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Vol. 1, No. 6

Branch Begins Spring Quarter

About 840 students are enrolled in the spring 4uarter a1 Lima OSU Cam­pus, with clas es starting Tuesday. Thi includes 32 new students, of which 20 are first 4uarter freshmen, according to campus director J. McLean Reed .

Seven new professors from the main campus who will teach classes this 4uarter are Farouk Salhe, busi­ne s organization; Dr. Paul Thomas, agricultural economics; Bernard Rosen , philosophy ; Gerald Zeisel, accounting: George Overholt, educa­tion ; Phillis Philp, physical educa­tion, and Dr. Howard Philips, rural sociology.

Lomax: Reviews History Anew

Mr. Louis Lomax. our second na­tional feature sympo ium lecturer. discussed The e~ro Revolt. He be­

gan by decrying our American educa­tion which produces men capable or sending rockets 10 the moon, but in­capable f tearing down the tarpaper shacks of south Lima: capable of spending two million dollars per hour of a war in ie1 am. bu! incapable of spending even one half of that sum per month on poverty at home.

Mr. Lomax called for an examina­tion of the American history to, ''with God's help undo all the American his­torical mistakes you"ve learned in the peculiar textbooks you"ve had since you were in kindergarten:· Only after understanding the background of the revolution is il possible 10 deal with the present.

The Puritans landed on Plymouth rock eljuipped with a love of freedom of religion. At this time, the first non-violent negotiations were held with the Indians. Afler these nego-1ia1ions. our peculiar American et hic was begun : l t"s right fo r me to kill you. but it is no! right for you to kill me. Thus. it was a massacre for the Indians 10 kill the Puritans, but it was an advancement of freedom for the Puritans 10 kill the Indians.

The Puritans soon decided 1ha1 they needed slaves 10 carry on !he

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April 30, 1968

Dr. Phillip Leveque Love, Students, Drugs

Dr. Phillip Leve4ue began his lec­ture by awakening the students to the fact that they do use and depend on drugs even more than they realize. After a serie of 4uestions, Dr. Leve4ue drew the conclusion that OSU students belong to the coke and aspirin group and that those who use booze do not need sleeping pills.

Dr. Leve4ue then proceeded to ex­plain that since we are by and large a society of drug users , legislation concerning drugs is not as important as the education of these drug users. Certain drugs , which are easily obtain­ed by prescription , allow the user to become "higher than a kite: · One of these drugs is known as methedrine or more commonly called "speed."

To the surprise of the students, Dr. Leve4ue revealed the recipe and

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Mustaches, Metaphors and Meter

The mustachioed profs plus one was the composition of an English De­partment panel on the subject of Protest Through Poetry. Andrew Nimmo was the panel head, with John Babbs, Peter Corodimas, and William Yest also discu sing.

The panel started off with a reading by Mr. Babbs of several poems of e. e . cummings to exemplify the fact that protest can be done in the struc­ture of the poem a well as the words. The poems varied from Dirge With­out Music by Edna Saint Vincent Mi llay to I Am a Rock, which has been popularized in song by Simon and Garfunkel. One highlight of the panel for many students was to hear Mr. Yest read Mending Yale by Robert Frost.

The panel closed after some amount of debate and left a 4ues­tion for the students to consider: What is the most effective way to pro­test in poetry?

Say No to the Age; Say Yes to the Ages

On January 17th, the cultural sym­posium attained a highlight when Peter Viereck, poet, historian, and educator, spoke. The scruffy, seed­ily-dressed man is a delightful rarity in this age - a person who possesses both the sensitive temperment of the Romantic Era and the powerful in­tellect of the Enlightenment. He is one of the uncommen fortunate few whose profitable and pleasing voca­tion is being an all-purpose critic of society.

Viereck advised the students on how to achieve creativity in an age when machines, oppressive conform­ity, and social regimentation threaten to stamp out anything 'different'. We are living, he said, in the age of "Sputnik Panic" - a time when the humanities are relegated to a sub­servient position and the God of the Machine reigns supreme.

The poet stated that the fertile soil for creativity is the local, the provin­cial; and that one needs loneliness to create. He called for a "book-occi­dented culture", "unadjusted men··, and more "overreading ... if that is in­deed a vice as some would claim. Pro­testing against the new, hippie non­conformist, he advocated modern Thoreaus, men who are not member of the 'herd of independent minds', but are instead selective in their non­conformity. He conceded that ma­chines are here to stay, but main­tained that we must run the machines.

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O.S .U.-Lima

May Dance

Senate Activity The Student Senate is again spon­

soring the annual May dance to be held on May 11, 1968. Although the exact time and price of tickets are not yet set, the location of the dance is the new Scott's Inn at the inter­section of Interstate 75 and Blue Lick Road. The beautiful new Inn is in the final stages of completion and the Lima Campus will be one of the first organizations to use its exquisite facilities. The May dance will be held in the ballroom with music provided by the Tommy Ross Orchestra. Addi­tional information regarding tickets will be available soon. Committee chairmen for the dance were appoint­ed by senate president Mark Basinger at the April 15 senate meeting. They are Bonnie Aures, tickets; Juanita Mortimer, decorations; and Linda Channing, publicity.

The senate is also sponsoring the elections for May king and queen. Each club may support a candidate for king and 4ueen and independents may run if they have a petition signed by ten students. Campaigning for candidates will begin on April 29, with preliminary voting on Monday and Tuesday, and final voting on Thursday and Friday of May Week.

Besides May Week activities, the student senate has also participated in inter-branch student senate acti­v1ues. At the inter-branch meeting held at Lima on February 17, an inter­branch senate council, consisting of three delegates from each branch­campuses was formed. The three delegates elected to repre ent the Lima campus are Mike Kuhlman, Linda Luman, and John Stevens. The purpose of the inter-branch senate council is to coordinate activities between the four regional OSU cam­puses and thus bring about better unity. The four campuses partici­pating are the Mansfield, Marion, Newark, and Lima campuses. Nine members of the Lima Campus stu­dent senate attended the second inter­branch seminar held in Marion on April 20. At this meeting the ratifi­cation of the inter-senate constitution tion was discussed.

Elections were held on April 16 to fill two vacancies on the upper­classmen level. The two new senators are Jim Liles and Dennis McOwen.

