the basic field · Self-Image: the · Development of techniques which are used for the Emigration-Nationalism among e x c a v ation of prehistoric
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Association of University Women. Independence Day, the 26th She has published several articles anniversary since the founding of and p a p e r s, including 'The Israel. i n 1 948. This year, archaeological sites, and will also Laughing Lion: Nietzche's Vision Independence Day falls on April become f a m iliar w i t h the of the Overman," in The Western 25. prehistory of New York State as· Humanities Review, and "Sartre On April M, at 7:30 in well" as with fundamentals of_ on the Existence of Other Minds" K i r n e r -Johnson Auditorium, ar chaeological method and in The Journal of the British Mesh u l a m Shafran, associate theory. Society for Phenomenology's director of the Israel Aliyah Enrollment will be limited to commemorative issue to Sartre on Center in Queens, serving Upstate New York, will talk on "Israel: approximately 10 students; while his 65th birthday. enrollment is open to all, first Educational and Professional Opportunities." Mr. Shafran was preference will be given to those w i t h s t r o ng interests in born in Ruman.ii, but he and his The robbery of $190 from the family immigrated to Israel in anthropology. It is expected that the field school will consist of Pub early last Saturday morning, 1956. .He served in the Israeli . students of w-idely differing resulted in the closing of the Hill's army and was leader of the Chief drinking establishment for four Army Rabbinate Choir. After anthropological backgrounds. days last week. completing his army duties, Mr. The second break-in of this Shafran received a law degree and semester took place sometime was associtaed with the Tel Aviv Phyllis M orris, assistant ;,dter the 2: 00 a.m. closing time. district attorney. The talk, which Last February the Pub was is intended to provide students professor of -philosophy at Kirkland, has been selected to closed for four days due to w i t h i n f o r m a t i o n about pa rt icipate in the National damage from vandalism. In that possibilities for them in Israel, will Endowment for the Humanities incident, two of the beer taps be accompanied by films and (NEH) Summer Seminar Program. were broken and the cash register followed by a discussion. This The purpose of the NEH summer was pushed to the floor when the evening is being sponsored also by seminar program is to provide in truders _ s hoved their way the Career Center. On Wednesday, April 24, the c o l l e g e t e a c h e r s w i t h t hrough the wooden screen eve of Israel Independence Day, a oppor t unities to work with covering the bar area. Poli ce investigated both party will be held in the Root Art distinguished scholars in their field during the summer months. incidents, but Dean of Students Center at 8: 00 pm. Traditional Morris w i l l s t u d y R . Gordon B in g ha m · s a i d Israeli foods, such as falafel and "P hilo �ooh ical Analysis and yesterday that n o suspects have houmus, will be served, and there will be Israeli dancing. · Psychological Theories of Man" yet been apprehended. The entire college community under Professor Theodore Mischel T h e thieves in Saturday's at SONY, Binghamton. She will robbery apparently entered the is invited to both events. teach a course in the 1974-75 fall Pub through one of the ground semester entitled, "Concept of the . level windows facing the Health Person ", based on the summer's Center. They gained access to the SUM MER PROGRAMS work. It will consist o f cash by knocking out one of the I. Career Discovery at H ar vard �a p h i l o s o phical a n a l y s i s o f panels in the door leading to the summer �minar for earl ege psychological theories o f man bar. It has been reported that the students mterested in Arcyhitecoll ctu re' land P 1annmg and money was kept in an unlocked expressed by such theorists as design, and city and r e g1�n I p l a n n ing. Deadlin � B.F. Skinner, Freud, and Piaget. cash , box underneath the cash app e for hcahon May 15 1974 Morris received her Ph.D. from register. 2 . Geneva Sem�ter- o· _ n the U�ited Until r ecently, a night's Natwn the University of Michigan in s Sys tem. Augus 21 to 1969 and has been a Kidland receipts were kept overnight in December 19. Preliminary sessions at School for Internat . ional Tra.mm professor since the fall of that the Pub and picked up by _ a Venn n . g m . t Field s to international year. She previously held a Service Systems employee in the �?7.ah:ons in tnp Vienna, Strasbourg Kirkland research professorship. morning. The Auxiliary Services Pans, Brussles, and the Hague. . 3: SUNY .Brockport Sem Morris is a member of the Committee announced last night, inar in TJllllllal Justice in A m e.r i c a n P h i 1 o s o p h i c a l however, that a se�ity guard will C Germany and Poland. Association, the Creighton Club now pick up the cash. after each 4. Am e r i c a n Fo rum fo r o f t he Ne w Yor k State closing. �nternational Study-summer programs m Great Britain , Fran Ph ilosophical Association, the ce ' Germany, Italy• .Spain . , Mexico and many othe Society for Phenomenology and r unfrits cov � erin g man y fields of Existentialism, and the Society mterest. for Women in Philosophy. She is �wo event planned by the . s_. u. 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BY BOB WEISSER ·s 1 ump the n e xt , d ue t o . fraternities were not the center of Although college fraternities complacency during rushing. all social functions as they once have been going through some Geor·ge Walsh '75, president of were. relatively lean years of late, they Emerson Literary Society, agreed He said that this social shift seem to be picking up popularity. with Lucia on the absence of c o n t r i b uted to the relative Of this year's Freshman class, 61 me mbership trends. He said, disinterest in fraternities in the per cent chose to pledge a however, that Vietnam did not late 1960's, and that frats have fraternity. Several fraternity have as large an effect on this h a d . to change to maintain themselves. presidents see this increase as a campus as it did on others. Watkins sees a liberalizing Walsh attributed the comeback national trend. Tom Lucia '75, president of Psi of the fraternities to the growing trend in the policies of both Upsilon, said that during the "conservatism and tradifionalism" national and local fraternities. He Vietnam war years, membership of s t ude n t s , es pecially on said that "not too long ago," in the national organization �as campuses such as'Hamilton. Jim fraternities discriminated against depressed, but that recently the Kennedy '74, ex-president of blacks and Jews, but that it would situation had improved. He also Alpha Delta Phi, said its national be impossible for them to survive said that at colleges which had organization has been maintaining today if they continued that gone coed, Psi U's membership its membership over the last tradition. Mitchel Ostrer '75, former had decreased in previous years. s everal years. He said the Con cerning t he Hamilton reduction in membership in the president of Theta Delta ·chi, also chapter, Lucia noted that there late '60's had taken place because mentioned the racist attitudes of Fraternities have changed since the days df The Sterile C�ckoo h as been no real trend in "people had too many other certain fraternities. One of the h a s t ri ed to be c o me .an an increase in interest in fraternal reasons he cited for the comeback "unfraternity" in the last few organizations around the country, · membership totals or number of things to worry about." pledges.· He said they might have a K e n n e dy considers AD a of fraternities was that they years--a fraternity that is very but generally feel that fraternities large pledge class one year, and a "melting pot," although, he said, changed their policies and lost the open and attracts all types of will not . return either to the · popularity of the 1950's or to the a few years ago the majority of its twin stigmas of racism and elitism. students. SNEAD Ostrer said that TDX is now on Matthews could not spot any practices of that era. membership had been hockey continued from page one Carovano, acting president of players. According to him, the the upswing, both nationally and national trends 'in membership in The totals for this year's Hamilton. ''The net flow is likely reasons for joining a fraternity are loc�ly. . · D e l t a Phi. "F r aternities at pledges, according to the latest to be out of teacµing in the next the food, the location, and the Bill Voorhees '76, president of d i f f e rent schools are totally compilation by Dean Bingham's few years," Carovano said. people in the house. Gryphon, said that there has been different," he said, "and the office are as follows: Alpha Delta Samuel F. Babbitt, Kirkland E d Watkins '74, outgoing a turn away from the closed college. in many cases makes the Phi, 18; Chi Psi, 20; DKE, 23; presiden t, said, of Snead's president of TEAK, concurred fraternity. Gary Matthews '75, fraternity." Delta Phi, 8; Delta Upsilon, 26; resignation, "He's part of a with Kennedy on the reasons for president of Delta Phi agreed. Overall, most of the presidents ELS ,. 13; Psi Upsilon, 27; Sigma growing statistic - those leaving joining frats. �e _&so noted that Matthews also said that Delta Phi of the fr�ternities at Hamilton see Phi, 9; TEAK 12· TDX 16 the academic profession because of the deteriorating job market." THE VILLAGE TAVERN Due in part to a glutted teacher market and colleges' economic pecial Every Monday Evenin woes_, university professor salaries, Dozen Clams and which rose dramatically in the Pitcher of Beer A 1960�s, have not kept pace with $2.50 1 the rising inflation the past few _)\\\ :· A • u� .:.JmE. .!,;;;! -m.. • cef\.•. .=:r.. .:::Hi::: ... and pizza too years. -iilJJr � 74 College St.853-8070 Snead said that he had been forced to drain his family savings in o rder to pay for such necessities as his children's shoes. Although he said that he has . appreciated the students, faculty, . ARMY & NAVY . and administration here, Snead .. . Downtown Utica , said that he just cannot survive economically. For Junior faculty, such as Snead, who sit at the bottom of salary scales and who must cope with FOR GUYS & GALS the expenses of young families, are expected to be the hardest hit in the next few years. Snead, as an economist, said that he commands a "high opportunity wage", referring to his ability to find well-paying jobs outside tea�hing. Professors in s uch f i elds as . government, psychology, and sciences also have mobility. Last year, David Rosenbloom, -:;._ j . Hamilton assistant professor of government, and Edwin Erickson, Hamilton assistant professor of 1t' .. ..HIGH )(iSTED:JEA�.$ biology:, left teaching for jobs in HIP HUGGERS government and public health.
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Kirkland Science: Policy Since 1964 The following is the first installment of a four-part series on Kirkland Co l l e g e's s c i e n ce programs. Subsequent installments will examine proposals for the future, and a, report on science commissioned by the college.
stressing pure science, rather than technology, and a course which was complete in itself rather than a preparation for a second-year course." The "Core" Program When Kirkland opened in the BY MONICA LIFF these 1968, of fall Kirkland's "most serious recommendations for a pure _ curricular deficiency" is "the science course had been at least weakness of its Science Division", partially followed. The curriculum reported the Middle States included a program of required Association of Colleges and courses for the freshman year in Secondary Schools when it Humanities, Social Sciences, and reviewed the college . for Sciences, and for the sophomore accreditation in 19 72. year in Humanities. They were Over the past decade, science called Core courses. programs at Kirkland have been A college catalogue from marked by lack of coordination· 1968-69 states "Required Core insufficient courses at Kirkland · are designed . Hamilton, with planning, and unrealized goals. to offer students insight into the· When -Kirkland was still in �e basic concepts and methods of chosen as the lab science for a planning stages, before it even had different fields of knowledge and number of conveniently a name, recommendations were to promote their understanding of compatible reason�. Interpreting being made that Kirkland not the unifying principles which are coordination as the avoidance of include the sciences in its areas of shared by all of them." duplication, administrators found woman concentration; a In order to represent science that botany seemed a logical interested in a science major in this interdisciplinary structure complement to the Hamilton would take her concentration it was decided to offer History of zoology-dominated biology. courses at Hamilton. Science, which is a type of bridge In addition, Botany courses are The minutes of an Advisory between the Humanities and the relatively inexp.ensive to equip, Committee on the Coordinate Sciences. According to President and there outdoor are College for Women meeting 9n Babbitt, History of Science is "an "laboratory" facilities available. March 25-26, l964, state "It was unusual element an "They did not wish to have a in felt that the college- should not undergraduate curriculum." curriculum that required an attempt advanced instruction in The college also opted to offer enormous amount of laboratory science ... Envisioned was a course courses in botany which was equipment and a building that could be used for only- one kind of teaching," said Assistant Dean DOWNSTAIRS ,AT THE INN of Academic Affairs Ruth Rinard, Opens at 8 :00 pm who also teaches History of Science. Friday and Saturday The Core science program was essentially science for non-science Live Jazz 9:30 pm - 12:30 am majors, according to Professor of Botany Eugene Putala. The credits from Core could not serve as prerequisites to Hamilton science A Convivial and Friendly Atmosphere courses. "Kirkland did not ask for equivalent credit,"Pµtala said.. THE ALEXANDER HAMILTON INN Students who wished to take Hamilton science courses their
freshman year could have their Core requirements science deferred or dropped. However, students who decided after a year in Core that they were interested in science had to start with the Hamilton introductory courses ., Core is Abolished Prior to the 1970-71 academic year, after t w o y e a rs of i mplementati on, · the college abolished Core, and replaced it with a free elective system. According to Putala, the Kirkland science program was "custom-made" for the ·core curriculum. The abolition of Core, t h er efore, c r e a t e d s e r i o u s problems fo r the Science Division. The Science Division had to restructure� its laboratory science electives around the background plant biology courses previously offered through Core, and then ha d to offer concentration electives to round out the major. The History of Science courses, however, did not require much modification. The division, previous to Core's disbandment, was made up of 2
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biologists, 1 chemist, 2 science historians, a science philosopher, a n d a mathema t i cian. The mathematics and philosophy of science professors have since left. The Chemist, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Norman Boggs, does his teaching at Hamilton. After this year, Boggs, and Botanists Elizabeth Gilbert and Ken Howard will not be at Kirkland, leaving only Putala in the Division unless replacements are appointed. As part of the revision of the science . curriculum . after Core, Kirkland decided to hire a third botanist. They were looking for a senior scientist who would be able, in Rinard 's words, "to draw in grants and speak as an equal With the Hamilton biologists.'' . A Thwarted Appointment ln th,e position of Kirkland s en i o r scientist, within the en visaged program, a person would have a lot of interaction with the Ha milton biology faculty. According to President Babbitt, the strongest candidate who was interviewed for the position h a d w hat Babbitt described as a personality clash with the Hamilton professors. "We thought ·he was terrific," said Babbitt, "but he would never get to first base with the Hamilton professors." T h at candidate was never offered t h e positi o n , and ultimately Associate Professor of B o t a n y Gilber t, pre se ntly Chairman of the Division, was hired for the post. Coordination Problems of coordination and communi cation between the Hamilton biology department and the Kirkland science division started early in the college's history. There are conflicting reports ·of what communication did occur. Professor of Biology A. Duncan Chiquoine, Chairman of the Hamilton department, said that as far as he knew there were no questions or advice solicited from the Hamilton biologists by anyone at Kirkland. Chiquoine was not department chairman at the time. Professor Chiquoine' said that one member of the biology department did go to the Kirkland administration, and volunteered an opi�on that there should not be a complete separation between the K'ir kland and Hamilton science curriculums. Professor Putala said that he remembers nothing of that type of conversation. Putala was then Chairman of the Kirkland Science Division. He said that be took continuedon-page nine
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Sir,pa and Tony Salatino
Sa latinoS Resign· Dance To Suffe;
'School For Wives' Acclaimed; Acting, Directing Uniformly Sharp BY NANCY OPPENHEIM At last there is a play on the Hill which richly deserves both applause a n d a cclaim. The production of Moli�re's School for Wives did not mer�ly-sustain interest; it was an absolute delight to watch. Moli�re's verse play, _briefly, pokes fun at tl?-e middle ages and middle dassArnolphe, a man who is determined to wed a faithful woman. To insure that he won't be cuckolded, he has Agnes, his bride-to-be, raised in a convent far from the society of man, and when she is of suitable age, he brings her to town and locks her in his house, resolved to keep her utteriy i nho c e n t o f guile, childishly stµpid. Arnolphe is positive that in this way he has safeguarded him self against the possibility of his future wife becoming an adul tress. This, however, is not the case. A�es happens to meet a young man 1 Horace, and needless to say, the plot thickens. Although Ainolphe is aware of each step of the young couple's plan to meet, and eventually run ·away together; a co�bination of F a t e> and Agnes's b ud d i ng cle verness prevent him from m aking any headway against them.
Many members of the college BY SUSAN HUNTINGTON Anthony and Sirpa Salatino, comm unity h a ve questioned Assistant Professors of Dance at whether or not the couple has Kirkland since 1972, have been been satisfied with the degree of offered new positions in the city cooperation they have received of Syracuse and will be leaving the f r o m t h e K i r k l an d Arts college at the close of the spring Department. Tony was adamant semester. Tony is to become the in asserting that any rumors of - Jim Peskin as Arnolphe, Due cle"la Souche. . ...-, artistic director of the Syracuse dissatisfaction or negative feelings play.Amolpheis the one character so, Lerner makes a fine transition Ballet Theatre; while Sirpa will . on his part are "totally false", and who is constantly on stage,. the from the innocence of a child to function as artistic1 -director of the generated "without consulting the man to whom all others relate, the charm of a young woman. affiliated School of Dance. Next Salatinos." Though initially Peskin was a bit Young, brash and handsome, year will be the first time that the The pair voiced a deep regard more stiff and pompous than Trevor Drake '75 fit the role of Sharp Direction school and the seven-year-old for this dep artment, which they · dance company have operated feel is a very open division, First praise must go to Director Arnolphe's ·character demands, he Horace to a "T". More than any under the same management. receptive to improvement and C a r o l B e l lini- S h a r p, w ho soon was at his ease, and slid of the other actors, Drake played The Salatinos' decision to leave s uc c es sfully , transplanted this easily from one mood to another the time period in a campy way. appreciative of change. Kirkland arose primarily from They feel that the experience Molie!re comedy from the 17th _without changing his basic grip oL_His lankiness, and leisurely yet the character. energetic movements were fun to t h e i r d e s i r e f o r f ur t h e r of teaching at a college has been century to the twentieth. George Walsh '75 also deserves watch, and when he spoke aboat development and fin,!!r channeling g r e at l y b e n e f i c i a l t o t h e Without changing the text, the of t heir artistic growth. In d e velopment o f their own actors say their century old lines, mention for his characterization Agnes, he was especially pleasing Syracuse, the couple_ will have an personalities and the formation of adding a flavor of Art Deco to the of Chrysalde. As the cool, calm and sensitive, without falling into opportunity to work exclusively - a- sense of objectivity towards play through their stylized and and collected friend of Arnolphe, he the trap of ·syrupiness. Rowdy Players with dance on a professional level, themselves, both as people and as characteristic movements. It must provided a quiet contrast to his d o i n· g a g r e a t d e a l o f performers. In spite of any be stressed that the "modem" comp�ion's frenzy, in addition M inor cha racters who cannot choreography and devoting a high reluctance to leave the school, atmosphere in no, way smothers to providing us with one sure be overlooked are the thrct percentage of their time to young however, they said they, r�main the play hut enhances it, adding an voice of rationality. servants of Arnqlphe • They m The sweet and supposedly , 1 students who' are in the crucial '"very enthusiastic about the new extra trace Georgette, ·Alain , and Lisette, of wit. b r a i n less little ingenue was years of physical development as artistic opportunity" which lies The quality of the acting was Mary Beth Lerner '76, who filled played by Marcie Beglieter '76, ahead of them. dancers. Steve Zorthian '77, and Kathryn _un ifo r m l y s ha r p a n d well The Salatino's resignation has executed (another tribute to Ms. �e role of Agnes. Understatement _ L aws ' 7 7 respectively. Tht Both Tony and Sirpa said they w a s the k e y in L e r n e r 's have good feelings about their .only recently become official, and Bellini-Sh 's direction), but buffoons of the play, they ac arp performance, in keeping with y e a r s of K i r k l a n d. They no decisions have yet been made _some characters must receive Agnes' quiet nature. Occasional M�li�re's Three Stooges, rowdy, mentioned their high esteem for concerning their :replarenrnt.. As extra commendation for their fine foolish and often vulgar, em f l a shes of temperament were ready to accept a bribe. Zonhill the student body here and the Arts Department will also lose performances. appreciated, and perhaps had expressed appreciation for' the jazz instructor Rhett Dennis next Jim Peskin '74, in the role of more of a marked change was especially hilarious as the well disciplined attitµde which year, Kirkland may find it .Arnolphe, maintained a highly vivacious Alain, with a gleam ii oc�urred in Agnes as she learned some of. the students have difficult to maintain the quality ene�getic· a n d e x p r es s i ve more abol}t the world, we might his eye and a hand in the Jada exhibited in the study of dance. of its dance program. i n t erpretation throughout the have better understood her. Even p�tticoats. As was mentioned before, thil production of School for Wivts was transplanted to � jazzy era, a n d the actors and snappy Hamilton and Kirkland students. BY JAMES FRANCIS Malcolm� College, will lecture on background music, along with Other events to be held during "Education: The Black Solution", pantomimes done in the style of The Black and Puerto Rican the period, all helped to create aa at 8 p.m. in the Gym. Union of Hamilton and Kirkland that week are: image·. The absolute clincher was Friday, Sunday, A pril 21: Richard April 26: La Sonora Colleges, which was founded in Borinquen, una banda Latina que M a t t S o l o n ' s huge, 1968 by Black and Puerto Rican Mayhew art exhibit in the Bristol estima al publico consu ritmo im pre ssionis tic, stark, clean, students of both colleges, once Campus Center lounge at 3 p.m. simple black and white set. It Vinie Burrows presents Walk again p resents i t s a n n ua l tropical del Car£be. hindered the movements of the en, a one-woman Together · c h i l dr Saturday, April 'l.7: Symposium: Afro-Latin Cultural Celebration. actors not at all. Extra bonuses show featuring poetry, prose, and rnatives £n Black Education , Alte Entitled Sisi Kwa Sisi (We �uch as Solon's set, add an �ong, in the Ch el at 8 p.:r;_n. ap uiltil 2 p.m. in the IOa.m. Among Ourselves): Modes and Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. This element of professionalsim to any Mediums of Black Expressions, M o n d a y , A p r i l 22 : T h e discussion will be followed (at 3 production. the week-long celebration will run Amboarampeo Choir, from the Costumes by Kathleen Smith University of Madagascar, will p.m. ) with a musical performanc� from April 21 to April 27. The by The JUJU Dancers and Love, were in keeping with the same purpose of the week is to perform at 8:30 p.m. in the Gym. Unity, and Strength, ,two Syrac�se high caliber as the rest of the "promote unity and brotherhood Tuesday and Wednesday, April 23 groups who will present a variety show, ohce again helping the play among the Sisters and Brothers, and 24: Film series in the of African dancing and drumming, to be seen as a whole unit. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. T he and to bring Black and Puerto Space does not permit any and · Jamaican chants and Rican cultures to the campuses," films, which will start at 10 p.m. lengthy examination of all tbt zz A t . 9 p . m . , J a p o e t r y. each night, will include: Black a ccording to Celebration '74 Sa�ophonist Grover Washington, actors and actresses involved ill Woman, Behind the Lines Cuba Planning Committee members. Jr� will perform in the Gym. The School for Wives I y et all tho The calendar of events will Va{ Puerto Rico:Culebr� and concert will be free for social tax performers who are seen only include an art exhibit in the other&. holders. �eneral admission will be b riefly, gave crisp and we1 T hursday, April 25: Dr. Charles Afro-Latin Cultural Center, which thought out performances. $3.00. Grover ·washington, Jr. w i l l display the talents of H ur st, f o r m e r president of
BPRU Launches Afro-Latin _ Cultural .Celebration Next
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events· On Campus This Weekend
Spegr Directs Players, Vet8rans Man Pinafore
FILM
Forbidden Games. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Sunday at 10 p.m. only. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75.
Singing in the Rain. Starring Gene Kelly. Hollywood cartoons also. Chemistry Auditorium. Admission $.75: April 22 (Monday) Bl<Yomsbury Film: Duncan Grant atCharleston.8 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium.
April 23 (Tuesday)
- Spanish Film. La Vida Es Sueno- (Life is a· Dream). 7:30 p.m. Physics Auditorium.No admission charge. Anthropology Film: Dead Birds. 7:30 p.m. Science Auditorium.
April 25 (Thursday)
Anthropology Film: To Find Our Life. 7:30 p.m. Science Auditorium. Strangers on a Train and The Great McGonigle. 8 p.m. Chemistry Auditorium. Admission $.75. Umberto D. 8 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission $.75.
At Nearby Theaters
Cannonball (853-5553) Serpico (R) Cinema Theater (739-2313) The Great Gatsby (PG) Cinema National Uptown (732-0665) Blazing Saddles (R) Paris (733-2730) Exorcist (R) Stanley (724-4000) Alice in Wonderland (G) 258 Cinema (732-5461) Paper Chase (PG) and The Sting (PG)
April 19 (Friday)
LECTURE AND DISCUSSION
Lecture: Economic and Legal Realities of Women in Labor. Tanya Roberts. 7:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit (room 109).
April 20 (Saturday)
Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:.30 p.m. Kirner-J9hnson Red P1t.
April 21 (Sunday)
The whole World loves a lover, and nowhere is this truer than in the world of Gilbert and Sullivan. These English music masters t ur n e d out m a n y b e l oved operettas, and first among them is the delightful H.M.S. Pinafore. Pina/ore will be presented by the Alexander Hamilton Players April 26 to 28 at the Chapel. As the play begins, the crew of the Pinafore have set sail for an ocean of enjoyment, but trouble intrudes. Ralph Rackstraw is in love with Josephine, the Captain's daughter, but they cannot get married because of differences in social status. Captain Corcoran cannot marry his beloved peddler woman, Buttercup, for the same reason. Their problems are briefly set aside when the pompous Sir Joseph Porter, first lord of the Admiralty, joins the ship along with a whole flock of his sisters, cousins, and aunts. Immediately after things settle down on shipboard, though, Sir Joseph declares his love for Josephine, and the plot thickens. The young _lovers, aided by the
sailors, almost escape to land to Kirkland College President Samuel get married, but they are thwarted F. Babbitt, who plays Sir Joseph. by the Captain and the evil Dick Babbitt loves musicals, and is Deadeye. deliciously comic in his role. The Captain gets so angry at Drama is the president's chief this attempted elopement that he relaxation, and he very much swears, and· Sir Joseph has to enjoys working with the players order him to go below-decks. on the show. Ralph follows when the pompous Hamilton junior Dave Kulle Admiral finds out that the young plays the role of the Captain with sailor also loves Josephine. Just as things look darkest, a flair. Kulle eventually hopes to however, Little Buttercup tells Sir sing opera, and he is off to a good Joseph that she wet-nursed Ralph · start with Pinafore. Musical Director Lee S. Spe ar, and the Captain when they were 1 babies, and accidently got them is full of compliments for the mixed up; this clears everything other cast members, who include u p, f o r Ralph becomes ·an Mike S i gler '76 and Fred Hollender '74 as Ralph, as well as aristocrat, the Cap'tain becomes a sailor, and everyone can marry Nancy Dolliver '75 and Rebecca whomever he chooses. The play S p ear as Josephine. Rebecca ends with the crew cheering the ·spear, the director's wife, is an newlyweds lustily. accomplished musician in her own right; she teaches at Clinton Seasoned Crew The Players . are not new to C e n t r al S c h o o l , and has m·usical theatre, having toured performed with the Cincinnati over four states last year with Philharmonic. their hit 1776. In fact, many of Larry Wingert, a senior, who the Pinafore =cast were stars in was acclaimed for his 1776 1776. performance as John Dickinson, An exception,. hQwever, is now plays another type of villain, Dick Deadeye. Although Wingert always seems to be cast in a villainous role, he is exciting and competent in his acting.
Free Church Service: Speaker; professor Hugh Barbour, Earlholm School of Religion. Topic:CommunitiesCdn Focus Truth. 11:15 a.m. Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 p.m. Chapel. Theological Workshop: Mutual Ministry: A Quaker View of the Church. Hugh Barbour; Quaker theologian and Church historian. 7 p.m. Fisher Room, Bristol Campus Center. Lecture and Film: Educational and-Professional Opportunities. Meshullam Shafram of Israel Aliyah Center. 7:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium •
April 22 (Monday)
Sigma Xi· Lecture: High Energy Astrophysics and the Death of Stars.Professor .J.P. Ostriker of Princeton University.8;30 p.m. Science Auditorium.
April 23 (Tuesday)
Discussion: Artist and Art Historian - Two Points of Views of Five Works. 8 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. April 24 (Wednesday) Truax Lecture Series: The Rationality of Man. A.R.C. Duncan 1
· Truax Professor of Philosophy. 4 p.m. Chemistry Auditorium. Introductory Lecture on Transcendental Meditation. 7:30 p.m. Kirner-Johnson Room 220. Bible Study. Speaker: Da vid Miller. The Post-Resurrection Appearances of Jesus. 9 p.m. Alumni House.
MUSIC
April 19 (Friday)
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Student Activities Committee Concert: Happy and Artie Traum. 8 p.m. Chapel. Free with Social Tax-. General admission $2.50.
April 20 (Saturday)
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Student Activities Committee Concert:Billy Cobham. 8 p.m. Chapel: Free with social tax. General admission $3.00.
April 22 (Monday)
. Concert: Amboarampeo Choir of the University of Madagascar 8:30 p.m. Alumni Gym.
April 24 (Wednesday)
Israeli Independence Day- Party: Felafe/ and Houmus. Israeli Dancing 8 p.m. Root Art Ce�ter.
Currently on Campus
EXHIBITIONS
Harold B'eament: Paintings and Drawings. At Root Art Center through April 28.
Coming This Week
William Salzi!lo: Paintings. Opens Monday, f\pril 22. Opening reception Thursday, April 25, 7:30 p.m. List Art Center. Through May 24.
April 19 (Friday)
DRAMA
Moli�re's School For Wives. 8 p.m. Minor Theater. $.75 for students, General Admission $1.50. Also Saturday and Sunday.
WHCL-FM PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Interviews with Billy Cobham and Happy and Artie Traum. Sunday, April 21. 4 p.m .
Samuel Babbitt and Jill Brand in Pinafore.
Clear Sailing Director Spear is happy and confident with the crew, and he is e xpecting . fine performances. Spear, who has done choral work with Leonard Bernstein, and has done P inafore twelve times before, claims that he "has never seen a better cast." The producer of the show is Peter Sluys, founder of the Alexander Hamilton Players. He and assistant producers Geoff Lawrence, Jim DeVittorio, artd Kevin Clark have had to grapple with problems ranging from where to find peppermint drops, to where to locate cannonballs. The performances of H.M.S. Pinafore are scheduled for 8 o'clock on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. In addition, a special matinee performance will be given Saturday at 2 p.m. Admission is $.50 for all students, and $1.50 for adults. Reserved seat tickets may be purchased at the Bristol Campus Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays; tickets will also be on sale at the door.
Students Derid8-SA_C Orice More As . Nallle Bands Break Contracts
-- Foilowing a precedent set by 'Andrew Wertz, director of student small colleges, can afford neither Joseph Sisco, the Kinks, and activities. In early April, Cody the time nor the money to sue. Also, many contracts include a Commander Cody, Mother E arth accepted a job ·in Rochester and rider stating that in the event of a and Tracy Nelson will not backed out. B l ues guitarist Taj Mahal breach of contract by the artist, perform on the Hill. L ast week The Spectator backed out of an agreement in the employer's rights to damages reported that Commander Cody 1973, and folksinger John Prine's a re 1 imited to out-of-pocket and His Lost Planet Airmen had manager ruined much of the expenses already incurred, such as reneged on their agreement· to effect of 1913 Winter Houseparty the printing of tickets, and local appear. One of their replacements, Concert by demanding that the advertising. If, on the other hand, the Mother Earth, broke up at the last guitarist-singer have top billing employer should in any way break m i n u t e a n·d c a ncelled a over bluesman James Cotton. The S.A.C. has been severely the contract, the group does rtot nationwide tour. This, however, is criticized for not bringing big have to appear, but they are still not a ·new trend. The Kinks, legendary British name bands to the Hill. What the entitled to the full fee stated in rockers, had accepted a Student complainers do not realize is that - the contract. A.cti vities Committee bid in the S.A.C. has signed well-known In the revised schedule, folk Febru ary, to fill the Houseparty g r o ups, only to have these artists H�ppy and Artie Traum "popular heroes" break their concert slot. They, too, did not agreements because they would will appear tonight in the Chapel, honor the agreement. rather not play in a small, and Billy Cobham will appear T h eir replace me nt, Saturday night in the same place. secluded town like Clinton. Commander Cody, accepted a bid Cody and his ilk are virtually Happy and Artie will star at 8 and sent in his contract, which i m m une o lawsuit because · p.m., and Cobham's show will was signed and returned by prospective temployers , especially start at- _8: 30.
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Ideology Sparks So\liet Sym_Qosium continued from page onr with a dark blue cloth with H a m i l t o n a n d Kirkland's emblems. The three Soviets and three American students sat on either side of Wright. Busygin's Optomism Busygin, the first student to give his speech, spoke on "Youth and International Relations." H e was optomi�tic about the amount young people can accomplish in this area, citing the eventual solving of the Viet Nam conflict as one example. He offered three tasks for youth to improve international relations. 1. Students must demand an end to military support in Chile. 2. S tudents should work for lasting peace in the mideast. ·co vern mef! ts s ho uld not interfere with the domestic problems of other countries. 3. Students should promote an end to the Cold War1by seeking settlement to the arms race. "Active efforts of youths could accelerate this." Arms Negotiations Speaking on arms negotiations, Louis Levenson, '74, pointed out the discrepancies between what both countries say they want and what exactly they are doing to acheive their aims. "Although the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. meet· on equal te�s at the SALT talks, the U.S. would like to be a little more equal. .But there can be no progress if there is a first among equals." Levenson said that Americans
can criticize their government and are in a position to know what's happening and that " We hope to show Soviet students how to, too." He closed his speech by saying that American students alone cannot help to slow the arms race, but with the help of S o v i e t s t u d e nt s- s h o w i n g disapproval ·to their government, this might be accomplished. The Duty of Education N e xt to give his formal presentation was Aslanov, on "Youth in Education." He said that t h eir s ocie t y r e gards education as a duty of every citizen. H e emphasized •the i mporta n ce o f their sports programs and the percentage of higher education students with financial aid, about eighty per cent. "There is much room for· improvement but progress is much greater in the U.S.S.R. than any capitalist country," said Aslanov. He pointed out the U.S:S.R.'s one hundred percent literacy and quoted figures on the amount of money spent per each student's education. Hollander spoke on ''Detente". She was critical of both countries but said that at least change was possible in ·the U.S. Speaking abou t Viet Nam, she said, "Change came not from the top, but from millions of outraged and pe r s i s t e nt · American demonstrators, letter-writers, and dissentors. It took a few years, but it was done peacefully and
legally, not by violence, not bv Bogdanov said that students have allow�d to express their views_. silen cing or s hoo ting t h� a lot to show each other and Questions from the audience opposition, not by incarcerating through learning about each . included ones on Solzhenitsyn the dissentors in insane asylums, other's cultures, can learn mutual a n d t h e Russifi cation of and not by sending them to a r e s p e c t . T h i s knowledge Lithuania. Engin Kevenk '75 frozen wasteland the equivalent of contributes greatly to peace. asked Busygin if the Soviet youth Siberia." Hollander received much Bogdanov concluded, "War is the really could have the same role as applause form the audienc;_e for most dreadful thing that could U .S._students in Viet Nam and used her speech. . _ .. happen." t h e U.S.S.R. i n v a s i o n o f Busygin's Optimism The final speech, by Peter Czechoslovakia as an example. Bogdanov, introduced as· the Fasolin�, '74 dealt with culture in Busygin replied that Soviet troops only one of the Soviets to wear b o t h countries. Fasolino, an did not invade Czechoslovakia so "jeans," covered "Youth and E n glish major, however, was therefore Soviet youth did not Cultu,re." He told of the popular critical of the Soviet Union's protest. activities of young people in the treatment of dissidents in the �ts. The Soviet students and Hall USSR: movies· (an average of 19 He commented on the Panov's wi ll t r a v e l to seven other visits to a cinema per Soviet situation an d Solzhenitsyn was campuses across the country citizen per year), museum going; also ·mentioned. Fasolino stressed before returning to the U .S.S.R. currently there is a '\m_u_s_eum that in theU.S. writers and other ·"' The Soviet students were explosion," and youth clubs. artists, although in disagreement chosen on the basis of their C ompleting his statement, with the government are still knowledge of English and their participation in Soviet youth groups. T h e H a m i l t o n-Kirk land participants were selected by their interest and knowledge of the U.S.S.R. They prepared their ''They usually live with one or the weather was like in Moscow . speeches weeks before the about the styles and tastes of BY FREDERIC BLOCH d i scussion • two other students." Bogdanov, when they left. that said He students. Soviet "C an y o u g e t American "It was about four degrees cigarettes in Russia?" a Utica student rooms in his country were 22, is married and lives with his C entigrade [just under forty reporter asked Mikhail Bogdonov usually larger than the Kirkland wife in a Leningrad apartment. Informality was the rule in this degrees Farenheit] ," Bogdanov dorm single occupied· by .Louis as Bogdonov lit his Tareyton. Specializing week's return visit of Soviet replied. ''Yes, we can," answered Levenson, one of the American in Canned Cocktails cold," pretty that's "Wow, · Bogdanov, studying his lighted debaters, who would soon be students and educators to the for Picnics cigareete. "Actually they are quite meeting Bogdanov and his two Hamilton and Kirkland campus. responded Bosley apparently not tasty, but our tobacco is purer Soviet teammates in Tuesday· The first visit was in 1972, but catching the distinction between Spring isn't Spring that visit and the recent one were the two temperature scales. night's debate. and stronger.'' without a nice in fluent most the Bogdanov, ''Most students don't have as different as the ideologies BogdanC:v, dressed in blue jeans bottle of English, did most of the talking May Wine and a dark purple shirt talked single rooms," Bogdonov said. expressed by the two sides. interviews. television the during Missing this year were the reporters from the New York Immediately after the interviews Times and Time magazine, the he denied that he was nervous, cameramen from CBS and ABC, but pressed afterwards he said, clear ski es and 6 5-d egree "We 11, actually, I was too temperature, and perhaps most frightened to be nervous." The Soviets,. Bogdanov, Leoni� importantly, a continuing war in Vietnam and a generally tense Aslanov, and Antaloy Busygin, -escorted by the three Americans, international mood. The entourage of reporters and Levenson, Vera Hollander '74, and the mild weather contributed to a Peter F_asolino '74,_spoke amiably carnival atmosphere during th ... to students and faculty members 1972 visit. On that day, the· throughout the day. Aslanov, a Russi an•American symposium was member of the chemistry faculty attended by a standing room only of the University of Moscow, and crowd of close to 1500. The at 35 the oldest member of the crowd was down to about 800 group, seemed more comfortable this year, but the day seemed speaking with faculty members more relaxed and more rewarding than with American students. Li brarian Walter Pilkington to all the participants as they ambled around the two campuses, gave Aslanov a tour of the Burke lunched at McEwen, and attended library explaining the adva�tages a cocktail party at Delta Upsilon ,and disadvantages of the building. and a dinner at the Llumni Spe aking of the system o_f Keyhole Lounge i n terlibrary loans used by House.. Rt. 12B and 5B Clinton The day was interrupted only Ame rican libraries, Pilkington occasionally by Utica television added, "I would think that if reporters se eking interviews. libraries in this country could Cocktail Hours . WKTV weather reporter and cooperate with libraries in your 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. sometime-anchorman Lyle Bosley country, nothing would be finer." 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BY SUSAN GREENBLATT be brought in to see students. Poller is aware of the need for Some of the people to whom Kirkland and Hamilton students more woman consel9rs, at least on can go with any kind of personal an informal level; many Kirkland problems are Dean of Student students now seek out female Affairs, Jane Poller, and Cynthia faculty members, as well as the Allen, counseling intern for the . student affairs staff in order to spring semester, who may be discuss their personal prboblems. found at the dean's office, and Dr. ''The need", she said, "is there." Donald M uilen b e r g, clinical Also, she said that certainly there psychologist, whose office is in are men who might want to see a the Thomas Rudd Health Center. woman counselor. For the past few semesters, Poller expressed the hope that students have voiced the need for the Health Center budget would expansion of the counseling be expanded or re-apportioned by services offered by the schools, the '7 5-'76 school year so that a particularly at the Health Center. woman clinical psychologist could Many Kirkland women have asked be hired· on a half-time basis. that a woman clinical psychologist T h is p er ceived need was
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continued from� &e proposals to tl!e Hamilton biology faculty and administration, but that they were never considered. "We never seemed able to produce any kind of an agreement," he said. With the addition of a t hird biologist, the Kirkland Science Division designed a program w hi c h essentiall y conforms to the courses offered this year. "We took what we were equipped with: three botanists, knowledgeable in ecology, lower and higher plants, and designed a curriculum," said Putala. When the curriculum was being drafted, an attempt was made to c o o r d i n a t e K i r k l a n d 's introductory c o urses w i t h Hamilt on's Biology 11-12, according to Putala. Nothing came of the attempt. Putala said that he thinks that Hamilton took the attitude that their introductory biology coutses offered sufficient preparatioii" for the advanced courses; and that there was no room or need for modification. He felt that if Hamilton was to see a need for modification, they would not feel a need to include or consider Kirkland input. As the curriculum was drafted, according to Rinard, it was decided to offer one-third of the Kir kland science courses for non-science majors. This, it was felt, would give students a chance to "come in and taste science." However, if a student became interested in science, there would probably not be enough courses at Kirkland to maintain that interest, Rinard said. They would have to be supplemented by Hamilton courses. "We had- a kind of chicken and egg argument," said Rinard. "We couldn't decide whether to set up the program and hope to attract the students, or to , attract the students and then set up the >rogram.''
