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TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: MARILYN KORAL
Conference on 'U' Committee
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THE UPCOMING Conference on the
University, if it manages to survive,
will have made it through some perilous
waters.
It first suffered from the incompe-
tence of its organizers. Last fall, when
things had gotten hopelessly behind, they
finally had to postpone the Conference.
Then the cry went up-particularly in
Student Government Council - for the
steering committees's collective scalp, or,
more precisely, for that group to be bur-
ied somewhere in the SGC bureaucracy.
Now, just when its leaders had prepar-
ations for the Conference running
smoothly, a new charge threatens to un-
dermine all-important public conniaence
in the Conference and its leaders: the
claim that the Conference is being delib-
erately stacked.
This is a serious charge. Central to the
whole concept of the Conference is a
guarantee of free discussion, and if the
steering committee does anything to pre-
dispose the Conference delegates so that
certain conclusions will be reached, the
whole affair is a waste of time.
SOME OF THE CHARGES are directed
against the prospectus, a five-page
manifesto outlining the Conference's
purposes and topics. Its critics misunder-
stand its purpose. The prospectus is not
supposed to be a working paper or a ju-
dicial opinion; it is essentially an adver-
tisement, intended to provoke people and
interest them in being delegates. The
worst thing that may be said for the pro-
spectus is that it is a bit melodramatic,
overstating the gravity of the Universi-
ty's financial plight; the quote from the
Regents' budget statement on its cover
was lifted from The Daily, which printed
it just as far out of context.
Other charges are aimed,more or -less
directly, at Conference Co-Chairman
Richard Simon, a stuent with consider-
able knowledge of the University and
strong enough opinions about it to lead
some to suspect that he would like to
push them through. But there is no evi-
dence to build a case beyond implausible
speculation.
Simon already has missed several
chances to bias the Conference: one of
the two speakers, many of the delegates
and a substantial number of the steering
committee don't share his views, yet
there have been no purges for these rea-
sons. Moreover, it is virtually impossible,
given even the most efficient conspiracy,
to smother the voices of 200 strong-
minded delegates without so much as a
peep from one.
Bland, uncommitted leadership is not
a precondition to an open and rational
conference. The organizers of the first
Conference, widely acclaimed as a suc-
cess, were much more unanimously vocal
in their views than this year's. All the
Conference's leaders need now is the
confidence and cooperation of the public
-particularly those invited to be dele-
gates.
-KENNETH WINTER
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THE CONFERENCE on the University
has taken another false start.
Originally scheduled for last October,
it was called off at the last minute due
to the administrative carelessness of the
steering committee. However, the com-
mittee regrouped and rescheduled the
Conference for next month.
This time it has done a good job of
preparation-the prospectus was mailed
out to invited delegates last week. That
document, however, suffers from a lack
of objectivity, superficial statements and
a pedestrian interpretation of important
issues.
The steering committee sets a prejudi-
cial tone with a quote from the Regents'
budget message to the state for the com-
ing fiscal year.
They say: "Our own studies clearly
demonstrate that since 1957-58 there has
been a steady erosion of the strength of
the University. The resultant deterioria-
tion and demoralization, if permitted to
continue, seriously threatens to endanger
excellence in teaching, competence in re-
search and continued high proficiency in
public service."
In the context of the entire budget
message, which runs to a booklet of some
50 pages, that statement means that the
University is on the brink of serious fi-
nancial difficulties. It makes no qualita-
tive judgment of the University today.
THE STEERING COMMITTEE, without
having read the budget message it-
self, draws a different conclusion. Ac-
cording to the committee, "the Regents
have now publicly expressed" concern
"with the direction of the University.
There is little doubt thatsomething must
be done soon to maintain the quality of
the University.". The issue is reduced
from the complex to the simple. Before
the situation has even been explored-
this, after all, is the purpose of the Con-
ferenie-a dramatic tone of crisis has
been set.
The committee proceeds to outline
eleven discussion topics in that tone-
but only one of the topics deals directly
with the issue raised by the Regents: fi-
nancial support. Many of the proposed
discussion questions are loaded-instead
of raising issues they answer them (i.e.,
"Why is there no real 'academic commu-
nity' here?").
THE RIGHTNESS or wrongness of the
steering committee's,"message" is not
at issue. The point is that the function
of the Conference and its developers is
to propose issues in a neutral fashion so
that they can be decided.
