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EDrrED AND MANAGED NY STUDENTS OF 'TH UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STuDENT PU3LICATIONS
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Pre-Election Arguments and Attacks
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wber Opinions Are r" STUDENT PU3lCATiONS BLDG. ANN AORBo, MICH, PHONE NO 2-3241
Trutth Will Preal"s:
Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers
or the editors. This must be noted in a, reprints.
TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: MARILYN KORAL
Elect Ted (Dead Dog) Bomb:
Bite Back at SGC
QUESTION: What's more fun than a ernment is powerless and it always will
Michigamua initiation, SGRU Political be. If not under the thumb of the vice-
Party or even an SGC meeting? Answer: president for student affairs, it would be
a Student Government Council election. under the thumb of the Regents. Formal
Here is a golden opportunity to see not student government can never hope to
one or a dozen, but upwards of 4000 become a terribly influential body, hav-
red-blooded University students making ing power over student conduct and
fools of themselves. other areas.
Where else can you find so many peo-S
ple trying to hard to accomplish exactly SENT-GOVERNMENT ttey t
the opposite of what they want? This is self-government do not occur very oft-
the trulypoic fwapecheyfantGThelecs en, anyways. With a student body whose
the truly comic aspect of an SGC elec- basic conservatism is reaffirmed in every
tion-to see the one-third or so of the mok-and erySGO-election, ad with
student body which is concerned on this moc preeSn GCoev enusulany co
camps ding verthin itcan o min-the presence on SGC of seven usually con-
campus doing everything it can to main- servative ex-officios, there is very little
Vain the present status of student rights' probability that Council will ever even
and student power. But what these stu- troaskiforamo n w has. In
dents really want is at least a modest re- deed in the past it hasn't.
vision in one, if not both, of these areas. The real heart of the matter is not
SGC's uselessness to students but its use-
HE SGC ELECTION is a giant hoax, fulness as a weapon against them. Stu-
perpetrated by the administration and dent attempts for reform begin-and end
so-called campus leaders, on this one- -with SGC. Rather than picket the Ad-
third of the student body. ministration Bldg., from which all
Student government exists on this cam- changes must ultimately come, student
pus' for two reasons. The first: in the reformers run for office. Rather than
eyes of the Regents and the administra- blaming the administration for women's
tion, the campus must have one. After hours or non-universal apartment permis-
all, what kind of a university would this sion or inaction on fraternity and sorority
be if it didn't have its own little training bias, those seeking change blame an "in-
ground for democracy? The second and effective" Council. They think somehow
probably more substantial reason: a stu- it could be made otherwise.
dent government is the best buffer yet The trouble, of course, is that the ad-
conceived for blocking student pressure ministration can be made to do things.
on the administration for reforms. A bureaucracy travels the path of least
It is for this second reason that people resistance and right now that path leads
are so foolish when they vote, or worse, directly away from student rights.
run in an SGC election. Student gov- But enough agitation by those students
who see cause for agitation would radical-
ly change this situation. Throw a picket
W rite-In line around a couple of parking structures,
get even 15 per cent of the Markley girls
RICHARD KRAUT is running as a write- to all come in a half-hour late for a few
in candidate for the Board in Control nights and begin playing a fill-the-fish-
of Student Publications, bowl-with-people game every hour on the
The senior editors of The Daily firmly hour when student organizations are de-
endorse him for this position. nied a place to display. This Is the way to
Kraut, a former Daily staff member, get things done.
should be elected because: HERE IT IS election time and I get my
-He has experience on a student pub- semi-annual laugh. Probably the ad-
licatpon;d ministration gets an even bigger one-
--He has a strong concept of freedom and at your expense.
and responsibility of the press, What should you do? The truly dedicat-
-He believes In open Board meetings ed might try stealing all the ballots from
and removing the rules which prohibit the SAB tonight or taking them from
The Daily from endorsing Regental can- voting places tomorrow. The less inspired
didates and having complete freedom to could think about giving Ted Bomb, a
comment on University appropriations dead dog, enough votes to win on the first
ballot; or they could SGRU SGC.
FOR THESE REASONS, we support Rich- Anyone who doesn't want to make a
and Kraut and urge you to write in his fool of himself in the whole farce should
name on the ballot in tomorrow's election. just not vote.
-THE SENIOR EDITORS -EDWARD HERSTEIN
THE LIAISON:
Awayd from Angell Hall
Gerald Storch, City Editor t trr 7
To the Editor:
FOR THE past week I have read
with interest the articles in
The Daily concerning the relative
merits of the candidates for the
student position on the Board in
Control of Intercollegiate Ath-
letics.
