SD College of the Atlantic 1975-1976 Much as we would like to, we can no longer prepare students for life in "tomorrow's world". We can barely conceive of tomorrow's world. With the increasing pace of social and technological change, we can hope only to prepare students to recognize the nature of change and to acquire the skills and attitudes which will enable them to deal coura- geously and responsibly with the problems associated with change. An examination of ecological problems - the interrelationship of man and environment - has been chosen as the core of the curriculum not only because of the urgency of these problems (which makes them "relevant" in the narrow sense), but because their very complexities pro- vide the means for developing habits of thought, action and feeling necessary for coping with a changing world. Problems in human ecology require perspectives difficult to acquire within the confines of traditional academic and professional specialization. Parts need to be continually related to wholes. Analysis and synthesis be- come alternating emphases in a single continuing learning experience. The aim of this kind of education is not the acquisition of a particular body of knowledge by itself, but - as Alfred North Whitehead expressed it - "the acquisition of the art of utilization of knowledge." 1 Profile A brief view: The college, in its fourth year of classes, was char- tered in 1969, and opened in 1972. The selected student body has approximately 90 men and women with 75 on campus. The faculty has 8 full-time, 7 half-time and 5 part- time members. The library numbers 9,000 new volumes plus over 100 periodicals. Classrooms, laboratories, workshops and offices occupy a 20-acre shoreline estate, bordering Acadia National Park. The innovative curriculum stresses problem- oriented, interdisciplinary programs and courses. Students, faculty, and administration share in col- lege government. A College of Human Ecology stresses the ideas of community, personal responsibility, and social respon- siveness in the pursuit of academic goals and hu- manistic ideals. Programs are offered in: Social and Environmental Design and Planning, Human Perspectives, and En- vironmental Sciences. The college is a candidate for accreditation with the New England Association of Schools and Col- leges. The college's mailing address is: College of the Atlantic Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 Telephone: 207/288-5015 2 3 Introduction a broad range of issues, The other is the world of We invite you to share most of which are shared social institutions and arti- this view of College of with the world-wide en- facts he builds for himself, the Atlantic in its fourth vironmental movement. using his tools and en- year of operation, a view The opening statement in gines, his science and his of a slice of time in what "Only One Earth", a report dreams to fashion an we expect will be a con- commissioned by the environment obedient to tinuing process of change Secretary-General of the human purpose and and development. United Nation's Confer- direction. The college offers a lib- ence on the Human En- eral education which is vironment, and CO- Through the study of broadly based but is authored by Barbara Human Ecology, the inter- focussed on a central Ward and former college relationship and interde- theme, the study of Hu- trustee and Nobel Prize pendence of man and his man Ecology. The innova- winner Rene Dubos, sum- environment, we aim to tive curriculum is com- marizes these most prepare students to deal posed of both theoretical clearly. with these problems. Our studies and consideration curriculum (the total of relevant problems. Our "Man inhabits two range of courses, events aims are idealistic and worlds. One is the natural and activities organized contemplative but we world of plants and ani- by the college) is fo- consider the practical mals, of soils and airs and cussed on this task. This concerns of the world waters which preceded brochure is designed to around us. him by billions of years introduce you to our We are concerned with and of which he is a part. efforts. 4 Location ists on the island's natural Mount Desert Island is a resources, economy, and uniquely beautiful combi- collective psyche offers nation of forests, lakes, opportunity for study mountains, and ocean, (both theoretical and about 250 miles "down- practical) in economics, east" from Boston. Con- law, political decision- nected to the mainland making, psychology, biol- by a small bridge, the is- ogy and gesthetics. land has approximately 80 miles of coastline and an area of 150 square miles. Portions of the is- land remain undevel- oped; approximately one-third is permanently protected by Acadia Na- tional Park. During the period from October to June, the is- land is uncrowded and quiet. The year-round population of about 8,000 is largely concen- trated in four towns. In the summer, the residential population doubles, and more than two million visitors flock to Bar Harbor to visit the park. The is- land's economy is domi- nated in the summer by the tourist trade and in the winter by boat-build- ing, fishing, lobstering, and the nation's largest cen- ter for the study of mam- malian genetics, the Jackson Laboratory. With its glacial lakes, climax forests, scars of the 1947 fire, mountains, and the ever-changing interface between land and sea, the island is an outdoor laboratory of vast scope and re- sources. The impact of more than 2 million tour- 5 The Campus Housing on the cam- pus itself is currently The college is housed limited. Students either in two large estates with live in a leased motel 21 acres and eleven nearby, or secure their hundred feet of shore- own lodgings in Bar line on Frenchman's Harbor or elsewhere on Bay. It is bordered on the the island. north and south by sum- mer residences and on the west by State Route 3. The center of Bar Harbor is less than a mile away to the south. Several access roads and the borders of Acadia National Park are located within a mile of the college. Four buildings house all classrooms, laboratories, offices, library, dining area, kitchens and rec- reational space. Special resources include a stu- dent-designed lounge; a darkroom, a ceramic kiln and a design studio; two greenhouses; an art gallery; and auditorium. HARDWOOD ISLAND The library consists of over 8,000 new vol- umes and 100 periodi- cals. The campus is under continuous development, and students participate in many phases of design and planning. Future building and renovation will feature energy con- servation, and use of solar energy in both new and renovated struc- tures. 6 EASTERN BAY NARROWS THOMAS ISLAND 3 HULLS COVE 3 BAR ISLAND College of the Atlantic BAR HARBOR BAY 198 BALD PORCUPINE ISLAND 233 SOMESVILLE 198 102 CADILLAC MT. 3 SAND BEACH # SEAL HARBOR BLACKWOODS 3 NORTHEAST HARBOR GREENING ISLAND SUTTON ISLAND SOUTHWEST HARBOR TREMONT ### LITTLE CRANBERRY ISLAND ## SEAWALL BAKER ISLAND GREAT CRANBERRY ISLAND BASS HARBOR BASS HARBOR LIGHT Educational dency to separate the Program study of man from the study of the natural The college's curric- world is artificial, reflect- culum is based on a con- ing the limitations of the viction that bodies of human mind rather than knowledge are interde- the realities of nature. pendent. Extreme spe- Similarly, the traditional cialization is incompat- structuring of faculty ible with an undergrad- into separate depart- uate education aimed at ments is a product of developing an under- bureaucratic needs standing of human ecol- which often ignores the ogy. The broadly based fundamental interde- interdisciplinary curric- pendence of all fields ulum may also be de- of knowledge. Synthesis, scribed as the study of integration, communi- interrelationships and a cation, and application constant movement to- are the hallmarks of the ward synthesis. The ten- curriculum. 2 8 We offer a series of interdisciplinary work- shops, courses and sem- inars, independent study, tutorials, specialized skill courses, and super- vised internships away from the college. The emphasis is on analyses of human ecology from different perspectives, and on understanding the complexities of specific social and en- vironmental problems. Acquisition of research skills and problem-solving techniques are neces- sary aspects of this type of exploration. 