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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 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.

E, MARCH 27, 1962

NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAMl HARRAH

New President Must Give
Fresh Dynamism to; SGC

"I'm Workin' This Side Of The Street, Buddy!"
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AT THE STATE:
'Four Horsemen'
Good Entertainment

[F 100 University students were asked when
the next important student election will be
ield 99 of them would probably answer next
rovember when the next SGC elections will
ake place. They would be wrong, the next
nportant student election will take place
omorrow night when SOC picks its news
fficers.
We have just had an all-campus election
'hich is probably one of the most contro-
ersial ever held. It has put the Council in
fairly ridiculous light. Unfortunately this is
erhaps the worst time such an election could
ave happened; except for its recommenda-
ons on the OSA report, the old Council was
oticable primarily for its lack of action.
The stretched-out implementation of the bias
lause motion, the NSA boondoogle, the com-
lete rejection of any kind of student bill
f rights all show alack of purpose among
ouncil members. More, it shows a lack of an
verall conceptual scheme under which Council
hould operate. Council has done little and
ffected few students, this was reflected in
he extremely low interest among students
nd the low turnout at the last election.
THIS SITUATION has dangerous overtones.
It could lead to an attempt to abolish
ouncil via ; the initiative and referendum
jute-it happened last year at Columbia. This
ould leave the whole spectrum of regulations
n out-of-classroom student life under the
omplete control of the administration-a con-
ept much to be undesired.
The only way Council can hope to escape
om potential death is to present a dynamic,
nage to students; both in the realms of
ction and ideas. One of the best ways an
rganizatIon has of presenting a dynamic image
by having dynamic leadership; and that
why tomorrow's elections are so important.
For the past few years the most important

student in the political power structure has
been the. editor of The Daily. This is not
necessarily due to anything inherent in the
power structure or the post of editor of The
Daily; it has been due rather to an abdication
of power and responsibility by the president of
SGC.
Rather than being initiators of ideas and
speaking out loudly on student issues, recent
Council presidents have restricted their actions
to the carrying out of mandates and other
bureaucratic requirements. They have def-
initely lacked any vision of the student's role
in the University community.
IT IS IMPORTANT that Council elect as
president tomorrow someone who can give
it al\vital image; someone who has a dynamic
vision of Council's role on campus.
According to rumor, the two people whoa
will be running for president will be Robert
Ross and Steve Stockmeyer. Comparing their
performances on Council, one can only con-
clude that Ross would provide more dynamic
leadership than Stockmeyer. It is true that
Ross would be more controversial (he is chair-
man of Voice political party) and more out-
spoken than his opponent. But this should
result in new ideas being thrown around
campus and increased interest in SGC; some-
thing the Council sorely needs. He is prob-
ably the most articulate member of Council
and is extremely well informed. He would not
be the mediator-between-two-sides type of
president, but we have had that kind for the
past two years and that is partly the cause
of Council's present sorry shape.
IT MAY BE that no SGC-president can raise
Council from its present level. But there is
only one way to find out. We have already
tried blandness.
-RONALD WILTON

GOOD USE is made of Holly-
wood's "spectacular" devices in
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
What could be a syrupy, highly
emotional, and grossly over-done
theme is tastefully produced into
two-and-a-half hours of good
movie entertainment.
The plot concerns the Desnoyer
family and the fulfillment of a
curse put on the grandchildren by
"the Old One," played by Lee~
J. Cobb. He accurately fortells
how the "Four Horsemen," War,
Conquest, Pestilence and Death
will ride in on the clouds of World
War II and destroy his family.
Glenn Ford plays Julio, the was-
trel who falls in love with Mar-
guerite (Ingrid Thulin), some-
body else's wife.
SINCE THEY are living in Paris
during the Occupation, complica-
tions arise with the Nazis. Julio's
cousins are high-ranging officials
in the Gestapo and the family ties
strongly conflict with duty.
The plot is fascinating, compli-
cated and impossible. to sum-
marize, yet it still doesn't over-
shadow the characters. They are
the focal point. Julio, Marguerite,
Etienne (Marguerite's husband,
who leads the Resistance), Uncle
Karl and Cousin Heinrich (the
Nazi relatives), and Marcelo
(Julio's father, played by Charles
Boyer) are admirable people who

