'Clp trtianBal Sn'enty-Third Y or EDTED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THEUNF.Rsm oi' M!CHTGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Where Qp4?ionAm ret STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MIcH., PHONE NO 2-3241 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. [URDAY, AUGUST 8, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT HIPPLER IRISH HILLS FESTIVAL Alelanch olic Twelfth Night' Lewis' Resignation: Crossroads for the OSA IT IS ALWAYS DIFFICULT, as a retir- ing official prepares to leave office, to evaluate the job he has done. When the official is an anomalous individual such as James A. Lewis, and the position is one as subject to emotionally volatile issues as the student affairs vice-presi- dency, finding an objective viewpoint from which to. look back at the man's incumbency is next to impossible. What has happened since the day in 1954 when Lewis became the first vice- president for students affairs is clear: things have improved. The insulting and sometimes cruel "we know what's best for you" paternalism which then dom- inated students-and scarred a few for life-has gradually been dismantled, though the transition is far from com- plete. Have these advances come because of or in spite of Lewis? This must remain a moot point. Neither his critics, many of whom seemed to consider it logically im- possible for Lewis to do any good, nor Lewis himself, whose response to con- troversy was evasive and equivocal, pro- vide enough valid data to justify either 3udgement. H I I' WOULD BE satisfying to offer a definitive: brickbat o' bouquet, for Lewis' decade in the Office of Student Affairs, such hindsight really is second- ary; the important thing now is the fu- ture-and how both the past trends and the vice-president's resignation apply to it. Their joint effect is to place the OSA at a crossroads, a decision-point even more crucial than that faced in 1962, when the heralded "reorganization" of the OSA took place. 1962 saw a change in structure. 1964 will see a change in per- sonality. And in the OSA, the effects of personality are far more pervasive than the effects of structure. What, then, should the new vice-presi- dent do? IRST, he must continue-and accel- erate-the transition already under- may. There's plenty to do. Women still are treated, in a childish manner. It re- nains unclear just who evaluates stu- -lents' conduct outside the classroom, by what criteria and for whom. And while 6SA officials no longer notify parents whose youngsters are dating someone %f another race, the illegally-etacted lorm fee hike and the veto clauseslipped nto Joint Judiciary Council's new con- st ution demonstrate that the potential >6r the arbitrary misuse of administrative power remains as great as ever. These are the basically negative things he new vice-president must do; they in- rolve Merely a reduction of the OSA's role in areas where this role has been )ppressive. They require no great skill to mplement, only decisiveness and per- haps some courage. BUT THESE STEPS are not enough. In addition, the new OSA chief must take positive steps toward improving the *gay* The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the ise of s1 news dispatches credited to it or otherwise redited to the newspaer. All rights of re-publication if ail other matters heeare also reserved. The Daily is. a member of the Associated Press and ollegiate Press Service. Published daily 'luesday through Saturday morning. ummer subsptlon rates $2 b carrier, $2.0 by mal. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mic. quality of extra-classroom life. The in- fluence of a student's environment on the student's development can never be neutral. And as long as the University runs dormitories, counsels students and sets rules, the University's influence on that environment can never be neutral. To the extent that the University has such influence over its students, it has a responsibility-and an opportunity-to use it to promote, in the words of the 1962 OSA study, "the maximum intellec- tualgrowth of which the student is cap- able." iThis is a point that neither most of the OSA nor most of its critics seem to have understood. Others have understood 'it: the sociologists and psychologists who advocated the residential college under- stood it; a basic goal of the new college is to create an environment which pro- motes, rather than merely allows, the de- velopment of critical and sensitive minds -and intense and meaningful lives. For- mer Dean of Women Deborah Bacon also understood it; her transgression was t use her control of the environment to enforce propriety, conformity and obed- ience-characteristics hostile to "mai- mum intellectual growth." The new vice-president, then, nfust be willing to try to remake the University en- vironment, and to do so without slipping back into paternalism. Keeping this dis- tinction- in mind, and applying it to everything from calendaring to counsel- ing, will be by far his most important task-and his most difficult. FROM THIS DESCRIPTION, albeit ab- stract, of what the new vice-president must do, follow several conclusions about what he must be. He must be dynamic and candid: able to devise and eager to try new ideas, yet willing