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Viewpoints Martin Luther King

April 4, 1968

The great brown river Rolison, Freshening, Bearing sorrow Through the weeping Violent land Filled with the flowers Of mourning and redemption, Past the black cities, Sweeping to the sea Agony laden.

He's dead, laureate of Brotherhood. The bronze Brancusi face And Egyptian eyes Of peace and watchfulness - Gone! Shut. Shot out By some nameless white lo that Egyptian named River town Memphis, The Spring Mississippi Its witness And worse to come.

The seething flood Rolls over the land. Renewing relentless force Thrumming the fences , Blind to the paths Of propertied men. (What's That sound? the prisoner said. Oats him . Oats de Ole Man. ) Impossible to dam or divert His way WILL be done.

Amidst all the rhetoric and bombast unleased since the death of Martin Luther King, there have been many grand iose pla ns for abolishing racial pre­judice overnight and thus preserving the fabric of the nation, but there have been few concrete suggestions as to what one can do personally, on an indivi­dual level, to contribute to racial peace. We feel that one of the most plausible and intriguing suggestions was rendered by Dr. Robert Gibson, professor of political science at this campus, during a panel discussion of "The Meaning of the Death of Martin Luther King." Prof. Gibson said that each of us must con­duct a "personal boycott" - we must simply refuse to tolerate racial slurs and prejudices, regardless of whether they are emanating from teacher, parent, friend , or other. This simple action can be as minor as a disapproving frown or simply walking away. We needn·t march in parades, deliver speeches, or carry signs. This will admittedly be a small action, but remember that it was the simple action of one woman, Mrs. Rose Parks of Montgomery, Alabama, which began the whole civil rights movement - she quietly said "no" when asked to relinquish her bus seat to a white man in 1955.

Gorden Parks, a Negro photographer for LIFE magazine, said : " During one wintry night years ago, I soug ht shelter in a hotel in upstate New York . The desk clerk ignored me when I asked for a room and pushed the register toward a white youth who stood just behind me. "But this man was before me .. the young man explained. "We don't take Negroes in this hotel," came the clerk·s answer. "Then I wouldn·t stay here either," said the young man, after which he turned, shoved his guitar case beneath his arm and, without a word, went back out into the cold. If a hotel refused me today, would you do what that boy did?"

Mock Election - May 7th

A student senate committee will conduct a mock election on Tuesday, May 7th, ln which students will have an opportunity to express their prefer­ences in the presidential race and their wishes concerning the course of the Vietnamese war. The ballot used will be identical to the ones used in "Choice 68" throughout the nation, and the results will then be compared with the national outcome. Be sure to vote in the lobby May 7th!

Correspondences: Dear Editor:

I have been a student - off and on - at the Lima Campus of the Ohio State University ever since it was organized ; lam aware o f its trengths as well as its weaknesses. I completed three quarters when the branch was located at Lima Senior High School , and when I finish the current quarter, l will have completed four quarters at our own campus. lam proud of our school but. ..

One of the favorite subjects that come up during "bull sessions .. is "what does the Lima Branch need most?" and the answers are many and varied. Some students would like a bigger and better selection of food in the machines in the Commons. Others want more social activities. Most students would appreciate it if the tuition would stop escalating ! Ditto for textbooks too! But. the most obvious shortcoming is the limited selection of courses which are available at the Lima Campus.

Doing re earch on the latter subject, I got out of my files a copy of the course schedule for the Spring quarter of 1966. I ascertained tha t 29 subjects were available that had a total of 72 classes. If you will remember, it was the Spring quarter of 1966 which wa not only the last at Senior Hig h - but also the time when the building was a multi-purpo e school.

To refresh your memory, Central Junior High School burned down in February of 1966. Those students were re-located at Senior High. Thus, the building did triple duty! Senior high students used it during mornings, junior high students used it during afternoons, a nd O.S.U. students used it during evening .

While this arrangement made fullest u e o f the building, serious problems were created which sociologists will have to resolve befo re schools can be used on a full-time basi . But getting back to my origina l ubjec t, after the Lima Branch had its own building on its own campus. the expected increase in course selection did not materialize.

Consulting a Master Schedule for the Spring quarter , the Lima Campus (in its second year) offer only 31 subjec ts with a to tal o f 99 classes. Simple arithmetic will prove this to be just two more subjec ts than were offered at over­crowded Senior High, with 27 additional cla ses.

What courses does the Lima Campus need ? Personally, 1 would like courses in : Astronomy, Journalism , Numismatics, Philatelies, Ornithology -and the Typographic Arts. Sincerely, LeRoy Burnette, Soph . Commerce School of Social Work

Leaders of Our Country Speak "I'd take them (flag burners) 200 miles o ut o n the ocean . tie an ancho r

around their necks, throw them overboard and let them swim to any country whose flag they can respect. ··

--Rep. James Haley (D. - Fla .)

"If the U.S. declared war, it could set up concentratio n camps fo r people who are delaying the war. A declaration of war would bring peaceniks under sedition laws. Then, if they persisted in the ir ac tion, the Justice Dept . could mo ve them to concentratio n camps and leave them for the duratio n of the war.··

Dallas !UPI)

Member of the House Armed Services Committee demanded today that the Justice Dept. disregard the 1st Amendment right of free speech and prose­cute those who urged young men to defy the draft law.

"Let's forget the First Amendment," Rep. F. Edward Herbert , Jr. (0.-La.), told Ass. Attorney General Fred M. Vinson in a loud vo ice during the hearing on the draft ...

- New York Times

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A Visit to the Ohio Legislature

Every student of government learns that the actual decisions involving the use of power are made behind closed doors in committee meetings, and is thus forewarned that a visit to the legislative chambers is a disappointment. We went in anyway, even though the body was not in session that day - we could at least sniff the atmosphere of power.

As we walked through the newly refurnished dome of the capitol , we noticed that the walls are lined with huge gilt plaques bearing the names of the seven native Ohioan presidents. We pointed out to the information guide that

no space had been left.for more, and thus it would seem that the legislature lacked confidence in Gov. Rhode's aspirations, if any. "Oh no .. , he replied , "his plaque is going to go right over there: · He half-seriously indicated a small spot on one of the side chamber·s walls.

