Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1956-11-30

              I III s I UI I 1 4X Wesleyan Defeats Harriers Again Sports Page 3 NvFreshman Quarter Jri Europe Questioned Editorial Paqe2 VOLUME 85 ZS72 OBERLIN OHIO FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30 1956 NUMBER 20 Dramatic Groups Announce Production ODA Picks For Ibi By SUE MOLDOF Nancy Nicburger will head the cast of the ObcrlinDramatic Associations production of Henrik Ibsens Hedda Gabler The cast was announced yesterday William Curtis will play her scholarly husband Jorgen Tesman Maxine Wenzler JulianeTcsman the maiden aunt who raised Jorgen Gerald Covcll Jorgens hypersensitive scholastic rival Ejlert Lovborg Carol Meacham Mrs Elvsted Malhiasen Speaks On Hunaarian Relief On Antioch Campus Dave M iliiasen a Reviewmanaging editor speaking Tuesday at a National StudentAssociationsponsored rally for HungarianRelief at Antioch College recounted to 150 Antiochians the plans and nature of the studentleddemonstration Nov 15 in Clevelands Public Square Matliiasen a member of the panel addressing the rallydeclared that there was sufficient justification for the demonstration if it made some College students more worldminded NSAcoordinator and Review city editor Dick Page and NSA regionalvicechairman of international affairsRoberta Meserve accompaniedMathiascn Before and after the paneldiscussion students were encouraged to contribute funds for Hungarian relief and urged to sign petitions calling for the institution of free elections in Hungary and theremoval of Soviet troops from that nation Other speakers on the program were Bob Zevin an Antiochstudent who told of historicalsituations and background information that indicated reasons why the Hungarian rebels were forced to art KarEbfl a refugee from East Germany who gave a students viewpoint of the situation inHungary and Mr Peter Foris aresearch chemist and refugee from Hungary now living in Dayton who explained what Dayton was doing to collect money andprovide homes for the Hungarian refugees now entering the country The Antioch NSA committee headed by Dan Cohen madearrangement with ElizabethBlakesley YWCA secretary for theCollege delegates to drive to Antioch Tuesday evening FOLKART FILMS International Affairs Committee presents a program of five folkart films depicting song dance and art of several countries at 730tonight in Hall AuditoriumAdmission is 25 cents The films are The Earth Sings containing songs and dances of Palestine Rhythm of Africa Fable of the Peacock featuring East Indian music and dancing Russian Ballet and Folk Dances and Yoshi no Yama showing classical Japanese dancing Pacifist Criticizes Hungarian Revolt Strikes More Effective Than Violence Ey JERRY LEHMANN f Most of us on campus have viewed the struggle of the Hungarian people withadmiration for their courage and sympathy with their aims Yet few of us have considered the mpUcations of the violence and slaughter that hasresultea as much from their actions as from the Russian action It is a great shame that the ngarians forfeited all hope for suesS in their bloody effort for It as Hungary which in 1867demonstrated the effectiveness of Peaceful methods ln a situation similar In mnnv poets t0 the present one the Hui wrians rid their country of Austrian soldi prs unci tn vnllnnt ors and won the restoration of their on by peaceful means ih Hungarian moderates felt opcless in the face of Austrian fioKer or they were t0 weak t0 Sit But Francis vDeak a great ngarian patriot gave them fage and leadership with his viol speech Your laws are cln a yet your mouths remain raif Woe t0 the nation which es no Protest when its rights sKraged The nation which uiims to injustice and oppres Cast of 7 4 Hedda IX JT who oi me aiarict magistrate and Ejlert s literary helpmate Thomas Goldthwaite Judge Brack Heddas friend and JeanHighland Berte the Tesmans oldfamily maid Ibsen anticipated Freud when he wrote this psychological study in 1890 According to Mr Jack Clay ODA director Hedda Gabler is one of the most famous studies of frustration in the modern theater It is the story of a womansunrealistic revolt against the limited middle class society she lives in The complex title role has been played by such famous western stars as Katina Paxinnu of Greece Eva Le Gallienne of France Nazimova of Russia and Minnie Maddern Fiske the first great realistic on the American stage ODA is stagging the play in the style of historical realism The actors will be working withperformance methods evolved from the realist theater just before the turn of the century The first rehearsal will be 230 pm Sunday in Hall Auditorium and the performances will be given Jan 30 and 31 and Feb 1 and 2 Art Show Begins Works Go on Sale Preview showings of the Allen Art Museum Purchase Show will begin Monday Sales will open 130 pm Tuesday and will beconducted on a llrstcome firstserved basis continuing for two weeks The show will feature original prints drawings manuscript leaves and music missal pages Four New York art dealers and one Cleveland collector havecontributed to this years exhibition The Weyhe Gallery in New York which has participated in the show for the last ten years is sending 75 works at prices ranging from 3 to 75 including famous woodcuts lithographs and color etchings Other New York exhibitorsrepresented in the show are the Meltzer and Chalette Galleries who will offer contemporary prints Two contributors Mrs Otto Ege of Cleveland and Walter Schatzki of New Yorkk have also sent works for the Purchase Show DORM HOI TOMORROW Social Board presents the Dorm Hop 8301130 pm Saturday in Harknrss Dascomb and Talcott Halls A