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'hursday and Friday
e Brothers Karamazov
Alumni To Return in June
To Attend Annual Reunion
METAMORPHOSIS:
Exam-Time Mania Enaulfs Ann Arbor
Tom Turner, Editor
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The adaptation of a great
ork of art to the screen is it-
lf a creative act. There are
w unedited masterpieces
hose scope does not overflow
le tiny frames of a motion
icture film.
With the possible exception
Dickens' books, virtually all
the successful adaptation of
1e masters have been rather
eely handled by their adap-
rs.
The technique of transferring
truly great work to film is to
tempt to treat the essence of
1e book while reconciling one-
lf to losing some of the the-
tatic richness of the original
ork.
Attempts at omnibus synopses
E monumental books have re-
ilted in such fiascos. as the
imerican versions of The
rothers Karamazov and War
nd Peace.
A less ambitious, more sensi-
ve approach to another Dos-
)ievsky work, The Idiot, pro-
ced, in the French filmed ver-
on, one of the world's great
Ims.
Fritz Ozep's treatment of The
.rothers Karamazov, which we
re showing, is of the latter
aste. The director chose to
bcus the picture on Dimitri
aramazov, the reckless cavalry
Rticer whose passion for his
ather's mistress leads him to
6e brink of patricide.
Although Ozep began his
Greer as a Soviet director he
'as an expatriate by 1931, the
ear he made this film, and the
iovie is German in both per-
onnel and style.
Rather than the scenes of
ushing movement and turmoil
'hich characterize the great
.ussan films, the films state-
Gents are made obliquely
tough the ingenious. juxta-
osition of action and inani-
iate objects. A shinning clock
ith four revolving pendulums
omments solemnly on the
pectacle of Dimitri reviling
wrushenka whom he will later
>ve, and a closeup of a huge,
parkling chandelier anticipates
subsequent scene of revelry.
While the film is not an equal
o the afore-mentioned version
r The Idiot (there are very
ew that are), it is considered
ne of the milestones in film-
naking.t
With The Brothers, we are
bowing The Cry of Jazz, a
ocumentary of bitter protest.
alled one of the most con-.
roversial films of recent years,
ae picture's thesis is that jazz
as been a unique expression
f , the American Negro, an
scape valve to ease the op-
ression by the Whites. The
arm is now dying, the film
ays, for the Negro has rejected
scape and is contending for
is place in the sun.
As you might suspect, the film
as not met with unanimous
pproval but it has seldom met
pathy. It contains some re-
tarkable candid scenes shot on
e streets of Chicago.
Saturday and Sunday
Words and Music
Most film biographies of mu-
cal personalities suffer .from
lack of conflict in the lives of
leir subjects. The big emo-
onal scenes of movies such as
he Benny Goodman Story and
he Glenn Miller Story usually
nter "around contrieved ob-
acles of a mundane love story
the breaking of a clarinet
ed in St. Louis.
Words and Music, the biog-
Wphy of Lorenz Hart (Richard
odgers' first lyricist) has the
ivantage of dealing with the
fe of a fascinating and ec-
ntric. character.
Played by Mickey Rooney,
art 'is presented as an ebul-
mt dynamo of a man .who
ribbles his superbly witty
rics on backs of menus, racing
rms and match books.
A gregarious yet lonely man,
e lives his life with an in-
nrdescent rnirit Pvtinm1i:hceA
Approximately three thousand
University alumni are expected to
return to Ann Arbor for the an-
nual reunion weekend and gradu-
ation, June 9-11.
Returning this year will be the
"fives" and "oughts"-those alum-
ni whose class year ends in either
of these numbers.
Highlighting Reunion Day, June
9, will be the annual meeting of
directors of the Alumni Associ-
ation at 10 a.m. in the Union.
Heyns To Speak
Dean Roger Heyns of the liter-
ary college will be the featured
speaker at the 24th annual all-
class dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the
Union. An outstanding young
member of the literary college
faculty will be presented with the
twelfth annual Literary and Edu-
cation Class of 1923 Award.
. June 10 has been designated
Alumni Day. The annual alumnae
luncheon wlil be held at 12:30
p.m. in the Michigan League ball-
room. Regent Irene Murphy of
Birmingham will be the featured
speaker. Following the luncheon
President and Mrs. Harlan Hatcher
will be at home to meet alumni,
members of the graduating class,
and their families from 3 to 5
p.m.
Individual class dinners are
scheduled for 6:30 p.m., after
which there will be an outdoor
band concert on the ,Diag. The
all-class dance will be at 10 p.m.
at the American Legion.
Commencement
Commencement day, June 11,
will be highlighted by alumni
breakfasts. New members will be
initiated into the Emeritus Club,
whose membership includes those
who graduated 50 years ago, later
that morning.