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MCKINNEY SPEECH CONTEST Finalists for the annual McKinney Prize Speaking Contest were announced this week by Professor Todd of the Speech Department. The contest will be held in the Science Auditorium on Friday, April 26th at 4:30 PM. Speaking for the Freshman class will be Renardo Hicks. Albert Jackson� Matthew Pecchenino. Sophomores will be represented by Barry Seltzer and James De Vittorio. Junior speakers will be Peter Sluys, Geoffrey Lawrence and Steven Tepper. Judging the contest will be Professor A.R.C. Duncan, Visiting Truax hofessor of Philosophy, Mrs. Channing B. Richardson, and Professor Frederic Roth. f
ABC ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING All jlamilton students interested in being resident tutors in next year's Clinton ABC Program are requested to attend an organiz:ational meeting ·to be held Thursday evening, April 25th, 8:00 pm., at the home of Professor Roth, 206 College Hill Rd. (the yellow house across from the entrance to Kirkland College). HEALTH CENTER PHYSICIANS Any student interested in. a committee to assist in a search for physicians for the Health Center, please contact ·either Dean Bingham or Dean Poller. HILL PUBLICATIONS Anyone interested in �eing con�dered by the Publications Board for the Editor-in-Chief of the joint camp1;1s publications Winterset[, WatermaTk, or thes ,,Yearbook, please con tact Harold Bogle shortly. Further, any Hamilton students of classes '75,'76, or'77 who are interested in being. representatives for their classes on the u Pblications Board, 1974-75, also please contact Harold Bogle. WINTER STUDY IN U.S.S.�. There will be an organfzational meeting for all students interested in a Winter Study in the Soviet Union n.ext December and January - in the Fisher Room of the Bristol Campus Center, Thursday April 25th at 7:30 P .M. KIRKLAND HOSTS WOM.EN'S COALITION SHOW Ellen Rockefeller of the Utica Women's Coalition will present a slide show and lecture on sexism in children's literature at Kirkland College's List Arts Center at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24. - Entitled "Little Miss Muffet Fights Back," the presentation is sponsored by Kirkland College's Women's Center.
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practice which seemed to pay off. one of the most improved players The first team of Brad Caswell -on the team having moved from BY ED WATKINS': and John Hutchins prove d ·to be fourteenth position to his present too much for Ithaca in a tough fift.h spot. Tom Allen won his In the pre-Kirkland days of Hamilton College, Houseparties were three-set match winning it 7-6, match at sixth position 6-0, 7-5, the entertainment on campus. Hig�ly festive occasions., thCYJ- were making the final score 5-4. 2-6, 6-1. Hamilton will be facing one of great shows, a celebration of life, liberty, and the pur5¥it of Tile turning point of the match l cam e in the second doubles i t s toughest opponents next happiness. Today, however, Houseparties are no longer the event thex once competition. Ithaca used a little Tuesday when they meet St. underhanded strategy by st�cking Lawrence. Coach Batt feels that if were. They are no longer included on the official college calindar. their second doubles. This proved his team can come through the Professors who wish to screw students by scheduling tests tJ\e day f r ui t less as Hamilton's Dave singles with a 3-3 tie, he can win after Houseparties must now rely on informants to find out when Schutt and Phil Spellane played the �atth with his doubles teams. the blessed events are. -Some of the more recent additions to the Un fortunately, the Clinton faculty are shocked to find such weekends still take place at such a - very well in the marathon to come back after losing their first set to weather has prevented the distinguished institution. The intensity of preparation is missing from today's Houseparties. • . fy ·win 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. Hamilton's third Conti?entals from practicing as o team of Worden and Kaplan much as they would have liked. Few men r ll to Wells, Skidmore, or Caz in the week preceding to search for dates. The number of women attending Houseparties played well, but suffered a tough Coach Batt cited this lack of practice as the reason behind the Houseparties from those schools has also dropped. 7-6, 6-3 defeat. Yet the we ekend remains, altered, yes, but basically the same as it BY STEPHEN HA WEELI In the singles competition, inconsistent play of many of the The lfa.milton College baseball Captain Brad Caswell played team members against Ithaca. was a decade ago. Beer and bands, gin and juices, jukers, are all going team split a double-heade r with smoothly to win 6-4, 7-5. John Rarely does a match have so many strong. Spring Houseparties have always held a special place in Hill Eisenhower College last ·Saturday, Hutchins won his .,first set easily three set marathons. Although the Contine ntals are history. They are a celebration to the end of the long Clinton winter as the Continentals played their 6-1, but faltered· in the second to home-opener of die 1974 season. lo s e it 8 - 6 . The · ttun of witho'ut the services of veterans and the coming ,of summer. For many seniors it will be their last In the first game, Eise nhowe(s momentum proved to be too Tom Griffith and Dave Dawson, Houseparty, their last fling at decadence before they enter the real Den n is C i e lhouski hurled a much as he lost the third set 6-2. Coach B�tt is looking forward to a world. thre e• h i tt e r to beat tne Dave Schutt played well and he ld successful season and feels that he • This columnist's first spring houseparty was �specially memorable Co ntinentals 4-1. Captain Dave on through a tough second set to has a lot of depth. He says that because of the greaser party held in the hockey rink in conjunction MacLean stroked two of those win 6-2, 6-4. Phil Spe llane ran the men· from the seve nth to with the Sha Na Na concert. Hundreds of people greased up for the hits, one of them a long triple in into some tough compe tition and twelfth positions could upse t the night, went to the hop and killed fifty kegs of beer. Now the last Houseparty Weekend is coming up. It will be a prese nt starters at any time . With the fourth inning that score d lost his match 6-2, 8-6.. At fifth position, Bob Worde n some better weather and a little memorable one; the last time the campus will go berserk until after Craig Fallon who had walke d. Eisenhower touc hed fre shman lost afte r thre e tough se ts of play. more mental conditioning, the finals, the last chance to throw a little gin and juice at Chi Psi, a John Driscoll for nine hits. The Losing the first se t 7-5, he came netmen should win their share of, -party so fine that one expects it must be illegal or at least immoral; t'.he last cocktail party that is a pleasure to attend; the last chance to big blow was a fifth inning home back in the se cond winning it 8-6, matches this se ason. wade through the beer in the Psi U tap room; the last chance to run by lead-off man Doug Read. only to lose the third 6-3. Bob is drink with the hard-core and homeless at DKE on. Sun<tay afternoon. Read also went two for three, This is not quite a sports column and I apologize to those readers driving in two runs. who were expecting some brilliant observations on the sporting In the nightcap, Hamilton shut world. When Houseparties approach, it is difficult if not impossible out Eisenhower 5-0 behind the to keep to the usual schedule. two-hit pitching· of junior John To those who look forward to Houseparties as much as I do, I Psiaki. Psiaki, a fine all-around . wish you a suq:essful weekend. Too many changes have occurred at athlete, struck out six. The Conts Hamilton over the last four years but have not made life any better amassed five runs on four hits. Varsity Lacrosse. Against Clarkson. Saturday, April 20. 2 pm. at Hamiltcm.. Houseparties- remain as a reminder of Ham ilton's days Fine performances were turned in as a leader in - the partying scene and as a pleasant break from the Varsity Golf by Dave MacLean, who again rigor� of the "I have to get into g raduate school" type of Against Albany. Saturday, April 20. 1 pm. went two for three; David Lecher, competition that exists on today's campus. Have a good weekend. John Thomas, Billy Tarbell, and Varsity Track of course John Psiaki. Against Rochester. Saturday, April 20. 2 pm. The team travels to RPI on Varsity Baseball Wednesday, th en returns to face Against LeMoyne. Doubleheader. Saturday, April 20. 11 am. LcMoyne on Saturday for an 11 Against Eisenhower. 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BY JEFF FEINGOLD AND TIMS The rites of spring have appeared from nowhere in this winter wonderland of Central New York. And the box scores indicate that summer can't be too far away. Baseball has begun to dominate our thoughts ... Two big businessmen in baseball management were dealt severe blows over the past week. Ray Kroc, hamburger magnate and part time owner of the San Diego Padres, displayed the usual amount of tact that big business has given to the world of sport. Mr. Kroc, after witnessing a loss that has become common fare for his franchise, took control of the loudspeaker system and told the fans: "Ladies and gentlemen, I suffer with you." He went on to regret the sho<;idy play of his team. Commissioner Kuhn (who's been looking like Kenesaw Mountain Landis lately), ordered an apology by Mr. Kroc to the fans of San Diego and his respectable but last place ball club. Kroc should be apologizing for the quality of his hamburgers, not for the quality of the hamburgers that are playing fo:i; him. Shipbuilder George Steinbrenner III has built his own Titanic as sixteen indictments for alleged illegal donation· to the Nixon campaign poured in last week. This is the same George Steinbrenner who ousted Mike Burke, forced the resignation of the amiable Ralph Houk, and dressed a clown-in a Yankee uniform for pre-game shows as a publicity gimmick. Yankee fans were aghast. Does he think this is the same team that once boasted of Marv Throneberry as its power hitter? Just �s he walked away from the Yankee game last Saturday, let's hope that his team can walk away from him. People will always be arguing about the oldtin:iers versus the newcomers of baseball. Here's an interesting story. About 12 years ago, Leo Durocher was speaking at a banquet about the merits of Willie Mays. He mentioned the superiority Mays had over any other ballplayer in the history of the game. Lefty O'Doul, a pitcher the Yankees traded to· the Boston Red Sox who was subsequently turned into a hitter, stepped to the rostrum. He proceeded to tell the audience of the feats of Cobb, Ruth, etc. He cannot believe that people can say that one ballplayer is better than another if they have not seen the other play ball at all. When asked how Cobb would fare in Today's major leagues, O'Doul told the audience that he would hit around .330 or so-the same as Mays. "So how could you say that one is better than the other?" he was asked. "Hell man, Cobb would be seventy.four if he were around today!" While the WF-L was busy raiding the NFL over the past two weeks, the ABA, which is in a 'similar position, did more than watch. Commissioner Storen of the ABA announced that an ABA ballclub may draft the rights to any NBA ballplyer. Storen insisted that the ABA teams would just draft those ballplayers whose options have expired or whose retirements were approaching. Names that were tossed around were the likes of Cazzie Russell (perhaps Golden State would be glad to get some defense on their team) and Pete Maravich. The whole country is being saturated with sports, but the real trouble is that they're all the same. There are two baseball leagues with a third scheduled to be started in the near future, two football leagues, two basketball leagues, a world team tennis league, professional track, and two hockey leagues. All of these leagues' combined total more than 120 teams in major and not-so-major cities. When will all end? These leagues will eventually kill each other off, and sooner or later American sports will consist of 2 lawyers, 50,000 athletes, and 500 bankrupt businessmen.
Continentals, down 7-6, would two games, saw the Continentals BY NED DRINKER T h e varsity lacrosse team not let the ball out of the Alfred bag six goals and coast the rest of started off its season on the wrong end. When the clock went on the the way home. The final score was foot l a s t S aturday with a field (sixty seconds to ·go) the Hamilton 13, Eisenhower 7. Tom disheartening 11-5 loss to SUNY midfield combination of Speno, C h a r b onneau picked up his at Albany. The game proved to be H e d s t rom and Collum were second and third goals of the a rude awakening for those of us peppering the Alfred net as were young season, along with an assist. who had previously held high the attackmen, Tyler, Berry, and Berry got a goal and four assists, Bernard. Their best opportunity Bernard had two apd two, Speno hopes for the team. Hamilton was fighting a lack of fell through when Hedstrom 's netted three goals, Tyler, two, experience, having had no game s cr e a ming _ u n derhand s hot and O'Donnell, Hedstrom, and experience and· little scrimmage ricocheted off the post into the Collum scored one apiece. In retrospect, th'e weakest parts time. Albany, on the other hand, hands of an Alfred defender who of the Continentals' game are had already had two games and made the game-saving clear. Mark Bernard, '75, was the star shooting and confidence. The few three scrimmages. D e s p i t e t heir uncertainty, .fo r H a m i l t o n with a line shots that were taken usually Hamilton managed to keep the individual effort, netting four we�t over the net or straight onto game close throughout the first goals. Bill O'Donnell '76, played the goalie's stick. This dearth of firepower comes half, coming off the field on an excellent midfield, notching a goal and two assists. Midfielder from a lack of confidence on the the short side of a 5-4 score. In the third quarter, however, Ned Collum '75, tallied once. part of the players. They have a Hamilton's teamwork started to John Berry '75 had two assists, tendency to pass their way into the net, which is an impossibility fall apart at the seams. Albany and Jay Tyler '77 had one. Hamilton traveled to Seneca against any w el l-org ainized tallied four times in that period and then twice more in the last F alls to meet Eisenhower College de fense. The attackmen and stanza to put the game out of on Wednesday, April 17. The midfielders must take their shots Continentals were expecting a when they have them, and must reach. Although· the team faltered, cakewalk. But, as happens to mos·t not worry about how fast the shot individual effort was not absent. over-confident teams, the Blues is or how hard they are about to Jimmy Lotz, '76, took home a g o t t h e i r c o m e u p pance . b e h i t, W i t h i n c r e a s e d goal as well as an assist on a goal Eisenhower, usually a weak team, confidence, the crucial ability to by G ibby Heds trom, '75. danced off to an early lead. beat an opponent one-on-one will Co-captain Steve Speno '75, and Hamilton had to scramble to gain be generated, as will be the ability to play tough, smart defense. Tom Charbonneau '77, made a 4-3 lead at the half. Coach Von Schiller must have The next home game is on unassisted goals. On Tuesday, April 16, the said some interesting things House Party Saturday at 2 p.m. Continentals hosted Alfred before d uring half-time, because the T he Continen tals will face a throng of curious, mud-soaked Continentals finally began to play Clarkson, whom they defeated fans. The game turned into a good lacrosse in the second half. last year by a score of 12-7. The The third period, which had J.V.'s also play at home on barn-burner as both sides traded stiff defense and tough checks on been Hamilton's bane in the first -Sat1:1rday against Siena. the way to a 2-2 half-time score. The stalwart fans who stayed for the second half were treated to a rerun of the sorry ·third period against Albany. Alfred took advantage of Hamilton's defensive lapse and scored four BY MARK McMURRAY easy goals. allow him to co�npete as an A f t e r l a s t S a t u r d a y's amateur in any sport other than But this time, to the joy of the fanatics, Hamilton started to take d i s appoi nting c a n c e l l ation, the one he has a pro-contract control of the game. Coach Von Hamilton track will definitely .with. This ruling will allow Jeff to Schill er turned to his two open tomorrow again-st Rochester throw the discus this spring which strongest midfield lines, who; at home. Speaking with senior should add further points to the working with inspired attackers, miler Tim Delaney after a practice field events, while the sole javelin put on a fine display of teamwork last week he said, "We can hardly thrower is FrankO'Leary. and skill, and snaked four more wait for the weekend, we 're The middle and long distance g o a l s b e hin d t he A l fre d chafing at the bit." Such will have events well be split up between t o be t he m ood of the .netminder. several runners: The 880 will be With two minutes to go, the Continentals if they are to beat a run by co-captain Vito Stellato strong Rochester team coming off and Durke Tacke. In the mile we a good indoor season. should see senior Tim Delaney In many ways, this first meet a nd. Sophomore cross-country will not �nly test the team as a runner Bruce Carter as well as whole, but it will also help Coach St.ellato. Carter and Delaney will Long determine which runners to also run the three mile. place in which even ts. A strong 440 relay team is in In the field events, which the making with such strong Rochester has always been strong prospects as co-captain Sandy in, Don Kendall will hilve to carry MacIntosh, Dave Baker, Pedro most of the weight in the pole Garcia, Peter Wang and Renard o vault, while Dale Garret and Dave Hicks vying for positions. The 440 Baker will offer stiff competition is still open with Stephen in the long jump. Sophomore Applegate the only tentative Owen Kratz has been on a weight runner so far. The 100 is in an training program this 'Winter while improving his style in the triple e q ua lly uncertain state with jump. If he can reach his 45 foot possibly Wang and MacIntosh mark, a distance he has been running. Sanely will, however, run making all winter, then a very. the 440 intermediate hurdles FOR RENT: strong s howing s ho uld be w hile Ed Jimenez and Jeff Large Comfortable flat expected. The shot put, though, is Williams will tackle the 120 high on College S t reet in still open, and looks to be the hurdles. C l i n t o n . 7 R o o ms, With the absence of any major weakness in the · field i ncluding 4 bedroms. events. However, Bill Shafer's "spectacular" runners and with Large living room with consistent efforts in the high jump the largest squad in several years, f ir ep l a c e. Stove, should help to make up for the Coach Long sees the team's main refrigerator, etc., furnished. shot. s t r e ng t hs being depth and Available June 1st. Call Altho u g h D a l l as Cowboy consistency. With a little good 853-2422. extraordinaire Jeff Hewitt is now weat h e r a n d a few good conside�d..a professional football p e rformances, Saturday's meet player, Amsture's standing rules should be a good one.
Track Lnoks Good Rely rm· Winter Record
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THE SPECT� VOLUME IV, NUMBER 25
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
Minority Stude_nts Call For Separate -Housing Option Senate Recinds Vote; Takes No
A�bly Insures Suites For Wanen
Hugh R. Jones '35, associate justice of the Court of Appeals.
Graduation Guests Na11Jed; Waldheim,Burkmn mAttend Justice Jones, Irwin to Receive Hamilton Hoiioraria
S. Vietnamese Lawyer to Accept Medal at Kirkland Rites
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BY LIZ BARROW T h e Kirkland A ssembly Monday voted 13 to three in favor of a resolution that endorsed the desire of Black and Latin women to live together when they want. The resolution introduced by Ana Sierra '7 5 reads formally, "Be it resolved that Black and Latin women want the opportunity to live together each and every year if they so desire. We would like the Assembly support for this resolution." The i ssue o f guaranteed housing . arose earlier this year when Black and Latin students went to the Residence Committee for c o n�i deration of their problem. After much discussion, David Locke at the Assembly it was decided that there would be all the Black and Latin women on no special . actions taken to campus choose to live together. gua r an te e t h e h ou sing for More than half the minority 1974-75. There were, however, students do not go into suites . plans, made in case tbe Black and They do, however, want the Latin women were not able to get option left open. The Black and Latin students living space together. Carol Cooper, Assistant Dean said they were lucky this year but of Students, told the 'crowded are concerned that one year there �ssembly meeting, "If Black and will be no seniors with good Latin women were not abl_e to get numbers or even no seniors at all � suite in the normal lottery who can choose suites and in system, they could have the last doing so, pull other students in one." This decision was made by with them. This is why the Cooper, Kirkland President r e s o l u t�on was p r oposed, Samuel "f. Babbitt, and Jane according to the students. Babbitt said the lottery system Poller, Kirkland Dean of Students. The suite would have been is "more or less responsive" to reserved for the students by students' needs, but when it was presidential or dean's discretion. not, it should be accamodating to The senior Black and Latin that situation. He said of the women did draw good numbers Black and Latin women, "We are though, and were able to select dealing with a special population three non-connecting suites. By with a special need and we must t aking u n d erclasswomen and try to be responsive to it." other ·seniors in with them, all the Some concern was expressed as Black and Latin women who . to the legality of segregated wanted to live together were able housing, even though it would be . to do so: voluntary. _ c�mtinued on· page four The students stres�ed that not
Selma R. Burkom, formerly .an K u rt W a l d h e i m , Secretary-General of the United assistant professor of likrature at Nations, will be among six persons Kirkland College, will deliver the to receive honorary degrees at commencement address at the Hamilton C o l l e g e ' s college's ceremony to be held May 24. She was elected by the Senior Commencement May 26. The degree list, announced class to make the speech earlier in today by A c t ing Hamilton the spring. It is also hoped that Ngo Ba President J. Martin Carovano, also includes Hugh R. Jones of Utica, Thanh, a professor of law who an Associate Justice of the New taught at the University of Saigon and spent six years as a political York State Court of Appeals. Jones, a 1935 graduate of p risoner in Vie t n a m w i l l Hamilton and a member of the personally accept the President's College's Board of Trustees, will Medal awarded her in absentia last deliver t he C o m m e ncement May. She was released from prison . September 1973. Address. Burkom, who is now teaching At -the Baccalaureate Service o n t h e m o r n i n g b e fore English at San Jose State College Commencement, the sermon will in California, was a faculty be given by another honorary member at Kirkland from 1970 to 1972. de gree re cipient,· Professor While at the college, she taught Edmund A. Steimle of Union continued on_p!1ge tl!i!��nTheological Seminary. Ot hers who w i ll receive Hamilton Honorary degrees this year are Lewis W. Beck, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester; John N. Irwin II, U.S. A mbassador to France; and BY ROBBY MILLER t he student body and the Martha Peterson, President of The Student Senate this week J-Board," said former Senate Barnard College. Ambassador Irwin,_ Justice voted unanimously in favor of a President George Baker. "The l a r g e s t substantive Jones, Pre�ident Peterson and revised student judiciary system at Secretary-General Waldheim all Hamilton College. The revision change" is that the new system's will receive the degree of Doctor was approved earlier by the g u i del ines "c l e a r u p t he of Laws. Professor Beck will Judiciary: Board and Acting procedures th� are to go on receive a Doctor of Letters and P resident J. Martin Carovan�. during a trial," said Gordon Kaye, The Senate action culminates co-chairman of the ad hoc review Professor Steimle a Doctor of three months of debate and committee and chairman of the Humane Letters degree. Both P rofessor Beck and discussion by the Judicial Review Judiary Board. ''Now t he whole process Ambassador Irwin . are the fathers Committee, which was created as of 1974 graduates · at· Hamilton a r e s p o ns e t o n u m e rous becomes streamlined and, in that and at Kirkland, its coordinate controversies and ambiguities way, , s t r o n g e r," said Kaye. "Because the biggest weakness college for women: Hamilton under the old system. "There was a lot of confusion was that the judiciary system was Beck and Jane Irwin. Professor Steimle's son, Edmund Jr., is a as to exactly what were the rules so vague no one knew what the member of Hamilton's class of of the J-Board, what were the hell was going on." particular rights of an accused • B e s ides o ut l ining specific 1969. Professor Beck, a member of individual and of a plaintiff, · and hearing procedures, the Judiciary the Rochester. faculty since 1 �49, what the relationship was between Board, under the new system, will continued on page thirteen the faculty, the administra!ion, consist of "an elected standing
BY ROBBY MILLER The Hamilton Student Senate this week endorsed and then withdrew its endorsement of the Assembly- proposal that would i n sure general interest group housing at Kirkland. The proposal before the Senate has yet to be voted on by the Assembly,· which did approve a resolution to enable Black and Latin women to live together "each and every year." The Senate took no action on the approved Assembly resolution. By a 4-3 vote, with five abstentions, the Senate Tuesday evening expressed sympathy for the following Kirkland proposal: "Re so l ved: That interest groups who can demonstrate a justifiable need be allowed to arrange residence together if they so desire, within the limits of housing options available at Kirkland." Commenting on the number of Senators who a_bstained , Senate President Kevin McTeman said, "It represents an unwillingness on their part to represent the student body." A t a s p e c i a l meeting Wednesday night, which was called to discu� the Jucliciary Board, many Senators expresset:i confusion over the procedural i m p li cat i ons a n d the legal r ami fications of t he S e n a te- supported Kirkla n d proposal. ''The Senate got caught with its pants. down," said McTeman, commenting on the confusion. T h e same m ot i o n of "s y m p a t h y" w a s t h e n re-introduced and defeated by a vote of 4-7, with all those who previously abstained voting "no." continued on page four
]-Board, Senate, Ulrovano Apprrwe Judiciary Proposal AO Hearings m be Taped, and Precedents m be Set
board, much like the Honor Court, accused to be represented by an rather than of a chairman undergraduate counsel. Some Senators, such as Roger selecting jurors for a trial." The· former - process caused S chneider '75, expressed the much "chaos and confusion," �aid sentiment that a clause should be Kaye. inserted in the new guidelines l'he system also creates a more stating "that under United States , p o w e rful • J u di ci a r y B o ar d ·law, a student may retain a Chairman, and a J udic_ial Appeals professional lawyer." Committee which shall consist of "The .J-Board is essentially a three of the elected members of court of law," said Schneider. the Academic Council. Gordon Kaye responded to this The role of the Faculty and sentiment by saying, "It's not a Board members have been more c ,urt of law. If it is, we might as cle�rly· defined as well. "The well hang the whole system." group that's investigating tJ:ie "Schools that have professional case," said Baker, "is no longer lawyers come· in have violated the the same one which makes the privacy of the proceeding and decision." have had big problems," said One of the more controversial . Baker. "It's not a trial, it's a aspects of the new system is the· hearing, at the college campus on right of the plaintiff or the continued ori page four
.- . �2/2THE SPiECTATOR/April 26, 1974
editorial Unfair Housing By moving to afford "Black and Latin women...the opportunity to live together each every year, if they so desire," the Kirkland Assembly has undermined the fairness of the college housing lottery. Before Monday's resolution was passed, Black and Latin women, like all Kirkland students, selected their rooms according to the lottery numbers they received; at Kirkland, seniors chose first, followed by juniors and sophomores together. Any student, representing a group of three or more, could select a suite. In this year's selection, thirteen suites were still available after the senior class chose their rooms. All the Black and Latin women who wished to live separately in suites were aecomodated by the Kirkland housing system. The Assembly action, however, guarantees to any Black and Latin women suites or half floors. In the event they can not secure a suite through the lottery system, they will be given one taken from the general pool. Thus, opportunities for group living for . the majority of Kirkland students is thereby reduced. Apparently realizing the inherent inequity of singling out Black and Latin woman as a privl1.ged group, David Locke, assistant professor of American Studies, proposed that any interest group, demonstrating "a justifiable need be allowed to arrange residence together." Although the Assembly, according to its procedures, could not vote on Locke's proposal at the recent meetings, even if approved, it would not solve the problem. "Interest groups" comprised of mutual friends now select suites· withink Kirkland's rooming selection process. If fri�ndship constitutes a "justifiable· need," then Locke has taken the Assembly back to where it began before the Black and Latin women's resolution. If, as it appears, how�ver, Locke means to say that groups founded solely upon friendship do not present iustifiable need, then the only distinction left between them and Blacks and Latins is one of race. Groups comprised of Blacks and L�tins, or Jews observant of kashruit, or vegetarians, do not deserve any more consideration in the selection of rooms than any other group of students composed without regard to race, nligion, or any other arbitrary distinction. The Assembly action this weeks promotes priviliges based solely on race. David Locke's proposal does not offer any help. If not illegal, according to state and federal law, and President Babbitt has said they ar� not, both propm.als are nevertheless unfair. Both Hamilton and Kirkland have for several years allowed c � facto segregatio-1 of the races to exist on the Hill. Blacks and Latins have lived separately from Whites, and Whites have ignored the Blacks and Latins. Rather than take constructive action which would bririg the races together, it appears that Kirkland Assembly has move to facilitate separate but equal.
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Heavy Traffic
BY VINCENT DICARLO Hamilton College is an isle of sanity, good taste, and beauty in a sea of madness, crassness, and ugly commercial scenery, right? It is in the outside world that pointless, ignorant destruction of sce_nery occurs as a matter of course, right? On the Hill, aesthetic sensibilities are ever a-tingling and residents ready to decry crimes against the visual environment, right? Wrong. ·Now, from the folks who brought you the hulking, lowering, hyperpituitary Esso station at the north end of the main quad: "NO PARKING" signs. It is not particularly surprising that the uninspired grounds department erected these unnecessary eyesores. It represents merely one more in a long series of such depredations. What really galls is the almost complete lack of student reaction. Not withstanding the fact that no less than five of these refugees. from fun city mysteriously reared their metallic heads (in the main quad) over the weekend, most students are not only indifferent to the · change; they never even noticed it. For the benefit of those to whom logical considerations are relevant (that is, non-members of the grounds-crew decision makers), the signs have no conceivable purpose. Students are well aware that parking on the main quad is the o bject of official disapprobation. Further, according to the parking regulations, relatives and friends assisting in mov-ing belongings in and out of rooms, -on_ the few days that this , occurs to any .appreciable extent. are permitted to use the quad as a staging area. Even if it were desirable completely to proscribe such use of the quad, there is no reason why traffic on it could not simply he excluded by an effective physical barrier. A thoughtful c on si de r a ti on o f. the "improvements" that have been made on the Hill of late by the physical plant reveal the sort of perverse method that might be expected of a Madison Avenue executive gone wild. First, there was the attack of the numbers. It might warm the cockles of some would-be civil servant's heart
to know that everything-foyers, hallways, trees, bathroom stalls-is numbered. However, the cockles of civil · servant's hearts were never meant to be warm. Next, we were subjected to the "BUMP"s. Now, it is "NO PARKING" signs. It takes little imagination to picture the facinerous fellow responsible for all these monstrosities rubbing his hands in glee at the prospect of "NO SPITTING" signs in lemon yellow or avocado green. It is important to remember that, even aside from the esthetic sensibilities of present hill residents, the appearance of the grounds at
Hamilton is one of its most valuable assets from the point of view of its ability to attract both faculty and students. More students than the author were prompted to matriculate. at Hamilton in large part by the pleasing surroundings. It is_ bad enough when the appearance of the grounds is allowed to deteriorate through neglect or casual mistreatment. The deliberate destruction of visual surroundings is intolerable.
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Whadda ya mean, 'it'll never work'? Why hell, I've fit twice as many people into this baby! See Article on page ,Seven
Explanation
Letters to the Editor
Apri_l 26,_ 19_74/TH E Sl'ECJ ATOR/3
- Who am I to say what you want? Like I�. said at the beginning, . you can probably To the Editor: · members who leave can be replaced The Law of Identity. make it coming from a fine school like In . re_sponse. to. The .. Spectator 's without .loss of quality. However, there are Hamilton. Of course it is too bad about article and editorial on my decision to good reasons for doubting if that those other people. Maybe one day one t>f leave teaching for law school, some have assumption actuallf holds. It is well To the Editor: asked how I can afford it if I can't afford known ( especially by seniors applying to . The April 19, 1974 Spectator article on those people that you unwillingly had to to teach. I would like to try to explain graduate schools) that the better graduate K i r kland · Science left the mistaken push out of the way will relieve you of some of the details of the answer,"because programs are not expanding but, if impression that philosophy of science is your struggling with a quick bullet. That they are important to us all and are not anything, are contracting. Assuming some no longer part of the Kirkland curriculum. way everything is put equal; no one wins. David Fiorino '77 quite so obvious and simple as the significant correlation between the quality While a philosopher of science did leave question. of a graduate program and the quality of Kirkland, he was replaced by another First, needs are not the same fo r its products, it is unlikely that the person in the same fiefd: Adele E. Laslie. T he Spec t a tor w e lc o m e s any faculty and student families. Next year, oversupply of candidates for academic The position is now located in • f)e comments or letters from its readers. All for example, I will not be responsible for positions _constitutes an oversupply of Humanities Division where the other letters must be signed by the author, but philosophers at Kirkland hold posts, but federal and state income taxes, social excellent candidates. names will be witheld in print upon This has at least two implications in the many of the courses which are offered still security tax, and a retirement contribution request. The deadline for letters and that presently total more than $3,000 present conte�t. First, the job market may fall squarely into the areas of philpsophy comments is Tuesday evening before of science and logic. This year, for not be as favorable to institutions from a yearly. Student families do not expect to every Friday public ation. accumulate savings for emergencies, home qualitative point <?f view as many seem to e xample, Introduction t o Logic, down payments, and educational expenses think. Conversely, productive faculty Philosophy of Science, Foundations of for children. They delay purchases of members · here who acquire teaching .Mathe�atics, and Inductive Logic wer� hous ehold furnishings, clothing, and experience and some publications may offered. In 19.74-75. all but the latter will consumer durables. They do not buy new (ind it not as difficult to move as is again be offered. Gym Gypped commonly thought. Such moves will I hope tha,t this letter will clarify cars. Second, the question mi_.&�s the frequently involve loss of a faculty whatever confusion the article engendered crucial point that financing basic living member just when he is arriving at that and will serve to remind students of · fo the Editor: A good deal has been said about expenses through heavy borrowing is point in his career when his teaching and philosophy, science and mathematics of Hamilton's gym facilities. Most agree that the existence of these courses. sensible during student years becaus� it is scholarly potential can be realized. If these considerations are sound, the Adele E. Laslie we need much better facilities th� now an investment. While no one would Humanities Division exist. We have to assume that someone is seriously propose borrowing to meet these present salary policy, which allows faculty working on plans for a fieldhouse and · expenses as an option for the faculty, it members to fall further and further behind improvements on existing facilities. What does occur in a dangerously disguised the cost of living, may save dollars only at Freshman to Seniors concerns me most is · the misuse ( or form. I know younger faculty (not my ·a significant cost, not only in institutional underuse) of the present facilities. When family, as mistakenly reported by The m9rale, but in educational quality as well. was the last time there was actually soap Robert Simon To the Editor: Spectato.) who are now drawing down Well, it is about that time again when it in the soap dispensers of the shower Department of Philosophy . their own savings to make ends meet from i s p ro p er to r e i t e r a t e a l i t t l e room? I don't think that it is too much to month to month. .anti-establishment sentimentality. This is ask from the · athletic budget to provide Several years ago, I found it possible Math Problems the time of year when students are _soap for the athletes after practice. to save from three sources_which are now committing themselves to grad schools and Another problem that shouldn't exist is closed. First, afte('. six mc:mths my wife To the Editor: law schools and medical schools and jobs. the training room dilemma. I believe in found that full-tim� work with two small In your report on grades (and the children was impossible. Second, in my editorial as well) [see Spectator, April 19, The long search for their cubbyholes in conserving energy, but how much energy society has almost terminated. · can three light bulbs and a couple of other first two years here, faculty summer ·1974) I noticed with some chagrin that Seniors good luck!· The world is electric devices in the training room save if researc� was rewarded by an income both the editor and Mr., McGowan would supplement. With the recent increased profit by a co_urse in grade school .,.awaiting you! The box houses, the left off a couple of hours? I am referring emphasis on scholarship and publication a r i t h m e t i c . A c c o r di n g t o t he _telephone bills, the electric bills, and the to the note on the outside of the trainer's (which I applaud) the increased number of memorandum that I sent to the Faculty heating bills are all anxiously anticipating door which states that the training room will only be open for an hour a day "due applications for support divided the sotrrce (and to the Spectator) the average grade your matriculation into society. The establishment -has held that bol)e to the energy crisis." Hamilton, are you so much that the supplement was ended. for the fall semester of 1973 was 83.2 and Third, - several years ago some saving from the total percentage of A's and B's was out in front of your gaping mouths for· sure that it's not because of the baseball one's salary was possible with careful 68.6%, not �talmost 80%" as reported by many a year, and now it is almost·within · coach shortage and subsequent lack of a It may your reach. But I bet you can't• eat just full-time trainer? This is no fault of .the budgeting. The· recent rapid rise in the both the editor and McGowan. baseball coach-trainer, it is a problem one. consumer price index compared to the well be that the figure arrived at by them Society has always looked forward to which exists · because of the secondary moderate increase in faculty salaries was calculated from some other data that your matriculation; they have pushed you status that Hamilton gives to sports and explains why this is no longer a was present on that memorandum. It is unfortunate that this error was in the direction of your cubbyholes since the gym facilities. We_ should have a meaningful source. The savings issue deserves stress. For made, since several students who have you were small babes. They have prepared full-time trainer, and the training room young and growing families with little or talked to me �ince have indicated that, you for the power_ struggles that you will should be open all afternoon. Even high have to face. They have taught you about s c h o o l s give their athletes enough no help from their parents, accumulation while they art: generally in favor of some attention to have their training room'"" of savings is not a luxury but a necessity - g r ade inflation, this represented an .Darwinism and all that. open all afternoon. If you are victorious in your struggles absolute ceiling (that is the 80% figure) a simple part of financial responsibility. As It is understandable that funds are tight I pointed out in a recent interview (see . and that they wished · to see no more you will be able to 'afford an extravagant The Spectator · for F eh. 1, 1974), this because grades no longer would mean mortgage and a multitude of bills and and that the purchase of a fieldhouse is threat to family security works in direct anything. I am strongly in favor of having installments. And you know what that out of reach for the present. However, I opposition to one of the most attractive the institution maintain its reputation for means. Or maybe it is not money power feel that Hamilton should start ·using and family-oriented features of Hamilton - its integrity and standards in the grades that but people power you are after. Of course renovating its present athletic facilities for quiet, safe, rural setting. are assigned to the students, in addition to you are bound to feel threatened, its present athletes. It is not reassuring for The Spectator has performed an the integrity and standards· of the total frustrated, and diffident at times, but me to know that Hamilton students there is no reason to believe that with twenty years from now will have use of important service in giving this problem educational process. publicity. Now we need to start looking R. B. Kinnel your superior education you can not modern gym 'facilities when right now I for solutions. My own personal solution is Associate Dean finally overcome. Just watch the other can't even get some soap for a shower! guy. Don't let him infringe on what is. Stephen Gorman '76 to use up my savings, borrow heavily, rightfully yours. Don't let him take your Appreciation teach during summers, and hope that law woman or your promotion. I don't mean school is a sensible investment. But this Appreciation No. 2 to belittle your aspirations. You are does not solve the problem for young To the Editor: Last week the Hamilton and Kirkland entitled to your American dreams, after all faculty unwilling or unable to change To the Editor,. professions. It may take a reordering of C o l l e g e c o m m u n i t y r e s p o n d e d they are the only ones that are on sale. On behalf of the Hamilton College The blame isn't to be put on anyone. enthusiastically t o our appeal for spending priorities and an increase in the Debate Team, I would like to thank the..._ C0llege's income to solve their problem. con tribtitions for the Clinton ABC Those electricians, plumbers, and TV brothers of Delta Upsilon for their William G. Snead Program. The door-to-door .solicitation, repairmen are just trying to protect their generous hospitality during the recent visit Assistant Professor of Economics plus the collection taken at the Saturday livelihoods. They depend on you, you of the So:viet debate team. The cocktail Acting Chairman, 1973-74 n i g h t c o n c e r t , and additional depend on them. You know, a little contributions · from individuals yielded mutual scratching of those Ben-Gayed party at the DU house added a pleasant,. very close to $700. When added to the backs. How are they going to make a and informal atmosphere to the evening's . Contra Parsimoniam $500 contributed by Interfaith, this gives living if you ·decide to go and build a activities. John Helander a total of $1200 raised to date from the dome somewhere? They have a right to President, Hamilton College Debate Team To the Editor: campuses-a notable _and important help protect themselves from your radical I, first of all, want to· congratulate the for the Clinton ABC. inconsideraten�ss. Just go try to beat editors and staff of the Spectator for the David Duggan des.erves praticular credit those zoning and building :restrictions . fine job they have done this year. By for last-week's success for recruiting and The only way you can evade the red tape raising important issues and by advancing org anizing fifty ( ! ) sol icitors who is to go live out in the woods. That's right, an independent outlook, they have participated· in the canvas. give up the jungle for the wilderness. Even contributed significantly to an atmosphere The Clinton ABC program is very if you had.friends in high places and could Jonathan M. Marder, '76, died of open discussion and debate on grateful for this · support. We are get around the red tape, you would have this week. "A member of the Alpha impo rtant issues facing the college encouraged to believe that this worthwhile to be some kind of amoral bastard to go in ° community. Delta Phi fraternity and a physics . program will be able to continue with ten and devalue your neighbor's property by The recent editorial on faculty salaries students next year. building a shabby looking dome. Lord major,'i Marder lived in Highland is a case in point. While I am in agreement _Many _thanks -to ail who contributed, knows, he would be justified in throwing Park, Illinios. The apparent cause with the principal points made there, some and especial thanks to those who went out . stink bombs at you. Don't worry, seniors, of death was suicide. further considerations may afso warrant of their way to solicit and particular I understand-cooperati on is necessary if The college community mourns attention. so ciety is to b e p o litically and thanks to Dave Duggan. It is frequently assumed that because of his passing. Leland E. Cratty economically effective. the overcrowded job market, faculty I shouldn't ramble when I'm stoned. ABC Finance Chairman
4/THE SPECTATOR/April 26, 197�
Assembly ' Senate Confront Interest Housing continued from page one
In regard to this important issue, Babbitt said that the present situation is not legal. It would be considered illegal according to the New Yo rk State Board of Regents' regulations only if there 1s a solid block of minority housing. If this situation evolved, it must be reported to the Regents, and Kirkland could be foun d in contempt of the Regents', said the President. If and when this occurs, Babbitt said, "We sould initiate a suit or inquiry to the bureau of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) against the Regents. HEW law and R e g e n ts are incompatible" Babbitt said, "We· believe the Regents' position if unconsitutional. It forces the college to discriminate on a racial basis [in order] to integrate." Several students attending the meeting considered the lack of Black and Latin students at Kirkland the central issue. They hold that the housing issue is just a manifestation of that deeper problem. In the mean time, '"'We are engaged in conversations with the Regents on this topic,'' said
Babbitt. He added that Jane Polter has been writing letters to the Regents and other colleges in the same situation and will attend a meeting later this year on this problem. R eaction to the proposed resolution ranged from applause to accusat�ons of segregation. Some students said they felt that the Black and Latin women's voluntary segregation was against the Kirkland ideal of a small community. At times open hostility was expressed. One Black student said, "Its clearly a matter of us not wanting to live with you. She cited the example of an integrated hall last year. "It was a constant battle. Maybe it was just .the personalities, but it was made to be a clear cut Black-white issue." A s tudent supporting the resolution said, "Where you live is a place of refuge. We need to work out Black-white relations, but the place to do this is not living places." Nearing the end of over an hour of discussion, David Locke, Kirkland history professor made a second proposal. Be it resolved: 'VJ'hat interest groups who can
a college issue," added/Baker. This question, on how private the student judicial proceedings actually are, was further debated in the Senate due to the new system's provision that "a tape recording of the hearing will serve as the official record of the proceedings." Although the tape recording's main prupose is to protect the defencl ant, such a tape could be used against him in a court of law. "Any record kept by Hamilton
College can be subpoenaed by an The only other complaint outside court of law," said Dean which was expressed at the Senate of Students Gordon Bingham. Meeting was that the system has The purposes of the tapes, no specification of the types of according to Baker, are to protect cases . w h i c h receive certain the integrity of the statements of penalties. the plaintiff and the accused, to However, in spite of these establish the fact or· lack of fact minor reservations, the entire that "due process" was practiced, Senate seemed to share the and to have a "ready history, a opinion stated by George Baker: "This is the best document we library of precedents." "Right now, there's no record. could come up with, an extremely of the number and kind of cases good, clear, efficient, and, mostly, a fair document." we've had," said Baker.
