Sevent y-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICIGAN . - UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS r EI FER ere Opnions Are Free. 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. Truth Will Preval Nuws PHoNE: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The MichiIan Daily express the individual opinions of staf writers or the editors. This inust be noted in all reprints. EDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1966 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL HEFFER 1.e ViJr O RAIR . IT. I (15E CtLAOV67 BUS W61vcs 56ve,% ACOf, 09,f1 idT AMM'! MW VERY( 8TCOHI6! SMWUWAT r319.oD~lY - CoO6Je. IT'S PtIA~r TXtU iIf' r BY cv~r MAY PMAMFRWP. SAP? J OOW atX uV6 T Yes, Lyndon, There Are Two Chinas THE JOHNSON administration has de- very real and substantial role ir cided to stiffly oppose a move to seat ing the tension of Russia's tr Red China in the United Nations from a generally hostile nation As usual, the current proposal, Al- oriented toward quiet peace. bania's again, stipulates that Red China be admitted in place of Nationalist The United Nations was not ti China. This has been the stumbling block of that transition by any mean -the U.S. is unwilling to unseat Secur- served as an outlet, a safety vale ity Council member Taiwan; China ap- could ease the pressures of inter pears unwilling to compromise even on relations which can too often Taiwan's remaining in the organization hung up on minor points of privi at all. of misunderstanding. The middle ground-replacing Taiwan That there was, in fact, a as a permanent Security Council member where nations including the U.S. with some other Southeast Asian country U.S.S.R. could meet whatever tt while allowing both Chinas to sit in the vation modified the atmospher General Assembly with periodical turns post-war period. And it is atm at the Council table seems- unacceptable that make wars. That there has to both sides. Two compromises are need- war in the west since the UN's I ed-none seems imminent. despite 20 years of tensions se retrospect, quite remarkable. AND SO THE UNITED NATIONS stum- bles along. With no representative BUT WHERE IS the safety v from the world's largest political and Asia? There is a war there, ideological activist, the organization United States remains at odds b3 lacks legitimacy. It cannot work on the tion with China. And the United key issue of the day when neither China is irrelevant in Asia. Things ar nor North Viet Nam are a part of the tighter and there is much less co workings. Indeed, it cannot hope to work cation than is safe. anywhere in pivotal Southeast Asia until China is a member. And than is necessary. The A An organization that will hope to al- public and probably Congress are leviate the pressures that. lead to con- verse to recognizing China. The flict must first. include the combatants the "morality" of recognizing the under its roof-indeed that is the crux government died the day the of its, function. Parties at odds with each States recognized its first dictat other can air their complaints, play their an act it has repeated numerous ti politics, bang their shoes on tables. But they can't shoot at each other while they NEITHER CHINA nor the Unite are talking to each other, and they can't has ever had much propensity walk out of the room without the whole promise stands once taken. BL world seeing it. that's what wars are made of. THUS THE UN could serve after World -HARVEY WASSI War II not a charismatic but in fact a Editorial Directo The Negro, the 'U,' and OAP. n lessen- ransition to one she cause s, but it ve which national become lege and building and the he moti- e of the ospheres been no nception eems, in alve for but the y defini- Nations re much ommuni- merican not ad- issue of Chinese United orship- ;imes. d States to com- ut then, ERMAN r are con- S e6T.R4 TAKE ICY M5 )T YO LMX LO~?I L.AT AI)TIsi& tOAOT TlO 7R, TRSi aj WJEL- (T5 A L TYTru6 RAPICA FOMR'H-( THIS PEHAPS SN~xr RADICAV MV XV WCA)A- U Mrh. I'M4 A Gtr, " M,. .St ~t I i Sept. 21: Ad Hoc Bits of Concern 4 By LEONARD PRATT Associate Managing Editor SUCCESSFUL implementation of the Knauss report on student participation - one of the best, most significant documents ever turned out by a faculty body on this campus-is unfortunately very much in doubt. The report is good because of the incredible amount of effort that went into it - almost two years of work by some of the most experienced minds here, be- fore it was finished. The work required merely to find the 92 var- ious student advisory committees on campus, much less to find out what they do, must have been im- mense.. IT IS SIGNIFICANT because it recognizes the growing world-, liness of this generation's students and recommends ways to channel it in a constructive manner. The Byrne report at Berkeley would have done the same thing, but the regents there could not quite see their way into the future. Knauss' report is more important because it is presenting construe- tive proposals in an atmosphere in which they might be able to thrive. But only might. It is an obvious fact that, as a rule, the better a report - the deeper it looks into its assigned problems, the more direct the changes it proposes in current procedures, the better its grasp of the relationships involving its charge-the less chance it has of being implemented. Good re- ports almost inevitably offend powerful people by telling them how