. .. : Ghe icht D aily' Seventy-Second 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, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Must Protest Quad Ruling Shah's Tentacles Spread to UJ.S. IRAN: re Opinions Are Free ruth Wi Prevail" Edtorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. )NESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHALZ HARRAH University Conept: COmmunity or hIstitution?. [N RECENT DEBATE on the philosophy of the Office of Student Affairs, some have ried to maintain a distinction between the cademic and personal concerns of the stu- ent. For.these people, Prof. Donald Eschman's emarks at the Board of Governors' meeting londay must have come as a shock and evelation. In opposing the IQC motion to allow women, a the men's quadrangles, Prof. Eschman noted hat disturbances might be created which ould upset the academic atmosphere of the ouses. He said he thought the proposal was educationally unsound." Everyone, I'm sure, senses that there is a ifferencp between academic and personal mat- ers. (l4ost men in the residence halls ob- Lously class the presence of women in their oom as personal, rather than academic.) ut it is obvious that, unless some further dis- nction is made, a criterion like "educational >undness" can be twisted and perverted just s easily as "conduct unbecoming a student" r "the good of the University." )NE MUST BEGIN by examining the func- tion of'rules in a university. Now, as is constantly pointed out, a society annot exist without rules and compulsory bligations. Students at a university, and people rerywhere, must be prevented' from doing zings which will hurt ,others. But at this niversity there prevails a philosophy that udents must also be prevented from doing ings which will-or might-hurt themselves. a No one can deny that young children must e shielded' and guided for their own good. arents are perfectly justified in being paren- dl, and so are the public schools. But grad- ation from high school is a watershed. Young eople may marry and begin raising families. hey may get jobs, and some of them may e drafted. The ones that go on to college are articularly entitled to be treated as adults. Unfortunately faculty members and admin- trators persist in policies which are aimed at. ,ving students from themselves. This is true Ath in and outside the classroom, and is afair and unwise in either case. Women, must main in the residence halls for three years their chastity will remain intact; pop quizzes e given in some classes to keep students from ,ling too far behind. Women students sign t'and out of the dormitories and have a Lrfew so they will get enough rest; language ,dents punch a time clock so they will be rced to do enough practicing.: ;OTH ACADEMIC and personal paternalism should be unconditionally rejected. When is first step is accomplished, one can then. bate who should be empowered to impose ad enforce the rules which, quite properly, 'event students from hurting others. In es- sence, only two answers to this question are logically possible. They involve drastically different assumptions about what a univer- sity should be. According to one point of view, the Univer- sity should be a community. If we begin by rejecting paternalism and all it implies, each class of the community must be regarded as the equal of the others. Given these assump- tions one must find a way to accommodate the differences between the three clearly recog- nizable estates in the community-students, faculty and administration. The fairest way is to have equal representation of each group on all policy-making boards, up to and in- cluding the top-ranked board. An alternative way is to have equal representation on the top board and'then delegate authority to three bodies which would' respectively' govern and and be composed of only students, only faculty and only administrators. Instead of regarding the university as a community, one may compare it to a library. According to this conception, the administra- tion and faculty are the permanent staff of the library, and students come here' to use the facilities--to get an education. In this model, the students are private citizens, not members of a community, and hence the, normal law, enforcement channels-e.g. the Ann Arbor police-suffice to see that they do not hurt others. If students want changes in the operation of the university, they should simply file a complaint or raise a commotion instead of creating student governments and joining committees. W HICHEVER CONCEPTION of the Univer- sity one adopts, much work needs to be done. If the University should be a community, then the innumerable pockets of power which now exist should be consolidated. Equitable representation should be provided in all gov- erning bodies, or each estate should have the right to totally govern its own affairs. If the University should be comparable to a library, then Student Government Council,, members of the Residence Hall Board of Gov- ernors, and everyone in the Office of Student Affairs should consider resigning their jobs. UJNFORTUNATELY, no one is analyzing the problems of the University in terms of these two alternatives, or in any other mfeaningful conceptual framework. People talk of getting rid of paternalism outside the classroom but retaining it inside; of throwing out the