"...Let's All Bunch Up Like A Rocket And Start World War III!" ; Seventy-First Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 S F.- - b Will Prevail" Opinions Are Pree ' ,. AT THE SWIMMING POOL: 'Frogs' Buoyant- In the Water HE SPEECH DEPARTM ENT is throwing a happy-go-lucky beach party this week-end inspired by Aristophanes "The Frogs." Un- fortunately the achievement is not on the same lofty level as the attempt. First to the credit side of the ledger, and there is certainly very much pleasant news which can be reported about last night's grandiose production. Visually "The Frogs" is splendid! The Michifish and Michifins are in delightful form, in and out of the water. The Varsity Swimming team, abetted with such breath- taking divers as Peter Cox, Tom Francis, Joseph.Gerlach, Ronald torials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. >AY, NOVEMBER 4, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL BURNS i Gtr Ik *r Budget Request Shows Need for Tax Reform,1s w.. ''" . .. ,. HE University requested yet another record- high appropriation from the state Legisla- e-$41 million this time. Hearings in Lans- begin next week. The chances for getting No one is saying because no one really ows. For the University, in trying to meet its own ;ent needs, must work within the context of tate which has financial problems of its own f which education is only one. ['he University's appropriation request re- cts pressures and tensions originating with state's 1958 fiscal crisis. At that time the University released 90 facul- members and cut all expenditures except ulty salaries by roughly ten per cent. Fac- y salaries were increased only at the cost of lucing every thing else-including instruc- nal and research facilities, custodial staff and :ary service. XCEPT for the Mental Health Research In- stitute Bldg. (which was financed more than per cent by federal funds) and the Physics- :ronomy-IST Bldg. (for which $1.5 million in, h and an authorization of $7 million was proved last spring) no new construction has n undertaken with state aid since 1956. Pressures on the University to increase en- Iment mount every semester. Applications for nissions this fall were almost twice the num- that could be accepted-and by 1965 there 1 be 48 per cent more young people of college a in Michigan. ['he, appropriations request was based on an imated increase in enrollment of 771 to 1,271, marily in the graduate school, the Dearborn Center and the engineering college. But the increased enrollment is contingent on an ap- propriation large enough to allow increasing the faculty by 125. UNIVERSITY officials are especially con- , cerned with "protecting the present fac- ulty." Academic salary increases in colleges and universities throughout the country have been approximately seven per cent for the last several years. The University must keep up with this if it is to preserve the quality of the teaching it offers. A high rate of technological obsolescence with which the University has been unable to keep pace due to reduced appropriations has inhibited the growth of research activity and made it even more difficult to hold faculty in the physical and natural sciences. rPIS is not a list of suggestions of nice things to do sometime; it is an enumeration of the pressing and undeniable needs of a great Uni- versity which cannot stand still without mov- ing back. And these needs must be met by the state. The fact is that Michigan has an anti- quated and crazy-quilt tax system incapable of meeting the needs of the state. Thorough- going tax reform cannot safely be put off any longer. The passage of more temporary taxes or approval of a sales tax increase to tide the state over is not only postponing the inevitable but, in the long run, hurting both the state and the University. Vote thoughtfully on Tues- day. -SUSAN FARRELL " ~ , .. . I L' fl lU' IN S r ' 0 ?fir "' '~ ~ rv , :.,* ** NFU 'r:.* -. .. ..- -uK .- v... a C.-- r'-=__ 0 mollsompiw4b"On INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Castro Anticipates Incident Jaco, and Don Wright were their usual outstanding selves. Surely there was no finer or more joyous moment in the evening than the beginning of the second act when all these naturally acquatic people were able to show their very con- siderable skills. * * * CREDIT ZELMA Weisfeld with costumes that were altogether dazzling, and Ralph Duckwall for bits of scenery that were most effective. The swimming pool itself made a very colorful stage and was put to good use for a good deal of the evening. The spec- tacular finale in thepool was in- deed quite specacular. But unfortunately too frequently during the evening all these mar- velous swimmersthad to come up for air. And it was at, these moments that "The Frogs" . fell flat on its face and drowned! The land sequences lacked the neces- sary precision and co-ordination of a large scale production and the pacing out of the water. was' frenzied and unnecessarily ani- mate. The current presentation found itself resorting to gimmicks too frequently to . inject life into the garrulous goings on. After a while the gimmicks become not only tiresome but in one particular oc- casion primitive and for the Speech Department surprisingly amateurish. * * * ALTHOUGH THE CHORUS is certainly imbued with the proper airiness of spirit, the playing of the participants is too often rigid and static. Highly uneven at best, the obviousness of their attempt is painfully apparent. And it is quite easy for the viewer to im- mediately perceive that the prin- ciples on land just aren't having as gay a time as the people in the water. Unfortunately the orchestra does little to help the actors, out, of their enigma. The music is too limpid to adequately soar during the nicely choreographed musical sequences. The necessary lightness is never adequately captured. On land "The Frogs" is a fran- tically paced three-ring circus in which nothing vital seems to be happening in any of the playing areas.; But in the water "The Frogs" is able to leap highly into an experience both delightful and refreshing. --Marc Alan Zagoren By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst FIDEL CASTRO obviously ex- pects somebody to try to do to him what he did to Fulgencio Batista, but he isn't getting any- where with his effort to convince the United Nations that the in- vader will be the United States. The picture of an American behemoth standing over poor little Cuba with mailed fist drawn back to strike is Just a little too much for the delegates to swallow. As the Nepal delegate said of Con- munist tactics in general, it's an insult to their intelligence. A fundamental practice of the United Nations is to give anybody a hearing about almost anything. But twice now the delegates have ruled that Cuba's accusation of an impending U.S. invasion is in- consequential, to be debated in its turn with other routine of the political committee, with no air of immediacy. WHAT CASTRO is trying to do is lay the groundwork for charg- ing, when the anti-Castro relu- CIVIC THEATRE: 'Bell' Hiexed DM OTHER CAMPUSES- Should Boycott be Stopped? E QUESTION of whether Northern stu- dents should continue their sympathy emonstration picketing outside those variety ores which continue to have segregated ranches in the South has once again appeared s a real issue. Just because of its reality and s vitality, it is important that it not be ouded with false and spurious controversies. Two weeks ago five NSA officers met with ve representatives from four of the variety pains involved. It was made clear to all con- rned that the NSA officers did not feel that hey could speak for all northern students; nor ,as it claimed that they could control the iture course of the Northern demonstrations. i fact, NSA had requested two representatives om the Studeent non-violent coordinating )mmittee to attend the meeting. Un- irtunately, they could not come. Instead the five officers presented themselves s vitally interested students, who, to some tent, could speak in concert with the wishes nd interests of Northern and Southern stu- ents. Yet the problem remains. Should Northern udents engage in an economic boycott? Woolworth's and its peers were originally lected for the best of reasons. Negroes could aand and be served at the same counters where hites were sitting; the black and white races iuld be shoulder to shoulder. One could sit id the other could not. The totally irrational .dignity of this situation defied conservative guments. There could be no defense of this itolerable situation. The indigenous and spon- neous protests of the early sit-in period sulted in wave after wave of national publi- ty and world-wide sympathy. A better site r a sit-in could -not be found. In a spirit awe, unswerving respect and total sympathy, ie northern student did what he could: he llected moles, he petitioned, he publicized, id he picketed the northern branches of the fending chains. Many students, even those in the Northern picket lines, had misgivings about these sym- pathy strikes. The national chain vWas more correctly a loose federation; the dime store outlets, in the North, had been fully integrated for years. But the situation allowed neither time nor room for such misgivings, and the students acted. But the situation has changed somewhat, Since the sit-ins began stores have been inte- grated in 112 cities. No student has been ar- rested for sit-in activity on the basis of a' Woolworth complaint. The officials constructed this convincing brief for themselves: We, as a corporation, have responded to your complaint. We are attempting to integrate as rapidly as is feasible and practical. Is it just to con- tinue to subject a friendly institution to con- tinued economic boycott while other stores with much more insidious policies remain untouched? One must note that at the con- clusion of the NSA-Woolworth meeting the chains issued a public statement which com- mitted them to an active policy of desegrega- tion, and that this statement was released in the South as well as the North. If, indeed, these companies are sincere in