Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS The Frat with a Six-FootHousemother 4 Where Opinions Are Free. 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. Truth Will Prevail NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1965 NIGHT EDITOR: LEONARD PRATT Freedom of Speech: 'U' Takes Close Shave LAST YEAR Berkeley students protest- did they discover that it had in fact been ing the limitations on free speech im- illegally posted. The paramount question posed by the administration there shook here is: Why did the administrators con- the foundations of the U.S. academic fer during the time they thought the sign community. Yesterday around noon, Uni- was legally posted? versity officials were seriously consider- The issue was not one of "bad" lan- ing taking down a student sign in the guage. The point of the poster was made Fishbowl because it was "offensive." in conventional English. Therefore it is The sign claimed that American sol- obvious that the allegations of the poster diers were committing war crimes in Viet and the arrow pointing to the recruiting Nam. To substantiate that claim, the sign desk were the causes of conference on quoted from the. Nuremberg trials as to the sign. the nature of war crimes. A red arrow pointed at an armed forces recruiting NOW THE QUESTION is to what ex- desk which was situated nearby in the tent did those "offensive" aspects of Fishbowl. the sign warrant considering taking it Some faculty members complained down? If a similar sign were put up when about the sign and a few even threatened the recruiters were not here there cer- to tear them down if the administration tainly would not have been any official did not do so. reaction on the part of the administra- Crowds milled about the sign in the tion. Crows mlledabot th sin inthe Therefore it was the presence of the Fishbowl and Ann Arbor police, who were Trerei asthe resneoftge called to the scene by officials in the Of- and the arrow pointing at flee of Student Affairs, were busily tak- them which made the political message of the sign "offensive" enough to war- ing pictures of various students until J. oft sign "ensive"mnoughato war- Duncean Sells of the OSA asked them to rant a high level administrative confer- sts h Ahm ence yesterday and although it would not have resulted in official reaction a week MEANWHILE, the administration rolled ago. Now the question is why administrators into action. A conference of top level were thinking of redefining the limita- University officials including Vice-Presi- tuhecase dent for Student Affairs Richard Cutler, oons put on student free speech beause Vice-President for Acadamic Affairs Allano Smith, Dean William Haber of the literarySHOULD WE BE GRANTED freedom of college, and Associate Dean William Hays sOULDtWeU erNTEDofreeomof of the literary college convened at 11 speech at the University only so long in the miorning and lasted in some form as no one is deeply offended? Should speech be free when the issues until the late afternoon. and comments are innocuous and censor- The administrators conferred from 11 ed when our comments are piercing on until early afternoon on the assumption important issues? that the sign was legal. Only after that Should the attitudes of the military and politicians define our freedom of *r [* {t "expression? "Wherenopinions are free, truth will prevail." If the army or offended pro- Editoal Staf fessors think the sign in the Fishbowl ROBERTr JOHNSTON, Editor is incorrect they should have pointed out LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM JEFFREY GOODMAN Managing Editor Editorial Director why and not tried to get signs torn down. JUDITH FIELDS .................. Personnel Director torn down. LAUREN BAHR..........,Associate Managing Editor JUDITH WARREN .......Assistant Managing Editor When people called up administrators ROBERT HIPPLER .......Associate Editorial Director to complain about the sign, the response GAIL BLUMBERG..........Magazine Editor t opanaottesgtersos LLOYD GRAFF.............Acting Sports Editor from officials sholud have immediately NIGHT EDITORS: Susan Collins, John Meredith, Leonard Pratt, Peter Sarasohn, Bruce Wasserstein. been, "Sorry but the University does not DAY EDITORS: Robert Carney, Clarence Fanto, Mark limit the student's freedom of political Killingsworth, Robert Moore, Marvey Wasserman, Dick Wingfield. Sec. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Alice Bloch, Mere- dith Eiker, Merle Jacob, Carole Kaplan, Robert Klivans, Lynn Metzger, Roger Rapoport, Neil Shis- EVENTUALLY the University officials ter, Katherine Teich, Joyce Winslow, Charlotte took a'courageous stand by letting the Wolter.tokaorgossadbletnth students keep the sign up even though it CY WELLMAN, Business Manager was illegal and there was considerable ALAN GLUECKMAN ............Advertising Manager pressure to take it down. JOYCE FEINBERG................,Finance Manager But between 11 yesterday and the SUSAN CRAWFORD . Associate Business Manager MANAGERS: Harry Bloch, Bruce Hillman, Jeffrey early afternoon, the University, to para- Leed, Gal Levin, Susan Perlstadt, Vic Ptaznik, phrase one administrator, nearly became Liz Rhein, Jean Rothbaum, Jill Tozer.PY Subscription rates: $4.50 semester by carrier ($5 by another Berkeley. mail) $8 yearly by earner ($9 by mail). Scond class postage pad at Ann Arbor. Micb.r-BRUCE WASSERSTEIN Published daily Tuesday through Sunday morning. -BRUCE WASRTI ~- ~ , ll L .r4 a .