-Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, October 12, 1968 'Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY So turdoy. October 12. 1968 dance National Company: Not just ballet By ERIKA HOFF Andrea Vodenhal has got to be one of the most beautiful dancers in the world today. And she and her husband, Eugene Collins, are the mainstays of the National Ballet Company. But, excluding a few corps members who have been with the -company since its formation and continue to hang on, the entire company is of the highest caliber. It is one of the best in the country. Last night at Hill Aud. the National Ballet opened with the classical Swan Lake to the music of Tchaikovsky. Miss Vodenhal was exquisite as Odette. Technically, she is perfect: but she does much more than just dance. She acts. Through the medium of the dance, Miss Vodenhal conveys emotion eloquently. The male role ir Swan Lake does little more than complement the female role; Eugene *Collins underplayed exactly. In the adagio Miss Vodenhal and Collins dance together perfectly. The pas de deux from Le Corsaire displayed each of these dancers brilliantly. Unlike many pas de deux, this was not a r...., competition. Each dancer sparkled in his own right. > The male variation consists of repeated difficult leaps and turns, but it requires more endurance than technique. Collins exploited the showy choreography to its fullest. The effect was spectacular.s Concerto Barocco was the only modern ballet performed. George Balanchine's extremely intricate choreography requires very difficult dancing for even the corps de ballet. But the chal- lenge was well met. The National Ballet has an unusually strong corps. Because the company is very small, many first rank soloists dance corps roles, and the accumulated experience is evident. Although this is Anita Dyche's first year as a principal dancer,' she performed the demanding lead role of the Balanchino capably. As her partner, Frederic Strobel was adequate. Raymonda, the last number, was anti-climatic. Miss Dyche sparkled in the, leading role, but her partner, Jean-Paul Comelin, > danced sloppily. At times, no two dancers on stage were together. The pattern of the ballet was lost in 'the confusion, But the worst player in last night's performance was the :. audItorium. 11111 was fnot designed for the ballet. It epitomizes all the horrible conditions a touring dance company might encounter.= There are no real wings or a heaven to accommodate the least elaborate set. The floor is so bad that last night the Company put down its own vinyl flooring. naiy-Larry Robbins But despite the less than perfect accommodations, the National Ballet put on a first-rate performance. The National's mainstays A SENSE OF BELONGING Personality: The key to the new co-op By RICK PERLOFF handle the over-all plan of the opposed to the regular pattern of will have exterior stairs opening There is a hershey wrapper and building. four doubles and four singles. up to an interior entrance which a bunch of weeds in the very spot In terms of architecture, variety In addition, a corridor and a wraps around an interior court. where the steps of the North Cam- is the crucial factor in the co- blocked-off emergency-only door The houses are staggered and pus cooperative will someday lie. operative, for it is variety which separates the houses from each slopes surround the sides, with But that isn't the story by any is hoped will create an atmosphere other so that at meal time co-opers diagonal cedar panels placed all means-the blue prints for the of intimacy and a sense of belong- can go to the dining hall without around wherever there aren't win- new Inter-Cooperative Council ing. entering another house and with- dows. The second and third levels Co-op have been completed and it In fact, each of the 18 twelve- out going outside. are extended about a foot and a is expected to be ready for oc- man houses is not quite like any It is hoped this will further the half with the lines clear-cut and cupancy right on schedule, in fall, other. Each house is painted in a personality of the individual hous- sharp-looking. 1969. slightly different color and the es. John Achatz, who is in charge The building will seem to be The co-op, which will be located locations of the rooms are a little of the project, emphasizes the di- moving with shadows created in on Broadway and Gilbert Court, different in each house. All the versity and uniqueness above any- part by a birch hemming finish is being designed by the archi- houses in the corners of the thing else. The design provides for a view tectural firm, Lane, Reibe and building. for example, contain six But the anything elses are cer- of all North Campus from the win- Weiland; Tampold and Wells will single and three double rooms as tainly impressive. The cooperative dows in the courtyard, '1+ue"+h ilntta man 3 t i T i, ,S Ypsilanti student organization tries to conquer white racism By ROBERT KRAFTOWITZ "To educate white students into some sort of realization of white racism is the general purpose of United Student Awareness," says Matt Locricchio, general chair- man of the relatively new Ypsi- lanti organization. USA is comprised of 30 mem- bers, mostly Eastern Michigan University students. Two are pro- fessors. Founded in April of this year, the group's original purpose was brief and to the point : end white racism in Ypsilanti. Storm the