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Campus Comment, October 9, 1968
Bridgewater State College
Volume 43
Number 2
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Vol. XLIII
State College at Bridgewater, Bridgewater, Mass.
No.2
October 9, 1968
STUDENT FUND FREEZE
ENDS AS AUTONOMY
THREAT CONTINUES
MAIN ATTRACTION SMASH
To be good at something is a virtue
toward which many men spend a lifetime. To be great is a· star upon
which only a few men's eyes fall; to
be Great at overcoming enormous
hardships that tear at your very soul,
is a height seldom reached by mortal man. The performance of the
"Main Attraction" was this type of
Greatness. The walls of musicians
dread, grabbed at their every sound,
attempting to twist it into knots of
chaos and sounds of rejection, doing
its best to win the battle of destruction against their music. The "Main
Attraction" fought with every means
to break the resistance of this
powerful force which was ever so
~determined to destroy all of their
asc
HOSTS
GEOGRAPHERS'
CONFERENCE
Bridgewater State COllege will
host the New England - St, Lawrence
Valley Geographical Society on Friday and Saturday, October 18 and
19. The conference features outstanding geographers from the
Northeastern United States-Canada
region and Is held at a different
regional college each year.
The conference lecture sessions
are open to all who register and
field trips are available to a limited
number of students if they register
early. Registration starts at 4;00
p.m., Friday, Oct, 18, in the lobby
of the Conant Soience Building. The
Program items of interest to the
students are as follows: Friday, 8:0a
PM: presentation of the High School
Geography Project, including the
film "High School Geography: New
Insights.".
At 9:00 PM, in the
Science Lecture Hall, three papers
will be presented.
These are:
"Impact of the Northshore Shopping
Center Upon Land Use in the Central Business District of Salem and
Lynn", "A Geographic Study of the
Impact of Franchisingon Traditional
Retailing", and the "New Bedford
Port District", all by prominent New
England Geographers. Concurrently, in Room 8304, three other papers
will be presented; "Feeding a Desert
City", "Canada'S Role in the
Foreign Aid Programs to the Developing Nations" and "A Preliminary Investigation of the Influence
on Peasant Agriculture of the Spread
of .a Metropolitan Area: Kingston,
Jamaica. "
Field trips on Saturday will take
place from 1:30 to 5:30. There are
two trips, one to the Bridgewater
area brick industry and the second
to the port and redevelopment sites
of New Bedford, Previous to this
will be a business meeting and
Special session on Geography in Education in the Lecture Hall. Three
articles will be presented;' 'Environmental Learning in Young Children", "Some Notes on Orientation", and "Materials, But Not for
Content's Sake."
Other features of the program include an address by President Rondileau and several luncheons and a
formal dinner. The final address
will be given by Gordon E. Reckard
of Washington D.C. who will speak on
"Government Geography: AProfessional Responsib1l1ty." All arrangements are being handled by the staff
of the Department of Earth Science
and Geography under the Chairmanship of Dr. Emanuel Maier.
efforts. SUddenly, after an hour of
struggle, the walls began to shed
bits of stubborn "rock" which had
feverously opposed all opposition.
Then, with a few simple refrains of
"By the time I get to Phoenix," the
"Main Attraction" reached for the
walls, and tore at its heart, and
threw it out over the mauve blackviolet lamps watching on.
The
satin-pureness of this destruction
gave warmth to the sheep: they all
knew that this was not just another
B.S.C. ~'group" but instead, a performance. The "Main Attraotion"
entioed their LISTENING audience
with blue-golden 1yrios of Love and
Joy. The "Main Attraotion" susyended their audience in a batter of
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SPECIAL S.C.A.
ELECTIONS
ANNOUNCED
At the September 26th meeting of
the Student Cooperative Association
CounCil, SCA PreSident Gerard M.
Kelley announced two reSignations
from the Council. Paul Kosciak,
elected last spring as Assistant
Treasurer of SCA, was forced to
transfer to another college by very
pressing personal reasons, has tendered his reSignation. Mr. Kelley
and the COMMENT express their
regret at the loss of a good officer.
Similarly,. Mr. Kelley announced
the reSignation of Senior Delegate
James Accomando, who has switched
to being a full-time student in the
Division of Continuing Studies. Both
elections have been scheduled for
Tuesday, October · 15th, with the
final date for filing set as Tuesday,
October 8th at 5:00 P.M. In order
to qualify for Assistant Treasurer,
a student must be a member of the
Junior class, have attained a QPRof
2.0 or better last semester, not be on
probation and file nomination papers
signed by ten percent (10%) of the
undergraduate full-time student
body. To run for Senior SCA Delegate, a student must be a full member of the Senior class, have attained a QPR of 2.0 or better last
semester, not be on probation and
file nomination papers signed by
ten percent (10%) of the class.
1ife, giving bits to all who cared to
accept. As the final chord was given,
and the final morsel portioned, the
"Main Attraction" thanked us for
letting them be our hosts, and we in
turn looked for the shreds of affection to return to them.
Thank You, B.S.C. for finally
bringing an end to the "groups"
(and I use the word "group" instead of musJ.cians for obvious "reasons,) who made it a practice to
destroy as much music as theypossibly could in four ~ours. For the
"Main Attraction" finally showed
Bridgewater Students what the word
group stands for .... Greatness...... .
by Bruce· Clark
FACULTY
COUNCIL
ORGANIZED
by Richard Andrews
Along with the increase in the enrollment at BSC, there has been an
increase in the size of the faculty
Which now numbers over two hundred members. Obviously, it has
outgrown the
Faculty meeting
system. After examining the various faculty councils and senates at
the other state colleges, a constitution was drawn' up and enacted
last June,
Briefly, the council's purpose is to
make specific recommendations to
the President of the college regarding the role of the faculty. This
does represent a significant step
forward because its structure aids
in the formation of realistic proposals; of its sixteen members eight
are administrative faculty, and the
other eight are teaching faculty.
The workhorse of the Council is
the committee; there are committees on Academic Policy, Professional Standards, College Development and Faculty,..StudentRelations.
There is even a Committee on Committeesl This group is to study the
functions of BSC's committees, try
to eliminate overlapping jurisdiction, and propose the formation of
new committees to handle other
areas. The members of the Committee on Academic Policy are
Henry Daley, V. James DiNardo,
(Chairman), Annabelle Melville, and
Harold Ridlon. James Brennan
(Chairman), Barbara ChelliS, Joseph ChiccarelU, and Stanley Clement are the Committee on Professional Standards. The Committee
on Committees' members are Jordan Fiore, Jane Herric15, Frank
Hilferty, and Thomas Lee (Chairman). Robert Barnett . and Evelyn
Lindquist, the co-chJl.irm:en, Joseph
DeRocco and Owen McGowan are
the Committee on College Development and Faculty-Student Relations.
Jane Herrick was elected Chairwoman of the Council; Barbara Chellis was selected secretary. At the
present, the council has done little
more than hold its first meeting,
elect chairmen, and begin the organization of the Council••
Hopefully the fa~ll now be
able to assert itself once more in
matters concerning the overall
policy of the college. It will be
interesting to see just what the
Council will accomplish in the
future, that is, as soon as .it begins
to function.
In a meeting held by Student Cooperative Association Treasurer
Peter Hayhow with the treasurers of
all campus organizations on Tuesday, Sept, 24th, Mr. Hayhowofficially ended the freeze on all student
accounts which he had ordered ten
days before with the unanimous support of the SCA Executive Board,
In pointing out to the assembled
treasurers that they were not, in
most .cases, the officials responsible for their organization's finances
at the time when the irregu1~ities
appeared, a threat of putting all
student funds into one central account still exists.
Hence, it is
necessary for all student treasurers
to be particularly careful in the
handling of their books during this
sensitive period, Mr. Hayhow followed with a short discussion of
common bookkeeping errors, and informed the officials present that he
would distribute a bookkeeping manual to them as soon as he had it
compiled,
Mr. Hayhow then went on to in-
form the assembled treasurers of
several of the recommendations
which the Auditors, currently in the
process of completing their study of
all college accounts, were expected
to make: (1) that organizations not
receiving allocations from SCA
should not have their books audited,
as well as those not obtaining income
from vending machine profits, etc.;
and (2) that all student funds. be
placed in one central checking' account, with all checks signed by one
person, probably an administrator.
It is expected that these recommendations would be addressed to the
Board of Trustees of the State Colleges and to President Rondileau,
Direct comment was not available,
since no recommendations have as
yet been made, but a reliable source
close to the Administration felt that
the Trustees were unlikely to accept the central funding suggestion
but would probably approve the narrowing of organizations subject to
state audit,
S.C.A. PRESIDENT
COMMENTS ON ATHLETIC
CONTROL BOARD
SCA President Gerard M. Kelley
has issued the follOwing statement
to the COMMENT regarding the
problem of allocating' the money
collected as the Athletic Fee, as
reported in the last issue of the
COMMENT:
"The College Community concept
which has been the guiding spirit
between the student, faculty and administrative segments of Bridgewater once again demonstrated its
value by aiding in the solution of a
pressing problem. As I mentioned
in my statement of September 13th,
no action had been taken on establishing an administration for our
substantial Athletic Trust Fund,
However, in the past few weeks the
problem has been under the scrutiny
of the college community and on
September 26th, President Rondi-
leau announced at a meeting of the
SCA Council the establishment of a
Joint Student-Faculty Athletic Council of 14 members, seven students
and seven faculty, which would
supervise the Athletic Trust,
After a brief discussion centering around the student representation, it was agreed by those present
that the student delegation should
consist of the Presidents of MAA
and WRA, along with the five members of the SCA Finance Commi ttee.
Thus our tradition of high level
student involvement remains in tact.
President Rondileau has also announced that because of the pressing needs of our athletic and recreation programs, this group will
meet ~s soon as possible to establish policy and review budgets."
THIS IS WHAT S.C.A.
DID WITH YOUR MONEY
In a May meeting of the SCA Council, your student government acted upon
the recommendations of the five-member Student Finance Committee and
allocated the funds collected from students as the Social Activities Fee during 1967-1968. Comparative figures are offered for past years.
ORGANIZATION
ALLOTMENT ALLOTMENT ALLOTMENT
1966-1967
1967-1968
1968-1969
$10,600
$6,800
$8,300
ALPHA (Yearbook)
$ 800
$ 800
$ 1,000
Amenities
$3,500
$4,075
$ 4,500
Assembly Committee
$3,500
$4,500
$ 7,300
CAMPUS COMMENT
$ 500
$ 500
$ 600
Roots and Wings (Chapbook)
$ 900
$1,000
$ 1,000
Choral Club
$2,400
$2,600
$ 3,600
Drama Club
$2,133
$4,500
$ 7,500
Social Activities Comm.
$ 700
$ 800
$ 5,000
Handbook Committee
$ 0
$ 550
$ 450
International Relations Club
$22,000
$28,000
$
0
Men's Athletic Association
$3,500
$
0
Women's Recreation Association $3,000
$1,600
$1,600
$ 1,600
SCA Council
$ 0
$ 0
$ 700
Verse Choir
$1,600
$ 400
$ 2,500
Visual Arts Club
$2,625
$1,037
$ 2,625
Secretarial Services
$ 0
$ 0
$23,000
Student Union Fund
$ 871
$1,037
$ 2,299
Associated Classes
$9,460
$10,715
$11,615
Maxwell Literary Fund
$2,139
$2,000
$ 2,288
Contingency Fund
$88,177.
