SAB Wings Away NevsJ ,J Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS th Will Pa STUDENT PUBLICATiONs BLDG.* ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 By NAN MARKEL City Editor A TREE already bare of leaves sends its naked branches out to shelter the equally remorseless sticks and stones which are to become the addition to the SAB. "First and second floor slabs1 completed and framing is pro-' ceeding for the third floor," re- ports the architect. Contractors are hurrying to put a roof over the structure so they can work inside during winter months. There is only mud, and trailers and wood shacks, in the space remaining. No sign at all is left of the once-idyllic SAB lawn. * * * THE STUDENTS' original con- ception of the building was as ideal as the lawn was idyllic. To some the vision was of a " . .centrally-located spot where students can meet, exchange ideas, take part in social activities to- gether and acquire a sense of being a part of a single university community .. This is how Daily Managing Editor Eugene Hartwig foresaw the building in the fall of 1955, when it was in the planning but not yet under construction. Lesser visionaries agreed "that the need is for greatly increased student activities businesfacilities rather than for any large addition - to existing social facilities ..a" (Student Activities Building Plan- ning Committee report, Nov. 12, 1953.) * * * STUDENTS FROM many ac- tivities had amalgamated into the committee in the fall of 1953 after meeting together to see what "could be done immediately to ease the crowbed social and ac- tivities facilities concentrated in the Union and League." Successions of student commit- tees, innumerable sessions with Vice-Preident for Business and Finance Wilbur K. Pierpont and with a space consultant provided by the University, presentations to the Regents, architectural plans - these turned into a building when on Jan. 12, 1956, the Regents received bids for construction. The students were to have a. building. * * * SOMEWHERE IN THE course of negotiations the committee had agreed to find 10,000 square feet of space for the deans' offices in the building's approximately 57,000 square feet of floor space, "The Committee has studied the feasibility of including the Univer- sity administrative offices related to student affairs in the building and is of the opinion that a con- nected wing to the student activi-, ties building to house these offices would be desirable.E "The Committee contemplated that the wing would be connected by a corridor with the student area of the building and would have a separate entrance to eli- minate conflicting traffic using the two sections of .the building," it reported. The administrative sector was an afterthought to a student dream. * .* A CHANGE OF CLIMATE February, dedicated April 26, praised by University President Harlan Hatcher as a venture in scholarship, citizenship and just plain joy of living,. A Student Activities Building Administration Committee was set up to look after it. ** * FIVE REPRESENTATIVES from major student activities, three student members-at-large, a re- presentative from the dean of women's office and another from the dean of men's office composed the group, whose rules and regu- lations state " ..the Building Administra- tion Board has reviewed the regu- lations with the administration and plant department officials to guarantee the full use of the building for its intended purpose which is to carry out the business, operations of student organizations and to furnish group meeting rooms . . Technically, the structure's em- phasis and operation remain with the student. NOT SO IN LESS technical re- spects. For the Student Activities Building never quite came off. Three years after its dedication it stands only slightly more dirt- tinged brick, steel and concrete- housing about 22 student offices, the men's and women's deans, operations and the Office of Religious Affairs. It hasn't quite called students to " . . . acquire a sense of being a part of a single university com- munity , . . " It provides conference rooms, offices, desks, files, a workshop, storage bins. * * s THAT IT JS NOT student-run is evident-the SABAB, as the Student Activities Building Ad- ministration Committee is now called, had no part in making the plans for the addition. "It was informed about the plans, as was Student Government Council," Assistant Dean of Men John Bingley explained, The committee had not met often since it set up the rules at the building's inception. "There was nothing for them to do," Bingley said. "At first there were students involved because we built the stu- dent part first," Vice-President Pierpont explained. "But this se- cond part has no student offices in it." He says the second unit was tentatively planned when the first was blueprinted. * * * THAT THE structure's emphasis ..