Seventy-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BT UDNTS cw THEUNmEtsrry of MiCHIAN UNDER AUTHORMTY OF BOARD IN CONTOL OF STUDENT PUtLICATIONS rrminioT STUDENT PuuCATIONS BLDG., ANir ARBoR, MICH., PHoE NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in at reprints. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: ANDREW ORLIN LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Campus Election Debate Rages SGRU, Voice Offer The Best Candidates HAT KIND of Student Government would you respect? What should Stu- dent Government do to get you interested in it? These questions have not been asked for ten years. The last time they came up was when Student Government Council was formed in 1954. Since then various candidates for Council have given vari- ous, meaningless answers, but the ques- tions have never really been put to the student body before. This year things are different. A group of students-Richard Simon, Carl Cohen, David Block, Tom Copi, and Robert Grody-tired of seeing Council operating in the rarefied atmos- phere of isolation from the student body, organized the Student Government Re- form Union to put these questions to stu- dent voters. 4GRU CANDIDATES deserve the support of the entire student body. If elected, they will try to set up a constituent committee, drawn from the body, to find out what kind of student government would be most desired by the students on this campus. Opponents of SGRU have been making charges that the party is anarchistic in orientation. They claim the party wants to abolish SGC and not build anything in its place. This is not true. SGRU candi- dates will not abolish Council, nor will they declare a moratorium on Council meetings. They want to set up their in- vestigatory committee while Council is actually operating. If the committee comes up with a bet- ter form of student government, then SGRU will start discussing a student ref- erendum on it and methods of implemen- tation. This is not the program of an anarchistic group. It is the position of a group dedicated to the proposition that the student body is the only group to de- cide how it should be governed. HE FOUR CANDIDATES sponsored by Voice Political Party-Stan Nadel, Dick Shortt, Barry Bluestone and Steve Berko- witz-also adhere to the philosophy of bringing SGC back to the students. They, too, deserve election. A combination of SGRU and Voice candidates on Council represents the best chance in ten years for student government to achieve a pos- ture of dynamism and responsibility which will result in more respect for stu- dents on the part of the faculty and ad- ministration. More respect from these groups means more gains for the student body. Tony Chiu and Diane Lebedoff, running as independents, are the only other can- didates we have found who would con- tribute to the creation of the type of Council desired by the student body. THE SIX CANDIDATES who least de- serve to get elected are those sponsor- ed by the Students United for Responsi- ble Government. This group was formed as a reaction to SGRU and is campaign- ing on two main points: 1) SGRU is a bunch of anarchists and 2) SGC up to now has proved itself as a successful body which should not be changed. The first point has already been dis- posed of. The second point is presented for political reasons. Three of the six SURGe candidates are incumbents whose contributions to Council have been neg- ligible. Gary Cunningham has introduced one motion (near elections time, coinci- dentally) which has been tabled. Scott Crooks has introduced something like three motions, two of which have dealt with administrative matters. Miss Miller's desire to cooperate with the administra- tion at virtually every turn has helped water-down many Council stands. SGC committees, which are under her control, have not moved on many Council proj - ects. But to get elected, these candidates are forced to claim that SGC has been worthwhile. SURGe candidates seem to view SGC as a private club whose members have the right to play with the desires and concerns of the student body. If SURGe candidates are elected, Council will just roll on doing nothing, maintaining its image of a "Mickey Mouse" body with nobody's re- spect. THERE IS ANOTHER election going on today in which students have the op- portunity to advance their own interests. This is the election of a student mem- ber to the Board in Control of intercol- legiate Athletics. Usually, those students elected have been nominated with the support of the athletic department. It istands to reason that these students would not take as strong a stand against certain issues (the $12 athletic coupon fee) as an unattached student. This year, Tom