Gregory, others, view copifrof punishmentMAROON forum ThursdayDick Gregory, well-known civil rights leader and comedian,still plans to participate in the Maroon sponsored colloquiumon capital punishment Thursday at 8 pm in the Law SchoolAuditorium, although he is now in jail in Savanna, Georgia,where he was arrested during a n 3civil rights demonstration early |last week.Vol. 73 — Ho. 28 The University of Chicago 31Will finish building in Fayette County Tuesday, February 16, 1965 J"11;!. Chicago Maroon Forum on1 1 the Abolition of Capital Purnsh-" ~ ment” will feature talks by Greg¬ory and four other speakers onvarious aspects of capital punish¬ment._ Arthur Weinberg, author of In¬stead of War, The Mtickrakers,and two biographies of ClarenceDarrow, will talk on the socialimplications of capital punish¬ment.Moral, ethical aspectsThe Reverend James G. Jones,former head of Leonard House,a half-way house for convicts, willdiscuss the moral and ethical as¬pects of capital punishment.THE FORMER WARDEN ofthe Cook County Jail, Hans Mat-tick, will talk on the merits andthe record of capital punishment.Mattick is presently head of theChicago Youth Development Proj¬ect.Norval Morris, professor of lawat the UC Law School, will dis-Two businessmen named as trusteesSees USSR as schizoid served UC as a member of the director of marketing services forMcCann- Erickson, an advertisingagency. In 1958, he joined Bell& Howell Company as executivevice president and director, andbecame president in 1961.Peterson, too, has served on thethe Graduate School of Businessand a Trustee of the UC CancerResearch Foundation,UC rebuilders go to TennesseeThe Southern Work Project Committee (SWPC) overcame its first major hurdle thisweek: it is definitely going.The UC student group will go to Fayette County, Tennessee, to finish the constructionof a community center that was begun but left incomplete sometimes last year. Up to 35people will be able to participate —1 ——in the remaining work, which will their own pockets. Efforts to a sizeable response to a largeinclude painting, the construction raise this money have included group of letters that was sent at„I a floor, and the addition of * fthe end of last week,doors and windows. and Qtherg around the University. In order to speed up prepara-BESIDE THE TENNESSEE tions for the project, SWPC willcontingent It Is also possible that Ask faculty Involvement hold a meeting Tuesday at 7:30another UC group will go to a SWPC is also interested in get- pm in Ida Noyes Hall. All thosein in Mississippi at the same ting faculty members interested interested in participating are in-time to do similar work, but final in the project, and has received vited to attend,word on this will not be availableuntil the end of the week. Harris, Peterson join the ranksIVS gives OKSWPC win be going to FayetteCounty with permission of theInternational Volunteer Service(IVS), which has been conducting Two prominent Chicago uate School of Business, has been he had been a student at Massa-voter registration and tutorial business leaders have been an officer of the Harris Trust chusetts Institute of Technologydrives there since five years ago. elected to the UC Board of and Savings Bank since 1948. He (194445) and at NorthwesternAn IVS spokesman told Randy Trustees. also is a director of the J. R. University, where he was award-lfePISWPCleD^JectS“'vouid V l?*y are ?!anley 9’ 3r'i Short Milling Co., Chicago, and a cd «“ Bachelor of Science de-IwSWPC project b, vice presiden tartldm£or of troslec onhe uc &ncer F.osearch gree (summa cum laude) ,n 1947., a the Hams Trust and Savings , Petersons business career in-But problems still remain for jiank, Chicago, and Peter G. Foundation, the Illinois Children s eludes service as associate direc-SWPC, notably money for both peterson, president and chief ex- Home and Aid Society, and the tor and executive vice presidenttransportation and materials, ecutive officer of Bell & Howell village of Glencoe. He has also with Market Facts. Inc., and asSWPC estimates that it will need company and a UC alumnus,from $1500 to $2000 to finance *the project without asking the HARRIS, WHO attended \ ale Citizens Board,student participants to give from University and the Harvard Grad- Master* with honorsPeterson, who was born in Kear¬ney, Nebraska, earned the Mas¬ter of Business Administration de- Citizens Board of the University.The USSR pursues a “schiz- came "official” as the Soviet gov- gree witll honors, in 1951. Earlier, He is a member of the Council on. . „ .. , , 5+_ emment became pragmatic and c-~i—i —...ophrenic policy toward its re|ativist rather than ideologicalJew*, said Arcadius Kalian, and dogmatic.associate professor of econom- since this change beganics, Sunday night, in a speech en- in the i93o’s, discriminationtitled 'The Status of Soviet Jew- against Jews has spread. Jew's are" given at Hillel House. admitted to institutions of highertph-4 learning by quota. Because of thislhe present treatment of Jews. re3trict7on'v on higher K,ucaUon.a bequest from the Stalinist era, ftnd ^3^ Jows are informallyhas two elements, Kahan stated, excluded from the Party power‘‘On the one hand is a clear un- apparatus (the source of the man-mistakabfc resolution that any at- agerial elite), the Jews are•«-tempts to maintain or preserve per.enctng social and economicelements of national continuity retrogression.within the Jewish milieu will not !nereased nationalismbe tolerated, a policy that is ba- c . .slcallv directed to Induce Jews The strange tact about Sovietto assimilate.” P°llcy “ that 3eT> m?st„^a“Jew’s. They are the only nation-ON THE OTHER HAND is a al” group Which must write theirpolicy of discriminatory measures assigned nationality on their pass-whicli exclude even a hypothetical ports. A Ukranian may decide hepossibility of integration with the is a Russian, and say so on hisnon-Jewish