Seventy-Second Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSrY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY Or BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opnions 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 all reprints. "--And This Is Our Own Little Tracking Operations Room"' LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: 'Grave Misconceptions' On UN University AY, FEBRUARY 28, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAIL HARRAH Out-of-State Students: Whom Do They Hurt? VARIOUS MEMBEI S of the University com- munity have damned legislators for prob- ng the aspect of out-of-state students and even for attempting to limit their numbers at Mich- .gan's state-supported colleges and universities. But at last, with the release of the Legis- ative Audit Commission Report, it becomes apparent that the lawmakers may have some basis for their opposition. ESSENTIALLY the problem is this: Little Johnny Jones, son of a constituent of Rep. Smith, is rejected by the University, though he was a 'C' student in high school. The Joneses :omplain to Rep. Smith' that Johnny wasn't' accepted and demand an explanation. Rep. Smith reports that the University re- eives more' applications than it has places or. Consequently, many applicants must be ejected. However, the Joneses are friends of the 3rowns, who live in New York. The Browns eport that their little Susie was accepted at he University. Susie is an all 'A' student. The Joneses are incensed. Here they are, >aying taxes to support the University, with he threat of a staggering 31/2 per cent in- .ome tax hanging over their heads, and little ohnny can't even get in to benefit from all he money. Yet little Susie, whose parents Lon't pay a cent in taxes to Michigan's coffers, ets in. The Joneses go screaming to Rep. Smith, rho, to get them off his neck, starts an nvestigation. He finds' that fully one-third of 11 the students at the University are not rom Michigan. 7500 people living off the tax- ayers benevolence, as it were. Anxious to keep the support of the Joneses, n order to get re-elected, Rep. Smith carries us complaint to the floor of the House, and here the controversy rages for another year, UT THERE'S MORE to it than that. When the time comes to decide how much money appropriate for the University each year, ilversity officials plead for more money. om the lawmakers' point of view, one-third of is money would go toward the education out-of-state students. This one-third comes >m the pockets of Michigan taxpayers and es to the benefit of someone who couldn't re less about Michigan. To the lawmaker, ring to make ends meet, this doesn't ring ae. So Rep. Smith inquires: "Do these out-of- te students pay for themselves?" And to ; layman's ear, all he gets is double-talk: ,ome do; some don't." So he takes it for anted that they don't. rhen he compares some statistics: The Uni- rsity has 33 per cent out-of-state students, ereas most of the other state-supported pools are below 10 per cent. O REP. SMITH suggests that out-of-state tuitions be raised to the point where all t-of-state students pay for themselves. The iools look aghast, not wishing to violate the nciple of low-cost, high-quality education., [hen Rep. Smith asks the, reasons for hav- out-of -state students. Ie is told that they lake for a cosmopolitan atmosphere; they se the general academic level." And again,, all Greek to him. Basically this is a communications problem. ~ENGECops and. REVENGEIS SWEET. And students .now * have the opportunity to get back at those n Arbor policemen who seem to spend most their time giving out jaywalking tickets to hed students. t all began in the fall' of 1960 when Jona- n Rose, '64, received a $1 jaywalking ticket. ien he took a look at it, he soon found it it offered no clear opportunity to plead The University has failed to clarify to the public and the lawmakers just why one-third out-of-state students (or any other percentage, for that matter) is good for the' University. And too the Legislature has failed to com- municate to the University just why it should make any difference anyway. BUT PERHAPS the matter will soon be clari- fied. According to Rep. Allison Green, the Legislative Audit Commission is currently in- vestigating the percentage of out-of-state stu- dents at other prominent state universities around the country. However the commission must be aware of just what constitutes an out-of-state student. The University is quite strict about it. (Some schools such as MSU, are not.) According to the present constitution, no one gains or loses residence while a student or in the army. The Unixersity complies strictly with that axiom, and so should the commission wlen they evaluate the enrollments at other schools. The commission should also determine just how many Michigan residents are being denied entrance into Michigan state-supported schools. This fact has never been determined. If, indeed, qualified resident applicants are being turned away, then some corrective action is clearly in order. But if all residents are being absorbed, or