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. * Phone NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevai" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: JUDITH OPPENHEIM "Mind You, I Don't Put It Exactly fliat Way" -TIAC-: A*r ,aoN!,Fgt3tAeP is IFL)tL oe tS FULL, OF D'AN IoU,3 'xT'R Tvi srs! End of the Need Factor: Big Ten Goes Professional 'THE BIG TEN'S action Thursday in dropping the "need" factor from the athletic aid program sadly emphasized the fact that col- lege football is amateur in name only. Suc- cumbing to the pressures of "creeping pro- fessionalism" the Big Ten admitted that it was going along with tle crowd allowing full rides to be given through college for any one who shows a predicted ability to maintain a 1.7 grade point average. The Conference in effect recognized the professional nature of athletics, especially football, and said it would not fight the trend but instead go along with it. While all athletics were affected by the action, football is the major reason for the change, because of its influence and powerful financial position. College football is a big business, that's no secret. And it's a mighty profitable one at that. Those concessionaires, TV cameras and program hawkers add a few more dollars to the $5-per-head kitty and the result is a million dollar enterprise for about two months every fall. Huge stadiums, expensive equipment and a highly-paid coaching staff aren't fi- nanced with physical education fees. THEPROMINENT and powerful position which college football holds today, and which reinforces its business-like structure, comes from several factors, some very prac- tical, some entirely emotional. From the latter viewpoint, football admissions and subsidiary revenues help to finance a large portion of the other varsity sports and athletic facilities. A good season at the stadium can mean the difference between a balanced athletic budget and a deficit. A football record can influence a state legislator faced with a school appropria- tion, or an alumnus with money to spend. A winning football team instills alumni with school pride and strengthens the old tie with the alma mater. And the general reputation of a school is enhanced by a good football team (despite the opinion held by Ohio State faculty). Although this name is not based on any academic evaluation, nevertheless publicity is obtained for the institution and in most cases is not harmful. With so many things contingent upon a school's performance on the football field for nine games, it is hard for an institution to escape the emphasis on the sport. Certainly, there are pressures in the opposite direction. There are a number of persons who feel a college is primarily concerned with the pursuit of knowledge not the pursuit of the ball car- rier. Many faculty members are jealous of the prominent position which athletics holds at a school. THUS THE ALTERNATIVES appear to be strict de-emphasis or discontinuance of football on the one hand and continual yielding to pressures for more emphasis on the sport. Professionalism in football is growing stronger; emphasis on winning makes recruiting an essential factor. And good recruiting means making the best offer, the most important of which is money. This trend is apparently unstoppable. At least that was the impression of last week's Big Ten meetings. The Big Ten (or Western Conference in more official parlance) has been generally regarded as a league which could maintain both academic and athletic excellence, without sacrificing one for the other. The top football conference in the na- tion, Big Ten teams have usually demonstrated superiority over non-league opponents (the last two Rose Bowls notwithstanding). Composed of nine large state institutions and one private school (Northwestern), the con- ference has also achieved a creditable academic rating, as good as any group of large, state- supported universities. Conference policy on post-season participation and athletic eligibility has been fairly conservative. Though the case can always be made for raising eligibility re- quirements, Big Ten rules are as stringent as any big time athletic conference. BUT THE DROPPING of the need factor in the athletic aid program comes as a slap in the face to those who have admired the Big Ten's position. The reputation which has placed it above many conferences is tarnished. The conference has admitted it can'no longer try to retain a semblance of amateurism. The academic requirement for extending aid was raised: an applicant must show a college grade point "predictability" of 1.7, based on high school ranking and college board examina- tions. This was merely a concession which tended to whitewash the action. Two other regulations tightening academic eligibility which were passed by the Michigan Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics and submitted to the meeting were ignored. The Big Ten has admitted it can no longer remain somewhat above the rest of the major athletic conferences, that it can no longer hold out againt the pressures of professional- ism, Athletic aid used to be based on some factors similar to scholarships. Either the prospective athlete had to demonstrate "need" for aid or show enough academic proficiency to graduate in the upper quarter of one's high school class. With the need factor discarded, all any athlete has to show is that he has the ability to obtain less-than-passing grades in college (1.7). "VE'VE GOT TO COMPETE with the rest," is the excuse. But questions remain. Is a football tender supposed to be a salary? Because others do it, is it right? If an athlete does not need the financial assistance or if he has not demonstrated sufficient academic ability, why should he be given a free ride through college? The obvious answer can only be that college football is no longer amateur in its orientation. Students