Volume LXXX. WATERTOWN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1971 Number 6

ACT Honors King's Birthday Exchange Student Former Taft Student, Harris I D f " T· T W b Marcus Rutherford J. Th S · D n e 1ant r1p 0 ater ury Enters Into Taft 01ns e Clence epartment

The Afro-American Congress At Taft. -photo by R. Holliday

article-editorial by David Harper

Early this month, the Afro-Amer­ican Congress at Taft (ACT), an or­ganization of and for the black stu­dents, requested permission for black students to participate in religious and cultural activities on the birthday of the late Martin Luvher King, Jr. The reli­gious service in Waterbury which they wished to attend conflcted with classes, and they were refused permission. Fourteen of the fifteen ACT members nevertheless attended the religious ser­vice. Except for seniors, who are al­lowed to cut classes, these ACT mem­bers are now on bounds. The seniors are attending penalty crew voluntarily.

Four days before Dr. King's birth­day, before ACT had issued an official statement, and the same day that the administration rejected ACT's request to be excused from classes, some mem­bers of the Taft student body demon­strated their shallowness of perception and absence of tact by posting UN ews

from FIAT (Federation of Italo­Americans at Taft)". It was posted on the locked, glass enclosed, official Press Club Board, and it was written in exactly the same style as the offcial press releases of the school. One might dismiss the FIAT manifesto as merely a reflection of the intelligence of its authors, but it appears that most Taft students agreed with the FIAT mani­festo; thus, there are larger implica­tions.

The manifesto was based on the sincere, though mistaken, belief that ACT had "demanded" a "holiday" which would "apply only to black stu­dents". In reality, ACT had simply requested permission for black stu­dents to participate in cultural and religious activities. The authors of the FIAT manifesto, and also many stu­dents, were simply unable to under­stand why ACT had requested permis-

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by Jim Volling

The Taft Community has a new member. He is Marcus Rutherford, an exchange student from England. He arrived at Taft when classes resumed following Christmas vacation.

Marcus is from the city of Guildford which is located in the county of Surrey in southern England. From the age of twelve until his graduation this past December, Marcus attended the Har­row School. Harrow is one of the nine major public schools established by an act of Parliament during the reign of Queen Victoria. It is located slight­ly north of London where it was founded in 1571. Harrow numbers among its graduates such famous men as Lord Byron, Sir Winston Churchill, John Goldsworthy, and Lord Alex­ander of Tunis. A student at Harrow is required to wear a uniform. and nn Sundays the uniform consists of black tails and a black tie which symbolize mourning for Queen Anne, a tradition that has been carried on for over two­hundred years. There are eleven dor­mitory houses at Harrow and a stu­dent is assigned to one of them upon his admission to the school and re­mains there until graduation. Each house contains sixty to eighty boys, has its own monitorial student govern­ment controlled by senior monitors who comprise a tremendous power structure, and has its own athletic teams who participa,te in inter-house competition. Harrow has the equival­ent of Taft's job program except that a student is required to perform a job for only two years. A student's job may consist of sweeping floors and other cleaning, or it may consist of being a monitor's personal boy whose duties include making the monitor's bed and performing various other tasks for him. Marcus was a monitor at Har-

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The Senior Commentary

Review: On The

A Huge Success Taft Experience

Last Sunday night, The Senior Revue: a revival of Strufgman and F~ort's great musical comedy Huge Be The Plorts oj 1916 was seen, for the first time anywhere, on the Bingham stage.

Written by Andy Brownstein, Tony Pasqualini and Scott "Beezer" Allison, Huge Be is the story of a young girl's search for the wizard of Taft. Ken Pettis plays ,the part of Dorothy, the young Kansas ragamuffin who is to become Taft's first coed. After her house whirls through a cyclone and crashes down killing Oscie, the wicked dean of Taft, Dorothy emerges in Watertown where she is greeted by 1'humper, the good dean of Taft, played by Keith Fell, and a gang of students who celebrate Oscie's death with "Ding, dong, the dean is deacl." Finally the wicked witch of the west, HDT, played by Peter Fricker, arrives on the scene where he vows that Taft will never go cooed.

Dorothy begins her search for the wizard-a search which is to lead her through all parts of the school while being pursued by the dastardly, jeal­ous HDT. Dorothy wanders into the semi-operational library where she is cast off by the extremely important Matoff-the-mole, Greg Bishop, and is ultimately received by the dedicated librarian, played by Pete Miller. Next, Dorothy finds her way into the kitchen where she is lectured about the vital function of that part of the school by

Those magnificent men from the Senior Review. -photo by Griffin

Trudy, Cosmo Graham, who is sorrow­fully mourning the death of Oscie. In scene five, the audience gets a revealing glimpse of Taft's dedicated corps of young masters and their escapades in the local bar. Ames Sweet, Worth MacMurray, Scott Worthing­ton, and Biff Bermingham play Messrs. Barnard, Briney, Boggs, and Bayless respectively. Dorothy then wanders onto the "fuhbal" field where she meets that other wizard, Larry Rock played by Brian Lacey. Larry has many problems: players are hurt, Barc, Ted Herrlinger, has lost the team, etc., and he laments in the song "Taft boys

building is the next part of Taft en­just keep on falling dead." The science countered with Dave Wardell insuring his acceptance at Podunck U. by his brilliant portrayal of Al Reiff, Larry Lopez boasting of his vocabulary as Ed North, Steve Sutton ugroovin on hawks" as Neil Currie, and Paul De­Bernardi depicting the guinea pig Lord Russell, in the song "If I only had a brain." In scene eight Dorothy finally meets the wizard, Mr. Esty, played by Don George and his lovable secretary Betty Parrone, played by the luscious Ken "Bastavasute" Saverine.

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On January tenth, Mr. Charles Harris joined the Taft School faculty as a member of the Science department. Mr. Harris graduated from Taft in 1966 and then went to Princeton, where he majored in Biology and Science in Human Affairs. He is instructing one section of chemistry and two of bi­ology. He replaces Mr. Francis Wat­son, who recently left, planning to re­turn to medical school.

Mr. Harris seems to be very en­thusiastic about his return to the school, and he is impressed with the progress Taft has made in the past four years. Although he has only been here for two weeks, he indicated that he has seen a notable change in the freedom offered to the student aca­demically as well as socially. He feels this has resulted in a change in atti­tude and a greater acceptance of re­sponsibility by the students. In short Mr. Harris favors the changes that have occurred at Taft.

One area of change that struck Mr. Harris, as it has many alumni, was the elimination of many petty rules. He is in favor of this change because it has given the student a greater freedom and it has forced the student to accept greater responsibility. Previously, they were told exactly what to do, giving

Mr. Charles Harris. -photo by R. Holliday

t:hem no way in which to exercise their self-judgment. All the rules were merely reactionary measures against students and served no purpose but to restrict them. Now, Mr. Harris feels that the administration is admitting the maturity of the student, and this change in judgment has proved satisfactory.

Another area in which the school has changed is the flexibility which one has in choosing a course of study. Four years ago, it was impossible to take an

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Students Il~ Effort

Paint Basement Hall Apathy To Conquer

Head~Monitor John Pollak surrounded by admir,ers. -photo by R. Holliday

by Worth MacMurray

Shortly after the opening of the school year, a committee was formed by Upper Mid Dave Wardell to combat apathy at Taft and to pro­mote student involvement through working for a common cause. The members of the committee are co­heads Wardell and Head Monitor John Pollak, Larry Lopez, Henry Reiff, Mr. Hoblitzelle and Parker Griffin.

