010 A ehgan Bathy Seventy-Second Year EDrmD 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 Will Prevail" ,._.. ° .- i ,_ fe .+ SIDELINE ON SGC: Council Crams Course But May Flunk Out Editorials printed ii The Miehigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. RSDAY, MARCH 8,1962 NIGHT EDITOR: JUDITH BLEIER Thunder on the Right: A New Threat to Colleges S LOWLY, a concerted but uncoordinated movement is taking shape-a direct assult on higher education by the right-wing factions in Michigan.: It's coming from various quarters. The John Birch Society in Van BurenwCounty has launched an assault on Michigan State University for its handling of Prof. John Moore. MSU President John Hannah declares this attack against the college is directed because of his service as chairman of the Federal Civil Rights Com- mission under the Eisenhower administration Rep. Lester J. Allen of Ithaca has successfully put his bill requiring a loyalty oath from state employees through the house. He freely admits it is aimed at those college professors "who teach our children that socialism is better than capitalism." Rep. Frederick Marshall of Allen is a con- stant lobbyist for an anti-Communist rider on appropriation bills. Many eminent professors here at the Univer- sity have come under fire by extremeright-wing organizations for their liberal views. WHAT THIS all adds up to is a major effort, from many sources to pin the alleged Com- nunist subversion inthis country on the col- lege professors. There really must be .an explainable reason for this. Much as some factions might wish to characterize these anti-Communists as "nuts," here must be some motivation behind their actions. The University itself is, in part, at fault. Traditionally, it has exercised a laissez-faire policy toward the extra-curricular expoundings of its faculty. The conservative faculty wants little if any hange, and finds no reason to get out and air their politics. So they have remained silent. T'herefore, only the more liberal members of he faculty, advocating change both slight and xotic, have spoken up. And though they voice. heir political opinions entirely on their own hook, they cannot erase their connection with he University. [NTERNALLY, the University community rec- ognizes that there are probably as many' 1onservatives on the Ann Arbor campus as here are liberals. But to the outside world, the >nly voices heard from Ann Arbor call for iberalism,, socialism and other assorted types i left-wing activity. So, to the outside world, it looks as though he University is a hotbed of liberals, just ripe or a Communist takeover. And the basically onservative citizens of Michigan are horrified it the thought of anything even remotely "ommunistic being filtered into the minds of he young people They are not sufficiently schooled in political science to be able to distinguish between a potential Communist and a plain garden variety liberal. So they lump all leftists together in the subversive category. And because its liberal speakers have been by far the most articulate, the University has been thrown, in many minds, into the sub- versive category. THESE CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE have some basis for their feelings. They read the liberal remarks by University professors and then they turn to the almost identically liberal editorials which dominate The Daily. To them, this is printed, proof that the "liberal line" is being cleverly inoculated in the student body. They have no way of realizing how many conservative students there are on campus who simply do not happen to belong to The Daily staff. They do not know about the many con- servative professors who quietly go about their academic pursuits in the medical, law, business and engineering schools. ONLY THE UNIVERSITY itself can dispel this illusion. It would involve reversing its hands-off policy. This would not mean muzzling the liberals, but rather inciting the conserva- tives. The University would have to' encourage these previously silent professors and students to voice their opinions publically-so the people of Michigan will realize they exist. The right-wing unrest comes from so many sources that it is hard to believe they are all fanatics. Rather it would seem that many are just good citizens,, genuinely concerned about the education of Michigan's youth. These people need to get a true picture of the University. ANY VITROLOIC ATTACK upon higher edu- cation wil cripple the objectives of the University. If the University must take the time to deal with right-wing assailants it cannot possibly devote its best efforts to dis- pensing knowledge. If the liberal image persists, the concerned public will seek a leader for its opposition, and it is just this sort of situation that lend them- selves to vigorous but unfortunate leadership of such persons as Robert Welch. .Higher