Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Feb. 15: Grandmother's Three Questions WhereWOil re* ree,420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. NErs PHONE: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staf writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1967 NIGHT EDITOR: DAVID KNOKE i SGC finLimbo: The Season of Waiting? By LEONARD PRATT Associate Managing Editor SOMEONE'S grandmother and an Air Force captain sat beside one anothereon AmericantAirlines Flight 124 from Detroit to New York last Friday morning. Grandmother wasn't exactly one of the jet set and didn't at all care for the way the big plane bounced through the clear early morning air. She kept annoying the captain all the way, demand- ing to be assured that she would reach New York alive. By the time the jet dipped into the heavy clouds over the city the captain had long since buried himself in a Time magazine in an attempt to ignore her. The drop into the clouds was like walking into a closet-pass- engers could hardly see the wing- tips. "Are we on instruments now?" she anxiously queried. "Madam," the captain grudged, "I sincerely hope so." THE GRANDMOTHER Syn- drome. consisting of demands to know exactly what is the status of something important but un- controllable, is a popular one in Western society and one which usually afflicts Daily senior edi- tors about this time of year, a few days before they name their successors. In Daily seniors it tradition- ally manifests itself in long edi- torial essays on The Status of Something, usually Something seen as being the crucial variable in determining the fate of Society. The idea evidently is that we may not be able to do anything now, but at least we can tell everyone what ought to be done. But I'm not sure just what So- ciety is and have little faith in the Something theory of prophecy so I'm at rather a loss to set the world right in 20ainches of copy. Yet I'm a slave to the Grand- mother Syndrome too so, though I may not have many answers, I've got some questions that some- body around here better begin thinking about soon. THE N'EW president will be ap- pointed some time this summer, an appointment which will be the most anticipated and least under- stood event in University history since the West Physics Bldg. burn- ed down last summer. If he's worth anything at all there'll be a lot of shaking up done within and without the Administration Bldg. Vice-presidents are already begin- ning to cast around for job offers outside Ann Arbor. In addition, the commission which President Hatcher set up in November to study University gov- ernment will be reporting early in the new president's term, hopeful- ly with some ideas on how to change this hydra-headed insti- tution back into a university. Between the two, the Univer- sity may well be jumping for the next year or so and more people than are doing so slow had better start asking themselves where they want it to land. Should it be big- ger? Smaller? More departments or fewer? More professors or few- er? Aside from deans and depart- ment chairmen, it's likely that not THEY'RE NOT considering them largely because of a problem that both the new president and his commission are going torun into the lack of communication be- tween different parts of the Uni- versity and the consequent isola- tion of each from the others. Often this problem is blamed on the communications media themselves - The Daily, WCBN, WUOM and the administration's occasional bulletins - but they. must bear only part of the blame. The root of the situation. is sim- ply that the University is so big that it's very difficult for any news media to tell everyone what's going on in all parts of it all the time. The basic problem is at least as much administrative, as jour- nalistic. I don't know if it can be solved. I do know that darned few peo- ple are interested in solving it. more than 50 people are co!sidering these crucial ones for the future. on campus questions- University's The question that really seems to be going unanswered, however, is just what we all ought to be doing here. The vast majority of the under- gradvates, and many graduate stu- dents, too, are here because of some vague sense of foreboding which tells them they'd better come up with a diploma or start sweeping floors. Even laying aside the possibility that sweeping floors might be a pretty good life, that's not a very rewarding reason to come to college. THE UNIVERSITY, along with its sister-institutions across the na- tion, thus fails a crucial test. It does not seem more than inciden- tally important to the students who should be its basic reason for existence. These ain't problems which can be dealt with easily, but they seem to me to be the ultimate ones which the University must an- swer in some positive way. Can it? Will it? I sincerely hope so. I YES, STUDENT Government Council is still around. If you haven't heard much from them lately it's probably because they haven't been as loud and verbose this semester. Rather, SGC is now mov- ing slowly; waiting, listening and speak- ing very cautiously. The big proj ect now is the Presiden- tial Commissions. At the beginning of the semester SGC appointed members to the Decision-Making. and