Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1957-03-29

              These Are Called Ears By Newsmen Editorial Page 2 iw its Sports Page Insists On Frontpage Notice Sports Page 5 VOLUME 85 Z572 OBERLIN OHIO FRIDAY MARCH 29 1957 NUMBER 44 College Negotiates Contract with Hotel Chain Faculty Vote Passes Hew Study Proposal Plan Requires 190 Student Volunteers For Alternate Week Independent Study At a special College Faculty meeting Tuesday theReview proposal for Alternate Week Independent Studies was discussed and passed with some modification forexperimentation starting this fall The plan was one of the innovations suggested in aReview editorial last week designed to increase study bloc time Students Vote On Advisability Of Saga Course Student Educational PolicyCommittee will distribute aquestionnaire in the dining hallsimmediately after spring vacation todetermine how many students would be interested in taking a course in hotel and restaurantmanagement next year The course will be scheduled in the economics department and will be taught in collaboration with the Epic and Saga chains if 20 or more students show an interest in it Several subcommittees of two members each are studyingvarious aspects of organization and presentation of this course which will probably be a year course with three credits per semester A special certificate of completion of the course might be awarded to participants Epic Inc which will be here on an experimental basis next year and Saga Food Service Inc now in its second year here haveindicated that they will offer part time employment to the beststudents in the class and will train ori student for a position with either company With this end in mind students are urged to vote on April 10 FORUM ON HOTEL The Review will sponsor its third forum next week April 15 at breakfast in ten campus dining halls The purpose of the forums is to stimulate discussion and guage campus reaction to theCollege amalgamation with the Epic totel chain Speakers are Homer P ODyssev Aeneas BeowulfCallimachus Epigram and Hero Ick Couplet ORCHESTRA NAME The name of the Collegiate Symphony Orchestra formerly the Inteimediate Orchestra has been changed to the OberlinPhilharmonic Orchestra This second change like the first one has been ile to indicate the groups status as a second fullfledged orchestra campus according to Director avid Robertson Union Planners Hail Epic Arrival As Boon to New Student Center Student Union Planning committee announcedyesterda in a special 19page smglespaced typewrittenreease to this newspaper that it 00 is pleased and privileged t0 ail the advent cf the Epic hoU1 chain to the campus Peter Chontow committeechairn of the joint studentadminis on group said in part group said in part that Cleans mnrp mnnnv fnr jcl more money means a bigger 1 Student Union for thestudents The special release listed three enn 1 Whieh the Committeecalu a ed the presence of the Epic JIel chain advantageous to the ln crests of Student Union tori hoteloperated dormi of ih Wl mean that the occupants tnose four dormitories will be tompd to the grand style of lvng of the Epic chain thererl and therefore thoseoccupants will support the Union lish 7 uCe in lts deslres t0estabal a push avlsnarchitectural structural effects In the new slUient Union To Erect Bulldlnf lontow nnlntd t kjj CommaLSid0Pt Union Plannlng hra c u decided to erect a new structure for union and mitigate time wasted in the classroom The Faculty estab usnea an ad hoc committee to make more specificrecommendations to the Faculty The new committee thechairman of which is Dean BlairStewart will consist of representatives from the Student and Faculty Educational Policy Committees the Review Editorial BoardStudent Council Y Campus andPuBlic Affairs Commission Student Union Planning Committee and Honor Committee They willdesign several experiments and evaluation methods for the first stages of AWIS To Seek Volunteers As passed the plan calls for 40 incoming freshmen and 50students from each of the upper classes to participate in theexperiment The students will be picked at random from volunteers These students will liveseparately from the rest of the college in two interclass dorms Talcott and Embassy will probably be used for these students They will attend classes and laboratories every other week and will study independently the other weeks Classs will probably meet twice a week for two hours at a time thus enabling more discussion time Dean Stewart emphasized that the plan is in embryonic form now and that it is extremelydifficult to answer any specificquestions since everything is subject to experimentation He hopes that students in the AWIS plan will not receive the usual credit points for their work so that they will not feel as though they are being paid for each course in terms of two three or four credits Stewarts Comments The standard currency of American higher education thesemester hour of credit is not auniform standard account but ranges all the way from pure gold to base metal he said He furthercommented that there might beinitial adverse reaction to thisproposal but that until it is tried we have no basis for judgment as to how effectively students can perform The Review proposal is a variation on a farreachingproposal made by one of the younger faculty members over a year ago A Review spokesman listed the following as some of