10 Elements of the the college's interdis- edge to the practical allows study in areas of Curriculum ciplinary workshops. world and try to bring competence repre- A term's laboratory or themselves and others sented by the faculty Over the years, stu- field work is required, as into a more harmonious but not offered in formal dents, teachers, and is an internship, at least and ecological relation- courses, thus extending trustees have devised a one term (and a maxi- ship with their social the breadth of the cur- system of degree re- mum of three) spent on and natural surroundings. riculum. quirements which reflect a job related to the Primary objectives in- During the third term of the College's commit- student's academic and clude working toward 1974-75, one-third of the ment to flexibility and long-range employment understanding the com- student body was en- openness within a clear- interests. Finally, students plexities of specific en- gaged in independent ly-defined structure. complete and present a vironmental problems, study courses ranging Successful completion of final project, a major and providing a medium from readings in educa- these requirements will piece of work that may for interaction and syner- tional philosophy to make a student eligible require as much as a gism between perspec- nuclear power questions. for the degree of Bach- full year for completion. tives and disciplines. elor of Arts in Human Upon successful com- All workshops emphasize Ecology. pletion of these re- participation in group Thirty-six credits are quirements, students problem-solving. required, normally submit their portfolios to awarded on the basis of a self-selected gradua- Independent Studies one for a term's suc- tion committee which Studies initiated by cessful participation in makes degree recom- students are an integral a course, workshop, mendations to the part of the educational or independent project. president and faculty. program offered by the Students are expected college. to complete an essay in Workshops We feel that these human ecology, dealing Workshops are a vital courses will best pre- with a specific practical part of the college's pare students for the or philosophical problem, problem-oriented cur- life long learning neces- and to participate for at riculum. In them, stu- sary in a progressive least one term in one of dents bring their knowl- society. Also, this format 11 Course Descriptions Insect Biology Steven Katona This is a self-teaching course which consists of taped lectures by Introduction to Calculus, Physics and the Mathematical Process 30 outstanding insect biologists, coordinated with a series of slides Carl Ketchum and text readings. It is available in the library and can be taken for This course will cover an introduction to calculus with a review of credit by any student who has taken Evolution and Invertebrate algebra and trigonometry and applications to physics. Basic topics Zoology. Student progress and field or laboratory work will be could include derivatives, trigonometric and exponential functions, supervised by a faculty member in the same manner as an inde- integrations and applications in the area of population growth, pendent study. This programmed course can be used on a non- velocity and acceleration, laws of motion, work and energy. The credit basis, without faculty supervision, by any student. course is designed to develop a mathematical and physical basis for other courses in physics, chemistry and biology and to intro- Introduction to Environmental Studies Steven Katona duce the participants to the process by which mathematical and This course concentrates on the mechanisms by which the ac- physical reasoning can explain aspects of natural phenomona tivities of humans have altered or threatened to alter selected as- such as ocean surface waves. pects of the natural environment and provides students with an introduction to the general principles of natural ecology. The Calculus and Physics Carl Ketchum course meets two times per week and does not have a lab. Topics This course is a continuation of "Introduction to Calculus, Physics covered include energy crisis; environmental problems of power and the Mathematical Process". Possible topics for inclusion are generation alternative energy sources; pollution: solid waste dis- vectors, kinetic and potential energy, conservation of lunar and posal; endangered species and habitats; introduced species; angular momentum, harmonic oscillations, wave motion, first and pesticides and alternative methods of pest control and the ecol- second order differential equations, partial derivatives, multiple ogy of modern warfare. Additional topics are substituted when integration and thermo-dynamics. Applications to physical proces- timely, and students are encouraged to pick topics of special ses in the environment will be made. interest for presentation in class discussions. Selected readings on The course topics will evolve around the immediate needs of the each topic will be assigned from magazines, journals, newspapers participants and will utilize lectures, problem sets, small group dis- and other sources. This course is repeated annually. cussions and exercises and laboratory work as decided by the participants. The course will meet 3 times each week, including Ecology of Natural Systems Steven Katona laboratory time. This intermediate level course serves as an orientation to modern scientific ecology. It begins with a consideration of functional re- Introduction to Oceanography Carl Ketchum lationships at the ecosystem level of integration, proceeds to the This course will introduce the basic concepts of oceanography community level, then continues through studies of population biol- to the participants. Topics to be included are the nature of sea ogy and the responses of individuals to environmental factors. water, chemical properties of the sea, ocean waves, the effect of Students will begin to develop a detailed understanding of how wind on the sea surface, oceanic circulation, and coastal ocean- natural selection operates and of the "strategies" for evolution ography. The course will meet for 3 hours each week. which are demonstrated by various organisms. This course will be Evolution Faculty useful for any students who are contemplating additional work in This course is an introduction to the theory of natural selection field biology. Students taking the course may find it helpful to have and organic evolution. By means of readings, films and lectures taken introduction to Environmental Studies, but it is not required. students will trace the development of these ideas from their ear- Students will have to use logarithms, algebra, graphical analysis liest stages up to their continuing synthesis as basic ordering prin- and simple statistics. Two class meetings per week plus one after- ciples in nature. Students should consider this course to be funda- noon of fieldwork will be required. The course will be repeated mental to any further coursework in life sciences. It will be re- annually. peated annually. There will be two formal class meetings plus a Introductory Cell Biology Susan Zell one hour discussion section each week. This course is a consideration of the basic nature of cell structure Invertebrate Zoology Steven Katona and function, providing an introduction to cell ultrastructure, bio- This survey course will introduce students to the biology of pro- chemistry and physiology, and to the functional organization of tozoans, clams, lobsters, and a great variety of other animals with- cells into higher levels of integration, namely tissues, organs, and out backbones. In addition to gaining a better understanding of organ systems. Students will find this course useful in providing an their roles in ecosystem function, students will become acquainted overview of molecular aspects of biology which are fundamental with the major stages and trends which have taken place during to an understanding of the harmful effects of environmental pol- the evolution of more complex life forms, and with the diversity of lution, malnutrition, genetic defects, and other problems. There are animal life on earth. The course involves two class meetings per no prerequisites for the course which can handle up to 15 people. week plus one afternoon of field or laboratory work. In addition to two class meetings per week, students will partici- pate in one afternoon of laboratory or discussion per week. Read- ings, which usually require about 6 hours per week, are from Scien- tific American reprints, along with selected chapters and articles 12 from other materials. Students who plan on taking additional The Nature of Human Relationships in Fiction courses in life sciences will find this course very important. Susan Lerner, William Carpenter Nature and Properties of Soils Fred Olday This course will use fiction as a basis for examining the structure This course will focus on the soil as a medium for plant growth of woman-man relationships in our time and in certain historical and its role in biogeochemical cycles. Topics to be considered in- periods. Films, plays and socio-anthropological readings will be clude soil formation and classification, physical properties of soil, considered to supplement our examination. Possible readings in soil organic matter, organisms of the soil, mineral transformations, fiction include The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The soil acidity, plant nutrients, fertilizers, suitability of soils for sewage Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoi, The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence, Middle- disposal, and soils and world food supply. Laboratory and field march by George Eliot, and To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. work will be designed to introduce techniques used to study the Modern Architecture and Environmental Design Joanne Carpenter physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils. In addition, a In this course we will explore through the works and writings of soil survey will be conducted. Prerequisites: Introductory course in Paolo Soleri, F. L. Wright, R. Buckminster Fuller, lan McHarg, Lawrence biology or chemistry. Halprin and Jane Jacobs some pertinent ideas about