Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1959-09-22

              Dr Carr Hailed As Worthy Successor Editorial Page 2 Record 50 Turn Out For Grid Practice Sports Page 5 VOLUME 88 Z572 OBERLIN OHIO TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 22 1959 NUMBER 1 College Names Dartmouths Carr nVtr A swinging metal ball reducing the former Yright Zoological Iaboratnry to dust and rubble attracts the attention of passersby s during the early part or the week for the new Conservatory of Music marked another step in theColleges development program photo by A E Princehorn Wright Lab Topples Hall Addition Rises By DAVE ZIEGLER Early arrivals on the campus watched a steel ball twinging from a crane reduce taboratory to a heap of rubble Those walking behind Hall Auditorium noticed the early stages of the classroom addition there under construction These activities along with the Completed addition to Hales Gym isium are the tangible results of t3ie first stage of the presentdevelopment program Other phases of thedevelopment program will appear incomig months Ground will bebroken in October for the Henry Churchill King humanitiesbuilding in the area directly behind Varner Concert Hall In the next stage ofdevelopOcnt pending Trustee approval ork on the new Conservatory ill begin on the site of thedemolished Wright Lab The practice oms the first section to be built V ill extend south to College Jlace As soon as these newquarters can be filled Rice Hall will SALARIED POSITIONS Several positions on theReview business staff are open for salaries approximating 1 an hour Students interested in working as AdvertisingManager assistant to the Business Manager or handling circulation to the faculty offices shouldapply to Wes Goehring Burton and Talcott or Tim Thomas Clark House and Grey Gables or call the Review office 44271 undergo renovation Following its Remodeling this building willbetome the faculty office wing of the Jung humanities building j Builders have set Feb 1 as the Completion date for the addition to Hall Auditorium After the speech department moves into its rew headquarters with seminar end class rooms and anexperimental theaterin the round Fturges Hall will be available for temporary Conservatory use Eventually it will be torn down to fnake room for the remaining see lion of the new music building love Named Dean For OneYear Term I Donald M Love will serve as pean of the College until July of jlOCO when a now nprminpnt dean rvill be chosen with the aid of Robert Carr recently named as i he Colleges ninth president Dean Love who was Acting President during President Stev ensons trip to Tanganyika this summer said he has every ex Pectation of resuming his former post of Secretary next year Robert R Barr Assistant See retary since 1945 has been named acting Secretary of the College during Dean Loves absence from that post or A A 4 4 J V Razing Wright Lab to make way the former Wright Zoological Orientation Week Begins Amid Cartons Confusion Unloading bicycles borrowed from younger brothers and sisters lugging stuffed suitcases and bulging cartonseyeing apprehensively triple dorm rooms greeting warmly room mates and counselors and show ing the usual freshman enthusiasm and curiosity the class of 1963 has arrived Orientation week officiallybegan Thursday evening with adining hall meal introducing the freshmen to Saga Studentshowever began pouring in Wednesday afternoon by Thursday morning the Bicycle Shops used bikeselection had been depleted Junior Residents in womens dorms sent their freshmen illus trated greetings and invitations to spread The gins are bring ing more clothes than ever this year commented one distraught JR on her way up the stairs of Dascomb with ten dresses over her arm Frosh Meet Dean Freshman men moving into Burton Hall had a chance to meet W Dean Holdeman dean of men at a tea held in the main lounge Expanding Coop Purchases Haylors Comings Paving Way for Now we are three the a first baby announcement general bookstore in town op bookstore Pnnn pxriansion bccnn in June with the purchase of the Comings building that houses the Pen Pencil Restaurant ana Walters Shoe Store as well as Comings bookstore Then inAugust Coop bought the fixtures and stock of Haylors renaming it Coop Gift Shop Coop manager Bill Long told the Review These actions pave the way for a new Coop store in the location of the Comings building Longrevealed This building with a59foot frontage will be designed to blend with the newConservatory Long said Who Sells What For the present gifts will be sold at the Haylors locationmusic and school supplies will be sold at the Comings shop stillmanaged by its former owners and Stevenson Visits Tanganyika President Conducts African Study Group By TIM THOMAS