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)AY, FEBRUARY 15, 1963
NIGHT EDITOR: BARBARA LAZARUS
Honors Housing Plan:
Step in the Wrong Direction.
HE PROPOSAL for special housing for
rhonors students comes up annually At about
the ,same time as spring rush. The proposal as
discussed in this year's communique from the
Honors Council is different from last year's,
however, in that it sounds rather definite about
trying the scheme which hitherto was merely
a suggestion.;
Apparently the Honors Council has declared
invalid last year's protests that such a housing
arrangement is most undemocratic. While this
objection is, on the contrary a very sound one,
particularly in a state-sponsored university,
it is by no means the only one.
A NY ATTEMPT to organize honors students
into a housing unit, even on a voluntary
basis must be founded on the assumption that
honors students are more intelligent and
harder-working than non-honors students. It
mus$, also assume that honors students are
more intellectually inclined than non-honors
students, more interested in culture and aca-
demic discussions and more likely to be stim-
ulgted by a hothouse atmosphere where they
can bask in warmth generated by active brain
cells than in .normal housing units. The
general conclusion of all this must be that
honors students will be happier and better off
living with each other than with their less
elite contemporaries.
The first assumptionseems highly unlikely to
be true. Most probably there are just as man'y
intelligent students outside the honors program
as in it, particularly in the junior and senior
years, when many become dissatisfied with the
departmental honors programs and drop out
of them to pursue courses which, for one reason
or another, promise to be more satisfying.
There are probably more exceptionally brilliant
and creative students outside the program than
in it because these students are seldom in-
terested enough in amassing a grade-point
average to qualify for the program in the first
place.
It is probably not true that honors students
work harder than non-honors students. Once
admitted to the program, honors students
usually find that grades are 'achieved with a
minimum of effort because instructors some-
how seem to have the feeling that honors
students, like graduate students, should never
receive any grade lower than a B minus.
BUT EVEN ASSUMING that all these propo-
sitions were true, does this necessarily mean
that honors students ought to live together?
I think not. Intelligence and dilligence are not
necessarily the qualities that make for a good
roommate, next-door-neighbor or confidante.
Friendliness, warmth, sympathy. even a certain
degree of neatness and perfunctory courtesy
are more necessary in a roommate than in-
tellectual companionship in dormitory rooms
the size of most of those the University boasts.
One of the best aspects of the University is
that anyone who is in' the mood for an aca-
demic discussion, a visit to the museum or an
evening at a concert need hardly- step out
of his way to find company. Such company
need not necessarily be found next door or
even within the same doimitory-although
it a very rare instance when it is not to be
found there-it is seldom farther away than
a 15 minute walk at the very most.
On the other hand, a good understanding
roommate or friend is a necessity to one's
round the clock happiness, and ought not to
be farther from reach than the length of a
corridor most of the time.
It would be ridiculous to assert that intel-
ligence is not even a factor in one's selection
oof a roommate or friend. Of course it is,
whether conscious or unconscious. But in this
instance the always artificial distinction be-
tween honors and nori-honors students dis-
appears altogether. There are very few real
dummies at the University these days. They
simply do not get admitted, and so it is most
likely that taken by itself the intelligenceI
differential between honors and non-honors1
-stuents (assuming that there is one) is highly1
unlikely to be the decisive factor in forming
a friendship.
YET EVEN if all this were true-even if it
could be proved that living in an honors
housing unit would increase the individual
honors student's happiness and productivity-
it would not be beneficial to his development
as an individual.
One of the advantages - of attending the
University is the great variety in the student
body. While 'his closest friends may remain
people much like himself, the individual stu-
dent ought to make it his business during his
residence on campus to meet and get to know
as many different types of people as he can.
One excellent way of meeting people is living
in the same dormitory or house with them. A
pretty sure way not to meet them is to re-
strict one's circle of acquaintances to the
same group of people one has seen in class
for as long as one has been attending the
University. Even lumping unified scientists
and honors music students togefher does not
sppply the necessary variety.
And if honors housing is a bad thing for
honors students, it is a far worse thing for
the campus in general-worse even than the
sorority and fraternity system which at least
ostensibly offers everyone an equal chance
for membership,.
WHEN STUDENTS are admitted to the Uni-
versity, they are admitted because they
have met the entrance requirements.. They
are admitted on a socially equal basis andnot
as first, second or third class citizens. As mem-
bers of the entire university community they
remain on an equal basis, whether or not
they happen to fit into the academic echelon
known as honors.