without athletic tenders can continue to try out for teams and play, if they are good enough. Michigan will probably attract a num- ber of these individuals in the future as it has in the past. But the emphasis remains on "paying" athletes to pursue their academic careers. THERE IS HOPE that action will be taken to reverse the Big Ten action. Prof. Robert Angell's resolution passed by the Faculty Senate shows that Michigan faculty are sufficiently alarmed over the situation. Of course, Michigan opposed the elimination of the need factor at the meeting but was voted down. Perhaps Michigan will continue to insist upon a demonstration of need or academic ability in order to give aid to athletes. Michi- gan requires a higher grade point than the Conference for athletic participation, so the precedent exists. However, one institution in the Western Conference cannot stand alone. It is time that the Western Conference realized the implication of its actions and recognized the responsibility it has to stand above the masses. Certainly there has not been a notice- able decline in the quality of Big Ten athletes, though a few athletes in the Midwest have been lost to schools willing to pay the full load. The loss of reputation and the principle of "amateurism" is, however, to be more important. -MICHAEL BURNS Sports Editor MICHIGAN THEATRE: Guthries 'Pirates Capture Audience TYRONE GUTHRIE'S "Pirates of Penzance" is a brilliantly directed, competently acted, thoroughly professional show. Guthrie has recharged this somewhat worn down Gilbert and Sullivan masterpiece-changing a few inflections, adding a few gim- micks, giving a slight twist to the familiar scenes-producing a spectacular success of his own peculiar variety. Frederic-played last night by understudy Robert Jeffrey-was done with appropriate wooden-ness, although his voice kept being drowned out by the other singers, the orchestra and the audience. Ruth (Irene Byatt) was a great galumphing and properly sympathetic character. She is made a funny old creature with just a touch of the pitiful, a very effective rendition. - - - JACQUELYNNE MOODY played Mabel as a melodramatic Vic- torian heroine, and did so quite wonderfully. She trilled and frilled about, making even the duller moments fun to watch if not to listen to. Eric, as Major-General Stanley, has the best part in the operetta-- and made the most of it. He played it as a slightly bewildered wooden soilder with a mechanical voice to match, and did a marvelous job. His patter songs, for pure speed, were incredible. BUT THE CONSTABLES stole the show. More in the classic tradition of Dogberry than the Keystone Cops, they waddled and trembled and ineffectually waved their sticks about the stage. The policemen were only one of Guthrie's gimmicks. The nine dainty maidens, suddenly attacked by a pirate band, dive for shelter in the middle of the stage under a single green ruffled parasol. Major-General Stanley emerges to the chapel of his purchased ancez- tors wearing a striped dressing gown and his plumed hat. IF THERE WERE FLAWS in last night's performance at the Michigan Theatre, they came from over-brillance and over-stylization. There were, at times, too many gimmicks-stage devices which inter- fered with the classically comic lines. Guthrie was always there. He seemed to be hovering in the wings, using the actors almost as puppets. There was a sense of over-direction, but over-direction of such a clever and effective variety that the result was far more delight than disappointment. --Faith Weinstein TODAY AND TOMORROW: Economic Unity Means Richer America, West I /\ 4 Y \ . ' ff j Z _S ' :ti : t 1%lk r tw t1*ktiitKG-to+d post. o. 'UHURU' FOR TANGANYIKA: N7ew Freedom, Old Problems By RONALD WILTON Daily Staff Writer LAST WEEK Uhuru ("freedom" in Swahili) came to Tanga- nyika. There was no anxiety in the world, for the former United Na- tions trust territory has been mak- ing a gradual Constitutional ad- vance towards independence since 1954. This advance has been unaccom- panied by the racism and violence which have marked similar ad- vances in other parts of Africa. A country rarely emerges from col- onialism enjoying such a large measure of confidence from the world and such great expectations from its own people. Unfortunately, the world expects this pattern of political stability to carry over into independence. It will be surprising if it does, for this stability is a facade hiding one of the most backward econo- mic and social structures of any underdeveloped nation receiving its independence. * * * FROM 1885 to 1919, Tanganyika was ruled by Germany under the name of German East Africa. In 1919, the League of Nations award- ed the country to Great Britain as a mandate. This was reaffirmed by the United Nations when it gave Britain an International Trustee- ship for the territory. Unlike some other British Afri- can territoriies, there was no large- scale immigration into the terri- tory.- At present there are 20,000 Europeans and 72,000 Asians out of a total population of 9.25 mil- lion. In 1954, Julius Nyerere, the pres- ent Prime Minister of the country, formed the Tanganyika African National Union. The party's aim was independence and its thesis was that tribalism must be re- placed with a feeling of national identity if Tanganyika was to be- come a rea lnation. Tanu kept pushing the country towards independence at w steady rate and in 1960 it could point to its control of 71 out of 72 seats in the Legislative Couneil as a meas- ure of its popularity. * * * NYERERE is perhaps Tangan- yika's strongest asset. He is an anti-racist and believes in keeping European expatriates as adminis- trators and civil servants until Tanganyikans can be trained for the jobs. He has named Europeans and Asians to his cabinet. He comes from a smallatribe in a country of small tribes and thus has been able