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Big Ter Exchange
Profitable Program.
THE INSTATE student is often forced for
monetary reasons to sacrifice his hope to go
to a university which specialiges in his major
field. A state line separates him and the school
of his choice for implicit in the boundary line
is a tuition differential between his state school
and the neighboring out-of-state school, often
up to $400. To alleviate this problem, delegates
to the Big Ten Presidents Conference last week-
end proposed a tuition reciprocity plan.
Under this plan, an instater from one Big
Ten school (excluding Northwestern University
which does not have an in-state-out-of-state
difference) would be allowed to go to another
school in his, junior year for study. The second
school could similarly send an instate student
to the first school. Both students would pay
instate tuition to their own schools.
The plan opens up new, hitherto unexplored
areas to the instate student. The educational
advantage of studying under different profes-
sors with new theories and interpretations of
subject matter is in itself a reason for institut-
ing the plan.
THE SOCIAL changes at each Big Ten uni-
versity will also contribute to the growth of
any undergraduate student. New ideas and new
places add to the educational experience and
such a plan presents both.,
The program could conceivably meet opposi-
tion from regents of any university. It is, there-
fore, important to "sell" such a program to
them.
This ought to be easy enough. Regents are
not blind to educational opportunities which
can be offered to students by enlarged pro-
grams. Often they find themselves hindered by
financial problems from doing this at their in-
Cosmonauts: V
HE RECENT VISIT of Soviet cosmonaut
Gherman Titov to the United States re-
vealed one thing with telling clarity. Titov and
U. S. astronaut John Glenn share perhaps the
most tragic characteristic of modern times -
they have both been brainwashed by their re-
spective governments.
Titov and Glenn have been leaders in the
greatest challenge of all human history, the
challenge to reach beyond the planet that has
bound that history. In their flights, and in their
dedication, they should have left the intellec-
tual bounds of earth just as they left its physi-
cal bounds. But they did not.
Titov is a Russian, and Glenn is an American.
And the press conferences demonstrated that
neither one is much of a human being.
It was the same old dogma all over again.
Titov and Glenn had little to say except to re-
peat the standard disarmament lines of Russia
and the United States. And everyone who uis-
tned to them had heard it all before, a million
times. One might have expected to hear a dis-
embodied voice announce, as each of them
spoke, "this statement is pre-recorded from
Washington (or Moscow.)"
THE ASTRONAUTS themselves seemed po-k
litely bored as they listened to each other
repeat the pre-digested words of their govern-
ments, Perhaps they were weary from long/
hours of sightseeing and official cereponies.
But more likely, their weariness was intellec-
tual - the especially deadening weariness of
never having thought for themselves.'
stitutions. But if a very specialized course is
offered at another university, and a student can
get training in it for a year, so much the better
for the student and the finances of the home
university.
PRESENTLY, faculty "switches" or exchanges
of visiting professors already exist. The
adaptation to student exchanges should not be
difficult. A plan such as this can be instituted
if the student pays his fees at the home school
and then goes to the second one. (For example,
a University student would pay the University
$280 and then go to school at the University of
Minnesota.) The differences between instate
tuition rates throughout the Big Ten are slight
and therefore neither institution would lose
money on the exchange.
As to out-of-state students, the problems are
greater and the plan could probably not work.
This is due partially to the fact that out-of-
state differentials in tuition vary to a greater
degree han in-state fees among the Big Ten,
schools. And, of course, if the out-of-state stu-
dent has sufficient funds to choose initially the
school he wants to go to, he can choose the
school which specializes in his major. He need
not have a year away from one university to
go to. another on an exchange basis since he
could enroll at the school of his choice and
pay tuition there anyway.
To the in-stater, however, the program opens
up his world a great deal. For the institutions
involved no great financial problem would arise.
Within the Big Ten a new tie would be formed,
one that is academic instead of athletic and
educational ideas can be exchanged in an en-
larged, midwestern community of scholars.
-ELLEN SILVERMANN
anhed Dream
An American is tempted to say that our dis'
semination of almost complete scientific infor-
mation about Glenn's flight as compared to Ti-
tov's maddening secrecy gives the United States
the good-will advantage. Perhaps so. But it is
still just part of the standard line, and does
not really conceal the' fact that Glenn contrib-
uted absolutely nothing beyond that line. The
U.S., in its way, is just as intractable as the
Soviet Union. Titov and Glenn stood not as
symbols, of humanity, but as straw men of
geography and bureaucracy.
