i Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIC-IGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD TN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS FEIFFER ;= - qmm Opinions Are Free, 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. ruth 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, OCTOBER 23, 1966 yADD P Lt- PAT' NIGHT EDITOR: LAURENCE MEDOW The Difference Between Protest and Sabotage A G SCRAA h r TNG POLL1S SOW HE)6 15UOL.)Mc 7 GA 10~)6 ~ 10 r (&)IS H" XCALC- Foe IF ISLOW Vp(S)TN. A( ASIA ()j ocoee 4/i TIHE POLLS' -S'HOW M N rLO;ID & jA MA UALAfS 'To BE '%6IE 6'i THE CULTURAL exchange program be- tween the United States and the So- viet Union, which has probably contrib- uted more to international understand- ing than any other single project, is be- ing threatened by the actions of a few extreme individuals who persist in try- ing to -sabotage the efforts of both na- tions to move toward a relaxation of tensions. FRIDAY NIGHT'S concert in Detroit by the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, a su- perb instrumental group, was disrupted by several members of the right-wing Breakthrough organization. Apparently these individuals, who also belong to the John Birch Society, felt they were do- ing their part to make this world a more decent place in which to live by disrupt- ing and picketing the concert. One of them went on stage, forcing a halt in the concert. A scuffle followed between the diligent protector of Amer- ica's freedoms and a justifiably outraged member of the audience. Two Break- through members were arrested, and the audience booed them as they left. For- tunately, the mentality which sees a worldwide conspiracy to subvert the American Way in the act of sending some Russian musicians to perform in this country is limited only to a few pathet- ically sick individuals. But damage was done to the cultural exchange program. The chamber group's director, Rudolf Barshai, was understand- ably upset and protested the incident to the State Department. How many other Russian artistic groups and individuals - renowned throughout the world for their unparalleled quality- will be eager to go on an American tour when incidents like the one in Detroit happen? IT IS DANGEROUS and foolish to try to equate political issues with culture in any form. For example, Hitler was known to be an admirer of Richard Wagner's music, yet that fact did not and should not have prevented the appreciation and performance of Wagner's music in this country and our Allies resisting the Nazi blitz. Likewise, throughout the tension-filled period of the cold war, Russian ballet groups such as the Bolshoi, orchestras such as the Leningrad Philharmonic, and solo instrumentalists like Emil Gilels and David Oistrakh have played to capacity audiences in this country. No one has suggested that Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky should not be read or that Tchaikovsky's music cannot be played because of poli- tical differences between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. IT IS THROUGH the arts that human beings both in the U.S. and in Com- munist nations can discover a common bond and realize the all-important fact that humanity must co-exist harmoni- ously despite differences in their poli- tical, economic and social systems--dif- ferences which in some cases may be well justified because of a particular nation's social and historical heritage. However, it is the paranoid individual in our society, both on the Right and on the Left, who threatens the laborious but slowly progressing efforts by mankind to reach greater mutual understanding. The John Birchite who sees a Red under every bed and the New Left ideologue who can find nothing good in American society both suffer from a persistent delusion that paints the world in bold black and white strokes, ignoring the ultimate real- ity that most issues can only be solved in that vast grey area where differing opinions and systems of thought must be reconciled to produce a meaningful synthesis. THUS, THE ATTEMPTS of organiza- tions such as Breakthrough to break down and destroy the hard-won steps to- ward international understanding, which are being taken in spite of the Viet Nam war, must be condemned. To be sure, any political organization has a right to prop- agate its opinions through peaceful dem- onstrations and picketing. But when a group invades a concert and forces the orchestra members to re- treat backstage in humiliation, the line between free expression of opinion and disturbance of the peace has certainly been crossed. -CLARENCE FANTO Managing Editor Witchcraft (AN YOU BELIEVE your eyes and ears? I don't know anymore. After seeing Lyndon Johnson wave his great hand over Samoa this week and command that it arise and walk, it is hard to know what to accept. If he could only do that sort of thing back home... Perhaps Johnson isn't God, but did you notice how that tidal wavebacked down? Then again, maybe there was no tidal wave. Maybe the whole thing is a hoax. -CHARLOTTE A. WOLTER Associate Editorial Director j ~CALAT5 7/ -M" The Children 's Community: Yea Kids! By HARVEY FEINBERG Daily Guest Writer "Start new kinds of schools. Don't coerce the children. Don't