Weinberg, a member of The Daily sports staff, is running for the Board. He has studied the problems of athletic administration extensively for two years and is the most qualified candi- date as far as knowledge is concerned. His lack of ties to the athletic department would, make him a strong advocate of student interests. The need of the student body to know what is happening in ath- letic planning makes his election man- datory. THIS CAMPAIGN is the first one we have seen where the basic issue for Council, whether SGC should continue to exist or be studied and changed, has come up. The student body, in its own interest, must take advantage of this opportunity and elect those candidates running on the SGRU and Voice platforms. Stu- dents will be the chief beneficiaries. -RONALD WILTON Editor -DAVID MARCUS Editorial Director --GAIL EVANS Associate City Editor To the Editor: THE MAJOR issue in the pres- ent SOC campaign seems to be not that of specific issues proposed by the candidates, but that of ac- tion versus inaction in student government. Three of the members of SURGe political party have been on SGC and are presently running for re- election. They are using as their major campaign issue their rec- ords on Council and the idea that SOC has been active and produc- tive. This is in fact not true. SOC has done very little in the recent past but complete action that was started with previous councils. SGC has indeed been very inactive, and this draws us to the conclu- sion that the three incumbents are status quo politicians because they consider inaction action, and stag- nation progress. THE SURGE candidates, in- cluding those who are not incum- bents, are presently clouding the campaign by calling the other candidates frivolous and spending the majority of their time nit- picking rather than concentrating on the really basic issue of this campaign: whether we are going to have effective, representative student government on this cam- pus. In calling SGC effective, the SURGe candidates point at all the work SGC has done for the stu- dents. It is true that SGC has been discussing issues all year; however these are the same issues that Voice political party has been sug- gesting action on since its incep- tion on this campus four years ago. We are dissatisfied with incum- bents who openly admit they have no platform. We are dissatisfied with Gary Cunningham who re- fuses to discuss what he himself has done on Council all year, but who would rather spout glittering, hackneyed generalities about the need to go slow. We are dissatis- fied with a candidate who has not brought any legislation to Coun- cil except for one piece which was subsequently tabled. We are dissatisfied with Mr. Crooks who is claiming credit for a project suggested by Daily Edi- tor Ron Wilton-especially in view of the fact that this has been done by the League and the Union. We are dissatisfied because he has nothing to show for his part in the course description booklet and be- cause he has not improved the idea. We are dissatisfied with Miss Miller, who has made an uninspir- ing and uninspired administrative vice-president. * * * WE ARE dissatisfied with candi- date Chad Gray who thinks that the prices students are charged for school supplies by Ann Arbor mer- chants are fair and just. We are dissatisfied with him because he has come to Ann Arbor, looked around for a few months and de- cided that the things which stu- dents on this campus have been fighting for for years are worth- less, and that Council need not bother itself about these important issues. We are dissatisfied with Don Filip and John Reece who have not had an original thought throughout the campaign, and have only barely learned the words ,"go slow" by rote. We think they should have some knowledge of what is going on and why. This is the second time Mr. Filip has run without any ideas. We think once would have been enough.. * * * SINCE the advent of SGRU, SURGe has decided that it must pretend to clean its own house. We contend that if it was capable of doing something, its incumbent members would have done some- thing while they were our elected representatives. It is more than peculiar that they have copied SGRU's and Voice's ideas since the advent of the campaign, and that they ex- pect voters to believe they are capable of instituting the ideas better than the people who origin- ated the ideas. We are also very unhappy that they have chosen not to discuss the issues. However, the reason for this tactic is implicitly obvious- they have nothing for the voters but smiling faces and vague prom- ises of improvement in the fu- ture-eventually. They openly admit a glaring need for improvement, yet they claim to be able to do it better. If they were competent people, there wouldn't be a need for im- provement. EVERYONE on campus is aware that SGC's process in taking ma- jor action is slow and tedious, However it need not bestagnant- When asked what SGC has done during the past year, Miss Miller apologized for a lack of dynamic programs on the grounds that SGC's major action was cleaning up the membership issue. However, the membership issue has been out of the way since fall. Neither Miss Miller nor Mr. Cunningham nor Mr. Crooks thought up the solution. In fact, if. -am, fr.n.