1965-02-19; Central Michigan Life

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^!L^^^ February 19, 1965-
Number 15
ROBERT MOSES portrays William in this scene to be
[repeated in tonight's presentation of "In White America" in
IWarriner auditorium.
p Awards CM Life
Highest Possible Rating
Central Michigan Life re-
Iceived the highest national
■rating awarded by the Associated  Collegiate   Press   this
iweek.
The "All-American" rating,
[covering the first semester of
Ithe current school year, was
lalso the highest known award
lever received by the Central
Ipaper. In previous semesters
I Life had received two straight
I "First Class" rating on a scale
I which runs from "All-American" through "Fourth Class."
In receiving "All-American"
[recognition, Life was rated especially high for its news cov-
|?rage, makeup and technical
qualities. Judging is done by
j professional newsmen comparing papers from schools of sim-
r ilar size.
'All-American  ratings   represent 'superior' work and are
reserved for the top publications," explains ACP Director
Fred Kildown of the University of Minnesota.
Tom Needles, senior journalism major from Birmingham,
was managing editor of the
paper during the period judged. He is feature editor for the
current semester.
Emory Daniels, Garden City
senior, is the new managing
editor.
Other editors last semester
included: Chuck Hostutler,
Mount Pleasant junior, business manager; Barb Blass,
Baldwin seniox-, news editor;
Beth Steininger, Saginaw junior, copy editor; Dave Morton,
Montrose junior, sports editor;
Neil Hopp, Rogers City junior,
feature editor; Elaine Lewis,
Allen Park senior, assistant
news editor; Elsa Pressentin,
Muskegon j u n i o r, assistant
copy editor; Sharon Frye,
Muskegon junior, assistant
copy editor.
n (LIFE Photo by Ray Peterson)
DR. CURTIS NASH directs the Teacher Education Pro-
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,    D«. CURTIS NASH directs the Teacher Education Pro-
!C! «hich received the Distinguished Achievement Award
lay.
Budget Would Delay
CMU Building Plans
By Neil Hopp
Life News Editor
CMU's building plans, including construction of Ans-
pach Hall, will be temporarily
set back if the state legislature
approves   Gov. George   Rom-
ney's proposed budget for the
1965-66 school year.
According to President Jud-
Poignant Theatre,
Torrid Questions
CMU students have an opportunity tonight to attend a
play performed by the original
off-Broadway cast.
"In White America" will be
presented at 8 p.m. in Warriner Hall auditorium. The performance is brought to Central as paxi of the Artists
Course Series.
The cast is composed of six
actors, three Negro and three
white, doing intex-pretative
reading. Also featured is a
singer-guitar-banjo player,
George Blanchard. Readers
are Elizabeth Franz, Moses
Gunn, Philip Baker Hall, Novella Nelson, Anthony Palmer
and Fred Pinkard.
Costumes and scenery are
not included in the production.
Dean Olaf Steg, chairman of
the Artists Course committee,
says, "This is a very dramatic
thing. It is certainly not like
the usual stage play."
The play is the longest running dramatic presentation of
the 1963-64 off-Broadway season and is now on a three
month nationwide tour.
• Written by Martin Duber-
man, Princeton history professor, it premiered in October, 1963 at Sheridan Square
Playhouse. The Vernon Rice
Award of the New York Drama Desk, given annually for
outstanding achievement i n
off-Broadway theater was
awarded "In White America."
Authentic documents of Negro history in America from
slave ship days to the present
are featured in the play. These
are presented as originally
written or spoken, but not in
their entirety, and come from
documents, books and articles.
"In White America" is presented in two acts. The first
act of 13 selections draws from
letters to the editors and articles printed in Time Newsweek, the New York Times
and Atlanta Constitution, the
congressional record. Letters
and articles from Thomas Jefferson, John Brown and others
are also included. Representative titles are "Account of
the Slave Trade on the Coast
of Africa", "Lay My Burden
Down" (slave reminiscences),
"History of Woman Suffrage"
and "Army Life in a Black
Regment."
