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 The Week Revisited: It Could Be Worse Where Opinions Are Free, 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. Truth Will Prevail NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 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 25, 1968 NIGHT EDITOR: WALLACE IMMEN The Grad School's Draft Arithmetic GEN. LEWIS HERSHEY'S directive to local draft boards ending graduate deferments and continuing the policy of inducting the oldest eligible men first has sent graduate deans throughout the country scurrying around redoing enroll- ment projections and reshuffling cost estimates. Graduate school officials here have devised an involved rationale for con-4 cluding that next year at this time the University will be educating the same number of graduate students, even if some 250,000 male graduate students across the country have their educational plans cut short. According to Scientific Manpower Commission, a private research agency, the new Hershey ruling will make 433,000 graduate students under age 26 eligible for the draft. This figure includes 187,000 graduating college seniors, 144,000 first year graduate students, 74,000 students who haven't started the second year of graduate study and an additional 28,000 students who will receive their master's degrees this year. CURRENT DEFENSE Department esti- mates also show that the draft call for the year beginning next July will be over 240,000. However, if the troop ceiling for Vietnam is raised to 700,000 or above, draft calls will probably have to be hiked further. According to graduate school officials, only one-third of the current class of graduate students would be eligible for the draft under the new ruling. Of this one-third, 40 per cent are actually ex- pected to be inducted. This assumes that the local draft boards will not draft the one-third of the graduates who are over 26 years of age. According to Selective Service regula- tions, graduate students who have taken 2-S deferments are draft eligible until age 35. Past practice would indicate, how- ever, that draft boards do not take eligi- ble males past 26 because of the training difficulties. The other one-third of the graduate school students are women. PRIOR TO THE Hershey announcement, the University was already projecting an increase in the size of graduate en- rollment in accord with the general rise in the size of college enrollments across the country. Some departments have already been asked to accept more students in their programs, with a definite preference for two-year master's candidates, so as to assure spots for returning veterans. This increase in the number of admissions will hopefully compensate for the loss in in- ductees. ALL THIS RESHUFFLING is being done to persuade a cynical state Legisla- ture that the University will have enough graduate students to meet the enrollment projections they have submitted to the state. Since appropriations are usually computed roughly on a per student basis, the Hershey ruling could hit the Univer- sity hard in the pocketbook, besides caus- ing the loss of many of its finest graduate students. -MARK LEVIN Editor President Fleming Mark Schreiber -Axel Kappes Sheriff Harvey Dean Spurr Richard Tobin Py the Editorial Directors O F LATE, it's been getting pretty hard to gather together enough courage to face the morn- ing's Daily. With a steady progression of uniformly bad news emanating from Vietnam, Washington, and the University's own Administra- tion Building, the times have not been conducive for happy news- papers. It's almost as if the University, the country, and the world have been having a kind of sack race to see which can get to hell in a handbasket faster. With the news generally run- ning along these lines, it's refresh- ing to find a week in which thinigs didn't get worse. Conse- quently we'll ignore the big, bad world outside of Ann Arbor and parochially focus our attentions on the week on campus. Especial- ly since this week's campus in- anity quotient was exceptionally high. IN TERMS of long range sig- nificance this week's biggest story is one which links the cam- pus to the nation and the world that we're messing up. And that is the cresting of the reaction to General Hershey's recent deci- sion to revoke draft deferments for almost all graduate students. At a time when universities such as Stanford are estimating that the new draft policy could cost them as many as 85 per cent of their graduate students, the Uni- versity has remained an isle of relative tranquility. For example, Byron Groesbeck, associate dean of the graduate school, confidently predicted that at most only one-sixth of the University's graduate students would be eligible for the draft. This buoyant optimism was shared by Dean Stephen H. Spurr of the graduate school, who also contended that graduate enroll- ment would be little affected by the change in draft policy. Using what appeared to be the same figures cited by Groesbeck, Spurr contended that out of 2100 students admitted last Septem- ber, only 350 will be inducted this year. If these statistics are correct, fine. But if any of the elements Quotes of the Week Negro History Hysteria NOW THAT THE University is going to offer a course in