v. 4 *'*~~ \ v__~. - .. Seventy-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS ROGER RAPOPORT: A Draft To Fan the Fire Next Time Where Opinions Are Free, 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. Truth Will Prevail NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 ..:...:.:v::::?..".ti .s .is. -...asr.w.v. .. ... .2.t..;.:.. .:; _.. ...ti.....5._o...... ........... . .".. .... - .. .. .. .. Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1968 NIGHT EDITOR: PAT O'DONOHUE 'U' Budget and the Legislature: Prescription for Financial Ills MONEY ISN'T the only thing that makes a great university, but it certainly helps. Michigan, "the mother of state univer- sities," has a great tradition among American universities. Mother has been slipping lately and it is the fault of the public and the state legislators.. Total state revenues are up this year -and that may be the University's most encouraging note in a long time. But encouraging notes do not make strong financial positions. The University this year recommended to Gov. George Romney that the state appropriations to the schooldtotal some $75.8 million. Romney decided on $64.7 million-a massive $11.1 million differ- ence of opinion. HILE ROMNEY'S recommendation is $5.5 rhillion above last year's appro- priations, chances are slim for any mean- ingful increase by the legislature. Last year the legislature cut $4.1 million off Romney's recommendation, a recom- mendation $12.4 million below the Uni- versity's request. The budget cuts forced the University to call for a tuition rise and to adopt an austerity budget - a budget just $100,000 over what the Uni- versity considered its minimum operat- ing casts - that amount necessary to continue present programs plus minimum increased staff benefits. Part of the economy plan -was the lit school move limiting the increase of the number of incoming freshmen and cut- ting down on the number of transfer and re-entering students. But economy moves can only partially solve the extensive problems facing the University. PROFESSORS' SALARIES here last year showed the lowest rate of increase among the Big Ten schools and dropped into the "B" category in the American Association of University Professors rat- ing. In 1959-60 Michigan ranked four- teenth in a rating of schools by the amount of state appropriations per stu- dent for operating expenses, of public institutions of higher learning. In 1967- 68, Michigan slumped to thirty-fourth. Both the public and the legislators of the state of Michigan acknowledge that investment in education is a good thing. The problem seems to be that everyone wants to pass the buck. An educational budget is a sort of "hot potato" tossed among parents, students, administrators and finally lobbed into the laps of federal officials. Where the potato stops is any- body's guess, but it is clear the state will get the kind of educational system it pays for. The University has few problems that money would not cure. It is up to the state'legislature to provide the expensive medication that is required. -HENRY GRIX BURIED IN THE LAST paragraph of the New York Times' lengthy lead story yesterday on the cancel- lation of graduate draft deferments was this statement: "There were also fears that the decision on graduate deferments would create diciplinary problems through the induction of students who oppose the Vietnam war." This understatement is probably the most important and least understood impact of the new draft policy. Now, for the first time, the large numbers of college students who have been able to afford the luxury of protesting the war, without being hit by it personally are now in trouble. Like Bobby Kennedy college kids could talk tough against the war and then afford the luxury of. vacationing in Sun Valley. But now the college students graduating after four years or finishing their first year of grad school find there are no more deferments. Plus traditional escape routes like the National Guard and the Reserves are blocked. (The waiting lists in some instances are over a year and a half long.) Moreover the policy of drafting the oldest men out of the draft pool first means that college graduates are going to become the bulk of the draftees during the coming year. John Morse, President of the American Council on Education estimates that the percentage of draftees that are college graduates will rise from the current 5 per cent to 66 per cent. This 1200 per cent increase means that unless a college grad is going on to medical, dental, divinity and veteri- nary studies or has a physical disability he is likely to be drafted soon. Some students will be taken this summer and others will be drafted out of first year graduate stu- dies this fall. Since much of the anti-war movement is in this group and few college men want to go to Vietnam anyway, the new policy may prompt serious disruption. And this year's presidential campaign, which offers little hope of an anti- war candidate from either party, may well provide the background