Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Y UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS ;::.:::;.. ::t.W.; A... . ..... .... . . . ... . ..:..:.... . ROGER RAPOPORT: introducing 'Irrespo nsible Unacceptable' -1 M1..... .Y....... .. V'n....N ,.t....54 . : .. ""... ,. .. ":..s.'. :.f"ff . ."11." ....1. ,...,} ,"..".5...5....".r.5... ... .... ..... ^. '.. '''.. . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . 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. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1967 NIGHT EDITOR: PAT O'DONOHUE Faculty Recruitment: The Prospects Are Bleak THE PROSPECTS for filling mnany vacant faculty positions in the literary col- lege for next fall are reportedly bleak. Several courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels face elimina- tion. A large number of these vacancies will probably remain unfilled and gradu- ate teaching fellows -will be substituted for professors in some courses. Not one of the departments polled by The Daily plans any major curricular expansion in the next year. As the number of college students in- creases at phenomenal rates, the num- ber of good teachers available is rising only slightly. Professors are in greater demand than ever before, while private professions are luring many away from teaching. More than any other factor, however, money has become the key to solving fac- ulty recruitment problems. Schools of much smaller size than the University have found that the best way to build up ,a good staff is to offer key men im- pressive salaries and fast promotion. They are able to make bids which are on a par or better than present University offers because of several programs specifically established to aid smaller schools become "centers of excellence." This is especially true in the sciences where a major push by the National Sci- ence Foundation has provided large amounts of money to strengthen science education. In a number of fields the few outstanding professors are being shower- ed with bids. THE UNIVERSITY has always had re- markable success in gaining a high level of excellence in its faculties. It could afford to be very selective because in the past it was only competing against the top 20 or so schools in the country which could promise high salaries and refined facilities as inducements. But today's professor is in a sellers' market. He shops around for the best fringe benefits, such as good faculty-ad- ministration relations and the latest equipment, but most of all, a good salary. For no matter how much dedication and prestige may play in such a decision, the monetary inducement is the key to sway- ing a professor. So the University's prestige remains a major force only when it is coupled with a competitive salary. But state appro- priations have become so sparse that to offer competitive bids requires parsimony in other aspects of the department oper- ations. Thus, University salary offers for new faculty members run far below many schools. IN AN ATTEMPT to get the best fac- ulty members, several departments ex- pect to skirt the money shortage by drop- ping courses and selections in order to spread the available funds among a small- er number of portions. Others see their recruiting problems doomed to failure, and departments have decided to lower their sights and standards in order to round out their staffs. Some courses have been inserted in plans on blind faith, in the hope that increased appropriations will make avail- able amounts which the departments may use for salary increases and enhance- ments of their programs. This faith has proven futile for the last three years as minimal legislative ap- propriations have forced downward ad- justments in departmental projections. This year, the outlook is no better and several courses and sections appearing in the time schedule will most certainly die silently during the summer. Thus, departmental adjustments of still diverse programs will handle the situa- tion again this year, but at the same time, the programs will become a little less diverse. And budget problems become people problems as many specialties encounter a widening gap between teaching salaries and offers of private industry which are luring top men away. GOV. ROMNEY'S $62 million projected budget for the University will not al- low for a large across-the-board salary increase again next year. Even though the average faculty salary increased six per cent this year, many salaries did not increase at all. Although University departments rank- ed high on the annual survey of faculty salaries conducted by the American Asso- ciation of University Professors last sum- mer, this year's rankings will surely be reduced in most departments. In order to maintain their current ratings of A and AA, the departments must maintain sev- en to 10 per cent increases every year, an AA rating meaning the salary -will double within a 10 year period. Increasing allotments from the state, necessary as they remain, are not cur- rently feasible. The state is shackled for funds and Gov. Romney is meeting stiff opposition to his measures to increase the state's income with such plans as a grad- uated state income tax. No matter how much the University fights in the appro- priations battle in the Legislature this spring, it appears it will be unable to gain the necessary increases in allot- ments. THE ANSWER to the problem, then, must be found at the University level. A ma- jor tuition increase is not the answer, however, because this would make a Uni- versity education impossible for a large number of students unable to pay the costs. The only practical solution seems to lie in a study of the breakdown of Univer- sity expenditures. Perhaps salary increas- es, which certainly receive high priority should be given even more emphasis. For although many