Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1957-05-17

              mo 235 jrinj 54cl erlin tens 54cl light Uact ibles use 54cl Charter Enforcement Needs Teeth Editorial VOLUME 85 Z572 Faculty Forms To Investigate For Higher College Faculty at a n0on voted unanimously to plans for increasing College committee to consider me cuect oi these plans on the qualitv t 1 C f ll 11 J of education aim uu me miuiies oi me oiiege iit ni j Program Notes STRING QUARTET Oberlin String Quartet 830Friday Warner Concert HallHindemiths String Quartet No 3 and Beethovens String Quartet in F Major GRADUATE RECITAL Florence Anna Kunitono piano 30 pm Saturday Warner Con cert Hall Bachs Prelude and Fugue in Afiat Major and Prelude and Fugue in G Major Schu manns Sonata in F Minor Op 11 Hindcmiths Sonata No 3 WOODWIND ENSEMBLES Student woodwind ensembles 400 pm Sunday Warner Con cert Hall William Wittig flute Fred Young clarinet Roberta Page oboe Esther Sweigart French horn Joeph Shakes bassoon Summer Music by Samuel Barber Caroline Grimes flute Sally Grove flute Carol Davidson flute Alvin Etlers Prelude and Dance Stephen Adelstein oboe Gene Marie Rice oboe Ann Lloyd darinet Robert Molison clarinet iara Pendergraft French horn Lowell Crist French horn Peter Scheiber bassoon Robert Brown bassoon Mozarts Serenade K 388 in C Minor Caroline Grimes flute Peter Hedrick oboe Elsa Ludewig clarinet Lynn Robbins trench horn Ronald Wain bas soon Alvin Etlers Quintet for winds GRADUATE RECITAL Mary Kyungsook Lee soprano 830 pm Monday Warner Con cert Hall In Jehovahs awful sight Ask if yon damask rose and Come pensive nun byHandel Recitative and Aria by Mozart aui dum Strom by Schubert La Vie anterieure Extase Le wanoir de Rosemonde and Chanson triste by DupareVerborgenheit and Elfenlied by Wolf Marienlied by Marx and All niein Gedanken andCacilie by Strauss SENIOR RECITAL Wendell Hill organ 800 pm lesday Finnel fhannl Tan4i Tu Concerto No 5 Bachs Toccata P F Major Francks Choral No 2 in B Minor Reubkes Sonata in C Minor NAACP OFFICERS NAACP reelected John Schuler President at a meeting Thursday afternoon Margie Schwartz will act as vicepresident andrecording secretary Ruth Turnertreasurr Howard Hush corresponding Wretiry and Vince Schneier Publicity chairman Citizens Debate Possible Effects Of Increased Liauor Availability J Note This is the second in a mtos of articles by Miss Stokey on he UM liquor question By A G STOKEY when Dons Place and Fish es Super Market applied to unio Board of Liquor Con roi for licenses to sellpacked WinP ilnrl civ ro rf OlA CLIlt eer thev set nff ft rminrl nf i a i m s 3 n H rniinf orMaimc aoout the effects of increased availabilitv wwn Dn Hentges proprietor of Don PI dCe POinteH nut In an lnlos th the Review that if the new rises arp ffrnntorl ctj n Still u on aiuuiiiia win uC dDie to get 32 per cent er if they are over 18 years old Bular beer and wine would be aDie only for those over 21 lr HentgeS nrprlin toA thai if thorn ai referendum for the elimination til tsuch as the WomensChrise Ternperance Union is consid lne the town would probably vote wet Referendum on Ballot the referendum tnr k all jnation of 32 beer is put on the Dallot then um oi k lne statiiQ ct n I i an liquor iiiciuumg wat COntfllnl oi 1 fllnL 6 uvci i jjcr cein alcohol This would Involve a vote live aspects of liquor selling a yes vntp i Page 2 nans fi Enrollment special meeting yesterday aft er lorm a committee to investirntp enrollment It also instructed the nui l oi me uorman yuepanment empowered the com inmee 10 mane suggestions to the acuity lor more efficient utiliza tion of the physical plant and leacning stair of the College The motion requests that each department restudy its courses staif and general procedure The administrative offices are alsorequested to give pertinent informa tion to the committo resident Stevenson Dean Blair btewart and one member each from the humanities socialsciences and physical sciencesdivisions will comprise thecommittee Two faculty candidates in each of the three divisions will be nominated by primary ballot The faculty will then elect one of the nominees in each division on a final ballot ine committee is to make first report to the faculty February its by Black Bear Chooses Present College Site id olc litis is the first in on the curl ly history of the College ciiil dilJicullies and tin l tlleves attempts to overcome tliem By BETH ROBINSON Oberlin today has developed into something cmite dif ferent from what the founders expected it would A dip into Prof Robert S Fletchers book History of Oberlin College reveals many interesting things about the beginning of this institution Exactly a century and hercl young evangelist founder set up a missionary school to con vert the heathen of the West The popularity of revivalist meetings plus the innovation of manual labor schools provided a fertile background for Shipherd and one of his students Philo P Stewart as they set out in 1833 from Elyria where Shipherd had settled in search of a site for their new school After traveling a piece they hitched their horses to a tree and got down to pray for guidance A few minutes later they met a hunt er in the woods who told them that ten minutes before they had hitched their horses to the tree a black bear and two cubs had climbed out of it Taking this as an omenShipherd and Stewart adopted the area surrounding the tree now known as the Historic Elm as the site for their