There are obviously distinctions to be made
among ,students on the basis of their class'
work, interest and motivation. The distinctions
are acknowledged by the establishment of an
honors college, by grades on a transcript and
by recognition such as the Honors Convocation
and Phi Beta Kappa. But these distinctions
are academic in the narrowest sense. They
are a part of the classroom formality of the
University and ought not to be carried beyond
it.
The effort to integrate the dormitory system
into the overall academic purpose of the Uni-
versity is certainly a commendable one and
as a general goal ought to be advanced. This
does not mean, however that the right to live
in certain of the dormitories ought be handed
out as an academic reward. Housing in the
University then becomes a matter of special
privileges rather than free variety of choice.
Those who can make it socially get to live
in sororities and fraternities. Senior women
and men who are sophomores and above can
have apartments. Undergraduate women who
achieve a ceitain unspecified level of social,
culture and academic desirability get to live
in Martha Cook. The rest of the undergraduate
rejectees get lumped together in various dorm-
itories and left to shift for themselves.
THE ENTIRE SYSTEM is manifestly unfair
and ought to be reorganized from scratch
instead of having its iijustces compounded
by the addition of honors housing. Every
University student ought to have as much
right as any other University student to live
in any given type of University housing. That
includes sorority and fraternity houses and
Martha Cook as well as the dormitories. If
more students apply for a given housing unit
than it can accommodate (which will always
be the case with certain houses whose location
or size makes them tremendously desirable) a
seniority system should be used, and within
that a purely random selection process such
as pulling names out of a hat.
This doesn't mean that people have no
right to decide which of their friends they
want to -live with. The choice of a roommate
is always' open and in addition to that if
several friends apply together for a certains
dormitory they are most likely to find them-
selves in it. If honors students want to room
with other honors students, that's fine, but
they must choose on the genuine basis of
personal qualities and -not on the artificial
basis of honors.
-JUDITH OPPENHEIM E
Editorial Director
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TODAY AND TOMORROW:
Unity at TheBrink
By WALTER LIPPMANN.
HERE WOULD be less puzzle-
ment about General de Gaulle,
I believe, if we began by recogniz-
ing that the difference between us
is over the cold war. The general
writes down to a degree which
President Kennedy would not dare
to do the military and political
threat of the Soviet Union. That
is why the general dares, as Mr.
Macmillan said on Monday, "to
bring the whole Western Alliance
into great jeopardy."
In the general's view, the bal-
ance of power has turned de-
cisively against the Soviet Union,
and, consequently, the Western
Alliance is obsolescent and of
diminishing importance.
Once again, as is usual in hu-
man affairs, a wartime coalition
begins to break up as peace begins
to break out.
THE GENERAL, it seems to me,
is acting today on what is likely
to happen, but to happen only
in the future. Surely it would be
more prudent if in our dealings
with Mr. Khrushchev, which are
still very difficult and dangerous,,
the Western Alliance were being
consolidated rather than disrupt-
ed. But the general hasi of course,
heard this argument. He is un-
impressed by it. However much we
may think that western unity is
paramount and imperative, he
does not in fact believe that west-
ern unity is paramount and im-
perative. We shall not move him
by cying out that the Western
Alliance is in danger and that
American troops may be with-
drawn from Europe.
We may be sure that General de
Gaulle, who certainly is not want-
ing in foresight, has foreseen this
possibility. I would suppose he has
satisfied himself that what counts
most in the Western Alliance, the
American military commitment in
Europe, is bound to remain until
Gaullist Europe is strong enough
to deal on equal terms with the
Soviet Union. He does not have
to woo us. For we are already in-
dissolubly married to Europe, and,
until the West and the East ar-
rive at an eventual peace, we can-
not dissolve this marriage. In the
meantime, there is no need to re-
ward us for doing what we have to
do.
This is the right context, I
would say, in which to study the
question of "how," as Life mag-
azine puts it, "we shift our west-
ern nuclear monopoly . . . into
(an) alliance of genuine equals
The inner core of our nuclear
monopoly is the fact that only
the President of the United States
has authority to use our nuclear
weapons. 'Because our nuclear
weapons are something like 98
per cent of the nuclear strength
of the whole Western Alliance, no
other nuclear power, neither Brit-
ain or France, can in fact fire a
nuclear weapons without the con-
sent of the President of the United
States. Neither General de Gaulle
nor Prime Minister Macmillan
could conceivably usetheir nuclear
weapons unless they knew for-cer-
tain that they were covered by the
United States against Soviet re-
prisals.*
THIS IS the American nuclear
monopoly and to live under its
protection is, says the general,
"intolerable fora great state."
