0 4k Mir14Jgan Daily .F Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Where Opinions Are Free, 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN AP.BOR, MICH. NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 TruthWillPrevail Editorials prited in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14,1965 NIGHT EDITOR: LAUREN BAHR Nature of the 'Then and Now Honors Council Report: Beginning of Progress THE FIRST HONORS newsletter of the semester, which Honors students will be receiving shortly, contains some hope- ful signs of long-needed change in the Honors program. The program suffers from many faults, but the most important are the stand- ards used in selecting students for it: primarily College Board scores and high school grades. The Honors Council has relied on these standards, evidently, be- cause it believes the student with great ability to absorb knowledge is the sort of student who should be in the program. But this is not enough. The program should instead endeavor to find the student who can not only absorb knowledge, but use it, both in and out of the classroom. Finding this sort of student is difficult, but-with Fricke scores, interviews, essay-applications, the student's extracurricular activities, let- ters of recommendation and other such subjective criteria-it is not impossible. For the present, the program's solely numerical standards seem to suggest, by analogy, that the best steaks come from the heaviest cows. Indeed, since Honors officials have found only the correlation between Honors students' SAT scores and their performance in the program is min- imal, perhaps these standards do not even adequately indicate the capacity to ab- sorb knowledge. IN VIEW OF ALL THIS, it is encourag- ing to learn from the Honors steering committee newsletter that the commit- tee intends to set up a special board of freshmen to try "to develop more varied and sensitive criteria for admission." This group should begin a thorough review of the present selections criteria, and it should urge a thorough reform. Given its present selections standards, perhaps there are only a few students presently in the program who can both acquire and use knowledge. Narrowing the membership of the program to these stu- dents would, of course, help solve that much-feared problem of the rising teach- er-student ratio. On the other hand, however, the more true "Honors" students the program has, the better it will be, for learning is inter- action as well as action. The October Honors newsletter, encouragingly, indi- cates the steering committee will encour- age its freshman board to work hard on recruiting high school seniors of Honors caliber. But in addition to having an adequate number of well-selected students, the program must be a program. Depart- ment heads have sometimes frustrated the program by refusing to make badly- needed changes in personnel teaching Honors courses in their area. Too many honors sections in regular courses are different from non-honors sections sole- ly because more reading is required. The special College Honors courses are usual- ly exciting and outstanding-but, due to distribution requirements, many Honors students are unable to take more than a few. HERE, TOO, the newsletter indicates that the full steering committee will have as its long-range goal "to design and get established interdepartmental majors in broad fields like 'humanities' and 'social sciences'." This is an encour- aging first step towards what should fin- ally be an entire Honors curriculum. Selection, recruitment and curriculum are the interrelated and crucial compon- ents of a meaningful Honors program. The Honors steering committee's efforts in that direction are significant and heartening, and they should be contin- ued and expanded. -MARK R. KILLINGSWORTH EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the text of a speech given Sept. 24 at the 7th anniversary ban- quet of The Daily. The author is an assistant professor of engineer- ing English and assistant director of the Phoenix Project. By LEONARD GREENBAUM Editorial Director, 1951-52 WE ALL BEGIN the same way -"When I was asked to speak at tonight's dinner-." I was told to reminisce about the Fifties and to take a full ten minutes. My reaction was, why not? Maybe in these days of microsecond fatal- ism, ten minutes is an extrava- gance. I thought of shouting catch- words at you. Korean War, Red China, Klaus Fuchs, MacArthur, McCarthy, H-bombs, Mau-Mau, Nasser, Castro, Faubus, ICBM, Sputnik, Stevenson, Eisenhower, De Gaulle, Suez, Little Rock, Mount Everest, Budapest, Truman, the Rosenbergs, Caryl Chessman, Ho Chi Minh, Camus. I could keep this up for ten minutes and it might make some sense, maybe even