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BoozeBucks and University Appropriations
by It. Neil Berkson

Editoras prinsted in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers
or the editors. This must be noted in alt reprints.

ESDA, ;APRIL 22 1964

NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL SATTINGER

Seeing Who Benefits
Froi MSU Scholarships

HE MOST AND THE BEST-what bet-
ter selling points? Michigan State Uni-
rsity has the most students, and lately
ey have gathered together a collection
ilch can be termed the best (they are all
National Merit finalist caliber).
These students have been attracted to
SU because of the honors college and
tional Merit Scholarship program there.
e program awards merit scholarships
rough the National Merit Scholarship
undation for finalists choosing to at-
ad MSU.
[SU SAYS THE UNIVERSITY (in the
personage of Executive Vice-President
arvin L. Niehuss) charges that the
holarship program is "academic pitch-
anship."
Independent of whether or not anyone
er leveled this charge, the program
ould be put to th'e test:
1) Does the student who receives the
holarship benefit educationally because
it?
Because it is awarded on merit, not
ed, a student either would have re-
ived a merit scholarship anyway or
In't need one. No one is getting an edu-
tion who wouldn't have been able to
lthout financial support.
HIS ALONE, HOWEVER, is not enough
to justify a negative answer to the
estion. One must ask further if the stu-
nt receives a better education at MSU
an if he went to another school where
did not get financial support. The an-
'er must, of course differ from individ-
1 to individual. Ultimately it will'rest on
e's evaluation of MSU's honors college
valuators should realize that anything
an can be said about MSU as a whole
nnot be applied to the honors college,
.d vice-versa).
Thus the student benefits educationally
ly if he otherwise would be unable or
willing to spend the money to attend
SU's honors college instead of what he
inks is an inferior school. It is question-
le that many students are much bene-
ted.
2) Do the other students at MSU bene-'
from the presence of finalist-caliber
idents? The honors college tries to keep
students' together-they take classes
gether and even live in the same resi-
ntial units together. It follows that, as
SU's honors students are pushed togeth-

er, they are kept away from the rest of
the population.
3) Does the state benefit? The answer
to this' is no for in-state winners, since
they could have gone to college in Michi-
gan anyway.
A POINT brought up by MSU officials
Is that the merit program is financed
through alumni-not state-funds. But
this is mere juggling of bookkeeping,
and amounts to no more than a state-
ment that costs of 'the program are less
than alumni fund intake.
4) Does the nation gain? Since any stu-
dent of finalist caliber can most likely get
financial aid if he needs it, the country
gains little in the way of intellectual re-
sources.
5) Does MSU gain anything? It sure
does-in the formof increased prestige
and perhaps larger appropriations.
After all, more merit scholarship win-
ners have chosen to go to MSU than any
other college, including Harvard. That's
something to be proud of. And it has a
multiplier effect in that it brings in other
students who perhaps were ,attracted by
the large number of finalists just waiting
to be engaged in deep intellectual discus-
sion.
FORTUNATELY for the program MSU
does not have to depend solely on its
entering freshmen's 'mercurial little minds
to decide that MSU is the best place for
them. It has neat methods of helping
them along.
According to one National Merit Fin-
alist who applied to MSU, a lot of propa-
ganda, is sent to merit scholars to induce
them to list MSU as their first choice.
(Under the program, scholarships are
awarded only to finalists who have listed
MSU as their first choice.) As a clincher,.
MSU tells students they will get scholar-
ships if they list MSU first just a week or
so before the deadline for listing prefer-
ences.
WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE - more
than $500 and MSU's honors college?
Or some other place and whatever chance
remains for a scholarship?
MSU is in quest of intellectually excel-
lent students. 'their National Merit Schol-
arship program serves no other purpose.
-MICHAEL SATTINGER
Acting Associate Managing Editor

