'I c l e AtOlgatt Batty Counselor, Student, Modern University to the IEDITQR Seventy-Pirst Year EDITED AND MANAGED EY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVE SrYY OF MICHIGAN Opinions Are Fre UNDE AUTHOTY OF BOAltD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS tth Rill Prevai" STUDENT PUBiCATIONS BLDG. * ANN A"BOR, MICH. " Phone NO 2-3241 orials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staf writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. , NOVEMBER 13, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL BURNS tudent Dupes,' Adult 'atriots' And the Communist Menae fIS MONTH'S COPY of Nation's Business 'eatures an article, eptited "New Commu- Plot Points Up Need to Develop Knowledge Americanism," which adds more intensity, ot profundity, to the recurring worry over rimunist infiltration of student action cir- ithough Nation's Business, FBI chief J. Ed- Hoover, members of the House Committee Un-American Activities and other men, ups and journals of similar "Save America" inatlons would indignantly disagree, one soundly and legitimately argue that their i-Red phobia seriously undermines, rather ,; preserves, the ideals of a democratic erica. % EXCERPT from the article reads: "The plot against young Americans is as subtle it is sinister. Communists know that the rwhelmng -majority of U.S. teen-agers and ege students are patriotic and would not be nerable to direct appeals from the party it- They concentrate instead on undermining gion, love of country and the competitive Senterprise system. The resolution on youth adopted by the erican Communist Party at its latest con- tion leaves no doubt about its aim. 'Our par- pation in (young American's) struggles will p unite youth against the enemy 'of all- iopoly capital,' it declares. The implication business, whose future employes' attitudes at stake, is obvious." MAJOR PORTION of the article centers on the still-controversial turbulence in San ncmsco May 13 when a student-police con- ( ended in beatings and hosings. The stu- ts had been protesting the hearings of the ise Committee on Un-American Activities, a Nation's Business article, like Hoover, ms the student demonstrations were Com- nist Instigated.' kuch allegations are indicative of a threaten- American malaise which exposes itself in *os, related, ways: -Harry S. Truman calls the southern sit- "Communist-inspired." -The Saturday Evening Post, in a July edi- Wl entitled "Those Mobs Are Part of the imlin's Master Plan," links student uprisings und the world and the San Francisco dem- tration as part of a vast, well-organized spiracy. It claims that the student news- er at the University of California even ited directions for the riots, so the students ld function in unity. loover, in alliance with the House Commit- publishes his report on "Communist Tar- -Youth," which again wraps together stu- it demonstrations around the world as Com- n'st inspired. Most of Hoover's report deals h the San Francisco action, in which he ues that the poor students were duped. -The House Committee begins national cir- ation of a nicely-edited film of the San nclsco demonstrations, showing how all the 'r students were fooled by Red agitators. LL THESE ACCUSATIONS bear an absurd Implication: That if one human being agrees n partially with another human being, they St agree on everything else or are even mem- s of the same organization. To illustrate, Hoover's terms, if American Citizen X and nimunist X believe mass action is a legiti- te means to work towards civil rights, then Izen X is either a Communist dupe or an ual Party member. Or if St'udent X and Communist X oppose the House Committee, then the student is an obvious Red. Such confusion of positions is alarming. Not even Hoover seems capable of recognizing that in opposing the House Committee or segrega- tion, the Communist and the democrat are not necessarily working for the same thing. The Communist may be seeking the fastest means to a social upheaval, while the student is seeking recognition of the intrinsic value of free speech and equal opportunity. N.\OT ONLY is such confusion alarming, but it is a tremendously serious threat to the preservation of a democratic social order, since it tends to inhibit both freedom of action and of speechs We once believed this country, and all the institutions therein, could only be pre- served by the free tension of ideas: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit- ing the free exercise thereof; of abridging, the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assem- ble and to petition for a redress of grievances. But the words of the 18th century are hardly heeded today by the men who babble about preserving "The American Way of Life." In- stead their conept of preservation has in- volved the use of force in the case of the South, innuendo by congressional investigat- ing committees, and sometimes the blatant, public accusation, as in the case of student editor Peter Steinberg who