dim&Seventy-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIERsITY OF MICHIGAN - UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MIcH., PHONE NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail" THIRD MEDICAL SCHOOL: Groups A ttempt Voluntary Coordination Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in at reprints. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: ANDREW ORLIN THE LIAISON Brid m fthe Gap Gloria Bowles, Magazine Editor THIS AFTERNOON 175 University stu- -his fellow students-and probably has dents, faculty members, administra- close contacts with at most several pro- tors and Regents will begin sessions of the fessors, but no contact with the decision- second Conference on the University. makers-the administrators. The same Discussion groups this afternoon will lack of acquaintance, and understanding, consider a wide range of problems from can be traced on other levels. expansion to high-level policy-making to the University and social change. Each WHY SHOULD ONE KNOW what is hap- discussion group-thirteen in all-will be pening in one's own University com- chaired by a student and a faculty ad- munity? Why is communication import- viser, and be attended by student, faculty ant? Some students will answer that they and administrative representatives. simply cannot live in a vacuum, but wish to know what is happening around them. THE FIRST CONFERENCE on the Uni- It is their way of combatting the "bigness" versity was held in May, 1962. Its of the University. The student delegates founders hoped the Conference would be- to the Conference, many of them actively come an annual event, an ambitious goal engaged in, student activities, feel this, given the great amount of work that goes necessity to know, to be aware. into arranging a successful conference. In explaining "why communication?" The founders also had an ideal. They and thus, "why a conference on the Uni- wrote, in a statement of purpose: versity," they might also answer: "I not .. sIn our huge and diverse Uni- onlywantIto establish personal contacts versity, too many good ideas get lost. with various members of the University Overloaded communicatiqns lines community, but I also feel a responsibil- have broken down; groups are insult- ity toward that community. I may be ed from each other and relationships transient, but I do care about the Univer- have become impersonal. Administra- sity as an institution, and I am sincere- tors lose touch with the educational ly concerned that its high standards of ideals of the University; faculty mem- education be maintained." bers are 'too busy' even to try turning their ideas into action; indifferent ONE HOPES AND EXPECTS that the students shrug their shoulders and Conference will result in greater com- consider themselves transients." munication and, among the delegates, an These founders understood one of the intensification of the desire to have an influence on the direction of the Univer- major problems of a University of this sity. As the founders of the Conference size: lack of communication. The student wrote in 1962: tends to live in a vaculm. He knows little about the University around him and "Perhaps no immediately feasible often lives within his own very narrow ideas, no new policies will come out of world of studies and acquaintances. this Conference. But, at the very least, When he talks about his courses, or his it will provide the participants with a grades, he speaks abstractly. He does not new understanding of the University. know who "they" are and he does not The Conference can be the basis for a really know what he means when he says great deal of creative work, and the "the University." He is close to his peers seedbed for a great many new ideas." SIDELINE ON SGC : (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the sec- ond of a two-part series analyzing the current medical school contro- versy in Michigan.) By LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM N OVERBLOWN and embitter- ed statewide controversy on the question of a third medical school owes its foundation to an innocu- ous letter written back in 1956. And today, eight years later, three governors, one state Legis- lature, one coordinating council on higher education, numerous medi- cal study groups and a massive interchange of vituperative com- mnent between the University and Michigan State University have not resolved that dispute. The letter that sparked the con- troversy was sent to Michigan State University President John Hannah by a congressional repre- sentative from the East Lansing, Don Hayworth. It briefly assess- ed and made recommendations for increased medical education in the state. For MSU it advised the adoption of a two-year medical program- a pre-clinical