m rag1 t ITkn- l mm in Laos Baffles Chaos its immers Face Scots Observers Outside atmen Meet Reserve Page 2 Editorial m Sports Page 3 Z- 572 89 V0LUiffi OBERLIN OHIO FRIDAY JANUARY 6 1961 NUMBER 25 language Programs College Telephone Switchboard To Begin Operation Next Fall Three Observe Tenants I fern Grant By KAY RUCKMAN 90000 A central campus switchboard located in Rice Hall will handle all incoming and outgoing telephone calls starting next fall according to Lewis Tower Evicted Near Memphis College business man- I for Continued Study ager Plans for the new exchange were drawn I The Carnegie Corporation of New York has granted up in an effort to provide better service Mr Tower for the continued support of the Colleges summer said He pointed College Group Delays Action 590000 out that the campus- wide telephone system Ilth Festival I Lcign language programs in Austria France and Mexico would particuarly iacintate mtra- college calls he not i the nuxt three years President Carr announced yes Pending Federal Investigations during ed that 80 to 85 percent of all pres Notes Work ent calls are intra- college Following brief observation tours by three of its mem terd3Most grant will be used to Librarian Lauds of the provide scholarships Under the new system to make bers to study conditions among evicted Negro sharecroppers an intra- college call one will uor students cu mm uum me have near Memphis Tenn the newly- formed Oberlin Committee Of Sessions Collegereand undergraduates Closed System to dial only the correct extension from To Haywood Counties decided Tuesday to other colleges and universities Outgoing calls will continue to be Aid Fayette and Roger Sessions noted com dialed directly The first of the nine- weeks lan and without charge postpone efforts to organize support for the area until after poser and teacher will be the I Plans Equipment for the new Jackson guage studies was held in 1958 in Book Reserve exchange Federal hearings in February guest artist at the Conserva- which includes a two- at- Mexico City An initial grant of position on complaints of eviction from Negro By DEBBIE BELCHETZ tendants cabinet to Acting unjust torys Eleventh Festival of 23650 was received from the handle long dis Africa The system of books tance calls will be placed tenant farmers who had registered Contemporary Music to be Trip to Carnegie Corporation in 1960 on the on in the closed basement of the King Building to vote in the 1960 primaries the held next Thursday through 5 of basis of the serious purpose of the reserve introduced at Robert Jackson director wing now under construction The Class To Present College will program which had been studied the beginning of the semester Civil Rights Commission issued a Saturday i admissions of the by central station will be in Rice Hall a Carnegie representative has successful temporary restraining injunction Three works by Sessions will be month- long trip to Af- proved very The College exchange will be Narrative Reading take a evic- played during Curricula Vary to both the library and connected the ex- last month to prevent further the Festival includ i 28 to staff with Oberlin I riCa beginning Jan pre All 13 members of Prof ing his Symphony No 3 which Taught by native teachers in students according to John change but all incoming calls will tions Hearings to determine final for the participation of Charley Leistners Speech In- will be given its second perform pare their own language the language terminate on the College switch- Federal action on the case are Saeger head of the Readers terpretation class Speech X12 ance with the composer as con- West Africans in the African sessions include literature art and board and be distributed from that Service Department of the Li- planned for Feb 6 in Cincinnati will present a narrative poetry ductor Scholarship of drama as well as grammar and point according to extension num- Program reading of Stephen Vincent Mr Sessions will also speak at a conversation courses Excursions to brary bers College freshmen Charles Butts American Universities Benets John Browns Body 4 noon assembly Thursday on An points of cultural at- Switchboard operators will be and Gil Moses and Charles Law- Through negotiations with 12 interest and An inventory taken at the start Sunday The- professionally days pm in the Little American Composer Visits Russia governments Mr tendance at theatrical and musical of the vacation showed that the trained and will be rence a junior spent three i Wist African on atre of Hall Auditorium discussing the recent trip that he events supplement classwork Stu- problem of missing al- duty at all times of the day independently collecting facts and i intends to survey the high books was This is the first time an entire Jackson Although