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 Prevail" Editorials printed in The .Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. 'HURSDAY. JANUARY 11. 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: JUDITH OPPENHEIM OSA Study Committee: Open the Door! y ij* * . i ",,,-ay t.t C 1 "' * fi' _Ai/ _ ,,f "t T7E OFFICE of Student Affairs Study Com- mittee has seen to it that the University community will make little valuable contri- bution to its final report. When tle study group withdrew behind closed doors to hold its meetings, it gained more candid discussions but lost its chance to tap the thoughts of the general campus. There is widespread interest, and anxiety about the current reshuffling of the OSA; this was clearly expressed at the committee's "open forum" Tuesday afternoon. But there is also a great , deal of ignorance about what the committee has discussed and what its in- 'dividual members think about the various is- sues involved. THE STUDENTS, faculty memlers and alum- ni who spoke at the study committee's sole public meeting were deeply concerned about the current operation and structure of the OSA and the possibility of major structural and personnel changes in it. They wanted to know what the committee had discussed and what conclusions it has reached. They were ,disappointed in the answers, of course, because the committee has reached agreement only on the broadest and vaguest proposition: The University should be less paternalistic and should make nonacadenic life an educational experience. Questions could not be answered directly and honestly, because individual committee members felt that an expression of their opinion would be construed as a committee belief. Nor did anyone seem willing to re- construct earlier debates or present both sides of a controversy in any detail. Had the committee decided to make all its meetings open to the general public, and to inform the campus more clearly and fully about its discussions, the recommendations the com- mittee heard at Tuesday's meeting would have been more intelligent and more directly re- lated to various points members had raisedw during the committee's discussions. Community knowledge of the committee's discussion-its basic philosophical position, controversies raised, alternatives posed-would have galvanized campus interest and led to thoughtful probing of the questions involved. This kind of explanation is necessary for a mature and responsible reorganization of the OSA. THE COMMITTEE did little to encourage the presentation of written recommendations from interested community members or in- vations to speak to student and faculty groups; though, its members did accept the reports and invitations that were received. The student representatives on the com- mittee-four members of Student Government Council-have never given a full report to the Council on the committee's work. Outside of a discussion on student responsibility prompted by a request from the study committee, SGC has heard only two short reports from its student representatives. Part of this is SGC's own fault. The Council has not urged. a full report, nor seems much interested in discussing the OSA until the committee's first draft is ready. Many mem- bers seem to consider the restructuring of the OSA a dead issue and were reluctant to schedule discussion of the Glick-Roberts mo- tion early enough to make recommendations about student responsibility for rule making for inclusion in the committee's report. The student group that initiated the protest which eventually led to the formation of the study committee have done little publicly to justify or continue their work. Most of them, however, have graduated and their followers lost their, former role with the creation of the study committee. THE QUESTION of reformulating the govern- ment of student life outside the classroom is one that touches every member of the University community. The OSA Study com-' mittee has the official resonsibility for this broad area at the present moment, and it' has failed to awaken and stimulate interest in its work by its secretive actions. As the committee begins to hammer out individual opinions into a consensus report, it should open the rest of its meetings to the University community. The campus could hear the debate, see the confrontation of varying views, learn what underlies the future of the OSA and, perhaps, contribute to its improve- ment. -MICHAEL OLINICK PLAYBILL: 'Faces of Malte', Difficult, Well-Acted "FACES OF MALTE," a play written by Barton Wimble in a playwriting course in the De- partment 'of English, was by no means loosely based" on the mo- saic-like novel "Malte Laurids Brigge" by Rainer Maria Rilke. The first two Acts in particular were put together out of themes and scenes taken directly from the puzzling, celebrated book by the