$75,135
$66,220
TOTALS:
If you have any questions about these allotments, or about anything else
that your student government is doing, it is up to you to seek them out and
ask them. The entire membership of the SCA Council is posted, along with
the minutes of the Council meetings and other information related to student
government, on the SCA Board, next to the Director of Admissions Office
in Boyden Hall. Council meetings are usually held every other Thursday,
at 4:00 P.M. in the Seminar Room in Boyden Hall. If you have something
you want done, and are too lazy to contact your student government, then
you alone are responsible if it doesn't happen.
State College at Bridgewater
Pg.2
BRIDGEWATER NEEDS A
STUDENT JUDICIARY!
Consider the following cases:
(1) A college student is driving a motorcycle down a hill and around a
corner on a rainy evening. The bike skids and slides partially under
a parked car.
There are witnesses, the student has been warned
several times about being drunk on campus. An administrator gives
him a choice of resigning from the college or being expelled. He resigns and is subsequently acquited in court on a charge of drunken
driving. His resignation stands.
(2) Two girls live in an apartment in a city near campus. A noisy party
is raided by the police. No charges are made and no trial or hearing
takes place. Both girls are forced, nevertheless, to resign under
threat of expulsion.
(3) A Senior trainee returns from her home to attend a campus event.
Returning to her dormitory where she is to spend the evening barefoot, she kisses several boys goodnight. An administrator observes.
She is asked to resign her dormitory office.
(4) A girl holds an evening job off-campus. She calls her dormitory to
inform her housemother that she has to work late one evening, and
will return slightly after curfew. A rainy evening, she has difficulty
starting her car. Upon arriving at the dormitory, she signs the late
book and enters both reasons for her lateness. The House Board
places her on restrictions "for changing excuses."
Do these instances sound at all familiar to you? They should; three of
these travesties occured at Bridgewater within the past year. You mayor
may not recognize the particulars or know the people involv~d, though you
probably knew one of these five people. They all have something very much
in common: they were all victims of an extralegal system which violated
their rights in astOnishing variety. Only one, a less serious offense, had a
hearing of any kind; none had an opportunity to appeal; cases #1 and #2
amount to extortion of a confeSSion; not a single attempt to obtain any objective or dispassionate judges or juries was made; under threat of more
serious punishment, one was subject to what amounted to confinement to
quarters, a right legally granted only to law-enforcement and military
organizations.
.
Blowing up of minor incidents? Although these incIdents differ considerably in degree of seriousness and punishment, these cases, like the
individuals involved, have something in common: they all display a selfrighteous and paternalistic disregard for personal rights which enjoy full
protection under the law that is nothing less than. shoc~ng. .The law is
usually more concerned with the rights and well-bemg of mdividuais than
it is with the preservation of institutional control over the personal li~es
of those who come under its pale. The time has come for us to stop noddmg
off our mild disquiet at this kind of thing when we hear of it, and get madl
The time has come for us to establish a student judicial system to handle
all major and minor offenses against college and student rules, and to do so
within the laws and other guidelines established by our society to protect
personal rights.
We call upon the Student Cooperative Association Council to begin, with
all possible speed, the erection of a student judiciary which can take the
disposition of justice to students charged with an offense within the college
out from behind closed Administrative doors---where all, including the
Administration would certainly prefer that it be---and away from intradormitory jealousies and into a structure where the case is not quite so
loaded against the defendant. It might seem to some that we do not have
sufficient problems in terms of disciplining students to require such a structure.
However, we doubt that the students involved in these cases cited
would consider our problem "slight." A student judiciary would, we feel
certain have summarily laughed off the ' last two "offenses" and would
almost' certainly have found in the defendant's favor in the first two.
And we would not have to be ashamed of looking the other way when these
things happened. Or be afraid that we might be next.
MJM
REVISE THE ACADEMIC CALENDAR
As Bridgewater's schedule of dates for vacations, reading days and ends of
semesters falls increasingly out of step with other colleges and universities
(including Massachusetts state institutions), the need for revision of our
academic calendar becomes increasingly apparent. The relatively simple
task of rescheduling is one that has been overlooked for far too long.
It is with some consternation that Bridgewater students yearly discover
that our intersemester break and spring vacation takes place the week after
virtually every other institution of higher learning in the state. Effectively
therefore, the relaxation and reunion value which are the objectives of
vacations (and not, as many instructors seem to believe, a special academic
period for students intended to dispense with term papers, material that
could not be jammed into lectures and a few casual outside reading assignments not appearing on the course syllabus) is lessened. Such a scheduling
cross-up could easily occur occasionally by accident. This time-lag has
been institutionalized at Bridgewater, however, and has occured every academic year within memory.
Another ananchronism which is yearly present on the BSC calendar is the
ten-day or ~o-week appendage ("appendix" might be a better term) of
classes after Christmas vacation and before reading days. When an increasing number of colleges and universities feel that a semester's academic work, including provision for several reading days scheduled against
a weekend, can be satisfactorily completed before Christmas vacation, the
after-Christmas classes would seem to be unneeded. Clearing up final exru;ns
before Christmas would allow students the currently-often denied opportunIty
to accept seasonal post-office appointments and sales jobs, which usually
begin the Monday before the mid-week closing now characteristic of our
schedule.
The vacation length could be extended to a full-three weeks (i.e. regular
seasonal vacation, plus a week of intersemester), a time which is the only
true vacation from academic work afforded to the student throughout the
academic year, and still open second semester a full two to three weeks
earlier than is currently the practice. Hence, a spring semester fully as
long as the one currently employed would allow the end of the academic
year by mid-May. Although a non-stop semester such as this would be a
grueling experience, it is unlikely to have a very adverse effect upon the
general level of grades; few students, or anyone else for that matter, take
much stock in the general fallacy of "catching up over Christmas"~ Christmas vacation has long been more a time of worry and self-recrimination
than of intense study, while spring vacation a time for wondering what to do
in a town emptied of ones friends. Such an alteration would allow a betterplaced spring vacation, and make Christmas a real vacation, one for longrange plans and general relaxation for most. (Sorry about that, faculty
members; you can't win them all.)
COMMENT Deadlines
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Phone: 697-6161 (ext. 260)
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Michael J. Maguire
MANAGING EDITOR: James Fonseca
NEWS EDITOR: Joseph O'Sullivan
RE-WRITE EDITOR: J. Robt. Mancini
SPORTS EDITOR: Lou Patrick
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Steve Caine
Robt. Drapeau
FEATURE EDITOR: Mark Allen Leach
LAYOUT EDITOR: Jackie Laubner
BUSINESS MGR.: Peter Homen
CIRCULATION AND PUBLIC
RELATIONS MGR.: Debbie White
CARTOONIST: Gerry Conefrey
LAYOUT STAFF:
Barbara Kierstead, Carol Najarian, Candy Perrault
REPORTERS AND FEATURE WRITERS:
Scott Bennett, Richard Andrews, Chris Brady, Heather Brown, Richard Brown
Donna Castello, Lauren Daley, Frank Harrington, Marty Janiak, John McCarthy,
James G. H. Moore, Candy Perrault, Elizabeth Stahler, Anthony Tringale, Robert
Vaillancourt, Leon Weinstein, Bruce Clark, Mae Truesdale, Joe Proia.
TYPISTS:
Elaine Hart, Anne Borowiec, Kathy Arruda, Evelyn Bettencourt, Anne Grossi,
Donna Duffy, Cathy Connor
FACUL TY ADVISOR:
Benjamin A. Spence
The CAMPUS COMMENT is published twice a week by the students of the St.ate
College at Bridgewater and distributed free of charge to the ~oll.ege Community.
All opinions herein are exclusively those of the staff and EditOrial Board and/or
their authors and should not be construed as positions of any individual ?r ~oup
within the college other than this publication or its contributors. SubSCriptions:
SS.OO/year (within the United States). All correspondence should be addressed
to CAMPUS COMMENT, c/ o State College at Bridgewater, Bridgewater, Mass.,
02324.
OLYMPIC BOUND
Every college student's wish
is to represent his or her
school in the Olympic Games.
The Olympic Fund allows you
to partiCipate regardless of
physical condition. Endorsed by
the U.S. Olympic Committee.
All college students are eligible
to participate in a $10,000 life
insurance program for $22 a
year with dividends going to
send the boys to the Olympic
Games. Support your team and
represent your school.
Joseph G. Kilkelly
John Hancock
848-1020
October 9, 1968
CHAMELEON
COFFEE HOUSE
BEGINS
THIRD YEAR
by Bob Vaillancourt
In the desert of Bridgewater's
academic year refreshing, enlightening, stimulating experiences
have long been only occasional oases.
True educational experiences have
been rare indeed.
People in the
world WOUld, upon occaSion, drop in
at Bridgewater and shed some light
on the sparcely seated audience at
Horace Mann Auditorium. Perhaps,
an ambitious class would seek out
national talent to perform for and
share with our "community of
scholars" their experiences. However, if they arrived on the weekend, there to meet them was merely
a purified remnant capable of generating little enthUSiasm. If it was
good discussion you wanted, you
would have to settle for either a
not too rational debate over a Bud
at the Citizens' Club or spurts of
half-hearted dialogue with fellow
passengers on your way home after
an exhausting day.
It was from this atmosphere that
a group of students (Luci Mansfield, Rita Galiteros, and Karl Crowell) got together to see if the cultural wasteland could in some small
way be whetted. This was in the
spring of 1967, a little over a year
ago. They wanted to create an informal atmosphere where students
and facu1ty cou1d go. And over a
cup of coffee (where only the most
momentous ideas are born) vigorous, spirited, enlightened conversation wou1d abound. To spark this
dialectic there would be highlighted
some relevent topics of interest.
Also in this informal atmosphere,
where ideas were born, the community cou1d share in the appreciation of the former arts. The
arts cou1d be the jump off point
into deeper, eXistential appreciation. From this ideal they could run
the gamut of life. Features could
vary from educational techniques to
belly dancers; from saucers to Yoga.
They went ahead and did it: The
Chameleon Conversation Coffeehouse was born.
Most of the credit for keeping the
Chameleon off its figurative back belongs to Luci Mansfield. She worked
almost singlehandedly in programming and promoting for the coffeehouse. She was assisted most handily by Rita Galiteros. Since Friday
night, April 5,1967 (with rare exception) the Chameleon has opened its
doors to all interested. These doors
were opened for the second complete
year on October 4.
While the featured topics varied
greatly in the past, the 1968-69
season promises even greater diverSity. Films will be more frequent this year. Three award winning art films will be presented
October 25; Igmar Bergman's "The
Virgin Spring" will be presented
December 1; Antonioni's "L' Aventura" is slated for April 25. Jazz
will remain a familiar sight with
Vince Gannon and his men; also,
The Pau1 DeRocco Trio. Current
political problems will be aired for
discussion with the arrival of
"Avatar"; also with Dr. Wallen
Bean from the now defunct Rodman
Job- Corps. Center. The Bridgewater Fair Practices Committee
will also be represented. On-campus playwrites will present their
works. And, as ever, the Chameleon
walls will continue to echo with
spirited song as many new folk
artists will be introduced.
The Chameleon is not the answer
for educational dryness. It is, however, a step in the right direction.
Neither is the Chameleon the only
school organization working to better our campus intellectually and
cu1turally.
THE CAMPUS COMMENT, the Drama Club, the Celebrity Series, and ROOTS ANDWINGS
are other nuclei working toward
Similar goals. The Chameleon and
others are working to create a community without which we cannot expect to learn.
The oases no longer have to be
occasional.
The Chameleon will
continue to be open every Friday
evening. For the Chameleon to continue to fulfill its purpose people
will have to make it happen.