to criticize even his own ideas when they go astray. Only thus can he both get things done and retain respect. Again, Dean Bacon is a good example: even her bitterest critics respected her in .many ways, because she articulated her beliefs honestly and lived by them. He must be a person who understands people-not in the usual sense of being a nice guy or a smooth talker, but in the sense of understanding why they behave as they do and how they can be moti- vated to improve themselves and their world. Thus he will not have to stoop to writing rules and restrictions in hopes of improving the intellectual environ- ment., He must, above all, be dedicated to the untrammeled growth of the University student-not just academically, but emo- tionally, physically, intellectually, and in every other dimension of human excel- lence. In this regard, the idea currently in vogue of an "academically oriented" administrator is rather frightening; there already are enough forces tending to chain students to the almighty classroom. The new vice-president must see the po- tential role of extracurricular life, not as a classroom-surrogate, but as a form of ex- perience which complements but is quali- tatively different from the academic side of education. THESE MAY SOUND like cloud-nine criteria. But men with these qualifica- tions exist-and many of them are right here at the University. -KENNETH WINTER Co-Editor EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the third in a series of ar- ticles on the Irish Hills Playhouse. George A. White is editor of Gen- eration and the New Poet Series. By GEORGE A. WHITE SIMPLE IN VIEWING, complex in analysis -Twelfth Night represents one of Shakespeare's most successful plays. A comedy that moves through the tangles of misunderstood identities and romantic love, it defies "tinker- ing" by directors-the play's the thing and it must be played straight, without invention or elaboration. Last Friday's productionrat Irish Hills represented a mature play, one that showed a harmony in presentation, succeeding the dis- sonance of earlier performances. There were disappointments in that some of the major characters, Feste, Malvolio and 'Sir Toby Belch, seemed less brilliant, less sharp than before. Yet this was more than compensated for by good performances by Orsino, Olivia and Maria. The tone of Twelfth Night is musical melancholy. The lyrical music in song and instrument throughout the play describes a sick, extravagant, too-ripe world and foreshadows its passing. The world of Twelfth Night does not share the violence of death as in, say, Antony and Cleopatra; only the splendor. JOHN GENKE as Orsino, the Duke of Illyria, strolls on stage and with a flourish, commands his lutest: "If music be the food of love, play on./ Give me excess of Orsino suffers from lover's mel- ancholy; in love with the ab- stract of ove rather than the concrete, the Countess Olivia. Genke successfully maintained this strained, oft-times humorous, mel- ancholy with elaborate gestures of body and speech. Romantic rather than real, Genke was a glamorous artifact in harmony with the play. The play is dominated in theme by lovers and would-be lovers, but in action on stage by four of the strongest, most memorable charac- ters in Shakespeare: Malvolio, Feste, Sir Toby Belch, and Sir Andrew Aguecheck. The mark of a skilful director is that these "strong" characters do not un- balance the delicate harmonries. AS AN Elizabethan killjoy who would rid his Lady of "cakes and ale," Robert Cagle was an excel- lent Malvolio. Like the Duke, he is full of self love. But his flaws of character make him more than humorous, he is sick. Elizabethans regarded such sickness the result of 'humours" in the body awry. They had "cures" as well, and the progress of the play is a state- ment of one "method" to effect a cure. With his slicked, neatly-parted hair, up-lifted nose, strut and a host of other equally-annoying tics, Cagle displayed more than enough evidence of something wrong. He was most effectiye in combining all these to ,create a character, mock-Puritan in nature, that successfully alienated, as necessary to maintain the roman- tic veil, the audience's sympathies. Full of a zeal to meddle and a zest for superiority, Malvolio was bla- tantly ridiculous and nearly im- possible to empathize with. The audience laughed at his plight; they were in full agreement with the tricks used to expose his humor-for it was clear he was curable, only too foolishly proud to change. BESIDES, the fading world of Sir Toby and Sir Andrew (quite possibly the dimmest wit in Shakespeare) was made much too dear to lose. Victor Maider-Wexler and Eric Nord, quite simply, cap- tured the audience. Raider-Wexler stomped and sputtered, glared, raged, winked, cried; in short, used every trick in the actor's book, to endear him- self to his audience. And with the skilful aid . of Nord, succeeded. Nord, with his dull hesitations and mock-contemplative brow, was obscenely comic. They were made for each other and the audience loved it. Perhaps the best scene with all tlree was the garden incident where Malvolio finds the faked note. The scene was staged so Raider- Wexler, Nord, and a third, Phillip Piro as a servant, were hiding one behind the other watching