-Da1iy--Davld Giltrow remains even less with student; activities than its operation does is evident-the new wing will be. devoted exclusively to University administrative offices. Yes,- the administrative offices are those which pertain most directly to students. The addition is being financed by a new loan agreement for $1,850,000 Is "to be repaid from (continued) fee allocation" - the $5.per semester students agreed to, set aside for their new building,' until it was paid for., * * * THE OFFICE of Admissions, the Student Employment Office, the Office of Veteran Affairs, the cashier's office and the Bureau, of Appointments and Occupational Information will all move in. The dean of women's office will expand and the Coordinator of Religious Affairs will move from Lane Hall. The multiple lobves leave room for other facilities inthe Adminis- tration Building--which Pierpont says "is pretty crowded"-to ex- pand. Rooms at Lane Hall will be renovated for the music school. * *. * THE STUDENT building ideal. evolved to be inverted and nearly, lost. Gone too is the idyllic lawn, its landscaping the gift of a $1,500 fund from the Class of 1957. There was a memorial plaque set in the cement at the back of the lawn. It read: "In Memory of Hank Borda, Class of 1957, who fought such a courageous battle against an in- curable disease." The plaque is now in a file in the office of the Vice-President for Student Affairs James - A. Lewis. He says it will be placed in a small courtyard in the middle of the new addition. He says that bushes "much like the ones that were there before" will be planted around the new SAB administra- tive wing. Gothic F YOU LIKE to see history in action or a love story, if you enjoy Rabelaisian scenes and jokes, or admire frowning, medie- val noble knights, if you want to see the strongest men swirling their axes, if you want to partici- pate in the most fantastic fights, or else laugh and watch the blood flow, and . . . and cannot decide which you prefer tonight, go and see "Alexander Nevsky." It is playing at the Cinema Guild, and is indeed the nicest piece of Russian propaganda ever done. The film was made in 1938, and is directed by Paulenko Eisen- stein. " * * THE FIRST SECNE opens on vast plains scattered with human and animal skeletons ... vestiges of a recent attack by the Mon- gols. The Russians are tired; they want to fish, sell and make mon- ey: And can you blame them? The- Mongols would like to stir up more trouble, but they accept rubles more quickly than a real fight. And this will be the time when the Germans, the defenders of then Holyand mighty powerful Roman Empire, decide to invade, But they cannot be bought out of fighting: They have the money. What they want is a victory, a victory of the Roman Empire upon the heretics, and whoever shall resist will be destroyed, chil- dren burned alive and men hanged. BUT THE FILM was made in 1938: Nothing indicates that the attacked party is the Russian Or- thodox Church, for this would ruin the whole purpose. After much discussing and arguing, the Russians decide to once more fight the foes and rid the land of the invaders. And the nation, or the corners that we see of it, turns to a six feet five inch, blond haired, blue eyed Prince-Alexander Nevsky. On the other hand, the Roman Empire Is. busy ransacking the city of Pskov, and this will make up the mind of the magnanimous and generous Alexander. He will rouse the peasants in the fall and fight in winter on the frozen lake., * * S THE CINEMA GUILD is still having a hard time "orchestrat- ing" its sound for the appropriate scenes, and keeping the melody up. And this is indeed a pity, for Prokofiev wrote the melody in question. But let's not be too hard and critical. The acting is lost in the violent whirl, or is somewhat awkward. But those defects are minor, for there is such a fantastic atmos- phere in this wild and fascinating dream, that only the overall ef- fect stays in your mind, and it's a good one. I I I "NEVERTHELESS," the report went, "the Committee is desirous of separating the sections of the - building in determining rates for student fees." The students wanted It separate in structure and in finance. They had agreed to pay for their building through an extra levy on each student, finally set at $5 extra included in each semes- ter's tuition fee and $2 in the summed. Part of this money was to go to maintenance, the other part to pay off the bond issue which financed the $1,650,000 building. A 120 feet by 240 feet plot at Maynard and E. Jefferson had been chosen, taking into account "R... considerations of required size, future expansion and traffic problems (truck loading and un- loading) ..." * '* EXPANSION WAS IN the stu- dents' minds. Various committee reports refer to "an auditorium M ... ~possibility of a cafeteria . Had they thought of an expanded administrative sector? A Student Activities Building assumed final shape in the spring of 1957. It was occupied in -Christiane Angell AT THE STATE 'part ment' Cro wd Raises Roof_ FOR THE MOST part, the Billy Wilder -production of "The Apart- ment" is a savagely penetrating and remarkably lucid thrust at busy, dizzy, expedient-directed modern society. And for the first hour or so of this excellently photographed film, the pacing is swift and the aim is deadly. Jack Lemmon, a very talented and very, very funny gentleman, .is cast as an anonymous employee of an insurance company who is trying to make his identity known with lightning precision to some of the agency's higher echelon., Now our man Jack has quite a clever and 't