"There's Something Wrong with This Ouiz Show Too" Sixty-Ninth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. 9 ANN ARBOR, MICH. 0 Phone NO 2-3241 i i i J 4 P "When Opinions Are Free Truth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. |DNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: LANE VANDERSLICE Adams Sacrificed i Struggle For Republican Political Prestige ~i! f 40 (II 1. jI ', ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT Sherman Adams is no more. Adams' political death did not come as a sudden surprise to the nation. Political pressure brought on by an overdose of personal ignorance- and indiscretion forecast his fate shortly after the cold, efficient adminis- trator appeared before House influence investi- gators several months ago.- Once described as the President's -"hatchet man," Adams himself lost his scalp to the Republican candidates for Congress ,.. . GOP hopefuls began clamoring for his resignation ever since disclosure oP his relations with wealthy Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfne." The clamoring grew into a tulmult after the Republicans suffered a rout in Maine's first- in-the-nation election Sept. 9. Republicans cannot expect a sudden upsurge in the voting trend with Adams' departure. While GOP candidates may give a sigh of relief and rejoice somewhat, they cannot expect to reap additional votes and prestige. The damage done by the Adams-Goldfine case will not be' repaired by the presidential assistant's delayed departure. They can only use it as a scapegoat on which tio shift the burden of their defeat if they should happen to lose.the upcoming elec- tions. THE NAME Sherman Adams meant little to the pulklic before the recent Congressional; disclosures. "Sherm," as his friends called him, was the picture of the stiff, hard-working,. blunt-talking New EIglander. His integrity was niever questioned during his 20 years of service to the State of New Hampshire and the United States. His political record went unquestioned unitl recently. While governor of New Hampshire, Adams concentrated on economy for himself as well as the government. He even carried his lunch to work with him after taking a salary cut to become governor. When he took time out to play golf,, Adams visited semi-public courses instead of the exclusive Concord Country Club. Whether Goldfine's influence extended be- yond making several inquiries about Goldfine cases pending before the Federal Trade Com- mission and the Securities and Exchange Com- ~mission is known only to Sherman Adams him- self. His resignation certainly cannot be taken as an admission of his guilt in the Goldfine case. It demonstrates only the power and in- fluence the Republican party can bring to bear on members of their GOP. OTHER GOVERNMENT officials, on the state and national level, will probably find them- selves in the same position as Sherman Adams. Some will refuse any connection whatsoever with outside influences. Others will make the same mistake or mistakes as Adams did. But few will have to face the public abuse as Adams. Sherman Adams will be remembered by many as the man who was forced to resign his govern- ment post for the welfare of the 'nation. Few will, remember him as the man shoved into a political grave by the hands of his own party. -BARTON HUTHWAITE DISCOURAGES INTELLECTUALISM: Khrushchev Turns On Soviet Unvwersities By THOMAS P. WHITNEY Associated Press -News Analyst ONE OF NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV'S unadmitted purposes in proposing a radical reform of the Soviet school system is to liquidate Soviet universities as centers of intellectual ferment among Russian youths. Hg proposes to do this by turning them for the most part into night and correspondence schools. The Moscow press announced Sunday that the Presidium of the Central Committee has approved Khrushchev's "work while you study" scheme, to be put into effect over the next three or four years. The full membership of the Central Committee and the Supreme Soviet, or parliament will be called upon to. endorse it later:;N E P E IG One purpose in the proposed INTERPRETING: change is economic. The change will make it, possible for the UP" I- Kremlin to mobilize for manual .S. .u' ,...he -labor millions of boys and girls from 14 to 17 years of age. The mobilization will help make up It:W ar a'w for the impending acute shortage of young men and women due to the drop during World War II in By . 1M. ROBERTS the birth rate. Associated Press News Analyst This wart line fall in the birth ,NDICATIONS of stalemate in rate means that in the next five the Warsaw negotiations with years, without adoption of sope- Red China over the Formosa Strait thing like this school measure, situations are pushing the United there would be about five million States toward -an appeal to the fewer young people entering the United Nations for which it has no labor force and armed forces than great appetite. there were during the past five For a time it was hoped that, years. whether any agreements resulted Under the Khrushchev, plan or not, the Warsaw talks and other after the seventh or eighth verbal exchanges would gradually grade almost all children, except cause a lessening of the tension, those exceptionally gifted and in- on the theory that even a war can tended to become scientists, will be talked to death. be put to work at manual labor on There is a growing feeling now, farms and in factories. 