Seteniy-Third Year EmrrED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "here Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MICH., 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 at; reprints. TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: EDWARD HERSTEIN A LAST GLANCE: A Call for a Leap into the Unknown, the Fearsome t'' Calendaring Complexities Call for a New Evaluation FORTUNATELY, this year's annual has- sle over activities' calendaring has been settled. Most of the demands of those groups which were decrying the "unfair- ness" of "arbitrary" calendaring proced- ures have been met to a reasonable de- gree of satisfaction. The Association of Producing Artists' request for the use of Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre has been granted; the three stu- dent production groups which contested the APA's right to "monopolize" Mendels- sohn for most of the fall semester have agreed to alternative dates and locations; the Gilbert and Sullivan Society has ac- cepted a Nov. 18-21 scheduling at Men- delssohn; MUSKET has decided to move its regular fall production to the spring, and Soph Show has settled on an Ann Arbor High location for its Nov. 12-14 pro- duction. That this year's calendaring crisis has been met, however, does not alter the fact that it never should have occurred in the first place-or second place, or third place, or fourth. . (Calendaring mix-ups have become al- most an institution over the years. Rarely has a calendaring group completed its work without some hapless student orga- nization going off to lick its wounds after receiving an unfavorable scheduling.) NoW THAT THE RECENT "outrage" is doing its best to melt into oblivion, Student Government Council, charged with the calendaring power, should take time to examine this year's mishap. It should both inquire into the criticism raised by student groups and analyze the calendaring structure as it now stands. Meditation now may preclude mediation next semester, when the calendaring proc- ess begins all over again. Students' main criticism of this year's calendaring was that the APA should not have been given top priority over student groups for the right to Mendelssohn for the fall. Calling the association the "Na-. tional Basketball Association of the stage," three angry students wrote in a letter to The Daily: "Last year ... it was decided that the APA was capable of per- forming at Trueblood (Aud.) . . . Why can't it perform there again this year , What these.three students fail to un- derstand is that the APA rightfully de- serves Mendelssohn. Last year it acquiesc- ed to student demands and accepted the Trueblood location for the season. It is only fair that students return the favor. BUT BEYOND the calculations of cour- tesy, the APA deserves the Mendels- sohn location on the criteria of need and merit. As the yongest-and possibly the most exciting-experiment in University theatre, the APA needs every corisidera- tion, including the best theatre facilities the University can offer. Contracted to the University just three years ago under the Professional Theatre Program, the APA is attempting a bold venture in pro- fessional repertory theatre in a univer- sity community. It is part of a program duplicated in no other part of the coun- try. It is a meritorious experiment that de- serves to succeed. Many of the APA's pro- ductions-"The Ghosts" and "The Low- er Depths," to name only two-were of superlative calibre. Its theatrical success has spelled the success of theatre in gen- eral at the University. Theatre attend- ance at non-APA productions has swelled, not dwindled, since its premier in Ann Ar- bor. yE+ THE STUDENT productions do have legitimate cause for complaint. They too provide the University com- munity with fine theatre. They too must be given a place in which to perform. The obvious solution would be to build another treatre. The two theatres which presently house all campus productions are hardly adequate to meet their needs. The building of a new theatrical facility is a long-range project which the Uni- versity might do well to consider ser- iously. In the meantime, SGC should examine the present allocation of theatres-via. the calendaring process-to make the best use of those facilities presently available. The calendaring process has consistent- ly been complex and poorly managed. Just this year SGC recognized its own inadequacy to handle these complexities in addition to the normal burden of Council activities. It moved to set up a special committee-the University Calen- daring Committee-to which it delegated the calendaring function. THE UNIVERSITY Calendaring Com- mittee has had difficulties of its own. Designed to consist of two administrators, two students and two members of the fac- ulty, the committee was not even formed before the pressure to finalize the calen- dar was upon it. Since the Senate Advis- ory Committee on University Affairs had refused to appoint the two faculty mem- bers, the committee was forced to find them itself. Obviously, this committee is not yet the ultimate answer to the cal- endaring tangle. With its membership complete and space to breathe in, the committee can hopefully devote itself to the simplifica- tion and refinement of what is now a complex problem. SGC should give the group all the guidance and assistance that its own past experience with the problem will allow. It should help revamp the present system of priorities in activities' calendaring. Due consideration should be given to both professional and amateur theatre groups on the basis of their spe- cific needs. The utopia in