test them and grade them. Don't pretend that they .are all alike. Have patience and faith in the innate powers of life." -A. S. Neill, "Summerhill" NEILL'S PHILOSOPHY forms the cornerstone of the Ann Ar- bor Children's Community School. The school meets at the Friends Center, weekday mornings, and it is open to anyone. The children's ages range from four to six years. Those who can- not afford tuition do not pay; oth- ers pay according to a sliding scale. The teachers at the school, aided by assistants, are certified teachers, college students, poets. THE SCHOOL recognizes, along with a growing number of icono- clastic educators, that the rela- tionship between a child's curiosity and his environment is the most crucial factor in the learning proc- ess. Rote mechanical learning has become a death-blow to the for- mation of a human being. But building a bridge between what is of organic, innate interest to the child and that interest's extension into his uniquely-perceived envir- onment can enable the child to become a healthy, happy adult. A child should be free to fol- low nis own inclinations into what- ever constructive direction they lead. TO A CHILD, a word is not a typographical abstraction; it is alive with the fire of being. To a child, a number is not merely a quantitative abbreviation: it burns with a multitude of flowers, stars, stones, trees. To a child, play is the act of shaping and defining living inner perceptions. It is by following this humanization of external reality, that a child can come into true contact with that reality. This is the bright red exclama- tion point of our school! WE DO NOT intend to be caught up in the authoritarian grind- stones of American education. Rather we intend to bring our grain to life. We believe, therefore, that a child's living environment is not to be prestructured, but rather that the school structure is to have a natural relationship with the growing process. The school fits the child. Thus, our school is not at all limited to a classroom; it probes with its antennae itno the entire outside world. The community is more truly our classroom - the buildings our desks, the streets our paders, imagination our ink. We take trips. (Once we traced the life history of an apple from the orchard to the. grocery store. The children are now more fa- miliar with both the natural and economic properties of the apples they eat.) OUR SCHOOL is approximately half white and half black, but it is crucial to note that it is not founded on rockbed integration. For no two cultures are miscible to the extent that their essential, almost chemical properties can be eradicated. What we try to achieve isthe opportunity for independent, uni- que cultures to act as catalysts upon one another; to charge each other with multicolored sparks bottled in their organic founda- tions. White and black children re- ciprocate the warmth of each oth- er's dialect and customs. Never do they merge into one another, but like sugar spooned into tea, sweet- en all around. For brotherhood is not a mono- lith, but two mountains shaking hands, ACROSS THE U.S. there is a multitude of schools similar to the Children's Community-six in New York state alone. But by multi- tude, of course, we mean only a spit in the bucket-a bucket of bureaucratic proportions. We have no pretentions to rev- olutionizing the extant American education system-at least by a clash of doctrine. That would be like David without his slingshot. However, we hope that at least some of our approach will work its way in, like a draft of fresh air. What we are most concerned with is giving the children who attend our school the chance to grow up uncramped by authori- tarian preconceptions - to give shape to their own lives. WE ARE NOT prophets. We are only people faced with the hum of a mechanical society who wish to banish for a while the hum in the lives of the children that come to us. 4Feinberg is an assistant at the Children's Community.) '4 -Daily-Thomas R. Copi Letters:* Living in East Quadrangle A Tribute to Dean Thuma THE REGENTS Friday recognized the work of two outstanding men in com- mending the retiring Burton D. Thuma, director of the residential college, and naming as his successor Associate Dean James Robertson of the literary college. THUMA, WHO-WORKED closely with the faculty planning committee to establish the final plans for the exciting small college within a large university, deserves every word of the praise the Regents and, before that, the literary col- lege executive committee gave him. Indeed, these two tributes illustrate Thuma's stature-for Thuma battled with both groups to ensure that plans for the new college would not be "economized" until it could no longer provide the kind of quality education and academic Inno- vation which is the aim of the college. Editorial Staff MARK R. KILLINGSWORTH, Editor BRUCE wASSERSTEIN, Executive Editor CLARENCE FANTO HARVEY WASSERMAN Managing Editor Editorial Director LEONyARD PRATT.........Associate Managing Editor JOHN MEREDITH ........ Associate Managing Editor CHARLOTTE WOLTER .. Associate Editorial Director ROBERT CARNEY ...... Associate Editorial Director BABETTE COHN.........,.. Personnel Director ROBERT MOORE.. ..............Magazine Editor CHARLES VETZNER ..... ......Sports Editor JAMES TINDALL ... ........Associate Sports Editor JAMES LaSOVAGE .......... Associate Sports Editor GIL SAMBERG....... ...... Assistant Sports Editor SPORTS NIGHT EDITORS: Grayle Howlett, Howard Kohn, Bill Levis, Bob McFarland, Clark Norton, Rick Stern, John Sutkus, Gretchen Twietmeyer, Dave NIGHT EDITORS: Meredits Eiker, Michael Heffer, Robert Klivans, Laurence Medow, Roger Rapoport, Susan Schnepp, Neil Shister. DAY EDITORS: Robert Bendelow,NealBruss. Wal- ls e Immen, David Knoke, Mark Levin, Patricia O'Donohue, Stephen Wildstrom. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: David Duboff, Ronald Klempner, Dan Okrent, Deborah Reaven, Jennifer Rhea, Betsy Turner. ASSISTANT DAY EDITORS: Michael Dover, Steve Firsheim, Aviva Kempner, Lyn Killin, Carolyn Workirng carefully and slowly, and guid- ed by a deep concern for the fundamental necessities of the. college, Thuma never gave up, gave out or gave in-and thou- sands of future college students will be grateful to him. IN APPOINTING Dean Robertson to suc- ceed Thuma when, with a job well done, he retires this summer, the Re- gents made an outstanding choice. As Dean William Haber of the literary col- lege said in making the recommendation to the Regents, Robertson combines "the respect for higher standards of academic performance and the warm personal in- terest in the welfare of each student which should properly characterize the relationship between the college and its students." As a counselor, professor and adminis- trator, Robertson has gained the affec- tion and respect of his colleagues and students. His record is indeed - quoting Haber again-one of "conspicuous excel- lence," and so will be that of the residen- tial college. ONE FACT, HOWEVER, mars the pleas- ure which Robertson's appointment otherwise would give: the proposed col- lege has yet to receive more than $100 in private donations. If the Regents and administrators want to ensure a success- ful tenure for Robertson as director of the $11.55 million college, there is but one way: They must ensure that the goal of $4 million for it in private donations is reached-and surpassed. --MARK R. KILLINGS WORTH Editor To the Editor: THE BOULDING supporters are by no means a homogeneous group. Some of the motivations that compel different people to support the write-in campaign follow: 1) THE SIMPLEST approach is that of one who considers ourin- tervention in Viet Nam to be un- just, our destruction of the coun- try to be outrageous and who cannot, in conscience, vote for anyone who has voted in favor of war appropriations enabling our troops and planes to continue to kill people. This is a straightfor- ward position of conscience and all other considerations become irrel- evant. 2) A second approach is an ex- tension of the first. Here the fur- ther consideration would be that our Viet Nam involvement is an aberration in a generally correct American foreign anddomestic policy. If that is the case then the question of not supporting a liberal congressman with whom one is in agreement on most is- sues is not to be taken lightly. Boulding supporters who take this position have weighed the war is- sue against other issues and sup- port the write-in in spite of their reluctance to see Vivian defeated. 3) A THIRD approach is that the Viet Nam war is not at all an aberration but a logical step in a pattern of American policy, since 1945, starting with the needless atom bombing of Japan and ex-' tending through the crushing, or attempted crushing, of revolutions in Greece, Iran, Cuba, Santo Do- mingo, the rearming of Germany, the overthrow in Guatemala, the intervention in a civil war in Ko- rea and so forth. The conclusion here is that this pattern will not be broken in the framework of Republican-Demo- cratic politics, that the question of Vivian versus Esch is pure supporters might agree that the U.S. pattern is one of counter- revolution and reaction but that our actions often fall short of be- ing as bad as they could have been. That is, we intervened against the Bolsheviks in 1919 but did not send sufficient forces to be successful; we did not bomb across the Yalu River; Eisenhower, despite the insistence of men like Radford, Nixon and Dulles, did not send troops in Indo-China in 1954; while we engineered an in- vasion of Cuba, Kennedy did not make it an all-out effort. This interpretation leads to the conclusion that pressure might be beaningfully exerted to restrain our government even within the present framework., (A sound case can be made for the preponder- ance of external rather than in- ternal pressures for restraint in most of the above cases-e.g.. the frantic trips to Washington by Att- lee and Faure during the Korean War.) THE QUESTION then is what is the most effective pressure. In our situation there seem to be two ways of answering that: a) Vivian is inadequate as a restrainer and therefore our pro- test must be expressed through an independent campaign without concern for whether Vivian there- by loses, in the hope that this campaign will lead to a third party force in Ann Arbor; or b) Vivian is inadequate and should indeed be defeated in or- der that he not become a fixture in this district-the hope here would