......_ 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 i s: :?oI :v The Fourth Branch Moshe Dayan Goes Mad Ave By Ron Klempner ,.: 5...+. ..: ..r .rr.......5..... ,....... .... .: ... . . . ......l .. . :". 5:....... v. ..... fa{;....,. . .. .. . .. .. . . r..a r t7 ,: .. .... . . x . .:",... . .. .. ... ": '' ,y } i5 .. ' iI l - . -11"' '' A Where Opinions Are Free, 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. EditorilPrieinhihgnDiyeprs h niiuloinoso tf rtr 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. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1967 NIGHT EDITOR: STEPHEN WILDSTROM Eliminating Irresponsible Members from SGC IN SUGGESTING a mandatory attend- SGC is to be constructive, members must ance rule for SGC members, Bruce take their work more seriously and carry Kahn, SGC president, said that Council out these responsibilities. If they fail to members were considersing attendance at do' so, they should be removed from meetings more as a "matter of conven- office. ience" than a responsibility. The reasons for Kahn's concern are RECENTLY IT has become fashionable obvious to ayone who has recently sat to criticize SGC for being unrepre- tl'rough an entire SGC meeting. Not sentative. Yet, members like E. O. Know- only are there frequent absences, but les, and ex-officio members such as Steve many of those members who do attend Brown, president of IHA, and Bruce fail to take enough interest in the Getzan, president of IFC, are most vocal meetings to stay until the end. about SGC's unrepresentativeness. But At Thursday night's meeting, SGC they are the ones who most frequently took a mayor step by initiating discussion fail to see a session through to its con- of a possible new role for Council in aca- clusion. It seems absurd that certain demic reform. Unfortunately, by the members are criticizing SGC for being time this discussion came up on the unrepresentative while they fail to rep- agenda, about half of the members had resent even themselves at meetings.' left. In addition, several members wan- Other schools have rules or methods of dered in and out throughout the discus- forcing members to attend meetings: It is sion, missing important debate and fail- likely that Kahn will introduce a rule ing to vote. at the next meeting calling for auto- Some members may have complained matic expulsion from SGC of members Thursday of being tired from their who miss two consecutive meetings, or campaigns or of having other obliga- make a practice of leaving early with- tions, but this is no excuse for those who out an approved excuse. If certain mem- attended the meeting to miss its most bers lack the maturity to meet their re- important part, especially since it was sponsibilities, such a rule is desirable one' of the year's, shortest sessions, and necessary for any kind of effective SGC members must accept responsi- and representative Council. bility as well as a position of power. If -GREG OXFORD Is Violence Legiti~mate? SPEAKING IN McLUHANESE, the new electronic ad- vertising media has permeated every aspect of our modern culture. We can't spend our lives anywhere with- out being attacked by somebody's "pitch." It is know by those around The Avenue (Madison) as the "art" of selling. For years the tactics of Mad Ave "art" have proven invaluable to those concerned with ad- vancing the commercial society, and recently politicians have noted the use of this "art" in selling their campaigns and themselves. Lately, it has been rumored from the usually un- reliable State Department sources that several foreign delegates from the United Nations have been seen taking the cross town trip from First to Madison Avenue and patronizing some well know ad firms. One New York cab driver reported that he even saw Dean Rusk, disguised as a mild manner academician, run up to ,the offices of BBD &O. The motives behind all this are obvious: nations are going to try to enlist the talents of Madison Avenue in selling their political causes on the foreign market. THE FIRST PROMOTIONAL campaign is being con- tracted by Israel's foreign minister, Abba Eban. In an attempt to persuade the Arab inhabitants on the West Bank of the Jordan River to form a peaceful Israeli- annexed state, the advertisement shows a smiling Moshe Dayan saying; "You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy Levi's all-, Jewish state." Israel will also start a campaign to convice others of the legitimacy of their recent land acquisitions. Employing a firm that recently handled the ad campaign for a "longer cigarette," their ad shows "wonder boy" Dayan pointing to the vast expanse of the Sinai desert and saying, "But, its just a silly kilometer longer." PRIOR TO THE death of his ace salesmen Che Guevera, Cuban premier Fidel Castro was planning a campaingn to further the export of the one product his island paradise can successfully produce-revolution. Try- ing to convince Latin American dissident leftists to use the resources of his organization in their attempts at government take over, his sales pitch, borrowed from a car rental agency, went something like this: "The camera shoots onto an open road with a car coming out of the distant terrain and a= voice says, 'Let Che (rent-a-revolution) put you in the driver's seat.' At this point a bearded figure comes dropping