Seventy-Second Year
EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS
'here Opinions Are F* STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241
Truth Will Prevail"
Editorials prined in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers
or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints.

FEBRUARY 22, 1962

NIGHT EDITOR: HARRY PERLSTADT

Phi Delt's Major Problem:
A Coddled Minority

'WO FACTORS have separated the Phi Delta
Theta case from just another "boys will be
iys" incident. First, a University student was
nt to the hospital in a state of "severe
.ock," and hampered academically by not
ing able to finish his exams. Second, Phi
elta Theta was involved.
Those close to the fraternity will indeed
tree that a small group within the- chapter
s been responsible for all its problems. This
inority has taken advantage of a number of
ars of poor leadership to pull off its capers
th relative immunity. Its core is a group
athletes who seem to be here for press
.ppings, not an education. These "headline
roes" (and certainly no condemnation of
1 athletes is intended) do not respect the
niversity; rather, they seem to think they are
gods, and act accordingly.
'HIS GROUP has given Phi Delta Theta a
long record of notoriety. Both individually
d together their history is traceable through
lice blottershand University discipline files
many years past. Last May the University
rally referred a series of four police com-
aints against Phi Delt to the Interfraternity
uncil Executive Committee. The complaints
volved such incidents as the placing of bi-
cles across Washtenaw Ave. and the dubious
erenading" of Gamma Phi .Beta sorority
th a selection of songs that might make even
sailor blush.
IFC gave the house a $400 fine, suspended.
year of social probation, and told chapter
ficers privately to get rid of this group which
is ruining Phi Delt and doing damage to the
tire fraternity system.
Parenthetically, but of definite concern, the
ilversity is much to blame for this element,
iich exists both in Phi Delt and out. The
missions office seemingly maintains a double
andard; certain people are admitted for their
tstanding minds while others, are judged
their outstanding ability to handle a ball.
nus people enter the University with a free
ss.
They have virtually no academic worries or
sponsibilities; - their headquarters is the
hletic Administration Building and depart-
ent F of the Education School, where such
irses as Organized Camping (F399), Child-
n's Rhythms (F336), and 1 istory of Physical
ucation in Different Societies (F619) keep
em eligible.
'HIS FACTION, unfortunately, found one
home in Phi Delta Theta and, vth other

brothers as hangers-on, used the fraternity as
a base of operations from which to pick on
less mighty neighbors (and never, by the way,
equally mighty). Alien to the University com-
munity and unwanted by the fraternity system,
this faction has spoken for Phi Delt, much to
the detriment of the rest of the chapter.
For there is a "rest of Phi Delt. Indeed, the
majority has never taken part in any illegal
activities. But the majority has erred through
the years by remaining silent while such ac-
tivities flourished. The majority has failed to
condemn the misdeeds of wayward brothers.
IFC's strong action last spring did serve
to shake up the house somewhat. New and
better leadership convinced most of the house
that it was time to reform. Neither the Uni-
versity nor IFC would brook any more trouble.
Further, National Phi Delta Theta told the
fraternity to clean up. Unquestionably, loss of
its national charter is a distinct possibility for
Phi Delt if it doesn't change.
IT IS TRtTE that Phi Delt "behaved" for a
whole semester. This was encouraging. More
encouraging 'is therfact that Phi Delt has
taken relatively strong action against those
members who have caused its latest mess. For
the first time, the fraternity has shown that
it will not sit silently back' while a minority
besmirches its name.
The University, in the person of Assistant
Dean of Men John Bingley, has. certainly
shown cognizance of a new attitude in Phi
Delt. Dean Bingley has chosen, and com-
mendably so, to act slowly, giving the' national
a chance to work inside the house, something
the University could not do. The _ University'
has grounds to throw Phi Delt off campus, but
it is not quite ready to do so because of the
evidenceof this new attitude. Obviously, when
all disciplinary action is completed, Phi Delta
Theta will have received one more chance
to make good.'
THE QUESTION REMAINS: does Phi Delt
have the "guts" to make good? The chapter'
can no longer vacillate. It must change its
policies. In doing so it will have to suffer some
lean years. Last fall, for instance, the frater-
nity had a very poor rush due to its spring
troubles. One can imagine the rush the chapter
will get this time.
The Zeta Psi raid is a turning point for
Phi Delta Theta. It will either mark the point
atwhich the fraternity lost all illusions about
itself and started upward, or it will mark the
point of no return.
-H. NEIL BERKSON

