Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1957-05-10

              i ifSl ayiia fcLBJEL a fmmf jo r i ill r i VOLUME 85 Z572 J I OBERLIN OHIO FRIDAY MAY 10 1957 Press Misses Meaning Of Stevenson Speech Editorial Page 2 Lacrosse Track KSquads Streaks End Sports Page 3 NUMBER 53 tudents Choose Womens Board Ed Policy bare Ends Light Women Repeal Freshman Rule After Rejecting Revised Plan Womens Board abolished the controversial lightsouf rule lor lioshmcn women at its meeting yesterday The action came after discussion of a motion to modify the rule bv extending the time lor lights out from 1030 to 11 pm and making it applicable for the first six weeks of the first semester cnly Freshmen from Dascomb May and Talcott argued that i j j t i advantages 01 me ruie hit il KpmIl 1 IIIH 11 at LIUl 1 I 13 I Mm m hoik bong Llub Gives Festival Square Dance Sinking dancing and instru mental instruction will highlight the Colleges first Intercollegiate Folk Festival which will be spon sored tomorrow afternoon and evening by the Folk Song Club Persons interested in improving their banjo or guitar playing may attend workshops from 130 to 430 pm at Goodrich where folk song books games and records will be on display From 430 to 6 pm there will be a general sing in front of Goodrich and a spe cial attraction will be an hour of French folk songs beginning at 5 pm at French House The evening activities willconsist of folk and square dancing in the Coop Book Store parking lot at 730 pm and general singing in he Student Council Lounge at 10 pm Tom Paton will call the dance which will be held in Warner Gym in case of rain A crowd of about 50 students is expected from such schools asUniversity of Michigan EarlhamCollege Western Reserve University and Ohio University Two of the featured guests will be GuyCarawan who recently performed here in a concert and Tony Saletan an outstanding performer at the Swarthmore College Festival vm utling oil work until the last n keeps the dormitories i i at night and gets students in i iialjt of doing a part of their k in the afternoon r arguments against the in ie that responsibility had ievelopci in a person and rules and that the student mil learn to budget her time ai1 in January As one student Misi Why not do it in September mi t it over with Inaddii in it was pointed out that if the m is intended to enablefreshin get more sleep it defeated its purpose because students often fniiiM that they had to get up early so complete their work More Time to 11 mii Farber Womens I mii Farber Womens Board iikinijiT first moved to extend the time of lights out to 11 pm and in have the rule in effect for the liri six weeks only In the ensu w i i u 1 1 ii was aujigesieu tiiit Die warning system ifproper v emphasized to enteringfreshiia M could fulfill the lights out rule function of maintaining qua in dormitories at night After cm idering this and other points Ms Farber withdrew her motion and moved instead that lights it be eliminated with strong emphasis on warnings lhe Board decided to submit it Iefereiidum to all College women It a majority of the womendistii v with the ruling the motion wiil be invalidated If not therulim will go into effect immediately Architect Advises College On Future Physical Needs Dy JAN CHirMAN For advice on using the development fund wisely the College has hired Douglas Orr to evaluate and take alonglange view of the Colleges physical plant needs for the next l5 years Mr Orr former president of the American Institute of Architects and currently employed as consulting architect to Vin TTiri T1rnnln TTri UlllVLllLI 1 IlilLttU 1 win OmjL Fountain To Conduct MU lUrchestra in Verdi work ft v i v rr V PROF ROBERT FOUNTAIN Prof Robert Fountain will conduct the MusicalUnion and the Oberlin Orchestra in Verdis Requiem at 8 pm Sunday in Finney Chapel Mrs Janice Schmidt soprano Ellen Rupp mezzosoprano Jan Thompson tenor andEdmund Heard bass will be the soloists Verdi dedicated his Requiem to Alessandro Manzoni an Italian author and patriot It was first performed in Milan in 1874 The work has often been described as an opera in disguise She is best known for her Wag nerian roles in Europe Professor Fountain said Mr Heard teaches at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh He has done much oratorio and recital work Thompson is a freshman in the Conservatory He has sung in the Dayton Boys Choir Professor Fountain believes that he has a remarkably fine voice and won derful talent Tickets may be bought for 1 at the door or at the Conserva tory office Mrs Schmidt the soprano solo ist is best known lor heroutstanding oratorio work according to Professor Fountain She has made numerous performances in Ohio and has appeared with Robert Shaw She has also sung inrecitals and in many Cleveland churches Miss Rupp is an assistantprofessor of singing in theConservatory of music She has appeared in operatic roles oratorios and asorchestral soloist and as recitalist both in this country and in Europe Oyarzun Observes Allen Art M useum Library Techniques Senor Luis Oyarzun Dean of the Faculty of Fine Artj at