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LIKE HEADS IN THE SAND:
Health Survey Views Apathy
By CHRISTINE LINDER Questions passed to them in a culosis during the previous ten
survey of 1500 adults conducted by years. Only 30 per cent had the
When it comes to the possibility the Survey Research Center cover- tests on a voluntary basis.
of having a serious disease, most ed matters such as the frequency Individuals indicated optimism
people would rather .stick their of medical and dental check-ups, about avoiding diseases when they
heads in the sand like an ostrich of toothbrushing and of other pre- were asked how likely they
At east, lat is what arecent ventive practices, beliefs concern- j thought it was that they would
national survey of health attitudes ing early detection and prevention get each of the three diseases and'
atnal suveof helthd atites of disease, and views on personal how likely it was that other people
and behavior conducted by investi- susceptibility to disease. their age would get the disease.
gatorsatthe University's public There was a great discrepancy Cancer would be contracted by
health school indicated. bewehubr fpol h
The survey showed that people6 between the number of people who 7 per cent of other people, the
regular health believed that immediate treatment respondents said, but only 43 per
do not like to have reuhrheland diagnosis are helpful in pre- cent of the respondents believed
examinations although they be- venting disease and those who had they would get it.
lieve that these examinations are had recent health check-ups.tbercoi would strike,16
useful in helping treat disease ef- -Tuberculosis would strike 16
fectively. Worried or Not? per cent of other people the re-
--Cancer was believed by 95 per spondents said, but only 4 per
tcan t Happen to Me --Cancent of the respondents to be cent of the respondents believed
In addition, they are optimistic more effectively treated if found that they would get it.
Across Campus
-Daily-Robert Sheffield
'U' Players Rehearse for 'Gideon'
TUESDAY, OCT. 6
4:30 p.m.-Keith Humble, guest
lecturer, will speak on "Webern:I
A Re-evaluation" in the recital
hall of the music school.
7:30 p.m. - Joint Judiciary
Council will sponsor a judiciary
workshop in Rm. 3D of the Mich-
igan Union. Small group discus-
sions' will center on specific ques-
tions on such topics as rule chang-
es, enforcement, rationale, rela-
tion-ship of Joint Judic to apart-
ment living and due process.
8 p.m.-Eric Hass, Socialist La-
bor Party candidate for president
will speak on current social is-
sues in the Union Ballroom. His
speech will be sponsored by the
Union Executive Council.
8 p.m.-Dr. J. M. Hinton of,
Middlesex Hospital in London,
England, will speak on "The Dis-
tress of the Dying," in Children's
Psychiatric Hospital Aud.
8 p~m.-Antoine Zelenka, chief
of the social security division of
the International Labor Office,
will speak on "Priorities in So-
cial Security Planning in the De-
veloping Oountries" in the West
Conference Rm. of the Rackham
Bldg.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7
8:30 a.m.-Registration for the
Conference on Leadership in the
Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion will begin in the lobby of
the Rackham Bldg.
Noon - Tom Turner, associate
secretary of World University
Service International in Geneva,
Switzerland, will speak on "WUS
projects in Africa" at the Guild
House, 802 Monroe St.
3:30 p.m.-Felix Candela, archi-
tect, will speak on "Concrete Shell
Structures" in Architecture Aud.
7 . p.m.-The Ann Arbor Civic
Ballet will hold auditions at the
Sylvia Studio of Dance, 525 E.
Liberty.
Tryouts will be held for an
apprentice company for ages 13
and up, and a major company for
advanced and professional danc-
ers. Those interested in choreog-
raphy, costume design, stage craft,
music arrengement and other
phases of the Ballet Theatre are
also invited to attend.
8 p.m.-The APA will .perform
in "War and Peace" by ,Erwin
Piscator in Lydia Mendelssohn
Theatre.
8 p.m.-The University Players
will perfofm "Gideon" by Paddy
Chayefsky in Trueblood Aud.
