Southwestern College - Moundbuilder Yearbook (Winfield, KS)

Text from Pages 1 - 144 of the 1973 volume:

Page l2 I8 22 28 A New Dean, New Faces in Admissions, and much more . in currenf evenfs. An lnfervlew by Theo OHe wifh Direcfor 07C Admissions af Soufhwesfem. A Look af fhe Debafable Subfecf of Forensics. FoofbaN, BaskefbaH, Soccer, and Cross Counfry. . . Check ouf sporfs af Soufhwesfem. Whaf's Cooking? Linda Ballard looks info subfecf. ABRAXAS Volume 1, Number3 January, 1973 ........................... Bill H. Siephens current events editor ......................................... Tom Wheeler ............................ Susan McGuire ........................ Rbdney Johannsen ................... Alan Bruches, Jim Banks, advisor ....................... features editor ................ sports editor ................... contributing staff ............... Aliegre, Debbie Powell. Tom Worstell Becky Davis, Doug Hunter, Willa Jones, Susan Somers, Jana Boylan, Theo Otte, Pete The Parkhurst Lectures this year will be February 12-14. For those of you who are ignorant of the Parkhurst Leo- tures, they are a series of lecturesrseminars conducted by a special speaker. The lectures usually have some religious emphasis, although for the past iew years they have dealt more with ethical social concerns than any kind of Bible study per se. Those of you who are acquainted with me at all know that l very rarely laud or applaud anything about the instituh tional Church 2 in particular the United Methodist Church with which I am the most familiar I hope, then, that this unusual lauding and applauding will influence you to attend the Parkhurst Lectures to hear and talk with Dr, Wil- liam A. Holmes, He is, in my opinion, one of those individu- als who can not only make the past relevant for the young- hearted but can wake up the old-hearted to the needs of the present, My initial encounter with Rev. Holmes was in the 8th grade when he came to be the pastor at my home church in Denton, Texas, where he served tor three years. During that time he caused quite a Change. Several people lelt our Church because he did not preach a literal interpretation of lithe virgin birth or Jonah St the Whale but instead rela- ted their meanings and messages to the human problems of the present. However, many more people stayed and grew and became involved, sensitive human beings; we risked a lot and accomplished a lot. Now, Bill Holmes is the minister at the University United Methodist Church ion the University of Texas campust in Austin. He and his fantastic family still keep in touch with many tamilies in Denton, one 01 whom is my own. All four of them are involved in ridding Texas ot crooked politics, in desegregating Austin schools, and uncountable other pro- ieots They have been on the cutting edge of many new concepts and work hard to remain so by being aware of and involved in national, state-wide, local and Church altairs. l personally have never known a man so knowledgable and articulate at the same time - one who interacts well not only with individuals but with communities oi all kinds. As tar as I am concerned, our world needs more people like him. It is for this reason that I urge all members of the SC community to welcome Bill Holmes to campus and to give ourselves the exerting and enlightening experience of being involved in the 1973 Parkhurst Lectures, esm C k 2,43 LASOM $$$fo C ex 7 RT 2?? Knowing When To Leave The value of education comes under much questioning during the course of a college career. One comes to col- lege with the high expectations of consuming vast quanti- ties of Intellectual material, only to find that the more you think you know, the more you realize that you really dont know anything. You come to question the value of a sys- tem that must objectively test on ever increasing amounts of trivia in order to weed out all those but the most studi- oust Are they really more studious you ask, or are they simply able to retain very minor points and facts? You find yourself working long hours on papers that are not graded on what you have learned in fulfillment of the requirements of that paper but rather on the mechanics of the paper itselti You come to realize that in order to keep grades on the proper curve teachers come to detine students in terms of letter grades. No matter what kind of work you hand in you receive your stereotyped grade. Finally you come to understand that no marks can be given for what you have learned, that experience can not be objectively graded by a teacher. This somewhat somber discovery is reacted to in many different ways. Some students choose to obliterate their findings in taking on loads of heavier course work, others forget classes and concentrate on some field of speciality, others hide in social activities while others simply drop out. Last year the former Editor of the defunct Collegian faced this situation and decided upon the last alternative. He discussed his reasons tor leaving in the January 28, 1972 issue of the Collegian. Unfortunately this issue did not get in the hands of many of the students. With regards to Michael Toddy, the author or the edito- rial, and with the intent of letting it be known that this piece best conveys the trials of those seeking truem knowledge, we present HGoodbye Columbus? Hlt apparently is common knowledge that llm leaving school at the end of this month. This is mainly due to the extreme dissatisfaction with what the college has to other i think that this dissatisfaction is not unique and there is some virtue in describing it. I also believe that this ieeling is due to the quality of the school system and not merely a personal idiosyncracy. Few will disagree that the primary goal for college stu- dents is getting a degree, And few will deny that, in itself, the degree is unimportant; only what it can buy't is important Most students do not graduate for the BA, they graduate for the job or the key to grad school it can bring, However, the degree and all its paraphernalia such as grades, are external to the educational process. Yet it becomes so important that the degree becomes the product of four years of college, instead of the knowledge the degree was supposed to represent. This naturally diminishes the value of the education itself. I've heard a lot of reasons why school is valuable, and not one stresses actually learning anythingt One friend told me that ii I could stand four years of meaningless work in school, it would prove to an employer that I could tolerate any work he'd give me. The sad part here is that there are worthwhile things to learn in college But the emphasis is on degrees and grades and not on education. Only a trickle of students and teachers believe that the quality of learning and grades have any relation. How would you grade a trip to the Grand Canyon? Multiple Choice? The Grand Canyon was a spectacular place: True or False, Would you give an advertizing student a Cl and Picasso an Al? Grades and degrees don't help learning, they only give the society a means of structur- ing people 2 one is or is not a college graduate, one is or is not a PhD. it's much more efficient than bothering with individuals. This degree-mill sort of training is only accidentally help- ful in educating people. Usually, it's harmful. It can instill apathy, or take up so much time that there's none left to learn what one wishes. This is what the demands for relevance were about, not just studying ecology and talking about Vietnam in Class. lt was a demand to return the student to the center of the learning process tsuch as the guru-pupil relationship of the Hindusj, instead of a robot programming center where one is trained to punch computer cards or lecture on the Holy Roman Empire, V W V wmb New Degrees Several important matters were acted on at the Oct. 20th meeting of the Board of Trustees of Southwestern College, including the establish- ment of several new degrees to be offered at SC, further exploration of the proposed merger with other colleges, and a tuition increase. The board acted to continue the present Bach- elor of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees and to establish three new degrees. They are Bache- lor of Science, Bachelor of Business Administra- tion and Bachelor of Philosophy. These new degrees will assist in relating the programs of the college to the needs of the students. President Ruthenberg discussed the merger proposals that have been suggested with the College of Emporia and Kansas Wesleyan Uni- versity. The Board voted to support the action taken by the Executive Committee and President Ruthenberg in exploring the possibilities of a merger with location in Winfield. The Board voted to raise tuition $100 per year, bringing the annual figure to $1,500. It was pointed out that this increase will not affect the tuition rate for current students at Southwestern. Of the 19 private colleges and universities in the State of Kansas, Southwestern ranks as one of the lowest in tuition costs. Another Graduate ltl've got to believe in something to be able to sell it e and that's easy with Southwestern Col- Iegef claims Rick Johnson, the newest addition to the admissions department at Southwestern. Johnson, a 1969 graduate of Southwestern, began November 1st as a college representative in the admissions department. He is presently working the western one-third of the state of Kansas. He will also be working in the Colorado area later. After receiving a BA. degree in biology from SC in 1969, Johnson attended the School of Theology at Boston University. He transferred to the School of Education and received his Master of Education degree in Counseling in 1971. Before joining the staff at Southwestern he had been supervisor of counseling at North Cottage Program in Boston, a program for alcoholic men. llAtter my work at North Cottage, Johnson recalled, I was ready to work with the younger population more my own age. I wanted to get into college work. President Ruthenberg con- tacted me and I decided that the position at Southwestern was just what I wanted? Johnson is married to the former Rita Webster, a 1970 home econOmics graduate at SC. Curren+ Even+s Rick Johnson . Above: Millie Warren. Right: Lewis Gilbreath. Changes Several changes in faculty were announced last month. David Williams, instructor in voice, will leave Southwestern at the end of the current academic year. His contract was not renewed, but this was strictly a matter of student-faoulty ratio in the music department, Dr. Earl Dungan will be leaving the education department. He resigned his position after accepting a job in Topeka on the State Board of Accreditation. The new head of the education department will be Lewis Gilbreath, formerly Dean of Students. Millie Warren will take over as the new Dean of Students. She is the only female dean of students in the State, and one of the few in the country. These changes became effective January lst, 1973. S.AA. The Student Activities Association was busy thru the months of October, November and December in bringing some outstanding enter- tainment to the campus. Not to be included in this list was lkJohn Manning who gave the col- lege students a lesson in how to earn a quick buck without having to work for it. Hired to play for at least two and one half hours Manning and his back-up group llWhite Dog played exactly tour short songs, fiddled around with equipment and proceeded to take a break all in the first hour of the show. During the next hour John changed into a snazzy outfit tsupposedly to indi- cate that he was a real superstari, fiddled around with some more equipment and played psycho- logical games with the audience. Between the fun and games HWhite Dog tespecially the lead guitarist and the pianist-flutisti played some pretty decent musics The concert itself had a split kind of reception - either you liked it or you didn't. There was no in between. Finally, this edi- tor would like to take the opportunity to quell the all but dead rumors that the drummer for l'White Dog was formerly the drummer for the famous Dave Clark Five Group. This, folks, was impossi- ble because the drummer for the D C. Five was none other than Mr Dave Clark himself, The gentleman on the drums was not Dave Clark. 1 don't know who he was. Also included on the SAA slate were two very good rock, dance bands a HEverybodyls Every- thing', and HBlackberry Winter? The students in attendance enjoyed the music of both groups. Last but not least was the enchanting movie ltThe Ballad of Cable HogueH starring Jason Robards, Jr. The film was about a man who faces death, life, the desert, and his God, all with style and equanimity. Most everyone was sur- prised about the quality of the film and a few felt that it was the best ever presented at this col- lege. We hope 8AA continues its line perform- ance. Earl Dungan On Stage The annual fall production of the Southwestern College Campus Players was held on Nov. 10th- i4th. This years entry was a play by Robert E. Sherwood entitled The Petritied Forest. The scene of the play is a little cafe in the southern part of Arizona. The plot entails, among other things, the story of a man trying to find real meaning in the world. Thru the medium of love he eventually does. The Campus Players put many hours into the redesigning ot the Little Theater into a 1930's desert cafe. The setting was authentic and very well done, The show was well received and the actors played before full and overflowing houses on all four nights. i Also well received was the Campus Players 39th Annual production of llEagerheart, the Christmas morality play. Star Mathis played the title role of ttEagerheart. The three Honored Maidens were Ardis Garver, Linda Ballard and Dixie Daugherty. As this issue comes off the press, the January Term Theater Production Workshop will be deeply immersed in rehearsals for llFiddler on the Rootf' Jack Eddleman will be on campus to help in the production. He was also on campus last October to help conduct tryouts for the play. Canvass Other happenings on campus during the six weeks covered by this section included a 50's Night sponsored by Broadhurst Residence Hall and a paper collecting drive sponsored by Theta Phi Delta Fraternity. The 50s night was a combi- nation of nostalgia, pretzels and good old-fash- ioned rock and roll. Artists ranging from HDanny and the Juniorst' to ltChicago could be heard and danced to. Observed grooving on the heavy tunes were Dr. and Mrs. Ruthenburg and Dean Warren. The Thetas collected over seven tons of old newspapers and the money gained from the sale of these was contributed to the City of Wintieldts plant-a-tree campaign. Fra ts The recent interest in the fraternities on this campus, both pro and con, has been retleotedpin three ABRAXAS columns, one by Ms McGuire and two by Mr. Hresko. This magazine has no established position on this subject but it is inter- esting to note that at the College Concerns Corn- mittee meeting of December 5th the fraternity Charters were reinstated by the unanimous vote of the committee members present. Not a single dissenting voice was heard at this meeting and if there ever was a time to speak it was then. The frats showed a great deal of unity throughout their period of tttrial. Every so often the frater- nity system comes under some fire and during the most recent demonstration of this the three frats held up fine. Congratulations go out to the fraternities. UHURU! Their cry shall be UHURU! was staged by the Black Student Union on Thursday, December 7, 1972. This program, relating to the-blaok experience, was directed by Paul McIntosh and starred many of the members of the BSU. Above: Students, faculty, and administrators alike enjoyed themselves at Lhe 50,5 party sponsored by the men at Broad- hursl Hall, It was rumored that the President showed up with a Ietter-sweater that said Donnia, on it. Left.- Paul McIntosh, Duke Mantee in the production of Petrified Forest? puts a captive in his place. He is sixteen and comfortably over six feet in height. The masculinity of his build is betrayed by the boyishness talmost Childishnesst of his features. The Iankiness of ado- lescence is not present in his form. Instead, there is the hulking thickness of a laborer. His hair is short; I am told that he had gotten drunk a few months ago and had it shaved off. The great steel door at the end of the bloc has been slammed shut, and for a while the cell doors are open. We may visit with each other and speak uninterrupted a except, occasionally, tor the melodic roar of some distant toilet being flushed. Ted was brought in two nights ago. Both cheeks were swollen and red to the point that his eyes were almost obscured. Blisters and cuts covered his lips, and the shirt he wore was painted with his own dried blood He told me that two dudes in Liberal, Kansas, had gotten the impres- sion that he was a t'narc and as a result had beaten and kicked him to the point of semi-Consciousness. The welts on his back proved that he was not lying when he said a belt buckle had also been employed. As soon as he could walk. he had stumbled out to the road and been promptly arrested for vagrancy. His father left home when Ted was three. For two years he lived at home with his four brothers and sisters. School was trouble for him, and it appeared to his teachers that he had a serious rebellious streak. He habitually got into tights, As a result he tasted institutional lite tor the first time at the age 01 five, when he was sent for six weeks of observation to the Atchison school. From here it was back to his family; but the axe tell when Ted was ten. III was sitting in class one day, when these two detective guys walked in. They told me right off that my mother was gone, and that my brothers and sisters had been sent away. They told me that they were gonna send me to a special school. They dragged me down to the health room, but I kicked and scratched those mothers all the way. Chuckling, he quickly jerked his foot as though he were getting one more opportunity at their grounst I cannot grow used to the matter-ot-tactness in his voice. He rattles off the details of his life with a bizarre absence oI emotion, the way a shipping clerk rattles ott the day's Inventory. The tone is as flat and institutional as the silver- metallic paint that covers everything here. This quality is common in jail. Every prisoner who avails himself regularly oI its Iacilities reeks of a numbness, a hopeless acceptance 01 one's tuture. There is not a would- be Bogart here who would entertain the notion of rattling his cup along the bars a for he knows he simply would not drink Even the most devout Cagney Ian would not tling his tray defiantly at the wall a for he knows he simply would not eat. Perhaps the potatoes are laced with some strange lobotomizing agent. or possibly the constant Clank of steel upon steel chips away pieces of the spirit It is merely survival The prisoner knows well that it he were to muster his entire arsenal of rage and tap every reserve of indignation, he would cause nothing more than mild amusement on the other side of the bars. He leaves his dignity at the front desk in an El Producto box, along with his belt and his wallet, And when the best attack the mind can stage is met only with Irustration, then the organism must detend. As in the London blitz, every light of emotion must go out, leave ing the intruders in darkness. Around itself, the mind digs a moat of apathy, a Maginot line of indifference. The result is a glassy-eyed euphoria that no amount 01 alcohol or opium could match llThey sent me to Larned, which Is a place for nuts. He told me that after two years he ran away with a companion to town; it wasnt long before the two criminals were apprehended swimming at the local water hole. They sent him next to the Big Brothers of Joplin, Mis- souri. After about a month and a half. at the age of 14. he again ran away. This time, however, he and a friend stole a car. Like Larned, this institution had a solitary continement room for Its trouble-makers. I'They stuck me in that dam- ned box for a months It was about as big as this cell tQXGt, and it was winter-time. I froze my ass oft; all you are allowed to wear is a pair of underpants Ted was sent to a foster home in Gueda, Kansas. There he lived with a couple in their titties. HGrandma and Grandpa treated me real good They were nice to me and gave me things. One day, atter l was there, the case worker came. She gave me a piece ot paper that I had to go to this place in Topeka. I didn't want to go. I liked it where I was. I split again. From that point on, his story is one 01 waywardness and arrest. His first contact with the county jail was a two-week stint for waywardness. His relationship with jail has since been like that of a yo-yo'. He has served sentences as long as 45 days. Currently he hasn't the slightest idea of what his destiny will be. The only certain thing concerning his destiny Is the tact that it is not In his own hands. Sitting cross-Iegged on his cot, smoking a roII-your-own cigarette, he asks me what I think of his lite. Pretty t----d up, huh? he laughs. I try to roll with the joke but I'm not a good actor. He picks up one of my books from the table, and as he begins to read it becomes apparent that his reading level is no more than that of a tourth-graderl He seems a bit embar- rassed, as he obviously does not know what the words in the college textbook mean. After I read him a story on juvenile corrections from HReader's Digest, the lights begin to dim. A twisted little man at the end of the cell bloc motions me back into my cell. The bars Clank shut as Cowley County decrees it time to sleep. I switch my pillow tblue jeanst to the end 01 the cot that is tarther from the sinkrtoilet; the smell ot urine does little for my sleeping habits. You know what Id like to do when I get out on my own? . HWhat's that, Ted? I cautiously draw the vulgar blanket over me, wondering what amounts of seIt-induoed semen the past has dumped on it. Hl'd like to get a place and raise horses. I love horses. I can ride any horse in the world. I know horses and horses know me. My mind is beginning to wander, but I am drawn back by the emotion in his voice. 'tHorses, huh? 'tYeah, but you know one thing I hate?'t t'What? Guys that beat horses. It I had a ranch and I saw a guy using a switch or a pair of spurs, ltd fire him right on the spot. I hate to see anyone treat animals bad . . . any kind of animal. Even pets. It just ain't right. Ted is soon asleep. I listen to the wheezing as he yanks air through the passages of his battered nose. The wall to which my cot is attached tells me that Ted once made 32 days worth of scratch marks in this cell. The gratittl goes on to explain that DR. loves D.W.; that Ray from Colorado was here; that Linda L, is an easy lay. I begin to feel disgusted tor thinking myselt unfortunate. I come from a spot in society where most people's biggest concern is that which can be sprayed under the armpits, or driven over 100 mph. or spread on the wrinkles of some multi-Chinned facet His story upset me. Even though we are worlds apart, I have one thing in common with Ted, I too hate to see ani- mals mistreated . . . any kind of animal. The Virtue Of Hypocrisy by Bill Lawhead Last year, I taught a mini- course in Western Culture II, which had the dubious title of HArchaeological Explorations into the Twentieth Centuryfl The purpose of the course was to critically examine our own decade and culture as though we were archaeologists from another culture and another age. A basic premise was that the key ltartitactsll 01 our soci- ety, those that would give us the most insight into the spirit of this age, were the popular advertisements which saturate the mass media. Why did I suggest we look to popular ads to understand this decade and not the profound writings of contemporary philosophers and intellectuals? Quite simply, philosophers 0f they live up to that namet seek to make clear what our values ought to be. On the other hand, Madison Avenue advertisers are quite untroubled by such ethereal questions and concern them- selves solely with what our val- ues actually are. it was some time back in the fifties that the ad-men first dis- covered that there was an incredibly wide discrepancy between our seIf-images and our real selves. What we think our values ought to be, what we hope they are, or what we affirm they are is one thing and what our values really happen to be is another thing alto- gether. This lesson was pain- fully learned by market researchers after numerous failures in trying to predict what the public would buy. Vance Packard, in his highly popularized look at advertising, The Hidden Persuaders, points out that researchers in this field gradually came to reject three basic assumptions they had made. llFirst, they decided, you can't assume that people know what they want . Second, some marketers concluded, you can't assume people will tell you the truth about their wants and dislikes even if they know them. What you are more likely to get, they decided, are answers that will protect the informants in their steadfast endeavor to appear to the world as really sensible. intelligent, rational beings t . . Finally, the marketers decided it is dangerous to assume that people can be trusted to behave in a rational way. As a result of all this, the llimage- makers' and the Hhidden per- suaderslt have developed a whole science consisting of techniques to motivate us to buy their product or vote tor their candidate. Although this is an over-sim- plification, we could say that the advertiser-persuader uses two kinds of techniques. First, he tries to assure us that we are the kind of persons we would like to think we are. Thus, we are told that if we buy his product we can be confident that we are: at a good husbandrwiferpar- ent by concernedrawarersensi- tive ct rationalrshrewdrjudicious dt appealingrfun-lovingr young Of course, such a list is end- less. However, these are some of the qualities we would like to have and which the ads conti- dently tell us we can have it we buy their product. Secondly, the ad-man attempts to appeal indirectly to those values by which we actually live and make our decisions, even though we may not be aware of this level of our motives. According to Packard, the mar- ket researchers see us as ltbundles ot daydreams, misty hidden yearnings, guilt com- plexes, irrational emotional blockages. We are image lov- ers given to impulsive and compulsive acts. We annoy them with our seemingly senseless quirks, but we please them with our growing docility in responding to their manipu- lation of symbols that stir us to action?' Thus the valueswhich unconsciously motivate us may be greed, status, power, secu- rity, and others of this sort. The purpose of this article was not to llagellate the adver- tisers once more. Rather, I wanted to take a look at the way our values and ideals operate in the lives we live and the decisions we make. There seem to be only a limited num- ber of possibilities concerning the relationship of our values to our lifestyle. One possibility is that one simply lives. without reference to any values at all. However, to live, act, and make decisions implies that there are some things we desire or find valuable. Even to simply go on living implies that we find some value in life itself. The only per- son who exhibits no values is the one who performs no actions tsuch as the mental patient in a catatonic trancey A second possibility that we can imagine is that of one's values and lifestyle being con- sistent. I'm not sure if there is anyone who lives up to their ideals perfectly. However, there have been some in history who have affirmed as a creed, cer- tain values and ideals which many people reject verbally but live in actual practice. Recent examples would be found in the Playboy philosophy of una- bashed hedonism or in Ayn Rand's collection of essays, The Virtue of Selfishness. .i, Bill Lawlwad - Resource Director New Generations For New Days n- The majority of us will find ourselves firmly nestled in a third category I will now set out. This category includes all those whose values and ideals are not perfectly consistent with their practice or their lites- tyle. The lesson learned by the market researchers was that there is commonly a wide gap between the real values which direct our behavior and those that we mistakenly think we cherish, As Socrates loved to put it, it is bad enough to be afflicted with a disease. How- ever, to be diseased and not know it is doubly bad. There- fore, a large dose of painful, reflective self-awareness is necessary to cure the latter condition, whether it be a dis- ease in the body or in our character. I will leave it up to you to document the discrepancy between ideals and actuality in our personal and corporate lives. I will also assume that most will recognize the wisdom of consistency between theory and practice, creed and con- duct, or values and actions. But once we are aware of the disparity, the question remains as to how we resolve it. One solution would be to lower our ideals and bring them down to the level of our actual practice. Thus the status quo would be the measure of our ideals and not the other way around. Though such a solution is easy, it will not be satisfactory. it seems then, that we are led to the paradox of defending the values of a certain amount of hypocrisy. The moral man is not the one who sets his goals and ideals within easy reach. Rather, he is the one who is always aware of the haunting hiatus between his best efforts and the highest aspirations of his soul. William Hazlitt has said, 'Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. ..Hv Gerald R. its '- In the first issue of Abraxas, the interview with President Ruthenberg made mention of Admis- sions a how it can be used as an effective tool to re-vamp the attitudes at Southwestern and enlarge upon present opportunities. All this talk about Admission made us here at Abraxas curi- ous about what is actually happening in the north end of Christy Hall. It really doesn't take much to find out. All you have to do is walk into the office and say, Hey, what's happening'W' and they'll tell you e ttthey being Donna Bean, Rick Johnson, Don Hapward, and the Director of Admissions, Gerald Raines. A conversation with them seems to follow the theme of 'Make A Wishf which is, for those of you unfamiliar with Sunday morning TV: Make a wish, Dream a dream . . . Anything you want to try Just reach out and fly high. In a 45-minute interview with Raines, the year 2000 was mentioned four times HCultural Center for Human Valuest' was the term used to describe a possible future Southwestern. A few years ago, speaking in terms of two years would have been considered long range. In the short while I was in the office, one pro- spective student was lost on campus tat South- western? That's what I thought; another one was given the t'royal treatment, three secretar- ies were kept busy, and people kept wandering in and out wanting to know what was making it in Admissions. In the meantime Raines was using phrases such as ttexciting things about Southwestern, ttthis is a revolution on our oampusf' and Huniimited possibilities, none of which has been heard on campus since Indians held a powwow where Christy is now. This man, who is at the center of Admissions, is quick to point out that the so-called t'ohanges are nothing but extensions of past programs and have been on administrative drawing boards for some time; theytve just acquired a new empha- SIS. This new emphasis could be seen in President Ruthenbergts interview and is carried on in the following interview with Gerald Raines. This inter- view gave me the impression of a man who thor- oughly enjoyed his work and wasn't afraid to let me know it. Most striking is his faith in the pro- grams now being carried out in admissions. This man really believes in Southwestern and if he typifies the rest of the administration, maybe their goals can be reached. . TOWARD ; THE YEAR 2000 An interview By Theo Otte Abraxas: Have the changes in Admissions, one being your new position as director, brought any new viewpoints or philosophies into the depart- ment? Haines: Admissions in higher education today is a very Challenging and exciting field. There are many colleges, all seeking the good student, making it a competitive field. The real excitement in our own admissions program is the new options that we are able to offer young people today, with the curriculum that is being envi- sioned and being put into effect on our campus. We're not able to talk to young people about protecting themselves 300 yards ahead. What we're trying to envision at our school is helping an individual be what he wants to be a when he wants to be it, In other words, we would like to be able to help the student in such a way that when he is through with Southwestern he can find the career vocation that he really wants, he has the tools to be effective in this chosen career, and he will have an opportunity to prac- tice in that field, Abraxas: With changes in the emphasis of the curriculum, what do you find to be the big selling points of Southwestern? Raines: We're interested in people and we're interested to the effect that these people can find themselves in an environment that isnot geared to ltl've got to get to the very topi' but to til can be myself and i can express myself without the pressure that seems to be enclosing me from society itself? Abraxas: Do you really find this as a conscious attitude among young people? Raines: i find it coming into our program from our desire to be concerned about life planning and career goals rather than just the broad phi- losophy that has been so cumbersome to the lib- eral arts program. Each student had to come in and then he was set in a particular mold rather than being allowed to develop in a line of his own choosing. He had to meet this requirement, that requirement e when it really didnt seem to affect or add to his ultimate objective. We feel that a student should be able to come and, it he has definite plans down the line, that we can ini- tiate those plans immediately. We can get him started in his line, at his pace, and in the direc- tion he wants; right now, not as a sophomore or junior. In other words, it that individual wants to get a good broad background that isn't neces- sarily professional, he can come to us, We can offer him the background of a liberal arts pro- gram and yet give him experiences in a vocation We may have to send him off our campus, but we can still provide these programs for him so that he is career-oriented and in a career that will be relevant tour years from now, when he enters that career. We can say to him, ttWe can make it possible for you to have that job in forestry: it you want it, and be eligible for employment in that field, by looking far enough ahead to know what the demands will be in that field when he is ready to enter it. For example, it someone wants to get involved in airport management, we want to be able to tell him, and we can, that he can receive the neces- sary training and background by enrolling him at Southwestern, We may have to send him off our campus for a year, but we can bring him back and give him a degree that qualifies him for air- port management or flight training. The two schools in the country that offer courses in airport management are in Johnson county and way out in Liberal, but through co- operative education we can send students to these campuses after a year or two at South- western and then bring them back to finish up. Abraxas: ls Southwestern a leader in this area among, say, the colleges in the Great Plains area? Raines: Southwestern's record speaks for itself, but that record isnlt important now as what we are going to do tomorrow, the next year or after tive years. We want to feel that we are a leader in offering opportunities for young people down the line career-wise, not just by offering a piece of paper that enables them to enter gradu- ate school. They can terminate their studies, it they so desire, and be qualified for employment in an area of their choice. This is the exciting thing about Southwestern today. This is a revolution on our campus. lt's felt in the faculty They're enthused about the possi- bilities. This is whats exciting to talk about with young people. Abraxas: Right! Many people said, both stu- dents and taculty, that the feeling on-campus at the beginning of the year was markedly Changed. People were anxious to start school and see what was going to happen. Raines; This is an obvious change for a very positive good. There's no limit to where we can go it we put our necks on the line. We believe in this strongly; we can be a bigger help to the indie vidual in his life planning than we have been, and to do this we must broaden ourselves. We have to open up cooperative relationships, as can be seen this year in our involvement with St John's, Cowley County Juco, and other junior colleges around the state. Abraxas: Have the student recruiters and the young people now on the staff helped in this effort to show Southwestern's new image? Raines: The best salesmen for any college are the students on campus. If they're enthusiastic and feel that the program is worthwhile and they're growing in that program, theylre great salesmen. They can tell the true story. it is awfully easy for them to misinterpret some of the things that happen on campus. Forvexam- ple, maybe the Chow is bad. This can influence people and, without a broad outlook, they can misread little things like this. But still the student remains as your best salesman, because he's honest. i We've added to the staff two outstanding peo- ple who are examples of this program at South- western: Donna Bean and Rick Johnson, both recent SC graduates. Both of these young peo- ple are setting a new image and are representa- tive of our product at Southwestern The attitude on the part of the staff is to do more and to make more opportunities available than it is to change anything. Our interest is learning and not teach- ing. Let's have a learning process rather than a teaching process. This is the only way to go, to be relevant. 30 October 1972 Dear People, I really flipped out when I saw the maiden issue of ABRAXAS. For one who gets about half his information about the outside world from Hsiick magazines like ttlntelieotual Digest? ttPsychology Today't and HTimef I really took to the new magazine. And I got the kind of information i as an alumnus of Southwest- ern want to know. Instead of finding out what this months events and athletic iaureis were, i found out what is making the school tick - where the ferment that is so vital to an educational institution is taking place. The things that I remember most about my four years at Southwestern, and where the most sig- nificant learning took place and what has crystallized my subsequent education in theology schooD are those events and ideas that pushed me out onto areas i didn't know about and made me think and feel and grow. When an institution begins to become aware of its own movement and growth and its role in effect- ing Change in society, that excites me. Only under such conditions can a col- lege, or any institution, move out and grow. The kind of change talked about in Number t of ABRAXAS moves in the direction of maximizing human beings by equipping them to maintain their humanity in a time when change inundates us all. by giving them a vision of what might be and the tools to achieve it. l'm looking forward to subsequent issues of ABRAXAS. You say a lot by what you are, as well as by what you say e and the fact that what you are saying and what you are doing are in time with each other and with me makes me feel that just maybe Southwestern College is out there leading, rather than running to catch up with the rest of society. Cordially, WWiJW Rev. Dennis R. Hett former editor SC Collegian. Minister intern, Old West Church, Boston, Ma. College Concerns: The Budget in a recent Student Council meeting, some questions were raised concerning budget alloca- tions to the various departments at Southwestern. Upon request, Bill Stephens, athletic director, and Earl Spidel, our business manager and a member of the Budget Committee, presented a breakdown ot the total athletic budget for 1972- 73. The facts and figures they revealed have since generated some student interest and inquiry into the matter of budget-making and spending at 80. , Four members make up the Budget Commit- tee: Dean Barton, Mrs. Schwantes tComptrolleD, Spidel, and Dr. Ruthenberg. At present there are no students or faculty onthe committee, and this tact brought questions trom the members of StuCo. Is it possible for students to work effec- tively together with faculty and administration to determine where our priorities lie? As students of a liberal arts college, should we or should we not expect a steady input of students, whether fresh- men or transfer, from a wide range of interests? May students be enlightened of budget facts, proceed to draw objective conclusions, and finally initiate creditable change, which would better serve students at Southwestern? As a result of lengthy discussions of budget ii Student CounCil ttriggered by a comparison ol the athletic and fine arts budgetst, the matter was forwarded to the College Concerns Commit- tee for research and consideration This commit- tee serves as the ear for student verbalization of DIVISION DEPARTMENT Language English 392 3t Drama Speech Forensics Language Division office Biology Chemistry Math Physics Health 8t P.E. Home Economics Division office Business Economics Education Literature Natural Science 755.5 Social Science STUDENTS questions, gripes, ideas, and suggestions. They have met with the Budget Committee in an effort to voice the responses and reactions of students. The present budget we are operating on was prepared during Orville Strohlls presidency and cannot be changed tor this year. Similarly, according to Spidel, it is unlikely that the budget will undergo any significant Changes in the upcoming year, unless additional funds become available. He added that the possibility of decreasing the budget ot one division in order to increase another is neither feasible or justifiable. Since there are no excess tunds, to increase one area requires a decrease or deletion of another. Budgets are uniquely complicated; ours is no different. The following figures have been extracted from the total 1972-73 budget. In order to accurately and realistically interpret tigures and dollar signs, many things must be consid- ered. The number of students accommodated by or participating in a department, as well as the number of faculty and staff members salaried in a division must be noted when comparing budg- ets between ditterent divisions. The number of students listed represent the number of students Served in Classes in the particular-division. Each student in each class represents a certain unit of cost to the college. These figures show the tota. amount of money allocated to each of the four divisions and varsity athletics, and include faculty salaries and equipment necessary to that divi- sion, COURSE HOURS FACULTY BUDGET PER STUDENT 37.9 10 $110,377 $281.57 44.5 14 $175,804 $232.70 48.5 14 $159,129 $204.01 Psychology Religion 8 Philosophy History Sociology 8 Anthropology Division office Fine Arts Music Art Division office Athletics Football Basketball Track Cross Country Golf Tennis Womean Tennis No division office ATHLETIC BUDGET FOOTBALL Equ1pment 4,806.90 Travel 2,497.60 Officials 880.00 Pre-season, pre-game meals 2,092.50 Laundry 800.00 First aid supplies 1,276.31 Other Scouting e filming parking - poticing - awards e- washers and dryers repairs - assistance 3 629.00 15,416.11 BASKETBALL Equipment 1,144.35 Travet 3,238.00 Officials 1,125.00 Pre-game vacation meals 561.00 Laundry 300.00 First Aid Supplies 843.00 Other: These figures present only a broad and gen- eral picture of the division and athletic budgets. A departmental breakdown of division budgets, as is shown in the athletic budget, would be more realistic in presenting detailed facts and fig- ures of spending for studentst consideration. According to the 1972-73 Southwestern cata- logue, student tuition comprises 562; of the budget, We as students should have knowledge 298.4 32.2 8 $ 85,705 $287.22 $ 51 ,300M $312.80 1 calculated as number of students receiving credit m rtlncludes partial salaries of coaches Scouting, tilming, police parking, awards 1 146.67 TRACK 8,355.67 Cross Country tFaID Travel 330.00 Equipment 300.00 Laundry 204.00 SPRING Travel 1,515.73 Equipment 1 ,83100 Other: assistant coaches - 445 00 entry fees, repair work , 4,628.38 TENNIS Travel 153213988 E ui ment ; q p 906.00 GOLF Travel 470.00 Equipment 387.00 857.00 $30,163.11 of the ways in which our dollars are allocated and spent. Because students have begun to question pri- orities and have identified atledged inequities in budget spending, the College Concerns Commit- tee has begun inquiry into the issue. The com- mittee, as well as Student Council, welcomes responsible feedback and discussion. SC Debate Team - Winning Is A Habit By Pete Allegre Top: Slew: Halley, Don McKinney, Marilyn Taylor and Ron Gore. Bottom: Hailey, McKinney and Gore proudly display a few of the many trophies they have won at various tournaments this year. Debate has a special history at Southwestern College. The first intercollegiate debate tour- nament was held on this cam- pus in 1924, and Southwestern is a charter member of Pi Delta Kappa, the national debate fra- ternity. Debate teams from here have a tradition of excel- lence that is being carried on by recent teams. The past five years the SC squad has been rated among the top 20 debate teams from colleges with an enrollment of below 2000 stu- dents. This rating is based on the results of over 480 tourna- ments each year that involve over 630 schools. This year's debate squad has continued the success that Southwestern teams have enjoyed in the past. Debating on the topic, rltResolved: that the federal government should provide a program of compre- hensive medical care for all U.S. citizens, the squad has taken two first place trophies, two third place finishes, a fourth, three speakers, tro- phies, and a coach's award in its first six meets. The tournaments that the squad had attended at this writing were those at Garden City Junior College, Northern Oklahoma State College, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Northwest Missouri State College, Oklahoma Chris- tian College, and Wichita State University. it was at Omaha that the two first place trophies and the coach's award were won; at Oklahoma Christian three speakers' trophies, as well as a fourth place finish, were won. How does a team stay on top year after year? The answer is simple, according to debate coach Jan Schuetz: ltBy recruiting competent peo- ple? She added that alumni contributions to an ample scholarship fur'fd 'make this task easier. Ms. Schuetz was asked about the role a schoolls reputation plays in the judging of performance. HI really think it does tplay a part; if the judges hate you, they'll give you a loss; if they like you, theylll give you the benefit of the doubt, was her off-hand comment about the subjective aspect of debate-judging. She was also asked about the sauadiadissmltne. HTheV disci- kyld......