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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1963 NIGHT EDITOR: RONALD WILTON
ONCE FESTIVAL:
Series Offers Grounds
For Optimism
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Lack of Sufficient Funds.
Threatens 'U' Excellence
pIE UNIVERSITY needs more money. ~
An increase of $1.55 million in state funds
for the University is not even a sufficient
amount to maintain the status quo in educa-
tional excellence.
To many legislators the University has an
insatiable desire for more income. Just when it
appears that the University has been built up
into one of the finest educational and research
centers of the country, the University preys
again upon the state budget for an even larger
share of the take.
But the University is not an autonomous en-
tity: internal needs of the University are de-
termined by external forces. The insatiable
need for funds merely reflects the insatiable
desire for quality education throughout the
state.I
George Romney's present budget calls for
an appropriation of $38.2 million for the Uni-
versity, a cut of over $5 million from what the
University had requested. Coupled with student
fees and miscellaneous funds for 1963-64, the
state appropriation would give the University a
general fund-operational budget of about $52.6
million, as opposed to the $57.9 million request-
ed.
Thus, it is obvious that next year the external
forces will have to be denied; to the detriment
of the University and to the state. The Univer-
sity will not be able to expand sufficiently to
meet the climbing enrollment pressures. The
University will not be able to mend and patch
areas worn weak by several years of financial
neglect.
UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS have re-
signed themselves to looking for a brighter
future after the state recuperates under Rom-
ney's proposed fiscal reforms. Their philosophy
is that a year's famine is acceptable if followed
by years of adequate support.
In hopes of paving the way for the future
of the state and of the University, President
Harlan Hatcher and Vice-President for Busines
and Finance Wilbur K. Pierpont have offered
the state a compromise in asking for $1-1.5
million in additional funds for the Institute
of Science and Technology.
President Hatcher pointed out that University
research is the "unique key to strengthening the
economy of the state."
SINCE THE SENATE Appropriations Commit-
tee hearing last week, it has become appar-
ent that at the time the University had drawn
up its budget request, it had not planned on
pushing its potential for the economic develop-
ment of the state. The picture changed when
the governor had stressed his desire to ease un-
employment and put the state on as sound a
financial footing as possible.
Within two weeks after the governor's mes-
sage, the University had submitted to Romney's
staff a proposal to allot over $2 million for the.
IST to provide a significant base for Univer-
sity-state industrial cooperation, basic science
and technical research, natural resources devel-
opment, and for operation of the new IST
building.
Apparently this request did not come through
in time for Romney to incorporate .it into his
budget message. A mere $750,000 was designated
for research in general.
Leftovers
ONE OF THE LESS attractive facets of the
University that an entering freshman has to
cope with is the preparation of the food in the
men's dormitories. The general quality of the
meals cannot be denounced; institutional cook-
ing by definition cannot be "like grandma usta
make." But the dormitories are guilty of a prac-
ticethat grandma could have gotten away with
-the constant and indiscriminate use of left-
overs.
Yes, yes, yes. We all know that in order to
keep within reasonable limits of the budget all
the food purchased must be utilized. But can't
this be done in a more attractive manner?
The food is now presented so that the use
of leftovers is immediately evident. Wednesday's
meal is vaguely reminiscent of Tuesday's meal.
If the trend continues menus may soon be-
come frightening. Using soup as an example,
let us see the possible results of such a trend.
MONDAY: beef noodle; Tuesday: chicken with
rice. So far so good. Wednesday: beef with
rice; Thursday: chicken noodle; Friday: split
pea. Saturday's soup is a mixture with a rustic
name and flavor: Mulligatawny Stew. The in-
gredients are, as one might expect, beef, chick-
en, noodles, and rice, all gayly swimming in a
split pea broth.
Although, to my knowledge, an exact replica
of this soup menu has not yet been served in
a dormitory, the illustration is an alarming
one.
The dining halls are also notorious for know-
ingly preparing less of the day's listed menu
than is actually needed. As the listed meal runs
out, the leftovers can then be distributed to
unwitting latecomers. The result is that a stu-
ECONOMIC GROWTH potential is the philos-
ophy behind the new University request
for about $1 million for the IST. President
Hatcher indicated that he was "quite distressed
that the proposed budget contains no provisions
for the on-going, job-creating research. It really
puzzles me that in planning for Michigan's
commercial and economic health, there is no
provision for this one going and creative cen-
ter (IST)."
The additional funds for the IST cannot
help but achieve the aims of creating more jobs
in the state and drawing more money into
Michigan. It is a statistical fact that for almost
every state dollar invested in the University a
dollar of non-state money is attracted here. And
as Vice-President Pierpont has pointed out the
research and industrial complex surrounding
Ann Arbor has "reached a critical mass" pro-
viding another source of income for the state.
