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 ex press the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: GERALD STORCH State Tuition Hikes Point Way To End of Low-Cost Education --.. f l . \ , , " 7 a Z'. . .^" +_ . _ i _ \ _ '1-tip . - + ; tic _ \ Y , 1 \ y t r '. , ' - . ,, ., . ,,. , _ , f S, rr' f s r _ .. - _ - is '_ .a*, \ ^a . - - r , u+ +y3 3'. ' _ ' _ ' r t1 y TODAY AND TOMORROW: Tax Cut Needed Quickly By WALTER LIPPMANN W ILE THERE IS wide agreement that a tax cut is needed, there is an important difference of opinion on when it should be put into effect. The Administration's position is that a tax cut should be voted in the next session of Congress, if possible early in 1963.If this is done, the effects of the cut will not at best be felt until some ten months from now. There are others who think that it is imprudent to wait so long, that what the economy needs is the stimulation of additional demand Si j. AS EVERYONE KNEW it would, Michiganc State University's Board of Trustees lastf Thursday became the last of the 10 state- supported schools to raise student tuition. c In an attempt to bargain with the Legisla- ture and at the same time modestly increase1 their own revenues, the colleges have broughtc to a close the era of comparatively low-cost education. In doing so, all 10 institutions expressed deep regret, and they ought to express a lot more for the future. It is certain that university-Legislature re- lations are going to get a lot more strained. Student fees have been raised to the point where the law of diminishing returns starts to set in. Instate tuition at the University' was increased to $310 a year for juniors and seniors, a sum which most students can still well afford. BUT, in order to get another $1 million, the University would have to raise under- graduate fees by about $100 per student, which is not so easily done. Nothing less than a really substantial hike would suffice to bring in enough revenue to make any tuition boost worthwhile, yet such an increase would un- Confusion JUST SUPPOSE for a minute that you are an undergraduate woman enjoying your summer vacation, free from the worries of school, thinking of things other than the University. And right in the midst of your academic detachment comes a letter from the dean of women's office which snaps you back into the world of the University. The letter is an answer, in fact fulfillment, of your wildest dreams, for it states that " .. If you wish to cancel your (residence hall) contract because of the rate increase, you must notify us within 14 days of the date on which this letter was mailed. "If you plan to enroll for the fall semester and live outside of the residence halls in other housing which may be available to you, you will be required to reestablish your $50 Continuing Enrollment Deposit if the contract is cancelled more than 14 days after the date of this letter." NOW BEING a typical University residence hall resident, you are. relatively unskilled in the language of the office of the dean of women and don't catch all the clever nuances and phraseology of the note; you don't under- stand exactly what it means. But you think you might. It would appear to mean that you'll be free to leave the dormitory system. This doesn't sound terribly reasonable (obviously a lot of girls would leave), but little that the office of the dean of women does is really reason- able.. .. Certainly you qualify under the conditions of the letter, for the phrase "because of the rate increase" doesn't necessarily mean the monetary side of the problem-a lot of girls (including you) in your dorm were incensed that the University would raise its rates with- out notifying them earlier, and the moral aspect of the rate increase could be just what the office had in mind. THEN, the housing they refer to-the "other housing which may be available to you" doesn't connote to you the idea of University housing, but merely housing which you can get at this late date. So you make a few plans. Being, a typical coed, you also subscribe to the summer Daily. And about five days after you received your letter from the dean of women, there appears a little story which explains what the letter really meant. THE OFFICE of student affairs meant to say that if you have proven financial need-if you can show the $30 per year is really a strain on you (and there aren't too many of these cases)-you can leave the dorms. If you're a senior. And the "housing available to you" is the office's way of saying University-approved housing. Surprise, surprise. And if you're a junior or a sophomore and even if you can show that your family is pretty destitute and that they can't afford $15 more each semester, you can't leave the dorms for the big world outside. You can leave if you can find room in a University or ICC co-op or in a league house. But room there is pretty scarce and there is already a waiting list of women who want to move in. So you don't really qualify at all. BUT IT'S YOUR own fault. The office of the dean of women, the OSA, didn't intend to mislead you, and if you misinterpreted their clear message, you have no one to blame but yourself. So you dry your tears and tear up your lease and prepare for another year in the doubtedly be too much for Michigan parents and students to stomach. Next year out-of-state literary college stu- dents will pay $900 as freshmen and sopho- mores and $960 as juniors and seniors. This puts the University into a league with some of the