THE MICHIGAN DAILY
IHALLANGE' SEMINAR:
Felheim Interprets Giraudoux
By JUDITH BLEIER
In the drama of Jean Girau-
oux one finds that the literature
s not an end in itself, Prof. Mar-
in Felheim of the English de-
artment said Tuesday.
At a Challenge seminar focus-
ng upon Giraudoux's "Tiger at
he Gates," he noted that the
haracters "are not trying to con-
ince or persuale. They are mere-
y there to present or unfold, and
he thinking is left to the audi-
nce."
This type of "intellectual drama
alien to American theatre,"
rof. Felheim said. "While the
rench are interested in ideas, we
ant action."
Pre-War Troy
Originally titled "La Guerre de
'roie N'Aura Pas Lieu" (The Tro-
m War will not take Place), the
eene of the play is Troy before
he Greek invasion, or Paris in
935 before the German invasion.,
Although the characters may cry
peace" from the beginning, the
(forts of reasonable men like
ector and shrewd men like
lysses cannot avert the war, and
he prophecies of Cassandra are
ealized.
Prof. Felhehm noted that to say
hat this is merely a pessimistic
ork is "untrue. and irrelevant. It
a provocative play which leaves
ne with the feeling that in wiser
mes peace may have come."
Two Alternatives
Giraudoux sees all things in
rms of two alternatives, he ex-
lained. "The play is a series of
iscussions, confrontations of
leas, in which two positions are
sually taken. These highly styliz-
ed literary debates present the is-
sues."
"Yet one character is not nec-
essarily right and the other total-
ly wrong," he added.
The characters symbolize larg-
er and much more representative
ideas, Prof. Felheim said. "And as
symbols they cannot come to any
solution."
'Intellectual Experience'
Giraudoux's drama is an "in-
tellectual experience" distinct from
its symbolism and literary style,
he said.
Prof. Felheim objected to the
fact that in Giraudoux's dramas,
fate is acceptedas inevitable. "He
never asks the next question-why
must it be this way?"
"Maybe this is because one
doesn't want to ask that ques-
tion, or maybe, it is because
Christianity has given us an an-
A o O
Michigan State University
President John A. Hannah yes-
terday apologized to the Wash-
tenaw County Board-of Super-
visors for a large MSU painted
on the Washtenaw County
Bldg.
The building was defaced on
the eve of Michigan State foot-
ball game by unknown persons.
Terming the prank "Juvenile
delinquency unbecoming to stun~
dents at a university," Hannah
expressed his regrets in a letter,
to E. A. Wolter, chairman of
the board.
swer which Giraudoux feels has
no meaning," he said.
"Therefore, in Giraudoux we do
not have a superimposed, spiri-
tual answer," he said.
In the play's very irony, Prof.
Felheim noted, there is the sug-
gestion that there is something
"more tentative" in it than the
conclusion that war is inevitable.
Talk Covers
Homicides
By ARTHUR LEVY
"In about one half of all traf-
fic deaths, someone involved has
been drinking alcoholic bever-
ages," Dr. Robert C. Hendrix of
the medical school said Tuesday.
At the November meeting of the
Science Research Club in Rack-
hamAmphitheatre, Dr."Hendrix
pointed out that alcoholic bever-
ages often cause a driver to lose
control of the car, instead of the
car going out of control by it-
self, as is commonly reported.
A person is legally drunk, he
said, when alcohol comprises .15
per cent of his blood composition,
but can actually become intoxi-
cated with one bottle of beer.
Discussing deaths which call for
investigation by a coroner or med-
ical examiner, Dr. Hendrix stated
that the cause of death is easy to
determine but this does not ex-
plain the manner. Whether the
death is suicide, accident, or mur-
der, has important financial and
religious connotations to those af-
fected, he said.,
Death by firearms, Prof. Hend-
rix claimed, lends itself to analy-
sis more readily than drowning
and other deaths., The beveled
edge of a bullet hole gives the di-
rection of the shot, with respect
to normal body positions.
Gun powder on the wounded
surface can indicate how far away
the weapon was when fired. The
exact make of gun cannot usual-
ly be determined from the wound
itself as the skin around it im-
mediately contracts. One can,
however, tell the exact weapon
used, from the markings on the
bullet, he remarked, if the bullet
is recovered.
Various methods are available,
he reported, for determining the
post mortem interval, though none
in itself was considered very ac-
curate. Body temperature, he
said, falls at an average rate of
one-and-one-half degrees Fahr-
enheit per hour after death, due
to the cessation of metabolism.
This rate is not constant, how-
ever, and depends upon the body
temperature at the time of death.
"If the body is hot," he said, "it
wil remain hot; if the body is cool
at first, the rate of change will
decrease." One study was shown
to have depicted the fall in tem-
perature of a body as a mathe-
matically constant function of the
cooling time. The pathologist,
however, discounted this view, say-
ing, "You can't control the orig-
inal body temperature."
ENIGLAU-A264
ENDING SATURDAY
AJOSHUA OGANmtm
-Daily-James Keson
WAR VIGIL-A group of students stood yesterday on the Diag.
-across the walk from peace vigilers favoring disarmament. Such
peace demonstrations are among many such vigils and other
protests being made by students in all parts of the United States.
