Seventy-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MICH., PHONE NO 2-3241 Truth Will Preval"> Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1963 NIGHT EDITOR: MARILYN KORAL "Le-gis-la-tion, It Shall Not Be Moved" AT THE MICHIGAN: 'Call Me Bwana' Not Up To Hope Needs Program In Comparative Literature I (I ~10i K' 'I IML Ili IT'S NEVER too difficult for a person to find a lack in the University-everyone has his own private axe to grind about the academic curriculum, be it legitimate or not. But there is one area where a complaint against Uni- versity neglect could be considered valid. There is no program for the student who wishes to unravel the. complexities of comparative world literature. There are courses offered in most of the language departments for those with no pro- ficiency in the language-"X literature in translation." But once a student has com- mitted himself to a specific major, the time required to complete the courses for the major plus the distribution requirements doesn't leave sufficient hours in the undergraduate life to take even a few of these courses. It is parochial that the University only offers ft major in specific °languages. Of course much of great literature is lost in translation, but not enough to excuse the fact that many stu- dents might have a genuine interest in getting a disciplined taste of the thought produced by men of different nations and ages. the pres for work In the 451 and lation. Z upon Do other vit must not The C three h( writers i genre of ophy ant IN ORD ancei Books o included four hou Koran,a tion such Scandi sents St There man dep in the h Modern' IN ORDER to provide a degree in comparative ofic . . of whic literature the University would be barely The o taxing its existing facilities. Most of the in trans necessary courses are already offered. The pro- partmeni gram would be above the average in the num- cover thi ber of hours the student must take-leaving to mate hime extraordinarily little time for electives; courses p but that's not an insurmountable barrier. literatur The program could be designed along the terialize lines of the area studies. Making use of avail- ture. able courses and professors in differing depart- ments and having the Job of coordinator be IN ORD shifted around, as it is in the Asian Studies be ta sequence. year shoe A program requiring 53 hours would manage these dif to squeeze in a smattering of most countries' judgmen greatest works. However, this, coupled with the ferences 48 hours required by the distribution require- and trea ment courses would leave only 19 hours free discuss during the entire four-year undergraduate dent has career,. but the student would simply have to are all cc commit himself- to this program early. It would A mor discourage major-switching. the Univ is provin THE. ALREADY EXISTING courses cover ing worl most of what would be required: the Survey It wou of English literature-two semesters, four hours sity to in each-required for all majors in the English alreadyE department; English 469 and 470 are American This wo lit-the writings from the Puritans to 1870 program are covered in the first course and the second encompasses those from Walt Whitman to x TODAY AND TOMORROW: sx War of' by Walter L THE LETTER of the Soviet Central Commit- ence of n tee of the Communist Party about the dis- the prob pute with China is long, about three pages of revolu of newspaper print. Anyone who drives himself The u to read it all will do well to remind himself of nucle that the Sino-Soviet conflict in Central and alike for Eastern Asia existed long before either country impels K became Communist. The conflict existed when understa the Romanovs and the Manchus were in power. make an For Russia and China have long had conflict- than an: ing vital interests. The Russian empire pushed nuclearv eastward to the Pacific; the Chinese empire nature o pushed northward into Manchuria and toward position Siberia. This conflict is still unresolved. example: Unless we bear this in mind, we must wonder Chinese i why the Soviet letter says that the Communist with Sen. states began to quarrel' "in April, 1960" when Khrushc "the Chinese comrades openly disclosed their They we differences with the world (i.e., Soviet) Com- to be c munist movement . . ." Why 1960? By then, Soviets w the Soviet Union had given China massive aid when, sa in the task of industrialization. What caused paper tig the Soviets to pull away thereby infuriating the The S Red Chinese? At the bottom, it seems, it was general t because Mr. Khrushchev recognized that the munist d old and basic conflict was manifesting itself has been in China as a willingness, perhaps even as a President will, to precipitate a war between the Soviet and the 1 Union and the United States. The letter quotes The Sov a horrifyingly-reckless statement approved by abandon the Central Committee of the Chinese Com- That is n munist Party which welcomes a thermonu- can prom clear war: "On the ruins of destroyed imperial- and Taiw ism, the victorious peoples will create with tremendous speed a civilization a thousand BUT IF times higher than under the capitalist system." it doe The Soviet letter, which at this point is war is th surely straight Khrushchev, remarks, "It is highest p permissible to ask the Chinese comrades if ments m they realize what sort of 'ruins' a world nu- they enga clear-rocket war would leave .behind." There ent. These four courses would suffice Ks written in