- =O ~\ %#q~7 Y' i t s. r4g 4 j "r 4' " Vt r( s.Et , A j' 'rn~y " dr t vy>~d1tit 4 ' y By ROGER RAPOPORT WHAT FOLLOWS is a true story. A freshman who had just completed his first night's rushing called The Daily one night this week. He wanted to know if there was a Phi Upsilon Kappa fraternity. A quick check in the student directory revealed that there is no Phi UpsilontKappa fraternity at the University. The freshman seemed somewhat dumbfounded and proceeded to tell the following story. HE HAD BEEN walking down Hill St. on his way to visit several fraternities when a car screeched to a halt, the door sprang open and a boy leaped out. "Hey, you haven't seen anything until you've seen the most pro- gressive fraternity, Phi Upsilon Kappa. Come on with us," the boy said. The freshman went along for the ride. The driver proceded to turn off his headlights, and sped around the corner and down Washtenaw. The car pulled into the drive- way of a small house right in the midst of fraternity row. THE FRESHMAN reported be- ing somewhat amazed at the couples jerking on the porch of the house and the party going on inside. He walked in to find a large group of guys clad in such varying attire as football uni- forms, track suits, athletic sup- porters, and pajamas. One boy was drinking beer out of an athletic trophy. A huge fire was roaring in the fireplace. At the time a motor scooter tire was burning. The freshman was quickly in- troduced to the housemother-"A 6 ft. tall woman with long red hair who immediately threw her arms around me and kissed me." Then he was shown around the house . . . toilet paper strewn about, the mattresses in the bed- rooms overturned, the kitchen a complete shambles. One of the boys guiding him around pointed to a small sterno stove and remarked, "Here's where we cook our meals for 70 guys." The freshman said that when he shook hands with one boy he ended up with a handful of raw hamburger. HE WAS THEN shown a pic- ture of the new fraternity house that was about to be built. The picture showed an ultra- modern structure located on a lot next to Burton tower. "It will have 60 individual rooms, a swim- ming pool, tennis courts and solarium," explained one boy. "It was designed by a very famous Japanese architect named Yamaha," another boy told the freshman. About this time one of the boys came over to the freshman and said, "You know I think the guys around here kind of like you, let's go downstairs." The freshman was taken down to a pitch-black basement where he could barely make out the formns of a group of boys. "Alright you guys," said the boy, "How many of you here want this guy in Phi Upsilon Kappa." Not a sound was heard. "How many of you don't want him?" A tumult arose. Suddenly he turned to the freshman and said, "Congratula- tions,. you are in." THE FRESHMAN was mobbed by the other boys in the room. Then he was given a sweatshirt with Phi Upsilon written on it in lipstick. Then the freshman went up- stairs where by this time a guitar case was burning in the fireplace. He was handed an invitation to come back. "Don't open this until you leave," one of the boys coun- seled him. The freshman walked outside leaving the huge party behind. He opened the note which read, "We love you." Later in the evening a Univer- sity administrator stopped by to call a halt to the event. STILL LATER, an Interfrater- nity Council officer appealed to the better judgment of the boys staging the hoax. It was indicated later that none of the boys staging the hoax were actually fraternity members. "I indicated to them that this was not exemplary of the frater- nity system," explained the IFC officer. The boys cooperated. The IFC officer believes that the less publicity about the Phi Upsilon Kappa hoax the better. "This doesn't help boost the fraternity system," he explained. Nonsense. The boys who staged the Phi Upsilon Kappa rush should be credited for finally painting a true picture of fra- ternity life. Let's hope the University's real fraternities follow the Phi Upsilon Kappa tradition and start run- ning honest rushes too. 4 The Philosopher Who Forgot To Think By PETER R. SARASOHN NOT ENOUGH people today think-I mean really think. Oh there are some that like to believe they think but they really don't, believe me. I know a "thinker." We met when we were neighbors in West Quadrangle.rPrimarily, he was a philosopher-that is he philoso- phized a great deal. For instance, what used to bug me was that when ever I had 50 derivations, a 1000 word English paper or five chemistry experi- ments to write up for the follow- ing day, he would invariably barge in with the usual "Do you actually believe there is a God?" or "Can you prove you exist?" or "Are you absolutely positive that two plus two equals four?" and other thought-provoking questions. As freshmen we concentrated our rhetorical efforts on sex, poli- tics and religion. As sophomores we concentrated on sex and poli- tics. As juniors and seniors we had finally realized the truly im- portant thing in life-sex. And we concentrated and concentrated on it. What is man