In the House chamber a well-dressed, earnest young politico was !JX)re than happy to explain the voting procedures and point out each representative·s desk, which incidentially were small, of very marred wood, and had cracked-leather chairs. A few representatives were languidly chatting, reading, or cleaning out desks. "They're almost done for now", said the guide, "they just have to bring their bodies in Wednesday to adjourn, and then they want to get their bodies out of here - it's an election year, you know:·

So it is . In the rather gandiose senate chamber, where one automatically speaks in whispers and feels an uncontrollable urge to genuflect when crossing the center aisle, we are approached immediately by one of the three old men in the chamber. After answering the standard "Where you boys from .. opener, we queried him about the affairs of state while standing between two five-foot­thick doric columns. Q : Who·s going to be president? A : .. We got to get John­son out. Nixon or Regan will do fine: · Q: Does Rhodes have a chance? A: "Of course - a good one!" (hastily) . Q : How do you feel about the war? A: "We don' t talk about it. It doesn 't much concern us here - It's not our responsibility -that's for the men in Washington:· Q: Should voting age be lowered? A : "No, we don't think so. The 18-year-old doesn't know about the responsibilities in­volved - sure, we know the argument that he·s old enough to die for his country, but that's only one of the responsibilities .'' (He didn't seem to care to elaborate) . Q: What would dollar devaluation mean to us? A: 'Tm not sure - we don' t worry about it here - maybe inflation or something." Q: What would you say is the one issue the members of this session can point to with pride? (Long sil­ence) A : " Well , (unpompously , ponderously , scratching chin), we got the teachers more money: · Q : What have you done for civil rights? (immedi­ate answer) A: " We passed _n anti -riot act." Q: Yes, but for civil rights? A: "The talk of riots is all rumor, pure rumor. Here in Columbus we built hous­ing developments, cleaned out the ghetto, and got them dispersed all over the city."

Outside, several dozen Negroes sat upon the ledges around the capitol, idly watching the people, or waiting for rides home. The squirrels which used to play on the lawn are gone - they have been removed elsewhere for their own safety.

A Sixteen Year Old Boy ....

At the present time a 16-year-old boy sits in a cell on death row 90 miles from here. He waits, like dozens of others across the nation, for a short walk down the hall to a little green room where a special chair will roast him out of this world in a few minutes. He lives on stays of execution, hoping that Ohio decides to do the inevitable and abolish capital punishment before his time runs out.

The two great arguments for capital punishment - it's use as a crime deterrent and for relieving society of the expense of feeding a criminal for the rest of his life - have fallen into disuse. Crime rates are higher than ever, and if poor little Britain can afford not to punish capitally, so can Uno Who. Also, the blissful passing of fundamentalism has replaced the 'eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth' idea with the realization that two wrongs - th.e murder and the murder of the murderer - still don 't make a right. It becomes incrt'asingly harder to do the job - in some places , several press the buttons, only one of which really turns on the 'juice' . But in the final consideration, every citizen of the society is equally guilty.

Similarly, liberal nations are abolishing military inductions, and politicians in the U.S . at least have begun to make promises to do so - an inauspicious be­ginning, but a first step neverthekss. On two fronts , kill an individual, or force him to kill others.

Ouotables And Quotes For Edification & Amusement

On the proposed travel tax, Dr. Robert Gibson, chairman of the Lima OSU Campus faculty assembly said, ··1 think our faculty and student body oppose it. It's very strange that a rich powerful country like we are is doing the same thing England had to do several years ago:·

"lt was not until Eve put on her fig leaf that babymaking started:· -Ruckminster Fuller

"We should not make criminals of young people who experiment with these drugs:· - James L. Goddard, Food and Drug Administration commissioner, suggesting that Congress reduce penalties for marijuana violators.

" It is contrary to United States tradition in that we have committed our­selves against a weaker and backward nation which has done us no harm. There has been no active aggression ." - Sen . Eugene J. McCarthy, D-Minn., contending the U.S . went to war for different rea ons than in the past.

"lf our graduate schools suffer irreparable harm and our society loses a generation of scientists, teachers, jurists, poets and philosophers, history will record this era not as that of the Great Society, but as the Sick Society ... - Rep. Theodore R. Kupferman, R-N . Y., against ending draft deferments.

.. The farm programs that the President wants to make permanent have pushed farm net income to near Depression lows. Twenty per cent of farm in­come now comes from direct subsidy payment from federal Treasury.·· - Charles Shuman, President of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

"Even if we don't save a life or prolong it , we can at least alleviate suffer­ing. That's part of a doctor's job.·· - Dr. Christiaan Barnard.

"I sometimes wonder why we Americans enjoy punishing ourselves with self-criticism. I'm not saying we've never had it so good - but that's the truth, isn't it?" - President Johnson, before the 13th International Conference of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department.

"I cannot see life without Elizabeth. She is my everything - my breath, my blood, my mind and my imagination." - Richard Burton , speaking of his wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor.

''I'd like to propose that from here on out we do studies on white people ... I don't know anybody who understands the souls of white folks better than the former domestic, or anybody who can tell more about the pathology of Con­g ress than unemployed bellhops in Washington hotels:· - Whitney Young, director of the Urban League.

"I want to be president because I think we can do better. We'll move this country and the world ." - Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

" I am the only chap in Southeast Asia who is not on the American payroll , .. -Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. of the Republic of Singapore.

Congratulations Mary Mrs. Melvin D. Wilkins, a senior at the Lima Campus, has been chosen as

the winner of the annual Gertrude Lucille Robinson Memorial Award. The award is given to the best female writer at The Ohio State University in honor of Miss Robinson, a former member of the OSU English Department. A S.50.00 cash prize is included with the award.

Mary has been attending the Lima Campus for the past eight years working towards her bachelor degree in elementary education. She won the award for her poetry writings, the winning poem being "Poverty of Spirit... Mary is the wife of Melvin D. Wilkins, 1643 Breese Road, Lima. She is the mother of one son, Mark.

A Drive-in Mortuary American technology has triumphed again. TIME magazine recently re­

ported the opening of the nation's first drive-in mortuary. The bodies are tilted up at an angle, facing outward through large plate glass windows. Viewers can visit at any time of night, since the corpse is bathed in floodlights all night long. Also, the guest register extends outward on an arm , something like the food trays at a drive-in restaurant, so that the mourner in a hurry can conveniently sign the register at his left window while glancing at the cadaver through the right.

Psychologists tell us that we are a nation on wheels - what can we expect for the future? For Catholics, A 'Toot and Telr confessional is surely in the offing. Perhaps Dr. Reed can arrange to show filmed lectures at the Spring­brook Drive-In , thus eliminating the awful necessity for a student to answer questions in class.