setup-to ease the admissions difficulties for pro- spective medical students in that area. BUT FOR THE UNIVERSITY, it recommended the establishment of a full-scale four-year medical pro- gram in Flint, to be operated in conjunction with the Universiyt's exisitng four-year medical school, one of the two in operation with- in the state. Wayne State University admin- isters the other. H a y w o r t h 's recommenda- tions forced into the open what officials have disclosed was in theback of educators' minds throughout the state: do we need more medical education, and if so, where? Today, some eight years after that letter, the same questions are being asked. Only by this time, politicians and educators have found themselves examining, rec- ommending, waiting. Only today the issue has become more critical as MSU stands poised preparing to open its two-year program pub- lically envisioned in that letter. * * * EVENTS FOCUSING around East Lansing and Ann Arbor fol- lowed the opening of the medical question to public scrutiny in 1956. But there was only exploration and study without any decisions being made. Lansing was at the time ablaze with multi-million dollar hospital expansion drive to erase a strik- ing lack of clinical facilities and bed space. It was not unlikely that Han- nah, caught up in the hospital spirit, wanted to see MSU latch onto the shirt tails of the expan- sion. He knew the lack of clini- cal facilities-which still exists to- day-had been the major draw- back against construction of a medical school there. IT TOOK until 1960 for MSU to move formally into the medical education picture when a $167,000 Commonwealth Fund grant direct- ed a medical needs study of the Lansing area-to be conducted by MSU personnel. By June 1961, Richard U. Byer- rum, assistant provost of MSU, who directed the study, "had not absolutely decided" whether to go ahead with the two-year program idea-although the report recom- mended it. It wasn't his decision anyway. The MSU Board of Trustees took up the issue and announced an embryonic two-year program in December of 1961. The only gim- mick was that they put the two- year. school into an even more controversial format-an institute of biological and medical sciences which represented a "bold new approach' to medical education. The Institute was to be ground- ed in the biological sciences, al- lowing medical students to take early courses with those students headed for transfer and comple- tion of their MD degree at an- other institution. By centralizing departments to cover not only human medicine, but veterinary medicine and relat- ed natural science training as well, the Institute of Science and Biol- ogy was to educate a diversified group of students side by side. MEDICAL EXPERTS around the state hollered foul. "You can't ed- ucate pre-med'students with non- medical students-even under a ;eneral biological format," theyrbe- moaned. Michigan State started bringing in a collection of medical advisors to echo the feasibility of the plan as outlined by the trustees. They did. But the criticism be- gan dribbling forth from the Leg- islature that the Institute pro- gram would be prohibitively ex- pensive. Hannah quickly sensed the prob- lem: the Legislature would glad- ly furnish $10-$15 million in capi- tal outlay funds for the Institute but not an additional $50-$100 million for an entire four-year mnpffleoa n1 mni-n, inningA Min i- THE MEDICAL SCHOOL issue Wa stoo prickly for the legislators to unravel. They sent it to the newly-formed Coordinating Coun- cil on Public Higher Education in February of 1962. As the voluntary association of the public four-year college and community college leaders, the council was asked by the Legisla- ture to develop a comprehensive medical education recommenda- tion. The council appointed a com- mittee on medical education which was basically composed of Uni- versity, MSU and Wayne represen- tatives, including the University's Dean of the Medicali School Wil- liam N. Hubbard. This ad hoc group reported in May: " Yes, MSU should go ahead with its two-year program of grad- uate study In human biology lead- ing toward PhD and MD degrees. f No, MSU should not adopt a four-year program, but by 1971 a new four-year medical school for 100 entering medical students be established. The location, the re- port stated, would have to be sub- sequently determined. AT THE SAME TIME, the ad hoc group focused on another problem. Indeed, its first two rec- ommendations asked that the Leg- islature's existing commitments to the University and Wayne be met. The University, which had ex- panded its entering class to 200 students, in 1951, had made this move under legislative assurance that funds for two Medical Science Units-costing the state $10 mil- lion apiece-would