Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1958-12-16

              THE OBERLIN REVIEW x dgc u ni College Discusses Loyalty Oath Debates Swarthmore Decision L mMTMMFD FROM PifJF 1 idealistic stand on this issue than Swarthmore Robert Keesey assistant to the President remarked that how the issue is decided will probablydepend on the facultystudentattitude because the administration recognizes the routineness of the provision in government business Robert R Barr assistantsecretary likened the loyalty oathrequirement to the requirement for an allegiance statement fromapplicants for the National Science Foundation grants Unfortunate Feature Dean of the College BlairStewart on the other handcommented that the requirement for the loyalty oath is an unfortunate feature in the act since it is an infringement on the freedom of thought But he also pointed out that the only way the provision could be changed would be by an act of Congress Mr Barr telephoned thefinancial vicepresident of Swarthmore last week He reported that Swarthmore had formed acommittee to determine whether the school would take further action He stated that it was probable the school would apply for the federal funds to make them available to students who needed them and were willing to sign the oath The Congressional Act provides that all candidates applying for use of federal funds must 1 execute and file with the Commissioner of Education anaffidavit that he does not believe in and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government by force or violence or by any illegal orunconstitutional methods and 2 subscribe to an oath ofallegiance to the United States and its Constitution and laws The federal loan fund wascreated by the National Defense Act passed by Congress on Aug 23 1958 Congress set a maximum allocation at 475 million to carry out the program It has already appropriated 6 million and is to make a supplementaryappropriation in January Aid to Superior Students Of the four types of educational programs eligible to apply for funds the College is planning to apply only in the division for loans to superior studentsmajoring in mathematics languages engineering or science In thisdivision special consideration isgiven to superior students who will teach in public elementary or secondary schools Only full time college students are eligible for the loans Under the provisions of theDefense Act the maximum amount which an individual can borrow for any year is 1000 and themaximum for his total educationprogram is 5000 The students re pay the loan one year after the I last year of their education at three percent interest over a ten year period Onetenth of the loan and interest is forgiven each year up to five years if the student enters the teaching profession Workshop CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 generally excellent DirectorsSilverstein and Chastain have in a sense risen above much of the triviality of the script and have brought forth a drama of fluidity and momentum Janet Bell and Keith Kurland as the strange bedroom fellows play theirdifficult scene with great sensitivity and focus Miss Bell especially gives a strong at times haunting portrayal of the girl who is both cruel and singularly idealistic Mr Kurland is unfortunately cast in a gloomy and morose role and he cannot completely overcome this initial handicap so as to make his character theatricallyinteresting As the young lecherous Village couple Ernest Atwell and Nancy Priddy play with great gusto and life Jim Fords set and George Wests original music add to the atmosphere of theproduction The School is decidedlycontroversial but the controversy is on artistic rather than on moral grounds The Theatre Workshop is to be commended again forinviting the campus to debate the meaning and limitations oftheater Academic Freedom CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 shall simply go into the world and compound the mess made generations before us Certainly the English dont seem to have suffered because of their attitude toward theexistence of Communists on their campuses No doubt they have been working on twoassumptions one that we are allentitled to our own particular political beliefs and two that the Communists have enough problems carrying the load of their philosophy without adding the snipings of government to it In many respects theEnglish have put Communism much more in its place than we have That doesnt mean to say that there are not manypathological antiCommunists here they just dont happen to run the show I have written this in full knowledge that it does notapply as much to Oberlin as it might to some other schools in the United States but I think it applies more than we are ever willing to admit It isexpressed often in the attitudetoward coopers I have never been in the Coops so there are no axes being ground heretoward Students for Democratic Action to a lesser extent and is especially disconcerting when magnified in a provincialattitude toward all forms ofknowledge We must always stand