Negro history, it is only reasonable to expect proponents of the course to stop accusing the history department of bigotry and obstructionism. But it seems that those who would make the offering of such a course a political rather than an academic issue are not content that the history professor most qualified to teach it has offered to do so. In an article by Richard Ross submit- ted for publication in Friday's Daily by members of Negro fraternities and so- rorities, the hitherto confused and un- coordinated Negro history campaign sunk to a level of pettiness unsurpassed by its former efforts. Showing an incredible lack of under- standing of how the academic depart- ments of the University function, the article alternated between trying to ex- plain why the course should be called "History of the Negro American" (as op- posed, for example, to "History of the American Negro") and flinging insults at department chairman W. B. Willcox. BUT WHAT many people, including Ross, do not know is that no department ever offers a course-a professor does. No departmental edict, the history professors point out, will make a single one of them teach a course he does not want to teach. Prof. William Freehling, long interested in American race relations, proved happy to offer a course in the subject when he found that students were interested in taking it. But the major failing of the demands advocates of a Negro history course make lies in their basic understanding of what history is all about. THE UNIVERSITY does not need a Negro history course to make sure that the role of the Negro is "totally integrated into American history text- books." The University needs a course in Negro history because, as Prof. Sam Warner has pointed out, studying the history of the Negro race in America is important in trying to achieve an understanding of "how we got into the mess we're in today." Above all, any other Negro history course than the kind Dr. Freehling has planned would be any inexcusable per- version of history as an academic disci- pline. THERE IS NO reason for a vigorous his- tory department like the University's to have to submit to the demands of this kind of militant ethno-centrism. -JENNY STILLER IT WAS A hard choice, but it had to be made. Although reaction to the recent draft announcement dominated the week's news, and offered some superbly quotable lines, the quote of the week award must go to Washtenaw County Sheriff Doug- las J. Harvey, whose penchant for the mellifluous phrase never served his better this week in a comment on the county jail's in- corrigible cell.' In response to an order to close the cell from state corrections department head Gus Harrison, Harvey said: "As a police officer, I'm nat- urally suspicious. I can't help but wonder if Mr. Harrison isn't suddenly starting to wilt from a little heat applied by some of the local subversive minorities." Rev. Erwin Gaede, the Unitarian minister whose campaign to close the incorrigible cell prompted Harvey's remark, must have been mildly shocked. Not since Ralph Waldo Emerson publicly applaud- ed John Brown's Raid over a hun- dred years ago had there been inferences linking Unitarians and subversives. Meanwhile, Mr. Harrison. slow- ly wilting away in Lansing, was equally dumbfounded. Why had Mr, Harrison ordered the cell closed? "We don't think any hu- man being should be put through that (the conditions of the "hole")." Why, since the cell has existed for 40 years, hadn't he issued the order sooner? Risking accusations of incompetence, Har- rison said, "I didn't know it existed." Didn't his office inspect the jail? "My inspector of course knew it was there; but he didn't have any reason to think it was being used." No comment. If Mr. Harrison's comments seemed to demonstrate that the line between incompetence and "playing dumb" in self-defense was hard to draw, other events of the week confirmed that the ploy, far from being exclusively Mr. Harrison's, was a common admin- istrative technique. So that when Assistant Dean Byron Groesbeck was asked to calculate the effect drafting grad students would' have on the Uni- versity's graduate schools and programs, G r o e s b e c k affected composure. Although Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey has been insisting that next year's grad students would be "the blind, the lame, the halt, and the fe- male" Groesbeck, with an' eye to the great pocketbook in Lansing, insisted that only one-sixth of the University's graduate students would be affected. But the ambivalent Mr. Groes- beck wins not only cunning quote of the week. For his keen insights into international affairs, he must also be awarded ingenuous quote of the week. Witness: "There musthbe sound rea- sons for what the National Se- curity Council did. It seems to me they wouldn't have done something so harsh to the grad- uate schools unless the in- ternational situation was very serious." Never fear, Dr. Groesbeck. That eternal optimist, Robben W. Flem- ing, also had his eye on the world scene. In the fatherly, reassuring tones to which students in Flem- ing's short tenure as President have already become accustomed, Fleming thought out loud, "I won- der whether Hershey really had the blessings of the White House. This may not be the final