AT A DINNER in Ann Arbor last week, state Rep.
Gilbert E. Bursley declared that the University should
be pretty thankful for the $44 million appropriation
it's about to receive from the Legislature. We will be
lucky to get so much money, he intimated, and we
better not expect a comparable increase next year.
Bursley is one of the legislators more sympathetic
to the needs of higher education, and it is rather dis-
turbing to see him making such statements. On just
what basis does he feel that state appropriations to
higher education even begin to be adequate?
IT'S ONLY FIVE MONTHS since the "blue ribbon"
Citizens Committee on Higher Education declared that
beginning with July, 1964:
The combination of a sudden, sharp rise in the
number of persons of college age and the gradual
but persistent increase in the percentage of college-
age students who want a college education will
produce a strain of sudden and extraordinary mag-
nitide upon the existing state system' of higher
education. While there are other education prob-
lems-chronic problems of long duration and newer
ones emerging gradually through the year's-this
population fact is the sudden problem, requiring the
clear understanding of the citizens of the state and
calling for immediate action by the Legislature.

IN SPITE of the fact that the subcommittee re-
sponsible for this report was headed by conservative
Alvin M. Bentley, it recommended that the state increase
higher education spending from $110 million for this
year to a minimum $135 million for, the coming year.
Moreover, the report stated:
If Michigan were to provide per-student appropria-
tions equivalent to the average of eight highly in-
dustrialized states-New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and
California-in 1964-65, our figures suggest that state
appropriations of $147 million would be required.
Even this figure would not regain for Michligan the.
standing in appropriations per student it enjoyed
among these states in 1956-57.
THE UNIVERSITY, regardless of its public state-
ments, is not at all satisfied with the proposed $44 mil-
lion-$3.5 million under the Regents request. "It's just
barely adequate," one of the University's highest officers.
said privately the other day, "and if we don't continue to.
get this kind of money over the next few years we'll
remain in trouble. We've got a lot of catching up to do."
It's easy to see what he's talking about. The Univer-
sity is on the verge of some' serious faculty salary prob-
lems. While this year's appropriation may alleviate them
for the moment, competition for good faculty is getting
more intense every year, and schools which never ap-

proached the University's pay range are now far ahead
of us.
IN THE PAST eight years of budget problems,
various areas of the University have suffered. Staff ad-
ditions have been kept at a minimum. The library
system is hurting. Plait maintenance has fallen off
considerably. Year-round operation has already been held
back one year because of a low budget appropriation.
Draw these problems in light of the enrollment pres-
sures, which will bring over 35,000 students to the Uni-
versity by 1968-four years away, and they seem great
indeed, Legislature or no.
Gov. Romney proudly announced a few weeks ago
that the state would have a $61 million surplus in its
treasury by the end of this fiscal year. This has provided
some legislators with a brilliant idea: they want to
lower the beer tax.
ONE OF the newspaper's failings is the fact that it
cannot really project a sense of $6 million. This is
the sum the Mott Foundation has donated to create
a children's hospital in the University Medical Center
complex.
The University; is one of the few state institutions
in the country to be so generously endowed by private
sources. This money has provided many trimmings, the
Law School and Rackham among them. Certainly,
Charles Mott has found a worthy cause to add to this list.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Teaching Fellow Criticizes Evaluation Procedures