to get the people be- hind him without having the op- position of one large influential tribe, as has happened in some other countries. * *- * BECAUSE the struggle for in- dependence was non-violent, Tan- ganyika has emerged from 1olon- ialism with a reputation for politi- cal stability rare for an African state. Unfortunately, this stability is not as firm as it looks, for the eco- nomic and social foundation un- derneath it is very shaky. Before independence Britain, on a subsistence level and there is a very low standard of productivity per individual farmer. According to "Aftica Report," the magazine of the African American Institute, the country's three principal ex- ports-sisal, coffee, and cotton- are unable to bring in development capital because their prices on the world market fluctuate greatly. The tsetse fly, carrier of sleep- ing sickness, infests over 60 per cent of the land. Traditional farm- ing methods are causing soil de- terioration and only one-third of the country has decent rainfall from year to year. A recent mission from the World Bank found that present programs, which are making very slow prog- ress, are incapable of rapid devel- opment. Nyerere, at a recent press conference, noted that one out of six children born during this year would die before the age of six, due mainly to a lack of medical care and a proper diet. THE FACTS concerning Pduca- tion are just as bad. Fewer than half of the country's children re- ceive any real schooling at all. Only one out of twelve has more than the basic four year education. In its report, the World Bank mis- sion noted that: "The number of African child- ren receiving more than the be- ginnings of formal education is clearly inadequate, especially in view of Tanganyika's progress to- wards political independence." This will increase the difficulty of Nyerere's announced intention of replacing the expatriate mem- bers of the civil service with citi- zens as rapidly as possible. The government, which has recognized the desparate need for primary education can not even institute a crash program because the coun- try lacks the buildings and teach- ers necessary for such a program's success. There is also the problem of low enrollment. The magazine "Africa South in Exile" reports that 76 primary schools in Southern Pro- vince face the withdrawal of grants-in-aid due to low attend- ence, as nearly one quarter of the places in the primary schools are presently vacant. * *. * PERHAPS the strongest opposi- tion to the government will come from labor unions. There are two labor federations which African unions can join. They are the All- Africa Trade Union Federation, which is backed by Ghana and Guinea, and the International Confederation of Free Trade Un- ions. Recently the AATUF demanded, that all unions affiliated with it should cut their bonds with the ICFI'U. This move was supported by the Tanganyika Federation of Labour, which is the industrial wing of TANU. Opposing this, five of Tanganyika's leading unions revolted against the 'T.F.L. lead- ership, and if an actual split takes place Nyerere will find himself faced by a strong, well-organized opposition. * ** * ' THESE DIFFICULTIES tend to be disregarded by the world, which prefers to focus on Tanganyika's relatively peaceful emancipation from colonial rule and the quality of Nyerere and other leaders. Probably the chief cause of this are the British who, in interna- tional circles, contrast Tangan- yika with the Congo to show the way to raise a colony to independ- ence (muchto the annoyance of the Belgians). Yet, short of working with Ny- erere along the road towards in- dependence (made easier by the good behavior of the few Euro- pean settlers), the British did not do very much for the country. In fact, they hurt the new govern- ment by concealing the country's shortcomings from the rest of the world and then handing them over to the new government. BY ORIENTATING themselves towards socialism at home and a policy of neutralism abroad the government of Tanganyika has put itself on the right road to- wards national development; in- deed it is the only road they can take. In spite of this, there will prob- ably be some bad news out of Tanganyika now that the political struggle for independence is out of the way and blame can be fo- cused on Nyerere. The world must realize this and have the patience to accept it. Aside from the high quality of its leaders, Tanganyika is a very poor country. The recognition of this fact will be as important as ex- ternal financial aid to the develop- ment of the country. By WALTER LIPPMANN THERE IS AN IMPORTANT connection between the talks now going on in Paris about the Western position on Berlin and the speech which the President made last week in New York to the National Association of Man- ufacturers. The speech in New York prepares the way for the great and historic business of uniting the non-Communist world in one free or low tariff trading area. As this is achieved, problems like that of Berlin will become more manageable because the over-all political and economic power of the West will be more than a match for the Communist world. If this sounds like a big claim, imagine what the situation would become in Berlin if the non- Communist world split up into quarreling trading blocs - Com- mon Market, the other Europeans, the British, theAfricans, the Latin Americans, and the United States. No amount of beating our breasts about defeating Commun- ism will be worth a tinker's darn if the West refuses to unite. IT GOES without saying that there are enormously complicated and difficult problems that will have to be solved before a suf- ficient degree of unity is achieved. Never before in history has a situation existed like that which we now face. Today, when it has become prob- able that Great Britain will join the Common Market, drawing with her in