education could easily turn itself into j another McCarthy circus, by ignoring the fears of an uniformed public. Such a fate is largely undeserved, and the radical minority must not be allowed to inflict it upon their many moderate colleagues. Michigan's sensible citizens can be depended upon to abandon the cause of the-super-patriots if the University can deconstrate that their fears are groundless And without the support of the sensible people, the Welches are just crying out alone. --MICHAEL HARRAH, °6ETA HORSE,/ COMMON MARKET: Britain Stranding Commonwealth? GeOrge Romney's Many Facets, GEORGE ROMNEY'S political themes project a gubernatorial candidate of many facets. Romney is the Idealist who sometimes be- comes a Pragmatist. He is the Leader, the Anti- Partisan and at times the Creative Thinker. Ihese attributes have great potential appeal to the people of Michigan and make him a real threat to Democratic executive rule. in the state capitol. Romney's appeal eitends beyond the state. Republicans throughout the country Ore talking about him as a, potential candidate for President .n 1964. Although he may deny interest in the Presidency, it seems to be his ultimate goal. In he coming campaign, as in the past, he will be speaking to a national as well as a state audience. It follows that his themes will con- tinue to be on a national as well as state level. ONE OF THESE themes is that America is in a time of danger because of a decline of religious conviction, moral strength, national purpose and sufficient citizen commitment o government and to the ideal of brotherhood. This is the kind of thing William O. Douglas ;tresses. It is not the right wing "beware of nternal Communism" warning. It is instead an appeal to the individual American, an appeal hat liberatians make. This is one of the faces )f Romney-the Committed Citizen. ANOTHER POLITICAL image that Romney projects is that of the Creative Thinker tudying international affairs. This facet of Romney reveals itself when he speaks of the ;rim irony in the world characterization of the Jnited States as materialistic and the Soviet Jnion as idealistic. "The acid test of a civilization is not its nonuments, nor its materialistic accumulation. .t is what kind of men it produces," Romney leclares in a moment of creative thinking. Romney the Thinker has, in the past, ap- >ealed to many intellectuals This will be one f his most powerful weapons, if he can use it. ANOTHER FACET of George Romney is the Revolutionary Philosopher. A man can be a revolutionary philosopher, ven a radical ativist. when not in nnwer. groups, for Romney is not yet burdened with the responsibility of being governor. AT TIMES, Romney the Idealist has been transformed into Romney the Pragratist. The nation saw this in Romney's profit-sharing program for American Motors. This program was an emperical embodiment of Romney's suggestion that for a free society, competition and private enterprise cooperation based on sharing economic progress among consumers, employes, and stockholders be the foundation of private economic activity. But could Romney the Idealist who blasts the business orientation of the Republican party and the labor orientation of the Demo- cratic power be Romney the Pragmatist in purging the parties, of their economic bias? Can Romney as the state leader of the Re- publican party remove business control and influence and make it "responsible to ,the people?" This is absurd. Partisanship based on eco- nomics is in the nature of American politics and is particularily entrenched in Michigan politics. ROMNEY THE LEADER is like President John Kennedy in his appeal to the nobility of his listeners. Romney says: "Our greatest weaknesses are personal in- difference, ignorance and apathy. Conversely, our greatest need is an aroused and informed citizenry dedicated to the acceptance of in- dividual responsibility, energetically aware of what America and the world .can be, and con- vinced that we are capable of building a new order for the ages ..." Words like these will appeal to public- spirited citizens and the students who, accord- ing to Grosse Pointe Farms Republican Rock- well T. Gust, will be the deciding factor if the gubernatorial election is close. Gust credits the doorbell-ringing campaign of students in his area for his narrow election to con-con from a predominantly Democratic district. ROMNEY IS ALSO the Conservative on the issue of state-federal relations He ap- parently supports states' rights within a na- By JEAN TENANDER Daily Staff Writer THE BRITISH Commonwealth of Nations must finally come face to face with the inevitable. Great Britain is joining the Common Market. The recent agreement on agricultural policy among Com- mon Market nations removed one of the primary stumbling blocks to Great Britain's unequivocal en- try into the Inner Six, Before adjustment