better colleges in the East, and the most brilliant non-Michigan students may just decide they can go to as good or better a school than the University for about the same price. It is too early to tell whether the quality of out-of-state students will decline in years to come. But it is likely that administrators will think twice before raising non-resident fees at the 25 per cent clip they did last May. The relatively small increase gained by such a move would be more than offset by the edu- cational deterioration such a move might inflict. IN SHORT, the University will not be able in the forseeable future to fall back on raising student fees to make up the difference which should have been provided by the Legis- lature. Instead of getting part of the increase it needs from Lansing, then falling back on tuition to make up the rest, the University will have to depend almost entirely upon the ap- propriation for its operating revenue, Perhaps if the Senate is reapportioned, men with a more sympathetic view towards higher education and the financial needs of state institutions will dislodge the GOP old guard. Perhaps the Coordinating Council for Higher Education, which includes the presidents of the 10 colleges, will be able to create better under-' standing among Legislators of the problems facing the universities. These are only hopes, and slim ones at that.1 Unless the University chooses to accept thec disastrous consequences of boosting student fees again, it is going to have to rely ulti- mately upon the mercy of the legislators. t -GERALD STORCH Warning EGYPT'S FIRING of rockets Saturday should' serve as a stern warning to disarmament negotiators in Geneva that it is time to finish their task. The missiles, which Egyptian Presi- dent Nasser boasted could easily hit Israel, are the latest steps in an escalating arms race in the volatile and ever-passionate Middle 'East. Ever since the Palestine war of 1948, both the Arabs and the Israelis have been con- ducting an arms race that mirrors the greater one carried on between the United States and the Soviets. Both sides have strived for and gained the most modern weapons technology their economies would permit. The Israelis put a small dent in the Arab stockpile during the Sinai Campaign, but with Russian aid the losing Egyptians caught up. In recent years Israel has marched forward into highly advanced weapons systems. It is believed to all but have an atomic bomb and last year it fired its own rockets into the Mediterranean. The Arabs, especially Egypt, are now trying to catch up. Saturday, they partially succeeded. MISSILES and atomic weapons in the hands of parties to the world's most emotional feud presents a great danger to world peace. It creates the situation where the "irrespon- sibles," as the late Nevil Shute called them in "On the Beach," could touch off a world catastrophe by error or miscalculation. It is up to disarmament negotiators in Geneva to end this threat. They must come up with a formula that will deprive these nations of the weapons of ultimate destruction as well as the great powers. They cannot delay for the greater the proliferation of these weapons, the more complex it becomes to control them. The roar of the Egyptian rockets must serve as a spur to disarmament action. -P. SUTIN Good Allies TIME MAGAZINE, that cronicle of American life and morality, has long and loud told the horrors of Viet Nam, pointing out, ofttimes with full-color plates, the inhuman acts of the Viet Cong. This week the series on the war continued. Right on the spot, a Time correspondent dis- covered another dastardly Communist act-a tax imposed on the native population and, horror of horrors, the giving-out of Communist songbooks. This Time termed a "bitter, dirty guerrilla struggle." But, Time passed off as just a light little interlude, and one the Reds deserved, the fol- lowing episode: "AS THE HUNT for prisoners continued, the Rangers found two Viet Cong youths, 15 and 19 . . . the older boy was pinned to the ground and-as the Rangers call it-"taken LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Defends Usefulness of PhD's To the Editor: ROBERT SELWA has stated in his editorial of July 14 that PhD programs in universities need a re-examination. Not one to leave a captive Daily audience thirsting for facts, Mr. Selwa has kindly consented to provide such re- examination in the remaining twenty paragraphs of his article. Mr. Selwa is to be commended for his zeal, but his understand- ing of his topic seems to leave a little to be desired. There is a considerable segment of the read- ership population of The Daily that,due to its youth and newness to the university scene, most prob- ably has an incomplete and, through no fault of its own, a distorted view of the purpose of a PhD thesis. It is to these people that I wish to make a few com- ments. As credentials for my com- ments and as an excuse for poking a bit at some of the ideas of Mr, Selwa, I wish to state that I ac- quired possession of a PhD degree about a year ago, and have spent considerable time thinking about it ever since. * * * NATURE HAS CHANGED very little during the past few cen- tunes;dour understanding of na- ture, though, has increased by leaps and bounds during this period, as has also the number and complexities of civilized man's social institutions and works of art. This immense body of facts, hypotheses, ideas and works of art is certainly available for con- sumption by so-called "modern man," and