Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1957-12-17

              ifliEifbDD Ta Seats Conference CnsnipsI tx Independent Reading Deserves Consideration Editorial Page 2 Kenworthy Criticizes Stress on Security Interview Page 4 QUI i oggf v TTin Rfl Z572 yyjjUw v Council Passes Letter Urging Responsibility For Class Cuts By ROGER BUFFET At a special meeting called Mondav noon Student Council passed a motion urging students to demonstrate responsibilityregarding the removal of the nocut rule See letter on page six Although Council felt that most students realized the responsibilityinvolved in not taking undueadvantage of the revised class cut rule a sufficient number felt that he letter should be published to remind those students who might tend to take the measure lightly During their regular meeung Sundav night Council told the National Student Association Committee to give more thought to their role on the campus and be gin offering more assistance to other campus organizations The request was made follow ing a lengthy discussion of the regular NSA report It wasgenerally felt that the Committee did not have a clear enoughconception of their function on campus A motion was passed stating that the function of theCommittee shall be to carry oncommunication between this campus and the national association and also to provide information for campus organizations Council alsorequested that the Committeesubrait proposals concerning theimplementation of these functions Several Council membersexpressed hope that the requestwas sufficiently ambiguous to allow the Committee continued freedom of action Wurtz who proposed the motion felt that it was International Affairs Committee reported on its present activities and emphasized concern that not enougn was oeing done in the way of exchanging ideas with foreign students on campus Council felt that forums slide showings and other suchprograms were the responsibility of Cosmo Club but that the IAC should assume the responsibility if the Club did not intend to do so The FiviPnllonn Committee presented its report and was granted 30 from theannual account to cover costs already incurred Horton To Lecture At Drury College Dr Walter M Horton of the Graduate School of Theology will visit the campus of Drury College SpnnghVld Mo Jan 79 as Dairys fifteenth annual Lecturer i Religion Dr Horton and Dean Stephen J England of Phillips University Ml discuss the Christian Churchs jntwest in the recent merger of ne ConKrKational andEvangelical Reformed Churches into the United Church of Christ The lecture series which is sponsored by theCongregationalhristian Conference of Missouri designed to stimulate student thinking i the field of religion to provide a community wviee to the Ozark region All ministers and interested persons emviti to attend the series lEliaht of Able Students Ford Scholars Praise By PETER ASCII In the fall 0f 1951 eleven American colleges and universi es opened their doors to 420 resnmen who differed from the rrage allege freshmen in two poets they were roughly two th LyounSer and only a few of ntm had finished high school Oberlin was one of the colleges Participating j this experiment J need by the Fund for theAdvancement of Education under tionaTIPCS of the FordFoundaairmi exPrnent was directly ffi u the plight of the able with v 001 stUiert often faced in boredom and a serious waste vane6 n not Permittei tdwmM the derce his abilities woud allow Enthusiastic Replies the F P011 was financed by This Foundaln through 1954 Scholear the last of the Ford 54 8 those who entered in are completing their college I V Refugees Vote For Freedom By Escaping By MARIA PINTER Robert MacAlister executive director of International Rescue Committee said yesterday that refugees by fleeing their country are voting with their feet against their countries politics and government He stated also tha t refugees have great skill He said that ever since immigrants started coming to America Europes loss has been Americas gain The Committees work brings hope to people living in refugee camps and brings hope to people still living behind the iron curtain he declared Outlining the present refugee situation he noted that 200000 refugees are still waiting inEuropean refugee camps In the last year different committees placed 175000 Hungarian refugees in new countries but 25000 still remain in camps In helping theHungarian refugees Canada accepted40000 United States 37000 and and Switcrland 10000 After his speech MrMacAlister presented a movie on the Hun garian revolution which was shown on NBC television for the first anniversary of the revolu tion The movie showed a few scenes of the revolution andpresented some witnesses whodescribed the situation and told their opinions Josef Kovago former Mayor of Budapest stated that Hungarian people expected more help from the United Nations The UN should have exerted politicalpressure on Russia to keep troops out and have sent observation teams he felt Bela Kiraly general of theHungarian National Guard said