of the Mar- ket's own agricultural problems, serious work on linking Britain and the Commonwealth with the European market was pointless. With the way now cleared by mu- tual understanding within the Community itself, Britain can pro- ceed to begin with the difficult task of bringing the Common- wealth nations' desire for tariffs into line with the sanctions the Market will grant them. ,, * * ONCE the Commonwealth na- tions are calm enough to look at the situation rationally, it should become clear to them that eco- nomic integration with the nations of Europe will work tremendously to their advantage. India Malaya, Pakistan, and the Commonwealth partners in Af- rica already realize this. Not only will their market for raw mater- ial get a tremendous boost, but they will also gain much political strength. These nations are more willing to cooperate because they need to sell raw materials. But New Zea- land, Australia, and Canada, who are involved more deeply with Great Britain, stand to see their economic solvency threatened by Britain's entry into the Market. Or so they think. * * * ACTUALLY, despite all that is said about the ties between Great Britain and the Commonwealth, many of these ties are a good deal less tight than the supporters of the Commonwealth would have their opponents believe. This is the opinion of veteran correspond- ent Drew Middleton. Some of the more advanced members have already begun to cut Britain's throat in interna- tional trade. Canada herself raised her tariff on British cars at the very moment she was protesting the United Kingdom's movement toward Europe. Australia's trade policy, Middleton writes, hs not always been designed with British interests in mind. In Common- wealth countries where industrial- ization has just begun to develop, British goods are restricted be- cause of taxes on infant industries. There has been a drop of one- fifth in trade to Great Britain from the Commonwealth in the last five years. ANOTHER ARGUMENT is that Great Britain, by her entry into the Market, is turning her back on her heritage. This sounds good, but it is a meaningless position. It is not a rational defense against joining, a submission to nostalgia for the Empire and it hints of isolationism. Only through interpretation, not isolation, can the British revive speaking Africa are already in effect. Similar agreements could very easily be made with underde- veloped British-speaking Africa. THE PROBLEM of how Britain is going to stand by her commit- ments to buy vast quantities of food from Australia and Canada and still not violate her duty to trade with the Common Market members may be partially solved this month., Under the auspices of the Gen- eral Agreements on Tariff and Trade, the leading producers of grain, including the United States, will meet in an effort to make a new start on chanelling the grains of the Western countries ' more equitably. Such an agreement would do much to help Britain out of her priesent dilemma. The decision to define and limit the agricultural prices within the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Inequities, Difficulties Inherent in Joint Judic Community has already been tak- en as a first step,toward resolving the problem. . If Britain's exports and imports can be regulated, then a definite policy on imports from the Com- monwealth should be forthcoming. '.* * THE DIFFICULTIES relating to Britain's entry into the Common Market have been exaggerated. In the past few years the Common- wealth has been. growing away from Britain on its own accord. There need be no outraged bel- lows about abandoning either tra- dition or economic responsibility from pro-Commonwealthers. They know, as do the Commonwealth nations themselves, that Britain, will join the European Economic Community and that ultimately this is for the best. They protest because they are expected to. To the Editor: MR. ROBERT BERGER'S letter , in defense of the Joint Judi- ciary Council's present method of operation points up many of the difficulties and inequities inher- ent in the system. In several statements, Mr. Ber- ger mentions the practice of the Council, of judging students' for violations not only of University rules, but of state and local reg- ulations as well. It is hardly necessary to point out that gov- ernmental agencies have been con- stituted for the purpose of en- forcing state and local regula- tions. The Joint Judiciary, however, is an extra-legal, extra-constitution- al body passing judgment on these same matters. When a student is guilty of, let us say, a misde- meanor, he is not only penalized in the legally sanctioned courts of Washtenaw County; he must also, in many cases, appear before Joint Judiciary Council. Often an additional fine is imposed. This fine is in many cases equal to or greater than that imposed by legi- timate authorities. What happens, the