At the time of the first group meetings, the section of the base­ment underneath HDT was being painted by a professional, at a great expense to the school. Recognizing an ideal project for themselves, the committee presented a proposal to the administration asking that the responsibility for painting the base­ment underneath CPT be given to them. The suggestion was gladly accepted by Mr. Odden, Mrs. Sar­ceno and others, and paint and brushes were quickly supplied. Post­ers and signs soon appeared around the school, urging students to spend their free time helping on the proj­ect. The response 'of the student body, however, was not overwhelm­ing. During the six weeks it took

to apply primer and paint the walls, ceilings and numerous pipes, only forty individual students came to help.

At present the basement is infi­nitely more appealing than when the old and flaky yellow paint cov­ered all visible surfaces. The ceiling is now an attractive white, while all the walls are a pleasing light blue .. Mr. Potter has promised that he and a few members of his Art IV class will add a series of murals to the walls which will be com­prised of a variety of landscapes, optical illusions and modern art.

The group plans to investigate other methods to combat apathy. Already a student coffee house has been opened and members of the committee have also expressed in­terest in painting the lower CPT basement, under Bingham Audito­rium, but they would like the work­load to be shared by a majority of the laborers and not by a select few.

Talk is cheap; there is a distinct abundance of rhetoric among the student body, but very little action is usually channelled in the same direction, or with the same energy, as the chatter. It is a definitely,

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2 THE TAFT PAPYRUS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1971

THE TAFT

.c"4anaging Editors Andrew L. Isaac

Richardson L. Watkins

Executive Editor Andrew Safran

Editorial Board Lawrence Lopez

Photography Editor Robert Holliday

PAPYRUS Volume LXXXIV Number 6

Editor-tn-Chief R. Channing Wheeler

Sports Editor Stephen R. Griffin

Senior Editors Peter D. Luria

Richard A. Mager John D. Pollak

Sports Board Ted Herrlinger Andy Holden Pat Zailckas

Business Managers Wardell Bowie

Charles J. Gormley Alexander Parkman

Faculty Advisors Mr. J. R. Williams

Mr. R. Stacey

Associate Editor Peter S. Kaufman

Staff Editors Andrew R. Brownstein

David A. Harper

News Board Peter H. Daly Peter Bartlett

Exchange Editor Tate EW'ell

Second-class postage paid at Watertown, Connecticut 06795. Issued monthly during the S(hool year and devoted to the interests of the student body, parents, and alumni of the Taft School. The Editorial Columns of the Papyrus are open to communications and reactions from students, alumni, parents, and friends of the School. The variety and quality of interests and opinions should be ref/ected in a newspaper sincerely trying to consider the spirit of Taft. All communications must be signed, but the signature will be withheld from publication if desired. Address: Editor, The Taft Papyrus, Watertown, Conn. Editor-in-Chief

The Silent Speaker by Peter Luria

Within the past few years, slllce my class were Lower Mids, there has been a terrific change in· the rule structure at Taft. The period from 1967 to 1971 has seen many constructive changes in all facets of school life. The academic re­quirements, conduct system, and ath­letic program have all changed tre­mendously. This process of change has brought many new freedoms and responsibilities to both students and faculty. As far as the process of liberalization is concerned, Taft has successfully changed.

In my opinion, it would now be advisable for Taft to form a com­mittee which would probe the dis­tant future of the school. This com­mittee would be best composed of masters, alumni, and administrators. If irrelevant ideological conflicts could be avoided, their combined ideas and suggestions on how the school should act III the future would be of great importance. They could, with skillfully chosen finan­cial advisors, help the school come to grips with its financial problems. Hopefully, with the help of some competent economist, they (the

I Reactions

by Rich Watkins

As a member of the Taft School and as a member of the predomi­nantly white community around the school I have been affected by, or you might say, sensitive to, the role v.:hich the black students are assum­ing. Several weeks ago, both blacks and whites witnessed Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday. ACT had given a proposal to Mr. Esty, which, if passed, would have in effect released black students from all require­ments to participate in cultural and religious activities. However, Mr. Esty held them to their class committments, and unfair or not, everybody has an obligation to obey the headmaster. Nevertheless, ACT decided to defy Mr. Esty and went away from the school.

Supposedly blacks are striving for equal rights in education, housing, and in day-to-day life. Yet by acting in the manner in which they did, give the impression of promoting a "separate but equal" doctrine. This "separatist" movement which occurred only led to a feeling of unfairness and resentment by the white students. For two days after King's birth­day the school felt uneasy about the whole situation. Speaking as a white I believed that I had some good black friends, and I still do, but after this incident I began to have my doubts as did a number of whites. The FIAT satire on ACT was admittedly farcical, but it did have its points. The blacks should also have not taken it as a personal affront to their culture or race, but rather as a satirical organization. It does get ridicu­lous when a white student is threatened (empty or not) by a black stu­dent who is carrying a sawed-off hockey stick down the co,rridors.

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members of the committee) might be able to tell in what and where the school should invest its money. They could also help to order the

I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ school's financi~ prior~i~. In do-

I am not speaking as a closed-minded WASP, for I have spoken to a number of ACT members in regard to their organization and their aims. I respect and definitely approve of ACT as a way by which they can gain some knowledge of their past culture and future, however, I am critical of the way they assume that they are a privileged people. Their actions on Dr. King's birthday were totally contradictory to Dr. King's goals, for he sought a dream of peace and co-existence. The blacks are appearing to many whites as more of a racist group than the sup­posed WASP's. The blacks have failed to realize that the whites, to?, have fought for integration and that whites also respected Dr. Marhn Luther King. They did not invite whites to partake in the celebration of the birthday, even though there are some whites who have strong feelings in regard to the black crisis of today.

Because the sensitivity lab program is a controversial topic, it is often ing this, with foreknowledge about misrepresented in the media. Misconceptions generally arise, and I hope the needs of the school it would set I can dispel some of them. up a system for distributing what-

I can remember sitting in Van Murray's room last spring when Van ever funds Taft solicits. That is to and some other seniors returned from their two-day labs with Westover say, this committee would have girls. Those guys were filled with exuberance, and they radiated their foreseen, or at least been aware of euphoria. Yet, they were unable to explain to me what had happened the fact that Taft would, say for to them or why it had happened. All I could gather was that they had example, be going co-ed. It could been through an intense experience that had brought out the best in have delegated money for coeduca­them. What was even more confusing, was the bond that held them tion, rather than spending it on together. relatively unneeded buildings.

The summer arrived, and I quickly blocked off the Taft memories I While it IS true that there are

I sincerely believe that by having the blacks form and stick together in their own clique the racial problem will be worsened rather than lessened. It is very important for both races to communicate with each other for in no other way will there be peaceful co-existence. I would appreciate any correspondence with ACT or anyone else that has strong feelings one way or the other.

Wheat Germ Landscapes by Larry Lopez

had. After being forcibly injected into the Taft life-style in September, bound to be ideological conflicts, I remembered faintly that yes, I must sign up for these sensitivity labs. new theories about education and College then arrived in my thoughts, and by the time its importance about Taft could be brought up that became negligible, I had missed the first of the co-ed labs. A determina- might hitherto have gone unnoticed. tion filled me to get into this program after members of my own class This will be a help to the school. came back ranting about the wonderful things that had gone on in their Theories will no longer have to group. remain mere academic playthings

PURELY PALATABLE PAP? (an obituary of sorts)

.... an investment as this. They get it.