word." In fact, for typical Fleming quotes, it was a great week. For several weeks, those who have fol- lowed the new president's exploits through the infancy of his ad- ministration have noticed that Fleming's public statements tend toward the equivocal. Only this week, however, did they hear the archtypical Fleming equivocation. It was almost as if Fleming had coined the word. Pre- viously, the mental image con- jured up by the word "equivocal" was the two-headed Russian dog Walt Kelly drew in Pogo several years ago-one head could only say "da," the other "nyet." Then there was Fleming. Asked what he thought of .the faculty resolution at the University of Chicago de- manding that that school with- draw from the Institute for De- fense Analysis, Fleming said, "the questions being raised by the Chi- cago people are the same ones that I am raising." Then for a chaser, "though I have looked into this, I have not yet found that there is somehow an evil relationship" between universities and IDA. Inane hyperbole of the week goes to SGC presidential candi- date Mark Schreiber, who said of the upcoming Day of Deliberation: "This is the first time in the history of the University that students have been confronted with a purely moral issue." (This would have been awarded inane hyperbole of all time ex- cept that the Chicago Tribune, which humbly calls itself "World's Greatest Newspaper," pre-empted that award several years ago.) Saturday Review managing edi- tor Richard Tobin, who spoke on campus this week, wins two awards: the Marshall McLuhan quote of the year trophy for "I have a feeling it may be fashion- able to read again," and the De- prived Childhood consolation prize for "Movies were forbidden to me. I never did see The Shiek." Understatement of the week: ex-Graduate Assembly President Roy Ashmall. Referring to an- other Hershey, draft announce- ments-that local boards will es- tablish their own occupational de- ferments - and the University's sanguine effort to put the whole mess in a good light: "I don't give that much credit for literacy to the local boards." K e n Barnhill,. manager of Apartments Limited, had the most hackneyed line. Confronting over 50 complaining student tenants in the firm's office, Barnhill quipped "This seems to be a failure to communicate." While the last quote didn't win an award, it did raise some eye- brows around the Board in Con- trol of Student Publications. It belongs to Bill Krauss, outgoing Daily business manager. Asked in a telephone interview from his villa in Rio De Janiero to reflect on his experiences as a senior editor said Thursday that the year had been "very rewarding" for the senior business staff. in the statistical balancing act go awry, it could be a year of havoc in the grad school. HOWEVER, THE REACTION of the Administration was dwarfed by the student response.- Reflecting the philosophy that there is no problem which cannot be forthrightly resolved by the stalwarts of Graduate Assembly and Student Government Council, both groups called for a Day of Deliberation March 19 and a boy- cott of classes March 20 to pro- test the war and the draft. While the sponsors of these two days of fun and games have taken on a distinctly moralistic tone about the purity of their inten- tions, it does not take too much perspicacity to see a germ of self- interest underneath all this hue and cry. It is ironic that the concerned students have waited until gen- eral Hershey revoked their defer- ments to start deliberating on the merits of the draft. One seriously wonders whether anyone would be interested in draft teach-ins if the Army was able to get its tra- ditional quota of poor Southern whites. Far more relevant to the real problem, would be a teach-in in- vestigating whether there is any way to alter governmental poli- cies. For while a Day of Delibera- tion may aid Mark Schreiber's SGC campaign and make the other organizers feel morally vir- tuous, its impast on the world will be no greater than the long sequence of campus teach-ins and protests. However, any event which brings the Reverend William Sloane Coffin to Ann Arbor can't be all bad. THE FIRST INSTALLMENT of what seems to be Michigan's an- swer to disruptive demonstrations against certain campus recruiters was unveiled this week as a rep- resentative of Dow Chemical Com- pany defended the production of napalm at an open forum. The rationale for the stultifying two-hour session in the eyes of the local radicals was that these for- ums could provide a mechanism to initiate discussion of relevant is- sues and provide an opportunity to confront corporation and gov- ernmental representatives as well. The audience was never certain what it wanted to do with the rather ineffectual Dow represen- tative it was confronting. After trying for a half an hour to bait him or catch him in a logical contradiction by posing hypotheti- cal queries, the 100 people gath- ered there realized there was lit- tle point to the entire charade. Since they couldn't change his mind and he represented little corporate power, they tried ignor- ing him and discussing America's foreign policy. The only problem was that there weren't more than a dozen people present who didn't share the same anti-government foreign policy orientation. So