Seventy-Second Year EDIrTD AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OP BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS aWhere 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. SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1962 ACTING NIGHT EDITOR: DENISE WACKER ._,, Mind and Idea: r I-. I A University Philosophy r7-- "N IT'S FASHIONABLE these days to try to ar- ticulate the University's purpose, and one of the ideas being employed is that old shib- boleth, the "University community." This notion is construed in a couple of ways: -A geographic designation- of students, professors and administrators, scholars all, living in or around Ann Arbor, Michigan, each possessing certain rights and responsi- bilities. -A more meaningful but still inadequate no- tion of a peer group of intellectual seekers pursuing Truth. Neither of these ideas provides the basis for a convincing philosophy of what the Uni- versity is and ought to be. They fail to define the true "University Community"-an idea, perhaps better designated as "community of the University." The essential community is not between dif- ferent- individuals, but between a single mind and an idea. The mind must be in an analyti- cal and enthusiastic relation to the idea. It doesn't make any difference whether this idea has to do with Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, an artificial human heart or the price of eggs in Denmark. The relationship must be analy- ti'al in the sense that the mind must work on the idea, understanding it, weighing it, drawing implications, agreeing or disagreeing. The relationship must be single because the mind must finally work on its own. W HEN MIND and idea come into communion, drudge work ceases to be such. And the prospect of such communion carries the schol- ar over much of the dull, factual preparatory moments. This community is a fleeting thing: various individuals participate in such a community for some of the time. I felt part of the com- munity the other night when reading R. G. Colingwood's "The Idea of History." I was enthusiastic and analytical but I was neither the day I read a newspaper during a lecture. BASIC purpose of the 'University is to ensure that the community between a mind and an idea exists as often as possible. A university is an institution specifically or- ganized for such activities to go on at an in- tensive level.' If the purpose is defined in these terms, specific activities within the geographical Uni- versity community are not differentiated from similar ones outside, nor should they be. It is therefore obvious that any differentia- tion of the basis of subject matter is also in' adequate. . If there is any differentiation at all it is in terms of intensity and extent, of the com- munity of men and ideas. A University ought solely to be dedicated to this end; a corporation or a government, although vitally concerned with consideration of ideas, has other more general purposes to which it bends the ideas. And, in ordinary life outside the university, ideas are hardly at the premium they are within. GIVEN THE overall importance of ideas in the world, the university, in this basic way, Is neither a parenthesis in life for its students nor seclusion for its professors. It is very much a part of the essence of civilized life,the more intense an experience the university offers, the closer it is to the essence. All efforts must be bent to create this union of man and idea, an object more profound and, in contemporary society, more meaningful, than stimulation of the "Examined Life," an- other suggested university goal. J P LEAD such a life, as it is generally con- strued, one must possess certain sorts of subject knowledge, like philosophy or litera- ture, that many people can never gain. The rea- son for this is the specialization forced by the immense expansion of knowledge. An engineer simply hasn't time to prepare himself in the humanities. Creation of an intense, enthusiastic and ana- lytical relationship between any man and any idea is a simpler notion and less heroic than the Exam'nined Life. But it is as difficult, and as noble. And it provides a common goal that every unit in this universal institution can strive for. ANOTHER University goal, often suggested, 1s that it should aid undergraduate students to mature, to graduate prepared for life. This is valid, certainly. But, although it implies some emotional growth not subsumed in the over- riding goal of the community of man and idea, it is surprising how related this second goal is to the primary one. To promote both goals, to put both philoso- phies into practice, there are certain things the University ought to do. First of all, opportunity must be provided. Since minds are stimulated on an individual basis, and since their variety of interest and ability is so vast, it follows that the stimuliil ought to be as