Tanganyika has no MauMau troubles so the British arent concerned and she has no communists so the United States isnt interested remarked President Stevenson indescribing the plight of this British colony from which he has recently returned President Stevenson spent 11 weeks in this East Africancountry this summer on a generalsurvey mission sponsored by theInternational Bank forReconstruction and Development and by the colonial government Ascoordinator and diplomatic representative for a group of eight specialistsselected by the World BankPresident Stevenson travelled some7000 miles by airplane car and boat through Tanganyika Invisiting all nine provinces andimportant points in the country the President conferred as much with local organizations tribal chiefs and other residents as withadministrative authorities Economic Problems From his observations President Stevenson concludes that not the interracial problem but the prob lem of making bread out of stone is the most pressingconcern of the area Sparselypopulated and with many nonarable or mountainous regions Tanganyika is only supporting theapproximate population of one Ohio on the land area of two and onehalf Ohios plus one Texas Anundeveloped agriculture limited to a few crops such as bananas and sis al hemp presently condemns the Africans to malnutrition andlimited economic improvement One of the prime obstacles to Tanganyikas leap from aprimitive to a modern economyPresident Stevenson notudi is the t poor state of its educational system Although somewhat reserved when meeting their JuniorCounselors the men often took theinitiative in getting acquainted with their classmates one freshmanremarked to his parents Gee everyone is so friendly here Added to the orientation pro gram this year was a meeting for parents at which the deansexplained social and academic phases of Oberlin life A tea following the program allowed time for more informal discussion With parents gone and thenormal automobilebicycle ratiorestored freshmen have a chance to see the campus meet each other and attend to registrationExplanation of the Mock Convention a class party a library open house and a reception by President and Mrs Stevenson round out the schedule of events beforebeginning of classes By ROGER BUFFETT banner on the Coop ad proclaims Thus in the language of the Coop informs new and Haylors Comings and the E all text books will be handled at the Coop E College Street store Coop refunds to membcrswill be paid on sales slips from all three places In another town development over the summer the OberlinIndustrial Development Corporation bought the Bike Shop behindCityHall This corporation whose board of directors includes Long already owns much of the land bounded by S Main E College S Pleasant and Vine Streets Eventually Long said a modern shopping center will be built In the middle of that block The Bike Shop will be closed after its present stock is sold Long stated The Sport Shop is selling new bike tags and has opened a bicycle repair station in its base ment From the 370000 students who en ter the first grade only 170complete the twelfth the rest drop out after four or eight yearsrather than paying to attend boarding school As a result the country has a tremendous lack of skilledpersonnel and professional people During the coming semester See TANGANYIKA p 7 Renovations in Wilder Mark Progress for Student Union Major renovation of the first floor of Wilder Hall marks another step in the conversion of this mens dormitory into a Student Union building The WOBCMay Begin 24Hour Broadcast Big News Coverage Highlights of NikitaKhrushchevs visit to the United States made available through radiostation WERE Cleveland will be featured by campus radio station WOBC as it begins itsbroadcasting year In addition to thisextended coverage of national and international news WOBC may transmit 24 hours a day within the week station manager Bill Waite announced i j WEREs recoidiOg of lmirtant event broadcasts will be available to college stations in theCleveland area Waite explained Also through station WERE clock radio owners will find WOBCbroadcasting musictowakeupby during the early morning hours The FM Cleveland station will begin using Musac large tapes ofbackground music playing 24 hours a day WOBC will rebroadcast on AM the music received from WEREFM outside regularbroadcast hours During its broadcast schedule from 4 to 6 pm and 7 pm to midnight WOBC will present classical music disc jockey shows news and sports andremotedistance coverage of away football and basketball games Tapes and records from foreign embassies and information services will fill the daily feature time from 1115 to 1130 pm Reports on life in Turkey and Sweden and French songs and conversational