In accepting the nomination for
a seat on the Board from the
Manager's Council, I never intend-
ed to participate in the low form
of political maneuvers that The
Daily sports writers have resorted
to. My motives have not changed,
because I believe the truth speaks
for itself.
TO BEGIN WITH, I would like
to ask The Daily sports writers.
as well as my worthy opponent Mr.
Weinberg, to whom do they think
an athlete owes his popularity? Is
it the "small clique of unconcerned
athletes" who "toe the line" with
Athletic Director Fritz Crisler? No,
I am happy to say, it is not.
It is the 8,000 screaming fans
in "rickety" Yost Field House and
the uncounted thousands who
watch and listen to our games. It
is they who have made Michigan
sports great, and it is they that I
represent when I travel to any Big
Tin school or when I am inter-
viewed for a sports magazine-or
when (students willing) I am
elected to the Board.
Can anyone really believe that
an atLlete must automatically be
"disinterested" in the student
body's concerns? If this were the
case, I could have declined the
ncrination and never had to
wite this letter.
An athlete who competes and
knows Big Ten ~norts from first-
hand experience at other schoots
and then goes to classes and lives
amcrig the stui.~ivs (s.a T have
aone the last two Year; in Sou',h
Quad and where I am rresident
of Kelsey House) is _n ncn
Lett r position to represent the
student body.
I think anyone wl honesty ad-
mit that the "s nali c;cuc of un-
concerned ataletFs' will make
;rany more stinmt cont.4Acts by
nature of their pcsitiors than a
sports writer ever hoped to.
FUNALLY, I would like to ar
Daue (rood what he means when.
he says "an at alete cannot vote
inpartially on ao is.'"e because
hi, outlook is ch n""eled through
his owr sport.' Does, this mean
that if I am elected I will sup-
port a motion to have a one-and-
one foul shot in hockey?
Obviously, the men on The Daily
are using their literary position to
push their non-athletic candidate,
even if it means making false ac-
cusations.
I am and always have been
deeply interested in Michigan atil-
letics. My many student friends
who urged me to write this letter
were shocked, as was I, at the un-
just accusations that have been
made. It is my sincere hope that,
in the true spirit of Michigan ath-
letics, The real truth will prevail
on Wednesday, March 4.
--Cazzie L. Russell, Jr., '66
(EDITOR'S NOTE: I did not intend
to make personal accusations
against Cazzie Russell or any of the
other three candidates for the stu-
dent position on the athletic board.
I was merely trying to explain the
faults of a nominating and voting
procedure I consder undemocratic.
I agree with Russell that an athlete
owes his popularity to the fans and
not to other athletes. It is exactly
because of this popularity that Rus-
sell will draw votes.
(I further agree that athletes are
not automatically disinterested in
student concerns. I would hope that
Russell, or whoever is elected, will
show an interest in student con-
cerns and opinions. As for the quot-
ed sentence-"an athlete cannot
vote impartially on an issue because
his outlook is channeled through
his own sport"-this is not what I
said. Drawing an analogy between
legislative conflict of interest and
athletic commitments, I said, "This
is not to say that an athlete can't
vote impartially on an issue, but
jsn't his outlook likely to be chan-
neled through his own sport?" What
I meant by this was not that a
basketball player, for Instance,
would try to make basketball rules
apply to other sports, but that he
might-without acting unethically-
tend to think that his own sport
deserves consideration over others.
-D.G.)
Elected Students ...
To the Editor:
WE WISH to reply to the edi-
torial in Sunday's Daily con-
cerning the Union referendum.
'The editorial addressed itself to
the issue of elected student repre-
sentation of the Union Board of
Directors and we will limit our re-
ply to this question. But we wish
to point out at the outset that the
question of elected students is only
a minor part of a comprehensive
restructuring of the Board. A
complete description of all the
The SGC Table--Empty
-Daily-Jim Lines
Who is Qualified To Sit Here?
But, Should Anyone Sit Here?
ONCE FESTIVAL:
James:'Tw ix tIdioms
THE FIRST item in Sunday night's final Once Concert was a set of
"In Between Pieces" by Christian Wolff which I thought were quite
self-consciously imitative, and which made much use of instrumental
squeals and grunts presumably to prove once again that sound has no
intrinsic connotative value. Exercises don't have to be boring, but
these were.
"Roll-Off", by Bob Pozar, was a very flashy, shallow, noisy, but
engaging, percussion display accompanied by piano. Musically it was
little more intricate than the Latin American rhythm sections of Stan
Kenton bands, and Pozar finished it by smashing a pane of glass. This
bag of tricks brought hearty bravos from the audience.
ERIC DOLPHY'S piece featured Dolphy himself accompanied by
nine French horns and three tubas of various sizes. The writing for the
brass was very corny (full of hunting calls and jazz band convention-
alities) and there was no needfor so many instruments, though they
all performed with precision.