activities calendaring is not yet in sight, but its improvement could be right around the corner. -LOUISE LIND Acting Assistant Editorial Director in-charge-of the Magazine By GLORIA BOWLES Magazine Editor 1963-64 T HE SENIOR EDITOR who agrees to write a farewell edi- torial is, true to Daily tradition, putting a "point final" on his Daily career. Besides participat- ing in a tradition, the retiring senior editor joins in a pact, the understood but unwritten law: when he agrees to write, he is also agreeing to write about his experience of education as he feels it most deeply and most strongly. But The Daily, a paradoxical in- stitution, though tradition bound is not dogmatic: there is flex- ibility within the form and room for adifference of interpretation of the farewell editorial, as any reader of the last four install- ments and the three to come will readily note. Melodrama would have us say that writing a fare- well editorial is a little like sell- ing one's soul for fifty inches of print. It would be more accurate to say that one feels that he is, foolhardily,tentering the domain Df the writer and the creative artist when he is after all, only an inexperienced journalist. Too, one is caught at a strange moment. I am no longer working on the newspaper. For the first time in four years, I am not think- ing about The Michigan Daily. I haven't set a foot in the building, except momentarily, since the ap- pointment of the new senior edi- tors. The disassociation has given ame 40 extra hours a week, and perspective. I write with one more week at the University. The people I do not know now I shall never know. It is as though some force had shrieked "Stop!":- I am ordered to gather up the friends I have made and to enclose them within the bounds of a fence, to shut the door, tight, and to erect a sign- "No Entrance." This farewell is the only way to escape the fin- ality of it all, the' enclosed feel- ing, and to leave the door slight- ly open. "I HAVE a feeling this is a great University. I know there is something here. But I just don't know how to find it." I would only assure the freshman who spoke these words that this is a great University. My reassurance cane only after a long-held conviction that the University was experiencing a steady decline. I used to worry a great deal about this institu- tion. As a Michigan resident, T. always felt particularly responsi- ble for its quality. I tended to be on the defensive when my out-of- state friends criticized the school or the state. I worried about the University's financial future, for example. But one day the University's executive vice - president, who spends a good deal of time in Lansing, came to lunch at our apartment. The eight senior edi- tors talked to him for two hours. After he left, I felt tremendous- ly relieved, for I could stop wor- rying about effective liaison with the Legislature. The job was in good hands. The experience was repeated several times as the seniors held luncheon interviews with all top University administrators. With few exceptions, I was amazed at their knowledge and their under- standing, and was left with a great deal of confidence in the administration of the University. THE GREATNESS of a univer- sity depends primarily on the quality of its faculty and stu- dents. Michigan's faculty is excel- lent if sometimes unappreciated. Many in-state students should probably not be at the Univer- sity; many of the good students do not take the initiative to make contact with their professors. The bad professors, particularly in higher level courses, are outweigh- ed by the good and inspiring professors who have a passion for knowledge and teaching. The freshman was looking for the "something" in "greatness": the Ideal Education. JOHN MILTON'S was the per- fect education. A biographer writes that Milton was "the \ master of Latin and Greek, and adept in most modern European tongues, as well as Hebrew." The man who was to write the greatest poem in the English language, took a BA art an MA and-then: "Retired to his father's coun- try home, and for five more years, under his own direction, read day and night. It seems likely that Milton, in his time, read just about everything that was ever written in English, Latin, Greek and Italian. Of course, he had the Bible by heart . .. Finally ... his most indulgent father sent this most voracious of students abroad, to put the finishing touches on an already splendid education. Milton was both a scholar and a man of experience; his educa- tion was both formal and highly personal. Milton had a rare edu- cational-experience, even for his own time: modern man is in awe ot such an experience. THE FRESHMAN in quest of the Ideal Education shares my quest. Neither religion nor politics unite us. With others, we share a youth- ful exuberance, a passion for life and a desire to know that be- comes an ache. It is the quest, the aspiration, the striving of a Rob- ert Browning; it is, more exactly, the waterless desert and the sil- ence of Camus, man's "longing for happiness and for reason,".. . "the absurd . . . born of this con- frontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world." It is, moreover, the passion of Lawrence's Paul Morel who must answer a mother who says "Battle -battle-and suffer. It's about all you do, as far as I can see." His answer: "Damn your happiness. So long as life's full, it doesn't matter whether it's happy or not. I'm afraid your happiness would bore me." BUT THE FRESHMAN who comes to the University with an ache in his heart and a battle building up in his soul is quickly satisfied. Mary Markley Hall, the