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dRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1962
NIGHT EDITOR: PHILIP SHERMAN
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THROUGHOUT all the wailing, infighting
and turmoil that continually enmeshes Uni-
versity tuition raises, the real answer to the
crisis has gone unnoticed. And now that
another fee hike is imminent, it becomes in-
creasingly important that this solution be
adopted.
The proposal is simple-double the tuition
rates for women. The advantages are many.
This move would provide about another $5
million for the administration to help relieve
the University's most critical areas. The new
music school building could be constructed 'as
it should have been 10 years ago. Faculty
salaries could be raised so that some of the
professors might stay around. The Plait De-
partment could operate, at least on a bare
subsistence level, once again.
WOMEN'S TUITION is by far the best local
source of revenue, because the overwhelm-
ing majority of women students here serve
no useful function within the University com-
munity.
The responsibility of the individual student
centers directly on the pursuit of knowledge
and truth: As the OSA Report's philosophy sec-
tion, which has the backing of people ranging
from James Lewis to Brian Glick, points out,
"the student is expected and encouraged to
grow in knowledge and in wisdom so that
he can make informed and judicious choices
when confronted with major questions. He is
actively encouraged to question, to accept
nothing submissively and uncritically."
T IS OBVIOUS that women students fail
miserably in both criteria. They are not com-
mitted to the ideals of knowledge; they do
not critically question the special rules that
govern them.
Female students flounder at an intellectual
nadir because women are under no pressure
or obligation to be concerned with academics.
Society expects - and the women students
themselves expect-that the University will
shelter and confine female students. The em-
phasis is on the protective aspect of the
institution, rather than on what positive con-
tributions the women could make to the cam-
pus. Hence it is little wonder that women
students leave the University with about the
same mental capacity they had when entering
as freshmen.
MEN, on the other hand, are under tremen-
dous pressure to produce. Their entire
future hinges oi the old G.P.A. The quality
of their work here will determine what kind
of job they can get and how well they can
support a family. If the male student doesn't
come through, his future is in danger-and
he knows it. Thus his inherent role bn the
campus scene is much more academically-
oriented than the women's, for the very neces-
sity of succeeding in classes forces a male
concern with the pursuit of knowledge. It is
different for women, because their future is
family-oriented and ultimately the relevance
of their college career is gone forever.
It is certainly true that University women
have a higher grade point (2.69) than men
(2.51). But this is due to factors other than
the myth of women's intellectual superiority.
Women are more inclined to the regimented
processes which produce good grades. They
do not mind the regularly-scheduled examina-
tions or the class routine. Women's natural in-
clination for regimentation helps the grade
point, but it misses the spirit of truth and
knowledge.
The female record isn't any better in regard
to critical examination of their environment.
Women students' almost complete submission
to the inane complex of rules governing them
is well-known. Surveys and referenda among
women in the past have consistently found
support for even the most stupid of rules-
hours. And the traditional rationale which most
females will venture for hours is something
like "it helps to provide an excuse to get back
home when you're out on a boring date." That
this involves telling a lie does not seem to
bother them. The female response to University
regulations in general is just as unquestioning
and naive.
WELL, IF WOMEN students don't kill them-
selves studying, and if rules don't par-
ticularly upset them, how do they spend their
time? The, answer is clear: improving their
social lives. Perhaps they aren't marriage-
hungry until the latter end of their college
career, but throughout it they are extremely
social-conscious and materialistic. They trot
back and forth looking busy in the UGLI;
they join and remain in campus activities
while doing nothing for them; they sit around
trying to look cute in the League or Fishbowl.
Hopefully a 100 per cent boost in women's
tuition would put a stop to this sort of thing.
The rates would then be high enough to attract
only girls willing to get serious and use their
mental gifts for a change. with some sort of
special scholarship program to take care of
women in financial need. There would be no
need for the special slate of women's rules,
and the women would neither desire nor defend
IN 1869, Madelon Louisa Stockwell became
the first woman to be admitted to the Uni-
versity. Her admission was no easy matter-
as one expert on Miss Stockwell put it "they
ran her through a wringer because they didn't
want women at the University . . . they con-
sidered them useless, and were skeptical about
the success they could achieve in an institution
of higher learning."
