Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1957-05-07

              r Constructive Action Needed in Middle East Lacrosse Team Topples Hobart 109 Sports Page 3 Editorial iHV IT If 1PN titft jny jjsJs jfAi vvwuu 0 JlrwyHEIHv L ans v y Z572 i 0LCMe 80 OBERLIN OWTO tt t5av iwtav n n i hji umk o ChesterBowlesToGiveGommencementSpeech Council Appoints Six Jo New Men s Board proves Budgets of YMYW IAC Postpones Decision on Handbook Rv HOWARD HUSH and Studont Council appointed jc t Mens Board 1 jiuuuuo 3cd approved the budgets of c YWYMLA anainiernaonal Affairs Committee last ijht It also tabled a motion otto publish a studenthandaok next year accepted the College bands wunarawai om the Activity ree ana ap rroved all pending revisions he Financial Charter Don Fogelsanger Tony Mu re Bob Pendleton Lee Roth awr Thomas and Ed Weldon ere chosen for Mens Board after io hours and six ballotsThirtymen applied for the six ations Bruce Marru past YMCA aurer and Louise Luckcnbill a YWCA treasurer presented cYWVM bu dM which Council rtatively approved with twoallalions Major cuts were made wring the category ofexpendires tor telephoning from 277 to 2 and the category forconferees from 725 to ff5 There was a great deal ofdission concerning the campus TFYMCA organisation itsreligious nature and its affiliation ch the national organization A Vion by Jai k Stellman toreeve the Ys from the Activity Fee iri indicated he did not want a dent bodysponsoredorganizaon with a speeitic religious redo His motion failed but later il VicePresident Brad Rear suggested an amendment to e proposed approval of theYW1I budget by moving that theAcvity Fee no longer pay for the Mai affiliation of the Ys He uied that this would alleviate problem of a religious group particular purposes beine Also submitted for Councilapproval was the InternationalAffairs Committee budget which was approved with the creation of two new income categories The first amounting to 40 is anticipated income from the IAC filmprogram It balances 40 budgeted as expenditure for the program as a guarantee against loss on the two movies In addition 250 was added to the income category of the expense fund as a loan for next yearsRussia Representative This makes him liable for that amount andaccording to Council secretary John Cotinued on p 4 col 1 Frosh Approve Hell Week Pants Fight TugofWar Results of the Hell Week Ballot Distributed to freshmen last week showed a preference for the type of Hell Week staged last fall with additional activities including a tugofwar a barbeque and square dance interclass sports activities and a help day In addition freshmen expressed a preference for only one weekend of activities rather than a full week or two weekends Pat Patterson chairman of the Freshman Council committee which formulated a Hell Weekreport prior to the voting explained the ballot will serve as a guide for the committee which will do the actual planning of next years sophfrosh activities According to freshman class president Bill Ellis One plan for themembership of this planning committee is to include Pattersons research committee the freshman class of Forum Audiences Agree With Mirel 6roups Aims 3iazid v h entire student Council iicfc i objections out that th s Oberlin Y y defined ted this citingsevBol Servicepointreligious nature of is sufficientlylibo that anyone can Cipate without compromising beliefs J le also remarked that walaHiliaion is an important pert of the Y By JUDY WOLFE Almost all participants agreed with the general tenor of theMirel Committee report on social rules in discussions at Review Forums last week ForumDirector Pogo Franklin said yesterday Mirels committee appointed by Student Council on March 26 to study and evaluate the possibility of revising social rules received Council approval last week topresent their proposed revisions to Womens Board The Committees report presented plans for alongrange goal in terms of revised womens rules and proposedgradual steps by which the goal could be reached A consensus of the forumaudiences was that modification of the report should take place The chief question asked of the panelists was By what means do we achieve the end goals and are these methods practical Irge Gradual Change Although enforcement andevaluation have not been entirely worked out the committeerepresentatives pointed out that the best results will be obtained through gradual change If a completely new set of rules were suddenly to be passed thestudents especially upperclassmen accustomed to living under the old Antigone Production Copies Greek Drama By A G STOKEY About 715 pm Sunday evening several shadowyfigB roamed up and down the platforms arranged on the stage l Auditorium Light flashed on the silvery Greekstyled emcts of the men and the womens flowing robes swung gracefully as they moved It was nearly time for an Oberlin Dramatic Association tarsal of Sonhnrlns Antirmnp whirh nlavs tomorrow v r 1 b r s Saturday rules might become wild Miss Franklin explained Miss Franklin also cited that there are certain prerequisites which students could fulfill inorder to increase the possibility of the new rules being approved First of all a change of attitude to one of responsibility toward knowledge and enforcement