* ~Jg Ai~i~w knI Seventy-Second Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. " ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phon NO 2-3241 Truth Will Preval" HURRICANE IN BRITISH HONDURAS: Hattie s Disaster: Eye-Witness Account Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SUNDAY, NOVEM1BER 19, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: PHILIP SHERMAN International Center: The Negative Approach THE MORE THAN 50,000 foreign students at colleges in the United States face improper political restrictions at both the national and local institutional level. At the University, with its 1800 foreign students, there is a unique relationship between the two types of restric- tion. :, Section 241-(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act most effectively muzzles any unorthodox political views a foreign student may want to express. The government threatens . to deport any alien who "advocates the eco- nomic, international and governmental doc- trines of world communism . . . either through their own utterances or through any written or printed publications issued or published." Aliens (including foreign students) are also forbidden to "write or publish, or cause to be written or published, or to knowingly cir- culate, distribute, print or display' any com- munist, fascist, or anarchistic literature. THE RESTRICTION on the University level is much harder to pin down. The entire orientation of the International Center seems to be one of negativism--"keep the foreign waas s p3Tao l gt L n o no sluapnls reluctant to take the responsibility -for in- stituting badly-needed changes. This void of responsibility is shown in the Center's attitude toward discriminaton toward foreign students in private housing. When' contacting landlords for possibilities of finding living quarters for foreign students, the Center. asks the owners if they would be willing to rent to the students. - Over the years, a list of about 600 owners who answer affirmatively. has been built up for use when foreign students seek lodgings in the fall. But, no list has been kept of owners who refuse to rent to foreign students, and there is no cooperation between the Center and the Human Relations Board about this discrimination. THIS TYPE of policy (or non-policy) orien- tation leaves the guiding lines on what foreign students can do very fuzzy. The re- strictions on their political expression come haphazardly-they are much less concrete and harder to define than the federal position. For instance, there have been several cases in the past where there would seem to have been political muzzling. Four years ago, Ukran- ian students were "discouraged" from picket- ing on Captive Nations Day by International Center director James M. Davis. Several Af- rican students at the University wanted to protest Prime Minister Nehru's policy toward apartheid in South Africa, and were warned that their action might be "investigated." Foreign students wishing to demonstrate after the death of Lumumba .were faced with a "suggestion" from Davis that it might be wiser not to do so. Now all this is in apparent contradiction to Davis' statement that the International Center makes no attempt to influence one way or WAR AND PEACE: A Litt AN'CE UPON A TIME on an uncharted island another the political activities of foreign stu- dents. If they wanted to take part with other University students in a protest, Davis claims, against the speaker ban, for example, the International Center would make no attempt to stop it. International Center officials insist that any consultation between it and student clubs dealing with foreign students is purely volun- tary on the part of the organizations. Guidance is available at the Center if the student groups want to use it. Yet the president of one nationality club has flatly maintained that groups are required to consult with adminis- tration officials before planning any political demonstrations or protests. Otherwise, the president said, the club runs the risk of losing its charter. NOW, the University's unique and direct connection between the two types of re- striction is Dr. Davis. He has the power to influence both spheres, but has not done so. Davis is considered one of the best men in the country in his field. He is president of the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors. As chairman of President John F. Kennedy's Task Force on Cultural Exchange, he was largely responsible for Congressional passage of revisions in immigration laws and in mutual cultural exchange provisions. But with all his contacts in Washington, and an unquestioned superiority in his chosen profession, he has made no effort to get the smothering federal restrictions on political expression of foreign students eliminated, or even softened. On the local level, he has shown little if any concern over the fact that, despite some pro- gress, 12 per cent of the foreign students here have encountered discrimination in private housing. Theorientation of negativism, and the re- sulting confusion and restriction, only make the position of foreign students here much more difficult and uneasy, above and beyond the pressures of a strange new culture. THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER does not know what it is doing or where it is going. Although a structural hierarchy exists, there is no clear framework of policy