wY i ^ . 14 ir~i$!an Di 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 420 Maynard St, Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily exp ress the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. Presenting the IN KEEPING with a long-standing tradition, The Daily today announces the selection of 1968's Edgar winners. The Edgars are awarded to those public personalities who best approximate the vir- tues of the nation's foremost Edgar, Mr. Hoover of the FBI. A few are given to those who have earned their own unique brand of distinction. The George Romney "housing and urban develop- ment" Edgar: To Peter Denton, leader of the Ann Arbor rent strike, who said, "Students have the right to deter- mine their own rents." The William Jennings Bryan Edgar: To Fred Mat- thei Jr. who spent $100,000 on his campaign for Univer- sity of Michigan Regent and lost by a plurality of 100,000 * * * The O. J. Simpson "publicity" Edgar: To the Asso- ciated Press for ignoring Ron Johnson's NCAA-record- breaking 347 yards rushing against Wisconsin in its bal- loting for Back of the Week. Johnson was not even listed among the top five. * * * U .8' FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1969 1968 Edga r Awards NIGHT EDITOR: DAN SHARE1 i Investigating campuses: Legislative witehhunt Washington country clubs who discontinued interclub tennis matches rather than face Mrs. Carl Rowan. a black member on the Indian Spring Country Club's ten- nis team. * * * The Spiro Agnew "slip-of-the-tongue" Edgar: To Arthur Ross who emphasized a point at a University of Michigan Regents meeting by saying "Here at the Uni- versity of California." * * * The Bo Schembechler Edgar: To Bump Elliott who asked for a new five-year contract after an impressive 8-2 season and ended up losing his job as coach. The Joseph Stalin Edgar: To SDS members who broke open South Quad cigarette machines and distributed cigarettes free to show their contempt of the capitalist establishment. The cigarette machines were owned and operated by South Quad students. * * * The Chicken Little Edgar: To James Hare, Michigan's secretary of state, who warned against "bombings and molotov cocktails" at polling places on election day. * * * The Woody Hayes Edgar: To the University of Hous- ton football team which edged by the University of Tulsa, 100-6. The George Washington Edgar: To David Strack who admitted he knew about athletic discounts at Michigan and ended up losing his job as head basketball coach. The Roger Rapoport "conflict-of-interest"* Edgar: To David M. Packard, deputy secretary of defense designate, THE MICHIGAN STATE SENATE has been rumbling for years about con- ducting an open-ended investigation of alleged immoral and illegal activities on state university campuses. They have finally decided that the eve of Richard Nixon's inauguration is a propitious time for embarking on this long intended course of action. The disrobing of an Oakland Univer- sity student who thought himself the re- incarnation of Ezra Pound and the use of four-letter words in the Grand Valley State College newspaper are the precipi- tating incidents in this new round of witch hunting. But one can hardly be- lieve that the notorious Michigan State Senate has such strong moral sensibili- ties. The real reason for the investigation is to impress those proverbial "folks back home" with their farcical moral crusad- ing. More importantly, it provides an excellent excuse for appropriating in- adequate funds for state universities. It cannot be denied that their hysteri- cal constituents frown severely upon such "excesses" as long hair, marijuana and pre-marital sex, in addition to disruptive political activity. But the 18 Senators who tsigned the resolution know full well that their power to affect the policies followed by state institutions of higher education is se- .verely limited. The only course of action open to them is to reduce state funds, hardly a remedy for any supposed evils they are sounding off about. So the State Senate will have a stand- ing student activities investigating com- mittee which will draw headlines and will ironically precipitate additional dis- ruptive demonstrations on every campus they visit. Instead of raising takes to meet the real educational needs of the state, the Senate will slash budgets and blame it on student activism. In 1970 when they are all up for re- election, they will go to their constituents and point with pride at state universities with larger classes, higher tuition and fewer educational programs. In their in- imitable style they will have taken care of the state's subversive colleges and uni- versities. ASSUREDLY THE long hair, marijuana and pre-marital sex will continue. And student dissatisfaction with the inferior quality, the meaningfulness and the ir- relevance of their college education will certainly increase. To suggest to the State Senate that they should think about the implications their action would have for academic freedom is a wasted argument. Civil li- bertarianism has never been a popular cause in the moldy halls of our s t a t e capitol. But perhaps it would not be ask- ing too much of