Y L LATEST IN MYSTERY: Offerings Old and New Reflect. Psychological Tr end Would Help To Promote Greater By VERNON NAHRGANG FOR MYSTERY fans, the cur- rent offerings of publishers are showing an even stronger trend to- ward the psychological rather than the logical and toward elucidation of the detective's life and charac- ter rather than the criminal's or victim's. Three new books and a new omnibus of reprint novels re- flect this movement with vigor. THE LONG SKELETON. By Frances and Richard Lockridge. J. B. Lippincott Co. Mr. and Mrs. North move in- to a hotel while painters invade their apartment, and, of course, they find a body in the new quar- ters. But the dead TV personality is only the first of three bodies that the Norths come across in their newest adventure, The Long Sk leton. As usual, a Jaunt with Pam and Jerry is a lively experience, and IT'S OUR TURN TO BUY! Sell All of Your BOOKS for CAS H at SLATER'S YOUR COLLEGE BOOKSTORE this one, with the time-honored blustering flatfoot (a deputy chief inspector) who can't get used to seeing Mrs. North at the scene of a crime, provides the customary wisecracks and laughs. While the inspector tries to con- trol his blood pressure, however, Mrs. North has moved ahead to keep up with her husband and their friend Bill Weigand in track- ing down the killer in a case 'in- volving Mr. North's own book-pub- lishing firm. The Long Skeleton is a thinly- populated novel, but those char- acters who do appear take a live- ly part in the proceedings. The "chase" at novel's end is tense and anxious in true detective-nov- el tradition. * * * SINGING IN THE SHROUDS. By Ngaio Marsh. Little, Brown and Co. This newest novel by one of the most distinguished of the English lady mystery writers is built on psychological interpretation rath- er than logical deduction from the ~verybeginning. It explores the small passenger list on a cargo ship and finds a disturbed killer. Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard, also one of England's dis- tinguished detectives, forsakes the heavy emphasis on police proced- [ure he relied on in earlier novels and spends some time analyzing his suspects psychologically. The result is not too convincing. The amount of evidence that piles up is very little, and the solution, without much manipulating, could come out quite differently. Yet this story of a singing kill- er (dubbed by the newspapers the Flower Murderer) is a swift-mov- ing tale with enough twists and suspects to keep the reader in the dark to the very end. Meanwhile, that reader is treated to a more intimate look at Alleyn's own life, an extra bonus for long-time Ngaio Marsh fans. * . * FOUR, FIVE AND SIX BY TEY. By Josephine Tey. Macmillan Co. Another in the "Murder Revis- ited" series, Four, Five and Six by. Tey is a collection of 1951 and .1952 Josephine Tey novels featuring Detective Inspector Alan Grant, The Daughter of Time, The Sing- ing Sands and A Shilling for Candles. Author Tey's mysteries rank high in quality of writing. In The Singing Sands, the reader is treated to a holiday in Scotland that is quiet and relaxing as well as pleasantly descriptive-and; of course, backed up with an air -of mystery. Like the other two novels, The Singing Sands has a thin plot line and no superfluous characters; but it also has several fine, ironic twists unseen in spite of the straighforward telling of the story. Inspector Grant, as a per- son, takes up much of the book with his own life and illness. This Tey trio of very readable novels is an entertainment bargain for all mystery fans. * * * DEAD TO THE WORLD. By Stew- art Sterling. J. B. Lippincott Co. "A Gil Vine 'investigation," the dust jacket reads, and that's just what Dead to the World is. Fast- paced throughout, this narrative by a hotel's head security officer never pauses for breath but spins merrily, bloodi1y to the final showdown through a series of shootings and questionings. The inner workings of a big-city swahk hotel are again brought to light as a waiter and a guest meet death under curious circumstances and police officers suspect the se- curity officer of troublemakeing. Very much like some of the ear- ly Michael Shayne stories, this Gil Vine investigation is perhaps a little faster-paced but not quite as burdened with shootings, beat- ings and blondes. (Continued from Page 4) Instance, has established a feud with Washington State, just across the state line. This competition has come to mean as much to State students as battles with Washington. Oklahoma has built up a vendetta against Texas; Colo- rado against Oklahoma. In the Midwest, many rivalries exist. For many years this state has had only one really major power, the arch-rival was Ohio State. The distance from Ann Ar- bor to Columbus is formidablefor car-less students, and therefore frequent acts of violence have been the exception rather than the rule. The rise of Michigan State pre- sents a possibility which has yet to be exploited. Simple football rivalries alone do not make school spirit, but they, do help. There are other factors, equally important, without which school spirit withers on the vine. ENERALLY,the smaller a school, the greater the spirit. There develops in a small school a camaraderie and a feeling of soli- darity which comes quickly to the surface on any possible occasion. Thus Wabash and De Pauw, in Indiana, have a rivalry that out- does anything in the Big Ten in intensity. And Carleton and St. Olaf, located in the same small Minnesota town, go at it hammer and tongs whenever the chance arises. A freshman class which per- mits its bonfire to be lit before The Game is hooted for the next four years. This "smallness" need only be relative. Northwestern is easily the shrimp of the Big'Ten conference, though large by Eastern standards. As a :result, the student body is more active in displaying spirit than any other conference school. Michigan students can testify to this after last fall's football game, when Northwesterners rode the streets in convertibles and cheered themselves hoarse during the game. School spirit often persists in spite of