lk dF- Q, r trtgan 1Bally 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 WGALT ER LIPPM ANN - U.S. Globali*sm And the Draft' -~ ~ 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, MARCH 24, 1968 NIGHT EDITOR: JIM HECK rrrrw ++ +ir.aw+rw 1 The Right To Vote: Students Are Citizens Too MANY UNIVERSITY s t u d e n t s over twenty-one are barred from voting by a Michigan statute which states a person may neither gain nor lose a resi- dence while a member of the University. This statute must be fought at any and all judicial and legislative levels because it denies students their constitutional right to participate in government merely because they seek to improve themselves by attending the University. Students should be allowed to vote in Pressuring The Legislature STUDENT GOVERNMENT Council is launching a dual pronged campaign attempting to convince the Legislature to restore cuts made in the University's budget appropriation. To add effective- ness to the campaign students should organize a third prong of influence. SGC plans to work through University alumni and through personal discussion with legislators to gain support for res- toration of the cuts. Students should or- ganize a letter writing campaign to in- fluence the law makers. Parents of. in-state students and those students who are registered voters should contact their representatives to urge that the University be allocated a sufficient amount of funds. This pressure in addi- tion to the drives being organized by SGC would provide a valuable lobby for the University. The state Senate has approved a $61.3 million appropriation for the University. University officials have indicated that if the $3.4 million cut made by the Senate i not restored, a $348 tuition hike for out-state students would be neces- sary. While the financial pinch caused by the cuts would affect out-state students most, in-state students and Michigan residents would also be hurt. The new tuition proposed by the legislators would be the second highest out-state tuition in the country, one which many present and future students would be unwilling and unable to pay. A DECLINE IN out-state students who face tougher entrance competition, particularly at the graduate level would mean a decline in the calibre and diver- sity of the school. If out-state students leave, the faculty who would rather work with a top-notch student body, will also leave. Eventually the entire University and state would suffer from the loss. The argument that out-state students are getting a partial free ride since they do not pay state taxes is erroneous. IT IS NOT in the best interest of the state to either cut University appro- priations or force a tuition hike. The Legislature must be informed of how large a segment of the voting population holds this view. Students, with the aid of their parents, must exert every pressure they can on the state Legislature to in- sure that the appropriation cuts are restored. -ROB BEATTIE Ann Arbor, but under the statute, the City Clerk has often refused to register them. One common argument against allow- ing students to vote is that they are merely guests of the community and will not remain here after graduation. While it is true that most do not re- main after graduating, this argument neglects the fact that students live in Ann Arbor far longer than some people who are, nonetheless, allowed to vote. For example, a non-student could move into Ann Arbor 60 days before an election and still be allowed to vote, if he came to the city 30 days before the 30-day moratorium on registration pre- ceding the election went into effect. On the 30th day he would be a legal resident of the city and would be entitled to register. After the election he could conceivably leave the city. ON THE OTHER hand, a student over twenty-one who comes to the Uni- versity to do graduate work may stay in the city for over four years without being allowed to vote. Furthermore, since students spend the majority of their time in Ann Arbor, the U.S. Bureau of the Census started count- ing students as residents of the city in whichtheir university is located. The effect of this switch is that addi- tional sales and income taxes collected by the state are rebated to the city. Yet the student has no say in how these funds, collected from him, are used. In addition, student interest in city government parallels the interest of other members of the community. Both are interested in improving public trans- portation, and the enforcement of build- ing codes, as well as generally making Ann Arbor a better place to live. To obtain the voice in Ann Arbor gov- ernment which students over twenty- one should have, eight University stu- dents who were not allowed to register by the City Clerk have brought their case to court. However, at the opening session of the hearing Friday, it became apparent that the County Circuit Court would not at- tack the state law, but merely work within its confines. This was because a ruling upholding the law had already been made by the State Supreme