In 1870, five instructors were hired for the
specific job of teaching one course (anatomy)
to the women admitted that year. Administrat-
ors evidently were satisfied that women had a
definite and necessary role at the University.
Nearly a century later certain students still
question the value of women in college for any
but decorative functions (which they whole-
heartedly scorn and/or enjoy).
CLEARLY women are as qualified academi-
cally as men, despite the continuing argu-
ment that women are rarely serious in their
studies.
Recently compiled figures reveal the not-
startling fact that during the fall, 1961 semes-
ter, undergraduate women maintained an over-
all grade-point average of 2.69, while under-
graduate men, despite theoretically superior
intelligence and dedication to the standards of
scholarship and knowledge, came off with an
overall average of 2.51.
Contrary to popular belief women are under
great academic pressure. It isn't true that they
need not worry about their futures - that the
soft jobs (secretarial, school teaching, working
in a department store), or, more likely, mar-
riage, are always available.
Until quite recently, women were not per-
mitted to enter into the business world. Women
in medicine (other than nurses), women in
law, women in the performing arts, women in
politics - in fact, women just about anywhere
outside the home, the church, or the PTA -
were under pressure from friends and family
to return to the feminine life, to cease at-
tempting to gain entry into a world which was
a man's world.
Many women today are recognized leaders
in the major professions. More women each
year are entering graduate schools for MA or
PhD. degrees. In either case, there is a great
deal of pressure on women to earn and main-
tain excellent grades.
THERE IS always the cry that educated wo-
men are lost in society since they eventually
marry and will not use their educations for
any terribly great work. However, even after
marriage, many continue their careers or re-
turn to graduate school. If they do leave, it
is usually due to pressure by husbands (it is,
after all, an insult to masculinity to be sup-
ported. by a lady), or until they become preg-
nant.
Moreover, the idea that all women want the
supposedly "soft" jobs is absurd. Being a sec-
retary or salesgirl or working on an assembly
line are hardly pleasurable, exciting, or reward-
ing, and there are relatively few such jobs
which could be called "nice" much less "soft."
IT IS DIFFICULT for women to escape the
accusation of being overly-submissive and
unconcerned about the rules with which the
University has cluttered their lives. They are
forced to live three years in dormitories, forced
to live with hours and idiotic probationary
measures, and protestations voiced against
these regulations generally are, at best, ignored.
There are on record a number of cases con-
cerning women who, having gone to various
University officials to complain about dormi-
tory conditions .and rules, were referred to
Room 218, Health Service - this "psychological
counselling" is a device for quieting mal-
contents in dormitories.
In certain cases, women organize protest
committees or circulate petitions. They are
hardly ever listened to by housemothers and
the higher administrators usually laugh off the
effort. In other cases, the individual or indi-
viduals involved have been suspended for "con-
duct unbecoming a student."
In the recent SGC election campaign, four
of the candidates (all of whom were men)
said that they felt women's hours and the other
restricting rules were necessary and that they
would not attempt changing them radically
since the Upper Peninsula and other conserva-
tive areas instate would not stand for this. It
is obvious that the women on campus cannot
fight for their rights without male support.
T HE ANTI-FEMALE sex-league argues that
women, in addition to serving no useful
academic purpose, also are useless in activi-
ties - joining primarily to entice the unsus-
pecting men with whom the responsibility for
the organizations really rests.
With the possible exceptions of the Michi-
gan Union, IFC, IQC and I-M Sports, women
are leaders in every major campus activity.
The Michiganensian, Generation, The Daily
(except the Sports Staff), SGC, the student
political groups, church organizations, and
various volunteer programs, among others,
would have a hard time functioning if their
female members resigned.
Often the "activities woman" pays for her
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THE STUDENT MOVEMENT:
Problems of Campus Action
By RONALD WILTON
Daily Staff Writer
(Last in a Series)
O NE OF THE PROBLEMS inher-
ent in the "student movement"
is that its members by and large
are students-geographically con-
fined to an academic community
for four or more years and poli-
tically impotent within that com-
munity.