of the present rules is necessary in order that the faculty alumni and Womens Board will realize that students can assume even greater responsibility if new rules of a more liberal nature are passed Importance of Rules A second way of emphasizing responsibility among students is to demonstrate the importance of rules It was suggested in some of the forums Miss Franklin pointed out that the values of the present rules might be presented to the freshmen in the same way as the Honor System When asked if any of theproposed rules could be put intoeffect by September Miss Franklin replied that the abolition of lights out permission for women to be in mens lounges at certain hours more liberal open house and house party rules and choice of dress might be incorporated in the rules for the following year The purpose of the forums is not to debate Miss Franklinexplained but to sound out campus opinion and create a stimulus for discussion Attendance at theforums included 40 at May 50 atDascomb 30 at French House and 45 at Talcott The Review will sponsor four additional forums this week at Baldwin Tank Keep and Pyle Panelists Prudy Jones and Ann Newman will represent thoseconcerned with enforcement of rules and Marilyn Marc and LarryMirel will represent the Committees views Moderators are JuddKessler and Carolyn Swisher ficers and the newly electedsophomore officers This plan will be presented to the FreshmanCouncil this week Most of the activities conducted last fall were retained by large majorities of the voters Only the mens pants war and the pajama run did not receive a large number of affirmative votes although both passed by majorities The voting in order of yes no abstain was informal dance3012225 womens breakfast19444107 womens picnic 18645121 beanie wearing 2557028entertainment by sophomores forfreshmen 2168651 dressup day19512135 mens pants war15910983 and pajama run 14913565 Additional activities suggested by Pattersons committee met with approval also A help day was approved by a 1347471 vote Also mens tugofwar gained a 2136666 recommendation There is some doubt as to what will be decided on the basis of the question concerning the length of a Hell Week program It isevident from the vote of 153full week 165one weekend 30two weekends that the majority of the class actually favors extending the activities over more than just one weekend Government Course To Feature Briton Wilfrid Knapp a senior tutor at Oxford University will teach a course in British and Frenchforeign policy in place of the present American Foreign Policy course in the fall of 1957 pending General Faculty approval at a meeting earlier today If the revision is adopted by the faculty mimeo graphed announcements will be distributed to all students atregistration Mr Knapp who may replace Prof George Lanyi will also teach Government 7 InternationalPolitics both semesters andGovernment 4 Soviet Government and Politics second semester Club To Present Folk Song Festival Featuring folk singing folk dancing and other such activities the Folk Song Club will conduct an Intercollegiate Folk Song Fes tival this Saturday Saturday afternoon the Club will hold workshops in singing dancing instruments and games In the evening a folk and square dance will precede group singing in the Coop Bookstore parking lot or in Warner Gym in case of rain All women who take part in the evenings activities will have 140 permissions REFUGEE COMMITTEE Any freshman or sophomore man interested in being treasurer of the Committee for Refugee StU dents should contact Dini Allis at Dascomb or Doug Wenny atBarrows or French House by May 15 m pi f vs f mi i IT liliriii id i ni mi I I ExIndian Ambassador To Receive Doctorate By RICKY SHEROVER Chester Bowles former governor of Connecticut and past ambassador to India will deliver the Commencementaddress at the Colleges 124th Commencement Exercises June 10 He will also be awarded an honorary doctor of law degree Mr Bowles was the American ambassador to India from 1951 to 1953 Since his return he has written four books as well as several articles for the New York Times He has also spent much time traveling in this country and lecturing on the Far CHESTER BOWLES State Department Sponsors Visit Here Of Chilean Leader Mr Luis Oyarzun Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at theUniversity of Chile Santiago Chile is visiting the College untilThursday as a participant in theForeign Leader Program of theUnited States Department of States International Educational Service A graduate of the School ef Law and the School of Education of the University of Chile Mr Oyarzun studied aesthetics and the history of art at the University of London on a fellowship from the British Council Previous to his appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts he was a Professor of Introduction to the Study of Philosophy and Aesthetics in the School ofEducation and a Professor ofAesthetics in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile East Many of his views on American policy in Asia were expressed in talks given here last year under the sponsorship of the Connecticut delegation prior to the MockConvention Mr Bowles said that the United States cannot remainisolated from the rest of the world