notionj of students as part of a community while re- taining student government council to calen- dar events; and they otherwise confuse con- cepts. At the present, this University is being run by the seat of its philosophical pants. -JOHN ROBERTS Editor To the Editor: T WAS A SAD thing to hear that the Residence Halls Board of Governors succumbed to pres- sure and defeated the IQC resolu- tion to allow women to visit in the quads. They voted under the pressure of a flood of letters from various people. All week long the newspapers in this , area printed' letters which spoke out against this , proposal. Very little was printed in favor of the motion presented by Moch. Just two weeks ago, the opinions of a majority of thbemembers of the Board were favorable toward this idea, yet they all voted against the pro- posal (with the exception of Moch). We have not been defeated yet. There is an effective way that we can fight back. We must write letters, have our, parents write letters and havesupporting alum- nus write letters to the Board of Governors and to all people con- cerned. Also write letters to The Daily and The Ann Arbor News. Let's be heard. Now is the time to act if 'we want this to pass. -Stanley Lubin, '63 Airing. . To the Editor: FOR OvER twenty years, the University of Michigan has run a system of residence halls for the use of its men. Ever since it started this system, the Board of Governors, the Office of the Dean of Men, and the Residence Halls Staff have tried hard toiImpress upon the quadrangle residents that the quads are their home. But now the Board of Gover- nors has voted to continue to strictly limit one of the basic rights of- a person's home; the right to have guests in his home. This reveals the Administration for what it really is: Just a lot of hot air. --James Newman, 164 Football ... To the Editor: FOOTBALL IS NOT played for the amusement or edification of the students, faculty, or ad- ministration of the University. It is played for (1) the public, (2) the alumni, (3) the State Legis- lature, and (4) the businessmen of Ann Arbor. The first three of these groups have the misguided idea that the worth of a university is fied direc- tly to the performance of its football team. They have heard about "education" and "research," but feel that these are not the important criteria upon which to evaluate a school. Since a con- siderablenportion of the Univer- sity's financial support comes from these groups, the University must necessarily pander to their interests. The fourth group-Ann Arbor's businessmen-profit both directly and indirectly from the large num- bers of people attracted to the games. The maintenance of good "town and gown" relations is con- sequently intimately connected with the continuation of big-time football-and with good (i.e., win- ning) teams. Football at the University is not a sport played for the fun of play- ing; it is. a business, played in order to win. Because of the pres- sures mentioned above, it would be next to impossible for football to be anything else. Unfortu- natly, though, to call football a business conflicts with the evalua- tive stereotypes we hold about athletics and its place at a Uni- versity.' It is "insulting" and "degrading" to admit to ourselves (or to others) that winning is more important than "playing the game." Con- sequently, we have to conceal or rationalize away a variety of the more unsavory concommitants of football as a business. FOR EXAMPLE, consider the following: In order to pursue a successful football season in the most ra- tional way possible, a sizeable or- ganization has evolved. Essentially (and necessarily) independent from any controls, the Athletic Department has specialists in ad- ministration, publicity, recruit- ment, physical plant, equipment, sales, training-and on and on. These are all legitimate business functions necessary for the ef- ficient pursuit of the goals of the Athletic Department. However, these goals and functions do not coincide with our stereotypes of "sport" as "sport." Therefore we have to hide the existence of this massive heir- archy through the use of mislead- ing titles, nominal assignment to- recognized educational units or administrative divisions, etc. But this large and incompatible organ- ization is there, and we all know it is there. Good football players are a. scarce commodity, and therefore must be rewarded in one way or another if we are to obtain them. For the most part, our rewards take the forms of (1) money and material rewards, (2) apprentice- ship training for professional foot- ball, and (3) a degree from the University. The first of these is the hard- est for us to reconcile with our stereotypes. We become uncom- fortable when we realize that the largest individual scholarships at the undergraduate level, ofg course ---go to football players. We don't talk about this-because it doesn't do much good to talk about it. We need good football players, and to get them we have to enter the market. BESIDES the scholarships, there are other monetary and material rewards we have at our disposal as rewards. The "family use" tick- ets on the 50-yard line allotted to the athletes (in a manner not to be discussed) are given .to others in exchange for suitable "gifts." The training table, alumni gifts, part-time "jobs"-all of these