if there is room for them somewhere in' the system, then the problem is not nearly so crucial. It should also be duly noted that out-of-state students do pay three times as much for the same amount of education as a resident. In a state that is as sorely strapped for funds as Michigan, everyone should take a long look before they scuttle some $500 per student for every out-of-stater they ?don't take, BUT THE CONTROVERSY has gone far enough. A simple disagreement has been thoroughly maligned and misinterpreted until the real issues have been lost. It should be clear that if all Michigan's students are being absorbed satisfactorily and if out-of-state students are paying a satisfactory sum for their keep, then the problem is resolved. But some of the responsibility rests with the schools themselves. Just because Johnny doesn't get into the University doesn't justify his protest to Rep. Smith unless he can't get into any of the rest of Michigan's schools either. Practically speaking, the various schools have an obligation to pass their rejected applications around to others in the system. Therefore, when Johnny is rejected by the University, his ap- plication should automatically be forwarded to MSU. Whether or not he went there, should he be accepted, would be his own choice. Legislatures have argued that some 11,000 more students come into Michigan's schools than go to other states from Michigan. How- ever if all Michigan students are satisfactorily educated somewhere along the line, this influx is a compliment to the quality of our schools and should not be discouraged. As IT STANDS NOW, however, Lansing and Ann Arbor are engaged in what may be a needless dispute, and it is to the credit of Rep. Green and the audit commission that they are trying to do something about it. -MICHAEL HARRAH Jaywalkers innocent. Neither did tickets for any other minor violations. Angry, he hired an attorney and prepared for a court fight. His attorney was going to demand that the ticket be dropped because a citizen receiving one was not informed of his constitutional right to plead innocent and was thus being deprived of his property without due process of law. City officials were upset, and last November, finally settled it by chang- ing the tickets by adding a line informing the recipient that he could plead innocent. In re- turn, Rose pleaded guilty and paid his original fine. EVERYBODY immediately involved was satis- fied. Rose can say that justice was done because the tickets now tell people about their rights. And the city can rest easy since there is no ruling on the constitutionality of the old tickets and hence there is no need to refund all the money taken in through these tickets over the last few years. But there is another justice to be served.- It's time that students objected to the idiocy of jaywalking (tickets. Michigan law permits crossing against 'a light if traffic is clear. Why should students get tickets at 10 p.m. when crossing a perfectly deserted street? Certainly the police have more important functions than, to stand for an hour at a time handing out jaywalking tickets. One student has protested an obvious legal injustice, and won. Among other things, he has won for others the clear possibility to plead innocent to jaywalking charges. Now, perhaps, by bringing protests and pressures to bear "nv +h a 'nnl4nn na +ha nnm.+c, ciATn+ 'nnv hP To the Editor: IN HER EDITORIAL on the UN University, Miss Pash very per- ceptively indicated major problems the University would have to sur- mount, in its inception. Unfortun- ately, Miss Pash came to the seminar on the UN University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences with several grave and uninformed mis- conceptions. First of all, the seminars are designed to raise questions and indicate areas requiring further study. At each seminar there are eminent faculty members serv- ing as "resource persons" who, with graduate and undergraduate. students, have presented evidence to present and counter disagree- ments on various points. It is the purpose of the discussions to raise the very .issues Miss Pash did, study them, and arrive at pos- sible solutions. The United Nations, not ACWR, will decide whether a United Na- tions University is feasible. The third draft report, "A United Na- tions University," outlines the blueprint of a reality that could come to exist: it does not designate what the structure and content of the University must be, but suggests directions of content and curriculum in accord with the objectives of the University.. After faculty and student ideas and papers have been coordinated and refined, after national and international conferences, after there is international support and demand for a United Nations Uni- versity, then these ideas will be presented to the United Nations. At that time, their experts-and not the ,myopic Miss Pash-will decide whether the establishment of a United Nations University is feasible and desirable. -Joan Schloessinger, '63 Feasible.. To the Editor: A UNITED NATIONS University ,s.feasible .if enough good people