lor"m ON" " - M"- -." " Severnty-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: The Fourth Annuual Edgar Awards . r. ":.".:vr "men"":::::::."." :":.".":.".:.S-S . . .. . . Where Opinions Are Free, 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. Truth Will Prevail 40MXAt3S. N Ri Vtx 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, JANUARY 14, 1968 NIGHT EDITOR: PAT O'DONOHUE A 'U' Presidential Veto TWO SERIOUS QUESTIONS of Regen- tal consent and administrative legal- ity have arisen from President Robben Fleming's decision this week to prevent the Residence Halls Board of Governors' ruling on visitation policy from going into effect. The ruling, which permits students to decide whom they want in their rooms when, had seemed to be the legitimate conclusion of the progres- sive University reform of archaic student behavior rules. Now, as the ruling hangs in limbo by unilateral edict, the faulty logic in the administration's actions be- comes apparent. Fleming claims that when he and the Regents held their little chat a week ago Friday, they told him specifically that they did not want the decision to go into effect. Apparently when that question came up he either didn't count all the hands or didn't make it clear what he intended to do. Regent Gertrude Hueb- ner says she assumed the Board of Governors decision would 'be in effect until the open Regents hearing with student, Jan. 18. Regent William Cudlip says that it's academic-he didn't know and apparently doesn't care. Regent Robert Briggs says he's been away and doesn't know what's in effect and what isn't. THEN THERE'S THAT little black book labelled the Regents By-laws, which is supposed to be the final word on any question of priorities and decision-mak- ing at the University. Section 30.03 specifically states that the Board of Governors shall be the law- making body for all matters pertaining to rules of conduct in the dormitory. Although Student Government Council and many students would question that power, it did seem that the Administra- tion was moving in the right direction with the Board of Governors on visitation and curfew. Boarct of Governors spokesman Prof. Frank Braun of the German department says that he and all the other board members (four faculty, two student rep- The Daily is a member of the Associated 'ress and Collegiate Prss Service. Fall and winter subscription rate: $4.50 per term by carrier ($5 by mail); $8.00 for regular academic school year ($9 by mail). Daily except Monday during regular academic School year. Daily except Sunday and Monday during regular summer session. Second class pnstage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 420 Maynard St, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48104. resentatives have votes) intrepret the by-laws to mean that they have the power to make the decision, and that there is no reason why that decision would ndt be in effect until the Regents would overturn it. And up until last Tuesday, Housing Director John Feld- kamp was singing the same tune. Then came the announcement of the open meeting. and immediately and myster- iously Fleming-through Feldkamp-de- cided the board's decision was negated. Indeed, the answer Fleming gave to support his move-"the Regents want to review the case"-points out exactly why he does not have the legal authority to negate anything. For Fleming is just as responsible to the Regents as the Board of Governors-and only that august body from whence all power is legally derived can make decisions like the one Fleming took upon himself to make. Indeed, the very principal University officials so of- ten site as, the justification for adminis- trators---that there must be clear defin- ing of authority-is violated by Fleming's pre-emptory edict. THERE IS A great deal of doubt, as Prof. Braun, says, that the Regents can make any kind of "meaningful contact with the students to see how this thing will work," which the Regents say they want, in the two-hour Regent-student discussion scheduled for next Thursday. A two-week period in which students would have operated normally and ma- turely under the authority legally grant- ed them would have been the definite proving ground from which the Regents could judge. But now Fleming's unilateral action treats a duly-authorized faculty- student board the same way the admin- istration has so often treated student organizations in the past. Students can only hope that the Regents will display better judgement. than the administra- tion in assessing and then approving the validity of the Board of Governors' thoughtful decision. -KEN KELLEY Editorial Staff ROGER RAPOPORT, Editor MEREDITH EIKER, Managing Editor MICHAEL HEFFER ROBERT KLIVANS City Editor Editorial Director SUSAN ELAN ............ Associate Managing Editor STEPHEN FIRSHEIN .,.... Associate Managing Editor LAURENCE MEDOW......,Associate Managing Editor RONALD KLEMPNER .... Associate Editorial Director JOHN LOTTIER....... Associate Editorial rLirector SUSAN SCHNEPP..............Personnel Directoi NEIL SHISTER .............Magazine Editor CAROLE KAPLA .........Associate Magazine Editor ONCE AGAIN popular demand has prompted The Daily to issue the highly coveted Edgar awards. Based on the middle name of the nation's director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Edgars are given to those men and women who distinguish them- selves in areas of interest to the academic world. A top-flight panel of judges from around the country waded through many worthy entries. Their selections for the fourth annual edition of the Edgars are: THOMAS J. WATSON BUSINESS LEADERSHIP EDGAR-To Michigan State University's Vice-President for Business and Finance Philip Jesse May, for his pioneer work in cementing relations between the com- puter industry and American higher education. JAMES AGEE CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD - To Ann Arbor Police Lieutenant Eugene Staudenmaler for his continuing promotional effort on behalf of avant- garde campus cinema. BURTON D. THUMA EDGAR - To Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer Wilbur K. Pierpont for not being satisfied with getting the Residential College a second-rate new facility on the golf course, but plugging away until he was able to obtain a first-rate old facility for the college in remodeled East Quadrangle. ELIJAH P. LOVEJOY EDGAR-To the San Fran- cisco State College Negro militants who pummeled the campus newspaper editor and ransacked his office after the paper had dallied on publishing a picture of a Negro homecoming queen. The paper was in the midst of a favorable series on Negro militants at the time. W.E.B. DUBOIS EDGAR-To Michigan State Uni- versity President John Hannah, for selling his 200 acre farm adjacent to the MSU campus to a real estate firm that is currently being charged with discriminatory prac- tices in a suit filed before the Michigan Civil Rights Commission. Hannah is head of the U.S. civil rights commission. THE CRUCIBLE EDGAR - To 16-year-old Susan Schaffner, a student at Baldwin High School in subur- ban New York who framed her Negro biology instructor on charges of molestation after getting only a C plus in his course. BULL CONNER EDGAR-To Wilbur Emery, chief of police in Madison, Wisc., for having the good sense to break up a sit-in over Dow Chemical recruiting in a campus building after a classbreak. The club-wielding police managed to beat over 60 students, many of them innocent sorority girls simply changing class. EUGENE STAUDENMAIER "200 PEOPLE IN ANN ARBOR SMOKE MARIJUANA" EDGAR-To the Chi- relations between new administrators and The Daily. Fleming enjoyed a honeymoon of five issues before the paper labeled him as "his own worst enemy . . . sadly mistaken, and meaningless." JOHN STEWART MILL EDGAR-To the University's faculty civil liberties board for holding closed meetings. NAT TURNER EDGAR-To Sgt. Arthur E. Howison, the Detroit policeman who spearheaded the raid on a blind pig last summer that touched off the Detroit race 4 k Edgar Winners: MSU's Hannah, FBs Hoover, UM's Pierpont cago Tribune for estimating that 10,000 people partici- pated in the October anti-war march on the Pentagon after the Washington police estimated 55,000. JOHN PROFUMO EDGAR-To FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover for firing an employe because he hosted a girl friend at his Washington apartment. MICHAEL RADDOCK EDGAR-To President Rob- ben W. Fleming for setting a modern day record in riot. Modestly explaining his role, Howison said, "We were just in the right place at the right time, I guess." THANKS MOM! EDGAR-To Regent Trudy Hueb- ner. After showing a model of the University's new theatre project (which includes a sun and moon that revolve over the entire display) President Hatcher sug- gested that the theatre was particularly desirable be- cause it was for "all" the students. "Sure," replied Mrs. Huebner, "but how many classrooms does it have?" 4 The 'U', She Ain't What She Used To Be By LEONARD PRATT Associate Managing Editor, 1966-67 BACKWARD glances have been unfashionable e v e r s ince Thomas Wolfe and Snoopy dis- covered that you can't go home again. Yet I can't help but note that, if the test of an event's signifi- cance is its impact on the future, the University seems to have had one dull fall. It's easy to miss this point, be- cause there has been a lot of action here. Classified research was exposed, with appropriate ex- pressions of outrage from all con- cerned. Women's hours are fol- lowing Harlan Hatcher into limbo. Yet it took the Department of Defense to dispose of the classi- fied research issue. The question of the proper relationship of a university to its society is still begging. And women's hours were on the way out before last se- mester began. Only the timely cooperation of Mrs. Daenzer and Vice-President Cutler, arguing the issue of the proper source and function of academic discipline, has so far this fall saved this campus's repu- tation as a place where important things happen to a major univer- sity. THE DEEPER one looks, the worse things seem. Why is there a vacancy in both the membership and the execu- tive of Student Government Coun- cil? Why is there likely to be a second membership vacancy be- fore too long? Why aren't the student advisory committees to the vice-presidents doing more than mumbling to one another? Why was President Emeritus Hatcher's comment that "the ad- ministration didn't have anything to do with it" allowed to be the last word on the Knauss Report, an excellent story of the proper roles of students and faculty at the University? Why were the members of the President's commission on Uni- versity Decision-Making so hor- ribly apathetic, not completing their report until