up not only for ourselves but for other students and teachers as well for the right of freeinquiry and free expression in our colleges and universities When we dont ride roughshod over unpopular ideas then we will have academic freedom then we ill understand its true meaning CINECLUB FILM Le CineClub will present La Beaute du Diable Beauty of the Devil starring Gerard Philipe and Michel Simon 730 and 925 pm Friday in Hall Auditorium The Marcel Marceau short which had been scheduled will not be shown A SPECIAL GIFT TO TAKE HOME Some Book by an Oberlin Author SprcUlitu in giowi Book The Book Shop 21 South Main ufttMn According to Mr Barr the estimate for the Colleges needs under this program is beingprepared to enter an application for loan funds by Dec 31 The funds are supposed to be available for the second semester 195859 and for the summer of 1959 Theestimate will also include theColleges tentative requirement for 195960 Applications CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 college However this situation does not seem to have affected the number of Oberlin applicants Fewer Conservatory Applications The Conservatory on the other hand shows a slight drop in the number of applications There are 98 as opposed to 115 this time last year Mrs Powers thought a pos sible reason for this drop was the fact that announcements of ac ceptance will not be made until March 1 In previous yearsapplications were accepted as they were received There is a lack of urgency for sending in applica tions this year she explained No Increased Enrollment We dont intend to have any larger enrollment next year Mrs Powers asserted We admit the number of students we can han dle with dormitory space and classroom facilities The present applicants include 306 women and 207 men The admissions office hopes to equal ize the number of men and wonv en in the class of 1963 or have more men than women in thefinal enrollment Its a little early to make prediction yet said Mrs Powers who felt that the figures would begin to have more signifi cance after Jan 1 Ind la CONTINUED FROM PAGE I revolution is often not obvious to the casual observer but painfully and often only semiconsciously it is changing the lives of itsinhabitants The People One final word must be said about these inhabitants Colonel Unni Nayar a young Indian UN observer killed in Korea once wrote Ever since I could read English I have read of India primarily as a series of Drob lems the economic problem of India the language problem the Hindu problem the Muslim prob lem the agricultural problem To Europeans and Americans w are Orientals or inhabitants of i country mysterious and romantic or filthy and diseased according to temperament The India to which I belong I know has Drob lems but they matter less to me than do the people These words are a fitting judg ment on our articles We have con centrated on Indias problems rather than on her people Yet to us as to Unni Nayar it is the people of India who matter most And it is to the oeoDle of India that we feel an unrepayable debt of gratitude for three magnificent years Despite our Marxist friends or perhaps because of them we left India more convinced than ever that people are mostimportant to us to history and to India than is economics Council CONTINUED FROM PAGE J cording to the Financial Charter governing all official studentorganizations Reporting on the progress ot the Student Union construction Meeks outlined the floor plans fur the 10000 renovation of the east wing of Wilders main floor which is to include the Yeoman Shansi Student Council and Recreation Directors offices an information area and a lounge This wing is scheduled to be completed by spring vacation and therenovated Snack Bar costing 8000 by the end of this semester Social Research Report In a Social Research Committee report chairman Mimi Halpern interpreted the results of aquestionnaire which had been sent to professors at the request ofCouncil to aid them in evaluating the present temporary suspension of the no cut system before and after vacations On Wednesday Oct 22 which Miss Halpern termed a normal day 40 questionnaires of the 140 distributed showed that seven and onehalf percent of the total class enrollment was absentAccordto 52 questionnaires live andonehalf percent were absent onMonday Oct 27 On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving recess 4U question naires of the 75 distributed showed an absence of 32 per cent On the Monday following the recess 105 percent were absent Similar ques tionnaires have already been sent out fur the Christmas holidays In other Council business Judd Kessler presented a report from the College Affairs Committee and Mike Godifeld was appointed to fill a vacancy on International Affairs Committee PANTS POtlSHED COTTONS FLAP BACKS 495 In Natural Color Boek Charcoal Grey Sfripst LAWSONS NOW EXCLUSIVE IN OBERLIN TRADEMARK REGISTERED PEN and PENCIL RESTAURANT Campus CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 it They felt that the townneeded a place where