Seventy-Second Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MICH. " Phone NO 2-3241 Truth WiII revaG" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. CHURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: HARRY PERLSTADT ----- Michigan Loyalty Oaths Ask Intellectual Disloyalty . . - , -lY { ef-A - r Imo, \- ยข _ .' ti - 1,..'. ,YY:- ' 4 NIN ETY-FOUR out of 110 State Repre- sentatives voted Tuesday to require all employes paid partially or wholly out of state funds to sign an oath of loyalty to the con- stitutions of Michigan and the United States. They were led by Rep. Lester J. Allen of Ithaca whose constituents, he says, have been complaining th.t instructors in state univer- sities have been teaching their children "capi- talism exploits the masses and socialism is better." ALLEN IS NOT a Fascist, nor is he a sinister conspirator engaged in a plot to rob in- structors of academic freedom, nor is he stupid. He Is a man who believes devoutly in the American way, in the virtues of capitalism and the spirit of nationalism; and he has no- thing but the best interests of the country at heart. He has no objections to the notion that. "socialism and communism are all right in theory" but he believes instructors should stress the idea that both; Socialism and Com- . munism have proved impracticable and that the American free enterprise system has re- sulted in the highest living standard to be found in the world. On this premise, Allen and his followers would administer a loyalty oath to all state employes with the understanding that those who are loyal will naturally present the op- posing political and economic systems in this light and leave students in no doubt as to which is "best." LOYALTY OATHS are not new in fact or issue. University professors have been signing them, since 1934 and the arguments against them have not changed much since that time. In brief, there are three objections to the oath: 1) It is ineffective since real subversives would not hesitate to take it. 2) It insults loyal faculty members who resent having their integrity attacked and limits freedom of speech. 3) "Loyalty," like "virtue" is almost impossible to define in generally satisfactory terms. The first and third issues are closely in- terrelated. Allen says he knows Communists would not hesitate to sign an oati of al- legiance and then violate it. He contends it is therefore all the more advantageous to have an oath which may be used as grounds for accusing then who prove disloyal of perjury. But what after all does "loyalty" mean? Can a professor not say "Isweartodefendpro- tectandupholdtheconstitutionoftheUnitedStates andoftheStateof Michigan" and then argue that the country needs socialized medicine and federal financing of education? Apparently Allen does not think so. The professor may say that Socialism in theory is far better than Capitalism, but must conclude that Socialism cannot work and that while there may be flaws in the American system, it works better than any other ever could. IF THIS IS disloyalty and if, as such, it constitutes grounds for perjury, then Allen has very effectively nullified the first aimend- ment to the constitution. He has equally effectively nullified 'the con- cept of a university which, as Prof. Peek of the political science department pointed out, is "to encourage a wide range of opinion in search of the truth.", A university professor who upholds ideals in which he does not believe is not merely saving his academic neck. He is being "dis- loyal" to himself, his institution and the stu- dents whose education has been entrusted to him. In accepting a position as university instructor, a conscientious man automatically takes an unwritten "oath" of loyalty to an ideal which transcends any obligations to con- stitutions, state legislatures or even his country. He takes an oath of allegiance to truth and to the capabilities of the human mind. If it is difficult for outsiders to prove he has per- jured himself after taking this oath, that is all the more reason for him to strive to be loyal to it. WHEN A MAN, particularly a university in- structor, signs an oath against his con- science, he must expect that men like Rep. Allen will take him at his word. Thus he is helping augment an already growing American tendency to . accept formal statements and symbols as substitutes for the intentions and feelings they represent. To be loyal is to say one is loyal, just as to love is to say one loves-nothing more is demanded or even, accepted. The forced retreat into a shell of apparent conformity is a denial of the sanctity of the human intellect. If the instructor is to defend protect and uphold anything, it is this in- tellect he must defend to the death, and he must defend it against precisely such good, well-meaning men as Lester J. Allen. This is the only loyalty he owes. -JUDITH OPPENHEIM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Four New Examples Of University Secrecy To the Editor: AFTER SUNDAY'S Challenge panel discussion on the "Uni- versity as a Community" one stu- dent asked what could be done, immediately and by every com- ponent of the University, to bring a community into existence. At that time I answered generally, that making public the concerns and processes that were important to the life of the whole University would be a step well taken by the faculty and the administra- tion. Mr. Storch's editorial makes the same point specific to the Resi- dence Halls Board of Governors' gagging of Moch's final report. .It is important, though, to realize that this is not an isolated in- stance of secrecy and unilateral action on the part of the decision- making authorities of the Univer- sity. In the last weeks a number of examples have occurred, and I would like to enumerate them. 1) The promotion of Dean Roger Heyns to Vice-President for Academic Affairs, and the creation of an Executive Vice-Presidency for Mr. Niehuss were surprises to most of the student body. Insofar as these men and positions are respected, admired and signifi- cant in our lives, to that extent it is detrimental to the community that it was not even aware of the importance of things happening beforehand. The decision-makers not only were not chosen by those, governed, it was not even known they were about to be chosen. 