Pa e4

Campus Capers Mr. Wm. Vest, advisor to the

DEME staff has issued recently a statement to all students. He says that everyone should hold on to those old copies of the DEME. Said news­papers may one day become museum pieces in the archives of our school history. In fact, so treasured are these old newspapers that they are already being used as contest prizes among other things.

Lima campus students seem to be rebelling against the gross conditions of the Commons food machines, where at the beginning of Spring quarter one girl found a sign on her sandwich package that dated her tunafish sandwich to sometime in February ..... A number of students cheered Denny Moore several weeks ago as he was seen vigorously and dynamically throwing away the al­ways-present accumulation of excess ice that crowds the soft drink ma­chine.

"Who is Student Senate president this week?'·, was· the question asked at the last senate meeting. l t seems that no one in the midst of the recent resignations quite knows. Interest­ingly enough, the senate has had three presidential turn-overs in the time span of three weeks! The current president is Mark Basinger, but there may still be more in the offing. Linda Channing says the next step is an assassination!

"Do I really look that bad?" asked Toni Hover just before she fainted after having donated blood. "Join the Club" reassured Jim King and a number of other not-so-hearty although stout-hearted blood donors .

It certainly appears that the year­book staff has succeeded in its attempt to have organizational pic­tures that would be different from the typical group poses. The French Club members were at their peak in all new made-in-Paris berets ...... . The DEME staff weathered insults and jeers from nearby workers at the Phase II site where they were photographically portrayed giving a boost to the construction workers. From the looks of the recent progress on the building, they can use every bit of help we can give.

The fetish of the year goes to Mike Wurst, who portions out spaghetti in the most unlikely places, to wit, Lenora Pohl's slippers.

Mr. Reed informs us that the build­ing will be converted to air condition­ing as of today.

Diane Kroske, a member of the office staff at the Lima Campus will be kept busy on the next three con­secutive Saturdays fullfilling duties as a slave for Tom Jewell , John Stevens, and Dennis Barber. Diana: was purchased at the recent slave­auction in a triple agreement of the

April 30, 1968

Francais Und Espanol The Lima Campus Language clubs are in the full swing of Spring Quarter. The French Club members are mak­ing artistic impressions of 0-Artag­non, the main character of a book they read last 4uarter. These will probably be used for their May Week booth which is also in the making. The French club is planning to fea­ture a ventrilo4uist at their booth. In addition the French Club has pur­chased berets for all members. These

will be worn during May Week festi­vities, and for other special occasions.

The Spanish club had a meeting on April 11 at which time Toni Hover showed her slides of Europe. They are planning to buy membership pins. The Spanish Club May Week booth will probably be a carry-over from ideas gained during the fiesta, but as of now it remain a Spanish Club secret.

Cast for The Bald Soprano Selected

(Front R ow) Weyne Keufmen, R u by W ehers, Berb Preter, Vicki Certmell. (Beck Row ) Gary C ook, Tom .Jewell.

Thespians To Perform on Patio Charles Rodgers, professor of

speech, will direct the forthcoming production of The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco. The avant-garde play will be presented on the patio at 8:00 p.m. , May 21st, in conjunction with the Festival of the Arts week .

The cast is as follows: Mr. Smith, Gary Cook; Mrs. Smith, Ruby Walters; Mr. Martin, Tom Jewell; Mrs. Martin, Barb Prater; Mary the maid, Vicki Cartmell; Fire Chief, Wayne Kaufmann.

Circle K - Kiwanis Sponsored Service Club

In its second year, Circle K is com­posed of fifteen young men, repre­senting Lima and contigious counties. These men have volunteered their services to Health Drives, Salvation Army kettle campaigns, and univer­sity projects for the social better­ment of student groups.

Officers of Circle K include: Richard Frankhouser, President (Lafayette)

three boys. She has already partially fulfilled her duties by driving Tom and other passengers on a special trip to Columbus. Tasks in store for her include a car-wash and possibly a wax-job. Good luck, Diane!

It is obvious that a non-ping-pong player painted the ping-pong table in the Pit with ultra-slick paint. Ping­pong enthusiasts are complaining because the balls go skidding off the table when they bounce.

Mark Basinger, Vice President (Pandora) Charles Lepley, Secretary (Lima) Glenn Davidson , Treasurer (Lima) James Seitz, College Advisor J. McLean Reed, Kiwanis Chairman

Golf Schedule Announced

Mr. Pat Ewing, Professor of Math and Lima Campus Golf Coach, has announced the Lima Campus Golf Team Match Contests for this season:

Apr. 26 - Tiffin - Home I :OOP.M. May 3 - Newark - Away I :OOP.M. May 4 - Middletown (Miami U.)

Away IO:OOA.M .

May 10 - Middletown (Miami U.) Home I :OOP .M.

May 17 - Tiffin - Away I :OOP.M. May 18 - Tournament at Newark May 24 - Newark - Home 1 :OOP.M.

All home meets will be held at Hawthorne Hills Country Club.

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AA X Selects May Royalty Candidates

Mickie Crawford and Dennis McOwen were nominated for May Queen and May King by the Alpha Lambda Chi sorority at their meet­ing April 21. The campaign com­mittee for the candidates includes Ann Schroeder, Mary Schroeder and Kathy Carnes, with Diana McClain and Sandy Crawford as co-chairman.

During the May Week festivities the sorority plans a skill-testin g Checker Throw for the carnival on Monday and another game for the Contest Day. The gi rls also plan to participate in the softball and volleyball games.

At a recent meeting the election of officers was held again, due to a change in the sorority's constitution. Mickie Crawford was elected pre­sident: Ann Bryan , vice president: Linda · Channing, secretary; Janis McBride, treasurer; Juanita Morti­mer, publicity chairman, Maureen Hardin was selected as "Sister of the Quarter·· for her outstanding participation and service during the Winter Quarter.

Last 4uarter the orority began to tutor several children at the Chil­dren·s Home on Monday evening. this will continue this quarter. A car wash for a Saturday in May is being planned. Also on their agenda is one of Alpha Lambda Chi·s famous slumber parties. This is to be held May 4 with the sorority meeting pre­ceding it.

