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The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 1951-1960 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 12-6-1957 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1957-12-06 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1951-1960 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 1957-12-06" (1957). The Voice: 1951-1960. 159. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1951-1960/159 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: 1951-1960 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Wooster Voice Published by the Students of the College of Wooster Volume LXXII Wooster, Ohio, Friday, December 6, 1957 Number 10 Creates Senate 1 $ - Scot Faculty Scatters For Wooster Day; Required Church Annual Celebration Honors Rededication Study Committee by Cindy Barrett The compulsory church rule is, Wooster Day, December 11, will find many of our for some students, a real probl- em in that it is seen as one faculty members scattered across the nation, addressing cause of the present tension be- many of our approximately 55 Alumni organizations. tween students and the admin- Commemorating the rededication of the college in 1902, istration. For others it means just one year after the college was destroyed by fire, only the slightly troublesome Wooster Day has come to be the high task of writing "Westminster: point toward eight times" on a card once a which the alumni office works : semester. For the administration a r I Republicans Hear throughout the year. it means only the occasional Wooster Visits Nation bother of having a' talk with the Prosecutor Troth rare student honest eonugh to 1 This year is especially import- I - ".' Ashland County Prosecutor write "Westminster: two times, f in Hugh Troth will speak to the ant that we will have repre- First Pres.: three times" or with Republicans Monday sentatives in the West Coast, the equally rare student who has Young Mr. Troth, who is still Southwestern, Southern, North- slipped up and extended his evening. in his early thirties, will relate Sunday morning sleep into ern, and Eastern regions. A cross some of his experiences in poli- "church-attendance-card-- fi II -- out-time." section of the clubs to be visited tics, and the general problems a includes, with others: President young person faces when he en- Lowry, Mahoning Valley, Phila- Committee Studies Problem ters the elective government ser- vice. delphia, Washington D.C., and The Student ! f Senate has Prosecutor Troth served for Delaware (Wilmington); cr.eated a committee to study Vice four years as a bombardier in J. R. this problem which is at least President Harris, Tucson, the Air Force and is a graduate real to some students. It is in Denver, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, of Ohio Wesleyan University and an effort to find out how real Albuquerque, Topeka, the University of Cincinnati Law and, after this problem is to the campus School. In addition to being Christmas, Texas; Dean Taeusch, as a whole that two Chapels Dr. Lowry, Mrs. Wagner, and Dr. Wagner sign the guest Prosecuting Attorney, Mr. Troth Connecticut and Princeton - Tren- next week will be devoted to the book in the new Wagner dormitory given to the College by is Chairman of the Ashland compulsory church rule. On ton; Dean Young, Indianapolis; the Wagners and dedicated recently. County Republican organization. Tuesday Dean Taeusch will pre- Mr. Kieffer, Columbus, Chicago sent the college policy and at- and St. Louis; Mr. Peyton, San tempt to show in what way the Commission of Educators Corporation Hears Diego County, San Francisco problem is real to the adminis- Bay, and Southern California; tration. On Friday Paul Hanke Goodrich Mr. Moore, Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Dave Bouquet will present Attacks Underlying Causes Director and Saginaw Valley; Mr. Shipe, the pro-cont- ra of the lule. It is Dr. Lowry of Mr. Harry N. Stevens, East Central Illinois and Milwau- hoped that by Friday night a Howard has been named a member director of research B. F. kee; Mr. Jenny, Boston and Capi- majority of the students will be a commission headed by Charles H. Peake of the Univer- operating at the Goodrich Center, tol District; Dr. Lean (Emeritus), aroused enough at least to fill sity of Pittsburgh. The subject of the study initiated by Research Brecksville, Ohio, will speak to Central Florida and West Coast out forms which will indicate the university will be a frontal attack on the underlying THE Corporation this Wednes- Florida; Mr. Blackwood, Toledo; whether they consider the probl- causes of