U.S. Students Hold Vigils
Against Nuclear Testing
County May
Reappraise
Real Estate
Washtenaw County may under-
take a program to reappraise real
estate for tax assessing purposes.
The reassessment proposal, sim-
ilar to the scheduled Ann Arbor
reappraisal, was brought to the
attention of the Board of Super-
visors by Howard Ledbetter, Ann
Arbor city assessor. The Board
then instructed its ways and
means equalization committees to
study the proposal and report to
the December meeting.
Ledbetter said that Ann Arbor
is about to solicit bids for its
appraisal project, but would be
willing to wait, if the county ex-
presses an interest. Otherwise, he
said, the contract would be award-
ed early next year.
He citedthe lower cost per unit
as a possible advantage to hav-
ing a county-wide reassessment.
Curt H. Will, former Ann Arbor
assessor, termed the plan "the
closest thing to utopia you could
get in Washtenaw County."
Ledbetter said that a county-
wide appraisal might not begin
for a year, but that the city would
be willing to delay its plans if the
board expresses interest.
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will be held from 4:30-6 p.m. to-
day at Victor Vaughn Hall. Trans-
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provided at the International Cen-
ter, where the teas are held.
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By GAIL EVANS
EAST LANSING - A peace
march in protest of Russian nu-
clear tests was unsuccessful yes-
terday. The supposed group of 25
students who were to march from
the Michigan State University
campus to the State Capitol in
Lansing failed to organize.
The leader, George Demetrak-
opoulos, an MSU Junior, had pre-
pared signs and had hoped to
talk to state officials. He lament-
ed that people were aware of the
dangers but are apathetic.
** *
BERKELEY-In protest of nu-
clear testing a 24-hour peace vigil
was staged at the University of
California Berkeley campus Oct.
31-Nov. 1. Initiated by SLATE
the vigil attracted crowds of stu-
dents often numbering 300 and it
is estimated that about 3,000 par-
ticipated.
The students gathered in silence
and with a minimum of placards.
The participants have expressed
"hope to make other people think
about the problem of nuclear wea-
pons." One student said, " I don't
know whether this accomplishes
anything, but at leasat this is a
chance to make t our feelings
known."
SLATE has issued a statement
which states, "In light of the Sov-
iet Union's explosion of a 50-
megaton nuclear bomb yesterday,
a criminal act violating all stan-
dards of morality and harmfully
affecting all humanity, SLATE
condemns the leaders of the Sov-
iet Union and urges all nations to
cease nuclear testing immediately.
Copies of this statement were
sent to President John F. Ken-
nedy, Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Prime Minister Harold MacMillan,
Russel Award
Winner Dies
After Ilness
Prof.-Emeritus Aaron F. Shull,
a former member of the zoology
faculty, died Tuesday night at the
age of 80 at the University Hos-
pital following a lengthy illness.
Shull,'08, was internationally
known for his studies of heredity,
sex determinations and the mech-
anisms of development. He had
been on the University faculty for
40 years.
Prior to his retirement in 1951,
Shull was named the 26th Henry
Russel Lecture Award, the highest
honor which the University be-
stows upon a faculty member.
He had served as an officer of
both the American Society of
Naturalists and the Michigan
Academy of Science, Arts, and
Letters.
ORGANIZATION
NOTICES
Cercle Francais, Baratin, French con-
versation for all, Nov. 9, 3-5 p.m., 3050
FB. Refreshments-Soyez les bienvenus
* * *
Christian Science, Org. Testimony
Meeting, Nov. 9, 7:30 p.m., 3545 SAB.
* * *
Newman Club, Prof. Hyma, Hist.
Dept., speaking on Martin Luther film
of 1953, Nov. 8, 5 p.m.; "Shipwreck
Party," Nov. 10, 8:30 p.m.; Newman Ctr.
Baha'i Stud. Group, Meeting-Open
to all, Nov. 10, 8 p.m., 418 Lawrence.
For information & transportation, call
663-2904.
SPremierCharles DeGaulle, and
California Governor E dm un d
Brown.
WALTHAM, Mass - Brandeis
University students and faculty
protested atmospheric n u c e ar
testinig by participating in a Nov.
1 strike, which urged that they
refrain from attending classes.
Students gathered twice during
the day to distribute protest leaf-
lets and to march to the Water-
town Arsenal, where they were
joined by other college students
in the B6ston area. The strike was
being held in sympathy with the
national women's protest also
staged Nov. 1.
The student government and the
newspaper endorsed the "Strike
for Peace."
s* s
PALO ALTO, Calif - A 48-hour
vigil was held at Stanford Uni-
versity, which began Oct. 30. A
petition was circulated and sent
to Kennedy and Khrushchev.
SAN FRANCISCO - SCOPE, a
student political party, endorsed
a 24-hour peace vigil Oct. 31-Nbv.
1. A petition was circulated. The
demonstration drew about 50
people.
BAY CITY - About 40 students
from Delta College began a "sit-
in" on a farm field in protest of
nuclear weapons testing last Sat-
urday.
Two tents and food have been
contributed-by sympathizers.
** *
CAMBRIDGE-Harvard Univer-
sity students protested "the re-
sumption of open-air nuclear test-
ing by the United States and in
condemnation of the Soviet Un-
ion blast," Oct. 31. Students also
sent a telegram supporting the
peace vigil in Berkeley.
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