dwellings Biochemistry Fred Olday and communities in contemporary society. Our discussions of com- This course will explore the chemistry of life processes and the munity will range beyond just formal design questions to ethical and social questions like: what is natural to man and what is or- environmental factors which influence them. Topics to be con- sidered include: the biochemical organization of the cell: the me- ganic architecture? Can evolution tell us whether man is primarily an individual or a social organism? Can planning exist given the tabolism of compounds of biological importance - carbohydrates, need for change in the modern world? lipids, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids; biochemical ener- getics; and, the metabolism of informational macromolecules. Environmental Design II Joanne Carpenter The laboratory will stress techniques used in studying biochemical This is a sequel to Modern Architecture and Environmental De- systems. Prerequisites: Introductory course in chemistry or cell bi- sign (although the earlier course is not a prerequisite). Specifically, ology. the material covered will include new towns such as Reston, Co- Horticultural Principles Fred Olday lumbia and Brazilia, biotecture, pneumatic structures, mobile homes This introductory course in horticulture, might well be termed and other types of modular structures. Part of the course will focus "applied botany", or "scientific gardening". The object of the on mass production methods and their influence on design. course will be to impart a fundamental understanding of plant History of Maine ArchitectureJoanne Carpenter structure and function and how people have applied this knowl- The development of housing in Maine from the 17th century to edge in manipulating the plant and its environment to meet their the mid-19th century will be traced in this course. Vernacular archi- biological and aesthetic needs. Topics to be considered include: tecture (including Cape Cod and colonial homes) and interior folk classification of horticultural plants; plant structure; plant growth design (stenciling, mural painting and joinery) will be stressed. The plant development; controlling the plant environment; directing homesteading experience in Maine of the 17th, 18th and 19th plant growth: biological competition plant propagation plant centuries will be duplicated through the study of gardening and improvement; horticultural geography; horticultural crops - fruits, herbs, clothing production, development and use of household flowers, and vegetables; and, aesthetics of horticulture. tools in those periods. Finally, social customs and family relation- There will be two class meetings and one laboratory per week. ships will be studied as a context for those other considerations. Classes will be devoted to discussion of assigned readings and Prose Composition: Logic and Rhetoric Samuel Eliot, Richard Davis results of greenhouse experiments; the laboratory will be con- cerned with greenhouse experiments, dealing with such diverse This team-taught course will focus on the development of the student's ability to write clearly and persuasively, to communicate topics as mineral nutrition, properties of soils, growth regulators, ideas with accuracy, grace, and precision. Students will write one pesticides, biological control, plant propagation, and affects of paper per week, dealing with specific problems or questions raised photoperiod on flowering. in such works as The Closing Circle, Exploring New Ethics for Sur- History of Women in America Susan Lerner vival, The Population Bomb, and Wilderness and the American This course will aim to gain a clear view of the development of Mind. Two classes weekly, and regular individual conferences. women's role in American culture and fill in our sense of the past by Elements of Ceramics I Ernest McMullen adding to it a knowledge of women who have helped move the This beginning level ceramics course will include basic wheel tide of history. Readings will include histories, diaries, newspapers, throwing, hand building, glazing and kiln firing. The study of and fiction. ceramics offers a way of making contact with the world around us. An integration of the natural and human designed environment seems a vital necessity if we are to remedy the sadly mediocre quality of most of the mass produced products with which we have daily contact. It is hoped that the ceramics course will be able to help the student to move away from what Paul Goodman calls "the abdication of practical competence". 13 Elements of Ceramics II Ernest McMullen Utopian Societies William Carpenter The winter term course will be somewhat of an extension of the Man's search for the ideal life and the ideal community in which fall term. Many aspects of the art of pottery making will be ex- to live. We will discuss contemporary experiments in alternative amined in detail. Particular emphasis will be placed on the de- living using Judson Jerome's Families of Eden, Communist and velopment of form and the use of glazes. This is an aesthetic Socialist experiments in Russia and China using E. Wilson's To the course more concerned with making beautiful objects than with Finland Station and Hinton's Fan-Shen, The Study of Village in the nuts and bolts of studio pottery. China During the Revolution; ancient conceptions like More's Utopia and Plato's Republic, Nearing's The Good Life, the Israeli Advanced Ceramics Ernest McMullen solution of the Kibbutz in Bettleheim's Children of the Dream, This course in studio pottery will include practical instruction in Samuel Butler's Erewhon. At the end of the course we will use what setting up an artist-potters studio. Potters wheel building, kiln design, we know to design our own ideal society and describe it in the clay processing, machinery and craft marketing will be covered. term papers. Also may consider negative Utopias as in Voltaire's Visits to several potters studios and craft shops will be scheduled. Candide and Swift's Gulliver's Travels; solitude as Utopia in Robinson The student will develop some familiarity with tool use and welding. Crusoe. Primitive Pottery Ernest McMullen Two-dimensional Design: Drawing Roc Caivano Primitive pottery will begin by exploring various hand building The purpose of this studio course is to help people develop techniques used in Mexico, Southwest United States and Africa. visual sensitivity and express themselves on paper. Although the The ware will be fired in open pit fires and in bank kilns. Simple students are encouraged to experiment with a range of materials, wheel thrown pots will be fired using the Raku technique during the projects remain in monochrome and emphasis is placed on seeing last half of the course. and hand-eye coordination. Exercises include: blind contour, con- Western Mythology William Carpenter tour, massing, shade and shadow and free work. Subjects range A look at the shape or evolution of Western Culture from its from still-life compositions to life drawing, to field trips. The course is origins in the Near East to the present day through the study of its supplemented with lectures and slides on drawing through history central myths, the primary beliefs which unify the culture and set including works by Michelangelo and Leonardo, Rembrandt, Ho- it apart from others. Beginning with Jos. Campbell's Occidental kusai, Goya, Seurat, Ingres, Durer, Munch, Aubrey Beardsley, Van Mythology and Jesse Weston's From Ritual to Romance, we will Gogh, Matisse. Readings are given from Scribbling, Drawing and look at the Greeks by way of Plato's dialogues (Symposium, Painting by Wolfgang Grozinger. Phaedrus, Timeaus, Apology). Graves' Greek Myths, Sophocles' Three-dimensional Design: Exercises in Doing Roc Caivano Oedipus and Antigone, the Christian Middle Ages through Dante's Every material or combination of materials has a unique set of Inferno, the Renaissance through the painting and poetry of Mi- characteristics, and the materials will begin to assert their own chelangelo, and the present time through Joyce's Portrait of the formal solutions on the designer if he/she works in a sensitive and Artist as Young Man and John Updike's The Centaur. questing fashion. Design solutions evolve through the process of Colonial History and Literature William Carpenter sensitive investigation into the nature of material. The materials A survey of colonial history and literature, emphasizing the New and vocabulary are kept purposefully abstract SO that each stu- England Colonies and the quality of life to be found there in the dent can develop a personal way of seeing or sense of design. 