Among the 15 selections of
Act II are "The Political History of Reconstruction"; proceedings in the Ku Klux
Trials; Booker T. Washington's speech, "The Negro in
the United States"; the Father
Divine Letters; and "The Long
Shadow of Little Rock" (a 15
year old Negro girl's account
of trying to go to school).
In recognition of her work
with new playrights, Judith
Rutherford Marcechal, the
play's produce*1, received the
Margo Jones Award at a
White House presentation in
1964.
"In White America" was
produced in London in 1964 by
a British company. The Free
Southern Theater presented
the play in the South for 17
pexformances last summer. Recently published by Houghton
Mifflin Co., selected portions
of the production have been
recorded by Columbia and are
currently available. The Steve
Allen Show televised selected
scenes last fall.
All tickets are reserved; admission is $1.00.
TEP's New Approach
Receives High Esteem
.^ CMU was the winner of the
Distinguished Achievement
Award for Excellence in
Teacher Education made by
the American Association of
Colleges of Teacher Education
February 11 in Chicago at the
Association's annual conference.
. The award was made to
Central for its Five-Year program for Teacher Education,
which has been carried on
through a Ford Foundation
grant until this year. Dx\ Curtis E. Nash, associate :dean of
the CMU School of Education,
is the director of the program.
President Judson W. Foust,
received the plaque on behalf
of the University. He also will
speak at the general meeting
of the Presidents of the Association of State Colleges and
Universities. Seventy-four of
the 689 member colleges and
universities preparing teachers
submitted programs for evaluation. The CMU prgoram was
the unarximous choice of the
judging committee for the
award.
Dr. Evan R. Collins, president of the association, in presenting the award said, "that
it was presented to Central
Michigan University for its- development, imple mentation
and comprehensive evaluation
(Continued on Page 3)
son Foust, this will also mean
a cut in the number of staff
members and will delay remodeling of Grawn Hall and
expansion of the library. Construction of dormitories, which
are on the self-liquidating program, will not be affected.  .
CMU had originally asked
the state to allocate funds totaling §13.5 million for the
next school jeax. This included $5.6 million for operating
expenses and §7.9 million for
building outlay funds.
However, a breakdown of
the governor's request shows
§4.83 million allocated for continued operation and §3.46 million for building outlay funds
—a figure cut nearly in half
from the original request.
According to President
Foust, the basic question is
whether the legislature will
agree with Romney's proposal
since they work backwards
with a budget. They investi*
gate the costs of the individual
programs and then distribute
the amount of money according to the needs of the programs.
Romney delayed giving the
budget program to the legislature as long as he legally could.
Because of this and the turnover after the election and the
number of Senators new to office, action on the budget is
still pending.
The library has already been
given a federal grant of
§750,000 but this has not been
approved in Washington yet
either. Even if approved,
CMU will need money from
the state to carry through
plans for expansion of the library for the first year.
CMU's budget last year was
given a §630,000 increase by
the legislature from the year
befox-e. The fact that tuition
has been raised next year to
§150 per student per semester,
which will amount to §2.3 million, will mean a larger operating fund. But this is included in the gross budget as it
will help pay for self-liquidating programs and was not in
the net budget sent to Lansing.
"In view of the increased
enrollments, we are becoming
involved in a larger number of
areas. An original committee
proposal was that we have a
crash program for a few years
(Continued on Page 3)
Foust Replies
Concerning 14i e discrimination survey printed in Life, PresidentJud-
son W. Foust commented,
"My attitude is there
wasn't any problem here
and someone is just trying to start one. The survey simply emphasized
the fact that certain peo-
p 1 e didn't have any
rooms open and should
have (emphasized She
point that some people
did . . . Why talk about
something if there isn't
any problem.
For   student   opinions
see p. 8.
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