DETROIT SCHOOLS:
Combating De Facto Segregation

Romney 's Political Suicide

' GEORGE ROMNEY doesn't keep himself
from being President of the United States,
e outstate Republicans may well do it for
mI.
The whole matter rides on Romney's race for
e Governorship of Michigan. If he can't
.n that, he's politically dead. Apparently
icide is his goal, for he has every Republican
rdertaker" in the state working on 'his
am.
And the fact remains that these same people
lped Paul D. Bagwell get defeated twice, and
troit Mayor Cobo before him.
Bagwell's press officer is Romney's press
'icer; the same politically inept Oakland
unty Republicans are his "volunteers"; the
ne Wayne County Republicans are his "head-
arters staff"; the same State Central Com-
ttee personnel are directing his campaign

Undoubtedly these people are good Repub-
ans, but they haven't won an election yet.
:e voters are tired of them too, for all they
mbolize is defeat.
The names of these campaign aides are not
iportant, for they really do mean well in their
m offensive way. But they refuse to acknow-
:ge that there are 78 counties outside the
etroit area, and that these counties vote too.
N MICHIGAN, the Republicans' winning mar-
gin does not come from the urban coun-
s. Rather it comes from the rural counties
.tstate. Here traditionally, the local Repub-
ans running for sheriff, clerk, registrar of
eds, state senator, all run way ahead of the
ite ticket in total number of votes. The
ate and local Democrats, however, run ap-
oximately the same.
This indicates only one thing. Among the
tstate Republicans, there are enough voters
discouraged with the bi-annual candidates
iearthed by the State Central Committee,
at they simply don't vote for statewide can-
lates at all.
[OW COMES George Romney. First he de-
nounced that horrible evil, the John Birch
ciety, which has sympathizers in both parties.
e refuses to back off his support of a state-
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wide income tax, which outstate voters oppose.
His proposed' reapportionment of the Legis-
lature would erase and scramble up many out-
state seats.
Aside from that, the outstate voters do not
take kindly to the League of Women Voters
and the Junior Chamber, of Commerce volun-
teers that surround Romney, when they journey
out from Detroit to sneer and look down on the
"farmers" in the hinterlands.
The climax, however, was Romney's "deal"
with former Treasurer D. Hale Brake in the
constitutional convention. Admittedly, Romney
got the worst of that deal, for Brake has 40
solid votes in the con-con so he didn't com-
promise on anything. But the outstate voters
now find it even harder to support a man who
would make deals on something as important
as a state constitution.
In his prearranged meeting with at least one
outstate GOP leader, Romney was less than
cordial. As a matter of fact, he kept the man
waiting a full 24 hours. This faux-pas un-
doubtedly will cost him a couple thousand
votes-a loss he can ill-afford.
IT IS BAFFLING why a man who expects to
be elected governor should take so little
heed of the sentiments of the people who will
elect him. The answer probably lies in the fact
that Romney is no politician, and for that
reason will not succeed in Michigan, a state
traditionally steeped in politics.
A politician would see that when all the
votes are totalled, the Republicans who con-
trol the outstate counties can muster more
votes than the Democrats who control Detroit.
The trick is to get these Republicans to vote
for the state ticket; for, unlike the labor-
dominated Democrats in Detroit, the voters
outstate have a mind of their own.
Romney hasn't noticed this apparently, or
doesn't care if he has. And this oversight could
cost him the Presidency of the United States.
IT'S A SHAME he can't see it that way.
-MICHAEL HARRAH

By RICHARD KRAUT
Daily Staff Writer
(First of a Three-Part series)
DETROIT IS TRYING to solve
the problem of racial discrim-
ination in its schools.
The Citizens' Advisory Commit-
tee on Equal Educational Oppor-
tunity in Detroit schools has made
sweeping suggestions for the end
of racial inequality and to im-
prove the education of children in
slums. After two years of study,
it has identified "a clear-cut pat-
tern of racial discrimination in the
assignment of teachers and prin-
cipals to schools throughout the
city."
* * *
THE WORK of the committee
is a result of the recommendations
made by the 1958 Citizens' Ad-
visory Committee on School Needs.
The 1958 committee proposed
"that steps be taken immediately
to provide equal educational op-
portunity to every child in our
community and that there be
continuous appraisal of this pro-
gram so that inequalities may be
promptly rectified."
The Citizens' Committee has
met and is trying to solve one of
the major problems of growing
urbanization-slums. In response
to this grave problem, which
James B. Conant has called "so-
cial dynamite," the committee of-
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publication.
TUESDAY, MARCH 27
General Notices
Ef ective Mon., Mar. 19, students
with properly registered automobiles
may park or store their automobiles at
the Hockey rink on a 24-hour basis
(no fee) from this date until Com-
mencement. Office of the Dean of Men.
June Teacher's Certificate Candidates:
All requirements for the teacher's cer-
tificate must be completed by May 1.
These requirements include the teach-
er s oath, the health statement, and
the Bureau of Appointmnents material.
The oath should be taken as soon as
possible in 1203 University High School.
(Continued on Page 8)