highly influential Austrian from Prague. In the third Act Mr. Wimble attempted to do what Rilke had left undone: to integrate a multi- tude of complex anxieties, frus- trations, and fears pictured in dozens of seemingly unconnected and sudden juxtapositions. Rilke's themes were reality, nothingness, death, and love--each viewed from many angles. It would seem to be a very bold undertak- ing indeed to make a play out of any one of these themes, for which the novel might supply rich material; to compress so many problems into two acts is more than a third act can resolve. Mr. Wimble, therefore, snapped all the philosophical strings he strummed in the first acts and concentrated on love, which is not the least problematic, but the most engaging one. Love turns out to be a coercion, perpetrated on the hero. This is surely one of the aspects of love which Rilke touch- es'upon. Had Mr. Wimble concen- trated more on this, the impact may have been much greater. The flippant and humorous beginning of the third act was very unfor- tunate, and not at all in keeping with the rest. * * * T HE HERO, Malte Laurids Brigge at the age of 17, as played by Stauley Redfern, was sympa- thetic, intense, and in several scenes quite convincing. Rilke, however, had pictured the young Malte as a young boy, being very much concerned with the experi- ences of childhood. The import- ance which remembrance plays for Malte at 28 was therefore too much watered down. Miss Henrietta Kleinpell was particularly engaging, playing Mathilde Brahe, Malte's mother. Her diction and her variations of pitch and tone, as well as her nuances of emotion 'were excep- tionally fine. Erik Brahe, the cou- sin of Malte, was played by C.- David Colson. His rendition was in its harshness in keeping with the character. The cast gave fine support to the leads, but one particular criticism must be voiced, which applies not only for this, but also for many a professional company: the train- ing in diction seems to be sadly lacking. Sloppy speech - the "Whaddayano" stuff-just doesn't go well over the footlights. And pitch and tone often tend to be monotonous and lack nuances. Shouting on stage is one of the most difficult things to manage; it is certainly to be used most sparingly. Andrew Doe, the direc- tor, must be credited for a most difficult job well done. -Heinz W. Puppe U.S. TRADE POLICY: Flexible Bargaining Needed NEW GENERATION: Issue Varied, Generous Freeloaders in the UN APPARENTLY the only nation that has to follow the rules any more is the United States. All the rest of the world gleefully vio- lates the United Nations charter and everyone cheers. Such a state of affairs does little to advance the-cause of world peace and it's putting quite a strain on the American treasury. So the tinre has come for the United States to call a halt to all the little invasions and other forbidden activities that the UN ignores. If no other nation will guard the purpose of the UN, then the United States must. American Ambassador to the United Na-, tions Adlai E. Stevenson has announced that the action of India in seizing the Portuguese enclaves could spell the end of the United Nations. So strange it is that Stevenson failed to see that the United States alone can'direct the fate of the UN-and should feel a respon- sibility to do so. Americans must look at the problem. By all that is right in the United Nations charter, India and its fickle Prime Minister Nehru should be heartily denounced and drummed out of the world body. That nation willfully, determinedlyand with no remorse, engaged in aggression against a second nation which had done it no harm. Portugal's occupation of the three tiny enclaves on India's coast had not ever. menaced the Nehru government in the least. The action was totally inexcusable and a gross violation of the UN charter. In 1951, the world went to war over just such an action; today the world applauds. Nothing else has changed. THE SECRETARY-GENERAL himself con- dones unnecessary aggression.. In fact he has called for more funds to finance UN slaughter and destruction-more money for UN planes to bomb Katanga hospitals-finan- cial support for Indian mercenaries to loot Katangan property. Whatever Katanga may have done to offend the world (and it isn't at all clear Katanga has done anything to offend the world) it couldn't have been enough to warrant loss of life. Editorial Staff JOHN ROBERTS, Editor PHILIP SHERMANFAITH WEINSTEIN City Edo fEditorial Director SUSAN FARRELL..............Personnel Director PETER STUART ................... Magazine Editor MICHAEL BURNS ...................... Speirts Editor Katanga's secession from the Congo Republic Is entirely an affair between Leopoldville and Elizabethville. Neither side has disturbed any- one outside their borders. Clearly their troubles are no cause for UN aggression. Dag