Rider University - Shadow Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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birth control crusader Bill Baird, who spoke to another sellout crowd. He criticized the Pope and the Catholic Church for dictating their beliefs to other faiths. He said, I am a Protestant and resent this attempt to change my views. Baird also said, Give women the right to decide their own morality. lt should not be dic- tated to them by a chauvinistic church. CBS news correspondent David Schoenbrun, former Commentator of the Year, spoke on the world problems of the day. Using a constant flow of sarcastic com- ments, he touched upon the Middle East, Vietnam, China and domestic problems. He noted that the major cause of the Middle East problems . . is the great power intervention in the area which has complicated a situation that could have been settled a long time ago by the Arabs and the lsraelis. Schoenbrun, long opposed to U.S intervention in the Vietnam conflict, called it unjust and immoral and added that the only solution could be complete with- drawal of all U.S. forces. Lined up for the second semester is Bernadette Dev- lin, the youngest and most irreverent member of the British Parliament. She was only 21 when she gave her now famous Maiden Speech to a packed House of Commons in April, 1969. She is outspokenly con- temptuous of Parliamentary democracy, prefers action to legislation and for helping to organize resistance to P wt-olxyq-., I 4 ,qw 'Ii l-G'-. ,A g

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x ,NR Q , is 9 1 Q, ' -Qiitif' l .Q k, sly i Mayall, Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith and Delaney, Bon- nie and Friends. With associations like this, the show could only be great, which it was. Clapton put on one of the finest and most enjoyable shows ever at Rider. Clapton's speed on his guitar upheld his reputation as the fastest and best around. Financially it was a bomb, but the reaction of the audience almost made up for that fact. As for second semester, bookings were-at least at press time-as prohibitively difficult and expensive as ever to arrange. The CUB, though, pledged to keep trying to bring the Flider community the best possible entertainment. Speaker programs at Rider are usually very inter- esting and poorly attended. But this year has proved to be an exception. The first speaker was Dr. William Abruzzi, medical di- rector at Woodstock's infamous rock festival, who spoke to an over-flowing crowd. Dr. Abruzzi spoke against the use of hard drugs, calling those who use them sick and stupid. However, he stated that society should suspend all judgment and punishment for the use of marijuana until the results of studies on it are re- leased. He also said that researchers are looking for something to be wrong with grass so as to keep it illegal. Next on the agenda was widely-known abortion and

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.E as l . l.,-NA, I, ' I3 - . J A l J. ,- ...P- ' -f ' - - . J ..- 3 ,, , -- .,f- ..,a. 1. H. a ,-.- -f ..- Y ' J ' ' police in the London riots of August, 1969, Miss Devlin was sentenced to six months in prison. This speech by Miss Devlin and a proposed panel dis- cussion with Black commentators should make for an- other successful semester of CUB speakers. :if :lr 3 After years of presenting movies in unoccupied class- rooms and the converted barn fthe old Uniony, Rider fi- nally has the proper facilities. And that facility is the spacious 400-seat theatre opposite the receptionist's desk. 54 As usual, the CUB presented a series of first-run films. Highlighting the year's program were West Side Story, The Fixer, The Odd Couple Bonnie and Clyde and Alice's Restaurant. Being shown any- where from two to four times, these afforded the movie- goer the chance to see the movies he might have missed the first time around or to see an old favorite. On Halloween, the annual Triple Horror Special was shown to an audience which could have filled the gym- nasium. At most all of the films, every seat was occu- pied and much of the floor space, too. What caused this great demand? lt's hard to pinpoint any one factor, but certainly the comfortable theatre Cespecially in comparison to S-1025 played a big role- as did the fine selection of movies by the effervescent Peggy Hayes. if 93 :lf Coffeehouses are not completely new at the College. They had been conducted in the past with limited suc- cess. Before the Bijou, that is. The Bijou, the new home for all coffeehouses, is like . . . well to quote one visitor, Like, Wow! Try as one might it is really most difficult to not speak in cliches or excessive superlatives of this particular fa- cility. For it is, along with the rest of the Center, simply unbelievable. Also unbelievable were the coffeehouses conducted therein. Jim Collier started things rolling in late September and he was followed in October by that oldies but goodies man himself, John Adelson fpresenting the same fine show that he had for the freshmen all sum- merj. Morganmasondowns came around in November, and then there were no coffeehouses until ISP. It was well worth the wait, however, as January saw the presentation of the The Fantasticks. Directed by Carlo Altomare, the production was simply-for want of a better term-fantastic, as can be seen on the opposite page.