Seventy-Tbird Year EDrrED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHICAN UNDERAUTHOITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "WhereOpn AFeSTUDENTP ULICATIONS BLDG., ANN AROr., Mce., PHONE No 2-3241 Truth 'Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in ali reprints. FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: EDWARD HERSTEIN WCC Should Press For Liberalization THE WOMEN'S Conference Committee's campus. A man who is 18 years old and recent rule-change recommendations a sophomore can live anywhere he wants, to the Office of Student Affairs did not but women who are 20 years old and jun- include junior key privileges or apartment iors have to live within the residence permission even though 60 per cent of hall system and under a University-im- the residence hall women favored these posed curfew. changes in a poll last fall. The WCC un- If one is to accept the standards of the dertook a responsible project by polling administration, a man after his freshman University women on their attitudes to- year is automatically responsible enough ward restrictions; but it has not lived up for apartment living. However, until wom- to the responsibility of reflecting their en become seniors they are obviously not views in these two major areas. responsible enough for apartments, or "Junior apartment permission would be even to come in any later than midnight ineffective because the housing contracts on weekdays. (those already signed for the fall) could BUT THE ADMINISTRATION has no not be broken," Assembly President Char- grounds for assuming that male stu- lene Hager commented in explaining the dents are any more responsible than rationale for not recommending this women. Strong leadership-the kind the change to the OSA. But why not take the WCC failed to exercise-is necessary to action now to benefit next year's juniors? fight for the choice-of-residence, which Miss Hager's reasoning lacks substance is denied to most women students but and in no way justifies a refusal to make granted to most men. Surely, with the the recommendation to the OSA. proper leadership to organize them, the 60 wilogiiblin te per cent who believe in junior apartments administration won't be ncould be a powerful activist force in tend Juniors apartment permission in the pushing for these rights. near future, the WCC still should have "Protection" of female students has acted on the desires of its constituency been delicately advanced by female mem- and submitted this proposal. bers of OSA as a good reason for a con- tinuing double standard. But they couldn't THE WOC seems to be conforming to a be so unsophisticated not to see that an ers Mostr ae to bel eveatden e- enforced residence hall situation presents ers."in Mo see utobeliethropoaIstu a greater problem: protecting women lobbying groups submit proposals which from themselves. Certainly, having a are unacceptable to the administration, coiteen gettig -inlathming a 'choice between getting in at midight and they will lose potential power and respect not getting in at all doesn't change peo- as lobbying groups. ple's basic motivation. ' The naivete and poor logic of this con-p tention can be illustrated by the mere IT SEEMS OBVIOUS that any important, definition of lobby: if a group proposes I liberalizationsinwmnsrlsilre only what the administration will accept, sult in some bad publicity for the Uni- then it cannot beelobbytig. it reprend versity. But the WCC must realize that it senting the administration's interest and is granted the power to speak for the in- Seude pragmatic approach terest of women students, not for the Uni- Such a deluded andversity Public Relations Office, or not is especially destructive to students' right n s yswik t ,necessarily in ways which will keep the of expression when applied to women's group in the good graces of the admin- rules and last semester's survey. If there istrationt is any student problem which requires Hopefully next year's WCC will be more concern beyond one's own class year and oe to ex tyeirsts C fwome f 1 i prone to express the interests of women forthright principles instead of apologetic on this campus as defined by the women hesitation, it is the crude double standard themselves. for freedom of choice in housing on this-MARILYN KORAL "Like Ike Said In '61, We've Got To Guard Against Unwarranted Influence In Government By The Military-Industrial Complex" -- . U -5 9 s J Et, ; .