October 9, 1968
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State College at Bridgewater
Letters to the Editor
To the Editors:
I found the fir~t !ldltion of the
CAMPUS CoMMENT to be both
interesting and provocative. Even
though the political comments were
rather discriminatory, I enjoyed the
various viewpoints. I must, how- ,
ever, take exception to Mr. Mancini's column on the hippies. It
seemed contradictory that the hippie
could profess love for everyone
while at the same time harboring
a hate for a "sick SOciety". The
breakdown of society as the hippie
advocates could quite possibly sound
the death knell for mankind. I suppose that It is unfortunate to measure '
man and his achievements In the
practical and realistic sense; but Is It
possible to completely extricate
oneself from the realistic world - "
or as our hippie friends say "dropout" - merely as a protest against ·
involvement in our so-called "sick
SOCiety"?
As the hippies sit in the gras !! and
ask the "unanswered questions", I
wonder If the questions are merely
"unanswered", or ratherunanswer- -'
able. If the question is truly unanswerable, what is accomplished by
asking it? The answer lies in the ,
nebulous twilight zone, where not
even L. S. D. can place the mind. Perhaps the hippies are content to ask .
the unanswerable questions, rather
than fight cruel reality for glimpses 'of the solutions. In the final analysis
we find that most people are able to
pose a question, but few can derive
a compatible solution.
Most hippies are apathetic concerning the outcome of society as a
unit. The emphasis seems to be on
the individual fulfillmentwithoutre-
gard to the fulf!1lment of others.
The hippies fail to realize that, while
In hot pursuit of identity and fantasy, they often violate the rights
of others. This flagrant violation of
the hippie credo "do your own thing"
is inexcusable.
Granted, not all
hippies ,follow this vein. Some value
human rights very highly, and are
sympathetic with the plight of
society. These people represent the
"hard-core" hippies (or rather nonconformists) who protest and withdraw for intellectual reasons, as
opposed to pretentiousness. Many of
the original non-conformists became disenohanted with the movement when It turned from intellectualism and became trivial and hollow. Attention hounds and impractical dreamers jumped on the
bandwagon only to be hurt, disillusioned, and misused by organized
conspiracy. This is reality--cold,
cruel and rotten. Down go the hippies and with them all the love and
naivety they possess.
I am not attacking the hippie'S
personal1ty--for their idealism is a
virtue ' that places them high above
mysel!--but I am attacking the hippie socialism. A hippie Utopian
society cannot exist in a realistic
world, for its existence depends upon
the denial of our humanity.
I hope I have not become a traitor
to my generation by emphasizing
realism over fantasy. But even the
"hard core" hippie knows that
someday reality will catch up with
him. When that day comes, I hope
the hippie will have notprophesized
the way.
John McCarthy
Dear Mr. Caruso,
I am writing in regard to your
article on ••Outlaw Choppers" in the
last edition of the COMMENT. I do
not totally disagree with what you
said but I feel that it is not as accurate as it should have been.
Just as your opening statement
has shown fIle that you know nothing
of the people who you are writing
about. It was "Hey, man, how's
about kicking over your scooter
and let's go putting!"
It should
have been, "Come on guys---get
that damn hog going and let's raise
hell. "
These characters are far from
the "sweet and innocent" and the
only language they speak Is Modern
Vulgarity. They are dirty, mostly
unshaven, with greasy, medium to
long hair. I am speaklng,ofcourse,
of the outlaw riders only, not all
motorcycle riders can be so classified.
You were correct in stating that
these groups are not out to cause
trouble to anyone outside their own
kind. "To raise hell" means to have
fun, In their own way, within their
own group.
On a bike, one feels more free
than the Wind because It's almost
as If the two were one---the difference being on a bike one controls the power in his very grip.
And that's their world. POWERI
When you're on a bike, you are put
Into a different world---and the only
way anyone can be a part of that
world is to be on a bike.
True, dungarees do offer some
protection as far as "hitting the
dirt" Is concerned. But the only
real protector is leather--which Is
much too warm to wear In the summer. In that case the dungarees are
suitable. However, although one may
get a little dusty riding a bike--It
takes only one washing to clean off
the dungarees that most of these
guys don't seem to care about.
They are supposed to be grubby-because that is their image. The
clean pair of jeans you spoke of,
supposedly to be worn underneath
the pair showing, ceases to exist
in most cases.
Would you wear
two pairs of pants In the summer?
As far as olub jackets go--I'm
sure that more suitable emblems
could be worn If they wished it. The
truth Is that they want to be thought
ill of. They like people to condemn
them because they realize the public
is dOing so from fear. And, In this
way, the rider almost gains a respect
from the public--a respect they
otherwise could not attain. They
.want to be noticed as most people
do--and they have succeeded in
this, So, Mr. Caruso--to tell one
of these guys he Is clean and welldressed Is an insult,
Their reputation Is one of being
gross, obnoxious and appalling. As
Individuals this Is untrue, They all
have an extremely great sense of
humor and most are very pleasant
to talk to. Although some may be
of the professions you stated, most
are high-school drop-outs--and are
in some way distorted In appearance.
Most are honest in their opinions and
do not leel guilty of anything they are
doing.
They live for their bikes and love
the world that it has created for
them. They are happy as they are
and should be left alone by people
who are not Involved with them.
If these people who are so quick
to condemn them would stop and
really look at themsel ves, they would
find that the average outlaw motorcycle rider is no worse than the
average American; only the average
American has found flowery ways of
hiding their flaws. The motorcycle
rider is happy--my question to the
rest of the world is--are you?
(Name withheld by request)
HAPPENING IN THE
NEWMAN CLUB
CHAMELEON
SCHEDULE
Sunday, October 6-- Coffee Hour
after 9:30 Mass.
Tuesday, October 8--General meetIng for all 3rd hour, Newman
Center.
Tuesday, October 8--Pizza supper
and movie at Newman Center 5-6
p.M. The movie will be at. the
Science Lecture Hall at 6:45 P.M.
The movie that will be shown Is
Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie".
Also cOming soon:
Group discussion on THE CHRISTIAN
Today
Bible study group
Halloween Happening
OF EVENTS
'71
October
25 Three award-winning art films
November
11 Vince Gannon and Jazz
15 On-campus playwrites
22 Folk night
December
6 Igmar Bergman's "The Virgin
Spring"
13 A happening
January
10 Film and DiscussiOn of homosexuality
CAPITAL OUTLAY
GROWS AT
BRIDGEWATER
by Richard Brown
This academic year, the campus
will hopefully be marked by three
construction projects.
On the top priority list is the
Pedestrian Bridge over the New
Haven Railroad tracks for students
on Great Hill and the commuters'
parking lot. The structure will be
enclosed and made of steel and concrete, costing $40,000, It will have
a width of ten feet and a span of
sixty-five feet with stair towers at
either end. It will conform with the
railroad's standards of maintenance
and clearance.
The bridge will
stretch from the fJ:eshman parking
lot to the rear of the Newman Center parking lot.
In regard to the new library,
funds have been obtained from the
State Legislature to the amount of
$5,800,000.
A Federal Grant of
$750,000 has also been . obtained.
The site chosen for the library is
the corners of Park Street, Eldwood
and Shaw, This area is across from
the gym. Presently, there are five
houses owned by the college on this·
site. Their Inhabitants have the option to move them or leave them to
be demolished.
Total area for the library will
cover 172,5'87 square feet. It will
be a four floor building on Park
Street and move to three floors on
Shaw due to ground contour,
Other than normal facilities it will
also contain; conference rooms, a
dozen classrooms, a preparation
room for catalogues, re'ference
room, administration room, and a
control desk. The architects are the
firm of Hoyle, Dorren, and Berry.
Bids for construction go out in
November,
NATIONAL PLAYERS COME TO B.S.C.
The gentleman in the donkey's
head is named Bottom. The airy
lady who is enamored of him is
Titania.
The whole thing is the
result of ·a magic spell put on the
lady by her husband, Oberon.
The play is Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and the
production is by NATIONAL PLAYERS of Washington, D.C. October
18, 1968 at 8:15 p.m. is the time and
Horace Mann Auditorium is the
place. Drama Club is the sponsor
and tickets are available in the
rotunda and at the door. All seats
will be reserved.
NATIONAL PLAYERS is an out-
growth of the famous Speech and
Drama Department of Catholic University in Washington, D.C. They
have made nineteen complete tours
of the United States since their inception in 1949, and now in their
20th Anniversary Season they rank
as the foremost of touring repertory
companies in the country today.
Tickets may be reserved by calling 697-6161, Ext. 247. Ahandsome
production with stunning costumes, a
great play with beautiful poetry and
earthy comedy, a delightful evening
in good company--that's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
Review: ULook Back In Anger"
by Mark Allen Leach
Perhaps the most important of
constructions Is the Student Union
Building. DUe to the steel strike,
progress has been set back seven
weeks, The construction company
had hoped to be working on the interior by winter, but now that seems
doubtful. At this moment the two
most difficult wings are hEling constructed; the auditorium and the
roundish structured cafeteria. Other
facilities to be contained on the complete project are; recreation rooms,
student organization offices, bookstore, alumni office, faculty dining
rooms, conference rooms, and ,an
office for the director of the Student Union, The building will be
wired for closed circuit television
and though it will not be air conditioned yet, the ventilating ducts
will be built in for use at a later
date. The auditorium will have a
capacity of fourteen hundred and
the cafeteria can hold eight hundred at one sitting. The cafeteria
will contain stack furniture which
will allow easy clearance for dances.
A tentative opening date was given
by Dean Harrington as February,
1970.
The COMMENT wishes to thank
Dean Harrington, Director of Admissions and Mr. Werner, Assistant to the President for their aid
in providing this information.
NOTICE TO
VETERAN STUDENTS
YOUR LAST CERTIFICATION CARD
(BLUE-GREEN STRIPE ACROSS
THE TOP) MUST BE COMPLETED
AND RETURNED TO THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION IF YOU EXPECT EDUCATIONAL ALLOWANCES FOR ENSUING PERIODS.
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RECORD CLUB
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BY RECORD CLUB OF AMERICA
CAMPUS REPRESENTATIVE
TO EARN OVER $100
Write for information to:
Mr. Ed Benovy, College Bureau
Record Club of America, Club HQ.
York, Penn. 17401
Something excellent is happening
at the Charles Playhouse tonight.
John Osborne's LOOK BACK IN
ANGER has begun a six week run.
Although their opening play was
written and acclaimed over a decade
ago it is as ne'"" as the wet paint
so friendly on the stairway railings.
The plot is old enoutth, to be sure;
boy meets girl, boy loses girl (hardly
the unrequited lover type, boy finds
alternate girl meanwhile) and boy
gets girl back. But the play is as
relevant as napalm, prophetic of our
ever growing, dropped-out subculture and keenly responsive to the
agony of those twentieth century men
and women who shouttheirindividuality, yet cry for love.
There are only four characters in
this three act drama, but Osborne's
poetry and the director's, Jon Jory,
magic illuminate all the ghosts of the
western world.
Remiscent of
Chekov, the play takes place in one
room (a realistic, top floor English
tenement) and is both acutely personal and societal. The newspapers
read, quoted, crumbled and eaten
are just as important as the stuffed
teddy bear and squirrel hugged and
beaten. The play revolves around
the cyclopean character of Jimmy
Porter, the first of the "angry young
men".
Although the character of
Cliff LewiS, Jimmy's confidante, is
a respectable portrait and the two
women, Alison, Jimmy'S wife, and
Helena, Jimmy's enemy-lover, are
both well defined andrepresentative
of type, Jimmy Porter dominates the
play. He is indeed the bear he so
often refers to, but he is also as
tender as he is belligerent, as sensitive as he is rude and obtuse, and as
sympathetic as he is impossible,
Young'Marion Killinger performs
admirably in this exhaustive role, at
his best when toughly intellectual,
witty, burlesquean or self-pitying.
Killinger has avoided the traps of
reaching for the audience'sunqualified sympathy or becoming too cute
with the amazing dialogue Osborne
has provided.