be forthcom- ing. The University has still not been given the Medical Science Unit II, x r 7 Y : i 1 1 MEDICAL SCHOOL COORDINATION-Coordination not coercion has been the recurrent theme of these three men seeking to avoid institutional warfare over the medical school issue. Sen. Elmer Porter (left), who as appropriations committee chairman in early 1962 urged collaboration and warned Michi- gan State University not to wedge its way to a four-year program. University Medical School Dean Wil- liam N. Hubbard, (center) worked on two medical committees in assessing the medical school needs. Serving on one of these committees was Regent Eugene B. Power (right) of An Arbor who has been a long-time advocate of state-wide coordination. although the Legislature is ex- pected to issue the funds for it this year and the Legislature appropriated planning money last year. Michigan State went ahead with its preparation for the two-year program while therUniversity and WSU vowed to fight for their proper financial allotments. * * * THIS WAS the background when a neutral committee, chaired by Herman Wells, chancellor of the University of Indiana, undertook a more detailed investigation for Puttinga Some Issues Into the Campaign THE FORECAST that the campaign for the Student Government Council elec- tion March 4 would be an "issue-less" one has been qualified by two phenomena --which highlighted Wednesday's Council meeting. The first was, the decision to set up an ad hoc committee composed of Coun- cil members to work out a definition of the "non-academic rules and regulations" over which SGC is seeking authority. The second was the recognition which SGC extended to two recently-organized campus political parties. COUNCIL'S DECISION to set up a com- mittee to define the areas within which students should legislate is the first substantial effort in a long and difficult process. The move is significant in light of the fact that Council has been talking about expanding its role in initiating non-academic rules since November. Council discussions in the last three weeks have focused on the role students should assume in governing themselves. Yet little has been said about which rules, other than those contained in the University's rule booklet, "Standards for Editorial Staff RONALD WILTON, Editor DAVID MARCUS GERALD STORCH Editorial Director City Editor BARBARA LAZARUS . ........... Personnel Director PHILIP SUTIN..............National concerns Editor GAIL EVANS .................... Associate City Editor MARJORIE BRAHMS .... Associate Editorial Director (iLORA BOWLES................Magazine Editor MALINDA BERRY..... ......... Contributing Editor DAVE GOOD ........................ Sports Editor JIM BERGER................Associate Sports Editor MIKE BLOCK..............Associate Sports Editor BOB ZWINCK ............ Contributing Sports Editor IGHT EDITORS: H. Neil Berkson, Steven Haller, Edward Herstein, Marilyn Koral, Louise Lind, An- drew Orlin, Michael Sattinger, Kenneth Winter. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: David.-Block, Mary Lou Butcher, John Bryant, Laurence Kirshbaum, Richard Mercer. Business Staff ANDREW CRAWFORD, Business Manager Students," SGC shonuld properly be con- cerned with. COUNCIL came to the sudden realization Wednesday that ambiguity and un- certainty will not favorably impress the administration when Council submits a request for additional power. Agreement among the 19 members on just what di- rection SGC should take was virtually im- possible-hence, the committee. Appointing a committee and waiting for its report prevents Council from send- ing a request to the Office of Student Af- fairs immediately. Yet, a few weeks of thoughtful consideration by the commit- tee on areas in which SGC should proper- ly legislate will necessarily be more fruit- ful than any number of hours of incon- clusive debate at the Council table. Any Council action on the rules ques- tion will have to be taken after the elec- tions. Therefore, candidates may and should be appraised on their ability to contribute toward resolving these dilem- mas: What areas under the title of "non- academic rules and regulations" should Conucil hope to move into? Library rules and fines? Health Service operations? Parking regulations? Driving permis- sions? Dormitory requirements? Hopefully, the candidates will give more thought to these questions than Council members have thus far, so that intelli- gent decisions can be conducted on stu- dent rule-making before the semester ends. ANOTHER RECENTLY "created" issue is the study committee which two politi- cal parties are recommending for Coun- cil. The Student Government Reform Union has suggested a student-faculty study committee be set up after the election to study the possibility