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GIVE TO THE MARCH OF DIMES U. B. BULLS BEAT U N IO N ! No. 9 VOL. II FEBRUARY 7, 1949 BUFFALO, NEW YORK NEW PLAN COMPLICATES ELECTIONS Bergman-Anderson Epic At Century Tells Story of Two Different Joans INGRID AND AUDIENCE SEE THINGS By A. SIE6RIST Without doubt the best remark made about all the noise and confusion now current at the Century movie emporium was made by the 7-year-old boy who told his molflier that he wanted to be taken to see “Joan of Arse.” “Joan of Arse\ this fable might well be called, for this time any resemblance to actual characters is coincidental. The Ingrid Berg- man-S&xwell Andmon version of the life of the Maid of Lorraine avoids the real narrative as if it were the plague, lliis film is about a maid who sees things, there is a Dauphin, later called King Charles of France, and two impostors who are supposed to portray the Bishop of Beauvais and Richard de Beau champ, Earl of Warwick. Other names reported to have been asso ciated with Joan of Arc are thrown in as the Hollywood fancy dictated. As the Hollywood fancy dictated the story got farther and farther away from the real story of Joan. What we get is a typical cowboys and Indians affair placed in a me dieval setting. I have a hunch that more than one tinsel heart was wrung when it was decided that to have the^U. S.-Cavalry rescue Miss Bergman from the smoke and fla tn e a would Wrench truth too severely. The Bergman spectacle falls as flat as it does then because of its utter disregard of the life and times of St. Joan. Seeing this ac- coimt of her activities one would never suspect that Joan was one of the emerging individualists of her iay, that her persecutors were defending two of the major insti tutions of the time—^Feudalism and the Roman Catholic Church, or that the people of the 15th century were witnessing the birth of the national state and modem capital ism’s birth. Seeing this film one gets the idea that the Earl of Warwick and Peter Cauchon, Blshc^ of Beau vais, representatives of those two social forces, were somehow con fused with Hitler’s Gestapo agents. Poor Cauchon, especially, gets the dirty end of the stick. Maxwell Anderson’s sloppy romantics por tray this learned and scrupulous man of the Church as a lackey en tirely at the beck and call of the English King’s minion—^the Earl-of Warwick. Hollywood’s penchant for drivel maintained its usual level (low) in this bit of slander, for we are witnesses to a supposed bit of Cauchon’s Warwick-directed stupidity in the bit which has the Bishop hustle off to the dungeons a member of the Court who had protested that he would have nothing to do with what the sun shine boys have made into a lynch trial. Afiss Bergman has been a favor ite of this reviewer since she made her debut in this country in “In- termeno.” What abilities as an actress she is allowed to demon- (Continued on Page 4, Coliunn 2) Dr. Cantor Joins ChL Confab Drr^ihthanier Cantor, head' of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, at the University of Buffetlo, will join four distinguish ed educators on the faculty of a “seminar in higher education ah(T teaching” at the University of Chi cago on Wednesday, February 9. The seminar will be conducted for members of the University of Chicago faculty and graduate stu dents in h i^ e r education. In addi tion to Dr. Cantor, the faculty will consist of President Robert M. Hutchins and Dean Ralph Tyler of Chicago, President Harry Taylor of Sarah Lawrence College and Dr. Algo D. Henderson, associate commissioner for hitler and pro fessional education of New York State. Dr. Cantor will discuss “The Dynamics of Learning and Teach ing In Relation to Curriculum and Teaching Procedures.’* Hillel Announces February Evente To encourage the expression of every phase of Jewish life has always been the fundamental principle of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation. Every aspect of Ju daism, be it religious, cultural, so cial, or interfaith, has its place in Hillel. With the beginning of the second semester Hillel at UB will once again apply this principle to its daily activities. During the first week of the semester three meetings were called for the purpose of initiating Hillel’s cultural program. On February 9, at Norton Union, Hillel will hold its annual election of officers, to be followed by a dance and social hour. The Hillel Open House on Satur day evening, February 12, will mark one of the importont social events of the Hfllel year. It will not only provide the occasion for making and renewing acquaint ances and friendships, but will also feattuv the installation of HUlel’s new officers. The opening Hearth Hour of the semester will bo hold on February 16, at the home of the Ifillel direc tor, Rabbi Justin Hofmann, 84 Manchester Place. The topic for discussion will be: \What Can an American Jew Believe in 1949?\ Late Palestine films are sched uled to be shown at Norton Union on February 23. “Freedom Bound\ will be among the movies to be presented that evening. The High-light of the entire month’s activities will be the Jew ish Music Festival on February 26, in the Norton auditorium. BSP Found Guilty Fine Suspended Guided by its chairman, Dr. John T. Horton, the Interfraternity Council last Thursday wrote the final chapter to the case of the Interfratemity Council vs. Beta Sigma Psi Fraternity. It took the jury only one-half hour to find BSP guilty on the count of violat ing the preferential voting system but, in the interests of fraternal relations, the automatic $10 fine Originally branded by Horton as farcical to a trial, Tliursday’s pro ceedings did little to make the af fair any more intelligible. Outr siders viewing interfratemity jus tice in action for the first time confessed after the 3 hour session they did not know what it was all about nor would they understand if they had to sit through it all over again. All parties concerned, despite an occasional grumbling over some of the chair's rulings, agreed it would be best to forget the unpleasant matter. After all, everyone was happy. The Council had established its authority with a conviction and the offending 'fraternity had escaped with nothing more than a reprimand. As for logic, that is a subject taught in the Philosophy Depart ment by some very capable in. structors. P.O. Again Offers