population.” Soviet in- passport; but a Jew must w’riteternal Jewish policy is self-contra- “Jew.” And any child of Jewishdictory, said Kahan; Jews are en- parents is classified as Jewish,couraged to assimilate, but are even if he considers himself anot allow’ed to do so. Ukranian atheist.Jews in the Soviet Union have Thus, said Kalian, official ais-minority status, but none of the criminatory practices which areminority privileges accorded other theoretically designed to promote"national” groups, such as Ukra- assimilation are counteracted bynians or Uzbeks. They are subject practices which make assimilationto more religious persecution than impossible. These two contradic-other denominations, and are the tory and psychologically disturb-victims of both “spontaneous.” or ing factors working on Jews maypublic, and “official” anti-Semi- have an effect unintended by tiretism. Kalian said that anti-Semi- government of the USSR, Kahantism has a long history in Russia, remarked. Rather than disappear-and that its development in Soviet ing, Soviet Jews are becomingRussia may be traced as a part conscious of their national iden-of the change of the USSR from tity. They attend whatever Jewishan ideological nation to a prag- religious services they can find,matic world power. and are doing so in increasingThe Jews achieved political numbers,equality with all other citizens Kalian concluded that “It is likelyafter the 1917 revolution; anti- that, given a continuity of theSemitism w’as declared illegal. In present government policies, andthe USSR at this time all men a passible retrogression in the so-were equally free, or not-free; cio-economic status of the Jew’s,adherence to communist ideology accompanied by an increasing,was the rule. According to Kahan, continuing psychological insecuri-however, the government of the ty, expectations of a rapid growthUSSR realized in the period 1936- of nationalistic sentiments among1938 tliat the Jews might be used Jews appears to be within theas scapegoats. Anti-Semitism be realm of possibilities.” cuss the legal and internationalaspects of capital punishment.Morris served as chairman of Cey¬lon’s Commission of Inquiry intoCapital Punishment, whose reportlead to the abolition of capital pun¬ishment in Ceylon.Gregory will commentGREGORY WILL END the for¬um with some personal reflectionson capital punishment.WFMT’s Studs Terkel will mod¬erate the forum. WFMT plans torebroadcast the forum, probablyon Terkel’s show’.ry The Academic AffairsCommittee of Student Gov¬ernment, in cooperation withthe dean of students, is in¬terested in obtaining criticalappraisals of the programsof the various undergradu¬ate majors. Third year,fourth year and graduatestudents (who have gonethrough the College) inter¬ested in doing an evaluationof their major can contactcommittee chairman EllisLevin at extension 3272 orat PL 2-9718. Warren Bacon, a memberof the Chicago School Board,and Mrs. Connie Seals ofthe Chicago Urban Leaguewill speak Thursday at thefirst meeting in a seriescalled "Crisis in the Schools— Is the Board of Educationa Roadblock?" sponsored bythe Student Woodlawn AreaProject (SWAP).The meeting will be heldin Ida Noyes Hall at 7:30pm.New Rockefeller head namedE. Spencer Parsons, whowas appointed dean of Rocke¬feller chapel Saturday, willhave to move just down thestreet from his present post aspastor of the Hyde Park BaptistChurch, 5600 Woodlawn.Parsons will become dean andassociate professor in the Divinityschool in mid-summer.W. BARNETT BLAKEMOREwill remain associate dean of tliechapel. In the past several years,Blakemore has been responsiblefor chapel activities in the absenceof a top dean. Blakemore will con-tu') ; Miss, worker to speakRobert O. Gilman, • forme* UC student who is now • staff workerin tke Mississippi Freedom Project, will speak tomorrow night during• four-day visit to Chicago.He will speak at S:30 in the library of Ida Noyes.Gilman, who completed twe years of College work before going teMississippi hut summer, will recount his views of the state's problems,ond perhaps report on the important meeting in Atlanta this postweek of the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee field work¬ers. He will come to Chicago direct from Atlanta.During the summer, Gilman worked for the Council of FederatedOrganisations !COFO> in Canton at a Freedom School, where he endtwo other northern students ''fought freedom,” as he puts it. He iscurrenly stationed in West Faint, a small town in the northeast cornerof the state, where he has worked en voter registration.Gilman has been arrested twice in West Point. During lest Novem¬ber's elections, he and two other Freedom project workers were ar¬rested for distributing ballots for the COFO-sponsored Freedom voteand held in jail for one day. On Janaary * af this year, Gilman wasarrested along with three other Freedom project workers and six localNegro teenagers, after they had gone to the West Point jailhouse toinvestigate the arrest of another local youth, who hod been held with¬out charges. They were all released after five days imprisonment;their cases are still pending in court.His folk will be sponsored by UC Friends ef SNCC end UC CORE. tinue as dean of the Disciples Di¬vinity House at 1156 e. 57 street,connected with Disciples of Christchurch.Parsons was born 46 years agotoday in Brockton, Massachusetts.He got his BA at Denison Univer¬sity in Ohio, and his Bachelor ofDivinity at the Andover NewtonTheological school in Newton Goi¬tre, Mass,Has college backgroundHe has been Baptist ministerto students at Harvard. WellesleyCollege, Radcliffe College, andMIT.In a statement accepting theappointment, Parsons said,“A UNIVERSITY CHAPEL can¬not conceive of its rede as bring¬ing comfort and assurance orpeace of mind. Its task is certainlynot to shield the student from thepressures of agnosticism anddoubt. I accept Dr. Herbert Ge-zork’s statement, ‘doubt is thegrowing edge of truth and faith.'Its place may well be more likethat of a gadfly. Its task is topress, for a critical examinationof many of modern man’s uncri¬tical assumptions — and this in¬cludes his religious assumptions.Its purpose is not so much to pro¬claim answers as to point to thedirection in which living andmeaningful answers may befound by those willing to movebeyond the obvious to what PaulTillich has often referred to asthe ‘dimension of depth.’