in its foreign policy He feels that America has to compete withRussia not so much for military power but for another kind of powerconsisting of people and ideas Mr Bowles feels that theUnited States must keep strongmilitarily but should talk less about it He also feels that this country should talk less about what it has done in the past and shouldconcentrate on present action The best propaganda is what you do he stated Mr Bowles was graduated from Yale in 1924 and became a partner of the advertising firm Benton and Bowles In 1943 he was thenational director of the Office of Price Administration and later that year became PriceAdministrator under President Roosevelt In 1946 he was the Americandelegate to the United NationsEducational Scientific and CulturalOrganization for the ParisConference and in 1949 he was elected governorof Connecticut Bridge Players Win Trophies In Cincinnatti College bridge players won their second major tournament of the year at the University ofCincinnati Saturday Bill Fritsch and Bob Pendleton won the trophy for the best pair of players and Fritsch DickGillman Frank Jones Pendleton Jim Phillips Worth Vaughn Betsy Warrick and Stewart Work won the Intercollegiate Team Trophy awarded by the University ofCincinnati Miami University of Ohioplayers took the second place pair trophy and the second placeintercollegiate team prize Sevencolleges participated in thetournament According to Fritsch the tournament was unique as it is the first time College players have travelled to another school for tournament play College players DannyKleinman and Dick Recht took first place in the IntercollegiateDuplicate Tournament in New York earlier this year Student Educational Policy Committee Acts as Liason Between Faculty Campus The Liaison Committee on Edu cational Policy aims to give the students direct opportunity toparticipate in recommending change in existing courses andeducational policy and in recommending new ones The recommendations of the Committee are submitted to the Educational Policy Committee of the College Faculty forconsideration Comprising the LiaisonCommittee is the Student Committee on Educational Policy which has nine student members and asixmember subcommittee of theGeneral Faculty Committee onEducational Policy In Thursdays elections ninestudents will be elected to the195758 Committee No more than two people with the same major nor no more than six from the same class can be elected Jim Ellis head of this yearsstudent committee outlined general procedure and actions in aninterview yesterday Little Formal Power The committee according to Ellis has little formal powerinsofar as determining faculty policy is concerned He emphasizedhowever that in a purely advisorycapacity the student committee is certainly respected and taken seriously The newest results of theCommittees efforts will be observed in HOUSE DRAWINGS Womens house drawing has been postponed until May 13 14 and 15 for incoming seniors juniors and sophomores in that order Room drawing will be May 20 at which time a 10 room deposit must be paid the near future Ellis stated when a course critique will beattempted Students in every course will at the option of each instructor be asked to evaluate the particular course by means of a type ofquestionnaire The purpose of this sort of study is to determine students opinions and reactions to the teaching methods employedResults are for the benefit of faculty members and every member has the option of refusing to give any IIill AiHL EvtrybKlv readv v uim director shouted The fig appeared oilstage Lets 8nV commanded Mr Clav from h middle of the Auditorium He uPards to someone named house lights and nils voice answered Wouij somewhere in hng of tlH uudilori the 41 Srew ialk Bob x1 f Traged uJnto the eerie strains of the ea v PHi by Gprad Humel ao e iVhiS 1roiuction of fcintv uuu oi irageay his wav viiuj fu outset vluieu i we wen lin ic all es action set and the simplicity n rtt rl llrPe that charact TV ura rennn ma tarun iiienued wsi wek JH fern io stay Jay ana nutos but found the Ppin ifrnanee much too lei erestm x the end Equally Powerful to be able lade by i oout tk du WWt of various members production 6tafl Character tot J challenge for the tune Co firmed on maintains P 4 col 6 Women s Board Slowly Gains Autonomy By CAROLYN EPSTEIN Since the Female Board ofManagers was established in 1836 for the general supervision of young ladies womens government has evolved from the status of afaculty committee to the present joint facultystudent board The original Female Board was composed of all faculty wivesLater it was narrowed down to just those wives and facultyparticularly interested in womens affairs still later students began to have a voice in their own affairs Ana as long as Oberlin has beencoeducational there have beendisputes over the proper regulations for the female students Womens League In the early 1900s all women belonged to the Womens League which had four different branches A Joint Council comprised of tne Womens Board of the faculty and an executive committee of tne League considered dscPlinary cases An Honor Court handled all violations of the honor system by women The Womens Senate was the legislature of the League and the Executive