for demonstrations on the 'level of the racial riots in recent years. Some think President Johnson knows this and has deliberately put the Democratic Convention in Chicago's ghetto based Ampitheatre where big demonstrations are a virtual certainty. He figures, the theory goes, that dis- ruption couldevoke a sympathy vote. But even if there are no draft riots in Chicago there may well be riots elsewhere. For every time Johnson or one of his top aides tries to give a major campaign speech he is likely to be picketed. The shape of these disruptions isn't clear. But all the elements are there for riots. Many college graduates don't want to fight. The police are rearming (here in Ann Arbor the county police have organized a riot squad and the city police now have chemical mace). More and more veterans are returning from the war to serve as counter- demonstrators. Clearly these factions will be seeing plenty of each other as the draft induction notices arrive and the campaign progresses. Moreover, even if large numbers of anti-war college students give up and go in, they will make lousy soldiers. (The army knows this and has tried to find a way to get more younger draftees because they are easier to mold.) Many bright college graduates aren't like to take the Army life and the prospect of desertion and more Howard Levys is immediate. Clearly the draft has outlived its usefulness. The cur- rent draft system was set up for a "national emergency' in World War II. It is one thing to conscript young men into the army when the country is clearly under attack. But it is quite another to conscript them to fight an undeclared war against an undeclared enemy in behalf of a reactionary military clique. The administration can try to use the draft to club the college youth into fighting for nothing. But such a policy will only backfire. The draft riots are only going to split the country further apart. The draft is inherently unpopular. To widen the draft to fight the most unpopular war in American history, while cutting out most alternatives to military service (graduate school, national guard) is courting disaster. Unless the war ends and the draft subsides we're all in trouble. Letters: The Opportunism of Expose The Rape of the Lock LONG HAIR ON MEN seems to bother a lot of people nowadays-especially barbers. Branded as "queer," "unnatural," and "subversive," by more enlightened mem- bers of our society, long hair has now come under attack by several of Ann Arbor's barbershops: window posters sporting a Tim Buckley-like physiognamy proclaim: "Keep America Beautiful-Get a Haircut." Freely translated, this means, of course, "Support Your Local Barber's Cash Reg- ister," which has nothing to do with aesthetics, but with exhorbitant prices for minimal talents. Uneven sideburns, mangled backs of necks, botched up hair- styles are nothing new to the barber's profession, but Ann Arbor barbers have standardized these practices to a pre- viously unimagined degree. A haircut per se in this city would make anybody en- tertain visions of hippiedom; coupled with a price-tag of $2.75 and up, the verdict is cold. (Is it possible that there is a correlation between the rise of long hair and the demise of cheap haircuts?) On a more practical level, if the Ann Arbor barbers are trying to lure long- tressed young men under their electric clippers, their poster is hardly the dis- creet way to do it. -STEVE FIRSHEIN To the Editor: DURING MY five-and-a-half yers at Michigan I saw The Daily assume the burden of many causes-some worthy and produc- tive, some irresponsible and -de- structive. I always had the de- stinct impression, however, that you, the editors, were somehow altruistic in your aims, seeking only the ultimate .good of the school and its students. This im- pression has been 'irreparably shattered by the recent "expose" of the so-called infractions in privileges allowed students on ath- letic tender. I am sure that both Mr. Norton and Mr. Kohn must be wallowing in the content thoughts that they are now assured of professional positions with "big city" news- papers when they graduate. I am sure they sleep soundly at night, dreaming eagerly of walking into the office of a sports department with a clipping of their copyright story tucked neatly under their arms. I am equally certain that the thought of what their "re- sponsible reportage" will possibly have done to Michigan athletics is only a fleeting shadow. I'D LIKE to ask the two re- porters if they honestly feel that what they have done is for the ultimate good of the University, its athletics and its students. Or per- haps the only ultimate good they had in mind was their own. I have a very stinking hunch that the latter case is much nearer the truth. And the real crime lies in the fact that a great deal of good could have come from Mr. Norton's and Mr. Kohn's work. One need look only at the record of Big Ten teams against non-conference oponents in the past few years to know that the self-righteous, over- ly-restrictive recruiting and