By this time I had formed my own opmlOn of the entire sensitivity confined to booklined studies. By program. Ludicrous, man. I mean all I saw, and heard, were people combining the pragmatic and the returning, raving, ranting, LOVE. Yes, sir, I thought I had this program academic, a presumably broader pic­pegged. I saw the sensitivity program as a useless organ which forced ture of where Taft is going and people together, and forced them to trust each other. The determination what it will be doing in the future to attend these labs did not diminish, for I wanted to enter like an atheist will emerge.

The Taft Papyrus is one of the best prep school newspapers both in terms of quality and freedom of expression. The Papyrus, however, is not a stu­dent newspaper. The average Papyrus issue costs over $1,000 to publish, not counting mailing costs which are paid by the development office. This cost is paid entirely by the school*, which gave the Papyrus a budget of $9,600 this year. The school naturally ex­pects to get a return on as substantial into a revival meeting, and still walk out an atheist. Since our society is undergoing

Christmas vacation flashed, and the school bells started ringing. The an increasing period of change, so winter term is no fun, and enthusiasm for anything slowly dissipates must our institutions. This commit- *Editor's note: $65,00' of the $'9600 of

the budget is paid by the students. from all Taft creatures. It came as little surprise when I found out that (continued on page 6, column 1) I didn't really give a damn about attending the sensitivi~ labs, but on ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I Friday, January 22, I walked out of the building and into one of those I B II N , old, sick-smelling, green chartered buses. We arrived at a church, thirteen U , . OW. Taft boys strong} walked into a room and saw thirte~n nervous; t~JJ.$e? by Rirk Mdg(!f Westover girls.

,------------------~--------------------------------~----~ I remember many experiences best in flashes. All lying on the floor and trying to mentally relax each part of the body. The feet, the legs, and eyes are closed and I felt nice, very mellow. Rambling around and sitting down with three unknown people and asking them questions that normally you wouldn't dare ask, and being asked questions that were difficult to answer. Starting to feel really together as a unit and then separating into two different organisms and feeling this new, smaller body, and discovering that you were very glad you were there.

That's the first half-hour, and I revelled on the fact that we were to be with each other for eight hours that day. The two groups dissolved into separate rooms and started to chart their different courses. Every word said in our room changed slightly OUf momentum towards total communication. After talking and talking, and talking about the forms and ways we communicate with, I began to learn. Somehow, all preten­tions had been dropped. The girls and guys were beginning to reveal themselves in a way that is rarely seen except among the closest of friends. I cannot remember the words said, but I can still experience the bond of closeness, the bond of trust, and the bond of care that made us very special in my eyes. There was no fear of the physical. Touch became a way of talking that I found much more desirable. The words that had been a continuous gush slowly trickled to a halt and all my tensions, all the group's anxieties were very far away as we transgressed onto a plane that was very hard to leave.

But the eight hours were over and we joined, the other group and went home and I felt stoned out of my head. The next day we met again for eight hours and all that we had gained before was still there, but we stayed verbal. I experienced many fine feelings and I knew that although these labs promoted an artificial encounter, what had been gained was very much real. When the Saturday labs were finished, I felt unable to communicate what had happened to me and what I had learned. As I sit here and write to you, I feel that I am honest in saying that I learned a tremendous amount from the labs. I learned about the word friend­ship, and I learned how to love. Each day was a step and a reach into different depths. Feelings became a wonderful part-of my body, and those feelings have remained. There will always be critics of any pro­gram that "plays" with human emotions, to them I simply say that what

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Lincoln's austere gaze greets you as you enter the main lobby. Above you are the countless student rooms, wherein the famed "bull sessions" go on night after night. For most of Taft's students these are the places where the real learning goes on; for here the Taftie learns how to deal and cope with the problems of his peers.

At Taft the student receives a fine grounding in all academic areas, but I believe that this, for the senior at least, is of little importance.

The life of a Taft student is fairly easy to outline on a year-to-year basis. The lower-middler is unaware of college pressure yet he works hard, and conscientiously, in an attempt to "get off to a good start", while he puts the rest of his energy into trying to establish a place for himself in the Taft community.

The middler has the most carefree existence of anyone at Taft. The college grind has not yet started and therefore grades are not really all that important to him. Also unlike the lower mid, the middler has al­ready established himself in the community.

For the upper-middler class rank becomes the most important worry. The student at this point has to take his nrst set of S.A.T.'s, and these coupled with class rank start the student thinking about college. It is for this reason that I feel that upper-mid year is by far the hardest.

This type of worry continues through the fall term of senior year. For when the senior returns from his Christmas vacation his fate is more or less revealed. His class rank has been sent off to the colleges, he has taken his final set of S.A.T.'s so all that is left to do is to wait until April 15th., when the .cenior finally finds out if he has gotten into the college of his choice. It is at this point. when the spnior knows that he is helpless to do anything i'.bout where he goes to college. that the "bull­sessions" begin to mean more ancl more to the aspir:ng Taft senior.

It is now that the senior be~ins to identify with the idea of a "tunnel­runner", who is beginning to be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Now is when the famed "BFD" attitude sets in.

Taft becomes a very real and relevant school for the majority of the senior class, during the last two terms: for with the lack of any real col­lege oriented responsibilities the senior tends to drift more and more into the world of the nightly "bull session".. wherein he learns more about himself and ·1ife in general th?n he has in his prevIOus years at Taft.

The Papyrus is sent to approximately 1,3,gO parents, alumni, friends of the school, and other schools. The Papyrus is excellent publicity for the school. But for the Pap to remain good pub­licity, it cannot afford to get involved too deeply in controversy.

Mr. Wheeler (the present editor-in­chief). and his immediate predecesscrs deserve much credit for having kept the columns of the Papyrus open to dissent and the school administration has abstained from any real attempt at censorship but, somehow, the for­mat of the Papyrus seems to be singu­larly indisposed towards promoting realistic dialogue. Because of the fin­ancial commitment of the school to the Pap, the Pap seems reluctant to rock the boat: a sreat deal of preselectio~ goes into Pap articles. The editors of the Pap, along with the suggestions of the headmaster, determine the news content of each issue. And, naturally they emphasize the positive aspects of Taft life. The most daring "expose" tha:t the Pap has printed this year may well be that Mr. Comiskey studied the desirability of a core curriculum at Taft.

By the time each issue reaches the students, the news is stale, if it was ever news at all. And the articles are usually shallow reports of the facts of the story with little attempt to delve into reasons. The news stories tell outsiders the surface happenings of the school; they will tell the stu­dents nothing that they did not know. When the Papyms was being issued bi­weekly, it might have h~d some value as a student newspaper. But finanCIal considerations have reduced the num­ber of issues to nine a year, and the two week delay between the assign­ment of articles and the distribution of the Pap to students and faculty has killed its newsworthyness.

This delay also has a harmful effect on editoria:l restraint. Some Pap· ed­itorials deserve an answer by members of the community who disagree with them. But by the time the next issue comes out, a month later, the origin:l1 editorial has had its effect-readers will not remember the specifics of the editorial, but will have come to accept

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THE TAFT PAPYRUS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1971 3

The Photography Club At Taft

4 SPORTS THE TAFT PAPYRUS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3D, 1971 SPORTS

Son of a Bee by Stephen Griffin

There has been much criticism of Taft Athletics directed mainly at re­quired exercise every Monday, Tues­day, Thursday and Friday after­noons. Intramural Athletics come under much of the attack on re­quired ex in tha1t they are indeed only a joke and are therefore use­less. On the contrary, intramural sports are meritorious as they not only give the exercise that is as im­portant physically to students as classes and studying are important as mental exercise.

