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 Wil Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express ;the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be doted in all reprints. SDAY, APRIL 5, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: JUDITH OPPENHEIM University Women Don't Need More Dorms rHE UNIVERSITY is making a mistake in building the new Oxford road residence Lalls for women. Justification for this $2.5 million bond-fund- d residence hall complex is the University's vish to "provide as wide a range of living acilities as possible." The project would pro- ide four group living houses for freshmen nd a suite-type apartment house for senior romen. But progress toward better 'living facilities hould not force more women into the dor- aitory systems. Mary Markley, fondly termed the "mon- trosty," and "Markley Hilton" was the last ffort of the University in building residence alls. The construction of this building kept partment permissions down to a minimum or five years because the "dorms had to be illed" F THE UNIVERSITY wishes to provide a wide range of living facilities, they can use le same or less money than it takes to build new residence hall to remodel present fa- ilities. Mary Markley could probably be con- erted into suites with common kitchens at ss expense than it would take to build a ew building. Residence halls are presently more expen- ye than apartments. Part of this expense pays r the refunding of bonds floated to finance ew residence halls and another part to pro- ide food variety for the many students in 4e dorms. Under the present system, students re forced to pay more for a group living tuation than they would for apartments hen they often have neither the money, nor he desire, to live in a dorm. SOT ONLY should the residence halls offer inexpensive and varied living situations, .it all students should not be forced to live i the dorm system. At a time in history when this country needs sponsible and individualistic citizens, the niversity should be encouraging students to ye without University supervision, rather than 5nmitting more to the dorms. In a residence hall, many decisions which Food forSta 'HERE IS nothing particularly novel about the fact that the people of China are starv- g to death in appalling numbers. The world's ost populous nation has been among the ost underfed and miserable for years. But the epic struggle for sustenance in the tckward half of the world has taken on an nic twist in the last century or so. Toda, bile half the planet starves, the other half Les desperately to cut food production and ends a royal ransom to store and destroy ibles it cannot peddle to its overfed citizenry. Careful consideration of these two problems ems to 'point to a partial solution common both. It would be reasonable, one might gue, to simply ship the food into the famine ea. ND, IN FACT, this is precisely the sugges- tion of AFL-CIO President George Meany. The American Federationist, Meany sug- sts sending relief missions directly to famine eas. Under his plan, food and medicine given, needy citizens behind the Iron Curtain uld stay out of reach of their government. Meany opposes selling such necesisties to tators 'whose policies have brought misery d hunger" to their people, fearing they uld resell the supplies at a profit er use em to strengthen armies "geared to oppres- n at home and aggression abroad." students must learn to make, such as budget- ing of time and food, care of property and when to end a date, are made by dorm regulations. This encourages irresponsibility when a university should be stressing re- sponsibility. Freedomn from University supervision means that a coed can make a choice on the type of living to which she is best suited. Some will decide to live in a dormitory situation with librialized restrictions. Others will choose a private living situation. Women should be allowed to decide as soon as they are ready if individual growth is to be maximized. IF THE UNIVERSITY really wishes to offer the widest variety of choice in housing, it could go into competition with Ann Arbor realtors and build and rent a variety of low cost, on-campus unsupervised housing. Rents would vary with the type and location of facilities. The existence of alternative low cost housing and an increased demand for such will force rents down and may stimulate enough apartment building on campus to clear out the semi-slum housing that some realtors provide. The myth that there will not be enough student housing jn Ann Arbor if the residence halls do not absorb students, ignores the principles of a capitalistic system. A hint to Ann Arbor realtors that there will be a sub- stantial graduate enrollment increase without dorms to house them-and soon 30 new apart- ment houses will exist by the following fall. It is clear that the problem of high rents and bad student housing in Ann Arbor cannot be remedied