Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1956-03-23

              Page 2 THE OBERLIN REVIEW 5March23i 956 ftije Berlin ftetrieto Published by the students of Oberlin College every Tuesday and Friday during the winter ana spring semesters excepting holidays and examination periods Subscription 5 for the full year 3 a semester ten cents a copy Entered as second class matter at the Oberlin Ohio post office April 12 1911 Office 60 South Pleasant street leiepnone 4411 MARY PIETSCH EDITOR Bob Service Business Manager Ann Colt Associate Editor Dav McKnight John Salzberg Advertising Managers Bob Bushnell Hstelie Wbclan Assistant Editors Jim Claghorn Circulation Manager Ray Bach Dave Mathiasen Managing Editors Dave Gladfelter Ben Greenebaum Sports Editors Ellie Busick Sue Eubanks Newt Editors John Graybeal Joe Levin Dick Page Ellie Rawlings City Editors Boh Crawford Dave Jewess George Skillman Dave Sweet Feature Staff FRIDAY IMPORTERS Jean Angle Sylvie de Gunzberg Birdie Mestnre Carol Throop Jan Chipman Julia Macfie Steve Porton Penny Weart Carol Eckstein Maribcl Meisel Vic Swenson Editorial policy is determined by an editorial board composed of Ray Bach Bob Bushncll Ellie Busick Ann Colt Sue Eubanks Dave Gladfelter Ben Greenebaum Dave Mathiasen Dave Mcknight Mary Pictsch John Salzberg Bob Service and Estelle Waelan The Review welcomes letters from readers on any subject The right is reserved to limit letters to 200 words and to refuse publication to letters of questionable taste libelous content or for which there is insufficient spact Anonymous letters cannot be published however for sufficient reason names will be withheld upon request Not more than ten signatures will be printed with any letter RAY BACH ISSUE EDITOR teener rass The following excerpts are from a column appearing in the March 9 issue of The Daily Princetonian There is nothing to do this weekend Maybe the best thing to do would be to get off that letter to your kid brother to get him to ccme to Princeton March 10 Dear Bruno You asked is it relaxed living at Princeton Let me tell you about it Bruno Its really great at Princeton Sure there are a few gripes some constrictions and rules I guess youve heard about the car rule and chapel credits and the 21 age limit uptown and the 9 oclock rule things like that And it is true you cant riot or throw beer cans or have janitor service or steal the clapper anymore But they dont amount to a pinhole when you stack them up against the Honor System Bruno Frankly youll have aggravating details that tend to make daytoday life a little spastic and irksome Likerefrigerator licenses the Campus Fund Drive chest Xrays Orren Jack Turner pictures 740s audit bills from the Bureau of Student Aid and such But the Precept System Bruno the Precept System And of course there are a handful of tiresome things that give you good training the dorm inspector your cumulative Commons headwaiters the mud when it rains the smell when it rains your thesis footnotes the way they built the johns in Holder the Nassau Lit the UStoretextbook department your roommate those dysenteryepidemics Its all part of a Liberal Education Bruno Those things they spread around believe me lies Bicker is not that bad at all and anyway its all going to be solved by the Administration April 8 And this stuff about undergraduate classmen having no social life nowhere to take a girl hah Anyway Bruno Dad wants to keep Princeton in the family and hes really furious about me transferring to Oberlin Have Brooks Brothers suit Yours Will travel Grundy EVENING SHOWS 715 pm 930 pm A PULL Always A Good Show SUNDAY EVENING 7il5 pm 930 pm TONITE SAT SUN 3 EVES MAR 232425 Mighty Western in CScope and Color kirk douglas as The Indian Fighter Tale of covered wagon days He fought the Sioux as fiercely as he loved one of their womenl MON TUE WED 3 EVES MAR 262728 The hitherto untold story of the infamous treachery of Benedict Arnold The Scarlet Coat in CScope and Colorl With CORNEL WILDE ANNE FRANCIS GEO SANDERS THURS FRI SAT 3 EVES MAR 293031 Good Western Reissue in Tecfinicoor robt taylor as Billy The Kid Plus 4 GOOD CARTOONS Good Entertainment EASTER SUN MON TUE APRIL 123 rossana podesta as Helen of Troy SEE THESE WHEN YOU GET BACK FROM VACATIONI Trouble With Harry All That Heaven Allows It Wore Skirts Never Say Goodbye 30 Seconds Over Tokyo Rose Tattoo Court Jester1 socccoccoo6ccccccococoocooscsccccoeooooogooeeo9 A Complete Line of HDrug Goods For Your Needs STORE HOURS 8 am 6 pm Friday til 9 Sunday 10 5 EVES Your Friendly REXALL Drug Store Pleoleiul 2cuud Stray thouehts from a movie re viewer that nobodv aerees with And one who ends sentences with a preposition A low