- SI~ 'tT - -i s§ QUEBEC: Separatist Movement Presents Crisis LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Keeping Campus Voting Fair THE LIAISON: Mr. & Miss Average Marjorie Brahms, Associate Editorial Director m 1.4 11 ! k i. y SOCIAL SCIENTISTS say there is no such animal as the average man. But it strikes me that on this campus there is: the crew-cut, madras-faced, political sci- ence-English major who wants to be a teacher-lawyer when it grows up. Living in Markley-apartment, it is in- terested in bridge, is a member of the middle-upper class and will. probably achieve a master's degree, two cars, one house in a nice suburb and 2.8 children. For the sake of argument, let's see what it is like. MR. UNDERGRADUATE Average Stu- dent, struggling to keep his B-C plus average, spends a great deal of time dog- gedly attempting to conquer his books. He camps out at the UGLI, home-away-from- home for sorors, fraters and aspirants to that status as well as a few more serious students. If he is a graduate student, he frequents that palace of doom, the General Library. Eventually, moss and cobwebs will creep around his carrell and cover his horn- rimmed glasses. Average Graduate Stu- dent, scorning petty campus politics and other frivolities, gets paler and thinner with every year of working on his PhD, marries and has a family, and turns in a 100 page thesis which gets published. Meanwhile, Average Undergraduate fights to keep up with his homework and complete his language requirement. He talks politics, has a steady girl and, all in Editorial Staff RONALD WILTON, Editor DAVID MARCUS GERALD STORCH all, is intelligent, dull and self-concerned. He is too busy to vote in the SGC election, feels Council "can't do anything for me" and doesn't know that the Office of Stu- dent Affairs, which sets the curfew for his girl-friend, no longer has a dean of men and women. THAT, OF COURSE, is a black and white picture. The grey areas reveal a much1 more complex situation. Mr. and Miss Average Student are un- der a great deal of pressure. Academic achievement-too often meaning a de- cent grade-is the key to success after graduation. But the pressure to do well at college begins long before the student reaches here. Parents, who want their children to do better than they did, be-j gin the indoctrination early. And the Uni- versity becomes the first step in the train-j ing program for junior executives.I With the grade point as his goal, the student may be hampered in his pursuit of an education. A difficult course, for example, will. be sacrificed for one less interesting but easier. Furthermore, the student feels pressured to decide early about his career; and, thanks to his dot- ing parents' concern, he feels obliged to choose a field which will insure him a respectable salary. Freshman to senior year may be no more than a path head- ing to graduate school or business; hesi- tation and vacillation are discourag- ed: they slow up the progress toward suc- cess. SELF-CONCERN becomes the only rea- sonable course of action when one is faced with societal pressure such as this. SGC, student activities, social movements, non-functional courses, all must be con- ciri .rnA ii ,.rfl -ic ir +t a +1.rl acr+ t To the Editor: I PARTICIPATED in the election of last Tuesday as a poll worker. When I volunteered to work for an hour at the polls I was given a let- ter explaining my duties. When I reported for work, I was also in- structed in my duties. According to our procedure, each student would give us his ID card to re- ceive his ballots. When he handed the ballots back to us, they had a hole punched through them before they were put into the ballot box. At the same time, we punched a hole in the registration certificate of each ID card and returned it to the voter. Therefore, it was imp1ossibie for someone to vote twice in the elec- tiov Since Each ballot was a dif- ferent color, it would have been fairly hard for someone to vote twice, especially since the votes are folded inside each other to be punched and two ballots would be seen when the ballots were count- ed. IT SEEMED to me that we vol- unteers were doing a fairly good job, even though we had not re- ceived intensive training in our work. However, The Daily seems to have disagreed with me and went out of its way to prove this on Tuesday. Staff members in search of irregularities in the vot- ing procedure were at all the poll- ing places; one stood behind me for at least 20 minutes watching for mistakes. Now as many people know, sev- eral thousand SGC ballots were stolen the night before the elec- tion and it is possible that The Daily was out to prevent them from being used. If they had taken the trouble to ask, they would have found that those ballots were numbered and would not be count- ed if found. I was happy though to see that someone took enough of an interest in campus affairs to make sure that the election was run fairly. It seems to me that such people were not from The Daily however. I WOULD rather guess that they were the students who volunteered to take an hour or two out of the day to help out. The election sys- tem is a good one and will be difficult to improve if The Daily advocates this. If, on the other hand, they are saying that the poll workers are not trustworthy