Being a basketball player, I am best qualified to use intramural basketball as an example of the merits of organized exercise. In intramural basketball, there are enough teams of equal numbers that equal and adequate playing time is guaranteed. This is a definite im­provement over Club Basketball teams of the past. In past years,

Tafi Shuts

Second At Lawrenceville Trinity-Pa'wling, 5 .. 0 Out

The Lawrenceville Tournament.. .. We were the next to the worst

team out of eight schools. Taft was seeded seventh. On Dec. 18-19, the Taft School Hockey team traveled to Princeton, New Jersey to com­pete in the annual Lawrenceville Tournament.

A handful of Taft students, alum­ni, and friends were at Baker Rink to see Taft's first contest. In defeat­ing the number three seed, Deer­field, Rick Heimbach, Jim Doyle, and Fred Green all played their usual fine games. However, it was Dave Wardell and Kitch Ward who got the really key goals. The victory put Taft in the semifinals.

The second game, also at Baker Rink, proved to be one of Taft's finest performances of the year. Taft came from behind to defeat the number one seed, the Upper Cana-

by Fred Green

Today the Taft Varsity Hockey Team defeated Trinity-Pawling 5-0) in their second home game of the season. Taft dominated the game as TP was only able to get fifteen' shots on the Taft net as compared to Taft's 31 on the Oopposing net.

Jim Doyle opened the scoring early in the first period, as he slammed home Ed Bigham's rebound. The Big Red controlled the play in the rest of the period but were unable to score as the TP goalie came up with several clutch saves off Heimbach and Erdman.

Taft continued its aggressive play at the start of the second period and quickly added two more goals. Dave Wardell scored on a booming slap shot from the top of the face-off circle th<l.t beat the goalie cleanly. Skip Pond scored Taft's third goal a few minutes later after a perfect pass from Captain Heimbach in front of the net. The play roughened considerably in the last half of the period and Taft found itself two men down in several occas­ions. But the defense did a great job killing the penalties and TP never got a good drive going. The period ended with Taft leading 3-0.

The Big Red didn't let down be­tween periods and came out flying at the statt of the final period. Taft's aggressive forecheck kept the puck in the TP zone most of the time and fin­ally Dave Wardell again scored, his second Oof the day on a deflection of a low, hard slap shot by Bill Cunning. ham. Heimbach sCOored Taft's fifth and final goal with about four minutes re­maining as he stole the puck from a TP defensemen and blasted it by the surprised goaltender.

Rick Heimbach unleashes a "boomer".

Taft, through their hustling, aggres­sive play, and superb defense, won its first league game in reassuring fash­ion. Taft never let up, and would have scored several more goals had it n,)t been for the great goaltending of the TP netminder.

teams had up to twenty players so not every player would get to play appreciably. In truth, coaches would excuse the relatively unskilled play­ers from attendance on game days as they could use their better players longer and with less resultant flak from the opposing coaches. The smaller team in itself is a commend­able aspect of club basketball, as each player must play and thus re­ceive the exercise that is intrinsic in the idea of required exercise.

Intramural basketball is a fine in­stitution on a level beyond the pure physical level. The coaches and play­ers develop a rapport among them­selves that the team exudes. The team spirit is evident in the some­times maniacal cfforts of the le§§~ scrupled players. But despite the rare and subtle dirty play, the over­all spirit of intramural basketball is undoubtedly its major asset. Some­how, these students who say they don't care about athletics develop a real zes,t for the betterment of the team?

The coaches have introduced drills that teach basketball fundamentals to teach basketball to young players who did not play in grammar school years. It is a popular fallacy that intramural basketball is made up of only students who are seeking an easy exercise. It is true, actually, players have been known to jump from the club level to J.V. in one year. Competitive basketball with fair refereeing is taught for the first time for many young players.

All in all, intramural basketball is invigorating, useful, and good clean fun, The virtues of sportsman­ship and fair play are instilled in each and every player. The subtle arts of fouling is learned and each player rises to his own height of mediocrity. There is no sarcasm at Taf,t, is there?

SUPPORT

BASKETBALL

-photo by B. ]oblin

diens, 7-4. The third period was disastrous for the opponents as Skip Pond, Fred Erdman, and Ned Dou­dican all tallied, for three of the four goals scored in the last 4 min­utes of the game.

Confident but very weary, Taft went on to the final game that would decide the tournament vic­tor. Their opponent, Belmont Hill, was an old rival from the previous year-a rival that had won in a dis­puted overtime decision. Belmont Hill was seeded second and had a very good first line. There intelli­gent coach knew his team had to stop Heimbach and first line center Jim Doyle. Fortunately for Bel-

Hoc~ey 'Tops Swedes, 4"3

On Dec. 116, 1970, the Taft Varsity Hockey team played host to a boister­ous, capacity crowd and, the Ohal High School team from Sweden. The game proved to be extremely exciting as both teams traded gOoals throughout two periods and thirteen minutes.

Although weary from travel, Ohal showed us Americans how Hockey should be played as their behind ~he back and triangle passes were effective

Jim Doyle Befuddles T.P. defense. -photo by R. Holliday

mont Hill, they not only stopped enough to score three goals against Heimbach and Doyle but they were a rugged Taft defense, Taft, however, able to get away with two major outhustled, outforechecked, and in the seven minute penalties (for drawing end outscored the Swedes for the win. blood) and numerous slashing and holding penalties. The fact that Belmont Hill did get away with their foul play can be attributed to the very poor officiating. Poor offi­ciating led to Taft's frustration, fighting, and disqualifications. The final score was Belmont Hill 7, Taft 1.

The climax occurred in the last per­iod after Fred Green h3.'d turned away shot after shot leaving the score tied at three all. With fifteen seconds left to play, Rick Heimbach rushed the puck the length of the ice only to be denied a shot at the opponents

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Editorial by Peter Kaufman

There are three types of Seniors who relate to the Taft athletic program. One forms the nucleus of all the teams; they are the captains, the returning lettermen, and the ringer. Then there is that group of Seniors who do not partake in any sport simply due to a lack of interest. These two groups are easy to define and point out, but there exists a third, hazier section of Seniors, This group is composed of those who played on J.V. teams prior to their Senior year, and who invariably wind up bench-warming during their one Varsity season.

Unfortunately, these Seniors do not always join the varsity team with both eyes open. Filled with delusions (If grandeur from their glory-filled J.Y. years, they find it difficult to produce the same achievements on a Varsity level. Upon finding themselves warm­ing the bench, perhaps for the first time, they begin to form factions with­in the team, and procede to tear the squad apart with jealousy and dissen­sion.

There are many examples of this phenomenon in recent times, and as it has plagued Taft teams this year as well, there can be no doubt but that it will continue in the future. The solution? There is none, save for the hope that l:hose Seniors who tryout

"Nicky The Greek'" Well, Super Bowl Number V is over.

The Colts will join the Packers, Jets, and Chiefs as the winners of what N.B.C. bills as "the perennial Amer­ican happening". After watching the a,trocious exhibition of blunder after blunder football I could not help but think that the quarterbacking in some of the college level games was very much superior to that of Baltimore or Dallas. Time after time men earning as much as $100,000 a year threw key in­terceptions. Poorly thrown balls seemed to be the rule rather than the excep­tion. John Unitas, the great quarter­back that he was, is not anymore. Craig Morton, the great quarterback that he is not proved beyond a reason­able doubt that he won't ever be, Oh, and Earl Morrall the goat of the Super Joe Bowl did the job that on this Sunday proved to be adequate. Rumor has it that Dallas wants Bob Lilly to quarter­back for them next year. After Jim O'Brien's winning fieldgoal, Lilly in disgust, threw his helmet some 70 yards in the air!