Draft Commissions. Students still have not been chosen for the Sit-In Commission. But at the mo- ment everyone is waiting to see what ideas and innovations the commissions will suggest. Opinions on the Vice-Presidential Ad- visory Boards are also very much in flux. Some feel the idea of an advisory voice for students is out-of-date, while oth- ers feel it is important to give the boards a chance. In either case, every- one is waiting now for the boards to be- gin .operating to see what happens, SGC has moved very slowly on appointing board' members and it is doubtful, ae- cording to one SGC spokesman, whether they will begin meeting before the be- ginning of March. CAUTION HAS BEEN the password late- ly. Last week SGC postponed discus- sion on a statement giving recognition and support to students involved in the Cinema Guild controversy until legal ad- vice could be obtained. Discussion on the possibility of extend- ing sophomore women's hours has pro- ceeded slowly, and several Council mem- bers have made it quite clear that any recommendations will be made only after a thorough investigation of the subject. Caution and waiting are not necessar- ily bad qualities. In fact, they are usual- ly considered positive characteristics. But the question is, what will happen while SGC waits? If SGC simply allows the Presidential Decision-Making Commission to decide its fate and allows the advisory boards to represent it to the vice-presidents, there is a danger that the most influential student voices will be those of appoint- ed, not elected, student spokesmen. If this happens, SGC could be charged with shirking its responsibility to the student body, of allowing others to speak in its place. SGC MUST NOT allow this to happen. What Council must do is keep close tabs on the commission and boards and make its voice and the views of the stu- dent body heard. Specifically, Council should not only set up forums and seminars as some members have suggested, implying that students will come to them with their ideas, but should also set up a program where SGC members actively seek stu- dent opinion. For example, Council should expand the sending of members to hous- ing units to tell students what the com- mittees are doing and asking for opin- ions and suggestions. Also, Council should keep in very close contact with the commission and boards and not allow the students to merely be- come spokesmen for themselves and no one else. Finally, if SGC is to be a respected voice in important campus affairs like the Cinema Guild controversy, it must do more than talk; it must take a stand. -SUSAN SCHNEPP 4 Letters: On the Leary Road to Earthly Bliss To the Editor: A CCORDING TO Leary our so- ciety is no more vital to each of us than a Hollywood prop set. He goes further, saying we are 'addicted' to values (eg. a new car, the esteem of others, social equal- ity) that serve only to entice us into following our cues! Much, but not all, of this is applicable to each of our lives. However, shocking and sobering though his assertion may be, we must not let the emotional mo- mentum it generates lead us too hastily along the Leary Road to earthly bliss. THE SOCIAL AND political consequences of psychedelic drugs are not NEARLY as dangerous now as they will be 50 years from now, when there will be a drug for every possible feeling desire- able at the nearest federal Com- munity Health Center. You see, now the government fears LSD and its 'dropouts'. Mr. Leary can- didly states that if he wins, 'Cae- sar' will fall. Soon, however, Cae- sar will be marketing something better and probably will mono- polize the market, if only to pre- serve its existence. Such a situa- tion should be avoided, need I add? -One gross assumption Mr. Leary makes is that we can 'turn on' best by drugs. Yet he himself ac- knowledges that six days and nights spent fasting in isolation in a desert is equivalent to an LSD experience. There are other alter- natives he neglected to mention; let me remind you of one more ancient than the LSD experience (it is so obvious, we naturally ov- erlook it). The essence of the LSD experi- ence is the venture within oneself. Mr. Leary mentioned that in the East, a religious device often used to accomplish inner exploration is a round object resembling a re- tina: one stares at it until the ex- terral object becomes one with you. Men have, for ages, been learning to use something else: another retina, another eye, ano- ther hand, another human. How- ever, we are timid inthis type of 'trip' because the other eye can hurt at any time; and to relieve that hurt, at any time, all one needs to do is turn away. DURING EACH SECOND of an interpersonal relationship, one is encountered with the question: turn away, distort, or . . . look. How infinitely more difficultthan taking an LSD 'trip'! After the swallow, the trip is down a one way road. LSD is comparatively easy, don't be fooled: one has only one decision to make. Yet, to look at that other eye, and see it, really see it, is that not a look into one- self? What is more, it is not a 'decision' (ie., taking an LSD tablet), it is an infinity of deci- sions, life, something that Mr. Leary's followers fear. Howard M. Shapiro, '70 Med Consultation To the Editor: F AM