"Boss, Are You Out Of Y our Ever-Lovin' Mind?"
rl
- s.
-- . a
U hrU
OSA IN TRANSITION:
'U' chizphr~nta ncu

I AST NIGHT'S CONCERT, per-
formed in Rackham Lecture
Hall, included two familiar works
and an Ann Arbor premiere of
Ulysses Kay's Quartet No. 3. It
was commissioned by the Uni-
versity of Michigan and dedicated
to the Stanley Quartet. The
quartet-in-residence performed the
new work Tuesday night in De-
troit for the first time. The Ann
Arbor audience, surprisingly large
in spite of the heavy snow,'reacted
favorably to the work.
The third concert given by the
Stanley Quartet this season opened
with Haydn's Quartet in B-flat
major, Op. 76 No. 4. Although the
group had carefully worked out
the articulation, phrasing and
dynamic levels to perfection, each
member of the quartet retained his
individuality through all possible
contrapuntal combinations. The
last movement was the most ex-
citing and was dynamically
brought out by the performers.
Two accelerations of tempo led
to a climax of perpetual motion.
ULYSSES KAY, an American
composer from Tucson, Arizona,
has been awarded several impres-
sive prizes for his composition,
among them a Fulbright scholar-
ship and the Prix de Rome. If his
quartet had been performed
twenty-five or even thirty years

AT RACKHAM:
Stanley Quartet Unveils
Undistinguished Piece.

ago, it would not have been con-
sidered avant-garde. Today, the
work sounds not only conserva-
tive, but unutterably dull. Kay's
work shows eclectic touches in its
incorporation of serial tendencies,
conventional writing for string in-
struments, tonal orientation, and
clarity of structure. The repeti-
tion of a melodic fragment and
a single note, played not only in
imitation, but also in consistent
repetition, continued past the
point of polite tolerance.
The audience, however, did not
share my disappointment, but
seemed to revel in the gentle and
mild sonorities. The Stanley Quar-
tet did perform the work admir-
ably, and made the best of a tire-
some situation by bringing out
every change of dynamic level and
rhythmic variation.
The third work on the program
was Beethoven's last -complete
quartet, Op. 135 in F major. The
ensemble showed itself at its best
as the opening material was passed
skillfully and successfully from
player to player. The quartet dif-
fers from Beethoven's other late
quartets in its brevity; the work,
however, does not give a coma~
pressed or weighty impression. Ac-
cordingly, it received a light and
sensitive performance by the
Stanley Quartet.
-Alice Bunzl

Stretch to the Stars

'HE STORIES of the stars are as old as man.
They were gods and fortunes, signs , and
irts; they were a flock of birds lost forever
the void. They were soundless and untouch-
le and bound in darkness. Man wrote of the
ars in his first ciphers, and took them for
ides in birth, life and death. Few inspira-'
ins have been so universal in human culture
the inspiration of the stars,.
Who, then, are Yuri Gagarin, Gherman
tov and John Glenn? They are neither
issians nor Americans. They are not of this
ntury nor of any other. They are the Egyp-
,ns and the Muslims and the Greeks, the
ystical Orientals and Renaissance man. They
me into being when the first stone was
shioned into a tool, and they endure until the
At living mind in the universe is extinguished.
rhey have nothing to do with nations, with
Id or hot war, or with politics. They belong
the earth, but not wholly.
Rembrandt knew them. Beethoven and
akespeare knew them. The builders of the
>thic cathedrals knew that it is not the muscle,
t the aspiration to height that lifts the
ne. Legends were written of these men in
ery language, and worship and wonder were
en to their universe in every culture.
,garin and Titov and Glenn dispel no legends;
ey carry on the same spirit that infused the
cient symbols. Names may change from
igion to science, but the human mind con-
inting the stars knows the same awe.
[OW MANY MEN have reached into space?
Billions throughout history, perhaps -all.
takes only 20 minutes on a dark hill to
n them. Gagarin, Titov and Glenn are the
ole of history. They will not rest, they
ow no boundary.
ar out in space, now, a few chunks of
Editorial Staff
JOHN ROaERTS, Editor
'HILIP SHERMAN N FAITH WEINSTEIN
City Editor Editorial Director
SAN FARRELL ............Personnel Director
['ER STUART............Magazine Editor
CHAEL BURNS .....................Sports Editor
r GOLDEN ..,...... Associate City Editor
HARD OSTLING. Associate Editorial Director