Tennis Team Reorganized for Spring

The Lima Campus Tennis Team has reorganized for the spring with Ken Bertholomey as coach. Five games have now been set. Home games will be played at the Lima Stadium courts at noon with the exception of Saturday games which will be played at 11 :00 A.M: The planned schedule will be:

May 3-Away-Newark May 4 -Away- Mansfield May 18- Away- Newark

(Tournament) May 24 - Home - Newark May 25 - Home - Mansfield

O.S.U.-Lima

May Week In

The Spotlight!

The week of May 6-11 will be very pecial to the students of the Lima

OSU Campus. On every day of thi week activitie , games, contests, and dances will be held in celebration of the traditional May Week.

Monday, May 6 has been desig­nated as "Carnival Day··. Through­out the day each club on the campus will operate a booth in the pit. A variety of games and contests will be sponsored and prizes will be award­ed.

On Monday, preliminary voting for the May King and Queen will begin. The election will be sponsored by the student senate. Also a volley ball game consisting of teams from various student organization will be held, along with a College Bowl contest.

On Wednesday nigh t, beginning at 7:00 there will be a dance held in the pit sponsored by the Deme and Silva taffs. The dance will have a coffee-house theme and art films will be shown along with a poetry reading in the commons. There will be no ad­mission charge for the dance.

There will be no classes held on Thursday until 5:00. The Letter­man ·s Club will sponsor a car rally from 9 A.M. until I A.M. Additional contests such as a tug-of-war and a scavenger hunt will be held from I :30 until 5:00. The Council of Presi­dents will hold a barbe4ue from 5:00 uncil 6:30. At 9:00 there will be a dance featuring a battle of the bands.

The student faculty baseball game will be held at 4:00 Friday at Faurot Park.

The final highlights of May Week will be Saturday night at the May dance. The announcement of the May king and 4ueen will be made and students will dance to the orchestra of Tommy Ross. The student senate will sponser the dance which will be held at the Scot's Inn.

April 30, 1968

MAY WEEK: SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

MONDAY - Carnival Day-with contests in the pit. VolleybaU Registration.

TUESDAY - Student-Faculty Softball Game - 4:00 (Faurot Park). College Bowl - ~:00.

WEDNESDAY - Coffee House-Occurence sponsored by Deme and Silva staffs - 7:00 (No charge).

THURSDAY - No classes until 5:00. Car Rally 9 A.M. - 1 P.M. Contests 1:30 - 5:00 P.M. Barbeque -5:00 - 6:30 P.M. Movie - "The Pumpkin Eater" -6:30. Battle of the Bands - 9:00.

FRIDAY - Volleyball Game - 4:00.

SATURDAY - May Dance - Scott's Inn.

Time for Mending Welts.

FINE ARTS FESTIVAL: SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

May 14-12 noon - Creative writing Awards - Room 124. May 17 -12 noon -Art and photography Awards - Room

124. May 20 - Art show of creations by Leonel Congora. May 21 - 8:00 P.M. - Choir and ensemble concert featur­

ing the OSU School of Music brass quintet, and production of Ionesco s "The Bald Soprano".

May 23 - 12 noon - Multi-Media show involving elec­tronic music, movies, projected slides, oscillo­scope, stroboscobic lights presented by U.S.C.O., an organization from New York City consisting of poets, artists, and multi-media engineers.

May 26 - 7:30 P.M. - Memorial Hall. Choir Concert with the Mansfield OSU Choir in joint concert.

May 27 - 12 noon - Presentation by Jonas Mekas, per­haps the best known American "Underground" film producer.

May 28 - 8:00 P.M. - The Lima Symphony Orchestra will present chamber music on the patio outside the commons. The major works are Bach's Bran­denberg concerts No. 4 and the early Italian comic opera, "La serva padrona" (The Maid as Mistress.)

May 29 - 12 noon - Presentation of Weejee, famous for his still and motion picture photography and originator of the Naked City.

There will be an art show from May 20-31 of creations by Leonel Congora.

Choir to Present

Spring Concerts

On May 21 the Lima Campus Choir will present a Spring concert directed by Mr. Woodford Zimmerman. A brass ensemble consisting of mem­bers of the Lima Symphony orchestra will accompany the choir as they sing "To Saint Cecelia", by Norman Delio Joio. Also the University Singers, a select group from the choir, will perform other selections. The University Singers consist of so­pranos; Judy Diehl, Lynda Justus, Pat Myers, Mary Kay Schroeder, Carolyn Styer, Linda Wilson, Winnie Pickering, and Sandy Crawford; altoes; Pam Cockrell, Carol Work­man, Kathy King, Kay Winebrenner, and Martha Wright; tenors: Dennis Gatchel, John Nichelson, Melvin Proctor, Jim Ball, and Dan Fleming: basses; Aaron Good.man, Allen Hall, Steve Kindle, Chris Miller, and Randall Stotts. The concert will be held on the patio outside the com­mons. (weather permitting) There will be no charge and the public is invited.

The Lima Campus Choir will hold a joint concert with the Mansfield OSU Campus Choir in Memorial Hall on May 26 at 7:30 P .M. The choirs will be accompanied by mem­bers of the Lima Symphony Orches­tra. Dr. Richard Wink, director of the Mansfield choir will direct the two choirs in presenting "Requiem" by Gabriel Faure. Mr. Zimmerman will direct the combined choirs in presenting selections from Randell Thompson's "Frostiana". These will consist of poems by Robert Frost set to music. Mr. Zimmerman will also direct a small group consisting of members of Lima's University singers and members of Mansfield's Chamber Singing group in presenting Renaissance madrigals by Pershetti and Kodaly.

On April 22 the choir elected Pam Neumier and Wayne Kaufman as candidates for May queen and king.

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Arnold and Foster Review Symposium

The Cultural Seminar last quarter, according to two faculty members involved with its presentation , re­presented a chance for "intellectual growth" and "stimulation··. Both Mr. Eric Arnold of the Lima OSU History Department, and Mr. Thomas W. Foster, chairman of the Winter Project Committee, feel that the Symposium offered an opportunity for a cultural education for the mem­bers of the Lima Campus directed towards society.

Mr. Foster, one of the chief plan­ners of the seminar event, said that "The word education is derived from the Latin term educere which means 'to draw out.' Education should be involved , 1 believe, in the process of drawing out those diverse poten­tials of man which contribute mosr to his intellectual growth, his human­ization, and to his understanding of fellow-men.

