Elyr E c x an Bailly Seventy-eight years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under authority of Board in Control of Student Publications HOWARD KOHN The 60's: Hung up on, anachronisms 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Doily exp ress the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1969 NIGHT EDITOR: PHILIP BLOCK MiHliken's funding recommendation: Short-changing the 'U' T HE MEASURE of the 60's will be in its contour rather than in its content. A decade of rebellion, not reform, of taking down fences rather than mending them. A decade which be- longs to the young much like the 20's belonged to the businessman and 30's to the politican. At the University the 60's are for the students. In 1961 Mrs. Deborah Bacon, then dean of women, was writing home letters of warning to parents whose daugh- ters were dating inter-racially. Suddenly Mrs. Bacon's letters were an issue. Several student groups petitioned and pressured for her resig- nation. "I can't understand all the excitement," wondered Mrs. Bacon. "This has always been our policy." In the end she resigned though, and the deanship of women was eliminated. STUDENTS enrolling at the University now pay little homage to the visage of in loco parentis. Living in the dorms isn't even required, and the structural taboos of drinking and sex have vanished. Those stylists who drew lines to serve the old rules have tripped over their own artistry. And the generation of the 60's, our generation, at times as blunt and blind as our parents, has tried to expunge all lines, to jettison all rules into a void without limits. Young urban blacks burned and looted to make school boards change their curricula and corporate executives their hiring procedures. OV. WILLIAM MILLIKEN'S recom- mended state appropriation for t h e University shows a basic misunderstand- ing of the fiscal issues involved a n d wound undoubtedly necessitate another huge increase in student fees. In fact, if the new Governor's $67.2 mil- lion appropriation proposal is approved by the Legislature it would very likely compel the Regents to increase out-of- state tuition between $150 and $200, with in-state increases of up to $40. To maintain even their austerity bud- get, the University has over the past two years needed a $6 million annual increase in its general operating budget to offset rising costs. The general operating budget comes from two main sources-state appropria- tions and student fees. If Milliken's rec- ommendation is followed, the state ap- propriation would provide only a $4 mil- lion increase. The remaining $2 million would have to come from increased tu- itions. And considering the usual University and state attitude toward out-of-state students, these students are most likely, to bear the brunt of the increase. MILLIKEN BELIEVES his recommenda- tion w ill actually provide enough money to maintain austerity operations. University officials disagree. The Governor's figures are based on Bureau of the Budget statistics which in- dicate the University will show a $1.75 million surplus at the end of the current, fiscal year. University officials point out, however, that this money is the school's working capital to cover expenses fqr this July - the month between the expiration of the 1968-69 appropriation and the initiation of payments for,.1969-70. Thus, the Bureau of the Budget has created a mythical "surplus" for the Uni- versity and substracted it from the Uni- versity's appropriation for 1969-70. Such funds simply do not exist. SHOULD THE STATE stand by t h i s blatant error, the Regents will have-no choice but to turn to the students for the necessary funds. And another huge increase for out-of- state students will undoubtedly have an incalculable effect in personal and aca- demic terms. Out-of-state students who came to the University only two years ago, for exam- ple, expecting to pay $1,000 a year will now be forced to pay almost $1,750, with another year and possible new increases to come. ACADEMICALLY, the new tuition in- crease would mean a further limita- tion of the student body to the rich. Out- of-state students, supposedly present to provide diversity, are more and more pro- viding simple reinforcement of t h e school's for-rich-white-only image. The Bureau of the Budget's error must be rectified if the University's state ap- propriation is to prove equitable. T h e consequences of an unduly low appropri- ation this year can only be continued de- terioration of education at the University and undue financial hardships for the students. --LESLIE WAYNE -MARTIN HIRSCHMAN K; ...f . Young politicos of the left slandered a war-mongering President until he finally retired from office. And young screenwriters told of the challenges and the emptiness in productions like "The Graduate." CERTAINLY our victories have not been complete. The long-guarded autonomy of the faculty still stands, along with the parking meter system of education en- forced by meter maid teachers. Young blacks arestill harassed'by vengeful police who pick them up on phony charges so they can be put on probation by the courts and told how, when, where and what to do in the tradition of slave ownership. Richard Nixon, who trusts in the supremacy of nuclear power, is President. And