size. Syracuse furnishes a good example of this. It would, not be out of place sizewise in the Big Ten, but the rivalry with Col- gate, begun when both were small, still persists. In addition, the area has a lack of large schools, forcing Syracuse to come in contact with little, high-spirited colleges. Their spirit rubs off on Syracuse. T MAY ALSO BE said, with ex- ceptions, that a relationship ex- ists between alcohol consumption and school spirit. Schools in New York, with its 18-year-old drink- ing law, have spirit to beat the band. In small towns, which have no other "things to do" besides movies and taverns, spirit flows in the streets on weekends. Virginia, which is often consid- ered the "drinkingest" school in the country, has had-its spirit written up in national magazines. Virginia is almost unique, how- ever, in that it combines the East- ern nearness to other schools with a special "gentlemanly drinking" tradition of the Old South. It has the best of two worlds-and tremendous spirit. Dartmouth, too, has been able to maintain spirit, in the face of near-isolation in the wilds of New Hampshire, with the aid of a lib- eral amount of student drinking. In the Big Ten, Wisconsin, despite the twin handicaps of large size and distance from rivals, has de- veloped a notable spirit by means of the state law permitting beer to be sold to 18-year-olds. If it has to, spirit can thrive on beer. WEALTHIER schools also seem to have more spirit. In the East, the major schools are pri- vate, with correspondingly higher tuition. It takes more money to enter these schools and a feeling of aristocracy-or at least timocracy -can develop. This by itself does not create school spirit, but it can reinforce it. Northwestern, being the only private school in the Big Ten, has this advantage over its rivals; as does Stanford on the Pacific Ooast, Vanderbilt in the South and Rice in the Southwest. State universities are thus at a further, though slight, disadvan- tage. In addition, the presence of large out-of-state minorities at most state universities deprives the student body of the feeling that it consists of and represents the peo- ple of the state-a possible source of school spirit. The original founders can con-7 tribute in another way to schooll spirit. John Purdue, Ezra Cornell and Cornelius Vanderbilt are cele- brated in song and story. It is, RUNNING RIOTS: How It's Done in Easter (Continued from Page 4) thing had been thought months in advance. out SINCE 1954 FIRE: Improvement Noted In Student Housing much easier to wax enthusiastic with a chorus of "Lord Jeffrey Am- herst was a'soldier of great fame" than to praise the Michigan state legislature in similar fashion. All these factors, sometimes to- gether and sometimes singly, grad- ually tend to develop a school spir- RIOTS fail here simply because they are never planned, and left mostly up to the mindless mob; for execution. There are three requisites for a successful riot. 1) The riot must have a reason; for being. There is a French phraset for this, so it must be apt. One cannot riot for nothing. One must protest something, whether it be Union food, dorm food, ugly wom- en, or. Richard Nixon. It is hope- less to attempt to get up a really good riot-like spirit if you are only going to let it die for lack of a cause. 2) The riot must be planned. The fuses must be tapped and the wires hidden. The -water mains must be located and trustworthy men placed at the spigots. The charges must be carefully set. Pass keys must be obtained. Watchmen bribed. Potential informers put out of the way (painlessly, of course). 3) The riot must be well run. There must be no needless damage to inflame public opinion against the rioters. With these goals in mind, let us consider a potential but hypo- thetical riot, and how one might bring it about. FOR THE sixty-fifth consecutive night, a certain student-sup- ported, red-brick eatery on State Street has served raw sewage in the student special. A group of gastric cases gathers at midnight in the bellfry of Burton tower to plan action. Perhaps twenty men form- the nucleus of the action,. with more to follow. Next day, at noon, the cafeteria is the peaceful scene it always is at this time; just a roomful of people slowly and cautiously eat- ing. Then, bedlam. Twenty men simultaneously throw their trays to the floor, shouting: "Whoever eats this, help." A brass band rises from a few booths and plays, it. ba tor th( dir ou As be ab m DI on da re( ev th in re. th ric co do On EX Usec " ; :> :L : x.. {' : '{ :: , F ;,. " t ::< . t .: ::>: . ":... rr :n v ' \*i R nt \ t7 '+. +:ok F , r } . F a::. ; - ze* highland tartan (Continued from Page 11) of years in advance based on rough enrollment estimates made by the schools and colleges. But the esti- mates are approximate and fre- quently prove incorrect. ESTIMATES made for the period of 1957-61 have already been substantially revised. The 1,200 space Mary Markley dormitory will be opened this fall as planned. But the first 1,200 space unit of the North Campus Residence Hall, scheduled to be opened in 1959, has been put off until 1960. And the second unit, also providing 1,200-spaces, has been postponed +a year until 1962. Three-hundred apartment units are expected to be completed on North Campus in 1959 and in 1961. It is believed that some of this building might be speeded up if the housing situation again be- came serious in the next few years. But next year University enroll- ment will have to stay at this year's level of 22,815 because of a shortage in University operating funds. It was hoped by adminis- trators that enrollment might be increased to 25,000 but the Michi- gan Legislature sharply cut the 1958-59 budget request making this impossible. Similar action by the Legisla- ture in the future could again hamper efforts at expanding en- rollment. This year enrollment did not reach its estimated peak. University officials attributed the error mainly to the recession which they said made it financially im- possible for many students to at- tend college. 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