Hammar- skjold recognized this. He refused to resort to grmed aggression in Katanga. U Thant ap- parently is not so perceptive as his predecessor. And who foots the bill for UN action in Katanga? Why the United States, of course. Who sat by while India invaded Goa but was screamed at earlier for backing an invasion of Cuba? The same United States. What is America supposed to be in the UN? A silent partner? Decidedly not. ADLAI STEVENSON should demand that all nations be committed to the support of any UN action with either money or man- power. Any nation which can't lend 'such support should lose its vote until such time as it pays up. But clearly Portugal cannot be asked to support a United Nations that ignores its charter and condons the unwarranted seizure of Portuguese territory. So Stevenson must also demand that every member of the UN and every UN official live up to the UN charter. He must demand that U Thant be rebuked for unwarranted action in Katanga; he must demand that India be forced, with troops if necessary, to withdraw .from Goa; he must demand that everyone pay their bills or keep silent. SINCE THE UNITED NATIONS does not hesitate to turn to America whenever it needs funds, and since the United States supplies an overwhelming part of the UN budget, that same United States should at least demand that the UN be operated ac- cording to the book. Portugal now threatens to withdraw from the UN, but such action shouldn't hurt the organization, for Portugal is one of those na- tions with a lot to say but little money to contribute. If Portugal wants to quit the UN, that is her business. From a financial point of view she would be a small loss. But what if the United States should threat- en to withdraw from the UN? The loss would not be so small then. In fact, the UN would go down the drain. Since the United States is that important to the existence of the United Nations, it would seem that America could at least insist that all UN members comply with the charter or get out. RED CHINA is being barred from the UN because it will not complv with the charter. (EDITOR'S NOTE-This is the see- end in a series of three interpre- tives onathe United States' trade policy.) By JEAN TENANDER Daily Staff Writer 'THE CURRENT DRIVE for a liberalized trade policy is be- ing waged by crystal-gazing eco- nomists bent on minimizing the injury to our economy by low- wage imports while bloating and maximizing the benefits of ex- ports." This sentiment, expressed by 'the chairman of a nationwid committee dealing with imports and exports, is typical of the kind' of reaction any forward-looking trade policy has usually received from industry. The statement is also indicative of the degree of violence the Pres- ident may have to face from one of the major areas of opposition before he can successfully initiate the New Frontier's tariff propo- sals. * * * THE PROPOSED CHANGES in our present policy can be three major provisions: 1) Abandonment of the item-to- item bargaining andthe adoption of an across-the-board approach. 2) Increased authority for the President in negotiating with other countries. 3) Use of tariffs to cushion ad-. justment, rather than to shut off competition completely The necessity for across-the- board bargaining is a result of the vast and continual changes in Europe. At this juncture no one can accurately predict where American opportunities lie, and thus we can no longer afford to haggle over individual items. The ECC cannot bargain effectively on an item-to-item basis and neither can we. The second change, toward in- creased presidential authority, is extremely vital. Cumbersome re- strictions hamper the effectiveness of our dealings with foreign coun- tries. From now on we will be dealing with the Common Market, a bloc of six nations, if not more, and any one can veto a proposi- tion offered by the U.S. The Presi- dent's authority must be very flex- ible to engage in barter of this sort. Third, the process of tariff re- duction involves acceptance of some structural adjustment by in- dividual industries To a great ex- tent, the industries themselves must assume the burden of ad- justment, but in those cases where there is danger of a temporary idling of production facilities, the federal government should be authorized to provide assistance to hasten the transfer of capital and labor into more productive channels. ALTHOUGH President Kennedy has not yet made public the spe- cifics of his new policy, he has in- dicated enough along general lines to cause reaction from both favor- able and unfavorable sources. DAILY OFFICIAL To dispel doubts about his in- tentions; the President has un- equivocally stated he 'has no in- tention of: joining the Common Market; altering the concept of political sovereignty; establishing a -rich man's trading area; aban- doning the most-favored-nation