Seventy-Fifth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS of Tmz UNIVERSIrT OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBUCATIONS PROS AND CONS: UN Faces Legal, Political Troubles Where Opinions Are Free 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. Truth Will Prevail NEws PHONE: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily ex press the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1965 NIGHT EDITOR: BRUCE WASSERSTEIN Two-Year Colleges: An Answer to Growth By SHREESH JUYAL Second of Three Articles THE PRESENT UN paralysis is legal and constitutional, but it is also deep in its political as- pects. The problems, apart from trying to improve the world at- mosphere, are the financial crisis and the profound differences of attitudes over future peace-keep- ing operations. The big division over peace- keeping involves Article 19, cov- ering failure to pay UN assess- ments. The Soviet Union, France and another 11 countries have re- fused to pay overdue peacekeeping assessments. Article 19 of the UN Charter provides that "a member of the United Nations which is in ar- rears in the payment of its finan- cial contributions to the organi- zation shall have not vote in the General Assembly if the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due from it for the preceding two full years." THE SOVIET UNION is the big- gest debtor, owing a total of $62 million, and then comes France and 11 other countries. The UN faces a deficit of over $153 mil- lion. If the USSR fails to pay at least $21 million of her total debt, she should, by application of the Article 19, lose her vote in the General Assembly. Both Russia and France deny the Assembly's competence to au- thorize peacekeeping missions. They have maintained, despite a contrary advisory opinion from the International Court of Jus- tice, that they are not obligated to pay for peacekeeping func- tions which the United Nations has established against their own vote. RUSSIA maintains that Article 24 confers upon the Security Council exclusive responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and any question on which action is necessary must be refer- red to the Security Council, which also has exclusive responsibility for making as provided 50. financial assessments in Articles 43, 48 and BY 1970, there will be an estimated 7 million college students, 2.2 million more than there are this year. By 1985, not only the schools but the whole coun- try will be veritably bulging at the seams; there will be 275 million Americans, 80 million more than there are now, more than twice the population in 1940. Where your father had one college roommate, your son will have two; where you, per- haps, had five friends, your son will have seven. The figuresare impressive but unmov- ing; it is the reality of jammed classes and rejection notices that really matters. In the state of Michigan alone, under- graduate enrollment will be up 327,000 in ten years; unless something is changed, many of these will be sent to the wrong school-or to no school at all. The main hope for tomorrow is a sys- tem of state-supported public two-year colleges, offering both. technical train- ing and a rigorous, high-quality educa- tion in the liberal arts and sciences, where the accepted sequence for a stu- dent would be from high school totwo- year college to university. ONE REASON to institute a two-year college system is to minimize the bad effects of a "multiversity" or "university- machine" like our own, a sprawling demi- city of 29,000 students on a 21,000 acre, 172-building complex, complete with cops. The university-machine is a great insti- tution in terms of research, scholarship and accessibility to information. Yet the freshman in his English 123 or Psych 100 course gets little benefit from the huge research contracts or Old Eng- lish dictionaries that created the uni- versity's prestige in the first place. His class size averages out to about three times larger than graduate student class- es. His first two years are mainly compre- hensive, shallow introductory courses that could just as well be given in a small two-year college, by a dedicated and com- municative-If less published-teacher. AND IT I TRUE that the big univer- sity is a usually impersonal, sometimes painful creature, where what often counts is not the person but the product, 'not the attitude but the answers. The big school can try-as our does- but it is mainly foiled by lack of funds fori smaller, less institutional dormitories, more counselors and smaller classes. Freshmen and sophomores are often un- prepared for the quiet horrors of the mass existence, for the constant need for deci- sions on anything from laundry to love. They get the disadvantages of the uni- versity-machine, but few of the benefits. FURTHER, the freshman-sophomore at the big university is in a sense pay- ing for other people's