varied. Offering anything from a Medical School to a history of art department to an experimental high school, the University is in a favorable position here. Almost any mind ought to find its niche. The variety of smaller units is also advan-. tageous because it is easier to find a stimulat- ing and meaningful intellectual role in a small Another sort of intellectual offering, appeal- ing to me personally, would be the chance, for instance, to consider whether the University should raise tuition. On such policy matters student opinion needs to be consulted in order to get information often needed for decision- making, but as good a reason as any to interest students in the University as such is that this offers them another opportunity to use their minds. It is an opportunity few will choose. But it will be valuable to those few. This essentially educational justification is applicable to student activities: many of them offer another sort of opportunity to use the mind. An opportunity which appeals to a par- ticular sort of student. A FREE STUDENT press, irritating as it may sometimes be, is justifiable primarily on the grounds that it encourages analytical thinking and formation of opinions. Within limits, the freer it is, the better it can accomplish its edu- cational task. The methods of teaching and the incentives to learn also need to be varied. Some people may be struck by an idea delivered in a large lecture, others by a seminar discussion. Since students often stimulate each other most, per- haps the "bull session" could be institutional- ized as a class, with upperclassmen leading seminars of underclassmen on whatever they wanted to talk about. (I don't know how this might be graded!) THE CREDIT hour system could, at least, be made more flexible. Right now a student taking five three-hour courses ought, logically to devote one-fifth of his time to each. But if he is struck by some idea in one ofthem, he can- not, given the grading system based on the credit hour, spend much extra time pursuing that idea. Why not allow a professor to grant this student some extra hours for extra work? The student would then no longer have to divide his time into fifths. And he could broaden tie community be- tween himself and his idea. More independent study can be encouraged. STUDENTS' MINDS aren't the only ones that need stimulation. It is the student's duty to keep the professor on his toes, to prevent stereotyped teaching and thinking. Students and faculty both can serve this function for the administration. Perhaps, as has been suggested, faculty and administrative tenure and peck orders ought to be beat down to allow more opportunity, to keep men and women alert. More inter-dis- ciplinary contact might provide new vistas for a facultyman who has been researchin'g one minute area for the last five years. Since each mind essentially starts itself, con- siderable freedom is needed in the University. This already exists in considerable measure. Personally, I've always chosen where I want to live (as a freshman, the quad did not repel me) 'what courses I wanted, and what I want- -ed to do with my time. (I picked working hard for The Daily instead of working hard in a lot of courses.) HERE ARE some questions, however. One revolves around the freedom of one's per- sonal life. This is perhaps more relevant to the goal of personal, as against intellectual, matur- ity, because ,there is a lot of creative thinking by people who have to be in their dormitories by midnight. Yet within certain reasonable limits, it seems desirable from thestandpoint of in- tellectual development to allow considerable personal freedom, perhaps more than at pres- ent. Freedom in one area of life ought to stim- ulate freedom in another. And, certainly, living conditions affect personal attitudes, which af- fect mental performance. THE SECOND question is more sticky, and paradoxical. Since people, particularly stu- dents, are often quite lazy, apathetic, non- intellectually oriented, ought not the University provide more direct stimulus to minds than simply offering opportunities? To answer yes is certainly to run counter to the argument about students' personal freedom. I don't know the answer. There are several factors that interfere with the stimulation of individual minds. The first, of course, is the nature of the students and, also, the professors. Another is the immense pressure of work - there is just so much to do, for some people at least, that there is no time to think, only to act. There are pressures from the outside, to ban a speaker for instance. And there is the internal pres- sure to make a good image before the state to get more. support. But, even though such sup- port is necessary, the University is not a Ford car and it has got to be true to itself first, offering as many intellectual opportunities and as much individual freedom as is possible. IN HIS CONFERENCE on the University lack of leadership. On the institution-wide level, I would argue more of the problem is caused by lack of funds than Prof. Eastman would allow, and I have seen both good and bad leadership in individual units. The leadership I am most concerned about is that in the classroom. I have had some inspiring leadership and some poor leadership. Under a good professor, I have learned more than under a bad one. 4, ti b - R11 4 ' s-Y . i .x, ' ,: ,.r 7' ....e y t. j ........ " t ... y \ ' . M' "a, S 'S' C - y. . ' c 'F; t r ; ~ " ' . , S; 47 . N: P_ :if , f AT THE CAMPUS: Last Year at Marienbad Defines New Art "LAST YEAR at Marienbad" is one of those all too rare experiences in film art where the diverse elements at its disposal fuse into a totality which comes near to overwhelming consciousness. The story is simple: it concerns a woman and two men, identified only as "A," "X," and "M." "A" has been living with "M". "X" comes into her life, claiming to have known her, to have shared some of the past with her. Conflicts and tensions develop between "A" and "X", But the plot is only a springboard. Out of it is created a composi- tion of images of pellucid clarity, an imperceptible blending of past and present, a linking of reality and fantasy which is so transcendent that the senses of the spectator are engaged and transformed to the extent that he becomes as one with the experience and is himself the arbiter of its development. * * * * ONCE AND FOR ALL the tyranny of Dick-and-Jane logic to which we have all too long been subjected is triumphantly defied. Our dear, sweet reality is dissected as it should be (for it has been dead for a long time) and its decayed carcass cast off to reveal a work which is finally and ultimately consonant with and expressive of the modern human experience. Which means that in this slipping world of ours no thought, no image, no emotion can exist comfortably and singularly in time and space but brings.with it into being a whole galaxy of associated thoughts, images, and feelings which are summoned from the past, snatched from the present, or projected into fantasy. It is precisely this wondrous and terrifying cosmos which Resnais and Robbe-Grillet succeed in presenting us in their film and one cannot be grateful enough for the grain of human revelation he finds in it and the magnificent form in which it comes. * * * 1* THROUGH ALL its strangenesses, through all its uncertainties the images and sounds impose themselves with such force, with such evi- dent necessity that they define a whole new art and indeed a whole new world which, however reluctant we may be to do so, we must in- evitably accept as our own. -Peter Goldfarb Moor iv « }-; . i :'r '{ AT THE MICHIGAN Elvis Is Back, 7 tu. 1V s AAAX.AAX a 7t'R6"2. $' .ltx.iiS }'c6 '-Uis pdtcl; , *'\NALRE ARE "YOU -tETTIN& TWS &Yout & AKW TAKE Your SIDELINE ON SGC: Greeks Quet Jurisdiction THE MARQUEE of the Michigan Theatre blares forth, "In Howl- ing Color-Elvis Presley in 'Fol- low That Dream'." I think tlat this should be corrected; the movie is on the whole well-photographed, with some good scenic shots ("This, motion picture was filned in the State of Florida" say the credits), but Elvis and his acting are just as drab as ever. If the last Elvis movie you've seen was more than two years'ago, and you liked it, be. prepared to be disappointed. "The' King," sad, t6 say, has tamed down. No more does he do the shimmy as he sings his seven songs, and the tunes themselves are much less raucous. They are all sung while Elvis is in a horizontal position, watched over by this or that moon-struck girl. These "im- provements,' however, don't count for much. As the picture' opens, Elvis as Toby Quimper and Arthur O'Con- nell 'as Pa Quimper are jogging along in their old broken-down Stutz. With them are-Holly, play- ed by Ann Helm, a homeless waif whom Pa took in when she we thirteen, and the twins, who ar in about the same situation excep that they're younger. ALL KINDS OF TROUBLE de velop for the Quimper family et a as they are trying to follow thei dream, which is, in this case, I set up a fishing pier on a fe square feet of homestead lan The "gummint" (read, govern anent), as Pa puts it, is always o: their back. Highway officials tr to push them off 'their land. We] fare bureau agents, one of whoi is a curvaceous dark-hahi'ed gir use more subtle methods. The Welfare Department come in when the highway officia piqued by the family's insistent in staying on the land, tells ther that the kids are not legally Pa' A court trial is the culmination c the show, and; it provides Elv with a marvelous chance to prov his mettle as a, backwoods Clar ence Darrow. The coming attractions are ex cellent. -Steven Hendel By GAIL EVANS S TUDENT Government Council's right to review membership selection statements of sororities and fraternities and punish viola- tors