lessons are among the programs planned WOODWIND LIBRARY The Woodwind Library of the late Gustave Langenuscontaining well over 500 titles of books about music and music theory has been presented to theConservatory of music as well as a varied collection of music that will beincorporated into the Conservatory Library New Store returning students that every College Street store is a Co Review Needs Heb On Writing Staff rne Review wm hold open house Monday Sept 21 through Thursday Sept 24 for all fresh men new students andupperclassmen interested in campus journalism Editors will be at the Review office located behind the Bicycle Shop on South Pleasant St each evening from 730 to 9 pm to meet interested students and to discuss various phases of the newspapers operations with them New reporters photographers advertising workers and column ists are needed to form the news paper staff for the coming se mester f j I yH v v i f A V 1 A n Hi iiiiiiiii irri i iiirmiit ROBERT CARR improvement made during the snmmpr rpnrpspnts thp most im pressive result of the annual 10 Student Union fee paid by stu dents since 1956 Replacing the dimlylit cav ernous main lounge the barnlike Student Council lounge and the pigeonhole Council and Yeoman offices are a series of brightly 11 luminated freshly paintedcomfortably sized meeting and work rooms To the left of the main entrance a walledinTV lounge eliminates the Snack Bar conflict between conversation and Gunsmoke The reception desk to the right of the dcor has been expanded trom its former cubby hole so that it can serve the entire build ing Behind it are a series of rooms for use by Social BoardIncluding two recreation offices a student workroom and a storage closet At the far end of the hall occupying half of the former Council lounge and the former Yeoman and Council offices is a new Council meeting room and a Council office The first floor renovationbudgeted at 13800 completes the work which can be done at the present time New dormitory space must be found for the men now living in Wilder Hall before the final conversion can be made Senate Retains Loyalty Oaths Attached to Education Loans By STEPHEN BRONZ The Senate has decided to continue the loyalty oath provision of the National Defense Education Act for at least another year A 4942 vote taken July 23 sent proposed changes in the loyalty provision back to eration This in effect eliminated chance for removal of thecontroversial oath clause during this term College students borrowing mon ey for tuition from the Federal Government therefore still must swear to uphold the Constitution and must sign an affidavitdisclaiming membership in any of the organizations designated s u bversive by the AttorneyGeneral The affidavit clause not the oath of loyalty to the Constitution is strongly opposed by manyeducational groups including the Gen eral Faculty and Student Council of the College If the loyalty provisions are to be eliminated in the future more pressure from colleges and theadministration will be necessary Senator Kennedys legislative as sistant told the Review Well have to try and build some fires the spokesman said A staffmember of the Education Subcommit tee of the Labor and Welfare Committee told the Review that the prospects for a change in the act are good if the senators want to make another try again Legislators Too Hasty Early in 1958 Congress passed the National Defense Education Act with the loyalty provisions But there was little discussion on the loyalty oath at that time Ap parently in their haste to see the 30 million a year loan program begun the legislators did not ex amine the bill closely enough to 9th President Professor Rights Expert To Assume Post January I The College has named and political science at Dartmouth College to be its ninth President President Stevenson announced his resignation last February effective at the early convenience of the trustees but not later than Sept 1 1960 Dr Carr will assume the Normalsized Class of 581 Enters College After receiving an unusually large freshman group last year the College welcomed anormalsized Class of 63 412 froshentered the College of Arts andSciences and 160 are entering the Conservatory Of the transferstudents 40 will enter the College and 13 the Conservatory Representatives from 44 states and the District of Columbia as well as three foreign students and three Americans from homes ov erseas are included in the new class As in past years Ohio re ceives the highest representation with 109 students followedclosely by New York with 93 48students come from New Jersey 41 from Illinois and 39 fromPennsylvania Men outnumber women in the new College class 224 to 197 However the sex ratio is balanced in the mens favor by the Con servatory in which