schol- arship rules of the Western Con- ference have done to its competi- tive position. IT SEEMS that the two gentle- men might have done a great benefit by taking the infractions, if indeed they were infractions, and using them as illustrations of just how unrealistic the Big Ten Commissioners have been in set- ting-up their 19th Century stat- utes. Of course if that had been the case then I am sure that I would not be hearing the names "Norton" and "Kohn" mentioned every evening on television, nor would I be reading their words in the Chicago Tribune or New York Times. The only thing I might see would possibly be an earlier re- evaluation, of the Western Confer- ence rules and regulations, and a return of the Big Ten to national intercollegiate predominance - along with the University of Mich- igan. As it is the only ones who will gain from The Daily's "ex- pose" are Mr. Norton and Mr. Kohn, at the possible expense of a great many present and poten- tial athletes. My only reaction now is - sole- ly out of bitterness-that the first sports editor whom Mr. Norton and Mr. Kohn confront in the world of professional journalism is a loyal Michigan or Big Ten alum- nus , who sees the two for what they are: a couple of irresponsible egotists who have sacrificed re- sponsible journalism for personal gain. I only wish I could be there to see them kicked square in their respective typewriters. -Terry L. Bangs, '66, '67AM Sports Kudos To the Editor: THOUGH congenitally indisposed to the writing of notes, here I go again. You've outdone yourself (catchy, original expression, eh?); your item in Sunday's Daily (Feb. 11) is the finest of many fine pieces which you have authored for The Daily. Ithisadmirably trenchant, superbly sensitive and probing, and impressively lucid and cogent-furthermore, it's pret- ty good. I have yet to read any- thing in the Ann Arbor News- and I've' been perusing its pages for nigh on eighteen years-which begins to compare with what you produced last Sunday. Your concept of the full mean- ing of a free press is bold, solid and perceptive and The Daily is the only such press in the com- muity, the only paper to furnish what Lippmann has aptly called the "indispensable opposition." Fortunately, The Daily is not afraid to lift the rug and reveal what is hidden under it-an act of rare courage in a world where too many public figures try to hide too many things which ought not to be hidden from public view. Don't ever be afraid, as Faulkner expressed it, "to raise your voice for honestly and truth and com- passion against injustice and lying and greed." I hope Norton and Kohn aren't ruffled by what that small-time Detroit sportscaster said about them. Apparently, their only "crime" is an honest, thorough job of reporting the facts. Too bad more reporters don't commit such "crimes." -Prof. Edward Shafter, Engineering English ; :-V = 1 " r: " ' j 1 1 t 1 _.. , t I ' I t . a V,. is . ,, Vi , . , . . rte f :! f ; ; r;. : . ' ir ti 14t, i '' ' s.. .7 as'h= :1. !. . f + i . r'' 4i 1II j y '1 Y jf{ k " ;' '. _ ' . c, z ' rr r _ ;"1o-- , +1 , ; '' ^ . :. 'r''- J a I }1 . ... r ; t .15, I., * ' 3+ "'- r-4 BY D~UCKS," this, cannot identify with the so- cialist and anti-colonialist revolu- tion of the progressive Arab coun- tries of Egypt, Algeria, Syria and Yemen. MOREOVER, the dependence of Israel on financial assistance from western Jewish communities fur- ther exacerbates this identificatior of Israel with the West. Wher House Republican leader Gerald Ford suggested that the United States lend Israel a destroyer tc replace the one sunk by Egypt be- cause "Israel has done a pretty good job of trying to bail out U.S. interests in the Middle East"' (De- troit News, Oct. 30, 1967), the re- lationship that Mr. Saltman sees between "Arab Socialism and the Israeli Co-operative Movement" appears of little value until the ideals of the Israeli Co-operative Movement are the same as those of the Israeli government and so ciety. -Abdeen M. Jabara, '62 Minimum Wage To the Editor: PROF. FUSFELD, in his letter of Friday, Feb. 9, 1968, professes to find several serious flaws in my article of Feb. 1. Now we are even, because having taken (survived) several courses in his department I have found more, than several flaws in his arguments, As is typi- cal of most exponents of the "New Economics" Dr. Fusfeld does not read or at least recognize as valid; any study not done by a Keynesian investigator. Otherwise. he 'would be aware of the studies of Yale Brozen, Milton Friedman, and others of the "Chicago School" of economics. More seriously, however, he ig- nores the example in my article of the 5,000 plus persons who will lose jobs with Goodwill Industries as a result of the increase in °the minimum wage. He also maintains that these laws have : not been shown to have any long-term ef- fect. But, surely he does not dis- pute the fact that non-white teen- age unemployment has consistently increased since 1956! Wake up Dr. Fusfeld, Keynesian Economics has been demolished as a valid model and no amount of meaningless jargon, or obfusca- tion will save it. -Gary Barber, '68 All letters must be typed, double-spaced and should be no longer than 300 words. All let- ters are subject to editing; those over 300 words will gen- erally be shortened. No unsign- ed letters will be printed. 