LOFTY DREAM . LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Student Party Replies to SGC Challenge To the Editor: STUDENT Government Council's censure of Voice, et al. this week proves the need for more responsible and mature members to represent the student body. Voice experienced the feeling of being tried, convicted and sen- tenced without the courtesy of either a hearing or official noti- fication by Student Government Council. The action taken amounts, to harassment as well as a chal- lenge to Voice. . * * * THE CHALLENGE is to bring Student Government Council up to the level of government and out from personal prejudice. At times, the Council has acted with both dynamic leadership, educated opinion and reasonable judgement. Wednesday night's petty censure action gives an indication of what ignorance of a situation, closed minds,, and an inadequate grasp of the meaning of government can produce. We would hope that those mem- bers who voted against censure can be a positive influence in combating future hasty and un- informed voting by their col- leagues. Had the makers of the motion consulted us, we could have al- leviated their concern over any alleged violation of regulations concerning use of University facilities. We claim neither guilt nor innocence for this is not the question. The question is in the interpretation of the Student Government Council's rules and regulations regarding student or- ganizations and the formation of new organizations, * 4' * WE HAD discussed recognition and "procedures with the proper Student Government Council of- ficials and felt we were operating within the bounds of both the written and orally interpreted procedures. Steps for recognition; had been taken before this cen- sure motion was written. We were informed only indirectly of the motion's existence, and then only three hours before the Council's convening. Voice has tried to avoid labels, for we wish to cut across the stereotype and misrepresentation which the old, tired labels put upon groups and their members. We must depart from this to. say that we will work to be flexible and objective in our endeavors for the campus community and the world "outside". From the adoption of the cen- sure motion, we must conclude that Student Government Council REPRESENTATIVE C h e s t e r Bowles and Senator Kennedy in their speeches to the students of the University of Michigan' both emphasized that disarma- ment and peace lie to a very great extent in our hands and requested our participation throughout the world as necessary for the realiza- tion of ese t goals. In reply to this urgent request, we both hereby state that we would devote a number of years to work in countries where .our help is needed, either through the United Nations or through the United States Foreign Service. * * * WE ALSO WOULD like to re- quest that all students who feel: that they would like to help the cause of world peace by direct participation send a letters to this paper and/or our address. These letters will be forwarded to Ken- nedy and Bowles* as an answer of the students of the University of Michigan to their plea for help.- If it is at all possible, we would like students to start asking oth- ers in their classes, dorms, sorori- ties, fraternities, houses, etc. to send letters expressing their desire to work toward these goals. We also request that those who have friends at other universities write highly practical plan for rapid advancement in the firm. S* . * JACK HAS THIS COZY and ob- scure little apartment .nicely nestley in friendly New York City. And he sort of loans out his happy abode to some of the company's more upstanding executives who absolutely insist on spending Sun- days and Christmas making love to their frigid spouses but much prefer to spend Monday to Fri- day with just about any company girl who's nicely proportioned and eager to make a quick hundred without taxes. And just as long as Jack' is busy booking out his convenient house "The Apartment" is bril- liantly effective film making. But 10 and behold! Jack falls in love with elevator operator, Shirley MacLaine, one of the more fre- quent visitors to the apartment. She attempts suicide when she discovers her executive cannot spend Christmas morning with her. From there on in the sparkling originality of the screenplay is relegated to disappointing sen- timentality and the film almost immediately loses its perspective. The rest is a downhill battle. "The Apartment" is graced with marvelous performances, especial- ly Mr. Lemmon's, and the Wilder I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETINj The Daily Official Bulletin is an officialpublication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Building, before 2 p.m. two- days preceding publication. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 and the fourth examination will be given in MasonH ali, Room 429~ from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 m. SUMMAR YOF ACTION TAKEN BY STUDENT GOVERNMENT COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING OF OCT. 19 Approved: Minutes of previous meet- ing as corrected. Approved Interim Action: Oct. 18 Young Democrats-Students for Kenne- dy, speech, Union Ballroom, 4:00 p.m.