17th and 18th centuries, as well as the history of ideas leading up to Reading material for 3-D Design will include: Architecture without the Revolution. Readings: Demos, "A Little Commonwealth", Anne Architects, Bernard Rudodsky; Design with Nature, lan McHarg Bradstreet's poetry; Edward Taylor's poetry; Mather's journals; Everyday Life in Prehistoric Times, M. and C. Quenell; History of Build- Perry Miller, The New England Mind. This is to be a student-directed ing Materials, Norman Davey; House Form and Culture, Amos seminar, and other readings will be selected by the students. Also, Rapoport; Natural Structure Robert Williams; Pictorial History of the Tom Paine, John Adams. American Indian, Oliver LaFarge; The Shelter Series, Paul Oliver; The American Experience William Carpenter Early Wooden Architecture in Norway, Christian Norbert-Schultz; Stone Shelters, Edward Allen. An examination of American History through the writings of travelers and observers, all pointing toward the quality of the Humans in Nature Richard Davis American experience, what it was and is like to live in this country, Humans in Nature is a three term introductory sequence dealing what problems and solutions have appeared to our writers. de with the subject of general relationships between the individual, Tocqueville, Democracy in America; Whitman, Democratic Vistas; society, and the environment. While all three elements are im- Adams, The Education of Henry Adams John Muir, The Acid Test; portant in each course, the first term stresses personal values and Fredric Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday; Crevecouer, Letters of an life style, the second stresses overt forms of social organization and American Farmer; Steinbeck's Travels with Charlie Eldridge Cleaver, technology, while the third stresses the public/private domain of Soul on Ice. (Books to be selected from this list.) language - with attention to its practical effects. The approach combines philosophic and social scientific material and each term may be taken separately. The third term, however, does require preparatory background. 14 Humans in Nature: Value and the Individual Richard Davis Economic Anthropology Elmer Beal, Jr. One could define ecological problem-solving as seeking solu- This course approached economics as a cultural institution de- tions for one individual or species which are not problems for signed to order the exchange of valued objects in a culture. another. This course is intended to contribute to our tools for the Further, we will take the broader view that the "objects" do not evaluative side of this process. While the class will examine various have to be material, but may also include such things as social conceptions and systems of valuation in relation to the historical position, esteem, prestige, and friendship, among others. This course evidence for their effect, the primary emphasis will be upon devel- will depend heavily on readings, which will be extensive. oping the student's individual abilities to examine, develop and Music and Motion in Cross-Cultural Perspective relate their own values to those of others. Elmer Beal, Susan Lerner We will meet once weekly for general discussion of readings and In once weekly in small intensive work groups devoted to under- this course dance and music will be explored as basic forms of standing one member's presentation of her/his own evaluative human expression, from both a personal and social perspective. perspective. This class will study cultures where dance and music are valued as integral, often ritualistic parts of daily life, as well as cultures in Humans in Nature: Elements of Social Order Richard Davis which they are more recreational. Films and recordings will be our Various social theorists have singled out either technology, econ- primary sources. Students will be encouraged to create original omy, or ideology as being the most important factor in shaping our compositions and choreography. differing styles of social life and differing environmental impacts. Planning Theory William Russell Still others have held that all three are only the adaptive respon- ses of a society to local environmental conditions. This course will explore developments in the field of planning Such considerations are essential to the long-range understand- theory. It will examine such varied areas as collective choice, gen- ing and effectiveness of our societal activities. There is little point eral decision-making, the problems of intertemporal preferences, in understanding how to deal with our environment individually if and the exchange of price/quantity information in a decentral- we are unable to render that knowledge relevant to the dynamics ized system. The course will be largely reading-discussion, with one of society. In this course we will conduct an introductory examina- major student paper. It is viewed as a theoretical prerequisite for tion of these factors, assuming all four to be significant and inter- all planning workshop courses. dependent. We will combine discussion of philosophic and special Natural Resource Problems William Russell scientific theoretic claims with consideration of some of their sup- This course/workshop will focus on the planning/legal problems portive evidence and methodology. The course will be team- in the Pleasant River watershed. Its object is the preparation of a taught by an economist anthropologist and a philosopher. document which evaluates the current and proposed land and Humans in Nature: Symbolism Richard Davis water use system in the watershed and offers our own proposals for the future. Some familiarity with legal and planning aspects of Symbolism is the bridge between the public and the private. land use is important. It not only links us to the world and society beyond immediate experience but very actively shapes that experience and thus Ornithology William Russell eventually shapes the world. The formative function of symbolism Ornithology will be organized as a multi-faceted approach to has been relatively ignored in contrast to its more familiar interpre- birds, focussing on their biological and aesthetic attributes. The tive and expressive functions. course will jointly stress field and classroom work and, hopefully, This course will be an introduction to symbolic pragmatics by will leave participants with a subjective feeling for an objective way of basic syntactic/semantic considerations. Although we will understanding of birds. Familiarity with the basic concepts of ecol- concentrate upon written and oral verbal language, we will be ogy is an important prerequisite. Each week will have a field trip interested in other symbolic activities exhibiting systematic traits. whose function will be to illustrate topics that have been discussed Students taking the course should have background preparation and to familiarize participants with the identification and natural equivalent at least to term I or Il of the sequence. history of birds in the Mount Desert area. The Maine Culture Elmer Beal, Jr. This course is intended to give an introduction to the Maine Coastal area, its people, and some of its cultural characteristics. Further, it is intended to be an introductory course in cultural an- thropology, and readings are designed to give an introduction to theoretical concepts which will place many of our observations of coastal Maine in an anthropological perspective. We will also engage in some training for field work and actual field work as well. 15 Strategies for Social Change Linda Swartz Landmark Cases in Environmental Law: An Introduction to the Legal The direction in which society evolves is determined by many Process Daniel Kane factors, including our individual lives. Environmentalists are be- Case studies of Mineral King, the Everglades, Storm King, Hell's coming increasingly aware that they cannot merely be opponents Canyon, The Wilderness System, The St. John River and The National of social forces, but must become proponents of alternatives to Environmental Policy Act will provide an introduction to the prin- what now exists. However, little attention is yet given to examin- ciples of environmental law and the nature of the judicial process. ing the effectiveness of various means of achieving preferred How it is that ethical, ecological, aesthetic, and economic issues alternatives. Neither do we examine sufficiently the ethical impli- are resolved into legal issues for decision will be explored in these cations of the use of particular means in determining the outcome actual controversies. Course materials will provide background in of efforts toward social change. the historical and ecological setting and pertinent environmental This course is intended as a preparation for those who wish to legislation in each case, following the controversy through its participate in workshops concerned with change in one level various stages at administrative and judicial levels to the present or another. We will examine interesting theories of social change, time. examine critically several case studies, and draw upon the exper- GRHUOL (Governmental Regulation of Human Use of Landscapes) ience of the faculty and students. In addition, we will become Daniel Kane acquainted with some people in Maine who are actively engaged in promoting social change, from Helen and Scott Nearing to local The reach of government through "police power", "public trust" family-planning workers. power, and eminent domain will be explored in the context of government regulation of land use from local level subdivision Anthropology of Education: Field Study Linda Swartz control and zoning through state level control of wetlands and Children learn how to live through socialization by their parents, great ponds and management of the "wildlands". The course proj- their peers, and teachers (in addition to the media). In modern ect or "lab" involves elements of legal research and preparation mass education, the cultural systems