Sixty-Ninth Year. Tue Supreme Commands - ,. - EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN When Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth WillPrevail" 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. a *. r, . h ,. .. . . ; i ^ '. a1 ;, "" . '"' t -.t... : - -1 ;' 3, f" s 1 :.I +' w 3 , s ,f - e . eM Y, MAY 1, 1959 NIGHT EDITOR: BARTON HUTHWAITE University's Three Parts Still Don't Add Up FHE IDEAL university is a homogeneous institution. Its elements, the students, fac- ty and administration, work together with ich group bearing its own responsibilities bile attempting to understand and aid in le solution of the other groups' problem. This eal may be held, but certainly has not been aplenmented at the University. The blame for this falls almost equally on 1 three groups. Each section is far too self- volved to free itself from its problems ands ew the 'University as a whole. The University ,nnot exist as a separate faculty, administra- on and student body. When the University mmunity realizes the immediacy and serious- ss of the problem, a step has already been ade to overcome the weakness. S- 'HE ADMINISTRATION is at fault. Having become involved with efficiently running e University it often resembles the leadership, a huge corporation. It has, to a large ex- nt, lost sight of the University's primary nction: education. An example can be found in the residence ,lls. The Michigan House Plan called for liv- g inits that were oriented in educational op- rtuni-y, not administrative expediency. The ar-ideal physical plant is represented in the st quadrangle -- West Quad. It has indi- lual houses with separate entrances, as called r in the plan. But 'gold carries more weight than ideals, so uth Quadrangle is nine stories high, imper- nal, inadequate and inexpensive. The admin- ration is at fault. ND THE FACULTY is at fault. It comes out of Haven Hall to teach courses only to re- n again to cry for academic freedom. It is the defense against the administration's sition, and to an extent ignores the students' n-academic needs. The faculty teaches - and generally does well. But like the other groups, it remains of from the University. When the Faculty. Senate voted on the rma Kappa issue only a small percentage of the members were there. All Michigan, is di- vided into three parts, and the faculty is at fault. BUT THE STUDENTS most of all are at fault. They neither try nor care to under- stand the problems of the University. The overwhelming majority do not know what the problems of the University are. Those who try are hindered by their youth or lack of exper- ience. Many do not have the maturity that a few more years will bring. Some are blindly idealistic, some have untempered tempers. Most important of all, few attempts have been"made to channel the energy of those who would like to help in a manner that would en- able them to be constructive. Perhaps students would get farther with the administration if they would temper their antagonism - even when the administration deserves it. Students might be held in higher regard by the faculty if they took a greater interest in the facets of education that dont show up in grade-points. A recent poetry reading on one of the quad- rangles attracted precisely zero students. It is true the publicity ran afoul, but there were some who knew about it.. Certainly the stu- dents in charge of arranging the event might have appeared. The students are indeed at fault. It is not too far wrong to describe this as a university of egocentrics. Administrative ex- pediency has become a dirty word. What about faculty expediency and student expediency? Efficiency is nice, but this is not a factory. Minds are not bottled in bond. THE STUDENT Faculty-Administration con- ference is coming up in a couple of weeks. Like brotherhood week, it comes periodically and is forgotten between its appearances. What would happen if the Conference be- came a Congress? Why couldn't it meet once a month to allow the three groups to exchange ideas, problems and gripes? It would' be a worthy experiment which, if successful, would weld the three parts into a University. -THOMAS KABAKER .'-. . ยข BURvEU ~~gat A?" M 4 :.r.-~ MAY FESTIVAL: Brahms Night Closes With Musical Peak HEATED UP to the Brahms temperature by a thoughtful manage- ment, Hill Auditorium provided a vast battleground on which Ru- dolph Serkin fought the Philadelphia dragon last evening. And the sixty-sixth May Festival was begun. Brahms' Piano Concertos are essentially symphonic in charac- ter; the-second is cast in four movements with a "scherzo" following the first movement. But whatever the structural innovations, these concertos are notable both for complexity of structure and abundance of thematic material. RUDOLPH SERKIN is a pianist who has always been successful with the music of Brahms. Last evening was no exception to this generality. In Serkin's hands, the Brahms idiom predominates. And so the First Piano Concerto turned into a battle of sorts, with Serkin pulling toward romanticism of the most inexcusable and admirable sort, the orchestra tending toward the more restrained. If one might have wished for a more taut and dramatic version of the