Undergraduate Library and mas- sive lectures are the answers to his craving for intimacy. The senior who is leaving can only counsel patience and promise that the big will eventually be- come small, that the life will eventually have focus. The sen- ior can only advise: visit your professors during office hours; talk to the guy sitting next to you in class instead of just look- ing at him all semester (he wants to communicate as badly as you do); be impractical, be idealistic in your choice of courses; study hard and care about studying. The intimacy has been a long time in coming in a large insti- tution which encourages a "well- roundedness." The aspirant to the Ideal Education, the student who recognizes the impossibility of ap- proaching the experience of a Milton but dreams of it anyway, abhors well-roundedness. HE SEEKS the person who cares, deeply and fervently. His education is essential to life. He seeks the student who swears, passionately, by the poetry of Rilke or the poetry of the Bible or mathematics or law. His intel- lectual experiences are as vital as his personal relationships. By the same token, the be- liever in the Ideal Education has more respect for the professor who, true to his own value sys- tem, travels or teaches instead of publishing, or who chooses parti- cipation in a civil rights demon- stration over the approval, and thus respect, of his own colleagues. Like the professor, the student manifests his desire for education in various ways. The University's greatness lies in the options which it offers. FOR ME. the experience of ed- ucation during the past four years meant a major in English lan- guage and literature; three years on The Daily; a year in Paris at the Sorbonne; residence at Mar- tha Cook and a year in an apart- ment. I think I would have found few English departments in the coun- try to surpass our own; no other college newspaper in the country surpasses The Daily, and I will probably never again have a magazine all to myself. The counselors of few other uni- versities would, at the end of my freshman year, have told me to "get on a boat and go to France" (nor few parents open-minded and understanding enough to per- mit it) and then give me thirty hours credit for academic work done abroad; and finally, I can imagine no residence hall finer than Cook, nor be dissatisfied with the progress in the liberali- zation of women's rules, which made apartment living possible. * * * ' THE UNIQUE, the meaningful educational experience is possible at the University. It demands only a desire to get off that goddam beaten path, to make niistakes if you have to, but to do anything to get out of that mold, that un- feeling, unthinking, meaningless rut that makes for The Ordered Life. Mine is, perhaps, a call for Chaos and a leap into the un- known, the fearsome. Living dan- gerously does not mean living foolishly or stupidly or impulsively but seriously, deliberately and thinkingly. Rilke put it beautifully: ... To young people I would always say just this one thing (it is almost the only thing I know for certain up to now)-- that we must always hold to the difficult; that is our part. We must go so deep into life that it lies upon us and is bur- den; not pleasure should be about is, but life. Think; isn't childhood difficult in all its unexplained connec- tion? Aren't girlhood years dif- ficult-do they not like long heavy hair pull your head into the depths of great sadness? And it must not become other- wise; if for many life suddenly becomes easier, lighthearted and gayer, that is only because they have ceased to take it serious- ly, redly to carry it and feel it and fill it with their own entity. That is no progress in the mean- ing of life. That is a renuncia- tion of all its breadths and possibilities. What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. * * *, THERE ARE THOSE at the Uni- versity, my freshman friend among them, who have a penchant for the Uncommon Life. They seem marked for lineliness. Theirs is a rarely-shared intimacy, a deep longing and a wanting and an ache which pierces to the core. These are the lone wolves of the university world, the scared rab- bits of the darting, nervous, searching eyes. There is a place for this fervent, inquiring and passionate spirit at the University and in our nation. I can live only with the hope that they will continue to choose the uncompromising, the difficult life. ' VAN CLIBURN: Rachmaninoff's Music Executed 'Competently' BLOOMINGTON CASE: Shattering Idealistic Illusions Examining the Examination By HOWARD SALITA Daily Guest Writer THOSE PEOPLE who believe that there is a trend in this country in the direction of "con- stitutional democracy" and the enforcement of the Bill of Rights are discovering that the Bloom- ington Indiana Subversion Case has shattered their idealistic il- lusions. On March 25, 1963, three Indi- ana University students who are members of the Young Socialist Alliance attended a meeting with 125 other individuals at I.U., spon- sored by the campus-recognized YSA. The speaker was Leroy Mc- Rae, the national organizational secretary of the YSO. McRae, who discussed the civil rights move- ment was then on a national tour, and talked on this topic at many ther universities, including Wayne State and the University. Local County Prosecutor Thom- as Hoadley indicted these three students May 1, on the charge of assembling at the March 25 meet- ing for the purpose of "violent overthrow" of the state of Indiana and the United States government. AFTER THE ORIGINAL indict- ment was ruled out by the judge for faulty wording, Prosecutor Hoadley