fered specific solutions to specific
problems. -
* * *
TWO OF 'THE MAJOR problems
are teacher selection and place-
ment.
The Detroit Board of Education,
the committee reported, assigns
Negro teachers to the districts con-
taining a large percentage of Ne-
groes. A school that contains no
Negroes, however, will get no Ne-
gro teachers. Therefore, a teacher
who happens -to be Negro will
most likely be assigned to one of
five of the nine school districts.
In addition, discrimination exists
in the assignments to administra-
tive posts. Of 250 principals, seven
are Negroes; of 284 assistant prin-
cipals, 14 are Negroes. This is in
a city where more than one out
of every five teachers is a Negro.
Further, there seems to be dis-
crimination in the assignment of
substitute and beginning teachers.
The districts in the East and the
Southeast account for 34 and 37
per cent of the substitutes and
beginners in the entire school
staff.
However, the corresponding sta-
tistics in the Northeast and North-
west districts are 13 and 15 per
cent. East and Southeast are pre-
dominantly Negro districts where-
as Northeast and Northwest are
mainly white.
To solve this problem, the com-
mittee asked that the placement
of substitutes and probationary
teachers be so planned that "no
school district has a dispropor-
tionate number of either."
THE REPORT also made several
proposals dealing with teacher
transfers.
At present, the Board of Educa-
tion assigns new teachers to
schools in middle or upper class
areas for two or three years. They
are then reassigned to a school in
a lower socio-economic area for
two to five years. When this period
is over, the teachers are allowed
to apply for a transfer to a school
near their homes, if there is a
vacancy. Once this transfer is
made, the teacher is nearly cer-
tain to remain in that school, ui -
less he is requested to transfer.
ALTHOUGH the committee rec-
ognized the problem resulting from
the fact that very few teachers live
in slum areas, it offered only a
weak solution. The report said,
. eniority in a particular

school should not bar the trans-
fer to a less desirable school."
Administrators will surely see
this as a harmless suggestion and
the shortage of experienced teach-
ers in slum areas will continue to
grow.
In addition, the committee over-
looked the most commonly offered
and most effective solution to.this
problem: higher salaries for those
teaching in schools in slum areas.
The advantage of a higher salary
would outweigh the obvious dis-
advantages of working in a Negro
slum area. But the report did not
even mention this.
* * *
THE PROBLEM of school boun-
daries, which arises from the
highly segregated nature of the
Detroit housing pattern, is dealt
with extensively in the report. But
the actual recommendations are
few.
The committee released statistics
which show the acuteness of the
school district problem. In the
Northwest and Northeast districts,
for example, there are only two
schools which are, not at least 90
per cent white; some contain n~o
Negroes at all.
West district is nearly as seg-
regated. South and Southwest,
however, achieve a good deal of
mixing. But East, Southeast and
especially Center districts, ;con-
tain many schools having at least
a 90 per cent Negro enrollment.
THE RESULT of this break-up
is a great deal of de facto"segre-
gation. Whether or not this is
detrimental to the minority is a
cause for much debate between
groups intent upon improving Ne-
gro education.
The question, as stated by Con-
ant in his book, "Slums and Sub-
urbs," is "should the school
authorities endeavor to move Ne-
Red Purpose
IDEOLOGY among Khrushchev's
possible heirs is dead; at best,
it is like Latin,; a language in
which to communicate to the se-
lect. There is no question now
that both within the country and
without, the Russian Communists'
job is to pursue not Marxism or
communism but Soviet national
power and interests.
-Max Frankel
of the New York Times

gro children into purely white
schools in order to have as many
mixed schools as possible?" Con-
ant, along with many Detroiters,-
says no. He supports his case with
legal and practical arguments.
FOR HIS legal point, Conant
cites a portion of the 1954 Su-
preme Court decision: "Does segre-
gation of children in public schools
solely on the basis of race, even
though the physical facilities and
other 'tangible' factors may be
equal, deprive the children of the
minority group of equal educa-
tional opportunities? We think it
does."r
Conant points at the word
"solely." The schools in Detroit
that have only Negro students a.e
not segregated on the basis of
race, but on the basis of housing,
Conant would argue. "If one group
of children is separated from an-
other group because of the neigh-
borhood in which they live, the
fact of this separation is, of and
by itself, no evidence of as in-
equality in education."
* * *
THIS ARGUMENT ignores a
basic tenet of desegregation: sep-
arate facilities are inherently .un-
equal not necessarily technically,
but psychologically. Separate fa-
cilities breed a lack of under-
standing resulting in prejudice and
whether a child has not come mnto
contact with another race because
of law or because of the residen-
tial facts of life, the results are
the same.
People who are concerned only
with the law (the Supreme Court
decision of 1954) are therefore
taking part in the legal pedantry
which wins verbal battles but,
solves no problems.
* *
BUT CONANT has another ar-
gument, based on implementation.
The transportation problem, he
says, is "quite insoluble."
This judgment was intended to
apply to the situation in general.
Whether the transportation prob-
lems in Detroit itself would be in-
surmountable is 'not known.
If a truly chaotic situation
would arise, the city should not
use that method to solve the de
facto segregation problem. But
minor traffic problems are far
more - bearable than social injus-
tice. The traffic situation must be
investigated and the city must
decide how badly it wants equal
education.