Third Symphony, the Concerto more than evened the score. Ser- kin's unrepressed enthusiasm dominated the scene to bring the pro- gram to a peak of musical intensity which may not be equalled dur- ing the next three days. BRAHMS' THIRD SYMPHONY begins with three chords which, in one guise or another, recur throughout the work. Every reappearance of this passage demonstrates Brahms' mastery of orchestration. The Philadelphia Orchestra sailed into the composition with precision which made one wish Beethoven's Eighth was on the program. Ormandy's treatment .;of the Third was more idiomatic 'than his treatment of the Academic Festival Overture. In fact purists in the audience found themselves deep in syrup during several passages. The i 4 SGC IN REVIEW: A Tacit Meeting of the Minds Philadelphia's horn and string sectic ing this performance. The rather complex fourth movement, a veri- table checker-board of interlock- ing themes was managed in a more deliberate fashion. A somewhat restrained version of Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" was the initial presen- tation, illustrating the astonish- ing precision of the Orchestra to a receptive audience. Brahms based the Overture on many of the popular student drinking songs of the period, to the dismay of the Administration. Much of the humor of this situa- tion is lost on present-day audi- ences who may not be acquainted with late nineteenth century European student affairs. The traces of good spirits which re- mained were cleverly dispersed with a whiff of grape-shot from the podium, and a more or less straight-forward production re- sulted. -David essel LETTERS to the I EDITOR Those Tired Women never sounded better than dur- By PHILIP POWER Daily Staff Writer PROBABLY the most significant agreement to emerge from the seemingly endless discussions go- ing on in the Committee on Clari- fication of the Student Govern- ment Council Plan has been almost entirely implicit. The Committee seems now to be nearly unanimous in its acceptance of the basic as- sumption that the student body, faculty and administration are co- ordinate elements within the Uni- versity community, and that the students should function as such through the means offered by the Council. In the Committee's meeting, Al Haber and Ron Gregg introduced a suggestion which would make the Vice-President for Student Af- fairs the reviewing authority, with provision for independent appeal and pressure on him to be gener- ated by interested segments-of the University community. This was criticized by committee-members because it, providedinsuffloient op- portunity for the representatives of the University communityas a whole to discuss the effects 'of SGC's action during the review process. On the other hand, the faculty proposal, which provides for a Committee on Referral, composed of students, faculty, administra- tion and an alumni representative, was criticized for the same alleged fault. ACADEMIC freedom was con- sidered at SGC's meeting which lasted until early yesterday morn- ing. Al Haber introduced a pre- liminary discussion of the concept of academic freedom, and then presented a series of motions. The only one which passed set up a Committee on Student Rights and Academic Freedom. Unfortunately, the consideration given by the Council wasn't too effective. Part of the fault lies with Haber for over-estimating SGC's capabilities on such a level of abstraction. The debate, aside from being perhaps as confused as any SGC has had in recent his- tory, was pretty flippant and ill- considered. Segments of the Coun- cil seemed to take the attitude that such concepts and motions were inherently uncomprehend- able and beneath their interest with a discussion of Rose Bowl participation scheduled for the near future. Such a lazy attitude toward the question of academic freedom has, more than anything else, brought it into being. P, of the difficulty lay, how- ever, in Haber's motions them- selves. The statements are in themselves a good idea and calls for statements from the University discussing academic freedom, for more concern from the University on the subject, for establishment of a committee on academic free- [EN WORK from sun, to sun but woman's work is never done," the old adage says. oompared with man's short bread-winning rs, a wife has a 16-hour work day, a seven- work week - and all without pay. The k costs her in energy and runs her down. o on and laugh, young University husbands. eker at your wife as you read this to her it's the word of Dr. Leonard Lovshin, spe- ist in internal medicine at the Cleveland lic. cost mothers are tired because they work so- d, he recently told the seventh annual ting of the American College of Obstetri- is and Gynecologists. fter examining 60 tired mothers with chil- i under 16 years of age, he found only 12 e suffering from some organic disease. The rs, he concluded, were just tired. G ON AND LAUGH, young fathers. What do you know of filing income tax returns, chauffeuring children, sponsoring the Brown- ies, belonging to the P-TA or cleaning-up after children's games of hula-hooping and frisbie? "Then this young mother has from one to several children and almost always some ani- mals. Our study