Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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To those convinced of the integral part of a liberal arts tradi- tion in the Oberlin education, the introduction of an AFROTC unit presented a challenge which had to be answered by letters of protest to the Review. These students feared not so- much regimen- tation of stance or gait, but of mindg they assailed the unques- tioned responsev advocated by military discipline and wondered if shades of 1984 might not soon prevail in Oberlin. But the unit came. The regular rhythm of one hundred men marching confused the air of the early mornings. Classrooms became speckled with blue uniforms. The students who did not do the marching last year might well have overlooked the opportunity offered to those enrolled in the program. To these men the AFROTC allowed completion of their college education and a commission in the Air Force. An AFROTC student confidently reaches for his mail, fully assured that it will contain no induc- tion notice. berlin and the Wild Blue Yonder RIQHT: AFROTC students know that careful preparation now will bring glory in penny arcades from Maine to Mexico in future years. BELOW: To the early morning scales from the Conservatory was added the Hup-2-3-4 of the AFROTC as one hundred men pounded in rhythm the earth in frontiof Men's Building last fall and spring. i l r -

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F ADLla STEVENSU SPECIAL Elyria draws a pair of Stevensons. Governor Adlai Stevenson meets his distant cousin during the eastern swing of his 1952 Presidential campaign. Political Strife Animates Isolated Campus ADLH ' vo-re Fog The presidential candidates waged a peripheral battle around Oberlin for the E' 1 KE' farmer vote in Wellington, the labor vote in Elyria, and the Shakespeare vote STEVEBO K in Oberlin. First Eisenhower entered smiling into Wellington and the crowds ET J A winced under revelations of high taxes, corruption, and cronism in Washington. -,' Then Stevenson came to the railroad platform at Elyria high. above the heads I r The Obeilin Review made its choice in October- For President, Stevenson. Many criticized the choice and others sau in this editorial position a dangerous precedent for other years of elections and ballyhoo. Pogo in place of editorials was one cry, if the Review wished to inflict its bias on the student body. In Finney Chapel on October 30 the students made their choice. The vote went for Eisen- hower 662 to 637 for Stevenson. C N 9 Q of his audience. He praised Oberlin and denounced the Republicans. ce.. 9 i? I

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Revolt of the Masses Two men with somber robes file silently across the platform. Two thousand students arise and sit down in unison. The speaker confronts a sea of upturned, inquisitive faces. Forty-five minutes later, he ends his speech to two thousand faces which he can no longer see. Irked with this weekly chapel routine, students staged a widespread revolt this fall. Feeling that evening chapels penetrated far into their study time and sense of personal free- dom, they held an Arch Seven at which they levelled their guns at the Administration. ln this mass rally they convinced ive hundred students to substitute x,s for names on their chapel slips. This revolution brought about significant changes. Afterwards no more students signed x's on chapel slips. Occasionally, however, such names as Ezra Pound, Mr. Bonaro Overstreet, and John Hancock found their Way on these smallrpieces of paper. TOP: Wild-haired, petulant jerry Seiler arouses his tight-knit party to revolt against evening Chapels during an Arch 7 last fall. LEFT: Later that evening those who could not or would not syn their names put x's on chapel slips. But the revolt proved abortive. BELOW: Assemblies will stimulate interest in problems beyond the narrow intellectual pale of Oberlin, thereby broadening the horizons of student awareness. So too, the assemblies will provide topics for general discussion by an alert student body. sw xx F . si. A.-4 i -A