metal drift about with seeming aimlessness.
On a planet called Earth, three creatures of the
classification homo sapiens touch the ground
with their feet, But these;f three have known
that first tentative step into one. of the oldest
of human dreams, and their metallic trash
waits on the moon for them to come.
And they must arrive. The first stirring
of a human mind gave them their names, and
told them "Go." The universe waits in silent
darkness, but they have already answered.
They answer for no nation, no culture, no
ideology, but for the triumphal and unbounded
spirit of humanity.
MARTHA MacNEAL
UN. University
THE FIFTH in a series of seminars about the
United Nations University was held Tues-
day night. It proved that however 'utopian
this concept may be, it is so complex as to
be unworkable.
The establishment of any institute of higher
education is a difficult process. There are
many problems which must be solved and
questions which must be answered. Placed in
the context of an international situation, these
same problems and questions become unsolv-
able.
For example, what should be the aim of an
international education? Should it concentrate
on the humanities, social sciences, physical
sciences, or a combination of these? Certainly,
it would simplify the problem if the UNU was
primarily a science institute. But then, how
many students would you appeal to if you
eliminated the humanities and social sciences?
Wouldn't overspecialization defeat the purpose
of an international education?
Also, how can the basic foundation be im-
plemented into an administrative plan?
OTHER BASIC QUESTIONS are the courses
and their content. One cannot expect the
American interpretation of political science to
be universally accepted by the UNU students,
nor can we assume that a Soviet version of
history will be amenable to all other students.
A possible solution would be to duplicate
courses, each subject being presented in the
na,+ ,-f o f . ff.r, +inennaol niitlnnlr P ut

By MICHAEL OLINICK
Daily Staff Writer
THE OFFICE OF STUDENT
Affas Study Committee report
climaxes a year of intensive dis-
cussions, secret plottings, lengthy
meetings, public fights and bitter
resignations-yet it hardly seems
worth all the effort.
A long and frequently inconsis-
tent avowal of the status quo, the
committee's 7,000 word document
seems headed for certain passage
by the Regents.-The stronger and
more decisive report issued last
spring by the University Senate's
Student Relations Committee -
which Vice-President Lewis is
withholding from the Regents -
hardly stands a chance against the
moderate, innocuous proposals of
Prof. Reed's group.
** *
THE. "MASTER PLAN" to save
us from "institutional schizophre-
nia" does little more than tinker
with the names of the present of-
fices in the OSA. Though it make
a commendable start toward a
functional orientation rather than
one based on a male-female divi-
sion, it takes backward leaps in
several instances.
The committee is far from con-
sistent in the application of its
"philosophies" of student affairs
and administration. Although it
advocates treating students as
scholars collaborating together and
not as separate sexes, the com-
mittee provides for the rent ntion
of Inter-Quadrangle Council and
Assembly Dormitory Council and
a Women's Juriciary council and
quad judic. All this despite a call
for coeducational housing.
TOBRING faculty and students
into the decision making process,
the report asks for the creation
of all manner of advisory boards,
spelling out a least three in de-
tail.
A Residence Hall Advisory
Board would assist the powerful
Director of Housing in formulating
educational plans for the living
units. A judic advisory committee
would select members of joint
judic. And, way up at the top of
the tree, the committee would
graft on an Executive Council for
Student Affairs.
Each of these advisory boards
would suffer from the afflication
that has long grieved the OSA-
no clear definition of lines of re-
sponsibility ad authority. This
is strange since the committee in-
dicates in its report a desire to
clarify these relations.
The report, however, fails to
spell out the real power of the
advisory boards. We don't know
whether or not the vice-president
is bound to follow the recom-
mendations of his executive com-
mittee and we can only speculate
that the relation between him and
the council will be based on the
personalities filling each position
-a weakness of the present setup.
IN THE AREA of housing, the
committee would set up a Direc-
tor whose duties would be at least
as great as the present student-
faculty-administration Residence
'"all Rn.arr f nv-.