and should be watched by some- one other than the election offi- cials and the poll captains, then I would like them to tell me who is qualified. I would imagine that The Daily would include its staff in the list of these people. Therefore, I would like to ask The Daily, why didn't your staff members sign up to be poll workers and try to help the election to become a success rath- er than act as people looking for errors and cheating in it. I would think that this would be a much more fitting activity for The Daily than that which they were engaged in on Election Day. -Bruce Chudacoff, '66 telling or influencing students- If THE Arab lands felt that whom to vote for. Israel's position was as "morally At one poll, a Daily reporter-voter and ethically correct" as their was urged to vote against Cazziebth Russell; at another, to vote No in own, this would certainly be the the Union referendum; at others, basis for negotiation and ulti- was given information on candi- mately for peace in the Middle dates' stands, although the inter- East. Unfortunately, in their own pretations seemed to be fair. l ra a led At most places, however, poll frla thndsabpopnda htemiastlle workers would not'say anythingo for one thing only: extermination candidates or the campaign, and so of Israel at all costs. I would agree that the election was All facts have become subservi- probably a fair one.) rrGj to this theme andrall distor- - G.S. tions and injustices are thereby Congratulations ... rationalize Despite tha Arab propaganda ef- To the Editor: fort the facts of the past 40 years I SHOULD like to offer my con- are still available (at least in the gratulations to the eight candi- West). Given these facts it is dif- dates elected to Student Govern- ficult to see how Mr. Bacharach ment Council, and to express my has arrived at the conclusion that confidence that the Council this there are "equally valid" sides in semester will be one of the most this controversy. concerned and effective in many buT ignorigare t o sides tnice years. both sides will only encourage In electing candidates of such both riesion. outstandingly high caliber as Bar- f* rter*ggressions.* ry Bluestone, Carl Cohen, Euge NEVERTHEESS, Israel has re- WonanrDan Lebedeff to the pael displayed its willingness first four seats, University students to forget past injustice and to ne- have assured themselves of a dy- etinagoonjfsthcornd sk namic and volatile Council which te in th Ar t will work in their interests as o whomfsturefTeo ofrenations, past Councils have failed to do. to w fo satisfaction ofe more * * * h important than the present or the BECAUSE of this election, and future, demand Israel's extermin- because of ex-officio SGC mem- ation as a precondition to nego- bers like Larry Lossing, students tiations. can be assured of an era of pro- I submit to Mr. Bacharach that gressive student government, with negotiation is this situation is dif- little or no fear that the "Mickey ficult. It is for the Arab lands to Mouse" of past Councils could recognize Israel's "unassailable possibly continue, moral argument"-her right to I musthowever, disagree with. exist. This is the first step to Mr. Bluestone's post-election re- peace. The others will follow. mark that neither he nor any -Joseph Eigner other candidate had received a Departmenof mandate from the voters. The first Deoogartment isof mandet~eeft c ddate 1 SBiological Chemistry four elected candidates all re- ceived a mandate-to sweep from H SGC the stagnation and purpose- Hong Kong... lessness of recent Council leader- To the Editor: ship, and thus to carry out the P-c comendbleeffrtsproose in ERHAPS WE can accept Jeff commendable efforts proposed in Greenfield's observations of their platforms, the Hong Kong students ("Colony I am confident that the first Lives in Constant Fear of Red four elected members, whether or Takeover," Feb. 25) but I, for one, not Council decides to change the cannot see his rationale. structure of student government, One gets the idea that these will do far more than simply heed- students refrain from any political ing this mandate. The election of activities or aspirations because of Messrs. Bluestone and Won, and the imminent danger of an attack especially of Miss Lebedeff and from Red China. If this is the Mr. Cohen, is the beginning of case, these students are certainly The Liberal Hour at the Univer- more naive than most students. sity. The existence of Hong Kong as a Such an hour has been desper- free port is in the best interests ately needed for months, and the of Red China. It is a chief source election of vigorous advocates of of Western currency. There are change is proof that students pre- lucrative Red Chinese business in- fer them to inept do-nothings and terests in Hong Kong. Every day, all-out reactionaries. More im- Hong Kong buys valuable water portant to this writer, it is proof from Red China. The economic that students prefer these articu- assets are, indeed, numerous. late liberals to liberals who betray The relations between the col- their principles to run as wishy- onial government and Red China washy, fence-straddling moder- are not as bad as Greenfield im- ates.Bplies. Every Chinese New Year, -Ronald Buck Martinez, '66 Hong Kong families are permitted to enter China for the traditional Israel . .. visit with the relatives. To te Edtor.