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LOT HAS HAPPENED since then and given the transitory nature of student bodies, ere are many new faces on campus.: Over that time, several myths have been gii up concerning the. violation, and these; yths need correcting. The first and most )pular of these is that a group of radical .dependents took, the bit in their teeth and ppressed a minority of affiliates on the Coun- 1. Nothing could be further from the truth. GC was then composed of a. clear majority of filiates and more affiliates voted against igma Kappa than for it. They were: Carol DeBruin, a member of Delta Delta elta sorority and then president of Panhel; Sue Arnold, a member of Kappa\ Kappg gamma sorority and president of the league; Roy Lave, a member of Theta Ki fraternity; ad then president of the Union; Janet Neary, a member of Pi Beta Phi rority, and later to be an SGC vice-president; Janet Winkelhaus, a member of Chi Omega rority; and Ann Woodard, a. member of amma Phi Beta sorority. In all fairness it should be pointed out that le five who voted that Sigma Kappa was not violation were affiliated, although it is teresting to note that three of the five were embers of 'fraternities with discriminatory auses. Those five men were: Tim Leedy, a member of Psi Upsilon fra- , rnity and IFC president; John Wrona, a member of Sigma Chi fra- rnity; Scott Crysler, another Sigma Chi; Mal Cumming, a member of Alpha Tau mega, later- to be IFC vice-president; and om Sawyer, a member of Phi Gamma Delta aternity. The final vote was twelve to five. NOTHER POPULAR misconception concerns a distinction between the local chapter and Editorial Staff RICHARD TAUB, EditorT ICHAEL KRAFT JOHN WEICHER Eitoria 1 Director City Editor DAVID TARR Associate Editor LECANTOR .......... ... .Personnel Director AN T WILLOUGHBY. Associate Editorial Director ATA JORGENSON ........Associate 'City Editor IZABETH ERSKINE....Associate Personnel Director SAN JONES ......«.......... .Sports Editor JRL RISEMAN. . Associate Sports Editor COLEMAN ...,............Associate Sports Editor AVID ARNOLD.........,.....Chief Photographer Business Staff the national sorority. "Why penalize the local for something the national did," the saying goes. While such distinctions are sometimes valuable or necessary, this just is not one of those times. University regulations are quite clear on this point. A group of students may get together and form a local organization. For this, they need University recognition. If the group then wishes to affiliate with a national fx aternity pr sorority, the University must then recognize the national. Sigma Kappa began as a club, Eskasia. This group was recognized by the University. Then when it affiliated with National Sigma Kappa, again approval was necessary and the national had to file its constitution with 'the Dean of Women's office, and go through other recogni- tion procedures. Dean Bacon made this clear at the first Sigma, Kappa hearing. The University recog- nizes the national, she said. It's the national's name, the national's ritual and, as they never let the University forget, it is the national's money, she pointed out. THERE IS ONE unfortunate aspect of the problem. The University regulation only restricts those groups which were recognized after the rule was passed in 1949. This means that other groups recognized before 1949 are free to discriminate as much as they wish, and unfortunately many of them do. But the regulation was passed to prevent the establishment of any more discriminatory groups on campus. Apparently, the Committee on Student Affairs, 'which passed the resolution, and the University president who approved the regulation made the assumption that all groups would act in good faith. Apparently in the case of Sigma Kappa, the assumption was invalid. So for almost two whole years, Sigms, Kappa was' allowed'. to operate on this campus in normal fashion although it was violating Uni- versity regulations for that period of time. The group was permitted to rush, pledge and participate in all University activities, as though they were any University group in good standing. BUT THIS TWO YEAR period is about to come to an end. With the reading of the letter tomorrow night, SGC is committed to deciding on a course of action. Ultimately, there can only be two such courses. On the one hand, the letter may clearly show that Sigma Kappa is no longer violating the rules. In that case, the issue is dead. Sigma Kappa will be just another sorority. The other possibility is that the letter may not prove to the Council that Sigma Kappa has changed its policies significantly. If this is the case, the Council will have no choice but to withdraw recognition from the national. In this latter instance, however, SGC will be obligated to do all it can for the local group.. That would mean helping it to affiliate with another national or helping to gain financial backing as a local sorority.. - However, even if that decision is still some way off, a new phase in the standing of Sigma Kappa sorority will begin tonight.