Seventy-Second Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF 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. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1962 ACTING NIGHT EDITOR RONALD WILTON OSA Fires Housemother, Refuses To Explain FOR REASONS which the Office of Student Affairs refuses to disclose at this time, the house director of Hinsdale House, Alice Lloyd, has been told that "her services are no longer required" as a housemother at the University. The housemother has asked that a statement of the reasons for her dismissal be made public. Both Vice President for Student Affairs James A. Lewis, who is "giving a hearing to the case," and acting Dean of Women Elizabeth Daven- port, who fired her, refuse to comment at this time. What is the reason that a housemother who is a former college instructor and is very popular with the women in her house was asked to leave? Why is the Office of Student Affairs unwilling to reveal the reasons? ERHAPS THE reason for the dismissal was that she has consistently encouraged her girls to speak their opinions on all matters, which is not necessarily the case in other houses.4 Housemothers and students alike know there are imperfections in the dormitory system. Yet neither group dares express opinions. The stu- dent fears the housemother's non-academic evaluation of her; and the housemother, a slave of the system, fears for her job. Consequently, imperfections are never aired. A system pre- cluding criticism is self-perpetuating. COULD IT BE that the Office of Student Affairs is afraid of the changes that un- checked opinions might precipitate? Could it be that other housemothers in the system find change a threat to their position and have the power to pressure for the removal of the instrument of that change? Could it be that the OSA fears that its in- competence to handle student problems under the present system, which is staffed by many people unqualified to evaluate and counsel students, may be uncovered by a woman who does not fear the loss of her position? In any case, the Office of Student Affairs seems unwilling to admit that its action was promped by fear of criticism. The Office of Student Affairs has been changing through this year. That it is unwill- ing to face criticism at this time, when it should be most welcome, is an indication that it is backsliding. THE UNIVERSITY as an academic commu- nity cannot afford to tolerate this limitation upon freedom of thought in the dormitory sys- tem or anywhere else. There must be continual re-examination of the OSA and a willingness to meet and correct problems. If the OSA cannot give sound reasons for asking this housemother to leave, it must be assumed that the OSA is ashamed. -CAROLINE DOW -GAIL EVANS -RUTH HETMANSKI -HELENE SCHIFF Own Precepts >i :. J '8 ,t tfk 3 :" " r ,ems s l4 i { K yr . a rt I ~ e. f -i .- aa GENERATION: Year Closes Successfully FOR THEIR fourth, and final, issue of GENERATION this year, the editors have deliberately attempted to fulfill the publication's ori- ginal intent: an inter-arts magazine. In this purpose they have suc- ceeded well. Between the photographic covers by Barbara Cohen, there is - in less than thirty pages - an amazing range of artistic produc- tion, including fiction and poetry, music, and the graphic arts. I found particularly interesting the section setting forth a "Project for Sculpture." The idea is a provocative one. The GENERATION staff is to be commended for this experiment; publishing this kind of avant- garde material is, quite simply, what a University arts magazine can and should do. Konstantinos Lardos is represented in this issue by a tender story, "Broken Wings." Poetically conceived, the piece has the charm both of the folk and the fairy tale. And it is accompanied by a well-reproduced and imaginative graphic work by Sam Scott. * * * * ABOUT THE music I can say only that I am intrigued by its ap- pearance. Some clarinettist should try out "Matrix"; it ought to be fun. "Groups" and "Matrix" are obviously musical experiments. The composer, Donald Scavarda, emphasizes the element of surprise. The issue closes on a quieter (anti-climactic?) note: "Some Haiku." These, I confess, look better than they read. My own feeling is that such delicate bits must be most carefully selected in order to convey their impressionistic flashes. In this case, I thought the Japanese char- acters more exciting than the translations. All in all, this GENERATION is a worth-while postscript to a good year. Editor Roger Reynolds and his staff are to be thanked for the excellent communications they have sent us. -Marvin Felheim English Department Mada ma Butterfly! VWWRIM."AA Study EATS WMANT W EAT, SU T Mo? ov IT IS BOTH fitting and ironic that the week of June 5 through 12 has been declared Na- tional Study Week. Students will be able to study for their finals at the same time they are observing a great national event. Too bad it wasn't National Study Semester. -H. SCHIFF Voice Violates LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Kahn "Dying in Great Delirium' VOICE Political Party has flagrantly violated the principles it has been so righteously in- sisting others accept. In making arrangements for the fourth Voice symposium on the arms race, Wednesday, it clearly demonstrated that Voice Itself 1sfar from void of the guilt it finds in others. Voice is supposed to stand for individual freedom, and greatest liberty of expression of thought, speech and action permissible in civi- lized society. When it decided to present a sym- posium on the arms race, it