them to understand that they have already made a substantial in- vestment in higher education and that the only way to prevent the rapid.. de- preciation of this investment is to re- store their support to the needed level. The impending investigation should only be feared on one level-it may hurt the University financially. To fear a re- petition 'of former University President Harlan Hatcher's shameful performance in the early fifties is to overreact. For the Joe McCarthy nightmare has taught this University faculty, if not the current ad- ministration and Regents, that there can be no compromise on issues of aca- demic freedom. MARK LEVIN Editor The Pickett's Charge Edgar: To S. L Hayakawa, inter- national semanticist and president of San Francisco State, who told picketing students, "I will use bayonets if neccessary to keep this university open." The Jackie Robinson Edgar: To former Detroit Tigers Frank Lary and Frank House who campaigned with George Wallace in his presidential drive. * * * The Oveta Culp Hobby Edgar: To Ann Arbor's own Wilbur Cohen who when asked last March about Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King's demand that the United States spend $26 billion on the ghettoes instead of the Vietnam War replied, "We don't even have any plans on how to spend $26 billion." Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, then asked, "Do any of you have any plans on how to spend that much money on the ghettoes?" The Thomas Malthus Edgar: To Alfred Katz, an executive of the striking Uniformed Sanitationmen's As- sociation, who said during the New York City's fabled garbage strike, "This city is going to be inundated in garbage. People are going to drown in it unless something is done soon." * * * The Spiro Agnew "candor" Edgar: To J. Edgar. him self for forthrightly admitting that "justice is only in- cidental to law enforcement." * * * The Adam Smith Edgar: To Joe Namath who received $10,000 or $10 a hair for shaving off his Fu Manchu mustache in a Schick razor commercial. The Ebeneezer Scrooge Edgar: To the voters of Youngstown, Ohio, who elected to close down all public schools rather than increase the millage allottment. h * *t The Little Bo Beep Edgar: To the Defense Depart- Mayo )r Daley J. Edgar ment for losing four hydrogen bombs off the coast of *Greenland and the USS Pueblo in the Sea of Japan all in one week. * * * The Pete Rozelle Edgar: To Eugene (Bull) Connor for casting his vote at the Democratic National Convention inthe balloting for the presidential nomination for Paul (Bear) Bryant. The1' * The Inspector Clouseau Edgar: To Robert deVicenzo for signing an incorrect scorecard thereby losing the Masters Golf Championship and some $200,000 in prize and endorsement money. The Marie Antoinette Edgar: To Lyndon Johnson for innocently inquiring during his state of the Union Mes- sage, "Why all this restlessness?" ** * The Albert Shanker "Job Security" Edgar: To Bar- bara Newell, who has been acting vice-president for student affairs for over five months with no end in sight. * * * The Muhammad Ali Selective Service Chutzpah Edgar: To Columbia SDS Leader Mark Rudd, Who requested an occupational draft deferment on the grounds that his civilian occupation, "revolutionary," was vital to, the national interest. (The Army more or less agreed and decided he was unfit for military service.) * * * The Throttlebottom Edgar: To Vice-President-elect Spiro Agnew whose innumerable gaffes about "fat Japs" and "if you've seen one slum you've seen them all" in- dicate that he is the first Vice-President since Thomas R. Marshall with the personal stature equal to the job. * * * 0 Woody Hayes Sheriff Harvey r The Hallelujah Chorus Edgar: To Daley who ordered all Chicago sanitation the gallerys at the Democratic National applaud on his command. Mayor Richard workers to pack Convention and Righting the recruiting muddle THE TWO DAYS of protests against a! recruiter from Litton Industries by about two dozen local SDS members again raises the sticky problem of the University's role\in the job placement of its graduates. Despite small enthusiasm for many of the tactics employed by the SDS con- tingent, one cannot deny that their ac- cusations regarding Litton's co-operation with the Greek military junta and the way in which they operate a Job Corps camp in California appear to be factually justified. The central problem raised by these protests is what attitude the University should take toward recruiters whose ac- tivities, while - legal, are morally ques- tionable in the eyes of some segments of the University community. AT PRESENT the University maintains a strict neutrality in that it does not make moral judgements among the firms which it permits to use its facilities to re- cruit on campus, although it does at- tempt to guard against fraud and dis- crimination. While the activities of business or- ganizations like Dow Chemical Company and Litton Industries have borne the brunt of campus protests, it is a sorry commentary on Anerican life that the activities of many of our less publicized corporations are of no higher moral cali- bre. The furor over campus war research and