that the revolution was spontaneous and was not an organizeduprising Class lines disappeared as people united in the fight against Russia he added IRC is Americas largestnonsectarian organization forrefugees It was founded in 1933 and Continued on p 6 col 5 careers Last week the Review asked four of the Scholars tocomment on the Ford program and the broader program of earlyadmissions to college The replies were strongly enthusiastic and seem to contradict theFoundations decision to stop theprogram Cindy Finch stated that theprogram was the best thing that ever happened to me and deplored the general lack of publicity itreceived in the high schools Miss Finch a senior from Portland Ind condemned great repetition and many poor courses in high school She added manypeople simply continue to waste time and flunk courses until they are are old enough to leave school Anyone who dares to be smarter than the rest is made a tutor for slower students and learnsnothing new Miss Finch heartily approved OBERLIN A White Christmas Student Union Plans Pose Many Housing Problems By DON MENZI A student housing problem now confronts Mens Board as it considers Student Union Committees proposal to begin conversion of Wilder Hall to a student activities center in the fall of 1958 The immediate problem is that of finding rooms to replace those on the second floor of Wilder where theCommittee proposes to begin construction of organization offices a student lounge and various special rooms as a first step in Wilders conversion V fj i I According to Lysle Butler Amend 6 Points In what President Jon Malla mud termed heated discussion the Young Democrats met and continued consideration of Mike Codels 61 Points criticizing the United States foreign policy last Sunday The club is nowfollowing a procedure of deleting and amending the main body ofCodels controversial proposal which consists of 61 points of fact One amendment condemned Secretary of State Dullescharacterization of United States policy as massive retaliation Joe Levin who proposed the amendment felt that the phrase hurts our position in the eyes of the world and makes us appear militaristic Another phrase of Mr Dulles which incurred the criticism of the members was his threat to France of agonizingreappraisal Levin spokesman for amendment also felt that Dulles attitude had caused polarization in the French Parliament on the issue of European DefenseCommunity The group also passedamendments objecting to the military rather than economic emphasis on foreign aid and to the policydiscouraging certain culturalexchange programs with ironcurtain countries Mallamud who approves of the 61 points as a good vehicle for the discussion of foreign policy proposed a similar method ofstimulating appraisal of the defense policy A committee will beappointed to formulate a proposal on this subject Program the early admissions program saying Advanced courses in high school might help take care of the bright students but most schools wont agree to it They have a very conservative attitude and are scared of producing maladjusted geniuses Bebe Botty of Youngstown termed the program reallyexcellent The adjustmentsocially and academically of entering college early she commenteddepends upon the person Ifsomeone enters college overlyconscious of the fact that he is a year or two younger than hisclassmates adjustment will be much more difficult than if he simply looks at the situation as awonderful educational opportunity Miss Botty commented on the need for high schools to letcapable students push ahead This is something she added which the Continued on p 6 coL 2 OHIO TUESDAY DCEMBER chairman of Mens Board there must be some temporaryinconvenience to someone if workis to begin in 1958 The problemfacing Mens Board now is how to minimize this inconvenience and upon whom to place it Butleremphasized however that Mens Board has power only torecommend consideration of thecommittees proposal to theappropriate administrative committee The rehousing problem iscomplicated by 1 an expected net increase in enrollment in 1958 due to the fact that this years graduating class is smaller than usual 2 the few additional rooms for men available in the town 3 the very remote possibility that the Federal Government might approve a longwaited loan enabling the College to construct additional mens dormsConstruction of new housing mightnecessitate destruction of Tenney and White House and further increase housing pressure Of several possible solutions Mens Board feels that twodeserve further study One wouldinvolve putting freshmen in Noah and part of Burton and increasing the number of triple rooms atBurton It was pointed out that some of Burtons present doubles are large enough to be triples and that freshmen seem to like triple rooms more than do upperclassmen Wilder would then become anupperclass dorm Chief objection to this proposal Mens Board feels is the additional overcrowding it would involve Another possibility would be to place men in Metcalf or Goodrich now used as student meeting