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Committee Should Draft Tuition Schedule Yeoman Nine Meets Fenn Tomorrow Editorial Page 2 Sports Paqe 3 Z572 4 llwlt ti HI Htk i w msm mjaicwiiULiuy y y y y w i 0LUME85 Marcus Hagen Head New Y Cabinets Plan Commission Emphasis in balloting completed aaturaayy embers of the YWYMCAs elected Murxl Hagen and Bruce Marcus now presidents of therespective cabinets replacing this years presidents CharlottePenfield and Chin k Gosselink Other newlyelected YWofficers are Jan Melherson firstviceproidunt ivnw Eaton second vicepresident Mary Wheeler treasurer and Betty Townesecretary VM members elected Jack Porter vicepresident StanRichards treasurer and ChickStewart secretary When cuntneted last night the new presidents outlined several features of the Ys forthcoming program Each Y will hold a spring rctivat for new and old leaders The Ys are considering an inereaed public relationsprogram There will be increasedemphais on the live Y campusservice commissions according to Miss Study To Seek Ways of Using Union Facilities In order to determine student needs of recreational facilities on campus the Student UnionFacilities Committee will beginThursday a twoweek study of the use of approximately 40 meeting rooms parlors lounges andoffices Through this survey thecomrritee will determine the present use of facilities which might beincluded in the Student Union and the peak hours of their use so the committee will know what rooms in the Union could serve more than one purpose The committee will employ four methods in the survey 1checking available signup lists for rooms in Metcalf and Goodrich 2j taking counts in the student library lounge Snack Bar and Rec Hall 3 placing a signup list in ad dormitory parlors to be signed when used for business purposes 1 placing signup sheets in the gamerooms Student cooperation is essential for a successful surveyemphasized Jim Mucks chairman He urges students to sign the lists not only when udng facilities but also when facilities have not been available for use College Bridge Pair Wns Tournament Two college bridge pairs took rst and fourth in the nation in the Intercollegiate DuplicateTourment Danny Kleinman and uck Reel it took first placeeastfet Worth Vaughn and Don Mips w e fourth northsouth The par tournament was held Wore vacation at the individual ileges Hands were set upbewe the contest by the national Sector and distributed to each fhool Over 2000 playersparticipated representing 100 colleges Past Students Complained Too Social Life Brings Periodic Cries B BETH ROBINSON The r cent outcry against the slatus quo of College social life t a w 011e Xhe nature 0f plaints raised in the pasthowlr would undoubtedly surprise rers of more recent Review lumns Judging from older volumes of J IUview students thirty years m is concerned about over p sis on dating as they are to about lack of freedom in their reunions with members of the IPosite ex Although women entered the ye with the men in 1833 they j evident for the most part Th i clussroni and at meals dam P d tho fcminlne role of their18 the niens socks and doi8 f waging but their greatest irhwas at the boarding tobm r accordin tProflyex her themanifesterted a civilizing Influence on hirLrg mtm a mythical touch utrn women have aDDar eniy l0ht through the Thn uKn me years me nrt the r ue 01 young ladles on tmlTpus broU6ht as many fcDort p8s pleasures however A fttW ns the SexesTothat m published in 1845 revealed en aii women exhibited a Hagen Marcus announced that an allY picnic will highlight this springs program Miss Hagen a sophomore was secretary of the YW this year One main thing we can add is a strong leadership trainingprogram she said The reason for this is that no program is good without good leaders There will be an installation service for the new officers later on in the spring she added Marcus a junior was treasurer of the YM this year vicechairman of Consolidated Relief Drivetwotime letterman in football and a member of the lacrosse squad HiOHi Plans To Train Staff For Next Year By DICK BOYLE This spring the editorial and production stalls of the HiOHi will receive thorough training in most phases of production and editing to avoid loss of time in learning how to performintermediate operations according to yearbook editor Sally McConnell This program is a newlyinstituted training procedure for theyearbook stall since in previous years the HiOHi stalls trainingprocedure has been founded on a learnasyougo basis she said The program will includetiaining in layouts preliminary and iinal work of deciding wherematerial will be placed iu the year book keying down measuring for exact placement of materials pasting down actual placing of material on sheets after they have been returned by the printer topography measuring width and length of material planning copy blocks arid deciding on style of type cropping picturessizing of enlarged or diminishedpictures to original proportions With training in these areas the stall will be able to help teach next years new stall members Next year in addition toaccepting applications on Activities Night the HiOHi will personally contact freshmen who have been active on their high school year book in the hope of gaining new stall members The new members will work on the Wolf Book and then begin their training program TheHiOHi also wants present freshmen to apply now in order to insure continuity announced MissMcConnell Students from any class can now contact Miss McConnell atShurtlell or assistant editor CarlGerber at Barrows to apply for the following positions Introductory Editor Mens Sports EditorWomens Sports Editor Conservatory Editor Art Editor and Secretary