Seventy-Second Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinions AreFree STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG, * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail"' BRITISH BATTLE: Common Market Fight Focuses on Politics -4 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. ยข: . ,r --: _t4 t - ,N - , ;-_ .- '' _ dRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: PHILIP SHERMAN University Women L _ f, SS Con... .Pro... 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 Y < (I 3' ,, ' 'r l : t t E t ' j v q - ..- .Cf, ' F. t.. .. , . i r ' r 'Y Il 4 .. ' , . MA :fi 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 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. FRIDAY, APRIL 20 General Notices Convocation: Auspices School of Nat- ural Resources, S. G. Fontanna, Dean, speaker. 11 a.m., Rackham Amphithea- tre. Announcement: Peace Corps Exam- Sat., April 21, 8:30 a.m., Main Street Post Office (downtown),Civil Service Rm. Applications available, at Bureau of Appoint's., 3200 SAB. Note: those who wish to take this exam and have not already sent in an application to Washington, may fill in application this week and take it into the exam on Sat. a.m. Nursing 101: All students enrolled in Nursing 101 should sign up by May 1 for the Orientation to the Medical Li- Doctoral Candidates who expect to re- ceive degrees in June, 1962, must have at least three bound copies (the orig- inal in a "spring binder") of their dissertation in the office of the Grad- uate School by Fri., April 27. The re- port of the doctoral conmittec on the final oral examination must be filed with the Recorder of the Graduate School together with two copies of the 1 thesis, which is ready in all respects for publication, not later than Mon., May 28. The persons listed below have failed to pick up their May Festival Usher Tickets, and they will be given one final chance to pick them up. This will be at the Box Office at Hill Aud., from 10:00 A.M. to noon Sat., April 21. If these tickets are not picked up at this time they will be cancelled. Thelist follows: Brenda Bencks, Ann Bowlby, Janet Ben- owitz, Paul Bendza, Ron Barnhart, Alma Forst, Mary Grey, Jane Grabois, Magda- lena Horn. Carol Hendrickson, Law- rence. Jacobs, Joan Kittle, Ann Kleis, Lora Krapohl, Priscilla McClay, Ida Putansu, Joe Pearl, Bonnie Rupp, Nan- cy Rupp, Judy Shepard, Mary Staton, Steven Shaw, Harrison Wehner, Marilyn Wren, Elaine Wender. A limited number of ushers for the