Seventy-Second Year EDITED AND MANAGED BYS TUDENTS 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" LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Editorial Avoided Issues Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. NESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: JUDITH OPPENHEIM Committee of One Million: Spokesmen of Inaccuracy E VIEW of the' Committee of One Mil- lion Against the Admission of Red China o the United Nations, as represented on cam- us by Col. W. Bruce Pierne, Ret., would be aughable except for one fact-it is also the. diew of too many' Americans. According to the Colonel, Mao Tse-Tung, Mead of the Communist party in China, "digs ap the bones of the ancestors because he is lfraid of them." While not wanting to slight he powers of the ancestors it does appear trange that a man who is not afraid of Soviet ussia, and would pull his representative out f, the 22nd Party Congress over ideological lifferences would'be frightened of a few bones vhlch have been rotting in the ground for Sod knows how many years. Col. Pierne also condemns Mao for using abor to grow opium poppies. He claimed that he dope traffic. from Red China is spread hroughout the free world and- makes it easier or the Communists to take over. What he eglected to mention is that in Laos the' sole icctgpation of the Meo tribesmen, who are he best fighters of the right-wing army we upport, is the growing of the opium poppies. the reason they are fighting for the right- Wingers is that the other side wants either to abolish this or at least Out a tax on the ac- rued profits. If Col. Pierne's assertion is true one won- fers why we haven't retaliated by doping up he people in the Communist countries and aking them over; Since the dope from Laos ,so is sold on the free world market it seems Go indicate that the -people in Communist ountries don't take dope, something the Unit- dStates is trying to get its population to do. NOTHER ONE of Col. Pierne's steing pre- dictions is that the "liberation of the main- and is not far ahead." This lie has been com- ng out of anti-Red China groups since thi .949 revolution and the prospects are just as lismal now as they were then. By saying that 'the United States must help logistically-tha' s with the transport, training and supply problems of the Nationalists," the Colonel eems to assume that the liberators will be the Nationalists on Formosa. After the Bi 1N THE BATTLE to remove the fraternity-- sorority bias clauses, the University stands ar behind the other major institutions of higher learning in the $tate, Michigan State ind Wayne State universities. Both the' other schools have set deadlines or the removaleof such clauses from affiliate onstitutions. The University's Student Gov- rnment Council, on the other hand, can't nake up its mind to ask for a deadline on the iling of statements about membership selec- ion in the 60-odd Greek letter groups on this ampus. Too many people regard the elimination of' e bias clause a a prime victory in the fight o end discrimination. Once the clauses are lne-or the less obnoxious "local autonomy" s granted-those who cheer with the flush if triumph have a 'right only to feeble cries. Fheir victory Is but a hollow one. W TITHTHE DISCRIMINATORY restrictions out of their charter, fraternity and sorority nembers will be safe from SGC tampering un- ess something goes wrong on another campus. Under the present system of operation, the >nly way a fraternity has been shown to ac- ually practice bias-though claiming not too --has been when one local chapter pledged a nember of an "unacceptable" minority group and subsequently lost its charter from the ational. This is the way Sigma Kappa was anged; this is the way Alpha Tau Omega Ould disappear. Once the nationals find they are losing ocals all over the place because some of their nembers want to choose members on an in- ividual basis of merit, pressures from the national will grind grudgingly to a final halt. This will leave local chapters that want to iscriminate free to do so, though the national rotherhood will contain men whose race or 'eligon is a. peculiar anathema to them.- Since the benefits of a fraternity are ex- ?erienced during the undergraduate days with a particular group living in a particular resi- ence, the existence of an "unacceptable, rother in New York or New Mexico will not other the Michigan man too much.. FACED WITH THIS SITUATIOT, what will SGC - or the new form of student govern- nent that will replace it - do to combat fra- ernity discrimination? Editorial Staff The Colonel must be smart enough militarily to know that an army of 600,000 men (the num- ber of men in the Nationalist Chinese armed. services), cannot liberate a country with 650 million people without very substantial help from within the Communist army. Recent" events in Tibet and reports from Western visi- tors tend to reveal no possibility for mass de- fections from the Red forces. Question: who would they be fighting for if they switched sides? Answer: the same