creature in otner words No movies to SDeak of this time Bliss Ive recently been interested in advertisements out of Detroit bv way of Madison Avenue about sports cars For years our auto manufacturers would never have dreamed of telling their public about compression ratios low slungability hueeabilitv curval yet pickup data and so on But with the invasion of the European beetle 300 horsepower dIus spe cies apparently our manufactur ers felt they had to do something to compete They didnt build SDorts cars Not really What they did do was aream up designs of cars thev called experimental dream cars of the future etc These cars were not in production and there were always no production plans at present I followed this business in 1955 Now this year I notice that the makers are advertising their new models These are no more tan gible than last years but at least we may take pride in America they are bigger and better and dreamier and more experimental and more daring than last years nonproduceable models Ahprogress The next subject I want to take up is working for the government The first thing you have to know about is stamps You have three stamp drawers for three contracts Fine Now when you need air mails for ICA business and ICA doesnt have any more its very simple you take them from UP UbA and write a chit A chit states UPUSA owes ICA 42 cents air mail Then of course POD lacksspecial delivery No government office can get along without specialdelivery letters Easy POD owes ICA 420 specials At the end of the month some thing has to be done about even ing up these debts or ICA mieht go out of business So you fill out a requisition voucher in triplicate asking for 462 On the line marked explanations vou write UPUSA owes ICA 42 cents the latter owed 420 by POD STAMPS After two weeks the money arrives in your office You sign Then you proceed to the post office buy the proper number of stamps and ask for a receiot No one at post offices can spell so mis taKes tune After you receive the receipt you take the stamps put them away in various drawers and submitreceipt to the payroll division Be sure to tear up chits if you let tne chits fall where they may you get jailed for fraud The next procedure to know about is perdiem oav You author ize perdiem allowances on the proper form which contains three carbons Suppose you make amistake Well each perdiem form is numbered for the purpose ofkeeping each transaction separate You destroy form number 44 and use 45 You tvoe out a state ment which says Perdiem trans action 44 void See 45 You send this to three offices But vnn havo already informed the recipient of me peraiem tnat his transaction number is 44 and have asked him to use this number in all rnrrp spondence Due to a snag in the ousiness olfice the recipient does not receive perdiem allowanrp as indicated in 45 and is stranded in Djakarta He writes Harold Sta en Harold Stassens secretary complains that 44 is not coming mrougn Business office informs Continued on Page 4 BE SMART Goto SCOTTYS BARBER SHOP T a 1L W V V A OTTn CARDS Cards for children beautiful religiousdesigns special cards for those special people Be sure to see ourcomplete selection at COMINGS Boolcj Greeting Cards Music 1 Peter Robertson Quo Vadis domestic trouble I want to save your life If I were General Eisenhower and it was 1952 I would tell you that 11000 Americans a year are killed in the fruitless Korean War and that if electedPresident I would do everythingpossible to stop the bloodshed If you were the Americanpeople you would respond byelecting me by the largest majority in history However I am notGeneral Eisenhower and cant save your life by ending the Korean war and with it your chances of meeting death on an alienbattlefield I can save your life however if I can help you arm yourself for a domestic battlefield which has taken more American lives in the last 50 years than all the wars which America has fought since 1776 Since then 1030000 Americans have died in war but since the invention of theautomobile 1045000 Americans have died in highway accidents You say that I will never save your life by quoting statistics How then can I save your life If I were governor I could crack down on all law violationsbecause in seven out of ten fatal accidents one or both of the drivers was breaking the law If I were a state policeman I could arrest you every time you broke the law If I were a state legislator I could vote to pass laws uniform with those in other states or vote to improve the 65 per cent of our roads which are substandard and cut your chance of a fatal accident by 40 per cent I cannot save your life because T am neither governor policeman nor