Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1957-11-22

              Friday November 22 1957 THE OBERLIN REVIEW Page 2 Gtfje Bbtxlin ebteto Published by the students of Obeilin College every Tuesday nd Friday during the winter and spring semesters excepting holidays and examination periods Subscriptions 5 for the full year 3 a semester ten cents a copy Entered as second chut matter at the Oberlin Ohio post office April 12 1911 Office 60 South Pleasant Street Telephone 44271 VOL FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22 1957 DAVID MATHIASEN Steve Porton Editorial policy is determined by an editorial board composed of Ellie Busick Peter Elkind Mark Furstenberg Ben Greenebaum Mark Israel Ken Lange Dave Mathiasen Dick Page Steve Porton Ellen Rawlings Lee Roth Mary Shaw Dick Steiner and Carolyn Swisher BEN GREENEBAUM Constitutional Consideration Yeoman service has been performed this year by the Womens Board and its special committee on constitutional revision We applaud the careful thought and planning which has characterized their consideration of Womens SelfGovernment League structural reorganization Our attention is particularly focused on their efforts by a series of meetings conducted in womens dormitories last week to explain and discuss the proposed revisions It is regrettable that attendance at these meetings was low because the proposals deserve careful study If adopted the revisions will constitute a basicalteration at least in the structure of womens government In some respects they will also alter its nature Whether they will bring a truly fundamental change in the extent ofselfgovernment possessed by Oberlin women no one yet knows Despite the fact that the new constitution changes the name of the womens government system from the old Womens SelfGovernment League to the OberlinAssociation of Women Students the central philosophy of the revisions is to create a freer atmosphere conducive to the exercise of selfgovernment The structural changes aredesigned accordingly Under the new constitution a student judiciary board would hear all cases involving violation of womens rules and set the penalty for the offender Such judgment is a grave responsibility and the experienced advice of the Dean and the faculty advisers will undoubtedly be sought Yet the proposals make it clear that students are to be judged by their peers Similarly the six faculty women who now are voting members of the board will be utilized in an advisorycapacity and as a buffer group in matters which must receive the approval of the General Faculty The criteria fordeciding what questions shall be presented to the General Faculty rest in the hands of the advisors Thus the major gain in the legislative area is not one of unlimited freedom for students in making ultimate decisions on rules but rather of greater freedom for initiation and frankdiscussion of such changes There has been some controversy over the proposal for separate elections of the judicial and executive boards Critics fear that by forcing candidates to run on separate slates good people running for one board may be lost if the slates are unevenly balanced However we feel that there are strong advantages in separate elections Foreknowledge of the exact responsibilities involved may attract persons to the area in which they have most interest sharpencampaign platforms and allow candidates to gain specific knowledge of their respective areas A minor point is raised by those who fear that the Board will be heavily weighted with upperclassmen if class quotas for board membership are removed This argument seems to rest on the false assumption that juniors andseniors cannot understand and will not consider the views of underclassmen and that opinions are determined byacademic classification The main goal should be to select the best available candidates regardless of their class Since the totalmembership will be increased from 6 to 14 we believe that it will permit greater representation of all significant segments of campus opinion Furthermore the new dormitoryrepresentatives council with members from each house will guarantee freshmen and sophomores that the underclass voice will be heard A final question may be raised concerning the method by which the new constitution would be adopted Under the present WSGL constitution any revisions must beaccepted by twothirds of all women students This means that any woman who does not vote in effect votes against the new constitution Her failure to vote may be due to laziness or indifference rather than to actual opposition bat this puts the proposal at a disadvantage to begin withbecause all votes not cast at all are weighted against itspassage We suggest therefore that Womens Board consider writing into the new constitution a provision that it shall go into effect when twothirds of the women voting in the referendum shall favor it In this way a fairer appraisal of the constitutions acceptability would be assured Praise is due to Womens Board president AnnNewman Constitutional Revision Committee cochairmen Dotty Langer and Peg Eaton and the entire Womens Board for their earnest efforts We support the new constitution and strongly urge women to give deep and intelligent thought to its ramifications er ms EVES HDrutj Store For the FRIENDLIEST service and the BEST Drugs stop at Ives A REXALL Drug Store NO 20 EDITOR Business Manager ISSUE EDITOR The current scramble of the United States to catch up with the Russians in the production of missiles satellites andscientists is about as pathetic as the attempts of the American people after World War I to stay free of European alliances and the League of Nations World War II made us aware of the importance of what othercountries once so far away aredoing politically and economically Awakened to this fact and to the threat of internationalcommunism we have striven toreverse our traditional policy of neutralism andnonentanglement we are now trying to win over uncommitted countries and to contain communism In seeking to contain communism we have built a militarymachine that 20 years ago would have seemed incredible Indeed President Eisenhower hasindicated that 38 billion is not sufficient to meet this yearsdefense needs