The Wooster Voice

The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 1961-1970 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 10-28-1966 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1966-10-28 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1961-1970 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 1966-10-28" (1966). The Voice: 1961-1970. 137. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1961-1970/137 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 1961-1970 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. r Man Ain't Really He Just Ain't j That Evil . t Too Smart. I Published by the Students of The College of Wooster Volume LXXXIII Wooster, Ohio, Friday, October 28, 1966 Number 5 Young CoDndEinoiis U. S. World Vievj, mmmmmi by Ron Wallace 4 i l - r : j r; t i . rime tciurai uuuuuai iajis vi uui uiuc aic revolutioni: aim cnanee. in a lecture Tuesday evening, Mr. Ron Young, national director of youth work for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, went on to attribute the United States1 present attitude toward "World Revolution" to a generally unrealistic and unsatisfying "world view. Mr. Young asserted that three of Viet Nam, Cuba and China, We major misconceptions prevent us must accept revolution and who, unlike us, cannot take them change if we are to encounter from accepting the necessary fact II:: for granted. If our actions go- of revolution. "We see the world are anything other than Vietnam after W ing to be meaningful to these Vietnam in the stated future, , as primarily divided between Com- OX;. peoples we must first change our Young. anti-Communis- He remarked the two munism and m, be- that notions of freedom. tween East and West, and between most important contributions we Young suggested that what the are making to a favorable world Christian and non-Christia- n. The Vietnamese people need and want picture the Civil - v Sfc latter misconception is often con- are Rights move is not our supposed "freedom nected with the first resulting in ment and the Peace Corps, in that from Communism" but the free- our insistence that when we fight they suggest a way to change dom to read and eat. "The more "Communism" we are actually people as well as laws and insti we send he fighting "Godless atheism." Mr. troops to Vietnam," tutions. Reverse the budget," sug continued, "the more do the Viet- gested Young, quoting Barbara Ward, in- Young, "give the Peace namese relate action that sisted that the primary division our to Corps that money which is now of the French in that is, X is rather that between the North 1954; as delegated to the military. The an attempt to colonize and control and the South, the developed and Communists will not 'get us', we their country. France offered them will the underdeveloped. merely be competing with Christianity, we offer them 'pro- them on ideas regarding methods "Our faulty world view," con- tection from Communism'." of changing peoples and coun- tinued Mr. Young, "stems largely Young insisted that since our tries." from an inability to understand the world picture tends to be unrealis- Young concluded, "It may seem L word 'freedom' in its broader tic we wind up opposing change presumptuous and romantic to try sense." He asserted that rather MARGARET (ANN CLINE) LOOKS ON as Sir Thomas More (Ross Morgan) contemplates and revolution, in many cases to deal with such large and general the than thinking of freedom as "free- personal and political dilemmas raised by Henry Vlll's Act of Supremacy. making the subsequent changes topics as freedom, revolution and dom from other people," we should more harmful. "We have respond- change. But if we're not romantic learn to think of freedom as "free- ed to Negro riots here by trying now, how will we be 25 years dom and with other for people." to end them, trying to maintain the from now?" College's Little Theatre Young commented that the free- status quo. But the problem is not Triumphs doms of literacy and nutrition are the riot; the problem is that which very real goals for those peoples evokes the riot." BOOK SALE In Challenging A Book Sale will be held Parents' Day Play Thursday, Nov. 3 at 4:15 p.m. by Sue Anderson Beem, Fill on Grace Walk (running from Massie, Dodds "Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? ... Galpin to the Book Store.) To be great is to be misunderstood." This sale will offer the student Emerson's words probe the central issues of Robert Bolt's play A Man All Seasons. Three Trustee Positions an opportunity to purchase for college level books and Sir Thomas More, protagonist of the play, is not left to struggle with his conscience The regular fall