,1962 THE MICHIGAN DAILY 1962 TilE MICHIGAN DAILY Center Reports Education Gets Large Share of Grants A recently released Foundation Library Center report shows that education received 54 per cent of all grants made by the 154 larg- est foundations/ in the United States in 1960. The Foundation's nation - wide survey indicated that $389 million was distributed out of the foun- dations' total assets of $12.3 bil- lion. Of the grants, 20 per cent went for scientific research. This was an increase of seven per cent over' the year 1957-58. At the same time, health and welfare contri- butions dropped down to 17 per cent of the total money donated. (The previous figures were 26 per cent.) F. Emerson Andrews, director of the Foundation Library Center, in- dicated that he believed the drop in welfare research was due to the expansion of Social Security, pri- vate insurance, welfare funds, re- tirement plans and the govern- mental involvement in fields pre- viously supported by p.r i v a t e groups. The 154 foundations that the center surveys have been estimated to possess three-fourths of all foundation assets in the country. The survey reported on those foundations which had assets of $10 million or more. ANN ARBOR IS A FOLK FESTIVAL (This Weekend) WITH SAN FRANCISCO'S JESSE FULLER, WASHINGTON SQUARE'S BOB DILLAN, & NUMEROUS OTHER ILLUMINATIONS FROM THE GREEN PASTURES OF MSU, WSU, U OF WISCONSIN, BERLIN, CHICAGO, ETC. Set Frosh Weekend Strateg By MYRNA ALPERT Under a cold war agreement to refrain from opening fire until a specially designated time, the Maize and Blue teams have been eecretly planning the offensive they will take when the battle begins. The team with the best laid strategy will be declared the winner of Frosh Weekend. As the war warms up and the fighting begins, the two teams will be competing with each other to see who can produce the most original publicity. The purpose of this activity is to give hints to the rest of the students of the theme that has been chosen to represent each team. A specific object has been select- ed to characterize each theme, and the Maize and Blue will do every- thing in their power to see to it that their's becomes a well known sight :on campus. Their activities will range from WCBN dedica- tions which subtly indicate the nature of their object, to the plac- ing of replicas of them in often' traversed places. The climax will come May 5 at the Frosh Weekend dance. The Blue team made the first attack last Friday when it fought a small skirmage by putting on a skit on the diag. The Maize team was quick to retaliate yesterday afternoon when it presented its first skit.- Last year, using Blueshevik Rev- olution as the subject for their spy theme, the Blue team won the highest number of points out of a possible 100. Howell To Speak On Anthropology Prof. F. Clark Howell of the University of Chicago anlthropol- ogy department will speak on "Some Recent Developments in Knowledge of the Earliest Homin- ids in Africa" at 4:10 p.m. today in Aud. B. By THOMAS HUNTER Prof. Albert H. Hourani, Oxford's director of Middle Eastern Stud- ies, traced the gradual develop- ment of the concept of the secular Arab nation-state beginning with the late eighteenth century belief in identity between Islamic relig- ious and temporal state. Speaking on "Modern Arab Po- litical Thought," Prof. Hourani said last night that the dominant current of Islam thought held that even an unjust ruler should be obeyed, because a despotic govern- ment was thought better than an- archy. The benevolent ruler was one who "strove toward justice and at the same time regulated the or- der of the community and the state" -which had been set down by great codes of law. Begin Self-Government At the end of the Russo-Turkish war, at the turn of the nineteenth century, the more distant prov- inces began dropping away to gov- ern themselves. Non-Islamic groups were less willing to retain their position of subordination and pressed denial of the claim of the Ottoman Sultan as the real pro- tector of the people. Prof. Hourani said that in its at- tempt to reassert its authority within the empire, the central gov- ei:nment borrowed some of the techniques of the rebelling forces, thereby exposing its youth to Eu- ropean customs and ideas. From the middle nineteenth century, political thought was de- voted to justifying these changes. Achieve Well-Being The function of the ruler be- came not only that of maintain- ing the will of God, but to achieve the well-being of the people, which was by now identified with mater- ial progress. Love of country re- mained a basis for political edu- cation. Technological advances put Is- lam on a rational basis. Islam be- came reason itself, the way to bas- ic truth, Prof. Hourani said. Is- lam remained the true religion, but its social teachings were re- garded as of another time. At the beginning of the 20th Century, political theorists still maintained that religion must be a basis of - education, that society must be grounded in ethical con- viction, but a new belief that the Islamic was not necessarily the strongest state had penetrated the strong Arab nationalism. Hourani Notes Trend Of Islamic Thought_ ' Only 5 more.days to petition for the new Positions Available Male & Female General Chairmen Male & Female Directors Pick up your petition in the Leagse Undergraduat? Office *Junior CLASS Play PROF. ALBERT H. HOURANI ... Islamic culture JAZZ TRIO: 'U' .Students Win .Awards In Festival A trio, two of its members Uni- versity student, won the finest jazz group award and five other prizes in the 1962 Collegiate Jazz Festivalcompetition last weekend at the University of Notre Dame. Competing against 24 midwest- ern college jazz groups, the Bob James Trio, headed by Robert James, Grad, with Robert Pozar, 64SM, and Ronald Brooks, a Jan- uary graduate of Eastern Michigan University, also won the best com- bo award and four individual awards. As a result of their performance at the festival, the group will make a record for a major recording company this June. ORGAN IZATION available In April, May, and Ju Apply a University Family Houi Office. 2364 Bishop Street, Nor Campus, or phone 662-3169 or 6 NOTICES 1511, ext. 3569. Congregational Disc. E & R Stud- RENAISSANCE HOUSE Guild, Cost Luncheon Discussion: " View of Religion," C. 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