by building Oxford-type dormi- tories that are more restrictive and more ex- pensive than apartments. O ACTUALLY provide "as wide a range of living facilities as possible" both in type and cost of housing, the University must use present finances to remodel present dorms to provide varied and more attractive facilities. It must also offer competitive housing to lower rents and raise the quality of Ann Arbor stu- dent housing. -CAROLINE DOW irving China Instead, with the permission of the rulers, the proposed agency would carry its missions of mercy directly to the people. "Our country has always shown great generosity and capacity in helping save people from starvation," says Meany. HE IDEA of feeding hungry people is not a new one, nor a particularly radical one. It is not even strange to the liberal student move- ment. For example, Policy Statement of the recent Washington "Turn Toward Peace" pro- ject suggested disposing of surplus food "un- der United Nations auspices, to all areas of the world without regard to the political orienta- tion of the governments involved." It is an idea which deserves a place in the platforms of student groups concerned with the present and future of the world. Meany's suggestion merits careful considera- tion in Washington. And perhaps a few ten- tative suggestions should be made to this huge Asian nation we pretend doesn't exist. Red China is a hungry giant, and she desperately needs food and medicine from somewhere. MY, BUT they grow a lot of rice in Southeast Asia. -JAMES NICHOLS 1 "They All Say They're Good Friends Of His" N , .A fr 04*p Y F7- r 414 as s--ram WAmttmora4 'Pasr- 'L. OVERTIME: Community of Scholas MICHIGAN'S TAX PROBL all !# Two Finance Plans Battle in Lansing By FRED RUSSELL KRAMER Daily Staff Writer (Third in a Series) TWO PLANS to end the current financial crises now face the state Legislature. The first is a temporary nui- sance tax package advanced by the conservative branch of the Senate Republicans, The other is a tax revision ad- vanced by a coalition of Demo- crats and moderate Republicans. The latter plan, presented by Gov. John B. Swainson, includes personal and corporate income taxes. The immediate problem the Leg- islature has to face is the elimi- nation of a deficit which should reach $96 million by June 30. THE NUISANCE TAX package includes a sales tax on services, which would yield an additional $14 million. It would also increase the franchise tax one mill on the dollar to yield an extra $13 million. The other taxes, in order of de- creasing return, are: a one cent increase on the cigarette tax, $10 million; four per cent tax on us- age of telephones and telegraphs, $8 million; four per cent increase in the liquor tax, $7 million; and a beer tax increase of $2.50 per barrel, $7 million. The nuisance tax package would therefore, add $59 million to the general .fund. Thedconservative Republicans also advance an "austerity" budg- et of $491 million. This budget would cut present capital outlay appropriation in half, sharply re- ducing funds for University expan- sion and expenditures. * * * THE GOVERNOR'S PLAN would repeal the controversial Business Activities Tax which yields about $72 million a year. It is a levy on total payroll and profits and is generally considered inequitable and a bad factor in the state's eco- nomic climate. Secondly, the plan would elim- inate the sales and use tax on groceries and medicine, estimated to total $95 million a year. As a stimulant to business growth, machinery and equipment used in manufacturing would be- ,come exempt from local property taxes. This would represent a loss of $65 million a year. The total loss to the general fund would then be $232 million. . * * * TO OFFSET these losses, the governor proposes the enactment of a three and a half per cent flat- rate levy on individual incomes and corporate profits, which would yield $240 and $66 million, re- spectively. To offset the loss to local units from the property tax exemption, one half of one per cent of the income tax profits would be ear- marked for local units. The net taxes would yield $306 million and the complete program would add $71 million to the gen- eral fund each year. ALONG WITH the passage of the governor's tax package, the coalition of Democrats and mod- erate Republicans have proposed a $517 million moderate budget which contains $4 million more for higher education than the con- servative Republicans' austerity budget. It also contains $10 million more in school aid' and $5 million ,more in capital outlay appropria- tions. To summarize, the conservatives would increase taxes about $44 million, would increase spending $11 million and would lower the deficit $5 million. The moderates, on the other hand, would spend $37 million more next year and would raise taxes $72 million, setting aside $15 million for debt retirement or con- tingencies. * * * BOTH PLANS are now in the