FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY VACIV A VVUt ' 'FRJPAY, OCTOBER 15, 1965 THE MiCHIGAN DAILY raL SEVEN~r q.,. Hatcher Address Pinpoints Current'U'Problems (Continued from Page 1) Britain, West Germany, Japan, and other nations of the world. When many people are crowded in upon one another, understand- ing tolerance, respect, and good manners are necessary to decent and humane living. Yet at the moment of our greatest need, these attributes have broken down or failed to keep pace. We are all deeply troubled by the growth of crime, delinquency, disrespect for others, excesses in human behav- ior, and the hate and intolerance that colors the legitimate protests against the curable ills of our time. This also is manifest in stable, internationally sophisticated so- cieties like Britain, in affluent United States, as well as in im- poverished India and in the Con- go and Tanzania. The underdevel- oped countries or partially devel- oped countries have compounded the problem. They had the laud- able but unrealistic ambition to leap over the centuries and arrive full-blown in the family of ad- vanced nations. The emotional strain, partic- ularly upon the overcrowded young generation, has been and is im- mense and traumatic. It creates, I repeat, a most difficult problem for the universities everywhere. As one of my distinguished colleagues put it at the interna- tional 'conference in Tokyo, we face national suicide if we don't accommodate t h e s e qualified young people, and we face as- phyxia if we do. Is there a ra- tional course of action. At this University, we have fol- lowed and continue to follow the policy of controlled growth. We feel strongly that we must keep pressing against the peripheral walls, that we must accept stu- dents to the limit of our capa- city to maintain our institution- al integrity, and to provide for them the kind of education which The University of Michigan has traditionally been willing to un- derwrite. This has caused us pain and hardship on the one hand because of those whom we could not ac- cept, and it has cost us some mild degree of discomfort in areas which have pressed hard against the limits of size. It will be necessary to continue this policy and to bend all of our efforts to solving the problems en- tailed during the next decade at a minimum. I have said before and I repeat again, much is expected of the universities of the world today. There is at hand no other instru- ment in the society to perform the functions that simply have to be performed in this day and age. r', B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION 1429 Hill Street Sabbath Hol Ha-Moed Sukkot TONIGHT, Friday, October 15 at 7:30 P.M. Sharp in the Zwerdling-Cohn Chapel RABBI HARRY KAPLAN Director of Hillel, Ohio State University will speak on "A People of Eternal Memories" CANTORS: JOHN PLANER, JEFF ROSSIO HILLEL CHOIR led by MIKE ROBBINS JOAN TEMKIN at the Organ The Service will conclude promptly at 8:30 P.M. CAREER PLANNING VOCATIONAL APTITUDE TESTING COUNSELING ANN ARBOR COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE 321 SOUTH MAIN ST. Suite 213, Whitker Building Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 665-3635 665-7902 By Appointment' I fear that the expectations, however, are so great that the universities simply will not have the means to fulfill them, what- ever their theoretical potential might be. We must do our very best none- theless. We have a special obliga- tion to maintain a moden environ- ment of mutual respect and rea- sonable tolerance of the views and opinions of others while we dis- cuss and debate the issues of our time. The University is not in a con- spiracy to hinder the best possi- ble education of its students or to subvert the good intentions of our government. One unique function we can and must perform is to keep an open forum for research, inquiry, de- bate. and free discussion. There is splendor and freedom in truth and the exihilarating quest thereof, but truth itself is elusive, often hard to come by, and not always easy to recog- nize, particularly in the fields of human relationships. A few dec- ades ago, good and honorable men with the finest Oxford edu- cation and religious devotion sen- tenced witches to be hanged; be- lieving it was God's command be- cause Exodus 22:18 plainly com- manded, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." No law was ever changed, though we no longer burn witches. Our colleague, Dr. Waggoner of the Department of Psychiatry, put it very well in his addresss be- fore his fellow scientists in Aus- tin, Texas, a few days ago. Dis- cussing the problem of specialized training in this field of medicine, Dr. Waggoner observed that the most important element was "the stimulation of his (the student's) curiosity which will lead to re- search or investigation. Many of the things- which we now consider to be fact or truth may very well turn out in the not too distant fu- ture to havehbeen in error. Many things which you believed to be fact 10 years ago are no longer credible." I turned from Dr. Wag- goner's cogent remarks to the opening of Robert Hutchins' es- say entitled, "Are We Educating Our