FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1956 TMk MCItIGA IN DAILY PAGE THRER CREAL NOTES: SGC Speaker's Bureau Combats Student Apathy COMPOSITION SENSE NECESSARY: Garnera Capures Silence, Imagination, Ingenuityr Awe By MARGARET MOORE "There's aetendency on campus to be apathetic toward Student Government Council in general," Bob Creal, chairman of the SGC Speaker's Bureau commented. "Students don't realize exactly what SGC is doing," he continued. "This is characterized by a letter- to-the-editor from a graduate stu- dent recently reprinted in The Daily which read, articles we never finish reading: SGC to de- cide .." It is to combat this general lack of understanding of the pur- poses and functions of SGC, that the Speaker's Bureau has been organized. New Plan The Bureau, a sub-committee of the Public Relations Committee, is developing a plan to make SGC members available each month to the 126 campus housing units. Each of the eighteen members of SGC will be available to make one visit a week, which would mean 76 visits would be completed in a month. The members would attend din- ner at the house and meet the members on an informal basis. Later a discussion would be held in the lounges, during which the house members could talk over current issues before SGC or any problems they feel should be brought before SOC. "If students are interested in a subject, they'll bring it up at; a time such as this program pro- vides" Creal commented. Meetings The meetings would be strictly on an informal, voluntary .basis and not mandatory house func- tions. "We don't want to push ourselves on anybody," Creal com- mented. "This is just like taking advantage ofthe right to vote." Although various members of G&S To Give Princess Ida' Gilbert and Sullivan Society will present "Princess Ida" as their spring production on March 14, 15 and 16 in Ann Arbor. Plans also include a perform- ance in Detroit on March 23 and a road tour. Recently elected president of the society 'is Jerry Davis, '57. Other officers elected are: vice- president, Bud Moore, '57BAd; sec- retary, Mary Coedy, '58E: treas- urer, Dave Dow, '583M production coordinator, Thelma Kavanau, '57; and publicity chairman, Dick Booth, '57. Appointed positions were re- ceived by John Montgomery, '57E, ticket manager; June Rose, '60, productions assistant; Ann Olson, '58, librarian; Sandra Cinsmaster, publicity secretary; and Priscilla Torsleff, '58, make-up chairman. Program co-chairmen are Nata- lie Grodnik, '57, and Don Seltz, '58 Technical director, Hilliard , Goldman, '59, and properties chairman Jan Ewart '58D, com- plete the list of officers Appointmleits Fred Sheldon. '58, Arthur Ep- ker, '58BAd, and John Montgom- ery, '57E. have been approved by Student Government Council asf appointments to the Student Ac-r tivities Building Committee. 1 SGC have visited housing units on campus before, it has been donej oamuhaphazard, personal]basis, without any co-ordinated efforts. Under this new plan, SGC hopes to provide the houses with a dif- ferent speaker every month. In this way, students would become acquainted with the' members themselves and their personal stands on current issues. Last week, the Bureau sent let- ters to all housing units on cam- pus explaining the program and its purpose and asking them to return the enclosed postcard indi- cating whether they would be in- terested in having a SGC member visit their group. Only eight groups have responded favorably at the present time. After vacation, members of the bureau will speak before the Pan- Hellenic, Assembly, IFC and IHC monthly meetings to further ex- plain the purposes of the program. Coed Musical Seeks Scripts MUSKET is searching for orig- inal musical comedy scripts for its 1957 production which will again feature men and women, accord- ing to the MUSKET executive committee. January'7 has been set as the deadline for students to submit scenarios. All students are eligible to hand in scenarios. Completed scripts, including dialogue, music, and lyrics are due May 1 and will be judged May 15. According to the committee, men may now pick up petitions for MUSKET general chairman at the main desk of the Union and must return petitions by Jan. 7. Positions of assistant general chairmen and chairmanships and assistant chairmanships of pro- duction, promotion, music, and program committees are open to women, and petitions will be avail- able Feb. 7 to be returned Feb. 15. Dr. Mallery Receives New Appointment Dr. Otto Tod Mallery, associate professor of