clerical work Positions on the literary production and activities staffs are also now available tendency to spend too much time together and to be too muchengrossed in each others society This tendency makes it necessary to adopt specific rules respecting calls visits late hours study hours walking out in the evening rides into the country Perhaps the presentdayBermuda shorts rule is a descendant of the 1834 debate over thedeplorable tendency towardimmodesty in womens attire As one shocked observer wrote The present fashion is for wemen to cut their frocks so open about the neck that they rest dui m but if nV nnnri the snoumeo uiiin rimvn on the arms nearly lii tr thn P1DOWS The ex posure which this effectsespecially when they stoop forward I need not define All eyes must witness UWith the turn of the century came a desire for a change indating procedure In 1911 a letterappeared in the Review in which a student objected to enforcement on Saturday nights of theseventhirty rule which herded aU women to their rooms as the total hour struck The letter stated that the only exception to this rule was GS Yeoman1 Stars Largest Troupe Gilbert and Sullivan Players will present Yeomen of the Guard 830 pm Wednesday through Saturday in HallAuditorium Jim Ellis will play the role of Jack Point a strolling jester who is pursuing Elsie MaynardBarbara Stechow will portray the pretty maiden Elsie whounwittingly becomes wedded to Colonel Fairfax portrayed by Shelby Bale Carol Meacham will take the part of Phoebe Meryll the maid who loves the prisoner Fairfax Set In London Set hi sixteenth centuryEngland Yeomen of the Guard takes place on the green of the Tower of London Colonel Fairfax has been charged with sorcery by his envious cousin Sir Clarence Poltwhistle who is the rightful heir to the Fairfax estate should the Colonel die unmarried As Fairfax has only one hour remaining before his decapitation he urges the Lieutenant to find any poor women to whom he could be wed Thus when Jack Point and his sweetheart enterLieutenant Cholmondeley approaches Elsie and leads her off to fulfill the plea of Fairfax In the meantime Phoebe Meryll plots to free her lover from the Tower But to her dismay upon liberation Fairfax in disguise as Leonard Meryll the son of the head Tower guard woos and wins his newly acquired wife As the College Changes Attitude Toward Local Industries lis is the second of three articles by Miss Epstein on College and town policies regarding industrial development in Oberlin By CAROLYN EPSTEIN Oberlin businessmen see in the Colleges recent support of the reorganized Chamber of Commerce signs of a changed attitude toward the industrial development of the city That support took the form of a 3000 contribution to the annual budget of the Chamber contingent on collection of theremainder of the 13U00 budget Fundraising activities are part of the reorganization of the Chamber of Commerce The fund is to be used to hire apermanent executive director of the Chamber in order to promoteindustrial development of the right type perhaps a researchlaboratory The charter of the Chamber has been broadened to include the purposes of communitydevelopment and the name changed to the Oberlin Chamber of Commerce and Civic Development Name Changed Intending to work on all phases of community development the Chamber has changed its name to express its widened purpose It will consider such community problems as parking facilities parking space and industrial growth Other steps to promote business may be taken such as the regulation of store hours Financial support by aneducational institution for a group of businessmen seeking to promote business is an unprecedented step special permission for women to celebrate with the men if thefootball team won the championship that year Seniors also were grantedexceptionsthey were allowed to stay out until 930 pm onTuesdays in order to attend lectures meetings or other suitableassembleges at their discretion theletter stated m reply to such complaints Dr Florence Wary Fitch then Dean of Women explained the necessity for the rule In the first place she wrote Saturday evening is the time for the parties of classes clubs organizations and houses Since the social life of the College as a whole is to be promoted the attendance upon these parties should be general and freedom from the 730 rule wouldunquestionably interfere with thatgeneral social life Moreover it would makeimpossible or at least seriouslyinterfere with the Saturday night gatherings of the girls That the friendships of women with women and men with men are the most important of college relationships is the strong reason for allowing Continued on p 4 col 6 usmujn OHIO TUESDAY APRIL 16 1957 NUMBER 46 Curtain Ri life Barbara Stechow as Elsie Fairfax and Jim Ellis as Jack forthcoming G S production plot unravels Jack Point learns the truth about Elsie andwithdraws heartbroken alone Large Orchestra Chorus Due to popular demand the Yeomen of the Guard is being produced for the second time in four years The 38piece orchestra requires the greatest number of instruments of any Sullivanoperetta the 49member chorus is the largest one used by the G S in the last four years Other members of the castinclude Dick Rice as WilfredShadbolt John Crowe as Sergeant Meryll Robert Wentling as Dame Carruthers Donald Hickman as Sir Richard Cholmondeley Lou Auld as Leonard Meryll Robert Cassells as First Yeoman Colin and a reversal of the usual roles of business and College Someofficials of the College felt that a change in the name of theChamber was necessary in order toexpress its expanded purpose The College was reluctant tocontribute funds to an organization known as the