Dolphy's playing, on the other hand, was something else. He im-
provised with the same sense of authority and command over his in-
strument that characterized Charlie Parker (and not, e.g., Sonny Stitt).
Rhythmically he was peerless, beginning and ending phrases anywhere.
Melodically, I had difficulty understanding him, but the larger shapes
of his lines were unquestionable.
Bob James played as if caught between two fires. He tried to shake
off the rhythmic constraints which stalemate today's jazz but fre-
quently he had to return to more orthodox idioms, in which he is
more at home. Of course, he played brilliantly and with great taste
throughout.
JAMES'S own piece was a little disappointing. Over-drainatic and
intellectualized, it was an attempt to contrast a pure counter-tenor
voice (David Schwartz) singing a twelve-tone row (with lyrics about
Jim Crow's impending demise) with a vulgar, hostile saxophone im-
provisation (Eric Dolphy).
There was a pointless jazz waltz for a long time in the middle,
and some lush moments of French sounding harmonies, but the all over
effect was quite disjointed.
In all, it was a worthwhile evening, although a night of jazz, even
avant-gard jazz, is a curious way to culminate the Once Festival.
-Richard Pollinger
changes and the rationale behind
them can be found elsewhere in
today's Daily.
The removal of the elected stu-
dents from the Board is unani-
mously supported by the present
Board's elected students. The rea-
sons given for this stand hinge
upon the widespread contention
that the electedustudent presently
heas no constituency whatsoever.
Most elections for the Board have
more vacant seats than there are
candidates, thereby insuring any
candidate's election, regardless of
their views or qualifications.
In addition, the elected mem-
bers are r.ever held accountas oe
for their actions for they rarely
run for re-erection, and when they
do run again, they are unopposed.
In most cases the elected students
have no contact with the student
body and their actions on the
Board reflect only their personal
opinions.
THE UNION officers, on the
other hand, have continual con-
tact with the student body
through their various responsibili-
ties and through the Union Stu-
dent Activities program. Historic-
ally, the Union officers have al-
ways proven very receptive to new
ideas and criticisms and have
brought these ideas to the Board
for discussion. In addition, the of-
ficers spend from 40-60 hours a
week working at the Union and
are most qualified to speak intel-
ligently as students on any issue
before the Board.
The elected students rarely have
sufficient knowledge of any of the
issues before the Board to contrib-
ute consistently. There has been
almost universal support of the
Union's changes from the stand-
point of the improvements it will
make for the functioning of the
Board. The only opposition seems
to be over the "principle" of elect-
ed students on the Board. We hope
that the above will clarify this
situation.
STUDENTS are not being "dis-
enfranchised" as The Daily edi-
torial by John Bryant charged.
Any action by the Board which is
unacceptable to the student body
can be challenged at any time by
placing it on a referendum ballot,
and the Board is required to follow
its members' desires. The referen-
dum is the proper way to indicate
dissatisf action with the Board's
policy.
Insisting upon elected students
on the Michigan Union board is
ss ludicrous as demanding that
elected representatives serve on
all eeyvice organizations, including
every comnunity hospital or even
the board of the Ameriran Cancer
Society. The chief objective of the
Michigan Tnion is to serve the
studir.ts and the University com
munity. "Lis objective caa cnly
re lefided through the gui,!ai:'te
o' individ:ais who are tnctmately
involved with the problems at
hand and vitally concerne'.' with
them.
-Raymond L. Rusnak, Jr., '64
President and Chairman of
Board of Directors
Michigan Union
-Robert K. McKenzie, Jr., '64
Executive Vice-President
-Norman G. Peslar, '64E
Administrative Vice-President
Misled...
To the Editor:
AS A MEMBER of Michigamua, I
would like to express our sur-
prise and regret at the appearance
of a personal ad in Saturday's and
Sunday's Daily regarding a sup-
posed endorsement of a candidate
for the Board in Control of Inter-
collegiate Athletics. Our organiza-
tion does not commit itself pub-
licly on any issue, political or
otherwise, that may arise on the
campus.
Of course, certain individuals
within the organization may feel
strongly on a particular event, but
his actions should never be con-
strued as applying to all others in
Michigamua. I would apologize to
all those who might have been
misled by this misinformation,and
especially to the candidates direct-
ly concerned We have not en-
dorsed any candidate for any of-
fice in the upcoming elections.
-Norman Peslar, '64E
Resignation . . .
To the Editor: -
AS FORMER chairman of the
Ann Arbor Direct Action Com-
mittee I would like to makenpublic
my resignation, effective Feb. 15.
I have decided to leave for London
in the very near future, where I
hope to improve my health.
