Seventy-Second 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 Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: CYNTHIA NEU Picket Line " ' }w 4 ; t, art A, l M 4' 11 ti 4, . L. Ct x i f .F t '{ , , i 7 ' Jf - l . Y'J 1" ! a Ii1 p/ 1 S' NV American Hercules Faces Soviet Hydra I THE UNITED STATES government is "dis- turbed" over reports of a military uprising in Peru. Conceivably this could be the first in Castro's attempt to "liberate" the masses of South America, thereby bringing Commun- ism into the area. Once again the Soviet menace will be felt-and this time a little closer to home. The Soviet challenge to the United States is akin to that of Hydra, the many-headed monster, confronting Hercules. As soon as one head is removed, another one appears. "The significant feature of Soviet power is the way it uses military and non-military means interrelatedly to play upon the forces at work in particular local situations," Mar- shall D. Shulman says. A coup d'etat in Peru would be a perfect example. MERICA'S ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS is a better-late-than-never attempt to com- bat the Russiap technique. Nationalism, in under-developed countries is a useful tool for the Communists. They can preach anti- colonialism and give support to independence movements because their satelites, little more than colonies, are far from troubled spots. Nationalists are concerned with a brand of colonialism they can recognize. America's anticolonial record and the cry that we were once a colony carries little weight with new nations. For our defensive alliance-the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion, in particular- and our international agreements in general are mostly with colonial powers. Our United Nation's voting record on the colonial question shows our bias. For, when we do not vote against nationalism, we usually abstain. American aid has been used as a lever to force the neutral nations to align themselves with the West. John W. Spanier feels "this has made American purposes suspect; for the new nations fear that America may represent a new form of colonialism, by which the United States, through alliances, wishes use them as pawns in the Cold War." to THIS MOTIVE, in and of itself, is not evil. It's just that the Russians are better at camouflage than we. Russian technolog ical development is very impressive to new nations. The Soviet Union has become the world's second greatest in- dustrial power in the space of forty years. This experience is meaningful to underdevelop- ed countries as they strive to achieve a higher standard of living. Soviet technicans live and work directly with the people in a foreign country. Thus they make themselves a part of the society, T HE "UGLY AMERICAN" concept unfor- tunately holds true in many places and the Peace Corps is only a small step in the right direction. There mustbe a positive at- tempt to show underdeveloped countries that they are worth more than just a place for a missile base and a pro-Western vote in the UN. The persistent refusal of the Southern states to grant Negroes their full measure of civil rights is a hindrance in the attempt to win over the uncommitted world peoples that rightly regard segregation as a contradiction to the principle of human equality on which the United States claims to stand. The challenge is not only to American foreign policy but to the effectiveness with which our society can grasp and respond to the conditions of a rapidly changing world. Americans should face these challenges realistically and recognize their implications. "Better Dead than Red" is not the answer. Americans will have to become more familiar with the problems of rising nationalist move- ments. America must overcome such obstacles imposed by democracy as segregation. America must wake up or Peru might be just the first step. --SARABETH RICHMAN - J ' 09 ff t T TORS 04 AI " 'a ao.. .r. OUR OPEN SOCIETY: Education:Privilege or Right? STRATFORD FESTIVAL Goulden Touch Sparks Conrcerts special To TheDaily STRATFORD-ON-AVON, Ontario - Canada's musical heroes, Oscar Shumsky, Leonard Rose, and Glenn Gould were in fine fettle last weekend even though the last named was not, strictly speaking, on the program. Glenn Gould is a man of ideas, both musical and other, and a technician in his major craft of no small accomplishment. But in ad- dition and at issue here is the freedom of spirit and sureness of mind to which his early success has led him. It leads to the releasing of ideas which might have died unborn. His was the idea of the ballet to "Time Cycle" by Lukas Foss, according to the latter; it also leads to program notes which are almost unbearably flippant, though often amusing and clearly well-informed. One cannot help but wonder where this strange young man will end; we are privileged to watch his progress whatever it be. He was present incognito - that is, minus gloves, scarf, and cap - in the audience for the chamber music