Seventy-Second Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinion Are Free 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 inus t be noted in all reprints. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: DENISE W ACKER PRIMARY VICTORIES: The Remodeling job I I Full-Year Op erationi: Challenge to Athletics THE UNIVERSITY'S conversion to full-year operation, or tri-mester, plan will certainly cause some changes to be made in the Michi- gan intercollegiate athletic program. It seems inconceivable that such academic innovations, which are slated to go into effect a year from this fall, will not cause Athletic Director H. O. "Fritz" Crisler and his Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics to do some swift jug- gling of schedules. The problems that must be faced, as enum- erated by Crisler, center around the sched- uling of spring sports teams and the opera- tion of pre-school fall football practice. The present Western Conference (Big Ten) spring sports schedule traditionally runs from early April through the last week of May, with the Conference meets held that ast weekend. This has been satisfactory with all of the league schools, since all have had middle-of-June graduation exercises in the past. Such unanimity is no longer the case, how- ever, since under the trimester program Mich- igan's spring semester will end early in May, with graduation over before the month ends. This makes participation in the Big Ten spring championships an impossibility, unless Michigan athletes are to forget their school- books-a practice that is not in vogue for Crisler's athletes, although often practiced elsewhere. THE OTHER MAIN problem centers around the beginning of the fall semester. At other schools, as it has been at Michigan, the fall semester starts around the middle of Septem- ber. According to NCAA rules, and also en- dorsed by the Big Ten, collegiate football teams are allowed to start football practice in the fall no earlier than September 1. It has then been traditional for major football school, of which Michigan is one, to run two-a-day practice sessions until classes begin - then settling down to late afternoon practice ses- sions throughout the season. If Michigan is to have fall classes start on or about the first of September, then a heavy- duty football practice pattern under NCAA rules would be impossible. And the results of this, as Crisler states, "would be severe." Michi- gan's teams would be both underpracticed and underconditioned, and completely unprepared for a Big Ten caliber football schedule. Aside from these two areas of contention, the new semester scheduling would not have any great effect on Michigan athletics. The break between the fall and spring semesters, which will coincide with Christmas vacation, would change nothing. Michigan State has had a break between quarters at that time for a number of years, and all of the Big Ten schools have different mid-year breaks. The winter sports schedules are spread over the months from December to March, and are quite loose and varied to fit the different holiday and exam breaks. BUT THERE HAS been no such variation in the dates of spring graduation and fall starting times. Michigan is taking the role of innovator in these areas. One thing is certain, and that is that Mich- igan simply can't go its own way and hope to remain a major athletic school. It is pres- ently in a well-knowvn and well-respected - league-many maintain with good reason that it is the best in the country. Michigan wants to stay In the Big Ten, and most surely will. There has been no thought to the contrary. CRISLER and the Board in Control will have the task of "fitting" Michigan's new pro- gram to the Big Ten schedule. While there will be problems, he does not anticipate resist- ance. It seems likely that concluding spring contests can be moved up a few weeks to allow Michigan athletes to keep their study and exam periods sacred, as they must if they int(nd to retain eligibility. Other solutions are also possible, such as schduling spring championships after all of the schools have completed their semester. Just what solution will be arrived' at by the Big Ten heads is as yet unsure-they have a full year to ponder-but one can be sure that they will find an adequate plan, for they always have in the past. As for that football practice problem, Crisler feels that he will most likely ask the NCAA for help. A new ruling that will equalize prac- tice time for schools, no matter what the starting date of classes is, seems to be in order. Perhaps each school should be allowed the same number of practice days prior to the first day of classes, or maybe a maximum number of practice sessions for the entire season, to be allotted as the coach sees fit. BUT JUST BECAUSE these solutions are clearly in order, and all Michigan athletic fans can count on them being made without dire results to the school's athletic tradition, should not be reason for relaxation and con- tentment. It is time for initiation. The trimester program which will start next year at Michigan, and will most likely follow athletic picture in the United States. In such sports as football, basketball, hockey, swimming