“Certainly 'one of the primaryresponsibilities of the dean of thechapel is to be of whatever helphe can be in stimulating seriousinquiry into the religious impli¬cations of all aspects of universitylife.EDITORIAL 8The Witherspoon ease: the time is running outThe latest date set for the execu¬tion of Bill Witherspoon is a littleover a month from now, March 19.Witherspoon, for those who haven’theard, is scheduled to die in the elec¬tric chair for shooting a policeman.There is some doubt as to whetherWitherspoon really intended to shootthe policeman; his defenders say hewas simply handing the gun he car¬ried over to the officer in surrender¬ing after he was caught in a robbery.The gun was a tricky kind, they say,and it went off accidentally.Witherspoon’s defenders are notbasing their hopes for a reprieve fromGoverner Kernel* on this ground, how¬ever. The main thing, they say, is thatWitherspoon has completely reformed during his five years in prison. Hewrites. He even has a literary agent(see the Gadfly in today’s issue). Hehas demonstrated that he has becomea man of some feeling and sensitivity.But, unless Kernel* comes up withthe same kind of wisdom and insighthe used in commuting the death sen¬tence of Paul Crump in a similar casea few years ago, Witherspoon will bekilled, by a society which does nothave to fear him any more.A half dozen other men are waitingin death row in Illinois prisons, too.In their cases, there is probably nodoubt of their guilt. A couple of themhave shown some signs of reform;some of them have not.In these cases, and in most other capital punishment cases, the ques¬tion is not really so much whetherthe prisoner has reformed as whetherhe would have been deterred from thecrime by the threat of the deathpenalty.The bulk of modern criminologicalthought, we believe, says the deathpenalty does not deter a murderer.Were the three teenagers who glee¬fully shot Fred Christiansen whilehigh on pep pills thinking about thepenalty? In the case of the killing ofthe daughters of a Chicago judge in aWyoming resort, the killer was saidto have been anti-social since the sec¬ond grade, and of limited mentality.Would he have calmly reasoned out the penalties beforehand? One gallcomment in this case came from theprosecutor, who said he would be gladto see such a person put away. Who is *he to presume to blot out any chancehowever slight, of renabilitating theboy? This is an outrageous exampleof letting people play God with thelives of others.This, of course, is the essentialcriticism of capital punishment.In this case, you can write to “God.’’care of the Illinois state house, to askthe Governor to commute Wither¬spoon’s sentence. It might help.We urge you also to attend theMaroon forum Thursday night on thesubject.Letters to the editor MUSIC REVIEWYes, Virginia, there isa Vaseline (capital v)(Editor’s note: the followingletter, addressed only to “The Ed¬itor, The Maroon, Chicago, Illi¬nois,” refers to a paragraph ina story that the MAROON car¬ried on January 15 concerningthe sojourn of Victor “ThePrune” Bass in a New Dormshoiver. The paragraph read ex¬actly as follows: Bass' hands be¬came extremely wrinkled by thewater, but he prevented a simi¬lar occurrence on the rest of hisbody by coating himself withvaseline”)DEAR SIR:We know your schedule is abusy one . . . but we’re hopingyou’ll take just a few minutesto make note of the two itemswhich you will find enclosed:(1) A recent clipping from yourpublication containing a ref¬erence to Vaseline petro¬leum jelly. While we thankyou for the mention of ourproduct, we regret that thebrand name reference is in¬correct. Properly used, ourname should read “Vaselinepetroleum jelly,” or if yourpolicy forbids the use of abrand name, then simplypetroleum jelly.(2) “It’s The Law.” A little po¬etic reminder of UnitedStates trademark law in¬cluding a description ofproper usage of our prod¬uct’s name in print.We are hopeful that you’ll route“It’s The Law” to the writers onyour staff who may be concernedwith proper editorial reference tothis product — or that you willpost it where they can make noteof it. Acknowledgment of this letterwould be deeply appreciated.Yours sincerely,CHESEBROUGH-POND’S INC.James J. MurrayMgr., Trademark DepartmentThe following letter was stmtto Mr. Murray by Maroon editor-in-chief Robert F. Levey:Dear Mr. Murray:We welcome your thanks forour mention of your product, butnot the rest of your letter. Inspite of this, however, I have inall fairness attempted to checkwith Mr. Bass concerning whichbrand of petroleum jelly he usedduring his stay under the shower,but was unable to reach him. Buteven if it were Vaseline petroleumjelly he used (please note capital“v"), I wonder at your ratherpetty complaint. I should thinkthat you would be glad to be inthe same class as coke (small“c”), kleenex (small “k”), andvarious others, but perhaps myjudgment of big business is inerror. In any event, please restassured of two things: 1) TheMaroon will never again print thewords water, cigarettes, or tiresfor fear of harming the reputa¬tions and legal rights of CanadaDry, Liggett & Myers, and Good¬year, respectively, and 2) Anybodywho attempts to break a showerrecord at Chicago again wouldnever dream of using Vaseline.YOURS SINCERELY,ROBERT F. LEVEY Aeneas not equal to DidoUC Young Democrats willhold a business - electionmeeting Thursday Feb. 18,7:30 pm in the Ida NoyesLibrary.The University of Chicago TheatreAnnouncesFrom New YorkWinner of Hie 1963-64"Best Show Off-Broadway"AWARDIN WHITE AMERICAFeb. 