TODAY AND TOMORROW:
The Sino-Soviet Split

To the Editor:
DURING THIS WEEK, students
are receiving literary college
course evaluation forms. They are
being asked to express their sin-
cere opinions on these sheets, but
they are instructed to not sign
their names. A student officer
previously 'chosen for the purpose,
substitutes for the teacher in col-
lecting and sealing the forms and
delivering them to the offices of
the department under whoseaus-
pices the course is offered. There,
the students are forewarned, the
documents remain until final
course grades have been submitted.
As a teaching fellow, I deplore,
the manner in which these coi se
evaluation forms are being ad-
ministered. Indeed, I am offended
by it. The fact that a student
monitor is elected to distribute,
collect and seal the forms, and
then deliver them to the depart-
ment (it is even suggested that
the teacher leave the room while
the students record their views)
can, to my way of thinking, be
interpreted in only one way: the
University-or the "committee in
charge"-has sufficiently little
confidence in the integrity and in-
tellectual probity of its faculty
to warrant such outrageous pre-
cautions.
It may be argued that the Uni-
versity, in taking these measures,
is merely attempting to assure the
student of the absolutely gratui-
tous nature of his commitment,
that it can in no way be made
to influence the final evaluation
of his performance, i.e., his. grade.
The reason is base: it is repul-
sively submissive to a simple-
minded attitude entirely foreign
to the level and tenor of thought
becqming a university.
** *
HOWEVER, whether or not the
University imputes the character
of its faculty is of little or no con-
sequence. By virtue of its own
proven merits, the faculty will
not suffer degradation, whatever
the administrative policy of the
University.
Profoundly more important are
the grave consequences of anony-
mity which the forms require.
Since the student is instructed to
not sign the form, he is not re-
quired to assume any responsibility
for its content. In an age of
anonymity wherein, for example,
nuclear war may erupt at any
time without any afixed blame
possible-save perhaps to the elu-
sive "all"-the value, in fact, the
absoluteenecessity of commitment
should be most highly respected
in this, perhaps, last "preserve of
human sentiment," the University.
Nothing is so cowardly, so cheap
and so common as an unsolicted
opinion, an unsupported view.,
I for one intend to never read
these evaluations. I am, of course,
interested, even eager, to receive"
opinions from my students con-
cerning every aspect of my course
andmy performance. However, in
what I deem to be the true spirit
of academic freedom and neces-
sity, I require that these opinions
come to me solicited either in
writing or in person.
I know that amongst my co-
leagues, my opinion is not unique.
I wonder, though, how many stu-
dents espouse these same views
and have the fortitude which they
imply?
-Maurice J. Beznos
Department of Romance
Languages
Quad Reps and IQC
To the Editor:,
FOR TWO MONTHS now, the

Darkness At High Noon

ness to discuss and reason with
others.
"And ye shall know the truth,
and tho truth shall make you
free."
-Thomas N. Rothschild, '65Ly
Chairman
IQC Rules Committee
Film Festival Policies

To the Editor:
' AM WRITING to protest a
series of incidents which oc-
curred last Saturday evening at
the Second Ann Arbor ,Film Fes-
tival.
Several friends of ' mine from
Detroit and I had purchased our
tickets in y good time, waited 15
minutes in line and upon enter-
ing the auditorium were confront-
ed with the following deplorable
situation: :1) There were obviously
far too many tickets sold than
there were, seats available; 2)
Quite .a few empty sears were
"occupied" by coats and guarded
by menacing over-my-dead-body
looks.
Surely it is a simple matter to
keep track of the number of tic-
kets sold. The Cinema Guild owes
to its many admirers the common
courtesy of having' a shat. Let
those who wish to stand be fore-
warned. Having one's money re-,
funded is small compensation 'for
the frustration. The second in-
cident. is one of a' long series of.
such phenomena which I have
observed on this campus. Admit-
tedly, it is difficult to enforce
such a practice, but at least it
tshould be. made clear to the "chiens
mechants" that they do not have
the house on their side.
-Y. King Liu, Lecturer
College of Engineering
The 'U' and Johnson
To te Eito

IE CHINESE-SOVIET conflict has
sharpened to the point where a sus-
sion of diplomatic relations is a possi-
ty. It is now plain, as some have been
ing for some time, that the ideological
ate is only the outward manifestation
;he long-standing, pre-Communist col-
ons of interest between, the Iussians
ving toward the Pacific and the Chi-
e\ moving north. There have already
n a great many little fights in the
ssian-Chinese borderlands.
Tet, while there will almost certainly be
re of them, and even if the two gov-
ments suspend diplomatic relations,
n if the tirades become more violent, if
,t is possible, it is not likely that all
s is leading to war. China is not a nu-
ar power anid it cannot attack Russia,
A Russia is in no mood for war.
[either country is likely to feel it can
Ord the costs of mobilizing large ground:
hies for a conventional war. A large
.nese-Russian war would open both
ina and Russia to great pressure from
ir non-Communist adversaries.
WE ASK OURSELVES what should be
our own attitude toward the conflict
he two great Communist states, we can
in by recognizing that we are now
efitting by the conflict itself, by the
t that Communism is no longer a unit-
antagonist of the non-Communist
rld.
'he conflict has caused the Soviet Un-
to relax its pressure on Eastern Europe
I Germany. Also, there are a number