and track the colleges completely dominate the amateur picture. Such is also quickly becoming true in gymnastics and wrestling. But such is not the. case in baseball, golf and tennis. In the three distinctly summer sports-base- ball, golf and tennis-the colleges have never headed the scene. It is true that many of the good players go to college, since an education is essential these days, but these athletes play far more important matches and games during the non-school summers than they do during the short spring college sports season. Invita- tional tennis and golf tournaments and summer baseball leagues play longer and tougher sea- sons than the collegiate equivalent. What can the trimester do for this? THE ANSWER is rather evident. We take the three semesters-one from September to December, one from January to April, and one from May to August, roughly speaking. Then we take the three traditional college sports seasons -fall, winter and spring-and we find that they fit nicely together. Thusly: September to December: football, cross country. January to April: basketball, hockey, swim- ming, gymnastics, wrestling, indoor track. May to August: baseball, golf, tennis, out- door track. Now isn't that much more natural than the present scheduling? THE FALL SEASON would be much the same, only it would give time for the inevitable round-robin football scheduling which the Big Ten keeps considering, but can't quite squeeze in. And it would also tag the bowl games on the end of the same natural season, and make them a bit more justifiable. The winter season would still come while outdoor activities in the cold north are not feasible. It would, however, add the month of April on the end-which will help since big meets have slowly been creeping toward that date anyway. Thenwe come to the summer semester. For the first time college golf and tennis meets could be held when the temperatures are above 50, and it might be possible to play more than half of the scheduled baseball games. BASEBALL, golf and tennis would no longer be lame duck sports. They would have a legitimate season when they could be well played, rather than exist as something that colleges should do, but can't do well. One must, of course, admit that Michigan's current base- ball team is an exception to this lame duck classification, but much of their success can be attributed to the extra-long season that they played, and the consistent improvement that they made as the season lengthened should bear testimony to what college baseball could be if its season ran from May to August rather than just April to May. By thus spreading the collegiate athletic schedule out, giving each sport a four-month season, it would also .be possible to get all meets, including the Conference and NCAA finals, over well before final exams of each semester. The extra time would be looked upon kindly by the often-harassed student- athletes who attend a demanding university and also seek to excel athletically. It also seems quite natural that the semester immediately preceeding the active season for each sport would serve as a practice period. As it is now most college athletes practice on an almost year-around basis, with many invita- tional AAU and other type meets, and most coaches have their men working out long be- fore the intercollegiate competition stars. A 'trimester program would tend to put natural limits on this off-season activity. An athlete would practice one semester, compete the next, and then take the third one off. They could then attend classes for the practice and the competition semesters, and have the other to themselves-with the added possibility of go- ing to school then too if they wanted to graduate in less than four years. AND JUST WHAT could Michigan's role be in instituting such a trimester athletic plan? We have already stated that a school can't simply go its own way, and hope to find other schools that will automatically follow suit. Yet this does not mean that Crisler and Michigan's other athletic personalities couldn't begin the discussion of this sort of athletic future at the high level meetings they attend. One very important factor is that the formal institution of such a scheme does not neces- sarily have to be proceeded by the institution of trimester schooling throughout the coun- try. The fact that there is no academic summer semester at all schools does not mean that all schools couldn't field athletic teams that com- peted in the summer. Those spring schedules could be moved on to summer at any time, and if the athletes are academically eligible at the end of the spring semester, they could keep right on representing their school during the summer. By PHILIP SUTIN Daily Staff Writer GEORGE ROMNEY launched successfully his first step in re- modeling the state's Republican Party. Along with his landslide vote, Romney carried many sup- porters into final election races, disorganizing the more conserva- tive ranks of the party. Hardest hit was the state Sen- ate. Coupled with some retire- ments, the Senate conservatives will be without experienced lead- ership next January. Majority leader Lynn O. Francis (R-Mid- land) and president