the English language. Slavic languages department Russian 452 give Russian literature in trans- These two one semester courses touch stoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gogol and tal Russian authors, whose importance t be ignored. lassical studies department now offers our courses in both Greek and Latin n translation. These courses cover all f the ancients-poetry, drama philos- d history. )ER to give at least nodding acquaint- with the cultures of the Orient, Great f the Near and Far East must be These courses are now offered for irs credit each. They touch upon the and Confucius as well as works of fic- i asTale of Geni.. inavian Literature in translation pre- rindberg and Ibsen as well as others. are two courses offered by the Ger- artment for those having no facility anguage which would be applicable. and classic German Literature, each rare for three credit hours. ny department which excludes courses lation is the Romance Languages de- t There is nothing given which would ese. But it wouldn't be too difficult rialize three three-hour one semester presenting French, Italian and Spanish e in translation. These three, if ma- f would just about complete the pic- DER for a tie-in to exist-a course to ken the final semester of the senior 'uld be required which would discuss ferent literatures. Not to make relative ts but analyze how the cultural dif- produced, the variations in themes ftment. Also, this final course could why the different works that the stu- studied, even though so very different, nsidered "great." e cosmopolitan air would be provided 'ersity by a program of this type. It cial to eliminate such an area, cover- d-wide material. ldn't be very difficult for the Univer- taugurate either. Most of the facilities exist; or the potential at any rate. uld fill an unnecessary void in the of the literary college. -MALINDA BERRY Contributing Editor W. ords ippnaur nuclear weapons has changed radically em of war and peace and the problem tion and reform. nderstanding of the intolerable nature ar war-which could be catastrophic capitalism and communism-is what ennedy and Khrushchev to seek and nding. The two governments which d own nuclear weapons know better gone else the infernal character of weapons. It is ignorance of the true f nuclear war which creates the op- in both alliances. About Cuba, for Khrushchev's argument with the s substantially the same as Kennedy's . Barry Goldwater. Both Kennedy and hev are accused of cowardly caution. re wrong, say their respective critics, autous when, says Goldwater, the ould never have fought a nuclear war, y the Chinese, the Americans are a er. oviet letter goes on to speel out in erms what has happened to the Com- octrine of revolutionary wars. This a prime cause of friction between Kennedy and Chairman Khrushchev, ocus of the friction is Southeast Asia. iets do not, of course, promise to support -of revolutionary movements. o more to be expected than an Ameri, ise to abandon our clients in Korea an and Viet-Nam. I READ the Soviet letter correctly, s say that the prevention of nuclear he paramount necessity and has the xiority. Therefore, revolutionary move- ust not be supported to a point where age directly the great nuclear powers. is no reason to think that there will ontinuing friction arising from the. nary conditions of so many of the countries. But it is not, I believe, istic to say that the friction can con- ;hout easy resort to the use or to the nuclear war. pressive Dart of the Soviet ltter, is 4i :1'' ey.' }X .y4. e:,. , ,, C s .t 3 ~{-,,, T.t- K ,(yiC,., ,,, - w+ .rr t s'-rvri .s-r- A mmJ1 ALBANY COURTS: Souther n Law Lacks Just ice BOB HOPE'S latest film "Call Me Bwana" now playing at the Michigan Theatre is diverting fare-certainly enough to satisfy the average audience. But it is not consistenly funny enough to rank with the best Hope has done in films, much of which was very funny (even if we wholly ignore the "Road" films he made with Bing Crosby in the 1940's). Hope, as Matt Meriwether, the author of a book recounting a series of his (completely trumped- up) experiences in Ekele country in Central Africa, is chosen by the C.I.A. to lead an expedition into that very area. The object is to recover a Cape Canaveral moon probe that had re-entered the at- mosphere at the wrong angle. Meanwhile, Luba(Anita Ekberg), a professor at a Soviet Institute of Anthropology is picked by her government to charm her way into the expedition and run away with the probe once it is found. She is to be a Mata Safari, so to speak. * * * MATT'S TOTAL and apparently inexplicable lack of familarity To T.edt To the Editor: ALTHOUGH The M ic h i g a n Daily does not have a letters to the editor column, I would like to issue a rebuttal on your guest editorial "Godwateritis" of July 16, 1963, by Dave Hood of "The Summer Reveille." Firstly, Dave states that Gold- wateritis has struck with devast- ing effect in the South. What devastation?-If he speaks of Mis- sissippi or. Alabama, let me remind him that- the troops. there were under orders of Mr. Kennedy-not Mr. Goldwater. Also does Mr. Hood think that the Republican Party of the North should kill the Southern Republican movement by abortion before it ever really starts? He also states that a large number of the college youth that are for Goldwater have had an unhappy childhood. Maybe they have. In the sense that they have been compelled to witness South Korea, Vietnam, Hungary, and now Cuba and the Wall in