Seventy-Third' Year EDrTED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNwrnsrrr oi Momwn :- - UNDER AUTHORTY fC BOAD M CONTROL O STUDENT PUCLICATIONs "Where OpItions Are Free STUDENT PmULCATas DUG., Amn Ammo, MicH., PHONE xo 2-3241 Truth wiln Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noled in al reprints. FEIFFER I RV9W!* ACHWO~KFCA~TW- ;i~d~l6!.IW& M E~6RAT65Y WOK Ilfr50Mk65 OF FEEpVOM,Cf C- t. " RDESNIP'OvAMEMA W lWow L~$ TOM3UfITWEJRE 60(JG To CARt. SR 130T T11E4 OSUO To 16N 7thI WC 0I AP CJ L- fict! S A FOLK NQT UZ ,PES~~5 Y FEBRUARY 25, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: ANDREW ORLIN '', f A Superior University Must Not Be Sacrificed 5cfmxfD 60ME$5 -OOT OUR &0WJP WIER0 TW WILL NOTBE6 V R-6 WBU06oTORNETALL. 111 ~6E'AW5Ss 1B 4 0 L C L IX 5 1 5 , 5 HI I KIP V 7 jINeXT WK FR OURZ Nett HE UNIVEISITY is not like any other in the state. But Gov. George Romney doesn't see it that way. The fact that Gov.' Romney doesn't consider this university a superior institu- tion is clear from his recommended budg- et for higher education. It gave the Uni- versity a smaller increase in operating funds than the other major university to the north. However, the powers-that-be in Lansing must recognize that this university has a unique status and pattern of responsibili- ties. The claim that the University is unique is not merely a bias. It is based on the University's long history of pursuit of excellence. This institution is presently on an instructional plane with the outstand- ing private universities of the East Coast. The University is a superior one because of the intangibles of faculty, administra- tive and student commitment to excel- lence. For those who need more practical ex- amples of the University's merits, its role in graduate-professional education, its contributions in quality and quantity of basic and applied research and its achievements in terms of public services set it off from any other institution in the state, or for that matter, in the Mid- west.. THE PEOPLE of this state face two al- ternatives in piloting the future of higher education in Michigan. They can elect to preserve a superior institution like the University, and at the same time seek ways to improve- the general level of high- er education in the state. Or they can scrap the idea of a superior university un- til they can better the other state institu- tions. Gov. Romney has obviously chosen the latter course of action. Hopefully, the Legislature will take a different stand. Although Gov. Romney must be com- mended for his striking support for edu- cation in general, his desire to smooth in- stitutional differences and to level qual- ity are unfortunate. The governor justified strengthening financial support to Michigan State Uni- versity by saying that it "is a reflection of the increase in students at MSU." Cer- tainly, it is true that State's undergradu- ate enrollment will increase during the next few years by more than the Univer- sity's. But an institution's overall excel- lence cannot be equated with raw enroll- ment figures. The fact that MSU will have a greater undergraduate population can- not be used as the primary rationale for recommending that State receive a great- er percentage than the University of the education appropriation. Financial support must be based on to- tal performance-on the quality of in- struction, ratio of graduates to under- graduates, contributions of research and the institution's role in adult education, public health and other services. In these terms the University's needs far out dis- tance those of other state schools. THE JOINT legislative appropriations committee visited here yesterday. Ad- ministrators tried to explain to the leg- islators just why the University is and should continue to be a superior institu- tion. Hopefully, the senators and repre- sentatives got the message. This univer- sity doesn't need a disproportionate amount of the education budget, but it does need a healthy share to maintain its standard of excellence. It cannot wait for really adequate appropriations until the other state schools catch up. -GAIL EVANS Associate City Editor RZA 1I6. OUfZ MW r ROUP" 16 CHAINJ A M.~O~k RIPE LAST WEEK. TOE{~ ARE ?JW 00 A COMO A~J~L ZtlLV r tt R,?6E7S P4 RAW TOS 1)~ h "MAMSV~- 0 AA 14( M 1 P AVE YMFCA 5VoA ! FY W~ e M EU S V A 3A M C R i fA M A C T I V I1 6 4 C O H-MMCI E A . 