Court in a similar case, THUS THE ACLU sponsored case may lead to an appeal to the State Su- preme Court and, possibly, to the U.S. Supreme Court. The plaintiffs should be encouraged to follow through with their appeals should they become necessary. Hopefully, they will succeed in securing for stu- dents that basic right of our American democracy-the right to vote. -MARTIN HIRSCHMAN Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 120 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48104. The Daily is a member of the Associated Press, Collegiate Press Service and Liberation News Service. Daily except Monday during regular academic school year.1 Daily except Sunday and Monday during regular summer session. Fall and winter subscription rate: $4.50 per term by carrie: ($5 by mail); $8.00 for regular academic school year ($9 by mal). ... iWrr r r nrrwri Latest Vietnam War Victim Letters to the Editor An Inside View of ROTC AMONG THE various explana- tions of the war in Vietnam, the grandest is that the United States has fallen heir to the role which Britain played in the nine- teenth century: the guardian of the peace, the promoter of law and order, the defender against aggression and protector of the weak. Since Britain has had to re- linquish this global, mission, the United States in its power, wealth and righteousness has been ap- pointed to take over the glory and the burden. Only a few tactless Englishmen have called this the glory and burden of empire. The word has been taboo, and a purified circum- locution is to speak of the United States as the organizer of world peace. There are many Americans who do not accept the idea of the British succession. But true be- lievers say that the dissenters lack a sense of historic mission, that they would shirk the responsibili- ties of power, that they ignore morality and honor and are paci- fists and isolationists. This would be quite justified if it could be shown that it is possi- ble for the United States to do in the second half of the twentieth century what the true believers think Great Britain did in the nineteenth century. But that is not an easy idea to sustain, for it is imposible to show that Britain ever involved itself in the kind of war that we have involved ourselves in. And it is impossible to show that this war can organize even as much peace as Britain organized, in spite of the many wars she did not pre- vent and in which she did not in- tervene. The strongest argument for the notion of the British succession is that there will be great disorder In human affairs if there is no global arbiter and policeman. The argument is true enough. For 2,000 years since the Roman Empire, Western men have dreamed of a universal power which would en- force universal order. But even Rome ruled only part of the world. There has never been a universal order, and insofar as Americans from Woodrow Wilson to 'Lyndon Johnson and Dean Rusk have com- mitted the nation to this dream, they have led it astray. They have set up false goals and diverted the nation from the less grandiose ob- jectives which it might be able to achieve. BECAUSE the world would be at peace if there were a global judge and policeman, it does not follow that any nation ever has played or ever can play that role. The plain fact is that the British analogy is false. The British played a much more modest and prudent role than the doctrine of the Brit- ish succession implies. Those who believe in the British succession, and invoke the British analogy for our struggle in Viet- nam, overlook an obvious but de- cisive difference between Britain's role in the nineteenth century and ours under President Johnson. It is that Britain performed her global tasks, such as they were, without conscripting her forces. Britain relied on volunteers and professional soldiers and merce- naries. Nobody dreamed of draft- ing the young men of the British Isles to police the world, The Vietnamese war is a very important departure from the British example. Those who don't see the difference should remem- ber that as long as our intervention in Vietnam was performed with volunteer professionals, which was for the first year under Mr. John- son, there were only a few critics. Nothing like the present dissent and revulsion existed then. The country is increasingly against the war because the Johnson Administration is act- ing on, the unexamined as- sumption that men can be draft- ed for war wherever the gov- ernment decides to wage it. This is a huge fallacy which ignores the lessons of experience. Conscription in the Western world was not attempted until the French Revolution, and it was in- stituted as a defense of the home- land against foreign invasion. Al- though conscription for foreign adventures was then used by Napoleonic France and by Prussia, conscription has rarely been em- ployed and has rarely been success- ful except where there was a clear connection with the defense of the country. Thus, if Japan had not attacked the American Navy in an American harbor, President Roose- velt could