* * * To the Editor: THE CHINESE, for 14 years, MUST disagree fundamentally have had the opportunity to take with the views expressed by Mr. Hong Kong, and they haven't done Bacharach in his recent letter. it yet. There appears to be noth- From the early 1920's to today, ing which would cause the Com- first the Jewish settler in Pale r imnists t ohanner their minds- (EDITOR'S NOTE: "The Moder- ator," a national student magazine, recently sent a team of reporters to Canada to cover the French problem.) Collegiate Press Service MONTREAL.-A public building was being dedicated. Inside the building the expected pomp and pageantry were on hand, the speeches and testimonials rambling on. Outside the building, the pageantry was even more pro- nounced. There, youth was the or- der of the day and soon began to outshine the fashionable glitter within. Evidently a very different dedi- cation was taking place on the inside. The trappings were differ- ent and even the language spoken -latinate and sprinkled full of slang-clashed discordantly with the measured Anglo-Saxon tones echoing within. Furthermore, the voices outside spoke the language of defiance. It was a full-scale-demonstra- tion, in fact. Outside, in the pub- lic square, hundreds of young men and women were shouting their disapproval of the building and its occupants. But not for long. The police made short order of it. Five hundred policemen, mostly on horseback, invaded the square and dispersed' the stubborn, but for- tunately agile, demonstrators. The official ceremonies c o n c 1u d e d without incident. IT ALL happened here in Que- bec. The time-November, 1962. The demonstration is typical, and what is more, symptomatic. It is especially symptomatic, in fact, when regarded through the eyes. of two young men who attended the demonstration. One is English Canadian, the other French - a Quebecois. Each has a different, equally biased, view of the event. "Every beard in Montreal was there, Black leather jackets, mo- torcycle boots-the works." The English Canadian clearly has no sympathy for the others who filled the square that November day. The Quebecois disagrees. He and his friends were in the square, he says, to protest against what they thought to be an unjust social sit- uation. The new building he main- tains was not to be made public at all. Instead it was to be re- served in effect for the sole use of the rich English-Canadian class in Montreal THE PROVINCE is in revolt. The cultural center which he feels does not serve his community is only one of his many felt griev- ances, some of which are econ- omic, some political, some cultural, and some a combination of all three. Mostlybecause of his griev- ances, the young French. Canadian feels like a Quebecois first, and a Canadian second. No nation expects to clie The six million Fiepch Canadians, 85 per cent living in Quebec, consider themselves in some senses a na- tion. As such they have two al- ternatives before IY1em: On one hand, as the young Quebecois sug- gast. they could decide that the only way to ;,dive their problems is to secede I~ .in Cenad. Other- wise they co' id choose tc give up to a certain a. er theil languag and culture i.n return for increased benefits from the Canadian Gov- ernment. No nation expects to osv: a limb, eithee. The twelve milion English- speaking Canadians who live al- most exclusively in the nine other Provinces are coming to under- stand thergravity of the situation and, through their government, are trying to cope with it. Like the young Anglo-Saxon Canadian at the Montreal demonstration, these Canadians don't think rabble rousing or the extreme - seces- sion-will get the French Cana- dians very far. They prefer to have both sides in the dispute work toward bi-culturalism. To that end the Canadian federal government has established a Royal Commission on Bicultural- ism to explore the problem and recommend ways in which French and English Canadians can live as' equals. * * * THE problems which the Com- mission must face squarely are staggering. Perhaps the best way to see these problems is to exam- ine French Canadian grievances and the demands made by those who choose to secede, those who comprise the Separatist Move- ment. The key problems that French Canadians face are: lack of suffi- cient industrial growth (and the attendant growth of a managerial class); a minority