2) The Faculty-Student Rela- tions Committee of the Faculty Senate was consulted about its opinions of the OSA Study. A hearing was held at which Vice- President Lewis was present. The campus as a whole was not even aware of the existence, no less the content, of this meeting. 3) There are rumors that a com- mittee composed of three Re- gents and three officers of East Quadrangle are working out a detailed plan for coeducational dormitories. If this is true it ought to be made public; the people affected, I'm sure, have relevant information and opinion to contribute. If it is not true, the Regents should make clear exactly what is under considera- tion so that rumor and counter- rumor do not explode into myth- vicious or otherwise.: 4) Obviously, someone is under consideration for the eventual re- placement of Vice-President Heyns as Dean of the 'Literary College. Thousands of students and nun- dreds of faculty members form a body of men and women with a vital stake in that selection. Why is there such secrecy? These points are just examples; so .much of what goes on does not even come this far to the surface. If community is charac- terized by "lucid intercommunica- tion," and by the existeice of rec- ognized common problems, and the possibility of solutions made in concert with others, the extreme secrecy now characterizing Uni- versity operations is an aspect of atomizing, disintegrating ele- ments which work counter to the ideals of a "community of schol- ars." -Robert Ross '63 Obnoxious... To the Editor: THE LITERARY COLLEGE'S concept of a liberal education has resulted in an unfair and obnoxious system of distribution requirements. We came to college to obtain degrees in the sciences, not to learn more about social studies, composition and the like. Although we realize that these are important in order to be fully e~ducated, we feel that we already have an adequate background from college preparatory high school courses. Before we are de- nounced as illiterates, let us state that we both like humanities and ,social studies, but prefer to study them on ourown. We spend approximately half the total credit hours needed to graduate, in fields unrelated to our own. We believe we are learning little to compensate for the two years' time and the tidy sum all this is costing. Then, too, science majors must spend many hours, in labs for which they receive little or no credit. We cannot comprehend why a. separate system, somewhat similar to the Engineering College, can- not be established in which science majors would be exempt from dis- tribution reguirements unneces- sary to their fields of endeavor and instead receive more credit for the labs. The total number of hours needed for concentration may be raised in order to rom- pensate for the loss of the hours that would have been spent in distribution courses, -Carl Miller, '64 -Ralph Bloom, '64 Newspapers, I THINK the newspaper will con- tinue to be the prime source of information on local and re- gional events. The newspaper will be the prime source of informa- tion about things that affect your schools and colleges, your high- ways and government. Beyond that, I think the news- papers that survive are going to become semi-magazines. They are going to have to serve a deeper purpose than most of them now serve. --Mark Ethridge In "The Press" P"EACE UNDERSCORE: Threats to a Free Algeria Education and Con-Con IN THE LAST WEEK, the constitutional con- vention has done two revolutionary things for higher education-they have opened up governing board meetings to the public, and they have given 19 masters to Michigan's community. colleges. If Michigan voters approve the constitution, all Regents and governors will be required to admit the public, not just the press, to their formal meetings. This provision is intended to remind Regents and governors that they are elected by tle public and therefore responsible to the public. The constitution gives the voters an opportunity to come and see for them- selves how their colleges and universities are governed, and lodge any protests they may have. ON PAPER, the idea and implementation is wonderful. Actually, this motion will not achieve its purpose. The press has been allow- ed into .formal meetings for several years and the public still has hot much idea of the debate or reasoning behind Regental action. The Re- gents, like many other bodies who wish to present a united front, debate and decide in "informal" meetings. Formal meetings consist of carefully rehearsed speechs on pre-decided issues. They are the dull and frozen tops of the University administration's iceberg. Under the present system, the public will remain just as uninformed on Regental reason- ing whether it is in or kept out,of the meetings. By secret deliberations, the Regents or other governing boards can make decisions un- pressured by interest groups or public opinion. UNDER THE PRESENT SYSTEM, Regents can also afford to be uninformed as to the consequences of a decision and the public will never know their individual action. In the last election, a Regent stated that he would not be adverse to