The idea for a Conference remains val-
id. The University is far from ideal. How-
ever, in order to make a contribution, the
Conference planners must understand
that the problems are complex and re-
'quire much research, careful thought
and a fair hearing if they are to be dealt
with at all. If the Conference can't rise
above pettiness, how can it have any
hope for the University?
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TODAY AND TOMORROW:
Sen. Goldwater: On the Make'
By WALTER LIPPMANN
THE DIFFIDENCE with which
Senator Goldwater announced
that he would runarevealed how
little he enjoys what is ahead of
him.
He is forced to go through a
grueling series of primary cam-
paigns in which his main objective
is not to defeat Lyndon Johnson
and become President of the Unit-
ed States, but to capture control
of the machinery of the Republi-
can Party. Although he often says
that he does not wish to fight
Republicans, he is in fact engaged
in what promises to be a fierce
struggle with Republicans.
In order to dominate the Re-
publican convention, he is taking
the line that the rival Republican
candidates, beginning but not end-
ing with Governor Rockefeller, are
not Republicans at all, but Demo-
crats.
He won't debate with them. He
dismisses them as outsiders. The
established Republican leadership,
which is now grouped around Gen-
eral Eisenhower, is to be ousted
and purged, and the Goldwater
faction, which is a minority within
a minority party, are to be invest-
ed as the only true Republicans.
* * *
THE AUDACITY of this claim
will become increasingly evident'
as the primary campaign unfolds.
In his press conference at Phoe-
nix, for example, he put General
Eisenhower aside with a sneering
reference to the fact that this
man, the onlyRepublican elected
to the Presidency for a generation,
has been traveling in a private
railroad car.
Mr. Rockefeller, the only Re-
publican elected governor of New
York since Thomas Dewey, is dis-
missed as a mere Democrat. Thus,
Senator Goldwater is trapped in a
commitment to argue that he
alone is a true Republican and
that he alone is qualified to speak
for the party.
Thereais every prospect, there-
fore, that in the Republican pri-
maries the issues which divide the
party will become sharper as time
goes on. It was plain enough in
the senator's appearance on Sun-
day on "Meet the Press" that he
is cast in a role which he does not
altogether relish. For by insisting
on purging the other Republicans,
he knows quite well that he is
left with extreme positions which
are political liabilities.
His normal political instinct is
to fudge these issues in order to
allow his less extreme supporters
to say that he never really meant
them. But it will be remarkable
if the Republicans, whose political
lives are mortally challenged, and
the Democrats, who are not care-
less in these matters, allow Sena-
tor Goldwater to weasel his way
out of the.: absurdities he. has ut-
tered-on the' income tax; our te-
lations with Russia, Social Secur-
ity, the Tennessee Valley and the
racial question.
If he tries to retreat to a more
moderate position, he will mar his
one greatest political asset-the
image of himself as a no-nonsense,
put-up-or - shut-up, roughriding
he-man.
HE MADE one attempt on
"Meet the Press" to extricate him-
self from the position that we
should withdraw recognition from
the Soviet Union.
First he explained that he want-
ed to use the threat of non-
recognition as "a bargaining tool,"
and then in a wild attempt to
get back off the limb onto which
he had crawled, he made the ex-
traordinary and altogether untrue
statement that if he were Presi-
dent, he alone could not with-
draw recognition: "We have to
keep in mind, though, this would
take an action of the Senate of
the United States."
This remark shows how little he
understands the Constitutional
powers of the office for which he
is now an avowed candidate.
* * *
THE ESSENTIAL Goldwater
theme is the claim that he speaks
the true and fundamental prin-
ciples of the party of Washington
and Hamilton, of Lincoln, Theo-
dore Roosevelt and of Eisenhower.
To anyone brought up in a Re-
publican tradition, this is a pre-
posterous claim.
Senator Goldwater would trans-
form the party of Hamilton irto
an Anti-Federal Party. He would
transform the party of Lincoln
into the party of white suprem-
acists. He would transform the
party of Theodore Roosevelt into
an Anti-Progressive Party of un-
controlled and unregulated busi-
nessmen, each man for himself
and the devil take the hindmost.
BY ALL the historic and tradi-
tional considerations of the Eng-
lish-speaking world, by the pre-
cedents that come from Burke and
Hamilton, from Disraeli and from
Lincoln, Barry Goldwater is not a
conservative at all. He appears to
be totally without the essential
conservative respect and concern
for the social order as a living
body.
