Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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KAMPUS KARNIVAL Organization and innovation combined to make the 1966 Kampus Karnival the best yet. Procedure differed somewhat this year as cam¬ pus organizations were assigned booths on the basis of past financial expenditures and club size, and not in the traditional first come, first serve basis ' Another break from tradition (welcome to be sure) was the mixer held later in the evening and serv¬ ing to round off the entire day. Among the individual booths, the Sociology Club made a bundle from jail bail. The Pie Throw and the Dunking game attracted the usual crowd of sadists and the record break, all the local music haters but the rest of the events seemed to hold general appeal. Pink Petunia, the Spanish Club stuffed poodle captured the heart of every girl and the wallet of more than one guy—well, pink does that to girls m 23

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Arthur Fiedler conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. ARTHUR FIEDLER Arthur Fiedler headed the Loras College ac¬ tivities program as he appeared in a pops concert with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, on Oc¬ tober 5. The program began with a selection from Wagner ' s Lohengrin ' and proceeded to high¬ light bits of Dvorak and Debussy, bringing the first part of the program to a close with a piano solo by Miss Olegna Fuschi—Liszt ' s Piano Con¬ certo 2, in A Major. The second half began with the lighthearted and amusing selection Buckaroo Holiday (from Copland ' s Rodeo). The group next turned to selec¬ tions from Fiddler on the Roof, and executed a magical transformation of Johann Strauss. The second half formally closed with a selection from Bizet. The orchestra played five encores, how¬ ever, ranging from Marne, through Mack the Knife, to the Batman theme 22

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JAMES FARMER Under the aegis of the Intellectual er Committee of the Student Senate, James ° former head of CORE addressed a capacity D C u r ring in St. Joseph Auditorium on December 9. . . u Mr Farmer his dynamic and convincing speecn, with compared the Negro civil rights movemen other social movements of the past the qu ize d female suffrage; for labor rights. He emp the fact that while previously Negroes e - - n g segregation was necessary, now they were w to be jailed, beaten or killed in their une fight for integration. This change in attitu Mr. Farmer, was due to three primary C ° US . World War II; the sense of identity wit emerging African nations, making the Negr ° C . scious of his African descent; and education, ing to make the Negro more aware of his and more concerned with realizing them. three causes are forming aggressive, militant groes, who may be forced to turn from 9 ene nonviolent action to desperate measures, a possi bility which cannot be ignored but must be rea istically avoided. 24