demonstrate a justifiable need be allowed to arrange residence together if they. so desire, with the limits of housing options available at Kirkland. That the Residence Committee be directed to design the means to implement this resolution." This resolution could not be voted on at the Monday meeting as it was "new business," but it will be on the May 6 agenda. continued from page one
Bill Foley '76, who proposed the original motion of sympathy, said, "I agree with the philosophy that interest groups should be accomodated for, because, with such a small school as both colleges are, it is imp�rtant that people feel as comfortable as possible." "We've got to throw off the cloaks of the 1960's liberal, thinking that forced integration is going to solve all the problems of the world," said John Emerson '75. Warren Hart '7 7 expressed a feeling - prevalent among those who abstained on the first vote: "I was confused. It was my first meeting, and I wasn't actually
judiciary &ard Revision Made
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to clear the room.The Chairman the accused shall receive a formal letter wiU inform the Board of precedents from the Judiciary Board Chairman at and possible sanctions. As soon as least 48 hours before the hearing listing possible the Chairman shall inform 1. A standing Judiciary Board of the allegatlons against him� his rights to the plaintiff, defendant and Dean three juniors, four sophomores, and be represented by an undergraduate of Students of the decision and of three freshmen shall be elected by their counsel from among the student bodies t h e ri ght t o · a p peal. · T his respective classes no later than the of either Hamilton or Kirkland, and his information shat be confirmed in third week of April. A week before this rights to confront witnesses against writing. election, a Chairman shall be elected him and to bring witnesses in _his own 4. A student may appeal a Judiciary by the student body as a whole. He behalf (including up to three character witnesses). If he wishes, the Plaintiff Board decision by making a request in shall preside at all meetings of the may also be represented by an writing to the Judicial Appeals Board Board and vote only in case of a tie. undergraduate counsel from Hamilton within 48 hours of the decision. This At its first meeting, the Board shall or Kirkland. In hearings, any counsels request must state the grounds for elect a Vice-Chairman from among its appearing shall have as much right to appeal. The Judicial Appeals Board will members. He shall be a regular voting speak and question as is enjoyed by the then consider the grounds for appeal member of the Board except when he and render a judgement using whatever' parties they represent. assumes the duties of the Chairman. The hearing will be closed unless procedures it deems appropriate. These For each case, the Chairman shall the accused requests hearing open to procedures need not necessarily involve select four jurors on a rotating basis from the membership of the Board. t h e c ollege community. A tape a full re-hearing of the "ase. The recording of the hearing will serve as decision of the Judicial Appeals Board Any member asked to serve may the official record of the proceedings. is final. disqualify himself if he believes he will The record will be kept by the S. The Faculty Committee on · be unable to render an objective judgement. The four jurors and the Chairman in the office of the Dean of Studerit Activities, acting for the Vice Chairman constitute the voting Students. faculty, shall review all cases heard by panel. In the event that the Vice • At the opening of the hearing, the the Judiciary Board. The Faculty Chfirman is serving as presiding officer, Chairman wilJ read the rights of the Committee on Student Activities may five -:iurrors will be selected on a accused and the charges against him._ request the Judicial Appeals Board to The Chairman will have full authority hear any particular case. rotating basis. 6. The Judicial Appeals Board shall 2. Complaints against a student (or over the proceedings and only those group of students) for alleged violation persons recognized by the Chairman consist of three of the elected members of the Academic Council. of stated rules for social conduct shall may speak at the hearing. be brought before the Dean of 7. The President of the College shall The hearing shall proceed in the Students, who shall investigate the retain the right to order the tern porary following sequence: charges. The plaintiff, or the Dean of removal of any student from the If the Dean of Students finds that Students in the absence of a campus whP-n, in his judgement, that there is a case and if any of the plaintiff, and the accused will student constitutes a clear and present following holds true, the case must be describe their respective versions of danger to, persons or property. This in · heard by a Judiciary Board jury: the facts of the case and respond to no way precludes the College 's right to a. If the accused pleads innocent. questions posed by the Board insti t ut e dis ciplinary proceedings b. If the accused requests a hearing designed to c1arify their statements. against that student at a subsequent · before the Board. After the facts have been presented time. c. If the Dean of Students, the by both sides, each side has the If the above document is accepted. Chairman of the Judiciary Board,. right to produce witnesses in an or the Vice-Chairman of the order to be determined by the by Acting President Carovano and if it c hair. The witnesses may be meets with the approval of the faculty Judiciary Board requests a hearing questioned by the plaintiff, the and the student body, the Ad Hoc before the Board. accused, the members of the Board, Committee would like to make one d. If the case involves a possible final recommendation. We suggest that and the Dean of Students. penalty of suspension or expulsion. When the testimony of witnesses · the Honor Court engage in a thorough However, if none of the above a nd the questioning of their revi e w of its constitution and holds true, the Dean of Students and testimony are complete, summary procedures similar to the review of the the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of statements may be made by the Judiciary Board that our committee the Judiciary Board shall review the plaintiff and th_e defendant. After has persued. Possibly some of the case to gether a n d i m pose an any such statements, the Chairman features we have proposed for the appropriate penalty. This penalty may will direct those present, excepting Judiciary Board might be usefully not be appealed. the sitting members of the Board, adopted �Y the Honor Court. 3. If the Board is to hear the case,
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sure what was going on. I thought that if enough people abstained, the vote wouldn't count." "What disturbs me first," said Roger Schneider '7 5, "is that at our very first meeting as a Senate, we have supported what is an illegal resolution on the part of Kirkland.'' "Secondly, we did not have the resolution in front of us... and yet we came out supporting it based on what she [Melinda Foley] had to say, which was mostly off the top of her head," said Scheider. ''We were ill-informed," said Foley, "but I think it was negligent on the part of the Senators not to have asked Melinda Foley any quetions they had.'' "A third thing," said Schneider in opposition to the vote, "is that it can set a precedent of us delving
into Kirkland'� affairs." Neil Scheier '75, who also voted a g ainst t he e xpr essi on of sympathy, takes exception to Schneider's third point: ."I think that we, the Hamilton Senate, should face this issue. I opposed it because of the interest group classification and because I don't think further relief is necessary for these groups," said Scheier � Rick Hicks '77, the only Black member on the Senate, e xpressed b e w i l derment at the second meeting, saying, "the air of s en t i m en t has changed to rapidly." "Last night," said Hicks, "we werert't aware of everything, but we were under the impression that segergation was illegal. I can't understand why a re-vote is necessary."
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Kirkland P�ofessors .Finef Wo,rk/Qad _B_urdensome
assumption seems to be that you Auden: from 'New Year Letter with students. But we do need p re sen t l y w o r king on four BY FELICE FREYER time to recharge out batteries and research projects on various issues Results of a recent Spectator can't be a good teacher if you to· About the House, is "an revitalize 01,1r learning. I wish in social psychology. Associate questi onnaire distributed to aren't a publishing scholar." interpretation of Auden's major poetry since his return to the Kirkla nd faculty m e mbers Official College Policy Kirkland students understood Professor of Psychology Thomas When outlining the criteria for Ch u·r c h in r elation to the indicates that the heavy course this, and the administration too. I J. Scott and Assistant Professor of and committee workload hinders reappointment,. the Kirkland p hilosophical, theological, and · despair of th� ever approaching_ Psychology Sandra DeMyer-Gapin have each published an article. the college's professors in pursuing College Faculty Handbook· states l iterary influences which are it however " Wi lliam Hoffa, assistant . Assistant Professor of Creative their own academic and scholarly that "each faculty member's first revealed in it." It was published in p ro fessor o f literature, has Writing Katherine Dewart has had interests. and central obligation is to the. 1970' by Rutgers University Press. published three articles in the past her poetry published in various Eighteen of the approximately students, in and out of the B a hike h a s a lso r e cen tiy three years, and is continuing magazines and participates in the fifty faculty members responded, classroom... Advising...at Kirkland_ completed an artical and a long · and i f t he r esponses are is understood to be. an integral essay on Virginia Woolf. Y o r k S t a t several projects on Ezra Pound's N e w C h a l lenge a n d R esponse: poetry. He plans to take his Poetry-in-the-Schools program. r e p r e s e n t a t i v e , K i r kl a n d component of the faculty's Sabbatical. leave in two years and Bristol and Liverpool on the Eve p rofessors have, nevertheless, . teac_hing function." Assistant Professor of Political The Handbook also says that of the !ndust rial Revolution · by found time to engage in scholarly hopes to be a Fulbright Lectl.l-rer Science John Bacheller, Instructor in American Literature at the in Judaica Daniel J. Lasker, M arcy is , under activities outside Their teaching "Each faculty member- owes !O Pe ter himself, to his students, and to consideration at a university press requi rements. University of Odense in Denmark Assistant Professor of Art Robert Faculty Opinion t he C o 11 e g e s u s t a i n e d and when it is published, Marcy during the 1974-75 academic C. Palusky, and As sistant In response to the question, developmentin his own knowledge will begin another book on the year. Professor of Literature Heinrich "Do you feel that the work load and capacities... Kirkland-does not 18th Century city. As s i s t a n t Pr ofessor of Stabenau are all engaged in at Kirkland hinders your ability to demand publication under forced . Marcy has also published an Psychology Drury Sherrod has research in their respective fields. pursue. other interests?", sixteen d r a f t; i t does e n c o urage a rt icle e n-titled "Eighteenth published four articles and is faculty members, with varying p r o f es s'i onal a ctivity whic� Century Views of Bristol and degrees of vehemence, agree� that stimulates the faculty member's. Bristolians" in Bristol in the it did, and one did not answer the mind and imagination...Kirkland Eighteenth Century, edited by P. underst ands t he n e ce s s a ry McGroth (David & Charles, 1973). question. Nad,ine George, instructor in Psychology Professor Drury c o n nection b e t w e e n g o o d· Sherrod wrote, '7he college does teaching and the faculty member's history of science, received her doctoral degree in January 1974, not seem to expect or reward ownscholarlyactivity." scholarship or easily make it • In addition, the Handbook· and this summer plans to begin possible to undertake reasearch. encourages faculty involvement in revising her dissertation for To the extent that scholarship committee work. "Kirkland.�.is eventual publications. George has committed to the also been invited to give a paper in occurs at Kirkland , it is ex_plicitly propositi on that active faculty Geneva, Switzerland d\ll'ing July. surprising." Instructor of Histoi:_y of i n v o l v e m ent i n academk Jeffrey A. Ross, instructor of Science Nadine George also said governance is essential... government, expects to con;iplete '7he College recognizes that his d o c t oral dissertation by that she was "uneasy about college policy, which seem to such service places demands upon August 1, 1974. It will be. downgrade faculty scholarship a faculty member's time and e n t i t l e d , "S ocializa t ions, energy. It is also recognized that Discontinuities, and Political rather severely." H o w e v e r , G o v e r n m e nt time is possibly the most scarce Alienations: An Empirical Study Instructor Jeffrey Ross wrote, "I commodity on campus. It will, of the Emigration of Soviet Jews . feel that the College has a fairly therefore, make every effort to to Israel" and is based upon a generous policy towards faculty ensure an equitable distribution of survey he conducted in Israel in 1972. research grants... It is obvious that responsibilities." Ross has also written several I n h i s r e sponse to the a heavy teaching and com�ittee load hinders one's ability to questionnaire, Dean Marcy wrote, papers on the subject, two of pursue o utside s cholarship. " K ir k land's; w o r k load i s w h i c h w e r e d e l i v e r e d a t However, it does not make it demanding, more s o than at most professional association meetings, impossible to do, just more other colleges; however, part of and oneof which will be published difficult...it must be kept in mind that load is continuing scholarship in S t udies i n Co mparative that Kirkland is a teaching rather and Kirkland has an enlightened Communism in May, 1974. than a research institution." and generous program of faculty In addition, Ross gave a lecture Most respondents complained s, c h o 1 a r s h i p a n d on political attitudes of Soviet assume the presidency. He insisted of the burden of committee and g ra nts." K irKland's available Jewish immigrants to officials of BY DOUGLAS GLUCROFT ' on adhering to the confident.ality admin istra tive responsibilities. financial a i d t o professors t h e State Depa rt ment i n ''fhe committee workload here is includes: Washington, D.C. on April 12. He Hamilton's Presidential Search of the Search more strictly than · c l e a r l y e xcessive," w r o t e 1 . Funds for travel expenses i s o n the editorial board o f a appears t o be a t the crucial stage. h e had i n his previous interview. Meanwhile, the committee has Go vernment Pro fessor John to professional meetings of national journal, T ea ching Search Committee member Grant Bacheller. "It takes up an scholarly associations, which- are Political Scien ce, and has D. Jones, associate professor of reportedly not met in over two anthropology, said, "I have the weeks. Coleman Burke, chairman unreasonable amount of time and allocaied to each division and published three articles in it. inte rferes with teaching and Jerrald Townsend, instructor in sensation that if we don't make a of the Board of Trustees, said last administered by the division research..." chairman. history, fs currently in the final · decision now...the Search will week that William M. Bristol III, Literature Professors William 2. Summer research grants, stages of completing his doctoral continue fm;: several months." chairman of the Search committee W. Hoffa and William Jamison awarded on a competitive basis dissertation on Monasteries and The Board of Trustees meet on was trying to arrange a meeting said that t he pressure for by the Grants Committee, to feudal societies in the 11th and May 10, and it appears that the within the next ten days which m a j o r d e ci sion would imply a meeting very soon s up p o r t s um mer research 12th centuries. He also is planning innovation at Kirkland is an m ust be made if his efforts were successful. p ro fession al to begin research for arti�les on pr ojects, i m p e d i men t t o f a c u It y In any case, communicat ions very shortly: Will i mprovement, and related literature and so�iety in the News· s c h ol a r s hi p. H of fa w r o t e , a candidate be are growing closer between the scholarly activity. Middle Ages and a biography of Analysis "Kirkland has no fixed curriculum 3 . Huber F oundation St. Bernard of Clairvau_x. presented to the committee and the Trustees, and there is enormous pressure � Grants, awarded by a faculty Board for a vote, according to Jones. Donald K. Grayson, assistant from everywhere to continue to committee appointed by the professor �of anthropology, has or will the Search be extended make up new courses. This is T h e c o m mi t te e o n 1 y · President, to aid with the dQne extensive summer field into the summer with an election recomm�nds names; it is the exciting and worthwhile, but it miscellaneous expenses of the research in arcbeology for six deferred until the next meeting of Board of Trustees that, i�-,he takes up that little time which final analysis, elects the college's p r o duction of a research summers since 1965. He has also the trustees? might otherwise be devoted to project already underway. The Search is thirteen months president. A . fair assumption, scholarship." published -seven articles in the last 4. Research Professorships, f o u r years and h as four· old; committee members admit however, is that the committee Two other professors said they w hi c h r el i e v e a fulltime p ublications currently being that they are tired. Richard would not submit a candidate be lieved the college's policy toward faculty scholarship was p ro f e s s o r of all teaching prepared. C o upe r , a member of the without some consensus of the responsiblities for one semester inadequate. George Bahlke, W i l l i a m Jamison, associate committee,, said last week that Board's favor. With six trustees on i n o r de r t9 complete a professor of literature, edited six "T h e r e a r e v e ry s e r i o u s the committee in addition to Assistant Professor of Literature, reco mmended that Kirkland significant piece of research or volumes and wrote four selections discussions with candidates." Chairman Burke who serves ex The status of Charles Gilbert's officio coordination between the writing. provide more than one reasearch i n t he H o ug h to n Mi f f li n p rofe s s o rship per year, and 5. Sabbatical leaves. Literature Series, which were candi dacy m i g ht also have two bodies is almost inevitable. Closer to home, J. Martin Instructor in History Jerrald Eight of the respondents have published in 1972 by Houghton changed since April 3 when The Townsend said, "College policy· received grants fr�m the college to Mifflin Co. He will publish an Spectator first contacted him Carovano continues to decline should provide for greater number a i d t he m with research or art icle o n the teaching of about his relations with Hamilton. comment on his candidacy. The of academic leaves for research, professional activity. In 1972, Shakespeare in the June 1974 At that, time he ackn-owledged D e p a r t ment of Government, writing, and retraining." Marcy was awarded a research i ssue Of t h e Sh a ke s pea re that he was a candidate but said m e a n w h i le , i s seeking a that he had not yet reached "the replacement for Acting Provost Many felt that the college must p r o fessorship for the spring Quarterly. crossroads" and added that he was Eugene Lewis. The conclusion now re-examine and re-evaluate its semester,' in addition to two Recharging the Batteries Professor Hoffa capsulized the "looking at the position, not for that he will serve as provost in a position on the merits of faculty grants. Carovano administration is not Faculty Scholarship issue when he wrote, "What is at · it." scholarship. "The college has to April 18, Gilbert, after a very the automatic result, but � if answer the question-Can one be a · Assistant Professor of English stake is the future vitality and erudition of the Kirkland faculty. long silence, said "no comment" C arovano's c a ndida cy w a s ' good teacher and not publish?" George Bahlke and acting Dean of All of us can get by with what we in regard to his candidacy and the defunct, it seems highly unlikely wrote Assistant Professor o f Academic Affairs Peter T . Marcy know (for a few years anyway) in possiblility that he had received that the Department would be P s y c h o 1 o g y S a n d r a have each written a book. the classroom anµ in conferences an offer from the c?llege to hiring a one-year replacement B a hlke's book, The Later DeMy..:.:-G apin. "The recent 0
Search· G>uld End With May 10 Board Meeting
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Kirkland Science
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takes money to run a science Rinard, assistant dean of academic more cooperation and support street. It _is seen mainly as a point BY MONICA LIFF Science at_ Kirkland has never curriculum, and that the program affairs. "However, an outside from Hamilton College, more of departure for other plans for been as strong as it was intended t r i e d at K i rkland received comm1ss1on can say things that substantive support from the . the revision of programs. Regardless of whether or not a to be. Administrative indecision- as inadequate -support. "Their hearts are difficult for people here to administration, the offering of courses at Kirkland of interest to cooperative science curriculum is to , whether to create a science are in the right place, but it takes say." The Commission's assessment pre .:.medical students, and the set up, most officials agree that curriculum and . hope to attract more than intentions," he said. students, or to attract students "The science division has had an of the problem was little different necessity of the curriculum to Kirkland is going to have to and then set up a program, has unhappy time. A large part of the from that of the evaluation graudate majors who can enter· redesign its own laboratory graduate programs in at least one sciences curriculum, as a result of resu lted in a weak science division felt that they were never team's. area "without severe deficiencies personnel changes within the The report said: supported as science· should be." department. "The re qui rement of in their backgrounds," or who can division. Accreditation Report This procedural vacillation has Faculty Departures c o o r d i n a t i o n w i t h abtain jobs in their field after In 1972 the Middle States never been solved. Three of Kirkland's four H a m i l t o n ... h a s b e e n graduation. According to Professor of A s s o c i ation of Colleges and p resent la boratory s cience Their recommendation interpreted in a way that has B o t any Eugene Putala, the S e conda ry Schoo� revkwed Of the four alternative plans professors are leaving at the end r e s t r icted options f o r projected maximum number of K i r k l a n d C o l l e g e f o r K · i r k 1 a n d ' s for the reorganization of Kirkland of the academic year. Professors faculty in the science devision was accreditation. development. The limited science· that were drawn up, the Nor man Boggs and Kenneth The association's evaluation eight; at present, there are six. r e sou r c e s of Kirkland Commission stated that · they H o w a r d t e n d e r e d t h e i r President Samuel F. Babbitt said committee criticized only the combined with a strong prior . could "support unanimously and resignations during the first half that the projected personnel laboratory science program, but of t he year, and Professor commitment to the arts, enthusiastic�lly" only one plan. maximums were never met · in not the History or Philosophy of This plan proposes that "a Elizabeth Gilbert resigned, "for h um a ni t ie s, and social science, but were met and in some Science offerings. The report said sciences left little to provide solid working relationship be personal reasons," a month ago. cases passed in the other divisions. that the Kirkland development in f o r a gro w i n g s cience es Lablished with the Biology This leaves Putala as the only He said that the numbers were the History of Science "is an program.. This situation was Department at Hamilton, and that Kirkland scientist. projected a bit lower than was excellent one, and the college Putala said that Kirkland is a l l o w ed t o de·t e r i o r ate . the affairs of the two departments ultimately expected to provide should be congratulated on this." b e c a u s e of a s e ri ous be coordinated and integrated advertising Howard's position, as a However, the report questioned flexibility. m i s p e r c e p t i o n a n d through the mechanism of a joint one-year appointment. Babbitt The other three divisions were whether History of Science should misunderstanding on the part �Hamilton-Kirkland Division of said that a description of Gilbert's g i ven maximum numbers of be p�t of the Science, rather than o f position is being written, and the t h e K i r k l a n d Biological Sciences.'" faculty positions because they the Humanities� Division. This joint division would be opening w il l be advertised. a d m i n i s t r a t i o n' a n d In its criticism of Kirkland "developed successfully and well, non-science faculty as to the responsible for discussion and B abb i t t s a i d t h a t t h i s laboratory science, the report said with strength," said Babbitt� / magnitude of support needed review of faculty_· matters, course appointment, also, is to be only "It is quite clear that, perhaps Chiquoine Comments to maintain a healthy science offe rings,· t he d ecisions of temporary. After the Kirkland science t h r o u g h a n u n c o ns c i o us division at a small college. concentration requirements, and division drew up its proposed full p e r p e t u a t i o n o f s e x u al Boggs will not be replaced by K i r kl and' s educational the cooperative use of faci{lties. an addition to the science botany conce ntration, they typecasting, Kirkland has from philosophy, at least during However, "such a division would department, said Putala. His post presented it to the Hamilton the beginning failed to allocate t h e days of t he Core n ot be expected to replace is being "phased o.ut" but the Biology Departm�nt. Professor of sufficient resources to this area. curriculum, was incompatible existing departmental structures b udgetary allocation for the "In addition, th,e college was Biology A. Duncan Chiquoine said w i t h a f u n d a m e n t a l or offices at either college." position could be returned to the that if the botany major had come unfortunate in its choice of area In addition the plan proposes science division with a new r e q ui re m e n t o f s cience about as it had been planned, of science concentration. Botany education for an orderly the addition of one or possibly description, Putala said. t he r e would have been . no does not really represent a field of p rog r essi on t hrough a two geography or demography Babbitt said that the positions restriction on a Hamilton student p a r t i cu l ar interest either to sequence of courses. All but personnel to the Kirkland faculty. are being advertised as temporary who wished to major in Botany. students or to the Hamilton the most superficial of science T h e s e_ p e o p le w o uld, in because although the division has Chiquoine said that he, as an scientists in suppose<;Uy cognate courses require prerequisites. conjunction with the Hamilton. an obligation to the the present outsider to Kirkland, sees a areas." A Commission Report The lack of cooperation in Geology Department, make up a botany students, it does not want number of basic problems with the development of science at joint division of Earth Sciences t o m a k e a l o n g - r a n g e As a result of these criticisms, the Kirkland science program. Kirkland by experienced similar to that of biology. commitment. "Botany is not a viable topic with Kirkland commissioned a group of per�onnel at Hamilton College "There is reason to believe that The plan recommende_d tha� as a student population of thi& size," science e ducators to assess contributed substantially to many as possible of the new. the science curriculum will be 'lie s aid. "Only a c ertain · Kirkland's science problem and Kirkland's problem." personnel hired be skilled in c h a n g e d ,. r e g a r d l e s s of percentage of the students in a propose viable solutions. The six From this assessment of the computer science, and thus be negotiations with Hamilton," said college population are interested commission members visited the in botany. If you do not have a campuses March 9 and IO, 1973, problem of the Kirkland science able to instruct in the use of Babbitt. large enough number of students, and the report was submitted to program, the Commission {Ilade computers in their own fields. This is the second segment of a This proposal is being viewed t hree-part series on Kirkland you can't get enough people for Babbitt on May 1 of that year. some general recommendations "The Commission's findings and four proposals of proITT"ams. very cautiously by administration College's science programs. Next your classes." The recommendations include: and faculty on both sides of the week: proposals jor the future. Chiquoine also said that it were not surprising," said Ruth 4
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It is her�b}' declared and found that the taxicab , industcy in the City of Utica is vested with a public interest because it is a vital and integral part of the transportation facilities of the City of Utica and that its regulation is therefore necessary... _ To permit this industry to exist without regulation and limitation of. the 'number of taxicabs would be to continue present evilS and public . hazards." (Secti�n I Taxi Ordinance, City of Utica; 596 of 45, 335 of °?46, 272 of '54) 0
BY SUSAN MALKIN Hanna has responsibility for So b e gi n s a f o r gotten enforcing the ordinances. He ordin�ce that lies tucked away in excused his ignorance of the law the files of the City Clerk's office saying, "I've been so damn busy, I in Utica City Hall. didn't even know we had taxis. Ignorance of the law by the One reason I haven't been aware mayor, the police chief, and the of them is because we don't have public, and a lack of complaints problems." has apparently permitted the taxi Pardoning the Mayor, City cab companies to infringe upon Administrator Ed Byrne said, "If the rights of the individuals y ou t hink t h at a s a f e t y conveyed by this public service. commissioner should be aware of Each company presently sets every single ordinance that his its own standards, and the result is police .chief should enforce, then· I an abused and confused public. would have to say you are The Better Business Bureau wrong." Taking his attention away (BBB) of U t i ca has f i ve complaints against the Utica Cab from making sure that a bro ken Companies on file. However, water fountain would be fixed, William Lowell, General Manager and that a littered baseball . field of the Utica BBB, said that more would be cleaned, Hanna claimed complaints aren't registered with that he has yet to hear a t h e B u r e au "be cause o f complaint about a cab compan:,, apathy" ... "People feel that they but if he had he would have are being taken advantage of, but tended to it immediately. "I they don't say anything,'' he said. haven't got one complaint about Many citizens aren't aware that taxis,."he said. "If the Better there exists an ordinance which B u sines s B u reau has .h a d protects their rights as consumers. complaints, they should have After six people were packed into brought them to us." The Mayor, as commissioner of the back seat of a taxi cab at • Utica train station, some of the public safety, has never made crushe d passengers grumbled, public the proper channels for "What is this insanity?" and "Who citizens to file complaints. Hanna eve r h e a r d o f s u c h a cknowledged that complaints ri di cu l o us nes s?" But t h e may have been limited because, efficiently as if the city had a complaints never went beyond the "people weren't cognizant of the commissioner of public safety." ba c k o f s e a t t h e ordinance.... We should make Hanna said, " If we've got an taxi. known the law so that if a person ordinance now, it's worth looking Apparently, few citizens is sitting a cab, he knows he can into ... It might be important to are aware that without permission . refuse anothe'r person to come look into, to see if it should be updated." He said, however, "I of the passenger, picking up, in." Executive Conflict . others violates a section of the don't want to come out with a taxicab ordinance. When first approached, Hanna blanket statement accusing the "Every person while driving a claimed that taxicabs fell under cab drivers, especially if I have no taxicab shall not accept additional the jurisdiction of the police records of complaints," passengers after the taxicab has ·chief. However, Police Chief No Rate Regulations first been employed by a person Benny D. Rotundo claimed T h e r e a re n o s p e c i f i c or persons of the same party... resonsibility only for the licensing regulations set for rates; only "a "A cab driver, according to the of taxicabs, and said that the rate card, on the face of which ordinance, must proceed with commissioner of Public Safety shall appear the words, 'Police passengers to destination by was in charge of standards and Department, City of Utica' ". is shortest possible route." regulations. required by the ordinance • fhe Mayor's response to this Although the taxicab passenger Most taxis presently carry rate is irked m�y times by riding shift in responsibility was, "Ha! car ds, however there is no conditions, he is often unaware of Usually the chief of police ·has the mention of, or checking by, the the laws that protect him, and answer t o every thing. I'm Utica Police Department. often accepts common violations surprised that now he has found Rates differ . between cab of the taxi code as normal something for the commisioner of companies for city travel by about public safety to do." procedure. $.05 per zone. Neither the mayor In another case, when the Still, according to the city nor the city administrator were person who hired the cab objected ordinance, the responsibility for aware that rates were not standard to an additional passenger, the cab cab regulations res�des with the for the city. dispatcher overrode the protest. . commisioner-mayor who "didn't Out of town rates are not The upshot of the affair was that even know taxis existed" At the regulated, and prices are left to the second passenger was dropped beginning of his term, Hanna the discretion of the companies. off first. abolished A ngelo Bendetto's Each company also has its own position of commissioner' public rt>g ulations c o n ce r ning the Mayor Unaware Utica Mayor Edward Hanna safety. According to Byrne, "It division of rates among passengers was admittedly unaware of the was thought that the police chief for the distance traveled.Prices taxi ordi nan ces. As acting and fire chief action as safety range from $6.00 for Black and Commissioner of Public- Safety, commissioner could function as White taxi to $12.00 for White
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hacking m the 'handshake · city' Star taxi for the trip from Clinton Utica. Things aren't at its best here. Maybe the cab drivers need to Utica. One cab driver, commenting on to take in a few extra people." Variation in Prices another company, said, "They Many people taking out of charge twice as much to go the s a m e d i s tance because they town trips, however, · do not thought they had the people over realize that there is such a great the barrel since they were the variation in prices. One complaint on file in the Better Business only ones there." The cab driver's advice to the Bureau deals with a citizen who public is "to call the cab company took a Black and White taxi to the and ask for the price from the Greyhound bus terminal for $6, and on the return trip took White manager first." However, this is not always the solution. On two Star taxi and was charged $12. � different occasions, Whitesboro The woman had assumed the rates Taxi company quoted $6.00 and . to be uniform and accepted the $8.00 for the same Clinton to cab without questioning the fee. The additional $6 the woman had Utica trip. The dispatcher at Jones' Taxi to pay to White Star "due to the operating costs of a new fleet", Service (which, it turns out, is could have been saved had she the same company as Whitesboro been aware of the differing rates. Taxi) did not even know the rates Although the Mayor has shown charged per person or the fees per additional passenger and had to his ability to see the cabby's point of view, he asserts that "where call the manager/driver to find out there is a law, it should be the charges. enforced." "Rather than jump The Mayor's advice to the and p l unge into a blanket public about the rate situation is statement," he says, "maybe the "to take the cheapest cab." "What's the matter with free best statement to make is that enterprise?" he asked. "If the one we'll look into it." However, the mayor insists that although who '_s charging the least is charging a good price, I'd hate to companies may be violating the o r d i nance; until he he ars make them raise it to meet the complaints, he is unjustified in uniform price." accusing the cab companies of Hanna also said, "You've got illegal practices. to understand th,e. eco�omy of
8/THE SPECTATOR/April 26, 1974
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Cobham Never Together, High Volume Destroys Music"
· BY JACK CUR RAN Billy Co bham announced at the beginning of last Saturday's concert, thirty-five minutes late, that his gro up would "have it together in just one minute." But e ven after tw o h o urs of continuous playing, th ey never quite go t it to gether. Several problems prevented a good tight pe rformance. For one, at mo st points througho ut the s h o w the perf o rmers were insensitive towards each other. Each one never seemed to hear what th e others were playing. Ofcourse, there were so me fine, beautifully played highlights and solo s in the co ncert, but for the most part the musicians were deaf. I can't help thinking tha� this insensitive playing was directly attributable -to the sound syst em. G o od solo s, or what seemed to be the making of good solo s, wer e drowned out either by Cobham's drumming, the super-amplified horn section, or both. I was blown out of my sixth row seat early in the concert by sheer volume, but even in the back of the chapel th e music was too loud. Most of the p eople who left du�ing the concert complained about the noise level.·
s o und system Wa s even before the concert began. The sheer numb er and size of the speakers and amplifiers were ominous and indicated troubl e from the start: a good band with its roots in jazz should no t have to rely on power and volume for a goo d show. The skill o f the musicians sho uld o verride the volume, not the other way a ro und. Mo st of the playing was grossly distorted. I remember clearly when the amplifiers on my side o f the chapel thankfully went dead for a few peaceful seconds during a trombone so lo. The trombone actually· sounded good during that brief time, but a s so on as the amplifiers picked up again the horn section was plagued by the same fuzzy distortion.. The horns were amplified to the point of unclarity , especially during the first tune : Pleasant Pheasant. The m us1 c1ans that were · supposed to play Saturday night were not all there . Garnett Brown did not play, unfortunately, so the audience was subjected to the rath.er unimaginative trombone playing of someone named Farris (I think that was his name but I didn't quite catch it.) And Alex Blake (again I'm not sure) played The
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a fairly boring bass. J ohn Williams had been promised. The reason why this concert had been pro mising was that all the musicians had supposedly played to gether before in Dreams, Mahavishnu, or other gro ups. But the reasoning breaks down when peoPle like Farris and Blake are added. Razz, or Jock? And the biggest problem of all 'is, it's damn difficult to synthesize j a z z a n d r o ck s u c e s sfully. G en e r a l l y s p eaking, jazz is primarily a world of harmo ny and harmonic extensions based on S . > progressions which are naturally c:~f" ) i fa_ it suited for imaginativ e solos. Rock is based mo stly on two chord "progressions" or varieties o f b l u e s p r o g r essions. So jazz musicians are naturally limited band drowned him out. And when they improvise on ro ck during all his solos, Farris was two -chord progressions. attempting to play some half-step If the playing is going to be drifts away from the harmo nic unimaginative, as • it was last progression. They just didn't quite Sat ur d a y· -n i g h t , then t he work. excitement and drive of this A n d what w a s J o h n j a z z- r o ck synthesis must lie Abercrombie doing? He could just somewhere else outside of the · not ge t his guitar going anywhere. harmonie s and progressions. His solos came off as dull U s u s ally the rhythms are misplaced accentuations in a wash "jazzed-up" (if the reade r will of bland sound (but it was loud pardon the expression.) Bands like s o und). He was abnormally Return to Forever can get away unimaginative. His solo s were with tw o chor d progressio ns cleverly repetitive and stuck to because their rhythms are unusual only one bor ing range from which and e xciting and their musicic\nS he could never seem to move. im aginative. It was hard to tell whether But Cobb� 's rhythms were pia nist Michlo Leviev played well. nothing special, and the ·solo s Apparently th e band did not like were even less inspiring. his style for they w ere constantly The concert opened with an drowning out h·is solo s. What I did exceptionally unimaginativ e tenor hea r sounded go od, fast, but solo by Mike Brecker. His brothe�, rhythmically weak an d not very R andy, managed a bit more class imaginativ e. with his trump et solos, but the Cobham 's drumming was of re st of the horn section and the course tremend ous, but he was
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s Happy and Artie Traum have of effete -ones whos e self image e false ly that o f "stars;" ar .. e a uc d se lost their ability to t no It was unfortunate that the hesitant audience. True, during last Friday's perfo rmance the Chapel was not comple tely full. c o m m u n i c a t i o n. w a s n ot For those who didn't see Happy particularly intimate, but then and Artie-do. You'll hear a superb house party audiences have never back-up, and A rtie's lead guitar is • been notably impressed by �Y o f� en reminiscent of �jango _ , .. Remh�_�t ..;,For �_po�e .rh� �� see show of musicianship - only ,show / a quality a ssociated simply, wit�·:'the__ sh�w ,) read1rg;�-rev1�w 1s an · ' ,.. , r, · ,a�sur� 1ty-. . noise . . . , There , were some technical , If you re ·curious about therr problems involving �und, -1,lUt.-'' back-up, �he list t�a�_s:, R_oll e ' blame' McFadd en Siiund ·co. ·S a l l�-bas s; �arry Parkerr.fiddle After two hours of listening to the .. [ on.� . 0 f. t he many unsung i n . Brombe rg ' s g roup's original mater ial one mus1c1an s_. H.M. S . Pinafore sailed to aw ay to shore , only t o have the t r o c a s t s ;] . J ohn p p g u n s i d hn an d a ost te ious coul detect a m O un t O f · re petitive chord �ers�en-drums; and the sax playe� success last night in its opening at marriage plan reveal ed to the progre ssions. behind a few ·hurting t00 bad for word·s / was ·Da ve t h e Cha.p e l . Th e s p i r i t e d C aptain by the de spica ble Dick Deadeye [Lawrence Wingert]. All Sanborn · p e r fo r mance o f t he entire · lyrics. . . ander x e Al long re Happy c Hamilton too s' lost until Poor Little er have or se F Play ems w & T h e p e r,f O r m a n-c e w a s . might make Pinafore the most Buttercup reveals that she had - d only heard disappointing in other senses. l · Artie b- eeµ arOund , an a. evm·e • ente rtaining theatrical event on w et-nursed both the Captain and . e folk. Cult gr"'p w a s p r obably influenced by Of through th m e 1tmg 1 th"1s year. down of the rr · f"1rst the H"ll e Ralph " so many years ago", and Th · legend s I had heard abo_ u.t the . · n e av o er wou . t akenIy m1·xed them up. 1 C ap · I alb I d h Th· I um mis c s 1c had 1 s s · Gilb a t er ev d an t Part of bro thers' stage •presence. in arly e s r othe r b p rinciples' stations are e th e d Th ha d e n r va i l l occur u S a er op comic is a the problem could have been their .__ g e n er al l a ck o f p erversity. the game changed their names, d elightful mock ery of 19th therefore scrambled, and each can H o wever it was a welcome comp romised on their music and century English nobility and class marry whom h. e wishes. a couple of inches to structures. The cast takes Gilbert's . . t o s ee healthy, added e xp e ri e n ce . , . . . . Th e a ct 1 n g, smgmg, and _ " _ e s h e1ght. · witty, fast .flowmg 1yncs and relative ly sa ne performers, instead rub Brook Hedick Sullivan's spirited score and plays·· dancing in this production is supei:b. Claudia F ogelin gives a them for all they are worth. gentle, to uching and often comic Plot p o rtrayal o f . Buttercup, who Corco ran describes as a "plump The story centers around the and pleasing person." David Kulle l o ve bet�een Josephine, the is fine as the Captain. He has an P i n a f o re's captain's daughter excellent vo ice, but needs to relax [Rebecca Spear], and able seaman a bit more on stage. Rebecca Ralph Rackstraw [Michael Spear sho uld project more, but Sigler]. Of co urse, they canno t unq uestionably · has the best marry because of the difference in trained vo ice in_the production. their social standings. To further Michael Sigler-and Sam Babbitt c o mpl icate m a tters, Captain Corcoran [Davi� Kulle] wishes his give the two best performances 9f the night. Sigler has the strongest to ma rry the Right daughter Honorable Sir Jo seph. Porter, · voice in the show. He beautifully portra ys the distraught an d finally K. C.B, the First Lord of the · Admiralty played admirably by· -satisfied lo ver. The program note o n Babbitt Samuel F. Babbitt. says, "When Mr. Babbitt is not on The young lovers, with the aid stage, he's President of ·Kirkland of the Pinafore crew, try sneaking
too overpowering. He and Let Pastora, on congas, played a beautiful percussion duet neat the end o f the concert. In fact everyone played some fine music at one point or another in the show, ,_except Abercrombie. Mike Brecker played a fantastic so prano sax solo during Spanisl Moss. And some of Randy's trumpet solos really shone. There were some moments when he was beautifully clear and could run up and down the range of his trumpet like lightning. I said in my preview for the concert, "The amazing t hing is, all these musicians have played with each other befor e at one time or another." But the amazing thing was, they performed like they had never hea rd each other before. Individually, most of them were _-superb and had their high points during the concert, but playing together, they just couldn't pull it o ff.