was, therefore, not only consistent, but morally right that Voice present speakers of all views and opinions, re- gardless of how much their ideas differed from Voice's own. The fact that this was to be a symposium whose aim was to interest and en- lighten the University community in the issues of the arms race, and not a parade ground for Voice to expound its own beliefs, made it neces- sary that Voice present to the campus a broad forum. Refuge IN TURNING its back on the refugees stream- ing out of Red China, the West has aided the Communist country in both its political and economic aims and has effectively snuffed out the flame of hope it so earnestly endeavors to keep burning in the hearts of the enslaved peoples of the world. To ease the problems of impending famine in Southern China, the Communists have re- laxed border controls permitting vast numbers to pour into already overcrowded Hong Kong. Now the West is sending them back behind the Bamboo curtain - hungry, weary, disillusioned and hopeless. Now the Communists can laugh and ask, "Where are the great forces of de- mocracy so ready to give their all to help those who would free themselves from the yokes of their oppressors?" The point is well taken. Granted it is not easy to absorb hundreds of refugees into an already overcrowded pop- ulation and to clothe, feed and shelter them. Maybe it is really impossible. But in times like these the West should be prepared to do the impossible. Hong Kong should not have to do it alone. Every free nation in the world shares the moral obligation to save every soul offered it in trust and expectation. Every human being sent back into slavery is living testimony that the free world has lied. Now perhaps no one will try to escape anymore. If there is nothing to escape to, what is there to escape from? -J. OPPENHEIM Business Staff CHARLES JUDGE, Business Manager MARY GAUER ..........Associate Business Manager MERVYN KLINE.................Finance Manager ROGER PASCAL...............Accounts Manager VOICE recognized this responsibility - at first, anyway - and did a commendable job of carrying the policy out when it asked Her- man Kahn to speak at its fourth presentation. Kahn, as those involved realized all too well, was expected to expound views diametrically opposed to those of Amitai Etzioni, Seymour Melman and Prof. Kenneth Boulding, the first three speakers at the symposium, whose beliefs were much closer to those of Voice. It became apparent to those involved, how- ever, that it mightn't be wise to have Kahn speak "unopposed." Both Etzioni and Melman made it clear that they thought that someone should either debate with Kahn or talk about what he said after he had spoken. It was more than implied that someone should "clarify" Kahn's remarks and "straighten out" Kahn's arguments and figures to a presumably other- wise "susceptible" audience. In the interest of this objective, Voice took two actions. It arranged for Prof. Boulding and J. David Singer, an expert from the Mental Health Research Institute, to "comment" on Kahn's remarks at the conclusion of his ad- dress. N A WAY, this was commendable. Distortions of fact or the use of deceptive argument should not go unnoticed. But, if a program is arranged in which speakers are to speak, not debate each other, there can be no justification for permitting comment by one side at the other's speech without any reciprocal arrange- ment. No one spoke for the "other side" when Etzioni, Melman, or Prof. Boulding spoke, and this was clearly unfair. Furthermore, Voice is one of the groups most ardent in arguing for the end of speaker bans. While ready to admit that a Communist might say anything or use any tactic when addressing an audience, it argues that the listeners have the intelligence to see through faculty argu- ment and distortions of fact. It is reasonable to think that they would raise quite a protest if the University required J. Edgar Hoover to be on the scene to "comment" every time a Communist spoke. O NE OTHER point about having this "com- ment" should be noted. A presupposition im- plicit in making such an arrangement is that Kahn was intending somehow to "deceive" his audience. This idea of pre-condemnation is ex- actly that for which Voice so vigorously de- nounced the House Un-American Actiivties Committee. The inconsistency is obvious. On the middle of the Diag the afternoon before Kahn spoke, Voice took its second action regarding his appearance. Standing before a sign reading "Voice Forum," William Livant, a psychologist from Mental Health Research Institute, told listeners Kahn was "morally repugnant," and "intellectually deviate," and that his ideas were "inadmissible." He suggested questions to ask Kahn which presumably would "tear him apart," and said that a speaker deserved applause only when he successfully answered a difficult question. To tie Editor: HERMAN KAHN has come and gone but the evil that men do lives after them. Both in a small seminar and a public lecture,.he spread before us images of geno- cidal futures that ranged all the way from "only" 30 million to ev- erybody dead. But Mr. Kahn care- fully avoided telling us what we might do. We can glean this, how- ever, from his book "On Thermo- nuclear War" and from an article in "Commentary". Yes, we are to have more wea- pons, up to twenty times "over- kill." Yes, we are to 'have mass shelter building. And yes, if any- body thinks of a weapon bigger or more exquisite, let's get to work on it, for all we know there is a lag in development and the sooner we can have it the better. That is what "we" should