a great deal of sense. And then I read in The Ann Arbor News and in The Michigan Daily an announcement for this dinner, and it said that I was going to speak for the Post-War Generation, and all I could think of was Post-What-War? Who was playing with what words? When was there even an After? That's one thought. As they say in com- puter land-store it! Another thought is that I did graduate in 1952 for the first time. I came here, downy cheeked, in 1948 when the last of the hoary veterans from World War II still lived in the dormitories. When I arived on campus there were some fairly pusy organizations active on the Diag. Gradually as the vets graduated, these organizations merged with the Burns Park P.T.O. or the Methodist Church Young Family Circle, leaving be- hind only some shadowy groups- the best of which was the Com- mittee to End Discrimination, CED naturally, which took on the Med- ical School for its hypocratic practices vis-a-vis application forms and admissions, and I think, though I am not sure, won. Otherwise, there were the Young Progressives, left over from Henry Wallace, and the Young Marxists, left over from Russian War Relief. There were a few people living in the real co-ops (as distinguished from today's institutional co-ops like Oxford Housing) who were in- terested in some wider circle of events than was described by the University's General Announce- ment, and there was The Michigan Daily and its staff, including me. NOW, most of these people, like most of you, left Ann Arbor. I stayed, not continuously-that is, I went out to Berkeley, but found it socially dull and academically tough, and I went to Boston to work for a living and discovered that it's no pleasure making lots of money doing something you don't like, that the real trick is to make lots of money doing some- thing you do like-but basically I stayed here from 1948 till 1965, and it's from this vantage point that. I wish to speak tonight, to do as I was asked, to reminisce and to talk about change. I want to categorize that time. I believe that I belonged to a group back in 1952 that had no organ- ized causes to join. We couldn't go South to Selma, and if we could, we probably wouldn't have. With few exceptions, we were basically insensistive to the prob- lems of being white inra multi- colored world. The color scheme in this room is not an accident, nor is it a tribute. We couldn't wage war on pov- erty because Harrington had not yet discovered poverty, nor had affluence become so pervasive. There was no Peace Corps to take up to Guatemala, the Philippines or Ghana. There was Henry Luce, and some people joined him. Otherwise, the choices were work, go back to college and not under the auspices of NSF or NIH or the AEC, or be drafted, or enlist in the service of your choice. A number of Daily staffers en- listed in, of all things, the CIA or the ASA or CID or some such agency that had as its operative word "intelligence." Cloak and dagger stories began drifting back to Ann Arbor-of former Daily staffer so-and-so who turned up in West Berlin on a CIA mission, exchanged briefcases with the Of Gall And Hall THOUGH DAILY SENIORS style themselves Buddhas To Donald Hall they are naught but vultures. He knows that the are crass intruders Who question the need for arts and culture. It matters not how much the wrong man and brought back a stale salami sandwich-or Daily staffer whozeewhatsis who was last heard of as an Army Lieu- tenant in Washington, was then seen as a Marine Captain in To- kyo, and subsequently as a Navy Ensign in London. Security stunk. IN PART, these Daily people ended up in Army language schools or counterspy groups as a reason- able alternative to weighing chick- ens in Mississippi or patrolling the waters off Formosa. But in part, they were there because there was little focus to our lives. And what there was, was not directed toward action but toward verbali- zation. That our greatest hero during the Fifties was Adlai Ste- venson was not an accident. There was a funny sociological study done of the Daily staff in 1952. My wife, who at the time was not yet my wife, and I did the study for a sociology course, the contents of which I could in no way comprehend. We persuad- ed all the staff members to sub- mit to intelligence tests and per- sonality tests, and then we spent Christmas vacation doing chi squares to see whether the edit staff liked soft-boiled eggs sig- nificantly more than the sports staff liked soft-boiled eggs (they did) or to discover which staff showed a marked preference for making deposits (it was, naturally, the business staff) and things of that sort. When the professor published the results in the Journal of Pub- lic Opinion some four years