they could do their jobs bet- ter, or by telling them they shouldn't be done at all. And the' powerful people promptly bury the good reports. ON THESE GROUNDS, the Knauss statement could be in big trouble. For one of the outstanding char- acteristics of Michigan's educa- tional system, statewide and in Ann Arbor. is its ability to swal- low reports which suggest reforms in it. In 1958 the final version of the Legislature's Russel report was released, giving proposals for guidelines for development for the state's future educational estab- lishment. A few of those propos- als have been partially implement- ed ,but for reasons far from those cited by Russel. The various studies of Michi- gan's medical education system have had even less success. De-- spite their all but unanimous stand against the creation of a third state medical school, it is nearly certain that Michigan State Uni- versity will soon expand its two- year College of Human Medicine into a full four-year medical pro- gram. IN 1965, Gov. George Romney's much-vaunted Blue. Ribbon com- mittee brought out quite a com- prehensive report. Presumably it looks nice on the governor's shelf, but that's about as far as it's gone. Locally things aren't much bet- ter. There is an incredible number of faculty studies on subjects from the growth of the literary college to space utilization and academic reforms that are now so obscure that it's almost im- possible to obtain a copy of them One of the most successful edu- cational reports to come along has been the University's Reed report on the reorganization of the administrative machinery dealing with students. The pres- ent Office of, and vice-presiden- cy for, Student Affairs owe their existence and their authority to it. BUT THE REPORT was accept- ed as completely and as readily as it was only because of the great pressures acting on the ad- ministration at the time. The Uni- versity's student population was increasing in size and complexity very rapidly and the old machin- ery for dealing with it was liter- ally crumbling under the pressure. The usual administrative recrim- inations about implementing wide- spread reforms were therefore overriden by sheer, almost physi- cal, necessity. Nothing in the nature of the University today suggests that the issues dealt with in the Knauss report carry this same impetus behind them. On the contrary, it's easy to see how it could go the same route as almost every major faculty report except Reed's. Despite the Assembly's proposed formation of a Joint Advisory Committee whose "primary pur- pose . . . is to implement the vari- ous recommendations in this re- port," there will be the usual ten- dencies for the administration to shelve the report. THE REGENTS will leave the matter to the executive officers. The President will leave it to his vice-presidents. They, in turn, will leave things to the vice-president for student affairs who is already struggling to set up student ad- visory boards to the vice-presi- dents, a struggle which cannot but seriously affect his opinion of the report's recommendations. Administratively the report, by being everyone's job, could easily become no one's job. And without the administration's whole-heart- ed cooperation, the Joint Advis- ory Committee-on which the suc- cess of the Knauss report hinges -will be helpless. More Answ ers Needed onnsideration to Negroes who a LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: THE OPPORTUNITIES Awards Pro- gram, after a shaky start, hasty plan- ning and insufficient time for proper re- cruitment, has begun to blossom into an effective and worthwhile project. The program was initiated in 1964 as an attempt to put the University within reach of students from low-income fam- ilies. From the beginning it has been plagued by a ,high dyopout rate-losing almost half the students who enrolled the first year of the program. However, with time ,experience, and genuine concern on the part of the ad ministration, the program is now making an invaluable contribution to the Univer-, sity. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has un- derwritten a large part of the pro- gram's expansion under Title Four of the Higher Education Act. However, money was not the real stum- bling block to an effective program. For the OAP is much, more than a scholar- ship program in which students, quali- fied on the basis of academic averages and test scores, vie for a limited supply of money. Under OAP, the college recruiter must take extra pains to find hidden talent in the culturally deprived student-abil- ity which may not show up in marks or testing especially geared for the middle- class Caucasian. More subjective criteria had to be developed to enable the pro- gram to reach the right student. This fall, 90 award winners have reg- istered at the University, an increase of more than one-third over last year's fig- ure. THE FACT REMAINS that the Opportu- nities Awards Program only goes a small part of the way in solving the prob- lem of disproportionately low Negro en- rollment figures., Opportunity awards are geared only to- ward chose students whose family income falls below a certain level and includes white and oriental students. The pro- gram does not and should not have any- thing to do with the recruitment of quali- fied middle-class Negroes who have the money to attend the University. But, money, in many cases, is not a sidering attending the University. THERE