"Same To You, Fella" W1jt 3ihi gun &ziai Seventy-Second Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS ere Opinions Are FreeS TUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail' Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. Y, DECEMBER 14, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: CAROLINE DOW /s Faculty and Students Are Natural Allies . 4' AT THE STATE: 'Adas Depression: Perverse Good Wins "A DA," a film set in the South during the depression, creates a devastating cinematic depression all its own. Dean Martin portrays a gullible, guitar-strumming people's choice who is swept into the governorship by the foul schemes of his manager, a slithering old campaigner played by Wilfrid Hyde White. Susan Hayward portrays a cynical, veteran prostitute who rises from her sordid profession to first lady of the state to lieutenant governor, proving once more Hollywood's old adage that trollops can be wonderful. The theme of the film is sickening in its simplicity. Good (that's the special kind of perverse good reflected most recently in "Butter- field '8'," "Never on Sunday" and "Elmer Gantry.") triumphs over the evil ways of nasty old politics. In less than two weeks' work, shrewd Susan cleans up the state left in such amess by her husband (in the hospital after suffering severe scratches when his car is bombed). In the process she regains old Dino's respect and sends the double-crossing politicians back to their burrows. MARTIN HAS LITTLE difficulty in playing the innocent singing candidate, but as the plot thickens he gradually: drops his hillbilly accents and mouths his inane lines in' flawless English. Hayward, on the other hand, is a passable prostitute, but her political crusade has the dramatic impact of a PTA protest meeting. At the end of the movie, White, as the defeated old politician, desolately maneuvers his wheel chair from the congressional chatnber. Since his performance is the film's only redeeming feature, the exit serves as a good cue for the viewer to make his own departure and save himself the agony of a sugar-sweet finishing scene. --Ralph Stingel LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: G & SFreshness 'More Ta tl LAST SPRING, concerned students and fac- ulty members joined in a remarkable effort to revamp the Office of Student Affairs. There had been rumors for years that the Dean of Women's Office interfered with the personal lives of women in unwarranted and sometimes arbitrary ways. A group of students, composed mainly of last year's Daily senior editors, began to document these rumors. They preselt- ed their findings to the faculty sub-committee on student relations, which conducted a three- month investigation and wrote a report recom- mending "re-assignment of ... personnel" and "sweeping structural changes" in the OSA. In the flux and confusion which has pre- vailed since Vie-President Lewis received that report, a committee has been established to formulate concrete proposals for restructuring OSA and three top officials in the Dean of Women's Office have resigned. The students who initiated the project claim- ed a right to privacy and personal freedom. The faculty who joined them recognized the legitimacy 'of that clgim, and acknowledged their own responsibility for the educational leadership of the community. The joint effort achieved much, and a Daily senior editorial hoped that this marked the " birth of pa rela- tionship between two groups too often un- connected." Since then, there has been a series of events which, though less spectacular than last spring's upheaval, have had similar causes. Assembly this fali condemned non-academic evaluations and set up a committee to study the theoretical and actual functions of house- mothers. Interquadrangle Council proposed a controversial rule-change which would allow women to visit the men's quadrangles. In- terfraternity Council began considering a similar proposal for the fraternity system. Panhellenic voted against requiring senior sorority girls to live in their houses, despite the obvious opposition of Asst. Dean of Women Leslie. Even doddering and conservative SGC showed flickers of malcontent, denouncing Vic President Lewis' handling of the Student Relations committee report on OSA and back- ing the IQC motion on women in the quads. ALL OF THESE EFFORTS have stemmed from the same dissatisfaction which pro- 'duced last spring's attack on the Dean of Women's Office. Students, in increasing num- bers, are protesting the University attitude which justifies authoritarian interference in their lives with a paternalistic philosophy. But the events of this fall have differed from those of last spring in one crucial way-there has been no faculty support and cooperation. There may be several reasons for this. To begin with, much of the present movement has been sparked by students who are, in tradi- tianal terms, the "conservatives"-students who would recoil at being called rebels or prophets and who therefore may have hesitated to "make an issue" of a given proposal even though they felt strongly about it. Or they may simply not have realized that nothing can be ac- complished in this university without broad faculty support to balance the pressures from the legislature and public. Another reason may be that the present movement is not