DAC has been very outspoken
regarding injustices to black peo-
ple in this community. We know
some progress has been made to
secure better jobs for Negroes, but
there still remains a great deal
to be done in the areas of educa-
tion, human relations and employ-
ment. I know that David Barnard,
the new chairman, will, in my ab-
sence, be working diligently to ex-
pose people who continue to prac-
tice discrimination in Ann Arbor.
I WOULD prefer that these
problems be solved at the confer-
ence table instead of in the
streets; however, picket lines and
demonstrations have helped peo-
ple see that there is a need for
immediate civil rights action. For
all those people who resist and
resent the Negro cause, I wish to
let you know that the fight for
freedom has just begun all over
the world. If you do not see the
handwriting on the wall, then you
are blind. In the fate of the Negro
lies the future of America.
-Charles Thomas
Crooks, not Brooks...
To the Editor:
IN SUNDAY'S Student Govern-
ment Council Election Supple-
ment there are several errors of
composition which I would like to
clarify. In all issues my name was
incorrectly given as Brooks In-
stead of Crooks. In most issues my
picture was placed between the
name and statement of Don Filip.
Apparently this error was correct-
ed at some point in the press run.
In all cases my platform was
printed under my incorrectly
printed-name. I hope this explan-
ation will enable the voters to
identify correctly both Mr. Filip
and myself.
-Scott Crooks, '65
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The editorial
staff of The Daily accepts absolutely
no responsibility for the incident.
Refusing to turn in platform state-
ments to The Daily on time, SGC
chose the alternative of putting out
the supplement itself. The Coun-
cil-including Mr. Crooks, who
voted for the motion-is responsible
for this and the other mistakes that'
were made.
--G. S.)
To the Editor:
IWOULD like to publicly com-
mend the Inter-Quadrangle
Council for its method of endors-
ing Student Government Council
candidates. For the first time en-
dorsements were not based upon
the individual political views of
the voting members of IQC. En-
dorsements were based upon these
criteria:
1) Competence;
2) A stand favoring autonomy
of lower bodies over their own
jurisdictions;
3) Their intent to work for the
creation of a cooperative book-
store and a student employees
union.
THOSE candidates which best
satisfied these requirements were
determined to be Barry Bluestone,
Dave Block. Dick Shortt and Eu-
gene Won. The first three of these
were endorsed by unanimous vote
of 4he JQC members, thus indicat-
ing their caliber. Again, letme
commend IQC for its progress to-
wards serving and repi esenting
the men f the residence halls
rather than stating the personal
vinws of its meUmbers.
-George Stemitz, '66
I
S j /
THE TROUBLE with going to class, it
seems to me, is that it often hampers
the process of getting an education. I do
not believe this for the reasons some stu-
dents might advance: that the lecture is
dull or the teaching fellow incompetent.
I think that unless the instructor is in-
credibly shallow, a student can learn
something in the classroom if he tries.
People learn, however, in different
ways, at different times, in different de-
grees. Some students can star in group
situations, others with a pin-point mem-
ory do well on exams, still others re-
search and write papers well. Unfortu-
nately, there are some luckless souls who
do not particularly shine in any one of
the three categories; the curriculum may
simply not appeal to them, they may lack
academic discipline, they may be having,
serious personal problems or trying to
grow up. These people must get their Uni-
versity education outside the classroom,
if they get one at all.
ALL OF WHICH leads up to the fact that
failure of student activities on the
campus is cause for more than a little
concern. Almost all organizations are feel-
ing the pinch.
I happen to think that the large stu-
dent organizations, such as the publica-
tions and the Union and League, are ab -
solutely necessary to the campus. It is
ncthv nf+^F' n rfTav.(T +sus - ai Kc
intellectual stimulation, more challenge
and more personal value in his organized
endeavors away from Angell Hall.
AS A SOLUTION, some people would
like senior heads of major organiza-
tions to be given an automatic three hours
of class credit. This is supposed to create
greater incentive for able students to stay
in organizations by making their academ-
ic sacrifice somewhat lighter.
I doubt it. How could anyone decide
which student activities were important
enough to deserve subsidization, and why
the arbitrary number' three? The "stu-
dents" in the three-hour course would be
responsible to no academic standards, to
no instructor, and so it seems unwise to
give curricular credit to something out-
side the curriculum.
Perhaps a better idea would be if the
Office of Student Affairs would grant stu-
dent leaders the privilege of taking as
few class hours as they wish. This pro-
posal would require activities people to
fulfill the same academic standards as
everybody else for graduation, yet intro-
duce some flexibility into their sched-
ule. Especially hard-pressed students
(like the senior heads of many organi-
zations) could then be able to do a good
job in both their activity and whatever
class load they thought proper.
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