people tley threw out in 1949. THANDS TO THE EFFORTS of the Commit- tee of One Million, the powerful China lobby in Washington, and certain segments of the American press, Red China has come to be equated with Hell in the minds of many Ameri- cans. These same people have been told that God, in the form of Chiang Kai-Shek, will soon take the Devil on in battle and defeat him, bringing China back to the "good" side. Aside from the fact that this represents a head-in-the-sand position, this type of think- ing could lead to an extremely serious conse- quence. Red China is going to be admitted to the United Nations-this will be dictated by the facts of international politics. When this happens, a public clamor will arise to take the United States out of the UN; a clamor started and directed by the Committee of One Mil- lion, the powerful China lobby in Washington, and certain segments of the American press. If their efforts are successful it would ef- fectively kill the UN. Such a situation would greatly increase, the chances of nuclear war by leaving the great powers with no alternative :ther than unilateral action if a crisis affect- ing their interests arises. IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY of the U.S. gov- ernment to give the American people the facts about the China situation. That it is not doing this is bad enough; but.;to let groups characterized by wishful thinking and dream- ing handle the job alone is even worse. De- spite all his campaign concentration on new direction, President Kennedy is in the same old rut that President Eisenhower was stuck in. -RONALD WILTON To the Editor: A COMMENT on the handicaps in last Sunday's Daily: I can- not see any justification for that piece except on most flimsy grounds. What is one to believe about the stand taken by the edi- tors? If the purpose of the editorial was to inform readers with a dis- niterested discussion of the candi- dates, why not leave the final de- cision open. Why not present only judgments as per the criteria printed? If this was the intent of the editors, they failed their readers in going too far. 'Is the student to form a responsible judgment or be a Daily bettor? All right, give the editors the ben- efit, this was not their purpose. * * * THEN they weren't trying to be disinterested. Look at what ap- pears upon this tack. Not one com- ment on stands taken by the can- didates; not 'one word on plat- forms; not one word on relevant issues. Only the mock virgin-white list of ,criteria. What is the matter here? The usually verbose Daily can't find any issue to sew a yellow star to, any issue for the salvation of the student population? This is a shock! But what of the wasted space that could better have gone to embrace candidates for spe- cific "imagination and resource- fulness" proffered? You are only interested in good government. Who Isn't? But what of a tyrannous unanimity you would have enforced, editors of the Daily? How can you-justify an election after that article. The conclusion is foregone. The stu- dent body needs but to act-not think. So this is all there is to student government. It has only to carry out projects that everyone is in agreement with. But we pay an administration for this. Only per- haps its the unanimity that's lacking. But not according to the Daily. I'll never swallow that stuff, ediors, I'll never 'swallow that .. . -Allen Blauroch, '63 Off-Campus... To the Editor: IN THE CONTEXT of 'all current trends in the role of the Amer- ican student, controversy over whether or not SGC should deal with off-campus issues is sense- less. All over the country, students are demonstrating an increased political awareness and activity, and students here are no excep- tions. Students are becoming more and more conscious of their part as citizens of a larger society then their university. They are seek- ing more and better means of ex- pressing their new interests, and they are takingpositive action on their new convictions. Certainly, they seek greater ef- fectiveness in expressingtheir feelings to the world and greater weight to show behind their words. The most significant expression of opinion is that of the largest pos- sible body of students. Thus, SOC is the only possible organization campus to thus represent student views. * * * WHETHER OR NOT SGC truly represents a cross-section of stu- dent opinion depends on the choices of candidates made by the Rare Honor OUND in a campus mailbox: "Dear Woodrow Wilson Nomi- nee: I have learned with pleasure that you have been nominated for con- sideration as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. While your election will depend on many factors yet to be examined, I regardtitaas a signal honor for you that at least one member of the academic com- munity believes in you . " * * * The last student, to be believed in by a faculty member was a 1947 graduate in geology. student body. If these are non- representative, the student body is to blame and should bear with the SGC they have and not de- nude it of power. SGC should