concert Saturday morning. This was a distinct improvement over the last one I heard two years ago. At that time these Ititle matinees were little more than pracice ses- sions for sudents of the major musicians at the festival, and the per- formances were often inadequate. With the added formality of assigned seating and printed programs came better musicians well rehearsed. BEETHOVEN'S String Trio, Opus 9, No. 3, opened the program. The playing was excellent, marked especially by the exquisite tone of Oscar Shumsky's violin. Quintet for Woodwinds by Harry Freedman followed. This is a light, pleasant, conservative piece written in 1961. In its use of development of common motives in the three move- ments and in its felicitous handling of the several instruments - there were indeed some marvelous colorings - the work displays the com- poser's background as a jazz composer and instrumentalist. The work was not a bastard "Jazz for the concert hall thing" but a thoroughly enjoyable piece. More from Mr. Freedman would be welcome. Saturday's concert closed with the Piano Quartet, K. 478, by Mo- zart. This revealed Lukas Foss as an unsuccessful classical pianist. His immersion in his own terse, dry idiom seems to have affected his inter- pretation of more fluid music. His phrases are flat until the very end, where a curiously quiet accent succeeds in drawing unnecessary atten- tion to the end, while terminating it so abruptly that the phrase seems not concluded but lost. THE NAME of Arnold Schoenberg still scares people away in droves. It is curious then that Sunday's concert was entitled The Schoenberg Heritage, for there was nothing on it typical of the usual image of Schoenberg's music. One suspects the heavy hand; of the shadow of Glenn Gould behind this perverse naming. The music was never harsh, though often atonal, and always good. The performances were excellent. The opening work was, indeed, by the theme composer of the day; but "Verklaerte Nacht," Opus 4, is Schoenberg while he was still Wag- ner. FIVE PIECES for String Quartet, Opus 5, of Webern is of a drier, fragmentary nature. It is difficult to judge the quality of the perform- ance, for we were presented with the reverse of the old question of whether or not ballet music will stand up in the concert hall. Here concert music, of indeed the most abstract and self-sufficient kind, was accompanied by a ballet. It certainly distracted one from complete con- centration on the music itself, but the total effect was good. Grant Strate has captured the diaphonous mood of Webern with dancing to match. The major work of the afternoon was "Time Cycle" by Lukas Foss. In this Mr. Foss shows to much better advantage than in playing Mozart. The work consists of set- ( " tings of four poems, each some- what relatedtosthethemeof time, separated by improvisational in- terludes. One cannot tell just how much these interludes had been rehearsed but they revealed How- ard Colf, 'cellist, and Richard Du- fallo, clarinetist, as masters of the subtleties of their instruments. But the major kudos here are x t :° for Grace-Lynne Martin, soprano. Like it or not, one must admit that this music is difficult vocally. Miss Martin handled it without, a quaver. Her voice is full and clean, capable of many hues and wide but graceful skips. It encompasses the high notes without shrillness and the low notes with resonance. I .1 11 f TI f TODAY AND TOMORROW: Britain and the Common Market By WALTER LIPPMANN WE MUST BEAR it in mind that while the Common Market, as established by the Treaty of Rome in 1957, deals only with economic relations, it has been agreed by all six members that they will soon sign another treaty, which is now being negotiated, to establish a political union. Their object is to create a new great power which is to be known not as France or Germany but as "Europe." It is in the forma- tion of this new political entity that the issues of the British-American nuclear con- nection arise. All of this is not, however, the subject of the formal negotiations which have begun in Brussels. They are concerned, we may say, with whether and how Britain can be admitted to the Common Market. They are not avowedly concerned with British membership in the new political entity which has still to be created. Nevertheless, the political and strategic issues are, I feel sure, controlling, at least in France, and how they are to be resolved no one knows. WE CAN BE SURE that unresolved these problems will not make it easier to solve the economic issues which in themselves are very difficult indeed. To understand the nature of the economic difficulty, around which the Brussels negotiations revolve, we must realize what is the basic compact of the Common Market. It is a bargain between French agriculture and German industry. The key to this bargain is that French agriculture is being modernized and is becoming increasingly productive. At bottom the Common Market enables France to sell the bulk of the basic