One must wonder what the out­come of the game would have been if a Jim Plunkett had been at the helm for Dallas. A college player such as Plunkett who has been playing on a team which has been using a basic pro set for four years could have led Dallas to a victory. Since coach Tom Landry calls all of the plays for Dallas it

Taft wins a face-off vs. the Swedes.

blue line. However, carefully holding do so with the knowledge that some­one must ride the bench, and though they may give their all, if the coach decides t:hat another player ranks higher., the team should not suffer as a result. And, if one reaches the conclusion that he will not be able to exist as a "pine-rider", then he just should not go out. It comes down to this: Taft t~ams have enough prob­lems defeating their opponents with­out having to contend with internal dissension as well.

OHAL HOCKEY (continued from column 3)

on to the puck, the captain skated into the corner and around the face-off circle, shooting as he spun for a gap in the lower left corner of the goal. The next thing that was seen was Heimbach sprawled on the ice; the next thing that was heard was the plunk of the back pipe after the puck had squitted under the outstretched glove of the baffled goalie. Taft won 4-3, and everybody was a hero.

BASKETBALL:

THE BREAKFAST

OF CHAMPIONS

-photo by B. ]oblin

is very easy to imagine a man of Plunkett's talent leading a team Oof Dallas' caliber to a Super Bowl vic­tory. Presumably a Joe Theisman or an Archie Manning could have done a much better professional job than Morton. Dallas needs a professioml quarterback not a sOorearmed journey­man.

Even the most naive football fan realizes that both Baltimorc and Dallas are lacking and need the type of quarterback that will consistently lead them to the post-season playoffs. The upcoming professional football player draft along with some key and sur­prising trades should prove to solve both teams' ostensible problem. The first key trade to take place will be between the Boston Patriots, who own the rights to Plunkett, and the Dallas Cowboys. I believe that the Cowboys will give up an outstanding tackle in Ralph Neely, and either 1969 rookie of the year Calvin Hill or Split and Bullet Bob Hayes for the right to pick first and take Jim Plunkett in the draft. The other deal, although not as spectacular in magnitude will be made between the Baltimore Colts and New York Jets. The Jets are willing to give up their first round draft pick, in order to get a dependable and consist­ent professional to play on the offen­sive line, The Colts have many ex­perienced offensive lineman and could use a top-notch quarterback like Mis­sissippi's Archie Manning.

Super Bowl V was a bomb. After all, the name of the game is quarter­back, and it seems that the best arm on the field belonged to Bob Lilly, Who knows, maybe Super Bowl VI will have the two best quarterbacks in the league playing? We will see what Sonny and Joe Willie have to say about that.

SPORTS THE TAFT PAPYRUS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1971 SPORTS

BaBa11 Topples Gunnery And Canterbury by Mike Fara

WATERTOWN. Jan. 13-Today the Taft Varsity Basketball Team over­whelmed Canterbury, 68-61, to win its second conference game in a row. Taft was never behind in this game, as a result of beautiful teamwork. The four starting Seniors, C6-Captains Larry Mailliard, and Steve Griffin, Tim Lahey, and Brian Lacey, proved to be too much for Canterbury, as they scor­ed all but six of Taft's 68, points. Lahey wah high scorer with 21 points. It seemed that each Senior had his own quarter when he chose to play his best ball, but overall, the game was a team effort.

In the first quarter, Taft jumped to a commanding 23-11 lead, mainly be­cause of Larry MaiUiard. Mailliard controled the boards both on offense, and defense. He was 5 for 5 from the foul line, and scored two buckets (Both due to the alert precision pass­ing of Tim Lahey) for a nine-point period. Canterbury was unable to hit consistently from the outside, and this is what caused their defeat, as they were also unable to penetrate inside the Taft zone defense.

Canterbury started to chip away at the Taft lead in the second quarter, as Taft did not score until two minutes had elapsed on the clock. A Lahey jumper ended Taft's dry spell. Then Steve Griffin's hook shot and Lahey's three point play combined to give Taft a comfortable H point lead, But, Canterbury did not give up as they scored seven points in a row, to cut the score down to 3.0-24. Taft settled down on defense, and held Canter­bury to only two points for the hst two minutes of the half. Meanwhile on offense, Taft went on a 8-0 tear, giving it a 40'-26 half-time lead.

Brian Lacey helped Taft to a 45-28 bulge early in ,the third period with his outside shooting. Canterbury then proceded to outplay Taft in the middle of this quarter, as it cut the Taft lead to seven points. Once again, Lacey came through to put in a foul shot. and score on a rebound which momen­tarily stopped the Canterbury momen­tum. However, Canterbury added five points of their own to cut the Taft margin to five. Tim Lahey's jumper at the end of the quarter made the score 56-49. Yet, this was Lacey's period, as he scored seven of his 15 points in this quarter, and enabled Taft to hold its lead.

by Jon Hankins The Taft Varsity Basketball team

opened its conference schedule with a 73-71 overtime win over Gunnery. The enthusiastic crowd at the game witnessed some of the worst and best basketball ever played at Taft. Co-captain Larry Mailliard was the high scorer for Taft with 22 points and 13 rebounds. Tim Lahey, pos­sessor of the clutch last basket, added 20 points. Gunnery's high scorers were Mays with 22 and Graver with 17.

Andy Safran soars for two. -photo by B. Joblin

Taft played an atrocious first half but was always in contention. This was partly due to Gunnery's slug­gishness and the aggresive defense of Pete Kaufman and co-captain Steve Griffin who also sank 17 points. Brian Lacey crashed the boards for 10 of Taft's 15 first half rebounds. The score at the end of two periods was 34-25 Gunnery.

The second half was a "different ball game". Taft stormed back in the third period outscoring Gunnery 26 to 13. Team play was the key. So it was in the fourth period. The game was close down to the final baskets. Several times both teams had chances to break it open, only to fall back into vicious battle for the victor's honor. At the tense end of the regulation play the score was a sizzling 67-67 tie on a shot by Gunnery's Mays at the buzzer.

Tim Lahey lays in two points.

Both teams traded baskets at the staDt of the last period. It looked like Canterbury could come from behind to win if it kept up its third quarter play. But, Tim Lahey put an end to that hope by scoring eight points in a row on two 2'0-foot jumpers, two foul shots, and a close-shot. Maillard's 2 for 2 from the foul line added to the Taft surge, as it scored 1.0 points while holding Canterbury scoreless. With a 17 point lead, and a few min­utes left, the Taft subs came on. Canterbury scored ten consecutive points against the second string, but the game was never in doubt after Lahey's eight point performance.

As stated in the beginning, the credit for this victory must go to the Seniors on the team. Lahey scored 21, Griffin. and Lacey 15 each. and Maillard had 11 while playing only half the game.

-photo by B. Joblin

Taft outscored Gunnery 6 to 4 to take the game in overtime. The responsive crowd, team play, and the hot hand of cool Tim Lahey were equally responsible for the win. Taft's last score was represent­ative of the team's second half play. Gunnery had the ball with 1: 50 re­maining and the score tied 71-7l. May's drove down the middle on Taft center Rocky Marsh. Griffin fell off and harassed the dribble causing Mays to force the shot which was blocked by Marsh. Mail­laird recovered the ball and gave threw it down court to Lahey who took a 15 foot shot in traffic for the winning basket. Gunnery missed a last shot at the buzzer.