of teachers, parents and and presentation of a "moot court" case. (Intermediate) students often differ, and as a result education is not appropriate Small Enterprises: Principles and Practical Problems to the needs of the young in a changing world. Daniel Kane, Sheldon Goldthwait This course is concerned with providing a general theoretical perspective which will enable those interested in humane, ecolog- From a practical point of view, this course reviews the considera- ical education to describe the cultural systems of the school and tions in undertaking a small enterprise from bookkeeping to bank- the home, as well as providing tools for gathering data which will ruptcy. Case studies of small manufacturing enterprises in Maine serve as a basis for developing curricula and teaching metho- will be an important focus with assistance from members of the dologies appropriate to a particular cultural setting. business community. Ethnographic field work will be involved - visiting local elemen- Public Interest Law Daniel Kane tary and secondary classrooms as well as college classes in order This course will survey current topics in consumer protection and to describe interaction systems and bring out cultural assumptions consumer law, reform of business and professional practices, and underlying actions. Four methods of data-gathering will be em- topics in civil rights. Course materials will include recent decisions ployed: sociometry, content analysis, nonparticipant and partici- of the United States Supreme Court, case studies by the Maine pant observation. Readings will be taken from McDairmid and Public Interest Research Group, Bangor Combat, and Pine Tree Pratt, Teaching Prejudice, Kozol, Death at an Early Age, Spindler, Legal Assistance, reports from Ralph Nader's Center for the Study Education and Culture, Wax, Anthropological Perspectives on of Responsive Law, and readings in consumer protection and con- Education, and lanni and Storey, Cultural Relevance and Educa- sumer law. Students are encouraged to do field or research work tional Issues Prerequisite: Introductory social science course. on a current project of Maine PIRG and COA PIRG, Bangor Com- bat, or Pine Tree Legal Assistance. Cultural Ecology Linda Swartz This course will examine the human species in its various mani- festations around the globe. Concern will be with understanding how different peoples deal with the questions of survival and per- sonal fulfillment and attempt to identify functional and dysfunc- tional aspects of cultural systems as they evolve. All this is intended to provide a basis for understanding our own culture(s) and for influencing its development. The term will begin by examining theories concerning the biological basis for human behavior and end by forecasting what the world will look like in the next century. Authors whose works will be of importance include Clifford Geertz, Gregory Bateson, Stafford Beer, Marvin Harris, Margaret Mead. The class will visit several different cultural settings, from scientific laboratories to pizza parlors. 16 Programs of Emphasis Within the framework of studies in Human Ecol- ogy, the college is devel- oping three inter-related programs. These programs, which are philosophically and functionally interde- pendent, should not be regarded as "majors" in the traditional sense; rather, they provide or- ganizational guidelines which students can use to help define their goals and methodologies within the broad area of Human Ecology. Social and Environmen- tal Design and Planning fo- cuses on efforts to create alternative patterns for living which meet human needs in a manner that is both mutually supportive and compatible with the delicate complexities of our non-human environ- ment. To date, the devel- opment of this program has focussed on social change, alternative ener- 17 gy systems (solar and wind power), design and construction, site-research, land use problems, and aspects of coastal Maine culture. Human Perspectives in- quires into the nature, qualities and expressions of humanness. Here we try to comprehend the intellectual, emotional, and physiological aspects of individual and group be- havior. We also try to un- derstand and learn from the perceptions of other individuals and cultures, in order to discover more harmonious relationships The Davis house was designed by for ourselves. Particular Ernest McMullen and built by people attention has been paid in the Environmental Design Program. to the philosophical and It is a demonstration model of low ethical implications of en- cost, alternative energy housing which vironmental decision- makes use of two windmills, a solar heating system, a small wood stove making, communication and heavy insulation. skills, gestalt psychology, physiology, and literature. Environmental Sciences brings together the bio- logical and physical sciences in a considera- tion of the relations be- tween natural systems ticular attention is given to marine biology and to the ecosystems of eastern and coastal Maine. Other significant aspects of the program include basic chemical and horti- cultural principles, water quality analysis, cell biology and vertebrate anatomy, and marine mammalogy. 18 Experimental kilns such as this one were built by students in the Ethno- ceramics course taught by an anthropologist and ceramicist in the spring term, 1975. The college garden is a focus of academic study and household interests in cooking and dining. The science of horticulture is studied and applied with an emphasis on organic methods. Visiting professor in the fall of 1974, Dr. Donald Aitken devel- oped the program in environ- mental studies, one of the first of its kind, at San Jose State University in California. 20 Faculty Roc Caivano Roc Caivano joined the college in 1974 with a full-time appointment as teacher and resident architect. He earned his B.A. in Art and Architec- ture from Dartmouth College and Master of Architecture from Yale University. In 1970, he rehabed an old water powered mill in Centerbrook. Connec- ticut for the home and offices of Charles Moore, architect; rebuilt small island shelters for Rev. William Sloan Coffin on Marsh Island, Maine, directing unskilled labor- Elmer Beal, Jr. ers, 1971, built offices for Elmer Beal joined the which this has to life-style Queens Legal Services college in 1973 and pres- Anthropology offered me on Northern Boulevard, ently teaches and di- the best framework in New York City, involving rects the Internship Pro- which to study this SO | ghetto kids in the con- gram. His B.A. is from entered the graduate struction; 1972, designed Bowdoin, and his M.A. program in anthropology and constructed $70,- from the University of at the University of Texas 000 ``spec" home for Texas in Anthropology. in 1968 | continue my in- Mac Hawley and the For- terest in the cultural/ ma Corp. in Steamboat | came to College of environmental relation- Springs, Colorado, re- the Atlantic after nearly ship. especially with habed the interior of a two years as executive respect to techno-eco- three story brick building director of Maine Coast nomic cultural charac- for the ``Number Nine" Heritage Trust, a position teristics. Regarding Crisis Center in New which had lured me from Maine, my interests go Haven, Connecticut, graduate school and further into the history and animated four short films back to my home, folk traditions which for Sesame Street tele- Mount Desert Island characterize the lives of vision program. on an Although | studied music the coastal people. ecological theme In at Bowdoin, my two years 1974 he came to College in Bolivia with the Peace of the Atlantic with Helen Corps settled my interest and promptly began on human organization raising a family. and the relationship 21 Joanne Carpenter William Carpenter and intuitive vision of the Joanne Carpenter William Carpenter self in intense harmo- joined the college in 1972 joined the college in 1972, nious relation to its natu- and presently has a half- and has a full-time ap- ral and human environ- time appointment. Her pointment. His B.A. is from ments B.A. was earned at the Dartmouth College and University of Massachu- his Ph.D. from the Univer- setts in American History. sity of Minnesota in She has studied painting Literature and Fine Arts. at the Minneapolis Art The humanities are an Institute and received her M.A. in Art History essential and integral from the University of part of an education in Minnesota. Human Ecology, since they reach furthest to- She has been em- wards an understanding ployed as a teaching of the human mind and assistant at the Univer- its products as our pri- sity of Minnesota, an In- mary environment. Per- structor in the Art Depart- sonally, | am concerned ment at Roosevelt Uni- with finding the place of versity in Chicago, and the human mind, par- as Art Editor for the Ency- ticularly the creative clopaedia Brittanica in imagination, in nature. Chicago. This has led me to work She is married to Wil- with groups of students in liam Carpenter who also poetry (both writing and teaches at the college reading it), aesthetics, and they have one son, fiction and its environ- Matthew She and her ments, comparative husband are currently mythology, and to con- working on a study of centrate on seminal Cape Cod houses in writers like