8:30 p.m.-The Stanley Quartet
will give a recital in the Rack-
ham Aud. The quartet consists of
Professors Gilbert Ross, violinist;,
Gustave Rosseels, violinist; Rob-
ert Courte, violist, and Jerome
Jelinek, cellist-all of the music
school.
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Gail BlumbergI
Gideon-Modern Perspective
about their chances of avoiding
serious diseases which they believe
will strike others, evidence pre-
sented at the American Public
Health Association meeting in New
York yesterday indicated.
People were questioned about
their attitudes toward three dis-
eases, chosen for varying severity:
cancer, tuberculosis, and dental
disease.
early. Only 30 per cent of the
respondents had undergone can-
cer examinations during the pre-
vious ten years. Of these only 3.5
per cent had the examinations on
a purely voluntary basis.
--Tuberculosis can be more ef-
fectively treated if discovered
early, 97 per cent of the respon-
dents believed, but 25 per cent
had not been tested for tuber-
y Chayefsky's biblical drama
n" will open the season for
iversity Players beginning
ow night and running
h Sat., Oct. 10.
Id Kendal of the Univer-
layers after consultation,
rof. Jack E. Bender of the
department, director of the
xplained their interpreta-
tion of "Gideon" and its produc-
tion:
"The basic story of Gideon is
found in the Book of Judges of
the Old Testament and deals with
a young farmer who, as an instru-
ment of God, saves his tribe from
the depredations of the warring
Midianites.
Passion and Excitement
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"Gideon's position among 'his
people alters so drastically when
he changes from farm youth to
tribal hero that a basic conflict
between the wishes of God and the
new Gideon inevitably occurs. It
[is this conflict that brings out the
passion and excitement of the
play.
"Chayefsky's play presents the
story on a far more personal level
than the Bible. His characters are
natural in their informal relations
with an approachable God. God,
in his turn, presents Gideon with
miracles, minor and major, to help'
preserve his faith.
"Chayefsky has approached the
Old Testament tale from a mod-
ern point of view, tackling such
contemporary questions as man's
relationship to God, man's place in
a universe run by an omnipotent
God, and man's relationship to
man
! Faith vs. Materialism
"In Gideon one conflict is be-
tween faith in God and man's own
evaluation of his importance in
nature. Chayefsky begins by as-
suming that God is (he is after all
one of the two main characters in
the play) and this God makes de-
mands upon Gideon, or man that
he cannot fulfill.
"Chayefsky is trying to suggest
that man is losing his contacts
with his faith because he is simp-
ly unable to understand what God
is. When thins are nnd G rd is
does man turn to God," director
Bender noted.
Love and Faith
"Nevertheless, Chayefsky seems
to arrive at the conclusion that
both love for man and faith in
God are necessary; through love
one can achieve faith." He is
unique in his optimism; even more
startling is that he believes. Faith
in man in God in love are always
clearly evident in his plays.
Kendall continued with a dis-
cussion of the direct technical
problems involved in production:
Main Attraction
"The play has two main char-
acters, Gideon and the Angel of
the Lord,. with most of the action
between these two. Their relation-
ship is the meat of the play and
joins the story line: Gideon with
the help of the Lord must defeat
30 thousand Midianites with 350
cowards.
"The juxtaposition of 'talk'
scenes and action scenes offers a
challenge to the director. He must
engineer each sequence to flow out
of the other. Talk must not seem
to predominate but the play
should not turn into a Biblical
epic a la Hollywood."
Dirksen Cites
Deficiencies in
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the Senate some dozen years ago,
said that he was not at all sur-
prised that the Arizona Senator
got the nomination on the first
ballot since Goldwater had worked
the hardest for it.
'NSA Prop'oses New Student
Legislature To Advise State
Dispell Their Fears
The investigators, Prof. Irwin
M. Rosenstock, Don P. Haefner, S.
Stephen Kegeles and John P.
Kirscht, speculated, that people
handled their fear of these dis-
eases by using the defense mech-
anism, projection - attributing
something that was too painful to
be admitted as a possibility for
themselves to others.
They recommended that health
educators put less emphasis on the
seriousness of cancer and tuber-
culosis and more stress on they
value of detecting these diseases
early.