"The Lima Campus Cultural Sym­posium represented an attempt to more adequately develop our intel­lectual and emotional awareness of human problems that accompany life in a machine-age , man 's society. Some of our symposium 'teachers' were nationally-known figures and we were students and faculty alike - all students. To me our symposium therefore represented an educational experience of the first order:·

Mr. Arnold, who along with Mr. Reinhardt , opened the symposium, stated that .. The purpose of the pro­gram is concerned in a vital way with the function of the university. 1 be­lieve that the essential functio n of this (o r anyl university is the intellec tual stimulation of all members of the com­munity. faculty. staff, and students. Such intellectual stimulation is , l believe. at the heart of education, spe­cifically education of which all of us are a part. Only through education of this so rt can each of us hope to ful­fill the obligation of leading a val­uable , meaningful life.

So much. then, fo r the general pur­pose. The particular purpose of the program as it was planned and o rgan­ized was to a ttempt to rela te, in as broad a manner as possible . purely intellectual events with ac tual every­day life. An attempt. so to speak , to equate theory be ing lea rned in the class room with problems o f our con­temporary society. By doing this, it is my hope ( and 1 am sure tha t 1 am speaking of the entire fac ulty ) that a positive and significant contribution was made to the educa tion of all mem­bers o f the university community here a t Lima:·

April 30, 1968

Dr. Gibson Announces Political Science Program

Dr. Robert Gibson, professor of Political Science here at the Lima

Campus, announced this week that a spec ial program designed to acquaint students with the problems of state and loc al government has been initiated for the remainder of the quarter.

The program will consist of both local and tate government officials speaking to the students during class hours. Those scheduled to speak thus far include: John Herbert - Treasurer of the State of Ohio W. 0 . Walker - Director, Dept. of Industrial Relations and member of Governor's cabinet - April 30, 1968 Kent McGough - Chairman of Allen County Republican Executive Com­mittee - April 19, 1968 Donald F. Sarber - County Demo­cratic Central Committee - April 24, 1968 Wm . M. McCulloch - House of Repre­sentatives - May 13, 1968 Walter White - Ohio House of Repre­sentatives - May 15, 1968 Harry Moyer - President of Lima City Council - May 8, 1968 Judge John D. Harnishfeger Allen County Court of Common Pleas -week of May 20, 1968

Dr. Gibson notes that this series of lectures will not only be informa­tive , but will also give the students an o pportunity to have direct contact

with these elected officials-an oppor­tunity that has never been avail­able to main campus students. This program is the first of its kind to be initiated by the Ohio State Uni­versity.

0 S U Dean's List The Lima Campus is proud to an­

nounce the names of fifty-five stu­dents, who have earned the honor of being on the Dean's list. Many of these students have reached this goal despite the fact that they have carried eighteen or more credit hcurs. In the future "we hope to add many more names to this list of college-oriented students. The names are as follows: Barbara Stechman, Cridersville ; Gary Overholt , Spencerville ; Linda Thompson, Lima; Richard Stepleton, Delphos; Dianna Schaad, Harrod; David Bohyer, Lima; James Liles, Lafayette; Candace Lawson, Lima; Mary Lause, Lima ; Daniel Kuck, Lima ; Juanita Wilkins, Lima ; Jack Krebs , Wapakoneta; Marsha Wert­ner, Harrod ; Kathryn McKenzie, Wapakineta ; Martha Kessler, Lima ; Jane Copeland, Wapakoneta ; Susan Reineke, St. Mary"s; Glenn Davidson , Lima; Carol Bowersock, Spencerville ; Penny Beech , Cridersville; Jean Hay, St. Mary's ; Carl Triplett , Lima ; Ste­phen Verhoff, Columbus Grove; Jane Poole, Yan Wert; Cinda Moore, Bel­lefontaine; Leonard Downey, Lima; Mary Heitmeyer, Ft. Jennings ; Judith Diehl, Lima ; Joyce Sellati, Lima ; Joanne Richardson, Harrod ; Geor­giann Art, Celina ; Patsy Ankerman , St. Mary"s; Judith Smilan, Lima; Douglas Ambroza, Lima ; Georgia Mowery, Lima ; Martha Wright, Col­umbus Grove; Gary Wilges, St. Mary's; Douglas Bogart, Wapakon­eta ; Kenneth Helmlinger, Wapak­oneta; Barbara Imber, Lima ; Max McKanna, Ft. Jennings; Dennis .Bas­sett , Lima ; Mary Baker, Lima; Henry Wyndham , Kenton; Jacqueline Poh­lable, Lima; Judith Cannon , Criders­ville; Jacqueline Kellogg, Bellefon­taine ; Larry Agler, Harrod ; Emma Whitney, Lima ; Patricia Lange, Ada ; Judith Jester, Delphos; Nancy Hum­phreys, Elida ; Mary Wilkins, Lima; Richard Cook , Alger ; Thomas Charl­ton. Lima.

Representative from OSU Dlaeater - Reeeerch Center Lecturea.

0 .S .U.-Lima

Neise Lectures Often the tendency of universities

is to go outside the realm of its own professionals when looking for speak­ers. Many students forget that their own professors are as capable as those persons who are brought from out­side to give their inspirations to events such as the Lima Campus Symposium. This is one great reason, according to Dr. Gibson 's opening remarks, that Mr. Henry Neise was asked to pre­sent the lecture, "The Artist as an Expression of Freedom in Society".

Mr. Neise quickly discouraged the students who had been drawn to the lecture by a rumor that one of the main points of this artistic expression would be free sex by saying, "Sex is important. It is here to stay. And I think all of you ought to give it serious consideration". With that statement, the free sex topic was closed, and the lecture proceeded.

The theme of the lecture was in­dividualism, a commodity which , says the speaker, is rapidly becoming extinct. The Greeks, Europeans, and the English all strived for individual­ism. It reached its epitomy about two hundred years ago, here in America, but because of the machine age­society we are living in , individualism will be gone by the year 2000.

The artist is especially interested in individualism, because through his work, an artist is symbolizing freedom and individuality. The artist is an idea-maker, proclaiming the truth through his work . Because art is ub­versive, bureaucrats hate it. The poet and the artist fight the established order and as Picasso states it, "It isn 't because he wants to be that way, he just can't help it."

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"Bleed-In" A Success

Congratulations to the 107 big­hearted people who made March 5 blood drive a success. As the drive progressed, a steady stream of people signed up, drawn almost as if by cap­illary action to this opportunity to do a good deed. Most of the first-timers arrived in nervous little clots, but left sanguine and happy, drained of any fearful anticipation they may have had previously. The fainthearted who stayed away certainly owe a rousing cheer of 'bloody good show!' to those who took time out of the normal flow of events to transfuse a little good will into the lives of others.