-... IV.L-okLJl.U.-o-LA- ITOCDD wtnxcummwmiT I EU 1; ID L-L-hv Top: Ms. Jan Schnelz, coach of SCS Super Squad, Bottom: Cathy Graber, Julie Rhodes, and Marilyn Taylor unpack the trophies to be hsed in the Moundbuilder Invitational Tournament. g, .7 l. . . 11M pline themselves - theytre a highly motivated group. The members of this highly motivated squad are divided into two divisions, junior and senior, the difference being that debaters can compete in the junior division during their first tour semesters of competi- tion, after which they move up to senior division. The senior division is composed of seniors Wendell Barker from Hutchin- son and Steve Hailey from Denver, and juniors Cathy Gra- ber from Newton, Don McKinney from Goldwater, and Julie Rhodes from Winfield. Because there are five mem- bers in the senior division, there are not specific assign- ments concerning which mem- bers are paired as debate part- ners. Therefore, there is no llDynamic Duo'i upon which to lavish the praise for this year's successes; the entire squad must share the credit. The junior division is com- prised of junior Marilyn Taylor from Winfield, sophomore Ron Gore from Larned, and fresh- men Joann Palmieri trom Patc- hogue, N.Y., and Greg White from Winfield. Other tournaments for the Builders include the 42nd annual Southwestern Debate Tournament thosted by the squad on Dec. 1-2t involving approximately 20 colleges trom 5 states. Both team and indi- vidual events such as oratory, poetry interpretation, and extemporaneous speaking were contested at the tourna- ment. On Dec. 8-9 the squad traveled to Northwestern Oklahoma State College for the event there, and on Jan. 8-11 participated in the Laredo International Debate Tourna- ment at Laredo, Texas, a nationwide invitational tourna- ment Open to only the top squads from throughout the nation. - One of the highlights of the second semester of competi- tion will come on March 26-30, when the squad will compete in the events at the National Biennial Convention of Pi Kappa Delta, Southwestern has been invited to compete in a special oratory at the Nationals in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of PKD. This invita- tion was extended to SC on the basis that it is one of the seven colleges to sign Pi Kappa Deltais founding docu- ment that still have a PKD chapters tThree other Kansas schools are among the seven remaining charter members: Ottawa University, College of Emporia, and Kansas Wesleyan CollegeJ Hey-Kllan in the last issue of Abraxas was an article written by our illustrious features editor I guess the thing to do around here, especially up at the Hill, is to see how well you can knock down the fraternities. Now I have the pleasure of answering that article. First of all, in case somebody gets the foreign notion that l'm against features editors, let me assure you that some of my very best friends are McGuires. itWhy do these 3 Frats feel so put- upon? Even Sue admitted and I quote, iiTrue, theyive been getting more flack from the administration than the other campus-centered social and service groups. General George would like to know why? The article then goes on and states, ttBut who has been having all the advantages for years, especially as far as housing conditions are con- cerned. What advantages? Name me one. Granted, living in Shriwise is a lot more com- fortable than Reid or Broad- hurst. But you see Sue, you didn't do your homework. Instead of rushing into your .superticial article you should have done some research first You would have found out that .1- 'u-wm eLLLWKU-JLLIUf-t-LUV-O-iu-h-h fiET'fU-J'xilme-ILL E the Thetas originated in Hol- land Hall and the Betas in Reid ' Hall. Thetas, after being asked to leave Holland Hall because it was being condemned, migrated to Reid where they were again asked to leave because someone on the Hill decided Shriwise would be a nice place for one of the trats. So you see, the trats didn't plea or even ask for Shriwise, it was assigned to them. Besides, Beta Rho Mu tone halt ot the frat populationt has survived in Reid Hall all these years. Yes, Sue, we can boast that we are involved in more cam- pus activities because we are a frat, and living together as a frat does not isolate us from the tlgoings-onl' among other students, Due to the fact that my article must be written within certain space limitations, I can not even begin to list all the activities members of the frats are associated with. For the benefit of the skeptics I have prepared a list which any- one is invited to inspect. Again I will quote Sue, ttThe women's organizations on campus have accomplished just as much in the way of pro- jects as the fraternities. Well Sue, maybe that's because the women's groups are service organizations and the fraterni- ties are social organizations. 80 if you ask me if a service organization is doing only as much as the social organiza- tions in regards to campus pro- jects, maybe its the service organizations that need to be reevaluated. Again I quote, Men's honor housing, why is that such an anathema to the frat guysTl Who ever said anything about an anathema? I don't even know what it means. The rea- son that men's honor housing is a threat is because if we lose Shriwise we have nowhere to go. We could have just as eas- lly made our last stand at Reid Hall. It was the Hill that cram- med us up in Shriwise for the last hoorah. By the way, Theta Phi Delta still maintains the highest grade point average of any other organization on this campus. While were on the subject of honor housing, let me reiterate what Miss McGuire has stated. ttWomen's honor housing has been, for the most part, a large success, besides a slight motivation tor V some of us to work a little harder. Who are you kidding! They can't even fill the place. They have had problems almost every year of getting students to live there. Another Sunshine quotejll have it on good authority tfirst hand listening to members of Pi Delt and Theta?t that the main reason they pledged to their particular frat is not because they really groove on the fraternity concept, but because they wanted to live in Shriwise. Well Susie has done her homework this time. I wont deny it. I have never admitted that our way of pledging is a faultless. We pledge the guys we feel are the ones who will benefit and will be benefited from our respective fraternities. Often we are wrong. It is because of these members that our fraternities are in the posi- tion they are. It you can come up with a tool-proot method of pledging members, let me know, Sue. The trats would appreciate it. And I promise this is my last quote: llHow much interest would you get from prospective pledges it you lost your grip on those apartments? Ask Beta Rho. They lived in Reid Hall and yet have the highest mem- bership of any of the other fra- ternities. What's keeping our group identity novrf? Well, I'll tell you in two words a Fraternity spirit. Sincerely yours, General George Frat SPORTS By Rodney Johannsen 22 Above: SC on a fast break e W. R. Allam, with ball, looks to pass to a fellow teammate in the Tabor game, won by SC 69-58. Right: Southwestern center Cary Hammer starts to pass to another Builder under the basket as the Builderis bench looks on. u Basketball at Southwe College should be an e thing to watch this yea nine lettermen returning depth and experience av Die. the Builders hope to improve on last years record of 10-12. The Builders lost their first nine games last sea- son, but finished strong. Their 10-6 KCAC mark was good enough for third place in the conference. Coaches ior this year's team are head coach Bill Stephens and assistants Robert Karr and Larry Warner. This is Coach Stephens third year as head basketball coach for 80 Ste- phens is also 808 Athletic Director. Coach Karr is in his first year as assisting in bask j , ball at Southwestern. Howev'al. Karr has been 803 head cross country and track coach sinc the 1969-70 school year. W ' ner is the student assistant t - year, After playing for the Builders the last three years. Warner decided to help coach this year and is doing a very capablejob. The nine returning lettermen are seniors Jeff Boone, Larry Ewart, Gregg Howell, and Rodney Johannsen; juniors W. R. Allam, Ed Behesh, Parke Biby, and Gary Hammer; and sophomore Terry Rhea. Ewart and Howell are this year's co- captains. Other returners from last years team are junior Max Ferguson and sophomores Andy Balerio, Allen Brennan, Craig Dewell, and Ken Goyen. This year's freshman crop are Hal Arikrom, Todd Dvorak, Randy Fisher, Gary McLaurin, Steve Nichols, Dennis Phelps, Willie Salters, Kent Seytried, and Bob Welsh. The Builders are KCAC contenders this year and hope to take the title. Southwestern last took the KCAC title ten years ago. during the 1962-63 season. To win the title this year, the Builders will have to rely on defense and the fast break. SC is hop- ing that the half court pressure defense will throw off the timing of the opponent's offense and produce turnovers. The fast break may be the key to victory. For the past two years, whenever SC has run the Builders have looked good. The fast. break, when done correctly, gets everybody moving and is exciting to watch. Depth should also play an important part this season, as the Builders are two deep in every position. This becomes important when injuries occur and in the latter part of a season. A great team always has a good bench. The Builders hope to have a lot of people watching them this year. The Builders had a seven game home winning streak before the sea- son started and hope to keep it going. Visiting teams donlt like to play in Stewart HThe Pit Field House, especially with a large, pro-SC crowd. it should be a most interesting year for SC basketball. With lettermen, depth, experience, defense, a fast break, and fans, the Builders hope to win the KCAC crown. BASKETBALL After three games of the Southwestern College Moundbuilder basketball 1972-1973 season, SC stood 1-2. Their conference record was 1-0. The Moundbuilders opened up their basketball campaign on the road against Northwestern State College of Alva, Oklahoma. SC lost the close game 66-64. It was a tough loss as South- western controlled the game except for the final few moments. Two big plays, a two-point tip-in after a free throw and a lay-up after an SC bad pass helped Northwestern to the victory. Neither team held a lead of over five points throughout the game. The Builders were led in scoring by senior Larry Ewart. The 6'0 guard hit for 15 points. Junior forward Ed Benesh came off the bench to score 12 points. Parke Biby also chipped in with 11 points. Tabor College was 8018 first home game and first conference game of the season. Southwest- ern extended its home-game winning streak to eight games as Tabor lost 69-58. SC led at half, 35-28. Four Builders scored in double figures. Ewart and Biby had 18 points while Benesh and W. R. Allam scored ten points apiece. Allam came off the bench to lead SC in rebounding, too. This junior forward-oenter had nine caroms. In the game the Builders saw their seven-point half time lead dwindle to two, 42-40, with 14 min- utes to go. However, Tabor refused to fold and again came back to within two of SC, 56-54. It was at this point of the game that SC showed its poise to clinch the win. Benesh dropped in seven points during the final four minutes. The next night, Friday, Dec. 1, the Builders traveled to Emporia to play Emporia State and lost the contest, 81-69. Southwestern was behind most of the way in the game and fell behind by 13 points with six and half minutes remaining. However, the Builders staged a comeback and got to within four points, 73-69, with 1:40 to go. But six free throws help put KSTC in control and they won. Gary Hammer, 3 6'6 junior center led the Builders in scoring with 18 points. Senior guard Jeff Boone followed with 17 points. Biby had 16 points and 10 rebounds while Ewart net- ted 10 points. The Southwestern junior varsity mark stood at 2-1 after three games. They defeated the North- western JV 72-64 and the Tabor JV 64-52. How- ever, against Emporia State's JV, SC lost a Close one 58-57. After being down by fourteen at half, the Builder JV came back and led by one with less than a minute, but Emporia scored the final two for the victory. FOOTBALL The Southwestern College Moundbuilder foot- ball team ended the 1972 season with a 4-5 record. The .4-4 KCAC mark was good enough for fifth place in the conference. Southwesternis last three games were played against St. Mary, Bethany, and Kansas Wesleyan University. Out at Dodge City on Oct. 27 the Builders lost to St. Mary 27-14. Three times in the first half, St. Mary's quarterback Randy Jakious and split end Leon Kremer hooked up on touchdown passes of 32, 42, and 19 yards. For the game, St. Mary totaled up 512 yards. 803 first TD came after a nine play, 43 yard drive. On a fourth and goal from the three, quar- terback Stve Knapp hit split end Steve Stone for a touchdown pass. Larry Book kicked the PAT. 808 other touchdown came on a pass intercep- tion by James Simms of 57 yards. Junior tight end Book again kicked the PAT. The Builders last home game of the 1972 sea- son was against Bethany College. Bethany, who hadnlt played up to its potential, came on strong against Southwestern. Bethany's top point prod- uction in any one game had been 20 points. But, Bethany topped that when they scored 21 points in the first quarter. The crushing blows came in the second quarter. On two consecutive punts, Bethany blocked both punts and ran the ball into the end zone for touchdowns. The score was 38- O at half as Bethany also scored a field goal. The 59 points scored against Southwestern was the most since 1957 when SC lost to Pitts- burg, 64-7. It was the largest point spread since 1952 when SC was defeated by St. Benedicts, 91-0. However, in Southwestern's next game against Kansas Wesleyan at Salina, the Builders showed a competitive, never-say-die attitude and defeated KWU 6-0. The Builders made a com- plete turnabout in this game. The defensive unit allowed only 53 yards rushing in 35 attempts. The defensive unit also made its best goal line stand of the season, and it couldn't have come at a better time. With a first and goal from the three, three KWU rushing plays got them to the one yard line. On fourth down, a rolleout pass was knocked down in the end zone by defensive back, Pat Murphy. SC also came up with three interceptions in the game. On the offensive side the Builders had their best rushing game of the season, 253 yards. Leading the way was freshman Todd DVorak. Playing in his first game as a running back, Todd carried the ball 31 times for 128 yards. Junior fullback Vic Mojica had 74 yards rushing and quarterback Knapp also added 49 yards. The offensive line of center Paul Allen, guards Dennis Burkett and Tom Ponzi, and tackles Steve Sav- erese and Jeff Stolpa really opened up the holes for the backs. Southwestern scored its points on two field goals by Larry Book of 27 and 37 yards. After SC intercepted a pass in the second quarter, the Builders drove 30 yards to KWUfs 10 yard line. Book then kicked his first field goal of the sea- son. The second field goal came after 808 goal line stand. Taking over on the one, SC put together its best drive of the year. running all the way to KWU's 20 yard line in 14 plays. Book kicked his 37 yard field goal to put the Builders on top 6-0 after three quarters. KWU had one more serious scoring threat. In five passing plays KWU moved from its 27 to the Builders 26 yard line. But the drive stopped when safety Greg Swalwell, playing his first game this year as a defensive back, intercepted his second pass of the game on the two yard line with 44 seconds left in the game. The win was a real compliment to the Builder players and their coaches; head coach Jim Para- more and assisted by Jake Brennan, Al Holde- man, Robert Karr, and Bill Stephens. It would have been easy to give in for the last game after the Bethany loss, but the Builders showed true Class and came back. The off-season will be much sweeter because of the effort. Coach Paramore commented that, It was a satisfactory season. Ilm glad we had another game after Bethany. The last game was probably our finest and it was real encouraging? Coach Paramore in a strategy session. Bob Karr, left, Cross Country coach. CROSSCOUNTRY The Southwestern College cross country team ran in nine different meets during the 1972 sea- son, There were six Builder harriers: juniors Leon ltDoc Mattocks and Hal Hinson; sophomore Gary Baughman; and freshmen Gary Brown, Ken Renner, and Stan Boggs. They were coached by Robert Karr, his fourth year as head coach. There were two home meets. On Oct. 28 the Builders hosted Oklahoma Christian College. On Nov. 4 the llunoftioialll KCAC meet was held at Green Meadows Golf Course. Since Southwest- ern and McPherson College were the only teams in the KCAC to run cross country, an official meet could not be held as five teams are needed for an ttofficial KCAC champ. The Builder harriers lost the meet by one point, 27 to 28. SC runners tlnished 1, 2, 6, 9, and 10. in fact, there was a tie for first place. Mattocks and Boggs both were clocked in at 27:56 for the five mile course. Baughman was the sixth place finisher with a time of 29:02. Renner placed ninth and Brown placed tenth. Two Builders, Boggs and Mattocks, ran in the NAIA National Meet at Liberty, Missouri, on Nov. 18. Boggs ran his fastest time all year, 26:18, and Mattocks ran 27:59, his second fastest time. Coach Karr was satisfied with the season, and the improvement all the runners made. ttThe out- standing thing of the season was the way Doc improved and the way Stan came along. Doc was a very dedicated athlete who never missed a morning or evening workout. You wish everyone was like himfl ' SOCCER The Southwestern soccer club ended the sec- ond part of their season riding high. in the soc- cer tournament at Emporia, SC. placed third out of nine teams. They beat Cloud County Juco 2-0 and tied Kansas State 0-0. K State won by cor- ner kicks - almost like flipping a coin. In other games, SC. defeated K.S.T.C., 3-1. Raymond George scored one point and Momodu Kabba scored two points. The only scheduled game they lost this semes- ter was to Wichita Soccer Club 6-1, Raymond George scoring the only point. At the end of the season the 8.0. record is 2 wins, 3 losses, 2 ties, and 3 canceled games One of S.C.'s reasons for having a better sea- son this year than last year is the defense. The defense, made up of Tom Fiddler, Charles Cook, Bob Erickson, Tony Benevento and goalie Ken Nixon stopped the opponents repeatedly in important games, especially at the Emporia Soc- cer Tournament At the tournament, no points were scored on SC. This years offensive punch is made up of Fred Rose, Momodu Kabba, Raymond George, and Moise Epie. At the first of the season SC. scored only half of what was scored against them by other teams. In the second part of the season it evened out, and SC. scored as many points as were scored against them. W0MEN9S BASKETBALL Therels another basketball team on Southwest- ern's campus besides the varsity team a it's the Southwestern College Womenls Basketball team. There are fifteen girls on the squad, coached by Miss Cheryl Kaufman. She is assisted by Bernie Balerio, who also doubles as the trainer. Jo Blackburn is the manager. A practice session, which takes place in White P.E. Gym, usually consists of conditioning, free throws, offense, some 3 on 2 and 3 on 3 drills, and scrimmaging. Coach Kaufman indicated that they hope to fast break since they have relative little height but good quickness. Twelve games are scheduled for the team this year. Six games will be conference games. The Kansas schools are divided up into three women conferences. The largest schools are in one with the smaller schools in the two others. Southwest- ern is with Washburn, Haskell, and Benedictine, All home games are played in the White gym. Members of the 1972-1973 basketball team are seniors Paula Boyer, Denise'Bruning, and Ardie Garver; juniors Brenda Ball and Sigma Rosenblad; sophomores Bernie Bernally, Lois Howard, Joy McLain; and freshmen Debbie Bower, Cheryl Gleason, Candy Moots, Lorraine Mushacke, JoLynn Skaggs, BeLinda Vail, and Judy Woods. Coach Kaufman reported that the girls are giv- ing their all. Following is the remaining schedule: Jan. 26 Friday 7:30 Washburn Univ. There Feb. 1 Thursday 7:30 State Hospital HERE Feb, 3 Saturday 1:00 Washburn Univ. HERE Feb. 9 Friday 7:30 Haskell JUCO HERE Feb. 10 Saturday 1:00 Benedictine HERE Feb. 14 Wednesday 7:30 Benedictine There Feb. 17 Satutday 2:00 St. John's JUCO There Feb. 22 Thursday 7:30 State Hospital HERE Feb. 24 Saturday 1:00 Cowley Co. JUCOThere Members of the womenls basketball team get in a few points during a practice session. by Linda Ballard lt youlve made a visit to second floor Mossman recently you probably looked twice. But upon glancing around you realized you were at the right place. The Home Economics Department has taken on a face Iitting project during the past few months so it hardly seems like the same place. The first project was in the foods laboratory where the walls have a cheery Mexican gold tone. Then the majors restained all the cabinets and varnished them in a dark pecan wood finish. To revitalize the living room the grey walls were changed to an off white and the grey car- pet replaced with azure blue green plush shag. Other changes were reupholstering the furniture, new drapes in the dining room, which the home economics students made themselves, changing a closet to a reference library and carpeting the hall in bright red indoor-outdoor carpet. lf youlve never made a visit to the home economics department or never knew one existed at South- western, now's your chance to see an up and coming place. So far this tall there have been over 900 visitors in the department. But dont think that's all theyive been up to. The nutrition class sponsored a project called lRip Rocketl. in this project underpriviledged chil- dren of Winfield were taught nutrition during the course of several weeks. At each of their meet- ings snacks were prepared by the children. And lRip Rocket' was sure to be on hand every time to help the lesson along. This project gave the students the experience of working at with underpriviledged children, and Qt the practical experience of planning and teaching. Graduates of our home economics depart- ment, after completion of required courses and evaluation by the State Department of Vocational Home Economics Education may be vocationally certified. By being vocationally certified we mean that our graduates in education are qualified to teach in a vocational high school program. In a vocational program one would include in your teaching curriculum the seven areas of Home Economics which include: my Foods and Nutri- tion, Qt clothing and textiles, CD health and safety, OD personal and family relations, tSt child care, Git housing, furnishing and related arts, and at home management and consumer edu- cation. Also Future Homemakers of America would be included in this program. Future Home- makers of America is a national club high school girls can join which helps them prepare for being homemakers and protessional home economics career women. The home economics department has two social clubs. Gamma Omicron is open to any girl on campus that is interested in Home Econom- ics. The club on campus is also a member of the Kansas Home Economics Student Member Sec- Home Economics - an up-and-coming field ' '3!!! 2a.. f ,-.. Above: Jan Ganson, junior home ec major, helps Rip Rockefs little friends learn how to make nutritious snacks in the foods lab. Right: Mrs. Glenn tTedt Biesemicr, left, and Miss Phyllis Johnson organize lesson plans for some home cc courses. tlon which is affiliated with the American Home Economics Association. This year Southwestern is honored by having the Kansas Home Econom- ics Student Member Section President. She is Linda Ballard, a senior major. With this honor came the privilege of having the Student Member Section Fall Meeting on our campus. The meet- ing was held November 7, 1972, In total there were 117 in attendance from other college chap- ters in the state including Washburn, Hays, Emporia, Kansas State, Friends, Bethel, Sterling, Kansas Wesleyan, and Central College. Some of Gamma's activities include sponsoring the annual King Spice Dance in February. This dance is the only girl ask boy dance on campus. A picnic for new members is held in the fall. Monthly meetings with a guest speaker centered around the years program theme round out the year's activities. Officers of Gamma Omicron this year include: Sylinda Ptalser, Lila Porter, Marsha Crotts, Judy Hensley, and Sondra Kyle. Kappa Omicron is a national honorary society. Membership into this society is determined by grade average and personality of the girls. Mem- bership is also limited to girls majoring or minor- ing in home economics. The purpose of Kappa Omicron is to further the best interests of Home Economics. Monthly meetings are held. A special candle lighting ceremony is always held in December to honor the founding of Kappa Omi- cron. Their latest project was purchasing a silver tea service for the department. Officers this year include: Carolyn Tompkins ; president, Connie Hittle e vice-president, Jean Ganson - secre- tary, Debra Rose -- treasurer, and Linda Ballard - historian. Other activities undertaken this fall by the department include: hostessing the District I Future Homemakers of America meeting, on campus in October. There were approximately 700 girls in attendance at this meeting. Giving a donors tea to honor the people who helped make the decoration project a success in November. And being hostess to the faculty after one of their monthly meetings. Going on in the department now are guest meals made by the Meal Planning Class as one of their final projects. If you're lucky enough to receive an invitation to one of these you know that there is some real culinary talent around campus. Guys, you might want to check into that. The students in interior design are finishing research projects about a special aspect of inte- rior design. in the textiles Class experiments are underway to determine the extent of flame proofing in dif- ferent fabrics. ln the methods class the members are finishing making a 3 weeks lesson plan, that they could use in an on the job situation. The Home Economics department doesn't limit its curriculum to the female section of campus. Last January a course was offered just for guys in cooking, Just ask a few guys who took the course to find out if it was worthwhile or not. Men have also taken courses in The Family, Consumer Education, Clothing, interior Design, Design toriToday, and Child Development. Plans for January include the course in Design For Today, where the students will learn how to tie-dye, batik, and block print. Also offered is a comparative study of Mexican culture which fea- tures a trip to Mexico City and Surrounding areas. . In the Spring semester some of the activities associated with the department will be the style show where the students in clothing will model the garments they have made The Annual meet- ing of the Student Member Section will be held in Topeka on April 5-6. The Home Economics department has two- excellent professors. Mrs Glenn Beisemier heads the clothing, textiles, child care and develop- ment, methods of Home Economics education, interior design, and design for today Classes. Miss Phyllis Johnson is the instructor in foods, nutrition, consumer education, home manage- ment, household equipment, and family classes. With a degree in general home economics as we offer here a graduate is qualified tor many areas. Some of these areas include an extension home economist, and Utility company demon- strator and coordinator. Also the background education here is a good basis for work toward a masters degree. Years pass over fhis land so quickly. so siIenHy. so slowly. A Ieai. A flake. A flower. The peeling skin on my bad: IeIIs me +he Iime is going on and on wI'IiIe I. in my mind. seem unmoved at times. SiH'ing here. pondering Ihe delicafe daisy in such a harsh world. giving myself pause. refreshment Ihe pleasure of love. Love. Oh, IiIIIe daisies They see Ihe sun, feel fhe dew. and cling to +he earfh: buf for me . . 7 I've seen a daisy die much foo quicIKIy in my hand. My hand. And if hurts me Io keep seeing Ihose daisies die and die again in my mind, my hand. I am no? fhe sun. I am not +he dew or the earfh; Ihough I ache for such mighf. Ior such power +haf would Ireep Ihe Iiier daisies weII. happy. and AIive. - David nigh? fhe pureness of night for ou+Ies+ +he sevegery of day. fhe intensify of darkness echoes in minds and reaches to Iouch canyons of efernify fhaf grasp the pasf. preserrliI end fufure. love Inkes on a deeper meaning and foolish words penefraie Ihe hoar+ +0 seer ifs wholesome being. Iregedies can be faced. bu+ Ihe IooIs who do noI distinguish nigh? may remain dismal forever. if you can look Io +he beaufy of darkness. and no? be kissed wifh gIoom's cold sfare. and find in Iha+ darkness in being. something Io fouch wiIh your soul. Ihen you have succeeded in finding night. Ior fhe boldness of recogniting ecfual nigh? wears no mask. and weeps not for Ihose nof brave enough 90 fry. - shae kibby AD MORTEM FESTINAMUS Ifheme from ?he mofion pic+ure AsHeunIIng We WIII Go. circa I934, Danie in e vaudeville dressing room accompanied by his personal manager Mor+y Dee sulks. You'll be greaI ioni+e. You'll knock 'em e Enough, said DANTE Cefch you Iafer said Mr. Dee as he Ieff Io Iune fhe musicians. Cincinnaii Ihe 3rd s+op in a 9 cin one nighf four Ihru fhe I4Ih cenfury. There before fhe mafinee grease in hand fixing his face wiih siars fading Danie sifs wifh his biIIing. Dreaming of his Ioneshark fther fhe overiurned Ace of Wands Danie muses Where have all +he brave comedians gone? ZlMeZA-LA-BIM S+an and Ollie in a fieId of clouds lie in +he arabien robes backsiage. Like sfaring inIo a lion's eye fhey view fhe night fhru fhe skylight 5+anley always +he more naive saw the pafhway Io heaven. Ollie always fhe more pracfical saw the rain. On plays ?he quarfef. wifh bows mosf benf. With siIenf precision on fhe sfogecrew nails fhe lids like fhe ravens safe wiihin fhe folds of St. Francis' cape peck to crumble his consecrafed heart Danie goes onsfege. The quarfef in discord The dancers bored. e AmyI NiIra Ie IT WOULDN'T BE TOO MUCH HUNTING IF THE RABBI HAD A GUN. . We lay our course navigafed by fafe's cymbeIs. AIfhough we are deaf Ihe parediddle pulse of Ihis drummer of Irigger technique fargefs us. Bully! Mr. Roosevelt aims his big sfick. Bu+ behind +he elephanfs pupil a sale buoy in a see of green. Quife clever Ihe caliber of our fire arms. -- Amyl Ni+ra+e IUniierd - Bui maybe planned obsolescencei The bird hops across fhe highway. A mile in fhe closing disfance sireek Ihe progressing wheels of a Cadillac collision bound. Onward if Ieors info Ihe bird's eye he can fIy Ihough he continues 'Io hop. The No poinis in hasiening fime will intersed soon doom. Collision. The impad of a Iosi pilgrim I'hru the doors info a subway Irain. The Cadillac was foialed. - Amyl Nifrai'e II is a resiless night a nighI for wanfing you. a nighI of frembling s+ars. Siicky wi+h desire. s+ichy wifh honey sweat I lie and wrifhe like halfssucked clover. waiting for fhe bees or 'l'ha harvest - mm. Ihe fime approaches with unhurried sereniiy. calming qualms and spreading ou+ my mind Io dry. -- mm, Doug Hunter arranges some of the pieces in his senior art exhibit, held during December. Photo Credits: pages 22, 23, 26, 27', 28. Alan Bruches. fhe sfudenf magazine of soufhwesfern college Page 2 Whaf's been happening? A review of curremL evenfs on campus. 8 An inferview wifh one of Soufhwesfern's leading freshmen, presidenf Don Id Rufhenberg. : l6 A review of afhlefic happenings on campus. 20 Can a college feacher find fulmeenf searching for H18 Anasazi? 25 A narrafion and picfures of Me U.S.O. four of He Pacific lasf spring. photo credits Jim Banks, 25 bottom Alan Bruchas, 14, 15, 19 32 Mike Brown, Kathi Phillips, 26, 27, 28, 29 Kathi Phillips, Cover ABRAXAS Volume 1, Number 1 October, 1972 advisor ....................................... Bill H. Stephens current events editor ............................. Tom Wheeler features editor ................................. Susan McGuire sports editor ................................ Rodney Iohannsen abraxas is the student magazine of South western College, Winfield, Kansas 67156 Material contained herein may not be reproduced in any form with- out written consent of the Editors. ge; Okay, so why the change from yearbook a oundbuildeo and newspaper tCollegiam to a Magazine tAbraxasy? Change is an everyday phenomenon in our world. Most people shrug it off, usually as a re- sult of ignorance, tear, or good old apathy. Change can be effective, though, if shaped by 'enough intelligence and sensitivity to eliminate 5ignoranoe, relieve tears, and disintegrate apathy. No doubt we are all basically aware of the changes occurring on our particular campus, but ,how many of us are aware a or concerned a with the behihd-the-scenes scenes, the reasons for or the ve- hicles of these changes? Even more important, how enlightened are we concerning the creative or destructive Changes occurring elsewhere than our own little tt40 acres of Christian atmosphere, 15 miles from any known form of sin ? We can no longer afford to misuse the luxury of a small college by isolating ourselves from changes ei- ther here in our community or in the communi- ties around us. We can no longer afford the lux- ury of shifting responsibilities from our shoulders to the shoulders of others, especially when the responsibilities are ours. We must include our- selves in happenings on our campus and at least keep ourselves alerted to the transient events of our various communities, large and small. That is an essential reason for the advent of Abraxas. The Moundbuilder was never intended to view SC through a larger-world perspective, or vice-versa. The Collegian tried at times but drowned in self- or other-imposed inhibitions. Hopefully, the Abraxas staff will utilize its creative powers to further the potential awareness, con- cern and responsiveness of those associated with Southwestern. The success of this publication, however, de- pends not only upon us as the staff but on you as the participants and readers. Abraxas wel- comes your involvement, your comments, your ideas and your help with Open Arms! On other words, we need all the extra intelligence and sensitivity we can getD. We are opening an Art- Lit section which could have infinite possibilities if you will submit your work. We will have a ttLet- ters to the Editors column begging for come ments, criticism, and new ideas. If you know of any potential story, let us be aware of it; it you have any questions ask us; if you have any sug- gestions, write letters or just tell us about them. The Abraxas staff invites you to participate with us in our support of a and attempts to bring about a creative change. gme- features editor b The editors and their advisor had met for long hours and had planned and mapped out the en- tire first issue of the magazine and yet one thing was still missing. This was a title. A name that would be a beacon to the magazine's readers. A name that would toreshadow the many and var- ied articles contained within its pages. A name that meant scope, viewpoint, and even conflicting opinion. Yet no name could be found. No maga- zine ever came so close to being called lRVlNG than did this fledgling campus publication. Traditional names such as The Moundl or SC. News' were out merely be- cause the magazine was meant as a break from the dying tradi- tions of newspapers and year- books. The new magazine ,needed a name that would catch the eye, something lively, vibrant, alive. But still no name could be found. The editors finally admitted defeat and were about to send , word to the press that IRVING would be the magazines name when they de- cided that a break was in order. Coffee was or- dered for all and as they waited, the editors' talk turned to music. The Santana band was men- tioned and as the editors talked and bandied around album titles, one name struck a Abraxas. The advisor asked what the word meant. As one of the editors explained, it be- came clear to all that here at last was a title to go with the concept. The ancients, said the editor, had never made sharp distinction between opposites. They dis- covered certain mystical connections between hot and cold, good and evil, light and dark, that made them wonder it there was not a god who ruled over all this and just not any restricted part of creation. They had gods of war and gods of peace. But the god of all was Abraxas - varied, contradictory, conflicting, the same - the per- fect name for a magazine that would attempt to cover all the aspects of campus life and interests ABRAXAS - the name for everything under the sun. And so the newborn magazine was called ABRAXAS. The editors were pleased with the beacon-like title and the concepts within. They hoped the readers would feel likewise. What about lrving? He said it was just as well, he only read the funnies anyway. What? JWJW current events editor CURRENT EVENTS The Graduate Donna Bean' 3 1971 graduate of SC , ls the newest em- ployee ot the Admissions Office, Ms. Bean is also the first tulletime woman employee in an ottice that has seen many Changes over the past few months. After graduation ln 1971, Donna attended a secreterial school in Boston for a year. She worked this summer in Wichlta and was planning to work in Washington, D 0., when she was approached by Dr. Ruthenberg for the posi- tion of recruiter. Given only a few hours by the dictates of time to decide, Donna made up her mind to come to SC. and give the recruitment game a try. Ms. Bean brings warmth, charm, tact and honesty to a job that is vital to the existence of any college. A recruiter is the college's ambassador to the outside world and what he or she does reflects directly back to the institution itself. Donna teels that a prospective student should not only be told what courses are offered and how big the sports pro- gram is, but also the attitude and the changes and differ- ence ln oplnion and litestyle he will meet. We agree, 77er I l I amerally funded program recently announced, V College and St. John's College will be devel- , new programs jointly. Wm, backed by a $125,000 grant given through ' g at Title III of the Higher Education Act of ,l he used to better some existing programs of the rim to begin some much needed new ones. mutton o! the new program of the Cooperating a Eollages tCWCt is to help shift the philosophy of a mation and to provide a tiexible program related . Wants lives. the new arrangement, the CWC will collaborate programs into one CWC band and one orches- a tics also will be combined into a joint program. uaqjy Term classes, as well as regular classes offered uztents. will also be available to St. John's stu- Southwestern will otter French and Spanish while St. T5 will offer Greek. German and Latin. The German l v a at St. John's will be strengthened through the use - :Nat'innel Teaching Fellow and through the use of the i mern Maybee Language Laboratory. umug education program will be initiated which will in- he distribution of researched and validated literature ug usage, facts on individual differences in usage and and short range results, Use of resources such as umentary films. slides, tapes. seminars, encounter , and resource persons will be made. A crisis tele- i - center will be established to prowde drug intorma- ; and other forms of help. This may be manned by stu- and community volunteers. A clinical psychologist will V .avallabte to persons on the two campuses. Although 't lly attached to Southwestern, the CWC counselor ' 6 won: with teachers and other low level counselors to . mg about a general climate of awareness ot the particu- w psychological needs of the college students. William iMacMillan, who will have the title of Special Assistant for i,jStudent Services, will fill this job Another program will bring the two CWC libraries closer together. Both libraries will use a common Library of Con- gress cataloging system. St Johns used the Dewey Deci- ' mat System. The combined facilities of over 100,000 vol- umes will be available to students on both campuses. Other areas that will be combined are the business de- partments and the English departments. Byron E. Moore has been employed by the CWC to serve as coordinator of the Title Ill Program. His office will be on the St. John's campus. Kmx Byron Moore, coordinator of the Title III program, Dr Alan Steinbach, dean at St Johns, and Dr. J. Hamby Barton. dean at Southwestern go over some plans tor the new co- operative program. Y', t in. 1-, V0 fer R egisfra fion During tall registration, more than 70 Southwestern stu- dents took the opportunity to register to vote in the Novem- ber election. Marjorie Williams, county clerk of Cowley County, was on campus along with two deputy clerks. They set up right with the college registration lines and, according to the figures compiled by Southwestern junior student Ron Williams, registered six Cowley voters and 64 nonresident voters. Williams also stated that this would not be the final attempt at voter registration on campus and that two registration parties would be held prior to the Oct. 17th deadline. According to Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller, the newly franchised 18-year-old voters as well as college stu- dents can register in the county