With the end of the McCarthy
era and the resumption of politi-
cal dialogue on the campus, many
students turned their searching to
their own world-dealing with
academic reform, the university
community and the role of the stu-
dent in it.
The student on the American
college campus is in a paradoxical
situation. On the one hand he is
regarded as the future hope of our
society and well-enough qualified
to be given the best preparation
for his future life that society can
devise.
Yet, with all this, he is treated
as if he were completely irrespon-
sible and without any knowledge
of how to regulate his own affairs.
Because they generally stay at one
institution for between four and
seven years they are regarded as
transients who' have no right to
participate in the government of
an institution from which they will
soon be gone.
EVEN WITHIN the strictly aca-
demic sphere of the university, the
student does not fare much better.
Many institutions regard their stu-
dents as raw material to be shaped
and molded into something usable
by society. Much of their first two
years is spent in large lecture sec-
tions taught by a teacher they
rarely talk to during the course of
a semester. The teachers them-
selves have divided loyalties be-
cause research exerts as strong a
pull as teaching, if not stronger.
Often they do not present their
subject matter as being relevant to
the outside world.
Faced with these problems,
some concerned students began
casting around for organizations
through which methods of univer-
sity reform could be planned. Of
the existing and possible organiz -
tions, the two that offered t1.,
most hope were student govern-
ment and student political parties.
THEIR FIRST CHOICE was stu-
dent government and, with some
exceptions, it was disappointing.
A student government cannot exist
without some kind of license from
the university administration and
with this license goes a definition
of what is appropriate student con-
cern.
They are not allowed to consider
major problems and thus on many
campuses are concerned, with
budgets and calendaring. More-
over, many students participating
on their college governments did
not see themselves as the student
body's representatives to the re-
gents, alumni, faculty and admin-
istration, but rather as agents of
these bodies. This helps to unbal-
ance the tripartite division of the
university community by giving
the students an unequal role in
relation to the administration and
faculty.
* *, *
DISENCHANTED with such stu-
dent governments, students began
casting around for some other way
to affect change and came up with
the political party. These were not
brand new inventions. Parties have
existed on American college cam-
puses since the 1930's, if not ear-
lier. After World War II they re-
mained quiet, until 1955 when ide-
ologically oriented parties sprang
up at several campuses to chal-
lenge fraternity-sorority dominat-
ed parties (which were usually
apolitical).
These new parties were both lib-
eral and conservative. Since 1959,
campus parties have been spring-
ing up at a rapid rate and have
included the more well known ones
such as SLATE at Berkeley, POLIT
at Chicago. The Progressive Stu-
dent League at Oberlin, the Con-
servative Party at Carleton College
and Voice at the University.
* * *
THESE NEW PARTIES differed
significantly from the old ones.
First of all they dropped the old
approach of confederating various
existing campus student organiza-
tions into one party and instead
appealed to students on an indi-
vidual basis.
This makes their organization
more democratic. Goals have also
changed. The old parties were
mainly concerned in getting stu-
dents interested in such activities
as athletics, homecoming and the
building of school spirit. The new
ones have broadened their outlook.
They want to reawaken on the
campus a sense of political and so-
cial consciousness so that students
see themselves as members of a
society instead of outsiders. Thus
they seek to put the student in a
power position in the university;
a place where he rightly belongs.
By trying to make other' stu-
dents informed and concerned
about their community they try to
dispel the adult notion of the stu-
dent as an apathetic, irresponsi-
ble person. They run candidates
for student government because,
with concerned people on them,
student governments can be more
effective than they have been.
Platforms have achieved greater
importance because the activities
of the party do not stop right after
election but continue throughout
the school year.
* * *
ALTHOUGH they have only
started -recently, and it is yet too
early to evaluate their full impact
on the nation's academic commu-
nity, campus political parties have
been important contributors to the
.increasing political involvement of
the student body.
Recently a three day conference
on campus parties was held at
Oberlin College. Along with dis-
cussion about tactics, goals and
ideals, the participants discussed
some kind of national linkage be-
tween the different parties.
While nothing concrete on this
came out of the conference, mem-
bers from different areas did agree
on the necessity for a coordinated
nation-wide protest against the
House Committee on Un-American
Activities which is holding hear-
ings in Los Angeles later this
month. Ideally this is only the be-
ginning of a process which would
link students across the nation in
politically oriented projects.
