Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS FEIFFER -ere Opinions Are Free, 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MIcH. Truth Will Prevail NEws PHONE: 764-0552 SAr Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. TURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1966 NIGHT EDITOR: ROGER RAPOPORT I i Baits Housing Petition: Communication Lacking T TACK TOO MUCH. I'M 5th ITSE MUSH. 150' .O MAKE 1r A POOk TO TAW- MORE tUOOLP RTO NE~i OF MYLOOCA*k FIRP~lS. IM 5A1(06 MOW THAI) 10OW. MEQ WIrA 'ITFOR A WkOWA 3TO RFA 4Y SAY1LV--' TiM YOO ARF.#a ANO BECAUSE'~ MPWT M~Y .--' ET 1 }S- i 7oKEEP QUP (Ik)SHT H TO1. E0195 o 8~ LTRRIBLY / I t AS A MATf6R TfVT IS - LOHAT 11 NhU EVuJ g[H B fJt6EH'eal '% AeW-uo A /1ASO61 9Vi /R1 \ U 111nAT4 0 l AU OWe . Il I G c I COMMUNICATION is becoming a lost art at this University. The most recent example of a lack of adequate channels between students and administration is the petition circulated among residents of Vera Baits housing by Dave Ermann, sociology teaching fel- low and resident of Lee House in the North Campus complex. Both students and University officials are at fault. Approximately 250 students signed the petition expressing concern over the high prices of food, inadequate bus service, lack of recreational facilities and study areas. SUGGESTIONS were made in the peti- tion for an alternate bus route elim- inating a 20 minute ride Baits residents must now take, opening the Commons for studying, and bringing activities to the North Campus area. Many of the complaints in the peti- tion have already been taken care of. Extra bus service is being added, activi- ties have been planned, color television sets have been ordered. However, evi- dence of many of these results. are not available to the students. Hence, an out- dated petition that could have been more effective. As a means of bringing the students' feelings to the immediate attention of the administration, the petition was a good attempt at communication. HOWEVER, Director of Housing John Feldkamp feels that had Ermann talked to him, much more ground could have been covered. Ermann had talked to another official in the housing office, Chester Malanoski, business manager, but gained no knowl- edge of any results. He then drew up the petition. The administration, then, maintains that all possible channels of communica- tions were not exhausted. But it's clear that the officials lack an adequate means of communicating their progress to the students although they have made some efforts in that direction. jT SEEMS FEASIBLE that a more com- jlete transmittal of information, pos- sibly a periodical report on decisions that have been made or are in the offing. Per- haps minutes of the open staff meetings could be distributed to the dorms. Another valuable aid would be a repre- sentation structure between North Cam- pus students and the students and offi- cials on the main campus. Either Inter- House Assembly or Student Government Council could serve Baits as an informa- tion service and complaint bureau in an effort to link the two campuses closer together. The University has been responsive to the students' needs. What is needed now is better communications in both direc- tions. -DEBORAH REAVEN Goldwater: Johnson 's Budget Banquet By BARRY GOLDWATER CONGRESSIONAL passage of President Johnson's latest an- ti-business, anti-prosperity and anti-productivity measure is an- other example of the dangers of a lop-sided left-wing majority on Capitol Hill. Conservatives, almost all Re- publicans in this case, voted against the Johnson request to suspend the investment tax cred- it. Left-wing advocates of pro- bureaucracy economy, almost all Democrats, in this case, voted for it. Meantime, the folks at home may well be left wondering just what is going on in Washington. Lyndon Johnson, talking smoothly from whichever side of his poli- tical mouth might seem most pleasing at any given moment, says the suspension of the tax credit is a move to fight inflation, "HURRAY!" say most of the people because they want this shameful inflation of our econo- my to stop. The only ones who gain from inflation are those gov- ernment theorists who obviously are looking for ways to sabotage the market economy. They would love to so economic- ally strap this nation that they would be able to demand more col- lectivist controls on us under the guise of averting the disaster which their sort of mismanage- ment began in the first place. The relationship of inflation and the' investment tax credit is a per- fect case in point. The administration, once it re- luctantly admitted its policies had ushered in a period of alarming inflation, could have faced the fact that the inflation was caus- ed largely by government spend- ing which has wildly exceeded in- come, plunging us deeper into debt. It has, in effect, caused the introduction of more so-called printing-press money into the economy, governmental deficit spending money which