"Anybody Want To Argue About Other Rules?" r irlagau &il# 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. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 "When Opinions Are Pre 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. I rEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14. 1959 NIGHT EDITOR: SUSAN HOLTZER , ,,,,,M..- ...._. J} ,. ,. { t ' i I - ,, a- I , v f ti- - f' [ ,r t. ' ._ ; F!1 1 l :: '. S _' : 5 .?3 '" ++7 - J 0M I~LEam ' HAS C~tMslPAOLE II~ - 0 .-- AT HILL AUDITORIUM: Pops Tour Orchestra Almost Real Thing U.S. Poor Host To Mikoyan IT IS HOPED that the second ranking man in Russia today will not be shot when he re- turns to Russia after all the wining and dining he has been doing with imperialistic capitalists. Business and industry leaders all over this country have been hosts to Anastas I. Mikoyan during his "private visit." Such contamination with owners of large private enterprise concerns may just prove too much for the Deputy Pre- mier. He may go back to Russia "brainwashed" by what he finds here, so that he will have to be removed in order to preserve the Communis- tic system. Some of the things that Mikoyan has been so willingly saying have been so bad, in fact, that they have not been repainted in Russia. And, anyone who would remark that he is con- vinced that business owners in this country do not want war because their plants would be damaged obviously needs watching. As any Communist knows, it is the capitalistic im- perialists who want war in order to riake money. T HE IRONY of this whole situation is that there have been demonstrations against Mikoyan. But these have not come from the nervous capitalists. The protestors have been workers, most of them from countries recently "liberated" by the Communists. Yet Communism is supposed to be the friend of the working class. Yet George Meany, presi- dent of the AFL-CIO labor union, refused to see the high-ranking Soviet under any condi- tions. Of course, Mikoyan has almost been forced to siend time with business leaders. The State Counselors STUDENTS ARE ALWAYS ready these days to do away with any outside help and are more than eager to "do it themselves." Recent indications that juniors and seniors in the literary college may be allowed to sign their own election cards have been met with glad cries and whoops that "paternalism is dying, etc. etc." It is difficult to visualize, however, what great good this proposed move would accomplish .. . other than appeasing a ,few oppressed, down- trodden underclassmen who want to "go it alone." Since there are nearly one-third of second semester seniors with unfulfilled distribution requirements, it seems inconceivable that it' would do any earthly good to place the respon- sibility in the hands of students who apparently don't give a darn now. It seems more likely that a more thorough counseling program is needed instead of abolishing the present old one. THE MAIN DIFFICULTY with the counseling program is probably the "rubberstamp" atti- tude of many of the counselors. Honest mistakes Department has taken a stay-clear position because Mikoyan is here on a private visit and it has not arranged any official receptions. BUT THERE ARE more serious aspects to the Government's handling of his visit. It has provided only the most minimal security pro- tections and has refused to help facilitate his trip by advising cities on the itinerary how to handle his visit. The wounds inflicted by the brutality of the Communists in people of many countries, es- pecially Hungary, are too recent for those refugees in the United States to allow the arrival of a high-ranking Soviet to pass un- noticed. Demonstrations should have been ex- pected from past experiences and plans should have been made to handle them so there would not have been so many embarrassing incidents. President Dwight D. Eisenhower called for courtesy on the part of the American people so as to give Mikoyan an accurate picture of our country. However, the President should not expect individuals to show courtesy to someone like Mikoyan when the State Department does not treat him as one of the leaders of another country. IN EUROPE news of Mikoyan's trip is taking precedent over all other events. At the moment the United States looks very foolish because of its actions ... or lack of them. The United States must make some official gesture of friendship to the man whom Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has called "my Ar- menian rug salesman" before another battle is lost in the public relations war. .