of University and Council regulations is being questioned. Sororities on the national and local level are asking whether they should be considered student organizations, since they are a national group made up of stu- dents and alumnae. And if they are not student organizations, why, should they be subject to Council's regulation on membership? According to University regula- tions, to receive recognitions as a student organization the body's "program and its direction" must be in the hands of students. Soror- ities maintain that as part of a national group with nation-wide policies, they should not be clas- sified as a student organization. BECAUSE OF THIS problem, four sororities have already failed to meet their deadlines for sub- mitting amendments to their orig- inal statements which were deem- LET°TER S to the EDITOR Protest ,. , To the Editor: BELOW is a copy of the petition circulated in our house. This petition was signed by 130 of the 131 girls residing in the house. The original was sent to Dean Davenport and a copy was sent to Vice-President Lewis. Acting Dean Davenport: "We, the women of Hinsdale House, Alice Lloyd, submit our protest to your dismissal of our housemother, Mrs. Upgren. Her associations with the house in the past year have been both pleasant and productive. She has encour- aged us in independent, creative, and responsible thinking, and the active expression of these thoughts. She has realized that these values, so stressed in the academic situation, are equally important in all facets of life. "We, the undersigned, wish to express our gratitude to Mrs. Up- gren for the contributions she has made to our growth and develop-. ment as mature women. We feel that the reasons for her dismissal, as we understand them, do not warrant such action. "We protest not only this ac- tion, but also the policies of the dormitory system which it demon- strates." SINCE the time of the circula- tion of this petition, inquiries have been submitted to the dean's office as to the reasons and policy un- rl.o-ohi t~ a Ac o. -nmi .i ed inadequate. Other sororities have come before SGC and asked for extensions and even extensions of extensions of their deadlines. At Wednesday's Council meet- ing the apparent reason that so- rorities have been reluctant to submit statements was revealed. At a meeting of many National Panhellenic delegates in Chicago during spring vacation a non- binding consensus seemingly was reached not to comply with SGC's. deadline. The reasoning behind this idea was the question whether the groups are really student or- ganizations. Certainly, however, sororities do not want to break away from the University community. They enjoy the use of the Student Activities Building, University facilities for mass rush meetings, .assistance from the Dean of Women's office, and SGC calendaring of their ac- tivities-all benefits of being a student organization. What they would like, according to Panhel- lenic Association President Ann McMillan, would be a distinction between student activities groups and sororities. * * * MISS McMILLAN emphasized the point that when the sororities received recognition the present criteria forrrecognition did not exist. However, these apply not only to the original recognition but to maintaining recognition. Therefore, ever since the change' in University regulations sororities have been existing under these rules. It seems inconsistant for Soror- ities to accept the standing defini- tion of a student organization and the benefits concurrent with the definition up until the point where it means that they will have to comply with University and'Coun- cil regulations. It seems wrong for the groups to accept the benefits and not the responsibilities of be- ing a student group. Actually, what the problem boils down to, is that sororities do not want a student council whose membership is constantly chang- ing, to have access to quotations from their private constitutions, by-laws and rituals. And it is for this reason that they are opposed to being catagorized as a student organization. * * * HOWEVER, the fact 'is that un- der present interpretation sorori- ties are student organizations. Jur- isdiction over membership selec- tion practices of student organiza- tions is inherent in the power dele- gated to Council by the Regents. Miss McMillan claims that one of the reasons the nationals have been hesitant to approve submis- sion of statements to Council, is that Council has never handled such a question before at any uni- versity. Usually this responsibility is held by the administration and faculty. In fact from the questioning of Council was concerned with soror- ity membership practices. As in the past 17 months SGC has been especially concerned with membership practices in student organizations. Past Council Presi- dent Richard Nohl said that SGC has bent over backwards to pro- vide locals with ample informa- tion. He also stressed that every sorority has acknowledged the reg- ulation by submitting a statement, inadequate though it might have been.