IS A RAPIDLY expanding Ne- gro middle-class in this state which for some reason does not wish to take. advantage of the University's resources. Official University policies and attitudes are not keeping potential Negro students away. Bias in housing has been largely eliminated in Ann Arbor. Then what exactly are the reasons Ne- groes choose other schools, many infer- ior, over the University? Whatmiscon- ceptions are harbored in the Negro com- munity about the University which are preventing the University from recruiting its share of the qualified Negro students? WHILE THE NUMBER of Negroes at- tending colleges and universities throughout the nation has risen drama- tically in the last five years, Negro en- rollment is still below 500 here in a state where there are seven to eight hundred thousand Negro residents. To determine what these misconcep- tions are, to spotlight the sources of dis- content and to eradicate them is the task the University must tackle. If the trouble seen is really non-existent or not within the scope of University influence or authority, then an intensive public re- lations campaign to dispel the myths surrounding the University must be at- tempted. THE UNIVERSITY Steering Committee.. on the Development of Academic Op- portunities, the coordinating committee for Negro staff and student recruitment programs, presently has before it a pro- posal calling for a sociological survey to determine just where Negroes are going to school. The committee, which has yet to take any sort of decisive action since its crea- tion last January, must give serious con- sideration to the proposal and do so as soon as possible. One member of the committee esti- mated that a comprehensive study of po- tential Negro college students-their col- lege preferences and vocational ambi- tions-throughout the state of Michigan would cost $25,000. THIS IS A SIZABLE figure. But, unless S-QC Prexy Replies to Letter To the Editor: DEBBIE REAVEN'S editorial "A Bad Start for IHA" made sev- eral good points which West Quad Council refuses to acknowledge. First, the statement that Sherry Meyer was due at two meetings at the same time did give the general impression that she was trying to rush through the meet- ing. Misst Meyer's first responsi- bility is to IHA and as its presi- dent, that is a complete responsi- bility. Miss Reaven was in error in stating there wasno executive board meeting; there was one Tuesday, Sept. 6. However, sev- eral of the members of that board left that meeting with the understanding that there was to be another session Sunday to plan the President's Council meeting. The Tuesday meeting was mark- ed by lack of communication - only three people had shown up by 7:30'p.m. A quorum was fin- ally obtained, but little was done in preparation for Monday's meet- ing. This is what Miss Reaven, was criticizing. What still needs to be done, un- fortunately, is for the President's Council, the Executive Board, and even the President herself to reach accord on what their role and function as a residence hall gov- ernment should be. The vote of confidence received by the orga- nization last spring has not dim- inished, but it very easily could. Several of the houses in the system are in despair over the inability of IHA to get moving, to do something. The momentum that the organization ought to receive from its leaders is not being de- livered. There exists in the residence halls a great pool of experience, capability and interest which re- mains untapped merely because there exists no established method of communication with the resi- dents. There is no way of telling them that there exists in the dor- mitory a living and learning en- vironment as complete as can be found anywhere else at this uni- versity. Upperclassmen in the dorms, although a small number, should be enlisted to help trans- mit this idea to incoming stu- dents. . attaining maximum social, cul- tural, academic and athletic ful- fillment. Attempts at implementing these extra-curricular goals should not be discouraged but should be the primary concern of the Inter- House Assembly. The speaker pro- gram at South Quad would have been an ideal place for the As- sembly to assert itself progressive- ly. True, as West Quad Council's letter points out, the budget had not been approved, but even the President herself admitted that the appropriation asked for could have been added to the budget be- fore approval or taken out of the contingency fund. As for IHA's speaker program, WQC neglected to mention that IHA did not start planning one until after the program in South- Quad had been firmly establish- ed. That program, contrary to what WQC stated, was set up to give not only the residents of South Quad, but the more than 7500 residents of the entire sys- tem the opportunity to learn more about problems of community interest for it to be financially re- buffed refutes the basic principles upon which IHA was established. IHA is going to be judged by its actions, and not its words; the time for procrastination is long since past. South Quad, as should all who take the initiative in similar pro- grams, should be financially sup- ported in its efforts to provide the example of what can be done in positive dorm living. West Quad Council's letter al- so criticized the editorial for stat- ing that "'a valuable source of strength is being missed' by not utilizing upperclassmen." Al- though there are upperclassmen on the