The Commencement Band, an
address by President Hatcher, and
the conferral of Distinguished
Alumni Service Awards will be
featured at the annual alumni
luncheon in Waterman Gym-
nasium.
Commencement is scheduled for
5:30 p.m. in the Michigan Stadium
or Yost Field House in the event
of rain.
By ANDY HAWLEY
"Exams would be all right," ex-
plained one particularly bright-
looking coed, "if we didn't have to
study for them."
Unfortunately, studying is ex-
actly what thousands of college
students are doing, many for the
first time, on campuses across the
country.
Every June a type of insanity
peculiar to the undergraduate
species spreads like the plague
through college towns, bringing
disorder, distraction and an in-
tellectual paralysis from which
the only chance for recovery lies
in at least twelve weeks of total
relaxation.
'U' Unique
The University has its own
unique exam-time phenomena, in
addition to the usual dormitories,
fraternities, sororities and apart-
ments filled with eerie silence
broken only by the sound of stifled
groans and harsh breathing.
Native to Ann Arbor alone is the
dazed but determined music stu-
dent poring over his octaves (or
whatever music students pore
over) in the recesses of the library
high in Burton ;ower.
Use Arb
Impressive indeed is the myriad
of scholars scattered through the
Arboretum on a sunny Sunday
afternoon, each with but one single
dominating thought-to get that
"A."
The University Library and its
more than twenty divisional and
affiliate libraries "has outstanding
resources in numerous areas of in-
struction and research," the an-
nouncements tell you, and in
exam-time these resources are
most extensively appreciated and
exploited.
Library Open
The musty ninth-floor stacks of
the General Library will be avail-
able weekdays from 9 a.m. to 6
"He was personally involved
and alert to the problems of the
Council," Roger Seasonwein,
'61, says of his year-long asso-
ciation with Tom as SGC mem-
bers. "He was much more con-
cerned than most ex-officios
and many of the elected mem-
bers."
Viewpoint Liberal
Editorially, Tom also spoke
for the liberal viewpoint. He
attacked the administration on
its stand on the National De-
fense Education Act loan funds.
He believes the University
should refuse the federal loan
funds until the objectionable
disclaimer affidavit is removed
from the act. He accused the
administration of "surrendering
initiative to the privately-en-
dowed colleges and univer-
sities."
His vote on the Council sup-
ported the local picketers of the
Cousins Shop, the Haber-Miller-
anti-discrimination policy for
the University and the Students
for Democratic Society's Con-
ference on Race Relations in
the North.
Extra Chores
His schedule also had to al-
low room for the extra oppor-
tunities and chores that fall to
the Daily editor. After attend-
ing the National Student Con-
gress last August, he was in-
vited to Cuba for a week-long
look at the Castro wonder.
He was also asked to judge
Frosh Weekend.
With all these obligations,
Tom's tendency to absent-
mindedness led him to note
writing. On separate sheets of
paper each meeting, idea for
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an editorial, or poini for SGC
debate was jotted down. The
notes were usually lost in the
clutter, to be rediscovered later
as he was cleaning up and sort-
ing his accumulated belongings.
Belongings Grow
His possessions have grown
with his trips to Japan, Poland
and the Caribbean in recent
years. Stored in boxes and piles
tthroughout his apartment are
such items as a record of "O,
My Papa" sung in Japanese,
stamps, coins and a copy of
"Winnie, the Pooh" in Polish.
Tom is an avid collector of
artifacts, from Boy Scout badges
to his own wood sculpture
created during his freshman
year in the architecture college.
The attractively painted shapes
and boards line his apartment.
He is r currently taking a
sculpture course, but the pro-
duction of the semester is still
locked in the A&D vaults.
Majors in English
All of this interest in creative
art is secondary to his major,
English.
And the Bachelor of Arts de-
gree in English he will receive
is rather irrelevant to his im-
mediate educational future.
Next year he will be the Uni-
versity's representative at Uni-
versity College London on the
scholarship exchange program.
He will be studying Russian and
government.
After a year in London his
plans include a tour of Russia
and a start on his planned voca-
tion, writing. Tom's desire now
is to become a foreign .cor-
respondent, for which his Daily
experience, wide foreign travels
and Russian studies background
will be assets.
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JUST ADD WATER - Totall:
University coed has discovered a
for final exams. She finds this i
last minute facts, only comes oa
p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
and Sunday from 2 to 10 p.m. un-
til exams are over.
The Undergraduate Library
turnstyles, which tallied 47,646
visitors last week, will spin from
8 a.m. until midnight every day
but Sunday, when the Library will
be open from 1 p.m. until mid-
night.
