Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1956-04-24

              I lit s I UI Convention Offers Chance for Idealism Editorial Page 2 Nine Beats Denison Hoecker Sets Record Sports Page 3 VOLUME 84 Z572 OBERLIN OHIO TUESDAY APRIL 24 1956 NUMBER 48 Resolutions Committee Accepts Desegregation Welfare Planks Delays Consideration of Labor Council Appoints Five To Conk onrerence oroup Student Council Sunday night appointed five out of 18 applicants to the StudentFaculty Conference Committee The new members arc Ken Lange Po Franklin WoodyAndrews Roberta Scheff and Dave Horowitz The YMYWCA was granted permission to use itssurplus from the Pete Seeger concert approximately 100 to send Prof Paul Schmidt to the SixtySeventh Annual Regional f1 T 1 J Is LiL I William H Wagoner Jr will narrate A Touch of the Tropics which lie filmed in the Florida Everglades in the final Audubon Screen Tour of the year tonight at 730 in Hall Aditorium Asecond film Your LivingHcritiigc is also featured GS Reelects Ellis As Board Chairman Gilbert and Sullivan PlayersretUcu il Jim Ellis chairman of their boa i r i at a meeting of the new boaiit yolerday Phil Spurgcon was iviltTkd treasurer and Mary Jane Ells was elected secretary Other members of the boardincai ie Harry Dawe Debbie Dew Don Holrnan and Bob Kreis Plans for the Summer G S Players are as yet indefinite A minimum of 1500 must be raised from sources other than theCollege before College bucking will be granted Mens Board Ads On Li quor Offenses Mens Board held a meetingFriday concerning cases of violation of the liquor rule and ofmisconduct Three students were placed on disciplinary probation for thebalance of the semester five were suspended for live days and placed n disciplinary probation for the balance of the semester and one student was suspended for ten days and placed on disciplinary 1robathm for the rest of thesemester and for the next academic year VESPERS Dale Conly will speak at YVesPws tomorrow at 920 pm and 950 pm in Fairchild Chapel with Eleanor Ogdcn assisting and Anne Keller singing IORlM BOARD Deadline for applications for ruxt years Forum Board isWediwday Anyone interested inapPlyina should contact Gerry Miller at Burton and French House or Dan Goode at Barrows and Grey a mus RESOLUTIONS Resolutions Committee willdiscuss the economics andgovernmentinbusiness plank 730tollieht in Mock ConventionAuditorium FORENSIC UNION Bob Kummer representing the MJUege will speak on Dignity JJpt Arms 4 pm Friday at the Jvic League intercollegiateoratorical contest in Room 21 Sturges j tpresentatives of OhirWestyan University Wayne Universi Western Reserve University ard Wooster College will compete wh Kummer for 75 in prize money Notices i MUrtent YMYWCA Geneva Con ference at Lake Geneva Wis this summer The theme for this summers conference will be Faith Truth Your Quest Each college anduniversity participating in theconference is asked to send students and faculty members who will profit from and contribute to thediscussions Professor Schmidt isparticularly interested in problems of religious knowledge from the phil osophers point of view according to YMCA Secretary Harvey Cox Tentative Grants Council made tentative budget grants of one cent each for Mens and Womens Glee Clubs both presently inactive and 17 cents for the College Choir on next years Activity Cards Steve Kaplan Martha Bicking and Jon Cunnyngham were ap pointed delegates to the National Students Association Conference to be held here this weekend Student Living Committee A motion was passed to change the ByLaws to read that the nine members of Student Living Com mittee shall elect their own chair men Previously the chairman of this committee had been appointed by Council Cunnyngham June Osborn and Pete Elkind were named to fill the unexpired terms of Mike Szold Ginny Service and Bob Crawford who have resigned Nominations are now open for next years committee DELEGATION VACANCIES Anyone interested in filling one of Kentuckys threedelegation vacancies or one of New Yorks two vacancies may apply at Mock Convention offices at Wilder Hall Next weeks agenda will include reports from the Student Union Dance Bands and StudentFaculty Conference committees Activity Fee allotments to the YMCA YWCA and class dues andnominations to the InterracialCommittee College Association Chooses Stevenson Ohio College Association chose President Stevenson as its next president at its meeting inColumbus Friday and SaturdayPresident Stevenson was vice president of the Association this year Faculty members serving on standing committees of theAssociation are Robert Jackson chairman of High School andCollege Relations and Robert Dixon Technical Research Those onspecial committees are Prof George Simpson and President Stevenson Profs Frederick Artz William Kennick Robert Kretchmar and Dr Max Durfee took