"Some Day That Thing's Gonna Blow Up In My Face" Seventy-First Year EDrrED AND MANAGED BY-STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 'When Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Will Preva" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG.* ANN ARBOR, MICH. " Phone NO 2-324! Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. FOR VICE PRC-sp= 3 -" _ ' l ''"' L y *r ;,jq w f, - ." f l r , ~ ~ ,,-ti ysr ' r:, .-^'"' +. GILBERT AND SULLIVAN SOCIETY: Overlooking Orchestra, 'Mikado' Tremendous HE GILBERT and Sullivan Society has done it again. Not only did they give a most excellent performance of "The Mikado," but they did standing battle with the orchestra at regular intervals-and won. An overenthusiastic brass. section, ragged strings, and generally substandard quality playing plagued the orchestra but, though the prinucipals at times were drowned out by the low horns, the chorus retaliated to drown out the orchestra-and better the performance. AY, NOVEMBER 11, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: ANDREW HAWLEY Philosophical History Of the Youth Peace Corps T HE NEWLY-FORMED Americans Commit- ted to World Responsibility group on this campus received its inspiration from recent speeches by President-elect John Kennedy and Rep. Chester Bowles. These two men have subsequently been given credit for giving birth to the whole idea of a peace corps. A glimpse at American history and philosophical trends shows, however, that the idea is far from new. William James advanced the idea while speaking to the Universal Peace Congress in Boston in 1904. He later elaborated on the idea of conscription for peaceful service in an essay entitled "The Moral Equivalent of War." Reaffirmation rTUESDAY WAS a busy day. Vice-President Nixon spent a mysterious' hour or so relaxing in Tijuana, Mexico. Senator Kennedy sent word to his father that it was finally all right for the elder Kennedy to return to the states from a filial-imposed Riveria vacation. Down south, H. V. H. Sekyi tried to observe the Democratic process at its roots, the voting booth. Sekyi is an embassy secretary from Ghana who was one of the foreign envoys in- vited by our President to observe Election Day 1960. Unfortunately, however, Sekyi chose the somewhat illicit city of Atlanta, Georgia around which to look. He is a Negro. He was shoved out of a polling place by, two burly men who purported to be sheriff's deputies. He had been invited inside by the poll manager,but now he was told that "his kind" should stay from such institutions as the free and non-arbitrary vote. Atlanta's mayor informed Sekyi that there existed a law against non-voters in polling places and commented (Associated press re- ports) "They would probably have run me out." As Georgia's police officials mulled over tle idea of jailing Sekyi, Nixon reaffirmed the prestige of the United States and cited the fact that "The Eisenhower Administration has not yielded a single inch of free soil to our Enemy." Why must It always be a whimper? -OLINICK H ENVISIONED a service corps in which which young people would serve for a num- ber of years, doing peaceful, constructive work for the nation. Whatever virtue there might be in the rigors of military life (this is 1904, re- member; when wars were fought on horseback) would be instilled in the peace army by its military-type discipline. To a remarkable extent, this idea was put into practice by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who developed the Civilian Conservation Corps. Boys in the corps worked constructively for the government under a military discipline sys- ten Its effect might be stated as James en- visioned the purpose of his corps: "Our gilded youth would be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas." Granted, the new peace corps plan involvesj service outside of our national boundaries, not right in the United States as the CCC did. Yet its theoretical basis and its goals appear to be the same at James'. THE FOLLOWING statement from James might be made of the new peace corps plan : "Such a conscription, with the state of public opinion that would have required it, and the many moral fruits it would bear, would pre- serve in the midst of a pacific civilization the manly virtues which the military party is so afraid of seeing disappear in peace. We should get toughness without callousness, authority with as little criminal cruelty as possible, and painful work done cheerily because the duty is temporary, and threatens not, as now, to degrade the whole remainder of one's life. I speak of the 'moral equivalent' of war. So far, war has been the only force that can disci- pline a whole community, and until an equiva- lent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way. But I have no serious doubt that the ordinary prides and shames of so- cial man, once developed to a certain intensity, are capable of organizing such a moral equiva- lent as I have sketched ....It is but a question of time, of skillful propagandism, and of opin- ion-making men seizing historic opportunities." John Kennedy, Chester Bowles and the ACWR members may be such men. --PAT GOLDEN The cast presents a most Angli- cised portrayal of Japan, making the show delightfully Gilbert and Sullivan. Backed up by a set which is exquisite in its simplicity, the production rolls along with gales of