combo the Adlibatones will dav for dancing at Dascomb Hall refreshments will be served at Harkness and College students will entertain at Talcott Admission to the Hop is 75 cents The dance will be informal sion without protest is doomed Yet Deak did not call on the patriots to rise in the streets and kill Austrians but implored Do not be betrayed into acts ofviolence Nonviolence andlegality is the safe ground on which unarmed ourselves we can hold our own against armed force If suffering must be necessary suffer with dignity As a Christian pacifist I would like to suggest that the current Hungarian reaction is not asrealistic as it may seem What hope can a poorly armedunorganized people have in violentstruggle with one of the greatest military machines of our time Would the success of such a rebellion which might mean the establishment of a newgovernment precariously based on tne same necessity for violence be any freer or more democratic It now appears that any gain that the Hungarians can win will come from the nonviolent general strikenot the armed rebellion The feeling of our culture has traditionally been that it is more manly more patriotic to ve ne life for ones country ey face of hopeless odds by kilung and destroying as much else of Motorcyclists Must Register By New Ruling All owners of motorcyclesmotor scooters and motorbikes will be required to register theirownership and a description of their vehicles in the office of the Dean of Men by Tuesday A notice from the Deans office noted personal injuries property damage and numerous annoyances to students and townspeople caused bycareless operation and parking of these vehicles The City of Oberlin is revising its present motorcycle ordinances Pending the completion of thisrevision the owners of vehicles are asked by the Deans notice to note the following rules All motorvehicle operators must be licensed to drive their particular vehicle The local AAA office issues temporary permits enabling the operator to take a qualifying test in South Amherst State license tags formotorcycles and motor scooters areprocured through the AAA Motorized bicycles need only city tags Speed and traffic laws apply to all motor vehicles operators are responsible for knowing andobserving these It is dangerous and illegal for more than one person to ride on a motorcycle equipped to seat only one or for a passenger to ride sidesaddle Operation of these motorvehicles must be confined to streets and drives They must not bedriven on sidewalks or campus paths or across grassed areas Unnecessary racing andgunning of engines should beavoided The notice from the Deansoffice also outlined special parking areas for motorcycles motorscooters and motorbikes It pointed out that while there are nofaculty restrictions concerning the use and ownership of thesevehicles if the Dresent abuses con tinue the College will have to ake restricive acion Dr Kurtz Weitzmann Speaks On Illumination of Epic Poems By CYNTHIA WHITMAN Popularity of the text was the first condition that a manuscript had to fulfill before it wasillustrated stated Dr KurtzWeitzmann in his talk on illuminations of ancient epic poems Tuesday evening in Allen Art Auditorium The second condition he added was the quality of the narrative content action which can bedivided into consecutive phases must be the core of the story so that the pictures have meaning without resorting to the text The Iliad with its many lively episodes and numerous subjects was the most frequently illustrated text The principle of extendedpicture narrative of which the final solution today is the motionpicture is an invention of theHellenistic period Dr Weitzmanndeclared Illustrations were placed in the enemys as you can take with you It is my feeling that although this is bravery in one sense was not Deaks bravery even greater serving humanity as well as his country It is becoming Increasinglyevident to some of us that violence can be suppressed by violence but nonviolence can not Anexample the Montgomery busboycott By putting Jesus on the shelf of divinity the church has evaded the question of whether his ideas will really work In an apparently hopelesssituation as the Hungarians found themselves in would it not seem nobler braver and more Christian and perhaps more successful it could hardly be less to put the same loyalty and energy intononviolence to be willing to sacrifice ones own life withoutperpetuating violence and immoralityoneself Would it not be harder for the Russian soldier as it was 90 years before for the Austrian to subject a people willing to suffer and die but who do not return evil Is this not the way to break thrmiLh the cycles of provocation and retaliation of endless eye for an eye incident lor incident met E7I m i jv v flu r Ilmlo by lite NiWSrlnlnine Lynn Alston as Phyllis a ward of the Lord Chancellor and Dale Huffington as Strephon a shepherd rehearse a scene from Iolanthe Gilbert and Sullivan Players production which will be presented ThursdaySaturday in Hull Auditorium The play is a political satire on the English peerage and shifts between the real world of politics and the world of fairyland Burton King Books Published this Month By VIRGINIA SERVICE Two new books about famous Oberlinians are now available to the public Henry Churchill King of Oberlin by Donald Lovesecretary of the College waspublished this month by the YaleUniversity Press Theodore E Burton American Statesman by Forrest Crissey was published by the World Publishing Company Henry Churchill King wasPresident of the College from 1902 to 1927 when Oberlin grew from just another small midwestern college into one of the foremosteducational