MLY 29,1960
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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hologist Analyzes 'Picnic' Characters
Education
Influences
By JUDY OPPENHEIM
n William Inge's play, "Picnic,"
h of the women must make a
ice between love and something
she wants at the same time,
f. Jesse E. Gordon of the psy-
logy department explained.
he Pulitzer prize - winning
ma which opened last night at
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
ws the reaction of the women
% small midwestern town to the
val of an exciting stranger at
end of a sultry summer. His
Bence causes the motivations
ind each of their decisions to
ae to the surface.
Marries for Love
'lo, the mother of two teen-age
ghters, Madge and Milly, comes
m a successful middle - class
ily. She married her husband
ely for love, but discovered later
that love alone was not enough for
her. Her husband was unable to
provide for her the material com-
forts she wanted, and she thus lost
her middle-class position. After
a series of violent quarrels, the
marriage broke up and thus Inge's
main point, that love is incompati-
ble with marital happiness in any
respectable sense, was established
before the play actually began.
Fears Mistakes
Flo does not want her daughters
to repeat her mistakes and is
therefore anxious that Madge, who
at 18 is the beauty of the town,
marries a wealthy boy who can give
her a large home and charge ac-
counts. However, she has never
talked much with her daughter
about either her own marriage or
the more general subject of the
place of love in life.
Prof. Gordon said that psycho-
logically her reticence in discuss-
ing the subject reveals that her
own conflicts on it are not . yet
resolved. At the end of the play,
Flo says that there are still many
things she could have told Madge.
Probes Self
Madge wonders whether behind
her beauty is a real personality,
and discovers finally that what she
truly wants is a strong, dominat-
ing husband and physical love in-
stead of the respectable middle-
class marriage her mother envi-
sions for her.
Sixteen-year-old Milly, Madge's
younger sister, is still in what
Prof. Gordon termed the "pre-
adolescent" stage. She rejects
femininity and denies any inter-
est in boys or love.
A large part of Milly's trouble
stems from the fact that she is
not as pretty or socially adept as
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The American non-voter usually
is a person of low education, in-
come and socio-economic status,
three University faculty members
said 'yesterday on a WUOM radio
program.
Donald E. Stokes, Survey Re-
search Center study director, said
"In general, people who have an
intense preference are more likely
to vote."
Many people just have a specta-
tor's interest in politics, Warren E.
Miller, SRC assistant program di-
rector noted. Among persons with
more than average schooling there
is a social obligation to vote, he
said, adding: "The educational
system conveys the feeling that
the good citizen participates in
elections by voting."
Miller said that education plays
a large role in political participa-
tion. "It exposes students to a
great deal of political information,
gives, them a sense of political
effectiveness and civic duty. Non-
voters don't feel that their vote
makes a difference and they don't
think that it is their duty to vote."
Miller said the election of 1948
probably received as much cover-
age by the mass media as any
other recent election, but "people
didn't see it as an important elec-
tion. The candidates were not too
attractive and neither were the
issues.
"The 1952 election was a good
example of an election considered
important by the voters. There
was a growing legacy of charges
of corruption and it was clear that
voters were troubled by the Kor-
ean War," he pointed out. In ex-
plaining some of the reasons why
a case could be made for low
voter turnout in the United States,
Stokes said: "Some flexibility
would go out of our system if
everyone participated."
Astronomer
Explains Plan
At Symposium
Prof. Leo Goldberg, chairman of
the astronomy department, has
been in Liege, Belgium this week,
describing United States plans for
Sspace solar telescope instrumenta-
tion at an international sympos-
ium meeting.
The satellite, to be launched in
about a year by a Thor-Delta
rocket, is specifically designed for
astronomical research.
Powered by solar batteries, the
satellite will carry ultraviolet
spectroscopes, X-ray and gamma
ray detectors and radio astronomy
receivers.
It will be stabilized by gas jets
so it can be pointed at the sun at
all times.
Colleges concerned with quality
should keep the lid on undergrad-
uate enrollment in business ad-
ministration, Associate Prof. James
E. Howell of Stanford University
says in the current University
Business Review.
Unless this is done, business ed-
ucation will be swamped by the
need to "man the blackboards," he
warns.
At present, one out of every five
bachelor's degrees in the country
goes to business administratilon
students-but fewer doctorates are
awarded in business than any
other field.