laughter and merry pat- tersong. IN THE LEAD, Tom Jennings overplays the part of Ko-Ko, who has been condemned to death for flirting, then is reprieved and raised to the rank of Lord High Executioner. However, his overplay only serves to heighten the merri- ment, especially as he proposes, somewhat melodramatically, to Katisha, an unbelievably ugly lady. Katisha, well brought to life by Kay Gardner, is the albatross of the Japanese Royal Court, and the Mikado (Carl Schurr), ruler of Japan, wished her off on his son,' Nanki-Poo (Jerry Hales), who promptly assumed the disguise of a second trombone and fled. S* * EASILY THE most delightful character is Mike Robbins, in the person of Pooh-Bah, Lord High Everything else. Blatant and boisterous he openly declares him- self "a most distinguished person" and evokes howls of laughter and ripples of applause from start to finish. However, the rather obscure sup- porting player, Pish-Tush, a noble- man played by Julius Myers, comes close to stealing the show in the opening scene as he clowns with Pooh-Bah and Ko-Ko. His per- formance is that of a natural Gil- bertian actor-a rare man indeed. S* * THE ROMANTIC leads, Yum- Yum, ward of Ko-Ko played by Jeanne Lucas, and Nanki - Poo, come across well to round out the performance. An intricate tangle of "crime and punishment" couldn't be a happier story. It's time well spent. -Michael Harrah COLOMBIA: Students Strike T HE STUDENTS of several Colombian universities have gone on strike, in order to strengthen the following demands: complete autonomy of the univer- sities without the participation of persons outside them, a more com- prehensive share for students in the leadership of the universities, and a higher budget for education anchored in the Constitution. At the University of the Atlan- tic, the striking students had by ,mid-September accomplished that the number of student represen- tatives on the University Council was increased and a commission of the National Association of Universities was named to re- organize the university set-upand reform the statutes. The students said they were willing to end the strike as soon as the special dele- gate of the National Association of Universities arrived, who is to assume the university's leader- ship. THE STRIKE AT the National University of Bogota, in the course of which the students also put on demonstrations without police interference, resulted by the end of August in the resignation of the Rector. A committee of stu- dents and Members of Parliament was formed after a conference with the president of Columbia, which is to work out .the bases for a proposal for university re- form. Herein the various goals are to be take into consideration, and the universities are to be given statutes. --Student Mirror INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Electoral College System Imprecise By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst IN THE EARLY morning hours of Wednesday, during the period of the "Nixon rush" in the vote counting, on paper, a possibility that the final decision might lie in the hands of 14 men in Mis- sissippi and Alabama. , These were the unpledged elec- tors who were being held in re- serve for just such an opportunity. They represented anti-Kennedy Democrats. If neither candidate had been able to obtain a majority from the other states, Nixon would al- most certainly have been elected. THE POSSIBILITY of manipu- lating the electoral college in such situations, created by the right of the states to control their own election procedure, has often been LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Voice Gains Support EOM OTHER CAMPUSES: Big Ten Mock Election THE BIG TEN mock election set a precedent in reporting procedures for the Daily Cardi- nal, and in the process made the election much more meaningful to readers. Instead of know- ing just the results here the next morning, stu- dents at the university could read about and compare them with every Big Ten school hold- ing a similar election. The Big Ten schools exchanged their results by means of a conference telephone call, in which all the editors got on the line at the same time and reported their results to those listening. The co-ordinated election on the var- ious campuses and the conference call after- wards was arranged by the University of Illi- nois' Daily Illini and the Illinois Student Sen- ate. These two groups, and especially Ray Cohen, mock election chairman at Illinois, de- serve many thanks. Many interesting, and perhaps significant sidelights were gleaned during the conference call. For instance, two schools-Michigan State University and Purdue University-did not hold their scheduled mock elections because of ap- parent student apathy at both schools and restrictions imposed by the administration at Purdue. At MSU the Young Republicans and the Young Democrats originally planned to co- operate in sponsoring the election, much as they did at Wisconsin in working with the Union Forum committee. But when the time came, not enough of the young politicians turned out to man the ballot boxes, so no vote could be held. AT PURDUE the student government voted to have a combined national and state mock election, as we did here, but the school's ad- ministration then ruled out having the state election, for reasons which we on this campus will never understand. (Any