0.S.U .-Lima

Lomax

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field work. They first offered slavery to the Indians: you become inden­tured slaves for us and we·11 make you civilized. The first sit-down strike took place immediately.

The Puritans then arranged to im­port Europeans for slavery. They paid passage for the Europeans and in return received them as indentured slaves. But a problem arose becau e. "All whites look alike:· The slaves would work awhile and then wander off to the city and would never again be found.

Thus the people decided that the slaves would have to be, first of all, people who could swing with the Southern sun, and secondly, someone with a high degree of social visibility.

o, .. The Good Ship Jesus .. sailed to Africa, where black men sold blacks to whites as slaves.

The slaves came from various tribes so that they had no communication until they learned English. The first time they worshipped was at the foot of the white man·s God. Thus the slaves became complete and total Americans in all their cultural attri­butes. Less than five percent of to­day· egroes are pure Africans. Through intermingling with their owners, and others, they have become mixed. As Mr. Lomax said, "Lomax is Dutch: not Swahili.'' The attitude toward intermarriage comes from the white man's fear that the Negro will now do what the white man has been doing for three hundred years.

The negroes having been culturally oriented were then called "Niggers:· After their emancipation. they were promised forty acres and a mule, which Lomax·s family never got. And so we see the ideas of today coming to the fr nt.

First the Negroes were told to go to school in order to be accepted. So they massed to school. Then we see people such as Dr. Martin Luther King with his doctorate at age 23. who "still couldn't go to the bathroom:·

The is ues went to court. In 1954 the Supreme Court called for integra­tion . Yet even today, less than nine percent of southern children attend integrated schools.

The third step was to get religion. But the Negro came to Jesus. and still wasn·t accepted.

How then could the Negro believe the white man who didn't even res­pect his own ideals of education, nor obey his own laws, or listen to his own God'? Thus the Negro took to the street in demonstrations. They were then called communists. Lomax call­ed this the crowning insult. He cer­tainly didn 't need a man from Russia to tell him that someone's foot was on his neck.

April 30, 1968

The present phase of the Negro Re­volt finds many Negroes rendered in­capable of present society. But if the Negroes are violent it is because we taught them. It is the theology of Americanism. We are mandated by God to run all over the world to free others. That is why we are in Viet­nam . But, if we wanted to free the Vietnamese, why didn't we rebel when the French first colonized Yiet­Nam at the end of the war? By this we created Ho Chi Minh.

Lomax predicts more violence. He feels that more jobs must be provided, and that ultimately a guaranteed annual wage must be provided. He finally calls on young people to par­ticipate in a new American ethic and on Negroes in particular to not drop out but drop in. Lomax sees the Negro as the conscience of the re­public : "We, and we alone, are run­ning down the street waving the con­stitution saying 'Look, dig this groovy document! Look how great this is! .. Lomax say that while everybody else is worrying about their daughters and their property values, the Negro is proclaiming: '"Look! We've got the greatest thing dreamt by man! We must make it come true! ..

Leveque

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the effects of '" morning glory seeds ... The instructions are as follows: grind a package of these seeds, put two tablespoons of the grounds in 1/ 4 cup of warm water, soak for 1/2 hour, and eat this mixture on an empty sto­mach . The effects should last about sixteen hours. A tablespoon of nut­meg can also create some rather un­usual experiences. The medicine cabinet especially holds a small store· house of drugs. Drinking a large amount of cough medicine containing codeine to experience pleasure is not uncommon among the young genera­tion of today.

According to Dr. Leveque, statis­tics show that in the United States alone there are five million alcoholics, 1/2 million narcotics, and more than 50,000 "acid heads.. (LSD users). LSD. which can be purchased for three to five dollars, causes a tempor­ary, mental derangement in thirty minutes for as long as eight to ten hours . A high dose of LSD contains JOO micrograms, which is equivaleni in size to 1/ 1000 of an aspirin divided into a third . For a person bordering on psychosis, LSD causes instant in­sanity, and furthermore these people are the most common users. Time seems to stand still for the LSD user and ~he simplest of objects take on a new, sudden beauty. In other words, the LSD experience could be a '.'love-

Neise (Cont'd from Page 6)

Today the artist is unable to shock the bureaucrat. If he has shocking ideas, he is immediately smothered by the run of cocktail parties and society functions , so that the ar:ist can't be revolutionary. It must be an ex­tremely strong person to resist the force of a big annual salary, and a re­spected place in the eye of society. One example, Mr. Neise used was Mitch Miller, who at one time was the greatest oboe player in America, but who sold out for his big home and the rich glamour of money received in return for his two-bit television show.

Society today refuses the real in­dividual. It ostracizes these people by putting them up against the hard­est possible barrier: loneliness. Big business promotes the creator into harmless oblivion, by well-paid jobs. Government numbers each indivi­dual and files them into their deck of playing cards for further classifica­tion. Thus we see society, big busi­ness, and government combining to destroy the individual.

Government lies to us every day. And in an aside, Mr. Neise said, "l would like to say that l think a lot of people lie to us. I think a lot of peo­ple cop out on the truth , including some of the speakers that we've had in this winter symposium ... Mr. Neise felt that the Rabbi of a previous panel discussion had "copped out'', and that the lecturer on drugs had also lied.

Establishment makes the student conform, and this conformity is the most hardening kind of influence. Trying to go against it can destroy as it has destroyed great people, such as Yan Gogh and Gauguin.

Mr. Neise aimed his last words to the students, in the form of a ques­tion and a challenge. Although the student is quelled by the pre-set limits of conformity will he break away from the womb of society to be his own in­dividual person'?

making .. experience with objects in our own environment.

Dr. Leveque in the course of his lecture made a statement which most of the students had not considered before this time. Hallucinations are sensory experiences having no stimu­lus in the outside world ; therefore, LSD does not cause hallucinations as most people believe. LSD users are in truth losers. They think they are turning themselves on, when in reality they are turning themselves off. This colorless, tasteless, and odorless substance has been proven helpful in the treatment of mental problems, but until more is learned about LSD, the use of it has been dis­couraged.

