Page Twci THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesdav November 5 196R .«i..r ~r .ar v.s..i vx.r +t . rvv poetry and prose Professor, Poets come for English series student clash x.:_ i 'YOUNG TURKS' ACTIVE: By ANN MUNSTER The English department is in- augurating a series of poetry, readings which will be held dur- ing the. remainder of the Fall and- Winter semesters this year. The department. receives a small allottment every year to bring guest lecturers and writ- ers to the campus. This year, half of that money - or about $5000 - is being used to spon- sor a conference on Rennais- sance literature which will be held in the spring. 1,e The basic problem with this arrangement is that the English department, unlike others, is be- ing called upon to foot the bill . both for lectures of specifictin- terest for English scholars and for cultural activities which, though they benefit the Univer- sity community as a whole ,are not provided for by any other source of University funds. But so far, the department seems to be admirably combat- ting this financial obstacle. They have engaged three poets to give tre Ti P N "A prime mover of Czechoslo- vakia's cultural revolution," play- wright Ivan Klima has been in- vited to the Uriiversity this month to participate in the American+ premiere of his play The Castle.' Klima, now in Prague, has not; responded to the University's of- ficial invitation, but Marcella Cis- ney, who will direct the play, is "hopeful" the author will be able' to participate in the rehearsal and presentation of his work. Translated by Ruth Willard, The Castle will play Dec. 3-8 as' the seventh presentation of the Professional Theatre Program's annual New Play Project. A Broadway cast, featuring Barbara Baxley, will perform the play. Whether Klima will be able to accept the invitation and the ac- companying PTP grant "is a'mat- ter of government' policy," Miss Cisney explains. "And the govern-. anent's policies would seem to change from day to day."? Klima, one of the four organ- izers of the Czech Writers' Union which sparked the now crushed "cultural revolution," wrote The Castle two years ago about a "young writer strangled by the Stalinist establishment," Miss Cis- ney says. She fears the playwright may be "in the bad books with the' Soviets for his counter-revolution- ary work." The PTP, which annually spon- sors the New Flay Project to en- courage unkown writers, decided to produce The Castle this year in addition to Evan Hunter's The Conjuror because it is "pithy and pertinent." Normally, only one play is produced. Author of the controversial novel Blackboard Jungle, Hunter has writen extensively for films and television, and his last play, A Race of Hairy Men, was pro- duced on Broadway several sea- sons ago.r readings here during November and have obtained $1000 of "seed" -money from the literary college to sponsor an expanded program next semester. The first reading will be giv- en by John Logan, Wednesday at 4:10 p.m. in 25 Angell Hall. Logan is currently the poetry editor of The Nation and edi- tor of Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Photography. The second reading will be given Nov. 12 by Robert Hay- den. Hayden is a visiting profes- sor of English at the University this term. He comes from Fisk University. His book, A Ballad of )emem- brance, won the grand price for poetry at the First World Festi- val of Negro Arts held in Dakar, Senegal in 1965. The last reading of the semes- ter will be given by Miller Wil- liams, Nov. 20. Williams is a professor of English at Loyola University of the South. He has published two volumes of his poetry. A Circle of' Stone and So Long at the Fair and has contributed poems to a number of literary reviews. He is cur- rently editor of the New Orleans review. Prof. Russell Fraser, chairman of the English department, says he hopes to obtain some hon- University subsidy to continue and expand the program in the future. Fraser and Prof. Bert Horn- back, who organized this semes- ter's program, feel ,that poetry readings, which are of interest to the general public and be- long basically to the realm of the performing arts, might be sponsored jointlyby the Univer- sity and community or other outside organizations. over protest (continued from page 1) disruption claim: "I declare this class disrupted." That made it official. The professor then launched into an attempted refutation of Denton's statements. He contested Denton's comment that "students are not allowed to think for them- selves." He insisted "they are not lectured at." He said his class "has dealt precisely with these issues that you have mentioned." "You make assertions, but you don't know what you are talking about," he added, with emphasis. A kid near the back of the class, wearing a yellow shirt and his hair neatly combed, who looked at the intruders with some distaste when they first entered, told me "there's usually not a lot of discussing in this class."' Finally, it came to a vote. Bret- ton asked if Denton and