ii THEMICHIGANDAILY 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- DIAL NO 2-6264 GARNE A : ,-,. I E 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 MAN OF FAIT j AND A I 1 FREE. FALL PAPERBACK REVIEW 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. PAPER-BOUND BOOKS 50 Publishers Represented PROMPT SERVICE On Special Orders OVERBECK'S BOOKSTORE 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 Pro gram Notes 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. "The Greatest Comic Panlwnimist Since Chaplin !" -New York Post 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. 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