- VlA1.E d1 l A ' _ - t 7I ANOTHER all-time record num- ber of students enrolled at the University this fall-23,508, to be exact. Meanwhile, the University budget has been cut by over one million dollars from last year. In itself, the budget cut need not conflict with a rising enroll- ment. It might be possible in theory to cut the non-academic areas of the budget sufficiently even to afford a small rise with a reduced budget. However, this is not the case; 207 faculty and staff, positions have been eliminated, raising the student-faculty ratio from about 13-1 to about 14-1.. THERE ARE a number of con- siderations which go into deter- mining enrollment in a given year, not all of them academic concerns. For one. thing, housing must be found for new students, particu- larly freshmen. In past years, dousing shortages have played a great role in keeping enrollment down. However, with the comple- tion of Markley this fall, space suddenly became available for several hundred new students, at a time when funds to provide in- struction for those students were reduced. Given this peculiar set of cir- cumstances, the University was faced with -a choice of empty dorms or crowded classrooms. Neither alternative is particularly desirable, and perhaps the crowded' classrooms is the lesser of two evils. But there are other aspects to be considered. -~* * RESIDENCE HALLS, once built, become permanent fixtures, and there is a tendency to utilize them as fully as possible. If the Uni- versity has space for so many thousand students on the Hill and in the quads, it will want to find so many thousand students to live there. Thus a certain basic enroll- ment is presupposed for a given year and for a given :period of years for a long time to come. In addition, it is less expensive per' capita to utilize available facil- ities to the fullest. Certain basic costs involved in maintaining resi- dence halls either do not increase as the number of students housed in them rises, or the costs may increase at a slower rate. Food and other expenses which are approximately the same per stu- dent, regardless of the number of students, make up a good share of the cost, but so do compara- tively fixed expenses such as heat- ing. As a result, it is relatively easy and inexpensive to continue to utilize residence halls at or near capacity in a lean year. Unfortunately y for the faculty, the economics of residence hall management leaves them with the problem of providing instruction for about the same number of students as last year, with a sharp- ly cut payroll. In this situation, the only' solution can be expanded classes where possible - "where possible" generally meaning in the multiple-section courses, thus hit- ting the freshmen harder than other classes,, and introducing them to intellectual challenges in a harried, impersonal atmosphere, despite ,the best efforts of faculty members. FROM ANOTHER standpoint, the completion of Markley this year and its attendant result on enrollment may be unfortunate. To state legislators in Lansing, unable to judge the quality of University education simply on grounds of distance, the fact that the University was able to'enroll a record number of students de- spite a million dollar budget cut will stand out in sharp contrast, to administration statements that every dollar of the requested 37 million was essential and would impair education. To them, the budget c t and record enrollment may indicate .the University was crying wolf last spring. The University will no doubt be able to marshal an impressive ligt of reasons why it needs more money next spring, but these may well fall on deaf ears, as the legis- lators remember fall enrollment figures. The result may be another year of ope'rations on a thirty mil- lion dollar appropriation, with at-, tendant disasters, simply because a new dormitory was opened this fall and more students were.-admitted to take advantage of the extra space. -* * * ECONOMIC MOTIVES are thus behind the overhaul of Soviet edu- cation. But the political motives behind it are probably stronger. During 1956 under the de-Stalin- ization program advanced that year by Khrushchev theret was a letup in repression. As a result much discontent with Communist dictatorship came to light among Soviet university students. Intel- lectual ferment rose to a high pitch. It became apparent that. many or most students were un- happy about the Soviet regime. The Soviet government after the lesson of the Hungarian re- volt lost no time in taking dras- tic steps to keep Soviet students under control. But Kremlin leaders became aware they had a long- term problem on their hands. The Soviet dictatorship appeared to be digging its own grave by providing too much 'education for Russians. * * * . THE KREMLIN'S answer to the problem, expressed in various, shifts during the last two years. and now particularly in this new over-all change, is to abolish uni- yersities as places where large numbers of students study and live together for periods of five years or more. From now on if he is hard-working enough to complete two to three years of high school and three years of higher educa- , tion at night and correspondence courses the ordinary Soviet youth. desirous of completing his higher education may, if he is lucky, be given a leave of absence for only two years of full-time study. It's Nikita Khrushchev's hope that this and the associated changes he has recommended will so change the setup and the at- mosphere in the Soviet educational system as to destroy the creative exchange of new political ideas among Soviet students and make them submissive and obedient servants ?f the state. promoting more talk. Eventually they will have to have it. THAT RAISES the. question of whether they would be invited to attend a full-dress debate onrthe issues, ac, they were- once before il the early days of the United Nam tions. - Yesterday's debate was a differ- ent matter, in which the Formosa issue was dragged in as a side-line to the