{ -JAN RAHM Still Needed of course do occur but if the one-third figure is true, there is more to it than mistakes. Errors in one-third of second semester seniors' distri- bution requirements indicates two things. One is indifference on the part of counselors. The other is a partial cause of the first: insufficient time. The few minutes available to each stu- dent are are not enough to plan. AND, IF THE problem is uncertainty whether specific courses fulfill requirements it is more than doubtful that students could do the job better. On the contrary, the chaos feared by the Counseling Committee is almost certain to be monstrous. This is no time for students to grab at every "concession" or bit of authority they can, wrest from a "hostile administration, desirous of paternalizing the poor students to death." Every item of this nature should be weighed for its logical potential in developing responsibility, its logical position of vestiture, and not for the glory of a victory over those guys in the pink building on State Street. -RALPH LANGER 4t;f f9s9p T7 "V , .14 TDAI oS'14 STILL SEEKS PEACE: Six Years in the White House LAST EVENING, the Boston Pops threw down a curiously woven cape of musical fabric for an en- thusiastic audience to walk upon. However far from the topic this bunch may stray, they somehow always manage to finish with a flurry of encores so that everyone goes home happy. The Pops normally hangs out at Symphony Hall, during the sum- mer season, where the musically infatuated can sit at little tables, eat and drink, listen to the orches- tra, and generally talk an evening away. Away from Symphony Hall, the so-called Boston Pops Tour Orchestra, of uncertain back- ground, sweeps across the land playing a strangely unvaried pro- gram to packed houses. THE FIRST ACT on Arthur Fiedler's comedy of manners began with a rather restrained "Rakoczy March," moved on into a frivolous overture by Rossini, a Bach "Fugue" grotesquely orchestrated by Cailliet, and the fascinating "Divertissement" by French con- temporary Jacque Ibert. This last piece was well received by the complacent audience; trumpet cat-calls, police whistles, and satire on Mendelssohn's wedding march to the contrary. After a brief intermission, the Pops was joined by Mr. Ozan Marsh, a pianist of frightening talent, for Liszt's "Totentanz." This keyboard rattling set on vari- ations on the "Dies Irae" (a sort of whiskey served at the Detroit Athletic Club) is at best a mad romp for piano and orchestra; at worst a musical chamber of hor- rors. Fiedler led the chase through graveyard and funeral parlor with no difficulty, while from the piano, Mr. Marsh tore through deathless passages with hardly a quiver. The "Russian Easter" which followed was less than ideal: too much rushin'. Yet another intermission, and then the Pops returned for some "pops." First, a medley of dancing music from cakewalk to rock and roll; then a Mantivanesque "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"; finally "76 Trombones" fresh from an -en- gagement at the stadium. This type of music is held firmly in the grasp of this orchestra and helped erasera memory of the unexciting Easter. BOSTON POPS lovers can al- ways be counted on to keep the applause at high level for a while after concerts, because Pops en- cores are half the show. The five encores which followed were at least one-third of the show; mainly because of Leroy Ander- son's "Classical Juke Box" which satires the tendency of popular music to steal from the classics, especially Liszt. And with the tra- ditional playing of the ever-popu- lar "Stars and Stripes," the or- chestra brought to a close yet another chapter of "Life in Hill Auditorium." * * * THOSE unfamiliar with the Pops on its home grounds cannot im- agine the happy times at Sym- Schedule Suggestion phony Hall, with champagne cork popping, waitresses carting, O trays of sandwiches, people fallin asleep. During the summer, the Pops also has a large visiting dele gation from the Boston Symphonj which is welcome. Last night Pops was certainly adequate,, a Tour Orchestras go, but not up t summer standards. But until we can persuade thi University to uproot the first fioo seats in Hill Aud., move in a littl tables and chairs, and fly in son snacks from Durgin Park, some thing of the Pops effect will alway be lost. The "Divertissement" an most of the Pops music cami closest to the Pops I remember. -David Kessel ONCE AGAIN, as final examination time rolls around, the old familiar cry is heard, "It never fails, I have three exams in two days and my last one is one week from my third." This common complaint could easily be avoided in one of two ways. The first way, and this would entail more work on behalf of the University, would be to publish the final exam- ination schedule for the semester in the time schedule for that particular semester. In this way, students will be able to sign up for classes knowing when their exams will fall and thus, the students would be able to spread out their exams during the examination period. Another way would be to establish a per- manent schedule which would avoid the extra work done each semester to devise a new one. An example of the permanent schedule would be all classes held at 11 a.m. Mondays will al- ways have their exams 9 a.m. to noon on the first Monday of finals. Special sections can also be posted on this permanent schedule. The schedule could