en- able us to compete with other universities for the more proficient football players. Training for professional foot- ball is a potent reward for many of the better players. You don't become a "pro" by sitting around for four years "getting an educa- tion"; neither do you enter pro- fessional football directly. Further, you get the best training, and a chance to' be noticed, from the best teams. Itist not very often that professional players come from Eastern Michigan University, or Slippery Rock, or from Harvard, Yale, etc. Finally, we can offer the reward of a degree from the University. This is our "best" and"worst" in- ducement, at the same time. It is our best because it helps us to rationalize everything else: "We're giving the boys a chance to get an education (i.e., a degree) that they couldn't get otherwise"; "sure our boys have brawn, but they have brains too"; "you can't get into Michigan if you don't have something up there (especi- ally if you're from out-of-state) ," etc. This is what we tell ourselves- and know that at best all of the statements are half-truths. Foot- ball players are admitted where others of the same intellectual levels are turned away. We have to make these exceptions in order to get them. But at the same time the U of M degree hinders ef- fective recruiting. Michigan is re- garded as one of the "harder" (i.e., intellectually more demand- ing) schools. Some minimum evi- dence of intellectual ability and effort is required. Therefore we . lose some of our best prospects before we begin. ONCE THE PLAYERS are here, of course, we do our best to guar- antee their degree. We do it sub- tely, for the most part-we select the most appropriate and easiest program (physical education), we pick the "right" electives for the players, we provide them with tu- tors (and, unofficially, sometimes more), we make judicious use of letters to the more recalcitrant faculty members. Occasionally, of course, blatant preference is shown for football players, and is recognized campus- wide. But this is the individual faculty member's own free choice, and he or she bears the respon- sibility. We need winning football teams, and we do our very best to obtain them. Admittedly, we are not al- ways successful. However, let us remember the problems faced in getting winning teams and the reason why they should win. It is not for us at the University that they play; if it were, students would not be assessed the Athletic Fee to support the Athletic De- partment. Rather, football is played for all those groups whose support we so unfortunately need if we are to continue to be a Uni- versity. -Arnold Hakes Pressure. . . To the Editor: GENERALLY I THINK Mr. Rob- erts has made some fair points in regard to the emotional topic of women in the quads. However, he has also overlooked an analy- sis that might be more revealing. While the central issue may be that of the -University governing without consent, the present topic is only one issue that bears on the general principle of concern. Granted that this issue may be important, at least in the. eyes of those that it affects, but let us not overplay its importance in the total scheme of the University. By insisting that definite and permanent stands be taken on this issue, those authors leave themselves open to the criticism of reacting emotionally to the prob- lem (the same claim is being made by these authors against those in opposition to the issue). The fact that administrators and Regents may be pressured and hence may vote down the issue is not a denial that they have principles or that they would perhaps personally vote in favor. It does mean that there are other considerations to be made--such as, next year's ap- propriations from the legislature, whether some capable students will be denied the privilege of com- ing to the university (by their parents), the resultant bad pub- licity if problems do arise as a result of approving the proposal, atnd the general impression made upon people when learning of this radical change. * * * TO OBJECT to the fact that these pressures will occur, to say that people should not react in this way, to say that these issues have nothing to do with the gen- eral principle is fine (I agree). But we do not live in that type of world. The fact is that these other issues are all involved and hence will affect the disposition of the proposal. To argue further that administrators should not By GERALD STORCH Daily Staff Writer TIHE "GOVERNMENT" in Iran is truly unique. Not only has it managed to tyrannize the in- habitants of its own domain, but it is also attempting to achieve similar results on American soil by meddling with the lives of Iranian students here. The roots of the connection be- tween the United States and Iran extend back to 1953, when the super-secret Central Intelligence Agency, in a coup d'etat which deceived no one, toppled the re- gime of Mohammed Mossadegh. The source of this happenstance was that Premier Mossadegh had planned to nationalize the Ameri- can-Iranian Oil Company, which had been siphoning off the wealth of Iran to England and the West for 30 years: * * * FOR A LONG TIME the AIOC has retained, as its legal con- sultant, a law company in New York in which Allen and John Foster Dulles were partners. On August 10, 1953, Allen Dulles left for a "vacation" in