PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1967 FILMS First Festival Films Lack Mood, Ingenuity Hit Engin School Employment Procedures By ANDREW LUGG The Ann Arbor Film Festival has reached the half-way stage. During the past three days the films have been mainly from new- er artists. An exception to this was Ion Popescu Gopo's "Steps To- wards the Moon", a Rumanian feature-length film which opened, the festival. It is in strange com-, pany since it was made with an almost unlimited budget. The rest of the films we have seen so far were made on very low budgets. Larry Jordan, a well established artist, had his "Hamfat Asar" screened Wednesday. His animated engravings were beautifully and painstakingly efected. Jordan won a prize last year with his "Duo Concertantes". However, the music in "Duo" is far superior to that of "Hamfat Asar," which is sort of crypto-Latin American, and it might be this which will rule Jor- dan out of the prize money this year.. The three films from the Speech Department, "Mime", "Exposure" and "Package" must all receive adverse criticism. The film-makers seemed rooted in the theatrical traditions of the last century. The scenes are all stagey, and conti- nuity certainly is not approached in any way acceptable to the film medium. Relying on 'story' these films have no thematic develop- ment. The only thing distinguish- ing the end from the beginning is the time which had elapsed. To say nothing requires style, too, and it was this that was lacking. "The Mime" starte well, but due to Janes Onder and Ed Van Cleef's concern with the exegesis of plot, all the tension was lost. The problem is one of not under- standing the medium. If these film-makers had seen and studied Maya IDeren's films, and surely they have not, they would have known that this subject can be de- veloped cinematically. If they had seen a great many other films and had been critical about them, they would have known what to leave out. But this was the problem of the "bigger" films as well. Clark Kent's "The Romilar Movies" didn't live up to the authors name. Shots of tigers from Milwaukee just don't work in the gangster movie. Like- wise, Fred Meyer's "The Table" lost all its tension with a three minute postcript. For the new people, it seems there is a movement away from the abstract towards. a new real- ism. This realism increasingly seems to rely on good acting, idea and continuity between the vari- ous phases of the action. Simply, mood was missing in these films. Walter Ungerer's "Meet Me, Je- sus" had some consistency and combined nicely the abstract and the realistic. The raucous abstract designs were balanced elegantly against the usual avant-garde film makers' "image" reportoire - the pop symbols. Peter Davis' "Strip" shows an English film-maker still hung up with documentary. The camera work is controlled, however. Prob- ing in and out of dressing rooms, back stage and front stage, Davis conjures up the tone of that mi- lieu. The remainder of the Festival shows films by the more establish- ed film-makers-Kling, Baillie, Meyer, etc. In addition, a special event has been scheduled for Friday, 1:00 p.m., in the Architecture and De- sign building-"The Longest Pan- al in the World", a discussion on "Film Art and Life" with a couple of dozen panelists, including Rau- schenberg and maybe Kaprow. (Continued from Page 1) to locate and place minority group employes in its several operations not only to assist in the broaden- ing of its employment practices, but also set a proper example and image for the University and the general public. "2. The Central Personnel Of- fice should establish a system of greater control to determine what4 employment needs exist for non- academic applicants in each de- partment and to conduct broad scale recruitment throughout the major urban centers of the lower Peninsula, in an effort to locate satisfactory minority group appli- cants. "3. The academic departments should establish, within their own operations, means for contacting minority group students and to en- -courage them in training for all levels of employment at the Uni- versity. "4. University advertising for clerical personnel should be placed in newspapers having a specific minority group readership. As an example, advertising should be placed in the Wayne Dispatch which circulates in the communi- ties of Inkster and Nankin town- ships. "5. Personal contacts should be established by representatives of the Central Personnel Office and others engaged in recruitment, with Mr. Hamilton Vanzetti, pres- ident of the NAACP, and Mrs. Eaglin in the Negro community of Ypsilanti. "6. Personnel regulations and procedures should be reviewed to determine whether or not quali- fied employes of the University Medical Center might be upgraded and transferred into suitable posi- tions in other parts of the Uni- versity. "7. Specific efforts should be made to recruit nonwhite employes for the positions of resident direc-1 tor and resident advisor under the Office of University Housing. "8. Departments having no or very few nonwhite clerical per- sonnel should contact the Office of Research Administration, in an effort to discover their methods in accomplishing an excellent job in this area of employment. "9. A crash program should be i established immediately to improve the exceptionally bad employment practices which currently exist in1 the School of Engineering. All personnel resources of the Uni- versity should give temporary, assistance to this deficient depart- ment. "10. A centralized effort should' be made to contact Negro colleges, national and local leaders, minor- ity group fraternities, sororities and professional societies, to ex- press the concern of the University in its search for minority group academic personnel. "11. Consider the establishment of a University-wide training pro- gram to qualify job applicants at an entrance level for nonacademic employment. "12. Establish regular training seminars for all University repre- sentatives in personnel channels to educate them in the problems and techniques for conducting an equal employment opportunity program. "13. Request the Ann Arbor of- fice, Michigan Employment Se- curity Commission, to make spe- cial efforts in the recruitment of minority group applicants for all levels of employment. "14. Establish a permanent rela- tionship with the Detroit Board of Education Skills Center for the re- ferral of trained job applicants and to establish specific training EMU THEATRE March 15-19 ANTON "EKHOV'$ Phone 434-0190 E Cnu on CARPENTER RA OPEN 6:30 P.M. FIRST RUN NOW SHOWING a Shown at 7:15 & 10:25 BETME ~TORY0 NOT for children coor Also- Shown aTUSI) Plus-"WATER COLOR HOLIDAY" color cartoon programs focused on the particu- as well as executing all other.ac- lar needs for nonacademic per- tions required under the Equal sonnel at any given time. Employment Opportunity policies "15. Each department of the of the Boar dof Regents and the University should be required to contractual commitments underI develop a written plan of intended Executive Order 11246. affirmative actions to improve its "The office should be directed employment practices in the fiscal by a highly qualified specialist and year 1967-68. These plans of af- he should be accountable to a Uni- firmative action should be sub- versity officer not lower than a mitted to the appropriate execu- vice president. The Director should tive of the University for review 'be provided with sufficient staff and critique. These plans will then and other support to accomplish become a standard by which the the objectives of the Equal Em- employment practices of each de- ployment Opportunity Program. partment may be measured for This office should be established progress in the succeeding period. with a life expectancy not short of It is requested that these plans of five years. It is suggested further, affirmative action be shared with that this office not only assume the Contracts Compliance Office, responsibility for the implementa- Department of Defense. tion of equal employment oppor- "16. It is recommended very tunity, but those recommendations strongly that an office of civil made to the University in the rights be established at the Uni- compliance review conducted un- versity immediately, to assume the der Title VI, U.S. Civil Rights Law, responsibility for implementing and reported to the University on the recommendations cited above, 4 August 1966." lel DELI HOUSE Sunday, March 12,5:30 PM. Visitation: Student Members cf President's Commission on DEC"ISION MAKING Delicatessen Supper-$1, $1.25 1429 H iII Street 4 AM pi . - , *1 r I HOLDING FOR A THIRD WEEK! 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