then be posted in gener- al locations including the Faculty Counsellors' Offices and the individual residence halls. In this way, counsellors, instructors and stu- dents will know at all times when their exams will be and this would also help departments to plan the times of their respective course meetings and make exam week a little easier to face. -BRUCE COLE By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH Associated Press Correspondent W ASHINGTON- World peace, enduring and just, still is President Dwight D. Eisenhower's No. one goal and overriding inter- eskt after six years in office. And as -he starts his seventh year, President Eisenhower still doesn't like politics in the broad sense-particularly the pulling and hauling, the bargaining which are an inevitable part Of any Adminis- tration's efforts to get legislation through Congress. Nor has President Eisenhower ever relished his role as head of the Republican party. His interest in the role is likely to diminish during his remaining two years in the White House. It would be over-simplifying to say that President Eisenhower's dislike for politics on the one hand and his deep interest in the search for peace on the other provides full answer on how he ticks as President. But perhaps more than anything else they are key factors in getting at President Eisenhower's opera- tions pattern of the last six years, and in loking ahead to the rest of his term. It boils down to the President being much more absorbed in one phase of his job-the hunt for elusive peace-than he is in do- mestic programs. AN AIDE estimates that in the last couple of years President Eisenhower on most days has de- voted perhaps 75 per cent of his working hours to international problems - atomic weapons con- trol, for example, and such crises as those in the Middle East, the Far East and Berlin. Certainly the 68-year-old Presi- dent is not going to change in any dramatic fashion in the next two years. However, he is keenly aware of being the first President to be barred from a third term, which he said he wouldn't accept anyway because of his age. The bar, set up during President Truman's term, stemmed from objections to the four terms of President Roosevelt. President Eisenhower is aware more specifically of predictions that because he is barred from another termhe can'tbexpect to be very effectual in the next 24 months - in dealings with the heavily Democratic new Congress, in world affairs, in every manner. The President reportedly is de- termined that history won't pin any meaningful "lame duck" tag on him. He-and his staff are mak- ing plans now on how to accent the positive. But if the past six years have demonstrated anything they have shown that President Eisenhower is not a man who goes looking for a battle-notwithstanding his at- tacks on the Democrats in the re- cent election campaign. Generally he tries to avoid ; scrap-in his relations with Con- gress, for instance. Some of his critics contend he tries too hard. IN ANY EVENT, the Eisenhower of the future will be essentially the Eisenhower of the past. As always, he will steer clear of any skull- spent many years in the army and the policy of taking only major decisions to the boss is ingrained. POLITICS - Because he never has cared for politics, President .Eisenhower more and more will turn over to others the job of rebuilding the Republican party in the wake of last month's Demo- cratic triumphs. He has said in' substance he wouldn't dream of trying to hand pick a successor among the Republican aspirants. NEWS CONFERENCES - The present trend seems to be toward fewer Eisenhower news conferen- ces. During the year 1958, he held 21. The year's total is almost cer- tain to be the smallest since 1955 when Eisenhower had met with reporters 19 times before his Sep- tember heart attack put an end to conferences that year. The announced goal when the President took office was one ses- sion with reporters each week. The average over six years has been something less than one confer- ence every two weeks-23 in 1953; 33 in 1954; 19 in 1955; 24 in 1956; and 25 in 1957. * * * AT THIS POINT President Eis- enhower's working day pattern is pretty much the same as it was in 1953-except for the mid-day rest or break he takes from business routine because of his 1955 heart attack. His 1956 ileitis seizure and surgery and the minor stroke he suffered last year haven't changed his daily routine. In Washington, PresidentsEisen- hower still turns up at his office each morning except Sunday be- tween 7:30 and 8 o'cdlock. During the forenoon he generally confers with staff members and receives callers. The calling list is somewhat lighter and there are fewer cere- monial visitors, contest winners and the like than there were before the heart attack. President Eisenhower's after- noons usually are given over to handling of correspondence, work on government programs and con- ferences, with federal officials - many of them never announced by the White House. The President generally leaves the office for his living quarters about 6 p.m., but during the last three years there has been a deep cut in the number of his evening social engagements. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Mikoyan Demonstrations Justified DAILY OFFICIAL BULLEIN (Continued from Page 3) Personnel Report. Driving Regulations Board. Standing Comnmittee; National ad international - International Staudet Relations seminar, Michigan Region Christmas Card Sales; Public Relations; Education and 'Social Welfare-Eary Exam Schedule, Forum Committee; Stu- dent Activities Comuittee-Council for International Living, Summer Place- ment Bureau Report; Election-Rule, Change in Date, Old Business-Inter-Cllegiat Ath. letie Board. New Business. Members and constituents time. Announcements Adjournment. J-Hop Parties:, Regulations for Par- ties: Student groupsa wishing to have Pa, ties during the J-Hp period are in- structed to seek approval from the Of+ fice of student Affairs following usual procedures. Requests for approval lor specific social events should be filed o1, or before Fri., Jan. 16. Chaperonds are subject to the approval of the Dean of Men, Two married couples, ,6 years Of age or older, or one such couple and the chaperone-in-residence are re- quired as chaperones. Exception For dinner preceding and breakfast follow- ing the J-Hop Gance, only one qualified married couple or the chaperone-ii- residence is required. It is suggested that chaperones be selected from such groups as parents of students, faculty members, or alumni, who will be will- ing to cooperate with the president of the house to, assure that Ulniverdt regulations are observed., No house parties will be approved for the night of the Hop. Pre-Hop din- ners must end not later than 9:30 p.m. Fraternities are closed to callers during the hours a group attends the Hop ad may re-open if desired at 2:00 a.m. Breakfast must close in sufficient time to allow women students to re- turn to their residences before 4:00 a.m. Fraternities occupied by women guests must be closed to men promptly at 4:0* a.m. Parties are restricted to the Ann Ar- bor area. Women's Housing and Hours Arrangements for housing nvo a overnight during J-Hop period, i1 mnen's residences must be s parately ap- proved at the Office of Dean of Women. For fraternities occupied by women guests, a chaperone-in-residence mu4 be approved by the Dean of Women The chaperone selected is to be , residence for the entire period and t not to attend the Hop. Fraternities having overnight women guests must vacate their houses by 1:00 p.m. Fri.. Feb. 6 after which the women guests and chaperones shall move into the houses and regular men's calling hours will be in effect. The houses will be opened to mce t 9.0 a.m. sun. to return furniture fia the Hop. Occupancy of houses by -fop guiests shall not exceed that which is ap-' proved by the University Health Service. Women have a 2:30 a.m permisso following parties on Fri. night., )eb. 6 and :00 a.m. permission follwing the J-Hop on Feb. 7. Regular calling hours in women's residences will not be extended This includes faei- ties which are housing women, uness' a party in the house has been ap- proved by the Office of Student Affaie. Fraternities housing women guests must remain open during the hours of the Hlop and the chaperonein-resi- dence must be in the house. All Students: Before registration pay the University Cashier all money for which you have been billed and which you have not yet paid. Save your re ceipts as you may be asked for them when you register. Your coming regis- tration and your receipt of first semes ter grades depends on prompt atten- Lion to this matter. Lectures Linguistics Club: "Linguistic Re- search in South Africa." Prof. D. L Cole, Univ. of Witwatersrand, Johan. nesburg. Thur., Jan. 15, 8:00 p.., Rackham Amphitheatre, American Society for Public Admin, istration Social Seminar: A social sen- nar of the Mich. Chapter of A.8.PA, will be held on Wed, Jan. 14, 00 p.m, E. Conf. Rm.,, Rackham Bldg. The speaker will be Mr. James L. Miller. who will speak on "Coordination of Problems of Higher Education and the Role of Public Administration" -A& freshments will be served. lDept. of Far Eastern Languages ant Literatures is sponsoring a lIcttre;to be given by Prof. George R. Storry, Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxfored Unlv, on Wed, Jan. 14. 