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Colleg e." Perhaps when Babbitti no longer President of Kirkland, he will be on stage. He struts and stumbles m· a ffi"'"'......... befitting the Ruler of the Queen's Navee. Sir Joseph candidly admits that he "thought so little they re warded he by· making him ruler of the Queen's Navee." Chorus Credit Much of the credit for this performance must go to the choruses. Led by the Boatswain [Chris Caswell] the crew of the Pinafore seems to be enjoying t h e m selves tho.roughl y. Sir J oseph's sisters, cousins, and aunts a re fal sely char ming and tantalizingly giddy. Anne Dumke's choreography is nothing short of incredible. The tiny Chapel stage is no obstacle for thirty actors and actresses' dancing and ·prancing about. The chorus numbers, especially A Briti sh _Tar and Carefully on Tiptoe Steal£n�are delightful. Director L ee Spear and producer Peter Sluys have put to gether a fine production. H.M.S. P£nafo re will be presented tonight at 8. PM, Saturday at 2 PM and 8 PM, and Sunday at 8 PM. Frederic Blod
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FILM On Campus This Weekend Strangers On A Train and The Great McGonigle with W.C. Fields. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Sunday at 10 p.m. only. Chemistry Auditorium. Admission is $.75. Umberto D and I.F. Stone's Weekly. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm. Sunday at 10 pm. only. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission is $.75 April 28 (Sunday) Recent Film·s by Norman Bloom. 7 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. No admission charge. May 1 (Wednesday) Russian Film Series: The Duel by Chekov. 8 pm. Science Auditorium.No admission charge. May 2 (Thursday) Borcellino sB pm. Science Auditorium. Walt- Disney Triple Feature: Dumbo, The Adventures of Ichabod, and Mr. Toad. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission is $.75. LECTURE AND DISCUSSION April 27 (Saturday) Sym posium: Alternatives in Black Education. 10 am. Kirner-Johnson Room 109 (Red Pit),. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:30 pm. Kirner - Johnson Room 109 (Red Pit). April 28 (Sunday) Free Church Service. Guest Speaker: The Reverend Franklin J. Upthegrove, St.Paul's Baptist Chur�h, Utica. 11: 15 am. Chapel. Newman Mass. ,Father Drobin. 12:45 pm. Chapet April 29 (Monday)
Lecture: China, Japan, and the United States in Asia.. Mr. Selig Harrison, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 8 pm. Bristol Campus Center Lounges. Faculty Lecture Series: Eye Movements and Visual Perception: The Look Before- the Leap. Professor Jonathan Vaughan, Hamilton Psychology Department. 8 pm. Science Auditorium.
Jim Peskin, Kathryn Laws, and Steve Zorthian (l-r), in School For Wives. Fri-Sun. at 8 p.m. Minor Theater.
Spring Festiv.al Features Poets lgnatow,. Matthews
The idea for a poetry weekend w om an, b ut, a c c o rding to f ir.st a n n u a l T h e comes in response to growing Rigsbee, "they all seem to be off Hamilton-Kirkland Spring Poetry interest in poetry on the Hill. The writing books." Instead,· an older, Festival will be held tonight and April JO(Tuesday) program coordinaters, Hamilton experienced poet, Ignatow, and a tomorrow, April 26 and 27. Truax Lecture Series: The Freedom of Man� A.R.C. Duncan, · Poets William Matthews and English Jnstructor David Rigsbee, y ou nger, 'ne w-breed' poet, Visiting Professor of Philosophy. 8 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. Kirkland Arts Division Chairman Matthews, were selected in order David Ignatow will read selections Rosenfeld, and Katherine to present - a balanced program William . May 1 (Wednesday) from their works, and lead a Saltonstall, Kirkland Assistant representative of contemporary Newman Mass. Father Drobin.- 12 Noon. Chapel. (Also symposium during the weekend of Thursday.) poetry, 'co-sponsored by the Professor of Creative Writing, American poetry. originally had hoped for a big The poets will present a Kirkland Arts Division and the Lecture: Carter G. Woodson, the Negro History Movement, and problems funding · but event, tonight at 8:30 p.m. in reading Hamilton English Department. Africa. Professor Otey M. Scruggs. 8 pm. Bristol Campus Center n a r rowed the scope ... of the the Kimer-J ohnson Red Pit. - A s i ws e h t t a M m a i l l i W Lounges. poet-i n- residence at Emerson weekend. A desired grant from reception will follow at the Lecture: May Day and Other Pagan Rites. Mr. Peter Matthieson, in Boston, and visiting the State Council of the Arts was Alumni House. Saturday's events College Novelist and Anthropologist. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. l e cturer a t Sarah - Lawrence . not obtained, causing the three include a picnic and symposium, Bible Study: You Shall Be Holy. Leader: Daniel Lasker. 9 pm. organizers to rely exclusively �n starting at noon at the Alumni College. His first book of poems, Alumni House. House. lgnatow and Matthews will funds. departmental Ruining the New Road (1970) The committee had also hoped again present readings in the Red was followed - by Sleek for the Little Miss MuffeJt Fights Back. A slide show by members of the that the fe�tival would include a Pit Saturday evening at 8:30 p..m. Long Flight in 1972. Utica Women's Liberation Coalition, 8 pm. Octagonal Room. List of ication l ub p the h t i W Art Center. Matthews' second book came May 2 (Thursday) ,, .these -words from Steve Mooney, lecture: Science and the Determination of 'Safety' in Public' late editor "', of -"the Ten.n'essee •. - ' Po·etry Joum�_l: · MINOR THEATRE Policy. Dr. William _·Lawrence,. Resident Fellow, Natio'n�i Anyon� interested i!1 using Minor Theatre and/or its equipment ''Nobody di s covered Bill Academy of Sciences. 3:30 p.m. Senate Room, Bristol Campus -. -- Matthews; he:is the produ�-or'his Center. _for theatrical production next year (Spring and Fall semesters) 't, "' . . sho�ld �nd a request with J?referred ·da·tes, first, second and third called have I .. energy creative own _DRAMA dlo�c�s, for rehearsals and production time slots, according to Carol him a post- Wasteland poet. I Alexander Hamilton Players Belhn1-Sharp. _ me a n that he brings a Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore. 8 pm. Friday, Saturday, conciousness to American poetry . �xcept for department productions, use of Minor Theatre· is and Sunday; matinee 2 pm. Saturday. At the Chapel. that embraces the life we're living limited to two weeks and two weekends which include all rehearsal and performance dat�s. Submit all requests to Carol Bellini-Sharp by Admission is $.50 for students, $1.50 for adults. now. He knows enough, and · is May 2, 1974. Faculty Production talented enough, and is young Con�ideration wiil . be given to all applicants depending on the Moliere's School for Wives. a· pm. Friday, Saturday, and enough , to write great poems space available. Sunday. At Minor Theater. Admission is $.75 for students,· about · American life· from now until 2040." WOMEN'S CENTER c·Hoo�E FILMS $1.50 for adults. Anyone who would I ike to suggest films for next year's Women's -I g n a t o w , D a -v i d MUSIC Center Film Series should contact Rosanne Korenberg, Kirkland Box poet-in-residence at York College April 26 (Friday) BPRU presents: La Sonora Borinquen, a Latin Band. 8 pm. _ of the City College of New York, 326 or X4539. has been publishing books of ,AMENIC Gym. poetr y s i nce 1934, and is This weekend Amenic presents Vittorio de Sica's moving film April 27 (Saturday) currently working on his second Umberto D. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at Kirner-Johnson BPRU presents: The juju Dancer; and Love, Unity, and Gu ggenheim fellowship. His Auditorium. Coming soon: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, Strength. African dancing and drumming, Jamaican chants and Collected Poems was published in directed by George Roy Hill and starring Michael Sacks. Admission poetry. 3 pm. Kirner - Johnson Room 109. (Red Pit). 1970 by the Wesleyan University $.75. Hamilton - Kirkland Folk Dance Party 7:30 pm. McEwen Pr ess. His latest work, The KINOKUN ST. Dining_ Hall. No admission charge, and refreshments will be Notebooks of David Ignatow, was This weekend Kinokunst presents Hitchcock's thriller Strangers published by Swallow Press; next served. spring, Atlantic-Little Brown will on A Train, starring Farley Granger and Robert Walker. This film is BPRU and SAC present: The Grover Washington, Jr. Quartet, 9 the utmost in action and suspense in true Hitchcock style. Also The print Facing the Tree. pm. Gym. Free ·with social tax; general admission is $3.00.
-arts briefs
April 28 (Sunday)
Concert: Hamilton an_d Kirkland Choirs. 3:00 pm. Gym.
April 30 (Tuesday)
Student Concert: Brass Choir, Woodwind Ensemble, and Selected Soloists. 8:30 pm. Chapel. EXHIBITION
Currently On Campus S,elected Works of Richard Mayhew.. Bristol Campus Center. Closes May 2':" Paintings by William Salzillo. At List Art Center through May 24.
Levertov on Ignatow
K i r k 1·a n di F o r m e r poet-in-residence Denise Levertov believes that "Ignatow's poems grow right out of the American concrete like gingko and ailanthus tre-es...There is an excitement that grows on one in his sober truthf"ulness and , the beautiful simplicity of his language and rhythm."
Great McGonigle, a W. C. Fields short. Shows are in the Chemistry· Auditorium at 8:00 Thursday., Friday, and Saturday and 10:00 on Sunday ..Admission to al I shows is $. 75. STUDENT CONCERT
Music students of Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges will present a concert Tuesday, April 30, in the Chapel at 8:30 p.m. The concert, open to everyone without charge, wil I include works by Bach, Dufay, Gabrielli and Rosetti. Performers will include the Brass Choir and Woodwind Quintet of Hamilton and Kirkland. · Two Hamilton seniors, Peter Ackerman and David Shillieto will perform piano solos. ,
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Mel Brooks Direds''Blazing Saddles" "Evening of Hysterical-Entertainment" BY JACK HORNOR
Blazing Saddles is Mel Brooks' hysterically funny satire of the Western movie genre. Armed with an outrageous sense of propriety which allows him to use offensive material, Brooks and four other w riters have crammed every conceivable sight gag, cliche, and general takeoff on the Western tradition into this picture. There is no theme in Blazing Saddles; the plot serves only as a vehicle to ·carry a series of loosely related jokes. The story is set in a small town in the West, and hinges on the introduction of a Black sheriff (Cleavon Little), whose presence is supposed to get the people- out of town so that a railroad can be run through. A c orrupt state official, Hedley Lamar (Harvey Korman) is the chief bad guy. The funniest people in the film are Little and his sidekicks, The Waco Kid (Gene Wilder) and Mongo (Alex Karras). Wilder, �s a reformed alcoholic gunslinger, is especially amusing when his voice goes up an octave after smoking dope with the sheriff. But Mongo almost steals th� entire movie; he lights a cigar by leaning into an open fire, and when he is told by
a man on horseback that he can't park his Brahma bull on the street, he, knocks the horse out with a single blow to the head. Another character who ends up aiding the sheriff is played by Madeline Kahn, who is likely to· be nominated for an Oscar for her supporting performance as Lily · von Schtup. . · Miss Kahn'_s role is a delightful takeoff on Marlene Dietrich. Her lisp is devastatingly accurate; when Little visits her room and gives her a flower, she croons, ''Oh , a wed wose ! H ow w o m a n tic!" Her song ("I'm Tired") informs the audience that everything below the waist is kaput. B r o o ks satirizes the political-boss system in a scene where everyone is required to go "harumph, harumph!" q,n cue with him in his role as the inept and lustful Governor William J. LePetomane. The bad guys, led by Slim Pickens, are slowed down by the installation of a thruway toll in the middle of· the prairie. The a u d i e n c e w a s e s p ecially enthusiastic when Pickens yelled (after finding that no one had any change) for someone to go and
CHOIR CONCERT
This weekend the Hamilton-Kirkland Choir will present a repeat performance of its spring tour music. The concert will take place on Sunday, April 28th, at 3 p.m. in the Alumni Gymnasium. Admission is free. Joining the choir will the Brass Choir, The College H Singers, and the Buffers.
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''bring back a shitload of dimes!" Some aspects of the movie remind me of Woody Allen's Sleeper. An eyecatcher in that movie was a McDonald's sign with an almost limitless number of hamburgers sold. The same kind of gag works in Blazing Saddles with a Howard Johnson's which sells only one flavor. Another trait that Brooks and Allen share is a �light tendency to use humor which only a limited number of people -will understand. Being a New Yorker was almost a pre requisite for appreciating Sleeper. Brooks' second part is a Jewish Indian chief, and more than half of his lines are spoken in Yiddish (for those of you who don't speak any, "Shvaitie�" means Blacks.) The rest you can guess at, like I did. And if you aren't up on old movies, there's at least one line you may miss that was lifted from the script of The Treasure· of the Sierra Madre. The great joy of the movie is the excellent parody on Western cliche's. One of the better takeoffs occurs when a foreman asks for "a nigger work song"; the black workers reply with an' excellent rendition of Cole Porter;s /. Get a Kick Out of You. Yet despite these and countless other equally funny gags, the movie has erratic spots. It is difficult to figure . out if Brooks ever tries to be serious abou f anything in the movie, or if he is satirizing everything he covers. There is one scene in particular where "the Chinks, the niggers, and the Irish" railroad workers band together with the WASP townspeople to help save the town. The scene doesn't work no matter how you view it; if it's a satire, it's just not funny, and if Brooks is serious, the scene is out of place. What little social commentary . the film contains (and with a Black sheriff there was bound to be some) is obscured by the use of offensive language. When Little politely tries to say good morning to a little old white lady, she rep lies, "Up yours, nigger!" Obviously, this is no movie for people who are offended easily. Blazing Saddles is no work of art. There is no message. Probably it won't become a 'lasting' movie. But for an evening 9f hysterical entertainment (and right before exams, who couldn't use one?) this is the perfect movie. Your hosts Charles, Jennie & Butch Barady welcome all Hamilton and Kirkland students to
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Christian Groups qn Hill Stnve To Communicate· .
BY ROD STITT In a recent letter to "all those remo tely concerned about the Christian Community at Hami l tqn-K i r kl a nd," K evin McTeman '75 identified "about 6 different sub-communities of Ch r istians w h o . . . wi l l not co� muni cate openly with the others."
"C a t h o l i c s , P e n t e c o.stals, P r o t e stants, M i d d l e - o f-t he Roaders... all share the faith in Jesus Christ, but it is a faith not fully realized...until we share that faith. Differen ces a b o un d ... b ut for . Christ's sakes9bai,; we are ca lled to love one another and suppo rt each other's growth."
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BY SUSAN MALKIN Robert B. Brooks, Ha milton di re c t or of develo pment, has resigned effecti ve June 30_. Brooks has accepted the position of vice-president for develo pment at Moravia College in Bethlehem, Pennsy lvania. Brooks' departure leaves the offic e of de velo pment witho ut a d m i n i s t r a t o r s u n l e s.s a vice-president for development is appointed before the end of June. The offi ce of Vi ce-president · fo r De velopment has ·been vac a11t since May 1973 when Albert Walla ce resigned. Hamiito n has been conducting a sear ch for a v ice-president to fill Wa,llac e's former duties at the college. Out of a field of 85 applicants, Acting President Caro vano has . selected a number of qualified candidates whi c h he will present to the next president. Carovano said · that the selection of a vice-president is one of the first things the college's next president should attend to. Until the election o f the c o l l e g e ' s p r e s i d e nt , t he vice-p residential searc h is being "held in abeyance," according to Carovano. Plans have not _be�n ma de thus far to seek a replac �ment for Brooks. When Wallace, who directed
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fundraising for both colleges, resigned, A cting President J. Martin Carov ano, and President Samuel F. Babbitt decided to separate the fundraising and develo pment functions. Donald S. Braider is de velo pment dire cto r at Kirkland. Ac cording to Brooks, the ratio nale behind the &eparation o f the offi ce this year was "an attempt to give the Kirkland develo pment pro gram parity." Babbitt said that under the old j o i n t s y stem "Kirkland was getting the short end of Wallac e's time." Of Wallace and his joint responsibilities, Caro vano said, "Wallac e was unusual in· being able tp serve both colleges. He had problems trying to serve two whose needs might c o l l e ge s diverge.:.We doubted that we would find someone as talented as Bert Wallace and concluded it would be best not to hav e a joint offic er." "Ob v ious l y he had .split loyalties, and conflicting demapds on his time," s aid Hamilton's Ac ting President. ''The separation is a good thing for both schools," said Brooks. "We are trying to pro mote different programs in education. Therefore we must operate with different philo sophies and use a different approach."
M cTeman said that his letter was written in response to "som� amount of fri ction or unfounded assumptions by some people in regard to others (that had been caused by a) lack of communication or interchange among these groups." M c T e r n an subs equen t l y expressed his convic tion that "the various groups are getting it together on their own, but they are not getting t ogether." rac he vol �!c /· � �!:ti�! o ''v !:u! ac ti v ity on the Hill from a Chri s t i a n F e llowship group founded in the fall of 1972 by Kirkland Assistant Pro fessor of History David B .. Miller (which now meets on T h u rsday evenings at the Miller's home o n Grant Road}. Ac cording to M cTernan, a gradual increase in the ·number of people who parti cipated in this informa l gathering for Bible Study, prayers, and fellowship led to the arti c ulation of "m ore ,a specifi c" individual requirements that are n·ow fulfilled by :s different "sub-groups." j , A self-described "body of 'o Christians meeting for fello wship and prayer" e very• evening at 5:00 .in the Alumni House shares "what Christ is doing for Chaplain Joel' Tibbetts, who our lives." E l izabeth Eisenstadt '76 claimed with a smile · that he "n o t a pr o fessional described the organization as a w a s ''mini-community within the Christian," serves as ''Pastor. by default" of the Free Chur ch of co lleges" that is "supportive for the Christians who co me here, Clinton. ·In this capacity, he or - those o utside this group." to facilitate "an a ttemp t s Another member said it · was experience of worship in the "just a bunch of people meeting context of the Christian faith." to find fellowship with ourselves In a rec ent sermon entitled and the Lord." •''Pleasing Some of the People One parti cipant said that "all All of the Time, " Tibbetts Christians are now reaching out proposed that "our purpose as a for each other..".we want the congregati on does not include H o l y S pir.it to bring us c o n v e r ting persons to the together." The group attracts Christian faith... What draws us new members thr ough "a here is a conv iction, simply if grapev �e of informal contacts." crudely · stated, that there is
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more to life than the rev elations the five senses, and that a human being is made up of mo re than a mind. That is the beginning of what I c all a religious consciousness...lt may well be the one factor which ,,mites all religions... _ ''The point at whi ch the Free Church beco mes partic ular is the point where we who gather together as a body affirm that whatever o ne o f us wishes to say about religion is worth hearing whether it be e g r egi ously Christian or as seemingly sec ular as a grape. boy cott...The po int at continued on page fourteen
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CAC Discusses Coordiriation Candidly
The Committee on Academic Ro be r t B r owning, Hi s t o r y Coordinatio n [CAC] is offic ially Professor Edwin Lee, Assoc iate charged "to make every effort to· Pr ofess or of Anthrop olo gy G rant ensure ongoing c oordin ation, to D. Jones, Chuck Flynn '74, and attempt to identify areas that Dean of the College Stephen G. require coordinate action, and to Kurtz. All serve on CAC as suggest w a ys to. f a cilit ate appointees of the Committee on coordination," said committee A cademic Policy; the student c h a i r m a n N a dine G e o rge, representati ve must be confirmed Kirkland instru ctor in History of by the Senate. Two of the Hamilton fac ulty S�ience. The committee's resp onsiblity members are also required to sit is carried out by a committee of o n CAP, subsc ribing to the same eight, c o mposed of parallel rationale as the SCACA members. deleg a ti o ns f r om the both Faculty representatives fro m both colleges, each consisting of one colleges serve a three-year term, student, two fac ulty members, students may sit with CAC for and the ranking academi c deans. one.year. CAC performs its most useful Kirland representatives serving on C AC t hi s year include function by giving informal advice Ch airman G e o r g e , Hist o r y -to the academi c deans, with Instructor Jerrald L . Townsend, whom rests the ultimate decisions. Assistant Pr ofesso r of Music Hugh i n m a t t e r s o f a c a d e m i c Hartwell, Anne Albright '76, and c oo r dination, a c co r d ing to Acting Dean of Academic Affairs G eorge. S he said that the Peter T. Marcy. In acco rdance committee serves to "pinpoint with membership rules adopted i s s ues · that seem to need by the Assembly in February, · attention... but in no way is 19 7 3, a l l Kirkland· C AC anything we say final." The CAC Chairman indicated representati ves are appointed by SCACA in consultation_ with the that t he s t ructure of the Presidential Advisory Group. The c o m m ittee f ac i l i t a t e d t he student member and one faculty introduction of information from member are also required to serve t he c onstiuent communities ·on SCACA, ''in order to expedite "since i t has n o obvious the c onstant t r a n s feral of power...We are free to talk as no information" to that body. one in the real power structure The Hamilton contingent · is.'' Anne Albright b�lieves th,3' the consists of German Professor
committee plays its most useful role "by what it was tut out to be... a for um between CAP and SCACA." Although she feels that CAC is being underused by the deans and parent committees, the SCACA student representative thinks that "legislative pow� r is not desirable or ne c essary" for the C o m m i t t e e o n Academi c Coordination. Albright .said she was very frustrated by committee members who "are too wrapped up in being dip lomatic ...no o ne is really trying to be honest." Chairma n George said that "coordinatio n demands good will and good faith" on the part of all Although this is c o n c er ned. "sometimes hard to find, it's there underneath all the c rud." Dean Kurtz saw the most useful function of the committee in the c ase of a deadlock between the faculties, when CAC would be a " v ery convenient" vehicle through which a compromise solution might be reached. C A P Chairma n Russell T. Bla ck wood c on s i d.er e d t he advisory function CAC performs for the deans is most important. Linda Martin '7 4 emphasized the utility of CAC as a setting where "contino us discussio ns can take place...Y ou can't go along not conversing and then be able to deal with the problem when it arises."
Acting Dean Mar cy said that c o nstit uent m em be r s .. .other CAC �' can play a larger role in groups may appeal to it... for long-range planning" o f c urricula conver-s a tion purposes. When and related coor dinate academic Hamilto n or Ki rkland agrees tha t conc erns, in order to approach it wants to ac cept a binding full utilizatio n of the capabilites dec ision from CAC, its po wer is of the committee. rather great." Chu ck Flynn, who has served Although Lee found it diffi cult on CAC f or the past three years, to quantify the value of the said that the committee • "is committee on the basis o f serio us intended to be a forum for academi c issues that had required discussion, but I'm not sure it's active deliberation by CAC, he served mu ch of a useful purpose said ·that "it has provided a certain to date.'..' However, he cautioned kind of pressure and a certain that there is "a potential for an kind of ethos...the fact that it important...useful role in the exists and is con cerned with future.. .it should no be done away m a t t e rs of coo rdination has with." f o resta l led a g o o cJ m a ny F l y n n d e s c r i b e d C A C differen ces...that otherwise might discussions on issues like faculty have become issues." a ppoi ntments intende d tc:> B oth George and Albright strengthen Hamilton social science seemed to agree that "steps in the d ep artments or the Kirkland right dire ction" were taken this Sciences Division as "nebulously -ye ar towards more effe c tive substantive." He sees "no reason utilization of ·CAC. Albright was w hy" the committee cannot enc ouraged by the generation of become a formal body in which topics for discussion by student the "joint allocation of joint, and faculty representatives, rather limited resources over tiem" that t hap t he postponement of raise ''most serious questions with meetings unti l either of the deans .cur r i c u l a r r amifications" is requested committee discussion of discussed. an issue. Professor Edwin Lee, who has The existence of CAC, in the also served on CAC for the past e stimati o n of its chairman, three years, believes that the demonstf'ates that "both colleges function of the committee is have confidence in themselves and anlagous to the United Nations or their opposite number, in the the World Court: "It is not a body future, and that coordination can with any inherent power over . w or k . "
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Ors. Roe & Parker Resign kind of person to appreciate." BY BOB WEISSER Muilenberg also noted the Dr. John F. Parker, physician of the Thomas Brown Rudd colleges' policy to allow their H e a l t h C e n t er has resigned p hysicians t o have private effective the end of this academic practices outside of their clinical year. Dr. -Leon Roe, the Center's duties. He added however that Medical Director, is retiring June many young physicians wanted to work at large universities that are 1975. Dr. Parker, who finds the c onnected with research and Clinton weather too harsh, is hospital facilities.. There has been one applicant returning to the South to open a private practice. Dr. Roe, who will for Or. Parker's position' so far be 6 5 in July, is retiring because according to Hamilton Dean of Students R. Gordon Bingham. He of his age '. Roe said that there is a general is Dr. Frederick McKeeham of the shortage of physicians in the University of Rochester Health United States and four:d "many Center. He will be visiting the more c ol l e ges l oo king for school this Saturday, and will be t han ... physicians interviewed by several people, physicians looking for colleges:• when he including students from the Joint attended the American College Health Committee. Another major concern for the Health Association meeting in health center has been its role in. Dallas earlier this year. D r. Parker was the only the college community. Parker applicant for his position two s·aid that the health center should years· according to Dr. Roe. He not be too greatly concerned with added, "we hcpe to get more than the c urricular side of the campuses. He said that the kind of that this time." Dr. Don T. Muilenberg, the doctors that the college get to clinical psychologist at the health replace himself and Roe will be center, said that Hamilton and determined by the kind of role Kirkland are in a good position planned for the center in the relative to other sma:ll colleges for future. Roe and Muilenberg disagreed two reasons. First, he cited the physical location and atmosphere with this view. Roe has been of the colleges, which, Muilenberg admitted, "would take a certain
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working consistently for the last five years to have professionals in the h ealth -center be more involved in teaching courses, but has been stymied in his efforts. He said that this idea has been brought up every year at the Medical Advisory Board meeting, but that noth.ing has ever come of it. He went on to say that he had
p e rceived a groundswell of opinion that the health center s h ould have c urricular responsibilities along with its clinical duties. M uile nberg, w ho teaches H um ani s t i c P s y c hology a t K irkland, mentioned that he would like to see an expansion of the courses that the medical
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O v er r u l i n g t h e r e c o mme n d a ti ons o f the H u m a n i t i e s D i vi sion and K i r k l a n d ' s A p p oi ntments Committee, President Samuel F. Babbitt decided not to tenure Assistant Professor of Philosophy Phyllis Morris, The Spectator learned yesterday. Acting Dean of Academic Affairs· Peter Marcy reportedly e xe m p t e d himself from the decision-making process because of a conflict of interest as a member of the Division. Morris said yesterday, "I am in the process of making an appeal" but refused to make further comment. Babbitt, adhering to college policy, also declined to elaborate on his decision, saying that no public statements will be made on personnel decisions. Ursula Colby, chairman of the Humanities Division, confirmed that the President had ruled differently than the Division but said that she had no other information concerning the decisions involved. Less than two months after de l i b e r ating on the non-reapp ointment of James McDermid, associate professor of sculpture, the Appeals Committee will now consider the Morris case, which will be submitted soon by the Kirkland philosopher. Th omas S c o t t , ass ociate p rofessor of psychology and chairman of the appeals panel, said that he has not received the rec ords and has not begun deliberations. He said he does not know how long the process will take. In the McDermid case, the Arts D ivision, Appointments Committee, Dean Marcy, tl;te Appeals Committee, and Babbitt all agreed not to reappoint. In light of Babbitt's decision, this case appears significantly different from the prior one.