policy; creating an Atlantic free trade area or impairing our ties with Canada, Japan, or Latin America.' Despite these statements of as- surance,dthe President still faces a great deal of opposition. * * * BEFORE the Administration can successfully put forward its new policy, it must quell the doubts of two major groups. According to the New Republic, these are: 1) The special interest groups - who wonder if the U.S. can com- pete successfully' within a broad, Atlantic trading community em- bracing the Common Market, and 2) The "ambitious elites of Bra- silia or Lagos or New Delhi' who fear pressure between Communist China and the Soviet bloc on the one hand, and the United States- Common Market phalanx on the other, will squeeze them to death. SEVERAL ARGUMENTS are employed by the interest groups of industry, against the lowering of the tariff. One of the most vocal is the contention that American business is being hurt by the flood of im- ports from foreign countries. In certain cases; of wourse, an. industry, or industries, may be seriously harmed by the importa- tion of a particular commodity. But from the time tariffs were first established-imports have been used as a scapegoat to justify an increase, or the eontiniation of the tariff policy. Lack of adver- tising, lack of consumer demand, or outdated technology are many times the real culprits., THERE ARE THOSE who feel that trade blocs, such as the Com- mon Market, have forced U.S. busi- ness to set up manufacturing plants inside their high tariff walls. This, they claim, tends to foster the production of goods competitive with our own narket, and still more important, makes us, to all intents, exporters of jobs that should belong to Ameri- can labor. It is not necessarily true there would be additional jobs at home oi an increase in export sales if U.S. capital had remained in the country. Plants are built in court- tries whose markdts can not be reached by exports for the most part. Lower production costs are far from being the determining factor in all instances. The sale of U.S. goods abroad does .result in displacement to some degree of our goods made here, but this is a very small rer- centage. Most of the sales occur in producing countries outside of the U.S. The problem is also offset by two other factors. We also export a large volume of goods to these companies, and the income from investment abroad is a lot bigger than the outflow of U.S. capital involved. ITHE NEW ISSUE of "Genera- tion" is varied and generous- perhaps the best' in a long time. The task of reviewing it offers a few pitfalls, into which I shall probably fall, but it is nonetheless a pleasure. The task is made easier, I might add, by the fact that the volume has already been reviewed in advance, by its editor, in an introductory column. On Barton Wimble's play "Faces of Malte" the editor says "Read it-it is quite readable," but with- out knowledge of the Rilke work, which lies behind it I did not find it so, This, the major offering, is the kind of literature whose meanings are explicit rather than built in, and partly because it reads like a translation, it tires one's interest. Yet it might stage well." Margaret Klee's dialogue "Beau- tifillia" is far more accessible, and, though Mr. Reynolds fears it "will not get the attention it deserves," I recommend the conservative reader to begin with it among the prose and with Victor Perera's fine and delicately balanced story, "A Show of Strength." Konstantinos Lardos' story "In Startled Caw- ing" I found good but heavy go- ing; it is not fiction so much as myth. Salvat'ion A YOUNG American for Free- dom at Ohio University com- mented that YAF is in favor of extending American democracy to the Soviet Union even if it meant dropping nuclear bombs on the Russians. Is this what is called aid to underdeveloped nations? -D.M. THE EDITOR attributes the dis- parity in the fiction to the isola- tion of the prose writer in Any Arbor. I suspect, to venture a rash view, that it is due to the deeper cause that the short story itself, as a form, is near the end of its day, which will be regarded as the curious product of a peri )d now ending. Talent and editors apart, it is difficult to do full justice to it any more. Poetry is deathless, and the poems in this volume are of h-gh quality. I merely mention the es- tablished names of Squires and Hall. The easiest is Anne Steven- son's Frostian "Thunderstorm :n Vermont," and the best to my taste is her "Of Restraint and Superfluity" which matches form to thought perfectly. Some of the rest of the twenty pages of verse is more difficult but worth the trouble. THOUGH INCOMPETENT, I should like to say a word about the several pages devoted to music. Many lay readers will start to skip Robert Ashley's "Maneuvers for Small Hands" as beyond them; I believe that they should