legislator The only way I have to save your life is to tell you how you can save your own life I can tell you to drive safely But this Is old hat I can make it new hat by telling you that this means driving defensively alert for every emergency with theassumption that every other driver on the road is determined to kill you I can also make it new hat if I can make you acceptemotionally as well as intellectually the proposition that the life you save may be your own If you have a car I can save your life by getting you to put in seat belts Tests at CornellUniversity show that 50 per cent of our highway fatalities are caused by head injuries which seat belts would prevent I suppose however that I am wasting my time All my ideas rest on the dubious premise that you want to live and I am not even sure you do I cant save your life JuneOsborn On the Horizon a better mousetrap Recent discussion in theFaculty Educational PolicyCommittee has centered upon aproposed fourcourse system in which the course would replace the credit as the unit ofcurriculum Such a change would have wide ramifications and serious thought should be given both to the proposal and to the deficiencies in our presentsystem which have called forth such a major consideration The fourcourse system now employed in one form oranother by several colleges including Harvard Amherst and Chicago would require each student to take four courses no more in each of his eight semesters at Oberlin Thirtytwo courses plus four semesters of physicaleducation would replace the 124 hours as the requirement for graduation The motivation for thisproposal was primarily the feeling of many educationallythoughtful professors andadministrators that students tended to spread themselves too thin Six and sevencourse semester programs occur very frequently students have even carried eight courses in a semester and in these extreme situations one can raise a real question as to the value which comes from such a sacrifice of depth for breadth Twohour courses often do not engage enough of a students time to be worthwhile or else they require more work by far than their stated value Again lowhour courses are oftentaken almost solely because thestudent needs the credits These considerations would seem to point to such a proposal as is now under consideration But significant drawbacks would be inherent in afourcourse system The most serious and obvious of these is the rigidity which would result from the lower number of courses which would be offeredExperimentation is a much weightier matter when it is the equivalent of a fourhour course that isbeing tampered with Againobjection might legitimately be raised on the ground that the present liberal arts requirements provide sufficient restrictions on the students choice of courses without further limitations being legislated Furthermore many courses presently given for two or three hours would suffer substantial losses from either thetelescoping of two semesters work into one or the expansion process which would be required to fit them into a course worth four Continued on Page 4 7Ue Reardon Criticizes Exam To the Editor The information that a m retains after he has been out course three months pi does not constitute moreS per cent of the total inform rM that he has been exp cteJri10 for the tests in thatourse TS fore the most that any might reasonably be expft gain from an introductory Z which he may be takin fulfill a requiremen18 of important principles thfli tionships between that su i the other areas of his learnt and most important an appj ton and an interest in that nant ular field Many int courses are not lntrodJ courses at all but rather f0 Z up to 90 per cent of the stude whw4lInever take another eoum in that department they are term inal courses Specifically J thinking of music appredatj fine artst philosophy biology ology and religion Too many professors are still la boring under the illusion that ihej can make students experts in their particular field in one semester and thus they continue to play the 19th century game ofidentification not application I do notobject to the mentioning ofinsignificant details in lectures and I do think that the person who is able to commit these facts to memory and to apply them in essayquestions should be rewarded This takes care of those peoplemajoring in the field or who areinterested enough to want toremember the small points BUT I see no reason why an introductory or nonprerequisite course that hasa large proportion of nonmajorstudents should Eive examinatinni that require completion or selec tion vype answers whichnecessitate the memorization 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