And here the director, Jory, deserves congratulations for his emphasis and balance of the poetic and
ambitious script. The play is effectively weighted with quick comedy
and complex drama. We ' are constantly aware of the external problem; the society Jimmy has rejected.
One of his apt statements is "they
spend most of their time looking forward to the past". But we are even
more aware of the problem of being
Jimmy and being Jimmy'S wife.
"Little fuzzy animals with little
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fuzzy brains", Alison says of themselves, and she'S right, in part.
But there is an aspect of Jimmy
that is in no way fuzzy, but sharp,
demanding and inflexible. Jimmy
has cut the umbilical cord and he
demands no less from his wife. A
cynic to the age he has internalized
his idealism. He is not out to change
England but to regenerate himself
and a chosen few,
All the petty
examples of his wife's inability to
see life through his eyes and to
come to grips with reality infuriate
Jimmy. He asks superhumanness
from Alison - to be heroic. He
nearly destroys her in his fanaticism. Jimmy'S in a constant state
of combustibility and anger. He is
angry because he cares and he is
willing to destroy those whom he
loves rather than see them live a
meanJngless, false life. Jimmy is a
proud, dissatisfied, insecure and
lonely man. Says Alison, "everything about him seemed to burn."
His, and ultimately his wife's dilemrna, and, to them, their dignity, is
that they are ~ lost cause. What
happiness that is theirs rests in the
fact that lost together they have
found themselves.
The director
writes, "Don't we have to find some
way out of this? It started with
Jimmy Porter all alone, and now
there are thousands upon thousands."
Mention must be made of other
fine performances beside Mr. Killinger's.
After an opening-night
first act jitters in which Marion
Killinger seemed to be pushing,
Karen Grassle, as Alison Porter,
seemed to lack confidence in the
background and Kevin Bryan Conway
failed to project a real measure of
credibility, the cast rose to an inspired performance. The difference
between the first and second act was
extraordinary. A good deal of credit
for the remarkable improvement
goes to Janet Sarno, as Helena
Charles, whose entrance into the
drama provided a stability and
smoothness the cast had been lacking.
Dramatically, she gave the
other characters something definite
to which they could realistically
respond. Also, Karen Grassle was
given her first strong scene in the
second act and dressed in only a
slip and with her hair down she began in earnest to "do her own
thing". The parallelism and near
absurd theatricality of the beginning of the third act catalyzed a
crescendo that resulted in an intensely exquisite climax which we
hope will be the first of many at the
Charles this year.
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State College at Bridgewater
BATTLE FOR THE PRESIDENCY 1968
DEMOCRATS' 68
by Marty Janiak and Mike Maguire
THE FIGHTING
LITTLE JUDGE
GOP '68
by Jim Fan seed
by Betty Stah ler
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Democrat for the pre's idency of the United
States, outlined his position on Veitnam in a nationwide television
broadcast on Sept. 30.
Humphrey said his first priority
is to end the Viet Nam war, and consequent with this he pledged to stop
the bombing of the North as an
acceptable risk to bring peace.
He felt that it is the responsibility of the New Administration to
make a complete reassessment of
the war. He does not, however, advocate unilateral withdrawal, for
this would be an open invitation to
aggression. At the same time, there
should be no escalation of the war.
After the bombing halt, Humphrey
would restore the demilitarized zone
and start deamericanization of the
war with the South Vietnamese taking
over more and more of the responsibility of the war.
The next step should be an immediate cease fire followed by
supervised withdrawal of United
States soldiers if the North Vietnamese will do the same.
The so often heard promise of
free elections in Vietnam including
the National Liberation Front and
other dissident forces is also proposed by Mr. Humphrey. He states
that there must be a government
which is not imposed on the people.
The presidential candidate felt that
we should take into account North
Vietnam's good faith in bringing
about a peaceful solution.
He also proposed a program of
more active land reform, help for
refugees of the war and pressure
upon the government of South Vietnam to end corruption.
He also
stated that, of course, there could be
no guarantee of success of this action. In all cases, the United States
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must review its commitments to
decide if they are in the ,b est national
interests. He said there must be a
new strategy of peace based not on
omnipotence but upon leadership
working through the U.N. peacekeeping machinery and major alliances (such as NATO and SEATO).
In his last pOint, Humphrey
strel;!sed the overkill capacity of both
the USA and USSR and urged the
ratification of the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty.
On the other hand, Humphrey's
opponent, Richard Milhous Nixon,
is against the immediate signing of
that treaty. Could the reason for
this be that Nixon covets the opportunity to use all the available,
devastating nuclear weapons on
some "aggressive" Communist Nation? It seems that he is following
the path of Barry Goldwater advocating continual show of force to
scare the hell out of those •'damn
Reds".
After much heSitation, Nixon has
finally agreed to a national televised
debate with Humphrey. This should
prove interesting for it will be surprising to see Nixon take a definite
stand on the issues. Bothcandidates,
however, still refuse to debate
George Wallace. Maybe Nixon can
ignore his presence in the presidential race, but Humphrey surely cannot be blind to the man who is ahead
of him in the recent polls.
Nixon is still the front-runner and
Humphrey the underdog. But the
Vice-president's recent break with
the Johnson Administration may well
prove a deciding factor in the race.
By this break Humphrey has taken a
definite stand while Nixon continues
to babble in ambiguities and whimsical promises.
IDIOT
COMMUTERS~~
Now that your attention is drawn,
let's talk. The Day Student Association is the. second largest organization on campus and represents the
commuter but it wields little power
and has little effect. In the past this
may have been due to the poor
leadership and poor communication.
The average commuter, however,
has to share some of the blame for
the ineffectiveness of his organization, the Day Student Association.
If we, the commuters, are to have
any direct voice in student affairs
on campus we must strengthen our
organization by active participation.
If you want to be a living part of
B.S.C. tell the officers of the Day
Student Association what you want
them to do for you. You can do this
by using the bulletin board in the
commuters' room, if you know where
it is.
Dennis M. Coyne,
President of D.S.A.
On January 14, 1963, at Inaugural
ceremonies in Montgomery, Alabama, on the same spot where President Jefferson Davis once took the
oath of office to the Confederacy,
George C. Wallace was installed as
forty-seventh Governor of Alabama,
and the South acquired a new leader
in its battle against racial integration.
Within the" first year of his
term of office Wallace stood "in
the schoolhouse door" in an attempt
to block enrollment of Negro students at the University of Alabama,
and later he postponed the opening
of integrated public schools.
A leading spokesman' for states'
rights and an avowed segregationist,
Wallace was formerly a member of
the Alabama legislature and a circuit judge. After his election as
Governor with the greatest popular
vote ever received in Alabama he
defiantly proclaimed "I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow,
segregation foreverl"
The highlights of his early political career, were the Wallace Act,
which provided for the construction
of five state trade schools, and the
Wallace Industrial Act which brought
new industries to the state.
Wallace was . also active in the
Democratic Party.
In 1948 he
gained national attention when as a
delegate to the Democratic National
Convention he was a leader in the
floor fight against a strong civil
rights plank. This showing at the
1948 Convention led to his being
chosen to represent Alabama on the
platform committee of the National
Democratic Convention in 1956
where his committee work produced
a civil rights plank "as weak as a
wet splinter" according to one critic.
In 1959 George Wallace once again
gained the publics' attention and became known as "the fighting little
judge" when he defied the Civil
Rights
Commission's effort to
gather information about discrimination against would-be Negro
voters.
Then in 1963 the United
States Supreme Court ruled that
Bible Reading in public schools was
unconstitutional. Wallace said, "I
want the Supreme Court to know I'm
not going to conform to any such
decision. "
Now in 1968, George Wallace is
campaigning for President. Wallace
blames the lawlessness and disorder
on the Negroes, students, and Communists. He promises to make a
strong stand for law and order.
His tactics would be something like
lining the streets with armed
troopers and thrOwing any demonstrators in jail.
The controversies over the Civil
Rights movements would be taken
care of simply and quickly. There
wouldn't be any. To him the Negro
is "not equal and separate."
Wallace also wants to take school
and hospital integration, open housing legislation, reapportionment and
congressional redistricting out of
federal hands.
Then there is the Viet Nam war.
Wallace says that the United States
is in Viet Nam "whether you like it
or not". He also stresses the United
States should not have gotten involved without forcing its European
and non-communists allies to lend
considerable support or in other
words, we should have made it a
World War m first.
About the bombing situation Wal.lace says it is easy to criticize but
difficult to provide an al ternative and
refrains from answering.
Wallace prays and hopes that the
Paris peace talks will yield an
"honorable ending" to the Viet Nam
war. But if the talks fail he would
lean heavily on the advice of the
Joint chiefs of staff. If they had a
plan for military victory with conventional weapons, he would adopt
it.
In summary Wallace is a man who
believes in racial discrimination,
who would limit our freedom of
speech and a man who believes in
law and order while refusing to obey
any law that does not suit him. Who
is willing to put the fate of their
country into the hands of this man?
The latest Gallup poll of September 20-22 has shown Nixon retaining
the approval of the 43% of the votes
while Humphrey's support has
dropped considerably and Wallace
has continued to amaze analysts with
another big gain, closing in on the
phenomenal figure of one out of every
four American voters.
G.O.P. optimism has increased to
the point where every state is regarded as fair Republican game with
the exception of the District of
Columbia which is Humphrey territory and the Deep South core of
MiSSiSSippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.
Other southern and border
states are the subject of bitter con. tests between Nixon and Wallace. In
the traditionally Democrats - only,
big-city-states such as California,
Texas, illinois, and Ohio with their
massive blocks of electoral votes,
Humphrey is running scared in all.
Only in New York and Massachusetts
can the Vice-President be given
more than an even chance of winning. There are many reasons for
the Democratic defection from the in
candidate and former liberal hero.
First is the unhealed wounds suffered at the Battle of Chicago, which
have alienated many of the KennedyMcCarthy supporters, including
much of the idealistic, hard-working
youthful arm of the party. Then
there is George Wallace, hero of
white suburbia and undisputed leader
of the "put 'em in their Place"
party, (i.e. the Anarchists, Communists, Negroes, students, intellectuals, people with long hair, etc.,
etc.) Ironically Wallace is destroying the very life-line of the Democratic Party by attracting the vote
of the worried blue collar worker.
who owes most of his status to the
Democrats, especially one valiant
fighter for unionism - Hubert Horatio Humphrey. As if that weren't
enough, word comes from Los
Angles that Wallace has opened a
campaign headquarters in the heart
of Watts and is meeting with some
success in recrUiting Negroes because of his stand on local control
of school boards, a new concept
gaining popularity among Negroes.
In other developments, Nixon has
finally agreed to debate Humphrey
after much prodding by the Democratic candidate. Nixon's hesitation
stems from poor public reaction to
the 1960 Nixon - Kennedy debates
which many political analysts say
gave the victory to JFK because of
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Nixon's less personable appeal.
Also, Nixon's refusal to reply to
HHH's call for a debate was becoming too powerful Il weapon in Humphrey's hands.
While Nixon has been avoiding
specifics on many issues and relying
on generalizations, he has come out
with a few solid proposals of interest, including a series of summit
meetings with Russian officials; a
crackdown on crime that Nixon says
is not attributible to poverty; a
federal fund freeze for school districts that do not comply with integration laws and recently, a national pollce academy.