competes for goods and services with real or production-based money, thus driving up the general cost of living. THAT WAS the honest fact this administration could have faced. Instead it has chosen to invent a fact of its own. It tells us the cause of inflation is our spending, and this doesn't mean just busi- ness spending. The President some months ago had the nerve to suggest that housewives cut down on their family meals. He should have add- ed: so that Lyndon Johnson doesn't have to cut down on the bureaucratic banquet he has been serving since taking office. The investment tax credit, of course, falls into his crusade against business spending. But that area should ring an alarm bell for every American who works for a living or every young Amer- ican who is on the verge of hav- ing to work for a living. BY GETTING his left-wing ma- jority in Congress to cut out the investment tax credit, Lyndon Johnson may get some $2 billion extra for his spending. What it does at the same time, of course, is to cripple or actually kill ma- jor plans to add new facilities and new jobs to our business and industry. The head of Armco Steel sum- med it up accurately when he said Mr. Johnson's latest anti- business slap will hurt all those companies "trying the hardest to create new job opportunities and to make American industry more competitive with those overseas." Or, as the distinguished fi- nancial journal, Barron's, put it, "Far from slashing expenditures and trying to live within its means, (the administration) plans to live off capital." And the payments will be made by you, your future and by free- dom itself, all of which are being sacrificed in this latest Johnson folly. Copyright, 1966, Los Angeles Times 'I Student Role in Master Plan PEOPLE INVOLVED with the develop- ment of the State Board of Educa- tion's Master Plan for Higher Education agree that students should be involved in the development of the plan. But none of the developers has any idea of the extent to which they should be included or at what phase of the de- velopment their iivolvement should be- gin. Prof. Wilfred Kaplan of the mathemat- ics department, who is chairman of the Michigan AAUP Committee on Coordina- tion of Planning for Higher Education, says students "can best articulate many of the needed changes the master plan must cover." Housing, he says, is but one example. Harold Smith, project director for the development of the plan, agrees that stu- dents have a role but does not know how early in the process that role should begin. THE PLANNERS seem to be ignoring the problem because they're too busy set- ting up committees to represent the oth- er participants-faculty, administration, business and professional interests and the general citizenry. So, it is necessary for students, through student government structures across the state, to weigh the implications the plan holds for them, and to examine the pro- cedure for the plan's development. They must then work out a suggested procedure for student involvement and determine how much and when students should take part. THE MASTER PLANNERS want students to be included but they haven't yet concerned themselves with how. Students must. The planners welcome suggestions and suggestions must come if students are to take their proper place in the development of the state's higher edu- cation master plan. -LAURENCE MEDOW A LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Chem Professor R eplies to Critics A An Easterner Comes West O THE DEWY-EYED, pseudo-sophisti- cated Eastern high school student, the image of the University of Michigan of- fers an interesting challenge: that of a pioneer into that vast wasteland that ex- tends from the Alleghenies west to the California coast. This naive Easterner pictured the Uni- versity as a place of intellectual euphoria Editorial Staff MARK R. KILLINGSwORTH, Editor BRUCE WASSERSTEIN, Executive Editor CLARENCE PANTO HARVEY WASSERMAN Managing Editor Editorial Director LEONARD PRATT........ Associate Managing Editor JOHN MEREDITH.......Associate Managing Editor CHARLOTTE WOLTER .. Associate Editorial Directot ROBERT CARNEY......Associate Editorial Director ROBERT MOORE ................Magazine Editor BABETTE COHN .................. Personnel Director NIGHT EDITORS: Michael Heifer, Merle Jacob, Rob- ert Klivans, Laurence Medow, Roger Rapoport, Shir- ley Rosick, Neil Shister. CHARLES VETZNER................Sports Editor JAMES TINDALL. .......Associate Sports Editor DAMES LaSOVAGE..........Associate Sports Editor GIL SAMBERG..... ....... Assistant Sports Editor SPORTS NIGHT EDITORS: Grayle Howlett, Howard Kahn, Bill Levis, Bob McFarland, Clark Norton, Rick Stern, John Sutkus, Gretchen Twietmeyer, Dave Weir. Business Stafff SUSAN PERLSTADT, Business Manager JEFFREY LEEDS ........Associate Business Manager HARRY BLOCH.............. Advertising Manager STEVEN LOEWENTHAL ........ Circulation Manager ELIZABETH RHEIM...............Personnel Director VICTOR PTASZNIK...............Finance Manager amidst waving cornfields-a sort of en- larged Brook Farm that gives degrees. It's not that Easterners think the Mid- west is totally unpopulated, it's just that it might as well be. Much like foreigners view the United States as a country full of loud-mouthed tourists, Lyndon John- son's, Stokely Carmichael's, and huge Cadillacs, the unenlightened Easterner pictures the Midwest as a region permeat- ed with nasal, twangy voices, staunch Republicans, corn-fed figures, George Romney's, and General Motors. I BUT AS THEIR PURITAN ancestors braved the wilderness and converted the Indians, so the modern-day Eastern- er has a moral duty to show the Righteous Path of existence to the back-country boys. Breaking forth from the conservative, sheltered-Yale, Harvard, Smith--type of college life, an Eastern student assumes the stature of a modern-day Cotton Mather, illuminating the dark world of the Midwestern university.. The Easterner can brave the fiercest test and attend Berkeley-provided he has the physical stamina to make it through four years of dodging demonstra- tions to graduate. HIS PRACTICAL-MINDED nature pre- vents the Easterner from attempting the difficult task of converting Berkeley- ites, he can assimilate the role of a cul- tural missionary and migrate to Michi- gan for four years. If his conversion To the Editor: A NEWS STORY and an editor- ial by Dan Okrent in recent issues of The Daily have attempt- ed to generate emotional concern among students and faculty over evaluation procedures used in the general chemistry courses of the Department of Chemistry. Mr. Okrent's last attack upon Dean' Haber goes beyond the bounds of fair play. The follow- ing facts are presented for evalua- tion by people who can base their judgments on information rather than emotion. 1) The Chemistry Department doesnot require a loyalty oath of any student! Further, no' evaluations of the personal characteristics of any student are ever recorded without that student's consent. 2) On the other hand, mem- bers of the general chemistry, staff are asked to write a very large number of recommenda- tions for students seeking: a) admission to graduate or profes- sional schools, b) employment in various government labora- tories or agencies, c) employ- ment in industry, d) employ- ment as teachers or e) employ- ment in miscellaneous jobs not easily classified above. 3) Because of the large num- ber of people involved, a sys- tem more formalized than mem- ory and notes in a red grade book must be used to keep rec- ords. The cards which Mr. Ok- rent findsrso distasteful repre- sent that system. They are private records kept by the professor for the express purpose of rendering a service to the student when the student, so requests. If the student does not intend to ask for a letter of recommendation, he has only to indicate this on the card, either at the beginning of the semes- ter or during the semester and no personal evaluation record is kept. Mr. Okrent's concern is then with the private information com- piled by a professor (with the stu- dent's consent) in grade books, cards, and memory which can later be used by the professor to aid the student in gaining his career objectives. Such information is of no con- cern to Dean Haber, who is a true liberal; it would be of no concern to Mr. Okrent if he were not over- come with juvenile demagogy. In fact, any attempts by Dean Haber would be (and attempts the professor is asked to render to the student. Other faculty members are not in a position to evaluate the type of information to be collected ex- cept as it relates to their own profession. It is perhaps appro- priate to note further that let- ters of recommendation are in- deed a service rendered by a fac- ulty member to the student. Let- ters of recommendation do not represent a student's rights., IF A STUDENT objects to the collection of information by a faculty member, he has no busi- ness asking for a letter of rec- ommendation which requires mu- tual trust as well as faith in the proper use of all available facts and opinions. In view of this assertion, it is appropriate to repeat: any stu- dent who will not, at any time in the future, ask the freshman chemistry staff for a letter of recommendation will not have a personal evaluation made. This is a long standing policy of the De- partment of Chemistry. Further, any student or former student who has now changed his mind and feels threatened by the information contained in the gen- eral chemistry files may write a letter to me requesting destruc- tion of his card or cards. UPON RECEIPT of this letter, properly signed, all general chem- istry records pertaining to that student will be destroyed and no future requests for recommenda- tions or other services will be honored. Mr. Okrent's invasion of the privacy of the faculty is a sorry display of the infringement of the rights of others-it is an at- tack upon the very cause to which lip service is so frequently