women pre dominate 113 to 47 Lysle Butler Quits Mens Board Post Lysle Butler professor of phyS ical education has announced his decision to step down from the chairmanship of Mens Board The faculty nominatingcommittee will disclose the newmembership and chairman of Mens Board at Tuesdays facultymeeting STUDENTS IN HAVANA Paul Potter and Josef Cooper were among 190 students selected from the Twelfth National Student Congress to spend five days in Havana as guests of the Cuban national union of students They will report on their trip in future issues of The Review the Senate Labor and Welfare detect the offensive provision which over 40 were to vote against in July of 1959 After passage of the act protests poured into the Senate committee however Seven colleges refused Film Series Shows Animal Farm Plus 2 Short Runs Free Animal Farm the cartoon version of George Orwells satire on the Russian Revolution will be the main attraction in a freeprogram presented by Film Series 730 pm Sunday in Hall Audi torium Two outstanding short subjects Nanook of the North and The Story about Ping will also be shown Nanook was the first documentary ever made The film is the story of the Eskimos It was directed by Robert Flaherty and produced in 1922 Ping is achildrens classic reproduced by the iconographic technique Film Series a nonprofitorganization chartered to bring films of special interest to the campus plans to show many foreign movies as well as American films Among those scheduled for show ing are Pather Panchali Um berto D The Oxbow Incident Pablo Casals Kind Hearts and Coronets and King Kong Robert K Carr professor of law nrptsiHpnrv Tan 1 IQhfi The scholarly and liberal tradi tions of Oberlin are stronglyreflected in the new President Since 1937 he has taught at Dartmouth where he was chairman of the government department from 1944 through 1948 and director of the Great Issues course from 1955 through 1957 Authority on Rights Dr Carr is a leader in the field of civil liberties As executive secretary of President Trumans Committee on Civil Rights in 1947 he contributed to its report To Secure These Rights which Is regarded as the most important study of civil liberties in recent years He is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union and this year served as staffexpert on the United States Civil Rights Commission The announcement of Dr Carrs appointment raised somespeculation over possible changes in the Colleges educational systemDartmouth initiated a threetermsystem last year under whichstudents take only three courses per term A faculty committee isinvestigating a proposal to institute such a program here Dr Carr comes here with an open mind on the question reported the Oberlin NewsTribune The search for a successor to President Stevenson began when he announced his intention toresign The Board of Trustees formed a committee headed by Erwin N Griswold Dean of the Harvard Law School to interview candidates for the presidency The faculty was consulted through the General Faculty Council prior to Dr Carrs appointment Other Positions Last year on leave fromDartmouth Dr Carr was generalsecretary of the AmericanAssociation of University Professors From 1952 through 1954 he was vicepresident of the AAUP He is also a member of the American Political Science Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences The author of many articles on individual freedom Dr Carr has written ten books including The Supreme Court and JudicialReview The House Committee on UnAmerican Activities andFedSee CARR p 7 Committee for further consid to participate in the student loan programs Arthur S FlemingSecretary of Health Education and Welfare told the committee that the affidavit disclaimer singles out educators and students for special treatment without making a contribution to nationalsecurity It was at this point that the two Oberlin groups took their stands Senators John Kennedy D Mass chairman of the Senate Labor and Welfare Committee and Joseph Clark D Paproposed on the Senate floor that the loyalty oaths be removed from the education act The senators held a pointed debate on the changes July 22 and 23 Communists on Campus Senator Karl Mundt R SD was the most outspoken support er of the oath and affidavit The college campus is one place where the communists operate to get their clutches on younggrowing Americans Senator Mundt warned his colleagues How many Senators actually in their hearts want to run the risk ofpermitting a single Communist or Fascist or subversive toparticipate in this 90 million training program to make this countryincreasingly secure he demanded Senator Gale McGee D Wyo countered that inspiration byprofessors not legislation bycongressmen is the way to instill See LOTALTY OATH p 7