25 to 28 ot 8:30 pm Feb. 27, 28 at 2:30 pmMANDEL HALL57th and University Ave. $5.00, $3.50, $2.50Student-Faculty Discount—50c Off Any TicketTickets On Sale — Mandel Hall Box Office Henry Purcell’s baroqueopera Dido and Aeneas is rare¬ly staged today, and thus, theopportunity to see this opera,certainly Purcell’s greatest, wasdefinitely welcome. As presentedby the Collegium Musicum underthe direction of Howard Brown,on Friday evening in Mandell Hall,however, Dido and Aeneas cameoff as a slightly less-than-success-ful venture due, in great measure,to some serious misconceptions ofboth interpretation and plot struc¬ture.The most glaring weakness wasthe role of Aeneas. In the handsof Terence Anthoney, Aeneas wasportrayed as an incredibly weakand shallow individual, in such away as to make the audience won¬der how he could have capturedDido’s heart in the first place,much less have been the hero ofVirgil’s epic. Anthoney completelymissed the point that the tragedyis not that Aeneas was a simper¬ing fool, as he seemed to believe,but rather, that Aeneas could notmeasure up to Dido’s expectationsof him as a man and that hecould be so easily duped by thewitches into leaving Carthage; or,more simply, that he was all toohuman.Perhaps the most flagrant ex¬ample of Anthoney’s down-rightbad acting came at the dramaticclimax of the Third Act when hebelatedly told Dido that he wouldstay with her and defy the gods,only to be banished by the crest¬fallen queen. As he walked offthe stage, his tail between hislegs, even the audience began tolaugh a tribute to his gaucheriein interpreting this role. An¬thoney’s light-weight vocal equip¬ ment did little to help his pooracting, especially in view of thestrong Dido whom he was facing.SYLVIA STAHLMAN wasnothing less than magnificent.Miss Stahlman’s strong points inher portrayal of the tragic Queenof Carthage were not only her ex¬quisite vocal phrasing and con¬trol, but also her true sense ofdrama. “Dido’s Lament” came asa particularly moving experience- so effective was the spell thatshe wove. If I may have had somereservations that perhaps she por¬trayed Dido as too strong a char¬acter, I can dispel some of mydoubts by simply rememberingwhat a weak Aeneas she playedagainst. Any Dido would haveseemed strong by comparison.Similarly impressive, atlhoughon a smaller scale, were Kath¬erine Gottschalk as Dido’s confi¬dante Belinda and Lorene Rich¬ardson as the diabolical Sorceress.The Chorus, too, had its impres¬sive moments, particularly theThird Act “Sailor’s Dance.” Onthe whole, the members sang withnotable cohesiveness and clarity.The witches, however, did notappear to take their roles too seri¬ously and tried to be humorousrather than fiendish. In particu¬lar, in their dance of glee whenAeneas forsook Dido, they seemedmore intent upon amusing theaudience with their hijinks than horrifying it with their demonicjoy over the ensuing tragedy.HOWARD BROWN conductedthe Collegium rather soberly. Onehad expected a more lively orimaginative interpretation of theopera from Mr. Brown, and yetthere was nothing particularlyoriginal in his conception of thescore. The orchestra, however,was responsive, and FrederickHammond deserves special men¬tion for his really excellent per¬formance on the harpsichord.Thus, as staged by AnnetteFern and effectively costumed byVirgil Burnett, Dido and Aeneascame as something of a mild dis¬appointment. The efforts of themany were, unfortunately, notenough to overcome the miscuc.sof the few.Ed Chikofskyi '2 • CHICAGO MAROON • Feb. 16, 1965 STUDENTGROUPSEUROPE* CRIMSON SeriesGrand Tour * Continental TourFavorite Tour * Fiesta TourComprehensive TourIsrael Adventure TourHoliday Tour * Panorama TourBY STEAMER OR AIR tfTA*SB TO 78 DAYS tram i tM% DISCOVERY SeriesDiscovery Tour** Explorer TourPrep & High School Swiss Camp■Y STEAMER OR AIR * JOE*42 TO es DAYS from ^409• «xctudfng trans-Atlantic transportationor Form your Own GroupAsk for Plans and Profitable IOrganizer Arrangements I‘specialists in ■STUDENT TRAVELSINCE 1928for folders and details_SEE YOUR LOCAL TRAVEL AGENTor writs university travel company"" x tonbricto Mast Quote of the dayPaid advertisement in the1 UCLA Daily Bruin, for a Chris¬tian "information service" inRochester:Free New TestamentIn English or Yiddish to any Jew¬ish person. Other publirations|; available, including “Jesus ofNazareth—Who is He” and a spe¬cial introduction to the NewTestament for Jewish readers en¬titled, “An Introduction To ABest Seller.” AU literature sentpostpaid. Chamber concert Fri.The Lenox String Quartet willpresent the fourth concert in theUC Chamber Music Series on Ft iday evening in Mandel Hall.Featured will be Mozart’s Quar¬tet in F Major, K. 590, the Chicago premier of the Three Minia¬tures for String Quartet by assistant professor of music JohnPerkins, and the Brahms Quartetin C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1.The concert begins at 8:30. Tickets i$3; $1 for students) are available at the Music Department,5802 Woodlawn, ext. 3885.Q2QI TYPEWRITERSWe always have reasonablypriced used portable andstandard typewriters whichcarry a new machine guar¬antee.If you want to keep yourtypewriter in A-l workingcondition at all times, in¬quire about a maintenancecontract which would entitleyou to 4 cleanings per yearand free repairs . . .Get more informationfrom theTypewriter Dept.The University OfChicago Bookstore5802 ELLIS AVE. Set nations meetingA preliminary planning meetingfor this year’s Festival of Nationswill be held at room B in Inter¬national House on Wednesday at8 pm.Students wishing to representtheir countries at this event areinvited to attend.The Festival of Nations is heldannually as part of the Univer¬sity’s Festival of the Arts, andit offers students from manycountries the opportunity to dis¬play various aspects of their eulture. This year’s Festival, to beheld on May 2, will include ex¬hibits, movies, a food bazaar andsale, and a variety show.CULL DOORSFOR DESKS ANDBENCHES — $6.0022-24" Wide — 80" LongPLYWOODSHELVINGMASONITEMOULDINGSLIBERTY LUMBER CO.6358 S. DORCHESTERTelephone HY 3-1726Closed SaturdaysCalendar of Events Talking About FilmsTuesday, February 16LECTURE: “The House Out of Order,’Congressman Richard Bolling (D.