the University's ties with the De- fense Department have pointed up that academia cannot continue to operate in a moral vacuum, blandly accepting - all proferred ties with business and govern- ment. Despite the general validity of many of the activists' critiques against these major corporations, the solution to the University's recruitment dilemma cannot be a system which opens the campus to only certain "approved" business organi- zations. SUCH A POLICY of selective recruit- ment would be unsound on two grounds. Discriminating against some business organizations ' and accepting others could be seen as a dangerous de- nial of campus civil liberties. Further- more. it would be almost imnossible to terday's protest "a definite disruption of a service to our students," one won- ders how relevant to the University's educational function this service is. Too often the modern University has been accurately accused of merely train- ing students for vacant vice-presidencies in business and industry. The University's active encouragement of business r e- cruiting can only further serve to pro- mote this commercialization of higher education. FROM BOTH A MORAL and an educa- tional standpoint the University is under no obligation to provide its stu- dents with the "service" of on-campus recruiting. In light of the serious educa- tional and moral questions raised by the presence of business recruiters on campus, the most obvious solution to the problem is simply to end all non-educa- tional recruitment on campus. Furthermore, 'objection that an end to recruitment would inflict a severe hardship on those students interested in business or industrial careers is largely fallacious. Recent studies, as well as casual ob- servation, have stressed that business and industry are in desperate need of capable college graduates. For instance, an extensive 1966 poll of 3,000 students by the College Research Center revealed that even when business is able to meet its manpower needs, a large portion of the college graduates hired are of marginal quality. Consequently, if the University were to end all non-educational recruitment, one is all but certain that in a matter of days a trade organization would establish a center close to campus in which busi- ness firms would carry, on their recruit- ing activities. The volume of recruiters coming to Ann Arbor is such that the fees necessary to keep such a center going would be low enough not to discourage smaller cor- porations from recruiting here. ABOLUTION OF on-campus recruit- ment would end any possible sanction by the University of the activities of corporations like Litton Industries, would stop subsidizing business for office space it is capable and willing to provide itself, would be a move toward restoring The Robert's Rules of Order Edgar: To Carl Albert, chairman of the National Democratic Convention, who had a selective hearing problem in recognizing any dele- gation not supporting Hubert Humphrey. The Dink Stover "good clean college fun" Edgar: To fans of the Ohio State football team who celebrated the victory over Michigan by practically demolishing down- town Columbus. The Joyce Kilmer Edgar: To Walter Hickel, Secretary of Interior designate, who said "A tree looking at a tree doesn't do anything." * * * The Chicago Tribune "responsible journalism" Edgar: To The Indianapolis News for perpetrating the myth that Governpr Roger Branigan was the only candidate in the Indiana primary. The Michael Radock "truth in advertising" Edgar: To the U.S Army's Dugway proving ground whose com- manding officer, after denying that escape of poisonous nerve gas from the base had anything to do with the death of thousands of sheep in Utah, said he was taking steps to make certain it would not happen again. The Francis Scott Key Edgar: To Sheriff Douglas Harvey who told photographer Andrew Sacks to take off his hat during the playing of the national anthem in the Michigan pressbox before the Wisconsin game. ** * The Bob McBride TV-2 Edgar: To Dearborn's Mayor Orville Hubbard who refused to have the name of Wil- lam Knight, a black PFC killed in Vietnam, inscribed on the official list of the city's wardead. * * * The Orville Hubbard Edgar:, To three prestigious 4 Mrs. Newell Carl Albert who will put his $300,000,000 worth of stock in his de- fense contracting firm in trust rather than selling it when he goes to Washington..Complained Packard, "I refuse to live on $30,000 a year." The Richard Nixon "forgotten man" Edgar: To one Mrs. Perl who had reserved the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza Hotel on the day of Julie and David Eisenhower's wedding. When asked by the President-elect to switch ballrooms, she responded tersely, "Are you crazy or some- thing?" The Walter Matthau "odd couple" Edgar: To Richard Nixon for joining his daughter and his new son-in-law on their honeymoon. The Doris Day "Let a smile ,be your umbrella" Edgar: To Vice President Hubert Humphrey for introducing the phrase "politics of joy" into our political vocabulary. * * * The J. Edgar Hoover Edgar: To Mayor Richard Daley and the Chicago police for their less-than-humor- ous actions during