one of the more ef- efficient ways of getting at this knowledge is through attendance at an institution called a univer- sity. But it is hardly possible-or at best extremely difficult - for a person toattend a university with the expectation of leaving after a few years as a "learned man" in its broadest sense. There is simply too much to know. Specialization in fields of knowledge is a neces- sary feature thrust upon us by the complexities of our times, and it is expected that it would be the rule, rather than the exception, that a person at least begin his academic career more as a spe- cialist than. as a Greek philoso- pher. Scientific reports (including PhD theses) are therefore neces- sarily specialized, and are usually written for experts in the field. Whether anyone likes it or not, this happens to be a fact of life, and an average intelligent lay per- son should not feel too bad if he does not understand the implica- tions of titles such as "The Sucker Creek-Trout Creek Miocene Floras of Southeastern Oregon," or "Self Stimulation and Escape Behavior in Response to stimulation of the Rat Amygdala," which fall into two distinctly different areas of study. NOT BEING an expert, or bet- ter a "worker" in a particular field of study, the lay person is frequently in no position to judge the worth of a particular report, nor does he know the nature of the audience intended by the author of such a report. (Judging by the title alone, I suspect that the author of the first PhD thesis mentioned above did not suppose his severest critic would be a Southeastern Oregon outdoorsman, as was assumed by Mr. Selwa.) There are other points in Mr. Selwa's article that need rebuttal, only one of which I shall men- tion. Mr. Selwa believes, erron- eously, that the worth of the time spent on a PhD dissertation lies completely in the value of the knowledge contained therein, and he completely neglects the effect of the experience of the research and dissertation work on the sharpening up of the researcher's wits to the ways of research in his chosen field. In closing (and with apologies to Mr. Selwa's closing statement) I wish to quote from an ancient Chinese philosopher: "It is better to understand a pinpoint of light first and only then expect to un- derstand the scene it illuminates, because the alternative does not work too well." -Robert B. Marcus Arabs us Israelis . . To the Editor: JN REFERENCE to the recent edi- torial "Middle East Must Seek Rapport" published in The Daily on July 19, the news that an Is- raeli-Jordanian border committee has been established seems to be of no great significance as such arrangements are provided for by the 1949 armistice agreements. Anyhow, I do not see how such a step can have all these "broad implications" referred to by the writer. To say that now Arab states "are not really bound to live up to the stand of the Arab League" and, therefore, "may go about making their peace with Israel," could only be regarded, at best, as wishful thinking if not a delib- erate distortion of the problem. The basic facts are that Zionists have illegally usurped Arab Pales- tine forcing a million of its right- /ful inhabitants to live as refugees rotting in tents and camps for fourteen years; and while com- plaining about access to Mt. Sco- pus they themselves illegally oc- cuply 21 per cent more land than what has been allotted to them by the United Nations resolution of 1947. NO MATTER what the situation inside the Arab League may be, there can be no hope for peace in the area until the problem is bas- ically solved and the Israeli au- thorities recognize Arab rights and abandon grand schemes of expan- sion and attacks for which they alone have been condemned 26 times, so far, by the UN. Surely the Arabs, like any other nation, have their differences of opinion among them, especially at a time when great decisions for the future are to be made. But too much hope should not be put on exploiting these differences for they are only on methods, not aims, and imply no laxity in the Arabs' common belief in their just rights in Palestine. Neither should Israelis any longer have comfort in their belief that big powers will continually unjustly side with them and put pressure on Jordan or any other Arab country for their sake, while they themselves have no regard for peace, for the powersare bound to realize sometime that their na- tional interests can no longer be subordinate to Israeli ambitions, and that their position in the fu- ture should be more compatible with their ideals of liberty and justice. -Mansour Hassan, Grad in the near future. This could be had by action in this session of Congress to cut by a few percent- age points the withholding from payrolls for taxes, as well as the instalment payments in September and January for incomes and cor- porations. Eighty per cent of per- sonal income tax is paid in the form of withheld wages and sal- aries. The economic effect of an income tax cut on income and spending would be felt by the be- ginning of the month after it was enacted. * * * THE ARGUMENT for waiting until next year rests on the idea that if taxes are cut before the tax structure is reformed (as pro- posed by the Administration,) Con- gress is likely to lost interest in tax reform. The Administration's current view is that for the long run tax reform is very important and that it should not be side- tracked by the popularity of a tax cut. On the contrary, the unpop- ular features of tax reform should be made more