food--wheat and imeat-protected against Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Argentine, and the United States by a common variable levy which would prevent imports, no matter how low in price, from competing in the European market. In return, German industry primarily, but also Italian, Belgain and Dutch, have the privilege of free trade within the market and protection against the rest of the world by a customs union. (I might say that the reciprocal relation between French agriculture and German in- dustry is comparable with the economy of our own political union. The United States is a common market in which there is an economic compact between the industrial Northeast and the agricultural South and West. On a smaller scale, of course, the Common Market in Europe rests on a similar system of reciprocal ad- vantage.) NOW WE CAN SEE why the British applica- tion to join the Common Market raises such difficult questions on both sides of the negotiating table. For Britain buys most of her essential food outside of Europe. The food costs at retail about 18 cents per kilogram (2-1/5 pounds); in France, Germany and Italy the wheat flour costs about 21 cents. Beef costs the British at retail aboue $1.66 a kilogram; it costs the French and Italians about $2.16. The biggest economic issue in the negotia- tions arises from the fact that France and what might be called the fundamentalists of the Common Market in Brussels, Bonn and Rome, say that, to be admitted, Britain must open her market to French agriculture and in effect close it to Australia and New Zealand and North and South America. THIS POSES a very hard choice both in Paris and in London. How much the French will wish to sharpen the issue depends, as I have been saying, on great political and strategic questions. But there are powerful economic interests in France which, leaving all political considerations aside, will press for very hard terms. France is in the midst of the same kind of agricultural revolution which has created our own farm problem. For example, the yield of wheat per acre has increased by more than half over the pre-war levels. France is able not only to feed her people but she also has surpluses to export. The French farmers, like our own, are a powerful political force. They are interested in exports at high prices, and Britain seems a natural market for French agriculture. French and other continental industrialists view higher food prices for British workers as a wage- equalizing factor. It would thus be most dif- ficult for any French government to allow Britain to enjoy cheap food from overseas. FOR THE BRITISH the terms for admission present a truly agonizing decision. If the British must shut out the old dominions, which are the producersof temperate agricultural products such as wheat and meat and butter, the old political and human allegiance of the empire and the commonwealth will suffer a rude and painful, if not a fatal, shock. The issue is deep, momentous, and highly charged with sentiment. No solution of it is now in sight. To find a solution, the con- tinentals will have to move into a much more generous and flexible position than Gen. de Gaulle and Dr. Adenauer now occupy. The British are not so hard-pressed that they can be brought to a kind of unconditional surrender to Paris and Bonn. Thus the im- mediate fate of the grand project depends primarily on Paris and Bonn. 1 KNOW that this sounds gloomy. For the short run the prospect is gloomy if we expect a full solution in which Britain "joins" the European Community of Gen. de Gaulle and Dr. Adenauer. This is so difficult that we may count ourselves fortunate if the negotiations are not broken off and if a way is found to continue them, perhaps for some years. By ROBERT SELWA Daily staff writer "THY are students here? Is edu- cation at a university a right? Or merely a privilege? According to the official pub- lication, "Excerpts from Univer- sity Regulations Concerning Stu- dent Affairs, Conduct and Disci- pline," attendance at the Univer- sity is a privilege and not a right. But an examiation of judicial decisions and an anaylsis of the role of education in American de- mocracy leads one to a different impression: that it is both a privi- lege and a right. THE STATE v. White (82 Ind. 278) decision of the Indiana Su- preme Court indicates that an aca- demrically qualified student has a right to be admitted to a univer- sity. In 1882 the same court is- sued a writ of mandamus to com- pel the admission of a student who had been rejected solely because he had declined to sign a prom- ise to resign as an active member of the Sigma Chi fraternity dur- ing his stay at the university. The court justified its action by noting that "the admission of stu- dents into a public educational in- stitution is one thing, and the government and control of stu- dents after they are admitted .. is quite another thing . . . The possession of this great power over a student after he