unless one wanted to use the session to per- feet the refinements of one's for- eign policy schema, there was very little point to the whole thing. Judging from the Dow experi- ence, open forums are not to be highly recommended either for the enlightenment they provide or their entertainment value. A CONFRONTATION which made the Dow forum look ef- fective by comparison was the one between the valiant heroes who comprise the Student Housing As- sociation (SHA) and the evil men rent from Apartments Limited. Dauntlessly led by Mike Koen- eke - another SGC Presidential hopeful - 50 students poured into the Apartments Limited office and presented petitions signed by over 1,000 students who pledged not to sign A 1968 lease with the rental agency. This sounds impressive until we remember that over 35,000 stu- dents are apparently willing to rent from Apartments Lifited. While the progress of the hous- ing boycott is difficult to assess, it just doesn't seem likely that Apartments Limited will be so in- timidated by a short disruption of their office that they will wil- lingly give up the financial bene- fits of the 12-month lease. THE PSYCHODRAMA-of-the- week award has to go to the Fac- ulty Assembly's resolute decision not to hold an open meeting, but honorable mention should be re- served for the "Robben Head" playlet presented by some of the thespians in Voice. While the only real effect of the skit was to enliven the tradition- ally bland fare of a President's tea, the avowed purpose of the presentation was to protest Uni- versity classified research in gen- eral and our membership in the Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA) in particular. In regard to IDA, President Robben W. Fleming forthrightly spoke his mind on our participa- tion in the 12-school research con- sortium at a 25 cents a, plate luncheon at the Guild House. A close textual analysis of the President's carefully - couched words seems to indicate that he is considering recommending that the University follow the lead of the University of Chicago and withdraw from the group. But like the ideal modern ad- ministrator Fleming carefully kept his options open. Fleming can still recommend our withdrawal from the service center for the Defense Depart- ment at the April 20 Regents meeting. One wishes for confi- dence that Fleming will. But the real highpoint of the week came when SGC postponed the petitioning deadline for all those vitally important posts which are up for grabs. While this may be just another example of the fantastic enthusiasm which our campus legislature generates, perhaps the move reflects an in- ability to face Johnson-Nixon and Koeneke-Schreiber elections in the same year. wI 14 4 A Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48104. The Daily is a member of the Associated Press and Collegiate Press Service. Daily except Monday during regular academic school year. i Newsweek's 'Megaversity': It Ain't Necessarily So .. . By CAROLYN MIEGEL Associate Editorial Director rrIS WEEK, Newsweek pro- moted the University of Mich- igan, as well as the other Big Ten schools, from the rank of multiversity to a "megaversity," a distinction that seems to rank with the conversion of a prison into an insane asylum. Bemoaning the demise of those small cloistered havens of "qual- ity education," the news magazine characterizes the megaversity as the education of the IBM card and the closed circuit TV - an educational machine that replaces the humanity of Socrates with electronics. ling errors, the large dormitories and the use of teaching fellows - to see the value of the large university and its real problems. THE BIG TEN schools, as well as Berkeley (not included except superficially in Newsweek's sup- perficial analysis of the megaver- sity) loom as "post-sputnik con- glomerates," the 1984 model of higher education. However fright- ening their image, these univer- sities serve important functions besides "big-time football, frater- nity beerblasts and agricultural extensions," even if those funct- ions have become institutionaliz- ed. sciences, physical sciences, and engineering; Michigan in human- ities, social sciences, and biological sciences, and Wisconsin in social sciences and biological sciences. But however statistically-sta- tused, the megaversity still suf- fers from "sheer size and dehum- anization." "The dehumanization effect" is not always the fault of the meg- aversity itself - but the state legislatures, who grant the funds, a act glazed over by Newsweek! ACCORDING to Newsweek, "pri- vate colleges have been caught in the treadmill of soaring costs and fund drives," but "the public uni- sent-minded professor with wire- rim glasses and socks that don't match. A "kindly" man who "does not take himself too seriously," Fleming is a friendly, ineffectual sort of guy here at Michigan. What Newsweek seem to forget, especial- ly when they call the - University of Wisconsin the "best-if not the bigest of the Big Ten"-is that Fleming was chancellor of the Madison campus, Wisconsin's largest branch, before he came to Michigan. It appears Newsweek reporters interviewed maybe eight students and then picked the most quotable response as representative. At Wisconsin a student "drives in" t t 4 _ 'SC4.f' _ r _: ': _ '>