even the cameramen in "The Graduate" seemed unnaturally nervous about Anne Bancroft's nudity. But we have attacked, exposed, belittled, defiled and sometimes killed the hang-ups. We have had some help. The 6 o'clock news showed the dying in Vietnam and the squalor of the cities. Awakened high school educators finally talked of extra-marital sex and the lust of mate- rialism. Yet in just aggregate sums we did the most to destroy the mythical moral world of Puff the Magic Dragon. We smashed values which pursued the prestige barons into the Depression and out again. IN RETURN we have been publicized. What we do is .Letters I Editor's Note: The following is litical le a copy of a letter sent to the American *. Ann Arbor Housing Commis- If the c sion: permit t / Leasesand cont eases sion to a Commissioners: cause the IN RESPONSE to a request for uneducat me to comment specifically on not only your proposed revised lease dur- tion "All ing the audience participation worthy o. portion of your public meeting on ized. January 9, 1969, I promised to -A.I make such comments after further Ho study. An I have made such study, have Ja consulted with some tenants and other low-income persons and also with other concerned citizens and org nizations. As a result of these To the E efforts my comments can be very ANOTH brief. last t I believe that the revised lease ment rig is illegal, punitive, inhuman and Michigan enslaving. The basic document is readers c so grossly inadequate that t h e oping gap, lease should not be discussed un- Evelyn til the Housing Commission estab- lenging t «:: r lishes a basic policy on the ques- which pr tion of whether tenants and pros- son, Eric pective tenants will be treated as drafted w human beings entitled to the per- parents, h sonal dignity, justice and legal letter fro rights accorded more fortunate office. citizens or whether they will con- The leti on's in- tinue to be viewed and treated as with the f events. poor, dependent subjects of an ;n- scriptable ave been sensitive, insulting Housing Com- concludes mission. It cann cuments IT IS ONLY AFTER this Cam- ents ha' mporary mission or the citizens of Ann A- over the on with bor, if necessary, resolve this ba- authorit sic question that the time is right tic polic s devoid to discuss a Housing Commission travenep ion pre- lease. as ultia esources I would suggest that the Hous- zens, ma both the ing Commission make available to the child ch with the public, either at publicex- other. Fpes and pense or through the Ann Arbor Nes and News a n d the Michigan Dail, Mrs. W Never- copies of the revised lease an and I inf ess were tenants' handbook which the re- refers tot longtime vised lease incorporates as a part I empa 3. of the lease. The Commission are from should then hold a special public Hitler's s ismissed hearing to get citizen recommen- months si e serious dations about r u e s and leases received,I governing public housing In Ann two letter y -of the Arbor. him if si y -of the made; on ion, the IF THE COMMISSION or the tified ma his first news media are unwilling to make who hass these documents available, we will on the s print and distribute copies to a received n specially number of individuals and organ- Why is afts and izations of all political, racial, ec- luctant t umerous onomic and cultural compositions the psit to determine what kind of human ter? Why d a dif- beings constitutete civic, educa- vate stand -- +1". tional, business, religious and po- draft diffe important because we do it. We are at the locus of atten- tion. And simply because of that we have broken our caste of niggerhood. We expect to be heard. We expect to be respected or at least feared, and sometimes idolized. Unfortunately we can't institutionalize our youth. As much as we have pointed up the jagged cracks in the plaster of the establishment, we have also uncovered our own vulnerabilities and especially our ephemerality. We have bought our glory at a very high price. By trying to erase all standards we have had to settle for negative standards. Our every reaction is actually only a counter-reaction, a one-to-one denial of an old lifestyle. Student autonomy, black separatism, free love, draft-dodging. SO WE REMAIN hung up on the same stimuli, even though our responses are completely polarized from those of qur parents. We're over-aware in our awareness. Even the most radical of our changes, the most vitu- perous of our attacks are already anachronistic in their conception. We are old before we can be young, mature before we can be immature. We have lost innocence of the present for knowledge of the past and future. We are a transitional generation in the history of time, with no promise of a time for our own. Because even more than the 60's belong to us, we belong to the 60's. * to the Editor Dangers of voluntarism ONE OF the trademarks of the Nixon Administration will be a strong em- phasis on nongovernmental solutions to the social problems confronting the na- tion. Nixon aides indicate that a massive program is in the works to encourage businesses and private individuals to con- tribute their time and effort toward pro- viding realistic, local solutions to which the government alone has been able to solve. Nixon hopes to push such volunteer