Guidance Talks For the past two years the Per sonnel Office has maintained a guidance service for the student body. Representatives of various occupational fields, as well as teachers of courses related to these fields conduct conferences at v ^ c h such factors as necessary qualifi cations and opportunities are dis cussed by the group. The confer ences will begin again at the end of this month and the Personnel Office will provide speakers on any field. Including insurance, civil service, social work, foreign serv ice, medicine, journalism, .en gineering, etc. Students interested in any particular profession need only contact the Personnel Office and make their wishes known. These conferences offer great guidance opportunities, the Per sonnel Office says, but unless enough students show i n t e r s it will be useless to procure speakers. Because of this students are urged to take advantage of this guidance service. PHARMACY FROSH TO MEET AT DTPS The Pharmacy Freshman class will hold a vital seminar of inter est to all its members at Bitter- man’s at 8 P. M. tonight Projected Board of Managers Plan for Board and Officers Needs Double Election; Confusion and Apathy Feared Result What is the Board of Managers? Presidefnt A1 Szy- manski did not know nor did a surprising number of the Board’s members. Dottie Haas supplied the answer. Whereas some schools have separate bodies to govern the student body and run the affairs of the student union, U.B.’s Board is designed to do both. They have nothing whatsoever to do with Norton Union which is no more than the building wherein the students may congregate for their varied purposes. Because the Board is the student Arts. Comm. Sponsors 15tii Cent. Exhibit The Fine Arts Committee of the U of B, with the cooperation of the Albright Art Gallery, is currently showing an exhibition of repro ductions of photographs, engravr ings, woodcuts, drawings a n d paintings describing the Fifteenth Century world, that mysterious, transitional world between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. ITie Exhibition, based on an article which appeared in Life March 22, 1948, is organized in five sections; Portugal Sails West, Spain Sails West, France in the New World, Holland competes in the East, and England competes in the East and Weat The pictures are augmented by a hriw f ru n n i n g text which de scribes the spirit and impulse be hind the discoveries of the Fif teenth and Sixteenth Centuries. SAM Initiation Set Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity held a meeting at Norton Union on Tuesday, February 1st for the purposes of nominating candidates for offices and to set a date for its formal initiation of members. The initiation date was set for February 20 at the Park Lane Restaurant. Guests of honor at the initiation will be alumni Justice Philip Halpem, Hon. Samuel Har ris, and Hon. Jacob Tick. Invita tions have been extended to all chapters in the United States and Canada. Nominations were made from the floor for filling the vacant chairs of officers. Chief among these were Oscar Smukler, Law School Student, and Harvey Schil ler, Pharmacy School student, for the office of President. Elections will be held tomorrow, ’Tuesday, February 8 . Committee reports were given by the House and Pledge commit tees; with the latter reporting that February 15 had been set as the date for a smoker for prospective pledges. ^ NOTICE OF m a k e - u p EXAMINAnONS Make-up examinaitons begin March 7. Applications, together with the fees or medical ex cuses, must be filed in the Uni versity Registrar’s Office not later than February 14. Get your tickets for the Annual Concert and Ball at the coimtor in Norton Hall or from members of the Band or the Cly>rus. This is an event that should not be missed by anyone. UB The Student-Faculty Committee on Civil Liberties will meet on Tuesday, February 8, at 3:30 p.m. in the West Room of Norton Hall. All interested students and faculty •membara are urged to attend. governing body, Henry Kose and Lee Jones are striving to reform the present election system so that the student body will be able to select the Board’s members and officers at popular elections. De spite an occasional rumbling to the effect that the present system is. “democratic,” that the students are . ‘too apathetic to care ijiuch about the Board anyway, and that to the workers ought to go the fruits of public office, the Rose-Jones plan threatens to go through, although in a slightly watered down form. Nominations are to be “by petition of a reasonable and sufficient number of students in the student body from which they are to be elected; that number to be decided upon by a majority vote of the incumbent board.” The phrase, “reasonable and sufficient num ber” appears to be unnecessarily vague when a percentage would have served the purpose equally as well. Upon this issue a minority re port had been submitted which preferred the petitions to be sub ject to the approval of the various campus schools’ student councils. . Rose seized the opportunity to charge that the student councils were- not necessarily representa tive. When challenged he mention ed that one school (Business Ad) had eight men from the same fra ternity on their student council. Rose’s attack was developed to the point where it came perilously close to an accusation that the Board itself was not representa tive. This the Board resented. As the plan stands now 16 mem bers of the Board, one from each of the eight schools and eight at large, three of whom must be women, shall be elected by the student body. After that election another election will be- held ^ d the student body will select the Board’s officers from the 16 al ready elected, the person receiv ing the highest ntimber of votes becoming President, the next high est Vice-President and the third highest Secretary. The Board em ploying reasoning reminiscent of the Interfratemity Council trial ignored the highly pertinent point that a double election system might go still further to discourage the students from going to t^e polls, or maybe the thought was lurking in (he back of their minds when the proposal was offered. It is commoji knowledge that the more often voters are required to go to the polls, and the more com plex the election sys'tem becomes, so much does interest in the elec- (Continued on Page 4, Column 3)
