THE MICHIGAN DAILY Speakers Explore Universities'Finances, Va lues, Policies Colleges Value 'Wrong' Issues Collegiate Press Service CHICAGO-Universities are not living the values that they osten- sibly stand for. Although universities are sup- posed to be dealing with the most important issues of the day, they insead discourage active involve- ment-and in many cases even discussion-of these issues. This was the consensus that emerged from a two-hour discussion of the role of the college in developing democratic values during the re- cent conference of the Association for Higher Education. College faculty members and administrations-as well as so- ciety at large-were criticized for failing to encourage active in- volvement through concrete expe- rience in the most important problems of society. William Coffin, Jr., Yale's free- dom-riding chaplain, who recently was jailed in a Florida civil rights trip, was the session's featured speaker. Heads in Sand Students find higher education meaningless because educators avoid the key issues of society- in fact they are paid to avoid them. This has led to failures in educating students propertly, he said. Only by concrete involvement can students develop a sense of values, Coffin asserted. Coffin criticized campuses for allowing extra-curricular activi- ties to exist that "promote the values that universities are trying to counter in the classrooms." Fraternities, for example, "for the most part are monuments to ir- relevancy in 1964," he said. He urged support for "import- ant" extracurricular activties- those that "try to stimulate an in- terest in policy." More students have to choose "radical" professions, Coffin con- tinued. Too many now choose at- tractive rather than important jobs. to movie theatres througn the back door" as against the white system of segregation, according to Miss Wright. Divorced Most panelists noted that teaching should not be, but too often is, separated from real life. The teacher, Coffin said, has a moral duty to set an example of courage and concern for his stu- dents. Further, a number of dis- cussants felt that the teacher, should set an example of partici- pation in the resolution of the pressing social problems of the day. Wright added that he doesn't' know who had "bought" so many of the nation's deans, faculty members, and chaplains, but they are as silent as the college presi- dents. A number of explanations were advanced for faculty members' failures to participate actively in the resolution of contemporary problems. 'U' Students Get Funds The University has tied with three other schools for seventh place in the number. of Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship win- ners this year, contrary to a mis- taken report in Tuesday's Daily. Nineteen students will receive Wilson money, along with 19 from the University of Kansas, from Northwestern University and from Duke 'University. A 20th student, enrolled at the University's Dearborn Center, would have the University sharing sixth-place honors with Yale Uni- versity, Prof. Otto Graf, director of the Honors Council, said. Three schools in fifth place have 21 winners, and four schools with 23 winners apiece are tied for fourth place. The University was fifth in the nation last year, but Prof. Graf said, that the jump to sixth or seventh is "not as alarming as it might sound. "While the regional quota has not been increased, there are cur- rently many more schools entering the competition than in past years. IS I ABRAHAM RIBICOFF more profitably have been applied to more serious problems in the. nation's educational enterprise. These problems include rectifying low teachers' salaries and the un- equal opportunities among states for students to obtain adequate education at all levels. Furthermore, Muirhead said, it was felt that federal funds could best be injected directly into the educational system rather than be used to give tax relief. Catalogues Liet President Stephen J. Wright of Fisk University, charged that "our college catalogues are fictions," containing "little to buttress ourt allegation that we are trying tol develop certain kinds of men." "Universities are not committed to anything and as a result stu- dents are not committed to any- thing," o mm e n t e d Marian Wright, an alumna of Fisk and of Yale and currently a lawyer for the 'NAACP Legal, Defense and Education Fund. We are not being honest with ourselves on what we believe. Uni- versities are not taking strong policy stands to encourage stu- dents to become involved in is- sues. In many cases, the students are "ahead" of the faculty and administration, she said. The Southern sit-ins