Thoreau and Maine Loren Eiseley | have Like many others at the done interdisciplinary college. she is a devotee work with other teachers of gardening and climb- in the psychology of ing. Perhaps her most human nature, oriental time consuming hobby is art and literature, and restoring an old Cape Maine History | think that Cod house, underscoring the Human Studies pro- her professional interest gram at College of the in American architecture. Atlantic offers its faculty In her spare time, she and students a prospect directs the College of the of continual intellectual Atlantic Gallery expansion towards the ideal of a systematic 22 d Davis Samuel Eliot rd Davis joined Samuel Eliot joined the llege in 1973 and college in 1971 as Presi- full-time appoint- dent Kaelber's assistant, He holds a B.A. and became Vice Presi- ale and a Ph.D. dent in 1972. He earned Washington (St. his B.A. and M.A.T. at n philosophy and Harvard, in English, and ught for eleven also studied film and writing at Columbia Uni- versity's School of the e age of twenty- Arts. Dick had been yed by twenty- ifferent employers Prior to coming to Bar en different voca- Harbor he taught .in a areas ranging California secondary lead mixer in a school, worked as an actory to motion administrator at Reed producer. Since College, and served as verage term of a Teaching Fellow at ment was over Harvard In 1972 he was ar, the chronology appointed vice presi- cure at best. He dent of the college. that this was not The courses he has of- inability to hold a fered at the college i an effort to offset reflect his interest in wn speculative human nature, and in cies with diverse human responses to nce of the prac- Nature (and isolation While this is prob- from the natural world) ationalization, he as depicted by such t concerned with artists as Milton, Byron g it all together" and Conrad When not onception of the in his office or class- ship between the room, Sam enjoys sail- al and the en- ing, pottery, puttering ent which can be about in his garden, or ed into practice. hiking in Acadia Nation- he and Norah al Park with Mary Kay been concerned and their dog, Caliban. e effort to derive a pleasure from the Daniel Kane His areas of recrea- Steven Katona Dan Kane joined the tional interest of hiking, Steven Katona joined college in 1972 as a full- camping and long the college in 1972 and time teacher. His B.A. is distance running were has a full-time appoint- from Yale in philosophy developed in the Marine ment. His B.A. and his and physics, and his LLB Corps Reserve but ca- Ph.D. are from Harvard from Harvard University noeing has taken first University. School of Law. place since he moved to Maine. Yesterday our marine Dan's academic Small business enter- biology class went to the teaching area includes prises and indigenous salmon hatchery at environmental law, pub- industry have become Orland and learned a lot lic interest law, and major interests as land about the problems and governmental regula- use development law techniques which are tion of human effects on has lagged during the being used to restock natural systems. He first recession. His goals are Maine's rivers. We also became involved with to find some permanent had a good look at the environmental law homegrown solution to Orland alewife trap, through the Sierra Club these problems in East- which happened to while practicing as a em Maine. have a bunch of lam- patent attorney in San preys in it - my first good Francisco. look at them close up. One is in the freezer awaiting a recipe for jugged lamprey, which Henry VIII liked too much Today our whale group is overflying Cape Cod Bay, looking for right whales, humpbacks and finbacks as part of our research on whale dis- tribution in the Gulf of Maine Tomorrow we begin a long weekend canoe trip around the Machias Lake chain with the Kanes and a bunch of students A few more whale days plus some reef diving in the Virgin Islands, and it would be a perfect week 24 Susan Lerner By investigating wom- Susan Lerner joined the en's roles in past and college in 1972 and pres- contemporary societies. ently has a half-time their contributions to the appointment. She holds a arts, cultural life, politics, B.A. in English from the etc. we can. within the University of Cincinnati broad context of environ- and has studied at Exeter mental studies, begin to University and California realize a more humanis- Institute of the Arts. tic ecological set of potentials for people of One critical aspect of both sexes social change to create My interest in dance/ an environmentally re- movement apparently sponsible world involves began before | can reshaping the role of remember Joining Carl Ketchum simple and that it is the women in our culture. people at College of the Carl Ketchum joined process of each individ- By now the concept Atlantic in a context the college in 1973, and ual's separate approach that women are our most where we can relate to has a full-time appoint- to the subject that creates under-utilized resource our environment (physi- ment. He has a B.A. from the main barrier to in- is familiar to nearly every- cal, social and per- Bates College, an M.S. creased understanding one It could become sonal) in a non-verbal from New York State in these areas the kind of tidy idea that way has been an ex- University and a Ph.D. in we repeat, then forget. citing experiment Mathematics and Physics The work of truly under- from M.I.T. standing women's con- dition and formulating | have completed re- strategy for the future search in oceanic and falls in large part to atmospheric internal those of us who are waves and on laboratory developing an inter- models of the basic as- disciplinary experience pects of oceanographic called Womens Studies and atmospheric cir- culation. | really enjoy participating with people working directly, clearly and openly on a specif- ic topic Mathematics and Physics is a very good way for each of us to develop this ability and share in the pleasure of time well spent | also contend that the con- cepts of mathematics and physics are quite 25 Ernest McMullen | find that College of Fred Olday and laboratory methods Ernest McMullen joined the Atlantic offers an en- Fred Olday came to of assessing water quality the college in 1972 and vironment that is con- College of the Atlantic in while, at the same time, has a half-time appoint- ducive to the fusion of 1973 and has a full-time conferring a real sense ment. He studied at the my three main interests appointment. His B.A. was of social purpose to University of Maryland, art. low impact tech- earned at Pennsylvania their studies Portland State University, nology, and education. State University and his Fred has previously the Portland (Oregon) | am interested in the M.A. in Botany from taught Diversity of Life, Museum School and with application of art and Harvard. He obtained his Human Effects on Natural Jerry Glenn, Potter. technology in a life- Ph.D. in Plant and Soil Systems Laboratory, positive way to create a Science from the Univer- Plants and People and more benign, energy- sity of Massachusetts. has participated in the efficient and beautiful Landscape Design work- environment. The fields He received his funda- shop He is available to of ceramics and shelter mental training in botany direct independent design are particularly and plant physiology, study in botany, plant suited as processes that and it is these under- physiology. horticulture, allow and require an lying interests in plants water pollution, and soils. integration of the crea- and chemistry which tive and the practical. account for the courses | am challenged and he enjoys teaching excited by the oppor- most - plants, soils, horti- tunity to work and learn culture, chemistry, bio- with students who are chemistry, and plant interested in these physiology Since com- processes. ing to College of the Atlantic, Fred has also developed an interest in water quality, with par- ticular regard to lake pollution. As an out- growth of this concern, he has organized the Lake Study Workshop which has embarked upon a five year study of the lakes of Mount Desert Island, many of which experience heavy, rec- reational usage during the summer months when thousands of vaca- tioners visit the area The Lake Study Workshop offers student partici- pants the opportunity to gain experience in field 26 William Russell As a planner, my Linda Swartz If we are to create a William Russell joined primary interests are in Linda Swartz joined the sane world out of the the college in 1973 and the structure of rural college in 1972 and pres- chaos which exists, we has a half-time appoint- Maine communities ently has a half-time have to understand why ment. He has his B.A. and especially. the appointment. She has we as humans do the from the University of changes brought about earned a B.A. from Van- things we do We must Pennsylvania and Mas- as a result of fairly large derbilt University, and learn to step outside our ters of Regional Planning immigrations of "urban M.A. from the University own cultural context. to from the University of refugees" I'm firmly of Texas (Romance empathize with people Michigan. committed to the con- Languages and linguis- who have examined cept of small scale tics), and is a Ph.D. candi- different world views At different times in my economic development date, University of Texas When we appreciate life, I have been an orni- and plan to continue my at Austin (Anthropology). our unity in the human thologist and a regional investigations into the condition, we shall have planner. College of the general question of rural taken a first step in the Atlantic has provided an self-sufficiency evolution of human opportunity to express The planning courses culture toward ecologi- both interests Birds will that | teach will have cal society. always play the lesser direct connections to At College of the role, but | plan to teach these questions. Atlantic | am concerned an ornithology course with guiding explorations and will maintain a into the essence of current knowledge of human cultural systems, happenings in the orni- the relationship of thological world human systems to natu- ral systems, and the place of the individual within larger systems (the family, schools, the nation, the world). Most of the anthropological examples | use are drawn from New World societies, as my field work has been centered in the American South- west and Mexico Finally, | am interested in finding and using methodologies from applied anthropology and other fields to bring about a transformation which will mean an im- proved quality of life for all species on the planet. 