How are we to arrive at a toler-
able relationship? For their will
have to be a relationship between
European and American nuclear
power-at least until that very dis-
tant day when Europe has a nu-'
clear power of its own capable of
coping with the Soviet Union.
The crucial problem of the rela-
tionship turns on the ultimate
command decision to use nuclear
weapons. The more closely we
examine this problem, the clearer
it becomes, I submit, that at the
final point of decision in war there,
must be unity of command. Coali-
tions cannot be conducted by com-
mittees in time of war. In the
whole process of preparing and
planning, there is not only room
but need for committees represent-
ing the members of the coalition.
But when there is war, they must .
choose a Foch, an Eisenhower, a
MacArthur, a Kennedy.
The further we get from the
brink, the less do we have to think
about unity of command (i.e.,
monopoly) and the: more we can
think of a committee of equals.
For this reason, it is most un--
likely that we shall find now a
theoretical solution, of the prob-
lem posed by our nuclear mono-
poly. The problem is most acute
when war is not imminent. One
can say that monopoly, or unity
of command, may be intolerable
in peacetime. But it is indispen-
sable in wartime. The great con-
troversy today about the monopoly
is due primarily to the relaxation
of the tension of the cold war.
The controversy would evaporate
if we were on the brink of a
great war.
(c) 1963, The Washington Post ,Co.
Applause
HAVE YOU ever noticed how a
concert audience will applaud
a familiar encorse after a few bars
have been played? They are not
applauding the music or the per-
former.
They are applauding themselves
because they recognized it.
--Sigmound Spaeth
The Common Sense
of Music
To the Editor:
THIS LETTER is to explain our
resignation from Student Gov-
ernment Council to be effective
with the seating of new Council
members March 15, 1963.
We take this action for the fol-
lowing reasons:
1) We are looking forward to
graduation in June and neither of
us expects to return here. at east
as students, in the fall. Thus, if
we were to retain our seats, Coun-
cil would again be faced with the
impossible situation of filling two
vacancies or the disadvantage of
operating with a shortage of per-
sonnel. Both of these situations
have proved harmful in the past
and we have no desire for repeat
performances.
2) It has become Increasingly
evident -in the past year that
Council leadership has rested on
us in the main. Without attempt-
ing any value judgement on this
situation, we firmly are in. accord
that thepresent condition should
change and that others should
take positions of leadership and
responsibility.
3) This being our last semester
at the University, we also have
personal reasons for resigning.
These are mainly academic and
alone would not require such dras-
tic action. But taken in context
with our other concerns, resigna-
tion 'at this time appears to be
the most desirable course of ac-
tion.
* * *
WE REALIZE that Student Gov-
ernment Council is presently in a
crucial position-that major al-
terations in Council's form and
procedures are on the horizon if
student government is to survive.
We pare not leaving a sinking ship,
but, rather, opening up opportun-
ities for new leaders. It seems
only fair to us that any changes
should be made by those who will
have to operate under them. How-
ever, our interest in and our know-
ledge of student government will
not be lost in the process. We plan
to act as willing advisors should
the Council request our assistance.
We both plan to submit to you
in the near future some of our
thoughts and recommendations
about the present and future of
SGC.'
-Robert Ross, '63
--Steven Stockmeyer, '63
Limitation *: .
To the Editor:
"AGE LIMITS Rubenstein."
May I ask? What's limiting
the Music Critic?
If Mr. Rubenstein were to pass
away suddenly after having been
rendered this genuine critical ver-
bal barrage, I would say it would
be in order for the Music Critic
to suffer an endless guilty con-
science.
: * * *
AT 77, even a typewriter-pound-
ing expert is not the wizard that
he was at 40.
Surely 4000 plus people did not
attend Mr. Rubenstein's perform-
ance to listen for how many 'little
flaws he will blend into his ren-
ditions!
It is by far a profounder read-
ing pleasure to see someone outdo-
ing himself in remarking about the
genuine good in people, by that
I mean, to caress verbally his
extraordinarily many becoming
inner flaws. I would say he is the
possessor of many of those and
he is to be envied for them. 1
It showed by the standing ova-
tions, that people "almost" loved
him to death. How warm and
lovely!
-J. Krauss
TV...