not be penalized for the student body's mistakes. Most likely, however, SGC does represent the articulate segment of the student body who expound the views SGC would represent. The large inarticulate majority probably did not vote in SGC elec- tions anyhow. If this group then claims that its views do not coincide with or contradict those of SOC ;it has no legitimate gripe. Their not vot- ing and not making public their views are tacit approval of the articulate students' ideas, whether so ntended or not.' As a matter of fact, SGC has long been expressing campus opin- ion on off-campus issues. To re- voke this power would be an anachronism, a step backward blindly opposing every modern .current on American campuses. It would then leave a great and tra- ditionally vocal university sudden- ly gagged. OF COURSE SGC should deal with off-campus issues. Granted that it has a responsibility to con- sider them from a fully informed position and in the light of ,the views of its electorate. Granted that the views it emerges with are at best those of a majority of students and are not unanimous. This, however, is implicit in any democratic process. Certainly off-campus issues are of direct concern to the students. American prestige in the non- white world or disarmament di- rectly concern every person in this country. Granted also, SGC should be committed to expressing its. views in as effective a form as possible. In the last analysis, how- ever, this expression is essential and inescapable. -Susan Adelman, '62 Assembly Poll... To the Editor: MISS SILVERMAN'S editorial concerning my desire to ascer- tain the opinion of the women students whom I represent is the best critical editorial which has been written about Assembly in the past two or three years. For the first time that I can remem- ber, an editorial contains, some positive suggestions for reaching a goal which the writer considers both desirable and attainable. Miss Silverman, however, should have made some attempt to find out whether Assembly was obtain- ing student opinion on the subject of coeducational housing. Had she either asked an executive board member or been present at the workshop and ADC meetings where this was discussed, she would have learned that this sub- ject falls within the province of the Assembly Association Housing Committee which has already be- gun consideration of coeducation- al housing and will obtain Assem- bly opinion on the subject. FURTHERMORE, I do not be- lieve that it is my responsibility to personally conduct surveys to ascertain student opinion on every subject which affects Assembly. The ADC representatives have been told that this topic is under consideration and it is one of the duties of their office to encour- age their houses to discuss the subject and report the consensus of opinion to ADC. Assembly is an organization composed of nearly 4,00 women. Those who represent these women attempt to determine their opin- ions whenever possible, but the Small Service FROM A TEXTBOOK in Eco- nomics 411: "The economic disturbances fol- lowing 1929 merely served to heighten interest in these rob- -lems and especially in the role of money in our economic life..." * * * Some depressions just never get off the ground. responsibility of each woman to express her opinion is at least as great as the responsibility of the representatives to ascertain what this opinion, if any, is. In the future, I suggest that Miss Silverman be absolutely cer- tain that her assumptions are correct. In this case, she was wrong in believing that Assembly was doing nothing to obtain student opinion on coeducational housing. -Sally Jo Sawyer, President' Assembly Association China Committee. . To the Editor: IN ATTENDANCE at a meeting about the China situation last Sunday evening, I discovered that the U.S. has not been idle in the cold war propaganda effort. Four films sponsored by the Committee of One Million (Against the Admission of Communist China to the UN) were shown about our "democratic" Formosan allies and atrocities of the Chinese Communist regime. Its complete bias and slant against our enemies in such an un- academic fashion made me some- what envious of the commenta- tor's ability to tsee this important international issue in such a black and white contrast. * * * AS AN EXAMPLE of the distor- tion of facts the narrator alluded to an invasion of Quemoy in 1958 that in reality never took place but didn't deter Colonel Pierne from claiming 40,000 Communist casualties. Certainly the distinguished com- mittee of sponsors, all at the top of their respective fields, have never seen these films that they supposedly are endorsing. -,Richard Main, '62 FRESH, PROFICIENT: The New 'Generation' THIS FALL "Generation" begins its second decade. And the amaz- ing fact is that the current issue is as fresh as that first one in the spring of. 1950. Then, the editors prefaced their edition with a belief that Generation's function was to incorporate in one publi- cation the artistic achievements of students in all the arts. They concluded