Chamber ofCommerce because of the widespread reputation of such groups as profit organizations and businesspressure groups Years of Effort The reorganization of theChamber is only the latest part of an effort that has been going on for years to attract various types of light industry to Oberlin Now that the College has openly given its support toward this end many City merchants are convinced the College has evolved a new attitude concerning Oberlins industrial growth According to Lewis TowerCollege Business Manager the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce in August 1956requested College support for thereorganization of the Chamber The College accepting the Chambers recommendation agreed to acommitment of 3000 a yearcontingent upon raising the remainder of the required funds for the budget To encourage College participation in the community the Trustees approved the commitment inOctober Mr Tower said i i P i i f fr Vi Students Value Work Camps For Insight Personal Contacts By SALLY SMITH Weekend workcamps offerstudents who cannot participate in summer service projects theexperience of cooperative living constructive action and productive thinking Between Friday evening and Sunday morning anyone canbecome an experiencedworkcamper After getting acquainted with each other and with the socialwelfare agency with which they will serve campers meet thecommunity More important than the physical Improvements which they effect by construction and repair work Is the direct contact they have with the communitymembers Joani Blank who attended a Student Christian Union work ises Maynard Shelby Bale as Colonel Point rehearse a scene from the Yeomen of the Guard Moran as Second Yeoman Joan Reider as Kate Paul Marantz as First Citizen John Patterson as Second Citizen and DonFogelsanger as Headsman The music is directed by Robert Kreis along with choral assistant Don Tull and orchestral assistant Stephan Michelson The sixaccompanists are John Bollinger Bebe Botty Frank Flint Jane McKenzie Mike Thornberg and Carolin WyckofT DonaldHolzman is stage director Ed Hume stage manager and SarahBelchetz set designer The Players are scheduled to give two outside performances one April 26 at the Parma High School and the other May 3 at Hiram College Freud Thinks Christian Life One of Naivete Freuds disciple stunned her Christian hearers by appealing to them to lay aside their immature cloaks of naive religious beliefs and to use their reason to examine the mythological origin and the detrimental function of religion Freuds attack on Christianity presented by Prof CelesteMcCollough who assumed the role of a disciple of Freud at the YReligious Forum on Sunday afternoon stated in psychoanalytic terms that Christians suffer from cultural neurosis they are persons who have found an unreasonable way to fulfill their wishes Freuds chief argument against Christianity said ProfessorMcCollough is that Christians fail to contribute their maximum to the advance of human knowledgebecause they seek answers in awishworld Primal man foundwishworld answers in animism and totemism said the disciple for he felt more secure in a familiar world and safer within the rigid protective framework of taboos Freud readily admits that we have needs which are madeimpossible to fulfill by societysrestraints continued ProfessorMcCollough He suggests that by abandoning religious education destroying religion as a means of needfulfillment and byemploying psychoanalytic therapy aperson may be educated to recognize his emotional impulses and to bring them under the dictatorship of his reason Freud believed that man is destined to outgrow his reliance upon religion and that reason is the next stage When a student asked whether psychoanalysis itself was not a scientific neurosis ProfessorMcCollough said that Freud made this distinction A psychoanalyst is everready to reexamine the Continued on p 4 col 7 camp last spring regards as the most valuable aspect of herworkcamping in Cleveland the inside look at city problems The United Christian Youth Fellowship of Cleveland aninterdenominational high schoolorganization and the American Friends Service Committee of Columbus will provide leaders and locate work for Cleveland settlement house projects April 2628 May 35 2426 May 31June 2Cleveland Salvation Army projects May 1012 and May 1719 Individuals or groups interested in any workcamp should call the Y office by the Wednesdaypreceding the Friday on which they wish to attend Bob Cetina willcoordinate transportation Council Adopts Major Revisions in Charter Initiates Student Union Project Approves Shansi Committee Budget By WOODY DONOVAN At a meeting which lasted until 2 am StudentCouncil Sunday night approved two major Financial Charter changes and the initiation of the first Student Union project Other action saw the adoption of a temporary charter for the Committee on NonAcademic Affairs slight revisions in the personnel structure of the Student Union Committee thetentative approval of class and Shansi Committee budgets and NSA Changes Constitution Picks Officers Representatives of 14 colleges attending the semiannualOhioIndiana Regional Assembly of the National Student Association at Fenn College in Cleveland this weekend approved major revisions of the constitution and electedofficers for next year Delegates from the college were Council member Judd Kessler NSA Regional VicePresidentRoberta Meserve and delegates Judy Jacques and Mike Rudman The revised Constitutionincludes a division of the region into four districts which will meet to gether occasionally during the year It was hoped that this will provide for more accessible and economical meetings of member schools as well