PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY. TAWTTARV 2E1_ 149* sAG TOTE__CHGADAY __T lA T v.1 ___ n~ 0,M UJ"A f j'NIAI'A A4U, lyb6J 5 cinema Resnais' Codine: Another Clyde Five Vail Students Make News With Request for Equal Time 5-3 VOTE: 'U' To Appeal PA 379 (Continued from Page 1) By MARGARET WARNER It is hard to believe that Alain Resnais, who produced such momumental films as "Hiroshi- man Mon Amour" and "Last Year at Marienbad" also produced the strange and senseless film "Co- dine." It is even harder to believe that "Codine" should have re- ceived the Grand Prize at the Cannes film festival. Try to im- agine the kind of a man (Codine) who in one day steals trinkets for his girlfriend, befriends a threatened street urchin, and calmly carries his mother outside to leave her in the rain for the night. Try to imagine the kind of mother who would pour two litres of boiling oil on her sleep- ing son when he comes home to turn over a new leaf. Admittedly "Codine" takes place in a Ru- manian slum in 1900 which might excuse some eccentricities of character. But the' story would require some excellent writing and filmmaking to pull it off. Codine's character is remark- ably like that of Clyde Barrow of "Bonnie and Clyde." Both of them mix undeniable warm- heartedness toward their friends, occasional glimmerings of social consciousness and brutal tem- pers. And, like Clyde Barrow, Co- dine managed to get rid of any qualms about a life of force dur- ing a long thoughtful prison stay. Codine decides, "Injustice is wrong - A bird in a cage is wrong, you see." The narrator of Eight 'U' Students Awarded $950 In Hopwood Prizes the film, a small boy, tries to teach Codine that he should take out his temper in harmless ways so that he won't have to spend his life in prison. Codine succeeds for a while, but when he kills his brother for alleged attentions toward Co- dine's girlfriend, Codine in effect secures a violent death for him- self. On the whole, the filming of Codine "is spotty and the lines are even spottier. One of Res- nais's few attempts at color, "Codine" achieves a quality sim- ilar to early color television. In the blue-green mistiness of a, Rumanian swamp the washed- out color seems arty. Most of the time it is just mediocre. Striking shots are sparingly springled into the. otherwise un- inspired filmmaking. At one point the face of a small boy is placed in a careful composition of lines and squares in a window. At an- other point the camera pans from below across the faces of Codine's companions in a beerhall succeed- ing well in giving an impression of their drunken revelry. But the merits of such accom- plishment in composition are all but erased by the far more fre- quent sprinkling of inane lines. Codine's brother hits a counter with a stick. Codine, who is about a foot and a half taller than his brother, angrily gets up. His broth- er says, "But I only struck the counter." Codine says, "No, you struck my heart." And, as you might expect, Codine then stabs his brother. "Bonnie and Clyde" succeeds be- cause Clyde maintains a believable character. The character of Codine fails because, in spite of moments of pathos, it is not supported by the consistent and subtle mastery audiences have come to expect of Resnais. By DAVID SPURR In their quest for equal time to answer a question posed by Pres- ident Johnson in Wednesday's State of the Union Message, "Why, then, all this restlessness?," stu- dents at the Vail co-op have made news all over the country.' Thursday night, the group filmed an interview with CBS television at Vail, and recorded a radio pro- gram with ABC that will be broadcast over Ann Arbor's WPAG Sunday afternoon. Since Wednes- day, newspapers in Baltimore, To- ledo, Chicago, and Florida, have printed news stories on the group based on Associated Press dis- patches. Five students at Vail sent tele- grams to the Federal Communi- cations Commission and news services demanding equal time after hearing the president's State of the Union speech Wednesday night. Thursday they asked legal guidance from the office of Mich- igan Congressman Marvin Esch.- "Esch's office is in touch with the FCC," said Harriet Rosen- berg, Grad, one of the signers, "to let us know what we can do." The FCC is expected Monday to send a copy of regulations govern- ing their doctrine on fairness of comment. The FCC said Thursday it could not consider the request on the ba- sis of their policy for equal time, because that policy only applies to political candidates. The FCC considers requests for fairness of comment on the individual merits of such cases. "While we await a reply on our legal options, we are concentrating our efforts on trying to get net- work or individual station time on a voluntary basis," said Harriet Friedmann, '69. "We expected to be ignored at first," said Miss Rosenberg, "but now it appears conceivable that we could be able to speak on some program where the voices of dis- sent can be heard." She added that "for two days, we haven't slept or eaten . . . we've been talking it over, analyzing the pres- ident'sspeech, and sending tele- grams." "We're dead serious," said an- 3ther signer, Randy Frost, '69. "We feel the president didn't address himself to the causes of restless- ness in this country." The president, after posing the rhetorical question Wednesday night, answered it by saying, "Be- cause when a great ship cuts through the sea, the waters are always stirred and troubled." Frost said his group is "seeking the support of other concerned people on campus in our cam- paign to get the networks to foreign policy and the effects of this foreign policy on domestic, urban priorities." In New York, a spokesman for ABC said Thursday he did not! believe his network would honor the request. The other two net- works said they had not received copies of the telegram and de- clined to comment until they re- ceive additional telegrams sent by the students yesterday. 