institutions in the country Bruce Catton Pulitzer Prize winner editor of AmericanHeritage and former pberlin student writes that this hook deserves a reading far outside of the circle of Oberlin alumni Of King himself the middle of the columns ofwriting with sometimes as many as 30 columns and 30 pictures for one book of the Iliad Freizes with their narrow bands of sequential episodes andfrescoes derive their style from book illustration according to Dr Weitzmann We can assume that any illuminated narrative points to some literary source although often interpretation is difficultbecause no poems outside of the Homeric period are preserved he said Often there is an attempt to reconstruct the outline of aliterary work from a frieze Dr Weitzmann is with theInstitute for Advanced Study at Princeton University Delegates to NSA Visit Notre Dame Four students will represent the College at the fall assembly of the United States National Student Association OhioIndiana Region tomorrow and Sunday at theUniversity of Notre Dame Delegation chairman is Dick Page NSAcampus coordinator other members of the delegation will be Roberta Meserve Al Hooper and Mike Rudman Pat Logan president of the Notre Dame student body will give the keynote address The Commission on Educational Affairs will discuss problems of discrimination on regional cam puses and studentfacultyadmin istration relationships dealing with student responsibility in program and course planning and selfdisci pline Topics covered by the CommiS sion on Student Government will include student government struc ture leadership training student selfdiscipline and the role of NSA in student government Miss Meserve regionalvicechairman of International Affairs will moderate the Commission on International Affairs Recentstudent revolts in Hungary and their relation to American College stu dents action will be discussed JOBS FOR MEN Men interested in dining hall jobs or odd jobs shoveling snow etc should register In the Dean of Mens office s it t 1 Catton writes As the years passed I came to see that here was one of the great men of my generation a man who although mypersonal contacts with him wereextremely scanty did a great deal to set the pattern which I was finally to follow Another tribute to the biography of King came from Arthur M Sghlesinger professor of history at Harvard who writes that Loves judicious and perceptivebiography should attract r it only alumni of the institution but all who are interested in the signifi cant role of the small college in American high education Mr Love who was granted a leave ot absence for the academic year 195455 to work on thebiography writes at the outset of his book that Kings accomplishment for Oberlin was that of theconservative who holds fast to what is good in the past and that of the progressive who presses on to the high calling of the future Theodore E Burton American Statesman is the biography of an Oberlin alumnus who served for 30 years in the United States Con gress Burton a graduate of the class of 1873 and a trustee of the College for 30 years spent 14 terms in the House and two terms in the Senate Herbert Hoover In his introduc tion to the biography says of Bur ton that he was our greatest American legislative statesman Former President Hoover states that Burtons skills were important in passage of such measures as the Sherman AntiTrust Act and banking and currency control The author Forrest Crissey was a Chicago newspaper man and a writer for The Saturday Evening Post before his death He studied Burtons career during the years when Burton was active inCongress 3 Forensic Teams To Debate Tomorrow Three teams of College debaters will participate in three debate tournaments tomorrow The queS tion for all three tournaments will be Resolved that the United States should discontinue foreign economic aid The first tournament will be held at Allegheny Collegetomorrow schools in New YorkPennsylvania and Ohio will berepresented Wade Smith and Fred Spiegelberg will debate the affirm ative for the College while Harry Parrott and Martha Schollenberg er will take the negative side In a tournament to be held at Otterbein College Pat Stump and Ann Pollard will take theaffirmative side and Victor Swenson and Robert Wurtz will debate thenegative against teams from colleges in Indiana Ohio and Pennsyl vania Eight students will represent the College in the Northern Ohio De bate Tournament which will be held at the University of Akron Peter Probst Hopkin Rowland George Worcester and Edward Laumann will debate the affirma tive and Roger Johnson Don Ran kin Sig Schoenbohm and John Young the negative On Nov 17 a College team won the Ninth Annual Direct Clash De bate Tournament held at the Col lege of Wooster Mummers Do Opus 5 Paint Your Wagon For the first time in six years Mummers will present three complete shows in a school year They are Heat of the Sun an original play by Dave Jenness a twopart program titled Opus 5 consisting of Molieres ComedieBallet LAmourMedecin and Prof Alfred Schlesingers classical dialogue The FlameRace of Prometheus and the musical Paint Your Wagon TpaHincf nff fhic voarc rrrtr1nr 1 1 1 1 tion Jenness Heat of the Sun will run at Hall Auditorium Dec 1315 Tickets went on sale today at Haylors and in Peters Opus 5 will be presented Feb 22 and 23 Its first partLAmourMedecin is the story of a man duped against his will intoallowing his daughter to marry the man of her choice Directing theacting cast of this threeact comedy will be Prof Hayden Boyersassisted by Mr Simon Barenbaum both of the French department Because LAmourMedecin will be delivered in the original French the acting cast