one could buy something besides the everready hamburger and relax while eat ing Therefore soft lights soft music and red checkered table cloths are the order of the day The restaurant offers twosandwiches The submarine type sandwich is made of the specific order of the customer There is a wiae cnoice 01 cneeses and salami plus red onions all of which is put on dark rye bread The sec ond type is a meat ball french bread and tomato sauceconcoction The reaction to the idea was immediate and enthusiastic It seems to have fulfilled the desire held by part of the student body for a place where one can leave the academic and escape into the Greenwich Village atmosphere for a time The art department has loaned paintings which add to the general artistic air of the restaurant and Mrs Bourne has hopes of getting enough wine bottles to plunge the entire room into candlelight Letters to the Editor CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 ing experience in dramatic work for those who for lack ofexperience or because of strongcompetition are not able to participate in the work of the larger dramatic groups and there is no reason to suppose that they are notcapable of excellent work nor should the novelty and originality of the venture blind audiences to its weaknesses The unfortunate comparison of Theatre Workshop to theoiTBroadway movement carries with it undeserved criticism of all Oberlins major theatreorganizations To say that there was no dramatic spirit in ODAs He Who Gets Slapped inMummers sets or in CRDs extremely ambitious choice of Tales of Hoffman is nonsense to equate this spirit to dialogue from a play is foolishness Jan Moerel Paradise Cites Benefits Of Resident Psychologist To the Editor We are calling on the interest and the consideration of thestudents of Oberlin College As you may have noticed on the front page of Tuesdays Review thestudent SubCommittee onCounseling Needs has recommended that the College hire a fulltimeresident psychologist Therecommendation is now under theconsideration of the General Faculty The student committee has been discussing this problem since the beginning of last year and we have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to prove the value of psychological counseling one either believes or disbelieves that students may profit from theopportunity to discuss their problems with a qualified individual who is on the campus for the expresspurpose of counseling one never knows ultimately It cannot be proved for example that bydiscussing a difficulty with someone else you were able to handle it more easily yourself Thecounselor can never be sure that it was he who helped a student helphimself However our committeestrongly feels that the student bodydeserves the chance to derive the benefits of the services that afulltime resident psychologist would provide We believe that the bene fits would be well worth the cost of hiring such an individualCertainly no more than the money could be lost and the possible gains are beyond the scope ofnumerical evaluation We believe that the college must do what it can and must show its concern for the mental health of the students It is our hope that enough of the people who hold the financial strings will be impressed with the values of our proposed investment to the extent of making it possible for the College to take this stepforward in the area of mental health We urge all students who have ideas and beliefs on this subject even though they may not have proofs to express themselves to the Faculty Committee onStudent Health Mr Ralph Turner chairman and to the student body and the Faculty in general Judy Paradise chairman Student SubCommittee Schwimmer Defends Yeoman Standards To the Editor No the latest issue of TheYeoman is not a failure I should like to discuss the poetry since I worked on that staff The poetry chosen docs live up to the literary standards of The Yeomen which is a literary magazine rather than an unassorted heap of attempts at effective writing Ourdisappointment lies only in the fact that out of some 80 poems received only seven were successful enough to print When attempts at poetrycontain contradictions redundancies words that break up the totaleffect they cannot be called good poetry no matter how muchMarietta Atkins lettertotheeditor Fridays Review may wish An effective poem uses every image indeed every word to add to the effect Images within a work must be related to each other being steps toward aclimax or being a vehicle for the message as in R s B using the wolf Etr To a noot ur U antasmoneVT He cannot waste tTltK4 them around this fa 1 Poetry requires so muJ is because Mi n Uch s Hahn have T cure to express ih 1 and thoughts that i e that their n Ld We are i Poetry and hope who havpni why the nnhv K effort f m L 3ackwithZlnCnti b reject 2 not discnorn ms p Si 10 the 7 These writers must im that i iK JUst remer rclunriam COnlr not 0 good pom no iKs mat lie Betty Schwimmer Uly siatr The WANTED W companion and 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