Seventy -Third Year EDITED AND MANAGBD BY S-1TU DENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD tN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Were Opinions Are Ftem STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MICH., PHONE NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in at; reprints. FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM Reapportionment: Republicans Get What They Deserve A LAST GLANCE: The BU's Forgotten Obligations GENERATION: Sensitive Art Works, Promising Poetry WELL FOLKS, the Republicans in Mich- igan have painted themselves into the proverbial corner; they jerked around with the apportionment of both the Leg- islature and the congressional seats un- til the clock ran out. Now the people of Michigan are faced with the prospect of having to elect their representatives in a statewide, at-large election, and the result is certainly going to be chaos. However, this all serves the Republicans right, for reapportionment is not a new issue. It is a problem which should have been dealt with several years ago, when it first came up. AFTER THE 1960 CENSUS, when Michi- gan was allotted an extra congression- al seat, former state Sen. Carleton Mor- ris (R-Kalamazoo) deliberately stifled bi- partisan attempts to redistrict the state, bottling up the various remap bills in his judiciary committee. The reason: He wanted to gerrymander the Fourth Con- gressional District around so that he could carve out a seat for himself. Of course he couldn't even get re-elected state senator, let alone congressman, but the remap bill went begging. At that time, however, it is significant to note that Sen. Harry Litowich (R-Ben- ton Harbor) warned his Senate colleagues against delaying on their remap plans. He presented a plan of his own, and he urged the Senate to make all districts as nearly equal as possible. A coalition of state senators and incum- bent GOP congressmen blocked him, how- ever, not wanting to upset their cozy little constituencies, which for the most part have not been altered' since the turn of the century. F THE SENATE had listened to Lito- wich, the state might not be in the current mess. Yet the legislators had another chance. In the summer of 1962, during the poten- tial crisis over AFL-CIO President August Scholle's attempt to invalidate the state Senate districts, the then Speaker of the House Don R. Pears (R-Buchanan) urged the Legislature to reapportion itself along the lines set down by the State Supreme Court: that the disparity between Senate districts be no larger than two-to-one. Pears even offered a remap plan which accomplished that very thing. He was pointedly ignored. A stay of execution was granted by the United States Supreme Court. The Michigan GOP legislators drew a deep sigh of relief and scuttled reappor- tionment for another two years. TODAY, THEY'VE not been so lucky. The deadline for changing the sched- uled August primary has passed and the stiate has no districts for Congress or for the Legislature. The Republicans hold a majority of the seats in both houses in Lansing and their man occupies the governor's chair. Yet for two years, they have not done a thing about the reap- portionment problem; they have point- edly ignored it but it didn't go away. The result is their own fault, and the out- come is going to serve them right. In an at-large election, the GOP would undoubtedly lose control of the Legisla- ture and probably will find themselves with very few if any representatives in Lansing. Probably they would fail to win more than one or two congressional seats, and Gov. Romney could very possibly be dragged down in the onslaught. In fact, it is entirely conceivable that Michigan might find itself without a Re- publican officeholder above the county level next year. ONE CAN UNDERSTAND why the Re- publicans are scared; they face an- nihilation. But like the emperors of Rome, they have brought on their own destruc- tion through their pointed refusal to acknowledge their problem and remedy it while they were still in firm control of the situation. Litowich and Pears both showed the lawmakers that remap plans which fav- ored the GOP even more than the exist- ing districts do were quite possible, if only they would bet busy and do some- thing instead of being concerned only about disturbing their own cozy little nest. For the people of Michigan, the at- large election is a terrifying thought, for it will put in firm control, for two years at least (and probably much longer), a faction which has sought to dominate the state for over a decade. The Democratic Party in Michigan, centered and control- led by three counties, Wayne, Macomb and Genesee, has made no secret of its desire to dictate to the remaining counties in the state. By voting as a bloc, these three coun- ties have managed to elect the state's administrators, a majority of the supreme court, and nearly half the Legislature for over 10 years. And they have made no secret of the fact that they want to con- trol everything for the benefit of Wayne, Macomb and Genesee Counties. This they will do beginning next year, barring some unforseen miracle. IT IS, HOWEVER, the people of Michi- gan who will suffer. This rule or ruin bloc which is on the verge of total con- trol will have little concern for the needs of the other 80 counties and over half the state's population. Yet the