Children for the Wrong Fu- ture?" The third sentence in the second paragraph ran as follows: "Almost every fact I was taught from the first grade through law saw 50 years ago. I am especially embarrassed by the facts and tendencies I proclaimed myself. I can only hope the students in the Yale Law School have forgot- ten what I taught them. The courts have overruled and the leg- islatures repealed most of what I knew." These are just two ways of say- ing an important truth which any university must keep in mind as it discharges its responsibilities. It must keep its perspective on the problems of the day. It must find a proper balance between what is topical and changing and the few universals that we can verify. This should guide as we go for- ward in our ceaseless quest to re- assess knowledge and wisdom, adapt the learning process to the curriculum which we offer to our students. Emotion so easily dis- rupts our persistent striving for understanding and sound knowl- edge. We have a renowned faculty. We have a cosmopolitan, alert, ORGANIZATION NOTICES USE OF THIS COLUMN FOR AN- NOUNCEMENTS is available to official- ly recognized and registered student organizations only. Forms are avail- able in Room 1011 sAB. Baha'i Student Group, Talk: "Baha'i Teachings on Prayer," Oct. 15, 8 p.m., 3545 SAB. Baptist Student Union, Discussion. "The Permanence of Moral Law," Fri., Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m., 1131 Church St. Drawing Club, Meeting, Sat., Oct. 16, 9 a.m., Room 3D, Michigan Union. Bring drawing materials. « « « Folk Dance Club, Folk dance with in- struction, Fri., Oct. 15, 8-11 p.m., Bar- bour Gym. Guild House, Friday noon luncheon, Barry Bluestone, president, U. of M. Student Employes' Union: "Reasons and Hopes for the U. of M. Student Em- ployes' Union," Oct. 15, 12-1 p.m., Guild House, 802 Monroe. Newman Student Association, Com- munity mass and supper, 5 p.m., Oct. 15. Fireside chat: "Christian Commu- nity," Father Clark, 7:30 p.m. Unitarian Student Group, John Horn- beck, '66 Law School, "Legal Aspects of Civil Rights in South," Sun., Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m. Rides at Markley and Union at 7:15 p.m. University Lutheran Chapel, Open House after Purdue game, 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. All welcome, especially alums. Uni- versity Lutheran Chapel, 1511 Washte- naw. Young Republicans, Three weeks due notice is hereby given for the annual (election) meeting of the University of Michigan Young. Republican Club on Nov. 9, 7:30 p.m., Rms. KLMN, Michi- gan Union. school is no longer a fact. Al- talented and capable generation most every tendency that was pro- of selected students. We have such claimed has failed to materialize. tools as the age affords to help The facts and tendencies of to- them toward useful and reward- day are those that nobody fore- ing lives. A thousand special tasks and demands await them, over and above the supreme obliga- tion to help them become the kind of person God intended them to be. I would single out six large yet specific areas which demand high priority attention for understand- ing, training, and the capacity and determination to do some- thing about them. 1-The impact of urban-suburb- an Universay City which now poses a serious threat to man's decent survival and pursuit of happiness. 2-Transportation: (let's begin with Ann Arbor, with cycle lanes, rider education, and noise con- troD. 3-Communications (includingI newsmen for new and developing countries). 4-Extended time of youth and non-involvement in our society and its economy on the one hand, and early and lengthened retire- ment on the other, and their re- lation to the hard pressed middle group in a rat race. 5-A foreign policy able to rec- ognize obsolescence and respond to change, and convincing enough to command assurance and faith on the part of the loyal nation. 6-A rational attack upon the problem of federal, state, and lo-! cal finance and taxation (or mem- bership dues, as we should call it) intricately related to the whole expanding network (or chaos) of; 6STROH'S$ TOJ relationships between federal cen- trality and local initiative and re- sponsibility. We need general awarenessaon the part of all, and expert and professional skills on the part of many to deal with these problems as we deal with the awesome proj- ects of the space age. These tough and persistent problems may not seem to imme- diate or satisfying as a protest speech on the Diag, or a clever placard on Identity and IBM, but they are among the stern con- frontations of our time, and rep- resent the solid task of a univer- sity as it seeks freedom through truth, and attempts to make it prevail in world still largely cov- ered with darkness and ignorance. To this persistent striving we are all unswervingly dedicated. .r r r "" . mom we JOIN DOC LOSH WALLY WEBER CAZZIE RUSSELL BUMP ELLIOTT TOM CECC H IN I and the TEAM THE MARCHING BAND and TOM HARMON! FOLLOW THE HOMECOMING PROCESSION FROM MARKLEY HALL TO FERRY FIELD TO SCREAM FOR MICHIGAN AT THE PEP SESSION! (Beat Purdue and all that) GOIN A 7:45 P.M. F R I DA' FIREW Y ORKS! 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