% Past and present Panhel presi- dents have stated that they took every action possible to keep the locals informed of the regulation and council's interpretations. * * IF IT IS TRUE that the locals had complete information, and the nationals did not, then communi- cation between, the two had been sorely lacking. Council is preparing to take ac- tion against violators. What will, the sororities next move be? Cer- tainly, they must have realized the risks they were taking by not complying with the deadline. The only alternative sororities have, if they do. not want a stu- dent council to handle the mem- bership problem, is to approach the Regents. The Regents must be asked to change the definition of a student organization to in- clude a special status for sororities and fraternities, and to take the membership practice question out of student hands. Sororities will probably ask that the administra- tion or a faculty committee deal with the issue. - * . HOWEVER, the Regents have given no indication that they would favor such an arrangement. Even if the Regents would, it is doubtful that sororities would get more lenient treatment from the faculty or the administration. After SGC withdrew recognition of Sigma Kappa on November 11, 1958, and the Board in Review of Council's action reversed the de- cision, the Faculty Senate passed a resolution condemning the Board's action as being "contrary to the University's educational policy." Certainly, a faculty who would pass such as resolution would not be lenient. At Michigan State University the urging and influence of Presi- dent John Hannah was instru- mental in setting a Sept. -1962 deadline for sororities and fra- ternities to get rid of bias clauses or face automatic withdrawal of recognition. This does not demon- strate a tendency towards leniency on the part of other college ad- ministrations. Would the Univer- sity administration be more len- ient? IF THE REGENTS, validate Council's right to handle the membership issue, sororities that did not submit statements are in -Aida I AIDA, the first of Verdi's three greatest (or at any rate last) operas, was done full theatrical justice by the Metropolitan Opera Company Thursday night. Gabriella Tucci sang Aida, and warmed the blood of more than Radames. Frank Guarrera, as Amonasro, gave one of his very finest performances. There are certainly very few who have seen him sing or act with greater elegance and power than he had Thurs- day night. Carlo Bergonzi (Radames) sang with rare integrity; well and un- adorned. Time and again he passed up opportunities for easy tricks and extra-musical affectations which would have endeared him to the audience, but not to the composer. Irene Dalis (Amneris) began the evening singing solidly but mod- estly, and got better and better as the opera progressed, until the fourth act where she was radiant. The fourth act is probably as good opera as Verdi ever wrote, and wasn't undermined by. any lack in the performers., * * * * MASONIC TEMPLE'S STAGE is too small for the whole work in the triumphal scene, nonetheless every extra in sight was squeezed onto it, not to mention the chorus, ballet, and one; spear carrier who had to stand at attention but who watched the dancing girls from the corner of his eye with a matchless dedication. There was no room for horses, and considering their usual consequences, perhaps it was just as well. Fortunately, Detroit was spared also the additional excitement of a troupe of dancing children. They spun merrily through Amneris's chambers (Act II, Scene 1) in New York performances earlier this year but couldn't seem to delight Amneris, or anyone else, for that matter. Thursday night's Aida was the best production presented this sea- son in Detroit. --Rchard Pollinger 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. SATURDAY, MAY 26 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. *Students: If you need to order a transcript without grades for the pres- ent semester, call in person at 515 Ad- min. Bldg., not later than May 30, 1962. * o.s n+ oannal to dntin Sat., May 26, 3003 Chemistry Bldg., at 9:00 a.m. Chairman, Bruno Jaselskis. Placement Social security Office: New England Area: William Jones, Personnel Dept., wants graduate students for social re- search analysts. Will interview at Bu- reau Thurs., May 31. SUMMER PLACEMENT SERVICE: 212 SAB- Camp Tamerack,HOrtonville, Mich.- Coed camnp. Carl Hartman will inter- view-1:30-4:30 Mon., May 28, for male counselors only. Corning Glass Works, Corning, N.Y.- Has summer_ positions open for men within a year of Mech., Indust. Electri- cal or Chem. Engineering degrees. Orig- inal information available in Engineer- ing Placement Office, Boom 128-H West Engin. Bldg.