The wealth of trained research personnel and
University facilities makes Ann Arbor a very
advantageous location for budding industry.
Research within the University develops into
"spin-off" industries which usually settle in
the community.
The University is a tax-free area in Ann Ar-
bor and consequently the more research firms
attracted to the community, the better off Ann
Arbor is financially. Already more than $40
million of research propects are established in
the area.
R ESEARCH IS sound business. But the Uni-
versity is not merely a factory taking stu-
dent in-put and producing dollars and cents
out-put. The state should be proud that the'
University does attract over $32 million of fed-
eral grants for research, but research must
always be kept in its proper context-it is a
sideline at this University. Students and faculty
are not pursuing knowledge to bring money into
the state.
It would seem that the University has to beg
for an extra $1 million specifically for research
in hopes that in this way it will be possible to
free money in the University's general budget
previously designated for the IST to fill the
gap between the $1.55 million appropriation in-
crease and the minimum increase necessary of
close to $3 million.
There will not be a dollar-for-dollar exchange
for any funds appropriated for the IST, but
University officials have indicated that if the
Legislature were to provide ample support for
the IST, these funds would help pay the salaries
and overhead for a number of professors in-
volved in research.
HIS TOKEN increase in the operating bud-
get along with the $1.55 million appropri-
ated increase will never be able to provide for
an estimated enrollment increase of 2500 stu-
dents, faculty salary increases of over $2
million, additional staff costing $1.8 million
and the third term for the new year-round
calendar. These improvements alone would cost
the University over $5 million.
This year the University will not be able to
substantially counter the low state appropria-
tion by increasing student fees as it did last
year. Out-of-state tuition at the University is
already the highest tuition rate charged by
a public university.
Obviously the University will not be able to
enroll the ever-increasing number of applicants
from the state of Michigan alone. In order to
meet the needs of the state and provide, for
the deserving out-of-state student too, the
University estimated that its enrollment would
have to skyrocket to 28,000 by next fall.
N ORDER to adequately educate all these
students, a staff of 1,946 full-time instruc-
tors would be needed, according to University
figures. This would call for an additional 163
staff members making the student-faculty
ratio 1:14.4, only slightly better than last
year's 1:14.6. These increases cannot possibly
be financed under the state proposed operating
budget.
Exen the prestige of this University is not
sufficient to attract additional staff or pre-
serve the present staff unless faculty renum-
eration is commensurate with the quality in-
struction they are providing. In the past few
years, faculty salaries have increased. by five
per cent at the University, but jumped by 12
per cent across the nation. This is one serious
area in which the University is falling by the
wayside.
The simple answer is that the University
needs more money. However, the University
must be careful not to sell its soul to research
in order to get it. This year it is apparent
that practical considerations of University re-
search's contribution to economic welfare of
the state were the only arguments with per-
suasive potentiality. Even now, although the
governor seems to be in favor of aiding Uni-
versity research, legislative approval of any
increase in the appropriations seems doubt-
ful.
MORE MONEY is going to have to come
from somewhere. Under the present appro-
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THE ONCE Festival 1963 ended
last weekend with two con-
certs in what is becoming a too
concentrated dose of such new
music in so short a time It be-
comes increasingly difficult ade-
quately to concentrate on each
work when one must listen to a
vast array of sounds styles, tech-
niques, and aesthetic exploration
in four concerts in 10 days.
John Cage and David Tudor
were guests at the Sunday even-
ing concert. One tends to expect
new and exciting things from
John Cage, who is, after all, the
father of American avant-garde
music;but after the initial impact
of hearing David Tudor create
wild semi-electronic sounds in
Cage's "Variations II" (1961), it
becomes just plain boring. The
same was true of the Cage-
conducted "Sapporo" by the Jap-
anese avant-garde composer, Toshi
Ichiyanagi. This ensemble piece
had side-line theatrical effects
with performers walking around
exchanging parts and even had a
bicycle rider. One becomes satur-
ated with this long before the
work ends.
* * *
DONALD SCAVARDA proved to
be outstanding in the two con-
certs: he brilliantly conducted
two works and received a fine
performance of his own highly-
articulate work, "Matrix for Clar-
inetist" by John Morgan. Scavarda
conducted a substantial section of
Roger Reynold's work-in-progress,
"The Confusion of Truth," a large
cosmopolitan work drawing on
musical materials from many
sources, and perhaps too liberally
at that. The work also has not
too subtle suggestions of word-
painting and gross mood manipu-
lation which makes it seem some-
times over-done. But it was Sca-
varda who really made the piece
articulate with his precise con-
ducting. He also conducted Philip
Krumm's "Music for Clocks"
which was played while several
surrealist clocks "listened." The
work is, as Krumm is, unbeliev-
ably original and imaginative, and
Scavarda masterfully gave it a
beautiful shape. If Krumm and
Scavarda were to team up, one
to conceive, the other to shape,
exciting music would surely re-
sult.
