Political Ban to Be Reviewed Trustees to Authorize Six-Member Committee by Burton E

Political Ban to be Reviewed Trustees to Authorize Six-member Committee by Burton E. Nichols Student politics were in the spotlight again this week as the Senate Committee wound up their hearings and debate on the NEWHAMPSHI present political ban with a resolution which was presented to the University Board of Trustees last Saturday morning. The VOL. No. 39 Issue 7 Z413 Durham, N. H., November 3, 1949 P R IC E — 7 CENTS Trustees viewed the report “with sympathetic interest” and have set in motion the machinery which AyiU eventually evolve the posi- tive steps to implement this new policy. The Senate Committee on Student Martha Graham and Dance Company Organizations held their final open* Rev. Morrill Speaks discussion last Thursday afternoon when all interested students and or Presents Special Drama Program At Canterbury Club ganization representatives were in vited to express their views. Present by Kay Haropolous Rev. Clinton L. Morrill will address a meeting of the Canterbury Club to at this meeting were some thirty stu W hen the curtain rises tomorrow night at 7 p.m. in the Pine Room , Bal dents representing most of the groups night, Nov. 4, at 8 p.m. in New lard Hall. The topic of Mr. Morrill’s which have evidenced their desires Hampshire Hall, Martha Graham and talk will be a General Convention, of being allowed to return to the her Dance Company, which includes which has only recently adjourned in campus. Majority opinion was in fa Erick Hawkins and other featured San Francisco. He will present the vor of an unqualified lifting of the soloists, will present one of her mosl inside story of the significant decisions ban, while some minority opinion famous comedies and two of her dance reached at the Convention. favored a cooperative political council dramas. By special request Miss Gra plan and other restrictive devices. ham will perform a solo dance. The Immediately after the meeting the program will conclude with a compo committee retired to a closed session sition in pure dance form. in which they set forth their recom For the past two seasons, Miss Gra mendations which were presented to ham has not included any of her President Adams for his consideration dance solos in her tour programs. on Friday morning. These proposals But she has agreed to present at the did not deal in specifics but presented University one of her most famous a broad base for student political ac numbers, “Stelem Shore”. It is a ten tivity in the interests of student edu der and poignant “danced ballard” of cation. a woman’s longing for the return of her beloved from the sea. The score It was this report which President is by Paul Nordoff who also composed Acjams presented to the Trustees for the m^sic for their number, “ Every their consideration in establishing the Soul is a Circus.” new University political policy. The The dance “Deaths and Entrances”, Trustees have taken these proposals is already regarded as a modern class under advisement. In order that they ic. Hunter Johnson composed the may be implemented, the Board has dark and haunting score which con authorized that a Trustee-Faculty- veys the loves and hates of the too- Student Committee be set up to form close life of three sisters. ulate the specifications of the policy. “The Eye of Anguish” is a dance It was announced by Frank W. based on the original legend of King Randall, president of the Board of Lear that inspired Shakespeare. It Trustees, on Saturday afternoon that follows the same violent pattern as the this six-man committee would be com original legend, in which a king made posed of two members representing Rev. Clinton L. Morrill the error of trying to test love and the trustees, faculty and student body. Rev. Morrill is well qualified to dis allegiance and fatally misjudged his It is expected that this committee cuss the Coonvention, as this is his daughter. Miss Graham, in dealing will be set up in the very near future second term as clerical delegate from with Lear, “has not dodged any of its in order that the final draft of the the diocese of New Hampshire. He primitive quality.” Erick Hawkins, new student political policy may allow will be remembered by some students leading male dancer of the company, the earliest possible lifting of the will dance the role o f the tormented (continued on page 7) present ban. Pictured above is one illustration of the fact that drama is danced. Erick and insane monarch. Hawkins, Martha Graham and other members of her Dance Company are “Diversion of Angels” is one of pictured in a dance group from one of their numbers. Martha Graham’s newest works and has not yet been seen on Broadway. Foreign Students