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Clinton Schools Redistrict BY KEVIN MCGOWAN The Clinton Scho ol District h as enacted a realignment of the elementa..ry sc hool system which will involve busing youngst ers between Clark Mills and Clinton. Community resistance to the plan has cent ered in the Right-To-W alk Committee, an ad hoc Clin t on citizens group. The plan, passed by the Board of Educ a t io n in December, consists of cl osing one of the three elementary shcoo ls in th e distric t, and dividing the pupils into two groups according to grade i ns tea d o f residence location. Children in· the kindergarten through second grade will attend the Clark Mills School which is about three miles from the Village. Children in grades three through six will be required to attend the Chenango Avenue School, located on College Street. Russes will shuttle students betwe e n C l a rk M i l l s , a n unincorpo r a t e d village, and Clinton. The third school, the Marvin Street School, will be closed because of its decrepit condition. The school has been in u� since 1892 ., and was condemned as a "fire trap" five years ago. The p l a n a l so facilitates maximum use of school facilities, and curriculum coordination, according to its supporters. All pupils of the same grade will attend one school in September. "It's e�ucationally sound,"
said William W alpole, principal of the Ch anango Avenue School, "to bring children of the same age group together. More can be done c u r r i c u l u m-w i s e a n d program-wise." Richard Carman, head of the R i g ht-T o-W alk C o mmitte e , claimed that Clinton residents often buy their homes so chil dren can w a l k t o n e ighborhood schools. A survey conducted by the group showed that 75% of the respondents would rather have their child ren walk to school. At the same time, though, Carman noted few people called Board members to protest. Carman was more troubled about the lack of communication between the Board and the community. Carman said the Board was hard -working but should "share their problems with the public." "If they had sent me a letter with the facts, if they had been
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·more responsive," he said, "I might have just gone away." Instead, the Committee has HAMILTON Phil ade lphia. He is the author of w o r k ed since February, and President-elect of the American Are You Looking for God? and presented an alternate plan to the Philosophical Association, which the editor of Renewal in the Boar d. The plan would keep a is head quartered at Hamilton. He Pulpit. number o f walkers attending each is one of the world 's leading Secretary - General. Waldheim , school. "You would still have to authorities on the philosophy of an Austrian, has been a diplomat set limits," said Walpole, "unl ess Kant and was translator and s.ince 1945 wh en he joine d h is, everyone's getting bused, no one editor of Kant's Critique of country's Ministry of Foreign will want to." The Boarq rejected P rac tical Reason and Other Affairs. The positions he h as h eld the alternate plan. Writings in Moral Philosophy. His since include first Secretary of the The Committee has looked b o oks . incl u d e P h i losophic Austrian Embassy in France, into the l egal aspects of the case, Inquiry, Studies in the Philosophy A m bassa dor to Canada and and checked with Albany on of Kant, and Early German p ermanent Representative of b o a r d p r o cedures. C a rman Philosophy Austria at the United Nations. '. admitted he was frustrated, and Mr. Irwin became Ambassad or Hew was the Austrian Minister of complained "you can't effectually to France last y,ear after serving as Foreign Affairs in 1968-70 and a talk to the Board." Under Secretary of State for the cand idate for President of Autria The Committee was also previous two years. In 1961-1970 in 1971. He succeed ed U Thant as concerned with the busing costs, he was a partner in the New York U.N. Secretary - General in and the repercussions_ of the law firm of Patterson, Belknap & January of 1972. Board plan on Clinton life. ''In Webb. During the Eisenhower KIRKLAND c ha n g i n g s t r uctures, I'm administration he serve d in the c ourse in feminist literature. conservative,'.' said Carman, "We Defense Department, first as Images of Women in E nglish and have a unique •situation in Clinton, Deputy and then as Assistant A m e r ic a n Lit erat ure a n d and with this pla!} w� !1on't know . Secr e t a r y f or Intern ational Phallicism and Feminism were what the'final effects will be." among her offerings. Security Affairs. Ernest Randall, chairman of A popular instructor among Justice Jones was el ected to ' the Board of Ed�cation, cited the the state's highest court in 1972. student s , U r sula S. Colby, economic benefits of the plan. By He was a practicing lawyer in p r o f e s s o r in literature and making "jud icial use" of the Clark Utica for many years and is a c h a i r m an of the humanities Mil l s S c h o o l , p r e s e ntly former President of the New York division, said students respected undercrowded, taxpayers would Bar Association. He has served as Burkom for her directness and save about $3 8,000 in teachers's Chairman of the State Bo ard of f o r t h r i g htness. "S h e w a s salaries. Ninety percent of the Welfare ·and a trustee of the State sometimes - desparingly honest," busing costs will be covered by University of New York as well as said Colby. state aid, and taxpayers will be a member of Hamilton's trustees. Burkom received a doctorate spared the cost of duplicating the He has been an active Episcopal from the Universit y of Minnesot a library system. 1957 as and she has compiled what is layman, serving since Randall denied th at the plan Chancellor of the Cen t ral New considered to be the authoritative had been sprung on the public. York Diocese. bib liography on Doris Lessing, th e "T h e C i t izen s' Advis o ry P res i dent Peterson became contemporary feminist writer. Committee discussed the problem C h i e f Executive Officer of Burkom. h as combined her a year ago," h e said, "and our Barnard in 1967 after 21 years as knowledge of literat ure and bulletin mentioned it at th e sa me an Administrator at th s University natural science "in all sort s of time." Randall also pointed o ut of · W isconsin. She has served as interesting ways" said Colby. She that open meetings were held C h a i rm a n of the Executive minored in science in graduate once a . month ; and Board C o mmittee o f the American schoo l. Last spring a committ ee members were e lected every three Council on Education and is a of students, faculty and truste�s years. '7h e Board is a legisl ative former President of the National voted .to award the President's b o d y , t h ough, " a n d n ot Association of W omen Deans and Medal to Thanh "in re cognition of everything should be discussed or Counselors. She is a trustee of her active, personal commitment voted on in open meetings,'' said Chatham College and a member of to th e cause of peace in her Randall. the Board of Visitors of Duke country." The President's Medal is Associate Pro fessor of Religion the highest honor awarded by the University. Jay G. Williams said that the Professor Steim le, an ordained col lege which does not . give redistric�ing plan is a good one. Lut h eran minister, h as been honorary degrees. The citation He s ai d t h at C l a rk Mills' Brown Professor of Homiletics at reads, "As a college dedicated to r e p u t a t i on fo r h a v ing Union Theological S'eminary since the education of women, we "roughnecks" is not deserved. 1961. Be fore coming the Union salut e you as a woman willing to Williams presentl y buses his two he was on the faculty of the risk your person and your fortune child ren to Clark Mills. -Lutheran Th eologic�l Seminary of in the public articulation of the truth as you see it." Thanh, a lawyer, has spent m ore than six years· in prison for political dissent. In accepting the medal Mrs. 1 W est Park Row Thanh wrote that she appreciated Clinton, New York "this t oken of support from your _d i s t i n .g u i s h e d a c a d e m i c Nick Bums, Br oker Hamilton ·'46 community of the cam;e of peace and freedom." 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S elig Harrison, an author, games and prizes and lots of o ne year. She is a mo n g journalist an d scholar who has balloons. And accompanying the approximately sixty winners out of a field of 1200. specialized in Asian affairs, will ferris wheel, a "Spineroo." The give a Carnival, free public to lecture be held Monday The Thomas J. · Watson HOUSE SALE {April 29) at Hamilton College at between Commons and Dunham Foundation named David Buck The College is- in the process of having four houses appraised in 8 p.m. in the Bristol Campus Dormitory, is open to the college '74 and William Song '74 Watson order to offer them for sale. The bidding procedures used in the past c o m m un i ty w i t h a special Fellows for 1974-75. The grant Center second-floorlounge. will continue to be employed. The appraisals should be completed in invitation extended to the faculty provides $7000 for one year of "Japan, be will topic Harrison's the next six weeks. At that time I will circulate a memorandum with China and the United .States," and their families. travel and study abroad. those appraisals and will solicit bids. Information on the houses can • dealing with the relations between be obtained from Mr. Kreinheder. Information on the bidding Bedke grew up in a Missouri The 1974 Truax Lectures in the three countries and the impact procedure can be obtained from Mr. Mavrogenis who will be in Lutheran home, but her attitude Wednesday resumed Philosophy that on war Vietnamese the of charge of that side of the operation_. The hottses are; no. 1 Griffin relationship. The lecture will be with the third talk in the series toward her religion is negative. Road, no. 301 College Hill Road, no. 111 Stryker Lane, and no. 5 ponso red · by the· Hamilton being given by A.R.C. Duncan, She said it's conservative and the s Stryker Lane. Government Department. the Truax Visiting Professor at the role of women is a subordinate NEW ARTS MAGAZINE one. However Bedke did attain a Presently a member of the college. The Publications Board is consolidating the two campus Like all five of the talks in the basic knowledge of the Bible, Washington Post national staff, magazines, Winterset! and Watermark. Those interested in applying Harrison . was for a decade a series, the remaining talks deal which she considers a strong for editorship of a campus magazine of the arts please get an resident Post correspondent in .w i t h t h e w o r k o f t he background to begin her graduate application from Harold W. Bogle, 302 Carnegie. Applications must Asia, serving for four years as contemporary British philosopher studies. At Kirkland, Bedke has be returned by May 1st. taken only one religion course. John Macmurray. chief of the Tokyo bureau. Also Hamilton students of classes '75, '76-,'77 who are interested Macmurray, the author of She is a German and literature On June 1 he will become a in b-;ing representatives of their class on the Publications Board major. senior associate of the Carnegie more than a dozen books, is 1974-75 plea_se give their names to Harold W. Bogle. Endowment for ,International known for his success in ap1>lying C h a p l a i n J o el Tibbets Peace, becoming part of a team of abstract philosophical concepts to originally suggested that Bedke . PHYSICIAN CANQIDATES journalists and scholars who will the practical problems of human apply for the grant: At first she Students are needed to help interview physician candidates to attempt to identify and analyze life. His best-known works include did not take the suggestion replace Dr. Parker who has resigned as of this semester. If you have potential areas of conflict in The Form· of the, Personal, used the Health Center services, and have ideas concerning Health . world relations. ·. Freedom in the Modern World , s edo usly; s he had ne ver con�idered graduate school in Center personnel, please contact Dean Poller or Dean Bingham by A · graduate of Harvard and a Reason and Emotion and The theol o gy. Each. year 55-60 Friday, April 25. _former Nieman Fellow, Harrison Structure of Religious Experience. p e o p l e a r e a w a r ded the Subsequent lectures in. the was managing editor for the New Rockefeller Grant. This is the LOST OR STRAYED ·Republic' in 1960-62, after· five . will ,be titled-"The Freedom of third year .that women have been I have a large collection of sweaters, jackets, and two pairs of years as ail associate editor of the Man, , to be given April 30, and accepted. eyeglasses lost at the Bundy Dance 4/5/74. If you lost anything magazine. He is the author of "The Faith ·of Man,'' May 2. Both there, call Peter Sluys at 859-7458. I n d i a: T he Most Dangerous talks will be at 8 p.m.. in the Buck plans to study folk Decades and the editor of India Chemistry Building Auditorium. m us eu m s a n d p reservation PIRG INDEPENDENT STUDIES The entire series is open to the soc and the United States. ieties • i n Great Britain, R9sem�y Pooler, staff attorney for the New York Public Interest During his career, Harrison has public without charge. Scandanavia, and Italy. His plans Research Group {NYPIRG), will be in the Kirkland faculty lounge Professor Duncan i s '.'Spending stem · from w o rk e d at the B r oo k i n g s a long standing from 12:00 noon, to 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 2, to discuss institution, The East-West Center the spring _semester at Hamilton interest in museum work. Buck PIRG independent study projects for the fall semester. Ms. Pooler Queen's from leave on while in Hawaii, and was at one time said that American living history and faculty members will sponsor the following projects: Managing Editor for The New University, Kingston, Ontario, museums including Sturbridge Investigation of the proposed North-South Arterial; study of the G. Ella and John is he where Republic. w e r e i n s p i red by European One ida _Co unty P u r c hasing • Department; investigation of He has been a frequent lecturer Charlton Professor of Philosophy. Institutions. He has worked for discriminatory employment practices in the Utica area; examination Scotland, of native A a he was on1 college campuses and was several museums including of current beverage container legislation; and study of the surrogate__ President of The Harvard Crimson teacher and administrator at the Sturbridge . and the Smithsonian. University of Edinburgh before court-its mandate procedures and practices. while at Harvard. is specifically interested in Buck joining the Queen's· faculty in All Students interestec.l in registering for these independen_t • the field of museum. education, studies, should speak to Ms. Pooler on Thursday. Weather permitting, a ferris. 1949. He is the author of two imp orved interaction between w heel will be on the Hill books, Practical Reason and schools and museums, and the Morality and Moral Philosophy, the of residents -the as tomorrow as : FREE CHURCH development of visitor skills. The Rev. Franklin j. Upthegrove, pastor of St. Paul's Baptist Commons Apartment {C.A.) in well as a number of articles and Church of Utica and a leader of the the Utica Black community, will conjunction with the SAC sponsor papers which have appeared in Bill Song, the other Hamilton be guest speal at the Free Church of Clinton Sunday {April 28) in the 1st Annual C.A. Carnival from books and scholarly journals. W a t so n Fellow, plans t o the Chapel. T h e T r u a x V i s i t i n g undertake a comparative study of n oon t o 7 p . m. C a rnival co-chairman Herbert Ogden '75 Professorship and the lecture the origins and developments of Bl KE TO THE COAST said that the festivities would go series are made possible through a law, in Italy, Japan, and Korea. Nothing to do next year? I'd like a partner for a bicycle trip to on in the event of overcast skies, gift by R. ' Hawley Truax o:;.· He will study Roman legal the West Coast. Leaving early Fall. If interested co· .tact Adam Levin but not if the weather was cold. Hamilton's class of 1909, retired manuscripts, ancient Roman law, x755 l or through Campus Mail. Herbie men�ioned "I've been chairman of ·the board of the New the ethical · and philosophical . checking the extended weather Yorker magazine. Mr. Truax has aspects of law, as well as both BLOOD DRIVE ON MONDAY - forcasts in The Times all week maintained a lifelong interst in stature and common law. Song The Blood Drive will be held Monday, April 29th from 10 a.m. to philosophy, which he studied at w ill util ize t he Ame rican long." 3:45 p.m. at the Bristol Campus Center. There is a new eligibility T h e planned a t t r actions Hamilton and later at the Academy in Rome, in addition to rule this year - a donor must be at least 17 year of age and weigh 110 include free beer, hotdogs and Sorbonne. museums and libraries. · pounds or more. Volunteers who wish to assist should co;·tact either· other food provided at minimal Dave Duggan or John Newell. Kathy Bedke, '74, was recently cost by Service Systems, a music Each college involved in the arrangeme�t for . the afternoon awarded a Rockefeller Grant Watson program nominates four SENATE APPROPRIATIONS with WHCL-FM, a Treaswe Hunt, which she will use to study at the graduating seniors. From these, 71 F.orms are now being circulated to campus grou}s in need of a Scavenger Hunt, booths with Harvard Theological Seminary for winners for 1974 were selected. Student Senate funds. Those organizations that did note receive 'forms and would like to apply for appropriations should contact Hugh Mackay or Kevin McTernan by April 29. . . . continutd frhm page eleven o r monoli t hic ·unif o rmity He said he was "quite CAREER CENTERcontent with the attendance" at which the Free ··church becomes approach to religion." TEACHING APPRENTICESHIPS h o u r s o f· particular could be �mr absolute r esi d e n c e a n d 6 The Newman Chaplain said the Free Church, and indicated degree-oriented course work. 1. Si d w e l l Fr i e n d s Sc h ool, openness to religious conviction, that the achievement of his that others should be contacted 3. Stockton State College, New Washington, D.C. seeks apprentice goals "necessarily involves other by word of mouth: "I've Jersey-Administrative Asst. To Vice to the value of religious views teachers (men/women) w ho care about t h e Christian bec om e m o r e a n d m o re of e xpressed and groups" P r e s i d e n t for Campus Programs i n telligently children, .are sparked with the thrill of ($10,000) ..and Director of Continuing heard!' community. "Joel and I try to disillusioned with posters." learning and serious about becoming Education ($19,000). t e a c h e rs. Li m i t e d financial aid Father Drobin said that his Tibbetts believes that there be very cooperative with ·each 4. Alf red University-Graduate available. Tuition $600. objectives · were "to principal for possibilities of kinds "all are the like activities in other" Assistant to the Director of Student Ri p p o w an Cisqua · School, 2. Agape Feast and Easter sunrise meet the needs of Catholic A c t i v i t i e s to coordinate evening increasing ecumencial activities B e d f o r d, New Y o r k-apprentice b u i ld i n g reservations and special on campus" among different service. He predicts ·that -f.uture s.tudents, p rimarily in an teacher program (K-9 ). $ 2,000-$2 ,500 programs while attending graduate segm ent s tax-free salary. of the Christian a reas cooperation may experience of worhship," and to of school. Compensation of 10 credits of there include a "joint retreat." thereby facilitate growth in their that noted He community. JOB OPPORTUNITIES .graduate study per semester. Father Drobin perceived a "faith, and psychological an d been more cooperative I. New York State announces 5. SUNY Stony Brook needs an have betw een t r end ec umenism, intellectual growth as well." to wards Professional C ai:eers in the Natural Assistant Director of Arts and Crafts w o r s hip s e r vi c e s Sciences, for students graduated by for Stony Brook Union. He noted there is "a lot of Catholics and other Christians especially among "informal, 6. SUNY Purchase needs a Director August I, 1974. Examination on May n a i t s i r h C s" t o o r s s a r g C a t holic in xi b i l i t y e l f · before. ever than y�ar this of Student Activities as soon as 11, applications immediately. Trainee am ong the The College Chaplain ascribed organizations: "I think it comes b a c k g r o u n ds salary $10,118. possible. primarily . from the fact that• m e m b e r s of t h e Hi ll 7. Armitage Press, lnc. seeks this development to the fact 2. SUNY New Paltz needs Graduate Assistant Dorm Director for Mid-June. women interested in journalism to that he and Newman Chaplain people are saying, 'Our beliefs community...we don't place a write articles and do research for Applications hy April I 5. To provide Paul Drobin "are more are similar, our concerns ar� large emphasis on a sort of individual and group advisement and to semi-annual magazine. Correspondent ·Father w o r s h i p unifo rm ity let's m onolithic or minded." In s i m i l a r , would act as a point of contact in her e c um enica l l y he responsihle for· the welfare of approach to religio n." students. Stipend of $4,000 plus community. addition, "people are gradually together'..."
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Weather or Not BY ED WATKINS With Houseparties over and done with, the c�llege now can return to its daily routine and grind out the last few weeks until finals. The memories of that final Houseparty will linger for a while though. The weather cooperated as it never has done before. The crowd at Sig took full advantage of the warm sun to participate in the afternoon's festivities. It was a great day for playing softball; the fields were even dry. Frisbie enthusiasts were out everywhere and though their accuracy was not always perfect, they had a good time. Playing sports of any kind on a day when the weather is as 0eautiful as it was on Sunday is a unique experience, especially at Hamilton. Having spent four years playing intramurals in the mud, rain, snow, hail, etc., it was difficult for this columnist to accept the unusual atmospheric conditions of last weekend.. Unfortunately, I knew that by· the time I recovered from the weekend the warm sunshine would be gone and in its place would be · the Clinton spring monsoon rains. The rains, having been for years now, have destroyed the hopes of even the staunchest optimist for a sunny and dry spring season. Though it may be late April, the threat of snow still lurks behind every dark cloud just waiting for a good stiff wind to come on. down from Hudson Bay before it begins to fall on the Hill. To those more recent additions to the college community who can not conceive of snow falling in late April, I ur,ge you to ask your elders about last year's May 17 storm. So while the weather was cooperative last week�nd, do not expect miracles. The intramural softball season will be played in the mud once again and snow for graduation remains a distinct possibility.
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Varstiy Lacrosse Against Rochester U. 2 pm. Saturday, A pril 27. Varsity Tennis Against Rochester U. 11:30 am. Saturday, April 27. Against Hobart. 3 pm. Wednesday, May 1. Varsity Golf Again�t LeMoyne. 3 pm. Monday, April 29. Against Binghamton. 2 pm. Friday, May 3. Varsity Baseball Against Hobart. 3 pm. Wednesday, May 1. Varsity Blood Donation American Red Cross Spring Blood Drive. 10 am. -3:45 pm. Monday, April 29, at the Bristol Campus Center Snack Bar. No admission charge. Beginners welcome. BLOCK H BANQUET
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A six-year old was killed and ''. a n o t h er c hild was seriously, injured in a fire at 32 Clinton St., 1 C l a r k M i l l s o n We dnesday i afternoon. Robert Chapple, a Clark Mills youth, was apparently trapped on the second floor of the abandoned home. Michael LaGasse, also six years of age, is suffering from first and second degree bums and is c urrentl y l i s t e d i n serious. condition at St. Luke's Memorial Hospital_ O n e i d a C o u nt y s h e r i f f's d eputi e s h av e launched an investigation into the blaze. Initial clues indicate that the two boys were playing .with matches. Clark Mills school children had the afternoon off for a teachers conference.
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BY JEFF FLOYD The Intramural Swim Meet, held last night in the Alumni Pool was easily won by the Dunham Frosh, as they managed to win 4 individual events and both relays. Deity Upsilon swam to second place, with Psi U. floating in third. Getting their first points in recent intramural history, Kirkland tied Delta Kappa Epsilon for fourth. Outstanding individuals in the meet were Steve Milford, John Zeigler, and Pat O'Brien of the frosh; Brad Johnson and Chris Bogucki of D.U.; and Mike Lannon and Ned Collum of Psi U. The leading swimmers for D.K.E. were Pete Ascherl and Walt Stugis, and for Kirkland, Paula Canny and Sarah Westervelt. The meet finishes for second, third, and fourth come down to the last event, the 200 free sytle relay, and just as the teams finished in the relay so they finished in the overall standings, for quite an evening of physical entertainment.
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By STEPHEN HAWEELI Tim Andi's bid for a no-hitter by Losing their last three games by a singling in th� first inning. After combined score of 46-1 7, the that, Andi skillfully handcuffed Hamilton College baseball team is . the Continental batters at one in trouble.In addition, Nordo ·Nissi point retiring 17 men in a row. has dropped baseball from his Hamilton pitchers aided the Le schedule, a mysterious occurence Mayne cause by throwing six wild w h ich has plagued Hamilton pitches Qohn Psiaki 2, and Andy P ratt 4), and the Hamilton ::tthletiq in recent years. In a slugfest against RPI, the defenseschipped in 6 errors, 4 by Continentals lost in 10 innings Don Haggerty at shortstop. 16-15. The game took 4½ hours, In the second game, with the almost twice as long as a major s co r e 2-1 after 3 innings, league game. The performance of LeMoyne exploded for a fire-run the club can be characterized as fifth inning that proved to be shoddy. A poor defense and decisive - especially when they ineffective pitching were the tacked on four more in the next prime reasons for the loss, inning. John Driscoll and Dave although the same can be said McLean combined to give up ten h i t s , w hile once again the about RPI. Houseparty weekend, which Hamilton fielding fell apart. This featured perfect baseball weather, time the errors were distributed brought nothing but headaches among four players, Bill Foley (of the non-alcoholic nature) to committing three. One bright spot the team. Le Mayne swept both for the blue was their ability to ends of the doubleheader by steal at will on LeMoyne's catcher lopsided scores of 19-1 and Joe Starner. Da've McLean stole 2, 1 1 - 2 . I n the f i r s t game N a r d o Nissi 2, while Chip Hamilton's Craig F allon spoiled Hollands and Craig Fallon grabbed
Nobody Asked Me But...
True Value , "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." - Vince Lombardi
BY TIM SHOEN AND JEFF FEINGOLD _ .Any excellent performance can be appreciated by the onlookers. The world of sport encompasses thou.sands of accomplishments which can be viewed but not fully appreciated by the spectators. A fan can appreciate a team winning or a diving catch, but he cannot always recognize the long, hard work that even a natural athlete has to put in to reach his pinnacle of success. He cannot understand the years of practice and training that the athlete goes through to make that diving catch or to becone part of that winning team. Success is subjective-one man's home run is another man's foul ball. 'For all of the hundreds of athletes whose feats are noticed by the fans, there are hundreds more whose only success may be their enjoyment of their sport. But that is, by any standard, a great accomplishment. Dominic and I were running one day. He wasn't the world's greatest runner, but the time that he put into running embarrassed even some of the harder workers on the team. We reached the five mile point, when Dominic turned to me and said, ''You know, I'm a better runner than Jim Ryun." "What do you mean," I said. "You can't even beat me." "I'm better because nobody enjoys it more than I do." Supposedly enlightened people laugh at collegiate sports factories and their jock students, but in many cases, these are the same students who complain about the Hamilton sports program and its limited accomplishments. The athletes at Hamilton should not be judged by their won-lost records, but by their individual achievements and personal growth. A case in point: The Hamilton track team. Do you know who John Needham is? Probably. Do you know who Bruce Carter is? Probably not. Burce Carter, along with his teammates, are among the finest set of middle distance runners this school has ever had. But the judges continue to outnumber the spectators at Hamilton track events. The funny thing is that the runners don't really care. Any runner would rather run a 4:10 mile by himself than win with a 4:30 with thousands of people watching. The most tremendous thing that Hamilton offers its athletes is a chance to perform. Whether it's a Kirkland woman'who swims every evening or a former runner who plays basketball-the facilities are there for everyone. The tangible evaluations of the program in light of other schools such as Williams and Middlebury seem to point to some weakness in it, but Hamilton's success lies in theopportunities it gives its athletes to compete on intramural and interscholastic levels, enabling the athlete to reach the level of success that he wants to work for. Competition on the Hill can be seen acutely in Bio ll-12 or in Chem 23-24 (commonly known as ''Orgo"), but it can also be seen as the runners make their way towards Skyline Drive or swimmers come from the pool. This is the essence of amateurism-a pure competition, not between the dollars and cents that the University of Texas offers, but the will to win, beating yourself and your opponents. Larry Csonka may be right in saying that he has to make money now while he can, but Marty Liquori, as he struggles along in the broadcasting booth, must be called the purer athlete as he resists the cash and waits patiently for another crack at the gold medal.
one each. John Psiaki took the loss in the first game, andJohn Driscoil took the loss in the nightcap. The disastrous results of both games can be attributed to a complete bre ak d o wn on fundamentals, otherwise known as mental errors. The team's record now stands at 2-4. Hamilton travels to Rochester on F r i d a y and Hobart on Saturday, n o doubt having forgotten houseparty weekend which was tragic, not only for them but for others as well. The LeMoyne coach confessed to Coach Heckler ater the game that they had stolen our signals and signs. _Thus the LeMoyen batters knew every pitch that was coming their way. Very nice.
Confusion around the bag
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Golfers Wa_it toPut itTogether waiting for his whole team to play . BY ALAN COLBY Led by the consistent play of simultaneous good golf. Hoyt, senior Captain Wally Porter , the Green, Wright and Wollman have Hamilton golfmen carry a three_ all shown they can score in the and o n e r e c o r d into this. seventies, Porter has been a big afternoon's home match with gun for four years and Jones is very high on ·long ball hitting Union College. With little prior practice, the freshman John Widman. To date team travelled to Rochester's Oak H i l l course 10n Friday the twentieth for a tri-team match with Geneseo and the University of Rochester. On arrival, Coach Jones found that the format for the match, decided by the home BY NED DRINKER team according to collegiate rules, was to ·be match play. In recent In spite of its highly touted years, virtually all collegiate golf potential the varsity lacrosse has been converte4 to match, or . team b,as, thus far, been less hole by hole scoring, to medal, or t han impressive. The most total stroke competition; so the - recent embarassments have been format of the match was a bit games against Clarkson and �nusual {or visitors. But led by Geneseo. tthe strong play of Porter and On Houseparty Saturday, the p r o m 1 sing f r e s h m a n J o hn Continentals took on a potent Widman, the Cants swept all seven C l a r k s on squad before an matches with Geneseo. expectant gallery of Hamilton However, at the same time revelers. Hamilton started off Rochester edged the Blue, four to strong with an early goal by three, with only Porter, Widman Jon Berry, but Clarkson was not and ano t her freshman Fred to be denied. Soon the game Ackerson notching wins. The belonged to Clarkson with a d i s a p p o i n t i n g p l a y o f final tally of 12-5. The other upperclassmen, Steve Green, Vlad s corers for Hamilton were Hoyt, Doug Wright and Dave Hedstrom, Collum, Charboneau · Wollman proved the margin of and Bernard. On Monday, April -22, the defeat. to R e t urning h o m e f or a C o n t inentals t r a v e led bleary-eyed Saturday afternoon of R ochester to face Geneseo House Parties match, Hamilton which is billed as one of the eked out a sudden death overtime best teams in the state. · Once again, Hamilton started strong, win over Albany State. With the keeping the score· down to a total stroke scores.for the five low tight 3-2 at the end of the men of each team deadlocked at 318-318, Hamilton's low quartet of Porter, Widamn, Green, and Hoyt, set out to put the match away. After scrambling to halve the first hole, the short par three, the Blµe won the 190 yard second hole. On Monday the squad travelled to The Country Chm of Troy to meet the Engineers of RPI. Pedro Garcia, a junior on A n c h o r e d b y a n o t h e r· Hamilton's basketball team, has sevent y-eight by Porter, an impressive seventy-nine by Hoyt placed fifth in the Division II and improved play by Doug national standings of free throw Wright, Hamilton squeeked to a percentage. In 23 games, Garcia three stroke, 317 to 314 victory. · made 77 free throws in 89 Wednesday's match at St. attempts for an 86.5 shooting Lawrence was postponed until percentage. Garcia averaged 12 · May eighth, Coach Jones is still points a game last year and hails from Brooklyn.
they have yet to play to their potential. However, on the basis of prior play Jones hopes to win the remainder of his matches and looks forward to a solid team showing at the Albany State Invitational on May sixth.
Lacrosse Has Potential; · Still Suffers losses
Garcia Ranked
Nat�nally
, first period. In the beginning of se cond half ) the 1t h e Continentals played some of their best lacrosse, maintaining control of the ball and of the game. Before the half ended, Geneseo exploded and walked off the field with a 14-5 vict ory. Goal scorers for H amil ton w e r e Spe n o, Hedstrom, Bernard, Berry, and Tyler. The next game is home against Rochester University on Saturday at 2 PM.
Block H. Ekdions BY DAVID LECHER The Block H Club held their elections for next year's officers last night. Rob Winter '75 was chosen to succeed Ben Madonia '75 as President. Don Armstrong '76 was selected Vice-President and John Thomas '7 5 was chosen the varsity-letter organization's new Treasurer. A freshman,John Murphy, will be the Corresponding Secretary and Gary Karl '75 will be the Recording Secretary. Armstrong was also elected as the junior representative to . the Athletic Committee, whose other members include the President of the College, the Deans�. a Trustee Board memb er and a student representative. The n ewly-elected of ficers will ass um e their re sponsibilities following the Block H Club Banquet, May 6, in the Bundy Dining Hall.
VOLUME IV, NUMBER 26
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
APRIL 30, 1974
CAROVANO NAMED PRESID-ENT SEARCH IS OVER ONCE MORE Plans To Hire Vice-President Soon
J. Martin Carovano is the 16th president of Hamilton College. His appointment was effective at n o o n y e s terda y a n d w a s announced at a special faculty m eeting t his af ternoon by Coleman Burke, chairman of the Board of Trustees. The 13-month presidential search ended with the Executive Com mitte e of t he Board's ratifi cation of t he Search Committee's rec o mmendation to appoint Carovano. Carovano was informed of the decision by phone yesterday morning. He accepted immediately. "I'm honored to have been asked, I'm pleased, and I'm looking forward to it," the new president said. "I'm flattered and a little bit proud." C a rovano has · been acting president of the college since July 1, 19 73. In an interview last night i n his Buttrick Hall office, Carovano said that now that he had become president, he would move ahead with the search for a new vice-president for resources and development and a new dean of the college. The new president said that he planned to appoint Eugene Lewis, presently acting provost, to the apparently on finding a capable post of provost if Lewis was administrator who was with an amenable. Lewis has been acting academic institution. provost since January 1 7. The shift in emphasis is Chairman B u rke said of discernible when one considers Carovano, "I think we have- a that of the three final candidates superb man as our next president. in the first search, two were then In the time that he has served as members of the United States acting president, Martin Carovano Government, and one was in has given Hamilton College wise academic work. Carovano and and effective leadership," he said. Kurtz had withdrawn their names "His performance on the job, and early in the proceedings possibly his outstanding personal qualities, because of the realization that led the Search Committee to continued on page two choose him from among the many
One Committee, Two Searches
BY DOUG GLUCROFT The search committee which ended their work in the selection of J. Martin Carovano was looking for a different kind of man than it did when it chose Joseph J. Sisco although the second search was ostensibly a mere continuation of the first one. During the nine-month searcy p rededing the "Sisco debacle," News t h e re were Analysis indications from m any quarters t hat Hamilton w as specifically looking for someone with public prestige. It was felt by some connected with t h e c o l l e g e t h a t t he Administration already possessed strong budgetary and academic leadership in J. Martin Carovano an d S t e p h e n G. K u r t z, respectively. During both searches, the goal undoubtedly was to hire the "best man". However, the second search brought about a re-evaluation of what kind of person is best for Hamilton. The new emphasis was
President Carovano will meet informally with Hamilton and Kirkland students and other members of the community tonight between 7 and 8 pm in the second-floor lounge of the Bristol Campus Center. The reception is being sponsored by the Hamilton Student Senate. Refreshments will be served.
outstanding candidates who were considered." "I am particularly pleased at t he selection," said Kirkland President Samuel F. Babbitt, ''because I know what the working relationship is, and it is a very good one. It is a proven, good relationship." The Presidential Search C o m m ittee, which nominated Carovano Saturday at a meeting in New York, began its deliberations s o o n after Hamilton's 15th
president, John W. Chandler, announced his resignation to assume the presidency of Williams College. Last December it was announced that the Hamil ton presidency had been accepted by Joseph J. Sisco. In January, howe ver , Sisco notified the college that he was remaining in the State Department at the urging of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. T h e S e ar ch Committee continued on page two
"When I was a little boy and people asked me what I wanted to be, I never said 'a college president,"' said J. Martin Carovano, hours after he was appointed the 16th president of Hamilton College. Carovano, 38, rose quickly through the administrative ranks here. Three years ago, Carovano, t hen a s s o ci ate professor of economics specializing in public finance, was appointed acting provost. During the summer of 19 72, he became permanent provost, only to become acting president after the resignation of Jown W. Chandler last year. Carovclno, who lived on Griffin Road in a house he helped build, will now move into the President's house on College Hill Road. ''We h a ve s o me m i xed emotions about moving," said Carovano's wife, Barbara, "but I'm sure we'll enjoy it as time goes on." "In many ways, it's nice we've had this actin2 oresidencv," she
said, referring io the past year during which the President, she, and their children have had a trial run as first family of the college. As acting president, Carovano faced a twenty day maintenance workers strike on both campuses. The dispute, which disrupted college services , forced Carovano into decision-making early in the life of the acting administration which was supposed to avoid major decisions. Once Joseph Sisco, appointed president December 5, stepped down January 7 to join Henry Kissinger in Middle East peace negotiations, it seemed apparent that the acting administration could no longer continue its holding pattern. During the winter, Carovano led the college through the energy crisis, when Hamilton, dependent largely upon fuel oil for heat, suffered cutbacks in allocations of 15 and 25 percent. Thermostats were turned down to 65 degrees. continued on 1>a2e two
Car ovano At Hamilton: Professor To President
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reconvened shortly after Sisco's Ja n ua r y 8 withdrawal. [see analysis, this page] Carovano, who had asked that he not be considered in the o r i g i n a l s e a rch, reconsidered following the Sisco withdrawal. Carovano has been associated with Hamilton since 1963, when he joined the faculty as an instructor in economics. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1965 and to associate professor in 1969. In 1971 he was named acting provost of the college and a year later was appointed provost. A specialist in public finance, Ca rc,vano spent the 1968-69
Chemistry improvements. As a former faculty member Carovano said that he expects his rel ationship with his former colleagues will be a good one. " .. .I still have, I think, a certain amount of goodwill from the faculty. I think that I'll have to make some decisions that are going to irritate some people, there's just no way around it. T h e y w i ll be re as on able decisions," the president said. "I'll try to keep everybody happy." Carovano said he would like to foster and m a i nta in good relationships with the student body, but he said that teaching i unfeasible. "The real question is," he said, "how one goes about having a relationship with a larger1 number of students. I don't know, and it's something I'm going to h a ve to think about... It's academic year on leave from something I'm sensitive to. In Hamilton as a financial economist some ways, I suppose because in the U.S. Treasury's Office of there's been some criticism of John Chandler, in that he tried, Tax Analysis in Washington. Carovano, who will be 39 on but he somehow didn't quite do May 9, was born in Tacoma, it. So, I'm certainly sensitive to it Wash. A graduate of Pomona . from an institutional point of College, he holds the M.A. and view, and in terms of my own Ph.D. from the University of satisfaction." In the area of student housing, California at Berkeley. He was a teaching and research assistant Carovano said that he expects that and teaching fellow at Berkeley t he trustees will approve a complete internal reconstruction before coming to Hamilton. He is married to the former of the former house of Albert Wallace in to stu dent room Barbara Ann Bevins. They have two daughters, Kristen, 14, and arrangements. Renovation will K athryn, 13. The Carovanos a l s o p-ro ceed in Dunh a m presently live on Griffin Road but Dormitory, although the new will soon move to the President's president is not sure of the exact plans now. House on College Hill Road.
continued from page one they, as academicians, could not c o mpete w i t h p r e s1t1g1o u s government officials. When t he s e cond search narrowed, two of the prime c a n di d at e s w e r e a c a d e m i c a dministrators- Carovano and Charles E. Gilbert, provost of Swarthmore College. C o u p e r , d i s cu s s i n g h i s experiences on the committee, s a i d , "T h e r e w a s s o m e reconsideration after Sisco...and we had a more catholic search." Couper said that very early in the origin al search there was a lot of talk about the person "who
would be comfortable with his public." Such a person would presumably have been able to act as an effective representative to con stituencies in the college community, the government, and private foundations. John. Chandler, while president of Hamilton, never gained a reputation for public speaking and appearances although he was considered an effective fundraiser. D ean Stephen G. Kurtz's r e s i g n ation could only have heightened the college's desire for a p r e s i de nt with a strong background in academia. For better or worse, Kurtz's departure
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month the resignation of Dean of the College, Stephen G. Kurtz, who took the post of principal at The Phillips Exeter School, in Exeter, N .H. The acting president appointed as acting dean, Dwight I;,indley, professor of English and chairman of the department. Also this spring, Carovano has taken an active interest in two different Albany bills sponsored by Assemblyman Peter Costigan, and Senators Warren Anderson and Ronald Stafford which call for substantial increases in state aid to college students. If passed, either bill would improve the f inancial situation of private colleges like Hamilton, whose fiscal burdens have increased during inflation. As p er m a ne n t p r e s ident, Carovano will continue to transfer to Eugene Lewis the duties of provost which he held as acting p r e s i d e n t . Caro vano said lightheartedly in an inteIView, however, that he will continue to oversee tree-planting on campus, a duty which he has held in the past.
Although President Carovano does not plan any major changes in college policy, he will soon make d e c isions in several areas. Carovano plans to assemble a c o m m i ttee to search for a replacement for Dean Stephen G. Ku rtz, w h ose resignation is effective June 30. The committee, to be composed of faculty members, might begin work this spring, definitely by the first fall faculty meeting in September, according to the new president. Carovano said that he expects that the dean search committee will not involve students until the "second level." Carovano said, "The faculty committee would bring in the nominees - the one,
two, or three - and the students would then participate at that stage." Hamilton is ·now planning a million dollar renovation of the Chemistry Building, and'Carovano intends to pursue that policy. "We are fully engaged in trying to p r o c e e d o n t he Chemistry Department renovation, and I think we'll stick with it, and that will take us a good twelve to eighteen months before we'll be at the stage where we can say construction is underway, and we can think about something else." A revivification of the James Library Building will be deferred, according to the president, so the college c a n w o rk on the
Carovano Named President; Thirteen-month Search Ends
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One Committee, Two Searches
The 16th President The search for a permanent successor to John W. Chandle has come to a close with the choice of Hamilton's own J. Martin Carovano. Decisions which have awaited the selection of the college's 16th preside £ � will soon be made. The college can now expect the initiation of a search for a new dean of the college, appointments of provost and vice-president for resources and development, and the institution of a realigned curriculum and calendar. In the past year, President Carovano has worked well with his colleagues on the Hamilton facu ty, and with President Babbitt of Kirkland. Even in the limited decision-making capacity of an acting administrator, he has exhibited a desire to improve the college, borne out in the planned addition of a computer facility on campus and raises in faculty salaries that bring Ham· ton at least to levels competitive with the college's oftentime cited peers. As permanent president, however, Caro...ano will face the added fiscal burden predicted for private colleges of the 1970's and 1980's. Although self-admittedly not a public figure, the new president will have to reach into the financial community for support. Along with congratulations for J. Martin Carovano one hopes that he will continue to improve the college whi e projecting a flattering image of Hamilton to the world off College Hill.
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Caro ano's Acting Presidency
Caro vano, who had been fulfilling the responsibilities of both acting-president and provost, appointed Associate Professor of Government Eugene Lewis acting provost. C a r o v ano approved a 2½ percent raise on fringe benefits to non-tenured college faculty during February, which placed Hamilton in a more competitive position in the teacher job market. Carovano had said that Hamilton's faculty compensation before the raise did not favorably compare with that of such schools as the Little Three. Along with Acting Provost Lewis, Carovano oversaw a search for a computer suited to meet the colle g e ' s adm inistrative and educational requirements. Their final recommendation of an NCR computer, 32K capacity, with a job entry link-up with the Cornell University computer center, was app roved by the Board of Trustees. Carovano accepted earlier this
will provide Carovano with the o p p o r tunity t o m ake an important appointment of his own within his first year as p r e s i d ent, an o pp ortun ity Chandler did not have. Carovano must also appoint a vice-president for resources and development. He admitted that fundraising outside the college is his "w eak suit" and the opportunity to appoint his own strong development officer will enable the president to add some "trump" cards to his hand. Ironically, the searches that led H a m i l t o n t o t h e S t ate Department, the Selective Service System, Dartmouth College, and Swarthmore College among other places began and ended in the birthplace of Elihu Root, Buttrick Hall. J. Martin Carovano, who has sat in the president's chair, will continue ,to do so , now in a pennanent caoadtv.