What sleep machines of our Brave New
World destroyed their minds through such
careful "education?" Who drew the ineradi-
cable boundaries of maps so deeply in their
brains?
THESE 'MEN have been closer to the stars
than any other creatures that ever lived
on earth. They have begun the exploration of
infinity. The earth is full, and so man moves
beyond it. Or does he?
Again and again, Glenn and Titov repeated
how much they would like to make a space
flight together. But there was always the little
"if." The tragedy of the little if was not 'so
much that it existed, for that could not be
helped, but rather that neither Glenn nor Titov
bothered to challenge It for the sake of an age-
less human dream.,
Glenn and Titov lied to us. Neither of them
ever left the earth. Neither of them ever saw
the stars.
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EVERYBODY knows that professional theatre is coming to Ann Arbor
but how many know that first-rate professional dance is already
here? The audience Tuesday night in Barbour gym who witnessed
Transfiguration know, and they ought to spread the word far and wide.
This impressive faculty concert was the work of four people. Eliza-
beth Weil is an instructor in dance. John Adamson is a pianist and mu-
sical director for dance. Patricia Kinnel is a teaching fellow in dance.
James Payton, the guest dancer, has recently come from New York to
live in Ann Arbor, open a studio and form a dance company. Both Miss
Weil and Mr. Payton are Julliard graduates who have taught and
danced for four years with Jose Limon.
IN THIS CONCERT of four dances and three piano solos, Transfig-
uration came last. It was choreographed by Miss Weil and danced by
herself and Mr. Payton to music of Silvestre Revueltas and Mr. Payton.
The true dance illusion, writes the philosopher Suzanne Langer, is the
evocation of daemonic powers, and Transfiguration is just that. "I Am
Become Mine Oppressor" says this dance; the audience feels in their
own breathing the death of love as Miss Weil takes on more and more
the brutal gestural vocabulary of Mr. Payton. Miss Weil's transfigura-
tion in the course of ten minutes must be seen to be believed, for it
is not the tragedy of one person but of us in the audience, our whole
tribe, and it is beyond tears.
Idyll is another work of Miss Weil, danced by the same pair to in-
ventions of Bach. In this triptych all the tenderness amputated from
Transfiguration flows out; not too fast, not too slow.
It appears and recedes like a perfect day, leaving the flavor that
there will be another and another. Miss Kinnel joined the pair in danc-
ing Passing Fancy composed by Miss Weil to a little fillip of Debussy:
This piece, like Idyll, has a fine economy of smovement. It makes its
point, puts a period, and departs.
MISS KINNEL choreographed and danced the solo Kookie Toy
Mouse, to piano music of Villa-Lobos, brilliantly played by Mr. Adam-
son. But this is a mouse that roared. Miss Kinnel's dance had some
excellent movements, but there were a bit too many. A little pruning
would set off this dance in its best light.
The dance that Miss Weil brings to Michigan is a human dance. It
is enriched but never ruled by forial and abstract treatments of the
body common during the past decade. Surely the University can find
the footage to film dances like Idyll and Transfiguration ... the footage
for one quarter of one football game. Cinderella met her lover at a
dance. How long must the Cinderella of American Arts, the Dance, wait
for her prince?
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DISARMAMENT:
After Korea--Hope: 1950-55
A
Few Basic Issues
OAS Warning Dangerous
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the sec-
ond in a three-part series tracing
the world's disarmament attempts
since World War II.)
By JAMES NICHOLS
Daily Staff Writer,
IN 1950 THE United Nations
went to war with countries of
the Communist bloc, and thoughts
of peace and disarmament were
smothered beneath growing piles
of shiny new tanks and bombs.
The United States quadrupled its
military budget in 1951, and other
nations chipped in to finance the.
acceleration of the arms race. Sig-
nificantly, no nuclear weapons
were used in Korea, and the peri-
pheral conflict - chiefly through
LETTERI
to the
EDITOR
To the Editor:
READ THE editorial by Michael
Olinick on the Tribe of Michi-
gamua with a great deal of inter-
est. Some of his points were well
taken but most, in my opinion,
were not.
