"Pst Want To See Some Poems?" Seventy-First Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MIca. * Phone NO 2-3241 111L 11LJ .1 " Al : VLJ2 Stanley Qua rtet: Good Star Opinions Are Free th wl Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily ex press the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. RSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1961 .=NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL HARRAH STARTING ITS FAIL SEASON with a combination of Mozart, Ross Lee Finney and Beethoven, the Stanley Quartet returned last night to Rackham Auditorium. The Mozart work, K. 499 in D, proved again that the Classical era is one of the group's fortes. As in the Haydn series of this summer, the Stanley players showed their ability to hold closely together, while allowing Mozart's melody free rein. If one can find an objection, perhaps U Should Eliminate Discriminatory Scholarships E9PITE THE STEAbY, PUSH to eliminate S d iscrimntionF in various aspects of cam- Pus activity, one area has generally been over- looked-University administered scholarships. The problem involves both those scholar- sships already administered by the University and those which may come in the future. The discrimination is evident in an official University of Michgan publication, "Univer- sity Scholarships, ellowships and Prizes." A person opening this booklet to the list . of scholarships is confronted first by the Emma M. and Florence, L. Abbott scholarship, whose eligibility requirement specifies "Caucasian, Protestant women of American parentage who need financial assistance" A further persual of the booklet reveals that 'this is not an isolated case. 'THE UNIVERITV - has a bylaw which is supposed to cover discrimination; Regents bylaw 2.14. It tes that "The University shall not, discriminat e against PnY person because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, or ancestry. Further it shall work for the elimination of discrimination 1) in private organizations recognized by the University and 2) from non-University sources where stu- dents ,.and the employees of the University are involved." In a sense, the first par of the bylaw can be said not to apply here since by a strict interpretation the University itself is not actually doing the discriminating, the scholar- ships are. All of the present discriminatory scholarships were offered to the University prior to the passage of the bylaw. The dis- criminatory eligibility requirements were writ- ten in by the donor and the University is faced; with the option of keeping undesirable scholar- ships or losiilg the financial aid. Gagged Panel INTERNATIONAL Students Association was planning to invite two professors and two students to participate in a public seminar on the crisis in Syria. The Arab Students Club protested, claiming that it would be "pre- mature" and "speculative" to hold a talk on th situation. The Arabs were upset enough contemplate sending copies of the protest resolution to University President Harlan Hatcher and 'the' Office of Student Affairs, as well as to ISA. The protests would have been sent except that ISA officials then with- drew the plans for the panel discussion, be- cause the Arabs' objections in regard to "pre- maturity" seemed to be "reasonable," mainly because all the facts about the Syrian crisis were "not yet known." ISA does not exist to "ntagoize' ' any club, quoth the officials. Without casting asperations on the nteg- rity of ISA leaders, it is still true that enough facts have filtered out of Syria to form at least a basis for considering the profound effects of the revolt on international policies. A panel discussion on this matter would surely be "speculation" in part, but if it were labeled as such, and if divergent views were presented, the seminar would not have been "premature;" but very timely and noteworthy. I T IS ALSO interesting to note that the Arab club did not plan to protest againt a lecture by Prof. George Grassmuck on the same topic to Hillel the other night. If the Arabs claim it would be harmful for the subject to be discussed in front of an inter- national audience, it would certainly be much more harmful for the "premature" and "specu- lative" events to be interpreted to one group of students who are in need of much deeper understanding of the Arabs' culture and poli- ties.i Apparently President Hatcher and OSA received no burning Arab letters on this score. ,'Tt is undeniable that ISA should not "an- tagonize" any cultural group. ISA has suc- ceeded in placating the extremely irritable Arabs, but it has also failed in its moral, social and educational responsibility to the rest of its potential campus audience, with whom ISA is so desperately trying to integrate. -0. STORCH The second part of the bylaw applies to possible future scholarships, and it must be admitted that the University, in part, is living up to it. As the Regents and administration are fond of pointing out, since the passage of the bylaw not one discriminatory scholar- ship has been accepted. When aid has been offered with an offending eligibility clause the Regents have prevailed upon the donor to eliminate it. But what would happen if such a scholar- ship were offered on a take it or leave it basis is, however, undecided. Opinions among the Regents range from "it would probably be rejected" tq "it would probably be accepted." THIS LACK of a definite policy is irrespon- sible, to say the least. Presumably, if a discriminatory scholarship is accepted in the future the explanation will be .that 'an un- successful attempt was made to get the donor to eliminate the clause. Therefore, the bylaw requirement will have been fulfilled. What will probably be passed over, however, will be the fact that the Regents have