Again George Cacioppo exhibit-
ed redoubtable finesse in craft
and structure in his "Pianopieces,"
excellently performed by Donald
Bohlen. Robert Ashley and Gor-
don Mumma played Ashley's "De-
tails," an extraction of materials
from his "Fives." Ashley's music
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Final Exam Adjustment
is fascinating and fertile. An-
other particularly bright spot in
the program was Robert Sheff's
"Meditation Nine." Although ham-
pered by inadequate performance,
this ensemble piece shows an un-
canny grasp of pleasing and ef-
fective orchestration with a taste-
ful and minimal use of special in-
strumental effects. Although con-
ceptually different, Michael Von
Biel's "29 Doubles for Violinist
and Pianist" was aurally a vir-
tual rehash of his "Book for
Three"ofsa week ago.
Except in Gordon Mumma's
"Mographs" pieces where they had
been fooled by three pianists at
one piano shifting seats and play.
ing imaginary extensions of the
keyboard at both ends, the au-
dience was externally more pas-
sive during the programs than in
previous years. Either the music
is becoming more familiar, or the
audience is becoming more under-
standing or perhaps morepatient.
If this is so, perhaps the day is
not too far distant when the Once
concerts will be as natural and ac-
ceptable as the May Festival con-
certs. At least there are grounds
for optimism.
-Bernard Folta-
'ACTION':
Feedbag
Mechanism
OSTENSIBLY a valiant attempt
to buck the trend of movies
getting better than ever, "Who's
Got The Action?" is a throwback
to 1950.
From its magic tree of old stars,
Paramount has plucked Lana
Turner (whom you loved to hiss
in the previews on Saturday af-
ternoons just before the Black
Spider), Eddie Albert ( 1 n e
"Roman Holiday," Hollywood's
eternal hypotenuse), and Dean
Martin (who has bettered himself
immeasureably by picking up a
few of Soupy Sales's least endear-
ing characteristics).
FROM ITSaenchanted garden
of old plots and sets, here is >a
perfect cucumber of a story: a lov-
ing wife, to stop her husband from
betting on the horses becomes, in-
cognito, his bookie. When his
horses win, she sells the furniture
to pay off. The syndicate closes
in, and, in a moment of super-
truth, hate turns into love, that
sloppy little smile which has been
sneaking across Dean Martin's
outsized mouth for about fifteen
years, turns into the "title song,"
and Lana Turner, in turn, turns
into Eddie Albert.
Even a really terribly funny
computer-ized syndicate can't
save the movie from the same
kind of fate whichrdrove everyone
to television before and which does
it again. Let's hope that Dean
Martin makes a lot of money from
this film and retires forever.
There is a fine competitive
spirit in the movie which exists
between the actors and the lines,
and although it is a close contest,
the lines have it for sheer stu-
pidity. If you get a chance to see
the film at a drive-in, take it,
since it is dialogue like this which
makes it fun to throw the little
speaker out of the car.
SUPPORTING the movie in
this, its time of need, are two
short subects. In the first one
you get to see all your Detroit
friends romping through general
swim time at Camp Tamakwa,
and, in case you never went to
Mumford High School, there's an
Anatole the Rat cartoon which is
almost indistinguishable from the
preceeding newsreel s h ots of
Teddy Kennedy's first few days in
office.
All in all, the whole mess is
nothing to see unless you're a
freshman girl who didn't make
the sorority of her choice and
needs a dark empty room to cry in.
-Dick Pollinger
To the Editor:
THE COMMITTEE on Student
Affairs recently published and
distributed a letter summarizing
the changes and effects of im-
plimenting the trimester system.
It seems, however, that one very
important point was completely
omitted from the report.
The report failed to mention
that the already much criticized
final examination period is, under
the new system, going to be fur-
ther compressed into a one-week
period with students facing the
very real possibility of having to
take three exams in one day.
The fact that the time for each
exam will be reduced from three
hours to two hours offers no com-
fort, because in a school which
places so much emphasis on a
final examination which "ties the
course together" the amount of
time necessary to prepare for a
two hour exam will not differ
greatly from the amount needed
to prepare for a three hour exam.
