"Aren't You Big Enough To Have A Key Of Your Own?" i AT LYDIA MENDELSSOHN: Sixty-Ninth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Vhen Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Will Prevail" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. IDAY, APRIL 2i, 1959 NIGHT EDITOR: CHARLES KOZOLL IFC Board Proposal Shrinks Student Realm STABLISHMENT of a Board in Control of Fraternities, with considerable power in the ea of recognition is a suggestion that's some- at laudable but largely objectionable. For one thing, it represents the IFC's to- ly un-apathetic and conscientious attitude ward campus issues. But on the other hand, the IFC has appar- tly confused a pair of distinct concepts: the erest of the fraternity system and the in- est of the "general student body" (a group erred to in the IFC proposal). The two netimes differ, it seems. HE PROPOSAL to the SOC Clarification Committee is solid insofar as it argues that e alumni and the administration, for sep- ate reasons, have vested interests in the area recognition. However, the proposal would also effect an desirable shrinking of the realm of student ncern. Certainly, the fraternity system, alumni and ministrators should have their say in dis- tes over fraternity matters, and certainly aternities are in a sense "quasi-student or- nizations" in that they represent a consider- le sum of alumni cash. But it is simply not stifiable to conclude that the general student dy should be shrugged off as the proposal suggests:one student, the ranking male mem- ber of SGC, would be the lone "representative" of the "general students body" on the nine- member committee. THE CENTRAL issue here becomes whether or not the fraternity is "quasi-student" or "fully-student" organization. Neither extreme is a particularly valid stand, however. The alumni, as owners of the houses and property, and the administration, as a body which must look out for student welfare, are both deeply involved in matters of fraternity recognition and withdrawal of recognition. However, a fraternity is also a body com- posed entirely of students (on the local level), a body which has a direct impact on all aspects of the University, including the full student population. Recognition of a student living unit is a matter for student concern. In this light, it would be grossly unfair for any Board to seat only one representative of the "general student body." Perhaps the general student should not have as powerful and uncertain a voice as that of SGC during the Sigma Kappa dispute. But on the other hand, the IFC proposal bluntly seg- regates the student from matters of concern to all registered members of the University community. -THOMAS HAYDEN (3 -. .. 4 - SLT _ 1,.."j =MaL maper n = OMITEE appleI~ bra r--".^Y ,e" 'K ft X4, FIL A. ,:RAIA' self-possessed tutor, the dull sis- ter and the vulgar Aegisthus are all foils for Electra and her hate. She repeats again and again that her life is in these other charac- ters, in what she would call their just fates and ends. Through her the fates work and she in turn works through the other charac- ters. * * * LORRAINE SMALL, as Electra, was sometimes in control of her part but too often she approached it with the same monomaniac vio- lence that Electra herself charac- terizes. She interpreted the trage- dy of Electra with a sentimental pathos and hysteria which great- ly distorts our judgement. If any individual rose above a competent but undistinguished cast it was Don Catalina as the tutor - but his style of acting was so jarring- ly different from the others in the cast that his sensitive portrayal was often wasted. Especially undistinguished was Howard Poyourow as Orestes. One finds difficulty in understanding his graceless interpretation; it is really unnecessary to approach a naive character with naivete. The movements of the chorus had a 'Electra' Ambitious But Inconsistent AS THE FINAL PRODUCTION of a varied season the Speech de- partment is currently offering Sophocle's Electra, an interpretation marked with the same ambition and verve that have characterized the productions of their past year. Director Halstead has mingled con- temporary stage techniques with informed guesses at Hellenic modes in a shrewd attempt at the tragedy. Unfortunately, his ambition is never sustained and the cogency of Sophocles is too often hidden in a dis- order of techniques. The story itself is one of lucid order, taut in its construction, fluid in its presentation. But the familiar tale is not a simple one of murder and family horror. For in Electra the Sophoclean implications of uni- versals - the ideas of order and violence, justice and hate - come to focus. All the other characters are included so that we might see how Electra reacts to them. The frightened mother, the naive Orestes, the beauty and meaning of their own, perfect rituals executed sensitively and purposefully. But a meaning has failed to emerge from the production, Rather we have a confused inter- pretation; exciting and clever without any attendant lucidity of purpose. The extreme formaliza- tion of the chorus often opposes, instead of contrasting, the vio- lence of Electra. They performed their choreographed ritual while Electra gesticulated in her pur- poseful exaggerations. The desired contrast would have been achieved if the techniques of? the rest of the cast had been consistent but they too vacillated between freely metaphoric violence and exagger- ated stylization. The lighting effects were gen- erally effective, sometimes bril- liant, but the music used was again inconsistent with any unity of purpose and the result was an uncomfortable sense of disorder. In the, ambition of chasing too much in too many directions the essence and spirit of the play has been lost. --Eli Zaretsky 0a~s;t'~ ~-4,G.