the final say on whether to accept the scholarship and if they do accept it they will be accepting a form of discrimination, as described in. the first half of the bylaw. The answer to this part of the problem is simple. The Regents should meet and issue a statement saying that the University will refuse to accept any and all scholarships with discriminatory eligibility requirements. This should insure that such scholarships will not even be offered, much less accepted. THE PROBLEM of the present scholarships is more complicated. The University-cannot work for elimination of the offending clauses in existing scholarships because, for the most part, the donors are dead and the scholarships are part of trust funds whose rules the Uni- versity cannot go against. Surprisingly enough, the administration and Regents do not see anything wrong with these scholarships. The official position is "when' we have these restricted funds it makes avail- able more non-restrictive funds for use throughout the University community." This position has possibilites that frighten the imagination. A broader synonym for this pol- icy is "the ends justify the means," a concept supposedly alien to every this country is sup- posed to stand for. In effect this means that once the University has decided on what it considers a worthwhile goal it may use any method it pleases to achieve it. BY KEEPING the discriminatory scholarships the University is giving tacit approval to a policy it ostensibly opposes. The answer maybe painful but obvious; the scholarships must be given up. It may be painful because it will mean giving up needed money, although since the number of offensive scholarships is low, as the University is proud to proclaim, the loss should not be-too great. This pain can be eased considerably if the following plan is adopted: For each new, non-discriminatory scholar- ship received from now on the University will tdrop one discriminatory scholarship of equal value. This will admittedly keep the amount of scholarship money constant for a while, but 'the sacrifice must be made. It will put the University in the vanguard of those schools fighting to eliminate discrimination from publicly supported campuses. THE IMPORTANCE of principle over money has already been recognized by Harvard University, and others, by refusing to par- ticipate in the National Defense Education Act's loan fund because a loyalty oath is required of all borrowers. Their attitude is that there, are ways to finance an education withoutcompromising the principles on which an educational institution is based. 'Discrimination is wrong. It is morally wrong, humanly wrong, and bylaw 2.14 says it is legally wrong in the University. If the Uni- versity is not interested in morals and humanity it should at least follow its own bylaw. The full intention to do so should be announced immediately. -RONALD WILTON it may lie in the tendency, not restricted just to the Stanley Quartet, to perform Mozart adagi- os as though they were all deep laments. The, adagios often fit into a piece in a much lighter, more divertimento-like way. There is a wide range of feeling between, say, "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and the "Requiem," and there is a ten- dency to fit 'more Mozart toward the latter end of the continum, overlooking the lighter aspects. *4* * COIgNG after the Mozart, the Finney quartet is a bit of a con- trast; jumping from a graceful menuetto to unison pizzicatos and glissandos is a bit difficult. The Eighth Quartet, which the group chose last night, Is in one move- ment, albeit a fairly long one., The movement contains numer- ous contrasts of tempo and mood- which received a thoughtful treat- ment at the hands of the Stanley Quartet-and generally stays ina dark vein. " After Intermission the group turned to late Beethoven, the Op. 130 quartet. Standing thirteenth in the list of Beethoven's sixteen quartets, the B-flat major occupies an interesting position between the first of the late ,quartets and the two following giants, the c sharp minor and a minor quartet. * * 4' IT IS ALSO INTERESTING in that it contains the last piece of music which Beethoven is known to have written, the Finale, which replaced the originally - intended last movement, now called the "Grosse Fuge" and labelled Op., 133. The thirteenth quartet displays some quite unusual effects, be- sides its number of movements- six. THE INTERWEAVING of the adagio and allegro in the first movement, for example, is a new technique, and presents a num- ber of problems to the performers. The interposition bf the lovely' "Alla danza tedesca" between the Andante and Adagio movements is also notable, as is the so-called "90-second" Presto after the first movement. In general, the performance of the Beethoven work, in comparison to last summer's performance, showed a Stanley Quartet more united, more consistent in applying shadings. Perhaps the atmosphere of October is more conducive for quartets than that of July. qu --Mark Slobin ~9'96 -'-$ ~ ?"r' . TODAY AND TOMORROW: Act Two in Berlin By WALTER LIPPMANN WE AE 'at the beginning of 'v Act Two of the Berlin crisis. The Western allies must try to find a negotiating position on which they can agree. It will not be easy to do this. For in West Germany, in France, and in this country there are powerful and passionate opponents of any ne- gotiations. They believe that any negotiation must involve conces- sions on the part of the West without any corresponding con- cessions by the Soviet Union. To make one-sided concessions will, they insist, undermine and destroy the Western alliance, and cause the whole structure of the anti- Communist world to collapse. It is quite possible that the in- transigents will prevail in the sense that Bonn and Paris will be able for the present to impose a veto upon Washington and Lon- don. The German press is crying out that President Kennedy is preparing to betray Germany, and the West German Foreign Minis- ier has made it known that in the view of his government there are no negotiable points. Over all this there hangs the threat that if there is a negotiated settlement, the West cannot be sure of the West German commitment to the Western alliance. 