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!" -6 - . F AND 12 c o ,~ ;ItIt i 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- XT 1 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- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity 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 preceding 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 rTt -- 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. 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