theadContinued on Page 6 nurnnsM instead 01 tuinnwi6 Wilder Hall dormitory The new building will enable theCommittee to incorporate richnesslavishness and plushness 2 The staff of Epic Inc sent to Oberlin to operate the fourdormitories will be housed in thespecial Hotel ManagersApartments section of the studentunion and the managers would pay a modest rent of 10 a night for their room in the apartments Chontow emphasized that this would be the source of more money for the Student Union The Big Three 3 The presence of the Epic hotel chain added to the existing presence of Saga Food Services Inc would make Student Union one of the big three services on campus Saga would supply food Epic would supply housing and Student Union would combine them both in an effort to satisfy as many desires as possiblestaled the report When asked about what he thought of this setup Chontow replied Confidentially between you and I this is what weve been after its going to be great Traffic Survey t f thd 19Daee report con tained information about Student Union Planning commm re Body Proposes To Link Epic Campus Ideas Student Living Committee at an emergency meeting yesterday passed a motion asking Student Council to change the name and duties of the Committee toincrease its size and to appoint members to the Committee for the coming year immediately It also asked Council to censure theAdministration for not consulting the Committee before the contract with Epic Inc was negotiated The Committee wishes to be given the job of acting as anadvisory group for Epic Inc and a liaison between the corporation and the student body In view of this change in duties theCommittee asked that its name be changed to the Hotel Living Committee and that its size be increased from nine to eleven members Weekly Meetings The Committee would like to meet weekly with Epicsrepresentatives to review the policy decisions of the week and make recommendations forimprovements in the operations andservice according to the motion After all Epic can alwaysdisregard our ideas after it gets them the motion concluded The motion asking Council to censure the Administration stated that since the purpose of theCommittee is to give the students point of view on problems and conditions the Administration proposals affecting student living neglected its responsibility to the students and acted without knowing all sides of the issue when it did not ask theCommitmittee for its ideas After all the Administration can alwaysdisregard our ideas after It gets them the motion concluded Boards Fear Epics Effect On Present Regulations Issuing a joint statement regarding the news report of the advent of Epic Inc to the campus Womens and Mens Boards expressed severe pessimism about four dormitoriesbeing operated by a hotel chain A few members of Mens Board distributed adissenting report feeling basically that the hotel chain operation would be better in the long run and above all broaden students perspectives by making them aware of at least one aspect of the world outside Oberlins ivorytower The joint statement in the main deplored the deterioration of social rules that would inevitably fol HOTEL LIVING Applications are now open for positions on the ad hoc HotelCommittee Contact Hooper Graybeal Johnson Kennedy and Stellman posed traffic survey which would determine the mostfrequent area of campus so that the builders of the new StudentUnion structure would be guided in their decision of where to build the building in order to please everyone The survey will be taken in the form of a persontopersoninterview Student Unionsubcommittee members will stationthemselves at various positions on the campus during the next week and write down the routes of eachstudent as each student describes his route to an interviewer Stop Lights The report addedparenthetically that if traffic were determined to be so great in such areas at some particular times of the day and if congestion wereunmanageable then a request would be made to Council by the Committee for 500 to erect stopandgo lights In a special letter attached with the special report Chontowexplained that the 19page report will be printed in booklet form for popular consumption inpreparation for next fall when Epic Inc takes over the four dormitories Tho nrintine will be financed by hoc loan from Student Council Epic Inc has just released the above sketch of the way rooms at other schools have been remodeled when Epic took over the dormitory system The rooms feature builtin beds desksbookcases storage space and walls It is rumored that Epic willremodel the rooms In Barrows Dascomb Fairchild and Harkness along this pattern Student Council Wrangles Creates Hotel Committee Meeting until 4 30 this morning Student Council passed 650 a resolution on hotel living It came as the climax to a tense and stormy session The emergency meeting called to order by Council President Bob Kummer at 3 pm yesterday convened in order for Council to draft a statement assuring h i pi I council Kesoiution We the Student Council of Oberlin College representatives of the Associated Students andcitizens of the United States affirm the rights of students to live in the hotelmanaged dormitories As students deeply concerned with academic freedom we hereby establish an ad hoc HotelCommittee to investigate the complexities and ramifications of hotel living and to determine its inherent value