27 Susan Zell logical Laboratory in Susan Zell joined the mammalian renal physi- college in 1974 and pres- ology and the molecular ently has a 2/3 appoint- physiology of water ment. Both her Ph.D. and movement, research A.B. were earned at associate at the Uni- Case Western Reserve versity of Maine at Orono, University in Biology. and member of Migra- tory Fish Research Insti- Her academic teach- tute (research includes ing areas include gen- cryopreservation of sal- eral zoology, physiology, mon gametes. vertebrate anatomy and Her recreational inter- cell biology Her related ests include scuba div- academic interests in- ing, flying, skiing, modern clude research at the dance, and German Edward Kaelber survive Our priorities have Mount Desert Island Bio- been on people, ideas, Edward Kaelber joined and educational tools the college as its first rather than on bricks president in January of and mortar. We have put 1970. great emphasis on build- ing a sound financial Though his academic base for the long haul, hero is Alfred North White- and toward developing head and his favorite a broad base of finan- writers Thoreau and cial support Whereas Frost, he has been the initially we relied on a chief development few individuals for sup- officer since the col- port, we have now ex- lege's inception. panded not only the This statement of his in base of individuals, but a recent letter to parents in the last year have re- best describes his area ceived significant grants of responsibility. from private foundations "My personal efforts are and federal agencies. directed largely to fund By continued efforts, we raising Concerning the have managed to pay financial status of the our bills and, perhaps college, as separated more important, have a from the quality of the balance sheet which educational enterprise, shows considerable | am somewhat more equity - an equity that guarded in my enthusi- will continue to grow as asm. It is a difficult time payments are paid on for private colleges. the $800,000 out- Those which confuse standing pledges to their priorities will not endowment." 28 Lynn Dermott Lynn Dermott came to the college in 1972 as the first librarian of College of the Atlantic. She has earned a B.A. in Library Science from Florida State University and has continued her studies at the University of Maine. Liane N. Peach Ann Peach became the first professional member of College of the Atlantic in 1970 and presently coordinates in- ternal activities at the college. At the same Melville Cote time she manages a Melville Cote came to second full-time job as a the college in 1970 as an mother of three children intern in higher educa- and spouse of Arden tion and assistant to Peach. Edward Kaelber. He earned his B.A. in Psychol- Areas of academic ogy and Master of Arts in John Cox interest include phil- Teaching from Wesleyan John Cox joined the osophy, economics, University and his Doctor college in 1974 as Assis- history, political science, of Education in Guidance tant Director of Admis- urban studies, drama and Counseling from sion. He earned his B.A. and aesthetics. He is Harvard Graduate from Wesleyan University, also interested in folk School of Education. He College of Social Studies. music (plays the guitar) presently coordinates and filmmaking and admission, financial aid watching. and student affairs as Areas of recreational well as sponsoring in- interest include fishing, dependent studies and Sunday New York Times senior projects. 29 Retrospective, March 1973 the state legisla- sible benefits of a native the college is a community One Student's View ture authorized the college peat industry. This demon- of good people. Anything to award the degree of strated our willingness as that proceeds from COA In three years College of Bachelor of Arts in Human environmentalists to be has to do fundamentally the Atlantic has changed in Ecology. Purchase of the more than simply oppo- with who we are. The simple ways that no one here in shorefront campus, which nents but proponents as fact that we still exist today the fall of 1972 could have had been leased since well. Sally Morong is now is no small tribute to the foreseen. What began as a 1969, seemed to confirm our taking her internship with combined efforts of many very small group of spirited conviction that we were in the St. Regis Paper Com- people. Even if we did individuals committed to an fact as "legitimate" as we pany studying their peat nothing more this venture innovative, interdisciplinary professed to be. Throughout bogs. would have been worth- education remains, if slightly this time the men on the Allied Whale, the recip- while. But we will do more, larger, still that. Yet the or- shop crew - Al, Millard, ient last year of a $10,000 much more. We are going ganizing principle of the and Les - have quietly and National Science Founda- to make it. college, human ecology, heroically attended to the tion grant, is expanding the has evolved to encompass ills of our chronically de- Maine Coast Whale Sighting far more than simply pol- manding building. Mean- Network and has just com- lution control. In our con- while the "second floor pleted the first Field Guide cern for effective ap- sisters," Ann and Bunnie, to the Whales in the Gulf proaches to environmental have had their patience Of Maine Sydney has fin- problem solving we have tried daily by us all and ished her internship as a returned, somewhat ironi- somehow it is never want- research assistant with cally, to the first lesson of ing. whale scientist Ed Mitchell biological ecology: every- The gardens continue to of the Fisheries Research thing is connected. The re- thrive and last year Fred Board of Canada, and Kate sult has been to broaden persuaded us to erect a has taken hers in Norway our idea of environment large greenhouse. Work is studying the sei whale and to make it clear that finally beginning on the with Dr. Age Jonsgard at action in the areas of law, Turrets, and the Davis's the University of Oslo. communications, and en- solar heated house has Cheli has moved from her vironmental design can be weathered its first Maine position of secretary to just as meaningful as the winter. The Maine Coast treasurer of the Maine efforts of the natural sci- Heritage Trust is still with us Organic Farmers and Gar- ences in dealing with en- and is now joined by the deners Association. Craig vironmental problems. This newly incorporated Coast- and Alexandra spent a has led to the inclusion in al Resources Center. term in Stonington pre- the curriculum of courses as Our two graduates are paring a study of Wreck diverse as Landmark Cases doing well in the larger Island for the Nature Con- in Environmental Law, Cell world. Cathy is in Nepal servancy, and now Craig Structure and Function, and establishing an environ- has completed a second Maine Coast Culture. What mental education program internship as an instructor unites these courses is that for that country's national for Outward Bound. they each bear on some park system. And Bill is now The list of endeavors and aspect of the relationships assistant director of the events the college has and responsibilities of Maine Audubon Society. fostered is already huge humans with and for the Out of the college's ef- and to mention any of them world: the process of hu- forts three years ago to is to choose rather arbi- man ecology. prevent the mining of the trarily to not mention many These three years have Great Heath came this others. But the point of also witnessed other impor- year's Peat Study Group overriding importance that tant developments. In which explored the pos- should be made is this: 30 Informal Curriculum We consider all ac- tivities sponsored by the college part of its cur- riculum. Time spent out- side the classroom and library is an integral part of an intense education- al experience. We ex- pect the development of leisure time activities here to establish a pat- tern which will persist throughout life. Rather than intercol- legiate athletics, the col- lege encourages and supports sports and recreation associated with Maine. The island, one-third of which is Acadia National Park, is rugged and mountain- ous, criss-crossed by many miles of carriage roads and trails. Mount Desert is surrounded by some of the most beau- tiful sailing waters on the eastern seaboard. Stu- dents and faculty spend time hiking, bicycling, cross-country skiing, . snowshoeing, climbing, canoeing, fishing and clamming. Acadia Na- tional Park itself en- courages exploration and solitude, as well as bird watching and beachcombing. The climate is tempered by the Atlantic; while winters are cold, and summers warm, neither season experiences the ex- tremes of inland Maine. 