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The distrust, to what degree it has existed, has
been quite natural; fraternities on this campus
have always been suspicious of paternalism, and
it is to be expected that they will be reluctant
; at present to vote for the adoption of rules per-
taining to matters they have hitherto taken
n care of without any outside interference.
The proposed requirements would be enforced
as follows:
The dean's office would serve as a clearing
house where the individual fraternity's compli-
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1933
More Student
League Petitions-. .
T HE National Student League cur-
rently offers for signatures a peti-
tion which we believe to be rather absurd. It re-
veals that the league members who drafted it
have a poor knowledge of the working of the Uni-
versity, and will certainly prejudice persons who
might have supported the league in the future.
The petition is directed to the Regents, and
advocates: (1) No increase in tuition fees; (2)
No dismissal of assistants or instructors; and (3)
The organization of a democratically elected fac-
ulty committee to control expenditures of the
budget.
We wish to point out that, regarding the first
point of this petition, tuition fees are deter-
mined by the deans and other administrative
heads of the various colleges of the University,
and not by the Regents at all. They are justly de-
termined at present and we have every reason
to believe that they will continue to be. If it is
found necessary to raise such fees then there
can be no alternative; but we are convinced that,
if so, it will be done judiciously, and without the
advice of the National Student League.
Regarding the dismissal of assistants or in-
structors, it is sufficient to say that many of them
are employed with the understanding that their
services will be required for only one year. Con-
stant changes in a large faculty are inevitable-
they must take place if the University is to pro-
gress, the National Student League notwithstand-
ing.
As for the organization of a faculty political
group to control University expenditures-such
an idea is, on the face, absurd, ridiculous, futile,
and out of order. We have at present an admin-
istrative organization that is perfectly qualified
to cope with the matter of balancing the Uni-
versity's budget, as justly as it can be accomp-
lished. This organization deserves the unqualified
support and co-operation of every student and
faculty member of the University.
We ask that, for once, students weigh the situa-
tion thoroughly in their minds before signing the
petition and that they accept the doctrines ex-
pressed at National Student League mass meet-
ings only after due thought-and then with a
grain of salt.
Enforcement Machinery
Of Fraternty Proposals . .
TOMORROW NIGHT at the Union
the Interfraternity Council will
discuss the proposals submitted last week by the
committee of four national secretaries of leading
fraternities, sent by the National Fraternity See-
ance with the new rules would be checked. Should
a house fall below the new standards, its condition
would be reported to its financial adviser by the
dean. The adviser would then attempt to remedy
the matter. If the condition remained the same,
the fraternity would be reported by the dean ofI
the Interfraternity Council's Judiciary Commit-
tee, composed of five students, three faculty mem-
bers, and three non-faculty fraternity alumni.
This committee might, if it could accomplish
nothing itself, refer the matter either to the Sen-
ate Committee on Student Affairs or the national
offices of the fraternity in question.
Thus the complicated machinery by which the
proposed requirements would be enforced would
not confer upon any one individual or group des-
potic power that might make possible the ruth-
less closing of a number of fraternities. On the
other hand it appears that it would be sufficiently
effective to put the proposals into operation,
It thus becomes apparent that there is no rea-
son to fear a discriminatory or too hasty adminis-
tration of the rules, and those who have been
inclined to view them unfavorably on this score
may withdraw their opposition.
There seems to be little doubt that the rules
themselves are inherently wise. The fact that
many successful houses have already adopted sim-
ilar ones for themselves is a strong argument in
their favor, one which will in all probability be
advanced at the meeting tomorrow. Their employ-
ment by fraternities now on the financial border-
line may prove to be a deciding factor in enabling
them to remain open. Because they are good
rules, and because they would be.. administered
fairly and reasonably, we believe the Interfrater-
nity Council will do well to accept them.
The Gefrn Side
Of The.uestion .
WHILE the world, and Germany and
France in particular, anxiously
await Herr Adolf Hitler's address to the German
Reichstag this afternoon, it may be well to con-
sider briefly the "other" side of the situation-
the pro-German side. .