not easily have sent large conscript armies across the seas. The British never conscripted Britons during the era of British global responsibilities. President Johnson is trying to do what the British never attempted to do. He is fighting a war that cannot be won, if it can be won at all, with- out conscripting an enormous army and transporting it halfway around the world. THIS IS THE ROOT of our in- ternaltrouble. The President is confronted with the resistance, open or passive, of the whole mili- tary generation, their teachers, their friends, their families. The attempt to fight a distant war by conscription is producing a de- moralization which threatens the very security of the nation. No one living today has seen a time when it was fashionable not to go to a war and entirely acceptable to avoid it. In all the other wars of this century it was the fashion for young men to go. (C) 1968, The Washington Post Co. 4 4 To the Editor: AM AMAZED at how much Mr. Landsman (Daily, March 9) is able to learn about the quality of a course and teacher .in the one short period that he spent in my Naval Science 302 class. It usually takes me three or four classes to decide whether or not a class is worth going to. Since in my three years in the Navy ROTC program. I have loggedaabout 400 times as many hours in Naval Science class as Landsman, I feel qualified and obligated to disagree with him on a few points. First of all, concerning the dif- ficulty of the courses, I would have to rate the average Naval Science course on a par -with most of the lit school courses I have taken with regard to difficulty and amount of work required. I will grant that with any effort at all Naval Sci- ence can be passed but it is not easy to get an "A" either. In my N.S. ,102 course two years ago, there were four "A's" in a class of nearly 60. This seems to me at least as difficult as the average freshman course at the University. Concerning quality of instruc- tors, Landsman implies that a man without a PhD. is not very qualified to teach and that imme- diately upon receiving his doctor- ate, he miraculously becomes a highly qualified teacher. I submit that a Naval Science instructor is every bit as much an expert in his field as a math professor with his PhD. With few exceptions, my Navy ROTC instructors have been much more interesting, much more informative, and much more will- ing to help a student than the professors I have had in my sever- al courses in the math department. LANDMAN'S statement concern- ing the "conflicting goals" of the engineering students and the liter- ary college students in Naval Sci- ence seems to contradict the Uni- versity's goals of a broad educa- tion, The outcry has been for en- gineers to take more non-technical courses and for the humanities or social science majors to take some technical courses. As far as the goals of the Uni- versity and ROTC being mutually inconsistent goes, I was under the impression that a primary goal of the University is to educate and train students for a future career as a contributing member of so- ciety. Lastly, to Landman's statement '. to train -officers in no way requires education of the quality... on which the University must in- sist," I can only ask how he could possibly know what is required to train officers and how this com- pares to the rather nebulous level of quality on which the University must insist. -David P. Troup, '69 NSF Registration To the Editor: ]PIS WEEK members of thir- teen national professional so- cieties are receiving biennial ques- tionnaires to be filled out for the National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel. The data re- quested pertain to education, pro- fessional employment, principal areas of research and/or teaching, income, and knowledge of foreign languages and countries. Under the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, the N.S.F. is required to ". . . maintain a Register of scientific and technical personnel and in other ways pro- vide a central clearing house for information covering all scientific and technical personnel in the United States . . .". The Register may then be used ". . . not only to obtain an up-to-date'profile of our profession, but to identify those whose special knowledge and abil- ity might suddenly be of para- mount importance to our Nation." As a matter of moral principle, particularly in a time of ever-in- creasing emphasis upon the mili- tary aspect of our existence as a nation, I question the wisdom of complying with the request of the National Register. I suggest that others who dislike the idea of having strings attached to their particular interests and talents to be pulled upon at the "proper" time do likewise. --Darrel J. MacConnell, Research Associate The Legislature EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a letter sent to Rep. Thomas Sharpe (R-Howell). IN THE MARCH 21, 1968, issue of The Daily you were quoted as saying, "Just how willing should Michigan citizens be to provide ever increasing amounts of their hard-earned tax dollars for