new buildings and programs are impressive and important in their own right, they may soon stand as hollow monuments to the decline of aca- demic excellence at the University. -WALLACE IMMEN FIRST, I WANT TO THANK the Board in Control of Student Publications for making it possible for me to be here today. I also want to thank Dr. William Creason, the former mayor of Grand Haven, Mich. for his unintentional assistance in the controversy this week. Dr. Creason called a board member and reportedly told him that the Michigan State police have "banned Rapoport from the Grand Haven City Hall forever." Apparently Creason was recalling his dismay of July 1965. He didn't like the way one of his quotes looked in a Muskegon, Mich. Chronicle story I wrote. His call threw into sharpr elief the nature ofmuch of the opposition to Daily appointments. As one member of the publications board said in amazement, "The State Police could never do anything like that." ** * Governor Romney, back from his week long Western campaign is expected to integrate the Board of Regents this week. Barring a last minute change, Romney will appoint a Negro Democrat to fill the seat of Allan Soren- son (D-Midland) who resigned last month. Several prominent Negroes have been under con- sideration. The leading contender appears to be Horace Sheffield, head of the all-Negro Trade Union Leadership Council in Detroit. Other potential Regents are Francis Kornegay, head of the Detroit Urban League, and Wil- liam Patrick, a former Detroit City Councilman and a lawyer with Michigan Bell Company. While information has been kept at a minimum, University Hospital says that another Regent, Alvin Bentley (R-Owosso) is in fair condition and improving following two delicate neurosurgical operations. Bentley has been in the hospital since February 1 and there is. no indication when he will be released. The Regents are now about to enter the final round in picking a successor for President Harlan Hatcher. The deadline is June 30, but he may be named sooner. Despite widespread rumormongering the Regents simply have not made up their mind. Thus even insiders are groping for the real story. One vice-president says that a Daily story reporting that University orf California Chancellor Roger Heyns is "very interested" in replacing Hatcher killed Heyns' chances here. He thinks Robert McNamara will be the new president. But a reliable source says that McNamara's name was dropped from the Regents' presidential prospects list in December. McNamara is too tied up with war. and more important, enough Regents are convinced that McNamara is not the man for the job because the faculty and students wouldn't want him. "We want a man who can deal effectively with students," says one Regent. As for Heyns, he is definitely still in the running despite the Daily's disclosure of the obvious. What man with Heyns' credentials and untenable job wouldn't be interested? Screaming banner headlines in the California papers prompted by the Daily article, reportedly will make it harder for Heyns to flee the sinking California ship, some argue. But the best guess is that Heyns would take the job if the Regents offered it to him. Berkeley bartender Mario Savio told University stu- dent reporters recently that student activists should work against Heyns for President. He contends that the polit- ically astute Heyns has hardened at Berkeley and would deftly crush the student movement here. As President, the argument goes, Heyns would not be the liberal he was as Vice-President for Academic Affairs here until he left for Berkeley in September, 1965. Still, many think Heyns could do the job for Mich- igan. At Berkeley Heyns has been spending 85 per cent of his time playing combination policeman-baby sitter to keep activists and reactionaries from slitting each others' throats. At Michigan, Heyns would have more time to devote himself to relevant concerns like educa- tion. Heyns' real talent lies in the academic realm-which he hasn't had much time for at politically obsessed Berkeley. As vice-president here he initiated the Res- idential College idea, and bolsterd the faculty. Heyns brought in such talented staffers as Ernest Zimmerman, who is computerizing registration so we won't have to stand in line each semester at Waterman gym. He en- ioyed the respect of students and faculty. Many state legislators where impressed by his realistic manner. He had no stuffed shirts. Heyns, in short, might be the right kind of man, with the proper combination of imagination, diplomacy and good sense to guide the university in the near future. Needless to say there are many other worthwhile contenders now under consideration. Hopefully the new man, -whoever he may be, will not be the kind of Presi- dent that Clark Kerr once described as a man who finds "it more pleasant to attend meetings, visit projects abroad, even give lectures at other universities; and at home attend ceremonial functions, go to local clubs and allow the winds of controversy to swirl past him." * * * Incidentally, a word of congratulations to Michigan State University for being chosen by a McCall's Magazine poll as the best school for a college girl to find a husband. 