has entered the university does not justify the im- position of either degrading or extraordinary terms andcondi- tions of admission into it . .. However, there is no right to attend a private college, at least according to the 1947 case of Peo- ple v. Northwestern University (303 Ill. App. 224, 74 N.E. 2d 345). A private institution can refuse an applicant for any reason it considers adequate, the appellate court of Illinois declared. * * * * A STUDENT who not only is ad- mitted but also completes the ed- ucational requirements for a de- gree at a public college may be de- nied that degree if he engages in contumacious conduct (People v. New York Law School, 68 Hun. 118, 22 N.Y. 663, 1893). He may also be denied a degree if he has "unpatriotic and revo- lutionary" views, according to a 1921 New York court decision (People v. Albany Law School, 198 App. Div. 460.191 N.Y. Supp. 349). The student, accused of being a Socialist, asserted that he was "one hundred per cent American" in his views. But the court said "the faculty acted within the scope of its discretion, to such pur- pose that no review may be made by a court." A case like this illustrates the fear many Americans had (and still have) of the open market- place of ideas, a fear that makes democracy inoperative. But the de- cision stands on the books, un- repudiated and unreversed, and it indicates that fulfilling the educa- tional requirements for a degree 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 responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to does not insure that one will get it. * * * THE IDEA that education is solely a privilege leadsto the no- tion that a univesity can arbi- trarily dismiss a student. But this is not so, according to the first decision in the case of Anthony v. Syracuse University (130 Misc. 249, 223 N.Y. Supp. 796, Sup. Ct. 1927). A young woman admitted to Syracuse University in 1923 was peremptorily dismissed three years later. The university made no statement of the grounds of dis- missal and gave the young wom- an no opportunity to answer any charges. Sherbrought action in the New York Supreme Court for a judgment directing the university to reinstate her. The court granted the order, noting that "no institution, by its own act, can endow itself with the power to impair, by indirec- tion, by innuendo, or by implica- tion, the reputation of an indi- vidual . . . (This is) an intoler- able and unconscionable situation, and the action of the university is arbitrary, unreasonable, and, in a high degree, contrary to a true conception of sound public policy." * * * - THIS DECISION was reversed on appeal by another judge, though, on the grounds that "the university need not accept as a student one desiring to become such. It may, therefore, limit the effect of such acceptance by ex- press agreement, and thus, retain the position of contractual free- dom in which it stood before the student's course was entered upon.,, The meaning of this is that ad- mission to a university does not by itself insure the stay of a stu- dent there. It follows that the right to continue getting an education is partly contingent upon the right to be admitted to get it. Court rulingslean at times to the position that education at a university is a privilege and lean at times to the position that it is a right. Just as the American economy is neither purely capi- talistic nor purely socialistic but instead mixed, so also do the judi- ciaries give us a mixed amalgam of the right and privilege of educa- tion. ASIDE from what court rulings furnish us, it is clear that attend- ance at a university is a privilege for two other reasons and a right for two other reasons. It is a privilege to the extent that standards of a c a d e m i c achievement must be set and met for a student to get into and stay at a university. It is also a privi- lege to the extent that the univer- sity experience can improve and better an individual. But education at a university is a right to the extent that a uni- versity is tax-supported and in this way responsible to all the citi- zens. And education is a right to the extent that it is necessary for the well-being of a democratic so- ciety and its self-governing in- dividuals . EVERY GOVERNMENT degen- erates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone, Thomas Jef- ferson noted. "The people them- selves are its only safe depositor- ies. And to render even them safe, Chairmina mild: h. a imnmvnoni i relied on for ameliorating the con- dition, promoting the virtue, and advancing the happiness of man." In this way the greatest formu- lator and founder of American democracy stressed the need of education in democracy's perpetu- ation. His position is valid. To see where democracy has failed is to look at the countries where the opportunity of higher education, if it existed, did not extend to all. To see where democracy has but little chance to succeed is to look at the backward and primitive countries of the