has been called Communist-oriented by the President of City College of New York. THE NET RESULT of such charges is not the annihilation of the Communist Dragon, but unfortunate perpetuation of our badly- formulated alternatives: As we set in opposi- tion fre enterprise vs. welfare statism, nuclear disarmament vs. nuclear war, so we also tend to polarize the American Way of Life with Atheistic, Materialistic Communism, when in fact no such distinctions exist. Nor do they contribute to the health of a society supposed- ly premised on the belief in honest appraisal, analysis and consensus. If Hoover and the American people would look more closely at the San Francisco inci- dent, they might find something of greater significance than a simple Communist plot. They might discover what the student "dupes" in California really think of their alleged in- spirer, Communist Archie Brown, or their al- leged infiltrator, 18-year old Douglas Wachter -joking songs are sung about boisterous, long- shoreman Brown ("House Committee come to town, so we turned to Archie Brown . . .), and Wachter has little, if any, influence among the several students who planned and led the May 13 demonstration. IN OTHER WORDS, Hoover and other Amer- icans might find, instead of subversive dupes, young men and women fed up with repressive police, legislative and judicial tactics cloaked by the banner of Anti-Communism. They might find young men and women who honestly believe that where the public is sov- ereign, it must have free access to all opinions which will allow it to exercise such sovereignty with some measure of wisdom. In fact, Hoover and others might be forced to re-evaluate their simplistic question of who's a dupe and who's a patriot. -THOMAS HAYDEN Editor (EDITOR'S NOTE--Following is the third article in The Daily's series on "The Univer- sity's Greatest Needs." Dr. Orlin is a lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern History and Assistant Chairman of the Freshman- Sophomore faculty counselors.) By LOUIS L. ORLIN NO contemporary institution has changed so much while attempting to resist change as has the American university. The pressures upon it are le- gion and require no elaboration here; the so-called 'population explosion,' the increasing de- mands of a society which would claim greater practical services from its schools, the prolifera- tion of courses, even disciplines, within the traditional curricula -all these have had their un- settling influences upon the modern university. That image of harmony and singularity of educational pur- pose presented by the academic community usually conceals im- portant divisions of viewpoint about the proper aims of a university education and the methods best suited to the realization of those aims. * * MY CONCERN HERE is not so much with the maladies of the modern university, with the pressures on it from without and from within which have contributed to its present rath- er frenetic state of existence, as with their effects upon the contemporary student, who be- lieves rather uncritically that any program of studies will eventually lead him to the best that a higher education has to offer. In an age of bigger and better slogans we are urged to "educate for industrial leader- ship," or "educate for the sci- entific society of the future," or "educate for successful living in the Nuclear Age," or what you will. And nowhere can the effects of these competing claims be more vividly seen than in the confusion of the young man or woman who seeks guidance in the counseling offices of his university. WHAT IS REAL to the con- temporary student is the urge toward material success, the kind of success upon which our society places highest value, and which usually can be achieved after the student has developed a proficiency within a speciali- zation leading to commercial, industrial, or other applied pro- fessional activity. What is not real to him is the concept of an education which, far from merely being identified with a specialty, or 'major,' in fact ought to reach beyond it, to shape character and impart ethical, historical and aesthetic dimensions to one's life. All too rarely these days do we find the student who is willing to accept the notion that a successful education is not necessarily a successful prac- tically-oriented education; and even rarer is the young man or woman who would eschew prac- tical considerations entirely and take his chances with life 'q they come. * * * NOW THIS IS NOT to argue against specialization, of course, nor against the idea that one should commit one's self whole- heartedly and enthusiastically to the subject one loves, what- ever it is. It is rather to argue that de- spite the immediate attractions of career preparation, there still must be accepted a scheme of value which places certain types of courses and disciplines ahead of others if the proper objects of higher education, as traditionally understood, are to be achieved. No e l a b o r a t e scheme