SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 198 THE MICHIGAN DAILY ARENA THEATER. Set Designs GIh Cowan Problems By MARY LEE DINGLER Sets, props and costumes have an annoying habit of presenting perennial problems to Curtiss Cowan. A member of the Dramatic Art Center's professional staff, the native Californian has supplied technical as well as dramatic as- sistance to theater groups from San Francisco to Portland., Tall, thin and sharp-featured, Cowan is convinced theater-in-the- round poses some unusual prob- lems for the designer. "Usually," he. said, "you use some kind of backdrop to present a character in a friendly or antag- onistic light. The absence of such backdrop makes it increasingly difficult to convey impressions." Crossing his legs and resting his elbows on top of a card table, Cowan explained arena theater was limited by such factors as the need for transparent scenery. However, he added, the shape of the stage and the see-through scenery offered a number of artis- tic opportunities. After working as an art director on a Hollywood sound stage, Co- wan joined the Dramatic Arts Center because it is a professional group presenting an unusual var- iety of plays. In a clipped conversation, Co- wan observed, "Most professional off-Broadway theaters off er good performance, but present only standard plays." Cowan, whohdislikes the cons- tant use of the same forms or symbols in art or set design, said Hollywood "is much more guilty of the stock, staging approach than the legitimate stage." He stressed the need for a de- signer to set the mood and charac- ter of a play, "by freeing its per- sonality from the written page" A designer must, strive for creat- ivity and refrain from clamping his personal style on every play, he added. An artist or designer whose style is always immediately recognized is not a success, Cowan concluded. FBA Changes Food Markets Fraternity Buying Association has announced a change in their retail food market. Instead of. purchasing from Pittsfield Market, FBA will now order from Jack's Market. The purpose of using a retail market is to allow fraternities to supple- ment orders given monthly to wholesalers. Reason for the change, accord- ing to Hank Aughey,.'57, president of the Stewards Council, is lower prices. Pro fessors . Say Japan Help Vital Two University professors, ap- pearing Thursday on a television series, agreed that Japan is vital to the West in the cold war. In discussing the problem, "Why is Japan of Grave Importance to the United States?" Prof. John W. Hall and Prof. Robert E. Ward said the ideals of the Western world, their types of government and beliefs, have been planted in Japan and are being tested there. Militarily Japan and the islands above and below her would be of tremendous importance for air and naval bases, Prof. Ward comment- ed. Both professors emphasized the industrial capacity and. potential of Japan. "Along with Manchuria it is one of the most industrial countries in Asia;" Prof. Ward said. Prof. Hall said land area and population are the two biggest problems .facing the country. LONS: -Daily-Esther Goudmit CURTISS COWAN ... DAC set designer CARS AND WATERME n 0 4- Economies grad Program Gets Data, Predicts Trends Grad Psychology Course Treated In UniqueManner By MARILYN WOOD "Graduate instruction in indus- trial psychology is treated 'in unique fashion at the University," Prof. Floyd C. Mann, of the psy- chology department said recently. "Emphasis here is on a social basis of personnel psychology," Prof. Mann commented. Students spend the first two years on cam- pus getting theoretical training and during the third and fourth years begin research internship for practical training. *"They integrate the first two years of training tohpractical use in real problems," he continued. Makes Distinction The psychology department dis- tinguishes between the graduate student's field of professional spe- cialization and the major subject in which he concentrates. Students specialize the last two years in fields as teaching, clinical, counseling and industrial and per- sonnel. The professional speciali- zation involves on-the-job train- ing of skills and the knowledge of applied techniques. Need Understanding A major subject of concentra- tion is a field wlhich offers sub- stantial theoretical knowledge, Prof. Mann said. "We want stu- dents not to simply be trained in Museum Plans New Exhibits For Next Year. The University Museum is making plans for the presentation of .future exhibits featured at a special opening after the first of the year. One will be a plastic display of a drop of water, showing the var- ious micro-organisms which are to be found in Michigan pond -water. Also to be featured at the spec- ial opening will be a diorama of an