The image of the student as an
irresponsible child is held by many
people in our society in addition
to University officials. What is not
generally realized is that the stu-
dent is caught in a vicious circle:
he is not allowed to participate in
important decisions concerning
him which gives rise to despair
and apathy.
This despair and apathy is then
cited by adults as reasons for not
giving him more responsibility. The
student must break out of this cir-
cle and change his image: because
By JEAN TENANDER
Daily Staff Writer
T HE DEBATE raging in Britain
over her entry into the Euro-
pean Economic Community is far
from over. In recent weeks anti-
Common Marketeers from both
Right and Left have switched from
economic objections to political
ones, but the fervor of the fight
has increased rather than dimin-
ished.
The anti-Marketeers have at last
realized that they cannot sustain
any strong following on the basis
of their insupportable economic
opposition and they hope to make
the changeover to political objec-
tions before too many other people
realize that most of their former
arguments have been invalid.
With the new political attack
the anti-Marketeers claim that the
government has purposely failed
to make clear the political implica-
tions resulting from Britain's join-
ing the Common Market. The gov-
ernment has failed to do this
because the political ramifications
wlil be even more serious than the
economic ones, they continue.
Therefore it is essential to bring
all aspects of the situation to light
now and demonstrate once and for
all that it is folly for Great Brit-
ain to join the Common Market.
THE Conservatives on the Right
are concernedtprimarily with the
defense and retention of tradition-
al British political institutions.
They fear the EEC will seriously
impinge upon their legal and po-
litical sovereignty, and they refuse
to acquiesce to "planned enforce-
ment of laissez-faire." They are
wary of the "bureaucratic politi-
cal structure" which they are con-
vinced will ultimately lead to
political federation of all member
nations.
The Left has more valid, if also
unrealistic arguments. Article 29
of the constitution of the EEC
prohibits "any aid granted by
means of state resources in any
manner whatsoever, which dis-
torts, or threatens to distort com-
petition by favoring certain enter-
prises or certain productions."
If this wording remains un-
changed, future Socialist govern-
ments will be unable to provide for
adequate social planning by means
of selective subsidy or taxation.
Another objection from the Left
is, Britain would be able to exer-
cise much 'less influence on the
reactionary governments of West-
ern Europe by joining them than
by staying outside.
Harold Wilson, MP "shadow"
Foreign Secretary in the House of
Commons, points out in the New
Statesman "the danger not only of
Britain, but to the world, if we are
forced into common policy identi-
fying us with French policy in Al-
geria and German obstructions in
Berlin."
WHILE these arguments may
sound irrefutable and doubtlessly
can be supported with facts, and
are in most cases, they obscure the
real problem and eventually only
serve to hurt their own cause. The
very fact that economic objections
have been given a back seat proves
clearly that on the real issues,
which are economic ones, there are
no difficulties which cannot be
overcome in view of the tremen-
dous advantages to be gained from
the Common Market.
Because of its unique depend-
ence on foreign *trade, much of
which is within the Empire itself,
Great Britain has always had to
concern herself vitally with bal-
ance of payment problems.
Although American trade with
foreign nations is increasing, we
are nevertheless almost totally
self-sufficient in the necessities of
everyday life. The United King-
dom, on the other hand, cannot
exist without trade, and she at-
tempts to sell her products notato
a relatively unified market made
up of homogeneous states but to
countries differing in climate, lit-
eracy rate, needs, and desires.
In addition to the enormous va-
riety of markets, British trade also
suffers from the hampering re-
strictions of industrial and labor
conservatism. Because she was one
of the earliest industrial nations,
Britain has naturally developed
strong traditions in her industrial
habits. These serve only to hinder
her now, however, since much of
her industrial machinery is anti-
quated and her production meth-
ods are out of date.
* *5 *
LABOR, which has for the last
century concentrated its heaviest
appeal on distributing wealth more
equitably, has at last discovered
that if there is no wealth it can-
not be distributed. Because of its
socialistic coloring, Labor has shied
away from the type of modified
laissez-faire practiced in America.