student wonders, to Consti- tutional guarantees in regard to double jeopardy? * * * THE LACK of due process pointed up in Mr.' Roberts' edi- torial and ignored in Mr. Berger's letter, is-symptomatic of injustices occurring When a judicial system is not subject to checks guaran- teeing democratic procedure and fair treatment. The student be- fore the Joint Judic is not per- mitted counsel; he or she is not confronted with witnesses whose testimony may have had an im- portant bearing upon the case; unfair questions are often put to the student, and an answer is re- quired. Again, where are our con- stitutional rights of due process? This letter is written not merely to voice a complaint. It is written cost 'of the Washington Student. Lobby. However, there is nothing secret about our operations, and, in fact, this is a good opportuni- ty for me to publicly thank those who helped. The vast bulk of the cost of the trip was paid for by the students who went. Their $15 covered most of the cost of the bus fare. They made their own arrangements for accommodations in Washington- or they slept in sleeping bags in the basements and gyms of Wash- ington churches. The remainder of the cost of this project was paid for by gen- erous contributions from local or- ganizations and private individ- uals. The following organizations contributed:' Young Friends, Friends' committee on service and education, SANE, Women for Peace, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Fourteen faculty members con- tributed to pay for the ad in the Daily. Four students who did not. go to Washington contributed 'their fares, enabling others to go. The generosity of these groups and individuals was overwhelming to us, for it represented a {great sacrifice on their part, for a proj- ect whose organization was hasty and whose success was always in doubt. It should also be mentioned that the national aspects of this project, including the proposed delegation to the Soviet Union, are sponsored by the "Turn To- ward Peace Youth Council" and aided by the National Council of "Turn Toward Peace," both of which are bodies composed of rep- ganizations of varying degrees of resentatives of a great many or- affluence. It is not hard to fi- nance projects such as these, when so many organizations are involved. However, as in. all such activities, small contributions from many individuals form the bulk of the support. By KENNETH WINTER Daily staff writer STUDENT Government Council Tuesday night looked a bit like a wayward student who put off his term paper until it was too late. The work was assigned Wednes- day, February 21, when the report of the Office of Student Affairs Study Committee was released. Council, busy patching up its mis- takes of the week before on the NSA referendum, happily ignored the OSA report at its meeting that night-putting them already one week behind. The next week (February 28). after a lengthly but unsuccessful effort to cover the 7,000-word es- say in committee-of-the-whole discussion, SGC choped the Reed Report into four unequal parts and divided into four unequal sub- committees to consider them. WITH the March 16 Regents' meeting-the deadline-breathing down their necks, the members smilingly agreed to hold a special session to discuss the subcommit- tee recommendations. The subcommittees proved equal- ly adept at procrastination. Re- ports from two of them-housing and structure-didn't materialize until just before the speial meet- ing Tuesday, leaving members no time to study them before the show began.' Not that it mattered. Most had not read those reports which were available in advance, anyway. ' * * * . NEVERTHELESS, all seemed well 7:30 Tuesday night as a quor- um finally assembled for the 7:00 special session. However, after an hour of debate on the first page of the first subcommittee report, and 15 min- utes on the relative merits of the phrases "service" and "social con- sciousness," it appeared that the OSA administrators would reach retirement age before SGC nad decided their professional fate. With most of the Council either absent or mute, a half-dozen members carried-or dragged- the parliamentary ball for two moree hours. Repeated pleas from committee-of-the-whole chairman per Hanson finally induced the talkers to finish consideration of the first subcommittee's report. * * * BUT MIDNIGHT was drawing near, and it was becoming evident that the Council was going to have trouble finishing its homework on time. Members were quietly leav- ing at every recess, threatening to collapse an already shaky quorum Nohl rallied his forces, induced some departing members to re- main, and laid it on the line. Like the negligent scholar, Coun- cil was faced with the delightful choice of doing a sloppy job or forgetting the. whole thing and failing the course.. Tom Moch advocated the first alternative. He profoundly noted that