-r z M..c'rcK LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Tilting at Pigskin Windmills UN Potential Overlooked .MIDST all the discussion of the coming tension could be reduced if this could be re- foreignministers and summit talks, the UN solved. is practically being ignored. UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold Neither the West nor the Soviet Union seem recently expressed belief that his own staff has to realize the many resources of trained spe- "expert knowledge and experience that might cialists available in the UN. And as a result, prove useful" at the coming meetings. He also the coming meetings seem destined to become hailed "the basic philosophy reflected" in Vice- forums where both side's reiterate old and ad- President Richard M. Nixon's proposal of hav- vance- new charges at each other. There is ing a strengthened World Court made umpire still some question if even the West is going to in disputes "growing out of any East-West these talks in "good faith." agreements." Hammarskjold, who has received eetlkSecretarodftate. hriste world-wide acclaim in his soothing of trouble Recently, Secretary of State Christian Herter spots, will be in Geneva at the time of the said thathe is Intent on maintaining Western foreign ministers' meeting and it would be a unity in the coming talks. His concern seems great help if he were allowed to participate to be centered more on having the West pre- in the meeting. sent a united front than actually reaching an agreement with Russia. ITIS UNFORTUNATE that summit and other But attitude is not enough. Also needed is bilateral meetings are necessary outside of an impartial party to act as moderator at the UN, thus relegating this organization to these meetings who as a result of his detach- the role of a sounding board. Such problems ment would be better equipped to offer con- as the veto, the difficulty of negotiation in a structive suggestions than those delegates who large group and the inability of this organiza- are interested only in their own country. The tion to enforce decisions have severely weak- organization to provide this moderator is the ened the UN's peace promoting ability.. UN. Nations are viewing the UN as either a legis- Moreover, there are a number of other UN lative body in which power politics should be facilities that could be used. One, for example, used or as a propaganda medium where its would be using the World Court. The court, delegates are sent only to court world opinion. say, could- settle the legal questions of whether The thought of using the General Assembly or not the Soviet Union may legally pull out and the Security Council as the place where of Berlin and thus, according to the We(, international accord is reached seems gone. break a post-World War II agreement guaran- Although the UN has not reached its fullest teeing Western communications with West expectations many resources are still available Berlin. Since Russia's threat was the precipi- to promote international accord. tating factor of the present Berlin crisis, much -JOHN FISCHER initiative at High Prie Sacrilege To the Editor: VER THE years here at Mich- gan various bemused knights have attacked the windmill of in- tercollegiate football without much success. Apathy; disgust, and ac- tive opposition on the part of the faculty and students prevented any petition or movement from denting the Michigan Tradition, and, as a result, we have now 101,101 stadium seats used seven times each year, plus once for graduation. Wade Thompson, an English in- structor at Brown University, re- cently attracted nationwide atten, tion with his struggles against the Eternal Verity at Brown. For de- tails see recent issues of Time and Sports Illustrated, as well as an article by him in the April 11th issue of The Nation, which can be found either on the magazine rack in the Undergraduate Library or at Bob Marshall's. Why doesn't The Daily reprint his article? Briefly, Mr. Thompson's heresy consisted of attempting to circu- late a petition to eradicate the sport at Brown. The reaction to his sacrilege led to a Great Debate between he and the Brown Direc- tor of Athletics. Mr. Thompson still breathes and football is still as firmly entrenched at Brown as ever. In his article, Mr. Thompson blandly states: "I am convinced that if you wanted to pooh-pooh football at Michigan, Notre Dame, or Southern Methodist, you would need police protection." I agree with him and wonder how many others in Ann Arbor feel the same. If a Michigan counterpart to Wade Thompson began the Big March down South State in the direction of Ferry Field, waving the sword of intellectuality or the pen for petitioners, he might not reach his destination. Found hang- ing from a lamppost would not be an effigy either. -Wells Gray Popularity . To the Editor: HURRAH for the University of Michigan and their recent memo to students enrolled in Eng- lish. Under the title of Personality Perception Project lies a wicked potential. Students were asked to evaluate freshmen of their own sex on social adjustment, inter- personal relations, and leadership potential. They were to list two equal numbered groups; one of persons possessing a high rating in these traits and one of persons possessing-a low rating. All choices are matters of personal judge- ment. The memo specifically states, "Normally these are the ones who have a nice personality and the ones you like most," when refer- ring to the group to be selected as possessors of social adjustment, etc. If direct benefits are to be gained from this they seem to be only applicable to admissions: If the University chooses to admit students on a popularity poll rather than academic standards they (the officials) are leading us up the road. to, the Michigan school of games. If we students, and the preserv- ers