out of the mountains and lands in the front seat of a four door Red Coup(e)." IN GREECE the new regime is trying to convince the world of its wide acceptance among Greeks. An ad show- ing Gen. Stylianos Patakos with his arm around smiling Andreas Papandreou, both standing in front of a new motorcycle and proclaiming, "You meet the nicest people on a junta." The smaller underdeveloped nations are banning to- gether to encourage the larger powers to contribute more lavishly to their budding economies. Employing the serv- ices of a firm that specializes in liquor ads, their cam- paign shows an African delegate sitting at poolside during a diplomatic party, and saying to the visiting Ambassador, "While Your up get me a Grant." Thailand facing possible rebellion from the guerrilla eliments in the Northeast section of their nation are using the United Airlines' agency with the slogan, "Join the friendly Thais by Uniting." THEN THERE IS Mao Tse-tsung who, trying to con- cinve the Arabs to take up the Communist Chinese anti- capitalist furvor, is imploring his semetic friends to: "Put a Tiger in your tank." When the campaign was formulated back in May, the Arabs still had tanks to put tigers in. The Soviet Union is using an ad campaign based on the former slogan of a present conservative American Gov- ernor. In demonstrating the advancement of 50 years under Soviet rules they are proclaiming to their Com- munist allies: "Revisionism is our most important product." FINALLY, RONALD REAGAN, if elected President, is also said to be thinking about promoting support for his foreign policy. In trying to play on American fears of the Chinese masses, Reagan remembered the lily-white claims of Pepsodent and has formulated the campaign slogan: "You'll wonder where the yellow ran, When we clean their land with hydrogen." 4 A Letters:Fair Housing or The Fire Next Time To the Editor: WHEN A WHITE land-owner refuses to sell to a Negro solely on the basis of his color, he is in effect saying to him, "I won't sell to you because you are the dirty scum of the earth and I wouldn't want to subject decent people to your kind." That such an implied statement can be made, and made repeatedly, is suicidal to a city and country on the brink of racial explosion. It not only sanctions racial hate of whites towards Negroes, but it saps Negroes' self-esteem and/or makes them justifiably inflamed against the white community. To say that open housing should not be allowed, because it inter- feres with the right of a man to chose his companions is a patent an dobvious rationalization for al- lowing racial discrimination and mistrust to continue. Not only is it hypocritical and immoral, but I wish Detroit and the nation a happy summer of '68 if every measure isn't taken, and taken im- mediately to reduce Negro-White tension. -Robert Loewenster IT IS IMPORTANT to realize that those who would employ "the use of vio- lence" to end U.S. involvement in Viet- nam are outside the framework of standard American politics by virtue only of the particular partisan stand they take, and not by their use of violence as such. It is concurrently important to real- ize that it is wrong to allow the law, not the action itself, to define what is and is not "violence." To term those who perpetrate the war in Vietnam "non-violent participators in a democratic process" is to badly mis- gauge both them and the process. It is an act of violence when the Secretary of Defense deliberately misleads the public about battle statistics. It is an act of violence when the President suppresses information about communications with' Hanoi. It is an act of violence when the popular press, from the networks to the Times to the Tribune, lies about the num- ber of people on a peace march to a pub- lic dependent solely on them for infor- mation pertaining to their political lives. AND PERHAPS less abstractly, it is an act of violence when marijuana laws are manipulated to forcibly detain anti- war workers. It is an act of violence when troops are deployed to forcibly prevent a group of citizens from speaking to the men who manage their army. It is indeed an act of violence when one is forced to choose between the army or jail. The Daily is a member of the Associated Press and Collegiate Press 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 postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48504, 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 LOTT ........ Associate Editorial Director SUSAN SCHNEPP ....... Personnel Directoi NEIL SHISTER ... .... .... Magazine Editor CAROLE KAPLAII ....... Associate Magazine Editor LISSA MATROSS.... ..............Arts Editor ANDY SACKS ...................... Photo Editor ROBERT SHEFFIELD ............. Lab Chief NIGHT EDITORS: W. Rexford Benoit, Neal Bruss, Wallace Immen, Lucy Kennedy, David Knoke, Mark Levin, Patricia O'Donohue, Daniel Okrent, Steve Wildstrom. DAY EDITORS: Marcy Abramson, Rob Beattie, Jill Crabtree, Aviva Kempner, Carolyn Miegel, Walter Shapiro, Lee Weitzenkorn. SSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Eleanor Braun, Henry Grix, Jim Heck, Richard Herstein, Helen Johnson, Lynne Killin, Ron Landsman, Urban Lehner, David Mann, Ann Munster, Steve Nissen, Dan Share, Jenny Stiller, Michael Thoryn, Richard Winter, Greg Zieren. Business Staff The government, then, quite