or definition of goals. But the ideal role of the International Center is clear. It must adopt a progressive attitude toward eliminating unwarranted restrictions on foreign students. It must work toward creating condidtions in which foreign students, as much as they want to, can assimilate into the campus. It should serve as a transition between the two worlds of the foreign student by acting as a clearing house for his practical problems and as a meeting place for students from all cultures. But first of all, the Center must take a long, hard look at what it is doing, and at what it should do. -GERALD STORCH S (EDITOR'S NOTE: Torre Bissel, a former University student, has been teaching school in Belize, British Honduras for just under a year. He wrote these letters to his par- ents during the last week in Octo- ber and the first of November, when hurricane Hattie devastated the country.) Tuesday, 3:00 a.m. DEAR DAD AND MOTHER, Yesterday I turned on the ra- dio expecting to hear music but instead I heard the announcement that "Hattie' had turned and was heading right for Belize. After having made this announcement BHBS proceeded to play interlude music between announcements and bulletins. Two selections which they played several times ech were "Stormy Weather" and "Walking in the Rain." i You asked what it's like to be in a hurricane in an earlier let- ter. It is supremely monotonous. Nothing happens. The hurricane only moves at eight or nine miles an hour and it seems to take for- ever to wind its way across the Carribean to get to us. * * * 4:50 a.m. AT4 A.M. the hurricane sudden- ly ceased to be monotonous. With a loud crash that woke every- one, a building near by (we don't know where) went down. Even though we are in a reinforced con- crete building, the whole build- ing is shaking. I am fearful that the doors will give away. We have them barricaded and people sit- ting on the barricades but ..-- I'm sorry if my writing isn't clear but I'm sitting in semi-dark- ness. We can hear zinc roofing smash against our building. They come off the roofs with a sharp "crack!" and then flick by. I wish dawn would come, we can't see what's happening. We have to keep yawning to clear our ears because the pres- sure is dropping so much. 7:00 a.m., Tuesday THE TRAGEDY continues. From where we are I can see where the United States Consulate was. There are no houses in sight at all. The water isnow 5 or 6 feet high. I feel sick at heart because of the dead and the dying. At about 6 a.m. we think the eye came over. The wind died down for 20 minutes and then came back again only this time from the sea. At about 6:45 the water started rising. If you only knew how we feel here thinking about friends and relatives who must be injured or dead. This is the most terrifying hor- rible experience I have ever been through. Everything is in slow mo- tion. We sit here hour after hour not knowing what is happening. The room is always noisy with children. I wonder how many of my students are dead. The water keeps boiling in from the sea. It keeps rising. It's like a river in flood. Debris is all around us. 11:00 a.m. TEE U.S. CONSULATE is stand- ing after all. When I was look- ing before I couldn't see it for the rain even though it's only in the next lot. Now that it is daylight and the rain is only a drizzle we can see the damage. I just can't believe it. Houses are tossed around in crazy ways and most have lost their roofs. I wish I could describe it but I can't; it's too chaotic. What a night! I would never want to repeat it. Wednesday, 10:35 a.m. YESTERDAY I went around the cable office to try and get word to you, but no luck; both it and the BHBS will be out for days. Yesterday from about 1:00 in the afternoon I waded around checking on people. Often the water was waist high. The Vernons have no home left at all. It just disintegrated. They spent Monday night in the courthouse. The roof flew off it. Today as I have walk- ed around, everything is a sea of mud; often 7 or 8 inches deep. Throughout the whole city, in the house, in the closets, beds, clothes, food, all is mud. St. Michael's is ruined. The new building just disintegrated and the old one is pushed on an angle with no roof and many walls gone. We heard on the radios last night and this morning that aid would be coming today. I hope so because there isn't more than 2 days food and water left in the city. I would estimate that 1/3 of the houses are totally destroy- ed, another 1/3 partially damaged but still habitable, and the other 1/3 only lightly damaged. The only way I can describe it is to com- pare it with Stanleyville and the other suburbs that got hit by the tornadoes in Grand Rapids. But instead of a narrow belt of dam- age it spreads over the whole city. Everyone says that this is much worse than. the 1931 hurricane in terms of its severity and the amount of property damage.dHow- ever, the number of dead will be much smaller because people were warned and most took shelter. I doubt if it will be over 75 dead in sweeping it clear of every piece of equipment. Everything upstairs is smashed, ruined and soaking wet. A girl I know who took shel- ter there said that women were delivering babies while the wind ripped the roof off from over their heads and the walls bulged in and out from the wind pres- sure and the full force of the wind and rain struck them. So far as I can tell, all