world. EVEN IN AMERICA, the liberty motif of democracy takes on little meaning for those of limited schooling. This was shown by the 1960 Purdue University study of the attitudes of 10,000 high school students. More than one-third of them would abolish the right to circulate petitions. Some 37 per cent said they do not object to third degree police methods. Some 43 per cent either favor curbs on public speech or were undecided on this matter. The open society that America stands for and seeks to more per- fectly achieve (the, cold war not- withstanding) seems to mean little to citizens lacking a penetrating college education. Being an Amer- ican and the carrying out of the duties and responsibilities inher- ent in this, take on greater and clearer meaning when one has studied American and world his- tory, culture, economics, politics and literature. It is thus the duty of a univer- sity to give as many persons as possible a good education. And it is the responsibility of Americans to do as thorough a job as possi- ble in getting that education. AN INFORMED CITIZEN is not necessarily an educated citizen, and an educated citizen is not necessarily an informed citizen. But for the citizen who wants to be informed the resources are available: fine daily ' newspapers as the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor. And for the citizens who want to be edu- cated the resources are also avail- able: fine public universities as the University and Wayne State Univresity. Being both educated and in- formed is the first step toward being a good citizen. But to de- clare, as the University declares in its regulations, that attendance is only a privilege and not a right, is to negate the concept of the edu- cated citizen. For in denying him the exercise of this right a uni- versity denies him part of his citi- zenship and makes him less of an American. Other bad consequences can re- sult, too. A university can set forth the position (as this University sets forth the position) that "in order to safeguard its ideals of scholarship and character, the University reserves the right, and the student concedes to the Uni- versity the right, to require the withdrawal of any student at any time for any reason deemed suffi- cient to it." And this in turn can be expulsion or punishment or the denial of a degree without a trial, without hearing, without appeal, without any form of due process of law within a university-and this happens. * * * i ToTr11m TaXrVl.. owThT umf r y a n. , I I Ik f ALMOST as important for this work as her voice are her appear- ance and actions. She stands tall ana stately, her face is long and thin, her hairdo yesterday was just a touch of weird. She accom- panied the angularities of the song GLENN GOULD ... incognito, but.. . with head motions that provided a perfect visual accompaniment to the words and music. After an intermission the work was performed again, without the improvisations but with ballet added. The most effective section was the third,' a setting of a section from Kafka's diaries. Miss Martin, in addition to her singing, took a part in the dance, directing as it were the others, who portrayed a man, Kafka; one presumes, torn asunder by internal forces. It is obvious that the lovely soprano is not capable of the acrobatics of the dancers, and Grant Strate showed great skill in melding her stately movements with the airy fantasies of the rest. If this, indeed, as I surmised, comes from the shadow mind of young Glenn Gould, then give us more of it, for it was fine. -J. Philip Benkard AT THE CAMPUS: 'Adult 1-talian Drama'" SUMMER HAS RETURNED to Ann Arbor and with it, again, the double feature. This week's, at the Campus, involves two bantam- weights, Wee Gordie and Love is a Day's Work. "Wee Gordie," a Scotch love farce, is easily the more successful. Little boys have dreams like this movie. It concerns a ninety-pound-weakling who writes away to build muscles, becomes an Olympic champion, and wins his true love anyhow. The-film is very funny and the fantasy-corn is blended so subtly with the moments of really quite adequate drama that people in the audience kept forgetting and hissing the most delicate satire. NOW HISSING is a fine idea and shouldn't be discouraged, but a better idea would have been to save it for the film which followed. "Love is a Day's Work" is an Italian love farce, but it doesn't know it. (That wonderful telephone lady calls it an "adult I-talian drama"). It is part of the debris swept up on American shores by the New Wave. Following feebly in the tradition of "La Dolce Vita," it is a boring movie about boredom and how love is the only answer and so forth. This is not easy stuff to mess around with, and so we should accord it a couple of points for a spunky try. IT'S TRUE THAT THERE are those sex scenes which you saw last week in the preview, but, then, you already saw them in the preview; the mnvie itslf is filler The film is also full nf the rinrdof ri hliminna1 . i