of establishing a stu- dent-faculty government to replace SGC. The Students United for Responsible Government (SURGe), formed in reac- . . . . _ _ .. i I i The Saga of 'Tom Jones' Vibrant Comic Classic Now at the Michigan Theatre A WILD FRANTIC harpsichord accompanies the quick action as bed- covers are pulled back in the Allworthy home and, lo and behold, a healthy, energetic baby is discovered. Thus begins the saga of Tom Jones. Director Tony Richardson has captured the flavor and immediate physical pleasure of the young brawling Tom in his adventures. The emphasis of the film is on those sensual aspects of life that novelist Henry Fielding caught so well. Like a modern Hogarth, Richardson has made each scene, each pic- ture of England in the middle 18th century breathe heavily and fully with the flavor and richness of living. The countryside is immense and lush. Life is vibrant and rapid, jumping out from the screen and filling one's every sense. Richardson has utilized the camera in every way possible to achieve remarkable fidelity to Fieldings' mood: dark, confined shots of hallways; wide-angle sprawling scenes of the countryside; warm immediate close- ups of the squires' home; intimate close-ups of characters. Richardson eases from subtle longshots of Tom and Sophie to sharp, pointed glimpses of the conspiring nephew. * * * MUCH OF THE credit for the overwhelming success of "Tom Jones" is due to John Osborne's adaptation and the brilliant acting of Albert Finney and cast. Finney smiles and romps through the film like a mischievous pixie caught unaware. He is the naive Tom, the quick- witted Tom, the innocent Tom, the clever Tom, the easily seduced Tom, the brave, strong Tom. Finney is Tom Jones from the falling lock of hair to the twinkling eyes. The rest of the cast is equally fine with outstanding performances by Susannah York as Sophie and Hugh Griffith as Squire Allworthy. Miss York is as sweet, innocent and alive a young lady as one could ask for. Griffith camps and roars, red-faced and rambunctious, in one of the casting coups in film history. In one of the most memorable scenes, after discarding the remainder of his meal to the dogs at his feet, Griffith casually wipes his face with a lock of his hair. He is natural, boisterous and gloriously alive. SO ALSO is "Tom Jones." One is always wary of a film heralded and acclaimed in advance as was "Tom Jones." A seed of doubt remains, whispering, "it can't be that good." In the case of "Tom Jones," the seed fails to sprout. "Tom Jones" is among the finest screen achieve- ments of all time. Although using many burlesque techniques to arouse laughs, Rich- ardson is just as capable at developing the sophisticated wit and flavor of Fielding's original. Thus we have both the ludicrous and subtle stereotypes, the earthy puns of Allworthy and the crafty manipulations of Lady Bellaston, all coexisting, One of the screen's funniest and finest seduction scenes takes place as Tom and Mrs. Waters virtually eat themselves into bed ** * YET "TOM JONES" is more than just a humorous comedy, a sort of 18th century "Pillow Talk." Fielding had points to make, and Rich- ardson makre them The stn hun+ haenmPC. +he mnctimnnmt.n+ nak the coordinating council in Sep- tember of 1962. Their recommendations, issued In a detailed report of statewide medical needs last November, was adopted unanimously by the Co- ordinating Council. This meant Hannah and MSU Board Member Warren Huff affixed their approv- al to the document. It renewed the request that legislative commitments be hon- ored at the two existing medical institutions. Once again, the deci- sion on location and sponsorship of a new medical center was des- ignated as "premature." Indeed, the report showed that with MSU's new institute program taking 50 additional MD candi- dates, and Wayne State jacking up its admissions size to 200, some 125 new places would be created. The possibility of a third medi- cal school was pushed off for fur- ther consideration, although the undercurrent of the report was that the state's medical needs were not sufficient to warrant it. * * MSU WAS NOT openly critical at this point. They had signed the agreement-although quietly dis- pleased with it-and its institute program was to continue. But one recommendation of the report had the East Lansing camp riled. The Wells committee ob- served that instead of a full two- year program which would require crrently unavailable clinical fa- cilities, an 18 month transfer pro- gram would be in order. As the committee pictured it, MSU would ship its medical can- didates to the University or Wayne State after 18 months, with a guarantee of their acceptance. The students would complete their sec- ond semester, then be eligible for transfer to any medical