a uni- versity to which they no longer dare send their sons for fear of the infectious philosophies of de facto treason, or their daughters for fear of pregnancy?" There are a few facts which we feel you should familiarize your- self with. First, there exists near your office an institution called Michigan State University. We have good reason to believe that the promiscuityquotient at that institution is substantially higher than at Michigan. SECOND, your insinuation that Michigan students are traitors in- dicates you have been misinformed. In the best American tradition we are primarily interested in preserv- ing freedom and liberty in our so- ciety. In our opinion certain in- vestigative agencies constitute the present-day threat to the freedom of the individual. Their actions, and your remarks, are in the best Nazi-Communist tradition. -T. Michael Turner, '70 -John H. Brockett, '68 v0 Political Oldies, But Goodies By WALTER SHAPIRO and JENNY STILLER IF THERE IS ONE political lesson to be learned from this decade, it is the acute danger of having a strong President running the country. Ascour involvement in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic have proven, any American intervention in the Third World is fraught with peril for everyone involved. And as most ghetto residents will testify, our domestic record is little better. It therefore seems reasonable that what this country really needs is a good do-nothing Presi- dent who, if he wouldn't change the world for the better, at least wouldn't do any harm. And these days how much more can one reasonably expect? The only way to insure this is to have a President who physically is incapable of taking any action at all. This President must have infirm advisers unable to take the initiative away from their peer- less leader. IN THIS CRUCIAL election year, when it seems increasingly likely that the country is headed for a choice between Johnson and Nixon, it is time for the creation of a new political party to allow the people to opt for total in- action. Luckily for the nation and the world, America is equal 'to this vital challenge. For we have wait- ing in the wings a number of highly trained men, and one in- domitable woman, with long ex- perience in and around ,govern- ment, though currently out of politics. This highly qualified team of governmental experts-most of whom are at least octogenarians -could very easily form the nu- cleus of a Grand and Really Old Party (GROP) which could lead America to unprecedented heights of inaction in the years ahead. A new generation has emerged (b. 1877) of Arizona. For a grand and really old cabinet, we recommend: Secretary of State-Walter Lipp- man (b. 1889). Pretending for years to have held this post, the great pundit is uniquely qualified. Secretary of. Defense-Dwight David Eisenhower (b. 1890). There is little else that can be done with old soldiers in the process of fad- ing away. Secretary of the Treasury- Jos- eph Kennedy (b. 1888). Long ex- perienced in handling large sums of money, he would also be ef- fective in keeping the rambunc- tious junior senator from New York in line.- 4 Secretary of Labor-John L. Lewis (b. 1880). The former presi- dent of the United Mine Workers will become the most controversial person to hold the post since Fran- ces Perkins. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare AlexanderRuthven (b. 1882). Harlan Hatcher's prede- cessor would bring to the post the abilities generally associated with beingyPresident of this great Uni- versity. . Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs-Robert Moses (b. 1888). No urban problem is too great to be solved by a twb-pronged ap- proach of a Triboro Bridge and another's World's Fair. FEIFFER NlOW m"W 6"5 CAB Wa p- WE EM.) MOTrOP i -nS ; 6LR U&11W- WE) LIIJ TII&E A~Ts Mt MikJLS cF 111E WLU VIt5iANM PGEP-" WHICfl PUTS V&)(R CVQCCgI1ROL $1&)CU 7AlJVARY OIEiA COUMLIJDV TOTAL O 62,q87 HEAT > AIJL? M!WDJL2 , As of THS r70E OUR' UEARTS AM MIM12G' GOQlT tS 12X78 H (S Ll Tf IEL, 2S6OdOQ UML2fJc?- 'President' Thomas 'Vice President' Hayden Attorney General-Hugo Black (b. 1886). No better antidote ex- ists to unchecked Presidential power than the last of that great school of men who believe in inter- preting the Constitution literally. Secretary of the Interior-Alice Roosevelt Longworth (b. 188?). The eldest daughter of the first Pres- ident Roosevelt, the, Grand Dame of Washington is outspoken on conservation and almost every- thing else. Seretary nf Agriculture-Alf Secretary of Transportation-- Eddie Rickenbacker (b. 1890). The office's duties would effectively prevent the World War I ace pilot from adding any more to his auto- biography. In addition to this all-star cabi- net, one additional appointment is worthy of mention. In making Alexander Kerensky (b. 1881) am- bassador to Russia, the United States would take a step toward finally understanding that enig- matic country. And as a native- I ~ 10- - zr , ...0-tr a izcco MWO9$N V 0OY Gtr ARU 6M)MG bl6HT AT TH £ M? 1PbIWUL. \ OF 7 6 -.. f.I- A