some form of association the rest of Western Europe, the United States must make itself ready to live and to trade with a free economy which will soon be larger than our own, which is growing much faster than our own. This confronts us and all the rest of the Western world with an overriding question. Do we come together in one great trading com- munity which includes not only Western Europe and North Ameri- ca but also Japan, Australia, Latin America and Africa - or do we go our separate ways, frag- menting a non-Communist world? * * * THIS WAS THE underlying theme of the President's speech to the manufactures. It is of historic importance. Tariff debates are mighty dull reading and they are dull to write about, but the tariff debate which will begin in the next session of Congress will have incalculable significance. There is reason to think that while the problem of our relations with the enlarged Common Mar- ket is a new one, there is already, a remarkable awareness in this country that the problem must be met. Thus when the magazine "Busi- ness Week" questioned 150 key executives, more than a quarter of them were found to be "strongly in favor" of the President's thesis. It is even more interesting that only "a scant 25 per cent voiced outright opposition." The other half were on the fence. This does not mean, of course, that the President's program will have an easy time in Congress. For on the tarriff, as we all know, in- dividual Congressmen listen very carefully to those weaker local industries which believe they will be unable to compete successfully with imported goods. This array of local interests will have to be dealt with by negotia- tion. The Administration will have to be prepared and able to do enough for them to enable them to make the adjustment without tragic consequences. THE ARGUMENT against the new trade policy is likely to re- volve around the claim that Amer- ican costs, owing to our high wages, are so high that we cannot compete successfully in a wider free market. In the course of the debate during the next months we shall have to take a careful look at this thesis, which sounds so plausible, and may, nevertheless, not be true. One positive indication that higher costs have not priced the United States out of the world market is that as a matter of fact our exports of merchandise are larger by about three billion dol- lars a year than our imports of merchandise. Moreover, there is the 'fact that American wages tend to be highest in those very indistries that ex- port most successfully. They tend to be lower in those industries that rely on tariff to protect them against imports. ACCORDING TO the high pro- tectionists, this ought not to be true. Why, then, is it true? By and large it is true because in the high wage industries labor is highly productive. It is highly productive because there is a greater investment of capital and there Is more working and tech- nical and managerial skill. What, then, about the future? Europe with its enlarged markets will surely become even more pro- ductive than it is today. Not all of this increased productivity will go into lowering prices. A con- siderable part of it undoubtedly will go into increasing European wages which, as a matter of fact, are rising faster than our own. Neverthesless, the increased pro- ductivity of Europe will compel us to make ourselves more com- petitive. No attempt at price fixing by the tariff mechanism could shield 22 Cents Against Cancer IF THERE ARE four people in your family, one of you is likely to get cancer. According to the American. Cancer Society's tabulations as recently as 1956, one out of four people *a gets cancer. The United States is not working hard enough to fight this disease. The average American spent 22 cents through the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare,'in fiscal 1961, for cancer research. These funds, totaling about $40 million were a significant part of the approximately $100 million given via taxes and voluntary funds for cancer research and care. This was the amnount spent to fight humanity's most pain- ful, and second most deadly, killer. $100 million sounds like a lot of money, but aroken down individually, the average American spent only 59 cents last year to save one fourth of our population from cancer. PLAYING WITH gruesome statistics seems remote from reality, but when we realize how many lives would be saved by speedy dis- covery of a cure for cancer, how many hours of suffering would be eliminated, and how close the problem is to everybody's family, 59 cents or $100 million seems not really very much. Last year we spent more on tobacco and candy, more on alcohol, more on new auto- mobiles or television sets, than on all of our medical research combined. Our government spends more money to send a rocket to the moon than to save 25 per cent of the nation's population from cancer. Our stockpile of nuclear weapons is worth far more than what we spent to fight cancer and heart disease combined since 1950. 59 cents per year is not enough money, even when multiplied by the population to $100 million, for there is too much to be done and speed is important. There are scientists all over the country begging for more laboratory equipment, and there are probably thousands of doctors who would be able to conduct com- petent research if they were given adequate grants. THE UNITED STATES government should tax its citizens an average of $20 per person per year in adition to our graduated income tax. This money totaling $3.6 billion would be used solely for medical research, under the DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN .** . . . . .. ........ .... .s.sv.":n. .":: ..Rs' ..... . .:. x. t. ... 1 .. ... ~~~. """"""""sM"."":' ... : . .: .:; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .."A . 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