they weren't getting any- where, and suggested that the body forget the whole thing, lav- ing criticism of the Reed Report DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Tniver- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TPEWRITTEN form to Room 3564 Admi'nistration Building before 2 p.m., two days preced".g publication. THURSDAY, MARCH 8 General Notices Urgent Notice to All Concert Ushers at Hill Auditorium: The final concert of the Extra Series of Choral Union Con- certs was to have been on Mon., March 12, with Leontyne Price as the artist. This concert has been' moved up to (Continued on Page 5) up to individual opinions of the members. The Council, however, bravely decided to carry on. By Gum, they were going to finish it, no matter what. FROM THIS POINT ON, the members displayed all the signs of the midnight-oil student. Though midnight is no late hour for an SGC meeting, contempla- tion of the task ahead made the participants feel and act more like it was 4 a.m. While Hanson and Steve Stockmeyer ingeniously contrived beds from council chairs, the other members giggled at these antics, chatted, dozed and drifted in and out of the room, periodi- cally leaving the group without a quorum. Thespeakers' remarks, though surprisingly adept under the cir- cumstances, were barely heard or pondered. In the manner of our last- minute student typing his term paper, SGC yawned its assent to part of the report of the subcom- mittee on structure. Finally, Nohl blandly noted that the body was 1, "not working up to capacity," and the remaining reports were post- poned until last night's meeting. FOLLOWING approval of these reports, in committee of the whole, a Style Committee will rewrite the entire report into a cohesive mass, to be approved by SGC at its next meeting, just dbefore the egents convene to consider the OSA Re- port and SGC's opinion on it. So, if nothing else goes wrong, it looks like SGC will finish its homework on time. But, after av- ing prepared the assignment in such a sloppy manner, they cn't expect a very good mark from the Regents. Wedding ROMNEY, the new candidate for governor of Michigan, with his reluctance to be labeled a Repub11- lican, is likened by some to an- other "reluctant Republican," Wendell Willkie. The remark of Eugene Lyons is recalled: "The ex-Hoosier (Willkie) Is courting the GOP like a man pro- posing marriage saying: Your hair is stringy, you're cross-eyed, you're bow-legged; you've got hal- itosis; a couple of your front teeth are missing. But I love you and I want to marry you." -Human Events Obstacle UNDERGRADUATE education is still largely "liberal education" it envisages the intellectual development of the whole man. Graduate education likes to say that its main purpose is the "training of teachers and scholars," but in practice, the "teaching function," as it is called, gets lost in the "research function." The most satisfying vision of the graduate school is full production of functioning scholars. Indeed, were graduate schools to tae seriously their own announced purpose, and prepare teachers ft fo"r their own undergraduater col- leges, they would be very different institutions Thus while the undergraduate in a good college has the sense of being directed towarsd realizing his best intellectual possibilities, the graduate student finds himself part of an impersonal and often rigid orientation. The department's techniques, . values and needsof research are quickly placed between the stu- dent and his passion for the larger reaches of the subject matter. Other than that, he is left to fend for himself. -Theodore Solotaroff in Commentary AT THE STATE: Frankie Warbles while 'Ship Sinks THE SHIP, caught in the surging violence of a hurricane, pitches wildly through the monstrous seas. The captain, mustache bristling bravely, barks out an order: "Somebody run downstairs and fatten the hatches." Such humor is typical of Sail A Crooked Ship, a film which is sometimes funny, sometimes horrible, and always liberally laced with the absurd. The central figure in the proceedings is Ernie Kovacs (whose last performance is, unfortunately, far from his best). Supporting Kovacs in this foolishness about a stolen freighter and an outlandish bank-robbery are Robert Wagner, Carolyn Jones, Dolores Hart and Frankie Avalon That's right-Frankie Avalon. Why Frankie only sings one song in the movie is a mystery. His acting alone is sufficient to nauseate half the audience, and his fans could be satisfied by no less than half a dozen. This way nobody wins. THE PLOT is a simple one. Wagner, the bumbling ("I'm a walking disasters area") prospective son-in-law of a shipping magnate decides to disobey orders and resurrect one of several old vessels designated for scrap. Kovacs, who just happens to be ransacking a safe in a ship-building establishment, answers the phone and agrees to handle