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Say No

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not let the machines run us . Viereck told the students that they are mem­bers of a fortunate minority, living in relative calm, simplicity, and isola­tion here at the Lima Campus. Turn­ing seer for a moment, he predicted that the inner universe of mens' minds will be the area of concentrated study in the future, whereas the material world has heretofore been the chief site of research and discoveries.

An interesting and very true point was his observation that creativity has not followed leisure, living stan­dards, and liberty as everyone had expected. However, some of Yiereck's theses are questionable -one might argue that the great crea­tive men of the past have been cos­mopolitan rather than provincial in outlook, concerning themselves with timeless issues affecting all men, though the form in which they ex­pressed their ideas may have reflect­ed local color. Similarly, he calls for emotionalism, sentimentality, and un­specialization, overlooking the fact that his transportation to Lima, his _ speaker's microphone (however much malfunctioning) and all other devices which make his existence more com­fortable were created by highly spe­cialized, reasoning minds. Certainly machines bring regimentation, but Viereck, despite disclaimers of being a Luddite (machine-hater) seems to have an almost irrational mistrust of mechanical devices, probably the re­sult of overestimating their complex­ity. He almost gives the machine a mind of its own - perhaps he is the victim of science fictionalists who foresee an imminent takeover by these servants of man, a conspiracy of the tools of comfort - a 'robot re­volt', which is of course simply im­possible .... simply impossible .... simply impossible ....

One thing is certain - the world would be a much drearier place if we no longer had a man who becomes so incensed over privacy-invading tele­phone commercials that he will lie awake fuming until 3:00 A.M .. wait­ing for the opportune moment to a­rouse the offensive pillar of industry from his bed and chastise him severely for contributing to ·the problems of a creative artist in the machine age.

Reminder: May Dance tickets

available from Student Senate members:

$3/couple

Page8 April 30 , 1968 O.S.U .-Lima

Joseph Firszt, Lima Symphony Orchestra Director, Interviewed The new music director and conductor of the Lima Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Firszt, spent the first eight years of his

life in Poland. There he studied under his grandfather, the patriarch of a family of musicians. After achieving his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music he moved on to advanced study at Boston University. He has appeared as violinist and violist with many symphony orchestras, chamber and opera groups as well as performing as soloi st both here and abroad. He comes to Lima from Berea, Kentucky where he was associate professor of music at Berea College as well as the music director of the Cumberland Chamber Orchestra and the Berea Civic Orchestra. A cosmopolitan performer, Mr. Firszt has travel­ed and toured widely; he speaks German , Polish, Czech, Russian - and recently, while acting as a guest conductor in Mexico, he delivered a series of lectures in Spanish in the humanities.

As director of the Lexington Little Symphony, Mr. Firszt toured Kentucky presenting concerts to more than 60,000 young people. The selection of a mid-afternoon hour for the convenience of youngsters in attending performances of the Lima Sym­phony Orchestra - this choice is indicative of Mr. Firszt's concern that "live" music be available to them. He disavows, however,

any membership in the "goosepimple school" of music appreciation . "Too often", he declares , "this approach fosters music de­preciation": there are those who would focus a child's response toward specific passages (which have been well defined by the professional "appreciator") in a musical composition. Mr. Firszt believes that this approach tends to discourage a child from re­garding the intervening passages, as anything but mere introduction to the ensuing "goosepimple phrase" promised by the guid­ing "appreciator" as being just "around the next musical corner". Rather, the child should be encouraged to hear all music as music; he should be permitted to perceive his own "beacons" in any composition so that he may then transfer his own concepts of pattern and style and content to other works of music by the same composer as well as , indeed , to all music; with practice, he may even learn to extend his experience in music to other forms of art: this is honest and significant "appreciation."

Mr. Firszt believes that the public is now more receptive and responsive to avante-garde music than it has been in the past ; he attributes this change in attitude to the experimental music which unobtrusively becomes familiar to an audience exposed each day to background scores played on television and in films and plays. He has, himself, composed scores for university produc­tions of Truman Capote's The Grass Harp, William Saroyan's "The Cave Dwellers" , and for Samuel Beckett's "Everyman", play without words, "Pantomime." The taped recordings of these scores constitute an accessible library from which other universities are encouraged to borrow for use in their presentations of these plays. To enlarge this library with even more recordings of con­temporary music as performed by the Lima Symphony Orchestra - this is one of Mr. Firszt's projects to which he brings not only

his experience but his enthusiasm for making such music freely available. Certainly his programming of Lima and area concerts offers evidence of his interest in modern music; included in the October concert was Stravinsky's "Suite No. 2" - the pop concert of December 3 will offer the expressionistic "Circus Overture" by Ernst Toch - while the March 17 program will include Rolf Lieberman's "Concerto for Jazzy Band and Symphony Orchestra." This concerto is probably the first successful attempt at "third stream music" - a fusion of the jazz combo with the symphony orchestra. (Devotees of Stockhausen may notice that he is not a part of the current schedule, since he is now composing almost exclusively electronic music. Mr. Firszt prefers that an audience

become familiar with contemporary music through a live orchestra's performance. Later in the season Mr. Firszt will conduct

at Ohio Northern University a work which employs a tape recorder as a performing instrument with the orchestra - and on the Lima Campus of Ohio State University he will direct a production of Stravinsky's "L'histoire du Soldat." Mr. Firszt believes that

the audience has an obligation to not only the composer, but to itself, as well , to listen receptively and to respond with honesty to contemporary music through not single but repeated hearings.

"There is something which greatly disturbs me in my conversations with some of today's younger people. There seems to be a kind of scorn for tradition; I think this is a pity and a loss", declares Mr. Firszt. This desire to preserve a tradition was shown in Mr. Firszt's decision to dedicate the Purcell - Reigger Canon on a Ground Bass of his initial concert in Lima to the memory of the late violinist, Mischa Elman. While Mr. Firszt had studied under this extraordinary artist at the Tanglewood Music Festival , his motive for this dedication extends more deeply to his strong belief that the roots of one's musical heritage ought to be pre­served. All musicians who perform today owe a debt of gratitude to those of superior accomplishment in the concert field as well as to the virtuosi who give so generously of their talents as instructors in master classes. Mr. Firszt decries the current tendency to forget a performer or a teacher when he retires from professional life or when he dies. He feels that each student is morally obliged to acknowledge himself a link in the chain of the "violin tradition" -. or "the woodwind tradition" - or " the piano tradi­tion" - and to remember and honour always those artists of the past.