Senate. The nuisance tax package is awaiting action on the floor of the upper house and the gover- nor's plan is in the powerful Sen- ate Tax Committee, headed by Sen. Clyde H. Geerlings (R-Hol- land). Geerlings has said on the floor of the Senate that no income tax plan will ever pass out of the doors of his committee room. * * * THE MODERATE COALITION is attempting to bypass the com- mittee by bringing the governor's program back on the floor of the chamber. Sen. Haskell L. Nichols (R-Jackson), speaking for the moderates, has called for open de- bate on the tax problem. Geerlings appears unperturbed however, and has merely said, "they'd better count their votes again." It is likely that if such politi- cal hassling continues the tax crisis will again and again reap- pear on the legislative scene; and the state's tax structure shall be- come more and more a patchwork of temporary measures that are allowed to continue as inequitable, rigid, and inadequate financial provisions. TOMORROW-Who Bears the Biggest 'Load? By PHILIP SHERMAN City Editor [T'S TIME to clear up a couple of things' about- the students who want changes in the Office of Student Affairs. Although I can speak only for myself, I think there have been some misunderstandings which need to be taken care of. This point became eminently clear the other day when I got a letter from an alumnus who thought the student attitude ex- pressed in one of my editorials needed some revision and re- calculation. The letterwriter had read a "quotation" from the edi- torial In a recent number of The Michigan Alumnus, which has a wide circulation among Michigan graduates.I My correspondent did admit that, when he was in school, he probably felt the same way he thinks I do. But now he has changed, and disagrees. He in- terpreted the quotation about which he was arguing as an attack on rules-he asserted that some rules are necessary and that people can often learn much by having to follow them. This was a good enough under- standing of the quotation-but the quotation itself was a bit slanted. Sentences which should have been separate were run together with- out the usual three dots separa- tion. * * * WHAT I SAID was that the University should train people in responsibility-which means that individuals should have some free- dom of choice and not have simply to follow rules. Later in the edi- torial I said that some rules are only irritating, and won't accomp- lish their purpose. The Alumnus quotation didn't keep these two, separate arguments separate. But the point is mainly that such misinterpretations are be- coming more and more widespread. SINCE THE PROPOSAL to al- low women in the quads was brought up, there has been a wide- spread and critical interest in the University's conduct of stu- dent affairs. Both citizens and alumni, and even some people in the Univer- sity, are worried that "radical" studentgroups are trying to end all rules, in fact to create an at- mosphere of immature anarchy and general promiscuity. With all this at the back of my mind, I want to say why I would like certain policies adopted, why I want changes in the Office of Student Affairs. * * * PERSONALLY, I start from the position that the University is a fine place to attend. I've been able to do pretty much what I thought right, and I've learned a lot and done a lot. I don't regret having come here. At the same time, I realize that some people haven't had as good a stay at the University as I. * * * A GIRL who is pregnant needs more than a lecture on morality and a ticket out. She may need help badly. Although the blame is beyond the University alone, I also think it's wrong when the man who has gotten the girl into "trouble" does not have to help her bear the con- sequences. Possibly, he needs counseling too. Pregnancy, ofrcourse, is about the ultimate problem in Univer- sity non-academic counseling, but there are other problems too. * * * THE UNIVERSITY, it seems to me, ought to be a functioning comunity--as the OSA Study Committee said, a "community of scholars." In such a community all parts work toward the same end--scholarship and preparation for life. If a part of the University is not working toward this end, changes ought to be made. When OSA doesn't provide the counsel necessary to help someone to-be able to participate fully and freely in the community aims, changes ought to be made. If OSA student affairs policy isn't helping to ma- ture students, to allow them the freedom each one can properly handle, then it should be changed. * * * THE COMMUNITY has given me a very great deal in almost four years. I hope others are get- ting at least as much. A good OSA can help them to get it. 0 Admittedly, I think that some rules here are ridiculous, and don't perform any function--they are necessary neither to keep order nor to teach people anything. f I personally think that some of the OSA posts could be more adequately filled. " I also think that sometimes handling of discipline could be fairer. * * * BUT MAINLY I want to see an Office of Student Affairs, indeed a whole University, that is pushing: toward those twin goals of scholar- ship and personal development. The University is doing this. much of the time. I would like to see it doing even better,. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Interpreting the Regents Bylaw To the Editor: T HAT APPROACH to the prob- lem of bias clauses demon- strated by Gerald Storch's editori- als of March 16 and April 1 disap- points me greatly. These articles have advocated thorough, speedy implementation of Regents' Bylaw 2.14, but nowhere in them have I seen any understanding of the role fraternities and sororities might play in the University community or even of the "brotherhood" ideal itself. This is regrettable because such understanding is necessary for competent evaluation of the situation and constructive sugges- tions for action. The point of conflict is between justified "selection" and arbitrary "discrimination." Fraternities and sororities at their best provide a "home" for their members which offsets the impersonality of the University, a "home" centered around certain activities or ideals desired by its members, whether those be athletics, comradeship and merrymaking, personal ma- turity, prestige, or scholarship. Although I may not personally believe in all of these, I feel the' democratic ideal gives each group the right to stress anything it may wish-so long as it doesn't-harm other persons or groups. In order to have this agreement among members about its emphases, though, each fraternity and soror- ity must have the ability to se- Assembly's Next Year J HER FAREWELL speech to Assembly Dor- mitory Council, Sally Jo Sawyer said that e was disappointed with Assembly this year. e has reason to be. Her major complaint was that many of the >resentatives were' unwilling to take full ponsibility for their job. A couple of times ring this year the council was not able to e' on motions on the floor because there s no quorum. At one meeting in which it s important that several matters be decided, women refused to stay after five o'clock get some business done. The representatives ed several times to !set up committees, but en it was time to volunteer to work on them, one was available. OWEVER, the blame cannot be placed, totally upon the women who sit on the incil. The dormitory residents at large are tally apathetic and unconcerned. A great ,ny of them don't even know what Assembly and a larger number don't care what hap- is to it (as witnessed by the lack of par- pation in its recent election for president). Vost of the representatives faithfully report results of the Assembly meetings to their use Council, but rarely does the House incil send any suggestions back to Assembly. With such a situation, how can the executive board learn of the needs of the people it is representing? THE FUTURE, however, is not bleak. A strulture committee has been set up to study Assembly's constitution and, in view of all the changes that have occurred during the past year, make any revisions that will be necessary for its smooth functioning. A new executive board has just been selected that is eager to serve the needs of its elec- torate and see to it that independent women have as good living conditions as possible. ASSEMBLY IS AN important organization on campus. It is the only one that represents independent women as a group. Recently it has been concerned with such matters as apartment permission for senior women, regu- lations within the women's dorms, problems that will arise from the trimester schedule and a program to make the women aware of various aspects of safety. Next year one of its committees will work out all the details for co-educational housing with Inter-Quad- rangle Council. These are matters of concern to all the independent women on campus, not just the few members of the Assembly executive board who are carrying the full load of the work at this time. i lect its own membership as it wishes. Likewise, there is the ideal of "brotherhood." This implies an intimacy-the ability to live, work, and play together harmoniously to the mutual advantage of all. It as- sumes an organization of persons who can-and at their best do- become good friends. Here too "se- lection" is justified, for certainly it is a necessary condition in the creation of any close-knit group. It is inconceivable that the Re- gents wished to eliminate this right of "selection" when they passed Bylaw 2.14. That would be tantamount to saying that you can choose your friends and asso- ciates as you wish, but that you may not organize with them. Rather, I feel the Regents were at-" tempting to eliminate arbitrary discrimination against particular traits over which the individual, has no control. Thus, the problem is one in which no clear line of demarcation