31 32 Arts and Activities Echo, the research log of the college, is printed The importance of the once a term, and in- creative arts at the col- cludes theoretical arti- lege is reflected in both cles as well as applied the formal curriculum research and workshop and in the number and reports. variety of community This year the college activities. In 1974-75, the sponsored performances curriculum included by the Mandala Dancers drawing and three di- and the Red House Cir- mensional design, dance, cus. The series of poetry ceramics, and poetry; readings included Anne instruction was also Sexton, Joel Oppen- available in music, crea- heimer, Robert Creely, tive writing, weaving and Ted Enslin, and Michael photography. Gordon Dennis Browne. Visiting Bok, a Maine folksinger speakers included: Gar- and craftsman, was rison Wilkes, noted plant Artist in Residence for geneticist; lan McHarg, the month of January. architect and author of Studio courses involving Design With Nature, concrete and creative Hope Ryden, a naturalist activity outside of the and photographer; and classroom context are a a series of economists vital part of the college's and psychologists. program. The college's cultural and social activities are student initiated, CO- ordinated, and organized by a student director. Dances and concerts are regular features of each term, as is the col- lege's bi-weekly Sunday night film series. This year there were also regular Friday night showings of Kenneth Clark's Civil- ization film series. Voices of the Atlantic, the col- lege literary magazine, is published once a term and includes drawings and photographs as well as poetry and prose. 33 Living Together Although our primary focus is on academics and practical experi- ences, we are also very concerned with life in our own community. Stu- dents are encouraged to develop the capacity for thoughtful and re- sponsible self-direction which will serve them through life. The prin- ciples of social freedom rest upon a base of individual responsibil- ity. The quality of every- day life in the college is definitely the job of all. We are part of a larger local and state com- munity, and thus respect its laws and customs and accept the responsi- bility of informing new members of these laws and customs. We cannot be, as a college of hu- man ecology, an isolated academic enclave im- mune from the realities of the larger community. The college began as a community effort and plans to remain a part of the community within which it lives. 34 35 36 Working Together The ideal of the gover- nance system at College of the Atlantic is a parti- cipatory democracy. Decisions are based on judgments and opinions supplied by those people who are immediately concerned with the is- sues. We attempt to de- fine responsibilities by organizational concerns rather than by traditional bureaucratic structures. Significantly, however, because the college is new and small, many tasks are done informally, and official policies are constantly being form- ulated and redefined. Policy decisions are made and implemented by five committees (each with an executive chairman), consisting of students, members of the faculty and staff, and trustees. In the case of a difficult decision the committees are author- ized to call an all-college hearing for further discus- sion; should a decision still not be reached, the committee chairmen and the President can convene as the ulitmate decision-making body. Operations on a day- to-day basis are run by the college professional staff who also solicit and supply expertise to com- mittees. Most of them 37 advise students and/or teach. Conversely, facul- ty and students assume executive roles when and where appropriate and as committee tasks require. Students are not re- quired to serve on com- mittees. However, it is generally felt that in de- veloping expertise in governance, capable individuals become obliged to provide what leadership they can. As Aristotle pointed out, integral to the acquisi- tion of competency in governance is the as- sumption of the respon- sibility to help govern. 38 Admission We strongly advise a established by the analy- visit to the college and sis of the College Schol- College of the Atlantic depend upon consider- arship Service and the welcomes applications able and reasoned self- financial aid committee from students who have selection on the part of of the college. One third been prepared for col- students who are in the of the enrolled students lege by their previous process of applying. participate in this pro- education and exper- gram. ience. Applicants are Transfer Students judged on the basis of College Costs and ability, preparation, atti- We welcome students Policies tudes, and enthusiasm, who have previous col- and must be able to lege or junior college Tuition and fees for demonstrate an under- experience. The same 1975-76 are $3,000 with standing of the college's standards stated above room and board aver- goals and methods. apply, with emphasis aging $1,300. A total They should also have placed on the college budget covering all costs the potential to develop experience. A minimum should total $5,000. a social and academic of two years residence life style compatible with at College of the Atlan- a small college on the tic is required. The trans- coast of Maine. Maturity, ferability of credits is self-direction, responsi- decided on a case-by- bility, imagination, and case basis. resilience are among the personal qualities judged Advanced Placement most important. The admission commit- College credit may be tee considers the entire given for superior per- application in each case. formance in the CEEB Writing ability, recom- advanced placement mendations, personal examinations or the motivation and high College Level Examina- school achievement are tion Program. all considered in select- ing applicants who seem Financial Aid to be best qualified to For Further Information Write: benefit from the unique Aid in the form of gifts, curriculum. SAT and ACT loan and work is avail- Admission Office scores are recommen- able for all students who College of the Atlantic ded but not required. demonstrate need as Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 39 Academic Calendar 1975-76 Wednesday, September 3 - Thursday, September 11 Outdoor Orientation Friday, September 12 - Sunday, September 14 Academic Orientation Monday, September 15 Classes begin Friday, November 21 Last day of classes, First term Monday, December 29 - Friday, March 5 Second term Monday, March 22 - Friday, May 28 Third term Accreditation College of the Atlantic is a Candidate for Accreditation with the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Accreditation can be granted only after one regular class is graduated, in 1976. Administration Edward G. Kaelber President Samuel A. Eliot Vice-President Liane N. Peach Secretary of the College Melville P. Cote Student Affairs Elmer Beal, Jr. Internships and Placement Lynn Dermott Librarian Chairman of the Board Dr. Seldon Bernstein Bar Harbor, Maine Trustees Mr. Elmer Beal Southwest Harbor, Maine Mr. Robert Blum Lakeville, Connecticut Mrs. Frederic E. Camp E. Blue Hill, Maine Photo Credits Mrs. Katherine Cutler Bangor, Maine Mr. John Dreier Southwest Harbor, Maine Jonathan Gormley Dr. Rene Dubos New York, New York Pages: Cover-4-5-8-10-20-22-23- Miss Margaret Dulany Cambridge, Massachusetts 33-34-35 Mr. Amos Eno Princeton, New Jersey Hylander Aerial Photo Mr. Clark Fitzgerald Castine, Maine Page: 3 Mr. Thomas Gates New York, New York Ernest McMullen Mr. William Ginn Portland, Maine Pages: 9-19-21-24-27 Mr. Curtis M. Hutchins Bangor, Maine Scott Kraus Mr. Robert Kanzler Detroit, Michigan Pages: 11-28 Dr. Winthrop C. Libby Orono, Maine Wells Bacon Dr. Leo Marx Amherst, Massachusetts Mr. Richard F. McFalls Seal Harbor, Maine Pages: 17-28 Mr. Benjamin Neilson Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Priscilla Bright Mr. Robert Patterson Somesville, Maine Page: 31 Dr. Elizabeth Russell Bar Harbor, Maine Ken Jacobs Dr. Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen Bar Harbor, Maine Pages: 25-26-29-36 The Hon. Edwin R. Smith Bar Harbor, Maine Mr. Donald B. Straus New York, New York Mrs. R. Amory Thorndike Bar Harbor, Maine DESIGNED & PREPARED BY GRAPHICS NORTH INC., BANGOR, MAINE Mr. Charles R. Tyson Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PRINTED BY KNOWLTON & McLEARY PRINTING, FARMINGTON, MAINE 40 Nonprofit Organization U.S. POSTAGE PAID Bar Harbor, Maine Permit No. 47 COLLEGE of the ATLANTIC, BAR HARBOR, MAINE / 1975-1976 COLLEGE CATALOG