results would stray from bi-partisanship, which a state-sup- ported institution has to maintain, they must have reasoned ) So plans for a presidential vote alone were made, only to have the ad- ministration rule then that no polling places could be set up on campus: (This would en- courage on-campus campaigning, officials stat- ed.) Still wanting a mock vote, the campus Young Republicans and Young Democrats of- fered to take ballots around to living units so students could stil vote, but apathy set in, and 7Tr+#ri tJ w+ J4t4 when the time came, not enough of the two groups' members showed up to do the job. At the University of Minnesota, the student newspaper long ago decided that they didn't want to sponsor any mock election because they believed the student body would be too apathet- ic to make it successful. So there was no offi- cial mock vote on that campus either. ALTHOUGH the University of Illinois went through with their vote as planned, the Young Democrats on the campus refused to co-operate in the plans because write-in votes were allowed, thus giving Adlai Stevenson's supporters a chance to lessen the number of vote for Kennedy. The Illinois voters did give Stevenson 64 votes, but it surely seems like a small reason for the Young Democrats to with- draw their support. A very interesting observation at several campuses was that the mock election turn- out far outdid any previous turnouts for elec- tions on campus, including those in which stu- dent officers were chosen. Illinois and North- western were outstanding examples of this, as well as our own university. Our previous high vote for a mock presidential election was 4,780 (excluding write-ins) in 1956; this year we had 7,072 (including write-ins). The record for an all-campus election was 3,965 in the spring of 1959. (Last April's vote of 3,949 nearly equaled that record, however). A NUMBER of ballots here on which the stu- dents voted in an unexpected way were commented on by election officials. Although the extent bf the occurrences could not be definitely stated, there were many Kennedy- Kuehn ballots, suggesting that some staunch Republicans remained loyal to Republican Kuehn but switched to Kennedy because of- perhaps-even stronger religious loyalties. Of- ficials also remarked that out-of-state stu- dents, using ballots of different color than in- state students, favored Kennedy over Nixon. Who really won the election? We tend to agree with Bill Whitford, chairman of the Young Democrats, who said that Kennedy gained a victory because the number of votes cast for him was 9.1 percentage points higher than those for Stevenson in 1956. This is a substantial increase, and it might indicate that Kennedy has enough strength to carry the national election next week. To the Editor: I THEMAJOR ISSUE in the re- cent SGC election whether the Council should concern itself with so-called off-campus isues or stay introspective and deal with only local administrative topics. The election of the three Voice. candidates is a clear indication that the council can feel free to deal with issues beyond the con- fines of the University campus. Implied also in the election of Bartlett, Power and Wheeler is the voters' expectation that Voice will provide students with inform- ed and mature consideration on important issues which will come before the Council and the student body. We can assure the voters that our chief interest is not in getting members elected to the Council but is to provide a chan- nel for students to express their desire for more responsibility and participation in those issues and areas which are of concern to students. We will accept criticism and suggestion to achieve this end. Our elected Council members will always be accessible and avail- able for receiving student con- cerns. * S * VOICE ACTIVITY in impi- menting its platform will be clearly made known to interested students. The strong showing in the elec- tion indicates that the Voice plat- form and the individual Voice candidates' platforms were ap- proved and accepted. Student Government Council for the first time has an organized channel for student thought and concern based on the tenets of the academic way of thinking- objectivity, educated action and the pursuit of new goals after old ones are attained. -David Giltrow Chairman of Voice Salesman .. . To the Editor: BRAVO FOR MISS Spencer in her excellent article on "Rule 9." It is high time the press of Michigan presented the true story about this administrative ruling. Mr. William Leudders, the Detroit Real Estate Board, the Michigan Real Estate Board must be made to realize that their scandalous public relations campaign to rid the state of Michigan of freedom* for all without reservations is not being tolerated by the citizens of Michigan. Their attempts to in- jure Mr. Gubow and all the citi- zens of Michigan should be squel- ched at the earliest opportunity. * * * AQ £ Trdu.m1wn v~ln aea outs of a group of self-interested individuals seeking only greater profits. -LeRoy Helman, '64 If Drafted. ... To The Editor: ENCLOSED IS A COPY of a letter sent by me to the draft board declining to submit to in- duction Into the armed forces on October 25th. The Board's order not only requires that I interrupt my education and terminate my job, but also jeopardizes my wife's education and personal well being. I will not accept