clearly participates in violent activity - legal violent activity, but violent activity nonetheless. To say such violence should be afforded the legitimacy of moral or at least demo- cratic law is not only to ignore (John Moscow notwithstanding) what that law is doing to people, but also that in 1964 the country elected a peace candidate for its President, that men of primary draft age cannot vote, and that there are no legal channels for registering with direct force one's aye or nay on the nation's most important specific issue, the war in Vietnam. To afford the pres- ent system of legalities the legitimacy of "rules of democracy" is to kiss the ass of a government that more nearly resem- bles an oligarchy than even the republic whose title it bears. MANY ARGUE that the use of counter- violence (as it should rightly be termed) is a bad tactic. This I would dis- pute. Aside from most effectively raising the cost of running the war I think it most relevent to our hyper-regulated mass society that people recognize and demonstrate their right to act on the -basis of individually perceived moral justice and to assert that right against any illegitimate authority. Any social change of far-reaching significance will be based on that consciiousness, not on merely ending the Vietnam war. To say that it is justifiable to meet legal violence with non-legal counter- violence is not to say that two wrongs make a right. It is only to make the ini- tial recognition that it is not "anti-demo- cratic" to break rules made by a group of men accountable only to their immed- iate self-interest. With that realization perhaps an evaluation of the Vietnam issue and the types of action that are morally allowable becomes somewhat less clouded. It is impossible to violate a democratic process that does not exist. It is immoral not to use any means at hand to stop a "law and order" that means mass murder. --HARVEY WASSERMAN Editorial Director, 1966-67 Hearing Regents AN OPEN LETTER to the Regents: Dear Regents: People are not allowed to enter your monthly meetings once they have be- gun; the people who are lucky enough to get in at the start can't hear you when you speak; all your important de- bate is confined to your private meet- ings. Iy' 'I i I I tiT )' 'I LBJ Speech To the Editor: HEARD LBJ's speech today Iand, really, he should resign forthwith. Excepting our 1776 War of In- dependence, it seems quite obvious to me that our nation has been in a number of useless wars-the Spanish-American War re Cuba was useless. Viet Nam is a useless war. I am totally surprised at the so-called legality of drafting men younger than 21 - they should have been given the opportunity to vote on their fate in Viet Nam, etc., in at least two elections, us- ing the line of legal reasoning that the 13 colonies adopted: no taxation without representation. The under-21 have had no repre- sentation, period. I BELIEVE that the rank and file of our country have better judgment than LBJ-in fact, we ought to have a nation-wide ref- erendum on Viet Nam, and the sooner the better. -Lewis C. Ernst Advisory Board To the Editor: T HIS LE'TTER concerns the Student Ad v i sory Boards which I still feel haven't been done justice. I can only speak for Vice-President Radock's Advisory Board of which I am a member as to the success of these Student Advisory Boards when I say that I think the relationship has been and is still excellent. We (the members of the Board and Radock) have sounded each other out on many issues. Some of thesethave been: The failings of the Orientation Program, stu- dent participation at the Sesqui- centennial Conferences, more ef- fective ways for students to em- ploy University News Service, the reaction of students to the tui- tion increase, and presently we have been engaged in discussing the relationship between the stu- dent publications and the Board in Control of Student Publica- tions. I don't think the Boards were ever intended to be decision- making bodies or were ever in- tended to represent a student consensus. We on Radock's board agreed at our first meeting, which we held last semester, that we saw the board as functioning in a capacity similar to a lobby and not attempting to be a legislative body. Our job is to hopefully translate some of the constructive ideas reached at our meeting to the corresponding student, facul- ty or administrative organization which is involved issues with these r5 ~r " "Hodo knw tat f stp sendngConre will greeto ngotite atax ike? I CAN AGREE, however, with others that attendance of Board members is a problem. Perhaps all members of the Boards should be at-large members, of which there are some, and not on the Board simply because of their position with some other organization which takes up most of their time. Possibly the working relationship that exists between Radock and his Advisory Board is unique, but at any rate, I feel that those op- posed to the Advisory Boards are premature in writing the Boards' death- sentences. -Susie Anspach '69 * 4 An Academic Look at Scholarships By JOHN BISHOP Daily Guest Editorial Writer John Bishop is a graduate stu- dent in the Economics Department and Chairman of Vice-President Richard Cutler's Advisory Commit- tee for Student Affairs. A SCHOLARSHIP budget too small to fulfill the require- ments of all