It appears that basketball has truly come to Taft.

J. V" Sports Grapplers Beaten By Suffield Salisbury, 25 ... 19 by Doug Engel

As the winter season begins, we can already see the making of some very good J.V. teams. Hockey and Basketball both look like contend­ers for the championship, while our young wrestling team may prove to be one of the best in a long time.

The J.V. Wrestling team, coached by Mr. Brown and Mr. Wynne, has many returning juniors and seniors combined with some younger class­men in the lower weight classes. In their first meet against an always strong Suffield club, the team went down to defeat 44-10. Our only points came from a pin by Jeff Fink and a forfeit for Jamison. Masko, Sklaver, Utley, Reiff, Read, Pollack, and Grey were the other wrestlers in our line-up. We do hope that the team can use its youth and experi­ence to total up a winning record of the end of the season.

J.V. Basketball, led by their new coach Mr. Briney, seems to be fol­lowing in the footsteps of last year's great 15-1 team. Their 4-1 record so far shows the effort and talent which is on the squad.

In their first game, they started out well with 21 points in the first quarter and went on to beat Ches­hire 48-42, holding off a late rally. Allan Black led the scoring with twelve points. Next they played a very strong Kingswood team, and lost 91-47. Parmenter scored the most for the losers with eleven. The next match was with Gunnery

Defeated By by Fred T aleghani

It is not too easy to win with the fresh memory of the disastrous loss to Suffield, yet if the Taft wrestling team could have won a few "key" matches on January 20, they could have easily beaten Salisbury. But the story goes this way: after an hour and thirty seconds of wrestling the Taft Varsity lost 25-19. The J.V. Wrestling team also lost as they faced a 2{} point deficit to start with as they forfeited four matches.

Here is a quick review of what went on at Salisbury on Wednesday. Paul Klingstein was the first out there, a freshman 5' 3" against a Salisbury jun­ior 5' 10" (Peters). Klingstein was unfortunately pinned in the first per­iod. Turak and Whittemore were the next Taft wrestlers. Both showed a great effort but both lost by decisions. The Taft squad now faced a 11-0 de­ficit.

Tlhe next three matches were fantas­tic. Paul DeBernardi smeared his op­ponent 15-5. DeBernardi actually had his opponent pinned in the first per­iod right after one of his great take­downs but our referee that day was a little slow in calling pins. Doug Jami­son really made his opponent look bad, as he was leading by about six points in the third period when he pinned his Salisbury wrestler with 4: 59 seconds to go. The slowness of the official almost caused Trip Hart some trouble. "Killer" Trip pinned his op-

Trip Hart on way to winning decision against Suffield. -photo by B. Joblin

which ended in an easy win for Taft ponent twice during the first and 48-32, as ten players made the scar- second periods before the referee fin­ing column for Taft. Cantebury was ally called a pin when Trip got his the real opponent, and with the opponent for the third time. help of Ed Wilson's thirteen points The score after this match was: Taft they won easlIy 49-37-. The game 14, Salisbury 11. We unfortunately was fairly close until Taft surged lost the next three matches by decision: ahead with 17 points in the last pe- Jim Miller, Andre Bell and John Pol­riod. The last game to date was a lak each lost by a few points. These well-played victory over Choate 51- were the crucial matches in which we 41. Cae led the Taft scoring with could have pulled out a winning score. eleven. If they can keep their win- However, the Taft wrestlers lost de­ning streak alive we can definitely spite valiant effort. look forward to a winning season J' C bb I d 1" d and excellent material for a future 1m 0 s wrest e un 1mIte in-

stead of Rick Wood, who was sick. varsity team. Jim weighed 1561bs. and his opponc:nt

As we look at our J.V. Hockey weighed around 190' Ibs. Cobbs WJ~ tea~ it seems that Mr. Ba~er h~s the hero that day as he won the heavy­agam put together a champIOnship weight class with a disadvantage of club. A~ extrer;nely. well-baI~nced 'j almost forty lbs. Fred Taleghani squad With no IndiViduals wtll be wrestled at 169 and once again if it trouble for opposing teams. was not for the referee we could have

Their first game was an unsched- had another pin; in any case Taleghani uled meeting with the California won 14-6. Jeff Piel unfortunately f!ot Bantam All-Stars and behind the pinned at 177 lbs. in the second oer­brilliant goal-keeping of Pete Rose iod. Thus the overall score was Salis­they took their first victory 3-1. bury 25, Taft 19. This was probably the best they At the ].V. level if it were not for hav.e pla~ed to date, because of the twenty point lead of Salibury due their conslste~t play throughout the to illness of Rick Wood, injury of game. In then next match, they de- Henry Reiff and a basic lack of strayed Hopkins Varsity 12-0. The wrestlers, Taft could have done a lot teat? scored on .an ama-:ing 5~% .of better. In the weights of 112, 162, their shots whtIe Ehrlich, Ritchie, 177, and unlimited there were Taft and Armstrong all scored four wrestlers available. Tohn Mosko's points each. The team then travelled match at 177 was an' exhibition be­ta Hotchkiss for the dedication of cause his opponent was overweight the new rink, and after the exciting but Mosko pinned his opponent. Then Varsity game they played an equally it was George Utley's turn, and he exciting J.V. match. Unfortunately also pinned his guy. After that we had Hotchkiss won with 19 seconds left losses at every weight class except that in the last period, 4-3. (continued on colwnn 5)

by Andy Marks

In the opening meet of the season the Taft Varsity Wrestling team lost to Suffield by a score of 44-6. The meet was the first ever held in the new Logan Atheltic building. Although, as the score indicates, Taft was overwhelmed by the pow­erful Suffield squad there were sev­eral optimistic points. Co-captains Paul DeBernardi and Trip Hart each won their matches by deci­sions. DeBernardi, wrestling at 135 pounds, won by a 7-5 score and Hart took a 7-4 decision over his opponent.

Paul Klingenstein, wrestling in his first varsity meet, lost by a deci­sion in the 112 pound weigM class. Tom Turak lost to one of the Suf­field co-captains by a pin, and Tom Whittemore also lost by a pin in the next match. Taft forfeited the 129 pound weight class, bringing the score to 18-0 in favor of Suf­field. Taft closed the gap to 18-6 behind the strong performances of DeBernardi and Hart.

The Big Red never posed a seri­ous threat to Suffield after this point. Jim Miller was pinned in the third period of the next match, bringing the score to 23-6, Suffield. Andre Bell lost a dose decision to his opponent. Bell wrestled strong­ly until the third period, when his opponent gained three points on a near pin, thereby clinching the match.

In the biggest disappointment of the day Jim Cobbs lost his match by a 4-3 decision. In the third pe­riod, ahead by a score of 3-2, Cobbs had his opponent tied up near the edge of the mat and apparently had the match in his hands. Suddenly, to the shock of the spectators, Cobbs disengaged himself from his oppo­nent and began to walk to the cen­ter of the mat. The Suffield wrestler got up and tackled Cobbs for a reversal worth two 'points, and the match. Cobbs had apparently thought he heard the referee's whistle signaling that he and his opponent were off the mat, but the referee never blew his whistle. This crushing defeat brought the score to 29-6 against Taft and destroyed the Big Red's hopes of defeating this Suffield team, which has been undefeated for the last several years.