later, relegating my poor wife (by that time she was my wife and she was poor) and I to a footnote and teaching me something about the respectability of professional pub- lication that even my own profes- sional publications have not dis- pelled, there were . quotes, of course, from Erik Erikson's Child- hood and Society and there were also, of course, remarks about the psychoanalytic theories of anal expulsiveness, phallic character and oral dependency - which ought to tell you something about why we're all really here this weekend, from a psychoanalytic point of view that is-but there were also some telling points about The Michigan Daily in 1952, which I think were also true for the several years prior to 1952 with which I was familiar and for the most of the years after 1952- until in the Sixties there was suddenly a significant change that you didn't need chi squares to tell you about. I'LL PARAPHRASE some of the conclusions from that professional publication. The Daily staffer (editorial, that is), instead of re- treating from the world so it cannot touch him attempts to direct the world away from inter- fering with his desires. The Daily staffer wants a pub- lic validation of his competence, independence, and virility. And yet, he avoids face to face con- tact with his audience. He avoids the approving roar, and he avoids the catcalls of rejection. The Daily staffers are sensitive people. Be- hind the writing desk, they nurse their rejections in private and gather strength to try again. End of paraphrase. It's not as nice a picture as it might seem. It reminds me most of all of spectator sports-only the game is real, and it's called civil rights or poverty or Viet Nam. It's a game we-learned to watch in 1952. We commented about it, quite proud of our anger, but we really didn't play. WHEN IN 1950 Haven Hall burned down and a teaching fel- low named Stacey went to Jack- son where he taught the classics for many years, I remember that there were staff members who thought he was innocent, and if not innocent, certainly not prov- en guilty. And so somebody wrote about a miscarriage of justice and that was that. And when in 1952 the Univer- sity Lecture Committee acquired a nervous habit of banning speak- ers, we published front page edi- torials on freedom of speech and the rights of students and even sent a reporter, the son-of-a- regent, to cover a dinner in the Union where one of the banned speakers, a man named McPhaul, was going to test the ban, but we ourselves never considered testing it or even opposing the subsequent inquiry. I have been in the President's Conference Room in the Admin- istration Building many times but the first time was when I was summoned as a student to tell what little I knew about Mc- Phaul's supper. When I was inter- viewed for my current academic position, the Chairman of the De- partment reminded me of some- thing I had forgotten, that he had been secretary and spokesman for the Lecture Committee in 1952. It was actually a common bond between us-the editorials I had written calling him some sort of ratfink-and why not? The Daily opposition had been merely verb- alization. WHEN President Hatcher, in, 1952, his first year of office, ve- toed a motion passed by the Stu- dent Legislature and the Student Affairs Committee that would have given fraternities and sorori- ties six years to get rid of their bias clauses, we were again angry and full of trenchant wit, but we weren't about to do more. That was for others. We were the social commenta- tors, others could be the social movers. I don't mean to imply that there was something wrong with us, because we were still ahead of most of our contem- poraries. You see, there weren't "the others." You have to remem- ber that that was the 1950's- there was a flavor peculiar to those years and to the University. After all, ours was not the year of the Teach-In, it was the year of the first Collegiate Panty Raid. Back then the University still had the Union Opera with its overtones of good clean transves- tite-ism. The Michigan Union still had its steam bath, which, ad- mittedly, took a certain amount of guts. We had the Arts Theatre Club in a loft above Metzgers which gave Ann Arbor the best theatre we've ever had, and gave it to us without subsidy-for love. The Daily had a woman's page and Deborah Bacon was the Dean of Women. The Romance Lan- guage Building housed the Mid- west's largest collection of pigeons and bats, and a group of students made a film called Metamorphosis about a man who turned into a bug. In short, there was some- thing sort of bovine and com- fortable about Michigan. It had enthusiasm and creativity. Yet it was always genteel-it was sort of like, as if, Edna Ferber and Henry James