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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 10, 1967 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Bulletin Board Town Hall Wasn’t To Blame During and after Friday night’s Town Hall perform ance by the Standells, members of the Town Hall Commit tee were assailed by many in the audience who took offense to the off-color jokes told by the singing group onstage. . The entire incident was regrettable but The Battalion feels that the Town Hall Committee should not be blamed. The situation seems to fall under the heading of a great misunderstanding. The Standells were told beforehand that they were to perform as if they were on television and not in a nightclub. The group did not completely re-do its act for this but said it would use the same format as used for a teenage dance in Dallas last week. This seemed acceptable at the time, but it seems that teenagers today are used to stronger stuff than the mixed audience Friday night desired. It should be noted on the Standells’ behalf that after they were informed of their mistake at intermission, they complied agreeably to the request that they tone down their act. It should further be noted that an entertainer always gives what the audience wants; and it was evident, from the hoots of laughter from much of the audience, that the fare was fine as far as they were concerned. That says as much about the audience as it does the performers. Ciardi Challenges Teaching Methods TODAY The Texas Student Education Association will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms 2C-D at the Memorial Student Center. The program will be “Accent on Professional- Deadline Set For Degree Applications The deadline for filing formal applications for both undergradu ate and graduate degrees has been set for Oct. 20. All graduate students planning to graduate at the end of this semester must apply for degrees in both the offices of the graduate dean and the registrar. Undergraduates have only to file with the registrar and take the Graduate Record Examination. ^7 Registration deadline for the G.R.E. is also Oct. 20 in the Counseling and Testing Center, room 107 of the Academic Build ing. By ROBERT HOBSON Battalion Special Writer Mass education techniques used by today’s teachers in teaching only memorization and recapitula tion of subject matter may be ser iously impeding creative thought, according to John Ciardi, poetry editor of the Saturday Review. Ciardi, noted as a poet, transla tor, and lecturer, was the speaker for the first presentation of the year by the Great Issues Commit tee. Today’s college student should have facts presented to him in such a way that he may formulate original ideas and correlate them in relation to himself. Empathy — identifying oneself with an ob ject or idea — is the key to act ual understanding, and it is the particular responsibility of the liberal arts college to encourage this kind of voluntary projection in all areas of study. In answer to a question con cerning the nature of happiness, Ciardi said that an indomitable will to know and a reluctance to remain satisfied with existing conditions were prerequisites. The quest is not an easy one, but the hours of uncertainty are ovei’- shadowed by moments of revela tion. Ciardi suggested that the mel ancholy which accompanies these periods of doubt can at times be strangely enjoyable. At the end of the lecture Ciardi was asked to read some of his work. One of the poems, “Was a Man”, an elegy to the poet Roeth- ke, was a romantic description of a roguish life-spirit, ending in passionate veneration of the man’s lyrical sense. Ironically, in dscribing Roethke, Ciardi described himself: pos sessed of an inextinguishable joie de vivie transcending the lowest depth of despair to which the anxious soul can be directed. “I don’t know what got into her! At the end of th’ First Quarter I asked her if I could borrow her raincoat to wrap my boots in and she would hardly speak to me th’ rest of the game!” Graduation fees must be paid in the Fiscal Office before under graduates will be allowed to register for the G.R.E. ism.” The Entomology Wives Club will meet at 8 p.m. at 107 College View Street, Apartment B. The Bi-City .Coin Club will have an auction and a program on Con federate Currency at 7:30 p.m. in the Brazos Room of the First Bank and Trust Building. The Pre Medical-Pre Dental So ciety will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 113 of the Biological Sci ence Building. A movie will be shown. 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Prominent members of the fac ulty and staff will speak to stu dents as if this were their “last lecture.” These talks will be giv en at supper meetings on October 10, 17, 24 and 31. Other speakers in the series will be Bennie Zinn, director of the Department of Student Af fairs, Dean of Students James P. Hannigan, W. L. Penberthy, pro fessor emeritus, Health and Phys ical Education Department. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the 'student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community neivspaper. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use fi republication of all news dispatches credited to it or n otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneoi origin published herein. Rights of republication of all oth matter herein are also reserved. 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