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Arts and Letters
EMERSON COLLEGE:
California School Gives
New Facet to Education
By FAITH WEINSTEIN
A small, struggling college, lo-
cated in a big, old house on Cali-
fornia's Monterrey peninsula, with
twelve students and seven unpaid
faculty members, is trying to add
a new facet to American experi-
mental education.
Emerson College "is a composite
of all the elements I liked in col-
leges across the country," Mark
Goldes, director of the college
said, "but we don't follow any par-
ticular plan."
The Emerson program is built
around the individual student. The
faculty, a group of men who are
managing in various ways to earn
enough to allow them to teach at
Emerson, are "people interested
themselves in learning, with a
non-exclusive viewpoint towards
students," Goldes said.
Intellectual Air
-David Giltrow
SET FOR "THE MEDIUM"-Michael Wentworth designed this set for the production of Gian-Carlo
Menotti's opera, "The Medium," which was presented recently at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
A dark, isolated room, the set was meant to blend in with the mood of the entire production. Went-
worth also designed the sets for Menotti's "The Telephone" on the same program.
By JUDITH SATTLER
"In the theatre, a unique world
is created with each production,"
Michael Wentworth, '61 A&D, said.
Wentworth designed the sets and
costumes for the recent presenta-
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tion of Menotti's operas, "The
Medium" and "The Telephone."
Any stage production begins
with only printed words and notes
- the designer must make these
into a three dimensional setting;
Wentworth detailed the steps in
this creation.
In designing for "The Medium,"
he first listened to the records
of the opera. After he was familiar
with them, he read the score of
the work and played it for him-
self.
Summer Work
Then he worked on it over the
summer, trying to catch the mood
of the score. "We are tied to the
mood as a starting point," he said
of designers.
"For example, I wanted the set
for "The Medium" to have a sense
of isolation," he said. "The room
was to be a shell isolated by it-
self in darkness."
The designer must also agree
with the performer and the direc-
tor in interpreting the work. The
performer, Wentworth said, is
creating the role, and the director
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is creating a production, each ac-
cording to his own understanding
of it.
"You cannot impose too many
images on one production," he:
noted, "without having chaos."
Drawing Next
Drawings are the next stage.
Wentworth did many drawings,
and says that the last one was "aS
tentative combination of many1
certainties."1
"In his mind, the designert
should know everything about the
set and costumes - every color1
and every texture, down to thef
last brushtroke," he said.
"To achieve the feeling of iso-
lation we wanted in 'The Me-
dium,' " he added, "the set itself
was made shallow and low, with
black drapes at the back and
sides.
"I placed nothing outside of
the doors opening off the room,
so that players went out into
darkness. There was no suggestion
of life outside the room."
Costuming Problem
The costumes presented a dif-j
ferent problem in the recent pro-
duction, since the group had to
buy clothes at the resale stores,
and alter them. Of the costumes
for both operas, only the gowns
for Lucy in 'The Telephone' and
for Monica in 'The Medium' were
actually made directly from the
design.
Once the final drawing is made,
Wentworth said that the set which]
is made must be held true to it.
"If you try to change it, it can
be a disaster," he notes.
This is especially a danger since
there is a tendency for people to,
discover chandeliers and stair-
cases in prop rooms and to want3
to use them, the designer said.,
But use of such extras can result
in a conglomeration instead of a
continuity, he believes.
A certain small amout of flexi-
bility is needed, however, to take
care of such technical necessities
as may arise.
"There is lot of work involved,
naturally, but it has its rewards,"
he said.
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In this atmosphere of intellec-
tual interaction between faQulty,
and student, the student is given
more freedom, and expected to be
more self-sufficient than in the,
average college.
"Most of our students will have
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The Ann Arbor Civic Theatre
will present the play, "Darkness
At Noon," at 8 p.m. Thursday,
Friday and Saturday nights at
the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
The play is concerned with the
Moscow purge trials, and the re-
actions of prisoners during them.
Directed by Jerry Sandler, the
production features Merrill Mc-
Clatchey, Nancy Huesel, Fred
Quelette, and Charles Isaacs.
* * *
Opening the Choral Union con-
cert series this year is Mary Curtis
Verna, who will appear at 8:30
p.m. Thursday at Hill Aud.
Miss Verna, an Ameircan sop-
rano, sings with the Metropolitan
Opera Company, and has often
appeared in student concerts with
that group. She has also perform-
ed in Paris, Barcelona, Lisbon,
Berlin, and at the LaScala Opera
House in Milan, Italy.
* * #
Understanding the national per-
sonality and the particular needs
of the countries to which economic
aid is given, is the topic of a tele-
vision discussion entitled "Work-,
ing Across Cultures," which will be
presented today at 9 a.m. on
WXYZ-TV.
The Israeli Ambassador Avra-
ham Harman, and B. K. Nehru,
ambassador-at-large from India,
will join with Prof. John Bardach
of the zoology department in con-
sidering how to give aid which
will be effective.
* *
Columnist Max Lerner will dis-
cuss the pioneer building spirit of
early Americans and the import-
ance of the frontier in modern
American life, on a television pro-
gram to be presented at 12 noon
today on WWJ-TV.