Everything
has
been going
smoothly, perhaps too smoothly for
Nixon. The Republican candidate hall
been drawing huge crowds, receiving ticker tape parades, and new
support from all sides, including
former Kennedy and McCarthy
backers who feel too antagonized to
vote for "Johnson's man". Spiro
Agnew (a little better known now)
is still kept in tight wraps, doing
a lot of traveling, but only at Closed
Republican functions and smaller
towns. Nixon wants to "test" Agnew thoroughly to temper his tough
law and order stand and other attitudes which led to the headlinemaking remark (and later retraction) that Humphrey was "squishing soft on Communism." Nixon
has had extremely li ttle trouble
with hecklers thus far, as opposed
to Humphrey and Muskie who, it
seems, couldn't be more faithfully
followed by hecklers if they packed
and unpl\cked them with their suitcases at each campaign stop. Nixon
has such a l!ul1stantial lead over
Humphrey that the Democrats have
already assumed the position of
underdog and are attempting to compare their campaign with that of
Harry Truman in 1948 who surprised
all the pollsters by upsetting' the
Republican candidate, Dewey, in
1948. What they don't publiCize,
however, was pointed out in a New
York Times article, that is, that in
every poll taken after September I,
Truman made gains in voter preference each time.
Anything can happen however; the
forthcoming debate, a radical change
in the international Situation, or a
political goof by a candidate could
upset the applecart at any time. One
thing is certain, the month of October certainly promises to pull a few
more pOlitical rabbits from the lining of Uncle Sam's battered election
headgear.
RADIO FREE BOSTON
by J; Robert Mancini
Until only r~cently there was no
escape from the pop, top-forty AM
radio stations with their senselessly
jibbering disc-jockeys; endless assortment of give-away contests; and
continual stream of sub-intellectual
advertisements.
WBCN-FM was the first Boston
radio station to completely break
away from the old, commercialized
broadcasting.
Their program is
called "The American Revolution"
and it is broadcast in multiplex
stereo at 104.1 mc. on your FM
dial.
"The Amerioan Revolution" is a
revolution in the pop mUSical scene
from the progressive electronic
blues of Paul Butterfield and Jeff
Beck to the hard psychedelic rock
of the Jefferson Airplane and Velvet Underground. The names are
new: Iron Butterfly, Janis Joplin,
Steve Miller Band,. Electric Flag
and an endless list of pop innovators.
The widely separated commercials show creativity and intelligence which appeal to rather than
insult the listening public.
The disc-jockeys on "The American Revolution" don't just kill time
with useless chatter. Instead, Mississippi Harold Wilson, The Seagull, Peter Wolf of the HALLUCINATIONS and the entire WBCN
brotherhood rap to their audience
with a closeness and fraternity
found in no other Boston Radio
Station.
"The American Revolution" has
soul. It is relating a message of
love and peace by playing recordings
that preach that same Ideal. WBCN
is more than an "easy-come-easygo" overnight million-seller that
relies on number one hit releases
growing and dying with every passing week.
WBCN offers suspense in broadcasting. A half-hour of hard-core
psychedelic rock may be followed by
a trip into the past with a recording
by Little Richard or Chuck Berry.
Thirty minutes of assorted Beatle
tunes may give way to an hour of
everything from Tom Rush to the
Doors.
For studying, for parties, or just
for sheer listening pleasure, WBCN
has something for everyone in its
audience. Whether you dig blues or
folk, rock or jazz, "The American
Revolution" exists to blow your mind
with stereo sensations and multiplex melodies.
WBCN is where it's at in the music
scene without the torment of advertisements every 3 minutes or hourly
replays of the top-ten. 104.1 mc.
FM offers variety, soul, innovation
and an American Revolution.
October 9. 1968
FACILITIES AVAILABLE FOR STUDENT RECREATION
On October 2, the gymnasiums
and swimming pool.became available for student recreational activities four evenings a week.
Beginning in the second quarter the
facilities will also be available on
occasional Sunday afternoons.
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State College at Br.idgewater
_ The schedule will vary because
Other student activities such as the
Aquabrytes and indoor intramurals
are being worked into it. The schedule will be posted weekly in ' the
dorms and on the appropriate bulletin boards in the Ad Building.
Concerning the pool, the same
rufes as last year apply. ·All students using the pool must shower
thoroughly before entering the pool
area.
All must wear regulation
bathing suits or trunks. Gym shorts
and cutoffs are not acceptable.
HUMPHREY: HAPPY WARRIOR '681
In a rather unhappy campaign for
sion. Both gave him an opportunity
the Presidency waged by Al Smith
to become deeply involved with labor
in 1928, he carried· a nickname from
unions.
1943 marks the beginning of Humthe south side of New York to the
phrey's political career.
At the
nation and was crushed by a comurging of his political friends at the
bination
of
conservative and
UniverSity, Humphrey filed in the
Southern red-neck forces that
mayorality race in Minneapolis only
gripped a hysterical political con20 days before the deadline. With
trol over the country. The following
a staff of rank amateurs and zero
year, the death-knell of this politicampaign funds, Humphrey slugged
cal stranglehold was sounded as
America sank deeper and deeper
it out wi th incumbent Marvin L. Kline
and was narrowly defeated by 4,900
into economic disaster. This draStic curve sorely rested the faith of
votes. The oampaign was significant
the nation in democracy, and it is . in that it allowed Humphrey to
an accepted theory of historians that
emerge as the leader of Minnesota's
we did more than just "toy" with
liberal wing, and gained him the post
the efficient and attractive totali- . of campaign manager for the Demotarians of the Right and Left dUrcratic Farmer-Labor Party which
ing this period.
swept the state for Roosevelt-TruToday, another and far more comman in 1944. (The merger of those
plex "Happy Warrior" is Crusading
two parties is largely oredited to
for the Presidency. Hubert Horatio
Humphrey's efforts.) In 1945, he opHumphrey is faced with similar
posed Kline again--and rolled up the
problems of hysteria in America,
first of his characteristic reoord
in addition to an almost uncontrolvictories by a margin 31,114 votes.
lable paranoia of both the Left and
It is with Humphrey's entrance
the Right. Rarely has amajorparty
into the administration of America's
candidate of any kind, and less often
fourteenth largest city that the grellt
still one supposedly representing
complexity of the man begins to
70% of the electorate been faced
emerge.
His semi-official biogwith a melange of opposition such as
rapher, Michael Amrine, writing of
the one advancing against Humphrey.
Humphrey's career up to his third
To the Right, George Wallace is
Senate term, represents the period
as characterized by fighting pOlio
mobilizing the discontent and the
with Sister Kenny, reSisting defear of remnant Goldwater forces,
mands labor that one of "their"
the Birch Society and the Northern
men be appointed police chief over
urban ethnic groups who see the
an FBI-trained Humphrey appointee,
imminent
destruction
of the
and improving hoUSing conditions.
cherished property and political
power by racial violence; the hard ' He obtained the formation of a Fair
Employment Practices Commission
core racists of the South and North;
which made MinneapOlis the first
and that strange voice that never
city in the United states to declare
quite materialized in 1964, the
illegal discrimination in factory or
"white backlash". To the Left, the
office because of race. All are true;
McCarthy Movement (as distinct
They are not complete. A more
from the McCarthy campaign) and its
recent biography by Robert Sherallies in the New Left are mobolizrill also points out that Humphrey's
ing national disgust at the violence
that characterized the Chicago ConFBI-trained pOlice chief, Ed Ryan,
vention and passionate anti- Veitoperated a very active "Red Squad"
narn, anti-Administration sentiment
within the Minneapolis Police Detowards a boycott of the November
partment which actively harrassed
5th election. Standing somewhere
labor uniOns such as the United
between. ••. no one is quite sure
Electrical Workers. Similarly, durwhere .... is Richard Nixon, making
ing his city-administration and in
the usual GOP standardbearer's aphis famous leaderShip of the
peal to the "silent undemonstrating
"purge" of supposed communists
majority of Americans", the supand radicals from the Democratic
posed typical citizen Who w6rks
Farmer-Labor Party in 1948, Humhard, pays his taxes and can be
phrey acted as something of a RedCounted on to vote for a Republican
baiter in the Mc Carthyite tradition of
candidate who doesn't upset them too
some years later.
Persons so
much. Last, and most important,
classified were placed on a "better
Humphrey's worst OPPOSition seems
dead" list and ejected from party
to be coming from the most illOgimeetings into the waiting arms of
cal quarter of all; his friend and
city police who would arrest them
benefactor, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
for disturbing the peace. Hardly
Together, for somewhat different
the stamp of a liberal administrareasons, Wallace, Nixon, the people
tion.
in the streets, and the President
1948 was a banner year for Humseem likely to prevent Humphrey
phrey in a number of ways. It was
from taking up residence at 1600
in that year that he gained national
Pennsylvania Avenue.
attention as the brash young liberal
Who is this man who can so efwho had wrecked Harry Truman's
fectively raise and dampen Americhances for election by demanding
can passion?
that the Democratic Convention " •••
Hubert Humphrey was born on
get out of the shadows of States'
May 27, 1911, in Wallace, South
Rights and walk forthrightly into the
Dakota. Growing in another small
bright sunshine of human rights •.• "
Dakota town, Doland, Theodore H.
There would be no compromise, no
White says much of the influence of
watering down of the civil rights
his small-businessman father (a
plank. And there wasn't. And Hummulti-faceted political enthusiast
phrey returned from Philadelphia to
who was one of five in Doland who
parallel Tr':lman's upset victory in
voted for Al Smith) and his mother
being Minnesota's first popularly
(politically unreliable ••• "she voted
elected Democratic U. S. Senator and
for Harding and Dad could never
by a margin of 243,000. votes over
forget that.") In the fall of 1929,
Joseph Ball!
Humphrey entered the University of
During Humphrey's stormy memMinnesota, but was forced to withberShip in the "mo.st exclUSive club
draw in 1931 to aid his father in
in the world" from 1948 to 1964,
opening a new drugstore. (Humphrey
the Capitol sages watched his slow
with a pharmacy college certificate,
transformation from a gabby Freshis the . only registered pharmacist
man Senator with no respect for the
ever to serve in the United States
seniority rules into one of theSenate.) He later returned to the
hardest working and most effective
University (Phi Beta Kappa and
legislative leaders in the Senate's
magna cum laude in 1939) and did
history. We give brief treatment to
the enormous amount of legislation
graduate work at Louisiana State
Humphrey personally influenced
University (MA in Political Science)
only because an extensive treatment
with "the philosophy of the New
would fill volumes. The Marshall
Deal" as his Master's Thesis topiC.
Plan legislation, Food for Peace,
He taught for a short time at the
the Alliance for Progress, the NuUniversity of Minnesota, but left in
clear Test Ban Treaty, the Peace
1941 for a WPA .position which led
Corps, the 1964 Civil Rights Act,
to an Assistant Regional Director's
job in the War Manpower Commis- \. dozens of pieces of Fair Housing
legislation and so on ad infinitum,
all bear his personal stamp. Also
noteworthy is his positive vote for
the McCarren Internal Security Act
of 1950, which in effect was a posthoc legalization of the imprisonment of 100,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II and which
contains provisions for the establishment and maintenance of "detention centers" (i.e. concentration
camps) to imprison persons likely
(key word) to commit espionage in
times of national emergency. Humphrey, on several occaSions, has
introduced legislation to outlaw the
U.S. Communist Party, and remained
strangely silent until nearly the end
of the McCarthy witch-hunt era,when
it became fashionable to speak out.
It was during his early years in
the Senate that he became friendly
with another Freshman Senator from
Texas - Lyndon Johnson. Humphrey
"delivered" the liberal vote to Johnson when he ran for ' Senate Minority
Leader in 1952. Similarly, Humphrey was certainly LBJ's choice
for Majority Leader in 1961 after
the Texan moved up to the VicePresidency, and Johnson probably
did obtain the Majority Whip's job
for Humphrey. Although they had
been rivals for the Presidential
nomination, their mutual defeat by
John Kennedy restored their sense
of Populist and personal kinship.