his co- horts should be allowed "the 30 seconds they have asked for" (by this time it was already 10 min- utes). Twenty-two said yes. Twen- ty-two said no. The professor chose not to break the -tie. Denton and company walked to the front of the room. He said the people in the room would be the future "ruling professional elite." He said it was necessary to start a dialogue. There was another vote - Den- ton suggested it himself, insisted he would leave if outvoted - and the class said goodbye to the visit- ors. Denton said thank you and walked out into the hall, where they all talked about how this was he right way to do it. Inside the classroom, Bretton, flustered, said, "Where were we?' Oh, yes. The security gap. The strike was on. LSA approves representation Of students 'The literary college faculty yes- terday officially authorized stu- dent representation on several major committees. Students have been sitting on a few major com- mittees for a few years. In revising its general code, the faculty adopted sections authoriz- ing representation on the admin- .istyative board, which acts as a discipline committee, and on the curriculum and admissions com- mittees. The faculty also provided for student representation on the lib- rary committee. In the past, students have par- ticipated as non-voting members on the administrative board and the curriculum and admissions committees. The sections adopted by the faculty yesterday specify that the student representatives be "without vote," but Dean William Hays said the phrase is practically meaningless since the committees 'hardly ever vote anyway. Reform may affect State Dept. WASHINGTON (P) - A group pressed its aims through that in- vice is to make it an agency of all of "young Turk" diplomats in the fluential organization. branches of the government with U.S. Foreign Service, calling for Lannon Walker, chairman of the "substantial interests abroad" so radical changes in the handling board of the association and a that it would have broader loyal- of foreign policy, publicly proposed leader of the reformers, said the ties and experience than under to the next president Sunday a 17- recommendations drafted by a the present system in which the point program for shaking up the committee under Ambassador Gra- service is the instrument of the State Department. ham Martin, former envoy to State Department. Outstanding among the recom- Thailand, were sent a few days Walker said exceptions to this mendations are a proposal to cre- ago to the three major presidential would be the CIA and the military ate a new Cabinet-level post of candidates. establishment with their special "foreign secretary" to share the "The t i m e for reform is Jan. requirements, work load of the secretary of state. 20," Walker told newsmen, refer- ring to the day when the new The young Turks also propos- The program also calls for a per-< dta tenwpeietmk manent undersecretary to run the president takes office. "It ought to ed that the new president make Department, and for action to be done in the first one hundred it a d he reards America days." ambassadors as his personal reps. tighten control by ambassadors Mp resentatives to exercise, on his be- over the activities of the Central caMan of the 17 points of aos half control over all UntedSates Intelligence Agency -- (CIA) and consider to be improved operating government activities in the coun- U.S. military men in foreign coun- procedures and personal practics try to which the ambassador is ac- ,s credited., The group also proposed that the "Wec recommend," the r"eport T states, that the new president use The report recalled that Presi- new president resist the temp- his reorganization authority to dent Dwight D. Eisenhower and tation to drganize his own White plsceUSIzAtIon formayio President John F. Kennedy had Hous forign ffic ,,place USIA U.S. Informationy , House foreign office." Agency within the Department of directed that ambassadors have The "young Turks" won control State, to operate as an autonom- full direction of all government of the 8,000-member American ous unit as is now the case with programs in the countries where ,Foreign Service Association, a pri- AID Agency for International De- they serve. vate organization of diplomats, velopment, and that its foreign administrators, staff assistants affairs personnel come within the and others in foreign service work, Foreign Service of the United -Next-- a little more than a year ago. States." Their reform movement, which is Walker said the aim of expand- BARAREL A about two years old, has thus ex- ing the professional foreign ser- SSHOWS lw Latest surVey gives margin ATP , 7:10 &9:20 . of 3 per cent to Humphrey (Continued from Page 1) Edmund S. Muskie, "stood up to Nixon's campaign manager, John be counted on the issues and they N. Mitchell, referring to the did not-like their Republican op- FOURTH earlier Harris poll that had Nixon ponents-take the electorate for W E EK a.2-point winner, declared: granted." 