But dissenting voices can be heard Norman Cousins writes It will not be enough to make bigger missiles or spaceplat A young Air Force career man who teaches driver education sat beside me on the bus a few weeks ago He thought I looked like a secretary and wassurprised to hear that I am astudent not only a student but one at a small liberal arts school where entertainment is secondary to studying Years ago he told me it seemed like you had to have an education But now gee I am making more money than lots of people who went to college I dont see why they arebothering When he asked what myhusband is doing and I told him that he is going to graduate school he really felt sorry for me The Air Force sent him to a university for six weeks one summer and he saw what a life it is For years studying would come first he warned me and I would lose out because studies would interfere with night life He has a point I told him but to some people this is not interference nor is education a necessary evil on the way to more pay I am sure I lost my argument as far as he wasconcerned Last Sunday I sat beside an18year old high school senior who was returning to private school after a twoweek stay with her almost dying father When she came to the hospital he did not 20 OFF on any ilcm in ihe slorc during our TRADE IN SALE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Bring in old goods and take home new ones at prices 20 below normal Clothes toys jewelry schol supplies etcAnything we can replace like your roommates old socks pencils hairpins and erasers Ben Franklin Will Trade for Anything ALL SALVAGEABLE GOODS GO TO CHARITY even your roommates old socks maybe UNSALTED PEANUTS Regular 144 per lb HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE COVERED CASHEWS 00 0Om 00000 rrH V Ideas forms The real challenge is to come up with some ideas that can keep the missiles from being used to destroy the earth The test of a nations right to survive today is measured not by the size of its bombs or the range of its missiles but by the size of its concern for thehuman community as a whole Our national idealism today has lost its vitality While we endlessly repeat that we seek peace and that we desire to help the poor of the world wecontinue to prepare for warwithout providing convincingevidence of a dedication to helping the poor to realize theirawakening aspirations We have held out the vision of Americanmaterial prosperity but we have not clearly shown by deeds that we are greatly interested in raising the standard of living of persons on the other side of the globe Following World War II we gave billions of dollars worth of economic aid to Western Europe Turkey and Greece This aid was a reaction to the Soviet threat and a concern for The Greyhound Way recognize her and for days she did nothing but weep Her eyes were ample evidence for her sadness though they twinkled whenever she said Daddy She had not been faithful aboutgoing to church for a while but these last few days she prayed often Her parents were divorced when she was 13 and eachremarried a short while later Her stepmother is a big andbeautiful woman but I can hardly call her a lady she said My stepmother and me we dont get along When myDaddy married her I thought he stopped loving me but I was in my teens then and now I can understand it better so we dont argue so much She could tell countless stories of separated anddivorced relatives and of people of her own age whose marriage is already ended She is confused she admitted when her22year old boy friend Paulproposes to her almost every time he sees her though she thinks she will marry him by next May You see there was also Don whom she knew for a long time and who trusted her and cared for her If she married the one she could have all she wants With the other she could not How can you judge Traveling over the same part of flat Ohio on another Sun SALE SPECIALS INCULDE Special Special and Aid 1 1 George Strauss the welfare of human beings Today our primary reaction to the Soviet threat is a concern for building an ever moredevastating war machine Our present obsession with armaments may well prove to be as nearsighted as our concern with isolationism after World War I The time has long since come for us to shift ourattention to the encouragements that we have given to other nations regarding their economicwelfare It is time to transfer some of our energy and money from from the field of defense to the equally important field ofeconomic aid Economic aid is no panacea no guarantee thatfreedoms will spring up where they do not now exist and that World War III will never come But as Peter Drucker has pointed out to us the proletarians of the world today have on goal in common the attainment of increased material wellbeing The zeal and extent of our aid in helping them to realize this goal will be an important factor in determining the political drift of the last half of the twentieth century Ray Kaplan day recently I sat beside Sister Eugene a grade school teacher She told me of her school work of retreats and contemplative life of the differences among the Orders In the course of ourdiscussion I told her that I am aphilosophy major and that 1 am Jewish How could this be she wondered The Jewish people dont believe in Christ do they and what about the soul and heaven and hell she asked How could I study philosophy if I did not believe all these things She was pleased that I knew of St Thomas but perplexed by any philosophy that was not metaphysical And how could Oberlinrequire each student to take asemester of religion Do they have as many religion courses as there are sects and religions The important thing is sheadmitted that each person believe have a religion even if it is not the Catholic one but how could one generalize aboutreligion to teach courses that would benefit everyone These are only samples of my traveleducation Each weeks trips and each of theindividuals has been a reminder that the learnbyGreyhound way meets some requirements of the education for the whole man which no liberal arts school can fulfill 59c for 6 59c for 8 oz oz Letters to Tli Rdirui welcomes flm from readers on any subject The right i eie nit letters to 300 wonts and lo rtus