It is too bad that prospective
members of campus honoraries
must have their clothes torn off
and be left sometimes in quite em-
barrassing situations. I agree that
tapping could be carried out with
more restraint and still have its
purpose served.
As to the rest of the editorial, it
is my opinion that the writer is
somewhat confused. At this point,
let me say that I respect his per-
sonal opinion on honoraries in
general and Michigamua in par-
ticular.
It is true that certain offices and
positions on campus are tradition-
ally tapped into the Tribe. But in
almost all instances, these are the
men who are deserving of the hon-
or. If this were not true, they
would not and should not be in
positions of campus leadership. If
The Daily editors and business
manager are traditionally immoral
or unwilling to work or on the
verge of flunking out, then I'll go
along with Olinick, the Tribe
makes a mistake in tapping them.
* * *
THE PURPOSE of the Tribe as
I see it, is not to bring sinister
student leaders of various power
blocs on campus together to plot
great changes in university policy.
It is rather an attempt to bring to-
gether outstanding men who rep-
resent various spheres of campus
activity and broaden the under-
standing of all beyond their own
particular interests.
The Tribe does not exist to as-
sert secretly its power on the Uni-
versity administration, for in
truth, the Tribe has no such pow-
er. It is inconceivable that any
change would be made in the Uni-
versity policy simply because a
group of young men in the Tribe
decided such a change was neces-
sary. The only influence Michi-
gamua has, is asserted in a strictly
advisory capacity which can be ac-
cepted or rejected and in this it
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the efforts of President Truman -
did not spread.
With eternally-springing hope,
the UN made ready to tackle again
the problem set forth in its char-
ter: "the maintenance of interna-
tional peace and security, includ-
ing the principles governing dis-
armament, and the regulation of
armaments."
With an eye to the Soviet con-
tention that it was impractical to
consider nuclear and conventional
weapons separately, the two old
deadlocked agencies - the Atomic
Energy Commission and the Com-
mission on Conventional Arma-
ments - were merged into a new
Disarmament Commission. When
the body met initially in 1952, Rus-
sia, now a nuclear power itself, re-
iterated its demand for an imme-
diate bomb-banning as the first
step in any scheme.
* * *
THE UNITED STATES repeated
that the first step must include
provisions for control and verifi-
cation of any multilateral reduc-
tion in military strength. Russia,
after a delay, accepted the prin-
ciple of international control, and
even agreed to an agency with the
power to make continuing inspec-
tions but without the right "to in-
terfere in the domestic affairs of
States."
The three big Western powers
outlined the cuts in armed forces
to which they would agree with
the Soviet Union: the forces of the
United States, Russia and China,
they said, could be cut to 1.5 mil-
lion men apiece, and those of
France and the United Kingdom to
between 7,- and 800,000. Russia
flatly rejected the offer, insisting
on its previous demands for a one-
third cut in all forces. This West-
ern offer made no difference in
the deadlocked Commission, but it
was later to be revived and elevat-
ed to great importance.
The Korean Armistice negotia-
tions dominated 1953. In Novem-
ber, 1952 the United States tested
its first hydrogen bomb in the Pa-
cific, and Russia fired one of its
own only nine months later. With
the deadlock of the Disarmament
Commission, the quest for world
security took a year's vacation.
EARLY IN 1954, Russia agreed
to participate in a new round of
negotiations; thistime in a five-
power Sub-Committee of the Dis-
armament Commission. Russia
had rejected a similar proposal a
few months earlier, and its revers-
al appeared to be grounds for
careful optimism.
The Western powers were ready
with a new proposal, the Anglo-
French plan. It entailed a three-
stage agreement beginning with a
"freeze" on military strength at
the levels of Dec. 31, 1953. Stage
two included a curtailment of nu-
clear arms production, and 50 per
cent completion of the convention-
al forces reduction to be agreed
upon. The final stage would com-
plete the reduction, and end with
the elimination from the earth of
all nuclear weapons. Each step, as
in earlier Western plans, was to
be accompanied by a foolproof in-
spection scheme.