January? Why, above all, are so few stu- dents giving thought to the major problems of the University? Why? Some say it's because the stu- dents have got everything they want. That's at least part of the answer, because the students do have a good deal. Most persons' political wants are few. A committee here, a statement there, a threat tossed in for good measure, and they're happy. THIS IS ESPECIALLY true at the University, composed as it is of vast numbers of persons who don't want to rock any boat the least bit. When sham solutions to improperly defined problems ap- pear, they turn back to the books, leaving the crucial problems of growth, goals and curriculum un- touched by human minds. Yet this situation was a con- stant in University politics long before Housing Director John Feldkamp was president of SGC. What seems to have changed is that there is now a vacuum of student leadership here. LAST . Y E A R SGC orbited around its president, Ed Robin- son, and his staff. That team would have been difficult to dup- licate, and it hasn't been dupli- cated. Prospects for the Council's executive next year are bleak. One of the greatest incubators of change at the University used to be students who hung around with faculty members and talked about this vast institution. Such a group toyed with getting then- President Hatcher to resign in 1961. Two years ago a similar group played a role in Roger Heyns' decision to leave the vice- presidency for academic affairs and become chancellor at Berke- ley. Last year the Movement- which directed the largest sit-in in the history of an American uni- versity - was helped along and taken advantage of by such groups. Where are these students now? Studying for medical school, I suppose. Or gone. And a large number of therm have gone. The Regents last year graduated more competent and knowledgeable a c t i v e students from the University than they had since 1962. Activists used to know a good deal about the internal workings of the faculty and administration. But the defense contract expose has thankfully made all that work by the activists unnecessary. Now the administrators are all fascists, just like Marshall Ky, and that's that. THE HIGHEST of the many prices that must be paid for the multiversity is that the institution seems to rule out all provisions for its own reform. Perhaps the University is too large and too busy to produce competent stu- dent leaders anymore. Or perhaps they're somewhere in a new crop of upcoming fresh- men. If they're not, home soon Won't be worth coming back to. A :,....-- - ..:.a ,.,.... ,., .: .. ... . . . . ...S... . . . . ....a. ..;....:.::n:.:o. . ' ..: _ _ 7w . f:t .. .,........ ... .... c... ~ x ... ..x .o :. a:. ~r, :s, a:;...SS :...SS.s. . . . . . . . . . . ., ,SVS . F :: . R °:. . a : _ _ _ _ .:o ..:* ~ ~ '+Yn'. t' . r t :": } :tii :w?:ve :Jt }'. +iriL4 r 'v; V'in.:5 :'i} . The Vietnam Conflict voo What Will China Do? -- By RICHARD H. SOLOMON MR. Chairman, Congressmen: The sense of uncertainty and foreboding of the American public concerning the Vietnam war seems related in no small measure to the uncertainties of China's involve- ment in this conflict. For the most part our public debate on the war has strangely excludedthe issue of China, as if her indirect relationship to the in- surgency made her irrelevant to a solution. Yet periodically our pub- lic leaders inject China into the debate with the most threatening of images: the spectre of "a billion Chinese . . . armed with nuclear weapons" led by an expansionist group of leaders directing a "mili- tant, aggressive Asian Commu- nism, with its headquarters in re- king, China." Between these ex- tremes of irrelevance and doom, however, lies a more complex real- ity. How does China see the Vietnam conflict, and the American in- volvement there? And what might Chinese reactions be to various attempts to reach a settlement? I THINK IT can be said that the present extent of America's in- volvement in the Vietnam war is perceived by Mao Tse-tung as quite advantageous for a China with limited means to insure her own security. And at a time when China's leadership is seriously di- vided over such issues as an effec- tive national defense policy, the most appropriate stand to take in dealings with the Soviet Union, and the best measures to adopt plication of more radical policies within China. On the other, the limited nature of American objectives and in- volvement in Vietnam means that China pays no direct cost herself, while we bear the burden of fight- ing a drawn out and costly insur- gency that ties down our resources and weaken our sense of national unity and purpose. ONE HAS THE feeling that Mao sees himself in a, "we win if you do withdraw; we win if you don't" position regarding our present com- mitment in Vietnam. If we should seek to end this conflict in a way that would affirm the effectiveness of a "people's war" strategy of political insurgency, this could on- ly strengthen Mao's position in a divided China, and within a now fragmented w o r 1 d Communist \movement, Yet if we do remain in this .con- flict our most important national resources-a sense of unity and purpose, our skilled manpower, and economic wealth - are drained away in a seemingly interminable struggle. The Chinese do have apprehen- sions about the Vietnam situ- ation, however; and these grow from their perceptions