as a closer and more efficient implementation of the Regional policies Phil Wahl a junior from Cap ital University was electedRegional Chairman and Warren Al bright a sophomore from Notre Dame was chosen ViceChairman These two positions in addition to holding the responsibility for ad ministering the Region include membership on the National Ex ecutive Council of NSA A special committee under Miss Meserve drafted a proposal for a Regional Advisory Council which the plenary session approved Ac cording to the proposal a council of faculty advisors representing four schools one from each of the districts will meet with the Reg ional Executive Committee Outgoing Regional Chairman Bob Kiley of Notre Dame noted that the attitude and accomplish ments of this Assemblydemonstrated a decided improvement in the Regional program SHANSI FORUM Professor Edwin O Reischauer of the Far East Languagedepartment of Harvard will speak Thursday at 430 in HallAuditorium on East Asia Professor Reischauer an Oberlin graduate of 31 recently spent one year in Japan and will present a report on eastern Asia He is also the author of a current book on the Far East The forum is sponsored by the Student ShansiCommittee Experts To Discuss Free Eastern Europe By JUDY PARADISE Prof Samuel Sharp of American UniversityWashington DC and Nicholas Pentshef Deputy Director of theBulgarian desk of Radio Free Europe will discuss the topicTowards a Free Eastern Europe in a Forum Board panel to be held at 230 pm Saturday afternoon in Allen Art Museum Auditorium Prof George Lanvi of the government fWart ment will moderate the i t On Friday Professor Sharp will speak on the subject Revolution in Eastern Europe at 4 pm in the Allen Art Auditorium Professor Sharp was a Polish journalist until the Nazioccupation of that country He worked with American Intelligence during World War II and was associated with the Nuremberg trials after its close He has contributed to magazines and periodicals and has written a book on Poland called Red Eagle on a White Flag Mr Pentshef was a Bulgarian journalist at which time hebecame Press Attache to theBulgarian Legation in London until the Nazi occupation of Bulgaria After the war he became Secretary to the Bulgarian Legation inLondon but resigned when theCommunists took over the Bulgarian government After he left the diplomatic service Mr Pentshef did free lance writing for the British Broadcasting Corporation He has been working with Radio Free Europe since his appointment in 1955 NUMBE a grant of funds to the Recreation al Areas Committee for publishing a booklet The major revision of theFinancial Charter came under thearticle dealing with CouncilAccounts Under the new structure the three present accounts the Annual Account the Contingency Fund and the Student Council Fund have been reduced to two an Annual Account and aContingency Fund Whereas the former AnnualAccount provided funds from which the Council could draw to assist Activity Fee organizations meet unforeseen expenses it now will provide for the expenses of the Council its subcommitteesassociated governing groups notcovered by the Activity Fee andother activities sponsored by Council Formerly Council expenses were met by the Student Council Fund Contingency Fund The new Contingency Fund will provide for emergencies arising in the Activity Fee organizations as it did before but grants will be much more restricted since atwothirds majority of the entireCouncil will be needed to make a grant loan or other disbursement June Osborn and Bill Brainard members of the Little Hoover Commission III presented the proposed changes Miss Osborn explained that In the past there were no such animals ascontingencies Organizations asked for money when an unforeseen expense arose and got it from the Annual Fund Under the new structure she continued anorganization must show a realcontingency in order to get money Although the new structuring would demand more liberalbudgets for the Activity Feeorganizations these budgets will be more binding on the organizations she concluded Council Restricted As a result of the new article Council must operate under a budget and for the first time be as financially restricted as any other Activity Fee organization The second change in thecharter eliminates the irritatingloophole as Miss Osborn phrased it of the budget restrictionsarticle By the rewording of thisarticle organizations are no longer in violation of the Financial Charter if charged more for contracted services than estimated at thebeginning of the year Official approval of the changes was postponed until those directly Continued on p 4 col 1 YMYW Secretaries Lead Lenten Service In Fairchild Chapel Mr Harvey Cox YMCASecretary and Miss ElizabethBlakesley YWCA Secretary will lead a Holy Week service at Y Vespers 920 and 950 pm Wednesday in Fairchild Chapel They will use selected portions of the booklet Behold the Man which they compiled from aLenten service last year based upon the Rouault paintings displayed in the Christ Church of Oberlin This booklet has recently been printed and distributed by the National Student YMCA and YWCA In addition the service willinclude readings from the Bible and from modern sources antiphonal chants and plain songs by a group led by Kent Hill Jim Franks will be the organist and NancyNleburger will assist with thereadings
Object Description
Title | Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1957-04-16 |
Description | vol. 85, no. 46 |
Subject | Oberlin College--Students--Periodicals |
Date | 1957-04-16 |
Type | text; image |
Format | newspaper |
LCCN | sn78005590 |
Source | Oberlin College |
Language | English |
Relation | http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b1749264~S4 |