their statement, if they fully intend to continue rapid desegregation, then perhaps further Northern pickets are unnecessary and unjust. On the other hand, it is possible that their statement is insincere, that all their prior actions have resulted from student pressure, and that once this pressure is relaxed, progress will slow down. At no time has any responsible student organization suggested the elimination of stu- dent protest activity, rather the suggestion has been for a redirection of that activity. The problem is a real one both practically and morally. It must be met head-on and answered with full satisfaction. In all honesty we must confess at 'this time that we do not have that answer, --CHICAGO MAROON SIDELINE ON SGC: Overdeliberation Hurts Council's Campus Image By PHILIP SHERMAN Daily Staff Writer THERE IS A GREAT deal of sentiment among its members for stu- dent Government Council to appear as a careful, considerate. deliberative body. It's possible, however, to overdo this. Care, consideration and deliberation can be used as excuses for inaction. And inaction is what the Council can least afford. A case in point is the motion on fraternity and sorority con- stitutions, now put off until Nov. 16. There is no particular reason why the notion needs to be passed immediately, but putting it off gees do try to go home by force- as they will - that the Cuban people are being attacked by the United States. Otherwise he might find the loyalty of his militia rather spotty. In the meantime, Castro hopes to substitute fear of invasion for growing unrest at home over the ever-mounting failure of his economic program. He owns all the newspapers and radio stations now, so that he can publish these gambits in the United Nations against a back- ground of his own manufacture. And his actions in New York in September strongly suggest he is not sensitive to the impression he creates abroad. THERE'S NOTHING he would like better than to provoke a mili- tary incident, and nothing the United States will be more careful to avoid. All of Cuba is now "off limits" to American military per- sonnel except the tiny enclave at Guantanamo Bay, which Cuba leased to the United States In perpetuity as. a part of her own defense. The Castro administration, while talking about some vague "legal" means of recapturing that base, itself admits that a military at- tack would be "idiotic." The Castro regime also is build- ing up trouble for itself with its bragging about growing military strength. Already the Castro revo- lutionaries havercaused some shooting in several. other Latin American countries, and their ac- tivities are growing more and more irksome to these governments. As their fears are enhanced, so will be their sympathy and material support for a counterrevolution ni Cuba. IVIC Theatre productions should not be reviewed. They should never be -reviewed by an outsider who is unappreciative of their traditional charm. My credentials; now then. This week the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre is on stage at the Lydia Mendelssohn. They have taken, in Civic Theatre style, a Broadway play whose '60 royalties are low enough to inspire dreams of ac- cessibility, andmight even be- token the right time for its mid- west premiere, "Bell, Book, and Candle" by John van Druten. * * * THE PLAY is a classic and needs no synopsis. Its style is Broadway Big, asopposed- to the sophisti- cated,' Connecticut Cool plays of George Axelrod and Pete DeVries. In the latter the amont of fun to be had is in proportion to the degree you can convince yourself you are a snob. No such prepara- tion is asked by van' Druten. Of the audience. From the production he asks for energy. Whether, indeed, van Druten asks for. more than the average amount itf stage energy I don't know] but it would seem so from this production. It is lacking in everything from any kind of im- aginative stage business to ener- getic characters to emphasis in phrasing (absolutely unpardonable in comedy) to plain gestures and movement. MUCH OF THIS must be laid to the cast but most of it to the lead, who is, alas for Civic Thea- tre, beautiful. How she can walk across the stage, steal the scene, read her lines and ruin the effect is moving to behold. If there is magic in this produc- tion, it is that two of the support- ing leads manage to get their full quota of laughs though doomed by this beautiful hex. Their move- ments are free and. their charac- ters energetic to the point of slap- stick, but it works. These are the warlock, Jerry Shull and sub witch, Barbara Sandburg. ,,--Robert Kraus 4-, TODAY AND TOMORROW The EisenPhower Speech By WALTER LIPPMANN ought to add little to its luster- or the Council's. For this reason: it appears to have been discussed mainly at the Council table, One, ex officio member vitally con- cerned with the motion said only four council members stopped in to talk over the matter. THIS IS EXACTLY why the Council is often uninteresting, and why it is subject to intermidable foot-dragging. The members' re- sponsibility isn't