people have only the Republi- cans to blame, from Gov. Romney right on down. For it is the Republicans who abused the trust of good government which the people gave them by not enact- ing a set of fair and proper apportion- ments. One cannot condemn the whole GOP, to be certain. Pears and Litowich and those like them (and there are a few) called for reforms and courageously spoke of the justice of the situation. "Equal representation means equal rep- resentation," Pears said at the time, "and we had better do something about it now before it is too late." AND SPEAKER PEARS was so right. It is now too late. We will witness the decline and fall of the State of Michi- gan because its lawmakers forgot that their foremost responsibility is to the people and not to preserve their own little baronies. It serves the Republicans right, but oh what a tragedy for Michigan as a whole. It prepares to enter the Dark Ages, and it will be a long time before The Voice of the Turtle is again heard in this land. -MICHAEL HARRAH By RONALD WILTON Editor, 1963-64 ONE SUMMER, while in high school, when I was spending my vacation in California, a per- son I had recently met became cognizant of my accent. When I told him I came from New York City he smiled jokingly and said, "Then you're not an American; New York City is not part of the United States." When it came time to decide'on college the next year I thought it might be a good idea to see what the United States was like. Nobody ever told me that the state of Michigan was not part of this country and so coming to this University fit in with my desire. After four years here I can see several similarities between the University and our nation. Both are large institutions within their respective classifications, both feature a diverse and expanding population and both are well known beyond their boundaries. But the saddest similarity is that both have basic principles which give them an almost infin- ite potential to better human be- ings and the conditions under which they live. And both fail to live up to their potential. This is easier to see on the na- tional level. As long as we have a two-party system our national imperfections will be flaunted for all the world to see. The Univer- sity is harder to penetrate; there is no consistent and organized "loyal opposition." ON THE SURFACE it appears that the University does its job well. Each year a higher-quality group of freshmen arrive for four years of advanced basic training preparatory to becoming respon - sible citizens. Upon completion of the program they enter the-main- stream of American life, find their niches in society and usually be- come a credit to their nation. As the advertisements in magazines and even the New York City sub- ways proclaim, "College is Amer- ica's best friend" As an American institution it is part of the University's job to train people for roles in our na- tional society. But, there is aso a world society, and people are not just Americans. They come in a potpourri of nationalities. races and ethnic groups. The one common denominator between all these groups is the fact that their members are human beings. Education is not a national en- deavor, it is a human one. It takes place all around the globe. In some places it is regarded as the most important human effort. Its subject is the whole history of man's attempt to understand himself and the universe around him. The attempt at understand- ing is still going on and it will continue to go on "s long as the race exists. A frontier is passed and we take a step forward; a war is fought and we slide a step backward. So far we have taken more steps than slides. The important point is that the process involves all of mankind. Education provides the prime im- petus to this advance. It must make clear to the student his in- volvement in an enterprise which is global rather than national in scale. EDUCATION must take the lead in breaking down the bar- riers between men. These bar- riers, both natural and man- made, have been holding up hu- man progress since history began. Their elimination is basic to the continuance of the "search for truth and knowledge" which is the foundation of this University and all others. Yet where is the senior gradu- ating from this University who would answer the question "What are you?" by saying "I am a hu- man being," instead of an Ameri- can, an economist, an engineer or a native of Ishpeming, Michigan. After all, the term appears ob- vious, since we are all in the hu- man category it is implied by our existence. It's so obvious that either we tend to forget it or we desire to give a more informative answer which emphasizes our uniqueness. These tendencies are encour- aged by the University. Academ- ically, we are all specialists, we are all being prepared for our slots in society. Even distribution re- quirements are departmentalized. For our non-academic hours we acquire titles such as quaddie, af- filiate or apartment dweller. We become part of many different groups and these differences are emphasized by the absence of any countervailing tendencies. ARE THERE such tendencies? Yes, but they have been conspicu- ous by their absence from this campus for at least the four years I've been here. Where is the feel- ing of participating with three billion other people to find some purpose in our individual lives? Where is