who meet an initial need criterion may be rationed either by reducing or eliminating awards to those with only border- line need or by eliminating stu- dents of presumed lower ability. Scholarship officers determine need by adjusting a parents income for assets and any other financial problems and then de- termining an expected family con- tribution toward college education by reference to the number of de- pendent children in the family. The College Scholarship Service suggest a system of standards that will result in larger scholarships being awarded to some students whose parents are in the $5000 to $11,000 dollar range and some stu- dents whose parents earn more than $11,000 receive scholarships they would not have received un- der the above standard. There would be no quarrel with the University's being more gener- ous if sufficient funds were availa- ble to treat every instate student lequally. But like most schools G.P.A. and or performance in high -scnol and on antitide tests are equalize the opportunity for a high quality college education and to maximize the number of people who receive a high quality college education, then one favors not paying attention to G.P.A.'s and concentrating on need. Scholarships have traditionally been thought of as rewards. This does not make the concept right; however, I will not repeat the many arguments for reducing pressure for grades. The pass-fail the further crutch of a recruitment oriented scholarship policy. Even if the University did not have these advantages scholarships used for recruitment would be suspect. Is the goal of the University to col- lect together as many past high achievers as it can or to promote as much educational growth as possible-the initial level being irrelevant? IN MY OPINION the proper pur- If ... scholarships should be rewards for achieve- ment as measured by G.P.A. and standardized tests ... then one favors allocating scholarships to the more able. :yiti* r based on G.P.A. means that (1) only low income students suffer the danger of having to leave the school if their grades are low but nevertheless passing, (2) the grade pressure due to competition for scholarship is concentrated on the students from low and moderate income backgrounds. Allocating scholarships on the basis of measured ability rebounds to the disadvantage of the low and moderate income student for he tends not to do as well on tests or in high school as his more well off peer. In effect we apply a more stringent entrance requirement on the sons of the poor than the rich. The practice of allocating schol- arships according to ability re- duces the chances low income stu- dents have of getting into college and, if they surmount that hurdle, of making it to a high quality in- stitution. Project Talent found that even for high school students in the top quarter of the nation in achievement, the effect of S.E.S. on college entrance rates was con- siderable. 87 per cent of the girls in the top quarter of the S.E.S. scale went to a 2 or 4 year college. Only 42 per cent in the bottom quarter on S.E.S. went. The educational system worsens the picture further boy's parents make less than $7,000 he has only a 15 per cent chance of going to a school that spends more than $1,900 per stu- dent, and a 41 per cent chance of going to one that spends less than $1,000. If, .on the other hand, his parents' in come is above $11,000 his chances of entering a high quality institution are 35 per cent and for the low 20 per cent. This phenomenon is due in part of the fact that the ability cut off point at each school is higher for schol- arships than for admittance. The goal of increasing the num- ber of people going to college is also best served by a scholarship program based solely on need. Here we should ask ourselves what is the student who does not receive a scholarship likely to do. A stricter need criterion will eliminate small scholarships being received by stu- dents in the $11,000 and above family income range. The proba- litiy is very low that the student will drop out as a result. In con- trast, the loss of an $800 or $1,500 scholarship by a low income stu- dent in academic, difficulties is likely to have a devastating effect on his will to keep trying. His fam- ily does not have the resources to make up the much greater dif- 4k option is a recognition of these arguments. Society outside the University p a r e n ts, graduate schools, employers, draft boards-- already reward G.P.A. measured achievement more than it should be rewarded. There is no reason for the University to add this pressure through its administration of the scholarship program. It should be aware of and recognize the inactness of its own measures of performance. Using scholarships to recruit better students has always been a common but slightly frowned pose of scholarships at the Uni- versity is equalizing opportunity for a high quality education. The logic of this position leads one to ask that the University give stu- dents from families in the lower three-quarters of the income dis- tribution of the state the same financial alternatives as parent's in the upper quarter give their children. Do upper middle class .° I f . . . scholarship programs should do their best to equalize the opportunity , 1 1 A _. J -2 -.A - : : . . .. * f, .wui LI Th)b,)in 45Jl1 .A