of education on the faculty, will permit the University to run a popularity poll on campus with a possibility of using such a poll; we are ruining our school. The University is to be run for our education not popularity. Those individuals whose social ad- justment is so lacking that they cannot live in our society will be taken care of by the proper offi- cials. The University doesn't have to use the personal feelings of stu- dents to run a good guy, bad guy contest on campus. I suggest a bonfire in the diag supported by blue sheets of paper put out as memos to students en- rolled in English, or some other action with a similar end for the papers. -Bart Halliday Dilemma .. . To the Editor: WE THINK the vital thing that Mr. Ohlson fails to recognize in his plea for law and order, is that the integration question is a dilemma of unusual dimension. Now is the time for the more liberal citizens of this country to demand realistic equality for the Negro. ne is forced, in reply to Mr. Ohlson's second letter, to de- cide what is the more powerful element of democracy. Shall it be government based on the sacred premise of equality, or shall it be based solely on the sometimes tedious processes of law. Realizing the necessity of both elements, at the same time it seems to us that the former should be the most pressing. The integration petition and the March on Washington are not only worthy of themselves, but are in complete accordance with con- stitutional guarantees of freedom of speech. The petitioning of gov- ernment for redress of grievances is considered an inherent feature of our democratic system. It cer- tainly cannot be classified under the inauspicious titles of "mob rule" or "radicalism." Parts of Latin America and the Middle East are experiencing a period of internal unrest. These people have for years been de- sirous of freedom from foreign and domestic suppression. If this urge for greater equality and expression can be deemed "radicalism," then this country is a radical state. Our Revolution was fought to establish a representative, republican form of government It could not have been achieved by moderate action, and neither can integration. Seg- regation, whether by law or not, represents the gravest inner cleft within this society. The modera- tion of the past ninety years has accomplished very little, and the continuation of such an atmos- phere is incompatible with our "firmly established principles of government and law." We cannot believe that Mr. Ohlson and those who agree with him are really sup- porters of integration. if "Mr. Bissell and his fellows" take issue with the Supreme Court's proclamation of the sanc- tity of private institutions, and especially with those institutions on their campus, it is their duty to themselves and to their country to express their opinions freely. We personally believe that it is a viola- tion of all democratic and moral considerations to allow the college fraternity system to make such an arbitrary choice of member- ship. We further believe that vol- untary association" in this par- ticular case is an undemocratic and inhumane procedure. For these reasons, the question at hand goes beyond the narrow confines of Mr. Ohlson's reasoning. -Daniel A. Breskin, '62 -Philip J. Ramp, '62 Conservatives . . To the Editor: TH E UNIVERSITY'S unwilling- ness to lend its name to such a project as the recent integration march in Washington, D. C. is another manifestation of a serious problem which concerns both stu- dents and administrators of this university. Controversial subjects and any matters which have any elements of "radicalism" are al- ways evaded, and often indiscrimi- nately labeled "subversive" and "worthy of investigation." There is little room for debatable issues when they tend to move the uni- versity's usually conservative (if not reactionary) stand in a more liberal direction. Charles Kozoll's exceptional editorial points out quite well that there can be no controversy involved in having bicycle races and yo-yo contests on Spring Weekends. It is a well known fact that loyalty oaths, in- tegration issues, and socialist youth groups are just a few of the issues that the University's admin- istration tries to avoid discussing, thorhy eliminating the ned for ON TOP OF THE HEAP: Khrushchev Secure (EDITOR'S NOTE: Harold K. Milks, Associated Press Bureau Chief in Moscow since 1956, concludes today a series of four uncensored articles on the Soviet Union.) By HAROLD K. MILKS Associated Press Staff Writer WESTERNERS who regard political churnings in several Soviet states as signs of trouble for Nikita Khrushchev are apt to find they have been engaged in wishful thinking. Most of the upheavals were inspired by the Soviet Union's top boss, rather than resulting from any possible criticism of the man or his program. Khrushchev is simply building up his local political fences and weeding out men he regards as weak either in performance or personal loyalty. ** * LATEST OF A series of upheavals among the Soviet states came in Bylorussia where a new premier was named and shifts made j APPARENTLY, the consequences- of Music School's discontinuation of its major choral ctivities have not all been bad. The University community has been de- ived this year of the Saint Matthew Passion id, undoubtedly, of much other fine music, it Sunday afternoon's concert by the extra- ,ademic Arts Chorale seems to indicate that -in some cases, at least-students are willing fill the gaps that the administration leaves. The concert was a sensitive and thoroughly enjoyable one. The quality of the performance, however, is less significant than the imagina- tion and perseverance exhibited by the people involved. It is reassuring to find that initiative on this campus may be discovered somewhere outside of the Student Activities