can be seen. The details can be hammered out only with painstak-' ing slowness over the years. Yet it can be done competently and well only if attention is drawn to both sides of, the issue-the need to eliminate arbitrary dis- crimination and the need to con- tinue the right to continue the tinue the right of justified selec- tion in student organizations. -Ted Haworth, '62 Negro Incentive . . To the Editor: LAST WEEK a series of editor- ials appeared on this page con- cerning the desegregation of De- troit schools. These articles dem- onstrated the lack of rational thinking that dominates much of the movement to advance the so- cial and economic standing of the Negro people. The problem. of segregation in Detroit and other. northern areas is not one that can be alleviated by simple movements of students. Physically, the schools throughout Detroit offer equal facilities for all. The central Negro schools don't approach the crowded con- ditions of the schools on the cities perimeter; the faculties. are ap- proximately of an equal caliber; and in fna,'t on. hzAirint,4whn. ..1,m, in his present situation, would he feel any less so living day after day in an atmosphere of hostility? What he needs more than any- thing else is confidence in his own ability and in his chance to use that ability for his betterment. If the NAACP were to go into every school and seek out promising stu- dents and guarantee them a col- lege education and a respectable job, incentive which is presently non-existent would be provided. If every meeting place, public and private, were integrated, the Negro would not be much better off than he is right now. Respect can't be won with force; it must be earned. The prestige of a race is elevated, not through the common people, but through its great leaders. The Marian Ander- sons and Booker T. Washingtons have done.more for their own peo- ple than all the pickets and bus rides can hope for. The Negro needs help. The NAACP, through a mass drive for the higher education of its prom- ising students, could supply this -hope. Social barriers can't be brok- en with pickets. Where integra- tion would improve the chances for a Negro to succeed, it should be fought for, but integration for integration's sake alone is sense- less. --Ron Barnhart, '64 Hero. To the Editor: IT SEEMS that any fanatic or- ganization must have several things to keep it going and thriv- ing. The most noticeable of these are a rigid adherence to doctrine and a drive to suppress freedom under the guise of working for an "ultimate ideal," a religion or a myth of national supremacy. However, there is one little ex- tra touch that should not be over- looked. It is a good idea for a fanatic organization to get itself a hero, preferably a martyr, drag- ged up from the depths of ig- nominy to the status of demi-god. Adolf Hitler did this with a young punk who was killed in a street fight. He had a song written about the fellow, and had it suwg at most of the Nazi meetings. Robexrt Welc~hhax elnp t 1he am .:{{1.741." .. .. .......... ..... .....-. . . ...**..**..l************:..... . :"..4. S .. :J'JJr'".. ...44 f ...4$ $.I.........N.........::{. DAILY OFFICIAL- BULLETIN .w.* "............. ..% ...,... . " . .'1...JY{^..::... 1.......w......... ,^K...s...... ...............s....::1' 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. THURSDAY, APRIL 5 General Notices Faculty, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Midsemester reports are due Fri., April 6, for those students whose standing at midsemester is "ED or "E." The green report cards for freshmen and sophomores should be will be open on short schedules from Mon., April 9 through Fri., April 13. Libraries will be closed Sun., April 8 and April 15, and also Sat., April 14. The General Library and the Under- graduate Library will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mon. through Fri., April 9-April 13. Vacation hours for divisional libraries will be posted on the doors of each library. All libraries will resume regular schedules Mon., April 16. Foreign student Tuition Scholar- ships: The deadline for receipt of ap- plications is April '15. Forms are avail- able from the Counselors in the Inter- national Center. Events Thursday Applied Mathematics Seminar: James Mueller Shafer, Education; thesis: "Per- sistence of Postwar American Proposals for the Study of Contemporary Affairs in the west German Volksschule," Fri., April 6, 4042 University High School, at 4:00 p.m. Chairman, C. A. Eggertsen. Doctoral Examination for Sister Jean Walter Hitzeman, Zoology; thesis: "The Ontogeny of Enzymes in the Leydig+ Cells of the Testes of the Mouse," Fri., April 6, 2091 Natural Science Bldg., at 3:00 p.m. Chairman, J. M. Allen. Placement The following is a list of teaching in- terviews for the week of Monday, April 16-April 19. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 BucPhanaln. Mihti.- 1Elem.t1-. J .