Seventy-Fifth Year EDrrED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Where Opinions Are Free, 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 Truth Will Prevail Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1965 NIGHT EDITOR: BARBARA SEYFRIED Ne Student Book Exchange: Test for SGC, GROUP STUDENT GOVERNMENT Council seem- Nickels Arcade, SBX had nothing more ed to have reached the perigee of its to advertise it but a tiny sign. Leaflets prestige last semester before the spring were passed out at registration but soon elections. wound up on the ground with all the other Since then, although the new Council leaflets distributed to students as they has done little that can be called brilliant trouped through the maze of registra- or exciting, there seems to be a feeling tion. that the campus can now expect more SGC has its task mapped out for it. It from its elected representatives than it must offer books that students will buy could in the past. in an atmosphere that is conducive to SGC's recently-announced plans for a success. student book exchange, to be set up on the Diag late this term, seem to justify ONE CAN ALMOST SAY that the future this new optimistic feeling. of SGC depends on this venture. New SGC has often started out with glori- liberal blood was pumped into Council ous expectations, only to meet apathy when the GROUP (Governmental Reform from both its members and the campus. of University Policy) candidates were The main reason for this is that Council elected last spring. has usually gone about its objective in a Because they promised so much in their cumbersome, inefficient way. campaign, had such success in their elec- tion inspiring a small but loyal follow- THE SUCCESS of its bookstore will de- ing, they must aid Council as a vindica- pend exclusively on how the store is tion of their election. managed and the selection of books avail- As the only people on Council that able. seem at all committed to reform, it is up Several years ago SGC opened another to the GROUP members to see that the Student Book Exchange. Its location, its new Student Book Exchange is operated books and personnel were the main rea- properly and successfully. sons for its failure. CERTAINLY COUNCIL needs some suc- The selection was scanty and the books CEssAINLYtCOUNst needsisoeusI available were in terrible condition. The cess in at least one of its ventures. It avileswerekinterribleonditiownwill be a long time before SGC earns the students working there were slow and full respect of this campus. It's about for the most part incompetent. But for time it started trying. selling purposes, its location doomed the SBX to failure. -JUDITH WARREN In a small, second floor store in the Co-Editor Coordination Needed ROBERT McNAMARA, secretary of de- with the water pollution department oper- fense, recently announced that the De- ations causes. fense Department had saved $4.6 billion in the last fiscal year with his cost re- THIS SITUATION becomes ironic when duction program. the government appropriates funds to the Public Health Service to alleviate While this is admirable, another re- wtrpluin port last week indicated that a great deal The government ends up saving money of water pollution in United States rivers in one area - defense - and creating a is due to Defense Department projects. need to spend more money in another Among the reasons cited for the Defense area-water pollution. Department pollution was that defense If McNamara is really interested in administrators are more concerned, when saving money in the long run, he should they reduce costs, with the vital aspects pay less attention to getting "more bang of the Defense Department program than for the buck" and more attention to the side effects that his defense economizing is having. EQUIPMENT TO PREVENT the pollu- JUDITH WARREN........................ Co-Editor tion of water is expensive, but it is ROBERT RIPPLER........................Co-Editor even more expensive to purify water once EDWARD HERSTEIN................... Sports Editor JUDITH FIELDS.............. .Business Manager it has been polluted. One purifying proj- JEFFREY LEEDS......... ...... Supplement Manager ect alone, being conducted in New York, NIGHT EDITORS: Michael Badamo, John Meredith, costs about $100 million a year to operate. Robert Moore, Barbara Seyfried, Bruce Wasserstein. 