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Midsemester reports (D's and E's only) will be due is not about West Berlin but about West Germany. * * NO DOUBT, these hysterical cries about betrayal must not be taken too grimly and too literally. For the Germans are in a state of shock. For the first time after years of soft promises and self- deception they have to face the realities of the partition of Ger- many., What they are crying out for now is that we must refuse to negotiate about anything so that they may go on for a while longer to dream that as a leading member of the Western alliance they will eventully liberate and absorb Eastern Germany. It may be that by going to the brink of thermonuclear war we can gain some time for the West Germans to turn over in bed and haye another nap. Nobody can knbw what are the odds on ther- monuclear war if there is no ne- gotiation. But they may well be 50-50 or a little better, that even if we refuse to negotiate, Khrush- chev will not make a warlike move such as interfering physically with existing access routes. 'Quite possibly, he may not be ready or willing to play Russian roulette in Berlin. Those who want to gamble with stakes which are in- finitely large have a hunch-it is no more than a hunch-that the pistol is not loaded. THEIR HUNCH could be right. It is possible that Khrushchev would draw away from war even if we refuse to negotiate with hi. But wheye the intransigents can- not be right is in the notion, which is at the heart of the matter, that if nothing about Berlin is changed by negotiation, nothing will be changed about Berlin. This is the radical fallacy of the so-called hard-boiled school. They do not realize that the status quo in West Berlin has already been changed radically by the action of August 13, when the wall was raised. By standing firm and re- fusing to negotiate they cannot go back to the situation which existed before . August 13. West Berlin has now ceased to be what it was in the Adenauer era, the symbol of German reunification under the aegis of the Bonn gov- ernment. It has ceased to be a show window to East Germany of the affluence and freedom of West Germany. It has ceased to be a fulcrum for the liberation of East Germany. Unless some kind of future, for this half-city is, provided by negotiation, West Berlin will be a derelict ship which is running out of fuel and has lost its rudder. THAT IS WHY it is untrue to say that in 'a negotiation about West Berlin we can only lose and can have nothing to gain. Those who say this do not realize what happened to West Berlin on August 13, and they imagine that West Berlin is still what it was in the best days of the Adenauer-Dulles partnership. The truth is that West Berlin can negotiate it, which is by no means certain today, it will not be, a surrender. It will be the achieve- ment of something which will be a good deal better than what exists today and may be a good deal better than what existed be- fore August 13. IF A SUCCESSFUL negotiation can be carried out, the West Ger- mans must cease to cry out that any negotiation will be a betrayal on our part, and to accompany it with an overtone of threat that this might release them morally and politically from their alle- giance to the West. We are not betraying the Germans and, de- spite the hysterical talk, we must continue to have confidence that the Germans, will reciprocate. (c) 1961 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. LETTERS: MCC:omb's Rights, To the Editor: AF R READ the thought- editorial by John Roberts, "Fed- eral Authority \Must Enter Mc- Comb," the Oct. 13th editorial just below' it was disillusioning Caro- line Dow, in "Hayden Symbolizes Conflict,' assumed one of the most deterrent and nullifying stands taken by too many Americans. The argument that "both sides," (the integrationists and the South- ern segregationists), "have a right" is a damaging middle of the road stand which is, in effect, no stand at all. She stated that just as the for- mer Daily editor felt he was right in interfering with the "way of life" in McComb, Mississippi, the "local people," (and we might ask which of the local people), "were standing on their right," in de- fending the injustices of segrega- tion. Seemingly in plea for under- standing, Miss Dow stated that the townsfolk reacted "as we might react" if Southerners came to "talk the Ann Arbor gentry in- to assuming the 'right' of decid- ing the University's curriculum." This analogy was grossly inap- propriate! C Students attending the Univer- sity are exercising the democratic right of freedom of choice, and come and remain here in accept- ance of the curriculum, so that the "gentry" need not use vio- lence to force us to comply. In $he South, however, there exists a situation in which one racial group, through violence, is forcing another not to exercise the constitutional right of the fran- chise. Negro "local people" in the South have not chosen to be, nor to remain in an inferior econom- ic, social and political situation. IN MISS DOW'S opinion, the "tragedy" is that "all of us must question who has the highest right, and how far it allows them to go." If she is correct, then it is indeed regrettable that "all of us" cannot answer that question without hesitation. For then, some of us have certainly forgotten that