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THE SPECTAT
VOLUME IV, NUMBER TWENTY-SEVEN
HAMILTON AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTO N, NEW YORK
MAY3, 1974
Hill PIRG Chapter Disintegrates; Leadership And In�ere5!runtf�l
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Beset by organizational and leadership woes, the Hamilton and K i r k l a n d c h apter of Public Interest Research Group [PIRG] is apparently dead. PIRG Board elections which were t o be held in Februar�, never m a t erialized and the $1,300 . collected from PIRG petition signees still lies dormant in the Business Office. According to figures compiled by the Business Office, 284 of the approximately 1,00 0 students billed have not payed their $2.00 fee. Of the original signees, 52 have cancelled their PIRG membership. . .,¢. Two representatives from the Syracuse office of PIRC 's state the office, NYPIRG, visited campus y esterday to advise Tuna interested students about possible independent projects for the fall. Rosem ary Pooler and Mark Cavanaugh have been trying to maintain interest in the crippled organization. Cavanaugh siad he was trying to cope with "a level of disinterest which is hard to. The provost said that he will overcome." continue to fulfill his daily P o o l e r a n d Cavanaugh responsibilities but said that with the appointment of a president, s t a tioned themselves in the F acuity Lounge at . Kirkland to the college can move forward on give information about projects, hiring a vice-president, on the Chemistry Building renovation, but the res nse from sh dents was light. L0oking around the and other projects. empty rodm, Cavanaugh said, "It's depressing to.l me not to Lewis said that his office has have this room filled up, but we an "open information policy," keep trying. We're going to show and he says that he will make all but private data such as personal people what PIRG projects can do. " salaries available to the public. Among the independent "Over the years I've made _friends with people in the student projects being offered by PIRG body, and I hope I don't lose f o r H a m i l ton and Kirkland that," said Lewis. "I've developed students next semester is an f r i en dships well beyond the investigation of job discrimination c l assr o o m and well beyond o f w o m e n i n t he ar ea. commencement." S t u d e n t s a p p r o ve d t h e
Carovano Appoints �ean Gene' Provost
A s s o c i a te P r o f e s s o r of Government Eugene Lewis has been named Provost effective May 1 b y P r e si d eµ t J . Martin Carovano. Lewis has been acting provost since January. As provost, Lewis is the s e cond-ranking o f f i c i a l i n Hamilton's administration. He is responsible for the budget, planning, buildings and grounds, and j oint o pe r ati ons with Kirkland. "In a college this size, the president, provost, and dean share responsibilities although each has specific functions," said Lewis. Lewis described himself a:s an "inside person" who is responsible for many of the administrative d�ties of the college.
establishment of an official PIRG chapter at the colleges November 1, when it was announced that over fifty per cent of the student body had signed the widely circulated petitions. The two leaders o f the petition drive, Marsha Weinstein '75 and Lisa Newell '75, left campus to work on PIRC-sponsored projects in Albany. Interest waned after t h e i r d e p a r t u r e , a nd Ha m ilton-Kirkland PIRG now finds itself leaderless and mired in general disinterest. ''Much of the blame must go to Lisa and me for leaving the campus and not providing the necessary continuity," Weinstein said in a telephone interview from Albany yesterday. She said that she and Newell spoke to the PIRG · orgamzmg group b efore therr departure and thought that the · · t 1a · 1 enthus1asm · 1n1 would be
At .l\:$f��� V�.LJ �- JJ• Chiquoine Drafts PlanC'�L'WlrO Jl.f�T�
The following is the third segment on· science p rograms at Kirkland. This, the last of the s eries, concerns coordination, student attitudes and a proposal drafted by Hamilton Professor of Biology Duncan Chiquoine.
t o Chi quo ine f ol l o w e d a c onver sati on w i t h Kirkland President Samuel F. Babbitt at which "we tried to figure out how w e might best begin useful discussion about what biology ought to be on the Hill." Carovano asked the Biology BY MONICA LIFF Hamilton is in the first stages Department Chairman to describe of evaluating "an outline of what what he thought would be an an ideal biology program for the ideal program. "I told him to Hill ought to include," according ignore the fact that there are two to President J. Martin c·arovano. colleges, to forget the practical The proposal was written by r es traint s and the financial Professor A. Duncan Chiquoine, limitations, and to just design a Chairm an of t he Hamilton program to serve 1600 people," Biology Department, a month the Hamilton president said. Chiquoine has been meeting ago, at Carovano's request. Carovano said that his request with members of the Hamilton a d m i n i s t r a t i on, includ ing P r e s ident Carovano, outgoing Dean Stephen Kurtz and his acting replacement Professor Dwight Lindley, and Provost Eugene Lewis, to e-"plain his ·will cost approximately $20,000 proposal. Carovano stressed that the plan and will take three_ years to completely implement. Pilkington is just tentati ve. "It's an gave a simplified explanation of exploratory move, to get an idea the s y stem. "It is a very of what an ideal program would sophisticated system based on a be," he said. m o lecular structure of some There is no projected deadline kind." Books will be equipped for -a decision on Chiquoine's with magnetic tapes. When a book plan, Carovano said. However, he is checked out, an electronic said that whatever came about device w i ll r e arrange t he couid not be implemented for the molecules. Once this has been 1974-75 academic year. These meetings on Chiquoine's done, a student will be able to walk through the turnstyle in propos�l could be the beginning front of the library doors. If a of an eventual solution to the book has not been checked out, problem of the separate and the tumstyle will lock and this will uncoordinated biology faculties at prevent a student from leaving the Hamilton and Kirkland. Coordination Problem library. There is sentiment on both The first books to be equipped with the matnetic tapes will be all c ampuses t h a t t he present the reference books, periodicals, situation of two separate biology art books, and probably music departments is unfeasible. "I books. Those sections of books don't know any way that we can ·most used and all new books have .two autonomous biology coming into the library will be the dep artments," ·said Chiquoine. To next to have the tape installed. maintain separate dep artments The complete �lementation will effectively, the colleges would be finished in about three years. have t o have much larger In addition to the initiation of populations, and thus have more continued on page four continued on page nine
Pilkington Requests �ibrary SurveiUance System Says Missing Books. Obstruct· F.ducaiion Process
BY LIZ B ARROW At their May 10 meeting, the Hami lton C ollege Board of Trustees will decide whether to allocate money to the campus libraries to implement a book security system. The system has become necessary because of the problem of missing books. Librarian Walter· Pilkington, how ever, doesn't exr;ect the money to be appropriated for 19 74-75 because of· "tight financial reasons." He said that if this the case, the issue will be brought up again next year. Pilkington said the system was not installed when the building was first constructed because it was "hoped it wouldn't be neccessary." Pilkington estimated the yearly loss of books at the Daniel Burke Library to be approximately one per cent a year . The college's col lection is about 300,000 volumes. He said this was "very, very low" in comparison to some other schools' losses of five to fifteen percent a year. It is "not the monetary loss"
that bothers Pilkington, but "the interference with the educational process." He said he didn't think most students took books without checking them out on purpose, rather, they did so because of f o rgetfulness, laziness, or by mistake. Pilkington said many books were returned before the
summer vacation, but in the meantime, "nobody else in the community can get at those books . . . they are essentially lost." He s a i d fr is the problem of borrowing, not· theft, that is getting worse. The security system that is being most seriously considered
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EDITORIALS Double Standard
Five Kirkland secretaries have not left the college scl0i, en massesClOi, by coincidence.· The joint resignation is a deliberate, symbolic move taken by women who refuse to be abused through their pay checks. W ithout a standardized pay scale, Kirkland has its secretarial staff over a barrel. The secretaries are granted raised on the basis, apparently, of the college's assessment of their personal _situations. Rather than award raises unif_ormly, according to seniority, or performance, it seems that Kirkland administrators use arbitrary standards, thus allowing their personal prejudices to interfere. Presently, raises and promotions are at the discretion' of Director of Institutional Affairs, Jesse Zellner. The primary reason secretaries are leaving Kirkland is that they resent being kept in limbo with respect to raises and advancem�nts. Although salaries are low, the secreta,ries claim they might have been satisfied if they had known where they stood. .The secretarial turnover is significant because it questions t he c o llege's p h i l o s o p hy as a progressive women's institution. Kirkland directs its students toward careers, telling them that they should be taken seriously, and consequently treated fairly. Unfortunately,, this same college takes advantage of its all-female secretarial staff.
Broken Promises
Back in November, over fifty per cent of Hamilton and Kirkland students approved the formation of a legitimate Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) chapter on the Hill. When students signed the PIRG petitions circulating around campus at the time, they agre�d to pay $2.00 through the Business Office as an annual membership fee to the consumer-oriented organization. · Si x months later, however, 284 students, of the approximatel_y 1,000 students who signed the petitions, have not paid the fee. Interest in PIRG has waned, and the organization here has suffered from a lack of leadership, but there is no excuse for students to ignore financial commitments which they made months ago. NYPIRG, the s tate-wide organization, requires the approval of at least one half of the students of a collge community before an official PIRG chapter can be established. Based upon the response to the petition drive in the fall, NYPIRG established a chapter here. Whether PIRG should or should not be at Hamilton and Kirkland should have been sufficiently debated in October. The point at issue now is that a significant number of students on the Hill has disrupted an organization which based its actions upon student promises which now have been broken.
THE SPECTATOR
VOLUME FOUR
NUMBER TWENTY-SEVEN
Managing Editor Henry Glick Editor-in-Chief Mitchel Ostrer News Editor Douglas Glucroft Business Manager Peter Sluys Associate Editor Robert J. Keren Arts Editor Jonathan Cramer Sports Editor John Navarre Photography Editor David Cantor Production Manager Mike Bulger
Assistant News Editors Linda Anzalone Bob Weisser Editorial Page Editor Kenneth Gross Layout Vikram Dewan Beverly Draudt Graphics Cliff Davis
News Assistants: Liz Barrow, Felice Freyer, Monica Liff, Susan Malkin, Robert Rock ,David Schutt Sports Assistants: Steve Haweeli, Dave Lecher Arts Assistants: Bruce Hornstein, Richard Koffs Photography Assistants: -Thanks to the Fish Production Assistants: Jack Hornor, Nancy Oppenheim Business Staff: Jack Hornor, Martin J. Kane, Peter B. Bayer, (,eoffrey E. Lawrence, Donald R. Kendall, William D. Underwood, Marc Standig The Publications Board publishes The Spectator, a newspaper edited by students 26 times during the academic year. Subscriptions: $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.
Venting My- Spleen
Student Health Participation
BY J-{EATHER KIRKLAND For the past few years there· has been a health committee in one form or another. In the past its main accomplishment has been the compilation of a health handbook. This year the committee has begun to get more actively involved in the direction of the health sevices of the two colleges. Student participation in an active health advisory committee is essential to the workings of dynamic, quality sevices which are responsive to student health needs. There are many programs and activities that the health committee can and should be involved in. For example, during the next couple of weeks_ three Hamilton and three Kirkland students will be involved in the interviewing of physician candidates for the position which will be vacated by Dr. Parker next year. Students should a 1 so be i n v olved in other personnel and policy-making investigation and decisions such as the question of whether the health center should be staffed by a doctor and a nurse� clinician two doctors, or some other option. If the college health services are for the students, then they · should reflect the students' needs. This can only be done if there is student input into the health services. There should be a dialogue between the health center and the students in the form of health forums· and questionnaires. A strong health committe should be continually working with the health center for the students. One of the major problems with the health center as it now functions, is that it operates only as a clinic. It provides practically no health education outreacl;i services. The few health pamphlets that are just beginning to appear in the health center represent what hopefully is just the beginning of this kind of educational program. Complete health s e rvices s h ould be concerned with health maintenance and illness prevention as well as the
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A New De fin ition
BY VINCENT DICARLO Reactionary. A label calculated to conjure up images of a heartless obstructionist yoked blindly to policies and ideologies discredited by progress. Reactionary. Second only to "fascist"' as a term of political obloquoy. Reactionary. Synonym for the forces of hate and darkness against which every liberal Democrat campaigns, regardless of the personal identity of his adversary. What is a reactionary anyway? It seems that, freed of the gratuitous implications of evil, cynicism, and self-interest that the word has acquired through its widespread use as a term of abuse, - "reactionary" has very little substantive meaning left for a contemporary audience save this: a reactionary is one who is convinced that there are at least some things that have been lost in the march of time that are worth recovering. This is hardly an extreme position. Yet, to a mind in which the doctrine of inevitable social progress over time is unquestioned dogma, the notion that, in some respects at least, a previous age surpassed the present one in terms of its recognition of values of transcendant importance is nothing less than an anathema. Unfortunately for such individuals, it has been correctly observed that the theory of the uninterrupted social and intellectual progress of man has the privilege of being the only historical theory that has been definitely disproved. Any reasonably with it Victorian would surely have The Contest
gazed with horror upon the totalitarian forms oi social organization that have. been perfected only in the twentieth century. Anyone who seriously believes that the ranting of modern ideologues compares favorably with the consumately humane writings of a Mill or a Locke needs , not a philosophical talking to, but a physician. This is not to say that this writer yearns for a past age. He is quite satisfied with flush toilets and penicillin. Further, to conclude that, because some features of ·a past time are worth recovering, all of them are, is nothing short of irrationality. The upshot of all this is, the fact that a particular ordering of values happens to be characteristic of some previous age is not t>rima facie evidence of the inva lidity of that ordering. Why then, is ''reactionary" a term of abuse? If the future is inherently incapable of producing an atrocity against good sense and morality which justifies a negative reaction, why should any care be taken to insure wise decisions on matters concerning the public weal? A recognition that there are some values that are more than transient expressions of the popular will requires the realization that it is at least possible that historical change can be for the worse. Those who urge the recovery of such values as have been left behind by "progress" deserve more than the scorn of the blind worshippers of novelty. "Reactionary." It does have a certain ring.
FENSTERER FOLK FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Preliminaries-in the Chapel: FRIDAY, May 3, 1-6 pm. Finals-in the Gym: SATURDAY, May 4, 8:30 pm. Crafts Fair Demonstrations-2nd floor of List Arts Center FRIDAY, May 3, and May 4, 1-5 pm.
Workshops
treatment of illness and injury. In the near future I would like to see the health center functioning and the source of lectures and discussion on various topics of interest such as V.D., nutrition, sickle cell anemia, and the common cold. As is done at other colleges, the student health committee could set out books and pamphlets on a different topic each month. When I was at a college health conference several weeks ago y I spoke to many students who were involved in peer counseling programs at their schools. The programs ranged from peer drug and sex counseling to a health aides program where students are trained to dispense non-prescription, patent medicines. A peer sex counseling program might be particularly useful here. If the health center were to run its own contraceptive clinic using the health center personnel, student peer counselors could function effectively by explaining and di s c us s i n g with t he patients the various contraceptive methods. Another activity that the members of the health committee should be involved in is the continual researching of alternative health service options. We should know what the health services are at other schools and compare them with our own. There should be an ongoing process of assessment of the services, asking "Do the services meet the needs of the students?" Students should be involved in the investigation and examination of different health ins ranee plans. If students want the health services to reflect their needs, then they must let their needs be known in ways other that McEwen round-table bitch sessions. Perhaps there is an argument that the doctors are professiona,s and we shouldn't question them, but as health consumers we should know what we want and don't want and we should let it be known.
In the McEwen Coffeehouse (on Kirkland Quad, weather permitting), May 4: 11 a.m.-Guitar, led by Jack McGann. 1 p.m.-Women's Songs, led by Lyn Ungar. 3·p.m.-Spoons, led by Bob Sager. In the McEwen lounge, SATURDAY, May 4: 12 noon-Banjo, led by Ralph Santinelli. 2 p.m.-Songwriting, led by Michael
Catalano. 4 p.m.-Du/cimer, led by Rachel Potter. Square Dance
In Bundy Dini�g Hall Music _by H i g hwoods caller-Roger Knox.
Concerts
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FRIDAY, Mav 3. 8:30 p.m., in the Chapel With Jack McGann, Ralph Santinelli, Michael Catalano, Bertilla Baker, Scott Bennett and Al R_ogers, John Brisotti, and others. SATURDAY, May 4, 6 p.m., _open stage, in the Gym. Admission to all events is free.
· Letters To The Editor
Censure Recommended
To the Editor:· recent Senate resolution of approving the T h e i m p le m e ntation of separate As s e m b l y's action a n d then the housing for Black and Latin students must subsequent repeal of that resolution only be prevented. We have always assumed adds to that confusion. It has come to my that a major criterion for admission to attention that the majority of students in these colleges is the contribution that light of last week's article in the Spectator, students will make to· this college still do not understand the Senate's community. If these colleges allow resolution. For the record I will attempt separate housing based on groups (whether • to clarify the Senate's position. racial, r eligious, or economic) the T h e Senate w as asked by a contribution of these groups to the entire representative of the Kirkland Assembly college community will be greatly to give a vote of approval-a pat on the diminished. Included in these groups are b a ck-to Kirkland's resolution giving the students who disappear into restrictive housing preference to Interest Groups fraternities. The education of every After much debate, a motion was student suffers if such segregation is presented: "Be it resolved that the Scnatr allowed to occur. approves of the 'Interest Group Housing' The prohibition of segregation is not resolution and believes it to be a worthy synonymous with forced integration. The proposal." The resolution was passed, 4-3, cry of forced integration is invalid in a with 5 abstentions. The next day, during a special meeting situation where students can choose their ouwn roommates. of the Student Senate, discussion was By voting in favor of guaranteeing r eope ned at the request of John Black and Latin women separate housing, Shulansky, Acting Chairman of the the Kirkland Assembly had committed a Housing Committee. With the issue behind racist act. If it is racism for Whites to abstaining cleared a revote was taken and exclude Blacks, then it is also racism for the motion of the night before was Blacks to exclude Whites. Thus the term defeated 7-4. "reverse racism" is meaningless since A new resolution was introduced: &cik racism knows no direction. The Kirkland it hereby resolved, that the Hamilton Assembly is not taking a step toward a College Senate can in no way endorse a free society, by this action, but is resolution that would guarantee housing -retreating-Hem it. to any group white "'tlre-pTesel'ffsystem and The Hamilton Student Senate must not laws make it impractical and illegal." simply withold endorsement of the In essence the Senate voted not to take Kirkland Assembly's resolution, but must a stand on Separate Housing at Kirkland. censure this resolution as racism. Phillip J. Montalvo &76 Daniel F. Becker '77 Sophomore Student Senator Stuart M. Berlin '77 James R. Harwood '77
Suit.e Life
Hip•Hip Hooray To the Editor: Three cheers for an excellent editorial in last week's issue. Page West '74
No-Stand Senate To the Editor: The issue of separate housing for Black and Latin women at Kirkland has resulted in misunderstandings stemming from the confusion over exactly what the issue is: separatism or freedom of choice. The
To the Editor: I think it's about time we all took a good look at how we relate to other people around here. Inconsideration for others is becoming a way of life. Last night, a large amount of expensive meat was stolen out of our suite's refrigerator. My suitemates had been planning a dinnerparty, and had saved up for a long time to buy the food. This was not the first time our kitchen has been looted, nor will it be the last, I'm sure. Nor is our suite the only one so victimized. Ripping off food - and anything else that isn't tied
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To the Editor: It is spring once 3g3in and like most senio.rs, I have more than the normal touch of spring fever. I have emerged from my winter quarters only to find that Hamilton's campus is again suffering brutality at the hands of the Physical Plant. As if those ovely little numbers on eve,y lamppost eren"t enough, one now finds numbers on just about every door i> -.lfat tlie college- o s. Furlliennore, f . a d d t o Hamilton's scenic wonders, exquisite metal traffic signs have sprung in rows all around the campus telling students where top.ark and where not to park. One of the things which I had always admired about Hamilton was that the work on the campus used to get done with a minimum of fan.fare and red tape and in a way which was efficient, yet never sacrificed the aesthetics of the campus for <&efficiency's" sake. I am disappointed that . Leeibn feds that the only way he can e Grass make his p-resence felt at Hamilton is by writing his name on little cards and ttle n a farm at the foot putting his number; on doors and lamp ordering Hamilton and posts like someone who has just learned lffiinn--co xe-niiiiilyliis lived orno to graffiti. . LemJr.ea knows noth-ing- - w ;r n this .fimn �noe efore the Civil of Hamilton tradition, that is obvious. W:ar,, :anti we take tremendous pride in the Who else co d take the most beautiful hnd and its surro dings. My brother and coll� in e or State and reverse a I ih:av.c m:am.cil the weods ehind Kirk.land 200 year tradition and begin to make it look like just another tate school? I hope e :e :ere en gh to w ost people refer . Leuikel1 will learn his way around There is .a field w. • to s ""Fan_guito"-s Fed"'- This wa once a -Hamilton we enough to stop simply bea .t:iful,, isolated meadow where few following the numbers. p�ople ever ventured. T day that beauty is Stephen Flores '74 enj y:ed by m�y, d as a result y f'an__gll!tro � Field is beginning to take on o.747474747414 e ppea:rauoe of an :so sanitary landfill To the Editor: peir.atum., a scholarly name for a dump. As a senior reflecting over my four For year.s :S1lldents h :ve been the speanh:ead :of a movement o clean up the years at Hamilton College y I can't help but envir. m:nent.. Ar.c • ton and Kirkland recall the sto:ry of Big jt.tles, a creation of take part in that Damon Runyon.• Big Jules. in discussing C that until a few his education., states that he did his dents lcan:l to ha e some undexgraduatr work at the state pen an<l 1little wilderness Clinton h is g r a daate wor at Sing Sing. be prohibited Conversely. I feel I've paid my debt to site. e alt;ernative sites society putting in four years at Hamilton. y Quadrangle ,, the Jawn in F.M.H. '74
Appeals Unit OmsideYS Morris Tenure on Campus Road. One former tutor said that d e s pi t e r easonable s t u dent support during the fund drive, it seems that few people want to be inti mately i n volved in the program. He went on to say that this is an unfortunate situation, because "this is one of the few activities in which students are dealing with real people." Any Hamilton or Kirkland student that would like more i n fo r m ati on s hould contact English Professor Fred Roth.
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T h e A p p e a l s C o m m i t tee received the letter of appeals from Assistant Professor of Philosop l,y Phyllis Morris Thursday April 25. Morris is appealinr, President Samuel F. Babbitt's decision to refuse her tenure. Babbitt had overruled the recommendations of the Humanities Division and the Appointments Committee. Appeals Committee Chairman Thomas J. Scott said that the Committee hopes to reach a decision by Tuesday. Asked if Babbitt had explained to her his reasons for vetoing the A pp oi nt men t s C o m m ittee' s decision t o grant her tenure, Morris said, "Yes, but I am not prepared to discuss it at this time, while the appeal is still in process."
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In the past wee the around Sooth Dmm :and the Health Center bu loolred more Professor Lewis Beck of the like a battlefield :a college University of Rochester will give c a m p u s . D�5pite o ttw.ard on Tuesday (May 7) under the· appearances, the e:u:av.a.tions .are s ponsorship of the Hamilton part of a general ·· :prove:nmnt f Philosophy Club. the southern part f die qmu1. His talk, at 2 p.m. in the According to Gera1d JUC.:um;,en, P hysics Auditorium, is titled director of the hy:sica.1 1.1:lnt., "Perception as Communication." electrical lines are eing JW:ta:lled With the participation of the to South DoDD. These · es a udience, it will deal with carry power to a new s t r uctural elements .of the system, fire ahnn.. aid emergency relationship between perceiving lighting that be led during the summer. persons and perceiveq. objects. Professor Beck is one of the The activity am world's leading authorities on the Center is to lay down philosophy of Kant. His books and sewage p•dine. include P h ilosophic Inquiry, if the work would be Studies in the Philosophy of Kant, Commena:ment., and Early German Philosophy. He "We always � has translated and edited an· work done on time....
ATTENTION HAMILTON E ou can't say no to the charu:e of a lifetime:•• The Staff of r.amicwars, the Kirkland catalog and admissions handbook, invites to write your impressions of Knland as an institution and of -a11.AJ..-.1il women. Please send all contributions to Box UlO or 181 at _ • kland. e deadline is ay 15. SENIOR INTERVIEWS Any Kirkland senior who would consent to having her Senior taped for the pwpose of printing portions of it in "At .......,... _,I.GJUd" onld leave a message for Susan aikin in the Student Affairs Office. SOPHMORE CONFERE CES All Kiikland sophomores are reminded to return their concentration proposals to the Office: of- cademic Affairs. HUMANE SOCIETY If you own .a pet that you cannot take home for the summc_ m nth:s.Y please contact Lynne Robins :x 4278. DO OT leave your pet ocked in dorm buildings, or abandoned on campus. For Adoption: Black male angora kitten ith yellow green eyes. Marvelous personality. Box trained. Contact Lynne Robins x 4278 :efore the end of the semester. DYSKOLOS e. Intermediate Greek class has written a translation of Memmder' Dyskolos. Professor Edwin Barrett has directed a reading ,f t · Greek ew Comedy, and the pJay will be presented by the class n Friday, May 10 at 4 and 8 pm in the R.ed Pit.
SYRACUSE SYMPHONY
The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra's 'ind Quintet will perform at 3 pm. Sunday, May 5. � the ChapeL The visit is being sponsored � the - :kland Arts Division. The Wind Quintet is the oldest of the seven constituent ensembles l the Syracuse Symphony, and � of its years of experience, hu become known for the cxcq>tional balance of its program. Quintet consists of John Obcmnmncr on flute, Philip MacArthur on oboe, Gerald Zampino on clarinet, Robert Hagrccn on French hom and Anthony De.Angdi.s on bassoon. All but Hagreen, joined the Syracuse Symphony Orcheslra last scuon, have been Dallbas since iu cstahfishmcat in 1962.
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Cantor changes. President Babbitt is Student Evaluations hopeful that a joint program, "Kirkland courses are not easy, taught cooperatively by the b u t e as i e r , t h an Hamilton Hamilton and Kirkland biology c ourses," said one student. "Kirkland's approach to science is faculties, can be set up. "Kirkland can bring to that flexible, but can be pretty lax at type of program the ability to times." Kirkland's only senior botany bring faculty appointments to the Science Division. We are holding major said that Kirkland botany the slots, and are willing to use courses do not insist on rigor, them for an integrated program," because if they do, people won't take them. said Babbitt. "Students feel that if they have 0 k � � r�: _ :n e �: : � �t �} 0 b t ;v � �: ; :_ � � ! . e Ham11 t on maJ O r, s he sa1d Sh � added that the upper level botany M courses are quite rigorous, but that few people sign up for them.
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Mohawk Valley Landmarks /
The Baffle Of Oriskany BY PETER SLUYS {
About ten miles to the northwest of Clinton lies a wooded ravine and a peaceful clearing with a quiet serenity and natural beauty. But almost one h11mdred and ninety-seven years ago this same ground was the scene of the bloodiest battle of the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Oriskany. During the Revolution, the entire Mohawk Valley west of Schenectady was known as Tryon County, named for the last of the Royal Governors of New York. The settlers of the valley were mostly German, intent on carving out a comfortable living for themselves from the wilderness. Yet, Tryon County was destined to become a theatre of war, for British General John Burgoyne had recommended that a diversionary attack be made upon the Mohawk Valley, so that he could seize Albany from Canada and split the American Colonies in two. Burgoyne's plan was approved by the British Ministry, and went into action in early 1777. Basically, the main thrust of the plan was to capture control of the Hudson River by Burgoyne from Canada and by British General Howe from New York. It was hoped, though, that the Mohawk Valley diversion would lead to the capture of Fort Stanwix (presently the city of Rome) and the defection of the population of Tyron County to the Crown, thus giving the British control of the major graineries and waterways of New York. The Mohawk Valley effort got under way from Oswego on July 26, 1777. Commanding the effort was Lieutenant Colonel Barry St. Leger, an experienced soldier, who had about 2,000 men under his command. Of these, half were Indians, a third were Tory militia, and the remainder were Regular British troops and German mercenaries. On the second of August, after hackir.g their way through the forest, they arrived at Fort Stanwix, held by 750 Continental soldiers commanded by Colonel Peter Gansevoort and Marinus Willett. St. Leger immediately put the fort under siege, _for he could not go past it without exposing his men to attack.
t ormenters,. but the relentless fire continued. Meanwhile, at the present-day town of Herkimer Especially deadly was the Indian tactic of taunting a (ten miles to the east of Utica), Militia General militiaman into firing his musket before he got a clear Nicholas Herkimer was informed of the advance of St. t a r g e t , a n d then sprinting from cover and Leger� and immediately set about raising the Tyron tomahawking him. Herkimer saw the danger in this, County Militia by appealing to their patriotism. About and ordered his men to team up. 800 men and boy.s responded, and left to relieve the Forty-five minutes after the ambush started, a fort on the fourth of August. fierce storm broke loose, and under its cover the The next day they ha,d reached Utica, and Herkimer sent tow runners to tell Colonel Gansevoort - militia moved to the high ground, where the monument now stands. From this position the deadly of the approach of the column, and to ask that the work continued. Stanwix garrison attack St. Leger as the militia drew near the fort; a signal gun was to be fired as the sortie At Fort Stanw1x, Lt. Col. Willett sortied out into St. Leger's deserted camp and destroyed all the was made. supplies he could, without the loss of a man. The The sun rose on August 6 with Herkimer refusing British took advantage of this sortie by sending in to continue the advance m.til the signal gun was fired-but his subordinate commanders would not reinforcements disguised to look like Continentals from the fort; only when these "reinforcements" were wait. They taunted the general with charges of almost on top of the militia did a soldier notice his cowardice and treason, pointing out that one of Tory neighbor and open fire. Herkimer's brothers served with St. Leger. That was The battle continued until three in the aftemoo , too much for the "Dutchman's" pride, and he ordered when the Indians retreated. They had been promised an advance. The little coh;mn, with 40 wagons, impetuously moved forward. . much plunder and little fighting, and the day's work thus did not appeal to them. The militia· held their Earlier in the day, Sir John Johnson and Indian leader Joseph Brant, having heard of Herkimer's ground, but there was little cause for rejoicing; fully a advance, left St. Leger's siege to lay an ambush for the quarter of these settlers were dead or wotmded, and militia. 400 Indians and 100 Tories took up a position many families had reason to mourn the supposed two miles to the east, along the military road that led victory. In truth, the battle was a tactical draw; the column to Stanwix. The area was perfect for an ambush, for the road descended into a ravine, and crossed a brook had been turned away from the fort, but St. Leger's Indians had lost their taste for war, and the siege was over a small bridge; the entire area was heavily lifted by Benedict Arnold two weeks later. Today, the woo�ed, and· afforded the Indians easy concealment. ground is quiet again, and the "battle brook" is little At nine in the morning the militia headed into the more than a thin stream. The park retains its basic ravine, with· the proud Herkimer in the lead. The terrain features, though, and the visitor can follow the troops had crossed the bridge and headed up the same route that Herkimer and his men did on that western bank when a hell of fire broke out around fatal August day. Markers and a small museum aid in them. The forest resounded with the cacophony of orientation, and the rest is left to the visitor's musketry and war-whoops as Herkimer and his men imagination. fell to the fatal shooting. The rear guard (200 men Oriskany battlefield cost the proud General under Colonel Vischer) bolted towards Utica when the Herkimer his life, and those of many of his men. But ambush began. Some escaped, but a good many were at that site, not very far from the Hill, men gave their cut down by their Indian pursuers. lives to protect their families and the valley that they For the militia in the ravine, escape: was not loved. For this reason alone, the site of their sacrifice possible. A brief respite was won when they is worth visiting. instinctively charged uphill to root out their
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EVENTS
FILM On Campus This Weekend WaJt Disney Cartoon Double Feature: Dumbo and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm. Sunday at 10 pm. only. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission is $.75. Borsalino. Friday and Saturday. at 8 pm. Sunday at 10 pm. only. Science Auditorium. Admission is $.75. May 5 (Sunday) The Caretaker. 7:30 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. No admission charge. May 7 (Tuesday) A Question of Torture. Expos� on conditions within South Vietnamese political prisQner camps. 8 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. No admission charge. May 8 (Wednesday) Class presentation of film productions. 8- pm. McEwen Coffeehouse. Refreshments will be served. Open to all. May 9 (Thursday) It Happened One Night. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. Also, The Playhouse, a Buster Keaton short. 8 pm. Chemistry Auditorium. Admission is $.75. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Slaughterhouse-Five. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Admission is $.75 A t Nearby Theaters Cannonball (853-5553) Paper Chase (PG) Cinema Theater (736-2131) Great Gatsby (PG) Cinema National Uptown (732-0665) The Three Musketeers (PG) Paris (733-2730) Exorcist (R) · Stanley (724-4000) Save the Tiger (R) and Paper Moon (PG) 258 Cinema (732-5461) Blazing Saddles (R) and The Sting. (PG) \
LECTURE AND DISCUSSION May 4 (Saturday) Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 5:30 pm. Kirner-Johnson Room 109 (Red Pit). May 5 (Sunday) Free Church Service: Joel Tibbetts, Chaplain of the Colleges. 11; 15 am. Chapel. Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12:45 pm. Chapel. May 6· (Monday) Lecture: On Oppression. Ms. Marilyn Frye, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh. 8 pm. Kirner-Johnson Room 109 (Red Pit.) Lecture: Early Modern Architecture in California. Professor Rand Carter. 8:30 pm. Root Art Center Ballroom. Reception follows. May 7 (Tuesday) Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12 noorl. Chapel. Lecture: P.erception as Communication. Mr. Lewis Beck, University of Rochester. 2 pm. Physics Auditorium. May 8 (Wednesday) Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12 noon. Chapel. Bible Study. 9 pm. Alumni House. May 9. (Thursday) Newman Mass. Father Drobin. 12 noon. Chapel. Poetry Reading: Billie Jean Stratton '74. 8:30 pm. Kirner-Johnson Room 109 (Red Pit.) EXHIBITION Currently on Campus Paintings by William Salzillo. At List Art Center through May 24: Exhibition Openings Annual Student Art Show. Opens Sunday, May 5. At Bristol Campus Center through May 26.
The Si mple Home: Domestic Architecture in the San Francisco Bay Region. Opens 8 pm. Monday, May 6. At Root Art Center through May 26.
MUSIC May 5 (Sunday) Concert: Syracuse Symphony Orchestra: Wind Qu(ntet. 3 pm. Chapel. No admission charge. May 7 (Tuesday) . Voice Recital: Dave Kulie 75 (baritone) and Nancy Dolliver '75 (soprano). 8:30 pm. Chapel. May 9 (Thursday) Recital: Fred Raimi (cello) and Jane Hawkins (piano) of the Amici Quartet. 4 pm. List Arts Center Recital Hall. Public Affairs Program
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Hamilton Speech Department, will talk about two of his friends, Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly . 'the program will include musical selections. Sunday, May 5. 4 pm. Feature Series The Nashville Skyline Era. Secret tapes of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. Wednesday, May 8. 8:15 pm.
Photography II Essays Show Exuberance, Sensitivity
BY HARRY P. PHILLIPS III f antas y a n d r e a l i t y in a they choose to remain ancnymous? An e xh ibiti on of recent particularly pleasing manner. On Indeed this anonymity is the basis photographs by Mr. Liebman's the other hand, the series of for my one major reservation Photography II class is showing on images that Eisenberg has created about the exhibition in general. There are a number of other the s e c o n d f l o o r of t he precipitate the viewer into an Kirner-Johnson building and in ongoing event that, paradoxically, p hotographers whose work I the Coffeehorse. It is without is forever lost in the past. This would have enjoyed writing about question one of the most exciting combination of action � the but was unable tQ do so because exhibitions of any sort to be seen present with statis in the past these individuals refuse to take on the Hill in some time. Keeping envelope the viewer in an credit for their work. I feel that in mind the old adage about how a tmosphere that is at once by refusing to link their names many people one can please how h u m or o u s a nd m ournful-a w i t h t h e i r w o r k , t hese photographers have either proved much of the time, I still mus� say strangely movin-g experience. Another photographer whose themselves inexcusably lazy, or that a m ongst the incredible · diversity that this show presents, w o r k s h o u ld be considered else they are admitting that they carefully is Patty Lowy. Her are s o demoralized by the almost anyone will find something treatment of women as victims vulnerability that arises when pleasing. through a number of techniques one's work is shown that they Two aspects of this show which i n c l ude photo-collage, have chosen to protect themselves cohtnbute in a large way to its television images, and painting on behind a wall of anonymity. excitement. The first of these is In either case the result is that, in almost every case, the· p hotographs, is sure without f e e ling restricted. It is this counter-productive and has no photographers have reached a sureness of control that allows place in an otherwise excellent stage of technical and perceptual Lowy to walk the thin path e x h i b i t i o n. Pe r haps the sophistication at which they can use photography to create images between hysterical polemicism on forthcoming portfolio of the best that are unique in_terpretations of one hand and self-deprecation on work of each photographer in the exhibition will clear up this the world. the other successfully. As a result, there are many The work of Steve Flores and mystery. All that I can add is that instances in which images conjure Susan Sacks in the Coffeehouse, the peculiar magic which arises as well as that of Dave Cantor and whoever thought of putting up from evidence of a clarity of John Adams deserve more careful this exhibition in Kimer-J ohnson vision, and, as a consequence, the consideration than time or space and the Coffeehouse is to be ' barrier of objectivity between allow in this review. I highly congratulated. By making this photograph and viewer dissolves. recommend that everyone who work so accessible they have made The second aspect of this show has the opportunity should spend life in this community a little that contributes to the excitement some time with the work of these more interesting and exciting. Anyone who does not take the is the exuberance that manifests photographers. itself in much of the work on Why, when the photographs time to spot and enjoy these d i s p l a y . W h i 1 e t h e s· e themselves give every indication photographs will be � little poorer photographers are by- no means of confidence and ability, do for the failure to do so. unsophisticated, th Py are still very much in the process of exploring the potentials of photography. As a result there is a certain inconsistancy in much of the work that is the product, not of shallowness of thought or vision, but rather of a superfluity of ideas-so many possibilities that they can not be explored beyond an initial statement of intent. People, Places and Things While this inconsistency may leave the viewer hungering for f u rthe r e xp l or ati on, it is nonetheless stimulating to see a part of the ongoing growth of an individual. Within this context the work of several individuals is particularly outstanding. M o s t o f A n n e D a y ' s :is photographs are of people. Her § photographs of women place E--·· them in a world that, albeit lonely, is nonetheless a world that _ expands beyond the edges of the photograph and encompasses the viewer. On the other hand, Day's portraits of men place them in a AMENIC world that is clearly defined and This week Amenic presents Borsalino, starring Jean-Paul e xc l u s i ve, �hether they are Belmondo and Alain Delon in a Cagney, Bogart-styled gangster film. c onfined by rigid light and Cars. clothes, and sets are accurately recreated for this comedy set in shadow, a poster border, or (in the underworld of the 1930's. Science auditorium. Friday and what is my choice for the most �turday at. 8 pm. Sunday at 10 pm. only. Admission is $.75. outstanding photograph of the exhibition) by a subway window. KINOKUNST The juxtaposition of these two presents a Walt Disney double feature, Kinokunst weekend This sets of photographs creates a Dumbo and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. From the · dynamic tension within the entire wonderful world of color, the best in animation brings you the body of work that is easily felt by the viewer. flying elephant, Ichabod of Sleepy Hollow, and Toad from Em i l y Pa i n e , t hrough a Grahame's Wind_ in the Willows. Shows are at 8 Thursday, Friday collection on individual images, and Saturday and 10 on Sunday in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. and Jeri Eisenberg, through the Admission is $.75. use of series -of photographs, have produced displays that are both SUPER-8 FILM FESTIVAL m ys t e r i ous and c o mpelling. Norm Bloom's film production class presents a super-8 film Paine's photographs are indeed festival on Wednesday, May 8 at 8 pm in the Coffeehouse. This is a "the stuff dreams are made of" as rare opportunity to see these magnificent shorts, made by Hamilton her acc o m panying statement Kirkland students. Some are artistic, some funny and they are and indicates. These images pierce the t enuous b o u ndary b etween all interesting. Popcorn and lemonade will be available.