really aware of itself. Its leaders have been one-issue men who have failed to put their personal causes in a larger context, or point out the consistency of these isolated issues. The faculty, for its part, has been too ready to attribute them to adolescent unruliness or loose morals. As a result, few may actually realize that this massive con- frontation of student and university is taking place, and that the issues are important enough to warrant a broad cooperative effort. BUT THERE ARE more ominous reasons why students and faculty have not joined forces this fall. Despite the example of last spring's action, it may simply never have occurred to anyone' that the two groups ought to co- operate. Students and faculty do not seem generally aware that their common scholarly objectives make them natural allies. Because they do not realize it, there is student distrust and faculty disinterest. The true scholar wants, above all else, to advance knowledge. He thus insists on freedom of t.hought and speech, and chafes at schedules or regulations which inhibit his learning. He puts a premium on original ideas, however controversial or bizzare they may seem. And, because truth cannot be decreed, he is neces- sarily a libertarian. Both students and teach- ers-if they are good scholars-hold these values. The student-teacher relation-if it is scholarly-is not an authoritarian one. These principles apply to the students' non- academic life as well for enforced adherance to arbitrary standards of behavior outside the classroom is likely to be reflected in an un- critical and rote performance in the class- rooms. Some faculty are disturbed when stu- dents write term papers which are deliberately in line with the teacher's bias. Some are afraid that this generation of teaching fellows has no real commitment to academic freedom. Some get weary of seeing their lectures repro- duced idea for idea on examinations. But academic weaknesses like these may be in- evitable unless the principles of scholarship extend to all aspects of a student's life. HE ADMINISTRATOR has different ob- jectives than the scholar. He aims primarily at maintaining order and efficency. He tends to be conservative. He wants learning to ad- vance, but more in some fields than others and always with a minimum of waste motion; he wants students to be happy, but not at the expense of the University's relationship with the legislature. He is not a democrat, because he is part of an authoritarian corporate heir- archy, and though he prefers not to use it, he always has a mailed fist behind his back. Both students and faculty may well distrust the administration, for an agency that governs without the consent of the governed is quite properly kept under surveill'ance. Students should not forget the Lubin-Hall suspensions, and the faculty should not forget the Nicker- son-Davis suspensions. NO REAL sense of community can ever grow up between the students and faculty on the one hand and-the administration on the other because their value systems are too different. But students and faculty should recognize that they have so much in common that a community of scholars is entirely pos- sible. It does not exist at present, and students and faculty seem more willing to work with the administration than with each other. But if it can be created, there will be no reason for students to distrust the faculty, or for the faculty to be disinterested in students' efforts to improve their non-academic situation. And from this feeling of community might well grow a new approach to educational philos- ophy and the operation of the University. -JOHN ROBERTS Editor ALBANIA: What Happens to Heretics? By JEAN TENANDER Daily Staff Writer MOSCOW'S DECISION to cut off diplomatic ties with Al- bania is significant in only one respect. It demonstrates once again to the free world that few nations can oppose Khrushchev for very long and get away with it. Unless, of course, that nation happens to be Red China. That the Kremlin would even- tually move to punish Albania and Enver Hoxha, first secretary of the Albanian Communist Party, has been the subject of no de- bate. Punishment for deviations from party policy are only con- sistent with Moscow's present ideology.' The question has been how, rather than whether, Albania will be disciplined. Khrushchev's ap- parent solution is to relegate Al- bania to a position of obscurity. This may not work out as ef- fectively as he hopes. *'. * ALBANIA'S militant support of Stalinism and opposition to Khrushchevism at the 22nd Com- munist Party Congress placed Moscow in a somewhat awkward position. Very adroitly Krrushchev did manage to make it appear as if he welcomed the opportunity to denounce heretics in the party, Moscow, engaged in an active attempt to wipe out persistent remains of Stalin's world revolu- tionary theory, makes coexistence seem very much closer. This, how- ever, is important to the West only. Khrushchev still faces 'the fact that tiny Albania, aided and abetted, by Red China, blatantly defied the Soviet Union. Granted, without the 'suport she received from China, such opposition would have been suicidal. But she did receive the support, and both Mos- cow and Albania will have to suf- fer the consequences. * * * THE PROSPECT of obtaining willing help from China in the