language and minority culture which hinders the process of industrialization; the domination of politics, educa- tion, and the culture by the Catho- lic Church; an outmoded educa- tion system which does not provide for enough essential skills related to economic growth. * * * TODAY, though Canada is offi- cially bi-lingual, English is the language of business and public affairs. If a French-Canadian t-.ono +n T0-fnat.a in th AIT1rl amined separately from the other. Education in Quebec has for two centuries been run by the Catholic Church. The Church School Com- missions have always emphasized the humanities. As a result, edu- cated French-Canadians have been better prepared to enter law, medicine or the ministry, than politics, business or science and technology. - * - TWO reasons have been pro- posed for this emphasis on hu- manities: Some explain it as the natural result of Catholic empha- sis on saving the soul rather than on saving the world; others, and these include the Separatists, claim that the Catholic clergy re- ceived their sovereignty over poli- tics and education in Quebec from the British in 1763. In return, the story goes, the clergy agreed to keep French-Canadians Intellec- tually backward and emotionally pacified. Since 1959, however, the hold of the clergy over politics and educa tion has weakened. Before that time the Church was closely impli- cated in the corrupt practices of the Quebec provincial government of Maurice Duplessis During the 50's, Duplessis refused millions of dollars in federal aid to education in the name of nationalism. When he died in 1959, liberals like Rene Levesque came out of hiding and worked with the new Lesage government to initiate re- forms. Millions of dollars extorted from the federal government by thinly veiled threats of Separatism are now being plowed directly into education. THE sudden increase in support for education has had immediate effects beyond the classroom. Edu- cated Quebecois are being turned out in far greater numbers. These young education French- Canadians form the backbone of the Separatist Movement. Accord- ing t'o a recent survey published in "Macleans"magazine, 13 per cent of all French-Canadians are avowed Separatists; among uni- versity students the figure rises to 25 per cent-and this figure ap pears to understate the case. These secession-minded students are united by their nationalism and are growing increasingly closer on details. In fact, more and more student Separatist chapters are affiliating themselves with the views of the Rassemblement pour l'Independance Nationale, a party founded by Marcel Chaput in 1961. The RIN today holds no elective offices in Federal or Provincial governments. But its program is clearly defined: If it were voted into power in Quebec tomorrow, it would secede from Canada on the day after and continue with the nationalization of industries; lib- eraliztaion of government, state control over financing education and other equally centralized mea- sures. CURRENTLY, the foremost hot- bed of Separatism lies in and around the University of Montreal. Run by the Catholic clergy, the University is the scene of in-fight- ing between French-Canadian students and the government authorities. Campaigns by stu- dents sparked by caricatures in the school paper, "ThedLatin Quarter," have precipitated the imminent resignation of the priest-rector. He will be replaced soon by a secular educator. THE position of the young gen- eration in French-Canadianduni versities is best exemplified by their new leader, Bernard Landry. President of the newly formed Union of Quebec Students, Landry is an outspoken advocate of Sep- aratism; "We are fifty years be- hind on every subect you can imagine," he says, "yet Ottawa (the seat of Canadian Federal government) will not recognize the existence of an underdeveloped region." Landry touches on the heart of the matter--the English Canadi- ans will not recognize French- Canada and the French-Canadian problem is unique. Furthermore, the chances of their coming to rec- ognize what needs to be done is slim. The University of Ottawa illus- trates the situation perfectly: it is an immense no-man's land in which French confront English daily-42 per cent of the enroll- ment is French-Canadian, 48 per cent English. There, student after student admits that he simply cannot understand the other side's point of view, just as the two ob- servers of the demonstration in front of the new culture building could not see the same event from the same angle. DESPITE such seemingly insur- mountable difficulties, a.road oth- er than immediate Separatism must be taken. The gradualist views of Gabriel Gascon provide a view of Separatism which ap- pears to have some merit. The hard facts are that Quebec could not possibly go it alone right now: it has nowhere near enough Frenh-sera +aphmrs admit- t I J