theUniversity of Chile spent most of his recent visit to the Collegeobserving museum and librarytechniques in the Allen Art Building Interested chiefly in art Sr Oyarzun will confine his visit in this country largely to museums and art libraries but he plans to visit several individuals prominent in art and architecture including Frank Lloyd Wright Alsoincluded in his plans is a trip to Ten nessee Valley Authority project where he will confer with TVA officials Sr Oyarzuns trip is a part of the Foreign Leaders Program of the United States Department of States International Educational Service Under this programindividuals or groups are brought to this country in the hope that they will be able to take back with them new ideas in the field which is their particular interest Most of the participants are educators JUNIOR RESIDENTS Sophomores Carol Miller and Irene Houtz will serve as junior residents at Dascomb next year FOR Film on Bus Integration Stresses Passive Resistance By SUE KLINGAMAN Suffering voluntarily assumed can be redemptive for it was this that broke the attitude of the whitecommunity said Miss Ellamae Calvert in a discussion of busintegration in Montgomery Tuesday in Y Lounge Miss Calvert is a Field Representative of the Fellowship of Reconciliation a pacifist organization and a participant in the Montgomery Improvement Association ao tivities Miss Calvert showed Walk to Freedom a film produced by the FOR which pictures the busboycott in Montgomery as well as foreign scenes of interracialviolence where the FOR feels thepacifist ideals could have beenimplemented After the film Miss Calvert spoke on her experiences inMontgomery as a representative of the FOR where she worked closely with Martin Luther King She emphasized that telling theMontgomery story in other thanreligious terms would be altering the story of Montgomery Miss Calvert asked if the fact that the negroes in Montgomery touk a stand was more important than the manner in which the stand was taken replied that the action worked only because it was a stand of passive resistance Viol University Princeton vei ity Brown University and Maint Holyoke College hasvisit 1 the campus three times since September to look at buildings insult with department heads ami otherwise collect datapertineiit to his study Definite plans for the King building projected as an office uM classroom building await air Orrs report This report will probably not be submitted before he has made at least one more visit to the campus according to Itwis Tower College Business Manager The BuildingCommittee of the Board of Trustees iet with Mr Orr before springvacation hut no definitiverecommendations were discussed Forus on Functional Mr Tower said Mr Orrsevalitition will be particularly helpful hecause he focuses on functional rather than aestheticconsjderaIons Materials and methods of instruction may changeconsiderably in the next fifteen years t said Hence what the College wis is not a Specific plan for particular buildings but anestimate of how much physical plant enlargement in each department and in dormitory housing will be most efficient for meeting needs in future years Colleges Size Uncertain Estimating future needs is a implicated process even when wirollment policy is welldefined The Colleges present uncertainty about what size enrollment should aid will be ten years from now nakes any estimates especially mous Mr Tower said Mr Orrs recommendations will probably be based on several possibleenrollment figures ART LECTURE Budd Hopkins whose art work is currently on view as part ofAllen Art Museums Three Young Americans exhibit will present an illustrated lecture on Recent American Painting at 830 pm Monday in the Allen Art Building auditorium Minority GivesCollege Bad Name Gilkeson By JOHN FARRIS Capt Delmar F Gilkeson of the AFROTC saidWednesday that he felt that the erroneous opinion held by manypeople particularly in the Northern Ohio area that OberlinCollege is radical is mainly due to a few student minority groups on the campus who seem to have common members and who seem to receive an amount of publicity that is dispro nnrtirmtn tn iUoir K17P Committee Ratifies 15 Faculty Advances Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees meeting May 6 approved advances in rank for 15 faculty members When asked about the Colleges system of facultyadvancement Dean Blair Stewart told the Review that itresembles a ladder which faculty members climb without skipping any one rung successively holding positions as instructorassistant professor associate professor and professor Advance ments in rank are originally rec ommended by the College Faculty Mentioning a few examplesincluding the Eugene V Debs Club the Oberlin Pacifists and thenewly formed Left Discussion Group he said that these groups bypushing the Russian Representative Program circulating antipetitions and inviting questionable characters to speak on thecampus cause people whose onlycontact with the College is what they hear and read in newspapers to form these erroneous opinions Take Advantage of Majority Captain Gilkeson said