the commitment to the acquisition of knowledge both for its own value and as a continuing series of victories against our enemy, the unknown? Why haven't we become dedi- cated to the idea that while our problems are important, so are those of the next guy: the miner "Onward! Help! I've Been Stabbed!" J " i _ -rl+e W t.JS# ,JCr-['oP^o~r - versity? Unfortunately that is not the immediate problem. If it were we would be halfway to the an- swer. The real question is how to recognize the absence of these concepts as a major problem at this University and indeed many universities across the nation. THERE ARE some rather im- portant people at the University who seem vaguely aware that the University's intellectual climate is suffering. Both Regent Eugene Power and President Harlan and bewilderment in the face of their needs. We may lose our po- sition as a strong moral force in the world because an inability to bridge the gap between the demo- cratic ideals we export and our desire to maintain our affluential and influential status quo position in a changing world. The peoples of the underde- veloped world are living on the frontiers of development. We have already passed that frontier and we have yet to reach another. This is the essence of our stagnation. T HE SUMMER ISSUE of Gen- eration is very much worth having and a pleasure to review. It is, as Tuesday's Daily remarks, highly visual, and Marianne Mei- sel', three sketches of Roethke, made during the poet's Hopwood visit in 1960. are indeed sensitive and fine. "Indelicate is he who loathes/ The aspect of his fleshly clothes,-" and these sketches to- gether with Ed Langs' portfolio on Frost, especially the portraits on pages 34-35, remind us of what our pipsqueak criticism ne- glects, that poets are men and the poetry is the man. The photo- graphs by Stuart Klipper and H. Ramsay Fowler, mostly of build- ings, strike me as skillful but rather prosaic. I like better that by Melvin Swartz on page 4, of a tree trunk taking possession of an iron fence, a sight which might have moved Frost to make a poem. The poetry in this issue, select- ed generously by Marvin Felheim, "from the first ten years of the life of Generation," suggests what I think there is much evidence to confirm, that the future of poetry in this country is full of promise, though poets like Roethke and Frost are laid to rest. The work of young poets already tried and true, it requires no comment here. My favorite perhaps is - the Roethke-like "At the Ghostwrit- er's Death" by X. J. Kennedy. IT IS IN turning to the prose in the issue that the reviewer must roll up his sleeves. My nameless predecessor in the Daily finds the three stories "well-crafted," but I am not so sure. Joel Greenberg's "lean prose piece," he finds, "ap- proaches lyricism." Perhaps. But if so it does not attain it. It seems to me hurried rather than lean. The uneven approaches to lyricism range from uncouth ("What really pissed him off was the fact that he was wet and cold") to evasive ("In three seconds she had a look on her face that convinced him that they had been chatting all night long") to biblical ("She gave him tea with half an orange and it was good"). "ThesWay," by Douglas C. Sprigg, has undoubted power but strikes me as also amateurish. It gives the impression of being a direct slice of Ann Arbor life. It is unselective and yet a little con- trived, and it doesn't cohere very well, as if it were autobiography not quite made into narrative. But as raw material, in both senses, it is well worth the reading, es- pecially for its biting depiction of untrained salacious student am- bulance drivers. Only Martha MacNeal's "Score for Female Voice" is truly well crafted. A tour de force, it tells a trite and sordid .story from such a novel and difficult point of view as to transform it into a discon- certing song of joy in celebration of both love and hate, life and murder. It is indeed lyrical. THERE REMAINS for consid eration Sophia Steriades' "har' hitting essay in rebuttal of Fritl jof Bergmann." It is rather In> penetrable and not really self- contained, requiring reference to Mr. Bergmann's "Literature and the Justification of Values" in the spring issue and following his or- ganization instead of a structure of its own. Clearly, Miss Steriades has the odds against her, and I fear that many readers will not take thertrouble to hear her out and to re-read Mr. Bergmann. I have taken the trouble and am inclined to award her the palm. Mr. Bergmann's essay struck me at the time as a little derivative and superficial. Certainly it does not represent his best thought. But if he begins to add these qualities to his iconoclasm and popularity with undergraduates, he falls into some danger of becom-- ing another Ayn Rand. Surely if we want immediacy, a better perception of the con- crete, of details and particulars, we ought not to go to Camus or any other literature but to life itself. If we want to experience an eagle we should not read Tennyson's poem ('He clasps the crag with crooked hands;/ Close to the sun in lonely lands . .")but get an eagle. Then we shall have our hands full of details and particu- lars, but what shall we discover about the justification of values? Miss Steriades begins with some quibbles 'but on pages 19-20 strikes home and justifies her prim parting blow: "And that is why Good Thought wears a tight