the Democratic National Convention. The Edgar Spectacular of 1968 ''fi A timid appeal for. aid to black students EDITOR'S NOTE: Printed below are an appeal by University Presi- dent Robben Fleming for faculty support of the Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Fund and a re- sponse of one teaching fellow who received the letter. Dear Colleague: 1 SUSPECT that you are con- cerned, as I am, with the in- creasing tension between the black a n d white citizens of America. Those of us who have thought seriously about it know that de- magogues of all stripes to theacon- trary notwithstanding, there is no easy or ready solution to our pres- ent difficulties. Nor will they go away. Housing, employment, edu- cation, and basic human preju- dice are but a few of the tangled threads in the web.. Faculty members find multiple roles in society. We are private citizens who participate in the af- fairs of the larger society in ac- cordance w i t h our individual views. In that connection, we fre- quently disagree, and none of us would have it otherwise.iAs fac- ulty members, and as citizens, we hold a wide spectrum of views on racial problems. We do, however, have a special competence and ob- Americans ought to be appointed to faculties, not because they are black, but because they are Amer- icans who ought to be eligible for such a role. For those who will face it forthrightly, the sad fact is that the number of Negroes who are qualified for faculty posts is very small. In recruiting Negro faculty members \ we are simply moving the presently limited pool around. We are adding very little' to the total personnel available. Somehow a way must be found to bring more black students into the universities, and to encourage the best of them, just as in the case of the white students, to go, on for graduate work. Only then will the pool of black manpower be enlarged and a real impact made. Because problems assume a size which far exceeds our ability as individuals to cope with them we are inclined to say that there is nothing we can do. My own feel- ing is that we can do more than we realize if we have the desire to do so. In making a proposal as to what we can do, I am aware of the dangers I incur. Neverthe- less, our times do not permit tim- As a part of the fund program, you will shortly receive a letter from William Haber, who, with Regent Otis Smith, is serving as Co-Chairman of the King Com- mittee. It will invite you to con- tribute, either through a direct gift, or via payroll deduction. I hope you will find it possible to join in this expression of faith in the need for and the essential- ity of higher education for the black student. We presently havey 445 undergraduate Opportunity Award students (most of whom happen to be black) who are re- ceiving grants depending on need. We badly need more money if the program is to continue and pros- per. I have reason to believe that some of the foundations will be encouraged to contribute to our. fund if they believe that faculty members care enough to demon- strate their own commitment to this kind of a program.r My wife and I feel this need so strongly that we have arranged our priorities so that we can make our contribution. -R. W. Fleming ships and 100 undergraduate scholarships for non-whites in need. In all honesty, I find the ap- peal deplorable. It is deplorable because you have abdicated your responsibilities; you have respond- ed to, the injustices committed against black people by white in- stitutions not as president as one of those institutions, but as a mere private citizen. You are quite correct: "Our times do not permit timidity." And yet it is timidity which best characterizes your call for private contributions, a pitiable insignifi- cant course of action. What "dan- gers" do you possibly incur? What strength of conviction or concern does it take for you to rearrange your personal priorities, when you' choose to ignore the responsibili- ties of your office by refusing to change the priorities of this Uni- versity? Little needs to be said about the need for a change in the Uni- versity's priorities, for they fun- damentally contradict much of what Martin Luther King Jr. in securities (8,940 voting shares) from Dow Chemical, manufac- turers of napalm being used against #exploited peoples in Viet- nam and Guatemala, if not else- where. $200,000 of the securities have been purchased within the last fiscal year. And at a stock- holder's meeting last May, the University voted by proxy for the continued production of napalm by Dow Chemical. Shouldn't these activities of the University be changed in favor of others more consistent with the name of Martin Luther King, and shouldn't these activities be cur- tailed so as to provide the funds necessary for the education of the oppressed peoples here in the United States? If you would be as forthright and courageous as your office and the times require, then surely you would exercize some leadership by taking your money out of Dow Chemical (and thereby stop the University's support of the brutal- ization of colored people abroad) and putting in into a fund sup- porting the education of black * *