produce a tremendous amount of
audience empathy.
Hollywood's touch, the Four
Horsemen, gallop across the skies
three times during the show, and
they are very impressively done.
The gilded riders are especially
effective when kaleidoscoped into
a montage of authentic war shots.
The technique is excellent.
* * *
EVEN the bit players are good.
One particularly good scene is
when the Germans are marching
into Paris past the eternal flame
placed there for the victims of
World War I, the faces in the
crowd even look French.
Even as Nazis, the breeding and
loyalty, evident in the early scenes,
keeps alive the sympathetic feel-
ing established for that half of
the family.
Strong characters, intriguing
plot, good technique, and accurate
casting make this a fascinating
"escape" movie.
-Malinda Berry
LETTERS
to the
EDITOR
Unfair Review ...
To the Editor:
FOR THREE YEARS I've watch-
ed The Daily's reviews hoping
for a fair criticism. For nearly
every theatre production that The
Daily reviews, I've felt a tremen-
dous frustration.
It is easy to become excessively
critical when you are familiar
with play production, character
analyses, voice projection, action,
staging and technical effects. (It
goes without saying that the re-
viewer is familiar with these as-
pects.) However, the criticism 'of
Graham Greene's The Living
Room is wholly for the sake of
criticism.
It really isn't necessary to look
for the tiniest error in staging,
diction, pauses when these are
the most minute aspects of a play
that could go wrong. The charac-
terizations were fine; they were
precise; they were, in fact, so
exact and lent so well to the unity
of the play that the evening was
close to a professional experience.
The female characterizations,
were more than "creditable": they
were really excellent. However,
Father Browne has been criticized
for his "woodenness" which could
well have been included in the
actor's interpretation of his role.
As for "unfeeling," the reviewer is
clearly wrong! In fact, to this one
atom of the audience, Bob McKee's
interpretation was most adequate
in showing a man whose life as
a priest ended twenty years ago
and is now midst questionings of
death and faith. Edward Cicciarel-
li's Michael was thoroughly con-
vincing. His emotional reaction
after Rose's death was one of be-
ing stunned both at her action and
his part in it, when he left to
console his wife.
The last line of the review that
"there are better ways to spend
an evening than The Living
Room" should never have been
printed in any review. Make your
personal judgements, but be a
little considerate of the ensuing
nights of performance of those
University Players who have work-
ed strenuously to entertain our
campus.
-Sandra Deitch, '63
Squeals .. .
To the Editor:
MISS WEINSTEIN'S squeals
could not be more accurate or
more justified. Years ago the Pro-
hibition boomerang proved that
morality cannot be legislated over

a large body politic. It is unfor-
tunate that those who govern this
community continually deny prin-
ciples, which have been clearly
demonstrated through mass exper-
iment, and which are taught in
Psychology 101.
-Ron Newman, '63

FEIFFER

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Pay iN ow, Learn Later

)W THAT the University has decided to
have students pay $50 five months in ad-
ce for the privilege of registering for
rses, the time has come to apply the same
iciple in other areas, so that University
cy can be carried out consistently.
-r example, we all know that it is sin to
a class. But while some professors try to
.id such behavior, there hasn't been any
help from the administration for those
essors faced with row upon row of empty
S.
S TIME for some action.
First, the student should pay tuition for
i course, rather than a flat rate. Then the
of the course could be divided by the

an empty classroom. In return for payment
per hour, the student would be issued meal
tickets toward his intellectual nourishment.
The teacher could stand at the door and
punch each card as the student came in, thus
eliminating any need for teaching assistants
craning their necks in the back row during a
lecture to make sure seat number 49 is
occupied.
NOW TO APPLY the advance deposit prin-
ciple: In addition to the regular payment
for classes, the student would be assessed an
additional deposit of 50c per class, part of
which would be returned at the end of the
semester depending on how many times his
meal ticket is punched. Precedent for the plan

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