education. In 1960- 61, it cost $12.47 per hour per week to educate an underclassman, $22.26 for a junior or senior, and $54.46 for a gradu- JUDITH WARREN......................Co-Editor ROBERT RIPPLER.....................Co-Editor Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor. M i . Published daily Tuesday thruagh Saturday morning. "I ate or graduate-professional student. Yet their fees are substantially the same. In fact, the literary college, where most underclassmen should be and where most of them are, is the cheapest of the University's colleges, costing only $752 per student compared with the average $1,870 cost at the University's other 13 schools and colleges. Then, it seems, a literary college un- derclassman costs-and should pay-far less than, say, a social work upperclass- man. Yet now all undergraduates pay $174 in-state, $500 out-state, and gradu- ate students pay $190-$550. If students actually paid in proportion to their costs, some graduate students would have a fee schedule of $783-$2,250. A two-year college could take advan- tage of the lower costs for underclass- men literary college students. Perhaps building expenses would be higher for a smaller school; it is less expensive per student to build a Markley than a small- er dorm. But would it be worth it? Two- year colleges could also gain a larger in- come from local sources and alumnae than the big universities. TWO-YEAR COLLEGES are growing fast. In California, 84per cent of col- lege freshmen are enrolled in two-year colleges. Saturday Review estimated that by 1970, 80 per cent of all students en- tering college will be attending two-year or community colleges. Last March, Gov. George Romney's "blue ribbon" report on state education added 11 new community college districts. In all of Michigan, while enrollment at public colleges and universities has gone up 84 per cent since 1953, enrollment has gone up 348 per cent in public com- munity colleges. The recent Higher Education Facilities Act set aside $50.6 million for two-year colleges-$2.3 million this year for Michi- gan. If the two-year college becomes the ac- cepted stepping stone between high school and the big school with its graduate re- search programs and world-famous au- thorities, if the two-year colleges get afloat academically, so that they are not considered second-chances or senior high schools, then it will be better for the sys- tem and the student. IF AS SOMETIMES has been suggested, the University, already almost 40 per cent graduates and 72 per cent upper- classmen or over, eventually becomes a school only for juniors or seniors or, as others have predicted, becomes a gradu- ate school, it would do no harm as long as two-year colleges-had been set to take up the slack, to provide education as good as the University's undergraduate pro- gram. Since 1930, the percentage of gradu- ate students has been moving up, from 26 per cent to the present 38.8 per cent. In many ways the University is a gradu- ate school that lets in undergraduates now. To meet the demands of the coming hordes of youths who want to go to col- lege, the two-year college should be- come the backbone of undergraduate ed- ucation. It should, and, it appears, it will. -ROBERT MOORE TODAY AND TOMORROW: U.S. Reaps Harvest In Southeast Asia By WALTER LIPPMANN WE ARE ABOUT to pit Ameri- cans against Asians on the con- tinent of Asia. Except for the diminishing and disintegrating South Vietnamese army, we have only token or verbal support from any Asian country. No great Asian power, Japan, India or Pakistan,\is aligned with us. None of our European Allies is contributing anything beyond scattered verbal support. We have no mandate from the United Nations as we had in Ko- rea, none from NATO, none from the nations of this hemisphere. THE SITUATION in which we find ourselves is unprecedented, and the best the administration has been able to achieve by way of approval and support from our own people is a reluctant and de- pressed acquiescence. I For there has been no proof, not even a real attempt to prove, that the security of the United States is vitally threatened in this war as it was, for example, when Hitler was in sight of the con- quest of Britain and the capture of the British fleet, or when Ja- pan with a great navy threatened to command the whole Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii and the coast of California. Nations fight well when they are defending themselves, when, that is to say, they have a vital interest. It is the lack of an American vital interest which ex- plains the currentmood of de- pression and anxiety, which ex- plains why our intervention in Southeast Asia has for 10 years been so gingerly, so furtive, so in- adequate. THERE ARE in truth two main reasons why we are becoming ever more deeply involved in Viet Nam. The first, much the more pow- erful of the two, is a proud refusal to