Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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4 O Rty P g .V. Y- -rhe squeamishness which makes culture something which one goes out and gets like a minimum daily vitamin requirement is being replaced at Brown by widespread participa- tion in theater, film and the visual arts. Student exhibits rotate in Faunce House. Omphaloskepsis sells student art. There has been a major modern dance program, as well as workshops in movement, photography and experimental staging techniques. Creative writing and theater arts majors have been introduced, and affairs such as the Novel Conference which brought Barth, Von- negut and Fiedler to Providence, or poetry readings by both faculty and visiting readers have packed lounges and auditoriums.

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The Mad Hatter wishes you a Happy Un-Birthday! And the man from the Massachusetts draft board says: We expect to reach number 366 by the end of the year. Be proud to fight for your country as generations of Brunonians have, even if the Uni- versity once suspended itself to support a revolution against the government. As part of a tradition older than the United States, students and faculty at Brown helped lead the fall protests. They mobilized Rhode Island in October and trained the Washington marshalls in November. From the campus- wide forum on Vietnam in '67 to political campaigning in '68 to the moratoria of 69, the com- munity's yearning for peace and its awareness of world events is unparalleled in recent Brown his- tory. s g 4 7 e ;w v Q lhf, e Voorhees

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There are more art movies than ever before; a Modes of Thought course deals with the history and develop- ment of the film form. Viewers pack Carmichael, Faunce House and the Cinematheque. Although all this may increase the bewilderment as to why there should be an 11-million dollar athletic com- plex in the offing instead of a per- forming arts center, interest, despite the lack of facilities, runs high. Wheth- er this isa mere corollary to the Flow- er Child Movement or represents in- stead a more enduring, more earnest new attitude towards creativity, re- mains to be seen. But it is impossible to deny the new life.