6 M U S f R O r i Y T O MP~g~ L40U THAT AM4THIUJGqOv 6106 WILL a~ aWWA6AIMST 40V! LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: t Halt 'Irresponsible Unionism' EUROPEAN COMMENTARY: Uniting Isolated Britain with the Continent F i THE LIAISON Ani-Renaisance ManDiJ-or .4 David Marcus, Editorial Director7A S,7 I' HERE IS A convenient mythology that divides the University into three dis- tinct groups: the bungling bureaucrats in the Administration Bldg., the disen- franchised students wallowing in apathy and the courageous, intellectually alive faculty. In the last few years, I have per- sonally had to modify all these images, but none so radically as my stereotype of the faculty. It seems to me today that a great many faculty members are every bit as much bureaucratic as administrators at their very worst. To me, a bureaucrat has al- ways been one who takes a very narrow view of his place in a large organization much as the proverbial blind men trying to figure out what an elephant is like. THE CHARGE generally brought against the administration is that it views the University as a business or as a mere or- ganization to be administered. Yet fac- ulty members who think of the University as a place solely designed for the study of the erotic poetry of Catullus or 18th cen- tury approaches to the id are certainly guilty of being petty, small and narrow; in other words, bureaucrats. The problem of narrow attitudes of course extends to more than faculty mem- bers' dogmas about the, individual, disci- plines. There are faculty members who will say that students ought to do noth- ing but bury themselves in books with little regard for a University education as Editorial Staff RONALD WILTON, Editor DAVID MARCUS GERALD STORCO Editorial Director City Editor j BARBARA LAZARUS ......"....Personnel Director PHILIP SUTIN ...........National Concerns Editor GAIL EVANS........ ...Associate City Editor MARJORIE BRAHMS .... Associate Editorial Director GLORIA BOWLES ... .......... Magazine Editor MALINDA BERRY... .....Contributing Editor DAVE GOOD ..............sports Editor JIM BERGER~.... .....Associate Sports Editor MIKE BLOCK ............Associate Sports Editor NIGHT EDITORS: H. Neil Berkson, Steven Haler, Edward Herstein, Marilyn Koral, Louise Lind, An- drew Orlin, Michael Sattinger, Kenneth Winter. a period of total self-development. There are still others who have probably never seen any other floor of Haven Hall except the one their offices are on. I have no complaint against these pro- fessors except when they start complain- ing and outlining grandiose schemes of how they would run the University. Gen- erally, I have disturbing visions of 27,000 students slaving away at old Saxon gram- mar which is-according to the scholar- ly member of that hypothetical discipline -the most significant field ever known to man and from which the source of all our present day woes and triumphs spring. Or I see a campus populated by bleary-eyed students to whom a benefi- cent administration allows-perhaps-one night a week for non-academic social life. THESE VISIONS are, of course, exagger- ated. But the basic point of some fac- ulty members wanting to remake the Uni- versity in their own image stands. One professor, long involved in committee work and projects of University-wide con- cern, told me that he had not encountered more than a handful of faculty members who had a concept of or cared much about the problems of the total Univer- sity. In many cases some of these narrower faculty members recognize their own lim- ited viewpoint and confine themselves to their own fields from which they gain great personal satisfaction. I cannot deny anybody the right to apathy about the problems of the University or the right to confine himself only to those areas that interest him. I am only against the narrow man who, thinking that his narrow concepts rep- resent the whole, tries to remake the whole to the detriment of the interests of others. It generally winds up as an at- tempt to promote a highly artificial scheme of one sort or another with over- tones of hypocrisy. I will always remember the long lecture I once received from a full professor on how extensive participation in extra-cur- ricular activities is useless and in contra- diction to the high ideals of scholarship. To the Editor: TEREFUSAL by the Interna- tionl Lngshrem ,'sAso tion to load grain for Russia and other Iron Curtain countries is an- other example of irresponsible and dangerous usurpation of power by big labor which puts its own in- terests ahead of all others, includ- ing the people of the United States. The decision to use foreign vessels was thoroughly debated and duly approved by the Presi- dent and Congress. Yet, the long- shoremen have pre-empted the authority of the federal govern- ment in one grand display of re- bellion against the democratic process. The longshoremen contend that wheat shipped in other than American vessels deprives Ameri- can seamen of employment to which they are entitled. Yet it is well known that American ship- ping is much more expensive than most foreign fleets. Fundamental economics dictates that the Rus- sian importers and American ex- porters choose the cheapest trans- portation available. * * * MOST alarming, though, is the knowledge that one labor organi- zation hassuch unrestrained pow- er. The danger is made apparent when we realize that a single la- bor organization has the power to undermine the law and subvert the constitutional authority of the federal government. Our alarm is compounded by the fact that the Teamsters, the United Auto Work- ers, the Steelworkers, and the rail- road unions each have similar power to shut down major com- ponents of the economy and