~ 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" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. _ < G t t. s, 'C ='> t;: ,. } \ J ^ t i., TUESDAY, MAY 8,1962 NIGHT EDITOR: JUDITH BLEIER 'U' Must Bear Consequences Of Legislature's Actions THE UNIVERSITY and the state are out in the cold again this year. University admin- istrators have been saying this is the critical year when we must have an adequate appro- priation or face disaster. The University is facing disaster. It is becoming increasingly clear that the the University will not receive the $4-5 million boost it needs in the coming year's operating budget. The income tax is dead. At best, the state will limp along with a package of nui- sance taxes. There is no prospect of more than a $1-2 million boost for the University. The University's answer to the state's cry for economy is a tuition boost. Higher student Squeeze ONCE AGAIN Jews are caught in the switches of history. This time the Jews of Algeria are the un- happy victims. Caught between nationalistic Arabs seeking their independence and essential- ly anti-semetic Europeans, the Jews have been harrassed by both sides. Only Friday, the Asso- ciated Press reported that six Moslems were killed and two Jews wounded in clashes in Oran. Six Moslems, the AP dispatch said, had sped through the Jewish quarter in a car firing on persons in the street. Returning Jewish fire caused the car to crash killing the car's driver, The rest were killed by gunfire. This is not the first such incident in the eight-year war where Jews had been attempt- ing, as in the past, to stay neutral. Several serious clashes between Arabs and Jews have occurred in Algiers. THEIR HISTORIC relations with the French had not been better. The "colons" have elected anti-semites to office for years and during World War II enthusiastically supported, the Vichy government decree revoking Jewish citizenship. This situation is not a new one for Judaism. They have been caught between the nationalis- tic East Europeans and the imperial Germans and Austrians before World War I. The results were only pogroms, mass immigration and in- tensified hatreds that contributed to the slaughter of the Nazi regime. The prospects for Algerian Jews do not seem any better. Not being European, they will not be easily accepted in France and the new Al- gerian government will probably ally itself with the Arab League with its anti-Israel, anti- semetic overtones. Hopefully, the Algerian Jew can escape the dilemma before it is too late. Immigration to Israel seems the ohly feasible solution for de- spite the nice words of the provisional Alger- ian government in Tunis, conditions of Alger- ian Jewry will not improve under the incoming Arab regime. -PHILIP SUTIN fees, now almost a certainty, have, however, provided legislators with an excuse for abdi- cating their responsibilities. Instead of accept- ing a deteriorating educational system as the consequence of fiscal irresponsibility, the legis- lators find it convenient to rail against out-of- state students, and lack of economy in our universities, and argue the necessity of a tui- tion boost. THE LEGISLATORS want a tuition boost. After all, universities, with student fees, are the only state institutions that have a sub- stantial income outside state appropriations. In a year when the legislators have decided that the state will have no substantial new taxes, a boost in tuition is the easy way out. The legislators are interested in being re- elected. Their constituents won't blame them if tuition at the University goes up. They will blame the Regents. In short, the University has played right into the hands of the Legislature. A' tuition boost is the expedient way, the easy way out. BUT THE UNIVERSITY can still come out ahead. There are, after all, two alternatives: boost tuition or cut enrollment. Paying $50 more is less painful than getting no educa- tion at all. If the University would cut back 50 per cent in freshman admissions next fall, the legislators would hear about it around election time. The University would have an excellent way of making its point about addi- tional funds. And for those who remain at the University, there would be an adequate level of facilities and faculty available. Such an action would be more than a vivid symbol of the plight of the state's educational institutions. It would be the beginning of a flood of similar moves that would destroy the artificial dam of nuisance taxes and non-sup- port that have long characterized the legisla- tors' attitudes. They yell about economy. Yet they expect that state institutions will keep on working at full capacity no matter how little money they give them. THIS BELIEF in fiscal witchcraft-that by some miracle state institutions have always worked and hence always will-would fall apart. Other institutions would quickly follow suit. Legislators-no. matter where they are geographically based-expect to do nothing, provide nothing and yet have a full level of state services. What would happen if all the state's institutions decided to limit themselves to a realistic level of services? If the University is to be a leader rather than a follower in society, it must take over the rejected responsibilities of the Legislature. It must make the point that one must bear the consequences of one's own actions. It must begin with what could well be the most effec- tive drive towards intelligent taxation and ap- propriations this state has ever seen. -DAVID MARCUS ®.. --^-ter. ( '" f } ._v..._.- u. . ,..w.a. ... r . . - ^ " '" -. w t i- h 4 .L x . £YY.,, - -<'}~-_ .. f2'3yj.S ' .3, y °4t