* * *
UNDER the proposed (and ac-
cepted) system, students who do
keep up in their work will find
themselves without adequate time
to tie their courses together. Such
circumstances bring obvious re-
sults: If the new system is going
to result in a mass-produced,
super-compressed examination
schedule which offers contradic-
tions to the basic philosophy of
having final examinations, why
not dispense with the exams or
modify them so that education
will not be proportional with the
amount of dexadrine consumed
during the five day period?
Since it is impossible to place
in perspective a whole semester's
work in three courses which find
their examination periods on the
first day of exams, why not mod-
ify the exams so that they only
include the last part of the semes-
ter's work?
If this is unacceptable, length-
en the exam period, or allow for
a reading or study period between
the end of classes and the begin-
ning of exams.
Although the University may in-
crease the efficient use of its ma-
terial resources, the student and
the true traditions of educational
purpose are being placed in a
subordinate position with the ad-
vent of the new trimester system.
-David 3. Reichman, '64
-Barry Levine, '64
Agreement.. .
To the Editor:
AM IN full agreement with
Olinick and Oppenheim's edi-
torial, "University Aims Incom-
patible With Affiliate System."
It's a crying shame that people
should enjoy social life, take pride
in the friends they choose, honor
their parents' advice and wishes,
like to date different people from
time to time, and dislike living in
the aesthetically beautiful units
of quintessence known lovingly as
the Quads. But the most alarming
characteristic of these people we
call Greeks is that all their qual-
ities which have been listed and
even more are backed by the name
and dignity of our great Univer-
sity, which certainly ought to fos-
ter more worthwhile goals.
"Rush' should be definitely be
eliminated. Instituted in its place
should be a situation similar to
the one existing in the dorms in
which there is an apparent lack
of "Rush" and tension in obtain-
ing admittance.
-Robert Mitchell, '66
Registration*...
To the Editor:
CONGRATULATIONS on Miss
Bowles' tongue-in-cheek anal-
ysis of the resignations of Steven
Stockmeyer and Robert Ross from
Student Government Council.
-Denise Wacker, '63
Innings . .
To the Editor:
I HAVE just received a copy of
Sports Editor Tom Webber's
column on inning football. Good
job, and thanks for the plug.,
The only obvious error made was
the "personal thought" about the
speed with which play occurs. Just
conjecture for a while on what
conventional, time-limit football
would be like without the 25-sec-
ond rule and delay-of-game pen-
alty.
That rule would keep inning
ball moving along just as fast as
time-limit ball-faster, in fact,
since stalling does not advance
the end of the game and thus
would be of no strategic value.
-Lee Wilson
'LA VIACCIA':
From Barn to Brothel
THE TROUBLE with most Ital-
ian movies is that the people
they portray aren't worth wasting
two hours to watch. The same can
be said of "La Viaccia," now play-
ing at the Campus.
Jean Paul Belmondo is an in-
teresting slob. Cool--but whether
he's going to prove himself more
talented than Tony Perkins re-
mains to be seen. In this picture
he didn't do much better than
George Hamilton.
Claudia Cardinale is a big,
tough woman. Thankfully they
didn't make her out to be the
prostitute with a heart of gold.
Instead, they made her into the
by-now-stock Italian whore--an
essentially decent woman in cap-
able of making a break with her
environment, or with her past.
THE STORY is about a young
man leaving the provinces and
a corupt family in order to make
his fortune in the city. He fails,
becomes corrupt himself, and re-
turns to the provinces and his
family.
It is also a story of a young
man's search for love and a sin-
cere relationship with a worthy
human being. He finds this, but
is not enough of a man to save it.
He tries to follow his dying
grandfather's advice, "Use your
brains and your fists," but lacks
the brains and ends up using only
his fists. He criticizes his father
for being obsessed with his one
love, and land; then turns and
becomes obsessed with a prosti-
tute-something considerably less
permanent.
Belmondo is his father's son.
Both are willing to sell everything
for their one obsession. This is
both their strength and their
weakness. Without his obsession,
Belmondo would be nothing, but
in the end, he throws everything
away because of it.
* * *
THE STORY-LINE follows a
circular development, but rather
than spiraling upward it sticks
between parallel lines, like a pen-
manship evercise. And it becomes
just as monotonous.
Belmondo hurries to the brothel,
finds his truly fair waiting, gets
it over with, then fights with her,
and finally comes home to daddy.
This happens again and again.
In the end, he makes one grand
effort and actually takes a job
in the house so he can be near his
true love. Just as he's about to
grasp endless happiness, the sor-
did world reminds him it's an
illusion.
Belmondo goes home, the final
circle is completed, and the movie
is over at last.
-Tom Brien
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