im- mediate future is slim. China's primary purpose for backing Al- bainia has been satisfied. Both the Manchester Guardian and the New Republic say Peking never has looked upon Albania as a na- tion she is permanently committed to support, but rather as a pawn to guage Soviet reaction to ag- gressive anti-Khrushchevism. Furthermore, it is not yet poli- tically or economically practical for China to estrange herself ir- revocably from Khrushchev. China needs Russian trade. She will not be sufficiently strong enough to stand on her, own feet for a num- ber of years. Mao is no fool. China is in a far better position to influence Soviet policy as a potential belligerent than as an active one. According to the New York Times there is strong specu- lation that megaton bombs were an attempt to placate Stalinists in Peking. THUS IT WOULD SEEM un- likely that China will rally to Al- bania's support and demand the Soviet Union recognize her. She has too many problems of her own at stake. China is tied to Al- bania in some way which may be difficult to break, however, and Mao may be forced to at least make overt gestures of approval to Tirana. In 1960 Albania's harvest failed. She appealed to Moscow for aid and got no answer. China respond- ed with wheat shipments and $225 million in convertable currencies. It will not particularly enhance China's position in the eyes of presently non-aligned nations if Peking suddenly abandons all economic aid to Albania. On the other hand, if she con- tinues this aid, she will in effect be 'the sole outside support of a country Moscow does not recog- nize. The situation is uncomfort- able. * * RUSSIA TOO faces a dilemma. Can she be certain she has ef- fectively silenced Albania? It is doubtful. Hoxha has led his coun- try a long way from obscurity and he obviously has little desire to be pushed back into this position by Khrushchev, Mao, or anyone. His country's future is precar- ious at best and the advantages to be obtained from submission to Moscow are doubtful. Militancy has been the key word so far and there seems to be no reasonable cause to change, from Hoxha's point of view at least. * * * THUS MOSCOW may have to speed up her program to suppress Albania. A break in diplomacy is in all probability merely the first step. Ultimately there is little hope that Albania will be able to assert herself in the face of both Russian and Chinese opposition. Eventu- ally, through coercion, she will probably become another cowed Soviet satellite. To the Editor: FEAR that I must take issue with my good friend David Schwartz regarding his review of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society performance of H.M.S. Pinafore. The first paragraph of this re- view is virtually without mean- ing. The assumption is made quite incorrectly that Gilbert, in this work, is lampooning conventions of the Victorian Era. This, of course, is nonsense. Expanded self -import- ance and incompetence, these are the stuff of which this opera is made and they are universals, as readily understood today as they were in 18% when Gilbert first held them up to the mirror of his topsy-turvy world of preposterous fantasy. It is the very fact that Gilbert dealt with, universals which gives the Gilbert and Sul- livan operas their perpetual fresh- ness. I SERIOUSLY DOUBT that the laughter of the audience at Lydia M&endelssohn Theater was one whit less intense or differed in any qualitative way from that at the old Gaiety Theatre in London. Gilbert's wit has transcended the barriers of time and has lost little of its original sparkle and im- mediacy; therefore to say ". the only salvation for the works of Gilbert and Sullivan today is style . . ." is absurd. At one point the reviewer and I are agreed: the music of Sir Aurthur Sullivan should not be tampered with by young inexper- ienced vocalists. The degree of sophistication required in inter- preting the songs from any of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas is so' great that only the most !mature performers should attempt them in a public performance. The Gilbert and Sullivan operas are among the finest pieces of literary and musical satire wtich exist today. Perhaps this is why our hearts bleed when we view a performance of them which is less than superb. --Gershom C. Morningstar (Letters to the Editor should be limited to 300 words, typewritten and double spaced. The Daily re- servesetherright to edit or withhold any letter. Only signed letters Will be printed.) DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) Arts bkgd. Exper. not required. For further information please call General Div., Bureau of Appts., 3200 SAB, Ext. 3544. SUMMER PLACEMENT 212 SAB- National Music Camp, Interlochen, Mich.