Taft lost the last three matches by pins, all in the first period. Fred Taleghani, displaying a wild (f(jwd pleasing style of wrestling, was pinned by a strong opponent after taking a 4-1 lead. Jeff Piel and Rick Wood were also pinned. Wood, wrestling in the unlimited class, lost to an opponent who boasted at least a 50 pound edge over him.

A 44-6 defeat is obviously not a good start for the team. Despite the weak performance all signs indicate that the Big Red have terrific po­tential and should improve im­mensely as the season progresses. With their toughest meet behind them now the Big Red should improve steadily and win most of their meets.

Salisbury Wrestling (continued from column 4)

Jeff Fink won his match by a decision. Mark Grey almost won his match at 1,69 as he was ahead till the last five seconds. Then, not knowing he was already ahead by one point, Grey went for a take-down and ended up in the bottom position, and lost by one point.

All in all, it was not a good day for Taft. However, many wrestlers dis­played their ability to win. When the squad is intact, undoubtedly Taft will be a team to be reckoned with.

6 THE TAFT PAPYRUS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30" 1971

Senior Seminars Are Held And Received With Mixed Feelings Act Eilttnrtnl

(continued from page 1, column 2) (continued from page 2, column 2)

by Tom Santopietro

Last December, from the end of of semmars IS dependent upon Thanksgiving Vacation until the be- whether or not ,there will be term con­ginning of Christmas Vacation, seniors tained courses. He felt that the sem­participated in and led seminars in inars were fairly successful and that history and English. The seminars even if they can not be held at the consisted of material of the seniors' same time next year, they should be

sion only for black students, which brings us to the question of the nature of ACT itself.

Why did ACT request permission only for black students and not for the entire student body? These are two reasons. First, ACT is an organization of black students for black students. Therefore, ACT requested permission for black students. Why did no white students request permission to attend the religious service? Second, ACT un­derstood, as would any enlightened observer of Taft students, that had the entire student body been granted per­mission to cut classes merely because January 15 was Dr. King's birthday, the result would have been four hundred Tafties sleeping late-an in­sult to serious celebration of his mem­ory.

I experienced in two days wasn't artificial. I experienced a beautiful part of life which people discover every day in our world. What I felt towards my group were the same emotions that one lover can feel for another. I can tell you that those feelings are not bullshit. Those feelings encom­passed a a learning experience, and that's what it's all about, isn't it, people? -Chan

choosing, and while they were ap- held. proached with a cer,tain amount of Roger Stacey, English teacher and trepidation by the faculty, plans were participator in one of the group dis­formulated and the seminars held. cussions had varying reactions to the

l1here is no clear-cut answer as to seminars. He said that "The final or­whether or not the seminars were suc- ganization was not what the planners cessfuI; opinion varies greatly among had in mind and the discussion groups both students and faculty. There is seemed too small. Attendance at even a difference of opinion as to Stacey's seminars was very poor (in which (if either) seminar was more some cases no one came), yet on the worthwhile: history or English. other hand, a great deal of reading

The history seminars were a bit more seems to have been done. He is not tightly structured than the English,. sure if the seminars are academically and the facuLty seemed to have more justified and feels that strictly aca­of a say as to their format. Each his- demicaHy speaking, the seminars were tory seminar had a different topic. J. not successful. However, Stacey said R. Williams, whose history sections that a great many of the problems had read a collection of essays entitled The to do with scheduling and that aI­Aspirin Age, has this to say: "Class though ,the adoption of term contained attendance was not very good-only courses "would most likely eliminate about fifty per cent of the class at- the seminars, he would be wiHing to tended each meeting. The seminars try it one more time, guaranteed better seemed to be somewhat of a dis- organization." appointment; perhaps they need to be Student feelings ranged from great more strongly defined." He added, interest to that of total apathy. One h senior felt that his O'Wn seminar was owever, ,that as parts of the seminars . were hastily structured this looseness definitely worthwhile, but that from may have had a great deal to do with what he had heard, the others were the seminars' shortcomings. Right worthless. Another said that the Eng­now, Williams does not foresee a re- lish seminar was worth taking because occurance of these seminars; not be- he had the chance to read books that cause of failure, but due to the fact he wanted to read. On the other hand. /:that there may well be term-contained he felt that the history seminar was courses, it is not feasible to remove bad and he had no interest in it. The

k most enbhusiastic comment came from two wee s for seminars. The present yearlong history and English courses a senior who enjoyed both the English make the seminars a welcome change: and history seminars because "For the indeed, the seminars were designed first time I was reading what I wanted to stimulate interest and provide a to read and it was interesting." On the break from the stringently constructed other hand, one senior commented that regular academic program. "It was pretty much a waste of time.

r hardly learned anything and I didn't Richard Davis, another history in- even bother to go half the time."

structor, had somewhat different fee1- Some students felt neither one way or ings. He said that the seminars were another toward the seminars. They not as successful as possible, due large- said that the meetings were neither Iy to scheduling problems. He felt good nor bad. They went out of chat in many cases students interested curiosity, liked some of it, and were in one particular area could not take a:lso bored by parts of it. this seminar because they had a differ- The future of seminars at Taft? ent commitment at ,the same time. It is very much unknown at the pre­Many seminars could not be con- sent. Teachers seem to feel that even structed for not all of them could be though scheduling changes could help correctly scheduled. Davis himself was the seminars .!2;reatly, they probably controlled by scheduling, and he could won't be held next year because of not switch any of his commitments. term-contained courses. Reaction dif­He offered two possible solutions to fered among faculty-some found the the problem: 1.) limit the number seminars worthwhile, some did not. of seminars, and 2.) release the seniors The students, however. must voice hi') from all other commitments (courses, opinion for it is he that organized most etc. ) . of the seminars and selected the ma-

A Misconception which both the ad­ministration and Taft students har­bored was the belief that January 15 was simply Dr. King's birthday. This formed a major administration objec­tion to granting permission for ACT members to cut classes: that the school has not and should not cancel classes simply for the birthdays of great men, for to do so would set an unworkable precedent. But January 15 was far more than just a birthday, it was Black Day, black culture day, black identity day, all centering around the birth of a man who, as the ACT statement which appeared January 14 pointed out, has delivered to blacks "a new life or hope of one". If you believed Jan­uary 15 was merely the birthday of a great man who worked for integration, you were wrong.

No Exclusion ACT never sought to exclude any­

one from joining them in celebrating the memory of Dr. King and all the meaning of January 15. ACT was simply acting for blacks. It appears quite difficult for most Taft students to grasp the vita'! role ACT plays at Taft. Without ACT j without an Of­

ganization to express black identity and black feeling, t>he black studen:s would face a quite unintentional cul­tural genocide by the white ninety six per cent of the student body who come from such totally different backgrounds and culture.

Marcus Rutherford (continued from page 1, column 3)

row and his duties included keeping order in ,the house and punishing boys whose conduct was unacceptable. The head monitor has the power to beat other ·boys. The public schools such as Harrow are equivalent to the private schools in America in the sense that they derive the funds necessary to meet their operating expenses from ~lu­dents' tuitions. The government sup­ported schools in England are called grammar schools and are the equivalent of the public schools in America.