the Swiss Alps. At thevsame time, the Ame- can ambassador to Iran also chose to take a holiday, in the Swiss Alps. Princess Ashraf, the twin sister of the Shah of Iran, sudenly departed on a ,tour, to the Swiss Alps. The Shah, sympathetic to the colonialist interests, was desirous of improving his rather powerless position .in the Mossadegh power structure. After this series of travel "coincidences," the Participants laid the groundwork for the over- throw of the premier. The Satur- day Evening Post reported the Shah, by utilizing dissident ele- ments in the army, plus $19 mil- lion of CIA funds, eventually forc- ed Mossadegh's capitulation and his national disgrace. * * * WITH MOSSADEGH out of the way, the Shah has ever since held foremost power in Iran. To help keep him in power, the United States has poured mor than $1 billion into his country. The results have been not only dubious but disastrous. Themoney has gone only to the self-perpetuating dynastic elites 'and has widened the gulf between the rich and poor. Literacy in Iran is estimated by most reports to be seven per cent. Inflation is increasing at 10 per cent a year; schoolteachers' wages average $25 a month. In one major reconstruction project, the Karadj dam, the United States had spent $3 million to build a road around the proposed site. Un- fortunately, no construction has even started on the dam, mainly because there was no contract to build it. BUNGLING is inevitable in for- eign aid, and poverty will occur in the most earnest of countries. When coupled with tyranny. how- ever, neither can be justified. The Shah maintains an army of 200,000 men, larger than that of West Germany and Japan. A: strong secret police and spy sys- tem await his orders. In order to consolidate his power, i.he promised in 1954 extensive land reforms. Few, if any, have ma- terialized. The same zear; his gov- ernment made an agreement with oil producers in which Iran would receive half the profits. Unfor- tunately, this money has gone into luxury real estate, commodity im- ports such as cars, and foreign investments, instead of raising the basic standard of living. IN 1957 the Shah made a mis- take. He created a two-party sys- tem to present a facade of demo- cracy, a situation he thought he could control. Despite surveillance' and harass- ment by the security police, the opposition party grew consider- ably stronger than the Shah had thought. Therefore, in the par- liamentary elections in early 1960, he had to resort to flagrant rig- ging, according to Iran. Nameh, the Iranian Students Association newspaper. However, the fixed vote was ap- parently not close enough to fool anybody, and the pressures built up through the years finally ex- ploded on this issue. Students from Tehran University protested the elections with a demonstra- tion 12,000 strong in the capital city. Six students were reported killed by police, and the Shah was compelled to void the elecions. NEW "ELECTIONS" were set for May 1960, but the people could not forget the fraudulence of the previous ones, and continued to protest. Five thousand teachers rioted in front of the Parliament building. During the frenzy a policeman killed one and wounded three demonstrators. Bloody hand- to-hand fighting ensued between students and teachers and the po- lice, which eventually complIed the Shah to install a new premier- Ali Amini, an old Mossadegh sup- porter. Yet this concession has not brought justice to the Iranian people. Newspapers are still muz- zled, and hundreds of students remain behind bars. Hunger and poverty kill as many citizens as before the uprisings. * * * AS RESISTORS to this sort of tyranny and degradation of hu- manity, Iranian students in the United State are under brual pres- sure. Most of them have scholar- ships from their government, and will be recalled if they become too active politically. Examples of this interference are plentiful. The Iranian embassy, disliking the political views of the president and vice-president of the Iranian Students Association, has refused to extend their passports. The embassy has attempted to subvert the processes of the ISA, and has tried to revise the edi- torial freedom of the Iran Nameh, the ISA newspaper. Severa Iran- ian students have had to make the bitter choice of asking asylum 'in the United States. * * * IF SUCH EVENTS continue, the next major revolution in the world may, well occur in Iran. The bridge between the rich few and the poor masses, many of them the rebellious students, simply cannot continue. The promises for a bet- ter future merely intensify the dissatisfaction with the present. After its inexcusable role in the 1953 revolt, the United States will either continue to funnel foreign aid into a few well-feathered nests, or it will adopt a responsible pol- icy. It should demand genuine re- forms in Iran, with the alterna- tive of withdrawing the financial support. It must maeke sure that all students and other political prisoners are i-eleased, and that grafters are removed from their positions of comfort and power. It is about time the Iranian gov- ernment stopped ruining the lives of its people, and time also the United States refused to support the mockery of human dignity. 