be that in the future pres- sure for restraint can be brought to bear by a consistent anti-war Democratic congressman once the party here has learned that no candidate can win without the votes and the door-to-door leg- work of the peace people. THERE ARE compelling enough arguments in any of these ap- proaches. It is an aggravated out- To the Editor: THINK that it is about time that somebody write an article about the living conditions in the quad. I happen to live in East, but I'd rather imagine ,that the conditions are alike in one if not more of the University housing units. The problems are so manythat it is difficult to know where to begin. Perhaps a look at East Quad will suffice as a starter. THE ROOMS in East look more like slums than living units for University students. The walls are cracked or the paint is peeling off to leave the affect of a cheap prison cell that one sees in movies. Admittedly, no one expects the University to paint the rooms every year, but there are 'only two coats of paint on the walls which would tend to indicate that the quad has only been painted twice since its glorious erection. I also must admit that the Uni- versity now has a total of three painters (a little while ago there was only one) to decorate all of the rooms. Perhaps, it should be admitted also that it would be hard to find painters who would be willing to do this work. The oth- er problems of the "slum" can al- most be listed; poor lighting, poor heating, poor bathroom facilities; not enough closet space, etc., ad infinitum. THE PRICE that a student now pays for his private little castle is on the humorous side of this tragedy. For a run-down single room, a student pays $1,010 while a person in an overcrowded dou- ble pays $960. It should be grant- ed that there is such a thing as maid service but this is using the term very loosely. I find it nec- essary to reclean my room even after the maid has diligently dust- ed my chair and window ledge. out what is happening to Sunday evening meals, tablecloths, etc. THERE ARE several more prac. tical problems than these men- tioned so far; highly talked about, in the quad, subject of the open- open policy. As the policy now stands, open-open (times when girls are permitted in the rooms) are restricted to Friday. and Sat- urday nights with limited hours. It is also the ruling that the doors must be kept open half-way. This, indeed, is funny. The reasons for this type of pol- icy must indeed be ludicrous. It is perfectly understandable that the University is agraid of pregnan- cies, but the University is now re- stricting part of a student's devel- opment. If a person is not mature enough to know what the outcome of his actions will be, then he does not belong in this University. When I was a freshman here, I kept hearing about the broad op- portunities for development that the University offered; now the other face speaks only of restrict- ing the student's activities. If a student cannot use his room for his own private affairs then he will turn to go to a friend's apart- ment. What is the difference? SEVERAL of my friends go to schools in the East which have no such stringent rules for residence halls, there is a much more re- laxed atmosphere in boylgirl re- lationships than there is here. A criticism though is of little use without a solution. What I propose is the girls be allowed into the rooms during the week until 11 p.m. Thishwould not only help keep down the noise in the 'UGLI,but would definitely helf reform the barbarian atmosphere that permeates throughout the halls. On the weekends girls should be allowed in the rooms anytime after noon until one-half hour be- fore girls have to be back in their very nice of the University to reward these people with a year of pure hell in the quad. Perhaps it can be explained by the personal satisfaction that these men must obtain from their work. I highly commend all of the staff who work so hard for no visible appreciation by the University. PERHAPS A BRIEF comment about girls hours would be nice to end this with. I can't help but think of the parties last June and last December when girls (at home) were brought back home at six in the morning or perhaps la- ter. Now before people start to shout "SIN," let me say that these were deb parties where the girls and the guys are supposed to be ladies and gentlemen. If the University will admit that they are in no way trying to make ladies out of the girls that first arrive here then perhaps they should be restricted to early hours. If, on the other hand, the Uni- versity will say that ladies do come forth from this university then I contend that these ,same women should be granted the re- spect that is due them. On the other side of the coin, it should be the males who are oversexed and not to be trusted. Now the University should state that they breed rapists and sex maniacs. If this is .the case then the men should be locked in their rooms before night descends. LIFE at this University is not easy nor do I suggest that it should be. I do hold, however, that the living conditions and the sim- ulated living conditions of the hard cruel world outside could be made more realistic and bearable. -Ed Schmidt, '69 Power "(jUR POWER is not in bricks