Marcus graduated from Harrow this past December, and he hopes to at­tend Sidney Sussex College, which is part of Cambridge University, where he plans to study law. Every student is required to take two sets of examina­tions which help to determine whether or not he will gain admittance to a college. The O-level examinations are given to students when they are fifteen and the A-level examinations to stu­dents when they are seventeen or eigh­teen. A student, upon graduating from secondary school, is required to spend one year away from his studies before entering college. Marcus decided to come to America during his interim year. A friend of his father had told him about the English Speaking Union which is an organization that sponsors student exchanges between the English speaking countries of the world. He applied and was accepted as an ex­change student and the English Speak­ing Union informed him that he would be attending Taft. Marcus will remain in America until August. He will spend the remainder of the aca­demic year at Taft and then during the summer he will travel throughout the country.

Although Marcus ~as been at Taft only two weeks, he has already formed some impressions. "Taft is quite a change from Harrow," states Marcus. "Taft is much more liberal ancI the at­mosphere is more free. My course of study at Harrow was extremely, special­ized and I like the variety of subjects that I'm taking here. L~m enjoying Taft thus far. and I'm sure. that my stay here will prove to be ari~qterest-

In conclusion, it seems clear that the decision of the administration not to excuse blacks from classes because they (the administration) misunderstood January 15 as merely a birthday or simply because ACT had not requested identical permission for white students, was an erroneous decision. If this de­cision was wrong, then t>he punish. ment ACT members have received for defying an unjust decision is also un­just, and ought to be revoked.

ing experience." .. , Marcus is our guest at. T ~'ft,jo let's

all do every thing- we caqto make hIS Taft experience a memorahle one.

News Around Campus

Mr. Davis had reasonably optimistic terial. While bhere is a wide spectrum fee1ii1g~ about the §emifiilf§. 3eVEfity' 0[ opint'6n, studen.ts, (over-all j, S'eem five to eighty per cent of his students to favor the continuation of seminars. showed up for the discussions, and he 11here is no "average" reaction to the feels that "With the limitations op- seminar but many students said: "I I erated in, the seminars were fairly guess it was worthwhile. I was bored successful." As for the future of the part of the time and didn't read all seminars, Davis' feelings paralleled of the material, but it was a good th~e ~ Will~ms. He th~b ili~ ~~~. I ilidn't h~e o~~earing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ whether or not the seminars will be pressure on me. I read and learned held next year is a matter of the aca- material that I liked and I was in­demic schedule; that is, the question terested."

The Silent Speaker (continued from page 2, column 3)

tee would be both aware of the changes going on in the "outside" society and at Taft itself. The con­structive gains made in social insti­tutions outside of Taft could be discussed and perhaps assimilated if they are decided to be constructive.

One of the great dangers for an institution like Taft is that it may become blind to change. Any great loss of sensitivity to new ideas would, given enough time, create chaos within the school. Such a committee would serve admirably to avoid ideological stagnation. It would be both a long range plan­ning committee and an important voice in suggesting school policy in the more immediate future. This is necessary in determining that the school does not lose touch with reality.

Landscapes (continued from page 2, column 5)

it as ~he truth, having seen it go un­opposed for a month.

The Papyrus is an excellent way of letting parents and friends learn what the schQol is officially doing. It is also an exc~llent exercise in journalism. I have learned much as a Pap writer. But as a student newspaper, baby, it don't make it. The Pap can and should continue to be published to keep "out­siders" informed of the surface hap­penings within the "ivy-covered walls", but the Taft community will have to look elsewhere for news.

hi heather

The entire Taft community was overjoyed to hear of the birth of Andrew ,Hates Ever~tt, who dropped in at 10:21 a.m., January 18, to (you guessed it) Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Everett. The beamish boy weighed in at a lusty eight pounds eleven ounces, and is reportedly the absolute image of somebody at least 25 years older than him, which says some­thing about someone somewhere. In honor of the joyous event a holi­day was called, so even those who hate children and animals were pleased. The Pap acknowledges with pleasure both Andrew and his holiday, and encourages the faculty to continue its efforts in such areas.

Once a week a badly typed, badly spelled sheet appears on the press office bulletin board. It sits mysteriously behind seemingly virginal glass doors, covered with garbled interpretations and grim portents which in­variably vaguely pertain to the week's movie. Most mysteriously, ea(h grimly bears at the bottom the enigmatically smeared runes l.eB. The Pap has conducted extensive investigations to discover the meaning of said J.e.B. There were several possibilities, but slowly Hedda Hopper, J.e., (take your pick) Spiro Agnew (no choice, the one and only), Toulouse Loutrec and Steve Erlanger were eliminated, and the trail led unexpectedly to Jack Burton! Yes, it's Jack, the very same senior who wrote "The Frustrations of Being a Conservative at Taft". His other hobby, besides writing is collecting Barry Goldwater posters. Well, now you know, and the Pap is sure you all join in wishing Jack good luck as he brings us all the "inside dope" on today's movies.

On January 22 and 23rd about a dozen Taft seniors went to West­over for coordinate sensitivity-training sessions. The sessions lasted for eight hours Friday, from two to eight, and for eight hours on Saturday, from nine to five. This is the second pair of such sessions to be held between Westover and Taft. The first took place before Christmas, and involved a similar number of students. The participants of both sessions found them extremely rewarding, and it is hoped that more such expe­riences may be made available in the future.

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anthropology or political science class. It was required that a student take English, math, and a foreign language. The only flexibility available was a choice between history or science. More specifically, Mr. Harris has noticed a shift in the structure of the entire Science Department. There is now a greater selection of courses to take and they have been made attrac­tive by the more interesting and up-to­date material. These steps have dras­tically increased the popularity of sci­ence in the past four years.

Mr. Harris definitely supports Taft's decision to accept girls next year. He recently experienced a similar trans­formation at Princeton. He explained that he thought it would take several years before the boys would fully ad­just to the addition of girls but event­ually it would create a relaxed social as well as academic atmosphere which is needed here.

In addition to the physical changes that have occurred at Taft, Harris noted that the general attitude of the students in the classroom is different. Students are no longer willing to sit back and automatically accept the word of the teacher. Instead, they have be­gun to question the master's ideas, making the classes more beneficial by means of individual participation and challenging dialogue, contrasting sharp­ly with the lectures that were consid­ered standard practice four years ago. Thus, Mr. Harris believes that the stu­dents today do not regard the teachers as all-knowing and now they are will­ing to express their ideas more openly than before.

In the short time that Mr. Harris has been back, his first impressions of Taft have been very favorable. He is yqcouraged about the changes that have taken place and he is optimistic that they will help to make Taft a more realistic and liveable environment.

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Esty cannot help Dorothy, however, and they all proceed to a faculty meet­ing about "nothing" with Thumper, Boggs, Scott Allison as Beezer, Dudley Wi11iam§ a§ Mr. YankU5, and Rob Clark and Rick Watkins as Messers. Odden and Bergen. HDT arrives to break up the scene but Dorothy finally teaches him a lesson and opens up the finale "You've gotta have heart".

Special recognition should be given to the fine chorus whose members played many parts throughout the play and to the musical crew led by Major Wood with Mr. Russell and Daniel Garzes.

The play would not have been pos­sible if it were not for the fine direc­tion of Tony Pasqualini, a rookie who arose from the tutelage of Mike Watkins. Scott Allison, as producer, was in charge of the technical aspects of the production. He received the valuable assistance of stage manager, J.G. Taft, set designer Peter Byerly, and tech director Rich Limburg.

The Senior Revue was a fantastic success. It has been acclaimed by in­tellectuals everywhere, but it was per­haps best described by co-author Brownstein who quoted the words of Arlo Guthrie: "They didn't leave no part untouched."

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strengthening thought to realize that there are a small number of students who are f~d up with the brilliant, but non-existent plans of their class­mates, and who would rather accom­plish than dream.