Reel no. | 13020702145 |
title sorting | Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1957-04-16 |
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Transcript | Committee Should Draft Tuition Schedule Yeoman Nine Meets Fenn Tomorrow Editorial Page 2 Sports Paqe 3 Z572 4 llwlt ti HI Htk i w msm mjaicwiiULiuy y y y y w i 0LUME85 Marcus Hagen Head New Y Cabinets Plan Commission Emphasis in balloting completed aaturaayy embers of the YWYMCAs elected Murxl Hagen and Bruce Marcus now presidents of therespective cabinets replacing this years presidents CharlottePenfield and Chin k Gosselink Other newlyelected YWofficers are Jan Melherson firstviceproidunt ivnw Eaton second vicepresident Mary Wheeler treasurer and Betty Townesecretary VM members elected Jack Porter vicepresident StanRichards treasurer and ChickStewart secretary When cuntneted last night the new presidents outlined several features of the Ys forthcoming program Each Y will hold a spring rctivat for new and old leaders The Ys are considering an inereaed public relationsprogram There will be increasedemphais on the live Y campusservice commissions according to Miss Study To Seek Ways of Using Union Facilities In order to determine student needs of recreational facilities on campus the Student UnionFacilities Committee will beginThursday a twoweek study of the use of approximately 40 meeting rooms parlors lounges andoffices Through this survey thecomrritee will determine the present use of facilities which might beincluded in the Student Union and the peak hours of their use so the committee will know what rooms in the Union could serve more than one purpose The committee will employ four methods in the survey 1checking available signup lists for rooms in Metcalf and Goodrich 2j taking counts in the student library lounge Snack Bar and Rec Hall 3 placing a signup list in ad dormitory parlors to be signed when used for business purposes 1 placing signup sheets in the gamerooms Student cooperation is essential for a successful surveyemphasized Jim Mucks chairman He urges students to sign the lists not only when udng facilities but also when facilities have not been available for use College Bridge Pair Wns Tournament Two college bridge pairs took rst and fourth in the nation in the Intercollegiate DuplicateTourment Danny Kleinman and uck Reel it took first placeeastfet Worth Vaughn and Don Mips w e fourth northsouth The par tournament was held Wore vacation at the individual ileges Hands were set upbewe the contest by the national Sector and distributed to each fhool Over 2000 playersparticipated representing 100 colleges Past Students Complained Too Social Life Brings Periodic Cries B BETH ROBINSON The r cent outcry against the slatus quo of College social life t a w 011e Xhe nature 0f plaints raised in the pasthowlr would undoubtedly surprise rers of more recent Review lumns Judging from older volumes of J IUview students thirty years m is concerned about over p sis on dating as they are to about lack of freedom in their reunions with members of the IPosite ex Although women entered the ye with the men in 1833 they j evident for the most part Th i clussroni and at meals dam P d tho fcminlne role of their18 the niens socks and doi8 f waging but their greatest irhwas at the boarding tobm r accordin tProflyex her themanifesterted a civilizing Influence on hirLrg mtm a mythical touch utrn women have aDDar eniy l0ht through the Thn uKn me years me nrt the r ue 01 young ladles on tmlTpus broU6ht as many fcDort p8s pleasures however A fttW ns the SexesTothat m published in 1845 revealed en aii women exhibited a Hagen Marcus announced that an allY picnic will highlight this springs program Miss Hagen a sophomore was secretary of the YW this year One main thing we can add is a strong leadership trainingprogram she said The reason for this is that no program is good without good leaders There will be an installation service for the new officers later on in the spring she added Marcus a junior was treasurer of the YM this year vicechairman of Consolidated Relief Drivetwotime letterman in football and a member of the lacrosse squad HiOHi Plans To Train Staff For Next Year By DICK BOYLE This spring the editorial and production stalls of the HiOHi will receive thorough training in most phases of production and editing to avoid loss of time in learning how to performintermediate operations according to yearbook editor Sally McConnell This program is a newlyinstituted training procedure for theyearbook stall since in previous years the HiOHi stalls trainingprocedure has been founded on a learnasyougo basis she said The program will includetiaining in layouts preliminary and iinal work of deciding wherematerial will be placed iu the year book keying down measuring for exact placement of materials pasting down actual placing of material on sheets after they have been returned by the printer topography measuring width and length of material planning copy blocks arid deciding on style of type cropping picturessizing of enlarged or diminishedpictures to original proportions With training in these areas the stall will be able to help teach next years new stall members Next year in addition toaccepting applications on Activities Night the HiOHi will personally contact freshmen who have been active on their high school year book in the hope of gaining new stall members The new members will work on the Wolf Book and then begin their training program TheHiOHi also wants present freshmen to apply now in order to insure continuity announced MissMcConnell Students from any class can now contact Miss McConnell atShurtlell or assistant editor CarlGerber