piiIMVulou to letters of furuioiuliie usc ntent or for whkh there is imuJiiuil space be submitted to the u Uee two days Wlore publication be published novn icunl reason names mil 1 withhold upon njusl Nol more than F ill be printed with any letter s Four Claim Editorial Kills Car Rule Chances Vn tlin Editor Once again the Review has tak en the banner for a cause the Kiss f death has been planted Two students it seems are in vestigating the possiuinues ui modifying the car rule No sooner do they begin their research than the Review produces an editorial The effort to gather facts becomes the inspiration for controversy How many good causes have been lost by Uemg pi eiiwiujcij aired How often have emotions taken over before the facts have had a chance The car rule issue arouses as much defensiveness among those close to it as any oilier campus question There is no better way to set the faculty against a constructive change than by rehashing old unsuccessful ar guments beioro new uata die available The students making an informal survey are attempting a responsible approach to a difficult question the acuity migni ap Pollsters Give Aims Clarify Stand on Editorial To the Editor There seems to be some con fusion over the independentstudent poll which we are conducting in connection with the car rule The first point which we would ke to emphasize is this and we quote directly from the question naire Our primary intent is to draw some conclusions regarding present student attitude towards the car rule We are interested in seeing just how Oberlin students feel about The Men from Cleveland GERALD Having received the acclaim ol Europe New York and practically every place at which it hasappeared the words of an Oberlin reviewer can add but little to the chorus of praise showered upon the Cleveland Orchestra ft is merely repeating the same story for there can be no doubt that this orchestra has reached a state of maturity which places it among the leading ensembles of the world Even in theacoustically impossible Finney Chapel where every section of the hall reverberates differently causing a varied balance of dynamics and tension the effect is impressive A feeling of complete confidence is experienced in listening to this group the men react to each other magnificently The orchestra breathes and feels together the ensemble is superlative Beginning with the rathernondescript Overture to Euryanthe by Weber the orchestra plunged into its task with great vitality and evolved a sparklingcurtainraiser In the Schubert Symphony No 7 in C Major however theorchestra achieved its greatest height perhaps because it was the one piece on the program that allowed it to do so Mr Szell brought sheer excitement into this much played composition It is a great piece to begin with under his skillful hand its extreme length seemed only to add to thegranduir of it all The second movement especial ly reached poetic heights with some marvelous tone beingproduced by the cello section The lengthy scherzo proved a dynamo ot exuberance and energy inter SHOWS begin EACH EVENING At 711 pm Always A mm TONITE SHAKESPEARES ROMEO JULIET Beoutiflly donel See It Again SATURDAY EVE ONLY NOV 23 Brought Back for your enjoymentFRED ASTAIRE and CYD CHARISSE in SILK STOCKINGS with Janice Paige Its Ni notch kg set to musicl Good Comedyl SUN MON TUE 3 EVES NOV 24 2526 Singing his heart out in the story of Joe E Lewis I L s ft AlSri 2 tAl JiUUM4 mi Also NEWS EVENTS and GOOD CARTOON Main Features at the Editor preciate a wellworkednut Pian based on evidence Editorials for urns and campus controversy at this point are poor preparation f0 a fair consideration of a wellcon structed plan Why not let the two students conduct their survey in pcac We understand that they begged for postponement of this editorial The Review has long since established its reputation forraising issues to demonstrate its prowess We dont doubt the good faith of the editorialwriters but what will facultyreaction be Will the matter now be considered on its own merits We dont know just what the Reviews intentions are We can only say that it is no service to the lawyer to publicize hisarguments the day before the trial Fred Clark ted Reynolds Ken Hoseman Neil Iioenburg the car rule and what if anv changes they would favor Wedistributed 200 questionnaires tostudents who represent a crosssection of the Oberlin studi nt body At the present time we do not know what we will do with the results of the returnedqiirstionnaires after we attempt ananalysis of the replies Again werepeat that this is an independent poll and that we are notinterested in pushing any changesPerContinued on Page 4 HUMEL woven with the delicate melodic fragments so characleiistic of Schubert If there is a criticism to be made Mr Szell must be blamed for allowing his brass to blare forth somewhat too much during the fourth movement Mr Szell has a strange penchant forblaring brass in Severance Hall it may be rather easy to get away with it but in Finney Chapel no In contrast to the Schubert we had the Paul Creston Toccata Op 68 Why There is not one good thing that can be said about this piece Just impossible To call it a cross between Stan Kenton calypso popular dance arranging Maurice Ravel or Jacques Ibert would be doing at least two of the aforementioned gross injustice And yet did the piece not elicit these impressions from thelisteners as it ground out its tedious way to oblivion With so much goodcontemporary music available to us why must the Cleveland orchestrainvariably perform a work atOberlin that reeks of the worst of it Mr Szell has never been noted for his sympathy towardcontemporary music witness thepedestrian performace of theCreston and the necessity of Mr Szell to use a score for a work strictly in 34 time but certainly he can do better in choice of music for Oberlin where contemporary music seems to stop withchamber ensembles and band concerts There are still too many standard contemporary works which have not been heard in concert and which are known only through the record Music is not meant to be restricted to the phonograph it is meant to be heard in concert BOX OF ICE OPENS tt 700 pm Good Show i ELECTRIFYING HIS MOST POWERFUL PERFORMANCE 720 and 945 pm mmm