He is a radical reactionary who
would, if we are to believe what he
says, dismantle the modern state.
His political philosophy does not
have its roots in the conservative
tradition, but in the crude and
primitive capitalism of the Man-
chester School. It is the philoso-
phy not of the conservators of the
social order, but of the newly
rich on the make.
If he is able to capture the Re-
publican Party organization by
getting himself nominated, the
condition of the party will be a
shambles. For the Republicans, the
question in 1964 would then be
not to beat Lyndon, but how to
survive the assault and the chal-
lenge of the Goldwater faction.
(e) 1964, The Washington Poet Co.
AT HILL AUD.:
Lack of Precision
Mars Hun garica
A VISITING European orchestra is always interesting to hear but an
orchestra touring this country has much to compete with. Such was
the unfortunate plight of the Philharmonica Hungarica last night.
Too early in the opening work, Kodaly's "Marosszek Dances," it
was apparent that this was an orchestra that lacked precision and
balance. This work abounds in elision of phrases but the overlaps were
rarely successful. In the important horn solo, a pushed note technique
was totally opposed to the continuity of the more expressive woodwind
section. It was a pity, too, that conductor Miltiades Caridis did not re-
duce his string section for this lightly scored work.
In Bartok's violin concerto, soloist Tossy Spivakovsky left no doubt
of his intimate understanding of the work, but once again the orches-
tra's contribution was inadequate. The flutter tongue entry to the
development was badly felt and the descending string glissando that
led out of it was all but passed over. The lyric second movement too
was marred by lack of precision in the orchestral entries, and the third
movement came dangerously close to breaking down at one point.
IRONICALLY enough, the orchestra seemed more at home with the
non-Hungarian work of the program. At least the interpretation of
Tchaikovsky's "Symphony No. 5" had a little more conviction. The
most serious fault here was a tendency of conductor Caridis to over-
romanticize. Tchaikovsky is a Romantic, to be sure, but he injects
feeling in longer units than the single phrase-he does it by means
of function, the relating of the phrase to the whole.
It is not necessary to pull the phrase about until it loses its identity
as part of a larger concept. On the other hand, Caridis could have made
more of the silences written into the score. He miscalculated the listen-
er's feelings several times in this respect.
If honors are to be awarded, then they must go to the woodwinds.
Their playing was by far the most tasteful and reliable.
-Barry Vercoe
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Ex-Boarder Warns
OTf Horrors of C-Ops
WHAT KIND OF WORLD ?
Unjust Sales Tax:
No Good Reason for It
THE LIAISON.
Minimizing Hell
Gail Evans, Associate City Editor
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IF THERE IS ONE ASPECT of sorority
rush which would bring the same re-
action from rushees and actives, it's that
mixers are hellish.
Today nearly 2500 young ladies are
trying to recuperate from last weekend's
round of 22 rush parties and limber up
their vocal chords for the second round
of parties which begin this evening.-
The ironic part about the grueling ex-
perience in which all 1300 rushees visit
each sorority house is that the girls real-
ly don't learn anything about the soror-
ity and the sorority learns even less
about the girls.
PANHELLENIC ASSOCIATION can be
credited with making significant im-
provements in the rushing procedure this
year. it eliminated much frivolous enter-
tainment and decoration from later
rush nrties and has nlanned an even
on both sides af the game. The very
structure of mixers entrenches chit-chat
and precludes meaningful conversation.
When about 65 girls pour through the
portals of a sorority to be greeted by an
equal number of sorority members, it is
almost impossible to hear, much less to
think or talk.
THE FIRST CHANGE toward improv-
ing the mixer experience from both
points of view is to limit the size of the
mixer group to about 30 girls. This would
mean that mixers would have to be held
over two weekends instead of one, but
the additional time would be worth the
effort.
Second, every house should show their
rooms and other facilities during mixers,
instead of later in the rushing process.
The point of these two reforms would
By ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
ONE OF the crookedest pillars
of our ramshackle tax struc-
ture is the sales tax.
I was surprised when Percy
Straus, then head of Macy's, told
me 30 years ago that he favored
such a tax. I thought it odd that
a great merchant, interested in
doing thelargest possible volume
of business, should want a tax on
buying and selling.
He hastened to explain. He said
a sales tax was so bad it could
not last. He was convinced that
buyers would resent having it add-
ed to their purchases and that
their protests would repeal the tax
and bury the idea.