+~ nmoh RPrn tCandi dates who promise nothing but a continuation of the present agon- izing inaction. -Gretchen Groth, '64 President, Michigan League -Howard Schechter, '66 Council member -Carl J. Cohen, '66 SGRU candidate -Richard Keller Simon, '66 SGRU candidate -Robert Grody, 66 SGRU candidate -Barry Bluestone, '66 VOICE candidate -Richard Shortt, '66 VOICE candidate -Stephen Berkowitz, '65 VOICE candidate -Stan Nadel, '66 VOICE candidate -Diane Lebedeff, '65 Independent candidate Athletic Board .. . To the Editor: IN AN ARTICLE written by your sports editor this past Sunday, which supposedly was to be an uni biased examination of the candi- dates for the Athletic Board, he stated that this year's election was a unique one, because there were four rather than the usual three candidates. He failed, though, to elaborate on the reason for the additional candidate. It has always been a bylaw that the Manager's Council nominates two athletes and a con- sistent policy to nominate popular athletes on athletic tenders. The reason for this setup was to insure athlete representation on the Board, which is a must, re- gardless of what the reporters of this paper think. It is true, how- ever, that many of the student members on the Board in the past have felt the control which their athletic scholarship carries with it. IN ADDITION, The Daily has put up a candidate for the Board for the past few years. The motiv- ation behind The Daily's support of a candidate emanates from its frustration at not being allowed to have a reporter present at the Board meetings. Again The Daily is acting blindly on principle-it feels its right to sit in on a coun- cil which discusses personal prob- lems such as salaries of coaches, etc. It is for the same blind editorial- ism that The Daily has made a stand against the Union Referen- dum: even though such reorgani- zation will greatly facilitate the Union's operation, The Daily ob- jects to the principle of remov- ing student elected representatives. * * * THE REASON for the unique- ness of this year's Athletic Board election, is because the fourth candidate is an interested student as well as an athlete-in fact the first athlete who has ever peti- tioned for this position. In addi- tion, he does not, as the sports editor misrepresented, feel the pressure of an athletic tender Please vote today and elect the athlete with an active concern for the student body, as well as the interests of the athletic depart- ment. -Chuck Pascal, '66 (EDITOR'S NOTE: Sunday's col- umn couldn't be called an unbiased examination of the student candi- dates for the athletic board-not by anystretch of the imagination. In fact, it wasn't an examination of the candidates at all, except to mention their names and affilia- tions. The column waststrongly biased, I admit, against the nom- inating and voting procedures in- volved in the election. (In calling this year's election unique, I was referring to the two candidates running as student pe- titioners, Chuck Pascal and Tom Weinberg. There are usually no student petitioners. It is true that members of The Daily sports staff have, for the last three years, run as student petitioners. They were, however, not "put up" by The Daily. It is also true that The Daily has been acting on principle in supporting them, partly the prin- ciple of freedom of the press, as Paschal indicates, and partly the principle of democratic election procedures. (Paschal is to be commended for being the first athlete ever to peti- tion for a position on the athletic board. Maybe it will start a trend. IQC... To the Editor: NEITHER the letter from George Steinitz in yesterday's Daily nor Mr. Steinitz' actions on IQC are representative of the opinions of Quadrangle residents at the University. The letter, defending- indeed, actually praising-the IQC endorsement interviews of SC candidates, was grossly misleading and generally false. IQC, according to all the candi- dates for SGC, ran the worst in- terviews of any endorsing group on campus. While all other groups al- lowed candidates leisurely time to state their platforms and answer all questions