C1 4 mislgan, Bally Seventy-Third Year EDrrED AND MANAGED BY STuDwn os of HE UNvERsrr OF McmAN -tr UNDER AUTHORiTY OF BOARD IN CONTOL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Whm Opinions Are F STUDENT PUBLICATIONs BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MicH., PHONE NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail"'', Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staf writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1963 NIGHT EDITOR: RONALD WILTON ONCE FESTIVAL: Series Offers Grounds For Optimism .: r ' fF A > : i. 5 'a5, . 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- ,.E . :1 r q"... ,. y ,5 , H Opp Alp 3. r 4 r r SSW t l JGo- Bl e 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 ZWKf do jV« l$f, 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 I FEIFFER 1 U617 TO HAVE' A LOT OF TRowatE WITHf 6HA3. tE~V CkL1 A LOf V hROW -1AOJTRUM5. 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