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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1966
NIGHT. EDITOR: NEIL SHISTER
The Break and Yesterday:
Hard Work and Cooperation
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THURSDAY NIGHT SGC may well have
preempted a major crisis by causing
a minor one.
The working relationship between the
student body and the administration,
represented in many ways by the SGC's
relationship with the Office of Student
Affairs, has been impossible. The admin-
istration has been rigid and has made
no meaningful concessions to student de-
mands.
What did SGC do by severing its ties?
Only one thing stands out-it declared
itself the leader of the student body. Be-
fore Monday night SGC had never been
that; it had been more a part of the ad-
ministration than the student body.
NOW AT LAST this campus will have
elected student representatives real-
ly interested in leading it. At Berkeley,
there was no such student government
leadership. Activism of the highest in-
tent lost its direction because of a lack
of a real set of goals. There was no sub-
stantive basis for participation-only the
catch phrases.
We were on the other side. Until this
week, SGC's goals were defined in terms
of one tiny system-the Office of Stu-
RICHARD L. CUTLER
dent Affairs. Those goals were clearly
useless. They represented a bit-by-bit
progression to the nothingness an admin-
istration would provide to keep us quiet.
We may not know exactly where we
are going now, but there is only one way
to get even the slightest idea-get out of
the smaller system and into the real cne,
the one where students, faculty and ad-
ministrators can deal with each other in
good faith, on an equal basis, toward a
strictly-defined structure. Now, at least,
we have a chance.
SGC'S MOVE has unfortunately car-
ried a stigma to one man' in the Of-
fice of Student Affairs, but, he is not
wholly deserving of that stigma..
Richard Cutler has always been a
friend of the student and faculty voice.
Years ago he helped found the most ac-
tive group on this campus. He came to
his present job through activities in the
name of the students and faculty.
Now he is a villain. But it is the ad-
ministration and Regents more than Cut-
Editorial Staff
MARK R. KILLINGSWORTH, Editor
BRUCE WASSERSTEIN, Executive Editor
CLARENCE FANTO HARVEY WASSERMAN
Managing Editor Editorial Director
LEONARD 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 TINDALI ........... Associate Sports Editor
JAMES LaSOVAGE. . Associate Sports Editor
OIL SAMBERG .........Assistant Sports Editor
SPORTS NIGHT EDITORS: Grayle Howlett, Howard
Kohn, Bill Levis, Bob McFarland, Clark Norton, Rick
Stern, John Sutkus, Gretchen Twietmeyer, Dave
Wei.
JUNIOR MANAGERS-Gene Farber, Erica Keeps, Bill
Kraues, Sam Offen, Carol Neimera, Diane Smaller,
Michael Stecklis, Jeanne Rosinaki, Steve Wechsler.
NIGHT EDITORS: Meredits Eiker, Michael Heffer,
Robert livans,:Laurence Medow, Roger Rapoport,
Susan Schnepp, Neil Shister+
Business Staff
SUSAN PERLSTADT, Business Manager
JEFFREY LEEDS........Associate Business Manager
HARRY BLOCH..... ....Advertising Manager
STEVEN LOEWENTHAL ........Circulation Manager
ELIZABETH RHEIN............. Personnel Director
ler personally who are the villains.
They saw fit to place a man in a posi-
tion whereby he was denied any real
power unless he totally relinquished one
area of his responsibilities, and whereby
his day-to-day job has depended on sup-
pressing genuinely interested members
of the community.
THAT A POSITION would ever exist in
any university-whereby an official
whose hopes for accomplishing a given
set of ends depend first on the blatant
suppression and petty politicking against
a genuinely interested constituency-is
an indictment of irresponsibility against
the men who created that position.
Richard Cutler's job has been and will
continue to be an impossible one by defi-
nition. He has been hired to sit between
two walls moving in opposite directions.
Once'that fact was recognized, the SGC
break with OSA was only a matter of
time.
Hlopefully, the SGC break will be cor-
rectly read as a break with the system as
defined, not as a slap at any one per-
sonality.
AND HOPEFULLY the break will dem-
onstrate beyond a doubt that students
mean to be heard. The draft referendum
was the big one-1,000 students voted.
But it is significant to note gthat only 15
per cent of the people who voted on the
draft referendum neglected to vote on
the SGC ballot.
It is further significant to note that
over 1000 people attended a meeting yes-
terday to decide what to do about the
referendum, and where to take the new-
ly independent SGC.
So there is support on campus previ-
ously known only for its apathy.
But there must also be leadership:
democratically-elected, broad-based lead-
ership. That means some organizations
may have to sacrifice a bit of their inde-
pendence, that means others may have
to sacrifice their traditional lethargy.