-Mo.)Breasted Hall, 3 JO pm.LECTURE: “Latin America: The ThornyPath of Progress," “Future Patterns ofChange: Lessons from Mexico. PuertoRico, Venezuela, Brazil, and Cuba,” Ed-mundo Flores, visiting professor of thesocial sciences, SocScl 122, 4 pm.SEMINAR: "Electro Microscopy of Syn¬apses and Other Neuronal Junctions inRelation to Nerve Function,” G. D. Pap¬pas, associate professor of anatomy, Co¬lumbia University, Anatomy 303B, 4 pm.COLLOQUIM: “Statistical Mechanics ofIrreversible Processes.” E. G. D. Cohen,the Rockefeller Institute, New York City,Research Institutes 460, 4:15 pm.SEMINAR: “Evolution of the HumanHand,” John Napier, department of anat¬omy, Royal Free Hospital School ofMedicine, London, Anatomy 101, 4:30 pm.LECTURE: “Local Dlophantlne Prob¬lems,” James B. Ax. professor of mathe¬matics, Cornell University, Eckhart 206,4:30 pm.MOVIE: "The Gunflghter,” SocScl 122,7:15 and 9:15.FOLK DANCING: International House,7:30 pm.ISRAELI FOLK DANCING: Hillel, 7:30pm.CONCERT: The Contemporary ChamberPlayers of The University of Chicago,Mandel Hall, 8:30 pm.Wednesday, February 17LECTURE: “Control of Synthesis of Spe¬cific Proteins In Cellular Differentiation,”William J. Rutter, department of chem¬istry, University of Illinois, Zoology 14,4 pm.LECTURE: "History and Echatology inthe Mind of Teilhard,” Georges Creepy,professor of philosophical theology in theProtestant faculty, Montpellier, France,Mandel Hall, 4 pm.CARILLON RECITAL: Daniel Robins,University Carillonneur, Rockefller Chap¬el, 5 pm.LECTURE SERIES AND SEMINARS:'The Comic View,” Alfred Stem, profes¬sor, Montelth College, Wayne State Uni¬versity, Classics 10, 5 pm.LECTURE: “Ths Origin of Wu-Wel.” H.G. Creel, professor of Chinese History,SocScl 201, 7 30 pm. FOLK DANCING: Country Dancers, IdaNoyes 8 pm.LECTURE: “Latest Report on Our Exca¬vations In Egyptian Nubia,” Keith C.Seele, professor emeritus of egyptology,Breasted Hall, 8:30 pm.Thursday, February 18LECTURE: “Virgil Then and Now,” R. D.Williams, visiting associate professor ofclassics, SocScl 122, 4 pm.LECTURE: “The Structures and Antigen¬icity of Streptococcal M Proteins,” Eu¬gene Fox, research associate, dept, ofmicro-biology, Ricketts North 1, 4 pm.SEMINAR: “Model and ExperimentalEvidence for an ERG A-wave RegeneratorMechanism,” Stanley Buckser, researchassociate, dept, of surgery, 5753 Drexel,Room 208, 4 pm.TRACK MEET: UC vs. Illinois State Nor¬mal University, Field House, 7:30 pm.CHICAGO MAROOON FORUM ON CAP¬ITAL PUNISHMENT: "The Abolition ofCapital Punishment and the WilliamWitherspoon Case.” Panelists: Dick Greg¬ory, Norval Morris, Hans Mattick, ArthurWeinberg, Rev. James Jones, and StudsTerkel, moderator; Law School Auditor¬ium, 8 pm. THE AUTEUR-WRITER THEORYCampus Independent Voters ofIllinois (Americans for DemocraticAction) will hold a short meetingThursday ot 7:30 pm in theReynolds Club North Lounge toorgonixe • nucleus for future ac¬tivity.The meeting will be concernedwith the role of on active ADAchapter on campus as well as withspecific future projects includingthe Lutheran Seminary petitioncampaign, action on school super¬intendent Benjamin Willis, andthe national ADA convention inApril. All students who are inter¬ested in a liberal activist politicalgroup are invited.CLASSIFIED ADSPERSONALWhat la it that makes Nancy Barty gointeresting?Expert Tennle-8quash restringing. NewRacket* for Sale. 24-hr. Service. Call BillDee 434-4963 after 5:30 pm.Will the person who moved the HarperLibrary kindly put It back! Thanx much IB.G.FLY TWA TO YOUR JOB INTERVIEW!FOR INFO. OR RESV. CALL CAMPUSREP. M. 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Lately, the popular press(Downbeat, Saturday Review)has discovered and ballyhooeda revolution in movie criticismstarted by a French film maga¬zine, CAHIERS DU CINEMA.The revolution is ten years old.Lay observers continue to analyzeand emphasize the less importantaspects of the New Wave criti¬cism, and overlook the importantbut difficult kernel. Here ’tis.Truffaut, heading the newwave-critic-film-makers, inventedthe auteur theory: that the di¬rector of a film is the author assurely as the writer of a bookis its author; and that one couldconceive of a director’s films asa body of film-literature devotedto the director’s interests, themes,ideas, and style.This led to the apprehensionthat some directors were betterthan others. As in the world ofwriting, there were hacks, whosefilms showed nothing about theirauthors; pretenders, fakers, ex¬cellent craftsmen, and geniuses.Somebody got the idea of puttingthem in order; the old-style (lib¬eral-social consciousness from thethirties) critics, Kael, MacDonald,and the gang, accused the auteurcritics of inventing a critical de¬vice for predicting the value ofa film without seeing it. TheFrench pointed out that some di¬rectors’ films were consistentlybetter than others’; the Americansdecried this. Different standardswere being applied.THE AUTEUR CRITICS havedone for American films what theFrench critics who handed usback Dashiell Hammett, RaymondChandler, and Ernest Haycox cov¬ered with praise did: they haveindicated new ways to judge anart; and they have been willingto examine works without socialprejudice (“How can a detectivestory be art?”).But it is the critical method ofthe anteurists that is of value.They have brought a new stresson specific criticism, which leavesno room for such old criticaldodges as, “the picture has agreat emotional power”; one mustnow say what the picture has,why it has it, and how it is madeeffective. The new method hasmade it clear that the art of mo¬vies is much more than the artof dramatic theatre: that thesound, the picture, the montage,the manipulation of point-of-view,“WE AWAIT CHANGES inthe Party-line press nowthat Generalissimo Francohas moved to broadenSpain’s relations with theSoviet bloc countries: cana dirty fascist pig war¬monger get IFor 0 frV topy ?