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L r y' a Ik1 re f, sa :1 tf2 Y AWOL ?A i s. elf 'i l '+(";"?. f Y f G' " '9 4 ft t 11" THREATENS EDUCATION: Speaker Ban Strikes North Carolina EDITOR'S NOTE: Carl Degler, who has been living in Chapel Hill for the past 10 months, is a professor of history at Vassar College. This article was reprinted from The New Republic. By CARL N. DEGLER THE UNIVERSITY of North Carolina is the oldest state uni- versity in the country; it is one of the principal reasons North Carolina enjoys a reputation as a progressive state and leader in the South's readjustment to the social changes of the last two decades. That reputation makes all the more shocking the serious threat that now confronts the Univer- sity at the hands of its own peb- ple. Two years ago, at the very end of the legislative session, a law was slipped through prohibit- ing any known Communist, or person who had invoked the Fifth Amendment, from speaking on any campus of a state institution. THE ACT, which has since come to be called the "gag law" or the "speaker-ban law," was protested by the university's officials and trustees after its enactment; little opportunity for protest was pro- vided before passage, since no hearings were held. No other state in the union, it is believed, has such a law.. South Carolina, which does not enjoy North Carolina's reputation for liberalism, turned down a similar proposal. But a law that was easy to put on the statute books without any ground swell of support has prov- ed to be difficult to get off, de- spite an articulate and strong de- mand for repeal. THE UNIVERSITY, the commu- nity at Chapel Hill, and other academically oriented groups have maintained a steady opposition. In the state senate an influen- tial, if quiet, movement got going early this year to modify the law so that the trustees and faculty have the authority to permit some banned speaker to appear. At present, speakers who fall under the prohibitions of the act are absolutely banned. This is true, as Harry Golden has pointed out, even if the lecturer is the Polish ambassador come to speak about his country's foreign policy, or a Russian scientist to address the medical school. THE KEY to repeal or modifi- cation of the speakers-ban is Gov Dan K. Moore, a cautious man far removed in temperament and thought from recent liberal Demo- cratic governors like Luther Hodg- es and Terry Sanford. Moore has always refused to say what he thinks about the law, though it is clear he does not see it as an alarming threat to the university's freedom from political control. The issues took a new ominous turn when a committee of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools officially informed the governor that the Association might well consider the ban a rea- son for withdrawing accreditation, on the ground that the university was not free to run its own aca- demic program. DESPITE this warning, the most the governor was prepared to do was to appoint a five-man com- mittee to investigate its impact on the state. He says that his mail and that of the legislators is run- ning six to one in favor of the ban. He told the law's opponents, "I think we can all appreciate the de- sire of an educational institution to be free in the pursuit of truth. On the other hand, there should be tolerance for those who have lost sons or husbands in the bloody conflict with Communism. For those who have died, the debate is ended." His view was recently fortified by release of a letter from J. Ed- gar Hoover to a newspaper editor in the state. The editor had asked the FBI chief for his opinion of the ban-law. HOOVER recommended reten- tion, arguing that Communists were trying to use the universities across the country as prestige platforms for their ideas, and should be stopped. There is little likelihood now that the legislature will take any action on its own this session, despite the reasonable assump- tion that the Southern Associa- tion may well drop the state's edu- cational institutions from its list. Some 150 professors on the Chapel Hill campus and half of the faculty on the Greensboro campus have signed a statement saying that they would feel im- pelled to seek employment else- where if accreditation is lost. AS MIGHT BE expected, such pressure has been interpreted by defenders of the law as typical of fuzzy-minded professors soft on Communism. The final step is now up to the Southern Association. Loss of ac- creditation, of course, would be disastrous for the students, the university and the state. Teachers trained at the university could not be certified to teach in North Carolina itself, since present law requires such training to be taken at an accredited institution. Even athletic programs would be crippled, since organized com- petition among schools and col- leges is predicated upon the aca- demic accreditationl of the parti- cipants. ONE OF Luther Hodge's achieve- ments as governor was the estab- lishment of the so-called Research Triangle, situated between Chapel Hill, Duke University and State College. This booming research center for industry has attracted new business and much research money into the state; loss of ac- creditation by two of the three universities associated with the Triangle would affect the Trian- gle's significant role in advanc- ing the state's economy. POLITICAL WONDERBOY: War on Poverty: It's What's Happening By BRUCE WASSERSTEIN WEDNESDAY Republican "com- et" John Lindsay presented a silver trophy to him for his "work with high school dropouts." Yet the week before, Everett Dirkson had labeled the show which was the highlight of the award-win- ner's work "immoral" while an- other Republican commented that he "was about to throw up." Who is this man who has stirred deep rumblings in the political "establishment," Who is this man who was blasted and lauded for the same deed? He is Murray the "K"-the "fifth beatle" and king of the ATTIRED IN his iridescent skin-tight pants and his elf skin boots, Murray the "K" has man- aged to capture coverage for him- self in both Time and Newsweek and is the symbol of the new ap- proach taken by the Office of Economic Opportunity. Yes, the man who made himself a household name through such well known radio salutations as "This is Murray the 'K' with a swinging soiree with a- blast- from the past-a golden oldie for you" has now turned into a poli- tical wonderboy. Although - initially one has doubts about the probability of the success of Murray the "K" in seeking an elected political office, one must always keep in mind the distinguished senator from Cali- fornia, George Murphy. And of courseRonald Reagen is coming on strong. It is fairly obvious that the concept of transforming poli- tical animals into actors is anach- ronistic-the easier solution is turning the actors into politicians. IMAGINE the advantages Mur- ray has over other candidates. In- stead of merely having the "rat pack" backing up your nomina- tion with song and dance, Murray could have the Herman and the Hermits, the Human Beings, the Guess Whos, the Animals, the Hondells and, of course, Murray's long time supporters, the Beatles. Instead of starting his campaign from such spots as the building where the Republican party was founded as most conformist can- didates, Murray would naturally start campaigning from the Brooklyn Fox theater. Some observers believe that this speculation might just be a little' bit premature, but seriously, Mur- ray the "K" has made a valid and significant contribution to the democratic process. He has brought the federal programs for the people to the people. MURRAY, a high school drop- out who made good, feels a civic duty to help those youngsters who are starting out with one notch against them-no high school de- gree. One can laugh at his attire and affectations but he gets his message across. The specific incident which has by now gathered national atten- tion and in some quarters no- toriety was a show on CBS called "It's What's Happening, Baby." Paid for by the station, it was an appeal by the Office of Economic Opportunity for kids to complete their education. Consisting mainly of rock and roll groups and some intermittent notes on why everyone should go back to school, the show was not very different from other disk jockey spectaculars in form, but its results were alot more effective than the conventional publicity drives of the OEO. A GLEEFUL Sargent Shriver was able to report to the Republi- cans, busily defending the pseudo- ethical code of the conservative plutocrats, that Murray's show re- ceived an overwhelming response from people interested in assisting and being assisted by the War on Poverty program. Murray's lesson to Washington is that to reach the people, you have to speak their language. "It's What's Happening, Baby." 0 TODAY AND TOMORROW: Arms Boost: Second Crisis By WALTER LIPPMANN O WING TO the fact that the choices open to :us have be- come much narrower, the build-up of American ground forces in South Viet Nam is probably the best thing the President can now do. For the fact is that as the South Vietnamese army is ceas- ing to be an efficient fighting force, the Viet Cong and Hanoi are increasingly unwilling to negotiate. The build-up is certainly a far better thing to do than would be an attempt to win the war by all- out bombing. BUT GRANTING this, the cru- cial question is whether the pur- pose of the build-up is to send Americans to pacify and occupy South Viet Nam and to govern it for an indefinite future. The build-up will make sense, I believe, only if its purpose is to maintain an American presence until a great settlement in South- east Asia can be reached. We have now come to another critical turning point in the war. FOR PRESIDENT Johnson, the first came in the spring of 1964, on the eve of the national elec- tion campaign, when he rejected the advice to propose negotiations for a political settlement, provid- ing for a neutralization of Viet Nam. Such a negotiation may not have been possible even then. But the spring of 1964 was certainly the last moment when it may have been possible. For from then on the military and political situation of the Sai- gon government went rapidly to, pieces. IT WAS AS A reaction to this impending collapse in Saigon that the President felt compelled to inaugurate the bombing of North Viet Nam. This policy has failed. It has brought us no nearer to negotiation, and during the opera- tion of the policy the South Viet- namese army has so lost its capa- city and will to fight that the war is now becoming an American war against the Viet Cong. During the whole period from the spring of 1964 on, the Presi- dent's