problems in American education. day, December 11, 7:15 p.m. Miss A. Dunham, Cleveland; Mr. em real. Action can proceed at in Babcock Recreation Room. Moke, Harrison County; Mr. from there. Dr. Edward H. Litchfield, Pitt chancellor, announced Mr. Stevens is a graduate of Ferm, Rochester; Mr. Logan, Buf- today that a study ot the re- Shefield Scientific School, Yale falo. Other faculty members will SFRC Questions Origin Of Rules; lationships between the second- University, and of Akron Law speak at various additional clubs ary schools and the liberal arts School. In 1944 he attended ad- also. vanced Discusses Recent WSGA Decision colleges and the universities will management training Wooster Day Abroad be undertaken by a commission courses at Harvard University. The SFRC on Monday, Mrs. H. D. King, of the Alumni meeting was called to order of educators representing schools of Office, also reports that there will December 2, at 7:30 p.m., by Dale Bailey, President of this region. be several Wooster Day func- the tions abroad, as well. Professor Student Senate. Shortage of Scientists Eugene Tanner, on a year's leave At the beginning of the meeting Mr. AAaddocks gave In making the announcement, in Scotland, will entertain all a progress report on the Power Committee, which is trac- Dr. Litchfield said, "We are Woosterites and Alumni in Scot- land in connection with Wooster ing (1 ) (2) smok rightfully concerned about the to its source such questions as chaperones Day. There is usually a meeting shortage of scientists. This is a ing rule on campus (the possi- in Cairo, and there is the pos- bility of a cigarette vending ma- matter of outstanding import- sibility of meetings being held recall chine in Kenarden) (3) dormitory Knappen Speaks ance. However, we must this year in Hawaii and Japan. that much of this difficulty is the rules. The committee does not, as Mrs. King informs us that of On Wooster Day many of yet, have enough material to same as the cause of the 13,000 on our Alumni group, problems in two-third- s make a sufficient report. The Dr. Marshall Knappen, '21, our other American some of them live in will be the Wooster Day Chapel We dis- club areas. Parents of present main confronting education. have a highly questions speaker Thursday, December 12. organized and uncoordinated Wooster students are invited to them: Who made the rules in The of his speech is "The these title educational system that permits meetings, enabling them to the first place, how long ago, Student in the Sputnik Era." Dr. learn more about Wooster, and this kind of problem to develop and for what reasons? Knappen has been on the staffs I many clubs now invite prospec- of the University of Chicago, and deepen into matters of seri- ffI tive students to their meetings, Dr. Jenny Reports Michigan State University, and ous consequence long before we as well. University of Michigan, Mr. Harry N. Stevens, D- Following this report t h e the are prepared to correct the un- he has taught political irector of Research at Good- Chairman of the Chapel fine where derlying difficulty. history. He is the rich will address THE Cor- committee, Mr! Multer, turned science and author of five books and numer- High School poration. the meeting over to Dr. Jenny, Spanish Honorary articles on history and politi- Vice President and Treasurer of ous "Until we are able to achieve He first joined the B. F. Good- cal science. rich Company as a chemist in the Wooster Student Aid Fund, a much greater degree of co- Initiates Members the Akron laboratories in 1935. who gave his annual report on Position in World Affairs ordination between the second- how is being in- He became company patent The Epsilon chapter of the Na- the money ary schools and the liberal arts vested. The purpose of this fund In 1946 Dr. Knappen received chemist in 1937, a patent attor- tional Spanish Honorary, Sigma is to build up an endowment, in an honorary degree from Woos- programs on the one hand and ney in 1940, and was made D- Delta Pi, will hold an initiation the hope of contributing to the ter and was also Commence- the liberal arts instruction and irector of Patents and Abstracts ceremony for new members , finances of a foreign student at ment speaker. During 1954-55- the graduate work in our profes- in 1942. In 1950 Mr. Stevens Sunday, December 8. A dinner became head of Biochemical Re- will Wooster. This money is turned he made a world tour, studying sional fields on the other, we will follow the initiation at 4 over Aid the conditions in the Orient, search and two years later add- p.m. at the home of the faculty to the Wooster Student always have serious difficulties.