school in the country after two years But Hannah and William Knise- ly, director of the biology and medicine institute, didn't like the idea. * * * THEY HAD "only accepted the report in theory, not In specifics," Hannah explained, and were thus pushing ahead with a full-scale, two-year program. This statement, coming several weeks back, was a precursor of the latest eruption. Several days later, MSU an- nounced the hiring of a medical director of the two-year school, Prof. Alfred Hunt, formerly of Stanford University. The catch: his salary was to be $35,000, a level on par with the medical school dean of the most prestigious four-year medical school in the country-Harvard. University educators were per- turbed, legislators aghast. Han- nah's motives undrewent a thor- ough questioning. What was the new $1 million veterinary hospital to be used for? Why do you pay a dean of a two-year school more thanhthe director of the institute of which it is a part? HANNAH had no public an -swers. He only had virulent re- actions to University President Harlan Hatcher's public criticism that MSU was sneaking a full fledged four-year medical complex into existence-at a cost of rough- ly $100 million. With the medical part of the institute budgeted for only $200,- 000 next year, such maneuver- ings" would be rather difficult" Hannah responded, thrashing back at Hatcher for factual misrepre- sentation. But University officials weren't buying Hannah or his $35,000 dean. Even Gov. George Romney's statement that his Citizen's Com- LETTERS to the EDITOR To the Editor: SGRU WAS designed in The Michigan Daily conference mittee would investigate was vaguely discomforting. As far as high sources in Ann Arbor felt, the Wells recommendation had settled the issue. * * * UNCERTAIN of the next move, officials now are waiting and watching as the Legislature has meticulously taken over trying to clarify Hannah's intentions. So from the rival camps of Ann Arbor and East Lansing the vocal guns are silent. And while the Uni- versity is keeping its eyes on the unpredictable actions of Mr. Han- nah, realizing that MSU is now firmly entrenched in the medical school picture. VIENNA: Of' Tone MASTERFUL use of orchestral color within a broad range of styles was the common thread running through last night's con- cert by Wolf gangSawallisch and the Vienna Symphony. Pietro Locatelli lived, achieved fame as a violin virtuoso and com- posed during the first half of the eighteenth century. The concerto grosso in E-flat with its vigorous rhythms, interesting harmonic progressions and steady theme spinning-out possesses many of the best qualities of music of this period. Still exciting today is the con- trast of the distinctive tone of the soloists with that of the full or- chestra. Sawallisch lead a per- formance distinguished by clear string sonority, meticulous atten- tion to dynamics, and feeling for the style. Sensible tempos resulted in a sense of overall continuity. WEBERN'S Six Pieces for Or- chestra were written in 1909 and e m p 1.o y extra-large orchestral forces. In this early work, Webern displays his contrapuntally orient- ed and remarkably sensitive or- chestration. One theme unites the six diverse moods of these pieces. Many difficulties are presented both to the individual performers and the orchestra as a whole. For the most part the Vienna orches- tra met these difficulties. Smooth string and woodwind playing, and strong percussion were noteable features. Moreover Sawallisch suc- ceeded in 'producing a genuine lyric quality which is often lack- ing in performances of Webern's music. * * * POST - INTERMISSION began with Schubert's Symphony in B- minor, the "Unfinished." Long- breathed melody supported by strong bass lines, harmonic orig- inality and beautiful tone quality have long made this work a staple of the orchestral repertoire. It was here that the orchestra seemed to feel most at home. -Warmth of tone and sustained lyricism were evident in every measure. Tonal glow was lacking only from the brass section. The individuality of each theme was sensitively emphasized. Sawal- lisch's occasional deviations from marked tempo were convincing and within the bounds of good taste.- "MACBETH" is the first of nine tone poems by Richard Strauss and is the only one to which the composer does not ascribe a def- inite program. Though an early work, "Macbeth" possesses many of those qualities which were to distinguish Strauss later on: bril- liant orchestration, distinctive melodies, tightly knit thematic organization, and merciless horn parts. In terms of sheer dramatic im- pact this was the most successful performance of the evening. Sub- ito dynamics, vigorous sectional execution, and contrasting timb- ers cnntrihutea nthi .THre the t' I ',I I t