Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1956-06-11

              THE OBERLIN REVIEW Monday June u Experiment Reveals Coopers Attitudes On Campus Issues By BOB BUSHNELL Coopers are different This was the conclusion of three sociology students CarolCahalan Rasa Gustaitis and Nancy Schmidt after a study conducted for Prof Milton Yingers class in scientific method in sociology Their hypotheses were two First that coopers because of their unique coop experience identity more with their dining hall ie spend more time there and like it better and Second that there is a significantdifference between the coop andnoncoop opinion on campus issues To test these theories theyissued questionnaires to three groups nf students 1 coopers 2 a group of students who had applied but not been drawn into coops and 3 a randomly selected group of other students Coopers when asked to rate their enthusiasm for their dining hall showed much strongerattachment than any other group on campus primarily for what they called the coop spirit Theaverage eooper spends from half an hour to an hour daily relaxingafter meals while the averagenoncooper spends less than half an hour daily The most significant differences were those of opinion on campus issues For two of these interclass housing and campus queen coop applicants and coopers hadsimilar opinions This result leads to the belief that contrary opinion tended to aggregate rather than form at the coops However for two other samplings on the junior counselor system and politicalinclination coop opinion differed significantly from that of allnoncoopers leading to the contrary conclusion that it is the coopatmosphere that creates the opinion Twenty per cent of thenoncoopers favored interclass dorms while 40 per cent of the coopapplicant group and 50 per cent of the coops favored campus wide interclass dorms On the campus queen question 70 per cent ofcoopers and 56 per cent of coop ap plicants opposed On the other hand in the random group 39 per cent favored the proposal and 30 per cent disapproved In political inclination asmeasured by the Mock Convention vote the entire campus leaned Democratic for the campus as a whole the sample yielded 4743 while coop applicants tended Democratic by a 6132 margin co opers 7420 The JC system was opposed by coopers 4024 and by applicants 5340 but the campus favored the system 6531 The study concludes that the co ops have a stronger feeling oftogetherness which consolidates opinions Miss Cahalan MissGustaitis and Miss Schmidt feel that persons of like opinion do tend to apply to the coops but that on some issues coop experience sets an opinion Year in Review Continued from Page Z begin phasing out next year and present cadets can complete their advanced course at Case Tech The Air Force asked that the unitdisband because of unjustified ex pense 20 other small college units met the same fate Russia rep Ivar Oxaal returned to campus soon after the fall se mestcr began Oxaal emphasized that Russia was in better condi tion than he had beer led to be lieve but pointed out that his travels were limited by lack of funds Larry Gottheim elected to be this years Russia Rep will rot be so restricted by financial lim itations due to Council approval of a 20 cent raise In the activity fee allocation for the IAC The College physical plant changed somewhat Browning for several years the haven of rest for overworked students was re placed by the new wing of Allen Hospital The rooms in Peters Hall blossomed In various pastel shades and Warner Hall turned pink In contrast with the colorfulinteriors the skies turned gray this spring and it rained and rained and rained The weather was typical at least In all other respects this past year has been an invigorating and hectic one which has seen more than the usual share ofinnovations MoaJz Belley RepoiU On the I A C And the Cold War TViP rlass of 1956 on emerging from four years of aca demic isolation and minor preoccupations comes on the scene of a world which regardless of hots and colds of international politics is at least still there The cold war after nearly boiling over because of two islands off the coast of China and anunhesitatingly emotionally wellgrounded expression from the halls of Congress has in the course of human desires cooled off a little M Though some may feel it superficial the tone of the international situation did undergo a pleasant turn at the Geneve Summit meetings moreover mutual benefits were reaped with the Geneva AtomsforPeace conference and the crumbling foundations of 19th century and unenlightened 20th century foreign policy were shaken with the rising of the sleeping giant the Bandung Conference of colored peoples As students and prospective participants in theunfolding of history a number of contrasting experiences have been available to us at Oberlin in respect to international affairs Theoretically we have become equipped to act according to sound rational judgment and yet we may be shocked to find the absence of such in the area of American foreign policy Foreign Policy Blunders For the past few years American toreign policy nas Kppti rharaptprized bv its lack of direction principle or imag ination It has been under the leadership of the dynamically vegetative John Foster Dulles a leftover from the period of Democratic bipartisan foreign policy According to James Reston in the New York Times Jan 15 1956 Mr Dulles has added something new to the art of diplomatic blundering This is the planned mistake He doesnt stumble into booby traps he digs them to size studies tnem careiuny ana men ramns J r i ri J Mr Dulles list oi laux pas is so long one uueu vuuutia whether it is merelv the shortsightedness of a foggedover glass navel or whether he actually enjoys ruminating on his Own lum in ivoj iic uuciaiu uoim stopped communism with massive retaliation and now he plays the game of diplomacy with the peace of the world by practicing the art cl reaching the onnKoiwar wunoui lau ing in Aside irom xnese iacis ne nab uixn cunningly unyi in working with Deoole calling Gooa a province of Portugal just before visiting Nehru and raising the question of Kashmir at a South East Asia Treaty Organization meeting in Pakistan In contrast though on a ditterent level oi operation is the work of the College International Affairs Committee It has a broadly defined principle of attempting to promotemutual understanding among the world community of students as well as promoting international travel and exchange as part of lessening world tensions Within this framework it has attempted to develop new and imaginative activity The attempt to develop the limited success of the AmericanSoviet student exchange is an outstanding example Contrast with IAC Work Three vears ago when the barriers between East and West were quite high Oberlin did a little forging out on her own with the sending of a student representative to the Soviet Union in order to increase contacts to stimulate furtherexchanges and merely to satisfy