coming to, you ask? Nothing, I answer, that he is not now and hasn't been in the past. BUT ONWARD. My friend was a philosopher. I was just a fresh- man, but we remained friends through the year and for our suc- ceeding years at the University. He was also an atheist-and a most devout one at that. Before com- ing to the University he had visit- ed many different churches and talked with many priests, minis- ters and rabbis-and even a couple of monks and nuns. They had all damned him to the best of their ability after speaking with him. After he died, they assured him, he would go directly to the inferno of Hell. Since he didn't believe any of this he naturally wasn't too upset at the news. He was a true atheist, trying to convince everyone that God didn't exist anywhere. Some of the re- ligious fanatics (those that went to church each Sunday after the first semester) got very upset. Then it happened. I saw him one day the next year looking very sad. It seemed that he had just proved God did actually exist and he did not enjoy it one bit. His misery, however, was short- lived. The following year he was back in his usual form. He finally had been able to reprove that God actually didn't exist. He was happy again. Then it really happened. He switched his major to Chinese pottery. I was, needless to say, quite shocked. Then I heard the reason why. He had proved that you can't prove whether or not God exists, and he felt his whole life was shattered. A brilliant mind washed down the drain-or into a Chinese pot. What a loss to humanity! TODAY a common phrase is "we live in a complex world." There are too many who accept this and use it as an excuse to ignore the vital intellectual responsibility of being a University student. In other words, they take the in- tellect out of education. The intellect, I should say, is an amorphous glop that gives us the power to question-to ques- tion our English professors, our resident advisors, the policies of our government or university, our mothers-and most important, ourselves, instead of blindly ac- cepting what they say. This is a tremendous respon- sibility and many hide from it. They run to their off-campus apartments and hide behinid the pseudo-responsibilities of cooking the dinner or cleaning the bath- room floor. THEY LACK the guts to identify with any ideology (using the term loosely) for this would mean they might have to defend themselves sometimes. Furthermore, they then condemn flatly anyone who does align himself with a group professing some ideology, calling him a beatnick or frat-rat. Political groups at the Univer- sity provide the student with a ready forum for ideas. To a dif- ferent extent, the fraternity sys- tem allows the student to act within a defined set of ethics. No matter how undefined this code is, it is still apparent enough to be able to characterize some as "fraternity" and some as def- initely not. The University is certainly not entirely composed of "the silent generation." The new movement away from silence to involvement is small but growing and perhaps will continue to the point when the word apathy will be struck from the "handbook of collegiate terms." }V Viet Nam: Politicians Must Think the 'Unthinkable' 4' By WALTER LIPPMANN NOT VERY long ago our atten- tion would have been centered on the news of General Charles de Gaulle's press conference last Thursday, the German elections next Sunday, the coming British financial measures. We can now see that, as com- pared with the spreading con- vulsion in Asia, the problems of Europe are manageable, quite thinkable, within the realm of give and take. In Asia, on the other hand, the margin of safety is very thin, there is not even the beginning of a meeting of minds, and a catas- trophe is possible. OUR RELATIVELY secure Western world extends from Aus- tralia and New Zealand through the Americas to the limits of European Russia. Beyond these limits on both sides are the erupt- ing masses of Asia which may threaten Australia and do in the long run challenge Soviet Siberia. The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of coexistence. To- day we do not have even the rudi- ments or an understanding by which Europeans and Americans, Russians and Chinese, Indians and Pakistanis, would be willing to live and let live. But at least we are in a position to realize that there is no mortal conflict within the Western world. BUT BEHIND this argument in Western continental Europe there is a larger agreement on and pros- pect of a greater European com- munity extending from Paris and London and Bonn and Rome to Warsaw and Moscow, within which the partition of Germany can eventually be resolved. In this perspective, the outcome of the German elections is not likely to raise decisive issues. The difference between the Christian Democrats, who are ceasing to be intransigent cold warriors, and the Social Democrats, who have ceased to be Marxists, is not of much political importance. Nor is the problem of the revision of NATO in the light of the developments since it was founded nearly 20 years ago. There is no reason to doubt that the Western alliance will survive, and that it will survive in a form which is acceptable to France. For France is the geographic key to Western defense. IT IS IMPORTANT, I