building new residence halls. Although technically governing this University, Editorial Staff JOHN ROBERTS, Editor PHILIP SHERMAN FAITH WEINSTEIN City Editor Editorial Director SUSAN FARRELL... ......Personnel Director PETER Si'TJART..................Magazine Editor. MICHAEL BURNS ... ............Spurts Editor PAT GOLDEN G....... AssociaLe City. Editor RICHARD OSTLING...Associate Editorial Director DlAV~ID AND)RE4WS ....,.Assate S norts Edtor that Regent was unaware that women's apart- ment ,permission requirements had become extremely rare since Mary Markley was built. This Regent, responsible for the morale and education of 25,000 students, did not even know anything about women's hours. Although the public will not learn anything new about Regental decisions, some benefits will come of opening the meetings All Uni- versity financial dealings will have to be made public as they must cross the table in formal meetings. Regents will have more contact with students and taxpayers, The Regents, or other governors, will be personally :subjected to public opinion on a completed action. If that action is unfavorable, then they might think twice before enacting a similar proposal without ad- ditional and more diverse information. CON-CON'S second revolutionary move -- giving community colleges nineteen masters - has no apparent merits. If the constitution passes, the already confused Legislature could conceivably get budget recommendations for community colleges from 19 different bodies, all directly responsible for community colleges. The new constitution will provide for' a locally elected board to govern each of the sixteen community colleges. The constitution also provides for a State Board of Education to coordinate and supervise all public educa- tion in the state. This duty includes recom- mending budgets for education to the Legis- lature. In addition, the constitution provides for an ,advisory board on community colleges to the state Board of Education. At the moment how- ever, the state board of education has an advisory board to supervise, coordinate and make financial recommendations on commun- ity colleges. This board, formed in the past month, is, comprised of the president of Olivet College and other community and civic leaders. UNLESS THE IMPLEMENTATION of the constitution incorporates this advisory council into the constitutional advisory coun- cil, the state board of education will be '"ad- vised" by two groups with exactly the same function. They will be better off than the Legislature, however. The Legislature will be bombarded each year by budget requests from the sixteen community and junior colleges, the state board of education and the two ad- visory boards. r , a avn.Qe,4-4+n4 hr t will. havA1 l en .. By MARTHA MacNEAL Daily Staff Writer ALGERIA WILL BE FREE. A series of quiet, even shadowy luncheons and conferences seem finally to have certified this guar- antee. The settlement between the French Cabinet and the Cabinate of the Front de Liberation Nation- ale (FLN) is reported to contain the following provisions, though details are still secret: 1),A cease-fire to be effective March 4. 2) The establishment of a pro- visional executive government, to be headed by a Moslem presiding over three Europeans acceptable to the FLN and three Moslems ac- ceptable to the French govern- ment. 3) A referendum will be held three months later. Algerians will vote yes or no on the question "Do you approve of Algerian in- dependence and cooperation with France?" * * * 4) THE REFERENDUM will create a sovereign Algerian gov- ernment and Algeria will be grant- ed independence next September 1. 5) Twenty per cent of the Al- gerian truce forces will be French security police, the rest Moslem auxiliaries demobilized from the French army and some units of the FLN army. 6) The FLN guarantees the ives of all Europeans living in Algeria. European property will not be seized, and land reform will be un- dertaken with full compensation to property owners. x* * 7) A GENERAL amnesty will be proclaimed, with the release of prisoners held by both the FLN and the French. 8) French economic aid to Al- geria will continue. i9) French oil, gas and mineral interests will be guaranteed for thirty years. The French will re- tain the naval base at Mers-el- Kebir under lease, and the Sahara bases for three to five years, per- mitting nuclear tests. 10) Europeans will become Al- gerian citizens for a five-year period, to be followed by a choice of citizenship. Those who refuse to become Algerian citizens may retain their own schools, but must refrain from political activity. 11) Algerian citizens of Euro- pean descent will have propor- tional representation in local as- Semblies, and will be eligible to run as individuals for the Na- tional Assembly, but will have no guaranteed quota. * * * IN SEVEN and a half yeat's, 18,000 French soldiers and 360,- 000 Moslems have died in the battle for Algerian independence. Now independence is about to be- come accomplished fact. In the midst of hope for a new nation founded on unbroken courage, the world can only be thankful that Albert Camus never lived to know of the Organisation de l'Armee Secrete, right-wing renegades from, the French army, now threatening the dream of Algerian independ- ence with ex'plosions of terror. forts, hoping to so antagonize the FLN that negotiations for peace will fail. OAS terror sometimes shows local, immediate initiative as in various sporadic explosions of plastic bombs, in both Algeria and France proper. But strong organization under Raoul Salan is demonstrated in swift changes of OAS location, various assassinations and pris- oners carefully schooled to reveal nothing to their captors except