Building. But one might wish that the action needed to provoke such commendable efforts had been somewhat less drastic. -JEAN WILLOUGHBY Associate Editorial Director TRAIL-BLAZING: Presidency. Upgraded By THOMAS WHITNEY Associated Press Foreign News Analyst POLITICAL trail-blazing under way in the biggest of the Soviet Union's 15 republics suggests Nikita S. Khrushchev may be headed for the presidency of the USSR. It's a figurehead job now held by the aged and ailing Klementi E. Voroshilov. But the holder is the formal chief of state. The top executive position in the government now is the premier- ship, held by Khrushchev. But an example by the populous Russian Republic in revamping its presidency last week points the way to a change which could put Khrushchev quickly on an equal titular footing with such chiefs of state as President Dwight D. Eisenhower. and French President de Gaulle. This would be no disad- vantage to the Soviet boss THE PRECEDENT was set last Thursday at the final session of the Supl'eme Soviet (parliament) of the, Russian Republic, which contains half the population and three-fourths of the territory of the Soviet Union. There was a deliberate upgrad- ing of the presidency, -fficially called the chairmanship of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. There was deliberate subordina- tion of the premie'ship, officially called the chairmanship of the Republic's Council of Ministers. This reversed tjhe traditional status of the two jobs and created a unique-and possibly temporary .-situation in which the govern- mental structure of the largest Soviet Republic is at variance with that of the Soviet Union's govern- ment. The governmental structure in the Soviet Republics is supposed to parallel that of the government of the USSR. * * * NIKOLAI G. IGNATOV, 58, an up and coming Khrushchev dis- ciple who is a full member of the Communist Party's Presidium, was elected to the Soviet Republic's presidency. The speech nominating him made clear that this was both a promotion for Ignatov and an enhancement of his new job. in the party lineup. But veteran observers in Moscow said the move strengthened rather than weak- ened the man who replaced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev approaches the May 11 meeting of Foreign Ministers on German problems in by far the strongest personal po- sition among leaders from either side of the cold war barriers. Since taking over full govern- mental' as well as party powers, he has ruthlessly eliminated any possible critics or opponents. He used the attack on the "antiparty group" to get rid of several, in- cluding such old line party stal- warts as Malenkov, Molotov, Kag- anovich-and Bulganin. He skilfully split the nation's outstanding military leaders to pave the way for ouster of a na- tional hero, Marshal Georgi Shi- kiv. He mended personal fences throughout the Soviet Union, drawing heavily on his closest and oldest pals to fill key jobs. VETERAN diplomats in Mos- cow scoff at the possibility of any trouble for Khrushchev at home at this stage. Khrushchev demonstrated his contempt for any possible rivalry in the Soviet hierarchy by permit- ting MikhailSuslov-frequently mentioned abroad as a threat to the present ruler's position-to lead a Soviet delegation to England recently. Suslov's pro- Khrushchev behavior abroad was obvious. "Khrushchev has nothing to worry about today," was the way one western diplomat summed up the situation. "He is the boss. He makes the rules and the others follow them. I don't think even a major .political setback or a crop failure in the virgain lands -would shake him much these days." He added that in Russia noth- ing is certain "but unless I am badly mistaken Nikita Khrushchev is going to stay on top of the heap here for a long time." 3 INTERPRETING THE NEWS: West's Advances worry Soviets By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst UCLEAR ARMAMENT isn't the only thing about West Germany that worries Russia. Irk the old days the eastern part of Germany hich is now Communist-controlled was con- derably advanced over most of eastern Europe espite the fact that it was primarily agri- ultural. Now East Germany runs far behind West ermany'and may even be slipping while West ermany booms ahead - a poor advertise- ient for the Soviet system. And the east zone may be running into more nd more trouble. As workers in their prime slip into West irmany by the thousand, the east zone's pop- lation - and labor force -- gets older and 'ss productive. The population reference bureau of Wash- igtqn estimates that two million people have ed from East to West Germany since ,1950, lost of them in the past five years. West German figures show more than half of these were under 25 years of age and an- other 27.8 per cent between 25 and 45. This has not only reduced the East German labor force, but shifted its base until it is now 42 per cent women - as compared with 32 per cent in the United States. It also reduced the birth rate in six years, 1951-57, from 16.9 to 15.6 per thousand, so that migration is now three times the increase through births over deaths. At the same time West Germany was ab- sorbing the millions of immigrants from the east, her own birth rate was climbing from 16.5 to 17.0 making her population of 53.7 mil- lions the largest in Western Europe. There was selectivity in the emigration from East Germany in other than the age field, which was caused by the fewer ties which bind youth to old homes. The latest report from Berlin shows 95 scien- tist refugees in just the last seven weeks. They fled, they said, because of continued Commu- Senimore Says ... DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin i3 an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no edi- toialt responsibility. Notices should ,C