Mr Tower said College sounding opinions and emo- and five other composers made to count- dents are lodged with native fam most nonexistent on the closed out er education needs of these class has participated in such a the Soviet Union under the aus ilies shelves although approximately 25 officials have thought about us tions involved in the taut situation ries to see if objective selection presentation on campus Profess- pices of the US State Department The Spanish session enrolling 30 or 30 books missing ing qualified student help he See JACKSON p 4 are from the Most Discuss or Leistner said He added that Brooklyn- born Sessions is rec students will be held in Mexico open shelves were quite willing he hopes similar narrative read- ognized both as a composer and City June 19 to August 19 under Contrary to student fears the Most people SHOWS CAINE MUTINY situation Lawrence ings can be organized on an ex- teacher A Harvard graduate he the direction of Prof Paul Rog- new reserve system has not result- to discuss the The Group Relations Confer- as he followed the advice of tracurricular basis Admission is received the Bachelor of Music de- I ers Prof John Kurtz will direct ed in inconvenience or long delays found AC Prepares ence is sponsoring a showing of Negroes he contacted to avoid free gree from Princeton University the German session in Vienna Aus- for students using books on closed the the film The Caine Mutiny airing integrationist sympathies where he now holds the William tria in which 50 students will par reserve The only problem caused his starring Humphrey Bogart at 730 to whites The Negroes there Schubael Conant professorship He ticipate by the system has been the occa- the Forums Plans tonight in Hall Auditorium Pro- seeking independence through has studied with Horatio Parker at Thirty- five students under Prof sional signing of fictitious names on are fessors Joseph Elder Ralph Turn- assertion of civil rights from Heller To Join Yale with Ernest Bloch in New Henry Grubbs will study French in reserve cards their er and Thomas Whitaker will what is essentially a feudal sys- York and Cleveland and abroad in Rep AixenPro- vence and Paris The Books are placed on open or Screening lead a discussion after the movie tem he observed Florence Rome and Berlin French and German programs both or closed reserve according to the Brain Trust Mr Sessions has taught at the With the announcement of in year will extend professors preference although the Lawrence stated that arousing their third Walter Heller 35 professor of Cleveland Institute of Music the Monday last for from June 20 to August 25 Nine library can transfer books most in claimed it was too early to talk the interest of established relief as the day economics at the University of Min- University of California at Berke- hours of credit is granted for suc- demand to the closed reserve about actual use of students as op- organizations and contributing aid preliminary applications for nesota will join President Kenne- ley and has lectured at the Aca- cessful completion of one language shelves to assure their safety erators in the off- hours of the through them would be more val- Luigi IAC an- dys predominantly Harvard brain demia Cherubini in Florence representative the See p 4 switchboards operation uable to the already displaced fam- session LIBRARY trust as chief economic adviser under a Fulbright award i nual of by Two- round screenings way Dialing ilies than direct but uncoordinated Tickets at 75 cents for Professor Heller who spoke to a each IAC members and informative Approximately 350 telephones will efforts of such small groups as the single event or 150 senior honor seminar at the College for the series forums be connected to the College ex- Oberlin Committee The committee of four Festival programs go for the student body last spring is regarded as a liberal will in change system including all ad- plans to gather information on Fed- on at Conservatory begins again New Facilities Wilder economist a strong sale the office ministrative offices and dormitories eral intervention in a similar prob- with belief in Monday In a change of policy from for Callers on the telephones connect- lem in re- settlement during the policy orientation Dean William mer years the International Affairs ed to the new system will be able 1930s when 700 sharecropping fam- Hellmuth said He would be more Committee this year is having pros Further Student Union to dial numbers oi either the col- ilies were evicted for economic inclined to recommend tax cuts in pective reps apply with a specific lege or city exchoiige i reasons from their Alabama homes case of a serious recession than Carleton To Adopt country or area preference Al By CAROLE STENTZ Supervision of the operation of