pro-tem Perry Greene (R-Grand Rapids) retired. Sen. Carlton Morris (R-Kalama- zoo), the powerful chairman of the Judiciary Committee and lead- er of the conservatives, was upset by constitutional convention dele- gate Garry Brown (R-Kalamazoo). The conservatives also lost vet- eran Sen. Charles Feenstra of Grand Rapids. GOP moderate losses, however, were slight. Sen. John Stahlin (R-Belding) left to go down to defeat in his bid for the lieutenant governorship nom- ination. * * * THIS LEAVES the conservatives with Sen. John Smeekens (R-Cold- water) as the most experienced conservative leader. Smeekens, however, was only raised to the post of assistant majority leader last spring in the shuffle that saw Sen. Frank Beadle (R-St. Claire) lost his post for his role in the income tax debate. More known for his sharp tactics and vendettas than for his statesman- ship, Smeekens cannot provide the same quality of leadership that has allowed the conservatives to bottle up legislation in recent years. The House censervatives suffer- ed smaller losses. Of its major leaders, only Speaker of the House Don R. Pears is gone, the result of an unsuccessful attempt for the Fourth District congressional nom- ination. The remaining leadership is intact, although some veteran GOP House members were also up- set in the primary. On a state-wide basis, the con- servatives only received one GOP nomination-Alvin Bentley for congressman-at-large. The former Owosso congressman is making his second bid for statewide office after losing to Sen. Patrick Mc- Namara in 1960 despite running up the highest campaign expenses in the history of the state. * *s * ROMNEY'S GAMBLE in the 14th Congressional District has significantly paid off. Insurgent forces defeated Richard Durant and his slate of district conven- tion delegates, ending the control he has had on the local GOP ma- chine. The victory, more than any oth- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily .assumes no editorial 'esponsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3564 Administration Building before 2 p.m., two days preceding pubication. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9 General Notices ATTENTION AUGUST GRADUATES: College of Lit., Science, and the Arts, School of Ed., School of Music, School of Public Health, School of Bus. Admin. Students are advised not to request grades of I or x in Aug. when such grades are absolutely imperative, the work must be made up in time to al- low your instructortto report the make-up grade not later than 11 a.m., Aug. 22. Grades received after that time may defer the student's gradua- tion until a later date. Recommendations for Departmental Honors: Teaching dept.'s wishing to recommend tentative Aug. graduates from the College of Lit., Science, and the Arts, for honors or high honors should recommend" such students by forwardinga letter (in two copies; one copy for Honors Council, one copy for the Office of Registration and Records) to the Director, Honors Council, 1210 Angell Hall, by 3:00 p.m., Tues., Aug. 21. Teaching dept.'s in the School of Ed. should forward letters directly to the Office of Registration and Records, Room 1513 Admin. Bldg., by 11:00 a.m., wed., Aug. 22. Hopwood Awards: All manuscripts for the Summer Contest must be in the Hopwood Room (1006Angell Hall) on Fri., Aug. 10, at 4:30 p.m. Student Government Council: Acti- vities approved (effective 24 hours after publication of this notice). Michigan Union, Union Madness, Sep- tember 15; Musket Mass Meeting, Sep- tember 23; Panel Discussion on Fall Festival of Plays, September 30; Cam- pus United Nations, October 19 & 20; Musket Show, November 28, 29, 30, De- cember 1. Events Tonight: Opera Dept., School of Mu- sic and U-M Players, Dept. of Speech, present Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" and Pergolesi's "La Serva Padrona," 8:00, Hill Aud. Last performance tomorrow, 8:00 p.m. Box office open 10-8 today and tomorrow. Doctoral Examination for Lloyd Math- ias Wolfe. Education; thesis: "A Study of the Relationship between Lifelong Learning and Adjustment of Older People," Fri., Aug. 10, 1510 Rackham Bldg., at 9:00 a.m. Chairman, H. Y. er, shows Romney's growing mod- erate impact on the party. Durant is a "sponsor" of the John Birch Society and Romney is out to cleanse the GOP of its Neander- thal elements. The Republican rank-and-file voter responded to Romney's challenge and the im- pact will be great throughout the state organization. Morris's defeat is also illustra- tive of the growing Romney influ- ence. His opponent campaigned on a pro-Romney platform, so much so that Morris in the last week before the election cropped a pic- ture of himself, Romney and sev- eral others to a dual head and shoulder picture of the two of them to make it appear that Mor- ris too was a close Romney sup- porter. It did not work. Morris's 14-year career in the Senate is over. THE STATE'S FUTURE in large measure depends on Romney's at- tempt to remodel the GOP. With- in the moderate ranks there are many intelligent, open-minded Re- publicans who are willing to ex- amine and compromise the issues where necessary instead of in- transigently debating with