confined to Wed- nesday evenings. If members would argue the motions during the week, they could know what they think, and why, and quickly transform their thought into legislation without the intermin- able "consideration." The desire for this "consideration is way out of proportion; it makes the Coun- cil appear overly indecisive, when it doesn't need to be, But more is at stake than the Council's image; the legislation undoubtedly will come out even- tually. The sentiment for "con- sideration" often appears to be an excuse for doing nothing, espe- cially in controversial off-campus and civil rights areas. This at least is an inference in the motion to delay motions calling for expres- sion of student opinion for one week. This motion is, in a sense, ridiculous. The Council members have already by their election been given a mandate to express stu- dent opinion. It is up to each member to obtain constituents comment, if he thinks he needs to do so. (This should make it in- cumbent that such motions be submitted quite early.) BUT TO INSTITUTIONALIZE this process is absurd in the ex- treme. Sometimes, the expressions of opinion are only meaningful if made immediately. A, week is a long time in a changing world. One member criticizes the deli- berations in off-campus issues the motion to protest Georgia. anti-trespass laws. The acts are well . . . Simply to automatically delay consideration in order to get facts, which may be unobtain- able anyway, is often inexcusable. It almost sounds like a filibuster of silence. F:DAILY OFFICIAL :BULLETIN ....:.:. . _. ..c-.< .::.. :.... ... . '. " ' .S; . 'i: )N FIIDAY at Philadelphia Mr. Eisenhower made his first frankly political speech. The Imax of the speech was a challenge and a iarge. The challenge was to ask how the emocratic pledges are to be paid for. The arge 'was the Democrats are responsible for Le recent speculation in gold on the London arket. According to Mr. Eisenhower, the Democratic edges which call for greater expenditures on fense, education, medical care, and other vilian public needs, can be paid for in only ae of three ways. One way is to raise taxes. riother way is to run a deficit and print oney. Another way is to cut existing govern- ent programs. We may dismiss the last two. obody around Mr. Kennedy that I know of is . favor of deficit financing, except of course 5 an emergency measure in case the present ing, Sen. Kennedy must choose between raising taxes and abandoning his program. Kennedy intends to pay for his program (1) by raising taxes, social security taxes, to finance care; (2) by taking In more revenue as result of a reform of the tax structure which will not only close the well-known loophole somewhat, but will strengthen. economic growth by tax incentives to capital investment; and (3) by encouraging and stimulating the growth of the economy in order to put an end to the sorry record of three recessions in the past seven and a half years. If the economy can grow, since it has idle plants and idle men, it will produce profits and income which will increase the gov- ernment's revenues from the existing corporate and income tax structure. However, if the economy remains sluggish and depressed, if reform of the tax law fails, The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsibility. Notices should 1 be sent In TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3518 Administration Building, before 2 p.m. two days preceding publication. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 General Notices The following student-sponsored so- cial events have been approved for the coming weekend., Social chairmen are reminded that requests for approval for social events are due in the Office of Student Affairs not later than 12 o'clock noon on Tuesday prior to the event. NOV. 4- Alpha Omicron Pi, Fletcher Hall, Prescott House, Phi Delta Phi, PI Lambda Phi, Triangle. NOV. 5-- Alpha Epsilon Pi, Adams House, Al- pha Kappa Lambda, Beta Theta Pl, Delta Chi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Sigma Delta, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Theta Phi, Chi Phi, Gomberg-Huber Houses, Greene House, Jordan Hall, Nu Sigma Nu, Phi Alpha Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, Phi; Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Mu, Phi Rho Sigma, Phi Sigma Delta, Phi Sigma Sigma, Psi Omega, Reeves House, Scott House, Sigma Chi, Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Trigon, Weneley House, Williams House, Zeta Beta Tau, Zeta Psi, Zeta Tau Alpha, PI Lambda Phi. NOV. 6- Stockwell Hall. summary of Action Taken by Student Government Council at Its Meeting of Nov. 2 Approved: Minutes of previous meet- Ing. Interim Action ,Announced: Nov. 2 The phrase "of provisions in the group's Constitution pertaining to membership selection" amended to read "of all rules, regulations, and explicit or implied agreements of the organi- zation which directly or indirectly af- fect the selection of members." The word "notarized" will be deleted from all parts of the motion. Postponed: Until