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Saunders, College Friend, Highlights Charter Day
BYBRUCEHORNSTEIN recalls that College functions g u e s t s p eaker i s d o ubly (s uch as speaking c ontests, appropriate; not only has she been & RICHARD KOFFS T r a d itionally, H amilton dramatics, athletic events, and a longtime fixture on the Hill, but , Colle�e presents awards and prizes commencement) were the only the subject of her talk, Issac to deserving· members of the entertainments that Clintonians Williams, was an early Clintonian who was responsible for much of community on Class and Charter had. Utica was much further away Hamilton's original architecture. Day. This year, however, the Williams settled in Clinton in greatest honor given will not be in from the Hill in the early 1900's the form of a scholarship, watch, than it is today; a trolley ride· ' the late eighteenth. century, and or plaque; it will be the long from the village to the city took when Hamilton was founded he overdue recognition of one of forty-ffye minutes. Most of 'the was hired by the college as a Ha m i l t o n's m os t f ai t h f ul contact between the two areas carpenter. Though he was Deacon, was 'appreciation form afar': one of the Congregational Church, "fellows". Miss Sylvia Saunders has been could see the mansions going up now t he Stone Presbyterian officially asked to speak to the on Genesee Street from the crest 'Chur�h , and highly respected in college community after a seventy of the Hill, while Uticans could the Clinton community, Williams' year connection with the school; clearly see the illuminated spire of t alents w ere n e ve r r e a l l y' she will be the guest speaker at the Chapel. ap pr ec iate d by the Educationally, Sylvia Saunders i ntel lectua l l y -oriented college Convocation ceremonies in the was a product of the classic mold people. Chape1. . Williams did manage to leave Miss Saunders is Hamilton's for well-bred young women. First "resident-dilletante". In addition attending her mother's aim� his impression on the· campus, to attending all the musical mater, Bryn Mawr, and spending a �though, in the form of structures performances on the Hill and year of study in Paris, she which have remained an integral parti..:ipating in Free Church eventually received hei- degree in part of the college's landscape. services each week, she is a music from Radcliffe College. As Root Art Center, originally a knowledgeable historian of the a graduate, and woman of the public alehouse on '�the pike to Clinton area, and has done world, Sylvia was not content to Stockbridge", the Alumni House, remain in quiet Clinton while the and t he G r a n t House are rest of the nation was beginning memorials to a little-known artist to experience the Roaring 20's. whose efforts were an important Consequently, she departed from factor in bringing the college and the quaint environs of the vi l lage c o m m un i t i e s c l o ser Mohawk Valley for the whirlwind _together. life of the big city. Sylvia's description of New York City in the Twenties verifies t he i m p r essions we get of Prohibition America from watching The Untouchables. She tells of trips to dark grottos with her "escort": announcing themselves at the little peephole of a "speakeasy"; carrying a hip flask and ordering ginger ale for mixer. Sylvia finally returned to Cantor in t e n s i v e s t u d y on t he Clinton in 1950, planning to stay architecture of the Hill. From one year and help her parents 1951 to 1973 she ran a peony (both over eighty years old at the nursery which her parents had time) run their nursery. She has started on Griffin Road. remained ever since. Unlike most ' Miss Saunders is perhaps the of the college's transient clientele only person on the Hill who can who feel that even four years at really describe turn-of-the-century Hamilton is oppressing, Miss life at Hamilton. She arrived in Saunders· has found intellectual Clinton in 1900 when her father, fulfillment in Clinton. Her smile is Arthur Percy Saunders, became a one of contentment when she says member of the college Chemistry that the community is "a perfect Department. In 1903 ,. her family place". moved to the old Stryker/Williams The choice of Miss Saunders as house on Griffin Road, where she still makes her home today. THE VILLAGE TAVERN Syvia remembers the Clinton of her childhood as having "fields Special Every Monday Evening of d ai s ie s and buttercups Dozen Clams and everywhere", a truly pastoral A Pitcher of Beer setting for what she believes is $2.50 even today an idyllic academic community. There were only 200 ... and pizza too students and twenty faculty 14 College St.853-8070. members at the time, but she
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BY MIKE BOSHART C. Stanley Ogilvy, professor of mathematics and chairman of the dep artment, is retiring after twenty-one years on the Hamilton · faculty. Ogilvy, a bachelor, says that he has no specific plans for the future, and that to the best of his knowledge he is retiring from the field completely. He intends to relax, catch up on numerous half finished tasks, and "see what the future brings." Ogilvy says that his connection with H a milton has been a completely happy one and that he is leaving more or less reluctantly. An a cc o m p l i shed sailboat racer, Ogilvy is also an author of many books and articles, both on sailing and mathematics. He says however, that sailing has always been just a summer hobby and will continue to be so. Ogilvy will move to a house_�ns ?n �?ng
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in the college's progress in recent years. He did not wish to criticize the College's present position, but said that Chandler's term was "a big improvement." W h en a s k e d a bout t h e. r elatively l o w n umber of mathematics majors, Ogilvy said that that is the way it has always been. He said that people major in "math" because they like it, not necessarily because it is going to help them in a certain field. Ogilvy obtained his B.A. at Williams in 1934. He then taught in preparatory schools; Berkshire School and Hill School. In 1940, he obtained his M.A. at Colombia and entered the Army in 1942. He served until 1946 and then taught at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut for three years. He then entered Syracuse University and received his PhD in 1953. After that, he came to Hamilton, and for the past eight years has been residing at the Fanshire Cottage in back of the Science Building.
continued from page one the book security system, durmg the next three to four years the three campus libraries will be involved in a change-over from the Dewey Decimal System of library organization to the newer Library of Congress method. Over a two year period, the m onet ary savings should be a p proximately two to three percent of the library budget. An additional savings will be in the area of personnel. "As people retire, they need not be replaced," said Pilkington. The reclassification of the r e f e r e n c e section and a lpha beti caliza t i o n o f t he periodicals will be completed this summer. All new books coming into the libraries and those being
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l1!CIOpiu:d uadu Section 4 must a. If the accused pleads innocent. Senate in accordance with this submit a complete financial statement b. ,If the accused requests a hearing constitution: and represent the to the Student Senate before the before the Board. Student Senate in all dealing with Senate•s lint meeting in February and c. If the Dean of Students, the the administration, faculty. and at any time upon'two weeks' notice by Chairman of the Judiciary Board, trustees of the CoDege. In the event ' the Senate. o r the Vice-Chairman of the of matters requiring immediate Artide 4 action when the Student Senate is Judiciary Board requests a bearing COMMITIEES before the Board. not in session. and cannot be l. The Stwlent Senate SECTIO convened, discretionary powen ae d. If the case involves a possible shaB haYe the powu to organize and penalty of suspension or expulsion. vested in the President. His action in Rglll:ate the comtnittees it may find such matters is subject to the review However, if none of the above • necessuy 'for its efficient operation. holds true, the Dean of Students and of the Senate. These shall be direcdy responS1ble to the. Chairman and Vice-Chairman of b. The Vice-:President shaD auume the Student Senate and shall be the Judiciary Board shall review the all the responsibilities of the requ.ed to submit reports to the case t o g e t her a n d i m pose an President in his absence. He shaD Senate at its £equest. There shall be at appropriate penalty. This penalty may keep an official copy of _ � least two official copies of the rules not be appealed. a nd o f, all c o n s t i t u t i o n. goyemiog the operating procedures and 3. If the Board is to hear the case, amendments thaeto, a copy of the a .the .ac:cused shall receive a-f.ormal letter - -rures amt a m---utidl -the members m bentaip of these committees. One from the Judiciary Board Chairman at the k e p t by c o PY shall be ·of al committees. He shall be Vice-Praident of the Student Senate least 48 hours before the hearing listing responsa"ble for keeping a file of the the allegations against him, his rights to copy sbal be kept by the and constitutions of all on-campus be represented by an undergraduate chairman of the committe. No changes organizations and of all legislation counsel from among the student bodies · these rules may be made without the pa� by the Senate. of either Hamilton or Kirkland, and his consent of the Senate. C. The Treasurer shall act as rights to confront witnesses against 2. Standing committees SE.CTIO Chairman of the Senate's Budget him and to bring witnesses in his own whose membenhip shall be resllicted to and Finance Committee and man behalf (including up to three character members of the Senate: supervise the disbursement of an witnesses). If be wishes, the Plaintiff a.. A Budget and Finance Committee funds of the Student Senate. He PREAMBLE may also be represented by an whose duty shall be to recommend a shall present, upon request, It is understood that the ultimate undergraduate counsel from Hamilton Student Senate appropriations to complete financial statement to the authority in the area of student or Kirkland. In hearings, any counsels s t u d e nt Ol'gaui z at i o n s . The Senate. conduct and affairs rest with faculty in appearing shall have as much right to TRalUl'CI' of the Student Senate d. The Secretary shall keep al. aecordance with the Charter of the speak and question as is enjoyed by the shall be the chairman of this a 11 conduct r e c o r d s • College, as amended in 1904, which parties they represent. committee.. c o r r espondence, and take the states, " ...the general government and The hearing will be closed unless b. An Elections Committee whose minutes of all meetings of the discipline of the undergraduates shall the accused requests a hearing open to duty shaD be to supervise and Student Senate. A draft of the be committed to the President and t h e c oDege community. A tape conduct the elections of class minutes of each meeting shaD be F acuity... " The student body derives recording of the hearing will serve as of'licen» the .-epresentatives to the presented to each member at the _ its power from and is thus responsible Studeat Senat.,--tb.e-&esidellt-.oL __the_ _ official.. reoo.t.d_ oL the__pmr,eeJi.ing.s --- - -----'futtowin�nmd---w-ttreracutry. -- --- The record will be kept by the t he S twlent Senate and the of the minutes, the Secretary shall Article 1 members of the Judiciary Board. Chairman in the office of the Dean of post a copy of the minutes on a TH_ ORGANIZATION Students. The chairman qf this committee Student Senate bulletin board. He SECTION l . The name of the At the opening of the hearing, the shall be a senior member- of the shall see that adequate notice of all organization shall be The Student Chairman will read the rights of the Senate. Senate meetings is given to all Body of Hamilton College. accused and the charges against him. c_ A ConstitutionCommittee whose members of the Student Senate. SECTION 2. Every person enrolled The Chairman will have full authority duty shall be to act as inte.-preter to SECTION 7. The President of the u ndergraduate student in an as over the proceedings and only those the constitution and to draft S t u d e nt Senate shall appoint a Hamilton College shall be ipso factor a persons recognized by the Chairman d esi r able amendments to the Parliamentarian who shall be a membel' member of the Student Body of may speak at the hearing. constitution.. of the student body and whose duty Hamilton College. The hearing shall proceed in the These c o m m i ttees and their shall be to insure that all meetings of Article 2 following sequence: chairmen shall be appointed no later THE STUDENT SENA TE the Student Senate are conducted in The plaintiff, or the Dean of strict conformity with this constitution than the second meeting of each new SECTION 1. All executive and Students in the absence of a Senate. These appointments must be and Robert's Rules of Orda. legislative powers of the Stuqent Body appn,wed by a three4'orths vote of the plaintiff, and th-e accused will SECTION 8. The Senate shall meet shall be vested in a Student Senate. descn"be their respective versions of Student Senate. regularly twice a month during the SECTION 2. The purpose and SECTIO 3. Standing Committees the facts of the case and respond to academic year and specially at the can powers of the Student Senate shall be: questions posed by the Board of the President of the Student Senate. wh.ose m em b e rshsp s ha l l n o t a. To provide a controlling and ncceaarily be restricted to members of designed to clarify their statements. SECTION 9. Two.thirds of the directing force for every phase of the Student Sneate: After the facts have been presented members of the Student Senate shaD undergraduate activity not directly A dm i ssions S t ud e n t a_ The by both sides, each side has the constitute a quorum. administered by the faculty and COIIIIBittee. right to produce witnesses in an SECTION 10. Dismissal of a administration. b. The Cuniculum Committee. This order to be determined by the Senator requires a three-fourths vote of b. To provide the governing bodies committee shd be chaired by two c h air. The witnesses may be the members present. Grounds for of the College with the best questioned by the• plaintiff, the coch.ainnen, at least one of whom is dismissal shall be two unexcused p o s sible understandin& of the accused, the members of the Board, a memba- of the Senate. absences from full Senate meetiop or sentiment and opinions of the stuand the Dean of Students. c_ The Intramural Council. 'gross neglect of the duties of a dent body, and to foster the serious When the testimony of witnesses d. The lntedratemity Council. This Senator's office. consideration of the opinions. a nd the questioning of their committee shall be responsible for SECTION 11. A majority of the c. To develop among the students a testimony are complete, summary abmitting for approval by the voting membess present at a meeting sense of personal responSI"bility for statements may be made by the proposal for rules a S e n a te may carry regular motions. All busioes-s their own conduct and for the plaintiff and the' defendant. After g over n ing the procedures for of the Student Senate "!iihaD be welfare of the College. any such statements, the Chairman nuhing and- bilding by fraternities. t his c o-nd u c t e d a c co r di ng to d.- To encourage, initiate, and will direct tho.se present, excepting e. The Bldd.inp and Grounds constitution and Robert's Kules of coordinate services essential to the the sitting �embers of the Board, Committee. Order. Student Body. t o dear the room.The Chairman Ser vices A uxili a r y The f. SF.CTION 12. Any member of the e. To pass such legislation as should will inform the Board of precedents Committee Student Body may attend and be hear be consistent with the aforesaid. and possible sanctions. As soon as g. The Boanl of Stewards at any meeting of the Student Senate. SECTION 3a. The Student Senate poSSt"ble the Chairman shall inform Activities S t u de n t The h. except those meetings which which the shall be composed of the following the plaintiff, defendant and Dean Committee. Senate deems desirable to close fo.voting members: of Students of the decision and of i. The Housing Committee reasons of prudence. A two-thirds vote The President of the Student t h e r i g h t t o a p.pe al. T h is For of the Student Senate shall be j. '1he HealthCommittee. Senate. information shal be confirmed in e f f i c i e n cy and p ur p oses· of necessary to close a meeting. Four members of each class. writing. continuity of opuation the members Article 3 SECTION 3b. Each Senator shall of these committees shall select their 4. A student may appeal a Judiciary SECTION 1. .All student groups serve on at least one Student Senate own-- suc:cesson; the selection of the Board decision by making a request in shall be respon51"ble to the Student committee. cb.airpcnons of these committees shall writing to the Judicial Appeals Board Senate. These groups shaD include the SECTION 4. The following rules be subject to Senate approval. within 48 hours of the decision. This fraternities, other social groups, and all shall govern the election of officers in Article S request must state the grounds for extracurricular organizations of the the Student Senate: THF-JUDICIARY BOARD appeal. The Judicial Appeals Board will College with the exception of the a. The President of the Student then consider the grounds for appeal Honor Court, the Chapel Board, and l. A standing Judiciary Board of Senate shall be elected as-specified and· render a judgement using whatever the Publications Board.. thl'ee junion, fom sophomores, and in Article 6, Section 1. procedures it deems appropriate. These SECTION 2. Legislation of the · three fiabmen shall be elected by their b. At the first meeting of each new Student Senate shall be binding_on any procedures need not necessarily involve respectiwe classes no late.- than the Student Senate, the members of the a full re-hearing of the case. The and all of the groups stipulated in third week of Apd.. A week before this Senate shall elect a Vice-President, decision of the Judicial Appeals Board Section I. election, a Chairman shall be elected Secretary, and Treasurer. In each is final. SECTION 3. A two-tbilds vote of by the student body as a whole. He case a majority vote shall be the members present at a Srude t S. The Faculty Committee on shall preside at all meetings of the necessary for election. Senate meeting shall empower the Student Activities, acting for the Doud and vote only in case of a tie. SECTION S. The following shall Senate to fine, censure, or recommend faculty, shall review all cases heard by At its f"ast meeting, the Board shall serve in an official advisory capacity to a p p r o p r i ate college administratilre the Judiciary Board. The Faculty elect a Vic:e-Cbainnan ftom among its the Student Senate: action as may be necessary to exen:ae Committee on Student Activities may members. He sllall be a regular voting The Chairman of the Student its constitutional respoDS1bilities. request the Judicial Appeals Board to member of the Board except when he Activities Committee. SECTION 4. hear any particular case. ammes the duties of the Chairman. The Chairman of the Honor Court. a. AU organizations of the Student 6. The Judicial Appeals Board shall Fe..- each. case. the Chairman shaft The Chairman of the Judiciary Body (with the exception of the consist of three of the elected members select fOUI' jmurs on a rotating basis Board. fraternities, the Honor Court, the of the Academic Council. tiom the membenbip of the Board. The President of the lnterfraternity Chapel Board, and the Publications 7. The President of the College shall Any memhel- asked to serve may Council. Board) shall be recognized upon the retain the right to order the tern porary disqualify himself if he believes he will The Freshman Council President. formal Student Senate �pro,,al of removal of any student from the be unable to rendu an objective These men shall attend any meeting a written constitution in each case. judgemeoL The folll' jurors and the. campus when, in his judgement, that of the Student Senate at their own T he constitution of such an student constitutes .a clear and present Vice Chairman constitute the voting discretion or at the discretion of the organization must set forth the danger to persons or property. This in panel. In the erent that the Vice Student Senate. purposes of the organization to the no way precludes the College's right to Chairman. is serving as presiding offictt, SECTION 6. There shall be four • satisfaction of the Student Senate -� Jlll'on wi1. be selected on a i n s t i t ut e d i s ciplinary proceedings officers of the Student Senate: and must provide in an cases that against that student at a subsequent rot:ating"basis.. a. The !>resident of the Student • p a r t i cip ation is open to all 2. Complaints against a student (or time. the chief be S e n a te s h a l l undergraduates. A copy of all such groap of students) fo.- alleged Yiolation administrative officer of the Senate. constitutions shall be presented to If the above document is accepted of stated rules for social conduct shall He shall supervise the work of all the Vice-President of the Stwlent be bl'oagbt befo.-e the Dean of by Acting P.-esident Carovano and if it committees; call all meetings of the Senate. Stadatts, wlto shall investigate the meets with the approval of the faculty S e na te; a p point all Student b . The Student Senate shall ao t and the student body. the Ad Hoc c o m m i t t e e s · a n d c o mmi t te e dlaqes.. appropriate any funds to studcat If die Deal of Students finds that Committee would like to make one chairmen; appoint o r request that organization not recognized under tlaere is a cae aid •if any of the final recommendation. We suggest that Se na t e a p p o int s p e cial the Section 4a. followilc llolds lnle. the case must be the Honor CoUl't engage in a thorough committees as he finds necessary; i ts constitution and of .-evie w S. All oqaaizatioas SECTION .._. by a l•iciuy Board jury: conduct all meetings of the Student
Please note: The- Constitution of the Hamilton Student Senate, amended and ratified by the Se nate, follows. The present Constitution required that the amended docume nt be printed in two consecutiv e issues of The Spectator. Student voting on the Constitution will be held in Bristol Campus Center, May 9, Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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procedures similar to the review oftbe Judiciary Board that our committee has persued. Possibly some of the features we have proposed for tbe Judiciary Board might be usefufty adopted by the Honor Court. Article 6 · - •· · ELECTIONS SECTION 1. The following rules shall govern the election of tbe President of the Student Senate: (dates are subject to adjustment in the event of calendar conflict). a. During the sixt� week of tbe s e cond semester the Electioaa Committee shall accept nominations for the office of President of the St udent Senate. A prospectift g.pf!jdate must be nominated by a member of the Student and must be a present member of the junior of sophomore class. b. The general election for this office shall be held during tbe s e v enth week of the second semester. Each member of tbe student body shall have one vote. c. In the event that none of the candidates receives a majority of the votes in the general election, a run-off election shall be held the following week (eighth week of the second semester) between the two candidates who received the largest number of votes in the genenl election for this office. d. The President of the Student Senate shall assume office during the twelfth week of the second �ester,. - -e. Between the eighth and twelfth w ee k of the semes t e r the P r e s id e n t-e lect sha l l acc e pt nominations for the new Senate. The signatures of ten students from the candidates's class shall complete a nomination. No student may sign more than one nominating petition. Each student may vote for four candidates from his class. The four candidates receiving the grea test number of votes from their class shall be Senators for the following tenn. The entering freshman class will elect their Senators in the manner described above before the end of the first semester. SECTION 2. Judiciary Bo.-d Chairman election - pending revision committee action_ SECTION 3. In the event of the resignation or dismissal of a senator, an election shall be held that from replacement a for senator's class within two weeks after the vacancy is created. The replacement election will be held in accordance with the applicable provisions of Article Six, Article IE. No replacement election will, be held if the vacancy is created less than three regular meetings before the regular Senate elections. Article 7 MISCELLANEOUS SECTION 1. Repeal: a. The Student Body shall maintain its right to repeal any piece of legislation adopted in the Student Senate. b. A petition for repeal must be signed by at least twenty-five percent of the Student Body. c. The Student Senate shall conduct a r e ferendum on the named leg&alion. within three weeks after the receipt of such a petition. d. T h e r eferendum shall be announced in the issue of tbe College news organ preceding the vote. e. An affirmative vote of two-thirds of the student body voting shall be required to repeal any legislation of the Student Senate. f. Any such repeal shall not be considered retroactive, and shall not affect actions already taken under the authority of the repealed legislation. g. A referendum shall in all cases be binding upon the Student Senate. Article 8 AMENDMENTS SECTION I. This Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the student body upon recommendation of a three-fourths vote of the Student Senate. 2. All p r o p o s ed S EC T IO N amendments shall be-printed in the two issues of the College news orpa immediately preceding the ballotin& 01 the amendment by the student body. Respectfully submitted, Constitutional Revision Committee Chairman, Peter Kirschenbaua Mike Calder Tim f'ina MartyHillsgnm Jack Lyndl Rocco Ortudo Nei Scbeier -
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Trackmen Enjoy Winning Ways MARK McMURRA Y The Hamilton track team, val i d a t i ng t h is r e p o r t e r' s expectations of an excellent record, has defeated five out of the six teams it has competed against so far in the season. Opening against the University of Rochester on a warm Saturday over .the houseparty weekend, the team gave the small crowd a thrill by easily defeating Rochester 85 to 65. · In the field events, Pedro Garcia led the team by taking firsts in both the long jump with a 21 ft. 3¾ in. distance and a triple jump of 43 ft. 3 in. Dale Garrett followed up Garcia's effort in the
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long jump while Owen Kratz took the second position in the triple jump. Frank O'Leary and Kratz tied in the javelin with throws of 161 f t. 4 in., while Kurt Handshwmcher in an exhibition hammer throw tied the school record of 141 ft. 7 in. The shot, the discus and the pole vault were decide�ly weak. On the track, Hamilton saw first in the 440 relay, the 3 mile with Bruce Carter, Dave Baker's 220, Sandy MacIntosh's 440 intermediate hurdles and the 440, Lou Pacilio's 880, Kevin Snyder's 100, and Vito Stellato's mile. In fact the only events which the
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Conts did not win were the mile relay and the 120 hurdles. On Wednesday, April 24, the Hamilton tracksters defeated both Hartwick and Siena at Hartwick. Missing firsts on only the mile relay, the discus and the shot, Hamilton chalked up another fme showing despite slower times than on Saturday. All the field events were won with good but not especially impressive marks. Times, jumps, and throws all im proved in last Saturday's fo ur-w a y m e et at Cortland bet ween Hamilton, Brockpo rt State, Oswego, and Cortland. Oswego, with a few good distance runners and not much else, came out at the bottom of the scoring with a 15 point total,. Hamilton edged out Brockport, always strong in the state meet, by a half point, 57-56½. Cortland, however, came out on top with 67½. Crucial wins came when Pedro Gar cia defeated three other Brockport jumpers in a long jump of 21 ft. 9 in., and when Dave Baker and Garcia edged out two Brockport runners in the 220, c l o c k i n g 2 3. 0 a n d 23. 4 respectively. Bruce Carter · and John Schmeyer took firsts in the 3 and 6 mile runs. Vito Stellato and Tim Delaney, who should be running close to 4: 15, took a disappointing third and fourth in the mile. Lou Pacilio, however. turned in a respectable l :57 .5 and took second in the 880. Kevin Snyder had the most impressive showing of the day with a winning 100 time of IO.I. Frank O'Leary improved his javelin distance with a 182,ft. 6¼ in. And after a weak s t art against Rochester, Jeff Hewitt threw the discus a good 134 ft. 9½ in., taking second. Tomorrow the team will travel to Colgate to face two tough competitors, Colgate and Alfred. But if. performances improve as they have, an ·upset could be in the making.
Au Revoir
BY ED WATKINS Writing a sports column , even for the Spectator, is considerably more difficult than people realize. While many claim they could write a column, few are foolish enough to try. · The reason for this is a scarcity of creativity. Even this columnist has experienced moments of panic as a deadline approached and no witty or brilliant remarks were appearing on the paper before him. Some people wonder as to where the ideas for columns originate. Well, it depends. For columns on sports in general, newspapers and sports magazines are consulted and professional games are watched or listened to. For columns of Hamilton sports and life on the Hill, information is gathered through interviews and observations. Hamilton coaches and players have proven to be excellent sources of information and ideas for columns, due to their willingness to speak on the strengths and weaknesses of the Hamilton athletic program. While some of the material had to be handled off the record, much of it was used in the writing of columns. Fourth and 22 thanks all those coaches and players who agreed to be interviewed, formally or informally. Through their comments, they :showed. a deep concern for Hamilton sports. There is little doubt given a little encouragement in the form of improved facilities and more realistic schedules, Hamilton sports would be greatly improved. Some of the columns received their inspiration while this writer was attending a Hamilton athletic event. Players, coaches, officials and fans were all watched in an effort to discover some interesting fact or situation that would lead to a column. Some memories of life -in the -stands linger to this day: the Hamilton-Middlebury hockey game held at Colgate which had the best fights this side of the Spectrum, a last second football loss on a non-call by a referee, the faces of cross country runners as they crossed the finish line, the team spirit exhibited by the swimmers and their coach. Life on the playing fields served as the basis for a few stories: jungle hockey, a truly unique experience for the good, bad, and indifferent; softball played on fields that could have seen duty as rice paddies. My views on Hamilton life as it was, as it is, and how it should be were occasionally presented in the form of a column. Having talked to hundreds of Hamilton men from the classes of '31 to '7 7, I have heard many stories, a few of which I thought worth repeating. My columns on Houseparties, the Pub, and the weather up here were composites of long conversations held on those subjects. My favorite column, the one on ''rolling", was inspired by long nights on the road with other Hamilton men in search of a most elusive quarry.. Nights spent at Morrisville, Cazenovia, Wells, Cortland, Oneonta, William Smith, Skidmore, and Mt. Holyoke were not always sucessful, but they were always fun. Writing a column is s:asy- writing a good column week after week is difficult .. The task is made easier though when readers take time to criticize and compliment the column. I thank all those who commented on Fourth and 22. The good stories are all gone; I guess it's time to punt. So long and good luck.
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Golfers Grinding Winning Record
"'the 24th for a match with the you." And gradually, as the ball BY ALAN COLBY The Hamilton College golfers Vtica College Pioneers. Despite probed increasingly upward, it continued their winning ways this the conditions which prompted became more and more apparent week, taking matches from both astronomical scores, the 'Nentals that the Czar's. prophesy was Lemoyne and. Utica Colleges. led by the deft play_ of medalist about to he fulfilled. When the · On 1\londay, the Conts, playing Greg Czarnowski, took the match ball finally plunked down twenty i n s p i r ed g o l f u n d e r i d e al by six strokes, 363 to 369 for the )'ards behind its starting point, the conditions, crushed a pathetkally low four men. And though the frazzled Pioneer cahnly put the undermanned Lemoyne team at squad grabbed a win that upped cover on his driver and packed it h o m e . T h e 3 8 3 score for its season's record to five and one, in for the afternoon. Just goes to Hamilton's five low men was one the match could hardly be seen as show that like everything else, of the finest in recent seasons on a nything but a fiasco. The golf is also a tough way to earn a the Hill. Senior Wally Porter led demonic wind converted Utica living. But hey, nobody said it was· the parade with an even par C o llege's relatively innocuous going to .be easy. seventy, followed by consistently layout into a monstrosity� strong freshman, John Widman, Looming particul arly ominously who used seventy-six strokes to was the 160 y ard par three eighth · t o u r t h e T o mpkins terrain. hole. So ominous in fact that as Veterans Steve Green, Vlad Hoyt one beleagered Utican skyed a and Doug Wright all carded fully hit driver into the wind off s e venty- nines , b e s t i n g t he the tee, which usually necessitat-es BY STEPHEN HAWEELI Lemoyne medalist by two strokes. an easy five or six iron, to reach Last Saturday the Hamilton In the midst of a maelstrom t he green, Greg (The Czar) College baseball team put it all unleashing gales of fifty to sixty Czarnowski turned to mate Steve together to edge Union 5-4 in a miles per hour, the team travelled Green and jokingly said, "Look c l assically exciting comeback into the big city on Wednesday out, this one could be coming at victory.
Sluggers Batting Improves In Comeback Basemen Rise To Occasion For Third Time
Fallon walked to load them up again. Dave McLean responded with a sacrifice fly, driving in the insurance run. Driscoll played a key role in the victory too. He stifled the bats of Union, only giving up four hits. If he can ·continue to pitch �ffectiv�ly, the Conts will have a committing no errors� Bill Tarbell chance of winning whenever sure '77, playing first base, poked two he is on the mound. Indeed he hits in four at-bats, and scored could blossom into· being the "Mel twice. Second baseman Brian Stottlemyre" of the club. Gelber went two for two. BY TIM SHOEN AND JEFF FEINGOLD Against Union, Coach Steve Down 3-1 going into the ninth The Kentucky Derby brings thoughts of beauty, grace, and speed , Heckler r evised his line-up. to the minds of most people-or at least it used to. Now when Pisanelli remained behind the anyone thinks of the Derby, he will think of Secretariat, perhaps the plate, Billy Tarbep was at First, greatest horse ever to be saddled and certainly the greatest horse of Gelber at Second, Chip Hollands Secretariat performed a feat that is the last generation. at Shortstop and Dave McLean considered by most one of the greatest in the world of sport. When a was at Third. The outfield had horse wins a triple crown, it is the same as Reggie Jackson winning some new faces replacing Nordo BY JOHN BERRY and one in baseball or Jack Nicklaus winning the grand slam of golf. For Nissi who quit prior to that · defenseman Hertzel for · three STEVE SPENO a horse to win the three most prestigio�s races in flat racing is weekend, and Bill Foley who quit goals, and at halftime· we led 5-2. certainly a feat that captures the imagination of the country and In' the second half, Speno,. prior to the Hobart game on The Hamilton · lacrosse team makes grown men cry on their way to OTB to cash in their $2.20 Wednesday. Craig Fallon moved . n Ch arbonneau, Lotze, Tyler, and finally lived up to pre-seaso win tickets. from First Base to Centerfield, Berry's three goals pushed the -expectations last week by soundly Secretariat was simply in a class by himself last year, a while Don Haggerty and Dave defeating Rochester University g a m e o ut of r each, with super-horse for whom no stable could find opposition. The only , 12-5 and RIT 10-7. Lecher, formerly shortstops, Rochester's Burnham scoring two form of competition the other stables could muster was Sham, a moved to left and right fields Hamilton started off strongly of their last three goals. good horse, but certainly not in the class of Secretariat . Sham respectively. By putting three The final of score 12-5 a was in the Rochester game, with tallies continued to finish second to Secretariat, not because he lacked the former infielders in the outfield, by Collum and Gramaglia, and we s t r on g indicatio n that the speed_ Secretariat had, but he didn't have . the intelligence. hopes to cut · down on Heckler Hamilton offense had finally led 2-0 at the end of the first Intelligence separates the good horses from the great horses, which is qu_arter. In the second quarter� jelled into a powerful unit. An · costly . errors that can be the why winning-the Derby, Preakness,_and Behnont is such an amazing difference in those close games. Junior M ark Bernard burned his indicator of team play is often task-how many thoroughbreds have any intelligence at all? They a[_e The Hobart nine literally blew reflected in the as�ist column, Editor's note: Berry and Speno, certainly the fastest animals for long distances, but most of them into· town on Wednesday to face w i t h Bern ard, Speno, Berry, both juniors, are co-captains of hardly know enough to come in out of the rain. John Psiaki and the Conts. High O 'Donne ll, .a n d T y l e r a l l - the 1974 Lacrosse team. Dancer's Image was involved in the most memorable of all contributing. winds, sometimes reaching 40 At RIT, the physical aspects of · mph., caused the elusive cowhide Derbies, not because of the magnificent finish but rather because we the game outweighed those of got our first taste of corruption that would become commonplace in · to be more elusive than ever. For , . f i n e s s e,; H ami l t on h a d 23 the years to come. Derby officials found drugs in Dancer's Image's instance, with the bases loaded in penalties, ancl RIT had 20. urine. Drugs have become an everyday thing in spo:-ts today and the bottom of the first, Dave However, once again the Hamilton many football players, as they pop their amphetamines, would Mc Lean missed a grartd-slam. probably like to lay blame on Dancer's Image for starting the whole He tagged a curve ball deep to Left . Last week, our tennis team offen�e surprised the opponents, mess of drugs in sport. The Derby_ has had its share of scapdals, but Center. Once the wind caught played its toughest match of tre w h o i nc iden tally boast the they seem like nothing compared to the dozens of indictments that hold of it, the ball carried further season against St. Lawrence. After n a t ion's leading scorer,, and are handed down every rr.onth (or at least it seems like every month) and further to the left finally an extremely close . �ontest in controlled the.game throughout. for fixing the trots in Yonkers, Roosevelt and other tracks around landing over the fence-but 20 which· there were five 3-set Scoring for the Continentals were, the State. The Derby seems like a gleaming white tower in the world feet foul. The wind had no matches. Tht match was decided S p e n o w i t h t h r e e boals, of racing-not because it is necess arily honest, it is just never caught. particular direction to it, as Kurt by the third doubles match which Charbonneau two, Berry, Lotze, This year's Derby barely missed trouble when almost 28 horses Ziemendorf can attest. In the carried on into the evening hours, Mark O'Brien, Hedstrom., and were ready to sign up for the race. Th� Derby track can only hold same inning "Zeus" tiddled a but proved to.be a fruitless effort Collum. In the Assist column, h a d t h r e e , a:r:i.d. fastball that appeared to have the 24, which would have been a problem. The board of directors of for the Hamilton duo of Worden B e r r y Churchill Downs announced that a new rule was passed saying that velocity and height to i>e a and Allen. They lost the match C h a r b o n n e a u, Collumn, and · , Gramaglia each had one apiece. no more than 24 horses can run in the Derby, insuring that the round-tripper. Instead it landed 6.-4, 6-3. Marty Percy, the Continental's • behind second base, a victim of Derby will never be run in divisions. Running the Derby in divisions T h e o ve r a l l match score is like having two heavyweight champions in boxing. the whimsical wind. Ziemendorf f i n i s h e d w ith St. Lawrence premier defenseman, held the top wound up at first, but Hamilton Don't look for a triple crown winner this year :There are enough c l a i m i n g 5 w i n s t o t h e s c o r e r in the n ation, a full-blooded Indian, Jim Miller, good horses, sure enough� but they are almost on an equal level. could have used a homer. Th ey Continental's 4. Cannonade seems to be the favorite for this year's Derby, but there Hamilton' also played a match scoreless. Not enough can be said . lost the game 12-4. • are other horses that will be out to disprove that-and they can. His against Rochester last week. The for his 01,1tstanding performance, Hamilton has been hitting the stablemate, Judger, is one, along with Agitate and Rube the Great. Continentals figured this match or for the hustle and. skill he ball well in the last few games. When the field consists of so many horses that can give each other a might be too much for them, but displays for every game. Because Gelber has been getting on base race on any given day, the possibility is slim that one -of the horses a fine overall team effort brought defensemen cannot measure their w i t h· i ncre asing regu larity • can go out and capture all three legs of the triple crown. Secretariat success in the_ scoring column, victory to our racketmen 5-4. although, as fate would have it, he was in a class by himself, and only eight other ho�ses before him An · exceptional performance they must suffer the ridicule of a injured his shin sliding into third could win all three legs of the crown in almost one hundred years of· was turned in by the number 6 loss and share only in the overall_ in the first inning of the Hobart running it. When Citation_won the triple crown in 1948, there were singles man. Allen won his match victory of their teammates. Pe-rcy, game. He may miss the next tilt. 6,000 thoroughbreds registered with the Jockey Club. Today there in three sets. 6-3, 0-6, 7-6, the Assumma, Williams, Greg Thomas, T arbell has been looking very are over 25,000 registered. Those are pretty slim odds, and the odds third set being determined by a and goalies Evan Lurie and Hank sharp at the plate and on the field. are even slimmer that a horse like s·ecret ariat can be found within Bedford deserve credit for holding tie-breaker. · McLean has continued to be a the next 25 years. In their most recent match, the down the scores - in both of these steady all-around performer as Continentals breezed by Hobart contests. well. The team has been gaining SPORTS The Continentals travel to 7-2. The Hamilton netmen felt confidence, but when outdone by Karate that Hobart would be an easy win Middlebury tomorrow, then next nature herself, there's not much Hamilton Karate Club Tournament. Sunday, May 5. 2 pm. Gym. Tuesday Siena at home; Thursday and were not disappointed. more they can do. Hamilton Block H travels to Hobart soil on f'riday The netmen play Union college SL Lawrence away, and then the Annual Athletic Awards Banquet. Monday, May 6. 6:30 pm. and to Binghamton on Saturday. on Tuesday and a win there will season finale, Union at home on Bundy Dining Hall. Admission is $3.25. Their record stands at 3-6. round out a fine season for them. Saturday May 11.