-Has openings for men and wom- en in the following positions: 150 Counselors, 130 Food Service, 16 Stage Crew, 16 Music Librarians, 2 Student Center Desk, 6 Registered Nurses, 6 Ra- dio Engineers, 7 Secretaries, 2 Switch- board Operators, 3 Photographers, 5 Waterfront Directors. Students from Royal Oak Township -Therecare openings at the Detroit Zoological Park for Assistant Public Service Attendants and Public Serv- ice Attendants (merchandising). Sheraton Corporation of America, Boston, Mass. - Has a few positions available at the Park-Sheraton Hotel in New York City. Girl Guide, Western Girl, Inc., New York City-Has a new personalized guide service for visitors from both outside the city and outside the coun- try. Would involve knowledge of New York City. Helpful but not essential for applicants to have knowledge of a foreign language. Come to Summer Placement for fur-, ther information. Announcements Radcliffe College's Publishing Pro- cedures Course - A 6-week summer course on theory techniques of pub- lishing. Enrollment open to both MEN & WOMEN interested in publishing as career. Placement & job counselling procided. Must be recent graduate of four-year college, unless is presently employed in some branch of publish- ing. Kaufmann's, Pittsburgh, Pa. - Urge Seniors interested in career in retail- fug to contact personnel manager for' definite interview appointment if plan to be in Pittsburgh during vacation period. Primarily interested in pros- pective graduates from Pittsburgh area as well as any alumni who are con- templating a change. New York State Civil Service-More than 200 full-time permanent positions as Caseworker open in various juris- dictions of N.Y. State. MEN or WOMEN grads in any field, preferably with some credit hours in the social sciences. Ap- ply for February 3,Exam by January 2, 1962. New York State residence not re- quired.' City of Chicago Welfare Council - MEN & WOMEN, planning careers, in Social Work for Summer Work Pro- gram. Paid positions of approximately 8 weeks duration in a selected social :agency available beginning in late June, 1962. Must be 19 years of age. Prefer students completing sophomore or junior year by June. Bureau on Jewish Employment Prob-. lems, Chicago, Ill.-Opening as Assist- ant Director. Prefer major in Psych., Soc., Industrial Rels., Social Work or related field. Experience in Industrial. Rels., Personnel Admin., Vocational counseling & Placement, Mgmt. Con- suiting or related work. Age flexible. Management Intern Examination - This is additional 3-hour exam given on same day as Federal Service Entrance Exam in Oct., Nov., Jan. & Feb. only. It is used to recruit people with manage- ment potential for special training as management interns. Exam will be giv- en only two more times this year. Apply by Dec. 21, 1961 for the Jan. 13, 1962 exam. File by Jan. 25, 1962 for the Feb. 10 exam. Those who pass the written M. I. exam will be given oral exams at a later late. For further information on the above listings, please contact the Bureau of Appointments, General Division. Fart-Time Employment The following- part-time jobs are available. Applications for these jobs can be made in the Part-time Place- ment Office, 2200 ,SAB: Mopday thru Friday 8 a.m. til 12 noon and 1:30 to 5 pm. Employers desirous of hiring students for part-time or full-time temporary work, should contact Jack Lardie, at NO 3-1511 ext. 3553., Students desiring miscellaneous odd jobs should consult the bulletin board in Room 2200, daily. MALE --Several salesmen to sell magazine subscriptions. -Salesmen to se college sportswear for men. 1-Experienced typesetter, 20, hours per week or more. 1-Experienced telephone operator, Wed. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Sat. 6'p.m. to 12 p.m. and Sun. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Military Stifles Criticism BY PUNISHING reservist Willard M. Miller for writing a complaining letter, the United States Army has made a national example of its institutional tyranny over the expression of public opinion by soldiers. Miller wrote in a letter to the editor of the Boston Herald that he had been recalled after having served more than four years active duty. He complained that although the recall had been made supposedly because of "a critical military skill," all indications are that he will not be called upon to use that skill for -the rest of his active duty. Capt. Paul A. Teehan, Army Public Informa- tion officer, said that Miller had been given two weeks' restriction and extra duty as punish- ment for violating a regulation requiring clear- ance of anything written by service personnel for publication. Capt. Teehan commented that the rule is aimed at preventing "inaccuracies" and 'misstatements." IT IS OBVIOUS that this sweeping prohibi- tion can be applied to anything the Army would not want to see published-and has been. It censors criticism like Miller's as easily as classifed material. Ehg £irhinau Biaila The failure to distinguish between criticism and classified material is. as clearly unjust in the military establishment as it is in the civil. There is a second distinction to be made: between the reservist who exercises his rights as a citizen in the realm of the civil without actually imperiling security, and the General who wrongly indoctrinates his troops with a particular brand of politics. The General and the reservist both have the right to express their opinions in a'civilian newspaper. In the case of reservist Miller, the mandate of security, a legitimate one, is being illegiti- mately used to crush freedom. The classifying of material, while a limita- tion on,the freedom of information, is justi- fiable for security when not carried too far. When over-extended, it endangers security by creating a monolithic system which centralizes the ability to know and to make decisions. 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