places and social centers This however would mean eliminating student facilities that have proved to be both useful and popular In order to allow the student members of Mens Board to sound out student opinion on the various alternatives and to give Student Union Committee time toformulate more specific recommendations further discussion was postponed until the next meeting of Mens Board OCF Reps Attend Missionary Meeting Six students of the Oberlin Christian Fellowship will attend the Fifth International Missionary Convention of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at theUniversity of Illinois Dec 2731 Sponsored every three years by the Fellowship the Convention is an opportunity for students to get firsthand reports from mis sionaries meet students from other lands and to consider their part in world evangelism More than 2500 students from all over the world are expected to attend Donna Bergstrom is president of the local fellowship 17 1957 Speaker Suggests Nixon Direct Missile Program L R Hoffman English Prof Dies of Poison By DICK PAGE Dr Leonard R Hoffman in his third year as an instructor of the English Department facultyapparently took poison at his home very early Sunday morning and was pronounced dead on arrival at 120 am at Allen MemorialHospital Dr Hoffman was 30 years old The coroner in the officialinvestigation completed blood tests late this afternoon and as of yesterday was not positive that the cause of Dr Hoffmans death was poison Dr Robert G Thomas at the Elyria Memorial Hospital told the Review yesterday that thisappears to be a clearcut suicide by cyanide poison case but in order to be sure I want to see thechemical analyses Dr Hoffman at his home with his wife Lorraine also 30 was grading papers about 1230Sunday morning Mrs Hoffman told COUNCIL ELECTIONS Student Council has announced that prospective candidates for Council elections must attend two Council meetings before the February elections the Oberlin police A fewminutes later he returned to theliving room where his wife was and told her that he had just taken poison Tries Remedy She tried to fix a remedy for him but when it failed she called the police They found him slumped in the bathroom and tried to revive him but by 120 am he was pronounced dead at Allen Hospital Dr Hoffmans survivors include his wife one brother and hisparents There are to be no services held here in Oberlin according to the CowlingStang Funeral Home The body will be sent to Stockton Calif where Dr Hoffmansparents live He was teaching three English 12 sections and one 34 course A native of New York City Dr Hoffman was graduated from Queens College with a bachelors degree He obtained both amasters degree and a PhD from Stanford University Prior to his appointment to the Oberlin faculty he had served as an acting instructor at Stanford from 195154 and as aninstructor at the University of Michigan during 195455 He joined theCollege faculty in September 1955 Frosh See Sample Of Class Sweater Decide To Revote After seeing a sample sweater with their proposed class colors a majority of freshmen present at the freshman class meeting held Friday in Finney Chapel voted to take a revote on their class colors Over 350 freshmen hadoriginally voted in favor of making charcoal gray and light blue the class colors The freshmanadvisory committee which conducted the first poll on the class colors will also be in charge of running the second poll This advisory committee the class of 1961s approach to the student representation problem is composed of nine membersappointed by the president and meets every Monday noon todiscuss class issues and problemsexplained Chairman John Schwarz Schwarz stated that the commit tees main function is to discover the feelings of the class on topics of class interest coordinate class opinion and advise ClassPresident Maxie Robinson In other business the class heard plans for the HellWeek Commit tee from Class VicePresident Dave Hersey and coming social activities from Social Chairmen Pepper Ready and Andy Lindsay Address Urges Concentration Of Authority By BILL CUNNINGHAM In the keynote address of the Young RepublicansConference Congressman Peter Frelinghuysen of New Jersey suggested that PresidentEisenhower give the overallresponsibility for speeding up the United States guidedmissile program toVicePresident Nixon He stated that the rapid strides of Soviet science in the field of missiles have proved the urgent necessity ofconcentrating toplevel executiveauthority behind our missiles program and that although the President now has a scientific advisor there is still no person having thepower to expedite the program with the authority required While praising the President for giving Nixon the best training of any VicePresident in history Frelinghuysen pointed out that Nixon has not yet received any executive responsibilities He further stated that the extreme seriousness of recent international developments and the tremendous burdens placed on our modern Presidents should force us to abandon