These two, perhaps more than Majority leader Mike Mansfield ran the
Senate until November 22, 1963.
In tragedy, Humphrey's star rose.
The first moment of partisan political discussion after the nation
mourned, there was little doubt that
Humphrey and Robert Kennedywere
the primary contenders for the VicePresidential nomination which was
equivalent to election.
After the
early emphatic elimination of Kennedy by LBJ, there remained little
between Humphrey and the chair of
the Senate besides Johnson's rather
ludicrous attempt to convince the
nation that he was undecided• .
Humphrey, a man no more imperfect than any man, probably deserves a happier last chapter than
that which ensued. But the nation
has lived through hard times; the
storm is coming.
The Black
American, in spite bf enormous
strides, still lives in oppreSSion,
and the Civil Rights Movement has
become the Black Power Movement.
What probably began as a sincere
but misguided effort to protect a
tiny nation from destruction spiraled
into an American adventure, an increasingly imperialistic war waged
more against Americans who opposed it as stupid and endlessly
destructive.
The spending meant
something had to be cut--and the
War on Poverty began to de-escalate •• And, increasingly, the President seemed less and less responsive to the needs and opinions of the
nation.
Whatever else Hubert Humphrey
may have done or been in 25 years
in politics, it is against this panorama that he must be essentially
judged in his race for the Presidency. His current remarks concerning
the
Vice-Presidency
(' 'Humphrey as Vice President is
a member of the team••• ") would
not seem to explain the glaring incongruity of Hump'hrey before and
after 1964. Humphrey seems to
be vaguely aware that he must repudiate the past four years if he is
to defeat Nixon, et. al.,; but every
attempt that he has made to do so
has been met by a sharp reply,
almost a rebuke, from the President.
Unless Humphrey breaks
sharply with the policies which
caused Johnson's abdic~tion, perhaps by directly repudiating current Vietnam policy or by resigning as Vice PreSident, he cannot
hope to win--or even to avoid the
most hum11lating defeat that ever
ended a proud, but now prostituted.
career.
by Mike Maguire
GREAT HILL
A COMPLETELY
UNIQUE
EXPERIENCE
by Heather Brown
Now that we have all had achance
to become acquainted with the rules
of Great Hill, we freshmen are
ready to express our opinions.
The most universal complaint is
the hike to Lower Campus.
In
order to make a 9:00 class on
time, it is necessary to leave at
8 : 15.
It is rumored that some
students have already worn out
several pairs of shoes trudging '
through the vast desert land.
Another common complaint is the
food, and, not so surprisingly, it's .
the guys who object most. After.
18 years of Mom's cooking, it must
be rough to face the cafeteria dinners.
However, it is the general
opinion that the meals served at
Great Hill are considerably more
edible than those served at Tilly.
Female freshmen do have one
great unity: the abolition of formal ·
study. As if an 8:00 curfew isn't
bad enough, the girls must remain
in their rooms, supposedly studying, until 10:15. It is always during this period that the ice cream
man makes his rounds, and, of
course, the ' girls must forfeit the
revitalizing cones.
If you happen to visit the feminine half of the dorm when the
phone rings, take the nearest exit.
At the sound of the bell, a herd of
screaming females makes a mad
dash for the telephone, gr~bbing
at empty air, fighting for the custody of the receiver.
The girl
being called is never among the
throng of disappointed females and
her name is echoed through the
halls in a futile attempt to find her.
I.D.'s THE REAL STORY
by John McCarthy
Have you picked up your student
ID yet, or are you planning to
challenge the new tightening-up
policy of the administration? Whatever your choice Dean Deep cautions
that the new ID policy will go into
effect "as soon as the administration feels that everyone has had sufficient opportunity to have his or
her picture taken." Although the
schedule for retakes has yet to be
decided upon, Dean Deep feels that
the new policy will go into effect
within the next two weeks.
If a
student hasn't received an ID when
the new policy goes into effect, he
or she may request a temporary ID
from the office of Student Personnel.
The "passport to freedom" will
serve as the official student identification and admittance card to both
the library and the resident dining
hall. The bookstore,. in efforts to
keep up with this riSing identity
criSiS, has decided to utilize the
ID in returning books and cashing
checks.
In the event that your
identity is questioned at any of the
college functions, the presentation
of your ID will be requested. If
you look at the bottom of your ID
closely, you will find the numbers
one through eight, These numbers
correspond to the various student
elections, and will be punched out
in return for your vote.
In the months tQ come the ID
will probably gain more usefulness
Eventually the student may be required to show his ID before sitting
on the wall in front of the Ad
building, or walking down Park Ave.
Since it may become tedious to constantly take this card out of your
pocket, perhaps it would be advisable to put the ID on a chain and
wear it around your neck.
If the new ID policy goes into
effect, and there is every indication
that it will, B.S.C. students should
pick up their cards in the library
as soon as possible.
Those who
have misplaced their ID or have
yet to have their picture taken,
should watch for future announcements concerning ·retakes.
ACAMPUS MAGAZINE
ROOTS AND WINGS
by J. G. H. Moore
However, ·it is quite a 'different
story on the boys' side of Great
Hill. When the phone rings, the boys
just sit and hope someone (lIse will
get the telephone. Only when a
guy can't stand it any longer does
he finally get up to answer the phone.
Roommates form a maternal care
for each other--in both sides of the
dorm.
If one happens to miSS
breakfast, which ish't too hard, the
other smuggles doughnuts, apples,
oranges, and Sugar Pops for his
roommate. Notes are left for the
late sleeper such as:
"Have gone to class. Brought
some food. Eat.
Love,
Mom"
Comments from the opinionated
freshman vary from, "Great, I love
it!" to "I want to go home." Here
are some from the Freshmen girls:
"Kids are friendlier here than on
Lower Campus--guys are fresher!"
"Love it--except the curfew!"
"No shower curtains!!"
"Why don't they announce the
pantie raids ahead of time?"
"Study halls are the only quiet
places."
"It's one big pajama party!!!"
Something strange must be going
on in the guys' half of the dorm.
Every time a Freshman boy is asked
his opinion of Great Hill, he laughs
and walks away shaking his head.
However, here are some comments:
"Should be more machines--the
food goes too fast."
"There's no HEAT!!"
"It would be nice if the elevator
worked."
"It's okay when you're asleep."
"It's different."
"I hate it."
"It's a nice place to recuperate ••• "
"It's a nice place to eat peanutbutter, but not to rollerskate. The
beds are soft, but not as soft as
marshmallow fluff, so that rules
out peanutbutter 'cause I can't eat
peanutbutter without fluff, so I hate
thi s place."
In 1960 a group of students began
CHAPBOOK the B.S.C. literary
magazine. Its purpose was to give
the student body one outlet for creative talents. It was a compendium
of poetry and fiction that was published at least once, sometimes
twice a year. It was a new thing
and literary standards were the
guideline; there were-' excellent
pieces as well as fledgling works of
new writers. But there was little
attempt at unity in each issue, and
they "naturally seemed like fragments from an anthology. The coherence and unity of the magazine
was a mirror of the state of the
organization.
Another staff was elected and
during the 1967-1968 academic year
the
same problems were encountered and the fall issue was
published in the early Spring. There
was much excellent material but it,
again, had no coherence or direction. Before the issue wenttopress
the decision was made to change the
name and format of the magazine
in order to expand the possibilities for expreSSion and to publish a
better magazine. The last issue of
CHAPBOOK had a tone of ending
and after the issue was out, work
was begun on a first issue for the
new magazine.
The name chosen
was ROOTS AND WINGS. Time was
short yet an issue was printed. It
did not do everything that was intended but as a beginning it was
useful. Again the material was good
but the lack was coherence and
direction; it was another anthology
issue. Another problem arose when,
for lack of space much good material
was cut. ••• the problems were manyso why print at all.
There are many reasons for printing a magazine; an outlet for creative writing (non-fiction, poetry)
involvement in printing a magazine;
an outlet for latent artists and
photographers; an avenue for the
merging of talents; to support creative efforts on the campus, to
reach students in a situation other
than the classroom. To fill all of
these needs, better organization and
more contact with faculty, printers,
and students is needed. We might
have it with work.
Pg.6
State College at Bridgewater
REGIONAL
MAGAZINE
COMES TO
BRIDGEWATER
NOW!
"Draft-dodgerl"
"Coward!"
"Dirty Hippie!" These are some of
the more common phrases one hears
as a member of the Resistance. It
almost seems as though there is a
paranoia connected with the word
"Resistance." This is unfortunate,
since society is usually manipulated
by its government (be it in America
or Russia) and there is a need for
an end of this manipulation. Resistance, be it in the form of non-cooperation or confrontation, may be
the last non-violent way free peoples
are going to end exploitation by
their governments.
When dissent truly began some
years ago over the issue of Vietnam,
it was just a lot of liberal "crap"
(or a less communicative colloquial
phrase, "lip service"). On October
16 of last year, a group of actionoriented people organized what is
now known as the New England Resistance. The event which formally
announced the Resistance was a
draftcard turn-in held on Boston
Common. Since that day in beautiful October, people have been organizing from Boston to Sao Paulo
and from Minnesota to Puerto Rico.
There now exists 50 main Resistance offices (one in each state capital), not to mention smaller groups
which are popping up all over middle
class suburbia.
The theory behind the Resistance
is summed up in this slogan: "Suppose they gave a war and nobody
came?" Through experience and research, the Resistance has found a
myriad of ways in which one may
cope with the pain of military service, ranging from deferments and
confrontation to non-cooperation and
emigration. The Resistance can get
you free legal help, medical orpsychiatric advice and all sorts of information to help one deal with his
problems.
Often one hears, "I respect your
opinion as long as you don't ram it
down my throat." Let it be known
by Joe Proia
Jhat the Resistance will not ram
anything down your throat, such as
the government does (e.g. constantly
saying, "Communism is the problem
of Vietnam"). If you are concerned
with the problems of Vietnam and
the draft, one may go to a draft
councilor or a Resistance officer
and they will lay it on the line in
black and white. We only give you
the facts and alternatives.
You
make the choice; it is not made for
you. If one makes the choice not to
go and join with us, he can be sure
he is not alone.
Whoever said that history repeats
itself knew what he was talking about.
A repetition of yesterday's history is
contained in this timely quote:
"Why, of course the people don't
want war. Why should some poor
slob on a farm risk his life in a war
when the best he can get out of it
is to come back to his farm in one
piece. Naturally, the common people
don't want war, neither in Rusia, nor
in England, nor in America, nor for
that matter in Germany. That is
understood. But after all, it is always the leaders of the country who
determine the policy and it is always
a Simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy or
a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
Voice or no VOice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. That is easy. All you
have to do is tell them they are being
attacked and denounce the paCifists
for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to dangers. It works the
same in any country."---Herman
Goering, Deputy-Minister to Hitler.
And of course, you remember
Nuremburg. As they said, "You had
a moral choice; acting pursuant to
orders is not excuse." We all have
to make a choice in the matter of
the war and draft and the time is--NOW!
Let's save our lives, the
lives of 500,000 American boys,
Vietnamese children, NOW!
JUNIOR CLASS
MEETING
Seniors: There are a few seniors
who have not yet had their yearbook
portrait taken. If you are graduating
in June and wish to appear in the
yearbook, ALPHA '69, you must have
your picture taken before October
15th. Call the Dodge-Murphy studio
at 447-5542; they are located on
Route 18 in Whitman. 'They are open
Wednesday and Friday evenings for
sittings. The cost of the yearbook
glossy is $3.00.
If there are any transfers or
specials who will be graduating in
June and wish to appear in the
yearbook, they should make an appointment before October 15.