take a second look. It is a kind of illus- tration of Phillip Krumm's essay "New Sounds and What to do with Them." Those who remember a classic evening in May, 1959, will sense behind the "Maneuvers" the terrible spirit of J. B. WV4ol gamot. They may be wrong but they cannot help the caution. Ac- cording to the "I Ching" Wol- gamot is still alive though in de- cline, and it is good to have this possible confirmation. His mood touches even the valuable inter- view between Mr. Reynolds and the American, beat, or off-beat, composer, John Cage. -Edmund Creeth, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Who's Student and Who's 'Trespasser'? To the Editor: YESTERDAY a young man who works for me was arrested in the Michigan Union for "trespass- ing." He was "loitering" to the extent of having taken one drink from his glass and onebite from his 'burger, when without any ad- vance warning or appraisal he was arrested by a police officer. Off to Municipal Court, in less than 60 minutes from the time his lunch hour began, he had walked to the Union, purchased and started to eat a sandwich, been arrested, been tried, convicted and sen- tenced. His fine was $20, not a particularly small fine for a young man trying to save money to re- turn to the University. It appears quite possible that from a plea of not guilty a clear case of suit for false arrest could have been pursued against the Michigan Union. Yet he was anxious to "avoid trouble" and his plea was accepted (by a substitute judge) the fine has been paid, and it appears that this young man now has no further recourse and must bear this blot on his record for life. In many ways he is an unusual young man. Few college students are teaching a Sunday School class or singing friends and associates are all stu- dents, still a "student" when for financial ,reasons he has had to drop out of school for a period? Is one a student in June, able to go to the Union, but not a student if he hasn't registered for classes at Summer School, and thus not able to visit the Union in July ... even though he may be seriously planning to return in September? What is the respon- sibility of the Union to Michigan students, quasi-students, ex-stu- dents who very likely will be stu- dents again?a 2) What is the Union's policy toward people who clearly are non- students? I am not a student, yet I have always felt a part of the University community, and com- fortable in frequent visits to the Union. I have participated in com- mittee meetings in the Union Din- ing Room and in the Union Cafe- teria-some of which have lasted for several hours. Will I, and others like myself, be in danger if we continue this practice? Or will. the color of my skin protect me from this indignity? -Bob Marshall A First . . authorities, appears to have mov- ed north., -Edward Weber University Library Federal Aid . ., To the Editor: CAROLINE DOW'S thoughtful editorial (in Wednesday's paper) raises some relevant ques- tions about the need and dangers of federal aid to education. Funds for the expansion and improve- ment of schooling and higher edu- cation is a matter that should concern us nationally; yet a wholesome diversity is desirable in a democratic culture. One aspect of President Ken- nedy's general message on edu- cation submitted to Congress last February called for the establish- ment of federally sponsored scholarship assistance to deserv- ing undergraduates, in a program to be administered by the state governments. The proposal would provide 25,000 to 50,000 scholar- ships annually, averaging $700 each; these would be awarded on the basis of qualifying exams as well as consideration of individual need, and the recipients them- selves would decide where they It is difficult to see how this particular program might "back- fire -... making the nation more monolithic than ever," as Miss Dow fears in her broad generaliza- tion about the administration's approach to the problem. Most re- cipients would be likely to attend a variety of the better privately- endowed and church related uni- versities; and the very provisions of this high-minded proposal are consistent with our tradition of geographically and politically di- versified educational administra- tion. Some version of last years' rec- ommendation may yet be intro- duced in the second session of the Eighty-seventh Congress. To en- sure a more local and territorial rather than a nationally-centraliz- ed focus of responsibility for the financial needs of higher educa- tion, it may be advisable to mod- ify the administration's earlier" proposal: instead of bearing ex- pense for the entire program, the federal government could offer to match by a certain amount funds appropriated by state legis- latures for this purpose. This ap- proach, suggested by Dr. Fussell Kirk-perhaps the most truly con- servative of Americans who call