seminary The contract for the land which was signed on Feb 16 1833 stip i would make Oberlin wet Dean W Dean Holdcman said the increased access to liquor in town would put students in greater position of responsibility to obey the College liquor rules if indications arise that students are not living up to theirresponsibility the College might possibly have to start inspecting College buildings for violations He cm phasized that the College has al ways tried to leave the student on his honor to obey the rule Opposing the pending licenses for Dons and Fishers the Kev William K Hogg of the First Meth odist Church revealed that the Of flcial Board of the Church has voted to request a hearing before the Ohio Board of Liquor Control about the new license for Dons Place According to an Ohio law any church school library or similar Institution may request a hearing if a store within five hundred feet of it applies for a new liquorlicense if it thinks that the new li cense would impede the normal function of the institution Liquor and Crime The argument over the effect of liquor laws on the incidence of crime bootlegging violence in the home automobile accidents and general drunkenness has raged back and forth in the pages of the illlMi JlluJM jJLJL jl I Netmen Journey ls tWA 8 i Wm i iffrHlllW BlW To Conference Meet 3Li Sports Page 3 OBERLIN OHIO FRIDAY MAY 17 1957 NUMBER 55 r r vounci rims k 4 Irohn E Gearcy Prof cinz Iolitzer Phil Mattson and Keith Kurland rehearse for the presentation of the German mystery play Jedernann at 715 pm Sunday on the Finney Chapel steps Seats w ill cost 50 cents standing room is free Report Presents Possible Union Govemmentrhpmp By BILL Student Union will be which will calendar social events coordinate socialrecreational and cultural events and sponsor events and facilities if a tentative proposal revealed last nifht is rnrrinH nut The proposal was the substance of a final progress report of the Government Subcommittee of the btlldent Union Planning Commit tee It was presented to the Plan u series of articles by Miss Robinson Subsequent articles will deal with man a quarter ago John Jay Ship ot the College came west ti ulated that the trustees of the Oberlin Manual Labor Institute were to receive a donation of 500 acres of land to be foreverappropriated to the use of the same that is to the use of a ManualLabor Institute The Institute was granted immediate possession of the land plus the full title at the end of three years if at that time the school were in successfuloperation in suitable buildings valued at not less than 000 and had an enrollment of 50 students The owners of the land also agreed to sell to the Oberlincolonists 5000 acres at 150 an acre in farms of 50200 acres To fulfil the requirements of the contract the trustees were often placed in a tight situation especially in regard to raising money The College teeteredrepeatedly on the brink of collapse before it finally established itself on firm financial grounds Oberlin NewsTribune Mr Hentges was quoted in the May 2 issue as sayingBootleggers want to see the town go dry They cant make any money here so long as alcohol is sold legally He also said that the days of the oldtime saloon are gone forever Nowadays people dont drink and make a lot of trouble bince Ive been here this tavern has never had any serious fights or other difficulties WCTU Letter The president of the WCTU in a letter to the town newspaper May 9 countered The chilling fact is that the bootleggers areincreasing in proportion to the in crease of legal outlets This is due of course to the growing alco hol habit and the taxes on legal liquor In the same letter the leader of the temperance organizationcontinued It is thechildren whosuffer Today drinking is done at home Three out of four do most of their drinking in private houses in the last decade the business of the nations taverns has fallen from 65 per cent to 35 per cent of the total beverage alcohol sales Who can wonder that many citizens object to alcohol being made easily available in grocery stores such as Fishers and in Continued on p 4 col 6 X L r HICKMAN governed bv a sixman board ning Committee last night bysubchairman Pete Elkind It will be submitted to Student Council this month for approval and thenpresented to the Board of Trustees at their spring meeting June 7 Under Elkinds plan serviceorganizations those activities whose primary function is to serve the student body at large will be divided into five general areas forum religious dramaticpolitical and publications andcommunications Advisory Board One elected member from each of these areas shall serve on an advisory board whose functions shall be to discuss improvements of extracurricular activities and to act as arbitrator in cases oforganizational conflict The other members of the board will be the Student Union Dhcctor and the six Continued oe p 4 col 1 Seniors Take Oral Exams For Independent Studies By CAROL THROOP The fifth year of the Independent Studies Program will close during the next week when outside examiners willadminister oral examinations to the seniors participating in the program Beginning today and continuing until May 27 seniors in nine departments will be given hourlong oral examinations on work done in their major and related fields of study Theexaminations will be given in thepresence of a member of the faculty of the students major department and a member of the Committee