do. (Does the reader feel a part of that "we"?) And suppose "they" do too? Mr. Kahn's policies will bring about the very future he describes. This is not new. Anthropology knows the process as "sympathet- ic" magic. Cure bleeding with more bleeding; , cure pain with more pain; cure mental affliction by driving the patient mad. Medi- cine has worked free of this scourge; when will social policy? DURING the very brief discus- sion, Mr. Kahn was likened to Freud; both dared to study fright- ening but important topics. In our opinion this comparison is exactly wrong. We do not fear Mr. Kahn for his fantasies; we fear him, and the practitioners of "sympathetic" magic, for their power in high councils. Freud had no such power. More- over, Freud loved life; after a life- time of self-analysis wrote that he felt he had failed; for a man can- not see the most fearful things about himself. How much self- analysis has Mr. Kahn done? Is he aware it is people not poker chips he is talking about? Is he aware that most of the world's people are not "Party A" and "Party B?" Is he aware that people have problems related to living not to playing games? Mr. Kahn, for allrhis military toys is not the future. He is the past, dying in great delirium with a great noise. We will not share his fascination for destruction. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. -Prof. Anatol Rapoport -William Pan Livant Life Wish... To the Editor: YOUR reporter, along with most of those who heard him, seems to have missed the main point of Herman Kahn's message, which is than the present world system of national states and unilateral na- with other such institutions, mil- itarily obsolete. We are like the feudal baron who subsidizes the development of the firearms which made him mili- tarily obsolete. We could put ma- jor intellectual resources into a technology, both physical and so- cial, which would restore the via- bility of the national state, but we choose not to do so, perhaps be- cause of a deep underlying nation- al death wish. For those of us with a life wish, however, the immense learning and teaching process which is now necessary to achieve a viable world is something to which we must dedicate the whole current of our lives. -Prof. Kenneth E. Boulding Swinger'.. To the Editor: I PROTEST the completely un- justified attack on the Dean of Women in Tuesday's editorial. Mrs. Davenport is, contrary to im- plication, competent, conscien- tious, and what is commonly known as a "swinger." She deeply feels her responsibility to uphold the rights of the student and she has great respect for the students' maturity. When, earlier this spring, the Regents decided to try to make Alice Lloyd into a coed dormitory next year without consulting the students, Mrs. Davenport consid- ered their disregard a shocking outrage and vehemently opposed it to uphold student right. Now that student support is behind the program for 1963, she is working with students toward implement- ing it. This illustrates her concern f or our rights., Unlike other administrators we have and have had, she has al- ways treated students as adults. This is evident in every statement she makes to The Daily, and es- pecially in her reaction to the in- famous idea of "bed-check." If I may quote: * * * "SOMEWHAT horrified, Mrs. Dav- enport said that there would be no bed-check so long as she re- mained in office, that the idea of such Gestapo tactics was ab- surd . .. The Office of the Dean of Wo- men has always been a classic target in every school. It is tradi- tional to pot-shot at the Dean. One can hardly be considered to belong to a big-league university unless the Dean is a real Victorian villain. But Michigan has no wor- ries about being considered a Big- Time College. Why, then, can't we be different, and treat our Dean as though she were on our side, as in fact she is? A little academic respect for the truth is in order .. -Christine King, '64 This summer, interested freshmen, and for that matter, any interested students, will read two novels by Albert Camus, The Stranger and The Plague. This done, they may attend any or all of five seminars, led by outstanding faculty mem- bers from different departments, and concluding with a panel dis- cussion involving all the seminar leaders. But this is not enough, despite being a fine start. The program died because of student apathy to readings of immense scope. By spreading itself too thin, the pro- gram lost the general student in- terest. THIS DOES not mean, however, that the program is by definition a failure; it must consolidate in- terests and concentrate on deep penetration of a problem from an interdisciplinary standpoint, rath- er than a superficial study of many fields of interest. In fact, the Sum- mer Reading Program Committee is constructed inrsuch a way, four students and three faculty mem- bers, so that it can be expanded to include the entire Reading and Discussion Program, provided the freshman program is a success. This means that if the student body responds favorably to these initial five seminars, the program most likely will continue, making interesting seminars on important problems immediately available outside the formal atmosphere of classroom discussion. The student body must lose their academic apathy for SGC to continue the program. Reading Camus is a good start. -Roger Lowenstein, '64 Chairman, SGC Summer Reading Program W EDNESDAY night saw a gentle production of "Madama But- terfly" which, while it has grown a little more flamboyant since its opening three years ago, success- fully avoids those extravagances