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IN MARCH, Britain and France
modified their three-stage plan to
provide for beginning the elimina-
tion of nuclear weapons when the
conventional reductions were only
75 per cent complete. This was
conditional on Soviet acceptance
of the earlier proposed force lev-
els. Russia continued to object to
any effective control measures
during the first stage.
But in May, when the discour-
aged Western powers were ready
to adjourn the fruitless negotia-
tions, Malik surprised and encour-
aged the world with a new Russian
proposal.
Its plan dropped earlier de-
mands for a flat-rate one-third re-
duction of armed forces; it backed
down from earlier insistence on a
bombban first, agreeing instead
to the 75 per cent compromise pro-
posed earlier by the West; and it
accepted the force limits outlined
in the earlier Western proposal.
The accompanying Soviet state-
ment, often used against the Rus-
sians since, stated flatly a simple
fact which had been ignored in all
earlier proposals. "There are pos-
sibilities," the Russians said; "be-
yond the reach of international
control for evading this control
and for organizing the clandestine
manufacture of atomic and hydro-
gen weapons, even if there is a
formal agreement on international
control."
BUT THE SOVIET proposal did
agree to fixed inspection points. It
provided, too, for a ban on nuclear
tests, and for making the use of
nuclear weapons in self-defense
subject to the approval of the Se-
curity Council.
For all its faults, the Russian
plan represented something new
in the post-war history of disarm-
ament negotiations. If it was not
a surrender to the Western posi-
tion, it was still a significant at-
tempt at compromise. If sincerely
intended, it was an important at-
tempt by the Soviet Union to meet
the overwhelming differences be-
tween the world's divided halves.
And then the West reneged. The
United States seized the leadership
of the Western delegates, and de-
manded that the' sub-committee
be adjourned. When it reconvened
in September, the United States
formally announced that it was
placing a "reservation" on all its
previous offers to the Soviet Un-
ion. When Russia, quick to seize
this propaganda gift, asked the
West to reaffirm their earlier of-
fers, such as force levels and the
weapons ban after a 75 per cent
conventional reduction, the United
States took no firm position and
the session degenerated into a re-
hashing of the old argument over
controls.
AFTER 10 YEARS of negotia-
tion, the world was little closer to
agreement. On October 7, 1955, the
sub-committee adjourned, its im-
portant problems all unsolved. It
again, the next year, in another
was to meet again, and to try
atmosphere of optimism.
But hopes for the complete re-
nunciation of weapons, or even
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By MICHAEL OLINICK
Daily Staff Writer
THE BIG 10 Student Body Pres-
idents' Conference, staged at
the University this past weekend,
rambled over a wide number of
topics and settled few basic ques-
tions.
The conference began on a sour
note. The Iowa delegation was
miffed because it thought the con-
ference began on Thursday (it ac-
tually started an hour behind
schedule on Saturday) and arrived
very punctually - two days early.
The Iowans didn't have too much
money to finance the trip and
their chagrin grew greater when
they learned that they were the
only group which followed the
'understanding' that each school
was to send five delegates.
Seven of the 10 colleges sent
representatives, but not enough to
hold the announcednprogram of
four conferences. All the delegates
were lumped together for a two-
hour morning session. After lunch,
the Big 10 presidents gathered in
executive session for four hours
and the lesser personages were ex-
iled to another room for a public
discussion of common problems.
ABOUT the most interesting
idea offered at the conference was
the establishment of what might
aptly be termed "Junior Year at,
the Big 10," a plan which would
enable a Wisconsin student, for ex-
ample, to spend a year studying at
Purdue or Ohio State. The plan
carries an economic advantage
also: The delegates wanted to set
up a system where the students
involved would pay in-state resi-
dence tuition fees at whatever in-
stitution they chose,
The rationale behind the schemef
is appealing: each of the Big 10
institutions has unusual and qua-
lity programs in some fields. A
junior could well profit by taking
courses not offered at his own in-
stitution but taught at a neigh-
boring college. In time, perhaps,
the Big 10 might sponsor a visiting'
lecturer whose seminars would be
open to any student enrolled in
any of the colleges. The student
body presidents agreed in, prin-
ciple to the reciprocal enrollment
plan, but could not reach concur-
rence on specific details.
*' * *
TWO OTHER issues were stu-
died in depth by the presidents:
discrimination in student organi-
zations -and the National Student
Association. They urged NSA to
concentrate more on service pro-
gramming and passed a rather
watery motion on discrimination.
Much time was spent in the
public session discussing women's
hours as an approach to a more
abstract analysis of in loco paren-
tis which time did not permit.
Everyone detailed what specific
restrictions on women were on his
campus and all the men agreed
women's hours should be abol-
ished.
Information and ideas were suc-
cessfully exchanged on election
rules and procedures, speakers'
bans, recognition procedures and
nonacademic evaluations in the
residence halls.
* *' *
THROUGHOUT the conference,
there was an urgency to reach
concensus which meant that basic
disagreements were rarely aired
and never fully probed. Delegates
were ready to exchange quips and
humorous anecdotes, but found
argumentative debate "very inter-
esting" but definitely not worth-
while.
This feeling became apparent at
several points in the discussion -
particularly in consideration of
discrimination and student apathy
-when it was obvious that two or
three radically different concep-
tions of student government and
student organizations were being
offered.
A longer and more structured
schedule might benefit future con
ferences. Communication between-
the student leaders of 10 large
midwestern universities sharing
common problems is valuable, but
it is unrealistic to expect to ac-
complish a great deal in a one .day
affair. Student body presidents
should be contacted earlier and
asked to list what issues they want
discussed. Each college could pre-
pare a fact sheet on a given prob-
lem, giving the information about
its peculiar situation and set of
regulations. Time slots should be
provided, however, for free dis-
cussion where the participants
could follow a conversation to
whatever topics it leads.
* * *
THE DRIVE to reach a quick
and easy, and thus often meaning-
less concensus is the conference's
worst feature. It obscures the basic
issues behind platitudes and does
little to aid any of the schools.
Such conferences will accom-
plish a minimum until the dele-
gates first understand why they
are involved in student govern-
ment at all and what values and
limitations they see in the political
process.
THE ORGANIZATION of American States
may have unleashed a demon last week
which may engulf South America.
Last Wednesday the OAS's Special Consul-
tative Committee on Security issued a report
warning there was an "urgent need for each
and every one of the American governments
to give greatest possible application" to earlier
OAS recommendations for combatting Com-
munism.
The New York Times said the report con-
cluded that ignorance of the real purposes,
foreign alliance and deceitful tactics of Com-
munism was the reason past recommendations
had not been acted upon.
THE REPORT expressed consternation over
the extent to which persons in Latin Amer-
ican political parties, unions, student groups,
and other associations had tolerated infiltra-
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tion and the danger of eventual take-over by
Communists, the New York Times account said.
"Communist deception and techniques vary
constantly," it warned and only "determined,
continuous and comparative" study can yield
suggestions for stopping them effectively.
The New York Times said the committee of-
fered evidence to support its conclusions that
Communists normally hid their objectives un-
til they attained power, abused words like de-
mocracy" and "peace," fomented strikes for
political reasons, exploited the idealism of stu-
dents, allied themselves with persons they pub-
licly denounced as "reactionaries" and opposed
real reforms that they could not exploit for
their ,own purposes.
This all may be trie, but the report may
boomerang and cause more damage than it
was intended to cure. By laying such stress on
port, will, obscure the real causes for South
anti-Communism, the OSA, in accepting the re-
American discontent - the social ills of pov-
erty, ill-distribution of resources, and totali-
tarian exploitation.
THE REPORT will play into the hands of the
extreme right-wing who will disregard the
warning of the committee that anti-subversion
measures should be consistent with civil liber-
ties and that the epithet "Communist" should
not be applied to non-Communists advocating
social reform or opposing special interest
groups.
These groups, if they use these warnings the
same way similar cries have been used in the
United States to create hysteria will cause
a further factionalization of South America
and drive anti-Communist reformers into the
hands of the Reds.
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THURSDAY, MAY 10
General Notices
Events Thursday
Doctoral Examination for James East
Irby, Romance Languages & Literatures:
Spanish; thesis: "The Structure of the
Stories of Jorge Luis Borges," Thurs.,
May 10, E. Council Room, Rackham
Bldg., at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, E. An-
Berson-Imbert.
Speech Department Laboratory Play-
bill Production, Thurs., May 10 at 4:10
p.m. Arena Theater, Frieze Bldg. "The