3 Vice-Presidents To Retirej Eight University underclassmen have received Hopwood Awards for creative writing totaling $950. These Hopwood Awards, and the major awards to be made in April, were made possible by the late ,Avery Hopwood, a Univer- sity alumnus of 1905. The author left the University money to recognize "the best creative work" in writing by students. Awards in essay, fiction, and poetry were presented by Robert F. Haugh, chairman of the Hop- wood Committee. Gail Diane Lenhoff, '70, re- ceived awards in all three divis- ions: in essay, $100 for a manu- script entitled "History as Hal- lucination"; in fiction, $100 for "Some Things Green," and in poetry, $150 for "In Dark Cor- ners." In essay the two other awards were: $100 to George S. Chu, '71, from Tokyo, Japan for "Fin- ished, Kaput, Just Plain Dead," Dow Unswayed By Protesters -MIDLAND (A')- Its chief re- cruiter says Dow Chemical Co. has no intention of altering or discontinuing its hiring campaign on college campuses because of student demonstrations against it n recent months. Dow is a manufacturer of na- palm, a jellied gasoline used in fire bonbing raids in Vietnam. Ray Rolf, director of corpor- ate recruiting, told the Midland Daily News in an interview that Dow will be seeking more than 1,000 new employees from this year's college graduating classes. Rolf said Dow recruiters will be on 330 campuses and in con- tact with students at 540 col- leges and universities by next June 1. ;rant time for opposing viewpoints Briggs, who authored the Re- to be heard. Any telegrams they gents decision to challenge an- wish to send to the networks sup- other public act in circuit court,, porting our demand would be ap- said, "I'm as concerned with au- preciated." tonomy as anyone. Thisisna "We eelver stongy tat othtouchy issue; the lawyers are not "We feel very strongly that both in agreement. I just think we've major parties at this time are not carried our legal action fae representing our concern-both in enough." terms of implications of Americane -_ and $50 to Joan Oleck, '71, for "The Gentle Protest for Peace." In fiction there were two awards besides Miss Lenhoff's: $150 to Carol Ann Godfrey, '71, for "We're the Sky"; and $50 to Frank Crantz, '70, for "Illusion in Reality." In the poetry division there' were awards besides Miss Len- hoff's: $100 to Donald J. Kubit, '70, for "A Child's Wisdom Teeth"; $100 to James P. Peters, '70, for "Bicycle Wanderings," and an award of $50 to Christine S. Lahey, '70, for "Harvest." Forty-six students entered a total of 56 manuscripts - 11 essays, 13 fiction pieces and 32 poems. The judges were Prof. Haugh and Prof. Carlton F. Wells, both of the English department. (Continued from Page 1) be coming to Ann Arbor," Ross said. He plans to visit the Uni- versity in two or three weeks "to get acquainted." He said that he has not worked out a specific approach to his job but regards relations with the Leg- islature "an extremely important relationship at any state univer- sity." Ross also plans to teach in the economics department. "I think it's important for an administra- tor to keep that kind of contact with the students," he said. "The opporunity to teach was one of the attractive features of the ap- pointment. I love teaching." Stirton has been a vice-presi- dent since 1956, and director of the Dearborn Campus since 1958. He submitted his request for re- tirement, effective June 30, in keeping with his long-planned in- tention to step down after he be- comes 65. He will be 65 March 20. "I have planned to retire at 65 since World War II," Stirton said yesterday. "All this nonsense about By-law changes makes it look like Fleming tried to fire me." He in- dicated that he plans to visit for- eign countries and "manage my flower garden.'' Niehuss has handled the Uni- versity's relations with the legisla- ture for 25 years. Unlike Stirton he will not leave the University upon retiring from his present post. "We hope to continue to ben- efit from his advice and counsel as a member of the University com- munity and a colleague," Flem- ing said. Touchy Issue Mrs. Huebner said, "I think we will lose the suit in the Supreme Court and that loss will jeopar- dize our cases against other state laws, which are much more im- portant." The University is currently challenging Public Act 124, a law requiring the office of the state architect to approve all construc- tion plans for state-financed university buildings, and Public Act 240, which limits the ratio of out-of-state enrollments at state universities to 25 per cent of the student body. Moot Question Smith, a former state Supreme Court justice and presently head of General Motors' Legal Division called the question "moot" but declined to explain. In deciding to appeal, the Re- gents quoted Judge Ager from the circuit court decision: "It is (the Regents') desire to proceed only in a legal manner and they have every right to have a determina- tion by the court on this very important legal question." Although decisions from circuit court are normally appealed to the Michigan Court of Appeals, the Regents will petition that court to certify the case to the Supreme Court for decision with- out a hearing in the appeals court. .'URegents End Hours' For Women (Continued from Page 1) 'Theresolution included provi- sions for the "Board of Governors and the University administration to take all necessary steps to in- sure a complete review of the ex- perimental policies, as well as of the decision-making process, at the close of the present term." Fleming indicated that the re- organization of the OSA would Stake place after the Presidential Commission on the Student Role 'in Decision Making completes its report. 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