The Deutsche Diplomatische Politische Korre-
spondenz, a semi-official subsidiary of Wolff, Ger-
many's leading news dissemination agency, speaks
of sabotage on the part of the French, blaming
them for the current rupture of the disarma-
ment deliberations now in progress at Geneva. In-
dividual German newspapers state that Herr Hit-
ler does not wish war, and claim that even if
the fiery chancellor did wish to precipitate a
world-wide conflict he would be crushing his own
life, ideals, and program. One German paper even
says he desires "peace and security" with gradual
revision of the more odious (to the German na-
tion) clauses of the Versailles treaty.
Leading historians and political scientists now
firmly believe, and it can be substantially proven,
that Germany in 1914 did not wish a World War.
It can further be effectively argued that France
would have invaded Belgium in the early stages
of the war if Germany had not beaten her to it.
Many other popular hypotheses concerning the
World War, such as the myth of the one guilty
nation, are patently false yet doubly dangerous
because they are not apparent until the damage
has been done.
This time the world should count ten-and then
not revert to blood and iron.
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Editorial Comment
ON MAKING DATES AND
PAYING THE CHIT
A westward movement for female date-making
and financing has swept past our conservative in-
stitution and was last reported at rest in the Uni-
versity of South Dakota.
Men, who so far, have not effectually objected
to woman's political rise have generously sur-
rendered their time-sanctified right to make and
pay for dates.
How well women may succeed is indicated by
the systematic way in which they go at the date
business, nothing like the primitive, hap-hazard
way men make crude lists of telephone numbers
with names written in code for protection from
snooping brothers.
In Los Angeles, the junior college co-eds keep
little black books in which every eligible male is
listed and classified with scientific precision. Rice
Institute coeds classify unsuspecting males into
these categories: best necker, worst necker, best
kisser, worst kisser, biggest tightwad, freest
spender, the man I would rather be seen with,
and the man I don't want to be seen with.
Byron said that love is a woman's life. Appa-
rently she.can make it her business, too.
--The Minnesota Daily
TERM PAPERS-
End of terms seems to be specially set aside
by instructors for the writing of term papers by
their students. Thus is a time-honored custom
carried on.
Now, it is our view that term papers are per-
fectly all right, if they are prepared in accord-
ance with the ideal whpich lies behind their in-
clusion as a part of the requirements of a course.
That ideal, stated briefly, is, that the preparation
of the paper involve research on the subject from
more than the obvious material, that some tying-
up of facts and data be made that might throw
new light on the subject under study, and that
nhcriva tinn sho u ldh a rlP a nd rnn l rinc.
The Theatre
WHO DOES NOT DANCE
By LUDWIG LEWISOHN
(Editor's Note: Mr. Lewisohn is reprinted by
permission)
A dancer who does not dance; an actress who
does not speak; a dramatist wilo makes the audi-
ence supply the drama. She is to the stage what
the imagists are to poetry. There is the same un-
Emotional projection, the stripped and scrupu-
lously selected image, the cleanly visualized line.
This is to imply that the painter predominates
and, in effect, the art of Angna Enters is that of
a painting which has escaped the static limita-
tions of its canvas. In the "episodes" entitled
"Promenade" and "Aphrodisias-Green Hour" she
makes scarcely a step, never any but the most
furtive motions. And yet in one, a half-bold,
half-bored flirt has walked out of a Manet por-
trait; in the other, the ennui of the unsuccess-
ful streetwalker, the mechanical smile fading into
apathy, the cold shudder, are a shifting composite
of a dozen Daumiers.
Enters' "Odalisque," with her slow curves, har'd
eyes, and soft sloven perversity, is definitely Re-
noir. "Moyen Age" is a set of frescoes in counter-
point. No wonder that her admirers are largely
recruited from the field of art: Joan Sloan,
Geolgia O'Keefe, Robert Henri, Alfred Stieglitz,
Robert Edmond Jones have praised her in un-
reserved superlative. And rightly. She is one of
them, and she is more. She is what their work
moves toward.