Mal- volio, back of the barest illusion of a tree: a stem about an inch in diameter, six feet tall, with three branches. When they climb- ed atop each other's shoulders and Raider-Wexler on top arched above Malvolio, the scene reached a comic climax. Like a blustering hawk, he sprayed his indignation down to the audience's roars, as Cagle regally contemplated his future: "When I am Count Mal- volio!" THE CAST was shuffled some- what, to the better I think. Brooks Maddux played the sweetly-sly Maria and Ann Rivers became Olivia. Miss Maddux's overt sen- sualness seemed much more suited to the character of Maria. And Ann Rivers paralleled nicely, the abstract love of the Duke. George Wright as Feste had a role roughly equal to that of Mal- volio. The fool is a special charac- ter in Shakespeare; a character Shakespeare is fond of. A public entertainer, a private buffoon, he speaks to all manner of men. In Twelfth Night, he has the diffi- cult task of tying the disparate ends together. As Feste, Wright seemed wise, wiser than the rest of the people in the play. A little touched, what he said, in jest. rang of the truth: "The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your/brother's soul be- ing in Heaven." His costume and gestures were perfectly suited to his speech; a speech that had a quaint, yet wistfully sad tone. Wright knew Feste we played him with zest and passion. It is. I think, th role he plays at Irish Hil * * * TWELFTH NIGHT has been compared to a syn I'll have to agree and : pairing, I choose Howard H Second Symphony: romant cal, one with beautiful par are never forgotten. And which each of the instrumr heard clearly, for what it i in turn with none oversha the rest. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR HaahsCommentaymprol? To the Editor: POOR MICHAEL HARRAH! It seems he has a bug-bear about journalism. He refers to himself "as a journalist." Perhaps we can surmise from his article what his idea of a journalist, or at least a good journalist, really is. He says in the opening para- graphs of his article, "I have al- ways considered it presumptuous for a member of the profession to speak in the first person . . . I have always attempted to avoid vocing any editorial opinion in the first person, hoping to stick to impersonal commentary." This statement demonstrates quite clearly that Harrah has a gross misconception of the func- tion of a public media editor or columnist. This function is to be anything'but impersonal and this is why he is given a separate page for his utterings and his pieces are always signed. In the Ann Arbor News the editor even speaks under the quaint heading, "Ye Old Editor Has His Say," and the general editorials are headed by the phrase, "From Our Point of View." THESE EDITORIAL VIEWS are obviously personal ones. And, equally obvious, Michael Harrah's views are also personal, and fur- thermore, obviously biased in fa- vor of his personal beliefs. These biases are perfectly evident in his editorials. Further, I would pre- dict that if Harrah and, for ex- ample, Jeffrey Goodman, were to each write a news article on the subject of "Support Your Local Police" stickers it would be fairly simple to tell who wrote which article. This fact is probably entirely unacceptable to Harrah's puritan- ic, "Impersonal" soul, since he would be the first to claim that "editorializing" in a news article is one of the deadly sins guaran- teed to send a newspaperman to the nether depths. But Harrah is apparently unwilling to admit the injustice of the converse - pre- tending to give a completely "im- personal" objective statement of "fact" on the :editorial page in order to express what is really his opinion. ' His "facts," and those of others like him, are carefully selected, taken out of context, or else put into just the right context, to make the writer's point. This is done for precisely the same reason that John Talayco and others make satirical remarks-to in- fluence people to adpt the views, of the writer or to reject views which are incompatible with those of the writer. * * * HARRAH.HAS FAILED to make the distinction between using im- personal facts and using facts im- personally. But here is a member of the "using facts personally" school who claims that because he uses "impersonal" facts to in- fluence people he is more justi- fied, more correct in some mys- terious way, than the writer who uses satire, sharp humor, or barb- ed criticism to sway the attitudes of their audience. This is short- sightedness, if not hypocrisy. My taste, I must admit, is for exactly the type of sharp, quick- witted political analysis or social satire employed by such people as ;James Reston, Emmet John Hughes, Mauldin, Jules Feiffer, and John Talayco, and in the past by such literary geniuses as Jona- than Swift, Alexander Pope and George Bernard Shaw. I become rather bored with the puling, self- righteous, insipid whimperings of pseudo-journalists like Michael Harrah (who despises name call- ing). However, this is simply a matter of taste-a matter of. my own personal opinion. -Peter Wolff, Grad Persiflage To the Editor: WITH REGARD to Mr. Harrah's article of August 7 re. Wil- helm and Talayco, perhaps a prod- igal prose" palaestra may appear" less prolix if purveyed with a