Bastille. Since then, however, they have, revised their goals along a more realistic line. "Our original goals were too beautiful, too idealistic," Locric- chio says. "You can't tell students that we are United Student Awareness and that our purpose is to end white racism. It's too much too entrenched an evil to be tackled by a small organization." "If you can take a group of whites and not necessarily change their minds, but educate them to make them aware of bigotry, that is enough," he adds. In educating Ypsilantians, USA members relize they ' need first- hand knowledge of current racist practices. The organization gains this information through infil- tration" of dormitories, fraterni- ties, and other places on the EMU campus. "We struck gold right off the bat," Locricchio remarks. "We heard reports that an off-campus beauty shop was discriminatory, so we set up a test case. "A white girl working for us made an appointment on a day when she was told that all ap- semnate the eyidence they find so pointments were open. A black as to arouse and sometimes upset girl than went in personally to otherwise apathetic Ypsilantians, make an appointment for the Locricchio says. In line with this, same day. the group is holding lectures twice "She was told that the shop was a month on the history of white booked solid for that day," Lo- racism, its local manifestation and cricchio says. "When she asked for how to fight it. an appointment during the next Recently, USA proposed a several weeks she was told that program which would prepare an they were all filled up because of incoming black student for cam- standing appointments." pus life so that he will start col- USA went to the police with the lege ±on an equal basis with white evidence and began picketing the students. Courses such as basic store.' After an abortive attempt composition will be offered to the to get action from the Human Re- students prior to their coming to lations Council in Ypsilanti they the university. took 'the case to the state level Noting their success, EMU's stu- and were able to get a legal deci- sion. Since then, any enterprise which is proven to be discrimina- tory in the state of Michigan faces revocation of their license. In a study conducted on the hiring of EMU's faculty members, USA discovered that "there are presently 600 members on EMU's faculty, of which five are black," Locricchio says. "The only excuse we got was that the blacks don't apply for the vacancies." A major task of USA is to dis- dent senate invited USA to be- come a campus organization. How- ever the offer was declined be- cause the group feared that ad-, ministrative control would limit their activities.. In his own speculation on USA's future, Locricchio senses a further modification of their philosophy. "We're a non-violent group, but if we see that an ultimate goal is to be realized, we'll go as far as pos- sible, even if it means working outside the law." i -i twon toeike those wretched buildings in the city when they get old. It'll be rough and natural. It'l be slick," says Achatz, who is very proud of the three-dimen- sional effect. Bot Hatch of the architectural firm agrees that it would re- semble the Law Quad in terms of effect and feeling generated. "But we won't have that Gothic archi- tecture," he notes. The houses, which are located on the second and third floors, contain a commons lounge and a kitchenette. In fact, there is space in the bathroom for several people to shave and wash up while others can use the bathtub. "You can almost fit the entire house in there," Achatz says with a grin. The houses themselves contain comparativelypse few people, but are small for a proe It was found the working and living relation- ship was best with 12 people, rather than 17 as was tried in Waterloo, or eight which failed in Toronto. Twelve is just right, student planners of the new co-op feel, and the number is indeed impor- tant because in a co-operative stu- dents themselves run the house. They take care of cleai-up, meal preparation, financing and general maintenance. The first floor contains office space, mechanical facilities, a television anteroom and a music practice and listening rooms. lectures Tran Van Din h slaps U.S. policy By JIM BEATTIE Blasting U. S. foreign poliey in Vietnam, Tran Van Dinh, former South Vietnamese acting ambassador to the United 'States, said last night the Paris peace talks were doomedato failure unless the bombing of the North were stopped. In a speech at Ann Arbor's First Congregational- Church, entitled "Paris Peace Talks - What Do the Vietnamese People Want?" Tran stressed that the bombing of the North is regard- ed as a moral problem rather than a political or military one, and therefore, President John- son can not possibly use it to bring about peace. Tran appeared in Ann Arbor as part of his four year series of speeches at more than 200 American universities, designed to present to the U.S. a picture of the situation in Vietnam as he and his fellow Buddists see it. Speaking before a crowd of about 100 persons, Tran said that the Vietnamese people wanted three basic things: * "The people want national independence." This he defined as the. absence of all )foreign troops,. including American, Chinese,. and all, others. 