meeting of the Board of Trustees at the paperbacks at a very low in a vacuum. The dilemma of a loyal Catholic Chancellor confronted with Henry VIII's College found three newly appointed members making their price. Hardcover books will Act oi supremacy places him in a web oi beleaguering personal and political forces. first appearance with that body. sell at 25 cents, paperbacks the strongest rope around 10 cents and National Geo- Thomas' soul is his family. The is quite convincing. Marilyn Stains character of Thomas. The part Eugene R. Beem, vice president The Hutch-- wife, of Sperry and graphies 5 cents. Over 1,000 daughter, Margaret, stands out in as his exiles herself to a requires a balance of serious moral ison company, iNew lork; rroles-so- r lonely bitchiness that makes her commitment and human qualities. at Wharton School (Univ. of books will be sold. All profit a tender and true performance by John W. Dodds, Stanford Uni- Lin- eventual reconciliation surprising Ross keeps Thomas from ascend- Penn.) before joining the S & H will go to the Abraham Ann Cline. Because she is the versity, Palo Alto, California; Pro- and slightly unconvincing. Thomas ing to sainthood by adequately organization in 1958. He is the coln Scholarship Fund. closest human contact of Thomas, fessor Samuel P. Massie, United desires understanding from two portraying the wit and pragmatism father of four children. the appeal for her understanding women. But in the end they can of his personality. Occasionally his Mr. Dodds is also Wooster a give only their love, leaving Tho- eternal command of the situation graduate, class of 1924, with his mas to face his decision and death seems facile, and the audience re- Ph.D. from Yale University. His Scholarship Committee Prods alone. sents his sense of superiority. But entire professional career has been when the noose tightens on Tho- the field of Williani Roper, the Chancellor's in education ten years be- w, mas' neck, Ross' performance the University of Pittsburgh, son-in-la- occupies a middle posi at Education Contribution comes powerful. and at Stanford since 1937 where Negro tion in the family-politic- s spectrum of tempters. Don Pocock presents Com-ma- he is now professor of English and by Bob Crane Tim Weckesser plays The n the Jackson Reynolds Professor of the young rebel who challenges, Man, who is easily bought Humanities. He holds honorary de- The Abraham Lincoln Memorial Scholarship, initiated yet personally cares for Thomas and fully aware of his weakness. grees from both Wooster and Ohio to help solve the problem of Negro higher education in this with consistency and strength that He is the flip side of Thomas' makes scenes between Wesleyan and is also a trustee at country and particularly at Wooster, was created as a student the two the strength, and his comic relief tends best in the play. Will displays Weck-esser- Pomona College in California. As expression of concern. Although now operating with lull to be too flip at times. But 's publica- integrity comparable to Thomas', of his several author of a number of Lin- mastery parts administrative support, the and in their inability to com- tions he is a Board member of the still well The support of the scholarship is impressive, and he surely suc-ced- s coln Scholarship Fund is promise to each other, the two Wenner-Gre- n Foundation. He has has been primarily by students in becoming the audience's below its goal. share the loneliness two sons. and the sponsoring organizations. of dissenters. comrade and critic. The Lincoln Memorial Scholar- The NAACP has sponsored work The political persuaders do not ship Fund was established in the Director Win Logan undertakes days and the CCA, SGA, Westmin- pull so strongly on Thomas as spring of 1964 in a joint effort by a difficult and demanding play ster Church have appropriated does his family. This is partly the Wooster chapter of the Na- in A Man for All Seasons. Especi- funds for the scholarship. There caused by interpretations of Henry tional Association for the Ad- ally creditable is his work with Eugene R. Beem have been some individual donors. the Eighth and Rich that lean of Colored People, the the characters of Cromwell and vancement As of Nov. 1965 the endowment dangerously to the ridiculous, un States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Campus Christian Association, the Sir Thomas More. Plunging be- of the scholarship was $5,950. Last derplaying somewhat the lack of Maryland were elected by the Student Government Association neath their superficialities, he spring in connection with a Cam- scruples necessary the parts.

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