WRITING to correct a grievous error in all the publi- city that appeared in The Daily and elsewhere concerning the Leary LSD talk at Hill Auditor- ium. The American Culture Stu- dents' Association, which has been careful in the past to advertise under its own name the programs that it has sponsored every other week at the Guild House on Mon- roe Street, should have been listed along with the Honors Steering Committee as sole sponsors of the Leary talk. INSTEAD, THE University's Program in American Culture, which has always sought to assist the American Culture Students' Association but has no jurisdic- tion over its activities, was mis- takenly named as Leary's co-spon- sor. As Chairman of the Commit- tee on the Program in American Culture, I can vouch for the fact that the Committee was never con- sulted concerning the Leary talk and never had any opportunity to discuss the propriety or impropri- ety of sponsoring or co-sponsor-1 ing it. There could be no better illus- tration of the need for more ef- fective Working arrangements be- tween students and faculty, as proposed by President Hatcher. -Joe Lee Davis Professor of English and Chairman of the Program in American Culture Unen lightened To the Editor: THE CITY of Ann Arbor has again schown that it is a truly enlightened city. It has once again performed a valuable public serv- ice, protecting its defenseless citi- zens against the onslaught of those who would debauch and de- stroy them. I am referring to the recent af- fair with the American Civil Li- berties Union. Ben Shahn had donated 300 sets of a series of nine lithographs on the civil rights movement. They were to be raffled off in 300 different cities to raise money for the financing of civil rights litigation in the South. The city of Ann Arbor, perceiving quickly the insidious nature of this scheme, declared it illegal as it was a "lottery." This fair city, itself the object of inquiry into its social and eco- nomic practices, has once again struck a mighty blow for person- al freedom and the dignity of the individual. -Ronald Landsman, '70 Improvement To the Editor: IN DAVID GOLDSTEIN'S letter on student housing (Feb. 11, 1967), he claimed that students "could not turn to the city" for help in alleviating the problem. This statement creates the wrong impression. The city of Ann Arbor definitely does have extensive pow- ers in this area. First, the city can take several measures to increase the supply of housing units and thereby re- duce rents. Ann Arbor presently has the power and the funds to build new public, low-rent hous- ing. Such housing, if open to stu- dents and constructed near the central campus, woulddo much to lessen the, pressure on the local housing market. In addition, the present zoning laws prevent the construction of high-rise apart- ments in many areas of Ann Ar- bor. This further restricts the sup- ply of housing units. So far the Republican mayor and Republican City Council have shown little inclination either to rezone these areas or to allow stu- dents to qualify for low-rent, pub- lic housing. They seem intent on keeping the supply of city hous- ing low and the rents paid to realtors high. SECONDLY, the city can im- prove the quality of the units that are available through stricter en- forcement of the building code. The poorly staffed Office of Building and Safety has proved unable or unwilling to enforce this code. Finally, students are excluded from many fine housing oppor- tunities, because they are too far from the central campus. By im- prQving and expanding transpor- tation facilities, the City Council can thereby expand the supply of housing available to the student. Thus, the city government can take many steps to help the stu- dent. Merely because the Repub- licans have not done so is no rea- son for despair. Rather students who are eligible should register and vote for Democrats like Dr. Edward Pierce and Jerome Dupont who are dedicated to the above measures. --Steven Handler, '68 President, Young Democrats LETTERS All letters must be typed, double-spaced and should be no longer than 300 words. All let- ters are subject to editing; those over 300 words will gen- erally be shortened. A4 I I ANOTHER OPINION: The Daily Does Its Job CONCEDING THAT college newspapers published unde' the auspices of any "Board of Control of Student Publica- tions" cannot expect to enjoy full First Amendment freedoms, we wonder wheth- er the University of Michigan might not now be going too far in the direction of repressive censorship by launching an investigation of The Michigan Daily. The publications board has asked the faculty senate advisory committee on uni- versity affairs to "consider the proper purpose, function and responsibility of a student newspaper in this university com- munity." The investigation seems to have been sparked by some university administrators and faculty members interested in more news of their activities appearing in The Daily or perhaps in a separate weekly publication and also by others who feel The Michigan Daily has gotten out of hand. These critics object to a recent story speculating on President Harlan Hatch- er's successor. Dr. Hatcher will retire this summer after having served 15 years as president and The