admit a mistake, to admit the failure of an attempt begun 10* years ago to make South Viet Nam a pro-American and anti-Chinese state. More than anything else we are fighting to avoid admitting a failure-to put it bluntly, we are fighting to save face. There is a second reason which weighs heavily with many con- scientious people. It is a respect- able reason. As stated by the New York Herald Tribune on Sunday: 'WE'RE IN VIET NAM at the ex- press invitation of the Vietnamese government; we're fighting there for the Vietnamese people. But we're fighting also, for the mil- lions of people in the other threat- ened lands beyond, people who haven't the power to defend them- selves from the Chinese colossus, and whose lives, safety and free- dom depend on the strong arm of the policeman-which only we can provide." My own view is that the con- ception of ourselves as the soli- tary policeman of mankind is a dangerous form of self-delusion. The United States is quite unable to.police the world, and it is dan- gerous to profess and pretend that we can be the policeman of the world. How many more Dominican Re- publics can the United States po- lice in this hemisphere? How many Viet Nams can the United States defend in Asia? THE BELIEVERS in America as the world policeman get around these practical difficulties by mak- ing an assumption-that what happens in Viet Nam will deter- mine what happens elsewhere in Asia,' that what happens in the Dominican Republic will deter- mine what'happens all over Latin America. This notion of the decisive test is a fallacy. The Korean War, in which we successfully defended South Ko- rea, did not determine the outcome in Indochina. What we have done in the Dominican Republic will not protect any other Latin Amer- ican country from the threat of revolution. REVOLUTIONARY wars are in- deed dangerous to order, and it is baffling to know how to deal with them. But we may be sure that the phenomenon of revolutionary wars, which is latent in all of the un- derdeveloped regions of the world, cannot be dealt with by American military intervention whenever disorder threatens to overwhelm the constituted authority. On the contrary, it is more like- ly that in making Viet Nam the test of our ability to protect Asia, we shall in fact provide revolu- tionary China with just the ene- my it needs in order to focus pop- ular hatred against us-a white, rich, capitalistic great power. WE ARE ALLOWING ourselves to be cast in the role of the enemy of the miserable and un- happy masses of the emerging na- tions. (c) 1965, The Washington Post Co. The USSR delegate in the UN on October 24, 1963 said that in adopting resolutions calling for military action or authorizing the assessment of expenses for opera- tions in the Middle East or the Congo, "the General Assembly had acted ultra vires and the reso- lutions in question were legally invalid." France has also held the same position. The French maintained that expenses entailed by opera- tions undertaken upon a recom- mendation of the General Assem- bly were binding only on those member states that had approved the operations. If the Assembly could decide by a two-thirds majority to im- pose financial obligations on all members, it would take on the at- tributes of a "super state." France rejected the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice that expenses for UNEF and ONUC constituted expenses of the organization within the meaning of Article 17, paragraph 2, of the charter. THE STATES which have borne most of the costs of peacekeeping Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States-have offi- cially taken positions that Article 19 must be applied. In the words of the Canadian prime minister, they "do not seek to force this issue, but . . . are ready to face it if the delinquent states are not prepared to join. in a search for a constructive solution. The fi- nancial dilemma must be solved." If the General Assembly, as de- manded by the Albanian delegate, had resumed its ordinary voting procedure and the provision of the charter had been implied, the So- viet Union and France would have been out. This would have proven that the UN could assert its au- thority even against great powers. But it was not done because bringing the showdown into the open would have also created a wider gulf in the organization- and perhaps even more grave con- sequences affecting its existence might have followed. IF THIS SITUATION continues and the position of Canada, UK and the U.S.A. remains unchanged, a showdown is expected in the September session. However, diplomatic circles as- sume that despite the firmness of the stand taken by these states, the showdown will never take place as the feelings and atmosphere are too much against it. Between these two extreme po- sitions the most concerned are Latin American, African and As- ian countries, which have been very anxious to avoid