secured a new indictment on July 18. He brought in an ad- ditional charge that a meeting of defendants and their friends May 2 to discuss their legal de- fense against the first indictment was an act of assembling to ad- vocate "violent overthrow" of In- diana and the. United States gov- ernment. It is interesting to examine the law under which they were in- dicted. Section 2 of the 1951 In- diana Burns Statutes, Chapter 226,H. 72, declares that it is the public policy of the state of In- diana and the act to "exterminate Communism and Communists, and all teachings of the same." The Communist Party is defined in Section 3 of the act as "an organ- ization which engages in or ad- vocates, abets, advises or teaches or has a purpose which is to en- gage in or advocate, abet advise or teach activities intended to overthrow, destroy, or alter or to assist in the overthrow, de- struction or alteration of the con- stitutional form of the govern- ment of the United States or of the state of Indiana, or of any political subdivision thereof, by repvolution, force or violence." have far-reaching consequenves which are in no way related to the aim of the organization itself. ** * McRAE, in his Bloomington speech, supported the Constitu- tional right of Negroes to bear arms in their own defense. Three YSA students in the audience, who were merely listening-not speak- ing-were indicted under the anti- Communism Act. McRae wasn't indicted; just those three students who were local campus officers of the YSA. Hoadley explained why he indicted these students when he said, "My basic interest is not particularly to put these students in jail, but to remove it (the YSA) from the campus facilities. It would have been cleared up months ago if the university had simply decided to remove it." Shortly before the March 20 hearing, Hoadley submitted a legal document to the court, in reply to the defense's motion for a hill of particulars. This bill exposes Hoadley's legal methods, but un- fortunately, it also exposes the fact that such legal methods are tolerated in a United States cou t of law. Hoadley failed to mentioni the March 25 meeting, on which he had originally based his indict- ment. Yet, the indictment stil stood. Second, although tihe other in- dictment referred to a spe :ific date, May 2, Hoadley stated that his case was "not based exclusively upon any one 'meeting' or 'speech'," but on a "totality of events constituting a conspiracy." With no respect for due process of law, Hoadlew wished to drag in activities of the defendants over a period of several years, activities for which no criminal charges have been preferred. , , ' MUCH OF the evidence Hoadley was intending to introduce was by his own admission stolen material. It was acquired by a landlord searching a private apartment. The landlord admitted his theft in testimony under oath before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Finally, Hoadley said he would confine his arguments to the ques- tion of violent overthrow of the state of Indiana. The indictments, LETTERS: Deviation however, refer to alleged assembly to advocate the violent overhtrow of the federal government as well as the state government. Hoadley apparently felt he was on shaky grounds in handling the question of sedition against the federal government. Yet, that part of the indictment still stands. On March 20, at pro-trial hear- ings, Judge Nat U. Hill ruled the Indiana Communism act un- Constitutional, and upheld a de- fense motion to quash the indict- ments. This ruling in effect stated that all state sedition laws. re- gardless of whether they deal withi sedition against the federal gov-I ernment or the state government, are unconstitutional. This had the potential of being an important blow against witch hunts in gen- eral, since similar state laws are used in the South, for example, against civil rights advocates. HOWEVER, immediately after the victory, the Indianapolis Times took a stand in support of Hoad- ley's appealing the decision. If he appealed, of course, the three stu- dents could easily be re-indicted. The Times brushed aside the fact that a continuation of the case may once again threaten these three students with imprisonment for their views. The Times com- mented in its editorial that "it is the way the law works." Hoadley, taking the advice of the Indianapolis Times announced on March 25 that he had received the permission and cooperation of "my good friend Eddie Steers," the Indiana state attorney gen- 'eral in appealing Judge Hill's de- cision to the Indiana state su- preme court. The same disregard for the Constitution that has been manifested in the South so often in the last few years has reached the Middle West. It is obvious that the Blooming- ton case has implications which run far beyond the YSA and three university students. It shows that even when men perform deeds not in the slightest degree uncon- stitutional, when they are prose- cuted by inept legal procedures In- cluding the use of stolen ma- terial, when the prosecuter admits that his prime interest is the su- pression of a university-recognized organization, and even when his indictment is thrown out of court, and the law on which it is based declared unconstitutional, a case can still be appealed with backing from the press and the support of a state attorney general. T HE 1964 MAY Festival came to a close Sunday evening with an all-Rachmaninoff program by the Philadelphia Orchestra under conductor Eugene Ormandy. The concert featured pianist Van Cli- burn in a performance of the Piano Concerto No. 3, the work which he played in Moscow when