had made out together. AND THEN, all of a sudden, it- was Norman Mailer Time! With a new set of good and a new set of bad. Suddenly no one knew the third stanza of "The Yellow and Blue," and no one else cared. You didn't have to struggle to be wick- ed, the realtors were building bor- dellos as fast as they could get building permits.uShoes went out of style, razor cuts came in. There were a few people who still talked to freshmen about the Big University Family, but they were like an appendix-no one needed them and when they got to be a real pain, you could just cut them out. The student body changed, the faculty began to change, some department chair- men changed, some administrators changed. We became, on the one hand, horribly commercial-the biggest vocational training school in Mich- igan, highly skilled, of course. And on the other hand, we started to be unsatisfied with mere verbali- zation. There was a new desire for direct talk and direct action, of living where one's mouth was. The two, commercialization and activism go together because they are both part of a natural change of The University of Michigan from what tradition has always had it, to what it is essentially becoming-a suburbanly situated City College. The change affected The Daily, and the best example of this change that I know of was the next speaker, Tom Hayden, whose Michigan Daily was the best Mich- igan Daily I ever read. It was tough, it was logical, and I think its staff was interested in follow- ing their own advice, certanly Tom Hayden was. THE CHANGES have affect I others as well-the sheer numbe rs of students are enormous, te noise levels are high, the behavior patterns are loose. When Albee's play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," came here two years ago, after shocking, after titillating New York, the reaction of many of us, realists all, was, "So what? Know a dozen couples just like them, and then some." Even the the geography is changing to suit the new style. Some people are over-responsive to all this. Out of fear or distaste, they write immodest proposals about who is or is not in residence. They call the police to see if a discount book store distributing pamphlets is violating a city or- dinance. They call the FBI to see if students colliecting money for, of all insanities, the National Lib- eration Front, fall onto some sub- versive list. These people introduce into what is already an unstable situa- tion the potential that Newton first stated in his third law of higher education-to every action there is - an equal and opposite reaction. What I'm trying to say is that the old University of Michigan that most of you (and I) went to doesn't really exist any more, ex- cept maybe on Saturday after- noons in the fall. In its place is a vibrant and exciting school that resembles most a sprawling city, in that its problems are urban problems-transportation, housing, discrimination, mixed populations with vastly different values, even? birth control is a problem-and, of course, it has an involvement in the social and political issues of the society at-large, and for "at-large" read "the world." It is due, I think, to all the catchwords from the Fifties, and before, and since, acting as so many cattle prods on so many people so eager to march. I am not sure that whether you and I march with them or not, or whether you and I introduce some of the old spectator habits into their mfdsts, will make much dif- ference. The only certainty I have is that the forces acting upon the University will neither allow it to stay at rest nor move in a straight line-and if you align yourself with the University, then the forces act upon you too. 4 Helping Our Southern Minority Office of Academic Affairs: Misplaced Computerization' [F THE UNIVERSITY can be said to have a single underlying problem, it's that all its automation is in the wrong place. On the one hand, mechanistic tech- niques abound in the teaching of several undergraduate liberal arts courses. Poli- tical Science 100, Psychology 100 and History 321, to name but a few, employ multiple-choice, "computerized" finals. Though this sort of mechanistic approach need not necessarily lead to similarly dehumanized teaching, in practice it oft- en has "computerized" the whole course. On the other hand, there are no com- puters where one would like to find them, in the administration. The Office of Reg- istration and Records, the admissions of- fice and the Office of Student Affairs are still relying on traditional "hand labor" techniques to keep their books and file their records, techniques which should have gone out with the baby boom. [N BOTH CASES, of course, the decision- makers are taking the path of least resistance. It's difficult to make up and Editorial Staff ROBERT JOHNSTON, Editor LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM JEFFREY GOODMAN Managing Editor Editorial Director JUDITH FIELDS.................. Personnel Director LAUREN BAHR.......... Associate Managing Editor JUDITH WARREN. Assistant Managing Editor ROBERT HIPPLER ......Associate Editorial Director GAIL BLUMBERG............... Magazine Editor LLOYD GRAFF............... Acting Sports Editor NIGHT EDITORS: Susan Collins, John Meredith, Leonard^Pratt, Peter Sarasohn, Bruce Wasserstein. DAY EDITORS: Robert Carney, Clarence Fanto, Mark Killingsworth, Harvey wasserman, Dick wingfield. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Alice Bloch, Mere- dith Eiker, Merle Jacob, Carole Kaplan, Robert Klivans, Roger Rapoport, Neil Shister, Katherine Teich, Joyce Winslow, Charlotte Wolter. SPORTS NIGHT EDITORS: Rick Feferman. Jim La- Sovage, Bob McFarland, Gil Samberg, Dale Sielaff, Rick Stern, Jim Tindall, Chuck vetzner. Business Staff CY WELLMAN, Business Manager ALAN GLUECKMAN.............Advertising Manager JOYCE FEINBERG ................Finance Manager * TCI W 4 ' fltX fA ...a 4.a fl,,ennce., . anager to correct an examination on which stu- dents can express their creative intelli- gence and it's difficult to sit down and think about where the University ought to be going and what the best way to get there is. And, after all, if either were done, we might wind up firing some peo- ple. The real tragedy is that, though com- puters are neither bad nor good in them- selves, their absence in the administra- tion and their presence in the classroom hurts both. Through this maldistribu- tion, administrative efforts are dupli- cated and many student efforts render- ed meaningless. EVIDENTLY THERE IS still hope. In this case it is expressed with the crea- tion of a new assistant's position for the vice-president for academic affairs. The creation of this position, and the appointment of Ernest Zimmerman to fill it, was one of the final innovations which Roger Heyns, ex-vice-president for academic affairs, left the University before he went to Berkeley. His position is designed to unify the Office of Aca- demic Affairs' diverse information-gath- ering agencies into some sort of coherent whole, in order that someone who wants some information can know exactly where to get it. But in addition to this vital work, Zim- merman seems to be beginning the long- term planning in which Heyns was so interested. He has begun work on using computers to help unify students' pre-classification requests and to interpret what facilities the tniversity will need to meet those requests. It is only a step from this stage to the sort of "programmed budgeting," used by many large institutions to or- ganize their use of resources more effi- ciently-the type of budgeting the Uni- versity needs as it increases in size and complexity. ZIMMERMAN'S WORK means progress nn nn rnn t nf the onmutpr nroh- By ROGER RAPOPORT THIS NATION'S obsession with Negro rights has resulted in the gross neglect of an important American minority group, for re- cent civil rights gains for the Negro have transformed the South i into a place that no self-respecting segregationist can call home. Schools are being integrated, as are restaurants, buses and *ater fountains. The House Un-American Ac- tivities Committee is actually in- vestigating that American as apple pie organization, the Ku Klux Klan. To top it off, Negroes are ac- tually registered to vote under the new federal voting rights bill. This influx of new Negro voters may result in the defeat of re- spected segregationists like Loui- siana's Senator Allen Ellender in next year's elections. r It won't be long until the segre- gationist will be stripped of his political power and forced to treat Negroesas equal. No segregation- ist worthy of his name should have to put up with such an outrage. FORTUNATELY there is a simple solution to the predica- ment. For years the segregation- ists have suggested solving the Negro problem in America by sending the Negroes back to Af- rica. Unfortunately most Negroes can't afford the fare. So instead, why not send the segregationists back to Africa- specifically, South Africa? American segregationists would fall in love with this beautiful land, where everyone is separated on the basis of race, color and creed. Through an imaginative system called apartheid, the South Afri- can government has achieved complete segregation. Negroes must live on designated reserva- tions completely separated from white areas. They have no vote in the affairs of their national government and naturally can't use any public facilities used by whites. All employment is done on an unequal opportunity