low from such a catastrophe Womens Board members and those of Mens Board who did not participate in the dissentingreport stated their concern about rules on open houses in particular and the SixInch Rule in general Preserve Doctrines A spokesman for the joint group moaned that we asrepresentative judicial bodies of the male and female segments on thiscampus have tried vigorously touphold and preserve the basicdoctrines of social relationships and social life doctrines andstandards and rules that were set down 124 years ago when this greatcollege was first established If the honorable members of this worthy campus are so inclined to rid the institution of such basicfundamental doctrines and standards at the announcement of a hotel chain operating four of the dormitories then certainly we and the Dean of Men and Dean of Women have failed to educate the students as to the intrinsic values of suchdoctrines and standards In short the joint group saw no hope for a campus run by Epic Inc and G Forsythe Homer and his team Groups Attack Y Commission Public Affairs and Campus Service Commissions of theYMYWCA have united to demanddissolution of the Religious Emphasis Commission in order to combat the Religious Emphasis Commissions encroaching upon other commis sions functions The action was touched off by the Religious Commissions invt tation of Mr Ammon Hennacy to sDeak on the Catholic Worker Movement This action culminated a long list of offenses including forums on the place ofcommunism in College life attempts to rouse philosophical interest intheology a poll of campus religious beliefs and allowing the cell groups to become too turgid with ideas according to the coalitions f the student body that Council knew what was best for the campus The minutes were read at 305 pm and were followed by adiscussion of a misleading pronoun in one of last weeks motions At 4 pm Kummer read a letter from President Stevenson informing Council of the action taken by the College in contracting with Epic Inc to operate four dormitories next year Consider Resolution Members and observers not only considered the approach that Council should take to theresolution but also exhibited concern as to whether it should beapproached at all Council thendiscussed the implications of the iiew system Upholders of the College decision insisted that thehoteldormitories would lead to agreater feeling of security on campus because the new dormitories would be more homey They added that the College would now have something that Antioch didnt have Opponents of the plancountered that it would lead topolarization because the dormitories run by Epic are bigger than the other houses on campus This some members added would be bad because it would lead toexclusive ingroups and would therefore not be an equalizingsystem What some students have all students should have stated one Council member courageously Consider roll Council discussed taking a poll of the campus to determinestudent reaction Council finally agreed that polls were bad things and voted unanimously not to have one In response to the unanimous vote one observer piped up how unusual Smoke thickened in the East Lounge of Wilder Hall asdiscussion heightened and organization deteriorated At 1130 pm a straw vote determined that six members were in favor of supporting the hotel system At midnight Coun cil broke up into small groups to attempt to draft a resolution Three disgruntled membersmigrated into China Committee of fice and went to sleep Consider Aid Kummer attempted to reach J J Auer eminent parliamentarian to determine the proper procedure for drafting a hotel livingresolution Mr Auer however was out of the country and distraught members fought over the proper wording unassisted Some members supported hr eluding a discussion of the inher ent values of luxurious living but this move was defeated 32 After a two hour discussion of whether the new system would be con ducive to financial charterviolations the three members were awakened the pacing members sat down and the resolution was passed It will be sent in its en tirety to the New York Times the St Louis PostDispatch and Punch spokesman The spokesman also stated that there is duplicity of purposes in several cases among the several Y commissions and that the dissolU tion of the Religious Emphasis Commission would be the first step toward remedying the situation Plan Confirms Trend Toward Size Economy Epic Inc a nationallyknown hotel chain will take over the management of four College dormitories begining next fall for an experimental period of one year CollegeBusiness Manager Lewis R Tower revealed yesterday Under the terms of a contract negotiated last week with the College Epic which operates over 150 hotels across the Ladd Stresses GS Jollity In Shropshire Sir S Percival Ladd director of the Shropshire Gilbert andSullivan Theater of ShropshireEngland will speak on Jolly Times Spent in the Gilbert and Sullivan Theater in the PhysicsAuditorium 430 pm Tuesday sponsored by the Gilbert and Sullivan Play ers He will also conduct aworkshop on Gilbertian diction in Room 200 Hall Auditorium as part of the College Players effort to land a contract with Epic Inc Sir Ladd has been a poineer in the modernization movement in Gilbert and Sullivan theater which emphasizes a minimum of scenery props and singersDuring the 195556 season the Shrop shire Players presented