in which the institution tSouthwesterni they are attending is located. This means that any Southwestern student registered before Oct. 17th in this county tor his home countyi can vote in the Novem- ber election providing arrangements are made for an ab- sentee ballot in the case of those who registered at home toutside ot Cowley Conntyi. EnrollmentL At a time when other private colleges are experiencing a decrease in their enrollment, Southwestern took an upturn in its first day of enrollment and is looking at an increase of Close to ten percent in the freshman class, according to Dr. .J. Hamby Barton, academic dean at Southwestern. Barton said that the freshman class total is 175 students and represents a ten percent increase from last years to- tal. HThe overall total of students is 592, Barton added. HCoupled with this is the fact that Southwestern graduated its largest class in history, 162 students, last year This trend at Southwestern, Barton feels, is due in part to a new academic program at the college, the tuition aid bill which went into effect this tall, and the generous financial aid program in recent years which has made it possible for more students to attend Southwestern. llWi'th our new academic program, it is still possible for upper class transfer students to get started this tall in our ttailor-made' programs, Barton commented, Southwestern planned tor this influx of freshmen and is prepared to meet the needs of a larger class. Barton inter- prets the increase as a demonstration of change in enroll- ment patterns. New Curricuium After two years of study and planning, Southwestern College adopted on Sept. 1, 1972, a new curriculum lor- mat which provides guidance for the student in his life planning and career goals The program is flexible enough to allow for individual needs. Rather than require a large block of identical general studies for every student, the Southwestern program will develop the students general interests in relationship to his own chosen area of speciali- zation, The curriculum will be organized around program areas related to the lite planning processes of the student. Some programs are carefully structured to achieve specific voca- tional goals with a high degree of technical skill. Other pro- grams are organized around specific interest areas but may be diversified for a variety of life planning goals. There is latitude for a student with comprehensive intellectual ln- terests to structure his own program of general studies. These programs are administered by the academic de- partments with the exception of the general studies pro- gram which is under the direction of an interdisciplinary committee The organization of each departmental program will in, clude a core of essential major courses developing basic competence in the chosen field. Clustered around this core will be a group of supporting cognate courses in other de- partments strengthening the essential interiaces of the core with other subject areas. In addition to his specific program, each student is ex- pected to take a number of courses relating to his cultural development and personal interests. These choices grow out of his intellectual curiosity and his broader commitment to the human community. It is anticipated that the manner 0t instruction in every department will develop significant human questions in relationship to the particular subject area. This ttquestion facing can provide direction to the student in making his choices of courses for general cul- tural development and personal interests. Current demands on education require that a student's education fit him not only for what is known today but also to answer tomorrow's unknown questions. In the Southwestern program the student will learn to an- alyze problems and make responsible decisions. The Mound The annual Mound Ceremony was held on Friday night, Sept. 8th. More than 200 alumni, iriends, faculty and stu- dents gathered to listen to speeches and to pile their gaily colored rocks on the Mound, The crowd gathered in the main parking lot beside Christy Administration building and then journeyed down the '77 to the Mound area. They stopped along the way to listen to speeches given by various club and team mem- bers. On arriving at the Mound, speeches were given by Kim Moore, past STUCO President, President Ruthenberg, Murrel Snyder, Dan Daniel, and the various class presi- dents. When the speeches were concluded and all the rocks were thrown, a moment of silence was observed and then taps were played to end the evening on a sentimental note. After a term rather full of surprises, Richard Nixon is again vying for the US. presidency. In his attempt to fill election promises, Nixon has worked for a balance between negotiations with world powers and reassurance to smaller nations and other allies. After he had already set up a summit meeting with Soviet leaders in Mos- cow, he surprised the public with the announce- ment of his plans to visit with Red Chinese lead- ers in a summit conference in Peking. He subse- quently assured allies such as South Vietnam and Japan of continued support and friendship from the U. S. and he thus accomplished both a working relationship with formerly hostile powers and 'an understanding with skeptical older nation- friends. Nixon also surprised the country with a wage- price freeze and a follow-up plan. for gradual, flexible relaxation of government restrictions to reduce inflation. As a result of this governmental intervention, inflation has dropped from 3.8070 to 2.8070 within the span of one year. US. international economic policy was changed under Nixon in order to discard out- dated trade agreements with formerly disadvan- taged nations such as Japan To accomplish this, the dollar was de- valued to 85070 of its former worth on internat tional markets forcing an unex- pected policy change on the part of other na- tions whose agreements with us had not prog- ressed since WW. II. Nixon sought a new approach to developing nations, especially the third-world nations in Latin America, Asia and Africa. His HNixon Doctrine provides for the ability and responsibility of third- world nations to determine their own forms of government and to decide upon the use of pre- ferred foreign aid. It also recognizes the obliga- tions of other powerful nations to provide foreign aid to these countries and by doing so lowers international expectations of the United States. The Nixon Administration arranged a cease-fire in the Middle East which lasted longer than the established 90-day terms. It also agreed to the seabed treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons from the ocean floor and the Nuclear Non-Proliteration Treaty, which banned the spread of weapons having the power of mass destruction. Under Nixon, draft calls dropped from 300,000 annually to below 100,000 in 1971, with Nixon's pledge to lower it to 50,000 in 1972 and to zero in 1973. He Changed the draft system to lottery selection, reducing draftability uncertainties for men from seven years to a one-year period. He phased out student deferments and deferments for others who had been given more protection against the draft. : Nixon proposed the elimination of several ex- ecutive departments and the re-organization of their functions into four new departments de- signed to implement the major purposes of the government. He also set up new executive units tn . '-I 7.111! I, lx I 1' to tiziandle problemsixuronmental prc te ion, rnail deliw . Urrier pretection an child deve opment. He has reformed and et panded m power training programs and signe into law the EmergenCy Employment Act i 1971. As President, Nixon has sponsored major eI penditures to fashion new crimeI-detecting de vices which have cut down Crime in WashingtOI D. Q, and other cities. He also launched a con prehensive program to affect drug abuse by cu ting drug supplies at the source He has proposed reforms to involve more olde people in voluntary community programs and he requested a major increase in the budget of th Administration on Aging. He offered programs fc more Social Security reform, lowered the votin age to 18, brought more young into governmeI service and sponsored the first White Hous Conference devoted to youth. Nixon opposed mass busing to achieve raci; balance and has proposed instead to allocat $2.5 billion mainly toward improving educatio for children from poor families. Federal aid t black colleges has more than doubled since h election. Nixon critics have accused him of waiting uni the right political moment to make his suprise ar nouncements, and they dislike his policy of se cretiveness. Consumer prices as of this dat tearly Septembeo have not noticeably been re du'ced, yet the producers market prices have de creased considerably. Domestics has been th most criticized of his policies, as well as unce tain race relations; some argue against him be cause his promise to end the war has not yt been fulfilled. . Voter's Dilemma: Who For '72? mocratic ' subject of i'sm since 13 the firstt II volvementOQGS e hai 369m South Da- m a traditionally Repu'c an state where he rn and reared as the son of a Wesleyan dist minister. He was a bomber pilot in receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross lhas his Ph. D in history He served as execu- retary of the Democratic party in South a from 1958-56, then served in the US. ot Representatives from 1967-61 and has I n the Senate since 1963. an effort to bring American POWis and o home as soon as possible, McGovern and a Mark Hatfield of Oregon offered a series of -the-war amendments. He has repeatedly for a withdrawal timetable and pledges a ay withdrawal of all ground forces in Indo- if elected. He has also been associated the effort to replace compulsory military ,. ce with an all- volunteer armed forces I slated to McGovern' 3 position on Vietnam are 1.1 views on defense spending His plans would the proposed $765 billion detense budget 1973 under Nixont to $54.8 billion by 1975, down from LBJ's $78.7 billion 096m. He also proposed a bill in 1971 which would ease the economic transition from military to civilian pro- duction. This bill provides incentives to industry, aids to labor during the conversion period, and a reduction in unemployment. McGovern has also sponsored bills to improve rural conditions and thus discourage migration to already overcrowded areas. He was a leading opponent of the SST and worked for limits on price increases by monopolies. A McGovern presidency would mean higher taxes for big busi- ness and those with salaries over $50,000, which, combined with cuts in military spending, would result tas per his plany in more social spending, i.e. more schools and hospitals, more pollution and drug control, more public transit, and assistance for civilian research and develop- ment. McGovern ,has co-sponsored every major piece of civil rights legislation from the 1963 Act to voting rights laws. He has also co-sponsored the major Constitutional amendments of recent years. including those on presidential succes- sion, direct election of the president, and the 18- year-old vote. He has fought for the equal rights of women since 1957 and is supported by the National Womenis Political Caucus; he believes that abortion laws should be decided by the indi- vidual states and advocates more day care cen- ters for the vast numbers of working mothers. He has served as chairman of the Senate lndian Ai- tairs Sub-committee, and has sponsored legisla- tion for Indian economic development, loan guar- antees for Indians, school construction and pilot educational programs. He has worked on behalf of the Sioux tribes and supported the return of the Blue Lake to the Taos Pueblo. McGovernis welfare reforms emphasize em- ployment in order to reduce poverty, and he led in Senate efforts to improve the proposed Family Assistance Plan. He co-sponsored proposals for coordination of family planning and population research. He proposed that 25LMi of defense pro- curement be allocated to small businesses and urged that smalI-business proprietors should en- joy the same pension and profit-sharing rights as employees. McGovern has co-sponsored bills for research in the education of the mentally retarded and for exceptional children. He worked for the establish- ment of special programs for the elderly and tor expansion of the Head Start Program. He was also chief sponsor of the Coalition Farm Bill and a bill to safeguard tailing farm income. McGovern has been criticized for his changea- bleness; his positions on abortion have become more conservative and he has re-worked his plans for welfare reform by emphasizing jobs in- stead of a minimum income for every family. He has also been accused 01 financial extrava- gance. below: The president, the dean, faculty, administrators and secre- taries gather for coffee, cokes and conversation. 1953; his Masier's degree I Theology in 1956 from Ill School of Theology: h' M. Southwestern's new presi- dent, Dr. Donald Ruthenberg, took office on July 1, 1972. The 41-year-old Ohio native re ceived his BA. degree fro Baldwin-Wallace college in far left: Dr. Ruthenberg's first few days in the office required unpacking and, left, meeting alumni at several picnics sponsored by the alumni board. below: In addition to camping and winter sports, the Ruthenbergs enjoy biking. Left to right are Dee Wrm Ruthenberg, Briakn, Donneli, Charlene, Janet and Mar . Hus background includes a faculty posmon at Glendale College m Cam, as asst. prof. of sociology and psychology: Dean of Men 211 Baldwin-Wal- lace College; Dean of Students at Dakota Wesleyan University; Vnce-Presidem for Student Af- fairs at the University of Red- iands, Calif.; and Director of Educatnonal Research and Pro- gram Development at Ottawa Mam University. How do we turn it around so that l, as president, don't think everything is wonderful and the student doesn't think everything is bad? an interview by Ron Williams WILLIAMS: I have wondered 7 and I was one of the students that met with you when you were Interviewed a why you chose Southwestern, I was impressed with your capability and your talent in the field of higher edu- cation administration. Why did you choose a college that has a tradition of ministers as presidents and not ad- ministrators; one that is in obvious difficulty along with other small, pri- vate institutions? RUTHENBERG: I suppose I'd have to say, in all honesty, that it was the school I felt needed me the most. When you talk about the tradition of ministers, you know that I have a ministerial background. And while my ministry does not reflect the pastoral relationship, I do consider the educa- tional calling the same as a pastoral minister might. I felt, ot the schools I was looking at and the positions that were available to me, Southwestern needed me the most. I don't want that to sound totally euphonious, be- cause I do have a concern. I am quite a believer in the Hbrides- maids college concept. You go to a wedding and the bride is already taken, but the bridesmaid is still avail- able, so to speak. Southwestern, in a sense, represents a bridesmaid col- lege. It has all of the tools, the where-with-all, a good student body and it has an exciting faculty South- western may not be in any more trou- ble than anybody else because Southwestern is Willing to recognize that she has some difficulties. I was looking at two other institu- tions besides Southwestern when I was interviewing. I knew that I could be president of either of those two in- stitutions. Both were larger a one was three times 808 size. It seemed to me that the faculty was kind of complacent there. I felt that at South- western the students and faculty I met were eager to do something new. They had gone a certain path and now they wanted to turn a cor- ner. It seemed to me that here I could influence more myselt. I guess, in a sense, your own ego gets involved. I really beIIeve a and this may sound corney to some people - but I really do believe that I was called to Southwestern. I think that there Is a providential relationship that put all of these things in order. WILLIAMS: Now that you have had a couple of months to feel out the ex- ecutive committee of the board of trustees and meet withthe adminis- tration, what do you see as the direc- tion that Southwestern should go? RUTHENBERG: What I'd like to see us do is to become more involved with the real world in terms of what we can offer to our students. That is not to move us toward vocational- technical kinds of programs, but it is necessary today to make sure that the liberal arts is not just frosting on the cake. We have to get to the point where, when you graduate from col- lege, you will have a vocational orien- tation which WIII do something for you, Recently I roughed out a 20-page demonstration of a case study tor our institution. This involves a description of what I think Its ChurCh-relatedness should be, what I think the Board's functions should be, how much we open up to the public and inform them of what our probIems really are. the kind of students we should look for geographically as well as academ- ically, and the kind of program devel- opment we need. Having said that. going back to Ion, which is couched in xNow-that-I've-had-this-time- us,' my leeling is that we pretty good management table to us. I operate on the tuntil proven differently, ev- here deserves to be here. I ate on the basis that it they deserve to be here, they are I g to stay. While I don't want the anxiety level, I'm not go- tolerate lncompetency in the ns. I'm favorably impressed re ability of people who are catch a glimpse of where we a. We have been throwing und the last month, some of Im sure students on campus believe because they are lot unbelievable in our own eye. of the things I want to do is to ' our degree, Your degree to- tsn't going to be worth a heck of ttve years from now unless it ap- to what you are doing. I cannot, L ass of what your major is, pre i what tools you will really need in of job skills. Neither can any- se. But we can predict the per- el problems and the societal ems you will tace as you live life, in terms of the value orien- and life style you will have. , m trying to do Is get the entire I conscious of describing the e, the goal orientation, and the net objectives we want our stu- to have so they can tunctlon sonally, interculturally, univer- . and internationally. 1they can achieve their vocational s because their skills will be liable to them. I know that sounds . lly broad, but let me pin-point it little more by saying it you are in nomics, for instance, we know. tthe geopolitical scene today has ged the economic processes; economics courses I took 15 rs ago have no relationship to to- 5 economic reality. 80 we hired a ess administration teacher who, , a he has all 01 the academic l cations, has spent the last 12 rs In the actual practice of busi- adminlstration. He has certain s and knowledge that the average ulty member in business adminis- ration doesn't have because busi- ness has changed. Five years from now, his expertise, it he stays in the IieId of teaching, may have the edges rubbed off. This means that we have to restructure oursabbatical program. It means too, that when a faculty member goes on sabbatical, he doesn't just go and sit in the halls ot academe and retool himself among those fellows who have been retooling themselves He goes back into the world where he has to work, to learn how to under- stand what is going on in the world he is sending graduates into. I'm a very hard-nosed believer of that. I think one of the best things a sociolo- gist can do, for instance, on sabbati- cal, is work in a service station. I did several years ago when I was on the staff at the University of Redlands. They will find out what people are like again. Not theoretical learning, but practical tttiring-Iine kinds ot experi- ence. I think maybe retail sales in a K-Mart would be very good for a psy- Chologist. WILLIAMS: Or a bartender? RUTHENBERG: I always hesitate to put that in because, while I am not a prohibitionist, I am an abstainer and have other hang-ups about alcohol. At any rate, it, this happens to fac- ulty members, then I'm sure it hap- pens to graduates. So, one of my ideas is that five years alter you grad- uate you should be able to come back to the college and take some courses which maybe you missed. Maybe you tind in your job that it wouldnt hurt tor you to know a little bit about the opera, so you come back and take a course in operatic music. No charge. This is our ware ranty. Now, 15 years after you graduate, maybe you have decided that your vocational goal in life Isn't quite the way you want it to be. So, you should be eligible to come back as an alum- nus and take career planning and placement tests and perhaps change yourlvocatlonal goal betore you get too Old to make the shift, We know that 420A of our popula- tion changes its vocational reach be- tween the ages of 85 and 45. That's kind of a vocational menopause. We have ignored that in higher educa- tion. I'm saying if our institution is re- ally up on it, we will take advantage of this kind of learning thing The as- sumption is if a man Is 40 years old, and we really do something signiti- cant, he is not going to say HWell, you owe this to me because I bought your product 20 years ago. We hope that he acknowledges that when we are talking about education tor life, we mean it. When you get the degree, it isntt the end ot your edu- cational experience. It Is indeed the beginning. We have given you the tools to start off at that moment. but what you do with the tools, and how you retool trom time to time is impor' tant. Any industry knows this. You have to continually retool to stay up with the product, Why should educa- tion be any ditterent? I hope that we are the first college in the country to warranty our degree. Hopefully our alumni would respect this and those who participated and those who didn't would be proud of the fact that their school was on the top 01 the thing. WILLIAMS: It sounds like a remarka- ble program. It was my understande Ing that in July you were to report to the executive committee on any ma- jor changes that you had planned to make at the college. Can you reveal any of them? RUTHENBERG: Yes. I found that I wasnt as prepared as I thought I would be at the end of July! It will probably be later before I have them finalized. I'm willing to share these with you because I have already shared them pretty openly with the staff. As I said before, I'm not about to make any broad changes in current Individual personnel. I do feel that. tor Instance, the admission and develop- ment function are a similar one. I'm going to combine those offices. In combining them it will mean a rea- lignment of assignments for many persons. In realigning the assign- ments we wIll be moving people In the building. We will have an adjust- ment 01 office space. We are working on that right now. It should mean a much more eificient operation. Titles will undoubtly Change. I have talked to all of the staff in development and admissions. I do think that we are go- ing to have to bring in someone from the outside to do the coordination in the area of development. I have no- body lurking in the backdrop waiting to come on board. I have no staff I am bringing with me. One of the problems with a school like Southwestern is that it's often easy to add statt it they don't cost very much. I think we are top heavy in administrative staff for the number of students we serve, That does not mean that people shouldn't be there, it means that maybe we should rede- fine their roles and functions. I think we have passed the time when we can afford to have development and admissions compartmentalized to the point where one man is responsible for one phase of development and one for another. Schools are getting away from this business of having one man in alumni affairs and one man in estate planning and one man working toundations. What we need is more of a generalist approach. A man who Is out in the field trying to raise annual budget underwriting also is aware of student availability and maybe can serve as a tield man in admissions. In that area I probably should say that ltm not asoriented as the school has been in terms of bringing stu- dents in from long distances. In other words, the Atlantic Seaboard student who comes to us, that's fine and dandy, but I don't believe in the Mheadhunter arrangement with someone on the east coast who just l2 cont. from page 77 dredges up students. I do believe we can get as heterogenious a student body by just cultivating the midwest. I think we haven't done anything in scratching the potentials in Nebraska, Colorado and Oklahoma. Besides that, I don't think we have really done much in Kansas. I'm disappointed that for some reason we assume that Topeka and Kansas City are in an- other world because they are in the East Conference of the Church. At that point I'm kind of selfish. I take John Wesleyts admonition that the world is my parish. There are no pol- ity agreements with any other institu- tion that we can't come in and get students from certain areas, We aren't competing with Baker and Kansas Wesleyan at this point We get an entirely different group of stu- dents from an entirely different locale. A man in church relations should also be an admissions man and a man in deterred giving should also be in church Relations and a man In alumni affairs should be in all the oth- ers. We have to get someone to co- ordinate that. Someone to put it all together. I'd like to try it, but I haven't got time If I am going to be doing all 01 the other things that have to be done. I also have to reduce, in terms of my concept of administration, the number of persons who report di- rectly to the president. We cent at ford the luxury of that. It's not that I want to withdraw from this, but I want to develop middIe-management re- sponsibilities. Part of the scheme that Im putting forth to the executive committee, and the entire board, in- volves a reallocation oi who reports to whom and when and how. This kind of delegation does not mean that I am abdicatlng responsi- bility for it because l'm a very nosy kind of guy and I do want to know what's happening, but I don't want to have to make all of the decisions. And. indeed, it's at that point that people who cannot make decisions cannot stay because the schooI can- not aIIord the luxury 01 it. WILLIAMS: l see your point. Just looking at the organization of the ad- ministration, it appears that middle- management has been sorely lacking. RUTHENBERG: And yet, I think we have good people who can assume this kind of responsibility, I hasten to add! WILLIAMS: The responsibility hasnt been there to assume. RUTHENBERG: That's right, WILLIAMS: lid like to get back to ad- missions for just a moment. You were probably aware of some of the dim- culties we have had in the past. Even at the time you came for an interview some students talked to you about recruiting difficuities. How do you feel about such things and in what way can your reorganization of the admis- sions and development departments remedy this difficult situation? RUTHENBERG: As you are probably aware, I already have student recrui- ters on the road. I think, while its a ' good move, it's probably an hour late and a dollar short. It was just three or tour months too late. My own feeling is that we should have 25-year-olds on the road doing basic recruiting for us. In tact, we just hired a young woman, a 1971 graduate of South- western, to join the admissions statt Now, this is recognizing that some 60-year-old men can do a good job of admissions counseling. But they don't hit all of the peoples The thing that we have to face, Ron, is the very real fact that you can't put down an admissions office simply because they haven't delivered. There are other factors that go into this. Our lo- cation, the kind of student body we attract, among other things. Students influence where other students go, If our undergraduates are going back to their home towns and their churches and schools, they will be our best promotional agents. What I need is someone who can coordinate that student effort, so that a student, realizing, on a weekend, when he is at a party, that he can do more to influence who comes to Southwest ern than 100 admissions counselors. We know that the guidance couna selor in the high schools, unless the student specifies he wants a private school, will never mention Southwest- ern. It means we have to get the stuv dents when they are juniors in high school and get them to say when they go in to talk to their counselor, HHey, I'm interested in that little Methodist college down in Winfield. That brings up the second prob- lem. The average Methodist minister. We are complaining because the ministers don't send us the students. The truth of the matter is, I don't think the ministers have the students to send us When ministers of this conference come to me and say, HTeII me why I should counsel a stus dent to come to Southwestern? What can they get there that they can't get at Ft. Hays or Emporia? That dem- onstrates his lack of interest, knowls edge and understanding ot the church-related institution. I'm not put- ting them down, except obviously, it's a rhetorical question which is usually asked in a defense beCause the chances are good. when I hear a minister say that, that he hasnt been on our campus nor has he sent us a student in five or six years. One young minister in this conier- ence was in my home last week and we were talking about this 'very thing. He was saying how conservative his church was. He couldn't get things done. I said, 'Now wait a minute. You came out of a church just like that. What makes you so much more liberal now than your church? He said it was his education. I asked him why he didn't educate the people In his congregation. He said that was the college's job, but he won't send us any students. What I was saying to him was, obviously, his own frus- tration in his pastoral ministry was creating a difficulty between him and his educational institution. We liber- ated him In a sense, But he is unable to pass that educational liberation on to a congregation, As a result, l think he has lost the I4-to 19-year-olds in his congregation. The ones who are loyal are pretty docile kinds of kids. They will probably go to the local JUCO for two years and then on to Emporia State. It's a tragedy to see him tlail out against the college be- cause we may be more vulnerable at this point. That minister has very little influ- ence. Indeed, most of the ministers l have talked to have little idea of where the kids in their congregations are going. This is sort of distressing to me. Fifteen or twenty years ago the minister had a great deal ot intIu- ence among this line. The ACT stud- ies have demonstrated that U the high school counselor 2t the minister and St the parent have, in that order, influence as to where the kids go to school. Whats the thumber one key? It's the current college student, The peer. The fellow who says I'm going to Southwestern. Come on and go with me? Or 'lGee, Southwestern is great. Look what they are doing in Cowley County. They are giving Cowley County residents a $360 per year scholarship to live on the cam- pus. That's what sells! One student can, in less time and using less energy, ettectively recruit more students than 100 admissions counselors, if he is interested It's more believabte, isnt it? If I'm a 42- year-old admissions counselor and I talk to you and say, Ron, you really ought to go to this school because it would mean a great deal to you, y0u would be thinking 'tYeah, yippie. Hurrah for him. He's getting paid for me coming there and it he doesn't get x-number of students, he's in trouble Now, if I'm a sophomore and I say HRon, man, what I really found there. It's a ditterent kind of relation- ship. I can talk about the faculty ratio and you can say. Yeah, It's neat. But it I'm a student and I say to you. I was in my professor's home last week, its really fantastic. It's believ- able. It's hard to believe a 42-year- old admissions counselor because what does he know about where you are as an 18-year-old? We need to get a more believable image. In that regard, we have to make sure that our 0n-campus image is the same as our oft-campus image We have to face the tact that our constit- uents deserve to know what the insti- tution is all about. Warts and all! It's at this point that we, with integrity, say yes, we do have our oroblems. But also we can, with integrity, say that we are working our way out of them. This is the way we are working our way out of them. I think people are ready to buy that. WILLIAMS: That has been one of the ditticulties, the 42-year-old recruiter. I'm not certain that it's the fact that he is 42 years old, but one of our problems here is that the 42-year-old recruiter doesnit know what is going on here on the campus. It may be the nature of his work keeps him away from the campus a lot. Do you see any way of improving that? RUTHENBERG: Everybody should know as much about what is going on and be as open as they can. It's possible to be a taculty member or an administrator and not know whats going on, It's possible to live in a res- idence hall as head resident and not really know what's going on. We have to share things with each other. I recognize that you canit share ev- ery aspect of campus lite with some 90-year-old dowager that you are working out a life income annuity contract with She just doesn't under- stand much of what students are do- ing. But you don't lie to her about it either. And I'm not suggesting that there has been a lot of lying. lim suggest- ing that we are all kind of like Alice in Wonderland; so often we dont worry about where we are going as much as the tact that we are going some- place. Itls possible too to love some- thing so much that in a misguided sense you play Chamber ot Com- merce. You really begin to believe that is the way it is. I think a lot of that happens. Especially as you get removed from the campus and it gets idealized One of the problems i see with young people today, and I don't let them oft the hook, is that they say they want It like it is, but the truth of the matter is that they have little room tor a fantasy life. It's a shame that they can say it isnt really all that wonderful a place. They expect total and instant gratification all of the time. That is a broad generalizatlon and i may be in trouble with it More often than not, the kid who is dissat- isfied with Southwestern is the one who feels he needs total and instant gratification. If he doesnt get it right now, it's the school's tault. He has never been able to internalize that maybe his inputs are a little out of wack. That is a real possibility. How do we turn it around so I, as presi- dent, don't think everything is won- derful and the student doesnit think everything is bad? One way Is to communicate. I'm very willing to let everybody know what llm thinking about in terms of administrative management. There is no hidden agenda, We can no longer afford a hidden agenda. To hide what we are doing here on this hill from our constituency is to commit sui- cide Now, there are those who tell me that to discuss as openly as I do what I plan to do may also be suicide because I may not be able to deliver. Thatis true, but if I can't deliver, them I'd just as leave not be in the posi- tion, This is another reason why I Chose Southwestern. It seemed to be a school that was available to do this kind of thing. It seemed to be a place where I could put it all out on the ta- ble and say llHey, these are all of the marbles I own. Letls select the ones we want to use for the game. As we pick them up and use them some will break Finel So they got broken! They will break anyway whether I share them all or not! This is the Greek sys- tem of education that we have be- lieved in all of our life. Reasonable men sit down and evaluate everything that is available to them and then pick and choose the best and take some risks and lose some. It's at ev- ery point the system breaks down that we move into the dark ages. Higher education administration has done that in the past 15 years. It has kind of been in the dark ages. I main- tain it is time for a renaissance. This doesnt mean that we can be flashy and 100 percent right right away. All I am asking is for historians 50 years from now to look back and say it was an age of enlightenment. Enlighten- ment comes to you as you are willing to share the birth pangs. This brings to mind an analogy that may be useful. I have had the experi- ence of being in a labor room and in a delivery room at the time of birth I think every husband should have that experience By the same token, a student doesn't know what kind of birth pangs an institution is going through. All he sees is what is pres- ented to him BANG at curtain time. There was something that went on in the introduction of the play e the prebirth pangs e the labor pains e aII oi the things that went on to make this thing. It the baby comes out mu- tilated or the play is is a flop, that doesn't distract anything from the production, it's just kind of the culmi- nation of the production. A college is not much different from that. We need to keep that in mind BACK Ah, the art of coming back to school as an up- perclassman. With one to three years of registra- tion experience behind us, we could relax and not worry about things like schedules, signatures and elusive advisors twe wism. Some of us got into the swing of things the first week by getting to know freshmen and helping them get acq- uainted with Southwestern. Then there were some who had enough trouble just moving in and juggling classes, Perhaps a few of us were so experienced that there was no excitement in starting school again, as evidenced by the scene of the crash at right . . . Nevertheless, in spite of all the major and minor hassles we were con- fronted with when we became students again, it was almost fun to come back. Getting into the groove with old friends was a pretty nice experi- ence, while the possibilities for new friendships were everywhere. Seeing your favorite teachers again wasn't all that bad, either. Once in a while our schedules would even work out to OUR sat- isfaction . . . It was good to be back. by Rodney Johannsen Near the end of the school year last May, an astounding athletic victory took place. On May 12 the Southwestern College track team Scored an overwhelming number of points, 198, to whip second place finisher, McPherson, who scored 128 pomts in the KCAC Conference Champi- onship. Since the meet was held at McPherson the Bull- dogs were picked to win. With the meet in all reality between McPherson and Southwestern, Coach Robert Karr, about a week before the big meet, figured out how Southwestern would do against McPherson both optimistically and pessimisticallyv Optimis- tically, SC would score 88 points in the field and 121 points on the track to score overall 209 points. Mac would have scored 148 points overall, 48 in the field and 100 on the track. Pessimistically, SC would score 0th 167 pomts overall, 77 in the field and 90 on the track Mac would have scored 50 points in the field and 137 points on the track for an overall score of 187. So, optimistically SC would win by 61 points and pessimistically SC would lose by ZOtpOintst : As it turned out, Southwestern scored 93 points in the field to McPherson's 30 points; on the track, SC outdis- tanced Mac 105 to 98. Needless to say, the Builders did as well as they could have been expected. Coach Karr com- mented thatl llAs far as I know, this 098 pointsy was a record number of points scored in this track event. Also, the 70 point spread was the biggest margin of victory ever. The first finished event of the meet was the hammer throw. SC placed first and second to score 18 points to put them in a lead they never relinquished. The next finished event was the three mile run. McPherson was expected to score well, but SC outscored them 12 to 9 in this event. These two events seemed to set the tone for the entire day. At the end of all the afternoon events Southwestern had a 105-39 lead As Coach Karr said, llWe really put it to them However, I thought Mac might be able to catch us on the track. Even though we were in pretty good physical shape, we had had several disappointments during the season. As the evening progressed the Builders kept scoring and in the end, SC had outscored McPherson on the track '1 . a victory in itself, as Karr put it, Southwestern won all four trophies e- the team championship trophy, the 440 Relay trophy, the Mile Relay trophy, and the most individ- ual points trophy as Ken Nixon scored 84 points In all, SC had nine first place finishes Karr stated that this was his . sweetest Victory. We really had come back after people had doubted our ability. It was truly a team victory as we got it together These guys had found out the year before that the difference be- tween a championship and second place could be a fifth place finish in an event rather than a sixth place? in the previous year, SC lost the track crown by one point to Ote tawa University. 