African landscape. An exhibit in process at the pre- sent time is a display on skin structure, which will show the an- atomy of skin and structrues pro- duced by it. Other exhibits will include one of skeletons of vertebrates, which will show different skeletons and stress their functions. the field of psychology, but to un- derstand behavior in relevant sci- ences. "The trend is to include in psy- chology courses a greater empha- sis on the application of psycho- logical principles to problems con- cerning human relations," the psychology professor said. According to Prof. Mann, grad- uate courses in psychology are de- signed to insure an understanding of measurement, social, personnel and industrial psychology and to encourage greater familiarity with other relevant behavioral sciences. Five students will be admitted into the graduate course in indus- trial psychology each year, Prof. Mann reported. First Group "This year's group is the first one since the personnel psychology concentrate has been broadened and revitalized," he continued. Four new courses which. have been added to the schedule are Human Relations Research in In- dustry, Applied Social Psychology in Industry, Psychology of Man- agement, and Survey of Personnel Psychology. Prof. Mann has administrative responsibility for the development of personnel and industrial psy- chology. He is assistant program director in the Human Relatiois program at the Institute for Social Research. Faculty concerned with the graduate program include, besides ProK. Mann, are Prof. Norman R. F. Maier, Stanley Seashore, and Robert Kahn. Pledges Will Hold Drive. For Charity In their first group effort, 548 members of the Junior Inter-Fra- ternity Council and the Junior Panhellenic Association will col- lect funds for the Muscular Dis- trophy Association at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. The pledges are scheduled to meet at one of four rendezvous- the League, Rackham Hall, the business administration building or the Administration Building. Members of the Ann Arbor Jun- ior Chamber of Commerce, who conceived the plan, will drive the canvassers to assigned locations. The group will then split into couples, each covering a designat- ed area. 4The BROWN JUG (te4taumaht 1204 South University SPAGHETTI AND MEALS OUR SPECIALTY 10 A.M. to 8 P.M. Daily Except Saturday * For Wear Right Now " For Xmas Giving firgyle Wool Knee Socks Health Need The Bureau of Public Health Economics in the Public Health School is studying medical facili- ties in Michigan. Using funds from the State Of- fice of Hospital Survey and the U.S. Public Health Service, the survey is to determine the need for additional nursing homes, chronic disease hospitals, and treatment centers for the chroni- cally ill. by Bonnie Doon 495 Chrisimas Card Shop Early For The Best! OVERBECK Bookstore 1216 South University Av By DAVE TARR The economy of the United States is going to continue at its present high level in 1956 accord- ing to Prof. Daniel B. Suits of the economics department. The basis for this forecast comes from a model of the U.S.-economy constructed several years ago in connection with the graduate pro- gram in economics of which Prof. Suits is in charge. And this "fore- caster" is only one part of a pro- gram rather unique in colleges. Known formally as the "Re- search Seminar in Quantitative Economics, the program works to specifically test economic theories and to gather concrete facts about economic markets-to place" real flest on the skeleton of economic theory," as Prof. Suits puts it. The Seminar seeks to accom- plish three basic objectives: meas- uring economic relationships, test- ing abstract theories against cer- tain factual markets and forecast- ing economic action. One aspect of the graduate stu- dents' work has been to predict the economy of the United States a year in advance using the "eco- nometric" model of the U.S. econ- omy. A model for this purpose was developed in 1951 by Arthur S. Goldberger and Lawrence R. Klein and has been used since to predict economic behaviour for the com- ing year. Prof. Suits said the model "has hit it on the nose" in 1953 and 1954, even forecasting the slight recession last year. The recovery seen this year was predicted but not to the extent which developed. The report for next year was recently given to the Conference on Economic Outlook, attended mostly by business men, which is sponsored annually by the econom- ics department. The report says it possible there may be some increase over the current high production level. Klein, now a lecturer in eco- nomics on leave of absence at Oxford University, established the graduate program in 1950 under a grant from the Ford Foundation. 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