4 Letters: Cinema Guild and the Engineer's Image A To the Editor: TH E R E C E N T Engineering Council condemnation of the Cinema Guild should really sur- prise no one. The faculty of the College of Engineering is adhering quite nicely to the steretotype model of an engineer: humorless. conservative, opinionated and ap- pallingly uninformed. It is well known, however, to students and faculty of the college that industry is desperate for en- gineers (almost one-half of the jobs go unfilled), but what is per- haps less known is that propor- tionately fewer young men are entering the profession (about 12 per cent less between 1964-65). AND SMALL WONDER. Today's student does not want to be asso- ciated with the so-called typical slide-rule-from-the-belt, nose-in- the - book, what's - in - the - free - speech - movement, who - is - Dr. Leary image of an engineer. Nor is he interested with a professional education. There is not much intellectual stimulation in Chem-Met 250 (materials) or Engineering Me- chanics 324 (fluids). Also, in a typical 4%/2 year program in Me- chanical Engineering only 19 of 134 hours required for the degree are devoted to the "human," non- technical education of an engineer. He cannot write, dislikes reading and probably (if even he wanted) could not intelligently discuss the seating of Red China in the U.N. with a high school senior. With this background the council can easily make its resolutions. It is stated that the Cinema Guild ". . . has gone beyond the bonds of common decency." Whose common decency? Not mine. If I hadn't liked what I was seeing I d have left. Dr. Revelli attended the Beach Boys Concert (at least for a while), but no statement was issued by the School of Music calling for restraint in voc4-n-ro l and more good music for the young people of America. IN AN ACADEMIC community as supposedly liberal-minded as the University is, such statements do not engender prospective stu- dents to study for the profession. With today's idealistic, liberal and tolerant student, a prospective engineer,tconfronted with such a statement of principles and aca- demic prospects would tend to think twice before applying to any engineering college. Few of today's youth ar eager to spend four to five years hidden from the world within the tomb of a technical curriculum, to grad- uate and find he knows a great way to make money but not how to live, to realize that society (unfortunately and obviously from the observations of his peers) con- siders him intellectually inferior. socially conservative, politically apathetic and just plain narrow- minded and dry for a degree in a profession held in such low regard. THE PROFESSION is crying for more people, industry and the country need them, but no one can expect great interest in a pro- fession with such conservative at- titudes, limited curriculum and narrow goals: The Engineering Council's resolution on the Cinema Guild only serves to magnify this position. --J. F. Kahnweiler, '69 I ncoin parable Daily To the Editor: THERESEEMS to be some dis- puein your letter columns as to whether The Daily is "The New York Times of college newspap- ers." What a ridiculous claim. The Times is distinguished for its presumption that it is going to be the major source for future historians. Every reporter, whether covering the White House or the actions of the local dog-catcher, writes as though all that counted were his audience of the twenty- first century. This produces a ponderousness. The Daily manages to cover the significant news with more accu- racy than most professional news- papers, but avoids beating its stories to death. The Daily also is limited to a few pages. The Times is no reading for the infirm, for one must be in robust health to read it. THE TROUBLE is that profes- sors find in the Timestheir own tendency to say nothing at enor- mous length. Naturally many of them feel that this is the mark of superiority. The complaints of the Regents seem to spring from the other end of the scale. They are illiter- ate, at least in constitutional matters. I have read many newspapers better than the New York Times but I have never found a collage paper to compare with this year's Daily, the Manchester Guardian of college papers. --Ivan Aron Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Eastern Michigan University Benefactors To the Editor: 1HE FOLLOWING is the text of a letter which we have sent to the CIA. Tri-House Co-operative is a group of students at the Univer- sity of Michigan who live and eat co-operatively in order to save money. While we were initially shocked by the revelations of the support which the CIA has given to NSA and other organizations, now that we are aware of the ex- tent of the CIA's generous phil- anthropic activities, we must ad- mit to feeling somewhat deprived. IN OUR CO-OP are many for- eign students for whom we set an example of American i ideals through our cash transactions, hard, work,° and occasional elec- tions, in that order of importance. With more money we could pur- chase better food and in that way preventour foreign members from developing that lean and hungry look which makes for dangerous revolutionaries. We could also use these funds to purchase more houses, a policy which would undoubtedly help our foreign members to appreciate the desirability of large estates and the un-American nature of land reform. For, these reasons, we are con- fident that by helping our organ- ization, you will be insuring that the future leaders of Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America will bring truth, justice, and the American way to their benighted countrymen. IN' ACCORDANCE WITH the usual nature of such arrange- ments, this is being handled en- tirely by the top officers of the house, who have taken all possible precautions to prevent the general membership from knowing of the transaction. Since many organiza- tions are now returning the un- used portions of your gifts, we would think that a sizable contri- bution to our organization would not place any undue strain on your financial position. Checks shouldnbe made payable to Tri-House Co-operative and may be sent via the foundation of your choice. -James Jones, House Mapager --Stan Kaplowitz, President -Paul Kanter, Treasurer Exuberance To the Editor: THERE ARE TIMES when "free- dom. of speech" seems the chance to chatter about who's lay- ing eggs around the white house hen coop. There are times when "academic freedom" seems the op- portunity to squabble over which entombed manuscript belongs to which corpse. And there are times when "social responsibility" seems the cordial art of heralding with pneumatic generalities the stead- fastness of incrusted systems, profitable for all our mature res- ignation to them. Isn't it about time, now, that Harlan Hatcher and his adminis- tration confront the barrage of issues exploding around them with more responsible measures thai an authoritarian tone of voice, a mask of respectability, and a throatful of vague value judg- ments? -Justin Vitiello Teaching Fellow Romance Languages ,1 I I r'.