4:15 p.m., MAd. A. Angell Hall. The lecture is entitled "The Super-Patriots of Pre-War Japan." Lecture, a us p ic es of the Applied Mathematies Seminar and Semina on Magnetohydrodynamics. "A Variational Principle for Hydromagnetic Equilib- ria." Dr. Russell Kulsrud, Project Mat- terhorn, PrincetIon Univ. Thurs., Jan., 15, 4:15 p.m., Rm. 1042, E. Eng. Bldg. Lecture, auspices of the seminar o Magnetohydrodynamics, "A Problem of Stable Hydromnagnetic Equilibria in the Controlled Thermonuclear Program." Dr. Rusell Kulsrud, Project Matter- horn ,PrinceAton, Univ.. Thurs.. Jan.15 i i a Demonstration . . To the Editor: YOUR Sunday issue brings visit- ing Yugoslavian Professor Bu- jas's comments on anti-Mikoyan demonstrations. Mr. Bujas seems to be misinformed concerning Mi- koyan's tour' because neither was he invited by Americans - he is Menshikov's guest - nor was he greeted by Americans "with such a lack of respect." Those who have been "greeting" him with rocks and rotten eggs in this "very rude" way only return an insignificantly small part of what they think he, as representative of the Soviet Union, should deserve for the high- ly civilized, merciful, love-inspired and humanitarian manner in which the Reds treat their subjects and which is very familiar to the demonstrators. When the witness of the latest Soviet "humanitarian action" in Hungary recalls the events of 1956, he is obviously infuriated by hear- ing Mikoyan declare: "We don't like to shoot people." Having learned well enough the truth be- hind the Mikoyant' statements, promises, smiles and handshak- ings, he obviously doesn't want to see a top-Red again, travelling with mysterious purposes in a free country, acting as an apostle of peaceful co-existence and perhaps misleading some of those who have less experience in dealing withr Communist propagandists. So he goes out to the street protesting and demonstrating; and if, for a moment, the image of his hanged friend or of his deported brother appears in his memory, he throws off a few innocent eggs in despair,. It's too bad that Mr. Bujas doesn't seem to understand the motives. , -Name Withheld by Request Immunity .. . To the Editor: THAT NEWSMEN should be en- trusted with immunity power as suggested by Mr. Tarr in The TODAY AND TOMORROW: Ike Muffs Question Michigan Daily, January 10, 1959, does not seem so evident to me. Why is it necessary that newsmen be granted the privilege of keep- ing the source of their information secret? If the information is worth printing and aids the cause of "public information, discussion and debate," the source can be re- vealed with no drastic conse- quences. Doctors, lawyers and clergymen are confidentially approached by people seeking personal help, ad- vice anai guidance. The informa- tion concerns only the two In- dividuals involved which is not analogous to the information of more or less public concern dis- persed by newsmen. Immunity laws would give news- men the opportunity to print "news" without any authoritative source, protecting them while do- ing so. Granted, many newsmen would not abuse this immunity but why should we enact laws to pro- tect those who would? If news is fit to print, the source is fit to print. --Kristin Hoppe Review . To the Editor: FEEL that the cynicism ex- pressed by Mr. Wolter in his review of January 10, is sopho- moric at best. As a member of the fourth estate, he has every right to say what he pleases. However, I feel that he is also obligated to justify his criticisms. The march, which he so glibly condemns, was played solely be- cause it was written for the con- vention which sponsored the con- cert. Whether a transcription for band is good or not, it deserves to GRANTED THAT the President's first mes- sage to Congress is bound to be rather general in character, what the President had to say on Friday throws very little light indeed on the state of the union. He said in effect that we are "ceaselessly challenged," and that in meet- ing this challenge all that we can afford to do, without raising taxes, is all that we need to do. This is a remarkable coincidence-that we are able to meet so great a challenge without any additional effort and sacrifice during the coming fiscal year, and that in the following year we may be able to relax and to reduce taxes. We are confronted, said President Eisen- hower, with a question which is "as old as history," whether a government based upon liberty can endure when it is ceaselessly chal- lenged by a dictatorship with growing economic and military power. And what is the answer to this question which is as old as history? It is that we can indeed endure by doing no more ALTERJ LJPPMANN 1 endure if the answer is that we are already doing all that is necessary? The explanation, I am afraid, is that the President is trying to ride two horses at once-to be hard when he, talks to Moscow and soft when he talks to our own people. We are to defy the challenge abroad and are to reduce taxes at home. This does not sound as if the President ex- pected the nation to take the ceaseless chal- lenge very seriously. For if it is true, as in fact it is, that the Soviet Union is challenging us with "an economic and military power of great and growing strength," how is it conceiv- able that we can look forward to a tax reduc- tion just before the coming national Presi- dential election? This is the kind of softness and self-indulgence which is "as old as history," and again and again in history has meant the ruin of great states. T BE HARD on the outside and soft on the' Senimore Says . . . N k. 2 41~ / ,I