Y ; Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Under, the Influence Topical Fish Story of Meredith Eiker "V bere Opinions Are-e 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. Truth Will Prevai 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, MARCH 23, 1967 NIGHT EDITOR: PAT O'DONOHUE ITMNd A Rock That Needs To Be Moved IT IS TIME to change the University's intramural program. It is time to modernize an archaic sys- tem with an innovatory change in ad- ministration-from the athletic depart- ment to the Office of Student Affairs. Dr. Paul Hunsicker, director of men's physical education, admits, "This is what is wrong with the intramural program: it is like trying to pour 80 gallons of water into a pint jar. You still aren't able to get more than a pint into it." It is time for something more compre- hensive than a "pint jar": * Intramural Director Earl Riskey cites, as minimum improvements to the 39-year-old Sports Building, "electricity, plumbing, lighting, showers and lockers" -improvements that would sustain the building only at a cost of $1 million for the next 40 years. At the same time, how- ever, any internal improvements would not eliminate the need for expansion. Physical education classes and IM league games now monopolize almost all avail-' able space. 0 With the proposed dissipation of "museum piece" Waterman and Betsy Barbour Gymnasiums, the loss of two athletic fields to the widening of Sta- dium Blvd. and the removal of softball from the intramural curriculum, the pro- gram is accelerating in reverse. * There is no room on the intramural schedule for North Campus residence hall teams. Seven other Big Ten schools are building or have already completed large intramural structures which far exceed the University's-intramural revisions at the University have not yet even reached the planning stage. r The only indoor or outdoor sports improvements since the construction of the Sports Building have been the pur- chase of Wines Field, the resurfacing of the tennis courts and the construction of the Margaret Bell Pool. Admittedly, last Friday's move by the Regents to inject new lifeblood into the program by allotting funds for recrea- tional facilities on North Campus and refurbishing of Wines, Palmer and Ferry Fields was certainly a first step. How- ever, the intramural program has retro- gressed to the point where "pep pills" like these will only prolong its death. WITH THE PRESENT SYSTEM, the in- tramural department is under the aus- pices of the Board in Control of Intercol- legiate Athletics, an autonomous organi- zation whose function is by definition the administering of intercollegiate rather than intramural athletics. The board as- sumed unofficial jurisdiction when no one else-including the Regents-would. With the mushrooming of intercollegi- ate athletics into a large-scale business over the past two decades, however, the board has been unable to meet increasing intramural demands. Athletic birector H. 0. (Fritz) Crisler, chairman of the board, guesses that the new $6.7 million Univer- sity All-Events Building will postpone al- location of "funds for new intramural facilities for 20 years." He also says, "There is no point in questioning that in- tramural facilities are inadequate." BUT THERE IS a point. Now that the board cannot supply sufficient mon- ies, it is time that the University as- sumed its ultimate responsibility in fi- nancing and administering the intramur- al program. Rather than receiving financial aid from the University's General Fund to supplement intramurals, the program needs a rejuvenation that would be ef- fected by its placement under the OSA, where there is a store of both manpower and funds. With the change, the University could renew plans for an intramural complex that includes a 30,000 square foot build- ing with co-recreational facilities. Orig- inally designed In the early 1950's, but set aside because of bureaucratic bicker- ing and money scarcity, this would be a better alternative than redecorating exist- ing structures. George Herbert in the play "Jacula Prudentum," suggests that "He hath no leisure that useth it not." The Univer- sity could at least give its students a choice. -HOWARD KOHN ONCE UPON A TIME there was a complacent old fellow, an academician of sorts, who had a huge aquarium of sorts in his backyard. He might be called a hatcher of fishes because his only pasttime was the care and nurture of fish, thousands of them. He knew a lot about his pets-he knew what was good for them, what to feed them, what their environment should be like, what their weaknesses were, what diseases they were most susceptible to, and generally he thought he knew what would keep them happy and reproductive. The most intriguing thing about his aquarium was the diversity of the fish in it. Although many of them were basically the same, the old hatcher swore that each had a personality of its own if only you would observe them long enough to discover it. He was constantly watching them and checking their behavior and grad- ually he came to know several of his fish very well and they were like friends for him. THE FISH in the old man's aquarium used to travel in schools, as all fish do, and each particular school had characteristics and