diplomatic policy has in- variably lagged behind the mili- tary situation. AT THE NEW year, when Sai- gon was on the verge of collapse, the official line of the adminis- tration was that there was noth- ing to negotiate, that the war would end when North Viet Nam withdrew from South Viet Nam. In those days the word "negoti- ation" was a bad word in admin- istration circles. In February, when the Presi- dent took the offensive by bomb- ing North Viet Nam, it was soon evident that United States policy could not be justified to our allies or to our own people if the President did not break out of Secretary of State Dean Rusk's negatives about negotiations. SO THE PRESIDENT proposed "unconditional discussions" in his Baltimore speech. There is no doubt that this offer strengthened his hand at least for a while both abroad and at home. It would have been impossible, for example, for Prime Minister Wilson to support the President had there been no Baltimore speech. BUT NOW THAT the U.S. is building up its forces to a point where it will be carrying the main responsibility and the burden of the war, the Baltimore offer of negotiations is no longer enough. The question which will have to be answered is how the U.S. pro- poses to achieve its objectives in Indo-China and to keep them achieved. Thus, it is conceivable but far from certain that after the mon- soon, or perhaps after several monsoons, American troops will still be able to keep a foothold in Viet Nam. BUT HOW WILL WE, how can we ever reach the point where Southeast Asia is pacified and the American troops can be with- drawn? This is the doubt that haunts us. There is a foreboding that we are launched on a course of which neither the President nor anyone else sees the end. Things have gone too far for the President to dismiss this fore- boding by repeating once more that our only object is to defeat aggression and that we will do whatever is necessary to halt it. If he is going to mobilize in order to support the build-up, he will have to convince the country that he has realistic war aims. SO FAR HE HAS put none for- ward. For it is not a realistic war aim to expect to subdue and sup- press the Viet Cong for all the years to come. (c) 1965, The Washington Post Co. BeCool... Stay in School WHO'S EVIL? just Were Does. The Trouble Lie?9 A SUBSTANTIAL SECTION of the journalistic trade continues to improvise on the theme that the United States stands in mortal danger of being subverted by domestic 'Communists. Apparently there is no protection, however diligently the writers seek out the hidden foe and rally alarmed citizens to the country's defense. The greatest present peril, it seems, comes from an unexpected quarter. The Old Bolsheviks are passing from the scene, but their offspring carry on with redoubled virulence. READ ALL ABOUT IT in a series of articles by Vera Glaser, syndicated by the North American Newspaper Alliance and inserted in the Congressional Record by Sen. Roman L. Hruska of Nebraska. Mrs. Glaser describes how "Moscow-inspired agitators have fasten- ed, like evil parasites, on the civil rights and Viet Nam controversies." SO THE VIRUS SPREADS. It is enough to sicken one with higher education. Indeed, if Louis Harris' recent poll on the motivation behind the campus teach-ins is an indication, a split is opening up between the college-bred and the less schooled. Asked, "Do you think the disagreement of college professors and students with the United States policies in Viet Nam is mainly the result of honest disagreement, or do you think it is mainly the result of organized radical activity in college today?" 81 per cent of college students thought honest differences were involved, and only 19 per cent blamed the radicals. But those with only a high school education voted almost exactly the opposite (27 to 57 to 16). MR. HARRIS CONCLUDES that "chasms and splits are beginning to take place along political and intellectual lines," triggering "a profoundly new division in American society whose final con- seaunees are vet to emarge." w CITY LIGHTS': Chaplin Conveys Man's Heart At the Cinema Guild HlERE WE go again - another great Charlie Chaplin movie. This time Cinema Guild is pre- senting "City Lights." When this movie opened it was an amazing theatrical event. In 1931 when "City Lights" premier- ed, sound had already "ruined" silent movies. But, Chaplin made takes him for a millionaire. The tramp then becomes involved with a real millionaire. The millionaire alternately loves and forgets the tramp. And the tramp, as always, is out of contact with reality. It is this quality about the tramp that makes him such a tre- mendous character. He never seems to belong anywhere. Actu- So, the world cannot accept him -he won't accept its standards. It is almost impossible to over- estimate the touching quality of Chaplin's good movies. The irony and sadness speak thruth about the heart of man. But one should not forget that at the heart of "City Lights" is humor. Chaplin's amazing versa-