Daily reported that University of California Chancellor Roger W. Heyns was "very interested" in the opening. With the firing of President Clark Kerr in California, Chancellor Heyns now holds things together at Berkeley and any speculation of his re- turning to Ann Arbor where he served be- fore his Berkeley appointment might eas- ily prove embarrassing. There has also been some objection to an article on the editorial page spoofing Michigan's $55 Million Program and the booklet which tells prospective donors the tax advantages of making gifts to the university. A recent editorial in The Daily urged the legalization of marijuana, while a story not long ago broke open a confi- dential Defense Department study which found the university basically a "school for rich, white students." We can see how these articles might up- set any school administration, but we do not believe any of this warrants the cri- tical review of The Michigan Daily which some apparently intend to pursue. Al- though the article on Chancellor Heyns may have been untimely, was it also un- true? Or was it quite accurate? Are a university's fund raising tactics so sacred as to be beyond parody? Or does the uni- versity wish to make its scholarly habit not only cap and gown but also stuffed shirt? This newspaper disagrees with The Daily on the legalization of marijuana, but we recognize the issue as one open to responsible debate. Doesn't the universi- ty? The Defense Department study should have been released because its findingsj demonstrate not so much flaws in ad- mission policies as flaws in a society which should produce more Negroes who qual- ify academically and financially for ad- mission. Beyond all this, The Daily has con- tributed significantly to university affairs, exposing a conflict of interests involving one of- the regents and forcing his re- tirement and winning national honors in each of the last two years. Its editor this year is Mark Killingsworth, a Rhodes scholar. While college newspapers cannot print whatever may happen to pop into a giddy sophomore's head, and. wholly irresponsi- ble college newspapers sometimes need thorough shake-ups, this is not the case at the University of Michigan. The Mich- igan Daily is a fine and responsible col- lege newspaper doing an outstanding job. It should not now be made a scapegoat in any vindictive review. Those at the school who share a pride in The Michigan Daily should make sure that this doesn't hap- pen. -DETROIT FREE PRESS Editorial Page, Feb. 10, 1967 Th'e Effort THE STIGMA of the word "committee" does not apply to the Literary College Steering Committee. It has been active, productive and perhaps the most worth- while organization to which students have been given access. The committee was an important moving force in promoting pass-fail, and lobbied actively for a change in language distribution require- G ra des, Student Deferment, and Ranking (This is the first of a 3 part series based on a "background paper" prepared by Prof. E. Lowell Kelly of the Dept. of Psychology. In Part I, Professor Kelly calls attention to the wide- ly different reasons for a stance "against ranking," and reviews the historical background and the logic which led to the pres- ent guidelines for student defer- ment. Parts II and III will be published in the next two issues of The Daily.) Part I DURING RECENT MONTHS, students and faculty both here and on other campuses have spent much time and energy debating, writing and voting about the use of grades and ranking as a basis for the deferment of male stu- dents. Unfortunately, in my view,, much of this activity has created more heat than light, primarily because the term ranking has dif- ferent meanings for different peo- ple and is often not the central issue about which thoughtful per- sons disagree. From my regular reading of The Daily and discus- sions with both students and col- leagues, I am impressed with the fact that persons taking a stand "against ranking" do so primarily for many very different reasons: 1) Because of strong convictions regarding all wars and anything relating to military preparation, 2) Because of strong convictions regarding present U.S. foreign policy and military intervention, especially in Southeast Asia, ) 3 Because of honest differences regarding the best means of meet- ing military manpower needs, e.g.: a) those who believe in com- pulsory universal military service for all able-bodied males, b. those who believe in assign- ment to military service on the basis of a lottery, c. those who are against any form of compulsory service, e.g. ment, there are still wide differ- ences of opinion as to the appro- priate criteria for deferment: ap- titude test scores, grades, class standing, field of specialization, etc. 5) With respect to the use of grades, or ranks based on grades, some argue that grades are not a legitimate basis for deferment, some object because they believe any use of grades as a basis for deferment has undesirable effects on students and on the educa- tional process. 6) Some believe that while it is appropriate that the University transmit transcripts to local boards (at the request of stu- dents), the University should not compute grade point averages and/or provide a statement of a student's class standing. 