part in the programs Diners To Get Meal Tickets Saga Opens Dascomb All students except freshmen and those eating in theQuadrangle and the Coops will begin eating breakfast at the newDascomb dining hall starting Friday morning the Review learnedyesterday from Harry Andersoncomanager of the Saga Food Service Students from BarrowsCranford Elmwood Heusner Mallory and Tenney will start eating all meals with Thursday supper Breakfasts lunches and Saturday and Sunday night suppers will be served cafeteria style Weekday suppers and Sunday noon meals will be served family style by waitresses According to MrAnderson waitresses in the newdormitory is an experiment board jobs will not be necessarily limited to women TaftHartley Brings Defeat Of Labor Plank By SUE EUBANKS Heated dispute over the TaftHartley Act portion of the labor plank included in the majority report by the Labor bubCommittee to theResolutions Committee resulted in a total rejection of the plank last night Amid calls forcomplete rejection and amended retention a vote on themajority report as amended to favor inclusion of certain TaftHartley provisions was taken which defeated thereport 2521 with twoabstentions Explanation for the failure lies in the contradictory position in which the states found themselves when a vote on the motion was called They were unwilling to compromise on the TaftHartley issue either for partial retention WRITERS WANTED AlLstudents interested inwriting columns movie previews or concert reviews for the Review next semester should submit trial columns by May 19Students interested in reviewing theatrical productions mustsubmit a review of Playboy of the Western World by May 19 or complete repeal Without these provisions included however they felt that the remainder of the plank was greatly inadequate Remaining Proposals Without the clause favoringpartial retention of TaftHartley the plank would have consisted of only two proposals affirmation of the 1946 Employment Act andendorsement of a minimum wage raise from 1 to 125 per hour and nominal extension of its coverage Jerry Nelson of the Executive Committee then informed thedelegates that a second labor meeting would take place at 430 thisafternoon at which time they would either adopt a labor plank tosubmit to the Mock Conventionplatform or the Executive Committee would appoint an ad hoccommittee to draw up a proposal This would leave one of the mostpotent issues of the Convention to be thrashed out on theConvention floor Sharp Division Feeling among the delegates seemed to run towards a black and white division on the issue when the meeting openedyesterday Mike Meltsner New York Chairman favored complete repeal of all TaftHartley provision If the Democratic Party wants solid Labor support we must call for repeal of the entire act Meltsner stated However it was expected that Jack Rice vicechairman of Ohio would move in this afternoons meeting to retain the provisions included in the majority reportrejected last night HIOUI Students interested in positions on the 1957 HiOHi staff should contact Mickey Pfister at EastBurton or Baldwin as soon as possible Ticket System All future Dascomb diners will be issued an information sheettoday which will explain eatingarrangements and the ticket system used The ticket system is one in which breakfast diners willpresent a white ticket the number of which is checked off on a master sheet as the ticketholder enters the cafeteria Students who eat all meals at Dascomb will present gray tickets When questioned about thecontinuation of the Saga reputation ie all you want seconds and thirds and steak on Saturday nights Mr Anderson replied Yes perhaps even more so since Mr Jackson and I comanagers will have much more supervision s 1 I d I J LaiwA liriiii ii rtiifi Till i fc frialil r at iinil Jtii John Bacr Texas Resolutions Committee representativeconferred with meeting chairman Jerry Nelson on a suspension oflimitation of debate on the labor plank last night He failed in his attempt to extend discussion The entire labor plank proved unsatisfactory to the committee and an attempt to formulate a new plank was made today at 430 Hook Proposal Fires Debate on Welfare Rv JACK STELLMAN A wave of last minute vote changes by the Resolutions Committee passed the Welfare SubCommittee plank atResolutions hearings last night The plank was progressing rapidly until Ernie Hook North Carolina representative proposed an amendment which called for legalization ofabortion and would provide birth control information and birth control devices to all those who apply From its introduction this amendment was seen as astumbling block for the majority report as it had previously beenamended Even though the plank passed many states signed a petitioncalling for the deletion of the Hook amendment This petition will be brought before the entireConvention