what is already known. Salan's struggle for an'"Algerie Francaise" threatens to increase, rather than subside once Algerian independ- ence is achieved. * * * DE GAULLE'S government it- self faces splintering on the OAS issue which could make it nearly impossible for France to give full support to Algeria in routing the OAS. Antoine Pincy has proposed to Washington officials and news- men that a right-wing coalition government in France, with some posts going to GAS members, would be a preferable alternative to de Gaulle. The French National Assembly Publish or.._ WHAT IS MORE surprising and disquieting is the fact that those who might be expected ex officia to have a profound and permanent appreciation of litera- ture may in reality have nothing of the sort. They are mere pro- fessionals. Perhaps they once had the full response, but the 'ham- mer, hammer, hammer on the hard, high road' has long since dinned it out of them. I am thinking of the unfortu- nate scholars in foreign universi- ties who cannot 'hold down their jobs' unless they repeatedly pub- lish articles each of which must say, or seem to say, something new about some literary work; or of overworked reviewers, getting through novel after novel as quickly as they can, like a school- boy doing his 'prep'." -C. S. Lewis University of Cambridge contains at least 80 deputies who sympathize with the OAS, "The Nation" reports. The attempted assassination of de Gaulle is com- monly attributed to OAS sym- pathizers. According to "The New- Leader,", "most (French) army, officers are more critical of de Gaulle than of the OAS ultras." Salan himself claims Moslem sup- port, and the GAS is known to have Moslem members. Critics of Socialist Guy Mollet maintain that even he, would sup- port an OAS dictatorship in ,ref- erence to a popular front coalition containing Communists. And the OAS continued to receive aid from Spain, Portugal and South Africa. * * * DE GAULLE faces criticism on all sides. The ability of the pro- posed police force to maintainj peace against the OAS is, at best, dubious. The Algerian government may eventually be forced to call upon the UN for protection, thus involving a host of other nations. But Algeria will never be safe until the OAS is extinguished, and the struggle promises to be bitter, perhaps spreading beyond Algeria into precarious France. * * * THE ECONOMIC and political settlements between the FLN and Paris seem to guarantee more con- cessions than could have been ex- pected to European Algerians. However, continued OAS activity could not only split European from Moslem, but European from European. There will be no real peace in Algeria until the European settlers decide to become Algerians and* live as' Algerians in the Algerian nation. They will have to accept what- ever the elected government ulti- mately decides about land reform. They will have to repudiate the OAS and all it stands for. They amount of uneasiness and distrust will have to accept a certain that may surround them for years. And, most important, they will have to help in establishing a functioning unity of Moslem and European after seven years of ter- ror and hatred between them. 'U' AUTO POLICY: hyDrv is Necessary,. By ROBERT WAZEKA Daily Staff Writer IS A BAN on student driving necessary for this campus? There are the oft-stated reasons why unlimited driving privileges can't be granted to students. But the reasons often seem unimpor- tant. After all, Michigan remains the only school in the Big Ten to have such a policy. Why can, other schools permit unlimited driving privileges and Michigan can't?, The answer 'is that there is a different situation at eatch cam- pus and that policy must be adapted to suit a particular cam- pus situation. FOUR OF THE Big Ten schools, Ohio State, Minnesota, Wiscon- in and Illinois, are located in or near large cities. Although they DAILY OFFI1CIAL BULLETIN ..Y:rr-A"A":::4v rf.-g:~r.r.4{{ :""....1-..r.....:fY......{ ............... A. .A-} . . . . . ..}f Gi'' :.r."......................~rp..r.. .A. .:i !!r x"oo}...":,. :. "i .:.} .> :v. : raa.r trs ns.....vr1.... have more traffic, these cities also have facilities for handling excess traffic and for the most part, have adequate parking facilities. The. cars brought to campuses by stu- dents are not a major concern. Purdue, Iowa and Indiana, al- though in cities of approximately the same size as Ann Arbor, have far fewer students. The number of cars that can be expected to be brought to campus by students is therefore not as great as an estimate for Michigan. Here too, the cities can absorb the burden. At Michigan State, the campus is far more spread out and can handle a' greater number of cars. WHEN, ILLINOIS lifted its ban completely in 1952, Michigan watched closely. Ann Arbor has a population of 67,340 compared with 76,887 in Champaign-Urbana. Both schools have about 25,000 students. Illinois had to modify its policy due to traffic problems, and now prevents freshmen from driving. But there' are more facts than these to consider. The Ann Ar- bor campus is considerably more compact than Illinois. An increase of cars in such a small area, which would follow a ban removal, would complicate the traffic problem considerably. Also a great increase in the number of cars would considerably handicap people living in private homes near campus in the routine conduct of their everyday tasks (including parking at night). Parking, of course, is still the major problem. Crowded facilities, and a lack of money for building new parking lots or structures make a removal of the ban highly impractical for the University. And for students it would mean worse traffic jams. 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