SAB Open
The Student Activities Bldg. has
reserved its third-floor conference
room (in addition to its lawn) for
the most common and least popu-
lar student activity from 7 a.m.
y immersed in her duties, this
way to keep cool while preparing'
is the best way to soak up some
ut for exams.
until midnight, starting tomorrow,
and continuing through June 3, or
later, if the demand persists.
The Union, League, Student
Publications Bldg., the Newman
Club, Hillel-each will shelter stu-
dents in this time of trial; all of
these groups, regardless of race,
creed, or color, will unite in one
mute, universal purpose - the
Quest for Learning.
Noncomformist
However, the noncomformist will
always be with us. Shrouded in the
security of strangely empty class-
rooms scattered across campus,
roaming the dark streets in the
early hours of the day, or, if he
lives near enough, commuting
from the sanctuary of his home
and mother's cooking.
But we have not begun to tap
the spring of exam-time oddities.
Those few students who have
confined their activities to the con-
ventional hours suddenly join the
rest of the night-people.
Staffs Doubled
The all-night restaurants double
their staffs, the drugstores stock
up on stay - awake tablets and
fatigue stimulants, and the per-
sonnel at the Medical Center wait
with patient, skeptical faces.
There are exam-time clothes, as
well as places and hours. All the
old torn and dirty sweatshirts, the
stained, worn sweaters, shorts and
tennis shoes are dug from the
trunk-bottoms and worn, almost
ceremoniously, until the last blue-
book is filled and forgotten.
Haircuts are forbidden, razors
get rusty as fuzzy beards grow,
nourished fanatically by smooth-
cheeked freshmen, neophytes in
the national fellowship of com-
mon toil and anguish.
Paradoxically, the long hours
spent poring over books, lecture
notes and study guides-the de-
spair and hope that reach their
climax repeatedly with each ex-
amination-these and the other
discomforts, and not the final
grades, are what students brag
about to each other. And it is these
they come back to in the fall.
ACROSS CAMPUS
SummnerReading Program
Requires Sign-Up Lists Soon
Sign-up lists from housing units
are due today for the Summer
Reading and Discussion Program.
Lists in the undergraduate li-
brary will be closed June" 7.
Dr. Ingo Seidler of the German
department will lead the seminar
on "Nietzsche" and Prof. Mark
Spilka conduct the discussion on
D. H. Lawrence.
* * *
The Michigan Union will spon-
sor 'free movies during the exam
period May 30 to June 2.
May 30 and 31 .it will present
Arthur Miller's "Death of a Sales-
man," starring Frederick March,
Mildred Dunnock and Kevin Mc-
Carthy.
June 1 and 2 it will show "The
Eddie Duchin Story," with Tyrone
Power and Kim Novak.
All movies will be shown at 7:30
p,m. On May 30, 31, and June 1,
they will be in the Union Ball-
room. On June 2 they will be in
Rm. 3RS in the Union.
Chamber Symphony ..
The Ann Arbor Chamber Sym-
phony, David Sutherland conduct-
ing, will present its first concert
at 4 p.m. at the Ann Arbor Public
Library.
The 15-piece string orchestra
will play selections from Bach,
Barber, Handel, Matthews and
Vivaldi.
Don Matthews, '60SM, will solo
on the French horn in his own
composition, which is being per-
formed for the second tim'e.
Burton Tower ...
. The carillon in Burton Tower
will sound a program of South
American music today as part of
the 150th anniversary celebration
of Argentina's 1810 emancipation.
Prof. Percival Price, the Univer-
sity's carillonneur, has prepared
the program in honor of the
South American summer tour of
the Michigan Chorale of Youth
for Understanding, an exchange
program administered by the Ann
Arbor - Washtenaw Council of
Churches.
Research Club . .
Prof. Walter A. Reichart of the
German department has been
elected 1960-61 president of the
University Research Club, to suc-
ceed Prof. Leigh C. Anderson of
the chemistry, department.
Other professors elected are
Richard C. Boys of the Eriglish
department, vice-president; Clark
Hopkins of the classical art and
archaeology department, treas-
urer; Henry L. Bretton of the
political science department, sec-
retary.
Elected to the University Re-
search Club Council for three year
terms were James V. Neel of the
human genetics department, and
Robert M. Thrall of the mathe-
matics department.
Bike Sale . .
Students wishing to sell their
bicycles may bring them to the
SAB between 4 and 6 p.m. today
through Friday.
They will receive half the evalu-
ated price in cash at the time the
bike is appraised and the remain-
der after it has been. sold..
Bikes will be. received at the
AB loading dock on Thompson
Street.
DEVOTED STUDENTS-These two undergraduate companions
have decided that the best place for their seminar is the privacy
of the local arboretum. They were deterred only briefly by the
discovery that they had forgotten their texts.
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