ef- forts in a number of ways: 0 By personal televised appeals to the nation; 0By directing Cabinet members to place a greater emphasis on volunteer contributions to their areas of concern; A By setting up a special office in the White House for the purpose of serving as a "computerized clearinghouse" of ideas and projects; By establishing a special Presidential award to be bestowed upon those w h o make particularly large or original con- tributions. INASMUCH AS these efforts are aimed at good solid Republican businessmen, it is to be hoped that they would meet with some acceptance and even a degree of success. Industry-sponsored training programs can certainly do no harm, and any growth of black ownership and op- eration of ghetto businesses w o u 1 d be truly laudable. But it is difficult to be as optimistic CL7L r .ff.r Editorial Staff MARK LEVIN, Editor STEPHEN WILDSTROM URBAN LEHNER Managing Editor Editorial Director DAVID KNOKE, Executive Editor WALLACE IMMEN ........ .....News Editor CAROLYN MIEGEL ...... Associate Managing Editor DANIEL OQRENT .... , ...............Feature Editor PAT O'DONOHUE ........News Editor WALTER SHAPIRO ...... Associate Editorial Director HOWARD KOHN ........ Associate Editorial Director NEAL BRUSS............... ... Magazine Edito- ALISON SVMROSKI . .... Associate Magazine Editor AVIVA KEMPNER.........Personnel Director ANN MUN3TER ... ....... Contributing Editor DAVID DUBOFF..............Contributing Editor ANDY 84CKS .. .. .................... Photo Editor about any individual volunteer effort the{ President and his advisers may have in mind. One wonders just how many volun- teers the Administration will be able to recruit from the ranks of the disillusion- ed young - at whom the campaign seems primarily directed. It is disgruntling to read proposals to recruit thousands of college students to do volunteer work in the ghettoes after 1968's shattering evi- dence of our own impotence before the nation's stagnant institutions. Furthermore, all available evidence in- dicates that any scheme which will bring yet another horde of lily-white students into the ghettoes is bound to meet with disfavor among the very people it pur- ports to help. It is time the government learned that the black man is tired of ineffectual paternalism. AND IN THE END, any volunteers would only learn what the innumerable ide- alists who have joined the Peace Corps, or VISTA, or Head Start Projects have learned before them: that no amount of originality and enthusiasm can surmount the lethargy that plagues the very insti- tutions that they are trying to transform, be they the U.S. Department of State or the New York public school system. IF THE PROGRAM were totally harm- less, we could ignore it and let those who volunteer find their own disillusion. But the danger remains that such a pro- gram, if carried out, would only propa- gate the distortion t h a t something is really being accomplished; plainly noth- ing is. We have done nothing about so much for so long that we can hardly af- ford to cushion ourselves in sublime com- placency again now. -JENNY STILLER Honor roll THE FOLLOWING 16 Democratic Sena- tors voted against the confirmation of Walter Hickel as Secretary of the Inter- ior: Allen (Ala), Cranston (Cal.), Harris (Okla.), Hartke (Ind.), Kennedy (Mass.), McCarthy (Minn.), McGovern (S.D.), Mc- Intyre (N.H.), Moss (Utah), Muskie (Me.), Nelson (Wis.), Pastore (R.I.), Pell (R.I.), Proxmire (Wis.), Tydings (Md.), Young (Ohio). In addition Senators Innoye (Hawaii), 4 jAMES WECHSLER ' Men and word IN THE LONG RUN the relief many found in Richard Nix augural Address will be measured against the cruel test o. Pessimists may even forecast that the speech will prove to ha the high point of his Administration. But in the here and now it must be conceded that few do have so effectively achieved their immediate purpose-the te political disarmament of many who viewed Nixon's accessi mingled anger and apprehension. A few voices have dourly observed that the address wa of pragrammatic promise; indeed, the most concrete conclus sented was that the government is nearing "the limit" of its r in dealing with want and inequity-a declaration that enabled1 Wall Street Journal and the Daily News to accept the spee surface equanimity despite its broader commitment to ho horizons uisualy identified with "bleeding-heart liberalism." theless, on balance, both the tone and inclination of the addr far more calculated to diminish the fears of Mr. Nixon'sI adversaries than evoke the cheers of his old right-wing fans AMONG PURISTS ON THE LEFT, his rhetoric will be d as another strategy of the great pretender rather than as the pronouncements of a new President. But they may be missing the real point. For while many ambiguities he recited are obviously subject to future definit real fact may be that the spirit of the address representedI crucial choice of identity in his new role. Which brings us to the matter of ghosts. The preparation of any modern Presidential speech-and e an Inaugural-is variably preceded by the submission of dra fragments by members of the speech-writing staff, as well as n volunteer contributions. There is no reason to believe that President Nixon pursue ferent formula. The cast of characters participating