Ways of doing things may have to change
for all of us.
THE LESSON of yesterday's long, chaot-
ic meeting in the Union is that Stu-
dent Government Council is the logical
leader of this campus movement, and
that as far as organizations go, there
must be one and only one group leading
the charge.
SGC is elected, and its leadership and
general composition offer an ideal rest-
ing place for the various factions that
exist.
It is clear that each organization will
contribute to the otherand that this
united action will make us all a bit rich-
er in the way we do things.
BUT IT IS ALSO CLEAR that the stu-
dent body here encompasses simply
too broad a spectrum of personalities for
any one of them to take offense at the
sacrifice of a few traditional mores.
It's like the United Nations-if people
keep threatening the veto, we're as im-
potent as the UN is.
And if Student Government Council's
independence goes wasted, effective,
broad-based and faculty-supported stu-
dent force on this campus goes down the
drain.
Happy birthday, SGC.
-HARVEY WASSERMAN
Nothing New
IF THERE IS ANY DOUBT leh t about,
the Manila conference, Neil Sheehan
killed it in Sunday's Times:
"THE TERMS of the (Manila) communi-
que, because they are vaguely word-
ed appear at first glance to be concilia-
tory. Their very vagueness, however, hides
their essential harshness, for it allows
the terms to be interpreted in a very'
broad sense; and it has become evident'
that the administration is interpreting
them in this manner.
"As understood by administration of-'
ficials and other observers, the terms of'
the Manila communique would amount to
a virtual dismantling of the North Viet-
namese and Viet Cong military structures
in South Viet Nam and the withdrawal of
these elements to the North.
Peace Corps:
Ten
By BOB CARNEY
Associate Editorial Director
Second in a Series
D HEARD ABOUT the training
camp in Puerto Rico. "They
toss you in the water with your
hands and legs tied and tell you
to survive. You list the foods
that make you sick, and then
they make you eat them. You sit
in a circle and say what you don't
like about each other. You learn
to climb mountains whether you're
interested in learning or not."
That was my conception of
Peace Corps training as I left the
quiet of Dearborn, Mich., for 10
weeks of advanced training in
Thailand community development
in Columbia, Mo.
My fears were unfounded.
Five hours later, I was escorted
to an air-conditioned room in the
most expensive dorm (complete
with swimming pool) on the Mis-
souri campus, with 10 weeks of
the unknown ahead of me.
And it was that unknown that
created far more pressure than
any of the physical exercises the
60 trainees went through.
FOR THE "UNKNOWN" turned
out to be 10 weeks of classes from
7 a.m. to 10 p.m.--including lan-
guage, community development,
area studies and phys ed. All
but one of those weeks was spent
with the same 60 trainees.
It was intensive, to say the least.
We got to like, dislike and gen-
erally know those 60 people better
than we'd ever thought we could.
We ate together, studied together,
worked together, dozed through
lectures together, drank and ar-
gued about the war together, play-
ed soccer together.
We were also asked to evalu-
ate each other, and after seven
weeks or so, we knew pretty well
who we could stand to work with
for two years, and who could
stand us. For some, it was an en-
couraging 19 weeks, for others, dis-
turbingly revealing.
* * *
IN 10 WEEKS, we were to learn
to 'speak Thai, develop communi-
ties, understand the differences
between American and Thai value
systems, and evaluate our own
mental and physical health. And,
we tried.
Language was top priority. For
five hours a day we recited dia-
logues, corrected our "tone" (Thai
has five of them), or took tests on
our speaking and vocabulary skills.
Our instructors, all native Thais,
were excellent. Always willing to
work overtime if we were, they
also filled us in on Thai man-
ners and mores.
For someone who doesn't mem-
orize too well, and who would
rather drink than think after 10
hours of class, it got pretty frus-
trating at times. I finished 13th in
a field of 60, with an even zero
on my Foreign Service Exam.
COMMUNITY Development was
second on the list. Volunteers used
to learn "CD" as its termed, in
the first month of their stay over-
seas-by practice. We were to be
prepared.
Lecture on the theory of com-
munity organizing took up two or
three hours a week, with field ex-
perience in Central Missouri com-
munities allotted one full day a
week.
The field work was enlighten-
ing. Dropped off in communities of
from 200 to 600 people, we set
out to "determine the leaders, the
resources, the needs and the 'pow-
er structures' of the towns; and
to push for needed changes."
We learned several things quick-
ly: that rural Missourians don't
instinctively trust college students,
that people
they need
"should"
spending o
years in a
begin to acc
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Arkansas.