similarities peculiar to itself and to which all its members conformed. Most of the fish were Guppies-fairly ordinary fish which were easily obtained in great numbers and which would amuse the old hatcher with their continual ac- tivity. They were easy to take care of because they thrived in close confinement, could stand foul water, and would take almost any kind of food. The Guppies also grew rapidly which rather pleased the old man. Because there were so many of them in the aquarium, they were often scattered throughout the various schools evenrthough theydidn't quite belong to any one. The other fish in the tank included Neon Tetras, an aristocratic and very beautiful breed which kept mostly to themselves and away from the rest. Black and white striped Zebra Fish were there too. These were not quite so aloof and could be unusually active, but not neces- sarily annoying, if they chose to be. They frequently flocked to one end of the tank and the old man noticed that a lot of the Guppies found friends among the Zebras. The old hatcher's Blow Fish, clumsy and thick in appearance also seemed to congregate in small groups. Letters:0 Barbo, They were extremely active and aggressive but seldom did any harm. The Blow Fish were a novelty for the Guppies, but only a few Guppies could keep up with their radical pace and so the Blow Fish-though they occas- sionally sought integration with others-remained alone. Mollies were common in the aquarium too, preferring to stay along a shelf against one of the glass walls in the tank. The old hatcher noted that these were pompous fish, enjoying great display in sham battles with one another. The male Mollies would often take a position alongside a female fish and flaunt her with insinuating motions and then cross her path to prevent her escape. The Mollies sometimes accepted Guppies to fill their numerous schools. Kissing Gouramis were also prevalent, although the old man didn't particularly care for them because while they were lovely to look at, they spread disease and sucked on the sides of the other fish. THE OLD HATCHER had snails in his aquarium too because he knew that they were necessary to his system. These snailsdmostly crawled the walls and attempted to move around the tank without coming Into too much contact with the fish. A fewiof the fish were extremely rare specimens: Bony Tongues, Elephant Fishes, Boulengei's, Bloodfins, and Angel Fish. But most of these were more of a nui- sance than a pleasure for the old hatcher since they required special care and were overly sensitive to their surroundings. Usually they died and because the old hatcher had only a very small pension he couldn't re- place them. So he bought more Guppies instead. Now one day shortly after the old man had started cleaning his aquarium three times a year rather than twice a year as he had always done In the past, the pressure mechanism failed. Exactly why this happened he was never quite sure, but the consequences were horrendous. All the thousands of fish-Guppies, Blow Fish, Mol- lies, all of them-swam into the central part of the tank and stayed there. They stopped associating with one another, they stopped eating, they stopped all activity except breathing and just stayed in one place. They were no longer interesting to watch and they no longer needed the old hatcher for anything since they weren't really doing anything. And the old man became very unhappy. 4 AN AQUARIUM EXPERT came and told the old hatcher that some extremely expensive repairs were need- ed, perhaps even an entirely new pressuring system since the other one was outdated and parts for it were not always available. It seems the system had been failing for years and the expert was surprised that the old hatcher hadn't noticed the effects on the fish. The old man said that he had realized that something was wrong long ago but that he thought it might just be the new breeds of fish and the overcrowding which had caused the changes. He had been thinking of getting more snails but he just didn't have the money, and besides he wasn't sure what kind of snails he should get. The old man went to all his friends and asked them for money; he even went to his pensioners and requested an increase in his pension. But no one would help. They told him he was too old to have such a big aquarium and maybe he should get a smaller one with just one or two kinds of fish in it--possibly all Guppies., And the old hatcher was very sad without the activi- ties of his fish. He started going to the zoo and spent a lot of time traveling aimlessly from place to place. AND THIS GAVE him an idea. He decided he would save his money and then take a trip around the world and look at other people's aquar- iums. This way he wouldn't have all the responsibility of taking care of the fish but he could still enjoy the activity. So he drilled a little hole in the side of his aquarium and the water began to trickle out very slowly-he figured it would take him the same amount of time to save enough money to travel as it would for the water to diminish. Then the old man went and bought himself a small fishbowl and a goldfish at Kresge's and some artificial plants and colored pebbles for the bottom and all of this gave him something to watch while the water trickled out and he saved his money. (This is also the reason why in the spring the Diag resembles a swamp.) 