What are her qualities? From tie complexity
of effects, wit emerges first. Extraordinarily
subtle, almost febrile, here is a species of wit that
is both lightly mocking and completely devastat-
ing. Observe "La Sauvage Elegante," with its self-
contradiction of the formal pirouetting of the
court of Louis XIV and the latest fashion note
from Peru.
Observe "Feline," where, instead of a costume
made to imitate the body of cat, the woman, in
quasi-Spanish black lace, is a cat. A cat? Here, in
its combination of suave cruelty, smooth grace,
abnormal wisdom, and uncomprehending inno-
cence, is Cat abstract, complete and absolute.
"1927-Entr'acte" is, on the surface, ridiculous;
a sketch at criticism. Yet here, in the least lovely
of her composition, this artist pillories a genera-
tion whose rosary is a lipstick and whose Golden
Treasury is a "line" of wisecracks.
But wit alone would make her work dry and
over-cerebral. Humour saves Angna Enters from
a tendency to intellectualize, an impulse to allow
the wicked brain free run of its own malice.
Sometimes the humour is broad, as in the almost
boisterous delineation of the schoolgirl in "Field
Day."
Less burlesque but even richer in humour is the
earthy and robust "Contra Danse." Here is a
sweep more liberal than the artist usually permits
herself; the mime not only dances the peasant
off her feet, she creates a stageful of dancers,
each vigorously and swiftly differentiated. This is
the very antithesis of the stilted, ogling "cake-
walk"; comment and criticism cease; Breughel is
joined to Beethoven.
But much as one respects the witty exposer of
sham elegance and enjoys the hearty NATUR-
KIND, the two qualities which distinguish Angna
Enters are curiously combined: the macabre and
the tender "Black Magic" and Heptameron No. 1,"
that concise drama with its reminiscence of
Browning's "The Laboratory," which all but
baffles the audience, are cases in point. Here is an
evocation of all that is masked, twisted, paradox-
ical, perverse . . .
And then, amazingly, when we have concluded
there is no warmth in the woman, she breaks
down the last reserve with tenderness. With a
minimum of "effects" she reveals all the awkward
coquetry of a Vienna Backfisch ("Geschichten
aus dem Wiener Wald"); the incredible pathos of
long adolescent afternoons in "Piano Music," in
which there is no mere appearance but the es-
sense of reality; the dissolving and fusing of a
hundred Madonnas in "The Queen of Heaven."
Here is the eternal mother, baring her breast to
anguish, disclosing the world's secret in the Rose
of the World. Here instead of gesture is illumina-
tion.
She is an arresting and even astonishing phe-
nomenon. Beginning where other dancers leave
off, she furnishes one of the most imaginative
experiences in the theatre today.
LENORE ULRIC
IN DETROIT
"Hard-Boiled Angel," starring Lenore Ulric and
presented by Arch Selwyn, will be seen at the
Cass Theatre for four days only, beginning Sun-
day evening, May 21, with a matinee on Wednes-
day.
A new comedy in three acts by Wilson Collison,
author of the riotous success, "Up in Mabel's
Room," "Hard-Boiled Angel" has been carefully
selected for the alluring Miss Ulric as a play of
extreme merit suitable to the noted heroine of
"Tiger Rose," "Kiki," "Lulu Belle," "The Pagan
Lady" and other well-remembered triumphs.
Arch Selwyn, the producer responsible for
"Twin Beds," "Within The Law," "Smilin'
Through," "Fair and Warmer," "Buddies," "This
Year of Grace" and "Private Lives" with Noel
Coward, whom he really discovered, "The Devil
Passes," and innumerable other hits of the theatre
has placed Lenore Ulric under personal contract
and believes that with stars of her calibre and
good plays like "Hard-Boiled Angel" the legiti-
mate theatre can easily be brought back to its
own within a very short time.
Surounding Miss Ulric with a cast of distinc-
tion, Catherine Dale Owen, Paul Kelly, Henry
Daniell, Jane Farrell and Walter Armitage are
most prominent, all featured players with envious
records of success in both the theatre and talking
pictures.
The scene of "Hard-Boiled Angel" is laid in
the mountainous district between Los Angeles and
San Francisco, portraying in its humorous way
the involvedc lives of a croup of neonle who need
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