once and for all theoutmoded concept thatVicePresidents should not be givenexecutive responsibilities and that Continued on p 6 col 7 Debaters Capture Fifth Sixth Places In Forensic Meets Forensic Union debaters tied Duquesne University for fifth place in the 52team Cross Examination Tournament at the University of Pittsburgh this week end Another group of debaters placed sixth among the ten teams participating in the Novice Tournament of the Northeastern Ohio DebateConference at the University of Akron Debate participants at theUniversity of Pittsburgh represented colleges and universities in 23 states and two Canadianprovinces College debaters were Ed Laumann Brad Reardon Jack Rice and Sieg Schoenbohm The Forensic group at theUniversity of Akron debated in the first Conferencesponsored novice tournament The four teams which took part in the debates consisted of Betty Boyd and Roger Buffet Lynn Graef and Cynthia Letts Don Lifton and Maxie Robinson and Phil Shaver and Steve Swaim The teams won six and lost six rounds Teens Show Interest In New Rec Center By JEAN TIMBERLAKE Finally theres something to do around this town besides staying home or going to the showdeclared one of the approximately 75 teenagers present at the opening of the town Recreational Center Saturday night Renovated rooms above the Frozen Food Locker Plant serve as a dancing bowling pool and pingpong center for the citys teenagers The most significant thing about the Center is that the kids wanted it enough to put in 1800 work hours fixing up the place stated Charles Douglass high school English teacher and city recreation director Douglass has directed the high schoolers since Halloween when they started plastering sanding and painting the fourroom center The facilities will be open three evenings a week for high school students two evenings for junior high students and two evenings a month for adults The center Is managed by 13 high school students elected by the student body of the high school to NUMBER 25 60P Meeting Backs Program Of Ike Party By JUpY WOLFE In a long and extremely controversial midnightmeeting last Friday five Young Republican representatives of a fourstate area drew up a platform which affirmed the basic program methods and goals of the Republican Party and the EisenhowerAdministration Delegates from IllinoisIndiana Michigan and Ohio resolved to give complete support toPresident Eisenhower in his current mission to Paris and his efforts to achieve greater unity with our allies In debating on the defense issue keeping the recent rocketrydisplay of the Soviet in mind it was agreed that the cold war hasrecently increased its intensity We affirm emphasized theRepublicans our conviction that a strong defense is essential to ourprotection and wellbeing We rejoice in the fact that the Republican administration is making rapid strides in the scientific fields of defense and we feel that thisprogram of speed will eventuallyoffset the costly lack of a missileprogram by the previous Trumanadministration Criticize Bureaucracy The convention representatives in discussing the budget criticized the federal bureaucracy of the New Deal and stated that it is still too much with us today We call on all discerning Americans to support a balancedbudget idea pleaded the Republicans We regret to see political leaders of the opposition party calling for more and larger debts leading the people to forget for partisanpolitical purposes the dire results of such a policy Discuss Foreign Policy One of the most hotlydebated issues dealt with was foreignpolicy After many controversialarguments had been given the group affirmed the ideals of freeenterprise and strongly urged thegeneral downward revision of tariffs The committee also endorsed the United Nations and urgedcontinued support of it The subject of Civil Rights was debated and it was decided to support all moderate means ofimproving race relations andconditions in this country Uphold Laborers Rights The Platform Committee upheld the right of a laborer to strike for better wages and workingconditions but did not feel that labor organization membership should be compulsory a board of directors Finances come from the Oberlin Recreation Commission Students in Prof Dan Kinseys recreational leadership class and members of the Ys will help supervise the Saturday night program Douglass stated that when he assumed the position of recreation director there were no facilities for community recreationDouglass found the need for a youth recreation center the mostpressing he said He explained that three such centers had failed in the past because of theunreliability of the voluntary supervision and lack of student interest He expressed optimism for the future of the present center because of the responsibility and interest which the high school students have already shown Speaking of his future plans Douglass stated he hoped at the end of five years to turn this place into a community recreationcenter and generally expand thefacilities to include boating and swimming