} rrrr."J.:"'.h::::"r r ' V.Q.V. rr: rrr " " !'".ti ": ........r.. S:".:' ::::..... ...... ........ .. r....:Vr..:. ...:: r:: r... :.:::":: r::: r:.:. ."r::::. .. :'.:V .." :........:.:: rr.:. :.:'." :"r:.Y"."::: r:.:" :V.. '.r.....::: r.V :"............ r..:: r"..... " r' :".::........:... .L".::"r: rrr:.:Y.:".: rrrr:.: .:" ...................... y..rr:: r:.: ::":"::":":"::':": :tir":'"r: ".:':"tlf:':" :.V. ..} }'i iri r r a rf ..::.Vr..V}t'"rrrrrr: rrrr{V'.::. :":":::"rr..." ... ........'Yr::.......... "....... "..... .r.... r .:......... .: rrr: r "h1:":::r.":.:V:.:::::: r.Vr.:'.:"rr:Y::... .....'.....4.. 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Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48104. Acting Editorial Staff been,exposed, they will not be re-estab- lished. But there is the strong possibil- ity that NSA may lose its force and its effectiveness as the representative voice of the American college student. Now that CIA interests are purged from the group there is no question that the opin- ions expressed by the NSA will be valid, forceful ones. But will that voice be ac- cepted by other international student groups? For NSA to be accepted in internation- al circles, it is imperative that American campus leaders reinforce their support of the student organization. STUDENT GOVERNMENT Council this week postponed action on a motion supporting NSA. One member stated that SGC wants to determine whether NSA can any longer wield influence on the in- ternational scene before issuing any state- ment endorsing NSA actions. But the SGC hesitation denies an op- portunity to re-establish international in- INE CIA PROBLEM is embar- rassing and it is a disagreeable subject to talk about. But it is so important that we cannot sweep it under the rug and try to forget about ft. For the good faith of the U.S. government has been com- promised by the disclosures, and whether or not we like to think about it, we cannot conduct the affairs of the United States in a cloud of suspicion. We must dis- pel the suspicion and restore con- fidence in our good faith. We may begin by noting that the cloud of suspicion is much wider than the actual operations of the CIA could possibly war- rant. Anyone with experience in the outer world must realize that the CIA is almost automatically suspected of being implicated in or of being the prime mover in all manner of happenings abroad. It would be no exaggeration to say that outside the United States the CIA has become the universal scapgoat for any rightist activity which people on the left and in the center dislike. The CIA has ar_"gaired a legendary character arid its activities are rather like the exploits of Superman. The CIA legend feeds on the fact that the agency has in fact stone some of the things it is have been financed secretly. The secrecy has prevented reliable knowledge as to where the real CIA activities end and where the suspected and imaginary ones begin. In this way the cloud of sus- picion has been generated which envelops so large a part of Ameri- can action in the rest of the world. We may go on to note that the Americans are the only people who" have not shared in this gen- eral suspicion. There have, of course, been charges and exposures made by minorities on the Ameri- can left and right. But until re- cently the great majority have taken for granted the purity of the government's motives and the in- nocence of its actions. the secrecy of the operation shielded it from suspicion in this country, and with very little questioning and argu- ment the Congress has voted sec- ret funds of unknown size for which there is no public account- ing. If we push deeper into the mat- ter we fi4d, I believe, that the root of the trouble is that the Central Intelligence Agency has been used for much more than genuine intelligence work. It has been used as a propaganda agency, Down 'The Rabbit Hole {<:4::':'}!''.'Sv'a,:.°"..:;{ n. .";:.g::.".:":-}:":: ah}vrre: 'rC}, t.} i .: nm,". rv{J} . $SC :tti":ti':..;:s5. r4J.:rr.{:.u.+."r,+ ,.4... .":{ 6 i.".":? .". CIA apart, separating sharply the business of intelligence from the business of, propaganda and in- tervention. Unhappily, President Kennedy did not take this advice and, after a little tinkering with personnel and with the details, ne left intact the secret conglome. a- ti'on which is known as CTA. There will be and there can be no solution to the problem, I be- lieve, unless there is a surgical operation which separates true in- telligence work from the whole clutter of other activities. An in- telligence agency should deal with espionage, research and analysis. The other activities, such as prop- aganda, intervention and dirty tricks, should not be in the intel- ligence agency. They should not be under the same roof. They should not be manned by the same men and they should not be under the same cloak of secrecy. ' THERE IS LITTLE doubt that this will improve the integrity of the true intelligence work. What will it do to the other operations if they are divorced from the CIA as a secret intelligence agency? Secret propaganda. would be abol- ished. This would make more cred- ible open and avowed propaganda. By taking the business of inter- I 4 A °11+,; ONLAWW-/,,/IENL