fully, the IQC mem- bers felt they were too busy to waste time judging candidates carefully, and forced candidates to speak for a maximum of three and a half minutes to a stopwatch. THE FAILURE of IQC to judge candidates carefully is typical of its lack of concern for quadrangle residents, and is obvious from the unanimity of other groups in en- dorsing candidates which IQC ig- nored. Ron Martinez, for example, was endorsed by every other in- terviewing organization, including the Young Democrats, Young Re- publicans, Interfraternity Council, and WCBN, but was not allowed enough time to present his care- fully considered proposals to IQC, and was (incredibly) not endorsed by IQC! The men of the quadrangles have always laughed at and ig- nored the inept and bumbling leadership of IQC. In this election, they will pay more attention to the endorsements of other campus or- ganizations than to IQC. These IQC endorsements will do nothing but further convince the men of the quadrangles that IQC is a worthless sham, and that its lead- ers, including Mr. Steinitz, who was elected East Quad president with the support of less than a quarter of the eligible voters, are not fit to pass judgement for quad- rangle residents on the qualifica- tions of SGC candidates. -Robert G. Pachella, '66 President, Greene House Bookstore..*. To the Editor: IT WAS encouraging to read in The Daily that the Student Government Council has agreed to allow the co-op bookstore to ,handle the Student Book Ex- change. The creation of a compre- hensive book service for students would be an excellent achieve- ment. Indeed, positive support of this nature would be Council's best response to its critics. -Richard James, '64 Union . . To the Editor: THE UNION Board will hope- fully become a smaller and more efficient body this week de- spite what John Bryant has inac- curately stated in his recent edi- torial. The Union's opportunity to serve its constituencies better may be prohibited by those students who see any loss of representation as a severe blow to their demo- cratic privileges. Being an elected member of the Board, I have been in the position to judge the contributions of the faculty, alumni, and student rep- resentatives. The contributions to the Board by the Officers and con- tinuing members, is indeed quite disproportionate to that of the an- nually-elected students. There can be no question in my mind in the light of these and other similar considerations, that a restructured Board of Directors is necessary if the Union is going to serve the campus and serve it well. MR. BRYANT seems to be fa- voring a Board of Directors which is dominated by a student plural- ity. This point of view was unac- ceptable to the student members of the Board because of their awareness of the Union's tripart- ite responsibilities-to students, faculty and alumni. Although Mr. Bryant has been present at several meetings of the Board, he still is unaware of the fact that the Union is an organi- zation which serves interests other than those of the students. These responsibilities are equally divided, and therefore no one of them may be sacrificed by having unequal representation as Mr. Bryant pro- poses.; The Union has been serving stu- dents well because of the partici- pation on the Board of continuing members as opposed to one year transients. The most powerful committee of the BQard, the Fi- nance Committee, reflects this fact, having no elected student members in its body. This committee camne about as a result of the Board's slowness. The proposed Board would have no Finance Committee, but rather, the entire Board would act on all financial matters. . * IF THE students listen to Mr. Bryant when they go to the polls, they will be defeating a very sin- cere attempt on the Union's part to give more attention to improve- ments which would benefit stu- dents as well as faculty and alum- ni. If, on the other hand, they sup- port in a two-thirds majority vot. the new Union Constitution, they will be freeing the Union's re- sources which have been untapped because of structural impediments. Finally, Mr. Bryant's prejudicial assertion that the Senior Officers of the Union only see things through the eyes of the organiza- tion and thus do not represent the student opinion, is indeed an affront, falsely conceived, to the unequivocable dedication which the Union's Officers have had to provide continually better facili- ties for student use. -James Fadim, '64 Student Member Union Board of Directors Israel... To the Editor: NORML the coverage of a speaker on campus, even a con- troversial one, would be read and quickly forgotten. The talk by Yehezkel Barnea, the Israeli con- sulate for the Midwestern