Valter, Lippinanu
ondary question, which is whether we
ought to give support to the Soviet Union
because Red China is now the more active
aggressor or, like General de Gaulle, do
business with both and show no prefer-
ence for either.
For us, the answer to this question is
given. For we are in a state of open hos-
tility with Red China, indeed legally in a
state of "war," and we have to be on- the
side of the enemy of our enemy.
LOOKING AHEAD, what is it possible to
discern in the dim far distance? The
eventual (in 10 or 20 years?) evolution of
Communist China is something like pres-
ent-day Russia, that is to say, into a.
Communist country more concerned with
its own development than with external
expansion.
If this is a good guess, ,the first con-
firmation of it is likely to come in the
form of a relaxation of Chinese pressure
on the southern frontier. This relaxation
might show itself, for example, in a let-
up of the pressure on India and in an ac-
ceptance of the fact that the Soviet Union
will not help Red China if it challenges
the American position in Formosa and in
the off-shore islands.
THE RUSSIAN-CHINESE conflict opens
certain opportunities in Eastern Asia.
We, alas, are not free to take advantage
of them. We must leave the initiative to
friendly nations like France and Great
Britain which have not tied themselves
up into knots.

the traditional flow of addressed
literature from one council to the
voting members of other councils.
It was only when the reps from.
West and South unthinkingly op-
posed East Quad's proposals, how-
ever, (even in those areas af-
fecting only East Quad) ihat the
East Quad Council voted to boy-
cott IQC.
Following two months of useless
charges and rcounter charges, all
the reps recently agreed to refer
the matter to the Rules Commit-
tee, originally produced the litera-
ture distribution rules. Here, it
was hoped the matter could be
calmly discussed at greater length,
and a reasonable agreement reach-
ed. But when the committee met,
the reps from West and South ex-
posed their hypocrisy by refusing
to debate for a moment the mat-
ter they had previously agreed to
discuss. The reps from East had
assured me they were willing to
compromise, and were even willing
to drop some of their motions
entirely, yet the reps from West
and South refused to hear a word
of it.

IT IS INTERESTING to note
also that the proposed amendment
to create an assembly of house
presidents, which was favored by
the president of IQC, was also
opposed by the reps from West
Quad, and by them alone. Why do
these two men oppose giving the
residents a voice in IQC through
their house presidents? I hesitate
to suggest that it might be because
they fear inroads on their own
absolute power over the IQC, or
that they fear that the men,
through their house presidents,
might overturn some of their own
doctrines.
I hesitate to suggest this, yet T
can think of no other reason for
them to oppose this democratic in.
stitution, which is provided for b3
all other all-campus housing stu-
dent governments.
The position of the West Quad
reps both on literature distribu-
tion and the president's assembly
shows a dogmatism and an aver-
sion to free debate which is
strangely out of place at a univer-
sity dedicated to freeing the minds
of men from just such unwilling.

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I
r.

'A THOUSAND CLOWNS:'
Flaws Mar Production
THE ANN ARBOR Drama Season opened last night, in front of a
regretably low number of spectators, with a performance of Herb
Gardner's play "A Thousand Clowns."
"A Thousand Clowns" is a warm, genial, sentimental, essentially
"light" comedy which, thank goodness, is nowhere near as pretentious
as one might have feared' from reading a bare plot outline. The initial
situation concerning a middle-aged child and a childish adultis
certainly not an original' one, but Mr. Gardner succeeds in making
it at once both attractive and entertaining by centering most of the
attention around the adult partner and allowing him a good deal
of funny, poined, well-written dialogue.
The part was played by Hollywood veteran Macdonald Carey, and,
it is as well to say right now that apart from Mr. Carey's skillful
performance, last night's production creaked along, causing the actors
some obvious embarassment, and the audience occasional discomfort.
Mr. Carey dominated the evening, controlling the mood almost
perfectly, and making most believable his portrait of a man thanking
God that he's a human being and fighting with a comically fierce
determination to avoid being sucked into the quagmire of machines,