[!hS■ currant mu. of NA-religionpM I tional review, writ*b "to Dept. CP-6, 150 E.35 St., N. r. 16, N. Y. WE HAVE THEMThe new textured hoseby HonesIn all the New shadesIdeal for giftsorEveryday wear$1.00 to $1.95The University ofChicago Bookstore5802 ELLIS AVE.THE IIT METROPOLITANSTUDIES CENTERAnnounces Two Public Lectures On“Chicago’s Public Education—Its Problems and Challenges”February 17 WARREN BACON, CHICAGO BOARD OFEDUCATION — Current Problems of Chi¬cago's Board of EducationMarch 3 LEON DESPRES, ALDERMAN OF FIFTHWARD—What Kind Of Education Is Chi¬cago Entitled To Have?All lectures begin at 8:00 p.m. in Grover M. HermannHall on the IIT Campus, 32nd and Dearborn Streets.ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY etc., are as important as the writ¬ing and the acting.The French critics have workedout complex analyses of each di¬rector which are based on theinsight that the director can ex¬press complex ideas visually evenif they are not written into thescript of a film. That good direc¬tors work with similar themesin their work, working out varia¬tions of them, testing and expand¬ing them, is evident to anyonewho sees Hitchcock’s films, orthose of Hawks or Ford or Welles.Auteur or not, only the blind candispute this, or the fact that gooddirectors have their own styleswhich meaningfully relate to theirmaterial.THE AUTEUR CRITICS haveadvanced another critical position:that the first step in evaluatinga film is understanding what thedirector (or auteur, whoever hemay be; with weak directors,writers may be the individualswhose presence dominates thefilm) is trying to say; and thendetermining whether he succeedsin his attempt or not. A newweight is thrown on the visuals;the images, their nature, use, or¬der and meaning represent a lan¬guage all their own, often at oddswith material inimical to the di¬rector.Meeting the picture ort its ownMiss UC votingset for this weekVoting for this year’s Miss UCwill take place on Wednesday andThursday this week.On Wednesday, ballot boxes willbe in Swift Coffee Shop between10:30 and 12 pm, in the medicalschool lounge between 12 and 1:30,in Reynolds Club between 11:30and 2 pm, and in Burton Judsonand New Dorm from 4:30 to 7pm.Votes may also be cast Wednes¬day between 11 and 2:30 in Rey¬nolds Club, between 11:30 and 1pm in Social Science 122, between11 and 2:30 in the Law School,and between 4:30 and 6 pm inPierce Tower.THIS YEAR’S CANDIDATESand their sponsoring organizationsare Nancy Barty, Russian FilmFestival; Sandra Baxter, Women’sAthletic Association; Marge Horo¬witz, Maroon Key; Judy McCrock-lin, Quadranglers; and Pat Mc-Keown, Psi Upsilon. terms is essential to this method.The critic may not like the mate¬rial, the content, the subject mat¬ter of the film; but that does notdetermine the quality of the film.How well the director succeedsin presenting that subject matteris the determining question inthe art of the cinema. The studyof auteur throughout their careeris important not to the assessmentof individual films, but is essen¬tial to understanding the develop¬ment of an artist’s ideas, just asone must read as many of awriter’s works as possible to un¬derstand him more fully.THERE IT IS. The problem be¬comes not “Who do you likebest?” but “How do you judgemovies?” That the auteurs arewilling to judge more movies withless prejudice is commendable.That they have fixed their atten¬tion on the director is mainly jus¬tified. Their aesthetics of directorsoften verge on the ridiculous. Buttheir critical method is certainlyworth considering. But then, mostpeople around here let other peo¬ple judge their movies anyway.The easy way out, right? Savesyou having to figure out yourown cinematic values.John T. Chance(who is really Elisha Cook, jr.)Chicago MaroonEdilor-in-Chief Robert F. LeveyBusiness Manager. Michael KasseraManaging Editor David L. AikenAssistants to the Editor, Sharon GoldmanJoan Phillip*Campus News Editor Dan HertzbeirgEditor, Chicago LiteraryReview Martin Mich aeisonCulture-Feature Editor. .David H. RichterPhotoCo-ordinators.Bill Caffrey, Steve WofsyRewrite Editor Eve HochwaldMovie Editor Kenneth KrantzMusic Editor Peter RabinowitzScience Editor Ed StemEditor Emeritus John T. WilliamsStaff-Rick Pollack, Tom Heagy, Barbara Jur,Barry Weitz, Joan Tapper. Dick Granz,Dinah Esral, Howard Fishman, SteveFord, Jerry A. Levy, David Satter, BruceFreed, Matt Joseph, Tobey Klass, DickAtlee, William Herzog, Allen Adcock,Judy Favia, Cissie Hatch, Dorie Soling-er, Ellis Levin, Barry Saline, Paul Bur-stein, Jack Catlin, Hugh Letiche, Ro¬bert Haven, Edward Chickovsky, CharlesDashe, Rhea Rollin, Jamie Beth Gale,Mary McMullen, Judith Schatrien, BobYaspan.U. S. REPRESENTATIVERICHARD BOLLINGof Missouri, leader in the reform of theHouse Rules Committee, will speak onIf HOUSE OUT OF ORDERBREASTED HALLTODAY, TUESDAY3:30 P.M.Mr. Bolling will also be at Social Science Tea ot 2:45 p.m.ADMISSION FREESponsored by Student Government JJ =Feb. 16, 1965 • CHICAGO MAROON •GADFLYBill Witherspoon: a Damode s oi the ’60sEditor's note: Genef.ovitz, the author of thefollowing, is chairman ofthe Citizens Committee forBill Witherspoon. Be Is aphoto-journalist and liter•mry agent. Be has. fornearig three years, beenBill W itherspoon's literaryagent, private photograph¬er, confidant, and mil•round Ban Friday. Beforethe Witherspoon ease heteas involved in the CmmpCrusade. -,ifl. ’ rfcIn Chicago’s Cook County Jailthe electric chair waits tor BillWitherspoon. It has been waitingfor him for five years Twelvetimes hi> execution date was setand eleven times it has beenstayed. One stay they forgot t »notify him. Bill has asked ‘ Howmany times must a man die?"But no one has been able toanswer him. ,Note. once again, the sovereignState of Illinois is busily makingready for Bill W it her spoon's elec¬trocution. The machinery is being■ ■ ■ >-.i snr sponge-i have bee*trjcr,d Bureaucratic processes/>,.