of counting credit hours for graduation should obscure the view that a university edu- cation is not the product of often indiscriminately and ar- bitrarily chosen courses, but rather must be carefully de- velopmental in form. It must lead the student to an ultimately humane view of experience. I STRESS A HUMANE view of experience because I believe deeply that without an under- standing and appreciation of man's struggle to- rise to the height of his potentialities - which alone leads us to view his greatness as well as his falli- bility-we should diminish in ourselves, and thereby in the society in which we live, those qualities of courage and com- passion upon which men in all ages haxe relied for civilized survival. We should also diminish in ourselves the strength of the moral and the aesthetic senses, without the fine functioning of which life becomes essentially crude and utilitarian in those areas where taste, vision and imagination should reign. As I understand it, a liberal education ought to invest the student with a view of life, drawn from the best observa- tions and productions of past and present scholars and ar- tists, which will enable him to reach reasoned understand- ing of fundamental truths, and prepare him fairly to evaluate the scientific and cultural con- tributions of past ages as well as furnish him with an ethical basis for his judgments. FAR FROM OBVIATING the acquisition of techniques which prepare a student for a career, this concept would pass beyond to insist upon the developpent of spiritual and moral values without which the preservation of our culture and our civiliza- tion cannot be maintained.' To the student who finds himself at present so circum- scribed by the requirements of a career specialization that sufficient time for the pursuit of liberalizing subjects cannot be found, the import of my re- marks must rankle. Yet I must point out that the competition of ideas about what constitutes a proper edu- cation within the modern uni- versity illustrates nothing so much more than that our own civilization is in the throes of an increasingly bitter cultural clash. THE WRITER-SCIENTIST, C. P. Snow, has pointedly de- scribed "the Two Cultures" which pervade our present civ- ilization-the Literary Culture and the Scientific Culture, to which may perhaps be added the Industrial sub-Culture. One need not accept every conclusion to which 'S n o w comes, as indeed I do not, to be aware that the goals-as certainly the languages - of these co-existing cultures de- part from each other with in- creasing rapidity. Therefore it is not surprising that the uni- versity, a microcosm of the cul- ture which surrounds it, should find itself to be one more bat- tleground in the struggle. I DO NOT BELIEVE that the modern university will ever in the future offer its students the best education it can until it retreats from what seems to me to be a headlong rush to- ward ever-greater specializa- tions and insularity within its colleges and departments. It has from time to time made headway against these' tendencies. Most encouraging is the awareness by professional schools of engineering, business and medicine, to name but a few types all over the country, that their students ought to have more non-specialized, lib- eral education. Yet for the present the plight' of the, contemporary. student, and of his counselor, re main. * * **- I BELIEVE that if the uni- versity must bear its institu- tional inertia, it must tall upon the student to make an edu- cational breakthrough by him- self. He does not read enough, by far, at the present time.' He sees too few art exhibits, hears too little music, contents himself with mediocre conver- sation and alas, often seems more anti-intellectual than the uneducated., Above all, he must reject in- sularity in his own view of edu- cation. It is just as regrettable that the student of literature does, not know what a machine tool is as that the engineer not know what a literary symbol is just as! regrettable that a stu- dent of philosophy not under- stand the workings of the Se- curities Exchange as for the\ business student not to be' aware of Plato. WE DESPERATELY NEED a new synthesis through which the followers of all university curricula can discern an image of what should be common to all in educated life. And here the counselor in each college can make his greatest contribution: To lead his students toward a view of the complete education, whe'e the parts do not obscure the whole, and where the whole is a true synthesis of all the best that a university can and ought to give. It means challenging the stu- dent to debate his own concep- tion of an education, and chal- lenging him to account for his choice of courses, as well as making him realize that once the best and most lasting edu- cation is sought, the search becomes a moral one as well as an intellectual one. The end is not the mere ac- quisition of information, but a vision of life, is~L Slanted .., To The Editor: WOULD LIKE to comment on Michael Burns'' article on the campaign at the University. As an. entity, thought Mr. Burns ex- pressed very good thoughts, but, in referring to the Young Repub- licans' holding certain beliefs, I believe Mr. Burns overstepped his topic. First, an article on the news pages, or any page aside from the editorial page, should not contain the writer's opinion. Mr. Burns freely expressed his opinion as to the beliefs of the YR's concerning Vice-President Nixon's chances on this campus. He offers -no .ei- dence to support this opinion aside from his casual acceptance of fact. * * * SECOND, THE ITEM itself is not ompletely true as any intelli- gent reader could establish by checking into the facts. Third and finally, the entire concept of The Daily seems to be one of slanting 'news items to suit the editors' fancy. If a newspaper is to be truly a news paper, it must give unbiased reports of all news- worthy items, and not attempt to publicize one important item and -neglect an equally important- item. Throughout the election campaign this policy of favoring one party was extremely evident. Editorial comment and opinions should not be reserved for the editorial page and should not be. printed on the top of the front page. -Harry Doerr, '64 (EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Burns obtained information relating to the Young Republicans from M- Kenna, president of the YR's.) Pr-esuming.. . To The Editor: IT IS MY BELIEF that political superstition has disappeared from American society. Obviously M. Olinick, author of the article "Chain Reaction?" (Nov. 10) does not believe as I do. I can n4t un- derstand how any intelligent stu- dent can believe that President- Elect Kennedy is doomed to die in office on the basis of the un- fortunate pattern of the past. Cer- tainly M. Olinick's observations are unusual and make for interest- ing reading, but his conclusion is highly presumptuous. -Karen Pailey, '64 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 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 be sent in TYPEWRITT N form to Room 3519 Administraion Building, before 2 p.m. two days preceding publication. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 General Notices President and Mrs. Hatcher will hold open house for students at their home Wed., Nov. 16 from 4:00 to 600 p.m. Midyear Graduation Exercises will be held Sat. Jan. 21, 11, in 1i1l Ad. Puther notice will follow. February teacher's certificate can- didates: All requirements for the teacher's certificate must be com- pletedrby December 1. These require- ments include the teacher's oath, the health statement, and the Bureau of Appointments material, The oath should be taken as soon as possible in room 1439 U.E.S. The office is open from 8-12 and ,1:30-4:30. "An Evening With Burgess Meredth.' starring actor and director urg.n Merdith and Broadway stars ancy. Wickwire, Basil Langton, Tom Clancy and Pauline Flanigan will be presented Thursday, 8:30 p.m. in Hill Aud. The program will consist of abridged ver- sions of recent Broadway hits, in- cluding "The Thurber Carnival," "Ulysses in Nighttown," "Under Milk- wood" and "Winterset." Tickets will be on sale tomorrow through Thurs- day 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Aud. box office. Students are offered a 30% reduction on all tickets, Events Monday Linguistics Club meeting on Mon., Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater. Prof. Albert Marck- wardt, Director, English, Language In- stitute, will speak on "Professional Opportunities for Linguists." Faculty Lecture-Recital: John Flower, pianist and Asst. Dean of the School of Music, will present the ninth in a series of lecture-recitals on Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Cla- vier, on Mon., Nov. 14, 4:15 p.m. in Aud. A, Angelli Hall, Philosophy Lecture, Nov. 14, 8 p.m. 2203 Angell Hail. Prof. Nelson Goodman, The University of Pennsylvania, will present "About 'About'".' Archaeological Lecture: "Kiln Sites of Kyushu and Their Wares," by Millard .R ogers, Associate Director, Seattle Art Museum. Mon., Nov. 14, 4:10 p.m. Aud. B, Angell Hall. Psychology Colloquim cancelled. Due to illness in his family, Dr. Rollo May's lecture at the Psychology Colloquium on Mon., Nov. 14, has been cancelled. Engineering Mechanics Seminar, Mon., Nov. 14, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 30.5 West Engineering Bldg-. Prof. S. K, Clark will speak on "Elastic Properties of Orthotropic Materials." Coffee in 201 West Engineering at 3:30 p.m. Doctoral Examination for Peter Kun- stadter, Anthropology; thesis: "Culture Change, Social Structure, and Health Behavior : A Quantitative Study of Clinic Use among the Apaches of the Mescalero Reservation." Mon., Nov. 14, 1406 Mason Hall, Chairman, J. N. Spuhler. AT MEETING OF RED LEADERS: Soviet, Chinese Communists Head for Showdown TODAY AND TOMORROW On the Mornin After By WALTER LIPPMAN )NESDAY morning, which is when this is ing