any direct confrontation and find new alter- natives to it. THE EFFECTIVENESS of the United Nations has not been as- serted because in the very nature of its existence it clashes with the national sovereignty of states. The two concepts oppose each other and the very strength and growth of the international orga- nization depends on whether the states are prepared to relinquish a part of their sovereignty. During 20 years, the Soviet Union has repeatedly used its veto in the Security Council, protecting its own attitude or national out- look. It also has frequently op- posed the two secretary-generals of the United Nations, Trygve Lie and Dag Hammarskjold, who tried and in fact acted upon the col- lective will of the United Nations. THE OTHER champion of the national sovereignty is the France of de Gaulle, who does not want the General Assembly to use its will on peacekeeping missions, but only the Security Council-where, being one of the big five powers, France has a veto. On February 4, he demanded that the United Nations must "re- turn to prudence and to the char- ter." He said that by "return" the organization might regain its equilibrium. According to the charter the UN forces should be organized and directed by the Military Staff Committee, which is made up of military representatives of the five big powers. But thisncommittee has had no hand. in any UN peacekeeping project. THEREFORE President de Gaulle has seen a need for a meeting of the five big powers- the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Nationalist China and the Soviet Union. France also charged Mr. Hammarskjold exceeded his pow- ers and commended Mr. Thant for his restraint. The example giv- en by de Gaulle was the Congo. In fact the Assembly authorized only one peacekeeping force, UN- EF; and France has fully paid her contribution. The Congo operation was au- thorized by the Security Council, in which de Gaulle's government did not obstruct any of the reso- -Associted Press KHRUSHCHEV (ABOVE, WITH extended hand) visited the UN in 1960. Since then, financial and political troubles have plunged the UN into trouble. CHAMBER MUSIC- T her Stanley Quartet; Masterfulyet Relaxed' At Rackham Auditorium LYRICAL INTERPRETATIONS of traditional and contemporary works for strings were presented last night by the Stanley Quartet in their second recital of the summer. The Quartet played "Quartet in B-flat major" by Haydn, "Quartet in F-minor" by Beethoven and "Quartet No. 6" by Bartok. Unconventional techniques were featured in the Bartok quartet As the concluding selection of the recital; it allowed the group an opportunity to display competence as well as feeling for such modern music. The Stanley Quartet communicated a sense of relaxed, but masterful, control with transitions between striking and calm passages smoothly made. THE WORKS by Mozart and Beethoven also received treatment in the Quartet's smooth and lyrical style. Three recitals are being presented this summer by the University School of Music. Admission to the recitals held in Rackham Lecture Hall is free. A final recital in the series will be presented on Wednesday, August 11, at 8:30 p.m. The Stanley Quartet will present works by Haydn, Webern, and Faure. Pianist Eugene Bossart will be featured at this performance. MEMBERS OF the Stanley Trio are Angel Reyes, violin; Gustave Rosseels, violin; Robert Courte, viola; and Jerome Jelinek, cello. -NEAL BRUSS 'MONDO CANE' REVISITED: Malamondo--A Sick Distortion of Reality At the Campus Theatre TEEN-AGERS OF the world-'This Is Your Life!" The movie is called "Malamondo" and it's a slighty different focus than that presented in "Mondo Cane," but not much. This time the roving eye of the "documentary" camera has managed to immoralize on film thousands of pimpley faced youths doing just about everything obnoxious and stupid there is to do. The overall criticism of "Malamonda" is the same as that of "Mondo Cane." A movie should have a purpose-a meaningful, perhaps even uplifting purpose (this obviously includes good comedy). This movie doesn't try to do anything but be dirty in a behind- the-barn sort of way. After showing us scenes of violent, brutal teen- agers we are treated to a rehearsal at a ballet school. The dancing students are male. This is not the most acceptedly masculine of pur- suits so we all snicker at the dancers. THE MOST INFURIATING, simple-minded and destructive scenes are those where we point our fingers and giggle at homosexuals. Homo- sexuality can be a tremendous personal tragedy, and movies like this are cruel and vicious. "Malamondo" is sick all the way through. This is most strikingly shown when they take emotionally disturbed, semi-autistic children I 4, *' i FEIFFER KEPT QUITe A MAA&). Cr A (./' 001 p4oi B O G 0 1B f ;fHT MMES 0 I I~'RAW Cf 0017 COAT. MI NESTOL Ap IT Q -, VX r OcsRT AUTOMATIC. a GRAT TO ~-,6IK5 A AN~. ' AP~ 4 SA ~ AH6Ai