Nov. 16 the motion regarding fraternity and sorority Con- stitutions (Vol. 6, p. 24). Calendaring Change Approved: The Military Ball will be changed from March 3 to March 10. The Union Jazz Show will be changed from March 18 to April 15. Activities Calendared and Approved: Nov. 6 Democratic-Socialist Club, speaker, Robert Tucker, "The Case of Socialized Medicine," Union, 2:30 p.m. Nov. 8 Political Issues Club, Election Day Civil Rights Demonstration, Un- ion, UOL, 7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Nov. 18-20 SOC Wolverine Club, Trip to Ohio State-Michigan Game. (Bus leaves Union at 2:00 p.m. Nov. 18 and returns to Union at 6:00 p.m. Nov. 20.) Approved: The proposal of the Board to review the situation of the office space on the second floor. Since there are more organizations petitioning for office and desk space than there are openings and several groups are not making full use of their facilities, the Board feels that some of this space could be put to better use by other groups. Every organization will be re- quested to petition for the office and desk space they feel necessary for their operations. No preference will be given to those groups who already occupy offices on the second floor. Petitioning will begin on Nov. 8 and end on Nov. 22. Only recognized student organiza- tions, who are registered, will be al- lowed to petition. Once a group I-as obtained an office, they would be re- quired to submit a report each year as to how they used their office. They would not be required toxe-petition each year. VERDI IN STEREO:- 'Re qutem'- Un-Italian VERDI: REQUIEM MASS. Shakeh Vartenissian, soprano; Fiorenza Cossotto, mezzo-soprano; Eugenio Fernandi, tenor; Boris Cristoff, bass; Tullio Serafin conducting the orchestra and chorus of the Rome Opera House. Capital (S) GBR 7227. HERE IS THE first stereo recording of this, the most popular work of its type. Verdi's peculiar blood and thunder approach to the text led one critic to call this work, "the best opera Verdi ever wrote." Indeed, the music stresses' the dramatic side of the Last Judgment. The recording in question does not exploit these dramatic Approved: Changes in the Operat- ing Procedures as follows: Under MOTIONS add Those motions concerning the ex- pression of student opinion and changes in University Regulations 'shall be given initial consideration in a comn- mittee of the whole. All final consid- eration cannot be given until seven days after the initial consideration. Under AGENDA, Section 4 Change 'to read Other items of business, except cal- endaring, in written form be made known to the Executive Committeetat least 24 hours' prior to the meeting at which they are to be considered. Defeated: That Student Government Council with its next mailing of the mihutes send a statement which: 1. Publicizes the Ann Arbor Election. Day Demonstration.. 2. Explains the background and the purposes of the demonstration, which, are: a. a call for speedy implementation of both parties' platform planks on Civil Rights, b. expression of sympathy with Southern students in their drive for social equality. 3. States our support of such dem- onstrations and our reasons for giv- ing such support. 4. Encourages student support in this demonstration. Placement Notices SUMMER PLACEMENT SERVICE: Week of Nov. 1-5- Canadian Students Only-Following summer jobs in The Bigwin Inn, Mus- koka, Ontario, Canada: Waitresses, Waiters, Chambermaids, etc. Also Vacation replacemc ts, men, in Anglo-Canadian Pulp & Paper Mills Limited, Quebec, Canada. Salary starts at $1.46 per hr. Come to the Summer Placement Bu- reau, Room D528, Lower Level of the SAB. The Summer Placement Service is ovnn Mond~av througih'T'hursv "1:30 nf possibilities to anywhere near the extent that Toscanini and others have done. IN A WAY, this is a surprise, for Serafin is regarded as the dean of Italian opera conductors, and would normally be expected to approach this work in typical Italian fashion. But here the tempi are quite a bit slower than Tos- canini's and the trend of' the performance seems to be toward the escetically religous rather to the dramatic concept. And while there is nothing wrong with slower tempi per se, here, they tend to drag. This is partially due to the soloists. No one seems to have heard of either Miss Varenissian or Miss Cossotto and the notes tell us nothing. Miss Vartenissian's voice is a large and rich one, but she seems to be having trouble controlling it. She does not bring off the "Libera Me" and elsewhere her failings are still present, if less obvious. Miss Cossotto posses- ses a pleasing voice, but is as yet not one of the really good *nezzos. * * * BOTH EUGENIO FRENANDI and Boris Cristoff are well known to American audiences, and both are substantially better thal their female counterparts. Mr. Cristoff is by far the best of the four solo- ists and his singing of the "Con- futatis Maledictis" is probably the best singing in this recording. The stereo is quite good through- out and greatly enhances the choral passages, especially the "Santus".