Anyone who did not f111 out a form
for activities, etc. at registration or
at the class meeting should see
Sheila O'Connell, or pick one up on
the bulletin board, and fill out the
form immediately. WE MUST HAVE
THAT INFORMATION IN ORDER TO
DELIVER YOUR BOOK.
Mter a little confUSion about where
to meet, due to the fact that the
facul ty decided to use the same room
that was previously requested by the
Class of '70, the first Junior Class
General Meeting of the year was
held at 10:00, Oct. 1.
President
Octavio
Furtado
chaired the meeting attended by
apprOximately 45 members of the
Junior Class. Upcoming events were
discussed including a Mixer on Oct.
4 featuring the Mersey Men and a
combined weekend top-lighted by a
Tom Rush Concert on Sat. Nov. 2
and a Mixer on the 'Friday night
with the Pilgrims.
•• Augie" requested volunteers for
a Float Committee for Homecoming
Weekend. As a result of poor response, it was decided that a sign-up
sheet be put on the bulletin board.
The Junior Prom was also discussed. Among the suggested sites
were the South Shore Country Club,
Hugo's, Venus d'Milo and the Ritter Country Club. The prom will
be held sometime in Maypreferably
on a Friday or Saturday evening.
Pres. Furtado then discussed the
Christmas dance to be held on Dec.
14 and he requested suggestions for
a band. As for college rings, it was
mentioned that the salesman will be
on campus sometime this fall. The
exact date will be published soon.
Beginning in October, NOW Magazine,
an
independent,
student
monthly, will be sold at Bridgewater
State College Bookstore. The publication is written, managed, arid financed entirely by students, entirely
for students.
NOW, will link all the major
schools of the Greater Boston area,
both in the field of journalism and
that of advertiSing. Journalistically,
articles , written by correspondents
from their respective schools will be
included. In the first issue, Bridgewater State Correspondent, Bob
ManCini, offers a survey of his
school's
recent institution.•• the
Martin Luther King Action Com-·
mittee. Reprinted from the Massasoit Community weekly, the QUILL,
is a description of a beautiful, new
campus in Brockton, hopefully to be
completed for Massasoit students by
1970.
AdvertiSing-wise, a school or
business which buys space in NOW
receives coverage in five colleges
for the same price as that of one
college weekly. Besides Stonehill,
Massasoit Community, and Bridgewater State, NOW will also be sold
at Wheaton and Brockton Business.
Clubs and organizations thus reach
the most number of students in the
area for their mixers, lectures and
other events, in the most efficient
and cheapest way.
The struggle to produce NOW began at Stonehilliast January and its
skeleton staff worked conSistently
through the following nine months to
obtain success. Its publishers, Ken
Lizotte, the former news editor for
the Stonehill College Summit, believes his staff has tremendous potential; "We started the project with
absolutely no capital and no base of
operations. However, NOW is currently receiving ads from allover
the South Shore and has correspondents and bUSiness workers from
more than eight schools. And we've
only begun.' , Others from Stonehill
include its layout Editor Steve Lambert, Senior Editor Ron Brooks,
Promotional Editor Jim Sacchetti,
Circulation Editor, Ray Gardner,
Editor-at-large Chris Hinkel, and
Sports Columnist Ted Osiechki.
Clubs
and organizations interested in advertiSing in NOW
(which could be called with some substantiation; Brockton Mter Dark)
should write to: NOW advertiSing,
129 Essex St., Marlboro, Mass.
01752, for immediate information on
rates and deadlines. The phone number of the customer's advertiSing
executive should be included for the
fastest communication. NOW is published eight times during the academic year.
Anyone interested in working for
NOW in any field of publishing (e.g.
journalism, management, layout,
photography, etc.) should contact:
Publisher Ken Lizotte, Holy Cross
Seminary, North Easton, Mass.
02356.
In the months to come NOW plans
to do such stories as; Stonehill's
Future Plans, A Broad Study of
Wheaton College, and exclusive interview with world-famous prophetess Jeanne Dixon, monthly polls to
gauge student opinion on world
events, and NOW'S support of a
presidential candidate. The latter
will be disclosed in the November
issue.
E.S. LECTURE
SERIES BEGINS
TUESDAY
Dr. David Ross, associate scientist at Woods' Hole Oceanographic
Institution will give a lecture entitled "Diving on the Ocean Floor:
6,000 feet Down" on Tuesday night,
October 8. Dr. Ross will open the
fall series of lectures sponsored by
the Earth Science and Geography Department. The lecture will start at
7 :30 in the Science Lecture Hall and
is open to all students and faculty.
The lectures are preceded by an
informal coffee hour in room S307
at 7 o'clock. Future lectures will
include Dr. W1lliamKoelschofClark
University, speaking on historical
geography.
October 9, 1968
"WE WANT THE WORLD AND
WE WANT IT NOWI"
by J. Robert
The world has had its share of the
established methods of change.
Augustus Caesar formed a World
Empire and achieved an era of Pax
Romana. Optimism grew as the revolts of the 18th and 19th century
proclaimed new ideals in govern~
ment and individual rights.
But the revolts of over a century ago have not yet reached success. The Promised Land of Utopia
has not yet endowed our shores, the
era of universal freedom has failed
to arrive, and the eternity of love
and peace on earth is still a dream
that has never come true.
Recently Columbia University has
been tormented by hundreds oflonghaired youtha and the Democratic
National Convention disrupted by
thousands of so-called Hippies, Yippies and the like. The Students for
a Democratic Society have proclaimed a world revolution of the
masses, while the New Left and New
Liberals have shocked the age-old
European nations.
But what is the real meaning of
-this so-called New Politics and
world revolt? The answer lies not
in scattered student uprisings or a
drastic world insurrection; but
rather in a revolution of the Intellect - a startling transcendence
of the mind.
THE REVOLUTION proclaims a
whole new society, breeding a new
kind of human being who will complete its ends by becoming a part of
it.
THE REVOLUTION believes that
our present society is dreadfully
wrong. We breed and nurture degenerate citizens like John Q. Public who professes to be a Christian,
yet discriminates against a kid because he has long hair and a beard;
or the righteous, status-quo housewife who screams that she is not
prejudiced until her daughter dates
a Negro. It's as if the basic Christian principle is Love Thy Neighbor so long as he is white and cleancut.
People scream 'about crime in the
streets, so the Establishmentpasses
-an ineffective mass of anti-gun
legislation. They fail to realize the
heart of the problem - people are
brought up on force. Parents rely
on force in the upbringing of their
offspring. The church follows this
up, whereby parishoners are forced
(in most cases unconsciously) to believe the established doctrines at
the threat of spending eternity in
hell. The same hang-up continues
in our educational institutions where
the teacher has a grade as his
weapon.
To be sure, the Establishment
condones the use of force and violence, but at the same time attempts
to change the way of life of the
Vietnamese at the point of a gun.
Is it any wonder that kids grow up
believing that the use of force and
violence is the only way to get what
they want?
And how about the political scene?
The fiasco in Chicago was the zenith
of governmental chaos and instability. We are continually haunted by
the status-quo, Machiavellian politician with his flowery speeches
filled with empty promises and
flourishing phrases of progress.
Very rarely is an effort made to
understand the meaning of continual
student dissention. Rather, they believe that these crazy kids who
preach love and peace will soon grow
Mancini
up to become part of the establishment, learning to avoid direct stands
and glorifying war.
,THE REVOLUTION doesn't want
machines control1ng their government whose only action in time of
need is the passage of voter-appeasing billS or the appointment of
a committee to study the reasons
behind the dissatisfaction of the
masseS. These bills only remedy
the symptoms, while the committee
reports are soon forgotten in the
mindS of the establishment.
THE REVOLUTION does not advooate change only through legislative means, but rather through the
complete alteration of society. This
feat can be accomplished only
through voluntary self-transformation by the entire world population.
The change that must take place
is a change in the ideals, the values
and the teachings of man. A Civil
Rights Bm can ouUaw prejudice in
housing Or bUSiness, but it Can
never banish hate and discrimination in the personal lives of human
beings.
THE REVOLUTION preaches 10\1e
and acceptance of all mankind. It
advocates the banishment of the use
of force in all matters from the home
to our foreign policy. And most
important, THE REVOLUTION proclaims eternal peace and serenity
on earth.
These goals will be difficult indeed. One man who, if you believe
in Nietzsche's Great Man Theory
would qualify for the honor, once
preached love of all men. He was
known as Jesus Christ and he was
crucified.
His dream never came true. To
be sure, a religion was organized
to teach the principles of that very
religion. Millions of people claim
to believe in this Christian Idealogy,
yet true love of man has not yet
achieved reality.
THE REVOLUTION wants to make
this dream come true. It all seems
vel1Y simple - all people have to do
is learn to accept his fellow man.
But hate and prejudice are a way
of life and bloody wars continue to
be fought and won by the country
"with God on its Side."
There are people that shout that
THE REVOLUTION is an impossible
ideal and that realistically the world
can never be eternally in peace.
But THE REVOLUTION denies these
peSSimistic,
"realistic" viewpOints. They plan to live their ideals.
They will make acceptance a way
of life and bring up their offspring
in an atmosphere free from hate
and violence.
In addition, as you read this
article, THE REVOLUTION is slowly entering into your life. Everyday more people voluntarllybecome
a part of it.
Now that you are aware of it,
THE REVOLUTION hopes that you
will take a closer look at yourself
and your society. Ask yourself why
there is so much bloodshed in the
streets.
Try to understand what
those "crazy Hippies" are trying
to say; and then try to imagine a
world without hate and violence.
Re-examine your conscience and
your values. When your mind
reaches a blank of skepticism look
again at THE REVOLUTION. If you
are ready you will become a part
of it.
THE REVOLUTION is possible
and it will prevail!
POETRY CONTEST
THE EDITORS OF THE COMMENT, BELIEVING IN THE NEED FOR
AS LARGE AN OUTLET FOR NEW CREATIVE TALENT AS POSSIBLE,
EAGERLY ANNOUNCE THE CAMPUS COMMENT POETRY CONTEST.
ONE POEM WILL BE PUBLISHED IN EACH ISSUE OF THE COMMENT,
CHOSEN , FROM AMONG THE ENTRIES ARRIVING BETWEEN THE
PREVIOUS DEADLINE DATE AND THE DEADLINE DATE OF THAT
ISSUE.
THUS, SUBMISSIONS TO THE POETRY EDITOR ARE ENCOURAGED THROUGHOUT THE ACADEMIC YEAR.
WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE JUDGES FOR THE
BEST POEM OF THE YEAR WILL BE:
DR. HAROLD RIDLON, CHAffiMAN OF THE HUMANITIES DIV.
DR. JOSEPH DE ROCCO, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
PROF. HAROLD DE LISLE, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
THE JUDGES WILL MEET IN MAY TO CHOOSE THE RECIPIENT
OF A SPECIAL AWARD FOR THE BEST POEM OF THE YEARSEVERAL HANDSOME AND VALUABLE VOLUMES.
ALL STUDENTS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR PUBLICATION, BUT STAFF
MEMBERS OF THE COMMENT ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE SPECIAL AWARD.
THE EDI'l'ORS RECOMMEND THAT EACH POEM SUBMITTED
SHOULD NOT EXCEED THffiTY LINES. POETRY NOT PUBLISHED
WILL BE RETURNED UPON PERSONAL REQUEST.
ADDRESS ALL SUBMISSIONS TO:
POETRY EDITOR,
CAMPUS COMMENT,
STATE COLLEGE AT BRIDGEWATER
State College at Bridgewater
October 9, 1968
BENNETT'S CORNER
CLASSIFIED
Will exchange room and board,
plus cost of transportation to the
college for babysitting and some
household help. Call: Mrs. Enright, 586-2585.