Executive Council, IHA still does nothave the leadership of an experienced president. Miss Meyer, when elected last February to head IHA, a new or- ganization of importance, was a freshman. In such an important position, someone is needed a little more experienced than a sopho- more. THE POTENTIAL is there. IHA does have some good programs as pointed out in the editorial and letter. It remains to be seen, how- ever, whether they will be imple- mented as well as possible. The fate of IQC was the price of ig- noring the needs of the students, while becoming embroiled in petty bickering. The dissension in. IHA must end; if it is to succeed. Progress can be achieved by learning from the lessons of failure. The needs of the students are the same wheth- er they are in East Quad or Alice Lloyd. The challenge is to deal with these problems today, and with positive action. THE YEAR is still young,, and there is no way to go but forward. Only in a united effort will the residence halls and IHA be able to carry out any worthwhile plans and make what was in fact " a "Bad Start for IHA" into a good year. -Steven Brown, '69 President, South Quad Council Bicycle Plea To the Editor: TN THE SEPTEMBER-October issue of University Record (a bulletin for faculty and staff mem- bers) there is a short article on the University's plans to construct walkway systems on the campus grounds. In that article we are forewarned that, in the future, bi- cycles (not just motorbikes) will be banned from campus. The article quotes Mr. John Telfer. University planner, as say- ing, "Bicycle parking will be mov- ed from present locations near each building to generous parking lots about the edges of Central and North Campuses and the Medical Center." ISN'T THERE some way in which we can stop this irrespon- sible action before it takes place? Bicycles on campus are by no stretch of the imagination noisy, hazardous, or in any way disturb- ing to the regular business of the University. Being able to park one's bicycle within a hundred feet of the en- trance to most buildings on cam- pus saves many thousands of peo- ple many precious minutes several times daily. Moreover, that con- venience is one of the few things that makes it possible for stu- dents who have classes great dis- tances from each.other to get to class on time. For that reason I think it is important that faculty, as well as students, seek to have the planner's office alter those plans. -Kenneth Fisher, Grad 4 Rean Impressive Job By EDMUND CREETH Associate Professor of English MY FOND HOPE of last year year that "The Offset Per- spective" would not perish from the campus has been handsomely gratified. The second issue re- peats the very satisfactory mix- ture of information, intellection, and literary art that characterized the first. Despite the shortcom- ings to which I am obliged to call attention, the magazine is well worth buying and reading. A new department, wittily en- titled "Perspectives: On and Off Set," proposed to devote itself to cultural events pending at the time of the issue and presents this time what are really historical brochures for the University Mu- sical Society, the PTP, and the Ypsilanti Greek Theatre. (The de- the Ark and a history of the John Barton Wolgamot Society.) The articles supply background' material and inside knowledge of much value. The only trouble is that the first and third are atro- ciously written, in just the way that brings out the basic sadism of reviewers and instructors in Freshman English. The historian of the Music Society writes sen- tences of doubtful logic and mas- terful obscurity. Parallelism he knows not of, and he exposes him- self to criticism by speaking of things like the "compact concerts with orchestra" of the May Festi- val, the way in which the at- mosphere of a church proves "con- ducive to Biblical text and ancient sounds," and "the historic im- port of the 12th century." His- toric indeed! Where would we all be without it? terpretation of the "Oresteia" seems to me hair-raising. Marcel- la Cisney's briefer "Restrospec- tive" on the PTP is however ex- cellent.' THE MAJOR ESSAY is "Ele- mentary Particles, Time Reversal (and All That)" by Oliver E. Over- seth. Prof. Overseth probably wrote it off the top of his head, but what goes on there is well worth encountering, and the writ- ing is literate and graceful, neith- er unnecessarily difficult nor pa- tronizing. (The editorial apology for giving so much space to sci- ence strikes me as awkward be- cause unnecessary.) There is also a fine essay, with illustrations, on "Coins as Auto- biography, Marc Antony" written by T. V. Buttrey. A facetious and satirical piece, "A University of Mi.hiva." hvyElton B. Mc- Contributions by undergraduates are conspicuously and regrettably few. The magazine earnestly sol- icits them, and I urge students to take this opportunity to be pub- lished and read and the teachers of classes which still require writ- ing to persuade their best students to contribute to "Offset," using force if necessary. Scattered through the issue, however, is some good poetry by younger writers, notably a gen- erous selection from a Hopwood- winning manuscript by Wendy Roe, who all but overcame my preJudice against free verse, she writes so directly'and simply out of experience. Yet my favorite poem is that by Peter R. Wood, though the eighth line is wrong and the title must of course be changed: "To Some Girl in the Arboretum.