Co-author of a major study on
"Higher Education for Business,"
Howell fears business school stan-
dards may drop as degrees sky-
rocket from a total of 50,000 now
to more than 100,000 by 1970.
The "open door" admissions
policies of many schools, both now
and in the past, has prevented a
rise in entrance and achievement
standards comparable to other
professions, he notes.
"The crying need in business is
for more graduates of above aver-
age ability . .. not for more and
more mediocre graduates with
watered down ... degrees."
In the coming decade, he con-
cludes, "Better faculties will try
to hold the line on undergraduate
teaching so as to protect other
activities.
"Some faculties will no doubt
concentrate their scarce energies
on master's level training. This
'U' Trains
Pliant Staff
The engineering department has
set up an intensive 10-week sum-
mer course to train Consumers
Power Co. personnel scheduled to
supervise the operation of the Big
Rock Point nuclear power plant
under construction near Charle-
voix.
The course is being directed by
Prof. F. G. Hammitt, who says
"the training course includes ma-
terialusually given in our intro-
ductory graduate courses, with ad-
ditional specific application to nu-
clear power plant technology.
Some use will be made of our Ford
Nuclear Reactor.
The University course is in-
tended to provide background for
the Consumers Power Co. person-
nel and is the first phase of a
two-year training program in nu-
clear plant operation.
"Additional training will'include
work in existing nuclear power
plants before the company's per-
sonnel assume responsibility for
operation of the Big Rock Point
plant," he continued.
The program is expected to be
helpful to University staff as well.
should be encouraged by all inter-
ested parties-students, professors,
and employers.
"Similarly, some schools who do
not do so now will become strict
upper division schools, not admit-
ting students until the junior year.
Others may wish to explore a
three-two compromise, whereby a
two-year professional program is
preceded by three rather than two
or four years of pre-professional
work."
The entire issue of the current
Michigan Business Review is de-
voted to comments on business
education at the college level.
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Laughter
Romance!
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PROF. JESSE E. GORDON
... analyzes characters
Madge. At the end of the play she
gains poise and self-assurance, but
Prof. Gordon points out that she
still has not acquired the feminine
interest in romance and marriage
which characterizes most girls of
her age.
Wants Respectability
Rosemary, the unmarried school-
teacher who lives with the family
is very anxious to be respectable
and independent.
Actually, she is very unsuccess-
ful at suppressing her own sexual
needs and as a result is overzealous
in condemning anything with sen-
sual overtones. After the stranger's
arrival in town her attitude sud-
denly changes and she begs her
boyfriend, a local shopkeeper, to
marry her.
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The subject for the investigation
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"The importance of this can be
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one newspaper have been pro-
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China," he said.
Scholars Use
Survey Data
Nine American scholars are at-
tending the summer Workshop on
Use of Consumer Survey Data at
the University.
The workshop is the first in a
series designed to make informa-
tion from the University's Survey
of Consumer Finances more read-
ily available to the academic world
and more useful for tests of eco-
nomic theory. It is financed by a
grant from the Ford Foundation.
The workshop is conducted by
the University Survey Research
Center's Economic Behavior Pro-
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Recitals
Student Recital: Robert Quayle will
present a recital in Aud. A, Angell Hall
on Fri., July 29, at8:30 p.m., in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree Master of Music (wind in-
struments). Mr. Quayle will include in
his program compositions by Vivaldi,
Bourdeau, Bozza, Handel, Cervetto,
Faure, Ibert, Reicha. Open to the pub-
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Academic Notices
Doctoral Examination for Thomas
Edwin Linton, Education; thesis: "A
Historical Examination of the Purposes
and Practices of the Education Pro-
gram of the United Automobile Work-
ers of America, 1936-1959." Chairman,
C. A. Eggertsen. Fri., July 29, 10:00 a.m.
4024 University High School.
Doctoral Examination for Lawrence
Kenneth Williams, Psychology; thesis:
"The Measurement of Risk-Taking
Propensity in an Industrial Setting,"
Fri., July 29, 7615 Haven Hall, at 10:00
a.m. Chairman F. C. Mann.
Doctoral Examination for Marion
Berta Gross Sobol, Economics; thesis:
"Correlates of Present and Expected
Future Work Status of Married Wo-
men," Fri., July 29, 2A Economics Bldg.,
at 10:00 a.m. Chairman, J. B. Lansing.
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