written, is much too early to analyze xplain how it all happened and why. The is certainly close enough to justify all the h so publicly displayed by Dr. Gallup and her pollsters who have to defy death and ction by crawling out to the very end of rng distance limb. fill be some time before even the most ex- .f our correspondents will be able to tell y, for example, religion played so small a n the South, and how it is that the old ands of American progressivism in the sippi Valley were so conservative. the post-mortems, fascinating and in- ive as they are sure to be, do not alter the hat the outcome is decisive. Kennedy is utably the President-elect. Although the ar vote was very close, the closest, I be- since the first election of Grover Cleve- there is nothing ambiguous about Ken- majority. Like Cleveland, who was a President, he has a clear mandate to take what he has promised to do. MYSELF, I believe that the country is er and that the future is better because stronger of the American parties at all levels of government. The Democrats, of whom millions followed Eisenhower, liked Eisenhower and stood in awe of his great personal popularity. This enabled President Eisenhower to worry along with a Democratic Congress. But there was no chance that Nixon could have done the same. In the eyes of too many Democrats he committed too many unforgivable wrongs by impugning the loyalty of their leaders. The magnanimity and the charity of the Democrats would have been strained to the breaking point. A narrow win by Nixon would have inaugurated an era of severe political, economic, and sectarian bit- terness. KENNEDY's WIN promises, on the other hand, to bring on a period of effective gov- ernment. For while the Democratic majority in Congress are not united, with Kennedy in the White House, with Johnson as the Vice- President, and with Sam Rayburn as the Speak- er, the new Administration will certainly be able to form effective working majorities over and above the Democratic reactionaries and obstructionists.,.. By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press News Analyst COMMUNISM'S family quarrel may spell danger for Nikita Khrushchev. World Communist leaders gath- er in Moscow this week for a fateful meeting at which the Kremlin's argument with the Red Chinese may be heading for a showdown. Indications are that the Red Chinese object bitterly to what seems to them a Krem- lin attempt to use them to ad- vance Soviet policy aims. There is a strong hint of even- tual peril to Khrushchev's position as world Communism's leader in any suggestion that he cannot keep the Red Chinese in line. '* * * ED CHINESE annoyance with the Kremlin is becoming more obvious. New clues appear in a long article in the Peiping news- paper Red Flag, devoted to sum- marizing Mao Tze-Tung's views on revolution, war and peace. *, * * . ONCE AGAIN the Chinese par- ty is being annoyed by the Krem- lin. This time, the Kremlin ap- pears to be attempting to dic- tate to Peiping, to hold Peiping in line, to keep the Chinese from rocking the boat and spoiling Khrushchev's program for ex- panding Communism by means of a "peaceful coexistence" offensive. In a word, Moscow is holding a checkrein on Peiping. It is in- hibiting Peiping from adventures which Moscow might consider dangerous. It is notable, for example, that Khrushchev used the word "stu- pid" to describe Red Chinese pres- sure in the direction of India's borders. The Chinese, by Khrush- chev's standards, are over-impa- tient to expand Communism by reckless means which could lead to nuclear war. But a break between Red China and the Soviet Communist party, should it become obvious to the outside world, would have the most serious consequences for the world Communist movement. * * * who assisted Mao in rebuffing Moscow diction years ago. The Red Flag article contends that "the, practice of confining revolutionary struggles to legal struggles and the practice of com- pletely refraining from carrying out practicable necessary legal struggles" both are wrong in Mao's view. Mao, it said, con- tends consistently that revolution- ary parties "should seize all op- portunities . , . at all times." "Now, With Just Another Small Switch -" THE NONPEACEFUL means - seizure of power by force of arms -should be kept in mind, Khrush- chev contends, and used only in the most favorable of circum- stances. That is, Khrushchev has wanted to avoid the danger of war. The Chinese hold that is all nonsense, and indicate a belief that Khrushchev is sacrificing many an opportunity to advance Communism by aggressive means. A spate of rumors about a Mos- cow move aganist Khrushchev may have some connection with the Mao-Kremlin quarrel. The rumors originated in Vien- na. The Red Chinese could have started these reports in movement, or there may even have been some inspirations for them from the "anti-party" exile, V. M. Molotov, now in Vienna as a Soviet repre- sentative of an -atomic energy agency. ~1 ....,_ r , r 5Y '