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There is much difference of
The Board of Trustees has opinion on campus concerning
awarded a contract for con- the predominant role of athletics
struction of COCJs first per- in om co]]ege curriculum.
manent building_. the Instruc- Some contend that our ath-
tional Resource Cente1_. to the letic program ope.rates at the
Bein and Daum Construction expense of a majority of the
Company of Los Angeles on the students who_. they say. suffers
basis of a low bid of 2.563.300. from an inadequate amount of
The board also awarded a academic subjects. These peo-
contract to the Har.man Gladd ple point to the .Student Council
Construction Company to con- and ask why the Athletics com-
struct the yard-auto project on mission and the Rally com-
a 25 .516 bid .. ~ttee: have a vote in student
Construction on both PIO~ government while the Social
jects is expected to start with- committee and the Inst.ruction
in a month. The IRC .. named in committee do not.
honor of the late trustee. Dr. Others assert that athletics
William G. Bonelli_. Jr._. will are the bulwark of student ac-
be ready for the fall quarter tivitie1?. They believe that a
in 1973. The second project:o well-rounded athleticsJ p1ogram
which will house the auto shop R will bring recognition to the
classes. hand suerri Ila at right~ college.
President Robert C. Rock- Furthermore. these people
well also has been advised ask why om athletic teams are
that the chancellorJs office r tr forced to operate on our pres-
will iecommend support for ently small budget allocations
world~ drawings and c onstruc- a a while other institutions .allow
tion of a gymnasium .. swim- their teams a far greater amount
ming pool_. and a mechanical of monetary support.
~technology ce:nte1 in the 1973-14 The :recent visit of Presi- ecuted by the Japanese_."-' Rem- - In other words_. the main dif-
dent Nixon to China and the enih recalJed. • 'He was a Phil-
building program. accompanying television cov- adelphia advertising man named ference for many of ns centers
COCJs first permanent build- on a question of •'quality,.,.
ing will house at ]east 20 erage was of great interest to Whittlesey who insisted on re- Shall we have a quality ath-
most Americans_. · but the event visiting a village we had pas-
classrooms_. a library .. audio- held · special significance fo.r sed through a few homs pre- 1eticsJ program 01 a quality
visua aiea-. faculty offices_. academic curriculum?
general office space_. a staff Anton Remenih.. c_emmunication viously. But,. the question is not as
"After we had left .. the Jap-
lounge.. language. and teach- se1vices instructor .at COC. anese ente:red the town. and simple as that. And .if we com-
ing Jabs.. :reading rooIIIB.. and Dming World War n.. Rem- pare the bnilding of an educa-
enih served with ass (Office when Whittlesey.. against the
storage areas. tional program to· the construc-
of Strategic Services-). Americ:a Js advice of the guerrillas~ re-
espionage and -sabotage organi- turned to it.. he was bayoneted tion of· a house,. we shall clearly
zation. in 'f.he back and his head was see the fallacy.
In 1944 he was assigned chop ed Gff. To construct a house. we
communications officer for the "The -guerrillas staged a cannot merely erect one wall
historic HDixie.u mission to battle to reeove:r the body. and expect the structure to be
ary Anne Lombardi_. a COC Yenan .. China. wartime _capital any died in the fight. and complete. O.r can we tear down
student .. and t o fo1mer campus of the Chinese communists. three months Jate1 Wbittlesey"s that wan. erect the other three.
coeds. Georgann amll and Na- He spent a year living in .a body~ packed in ice_. showed and expect the house then to
dine Betsworth.. will play key cave at the remote Red head- up in Yenan. __ be complete.
parts in San Fernando Valley quarters near the Gobi dese:rt .. "Frankly.. we were impres- We must construct all its
State College-ts production of in almost daily contact with sed with soldiers- willing to walls evenly and simultane-
Ed ard Albe es '' ho's Afraid ao Tse-tung:. Chou En-lai .. Gen- die to recover the body of a ously. Only this will make the
of Virginia Woolf'• at the Studio e :r al Chu Teh_. and General foreigner they felt hey had· not foundation stable.
Theater ay 25. (now arsha]) Yeh. properly p:rotected. u
· ss Lombardi ill portray '•we were a1lies then in the Except f o:r one instance in The same is true of educa-
the brassy lead ro e of • • ar- sense that the common ene:my which an Ame1ican · sergeant tional -institutions. What rea-
tha u; iss andl will direct was -Japan._,' said Remenih. became ove:r l_y f1iendly with soning is there in scheduling
t e play J, and iss Bets orth ... Those of us who- had worked Mrs. Mao at a dance_.. no "inci- 28 classes of physical education
will be technical directm. A11 both with the Koumintang dentsu whatever marred the this quarter when we offer only
are or ere members of COC •s (Chiang Kai-shek"s forces) and year with the Reds. four classes in United States
drama organization .. Blue Masque. the Reds frankly we:re impressed HExcept f o:r the state depart- histor.Y?
Admission is fwe. by the willingness of one (the ment officers on the mission- The quality of this co1Jeges
Reds) to fight the Japanese seve:ral of whom ere persecu- education cannot be measured
and the unwilJingness · of the ted and destroyed professional- by the eventual achievements
other {Chiang-'s t:roops) to do ly in ihe Joe McCarthy hysteria of our valedictorians. ••An stu-
the same. dents will almost always do
PlBLJSHED TW CE HL BY that swept over America after
.JOUR STlDENTS AT COL- _..I think no one on the Dix- the war-none of us was in- well in ]if e. They are not a true
LEGE OF THE C NVONS. EOJ- measure of a college's ability
TCA AL OPI ONS EXP .,ESSEO 1 ie mission was :rea]]y surprised volved · in politics. We just did
T PUSUCAT RE T OSE hen after orld War 11_..:Mao-,s the jo s om government or- to teach.
OF THE ITER OT ECES- troops s ept Chiang's :reluc-
RJLY THOSE CF THE COLLEGE. dered us to do. Or can it be measured by the
tant soldiers off the face of -"Consequently_. we got along winning football teams we pro-
China.'.,
EDJTORJAl. STAFF just fine with scho]ar]y ao_.. duce or the number of COC
em .Leac • Edi or In .addition to conducting the dreamer and id:eologiea] athletes that make the profes-
- Kev] y Day"d HoeUje a]] coding .and communication leader; debonair Chou_.. the sional :ranks.
Neil He Ce este Lyons eho:res for the mission" Rem- -wor]dJy doer, and 'Teddy Bear,
ffc Je1 Lauri .sans On the other hand_. how well
C.ra'i_g Richard Si_gnoretti enih also trained communist Chu_. the fiihter. u the ucn and .unu students
Jlfi Carol Rice gue:r:ri]]as in the use of Amer- Parties always celebI.ated
Laura .Leac n ofin ican portable .radio equipment_.. the return of a mission from be- adapt what they have learned
PHOTOGRAPHER then accompanied them behind hind the Japanese lines. about our culture's institutions
Br.uce McKinney the Japanese lines to set up .. 'Many a night we chop- to their every-day lives does
espionage communications net- sticked our way through com- constitute a viable yardstick of
TONY RE.IE IH. ADVISOR works. munal dishes and .. gambei ed • a co]]eges effectiveness.
••Only one of us (mission (emptied the cup) with the per-
members) was caught and ex- < Cont'd on Page 4) Bil Leac