r Seventy-Tbird Year 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 =.. 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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