go, to work on it. Miss Pash in The Daily pointed out some of the difficulties in trans- cending an ethnocentric educa- tion. Should we therefore be con- tent' with one? How "feasible is that? The troubles that the need for research on world peace, con-. flict control and economic devel- opment and for a universally minded youth is pressing. Why not a world university? Already the campus group work- ing on a UN University has pro- duced a document, available on request, which goes into the prac- tical, problems. The work is re- ceiving support from students, faculty and public officials. in- cluding Chester Bowles. The As- sociation for Commitment to World Responsibility invites the reader to examine the detailed work already accomplished by students and faculty for the UN University .v -Bill Livant Strauss House .. To the Editor: THE IMPORTANT issue in the trial brought by the East Quad- rangle Council against the Strauss House government was whether 'U' AUTO POLICY: Morals, Airplanes and Parking Lots By ROBERT WAZEKA Daily Staff Writer WHEN the remarkable new Horseless Carriage first ap- peared on Ann Arbor streets early in the century, it caused no stir among engineers of University policy. But soon students began driving cars, and eventually the University was compelled to make a state- ment of opinion. In October of 1922, President M. S. Burton wrote parents: "... your son or daughter would be much better off without the use of an automobile in Ann Arbor. The possession of cars by stu- dents too often leads to a serious waste of time, to the growth of many forms of extravagance, and to an increase in practices which . .. involve a serious moral risk." Automobiles were still new and mysterious in those times. People hadn't yet learned to adjust their lives to include the presence of the automobile, and'superstition still prevented many people from driving. * * * IN 1923, The Michigan Daily pointed out one of the serious impacts of cars: more and more, students were coming to prefer automobile riding to canoeing. Said the Michigan Alumnus: ".It cannot be denied that, some students depend upon their cars to an absurd extent, but it is still true that there has been no visible decreasehin the amount of walking for walking's sake." Auto accidents, not yet an everyday phenomenon, were a serious concern. The death of five University students in cars within a two-year period shook the Regents, impelling them to order the registration of automobiles and to restrict the use of cars to juniors and seniors who were scholastically eligible. MEANWHILE, the car question had become big on campuses across the nation. Administrators at Princeton and Illinois imposed complete automobile bans in spite of violent student objections. The Daily Princetonian labeled the University officials as "sedentary epicureans" and the entire Stu- dent Council resigned. On June 17, 1927, the Michigan Regents took action. No student could drive a car while in resi- dence of the University. Only a few exceptions could be made by the Dean of Students, in cases of extreme necessity. The students protested. While the Student Council resolved and debators orated, other students roller skated in front of the Ad- ministration building. The Daily and the Inter-Fraternity Council launched a joint attack on the ruling. Other students sought legal loopholes to escape the ban while State Attorney General W. W. Porter assured everyone that the ban was constitutional. The Dean's office issued a statement which said that the employment' of chauffeurs by students was illegal. One student brought an airplane to campus and the University ex- tended its ban to include air- planes as well as automobiles. i the residents of a house, repre- senting the Quadrangle Council's irresponsible spending on their Snowflake Ball, have the right to boycott that dance by privately buying their own refreshments to enhance the open-open house held that same evening. In deciding that the Strauss House government was guilty, the East Quadrangle Judiciary un- animously conceded that the de- fendant was "uninvolved"-in the alleged illegality, but then assert- ed that this fact along with the question of whether the party was organized or unorganized, open or closed to non-residents was "ir- relevant." Thus, it must be that the Quad- rangle Council's power to harass, fine and punish those who protest its policies is all but unlimited- for how else can one interpret a ruling that punishes a disgusted house government for not sus- pending its disgruntled residents' right to privately spend the even- ing in their own house enjoying their own simple and inexpensive refreshments? --John Roza,'64 Sinking Ship ... , To the Editor: S POINTED OUT by David Marcus last week, the Wash- ington peace marchers have had no discernible effect on the na- tion's policy. We should examine the reasons for this failure. One reason is in their leader- ship. The same individuals have been involved in peace demon- strations for years and have be- come inflexible. After all, if two groups can not come to agreement, the