Board theadministrative body The Senate throughout itshistory had a varying number of members Composed of thepresidents of womens boarding houses and the chairmen ofcommittees of the Womens League the Senate had as many as 56 members in 1922 and metanywhere from once a week to once a semester Senate Discussed Rules The Womens League engaged in such various activities asplanning Halloween parties and sings administering a womens building where women could meet forsewing teas and discussion andinitiating freshmen and educating them to college ideals TheSenate was the forum for democratic discussion of the problems and rules for the women Rule changes seem to have been the mostlasting concern of the Senate To change legislation was a complicated process under the old vstem Rule changes had to be submitted first to the Executive Board of the Womens League then to the Joint Council offaculty and students If the changes were approved by both groups and also by the General Faculty they were presented to the women of the League whose finalratification was required to effect new rules 1915 Rule Revision In 1915 the Womens Senate along with the usual activities honor court senior examinations various permissions wrestled with the allabsorbing problem of rules The Womens Board in that year completed a longexpected revision of the womens rules on the basis of a graduated system Says the HiOHi of that year It remains for the women of Oberlin College to show themselves worthy of their new privileges The most pronounced issuebefore the League in 1929 was the Sunday afternoon walking rule According to the regulationinstituted in 1928 no woman waspermitted to leave her dormitorybetween 230 and 4 on Sunday after noons nor was she permitted to ontortain men during that time The reason for the rule according to a Review editorial was to force the girls to spend theafternoon in quiet and rest of which they are supposed to be in sore need by the end of each week Continuing in a sarcastic vein the editorial suggests that if those girls who wished it were allowed to go out and partake of healthfulexercise there would be fewer men playing poker on Sundayafternoons WSGL in 1939 In 1939 the Womens League changed its name to WomensSelfGovernment League and revised its constitution That year Honor Committee was madecoeducational and was no longer under the jurisdiction of WSGL According to the HiOHi 1945 was a year of violent discussion of womens pers in which juniors and sophomores were given lls The result says the yearbook was that women are more mature than ever Constitutional changes in 1947 consolidated the powers of theExecutive Board and the Womens Senate thereby givingresponsibility to a more representative body of students The WSGL board was eliminated its duties beingtransferred to special groups within the Womens Senate 1951 WSGL Constitution It was not until 1951 however that the present constitution of the WSGL was adopted merginglegislative and judicial functions in the Womens Board The change was made primarily because the Senate had been too unwieldy a group for effective discussion or action and too difficult to gather for meetings At that time theconstitution was completelyrewritten The biggest issue brought before Womens Board in recent years aside from the perennial problem of womens rules was the car rule Two years ago the Boardconsumed a great deal of time in dis cussions of suggested changes for freer use of cars by students AL though the Board considered var ious proposals such as the Pryor Plan it was hampered by a lack of jurisdiction over college rules of his classes the critique Catalog Alterations Some of the Committees major work according to Ellis comes in the realm of catalogue alterations particularly in questionsconcerning dash and comma courses A dash course indicates it may not be dropped after one semester a comma course may The student committeeconsidered Dean Stewarts test proposals for the fourquarter plan and found to my discouragement commented Ellis that student opinion seemed to be every bit as conservative as the facultys General Value Commenting on the generalvalue of the committee Ellis pointed to the recent petitioning of the English department by freshmen The move designed to haveEnglish Composition papers returned could have been better handled through the committee Ellis said Commeting on candidates Ellis stated that an awareness andinterest in educational procedures here and at other schools and the willingness to work hard are the major requirements Program Notes SENIOR RECITALS 830 pm Thursday Warner Concert Hall Joan Flint contralto When I am laid in Earth by Purcell Bois Epais by Lully Frauenliebe und Leben by Schumann andHaugtussa by Grieg HaskellThomson piano accompanist 430 pm Thursday Warner Concert Hall llarvey Hall piano ThreeSonatas by Scarlatti SchubertsSonata in A Minor Op 164 Poems of the Sea by Bloch and Three Etudes Op 25 by Chopin ART FILM PROGRAM Friends of Art will present a film program for its members 430 pm May 9 in the Allen ArtBuilding Auditorium Members of the Friends of Art are invited to bring guests INTERCLASS DORMITORIES Room drawings for the two interclass dormitories will begin at 430 pm tomorrow at May and Baldwin