area, which was covered in The Daily, Wednesday, Feb. 26, is a case in point. Although he presented the Is- raeli side of the Palestine question, not one of the many letters on the problem, for either side, thought it necessary to mention his argu- ments or even the fact that he had been on campus. The same is not true when an Arab speaker presents his point of view. The talk given by Thash- im Bashir, the. United Arab Re- public's consulate in San Fran- cisco, and reported in The Daily on Thursday, Feb. 20, unleashed a storm. Mr. Bashir's talk before an open meeting of the, Arab Club had been unique in that he em- / phasized that both sides had a "case' and the meeting had been extremely orderly. On the same day that The Daily covered Mr. Barnea's talk, it in- cluded a long letter attacking the points Mr. Bashir had made as reported in The Daily. Two days later two pro-Arab and one pro- Israeli letter appeared and finally in Sunday's Daily there appeared a pro-Israeli letter with the "his- torical facts" as found in the "En- cyclopedia Brittanica" * * * THERE IS no one 'historical Truth" or at least, if there is one, it is not yet discernible. Mr. Bashir recognized he could not change anyone's point of view, but he at- tempted to show that the Arabs had a case as "morally and ethic- ally correct" as Israel's. Mr. Bashir included in his talk a quotation by Nadav Safran, an Egyptian Jew and expert on Is- rael, who is currently teaching at Harvard. Because Safran has suc- cinctly summarized the nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict, it is worth quoting for those who were not present when Mr. Bashir spoke-particularly those who are so quick to champion only one side of the question: For my part, I believe that fundamentally both Arabs and Jews have an unassailable moral argument. A person who cannot see how this is possible does not understand the essence of tragedy; much less does he realize that his position serves only to assure that the Palestine tragedy should have another sequel, and yet another. N. Safran, "The United States and Is- rael". Maybe the recognition that there are two equally valid sides to the problem will bring us a step closer to peace. -Jere L. Bacharach, Grad. which I am the student represen- tative. I attended the one meeting that this committee has held this year and was certainly well-received by the chairman, Prof. Robert C. Angell of the Sociology Depart- ment, and the other faculty mem- bers, and I feel that at least I, if nobody else, benefitted from my attendance at the meeting. GENERALLY I would agree with the comments of faculty members and students that were expressed in the article. There is one thing I would like to add, however. Our efforts to make meaningful contributions to the SACUA subcommittees have been seriously hampered by the very nature of the subcommittees. Unfortunately, most of them are rather inactive and powerless. Some of the fault lies with the ad- ministration, as shown in the fact that our committee, the SGC Com- mittee on University Affairs, has already come across a few in- stances where the administration has adopted a policy and then, only afterwards, has told the ap- propriate SACUA subcommittee what had already been done. For the most part, however, the subcommittees are inactive and powerless because their members are content just to be informed about changes in policy and are uninterested in influencing poli- cies. The University Senate is clearly not applying significant pressure on administrators to increase its influence in policy-making at the University. Many of the subcom- mittees seem to serve little purpose other than to assure that a hand- ful of faculty members will at least know what the policies of the Uni- versity are. -Gary Shapiro, '65 Vlce-Chairman, SGC Committee on University Affairs Gi.adates To the Editor: SEVERAL of my friends and I followed your recent series of articles on the trimester with interest. We have been Wonder- ing, however, why you did not in- clude graduates tudents in your survey of opinion. Since graduate students comprise a large seg- ment of the student body and are certainly affected by the trimester as are other students, perhaps it would be good to explain this omission. -Anne Hilty, Grad. (EDITOR'S NOTE: This admit- tedly unfortunate omission was made for two reasons: 1) as under- graduates we were not sure that we could construct a meaningful ques- tionnaire for graduates; 2) the great diversity of graduate programs and problems would have rendered any but the most general questions meaningless anyway. (For what it's worth, 16 gradu- ates inadvertently were mailed our undergraduate questionnaire. of these, 12 "strongly prefer" the new calendar, 2 "somewhat prefer it," I "somewhat prefers" and 1 "strongly prefers" the old semester plan.) -K.W. 