basis. GOV. George Wallace would find his hero is South Africa pre- mier Henrik Verwoerd. Verwoerd has long been a champion of hu- manity. Tn 1 h n 1u.hiefpi strenuousl ville, the police responded by kill- ing 69 of them. AND IN South Africa there is no problem with Negro leadership. In America, segregationists had to watch their country heap praise upon Martin Luther King when he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Contrast this with the case of South African Negro leader Al- bert Luthuli who won the Nobel Peace Prize several years ago. When Luthuli returned home his country rewarded him by placing him under house arrest for five years. South Africa has a court system that would be .a delight to the Lester Maddoxes of America. Normally, Negroes may have no defense attorney. A typical sen- tence for Negroes who leave their reservations without a pass after dark is six months in jail. And the American segregation- ist will enjoy complete freedom from criticism by the press. When South African news- paper recently published an ar- ticle exposing inhumane Negro prison conditions, the government responded by arresting the author, raiding the newspaper, and mak- ing plans to prosecute. THERE IS only one problem with sending the American segre- gationists back to South Africa. They couldn't take their maids. U, Bookstore--Gain or L oss? To the Editor: WALTER BROAD'S LETTER which appeared in Saturday's Daily states, "'The other univer- sities do it, therefore . .."' Maybe it would be more logical to say: The University of Michigan does not do it, there fore . . . This University is without doubt the finest in the state if not in the Midwest; maybe the lesser schools should be following our lead in- stead of vice versa. ' Broad seems to imply that the academic atmosphere of the Uni- versity has been produced by its economic conditions. I would like to see one logical demonstration that exploitation by merchants and realtors is conducive to scho- lastic quality. In addition to his strange theory above, Mr. Broad seems to have a guilty conscience about taking things from the state of Michigan. He states that the bookstore cam- paign is another attempt to "get something for nothing from the state of Michigan." WHAT WOULD the bookstore be taking? The idea of a discount bookstore is to make only enough to cover costs of running it; there is no implication that the book- store would be donating anything to the students. If he feels so strongly about the taxpayers, he should head down some toll roads to a private institution. -Nancy Shaw. '68 have defined "freedom" as "an- archy." We have lost sight of the, fact that this definition is often as narrow and even unfair as the supposed limitations to which we so strongly object. Somewhere along the line, we seem to have forgotten that freedom also im- plies responsibility.' By responsibility. I do not mean only the responsibility to criticize those laws and codes which limit freedom; but also the more subtle responsibilities of freedom which we too often overlook. One of these is the duty to obey the laws which were established in the first place to insure freedom. While not every law or every institution of its making and en-. forcement is not without flaws, the whole system was founded from thousands of years of ex- perience that this was the most nearly perfect to insure freedom. ANOTHER such responsibility is our duty to defend these free- doms from internal as- well as ex- ternal violation and subversion. By this I mean that we,, as Americans, should be on guard that in our pursuit of "freedom" we dohnot cross the fine lineinto anarchy and chaos. What is. I think, at the crux of the whole matter is that we seem to be unaware that freedom by its very nature implies limitations. We have begun to behave like the selfish, spoiled children that we are, when we pout and stamp our feet because we are not able to do exactly as we please. It has been too easy for us to forget that doing "what I want, when I want, and how I want" may deprive someone else of exactly that same right. This is simply an evidence of our immaturity and selfishness, and before we can claim a right to freedom as mature people we must realize that some limits must be imposed on the "me" so that freedom may be enjoyed by "us." I think it is high time that we faced the fact that "Freedom for Me" should be replaced by "Free- dom is for Everybody!" -Mary K. Simpson,'67 a Schutze's Corner: The Daily's Demise INFORMED SOURCES revealed last night that The Michigan Daily, soon to be renamed The ThiA aefm hn--+ vnbinmail news events. They point out that it would be clearly inappropriate and tasteless to publish raw de- serintions of the real world along-