of the ad- vantages of the present condi- tion of the war. To have the con- flict increase in scope to the point where direct Chinese military in- tervention would be considered necessary is something they fear, not just because of China's mili- tary weakness vis-a-vis the United States, and the highly uncertain On Nov. 28, 1967, five leading Asian scholars, four from the University, were assembled in Wash- ington to analyze and suggest alternatives to Amer- ica's present Vietnam policy. Rep. Donald W. Riegl e, Jr., a Republican from Flint, requested the team of experts, led by Prof. Alexander Eck- stein of the University's Center for Chinese Studies, to appear before the bi-partisan group of 19 Con- gressmen. Today's article, the fifth in a six-part series, is by Dr. Richard H. Solomon, an assistant professor of political science at the University and a research associate at the University's Center for Chinese Studies. Prof. Solomon recenty spent two years in Asia interviewing emigres from Communist China and is presently at work on a book on Chinese political behavior. desire to exclude a direct and per- manent American military pres- ence on her borders, her desire to limit Soviet influence in this area, and America's concern to see the present protracted conflict brought to a stable conclusion. We also should consider explor- ing whatever room for diplomatic movement may have come about as a result of China's subversive pressures on Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia that have become more aparent with the "Cultural Revolution." Perhaps these states, in the face of the larger threat posed by China, now are more willing to work out theiraregional differences and to seek security in the contextof international guar- antees for their borders and inter- nal security against subversion. EFFORTS TO CREATE a just and secure neutralization of Indo- China would seem to require two basic and interrelated guidelines: first, that there be no armed take- over of South Vietnam by the North or by armed organizations under its control-yet concurrent acceptance by the United States of the high probability that a polit- ical solution would lead before long to a reunification of the country under North Vietnamese organizational auspices. (Stated somewhat differently, the United States must re-examine and per- haps give up the doubtful pros- pects of attaining a "Korea" type solution in Vietnam.) Secondly, but closely related to the first point, there must be a general diplomatic resolution of +te hnundarvdispuites of the entire full relationship of the American commitment in Vietnam to the security of the entire region would be made clear both to the world and to our own people; and such a positive move on our part would help to shift some of the burdens of resolving this conflict onto the internation community. Such an effort, even if only partly successful, could workto expose more fully Sino-Soviet dif- ferences over the proper way to conduct international relations, and their profoundly differing in- terests in this region. And by con- fronting China with such a diplo- matic alternative to' the present conflict, the policy difference and divisions among her leaders might become all the more obvious. CHINA'S CONSTRUCTIVE par- ticipation in such an international resolution of the problems of this area would obviously be most use- ful, and necessary to long term stability in Indo-China. But even if the Chinese Communists chose to isolate themselves from one form of diplomatic solution, they might continue to face the coun- terweight of an international com- mitment sanctioning intervention if they should continue their ef- forts to arm and infiltrate insur- gents into the area, or to play on the political rivalries of the region. The advantages of a neutraliza- tion solution, if workable, only be- gin with an end to the Vietnam conflict and the desensitization of a region where the United States and China now risk being drawn into a direct clash over local dis- putes. Richard H. Solomon ularly if it would leave an effective and long term United States or Soviet presence in the area, and if it would degrade the sense of legi- timacy that the war has given to both a strategy of political insur- gecy and to Mao's policy of the need to actively oppose what he sees as an "expansionist" United States and "revisionist" Soviet Union. Moreover, the experience of their struggle for power during the war against Japan has taught the Chi- Vietnam if a "sell-out" peace is reached, the provision of arms to North Vietnam, and the attempts to develop independent ties with the National Liberation Front- to prevent a resolution of the conflict on any terms other than a victory for the insurgents. HOW CAN THE United States extricate herself from the bind of the Vietnam situation, yet in a way that will not simply trade present costs for future risks by to the broader problems of the Indo-China peninsula; and within the context of an attempt to re- solve the long-standing border disputes and the political tensions of the region, primarily those be- tween the Vietnamese and Cam- bodians, the Cambodians and the Thais, the Vietnamese and the Laos-and of China to the entire area. If there is any room for agree- ment with the Chinese at all it would appear to lie in the realm of c~'na nrmv..of n rn.n~tinfn.ofsf+ho hi m I I 1