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have been;
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almost never feel that much trouble and more study time WHILE the trainees went
what you think they left to the trainee himself. through their "preparation for
want, and that after We tried to put the cultural Thailand," and asked themselves
ne day a week for five knowledge into practice with week whether they really fit the Peace
community, you might long similation of Thai village life Corps picture, the eight return
complish something. In a small camp in a Missouri volunteers, our language instruc-
state park. tors and two psychologists evalu-
LD WORK in central It was a Boy Scout-type camp ated us.
epared us for our week with cabins and campfire and all, They weighed our motivation,
ie Ozark communities but they turned off all the water our commitment, our language
Missouri and northern and we used the local stream. ability, our community develop-
We spoke broken Thai as often ment skills, and our opinions of
pairs, boys alone, we as possible, wore Thai clothes, each other. Then they told us.
into the "main streets" operated a Thai market with sim-
50 villages and told, ilated Thai money, ate Thai food The combination of the rigidity
you in a week." It's a about half the time, and of course of our schedule, and the aware-
experience. For one drank a lot of American beer. Be- ness that our evaluators were
ame a resident of'Pion- sides being fun, it came close to watching us, made for the inten-
town with no stores, the "real thing." One trainee sity described above. At times the
1, five farms, 30 dogs, went so far as to come down with psychological atmosphere got very
ople. An hour after I hepatitis, a disease not uncom- tense, cautious. People did a lot
*as hoeing potatoes for mon among volunteers in Thai- of talking about selection.
meal. In the days that land. The fact that the "midterm"
learned the basics of feedback session-in which the
ng, krawdad hunting, IN BOTH the CD and the cul- psychologists gave us their per-
ort, government agri- tural studies programs, the eight sonal evaluation-didn't occur un-
d. and hedge post set- return volunteers who worked with til seven weeks into the training
ate well. us were excellent. They knew what didn't help alleviate the feeling.
lectures, in contrast to we were going through and had
'ork, often left us bor- been through, what we were pre- IN THE END, only three were
theory was necessary, paring for. dropped, and they described us as
3 part of the lectures Because they'd been through the a highly motivated, bright group.
been replaced by read- "real thing," they offered coun- But that rigidity, and the over-
klinsky might have liv- seling that no one else could. awareness of selection, sapped
up. Physical education took a small much of the potential creative-
portion of our time, but provided ness in the group.
EA studies program coy- a welcome break in the book work
thing from a two-hour every day. It included instruction We organized ourselves and lob-
art lecture, to a four- in sports native to Thailand, and bied for the type of training we
on Thai Buddhism (at- in personal physical developmept, wanted, but our Initiative was
give us a comparison like drownproofing. minimal. We partdcipated aina
an and That govern- If any portion of the program trainig progra designean-
ign policy, and value came close to the Puerto Rico- by our directors.We learned
Instruction was orga- type training we've heard about it a lot. But we taught ourselves
n anthropology profes- was physical education. After two very little.
mained for the entire days of soccer in Missouri's 95 Fortunately, our program isn't
nd by weekly guest lec- heat, this trainee sold 10 packs of typical in this sense. The Peace
Winstons for 20, cents each. Sev- Corps is moving more and more
the instruction in this eral of us gave up the habit. toward a train-yourself philoso-
excellent. Others poor. Sessions on health and mental phy. I'm confident we'll experi-
_D program. It could health rounded out the instruc- ence that philosophy this coming
shortened without too tion. summer.
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Letters: Mixed Reaction to SGC Break
To the Editor:
STUDENT Government Coun-
cil's break with the Office of
Student Affairs Thursday night is
sure to go on record as one of the
most ludicrous and irresponsible
acts in the history of student gov-
ernment.
It is an inescapable truth that
a working relationship with the
administration, if not occasional
cooperation, is_ a minimal pre-
requisite for any consequential ac-
tion on the part of student gov-
ernment.
The fact that SGC is backed by
OSA funds and depends on OSA
approval for any binding legisla-
tion with regard to University pol-
icy means that SGC independence
signals its eventual death as an
influential force on the Michigan
campus.,
ADMITTEDLY, Vice-President
Cutler's formal statement was
weak in explaining his justifica-
tion for making a unilateral de-
cision on sit-in policy. Indeed,
one of the "realities of his re-
sponsibilities" is the consideration
of student rights and of student
reactions to such a move.
However, the new regulation it-
self certainly has some merit in
maintaining the normal operations
of the University which, after all,
is in the best interests of the
student body as a whole.
It is a questionable right which
gives some students the oppor-
tunity to disrupt the education of
others: the student body is sel-
dom so monolithic in its interests.