in the pro year was described by William H. Honan in an informed, lively last Sunday's New York Times magazine. It is clear from1 report, and some other indications, that the winner of what r described as the 1969 Inaugural essay contest was RaymondI Jr., former editorial page editor of the Herald-Tribune and, acco the description of former associates, a liberal unafflicted by NO SPEECH-WRITER is rendered a service by notority; jealous fraternity, and the ghost who receives special noti soon find himself living a haunted life-both among his co and the man who delivers his words. In Price's behalf I shoul that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, we have never But certainly it is apparent that the disciples of William1 who are also members of the Nixon writing squad could have p few of the fines finally delivered-and presumably wrote ma were discarded. Neither can it be said that the style bore a spicuous Nixon imprint, or that conglomerate quality of collec cerpts amassed in his acceptance speech at Miami Beach. NOW COMES THE QUERULOUS QUESTION: does one anything if it merely suggests that one ghost had a bet than others? Is it true, as Mr. Honan contended, that a Pres address offers "no subtle indices of the Presidential mood or but "is just a matter of who happened to have written the Pre speech that day"? A veteran ghost-Arthur Schlesinger Jr.-sharply dispu cently that view. It is ,he pointed out, the President who ma choice after examining the products of the contestants. Ther words (about which we can only conjecture) may be no less sig than the accepted ones, particularly on so fateful an gccasio Inaugural. We have the right to assume that Nixon came outa adership of this All- City citizens of Ann Arbor can his politically, appointed trolled Housing Commis- abuse human beings be- y are poor, unskilled and ed, then the community does deserve the designa- -American," it is un- f being classed as civil- H. Wheeler, Chairman using Committee n Arbor, NAACP n. 23 Credibility ditor: ER credibility gap is the hing needed in govern- ght now. Perhaps The Daily or some of its ould help close a devel- I. Whitehorn, who is chal- he present federal law ovides that a minor (her in this case) can be without consent of h i s has received an unusual m Sen. Edmund Muskie's ter, a part of which deals relationship of a con- minor to his country, not be said that the par- ve the final authority ir children since their y must conform to pub- y. If parental acts con- public policy, the State, pate guardian of the nd welfare of its citi- y intervene and entrust dren to the care of an- Vhitehorn, her friends, er that the word another the military. asize that the comments neither 1984 nor one of peeches. During the two ince Muskie's letter was Mrs. Whitehorn has sent s to theasenator asking ome mistake has b e en e letter was sent via cer- il. I have a roommate sent a letter to Muskie ame subject. They have o reply as of today. Senator Muskie so re- o confirm or repudiate on articulated in the let- do' his public and pri- es about dissent and the er so markedly? Mrs. Whitehorn and I are un- able to answer these questions. We believe that two months is a bit long to wait for the senator's re- ply. Perhaps the public ought to know something about his tact, if not the deeper question of why he chooses to be so secretive on a vital issue. Would the true Sen- ator Muskie please step forward? I write as an alumnus, hoping to enlist aid in smoking out Sen- ator Muskie. Could anyone help? --Howard Landsman, 167E Jan. 18 Virtue To the Kitor: THIS IS IMPORTANT: Regard- less of anyone's else's opin- ion, I say the yellow press has distorted truth beyond measure, Crime, SDS, and anti-Nixon writ- ing is all I read. Wht' don't you write about the tens of thousands of good boys and girls at U of M who are dedicated to truth and the pursuit of knowledge? (I work at a sorority house and the only bad thing is that the girls use their huge exam files to get good grades from others work.. But this can be overlooked). Do I have to demonstrate to be newsworthy? It seems like the worse a guy is (beard, leftist) the more he is placed in the public eye. I don't like this. Truth and virtue are every- where. But. you won't print about it. Therefore if I stop reading your paper you will have no one to blame but yourself. Stop fiddle- faddling with the truth! Yes, this may be hard to swallow but it is true. You are guilty of this and this is wrong. I SUGGEST stirring educational essays to begin with. These would be good and stimulate interest. This is by no means number one. I'm openminded if some student has a better idea. I could write this first essay on truth and free- dom. Meanwhile please rid youry paper of its omissions, lies, libel, leftist, wicked, corrupt, base, wrong journalism! You know what's right. Both me and the lady I live with dislike your paper very much. I love this great University and that is why I would like to see one of its organs bettered. -Keith LeGrand, '69 Jan. 22 4 0i 4i cess this essay in Honan's night be K. Price rding to dogma. it is a ce may lleagues d affirm met. Buckley roduced ny that ny con- cted ex- speech ter day sidential 'whim" esident's ted re- kes the rejected nificant n as an at least 4 n nv i :!