Any student wishing to submit
poetry for the COMMENT'S
continuing poetry column and
Special Award should send to
Poetry Editor. Pqems less than
thirty lines are preferred. Unpublished poems will be returned upon personal request.
SNAFU-U
Greetings, fellow sufferers of
mass confusion I It's good to know
that my readers have returned once
again to break tradition by reading
two successive columns in the COMMENT. It is with the greatest of
personal pleasure that I, D. J.
McPhew (Ace Reporter here at
Snafu-U) announce the following for
the "general benefit" and "selective
welfare" of the Student Body.
(1) October has been cancelled due
to lack of interest.
(2) Because of the lighting in the
audi torium, many of our students
have discerned that presentations there are not unlike a
group grope.
(3) After great deliberation by the
members of our staff, ithas been
decided not to include the story
of our September panty raid in
the "Briefs" column.
(4) The Drama Club will sponsor a
re-enactment of the Homecoming Game on Saturday night for
the benefit of COMMENT COVERAGE.
(5) D. J., with his left ear to the
ground, has picked up a red hot
rumor about the Earth Science
and Geography Club's Homecoming Float. It seems that they are
sponsoring a glacier, which immediately after the game will
creep down from Great Hill
and engulf the campus. Amen!
(6) The Math Club, not to be denied
in the Homecoming Parade, is
sponsoring a giant "Zero."
(7) If the SCA elections aren't decided after five runoffs, they
will be thrown into the Commuter's Room for a voice vote.
Beware th e Glacier!
And now D.J.' s thought for the
week:
In the words of a former
faculty member, "Suicide is the
sincerest form of self-criticism."
Informatively yours,
D. J. McPhew
Ace Reporter at the U
by Scott Bennett
CROSS-COUNTRY: asc
KNOCKS OFF NICHOLS
Strong performanceS by two Stonehill freshmert, Rick Ashodian and
Mark Lawton offset the good team
balance of Bridgewater and the experience of Nichols, to win the meet.
Coming close to the record the two
freshmen finished in a tie for first
wi th a time of 24. 59 for the four mile
course.
B.S.C. runners made a fine showing with Corey Powers getting third,
Dave Layton fifth, Bruce Nelson
ninth, Ed Rainsford eleventh and
Tom Steele twelfth to account for the
B.S.C. forty point total. Their fine
performances edged out Nichols for
second place and showed how hard
our runners are working to improve
last year's record,
If our runners keep their good
team balance they showed in this
meet, we can expect fine showings
from them in the remaining meets.
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enjoyable to the students, we would greatly appreciate the following
information:
Please tear out the survey and deposit it in the Comment Survey
boxes in the Commuters' room or in the lobby of the auditorium
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MAC
For almost ten years, John McCallum, known to most of the male
student body, as "MAC" has juggled
repaired, and otherwise taken care
of Bridgewater's athletic equipment.
Mac is the one who has seen to
it that there are enough shoe laces
for spikes, enough Shoulder pads,
tape, bandages, and uniforms. Mao
is Bridgewater's own equipment
supervisor, and its about time he took
a bow.
Mac has been here a long time,
and he's seen athletics grow and
mature into what they are today.
He has outfi tted all the teams and
kept them outfitted. Rapid expansion has sometimes brought him
headaches and logistical problems.
But he has always been able to meet
most, if not all, the demands for
the eqUipment and services. But
more than being an eqUipment manager, Mac is a part of Bridgewater
and an almost indispensable part
of the teams he has equipped. He
CELEBRATES with us when we win,
he encourages us if we lose. He
has become an institution here.
Without the gruff voice, caJ;lvas hat,
biting the corner out of his mouth,
something would be missing from
the athletics here at Bridgewater.
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This year there are nine teams
competing for the top spot and as
usual they have nine pretty unique
names.
The nine teams are the Sigs, The
Super Chickens, the ReF.'s, the
Dragons, the Great Hill Rams, the
Nernst Equations, the Springfield
Acorns, the Valley Boys and the
Untouchables.
The player rosters are so closely
matched that one can't predict the
winner but only say that it will be
a tight race. The first game's result 1s a six to nothing win of the
Valley Boys over the Sigs, show
my statement to be true.
All the games will be played at
Legion Field from 4-5 . MondayThursday. If you are free that hour
and want to make' some money then
see Mr. Mazzaferro about being an
official. Officials are needed for
the Intramural Program.
The Sports
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Roots & Wings
has a deadline coming. October 16
is the final date for submissions
considered for the first issue.
notice
and
comments
will be given to each author.
hurry, hurry, hurry,
'cause it's a peachy thing to do,
'cause awards are involved,
and most important
'cause time is essential
Faculty Policies?
National Politics:
Student Government?
Negro Revolution?
Student Revolution?
Vietnam Policy?
Would you like to see:
More Pictures?
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THE WRA
OFFERS VARIETY
More Sports Stories?
Student Organization News?
How do you rate the Comment with other college Newspapers?
by Candy P errau It
Whether you enjoy the relaxation
of camping, recreation, intramurals,
or the excitement of competitive
sports, you will find them offered
by the Women's Recreation Association.
The WRA is organized for the
enjoyment of all the women of the
college. Service and sportsmanship
are stressed in order to stimulate
an interest in recreation for all and
to provide competition for the more
highly skilled.
The program is organized and
directed by an executive board,
which is elected by the women of
the college early in May, and it
supervises the.work of the appointed
committees.
The representatives
of the recreational council are the
greatest link between the women of
the college and the executive board.
The council also keeps the women
informed as to what the association
is accomplishing.
The following
list is the first semester activities:
Wednesday 4:00 PM -- Field Hockey Club
6:00-8:00 PM - Volleyball, Slimnastics
Thursday 4:00 PM -- Archery
The WRA sponsors intramural
activities which ar!3 geared to the
in terest and the ability of the college
women. This is one of the most important aspects of the association
because regardless of Skill, it includes ALL the women of the college.
The interest clubs are field hockey,
basketball, lacrosse, and softball.
Sports days are held Saturdays.
They usually consist of intramural
competitive tournaments for enjoyment and improvemerrt-of skills.
Special activities are held on various weekday evenings throughout
the year, and all women of the
college are invited to attend. Some
of the many activities include free
swims, whist parties, Christmas
crafts, a Halloween party, and trips
to Boston.
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NOTES
The Clement C. Maxwell Library
would like to thank Mr. Richard.
Yurkus for his generous gift. Mr.
Yurkus, a 1968 graduate donated a
set of Great Writers of the Western
World to the library. This gift now
makes it possible for one set of
these to be taken out while the other
set remains in the library to serve
as reference.
Other recent acquisitions include
a set of French, Spanish, Soviet,
Italian, Portuguese and German encyclopedia and a library of earth
science periodicals purchased from
a retiring Brown University professor.
The reserve system in the library
remains as it was last year. When
a professor assigns a book it is
taken off the shelves and must be
picked up at the desk in the library.
Most of the reserve books cannot
leave the library but may be signed
out to read in the J.ibrary one hour
at a time.
- Some books may be taken out
over night. They may be picked up
at 1:00 and must be returned by 10:00
the following morning. If these
books are late a fine is charged of
a quarter an hour until one dollar
is reached.
A few books may be
taken out for three days. They are
to follow ~ same rules as the over
night books and the fine system is
the same.
The librarians urge
students to sign up in advance for
reserve books to be sure they get
a chance to read them.
CAST OF
"OUR TOWN"
SELECTED
Stage Manager -- Burton Alho
Dr. Gibbs -- Brian Hurley ·
Joe Crowell -- Richard Colburn
Howie Newsome -- James Romano
Mrs. Gibbs -- Cynthia Faxon
Mrs. Webb -- Susan Hare
Mrs. Soames -- Jane Coleman
George Gibbs -- Dan Reilly
Rebecca Giggs -- Natalie Labre
Wally Webb -Emily Webb -- Beth McDermott
Professor Willard -- James Moore
Mr. Webb -- Ted Gallagher
Simon Stimson -- Herbert Ward
Si Crowell -- Richard Colburn
Sam Craig-Joe Stoddard -- James Moore
Woman in Balcony -- Sylvia Sylvia
Woman in Auditorium - Ellen Searle
Lady in Box -- Susan Sirois
1st Dead Woman -KathyMcCormick
2nd Dead Woman - Rosie Prezalar
1st Dead Man -- Bill Johnson
2nd Dead Man -Assistant Stage Managers -Roderick McDonobe
Pat Rizzo
Baseball Players, Choir, Townspeople, etc. -Susan Paluso
Cari Wyke
Debbie White
Willa Jo Carrol
Prisilla Piligian
May Donahue
Christine Halliday
Student Director -- Connie Perkins
Director -- Robert Barnett
Technical Director - Richard Warye
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State College at Bridgewater
Speaking of Sports.
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BRIDGEWATER BURIES
CURRY 47 - 14
by Leon Weinstein
Behind a fine offense which
amassed 541 total yards, and a
staunch defense wruch allowed a total
of 100 yards, Bridgewater trounced
a large Curry club 47-14onSeptember 28.
The Bridgewater team set three
new school records as they put 47
points on the scoreboard and sophomore Jim Federico scored four
times.
The 541 yards gained is
also a new record.
The game got off to a rather slow
start. Neither team could move
well during the first quarter. After
two punt exchanges neither team
could pose a serious thieat. However, the ' heat of the day and the
hard hitting B.S.C. linemen soon
wore down the over-sized Curry
linemen and gained full control early
in the second period.
The first B.S.C. score is credited
to a tough defense. Curry, in possession on their own 6 yard line,
couldn't move the ball in three'
downs.
A good B.S.C. punt rush
forced a bad kick and was returned
by Federico to the Curry 25. After
a few running plays QB Stella wasted
little time finding Federico open In
the end-zone for his first of four
TD passes. Freshman Phil Lefavor
added the conversion. Once again
an unyielding defense forced a punt
and once again Stella threw a strike
to Federico.
With another point
by Lefavor the Bears led at the
half by the score of 14-0.
After fumbling the first play of
the second half, the B.S,C. defense
came up with the ball on the Curry
45.
This time Stella kept on the
ground with George Sullivan being
the workhorse.
Finally, Curry's
line tightened up and Stella was
forced to go to the air. This time
he found Sullivan In the end-zone.
Lefavor's 4th point made the score
21-0. Again the defense held and
again Bridgewater scored.
This
time it was Federico for his third.
He ran off tackle and behind fine
blocking legged his way 55 yards
into the end zone. Lefavor again
converted to make it 28-0.
Curry came to life for a brief
second as they converted on a 25
yard aerial for their first score.
This score meant little as the Bears'
defense, which didn't allow a first
down in the entire first half, wasn't
shaken a bit.
The fourth quarter was a complete
disaster for the Curry fans.
Federico, Malone, and Sullivan all
scpred on running plays. One conversion was good and two failed as
the score soared to 47-7. Curry
scored once more to make it 47-14.
As far as individual performers
go Stella, Federico, and Sullivan,
"The Hawk", must be Singled out.
Sully rushed for 143, Federico for
111.
Sullivan caught four passes
for 106 yards and Federico caught
6 for 49 yards. Between the two of
them, they accounted for 409 yards
and 36 points. Stella engineered a
magnificent game, passed 10 for 19,
for 163 yards arid also scrambled
for 60 more.
The defense led by Lynch and
Woodman can't go without mention
either.
The line play of Cook,
Craig, Graziano, Indelicato, Conneley, Endyke, Lefavor, and Tringale was by far the best line play
ever played by a B.S.C. line.
Saturday, October 5, the Bears
come home to host Maine Maritime
Academy.
The Mariners are a
fine, hard hitting football team and
should provide much more opposition for the Bears. It should be
one of the toughest and most Important games on the Bears'
schedule.
October 9, 1968