Collegian - 1963 May 24

              • J i l t I f WESTERN WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE
We're In
Mourning
VOL. LV, No. 26 Bellingham, Washington Friday, May 24, 1963
"GERHARD'S" CASKET is held gingerly by Joel Lamphear
and Steve Koseliski after his sudden and shocking death.
Gerhard had been adopted by Highland Hall and his death
brought sorrow to many dorm men.
Gerhard, an orphaned robin, passed away in Highland
Hall earlier this week. He is survived by Joel Lamphear and
Steve Koseliski.
Services were held Wednesday for Gerhard and an esti­mated
200 Highland Hall men filed past the small coffin before
it was interred in the Bird Sanctuary.
Gerhard's life was one of sadness and tribulation before
Koseliski found him on the Haggard Hall lawn. He had ap­parently
fallen out of his nest and was incapable of feeding
himself.
Lamphear named the bird "Gerhard" because he squawk­ed.
Gerhard consumed an average of 50 worms every 24
hours.
"We were thinking of running him for Legislature," Lam­phear
said sadly, "but we decided he was too intelligent. We
couldn't find a blue blazer"small enough anyway."
Gerhard was taken out each day for an afternoon run.
He had almost completely lost his fear of being handled, and
his appetite was increasing with the length, of his stay at
Highland. His keepers were hoping he would be able to fly
within a few days.
"We were sorry to see him go," Lamphear said. "In fact,
the other day I thought I heard him say 'Point of Order.' "
Josh White Goes
On Stage Sunday
By Jeanne Smart
Josh White, internationally
known folk singer,' will appear at
8 p.m. Sunday in the Auditorium.
TICKETS ARE on sale in the
auditorium at $1.25 with AS card.
There will be no reserved seats.
White served a long apprentice­ship
in the meaning of life and
death and how to interpret them
through song. He taught himself
to_ sing and to play the guitar.
• • •
Born the son of a Negro preach­er
and his wife in Greenville,
South Carolina, he traveled
through Macon, Atlanta, Birming­ham,
Natchez, Little Rock, Nash­ville
and Louisville at an early
agt. Before he was nine, he had
seen 21 lynchings.
ALONG THIS ROAD, which he
later called the "Glory Road",
White saw life in all its prover­bial
phases, met the characters,
and heard the stories out of
which he was later to compose
his own songs.
Among the most famous of
his songs are "There's A Man
Going Round Taking Names",
"One Meatball," "Strange Fruit"
and "The Man Who Couldn't Walk
Around" written in honor of
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Co-eds Take
Lead Again
Women again dominate the tal­ly
of freshman to be entering
Western next fall, representing
60 per cent of prospective stu­dents.
Both freshman and transfer stu­dent
applications have surpassed
last year's number, and a fresh­man
class much larger; than that
of last fall is expected, accord­ing
to Marvin Sondalle,. admis­sions
officer. .'••.....-
Only 12 freshman and 10 trans­fer
students have been rejected
thus far from the respective lists
of candidates. Others were either
incomplete in their applications
or have withdrawn.
Students Rugby Back In
Twelve candidates have
filed for the four positions
of legislator-at-large on tap
for the AS election Wednes­day.
Rated as "The most contested
race in years" by Steve Slivinski,
election . board chairman, the
election will be preceded by a
presentation of candidates Mon­day
at 4 p.m. in the VU Lounge.
Candidates to be presented are
Noel Bourasaw, Noel Cimino>
Kathie Davis, Don Duwe, Cecilia
Hyatt, Beverly Keene, Bruce Os­borne,
Blair Paul, George Tou­louse/
Mary Wakefield, Susan
Weir and Samuel White.
THEIR NAMES will be listed
on ballots made up with special
care due to a decision made by
the AS legislature Monday. After
considerable discussion, the law­makers
decided that in order to
be fair to all candidates, the tra­ditional
alphabetical listing would
not be used. Instead, three separ­ate
ballot-forms would. be com­piled
with the order of names al-terMte^
oh each form. '
Slivinski, who will direct the
make-up of these forms, expres­sed
doubt when asked to cite rea­sons
for the increased number of
candidates for this election, but
cited the recent coverage of legis­lative
activities by The Collegian
as responsible for some of the in­terest.
Britishers7 Sport
Will Go American
Rugby has been added to the budget and a new
coach has been contracted, AS Legislator Dave Alfred
announced at the legislative meeting Monday.
An allotment of $2,800 has been budgeted for the
controversial sport, according to Alfred. This will go
toward financing the extensive
rugby schedule which has already
been set up.
POINTING OUT reasons for the
allotment, Alfred noted one of the
main objections to rugby, that of
player discipline, was overcome
by the stipulation that "rugby
will be treated as a traditional
American sport." This means that
all rugby players will be subject
to the same rules and regulations
as are all other college athletes."
Preceding Alfred's announce­ment,
the Legislature voted to
affiliate Western with an educa­tion
college in M'orogoro, Tangan­yika.
THE HOLY GHOST College, lo­cated
30 miles from Dar Es Sal­em,
the capital and main seaport
of the East African nation, was
selected over a similar school in
France because it sponsored an
active student government and
more closely resembles Western
in size.
Other business transacted by
the legislators included the se­lection
of Dick Simmons and
Nigel Adams as Collegian Editor
and Business Manager, respec­tively,
for summer quarter. -
In addition, legislators applaud­ed
the presentation of a plaque
from World University Service to
Ray Devier and Virginia Stover
in recognition of their, service to
the organization this year.
Detroit Fights
Quarter System
Detroit (CPS)—Students at De-,
troit's Wayne State University
have announced plans to boycott
classes and picket university
buildings this week in a protest
of the quarter system, inaugur­ated
at the school this year.
The students have formed an
organization to fight the quarter
system, and have distributed
some 4,000 handbills on the cam­pus.
The flyers called for an end
to "assembly-line education, aca­demic
sweatshops for faculty and
students, and unfair budget Cuts."
A spokesman for the group said
that they hoped to focus state and
national attention on "the lack of
adequate financial support" for
Wayne State. The school's budget
request was severely cut by the
state legislature earlier this year.
THERE ARE NO "keep of f the grass" signs on Western's campus. All this week,
as temperatures soared into the 90V students could be seen studying, sleeping,
eating, and just lounging on the lawns about the campus. Even several professors
could not resist the temptation to conduct their classes out of doors.