shows that a puppy dog equals about onb and a half children and a female cat with a litter about two," Dr. Lovshin said. And the only vacation she gets from labor is labor itself, he added. Prior to childbirth and during convalescence, there may be time to rest from cases of tiredism. Laugh, daddies. Then let's see you have a baby. Time is the only cure for severe cases, Lov- shin said. For mild cases, he suggests an eso- teric medical prescription: "A new hat, big feathers on it." -NORMA SUE WOLFE dom and for more flexibility in academic programs, the sugges- tions are in themselves a good idea. However, they seem to as- sume that it is possible by struc- tural devices alone to create an atmosphere of academic freedom at the University. Nonetheless, as Haber said, "There must be a start some- where." Haber's particular start may or may not be the most effective one, but the attitude dis- played by most of the Council members is hardly preferable. THE MOTION to hold a student referendum to elicit opinion on Michigan's participation in post- season bowl games, and, more specifically, in the Rose Bowl, is a fine move. Although proposed in a' rather flippant manner at last week's meeting, it appears to be an excellent way for the Council to involve the campus as a whole in an issue and to articulate student opinion. Student opinion can hardly in- fluence the .Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics, both be- cause of its rather feudal nature and also because it already has voted. Student comment on -the issue could well affect the coming vote in the Faculty Senate, though. Even if this is not the case, SGC has taken an effective step in ful- filling its functions to the student body. OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no edi- torial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to' Room 3519 Administration Build- ing, before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 pm. Friday. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1959 VOL. LXIX, NO. 150 General Notices Astronomy Dept. Visitors Night. Fri., May 1, 8:00 p.m., Rm. 2003 Angell Hall. Dr. Lawrence H. Aller, "Atmospheres of Planets." Student Observatory on fifth floor, Angell Hall open for inspection and telescopic observations of Venus and Double Stars. Children welcomed, but must be accompanied by adults. Closing Hour Fri., May 1, will be 1:30 a.m., as authorized by Student Gov- ernment Council and Women's Judi- c ary Council. Taxing the Mind To the Editor: GIVEN that no new industry is coming to Michigan, and that some is leaving, consider this: tax industry high -industry leaves industry leaves-have unemployed have unemployed-support unemployed support unemployed-state - bankrupt Or, - tax industry lower-industry stays industry stays-less unemployed less unemployed-tax people tax people-state not bankrupt So the simple solution is to tax the people instead of industry, but then Michigan thinks it is "evil" to tax people. Why isn't it "evil" to support the unemployed? New solution: tax industry lower-industry stays industry stays-less unemployed less unemployed-do not tax' people do not tax people--tax legislators tax legislators-state not bankrupt --Marvin Resnikoff, '59 PPP.- To the Editor: . WOULD you please send us,. in a plain envelope, the names of the twelve freshmen women who have "the best social adjustment, inter-personal relations, and lead- ership potential? Normally, these are the ones who have a nice personality," according to the PPP. --ay Salo, Grad. -John Bay, '56 $ I body. (Continued on Page 5) -TODAY AND TOMVORROW : Enforcement by Assent By WALTER LIPPMANN PROF. POLLOCK COMMENTS: German Reunification Counters Reds' Interests AVING BEEN passed by the Senate, the labor reform bill now goes to the House ch is expected to hold hearings throughout month of May. The main debate will be on ther the amended Kennedy bill should be ghened or softened. In fact, however, the r-riding national interest is that a bill ild be passed which establishes the prin- e, as does the Senate bill, that there is a lie interest in the internal management of labor unions, and that the right to regu- them is legally recognized and universally spted. his is ever so much more important than specific provision of the bill. For the regu- n of labor unions in order to prevent the zes and abuses revealed by the McClellan imittee is a vast undertaking. There are his country some 200 national unions and e 60,000 local unions. They have a mem- hip of about 17,000,000 workers. It is easy ay that these unions must all be honestly faithfully administered in a democratic . But it will not be easy for the Federal rnment to enforce these desirable criteria i vast and complex community like the r unions. As an undertaking, it is compar- in its difficulty with the problem of eving equal civil rights in all parts of the try. IN THE PROBLEM of civil rights, the rucial question involves definition of the imum that can be achieved in the way bservance and enforcement by assent and ent, without imposing upon the govern- what he thinks should and should not be done. But what counts is a bill which not only points in the right direction but offers a good prospect of moving