2 Z r e e S Y' ,I 8 . S d d e t e 4 CyclIes sellI in Classif'ieds". You mean I can't see' the, GLEE CLUB CONCERT? , '" i 187 law mVay stop Wallace fTonm breaking electoral tie NEW YORK '--A 90-year-old iHayes-Tilden deadlock in 1878- law could prevent George Wallace }places in Congress "the final say from choosing the next president twhether to honor an electoral in the event of a deadlock in the 'vote cast for a candidate other electoral college, Paul Freund, a than the candidate of his party,." iHarvard professor and leading Any changes in electoral votes authority on. constitutional law would have to be accepted by both Isa1d yesterday. houses of Congress, Freund said. However; each of the major In addition, he added, any- voting ipresidential candiates has a dif, changes by members of the elec- iferent idea of what would or toral college could be challenged 'hored happen if no one winis theincut trequired Electoral College majority court. n today's presidential election. Past defections have gone un- It has been suggested that the challenged because their votes former Alabama governor could were not vital for victory, Freund 'break such a deadlock by throw- said. ing his electoral ,,votes to either In 1960, when John F. Kenne- Vice President Hubert H.. Hum- dy beat Nixon by 303 electoral phrey or Richard M. Nixon if votes to 219, the late Sen. Harry neither receives the needed 270 F. Byrd of Virginia received 15 Wvotes for victory. electoral votes. Six came from But Freund says the 1878 law unpledged Alabama Democrats, 8 -passed as the result of the from unpledged Mississippi Dem- Uneml oymiet ( 3dps in blak laborfoc ocrats and one from a defecting Oklahoma Republican elector. All three candidates were asked about the matter on Sunday TV- radio interview programs, Nixon on NBC's "Meet the Press" and the other two on ABC's "Issues and Answers." Richard Nixon thinks whichever candidate gets' the most popular votes should be president. Hubert Humphrey says he, too, thinks the popular-vote winner should be president, but that can be made possibly only by a con- stitutional amendment. Mean- while, Humphrey says, the winner should be determined by the con- stitutional process providing for election by the House if there is no electoral majority. George Wallace, however, says the election will never get to the House but will be decided by the electors themselves, who in most states are not legally bound by the popular vote. Freund said the law provides a procedure for challenge of the electoral votes before joint session of Congress. In the present case it would be on Jan. 6, 1969. Any vote not regularly made in any state can be challenged by a con- gressman or senator. If the challenge is upheld and the switchover votes are not hon- ored, "then it is possible that the electoral vote will revert to what it was on election night," Freund explained. "Because it would still be dead- locked the House of Representa- tives would then select the presi- dent and the Senate would select the vice president." Freund said he believed election reforms would follow this election. "Lou Harris, the former Demo- cratic pollster, is up to his old tricks, again. "Richard Nixon's lead is con- firned by the latest and final Gallup poll. "Apparently, this poll did not sit well with some of his Demo'- cratic friends, so: he has decided to provide a 'bonus survey' for release tomorrow. This hurried operation, which produced a Humphrey lead, comprised a prob- ability sample of only 1,206 likely voters nationwide. "Harris' gratuitous concoction of this ploy will in no way con the voters into believing that Hubert Humphrey can win thel election. The votingapublic has long ago become aware of the in- accuracy of the Harris polling record." Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F.cO'Brien, speakipg for Humphrey in Washington, said the Vice President was "over the top now," and added that Humph- rey and his running mate, Sen. Petitioning for CINEMA GUILD Wednesday, Thursday November 6, 7 Sign-up 2538 S.A.B. The Harris poll that had iden- tical results as the Gallup figures covered the Nov. 1-2 period. Both surveys' were issued Sunday night. In each poll, Nixon received 42 per cent of the vote to 40 per cent for Humphrey. The semi-final Harris poll gave Wallace 12 per cent, with 6 per cent undecided. The final Gallup had 14 per cent for Wallace and 4 per cent unde- cided. - ~ -~-F WefieG~art isa'LHnel' tenter presents THE MELOS ENSEMBLE of LONDON i Thursday, Novenber 7, 8:30 RACKHAM AUDITORIUM (APPEARING IN THE CHAMBER ARTS SERIES) 1. .' N 7' ~ I Program: Adagio and Rondo.........ScHUBERT Piano Quintet, Op. 57 .... S-IOSTAKOVICH Contrasts for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano .. . . ...BARTOK. Quintet in E-flat for Piano and Winds,.MOZART TICKETS: $5.00--$4.O--$2.00 University Musical Society, Burton Tower Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48104 Hours: Mon. through Fri. 9 to 4:00. Sat. 9"to 12 (Telephone 665-3717) (Also at Auditorium box office 1 1j= hours before performancetime)