on Independent Studies Six Hour Written Exam The Independent Studies exam ination normally involves anadditional sixhour written examina tion Separate recommendations are given by the outside examin ations are given by the outside ex er and by the students major department to the Committee on Independent Studies which then decides whether the student shall be certified as having completed his studies satisfactorily Program Fosters Initiative The purpose of the program is to foster intellectual independence and initiative to a degree beyond that normally possible in the stand aid undergraduate course accord ing to Prof Carl Howe chairman of the Committee on Independent Studies The plan which is fol lowed by an individual student may emphasize concentration and depth or spread and integration Students are usually invited to participate in the program at the end of the sophomore year by the major department and theCommittee on Independent Studies after a plan of studies has beenapproved by those groups Examiners Examiners will be chemistry Dr James Corwin AntiochCollege classics and archeology Mrs Dorothy Burr Thompson Bryn Mawr College economics Prof Jacob Cohen Bowling Green State University fine arts Prof FHayden Huntlet NorthwesternUniversity government Prof Allen Whiting Michigan StateUniversity and Prof Maurice KlainWestern Reserve University history Prof Stanley Mellen University of Michigan philosophy Prof Joseph Tussman SyracuseUniversity sociology Prof Jessie Bernard Pennsylvania SlateUniversity speech Prof WilliamMcCollom Western ReserveUniversity Vwounci For Contest To Donate Prizes for Essays On Job Experience Any student in the College or the Graduate School of Theology who works for wages for six weeks or more during the summer may compete for the Jerome Dean Davis Industrial Essay Prizes of 100 50 and 25 Students who hold jobs in any businessindustrial or agricultural are eligible Possible essay topics include technological change and social consequences informal organiza tion of work groups race and ethnic factors union organization and leadership bargaining pro cesses influence of an industrial plant upon the community and religion and the worker Essayists should draw on their own observations whenever pos sible although supplementary ma terial may be used Interestedstudents should contact Prof Richard It Myers of the department of SO ciology and anthropology to obtain information or submit essays Deadline for submission of essays is Oct 15 1957 FOLK SONG CLUB olk Song Club elected Joe Browdy its president for next year on iuesday Bo Israel was elect ed treasurer Ricky Sherover cor responding secretary Joani Blank recording secretary and Chuck Crawford publicity director Woody Hahn and Nick Royal are new membersatlarge of the ex ecutive board COOP Students living or eating at Pyle Inn or Grey Gables next year will meet to elect house officers and decide on final Coop membership at 430 pm Monday in Sturges Hall LIGHTSOUT Womens Board has discovered on reexamination of the WSGL constitution that no referendum vote is necessary on its decision to abolish the lightsout rule for freshmen Premier Leads Poles To LimitedA utonomy By GEORGE STRAUSS Polish Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka has evincedpolitical sophistication and realism that is unique in the history of the Poles senior Mike Grossman stated at a meeting of the Left Discussion Group yesterday evening at Goodrich House Grossman pointed out that Gomulka has had to effect a delicate compromise between Polish nationalistic desires and Russian dominance but that he has still been able to achieve anincreased though limited degree of Polish autonomy Mark Arnold and LarryGottheim also participated indiscussion of various aspects of themajor problems facing Gomulka and the Polish people today Arnold this years Russia Rep began by sketching the political and economic history of Poland since World War II Heemphasized that Russia had gainedmilitary control over Poland before the end of the War and outlined the progressive communization of the Polish government whichRussia has effected since then Although postwar Three and FiveYear Plans have been fairly successful in increasing Polands industrial output Arnold pointed out that agricultural production has actually declined and that the average Pole still lives in poverty by Western standards The Poznan riots of 1956reflected a basic discontent among the Poles with both the economic and the intellectual situation inPoland today stated returned Russia Rep Gottheim The immediate cause of the riots was the failure rims Tripled Socia Social Board Cites Need For Adequate Expansion Social Board presented a budget for 195758 of 9327 about 490 per activity card over three times this years fee of 156 to Student Council Wednesday night This years fee was 58 per cent larger than the 99 cent 195556 fee Council cut the proposed budget for next year by 1965 and postponed until Sunday discussion of a requested 1200 Big Weekend subsidy included in it Tentative approval of Clemeau Irwin Win Fulbright Study Grants College senior Carol Clemeau and Theology student Jack Irwin have won Fulbright grants for study abroad in 195758 College Fulbright adviser Prof Joseph Reichard has announced Miss Clemeaus award would permit her to study medieval lit erature at Albert Ludwig Univer sity in Freiburg Germany How ever she plans to use her National Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for study at Bryn Mawr Collegeinstead Mr Irwin will use his grant to do advanced studies in the Old Testament at the Univer sity of Oslo Norway Miss Clemeau will concentrate on French at Bryn Mawr Follow ing this she hopes to do further studies in comparative literature in preparation for a doctors degree and a teaching career Miss Clem eau may apply for the Fulbright grant again after finishing at Bryn Mawr Irwin now in his fourth year in the Graduate School of Theology was graduated from Hiram Col lege in 1953 and was granted his Masters degree in the Old Testa ment from the College last year He has served as student pastor at churches in Gibsonburg andLeRoy Ohio and as Minister to Youth for the HowlandCommunity Church east of Warren Ohio Irwin will be ordained a minis ter on June 2 after receiving his Bachelor of Divinity degree at Commencement He has also been offered a scholarship to DrewUniversity which he hopes to use to study for a PhD after returning from Norway He plans to enter the teaching profession David Berfield had previously been awarded a Fulbrightscholarship for next year bringing the total number of College students honored this year to three Eight College graduates are currently abroad on feese scholarships About 950 grants are beingawarded this year of the government to deliver promised bonuses to the factory workers but the disturbances were as much a general protest against what many Poles believe to be the betrayal and perversion of socialist ideals and of what is best in Polish traditions Gottheim gave examples of the rebellion by the intellectuals against socialist realism in the arts and he commented that they cannot accept the Communistconception of art as a practical means to furthering the aims of the state Crises Dominate Politics International contingencies have dominated Polands domesticpolitics throughout recent Polishhistory Grossman maintained He traced the foreign relations ofPoland during the period between the World Wars the GermanRussian struggle for Poland and thevictory that Russia won at the Yalta Peace Conference in 1945 for the control of Poland Grossman concluded thatGomulkas main problem is torestrain the demands of the people so that Russia will not tighten the screws of Stalinism and to raise the Polish standard of living equest Funds the entire budget was also put off untu men Pending Sundays ac tion the budget stands at 7362 or about 375 per card over twice this years fee Social Board chairman Vince Finisdore in presenting thebudget stated that the increase was needed for expansion and growth under each category until we feel each item is adequate Object to Decorations Councils main objection to the Social Board budget was to the request for money for morepermanent decorations CouncilPresident Bob Kummer stated thatalthough permanent decorations are something that Social Board can use it had not been shown that these permanent decorations are saving money over ordinarydecorations John Lucas vast Social Board Treasurer claimed that money would be saved in the long run Last years Council granted So cial Board a loan of 93500 for the purchase of permanentdecorations with the understanding that the loan would be repaid bv funds from Social Boards rental of the REVIEW COLUMNISTS Students interested in writing reviews or columns for theReview next year should contact Ellen Rawlings at the Review office or Pyle Inn by tomorrow New columnists will be expected to submit a trial column by May 24 decorations to dormitories andorganizations However since Social Board itself sponsored most of tho functions at which the decorations were used this plan of repayment was not feasible Asks Council To Pay Consequently Social Board re quested Council to amortize the loan over a fouryear period at a rate of 235 per year Council agreed and in addition granted new loan request of 464 for decorations This was a cut of 130 from the original request Since tnis loan Is to be amortized on the same basis as the other the total amount budgeted for permanent decorations for next year is 350 Other objections to the budget included the subsidies for Outing Club Bridge Club and Camera Club wages for a janitor for the Goodrich workshop 150 for the miscellaneous category andexpenditures for bands andrefreshments Defending the request for bands and refreshments Finisdore said This is not a large estimate This is a punchandcookies estimate Council cut 150 from thiscategory leaving at at 1700 Cuts Enumerated Other cuts in the original budget were as follows 400 in theequipment category leaving it at 1104 50 from the MetcalfGoodrich fund leaving it at 204 50 from the maintenance category leaving it at 245 10 from the officesupplies category leaving it at 100 150 from the printing andengraving category leaving it at 150 140 from the publicity and advertising category leaving it at 409 90 from the wagescategory leaving it at 295 85 from the tournaments categoryeliminating it entirely and 75 from the miscellaneous category leaving it at 75 Film Series Names Next Years Board Joe Hickerson president of Film Series Board has announced that next years Board will becomposed of Ginette Grey Bob Kreis Dan Magidson Pete Michaels and Paul Nagy The group plans to present eight movies during each of the two coming semesters and special films will be shown to Film Series members A special subscription rate of 2 per semester will beoffered