by expressing the hope that such a magazine might have an assured place in the intellectual life of the University. Today's issue' has an editorial column again. In it, Roger Reynolds states the "operational axiom: a University arts magazine should act as a stimulant." He goes on to justify inclusiveness, specifically the printing of the score of a flute sonata. That first issue contained the words and music of a song. To round out its coverage of the arts, Generation includes some meticulously reproduced (thanks to Michigan Graphics) photographs and drawings. I particularly liked the two illustrations by Sam Scott. FINAILY, there are the literary works. Two stories have been printed. Especially satisfying is Carl Oglesby's "The Glass Man's Bracelet." Oglesby has learned to handle words; his story is vivid and suggestive, tense with excitement. The structure is firm, spare, but the guts are there, too. The poems are more numerous. Much is promising, and a great deal is of a truly high quality. The technical proficiency is especially distinctive. Young poets ,have learned well In the academic setting. There are bits of rare beauty,,in all the poems. And insights galore. What more is'a poem supposed to do? FOR THE CONNOISSEUR there is a delightful bit by Nobel prize- winning poet, Quasimodo, rendered into English by X. J. Kennedy. But for the ordinary man there is sustenance, too, in the poems of Konstantinos Lardos, Norman Linville and Patricia 'Hooper. There are Hopwood winners galore. Reading these poems, so full of insight one can understand their success. One is caught in the webs they spin, these promising young poets, Suzanne Gary and Tony Stone- burner. Which to choose, the longer, more ambitious pieces of Miss Hooper or Mr. Lardos with their shifting, carefully handled points of view, their skillful handling of various meters and poetic forms, or the shorter works, brief, shining bits that flash and sink into the mind and heart, T IS A PLEASURE to be a witness to Generation's continuing appeal. The magazine remains agile and young, bright and provo- cative. It wears its years with grace. -Marvin Feleln.i English Department A 'ABOLITION'? China Film Distorts Situation ; as Clause... The probable next step is the outlawing of the one man "blackball," the veto by which an individual can turn away from his chapter anyone he wants to for any reason, announced or not, he chooses. To enforce this rule, SGC would have to station objective monitors at each hash session to make sure one man couldIn't veto another, that all pledges were picked by the good old democratic method of majority rules. Even if each house adopts this scheme of selecting members, monitors would' still be necessary to make sure debate on prospective members does not center around ay of the' six criteria the Regents say can not be used.. Such a move is necessary if the Council wants to ensure that the Regents bylaw pro- hibiting discrimination is not violated. Unless, of course, the Council and the University adopt a different conception of the role of student organizations in the campus community, a conception which should have underlined all the past action and which is essential if dis- crimination Is ever going to end. THE ROLE of the University is to maximize the growth of individuals by allowing them the highest level of opportunity to use its facilities. Academic freedom is enshrined be- cause it allows the student to expose himself to whatever ideas and thoughts he wants, and to work out from this dialogue an understand- ing of life. Thus, all facets of the University should be open to all members of the community. If a student is interested in a particular course of study it ought to be his right to elect it. If he seeks to work on The Daily, the Union or on measuring the speed of an electron, the University should make every effort to help him. Studgnt organizations, in particular, should not -have the power to set up requirements blocking members of certain groups from join- ing them. With such a concept in ,mind, SGC would have to ban all fraternities and sororities from this campus, since one of the essential characteristics of affiliate living is the chance to choose the group that will be allowed to spend its leisure moments together for the next few years. If the University seeks to end discrimination it can only do so by eliminating all selection processes. FRATERNITY and sorority houses should be taken over by the University, and turned into small residences perhaps co-ops, which would be open to all students. If the demand exceeds the supply (which is possible with a fixed number of beds) priority for admissions in.tn F 0iven hnn usnlid ba abhed hv the By HARRY PERLSTADT Daily Staff Writer THE FILM begins with Adolph Hitler inciting a mob, switches' to Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev pounding his shoe on the desk at the United Nations, shifts to a meeting between Red Chinese dictator Mao Tse-Tung, and Khrushchev. The narrator reminds us that like the Nazis, the Communists cannot be ignored and that ad- mission of Communist China to the UN is not in the best interests of the West. And finally the title flashes on the screen: "Red Chin- ese Outlaw." FOLLOWING hot on the heels of "Operation Abolition," this propaganda film avoids some of Abolition's pitfalls. We are told the film 'was made by the Com- mittee of 'One Million Against the DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) Brunswick, Corp., Chicago, Ill. -- Lo- cation of work: Throughout U. S. Feb. & June grads-Men-with degree in any field of Liberal Arts or Bus. Ad. for positions in R&DProduction, Design, Marketing & Sales. Must have U.S. cit- izenship. .Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. - Location of work: Detroit. Feb., June & Aug. grads-Men-with degree any field for Insurance Sales. U. S. Citizenship. Proctor & Gamble Co. Overseas Manu- facturing Div. - Location of Work: Overseas companies of Proctor & Gam- ble. Citizens of areas of operations only who wish to return to their native countries to work. Men with degrees In Chem. or Liberal Arts for positions in Adv., Foreign Trade, Prod., Pur- chasing, Sales Promotion & Traffic. Men with degrees in Bus. Ad. for Acctg., Finance, Marketing, Prod. Mgmt. Purchasing & Traffic positions. Stu- dents from many countries are eligible for. the positions above. Wed., Nov. 15 3 Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington, D.C. - Location of Work: New York, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chi- cago, Fort Worth, San Francisco & San Juan, P.R. Feb. June & Aug. grads both Men and Women. BS or MS iri Civil Engrg., or Architecture for City (Continued on Page 5) Admission of Red China to the United Nations. We see a list of the steering committee which includes Sen. Paul H. Douglass (D-Ill), Sen.. Kenneth B. Keating (R-NY), Rep. Walter H. Judd (R-Minn) and Rep. Francis E. Walters (D-Pa). And at the end of the film a list of credits appears with special thanks to the Departments of State and Defense., BUT IT USES the glorious tech- nique of "Abolition," several cQnl- gressmen are interviewed and tell ,the audience about the evils of admitting Red China into the United Nations. Rep..Judd tells us that Red China should be kept out of the UN because it violated the Charter by attacking Korea and through threats of force and ag- gression. "It. is not a matter of emotion but of fact," he said. Yet a good deal of the film is devoted to the "facts" of the dope, trade in which Red China In- dulges. We see riot scenes and are told that the riots against Vice" President Richard Nixon in South r America, the riots in Japan and the atrocities in the Congo were, due to Chinese dope. And just for good measure we see. pictures of Fidel Castro and listen in on a congressional committee hearing which unconvincingly attempts to tie in the Red Chinese dope with Cuban dope. * * * THE FILM'S LOGIC has many flaws. One outstanding example shows Indian Prime' Minister Jaw- aharlal Nehru shaking hands with Mao Tse-Tung. The narrator, Lowell Thomas, rtells us that the neutrals are half-friend, half-ene- my and are a great danger to the, United States. The argument is in the "those who are not with us are automatically against us" category. Coming as it does in the middle of this propaganda venture, the neutrals and their world are sum- marily disposed of in a few feet of film and a non-sequitor argu- ment. ANOTHER SCENE of interest showed Chinese "slave labor" run- ning through the' snow drawing something (we never see what it is) while the narrator drones on about slave labor driving out free labor and slave labor products un- dermining free enterprise. The argument runs very fast, espe- cially with those slave laborers running from left to right across the screen. The use of. this eco-r nomic appeals is also, falacious. The Chinese Communist conduct trade with the West, notably Great Britain, without UN mem- bership and the West traded with the Soviet Union during the 1920's without officialy recognition. of the Bolshevik government. One wonders what slave labor product outside of the dope trade is un- dermining free labor and enter- prise. There is o use for 'twenty men pulling ropes through the snow in the economy of the Unit- ed States. If °our economy is as strong as we believe it to be, then we have nothing to fear from trade with 'Red China or can find world markets without selling to Red China. In either case, the 'problems of slave labor do not enter the picture. The grand finale includes for- mer President Theodore Roose- velt in the midst of a "bully" speech. The narratorrconveniently quotes the speech for us and says that it was given in 1900 (before the Chinese 'Revolution of 1911 or 1948 or even the Bolshevik Revo- lution in 1917). And then there is the, appeal to keep Red China out of the UN and the American flag winds up the film. * * -* / FILMS of this sort accomplish only one thing. They bring a con- troversial subject into public de- bate. 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