think, to play down the differences in the Western world-including our dif- ferences with the Soviet Union- because of the transcendent im- portance and danger of Asian- Western relations. No one of us, I think, h'as as yet been able to comprehend how much the relations have changed in the 25 years since World War II. Virtually the whole structure of power, as it existed in 1940, has been destroyed, and there is as yet no new equilibrium of power to replace it. Our Vietnamese war is a result of an attempt to find a basis of order in Southeast Asia to replace the French imperial system. The horrendous Pakistan-India war marks the crumbling of what the British were able to leave behind them in the subcontinent. The dissolution of Malaysia is still an- other case of the breakdown of a replacement for the old imperial system. IT MUST BE evident now that the United States cannot alone, with its own resources and its own stock of intelligence and wis- dom, provide a replacement for the old system of law and order which has collapsed. The dom- inos are falling. We are obviously not the policeman of mankind. The size and complexity and in- scrutability of the problems of Asia are great, and they will tempt us to look for some simple "sur- gical" remedy. There is no such simple remedy. For we are confronted with what is almost certainly the greatest human upheaval in the history of mankind. We shall have to think out a new order of human relationship between the Asian world and the Western world, and that will com-. Pei us to think about a lot of things which politicians generally today regard as unthinkable. (c)1965, The Washington Post Co. "I Say The U.S. And Russia Are On A Collusion Course I" Ie The Collector'--Overrated or Unfairly Criticized? To the Editor: A Pox upon Michael Juliar for having adopted the philosophy of the freshman film reviewer, i.e. that strong criticism is a suit- able substitute'for good criticism. Although "The Collector" does not live up to the flood of praise which its distributors have show- ered upon us (as few productions ever do) it is still a very good film, and not worthy of Mr. Juliar's omniscient wrath. We must recognize from the be- ginning that the theme of "The Collector" is a difficult one. In less competent hands than those of William Wyler, or with a small- er reserve of talent than the lead- ing combination of Samantha Eggar and Terence Stamp, the film would have been a farce. The vast majority of the people who see it, however, will agree that it is interesting, meaningful, and highly entertaining. IF SOME of "The Collector's" ever well put together, is some- thing else again. -William Clark, '68 Lack of Taste? To the Editor: HASN'T ANYONE lately picked up a copy of the current Lit School Announcement and im- mediately felt that somehow there was a complete lack of the proper dignity and taste on the cover? I realize that "a book can't be told by its cover," but I also know that a substantial amount of time and effort is devoted to designing an impressive frontispiece. When a prospective student looks at the catalogue of the oldest and largest unit in the dis- tinguished University of Michigan, he first expects to be hit with a similarly distinguished cover. BUT UNFORTUNATELY (with no malice toward him), our young mn . ttnl .. hY~ nn---^. - Scholarships? To the Editor: E. HILDEBRANTS sugges- tion for $1000 scholarships certainly shows imagination. Hil- debrant said in a recent letter that "you personally can sup- port a $1000 scholarship for only two dollars a year. Carry a few pennies in your pocket, and when you see an expired meter, drop one in. If luck is with you, each penny will prevent a ticket from being issued, and thus have the effect of a five dollar con- tribution to someone's education. Two hundred pennies will be equivalent to a $1000 donation.- Before we all rush to the bank for our supply of 200 pennies, let us reflect on the case of one who did as Mr. Hildebrant suggests. I CAN'T RECALL the details, but last year a letter appeared in The Daily describing the sad fate of those who would help their fellow citizens in Ann Arbor. The writer of this letter de- posited an appropriate coin in an expired meter. only to find him- self confronted shortly thereafter by two of Ann Arbor's finest, who informed him that his charitable act forced them to regretfully place him under arrest. The charge: plugging a meter! The surprised Samaritan was then transported by the helpful men in blue to a place of justice, where he was offered the alterna- tive of a fine. He chose the fine, which, I be- lieve, amounted to $20 or $30. If memory serves, he then returned to society with the dubious dis- tinction of being able to tell all his friends that he was now a convicted felon. THEREFORE, lest we become a campus of meter pluggers, let us all give further thought to Mr. Hildebrant's suggestion, with the aim of neutralizing this con- flict between brotherhood and justice, so that rather than merely shifting the financial need brought on by the demands of justice onto other shoulders, we can indeed finally crack the parking ticket barrier. -Fred K. Herr, '66 Schutze 's Corner: The Chief - - . . - -- - - --l- -- - -- - --- -I ------- a-- --- - -- _ -r A ---- f- -.-- U 1, ; -4- --A U..I-