at Barrows to apply for the following positions Introductory Editor Mens Sports EditorWomens Sports Editor Conservatory Editor Art Editor and Secretary clerical work Positions on the literary production and activities staffs are also now available tendency to spend too much time together and to be too muchengrossed in each others society This tendency makes it necessary to adopt specific rules respecting calls visits late hours study hours walking out in the evening rides into the country Perhaps the presentdayBermuda shorts rule is a descendant of the 1834 debate over thedeplorable tendency towardimmodesty in womens attire As one shocked observer wrote The present fashion is for wemen to cut their frocks so open about the neck that they rest dui m but if nV nnnri the snoumeo uiiin rimvn on the arms nearly lii tr thn P1DOWS The ex posure which this effectsespecially when they stoop forward I need not define All eyes must witness UWith the turn of the century came a desire for a change indating procedure In 1911 a letterappeared in the Review in which a student objected to enforcement on Saturday nights of theseventhirty rule which herded aU women to their rooms as the total hour struck The letter stated that the only exception to this rule was GS Yeoman1 Stars Largest Troupe Gilbert and Sullivan Players will present Yeomen of the Guard 830 pm Wednesday through Saturday in HallAuditorium Jim Ellis will play the role of Jack Point a strolling jester who is pursuing Elsie MaynardBarbara Stechow will portray the pretty maiden Elsie whounwittingly becomes wedded to Colonel Fairfax portrayed by Shelby Bale Carol Meacham will take the part of Phoebe Meryll the maid who loves the prisoner Fairfax Set In London Set hi sixteenth centuryEngland Yeomen of the Guard takes place on the green of the Tower of London Colonel Fairfax has been charged with sorcery by his envious cousin Sir Clarence Poltwhistle who is the rightful heir to the Fairfax estate should the Colonel die unmarried As Fairfax has only one hour remaining before his decapitation he urges the Lieutenant to find any poor women to whom he could be wed Thus when Jack Point and his sweetheart enterLieutenant Cholmondeley approaches Elsie and leads her off to fulfill the plea of Fairfax In the meantime Phoebe Meryll plots to free her lover from the Tower But to her dismay upon liberation Fairfax in disguise as Leonard Meryll the son of the head Tower guard woos and wins his newly acquired wife As the College Changes Attitude Toward Local Industries lis is the second of three articles by Miss Epstein on College and town policies regarding industrial development in Oberlin By CAROLYN EPSTEIN Oberlin businessmen see in the Colleges recent support of the reorganized Chamber of Commerce signs of a changed attitude toward the industrial development of the city That support took the form of a 3000 contribution to the annual budget of the Chamber contingent on collection of theremainder of the 13U00 budget Fundraising activities are part of the reorganization of the Chamber of Commerce The fund is to be used to hire apermanent executive director of the Chamber in order to promoteindustrial development of the right type perhaps a researchlaboratory The charter of the Chamber has been broadened to include the purposes of communitydevelopment and the name changed to the Oberlin Chamber of Commerce and Civic Development Name Changed Intending to work on all phases of community development the Chamber has changed its name to express its widened purpose It will consider such community problems as parking facilities parking space and industrial growth Other steps to promote business may be taken such as the regulation of store hours Financial support by aneducational institution for a group of businessmen seeking to promote business is an unprecedented step special permission for women to celebrate with the men if thefootball team won the championship that year Seniors also were grantedexceptionsthey were allowed to stay out until 930 pm onTuesdays in order to attend lectures meetings or other suitableassembleges at their discretion theletter stated m reply to such complaints Dr Florence Wary Fitch then Dean of Women explained the necessity for the rule In the first place she wrote Saturday evening is the time for the parties of classes clubs organizations and houses Since the social life of the College as a whole is to be promoted the attendance upon these parties should be general and freedom from the 730 rule wouldunquestionably interfere with thatgeneral social life Moreover it would makeimpossible or at least seriouslyinterfere with the Saturday night gatherings of the girls That the friendships of women with women and men with men are the most important of college relationships is the strong reason for allowing Continued on p 4 col 6 usmujn OHIO TUESDAY APRIL 16 1957 NUMBER 46 Curtain Ri life Barbara Stechow as Elsie Fairfax and Jim Ellis as Jack forthcoming G S production plot unravels Jack Point learns the truth about Elsie andwithdraws heartbroken alone Large Orchestra Chorus Due to popular demand the Yeomen of the Guard is being produced for the second time in four years The 38piece orchestra requires the greatest number of instruments of any Sullivanoperetta the 49member chorus is the largest one used by the G S in the last four years Other members of the castinclude Dick Rice as WilfredShadbolt John Crowe as Sergeant Meryll Robert Wentling as Dame Carruthers Donald Hickman as Sir Richard Cholmondeley Lou Auld as Leonard Meryll Robert Cassells as First Yeoman Colin and a reversal of the usual roles of business and College Someofficials of the College felt that a change in the