3 Kerr said that senior Mike Hiebert probably summed up the glorious day best Hiebert, a lavelin thrower who holds the SC record with a toes of 238'4 , had a brilliant career with Southwestern. He went to many various relays where he set some records and had competed in the NAIA Championships three times, placing second in 1971. Mike told Coach Karr that , watching my teammates clinch the victory was one of my biggest thrills. Ive never been so excited in athletic competition l l Miss Cheryl Kaufman is Southwestern's new tull-time menls physical education teachers From Moundridge, an,x Miss Kaufman attended Bethel College for one year, '1 en transferred to Kansas State where she graduated in 1970. During 1970-71 she attended Oklahoma State where e earned her Masters degree. During this time she also tested in teaching. Last year Miss Kaufman was at the i lversity of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, teaching l: a laboratory school. . When there was an opening at SC Miss Kaufman de- tded to try to come here for several reasons She had Liends from K-State and OSU teaching in Kansas and aklahoma and still has some ties to Oklahoma State, Be- fdes Winfield being closer to home, she said that in Cedar ails, 'lThe Winters were too cold and the summers were .u humid I also like to teach the college-age student. Miss Kaufman was excited to be here and was im- ressed with the facilities of Southwestern as related to its 7.8. t'The physical education facilities are exceptional. ihere is a lot to start with, Even in the area outside of RE, he Student Union and Darbeth are exceptional. South- estern looks like a progressive school. I was impressed i-y the administration and faculty!' She added that she also iked the idea of Southwestern being on a hill Asked about what she would like to do here at SC, she : pressed concern about the number of girls in physical uucation. Hltd like to build more of a major tor girls. All we ave now is the teaching part of PE. We need to get to elated areas. There needs to be more health, recreation, nhysical therapy and physical education for the handicap- Ied e the latter especially with the Winfield State Hospital nd Training Center so close. Of course, it will be a long .ul and many details need to be worked out. JHopetullyy ,ume changes will take place next year? In her first few weeks at Southwestern she found every- ne helpful Miss Kaufman said that coed classes would be :2: new experience for her. Besides her teaching duties, 3 iss Kaufman will also be known as HCoach Kaufman as E he will be coaching girls, tennis and basketball and maybe olleyball, Southwestern welcomes Miss Cheryl Kaufman, knowing t 3 students will benefit from her presence. Plans are now underway for the refinishing ot the tennis courts west of Sutton Hall on the Southwestern campus. hese courts will be known as the 'tR. T. Hower Memorial Tennis Courtsll in memory of Athletic Director Robert .Hower who died trorn injuries in a car accident last spring. The city 0t Winfield previously owned the courts, but has now deeded them to Southwestern. The tennis courts will have new backstops and a completely new artifical surface dialled plexipave. Plans call for the work to be done by next spring. Bill Stephens, SCts new athletic director, is in the proc- Eess ot raising the needed money. A mailing has gone out lto Alumni asking for donations. Friends of Bob cher and pf the college are also invited to donate. Students may iCentribute money at the Development Office. below: Miss Cheryl Kaufman Rodney Johannsen A bicycle ride last spring from Winfield to Ark back raised $1300. On Dec. 9 of this year. Southwestern basketball team plays Sacred Heart ita in Stewart Field House, the tund-raising will 6 game it is hoped that all basketball players who a der Coach Hower will be present. The proceeds game will go to the tennis courts. The tennis courts were selected because the be lasting, to benetit male and female, athlete and no' lete; in other words, to beneltt as many peopte as w ' The Athletic Department at Southwestern College has a new look this fall. There is a new athletic direc- tor, a new football coach, and a new womenls physi- cal education teacher. The new athletic director is Bill; Stephens, who took over after Robert Howerls death, Jim Paramore, the Builder football coach, and Cheryl Kaufman, women's P.E. teacher, are the new addle tions. Robert Karr is still the cross-country and track coach. Stephens, who doubles as the Moundbuilder has? ketball coach, does the administrative part of t ; work. Being athletic director involves several duties; Stephens is the t'public relations man for the athlet', department. He's in charge of tund-raising, organiza; tion ot the department, and the buying ot equipme tie He also aids in the making of schedules for the vari; ous varsity sports. Plans for the immediate future include refinishing the tennis courts and building a new weight room. The weight room will be completely redone and will be fully equipped, including a weight machine. It wilt be located under the Stewart gym and hopefully com-. pleted this year. Already accomplished is the retinish- ing of the Stewart gym tloor. As Coach Stephens: commented, llThe parkbench green has been changed to Builder purple. As a point of interest three former Southwestern Relays performers participated in the Olympic Games;- in Munich, Germany. Last year Preston Carrington, long jumper, participated unattached in the long jump. Jeff Bennett, from Oklahoma Christian Collagen was in the SC Relays from 1968-1971, He current holds SC Relay records in the long jump. triple jump pole vault, and was a member of the 006 two mile relay team, Bennett, in the deoathlon at Munich, is also the co-holder ot the 100 yard dash mark. Jim: Ryan'ran as a high schooler in the Relays represent- ing Wichita East. Another Olympic deoathlon mem-, ber, Bruce Jenner ot Graceland College in Iowa, ran against SC in the Graceland Relays. The Southwestern College football team has a new coach this year, Jim Paramore. And, with only four seniors back from last year's team, the team will be somewhat unexperienced. Last year saw fourteen Builders graduate. However, Coach Paramore believes that even though inex- perienced, 'They are a great bunch of kids. They believe in what we are doing and are giving their best. And as fans and coaches, we cant ask for any more. What the players are Hbelieving in is a balanced attack on offense and a good solid defense. In response to a question of why not more of a passing attack than say a running attack, Paramore replied, 'We want to be equally effective in both running and passing. Then we can take advantage of the defense they are in. if they are vulnerable for the run, we'll run. 80, in some games there will be more passing and in others more running. ; The type of offense that will give Southwestern this bal- anced attack is the 'iPro-I formation. The quarterback, fullback, and tailback are behind the center with wide re- ceivers on both sides. Out of this can be run the triple op- tion and a pass can go to either side. it is a power-type oi attack that can go up the middle, otf-tackle, or wide. There will be play-action passes and sprint outs. But. no matter what type of offense 3 team has, it comes down to execution. Coach Paramore hopes that the team keeps the mistakes to a minimum. HMost football games are lost, not won. We don't want to beat ourselves. A great deal of emphasis has been pointed to the de- tense. As the coach said, tilt they cant score, they cant beat you. We hope the defense Will get us the ball in good position. The type of detense will be the Pro 4'3 setup. That is, up front will be tour linemen and three linebackers, There will be, though, variations of this defense when the situation exists Coach Paramore has four assistant coaches. whom he calls . . . a good bunch of coaches. They are doing an excellent job. Their enthusiasm and knowledge is just great. We couldn't get much better coaches. These four assistants are Jake Brennan tin charge of the defensive linet, Bill Stephens tin charge of the defensive secondaryl, Al Holderman tin charge of the linebackers and the deten- sive coordinated, and Bob Karr 0n charge of the offensive linei. in closing, Coach Paramore said, llSouthwestern used to have tremendous followings, not only in sports, but outside of sports. This seems to have been lacking the past few years. We hope we can get back the support and get peo- ple spirited again. We want the students to have pride in Southwestern because this is a great school that has a great faculty, student body, and administration. i QUEST FOR THE ANASAZP9 The Hcrew mot to be confused with curlew, a bird - as in a curlew in the hand . . . t. 20 OR PARLEZ-VOUS ANASAZI? satin by dan daniois Why, travel's become the greatest occupation of people with nothing to do, you find second- hand kings and all sorts of useless people at it. There now, its always the heroic places you find them intruding, trying to have a share in the work of great men . . . . W. Gaddis, The Recognitions At last, noticing something familiar in the dis- mal adobe world of Taos Pueblo, several brightly clad tourists stride toward the aluminum framed windows. Plastic name tags catch the sun as Ni- kons and Pentaxes are readied. Suddenly, a nearby door opens and a stocky figure, pulling his blanket around his shoulders, advances to meet the startled group. The more timid begin to move toward the safety of cars while the others strike Custerlike poses. Both groups, however, are immediately disarmed by the Indian's quick grin and booming voice: ttHi! Where you all from? , If my idea succeeds, you have just read a i scene from a future teievision special. The con- cept owes its birth to the old HSafe Driver's Quiz? 'As you may recall, that went something like this: twin spots of light race toward the viewer, when, without warning, the screen goes blank. The car's engine continues to roar, how- ever, as the following question comes out of the darkness. . . YOUR LIGHTS FAIL WHILE ON THE INTER- ATE. SHOULD YOU: aJ ACCELERATE? KICK THE DIMMER SWITCH? DIVE FOR THE BACK SEAT? OR CURSE 'RALPH NADEFFS PAR- ENTS FOR DELAYING HIS CON- CEPTION? i the proposed sequel entitled either Westward I36 the Anglo or tlAngIo Unaware the camera jj-uld freeze the advancing Indian and retreating rlsts. Superimposed on the scene now ap- .t,:4r.S . . IN THIS SITUATION SHOULD YOU: aj SPRINT TO YOUR CAR AND DRIVE RAPIDLY TO YOUR MOTEL? a0 .5 vi FRIENDS ARE INDIANS' ? cl OFFER AN INFLATED PRICE FOR THE BLANKET? OR dj MENTION CASUALLY THAT YOUR DAUGHTER OWNS ALL OF BUFFY SAINTE-MARIEIS ALBUMS? Although my idea seems destined to fail, two tection notices having arrived today, my recent azigperience in the Southwest suggests that some air the first time in nearly three misspent dec- 3-5 I fully realized that Indian males do not Ernd their lives endlessly circling wagon trains. 4r are they limited to, llWhite man speak with ked tongue, when in dialogue with a govern- Vent representative. tVery little, however, fanged my mind about the accuracy of the tement. t The women, in Hollywood s collective sion tand alas minel, invariably stir huge black HIS or suckle babes when the camera deigns to ; us on them. This, coming in the mandatory lage shot a de rigeur in the early Western. Ortunately this image of woman remains con- stent with our national attitude. As a result di- j tors need never fear creeping anachronism; ,Ie John Wayne version of kinder, kirchen, und 7chen tchildren, Church, and kitcheny will re- ain a salable item. By now you may be protest- g that, due to the time or place marking your -It from the womb, you have avoided the edu- tional misconception I describe If so see how I ickly you can supply the missing words to the 9 Iy good Injun is a But why this sudden concern from a professor z-t English? A person who takes pleasure in sim- ole tasks a for example, counting the number of tiers in Mark Twainls last name to see it that umber matches the number of gables in Haw- vornels novel. Someone who, in the popular Rind tend in that of countless administratorst Io-nds his days correcting grammar and his ?'ghts judging penmanship. Now, I II admit that living in Winfield, Kan, one - not confronted daily with THE INDIAN PROB- by MUTTER, IKSOME OF MY BEST: LEM - T.I.P. in the language of anthropology. This meaningless phrase, If you'll pardon one more digression, reminds me of an incident I re- count only to illustrate the abysmal depth of my ignorance in yet another area. Several years ago a couple chanced to mention that they first met at a conference called to consider the Armenian problem. At the time I didnt know where Armee nia was, much less the nature of Its problem. At least, prior to my trip this summer, I did know where India was. In addition, I had driven through Indiana several times. After some thought I have traced my metamor- phosis, from a state of blissful ignorance to one of discontented ignorance, to my wife, the ar- chaeologist. Early last Spring, Kathy was hired as the field assistant for a 'ldigH - Cldigll is ar- chaeological jargon for digging up things that are buriedl. With a trowel in one hand and a copy of The Female Eunuoh in the other she! in the words of Marlon Brando, made me an offer I couldnt refuse. Promises of eight hours solitude daily laced with reminders that she followed me A relatively small, but weII-constructed kiva, dug by the Hcrew. Note: tAy pilasters or root supports; and tBl sipapu and cover a entry way of the spirits during ceremonial rites. Approximate diameter of the kiva is 15 feet to Kansas and I could damn well follow her to Colorado, produced one more victim of woman's liberation. Contrary to expectations, Colorado was a scholarts dream A cabin in a grove of trees sur- rounded by acres of pinto bean plants, the near- est store five miles away, and the nearest town 17 miles to the south. Of even greater signifi- cance was the absence of both telephone and television. To escape the avunoular wisdom of Harry Reasoner and Eric Sevareid, who nightly analyze national calamities with diabolio calm, filled me with immeasurable joy. Our group con- sisted of Kansans, one Columbian who hated 21 above left: A zuni Warrior Kachi'na used by the Hopi people. above right: A Squash Man Kachina, one of the Hopi dieties. above; An aerial view of Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, N. M. The lID't-shaped pueblo contains more than 800 rooms in addition to small and great kivas. cont. from page 21 coffee, one Harvard PhD. who pitched horse- shoes, and one weII-endowed young lady from England who walked around looking welI-eh- dowed. While difficult for a large group of people living in a small space to overlook a two hundred pound English teacher, I did have long periods of solitude. My work progressed, the dig pro- gressed, and I fell asleep each night listening to coyotes baying at whatever coyotes bay at. I was happy. Late in June, however, I noted an alarming trend in the mealtime conversation. Previously the 'lcrew tarchaeological jargon' for people who dig up things that are buriedl had confined themselves entirely to sexual banter, puns, and complaints. The complaints usually concerned the males' belief that all the females wanted to do Was pun and banter; and'that, while punning and bantering had a place in life, other biological drives must be recognized. What right had they, merearchaeologists, to stand in the way of biol- ogy? They acoLIsed the women of being unfair, undemocratic, and unecological. Although I put this male obsession most delicately, I believe its essence remains recognizable. Fortunately, my four years training as an un- dergraduate, several more as a male, and a nod- ding acquaintance with the work of S. Freud, Al Kinsey, W. Shakespeare, and H. Robbins a not to mention the toilet graffiti of two continents, en- abled me to hold my own during most ex- changes. Not to put a strain on your credulity, but I had come to believe that I could punt and banner with the best. I happily admit, however, that puns which recognized our rural surround- ings, such as FARM OUT! and OUT'OF STATE! were not of my invention. The Alarming Trend mentioned some time ago 00 be referred to hereafter as T.A.T. or tat, as in ltit for . . . 3 was the gradual development of a new vocabulary. Inquiries were made concerning someone's kiva, A young lady was told that her kachina was poorly shaped and profoundly ugly. Thinking I'd been outmaneuvered by some sex- ual savant, I Checked Shakespeare: Bawdy, The Devils Dictionary, and my glossary to the com- plete works of Irving Wallace. There I found Kamchatka, ketchup, and kosher but no refer- ence to kiva or kachina; Pasaic, pudendum, and purdah, but no mention of pilaster. Apparently these words dealt with pleasures which Don Juan, the Marquis de Sade, and Eric Segal had all missed. The ultimate shock came when two members of the crew invited me to see their si- papui Politely declining, I returned to my re- search. Uncertain of the word's spelling, I spent four hours traveling between sexagesimal and Shostakovich. The next morning I left Shostako- vich early and arrived at sorghum by noon, tired ' nd emptyhanded. Driven by desperation, I began cleverly to quiz the Hcrewtt tnot to be confused here with curlew, bird, as in a curlew in the hand is worth twot i d so forth . . . t. 'tSeen any good kachinas IaterTI, I would ask with a knowing leer. Or, HDo ?you know where I could purchase a little rSipapu? By this method I discovered that the best kachinas could be found in New Mexico or Arizona and that almost every kiva had several oilasters and at least one sipapu. Sensing an end to my labor, I asked a close friend if he could recall who had the longest Riva he had ever seen. He reckoned that it was either the Anasazi at Chaco Canyon or at Aztec, New Mexico. i- There's a great kiva at Aztec, he said, adding In a whisper, ttThey've got the only recon- structed great kiva in the world. Well, he'd man- aged to compound the mystery with the word Anasazi, but at least I had something solid to go on. Packing my research material and evicting a :pregnant spider from my Smith-Corona, I set sail, as we are wont to say in the desert. Kathy seemed relieved to see me go. Toward the end of my sleuthing, she had become strangely agi- tated whenever she saw me talking with a mem- ber of the crew. The trip was successful. Soon I had seen hun- dreds of kivas, active and inactive, great and not so great. Some had been carefully reconstructed, but others were now only slight depressions in the ground, soon to be totally hidden by centu- ries and soil. Sites at Mesa Verde, nearby Lowry ruins, the great kI'va at Aztec, flights over and two days in Chaco Canyon eloquentIstuggested the magnificent culture which had once tlour- ished and is now all but dead. The Rio Grande pueblos of San Ildetonso, San Juan, and Taos appear tired and shrunken when one compares them with the eight hundred room grandeur of Pueblo Bonito. In spite of this, the pueblo dwel- terts loss in terms of lifestyle or spirituality often seems less than our own loss. Sophocles' Athens and Dante's Florence with all their problems hold a greater attraction than do the products of our own Holiday Inn, Pizza Hut, Taco Tico mentality - every city touched becoming a xeroxed twin. I'Mon semblable! Mon Frere! If you have followed my peregrinations this far let me apologize for the last rapid change of tone. Should you be grading this, subtract at least a letter grade for shifts in time and emotion without adequate reader preparation. It you want to encourage me however, congratulate me for keeping the reader on his toes. The great thing about creative writing is that if you look hard enough you will always find a rule which contra- idicts the previous rule. Finally, the kachinas. I was fortunate enough to watch eighteen Niman kachinas enter a small H0pi village in Arizona. The brilliance of the dawn not only heightened the reds and blues of their tablettas, but also created the illusion that the dancers emerged, single file, from the rising sun. The swish of pine boughs worn about their waists accompanied the soft, rhythmic clack of turtle shells tied at their knees. After the first dance. several bystanders were invited into a nearby home. There, the husband carved kachi- nas from cottonwood while his wife carefully ap- plied the paint. These carved figures, represent- ing Hopi gods, would be either sold to tourists or used in the religious education 01 some Hopi child. The man, recognizing a British accent, quizzed a teenager about her country. It soon become obvious that he knew more about the geography of her country than she did. He finally admitted that he had been stationed in England during World War II and had traveled widely throughout the British Isles. As I prepared to leave, he said: t'You teach in a school. How many courses ,on the Hopi people do you have in your school? While you answer him, permit me one request. If anyone ever sidles up to you and in a low voice asks if you've seen any good kachinas lately e don't snicker. Tell him that the best ones are in New Mexico and Arizona. And that, it he visits Aztec, he will see the only reconstructed great kiva in the world. 93 the new york rock ensemble e a review by James wierzblckl Versatility in this era of su- per-speciaiization is indeed a valued trait, for the producer of art as well as for the con- sumer. The New York Rock Ensemble's performance here on September 9 ranged from the hardest rock to the sottest ballad, and the lyrics ran the gamut from sacred to profane. Audience reaction seemed to indicate an understanding of this medley of musical styles and a sincere appreciation of the effort but torth by the East Coast quartet. Since the local publicity re- leases constantly mentioned a Htusion of classical and rock elements and had over- worked the fact that the group originated in the famed Juiliiard School ot Music, l attended Saturday's concert expecting to hear an up-dated rendering of Bach's N48 or an extra- spicy version ot Vivaidiis ttSea- sons? Instead i experienced over a dozen numbers, mostly originals by Mike Kamen, that were baSed only on enthusi- asm, sensitivity, and just plain good musicianship. In light of the recent attempts at Helectri- tying the classicsi' tone occa- sionally hears a rock version of Griegis UPeer Gynt Suitet' or Moussorgsky's i'Pictures at an Exhibitiont't, it is encouraging to tind that the NYRE, a group that surely has the technical background tor producing such a caricature, has the good taste not to bastardize the music of others. The lite- span of a rock group is rela- tively short, and it is much more rewarding, for the NYRE and for its audiences, to spend time and energy on original works. The tirst ot Kamenis several truly noteworthy efforts oc- curred titth on the program, tollowing a few uninspired at- tempts at mixing country and gospel styles with hard rock. Perhaps the first tour numbers were simply a warm-up for the group, but when Kamen piugged in his ARP synthesizer tor the introduction to 'tindian Summer? the audience sensed that they were about to hear something out of the ordi- nary. What began as a low- keyed song slowly evolved into a hard and heavy footed blues that threatened to lift the roof off Richardson Auditorium; gradually the decibel level was reduced and the tempo relaxed into a lovely instrumental inter- lude. Kamen temporarily left his keyboard to take up an oboe, while bass guitarist Dorian Rudnytsky exchanged his instrument for a 'cello. The texture of oboe, ioello, bass mow played by the groups drurnmert, and guitar resem- bled that of a Scarlatti sonata, but the music was strictly twentieth-century. The new in- strumental combination pro- vided a beautiful coda to In- dian Summerfi and it is unfor- tunate that the ampiitication system so pooriy projected the sounds of the 'cello. The best composers 01 any period have always written mu- sic for the church, and Kamen is no exception. His setting of the ttLordts Prayer, originally done for a New York Episcopa- lian church, again combined the texture of 17th century chamber music with the har- monies and accents of modern rock. Hearing the work made me anxious tor the opportunity to experience the entirety of Kamen's HMass. HAnything Can Change, was the title ot the group's next number, and the pace ot the concert certainly Changed with the country-style piece that followed. Perhaps in antici- pation of the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival, the audi- ence readily joined in with hand-Clapping and shouting as the NYRE's guitarist soloed on Hawaiian guitar. A rather jotting contrast ot mood was effected by the lengthy song on the grave sub- ject ot necrophilia. A variation on a piece from a film entitled ttZachariah, the number re- sembled an unholy chant at a witches, sabbath. The relent- less guitar ostinato and pulsat- ing tom-toms seemed to cast an hypnotic spell over the Iis- teners in the halit This Htoten- tanz'i managed to end on the slightly brighter note of a sens tively articulated oboe solo. The calypso song has lor been a vehicle for contempi rary satire, and the NYRE use this approach on their now ra and enthralled audienci Called simply ttThe Credit Car Song? the tune describe both the pleasures and the o falls of today's instant cred Although the acoustics of Ricl ardson Auditorium are not tl' most conducive for the ole; understanding of amplitied ly ios, enough of the words wei heard for the group to make i point. Another interesting te; ture of this number was ti' synthesizer soio by compose organist Kamen. It is unusu to hear this new instrumei played in any kind of meaning ful way in a live pertormanoi but the Ensemble has fully ii corporated the ARP into tr structure of this piece, an seems to be leading the we for the more sophisticated roc groups of tomorrow. Sensitive as their music: ears might be, the NYRE 906. along with most rock groups i the theory that tor their conce to be truly a success they mut turn the volume control of the amplifiers to the maximut level. The closing number i the programmed set resemble an early Beatiesi opus, but tr noise and reverberation mac it impossible to hear it ciearl: Most of the audience appeare to appreciate this excess r. volume and demanded an er core, which consisted of powerful rhythm-and-blues an an exquisite version of HWhite Shade of Pale? The New York Rock Ensen ble is capable of a wide variet of popular styles, but their re strong point is in their siowe numbers. While their roc tunes are not terribly prc gressive, they are somewhe interesting and.certainly we performed; the ballads are at solutely captivating and are e idence, not necessarily of classical training, but of soii musicranship and unlimited ta eht on the part of all four men bers of the group. above: Terry McGonigle and Kathi Phillips relax with some students outside the student union at the University of Ko- rea at Seoul. above right: En- joying the sea on a LSM land- ing craft at Subic Bay, Philip- pines, right: The girls were ap- preciated at the Joint Security Area at Panmunjom, Korea. far right: A 17-course meal at K0- rea House in Seoul. extreme right; Waiting for a ride to the train station in Taichung, Tai- wan. 9 Weeks i1 Wit 0 the Pacific Fourteen Southwestern students and their director, Norman Cal- lison, left Winfield last April for a nine-week U.S.O. tour of the Pacific Command Area. The troupe performed t'The Unsinkable Molly Brown and an original variety show ti- tled ttFriends and Co. to US. personnel in Japan, Korea, Okinawa, the Philippines, Tai- wan, Guam, Hawaii and the Mid- Pacific Islands. After auditioning more than 50 students, Callison selected seven men and seven women to comprise the troupe. They were Lynn Bonomi, choreographer, actress; Bill Berger, actor, variety show manager; Mike Brown, guitarist, technician; Bill Christie, chorus, dancer; Dixie Daugherty, musicaI ar- ranger, accompanist; Becky Davis, actress, choreographer; Sandy Eddings, assistant manager, costumer; Robbie Gilger Banks, voice coach, actress; Steve Hailey, actor, technician; Dave Lungren, chorus, dancer; Terry McGonigIe, actor, prop man; Kathi Phillips, chorus, costumer; Greg Swalwell, actor, variety show coordinator; and Cheryl Woolsey, actress. After returning during June, the troupe got together again and recalled the highlights of their tour. The next three pages tell that story. teditorts note: though not intended to be a complete account of the entire nine-week tour, the following are some highlights of the trip as recounted by several of the troupe membersj KOREA the vulgar choir singing decadent songs As we left San Francisco for Korea, via Alaska, we were told to distribute ourselves throughout the plane so we would be able to talk to the servicemen on the flight We didn't know that we would be stuck in those same seats for the entire 18- hour flight! Have you ever tried playing cards leaning over the back of an airplane seat? Because of the time changes flying west, we ate lunch ev- ery four hours on the tlight to Korea. No breakfast or dinner, just tour lunches, Our first show of the trip was in Korea near: the demilitare ized zone. There was a little tiny stage and a bunch of guys milling around. the room shooting pool. We were told ahead 0t time that this would be one of the hardest audiences to play to because of the Close proximity to the DMZ Everyone was on the lookout tor North Korean intiltrators and the soldiers were on their guard every minute in case of attack. North and South Korea are still at war with each other, technically, since a peace treaty has never been signed Everybody was uptight. We thought perhaps before the show it would be good to mingle with the guys. Some of the girls broke the ice by shooting some pool with them; It really helped. There were many KATUSA tKorean Attached To United States Armyt in our audiences in Korea. None ot the KATUSA spoke much English and they almost always sat at the back of the room. In one scene where Molly is lying on the bed cry- ing, some of the KATUSA would say 'Don't cry lady and seem really disturbed about the whole thing. Later, when ev- erything was alright and Molly was happy again. they would look very relieved and say llSee, it's OK! The guys at the base had adopted an orphanage that was nearby. Many of the little kids were at the performances Most of the kids were scared to death anyway and there we were running around in all those weird clothes. We found, after a while. that the louder an audience was, the more they were enjoying the show. Quite a bit different than doing shows on campus and at home. We did about 35 shows in Korea before going on to Japan. One of the first things we noticed in Korea was that the English signs in the restaurants and around town used, for the most part, a phonetic spelling. The Koreans wrote . their signs with the same phonics that they used when they spoke, sube stituting r 's for HLll ls. Positivery no Smoking. HCram Chowder. Banna Hoat. Sometimes their grammar wasnlt too good either, Wash hands before you leaving. When we visited the Joint Security Area at Panrnunjon, we were in for quite a surprise. That is the area where theiNorth Koreans and the United Nations representatives met almost daily trying to iron out the differences in a peace treaty be- tween North and South Korea. That treaty has yet to be signed after more than 20 years of negotiations. .At Panmunjom we did part of the variety show e a panto- mime and a few a cappella numbers, since there was no piano e to an audience of about 15 MP's. We noticed that the North Koreans were watching us through binoculars from their guard house 20 yards away. At the request of the US. commander we did the show in a storage room in the rear of the mess hall. He was afraid that our performance might irri- tate the North Koreans since they are always looking tor something to lodge a complaint about. Both sides keep each other under constant surveillance and recorded each other's activity, but it wasn't until much later that we tound out the North Koreans had decided to file a formal complaint about us. In the minutes of the meeting of the Security Officers of the Military Armistice Commission 01 April 30, 1972, the tollowing complaint was lodged by Lt. Chong ot the Korean Peoples Army the is one of the North Korean negotiatorsy A - Members of the troupe gave a gitt to their guide, Capt. Gary James, at Osan, Korea. B - Kathi Phillips and Dixie Daugherty beside the world's largest statue of Buddha in Taichung, Taiwan. C a Lynn Bonomi got a hug from a guard at Panmunjom, Korea, where the Korean talks are being held now. D e Doing laundry at Yong- sang Compound, Korea. E a Several of the troupe members stop to take picturesi at 'lSuicide Clitti' in Okinawa. More than 80,000 Japanese soldiers jumped to their death there in the closing weeks of W H. F e Leaving the Philippines at Clark Air Force Base. A general had to wait while the troup boarded the plane. G a Several of the troupe members made use 015 the military beach at Wallace Air Force Station in the Ph'. tppines. H e May 19th was commencement night for Rob- 'bie Gilger and Sandy Eddings tthe two seniors on the tourt ,as well as for the seniors who remained on the SC cam- ipus. Norman Callison handed copies of the girls' diplomas .10 them following their show that evening at Linkou Air Sta; ftiOn in Taiwan. Makeshitt caps and gowns were con- structed from curtains. l have a statement to make on provocations and violations recently committed by you, US. imperi- alist aggressors held here in the Joint Security Area Around 1530 hours on April 17 last, your side brought into this Joint Security Area 3 group of more than ten vulgar singers with a title of choir and have been staged a crunch box of singing de- cadent songs, of making a great norse tor a long time, thereby committing criminal acts of violating the security and order in the Joint Security Area in this area, H We aren't too sure of what they meant when they said we l'staged a crunch box? but it they say so, we'll take their word tor it. This kind of rhetoric has been used, and is in use daily, by both sides. The guys at the Korean bases were there on hardship tours, which meant that they would get early outs tor taking that as signment. Many of them hadn't seen American girls for over a year We could have been the ugliest things in the world, but those guys thought we were all goddesses. The U.S.O. coore dinators at those bases used an odd sort ot advance publicity tor the tours that came through their area. lnstead of posters billing the show or the schools, all the posters said was SEVEN GIRLS. Period. JAPAN taking in all of the tourist sights Atter Korea we had a week ott in Japan. While in Tokyo we took in all of the tourist sights, rode the subway, and stayed several days at a lodge in the mountains. Our guide told us that we would take a scenic ride to the mountain resort, about 70 miles away. We thought this would turn out to be a two- hour trip. We ended up using nine ditterent modes ol trans- portation to get there. We rode in a taxi to the train, transfer- red from the train to a l'bullet or speed train, rode a bus to a terryboat crossing and walked from the terryboat landing to a cable car. We rode the cable car part way up the mountain to a rope car and rode it to a ski lift. We left at eight in the morn- ing and arrived at 5:80 that afternoon. Nine hours to go 70 miles. When the guide was purchasing the tickets tor the ca- ble car, Terry asked what she Was doing. Someone said she was bargaining over the price of the ox cart ride. He thought they were serious! We did one show in Japan at lwakunit When we got ott the plane at lwikuni we were surprised to tind Dr. Wallace Gray there to meet us, We knew that he had taken a year's sabbatiA cal trorn Southwestern and he and his family were living in Japan, but we had no idea where. They heard on the radio that we were to be there giving a U.S.O. show and rushed to the airport to meet us OKINAWA playing second fiddle to john wayne Atter our week in Japan we went on to Okinawa. The audi- ences there were not as appreciative as others we had played for. The soldiers there had more to choose from in the way of entertainment Many times we were sandwiched in between features at the local theatre. Playing second fiddle to John Wayne was not too enjoyable. He's a hard act to tollow. We did have some good shows, though. All of the young girl dependents tdaughters ot UrS, personneD thought that Dave looked like Ringo Starr. They were always chasing atter him wanting autographs. among other things. They were a bunch of little girls who probably hadnlt seen anybody except their big brothers One of the biggest surprises at Okinawa were the fine as- sortment of rock bands. One band in particular did a fantastic job ot reproducing The James Gang' and 'Lead Zepplin.' None ot the performers spoke English but they could sing continued from page 29 American songs perfectly, mimicking accents, nasal twangs and Southern drawls. They had no idea about what they were singing, but their diction was perfect. TAIWAN incense, marijuana and geckocide We had quite an experience in Taiwan. Becky's luggage was almost torn apart by a marijuana-seeking dog! We arrived at the airport there and a dog, trained to snift-out marijuana that may be hidden in baggage, started having fits over Becky's handbagt He was howling and sticking his head in her handbag and digging around. The customs agent searched her bag and found the source of excitement a some incense Becky had bought in Japan. Everyone con- cerned was a little embarrassed before the whole thing was over. One thing that we werenlt brieted on or prepared for was our tirst encounter with gecko lizards. They are about three inches long and look like those plastic toreepy orawlerst that you can make in kits. They usually stay on the walls and ceil- ings of the rooms, but never venture on the tloors. They eat mosquitos and are very helpful to have around in that climate. Nobody told us that, though. A couple of the girls went to the john and, 'I0 and behold, there was one of those darnned things staring at them from about shoulder height on the well! One of the girls ran out and got Mike and Steve and they came in and beat the poor thing to death with a towel. Later we found out that they are harmless and nice to have around. We could have easily gotten branded as gecko killers ii the word had gotten out. PHILIPPINES we almost started a riot The UTSO. coordinators in the Philippines were really thoughtful They had a large Sign at the airport welcoming us to the Philippines. it had each of our names on it We really telt special. At Subio Bay we spent a lot of time on the military beach. The water was sky-blue and perfect for swrmmingt The military personnel would tow us behind their amphibious landing craft and we tried to surf. We discovered that the further the trip progressed, the more it lost its primary purpose to us. It was getting harder and harder to get back into the swing of things; dressing, undress- ing, packing, unpacking, and doing the show. When we were having a good time on the beach or In town we would think l'Ohi no. We have to go back and do another show?' We first started to feel that way in Okinawa. That was our t'downll part oi the trip. We never got tired of the show itself, it was just the setting up and tearing down that begun to get old. We felt we weren't needed in Okinawa because there was so much other entertainment available. In Korea we were just filled with the seIi-satisfaction of being able to see that our being there was actually helping the morale of the guys there. There had been a race riot a few days before we played on one of the bases in the Philippines. We weren't aware of it, but we did notice an unusually large number of MP's around the theatre when we arrived. They had to come in the building during the not and escort the last group ot players sately out- side In the opening scene of HMolIy Brownf Molly goes running across the stage with two cast members running after. She is screaming bloody murder. The MP'st who were milling around the lobby, heard the commotion and were halt-way down the aisles with their guns drawn before they realized that it was only part of the show From the lobby it really did sound like all hell was breaking loose. About the second week out our clothes got pretty smelly and we decided that the time had come to wash them. There were no washing machines available to us: so we used a rest room to do the washing in. Each person was assigned to a certain job, We had spot removers, crews doing the actual washing in bathtubs, crews rinsing the clothes in the showers, crews who wrung-out the clothes, and crews to tind hangers and hang-up the clothes to dry. We went through more than 120 costumes, The john was really packed with all of those clothes. Everytime someone came in to use the facilities, the girls had to drop everything and leave, It was quite an educa- tion, Atter nine weeks we were ready to go home. But the guys stationed over there had to sit it out for a year or more before they could go home. It was quite an awakening experience for all of us. regardless of our own personal beliefs or prejudices about the army, Some of us were sorry that we had to go on the tour in the first place This may sound strange, but it you stop and think that everywhere we went there were war scars e Korea, Oki- nawa, Japan -. We asked it there were USO. tours going into Vietnam and were told that only professional entertainers could go there e no college troupes e because of the dan- ger involved. They said that with any luck, though, next year they would be able to book some college groups in Vietnam, Most of us hoped that that wouldn't be necessary. by William I, lawhead Resource Director, New Generations for New Days Last year, the decision was made to participate in a new program of the United Methodist Church called New Gen- erations for New Days, Since then, a corpus of myth and folklore has developed concerning the program. Thus a brief explanation of the intent ot the program and its impor- tance for this campus is in order, On the national level, the program consists of a 3-5 year plan for growth and development. The purpose is three- told: 1. to state the case for the churCh-related college such as Southwestern, 2.- to help such colleges attract a greater number of ca- pable students. 3. to help these colleges gain greater financial security. This will require innovative approaches in fundraising, publiC-relations, and development. Southwestern is a can- didate tor the type of school referred to in the Carnegie Report as an Hinvisible college Thus it will be our goal in this area to achieve a higher degree of visibility Although this is a national program, its major implementation will be Carried out by the local college and geared to its unique situation. Further details of the development aspect of the program will not concern us here Rather, the rest of this article will deal with what I understand to be its central phil- osophical thrust. Before we proceed any turther, we need to disabuse ourselves concerning possible misunderstandings. ot the program. A cynical reaction to New Generations for New Days is that it is merely a slogan e a slogan ObViOUSiy dreamed up by a committee composed of church leaders and Madison Avenue advertising men. The oynic's suspi- cions are not without merit. it is imperative that we avoid any attempt to make a slogan a substitute for institutional vitality. While many have suggested other slogans for this program, most oi us ask merely to be relieved from the daily barrage of slogans, cliches, jingles, glib phrases, and catchwords. In spite of this gut-level reaction of many of us lto such semantics, the thrust of this program is an attempt to meet head-on the crucial issues of vital concern to those within and without the educational enterprise. What are these concerns? A decade ago, the leading 'British publication The Listener expressed it this way: If education can contribute to a moral, intellec- tual, and spiritual revolution, then it offers a real hope to suffering humanity everywhere. lt it can- not, or will not, contribute to this revolution, then it is irrelevant and its iate immaterial. Similarly, for well over a decade, the New Left has charged the educational establishment with a failure 01 nerve in the area of values and moral commitment. This 'was first articulated in the Port Huron Statement, the ttounding document 01 the Students tor a Democratic Soci- ety. Making values explicit e an initial task in estab- lishing alternatives e is an activity that has been devalued and corrupted. The conventional moral terms of the age, the politician moralities - free world. t'people's democracies e re- flect realities poorly, it at all, and seem to func- tion more as ruling myths than as descriptive principles. But neither has our experience in the universities brought us moral enlightenment. Our professors and administrators sacrifice con- troversy to public relations; their curriculums change more slowly than the living events of the world; their skills and silence are purchased by investors in the arms race; passion is called un- scholastic. The questions we might want raised e what is really important? can we live in a dif- ferent and better way? it we wanted to change society, how would we do it? e are not thought to be questions of a fruitful, empirical nature, and thus are brushed aside. Though much of the original goals, ideals, and organizes tional structure of the New Lett is now pasthistory, this radical critique of American education is still alive and well and should be taken seriously. It is significant that this concern for values and moral consciousness is being articulated so eloquently from de- cidedly secular corners. Using every means available, from novels to computer models, this age is in the process of exploring the question of what man is and what he can become. Even secular humanists are now unashamedly us- ing the familiar, old Biblical terminology of the old Adam and the l'new man Society at large has agreed that such questions are too important to be left to cloistered theologi- ans. At no other time in history have men been so aware of the ambivalent, two-edged nature ot knowledge and tech- nology. Like an unfaithful mistress, it will offer its services to any taker who comes along, whether their cause be worthy or not, This point was brought home graphically to writer-scientist Jacob Bronowski in 1945 as he surveyed the ruins of Nagasaki after the bomb. Speaking not as a scientist but as civilized man, Bronowski states in Science and Human Values, . . let us acknowledge our subject for what it is: civilization face to face with its own implica- tions. The implications are both the industrial slum which Nagasaki was before it was bombed, and the ashy desola- tion which the bomb made of the slum. In the last few decades, we have seen an emphasis upon method, technology, practical ends, content, and facts without an equal amount of imaginative, sensitive concern for goals, moral ends, consequences, and values. it Southwestern College is to make its claims to uniqueness credible. we must be unhesitating in our attempts to inform knowledge with values. However, is there any basic unity or value commitment from which we can speak? Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California, de- scribed the unity he found in the university as a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a com- mon grievance over parking. There may be some trag- ment of truth in this description when it is applied to South- western's situation. There is certainly a healthy amount of pluralism in our campus community. Among both faculty and students there are various life styles, attitudes, and val- ues represented. This is particularly true concerning atti- tudes toward and relationships to the organized church. Nevertheless, as was suggested earlier, never in recent his- tory have the church and society been so agreed on what the crucial questions are. The type of questions that must be raised are: What does it mean to be a human being? What is this world really like? What are the negative forces loose in the word? What and where are the human models for the future? Whether or not our answers are developed from a Chris- tian value-center consistent with the Southwestern Ideal, no one can avoid explicitly raising these questions. Our complex technological and social structure has ne- cessitated increasing-specialization of knowledge. It is be- cause 01 this specialization that many feel unqualitied to speak to the central issues of knowledge and life from their own vantage point. Yet such silence is unacceptable and, in the last analysis, unavoidable. These questions will not allow themselves to be held in abeyance while more ur- gent matters are attended to. Cognitive closure is inevita- ble and we must either opt for an explicit, seIt-critical value commitment or a commitment to values by default. iiTo intorrn knowledge with values then, should be a seIf-imposed mandate to each one of us, whether we are students. faculty, or administrators. To carry this out may require us to force our way through the contradictory vi- sions of what Southwestern College is and is to be. in do- ing this we can only hope that our pluralism will continue to be productive and our tension creative. As I understand it, New Generations for New Days is not proposing a mar- riage between the church and the college. Rather, it is suggesting that the two can continue to carry on an inter- esting attair. 32 John Allen, instructor in business administration, is a native of Tulsa, Okla. He received his BA. degree from the University of Texas in 1963, and is a candidate for the MA. degree from Texas Christian University in the field of econom- ics. Allen has had several years of experience in the ttreal world e he has worked several years as an underwriter for the Commercial Standard Insurance Company from 1964 until 1969, and worked for the Great American Insurance Com- pany until coming to SC. He is a welcome addition to the business department. Richard Bobo taught three years at Fredonia State College and three years at Indiana University before Joining the music faculty at South- western. He is an instructor in pi- ano. He received his B.M. degree in piano from Ohio State University 1n 1963. His M.M. degree was granted by the Manhattan School of Music in 1966. Bobo expects to finish the requirements for the D.M.A. degree at Indiana Univer- sit within the next ear. Mrs. B0 0 is also an accomp ished ian- ist with degrees from Fre onia State College and Indiana Univer- sity. Cheryl Kaufman, a Newton, Kan., native, comes to Southwest- ern from the University of North- ern Iowa where she was on the teaching staff. She joined the tac- ulty at SC as instructor in ph sucal education. She received her B. . dcw ee from Kansas State University in 1970 and her MS degree in phys ed from Oklahoma State University in 1971. Miss Kaufman is adding some new ideas to the womenis phys ed program at SC. Bill MacMillan, a native of De- troit, joined the Southwestern fac- ulty as assistant professor of psy- chology. He received his BA. de- ee in elementary education from eabury-Western Theology Semi- nary in 1961, his MS. degree in counseling from Kansas State Uni- versit in 1967, and is currently a candi ate for the Ph.D. degree in counselor education at Kansas State University. MacMillan will be involved with counseling, exposure groups, and other areas before the ear has ended. He is part of the iitle 111 program that SC and St. Johns are involved in this year. New Faculty MacMillan Paramore Wierzbic 7 1d Byron Moore comes to South- western as the coordinator of the federally-funded Title III program. He received his BS. de ree from Kansas State University in 1962 in the area of physical science, his MS. degree from Kansas State Teachers College in 1964 in the same field, and his Ph.D. degree at Kansas State University 1n the field of curriculum and instruction. His main duties at SC are to coordi- nate many areas of activity be- tween the two schools tSouthwest- em and St. John'si. His office is'on the St. Johns campus. Jim Paramore comes to South- western as head football coach af- ter an assistant football coach spot at Ft. Hays State College. He re- ceived his BA. degree from Baker University in 1961, and his MA. de- gree from Emporia State Univer- sity in physical education in 1963. Paramore will also serve as instruc- tor in physical education. His coaching career includes high school, Junior college and college coaching assignments. He has racked-up a 42-18-3 record as head coach during his career. Mrs. Ruby Parker joined the fac- ulty this fall as an instructor in ele- mentary education. She received her BS, degree in elementary edu- cation at Langston University in Oklahoma in 1945, and her M.S. de- gree in the same field at Oklahoma tate University in 1956. She comes to the Moundbuilder campus after 15 years of experience in the Wich- .ita Public School System. She is filling a vacancy in the education department. James Wierzbicki, instructor in woodwinds and director of the CWC tCoo eratin Winfield Col- legesi ama gamate band, received his B.F.A. degree from the Univer- sity of Wisconsin in clarinet per formance in 1970. He received his M.M. degree in the same field at the Cincinnati Conservatory in 1971. He has taught high school music in the Milwaukee area last year and has begun his PhD. stud- les at Northwestern University. Wierzbicki is a part of the Title III program. His wife is an accom- plis ed cellist and teaches in the Winfield Public School System. WHITEtS LA ST STAND With much of the world's at- tention focused on the recent Worid Chess Championship in Reykjavik, iceland, many stu- dents failed to realize our own little chess game here on Southwestern's campus. The game has been in progress tor sometime now - three or tour years - but the action is steadily drawing to a ciose. For the benefit of the under- classmen, let me quickly intro- duce the players and recap the recent highlights. Playing the Black pieces and, according to many of the Grand Chess Mas- ters, the eventual victor, is T.H.E. Hiil; defending what's left of the White is General George Frat. Most of the important moves happened at the close of last semester. Black started the ac- tion by permitting a new off- emcxs wmso meg RAREGIWIFZiDg FmY TWTIdtm Rfid Holimt Han i1Hall Fr erniym K-Hoore Jcoics I kfglm 3? ta UWIOM ed Fi ,1 h + a get erato s r'nrh WT 0 HM ijni-g Pa MS o++ic Deartj i U: Gilbmtii' t. J. Hm vWW-Ws F-.-' . by Ted Hresko campus housing policy. White, unaware of its possible effects. countered by having a poor spring rush pledge session. The immediate result was that Phi Delta Sigma could only fiii half of its portion of Shriwise with members and Beta Rho Mu could only till a portion of Reid's east third floor. Black then followed with, as many experts put it, the 'icrushing blow - move Beta to the un- tiiied portion of Shriwise forcing its occupants to triple up and forcing the frets to surrender their most prized possession - individual Fraternity Identity. White. after Struggling coura- geously tor the past few years to stay alive, is making its last stand. in the final stages of the match it seems T.H.E. Hill's strategy is based on the as- ,1.!. 7m: Men's Honor lions'mj QIA 3 0r. PuHenberg Striwisc 8PM WT ESE sumption that treferring to the tratsy tidivided they stood, united they'll tall. General Frat's chances look slight. but with the emergence of a new piece on the playing board there is still a flicker of hope. A sympathetic new pres- ident could prolong the action indefinitely. It's White's move, but as you can obviously see, he techni- caliy has none. With their char- ters suspended, with threats of changing Shriwise to a men's honor housing, and with the constant realization that they can't attord to make a mistake, break a rule, or slight a regula- tion, where can they move? Well, sit back and enjoy the game. it promises to be excit- ing. The action has already be- gun. 5h ms: th Opelmhonl 305+ f 3 i i g Trustees i ofean 8ar+o n i - in 5......1-- A-.-....-..- art by Doug Hunter MA - THE STUD GAZINE OF SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE 4r! . '5' lg 1-5, Qv x . .. ' l .f- ' ; 1 . am I ', s? x K Ht . .- a -: I g. L a Q 1 ,1 V. l Winfieed gefs a HOTUNE, STUCO debafes reformfng Hwe campus iudicia sysfem, and much more has been happening in five area of currenf evenfs. Trips fo Rome, England, Mexico, and ofher exofic places e including, of course, Winfield : are defaHed in Me Jan Term sfory'. : Check ouf fhe bes7L phofographs of Soufhwesfem and Sf. John's sfudenfs. A porffolio of winning phofography. Eighf pages on our cover sfory e Hze CWC producfion of Fr'o'deer on The R007 . A wrap-up of BaskefbaH season including fhe find games, and much more Sporfs. ABRAXAS Volume 1, advisor......................, ....... BiIIH.Stephens current even ts editor .................... Tom Wheeler features editor ........................ Susan McGuire sports editor ....................... Rodney Iohannsen contributing staff ..... Alan Bruchas, Becky Davis, Doug Hunter, Willa Jones, Susan Somers, Iana BoyIan, Theo Otte, Pete AIIegre, Debbie Powell, Tom WorsteII Number 4 April, 1973 CURRENT EVENTS by Tom Wheeler A student spends some time in the Mobile Radio Isotope Labora- tory which was on the campus Feb. 12th through 23rd. Students studied basic counting techniques and applications of radio iso- topes in physics, chemistry and biology. The lab is sponsored by the US Atomic Energy Commission. Because of the extensive coverage given else- where in this magazine to the main events of this month tFiddler and Jan. Termy the current events section will be rather brief. Minus the two biggies, little of consequence happened. This is i an outline of what did. The basketball team got back on the stick after losing three straight at the beginning of January. To this writing they had one of their last seven games and were holding on to second place in the KCAC. Back-to-back losses to Bethel knocked SC. out of first place and probably gave the conference title to the Threshers. 8AA. provided those students who remained on campus with a fine assortment of vintage motion pictures. Among those presented and well-received were CASABLANCA, TEN LITTLE INDIANS twith it's Whodunnit Brealo, and DUCK SOUP. The Title lll funded, Winfield and CWC staffed, HOTLINE gained acceptance as it completed its' first six weeks of operation. An average of 14 calls a week were received during this time. Response for volunteers to staff the phones was great as training classes were held throughout the month of January. Student Council. at its first meeting of the sec- ond semester, debated a plan for the reforming of the campus Judicial System. According to the proposal Faculty Disciplinary Committee and the Student Judiciary would be combined into a sin- gle committee. The new Committee would seat five students and four faculty members with the Chairman elected by the members of the Com- mittee. The motion was set aside to be debated at future meetings. Enrollment for second semester was held on January 29th and 30th. The number of students enrolled was down as compared to first semes- ter. The enrollment figure was given at 520. Troy Boucher, Instructor in English, has left Southwestern to complete his Master's degree in creative writing. Thru the aid of Title Three funds Mr. Boucher will be attending Wichita State Uni- versity. The Student Personnel Services Evaluation Committee spent the month of January looking into the question of the role of the Student Per- sonnel Office in campus life. Originally it was intended the Committee investigate all the ser- vices performed by the college for the benefit of the student but the time element was such that only the Student Personnel Office could be looked into. As you will remember the student petition that prompted this committee'suexistence specifically called for a re-evaluation of this office. Interviews with students, faculty and adminis- tration were held on several days during the month. The college hired a consultant to aid the committee in its' work. Mr. Ron Ohl, Dean of Stu- dent Affairs at Colorado College was on campus the first and second of February to get an accu- rate picture of campus and the problems that Student Personnel face. His work was greatly 2th eciated by all those whom he talked with :w also the members of the Committee. full report on the work of the Committee and 9'- results are not available at this time as the 3.. ittee has not completed its' work. February f and 17th are the two days designated by Committee to work out the final report. The '3th, resolutions and any minority positions It be available in early March. As you read this report will already have circulated about pus. embers of the Committee were Mrs. Thelma emier, John Phillips, Dr. Leonard Laws, Kim .ure, Orlan Mullen and Tom Wheeler. Finally, there was Jan. Term itself. For the first 7 e since this editor has attended Southwestern ere seemed to be a genuine interest in the urses offered by the college. This year, it emed as if the gap was Closed between super- volvement classes like Fiddler and the usual d classes like a few that have been offered in :9 past by the history department The student as called on to delve more deeply into the urse matter and not spend class hours in the 'nual January stupor. The teachers seemed ' re in touch with the material offered and were n to be more willing to learn along with the udent. If more people are able to look at Jan. ,-rm as a time of highly intensive, specialized lurk in a specific area of interest, as they -emed to this year, they maybe January will come more than a month long halt-time on the hool year calender. William Holmes, senior minister at the University Methodist Church in Austin, Tex, was on campus during February to pres enl the annual Parkhurst Lecture series. Here he talks to a group 0i faculty and students following one of the lectures. get the varsity mentally prepared for games, and just generally help out whenever needed. What were some of the reasons that a person would take on all this responsibility? Well, Larry said that he Just enjoys coaching. ul've coached softball and baseball during the sum- mer so the coaching experience wasn't new, but yet different here. I teIt it would be good for me in future life and work by working with people. I also didn't know if I wanted to coach later on or not and thought that this would show me the lcoach's life.' Another reason is that I wanted to contribute to the Builder squad and this was a way I could. Larry is from Viola, Kansas, but went to Conway Springs High School, about seven miles away. The senior business major participated in gasketba ugf 3' 99 u, hurt his knee playing softball and saw only limited action during his junior yean Larry's transformation from player to coach was a smooth one. Having played all the positions before, I know what it is like. Sometimes, though, I miss playing, especially when I feel I could have helped. However, I enjoy making the decisions. I haven't been that frustrated yet because we are winning. tAt the time oi this writing, Larryls JV team was 12-2J Being only one of three seniors who are Iett irom Larry's freshman team tGregg Howell and Rodney Johannsen are the otherst Larry's age might have been a problem. Sometimes it's hard to take orders from a person your age or just younger. But this wasn't a problem. IIThe guys cooperated well. Being uJ. tarry Warner . . knew my system of basketball. It : my advantage not to have to wo 1 about the junior varsity so I co fl spend more time with the varsi Larry was dedicated to his coachl and had a genuine interest. He was highly competitive, something .i coaches must be. I've enjoyed coaching a lot, . '. Larry. Hlt was discouraging o I. when we didn't win but should he This season has made my decisi on what to do after school w complicated because now I can decide it I want to coach or do so . thing else. Freshman torward-center Seyfried made the comment thrj? summed up Coach Warner's s ? cessful season. He's a friend oft I: court, but a coach on the court. Editorial Comment by Susan McGuire I got to thinking about classroom lectures today. llm on the eve of my first day of Classes in the semester and somehow my mind turned to that morbid subject. We heard lots of lectures in the past eight years, as have most students who go through junior high, high school, college a even Sunday school at you wenD. Lecturing seems to be one of the prevalent teaching tech- niques, and I wonder why this is so. llm not at all sure that the lecture, as it is commonly used, accomplishes the learning process as it should. In some ways, l can see how lecturing might be more convenient for the instructor. For one thing, a lecture is a one-sided conversation; as a rule, lectures are uninterrupted until the end of the speech twhiCh is usually also the end of the class periodj. Fewer questions are raised for thought in Class, fewer answers are given, less confusion results. A larger quantity of pure information can be given to the student or listener, too. Good lec- tures are usually well-planned; concise, and more formal than everyday speech. The lines of communication and thought are purer because only one person is expressing himsetherself. Because they are utilized primarily for giving out information, many times lectures turn into t'The Answer or variations on that theme. In other words, they give answers but do not raise ques- tions. The lecturerls technique has to be pretty fan- tastic to keep the listener's mind in gear. Much as we try, we listeners sometimes get tired of lis- tening to a single voice for 50 minutesj in this light lecturing is really more difficult for the instructor, because it takes a lot more than a sin- gle line of words, no matter how pure the thoughts, to keep the student focussed on a sub- ject. Furthermore, the lecture lacks a spontane- ous flow of ideas from the student tand some- times even from the teacheo. There is a definite studentlteacher barrier when the lecture mode is used in the classroom. The teacher is the transmitter, the student is the receiver, and that's that, Sometimes the transmit- ter can't tell when the receiver is not functioning; but the receiver always knows when the transmit- ter isntt functioning because that's when the receiver falls asleep. idea contributions by students are important for several reasons. For one thing, when the stu- dent is allowed tor torcedt to contribute, he is subsequently forced to think, to digest what is being said around him. A conflict of ideas or a question raised is much more likely to keep a student's mind in gear. Discussions or seminars may be more difficult for the instructor to organ- ize, depending on the amount of information to be passed on or the quantity and quality of the students, but at least through discussion the teacher can observe the intellectual growth of the participating students. l grew up for the most part, on the lecture technique, and l'll have to concede that it there is no other way to pass on a bulk of data or iniormation, lectures must be acceptable. How- ever, live seen too many times when an idea could have been exciting had not the lecture been used as the means of communication. Especially on the campus like ours, where the emphasis is supposedly on two-way tor three or more-wayt communication, lectures should be given as little as possible. How can a student possibly learn to think cohesively or speak coher- ently if he has only listened all his life? AMemaowMyw Jammy 1973 53 Wawaw 67mg, Jlu. Dad, you have asked for a per- sonal selt-retlection to add to your lit- tle essay on the Gray family. While Tara is waiting here with me until the gym opens for her basketball prac- tice, I would like to record in her hearing some things about myself as an adult. You probably know these or have observed some of them, but perhaps it will be helpful to make them part of your genealogical data. I view myselt as a person having in himself many contradictory tenden- cies; perhaps this is true of every human being so I won't elaborate. I'm holding in my hand a paper prod- uced by one of the new religions of Japan. Some of the sayings of one of the writers characterize my own style of life and thought very well, I'Without coincidence between rea- son and practice. truth cannot really be yours. l'ln God's sight what all human beings do is at best Child's play. This world is a nursery for the spiritual world, and mistakes here will turn out to good use later, perhaps Hlt is a fundamental error to regard others as like ourselves, What seems silly to one, may be serious to another, and what is important to one is nonsense to another. 'Never try to realize the ideal in haste. Little by little do that which you can put your hand to; improve by degrees, after acquiring the knack through practice You must struggle tor betterment step by step, uNext. never be attached or stuck to one thing. Everything lives in fluid- ity, and so you should do a thing by way of relief, and for the sake of vari- ety. ttWe must be doing something i anything. And we must be intent on what we are doing right now We must give our whole mind and body to our work, and make ourselves have much tun in achieving it. tilt we are working hard. at any- thing at all, when in misery, even when we feel blue, time will pass in spite of ourselves, and we will be able to tide over a difficulty uncon- sciously. To be just absorbed in thinking, doing nothing else, will be useless and utlimately increase the pain. 'tHowever commonplace, however trifling an action, even in such a small work as to move a single finger tip, one who is doing something is happy? ttln putting something into practice, you will be sure to gain something spiritually or come to an understand- ing. Therefore you should try to dis- cover or invent something by attach- ing very great importance or spiritual significance to whatever small work you are doing, Doing nothing, how can you really understand? tFrom i Oomoto, Mar,-AprV 1972, pp. l-Zt. Reading this material reminds me of the general philosophy of life that l have been following for years and which I may never have stated as clearly as this material explains it. But perhaps the one phrase that oharaoe terizes my work right now is the phrase about trying to discover or invent something. You may remem- ber that as a boy at one time I thought I would like to be an inventor before I decided l was interested in writing and preaching and teaching. In a way, I think these professions of writing and teaching are related to my early ambition to be an inventor. Now, I would like to try to help my fellow man invent peace. I think that peace is something rather specific although very complex, awaiting human discovery just as much as the light bulb was awaiting human dis- covery at the time of Edison and just as much as the airplane was awaiting discovery at the time of the Wright brothers, I think we have many of the components of peace, especially those that pertain to interpersonal rel- ations, but I think we lack the knowl- edge of how to put these together and we lack the knowledge of addi- tional components necessary to make social peace and world peace a real- ity. And so I like to think of myself as one of a large team of inventors try- ing to put together a workable peace that will really fly. I might remind you, Dad, ot a fact which I recently discovered but which you no doubt remember. The year I was born, 1927, was the year that Lindberg made his trial flight across the United States. In fact, he made the flight in the very month in which I was born, l do not know the exact dates Later in that same month, May, he made the first solo transatlantic flight. I think it is very interesting that in the year that l was born the tre- mendous power of the airplane was revealed by this historic flight, Per- haps in my lifetime I can make a small contribution to man's learning to live and work together in peace. For years men tried to imitate the flight of birds directly by constructing various kinds of wings to tlap. This was a blind alley, since the would-be inventors didn't know enough about the mechanics of the bird's wing or its functioning in flight to copy it a we still don't know enough, I under- stand. Even to begin to understand such matters we needed high-Speed photography to slow down wing-Ilut- ter which is too fast for the human eye. Now we have much better ways to study birds and so may be able to learn more of the wisdom of nature built into their flight. But man learned to fly by a different route: the fixed wing and the gasoline engine. Those were means more suited to his body and brain, Have attempts to imitate tor learn the theological secrets 00 Jesus also been a blind alley? Perhaps our spirit is not mature enough for a direct grasp of the springs of Jesus't lite? Instead of Ittlying, we have argued and preached at each other. I do not mean to minimize Jesus or the church or any other oi the best examples of love and community that we have. I worship the God manifest in Jesus Christ and his church. Butt believe he perhaps intends us in society and politics to discover our way before we can fully use or appreciate his. So far nothing has insured man- kind's collective security which is a minimum condition for peace in a fuller, world sense. The UN. has not succeeded and no bloc of powerful nations has succeeded. The terror of nuclear weapons has perhaps deter- red all-out attack but brushvtire wars have continued with a terror and lon- gevity of their own. What I am con- tending is that if someone has a solu- tion to our world condition there's one thing they lack: the ability to get the solution widely accepted and practiced. l saytthat is part of peace, too a a part awaiting mankindis invention. Jesus found a better way than indi- vidual revenge. He inspires me to search for a better way to cope with intergroup and international conflict than we now have. We should invent peace! Since I do not have the answer I'm searching for, I look very idealistic and even a little odd My tamily. including you Dad, have put up with a lot of oddness from me. I dont necessarily have great expectations of myself as a single individual but I have great expectations of someone or some group. God's Spirit works in a mysterious and varied way even today. i Our college president, Don Ruthen- berg, tells a story about a man who was the opposite of the kind of man I believe you are, He was Bishop Wright of Ohio One day he was arguing with a small college president in Ohio: If man had been intended to fly, God would have given him wings? Bishop Wright had only two things working against his argument They were his sons, Wilbur and Orville. tllf man had been intended to have peace, God would have revealed the means tor itf' Maybe he intends us to find the means. Brothers working together discovered flight. Scientists and technologists working together conquered outer space. All of us working together can surely discover the intricate and workable technology of peace we need. It has its human and its natural components. On Gene Manny's Christmas card this year there was this verse: When man begins to understand He will learn to love. And when his love is understood There will be everlasting Peace, Perhaps love will never be 'tunder- stood except in the sense that the conditions which nurture it and the good benefits which grow from it are to some extent known. Even from that understanding Peace might arise. J The Moundbuiider Baseball Team by Ted Hresko and Rich Roper It was the fall of 1970 when three bewildered freshmen arrived at the Southwestern campus. To their astonishment, the reports of a baseball team proved to be false. The three freshmen decided right then that they would establish some kind of baseball team at Southwestern. Their dream of a baseball team was ignited in a classroom in White P.E. Building. To their sur- pirse about 20-25 students showed up. This showed the boys that the interest was there, but they lacked one main ingredient, a coach. After inquiring around the campus and finding that nobody really wanted to help - due to the fact they were otherwise occupied, and knowing that the Hill would be against it, and that no money would be involved for their time and effort e one man dared to be ditterent. A computing teacher, who at one time played baseball for SC, could see the interest and enthusiasm in the boys eyes and decided that no obstacle would stand in his way either. The name of this man, who would not let the SC baseball team strike out, was Don Parker. . With the aid of Bob Karr, who helped schedule games for the boys, it seemed that they were on their way towards first base, which was the beginning of their long journey. Aside from one or two donations, the expenses were paid solely by the boys. Playing teams fully equipped and uniformed, the boys were a sight to be seen dressed only in T-shirts, jeans, and spikes. But, at least they were playing baseball. After struggling through that year, the following season was to have slight improvements. The Hill was still against them, but the boys were headed for second base and there was no stopping them now. With persistence on their part, they received some money from the sports club, STUCO, and a few other donations. With this money they were able to purchase sweatpants, hats, and other essential items. Traveling expenses were again supplied by the players. After receiving this small amount of aid from the school, the boys once again found their backs up against the wall. Last years coach, Don Parker, would be unable to lend his deeply appreciated help for the coming season. The problem grew because the boys knew how hard it was to find a man willing and capable to under- take the task last year. And this year, the respon- sibilities would be even greater. Hearing the distress call from the boys. Jake Brennan answered the cry for help. Jake is one of the SC football coaches and last year lent the boys a fine and appreciated hand. He also found another weII-qualified man to help them out dur- ing the season, Mr. Welsh, who has recently transferred tO' Chanute, Kansas, and will be una- ble to help them this year. Jake had helped the boys reach second base and are now well on their way to third base under his leadership and qualified guidance. This is the first season that the boys were able to go downtown and raised money to support their team. A cake drive also helped and the boys are very grateful for the girls that helped them, This was a good sign of student support and the team could use all students at the games, too. They raised enough for uniforms, equipment, and even some money for traveling expenses, 8AA, STUCO, and the sports club program also doanted some money which was appreciated. With the boys now at third base and racing towards home, next year baseball looks like it will be a varsity sport at SC. And now those three bewildered freshmen, who are now juniors, with help from Jake Brennan could reach homeplate. The baseball team needs a good season and feels it will acquire it with the support of the other students and faculty. With the increase of enroll- ment which will enable the baseball budget to go through, the Hill will have no choice but to make baseball a varsity sport. I feel this is a good example of what we. as students, can do in determining just what life is going to be like here at 840 With sincere deter- mination and a little patience we could achieve much in molding SC. into the type ot Living experiencel' we would like. See you at the ball park. i---- t 3 mg In some 0 e 51g 15 o ome from the Spanish Steps are, left to right, Michelle Brown, Becky Davis, and Barbara Cordon. January term 1973 again provided many different and unique opportunities for South- western and St. John's stu- dents. As usual, several Jan- Term trips were offered. The trips included ones to Rome, Florida, Mexico, England, Scot- land. and the Southwestern United States. Ed Salm and eight students took a trip to Mexico to study the archeological ruins. They spent their first week in Old Mexico driving towards the vicinity of Yucatan where they were to explore the ruins there. However, they detoured to a small town called Palenque and explored the ruins there and the ruins in the surround- ing mountains. Leaving Paienque. they drove along the Pacific coast to Arista where they spent three weeks of their trip. From there they went to San Cristo- bal. The last part of their trip was spent in Patscuaro, a town located in the mountains. in Patscuaro, the students stayed in a 17th century house which had been converted to a hotel. Throughout their trip, such things as the colorful Mexican markets caught the students' eye in addition to the poverty and begging which was com- monplace in many towns. Three art students and War- ren Brown took a trip to Rome to investigate the much-talked- about cultural center. The trip went smoothly and 24 hours after leaving Wichita they arrived in Rome. The first day in Rome was spent watching the changing of the guard at the home of the Italian Presi- dent and viewing the Monu- ment of Victor Emmanuel. The following days were devoted to visiting weIl-known placesisuch as the Pantheon, the Colloseum, St. Peter's Basilica, and Borghese Park. Three times the group attempted to visit the Vatican only to find it closed on the first two visits. The Sistine Chapel provided a masterpiece of art for the students to study, in an atmos- phere similar to that of a noisy basketball stadium as opposed to the quietness and solitude one would expect to find in a religious shrine. During the last week, the sightseeing was focused on visiting museums. Although art was the primary purpose of the trip, the stu- dents toured a castle, visited the site of Allied Headquarters, and toured the Keats-Shelley Memorial Library. Bright spirits and good hopes helped students on the Florida trip to cope with the weather as they were busy col- lecting shells during the first part of their journey. On the second day of their trip they arrived in Ft. Walton Beach, and continued on to Tampa the following day. In Tampa they visited Busch Memorial Gardens, Sunken Gardens, a sponge factory, Tepoztlan, a trip to Xochigalco to visit a Toltec archeological site, a weekend of relaxation and water sports in Acapulco, a visit to the silver mining city of Taxco, and an excursion to the Pyramids outside of Mexico and collected more shells. After leaving Tampa they trav- eled on to Key West and Orlando. OLE MEXICO! was the theme of JanTerm for the dozen who traveled to Mexico for 16 days of sunshine. spicy food, and primarily, a closer comparative look at Mexican history, people and culture. The group consisted of home economics majors led by Miss Phyllis Johnson. While in Mexico, the group stayed at the International Girl Scout headquarters, the t'Cabana, in Cuernavaca, along with Girl Scouts from all over the world. Several adventurous side trips were included in the itinerary in addition to the usual tourist attractions which Mexico offers. These included a trip to City. The group also took in a bulltight, a ballet performance at the Palace of Fine Arts, and toured a textile taCtory, candle factory, and pottery and ceramic factory. Lots of fiestas, siestas, and plenty of free time was allowed for a closer look at the people and their lifes- tyies Amidst the turmoil of occa- sional bad weather and illness, the biology students led by Dr. Bob Wimmer, put together a highly enjoyable and educa- tional trip to Arizona. The pur- pose was to learn about desert life by living in the desert for almost a month and studying the plants and animals in their natural environment. They learned how full of life the desert is by visiting the differ- 1g, opposite: Terry Cook and Gladys Rodriguez sample the scenery in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert near Tucson. top left: Kris Hower, Linda Wassal, and other members of Miss Charltofs England trip view the site at historic Stonehenge. above: James Wierezbicki explains chord structure to members of his guitar class, left. above: Denise Bruning and Brenda Ball search for coquina shells along the beach at St. Petersburg, Fla. right: Phyllis Johnson and some members of her class take in the sun in Acapulco at the Morning Beach. E1 ent desert museums and hiking through the desert themselves. The group also spent time trapping small animals, study- ing birds, taking short side trips to Nogales, Mexico, to shop, and learning by talking with people who live in the desert. The first stop was Tucson, Ariz., where they spent a few days at the Sonoran Desert Living Museum. From there they traveled across Arizona to San Diego, Calif., camping in different national parks as they traveled. While in Organ Pipe National Monument in South- west Arizona, time was spent beachcombing along the shores of Puerto Penasco, a small Mexican fishing village. in San Diego, the main attraction was the 200, known to be the largest in the world and impos- sible to see completely in one day. Judith Charlton took ten stu- dents with her on a JanTerm trip to England and Scotland. Their first encounter with Eng- land was the fog that engulfed them at London airport. From there the group went to Oxford and toured the colleges of the University. The next stop was Shakespeare Country, Hatte- wayls home, and Shake- speare's home and church. While in Shakespeare country the students took in a play at the Royal Shakespeare theatre. In England they visited many cathedrals and abbeys includ- ing Winchester Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. Next stop was Bath, Eng- land, where they toured the Roman Ruins. Leaving Bath they traveled to Edinburg, Scotland. Of all the many different places seen by the students of literature, history and speech, they seemed to like Oxford best of all. In addition to the many off- campus tours, there were several exciting on-carripus courses that were equally edu- cational. ilLetls Play Guitar, a course taught by James Wierzbicki, offered a basic course in tin- gering and Chord structure of the guitar. Styles and other various stringed instruments were studied in the Class. The largest stumbling block for the entire class was learning how to tune their guitars. Bill H. Stephens and Gene Brott ta St. John's faculty membeo taught a photography Class of 18 students during the month. The purpose of the Class was to teach the students how to take pictures. develop the film, and make enlarge- ments. At the completion of the course the students displayed 120 of their best pictures in the Campus Center at St, John's. The class also took a field trip to Wichita where they saw the darkroom setup at the Wichita Eagle newspaper, and at Midco, a commercial film proc- essing laboratory. Alfredo Rodrigues offered the course liDrugs and Man in Society. in addition to guests talking to the class about drugs in general and drug addiction and its effect on society, field trips were taken and films were shown to inform the class about today's drug problem. During January 18 students from Southwestern and St. John's participated in a photography class. These pictures were taken by members of that class and were judged the best examples of the student work by two local photographers. These pictures and many more were exhibited at the St. Johns Campus Center and the Winfield art center. 1. t'Siave to the Wind', by Paul Taylor, first place in the free choice category. 2. HTimev worn, best of show and first place in the land- scape category, by Alan Bruchas. 3. 'fAirborn, by Mike Hastings, first place in the action cate- gory. 4. HAgony, by Alan Bruchas, first place in the mood category. 5. 'tLife has its ups and downs, part of the first place picturelstory by Don McKinney. 