THE ISSUE, however, accord-
ing to a previous SGC resolution,
is the mode of decision-making
Cutler used. If SGC intends to
promote cooperative decisions be-
campus, the very least it can do is
to reinstate a decent rapport with
the OSA, then settle its griev-
ances.
SULKING in its University-own-
ed chambers and waiting for a
humble apology from OSA is an
excellent way for SGC to expose
itself not only as unreasonable
and powerless, but as the biggest
joke on campus.
-Thomas Koepsell, '68
Next Step
To the Editor:
N OW THAT Student Govern-
ment Council has declared that
it will disassociate itself from the
Office of Student Affairs, if Vice-
President for Student Affairs
Richard L. Cutler doesn't rescind
his sit-in ruling, it should take
the next step, and disassociate
itself regardless of what Cutler
does.
For as long as OSA retains the
ultimate authority, it retains the
only authority. Anything delegat-
ed to SGC is gratis, and, as we
have seen in the past few weeks,
can be withdrawn or ignored at
will.
IF SGC is to be a continuing
institution, if its present activity
is to be more than a fad, it is
going to have to have ultimate
jurisdiction in certain student af-
fairs.
Otherwise, the concept of stu-
dent participation will continue
to be mocked, students will again:
lose interest, and student govern-
ment will revert to its status as
an impotent debating society.
There is no reason in terms of
student interest why SGC should
work closely with (that is, under
the watchful eye of) OSA.
THE ADMINISTRATION is go-
ing to take care of its own in-
terests regardless. It is time that
SGC represented the students and
only the students and became a
power to be reckoned with on
campus.
-Elizabeth Moray, '69
Impression
To the Editor:
THERE IS a, university in the
midwest which has given the
rest of the world an impression
that it is populated by liberal po-
litical activists.
I wonder .how true this will
prove to be when the real politi-
cal activists on that campus gath-
er, in a mass sit-in, to celebrate
the destruction of student gov-
ernment over the right to sit-in.
THIS GROUP will constitute
such a small fraction of the stu-
dent population that the rest will
have' very little difficulty walk-
ing around them.
-Richard Lipon,'69E
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Robert S. McNamara
R OBERT McNAMARA r i d e s
again. And as usual it's in the
wrong way on the wrong horse
for all the wrong reasons.
He is, in a massive and per-
haps disastrous sense, Mr. Wrong.
This man is utterly and abso-
lutely incompetent as secretary of
defense in the crucial areas of
aircraft and nuclear weapons de-
velopment.
He is committing so many errors
in those fields that single-handed
he may be responsible in some not
too distant future for this nation
being unable to defend itself.
McNamara 'could be the ulti-
mate national disaster.
CONSIDER the latest evidence.
It comes on the heels of revela-
tions of how badly McNamara has
mismanaged the Vietnamese war,
shortchanging our fighting men
BARRY
GOLDWATER
achieved the very hot speed of
Mach 2.04.
This means that the French
have developed a fighting plane
that can take off straight up, thus
eliminating the need for elabor-
ate fields, and then zoom to speeds
in the 1500 m.p.h. range.
THE ADVANTAGES of such a
plane in so-called limited warfare
should be obvious. And it is ob-
vious-to everyone but Robert Mc-
Namara.
While I served on the Senate
Armed Services Committee there
was much talksabout such an air-
craft, but to date, under the "no
ne, ',-an ," nliv of "Se _
Mr. Wrong
nuclear stockpile. During the hear-
ings on the test ban treaty Mc-
Namara made ardent promises
that our stockpile would be con-
stantly modernized and that re-
search on tactical weapons would
continue.
From all of the information I
can now gather and from all of
the experience accumulated dur-
ing my involvement in the test
ban hearings, I now charge that
our nuclear stockpile is not being
modernized to the extent it should
be. I also charge that McNamara
is failing to support adequate re-
search for the production of new
tactical nuclear weapons.
IN VIEW of the present situa-
tion, and given a continuation of
McNamara's headlong disarma-
ment policies, it is quite possible
that by the 1970's we may be
faced by Viet Nam-type situations
in which we will be short of
To the Editor:
Romney
GEORGE ROMNEY has led the
Republican Party of Michigan
from minority to majority status.
Michigan Republicans, regard-
less of individual leanings, should
unite behind his leadership in
Michigan during the coming years
sand in his drive for the presidency
in 1968.
Because of George Romney's
leadership, the Michigan Republi-
can. Party has witnessed the great-
est victory in 20 years. Romney
will certainly be our presidential
nominee in 1968, and the only
question is whether or not we have
a united national party behind
him.
ALL OF US must unite behind
George Romney, for the defeat of
Lyndon Johnson and "yo-yo" Mc-
Namara is more important than
the temporary triumph of any fac-
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