palatable by the tax cut. This may be a correct estimate of congressional psychology. The question is whether the prospects of the economy today do not re- quire a decision to stimulate and prolong the recovery and avert a recession. Tax reform may be more difficult if the recovery is pro- moted and sustained by a tax cut. But everything will be mor'e diffi- cult if the recovery is aborted be- fore it has been achieved. * * * THERE IS GROUND for think- ing that the underlying trend is not towards a full recovery.I my- self believe that this is the deter- mining cause of the bear market in stocks which has been in exist- ence since December. It is true that consumer buying is good, in- cluding automobiles and houses, but against this we find that in- ventories are being kept extreme- ly low, that while hours of work have been steady, unemployment remains high. Most disturbing and most sig- nificant is the fact that plans to purchase plants and equipment- which is the backbone of full em- ployment and a high rate of growth-are disappointingly small. * * * IT IS NO EXPLANATION of the situation to say that businessmen do not like Kennedy and the Dem- ocrats and the therefore afraid to invest. They did not like Truman in 1950 but they did invest. They liked and trusted Eisenhower in 1960 but they did not do anything to save the 1960 Eisenhower re- covery from being aborted. It is no accident that the Ken- nedy recovery of 1962 has become throttled down as the true budget of income and product accounts has been coming into balance. The truth is that the American econo- my, far from being inflationary, is in fact being pressed down by strong deflationary pressure. Many do not see this because they are confused by the administrative budget which does not tell the true story. In that budget there is a deficit. But in the really signifi- cant budget-the income accounts -there is 'a premature balance achieved before recovery has been completed. The reason why a tax cut is de- sirable is that it will relieve the deflationary pressure. * * * IT IS TO THE PROBLEM of our throttled recovery that. the Ad- ministration ought, I think, to ad- dress itself primarily. As for re- forms themselves, I must confess at once that I do not understand the proposals well enough yet to write aboutthem at all. I feel rea- sonably certain, however, that the controversial items are not big enough to be of such crucial im- portance that they must have first priority. The President's first priority is to get the economy moving. (c) 1962, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. NEW ORCHESTRA: Verve, Tempo AN UNUSUAL TREAT was af- forded us Sunday night when the University's self-organized Chamber Orchestra presented its first concert, featuring works of Corelli, Bach and Burnetti. Al- though scheduled to take place in the League's garden, an unfortu- nate cloudburst forced them to make rapid adjustments to the League's resonant but overcrowd- ed Concourse Lobby. The concert began with Corelli's pure and somber Concerto Grosso in F. Opus 6, Number 6, one in a group of eight "concerti da chie- sa" (of the church). Paul Suerken directed this work with ease and demonstrated a keen awareness of dynamics, instrumental sonority, and tempo, particularly in the last Allegro movement; yet failed to kindle the emotional spark so vi- tal to most of Corelli's concerti. * * * THIS, HOWEVER, was quickly remedied by the orchestra's per- formance of Bach's Suite in C ma- jor, Number 1, which seemed to ig- nite and enflame itself with emo- tion. Conducting this time was Samuel Schultz who displayed a new verve that rendered a slightly "pumped up" quality to the works in terms of dynamics and rhythm, but that gave a truly refreshing and vital air to the work as a whole. Outstanding in this per- formance was the Fifth Move- ment Minuet with its ineffably tender middle section for strings alone. Closing the concert, the group played-or I should say resurrect- ed-a symphony in F major by Gaetano Brunetti, a prodigy of Boccherino (who composed at the end of the 18th Century). The or- chestra read parts edited by Alice Brunz from a fascimile of the composer's manuscript. Although certainly a satisfactory transcrip- tion, the symphony made a rather haphazard impression. THIS WAS mainly due to the orchestra's lack at this point of the precision and musical fluency so common to the Corelli and Bach. The group's drive, which had pre- viously taken such flight, was now held "in neutral" most of the way. Only in the Ladghetto Amoroso was there a feeling of progression as the smattering of accents was built up to create a more solid form. Although by no means of mediocre caliber, the Brunetti Symphony could not match the standard set by the first two works and left one with the hope that new and better rehearsal attempts would be made to give us an even finer concert in the future. -Virginia Scheyer 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 Room 3564 Administration Building before 2 p.m., two days preceding publication. TUESDAY, JULY 24 General Notices seniors: College of L.S. & A., and Schools of Education, Music, Public Health, and Business Administration: Tentative lists of seniors for Aug. grad- uation have been posted on the bulle- tin board in the first floor lobby, Ad- mn Bldg. Any changes therefrom should be requested of the Recorder at Office of Registration and Records win- dow Number A, 1513 Admin. Bldg. 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