were di- rected as much against Negro pro- fessors and college presidents who "teach equality and then walk in- STUDENTS and FACULTY Dial 662-8871 for Cinema qumaddr Program Information AAC Suports Massie College Aid proposed by Sen. Vance Hartket (D-Ind).1 The bill being considered would liberalize the National Defense1 Education Act for loans, federal scholarships and government in-t surance of private loans to stu- dents. It would also provide aa work-study program, similar to the one proposed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in his poverty message. Don't Like Plant AAC officials had previously op- posed the Hartke program.t But the group's president, thes Very Rev. Edward B. Bunn, toldt the subcommittee that his orga- nization solidly supports the basic features of the Hartke bill. The national organization rep- resents 848 colleges offering four- year degree programs. Bunn is president of Georgetown Univer- sity. A Requirement Bunn said many members of his organization have reluctantly con- cluded that a federal scholarship program "is indispensable to real- ization of the principle of unre- stricted educational opportunity." He added that members were polled recently and an overwhelm- ing majority voted for the four provisions. He described the Hart- ke bill as "an imaginative and comprehensive attack on the prob- lem of student aid." The AAC's traditional view, Bunn said, has been that federal aid is justified only when needed to attain a goal of national im- portance not satisfactorily reach- able by state, local and private aotion. Don't Tempt Them owever, Bunn warned that thele is a real danger that state governments might be tempted to cut back their own provisions for scholarships and ultimately throw the whole burden on" the federal government. Bunn said the AAC still had some misgivings about the bill. IL do I I woommummooftL A I 14 UNIVERSITY PLAYERS (Dept. of Speech) presents the Opera Dept. of the School of Music in Tchaikovsky's tragic opera THE QUEEN, OF SPAD ES in a new ENGLISH version by Prof. Josef Blatt Tues.-Sat., May 5-9 8.00 P.M.-LYDIA MENDELSSOHN THEATRE Tues.-Thur., Fri.-Sat., $1.75, $1.25 $2.00, $1.50 Box Office Opens Monday, 12:30-5 EXCELLENT SEATING AVAILABLE FOR TUESDAY . SPORT in the USSR Monthly from the Soviet Union. In English. Richly illustrated. About all sports in Soviet Un- ion, including system of train- ing One year subscription- 40 Cents Imported Publications & Prod. 1 Union Equare, N.Y.C. 3 (M) First Show at 12:30 Shows at 12:30-2:36-4:50 6:55-9:15 V I I or r ........ I I { 11 s GREGORY TONY PECK CURTIS ENDS TONIGHT I El a Kozon's Friday . "AMERICA, AMERICA" presented by THE UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY 1964-1965 CHORAL UNION SERIES CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ............Friday, September 25 JEAN MARTINON, Conductor ANTONIO AND THE BALLETS DE MADRID.......Thursday, October 8 WARSAW PHILHARMONIC ................Wednesday, October 14 LEONID KOGAN, Violinist from Moscow.......Wednesday, November 4 RADUGA DANCERS from six Soviet Republics .:. . Saturday, November 14 FAUST (Gounod) New York City Opera Company............Sunday, November 22 MINNEAPOLIS SLMPHONY ORCHESTRA.........Monday, February 8 STANISLAW SKROWACZEWSKI, Conductor ROSALYN TURECK, Pianist-Bach specialist .........Monday, March 1 ROBERT MERRILL, Baritone.....................Friday, March 12 NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA ................ Saturday, April 3 Season Tickets: $25.00-$20.00-$17.00-$14.00-$12.00 EXTRA SERIES LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ...........Friday, October 2.. GEORGI SOLTI, Conductor IRINA ARKHIPOVA, Mezzo-soprano from Russia .. Monday, November 9 (American debut) MERRY WIDOW (Lehar) N.Y.C. Opera Company.............(2:30) Sunday, November 22 BERLIN PHILHARMONIC........ . .'......Saturday, January 30 HERBERT VON KARAJAN, Conductor POLISH MIME THEATER from Warsaw. . .... . .Saturday, March 6 ad Shown at 2:00-5:00-8:00 P.M. Daily Season Tickets: $12.50-$10.00-$8.50-$7.00-$6.00 CHAMBER ARTS SERIES SOCIETA CORELLI, from Italy . :............Wednesday, October 28 NEW YORK CHAMBER SOLOISTS..... . Tuesday, November 17 SEGOVIA, Guitarist........... . ..... ..Wednesday, January 20 PARIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ..................Sunday, February 14 PAUL KUENTZ, Conductor Featuring Bach trumpeter, ADOLF SCHERBAUM NETHERLANDS CHAMBER CHOIR............. Saturday, February 27 FELIX DE NOBEL, Conductor CHICAGO LITTLE SYMPHONY .................... Sunday, March 7 THOR JOHNSON, Conductor CnlI nfT n 1AIDbGR ..- .. f .. f .... ... e 1 ')U 11 11