0. "The Vietnamese seek the unity of all of their people in- cluding both the North and the South." He noted that in the Constitution of 1967, "the first article says there shall be only one country of Vietnam, and there can b°, no compromise on this point." * "All Vietnamese seek social justice," which he said "must include a rational distribution of the wealth and a fair share in the running of the country for the people in the villages." But Tran said "this does not mean democracy in the Ameri- can sense. Instead of personal privileges, this means a collec-° tive security for the Vietnam- ese." Each village" he continued, "is its own political, religious, and social unit, which has its made- up families." Thus, "the Saigon government made a grave mis- take when it abolished the vil- lage procedures for the election of its own officials." In the same way, he noted } that the U.S. pacification ef- fort could not possibly succeed, since it attempts to break up the villages and the families., "Instead of making friends" Tran said, the pacification pro- gram only makes enemies for the U.S." Tran, who has written numer- ous articles in American periodi- cals, also blamed the U.S. for the destruction of almost the entire Vietnamese countryside. He noted that "almost ninety per cent of Hue (his home city) had been destroyed." If the U.S. could have declared Hue to be an open city, as it did in the cases of Paris and Rome in World War II, then America could have gained the respect of the Vietnamese, but instead the U.S. military operates with- out any compassion or reason." "To end the war," he went on, "the Americans must recognize the existence of the National Liberation Front as an actual group which has direction, rather than as just a puppet of North Vietnam." In response to the U. S. con- tention that the NLF is just a puppet of the North, he queried, "What is wrong with being a puppet of the Vietnamese rather than a puppet of the United States?" He also predicted that "the war has come to the point at which the U. S. can no longer operate tactically." To make his point, he compared the with-' drawal of American troops to enclaves such as Khe Sanh to the last move of the French generals in 1954. And he asserted that the army would be in trouble "because it has no mobility," despite its me- chanical sophistication. He said that mobility can only be achieved through a popularity with the Vietnamese people which the Viet Cong has and the U. S. army does not. For a solution of the war, he charged the American people to change the entire direction of its foreign policy, "because it will do no good to end the Viet- nam war if the U. S. then fights a war in Burma and another in Thailand. "To do this," Tran said, "American domestic policy must be changed, for foreign policy is only a reflection of it." And the way to effect the change was "to continue to work for men such as Eugene McCarthy." Since in his estimation "New American political system can Hampshire proved that the American political system can work," he said "people must continue to establish grass roots opposition to the war, which could save this country and per- haps the entire world." TUESDAY, Oct. 15, 8 P.M., Multipurpose Room, Undergrad Library "THE UNIVERSITY IN AMERICANK SOCIETY- AN END OF IDEOLOGY!" 4 4 Dial 5-6290 ffy MICHIGAN SHOWS AT 1, 3, 5, 7,9 P.M. I MICHAEL NOVAK suggests that the university is to our society what the church once was. "Radical stu- dents turn upon their professors as protestant re- formers upon complacent and poweiful medieval churchmen. ... The students protestants are .saying that the old doctrines are wrong, the theories are inadequate, the professors are blind to too many realities of life, The reformation is theoretical as well as practical. We have to revise our conception of knowledge and of the role of science, our view of ourselves and of the world. The issues involved, in fact, sound like metaphysical or theologic'9l issues." ** *HIGHEST RATING ! "AN ARTISTICT ACHIEVEMENT!" rachel, rochel is the best written, most seriously acted American movie in a lon time."' -N.Y. TIMES (r _,. C r. -- M& Gow-wo -__! I ; ....y... tePAUL NEWMAN poducti~rof rachel TNOllSm ~Jb u- Em u ,ct. 1 8-" BAR BARELLA" Dr. Novak, for the post three years Professor in Humanities at Stanford University, is now Chairman of the Common Humanities Seminar at the experimental campus of the State Uni- versity of New York at Old Westbury. His books include A New Generation, The Open Church, and Belief and Unbelief. With Rabbi Abraham Heschel and Robert McAfee Brown he authored Vietnam: Crisis in Conscience. His articles appear in Commentary, Harper's, New Republic, and Commonweal. Co-sponsored by Catholic Voices (Newman Center) and Office of Religious Affairs, 2282 SAB Frank .Wilkinson I I * Chairman of the National Committee to Abolish the House Committee on Un-American Activities will speak on The House Committee on Un-American Activities Investigation of the CHICAGO PROTESTS Monday, October 14 8:00 P.M. I I ACADEMY AWARD CAMPUS 3rd and Final Week Dial 8-6416 Ltis Bitnuel's Masterpiece of Erotica! WINNER BEST DIRECTOR-MIKE NICHOLS WHAT ? YOU'VE O "TH GAUT" 1 "BEAUTIFUL !" -N.Y. TIMES tl } ,; "SUPERB !" -N.Y. POST "REMARKABLE !" -HARPERS "BRILLIANT !" -SATURDAY REVIEW "STUNNING !" -GLAMOUR "ELEGANT !" -NEWSWEEK NLY SEEN ONCE ? JOSEPH E. LEVINE PRESENTS A MIKE NICHOLS-LAWRENCE TURMAN PRODUCTION p Union I I This is Benjamin. He's a little worried about his future. 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