little bonnet, so she won't lose her head." -Edmund Creeth Professor of English .11 1 b r Hatcher have brought up the sub- ject in conversations with Daily staff members in the past two months. This does not mean that the problem is of campus-wide concern; it merely means that awareness of it is no longer the monopoly of The Daily editorial pages and a small number of stu- dents and faculty. I am rather pessimistic about the future acceptance of these concepts as integral parts of the University educational experience. The reason, of course, is that there are too many other little problems concerning each of us in our roles as specialists. Yet if the overall problem were recognized, most of the smaller ones would suddenly fall into perspective. It's the old issue of not seeing the for- est for the trees-as the Univer- sity grows more trees will be planted and come into view. There is no denying that the trees can be extremely interest- ing. I've covered many of them in four years on The Daily. There is much personal satisfaction and a sense of helping to break down -barriers by serving as a cog in an information-supplying mechanism for the campus. I do not think I would have gotten this satisfac- tion had I not been on The Daily or at least in student activities. Out of the more than thirty courses I'vehtaken, I can only think of five which transcended, the bounds of specialization end made me feel a relationship with other people. * * * I SHOULD be completely satis- fied with the memory of experi- ences and moments shared with other people and let it go at that. But it hurts to know that there could be so much more. The Uni- versity has the potential to make a four-year stay an intensely beautiful experience. The resources available for stimulating creativity, thought and constructive, satisfying work are among the best available in this country and the world. The students are intelligent; the fac- ulty are competent in their fields and presumably aware of how ex- citing education can be. In other words, the input is there. But the output that comes out of the interaction between faculty and students at the Uni- versity is generally of a lower quality. Concern for the best pos- sible job and the amount of material comfort to be gained seem to be the chief motivating factors acting on a student once he leaves the University. There are exceptions of course, but I think the graduating seniors who would say "human being" are few and far between. THIS IS not completely the University's fault. A large part of the blame must rest with society. Our generation lacks much of the idealism and excitement of living which is the birthright of students in different parts of the world. Our prosperous, basically status- quo society does not welcome new ideas and intellectual inquisitive- ness on the part of its young peo- ple. It has tried, and is succeed- ing in, buying them off with ma- terial comforts. We have become preoccupied with a sexual revolution whereas other students are concerning We can escape by becoming part- ners in their efforts. But to do this we have to understand what they mean when they say free- dom, liberty, human dignity, cap- italism and socialism. These are the terms we hear used by our professors and the people over- seas, yet the two accept different definitions. This to me is the main problem facing both our nation and our University. We must learn to be- long in a world where the ma- jority of the inhabitants desire change and we do not. We must realize that the human race is not just an abstract thing but a liv- ing, breathing, growing entity; and we are an integral part of it and accepted by it. We must learn the meanings of terms like broth- erhood and human dignity; terms we take for granted much too often. We at the University must take these ideals to heart. We have the potential to do it, but the leader- ship and motivation is lacking. Yet we, students now, will inherit this country tomorrow. We have the right, and indeed the obliga- tion, to raise our voices so that our world will be as near to what we want it to be as possible. THIS OBLIGATION to speak out is perhaps the most important insight I have gained from my ex- perience at the University. It has been given to a few others, but only a few. Yet it is to the benefit of the nation and the University that this obligation be fostered. The University, by virtue of its smaller size and inertia can be the first to promote it. If and when it does, The Daily, to paraphrase a complaining answer to a recent questionnaire we sent out, will "stop knocking the University and applaud it for a change.' 