question of Red Chinese membership. Even the Russians facing certain defeat, didn't seem too interested. .There has been some hope that this would be the only discussion required in the UN. But Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' reser- vatidr- of the right to a formal debate if the Warsaw talks failed has been accepted as a sort of half promise. There is also the con- sideration that if the United States does not bring it up when all hope for Warsaw is gone, then someone else will. When it is, it will not make any- body very happy except perhaps the Communists who enjoy turning the UN into a propaganda forum at every opportunity. THE BRITISH, hoping for the same U.S. defense commitment for Hong Kong that has been given for Formosa, are trying to keep as quiet as possible because of strong political opposition at home to the American position. 'Some delegations which are de- voted to the welfare of the UN itself are not enthusiastic this time, as'rthey sometimes are, of following the usual General As- sembly routine in such cases. That routine is to wind up debates on such issues by asking Secretary General Hammarskjold to under- take a mediation mission. This procedure has worked well to hold the.lid on some boiling pots, as in the Middle East. But Hammarskjold has not been too successful in his mission to Jordan and the United Arab Republic. In Red China. he might be received merely as the representative of an organization which has blackballed them., Nevertheless, the effort to talk- the war to death will be continued, and the UN seems to be in for it. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Ogicial'-Bulletn is$ an offiial .publication of the Univer-- sity of ichigan for wich 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 p.m. Friday. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1958 General notices The next "Polio Shot" Clinic will be held Thurs., Sept. 25 only from 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. and 1:00 p.mi.-4:45 p.m. in the Health Service, Students are reminded that it is not necessary to obtain their regular clinic cards. Pro- ceed to Rm. 58 in the basement' werq ,formstare available and cashier's rep- resentatives are present. The fee .for injection is $1.00. The U. of M. Student Debaters, spon- sored 1;y the Dept. of Speech, will hold their first meeting of thie fall semester in Rm. 2040 Frieze Bldg. on Thurs., Sept.. 25, 4:00 p.m, and 7:00 p.m. These two meeting hours ar' designed so that most students wishing to participate in varsity debating ti fall iay sign up at- one or the other of the meetings. AS NOVEMBER APPROACHES: Adams, Other Issues Point to Parties' Problems By NAN MARKEL Daily Staff Writer' N DOUBT about it, issues spell out political fate, and fatalities. Recent primaries reaffirm the importance of domestic issues. Areas hard hit by the recession, a South determinedly South and de- terminedly segregationist, the Adams-Goldfine blowup, all are loom- ing up to make the political fortuntellers' guesswork less than haty. Some domestic issues will cripple the Republicans, others are a Demo- cratic liability. Counting up GOP assets, National Republican chairman Meade Al- corn predicts a Southern Democratic split. There will be a third party in the South, he says, "Conservative Southerners are being driven from the party and they no longer have a home in it." A truth does lie beneath his rose-colored predictions. In most South- ern states, the "conservative" and "moderate" Democrats, placing their primary hopes on a solid segregationist stand, have triumphed over the "liberals." A coalition of Texas "conservatives" and "moderates" easily turned bacl the "liberal" wing (supposedly backed by Northern labor) in primaries in that state. In florida, the more rigid segregationist, Senator Spessard L. Holland proved victorious over Claude Pepper, a "liberal" who served as senator during New Deal and "Fair Deal" days. So it goes so far throughout the Deep South. A segregationist South and a more liberal North may not mix. THE DEMOCRATIC party, because it has withstood inside pressures before, may have only a case of indigestion, but it is possible that it may not be able to stomach its conflicting interests. But at this moment domestic issues or rather a particular domestic issue, are uppermnost in the Republican mind. Whether or not Sherman Adams' retirement will heal GOP injuries is a matter of more than a lit- tle speculation at this point. Michigan's state chairman Neil Staebler had this to say about the Adams exit: "The pain from Maine apparently has become toQ much for the Re- publican party to bear. But the political toothache will remain despite the belated extraction of Mr. Sherman Adams from the White House. Maine, former Republican stronghold, signaled a bad Republican de- feat, one which undoubtedly prompted the presidential aide's resigna- tion. ALONG GOP party lines, Adams, out of the White House now or not, is serving to accentuate the right-wing' left-wing party split. In the, past half dozen years Eisenhower's moderates have held control, but the doubts which now, reflect upon Eisenhower himself and the realizatipn his somewhat battered coattails go into the closet in two years, weaken the control. Stronger elements in both wings may refuse to listen to the moderates or agree on party compromises. Each party has its issues, its headaches, and its election problems for November. To each its own.. Senirnore Says. y "I i VfE L I "T* * V.. --V ,1