■ icing processed bureaucrat*cally. Abstract justice, once again,mores in on many fee* touardsCook County's execution cham¬ber, toward Illinois’ electric chair.Shortly, Bill Witherspoon willbe transferred to the Death Housein the basement of the big jail.Here he will wait some 25 feetfrom the instrument designatedto kill him. He will wait in ali tie cell from which he can seeDie green door through which hemust pass, here in the bowels ofthe jail a cere the surdiglit neverreaches, where fresh air is notallowed to enter.At 12:01 am Mar. 19 the chairwill claim Bill Witherspoon unlessmounting crusade r»eisuadesGovernor r*uo Kerner to savehim. All legal avenues have »*eenclosed. ('r '.y Executeve a - ■ .can save him now, -* -. WITHERSPOON’S 'CAUSE aasbeen taken up by clergymencii-ici(J-ade: s. ' bv ..the :n ■ *mV:.den himself.,..The? Citizens Committee ’ for Bill Witki-iv... <»>•■ (vht-en ud to help save his life/Fameti^triaf lawyer, Elmer Gertz,has ‘ taken'# over Witherspoon’sosentation. All are campaign¬ing ‘for.,;,‘Witherspoon’s life andI :ual freedov'<. becauser if1,- .... die 43-year-old con-- \ n f v .':,h succeeded inovercoming hi.-> past but, throught <■ h« <•. amu’i: or isciew'e is become a " ofhreiary accomplLshment and . ofgreat potential use to society,M.. ■ a* t,«* gt.\u ' o' (.''(.I.. •;time have spoken o»it 4-> spareBill Wither ■'peon’s life. Nelson Al-gren . Harry, BarnardDr. Pic - * Bradley.- \ . WardenDuffy Father James Jones. . . I !.ms Mattick ,■ .Uvo-? Ti!: i 1 liese, and others, havefound Witherspoon to be a com¬pletely’ worthwhile human being;a man -who has qualities rni goodmen can U? i\ei sally admire. Theyhave found a man who has dis-cioli cl ' im>elf *■> ouse- to..think. t.< v.ite, to become some-t <u ■} '''y.r. ai 'icuhi'c u lid elo-■••• “"A •• .-.i>:i r o>M .*:•>«« ■ •• i.s'•< • ' oa • , • idC I ' ' I' . . j '• A .... . / ''I , ; . ■ .•'■ 1 • .III’! • - • IV ■'o o ' V : C .:•-a, , ,t \^ C, f .mo1 ' ’ ' • A ■'■•.• • •Pit", : •• • •t • ' ■ , ■ •....I*oni .a ge man cat._,ieg aheavy nu:den. lie is Warden JackJoin-o', v i > must carry out. anexecution lie wants no part of.It is ; o whe imtsf throw the,switch and catapult Bill Wither-swoon into eternity with 1900 voltsm riectrinty. It is ironic, andtia t.hat this mount.i •; of aman in m deliver-U)* ft»e S, > e's •pound of flesh’ — for not onlyis he vigorously against capitalpunishment, „but he is vigorouslyfor Bill Witherspoon .They havebecome close friends.It will be the sad duty of areluctant executioner to pull theswitch as 4 reluctant guards press4 black buttons in the DynamoRoom to send 2e worth of electricty through Witherspoon’s body.This to be done in the only■penal institution on the countylevel in the United States respon¬sible for carrying out a sentenceof death on a local Jurisdiction.F.verywhere else, this is the func¬tion of the state.• • •SEVENTY YEARS ago on Janu¬ary 9, 1895, in a general messageto the State Legislature on thecondition of the State, Illinois’Governor Altgeld had this to sayon the subject of capital punish¬ment: -“During the past two yearsthere have been seven men hangedIn this state, and I have com¬muted the death penalty to im¬prisonment for life in two othereases I respectfully submit foryour consideration the questionas to whether the death penaltydoes any substantial good, whet ti¬er we are any better off than theyare in those States where theylong ago abolished it, whetherit is not barbarous and degradingin u.s effects, and whether itwould not be better to have amore rational system of manag¬ing our prisons, and then to abol¬ish capital punishment entirely."Later, in Altgeld’s book, TheCost of Something for Nothing.Altgeld states:’‘Viewed from any standpoint,the. business of killing men is abrutal and degrading profession,which must brutalize those whoengage in it, to a greater or lessdegree, depending somewhat uponthe character of the man in thebeginning.” And, ", , . there issomething abhorrent about takingof life, and Nature will have herrevenge.”That was John P. Altgeld someseventy years ago. Would anysensitive person argue that experi¬ence since that time has been any¬thing except reinforcement of hisenlightenment?• • *Bill Witherspoon, then, sirs inthe twilight of the huge jail. Wait¬ing. Waiting for justice to catchup, for progress to progress. Wait¬ing like some tall, gangling Buddhastaring at his navel: contemplat¬ing some tiling other than hisdeath — or trying to - wonder¬ing a •* !l be able to die like a man. Wondering why - if the au¬thorities really believe that execu¬tions are deterrents — why theyhide the 'chair* in the deepest re¬cesses of the jail. Wondering why,if those people who favor thedeath penalty are really seriousabout its deterrent effect, whythey don’t hold executions in sta¬diums and televise them into thehomes for children to see.