name of theChamber was necessary in order toexpress its expanded purpose The College was reluctant tocontribute funds to an organization known as the Chamber ofCommerce because of the widespread reputation of such groups as profit organizations and businesspressure groups Years of Effort The reorganization of theChamber is only the latest part of an effort that has been going on for years to attract various types of light industry to Oberlin Now that the College has openly given its support toward this end many City merchants are convinced the College has evolved a new attitude concerning Oberlins industrial growth According to Lewis TowerCollege Business Manager the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce in August 1956requested College support for thereorganization of the Chamber The College accepting the Chambers recommendation agreed to acommitment of 3000 a yearcontingent upon raising the remainder of the required funds for the budget To encourage College participation in the community the Trustees approved the commitment inOctober Mr Tower said i i P i i f fr Vi Students Value Work Camps For Insight Personal Contacts By SALLY SMITH Weekend workcamps offerstudents who cannot participate in summer service projects theexperience of cooperative living constructive action and productive thinking Between Friday evening and Sunday morning anyone canbecome an experiencedworkcamper After getting acquainted with each other and with the socialwelfare agency with which they will serve campers meet thecommunity More important than the physical Improvements which they effect by construction and repair work Is the direct contact they have with the communitymembers Joani Blank who attended a Student Christian Union work ises Maynard Shelby Bale as Colonel Point rehearse a scene from the Yeomen of the Guard Moran as Second Yeoman Joan Reider as Kate Paul Marantz as First Citizen John Patterson as Second Citizen and DonFogelsanger as Headsman The music is directed by Robert Kreis along with choral assistant Don Tull and orchestral assistant Stephan Michelson The sixaccompanists are John Bollinger Bebe Botty Frank Flint Jane McKenzie Mike Thornberg and Carolin WyckofT DonaldHolzman is stage director Ed Hume stage manager and SarahBelchetz set designer The Players are scheduled to give two outside performances one April 26 at the Parma High School and the other May 3 at Hiram College Freud Thinks Christian Life One of Naivete Freuds disciple stunned her Christian hearers by appealing to them to lay aside their immature cloaks of naive religious beliefs and to use their reason to examine the mythological origin and the detrimental function of religion Freuds attack on Christianity presented by Prof CelesteMcCollough who assumed the role of a disciple of Freud at the YReligious Forum on Sunday afternoon stated in psychoanalytic terms that Christians suffer from cultural neurosis they are persons who have found an unreasonable way to fulfill their wishes Freuds chief argument against Christianity said ProfessorMcCollough is that Christians fail to contribute their maximum to the advance of human knowledgebecause they seek answers in awishworld Primal man foundwishworld answers in animism and totemism said the disciple for he felt more secure in a familiar world and safer within the rigid protective framework of taboos Freud readily admits that we have needs which are madeimpossible to fulfill by societysrestraints continued ProfessorMcCollough He suggests that by abandoning religious education destroying religion as a means of needfulfillment and byemploying psychoanalytic therapy aperson may be educated to recognize his emotional impulses and to bring them under the dictatorship of his reason Freud believed that man is destined to outgrow his reliance upon religion and that reason is the next stage When a student asked whether psychoanalysis itself was not a scientific neurosis ProfessorMcCollough said that Freud made this distinction A psychoanalyst is everready to reexamine the Continued on p 4 col 7 camp last spring regards as the most valuable aspect of herworkcamping in Cleveland the inside look at city problems The United Christian Youth Fellowship of Cleveland aninterdenominational high schoolorganization and the American Friends Service Committee of Columbus will provide leaders and locate work for Cleveland settlement house projects April 2628 May 35 2426 May 31June 2Cleveland Salvation Army projects May 1012 and May 1719 Individuals or groups interested in any workcamp should call the Y office by the Wednesdaypreceding the Friday on which they wish to attend Bob Cetina willcoordinate transportation Council Adopts Major Revisions in Charter Initiates Student Union Project Approves Shansi Committee Budget By WOODY DONOVAN At a meeting which lasted until 2 am StudentCouncil Sunday night approved two major Financial Charter changes and the initiation of the first Student Union project Other action saw the adoption of a temporary charter for the Committee on NonAcademic Affairs slight revisions in the personnel structure of the Student Union Committee thetentative approval of class and Shansi Committee budgets and NSA Changes Constitution Picks Officers Representatives of 14 colleges attending the semiannualOhioIndiana Regional Assembly of the National Student Association at Fenn College in Cleveland this weekend approved major revisions of the constitution and electedofficers for next year Delegates from the college were Council member Judd Kessler NSA Regional VicePresidentRoberta Meserve and delegates Judy Jacques and Mike Rudman The revised Constitutionincludes a division of the region into four districts which