S ilir A t Baily Semvoty-Tbird Tear E D AND MANAOED I STUDENTS OF' TE UN1r*4EIx of MICMG AN UNDE AUTHORITY OF BOARD 1 CONTROL OF STU'DET PU3LCAT!ONS e Opinions Are riSTUDENT PU3LICATIONS BLDG.,ANN Atucs, MCr., PHONE eo 2-3241 uth Will PreAIl" Each Time I Chanced To See Franklin D.L 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. r 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