hebelieves that the majority of thestudent body is trying to maintain a liberal atmosphere to such anextent that minorities are takingadvantage of them He said he had seen the majority back down more than once and declared that he thought that 95 per cent of thestudents did not care one way or an other about some things such as the Russia Representative Pro gram and the YM and YWCA but financed them nevertheless Situation Improved Recently Minorities must have their rights and these rights must berespected he asserted but themajority must not bow and scrape to the minorities Capt Gilkeson remarked however that he had seen improvement in this situation during his stay here particularly under the present Student Council He added that having come to know the College and the students in the past three years hepersonally has great respect for theCollege its principles and itsfaculty The College AFROTC Unit which was established as asubdetachment of Case Institute of Technology in 1952 will bedisestablished this June Council and are subject to the ap proval of the Board of Trustees he stated According to Dean Stewartfaculty members are initiallyappointed for one or twoyear terms They must be reappointed after a prescribed period of time He commented that those who prove their worth to the College no matter what their rank may be given permanent appointments to the Faculty Cherished Situations Faculty members who hold such appointments need not bereappointed from year to year and their positions are secure except in rare cases until theirresignation or retirement Dean Stewart emphasized the fact that theFaculty regards the permanentpositions as cherished situations due to the high degree of security which they offer The Committee advanced Andor Toth violin Norman P Sacks Spanish and Warren F Walker Jr zoology to the rank ofprofessor Associate professors will be Clifford Cook stringedinstruments and music educationFreeman Koberstein pianforte and Kay T Rogers zoology Faculty members who received appointments as assistantprofessors are Kenneth Moore music education Howard E Smither the history and literature of music Simon Barenbaum French Carl W Kammeyer chemistry Gilbert Continued on p 4 col 4 ent negro resistance could have been broken in Montgomery she felt She emphasized that it isbetter to resist violently than to acquiesce but that passive resist REVIEW COLUMNISTS Students interested inwriting reviews or columns for the Review next year shouldcontact Ellen Rawlings at theReview office or Pyle Inn by May 15 New columnists will beexpected to submit a trial column by May 24 ance is the best policy Miss Calvert explained that the people of Montgomery feel asympathetic tie with Koinonia in Americus Georgia an integrated community farm now suffering from a boycott inflicted by its neighbors Montgomery is now considering negro credit unions and a campaign to get thenegroes to the polls There is a great need for funds to reconstruct the bombed churches in Montgomery she added Board To Hold Office Only until February College women elected six regular members and two alternates to Womens Board yesterday Jackie Bray Peggy Eaton and Ann Newman juniors Nancy Swearingen and Dotty Langner sophomores and Ann Olsen freshman are new members Clair Fielder junior and Marilyn Marcsophomore are alternates The student body also elected nine members to the tuviai i ujitjr ummuiee Those elected in the humanities division were Pogo FranklinEnglish Chuck Eaton philosophy and Ray Bach philosophy From the natural sciences were Jim Owens physics Tim Thomas chemistry and Dojo Waddell chemistryBarbara Keith history Art Cohen government and HannaBergmann history were chosen from the social sciences Mummers Club To Perform Brigadoon Mummers will presentBrigadoon its third show of the year at 8 pm Wednesday throughSaturday in Hall AuditoriumMummers will also give two special commencement weekperformances on June 8 Brigadoon is a musical fable about a mythical Scottish town In the play two AmericansAlbright Don Forsythe andDouglas Tony Musante wanderinto an eighteenth century Scottish village on the one day it comes to life during the course of acentury Douglas meets and falls in love with a village girl FionaMacLaren Ann Aiston After spending a day with her he leaves the town but eventually returns Other students acting in the play are Fred Cohen Jerry Cohen Jan Cunnison Julie Curtis John Dill Thomas Goldthwaite Hal Lemmerman Jack McCracken Mike Meltsner Clyde Perry Frank Porath Larry Shrider and Jane Sparks The play has a singing and dancing cast of 55 Larry Sigman is the director Phil Spurgeon conducts theorchestra and Roger Havranek Is chorus master Tickets are on sale at Haylors book store for 90 cents New members of Educational Policy Committee will take office next week and will serve until next May New Womens Board members will meet jointly with the present Board until June and will take office next fall One of the main jobs of the Board at that time will be to set up a new Womens Board system in line with the present Boards motion to establish separateallstudent