Now, since about 1959, there has
been a new 'attitude creeping into
party platforms.
Many former adherents of a
strongly regulated economy are be=
ginning to suggest that greater
economic freedom is necessary to
increase national productivity.
Countries possessing this type of
an economy can no longer be
pushed aside as economically ob-
solete and dangerous since they
are so obviously prosperous.
*' *
These are the sort of facts that
have forced the debate to become
political rather than economical.
Even the Commonwealth has be-
come a relatively dead issue. It is
hard to protect Canada from in-
justice when she herself says the
Common Market will probably
benefit her more than it will harm
her.
* * *
BEHIND the British question
there is a much broader issue.
America and the entire free world
are about to become involved In a
future few men would have dared
to imagine a hundred years ago.
In his recent Free Federalist lec-
tures at Harvard, Rockefeller said:
"I have come to the conviction that
events are rapidly driving us be-
yond even the limits of regional
concepts - to the logic of applying
the federal idea wherever possible,
among free nations however dis-
tant, however seemingly strong
themselves."
IT IS no longer just a ,question
of whether Great Britain will join
the Common Market. The United
States and the whole free world
are involved in something which
has grown far beyond a mere econ-
omic union with the nations of
Western Europe. We in our coun-
try should be making every effort
to convince the anti-Marketeers
in other countries concerned with
free world trade that they should
not join just the European Econ-
omic Community but accept the
newer concept of the Atlantic
Union.
LETTERS
to the
EDITOR
Common Deadline ...
To the Editor:
AS THE advisor of Sigma Nu
fraternity, would like to thank
Cynthia Neu for her accurate and
fair reporting of the recent crisis
of our group. Although I didnot
always agree with her editorial
comments, I do believe she at-
tempted to present an accurate
evaluation of the problem.
One point that Cynthia Neu did
make which I believe deserves re-
emphasis is that of the position of
IFC. (I suppose Panhel could also
be included.) I agree with her that
IFC and Panhel should ask SGC
for a "universal deadline." Pres-
ently, they are encouraging the
Council to continue its present
line of discrimination as it did
against Sigma Nu. However, may-
be IFC and Panhel like to have
SGC fight discrimination with dis-
crimination.
Thus, I believe that these rep-
resentatives of the fraternities and
sororities could' encourage SGC to
legislate a common deadline for
all groups and temporarily get
themselves out of the very un-
usual position of acting both as a
legislative and judicial group.
-Sidney N. Smock, M.D.
Requiem
To the Editor:
"PLAY THE fife lowly, and beat
the drum slowly,
Play the dead march as they
carry him on . .:.
After Mr. Storch's editorial on
the Student Left, I feel that the
only thing left for me to do is to
write a requiem. Something nicely
sentimental and soporific seems
appropriate. Even though I dislike
the left-right, liberal-conservative
name game that Mr. Storch insists
on playing, I suppose that I, along
with any other person in the "stM-
dent left", am now a corpse.
Since Mr. Storch has written
such a beautiful funeral oration I
feel that it is my sacred obligation
to humor him by dying. After all,
the death sentence has been pro-
nounced under the aegis of the
campus's sole possessor of The
Truth.
I feel, that there is no other
course of action left to me by Mr.
Storch but that of joining the
Young Americans for Freedom. I
would be obliged if Mr. Storch
would tell me where I can trade
rhy guitar for a black leather um-
brella. If Voice will refund my
dues, I can use that as down pay-
ment on membership in the John
Birch Society. George Lincoln
Rockwell graduated from the U of
M so there are evidently some ave-
nues of political activity still open
to the students of this campus.
But I should bring this letter to
a close as corpses, among their
other attributes, are incapable of
writing letters. Mr. Storch deserves
congratulations for filling an ob-
vious gap in The Michigan Daily's
amalgamation of editorial view-
points. What Mr. Harrah's pro-
phecies of doom for the Republi-
can Party are to the right, Mr.
Storch's are now to the left.
". . . and pour the clay o'er him
For he's a young leftist and you
know he's done wrong."
-Howard Abrams, '63
Creativity
IT IS A GOOD thing, then, that
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