Entitled, "The Endless Age," the
program will bring the nation's
frontier history up to date, as
Lerner talks with host Prof. Niel
Snortum of the engineering col-
lege.
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had a year or two of college, just
long enough to see what the grind
is, and become thoroughly dis-
gusted with it.
"We give our students a chance
to get into things they wanted to
study when they were going
through the grind," Goldes said.
No Degrees Yet
At this point, after their first
experimental quarter, Emerson is
not yet able to grant degrees, or
credits for the courses they offer.
"Sooner or later we will have to
give degrees, I suppose," the direc-
tor said, but the college expects
to follow the now common cus-
tom of not giving specific credits
for specific numbers of hours.
Emerson runs on the quarter
system, and the student, who pays
$300 tuition per quarter, is freely
permitted to take off every other
quarter to earn enough to keep
him in school. Under some circum-
stances, two students hold a single
full-time job, each one working
one quarter and going to school the
next,
Require Much
"We want a lot from our stu-
dents," Goldes said. "They have to
be sufficiently intelligent to benefit
from our kind of educational in-
teraction, they have to be self-reli-
ant enough to take the freedom,
and they need enough emotional
stability to deal with the looseness
of structure."
AtrEmerson, the student designs
his own program-a combination
of courses (no set number) and tu-
torial hours. The courses vary ac-
cording to the faculties and facil-
ities-for example, the only sci-
ence course offered is "The Scien-
tific Attitude"-a philosophical ap-
proach to the sciences, because
the school has neither the room
nor the money for laboratory fa-
cilities.
The college's faculty includes
scholars capable of directing study
in philosophy, psychology, literary
zriticism, history and social and
political thought, enabling stu-
dents to work in these areas.
Students Free
But student freedom at Emer-
son goes farther than self-planned
programs. Goldes and his faculty
feel that the whole world of col-
leges and universities is open to
students.
The Emerson library, the main
tangible possession of the school,
contains nearly $20,000 worth of
books-most of them donated by
the faculty. "In addition to that,
the students use the libraries of
California, Stanford, and get pa-
perbacks wherever they can find
them.
"We like our students to buy
paperbacks and really mark them
up," Goldes said. "To hell with
these library books that have to
stay sterile and be returned."
To Consider
'Young Poets'
Prof. John Heath-Stubbs of
the English department will lead
a discussion of "Young Poets" at
7:30 p.m. today in the Honors
Lounge of the Undergraduate Li-
brary.
The seminar is part of the Stu-
dent Government Council-spon-
sored Reading and Discussion pro-
By ROBERT FARRELL
"Written English is about 50
per cent redundant" - this is a
typical conclusion of information
theory, central part of the Uni-
versity's recently created graduate
program in the Communication
Sciences.
This field is an interdisciplinary
area drawing on parts of electrical
:engineering, linguistics, psycho-
logy, mathematics, and psychology,
It is primarily concerned with
the processing of information and
data, he said, noting that this
makes it closely related to the
field of cybernetics which studies
control mechanisms and brain-
like structures.
The program arose because of
a feeling that the area in which
it lies could not really be covered
by any one of the various dis-
ciplines around it, but that cer-
tain core courses were needed to
tie together the relevant parts
of other disciplines, Prof. Peter-
son said.
The University is the only insti-
tution in the country which offers
degrees in this field, although
others are creating programs in
gineering, speech, and psychology,
graduates of this program can go
into industrial research fields, and
about 50 per cent of the approxi-
mately 25 students presently
working toward degrees in the
field intend to do so.
They many do work concerned
with computers, including pro-
To Give Talk
Before Club
The Rev. Fr. Thomas J. Bresna-
han, originator of the leadership
course of the Christopher move-
ment, will speak at the Newman
Club after a 6 p.m. dinner today.
Father Bresnahan will bring
some students with him from De-
troit to conduct a sample class.
The movement attempts to estab-
lish Christian leaders with com-
municative ability, a pleasing per-
sonality, and a conviction in
Christopher ideals.
Such a course will begin at 8
p.m., Thursday at the Newman
Club, 331 Thompson Street.
gramming; mechanical (electron-
ic) translation of languages; auto-
matic speech recognition by mach-
ines (as might be used in tele-
phone advances, for instance); and
general automation work. In ad-
dition to the graduate courses
in the field, there will be under-
graduate courses 'for the first time
this year offered to introduce
literary and engineering college
students to the communication
sciences, Prof. Peterson said.
Speaking of the field's growth,
Prof. Peterson noted that the
number of students enrolled in
the program has doubled every
year since it began four years ago.
Hatcher To Speak
About State of 'U'
University President Harlan
Hatcher will address the Univer-
sity faculty at 8 p.m. tomorrow on
the "State of the University" in
Rackham Lecture Hall. Achieve-
ment awards for distinguished
faculty will also be presented at
the meeting.
COMPUTER CENTER-The University Computer Center is typical of the many installations where
students graduating from the program in communication sciences may apply their knowledge.
New U' ProgramEstabhshed
the area.
Presently, six degrees have
granted in this area by the
versity, one doctorate and
master's degrees.,
In addition to the acac
fields, including electrical
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