he won the Tchaikovsky Competi- tion some six years ago. The concert began with the se- rene Vocalise, Opus 34, No. 14. This seemed a wise selection, for it contrasted in mood with the t,%L larger, more dramatic works which were to follow and because its soaring melodies were well suit- ed to the kind of sound which the Philadelphia string section pro- duces. This attribute turned to a debit, however, in the two remaining works. In both the piano cencerto and the Second Symphony, the lush, powerful string section often drowned out other soloists when, in fact, they were playing obligato or accompaniment figures. WE CAN UNDERSTAND why this happens when we realize that Ormandy loves his string section more than anything in the world. and there could be nothing more to his liking than programing an all - Rachmaninoff concert, for Rachmaninoff was classical when it came to orchestration. That is. for him, the strings were the main- stay of the orchestra, and the winds and percussion performed a subsidiary function. It seems doubly tragic to have somewhat overbearing s t r i n g s when the Philadelphia Orchestra has such a fine wind section. One cannot get over the feeling that hornist MasonkJonesand his co- horts are lackeys who serve the whim of the string section. S * THE PIANO CONCERTO was exciting, but one could have wish- ed for more accuracy on Cliburn's part. Slips made in the passion of the moment are excusable, but not when they are made be- cause the soloist is not paying at- tention to his performance. Cli- burn tends to be more concerned with the show of things than the sound he makes. The result was that, during the feigned state of excitement which he generated with his immense self-esteem, he got sloppy. His non-solo passages were sometimes too heavy, and his recovery from fortissimo chords was always different and non- functional. On the whole, the program was exciting because the works per- formed were exciting.. They were executed competently, but no bet- ter. -David Andrew INSIDIOUSLY, the three hour exam has returned. As if it is not bad enough that students have only one free day be- fore classes end and exams start, teachers have discovered a method of adding an extra hour to a two-hour exam and clev- erly scheduling it in the last week of classes. The two-hour exam, now one year old, was considered a necessity for the tri- mester one-week exam period. Let's see now . . . if we make all the exams two hours long, we can have at least four a day! Everyone with nine o'clock classes can have eight o'clock exams; and if you have four exams in two days maybe you can get one changed. FACULTY REACTIONS to the two-hour exam were interesting. Certainly, many teachers revamped their theories and shortened their finals to two hours. Others ultimately came out against fin- als altogether and made theirs merely a Acting Editorial Staff . i third or fourth hourly. But there are those stalwart souls who will resist change. They are the professors who stoically continue giving the same exam they give every year; you just learn to write faster. They are the teachers who insist on hold- ing a class that last Friday before the first Saturday. And (shudder) they are the de- fenders of the two-part, three-hour final exam. Under the two-part final, you do not even get to take advantage of that one free reading day. Instead, you have to finish all the required work for the course before the last week of classes so that you can take the first hourof your exam that week. It is extremely unfortunate if more than one of your professors is a three- hour man; it can be disastrous if you are behind in the reading for the course. OF COURSE, you can question the very idea of the final examination, that grand summary of a whole semester's work. And when you get through ques- tioning that, you can debate the value, if any, of the two-hour final-a whole se- MAY FESTIVAL: Excellent Concert Fare Flawed by Conducting 1 HE MOST EMINENT of living composers and one of America's best orchestras is a concert combination difficult to surpass. Igor Stravinsky conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra provided the core for such a concert Sunday afternoon in Hill Auditorium. - Stravinsky's Symphony in C is in four movements, diatonic in harmonic idiom and classical in style. In this work Stravinsky as a craftsman is shown to excellent advantage. In spite of the gyrations of Conductor Robert Craft, the orchestra managed to get through this sparkling work in commendable form. Sectional precision was noticeably lacking, but individual solos were excellent. Onetof the earliest and most important of Schoenberg's atonal works is the Five Pieces for Orchestra. Schoenberg's concepts of per- petual variation and pointilistic melody are well served in this work. The full orchestration is treated in a chamber music fashion, thus creating the clarity necessary to its intricate counterpuntal style. More obviously virtuosic than the Stravinsky symphony, these richly-orchestrated pieces seemed more suitable to the Philadelphia sonority. Again fighting an uphill conductorial battle, the orchestra was able only to approximate the beauties of this score. Exceptional rapport between sections is necessary in order to make the broken lines sound as continums. STRAVINSKY'S homophonically-oriented "Persephone" provided marked contrast to Schoenberg's linear work. Although scored for narrator, tenor solo, mixed choir and full orchestra, the complete resources are used only at two points. Stravinsky instead chooses dif- ferent instrumental combinations for each dramatic situation, thus