'POINT OF ORDER' A Great Portrayal of Six Significant Weeks At the Campus Theatre THE CAMPUS Theatre present- ed last night an advance show- ing of "Point of Order," a feature length documentary dealing with the Army-McCarthy hearings. "Point of Order" is a most compelling and brilliant film. It is concocted from video tapes and news films of the trial itself and selections are pieced together in a chronologically correct, if some- what incomplete order. Unlike such abortions as the HUAC sponsored "Operation Abolition," the film does not reassemble time sequences, nor is there a distorted narrative inflicted on the sound- track. After a brief introduction of purpose and characters, the film rolled entirely on actual events. AS THERE was with the events themselves, there will be contro- versy regarding the selection and deletion of material encountered The End of a Tradition EDITOR'S NOTE, The following editorial was written or Oakland University's studentanews- paper, the Oakland Observer. Oakland Chancellor Durward B. Varner fired its writer, Wolf Metzger, from his post as Observer editor for writing this editorial and ansaccompanying news story. Varner also 4estroyed all copies of the issue in which they were to appear. The editorial discusses an earlier threat nade by Varner to suspend the editor from school if the Observer published the results of a recent survey of coeds' sexual prac- CHANCELLOR VARNER'S threat to suspend Observer Editor Wolf Metzger from the University comes as a first step to delineate the freedom and power of Oakland University's student newspaper. 'In the past five years, the Observer has continuously been in financial diffi- culty, received support from the adminis- tration, and, physically, always operated under severe limitations. But never has its editorial freedom, so much in line with avowed objectives of tho Tnivari, r a rn ickin..civyihir .', vi was a privilege never to be touched. It was, essentially, what kept the paper alive. Now, discussion of the most universal of all subjects seems to end, for Oakland, a tradition almost as universal. Indica- tions are that soon somebody, either the chancellor himself or a trustworthy representative of the administration's in- terests, will sit down and "define" the Observer's rights and freedoms. AS TO THE OBSERVER, there is no in- tention to refer to the First Amend- ment to the Constitution. The distribution of power in this matter is clearly recog- nized. But it is a regrettable mistake to link the future of Metzger personally with the actions he took as editor of the Ob- server. To associate Metzger's status as 'SEVENTH SEAL': A liegorical Nature "THE SEVENTH SEAL," playing Saturday and Sunday at Architec- ture Aud., underscores the defects of Bergman's most recent film, "The Silence." In the latter, a welter of symbols and a succession of needlessly sensational scenes stand out in high, relief.. They exist for their own sake. In "The Seventh Seal," Bergman did not rely on the easy solutions of symbolism and sensationalism. In this modern morality play, he erected a superstructure of allegory. But, unlike the devices of "The Silence," the allegory is unobtrusively realized in concrete episodes and characters, which it enriches and binds together. * * * THE TITLE instantly establishes the allegorical nature of the film. Inu the "Book of Revelation," quoted at the opening and closing of the film, the breaking of the seventh seal heralds the Day of Judg- ment. The whole film, then, moves along a parallel. The plague ravish- ing Sweden furnishes a metaphor for the wrath of God ravishing the earth. The search of the Swedish knight for God is the search of every man. The traveling actor and his wife, with their baby, untouched by the corruption around them, are called Joseph and Mary. A corporeal Death moves through the film as a constant reminder of the double significance of the events. Bergman uses allegory skillfully. He benefits from the added signi- cance which the allegory gives the film without sacrificing to it the verisimilitude of his characters. By toning down the abstract and di- dactic elements of the Biblical parallel, Bergman achieves a perfect fusion between the realistic and allegorical dimensions of the film. THE EVENTS are threaded upon the wanderings of two men just returned from the Crusades: an idealistic knight and his cynical squire. within the film. Without Judg- ing this it still can be assessed as a film, and in this regards let it be said that "Point of Order" is a stimulating, exciting theatrical experience. "Point of Order" is a . serious attempt to capture' the mood and progression of a six week period that highly influenced American politics. The events are charged with emotion and prejudice. The political temper of a nation, the subtle machinations, of the power, of public opinion and those who control it, the deteriation of a man's character - all this was viewed by the entire American public. *' * *~ "POINT OF ORDER" captures the essence ofhthose significent six weeks of hearings and pre- sents it powerfully in two hours. It seems a shame that the tone of the audience could not have matched that of the film. Me- Carthy's apt charge that Welch was turning the hearings into a circus can be applied to the aud- ience that perverts the emotional impact of a movie by laughing at what it cannot understand or what embarrasses it. The film also was unfortunately preceded by an insufferable short. It should be shown alone, without distracting additions. -Hugh Holland 'ADVANCE': In What Sense?' At the State Theatre AKE THE title to heart, ye who enter the State Theatre and "Advance to the Rear." Billed as a comedy, the film deals with a company of misfits during the Civil War. Those most out of place, however, will be the patrons who came expecting a laugh for this flick falters and finally fails. "Advance to the Rear" is not only poorly directed with the worst sets (next to that definitive picture "Kissin' Cousins") of any recent Hollywood comedy, but the acting is uniformly strocious. Glenn Ford should stick to TV advertisements for his comedy, i 1-