To the Editor:
CONGRATULATIONS on what
was essentially a good 'article
on TV at the college level"TV
May Meet Needs of Enrollment
Rise," in a recent issue of The
Daily. The implication, however'
that television is merely a means
of meeting higher educational
costs and increased enrollment can
be misleading.
To be sure,' instructional tele-
vision (ITV) can be used advan-
tageously in these areas, but an
even more serious problem facing
higher education (as well as ele-,
mentary and secondary education)
is that of the "knowledge explo-
sion." Higher costs and more stu-
dents can be met relatively simply
with more money-if the populace
deems it desirable to meet these
problems; buildings can be -built
and teachers hired-both with dol-
lars.
But how do we endeavor to
teach more subject matter to
these students in the same amount
of time (or even less time)? This
will take more than just dollars.
The vast body of subject matter.
which has to be mastered by to-
day'scollege graduate (in non-
scientific as 'well as in scientific
fields) is increasing at a prodigious
rate. And we must master the
techniques of instruction whici-
can keep pace with this expanding
body of knowledge. Television andJ
programmed instruction, as well
as many other new innovations,
are tools which can be used--
which must be used-if we are to
succeed in our educational obliga-
certain jobs better than any other
available means. The medical
school's color installation is one
of the most extensive in the coun-
try; it affords every medical stu-
dent a better-than-front-row seat
for close-up views of delicate
operations and minute demon-
strations that formerly were well
viewed only by the few who coudx
'crowd around the operating tabl
or the demonstration area. 1mi-
larly, in the English Language
Institute, the television aera
provides an unexcelled opportun-
ity for students unobtrusively to
witness the teaching demonstra-
tions that are so vital a part of
their instruction. Television is do-
ing moredthan just meeting rising
costs and enrollments.
Also, I should likeptoconment
briefly on the fear expressed by
"many educators" that ITV will
tend to thwart "unorthodox dis-
cussions and highly controversial
subjects." The analogy of ITV to
the bland conformity of com-
mercial televisiongis utterly fal-
lacious. One might as well try s
to draw an analogy between a
textbook and a drug store sex-
pocketbook. The analogy is, rather,
between the two media themselves
-that of print, and that of tele-
vision. Like the printing press,
television is only a tool, a medium
of communication. Like any print-
ed literature, television may be us-
ed for information, for propgan-
da, or for entertainment. Like a
book, a television program may
be trash or it may be worthwhile.
As to the claim that ITV "cre-
ates an automatic and conforming
mind," again, let me compare this
medium with the printed page. No'
book, regardless of its stimulating
and challenging content, can con-
tribute to any overt interaction
with the individual reader, I.e, tn
reader cannot enter into a liv
discussion with the printed page,
But it is as the student assimilates
and applies this knowledge--In
solitary meditation, in discussion
among his peers, and in the give-
and-take of the ideal formal,
small-sizedkclassroom-thatktes
learning, takes place. Likewse
with an ITV presentation (which
has its own unique qualities of
production, aesthetics, motivation,
teaching techniques, integration of
other tools, et. al., which cannot
be exactly duplicated in any other'
medium--in textbooks or In lie
lectures), education takes place
not' only with rote acceptance of
what is presented (likewise with
textbooks or lectures) but with'
the creative application and as-
similation of the material.
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IN FACT, to cite an example
from the elementary and secon-
dary level, many programs of the
Midwest Program on Airborne
Television Instruction (MPATI)
present controversial discussions
and topics. Many students are ex-
posed to more challenging and
stimulating teaching than they
ever were before the introduction
of the 'MPATI lessons into their
classrooms. If controversy and
excitement are not presented over
any ITV project, it is not the
fault of the television system but
of the manner in which it is being
used.
The danger is not that television
cannot do the job, because we
know that it can. But rather, the
danger is that television will not
be given the opportunity to 0.o
the job, because we won't let it.
-Donald N. Wood
MPATI Area Coordinator
PITTSBURGH:
Evening
TH~E PITTSBURC*H Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Wil-
liam Steinberg, presented a high-
ly' Austrian and highly entertain-
ing program in Hill Auditorium
last evening.
It has been just three years
since this orchestra played here
last, and it is more evident with
each concert season that the Pitts-
burgh Symphony is gaining a
prominent place among the nine
or ten great orchestras in the
United States. William Steinberg
has been conductor of the orches-
tra for eleven years now, ahd he
has drilled into his group stand-
ards of exact execution and sensi-
tive itnerplay which result in per-
formance that moves along like
-well, like clockwork.