leaders of each must share the responsibility for the deadlock. The peace marchers need younger, more flexible leadership. A second, more important, cause of failure lies in their slo- gans. When one action grou , would confront an administrator with "Better Dead Than Red" he would reply "Better Brave Than Slave." Obviously an impasse was reached. People were saying dif- ferent things. To break the impass we should try to get both sides to say the same thing. If we can find a dramatic new slogan that both sides can use we will have taken the all important first step! I have discovered such a slogan: "Better Pink Than Sink'. . . It is not as far to the left as "Better Red Than Dead." (It would make agreement easier if both sides repeated the slogan in Esperanto, the universal language, but for the benefit of those who do not speak Esperanto, I have trans- lated the slogan into English-one step forward at a time.) In the future when a peace marcher confronts an administra- tor, waves a sign, and proclaims "Better Pink Than Sink," the administrator will smile cheer- fully and say, "Yes, Better Pink Than Sink'" and continue with his work. It is easy to see how this im- portant step forward can lead to a worable solution to the' whole range of problems confronting our nation and the world. -Richard PhiMps STUDENT RESENTMENT per- sisted, but decreased in intensity. With the appointment of Walter B. Rea in the early 1930's as assistant Dean of Men in charge of automobile registration, a grad- ual liberalization of the auto reg- ulations began. The number of special driving permits for events such as J-Fop and Homecoming increased. Fin- ally, in 1931, students over the age of 28 were exempted from the ban. The age limit was reduced to 26 the next year. * * THE NEXT 20 years brought no major changes in the regulations. The Daily fought doggedly, but sporadically for a change. Once Daily editors, who had followed the police until late at night 'to investigate the quality of traffic enforcement, were jailed until the incident was explained. Parking soon emerged as a major problem. The' University opened two new parking lots in 1947 and drew up plans for the future, but , lots were already scarce and new parking facilities couldn't be built fast enough. In the early Fifties police be- gan hauling illegally parked cars into the street and increasing the number of parking tickets. * * * ON SEPT .23,' 1952, with park- ing still a prime concern for Ui- versity officials, the Office of Stu- dent Affairs made a study of com- plete removal of the ban. A stu- dent vote on Nov. 20 of the same year showed 2,702 students favor- ing complete removal of The ban, 2,840 favoring modification, and 1,782 preferring the status quo. Student pressures increased when Illinois and Michigan State removed their bans in 1953 and 1954 respectively, leaving Michi- gan as the only Big Ten school to have an auto ban. On Nov. 11, 1955, the Student Legislature proposed a plan which would lower tle age limit to 21. The University voted the plan into effect for 'Sept. 1, 1956, but also increased the registration fee, covering the cost of. parking fa- cilities, to $7. AUTOMOBILE regulations were again changed on Sept. 1 of last year to allow seniors, as well as those 21 or over, to have full driv- ing privileges. Thus the University's auto policy has shown a considerable amount of flexibility. It has demonstrated a slow, but realistic appraisal of a rapidly-expanding industrial so- ciety, an unusual thoroughness and completeness, and nearly al- ways, a genuine consideration for. student opinion. TOMORROW- Why Auto Regulations? L ippmann, CONSISTENCY, to be sure, has not been (Walter Lippmann's) most characteristic quality. He has been known to oscilate between extremes of optimism and pessi- mism after trips to Europe. TODAY AND TOMORROW: Castro and Castroism L E r r ' 1 1 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Socialist Strike HE RECENT strike in Britain points up two of the many inherent weaknesses of ialism. lien there's a management-labor dispute ler socialism, the conflict is one of govern- nt vs. citizen. There is inherent danger in zens striking against their government in y form, although the British strikes were ; as serious as those in France, for example. b there is at least a psychological basis for, tlier trouble. The government is not on the e of the laborer; it is an opponent as much it is a representative embodiment of the ple and their ideas. HE SECOND weakness is much more con- crete. As labor affairs now operate in the ited States, two giants - business and un- s - are waging an economic battle. If, ngs get so bad that a settlement seems possible, or the economic security of the rkers and the country as a whole is threat- d, then the government can step in as a ztral conciliator. -'7..A...- The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity i of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsibility. Notices should be sent in , TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3564 Administration Building before 2 p.m., two days p.receding publication. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 General Notices Hopwood Awards: Petitions to the Hopwood Committee must be in the Hopwood Room (1006 Angel Hall) by Thursday, March 1. Awards Under The Fulbright-Hays Act for University Lecturing and Ad- vanced Research have been announced, for 1963-64 in Australia, New Zea- land, the countries of South and South- east Asia, and Latin America. Those applying must be U.S. Citizens; for lecturing must have at least one year of college or university teachinig ex- perience; and for research a doctoral degree at the time of application, or recognized professional standing, Appli- cation forms may be obtained from the CONFERENCE BOARD OF ASSOCI- ATED RESEARCH COUNCILS, Commit- tee on International Exchange of Per- sons, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington 25, D.C. Deadline for filing an application for1 these countries is April 15, 1962. Further information may be obtained at the Fellowship Office, Room 110, Graduate School, Events Wednesday Challenge seminar, Feb. 28, "The Uni- versity as a Community," Prof. Max Wingo, School of Education, 7:30, Hon- ors Lounge. UGLI. Sociology Colloquium: vernon Dibble, Dept. of Sociology, University of Chi- cago, will speak on "Four Types of In- ference from Documents to Events," Wed., Feb. 28, from 4:15-5:30 p.m. in Auditorium "C" of Angell Hall. Botanical Seminar: Dr. Eric Hulten, Botanical Dept., Naturhistoriska Riks- museet, Stockholm, will speak on, "The Distribution of Circumpolar Plants," Wed., Feb. 28, at 4:15 p.m. in Rm. 1139, Natural Science Bldg. Tea served at 4 p.m. Events Thursday Doctoral Recital: Alexander Boggs Ryan, organist, will present a degree; recital on Thursday, March1, 8:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium. Open to the public. Applied Mathematics Seminar: Prof. Robert Ritt will speak on "Evolution of an Inhomogeneous Plasma and As- sociated High Frequency Electro-mag- netic Radiation" Thurs., March 1, at 4 p.m. in Rm. 246 WestEngineering. Refreshments will be served in Rm. 274 West Engineering at 3:30 p.m. Placement PLACEMENT INTERVIEW, Bureau of Appointments - Seniors and graduate students, please call Ext. 3544 for inter- view appointments with the following: WED., FEB. 28-TODAY HotelCorp. of America, Boston, Mass. MEN graduating in Gen'1 Liberal Arts or Bus. Admin. for Mgmt. Training, Sales Trng., Promotion & Finance in expanding organization, Various loca- tidns at major luxury hotels through- out U.S., primarily on Eastern Sea- board. By WALTER LIPPMANN THE CASTRO PROBLEM is how' to deal with a hostile regime without using military' force to overthrow it. Castro has no avow- ed and quite certainly no genuine sympathizers and supporters among the governments of the American republics. But there has been an /important division of view as to what it is . wise and expedient to do about him. The division, as we have learned, is between the republics which lie on the shores of the Carrib- bean facing Cuba and, with the rath'er special exception of Mex- ico, the big countries of South America which are a long way by sea or land from the troubled Carribbean. * * * I WOULD VENTURE a guess that this geography explains the theoretical differences between the so-called soft and hard positions. The Caribbean countries, which have' taken the hard line, are physically within reach of Cuba. The distances by sea and air are fairly. short, and it is rather easy for Castro's revolutionists to in- filtrate countries around the Caribbean, to do gun-running to local rebel bands among them.' But the big South American countries, which are separated from Cuba in the Caribbean by the Andes Mountains, the jungles, and the great hump of Brazil, are not directly threatened by armed intervention. For them the danger with the legend of Castroism, the legend ,that Castro is the friend of the poor. * * * THE "SOFT" GROUP of gov- ernments have acted as they hiave acted not because they want to help Castro, and not because they are afraid, to anger him, but be- cause they know that legends are not destroyed by strong adjectives. The legend would not be dissolved by breaking diplomatic relations and driving Castro entirely into the underground. The legend would not be destroyed by eco- nomic embargoes especially since Cuba has no important trade with Latin America. WHAT WE really needed, and perhaps have gotten, from the Punte del ,Este conference, is that a preponderant majority of our American neighbors state clearly that Castro and Castroism are hostile to the inter-American sys- tem. When that. is achieved, the practical question of what to do about Castro is not a matter of words or of sanctions. It is a matter of coordinated and co- operative counter-espionage in this' hemisphere. That must be largely a secret operation in order to identify and frustrate subver- sive agents. It cannot be done with a brass band and a television camera but only by close working arrangements among the govern- ments. Effective counter-espionage can deal with Castro's interventions in I