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T arbell led off with a single to right field. Gelber singled and p itch-hitter Charlie Darrigrand grounded out, but in doiQg so, managed to advance the runners. Don Haggerty walked to load the bases. Then Dave 'Lecher smacked one towards second base. The ball went t hr o u g h t he sec ond baseman's legs," scooted through the right-fielder's legs, and when the dust had settled Lecher was on thir_d and Hamilton had a 4-3 lead. Dave Pisanelli and Craig
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THE SPEC.TAT VOLUME IV ;, NUMBER 28
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2/THE SPECTATOR/May 23, 1974
Faculty Powerless
The decision not to tenure Assistant Professor of Philosophy Phyllis Morris, now under appeal, marks the second time this year that the · Kirkland College community has been divided on personnel matters. President Samuel F. Babbitt, in denying tenure to Professor Morris, has over-ridden the desires of the Kirkland faculty, which stands overwhelmingly in her favor. This past fall, Babbitt's non-reappointment of Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Printmaking, James McDermid, riled students whose support of McDermid was apparently dismissed. Individual personnel decisions remain confidential in order to protect as professor's privacy and integrity. It is therefore impossible to make a complete assessment of either the Morris or McDermid decision. Both cases may be considered, however, in the light in the wh�ch they indicate a failure of President Babbitt to work honestly and efficiently with the college's two principal constituencies. The majority of the Kirkland faculty is young and untenured; of the college's 46 faculty, only eight are tenured, including two of ·four professors who were up for consideration this ye�. Babbitt's decision is disconcerting to the faculty. It now seems that professors hoping for tenure must meet not the professional standard of their fellows, but the special standard of the college president alone. Their self -governing power apparently rendered moot by Babbitt's decision, Kirkland faculty morale is low. The faculty meeting on reappointments this week and a possible AA UP review of the Morris case this summer indicates the seriousness of the situation. Although a college president usually retains the· ultimate responsibility to hire and fire, it is rare for a president to dismiss almost unanimous student sentiment, and it is even more unusual to countermand the recommendations of a united faculty. President Babbitt has· accompl�shed both feats this year, a 1d it does not b o de well for Kirkland and its community-oriented structure.
Baker and Bioch Among the Hamilton graduates this weekend will be George Baker, former Student Senate President, and Fred Bloch, former editor of The Spectator. Leaders of two major student organizations, Baker and Bloch snould be recognized for their outstanding work this past year. During Baker's term, the Senate revised its constitution, clarified the bylaws of the Judiciary Board, and prepared a detailed. Winter Study curriculum proposal; Baker leaves the Senate 'revitalized, and more active than it was before he took office. Bloch, who courageously published the names of the Presidential Search candidates, led The Spectator during a year in which news coverage was expanded and issues nearly doubled in length. Both Baker and Bloch have offered commendable service to the community.
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To the Editor: For the second year ru·nning the Block H Awards Banquet was · a smashing success. Many thanks t o T o m J a n o s k y, Banquet Chairman, Gene Long, Athletic D i r e c to r , De ah R. Gordon Bingham, Master of Ceremonies, and all who helped and attended. Special thanks to Mr. Earl D'Aprix and his staff for putting together an excellent meal and providing excellent service. Ben Madonia Block H President
Thank you again To the Editor: I would like this letter to give me the opportunity of expressing m y a p p r e c i a t ion t o many members o f H a m ilton and Kirkland Colleges. A person's life .and contentment are very much governed by the people who
b e c o m e h i s fr iends and companions in the community in which he lives. This is certainly true in a college situation and e s p e c i a l l y pertinent to my situation as a foreign student come to this country for a year of my life. I have spent an invaluable year on "the Hill" and have shared many enjoyable, exciting and novel experiences with many students and friends of the colleges. I arrived in America knowing nobody and was made we 1come and have gradually become very attached to the American people I am now acquainted with. I want to emphasize the tremendous experience a p�rson gains from living abroad in a different culture for a year and w o u l d e n c o ur a ge a n ybody interested in such a venture to make the attempt and :ictualize his ideas. In meagre reciprocation
to the kindnesses shown to me here, I hope that anybody traveling to Britain will be sure to visit and stay with me on my father's farm or at Edinburgh University. I extend this invitation not only to the people I have been fortunate in meeting during the ye ar, but also to those I unfortunately have not been befriended by. If yo 1.1 are u able to visit this year then accept a "r ain c heck" (an American expression I have learned!) for a iater year. I humbly extend my thanks to my friends on "the Hill" and wish them the best of luck and good health for future years. Take care. Peace. T. Douglas Wilson Sp. Scottish Student Muirhead Farm Cardenden :Fife KY5 OAU Scotland
Compromise.Bill Increases Student Aid Awaits -Gov. Wilson's Final Approval BY DAVID SCHUTT A b i 11 increasing aid to students in New York State now awaits Governor Malcolm Wilson's final approval to become law. The bill, designed to give students from low and middle income families a greater freedom of choice in selecting between p u b l i c a n d private colleges, provides a maximum grant of $1,750 to next year's freshmen. If signed by the Governor, the law w i l l g i ve i n c reased aid to subsequent freshman classes until all four classes are included. W h e n t he p lan is fully implemented, a freshman could receive. a maximum grant o.f $1,500 or his tuition, whichever is less, if . his family's net taxable income (NTI) is under $2,000. Juniors and seniors in a similar financial bracket would receive $1,300. Benefits would be scaled down according to family income. A student whose family's NTI was over $20,000 would receive no aid Under the new plan, the Re g e n t s S c h o l a r s hi p would become a flat $250 for students who do sufficiently well on the state regents exam. Thus the m a x im u m a f r e s h m a n o r sophomore could receive would be $1,750; a junior or senior might receive $1,550. Among the provisions in the ninety page bill is a more liberal d e f i n i t i o n o f t h e term "emancipated student". A student who can prove that he is financially independent of his parents may now receive aid based .so l e ly on his own income. However, any student wishing to be classified as "emancipated" could not live in a college-owned dormitory. The bill calls for a new state agency to be ereated in 19 75 to set u ni f o r m s t and a rds for receiving aid and to administer its dispersal. As a result a student seeking financial help would file only one application. If enacted into law, the bill will aid many private colleges which have faced severe financial problems in recent ·years due to inflation. Because of substantial increases in tuition, many high school seniors have enrolled at less expensive state schools.
In its present form this bill marks the end of a long period of discussion and compromise among sever a l l e g i s l a t ors and the Governor. Assemblyman Peter Costigan (R-Setauket) introduced a bill two months ago which is similar t� the one sitting on the Governor's desk in the size of the g r a n t s a n d i t s method of implementation (The new bill p r o vi des $200 less for the s t udent). The Costigan bill, backed by Assembly Speaker Perry Duryea, was killed in a Senate committee after passing the Assembly. Senate Majority Leader Warren ,Anderson (R-Binghamton) and Senator Ronald Stafford (R-Peru) had introduced a different plan which also increased the size of
the aid. Their bill also provided for the creation of an agency to administer the grants and clarified the definiton of an "emancipated student','. These grants would have been s u bject to l egislative approval every year. This bill died in an assembly committee after passing the Senate. Just prior to the end of the legislative session the Governor issued his pro1)osal which also increased the aid to college students and p ro vided for increased aid to medical s c h ools for expansion. In Albany most legislators believe the Governor will sign this compromise bill, but according to sources in Abany, a rumor is now circulating thaL he may ask the legislature to reconsider the bill.
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Appeals Committee· Recommends Morris Tenure BY LIZ BARROW
supported the faculty committee's decision. "W e d o not s u bs t i t ute President Samuel F. Babbitt will decide within the next few jud g e m e n t for those whose days on the tenure of Phyllis responsibility it is to make the · M o r r is, K ir'kland philosophy decision," Scott stressed. "Our professor. The issue of Morris's l i mit of a uthority i s t o tenure has developed into a recommend a reconsideration of c o n t r o v e r s y a b o u t t h e the decision at some level or responsibility of the president to another, if it had been inadequate consider faculty op1mon in a or improper." Th e s t andards for tenure or reappointment decision. Tw o f acuity c o m m i ttees r e c o n s i d e r a t i o n i n c l u d e recommended tenure for Morris. information missing from the Babbitt, however, overruled their o r i g i n a l r e commeqdat i on , exclusion of an important party recommendations. Following this veto Morris from the decision, and improper took her case to the Appeals or irrelevant standards applied in Committee. Chairman Thomas the decision. If Babbi tt disregards the Scott, Ki r k l a n d p sychology C o m m it t e e ' s professor presented Babbitt and A p p e a l s M o rris with the committee's recommendation and advises the findings two weeks ago, which Kirkland Board of Trustees to
deny Morris tenure, Morris would have_ two options. She could apply to the Appeals Committee to review her case again or she could b r i n g her c a se before the A m e r i c a n As sociation of University Professors (AAUP) for consideration. Morris said she would probably pursue the latter possibility. The AAUP would probably begin its investigation this summer although a decision might not be made for several months. If the AAUP decision supports Morris it is possible that it would censure either the college, Babbitt, or che Appeals Committee. One professor said the reason f o r B a b b i tt ' s r ef us al t o recommend tenure for Morris is most generally considered to be re lated to Babbitt's teaching standards for faculty. They are not as high as he wishes, although some feel that he takes the Morris case as special and borderline. Some f a c ul t y indicate that cert ainly teaching ability is important; there are however other q ualifications such as c o m m i t t e e i n vo lvement and
scholar s hi p t ha t m ust b e considered according to the Kirkland constitution. Most faculty members are angry about Babbitt's refusal to support the faculty committee's d e c i s i o n s . They e m p hasize, however, that they have not had access to the specifics of Morris' case and therefore are most concerned about the principle of Babbitt's veto. One professor said, "We feel !hat ,peers are more qualified to judge quality of a colleague's s c hol a r s hi p , t eaching, a n d community service." Several faculty members have spoken to Babbitt about the Morris issue and the members of the Social Science Division not on i n v o l ve d committees sent a petition to Babbitt supporting the d e c i s i o n o f t he f aculty committees. D i vision C hair man David Begelman said, "I think she should be given tenure. I find her to b e an o ut standing and competent colleague and a woman of great dignity. She's been extremely helpful to me from the
standpoint of my professional development." If Babbitt again ignores faculty opinion on this issue, there seem to be two ways in which the f aculty m i ght sho w t heir displeasure. David Gray, professor of sociology cited the possibility of the faculty taking a firmer p o s i t i o n v i s-a- v i s t h e administration while Begelman said there could be stroi,ger retaliation. " People might become demoralized and seek to leave this school," he said. Gr a y s a i d , "This is an extremely important issue for this college to clarify and resolve sensibly in the best interests of K i r kl and College m all its constituencies." There was a faculty meeting this afternoon at which the general policies concerning faculty reappointment and tenure were to be discussed. Babbitt said h� felt that he and the faculty basically agreed on much of the policies and said, "I'm acting on the case itself. If I can resolve the issue through this case, then OK."
Hom. Deon Search Committee Named
Th e c o m m i t te e t o a i d Hamilton President J. Martin Carovano in his search for a successor to Dean of the College Stephen G. Kurtz has been formed, and is expected to meet for the first time next week. At a faculty meeting Tuesday, Professor of Chemistry Lawrence Yourtee, Associate Professor of History David Millar, Associate Professor of Philosophy Robert Simon and Assistant Professor of Government Richard Suttmeier w e r e s e l e c t e d a s f a c uity r epresentatives to the search committee comprised of four faculty and two students. Elected from a field of ten self-nominees by the Hamilton Student Senate, Bob Evans '75, and Roger Schneider '75, will be the student representatives to the committee. The first meeting of the committee will be scheduled by C a r ovano, at which ·time a chairman will be elected and the guidelines for the committee's operation will be set. Speaking of his future relation with the advisory committee of which he is not a member,
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bring the water back to 1965 levels. Because of the increased population and water use on the Hill since that year the water has been rising.
T h e H a m i l ton Board of Trustees approved the college's 6.8 million dollar budget at their last meeting, May 11, Provost Eugene Lewis announced. The budget represents a six percent increase over last year's figu res.
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S i x f a c u l t y m e mbers at KIRKLAND'S TRUSTEES H a m i 1 t o n h a v e r e c e i ve d promotion in rank, effective July 1, President J. Martin Carovano · ''The endowment is doing Kir k land College recently announced. what the stock market is doing," named two new trustees, �1r . said Lewis, referring to the Rouben Cholakian and Jay G.· Reginald Matthews and M . Elyn discouraging economic situation Williams were elevated to the full Cheney '73. Both were elected at in the nation. He added that the professor's level. Cholakian had endowment has not shrunk as· the Board's May 11th meeting in b e en a ssociate professor of Clinton. badly as the Dow Jones average Romance Languages, and Williams · Mrs. Matthews, a resident of has recently. had been associate professor of New York City and former The Trustees approved the Religion. Kirkland As.sociate, is president of ' allocation of $20,000 to install Norman E. Bowie, assistant t he B re ar l y School Parents t h e c o l lege's f or t hcoming professor of Philosophy and The former house of Albert Wallace at 98 Collegf! Hill Road, Association, Chairperson of the computer in the basement of the Melvin B. E n d y , assi stant the renovation plans for· which had been approved by the Search Committee for a new Daniel Burke Library , and alloted p ro f e s sor of Religion, were Hamilton College Trustees at their last meeting. The ·projected up to $25,000 for engineering director for the Brearly Sch ol, p romoted t o t h e associate · cost for renovating the fire-gutted structure amo_u t to $126,000. � studies which will begin the and e xec u ti ve director o professor's level. WHEELS, (We Help Expedite F r e d e r i c k McD onald and P r o fessor Bowie serves as in the Old Testament and in the million dollar renovation of the Early Leaming Situations) a Man f r e d von Sc hiller were e xe cut i ve s e cr e tary of the study of 17th-century theology. Chemistry Building. The former residence of Vice ·p roject aiding integration of Professor Endy is a magna cum promoted from assistant professor A m e r i c a n P h i l o s o p h i c a l private schools. President Albert Wallace will be to associate professor of Physical A ssociat ion i n addition to laud e graduate of Princeton renovated at a projected cost of Mrs. Matthews herself was Education. teaching at Hamilton. A graduate University. He obtained a B.D. $126,000, and will be ready for educat e d m ostly in private Professor Cholakian, a graduate of B a t e s C ollege with the form Yale University Divinity student residence in September schools. She received a Bachelor of B a tes C ollege with· the doctorate from the University of School, and an M.A. and Ph.D. of Science degree in nursing from 19 75, if plans proceed nt:nnaDy. doc t o r a t e f r o m C ol u m bi a Ro che s ter, he has been at from Yale under a fellowship "If Nixon lets gas prices float, H'ampton Institute in Virginia, from . the Lilly Foundation. His University, has been a member of Hamilton since 1969. the prices will go way up", said and did post-graduate work in Professor Williams, wh� has spe cia l ty is the history of the Hamilton faculty since 1963. L e w i s , c om m enting on the . organic chemistry at Columbia U. He is a specialist in Renaissance been on the Hamilton faculty since C hristianity meteoric rise in the price of She was also a head nurse at ew and Medieval f'rench literature. 1960, is known for his s holarshi utilities this past year and the York Hospital for six years. possible increases in cost that Elyn Cheney, a 1973 Kirkland could accrue to Hamilton for gradua t e , p resently attends 1974-75. Harvard Divinity School as a In other action, the Trustees Rockefeller Trial Year Fellow. r eceived a report fr.om the While at Kirkland, Elyn engineering firm, O'Brien and became known as "The college Gere who were doing a feasil>ility b ag-piper." S h e began the study on lowering the water lev.els tradition of piping at college in the creek in Root Glen. The ceremonies when she played for estimated cost is $160,000 to President Babbitt's inauguration.
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Gracious BY RAND CA�TER
Few people coming up College Hill Road can have failed to notice the imposing brown shingled house above the first bend in the road with its splendid view east of the Oriskany. Since 195 6 this has been the official residence of Hamilton College's President and it is into this house that President and Mrs. Carovano will be moving this August, leaving behind the house on Griffin Road which they had tailored to their own private needs just five years ago. This 65 year old house is in fact the third official President's Residence in the history of Hamilton College, succeeding the present Alumni House and the large mansarded white frame building surviving only in the memory of many of this year's senior as the former Delta Phi House which stood proudly to the north side of College Hill Road. Those who had the pleasure of hearing Miss Silvia Saunders' delightful address on Class and Charter Day will recall that the Alumni House was built in 1802 by the master builder Isaac Williams on a site corresponding to the northwest corner of College Hill and Campus Roads. After sefuitig as a boarding house for the students of Hamilton Oneida Academy in 1813, the house became the official residence of the first president of Hamilton College, Azel Backus. With one prolonged interlude it continued to serve that function until the second official residence was finished in 1869 for President Samuel Gilman Brown, who had accepted the position on condition that a new house be built. Only two Hamilton presidents have choseri to live in thieir own private houses - Simeon North, who lived jn the 18 17 house now known as the Grant House from 1839 to 185 7, and Thomas Brown Rudd, who preferred living in his own
Watrous Award Won By Three KirklandWomen BY THEODORE LOWEN
The fifth annual Watrous Lite·rary -contest for Kirkland students has been won by three women this year. The awards were· captured by Billie Jean Stratton '74 and Andrea Kantor '77 for poetry, and by Nancy Avery '74 in the prose fiction competition. Stratton was awarded an additional prize for the most promising Kirkland writer. The judges who determined the contest winners were Chairman of the Kirkland A rt s· Department William Rosenfeld, K irk Iand Literature teachers George Bahlke, William Hoffa, Heinrich Stabenau, L i pmann, Creative Writing Stephen Instructor Kathy Saltonstall Dewert, and Frederick Wagner of the Hamilton English Department. The, Watrous Contest is the first endowed prize to be given by Kirkland College. The prize was established in 1970 by Mrs. Edgar Couper, wife of the Trustee Emeritus of Hamilton College. Mrs. Couper, whose father was a principal in the Auburn school system, is an avid enthusiast of student writing. The contest was specifically established to encourage and award Kirkland writers, a n d t he r e h a s b e e n e n t h usiastic participation by Kirkland students in the program during the past five years.
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house on Bristol Road between 1947 and One advantage which President and Mrs. 1949. During North's presidency the McEwen saw in the newly acquired original president's house was moved 150 President's Residence was that it offered yards west to the top of the hill and considerably more ro�m for the reception turned ninety degrees so that it faced and dinners which_ are such an essential south and the road. part of the president's (and his wife's) The current President's Residence, for duties. many years known as "Davenham", was In order that the duties of the president's wife might be more felicitous, given to Hamilton in 1955 by Frederick the large kitchen was remodelled and Morgan Davenport ( 1866-1956) with the equipped with the conveniences of the understanding that the College would television era. It is now possible to do the retain title of the property. Davenport, who had been Maynard Knox Professor of' laundry in the daylit room adjacent to the kitchen rather than descending each Law at Hamilton from 1904 until 1929, Monday into the Styg·ian floom of the had also been State Senator, a member of cellar laundry room with its four massive the United States Congress, and an wash tubs. The cellar affords rooms- for unsuccessful candidate for Governor of furnaces and utilities, wood b·ins, wine New York in 1921. cellars, the large refrigerators necessary for In 1909 Davenport had bought two and l_arge-scale and frequent entertaining, one-half acres of land just above the first bend in College Hill Road. On the property stood a boarding house where one-third of Hamilton's students ate at a time when the campus had no Commons. Davenport had the two end wings of the boarding house demolished and moved the core of the house back from the road where it was to serve as a house for the caretaker to the large house which he and a New York architect, Arthur Jackson, built that same year. Hamilton faculty members seem .to have done rather well in those days, for in addition to this ten bedroom house, Davenport also maintained a house in Clinton. Twenty-three years earlier, in 188 6, a n other Hamilton professor, Hermann Brandt, had built a house further up the hill in an especially florid version of the "Queen Anne Style" which in 1955 became the Lambda Chi (Gryphon) House. The loss of Das liebste, das beste Hause in 1971 robbed Hamilton of its most fascinating architectural gem. storage of dishes, plate, and sundry vases, and, in the case of Barbara Carovano - an When Hamilton received "Davenham" enthusir:stic and gifted potter - spaces as a gift in 1955, President Robert Ward suitable for her activities in ceramic. McEwen decided that it should become The average visitor to "Davenham" is the offici�I residence, and a program of likely to gain some familiarity with the modernization was undertaken. A two-car large drawing room at the south end of the garage was inserted into the porch at the ground floor with its ample fireplace and northeast corner of the property which it� two James Penney paintings lending along with the caretaker's house became d i s ti n ct i o n to a r o o m otherwise "faculty housing". intentionally anonymous in its furnishings Lest one becomes alarmed at the apparent decline in the fortunes of ' in order that it should appeal to almost Ha m i lt o n 's f a c ult y,- it should be everyone. As the drawing room is a couple mentioned that there was a pressing need of steps down from the entrance hall, for faculty housing at that moment as a effective entrances are facilitated but result of the decision to tear down a sort hasty retreats from any social indiscretion of shanty town euphemistically called hampered. ...,. "North Village" which stood behind the Since most officic!I entertaining occurs Delta Upsilon and Theta Delta Chi Houses during term-time, few visitors are likely to and which had been knocked up as part of enjoy · the enormous screened porch ' Hamilton's contribution to the war effort, opening off the drawing room at the south serving in turn married undergraduate end of the house. This porch overlooks the veterans and those faculty members whose more private lawns and gardens on the side rank and seniority put them at the bottom away from the road. This is surely one of of the faculty housing list and to the rear the most delightful features of the house of academic processions. �nd will doubtless be much u�d during
Carovanos the hot and insect-ridden summer months. Even mora private is the tiny one-room cottage hidden behind a clump of evergreens w_hich provides a retreat for study and quiet reflection, thoughtfully equipped with fireplace and toilet, but no telephone. In addition to the drawing room, a parlour and dining room also open off the entrance hall. The dining room, with its odd shape produced by a large corner fireplace and small corner cabinet as well as various puzzling insets and protrusions is the least appealing room in the house. The two upper floors are full of those pleasantly strange surprises in which so many older houses seem to abound. Rooms opening from the landing and into one another, cupboards and passages of every description (including some whose
intended function defies explanation), and the balconies, decks, and sleeping porches which extend the living space of the b edrooms all contribute to the fascination of the house and seem ideally suited to playing various Edwardian houseparty games. It is here on the upper floors that the private fami�y life of the Carovano's will center. Not only bedrooms, but studies and sitting rooms will provide the family with more intimate spaces and ones in which the particular life-style of the Carovanos is more likely to be evident. Moving from a more modern home · designed to accomodate furnishings of a contemporary and specific taste, they will of course be freer to impose their own personality here than in the more public spaes below. Among the most attractive advantages of the house is its hiltside location amidst stately and mature trees. This contributes to the fresh and cool atmosphere which prevails during the summer months. The design of the house with its choice of · wood and the brown color of the exterior is intended to effect a happy relation b e t w e e n t he s p e c i f i c a l l y h u m a n requirements of the building and the natural environment, and one in which the house avoids either false modesty or affected naturalness. In its happy blend of the warmly domestic and the graciously inviting, "Davenham" seems -an almost _ideal setting for Martin and Barbara in their new roles as President and Mrs. Carovano.
Rand Carter is chairman of the Art Department at Ha milton College. He wishes to express his gratitu de to Mrs. Carovano, Si lvia Sa unders, Walter Pilkington, and Frank Lorenz for their help in writing this article.
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BY BILL FOLEY accompany left fielder, former L as t w eek, the Hamilton short stop Don Haggerty '76. College baseball season wound up Throughout the season, John on a dismal note with a record of Thomas '7 5 and Kurt Ziemen dorf 3 and 8 . The Continental team '77 s hared the right field failed to remain true to pre-season responsibilities. Chip Hollands '77 expectations, and finished well alternated at second base with below a predicted 5 and· 0 B r i an Gelber '76 and later percentage. switched to shortstop as Dave Following a spring exhibition Lecher's understudy. "Rill Tarbell tour to Pennsylvania, the season relieved "Fallon at first base. began in mid-March. At that time, Dave McLean and Dave Pisanelli the Buff and Blue boasted an proved to be the only permanent explosive offense and maintained starters. a stingy defense. But as the �eason The Continentals' problems progressed, complications arose. w e r e c o m p ounded by poor The hot bats chilled while the weather conditions that limited tight defense faltered. With the practice time and cancelled out key hitters' early slumping, a the Hobart and St. Lawrence heavy burden was cast season long contests. Two of last year's upon the shoulders of senior Craig starters, N ordo Nissi and Bill Fallon and Captain Dave McLean Foley missed end of the season '75. ·on occasional days Kurt action due to personal reasons. Ziemendorf '77 and Bi ll Tarbell Were it not for the nasty weather, '77 contributed at the plate. perhaps the strong arms of the This year's pitching was spotty. pitching crew could have limbered John Psaki '75 and freshmanJohI? up earlier. With sound pitching D r i s c o 11 t u r n e d i n f ine nixing the opponents' atta<:k, the performances against Eisenhower Continental batsmen would have and Union respectively. Andy been able to fully concentrate on ·Pratt '76 remained as relief hitting. pitcher to round out the corps Coach Heckler's accent on that saw mound duty. . youth could be the bright spot in The 1974 spring was a season the Hamilton baseball future. of strategic moves by Coach Steve Next year's squad will most Heckler. In an effort to correct a definitely benefit from the 1974 t r o ub lesome defense, Heckler baseball experience. New faces rotated the players to and from will surely be found in the 1975 the outfiend and the infield spots. lineup. The moves - which transferred p l a y e r s in t o u n c o m fortable continued from page 8. fielding affected the confidence Bob King formally became and the actual play. Craig Fallon Hamilton's head coach in early '74 was moved to center field to January. The Utica Daily Press Sports Editor, Phil Spartano, stirred up quite a controversy with his comments in a January 6th column. He said, "Enter team captains John Newell and Downtown Utica Bill Ferris. They confronted ex-head coach Don Jones on For separate occasions and expressed a lack of confidence in his ability. Shortly thereafter Jones FOR GUYS & GALS informed the administration that he would not coach." One week later, The Utica Observer-Dispatch printed irate letters from Dean Kurtz and "Acting" President Carovano. iSUPER Kurtz c a l led Spartan o's WIDES c o m men ts '' gossip" while Carovano said it was "inaccurate and irresponsible." Spartano's source remained anonymous, but his facts were closer to the DENIMS! truth than most people were *'PLAIDS. willing to admit. Newell did visit Coach Jones HIGH WAISTED ]EAN$ at his house in December. HIP HUGGERS According to Newell, in an interview on January 17, he LEE - LEVI told Jones, "I signed the WRANGLER -petition and I support King but LANoLussEi:fs I never came out against you. But it's impossible for me to be BIBBED OVERALLS captain of a program l can't believe in." Newell said that White..Painter's Jones, who in t ended to Dungarees reassume his position after his Work Jeans year of sabbatical, "had no recruiting program, and no new Flannel Shirts ideas for offense or defense. If we were going to have a good program it was going to come By Ac me - Frye from King." He left Jones' •·Insulated Worl<boots house and walked uphill. ,HI-IIEEU Thirty minutes later Newell informed Ferris about what he had said to Jones, but "Wheels" SNEAKERS decided to call him just to & SHOES. tha t Jones ma k e l p
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Buff and Blue Duffers Finish 7-2 Spring Season BY ALAN COLBY
In perennial form the Hamilton golf team closed out another succe s sful season. Despite a somewhat disappointing finish, Coach Jones' boys still turned in a seven and two slate. After the cancellation of their M ay I match with SUNY Binghamton, the squad travelled to a twelve-team invitational tour n amen t at Albany, on Monday May 6. While obviously pleased by the team's consistent winning performances in dual
Netmen Omsistent ImprovementJ BY DAVID WOLLMAN
Th e H a m i lto n n e t m en concluded a respectable sea_son this year with a loss in a �!9se final match against Union 8-1. This loss gav� the team a 5-3 record for the year. Personal improvement among the players and consistently strong doubles play accounted for many of Hamilton's wins. The team is fortunate in that it will graduate only one senior, Brad Caswell. Brad, who caprained the team this year had a fine season with a personal match record of 6-2. John Hutchins, who will return next spring as co-captain, also looks strong, and should provide momentum next season. Next year coach Batt is looking forward to an even better season. Tom .Piro d sk y '75 and Dave Wollman '76 have indicated that they will join the team next season. Both men should help the team considerably. With a couple of good freshmen, the Hill may see a very strong team next year.
m a t ches, Coa c h Jones had continually looked forward to a solid performance at Albany. The event which was the highlight of collegiate season would have br_9ught m u c h acclaim and prestige to the Continentals. But it was not to be. Cold and wet conditions at the long a�d difficult Albany Country Club made scoring virtually impossible. With tees moved all the way back, lengthening the course to well over seven thousand yards, and pins placed in diabolic locations, the low round for th· seventy-two man field was a seventy-eight. Hamilton's Steve Green continued his deft play, finishing th ·ee strokes behind the medalist at eighty-one. Captain Wally Porter, playing on the course of his caddy days, could not capitalize on his f a m i l i ar ity with layout and f i n i shed with a p ersonally disappointing eighty-four, which w a s r u n n e r - u p f o r t he Continentals. Overall the Cont's finished a respectable fifth, behind R.I.T., Albany State, Oswego State, and P l a t t s burgh St ate, in t h e twelve-team field. However, it was a frustrating afternoon for the
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runner-up, Albany State on the the u pper New York state Tompkins turf and turned in the lg¼!�st, Hamilton five-man round in recent years while trouncing LeMoyne just a week earlier, but brutal weather and the imposing Albany layout thwarted their efforts to secure a top position. , Back at home the next day, May 7, an unstoppable Cortland State organization roared into Clinton , g r a b bed a q ui ck two-stroke victory, and scurried back down route 20, before Don Jones' boys could realize they had been used. Wally Porter, with a seventy-four, paced the Buff and Blue to a low five man score of 39 I, usually sufficient for a comfortable victory. Following
Porter were Jack Widman with a 76, Vlad Hoyt and Steve Green with 79, and Doug Wright with an 81, all solid scores. But playing like. wizards, the Cortland crew was not to be denied, as their total of 389 was two better that the locals. But even with the Fates obviously w0rking against the at the finish, the Continentals led by the consistently solid play of Captain Wally Porter, closed out the season with a 7 and 2 record. Porter, Steve Qreen and Greg(the Czar) Czarnowski will graduate, but with captains-elect Vlad Hoyt and Doug Wright and rookie sensation Jack Widman returning, the prospects for next year are again bright.
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After the initial upset victory a g a in s t t he U n i ve rsity of R o chester (85-60) the team picked up the momentum which culminated in an unprecedented 69-66 win against Colgate. Other vanquished teams include Siena ( 11 1-43), Hartwick (133-19), Oswego (57½-15), Brockport (57½-57), and Alfred (69-55). The two losses were suffered at the hands of Union (82-63) and Cortland (67½-57). They ended with a 7 -2 season record. The times and scores represent a great deal of hard work and enthusiasm by everyone. involved. Stellato and Apple gate show team effort and winning form. Senior co-captains Vito _Stellato ability necessary for a winning stretching became a ritual. The l e s s er c a libe r , but equal and Sandy Mackintosh provided team. Along with next year's field distance runners ·were a familiar dete r min ation. These m e n the leadership and point-scoring. captain Pedro Garcia '75, Mack sight executing their · grueling provided essential depth and shared the Ahner award for most routines in the weightroom long grabbed points when they were valuable competitor. The year's after they had finished their most necessary. Notables were most s i g n i f i c ant turnaround- roadwork. The grimaces turned to Steve and Ilob Applegate, Dirk occured among the sprinters. smiles, however, when the records Tacke, Charles Hathaway, Peter Sophomores Dave Baker and Dale began to fall. Wang, Don Kendall, Ed Jimenez, Garrett, along with junior Kevin In addition to the more Steve Simmons, Kirby Joss, and Snyder, provided essential points e xc e p t i o n a l accomplishments, John Allen. Their reward is the in all the speed events. Stellato there were a considerable number satisfaction of a winning season, dominated the middle distance of personal bests by runner of and the promise of next spring. field, running everything from the mile relay to the three. He was aided by his successor, future co-captain Louis Pacilio. It was a strong, well-rounded team, with very few weak spots. Coach Gene L o1_1g s a i d they were "the best-conditioned group of athletes I've seen in years." E arly in the season Long Looking back on Hamilto-.1 athletics for the 1973-74 s tressed mental and physical sohool year, one sees reflections, of many wide ranged Ioosene ss as the mandatory attitudes and reactions. Jeff Hewitt '7 4 ·was sign�d as a prelude to fine ;>erformances, and free agent by the Dallas Cowboys , and faculty student he feels that this advice was w e l l - he eded. P o s t - w o r ko ut concern was shown over lowered admissions for student Coach Bob King and Senior Craig Fallon.
The Hamilton track team closed one of its most successful campaigns ever by finishing ninth in the NYSCT&FA championship meet at Colgate University on :\lay 12. The season saw several r ecor d-b r e aking performances, mostly by underclassmen. These include a 14:24.2 three mile by Bruce Carter '76, a 30:40 six mile by freshman Jon Schmeyer, a 151' 6" hammer toss by Kurt Handschumacher, also a freshman, and a 43.5 440 relay by the team of Dave Baker, Sandy Mackintosh, Pedro Garcia, and Kevin Snyder. . fost of the action this year took place within a three-week period of intense competition.
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Hamilton Football Has It� King :BY ROBERT J. KERE�.
"acting" head coach in 1973 Bob King likes to do and assistant coach in 1972. own now things his way. And that . he's no longer "acting" Bob and Tom are friends. Even a bumper crop of head football coach, that's just what he's doing. There was an rookies cannot be expected to old adage on the Hill that went: fill all the gaps in Hamilton's "At Hamilton we don't recruit."· football program. But going by Well, Bob King started looking the numbers alone, the Blues' in his own back yard and now bench strength will have . to he · as· more than thirty rookies grow. No longer will Donnie coming to camp next fall, Armstrong or Jake Cun;iingham including eight local high school be called on to play both ways. stars. King -went after interior That's King's big step toward linemen and backs, and that's insuring that last year's 0-8 pretty much what he got. Along football disaster will remain a w-it h L aF ountain, halfbacks Steve Hajek from Notre Dame thing of the past. In 1973 Hamilton never had a n d Dan W a ldr o n from H i g h will be 'more than thirty-seven players W hi te s bo r o on their talent-thin roster. Now c on tending fo r b ackf i e ld the paced Hajek King is talking excitedly 'about pos1t10ns. seventy. He said, ''We got thirty Central Oneida League in '73 new recruits and about forty with 829 y_ards rushing. Waldron guys coming back so I'm just turned in two 200-yard games to knee the twenty-two before succumbing take gonna toughest guys and go out there. surgery in the third week of the season. And that's all there is to it." The big name that King had Two areas that aren't begging to get was QB Tom Lafountain for improvement are recei�ing. from Jo� F . . Kennedy High and linebacking. Three members of the class Sc h o o l in Utica. Af t e r LaFountain indicated that he'd of '77 broke into the starting go to Hamilton, other Utica-area lineup last season at the end standot.:.ts came running. It's no positions. Dave Pisanelli, Dave small coincidence that King was Lecher and George Grammaglia a physical education teacher at COll)bined for 45 of Hamilton's J.F.K. while he was Hamilton's 82 pass completions. Veteran
Speedster Kevin Snyder and feisty Alec Singer round out the receiving corps. But even 6'3" manager Owen Kratz has good hands. But just getting the ball to them has always been the problem for the pass-oriented Continentals. John Newell, Bill Ferris and Mark O'Brien m ake up Hamilton's - toughest linebacking trio in years. Newell and Ferris studied under little All'-American Andy Sopchak '73 for two years, and are now prepared to lead the Blues as co-captains, both on and off the field. Newell won the coveted Rue Trophy at Union in '73 while playing· the best football of his life every Saturday afternooa. "Wheels" Ferris, the master of the "clothes-line" tackle, is just plain vicious. O'Brien broke in as a frosh last season with a reputation of being "a tough kid from Copaige, Long Island." King benched him for three and a half games until Mark finally sta r t e d to exceed all e x p e c t a t ions. T h e· t h ree complement each other's talents; they all take football very seri o usly from August to Nove mbe r, and t hey are winners. continued on page 6.
athletes. One can take either extreme and argu � with no greater validity. Some feel that the administration has lowered the scholastic standards to admit students of a higher caliber, while others feel that Hamilt.on needs a new sports complex. Ed Wilson of the Admission Department has initiated a study on scholastic standards of student-athletes compared to th, remainder of the student body. Roger Schneider '7 5 has been granted access t.o all admission and scholastica records by the Hamilton trustees and seems involved in another study. The swimming team has totaled a seven season record of 72-6-1 under Coach Eric MacDonald. Most teams of this caliber at a sr.hool such as Colgate wm1ld have received a new facility Jor their efforts. Can Hamilton afford it?That's hard to answer. Should they build it?This is even hrrder to answer. Some schools, such as Univ. of Chicago and Univ.· of Detroit, have partially or fully cmtailed their sporl!i programs. Oberlin has hired Tommy Smith, the most radical minded sports figure alive, as athletic director and ex-olympians and pro footliall players as coaches. Hamilton cannot an,d should not curtail their athletic program, · nor can we follow in the footsteps of Ohio State or U.C.L.A. The schoql can certainly not mark off athletics as a frivolous and academically deterring activity. Athletics is involved with the self-realization process one hop .�s . to achieve through a liberal arts education, and� also involves the knowledge gained through learning experiences. This k�owledge ranges from the insights o::1e gains from :group effort and competition , and also the insights into one's own phy sical nature. A nature of the person that money people �oday .seem to take for granted. Current Hamilton admissions standards should be centered on academic quality with extrac;urricular activities taken into consideration and influencing choices. The degree of emphasis on differing activities is the question that stands; and the line that is drawn is vague and does need qualification.