The program was keenly plan-
-ned. It began with Haydn's "Sym-
phony No. 91 in C major" and
Mr. Steinberg established immedi-
ately a pattern of solid, sure
tempos. The "Minuetto" was espe-
cially pleasing.
Next was "Big Ben" by Ernst
Toch, written when the composer
was living in London after fleeing
the Nazi occupation of Austria..
The orchestra presented a passion-
ate performance.
Mechanism of another kind was
presented in Webern's "Symphony
for Chamber Orchestra, Opus 21."
This is a twelve-tone work, and
at the end, without a 5-1 cadence,
Pacifism Obsolete
DURING THE heat of the last Cuban crisis,
a demonstration for peace was held on the
Diag. There were philosophical discussions,
loud speeches, lively arguments, and a good
time was had by all.y
However, behind all this ballyhoo there seems
to be a dangerous misunderstanding on the,
part of the demonstrators of the practical
meanings of the terms "politics," and "phil-
osophy." Politics has been described as "the
art of getting done what is possible." Philoso-
phy however, is not burdened with such mun-
dane limitations as "what is possible," or even
reality for that matter.
At the basis of any political decision to
control or eliminate nuclear weapons is the
stark desire to stay alive, and any test-ban
arrangement that would decrease the possibility
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as those without sufficient inspection, as sug-
gested recently by the Soviet Union, would be
absurd.
HOWEVER, AT the base of any philosophical
decision °outlawing the bomb is the lofty
concept of the brotherhood of man. To the
philosopher, this idea takes on almost a re-
ligious significance, involving emotional reac-
tions and a code to live by. This kind of think-
ing, coupled with a clear rational awareness of
the destructive capacity of nuclear weapons,
and a healthy amount of youthful exuberance,
can lead to the clearly political decision to
participate in an anti-bomb demonstration.
Before the idea of Brotherhood can become
significant in the field of international poli-
tics, it must be universally accepted. It is
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THE END was a sordid one for
a prime minister who had as-
pired to emulate Macdonald. He
had seemed. for a time, to cap-
ture the imagination of the Cana-
dian people as only one statesman
does in a generation. He failed
to grapple with the problems they.
expected him to solve. He survived
the 1962 election, in which his
party ran second in the popular
vote, owing to the unforseen rise
of Social Credit in Quebec which
denied the Liberals their expected
support from that province. He
can hardly survive the next one.
History will judge John Diefen-
baker, and it will not judge him
kindly. He campaigned on his
claim to have restored the health
of the economy a week before he
was forced to reveal the most
serious monetary crisis of our gen-
eration. He muttered impressiv ly
about the need for national unity,
and dismissed an inquiry into
English-French relations as a
waste of time. He made procras-
tination a way of life. He thunder-
ed denunciation of Communism,
which he combatted by sowing
discord in, the Western Alliance
and evolving a defense policy so
esoteric that his own minister of
national defense proved unable to
understand it. Though the skies
By BARBARA PASH
IN HIS latest move to bolster his
shaky throne and endear himself
to the United States, Iranian Shah
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi has dis-
tributed 2 million acres of private
land to peasant families. -
Supposedly the former land-
owners will be compensated for
their loss and supposedly this land
will be distributed in a fair and
equal manner. For this move, the
Shah has received a chorus of
praise in the American press.
But the government of Iran is
that ofhan absolute dictatorship.
Pahlevi disbanded the Ma Jlis
(parliament) a year and a half
ago and has been ruling by royal
decree and referendum ever since.
This disquieting fact has been
widely ignored by journalists, who
seem to think that by distributing
land the Shah has redeemed him-
self.
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FOOLING THE IRANIANS:
Land Grants Insfiin
tion of land was not done for hu-
manitarian reasons, rather it was
necessary for the Shah to mollify
the unrest the regime has aroused.
Moreover one wonders about the
contradictory reports noting the
rioting against and cheering of
the "people" for Pahlevi; Surely
the students and few intellectuals
of Iran will not be soothed by this
act when they still have no voice-
in the government, when the stan-
dard of living is so low and when
there are few opportunities forI
advancement. Nor are the power-
ful landowners and priests over-
joyed by the distribution of land.
* * -*
AND WHETHER the Shah real-
izes it or not, his action may cause
more trouble in the future. He has
given the Iranian masses a glimpse
of a better life, and they will not
be content with semi-solutions.
Either you provide them with full.
opportunity for advancement or
you keep them in a state of ignor-