They noted that "it is intoler-
able (for a person) to believe that
tuberculosis and cancer are ter-
ribly serious; that one can con-
tract them, and that they are in-
curable. Only when health work-
ers can honestly assure the public
that a given disease is both de-
tectable and curable can people
be expected to learn that they are
susceptible to that disease."
Ballet
Dancers...
The Ann Arbor Civic Ballet
invites you to audition Wednes-
dy evening at 7:00 p.m. at the
Slvia Studio of Dance, 525 E.
Liberty. Ann Arbor. There are
3 groups: Junior (ages 11-13);
apprentice (13 and up); and
the major company for advanc-
ed and professional dancers. For
further information call 668-
8066. Choreographers, stage per-
sonnel and m u s i c arrangers
needed also.
Ann Arbor
Civic Ballet
By KAREN KENAH
Lawrence Glaser of Wayne State
University proposed a student leg-
islature for Michigan at the Sun-
day afternoon meeting of the
United States National Students
Association Regional Executive
Committee.
The committee received reports
of other activity from the NSA
member schools and set the date
for the Regional Assembly. I
The student legislature would be
a body of students drawn from.
any school in the state. It would
study problems in the state of
Michigan, not only concerning
education but also concerning fi-
nance, industry and labor.
State House Road
At present a similar body exists'
in North Carolina. It has worked
very successfully, Glaser said. In
North Carolina the student legis-
lature has become a road to state
politics. Glaser sees the body as
composed of interesting, students
who are active and talented in
politics.
"The legislature and NSA would
be complimentary organizations.
The legislature subordinate at
first, but eventually equally im-
portant and possibly even more-
so," he said. In setting it up,
foundations would be approached
to help set it up and possibly even
the state would give some aid.
Glaser hopes to have initial re-
search for the project completed
and ready for presentation at the
November Regional Assembly. Re-
search is going on in four major
areas.
Michigan State is investigating
structure. The University is look-
ing into the group's relationship
with NSA. Wayne is studying pur-
pose. Hope College and Kalamazoo
are looking into student interest
in such a group.
A Spring Birth
Glaser would like to see the
legislature set up in the spring.
Michigan State reported that
plans for its February conference
entitled Population' Pressure and
Resource Potential were progress-
ing. NSA coordinator, Sue Orrin,
'65, reported good progress on the
NSA Conference on South Africa!
scheduled to take place also in
February.
The Executive Committee ten-
tatively decided to hold the next
Regional Assembly at Merrygrove
College on November 21, pending
the approval of the school.
The' University Musical Society
Presents
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.Directed by .E11i Rabb
WED.8 P.M.
SUN. P.M. & 8 P.M.
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by Brendan Behan
school.
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trouble However, Dirksen also cautioned
against the GOP candidate's
7charge that the present adminis-
Stration is "soft on Communism."
He commented, "You have to be
a little careful about leveling a
broad charge because it can take
in so much and involve so many
people. I'll put it this way: I be-
lieve we could pursue a firmer line
j than we do."
I The Illinois Senator also pre-
dicted a Republican sweep in his
f!home state, terming the ticket the
best he had been in four years.
He praised the young and enthusi-
astic people who have come in at
all levels of the GOP organization
in Illinois, and excoriated the
Daley Democratic machine, claim-
ing it "operates through impulses
of fear and pressure."
Season Tickets are still available
SEE 5 SHOWS FOR THE PRICE OF 4
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The University Players,
Dept. of Speech
Present
PADDY CHAYEFSKY'S
GIlD EOP
THURS., OCT. 8, 8:30
HILL AUDITORIUM
TICKETS: $4.50-$4.00-$3.50-$3.00-$2.25-$1.50
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY, BURTON TOWER
(Telephones: 665-3717 and 764-2538)
Oct. 7-10, Trueblood Aud., Frieze Bldg.
Box Office opens Oct. 5, 12:30-5:00 daily,
performance days 12:30-8:00
Prices: $1.50, $1 00 (Weekend 25c more)
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Friday, October 16, 8:30 P.M.
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