in that direction. By this test the Senate bill is a good one. The proof that it is good is that it was passed unanimously, taking account of Sen. Gold- water's dissent for the sake of the record. The bill has the support of the responsibly labor leaders, beginning with Mr. George Meany. Thus, if enacted into law, we may expect that there will be a large amount of voluntary ob- servance and a limited need for measures of enforcement. I have not in recent months followed in de- tail the exposures of the McClellan Commit- tee. But a year ago, its sensational exposures of racketeering and corruption had covered only seven out of nearly 200 national unions. No doubt there are others which need to be exposed. But no doubt also, there are a great many which are honestly and faithfully run. Their example and support are very necessary to effective regulation of the labor movement. IN MY VIEW, the critically important and desirable feature of the bill is the require- ment for detailed financial reports. For if this requirement can be enforced, if there is full and continuing disclosure of the income, the investments, and the expenditures of the unions, the foundation of effective regulations will have been laid. This will not be the last bill to regulate the unions which is to come before Congress. The regulation of corpora- By PHILIP SHERMAN Daily Staff Writer ON A GERMAN settlement - on this hang many of the laws and prophets of the free world. But settlement of the German situation, says Prof. James IC. Pol- lock, chairman of the political science department, is mainly de- pendent on the Russians, upon whom rests 'the responsibility for the present tension-laden situa- tions. The West, he explained in a recent interview, is willing to make concessions to solve the problem, but all the Western concessions possible will be for naught if Khrushchev and Company remain adamant. The principal hitch to a German settlement is the problem of re- unification. Such difficulties as Berlin are merely symptomatic of this basic problem. There will never be a proper settlement that does not include reunification, warned Prof. Pollock, who recently spent some time in Berlin to evaluate the situation on the spot. * * *. WHEN THE victorious "Grand Alliance" divided conquered Ger- many into four zones of occupation after World War II, Germany's reunifigation problems began. 'The Allies also promised a peaceful and democratic' place in the free world to the German nation and rejected annexation, assuming that eventually, the country would soon be reunited. However, while the three West- ern zones have been united in the Federal Republic, the Russian zone has become the People's Republic. Efforts at uniting the two zones, have been largely blocked by Rus- sian opposition. It is this attitude on the part of the Russians, anctonly the Rus- sians, Prof. Pollock emphasized, that has frustrated plans for a united Germany. In a desire to gain recognition of their "ill gotten gains," Prof. Pollock said, and acceptance of their breaking of agreements, that has led the Rus- sians to want to keep Germany divided. Western recognition of, the Russian position in Germany would accomplish much of this. * * IN ADDITION to using Germany for this long term aim, the Rus- sians are utilizing the situation for short term tactical maneuvers. Prof. Pollock said the tension created in Berlin was probably used to try to distract from the attempted Soviet take-over in Iran. The only thing that will change the Russian attitude, Prof. Pol- lock said, is if their illegally gained possessions and power in East Europe become more of a burden than an advantage. This cannot result from Western action, but must be brought about by the actions of the satellite populations, The West, he said, will have to believe "that free men will not indefinitely tolerate slavery." Rus- sian fears of a renascent Germany, he concluded, may be alleviated by Western guarantees; but as long as the Russians profit from the enslaved countries they will man settlement were postponed too long, nationalistic unrest might arise in the country, though to fear it now would be to think too far into the future. The actual mechanics of reuni- fication, Prof. Pollock said, would be relatively simple, if the Rus- sians were willing to negotiate as they agreed to do in 1955. A con- stitutional convention of the two Germanies would be' called and a new framework, on the basis of the constitution of the Federal -Republic would be constructed. Berlin would again tbecome the capital. Once these two sections of Ger- many were reunited, Prof. Pollock explained, negotiations between Germany and Poland over the Oder-Neisse country, which was also taken from Germany at the end of World War II and made a part of Poland, could becarried out. If the Russians would not in- terfere, he said, a considerable area of agreement would exist and a solution of the problem could be found. STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Mayor Friederich Ebert of East Berlin delivered to,- a news conference these definitions of freedom: "In the West, freedom means that one single man is elected to decide everything for the people. ti" :; . . _ _ _ f ... - -