of my friends are alive and well. Here's hoping on my students. * * * 4:30 p.m. IT'S OBVIUOS now that there will be at least 2-300 dead in Belize alone. Belize is described as "75 per cent damaged" but Stann Creek and Punta Gorda are both "95 per cent damaged.' Cayo and Benque Viejo have both suffered severe damage. One thing I don't understand is that people behaved so well in the shelters during "Hattie" but now they are going ill. Many stores have been gutted by mobs of vandals. I happened to be passing Bata Shoe Store this afternoon while it was being mob- bed. The troops had to break it up with tear gas. One woman was shot dead in the fight. I guess when people have suffered such complete losses they really can't be expected to act rationally. The people in town are in an ugly mood, but I think things will improve tomorrow. Food is being distributed now and the streets are getting bulldozed clear. They finally got the bridge in line again. The force of the wind turn- ed it around. One problem is that the water is rising again. It's the backwash from the storm. Four- teen people died on Caye Corker and there are only 2 houses left standing on St. Georges Caye. Everywhere here is a sea of soupy mud. Thursday, 7:40 p.m. SPENT THE DAY helping var- ious friends get food and straightened up. This morning we took the mattresses out of the ruins of the Vernon home to across the street where they are staying with relatives. Their house is like the fun house at Ramona Park; all tilted up at a 40* angle. About noon I saw a man who was drown- ed taken out of a ruin and burned on the street. It didn't bother me much. It just seemed part of the passing scene. Tomorrow they start burning bodies in the Pris- onic Creek area. I've never seen so many report- ers. This afternoon I tried to get a message relayed through the po- lice radio and tomorrow I'll try and get a note out to one of the planes. After that I'm giving up trying to get word to you. They are going to start hauling people out of Belize tomorrow up to high land where they are setting up tent cities. They are seriously talking of abandoning Belize and rebuilding elsewhere. The damage is so com- plete here that they wouldn't be losing much by leaving what's still standing. One of the reasons that there has been so much looting was ex- pressed very well by a comment I heard on the street: "I have mon- ey but it isn't any good." Whe, you can't buy anythingwith your money and you know that there is a shop with food or clothes that you need you just have to break in to get it. Many times in the past two days I have walked down streets on which I have gone doz- ens of times before and not seen a single landmark that I recog- nize. Houses that were two stories are now one (or none). At this point I have no idea how B.H. will ever recover eco- nomically. It just scraped along before "Hattie" and now every- one is down. I hope this is a one- in-a-life-time-experience for me because I don't ever want to see this sort of thing again. I have seen several people who are old 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 who are deranged by this. I saw the cops rope a man to prevent him from killing himself after he found his wife's and children's bodies. No one looks beyond the next hour. How can you when you have to go begging half the day for the next meal? Perhaps that is why everything is so disorganized. We are all incapable of making plans or seeing what we should be doing for more than a couple hours at a time. Until order is imposed by forces from the outside, the dis- organization will continue. Every- where is a sea of thick soupy sticky mud. You're walking along and the suction of the mud pulls off your shoes and then you grub around in the mud to find it. One thing I will never want to go through again is the wind. Even though I was in a rein- forced concrete building, the walls still shook. Many people said that their houses were like rocking chairs. * * * Saturday, 7:35 a.m. P OOR BELIZE got punished last night. It rained for 21/2 hours. Thousands are living in houses with no roofs. Just as the mud was finally getting dried up a little it has all souped up again. I have now walked over the whole town passing out news bul- letins on feeding centers, medical centers, etc. The only thing I'm worried about right now is an out- break of disease. All of my friends are sending their babies and small children to their relatives in Ja- maica or the States. * * * Saturday, 5:00 p.m. IAM JUST BONE TIRED. We all wake up in the mornings tired. No one seems to sleep very well at night. Also the labor of climb- ing over wreckage, through mud and water all the time is tiring. The whole character of the crowds and people has changed today. You don't see people wandering around with the exhausted ex- pressions on their faces. People are now working, trying to get things in order. * * * 7:20 p.m., Saturday ALL OF US when we shut our eyes can hear the wind. That wind went on hour after hour, always with the horrible sound and the sounds of things break- ing. For all of us, those were the longest hours of our lives. Fragmentary figures are now coming in. Calabash Caye - 29 dead, Turnefbe-20 (including 13 children), Caye Caulker-14, Mul- lins River 18 and 50 missing and the other 150 evacuated, Stann Creek 39, Belize 69. These are much too low because if you walk down any street