little playful persiflage. Pursuant to his plea for impersonal criticism, per- sons in public eye might well pro- fess prolepsis and personify the pachyderm's pelt. -Suzanne Seger Dept. of Environmental Health COFO Donations To the Editor: N THE PROCESS of arguing with Martha MacNeal in these columns on whether the Council of Federated Organizations wants its workers killed or alive, Miriam Dann has thrown some stones at the people of Ann Arbor for not contributing to her own appeal for aid on behalf of COFO. As coordinator for the bail fund drive for the six Ann Arbor volun- teers now in Mississippi, permit me to give some facts and com- ments. S* * * THE PEOPLE of Ann Arbor have had a number of opportun- ities to make contributions of various kinds and in variousways to the work of COFO in Missis- sippi: 1) There has been the bail fund, of which the Rev. J. Edgar Ed- wards of Guild House is treasurer. The conditions of the use and care of funds contributed to the bail fund were clearly outlined, and a responsible group (the Ann Arbor Friends Meeting) undertook to coordinate the appeal. The re- sponse has been most generous- in fact, the goal of $3000 has been oversubscribed. Individuals, as well as groups such as labor unions, religious groups, and other civic organizations madethis pos- sible. Of the amount in the bail- fund, a sizeable portion is in out- right gifts, which. if not used for bail is to be donated without strings to COFO on October 1.- midsummer to hear the Freedom Singers perform and tell of their own experiences in Mississippi. Contributions were taken on that occasion for immediate use by COFO. 3) Everyone on the list of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People re- ceived thatvorganization's national appeal for voter-registration funds for use in the South. 4) The Civil Rights Coordinat- ing Council circulated a petition asking President Johnson to use available federal jurisdictional powers to protect the lives of COFO workers. In ten days, over two hundred signatures were ob- tained and forwarded to the Presi- dent. 5) In July, our committee, with the generous help of a group of high school students, packed and shipped 43 cartons :containing over 1000 textbooks, weighing three quarters of a ton, to the Freedom Schools in Mississippi. This is an incomplete list. It does not include the constant work of Rev. Paul Dotson, who earlier Poor 'Patsy' this summer was in Mississippi, and many others of whose work I have no direct knowledge. I have followed Miss Dann's appeals in the letters columns of the local newspapers. I find her first-hand reports from Joseph' Harrison in Mississippi very mov- ing, and I hope she continues to give us these. I also have quarrel with her right to people for money and other port. However, I strongly that before she makes bl accusations of indifference, should inform herself some more completely. "0. K.-- Let's Renegotiate" & #', y I I' i '11 14- MAT)W MW4ERE ON cos L1 TOD.AY AND TOMORROW U.S. Naval Power Invincible in S.E. As By WALTER LIPPMANN IT IS NOT YET CLEAR why the Hanoi government 'decided to attack the Seventh Fleet. But the encounter is a reminder that the United States is present in the seas around and in the air over Southeast Asia. The North Vietnamese and Chinese infantry can do nothing against this invincible and well- nigh invulnerable military pres- ence. What, is' more, nothing that happens on the ground on the Asian mainland can alter the fact that the United States cannot be driven out of Southeast Asia. The lasting significance of the episode is thedemonstration that the* United States can remain In Southeast Asia without being on the ground. And so, while it may well be true that the jungle war cannot be won, it is also true that the United States need not, and will not, cease to be a great power in Southern Asia. Moreover, as long as we excerise our enormous power with measure, with humanity and with restraint,, as President John- son is intending to use it, the risks of a wider war are limited. * * * THE MORE FIRMLY the fact is established that our presence in Southeast Asia is primarily as a sea-and-air power, the safer it will be to enter the negotiations which is the only alternative to an endless and indecisive war in the jungle. It is necessary to prove to the Chinese, who probably do not really understand sea power be- cause they have none, that the elephant cannot drive the whale out of the ocean..This is an es- sential preliminary to a good ne-. gotiation. The Chinese will have to accept our permanent presence asp a great power in the South Pa- cific. It will be necessary, also, to convince many Americans that the United States would not enter such negotiations as a defeated gage the American Army on mainland of Asia. Our strength in sea power. We have depa from the old doctrine, perhl because we had to. But the r line of American policy should to return to it. For it is based a truenunderstanding of our p tion on this globe. (c) 1964,The Washington Post Co SIMULACRA 'rue Love Wins Out At the Michigan Theatre OH THE COLORS are pre and if you like the ge: Connie Francis is a good popu singer, but "Looking for Love" a misanthrope's impression of human race. 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