He underestimated the patience
of our people and their ability to
get used to injustice. The sales tax
has gone from strength to strength.
It is now accepted as a permanent
fixture in the American tax sys-
tem.
WE HAVE FORGOTTEN that it
is unjust. It demonstrates that the
American people have a great ca-
pacity for absorbing punishment
from official sources.
Nobody can object to luxury
taxes. They may not be the best
way to repress extravagance, but
the buyers of diamonds, mink
coats, Rolls-Royces, caviar and
opera hats can be assumed to have
enough money to pay a tax for
the privilege of displaying these
proofs of their prosperity.
In general, the first requirement
in taxation is that the tax be
just. The first essential of justice
is that the tax should vary in
proportion to the ability to pay.
Since the sales tax, apart from
luxuries, is independent of the
ability to pay, it is unjust. It is
Taxes are supposed to reflect
and promote sound public policies.
The only public policy a sales tax
can reflect is one of reducing con-
sumption and cutting the volume
of business. This kind of policy
might be adopted as an emer-
gency measure in a runaway in-
flation, when goods were in short
supply and the thing to do was
to reduce demand. If the aim is
to slow down the economy, a sales
tax is admirably adapted to the
purpose.
Our official purpose is just the
opposite. We have been asking
ourselves for the past two years
how to get the economy going
again. Everybody knows we have
huge surpluses of food. Everybody
knows our industries would be
producing comparable surpluses
of manufactured goods if they
were going full blast.
The official answer has been to
reduce federal income taxes by
$11 billion over three years. This
puts the most money into the
hands of those who need it least.
The elimination of sales taxes
would put goods in the hands of
those who need them most.
WE HAVE sales taxes on every-
thing, not because they are just
or because they reflect and pro-
mote a sound public policy. We
have them because they are con-
venient, because they are relative-
ly easy to put over against un-
organized opposition and because
of our rusty federal-state ma-
chinery.
The convenience of the sales
tax lies in the handy way it turns
every merchant into a collector
for the government.
The ease of putting it over re-
To the Editor:
THIS LETTER concerns a local
campus issue. I hope that fact
does not disqualify it from being
printed. I must also confess that
I am not writing my master's
thesis on the socioeconomic as-
pects of the population explosion
in North Viet Nam, nor do I date
Negro girls, nor do I attend SNCC
meetings, nor am I a Jew. Instead,
this letter is of interest to the
average University student and
may be of limited practical use to
some. It might even be genuinely
controversial.
cBefore you actually do dis-
qualify this letter, let me explain
the use of satire. According to your
elastic clause "regard for the
facts" (in The Daily's free issue),
any satire can be thought of as
distorting the truth. I merely mean
to point out the image The Daily
has, not whether or not it is true.
NOW I CAN GO on to the sub-
ject of this letter, the student co-
operative housing of the Inter-
Cooperative Council. Many stu-
dents have seen the signs around
campus picturng two pine trees,
with the caption "Join Co-ops."
Be careful of this. Do not be
drawn into boarding at a women's
co-op house. A semester of this is
enough to drive a man homo-
sexual.
Animal psychology can accur-
ately describe the group situation
at some of the women's houses. A
rat is put into a two-compartment
cage. Soon after a buzzer sounds,
the floor of the compartment in
which the rat is standing is elec-
trified. After many repetitions of
this procedure, the rat learns to
cross over to the non-electrified
compartment before the shock
comes. This general behavior is
called avoidance learning. It is
extremely resistance to extinction.
It is the keystone of these girls'
personalities.
Few unpleasant situations are
approached as problems which
need solutions. In these girls'
minds, the best way to shorten
assigned work is to do an in-
complete job rather than to find
more efficient ways of working.
Consequently, maggots have been
allowed to live in the kitchen
counters in corners which have
not been cleaned for some time;
worms have been found in the
biscuit mix, etc.
THERE IS NO pressure within
the group to work conscientiously,
since this implies constructive crit-
icism. This is completely avoided
because all criticism is taken per-
sonally. When one girl must be
singled out because of, say, her
dirty pet, the pet continues to
dirty the house.
All of these examples actually
happened during last semester in
one of the girls' co-ops. Many
other girls' co-ops were as bad.
These co-ops will continue to be
bad until the Office of Student
Affairs forces changes on the In-
ter-Cooperative Council. ICC is
"We're Taking A New Look At It"
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