very best interests.
Or, perhaps, Johnson will let the
American counter-revolution drop
for a while and merely serve up
some more homiletic Southern
fried chicken for his audience.
Certainly,'the bourgeoisie will eat
it up. But remember, though the
University has set the table, the
rankand-file who wait on it are
disgusted with the food.
-Lewis Meyers
Department of English
Irrefutable Argument?
To the Editor:
AS AN inexperienced sophomore
with only one semester of poli-
tical science behind me, I have
found myself unable to answer an
argument presented to me in favr
of Wednesday's proposed stall-ins
at the World's Fair. Perhaps some-
one reading this could help:me out.
'The argumet goes like this:
The results produced by present
methods of demonstrating are in-
adequate-progress must be made
more quickly. Since present meth-
ods are insufficient, new ones ob-
viously must be looked into.
If the new demonstrations are
les violent or aggressive, there will
be less publicity, and civil rights
will quickly be "forgotten. Since,
theref ore, demonstrations cannot
continue as in the past or be-
come less aggressive, there is only
one alternative: less peace, more
aggression. On this basis, the
stall-ins are considered justified.
THIS SKETCH shows how the
argument goes, at least in spirit;ยข
the details could, I think, be filled
in. The conclusion is repulsive to
me, but I cannot find the fault in
the argument. I am forced to agree
that present demonstrations are
inadequate and that more peace-
ful ones would be worse. ButI do
not like to admit that the only
other possibility is violence. Some-
thing must be wrong.
Yet the point of view expressed
to me went even further. I would
be told, I was varned, that peace-
ful demonstrations, while inade-
quate, were the best of the alter-
natives. But. this leads to another
problem.
Let us say that the Negroes
cannot possibly get a minimal
amount of freedom within the
next hundred years. Why, then,
isn't this one of those situations,
like that of the Warsaw ghetto
twenty years ago, for example,
when the only thing for the op-
pressed to do is to rise up with
pebbles, glass, slingshots, shotguns
or bombs, and die fighting for
liberty1
I can't answer this. Could some-
one explain?
-Joel A. Klein, '67.
Stopping the Stall-In
To the Editor:.
MR. KENNY'S editorial April 20
on the proposed "stall-in" at
the World's Fair demonstrates the
prevalent lack of understanding
of the purpose of civil rights dem-
onstrations. The purpose of these
demonstrations is to do or treat-
en to do something that is un-
acceptable to those you want to
force to make concessions Thus
Sen. Eastland was right when' he
said that there is no real dif-
ference between a sit-down in the
'South and a stall-in up North;
only the target of the demonstra-
tions differs.
If the City of New York finds
the threatened stall-in so terrible
all it has to do ;s:
1) Force integration of the con-
struction industry by clos'ng down
city approved construction sites
until integration is carried out;

4

To the Editor, .
IT'S A ROTTEN SHAME that
President Johnson has accepted
Harlan Hatcher's invitation to
speak at the University commence-
ment day exercises. One would
have thought we'd learned a re-
volting lesson when McNamara
spat out his toad of nuclear coun-
terforce two years ago. But on
} May 22, the University will once.
again associate itself with political
reaction. What shape this dies
irae will take is anybody's guess;
but, on the basis of Johnson's neo-
imperialism, I am willing to specu-
late as follows:
He will, if this is to be a major
policy speech, announce the exten-
sion of United States military ag-
gression from South to North Viet
Nam. Initially, this will include
the strategic bombing of Hanoi,
other industrial centers, roadsand
canals and the murder'by napalm
of the rural population. Anti-
populist warfare will continue in-
definitely in South, Viet Nam,.
the present U.S. beachhead in
Asia, in order eventually to turn
China back into the grab bag for
imperialism it once was. Through-
out his remarks, Johnson will use
the misnomer of Viet Cons for
the National Liberation Front
. * *
OR, HE WILL re-endorse the
military dictatorship in Brazil as
a model. Latin American govern-
ment. He will applaud the arrest
of Communists and softsoap the
imprisonment of liberals and other,
mild leftists as an act of "over-
zealousness" on the part of Bran-
co. Johnson will not allude to the
Brazilian landowners, the U.S. in-,
vestors and the army generals who
back to coup. Likewise, he will
omit reference to the condition of
the Brazilian peasantry, to Gou-
lart's attempts at land reform and

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