given by pseudo-liberals, yet which is so dear to the hearts of those who truly cherish academic free- dom. -Robert W. Parry Professor of Chemistry (Mr. Okrent's editorial, "Stu- dent Loyalty Evaluation: Threat to Free Thought," was critical of "the eight-year-old chemis- try department practice of 'per- sonality evaluation'" and said it was, in effect, "an involuntary 'loyalty oath'." As disclosed in a news article, "Disloyalty Quer- led by Chem. Form," in The Daily of Sept. 30, 1966, the stu- dent "personality evaluation" form used in the chemistry de- partment for recommendations included a question asking in- structors, "Do you know of any facts indicating disloyalty to the U.S.? If so state them." (Dean Haber, commenting on the question, said that it "seems unreal" and announced an in- vestigation of it.) Peace Vote To the Editor: THE IMPORTANCE of intro- ducing a third. peace candidate in the November congressional election, so it is claimed, is that Mrs. Boulding offers a clear-cut alternative policy stand for those citizens dissatisfied with the views of Congressman Vivian and Mr. Esch, I am not disputing the sincer- ity of. the motivations of the peace party or their right as free citizens to mobilize their opinions into political action. However. I am concerned with the conse- quences of their action. Specifically, I am referring to, Prof. Boulding's remarks concern- ing his reasons for supporting the peace candidate, yet, at the same time praising the work of Con- gressman Vivian. I quote: "I myself would regret very much the defeat of Congress- man Vivian . . . both because I admire him as a person and be- cause he has been a ,conscien- tious, hard working and very intelligent congressman." The primary purpose for pre- senting a third candidate, as I understand it, is to express dis- approval of U.S. (Johnson) for- eign policy in Viet Nam, not to win an election. That is all fine and good. PROF. BOULDING even con- cedes that the peace candidate is unlikely to win. However, regard- less of their convictions, valuable votes will be shifted away from Congressman Vivian into the lap of the opposing Republican candi - date. Ironically, in Prof. Bould- ing's own words, Congressman Vivian deserves to be reelected, yet he is pushing for his defeat. Politics demands an ability to compromise, to maneuver, to sat- isfy the needs, concerns and feel- ings of the constituents one rep- resents, rather:; than to voice the demands of one particular interest group within that constituency. Congressman Vivian has done just this and more. WHEN ADAMANT and unyield- ing persons break into a separate faction, they are defeating their essential objectives, since they thereby invite defeat for the de- serving designated party candidate through the solitting of its vote. ed by the University Housing Of- fice is definitely unfair. Under the new program, all studnts would be charged $1000 regardless of whether their room is a single, double, or triple, This plan is unreasonable since living and studying conditions are not the same for all three types of rooms. A converted triple is much more crowded than is a single room, and the amount of time a student can study in a tri- ple depends upon the activities of two other people. By living in a single room, one avoids these inconveniences and pays extra to do so. Thus, the rates for a double or triple room should not be the same as that of a single. UNDER THE NEW system, rooms would be assigned on a seniority basis. This method would certainly form a rift between stu- dents in the various classes. Freshmen living in triples would begrudge sophomores living in doubles, who in turn would re- sent the juniors and seniors in single rooms. Under the present system, dor- mitory rooms are delegated on the basis of student preference and the amount the student can af- ford to pay. In this way, the lower fee of a triple compensates somewhat for its inconveniences. ACCORDING TO Mr. Feldkamp, it is hoped that the new system will entice seniors to move back into the dorms since they will then be assured of either single or double rooms. The chances that more seniors will move back, however, are rath- er slim since under the present program any senior can have a single for only $10 more per year or a double for $50 less than next year's proposed fees. Giving seniors priority will not necessarily encourage them to re- turn to the dorms. Most'upper- classmen who live in the dormi- tories get the type of room they request anyway. It is the feel- ing of independence that makes apartment living more attractive. SINCE the University wants to change its dormitory rate policy, I hope it can find a fairer way of doing so. If rooms are to be assigned on a seniority basis, then the rates should be adjusted so that single rooms and converted triples do not command the same A "What A Crazy Nightmare-I Dreamed That Stupid Tortoise Beat Me Again" -' / 6 l("( .t , cl. c . 2 r A -- , Jr 4¢RAN.1 }U ~ ~,~.Tk'.