will meet to gether occasionally during the year It was hoped that this will provide for more accessible and economical meetings of member schools as well as a closer and more efficient implementation of the Regional policies Phil Wahl a junior from Cap ital University was electedRegional Chairman and Warren Al bright a sophomore from Notre Dame was chosen ViceChairman These two positions in addition to holding the responsibility for ad ministering the Region include membership on the National Ex ecutive Council of NSA A special committee under Miss Meserve drafted a proposal for a Regional Advisory Council which the plenary session approved Ac cording to the proposal a council of faculty advisors representing four schools one from each of the districts will meet with the Reg ional Executive Committee Outgoing Regional Chairman Bob Kiley of Notre Dame noted that the attitude and accomplish ments of this Assemblydemonstrated a decided improvement in the Regional program SHANSI FORUM Professor Edwin O Reischauer of the Far East Languagedepartment of Harvard will speak Thursday at 430 in HallAuditorium on East Asia Professor Reischauer an Oberlin graduate of 31 recently spent one year in Japan and will present a report on eastern Asia He is also the author of a current book on the Far East The forum is sponsored by the Student ShansiCommittee Experts To Discuss Free Eastern Europe By JUDY PARADISE Prof Samuel Sharp of American UniversityWashington DC and Nicholas Pentshef Deputy Director of theBulgarian desk of Radio Free Europe will discuss the topicTowards a Free Eastern Europe in a Forum Board panel to be held at 230 pm Saturday afternoon in Allen Art Museum Auditorium Prof George Lanvi of the government fWart ment will moderate the i t On Friday Professor Sharp will speak on the subject Revolution in Eastern Europe at 4 pm in the Allen Art Auditorium Professor Sharp was a Polish journalist until the Nazioccupation of that country He worked with American Intelligence during World War II and was associated with the Nuremberg trials after its close He has contributed to magazines and periodicals and has written a book on Poland called Red Eagle on a White Flag Mr Pentshef was a Bulgarian journalist at which time hebecame Press Attache to theBulgarian Legation in London until the Nazi occupation of Bulgaria After the war he became Secretary to the Bulgarian Legation inLondon but resigned when theCommunists took over the Bulgarian government After he left the diplomatic service Mr Pentshef did free lance writing for the British Broadcasting Corporation He has been working with Radio Free Europe since his appointment in 1955 NUMBE a grant of funds to the Recreation al Areas Committee for publishing a booklet The major revision of theFinancial Charter came under thearticle dealing with CouncilAccounts Under the new structure the three present accounts the Annual Account the Contingency Fund and the Student Council Fund have been reduced to two an Annual Account and aContingency Fund Whereas the former AnnualAccount provided funds from which the Council could draw to assist Activity Fee organizations meet unforeseen expenses it now will provide for the expenses of the Council its subcommitteesassociated governing groups notcovered by the Activity Fee andother activities sponsored by Council Formerly Council expenses were met by the Student Council Fund Contingency Fund The new Contingency Fund will provide for emergencies arising in the Activity Fee organizations as it did before but grants will be much more restricted since atwothirds majority of the entireCouncil will be needed to make a grant loan or other disbursement June Osborn and Bill Brainard members of the Little Hoover Commission III presented the proposed changes Miss Osborn explained that In the past there were no such animals ascontingencies Organizations asked for money when an unforeseen expense arose and got it from the Annual Fund Under the new structure she continued anorganization must show a realcontingency in order to get money Although the new structuring would demand more liberalbudgets for the Activity Feeorganizations these budgets will be more binding on the organizations she concluded Council Restricted As a result of the new article Council must operate under a budget and for the first time be as financially restricted as any other Activity Fee organization The second change in thecharter eliminates the irritatingloophole as Miss Osborn phrased it of the budget restrictionsarticle By the rewording of thisarticle organizations are no longer in violation of the Financial Charter if charged more for contracted services than estimated at thebeginning of the year Official approval of the changes was postponed until those directly Continued on p 4 col 1 YMYW Secretaries Lead Lenten Service In Fairchild Chapel Mr Harvey Cox YMCASecretary and Miss ElizabethBlakesley YWCA Secretary will lead a Holy Week service at Y Vespers 920 and 950 pm Wednesday in Fairchild Chapel They will use selected portions of the booklet Behold the Man which they compiled from aLenten service last year based upon the Rouault paintings displayed in the Christ Church of Oberlin This booklet has recently been printed and distributed by the National Student YMCA and YWCA In addition the service willinclude readings from the Bible and from modern sources antiphonal chants and plain songs by a group led by Kent Hill Jim Franks will be the organist and NancyNleburger will assist with thereadings |
Date | 1957-04-16 |
Format | .jp2 |
Source | Oberlin College |
title sorting | Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1957-04-16 |
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