4 Ew~ N t OtPT- --i Plaintive Message from o Hpe GAUGING THE temper and mood of a campus isn't always easy. In the fea- tures on student power and radical acti- vism at the university which run in the national big-circulation press, the Uni- versity is mentioned in the same breath with Chicago, Berkeley and Wisconsin. Yet students visiting from other schools agree almost unanimously that the Uni- versity is a dead place. Of course, the students are right. Our demonstrations are rare and bloodless, our dissent sterile, our attempts at re- form stymied by a pragmatic administra- tion which knows how to pacify without giving in on substantive points. The talk is bigger, but the major concerns of stu- dents are still the concerns of the quiet '50's: beer, graduation, and eventually the quiet home in the suburbs. Even so, it is nice to know that our official rhetoric occasionally focuses on serious concerns. When SGC President Bruce Kahn and University Vice-Presi- dent for Student Affairs Richard Cutler traded correspondence publicly last fall, the object of their penmanship was re- solving the question of who should run the school, students or administrators. Compare this letter by the Dean of Women at Hope College, Holland, Mich., to the coeds at that school: Dear Friend: J DON'T KNOW how you young women feel since the panty raid. I wish it hadn't happened. I was ashamed for the boys and certainly disappointed. I had Fall and winter subscription rate: $4.50 per term by carrier ($5 by mail); $8.00 for regular academic school year ($9 by mail). The Daily 18 a membrer of the Associated= Press and hoped that the young men at Hope could find a more wholesome outlet for their youthful exuberance. The spectacle of young men whom one has learned to en- joy and admire, shouting under the win- dows of their own and other men's sweet- hearts for their panties still makes me feel a little ill. I wasn't very proud of some of you young women, either. I still find it un- thinkable that lovely young women could be so carried away as to lose all sense of propriety and self-respect - yes and fastidiousness as to throw out their most intimate clothing to young men whom they would be meeting the next day. For those of you who aided and abetted and urged the men on, think again how closely your actions bordered on the ques- tionable--to say the least!! I know that none of us can be exactly sure how we would act under certain circumstances-particularly under social pressures. However, actions triggered at times like these have -a way of haunting us and leave a distasteful flavor in the calm light of reason. THERE IS NOTHING very pretty about - a mob, even a fairly good humored one, for always in a mob cowards lurk and there is a thin veneer of control that separates the best of us from animal behavior. A mob often serves as a cover for those who are weak, where personal integrity and personal identity is lost in a nameless, faceless crowd. However, none of us can escape the responsibility of our actions. There comes a time when we must face publicly or in our own hearts the result of thoughtless, irresponsible actions. I pray you young women never will have to face a mob, for even a good humored but irresponsible and misguided Black' Anniversary To the Editor: This letter is to inform you that as a matter of human inter- est; as indeed an emblem of the mood and attitude of Blacks in America; as a reminder of this prevailing mood, February 21, 19- 68, will be a day spent in com- memoration of one' of the most vital and inspiring links in our, Black people's, chain of rebellion for freedom: February 21, 1968, the anniversary of Our Brother Malcolm X. Malcolm X was one who lived and pledged his life to the philosophy, the cause of Black Power - self - determination of Blacks. The Afro-American Liberation Movement requests that all Black students not attend classes on that day, urges that Black parents keep' their children away from school, and, bids all Black bro- thers and sisters to wear, as a symbol of mourning, arm bands with the Nationalist colors: red, green, and black. -Winnie C. Beasley, Afro-American Liberation Movement Israeli Dispute To the Editor: M R. SALTMAN in his article, "A Solution to the Middle East Agony," (Feb. 11) makes the same fundamental error (?) as others on the political left who are still smarting from the condem- nations of /the "Zionist imperialist war" by black nationalists in the U.S. This error is inductive, one of reasoning that the kibbutzim are socialist, ergo Israel is socialist and the progessive Arab countries and Israel have their adherence to so- cialist ideals as a basis for a solu- tion to "the Middle East Agony." 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