will be chosen primarily from the French Club Nancy Neuman will direct the ballet which is interwoven with the dialogue while Phil Spurgeon leads the accompanying orchestra The set will be a copy of the set used by the Comedie Francaise in a performance of the sameproduction in Paris last year Tryouts for both acting and ballet casts will be held immediately afterChristmas vacation Part two of Opus 5 a dramatic reading of an original classicaldialogue written by Prof Alfred Schlesinger of the classicsdepartment is titled The FlameRace of Prometheus Employing original elements from Greek mythology Professor Schlesinger has written the dramatic reading of anextension of the Prometheus myth in blank verse All nine castmembers will be seated on stage with the manuscript before them during most of the reading In Miy Mununars will present its thira and final show of the year the musical Paint Your Wagon with book and lyrics by Alan Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe The plot revolves around a California gold miner BenRumson whose daughter Jennifer falls in love with Julio a Mexican gold prospector Director Larry Sigman has scheduled tryouts for the first week in February The cast will have a minimum of 30 singing chorus members 30 orchestra members and a separate dancing chorus Career Initiates This years Womens Careerf Conference incorporates into its program a system of personalinterviews in addition to the usual group discussions Each consultant is holding individual conferences with women having a particularly great interest in a particular field This plan was started in the hope that it would be as helpful to women as the similar program has proved to be in the Mens Career Conference Chairman Alice Kroc announced that approximately 175 interviews were scheduled In the keynote address Dr Blanche Dow president of Cottey College pointed out that the main objectives of a liberal education are to suit men and women for any vocation they may choose bygiving them knowledge integrity and responsibility Miss Miriam Strong a member of the Cleveland City Planning Commission expressed herenthusiasm over the chance tointroduce to college women a field which she feels must be brought to the attention of more people Miss Strong felt that a liberal education with a background in the various social sciences is the bestpreparation for such work Speaking on opportunities inpsychology Miss Celeste McCollough associate professor of psychology in the College emphasized theaspects of psychology found in teaching and research Pointing out that these fields are open to women with very few exceptions Professor McCollough stated that 25 per cent of the members of the American PsychologicalAssociation are women She emphasized that the woman who wants to go into psychology must firstdetermine if her intellectual interest in Plans a reoman Announces Silverstein Taylor Drucker Awarded Winners of the Yeoman literary contest for poetry essays and short stories as announced this week are Kathleen Drucker for an untitled sonnet in the poetrydivision Kathy Taylor with anessay on the treatment of Yeats symbolism in the essay division and Danny Silverstein with a story titled The Cost of Living in the short story division Each winner will receive a 10 cash award The judges members of theEnglish department also chose several honorable mentions They are in the poetry division Carol Clemeau Toni Browning Ray Oliver and William Griswold in the essaydivision Marianna Presler in the short story division Lorraine M Goldensohn Twentytwo poems two essays and seven short stories weresubmitted to the contest Since the close of the contest five more short stories were submitted Mike Shinagel editor of the Yeoman said I was very pleased with the turnout and the fact that the subject matter on the whole departed from the standard puerile treatment of profound themes eg sex violence the eternal question of human existence etc It appears that the students were wise enough to take themes within their scope All pieces submitted to thecontest will be reviewed by theYeoman staff and editorial board this week The articles for theforthcoming issue to be published the first week in January will be made up of contest entries COUNCIL AGENDA Student Councli agenda forSunday night includes discussion of insurance on College stationwagons and discussion of electionsystems Conference Interviews the work is strong enough tojustify the great expenditure of time and money necessary for theneeded graduate training The field of biological sciences according to Miss Jean Cummings assistant professor of biology at Western Reserve University is not so open to women particularly in industry However she said that medicine particularly researchassistantships and teachings are wide open to women as well as men Library Stays Open On Sunday Evenings Librarian Eileen Thornton has announced that the library hasdecided to open the Reserve Room on an experimental basis onSunday evenings from 710 pm and at 1 pm on Monday throughSaturday afternoons The experiment will beginSunday and will continue until the end of the semester Whether the new hours will continue after the end of the semester depends on the amount of student use On its questionnaire at the end of last year the StudentEducational Policy Committee included questions about library policy The tabulated results showed that the students were in favor of extended Reserve Room hours These results were presented and discussed with Miss Thornton by the Committee MARINE CORPS Major Hansen U S Marine Corps will be at Peters HallMonday to discuss Marine CorpsOfficer Programs with meninterested t