0 i1 Inflamed Over Icy Nude To the Editor: RE: YOUR PHOTOGRAPH of the ice sculpture in Wednes- day's Daily. Firstly: the sculpture is in front of Betsy Barbour, not Helen Newberry. As Barbour has been situated directly across the street from the Student Publica- tions Bldg. for many a long year, it would have been hoped that you realized our proper presence. Perhaps your photographer could have read the shingler(with Betsy Barbour clearly lettered on it) which he must have stood under to have taken the shot. Secondly: no disparaging remarks meant to- wards Miss Sandy Sucher, but why was she included in the pic- ture? If you wanted a photo of the sculpture, why not the sculpture in its entirety? Do you shy away from classical nudes? IF YOU THOUGHT it necessary to include a human being in the photo for the sake of proportion, why not Linda Horton or Harvey Hollen, the creators? Thirdly: we believe the sculpture was entitled the "Virgin Spring" rather than "Indian Winter" as she had her creation on March 21. -The Girls of Betsy Barbour Sine of Our Times To the Editor: DAVE S. MILLER (Daily, March 19) offers defense and criti- cism of engineering students and their curriculum. I was impressed by the similarity between the rig- ors of the engineers' academic background and that of the med- ical student. The course load of the med stu- dent is even greater-20 credits per semester. While the engineer must complte 138 hours of credit in 41/'2 or 5 years. the med stu- dent completes over 170 hours in 4 years. To be sure, if this were the whole story of the education of an M.D. his problem of avoid- ing becoming narrow - minded would be even greater than that of the engineering student. But this is not the case, for prior to graduation from medical school, in addition to all the above requirements, the prospective phy- sician must have completed at least 3 years of schooling in some field other than medicine, in- cluding anything from anthropol- ogy to zoology (yes, even engi- neering!). This extra, non-medi- cal education is required because of a feeling that an M.D. should be not only a technically compe- tent physician, but also a well rounded, broadly knowledgeable human being. Since the engineers, as a rule, do not spend this extra time study- ing general topics as they wish, before embarking on their highly specialized and time consuming technical studies, it must indeed be difficult for them to learn about much else besides engineer- ing. some prenatal Wordsworthian hin- ter-world, and that this must be an anti-world composed of anti- matter, an entire universe whose correspondences with our own are negative in every aspect. There reality is illusion; there illusion is reality-justice and equality, prin- ciple and reason are concrete and tangible objects. We must all pass this way. Thus it is that Rapoport, hav- ing painfully achieved adolescence, is as yet neither fish nor fowl, intolerant of reality while unable to totally deny it. Time, however, heals all wounds; if Rapoport is able to avoid the siren song of hashish, he may well advance to the stage of jaded cynicism, be- coming himself a moderate - per- haps even that supreme flower of humanity, an editor for Time Mag- azine. For the time being, he re- mains for me a priceless source of reminiscence, an Antigone to my wheezing Creon. -David St. Amour, Grad Romance Languages, French Racism To the Editor: THE DEEP seeded hate and prej- udice expressed in John Wil- liams' and Louise Palazzola's let- ters serve to illustrate the fright- ening atmosphere of hostility which confronts Negro Americans. Their ignorance of the difference between the situations faced by first generation Americans or for- eigners and that faced by eighth generation Negro Americans is appalling andgdismaying. It is reminiscent of the "arguments" presented by southern demogagues and the conservative surbanites (e.g., Chicago's North Side) to jus- tify furthergsubjugation and cas- tigation of Negro Americans. It is with the sophisticated, in- tellectual white people of the world that the power to change these attitudes lies, since it is presently in their hands that such power lies. 4 Under (book) cover Agents THE UNITED STATES Information Agency seems to be taking up where the CIA left off. While the latter has been exposed as an infiltrator of private organizations, the former has been conducting an an- alogous program in the publishing world to propagandize the American public. , Part of the activity of the agency's "Book Development Program" has been The Daily is a member of the Associated Press and Collegiate Press Service. Subscription rate: $4.50 semester by carrier ($5 by mail; $8 for two semesters by carrier ($9 by mail). Published at 420 Maynard St.. Ann Arbor, Mich.. 48104. Daily except Monday during regular academic school year. Daily except Sunday and Monday during regular summer session. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor. Michigan. 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48104. Acting Editorial Staff ROGER RAPOPORT, Editor MEREDITH EIKER, Managing Editor MICHAEL HEFFER ROBERT KLIVANS City Editor Editorial Directol SUSAN ELAN .......... Associate Managing Editor LAURENCE MEDOW......Associate Managing Editor STEPHEN FIRSHEIN .. Associate Editorial Director RONALD KLEMPNER ....,Associate Editorial Director SUSAN SCHNEPP............ Personnel Director NEIL SHISTER.......... ........ Magazine Editor CAROLE KAPLAN.......Associate Magazine Editor LISSA MATROSS ......................Arts Editor NIGHT EDITORS: Neal Bruss, wallace Immen, David Knoke, Mark Levin, Patricia O'Donohue, Steve Wild- strom. DAY EDITORS: David Duboff, Kathie Glebe. Aviva Kempner, Carolyn Miegel, Cynthia Mills, Jennifer Anne Rhea. Acting Business Staff WILLIAM KRAUSS, Business Manager WIM W EEPS .... A...locitA Buines Manner secret production of manuscripts, pub- lished by private companies which the USIA subsidizes, and sold without being labelled so. In the last few months, the agency has subsidized the writing and publication of "Terror in Vietnam," by Jay Mallin; "Why Vietnam," by Frank Trager, and "Peking and Peoples' Wars," by Maj. Gen. Sam Griffith. The cost to the agency was approximately $25,000. In fact, Prager Publishers, highly respected for its books on foreign policy; has been one of the leading recipients. ON TUESDAY, Sen. J. W. Fulbright and other members of the Foreign Rela- tions Committee called these clandestine operations "doubly' subversive" of the American system. Just as the CIA is forbidden to act as a domestic intelligence-gatherer or intelli- gence-disseminator, so the USIA must confine itself by law to propaganda abroad. But apparently, in its zeal to per- petuate officially approved attitudes, the agency has decided to "cheat" a little. NOT SURPRISINGLY, public officials are in the habit of writing up their particular pet ideas in books with garish titles, like "The Future of Mankind," or "Poverty and Society," etc. Although they generally make pretty dull reading, these works play important roles in career ad- vancements. But the underhanded subsidization of publishing companies for the express pur- pose of using books as engines of prop- aganda on an unwitting public can never be excused in a democraticsociety. -JIM HECK -STEVE FIRSHEIN Consensus XTFW VRT.-Eightv-one ner cent of "And Now, Class, What Have We Learned Since Last Summer?" t967 I ' A 1 -Fitzgerald B. Bramwell Teaching Fellow IS THERE a lesson here? Un- fortunately not, because this ex- tra pre - professional education greatly increases the time and money needed to earn the profes- sional degree. In fact, more peo- ple, probably, would find it de- sirable to turn out more narrow- er minded M.D.'s, by doing away with pre-med studies, than would be interested in broadening the minds of the engineers by length- ening their pre-engin education. That, I suppose, is a sign of olir times. -George S. Layne, '70M Enraged Poet To the Editor: FRANKLY, I find only one way to understand my fascination with Roger Rapoport's editorials, specifically the one of March 22, since they correspond so little with my own views: Rapoport's writings are to me a wistful nibble from my own petite madeleine, faint ripples echoing a time when I too thought I was about to whip the oceans to a froth and trans- mute base metals into gold. Further reflection leads me to think that Rapoport must himself be reacting to a like stimulus from 'S i / \ , :;:.. -r 9'. .t { ;;ly/ i s " . KI ' t ." + 0- "Don't call us, Svetlana Stalina . .. We'll call you!" .T ............. TODAY AND TOMORROW . . . by WALTER LIPPMANN .=.======.=.=y;:: Guam Conference: Setting the Stage for Escalation - BETWEEN WEDNESDAY and Friday of last week the public image of the Guam conference was completely altered. When the conference was first announced only Americans were supposed to attend, and it gave every appear- ance of being an American coun- cil of war. The Commander-in-Chief was President realized that he had been making such warlike speeches that he must do something to right the balance and preserve his rep- utation as a man yearning for peace. So the public image of the Guam conference was transform- ed. The newspapers were advised to tell the public that it would deal with pacification and with npee and Thieu, who may have invited themselves and could not be refus- ed, makes it all but certain that nothing serious will be done about the pacification of the rebellious peasants and that nothing serious is contemplated about finding a way to peace by political negotia- tion. The fact that the President feels he is compelled to embrace Ky andi Thieu vrmnov sall his notions skill of Ellsworth Bunker and all the enthusiasm of his assistant, Robert W. Komer, will not pacify South Vietnam. Moreover, by em- bracing Gen. Ky, the President has shut the door to the possibil- ity that a moderate government in Saigon might negotiate a peace with the Viet Cong. For we may take it as almost probable that unless the President is willing and able to get rid of Ky, or bend him it really would be amazing if the United States, which is incompar- ably the strongest military power in history, were not able to break the will of a small backward coun- try. Yet is is far from certain that our Vietnamese opponents will be crushed by our immense firepower or that they will be so broken in spirit that they will fold their tents and steal away.