the full repertoire of GS operas using only three chairs two tables and a 13foot stepladder In place of an orchestra the group usedHammond organ and snare drums Ladd on Tour At present Sir Ladd is on a speaking tour of the United States sponsored by the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Gilbert and Sullivan Societies in America SPEGSSA A town constable until his ap pointment to the theater in 1948 Sir Ladd entered his new work with that memorable quip A policemans lot is not a happy one His numerous articles and books on Gilbert and Sullivan include such topics as Sullivan and Gil bert Pause August 1954 The Effect of Gout on Gilberts Use of Trochaic LinesAuspices 1955 and that bestselling classic Squelching theComicLead CORRECTION In last Fridays issue the Review inadvertently reported that there would be no issue today You can never sometimes tell what to least expect most No Saga Denounces Epic Fears Impersonality Saga Food Service Inc is dissatisfied with the Colleges decision to let Epic Inc experimentally run several College dormitories next year It is unfair to small local businesses and already established commercial institutions to introduce a largescale business organization on campus stated Sagas representative Hunk Anderson It is Sagas feeling that once the student becomes ac customed to big business he will reject the personalized service that such organizations as Saga are now providing for the students In order to forestall such criticism in advance Saga intends to become more efficient One plan under consideration is to move all meals closer together Since Saga will be doing thecatering for Epic Inc she is nowmaking final arrangements with Epic to have breakfast served between 8 and 9 am lunch between 10 and 11 am and dinner between noon and 1 pm in the Epic dormitories All meals will be served in pseudocafeteria style Enormous Savings Savings to the student in both time and money under this system will be enormous said the Saga representative For one thing the student will not have his whole evening broken up by the evening meal as is now the case this will leave more time for studying As far as Saga is concerned they will save a great deal of money since cooks will work steadily from 7 am until 1 pm putting in only a six hour day or a 42 hour week No more will we have cooks standing around with their hands in their apronssmoking cigarettes and yelling at the waiters said the representative country will assume complete re sponsibility for the running of Barrows Dascomb Fairchild and Harkness If successful in their first year at the College Epic will probably take over all dormitories in September 1958 According to Mr Tower thearrangements were made out ofnecessity on the part of the College to experiment in morebusinesslike operation of dormitories This he pointed out is in line with the trend toward larger more efflcii ently run housing facilities here Constructive Aid In a statement issued thismorning from his Chicago office Epic President G Forsythe Homerwelcomed the opportunity forconstructive participation by thehotel industry in the academic arena The hoteldormitory is acoming thing Mr Homer asserted The trend of the future isdefinitely toward the large economy size Under a plan known as the Epic Experiment initiated two years ago the company operates dormitories on 12 campusesincluding Ohio State University Slippery Rock State TeachersCollege University of Miami Eureka College Fairfax Hall JuniorCollege and University of Michigan Oberlin will make a fineaddition to this distinguished group Mr Homer said Emphasize Efficiency The Epic Experiment Mr Homers statement continues was originally designed to helpcolleges and universities meet the housing needs created byincreasing enrollment Epic can do this by introducing more streamlined methods of operation We aredelighted to offer to the nationseducational institutions our years of experience in the field The change will not affectstudent room fees according to Miss Gladys Swigart director of dining halls and residences Epichowever expects to be able to run the dormitories at a considerablesavings over present College costs The exact terms of the contractremained unknown invitingspeculation that the College mayrealize some profit from the venture A reliable but anonymous source Continued on Page 0 They will have no spare time 14 Foot Lazy Susans Another plan under study to speed up meals is to equip the dorms with enormous lazy susans 14 feet in diameter Students will all sit around these susans and will eat off trays which they will hold on their laps The susans will be serviced by a conveyor beltdirectly from the kitchen Freshly prepared food will come directly from the kitchen to the lazysusans eliminating the necessity of waiters Another conveyor belt will run around the students for them to put their empty tray on these trays will then be conveyed back to the kitchen Once in thekitchen the dishes will beautomatically washed and electronically sorted This not only eliminates dishwashers but Saga is confident that the whole operation will not take more than 11V4 seconds per dish a saving of 6 seconds over the inefficient dishwasher The apparatus described is nowundergoing extensive testing in Agas Pa Saga feels that if the experiment is successful they may negotiate a contract with Epic to servehoteldormitories on other campuses