3 i ,. had -. James Wetterhaus, as Tevye, sings about tradition in the opening number. gsWEre made known. Gaining momen- ith pretiminary plans and arrangements .nuary third. to take over the lives ot 92 .n a month. The it . of course, is Fid- d on February 12 wil1 end, after being night tollowing tour superb perform- i e Root, affectionately called Fid- . the first nor is it the last musmai to , 1 it will remain unique in SC drama 5. all at which fall in the 'tirstl cat- Fiddler was the 'tirst' major production to result from the combined efforts of the Southwestern and St. John's drama departments and student bodies. Several minor cooperative ventures have taken place in the last tew years but nothing of this magnitude. Fiddler't also is evidence that all the words. written and spoken. praising the advent of this cooperative relationship were not a bunch of bull and gives encouragement to future eltorts 'tFiddler'l was also the first drama department prodr uction in which a professional, Broadway director was brought in. For more than three months and $2000, Mr. Jack Eddleman was in charge of bringing HFiddler'l from an idea to a complete and successful reality. To see the reality is to understand that the $2000 was worth it, And lastly, Fiddler was the 'first' production to go from start to finish in one month. Such things as try-outs and groundwork planning were done before January 3, but reg- ular production work did not begin until after that date. A conservative estimate is that 2700 man-hours were devoted to HFiddIer during January. Those tive perform ance nights served only as a climax to the people who have put a month of their lives into this one thing. What went on for 2700 hours? Certainly it was not all smiles and joy nor was it all curses and pain, but somewhere in- xe TY. 7....I between. These following pages are aiteeble attempt to show you that in-between and what went with it, MUSICAL DIRECTION HFiddler on the Roof'l derives much of its dramatic emo- tional effect from its varied musical score, which ranges from the joyousness of HTo Lifel' to the pathos of ttAna- tevka. The task of coaching the performers to bring out the full impact of the score was managed by David Wil- liams, Dr. Warren Woolridge, and Ross Williams all mem- bers of the SC faculty. As music director, David Williams worked with the soloists and set the tempos for the musical numbers; Dr. Wooldridge worked with the chorus, and Ross Williams conducted the orchestra. In order to fully develop characters in a musical prod- uction, the performers must maintain and project their characters while singing. The musical inflection of a per- former can either add to or detract from a character; in working with the soloists, David Williams emphasized the contrasts among the characters, and the variety in charac- ter that can be gained through the singing, Because the players were cast according to their ttfeel for the part appearance and mannerismst and not necessarily for their vocal ability, Williams helped the performers to improve their basic singing skills. Sustaining phrases, using the entire body, rather than just the throat, in vocalizing; and projecting the voice so that it can be heard in the entire auditorium. All the cast had the potential to be fine sing- ers; our goal was to polish their technique, Williams com- ments. Williams said that, in striving for a high level of skill in performance, director Jack Eddleman asked the actors to give more and more of themselves to their parts; and eventually the cast found themselves performing on a level that they themselves had not anticipated Although inevita- ble lack of experience and acting maturity among the actors made it difficult for the depths of meaning in 'tFid- dler to be exposed, by surrendering themselves totally to their characters, the performers could capture the dramatic effect of the plays CHORUS Modern theatrical productions mislead you with the term ttchorus tor it calls forth visions of a mass of singers assualting the audience with a roar of sound; most likely an idea induced from some long forgotten drama class. The tact is that t'chorus is just a very general term for a group of people who attempted to participate in every aspect of the production at the discretion of the director, the producers, and the stage manager. Chorus is listed at the bottom of the program column, yet in a production the size of ttFiddler, they are essential to its success for they form the backbone of the various crews. Because they had the dual function of performers and crew hands, long work days were expected of chorus members, which usually began in late morning. An hour or two would be spent attempting to learn the en masse dances, which have become a major part of most modern musicals. Eddleman, who had worked as a choreographer on Broadway. choreographed all of the dance numbers. These few hours each morning were important in light of the fact that very few members had danced on stage before. So each morning, as Eddleman hollered out the musical beat, tledging dancers would come out of the wings with very imprecise grace and complete their rou- tine, which was usually followed by Eddleman voicing his dissatisfaction, Yet, by show time, Eddleman had ham- mered his inexperienced dancers into a skilled troupes In the afternoon, chorus lost its identity as its members made the transformation from performers to painters, car- penters, tailors, scavengers, and any other occupation that needed to be filled. Chorus was represented in all of the production crews or as one member said, HWe sacrificied tor them. Additional sacrifice was required of them as rehearsals and run-throughs would drag on from early evening till early morning. It was here that chorus, as penormers again, worked to get their feet to move with the music and the other people on stage. Though one became bored until, with the waiting and repetition, enough time-otf was allowed so that it dld not become unbearable. This routine of morning-chorus, afternoon-crew, and evenlng-puttlng it all together was the basic work schedule tor chorus throughout January, which meant nine to twelve hours a day for everyone. Credit must be given to these people who did all the lpeon' jobs and performed the bit parts; their total effort combined to make chorus most important in the success of Fiddler. ORCHESTRA The orchestra, conducted by Ross Williams, was under a bit of a handicap tor ttFiddler because of a lack of proper instrumentation. No one was available to play the important parts for guitar, accordlan, and bassoon. By rearranging some of the parts ttor example, one of the trombone playw ers played a bassoon par'o the lack of musicians was partly alleviated. And, although the orchestra entered the rehearsal schedule only six days before the first perform-t ance the singers were used to the orchestra, and vice verse, by the tlme of the first show. PRODUCERS Like the shy fellows they are known to be, the cooperat- ing producers for l'Fiddler, Norman Callison of South-t western and Robert Conners of St: John's, stayed in the background during the production of the show, Conners acted as a resource person, coaching actors and contrib- above: Mike Brown adjusts some of the lights for the production. right: Jerry Starks, Terry McGonigle, and Howard Petty combine concentration and balance during the bottle dance. lk.hn. 18 uting creative ideas about various phases of the work. Cal- lison involved himself mainly in organizing the business end of the production, which included arranging the nightly dinner program with Slaters Food Service. The contrib- utions of these two men were felt in subtle wayst TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Unfortunately, the director of a stage production is usu- ally not endowed with the ability to cry out, 'tlet there be light! and find the stage suddenly and brilliantly lighted, nor to mold a perfect set out of a ball of clay. These tasks are left to mortals! The job of organizing the technical aspects of the production fell to Southwestern senior Steve Halley, who had participated in several plays prior to l'Fid- dler. As technical director, Hailey had the responsibilities of choosing crews and crew chiets, choreographing scene changes, and overseeing everything besides the music and the acting, 'lEverything besides translates into training inexperienced technicians, approving light and set plans, acting as a go-between for Eddleman and all the crews, and dispensing the aspirin. STAGE MANAGER Kathy Hampson, student stage manager, became trus- trated at one point and shouted a sarcastic tYes, sirl' to Director Jack Eddleman, and so Mst Hampson, South- western sophomore, went down in history in the February '11 l'followed the actors as the moved. 4, 1973 Wichita Eagle and Beacon How far down we don't know yet but at least she went down fighting. She had to tor it was she who had to make sure that everything got done at the right time, from movement of props to the cues on stage ,When I asked her what the stage manager did, she did a deadpan and said; Hnot much of anything, and then added, Hexcept work more than twelve hours a day. A stage manager must have a fanatical devotion to duty, especially with a production on a short time schedule as 'lFiddler was. In January she put in around 400 hours working on sets, getting props together, hollering at peo- ple, and, in general, making things run. She might have been pushed on by nightmares which would start with a loud roll of music, followed by curtains coming up on stage hands moving houses and trees; much to the merriment of a packed house. It would natu- rally be her fault since everything else that went wrong seemed to be her tault; at least that is what Eddleman kept telling her. So in addition to her own frustrations she had to hear all of Eddlemanls too'. Now this made it very uncomfortable for the rest of the cast and crew because here was Kathy walking around just oozing with frustration. Somebody had to catch it and Kathy made it a point not to miss anybody. And she didn't. With such a heartless taskmaster to drive them on, the crews managed to complete their jobs on time. which made Kathy happy; she might have even smiled. Now Ms. Hampson isn'tiby nature, bad; it was the func- tion of her job, which she termed as, HHellJl which made her that way. l asked her it she would do it again as i wrote down her answer, which l had to erase when she replied, 'lYea, lthink I would. LIGHTS The lighting of the play involved no less than 48 lighting instruments, 1600 teet 01 cable and tour control panels, two of which seemed to have taken up smoking lately. For each scene and song in the play, the role of each light had to be planned: which ones dim, which go up, or on, or otf? John Phillips, a junior at SC, and senior Mike Brown, both experienced technicians, planned the lighting for the entire play. Their original plans were entirely of their own inven- tion: they relied upon their previous experience with musl- cal productions and their knowledge of the idiosyncrasies of Richardson Hall to devise lighting plots for each scene. To draw up the plots for the lights, they had to take into consideration whether they wanted warm or cool colors during particular scenes twlth colors like mustard amber, no-color blue. salmon pink, and surprise pink to choose from; where the actors would be during the scenes; etc. After planning all the scenes, they had to wire the instru- ments so that the technicians would be able to operate the maze of controls efficiently. Once the plans were completed and the lights wired to convenience the technicians, Phillips spent two afternoons with Eddleman working the lights, and rearranging them to please the director. After the work of planning the lighting, the light crew probably deserved to have an easy time of pushing buttons and pulling switches and watching a beautitul light show. However, the lighting equipment available for the show was not in the best condition. The antiquated wiring in Rlchard- son Auditorium is badly worn in places, which causes tlick- ering, and uneven raising and lowering of the lights. Noth- ing could be done to alleviate that problem; nor could any- thing be done about the two dimmer boards tcontrol pan- elst that smoked. Other lighting problems were avoided by the borrowing of 500 feet 0t cable and twelve eight-inch ellipsoidals. a type of light named tor its reflector, from But- ler County Junior College. Because Phillips and Brown were both in the cast, jobs 01 the light technicians went to inexperienced recruits. K'athy Lindsay and Nancy Brummett volunteered to work the dimmer boards, and Roxy Calllson and Dave Peacock manned the follow spots, the spotlights located at the back of the hall which were used in just the manner their name suggests. They were manually trained upon soloists. and above left: Mike Allen as the Fiddler on the Roof. extreme left: The townspeopJe 0f Anatevka are forced to leave their homes. far left: Tevyets oldest daughters w Tzeitel, played by Misty Maynard; Hodel, played by Pam Nahnsen; and tkneehngt Chava, played by Cheryl Woolsey. left: Tevye is carried on the shoulders of the townsmen during the Opening number r Tradition? above: The women of the village bring candles to the wedding of Motel, the tailor, and Tzeitel, Tevye,s oldest daughter. 2! 22 Lop: Donna Buffalino as Grandma Tzeitel and Chris Beckley as the Rabbi in Tevyeis Dreamfi above: Misty Maynard, Pam Nahnsen, and Cheryl Woolsey rehearse with Jack Eddleman. right: Julie Ebel was one of many members of the crew who helped with costumes. I manager, Kathy Hampsoni tThe foilow spotters who he no way of communicating with the stage, had to cue then selves from a specially-marked scripti The 130 separal light changes during the production involved up to te switches for each of the technicians working backstagt The first tech rehearsal, which was the first rehears; involving lights, was somehwat ot a shocking experienc for the technicians; however, by opening night they wer able to handle their jobs well. SCENERY The SC-St. Johns production of HFiddler on the Root featured set and backdrops t'by Borger. Junior Bill Borge designed the scenery for the play during Christmas vace tion, paying close attention to such considerations a budget, time, capabilities of the crews, and careful reac ings of the play. His simple design evolved into an easil workable set-up that included a reversible cottage, bridge, the interior of a tavern, and a barn loft. PROPERTIES Technical director Hailey termed the props crew, heade by Kent Matthews, as ltfairly ingenious. Some propertie were found here on campus: an old Singer sewin machine and a feather mattress, both vital props, wer found in storage. The crew ranged throughout the are surrounding Wintield in search of the proper objects, an were prepared to go as tar as Oklahoma City until the iter in question turned up at an antique shop near Oxforc Kansas. The prop crew did a little building ot its own, toc carts for Tevye and Motel were constructed by the pro crew, and they made candlesticks from the legs of collaps ble stools that had been used in some long ago theatr production. MAKE-UP The make-up crew had relatively little to do during the production of ttFiddler. Jack Eddleman held a make-ul workshop for the cast, and encouraged all who were abli to apply their own eye-shadow, rouge, base, etc. et al. COSTUMES The costume crew was responsible afor fitting more that sixty-five characters in the show. The importance of thi job is evident when one considers that, although nudity i permitted in the theatre in some parts of the country, 11 Board of Trustees would probably oroak at the thought of: production in the buff at SC. Susan Somers, SC sopho more, headed the crew of seven who, with help tron several members of the chorus, created about a third 0 the costumes. The rest of the clothing came from tht cooperating colleges' stock, the Winfield Community Thea tre, and Wichita State University, which had done HFiddler' recently. Costumes were not the only things borrowed tron WSU by the crew; they also got valuable advice about thl play from a member of the drama department there, Cavar ozzr. Among the pieces made by the costume crew were tal ises, aprons worn by the Jewish men; yamulkas, or skul caps; babushkas, three-cornered scarves tor the Jewist women; and fur hats which were worn by the Russian sol diers, The crew made a false stomach for James Wetter hus, who played the role of Tevye, in order that he mlgl'l more closely conform to the image of a stout, dominating figure. The stomach was made in the form of a sleeveless tunic filled with and worn beneath the normal costume. A costume for Fruma-Sarah, a ghostly figure who appearee in a dream scene, was fashioned of green and yellow pas tels to lend it an eerie look. The costume had to be long enough to cover both Lori Alexander and Terry McConigle because, to make the apparition properly intimidating, Lot rode in a-harness-like apparatus fastened to Terry'srshoul ders, resulting in a nine-feet tall creature that was actually half man and half woman! One of the thorniest problems faced by the costumej crew was encountered in a dance scene in which the met balanced bottles upon their hats, The problem 01 getting the bottles to stay on top of the dancers, heads was solve: only two days before opening night Glass bottles werl -ighted with wax to lower their center of gravity, and vet- 0, an adherent material, was glued onto the hats and nttles so that the bottles could be placed securely on the ts. The work of the costumes crew began early in the onth with the measuring of all cast members. Costumes yre designed from illustrations in an advertising brochure, . . trom memories of the motion picture version of ltFid- er? Five days before the opening of the play, Eddlemah am an afternoon in reviewing the costumes as all sixtya i e performers modeled their outfits in a three-hour cos- me parade. Eddleman made suggestions for improves nts in many costumes, and the crew spent sleepless rights in preparing for opening night. During January term the costumes crew spent from van to seventeen hours per day in the corner of the asement of Christy Hall. liSometimes we felt as it we were , It off from the outside worIdJ' Miss Somers saidr PUBLlClTY The publicity crew sat back in their seats, hands cupped ehind their heads and feet stretched unconcernedly efore them, as the various crews labored at their tasks. 'rompted by crew chief Jennis Wilcox, they had made all sters, as well as arrangements with the local radio sta- i on and newspaper, before the beginning of the January arm. Until the posters were distributed, the publicity crew ad time on their hands. They were not only weIl-organ- t ed, but effective as well: the three February performances .t ttFiddler were sold out more than a week before the 3 -rtormances, and all but 70 tickets were sold for the Jan- . ary 25 performance. FINANCES The Jan Term production of Fiddler involved a budget 2o over $5000 The money was appropriated from the SC general fund on a itwe'll pay you back we hopet basis, and from the Cultural Arts Board, which paid Jack Eddie- man's salary of $2000. The college held the incoming bills until the money from tickets sales was received, which hopefully would amount to more, or at least as much, as the expenditures. The budget broke down as follows: Books and Royalties $1200 Scenery 700 Costumes 500 Make-up and props 200 Salary 2000 Dinners l 780 Miscellaneous 50 Total $5430 The dinner programs organized in conjunction with the play were held in either the Tri-D Lounge in the Student Union for the more expensive dinners, or the Little Theatre in Christy Hall. Catered by Slaters Food Service, the din- ners were served in the evening before each performance. Both locations were decorated to lend the atmosphere of Fiddler on the Roof , and live music was provided at both. The more expensive menu, which cost $8.00 in addi- tion to the ticket, included borsch, beet stroganott, broc- coli! and Hblintz flambe , pancakes covered with flaming strawberry sauce The less lavish dinner in the Little Thea- tre cost $150 in addition to the price of a ticket to the show, A money-making venture that failed was the L'Chaim snackbar, which held a lamented oneanight stand after the January 25 performance, losing $40. 2700 hours. Youive read about them in ten minutes, looked at pictures for another five, and took another thirty to crayon in the blank spaces, but the total experience of 'tFiddler can never be had unless you were there, open- ing night. to see the trip that the cast was on. it came from a well rolled mixture of curses, smiles, pain, and joy; usu- alty called success, Lop: Russians Bill Borger, Bill Christie and Phil Fisher dance for the jews at the inn during the RUChaim scene. center: Jewish fathers Jerry Starks and Butch Orr. bottom: Rick Rottschaefvr as Motel. 5 23 24 SPORTS by Rod ney Johannsen This is the second of three articles on Southwestern's athletic structures, The first article was on Sonner Stadiurn and the third one will be on Monypeny Track. This article IS about Stewart Field House, home of the Moundbuilder bas- ketball team. Information for this article comes trom old Southwestern Collegians, old Winfield Couriers, Miss Lillian Cloud, and Mr. and Mrs Harvey Ridings. Prior to 1924 Southwestern's only gym was Prexy's Barn, built in 1908 as a temporary gym. Prexy's Barn stood where Wallingtord Hall is now. The Builder basketball team practiced in this gym, but played its games in the Winfield High School gym. In 1922 a drive was started to get pledges tor a new gym. The city oi Winfield subscribed $75,000 to the gym fund, while another $75,000 was subscribed by the Meth- odist Southwest Conference. Total cost tor the gym was $190,000 l A Sept. 4, 1922, Southwestern Collegian describes what the new building would be like. HThe new burlding wrll con- tain a large court which can be divided into two courts for practice. Besides the dressing rooms and shower baths, there will be wings which will be the homes of the literary societies. Later a natatorium will be built between the wings and a circular track, which can be used as a bal- cony, will be installed above the courts . Stewart Field House Construction of the gym began early in 1923. Mitche and Son Construction of Wellington was awarded the gy proper contract. H.S, Conrow was the architect. Subco: tractors in Winfield included Winfield Plumbing and Heatir Co. and Stuber Bros. Electric Company. On Oct. 23, 192: a Southwestern Collegian reported that six workmen wei injured when a scaffolding gave way and threw the met work, and building material some 20 feet below. Quit luckily. all survived the falls On Sept. 11, 1923, the student body christened the ne gym even though it was not completed. It was a tlgym to l the team. The main reason for the delay was to mak sure the gym would be adequate for future need. Ste: girders over the gym floor were built extratstrong and war so arranged that a third floor could be constructed in th future. It was planned to turn this floor into an art depar ment. The two wings, one each on the northwest an southwest corner, would house the literary sciences, sc ence rooms, offices, and a trophy room. Showers an lockers were below the spectators gallery to the west c the playing floor. The bottom floor contained the librar and study rooms. The basketball court, on the second floor, was one t the biggest in the state. Only Kansas University, Kansa State University, and Pittsburgh State College had floors a big. A partition, which rolled up from the floor to the ceilin twhere the catwalk is now, divided the gym in two, th south half for the girls and the north hall for the boys Room was made tor bleachers on the east and west side c the playing floor. These bleachers were knocked dowr after each game by SC athletes who were working thei way through school. Chairs were placed on the traol above to provide additional seating. The stage on the nortl end of the gym floor was made possible by the Class 0 '23. About ten athletes were housed in the gym above thi locker room and behind the bleacher section twhere the football equipment is now stored; The soorer's desk to basketball games was on the east side of the playing floor opposite of where it is now located. it was hoped that con struction would not stop when the gym proper was tin ished, but that work on the two wings would continue. Evi dently, the money needed was never available as the wing: were never built. The present dressing rooms and shower: were added in 1947 when Sonner Stadium was built. On Saturday, Jan, 26, 1924, the first basketball game was played in the new gym. Washburn University was SO: opponent. Southwestern won the game 2317 as 2.00C people attended the game. On Feb. 13 SC played arch rival Fairmount College and won 24-23. 3,000 fans attended that game, the largest to see a game in Cowley County, it was reported by the Winfield Courier that the Builder rooters went out and had a bonfire and celebratior afterwards. On March 1, 1924, Homecoming Day, the gym was. turned over to the trustees of the college from the contrac- tor. Receptionswere held during that weekend as there was 8 Campaign Workers Night and a public open house. A game between Pittsburg and SC culminated a three-day program of dedication. The gym was named after Mr. and Mrs. John T. Stewart otWellington, who gave a large con- tribution tor the gym 'and' also contributed Alumni Field tthe SC football field from 1938-19471. With the new gym Southwestern had one of the finest in the state. Coach Bill Monypeny even established the idea 01 a Christmas tournament around this area because of the new gym. And because of a 110 yard track around the top oi the gym, halttime entertainment would include a relay race around the track. Southwestern did indeed, and still has. a unique gym to house Moundbuilder basketball. k4- 4-4 Ed Benesh What was it like to be the only non-Kansas basketball Jiayer on the varsity roster? To find out that question. one ted to go see Edward Benesh, better known as Big Ed. ?Big Ed is from Queens in New York City. A graduate of Water Christi High School, Ed played on his varsity team hr two years. in response to the aforementioned question Ed first com- mented on the comparison of basketball played back in New York City to that of basketball played here Basket- 3a Is more intensely competitive back there Since there is '90 football in the city, basketball is almost a way of life and : played all year long. When I was a freshman in high 2hool. 55 people went out for the team and it was cut to Most of the competition came on the playground. Dur- . the summer basketball is played every evening till dark. I Itbasketballi is crude, but you have to be intensely com- titive and aggressive or you will be sitting on the side- es all day. There isn't much finesse, but it's tough. F re' s more tree- lance back East as opposed to the more tterned type of otfense here Answering the question of hich type of basketball is best, Ed replied that compari- n is hard because both styles have their good points. Ed, who is a junior academically but a sophomore eligi- -lty-wise, said the problems he taced coming to Kansas re about the same as any other Easterner coming to gas. The hardest thing to get used to was trying to jo something in common and basketball helped me in 'l respect. Since i came out here by myself, basketball ed in my understanding and getting acquainted. The justment to a slower pace of life was also different. Back one acts quickly while out here one thinks things out. f. first my accent proved to be a problem in understanding : another. One big disadvantage of living a long way away from , - is that it is hard to get home often. But Ed,said that doesnt regret it. To get the feel of a place you have to : there. We received a bigger round of experience. Live F here has broadened my range of thinking by being ..gs056d to many different types oi things. ' at did Ed have to do to play basketball here in Kan- Well, Ed replied that he had to broaden his ability and us Already a tough rebounder inside, Ed worked on his ;.handling, outside shooting, and finesse. eing the only non- -Kansan on the varsity roster did add . . extra pressure. ',But this pressure remarked Ed pires me to play better and then because of that l dont worry about the pressure any more. The East- rs probably identify with me, first because ltm from st York and the only outsider, and also because I live i atew of them. V . who is majoring in history and political science, , s to go on to law school or a graduate school in his- f after graduation trom Southwestern. With a broad 1390f experiences and adjustments already in his life, Ed should be successful wherever he goes; Ed Benesh Intramural Basketbail -'a Rho Mu intramural basketball team easily won this : '5 January term basketball league with a perfect 6-0 rd. sketball intramurals are sponsored by the athletic grtment with junior Gavin Russo and Senior Larry Ewert 'harge. lntramurals went very smoothly this past Janu- term with 10 teams competing. Spring Semester's Intra- l program may prove to be even greater. Basketball murals will start within the week. Future plans include nail, tennis. and swimming intramurals. So come out 1 watch your fellow students compete for the fun oi it. i Basketbatl Here is a basketball summary of the Southwestern games trom Dec. 9 to Feb. 24. On Dec. 9 the Builders hosted Sacred Heart in the Bob Hower Memorial Game. Despite 28 points by Sacred Heart's star Mike Bayer, SC prevailed 65-60. Timely free throws by Gary Hammer, Larry Ewart, and W. R. Allam near the end of the game put the game out of reach. On Dec. 12 the Friends University Falcons became the Builders tenth straight home victim, 59-56. After being behind most 01 the second half, senior iorward Gregg Howeii put in a turn-around jump shot with 14 seconds left to put the Builders on top 57-56, Ewartis two free throws added on the final victory margin. The Builders traveled to Bethel on Dec. 16 and won a crucial KCAC game 84-82, The game was welI-played by both teams and in the second half alone, the lead changed hands ten times and was tied five times. With 1:52 left in the game a Terry Rhea jump shot tied the game 82 all. Then with 42 seconds to go, senior guardeeff Boone hit two free throws to win the game. Southwestem's first game 01 the new year was played on Jan. 3 at College of Emporia. SC lost 75-67 as C of E shot 52.504 from the field. Meanwhile, the Builders were shooting only 39.4070. Parke Biby ied SC scorers with 16 points. . On Jan. 4 and 5 the Moundbuilders participated in the Friends Invitational Tournament. 805 first round opponent was the Sacred Heart Jets. An inspired, aggressive, and hot-shootihg Sacred Heart soundly beat SC 102-71. Shoot- ing a biistering 60.8070 from the field tor the game, Sacred Heart held a 53-38 lead at halftime. The Builders next played Baker University. Although holding a 29-27 lead at the half, SC ran out of gas and lost 71-68. Senior co-Cap- tain Howell led SC in scoring with 18 points. On Jan. 9 SC traveled to Sterling to play the Warrios in a key KCAC game as both teams were undefeated in league play. Like the Bethel game, the lead changed hands tre- quentiy and SC again came out on top, 67-66. Boone, who kept SC in the game with his hot outside shooting, led the Builders in scoring with 20 points. The Builders returned home to Stewart Field House on Jan. 13 to play McPherson College. in a fouI-piagued ball game SC stretched a 30-23 halftime lead to a 85-69 win. Biby led in scoring and rebounding for Southwestern with 26 points and 14 rebounds. On Jan. 17 the Moundbuilders traveled west to Dodge City to play the St. Mary Cavaliers. SC won the game 79- 56 despite a weird beginning. Wrong numbers in the sco- rebook cost Southwestern five technical fouls and five points before the game even began. Then St. Mary scored a basket to put them ahead 7-0 before the Builders ever touched the ball, However, the lead disappeared quickly and SC had the game under control. The Builders hosted Bethany Coliege on Jan. 20 and won its twelfth straight home game, 79-67. Southwestern raced to a 19-6 lead with only seven. minutes gone in the game. Biby again led the Builders in scoring with 21 points. Co-captains Howeii and Ewart had 15 and 13 points, respectively, and Hammer added 10. Southwestern headed north on Jan. 24 to play Kansas Wesleyan. SC defeated KWU 83-54. The 54 points was the lowest point total allowed against SC this year as the defense proved stubborn. After closing a halftime lead to only four points, the Builders quickiy opened up a big lead with a devasting fast-break that left the game no longer in doubt. This game left the SC overali record at 9-5 and the con- terence record at 8-0, good enough for first in the KCAC. But the start of the second round of KCAC play didnit leave the Builders in first place. On Jan. 30 the Builders traveled to Friends University. SC lost their first conference game of the season 64-61. Southwestern had a 26-15 lead in the first half, but saw it disappear. The loss meant that SC has never won a game at the Friends gym. SC is 0-8 in the last four years. The big game of the season was at Stewart on Feb. 3 when Southwestern hosted Bethel. Bethel, who was the last KCAC team to win at Stewart, defeated the Builders 70-62. The loss broke a 12-game home winning streak. A 26 near-capacw crowd saw the Builders hit only 34.92: from i L- IT i. 1 LL A L. i season for Southwestern. With six games ieft to play in the KCAC, Southwestern's conference record was 8-2 and the overall record was 9-7. in junior varsity action, the Builders had a 12-2 record with six games to go also, Tabor College was the next road opponent for South western on Feb. 8. Trailing at halftime 34-32, the Builders put in eight straight points to lead 40-34. But Tabor's Al Regier got hot and shot Tabor into the lead a short time later. For the game, Regier hit 14-19 field goals and ended the game with 34 points. The Builders returned home again on Feb. 10 to play Sterling Coliege. Ail five Sterling starters scored in double figures and defeated the Builders 69-56 for SC's fourth straight loss. it was the lowest point production by SC this year as they hit only 32.4070 from the field. Gary Hammer led SC In scoring with 14 points. On Feb. 13 Southwestern traveled to McPherson Coilege and won 78-72. After jumping out to a 14-2 lead. SC led at half 39-36. McPherson took the iead right after the start 01 the second half 49-44, however. But the Builders came back to make the rest of the game a close one. Gregg Howell's follow shot with 50 seconds left broke a 72-72 tie and Jeff Boone's four free throws in the last'36 seconds gave SC the win and one 01 their finest games of the sea- son. St. Mary of the Plain's invaded Stewart on Feb. 17. Southwestern won 83-63 as they never trailed in the ball game. SC led at half 43-26. Five Builders scored in double figures, paced by Hammer's 17 points. The last road game of the season was at Bethany Col- lege on Feb. 21. The Builders clinched second place in the KCAC with an 89-76 win. Leading 42-36 at halftime, SC hit 13 of their first 15 shots after intermission. A torrid fast break broke the game open. Boonets 24 points, Biby's 19 points, and Ewart's 15 points led the Builder attack. On Feb. 24 the Builders played their last game of the season at home against Kansas Wesleyan. After getting off to a slow start the Builders led at half 42-37. In the second half the Builder tast break and 5096 field goal shooting put them over the century mark for the first time during the season and deieatedrKWU 102-73. Six Builderstwere in double figures 4 Biby had 23; Hammer 20; Boone, Ewart and Howell 12 apiece; and Rhea 11. The Builders finished second in the KCAC with a 12-4 record. Overall the record stood at 13-9, The junior varsity team had a sparkling record of 18-2. Members of the Moundbuiider squad were seniors Jeff Boone, Larry Ewart, Gregg Howell, and Rodney Johann- sen; juniors W. R. Allam, Ed Benesh, Parke Biby, Max Fer- guson, and Gary Hammer; sophomores Alan Brennan, Craig Dewell, Ken Goyen, and Terry Rhea; and freshmen Randy Fisher, Gary McLaurin, Steve Nichols, Kent Sey- tried, and Bob Welsh. Bill Stephens was head coach and Larry Warner and Bob Karr assisted. Mike Chamberland was the team's trainer and Bob Nation served as equip- ment manager. Track Twenty-six men showed up for the first spring track practice Jan. 31, They are as tollows: Returning Lettermen . Ken Nixon 4 senior . Steve Arning 4 junior . Hal Hinson 4 junior . Rory Hanson 4 junior . Daie Mills 4 sophomore . Brad Bennett 4 senior Tom Ponzi 4 junior Cross Country . Gary Brown 4 freshman . Gary Baughman 4 sophomore . Stan 80995 4 freshman . Doc Mattox 4 junior . Ken Renner 4 freshman Returning Squadsmen 1. Pete Osmun 4 junior 2. Greg Swaiwell 4 junior New faces on the team are: Tod Dvorak, Hal Ankron, Mike McCoy. Pat O'Neill, Dan Thompson, Dan Burg, Steve Kellman, and Ron Sibel who are all freshmen. xloam-nmm-A m-kmwd A New uoner class ,1, students from Dodge City and Cowley County respectively. Doug Hunter will also be running with the builders again this year, however because of eligibility will be running only in indoor meets. The Spring Schedule for the Builders is as follows: 1. Feb. 17 4 Doane Invitational 2. Feb. 24 4 K80 Invitational KSC, KSTC, Arkansas, SC. 3. March 10 4 KSTC Dual Away 4. March 15 4 000, Central, SC Here 5. March 21 4 Tabor, Bethel, SC Here 6. March 27 4 NW Oklahoma Here 7. March 31 4 OC Relays Oklahoma City 8. April 7 4 KSTC Relays Emporia 9. April 14 4 OCC, Colorado College. SC Here 10. April 17 4 Tabor invitationai Hillsboro 11. April 20, 21 4 KU Relays Lawrence 12. April 28 4 SC Relays Here 13. May 1 4 Doane Relays Crete, Nebraska 14. May 11 4 KCAC Here 15. May 20 4 MVAAU Ottawa 16 . May 23-25 4 NAlA Outdoors The head coach of the track team is Coach Robert Karr, and assistant coach will be Jim Heimer a 1971 Southwest- ern College graduate. 28 an interview with JACK EDDLEMAN by Mike Brown tEDITOH'S NOTEy: Jack Eddleman, a noted Broadway actorrdirector, was asked to direct the production of 'Fiddler on the Root. He was on the campus late last yeart to cast the show and conduct some workshops, He returned and spent the month of January Choreographing and direct- Ing the show. The following is an interview with him by Mike Brown, a member of the 'tFiddler cast. Brown: I guess the best place to start is to ask you about your child- hood: where you were raised, your background and interests at different times In your IIfe. Eddleman: Well, I was born on my grandad's farm in Millsap, Texas, which nobody ever heard of tit's near the Weatherford-Fort Worth areaJ and for the first few years of my IIte we lived around Texas in small towns. My mother and father were divorced when I was very young and my mother remarried, so I really grew up with my mother and steptather, and I had a haIf-sister arrive five years later e whom I never think 01 as a halt- sIster because we grew up together as brother and sister. I don't really remember any early interest in the performing arts because I never saw any. On a term you dont see much. Brown: How about sports or some- Ithing else? Eddieman: You understand I was 'still in the second grade, so I'm talk- ring about early early time. But I Miernember In the first grade doing a Illittle pageant at school and that it .was terribly exciting. I played an tindian. and I had to take a sheet from home which we painted with Indian dyes. tit took a lot to get a sheet out at my mother, tooD I had started singing as a boy soprano in those days, so when we moved to Oklahoma my principal from Texas sent a note on my report card. He thought I might have some talent and that they might look into it. I was put fin a music class and was given some solos in Christmas programs and assemblies at school. I started sing- 11Ing in church choirs, too, and by the time I was in the sixth grade I was quite active in church and school choirs. We had by that time moved to Oklahoma City and I became one of the founding members of the YMCA boys choir. We did real stage per- formances there, and I think that's when the greasepaint first got in my veins. I think that was the turning point as to what my eventual interest .ms going to be, but it was another year or two before I decided intellec- tually that I knew. Right about the end of the eighth grade was when I decided that some form of the per- forming arts was going to be my career. We never varied from that; I've never had any sidetrack. Brown: Then you never had any doubts as to whether you might go on to some different area? Eddleman: No, and my family nei- ther encouraged nor discouraged me. Their first thoughts were, IiWhy don't you take a good typing course just in case? , but it never occurred to me. Iid even at one point started to become interested in the ministry. I was in the Baptist church and was going to summer camps with the church, and I began to do some youth sermons around Oklahoma and would lead music at revivals and that sort of thing. But I just sat down and had a talk with myself; I seemed to be drawn to some kind of platform, but I had to decide what kind of plat- form it was going to be. I had to look at the gifts I'd been given and see where they would best apply. It seemed like some kind of theater; I was very involved in music and at that time it looked like musical theater for me, but along the way it's broad- ened into a much wide: spectrum, simply because of influences and experiences in other forms of theater through college and professional work. And I guess from the time I started high school I was never not rehearsing something. Brown: So you were keeping your- self active in high school? Eddlernan: Yes. I reaIIy was totally committed by then. I even took money from a paper route that I had and went out to the University of Tulsa and took children's theater courses on Saturday morning. Brown: So whatever you could do in the acting area. you took advan- tage of it. Eddleman: Right: I auditioned for everything. The Tulsa Little Theater had a fantastic operation with one of the best directors I've ever worked for, and I did two plays there - my first brush with Shakespeare came in a live situation, which I think is great for students, to see it on a stage where it was meant to be in the first placed Actually, Tulsa was a wonder- ful city to grow up in because there were so many performing outlets. They had their own theater, they had the Tulsa Opera at that time they were using a lot of local people with just a few stars brought int, and they now have a civic ballet which was in its fledgling days just before I left. I transferred to Central High School there, which had a tremendous pro- 30 gram: a weekly radio show every Sat- urday tthe students wrote and prod- uced the half-hour programt - we did everything from dramas to musi- cals to variety shows. We had class plays and speeCh-arts plays, an annual Operetta, and an annual all- school huge production tthere were about 3000 studentst. Brown: How did your work in col- lege vary? Eddleman: While I was in high school, I received a lull scholarship to Northwestern University in lllinots on a summer program. They have a summer speech program for students between their junior and senior years in high school and I went there, They give two awards in that program, one in drama and one in radio tset up by Edgar Bergen, of all peoplet and I won the Bergen Award in drama. I love the quote from it because it's something I feel strongly about. This award is given to the student who shows the greatest promise of a Hdis- tinguished career in the theater a not just a stardom, but a career that has a little honor and some respect. I think theater people and performing arts people should have just as much respect as bankers and lawyers in our community, and we still baslcally are second-class citizens You still hear. ttWould you let your daughter marry an actor? That goes back to the Middle Ages when only women ot III repute would be in an acting com- pany. And I just think there are some tantastic people I've met in my career who are at the top of the humanity heap. Brown: Would you care to mention some of these people and some interesting experiences you had with them? Eddleman: Well, Harry Belafonte, for instance. My second job was on a tour with him, and I have tremendous respect for Mr. 8. He demands the best of everybody in the show; our shoes were polished every night, our clothes were pressed. everything had to be the best we could put on the stage. You don't always find that in a star who's Hmade it and who makes millions, but the only time I saw him lose his temper was when somebody did not do what was demanded ot them on the stage. It was a Iabulous trip; we toured all across the country and ltd never really travelled much and were paid a very good salary - above the union minimums Working with Jose Ferrer, who has had some of the greatest triumphs in the American theater, was a great experience. Twice Mr. Ferrer directed me and took a chance on me as a total unknown. I auditioned at one show where I didn't know anybody on the staftl no one had seen me do anything, and he just took me because he liked what he saw at the audition. He gave me one scene in the show and had me understudy Tony Randall twho happens to be from Tulsa and who studied, many years before, in the same drama rooms in the same high school I didt A few years later, Mr. Ferrer again popped up in my career when I was cast in a show he was starring in with Florence Henderson called, HThe Girl Who Came to Suppers He came to me and said, I didn't know you were going to be in this show. You know, I don't have an understudy; you ought to be my understudy because yours a great character actorfl I told him I'd like to get the chance and he told me he'd talk to the producer. Within a week I had a new contract with more money and I was his under- study. That's very generous; a lot of stars are a little frightened of their position and ot maintaining their posi- tion, and they won't give you the time of day. Brown: Would you consider that inbident what people would call your Hbreak? Eddleman: It was one of many. I find that careers are made up Of numerous Hbreaks a shifts and turns in your pathway. Young people are constantly asking me, tlHow do you get started? Well, if you asked ten different actors in New York how they got started, you'd get ten differ- ent stories. People say you have to be at the right place at the right time, but there is a talent tor putting your sell in the right place at the right time and keeping your antenna out to receive vibrations and messages of things that are going on. Sometimes you have to evolve work tor yourself. My work with the universities has been through direct contacts and talking to people and letting them know that I'm interested. For instance, my first real break came when the director of the Kansas City Starlite Theater came to Tulsa to audition people. He told me he was up to his ears in baritones, but a cou- ple of weeks later he called me at my summer job at the bank and said he had an opening it I wanted it. I grab- bed it! The bank very nicely let me go with about three days' notice instead of about two weeks, and while I was there in KC, I got a scholarship to the University 0t Kansas City in voice. I went back to the Starlite in the sum- mer of '53, and then my teet got very itchy and I decided to head tor New York. I went to New York and was there about three months when I promptly was drafted. Things had really started clicking a I'd gotten a job in a nightclub, singing and doing some dance routines with three girls, and I was also in an ott-Broadway show. I closed both of those on a Sunday night, and Monday morning I was in the Army a not as a singer, of course, but as a cook Brown: How did you enjoy your cooking stint? Eddleman: I did not enjoy it at all! Now I enjoy cooking a lot, but then I cooked in a consolidated mess hall that ted 2000 men. People don't real- Ize that the food materials that Army gets are really very good, but when you have to cook for that many men you can't do anything decent. Brown: Did you ever have any opportunity to do any entertaining while you were in the service? Eddleman: Yes, on weekends I would do shows at the service clubs. I was stationed in New Jersey, and sometimes I'd bring out show busi- ness friends from New York and weld put on spectacular things . , . At the time I thought I was going to go into special services, but I discovered that the guy who was to process my card was getting out in a month and he never processed it so my orders came for cook school. I was shipped to Fort Niagara and there I entered the 1st Army talent contest, won that and then won the entire northeastern section of the U.S., which sent me to the world finals. Finally, they decided that it I could make it to the world finals I might; be valuable in special services, For the rest of my Army career ltd produce a show a month. I also got a church soloist job In Niag- ara Falls and did some plays with the little theater there. So the and 0t my Army career was much better than the beginning. Brown: You mentioned earlier the idea of going to colleges, How did you find that you liked to work with young people? Eddleman: In my summer stock tours, there are always groups of apprentices, and they would find out about my interest in make-up because I always played character parts - my stock and trade for years. They would come and ask me it I would give them a class in make- up, and their interest and their physi- cal and mental energy just really turned me on. In the professional world you can sometimes get very cut-and-dried: you come in, you do your job, you have an hour rehearsal and a tive-minute break tall the Union rules are theret But sometimes you lose sight of the very thing that sent you into the business, which was the excitement of it and the vitality; and the kids reminded me of that. I began to get more interested, and once in a while some chorus kids in a show I was involved in would ask me to do an acting class. The whole time I wasI in Las Vegas with Juliet Prowse they'd give me the stage at Caesar's Palace twice a week for three hours; I started out with the seven kids in the company and ended with 18 in the class. It turned out to be a very exciting thing, and we'd do a per- tormance of our scenes with all kinds of exciting people in the audience. I loved it! I found that as a performer I grew from having to clarify a lot ot- techniques and ways of working thatI I'd used for years without thinking' about it. It made me more aware of things and made me polish some techniques myself. It also led me Int directing, which I find terribly excite 19. It fulfills something in me that ttorming doesn't. People ask me it give up performing, but I won't do hat either because that fulfills :i other part of my psyche. I love the it logy of directing, performing, and aching. Even the least experienced :udents might stumble onto some- thing ten times better than what you might have told them to do. I think the imagination is the magic word in all the performing arts. You just have to open up the windows of the brain :and let it come out of you and soar. You don't need money or high-pow- sered names, you just need a group of people with some talent getting Imgether on a big imaginative streak and you can create miracles. Brown: Having talked with friends about Imagination and how it seems to be lacking today in our society and Iture, it's interesting to watch you timing rehearsals and see your imag- nation being put into characters' roles and watch how they do some- I lng. When you watch these peOple, u have an idea of what they as characters are trying to do. Do they : r break? Eddleman: Oh, yes. Quite often they will teach me somethIng about the character that I haven't thought fabout. and thats what I try to keep open and tree tor. I started out direct- ng everything; I'm a Virgo and we're wry picky, plus my Germanic back- around says, You will do it right or else! I was very unbending and it .' -s a ditticult situation. With chore- ography there's a lot more technique flnvolved and you can't be so fluid in : Ie. but even there the performer must feel that he is contributing something. and it took me about a year to learn that. Especially in non- . usical productions. where you ren't bound by the bar line, you can Test up your own rhythms, with atespect to the author and his inten- ions, of course. I tound that there he infinite varieties of rhythms and W ner rhythms and sub-texts that can It: worked with. That's what makes a play, being able to do it many differ- rent ways so that your production can be quite valid and still be different ittom X's production last year. I think especially in Shakespeare and the classics that we as a rather new land can bring great freshness to those works and get them off the museum shelf. Brown: Do you have dItticulty mak- lng people use their imaginations? Eddleman: Sometimes. Of course, the really gilted people are right there. It's marvelous to watch laces, even when I give notes, and see the people who are logging things away tor future use. And those are usually the talented ones, but sometimes it's the ones who are just bright and who don't have so much talent. I see 'more and more inhibition in people with talent. Sometimes I'll see some- he and say, I'Gee, they should just Ive up, but that's foolish because you can't tell until you get rid of the inhibition and see what comes out, and sometimes it's really amazing. Brown: Ive been thinking about the first time you were here to per- form as our guest. You did a lot of speaking to the people who were going on the USO tour. Did that have anything to do with your enthusiasm in coming back again? Eddleman: Yes, the eagerness ot the students, the openness of them to receive, was wonderful. I worked a little with the choreography numbers to help them get more style, and the kids were just wide open. In the East, where kids see a lot more and do a lot more in theater and opera, their sophistication level is much higher but they also have a little jaded sense and a slightly Hshow-me attitude. It takes time.to break through that before you can accomplish anything. I lound none of that here - no crap that I had to cut through, and it was terribly exciting and made me want to come back. Brown: How did you decide when to come here again? Eddleman: That came through the Cultural Arts Board. Mr. Thompson told me that some students on the CAB had asked that I be invited back for a longer period of time, so he asked it it would be possible to set up a live- or st-week residency. I came and talked to the CAB In the tall about my ideas for what we could do and they voted to have me come, but our schedules were so involved that we couldn't find one period, so we baroke it up into two periods. 