7) Because of a conviction that any communication between the University and any unit of the Se- lective Service System represents an undesirable form of complicity or involvement of the University in non-academic matters. 8) Because of a belife that non- compliance with the present sys- tem constitutes an effective 'means of promoting desirable changes in policy and practice with respect to any of the above issues. 8) Because of a belief that non- compliance with the present sys- tem constitutes an effective means of promoting desirable changes in policy and practice with respect to any of the above issues. WHILE CERTAINLY NOT com- plete, this list is sufficiently long to explain why the topic has re- ceived so much attention. But the fact that reasons for a stance against ranking are so varied-and even contradictory-makes it ex- tremely difficult to interpret the meaning of polls or resolutions on the subject. For example, the student refer- endum showed that, of approxi- not in favor of universal military service (only 1 in 6), and they did not approve the use of a lottery (only 1 in 12). The critical ques- tion was not specifically asked, but I am forced to conclude that those students; who voted were saying that they approved of stu- dent deferment as national policy but that they did not wish such deferment to be based on demon- strated performance in college! IN THE HOPE of contributing to a better understanding of these several issues, I should like to provide some historical back- ground regarding present policies and practices of student defer- ment as embodied in the so-called Universal Military Training Act of 1951. The essential provisions of tht Act and the guidelines issued to the autonomous local selective service boards for its implementa- tion were the subject of extensive deliberations between 1948 and and (2) the guidelines under which II-S deferment should be granted and continued. On the basis of a recent review of the work of this group (Student De- ferment in Selective Service by M. H. Trytten), I am impressed with the enormous complexity of the issues involved and the very real hazards of attempting to modify existent polimy on a piece- meal basis-e.g. abolition of class ranks. In so doing, let me make it very clear that I am not arguing that the decisions which were made in 1950 should remain unchallenged or unchanged. On the contrary, because of many changed condi- tions, there is a critical need for a thorough review of all aspects of the present system and I am pleased that a Presidential Com- mission was created to undertake such a review and to make recom- mendations for needed changes in the law which expires in June, 1967. THE FOUR-DAY conference in December at the University of Chi- cago resulted in wide consensus among participants that neither student nor occupational defer- ment is sound national policy at this point of time. I. too, am doubtful that either is justified by the present manpower situ- ation. However, as long as stu- dent deferment is a national pol- icy, I regard the use of grades as an essential element in its imple- mentation on a reasonably equit- able basis, for reasons presented below. It is important to remember that the deliberations leading to pres- ent policies of student deferment took place shortly after World War II during a period of inter- national tension, one in which there was considerable concern, not only about the maintenance of an adequate defense force, but also increasing recognition of the which would provide the necessary flexibility for meeting changing manpower needs, and which would be judged equitable by most thoughtful citizens. WE CONSIDER the idea of a period of compulsory military service for all 18-year-old inales, but rejected it as lacking in flexi- bility and undesirably postponing critical years of educational prep- aration essential for specialized and professional personnel. We also considered the possi- bility of recommending selective deferment only for those college students pursuing courses of study leading to fields of specialization judged to be "essential to the na- tional welfare" but rejected this idea becaus of the hazard and the invidiousness involved in desig- nating certain fields (e.g. engin- eering, pre-med.) as more essen- tial than others. We consider the possibility of recommending the deferment of all college students, but rejected this because we did not feel it equitable to provide automatic de- ferment for anyone simply because he could gain admission to some college arfd could afford to at- tend college. IN SPITE OF wide differences of background and marked initial differences of - opinion, the 27 members of the advisory group eventually arrived at the unani- mous recommendation that the selective deferment of college stu- dents was in the national interest, and that the most defensible criteria for deferment would in- clude (a) a level of scholastic apti- tude generally predictive of suc- cessful completing of a degree, and (b) a demonstrated level of achievement while in college, pre- dictive of later competence in some field of specialization es- 4 1 PROF. KELLY 1950. Those aspects of the act and the guidelines which concern stu-