Collegian - 1963 February 1

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T»E WESTERS WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE CPlUEiflU
VOL. LV, No. 14 Bellingham, Washington Friday, Feb. 1, 1963
Hyatt Gets Rolled Today
Gambler Kombol To Take
Over River boat Today
By Jeanne Smart
• A roll of the dice will
determine the possession
of the Viking Union today.
Kerchival T. Kombol, the
Mississippi gambler, will
arrive at the Union at 4:30
p. m. to roll with Mike Hy­att,
AS president.
Kombol will be escorted
by the Bachelor's Club in a
procession from the Carver
Gymnasium to the Union
Building, where he will
meet Hyatt and other AS
officers. If Kombol wins,
the Union will then become
a "Riverboat."
• • •
T o m o r r o w night, Les
Brown's band will appear at
the . WUS "Riverboat Days"
dance in the lounge. The
Union will be decorated as a
Riverboat. Admission will be
50 cents single and $1 per
couple.
The funds collected for each
"Ugly Man" . will be totaled
at 11:30. "Ugly Men" will be
soliciting funds up until that
time. The "Ugly Man" winner
will be announced at 12
o'clock.
JEFF KOMBOL will take over the VU this afternoon after he pulls
off a shady deal with AS president Mike Hyatt.
• • •
• Tonight after the. game
at 9:30 p. m. the Talent-Auc­tion
Show, including the
Faculty Minstrel Show, will
be held in the Auditorium
with Dr. Paul Wadleigh, of
the Speech Department, as
the auctioneer. All of the
"Showboat," including the
performers, will be auc­tioned
off. Co-chairmen for
the Talent-Auction Show
are Linda Torfin and Don
Richter.
• • •
• Gambling will be held
downstairs in the coffee
shop with the "Night Peo­ple"
entertaining. Minstrel
girls, Al Jolsen-type wait­ers
and a casino bar will
add to the atmosphere of
the "Casino."
Chips may be purchased
at the main desk of the
Union at 5 cents apiece or
25 for $1. Stakes for the
tables are being furnished
by the downtown retail
stores.
Co-chairmen for "River­boat
Days" are Ray Devier
and Virginia Stover.
Westerns Prestige At
Stake On Band Contract
Western may be putting its
profits from Riverboat Days into
Les Brown's pocket instead of
a contribution to World University
Service.
Because of the signing of the
Les Brown Band, the AS Legisla­ture
found itself forced to pay an
additional $650 in expenses for
the staging of Riverboat Days.
The Student Legislature has al­ready
subsidized $400 of that
amount, but the remaining $250
will have to come from gate re­ceipts
and other incoming mon­ies.
To help offset the added ex­pense,
ticket prices were raised
from 50 cents stag and 75 cents
drag to 50 cents per person.
The problem arose after a
"gentleman's" agreement was
made with the Les Brown band,
t h e group insisted that Western
sign a contract or face the con­sequences.
.
Pacing the consequences could
well mean being blackballed by
the National Musician's Union.
So, with Western's prestige at
stake, it was deemed best to; hon­or
the contract and bring the
Band of Renown to Western, al­though
it might mean less mon­ey
for WUS.
• • •
Richard Reynolds reported to
the board that Western has been
refused acceptance by two nation­al
honorary societies.
Western cannot join Phi Beta
Kappa because of the rigorous
qualifications. For one thing, it
must be designated as a Uni­versity
before it can join.
Phi Kappa Phi refused Western
on the grounds that it is primar­ily
still a teacher education
school. Between 60 and 70 per
cent of Western's students are in
education.
Reynolds, suggested that it set
up its own honorary until such
time as it is able to join a na­tional
organization.
Marv Saxon, chairman of Civil
Rights Week, reported that the
week was considered a great suc­cess.
Although no money was tak-
See " P r e s t i g e " P-2
'Inhibition Is Not The Answer
Panel * Probes * Promiscuity
• Sex took over the Auditorium
Tuesday, as WUS sponsored an
intimate look into the sex life of
the infamous Wester nite.
\'The friends of my teen-age
sons seem to be clean cut college
students," Mrs. Evelyn Hinds,
music-teacher and panel member,
rernarked. "I haven't found very
many dark corners at Western
parties." ; -' :;
Roy Mumme, Education De­partment,
interjected prim evi­dence
that sex has gripped West­ern
since the school was built. .
"I found while browsing
through a 19.13 'Klipsuh, the Bib­lical
allusion: "He maketh me/to
lie down: in green pastures,'•
Mumme said. .
"Americans are sex-obsessed
in general," Dr. Herbert Taylor,
Sociology-Anthropology . Depart­ment,
quipped, "so I can't say
that Western students are over
sexed."
Last quarter Mumme noted that
he had attempted to poll student
sex opinions but was. thwarted be­cause
no one answered his ques­tions.
,„
LOVE OR LUST ,
Moderator Dri Katherine Gar-roll
probed the panel for contrasts
between love and lust. Alan Col­lier,
art professor, remarked that
he had only been in America two
years, but related an interesting
experiment on adolescent •'. sex
training in a small English
school.
"Lovei is the physical plus the
psychic relationship of man and
:woman . -.--.• -the total personality
is involved in love." He contrast­ed^
this .'with the promiscuous
lust >pf students caused by their
inexperience.and .fascination with
ilove, the shrouded evil.
• Dr. Carroll also discussed the
problem of Western's curfew
hours. She definitely felt that
these hours were disliked-by the
girls, but questioned the possible
solution of allowing the older girls
special privileges.
"As a dorm counselor, I found
that new girls are very likely to
experiment with this new-found
joy. But I can't. see classifying
their privileges according to age
or class." she added.
"You that complain about dorm
hours just remember this when
your daughter starts school," Dr.
Taylor encouraged. "You'll have
a chance 20 years from now.
IS DARKNESS A MUST?
"Get it out of your systems,"
was Collier's answer to pent-up
aggressions. "It is perfectly
natural, healthy and right; inhi­bition
is not the answer."
Dr. Carroll also questioned if
the dorm hours were the only
problem, while questioning if
darkness was a necessary pre­requisite
for sex life.
* * *
"I don't think you can say sex­ual
intercourse necessarily takes
place after 10 p.m.," she offered.
Students who packed the audi­torium
to the hilt, were very sat­isfied
with the frank discussion
and offered ovations on several
of the individual opinions.
"I don't think there is an over­emphasis
on sex at Western, but
most students would, give that
impression because they, want to
feel worldly," was sophomore
Larry DeKay's immediate im­pression.-
-
"Sex has been banned as. evil
. . ." observed Dee Clayton. "It's
placed behind a black curtain
that only draws the curiosity of
the inexperienced spectator. If
sex were viewed openly—not ad­vocated,
but accepted liberally—
I believe there would be a mark­ed
decrease in sexual promiscuity
and frustration."
IT'S CALLED NECKING--AIH1
a number of Western students
often engage in this sort of
frivolity.