when it meets May 4 Education Aid The report also calls for federal aid to education for schoolconstruction this aid is to beadministered through the United States Office of Education with the 3 Oberlin Students Publish in Forum Spring issue of the Forumfeatures a short story by John Bunuel and poems by Danny Kleinman and Mark Arnold of the College According to coeditor George Strauss the new college magazine provides a vehicle for theexchance of opinion and creative works by students around the na tion Essays of a serious humor ous conservative or liberal tone plus fiction poetry art work and photography are within the scope of the Forum Contributions for the summer issues are now being accepted A subscription to the fourforthcoming summer issues plus the current spring issue costs one dollar Thursday New Devices The dining room seats 400 and can be divided into three large areas and a fourth smaller section The big kitchen has separate and distinct sections for different ac tivities all sections beingequipped with modern automaticappliances House director for Dascomb is Mrs Marion Mariotti assisted by Mrs Lloyd Taylor at the bell desk Saga food managers MessrsJackson and Anderson will be in charge of the cafeteria and the kitchen Mr Anderson said There will be many things happening in the first week or so which we havent been able to anticipatebecause of the entirely newoperation so we ask for the students patience in solving any problems guarantee that Federal aid will not affect academic freedom An amendment to grant federal aid only to nonsegregated schools was defeated when it was shown that the South is in most desperate need of the help Without such support southern states would be forced to use their own money which would probably go to the construction and improvement of segregated white schools Housing Further Federal aid was sup ported for a nonsegregatedhousing improvement program This article calls for the construction of at least one million housing units per year to provide dwellings for persons affected by a proposed slum clearance program The establishment of a Federal reinsurance program iederal aid to medical research personnel and equipment and an increase in benefits to honorably discharged veterans were included in the plank Senior Class Sets Two Dollar Dues The Class of 1956 met Saturday evening to discuss commencement plans and class social activities According to Dick Cole secretary treasurer of the senior class the group voted to adopt 2 dues to be paid annually to cover asubscription to the Alumni Magazinecorrespondence from the classpresident each year and reunionexpenses which are incurred every five years In other business the Class de cided that the gift should be in the form of an endowment fund in the name of the Class of 1956 but neither the amount of the fund nor its purpose has yet beendetermined Program Notes Student Recital Warner Hall Part I 730 pm RichardRhinehart string bass Sarabande from Second Cello Suite and Minuet from First Cello Suite by Bach Linda Martin piano Sonata Op 31 No 2 Adagio and Allegretto by Beethoven Alice Pfohl violin and Robert Whalin pianoSymphonic Espagnolc Andantemovement by Lalo and NoraMatsumura piano Romanian Folk Dances by Bartok Part II 845 pm Dave Foster organ Offertoire sur les grands jeux by Coupcrin CarolynDexter piano Andante conVariazioni by Haydn Edmund Ostrand er tenor The Clothes of Heaven by Dunhill and The Lament of Ivan the Proud by Griffes Mari ette Hiu piano Prelude Op 32 No 5 by Rachmaninoff and Os tinato by Bartok and Jean Morin flute and Ricardo del Carmen pi ano Sonata for Flute and Piano by Piston Stormy Debate Marks Desegregation Session By JACK STELLMAN If this Desegregation SubCommittee Report passes it will seriously jeopardize the unity of the Democratic party In spite of this warning by South Carolina chairman Ric Gluckman the Resolutions Cpmmittee proceeded to adopt the majority report The report which has wavered from the proNorth Indiana proposal to the proSouth Missouri Compromise to the proNorth plank passed last Friday night by the Resolutions Committee has been one of great interest and even greatercontroversy to both committee members and the College student body Over 300 persons packed the Mock Convention auditorium to hear the stormy and wellorganized Southern Bloc argue its case against the divided and oftenconfused northern states Federal Commission The current plank calls for the establishment of a federalcommission appointed by thePresident and approved by the Senate which would work with localauthorities to see that the process of integration is carried out The South is against any such commission feeling that such a group if composed of Northern statesmen would fail to realize the emotional problems whichintegration presents to the South Unity Needed Several representatives