to trample on public policy. We are as much opposed to the sale of wheat to-Russia as anyone. We feel it is another example of this Administration's willingness to aid and abet the enemy. But as disgusted as we are at this unwise and foolish action by the Kenne- dy-Johnson administration, we are outraged at the lawless and unre- strained audacity of the Maritime Unions. * * * THE AMERICAN people cannot allow single unions to dictate pub- lic policy to the federal govern- ment. We offer the following mea- sures to control monopoly union- ism. -Make unions subject to the Sherman Anti-Tust Act allowing unions to be approximately no big- ger than the companies they rep- resent, instead of growing to the size of the entire industry. -Institute national right-to- work laws which will give each worker the right to decide wheth- er he chooses to join a union. -Extend federal authority to limit those strikes and boycotts that substantially harm the pub- lic welfare and subvert public pol- icy. How long will the American people allow the unions to sabo- tage our country? The time to halt irresponsible unionism is now. -Thomas H. Bissell, '65L -David Croysdale, '66L Staeber«. . . To the Editor: EIL STAEBLER, Michigan's Democratic Congressman-at- large and candidate for governor, is a working politician with a lengthy record of dedication to public service and good govern- ment. Staebler served as Democratic State Chairman for more than ten years before being unanimously chosen National Committeeman. At 7:30 p.m. tomorrow there will be a formative meeting for an organization of Student for Staeb- ler for those people who wish to see Staebler. This meeting will I think it is worthwhile to note that in the current controversy of whether or not to withdraw mili- tary assistance from South Viet Nam, our present half-hearted aid is in contradiction to the spirit, and a withdrawal would be a vio- lation of the letter, of our Manila Pact agreements outlined in the SEATO treaty of 1954. Doubtless the pragmatic sdiplo- macy of the ANZUS powers will ignore our ignominious bad faith. Can the same be said of Cambo- dia, Laos, Thailand and the other affected populations of southeast Asia? --Fred L. Pierce, '65 Repertory.. . To the Editor: IN THE interview 'with actor Rob- ert Harris in the Feb. 16 Daily, the following statement aroused my curiosity: . . it (repertory theatre) is only a training ground, and the actor shouldn't stay any longer than he has to." In these days when repertory theatre is being talked of as the salvation of the American theatre and of the art of acting (and the Association of Producing Artists, we fervently hope, is proving the value of repertory in its own way), Mr. Harris' words would appear to need challenging and elucida- tion. Unless you know anything to the contrary, I should like to sug- gest that he was referring to rep- ertory theatre in the English sense, that is, what we call "stock" (summer and winter) in this country. ENGLISH "Rep" or American "stock" do not necessarily imply that the plays selected are not of good quality; rather it is that the short preparation period and the dropping of the play after a short run does not allow the actor time to grow in his role. In a repertory schedule as we understand and practice it, the actor's preparation has a longer gestation period, and he has the opportunity to keep returning to a role, bringing to it the experience gained in playing other roles in other plays (or even in the same play, for repertory can allow not only the rotation of plays, but the rotation of parts within the company). Besides the benefits which ac- crue to the theatre and its audi- ence from the improved quality of the acting achieved through rep- ertory scheduling, there is the added value that good productions are kept alive and livelier longer, since the actors return to the per- formances with constantly re- newed interest, and the repertory company by definition and prac- tice maintains an active "reper- toire" of its best productions for presentation to its audience. -Robert Alan Gold, Association of Producing Artists General Manager (Editor's Note: In The Daily in- terview, Mr. Harris made the follow- ing comment: Repertory theater is a form which has definite advantage for an actor in training. It stretches his imagination and gives discipline in role study and siage move-nent. But, Harris said, it is only a training ground, and the actorshouldn't stay any longer than. he has to.) Admissions... To the Editor: THE JANUARY 30th edition of The Daily features an inter- view with Associate Director of Admissions Gayle Wilson. In this article, Mr. Wilson at- tacks a proposal that would make some aspects of freshman admis- sions more mechanical by use of a "College Qualification Rank" to determine clearly qualified or clearly unqualified candidates. Mr. Wilson argues that such a procedure overlooks four factors "which Wilson claims are relevant to the decision on an applicant, even in the case of obvious qualifi- cation or rejection." The second factor he lists is "The student or his parents might be able to make a contribution of worth to the University in the areas of public relations or finan- cial support." What the hell is .happening to the University? --Michael Olinick, '63 Daily Editor, '62-'63 -Judith Oppenheim Olinick, '63 Editorial Director, '62-'63 Madison, Wis. By ERIC KELLER Daily correspondent BI L T H O V E N, Holland-The dream of connecting the tra- ditionally isolated Great Britain with the continent by a tunnel or bridge is an old one. But not until this month did the governments of both countries involved, France and England, finally agree to sponsor one of the two or three major projects. Their joint announcement was short but historic. The four para- graph communique stated that it was found that a train tunnel un- der the English Channel was tech- nically possible and economically profitable. Therefore, both coun- tries now would decide jointly up- on the judicial and financial prob- lems. It was made clear that the governments will be in control of the operations and that means of financing the tunnel still had to be studied.f In Britain, this announcement came somewhat unexpectedly. One thought that it would be deferred until after the forthcoming elec- tions. Both major parties are ex- pected to discuss increased gov- ernment as one of the major points of their platforms. An added burden, such as a $42 mil- lion a year expenditure for the tunnel, will not necessarily repre- sent an improvement of election chances for Sir Alec Home, it was reasoned. But perhaps he reasoned, differently; he could be inclined to display his ability to get stalled projects moving. * * * IN 1802, the French engineer Matieu- Favier confronted Napo- leon with his primitive plans for a tunnel. In 1876 that project be- came technically feasible in the form of a plan developed by a so- called ' Tncorporate society for the submaritime railroad b e t w e e n France and England." That proj- ect, promoting a railroad link be- tween London and Paris, was es- sentially the program which now, 90 years later, is to be undertaken. Because of this extensive delay, promoters of a tunnel or bridge have often referred to it as "the tunnel of grand papa." Their proj- ect would have called for a "so- lution for the 21st century," a giant railroad-automobile bridge. This imposing project, especially popular in France, was dropped by a group of 12 experts from Eng- land and France, mainly because there were additional problems in volved in it such as weather influ ences on road conditions and hindrance to international naviga- tion on the Channel. SEVERAL important decisions will have to be taken before De- troit will be deprived of its boast of having the "only international tunnel in the world." One key de- cision besides those of financial investments and control, is wheth- er to use a prefabricated tunnel. The prefabricated sections as- sembled to a tunnel below the sur- face insure relatively fast progress under any geological circum- stances. The alternative, the con- ventional digging principle, is only practical if the greater part of the sea ground consists of chalk, such as it does around Dover. Further scientific tests about the natureof the sea ground will decide which project is to be used. Out of the question is a tunnel for automobile traffic because of the problems which ventilation would pose. Under the projects considered today, cars would be transported piggy-back on fast, electric trains between Dover and Calais. With its agreement to build a channel-spanning tunnel, Great Britain quietly acknowledged a new step toward renouncing her insularity. She wishes to tie her economical and human relations more closely to the Continent. And as the French newspaper Figaro notes, in choosing the unspectac- ular tunnel rather than the bridge, seh is expressing her renunciation of her island status and what's more, she wishes to control the appearances of this change. 'BED': Foul FoM At the State Theatre "WHO'S BEEN Sleeping In My Bed?" is, believe me, a movie which you don't want to see. Ever. You don't even want to know the plot, though to retell it is to im-, prove it (since it certainly cannot be made any worse), It is no Laff-Riot; it's not even a laff. It is, to quote Bosley Crow- them, "Horrifying, Weird, Hideous, Bizarre, Voracious and Frank." Now, of course, Bosley Crowther said that about "Mondo Cane," but,, except for the Frank, no one can improve upon Mr. Crowther's use of the English language -to describe Dean Martin in a V-neck T-shirt doing the Bossa Nova. Some social psychologist may be glad to learn that here, at last, is the complete (and surely defini- tive) collection of old psychiatrist jokes. But the rest of us can only steer clear of the State Theatre for the next few days. * * * WHO CAN ever know the small- ness of mind necessary to conceive of a film so devoid of substance? Who can ever know the shallow- ness of conscience sufficient ac- tually to make and release such an unplucked turkey? 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