in Belize you can ask if there are any dead around and people will show you wrecked houses that have one or more bod- ies under them which no one has had time to dig out yet. You find children wandering about in a daze who have lost their parents. There is a rumor going around that another hurricane is forming and heading along the same path for B.H. I hope not. I don't want another. I'm just wondering how far the aid to B.H. will go. I fear people after a while will forget about us. We just need millions and millions and millions of dollars. * * * Sunday, 8:45 a.m. WELL, they are now picking up these characters who have just been loafing around and put- ting them to work. I saw one who resisted the soldier andnthen jumped the soldiers. Fortunately the soldier (who was about 2 feet shorter and 100 pounds lighter) was able to back off and then the soldier marched the guy off to work by putting the bayonet in his back.' Most of the looting has been done by these characters who have always lazed around doing noth- ing but bearing children and drinking what little money they have. While I know there has al- ways been underemployment here, there is still a certain amount of work that goes begging because these people can live off others' charity and off the women they have children by. So frankly it grieves me not at all that they are and diseased and must be boiled for at least 30 minutes.. One thing that has bothered me is that you probably didn't get word that I was OK until late Thursday or Friday. I tried every single way I could to let you know. I'm sorry you were worried,. but there was just nothing I could do, because Belize was complete- ly cut off from the outside world. * * * Tuesday, 4:50 p.m. JNEVER THOUGHT it possible but tomorrow we start 5th Form at, St. Michael's. If you don't mind, I'd like to teach to the end of the term, Dec. 1. I'm needed here for a job I know and can do. I suppose the above re- quest for permission to stay will sound bad with what follows, but I'm telling all that happens here. Tomorrow they will start de- stroying all dogs because they are rabid and have been eating the rapidly decomposing bodies of humans; cats, dogs, and others. The dogs are going crazy with hunger and are starting to attacik people. BHBS is now back on the atr. At noon they said there are 230 odd dead in BH and 196 of thein in Belize. The number kee.ds climbing as they clear away the wreckage. It is expected to hit at least 500 dead for the country.. Soldiers blew out the brains of a man who tried to molest a woman after curfew. There seems to be hundreds of soldiers cai:ry- ing machine guns and rifles itnd by their looks, I don't susy;ect they would hesitate to use theim. Actually the situation in the city is obviously better now than before and it improves more with each passing day. If you were to see Belize 1rom the air now, you would thii:ik it was on fire because all over the city there are huge fires where they are burning lumber from shattered homes. The prociedure is this: a bulldozer will go to a block and drive over and over the wrecked homes to break them down to manageable size and. then the men go through stacking the lumber and looking for (and find- ing) bodies. Then the bodi s and lumber are burned. It's arsaazing what a bright and intense fire a body makes, but maybe that is due to the kerosene. Ugh!I A psychologist would hale had a wonderful time here during the first week watching a whole town go into shock and out agalin. You still see some people walndering around in a complete daze, It was just too much for many. One old woman had been found alive ly- ing in the mud for 24 hoiars. We had to restrain her to kieep her from walking out of the 'hospital into the sea and drowning. Lo've, Torre e Fable the ostrich, said others. Adopt the talons and NEW RAMBLERS: Lively 'Bluegrass': Fun but Not Art HE NEW LOST City Ramblers came last night to the near 50- egree weather 'of the Ann Arbor Armory and did their best to make things warmer. Now and again, they got their music going really ight; and taken all in all, it was exactly the sort of stamp-and-run .entertain- ment that their audience had come to hear. Mike Seege;, John Cohen, Tom Paley and their five different instruments have all that such entertainment needs. Everything is right: the people who come know what to expect and are entirely sympathetic to the style. The first real flash from the banjo, the first crazy take-out from the fiddle will trigger the evning off. * .* * * THE MUSIC is of course beyond reproach because t be serious about it is to be absurd. Seriousness isn't there-or at lest it doesn't repose in the music itself, but rather derives from the set npoods and commitments of those who come to hear. The idea mainly is to have fun and jump around. But what do you say about the music? What the Ramblers play is basically bluegrass, a Grand-Old-Opry style, a whang-bang, four-square rhythm of immense jocosity and vigor. It is what happened to a certain kind of singing when they got radios in Ken- tucky, Tennessee and Cincinnati. It is melodically deserted, verbally barren, never introspective-and not at all bothered by not being these things. * * * * THE FIRST HALF of the program was given over almost wholly to songs of this type. "Big Ball in Ashville" was probably the best of the main-line bluegrass pieces. Seeger goes to war against his