this, ** * I WILL PROVE my stand in a Court of Law. Mr. Charles D. Howks, et al. Local Board No. 90 553 So. Lake Ave. Pasadena, Calif. Gentlemen: Because I consider your tac- tics oppressive and' therefore, immoral, be informed that with regard to your "order" demanding that I report for induction into the Armed Forces of the United States of America on Tuesday, Octo- ber 25, 1960: I WON'T. Be also informed that I am prepared to face any action brought by you or your cohorts in a Court of Law. 1 swear this on my integrity as a human being. Make of this what you will, sir. -Bruce Atwater Staller argued in connection with the ef-4 ficacy of the whole arrangement. Contributing to the argument has been the fact that there have been minority presidents, through vic- tories in the electoral college with- out a majority of the popular vote. The electoral college system was established originally because of two major factors i the minds of the country's early leaders. Controlling, perhaps, was the feeling that the people as a whole could not know the candidates under the conditions of communi- cation in those days, and would be better off to delegate their authority to representatives at home whom they would trust to act for them in choosing a presi- dent. * * * PRESENT, ALSO, was the feel- ing among the gentry who made the rules in those times that direct election by the common people was a little too revolutionary - even in a revolutionary country. The system actually was a hand- me-down from the ancient Ger- man practice of having kings elected by the princes of the var- ious states. The idea of direct popular election, involving federal con- trol of presidential voting, has never taken hold. There have been repeated sug- gestions, however, for making the electoral vote more representative of situations within individual states. * * * THIS TIME we have the case of Illinois, where Kennedy got 27 electoral votes through a majority of only about 5,500 out of about 4,750,000. Under proportional re- presentation in the electoral col- lege, which many suggest, Nixon would have gotten 13 of those votes. As this is written there are still enough precincts to report and absentee votes to be counted to give Nixon an over-all popular majority. Even the electoral vote of some states-but not enough-- could be changed. In such situations, the electoral college as it stands is not a precise instrument for recording the popular vote. -Daily-Larry vanic. IDAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN] 1 1 SAME TIME, SAME STATION; DIFFERENT REASONS r OV 1, , 2 The Oaily Official Bulletin is an official publication 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, NOVEMBER 11 General Notices School of Music Honors Program: Ap- plications now are being received for the second semester, 1960-1961. Forms are available in the School of Music office. Deadline for receipt of applica- tions, and supporting recommenda- tions, by the Honors Council, Wed., Nov. 23. Faculty, College of Literature, science and the Arts: Midsemester reports are due Fri., Nov. 11, for those students whose standing at midsemester is "D" or The green report cards for fresh- men and sophomores should be sent to the Counselors Office for Freshmen and Sophomores, 1213 Angell Hall; white report cards for juniors and seniors to the Counselors Office for Juniors and Seniors, 1223 AngellHall. Students not registered In this Col- lege but who elected L.S. & A. courses should be reported to the school or college In which they are registered. February teacher's certificate candi- dates: All requrements for the teacher's certificate must be completed by Dec. 1. These requirements include the teach- er's oath, the health statement, and cial events have been approved for the coming week-end. Social chairmen are reminded that requests for approval for social events are due in the Office of Student Affairs not later than.12 noon on Tuesday prior to the event. Nov. 11-Chi Omega, Chicago House, Couzens Hall, Fletcher Hall, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Delta Phi, Prescott House. Nov. 12-Acadia, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Sigma Phi, Anderson House, Beta Theta PigChi Phi, Chi Psi, Delta Phi Epsilon, Delta Sigma Delta, Deta Tan Delta, Delta Upsilon, Gomberg House, Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Hayden House, Huber House, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Lloyd House, Nu SigmaNu, Phi Alpha Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Tau, Phi Rho Sigma, Pi Beta Phi, Pi Lambda Phi, Psi Upsilon, Allen Rumsey House, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma Nu, Tau Keppa Epsilon, Theta Delta Chi, Tau Delta Phi, Taylor-Betsy Barbour, Zeta Beta Tau, Zeta Psi, Wen- ley House, Wenley House. Elective registrations for upperclass women and graduates only concludes Monday and Tuesday of next week. The following special courses and regular service classes are available by regis- tering at the class. At the Women's Athletic Building: Bowling, 9:20 to 10:10 Mon. and Wed.; Exercising, 4:15 to 4:45 Mon. and Wed.; Riding I, Mon. and Wed., 4:20-5:10, Tues. and Thurs., 3:20-4:20; Riding II, English saddle, Mon. and Wed., 3:20- 4:40. Thirty-six dollar fee. At the Pool: Diving, Mon. and Wed., 1:20 to 2:20; Swimming, Wed. only, 11'f a ~n.t 2(M wmmini TT-TL Irii. 4 I lK I H; h I