visory board; it merely removes
the power of selecting Joint JudIc
members from students and puts
it into the hands of another fac-
ulty-student-administration board.
The Judiciary Appeal Board may
grant due process to -a defendant
but is not obligated to.
Though the report is rife with
"educational" arguments for many
of its recommendations, there is
no explanation why the boards
should be only advisory and not
actually policy making.
* * *
A PRIME WEAKNESS in the
proposed structure is the position
of Dean of Students. The dean
and his associate perform only
minor duties and are totally un-
necessary to carry out the plans
the study committee wants.
In the present operation of the
dean of men and dean of women's
office, housing is the biggest area
of concern and demands the most
personnel. The OSA "master plan,"
however, shifts responsibility for
housing to a director who is re,
sponsible directly to the vice-
president.
The Dean of Students and his
associate (of the opposite sex,
don't forget) would be responsible
for counseling, studentractivities
and organizations, scholarships
and discipline. Counseling would
be given to the vice-president as
a specal assignment. Student
Government Council can handle
the organizations and directors of
scholarships and discipline would
not benefit greatly by having a
level of authority betweenthem-
selves and the vice-president.
THE PROPOSED STRUCTURE
should not be the central target
for analysis, however, since the
committee members admit it is
but one of several possible or-
ganizations implied by their phi-
losophy. The philosophy can not
escape criticism by hiding in lofty
clouds and pretending to be all
structures to all OSA zealots.
The first problem is identifying
which philosophy we are talking
about: the committee offers us
two, one of student affairs and
one of administration. Sections
three and four of the report -
dealing with structures and policy
--show . that the administration
policy not only curbs the idealism
of the student affairs one, but
often takes precedence over it in
rejecting improvements.
In a document which would
have revolutionized the Univer-
sity's student affairs program and
enunciated, for the first time, an
intelligent philosophy of operation,
the student as an individual
citizen is often neglected. We don't
want to talk of students as men
or women (except in the special
case of their differing "needs"
which would be met by a dean of
women, associate dean of students)
but then quickly divides the stu-
Omissiont
THIS LAST POINT, that the
sight of people attracts still
other people, is something that

dent body into undergraduates and
grads, native sons and foreign
born, married and single, upper-
class and underclass. A sopho-
more is to have less stringent
regulations over him than an
older, wiser and more mature
freshman. There is no mention
of a student possessing rights nor
of the contribution he can make
to forming decent University
policy.
*, *
THE MAJOR ERROR the study
committee made in approaching
a philosopy of student affairs is
a much deeper one. The committee
failed to see the possibilities of
totally restructuring the Univer-
sity by emphasizing a new concern,
a new orientation toward the
student'.
Instead the committee chose to
view its job as strengthening the
present administration of student
affairs.
IF THE COMMITTEE members
had erased their initial prejudice,
they might have seen other con-
sequences of the philosophy they
affirmed.
That philosophy can be stated
briefly in the ringing words of the
educational aims of the University
committee's report: "The high
educational aims of the University
of Michigan are to stimulate in
each student the maximum in-
tellectual growth of which he is
capable and to enable him through
resultant development of charac-
ter and abilities to make maximum
contribution to his society."
This is the purpose of the Uni-
versity experience and this is what
must pervade every segment of life
which touches the student while
he is here, the committee says.
There should be the same orien-
tation in every unit, whether it is
the OSA, IST, LSA or ZBT.
If this is the ideal, if this cam-
pus is really the kind of univer-
sity the OSA study group wants,
why are they content to retain
separate vice-presidencies for aca-
demic affairs and student affairs?
THE COMMITTEE warns that
"institutional schizophrenia" may
develop between the "academic"
and the "nonacademic." It pur-
ports to claim that nonacademic
and academic have the same aim,
an educational one.
How, then, can the committee
justify the calling of some aspects
of the University "academic" and
others not? What meaning, if any,
do these words have once the
committee's philosophy becomes
University policy? The schizi-
phrenia of the University can not
be healed by retaining the split
in its personality.
THE COMMITTEE does not
seem to have tackled these ques-
tions although they are quite eager
to embrace a philosophy which
raises them.
If the division between "aca-
demic" and "nonacademic" affairs
is continued, the Reed committee
report wil not serve as "master
plan" by, which the University
should structure its relations with