Impressed with It is a dance of pure joy, with no main plot. The score was composed by Veteran Cast Completes Final Norman Dell-joio, winner of this year’s Music Circle prize. UNH and Its Beautiful Campus Seldom in recent seasons have audi by Irene Muzzey Primping for 4 -Niter High Tor ences seen a program so representative of the wide range of Martha Graham by Walt Fisher and her Dance Company. This week marks the final rehearsal New Hampshire stage was in a one- Tickets for students are $1.20 and period for the Mask and Dagger pro act in the summer of ’48, The Man regular tickets are $2.40. There are . duction of Maxwell Anderson’s Critics’ Who Thought of Everything, playing no reserved seats. Prize play, High Tor, due to Appear opposite another member of High on the New Hampshire Hall stage for Tor’s cast, Bob Piper. She also was a four-night stand next Wednesday assistant director for All My Sons last through Saturday. fall. Miss Hartwell may be well re Open SC Meeting on The student cast of Anderson’s membered for her fine performance as comedy-fantasy, directed by Professor the mad crone, Mother Taggart, in Joseph D. Batcheller, comprises a high No Mother to Guide Her. l Controversial Issues percentage of veteran performers. All Many Old Troupers but three members of the cast have Personating Biggs and Skimmer- Everyone is invited to attend the appeared in at least one New Ham p horn, the owners of the trap-rock I next regular meeting of the Student shire production. company who are seeking to buy out Council, which will be held on Mon- Old To New Van Dorn by means fair or foul, are 1 day, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. in R oom 202, In the protagonist role of Van (continued on page 7) Notch Hall. Dorn, the owner of High Tor, and the There are some on campus who upholder of the outmoded that must have been objecting to the control of ever yield to the new, will appear motor vehicles permits and violations Walt Fisher, an active Mask and Dag- by the Student Council. This issue gerite for nearly four years. During Sigma Beta Schedules will be raised and will offer an op that period he has appeared in seven portunity for those students to pre shows, notably Wurzel-Flummery, sent their views. There will also be Lesson in Love, All My Sons and Stunt for Pep Rally discussion on the controversial ques A Doctor in Spite of Himself. Fun for all is promised by those in tion o f the campus political ban. Photo by Vogler Sharing the part of Judith on al charge of the Pep Rally Friday night Freshman election and the contin Newcomers to the Durham campus are the above group of students ternate nights will be Miriam Dear at 6:30 p.m. In order to raise campus uance of the Sophomore Sphinx will from foreign countries. Reading from left to right: (front row) Enid Hill born and Priscilla Hartwell. Miss spirit for this week’s game and in the be brought up. along with numerous of Toronto, Canada; Emilio Casellas of Puerto Rico; Tadeishi Iida of Japan; Dearborn’s last performance* on the hope that other dorms and frats will other questions affecting student life. Werner Guenthero of Germany; and Iris Sing-Hua Yang of China. If you have any suggestions, con provide similar attractions, Sigma Beta (second row) Ludwig Stangeland of Norway; George P. Onderka of structive criticisms, or plain old will enact a stunt which, if anything Venezuela; Peter Schmidt of Germany; and Arne Stangeland of Norway. like the one they put on last year gripes, this is your chance to air them. Norm Myers Chosen on Mayoralty, ought to be a riot. Defeating the sophomores on Uni Enid is impressed with the many ex The cheerleaders request that each There are 1745 phonograph records versity Day provided a bi§ thrill for tra-curricular activities on campus. dorm, frat, and sorority send two cars available for use in the three music- foreign exchange student Emilio Ca The only thing that she dislikes about Al Congress Delegate to the pre-rally parade. listening rooms at the Hamilton sellas of Santurce, Puerti Rico. Em UNH is “too much homework.” Enid It is hoped that all the frosh with Smith Library. ilio also enjoyed seeing and playing plans to major in English. Norman W. Myers, a senior, has spare moments on Friday afternoon The University Library receives football for the first time. A graduate George Onderka is a South Ameri been selected by the National Asso will collect w ood fcfr the bonfire. 1128 magazines; how many of them of the Colegio San Jose in Puerto Ri can from Maracibo, Venezuela, but ciation of Manufacturers to attend its are you enjoying? co, Emilio likes everything about hopes to make the United States his Congress of American Industry.

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