fiddle and everybody wins. Cohen made his mark with an inipossibly facile "talker" called "Hard Luck Blues." Paley's best moment came in the second half: 1 andicapped all night with a sore throat, he got out there by himself "with lis guitar, "Stackalle," and some three-finger picking that maks a prophetess of Elizabeth Cotton. He built it with forceful calm and everyone listened. I DON'T THINK it is the success of that song and that way of singing, more than my own preferences, that raises a question about folk music on the concert stage. Can it do without irmsic and words? Can it do without single personality? Can it get along on the banjo's drive, the fiddle's hurry, the funny verse? And do thes! three musicians do themselves justice to seek for what Seeger calls "authenticity" rather than art? Of course, they deliver a great deal. It seems 'to me that they might deliver substantially more. ---Carl Oglesby PREVIEW: 'Collegium' FeaItures Rarely Heard Works TONIGHT THE CAMPUS will have a rare opporunity to experience widely varied and seldom heard vocal music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Prof. Maynard Klein's select Michigan Singers will be presenting a "Collegium Musicum" at 8:30 p.m. in the Rackham Lecture Hall. Many of the composers represented rank among the greatest of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. * * * * TOMAS LUIS DE VICTORIA and Orlandus Lassus, contem-i poraries and peers of Palestrina, helped to climax the polyphonic style of the late sixteenth century. Giovanni Qabrieli, one of the most influential musicians of the generation after Lassu and Victoria, was the leading master of polychoral composition-works written for two or more choruses. His pupil, Henrich Sc]ihuetz was unquestion- ably Germany's greatest composer for more i;han half a century. Hardly less illustrious were Giacomo Carissimi, 'Italy's most important composer of sacred music in the mid-seventh century, and Dietrich Buxtehude, the organist and composer Unaccompanied vocal works by these composers, including poly- choral compositions by Lassus, Gabrieli and Scluetz, will be presented in the first half of this evening's concert. '.f in a remote corner of th a species of bird known as ture given only to peacefu Because the island held the dodos, the dodos conce the most of life by eating these rare birds found tha broadened their fuselageN their wing-spread and so th fly. Unlike some birds' in thi had principles, and one prir dodos were equal, each e; as he pleased about commv The dodos had an army' token force because pacifist of all weapons. IN A MAJOR address to t ("Eggs") Benedict, a fore a rally of troops and citizen armed completely and that strength lies." Egg Beatnik, a student soapbox and pronounced: Our unilateral disarmamen world what dodos can do. W and moral birds do not figlh victory for all that is best with arms. Up with the wi It was about this time tha a short distance off the isl sembled dodos rushed to the the man creatures that wez Their combined hospitali (the dodos were not appris of man) served the birdsi the dodos, the man creatures which discharged in rapid each report a peaceful dodo Remaining dodos werec e world, there lived beak of the eagle, said still others. the dodo, a crea- Eggs Benedict signaled for silence. "When 1 purposes.~ you were running from the man creatures I d no dangers for hid in the grass and stole one of their iron ntrated on making sticks. I suggest we test this awful new prodigiously. Soon weapon, learn how to shoot it, and then use t high living had massive retaliation against the invaders." without increasing "Horrors, no," exclaimed octogenarion philos- ey could no longer opherrOva Light. It would be immoral to test the great iron stick." s world the dodos Eggs Benedict nodded understandingly. "Of nciple was that all course you are right. Our strength still lies ntitled, to squawk in total disarmament." unity problems. So saying, he cast the evil weapon away but it was only a from him as though it were a viper. And a is had stripped it great cheer went up. BUT ONE DODO did not cheer. Tough Egg, he nation, Arnold a dodo who had some knowledge of the ner professor, told world's past, warned the assembly: "It is said ns: "We have dis- that these man creatures imprison fowl be- is where our real hind great fences and house them in coop. If we do not fight we will lose our freedom. We leader, climbed a will be led ..." "Hurrah, hurrah. "Better led than dead," cried the octo- t has shown the genarian philosopher. Ve are moral birds "We can surely practice subversion in the it. Our policy is a hen house," said Eggs Benedict, who never in dodos. Down looked nor sounded more sublime. ngs of peace." And all the dodos nodded their heads, t a ship anchored jumped up and down, and cheered and cheered. land, and the as- Everybody headed for the beach, hens with beach to welcome baby buggies, youngsters with false beards re coming ashore. drooping from their chins, and old and sick ity and curiosity folk who wanted to be in on the peace arrange- ed of the nature ments. poorly. On seeing The man creatures saw the birds descend- raised iron sticks ing and at first they were alarmed because order and with they thought the dodos were armed. But when fell dead. they saw no arms, the man creatures smiled quickly convinced to each other and raised their iron sticks. They