an intellectual curiosity The exchange program and the attempts by the International Af fairs Committee to have boviet students visit the united states vp nlavorl a vital role in stimulating further exchanges na tionally and as such played a small part in creating theatmosphere in which the diplomats could negotiate However once more an inept policy nationally sninub out The big stumbling block to the student exchange was the principled opposition by the Soviets to being fingerprinted like criminals President Eisenhower had said both at Geneva and in his message to Congress that this provision of theMcCarranWalter Act was unnecessary and should be abolished It is standing in the way of a professorstudent exchange be tween Harvard and Moscow universities me wui ui uicouvipt fnllr rlancp trourje etc Though the State Department has gotten around the provision by granting some Soviet citizens official visas in many otner cases n nas riuslu iu wunt tvp Administration has refused to take steps in Congress The potential role of Uberlin s international Auairs Committee in both its agitation ana us specuicpiuBinuming can be seen as illustrative of the possibility of students h npnnlP in Poneral effecting even within the powerframe work gains not only in international cuwus uui m moiij otherareas of political and social activity iiaii Personnel Evaluate New DorrJ Li X A t I 11 4 K i v f f 9 A viow of the parlor at Dasromb includes several nnage tables the new drapes and various chairs and sofas In the rear is the bell desk llifOi 11 r J Barrows Hall completed in March still awaits landscaping to replace the muddy grounds around it Barrows Piano Study Lounges Offset Mud Few Complaints Success in Experiment Stage riaennmh TTall thp Cnllpcrps Dascomb Hall the Colleges new combination of cafeteria dining hall and dormitoryapparently has met its two month experimental period successfully according to statements from its various personnel While student bpinion has been largely critical of inevitable bugs such as noise and theinconveniences of construction most of Dascombs staff tend tospeculate on its long term advantages while nonetheless recognizing the present difficulties At present this dormitory is in a transitional period it is not set up as a functioning unit says house director Mrs Marion W Mariotti The noise problem is the greatest But its opportunities for next years freshmen areexcellent The dormitory is new and centrally located Its rooms are well engineered both for economy of space and beauty Next year there will be one JC for each eight women preserving the small and harmonious atmosphere But its large size will also bewonderful for dances and parties Dining Hall The two Saga Food Servicemanagers Tom Jackson and Harry Anderson noted that they have no unfavorable comments on the food service Suga can nowprovide students with a choice of foods at breakfast and luncheon which are served cafeteria style and more food is available than formerly Saga claims that it is uneconomical to nnrrn ber of small dining halls r centrating everything in oj scale place however we L v to give the College the to service it wants p c Miss Gladys Swigart m of residences and dffi hfff ports Its wonderful that t V lege now has two new which have been Inng needed Trial Teriod Miss Swigart resrret informal studies were not pro in Dascomb as they were t nnur mnne D 11 W nut she f that common hmh site improvement late arrival oj uluvo aim lurnuure and heatl ajraicu piuuiums nave been ovp come It was difficult to move the middle of the year she cV eluded But this trial periods helped Business Manager Lewis n Tv er feels that one month is early to tell how efficiently th nuw uumiuury win work He h yet to obtain actual figures Frr his personal observationsyTower had this to say The new features of Dascorr are us jarge living room spa caieiena and dining hall mr tions that reduce the hall in to four small rooms Drapes on t soum wan will absorb noise Lir lung tne size will eliminate t strangeness uy assistingincomifreshmen to tables as hasbedone in the past new students become oriented to their soc groups kitchen facilities primarily for roasting meat says Mrs Welker and enthusiasm for the new piano was so great that time limits had to be put on its use Barrows is still lacking draperies some of its intended furniture presentlylocated in Dascomb and a ping pong table Next years residents are looking to the time when the ground will be graded the walks i set and when they can finally use the front door SN Men at Barrows pleased in escaping Federal have little but praise for their building even with its nowmudcovered entrances Theyespecially appreciate the lounges and the absence of cold drafts says Mrs Irene Welker housedirector Mechanically the building has been in good order only thehydraulic freight elevator gave a little difficulty in the beginning Typical complaints are thealphabeticallyarranged mailboxes which make it necessary for some tall men to stoop and some short ones to stretch for their mail the shower valves which are soconstructed that one cant sneak up on them to test the water but must brave the first splach hot or cold and the shaving shelves which jut out over the wash basin in amanner positively conducive to a banged head The men at Barrows seem most pleased with the kitchen and the piano in the main lounge Students continually take advantage of the yXvvxxNNNV Hack AND so See Hi ON ANDYS FOOD STORE SENIORS Before you to pick up at the leave be sure YOUR SHOES College Shoe Store Weston s Letter Continued from Page 2 from each other Certainlyknowing this gives me a broaderperspective and makes me a moretolerant person I can expect no more of others than I can of myself I cannot be anyone else only me But I can and must push medevelop me live me I think now I can do this much better thanbefore I dont exactly know what want to do or where I want to go but I do know that whateversituation arises I can meet the chal lenges with greater selfassurance I know these are obvious thoughts We can all Intellectual lze mat nui now i leei mem and for this I am grateful I am both thrilled and afraid to leave college After a while col lege becomes a place of security a College Authorized BAGGAGE TRANSFER SERVICE TRUNKS 100 PACKAGES 50 BAGS 50 25c for each floor JOHN URQUHART 42662 refuge protecting us from the abruptness of the outer world But think of the excitement ahead Where will I be what will I bedoing next year five or ten years from now And everyone else What about them too How can I tell you that Im happy How can I tell you that Im scared But enough said for whatever feelings I have I know you have had them too and that you will understand I just want you to know how grateful I am grateful for the faith you have had In me grateful I guess for more than just these last few years but for all the years of my life How else can I say it I really dont know I just want to say Thanks See 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