80 I was here in the fall to do the concert, teach a few courses. conduct llFid- dler tryouts, and go out to schools in neighboring areas to try to drum up some enthusiasm for the live arts. Brown: What is your reaction to the tall period that you spent here? Eddleman: I dont think I've ever had a busier schedule in all my lite. I enjoyed the performing, but I lound it terribly exhausting, and l telt that that concert I did in the tall was not up to snutt. I found the things I was doing exciting and I found it very difficult to say no, so because of the fatigue factor it was not nearly as successful in terms of personal performance as my first concert here. Brown; But the enthusiasm of the people you were with was instilled in you and kept you going. Eddleman: Yes. It's really like fuel; it you have a bad session or a bad group, it can just destroy you. But I was able to keep going and managed to get most of the things done, An hour and a halt concert takes lots of energy, though, and when youtre fatigued the first thing to get tired Is the voice. Brown: Have you had difficulty in keeping your sanity during the past three weeks? Eddleman: Only in the numbers we do. Anytime you have a large cast like this, keeping discipline is a big problem, simply because we have so many people who have never appeared on the stage. They don't know that the untorgiveable sin is to miss an entrance. They don't know how important it is to be at every rehearsal, no matter how small the role. It took a while to get that kind of basic integrity instilled in people. A lot of the students didnit realize the tre- mendous energy that has to be In play every time they set foot on the stage. That idea is coming along now, but at times I think I've wanted to tear my hair out by the roots in try- ing to get the group etiort - the individual efforts in most cases have been excellent! Brown: When you had the tryouts tor 'IFiddler On the Root. did you have any idea what type of people would try out? Eddleman: Only from what I'd seen in my previous trips here. I knew there was some talent because ltd seen the USO rehearsal, but other than that I had no idea what was going to show up. I also never pre- cast, so I had no idea who would play what role. Those auditions were terribly exciting, and yet also terribly fatiguing because as a performer l empathize with an auditioner. There's nothing worse in the Western world than auditions, but when you're in a place where you don't know the per- tormers' abilities and where you haven't seen anybodyts work, it's the only way. I think one of the director's tools is to have an intuitive sense as to when somebody will be right for a role. They may not do the best audition, but it there's something in that audi- tion e a spark ot what you're look- Ing for in a particular part 1 . . What you have to have in mind is the entire tabric of the production, the entire shape of it, and everybody has a niche to till to make that production come off well. In many cases, the best actors are not in the largest parts because I needed their particu- lar energies and talents in a certain niche. Brown: Alter having cast the show and having worked with us for these weeks, what are your feelings as to the results of the work? Eddleman: I'm delighted that I didn't make any mistakes! Even when I came back, there were at least two roles that I really didnit know whether I was going to have to change. I was a little shaky about them because I couldn't find any quality that I really wanted there, and yet both those people worked very hard and have come up with something quite valid, and I'm very pleased. All the princi- pals have just blossomed even more than I would have hoped. I think there's a richness, an emotional tap- estry going on there that is rare in any production ot Fiddler. 32 South western C allege Teacher Educa fl'on by Lewis Gilbreath Observe any group of twelve couples between the ages of twenty-tive and thirty-tive together as entire families and it would be an exception it it was not evident by the number of children that the need for teachers will continue. Such facts support the action of our Teacher Education Department to encourage well qualified stu- dents to consider the teaching field as their chosen profes- sion. Also, because we are aware that when anyone selects to help guide and mold the development and direction of the mental, physical, and emotional direction of human ilves it must be done with all seriousness and dedication, we recognize our opportunity and our responsibility as individuals and as an institution. The organization and opera- tion of our teacher education training program is centered around the above convictions. Realizing that the experience, demands, needs, and opportu- nities which the classroom teachers continually meet are so rapidly changing today we feel that those in training need a frequent and continual expo- sure so that they have first hand experience in these changes and growth. To accomplish this exposure, edu- cation students begin a rather direct involvement as early as their sophomore year. Three or four areas provide direct classroom, or at least person to person contact, which becomes supportive for courses to follow. Foundations of Education has for one of its requirements that the students spend twenty hours per term in the public school system as teacher aides. This involves such activities as assisting with normal classroom functions to private tutoring in special cases of need. Those students who are pre- paring to teach foreign lan- guages also spend time in the elementary schools in foreign language instruction. This is felt to be especially valuable because of the uniqueness of good learning and teaching skills in foreign language. January Term provides some very special opportunities for education majors. Unlimited experiences exist for individu- als or small group work in our public schools, at the Winfield State Hospital and Training Center, with the Day Care Linda Ballard. one of many students involved in practice teaching, helps a stu- dent at Winfield High School. Center and in other related teaching areas. Career plans have been discovered and refined as a result of these experiences. Probably one of the best examples of this has been the rich and rewarding experiences our students have each year at the School For The Deaf at Olathe. A need in education which continues to become a vital part of the learning process is a strong ability on the part of the teacher to have and to put into practice true humanizing and empathetic practices. The courses in education and all of the related experiences which the students are exposed to are opportunities to develop further these qualities. Teacher education is not a selection a student just makes and goes into. After exposing themselves to the early experi- ences and deciding for certain that this is the career they wish to pursue written application is made to the education depart- ment. The application is reviewed and a personal inter- view is held between the appli- cant and the education com- mittee which is made up of fac- ulty and students. From this time on a more prescribed aca- demic program is followed but still as much variety as possible is encouraged. One of these prescribed courses is Learning Process which once again arranges for the students to spend three hours per week working with junior high age students in addition to the two hours per week in the college course itself. The senior year is when the prospective teacher finally begins to put all of their aca- demic and personal experi- ences together and apply them. One of the two terms of the senior year is spent in tiblockfl This consists of full time in observing and teaching in one of the public schools of the area plus taking two related courses on campus. An experi- ence of this involvement is sim- ilar in intent and design to vari- ous forms of internships. This adds the assurance, confi- dence, and poise which is so beneficial to beginning teach- ers. Preparing for and being a teacher should be considered as one of the very crucial pro- fessional careers. Here we influence, guide, help academi- cally, emotionally and person- ally to affect thousands of lives. Such a responsibility should never be accepted until our own reasons, attitudes and purposes have been thor- oughly examined and under- stood. Teaching is a wonderfully rewarding and gratifying pro- fession. Good teachers will always be needed. 355g ! u. I g; RV THE STUDENT MAGAZINE OF SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE Page IO 26 Art exhibits, tripping, and Founders Day are among those Current Events listed in this issue. What is the Walnut Valley Hor- sefeathers and Applesauce Last Annual Summer Theatre Pro- gramme? 120 Seniors can't be wrong. Commencement 73 Year-end wrap-up of sports from track to tennis to golf to women's physical education. An interview with next year's SAA president Terry Cook. Find out where your money will be going. ABRAXAS VOLUME 1 adviser .................................... Bill H. Stephens current even ts editor ...................... Willa Carroll Jones features editor .............................. Susan McGuire sports editor ............................. Rodney Iohannsen contributing staff . . . . Alan Bruchas, Susan Somers, Jana BoyIan, Theo Otte, Pete Allegre, Debbie Powell, Tom WorsteII, joy NUMBER 5 IULY, 1973 McLain. The Abraxas: To Be or Not To Be This is it. Abraxas for the year 1972-78. By the time you read this issue, we will be intc the middle of summer. Working, or traveling, or studying, or relaxing. Many of us wont even be thinking about either what happened this past year or what may happen in the coming year. Assuming that's the case, llll ask you now tin Mayy to look back from July tAugust'D at what we, the Abraxas staff, have tried to do and how you, the readers, have reacted to us. We stated at the beginning of the year that our purpose was the combining of two ideas, two forms of communication: the newspaper and the yearbook. In the form of a magazine, we hoped to unite current events with features, interviews, and creative writing. The response to each issue has been overwhelmingly favorable; not only have stu- dents and faculty enjoyed it, but Abraxas has been used for recruiting purposes, and many alums have asked for a subscription service. Nonetheless, there have been a few complaints. First, several people on campus have voiced the desire to continue a yearbook. And, to an extent, I can sympathize. i like to have a record of who was in what organization; I like to see everybody's pic- tures and to remember what things I did. However, on this campus the yearbook is nearly impossible because of lack of participation. For a number of years students have been solicited, even begged, to help staff the Moundbuilder. It was just too much of a hassle trying to get people to do it, and students this year have been much more inter- ested in working on the Abraxas than they have been in the Moundbuilder for years. It is possible, though, that enough students will be willing to work on a yearbook staff. Another problem with Abraxas has been that current events are no longer current by the time the issues are delivered. Students want tlnews faster, with more editorial comment by more and different people. The idea has sprouted tor a news- letter, some kind of extention ot ltThe Outlet. Once or twice a month tor however often it's nec- essary; HThe Outlet would include, notonly event schedules, but space for letters and editori- als by anyone who has something to say. In this way, communication would open up between stu- dents, faculty, staff - anyone, in a manner that the Abraxas lacked. Then, the Abraxas would have more space to cover group activities on campus and have more features and interviews. These are just some of the ideas being tossed around! Of course, we are somewhat limited by budget and staff as to what we can do. The Abraxas was an experiment, partly successful, partly not, and we have profited by its learning experience. You may be sure that the student pub- lications will be altered, hopefully improved. To be static is to be stagnant, and we intend to be nei- ther. by Susan McGuire feature edito .4 ' RT EXHIBIT Thirty-tive oil paintings and two relief sculptures wood executed by Marta Maria Milivojevic, art- t, were on exhibit in Darbeth Fine Arts Center on ecampus Feb. 18 through March 4. Mrs. Milivojevic, who specializes in painting folk- ore and symbolism also gave a lecture about the nspiration of the poetic symbolism in her work on 'unday, Feb. 18. Much of her work is derived from he rich Balkan folklore in which the Christian and pagan symbols and beliefs are intimately inter- The Spring humanities program was a new six- art film series written and narrated by Kenneth l lark, Pioneers of Modern Painting. The distribution of Pioneers of Modern Painting as made possible by a grant from the National ndowment for the Arts and was on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The six-part series covered the lite and works of Six leading artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Edovard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Claude Money, Georges Seurat, Henri Bousseau, Edvard Muneh. A 45-minute color film was devoted to each of the six artists. TRIPPING Two students from Southwestern College were off to see the worldl' as a part of the semester- long World Campus Afloat. Miss Bernie Bernally, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ned Bernally, Shiptrock, N. M, and Bret Temple, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Temple of Burden left the last part of January for the four-month trip. World Campus Afloat is a unique educational experience administered through the Division of International Studies of Chapman College, Orange, California. Utilizing a shipboard campus, this program seeks to introduce students to the varied cultures of men through study voyages touching all parts of the world. Founded in 1965, the World Campus Afloat letters a semester of college work combining class- iroom experiences with related field work in various ports of study. Classes meet regularly on board ship between ports. CURRENT EVENTS by Willa Carroll Jones I ' 3:11 ax: ?i $ T n v Dr. Rutnenberg displays his new College Medalion at the Founders Day festivities. KING LEAR One of Shakespeare's greatest plays, King Lea was presented at Southwestern by the National Shakespeare Company on Wednesday, Feb. 21. Based on a well-known mythical king of British legend, Shakespearets Lear is a story not only of an ancient king, but also one that deals with the eternal theme of the relations of parents and chil- dren. The National Shakespeare Company's prod- uction of King Lear was sponsored by the Cultural Arts Board at Southwestern. The company, a New York state non-profit organization, is in its tenth year and has performed for audiences of 250,000 each season at colleges, high schools, and univer- sities across the country. FOUNDERS DAY Highlighting the two-day affair of the 1973 Founders Day Celebration at Southwestern Col- lege was the Investiture of Dr. Donald B. Ruthen- berg. Giving the Act of Dedication at the Investiture was Bishop Ernest Dixon, Bishop of the Kansas Area of the United Methodist Church. Dr. Lloyd M. Bertholf, a 1921 graduate of Southwestern, gave the address. t Other Founders Day activities included a tea for the Trustees! wives given by Mrs. Ruthenberg on March 16; a Founders Buffet to which SC. stu- dents, faculty, and trustees attended and a lunch- eon with President and Mrs. Ruthenberg and spe- cial guests. BLACK CULTURE The black students of Southwestern sponsored a Black Culture Celebration. The featured event was guest lecturer Rev. Henry Hardy, an NAACP board member and member of Operation P.U.S.H. tPeople United to Save Humanity; Other activities included a seminar a fashion show, films and a soul music dance. EAST LYN N E In honor of the Winfield Centennial, the Campus Players at Southwestern presented a melodrama and olio show. The melodrama, iiEast Lynneii was done in the late 19th century opera house style. The olio show consisted of original and authentic material arranged by Perry Potter, a senior music major at SC. it was patterned after the old vaudeville rou- tines and included a cameo appearance by Charles Cloud Sri Cloud is a veteran of the Chau- tauqua circuit. PSYCHIC PHENOMENA Jack London, a noted expert on psychic phe- nomena was on the Southwestern campus on April 11th, as part oi the Spring Cultural Arts program. In his talk London answered such questions as: How do you separate tact from fantasy in ESP phe- nomena?, Is the observation of psychic phenom- ena by scientists illuminating, or does it Cloud the issue? and why astrology is so popluar today. London has appeared on television with Johnny Carson, Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin. He has also been a popular guest on The Today Showft Bishop Dixon, Founders Day speaker Lloyd Berthoif. and Dr. Ruihenberg talk matters over foiloiwng the Founders Day convocation and official Investiture of Dr. Ruthenberg. JINX RECOVERS Part of Southwesterh Coiiegets past was brought to light, after having been concealed behind a false wall in Stewart Field House for almost 60 years. Around the turn of the century a tradition was begun at 8.0 which lasted for many years. When the obliege would win a football game the South- western students would inscribe the name of the defeated school and the score on a tombstone and place it with other tombstones in a mock cemetery on the campus. One of these tombstones became the center ot much attention and activity during 1913 and immediately following. It was stolen, re-stolen and, i presumably, blown up Oh that tombstone, which commemorated the defeat of Fairmont College - now Wichita State a was painted a black cat, the symbol that has since come to be known as The Jinx, the mascot of Southwestern. Bob Nation, SC. student, discovered a false wall in the attic of Stewart Field House. Behind the wall was a crate containing that tombstone, thought to have been destroyed over halt a century ago, BENEFIT GIVER A benetit program for the Sickle Cell Anemia Society of Kansas was presented on April 27th The program included John Gatson's prod- uction ot Hln Black America't and the Wichita State University Choir, and the poetry ot Carol and Lesa Myers and John Johnson. Sickle Cell Anemia is a disease of the blood common to Black Americans. BoerEH'Cm 356 D7. Rulhenberg anminv the Jinx Slum: bclicvvdjo lw morqlhau 50 year's old., a.- ,. AmodquoMege Night Wily BMW Van Morrison was squatting on the stereo, spin- ning round and round. Over and over, he would croon something about Hanother place, another time. This music was hypnotic a strangely reas- suhng. There I was with all those papers due tsome of them three weeks late, all those stories and plays to read, and all those essays to revise. An evil exam loomed in the future like a sphinx on my road to summer. A research paper was hanging from the back of my brain like four gunny sacks stuffed with garbage. Yet the music was optimistic, com- forting. Despite all the sad events and hard times Morrison would sing about, there was always Hanother place, another time. Outwardly down and out, he had a mellow undercurrent of peace and happiness. He seemed to say that the outside things didntt matter a the bad breaks, bummers, broken vows and friendships a as long as the inside was kept in tune. HWhy worry about those damn papers? I thought. HFive years from now I'll be in California, or Pennsylvania, or Kansas City, or Crown Hill, and those papers will be so far behind, and so forgot- ten, Agamemnon will enter my mind only on some cold toilet seat in the middle of a mind-arohing spasm. Slamming and stomping, Ron came in. He went to the kitchen to make Cinnamon rolls. Ron is a good man and roommate. Besides that, he makes cinnamon rolls. The cinnamon rolls are the tasty kind that come in a can with a little plastic package of icing. And they only cost a quarter per can at the super market. l'Who's thatTt The woman I'm sitting with points to a poster on the door. She is soft and warm tonight and she has a cold. ltve been holding her and hoping her to get well. Rubbing her forehead helps her headache, she says. HThat's Stevie Winwood, I reply, and Winwood nods his assent down from his paper poster king- dom. 'He sings that song about feeling so unin- spired. Remember? That would be a nice album to hear next, I think. A classic night e Van Morrison, Traffic, and ear- lier the Beatles, Lightfoot, and Woody Guthrie. The room yawns and engulfs us. My black tennis shoes lie empty, groaning, on the floor along with ten thousand unfiled debate notecards and some used paper plates. Dried strands of spaghetti adhere to the plates, remnants of a spag hetti civili- zation now processing its way to the mig hty Missis- sippi. The desk is an open graveyard. Frazzled stacks of books and papers blend together, enshrouding the desk surface. A drawer laps out like a panting dog's tongue. The wall bookshelf is a pigeonts nest of haphazard paperbacks. l'll clean this place e another time. The quiet music pulls us together. In the blue light and cinnamon aroma, we sit there, on the sofa, staring at the mess, the work to be done, and the posters on the wall. Our lives dritt out, and on, and into the music in the air. They swirl and float by, and we wonder where they are going. n President Rutnenberg. seated,.a1fd Norma . - ., . with the hat, get ready for a summer seaso . . - 5.. . ;,,: feathers and Applesauce. ' THE WALNUT VALLEY HORSEFEATHERS AND APPLESAUCE LAST ANNUAL SUMMER THEATRE PROGRAMME by Susan Somers When I asked Norman Callison how the idea started for the summer theatre, he gave me some strange story about a king in a far-off land who had seven lovely daughters. I wasn't quite sure what he was talking about but it sounded good. Actually, the idea began when Callison hired Bill Bielby mow a designer for Eastern Illinois State Universityt to be the technical director for HLion In Winter, last year's January term production. These two master minds had gotten together and tried to find a way in which they could start a din- ner theatre program. The original idea was to have the theatre located somewhere in Colorado and incorporate the use of both student and semiepro- tessional actors and crew members. However, that dream could neither find a place in Colorado to set itself nor finances to back it. It was then decided to try and associate it with Southwestern College, When Callison talked to President Ruthenberg he seemed to be very enthusiastic about the idea and plans were put into motion. Why the name HWalnut Valley Horsefeathers and Applesauce Summer Theatre Programme?! Well, the name seems to have been suggested by Dr. Ruthenberg. Believe it or not, there is a national organization that bears the name 'lHorse- feathers and Applesauce, complete with a mem- bership of five, fees, and membership cards. By the way, Dr. Ruthenberg is the president of the organization. The organization got its start when Bishop Frank Grace of Colorado, a friend of Dr. Ruthenberg's, made the comment, ilThe world is horsefeathers and applesauce and someone ought to incorporate it.'l So they did. When the name was suggested to Callison he felt it would be a good name to catch attention and decided to use it. And now what youlve all been waiting for, the list ot this summerls season and the cast members, in that order. THE SEASON June 13-17; 20-24 Rodgers and Hammerstein's l'Oklahomail' June 27-July1 ttStarSpangled Girll' July 4-8; 11-15 ltMusic Man .July 18-22 ttThe Importance of Being Earnest July 25-29 11A FunnyThing Happened Onthe Way to the Forumll August1-5 tlSpoon River Anthologyl' The shows themselves Will be performed in Mes- senger Auditorium. Each program includes dinner. The dinners will be served in the President's Art Gallery in Darbeth. They are designed to get the audience into the mood for the show; for example, the dinner for ltOklahomalll will be box dinners sold by auction to the highest bidder, sight unseen The summer company will consist 01 2O semi- professional and student actors. They will be per- forming six shows in an eight-week season. While the first show is running in the evening they will be rehearsing for the next week show. This calls for either some very talented actors or very brave people. THE CAST Norman Callison executive producer talumi Bill Bielby designer tEastern All Statey Steve Hailey business manager talumi Roger Moon actor talumi Tom Rupp actor tEastern III. Statet Skip Roberts John Marshall Don Webb actor tW. VaJ actor talumi actor talumt Jerry Starks actor tSouthwesternt Roxy Callison publicity talumi Cynthia Compton accompanist ialumi Susan Somers costumer iSouthwesterny Robbie Banks actress talurm Ann Roberts actress tW, Vaj Gina Austin actress tWiohitay Rhonda Marshall actress talumy Lori Alexander actress tSouthwesterm Besides being a member of the cast the company will also double as the crews, Aside from the mem- bers in the cast there will be those students who have talked to Mr. Callison and will be helping with serving the dinners and other little odd jobs. What is the purpose for the summer theatre? Mr. Callison said, tiThe summer theatre program is to give people a chance to be on stage? The major- ity of the company are college graduates who are working and dont get the chance to perform. It will give those people a chance to use their skills once again. The summer on Southwestern campus will be a busy one, humming with activity, people scram- bling between Christy twhere construction and practices will bet and Darbeth twhere the shows, dinners, and costumes are Iocatedt. So, by all means, if you're in the area make plans to stop in and see a show or two. We'll be looking forward to seeing familiar and outside faces. tAnd it you hap- pen to see some poor little thing who looks lost and bewildered carrying an arm load of what may seem to be costumes, please smile e it will make her feel bettery So come see us. B W T K :N.. i E C N E M M O C below left: James Wierzbicki directs the SC band during the pre-commencement concert below right: Toni Dautel, using a dulcimer made by her father, sings during the exercises. bottom: Dr. Fred E, Harris gives the commencement address. Commencement 973s A Ceremony of Time by Don McKinney It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of toolish- ness. it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch ol incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season ot Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter ot despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. . . tChuck Dickens. A TALE OF TWO ClTIESt The school year has come to an end For some of us it has stumbled, groaned, and finally collapsed For others, it has slipped through our tingers like invisible eraser dust. t'tWhere has the year goneTt or HMy, how time flieslU. For still others, the year marks the end of a long rocky climb which peaks in a ceremony of freedom - commencement, For all of us, commencement is a ceremony of time lt is an age-old tradition which occurs annually, yet it happens to each of us only two or three times in a lifetime, As its name denotes, it marks the beginning of a new time. It also marks the end of the old, For some of the graduating seniors, com- mencernent is the end of the beginning; for others it is the beginning of the end. Commencement marks the beginning of the future but as some futures are opened, others are closed; as some choices are made, others are placed aside. An old Indonesian sailor once said that commencement is the ceremony that occurs when one is ready to enter the jun- gle 7 with its ripe fruit, beautiful plants, vipers and ferocious beasts - and alter one has crossed a shaky rope bridge over crocodiles, quicksandt piranhas, and exams. The 1973 commencement at Southwestern College was particularly concerned with time The commencement address by Dr. Fred E. Harris focused on attitudes toward time. tDr. Harris is an Associate General Secretary for the Division 01 Higher Education of the United Methodist ChurchJ Some of the audience thought Dr, Harris was sug- gesting that people slow down: we crowd too much activity into too little time Others, like President Ruthenberg in his charge to the students, thought Dr. Harris was advising peo- ple to speed up: Hdon't put off 'til tomorrow what we can do today. However interpreted, it was clear that the address, t'Tomorrow for Sure, was concerned with time. Dr. l-larris spoke of agendas that are too heavy, so that things are con- stantly deterred until 'tomorrow - tor surefl He spoke of concern for futurismt' and a 'lmortgaged tuturei' He sug- gested that we emphasize the present rather than l'mahana -tomorrow. As an undesigned but fitting comment on ttfuturismf graduating senior Toni Dautel followed Dr. Harris with a hun- dred year old folk song. She accompanied herself on a dul- cimer, a musical instrument centuries old. Another comment on time was apparent in the dress of the graduates. Many wore the traditional cap and gown; others wore more contemporary suits, and even blue jeans. Like time itsell, people spent commencement in ditterent ways Some of the audience paid attention; others did not. Some of the faculty sat properly dignified and attentive; oth- ers watched warily for low flying birds. Some of the students came to commencement to watch old friends snatch up dips lomas; others had long belore fled the campus for home, A small group of students served time in the Cooperating Win- field Colleges Band. The band provided a pre-Commence- ment concert and music at strategic points in the ceremony tthe processional, the alma mater, and the recessionalt Conductor James Wierzibicki made a gallant effort in keep- ing the band from rushing ahead or tailing behind: an eftort to keep the band in time. Southwesternts commencement has changed with time. The 1973 observance was smoother and shorter by thirty minutes than its predecessors. The reception at the top of the SeventyeSeven was new. The recessional up the steps ol Sonner Stadium was another innovation. For the first time the band included students from both Winfield campuses, St. Johns and 80uthwestern The band discarded the traditional 'lPomp and Circumstance in favor of ltsine Nominell by Ralph Vaughn Williams. Picture taking of each senior by the college photographer, as well as the encouraging of parents and friends to move nearer the platform area tor pictures, are recent changes that were continued by this year's com- mencement. A contemporary approach to the printing of the programs was also taken. The commencement convocation. as a ceremony of time, traditionally recognizes excellence in the past. This year Southwestern College awarded three honorary degrees. The speaker, Dr. Fred Harris, received the honorary degree Doc- tor of Humane Letters. Dr. Harris has been the dean of the graduate school of the University of Kentucky, the vice-presi- dent of Baldwin College, and the vice-president of Evans- ville University. Dee Francis Taylor was awarded the honor- ary degree Doctor of Soience tAerologyt. His brother. Harold L. Taylor, was also deemed Doctor of Science tChemistryy. The Taylor brothers are graduates of Southwestern and together have made contributions to science tor such institu- tions as Harvard. the Department of Agriculture, the United States Naval Reserve, and the Dow Human Research Center. Members of the graduating class also received special honors Jana Goodnight was named valedictorian. The Order of the Mound. the ten percent of the graduating class with the highest grade averages, was named: Linda Ballard. Wendell Barker, Jeff Boone, Kristine Flick, Lyn Gagnebin, Jana Goodnight, Linda Hillt Ruth Huber, Rodney Johannsen, Sue Kraus, David Laws, Paulette Rush, and David Smith. Honored as Masterburlders tor 1973 were Jeff Boone, Steve Hailey, Ted Hresko, Rodney Johannsen, Terry McGonigle, and Keith Morrison. Selected as Who's Who Among Students for the '72-73 school year were Jett Boone. Mike Brown, Jana Goodnight, Irish Steve Hailey, Mel Hett, Ruth Huber, Rodney Johannsen, Terry MoGonigle, Laban Moon, Keith Morrison, and Dave Smith. And, of course, all of the graduates were awarded diplo- mas, a sign that another year and one more Southwestern class have gone into time. 'I Jana Lee Goodnight Sue E. Kraus The Class of 1973 BACHELOR OF ARTS, SUMMA CUM LAUDE Biology Elementary Ed ucation BACHELOR OF ARTS, MAGNA CUM LAUDE Linda Dianna Ballard Wendell J. Barker Jeffrey Lynn Boone Kristine Flick Lomalyn Gagnebin Linda J. Hill Ruth Evelyn Huber Rodney C. Johannsen David Alan Laws Paulette Raye Kerr Rush David Earle Smith BACHELOR OF ARTS, CUM LAUDE Myra Jo Graves Steven P. Hailey Everta Kay Littell Patricia Ann McKinley Keith Don Morrison Gladys Margarita Rodriguez Donald James Snyder Marilyn S. Taylor K. Elaine Webb Charles W. Woosley, Jr. BACHELOR OF ARTS Paul C. Allen Linda D, Barnthouse Bradley Alan Bennett Paula A. Boyer Michael F, Brown D. Scott Bruning Lizbeth Denise Dowell Bruning Michael J, Chamberiand Susan Kehr Chase Charles R. Claycomb Charles Randolph Cook James Crooms. 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In many respects it is not like Clare's or that other place across main street. Although my presence is a rarity in such places, I have sauntered between the pool tables, cigarette smoke and an occasional smile or recognition . . . It is rain- ing outside and because I like the rain, Nia and my thoughts of her eased into the night watching the rain forming in pools on the sidewalk. Nia's hair falls in soft kinky curls about her oval ebony face. Her hair could not be more beautifult And it you could see her face, you would call it pretty. Her eyes are too wise for a girl of eighteen. Nia looks like a little bronze goddess wet, smiling as we walk from TJ's. We are about to turn on Main from Ninth Street. White and Black men Ioating on the corner hold no interest for her Then a strange thing hap- pens. A little Blackbird alights on Nia's shoulder, then flies away. A couple of stray dogs start a tight. Nia, still as an Indian takir, has not moved. A church bell strikes six. The sun slips in behind a heavy mass of horizon cloud. I am hushed and expectant. Nia's under jaw relaxes, and her lips begin to move, HThat's never happened to me before. The Blackbird left his image indelibly upon my mind. It became the starting point of the only living patterns that my mind was to know. The Fire Nia begins to dream. The low November sun sets the win- dows ot TJ's atlame. Nia makes believe that they really are attame. The town fire department rushes madly down the road. It ruthlessly pushes black and white idlers to one side. It clangs. It whoops. It recues me from the second-story win dow. She claims me for her own. How did she come by me? She thinks of me immaculately. It is a sin to think of me immae culately. She must dream no more. She must repent her sin. Another dream comes. There is no fire department. There are no heroic men. The tire starts. The loafers form a circle and spit on the flames. Gallons and gallons they spit on the tlames. The air reeks with the stench of hot spit. Women e fat, chunky, lean scrawny women hoist their skirts and display the funniest underwear. The women scoot in all directions from the flames. Nia is Iett alone to take me in her arms. But what a person! Brown skin- ned, singed woon-headed, spit-covered Paul e ugly as sin. Once pulled to her breast an amazing thing: my breath is sweet and my tips can nibble. She loves frantically. Her joy in me changes our peers' jeers to harmless jealousy, and she is left alone. One day I was putting on my shoes when Nia came in. Nia, I called, grabbing my Army coat, but she was already in the doonNay. Despair was written on her face, HYou missed the show, Ebony Eyes. thaIking, Nia said. HYou look like something's buggingyou. Just a little worried, she replied, trying to manage a halt-smile. i'Tell me about it,'l I nodded, cupping her face in my hands. l'lt's nothing, she blinked. Her voice was too high. HI'II be the judge of that. I kissed her on the forehead. We walked into the neon-Iighted evening to avoid the vam- pire eyes staring at us. I was conscious of her arms about me and the need to be alone with her. Hand in hand, we left the neon lights but the clamoring voices of evening revelry fol- lowed us until we were safely behind closed doors. She sat on the edge of my bed timidly. l propped up two pillows behind her head, torced her back and raised her feet from the floor to the foot of the bed. Her eyes smiled e not much but enough. So I smiled to let her know that I was pleased with herability to smile. Even a little. HHow isthe revolution to be seen through all that gloom? I asked. I lit a cigarette, went to my desk and removed a poem written two days before. I handed it to her. Her eyes perused the paper. words paint thoughts images you lookin' Black proud like Malcolm's sisteroughtalook. . . She finished the poem, remarking that she liked it. I could see that she had become more relaxed. Unawares. I lay down beside her and saw at her feet a sharp jutting angle of moonlight falling obliquely through a window. And wanting to say something about the beautitulness laying beside me a! could not because words would only diminish her. TJ's was titled now. Between my third and fourth shot of scotch, I had built the Songhai Empire, shot craps with death and given America jazz. Two am. came. Its tick tick poured surprise into ears deal with listening. Behind two voices intercoursed in its give and take of conversation. And though I wasn't really interested, an attentive ear tucked the first voice into the early morning's greeting. . 