legislative and judicial boards Elections will be heldunder the new system in February Debaters Try for Class of 15 Prize Sally McConnell and Jack Rice affirmative and Johnnetta Betsch and James Freed negative will compete for a prize of 50 in the Class of 1915 Prize Debate at 435 pm Monday Room 21 Sturees Hall The losers will receive 25 The participants will debate the topic Resolved That United States foreign aid be substantially in creasea Members of the audi ence will select the winning team Ed Policy Circulates Class Questionnaires By JEAN TIMBERLAKE Educational Policy Committeesponsored coursecritiques will be distributed in classrooms Monday and Tuesday to be filled out by students during the first 20 minutes of class The critique consists of questions concerning organiza tion and effectiveness of the presentation of material evalu ation of laboratories and studios reading material andtesting methods stimulus received to do independent work and apparent purpose and realization of purpose of the class Committee members emphasized Many Factors Influence College Application Policy By SALLY SMITH Applications for admission to the College are examined individually and within the broad category of eligiblestudents factors other than test scores are considered explained Director of Admissions Robert L Jackson in an interview with the Review Mr Jackson stated that it is difficult to explain the ex act policies by which the College Junius siuaents home applications can be either accepted or elimin that students are asked to sign their names to the questionnaires as grades will be decided by the time the questionnaires come back to the professor and further the professor may wish to discussspecific suggestions with the student For Professors Benefit According to Ray Bachmember of the Committee the critique is solely for the benefit of theprofessor and is designed to give him some means of learning student opinion about his class Student suggestion stimulated the Committees action stated secretary June Osborn Amultiple choice critique was used from 1949 through 1951 but wasdiscontinued because of lack of student interest Miss Osborn commented Critique Questions The questions asked on the critique are 1 Why did you take this course 2 Purposes a what do you think the purposes of this course have been b How well do you think they were realized c What other purposes do you think this course should have had 3 Intellectual growth a Has this course affected your ability to think critically and independently b Has this course increasedde creased your desire to study fur ther in this field Evaluate Presentation 4 Evaluate the organization and presentation You may want to consider such items asorganization and effective use of class time receptiveness to questions and ability to answer them ability to explain difficult points etc 5 Please evaluate thelaboratories or studios the assignments texts and outside reading the testing methods including papers and grading 6 What obstacles to the free exchange of ideas have beenencountered in this course Does the professor have any mannerisms which affect his classpresentation 7 How would you change this course if you were to teach it next year RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS Sometime within the next two weeks the College RhodesScholarship Committee will beginconsidering members of the classes of 1957 and 1958 to represent the College in the Rhodes competition Men interested in presenting their qualifications should see Prof Robert G Gunderson chairman of the committee sometime next week aiea immediately he saidHowever in the median group where qualifications and chances forsuccess seem almost equalacceptances may be based on a desire to obtain a diverse yet wellbalanced class Some Admissions Gambles Since there is no absolutelyaccurate method of determining which students in this group will be successful some of theadmissions are a gamble admitted Mr Jackson As is the case in anycollege where there is no strictadmissions policy a great deal of responsibility falls on theadmissions director The situation demands that he be sensitive to tradition and that he make judgments whileabsorbing and resisting pressures Mr Jackson added It is in the nature of the job that his judgments will be tempered by the influence of trustee alumni and facultyopinion Outside Factors Although no quotas or otherarbitrary restrictions exist MrJackson pointed out that he sometimes must weight factors orcircumstances not related to theapplicants personality or qualifications For example to accept all the valedictorians among the New YorkNew Jersey applicants would seriously overbalance the class Prospects Try Other Schools According to a survey made five years ago both men and women who apply to the College alsoapply most often to SwarthmoreCollege Ivy League schools rank next for men and Seven College Conference schools next forwomen As of March 29 a record of 1477 applications had been received this year 603 men and 874women Planning on a class of 420 the Admissions Office has accepted 379 men and 404 women