internal medicine and former director of the University's Institute of Industrial Health, has been appointed medical director of the Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Company of Wisconsin. also known as Employers' Mutual of Wausau. He will assume his new duties Jan. 1, 1957. Dr. Mallery is a nationally known consultant on industrial' health and has been associated with the University's Institute of Industrial Health since its crea- tion in 1951. In September of this year he resigned the Institute directorship in order to concen- trate on clinical medicine at the University Hospital. Commenting on the loss of Dr. Mallery to his department, Dr. Paul S. Barker, chairman of the University's department of intern- al medicine stated, "We regret deeply his leaving. Dr. Mallery has contributed greatly to the Depart- ment of Internal Medicine, and even served beyond the depart- ment in his counsel with various industrial firms." Are A camera, it is said, can cap- ture scenes and hold them for- ever. While this is true, it also should be noted that the camera often sees things in a different per- spective than the human eye. It can pick up a wall of a building seen several times a day by the same persons. But when those persons view an enlarged print of a corner of that wall, it suddenly becomes more mean- ingful to them; it suddenly hits them quite differently than be- fore. Despite all the camera eye can capture, it is the photographer's eye which must be particularly perceptive. Composition Sense Necessary Primary essential quality for the man behind the camera is a sense of composition. He should be able to look at a building, a tree, a sidewalk or oth- er object and perceive how the subject will appear in a finished print. By the use of a little ingenuity, the photographer can catch an unusual angle for an usual photo- graph. Camera Tilting Is Effective A picture showing a wall of a building will be flat and unin- teresting if taken at eye level. By tilting his camera upwards and sidewards, the photographer can come up with an intersting, fea- turish photograph. Ingenuity and arrangement will Photographices enable the photographer to cap- Good photographers make ex- ture such subjects as silence, awe cellent use of the time exposure and respect. when the subject contains con- Then, too. knowing when to trasting patterns of light. take a picture is almost as im- A snapshot of State Street at portant as knowing what to put night, no matter what the angle, in the picture. is just a snap of State Street at Shadows Are Useful night. But, when a time exposure A shot of the University's An- is utilized and the photographer gell Hall steps is relatively unin- captures the pattern of light left teresting if taken with a crowd by automobile headlights in con- of 'disarranged' persons on the trast with those lights which steps.ashine in a 'fixed position, he The photographer has only to achieves a higher degree of sat- wait until the steps are clear and isfaction. the sun casts a striking shadow. The photographer who couples Then the resulting photograph is imagination with ingenuity in far more attractive. taking his pictures usually suc- Ingenuity also governs use of ceeds in capturing moods as well time exposures (shots taken with as a mere record of his subject. the lens open for several seconds Imagination and ingenuity, the or minutes rather than a quick keys to good photography, can snap.) work wonders for the cameraman. SHADOWS OF KNOWLEDGE-Photographer caught an inter- esting shadow effect on Angell Hall steps. Picture is complete as is: inclusion of a person or two would have destroyed present quality, t a t i j i i i. T 1 1 I DAILY PHOTO FEATURE Story by RENE GNAM Pictures by PETER SONG I --I I AN EXAMPLE OF GOOD COMPOSITION-True subject of this shot is hard to determine. Photographer, by catching a promin- ent object on both sides of the picture, arranged a. striking night photograph. A TREE IN THE LATE AF- TERNOON -- This photograph exhibits benefits of patience. By waiting until shadows created an interesting effect, photogra- pher caught a tree, seemingly naked in its mood, against a wall of Angell Hall. Shadows produced by branches of an- other tree illustrate the effect of a 'silent', unclashing back- ground. GENERAL LIBRARY BY NIGHT-Night photograph shows front of general library. Student bi- cycles, left in helter-skelter array, provide an interesting note to the composition of the shot. 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