'lWeIl. he just used me,l' the first voice said, Her rappin' partner leaned closer to let her know that he was hers for the asking. Finally she said, i'l'd rather not get into it. The sec- ond voice tell silent unfurled in his chair and understood that his game was lame. l coughed - not of need but as a requiem to their foolishness. With very little effort, I returned to wherever I was before thisintrusion. . . Epilog Nia is gone now, She is learning to make distinctions between the business and social worlds. She thinks about men. Most of them are just jive. I wonder why. She recalls an affair she had with a brown skinned. singed woon, spit- covered young man. It had ended when she left. I told her that I preferred her sweetness to a lollipop. She remembers the exotic student who wanted to take her to the movies. She refused of course. And he never returned. I stepped out of TJ's alone thinking about the Blackbird. There is no air, no street and the town has completely van- ished. Some+imes like now e I ge+ +I1e feeling +ha+ we never should have mef - unspoken words +haf cuf deeper than whaf would have been said ther +imes like earlier - I know whaf life would be like - unspoken words with no one +0 speak +hem +0 All limes like fui'ure e I gel +he sfrangesf sensafion +ha+ if was meant 1'0 be like this - unspoken words. buf nof unfelf you know I know what fo be like +his IS To say I love you isn'l' enough To say fhank you isn'fienough To say I need you is almosf enough I guess As you can plainly see You and me Can and do know how +0 gef along wifh each ofher Should I or should if be you fnaf says I +old you so? Simple - fhaf's how life seems Complica+ed - ihaf's how life should be Wi+h you complicafions are simple Fa nfach - +haf's how I feel Unreal - fhaf's how I should feel Wifh you being unreal is real Love- ' fhaf's how I take If Undersfanding - fhaf's how I won? if Loving and undersfanding you You wanf +0 find love so bad So you give yourself fo +he one who says I need you The morning breaks and you say Why? I really care about him and he cares for me - Love? you hope, you pray. you believe. Fool yourself Lie +0 yourself Make believe You wanf love and if wanfs you buf +ha+ one night canno+ promise love if promises nothing Yes. you wan+ love bu+ do you wanl if +his way? Love - bu'r also love back. by Joy McLain SPORTS by Rodney Johannsen Ken Nixon, SC track star, competes in ihe long jump during the Southwest- ern Relays held in April. The SC Tennis team a left to right is Jeff Boone, Dennis Phelps, Ray Kraus, David lnyang, and Larry Ewart; TRACK The Southwestern College track team, coached by Robert Karr, came in fourth in the KCAC Cham- pionship meet held in Winfield. The defending Champion Builders were in second place after the afternoon events were done, but dropped to tourth at the end of the meet. The only first place finisher for SC was Dale Mills, a sophomore high jumper from Sublette, Kansas. Mills jumped 6'6 to tie the meet record held by an ex-SC high jumper, Mark Conard. Sen- ior javelin thrower Brad Bennett placed second, senior Ken Nixon placed second in the 100 yard dash and long jump, and freshman TraviSQGarten was second in the pole vault. This year's squad was one of the smallest in recent years as only 25 participated. However, the 25 were a talented group, each very capable in his event, But, as with any small squad, if injuries hit, the team is in trouble. That's what happened this year as no less than six members were hurt the week of the championship meet. The spring weather was itless than perfect, for the first half of the season. In fact, only two or three meets all season long were nice weather-wise. The Builders lose only two seniors off this year's squad, but both contributed heavily. Bennett placed either first or second all season in the jave- lin and Nixon was proficient in the 100 yard dash, 220 yard dash, 440 yard dash, and long jump besides anchoring the 440 and mile relays. Karr, completing his fourth year as head track coach, and his assistant Jim Helmer announced that the following earned varsity letters tnumber in parentheses is times lettered in track at SQ: sen- iors Brad Bennett my and Ken Nixon m; juniors Steve Arning Qt Hal Hinson t3; Rory Hansen CST Doc Mattocks t0, Tom Ponzi t3; Greg Swalwell m, and Gary Hammer m; sophomores Gary Boughman t0 and Dale Mills t3; and freshman Stan Boggs, Todd Dvorak, Travis Garten, Mike McCoy, and Mark Fine- Other track squad members were junior Pete Osmun, sophomore Gene Snyder, and freshmen Hal Ankrom, Dan Berg, Gary Brown, Steve Kel- man, Pat O'Neill, and Ken Renner. TENNIS The tennis team of Southwestern College tin- ished its season with a 7-6 record and placed fourth in the KCAC Championship match. SC defeated Phillips University and Emporia State twice each and once each against Friends, Ster- ling, and Sacred Heart. They lost to Tabor twice, McPherson twice, Bethany once, and Concordia College of Nebraska once. There were only two returning lettermen, senior Jeff Boone and sophomore Ray Kraus, on this year's squad, coached by Jim Paramore. individ- ual records for the season show Boone had a 7-8 record, Kraus 7-8, Larry Ewart 11-5, David lnyang 15-4, Dennis Phelps 5-10, and Ralph Stancliffe 4- 10. Boone played number one singles followed by Kraus, Ewart, lnyang, Phelps, and Stancliffe. In the KCAC match Boone, Kraus, Ewart, and lnyang went to the semi-finals with Phelps getting beat. In semi-final action, though, only lnyang made the finals. He placed second in number four singles. in doubles the duos of Boone-Ewart and Kraus-lnyang also made it to the semis, but failed to make the finals. Only Boone and Ewart graduate with Kraus, Inyang, Phelps, and Stancliffe returning. GOLF For the second consecutive year Southwestern College is the Kansas College Athletic Conference golf champion. This is the first back-to-back cham- pionship for Southwestern since the track team did it back in 1967 and again in 1968. At the KCAC tournament SC had a four man total of 924, four strokes off the conference record, Freshman Craig King of Winfield was med- alist with a fine 54-hole total of 214, only four strokes over par and two strokes off the confer- ence record. The second day of the tournament was played in soggy conditions. For the season SC was 3-1 in dual and triangular meets. In tournaments SC placed first at Marym- ount. Everybody will be back for next year's squad. Playing number one was Craig King, followed by Randy lverson, Dayton Simmons, Jim Larsen, and Greg Rowe. The team was coached by Bill Ste- phens. King averaged 74.6 strokes for 18 holes throughout the season. Out of ten matches King was medalist five times. He had a running battle with Craig DeLongy of Friends University at most of the tournaments, At Marymount DeLongy was first with King second, at the KCAC King was first and DeLongy second, and at the District $1510 meet DeLongy was first with King third. Other team members were Gregg McQuay, Terry Rhea, and Harry Courtois. MONYPENYTRACK This is the last of three articles covering South- western College athletic structures. The first article was over Sonner Stadium and the second covered Stewart Field House. This article is about Mony- peny Track. Information was gathered from old Southwestern Collegians, old Winfield Couriers, and young Bill Stephens, athletic director of South- western. In the spring of 1960 it was decided that South- The SC Golf team 4 left to right is Ken Moore tlocal club pro; Coach Stephens, Randy lverson, Greg Rowe, Randy King, Jim Larson, W. R, Allam, Dayton Simmons, and Gregg McQuay, western needed a new track as the old one was a dirt track. Mr. Bob Dvorak, the 1960 SC track coach and now coaching track at Wellington High School, was responsible for the track being built. Besides coaching his team he had the team work- ing on the new track Dvorak and his squad deserve a lot of credit in building Monypeny Track as they put down the forms for the cement, poured the cement, and worked the Cinders down. While the track was being built, the squad ran track around the football field The track itself did not cost much as labor was mostly voluntary and the Cinders were bought at a nominal cost. The Cinders came from the railroad track at Oxford. Two to three feet of Cinders were put down on the track. The track included an eightelane, 20-foot wide 220 yard run way in front of Sonner Stadium and a quarter-mile track. The track was named for W. W. Monypeny, the then current director of admissions and place- ment. He had served 35 years on the SC faculty. He held at various times the positions of dean of the college, dean of men, coach and athletic direce tor, associate professor of psychology and educa tion, and director of student personnel. From 1986-1948 he led his basketball teams to five con- ference championships, Monypeny was also elected to the Helm's Hall of Fame. He died in 1970. Rodney Herbert wrote in the November 11, 1960, Southwestern Collegian that, HMr. Monype- ny's accomplishments in the organization of bas- ketball in the western portion of the U. S. is compa- rable to those of Kansas Universityis Dr. James Naismith, the founder of the game. ttThe inauguration of the first holiday basketball tournament ever held west of the Mississippi came through the work of Monypeny. Later, he also inaugurated the first aii-college tourney ever held in the midwest which developed into the present National Association of intercollegiate Athletics. The track was dedicated on Saturday, Nov. 12, 1960. This was a big weekend as it was the Diae mond Jubilee Homecoming. The Roy L. Smith Stu- dent Center was dedicated on that Friday. SC played College of Emporia in a football game that Saturday and won 28-14. Dr. L. G. Glenn of Pro tection and Dr. Ed Hinshaw 0t Ark City were the principle speakers while Mr. Monypeny spoke briefly with many men looking on whom he had coached. He acted as starter for some hurdle events, the first to be run on the new track. The new track turned the Southwestern track program around with the help of Mr. Dvorak's coaching. SC won the KCAC in 1961, 1962, and 1963. The track has been the scene of many grade school, junior high school, high school, junior col- lege, and college track meets since its beginning. it has seen some internationally known performers on its track, thanks to the ettorts of W. W. Mony- peny and Bob Dvorak. WOMEN'S PHYSICAL EDUCATION by Denise Bruning In our present-day way of living, change is an otten-quoted word. Time changes; society, people, attitudes, and ways of life and living also undergo change. It is not surprising to find that high school and college programs must also Change. I am concerned about the change in sports that is being felt in colleges today, For many years, the sports field has been Closed to the female population on the theory that Hwomen are fragile, This theory has been disproved as more and more women enter the sports fields. .There is a new generation of youth and this generation wants to be involved in both academic and athletic programs. The Division of Men's Athletics identifies tour broad areas of maior emphasis in educational athletic programsthat can pertain to women as well as to men: t0 Physical illness CD Skill in movement - performing at highest level possible for each individual - satisfaction a thrill of play CD Social development - emotional control a sportsmanship - working together - loyalty - sell-coniidence a feeling a part of something a acceptance a recognition to Recrea- tion. For the record, this is not a Women's Liberation Movement article. it is written to acquaint students and alumni with the Womenls Physical Education Department. It is our opinion that unless the Womenls Athletic Department receives good solid backing from the school, that department cannot exist. As any member of the administration will tell you, a school or department cannot function without funds or students. Girls' athletics has become a growing part 01 our public education system. It Southwestern is to produce acceptable P.Et teachers, the students must be given a Chance to com- pete and participate in sports. If this kind of learning is not provided, many high school seniors will look elsewhere for a college to attend. Few people realize the sacrifices girls have made just to be able to play basketball. Following are a tew that 8.0 Women's Basketball Team members made: t0 We had to provide our own shoes; none were given to us tor practices or games. Qt The eight suits we had were bought three years ago for those that were playing then. Girls are larger now, so this year each girl paid $154530 for her suit. C90 The budget we were given would barely cover travel expenses, On the several road games we had, we paid for our own meals. Many girls went hungry because they didn't have enough money. t4J If a game lasted through the supper hour, the girls either missed a meal or paid out of their own pock- ets. t5t Bernie Balerio gave many ol his working hours to be our manager for tour months, without pay! Just how far did our alloted $200 go? Not tar enough! Our fans also sacri- ficed. Many sat on the hard floor at White PE. to watch our games. it really humiliated us when Dr. Ruthenberg and his family had to stand to watch when they came to one 01 our games. Unless youlve been an athlete or actor its hard to under- stand just how important a crowd or audience can be to a performance, This spring we played in a tournament spon- sored by WHSTCt Reaching the finals. we were scheduled to play Arkansas City Junior College, who had beaten us three times before. We wanted to win this game so much. and we were really Hup for it. The most fantastic thing was the crowd support. it gave us a ltnatural high throughout the game. We never came down once. There was plenty of room so spectators didn't have to sit on the tloor or stand up to see us take first place, After reading what we've experienced, you may say They did it that way on their own, they can do it again, But should we have to do it again? How many men athletes would there be in this or any other school it they had to provide their own suits tonly one jersey at thao, shoes, and meals? Would they put up with it? it's highly doubtful. In the Kansas Association for lnterColiegiate Athletics tor Women tKAlAWt, thirteen schools participate in a womenls basketball program. These are Kansas State, University of Kansas, Wichita State, Haskell, Fort Hays, Marymount, Benedictine, Tabor, Washburn, Bethelt McPherson, Bethany, and Southwestern Each of these schools supports its womenls organization lOOEVo, but Southwestern College is slow to do this. It is only through the team members sacri- fices that SC. has a women's team to represent our school if SC. is going to try to keep up with the KCAC schools on the academic level and with what they have to otter outside of books, we must take a definite and determined step in the right direction This year the Women's Athletic Department is asking for a slightly higher budget in order that Miss Kaufman may have something more to work with The money would be used for the following: tit New suits with two different tops. tPlayers hate to wear llpennies when both teams are wearing the same color tosz QT Travel expenses tWe have had to pro- vide our own carsJ tat Food expenses when we are on the road. C10 Medical supplies and equipment. 69 Finances tor a manager. USU Traveling otiicial's feet As a senior I hope that changes will become apparent. I participated in the basketball program for three years. Not because i was a PE. major, Im not, but becausel had partic- ipated in sports in high school for four years and wanted to continue doing so in college Many girls played betore me and i know many will follow, but every year we asked our- selves why were we slighted? What can we do? If this depart- ment does not receive more support. it cannot survive much longer Physical education majors must have practical expe- rience, and if it is not available, how can a school graduate qualified coaches or teachers? How can we sell our college to prospective students who want to major in PE. or con- tinue their participation in sports it we have nothing to offer them? We too can be ambassadors for Southwestern it we are given the opportunity and support so we are really proud of what is happening at our school. I asked the members of this years basketball team what changes they would like to see and this is a summary of their ideas: 0 t More school support. Qt The chance to play home games in Stewart Gym. Qt More budget moneyt Change is a never-ending process. it is my hope that the student body, administration, and even the alumni will accept the challenge and change with the times Next December, January, and February go see the SC. women's team play. I can promise you that it will be an enjoyable evening and just as exciting as the varsity games. The Flood Short Story by Kevin Gillick The Flood Kevin Gillick His feet were like suction cups in the mud. And the rain, as the school bus stopped away, peeked at him painfully. The whole world was battered by rain, it seemed. All day Miss Steele had to talk over the drum-roll as the drops beat against the window. llHold it right there, young manlt As he approached the house; his mother halted him with one hand and spread newspapers with the other. Now take your shoes and socks off and I'll run a nice bath toryou. Mrs. Rosengarten, hair in her nos- trils, was there at the kitchen table, She and his mother worked nights at the otlices ot AFCO General. Her Becky was playing on the floor of the. living room with Cindy and Rebecca. Playing hookey today? said Mrs. R No they sent us all home. 'Yes, the dam is threatening to llood over, his mother said, your tatherts gone sandbagging. ls there going to be a flood, ma? I hope not, we're listening on the radio tor the news. Her voice echoed at the last part of the sentence as she entered the bathroom. The radio had been placed on the table between two coffee cups, and a sand-paper voice was rattling off information. Mrs; Rosengarten reached her hand into her huge, straw bag, and from amongst the tops of some ladiesl mag- azines, she took a small handkerchief. 'lWell, come on over here and give your aunt Golda a kiss, He saw both arms stretch toward him, pudgy fingers waving like insect legs, and one hand dangling that snot rag. He kissed her and wiped his lips in case any of the white powder was on them. That's a good boy. As he went into the living room. he turned and made a face when she wasn't looking. The little girls were playing on the floor there, and Becky, who had curly blonde hair and white shoes, stuck a tongue at him. They giggled and shattered on the tloor with grandpa sitting in his chair staring, as always. The little girls seemed like pigeons belorea statue. On a table next to the old man, a lamp was being wasted, and David watched the flecks ot dust floating in it's light, Grandpa seemed to be watching the rain, but one could never tell, Behind a yellow film the eyes did not necessarily see. The boy wondered if his grandfather knew about the rain; about the flood. He wondered how much dust had, since early that morning, floated through the lamp and onto the old man, His mother's high-heels were com- ing from the other room: l'clip, clip, clip, clipt , . David, now I want you to watch the tub so it doesn't run over. HO.K. thIip,clip,clip. . l'Hey Morn? 'tClip. clip, clip, clip . . . Now David, she pushes out a long breath, 'lyour mother's very, very worried todayf' ltl know mom, but I just wanted to know it it's OK. that I go to summer camp this sUmmert HCamp. 'Henry was telling me that he goes every year. . ' ttDavid, she rolls her eyes in a big loop and finally they land on Mrs. Rosengarten. tlThe dam is going to flood over and wash his tather down main street and hats worried about summer camp, She turns back, don't you have any pity for your mother. . .olip, clip, clip,clip. David sank into the cushions. Hlt Ma says no, he thought We answer is nof' The children got up and left the room, dragging, it seemed, all signs of lite and noise with them. There was only grandpa's shallow breathing and the movement of the little gears and pendulums in the clock you could see through The soft ticking made David feel relaxed, On the mantle. next to the clock, stood the picture of his father. Dark fighting trunks, heavy gloves and curly, black hair. The eyes were set deep into two patches of shadow. The background was like that of all old pica tures; kind of grey and shadowy, like a tuzzy snapshot of the ocean or a cloudy sky. Grandpa was trying to get up now, shaking under the strain of his own weight, 'Hold it grandpa, let me give you a hand. Even before the old man knew what was said, he had a grip on one bony arm. Slowly he led him into the kitchen; grandpa seemed like his joints were not connected. and to a seat at the table, And the four of them sat there, grandpa spooning peaches into his mouth. trying to hold them on despite the tremors. Mrs R. and his mother munohed cookies and sipped their bit- tercoftee. Both were big women, but in differ- endt ways. Mrs Rosengarten was big the way a football player is big. But Mrs. O'Brien was slender and tall. Stat- uesque. Mrs, R. shattered through a ladies magazine, while David's mother held Cindy on her lap, stroking her hair l'Isn't it a shamef said Mrs. R. chat it takes a flood to get us girls together so we can talk without men aroundt'l ltOh please, t can do without. lt's enough that l have to lose a day's sleep overthis. Mrs. Rosengarten looked up and chuckled, HWe're going to be like zombies tonight. 't . a cold front, said the radio. 'lwill movein within the next. , I have a good mind to stay home and sleep tonight, said Mrs. 0. Little Cindy looked up. l'But then it's daddyls turn to use the bed mommy. Her mother gave her a hug of sudden attection which cut off her speech. Mrs, R. looked down at her coffee, and for a long time neither woman spoke. David listened to the radio. He thought the terrible static was the sound ot the rain. The announcer, ot course, was huddled under an umbrella, reading notes from a soggy sheet of paper. He remembered the time a few years back when the weather was also very bad. All the townspeople went to church and asked Jesus not to let the tornadoes hit the white part ottown. . 't . and in the Southridge area, the waters are still rising . r . ll The tub. David jumped up and shot into the bathroom Sudsy water was spilling over the sides and for a moment he - could think of nothing to do He tried retlectively, to push the water back with his hands. Of course, that didnt help. With his feet wet, he ran from the room. l'MomJt ttWhat is it? 'lMom. Now she was running; clip, clip, clip, clip,clip. . . With one, unbroken movement she took oft her shoes, ran to the tub, turned oft the water and pulled the plug. David stood helpless by the door and watched the water shrink. His mother got up very slowly, as though she were very old and very tired and came toward him He was waiting for her to speak when a slap cut across his face. Looking down in case there were tears, lace burning, he could feel Mrs. R. looking at him. And that was the worst, Her eyes were surely droop- ing with pity for him, just waiting to see a tear, She wouldn't see one. I told you it's been a very hard day for your mother, and she walked away. H . and I repeat, the waters are still rising in . . . He stayed for a long time in the tub afterwards and watched the hand soap slowly eat away at fluffy suds from the dish detergent. The rain pounded the little window above him, the sound rising and falling with the wind. llHow stupid it is, he thought, to be taking a bath while the whole world is going to be destroyed. tThe white foam is bursting through the steel doors oi the school building. The tremendous roar is echoing through the halls and ceilings and walls are bend- ing outward. Not made for such noise. Finally, it reaches his classroom, empty except for desks. David can hear the slap as the tirst tip of water hits. The door is SWept open like the page of a book and the desks are hud- dled into the corner by the water. like frightened children. Soon they are splinters. lt rolls down main street Win- dows are crumpled like cello- phane and all the storefronts seem to dissolve. Mrs. Rosengar- ten, with her straw bag and pity- ing eyes, is swept away with the restot the debrisJ David thought about the terrible wave of foam, making their sandbags look ridiculous. He didn't think they would look frightened, with their shirts off and the sweat greasing their backs and shoulders. it would be shock. They had worked all day like desperate ants, straining with their rninute sand- bags. And when the great wave comes, their jaws would hang open, i their minds not able to think. He might never take David tor a ride or to the park. There would never be another Saturday afternoon at the sports arena; never again would he give David the broken broom and let him sweep the ring area too. it was time to dry off when the tips of his fingers were shriveled. The rain had become much calmer according to the window sound. With his bathrobe on, he opened the door and a gush of cold, moving air hit him. As he left the steamy room he hoped that his mother was no longer angry. She was clipping around the kitchen now with Mrs, Rosengarten, unfortu- nately, still there. HSit down now, David, and eat that sandwich, she looked at her friend, iiWho could cook on a day like this? Mrs R. nodded slowly, the sympathy lines over her eyes streaming down from the bridge of her nose The food went down in tasteless lumps. He despised having to eat in front of strangers and he was about to gag on the dry smell of perfume and powder. Hit does my heart goodf said Mrs. R. tlto see a boy eat so good. His mother was looking at her reflec- tion in her compact mirror, fixing one oi the hooks of hair that hung down either side of her lace. Eat slower, David and drink your milk. The radio was no longer screaming. Now it was on very low so no one could really hear it. Tinny dance music played and it reminded David of the department stores. When everything was finished, he looked up at Mrs. Rosengarten. She had a thin smile, over-sweet. The kind, he thought, that she saves for little boys and sick friends. Her hair was stiffened and straightened, and forced to stand straight on her head. It was somewhat like his mother's hair, but it was turning colorless. You could almost see through Mrs. R's hair and David wondered if she kept things hid- den there sometimes. He stood in front of the big picture window in the living room, half looking outside and half looking at the reflec- tion of his grandfather who sat in the chair behind him. Grandpa was his father's father, and David wondered why some people get to be too old and some die too young. tilt my father dies, he thought, 'iwould that make me an orphan? And, oh how that fat powdery head would shake as they threw the first shovel-tulls of dirt on to the casket Mrs. R. would look at him, and look at a friend from the office. That poor lit- tle boy; that poor little orphan boy. Over cottee later she would tell all about how the boy's father had been washed down main street and drowned. He hadn't noticed the three figures making their way through the mud of the driveway. They were together, shoulder to shoulder, without bother- ing to dodge the puddles. He strained to see them through the mist the rain created. The two men on the sides were holding the one in the middle by the arms All three pairs of legs seemed to be moving at a different speed. Once, the man in the middle tell, almost tak- ing the others with him HMom, it's dadt He heard a cup hit a saucer and his mother ran for the door. When she opened it, a rush of icy air wrapped itself around his bare feet. His moth- er's face seemed to be frozen by it. Her lips made a thin, red line beneath her nose. David stood behind her and watched the two men help his father up the steps and set him in the door- way. The big one on the right stepped back and didn't look up. Woody, who was a good friend, was on the left, and it was his firm grip that kept David's father from slouching to the ground, We got through a few hours ago, Mrs. O'Brien, and a few of us stepped out for a drink. The scar on the side of his face which looked like a ques- tion mark, moved up and down She stared at both of them, saying nothing. He looked up at her with red. watery eyes slowly drooping shut. His nose was almost touching the big, gaudy pin that was on herdress. David thought his mother seemed taller and straighterthan ever. Woody looked like a little boy despite the fact that he was one ol the toughest men you could find in town. His eyes bounced nervously around now as he tried his best not to look at her. There was no use in staying there, . . . he waited to see it the face would change, iiain't no amount olsandbaggin'gonna. . Just bring him in, Woody, she said. Without a word, they propped him up and helped him into the house. David caught the smell of booze as they shuttled past him. One of them, the big one, crunched a little plastic toy that the children had left. All three came close to falling as he stumbled over his leet and an apology at the same time. David's mother said noth- Ing. Mrs. Rosengarten tidgeted with her pocketbook and disappeared into the kitchen again. When she returned, with Becky by the arm, she took quick, sloppy steps toward the door. i'live got to be going; and she brushed past Mrs. 0. who closed her eyes. David knew that woman had never seen his father drunk before When the men had placed him on the sofa and filed out the door! Mrs. O'Brien went into the bedroom David sat on the floor by his father. Grandpa's eyes were clear and his mouth was shaking open. HRainY' ttYea, i think the whole world's gonna float away. David couldn't remember the last time he had said anything that made sense, No; not this one. 'Not this one, grandpa? HThe last one was rain. This time, it'll be fire. She came out again with her purse, and with new powder and perfume. Her lips were freshly red. Make sure he gets to bed. And she left. His father's mouth hung open now, and a swollen tongue was propped between his lips, David watched his chest rise and tall. the right arm hang- ing straight oft the sofa and the left tucked somewhere beneath him. Cheezus . . . The snoring stop- ped for a moment and the eye lids opened a bit . . Cheezus Christ. And with the next breath he was asleep David sat there for a while as his grandfather also began to nod. By and by he got up and drained the murky water from the tub. Each semester finds the Student Activities Asso- ciation touching everybody for $ 7 .50 and handing out its membership cards in return, but only a small number of people really understand how 8AA works to provide tree admission to various con- certs, movies, and other student related activities to persons with an 8AA card. It is the SAA president who runs 8AA for, by nature, any formally constituted organization, such as SAA, with a governing body composed of a small number of peers will have the president mak- ing most of the decisions and seeing that they are carried out. Terry Cook may not fit the role of a forceful and decisive person at first glance, but don't let appearances deceive you. This year, as president of SAA, she has succeeded in producing, along with the rest of the SAA board, one of the most successful 8AA efforts in recent years As a typical Southwestern student tshe thought , of transferring out her freshman yearfshe is major- ing in biology while enjoying the simple pleasures of college life from her apartment in Honor Dorm. Recently she ran for reelection as SAA president and won it quite easily. in this interview with Theo Otte she discusses howshe manages to, and had the responsibility of, spending between $ 7,000 and $8, 000 of your money this year and will again do so next year. What exactly is 8AA? A lot of people equate 8AA thrhovms and dances andthafs aboutaH There's got to be more to SAA than that. SAA stands for Student Activities Associaton and under that comes everything from car rallies, con- certs, movies, dances to ping-pong tournaments, Easter egg hunts and all these other wierd things we do. Culture Arts is the counterpart to 8AA and they provide intellectual type entertainment; plays andtMngserthat Well, who makes up the governing body of 8AA, besides yourself and how does a person get into it. Atthe end ofthe schoolyearthe audentbody elects a president, vice-president, and secretary- Ueasurer Then atthe beghwhng ofthe nextfam each dorm elects its own representative, as does Shnwme and Honordonn,and Isemcttwo 0H- campus reps. , ByHL yourneanaspweSdentofSAA. Yeh,nght Could you guess at how much money was spent by SAA during this school year? About$3800thefhstsane$erand$3500thesec- ond, which came from student activities fees paid at registration. Has 8AA ever had to borrow money from any other organization? I never did and the only money that SAA can use, that I know of, is that gathered at registration. This money goes Hno afund upinthe buanessrmhce and we just draw from that and hope that we don't go over. Besides getting a hold of money, whatls involved ingengsoanhngeraconceanedup? When I took over this job last summer, the person before me gave me names and references ot peo- ple that he had worked through here before and some of these people we have worked through for three or four years, booking agents and such, so they kind of know the area and what the students lme.l maned by caMngthese peopm andlenmg then1know whol was,andthey $aned Kisend hnonnahon.So bylastsunvnen we aheady had thefhstdancecwthenextschoolyeaanedIJpand before school was out last year we had already signed a contract with Warner Brothers for eight moWesthB yeartorthe Nauona Emenmnnmnt Convention Project. mmstmssomeunngyouhadkaMdon? No. See, they sent us a catalogue and, since we were on a contract for eight films, we picked the movies we wanted from this catalogue. It was a package deal, but were not going to do that next year - because I didn't like the way it turned out. What movies were involved in the deal? 'Ev1133 BaHadty Cabm Houge Khne,andthe others that 8AA showed that were supposed to be biggies, but weren't. A few in the package were ABRAXAS: COOK: AB RAXAS; COOK ABRAXAS: COOK; ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK ABRAXAS: COOK ABRAXAS: COOK ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK ABRAXAS: good, but Warnerls didnt have a good enough selection; so next year Iim going to buy them indi- vidually through the tlthree thousand catalogues! have, Well how much does it cost SAA to get one of the better movies, like Klule, in here? Kluie, by itself, would have cost around $200, but through NEC we got it for $65. See, it's good to get a contract or package deal, but you just cant get the selection you need to make it worthwhile. Most of the newer movies will run $350 to $400 a show- ing; you can get older ones from $35 to $50. Where did we get Refer Madness? Everybody was getting off on that the other night; t was sold out every night it was in Wichita. Personally, lthought it was a bore, but that doesn t matter. i got it through a company that had only one copy of it, and they were going around asking schools if they wanted it. We paid $75 for it, but because of a special deal I got, any other place paid $250. IS the fee we pay into SAA, $7.50 going up next year? No, it will still be $7.50. Have SAA expenses gone up this last year? You mean the cost to bring things in here? Right Definitely. People are always hassling me asking, 'Why can't we have one big concert? For $3800 you just cant have a big concert! i want to emphad size this point, because they want people like the Osmond Brothers and Jethreo Tull, who are asking $25.000 for a two hour concert; which is com- pletely unreal for us. New groups, like, New Heav- enly Blue, are more in our range. How much did they cost? $1500, and that was special; they usually get $2000 to $2500 and i had to talk my tail off to get them. How about New York Rock? They were $3000, but Culture Arts brought them in and they, Cuhure Ars, have atleast $5500 a semester to work with. Do you get very many people from outside the school coming to 8AA events such as movies? Not with movies and stuff like that, but we do with concerts; if we advertise them alot. John Manning, which we had in the tall, made around $130-$40. About the advertising, I heard the Larry Norman concert advertised on KEYN a few weeks ago and I know that Isnlt given to us free. Yeah. it is. You just call up there and they put it on their llConcert Calendar? When John Manning was here, since it was KEYN I got him through, they really pushed it and played his songs and things like that. All of that was free. 8AA does a lot of little events too. How much has- sle is there in a car rally? of i1 89E sch son do 2 Do Cha diffe Yer has fees can ing mor ling Beir you test Esp havt Those kinds of things are pretty easy. For a car rally I just have to get a couple of trophies, make sure posters get up, and set up the course a cou- ple of hours before. Has the administration attempted to tlhelp in deciding how 8AA is going to spend its money and what type of people appear on campus? Well there are two faculty sponsors to 8AA and this year they were Troy Boucher and Dan Daniels; they were fantastic. Troy's worked with booking and snuferthatbekne,so hereaHythped.Vve never had any hassle over money or anything else with the administration; theytve always gone along. Could you give us any kind of idea what 8AA will be doing next year? Will 8AA be taking any new direction or will it be providing the same type activ- ities as it has in the past? . With Cultural Arts, like about six weeks ago, we had that t'cottee house with Norman Blake and Stu Mossman and that went over real well, The Pat Ireland concert that SAA brought in last week went over real well so I think well probably be doing nmne Hungs erthese nextyean nunhconcens.l also will be more selective in the movies and bring in fewer but better ones. l went to NEC, thatis the National Entertainment Convention, in Cincinnati. Kathy Cooper went along and we picked up tons and tons of information. There's two or three-hun- dred booths with booking agents and production companies. i got to talk with people I had worked with all year, but had only talked to on the phone; they were achere,you rneetthent you getto know them, and you just make better contacts. I got all these catalogs with things to do next year, and there were workshops all day long. Probably the best one I went to was one which was for schools with little or no budgets, and I made sure I got to that one. From there i got a whole catalogue of ideas from other schools; thatls where I got the egg hunt idea. It was full of weird stuff other schools had done and well probably bevusing some of those ideas. This all is stuff that is fun to do and doesn't cost any money. Do you think that an extra dollar or two in the fee charged to the students would make very much difference? Yeh! It would make a lot of difference, but it's a real hassle getting more money right now since dorm fees have gone up and so has everything else. You can see what would happen if 8AA came up ask- ing for more money also. l did try to get more money, but I didnt get very far. llm not into hass- ling the administration. Being with SAA for the last couple of years, have you noticed any change in the entertainment tastes of the students? Especially since my freshman year, I think they have. COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK ABRAXAS: COOK ABRAXAS: COOK ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: When was your freshman year? 70-71, and then everyone wanted the llaoid rock and the hard, heavy stuff. Now its changed; people want more dances; dances that you can dance too, and not anything super-heavy or super-light. Concerts have changed that way also. Itts sort of like the trend that's going through the whole music business which is getting away from the hard stuff and stressing more real musical ability. It's show- ing up here; like Pat Ireland the other night. The whole thing started out pretty slow, but that was my fault a I didn't have enough time to get any publicity out. So I just slapped up a couple of pos- ters and it ended up being a word-of-mouth thing, but Messenger ended up being pretty full. He was really a good musician and it went over well, I'd like to bring him back and he is going to be in the Mid- west live November next year, Is SAA going to be involved with the Walnut Valley Folk Festival like we have been in;the past. We helped Stu Mossman get it started two years ago and we must have done something last year because Southwestern students got in at a special rate. Last year, Culture Arts gave some money and SAA gave $300 Through that students were able to get in free, and we are working on the same thing this year. Awhile ago you said that you didnt get out enough publicity soon enough for the Pat Ireland concert. Are you in charge of all publicity for SAA? Well, the vice-president is supposed to be in charge of publicity, but you know how it goes; at the beginning of the year you start out with every-' body doing their little jobs but by the end of the year I just get anybody that has the time to do it. lgather that if anybody has any Hbeef', about what SAA is doing, they come to you. But has anyone had anything good to say? Oh yeh, I've had lots of good comments; thatls what makes it worthwhile, I guess. Therets alot of people who gripe about it a ttWhy don't we get quality entertainment? That hurts, that really does! Because I think we've had some good stuff and when I'm really happy about the way some- thing has worked out someone comes up to me with the thuality routine. But there are people who come up and say that something was really good a- that makes me feel good and makes it worth it. It must, because I ran. Besides the praise of students are there any mone- tary rewards to being president of SAA? Somewhere in STUCO there's a fund that gives the STUCO president $200 and the SAA president $1 00, for the entire year. Did SAA or STUCO pay for your trip to Cincinnati? SAA paid mine and STUCO paid for Cooper's. She represented Culture Arts. Can you give us any kind of idea about what will be happening next year as tar as entertainment. ' There are a few things I have ideas of, but nothing definite. i know the first week of tall semester, there will be a dance. Things are loose enough that it gets people acquainted; a mixerll i guess you would call it. I hate to call it that, but thatls what it is. lid also like to do something like a bikehike out to the lake. Barry Firth tSlater's Food Servicet would like to have an all-sohool picnic out there, and i thought that we could tie the two together with those that wanted to, biking out there. Are any of the sports clubs tied in with 8AA, and it not, will they be in the future? We decided this year that sports clubs, as baseball and soccer, aren't really under the realm of 8AA because it is not entertainment as such. Theytre pure sport. Getting back to NEC, the organization that put on the convention in Cincinnati, it seems to set up a lot of stuff for us. We don't get all their services for nothing, do we? No, not really. SAA pays a $75 tee each year to NEC and get the special setups on movies and concerts that We already mentioned. We also get their newsletter that comes out each month. It has information on groups - critiques that other schools have sent in so you know what to expect from a group before you commit yourself. Some- times they're real neat to read, for instance one said, ilAll the guys were really horrible and we couldnt get along with them. You also get to go to the NEC convention; of course you have to pay an entry fee which covers your meals and stutt like that There's also a special booklet they send out that has these trips in it that students on campus can go on for less money, and they go all over the world a Spain, Rome, and lots of other places. They still cost, but they cost less. How can students find out about these trips? Well, that's my fault. Through me they can find out. lhaventt publicized these trips too much. i put up a poster around Christmas, but that is about it. Really, i had torgotten about them until now. Somebody will probably bitch, but next year, i promise, to make more use of these ilresources. For next year, we do have one big group lined up for homecoming, but the name sounds bad: May- nard Fergunson and his Orchestra, Donlt laugh, hels really good. He played at the convention in Cincinnati, and out of the thirty some groups that played during the three days, he got the loudest and longest applause. The name sounds like it is part of the nostalgia kmk Hels not! He's based out of England and big on jazz-rock. Something like Chicago, only better. Really! Hets fantastic. He'll probably blast us right out of Richardson. COOK ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: ABRAXAS: COOK: