Seventy-Second Year. EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN .. UNDER AUTHORITY OP BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Where Opinions Are Free 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. DANCE CON( 2I EU~ . s F. I rRSDAY, MAY 10, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAL HARRAH 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. --MARTHA MacNEAL - . - . :;\ " } - ky: -. . --, s.. =';k ,..'ry' s. "'a t ,:' j t E. ,,-,