to the committee pointed out that the Democratic party would be facing a strong Republican coalition next November and if Democraticvictory was to be hoped for absolute unity would be needed within the party To achieve unity in the party the North and South would have to find some satisfactory agreement on the desegregation issue Jon Mallamud Florida chairman said that the South would not go for the Majority Report as amended and that some measures would have to be taken to compromise with the South Disagreement Develops As passed by the Desegregation SubCommittee both North and South expressed their approval of the plank however as amended and passed by the Resolutions Committee Friday a noticeable disagreement of opinion wasevident After the meeting was ad journed and once during the hear ings of the States Rights plank the representatives fromPennsylvania attempted to introduce a new compromise plank Their efforts were not realized and a special meeting for the purpose of hearing the proposal was called for Sunday morning At this time the compromise was read and anumber of states signed it for thepurpose of submitting the document as a minority report before theentire Convention Spirit of the Court The compromise calls for no federal commission no state con trol merely each state striving for integration within the spirit of the Supreme Court This type of proposal was drawn Northern States Join In Convention Bloc By BETH ROBINSON Forming a bloc ostensibly io support Chester Bowles for presi dent small northern states are working to create the possibility of controlling the trend of MockConvention The states have united prim arily to offset the southern pow er Larry Mirel chairman of the Connecticut delegation said By throwinr heir support to anorthern can Liate these states hope to nominate running mates with a firm stand on states rights States interested in joining the bloc are Colorado Connecticut Montana Nevada NewHampshire South Dakota UtahVermont Washington and Wyoming All of these states are operating under the unit rule except New Hampshire and South Dakota Their votes amount to a total of 140 New Hampshire and South directly from the actualPennsylvania state platform and Marlene Maass Pennsylvania statevicechairman asserted that this was the only feasible stand aDemocratic candidate could take on the issue She then went on to say that this is a statement of principle upon which future administrations may build Fridays Resolutions Committee meeting started with an attempt to have a Southern chairmanexcluded from the meeting midway through the proceedings a rock was thrown through a window in the Mock Convention office A note attached to the rock read Keep Alabama White KKK Saturday leaflets were passed out In the Snack Bar giving Southern reasons for opposing desegregation Coops Show Creative Art Grey Gables and Pyle Inn will hold their annual creative artsfestival May 12 The festival aninformal showing of the art work of students faculty andtoWnsDROple will be held at both Coops Those interested in contributing their work are asked to bring their work to one of the Coops before the festival The art work cancover every possible field paintings India ink collages sculpture and mobiles Original musicalcompositions will also be presented Although the festival is the same weekend as the faculty show at the art museum Barbara Shererdirector of the festival felt that this would be a more satisfactoryweekend than that of Mock Convention the other time considered 6 House Directors To Leave College Six years at Oberlin ashousemother is enough and Im going back to school asserted Marlys F Fixx House Director at MayCottage I plan to get my masters at the University of Florida and then to teach Mrs Fixx wants to teach high school English Margaret H Blake of Baldwin Cottage will be house director of Martha Cook dormitory forwomen at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor Other house directors who are resigning are Vera N Locke at Embassy Gertrude C Beard at Allencroft Gladys D Ward of Shurtleff and Jessie K Heinrich of Johnson House tr Dakota each have eight Sixhundred and thirty votes are needed to nominate a candidate As organizer of the group Mirel is pushing Connecticuts favorite son Chester Bowles Mirel claims that Mr Bowles became the blocs logical candidate because of his experience as governor of Connecticut and his experience as United States Ambassador toIndia Mirel added that Bowles seems most aware that to theoppressed peoples of the world the United States is a symbol ofoppression to tyranny and for this reason would best fulfill theposition of president Although the bloc hopes to nominate Bowles for president their mass voting power couldeffect the nomination of any other candidate who best represents their interest in states rights and Chester Bowles