in 1776, we believed that all men, (we did not say only white men), have an "inalienable right" of freedom. Almost all of'us will at least give "lip service" to our Pledge of Allegiance, unflinchingly repeat- ing the words, "with libertyand justice for all," That any American can ques- tion whether any "right" allows us to go so far as having "pub- licly elected" officials support the beating, and participating in the killing of member of the disen- franchised "public" causes me to agree with Miss Dow's statement that:' "A solution to the segrega- tion problem may come too late for this nation." *, For, while those of us in the middle of the road continue to - "question," and in our silence, to . condone human injustice, we are telling white and non-white, Cor- munist and free world, that we question the very integrity of the democratic principles that we preach. -Carole Pigler, Grad The Law.. To the Editor: WHAT IS Miss Dow's editorial (Friday, October 13) trying to say? Hayden was "right" in doing what he did, yet the local people 'in, McComb were "not wrong in their reactionreither." The concluusibn of the article is a model of forceful prose. g "The 'tragedy is, that both sides have a right. The question for all of us is-who has the highest right, and how far does it allow them to go?" * *' 4 EVEN AS a native of the South, I have yet to see where anyone (even the Southern backwash of the Master Race) has the "right" to violate the law. True, we should all make a conscientious effort to "understand" the difficulty of the Southern Whites' position, even though most Southerners zeal- ously refuse to do so for them- selves. We must also realize, how- ever, that the Southerners hage demonstrated neither the desire nor the capability of handling the problem themselves. Time to grow accustomed to the idea of' x I 0 4 , ' A RED PARTY CONGRESS 4 Khrushchev Says 'IllBe the Boss' By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated PressNews Analyst MYSTERIOUS DEVELOPMENTS at Moscow's 22nd Communist Con- gress suggest that Nikita Khrushchev, always a gambler, is pre- senting a bold'challenge to opponents within both the Soviet Party and the Red World bloc. Premier Khrushchev bared some painful internal Communist secrets, then sharply warned that he intended to be boss from now on.- It could all have been a show of personal political strength at a moment when such a display was necessary. There are hints in this that Khrushchev has been and still may be engaged in a battle to keep his leadership of the world movement. That probably was the case at the 20th Congress, in 1956, when he made his historic attack on the dead Stalin. * * * * STUDENTS OF COMMUNISM in beleaguered West Berlin, highly sensitive to Communist developments, were intrigued -by such things as the following: 1. Khrushchev, for no readily discernible reason, chose this time to denounceevenerated old Marshal Klementi Y. Voroshilv, who, occupied a seat of honor behind Khrushchev" as a 'member of the Congress Presidium.. ?. Two prominent victims of Khrushchev's political maneuvers showed up among the delegates. One was former Premier Nikolai Bul- ganin. The other was A. I. Kirichenko, whom Khrushchev fired from the Party Presidium in May 1960. He had been a Khrushchev protege., 3. Khrushchev openly assailed Albania for Stalinism. By implica- tion, he also criticized the Red Chinese hierarchy, from which Albania now takes its world political guidance. 4. Khrushchev laid down a blue print for world Communism's devel- opment, first in the USSR, then in the world, toward the goal of global supremacy. First comes full-scale "construction of Communism" in the Soviet Union, which means Khrushchev's program must be imple- mented at all costs. Then, significantly, Khrushchev added, "We cannot make a concession on this fundamental issue to the Albanian leaders orsanyone else." The hint is that there are others besides the Albanians and their Chinese mentors who have balked at Khru'shchev's grandiose economic schemes and at his fairly cautious approach to Communist territorial expansion. ONE GETS THE IMPRESSION Khrushchev was announcing 'a determination to call the shots, whatever the opposition. He may have convinced the bulk of world. Communist leadership that caution is the wisest policy on Berlin, but Khrushchev apparently is not wholly out of trouble. Internationally, his own agricultural program has run into another failure, possibly a disastrous one. He had staked his reputation as an agricultural genius on the virgin lands program, but his speech conced- Mr. K: Branches and Bombs MID THE MANY olive branches that Ni- kita Khrushchev handed out Tuesday, either a branch, a tree nor even a twig was xtended to Red China. This points out an area of the Communist Eield that -might crack at any time. China is nd has been definitely at odds with the So- lets over the Russian tendency to thaw the old war.Russian attempts to reach agreement rith the West on status of neutral nations or n disarmament have been a bone of conten- Russia has accused China of not following the Moscow-set line while China has accused Rus- sia of "revisionism" in recognizing that co- existence is possible. Much' of this difference seems to lie in the fact that Red China does not recognize the danger of nuclear arms. THE SIMULTANEOUS ANNOUNCEMENT of eliminating the Berlin time limit, which may eventually make possible a settlement in Ger- many; and the first public announcement at bomb tests, may be a simple political maneuver by Khrushchev. He is pacifying the Red Chinese with a militant show of strength while work- ing at the same time toward a real settlement in Berlin. within the Communist bloc. idication of this lies in they logical attacks between the exchange of two giants..