the Democrats. Many are also aware of the state's pressing needs-espe- cially in education and mental health-that most conservatives have long ignored in their quest to economize. These sorts of indi- viduals are needed to bring the state out of its political backward- ness and help it face the increas- ingly complex problems of the age in a responsible and effective man- ner. However, Romney cannot suc- ceed with pussy-footing tactics. He will have to be forthright as he was in the 14th District where he told the electorate, in effect, "him or me." Deals similar to the one made at Con-Con with conserva- tive leaders may be expedient, but result only in maintaining the status quo and clouding the differ- ences between the forward-look- ing moderates and the backward- gazingconservatives. A stringent attitude toward the Neanderthals will be needed for success. * * * THE PRIMARY victories are only the first stage. He must get elected governor to complete his task. If like moderate Paul Bag- well, Romney is defeated, he will lose the respect of the party and the outstate conservatives will laugh at the "Central Committee finks" which they claim dominate the party. Romney's greatest test lies ahead. He has made a good start in remodeling the party. However, with less than a quarter of the electorate voting, his striking vic- tory could well be a flash in the pan. Romney's road to success is irrevocable-he must win or fail. -Daily-Michael de Gaetano LA SERVA PADRONA--With firm face and folded arms, the master of the house enjoys his frail illusion of masculine domin- ance, while the smart and smirking servant bets wisely on the serving girl to win the day. 'Playbill' Scores Suc ess With Opera .double Bill 1 EVANS STRIKE: Dissidents Harm Labor By EARL POLE Daily Staff Writer ANY VIOLENT CONFLICT be- tween strikers and non-strikers at the Evans- Products Co. fac- tory in West Branch, Mich., is a serious affront to the solidarity of American labor. Sixty angry non-striking em- ployes of the plant swarmed into Lansing Monday to demand police protection of their right to work. Evans Products Company has been struck by Local 5991 of the United Steel Workers of America since July 18. The Union organized the plant 18 months ago. After March 23, employes worked without a con- tract while negotiations continued. Finally, the plant was struck in July. * * * THE UNION demands higher wages, "fair and equitable distri- bution of overtime, orderly proced- ure for temporary layoffs, senior- ity based upon ability to perform, grievance procedures, including arbitration and recognition of the union." According to Union offi- cials, all these have been denied the workers by the company., The dissident employes insist that the strike vote should have been taken by secret ballot, rather than a show of hands. A union official said the vote in favor of a strike was 107-2. Non-strikers complained of van- dalism to their cars, and threats of the use of physical force, how- ever, these claims were denied by Union officials who said that al- though there were isolated inci- dents, Local 5991 had not con- doned any violence. * * * MAURICE HALSTEAD, field representative for the steel-work- ers union, countered with the charge that non-strikers had in- jured picketers with their cars as they had driven to the plant in a "motorcade." Halstead said working non- strikers include 21 members of the Union, 27 supervisors and office workers, and about 40 "strike- breakers" he said were hired in the West Branch area. Howard Seiler, head of the uni- form division of the State Police said that "there is no peril be- yond what local officials can han- dle, and State Police will act only if there is further violence." * * * THE REQUEST of the non- strikers for state police protection is askridiculous as the issue which precipitated the conflict. Local 5991 of the Steel Workers Union is asking little more from Evans Products Co. than is now entitled workers under accepted standard contracts at all major manufac- turing concerns. It is extremely unlikely that a group of sixty workers would be prepared to risk their personal safety and proper- ty damage for the sake of main- taining a system which denies them these rights. If the objections of the non- strikers to the Union's decision were legitimate, then why not bring them up before the Union itself, for peaceful discussion with Union leaders? The non-strikers object to the way in which the strike decision was arrived at by Local 5991. Obviously, if secret bal- loting were to make any differ- ence in the way the workers vot- ed, it would have appeared in the show of hands taken. The fact that almost overwhelmingly, the work- ers voted to strike indicates that the dissident workers are unwill- ing to accept decisions arrived at through normal democratic proc- esses, and the rule of the major- ity. The one thing which -is abso- lutely necessary for equitable la- bor-management relations is faith in the democratic majority. The Evans Products Co. non-strikers are doing a disservice to them- selves and the cause of American labor in general. THE UNIVERSITY Opera De- partment opened its double bill of opera at Hill Auditorium last night. The two one-acters, "La Serva Padrona" and "Gianni Schicchi," will run through Fri- day. Go watch and listen. Both shows are done in under- standable English translations by conductor Josef Blatt. The staging, especially in "Gianni Schicchi," is full of fun and energy. No con- ventions of foreign language or stolid acting, which make opera "art" for the humorless, stand in the way of the comedy. Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" was first performed in 1918 as one of a tryptich of three operas on con- trasting themes. It has rightly remained the most popular of them. A SWARM of avaricious rela- tives are mock-mourning the death of Buoso Donati,has they dream over the riches they hope to inherit. Therwillcis found and- disaster-the deceased has left his money to monks. Even good, young Rinucio is disappointed, because he hoped his family's new wealth would make them consent to his marriage with Lauretta, daughter of the roguish rustic, Gianni Schicchi. What will happen? Enter the rogue hero, Schicchi himself. Hechecks to make cer- tain that no news. of Donati's death had creeped out, then mer- rily replaces the corpse in the. death bed and calls for a lawyer so that the resurrected Buoso Don- ati may dictate a new will. Star performance alone cannot make a comedy of this. The en- semble acting, the grotesque humor of the greedy mourners, their in- terplay with Schicchi, the team- work and total concept must be polished and starred. * * * AND SO IT WAS last night. Ralph Herbert's stage direction is a triumph of imagination and precision. Watch, for example, the relatives reading Donati's will. First, they are a pyramid of colors and rough edges, piling over the last will and testament. Each, at his own speed, finishes tha document and has to face the hor- rendous discovery that no money has come to him. They look up- away-back at each other--form into larger groups of angry dis- appointment-clicking about into new and changing comic attitudes. It is this kind of care and energy for a scant few minutes of stage business which adds up to first rate comic art. Perry Daniels brought to the title role a clear, light baritone, and a rubber skinned versatility at face-making. He managed for most of the role to make the audience a part of Schicch's own pleasure in his wit and skill. James Miller, a pleasant-voiced Rnuccio, and Donna Newman, a Lauretta of lovely voice, carried the set arias and duets of the opera. IN THE PIT -Josef Blatt drew from his orchestra the right sounds and style for both the Puccini and the Pergolesi opera, which was written two centuries before. "La Serva Padrona" marked the arrival of the comic opera as a form. Tracing its history from in- termezzi which stood between the acts of a major opera, Pergolesi's opera stands on its own merits. A servant girl bullies her master and charms, tricks and seduces him into taking her as his wife. Jerry Stafford as the master, Karen Lovejoy as the serving girl mistress and Harry Moon as a mute and mocking servant make up the entertaining, though slightly awkward, cast. There was less joy and care in the staging here than in the Puccini, but still much good fun. -Ernest Kramer AT THE STATE Juvenile .Interns STEP RIGHT UP ladies and gen- tlemen and see how the young doctors (or rather interns) live. For the first time anywhere, un- caged and uncensored. Bolder than any of the foreign shows. Half a dollar, only half a dol- lar. It's a great carny lead. And like all carnies the show inside is fake from beginning to end. The biggest disadvantage is, this show will cost ninety cents in the' evening. Only sixty-five in the afternoon, however. THERE IS almost nothing Wi this film believable except the cliches, which abound. Michael Callan and James Mac- Arthur have two of the lead roles. Both of them look like they're about nineteen and should be walking around campus with han- dy yellow orientation folders, Buddy Ebsen plays the head doc- tor of the hospital as if somebody forgot to tell him that he is no longer Davy Crockett's sidekick. The only thing resembling con- tinuity in the picture is identical first and last lines. This is very ap- propriate. N o t h i n g worthwhile happens in between. I suggest leav- ing after the first line and forget- ting the whole thing. * * * ABOUT the only use I can sug- gest for this movie is that all the nice young doctors whose Jewish mothers want them to be that way more than they -want to be that way should send their moth- ers to see this movie. Maybe then the young doctors won't look so nice after all Ot the very least they will look somewhat sick and flat, bigger cliches than even the Jewish moth- ers. * * * THE FEW medical scenes, like the birth of a baby, are described with more drama in Evelyn Du- val's "The Facts of Life and Love for Teen-Agers," which probably still costs less than fifty cents and is a very funny book. For nice med student shop talk, better that you listen to the raed student sitting next to you. It's very educational, too. Those boys and girls who don't know what ergotine can be used for may learn if they listen closely. "As You Were Saying, Neighbor, Youth Will Be Youth"