4 A DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ELINE ON SGC: A C onsistent Philosophy BETWEEN NOW and Christmas vacation Student Government Council will make, some of the most important decisions in its history and set significant precedent for future Councils. It is therefore more important than ever that the body make decisions which are con- sistent not only with each other, but with some inderlying philosophy as well. Action taken by whatever faction can swing the most uncom- mlitted votes is not responsible, but in this way the fate of motions for most of this year has been decided. AMONG THE ISSUES the Council will de- bate in the next three weeks is former member David Croysdale's motion on limita- ion of expression of student opinion to issues which "directly affect the student during his enure at the University." (What Croysdale neant by this evasively-worded statement is 'on-campus". issues.) In voting on this motion, SGC is making policy decision which, has far broader implica- Lions than many members seem to recognize. the Council is choosing between the concept of a strictly local, rubber-stamp" organiza- ion and the concept'of the student-as stressed n the Voice platform. Voice claims that the student must make iimself and his education relevant to the vorld he lives in. This does not simply mean hat the Council should pass a high-sounding ,notion on every national issue. It means that he student recognizes his own membership , n a community that extends beyond the ampus and the single campus governing unit. This community of students, collectively rid on individual campuses, has been de- nanding rights of self-government which seem o be "self-evident" and "inalienable" but are ;oing to be hard-won if they are won at all. ['hey are not rights due students as members if individual campus groups. They are rights -n hn ri rtAn lor s- nis, ter- , .n .. As a member of such a community, SGC has the'right to demand from the Regents and the administration the power which will enable it to make important decisions on campus and consider "off-campus" issues as well. IF, HOWEVER, the Council refuses to con- sider any issue which is not of immediate relevance to the University student in the narrow sense Croysdale has in mind, it is denying its membership in the wider student community. Once it has denied this membership, it has denied its share in the rights which naturally belong to the student community and has lost the vantage point from which it may claim the authority it ought to exercise on campus. If SGC admits it is strictly a campus or- ganization, acting only on and for this campus, it has no right to demand a voice in policy- making or other important decisions. It may beg for such a voice, but if its plea is granted SGC will mereb3 have received a favor from the Regents and not a recognition of, an al- ready existing right. If SGC restricts its sphere of interest to the campus, it is making the campus an isolated island in a world of moral and philosophical crises and if the administra- tors and Regents of the island choose to run it as a dictatorship, students have no right to demand a change unless they can claim to exercise the same rights as other members of the student community or the country. If SGC passes Croysdale's motion it can settle down to a relaxed year of calendaring and forget that it is not even consulted on decisions like formation of the OSA Com- mittee, the full-year calendar adoption or the exclusion of women in the quads. If SGC decides to accept its full responsi- bility, it has its work cut out for it for the. remainder of the term. 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Ad. for Sales N GALINA VISHNEVSKAYA: Russia Soprano6 -Misuses Her' Voice GAIINA VISHNEVSKAYA, leading soprano of the Soviet Union, per- formed a program of formidable quantity in Hill Auditorium last night. The soprano presented a beautiful appearance, considerable stage presence, and a voice of lovely potentiality. After this it is regrettable that Mme. Vishnevskaya has a'complete misconception of the kind of voice which she has and produces some of the poorest vocalism it has been my experience to hear. Her voice could be very good, it might have the possibility of being great, if and when the soprano learns how to use it. From her opening note to the last, she tended to force her voice unnaturally in order to get the big, operatic sound which she seems to think is best. * * * * HER VOCALISM IS UNEVEN-she ranges from the gutty, chesty tones of Maria Callas at her worst, to throaty, covered tones having a hollow sound, and then comes forth with a really beautiful floated tone that is as pure as one could hope for. She interprets her songs in an' extroverted and often overdone manner. She approaches everything in a manner which is operatic, in the very worst sense of that term. What might have been the highlight of the concert, Mussorgsky's "Four Songs and Dances of Death,"' turned into a poorly conceived, unsubtle interpretation, full of distorted phrases and much ugly sing- ing. The tempo taken in Bach's "Mein Glaubiges Herze" was much too fast for both the singer and her pianist. The choppy, tasteless result turned a wonderful song into a ridiculous mess. Leonora's "Abscheulicher" from Beethoven's "Fidelio" is an aria that only the greatest sopranos can and should sing. It is far beyond this soprano's present capabilities. * * * *