AT THE CAMPUS:
'Kanal' Brutal
KCANAL" IS A BRUTAL MOVIE. Its moments of impact are contained
in a few scenes where individuals are faced with an overwhelming
truth, a choice or death. Like several recent European films, this Polish
product is an attempt to capture the milieu of the war in its savage
indifference.
However, the film has its dramatic drawbacks. Despite the moving
and effective portrayal of emotion, the film lacks coherence. In tracing
the history of several men through the last stages of the Warsaw
uprising against the Nazis, it fails to tell us enough about any character
to make him an individual. It is almost impossible to make judgments
of any sort about the characters as people.
* * * *
THE FILM BEGINS on the forty-third day of the uprising. The
cause is lost. The only alternative left is for the company to descend into
the sewers of Warsaw in hope of escape. From that point, the movie
concentrates on the fate of two young couples and the company's com-
mander. One of the couples, the nian severely wounded, heads desper-
ately toward an outlet on the Vistula. The girl, Daisy, supports her love
until they reach the opening which they find barred.
The other couple, an officer and his mistress, stumble toward safety
until he confesses to her that he is married. She commits suicide and he
goes on to reach what he thinks is, safety and, ironically, death. The
company commander, finding an unguarded outlet, spurns safety and
affirms his total experience by returning to lead his men out of the
sewer.
* * * tn
IN AND OF THEMSELVES these emotional climaxes are moving
and brilliantly depicted, but we are not prepared for them. The film
initially does not convey the hopeless nature of their situation. Although
we see scenes of Warsaw gutted by flames, the men do not appear at the
end of their efforts. Not until they actually enter the sewer and we
see humanity dying and suffering everywhere do we realize emotionally
that they too are going to die. Although the film's prologue tells us that
we are going to watch their "last hours," we cannot accept this bland
initial warning.
But the movie is still worthwhile for its emotional effects alone.
What it lacks in coherence, it makes up in a more than occasional
brittle, shocking intensity.
-David Marcus
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
OSA Study Complaints
Will Be uze

To the Editor:
'THE OFFICE of Student Affairs
Study Committee has uncon-
scionably refused its responsibility
to the University to be forth-
right and thorough in its criticism
of the OSA.
By stating a wonderful new,
"philosophy" for the office, the
committee to have given a solution
to its problems by proposing cer-
tain large structural changes in
the office, it has tried to make
it seem that it was recommending
overhaul.
But it gave no solution in their
philosophy and it proposed no de-
tails of the "desirable changes'in
the University's practices in three
areas where discontent seems most
apparent" which it claims to have.
The committee's criticisms-too
lengthy to report in full (or, ap-
parently, in part) "will be .made
available" to the offices con-
cerned, the report says.
* * *
HERE, the committee neglects to
note, they will be forgotten. Vice-
President Lewis, who must make
any final recommendations to the
Regents and is responsible for im-
plementing their decisions, has al-
ready disavowed unspecified parts
of the "unanimous" report which
he, himself, signed as a committee
member.
By stating only generalizations
and refusing to point out what
specific practices conflict with
these and what abuses may (and,
it would seem, probably will) oc-
cur, the committee has effectively
rrarIAn n, a 1 nn inufn,. ,

VoteHungry .
To the Editor.
IS THERE no point at which
vote-hungry Republicans draw
the line? Mr. Harrah, in Satur-
day's Daily says, quite plainly,
that the Republican party in
general, and Mr. Romney in par-
ticular, should be prepared, to
"appeal" to every manner of the
extreme right wing lunatic fringe
to put a Republican in the Gov-
ernor's office in Lansing.
While the major cause of this
desperation is the schizophrenic
character of the Republican party
in Michigan, including both up-
state and urban Republicans who
really have; little in common, it
does not seem likely that the in-
telligent voters of Michigan will
accept the pandering of the Re-
publican party to its lowest com-
mon denominator.
-Rosemary Pooler
Snipe Hun...
To the Editor:
BRAVO TO Edwin Smith for his
on-the-button letter re your
deplorable reviewing of films,
music and theatre!!
Surely you can show editorial
responsibility by appointing qual-
ified critics. Why should any two-
fingered typist who wants a fling
at playing God, be allowed by you
to snipe at his betters for the
sake of a corny crack?
There are amply informed, ma-
ture, evaluators on the faculty and