of passion calculated to rend even the stoniest of hearts. Whether this is an entirely good thing is another question. The sets were very quiet and very Japan- ese, but they were also very clut- tered and unappealing. An un- known draft kept wafting hun- dreds of blossoms off of the trees every few minutes and by the end of each act the roof and floor were full. Unfortunately they would be clean again after intermission and the whole thing would start again. But it's an ill wind that doesn't blow someone something and the set was so fashioned that when- ever an actor needed something to do with himself he could run over and close or open any one of six sliding doors The novelty of that ploy didn't seem to wear' off too quickly either. LEONTYNE Price matched the docility of the evening by singing magnificently, but with an appar- ent utter relaxation. The audience, however, was far from relaxed. Detroit opera lovers love Miss Price and were eager to show it. One could tell this both from their applause and from their com- ments, which lasted throughout the performance. In a fit of wild exuberance the gentleman behind me managed an encouraging "Bravo, Leontyne," but it was lost in the tumult. William Olvis (Pinkerton), Clif- ford Harvuot (Sharpless), and Rosalind Elias (Suzuki) sang ade- quately, but not with any especial verve, while Osie Hawkins (the Bonze) fired up the stage during his few minutes in the first act. In general, the restraint of this 'WALK ON THE WILD SIDE': Poetic Justice Abounds "WALK ON THE WILD SIDE" drags its dirty footage through the S mostcommercial and embarrassingly bad movie so far this year. If producer Charles K. Feldman had been content to round up a group of second-rate television actors and film a low-budget "B" movie to be shown on a double bill, the picture would have adequately accom- plished its purpose, and a critic would be unfair to criticize the picture for what it did not intend to do. However, with second-rate ability and material, Mr. Feldman pretentiously expects the audience to accept "Wild Side" as a "message' 'movie-if not an art movie. Moving predictably from cliche to cliche, the script by John Fante and Edmund Morris from the Nelson Algren novel definitely does not production was unnecessary. After all, "Madame Butterfly" is Puccini and Italian. Just because it is set in Japan is no reason to play it like a string of Haiku. -Richard Pollinger Life, "'HE SIGNIFICANCE of man is that he is that part of the universe that asks the question, What is the significance of Man? He alone can stand apart imagin- atively and, regarding himself /and the universe in their eternal as- pects, pronounce a judgment: The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it." -CarL Lotury Becker "Progress and Power", 1935 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, MAY 25 General Notices Regents' Meeting: Fri., June 15. Com- munications for consideration at this meeting must be in the President's hands not later than June 5. Automobile Regulations: The Univer- sity student automobile regulations will be lifted with the completion of classes on Tues., May 29. Office of the Dean of Men. Graduating Seniors place your order for caps and gowns now at Moe's Sport Shop, 711 North University. Applications for the University of Michigan Sponsored Research Gradu- ate Fellowships to be awarded for the fall semester, 1962-63, are now being accepted in the office of the Graduate School. The stipend is $1,150 plus tut- Michigan extends to the Faculty and to full-time University employes the priv- ilege of purchasing Athletic Cards. Those Eligible to Purchase: 1) University Faculty and Adminis- trative Officers. 2) Faculty members who have been re- tired. but still retain faculty privileges. 3) Employes on the University payroll who have appointments or contracts, on a full-time yearly basis; or, if on an hourly basis, are full-time employes and have been employed by the University for a period of not less than twelve months prior to the date of application for the purchase of an Athletic Card. The date shown on the Employe's Uni- versity Identification Card shall be con- sidered as the date of employment. 4) For spouses and dependent chil- dren between the ages of 10 and 18 of the above groups. Cost of Athletic Card-$15.00. Purchase Date: 1) At Ferry Field Ticket Office be- ginning June 1. 2) Preference for location expires Aug. 10. 3) Additional Season Ticket purchase privilege (limit 2) expires Aug. 10. Conditions and Privileges: 1) Athletic Cards or Tickets are not transferable. 2) Ticket privileges end with termina- tell "a new kind of love story" as the advertisements say. The movie actually rehashes all the soap-opera goodies that were ex- hausted in the thirties in order to make some vague point about good overcoming exil before the end of a movie. THE GOOD GIRL gone bad gets poetic justice at the end by way of a stray bullet. The bad madame gone Lesbian gets poetic justice by being sent to jail. The good teenager :going bad gets poetic justice by being turned over to, "juvenile authorities." Oh, you've never seen so much poetic justice in the last three minutes of a movie. Laurence Harvey is required merely to look virile and interest- ing so that it is plausible that three beautiful women ' would throw themselves at him; he fails. Although he never does, it seems as if he must be constantly yawn- ing. He has no vitality. Fortunate- ly, poetic justice reigned in the casting, and he was paired with a mannequin, Capucine, who can breathe and repeat lines-at least it appeared that way.