“This gaunt giant of a man liesflat on his back, gazing sightless¬ly at the high ceiling. Wondering.Thinking. Thoughts ding throughhim like melting butter Ilis bodyfeels as if someone had pulledthe plug, letting his strength —his very life — drain out. If onlyhis mind could become numb. Ifonly the thoughts would stoppounding ...”But the thoughts keep coming.Forever coming. Now he wonderswhy the St,ate does not choose toset the example in compassion,rather than to emulate to a[>e— the murderer in brutality Yet,he has never met a murderer inprison who had stalked his prey sorelentlessly as the State D stalk¬ing him. That had plan od a kill¬ing so meticulously Who keptwhispering I’m Going To KillYou . . . I’m Going To Kill You.Who played cat and nioo-e so sav¬agely with its victim.Inflicting the death penalty is acruel ritual having no relation¬ship to the problem it is allegedlydesigned to deal with. It is not adeterrent against capital crimes.All statistics bear this out. Thedeath penalty is a sentimental andrevengeful law based upon emo¬tion. The very worst aspect of thedeath penalty is that it is univer¬sally unequally applied. Only thoseconvicted of murder who are With *out means or influence are theone who ever pay with their lives.It is a penalty which can neverbe justly and equally aooned. It is,as Altgeld said, “degiaJing in itseffects.”AS N F. I,SO S AI.GREN h a spointed out, tiie death I»e:ialty isunconstitutiotkil in that the EighthAmendment of the United Statesspecifically repudiates and forbids“cruel and unusual punishments.’’. . . And, if capital punishment —particularly death by electrocutionin which the brain is broiled -- isnot a “cruel and unusual punisli-ment,” what would Ik*?.Bill Witherspoon, who thinks ofhimself as a modern Damocles,killed a police officer as he wassurrendering a pistol. The weapon,as ballistics has pn> . sas defeetive. Bill claims ii;«* weapon dis¬ charged accidentally. Later, theState, feeling they did not have astrong enough case against himto demand the death penalty, of¬fered him 80 years. He turned itdown!Regardless of whether you be¬lieve it was an accident or not;Bill Witherspoon, it should be un¬derstood, is not guilty of murder.He is guilty of homicide. There isa difference the State, on theother hand, is planning a legalmurder. A premeditated murder.REMEMBER, IT IS tiie peopleof the State of Illinois who willtake Witherspoon’s life. It is notWarden Johnson who really pullsthe switch. It is all those who areindifferent to this taking of lifewho throw the switch. It is indif¬ference that is the enemy of BillWitherspoon and those others un¬der death sentenceIf you do not want Bill Wither¬spoon killed in your name; if youdo not want him to be the 171stman to be executed in Illinoissince 1840; if you do not believemurder can l>e cured by murder;if \ ou want It* remove l u* suoixlthat hang* over Witherspoon’shead; then you have no alternativebut to write the Governor to thateffect. Such letters should be sentto: The Citizens Committee forBill Witherspoon, c/o Elmer Gertz,120 S. LaSalle St., Chicago 3, Illi¬nois, You may be sure that thecommittee willjsee that they reachthe Governor. Letters of com¬ mendation and/or petitions forexecutive clemency should first goto the Citizens Committee f orprocessing for greatest effect Pe¬titions may be had by phoning:348-3912 (in Chicago) or 869 2664(in Evanston).It is further suggested that theIllinois Commission To A bo 11 s hCapital Punishment also be con¬tacted. They are in need of helpin their good fight to abolish thedeath penalty here in Illinois dur¬ing this session of the LegislationWrite: Illinois Commission ToAbolish Capital Punishment, 28 F,Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, Illinois,or call Mrs. Jerry YVarshaw at939-4454.The time has come for an goodmen and women of faith in ourstate to speak up and be heard inopposition to the unconscionabledeath penalty in all cases, and par¬ticularly when a human being ofdemonstrated strength of character and worthiness faces the elec¬tric chair, as does William Wither¬spoon. ■It is time we answer with com¬passion Witherspoon’s question,“How. many times must a mandie?’’ It is time we do the humanthing. It is time we -— in all thestates — begin to live up to themotto of our great land: In GodWe Trust It it time we give thatmotto meaning; for if we do nottrust life and death In His hands -then what would we trust to Him?Gene LovitzIVI conducts signaturedrive to block LutheransA community-wide petition campaign in opposition to theproposed site of the Lutheran Seminary is tx'ing organizedby the-campus chapter or tnriefxmdent Voters of Illinois (IVT).Petitions will be circulated throughout the Hyde Tark com¬munity calling uj»on the Trustees —;— ——of the Lutheran School of Theol- *«' '<«* oI Tlieology, a desirableogy at Chicago to change the pro- a<l(,lt.loa tf-t,115 University roniposed site of their campus from munjty, should build on landthe Greenwood University-54th a 1(*ad.v designated' for insUtutionPlace-55th Street block to an area fl us0 ■ and...iiot. destroy the soundnot requiring destruction of sound o'! tbe Greenwood Lmverhousing. The project Is bt*ing done Slty .>4th Place 5oth Street blockin cooperation with the r>450 now proposed ”Greenwood-University Block Club. Those interested in partieipatin;;TltE PFTITION 9TATRR as Us Uils project or who wish fuiTHE PETITION STATES as s thor information can call .Ellisbasic premises: 1) hat Ous com- Lovin at X3272 or PL 2-9718 ormunity needs well maintained. Mik(. Kri|tsk t 288-G456.stably integrated, moderate-rental ■ ; ^ .housing; 2) that this communitymust begin to resolve the long¬standing conflicts between resi¬dential needs and institutionalland use; 3) that the Lutheran/ BLACKFRIARSMusical Comedy Tryouts!; ""■_ ,•■■ ■ ' ' ■ '■■ ;• ^ • '.. A. * _ 4 •■, ■ ■■Tues. 8:30-10:00 pmWed.t Thurs. 7:30-10:00 pmReynolds Club South Lounge There will be a meetingof the Student GovernmentAssembly this evening at7:30 in Business East 103.All interested students areinvited to attend.OM.Y FIVE DAYS TO GO . . .WASH PROMA Pleasant Evening of Dancing Highlighted byTHE CROWNING OF MISS UCMISS JUDY BRUCE, STAR OF "OLIVER"MIDNIGHT DINNER BY QUADRANGLE CLUBVote for Miss UC on Wed. or Thurs. BIDS: $5/COUPLEtax and flowersnot necessary• CHICAGO MAROON • Feb. 16, 1965 NEW PAPERBACKARRIVALSSilberman:Crisis in Black andWhite $1.95Ross:The World ofZen $3.95Morris:The World ofVenice $1.95Bryher:Roman Wall $1.95Haltered Book SaleContinues then75ThursdayAND UPThe University OfChicago Bookstore5802 ELLIS AVE.