'SUNDAY' Bornge" Sex At the State Theatre EVERETT FREEMAN'S "Sunday in New York" or "Conversa- tions in Sex" is a kind of "Mary, Mary" without the funny lines. The picture gets off to a droll start when Jane Fonda, who in this instance can best be described as a frigid nymphomaniac, asks Cliff Robertson a question. "Is a girl who goes around with a fella a certain amount of time supposed to go to bed with him?" she asks. Robertson answers," originally: "Not decent girls. Men marry de- cent girls.' If this weren't enough, Fonda continues: "The boys tell me I'm the only 21-year-old virgin alive." And, just as you might suspect there's no end to conversation like this until Fonda finally manages to get herself seduced at the end of the picture. * * * THE STORY takes place in New York where Fonda has come to visit her brother (Robertson). She gets picked up by Rod Taylor who is a Philadelphia journalist. When Fonda finds out her brother is being promiscuous, she she feels like being promiscuous with Taylor. This leads to "all sorts of complications-sheer boredom primarily. * *~ * SCREENWRITER Norman Krasna and director Peter Tewks- bury are mostly to blame. Krasna fails to come up with one good line and Tewksbury fails to provide any continuity. The acting is competent. Jane Fonda is really very good when I Cazzie in Politics ATTACKING Cazzie Russell is roughly equivalent to attacking God, mother- hood and the flag. But Cazzie has ventured into the world of politics, and in doing so he is making a great mistake. He should not, under any circumstances; be elected today as the next student representative to the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Ath- letics. 'HERE ARE A VARIETY of boards on this campus - the Union board, the League board, the Board in Control of Student Publications and the athletic board. All of them have student, facul- ty, alumni and administrative represen- tation-the theory being that all ele- ments of the community should be in-. volved in the decision-making processes for which these boards are responsible. The athletic board already makes a sham of this practice. Women, for no reason, aren't allowed to vote for the student representative. BUT MORE IMPORTANT, Athletic Di- rector H. 0. (Fritz) Crisler has the An actual Regents' bylaw stipulates, however, that "a board consisting of the student managers of the several athletic teams and the intramural managers" has the automatic power to place two candi- dates on the ballot. Why they should have this power is again beyond reason, but they don't even exercise it. No managers' council met to pick the two athletes running in today's election. Managers will readily admit that the can- didates were picked by Crisler and an- nounced in the managers' name. THERE IS NO REASON why the students of this campus should stand for such a system, and they can voice their dissent by voting today for one of the non-Cris- ler candidates. Two students - Tom Weinberg and Charles Pascal - are legitimate candi- dates. Of the two, Weinberg is by far the most qualified. He has covered both sports and the athletic board for two years as a Daily reporter. If elected he has promised to do all he can to clean up dubious practices of the board. 'THE CHILD BUYER': Play Captures Novel THE PROFESSIONAL Thearte Program's presentation of "The Child Buyer" captured the horror, humor and pathos of John Hersey's novel. Paul Shyre's adaptation remains amazingly faithful to Mr. Hersey's novel with a great facility to combine some of the lesser characters of the novel into interesting well-rounded new characters, as well as updating the script for present day audiences. The cast worked well together through somewhat shaky scenes (which undoubtedly will smooth out as the production goes along) and concluded on a note of gripping horror and frustration. * * * * OUTSTANDING supporting performances were turned in by Edith Meiser as the "self-made" school principal, Dr. Gozar; Wallace Rooney as the filibustering Senator Skypack; John C. Becher as the confused Senator Voyolko who needs to get down to the basic facts; and Jackie Jones as "Flattop" a somewhat young, but convincing juvenile delin- quent. Michael O'Sullivan portrayed the ominous villainy of the child buyer with conviction, while Keith Taylor ran the gamut from the lyrical quality of description during passages about his walk in the woods through brilliant intellectualism and on to a young child who needs and wants the love of his home and family. Purely from the point of view of production, this play walks a R' 4